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The channel leading from Mobile to the Gulf of Mexico has been subject to many fluctuations in depth. A map made in 1764 shows a depth of 15 feet over the outer bar at flood tide. A British Admiralty chart, dated 1771, shows a depth of only 10 feet over the outer bar and less than that to the city of Mobile. Another map, made in 1820 shows about 16 feet over the outer bar and from 7 to 8 feet to the city. Pickett states, in his History of Alabama (Owen's edition, 1900), page 170: " Iberville had passed with his ship-of-war, the Palmier, over the bar of Mobile point, finding at least 20 feet of water." Little or no work has been necessary on the outer bar, as there has always been a depth of water there greater than could be obtained through the bay to the city.
The first work done by the United States Government on the channel through Mobile Bay was in 1827. From that time until 1856 a total of $226,830.68 was appropriated by Congress for that purpose. The result was a channel 10 feet deep from Mobile to the Gulf. Nothing further was done by the Gov- ernment until 1870. In 1869 the Alabama Legislature established a commission for the improvement of Mobile Harbor. The funds for the work were raised by the sale of the bonds of Mobile County. Some dredging was done on Dog River Bar, some obstructions removed from the harbor, and dikes built at Pinto Pass, Pinto Point, and Garrow's Bend. The work of the commission ceased in 1873. Subsequently some of the dikes con- structed under its administration were found
to be detrimental and were removed. From 1870 to 1876 the Federal Government was engaged on a second project of improvement upon which $401,000 was spent, and in 1878 a third project was begun which contem- plated a channel 200 feet wide and 17 feet deep. In carrying out this plan, a total of $750,000 was expended. Before the com- pletion of this project, a new plan was sub- mitted which contemplated a channel 23 feet deep at mean low water, and changing the location of its upper end from the wharves at Mobile to the mouth of Chickasawbogue Creek, more than two miles further up Mo- bile River. Upon this project, a total of $1,993,800 was spent. The fifth project, adopted in 1899, was intended to provide a channel 23 feet deep and 100 feet wide at the bottom. A sixth project was adopted in 1910, calling for a channel 300 feet wide in Mobile River and 200 feet in the bay with a depth of 27 feet at mean low water. The work has been completed and the harbor now has a channel navigable for vessels drawing 27 feet from the mouth of Chick- asawbogue to the Gulf, a distance of 33 12 miles. Up to June 30, 1915, the Government had spent on the improvement of this har- bor the sum of $7,322,362.33. The cost of maintaining the channel is estimated at $100,- 000 per annum. In 1914, an effort was made by the Mobile Chamber of Commerce to have the improvement project altered to provide for a channel 30 feet deep. A hearing was had before the House Committee on Rivers and Harbors on February 11, but the effort to secure an increased depth of channel was not successful.
See Mobile, City of; Mobile River; Mobile River Commission; River and Drainage Sys- tems; Water-borne Commerce.
Appropriations .- The dates, amounts, and the aggregate of appropriations by the Fed- eral Government for improvement of this stream, as compiled to March 4, 1915, in Appropriations for Rivers and Harbors (House Doc. 1491, 63d Cong., 3d sess., 1916), are shown in the appended table:
Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound, Ala., channel between:
May 23, 1828 (Pass Au Heron).$ 18,000.00
July 25, 1912. 50,000.00
Mar. 4, 1913. 20,000.00
88,000.00
Transferred under authority of
the act of Mar. 4, 1915. 20,000.00
68,000.00
Mobile Harbor, Bay and River, Ala .:
May 20, 1826 10,000.00
Mar. 2, 1829. . 20,000.00
June 28, 1834 (Choctaw Pass) .
10,000.00
Mar. 3, 1835 (Choctaw Pass) .. 17,997.60 Mar. 3, 1837. 50,000.00
July 7, 1838. 50,000.00
Aug. 30, 1852 (Dog River Bar
and Choctaw Pass) 50,000.00
Mar. 3, 1857 (relief appropria- tion )
20,833.00
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July 11, 1870
50,000.00
Mar. 3, 1871.
50,000.00
June 10, 1872.
75,000.00
Mar. 3, 1873.
100,000.00
June 23, 1874
100,000.00 26,000.00
Mar. 3, 1875 ..
June 18, 1878 (survey)
Mar. 3, 1879.
June 14, 1880
10,000.00 100,000.00 125,000.00 100,000.00
Mar. 3, 1881
Aug. 2, 1882.
July 5, 1884.
125,000.00 200,000.00
Aug. 5, 1886.
90,000.00 250,000.00 350,000.00
Sept. 19, 1890
212,500.00
Mar. 3, 1893.
500,000.00
Aug. 18, 1894.
Mar. 2, 1895
June 3, 1896.
June 11, 1896.
June 4, 1897
291,300.00 60,000.00 160,000.00 25,000.00 30,000.00 100,000.00
July 1, 1898.
Mar. 3, 1899
500,000.00
June 13, 1902
250,000.00
Mar. 3, 1903.
200,000.00
Mar. 3, 1905.
200,000.00
Mar. 2, 1907.
200,000.00
May 27, 1908.
160,000.00
Mar. 3, 1909 (allotment) .
110,000.00
Mar. 4, 1909 ..
200,000.00
Apr. 28, 1904 (allotment)
June 25, 1910.
455,000.00
505,000.00
July 25, 1912
403,000.00
Mar. 4, 1913.
255,000.00
Aug. 1, 1914
10,000.00
Oct. 2, 1914.
62,500.00
Mar. 4, 1915
107,000.00
7,416,130.60
Mobile Bar-
June 13, 1902
50,000.00
Mar. 3, 1905.
50,000.00
Mar. 2, 1907
50,000.00
Mar. 3, 1909.
23,000.00
June 25, 1910
9,000.00
Feb. 27, 1911.
5,000.00
July 25, 1912.
10,000.00
Mar. 3, 1909 (allotment)
16,100.00
Mar. 4, 1913.
20,000.00
Oct. 2, 1914.
10,000.00
Mar. 4, 1915.
10,000.00
Grand total
$7,669,230.60
REFERENCES .- U. S. Chief of Engineers, An- nual Report, 1875, App. T, pp. 3, 5-9; 1876, App. I, pp. 6-8; 1877, App. J, pp. 799-801; 1880, App. K, pp. 1049-1066; 1895, App. P, pp. 1683-1690, 1716-1724; 1896, App. P, pp. 1423-1432; 1907, App. R, pp. 369-371, 1365-1370; 1908, App. R, pp. 393-397, 1421-1428; 1910, App. R, pp. 460- 463, 1555-1559; 1911, App. R, pp. 491-495, 1697- 1702; 1912, App. R, pp. 607-612, 1915-1920; 1915, pp. 754-760, 2525-2530; U. S. Chief of Engineers, Reports on preliminary examination and survey of Mobile Harbor Alabama (H. Doc. 657, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) ; Hearings on the improvement of the harbor at Mobile, Ala., held before House
Committee on Rivers and Harbors, 63d Cong., Feb. 11, 1914; U. S. Chief of Engineers, Reports on preliminary survey of Mobile Harbor and Bar (H. Doc. 1763, 64th Cong., 2d sess.), which embodies the latest statistics and recommenda- tions with respect to the channel.
MOBILE COTTON MILLS, Mobile. See
Cotton Manufacturing.
MOBILE COUNTY. Created by proclama- tion of Gov. Holmes of Mississippi Territory, in 1913, soon after Gen. Wilkinson took poses- sion of the town in April of that year. Mobile County originally extended to the Perdido, and embraced a large portion of the present state of Mississippi, "south of the line of 31°, but at its meeting in December, 1813, the territorial legislature restricted it on the west to the ridge between the waters of the Mobile and Pascagoula." In 1818 when part of Jackson County, Miss., was added to Alabama it became a part of Mobile County. That part of the county which lay east of the bay was in 1820 given to Baldwin County (q. v.) and that district which lay between the Wash- ington line and the 31°, which had formerly belonged to Baldwin County, was attached to Mobile.
The total area of the county is 1,222 square miles, or 732,080 acres.
It was named for the town, bay and river, the Maubila, or Mauvila (q. v). of the Span- iards, and the Mobile (q. v.) of the French.
Location and Physical Description .- Sit- uated in the extreme southwestern part of the State, it is bounded on the north by Washington County, on the east by Mobile River and Mobile Bay, on the south by Mis- sissippi Sound, and on the west by Jackson and Greene Counties, Miss. From north to south its extreme length is 60 miles, from east to west its width is from 17 to 30 miles.
The mean annual temperature is 67ºF, the mean annual precipitation is 42.6 inches. Elevations vary from 317 to 333 feet above tide water.
The surface of the county varies from level and undulating along, the rivers, "Bayshore and sound," to rolling and somewhat broken in the northwestern part of the county.
Mobile County lies within the Gulf coastal plain and its soils belong for the most part to the Norfolk and Orangeburg series, the "distinguishing feature is the difference in the color of the subsoil, that of the Norfolk being yellow, while the Orangeburg subsoil is red. The soils on the barrier reefs along the coast have all been classed as one type, Coastal Beach.
Swamp soil occurs along the margins of rivers and creeks, and consists of lowland sub- ject to inundation and more or less covered with water all the year round. Muck con- sists of areas of partly decomposed vegetable matter occuring in a few "poorly drained depressions," where conditions are favorable to the growth and decay of waterloving plants. Tidal marshy soils include low lying land influenced by tides and "in which the
Aug. 11, 1888
July 13, 1892
390,000.00
June 6, 1900.
50,000.00
Feb. 27, 1911
253,100.00
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water is always brackish." Twenty different types of soil are encountered.
Among the principal rivers and creeks may be mentioned Mobile (q. v.) and Middle Riv- ers, Cedar and Chickasaw Creeks, Dog River and a number of smaller creeks. The western part of the county drains into Dog or Esatawpa River, and Beaver Creek, which cross the Mississippi State line before flowing into Mississippi Sound. The southern part of the county drains into Mississippi Sound.
Mobile (q. v.) Alabama's only seaport, is situated on Mobile Bay, at the mouth of the Mobile River, which is formed by the con- fluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers, near the northern boundry of the county.
Transportation facilities are excellent, and are afforded to many points in Mobile and ad- joining counties over the lines of the South- ern, Mobile and Ohio, Louisville and Nash- ville, New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago, and the Tombigbee Valley Railroads.
The city of Mobile furnishes a good market for a large amount of the farm and truck pro- duce, the greater portion of the truck crops, however, being shipped to Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinnati.
The ordinary dirt road prevails in the coun- ty, but with materials for repair always at hand they are kept in excellent condition.
Among the crops of the county may be men- tioned: cotton, corn, cabbage, oats, peas, vetch, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, tobacco, beans, asparagus, tomatoes, radishes, onions, okra, strawberries, sugar cane, sorghum, and melons. Satsuma oranges are also becoming very profitable. A large number of sheep are raised, in addition to other livestock.
Aboriginal and Later History .- The name of the county goes back to the Maubila In- dians called Mobilians by the French who named the post established in 1702 on Mobile River, Fort Louis de la Mobile. When the French founded Fort Louis de la Mobile, the only Indian tribe found whose habitat was within the present area of Mobile County, was the Mobilians. Other tribes which resided in Mobile County were the Ten- sas, the Chattos and Apalachees. This county can justly claim being the first county in Ala- bama trodden by European feet. The evidence is conclusive that the Spanish navigator Pineda, in 1519, sailed six leagues up Mobile River, where some forty days were spent in trading with the Indians. Two of the men of de Narvez, who halted for a time in Mobile Bay in 1528, deserted to the Indians where they remained until the coming of DeSoto in 1540. The site of Mobile was the landing place of the expedition of Tristan de Luna, whence expeditions were made to several parts of the present Mobile County.
In 1707 saw the French beginning of agri- culture in the establishment of truck patches on Dauphin Island (q. v.). The Spanish oc- cupation like the French forbade any religion but the Catholic, hence on the Spanish con- quest a considerable amount of farming lands
was abandoned by their owners and became royal Spanish domain that could be granted to the first applicant. The Spanish regime was mild and gave satisfaction to those living under it. Gov. Farmer is the only British governor of note. He liked Mobile County so well, that after his term of office expired he spent the remainder of his days there. Mo- bile became an American possession in 1813.
During the War of Secession one of the most important naval engagements that has been fought in the "waters of this hemis- phere" took place August 5, 1864, in Mobile Bay (q. v.).
For additional information see sketches of Dauphin Island, Dog River, Mobile Bay, Mardi Gras, Mobile, etc.
Aboriginal evidences in the shape of shell- heaps, mounds and cemeteries are met with in many parts of the county, though mostly along the Mobile River and on the coast. The section was first visited in 1528 by mem- bers of the de Narvaez expedition who found the coast thickly peopled. Sheil heaps or mounds in which not only pottery and orna- ments have been found, but where human re- mains are met with, are found on the north side of Bayou Coq de Inde, near its mouth a few miles from Bayou la Batre; at the mouth of Bayou Como and further along the coast; on the north side of Dauphin Island from which was obtained by burning much of the lime used in the construction of Forts Morgan and Gaines; at Shell Beach on Fowl River, near Mount Vernon three miles from Alabama river is a burial mound. At Nauna- hubla Bluff, east of Calvert, on Tombigbee River is a large mound and cemetery. Many relics have been found here. On Mobile river at Twenty-one-mile bluff and at Twenty- four-mile bluff are mounds and near Coden Bayou is another. Piles of bones on the southern coast of Dauphin Island gave it first the name of Massacre Island. Doubtless this was a large aboriginal cemetery and the remains were unearthed by the wash of storms as the locality is much exposed. The French established the first permanent col- ony in the state at Twenty-Seven-Mile Bluff on the Mobile River, the remnants of old Fort St. Louis being still visible.
Agricultural Statistics,-From U. S. Census 1910:
Farms and Farmers.
Number of all farms, 1,278.
Color and nativity of farmers:
Native white, 881.
Foreign-born white, 111.
Negro and other nonwhite, 286.
Number of farms, classified by size:
Under 3 acres, 6.
3 to 9 acres, 176.
10 to 19 acres, 155.
20 to 49 acres, 391.
50 to 99 acres, 211.
100 to 174 acres, 214.
175 to 259 acres, 56.
260 to 499 acres 33.
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500 to 999 acres, 22. 1,000 acres and over, 14.
Land and Farm Area.
Approximate land area, 784,640 acres. Land in farms, 144,460 acres. Improved land in farms, 22,031 acres. Woodland in farms, 98,341 acres. Other unimproved land in farms, 24,088.
Value of Farm Property.
All farm property, $3,905,392. Land, $2,227,284. Buildings, $974,690. Implements and machinery, $129,625.
Domestic animals, poultry, and bees, $573,- 793. Average values: All property per farm, $3,056. Land and buildings per farm, $2,505. Land per acre, $15.42.
Domestic Animals (Farms and Ranges).
Farms reporting domestic animals, 1,218. Domestic animals, value, $546,143.
Cattle: total, 21,184; value, $297,892. Dairy cows only, 4,593. Horses: total, 1,756; value, $142,607. Mules: total, 410; value, $52,320.
Asses and burros: total, 5; value, $285. Swine: total, 10,425; value, $25,170.
Sheep: total, 10,726; value, $24,457. Goats: total, 4,765; value, $3,412.
Poultry and Bees.
All poultry, 41,679; value, $24,748. Bee colonies, 1,104; value, $2,902.
Farms Operated by Owners.
Number of farms, 1,110. Per cent of all farms, 86.9. Land in farms, 125,904 acres.
Improved land in farms, 18,384 acres. Land and buildings, $2,525,874. Farms of owned land only, 1,072. Farms of owned and hired land, 38. Native white owners, 760. Foreign-born white, 99. Negro and other nonwhite, 251.
Farms Operated by Tenants.
Number of farms, 155. Per cent of all farms, 12.1. Land in farms, 16,285 acres. Improved land in farms, 2,612 acres.
Land and buildings, $478,180.
Share tenants, 10. Share-cash tenants, 3. Cash tenants, 101. Tenure not specified, 41. Native white tenants, 112. Foreign-born white, 9. Negro and other nonwhite, 34.
Farms Operated by Managers.
Number of farms, 13. Land in farms, 2,271 acres. Improved land in farms, 1,035 acres. Value of land and buildings, $197,920.
Live Stock Products. Dairy Products.
Milk: Produced, 698,990; sold, 339,536 gal- lons.
Cream sold, 1,316 gallons.
Butter fat sold, -
Butter: Produced, 73,919; sold, 17,715 pounds.
Cheese: Produced, 300; sold, 300 pounds. Dairy products, excluding home use of milk and cream, $127,063.
Sale of dairy products, $112,400.
Poultry Products.
Poultry: Number raised, 64,417; sold 19,921. Eggs: Pro luced, 179,480; sold, 86,420 dozens. Poultry and eggs produced, $69,884. Sale of poultry and eggs, $30,305.
Honey and Wax. Honey produced, 9,292 pounds. Wax produced, 476 pounds. Value of honey and wax produced, $1,209.
Wool, Mohair, and Goat Hair.
Wool, fleeces shorn, 3,036. Mohair and goat hair, fleeces shorn, 61. Wool and mohair produced, $2,439.
Domestic Animals Sold or Slaughtered. Calves-Sold or slaughtered, 631. Other cattle-Sold or slaughtered, 1,325. Horses, mules, and asses and burros-Sold, 40. Swine-Sold or slaughtered, 3,063. Sheep and goats-Sold or slaughtered, 926. Sale of animals, $27,254. Value of animals slaughtered, $20,678.
Value of All Crops.
Total, $906,251. Cereals, $103,320.
Other grains and seeds, $2,542.
Hay and forage, $59,952.
Vegetables, $503,376.
Fruits and nuts, $21,738.
All other crops, $215,323.
Selected Crops (Acres and Quantity).
Cereals: total, 5,659 acres; 117,122 bushels. Corn, 5,596 acres; 115,869 bsuhels. Oats, 58 acres; 1,125 bushels.
Wheat, -
Rye,- Kafir corn and milo maize, 5 acres; 110 bushels.
Rice, 18 bushels.
Other grains:
Dry peas, 75 acres; 690 bushels. Dry edible beans, 3 acres; 57 bushels. Peanuts, 46 acres; 475 bushels.
Hay and forage: total, 3,901 acres; 4,639 tons. All tame or cultivated grasses, 3,414 acres; 4,063 tons.
Wild, salt, and prairie grasses, 180 acres; 171 tons.
Grains cut green, 270 acres; 326 tons. Coarse forage, 37 acres; 79 tons. Special crops: Potatoes, 1,301 acres; 140,233 bushels.
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Sweet potatoes, and yams, 1,514 acres; 154,147 bushels.
Tobacco, 5 acres; 4,710 pounds.
White.
Negro.
Total.
1820
1,653
1,019
2,672
1830
3,440
2,827
6,267
1840
11,763
6,978
18,741
1850
17,303
10,297
27,600
1860
28,559
12,571
41,131
1870
28,195
21,107
49,311
1880
27,187
21,443
48,630
1890
28,369
22,804
51,959
1900
34,306
28,409
62,740
1910
46,119
34,712
80,854
Peaches and nectarines, 7,703 trees; 1,065 bushels.
Pears, 4,729 trees; 8,931 bushels.
Plums and prunes, 958 trees; 90 bushels. Cherries, 2 trees.
Quinces, 143 trees; 80 bushels.
Grapes, 18,189 vines; 58,073 pounds.
Tropical fruits: total, 4,287 trees.
Figs, 3,005 trees; 86,907 pounds. Oranges, 985 trees; 349 boxes.
Small fruits: total, 27 acres; 53,282 quarts. Strawberries, 27 acres; 53,212 quarts.
Nuts: total, 3,158 trees; 26,430 pounds.
Pecans, 3,090 trees; 25,850 pounds.
Labor, Fertilizer and Feed.
Labor-Farms reporting, 582. Cash expended, $124,298. Rent and board furnished, $11,887.
1821-2-John Eliott.
1822-3-Francis W. Armstrong.
1824-5-James Taggert.
1825-6-William Crawford.
1826-7-Willoughby Barton.
1828-9-Jack F. Ross.
1829-30-John B. Hogan.
1832-3-John B. Hogan.
1835-6-James S. Roberts.
1838-9-Theophilus L. Toulmin.
1841-2-Theophilus L. Toulmin.
1844-5-Edward S. Dargan.
1845-6-Joseph Seawell.
1847-8-George N. Stewart.
1851-2-Theophilus L. Toulmin.
1853-4-T. B. Bethea.
1857-8-James S. Deas.
1859-60-Theophilus L. Toulmin.
1863-4-Theophilus L. Toulmin.
1865-6-Charles P. Gage.
1868-F. G. Bromberg.
1871-2-F. G. Bromberg; J. A. Yordy.
1872-3-Peter Hamilton.
Axis Magazine
Bayou Labatre
Mobile (ch)-1
Bucks
Mount Vernon
Calvert
Oak Grove
Chunchula-2
Plateau
1876-7-L. E. Brooks.
Citronelle-2
1878-9-L. E. Brooks.
Coden
Reiking
Creola-1
1882-3-Leslie E. Brooks.
Crichton-1
Salco
1886-7-Daniel Smith.
Dauphin Island Delchamps Fowl River
Saraland
1888-9-Daniel Smith.
1890-1-Daniel Smith.
Grand Bay-2
Semmes
1892-3-H. Austill.
Gulfcrest
Spring Hill-1
1894-5-Huriosco Austill.
Irvington-1
Theodore-2
1896-7-Thomas H. Smith.
Kushla
Whistler
1898-9-A. S. Lyons.
Lambert
Wilmer-1
1899 (Spec.)-A. S. Lyons.
98,538
Delegates to Constitutional Conventions .- 1819-Samuel H. Garrow.
1861-John Bragg; George A. Ketchum; Edmund S. Dargan; H. G. Humphries.
1865-Charles C. Langdon; James Bond; Gipson Y. Overall; Charles P. Gage.
1867-Gustavus Horton; Albert Griffin; Alfred E. Buck; John Carraway (colored) ; Ovid Gregory (colored).
1875-Charles C. Langdon; Leroy Brew- er; Thomas H. Herndon.
1901-Gregory L. Smith; Harry Pilans; B. Boykin Boone; L. E. Brooks.
Fertilizer-Farms reporting, 955. Amount expended, $130,543.
Feed-Farms reporting, 850. Amount expended, $137,567.
Receipts from sale of feedable crops, $4,124.
Domestic Animals Not on Farms.
Inclosures reporting domestic animals, 2,541.
Value of domestic animals, $488,098.
Cattle: total, 4,327; value, $99,603. Number of dairy cows, 2,306. Horses: total, 2,377; value, $274,712.
Mules and asses and burros: total, value, $107,252. Swine: total, 1,567; value, $5,183.
755;
Sheep and goats: total, 876; value, $1,348.
Post Offices and Towns .- Revised to July 1, 1919, from U. S. Official Postal Guide. Figures indicate the number of rural routes from that office.
Population .- Statistics from decennial pub- lications of the U. S. Bureau of the Census.
Cotton, 892 acres; 374 bushels.
Cane-sugar, 320 acres; 3,271 tons. Sirup made, 73,582 gallons.
Cane-sorghum, 1 acre; 4 tons.
Sirup made, 46 gallons.
Fruits and Nuts.
Orchard fruits: total, 13,870 trees; 10,192 bushels.
Apples, 329 trees; 26 bushels.
1920
1880-1-L. E. Brooks.
Saint Elmo
1884-5-Daniel Smith.
Satsuma
1873-Peter Hamilton. 1874-5-Peter Hamilton.
1875-6-Peter Hamilton.
Prichard
Senators. - 1819-20-J. L. Seaberry.
Emma Sansom
Who guided General Forrest's forces across Black Creek, in pursuit of Federal General A. D. Streight.
Mrs. A. F. Hopkins
Who gave one-half million dollars in property to the Confederacy and who had charge of Alabama's hospitals in Richmond during the entire period of the war.
CONFEDERATE HEROINES
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1900-01-Joel W. Goldsby.
1903-Joel Walker Winston Goldsby.
1907-Max Hamburger.
1907 (Spec.)-Max Hamburger.
1909 (Spec.)-Max Hamburger.
1911-T. M. Stevens.
1915-H. T. Hartwell.
1919-John Craft.
Representatives .-
1819-20-James W. Peters.
1820-1-Francis W. Armstrong.
1821 (called)-Francis W. Armstrong.
1821-2-Francis W. Armstrong.
1822-3-Thomas L. Hallett.
1823-4-Thomas L. Hallett.
1824-5-Willoughby Barton.
1825-6-Willoughby Barton; Thomas L. Hallett.
1826-7-Jack F. Ross; Elijah Montgomery. 1827-8-Jack F. Ross; William D. Stone.
1828-9-John W. Townsend; Thomas H. Lane.
1829-30-Joseph Bates, Jr .; Thomas Byrnes. 1830-1-Alexander D. Durand; John F. Everett.
1831-2-Theophilus L. Toulmin; Isaac H. Ervin.
1832 (called)-Benjamin Brent Breedin; Henry Chamberlain.
1832-3-Benjamin Brent Breedin; Henry Chamberlain.
1833-4-William R. Hallett; Henry Cham- berlain.
1834-5-John F. Everett; Samuel Roberts. 1835-6-Jack F. Ross; George J. S. Walker" 1836-7-Joseph Bates, Jr .;
John F. Everett.
1837 (called)-Joseph Bates, Jr .; John F. Everett.
1837-8-Joseph Bates, Jr .; Theophilus L. Toulmin.
1838-9-Abner S. Lipscomb; Blanton Mc- Alpin.
1839-40-W. F. Cleveland; Isaac H. Ervin; Charles C. Langdon; Percy Walker.
1840-1-Joseph Bates; A. C. Hollinger; C. C. Langdon; Thomas McC. Prince.
1841 (called)-Joseph Bates; A. C. Hol- linger; C. C. Langdon; Thomas McC. Prince. 1841-2-Isaac H. Ervin; John B. Hogan; Blanton McAlpin; R. C. McAlpin.
1842-3-William D. Dunn; John Ervin; John A. Campbell; Thomas W. McCoy.
1843-4-William D. Dunn; R. C. McAlpin; J. W. Long; J. B. Todd.
1844-5-William D. Dunn; Philip Phillips; Daniel Chandler; Joseph Seawell.
1845-6-Jeremiah Austill; William P. Browne; Joseph C. Smith.
1847-8-Percy Walker; Peter Hamilton; E. Lockwood.
1849-50-William G. Jones; C. W. Gazzan; E. Lockwood.
1851-2-Philip Phillips; Price Williams; C. P. Robinson.
1853-4-Percy Walker; Alexander B. Meek; J. Bell, Jr .; R. B. Owen.
1855-6-Jones M. Withers (resigned and succeeded by Charles C. Langdon) ; William B. H. Howard; W. M. Smith; J. Battle (re- signed and succeeded by John T. Taylor).
1857-8-Henry Chamberlain; William G. Jones, T. H. Herndon; H. F. Drummond.
1859-60-Percy Walker; John Forsyth; Alexander B. Meek; G. Y. Overall.
1861 (1st called)-Percy Walker; John Forsyth; Alexander B. Meek; G. Y. Overall.
1861 (2d called)-Charles C. Langdon; Wil- liam Boyles; Thomas J. Riley; Samuel
Wolff.
1861-2-Charles C. Langdon; William Boyles; Thomas J. Riley; Samuel Wolff.
1862 (called)-Charles C. Langdon; William Boyles; Thomas J. Riley; Samuel Wolff.
1862-3-Charles C. Langdon; William Boyles; Thomas J. Riley; Samuel Wolff.
1863 (called)-John T. Taylor; Jacob Ma- gee; C. F. Moulton; Samuel Wolff.
1863-4-John T. Taylor; Jacob Magee; C. F. Moulton; Samuel Wolff.
1864 (called) -- John T. Taylor; Jacob Ma- gee; C. F. Moulton; Samuel Wolff.
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