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Submitted: 4/15/15 • Approved: 4/15/15 • Last Updated: 4/18/15 • R1069663-G0-S3
12 Nov 1851 - Oct 1937
Son of Paris A. and Ann Eliza (Mallory) Gorman
Husband of Cora Peticolas Gorman (1853 - 1934)
Children:
Elise Braddock Gorman (1874 - 1914)*
Paris Arthur Gorman (1876 - 1913)*
Henry F. P. Gorman (1883 - 1950)*
Sibling:
Henry P. Gorman (1854 - 1918
The Forrest City Times' Art Souvenir-1905-Page 77:The subject here, Walter Gorman, has accomplished more for this city than any Mayor it ever had. The writer of this sketch does not make this as an empty assertion, nor for the purpose of fulsome praise, but as an honest expression of an honest opinion which we believe, is fully borne out by the facts. Block after block of concrete or granolith pavements have been and are being put down as a result of his personal efforts backed by the Council. Walter Gorman was born in Marshall county, Mississippi, November 12,1851, and is a son of Paris A. and Ann Eliza (Mallory) Gorman, both of whom died in 1858 before he was eight years old. His childhood was divided between his paternal grandfather, George Gorman, in Marshall county, Mississippi, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs.Elizabeth C.Mallory, who was born in 1799,(Note:Henry And Walter were living with her in the 1870 Census in Franks Township)in this St.Francis county. He began his business career as a farmer, and was educated in Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. In July 1873, he was married to Miss Cora Petticolas, of Richmond, Virginia at LaGrange, Tennessee, and resided there until February 1878 when he came to Forrest City. He kept books for Fussell, Graham & Co., of this city, and afterwards for R.&R.Block, of Wittsburg and Vanndale, until 1886, when he returned to this city. He read law while thus engaged, and was licensed in that year to practice. Hon. and Mrs.Gorman have four children, all living and bessing their union. They are: Paris A.,Elise B, Walter P., and Henry F.P.Gorman. He owns his home in this city, and is successfully cultivating four hundred acres of the rich St.Francis county basin. He owns stock in the Bank of Forrest City. He was an alderman for 10 years, school director from1891 to 1896. Justice of the Peace from 1898 to 1902, and has been Mayor of Forrest City since April of 1902. He is a democrat pure and simple, and a communicant of the Episcopal church, a member of the Masonic, Odd Fellows and Knights of Honor fraternities, in which he has held numerous official positions. In addition to factories of all kinds, he very properly believes there should be an addition to our school building; that the sewerage system, now about two thirds complete, should be finished, and that we need a Park. He will take pleasure in disseminating information of the splendid resources of this town and county. As Mayor, under his administration, Forrest City has been made a city of the second class. For three years he toiled and begged for an industrial spur of the Choctaw railroad, and today it is an accomplished fact, and a large mill is being erected as a result, which will employ 200 persons.
The Forrest City Times' Art Souvenir-1905-Page 77
Photo Courtesy of Paul Isbell
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