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Esten Peloubet, a lumber dealer of Central Arkansas, and also a manufacturer of yellow pine lumber, was born at Boonton, N. J., in 1848, and is a son of Asa B. and Caroline B. (Van Winkle) Peloubet, of Athens, N. Y., and Powerville, N. J., respectively. The parents were married in New Jersey, and resided in that State until the year 1860, when they moved to New York, but shortly afterward returned to New Jersey, where the wife died. In 1868 the elder Peloubet was again married, and moved to what is now Alexander, Ark., where he established a lumber business, which he conducted very successfully until his death, in 1882. He was a son of L. M. F. C. DePeloubet, a native of France, and Elizabeth Alcott, of Massachusetts, U. S. A. His father was forced to flee from France, owing to a part he took in the French Revolution. Subsequently he received an imperial pardon from Bonaparte. Esten Peloubet was the second child of three sons and three daughters, of whom only himself and one sister are yet living. He received a first-class high-school education in his youth, and in 1882 went into partnership with his father. The business previous to that had been Peloubet & Pierce, but in 1882 it was changed to Peloubet & Son, and so continued until the father’s death, when Esten conducted it alone. In 1872 Mr. Peloubet was married to Miss Amanda Cook, of New Jersey, who died in 1879, leaving three sons. In 1885 he was married to Jennie E., a daughter of William Philips, formerly of Springfield, Ill., where Mrs. Peloubet was born, and has one daughter by this union. In politics he is a strong Republican. He owns valuable land, with a fine saw and planing mill property, and has established a large patronage by his methods of doing business, being a man of integrity, and one in whom confidence can be placed with every degree of safety. Mrs. Peloubet is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is well known for her kind and charitable nature.