Historical review of Arkansas : its commerce, industry and modern affairs . and excel-lent advantages. Their names are LidvC Reed. ^laud Hatfield and Theo-dore Miller. The names of the deceased children ai-e, James Spencer,LiOTiis Erastus, AVilliam Jesse and Edith Iimmic The parents of Mr. Dunn were Spencer and Mniy i Wooten i Dunn,natives of Virginia. JoKX Simon- :\lrLK()n. The ])arl that heredity ami environment jilayin determining a mans earthly career are as nothing compared with theinfluence that he can himself exert if he stands ready to open the door atopportunitys knock. Alert and ente
Historical review of Arkansas : its commerce, industry and modern affairs . and excel-lent advantages. Their names are LidvC Reed. ^laud Hatfield and Theo-dore Miller. The names of the deceased children ai-e, James Spencer,LiOTiis Erastus, AVilliam Jesse and Edith Iimmic The parents of Mr. Dunn were Spencer and Mniy i Wooten i Dunn,natives of Virginia. JoKX Simon- :\lrLK()n. The ])arl that heredity ami environment jilayin determining a mans earthly career are as nothing compared with theinfluence that he can himself exert if he stands ready to open the door atopportunitys knock. Alert and enterprising, John S. McLeod. of Rogers,has evidently made good use of native talents and good old Scotch endow-ments of industry, thrift and sound sense, and is now carrying on a success-ful business as a general insurance agent, and is actively identified withmany of the more prominent entcr])rises of this pait of Benton county. .\son of John A. McLeod, he was born April , 1872, in Benton , his been about six miles southwest of ^f^r^ ^ HISTORY OF x\RKANSAS 1137 Murdock McLeod, the grandfather of John Simon, was born jf jjureScotch ancestry, his birth occurring November 10, 1807, near Raleigh, NorthCarolina. Migrating in early life to Arkansas, he located in Lawrencecounty, where he was successfully engaged in mixed husbandry until hisdeath, in 1862. He married a bonny Scotch lassie, who was born December18, 1811, and died, in Lawrence county, Arkansas, December 20, 1888. Shereared a number of children, of whom the following named grew to yearsof maturity, married and reared families: James, of Lawrence county,Arkansas; John A.; Simon and William, of Lawrence county; Alexander,who spent his entire life in Lawrence county; and Hector, residing in thatcounty. John A. McLeod was born in 1835, in Lawrence county, Arkansas, andbegan life for himself as a farmer. At the outbreak of the Civil war heabandoned the plowshare and became a soldier
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