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

ALEXANDER McCARTNEY.
    Alexander McCartney, manager of the Sligo Manufacturing Company of
Fayetteville, was born in Ireland, in 1858, his parents being John and Agnes
(Cochran) McCartney, who were likewise natives of the Emerald Isle, whence they
came to the new world in 1865. They settled in Cuba, Missouri, and the father,
who had been a weaver of linen cloth in Ireland, purchased a homestead in
Missouri, where he spent his remaining days. His widow afterward returned to her
native country and there died. They were the parents of six children, of whom
only two are living: Alexander and Thomas, of St. Louis. The parents were
members of the Presbyterian church and Mr. McCartney was an orangeman. His
political allegiance was given to the republican party.

    Alexander McCartney was educated in the common schools of Missouri and
afterward attended night school in St. Louis. He was reared to the work of the
home farm and remained thereon to the age of eighteen years, when, believing
that he would find other pursuits more congenial than those of agricultural
life, he obtained a position in a hardware store and engaged in clerking for
thirty-one years. He came to Fayetteville in 1895 and established a branch store
for the Sligo Iron Store Company, which company purchased hardwood lumber for
wagons and also bought timber here and likewise has a hardwood lumber plant,
manufacturing all kinds of hardwood lumber. They now make hardwood rims and
spokes for automobiles and the concern is a mammoth one, being classed with the
largest and most important productive industries of this section of the state.
The business has been greatly developed under the direction and as the result of
the enterprise of Mr. McCartney, who has been manager for the company in
Arkansas and in Oklahoma since locating in Fayetteville in 1895.

    In 1881 Mr. McCartney was united in marriage to Miss Mary A. Murphy, who was
born in St. Louis, a daughter of John Murphy, an architect and builder of that
city. They have become parents of the following living children: Stella is the
wife of Ben Stone, an attorney with large practice at Amarilla, Texas, who has
also been referee in bankruptcy there; Jessie is the wife of Paul C. Williams, a
lawyer of Muskogee, Oklahoma, who has a large and important practice; Isabelle
is the wife of Harry Schultz, who is connected with the musical department of
the State University at Denton, Texas; Ruth is the wife of L. M. Holt, agent for
the Dodge Brothers car at Fayetteville; Norman, who is taking up business in
connection with his father, entered the regular army in the World war in May,
1917. He had previously spent six months on the Mexican bolder and he trained at
Little Rock, going overseas as first lieutenant in July, 1918. He was on the
front for forty-two days and received his discharge May 17, 1919. He was with
the infantry forces and at one time he had to march two hundred miles on foot at
night. He never had his shoes off for days at a time and there were periods in
which there was, indeed, little rest. On one occasion he was wounded and sent to
the hospital but again qualified for active duty and was on the firing line on
the day the armistice was signed.

    Mr. McCartney is prominent in Masonic circles, having attained the Knights
Templar degree in the York Rite. He has passed through all of the chairs in the
Blue lodge, chapter and commandery and he is also a member of the Knights of
Pythias. His political allegiance is given to the republican party. He and his
entire family are faithful members and active workers in the Presbyterian
church, in which he is serving as an elder. His life has ever been guided by the
highest principles and he has ever stood as a man among men, honored and
respected by all who know him and most of all by those who know him best.


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


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