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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 610480, member: 33&quot;]One thing you could do is try to find newspaper articles from the time period of his court case. Or if you could find any county histories from the early 20th century in that part of Arkansas (Polk County) you might find something since he was a county elected official. It&#039;s harder because he seemed to go by his initials instead of his first name spelled out. That makes it harder to find.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you really want to do a lot of research you could see if there are any genealogical records about him in FamilySearch (free), WorldConnect family trees (free), or Ancestry (subscription required). There are others. FamilySearch and Ancestry both have US census records and you might be able to figure out his first name from some of that.</p><p><br /></p><p>The newspapers from Polk County may be in subscription sites like newspapers dot com or newspaperarchive dot com. There also are free digitized papers out there, but scattered and it helps to know the newspaper name. There are also reference sources that can tell you the&nbsp; names of newspapers in different areas throughout history. If you know the name of the paper you can look for it online to see if older ones are available.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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