1860-1932
Historical Review of Arkansas: Its Commerce, Industry and Modern ..., Volume 2
By Fay Hempstead
FRANK A. YOUMANS is one of the representative members of the bar of Sebastian county. Mr. Youmans is engaged in the successful practice of his profession in the city of Fort Smith, where he has a large and important clientage, as senior member of the firm of Youmans & Youmans, in which his associate and valued coadjutor is his brother, George F. Youmans. He served about eight years as assistant United States district attorney for the western district of Arkansas, and this preferment bears evidence of his fine professional ability and sterling attributes of character.
Mr. Youmans was born near Jefferson City, the capital of the state of Missouri, on the 23d of May, 1860, and is a son of John P. and Mary E. (Faust) Youmans, the former of whom was born in the state of New York and the latter in Germany. In the winter of 1872-3 the family removed from Missouri to Arkansas and settled in the southern part of the state, whence they later removed to Lafayette county, where the parents still maintain their home and where the father is a successful physician.
Frank A. Youmans is indebted to the schools of Union, Columbia and Lafayette counties, this state, for his earlier educational discipline, and he thereafter prosecuted his higher academic studies in the University of Missouri, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1884 and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Letters. Soon afterward he went to the city of Little Rock, for the purpose of studying law under the preceptorship of Judge Burrill B. Battle. He also attended the old law school that later was transformed into the law department of the University of Arkansas, and in 1885, upon examination before the supreme court of the state, he was duly admitted to the bar, to which he came well equipped by natural predilection and excellent acquirements of a technical order.
In January, 1886, Mr. Youmans located in the city of Fort Smith, where he has since been engaged in the active and successful practice of his profession, in connection with which he has appeared in much important litigation and gained high repute as a resourceful and versatile trial lawyer. His professional reputation has been further fortified through his specially efficient services in the office of assistant United States district attorney for the western district of Arkansas, a position to which he was appointed in 1887 and of which he continued the incumbent for a period of about eight years. For a time he was associated in practice with Colonel Clendenning and Judge James F. Read, under the firm name of Clendenning, Read & Youmans, and since 1902 he has maintained a professional alliance with his brother, as has already been noted in this context.
In politics Mr. Youmans accords an unfaltering allegiance to the Republican party and as a citizen he is progressive and loyal, taking a lively interest in all that touches the material and civic advancement of his home city and state. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
In the year 1888 Mr. Youmans was united in marriage to Miss Delia Enroughty, who was born in the state of Virginia, whence she came with her parents to Arkansas when she was a child. Mr. and Mrs. Youmans have six children, namely; Mary E., John P., Frank W., Gretchen, Catharine, and Paul. .
Mr. Youmans was born near Jefferson City, the capital of the state of Missouri, on the 23d of May, 1860, and is a son of John P. and Mary E. (Faust) Youmans, the former of whom was born in the state of New York and the latter in Germany. In the winter of 1872-3 the family removed from Missouri to Arkansas and settled in the southern part of the state, whence they later removed to Lafayette county, where the parents still maintain their home and where the father is a successful physician.
Frank A. Youmans is indebted to the schools of Union, Columbia and Lafayette counties, this state, for his earlier educational discipline, and he thereafter prosecuted his higher academic studies in the University of Missouri, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1884 and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Letters. Soon afterward he went to the city of Little Rock, for the purpose of studying law under the preceptorship of Judge Burrill B. Battle. He also attended the old law school that later was transformed into the law department of the University of Arkansas, and in 1885, upon examination before the supreme court of the state, he was duly admitted to the bar, to which he came well equipped by natural predilection and excellent acquirements of a technical order.
In January, 1886, Mr. Youmans located in the city of Fort Smith, where he has since been engaged in the active and successful practice of his profession, in connection with which he has appeared in much important litigation and gained high repute as a resourceful and versatile trial lawyer. His professional reputation has been further fortified through his specially efficient services in the office of assistant United States district attorney for the western district of Arkansas, a position to which he was appointed in 1887 and of which he continued the incumbent for a period of about eight years. For a time he was associated in practice with Colonel Clendenning and Judge James F. Read, under the firm name of Clendenning, Read & Youmans, and since 1902 he has maintained a professional alliance with his brother, as has already been noted in this context.
In politics Mr. Youmans accords an unfaltering allegiance to the Republican party and as a citizen he is progressive and loyal, taking a lively interest in all that touches the material and civic advancement of his home city and state. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
In the year 1888 Mr. Youmans was united in marriage to Miss Delia Enroughty, who was born in the state of Virginia, whence she came with her parents to Arkansas when she was a child. Mr. and Mrs. Youmans have six children, namely; Mary E., John P., Frank W., Gretchen, Catharine, and Paul. .