John Newton Sarber (October 28, 1837 – October 21, 1905) was a politician in Arkansas and a U.S. Marshall. He was a member of Arkansas' 1868 Constitutional Convention and served in the Arkansas Senate. He was a leader in legislation establishing Arkansas' public school system, an industrial university, and what became Logan County.[1]

He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His family was abolitionist and moved to Kansas.[1] They settled in Kansas City when he was 14 and two years later he enlisted at Manhattan, Kansas.[2] He joined the Kansas infantry.[1] He enlisted in 1861 and was discharged in 1865.[3]

He married and had six children that survived to adulthood.[1] He represented Johnson County, Arkansas at the 1868 Arkansas Constitutional Convention.[4] He was on the Arkansas Industrial University (University of Arkansas) first board of trustees and helped choose a site for it.[2][5]

He lived in Clarksville, Arkansas.[6] He served in the Arkansas Senate in 1871 succeeding W. G. Harris. He was succeeded in 1873 by A. D. King.[7]

He was appointed a U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas.[8] He resigned as U.S. Marshall under pressure from the Democrats after they retook control of the state after the Reconstruction era.[1]

A portrait of him exists.[9]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Encyclopedia of Arkansas". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
  2. 1 2 Reynolds, John Hugh; Thomas, David Yancey (January 7, 1910). "History of the University of Arkansas". University of Arkansas – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Rose, Ben Lacy (January 4, 1979). "Alexander Rose of Person County, North Carolina, and His Descendants". Rose – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "The Constitution of the State of Arkansas: Framed and Adopted by the Convention which Assembled at Little Rock January 7th, 1868, and Ratified by Th Registered Electors of the State, at the Election Beginning March 13th, 1868 ; with Marginal Notes, a Full Documentary History of the Constitution, and a Copious Index ; to which is Prefixed the Constitution of the United States, with an Index Thereto". By authority. January 7, 1870 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ Education, Arkansas Dept of (January 7, 1873). "Report" – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ Logan, Steve (1954). "From Sarber to Logan". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 13 (1): 90–97. doi:10.2307/40037960 – via JSTOR.
  7. ↑ Presley, Mrs Leister E. (January 4, 1978). "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas: Comprising a Condensed History of the State, a Number of Biographies of Distinguished Citizens of the Same, a Brief Descriptive History of Each of the Counties Mentioned, and Numerous Biographical Sketches of the Citizens of Such Counties". Southern Historical Press – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ Browning, James A. (January 7, 1993). "Violence was No Stranger: A Guide to the Grave Sites of Famous Westerners". Barbed Wire Press – via Google Books.
  9. ↑ "Encyclopedia of Arkansas". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.


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