Biography of James C Wilkinson, Sebastian Co, AR

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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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James C. Wilkinson, dairyman and breeder of Jersey cattle, in Sebastian County,
Ark., was born in England in  1843, and is a son of Joseph and Mary (Beard)
Wilkinson, who were also born in England. In 1863 James C.  Wilkinson crossed
the ocean as a volunteer in the United States army, and enlisted in the
Sixteenth Kansas  Volunteers, operating in Kansas and Missouri until the close
of the war. He then went to New Mexico, as agent  in charge of the Comanche
Indians, and was afterward appointed sub-agent to the Cheyennes and Arapahoes.
He next located in Fort Smith, Ark., where he was United States Marshal for
fourteen or fifteen years, and then  moved to the country in Sebastian County,
where he purchased 245 acres of land, which he fenced and made  into a fine
dairy farm. He resides in a large two-story frame house, and his barns are
commodious and  convenient, there being ample room for fifty cows. He finds a
ready sale for dairy products in Fort Smith, and  also handles pedigreed Jersey
cattle. In 1876 he was married to Miss Mary J. Majors, a daughter of Robert T.
and Nancy (Petty) Majors. She was born in Sebastian County, and is the mother
of five children: James C.,  Cassius E., Robert, Mary J. and Bertha Catherine.
Mr. Wilkinson is a Knight Templar in the Masonic fraternity,  and belongs to
the K. of H. and the G. A. R. He is a stanch Republican, and cast his first
presidential vote for  Abraham Lincoln. The family worship at the Episcopal
Church.