Benton Co., AR - Biographies - John C. Arthur
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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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John C. Arthur, member of the firm of Lincoln & Arthur, dealers in 
clothing and gents' furnishing goods, of Bentonville, Ark., was born 
in Macon County, Mo., in 1840, and is the son of Lilburn Q. and 
Letitia G. (Saunders) Arthur, and grandson of James C. Arthur. Lilburn 
Q. was born in Bedford County, Va., September 26, 1814, and was a 
farmer, blacksmith, gunsmith and wheelwright by trade, and, in short, 
was a natural genius. He moved with his father to Pulaski County, Ky., 
when seventeen years old, was married here, and in 1839 moved to Macon 
County, Mo., where he passed the remainder of his life. He died 
January 1, 1871. The last six years of his life he was engaged in the 
practice of medicine. Letitia G. (Saunders) Arthur was born in 
Kentucky. February 24, 1821, and died March 25, 1855, in Jasper 
County, Mo., she and her husband having moved there in 1853. Mr. 
Arthur was twice married, and was the father of sixteen children, ten 
by the first marriage and six by the second. seven living by the first 
marriage and four by the second. John C. Arthur was the eldest child 
by the first marriage. He attained his growth on the farm, and his 
education was sadly neglected; what education he received was by his 
own efforts and self study. He remained at home until twenty-two years 
of age, and at the breaking out of the late Civil War he enlisted in 
the Union army, Company A, Twenty-seventh Missouri Infantry 
Volunteers, and was in the siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Miss., 
Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Atlanta, and was with Gen. Sherman 
in his march to the sea. He went to Richmond and back to Washington, 
D. C., in the grand review. He was neither captured nor wounded during 
the war, and received his discharge at St. Louis. October 8, 1866. he 
married Miss Mary E. Dodson, who was born in Macon County. Mo., in 
1846, and who became the mother of three children: Sallie, wife of W. 
H. Johnson, William A. and Perry W. After the war Mr. Arthur located 
near his birthplace and engaged in farming which he continued until 
1886, when he came to Bentonville, Ark., and with George T. Lincoln 
formed a partnership in the present business. Mr. Arthur was the owner 
of 300 acres of land in Macon County, and was one of the best 
citizens. The firm of Lincoln & Arthur have the only clothing and 
gents' furnishing store in Bentonville. and they have a large trade, 
having won the confidence and esteem of the community by their fair 
dealing. Mr. Arthur and family are members of the Cumberland 
Presbyterian Church, and he is a Democrat in polities. He was justice 
of peace while in Macon County, and was also township trustee for 
eighteen months, resigning that office when coming to Arkansas.