h/o Mary Eliza Watkins
Birth: Harrisburg, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania.
Helped support widowed mother and siblings working as a clerk in the post-office, then read law several years with George Miffin Dallas. About 1835 went south to clerk for Simon Cameron in Louisiana, year later went to Arkansas becoming governor James S Conway's private secretary (but is shown as one of less than three hundred stock holders of the Cumberland [PA] Valley Railroad Company),this lead to election by the legislature to being judge of the fifth circuit, resigned in 1846 to become quarter-master in the United States army. 1849 his brother-in-law resigned position of attorney-general of Arkansas which he filled in 1849 until 1854, when again elected judge fifth-circuit. In 1866 elected associate justice of Arkansas supreme court, but driven from office by General C H Smith under reconstruction acts. 1874 elected judge of sixth-circuit where he died with Captain Martin was elected to complete his term.
Presidental pardon granted 7 July 1865.
Death: in Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Father: currently unknown
Mother: currently unknown
Marriage: Mary Eliza Watkins b: 12 FEB 1825 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Married: before 1849 at Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Known Children
Elizabeth Clendenin b: 15 NOV 1849 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Jessie Clendenin b: about 1864 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Josie Elizabeth Clendenin b: 21 SEP 1865 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Source: much from 1887, History of Arkansas by John Hallum
Birth: Harrisburg, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania.
Helped support widowed mother and siblings working as a clerk in the post-office, then read law several years with George Miffin Dallas. About 1835 went south to clerk for Simon Cameron in Louisiana, year later went to Arkansas becoming governor James S Conway's private secretary (but is shown as one of less than three hundred stock holders of the Cumberland [PA] Valley Railroad Company),this lead to election by the legislature to being judge of the fifth circuit, resigned in 1846 to become quarter-master in the United States army. 1849 his brother-in-law resigned position of attorney-general of Arkansas which he filled in 1849 until 1854, when again elected judge fifth-circuit. In 1866 elected associate justice of Arkansas supreme court, but driven from office by General C H Smith under reconstruction acts. 1874 elected judge of sixth-circuit where he died with Captain Martin was elected to complete his term.
Presidental pardon granted 7 July 1865.
Death: in Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Father: currently unknown
Mother: currently unknown
Marriage: Mary Eliza Watkins b: 12 FEB 1825 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Married: before 1849 at Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Known Children
Elizabeth Clendenin b: 15 NOV 1849 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Jessie Clendenin b: about 1864 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Josie Elizabeth Clendenin b: 21 SEP 1865 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Source: much from 1887, History of Arkansas by John Hallum
h/o Mary Eliza Watkins
Birth: Harrisburg, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania.
Helped support widowed mother and siblings working as a clerk in the post-office, then read law several years with George Miffin Dallas. About 1835 went south to clerk for Simon Cameron in Louisiana, year later went to Arkansas becoming governor James S Conway's private secretary (but is shown as one of less than three hundred stock holders of the Cumberland [PA] Valley Railroad Company),this lead to election by the legislature to being judge of the fifth circuit, resigned in 1846 to become quarter-master in the United States army. 1849 his brother-in-law resigned position of attorney-general of Arkansas which he filled in 1849 until 1854, when again elected judge fifth-circuit. In 1866 elected associate justice of Arkansas supreme court, but driven from office by General C H Smith under reconstruction acts. 1874 elected judge of sixth-circuit where he died with Captain Martin was elected to complete his term.
Presidental pardon granted 7 July 1865.
Death: in Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Father: currently unknown
Mother: currently unknown
Marriage: Mary Eliza Watkins b: 12 FEB 1825 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Married: before 1849 at Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Known Children
Elizabeth Clendenin b: 15 NOV 1849 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Jessie Clendenin b: about 1864 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Josie Elizabeth Clendenin b: 21 SEP 1865 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Source: much from 1887, History of Arkansas by John Hallum
Birth: Harrisburg, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania.
Helped support widowed mother and siblings working as a clerk in the post-office, then read law several years with George Miffin Dallas. About 1835 went south to clerk for Simon Cameron in Louisiana, year later went to Arkansas becoming governor James S Conway's private secretary (but is shown as one of less than three hundred stock holders of the Cumberland [PA] Valley Railroad Company),this lead to election by the legislature to being judge of the fifth circuit, resigned in 1846 to become quarter-master in the United States army. 1849 his brother-in-law resigned position of attorney-general of Arkansas which he filled in 1849 until 1854, when again elected judge fifth-circuit. In 1866 elected associate justice of Arkansas supreme court, but driven from office by General C H Smith under reconstruction acts. 1874 elected judge of sixth-circuit where he died with Captain Martin was elected to complete his term.
Presidental pardon granted 7 July 1865.
Death: in Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Father: currently unknown
Mother: currently unknown
Marriage: Mary Eliza Watkins b: 12 FEB 1825 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Married: before 1849 at Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Known Children
Elizabeth Clendenin b: 15 NOV 1849 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Jessie Clendenin b: about 1864 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Josie Elizabeth Clendenin b: 21 SEP 1865 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas
Source: much from 1887, History of Arkansas by John Hallum
Gravesite Details
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, 1866 to 1868. Husband of Mary E. Watkins Clendenin.
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