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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

MOSLEY WILSON HARDY.
    A name well known in banking and insurance circles is that of Mosley Wilson
Hardy of Little Rock. He is now engaged in the insurance business in the capital
city and still holds his financial and official connection with some of the
banking institutions of the state. He is likewise one of the most prominent
Masons of Arkansas, and the high ideals of the craft have long found
exemplification in his career.

    Mr. Hardy is a representative of one of the old southern families. His
parents were Lewis Mosley and Lucy Caroline (Hill) Hardy, both of whom were
natives of Heard county, Georgia, the former born in 1847 and the latter in
184S. During the last year of the Civil war Lewis M. Hardy served with the
Confederate army, being on active duty during that period. After leaving Georgia
he took up his abode in Roanoke, Alabama, where he lived for many years. At all
times he gave his political allegiance to the democratic party, and he was a man
ever loyal to any cause which he espoused. He died in the year 1881 and is still
survived by his wife, who now makes her home in Lineville, Alabama. In their
family were four children, Mosley W. being the only son, while the three
daughters are yet living. There were also two other daughters, who died in early
girlhood.

    Mosley W. Hardy was born upon the home farm in Heard county, Georgia, on the
18th of October, 1879, and was quite young at the time of the removal of his
parents to Roanoke, Alabama, where he attended the public schools. Later he
pursued his more advanced education in the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa,
and there won his Bachelor of Arts degree upon graduation with the class of
1901. Mr. Hardy initiated his business career as a railroad man in the employ of
the Central Railroad of Georgia, with which he remained for two years. He
afterward became connected with banking as an employe in the Bank of Roanoke at
Roanoke, Alabama, there serving as assistant cashier for two years. On the
expiration of that period he went to the Citizens Bank at Brewton, Alabama,
where he continued for six months, and next located at El Dorado, Arkansas,
where he organized the Citizens National Bank, becoming cashier and serving in
that capacity for two years. On removing to Camden, Arkansas, he was made
manager of the Camden Oil Mill and so continued for two years, after which he
returned to El Dorado, Arkansas, where he turned his attention to the real
estate and insurance business, operating in that field of activity for six
years. In October, 1914, he came to Little Rock, where he has since been well
known as a leading figure in insurance circles. He still remains the vice
president of the Citizens National Bank of El Dorado and is a director of the
Union Mercantile Bank of Little Rock. He has comprehensive knowledge of the
banking business by reason of broad experience and study, and his cooperation in
this field is of value to the institutions with which he is identified. At the
same time he has made steady progress as a real estate man and as an insurance
man, and his interests of this character at Little Rock are important. He is now
a director in the Union and Mercantile Trust Company of Little Rock, and vice
president of the Union Indemnity Company.

    At Hamburg, Arkansas, on the 7th of January, 1913, was celebrated the
marriage of Mr. Hardy and Miss Corinne McCombs, who was born in Hamburg in 1888,
a daughter of William Faulkner and Frances (Pugh) McCombs. They lived for some
time at Hamburg, Arkansas, but both are now deceased. The father was born in
Kentucky. while the mother was a native of this state. Mr. and Mrs. Hardy have
become parents of an only child, William McCombs, who was born January 3, 1915.

    Both Mr. and Mrs. Hardy are members of the First Presbyterian church of
Little Rock, in which he is serving as deacon, and in the work and upbuilding of
the church they take active and helful part. His political endorsement is given
to the democratic party. Fraternally he is a Mason and an Elk. He has attained
the honorary thirty-third degree in Masonry, which is conferred only in
recognition of valuable service rendered to the order, and he is likewise a
member of the Mystic Shrine. He has gained a name and place of prominence during
the years of his connection with Arkansas, not only as a Mason, but as a
business man and citizen, and he is today most highly esteemed in the city which
he makes his home.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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