W. F. Morehead W. F. Morehead, conducting business under the name of the Fort Smith Drug Company at 1018 Garrison avenue, is a native son of this state, his birth having occurred in Arkadelphia, in 1883. He is a son of S. T. and Nannie Morehead, both of whom were also natives of Arkadelphia and representatives of old pioneer families of the state. The grandfather, W. T. Morehead, was a Confederate veteran of the Civil war. S. T. Morehead is engaged in the jewelry business. Spending his youthful days in his native city, W. F. Morehead attended the public Schools there and afterward entered the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, from which he was graduated with the class of 1908. Having thus qualified for practical work as a druggist he secured employment in a drug store in Gurdon. Arkansas, and later he embarked in business on his own account. In 1919 he came to Fort Smith and acquired a, half interest in the store of which he is now sole proprietor, his partner in the beginning being H. R. Channing. After a brief period, however, Mr. Morehead purchased the interest of his partner and has since conducted the business independently, becoming sole owner on the 1st of March, 1920. The building which he now occupies was formerly a moving picture house. He made radical alterations in the interior and now has one of the largest and best equipped drug stores of the city, carrying an extensive line of drugs and druggist’s sundries. He does a splendid business, occupying one of the principal corners of the city, his store being tastefully arranged, while his progressive and reliable methods assure him a liberal patronage. Mr. Morehead was married to Miss Jimmie Calhoun and they have one child, Christine, now ten years of age. Mrs. Morehead was a very active Red Cross worker at Huntington, Arkansas, during the period of the World war. Mr. Morehead is identified with several fraternal organizations, including the Masons, the Knights of Pythias and the Elks. He is also a member of the Civitan Club and the Business Men's Club and is a most public-spirited citizen, his aid and cooperation being counted upon at all times to further any progressive movement for the general good. His standards of manhood and of citizenship are high and the sterling worth of his character is manifest in the class of people whom he numbers as his friends.