Willson-Harkey family collection, 1886-1979.

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Willson-Harkey family collection, 1886-1979.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/190822524

This collection consists of photographs, clippings, business records, correspondence, genealogy data, publications, and scrapbooks from the personal and professional files of Mary Leah (Mrs. O.N.) Willson Harkey (1889-1979), the last superintendent of the Arkansas Confederate Home, 1949 to 1963. Also included are materials relating to her husband, Opal N. Harkey (1881-1940), her grandfather, Dr. Curtis Reed Willson (1828-1913), and her brother, James Freed Willson, and other members of her family. The collection also contains some information on her brother-in-law, Judge Clarence Price Newton (1879-1958), the second superintendent of the Arkansas Confederate Home, 1913-1918. Persons represented in the collection include Gov. Orval E. Faubus, Sid McMath, Clarence P. Newton, and Dr. J. Howard Crum. Places represented include Little Rock, Conway, Pine Bluff, Ola, Plainview, and Dardanelle. Subjects mentioned include the Arkansas Confederate Home, Arkansas Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Southern Governors' Conference of 1960, early broadcasting industry in Arkansas and the southwest, and women's history.

3 cubic ft.

Arkansas History Commission, Department of Archives and History

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SNAC Resource ID: 6955505

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McMath, Sid

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Southern Governors' Conference

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Harkey, Opal N. (Opal Noils), 1881-1940

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Harkey family.

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Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994

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34th governor of Arkansas. Faubus was born in the Ozark Mountain community of Greasy Creek; taught school in rural communities (1928...1939); worked as an itinerant farm laborer and lumberjack (1931...1935); briefly attended Commonweath College, the radical labor school at Mena (Polk County) Arkansas (1935); was elected to two terms as Madison County Circuit Clerk and Recorder; served in the U.S. Army as an enlisted man and subsequently as a commissioned officer in Europe (1942-1946); was Huntsv...

Harkey, Mary Leah Willson, 1889-1979

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Wilson family.

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Willson, Curtis Reed, 1828-1913

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Crum, J. Howard.

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Willson family.

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Newton, Clarence Price, 1879-1958

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Arkansas Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs

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Willson, James Freed

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Arkansas Confederate Home

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