Book, "Gone With the Wind" - Martineau Family

 
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Book, "Gone With the Wind" - Martineau Family
Book, "Gone With the Wind" - Martineau Family
Book, "Gone With the Wind" - Martineau Family
Book, "Gone With the Wind" - Martineau Family

Book, "Gone With the Wind" - Martineau Family

Object number2016.016.06
DateDecember 12, 1936
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions8 1/2 × 6 in. (21.6 × 15.2 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionA copy of the novel "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. The book belonged to Mamie Corbitt Treadway, the niece of John and Mabel Martineau. The front cover of the book is brown and the title is written in black ink. The inside of the front cover features a sticker depicting an elf reading a book in a library. "Mamie Corbitt Treadway" is written at the bottom of the sticker in red ink. The inside also has an inscription which says, "With my compliments to Hon. John E. Martineau. Pat F. Robinson 12-12-36".

    John Ellis Martineau was born on December 2, 1873 in Clay County, Missouri. He grew up on a farm near Concord, Arkansas, where he began a lifelong friendship with Joseph T. Robinson. After graduating from the University of Arkansas in 1896, he moved to Little Rock, Arkansas to serve as principal of the North Little Rock schools and to attend law school at the University of Arkansas Little Rock. Martineau was admitted to the Arkansas bar in 1899 and immediately began to practice law. He began his political career after being elected as Pulaski County's state representative in 1902 and 1904. He married Mabel Erwin Pittman Thomas of Des Arc, Arkansas in 1919. Martineau had an unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1924, but ran again in 1926. The incumbent, Thomas Jefferson Terral, faced charges of mismanagement when questions were raised about the funding of public roads. Martineau proposed the reorganization of Arkansas' highway system and funding roads through the issue of state bonds. He won a close Democratic primary in August 1926, becoming the first person since Reconstruction to defeat an incumbent Arkansas governor running for a second term. During his time as governor, Martineau helped launch the Arkansas highway system with his innovative source of funding. He also successfully led the relief effort following the disastrous Mississippi River Flood of 1927. However, Martineau only served as governor for one year before he was appointed as a federal judge by President Coolidge. He was sworn in on March 14, 1928 and served on the bench for nine years. His most noteworthy contribution during his term was his efforts at reforming the probation system. Martineau died of influenza on March 6, 1937 and is buried in Roselawn Memorial Park in Little Rock.


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