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

A. D. NORWOOD.
    A. D. Norwood, a dealer in produce at Lincoln and classed with the
enterprising and progressive business men of his section of the county, was born
June 11, 1881, on a farm in the vicinity of Lincoln, his parents being William
and Elizabeth (Holt) Norwood, the former a native of Texas and the latter of
Washington county, Arkansas. The father had one brother, John Norwood, who was
killed while serving in the Confederate army during the Civil war. William
Norwood came to Washington county about 1875 and was here married. He was one of
the early nurserymen of Washington county but is now living retired, enjoying in
well earned ease the fruits of his former toil. He and his wife are residents of
Lincoln. William Norwood has always voted with the democratic party but has
never been an office seeker. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, while
his wife is a devoted and consistent member of the Baptist church. Their family
numbered eleven children, ten of whom are yet living: Sam V., who is associated
with his brother in the produce business and in handling real estate at Lincoln;
A. D., of this review; William L, a traveling salesman residing at Lincoln;
Fannie, at home; Lucille, the wife of Alfred Kelley, a traveling man residing in
Minneapolis, Minnesota; Lem, who is engaged in clerking in a store in
Minneapolis; Clyde, a produce dealer of Okmulgee, Oklahoma; Eula, the wife of
Bert West, manager for the Hodges Brothers Mercantile Company at Lincoln; Bryan,
a produce merchant of Okmulgee, Oklahoma; and Lola, at home.

    A. D. Norwood was educated in the schools of Washington county, Arkansas,
and pursued a business course at Springfield, Missouri. The first work in which
he engaged in the employ of others was that of farming and later he began
clerking in a store. He subsequently conducted a mercantile business on his own
account for a period of four years and later he devoted four years to government
and state work in connection with the bureau of animal industry. He next engaged
in the fruit and produce business at Lincoln in 1911 and in this won a
substantial measure of success. He erected a large two-story brick building in
Lincoln, seventy-five by ninety feet, and is today one of the leading produce
men of this section of the state, annually handling a large amount of fruit and
vegetables. He is also the owner of a theatre in the First National Bank
building and he has his produce offices upstairs. He is the vice president of
the First National Bank of Lincoln and also president of the Lincoln Spray &
Supply Company, which manufactures lime and sulphur for spraying fruit. He has
developed his entire business through his own efforts, close application, energy
and determination being the vital forces which have brought his prosperity.

    In 1903 Mr. Norwood was united in marriage to Miss Amanda Holt, who was born
in Washington county, a daughter of Benjamin Holt, a pioneer of this county.
They are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and Mr. Norwood
belongs also to the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
He has always voted-with the democratic party since age conferred upon him the
right of franchise and he has served as a member of the town council. Mr.
Norwood has spent his entire life in northwestern Arkansas and has contributed
in no small measure to the growth and progress of the communities in which he
has lived.


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


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