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Insurance Supervision .- Under act of Feb- ruary 24, 1860, it was made the duty of the comptroller to issue certificates authorizing insurance companies chartered by other States to transact business in this State. The auditor's office continued the supervision of insurance until 1897, when this duty was transferred to the office of the secretary of state.
Ex Officio Duties .- The state auditor's ex officio duties, at different times, have been: in 1875, membership in the board for the assessment of railroad property, which iu 1885 became the State board of assessment, of which he was also a member; in 1879, the governor, attorney general and auditor were authorized to compromise and settle claims of the State against any person or any public officer, or his sureties; in 1889, he was made a member of a committee, with the governor, and the treasurer, to approve the contract made by the secretary of state for newspaper publication of all laws passed by the legisla- ture at each session; in 1903, he was made a member of the capitol building commission; in 1915, he became a member of the State board of purchase, the board of Confederate pension commissioners, and was continued on the State board of registrars.
Term of Office .- The term of office of the auditor of public accounts of Mississippi Ter- ritory, as of Alabama Territory, was inde- terminate, the governor being authorized to make the appointment "for the time being." No clerical assistance was provided. Under the constitution of 1819 he was to be elected annually, and by an act of February 10, 1852, was authorized to employ a clerk whose official acts should be presumed to be by authority of the comptroller, but who was held responsible therefor. The constitution of 1861 made the term of office two years, and that of 1868 increased it to four years, but in 1875 it was changed to two years, and finally in 1901, it was fixed at four years.
Auditors .- (Comptrollers) Samuel Pick- ens, 1819-1829; George W. Crabb, 1829- 1836; Jefferson C. VanDyke, 1836-1848; Joel Riggs, 1848-1855; William J. Greene, 1855- 1865; Malcolm A. Chisholm, 1865-1868; (Auditors) Robert M. Reynolds, 1868-1872; Robert T. Smith, 1872-1876; Willis Brewer, 1876-1880; J. Malcolm Carmichael, 1880-
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1884; Malcolm C. Burke, 1884-1888; Cyrus D. Hogue, 1888-1892; John Purifoy, 1892- 1896; Walter S. White, 1896-1900; Thomas L. Sowell, 1900-1905; J. Malcolm Carmichael, 1905-1907; William W. Brandon, 1907-1911; C. Brooks Smith, 1911-1915; Miles C. All- good, 1915 -.
PUBLICATIONS .- Reports, 1819-1915.
See Executive Department; Insurance; In- surance, Department of.
REFERENCES .- Constitution, 1901, secs. 70, 137; Code, 1907, secs. 597-615; General Acts, 1915, pp. 36, 217, 239, 479, 719, 891; Reports, supra.
AUSTINVILLE. A village in Morgan County, about one half mile west of Al- bany, (formerly New Decatur), with a popu- lation of ahout 800, mostly employees in the Louisville and Nashville Railroad shops who own their own homes. It was incorporated in 1907 under the statute and named for V. L. Austin, who formerly owned the land. It has a drug store, several mercantile stores, a good school building and several churches. Population: 1910-1,058; 1920-1,670.
REFERENCES .- Official and Statistical Register, 1920, Mss. in Department of Archives and History.
AUTAUGA COUNTY. Created by the leg- islature, November 30, 1818. It was formed from Montgomery County; by act of Decem- ber 13, 1820, the boundaries in the north and northwest, were enlarged; and January 12, 1827, the line between Autauga and Shelby Counties was more definitely fixed. In 1868 part of its territory was taken to establish the new counties of Chilton ( first Baker) and Elmore on the north and east. It was named for Autauga Creek, a bold stream running through the county. The creek received its designation from the In- dian village of that name, situated below the point where the creek runs into the Alabama River. (See Atagi.) Its area is 584 square miles, or 373,760 acres.
The act creating the county provided that for the time being court should be held "at Jackson's mill, on the Autauga Creek," but, for the want of necessary buildings, might "adjourn to such other place contiguous thereto as may seem most proper." The leg- islature, November 22, 1819, named Robert Gaston, Zachariah Pope, Alsey Pollard, Alex- ander R. Hutchinson, and Zaccheus Powell, as commissioners to "fix on a site for the public buildings" in the county, and to con- tract for and superintend the building of "a suitable courthouse, jail, and pillory." They were paid the modest sum of $15 each for their services. The town of Washington was chosen. It was located on the Alabama River at the mouth of Autauga Creek, and on the site of the Indian village of Atagi. It was one of the first settled portions of the county. The first houses were erected in 1817. For about 15 years it held a position of import- ance in the political, social and business life of the county.
Because of the location of Washington in
the extreme southern part of the county, there was much dissatisfaction, and the leg- islature, December 28, 1827, authorized a vote to be taken at the general election in August, 1828, "for the purpose of ascertain- ing the wishes of the citizens of said county, with regard to the removal of the seat of justice from its present location, to, or near the center of said county." The sheriff was directed to certify the result to each of the members of the legislature from the county, but what the vote was is not available. Pos- sibly it was in favor of retaining Washington as the county seat. However, on December 2, 1830, the legislature appointed John Essel, John Hunt, Francis Baker, Enoch Islands and Henley Brown as commissioners to select a seat of justice, having due regard "to cen- trality, population, health and general con- venience."
The commissioners selected a site near the center of the county, which was called Kings- ton. The place was without other advantages than its central location, and a Wetumpka editor denominated it the "Great Sahara." During its existence as the county seat it had only a limited population.
The legislature removed the county seat to Prattville, December 12, 1868, and Kingston became a deserted village. It is no longer a post office, and maps designate the site as Old Kingston. About two miles away the name is preserved as a station on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad.
Location and Physical Description .- It lies in the central part of the State, wholly within the Coastal Plain, or agricultural district. and is bounded on the north by Chilton, south by Lowndes, east by Elmore and Montgomery, and west by Dallas County. Its surface is undulating with a general trend south and east to the Alabama River. Geologically it lies upon a great pebble bed, which covers the line of contact of the metamorphic rocks and the Cretaceous formation. The northern part, more than two-thirds of its area, is hilly with a sandy and often gravelly soil. In the southern part the lands are sandy loam, with clay subsoil and are very productive. The central and western sections comprise red loam table lands, all highly productive. The lands of the southern section are calcareous. There are two outcroppings of rotten lime- stone in the county, one in township 17, the other below Dutch Bend on the Alabama River. Yellow ochre has been mined and marketed in limited quantities, but the supply is not commercially important. There is a bed of phosphatic greensand, a formation which is more extensively shown in Greene County. The entire area of the county is wooded, with long-leaf pine as its principal forest growth. Other trees are the various species of oak, hickory, short-leaf pine, mag- nolia, gum, walnut, beech and poplar. The Alabama River forms the southern boundary and Big Mulberry Creek, a part of its west- ern boundary. Aside from these, its water- courses are Autauga, Bear, Beaver, Bridge, Buck, Ivy, Little Mulberry, Mortar, Nowlands,
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Piney Woods, Swift, Whitewater and Yellow Creeks.
Aboriginal History .- In the early years of the eighteenth century, the French found the territory of the county inhabited by the Ali- bamo Indians, whose villages were located along the Alabama River. But on an ancient French map there is an Alibamo town (Hal- bama), apparently in the western part of the county. Altogether, the county has no im- portant aboriginal history.
Along the Alabama River are found some evidences of aboriginal occupancy, but they are not numerous. Autauga (Atagi), an Alibamo town, was situated below the mouth of Autauga Creek, which enters the river just above the present Washington ferry on the Montgomery and Prattville public road. Opil 'Lako, an Upper Creek town, possibly All- bamo, was located in the county, but its site has never been determined. Arrow and spearpoints of flint are found in several sec- tions, but at no place in sufficient quantities to suggest the existence of workshop sites, as on the opposite side of the Alabama, and on the Tallapoosa River, some miles to the east.
During the Creek War, 1813-14, Dutch Bend became a place of refuge for the Creeks after their defeat at the Holy Ground. Here Weatherford's wife, Sapoth Thlanie died, two days after the battle. Weatherford had a plantation on the west bank of the river, about a mile and a half below the mouth of Pintlala Creek.
Settlement and Later History .- Settlers entered its borders from the stream of migra- tion through old Fort Jackson in 1814, imme- diately following the close of the Creek War. Its permanent settlers date from 1816, 1817 and 1818, the number in the latter year being sufficient to call for the setting up of a separate county. Within the first fifteen years of its history, almost all of its best lands had been occupied, its population had become stable, and migration had set in from among its people to other parts of the Old Southwest.
Among the early residents of the county were, Gov. Wm. W. Bibb, John A. Elmore, Sr., Bolling Hall, Sr., James Jackson, Robert Gaston, Jacob P. House, Francis Lewis, Bent Pierce, Philips and Byrd Fitzpatrick, Nicholas Zeigler, Edmund Gholson, Isaac Funderburg, Levi Kelly, William Hester, Jesse Gay, Josiah Rice, Thomas Harris. James Goss, Thomas Tatum, George Jones, Edmund Foreman, Joseph Riley, Mackey Johnson, Archibald Gra- ham, Richard Bibb, Job Calloway, William Lewis, Joshua Marcus, William Futch, Isaiah Thacker, Aaron Moore, Hiram Bishop, Abram Chancellor, Lewis C. Davis, Thomas C. Smith, William R. Pickett, Mark Howard, Seaborn Mims, Lewis Tyus, Richard Mouton, Wm. Hightower, Jeremiah Jackson, Robert Motley, Robert Broadnax, Edmund Shackle- ford, John G. Stoudenmire, William N. Thompson, John Mathews, James Mathews, William Peebles, Benjamin Averett, James and Nehemiah Howard, Eli Ely, Lazarus Parker, William Nunn, Thomas Hogg, Dr. N. S. Jones, Benjamin Davis, Dr. A. R. Hutchin- son, Organ Tatum, Berry Tatum, S. McGraw,
B. Mason, John Lamar, L. Houser, S. Stouden- mire, John McNeel.
The county has been the birthplace or home of several persons of distinction. Gov. Wm. W. Bibb, first governor of Alabama, made his home in the vicinity of the present Coosada, there he died, and his remains lie in a private cemetery on his old home place. In the same community resided John A. El- more, Sr., a soldier of the Revolution, Bolling Hall, Sr., a former Representative in Congress from Georgia, James Jackson, who repre- sented Autauga County in the first constitu- tional convention of the State in 1819, and Capt. Albert T. Goodwyn, representative in Congress. Daniel Pratt founded Prattville and the great gin manufacturing interests which have rendered his name and county famous. In the county also resided for a time Gen. Thomas Woodward, noted Indian fighter; also William R. Pickett, father of Col. A. J. Pickett, the historian; Gen. E. Y. Fair, minister to Brussels; Elder Lewis C. Davis, popularly known as "Club Axe" Davis. The county was the birthplace of Rev. Dr. Samuel Harris, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Michigan; and of his niece, Miss May Harris, prominent as an author.
The county is properly classed as agricul- tural, although it has important manufac- tures. Its agricultural statistics appear in full below. One of the earliest manufactur- ing plants, the Pratt Gin Co., was estab- lished long before the War. It was one of the very first of the purely distinctive manu- facturing plants using water as power, al- though there were many gristmills and saw- mills supplying local demands, erected on the streams of the State.
There are three railroad lines in the county : Louisville & Nashville, main line, 8 miles main track, and 1.85 miles side track; Montgomery & Prattville branch, 4.82 miles main track, and .74 mile side track; Mobile & Ohio, 29.68 miles main track, and 3.01 miles side track; and Alabama Central Ry., 8.75 miles main track.
Agricultural Statistics .- From U. S. Cen- sus, 1910:
Farms and Farmers.
Number of all farms, 3,116.
Color and nativity of farmers:
Native white, 1,000. Foreign-born white, 5. Negro and other nonwhite, 2,111.
Number of farms, classified by size:
Under 3 acres,-
3 to 9 acres, 666.
10 to 19 acres, 219.
20 to 49 acres, 1,141.
50 to 99 acres, 533.
100 to 174 acres, 291.
175 to 259 acres, 104.
260 to 499 acres, 104.
500 to 999 acres, 38.
1,000 acres and over, 20.
Land and Farm Area.
Approximate land area, 373,760 acres. Land in farms, 245,668 acres.
Improved land in farms, 114,851 acres.
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Woodland in farms, 121,669 acres. Other unimproved land in farms, 9,148 acres.
Value of Farm Property.
All farm property, $3,882,789. Land, $2,247,184. Buildings, $824,554.
Implements and machinery, $156,463.
Domestic animals, poultry, and bees, $654,588. Average values: All property per farm, $1,246. Land and buildings per farm, $986. Land per acre, $9.15.
Domestic Animals (Farms and Ranges).
Farms reporting domestic animals, 2,576. Domestic animals, $634,571.
Cattle: total, 9,987; value, $138,294. Dairy cows only, 4,187. Horses: total, 1,237; value, $130,198.
Mules: total, 2,427; value, $310,455.
Asses and burros: total, 4; value, $765. Swine: total, 17,486; value, $50,945.
Sheep: total, 481; value, $1,624.
Goats: total, 2,360; value, $2,290.
Poultry and Bees.
All poultry, 50,503; value, $17,860. Bee colonies, 1,227; value, $2,157.
Farms Operated by Owners.
Number of farms, 924. Per cent of all farms, 29.7.
Land in farms, 147,552 acres.
Improved land in farms, 51,042 acres.
Land and buildings, $1,584,374. Farms of owned land only, 826. Farms of owned and hired land, 98. Native white owners, 617. Foreign-born white, 3.
Negro and other nonwhite, 304.
Farms Operated by Tenants.
Number of farms, 2,176. Per cent of all farms, 69.8.
Land in farms, 77,956 acres. Improved land in farms, 60,176 acres. Land and buildings, $1,246,101. Share tenants, 255.
Share-cash tenants, 11. Cash tenants, 1,886. Tenure not specified, 24. Native white tenants, 368. Foreign-born white, 2.
Negro and other nonwhite, 1,806.
Farms Operated by Managers.
Number of farms, 16. Land in farms, 20,160 acres. Improved land in farms, 3,633 acres. Value of land and buildings, $241,263.
Live Stock Products.
DAIRY PRODUCTS.
Milk: Produced, 620,298; sold, 24,919 gallons. Cream sold, 0 gallons. Butter fat sold, 0 pounds.
Butter: Produced, 260,183; sold, 27,192 pounds.
Cheese: Produced, 0; sold 0 pounds. Dairy products, excluding home use of milk and cream, $59,912.
Sale of dairy products, $9,144.
POULTRY PRODUCTS.
Poultry: Number raised, 107,944; sold, 20,773.
Eggs: Produced, 173,683; sold, 52,289 dozens.
Poultry and eggs produced, $59,858. Sale of poultry and eggs, $15,026.
HONEY AND WAX.
Honey produced, 8,000 pounds.
Wax produced, 972 pounds.
Value of honey and wax produced, $1,062. WOOL, MOHAIR, AND GOAT HAIR.
Wool, fleeces shorn, 139.
Mohair and goat hair, fleeces shorn, 5.
Wool and mohair produced, $110.
DOMESTIC ANIMALS SOLD OR SLAUGHTERED.
Calves-Sold or slaughtered, 170.
Other cattle-Sold or slaughtered, 1,984. Horses, mules, and asses and burros-Sold, 108.
Swine-Sold or slaughtered, 7,036. Sheep and goats-Sold or slaughtered, 1,032.
Sale of animals, $38,072. Value of animals slaughtered, $66,047.
Value of All Crops.
Total, $1,724,394.
Cereals, $312,240.
Other grains and seeds, $30,928.
Hay and forage, $28,626.
Vegetables, $100,749.
Fruits and nuts, $19,318.
All other crops, $1,232,533. SELECTED CROPS (ACRES AND QUANTITY).
Cereals: 32,122 acres; 334,354 bushels. Corn, 28,277 acres; 278,362 bushels.
Oats, 3,836 acres; 55,929 bushels.
Wheat, 3 acres; 23 bushels.
Rye, 6 acres; 40 bushels.
Kafir corn and milo maize, 0 acres; 0 bushels.
Rice, 0 acres; 0 bushels. Other grains:
Dry peas, 2,078 acres; 10,221 bushels. Dry edible beans, 1 acre; 20 bushels. Peanuts, 1,452 acres; 15,412 bushels. Hay and forage: total, 1,433 acres; 1,821 tons.
All tame or cultivated grasses, 535 acres; 769 tons.
Wild, salt, or prairie grasses, 30 acres; 34 tons. Grains cut green, 590 acres; 725 tons. Coarse forage, 278 acres; 297 tons. Special crops: Potatoes, 28 acres; 1,706 bushels. Sweet potatoes and yams, 1,001 acres; 56,229 bushels.
All other vegetables, 820 acres. Tobacco, 0 acres; 200 pounds. Cotton, 50,757 acres; 14,545 bales. Cane-sugar, 262 acres; 2,208 tons. Sirup made, 25,891 gallons.
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Cane-sorghum, 129 acres; 489 tons. Sirup made, 4,059 gallons.
FRUITS AND NUTS.
Orchard fruits: total, 28,565 trees; 17,962 bushels.
Apples, 6,427 trees; 2,776 bushels.
Peaches and nectarines, 19,382 trees; 13,098 bushels. Pears, 1,118 trees; 1,463 bushels. Plums and prunes, 1,179 trees; bushels.
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Cherries, 421 trees; 72 bushels. Quinces, 18 trees; 11 bushels.
Grapes, 2,558 vines; 15,324 pounds.
Tropical fruits: total, 555 trees.
Figs, 507 trees; 24,302 pounds. Oranges, 0 trees; 0 boxes.
Small fruits: total, 3 acres; 3,481 quarts. Strawberries, 3 acres; 2,981 quarts.
Nuts: total, 1,333 trees; 6,724 pounds. Pecans, 681 trees; 4,992 pounds.
Labor, Fertilizer and Feed.
Labor-Farms reporting, 1,069. Cash expended, $149,110. Rent and board furnished, $26,023. Fertilizer-Farms reporting, 1,956. Amount expended, $129,275. Feed-Farms reporting 983. Amount expended, $54,669. Receipts from sale of feedable crops, $11,264.
Domestic Animals not on Farms.
Inclosures reporting domestic animals, 184. Value of domestic animals, $29,645. Cattle: total, 518; value, $14,353. Number of dairy cows, 153. Horses: total, 86; value, $10,173.
Mules and asses and burros: total, 28; value, $4,600. Swine: total, 133; value, $513.
Sheep and goats: total, 1; value, $6.
Population .- Statistics from decennial publications of the U. S. Bureau of the Cen- sus:
White
Negro
Total
1820
2203
1650
3853
1830
5867
6007
11874
1840
6217
8125
14342
1850
6274
8749
15023
1860
7105
9621
16739
1870
4329
7292
11623
1880
4397
8710
13107
1890
4796
8418
13330
1900
6742
11173
17915
1910
8320
11717
20038
Post Offices and Towns .- Revised to De- cember 31, 1916, from U. S. Official Postal Guide. Figures indicate the number of rural routes from that office.
Autaugaville
Marbury
Billingsley-2
Mulberry
Booth
Prattville (ch)-3
Fremont
Statesville
Haynes
Vida-1
Jones-1
Wadsworth
Kalmia
Winslow
Delegates to Constitutional Conventions .- 1819-James Jackson.
1861-George Rives, Sr.
1865-Benjamin Fitzpatrick.
1867-J. L. Alexander.
1875-H. J. Livingston, D. B. Booth.
1901-Morgan M. Smith, Mac A. Smith.
Senators .- 1819-20-Howell Rose.
1822-3-Dunklin Sullivan.
1825-6-James Jackson
1828-9-William R. Pickett.
1831-2-William R. Pickett.
1834-5-Robert Broadnax.
1837-8-Samuel S. Simmons.
1840-1-Dixon Hall.
1843-4-William L. Yancey.
1844-5-Sampson W. Harris.
1847-8-Seth P. Storrs
1849-50-Seth P. Storrs.
1853-4-Thomas H. Watts.
1855-6-Adam C. Felder.
1857-8-Adam C. Felder.
1861-2-Samuel F. Rice.
1865-6-Adam C. Felder.
1868-J. A. Farden.
1871-2-J. A. Farden.
1872-3-C. S. G. Doster.
1873-C. S. G. Doster.
1874-5-W. G. M. Golson.
1875-6-W. G. M. Golson.
1876-7-P. H. Owen.
1878-9-W. D. McCurdy. 1880-1-W. D. McCurdy.
1882-3-Willis Brewer.
1884-5-Willis Brewer.
1886-7-Willis Brewer. 1888-9-Willis Brewer.
1890-1-Mac. A. Smith.
1892-3-Mac. A. Smith.
1894-5-Willis Brewer.
1896-7-Willis Brewer. 1898-9-A. E. Caffee.
1899 (Spec.)-A. E. Caffee.
1900-01-C. P. Rogers, Sr. 1903-Walter Robert Oliver. 1907-H. S. Doster.
1907 (Spec.)-H. S. Doster.
1909 (Spec.)-H. S. Doster.
1911- T. A. Curry.
1915-W. W. Wallace.
1919-J. C. Harper.
Representatives .-
1819-20-Phillips Fitzpatrick; C. A. Den- nis.
1820-1-Phillips Fitzpatrick; J. Jackson. 1821 (called) - Phillips Fitzpatrick; J. Jackson.
1821-2-W. R. Pickett; John A. Elmore. 1822-3-Phillips Fitzpatrick.
1823-4-William R. Pickett.
1824-5-William R. Pickett.
1825-6-Robert Broadnax; John McNeill.
1826-7-Robert Broadnax; Eli Terry.
1827-8-Robert Broadnax; Eli Terry.
1828-9-Robert Broadnax; - - Rogers.
1829-30-Robert Broadnax; William Hes- ter.
1830-1-Robert Broadnax; Dixon Hall, Sr.
Sequoyah or George Guess Inventor of the Cherokee alphabet, native of Will's Valley, North Alabama
Pushmataha
Choctaw chief, who fought with Andrew Jackson's forces in Alabama in the Creek War of 1813.
INDIAN CHARACTERS
Vol. 1-6
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1831-2-Robert Broadnax; Dixon Hall. 1832 (called)-Robert Broadnax; S. S. Simmons.
1832-3-Robert Broadnax; S. S. Simmons. 1833-4-Dixon Hall, Jr .; S. S. Simmons.
1834-5-Wm. Burt; S. S. Simmons; J. B. Robinson.
1835-6-Dixon Hall, Jr .; S. S. Simmons; Benjamin Davis.
1836-7-John P. Dejarnette; S. S. Sim- mons; Benjamin Davis.
1837 (called)-John P. Dejarnette; S. S. Simmons, Benjamin Davis.
1837-8-John P. Dejarnette; William Burt; T. W. Brevard.
1838-9-Dixon Hall, Jr .; J. W. Withers; Thomas Hogg.
1839-40-Dixon Hall; John Withers.
1840-1-Benjamin Davis; Absalom Doster.
1841 (called)-Benjamin Davis; Absalom Doster.
1841-2-John Steele; William L. Morgan. 1842-3-John Mitchell; William L. Mor- gan.
1843-4-John Steele; Crawford M. Jack- son.
1844-5-John Steele; Crawford M. Jack- son. 1845-6-John Steele; Crawford M. Jack- son.
1847-8-John Wood; Crawford M. Jackson. 1849-50-John Wood; Bolling Hall.
1851-2-C. C. Howard; Bolling Hall.
1853-4-Bolling Hall.
1855-6-Crawford M. Jackson.
1857-8-Crawford M. Jackson. 1859-60-A. C. Taylor; Daniel Pratt (1860), to succeed Mr. Taylor.
1861 (1st called)-Daniel Pratt.
1861 (2d called)-Daniel Pratt.
1861-2-Daniel Pratt.
1862 (called)-Daniel Pratt.
1862-3-Daniel Pratt.
1863 (called)-L. Howard.
1863-4-L. Howard.
1864 (called)-L. Howard.
1864-5-L. Howard.
1865-6-Charles S. G. Doster.
1866-7-Charles S. G. Doster. 1868-Alfred Baker. 1869-70-Alfred Baker.
1870-1-Charles S. G. Doster.
1871-2-C. S. G. Doster. 1872-3-S. J. Patterson. 1873-S. J. Patterson.
1874-5-J. E. Bozeman.
1875-6-J. E. Bozeman.
1876-7-S. S. Booth.
1878-9-W. J. Smith. 1880-1-J. L. Johnson.
1882-3-Mac. A. Smith.
1884-5-T. D. Cory.
1886-7-Philip A. Wood.
1888-9-Merrill E. Pratt.
1890-1-P. A. Wood. 1892-3-M. White.
1894-5-Mac. A. Smith.
1896-7-T. B. Love. 1898-9-H. S. Doster.
1899 (Spec.)-H. S. Doster.
1900-01-H. S. Doster.
1903-Joseph A. Wilkinson.
1907-Eugene Ballard.
1907 (Spec.)-Eugene Ballard.
1909 (Spec.)-Eugene Ballard.
1911-J. B. Bell.
1915-McQueen Smith.
1919-M. A. Graham.
See Alibamu; Autaugaville; Coosada; Daniel Pratt Gin Company; Prattville.
REFERENCES .- Toulmin, Digest, 1823; Acts, 1818, p. 60; 1820-21, p. 72; 1826-27, p. 36; 1827- 28, p. 40; 1830-31, p. 419; 1868, p. 115; Brewer, Alabama, p. 107; Berney, Handbook (1892), p. 287; Riley, Alabama as it is (1893), p, 165; Northern Alabama (1888), p. 180; Alabama, 1909 (Ala. Dept. of Ag. and Ind., Bulletin 27), p. 71; U. S. Soil Survey (1910), with map; Ala- bama land book (1916), p. 26; Ala. Official and Statistical Register, 1903-1915, 5 vols .; Ala. An- thropological Society, Handbook (1910); Geol. Survey of Ala., Agricultural features of the State (1883); The valley regions of Alabama. parts 1 and 2 (1896, 1897), and Underground water resources of Alabama (1907); John Hardy, "History of Autauga County," in Daily State Sentinel, Montgomery, Aug. 10, 1867.
AUTAUGAVILLE. Post office and termi- nus of the Alabama Central Railroad, in the southern part of Autauga County, 11 miles southwest of Prattville, 2 miles from the Alabama River, and 22 miles west of Mont- gomery. Population: 1870-whites 541, colored, 1,846, total 2,387; 1880, Autauga- ville Precinct-2,385; 1890-Autaugaville Precinct-2,025: 1900, Precinct No. 3- 2,273; 1910-Precinct No. 3-2,257; 1910, Autaugaville-313. The first settler was William N. Thompson, Sr., who came in 1820, built a small gristmill, opened the first store, and afterward erected a flour mill. The families of John McNeel, Nehemiah and James Howard, were among the early settlers. Descendants of these families still reside In the county. A cotton factory was established at Autaugaville in 1849 by William and Theodore Nunn. It has one of the old Methodist communities and one of the old Sunday schools in the State.
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