Benjamin F. Johnson III collection : audiocassettes, 1988.

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Benjamin F. Johnson III collection : audiocassettes, 1988.

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Ben Franklin Johnson III, Southern Arkansas University history professor, conducted oral history interviews while engaged in researching a biography of Arkansas poet John Gould Fletcher. Subjects interviewed included Mary Fletcher Worthen, Mr. and Mrs. William L. Terry, Mrs. George Rose Smith, and Dr. Woodbridge Morris.

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University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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Worthen, Mary Fletcher

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The Little Rock Athletic Association was formed in February 1882 by a group of young men for the purpose of recreation and socialization. Their first meetings were held at Bernays and Maxwell Store on the ground floor of the Capital Hotel. The organization soon leased a lot on the south side of the Arkansas River, near Main Street. Architects Harding and Bailey were chosen to design a building, which was completed later that year. This building was referred to as "The Boathouse," and the Little ...

Johnson, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1856-1921

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Terry, William L., Mrs.

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Smith, George Rose, Mrs.

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Terry, William L. (William Leake), 1850-1917

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W.L. Terry was born on 27 Sept. 1850 near Wadesboro, N.C. He graduated from Trinity College in North Carolina in 1872 and was admitted to the bar in Little Rock in 1873. From 1875 to 1885, he was city attorney. In 1879, he also served as state senator and senator pro tempore. He was elected to Congress in 1901 and retired in 1909. In 1875 he married Mollie C. Dixon. She died in 1895. In 1899 he married Florence Forshe. Children by his first wife were W.L., Jr., David D., and Frank A...

Morris, Woodbridge Edwards, 1902-

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Fletcher, John Gould, 1886-1950

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American poet and critic. From the description of Correspondence, works, and clippings, 1910-1952, nd. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122453062 John Gould Fletcher, born in Little Rock, Arkansas and educated at Phillips Academy and Harvard (1903-1907), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author. Fletcher lived in England for years before returning home to Arkansas where, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was act...