Terry Reed’s book, Compromised, exposes what was happening in Arkansas at the time through the eyes of the author, Reed, who in the fall of 1985 had just moved his family to Arkansas to set up a CIA proprietary business with Seth Ward’s company. He also had contact with “Robert Johnson,” who, he was informed, was “SAT’s General Counsel, but also ‘a stockholder’ in SAT, and one of those ‘Yale lawyer types’ who had lately started running the Agency.” Terry Reed and John Cummings, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and The CIA (New York, NY: S.P.I. Books, /Shapolsky Publishers, Inc, 1994), p. 195.
The Seth Ward Ancestry in Virginia
As I progressed through the family tree, I learned a series of Seth Wards had lived in Virginia, the first having arrived from England. The Arkansas-born Seth Ward's great grandfather, Samuel Goode Ward (1818-1885), was the youngest son in a long line of Seth Wards born around Lynchburg, Virginia, dating back to before the American Revolution. His mother was a Goode, whose family was detailed in a genealogical study by G. Brown Goode, called the Virginia Cousins: Ancestry and Posterity of John Goode, published in 1897, which I was able to read through Ancestry.com.
Samuel Goode Ward, Pioneer, and Wives
Samuel Goode Ward had left Virginia for Tennessee, where Samuel's mother, born Martha Norvell, died at Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee in 1848, seven years after Samuel married Lucinda Jane Dabney, who died in Clarksville in 1843. Samuel moved on after his mother's death and settled down on a farm in Leon County, Texas--a place called Middleton, which is still rural today.
His second wife, Sarah Anne Wyche, was twice widowed and already had two children when she gave birth to the future Methodist Bishop there in November 1858. He was given the hereditary name of Seth by his father, and ordained in 1881 as a country preacher without the benefit of college. We find no evidence his parents ever ventured outside their own farm after the years of travel that brought them to Texas.
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| Fort Worth Star Telegram |
The lives of family members stemming from Bishop Seth Ward had for years been defined by the Methodist Church. Even the wife he chose--Margaret Elizabeth South, usually known as Betty--came from that Methodist orbit. Her father, Rev. Walter Smith South, had left Kentucky for the Texas mission field slightly before Samuel Goode Ward arrived from Tennessee. Rev. South's path crossed with Seth's in Bryan, where Seth and Betty met and were married in 1886.
More on Rev. Walter Smith South
We discovered from searching through old books about Texas Methodist ministers (three books by Phelan, Macun) that an older brother, Henry Washington South, had been transferred from the Methodist conference in Louisville, Kentucky to Galveston in 1855 and that Walter Smith South was admitted in 1856 by the Texas conference on a trial basis. It appears that their widowed mother, Margaret Donan South also followed them and died in Anderson County, Texas in 1865.
In 1861 Rev. Walter Smith South was married in Kosse, Texas (east of Waco) to Mary Ann Burleson, whose Baptist family had come to Texas from Mississippi. The groom's brother Henry South performed the ceremony. Although Henry returned to Kentucky years before his death, Rev. Walter South continued living in Texas. He died in Bryan in 1897, and his wife followed in 1902. An article in the Beaumont Enterprise in 1960 claimed Mary Ann Burleson South's brother was Rufus Columbus Burleson, Baptist president of Baylor University for almost a half century. The college was established first at Independence in 1845 and later moved to Waco. We have not been able to confirm they were siblings, although the same newspaper did state that Mary Ann had been a teacher at Baylor Female College at Independence at one time.
The 1880 census shows Rev. South and his entire family living in Bryan:
Walter S. South 55
Mary A. South 44
Lida South 17
Betty South 15
Horace W. South 13
Henry South 11
James T. South 4
A&M University was established in 1876 near Bryan, around a town first called "College." Horace W. South became a professor there after attending Allen Academy, located relatively close to the original Austin's Colony. Towns like Brenham and Bryan were in the vicinity of Independence, the Washington on the Brazos, "the birthplace of Texas," where drafters of the Texas Constitution had met in 1836 to declare Texas an independent republic. The area had thrived until the civil war, but the decline of the former capital was mostly due to its refusal to pay to connect to the Houston & Texas Central, that was advancing through the area.
Charles Hull in 1883 married Rev. South's eldest daughter, Ellen "Lyda" South, born in Bryan in 1862. Charles had arrived from Ohio with his parents in 1870. Charles' father, Elias Hutchens Hull, sometimes referred to as "Professor," was a patent attorney who, before he came to Brazos County from Ohio had acquired at least two patents in his name. One was for a winding mechanism for a watch, which he sold to Elgin Watch Co. for a significant amount before 1870. That was the year the Hulls relocated to Texas to be near the new mechanical college. (Elias died in 1899 at Henrietta in Clay County. It is unknown why he was there.) His widow, Minerva Jane, lived until 1915, and her history is detailed in an obituary, which indicates she had moved from Bryan to Navasota and then to Houston while making her home with her son Charles, who began his career with that same railroad, Houston and Texas Central, as a telegraph operator and advanced to the main office in Navasota and later in Houston. The railroads would eventually be joined up, as we learn from TSHA:
In 1881 C. P. Huntington, acting for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, bought the Texas and New Orleans and Louisiana Western. Huntington also acquired an interest in the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. With the completion of the latter company's line across West Texas in January 1883 and the acquisition of the Morgan Line a few months later, the Southern Pacific owned or controlled a system of railroads extending from San Francisco to New Orleans. As a result, the Texas and New Orleans also found itself as part of a major transcontinental route, which fulfilled another dream of its original backers.
The 1907 city directory indicated Charles Hull was by then employed by the Texas and New Orleans (T & N.O. Railroad), and the family lived at 1411 Walker Avenue in Houston, where they took in boarders. He continued working for the same railroad after it had become the Southern Pacific, but he had transferred to Clifton, Arizona several years before he died in 1927.
Charles and Lyda Hull had one son, Burton Elias Hull, and three daughters. Burton became quite wealthy, as we will explain below.
Betty South Ward
Rev. South's second daughter, Margaret Elizabeth "Betty" South, was born in 1865 in nearby Millican, but had moved with her family to Bryan before 1880. The Southern Methodist Handbook in 1883 described her marriage to and life with Seth Ward as follows:
The Shearn Methodist Church in Houston where Rev. South served from 1897 to 1899, had been named for a pioneer Texian from the days of the Republic, Charles Shearn, who married into the family of the notorious Col. Edward Mandell House.
By 1900, Betty's eldest brother, Henry Tiebar South, was a hopeless lunatic, committed most of his life in Austin's state hospital. The second brother, James T. (called J. Thomas or Jim Tom) was a journalist in Galveston as a correspondent for the Houston Post. Possibly it was the massive 1900 hurricane in Galveston that caused him to move to New York, where he worked as a proofreader and never married. The youngest of Rev. South's children, Horace Walter South, attended the Allen Academy a few miles east of Bryan.
Funding Higher Education in Texas
San Marcos Free Press-7/7/1881, Page 3
Horace presumably met his wife, Jessie Pritchett, a graduate of Coronal Institute in San Marcos, where her brother, John Edward Pritchett, was a professor and later president. John was twin brother to Henry Carr Pritchett, who, before 1881 had also been a professor at Coronal.
In 1881 H. Carr was appointed to work under Dr. Joseph Baldwin at Sam Houston Normal Institute in Huntsville. It was at that point that I first learned about the history of higher education in Texas. The crucial year in that history, coincidentally, was 1881, according to an article that showed up in the San Marcos press: (see inset).
As the first generation of Baptist and Methodist missionaries sent to Texas began dying off, their children were seeking a means of livelihood, and some of them became involved in a new educational infrastructure the Texas state government was creating to train teachers--called "normal schools". It all fit into the Ward genealogy I was working on.
Coronal Institute began with a Confederate soldier named Orlando Newton Hollingsworth, who the school in San Marcos in 1868, and later was secretary of the state board of education at Austin from 1876 to 1884, according to Texas State Historical Association.
"Hollingsworth sold the school to R.H. Belvin on January 2, 1871. In 1875 the school was valued at $20,000. On June 26, 1875, the San Marcos district of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, purchased the school, and J.H. Bishop became president. Succeeding presidents were Rev. E.S. [Ethelbert Spencer] Smith, R.O. Rounsavall, J.E. Pritchett, W.J. [William J.] Spillman, A.A. Thomas, Sterling Fisher, and V.A. Godbey. The school, chartered in 1879, reached its peak of development in 1900 with twelve faculty members, property valued at $35,000, and a library of 900 volumes."
Aha and Eureka! as they say. We had found many of Coronal's presidents named above while pursuing our Seth Ward genealogy! Rev. and Mrs. Godbey, for example, had been part of the Methodist missionary network working to build elementary Sunday Schools before he was named president of Coronal in 1916, but Godbey did not marry into the Pritchett family as Smith and Rounsavall had. R.H. Belvin may not have intermarried, but he had traded real estate with Pritchett as early as 1884. He died in 1888.
South and Pritchett families
In Horace's 1918 passport application, he stated he was at that time a teacher in Houston, and was planning to travel to France and the British Isles for the National War Work Council of the YMCA's Army Services. It was his sister Betty South (Mrs. Seth Ward), who confirmed his identity and date of birth. He was 46 years old at the time and got approval from the War Department's Military Intelligence Division. Signing for Marlborough Churchill was a man named Thomas DeCoursey Ruth (1885-1969, who, I was to discover, had his own fascinating history.
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Since Horace's father had been pastor of the Shearn Methodist Church for two years, Horace and Jessie were often in attendance there, along with his widowed sister Betty Ward and her children. It was the church named for Charles Shearn, the maternal grandfather of Colonel Edward M. House, the Texan credited with getting Woodrow Wilson elected President in 1912. Through those connections, Horace may have been chosen to serve in the YMCA entertainment branch of the War Service and assigned to Charles M. Steele, which had to be vetted through the Military Intelligence Division headed by Marborough Churchill.
Only three months after his passport was issued, Horace was said to be in France when the news came that his eldest son Ira, a sergeant in the Marine Corps had died from pneumonia at the Naval hospital in Portsmouth, Va. Another son, Dudley, was also in France with the U.S. Signal Corps. That was the same year of the Spanish Flu pandemic. Dudley graduated from Rice and was awarded a scholarship to Columbia in New York, where he furthered his studies in civil engineering. He later created Gulf Gypsum Co., which he sold to Celotex Corp. in 1938. After the sale, he traveled extensively to South and Central America. In February 1942 both he and his wife traveled between La Guaira, Venezuela and Miami, and he flew from there again in April 1943 along with William F. Coles and Rev. Theodore Hummel, a missionary, who also worked with a Bible Institute similar to those sponsored by Rockefeller described in Thy Will Be Done by Gerard Colby. Rockefeller also founded the International Basic Economy Corporation (IBEC), for which Coles worked; he was called an attorney for the "Rockefeller interests".
In April 1956 he made an unaccompanied trip between Guatemala and New Orleans. .
to Mexico, where, most likely he was involved with the oil industry. In late June, 1944 he had flown from Honduras to Brownsville, and in 1951 returned from Mexico D.F. airport with his wife, Doris (address: 1830 Southmore, Houston, TX).
After Horace returned, he and Jessie relocated to Laredo to be closer to their daughter, Ruby Belle, who married Dr. Willis E. Lowry, Jr. in 1924. Willis was born in Mexico City in 1896 but grew up in Laredo where his parents both practiced medicine. Ruby Belle was educated in San Marcos (Teachers' College) and later at the Medical Branch in Galveston.
His wife Jessie had grown up in Missouri, where Carr Waller Pritchett, her father's brother, first established Pritchett School Institute.
became a college in Missouri in 1897 Ira's nephew Dr. Henry Smith Pritchett was the 5th President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1900 to 1906, after an illustrious career as an astronomer, and then served as first president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching..
Her father, William Ira Pritchett, known simply as Ira, moved to San Marcos in 1889, following his sons who were professors at Coronal Institute. In 1891 Ira moved to Austin, where he worked for several years as "attache" for the state of Texas' educational system, according to his 1904 obituary. He lived at 1709 Congress Avenue, halfway between the University of Texas and the Texas Capitol, as shown on the map below.
The 
Ira Pritchett's home in 1891
Jessie's brothers were professors at the San Marcos normal school soon after their arrival from Missouri in the late 1870s, and their own sons would attend Allen Academy in Bryan, which is possibly how Horace and Jessie first met. Her brothers soon became part of the nepotistic Texas educational establishment in Austin, San Marcos and Huntsville--once Ira was installed in the department of education in Austin.
H. Carr's wife, born Kate Smith, was a daughter of Ethelbert Spencer Smith, one of the presidents of Coronal mentioned in the TSHA excerpt above. Kate's mother, Amanda, first married Wesley Rufus Rounsavall, who died in Alabama in 1853. Amanda then married E.S. Smith and gave birth to Kate in 1857. Three other girls were born before 1860, but only one (Laura M., called "Nollie") survived. Prof. Smith seems to have moved his family farther northwest at that point to Missouri, possibly to teach at the Pritchett School.
Kate married Prof. H. Carr Pritchett in 1876 in Huntsville, Texas. Their first son, Ira E. Pritchett, was born in 1879 in San Marcos, Texas, where Kate's mother, Mrs. Amanda Smith, also made her home with them. It was the same year his uncle, Carr Waller Pritchett, had been elected to the Royal Society of London. At that time, Jessie was still living with her parents in Missouri. It was Kate's half-brother, Rufus Osgood Rounsavall, who succeeded Smith at Coronal when he, too, died in 1908. Kate's younger sister, Nollie Smith, married Sam R. Kone, and in 1921 traveled to Mexico to see her children, who lived in Tampico. The Kones were then retired in San Marcos, living at 903 Belvin. The house is shown on google map with historical markers attached to it. The home was about a mile southwest of the Coronal Institute, which is now known as Texas State University, which has gone through a series of name changes: "Southwest Texas State Normal School was established in 1903. The name was changed in 1918 to Southwest Texas State Normal College, in 1923 to Southwest Texas State Teachers College, in 1959 to Southwest Texas State College, in 1969 to Southwest Texas State University, and in 2003 to Texas State University-San Marcos".
Jessie's brother, Henry Carr Pritchett, who had been president of the Sam Houston State Teachers College for many years when he died in 1908, was eulogized by Methodist Bishop Seth Ward, whose wife's brother, Horace Walter South, was married to Pritchett's sister, Jessie.
Bishop Seth Ward was married the Horace Walter South's sister,
Seth continued traveling as a circuit preacher after their marriage. The best evidence is the birth of their children. Seth Walter Ward was born in Galveston in 1888. Annie Byrd Ward was born in Huntsville in 1891. The youngest, Emmett Goode Ward arrived in 1905 in Nashville, Tennessee, where his father was installed as a Methodist Bishop, who would play a part in foreign mission work thereafter.
Only four years later Bishop Ward died in Japan while at a conference in Kobe. By then the Wards had moved back to Texas, where Betty South Ward would continue rearing her children in Houston. The eldest, Seth Walter Ward then became the partial support of the late Bishop's wife and his two younger siblings who lived in a large house on the south side of Houston (Travis and Anita streets) and took in boarders.
Seth Walter worked as an advertising director for the E.S. Levy department store in Houston and in 1912 married 18-year-old Helene Irma Curd, whose family had recently returned to Texas from Indiana. The ceremony was performed by a Methodist minister named Horace Morland Whaling, Jr., his brother-in-law, who had married Annie Byrd Ward the previous year at St. Paul's Methodist Church in Houston. The Wards had been members there even before Bishop Seth Ward left for Japan, and he was one of the ministers on the day the church opened in January 1909. The new building had been built with funds raised by Jesse Jones and his uncle's family. Jones became a Methodist in his adult life, and was close friends with Bishop A. Frank Smith, who performed the funeral service many years later (1960) for the Bishop's wife and a belated service for Seth Walter Ward, who died in 1958.
From Galveston, Texas to Little Rock, Arkansas
When WWI came in 1917, Seth W. and Irma were living in Galveston with two children: Margaret Ann, who had been born in 1914, and Frances Elizabeth "Bette" in 1916. Their son, Seth (NMI) Ward, was born in 1920 after they moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, where Seth W. handled advertising for M.M. Cohn. Morris M. Cohn, who owned the store, had been a member of the Board of Trade of Little Rock with attorney Uriah Rose since the previous century and attended Rose's funeral in 1913. We will return to Rose's law firm subsequently.
When young Seth signed up for the draft in 1942, he was working as an "attendant" at Healey & Roth (funeral home) at 815 Main St. in Little Rock. But his future would not be limited by that brief occupation. He quickly joined up for the war effort and became a U.S. Marine, sent to Pensacola Naval Air Base to train as a pilot. As a 1st Lieutenant in the Marine Corps, Special Services, he was in Guam in 1946 and was promoted to Captain in 1948 before being sent to the Naval Air Station Reserve Training Center in Glenville, Illinois.
Somehow during that time he met Yvonne Danielson of Denver, Colorado, a recent graduate of Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio. They married in February 1949, and she moved to Glenville for his final year of training. Their first child, Suzanna, was born in Lake Forest, Illinois in December that year.
Shortly after their wedding they visited his parents, the long-time advertising director and his reporter wife, who were then living at Rollover Pass on the Bolivar Peninsula, just east of Galveston where their married life had begun.
Along for that visit was Seth's older sister Margaret, who was married to her second husband, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, Edward Thompson Hancock, the son of Charlotte "Lottie" Thompson, whose father was Edward Grady Thompson, a wealthy member of Little Rock society for many years before his death in 1921, as we will subsequently discuss.
The Hancocks had recently returned from two years in China on their way to Washington, D.C. Edward's boss was Gen. Frank Dow Merrill who commanded a group known as "Merrill's Marauders." Her marriage to him had taken place shortly after her divorce in September 1940 from Robert Irvine. Immigration records at Ancestry show Margaret and her daughter Ann Irvine Hancock sailing from Panama to New Orleans on 14 Feb 1942. A second daughter, Kobbe, was born in July 1943, so presumably she returned to Panama after a short vacation.
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Lt. Col. Edward Thompson Hancock, born in Little Rock in 1913, had an intriguing family connection to members of
Little Rock's Rose
Law Firm through his mother, Charlotte "Lottie" Thompson, who had previously married a Chicago dentist named James Everett Hancock Jr. in 1908. Much older than his new wife, Dr. Hancock relocated his dental practice to Little Rock before his son was born.
In 1906 Lottie had eloped with 23-year-old George Danaher, who would become noted for racing cars in 1910. Her father, E.G. Thompson, was not happy, and, shortly after her surprise wedding, "deputized" Jerry South of Mountain Home, Baxter County, Arkansas, to retrieve her at the train station and dispatch her to Paris. "Deputy" South put his wife Ellen, daughter of the eminent Judge Thomas Frazier South of Kentucky, in charge of chaperoning her in Europe for a year or so. Ellen was assisted by one of her sisters, who had founded a girls school in Houston in 1899 called The Misses Hargis' School.
Here we should note that Seth Walter Ward's mother, Margaret "Betty" South, was the daughter of Rev. Walter Smith South, born in 1824 in Hardin County, Kentucky, after his father, William South, had moved west from the eastern seaboard, probably Virginia or Maryland--the same place the Ward family originated in America. His father William was listed in Hardin County as early as 1802, the year he married Margaret Donan in Breckinridge. His grave indicates he died in 1849 in Hardin County.
The following year William's widow was living with daughter, Rebecca South Needham, her husband Parkman S. Needham, and their five (ten years later there would be nine) children. Younger brother, Walter Smith South had moved to nearby Breckinridge County and was working as a school teacher. The Souths were ardent Methodists, as were the Needhams.
Intriguingly however, the Excelsior Collegiate Institute in Jett, Kentucky had been founded by James Knox Polk South and his wife Eudora Lindsay
Traveling under her new married name, Lottie's companions consisted of two daughters of Judge Thomas F. Hargis, Chief Judge in Carlisle, Kentucky until his death in 1903. One daughter married Jerry South and became Ellen Chappell Hargis South. Another, Miss Mary Garnett Hargi,s had a few years earlier moved from Kentucky to Houston, Texas to establish a school with two other sisters--Ann and
and Katherine Nash, possibly a student of the school.
Called "Kittie," she was the daughter of William Rufus Nash of Brazoria County as well as Houston, Texas. The school at 1215 Main Street was only a few blocks from their first home on LaBranch at the time.
In 1905 the school moved to Woodbury, N.J. and also had an address in Paris, France. We know their names because of an application all four ladies made to the consulate in Athens, Greece to obtain an extended passport to travel into Turkey.
Jerry Curtis South, at the time of his wedding to Ellen Chappell Hargis in 1898, was a soldier in Company M of Arkansas' second volunteers, as well as president pro tem of the Arkansas state senate and lieutenant governor. A member of the Arkansas State Legislature since 1891, he continued in that role for a total of ten years, ending in 1901. During that time he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Arkansas every four years from 1892 through 1912.
The Souths moved to Washington, D.C. in 1912 where Jerry was appointed Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives during Woodrow Wilson's administration. Ellen's son, Jerry Curtis South, Jr., not yet born during her long chaperonage of the flighty Lottie Thompson, but was born in 1909 after the ladies returned home. Later he became a Real Admiral, United States Navy.
Lottie's father was president of the Citizens' Bank in Little Rock, which he and his brother, William J. Thompson--said at the time of his death in 1901 to have been the wealthiest man in Little Rock--had founded.
After Dr. Hancock, the dentist, died in Chicago on July 2, 1920, his widow (Edward's mother) married Frank G. Malone of New York on September 10, 1921. I could find no obituary for the late Dr. Hancock, who allegedly had an interest in the American Bank of Commerce and Trust Co. in Little Rock, and found only one article connecting him to the bank. About Malone I found nothing.
Seth was then assigned to Dallas, Texas, and the couple lived briefly with Seth's aunt Annie Byrd Ward and her husband, Rev. Horace Morland Whaling, a Methodist minister like his grandfather, who was a professor at Southern Methodist University.
The Whalings had several eminent children of their own who had recently reached adulthood.
Rose Law Firm
Rose, Hemingway & Rose had merged with another firm in 1905 to become Rose, Hemingway, Cantrell & Loughborough.
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| Directory listing in 1937 |
Today the website of the Rose Law Firm states that in 1865:
“Rose” was added to the partnership name in recognition of the addition of U.M. Rose, who was a student of history, science, philosophy, and literature, as well as an accomplished lawyer and linguist. As one of the founders of the American Bar Association, U.M. Rose was elected its president in 1900. President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Rose the United States representative to the Second Hague Peace Conference in 1902. His accomplishments and contributions to his country were recognized by the placement of his statue in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol. U.M. Rose died on August 12, 1913. In 1958, United States Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote: “In my early years at the bar, U.M. Rose was one of the luminaries of our profession – not merely a very distinguished practitioner but a highly cultivated, philosophic student of civilization and of the role of law and the lawyers in the progress of civilization. Mr. Rose inspired me in my formative years as a lawyer.”
U.M. Rose’s son, George B. Rose, joined the partnership in 1881 and brought to it his photographic memory, command of six foreign languages, and passion for art. He was the author of the book titled Renaissance Masters. George B. Rose practiced until his death in 1943 at the age of 82.
Wilson E. Hemingway resigned as a justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1893 to become a partner in the firm of Rose, Hemingway and Rose.
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During its second century, Rose Law Firm continued to add lawyers of extraordinary intelligence, integrity and ingenuity such as Dedrick Cantrell (1905-1943), J. Fairfax Loughborough (1905-1945), Archie F. House (1925-1969), Harry E. Meek (1932-1969), George Rose Smith (1933-1948) and two Rhodes Scholars, William N. Nash (1931-1980) and J. Gaston Williamson (1949-1989).
Meek was the principal author of many of the banking, commercial, and inheritance laws of Arkansas. Nash, a former Dean of the Arkansas Law School, became an authority in municipal finance and authored many legislative proposals including the establishment of the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission and constitutional amendments relating to industrial finance.
George Rose Smith, the grandson of U.M. Rose, was elected to the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1948 and thereafter became its longest-serving justice. Gaston Williamson joined the firm in 1949 and became the preeminent authority on inheritance and estate planning in the state of Arkansas. He was elected President of the Arkansas Bar Association in 1968.Although the name of the firm has changed a number of times since 1820, the firm has retained the “Rose” in its name since 1865. In 1980, the firm changed its name for the last time to “Rose Law Firm, a Professional Association.”
