Little Rock Board of Trade

Businessmen formed the Little Rock Board of Trade on April 6, 1886. The first president of the Board of Trade was merchant James A. Fones. He was re-elected seven times.

The Board paid for the efforts of the Arkansas Columbian Commission to create an Arkansas pavilion for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. The Board of Trade Building was destroyed by fire on December 23, 1908. In 1914 the Board of Trade became the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce.

Presidents

• 1886-1893 - James A. Fones
• 1897 - W. W. Dickinson
• 1899 - M. M. Cohn
• 1901 - William S. Mitchell
• 1907 - Robert E. Wait
• 1909-1911? - Harmon L. Remmel
• 1912?-1914? - George Worthington Rogers - three terms

1901 Board of Trade Members

Officers of the Board of Trade in 1901 were William S. Mitchell, president, Ad Hamberg, vice president, John G. Fletcher, treasurer, and George R. Brown, secretary. Directors were F. B. T. Hollenberg, Tillman H. Bunch, Morris M. Cohn, John F. Boyle, W. Wallace Dickinson, Charles F. Penzel, James A. Fones, Charles T. Abeles, James A. Woodson, George W. Rogers.

• Charles T. Abeles & Company
• Adams & Boyle
• Allen-West Compress Co.
• L. J. Alexander & Co.
• Alphin-Lake Cotton Co.
• Arkansas Carpet and Furniture Company
• Arkansas Cotton Oil Co.
• Arkansas Democrat Co.
• Arkansas Pump & Pipe Co.
• Joe Asher
• Joe D. Back & Bro.
• Leonidas C. Balch
• Warren Baldwin
• Henry C. Bateman
• A. D. Beach
• Beal & Doyle
• Ziba Bennitt & Co.
• John W. Blackwood
• Gus Blass Dry Goods Co.
• Jacob Blass
• Sam Blum
• B. Bodeman
• J. H. Boicourt & Co.
• Leo P. Bott
• John S. Braddock
• T. P. Brashears
• Aristo Brizzolara
• J. M. Brooks
• B. J. Brown
• E. C. Buchanan
• T. H. Bunch & Co.
• H. G. Bunn
• George F. Burchard
• C. C. Burrow & Co.
• C. E. Butts
• S. P. Cansler
• Carl & Tobey Co.
• James Chapple
• J. T. Claiborne
• Allen W. Clark
• John E. Coates
• H. K. Cochran
• Maxwell Coffin
• Al Cohn
• Albert D. Cohn
• Mark M. Cohn
• Morris M. Cohn
• Ed. G. Connelley
• Charles M. Connor
• Consumers Cotton Oil Co.
• G. H. L. Coplen
• Ed Cornish
• T. T. Cotnam
• Horace G. Dale
• Abe H. Daugherty
• John L. Deason
• Dixie Cotton Oil Co.
• W. W. Dickinson Hardware Company
• George Doerner
• Draughton's Practical Business College
• Leon Dreyfus
• Nathan Dreyfus
• W. R. Duley
• J. T. Duncan
• John M. Dungan
• M. E. Dunn
• A. A. Ehrman
• P. D. English
• P. C. Ewing
• Exchange National Bank
• D. G. Falk
• William C. Faucette
• W. P. Feild
• W. B. Ferguson
• Ed J. Fischer
• A. A. Fleming
• J. A. Flemister
• Fletcher & Hotze
• Fones Brothers Hardware Company
• Mike P. Forster
• S. W. Fordyce
• A. H. Fox
• Aaron Frank
• Sam Frank
• Franklin Bros. Co.
• John H. Fraser
• R. A. Furth
• Sol Gans
• Gazette Publishing Co.
• German National Bank
• Geyer & Adams
• Frank J. Ginocchio
• Lawrence D. Gleason
• Isa Goodman
• John M. Gracie
• James A. Gray
• B. W. Green
• R. B. Gress
• J. T. Haizlop & Co.
• F. M. Hanley
• M. N. Hanson
• W. H. Hayes
• George M. Heard
• H. W. Hennegin
• J. F. Holden
• F. B. T. Hollenberg
• W. S. Holt
• Home Water Company
• P. O. Hooper
• O. K. Houck & Co.
• Alex C. Hull
• W. P. Hutton
• H. B. Coolidge
• J. W. Irwin
• Independent Compress Company
• M. H. Johnson
• S. J. Johnson Co.
• Sol H. Johl
• Dan W. Jones
• John B. Jones
• T. H. Jones Co.
• John A. Jungkind
• Herman Kahn Co.
• Andrew Karcher
• William M. Kavanaugh
• James Keith
• J. B. Keith
• Ike Kempner
• M. Kirst
• Louis Koers
• Frerichs Knoop & Co.
• Fintan Kraemer
• C. J. Kramer & Co.
• George Krickerberg
• C. H. Ladue
• Lasker Brothers
• Thomas Lafferty
• W. H. Lamberson
• S. D. Lary
• L. B. Leigh
• J. H. Lenow
• Lesser Cotton Company
• Wulliam Letzig
• C. J. Lincoln Co.
• R. A. Little
• Little Rock Brewing & Ice Company
• Little Rock Cooperage Company
• Little Rock Division No. 321 Order of Railway Conductors
• Little Rock Gin & Machine Company
• A. Lofton
• Thomas Lonergan
• J. G. Lonsdale
• Frank T. Longley
• Louis Lorch
• A. S. Maddox
• J. J. Mahoney
• A. M. Machin
• E. S. Maloney
• Mann & Gibb
• Joseph W. Martin
• John H. Martin A. Co.
• John W. Mast
• W. D. Matthews
• Merchants Transfer Company
• G. L. Meyers
• Louis L. Mivelaz
• Missouri Pacific Railway Company
• John M. Moore and W. B. Smith
• G. Morgner
• H. W. Morrison
• R. E. Morris & Co.
• J. D. Moore
• Louis Muller
• E. C. Murray
• C. B. Myers
• H. A. Myers
• S. R. McNutt
• W. S. McDowell
• W. B. Neff
• Charles M. Newton
• New Wilson & Webb Co.
• U. Nolin
• Patrick J. O'Brien
• John S. Odom
• Lee Omohundro
• Oliver-Finnie Co.
• B. Earl Patten
• Robert O. Paul
• Raleigh M. Pearson
• Harry A. Peckham
• C. F. Penzel Grocer Company
• Leo Pfeifer
• Robert G. Pillow
• W. P. Pledger
• Plunkett & Jarrell
• A. Bascom Poe
• Polk Transfer Co.
• Rufus W. Polk
• Louis A. Pollock
• J. W. Pope Co.
• Roma W. Porter
• Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.
• S. M. Powell
• C. A. Pratt
• John Pumphreys
• H. G. Pugh
• Joe P. Quinn
• Patrick Raleigh
• Thomas B. Rayburn
• Mike Reigler
• Harmon L. Remmel
• Albert Retan
• E. Reynolds
• Lewis Rhoten
• E. S. Rice
• H. E. Rice
• E. B. Richards
• Jacob R. Rightsell
• Richard W. Rightsell
• O. P. Robinson
• George W. Rogers
• Philander K. Roots
• Hemingway & Rose
• John M. Rose
• Charles E. Rosenbaum
• Charles H. Ross
• Fred Rossner
• John Rothery
• H. H. Rottaken
• George F. Rozell
• W. L. Rucker
• Sam Rudolph
• Sandefur-Julian Company
• E. H. Sanders
• M. B. Sanders
• George B. Sawyers
• St. Louis Southwest Railway Company
• A. L. Schader
• Fred Schader
• Joe Schmelzer
• Scott-Mayer Compress Company
• J. L. Scofield
• S. Siebert
• C. M. Simons
• Simpson & Webb Furniture Company
• James A. Smith
• A. R. Smith
• J. F. Smith
• Paul Snodgrass
• Southern Cotton Oil Company
• W. A. Sparks
• B. W. Stewart
• C. B. Stewart
• Southwestern Telephone & Telegraph Company
• Crawford Stainback & Co.
• C. B. Stevens
• Abe Stiewell
• Charles S. Stifft
• George H. Stratman
• Victor Sugarman
• George Taylor Compress Co.
• Joseph N. Templeton
• Charles T. Taylor
• Frank J. Taylor
• Sol F. Thalheimer
• The Institute
• A. D. Thomas
• G. M. Thomas
• William S. Thomas
• George Thornburgh
• Spence Torrey
• J. M. Townes
• Jacob Trieber
• J. H. Trawick
• A. D. Tucker
• J. E. Turpin
• Union Compress Company
• J. Arthur Van Etten
• Joseph Wysong Vestal
• W. L. Vick
• R. B. Waldrop
• R. E. Walt
• Louis E. Walther
• Zeb Ward
• J. A. Watkins
• Emil C. Wehrfritz
• Western Union Telegraph & Cable Company
• Nal Williams
• Durand Whipple
• B. D. Williams
• W. W. Wilson
• F. J. Wittenberg
• Louis Wolfort
• Wolf Brothers Dry Goods Company
• Wood-Kraft Fuel Company
• James A. Woodson
• William H. Woodsmall
• William B. Worthen
• Robert W. Worthen
• W. Fulton Wright
• Frank B. Yates
• William Zeisler
• J. V. Zimmerman

References

• "Little Rock Board of Trade Burns," New York Times, December 24, 1908.