Cockrill, Ross, Rule

  • Cockrill, Ross, Rule

A partnership agreement between a 19th century senator and governor creating the ancestor of the Rose Law Firm dating to 1820 has been donated to the Historic Arkansas Museum.

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Sen. Chester Ashley, whose mansion once stood where I am now typing this blog item, and Gov. Robert Crittenden signed the agreement; both were among the most prominent figures of Arkansas’s territorial period. The document was presented to HAM Commissioner Frances Ross by Rogers Cockrill, a descendent of Ashley, and Herb Rule, who was with the Rose Law Firm until he decided to make a race for 2nd District Congress.

HAM’s press release said the document “will be the visual centerpiece of the museum’s growing collection of Chester Ashley family documents, furniture, silver and art.”

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