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W. E. Mollison
W. E. Mollison
Vicksburg, Mis•.
MR. MOLLIso T is a lawyer, educator, and publicist. He
was born at what is now Mayersville, Mi s., in 1859. He
could read at five year , and since that time ha been a student.
He attended the "blue-back speller" schools in his native
town. He was at the head of his
clas. He went to the preparatory
school of Fisk University in 1876,
and entered Oberlin College with the
class of 1883. He was married to a
schoolmate in 1880. Mter his marriage
he studied law and was admitted
to the bar in 188!.
He was appointed Countv Superintendent
of Public Education, where
he served two years, and in 1883
was elected Clerk of the Circuit and
Chancery Courts of his county. He
wa reelected in 1887 without opposition.
In 1892 he retired from this office and resumed
practice of law. He wa appointed district attorney, pro
tern., 1893, a distinction which no other man of his race has
ever enjoyed in Mississippi, and in this position made a notable
record.
He was appointed by Pre ident icK-inley, supervisor of the
Twelfth Census, with one hundred and si~i:y-five enumerators
under his direction. In the political world he had been chairman
of the District Committee of his district, and ecretary of
the State Committee. He represented the tate in the National
Republican Convention of 1892 at Minneapolis and
made a speech nominating Jame G. Blaine, which brought his
name to the attention of the country. He has been a delegate
to other national and state convention of his party. He is in
great demand a' a "college orator" and is compelled to
decline numerous invitation from many parts of the country.
He has one of the be t equipped law offices in the South, and
his clients C001e from all races and classes.
Mr. MoJlison organized and put in operation the fir t banking
institution managed by colored men in the tate, and to-day the
Lincoln Savings Bank is well known as one of the most successful
institutions of its class in the country.
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Scott Bond
Madison, Ark.
MR. BOND conducts a business in dry goods and groceries
and general merchandise.
He was born in the state of Mississippi, March 15, 1852, and
was brought to Arkansas by his mother. After the Civil War,
he lived with his' stepfather until he
reached the age of twenty-two years,
when he was married to Miss Magnolia
Nash. Without money or credit, and
practically with no education, they
fought successfully the obstacles that
confronted them. The first two years
of their married life were spent upon
a farm, where they worked as shear
croppers. Having established a small
credit, they were able to rent a small
farm.
In a few years Mr. Bond found him-
Scott Bond self the owner of one-half interest in
this farm, consisting of 2,200 acres. He realized early that land
in eastern Arkansas would some day become the garden spot
of the South, and availed himself of every opportunity to purchase
more, until now he owns more than 3,000 acres, valued at
more than $50 per acre. He harvests large crops of corn, cotton,
and potatoes. Mr. Bond's general merchandise and financial
business was launched upon a small scale, but it has grown
until the receipts were $75,000 in 1908. One thousand bales of
cotton were handled by his firm.
Mr. Bond is also engaged in' the cotton-gin business, having
in operation three large, up-to-date continental Munger-system
gin plants, their capacity being 180 bales per day. These plants
are managed by one of his sons, who is able to meet successfully
the seed competition. Mr. Bond is a member of the Baptist
church. He is a Prohibitionist and has engaged actively in
eradicating whiskey from the county. A friend of his race, he
is constantly lending a helping hand to the worthy and deserving.
Mr. Bond at the National Negro Business League Convention
at Louisville, Ky., in 1909, spoke on "Succeeding
as a Farmer." He is said to be the largest Negro farmer in
Arkansas, and the relation of his experiences and successes was
a source of stimulus to others engaged in the same occupation.
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