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DR. D. D. JONES, a brother of Dr. C. C. Jones, was born in Dallas county, Ala., July 13, 1844 .. He was educated at the schools in Dallas, but left school at the age of seventeen, and in 1862 went into the Con- federate service. enlisting in the Second Alabama cavalry; he was a pri- vate until a few months prior to the close of the war, when he, was · made sergeant. He took part in the following battles: all the battles around Atlanta and the skirmishes with Sherman's army during the lat- ters raid. His first service was at Fensacola, prior to Atlanta. then north Mississippi and north Alabama, and Dalton on to Savannah, sur- rendering at Salisbury, N. C. After the war he attended a literary school at Dallas, Ala., for one year. and then attended lectures at the uni- versity of Kentucky; then going to Baltimore. graduating at the univer- sity of Maryland in 1872. Prior to going to Kentucky, he took a course of dentistry at the Philadelphia college, and followed dentistry for two years. After his graduation in Baltimore, he located in Wilcox county, where he practiced until 1882. being a member of the Wilcox county Medical society. In 1883 he took a post-graduate course at the New York polycline institute. He returned to Lowndes county and practiced three years, then settled in' Woodlawn, Jefferson county, his present. home. He is a member of the Jefferson county Medical society, a Mason, K. P., and a member of the Baptist church. He was married in 1875 to Julia, daughter of Rev. John A. Lee, of Snow Hill. They had one child, who died in infancy.
MORTIMER HARVEY JORDAN, M. D .-- Dr. Jordan was a native of Jef- ferson county. Ala., where he was born on the 10th of June, 1844. His boyhood was divided between his father's farm and the common schools of the neighborhood. At the age of sixteen. he entered the university of Alabama, where he remained for two years. completing the studies of the junior class. His military ardor then swept him into the Confederate army, and when barely eighteen years of age he enlisted, as a private soldier, in the Forty-third Alabama regiment. company G, under command of Capt. W. J. Mims. He became very popular with his company: was made third lieutenant in 1863. and was subsequently promoted. step by step, until he attained the rank of captain. which position he held at the time of Gen. Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Returning home after the surrender, he found the condition of the country greatly changed. His father, who had been a prominent citizen of the county, with a comfort- able estate, was impoverished by the emancipation of his slaves. He took in the situation at a glance, and, realizing that he must be the architect of his own fortune, he began the study of medicine in the office of his uncle, Dr. Nathaniel Hawkins. In the spring of 1867. he graduated at the head of his class in the Miami medical college. The expenses of his medical education left him considerably in debt. He began the practice of his profession in partnership with his preceptor, Dr. Hawkins, in the village of Elyton, at that time the county site of Jefferson county. In
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1868. he was married to Miss Florence E. Mudd, a daughter of Judge W. S. Mudd, also of Elyton, a man of high position in life, who died several years later. leaving a large estate. This marriage was in every way fortunate and of good omen. The woman was worthy of the man, and brought him fresh inspiration and renewed courage with which to confront the world and fight the battle of life. In 1869, Dr. Jordan was appointed physician to the Alabama penitentiary, a position which gave him good opportunities for study and in which he did the state good service. In 1873. he took up his residence in the then infant city of Birmingham. This same year Birmingham was visited by an epidemic of cholera. which taxed him professionally to the utmost limits of his time and strength. At one time, for three weeks he did not undress for a night's rest. One of his last patients was his friend and associate, Dr. J. B. Luckie. who had been equally faithful with himself in his ministrations to the afflicted people. but fortunately recovered. After the epidemic, Birming- ham grew rapidly into a flourishing city, and Dr. Jordan's practice, growing with it, soon assumed proportions hardly second to the practice of any other physician in the state. whether considered in reference to its scope or to its profits. His clientage was largely composed of the best people of the city. He was often called in consultation to adjoining counties. and several times beyond the limits of the state. He was quite as successful in the practice of surgery as in the practice of medicine. and performed many delicate and difficult operations. The extent of his practice was only limited by his ability to attend to it. Notwithstanding the engross- ing cares. of his large practice, Dr. Jordan found time to make many important contributions to the current medical literature of the day. In 1872, he read before the State Medical association, at Huntsville, a History of the Surgery of the Jefferson county. In 1574. he read before the State Medical association, at Selma, a History.of the Epidemic of Cholera in Birmingham; and afterward wrote a sketch of the same epi demic for the Cholera Report, on the epidemic of 1873, published by act of congress. In 1575, he published, in the American Practitioner, an article on Resuscitation from Chloroform Narcosis by Nelaton's Method. This article was generally copied in the medical periodicals of the United States, and in several foreign periodicals-two French and three German -attracted the attention of Dr. J. Marion Sims, and led to a correspond- ence which induced Dr. Jordan to visit Dr. Sims in New York, where he remained for several months as his assistant. In 1-76 he published in the American Practitioner an article on the treatment of Intussusception of the bowels by distensile Enemeta with the body of the patient inverted. In 1877 he read before the Sate Medical association at Birmingham. a paper on Infantile Diarrhea. In 1875 he published in the American Journal of Obstetrics, a paper on the transmission of syphilis by the male element of reproduction to the mother through the furtus in utero. In 1879 he read before the State Medical association. at Selma. a paper on
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the treatment. of post-partum hæmorrhage by intra-uterine injec- tions of hot water, which was one of the first publications on this sub- ject in this country: In 1852 he read before the State Medical association, at- Mobile, a report on the epidemic of typhoid fever. which prevailed in Birmingham in 18-1-82. Dr. Jordan was at various times, secretary and censor of the Jefferson county Medical society. and was twice its president. He was a member of the State Board of Health. from 1879 to 1883, when he was elected presi- dent of the State Medical association. and presided over its deliberations at the session of 1884. at Selma. His message was a discussion of the duties and powers of local boards of health. In 1896, without solicitation on his part, he was called to fill the chair of materia medica, and thera- peutics and clinical medicine. in the Medical college of Alabama. His health was already beginning to fail, and believing that rest from the fatigue of an active practice, and the mild climate of Mobile. would be of advantage to him he accepted the position, and filled it for two sessions. He was an immediate success as a lecturer, and became a great favorite with the students. He lectured without notes. depending entirely on his memory, and his general knowledge of the subjects included in the course. During much the larger part of his career, Dr. Jordan was without a partner in his practice. But beside the first partnership already mentioned, he was associated, during the year 1881. with Dr. Charles Whelan, and from 1856. to his death, he was in partnership with Dr. W. H. Johnston, who moved from Selma to accept the position. In 1888, the disease from which he suffered, phthisis pulmonalis. acquired such headway, that he went to southern California, where he remained for several months, at first with some apparent benefit, but finally, grow- ing worse. he returned to his home. Shortly before his death he became a member of the Catholic church. He died on the 5th day of February, 1889, amid the sympathies and regrets of the whole population of the city. He left behind him a wife and four children, three daughters and one son. Few men, in so brief a life, have accomplished so much work. or achieved so large a measure of business success. From the time of his entrance into the Confederate army, while yet a boy, honors were showered upon him in rapid succession. He was perhaps the most uni- versally popular man, who ever lived in Birmingham. His genial nature. rich vein of humor, and abundant fund of anecdote, made him a charming companion. His faithful attachments, unaffected generosity, and con- sideration for the wishes and feelings of those about him, made him hosts of friends. He was undoubtedly a very skillful physician. He had a fine faculty for diagnosis, a wonderful memory for facts. and, in all cases of emergency, ready command of all his resources.
WILLIAM HENRY KETTIG is one of the most successful manufacturers and merchants of Birmingham. He was born August 6. 1863, in . Louis- ville, Ky. He is a graduate of the Louisville high school and finished
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his education at the university of Heidelberg. Germany. Returning to Louisville, Mr. Kittig, like most young men, found great difficulty in securing suitable employment. . He finally accepted a position as "office boy" in a large wholesale mill supply house. at a very small salary. From this humble position he gradually worked his way up, until he was sent on the road as traveling salesman. The latter position he occupied for four years. It was while passing through Birmingham in 1985, when the place was still a country village, that Mr. Kettig, with his keen eye for business, discovered the great possibilites of the little town as a future site for a city, so he determined to locate there. and soon after formed a partnership with Maj. W. J. Milner, in the wholesale business of mill supplies, under the firm name of Milner & Kettig. Mr. Kettig was the active manager of the business, and under his management the business of the firm soon grew to immense proportions. In 1890 the Milner & Kettig company was incorporated with a paid-up capital of $150.000. Mr. Kettig was elected president. and has continued to manage the company's affairs with remarkable success. He is a director in a number of enter- prises, and owns some valuable real estate in Birmingham. He has recently built a beautiful home on the South Highlands. Mr. Kettig is clear headed and conservative in all his large business transactions. He is young in years, but his advice has often been asked for by men much older than himself. He has been an alderman, and has frequently acted as mayor of the city. He is a Mason. a Knight Templar, a member of the Mystic Shrine and a K. P. He is also a vestryman in the church of the Advent (Episcopal). Mr. Kettig was married in December, 1891, to Miss Laura Eugenia Moody, daughter of Maj. W. A. Moody, of Petersburg, Va. His father was Earnest Kettig, who was one of the leading merchants of Louisville for twenty years. Being possessed of indomitable energy, and the strongest of will power, combined with prudence and wisdom, Mr. Kettig is one of the most promising young men of the "New South." His humble begining as "office boy" and his climbing the stairs of pros- perity, step by step, without aid from any one, is but an example of the possibilities of the persistent and energetic American youth.
A. O. LANE. ex-mayor of Birmingham, and one of its most prominent citizens, son of Dr. Alexander and Mary E. (Phillips) Lane, natives of Georgia, was born in Macon county. Ala .. October 29. 1848, and received a liberal education. He studied law under Hon. John A. Foster, and was admitted to the bar in 1869. and soon after opened an office at Ozark. Ala. In 1873 he came to Birmingham, and a year later he formed a law part- nership with John T. Terry, and the new firm enjoyed a lucrative prac- tice until 1>:5, when Mr. Terry retired, and Mr. Lane formed a partner- ship with Col. E. T. Taliaferro. now practicing law in New York city.
. This partnership lasted until 1887, B. H. Tabor having been taken in in 1886, when the firm was dissolved. In 1980, Mr. Lane took editorial charge of the Iron Age, and in 1852 was elected mayor of Birmingham,
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re-elected in 1884, and 1886. After an intermission of two years, he was again elected mayor in 1890. Mr. Lane was married in May. 1875, to Miss Minnie Terry, daughter of the late John T. Terry. Mr. Lane belongs to the K. P., and to the Presbyterian church.
WILLIAM GRAY LITTLE. JR .. was born in Elgecombe county, N. C., December 27, 1832, was the eldest son of Seth Little and Nancy Speight. His father was a planter, and removed with his family to Sumter county, Ala., in 1885, where he engaged in planting until his death in 1866. Mr. Little was educated at Gathright's school and the university of Mississippi. but several times left school and college on account of ill health. He took the law course at Transylvania univer- sity, Ky., and was graduated in 1855. He returned to his home, at War- saw, in Sumter county, and began the practice of law. He married Laura Hibbler, the daughter of James L. Hibbler, Esq .. December 10, 1837, who survives him. and resides at Livingston. Ala. They have three children living: Mrs. P. B. Brown, of Anniston: James H. Little. Esq., a member of the bar at Birmingham. Ala., and a younger son, W. G. Lit- tle. At the commencement of the war he enlisted in company A. Thirty- sixth Alabama regiment. but was soon discharged on account of ill health; was appointed enrolling officer with headquarters at Gainesville, Ala., in which capacity, he served until the last year of the war. when he enlisted again in Forty-second Mississippi calvary. In 1837 he removed to Livings- ton, the county site of Sumter county, to resume the practice of his pro- fession, and soon became a leading member of the bar of this section. At a special election. in February. 1873, he was elected state senator from Sumter county, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of a republican senator. His election gave the democrats a majority in the senate, from which time dates the commencement of the redemption of the state from the carpet-bag government. He took a prominent part in the important legis- lation which followed the complete democratic victory in 1874. He was re-elected to the senate in 1876. and was elected president of that body in the same year. In July, 1579, when on his way to chancery court in Pickens county. he was taken with congestion at the residence of Mr. Walter D. Windham. and died after a brief illness on the twenty-fourth day of that month, surrounded by his family and friends. In the death of Mr. Little, the state mourned the loss of one of the most patriotic citi- zens and wisest counselors of this important and trying period of her history. His course as lawyer and legislator was directed and controlled by a conscientious devotion to right and justice. He had the absolute confidence of those with whom he came in contact, and was idolized by his family and greatly beloved by all classes.
JAMES H. LITTLE. son of the above, a rising youig lawyer of Birm- ingham. Ala., was born in Sumter county. Ala., February 27, 1562. He took the collegiate course at the state university at Tuscaloosa, graduating
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therein in 1880. In 1882 he took the law course in the same institution and after careful and painstaking preparation he was admitted to the bar in the same year. He located at Livingston. Ala., where he remained until December, 1887, in the meantime establishing a high reputation for legal talent and professional integrity. In December. 1557, he located in Birmingham. where he is now enjoying a handsome practice. He is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta society, and was united in marriage in June, 1890, to Miss Eliza Mathews, daughter of Charles L. Mathews, of Montgomery. Ala.
MAJOR J. L. LOCKWOOD. the capitalist and distinguished Confederate veteran of Birmingham, is a native of the state of Iowa. He was born in Dubuque, in that state. December 15, 1843, and was educated at Lima, N. Y., and Williamsburg, Mass. He left the latter place in 1860, and went to Montgomery. Ala., where his parents had moved in 1846; clerked there until April. 1861, and entered the Confederate service in the "Dixie Rifles," afterward assigned to the Twenty-second Alabama infantry. was promoted to ordnance sergeant. and at the battle of Shiloh, to sergeant major; in the fall of 1862 was made aid-de-camp on the staff of Gen. Frank Gardner, serving thereon till after the battle of Murfreesboro: was transferred to the trans-Mississippi department and served there until the fall of Port Hudson; joined the army of the Tennessee at the battle of Chick- amauga, and was commissioned adjutant of the Twenty-second Alabama regiment; served through the Georgia campaign and was badly wounded at Jonesboro, and at the consolidation of the army, in 1864, he was promoted to the rank of major, which rank he held until the war closed. During his military career he did conspicuous fighting on the following severe bat- tles: Shiloh, where he was twice wounded; Corinth. and in the retreat betweenCornith and Saltillo was slightly wounded: Perryville. again slightly wounded. and had his horse killed while acting as aid to Gen. Gardner; Crab Apple Orchard and a week's fighting on the retreat; Murfreesboro, Port Hudson, again wounded twice; Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Dalton, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro, where he was badly wounded; Franklin and Boonville, N. C. After such splendid military achievements, Maj. Lockwood was fully inclined to follow the quite vocations of peace. and accordingly. when he had recovered from the last wound of the war, he returned to Montgomery and kept books for H. L. Daughtry, at Wetumpka, Ala., and then for the Montgomery & Eufanla railroad till 1871, when he removed to Birmingham and went into the mercantile business, which, in connection with contracting, he has carried on successfully since. He is president of the Ellis Drug Co., director in the North Birmingham Oil & Asphalt Co., a stockholder in many flourishing business enterprises; has served two years as alder- man, is a Mason, a K. P., and is a member of the I. O. O. F., Knights of Honor and the Episcopal church. He was married the first time, in May, 1873, to Jodie C., daughter of Dr. Thomas Martin of Elmore county, Ala.,
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by whom he had two children, both of whom are dead. His second wife was Abigail H. Martin, a sister of the first. By her he has one child, Henry W. Maj. Lockwood's father was Ezekiel Lockwood. a Baptist minister of New York, and his mother. Ann B. Warren, of the same state. The father died in 1878, and the mother in 1856.
DR. JAMES BUCKNER LUCKIE, whose name heads this sketch. one of the leading and most popular physicians of Birmingham, born July 16, 1833, in Newton county, Ga., is the son of William D. Luckie and Eliza Buckner, natives of Georgia. He attended, in his boyhood, the schools of his home, and at the age of sixteen, his father sent him to the Gwin- nett institute. After two years at this school, he beagn the study of medicine under Dr. John B. Hendrix, and attended the lectures in Augusta. Ga.,, in the winters of 1853-54. He then attended the Pennsyl- vania mediacl college at Philadelphia, and graduated thereform in the spring of 1855. He practiced in both Newton county, Ga .. and Pike county, Ala .. until the breaking out of the war. Dr. Luckie entered the Confederate army. and received the appointment of assistant surgeon and attended Gen. Kirby Smith on his memorable ra'd into Kentucky as med- ical purveyor. having been promoted from assistant surgeon. He was, at his own request, relieved from duty as medical purveyor, and made inspector of hospitals. and went to Knoxville, where he was made chief of the bureau of small pox and vaccination of the army of Tennessee. The doctor rendered distinguished service after that time in Gen. Grace's brigade. in the Sixtieth and Forty-third Alabama. and surren- dered with his command at Appomattox. After the war, the doctor located and practiced his profession at Pine Level, Montgomery county, and then at the city of Montgomery, where he practiced until 1872, when . he removed to Birmingham. Ala. Old citizens of Birmingham, who passed through the terrible epidemic of cholera, which visited this city in 1873, will never forget the heroic and self-sacrificing conduct of Dr. James B. Luckie. One who knows him and has cause to love him, will never forget the noble soul who labored without price and without fear, and lives to bear testimony to the fact that in his heart, and not on his lips. did he carry out the sentiment embodied in Leigh Hunt's poem "Abou Ben Adhem." Well may he say. "Write me as one who loved his fellow men," for he carried it out to the end of the chapter. until himself stricken down by the fell disease. In 1850-84, he represented the thir- teenth district in the state senate. He was a member of the city council, and organizer and first chief of the fire department. as well as having been the organizer of the Birmingham rifles and Birmingham artillery, being the first captain of both companies. He has been censor of the county Medical society, and is counselor to the State Medical association. His first wife was Eliza Imogene, daughter of James H. Fielder, of Ala- bama. This wife died a year after her marriage, leaving one child, a daughter. His second wife, whom he married in 1856, was Susan Oliver,
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daughter of James R. Dillard. of Montgomery county. To this union nine children were born. Dr. Luckie is a distinguished Mason, having been deputy high priest of the grand chapter of royal arch Masons and grand generalissimo of the grand commandery of Knights Templar of Alabama, and is at this time grand representative of the grand lodge of Maine, and grand representative of the grand commanderies of New York anl Texas. He ranks deservedly high in his profession. especially in his specialty of surgery, being regarded as one of the leading sur. geons in the south.
J. H. MCCARY, one of the leading wholesale grocers and produce merchants of Birmingham, was born in Bibb. now Chilton. county, Ala., March 11, 1862. He began his early studies at Clanton. Ala., and fin- ished his education at the Agricultural and Mechanical college at Auburn., Ala. After leaving the latter school in 16-1. he clerked in the hotel at Blount Springs, Ala., until 1953, the year he located in Birmingham. His first work in Birmingham was done as clerk for the Relay house. the first hotel in the city. working there until the latter part of 1884, when he engaged in the merchandise brokerage business, and shortly after went into his present line, the wholesale produce and grocery business. He was one of the organizers of the Birmingham National bank, and one of its directors. He is a Knight of Rythias. and a steward in the Method- ist Episcopal church, south. He was married October 30. 15Ss, to Fannie, daughter of W. F. Nabers, of Birmingham. They have two sons. Will- iam and J. H., Jr. Mr. McCary's father was J. F. McCary. of Alabama. He was a wealthy merchant, and had stores at several points in Alabama. He was a Confederate soldier, and was killed at Resaca. He married Evelina M. Lilly. of Russell county. Ala. They had two sons. J. H. and J. F. Mr. McCary's mother is still living. at Birmingham, Ala.
HON. JOHN MCQUEEN, one of the most attractive and successful young members of the Birmingham bar. is descended from one of the most blue-blooded and aristocratic South Carolina families. He was born in the Palmetto state, February 9, 1563, and was brought by his mother to Ala- bama in 1870. and settled in Eutaw, Greene county. Ala. He attended the common schools at Eutaw, for a few years. and in 15-2-3. he attended the law department of the state university. at Tuscaloosa, from which he graduated with second honors. Upon leaving college, he was elected solicitor of Walker county, Ala .. and held this office a year and a half, afterward forming a partnership with Col. G. W. Hewitt, at Jasper. Ala .. which continued until Mr. MeQueen removed to Birmingham, in 1590, and associated himself with Col. J. J. Altman, in the practice. In 1892, he was elected to the legislature from Jefferson county, receiving the largest vote any man with opposition ever received from that county. He is a royal arch Mason, is past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. ard is president of the Southern club. of Birmingham, Ala., which is the strongest and most representative social organization in the state. His
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