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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

ALFRED LEE PEACHER.
    Alfred Lee Peacher, filling the position of postmaster at Fort Smith, was
born in Linneus, Missouri, in October, 1870, and is a son of James and Elizabeth
(Wilson) Peacher. The father was a native of Virginia and the grandfather came
from Westmoreland county, Virginia. He served as a soldier of the Continental
army during the Revolutionary war. The Wilson family came from Tennessee, so
that in both the paternal and maternal lines Alfred Lee Peacher is descended
from old southern families. His father removed to Linneus, Missouri, where he
took up the occupation of farming and there spent his remaining days, always
devoting his life to agricultural pursuits.

    Alfred Lee Peacher obtained his education in the Brookfield Academy at
Brookfield, Missouri, in Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, in the
University of Wooster at Wooster, Ohio, and in the University of Chicago, in
which he pursued postgraduate work, in early life he took up the profession of
teaching, which he followed in Charleston, Arkansas, and at Van Buren, Arkansas,
where he was superintendent of schools. Thinking to find other pursuits more
congenial and profitable, however, he entered the insurance field in 1903,
establishing an agency at Fort Smith, and he had already built up a good
business when he was called to his present position. It was in 1919 that he was
appointed by President Wilson to the office of postmaster of Fort Smith, in
which capacity he is now serving.

    In 1904 Mr. Peacher was married to Miss Leanny Teague and they have one
child, Alfred Lee, Jr. The parents are widely and favorably known and both as a
business man and as a public official Mr. Peacher has made an excellent record
that has gained for him the respect and confidence of all.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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