W. R. Anthony was reported to be an attorney in Pine Bluff (Jefferson County), Arkansas about 1891. Nothing else is known about him.
Sources: Judith Kilpatrick, “(EXTRA)Ordinary Men: African-American Lawyers and Civil Rights in Arkansas Before 1950,” 53 Ark. Law Rev. 299, 303 n8, 339 (2000); Willard G. Gatewood, Jr., ed., Arkansas Negroes in the 1890s: Documents, 33 Arkansas Hist. Q. 305 (Wint 1974).