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William Miser, postmaster at Brightwater, Ark., is a native of Benton County, born in 1853, and is a son of G. W. and Jane Miser. The father was born in Tennessee in 1807, and was there reared and married. The mother died in Arkansas in 1840, having borne nine children, and the father was afterward married to Miss Jane Potter, by whom he became the father of eight children, our subject being the fifth. G. W. Miser after coming to Arkansas located on Pea Ridge, where he became one of the leading farmers and stockmen of the county, owning at one time 1,460 acres of land and other valuable property. His death occurred on the 25th of December, 1861. William Miser’s boyhood days were spent in following the plow and in attending the common schools. In 1878 he was united in marriage to Miss M. V. Pickens, who was born in Arkansas in 1858. Mr. Miser is the owner of a farm, and has an orchard of 1,300 trees, and is at present engaged in managing the mercantile store of J. S. Dickson, at Bright Water. Mr. Miser is a Democrat, is past master and secretary of Pea Ridge Lodge No. 119, A. F. & A. M., at Brightwater. He is also a Pilgrim Knight and a Chapter Mason. He and wife worship in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.