Arkansas Biography

Online Resources
The best collection of published biographies in Arkansas is at the University of Arkansas Library. Also search the biographical sections of statewide, regional, and county histories for biographical information. In 1889 and 1890 the Goodspeed Publishing Company published a series of regional biographical encyclopedias. Most have recently been reprinted and are indexed.

Family History Library Collection


 * Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas. . . . 1890. Reprint. Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1978. and . Online for free at the Internet Archive.  Also online at: Eastern Arkansas Biographies and Historical Memoirs ($)


 * Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. . . . Chicago, Illinois: Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889. and . Online for free at the Internet Archive.  Also online at: Northeast Arkansas Biographies and Historical Memoirs ($)


 * Biographical and Historical Memoirs: of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Springs Counties, Arkansas. . . . Chicago, Illinois: Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889. . Online for free at the Internet Archive.


 * Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas. . . . 1890. Reprint. Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1978. and a 1960 reprint of 1890 edition on . Online at: Southern Arkansas Biographical and Historical Memoirs($)


 * Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas. . . . 1891. Reprint. Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1978. . Online for free at the Internet Archive. Also online at: Western Arkansas Biographies and Historical Memoirs($) 


 * History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. . . 1889. Chicago, Illinois: Goodspeed Publishing Company. Online for free at Google Books. Also online at: Ancestry.com($)
 * Arkansas Family Biographies for most counties from numerous historical volumes are available free online at: My Genealogy Hound
 * Arkansas Biographical History at Ancestry.com ($)
 * Central Arkansas Counties Biographical Historical Memoirs at Ancestry.com ($)
 * Biographical and pictorial history of Arkansas at Ancestry.com ($)