Bill Arp

Born: 1826 in Lawrenceville, Georgia

• • Bill Arp was born as Charles Henry Smith

    • Bill Arp was sympathetic for the confederates

    • Arp got the nickname "Bill Arp" from a local man named Bill Arp

    • When he wrote a letter to President Lincoln he signed it Bill Arp

  • Bill Arp married Mary Hutchins and started a family with ten children

    • He studied law with his father-in-law in 1851, then moved to Rome

    • The AJC started printing a series of weekly columns call "The Country Philosopher" by Bill Arp

  • Arp particularly wrote about political, economic, and social issues

Died: 1903 in Cartersville, Georgia