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View the list of Arkansas Historical Review bio sketches

In 1911, Fay Hempstead, a respected member of the historical community in Arkansas, published the three-volume set, Historical Review of Arkansas. The first volume is an excellent general history of the state. Volumes two and three contain rich biographical sketches of leading men (well, he included two women) of the state.

About one in ten of the biographical sketches includes a formal portrait of the subject. Those are noted in the list with an asterisk (*). In order to more clearly identify these folks who head the biographical sketches, we put in their cities of residence, years of birth and birthplaces. The sketches themselves contain much more detailed information. Remember to search for collateral relatives of your direct ancestors!

In addition to people on the list, there are hundreds more people mentioned in these books and the searchable text on the CDs will turn up those references.

Click here to view the list of all the people whose bio sketches are included in Fay Hempstead's Historical Review of Arkansas, published in 1911.

• This CD contains the books in Adobe's portable document format (.pdf). Nearly all computers, Windows and Mac, come with a software program, Adobe Acrobat Reader, pre-installed so everyone on this planet can read .pdfs.
• To get the latest version of this free software, go to www.Adobe.com and click on the "get Adobe Reader" button. Follow instructions to download and install the program. As of this writing (May, 2007), version 7 is the latest available. To see if you have Adobe Reader on your computer, click "Start" then "Programs" and check the displayed list for Adobe Reader.
• To use the CD, just put the disc in your CD drive. Click on "Start" then "My Computer" and then click on the drive containing the disc. Double click the .pdf filename and Adobe Reader will open and display the book.

• Enlarge the print! Play with the settings on the "View" menu and enlarge the print for easier reading.
• Under the "Edit" menu, click on the "Find" or "Search" options. These files have been processed with OCR (optical character recognition) software. It was about 95% successful with the old type. Search for "coal mines" or "gold rush" or other topics, names, or places.
• If you want to clip out a portion to paste into another program, use the camera icon (snapshot tool) on the toolbar of Adobe Reader. Click on it, then drag and mark the portion of text you want to capture. When you release the mouse button, the information is copied to the Windows clipboard. Switch to the other program (MS Word, for example) and paste (Control+V) the clipboard contents wherever you want it. Here's a tip for using this feature: enlarge the text on the screen before you use the snapshot tool. This creates text at a higher resolution so it'll appear sharper in the application you paste it into.