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time. He is a member of the Alabama State Dental association, and has been its president. On February 24, 1870, he married Miss Eliza J. Campbell, of Wetumpka, where she was born and reared, being educated at the Female college at Tuskegee. Dr. and Mrs. Whitby have eight children. Mrs. Whitby is a member of the Presbyterian church, while Dr. Whitby is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He is a royal arch Mason, has filled the most important offices in his lodge, and is now past master. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows and has passed all the chairs. His practice in dentistry is such that he may be safely considered a leading practitioner. Dr. Whitby sustains the reputation of being a perfect gentleman, a respectable citizen, and a faithful Christian.
NOADIAH WOODRUFF was born at Farmington, Conn., December 28, 1828. His parents were Sylvester and Nancy (Andrews) Woodruff, both of whom were born of English ancestry and of good families in Connecti- cut. Mr. Woodruff was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools of the state. He left the parental roof when he was twenty-one and came south in 1852, and at Talledega accepted a clerkship, and remained in that position one year. He then became a merchant at Mar- disville, and for about two years before the war he was located at Planters- ville. When the war came on he sold out his business and went into the quartermaster's department of the Confederate service; but on account of ill-health, his military record is not what it would otherwise have been, and he was discharged; he remained, however, in the commissary depart- ment. He came to Selma in the fall of 1866, having been there some time before the war, and established himself in business there as a member of the firm of Woodruff & Woolley. In 1870 Mr. Woolley retired and the firm then became Woodruff & Co. In 1875 Mr. E. W. North was admitted to partnership, the style of the firm being then changed to Woodruff & North, and it thus remained till the death of Mr. Woodruff, which occurred February 2, 1891. Mr. Woodruff was also largely interested in farming, owning valuable possessions in Dallas, Talledega, Shelby, as well as other counties. He was a Knight Templar, and always conservative in politics. He participated in public life, neither as a democrat, nor as a republican, but rather as an independent. He ran once for governor of the the state, and his friends assert that there is every evidence that had a fair count been permitted he would have been elected. He was three times elected mayor of Selma, in 1875, 1877 and 1879. When he first accepted the mayoralty Selma was in debt; but at the end of his third term the city was in a much better condition. He was twice married; his first wife was Miss Mary Smoot, by whom he had a daughter who died in 1879, at the age of nineteen, the mother having died in 1863. In May, 1866. Mr. Woodruff married in Talledega county, Miss Sarah E. Keith, by whom he has one daughter, Ettie, who with her mother survives and lives at
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Selma. While Mr. Woodruff was not a member of any church, he was always a warm friend of religion and education.
DE KALB COUNTY.
JUDGE LUCIEN L. COCHRAN, of Fort Payne, De Kalb county, Ala., is a native of Newton county, Ga., and was born October 29, 1842. His education was principally acquired at the university of Georgia, at Athens, having been prepared for college at the schools of his native county. In May, 1861, he entered the Confederate army, joining company E, Tenth Georgia infantry-the first company organized in Clayton county, Ga., whither he had moved. He served gallantly at Big Bethel, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, seven days' fight before Richmond, South Mountain, Md. (where he was wounded), Fredericksburg, Chancellors- ville, Gettysburg (where he was again wounded), Chickamauga, Knox- ville, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, second Cold Harbor, Petersburg (where he received another wound), and at Cedar Creek (where he lost his right arm October 19, 1864). Beside these main engagements, the judge took part in a number of minor engagements, and was honorably discharged in January, 1865. He at once returned to Clayton county, Ga., where he passed some time on the farm. The year 1867-68 he attended the university of Georgia at Athens, and then came to Alabama and taught school five years in Cherokee county. In 1874 he was elected clerk of the circuit court of Cherokee county, served six years, and in 1880 moved to De Kalb county and taught school and engaged in mer- chandising until 1886, when he was elected probate judge for the term of six years. In politics the judge is a democrat, and has represented his party as delegate to several state and congressional conventions, includ- ing the state convention at Montgomery, Ala., in June, 1892. His religion is embraced within the pale of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. In January, 1871, the judge married Miss Martha M., daughter of Earl Adams, of Etowah county, Ala., and the three children born to this union are named William Earl, Maggie E. and Lucien L., Jr. The parents of the judge are William W. Cochran, a native of Georgia, but now a resi- dent of De Kalb county, Ala., and Sarah E. (Livingstone) Cochran, who was born in Georgia of New York parentage.
DR. F. P. GALE, a practicing physician and surgeon of Fort Payne, De Kalb county, Ala., is a native of Plainfield, Vt., and was born May 5, 1853. His parents are S. B. and Laura ( Bailey ) Gale, who have had born to them thirteen children, of whom eight still survive. The doctor graduated from the medical department of the university of Vermont in 1880, having previously graduated in classics from the same institution in 1878. He first practiced his profession at Cabot, Vt., which town he left in 1889 and came to Alabama, making his home at Fort Payne, where he has rapidly risen in popularity as a physician and as a citizen. He is
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now president of the De Kalb county Medical society, and a member of the board of censors. Formerly he held membership with the Vermont state medical society, and has always held a high position in the esteem of his fellow-practitioners. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Congregational church. He was married, in 1888, to Miss Mary Nevins of Cabot, Vt., and one child, Ella Webster Gale, has blessed their union.
DR. P. B. GREEN is a native of De Kalb county, Ala., and was born June 28, 1852, near Fort Payne-then an old Indian fort and trading post. He was educated until the age of eighteen in his native county, and then began the study of medicine under his father, Dr. A. B. Green, who pre- pared him for Vanderbilt university, from which he graduated in 1875 in medicine and subsequently graduated in the same year from the medical department of the university of Tennessee at Nashville. He first prac- ticed a year at Fort Payne and then went to Texas, where he practiced about eighteen months near Waco; the following three years he prac- ticed near Columbus, Kan., and then moved to Webb City, Jasper county, Mo., where he carried on a prosperous business for about eight years. In 1884, he returned to Fort Payne, Ala., where he still resides, meeting with the most flattering success. He stands very high in the estimation of his fellow-practitioners, and fraternizes with them as a member of the Tri-state Medical society, and is a member of the Ameri- can Medical society. In May, 1890, he was sent as a delegate from the Tri-state society to the American Medical at their meeting in Nashville, Tenn., and proved to be an able representative. In August, 1892, he was elected coroner of De Kalb county. The doctor is a Knight of Pythias and in religion affiliates with the Methodist Episcopal church, south. Dr. A. B. Green, father of Dr. P. B. Green, was born in Blount county, Tenn., July 9, 1818, received his preparatory education in his native county and attended the Southwestern Theological semniary at Maryville until he was eighteen years of age, and located at what is known as Dalton, Ga. He had already begun the study of medicine in Maryville, under Dr. Robert Hodgson, and at Dalton continued its study and fin- ished his preparation of the course under Dr. Gideon Thompson, at Cleveland, Tenn., after which he entered the Transylvania university, at Lexington, Ky., from which he graduated in medicine in 1843. He then returned to De Kalb county, Ala., and began practice, and has remained there until the present time. During the Mexican war he entered the. First regiment of Alabama volunteers as first lieutenant, but was later made assistant surgeon with the rank of captain, in which capacity he served twelve months. In 1861 he entered the Confederate service-first in a battalion, and then as a private in the First Tennessee cavalry. He was soon promoted to be assistant surgeon in this latter corps, and served until late in 1862, when he returned to his home. The marriage of Dr. A. B. Green took place in 1851 to Ellen P. Bruce, and to this.
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union were born five children, of whom four are still living, viz .: Dr. P. B. Green, Dr. W. M. Green, A. B. Green and J. G. Green, all of Fort Payne, Ala. Of late years the doctor has practically retired from active practice and is attending to his large farming interests.
DR. HORACE P. MCWHORTER, an eminent young practitioner of Col- linsville, DeKalb county, Ala., is a native of Gaylesville. Cherokee county, Ala., and was born September 6, 1859. His grandfather, Allen M. Mc Whorter, came of an old South Carolina family and was born in Anderson district, that state, whence he removed, when a young man, to Carroll county, Ga., where he reared a family and where he passed the remain- der of his years. His son, Dr. A. M. McWhorter, was there married about 1852, and in 1857 came to Alabama, stopped for a short period in Lebanon, De Kalb county, and then located in Gaylesville, Cherokee county, where he resided until 1890, when he removed to Collinsville for the purpose of making his home with his son. Dr. Horace P. In January, 1892, however, he made a trip to Selma, Cal., to visit a son, and while there sickened and died. He was a graduate of Atlanta Med- ical college and always enjoyed a lucrative practice; in politics he was a democrat; he was also a royal arch Mason, but not a member of any church, although he died a Christian. His wife bore the maiden name of Mahala J. Davis, and she bore her husband nine children, who were named, in order of birth. as follows: Milton, who is a Methodist Episco- pal minister of Selma, Cal .; Dora, the wife of Col. Charles Rattrey. of Gaylesville, Ala .: Della E., now Mrs. Joe R. Roberts. of Collinsville; Horace P., the physician with whose name this sketch opens; Zachar- iah D., president of the high school at Greenville, N. C .: Robert L., a physician of Gaylesville, Ala. ; Jessie L., married to T. C. Banks, cash- ier of Attala bank, Attalla, Ala .; E. H. McWhorter, a Methodist Epis- copal clergyman at Gadsden, Ala .; and Bershie F., deceased. Mrs. Mahala J. (Davis) McWhorter now resides with her son, Dr. Horace P. She was born in Anderson district, S. C., and was taken, when a girl of fourteen, to Carroll county, where her parents made settlement. Dr. Horace P. McWhorter received his literary education at the high school in Gaylesville and read medicine in the office of his father, and after this course of preparatory study passed the session of 1879-80 at the Atlanta Medical college, and then attended the Vanderbilt university at Nash- ville, Tenn., from which he graduated in the spring of 1881, having de- voted his especial attention to chemistry. He at once located at Collins- ville for the practice of his profession, and has met with an abundant suc- cess. He stands high in the estimation of his fellow-practitioners in his section as well as in that of the general public, being a member of the State Medical society and member of its examining board. In politics, the doctor is a democrat, and under the auspices of that party holds the position of county health officer. In religion he is a Methodist and is a
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"trustee of the church. The first marriage of the doctor took place in January, 1882, to Miss Fannie C. Newman. at Collinsville; this lady bore one child, Thomas E., now deceased, and on June 6, 1885, she herself passed away. On June 24, 1886, Dr. McWhorter married, for his second wife, Miss Naomi J. Beeson, and this union has been crowned by the birth of three children: Marcus B., deceased, Horace L. and Jerome Cochran.
DR. J. T. MILLER, of Collinsville, De Kalb county, Ala., was born February 19, 1848, in Floyd county, Ga., and is a son of Wesley and Mary (Copeland) Miller. The paternal great grandfather of the doctor, with his wife and two sons, came from Ireland just after the close of the Revolutionary war, and settled in Spartanburg district, S. C. One of these sons, George, subsequently went to Kentucky, while Thomas Mil- ler, the second son, remained in Spartanburg district, married there and reared a family, including J. T. Miller, the father of Dr. J. T. Mil- ler. About the year 1845, Wesley Miller, with his wife and two chil- dren, moved from Spartanburg district, S. C., to Chambers county, Ala., where he resided three years; thence he went to Floyd county, Ga., where he continued in his vocation of planting until his death in 1861. His widow survived until 1878. Wesley Miller was a planter of consid- erable skill and thrift, and accumulated a large property; he was a very zealous Methodist, and in politics was an old-line whig. His surviving children are named as follows: John W., who is tax collector of Inde pendence county, Ark .; Dr. J. T., of Collinsville, Ala .; Richard R., of Pike county, Ark .; Benjamin H., of Rome, Ga .; Elizabeth, wife of W. S. Tomlinson, of Plainville, Ga., and Mary L., widow of W. T. Mosteller, of Collinsille, Ala. The Copeland family were also of Spartanburg dis- trict, S. C., the maternal grandfather of Dr. J. T. Miller having been William Copeland, a native of the district named. The latter was a wealthy merchant, who moved to Columbus, Ga., where he did an exten- sive trade, and where he was murdered for his money by the notorious Murrell gang of desperadoes. Dr. J. T. Miller was reared in Floyd county, Ga., and educated in the country schools. On attaining his man- hood he began his business life at Calhoun, Ga., as a merchant, and carried on business as such until 1875, when he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. W. C. Nixon, of Plainville, Ga. In the winter of 1875-6 he attended his first course of lectures at Atlanta Medical college, and in 1877-8 studied at the Vanderbilt university of Nashville. Tenn., graduating in the spring of 1878. He practiced at Plainsville, Ga., from 1878 until 1881, when he came to Collinsville, Ala., where his genial dis- position and practical skill have won for him an extensive clientele. He is a member of the State Medical association and of the county Medical society, and at one time was a member of the board of censors. Politi- cally he is a democrat, and socially he is a royal arch Mason; in this fra- ternity he has filled the office of master of the third veil and is now serv-
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ing as treasurer. He is also a steward in the Methodist Episcopal church and leads an upright and christian life. In February, 1879, the doctor married Miss Nannie G., daughter of Col. Robert M. Young, of Calhoun, Ga., the happy union being now blessed with four children: Robert Young, Walter Taylor, Grace and Bernard Colquit. Robert M. Young, the father of Mrs. Miller, was colonel of the Fortieth Georgia infantry during the recent war, and was a gentleman of great popularity . in his county, which he represented several terms in the Georgia legis- lature.
DR. W. E. QUIN, of Fort Payne, De Kalb county, Ala., was born April 21, 1851, in that part of Chickasaw county now embraced within the territory of Clay county, Miss. After a good preparation in the schools of Chickasaw county, he attended the Mississippi college at Clinton, Miss., which institution he left in June, 1874, to teach school one session at Trenton, La. Returning to his home in Chickasaw county, he com- menced the study of medicine, and in 1875-76 attended the medical col- lege at Louisville, Ky., but withdrew without graduating, and formed a . partnership with Dr. F. N. Arnold, at Walthall, Miss., with whom he practiced from May, 1877, until 1880. In 1881 he went to the Kentucky school of Medicine, at Louisville, from which he graduated in June of the same year. In 1882 he settled in De Kalb county, Ala., and engaged in merchandising and practicing, as his health permitted; but in Novem- ber, 1885, he relinquished the mercantile business and devoted himself entirely to the practice of medicine until March, 1889, when he added a drug store to his practice at Fort Payne, where he stands in the front ranks as a physician and as a druggist. The doctor is a member of the De Kalb Medical society, and of the State Medical association. He has served as president of the former, and is now serving his second term as secretary, and has also served several times as delegate to the meetings of the State Medical association. The doctor was married in October, 1883, to Miss Marie J., daughter of Joe J. Nix, of Fort Payne, and this union has been blessed with the birth of four children, viz .: Hugh L .; William E .; Joe J., and Margaret C. The father of the doctor is Will- iam S. Quin, and his mother bore the maiden name of Margaret G. Moore, and both are descended from families of the highest respecta- bility. Dr. Quin was elected, on the 1st day of March, 1893, mayor of Fort Payne.
ELMORE COUNTY.
EX-JUDGE WILLIAM A. AUSTIN, of Wetumpka, Elmore county, Ala., was born in Newton county, Ga., September 19, 1848, and when a child was brought to Alabama by his parents, who settled in that part of Coosa county now known as Elmore county. The father of the judge was Taliaferro L. Austin, a native of North Carolina, who married Elizabeth H.
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Loyall, of Georgia, and died in 1884. As a boy the judge attended school in Elmore county up to the beginning and for a while during the pro- gress of the Civil war, and from 1861 to 1864, in Newton county, Ga., whither his father had returned, coming back at a later period to Elmore county, Ala., where the son pursued his studies until he was about the age of nineteen years, when he left school to assist on the home farm in Elmore county. At the age of twenty-three he left the home place to do farming on his own account. From 1880 onward, for some years, he was a member of the Elmore couuty democratic executive committee; in 1884-5 -- 6, he was a justice of the peace of beat No. 12, and in September, 1888, he was appointed by Gov. Thomas Seay, probate judge of Elmore county, to fill out the four years' unexpired term of J. A. Lancaster, removed. In March, 1892, he was nominated, on the democratic ticket, for the same office by a majority of 700, but was defeated by a combina- tion. On his retirement from office, he resumed farming, which he had relinquished in 1888, to assume the judgeship. The judge is a Knight of Phythias, a Knight of Honor, and is a member of the Missionary Baptist church. He was married, in 1873, to Miss Susan F., daughter of Frank Simms, ex-treasurer of Coosa county, and to this union have been born seven children, viz. : Taliaferro (called Tollie, familiarly), Frank S., Grace, Maxwell, William A., Bessie K. and Ola G. The judge is considered to be one of the most skillful agriculturists of his neighborhood, and as a citizen and official he has the respect of the entire community.
DR. PHILLIPS FITZPATRICK, a prominent physician and planter of Wetumpka, was born in what is now Elmore county, in 1830, being the eldest surviving son of ex-Gov. Benjamin and Sarah Terry (Elmore) Fitzpatrick. Gov. Fitzpatrick was born in Greene county, Ga., in 1800. He had a limited "old field" school education and when he was eighteen years old, came with his two elder brothers, Joseph and Philip, to Alabama. He read law at Montgomery and practiced till his health failed him, when he devoted himself to agriculture and died in 1869. While he was a resident of Montgomery, he was elected solicitor of that circuit and was a presidential elector on the VanBuren ticket in 1840, and in 1842 was called to the high office of governor of the state and re-elected in 1844. In 1847, he was appointed United States senator and was several times elected, being in that office when the state seceded. He was nominated for vice-president on the ticket with Douglas in 1860, but declined, and was president of the constitutional convention in 1866. He was a Union man and bitterly opposed secession, but like many good loyal men, his sympathies and co-operations "were with the state. He was a celebrated lawyer and a man whose legal opinions ranked high among his contemporaries, and one who had accumulated a large fortune. He was a prominent Mason, but was not connected with any church. He was twice married, his last wife being Aurelia Blassingame, by whom he had one son, Benjamin, a prominent lawyer of Wetumpka. Gov. Fitz-
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patrick was one of six sons-Joseph, Phillips, William, Benjamin, bird and Alva, all of whom came to Alabama, and were planters in Montgomery county. The wife of Gov. Fitzpatrick died in 1837. She was born in what is now Elmore county, and was the daughter of Gen. John Archer and Nancy (Martin) Elmore, natives of Virginia and South Carolina, respectively. Gen. Elmore received a fine education and went to South Carolina. a young man, where he married Miss Saxon, by whom he had four children-two sons and two daughters - Hon. Benjamin Thomas, who died in Richland district, S. C., an officer in the United States army, auditor of the state and a candidate for governor; Hon. Franklin Harper, who died in Washington, D. C., while in the United States senate as suc- cessor to the illustrious John C. Calhoun. Gen. Elmore married again in South Carolina, and in 1818, came to Alabama and settled in the wilds of the county that now bears his name. He died in 1834, aged seventy- two years. He was a man of great prominence in the political, military and judicial history of his day, being general of the South Carolina militia and one of the first judges of the state. His second wife died in 1855. She was the mother of seventeen children-several of whom were prominent in state and national affairs, viz .: John Archer, a prominent lawyer of Montgomery and a former member of the legislature; Hon. William A., a prominent lawyer of New Orleans, and superintendent of the mint under Buchanan, and has been a circuit judge and attorney- general of the state of Louisiana. He died in Pennsylvania in 1891; Hon. Henry M. was probate judge of Macon county, in 1855 went to Texas .
and commanded a regiment during the war; Hon. Rush, captain in the Mexican war, and territorial judge of Kansas, under Buchanan; Dr. Fitz- patrick is the second of five sons, namely: Elmore, deceased, was in Semple's battery in the early part of the war and was then judge advocate of the military court at Mobile till the close of the war; Philip; Maurice and James, both died young; John, a farmer of Elmore station, served in the army of the Tennessee, as a quartermaster. Dr. Fitzpatrick had his early educational training at Wetumpka, Ala., and in 1849 graduated with honor from the state university, and in 1854, graduated in medicine from the state university at New Orleans. He engaged in planting till the war and early in 1862 he joined Semple's battery and shortly afterward was transferred to the medical department as acting assistant surgeon, which rank he held till the close of the war. After the war he resumed his practice and still follows it, but he has always been a planter on a large scale. He is a member of the State Medical association and has been president of the County Medical society. He was married in 1858, to Mary Bethea, of Alabama, who died in 1878 and was the mother of five children; one son and two daughters are living. In 1882, he married Jennie, daughter of Dr. James A. Kelley, of Alabama, by whom he has three children. Both of his wives belonged to the Presbyterian church.
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JAMES F. FREEMAN, master mechanic in the Tallassee Falls manu- facturing company, was born at Fort Decatur, Montgomery county, in 1837, while his father was fighting the Indians. The women and children were huddled together in the fort for protection against the common enemy. His parents were Littleberry Freeman and Frances (Malone) Free- man, born near Augusta, Ga., in 1804 and 1807, respectively. When their son was a year old they came to Alabama, settling first in Montgomery county and then in Tallapoosa, where Mr. Freeman died in 1847, while yet a young man. He was the son of James F. Freeman, a Virginian of English descent, who came to Alabama as a young man. The maternal grandfather, James Malone, was a Georgian by birth, and a farmer of Irish descent. Mr. Freeman's mother died about 1870, a Primitive Baptist, and was the mother of eight children, as follows: Rebecca, widow of Daniel Gunter, a soldier in the late war, who died in a northern prison; Rhoda Ann, deceased wife of Warren Harris; James F .; Sarah, deceased wife of J. H. Lillie; William G., of Atlanta, Ga .; Mary Susan, wife of Daniel Jackson, of South Corolina; Littleberry B., died at Richmond in the late war; Millard Fillmore, of Brownsville, Ga. The death of Mr. Freeman's father occurring when the former was only a child of ten years, the main support of the family devolved upon him, thus depriving him of an oppor- tunity for a good education. Soon after the death of the father, the family removed to Tallassee, where the boy went to work in the factory at $4.00 per month, so that from his boyhood he has been connected with the factory in some capacity. He went through all the various depart- ments, in the meantime learning the machinist trade, and after the war was made master mechanic of the works, which position he now holds, and by economy and steady business habits he has acquired a neat for- tune, in the way of a farm of 540 acres, well stocked, and a corn and flour mill. In 1859 he married Miss Louisa Ellen, daughter of James Graves, and they are the parents of twelve children, of whom seven survive, as follows: William G .; Mary Susan, wife of T. J. Hilyer, an attorney of Opelika; John D .; Fannie E., wife of Tlos J. Redden; David Ames; Addie Clara and Anna Laura, twins. Mr. Freeman and his children are Method- ists, and he is a Mason, having held various offices in Dorrick lodge, No. 406. He also belongs to the Improved Order of Red Men.
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