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C. C. Conner, president of the Conner-Boles Mercantile Company, whose birth occurred three miles southeast of Fayetteville, April 11, 1842, is the son of Isaac Shelby and Elizabeth (Ingram) Conner, and grandson of Daniel Conner, who was a native of Tennessee, and who made a settlement in Arkansas, among the very first pioneers of Southeast Arkansas. He was a native of Virginia or South Carolina, and some of the members of his family were soldiers in the War of 1812. Shadrick Ingram, the maternal grandfather of Caleb C. Conner, was a native of North Carolina, and made a settlement in Southeast Arkansas, possibly a few years later than the Conner family. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. Caleb Chapman Conner, after reaching manhood, enlisted in the Confederate service, and was in Brooks’ regiment all through the war, participating in every battle of his regiment. After the war he returned home, and after farming a year or two he engaged in teaching school, and followed this for a year and a half. He then engaged in merchandising, and has been identified with the mercantile interests of Washington County ever since. He was married in his native county to Miss Sarah Trent, daughter of Josiah Trent, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Elizabeth (Woolsey) Trent, very early settlers of Washington County. To Mr. and Mrs. Conner have been born five children, a son and four daughters: William Clinton, who is associated with his father in the mercantile business; Maggie, Lillie Bell, Birdie and Katie. Mr. Conner is a member of the school board; is a Mason, and is a man who takes an active interest in all public enterprises. He is an active member of the county fair. He has a steam mill at Farmington, and also a branch store there, and is one of the wide-awake men of the county. He and family are members of the Christian Church.