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James W. Linzy was born in Pope County, Ark., November 19, 1850. Is father, H. A. Linzy, was born in Missouri November 19, 1828, and when a child came to Arkansas, growing to manhood in Pope County. There he married Sarah E. Hickey, and afterward lived in Pope County four years. He then moved to Johnson County, where he farmed until his death, in 1861. He was a Confederate soldier, and was wounded at the battle of Wilson’s Creek, August 10, of that year, and died the following September, on the 7th day of that month. He was a stock dealer and drover, and made several trips to California. The first trip he remained in California nine months, and although he always went by the overland route he returned via the Isthmus of Panama. Mrs. Linzy was born in Pope County, and after the death of her husband continued to live upon the old place, where she still resides. Our subject remained at home with his mother until twenty-five years of age, and then came to Franklin County. In 1876 he located on Big Mulberry, and in December, 1883, purchased his present farm. He owns a tract of 200 acres, ninety of which are cleared, and has a comfortable house and good out-buildings. January 9, 1876, he was married, in Pope County, to Nancy N., daughter of George W. Burning, a native of Tennessee, now deceased. Mrs. Linzy was born in Franklin County, Ark., and is now the mother of five children: Ruth, Maggie, Maud L., James A., Rossie Merle. George A. died at the age of seven. Mr. and Mrs. Linzy are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as is also their eldest daughter. Mr. Linzy is a Master Mason, and has held several official positions in his lodge. Politically he is a Democrat, as were his father and grandfather before him. He took active lead in defeating the “Wheel,” a political organization intended to injure his beloved party in his State, but the Wheel was defeated and utterly demoralized in the memorable campaign of 1888. He is a dominant spirit in his party, having no sectional feeling, but loves his party because of its great principles. Of course, then, he was a great adherent of President Cleveland.