Pulaski-Perry County ArArchives Biographies.....Isgrig, Fred Arthur ************************************************ 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 July 18, 2009, 12:01 pm Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922) FRED ARTHUR ISGRIG. Fred Arthur Isgrig, who has devoted his attention to the practice of law since completing a course in the law department of the University of Arkansas in 1910, and who throughout this period has remained in Little Rock, was born October 5, 1884, on a farm in Perry county. Arkansas. His father, William A. Isgrig, came to this state from Indiana, his birth having occurred on the 16th of October, 1862, in Campbellsburg, Indiana, thence his parents removed to Kansas in 1869, when he was a lad of but seven years. After a residence there covering a decade they established their home in Perry county, Arkansas, in 1879, and William A. Isgrig, then a youth of seventeen years, soon afterward began farming in that county and devoted many years of his life to agricultural pursuits. In 1911 he removed to Little Rock, where he and his wife now reside, and where he is manager of a cotton oil mill. His political endorsement is given to the democratic party. In early manhood he wedded Nancy Jane Noah, who was born in Albia, Iowa, in September, 1863. Their marriage was celebrated in Perry county, Arkansas, February 27, 1882, and they have become the parents of six sons and four daughters, of whom one son and one daughter died in infancy. Fred A. Isgrig, who was the second in order of birth in the family, pursued his early education in the country schools of his native county and afterward had the benefit of three years' instruction in Hendrix College at Conway, Arkansas. Determining upon the practice of law as a life work, he later entered the University of Arkansas and when he had finished the regular course he was graduated with the class of 1910, the degree of. LL. B. being at that time conferred upon him. Through the intervening years he has continued in practice and has made steady progress in his chosen calling. The zeal with which he has devoted his energy to his profession, the careful regard evinced for the interests of his clients and an assiduous and unflagging attention to all the details of his cases, have brought him a large business and made him very successful in its conduct. His arguments have elicited warm commendation not only from his associates at the bar, but from the bench. In November, 1908, Mr. Isgrig was united in marriage to Miss Mittie J. Jones, who was born in Lonoke county, Arkansas, August 25, 18SS, a daughter of Julius K. and Mary J. (Chandler) Jones, both of whom were natives of Tennessee. The father served in the Confederate army throughout the Civil war, being a member of Forrest's Cavalry, and though he participated in a number of hotly contested engagements, he never was wounded nor was he captured. He has now departed this life, while his widow yet makes her home in Little Rock. Mr. and Mrs. Isgrig have become the parents of one daughter, Nancy Jane. In his political views Mr. Isgrig has been a democrat since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He has filled several local offices, serving as police judge of Little Rock from 1913 until 1915, while at the present time he is alderman of the city from the eighth ward. Fraternally he is connected with the Woodmen of the World and his religious faith is manifest in his membership in the First Methodist Episcopal church, South. 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/isgrig240bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/arfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb