Eighth Generation

1369. Col. Joseph Warren House¹¹⁴⁸ was born on 12 Jun 1847 in Hardeman County, Tennessee.¹¹⁴⁸ He appeared in the census in 1850 in Hardeman Co TN No Township page 98b DW# 435 age 6. He appeared in the census in 1870 in White Co AR Red River Dist. page 14 DW# 113 age 25. He died after 1922 in Arkansas.¹¹⁴⁸ He was a lawyer.

• From A Centennial History of Arkansas, edited by Dallas T. Herndon, the Director of the Dept. of Archives & History, published by The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago-Little Rock, 1922:

"COLONEL JOSEPH WARREN HOUSE
The name of Colonel Joseph Warren HOUSE, Sr. is known to nearly everyone throughout the whole of the state of Ark. No man truly or generally beloved by those who know him well. Indeed, the esteem in which he is universally held is closely akin to reverence. He has, during the many years of an eventful life, rounded out a career distinguished by public & private virtues. His outstanding characteristics are a simple & unpretentious manner, a keen sense of humor, a kindly, sympathetic interest in all children, marked chivalry toward women & the highest sense of personal honor. It would seem, therefore, that he comes a near to summing up in himself all the best virtues of the old-fashioned, ideal southern gentleman as ever did any individual. Colonel HOUSE was born June 12, 1847, in Hardeman Co., Tenn., the son of A. B. & Eliza (WILKES) HOUSE, who in 1858 left Tenn. & became residents of White Co., Ark., where their remaining days were passed, the father following the occupation of farming. The son, Joseph Warren HOUSE, attended such country schools as then existed in White Co. & was a youth of but 16 years, when in May, 1863, he responded to the call of the Confederacy & enlisted in Colonel MOSELEY's regiment, with which, with which he served for 2 years, or until after the cessation of hostilities. He then returned to his home & soon afterward entered upon the study of law in the town of West Point, White Co., receiving instruction from an able representative of the bar at that place until admitted to practice in May, 1869. He then entered upon the active work of his profession in Searcy, the county seat of White Co., & in 1885 removed to Little Rock where he has since resided. For 52 years Colonel HOUSE has been a member of the Ark. bar. Advancement in the law is proverbially slow, but surely & steadily Colonel HOUSE worked his way upward, proving his ability by the capable manner in which he handled involved & intricate legal problems. His clientage steadily grew in volume & importance & for many years he has occupied a foremost place in the ranks of the leading lawyers of the commonwealth. Colonel HOUSE has long left the impress of his individuality & his ability upon the political history of the state, yet he has never been a seeker for public office. He has been active in shaping many events which have had to do with political progress in Ark. from the Civil War period on through the days of reconstruction, through the Brooks-Baxter war & in later periods molding the political history of the present decade. In 1871 he was elected to represent his county in the lower house of the state legislature & gave most thoughtful & earnest consideration to all vital questions which came up for settlement while he served in the general assembly. He was elected to the constitutional convention in 1874, being one of the youngest men elected to that now historic body. In spite of his youth he took an active & highly creditable part in framing the fundamental law of Ark., under which the state has been resurrected from the ashes of reconstruction. He is one of 2 or 3 members of that convention who still survive. In 1874-75 he represented the 27th senatorial district, composed of White & Faulkner Counties, in the state senate & during his connection there with was chairman of the committee on education & as such had a large share in shaping the public school system of the state. He served as US district attorney for the eastern district of ark. during the first & second administrations of Pres. Cleveland & in 1917 he was elected without opposition as delegate to the state constitutional convention, which convened the following year. He delves deep into any question which elicits his attention, studying the problems of the commonwealth from every angle & his support of any measure is based upon a firm belief in its value & efficacy as a factor in good government. The democratic party had long regarded him as one of its ablest exponents in Ark. & there are few men who have figured so long in connection with the political history of the state, while the record of none has been more faultless in honor, fearless in conduct, or stainless in reputation. With establishment of his home in Little Rock in 1885, Col. HOUSE entered upon the active practice of his profession in the capital city, in which he has made a most notable record. His prominence is indicated in the fact that he was honored with the presidency of Ark. State Bar Assoc. for the year 1906-7. For a time he was assoc. with his nephew, Menefee HOUSE, now deceased, in law practice, under the style of HOUSE & HOUSE, but for the greater part of his career he has practiced independently. In 1882 Col. HOUSE was united in marriage to Miss Ina DOWDY, a native of Memphis, Tenn., and to them have been born 2 sons, Joseph W. & Archie F., and 3 daughters, Arline, Mary & Ina. The daughter Arline was married to Alfred M. LUND of the engineering firm of Lund & Hill in Little Rock; Mary became the wife of Horace G. MITCHELL, president of the Democrat Printing & Lithographing Co. of Little Rock; Joseph W., Jr., was married to Julia CLARKE, daughter of the late US senator James P. CLARKE of Little Rock. The family has long occupied a most prominent social position, their residence in Little Rock covering a period of more than a third of a century. Moreover, Col. HOUSE is a representative of one of the old southern families, holding to the high traditions & ideals of the south & ever standing as a splendid example of American manhood & chivalry."

• 1910 Census for Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas shows Joseph W. House, 61, a lawyer in general practice, as head of household consising of: Ina D., 47, his wife of 28 years who has had five children, all still living; daughter Arline, 26; son Joseph W., Jr., 24, no occupation; daughter Ina, 19; son Archie F., 17; two black servants named Ida Gray and Ramsey Smith; and brother-in-law J.F. Dowdy, 31, whose occupation is listed as "own income".

• 1920 Census for Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas shows Joseph W. House, 71, retired, as head of household containing: wife Ina D., 59; son Archie, 27, a judge; daughter Arlene Lund, 35; son-in-law Alfred M. Lund, 41, an engineer; and a black servant named Blanche (no last name given).

• 1930 Census for Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas shows Ina D. House, 68, who owns a home worth $15,000, as head of household with: daughter Arline Lund, 45; daughter Ina D. House, 37, who works in the Public Stenographers office; son Archie F. House, 35, a lawyer; and two black servants named Maggie Deoc (?) and Francis Jacko (?).

• from http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ouisersplace/gazob/gobho.htm ("Gazette Obits" page):

Searcy, Feb. 2 - Mrs. Mattie House, aged 74, died of pneumonia at her home here at 10 o'clock this morning. Funeral services will be held at West Point tomorrow. Mrs. House was the stepmother of Judge Joseph W. House Sr. of Little Rock. She was also stepmother of Mrs. J.M. Percival of Weatherford, Tex.; and stepgrandmother of Robert T. Harville of Augusta. She was a sister of Mrs. Julia Turner of Searcy and S.A. McMillen of Argenta, and was the widow of the late A.B. House, formerly of West Point.;ag2/3/17

Col. Joseph Warren House and Ina Dowdy were married in 1882 in Arkansas.¹¹⁴⁸ Ina Dowdy was born about 1863 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee.^1148,1149 Col. Joseph Warren House and Ina Dowdy had the following children:

+3339	i.	Arline House.
+3340	ii.	Joseph Warren House Jr.
+3341	iii.	Mary House.
3342	iv.	Ina House.
3343	v.	Archie F. House1148 was born on 29 Jun 1892 in Arkansas.65,1149 He died on 30 Jun 1992.65 He was buried in Roselawn Memorial Park, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas.65 He was an attorney. • The University of Arkansas Library collections include: Arthur Brann Caldwell Papers 1912-1975, 8 1/2 linear feet A variety of materials created and collected by attorney Caldwell, whose career with the United States Department of Justice (1941 . . . 1968) included positions as Chief of the Civil Rights Section and as assistant to the Assistant Attorney- General for the Civil Rights Division. In Series 3, materials pertaining to the integration of Little Rock's Central High School include a chronology of events; texts of statements by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Governor Orval Faubus, Attorney- General's office personnel, and Warren Olney, III; Caldwell's correspondence with L. Brooks Hays, ARCHIE F. HOUSE, and William H. Hadley; and magazine articles. Little Rock Desegregation Crisis, Oral History Interview Transcripts 1972-1973, 10 items Photocopies of typewritten transcripts of oral history interviews from Columbia University's Oral History Collection. Includes interviews with J. Bill Becker, Orval Eugene Faubus, Nathaniel R. Griswold, ARCHIE F. HOUSE, Elizabeth Huckaby, Robert Lile, Sidney S. McMath, Terrel E. Powell, Everett Tucker, and Wayne Upton. (Related material in the Audio Visual Department [Microfiche/LC/214.23/.L56/B42/1977 through LC/214/214.23/.L56/W54/1977], including interviews with J. Bill Becker, Nathaniel R. Griswold, ARCHIE F. HOUSE, and Sid McMath as well as interviews with Richard C. Butler, Brooks Hays, Irene Samuel, E. Grainger Williams, and Henry Woods.) • From the history of the Rose Law Firm page: During the second century of the Rose Law Firm's existence, the firm continued to add lawyers of extraordinary intelligence, integrity and ingenuity such as Dedrick Cantrell (1905-1943), J. Fairfax Loughborough (1905-1945), ARCHIE F. HOUSE (1925-1969), Harry E. Meek (1932-1969), George Rose Smith (1933-1948) and two Rhodes Scholars, William N. Nash (1931-1980) and J. Gaston Williamson. Meek was the principal author of many of the banking, commercial and inheritance laws of Arkansas. • There is an Archie F. House Law Scholarship offered annually at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. See http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:k8H3NL0x2O0J:www.ualr.edu/development/p df/booklet.pdf+%22Archie+House%22+Arkansas&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 for details.