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James F. Quaile, retired merchant, and president of the Arkansas Valley Bank, was born in France October 28, 1818, and is a son of George and Catherine (Quaile) Quaile, also natives of France, where the mother died. The father immigrated to the United States about 1824, and until his death lived in Louisville, Ky. James F. was reared in that city, and in 1833 accompanied Justin Beneaux to Crawford County, Ark., where he clerked for Mr. Beneaux six years. Returning to Louisville in 1839, he remained there two years, but in 1841 returned to Arkansas, and established a grocery business at Ozark when there were but two or three business houses in the place. After dealing in groceries two years he added merchandise to his stock, and for over twenty years enjoyed a large business, handling a great portion of the cotton trade of Franklin County. During the war his store was burned, but in 1865 he rebuilt the same, and continued in business thereafter until 1881, when he retired from commercial life. Upon the organization of the Arkansas Valley Bank in July, 1887, he became a stockholder, and was elected president of that organization. Mr. Quaile is one of the prominent business men of Ozark, and has been of great assistance in the up-building of Franklin County and the city of Ozark. October 22, 1845, he married Miss Frank A. Quesenberry, a native of Tennessee, but reared in this county, and a daughter of William M. Quesenberry. Mr. Quesenberry was formerly from North Carolina, and from there went to Tennessee, after which he came to Arkansas in an early day, and was one of the prominent farmers of Franklin County. Mr. and Mrs. Quaile have reared a family of eight children, viz.: Elizabeth, wife of Hon. James H. Berry [see sketch]; Regina, widow of Dr. Blackburn; George Ann, wife of Henry C. Carter, of Ozark; William, married, and residing at Roseville; John W., single; James M., married, and living at Coal Hill, Ark.; Susan W., deceased, formerly the wife of C. S. McKinney, and Ada, wife of Dr. Bourland, of Van Buren. Mr. and Mrs. Quaile are active members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in which Mr. Quaile is an elder.