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ALABAMA
A CONCISE ACCOUNT OF THE STATE'S POLITICAL, MILITARY PROFESSIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS, TOGETHER WITH THE PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF MANY OF ITS PEOPLE.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
ILLUSTRATED.
V. 2 pt. 2
VOLUME II.
MADISON WIS., BRANT & FULLER, 1893.
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HERBERT H. MCAULEY, M. D., physician and surgeon of Mobile, was born in Selma. Ala., October 10, 1868. His father was Dr. James G. McAuley, a former prominent dentist of Mobile, and at one time presi- dent of the American dental association. He was also president of the Southern dental association, and of the Alabama dental association. He was also a leading physician, and had conferred upon him the degrees of D. D. S. and LL. D. He died in 1884. He was a son of Robert McAuley, a native of New York and a farmer by occupation. Herbert H. McAuley, on his father's side of the family, is of English descent. His mother was Mary Ann Sheridan, a native of New England. She died in 1877. His father was Richard Sheridan, a native of Birming- ham, who led the life of a sea captain. Dr. H. H. McAuley was edu . cated at the Southern university, at Greensboro, and at a college in New York city, graduating from the latter in 1886 as a bachelor of philoso- phy. In the latter part of that year he entered upon the study of medi- cine, pursuing it in the Medical college of Alabama, the Kentucky school of medicine and surgery of Louisville, graduating from the latter in 1889. He took a post-graduate course at Bellevue Medical college of New York city. In the meantime, in the summer of 1889, he began the practice of medicine at Briarfield, Ala. He spent several months during 1890 abroad, further pursuing his medical studies at Edinburgh and Lon- don. Upon his return to this country he resumed his practice at Briar- field. In August, 1891, he removed to Mobile and formed a partnership with Dr. D. E. Smith, under the firm name of Smith & McAuley, which firm still continues. He is a member of the Mobile Medical society, and of the Alabama state Medical association. While a resident of Briarfield he served as president of the Bibb county Medical society. and as health officer of the county. He gives special attention to the practice of sur- gery. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, of the Alpha Sigma college fraternity, of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Knights and Ladies of Honor. In politics he is a democrat, and a highly respected citizen.
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FRANCIS H. MCLARNEY, wholesale grocer of Mobile; Ala., was born in that city in 1838, and educated there. Leaving school about 1857 he went into the dairy business in Mobile, and carried it on for his father for about three years, or up to 1860. In September, 1861, he entered the service of the Confederate States in company E. Twenty-first Alabama infantry, going in as a private soldier and coming out in 1865 as first sergeant of his company. He fought in many of the important battles of the war, among them, Shiloh, where he was slightly wounded, at Farmington, and Fort Gaines. Here he was taken prisoner and held six months, three months at New Orleans and three months at Ship Island. After the termination of the war he began life for himself as a farmer
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near Mobile. and carried this business on for about two years. He then accepted a position as clerk with James McDonnell, grocer, and he is now manager of the business. Mr. McLarney has not taken a very active interest in politics yet his fellow-citizens have thought so highly of him as to elect him to the position of alderman of Mobile, in which capacity he served one term. He is a director of the Alabama National bank, and has served as its vice-president.
CHARLES E. MCLEAN, a well known .citizen and business man of Mobile, and chairman of the democratic executive committee of Mobile county, was born in Mobile. March 12, 1864. He is a son of Lieut. Edward R. McLean, who was born in Georgia and removed to Mobile in 1862. He enlisted in company B, First Georgia regiment, and was killed near Marietta Ga., in 1864, four months after his son Charles E. McLean was born. His wife was Miss Sallie R. Newberry, born in Mobile, 'and a daughter of Capt. Charles Newberry, one of Mobile's early citizens, and a steamboat captain. Mrs. McLean died in 1891. Charles E. McLean was the only child of his parents. He was reared in Mobile. and attended the public schools of the city until 1879, when he began life for himself by learning the ship carpenter's trade, and he continued to work at his trade until incapacitated therefor, and since then he has been engaged in the retail liquor business. Mr. McLean was elected to the city council in March, 1891, from the sixth ward, and he is at present a member of that body. He has always been an active member of the democratic party, and in June, 1892, his ability as a democratic politician was recognized by his party selecting him as chairman of the executive committee of Mobile county. The campaign of that year was a strongly conducted one, for there was a division in the party and the issues of the campaign were of the utmost importance. Mr.'McLean is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of Honor and of the Mobile Driving club, of the Young Man's Benevolent association, and of the Mechanics' Relief association. He was married in October, 1888, to Miss M. V. Lewis, of Mobile, and to their marriage have been born three children.
EDWIN L. MARÉCHAL, M. D., a native of Chambersburg, Penn., was born June 27, 1850, and when young, was brought by his parents to Mobile, Ala., his present place of residence. Having received his educa- tion at Mobile college, now defunct, where he passed three years, he then' entered the medical college of Alabama, from which he was gradu- ated in 1870. He opened his practice in Daphne, Baldwin county, Ala., in 1871, and remained there three years, but. his health failing, withdrew from practice, and for two years was connected with the press at Meri- dian, Miss. In 1874, he was united in marriage, to Miss Julia E. Greer, daughter of I. S. O. G. Greer, of Meridian. Mr. Greer was an early settler of the city of Meridian, and was a well-known business man, being at the head of the firm of Greer, Bogle & Co., cotton factors. Mrs. Greer was born in Sumter county, Ala.,was married at Meridian Miss.,
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in the twenty first year of her age. In 1877, the doctor returned to Daphne, and followed his profession until 1880, when he moved to Stockton, where he practiced until 1889, when he settled in Mobile, where he has met with a remunerative patronage, commensurate with his great skill and experience. The father of the doctor, Charles Maré- chal, was born in Verdun, France, in 1810, served seven years in the army at Algiers, came to America about the year 1840, landing at New Orleans, whence he went to Donaldsonville, La., engaged in mercantile . business for a year, and then went to Camden, S. C., where he was mar- ried. and after carrying on merchandising for a short time moved to Wilmington, continued the same business until 1846, and then settled in Chambersburg, Penn. He taught the French language in Dickinson col- lege, and in 1851, he went to Pittsfield, Mass., and took charge of the department of modern languages (of which he has a knowledge of seven) in the Maplewood Female seminary. In 1854, he came south again and .had charge of the modern language department of the public schools of Mobile until 1862, when he enlisted in the French Guards, and was elected captain, but his service was confined to provost duty. After taking up his residence in America, he made several trips to Europe, broadening and enlarging his mind with each trip, and giving to his pupils the results of his vast experience. His death occurred in 1887, when he passed away, a devoted member of the Lutheran church. The mother of Edwin L. Marechal was born in Lancaster, S. C. She was married at the age of eighteen, and became the mother of two sons and one daughter. While in Baldwin county, Ala., Dr. E. L. Marechal organized the county Medical association, was county health officer for a number of years, and was also president of the board of health of the county. In politics, he has always been a democrat, and was an acknow- ledged leader of his party in Baldwin county. At present, he is a mem- ber of the state Medical association, and has been health officer of Mobile county. He now holds the very important office of lecturer on hygiene and medical jurisprudence in the Medical college of Alabama, and was the first president of the alumni of that institution of learning. In 1881 he became a member of Baldwin lodge, No. 142. F. & A. M., at Stockton, was worshipful master. and now is advanced to the chapter degree: he is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, and past sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men. Socially, he is a member of the Commer- cial club. He is renowned for his oratorical powers, and is in great demand on public occasions. As a physician, the doctor has won high renown, and as a citizen stands with the best of Mobile society.
DR. CLAUDIUS HENRY MASTIN, an eminent physician and surgeon of Mobile, was born in Huntsville, Ala .. June 4, 1826. His father was Capt. Francis Turner Mastin, a native of Maryland, and a planter by profes- sion, who died, in 1865, at the age of eighty-four years. Capt. Mastin came to Alabama as a volunteer aid to Gen. Jackson soon after the war
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of 1812, and located at Huntsville, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a son of Francis T. Mastin, a native of Wales, who came to America with Lord Fairfax, and settled in Maryland. The mother of Dr. C. H. Mastin was Ann Elizabeth Caroline Lavert, a native of King. William county, Va., who died in 1889, at the age of ninety years. Her father was Claudius Lavert, a native of Lyons, France, and a physician by profession. He was chief surgeon of the fleet commanded by Count Rochambeau, which came to America during the Revolutionary war to assist the colonies in securing their independence. His wife was Ann Lee Metcalfe, great-niece of Admiral Edward Vernon, of the British navy, after whom Mount Vernon, the home of Washington, was named. Dr. Claudius H. Mastin received his education at the university of Virginia. He then read medicine at Huntsville, Ala., and in 1849 graduated from the medical department of the university of Pennsylvania. In 1850 he went abroad and attended lectures in the university of France, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the university of Edinburgh. Return- ing to the United States he located at Mobile, in 1854, and entered upon the practice of his profession and became and remained one of the best known physicians and surgeons in the south. In 1861 he entered the service of the Confederate States, as a volunteer surgeon of the staff of Gen. Bragg, but was immediately commissioned as surgeon of the Con- federate States army and ordered to Manassas Junction, Va., as surgeon of that post. In 1862 he was transferred to the staff of Gen. Polk, as medical director of the first grand division of the western department. He remained with Gen. Polk as his corps surgeon until after the battle of Shiloh, and was then transferred to the staff of Gen. Beauregard, as medical inspector of the army of the Mississippi, in which position he served until the end of the war, and then he returned to the practice of his pro- fession at Mobile. In 1874 he delivered the first alumni address before the alumni of the university of Pennsylvania, and in 1875 he was honored by that institution by the conferring upon him of the degree of LL. D. Dr. Mastin is a member of many medical societies and associations, as of the Boston Gynecological society, of the American association of Androl- ogists and Syphilologists, and of the Southern Surgical and Gynecolog- ical association. He was the founder of the congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, and was one of the organizers of the American Surgical association in 1880. Of this association he has served as its second vice-president in 1883-84; as its first vice-president in 1889-90, and as its president in 1890 -- 91 and 'as a member of its council in 1891 -- 92. He is one of the trustees of the Pan-American Medi- cal congress, and he was a member of the International Medical congress of 1876. He is a member of the Central council of the university of Pennsylvania, and is medical examiner of the univer- sity of Pennsylvania for the states of Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. Dr. Mastin was married, in 1848, to Miss Mary Eliza
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McDowell, of Huntsville, Ala., his present wife. They have four chil- dren, two sons and two daughters, both of the sons being prominent phy- sicians of Mobile.
. WILLIAM M. MASTIN, M. D., physician and surgeon of Mobile, was born in that city, in 1853. He is the son of Dr. C. H. Mastin, who also is a physician of Mobile. He received a good education, and afterward pursued the study of medicine with his father. In 1874 he graduated from the university of Pennsylvania, and became interne of the hospital of that institution, which position he held two years. He then became interne of the Wills Eye hospital of Philadelphia, and held that position one term. During the time of his residence in the university hospital he was one of the assistant demonstrators of anatomy in the university of Pennsylvania. Upon leaving the Wills' Eye hospital he returned to Mobile, where he entered upon the practice of his profession, and where' he has since remained. Though his is a general practice, yet he gives special attention to ophthalmology, and has built up a reputation, both as an oculist and general practitioner, that is not confined to the state. In 1881 he became one of the associate editors of the Annals of Surgery, published in Brooklyn, N. Y., which position he occupied for several years. This is the only journal devoted exclusively to surgery published in the United States. He has been for several years a frequent contri- butor to medical and surgical literature. He is a member of the Ameri- can Surgical association, and of the American Association of Andrology and Syphilology. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Dr. Mastin was married in 1882 to Miss Margaret L. Crawford of Mobile. They have three children, one son and two daughters.
JUDGE ROBERT LEMON MAUPIN, one of the prominent citizens of Mobile, and proprietor of the Mobile stock yards, was born in Boone county, Mo., December 29, 1836. His father was William Maupin, a native of Kentucky, who went to Missouri in 1816, before the state was admitted into the Union, and when it was full of Indians. " He settled on land in Boone county, upon which he lived until his death in 1876. He was one of the second train of traders that went to Mexico in 1820. His wife was Isabella Lemon, who was a native of Fayette county, Ky. Her father, Robert Lemon, was a Kentuckian, and a soldier in the Revolu- tionary war. He removed to Missouri during the twenties, and died in that state at the age of ninety-six. Mrs. Maupin died in 1879. There were nine children born to William Maupin and his wife, seven of whom survive. Judge Maupin was reared in Boone county, Mo., and attended the university of Missouri, which is located at Columbia, Boone county, four years. He then entered William Jewell college and graduated from that institution in 1858. He then returned home and went to work on the farm, but the next year he accidentally shot his right hand off while handling a gun. This incapacitated him for work on the farm, and he went to Glasgow, Ky., and there read law with his brother-in-law, Hon.
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Presley H. Leslie, who was afterward governor of Kentucky, and who was subsequently appointed, by President Cleveland, territorial governor of Montana. Judge Maupin next entered the law school at Lebanon, Tenn., and graduated in December, 1860. He at first opened a law office in Columbia, Mo., but becoming dissatisfied with the location he went to Texas on a prospecting tour, and while he was there the war came on. He at once returned to his old home in Missouri, and raising a company joined Gen. Price's command in the campaign of west Missouri, and gen- erally west of the Mississippi river. With the Confederate forces he joined the army at Corinth, after the battle of Shiloh. He participated in the various engagements around Vicksburg, and when Vicksburg fell. he was paroled, and with his command went to Demopolis, Ala., where he remained until October of the same year, when he was exchanged. The command was then sent to Meridian, Miss., and then to Mobile, Ała., when that point was threatened. They were then sent to Brandon, Miss., from which point they retreated to Meridian, and thence to Demopolis. They next went to Lauderdale Springs, Miss., then to Tuscaloosa, Ala., and then to northern Alabama, to dislodge a band of deserters in the mountains. Before reaching their destination, they were ordered to join Gen. Johnston, who was retreating in front of Gen. Sherman. They reached Johnston at Rome, Ga., having made forced marches in order to do so. They were in all the battles afterward down to Atlanta. Judge Maupin was wounded in the left lung at Kenesaw Mountain, a minie ball passing entirely through the lung, and passing out at his back. He was then sent to the hospital in Atlanta, and when that city fell he was removed to Macon. When Atlanta fell, the Confederate authorities left in the hospitals those who were supposed to be so badly wounded as to be beyond recovery, in order that they might fall into the hands of the enemy. Judge Maupin was to have been one of this number, but becom- ing aware of the intention, sent for the surgeon and persuaded him to let him go with the retreating forces, and made the trip to Macon in a stockcar. He remained in hospital at Macon, Ga., from July, 1864, to Sep- tember following, when he was removed from the hospital by a kind lady to her residence, and by the following .January he had so far recovered as to be able to rejoin his command at Baldwin, Miss. The command was soon ordered to Mobile, and remained there from February, 1865, until their capture April 9, 1865. At Vicksburg he was wounded at the point of the left shoulder by a spent ball, and also in the left leg by a piece of a shell. In February, 1863. Judge Maupin was in Missouri, where he had been sent by the war department of the Confederacy, to recruit for the army, and was captured while in Boone county, was taken 'to St. Louis and tried as a spy. The trial lasted three weeks, and on the very afternoon the trial ended, he made his escape from prison by impersonating the surgeon of the prison, having secured clothes resem- bling those worn by the citizen surgeon. He made his way to Indian-
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apolis and then to Louisville, where he secured a passport to Bowling Green, Ky., and at length reached Glasgow, Ky. At the close of the war, Judge Maupin and A. C. Danner secured a contract for cutting and supplying wood to the Meridian & Selma railroad, now the East Ten- nessee, Virginia & Georgia railroad, and afterward he engaged in plant- ing cotton in Marengo county, Ala. In 1871 he was appointed probate judge of Marengo county, and served in that office three years, continu- ing his cotton planting in the meantime. In 1877 he removed to Mobile, and entered the employ of A. C. Danner & Co., as manager of their wood and coal yard. In 1878 he organized the stock yards company, in which business he has since continued. He also owns a cattle ranch in Ala- bama. Judge Maupin was married in November, 1864, to Miss Annie O. Tayloe, of Macon, now Gallion, Ala., and to this marriage there have been born five children, four of whom survive. He is a member of' the Baptist church, and his wife of the Episcopal church.
JOHN J. MEYER, a well known citizen of Mobile, and the leading dealer in hats and gents furnishing goods, in the city, was born in Germany, May 14, 1843. He received in his native country a classical education and in 1865 came to the United States, landing in New York city. He went thence to Camden, N. J., where he learned the trade of a hatter. He then went to New Orleans, where he worked at his trade, and acted as salesman for Victor Boudrou, opposite the St. Charles hotel, where he remained several months. August 3, 1867, he came to Alabama and settled in Mobile, taking a position with Charles Hurley, as clerk and hatter, in a part of the stores now occupied by himself. He remained with "Mr. Hurley until January 1, 1875, when he commenced business for himself, at No. 76 Dauphin street. He next removed to No. 72, then to No. 73, and then to Nos. 77 and 79, same street. He then gave up No. 77 and removed to the southeast corner of Dauphin and Royal streets, in con- junction with No. 79. In November, 1889, he returned to No. 77 Dau- phin street, and in November, 1890, he bought the property, Nos 77 and 75 Dauphin street. These two stores, together with No. 79, which he had previously purchased, were all formed into one large store, with a solid front of sixty feet, Nos. 75 and 77, being used exclusively for retail and wholesale hats. and No. 79, exclusively for gents furnishing goods. In the near future Mr. Meyers intends to manufacture hats himself, believing that such an industry in the south is not only feasible, but certain to suc- ceed. He now has a son in Philadelphia learning the trade of a hatter, with the famous hatter, Stetson. One of Mr. Meyer's clerks has been with him sixteen years, another, twelve years, and another six years. Mr. Meyer began business on a small capital, not over $3,000, but by industry and strict regard to proper business methods, he has succeeded, and now he has decidedly the largest house, in bis line. in the city of Mobile, if not indeed in the entire south. He attributes his success, in a large measure, to his thorough, practical knowledge of every detail of
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his business, and to his strict attention to these details, also to having bought his goods always for cash, so as to avail himself of the cash dis- count. He is well known to the trade in New York, and his custom is sought by the largest manufacturers in the country. He was married in September, 1871, to Miss Fannie Keller, of Mobile, who is of German ancestry. To this marriage there have been born two sons, viz. : Carl G., twenty years of age, who is now entering upon his last year in the uni- versity of Alabama, and Philip S., now learning the- hatter's trade in Philadelphia. Mr. Meyer is a Protestant, in religious views, but belongs to no church. His wife and children are active members of the Protestant Episcopal church. He has belonged to the Masonic order since 1869, and is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias.
CHARLES THEODORE MOHR, pharmacist of Mobile, was born in Ess- lingen, Wurtemburg, December 28, 1824. He was reared in his native country, and was educated at the polytechnic school at Stuttgart, in the natural sciences, and particularly in botany and chemistry. He was exempted from military service, and on leaving school in 1845 he went to Dutch Guiana, South America, for the purpose of making collections of objects of natural history. He joined a naturalist of the city of Stutt- gart, who for years had been engaged in the collection of objects of nat- ural history in the colony of Surinam in Dutch Guiana, for the purpose of taking charge of the botanical part of his work, and also with the view of investigating the natural resources of the vegetable kingdom of that colony and portion of South America, which is so luxurious and so replete with riches. After remaining there one year engaged in explor- ing the forest region of the upper districts of the Surinam river, and the lower districts of the Marowyne river, the influences of that climate which are frequently fatal to unacclimated Europeans, made such inroads upon his health, that it was unsafe to longer remain, and hence returned to Europe. After a short stay under the roof of his parental home, he accepted a position. provided for him beforehand, as chemist in a manu- factory of chemicals in the city of Brunn, Moravia. Here, constantly employed in congenial work, devoting his holidays to the investigation of the geology and botany of that portion of Moravia, the time went rapidly by until the stormy times of 1848 caused the establishment to close in which he had been engaged. Being thus thrown out of work, he accepted the advice of his elder brother, and in his company sought a home and fortune in the United States. They landed in New York in October, 1848, and after a short stay there, went to Cincinnati, Ohio, · where he spent the winter of 1848-49 in a chemical establishment. He then joined the Cincinnati mining and trading company, fitted out for the purpose of making a trip across the plains to the newly discovered El Dorado on the Pacific coast. This company, composed of fifty of the best young men of the city of Cincinnati, bade adieu to the Queen City of the west in March, 1849, and
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