Sebastian County ArArchives Biographies.....Carnall, Wharton 
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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

WHARTON CARNALL.

    Wharton Carnall, real estate agent, is identified with this line of business
in Fort Smith, where he has handled many important realty transfers during the
past forty years. He has thoroughly acquainted himself with conditions bearing
on property interests in this city and his knowledge enables him to speak with
authority on many matters that have to do with the valuation of real estate
holdings in Sebastian county. Much of his life has been devoted to this line of
business. He was born in Sebastian county in 1862 and is a son of John and
Frances (Turner) Carnall. The father came to Arkansas from Fauquier county,
Virginia, making his way to this state in order to take up the profession of
school teaching here. He afterward became sheriff of Crawford county and also
filled the position of clerk of the United States court at Van Buren. He was
elected the first clerk of this county and at all times discharged his public
duties with promptness, capability and fidelity. He also became identified with
the purchase and sale of land and likewise took up the business of newspaper
publication. He was a most public-spirited citizen and he distributed gratis the
first write-up that Fort Smith ever had, in order to promote the interests and
advantages of Fort Smith, making wide distribution of the paper at the
Louisville exposition. He assisted in laying out various additions to the city
and in every possible way contrbuted to its growth, progress and improvement.
Mr. and Mrs. John Carnall reared five children: J. Henry; Turner B.; Wharton;
Virginia, the wife of William Gardner; and Emma C., the wife of Will W. Wheeler.
It was the father of Wharton Carnall, with whom the idea originated that has
developed the magnificent school fund for Fort Smith. This was consummated by a
donation of the old Military Reserve now in the heart of Fort Smith. This was
John Carnall's thought and later his political assistant brought it about. J.
Henry Carnall, brother of Wharton Carnall, who was in 1885 mayor of the city,
made the first sale of lots on that reserve for school purposes.

    Wharton Carnall obtained his early education in the schools of Sebastian
county and throughout his life he has remained a student of events which have
their influence upon the public welfare and the general interests of society. He
has learned many valuable lessons in the school of experience and the worth of
his opinions on vital questions is widely acknowledged. At maturity he turned
his attention to the real estate business and to newspaper publishing in
connection with his father. He was the originator of the movement for the
building of the greater sewer and paving districts in Fort Smith and worked
untiringly to secure results along those lines, to the end that the town now has
more miles of paving and sewer than any other city of its size in the world. He
is constantly alert to. the opportunities for Fort Smith's upbuilding and
substantial development and his financial aid and active cooperation can at all
times be counted upon to further public plans and measures of a beneficial
character. He is likewise one of the board of directors of the Goldman Hotel.
His life has been passed in Sebastian county and those who analyze his career
must readily recognize the integrity of his business principles and methods and
his devotion to the general good, while at the same time he has so conducted his
individual affairs that legitimate prosperity has come to him.


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


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