Biography of Louis Bolin, Sebastian Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Louis Bolin, a grocer of Fort Smith, Ark., was born in Fannin County, Tex.,
November 29, 1844, and is a son of  George Barnett and Anna Bolin. The latter
was born in Alabama, and when a small child was stolen from her  mother and
taken to Springfield, Mo., where she was again stolen and taken to Fannin
County, Tex. In 1867 she  moved to Fort Smith, Ark., where she died in 1883.
Her son, Louis, spent his early life in Fannin County, Tex.,  and came to
Sebastian County, Ark., with his mother. From 1863 until 1886 he was engaged in
tilling the soil,  and owns a good little farm of forty acres, in the county,
besides eleven houses and lots in Fort Smith. Since  1877 he has been engaged
in the grocery business, and as he is energetic, honest and accommodating he is
doing a prosperous business. He is a Mason, a member of the Missionary Baptist
Church, and in his political  views is a Republican, casting his first
presidental vote for U. S. Grant. On the 20th of November, 1869, he was
married to Jennie Kemp, who was born in Sebastian County, Ark., in 1851, and a
daughter of Dick and Betsey  Kemp, and by her is the father of the following
children: Louis, born February 26, 1875; Millie, born in July,  1877; Wheeler,
born April 7, 1882, and Bessie, born in August, 1884. One son, John, is
deceased.