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History of Van Buren, (Crawford County) ArkansasOur database does not include an historic photo for Van Buren, (Crawford County) Arkansas, do you have one you would like to contribute? Contact Us! 15% - 35% off all Products ยป The Ready Store Biographies:Cyrus Adler Biography Cyrus Adler, educator, was born at Van Buren, Ark., Sept. 13, 1863. His parents removed to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1864, and there he attended the public schools. He entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1879, and was graduated in 1883. He afterwards pursued Oriental studies in Johns-Hopkins university, was appointed university scholar there in 1884, and was fellow in Semitic languages from 1885 to 1887, when he received the degree of Ph.D., and was appointed instructor in Semitic languages. He was promoted to be associate professor in 1890. In 1877 he was appointed assistant curator of the section of Oriental antiquities in the United States national museum, and had charge of an exhibit of biblical archaeology at the centennial exposition of the Ohio valley in 1888. He was a commissioner for the world's columbian exposition to the Orient in 1890, and he passed sixteen months in Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco securing exhibits. On Dec. 1, 1892, he was appointed librarian of the Smithsonian institution at Washington. He was made lecturer on biblical archaeology in the Jewish theological seminary in New York; president of the American Jewish historical society; U.S. delegate to a conference on an international catalogue of scientific literature in 1898, and honorary assistant curator of historic arch?logy and custodian of historic religions in the U.S. national museum. He was an editor of the "Jewish Encyclopedia" and wrote in collaboration with Allen Ramsay "Tales Told in a Coffee House" (1898); besides contributions to the Journal of the American Oriental Society; the Proceedings of the American Philological Association; the Andover Review; Hebraica; Johns Hopkins University Circular and numerous reviews. |
Arkansas Facts: Crawford County Facts: Seat: Van BurenEstablished: 1820 Formed from: Pulaski
Additional Local History Notes: The 1854 Gazetteer of the United States by Thomas Baldwin shows: VAN BUREN, a flourishing post-village, capital of Crawford county, Arkansas, is situated on the left (N.) bank of Arkansas river, 160 miles W. N. W. from Little Rock and 5 miles E. from the Indian Territory. It is one of the most commercial pine the whole state?the annual sales amounting to more than a million dollars. An extensive jobbing business is done here, in supplying the smaller places of the surrounding country. It has a cotton factory in successful operation, with an engine of 65 horsepower, and a steam flouring mill making 5000 barrels per day of the finest flour. The village contains 4 churches, including 1 Methodist and 1 Presbyterian, both fine brick edifices. Two newspapers are published Stone coal is found in the vicinity. Laid out about 1841. Population in 1853, about 1600. Van Buren is situated 126 meters above sea level. |