PAUL W. SHERIDAN Paul W. Sheridan, numbered among the enterprising and representative business men of Fort Smith, has had the agency for the Ford motor cars during the past twelve years and in this connection has met with notable success. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on the 30th of April, 1883, and was there reared and educated. On attaining his majority he became identified with the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company of St. Louis, with which he remained until 1906, when he made his way to California. while the year 1907 witnessed his arrival in Fort Smith, Arkansas. In October, 1909, he secured the agency for the Studebaker cars and the following year took on the Buick and Ford agencies. In 1914, however, he became sole agent for the Ford motor cars and has since devoted his attention exclusively to their sale, his territory covering Sebastian county, Crawford county, the lower half of Franklin county and a part of Scott county in Arkansas, as well as part of Sequoyah county and Le Flore county in Oklahoma. Through his activities in this connection he has won an enviable and well merited reputation as one of the best business getters and most successful men of Fort Smith. His sales offices here are in a two story building, seventy-five by one hundred and forty-two feet, of distinctive and attractive appearance. Thirty-three people are employed in the conduct of the agency. Mr. Sheridan also manages branch offices at Van Buren, Mulberry, Charleston and Mansfield, Arkansas. During his first year as Ford agent, in 1914, he did a business of about thirty-six thousand dollars and this has since increased annually until the sales now amount to one million dollars yearly. ' For his wife Mr. Sheridan chose Miss Stella Whittaker of Fort Smith, a daughter of J. W. Whittaker. He aided in the successful prosecution of the war with Germany through financial assistance, and his aid and influence have ever been given on the side of right, progress and improvement. Mr. Sheridan has won a large circle of warm friends during the period of his residence in Fort Smith, which now covers fourteen years, his many excellent traits of character having commended him to the high regard and esteem of all with _whom he has been associated