Pulaski-Saline-Clay County ArArchives Biographies.....Gaunt, Edward Levens ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/arfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Robert Sanchez http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00027.html#0006574 June 15, 2009, 2:46 pm Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922) EDWARD LEVENS GAUNT. Edward Levens Gaunt, of the firm of Chase, Wallin & Gaunt, public accountants of Little Rock, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, August 21, 1895. He was one of a family of four sons and three daughters, of whom three sons and three daughters are living. The parents are Jesse Stebbins and Annette Mary (Puthoff) Gaunt. The father was born in Booneville, Missouri, in 1862, and the mother's birth occurred in St. Louis in 1865. They were married in that city in 1884 and they now reside in Benton, Arkansas, where the father conducts business as a lumberman. He votes with the democratic party. In early boyhood Edward L. Gaunt became a pupil in the public schools of St. Louis and afterward continued his education in the public schools of Pekin, Illinois, and of Corning, Arkansas. He next became a high school pupil at Benton, Arkansas, and was there graduated with the class of 1911. He completed a course in a business college in Little Rock and likewise attended a commercial school in Chicago. His training was thus thorough and comprehensive and well qualified him for the responsible duties that have devolved upon him in later years. He came to Little Rock on the 9th of September, 1912, and was with the Foster Hardware Company for a period of five and a half years. He then entered the ordnance department as a civilian accountant and was so engaged until January, 1919. At that date he went to Chicago, where he was employed by a firm of public accountants for a period of eight months, after which he returned to Little Rock. On the 12th of August, 1919, the firm of Chase, Wallin & Gaunt was organized in the capital city. Their clientele, however, is not limited to Little Rock for their work calls them to all sections of the state. The three partners are men of acknowledged ability in their profession and their business is now a substantial and growing one. On the 11th of September, 1920, Mr. Gaunt was married to Miss Charlotte Marie Betten, who was born September 29, 1896, in Orange City, Iowa, and is a daughter of Dirk and Mary (Noteboom) Betten, the former a native of Pella, Iowa, while the latter was born in Salem, Oregon. Mrs. Gaunt was educated in Ames College of Iowa and is a lady of liberal culture. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gaunt are held in high esteem in social circles and they are well known as members of the Presbyterian church. At the time of the World war Mr. Gaunt enlisted for service in May, 1917, but was rejected on account of physical disability. It was then that he entered the ordnance department as a civilian accountant in the department at Rochester, New York, serving there for eight months. His political allegiance has always been given to the democratic party and he is a firm believer in its principles. Fraternally he is a Mason and has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, while with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine he has crossed the sands of the desert. He likewise belongs to the Kiwanis Club and to the Cooperative Club and of the latter he is treasurer. Additional Comments: Citation: Centennial History of Arkansas Volume II Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1922 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/pulaski/bios/gaunt90bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/arfiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb