P. H. Prince, who served as county and probate judge of Faulkner County, Arkansas, was born in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, in 1846. He was the eighth of thirteen children of William and Sarah P. (Williams) Prince. After graduating from the State University at Lexington, Kentucky, in 1873, Prince moved to Conway, Arkansas, to practice law. A dedicated Democrat, he was also an active member of Green Grove Lodge No. 107, F. & A. M., and Woodland Lodge No. 11, Knights of Pythias. Prince married Martha E. Hoss in 1878, and they had two children, William Henry and Anna. He was a respected community leader and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
P. H. Prince, county and probate judge of Faulkner County, a man who stands prominently among the legal talents of that locality, was born in Tallahatchie County, Miss., in 1846, and was the eighth of thirteen children born to William and Sarah P. (Williams) Prince, of South Carolina. The parents were born in South Carolina and married in the State of Georgia, moving to Mississippi about the year 1844, where the father purchased a large plantation upon which the family resided until the year 1874, and then came to Faulkner County, Ark., settling on a farm near the town of Conway. The father’s death occurred in 1887, at the age of seventy-nine years, and the mother still survives him at the age of seventy-four years.
P. H. Prince was educated at the district schools of his native state, and entered the State University at Lexington, Ky., in 1872, taking a literary and law course. He remained at that institution until the year 1873, when he graduated and was admitted to the bar the same year, and immediately came to Faulkner County, locating at Conway, where he commenced practicing. Since then his success has been of the most pronounced type, and when actively engaged in his profession commands about the largest clientage in Faulkner County. He takes an active part in politics and is a staunch adherent to the Democratic Party. In secret societies, he is a member of Green Grove Lodge No. 107, F. & A. M., also Woodland Lodge No. 11, Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Prince was married at Jonesboro, East Tenn., in 1878, to Miss Martha E. Hoss, a daughter of Henry and Anna Maria (Sevier) Hoss, of that state. Mrs. Prince’s maternal great-grandfather was the first Governor of Tennessee, and a champion at King’s Mountain during the Revolutionary War. Two children were born to this union: William Henry and Anna. Judge Prince and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and take great interest in promoting the educational and religious welfare of their county. The former has always been one of the foremost men to offer his assistance in any worthy enterprise for the development of his community and is highly respected by his fellow citizens.