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Rev. John Maddox, presiding elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Rogers, Ark., was born in Illinois in 1836, and is a son of Lewis and Elizabeth (Hewitt) Maddox, who were born in Kentucky and Ohio, respectively. They were married in the latter State, and afterward moved to Illinois, thence to Indiana, locating near Terre Haute, The father was a farmer, and died October 22, 1877, the mother’s death occurring November 20, 1887. They were the parents of three children, Rev. John H. Maddox being the only one now living. The eldest one, William, was a physician, and died at the age of forty-one years; the youngest died in infancy. The subject of this sketch was educated in the schools of Indiana, and in 1859 joined the Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, located after a few years, and remained a local elder of that church until 1882, when he moved to Kansas. Here he resided until May, 1884, when he came to Arkansas, and in the spring of 1885 joined the Arkansas Conference, and was appointed pastor at Rogers. At the annual conference held at Little Rock, Ark., in February, 1888, he was appointed presiding elder of Rogers District, which position he is ably filling at the present time. Imperfect health hindered him for a number of years from devoting his time to the itinerant ministry. He was married in Illinois, on the 21st of February, 1867, to Miss Kate Woodruff, who was born in Ohio in 1832. Mr. Maddox is a Republican and a strong advocate of the cause of temperance, with which party he is likely to affiliate in the future.