Biography of Thomas M Duncan, Scott Co, AR

***********************************************************
Submitted by: Charlene Holland <Char@presys.com>
        Date: 9 Sep 1998
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
***********************************************************

	Thomas M. Duncan, the circuit clerk of Scott County, Ark., is a
gentleman of wide experience, who has been actively interested in politics
from his youth up. He was born at Fort Smith, Ark., in 1864, being the
eldest of five children born to Samuel K. and Isabella (Gilbreath) Duncan,
the former born in Kentucky and the latter in Arkansas. During the
Rebellion Samuel K. Duncan came to Arkansas and located at Fort Smith,
but after a very short residence there, came to Scott County, and has
since been a resident of Waldron, near which place he has been engaged in
wagon-making. Thomas M. Duncan was reared in this county and until he was
fifteen years of age he was a regular attendant at school. At that age he
entered the office of the circuit court clerk, and until 1887, server as
deputy, being then appointed by the Governor to fill the office left
vacant by the death of Clerk J.C. Gilbreath. At the special election he
was elected to the position, reelected in the fall of 1888, and again in
1890, which fact speaks louder than words can do as to his ability as an
official. He is a consistent Democrat, has always been an active worker
for that party, and has always been deeply interested in the current
issues of the day. Socially he belongs to Waldron Lodge No. 132 of the
A. F. & A. M. He is bound to rise in the world, for he is industrious,
intellectual and honest, and of strictly moral habits.