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Nowlin, Samuel Henry

soldier, journalist, public official, was born April 11, 1844, in Stewartsville, Va. At the age of seventeen he entered the confederate army, and served through the entire war.

For three terms he was a mayor of Salem, Va., in which city he conducted a drug business for ten years. In 1877 he moved to Arkansas; was commissioner in charge of state exhibits made by Arkansas at the Louisville exposition of 1883; was general manager of the State exposition at Little Rock in 1887; and during 1884-88 he was state statistician for the United States department of agriculture. He was the founder of the American Horticultural society in 1879-80; and during 1894-98 was president of the Arkansas State Horticultural society. In 1878-82 he edited Spirit of Arkansas; edited the Rural Southwest in 1882-85; edited the Arkansas Farmer in 1889-94; and since 1894 has been engaged in encyclopedic work.