Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-07-28
Body of M. A. Austin Being Accompanied A from Jack
 sonville by o. M. Spear.
STORY OF HIS CAREER
Was Successful in Business and Dis. inguished Himself in the Prac-
 tice of Law.

The funeral of Judge Mumford A. Austin will be held Monday after noon at o'clock from the family resi- Geace, No. TIA West Fltth avenue The body vii arrive he.e Monday morning at 10:3O o'clock and will be taken immediately upon it's arrival to the Austin home. It is accompanied by o. M. Spear of Jacksonville, Fla, who has been acting as MT. Austins secretary since taking up his resi- dence in that city.
 The funeral arrangements have not been completed. The pail bearers to be named later and the minister, who will officiate, is also yet to be selected. Rev. w. D. Buckner of Memphis, brother-in-law of the de- ceased, who was in Virginia, spend ing his vacation, is already on hls way to this city and will probably arrive here Sunday night or Monday morning. MT. and Mrs. F. F. Mc- Neny, the latter formerly Miss Bettie Austin of this city, daughter of the deceased, will arrive here tonight.
 When informed of Judge Austin's uCaIA C0l1y yCStCIudJ lAOIIIAS, MI o Austin and the aged mother of the deceased were prostrated. Mrs. Aus tin and her two little sons were to have joined MT. Austin at Jackson vile in a few days. Mir. Austin went to Jacksonville ahead of them and was inspecting the work of hand some new home that was being erect ed by him on a beautiful lot which he purchased a few months ago, when he was stricken. All day yes terday hundreds of friends visited the bereaved family and tried to console them.
 His Useful Caeer.
 Fay Hampstead in the History of Arkansas has the following interest ing review of the life of Judge Aus tin:
 Mumford A. Austin. The man best fitted to meet the wonderfully chang ed life of today is not new type of a man. He is a man resplendent WitE the same old sterling qualities, great in his home life, great in his civic and patriotic life and great in his religious life. Such man is Mum ford A. Austin, and he is the sort of a man to make his mark in almost any environment, for he possesses fine initiative ability, clear power of reasoning, a broad grasp of the pos abilities of the financal world, and, most important of all, keen appre- cation of human nature. He is in the most significant sense the architect of his own fortunes. and his record throughout his entire career will bear the searchlight of the fullest in yestigation. MT. Austin has long been numbered among the representative attorneys and business men of Pine Bluff, Jefferson county, Arkansas, but early in 1910 he found it necessary to retire from active participation in business affairs on account of his health.
 Mumford A. Austin was born in Monroe county, North Carolina, on the 18th of August, 1S57 and is son of MT. and Mrs. R. G. Austin. In connection with the career of MT. Austin recourse is taken to an ap- preciative resume of his business ac- tivities which appear in local pa per. and the article is reproduced with only such paraphrase and modl- fication as the province of this com piication demands.
 One of the leading attorneys of the state and one of the most important factors in the commercial life of Pine Bluff is Hon. Mumford A. Austin. MT. Austin has been resident of Pine Bluff for more than quarter of a century. but takes pride in referring to himself as still young man, ana he is indeed, just in the prime ot life. His career has been an interest ing one when viewed from its present status, and success has crowned the efforts of a young man full Of amolt- ion. ability and determination. MT. Austin was born in Monroe, North Carolina, and ten years later accom- panied his parents to Arkansas, where they settled upon farm in the Southeast section of the state. As a youth he worked upon his fathers farm for a number of years and now that he has gained a competency he often refers to the time when he rode fo town upon an ox-wagon and when he suffered the many privations ot the boy upon the farm. |
 As young man he chose the law as a profession, believing that in this line of endeavor he could Letter reach Iia ideals in life, and, after graduat- ing in Emory and Henry College, l In Virginia. he studied law under the mos. preceptorship in the office of Carlton & Mccain, at Pine Bluff. He mode rapid progress in his absorp- tion and assimilation of the science If jurisprudence, and was admitted [o the bar of Arkansas in 1880. lie immediately initiated the practice of his profession by opening an office m Pine Bluff, and he now stands as one If the ablest attorneys in this state. He soon earned an enviabe reputa- ion as an able practioner ana nas neen associated with some of the most eminent lawyers in the South, ,amely: Judge w. E. Hemingway. 1ohn N. Clayton (now deceased)' lchn Williams, who for number ,f years was circuit judge and who ater went to the Federal bench. and