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John Josephus & Martha Jane (Clegg) McAlmont
Oil portraits in the possession of Mr. and Mrs.
David & Linda Jackson. David is the third great-grandchild
of John Josephus McAlmont.
John Josephus McAlmont was born on Dec. 19, 1821 in
Hornellsville, New York, the son of Daniel and Samantha (Dunham)
McAlmont. He died on September 25, 1896. He was also
one of the eight founders of the Arkansas Industrial University
Medical Department, now the
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
He married Martha Jane Gregg on October 22, 1845 in New Almond,
New York. He served in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War, and was the first mayor of Little Rock after the war in
1866, and he was a Little Rock alderman in 1867. He was on the
faculty of the University of Arkansas Medical School. The town
of McAlmont, Arkansas was named for him. The artist was either
Edward Payson Washburn or Julia McAlmont, John's sister, who
copied a painting of Washburns. Either way, the paintings
are very, very old.
Descendants of John
Joseph McAlmont: David & Linda Jackson Sr., David Jackson Jr.,
and Martha "Marcie" Jackson.
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