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Robert M. Littlejohn, freight agent of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway, at Van Buren, since July, 1886, is a native of Louisiana, and was born in 1840. His parents, William and Jane J. (McAlpin) Littlejohn, were born in North Carolina and Mississippi, respectively. The father was a merchant, notary public and a member of the Presbyterian Church. He died in Louisiana in 1849, having lived there about fifteen years. The mother was a Methodist, and coming to Little Rock, Ark., about 1869, died at that place in 1879. William Littlejohn, the grandfather, came to America from Scotland in 1760, and settled in Edenton, N. C., where he died in 1817, aged seventy-seven. For forty hears he was engaged as a shipping merchant. In 1771 he married Sarah Blount, daughter of Joseph Blount, who went to North Carolina before 1760, settling in Perquimans County, on the oldest land grant in North Carolina, made by the Yeophin Indians to George Durant in 1662. Robert M. Littlejohn is the oldest of a family of two sons and two daughters, and was educated at the S. P. Helen Institute at Shreveport, La. In April, 1861, he joined Capt. Flournoy’s company, Second Louisiana Regiment, serving until after the Seven Days fight in front of Richmond, when he was transferred to Reef’s Cavalry, under Col. Monroe, of Arkansas, soon after being made quartermaster, which office he held until discharged at Shreveport, La., in July, 1865. He was married at Van Buren, in 1863, to Helen J., daughter of William F. and Mary A. England, natives of South Carolina and Virginia, respectively. Mr. England was a furniture maker, and in an early day came to Crawford County, where he died. His wife is still living. After the war Mr. Littlejohn was engaged as a book-keeper in Van Buren a short time, and then farmed for ten years about ten miles below Van Buren. Returning to town, he then secured a position with the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad, and afterward became clerk with the freight agent at Little Rock. He then worked two years in Van Buren with the same company, and since that time has been with the San Francisco line. In politics he is a Democrat, although reared a Whig. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and his wife belongs to the Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Littlejohn have four daughters, one married and living in Florida, one in Little Rock and two at home.