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DR. J. C. WILSON, the well-known business man and physician. of Birmingham, was born in Tuscaloosa. Ala., May 15, 1529. His early edu- cation was acquired at the celebrated Green Springs school. under Prof. Henry Tutwiler, and his medical training was had at the medical college at Charleston, S. C., where he graduated with honors, in 1851. He located for practice, first in Carthage, Ala .. and lived there fifteen years, and at the close of the war, removed to Mobile, and was there engaged in the cotton business for ten years. He then removed to St. Clair county. Ala .. and conducted a mercantile business, until 1887, in which year he went to Birmingham, and launched out into real estate, insurance and broker- age business. He is an old school Presbyterian. He was married in 1854, to Susan, daughter of James Jones, of Greene county. Ala. Twelve children were born to them, of whom six died without issue, and six of them are living, as follows: Ann L., wife of John S. Going. of Birming, ham; William J., Carrie L., Thomas Chalmers, David Edwin and Miriam. Dr. Wilson's father was David Wilson, a native of South Carolina, who canie to Alabama in 1820. and followed the occupation of a farmer. His wife was Sarah Witherspoon, of South Carolina, and to them were born ten children, of whom. however, only the doctor survives. Dr. Wilson's father died in 1836, and his mother in 1873.
JOSEPH THOMPSON WILSON, of Birmingham, Ala., was born in Kemper county, Miss .. December 9, 1844. At the schools, in and around "Old Wahalak." he received a good rudimentary education. In February, 1862. he enlisted in company B, Thirty-fifth Mississippi infantry. Col. William S. Barry, of Columbus. Miss., commanding. He served with this company until about April. 1864, when he was selected as a sharpshooter and transferred to Ray's battalion, which was organized at Pollard. Ala .. with young men selected by Maj. Con Ray, from the brigade. He served with them until captured at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, and was held a prisoner until June 20, 1865. While a prisoner he served as dispensing clerk for Drs. Charles Leber. E. O. Brown, and Mary E. Walker, at the "Bull Pen" dispensary at Louisville, Ky .. and the same at the "White Oak Square" dispensary at Camp Douglas, Chicago. He was in the following battles: Farmersville Miss., Iuka and the siege of Vicksburg, where he surrendered with his .command. held prisoner about eight days. and was paroled until exchanged November. 1863. After that he was in the battles of Adair Station, and fought on the picket line as a sharpshooter, all the way down the railroad to Kene- saw Mountain, engaging in the battles of Cassville, New Hope church. Lost Mountain and Kenesaw. He was slightly wounded by a shell at Vicksburg. When the war was over he returned home to "Old Wahalak" from Camp Douglas, but finding nothing there, he went to Lauderdale county, Miss., where he secured a clerkship in a country store: and later on, opened a small store of his own, at Cuba. in Sumter county. Ala., where he remained until March 1. 1871, when he came to Elyton, just in
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tinie to see the city of Birmingham born: for at that time there was not a house in it: Col. James R. Powell with Capt. William P. Barker, as engineer, were busy that month laying off the "Magic City." As soon as a survey of the central part of the city was put on paper, Mr. Wilson with several others. purchased a lot agreeing to erect thereon a building. Several lots were sold this way, in fact none were sold without this con- dition; several houses were built, and that was the beginning of great Birmingham. He engaged in general mercantile business here, until January, 1874; then looked after his farm in Sumter county, until March 1. 1879. when he and Maj. W. J. Milner. opened a real estate and insurance office here, in which they continued under the firm name of Milner & Wilson until 1884, when Maj. Milner retired, and Mr. Wilson remains until this day, though several changes of firm have occurred: Wilson & Ingram, Wilson. Martin & Ingram, Wilson, Martin & Leedy, Wilson & Martin. Wilson, Martin & Stewart, and now, J. T. Wilson holds out alone. He is a royal arch Mason, a member of the Methodist church and of the Alabama club. He is a bank director, a liberal contributor to the building of the Caldwell hotel, Powell school and several of the churches. He was married February 12, 1873, to Miss Mary Ella MeDaniel, daughter of Henry McDaniel of Sumter county, Ala., and they are the parents of two children, Dalma. and Henry Bascom Wilson. His wife died February 14. 1881, and September 6. 1883, he married Miss Sarah Frances Wynn daughter of Maj. Alexander M. Wynn. of Huntsville Ala. They have one child, Lorna Wynne Wilson. His father was William Robertson Wilson, born in Botetourt county. Va., who settled in Tennessee. at Mouse Creek, and later at "Old- Wahalak" in Kemper county, Miss., where he died in 1861. His mother was Miss Mary Gulledge, born at Cheraw. S. C. Her first husband was named Sellers, and they had one child, Rev. Thomas George Sellers of Starkville, Miss. Willim Robertson Wilson and Mary Gulledge Sellers married about 1533. he being a widower, with four children: Sarah F., Francis M., William C .; and James, and she being a widow, with one. They had seven children. Alexander R. , John G. , Ann E. . Joseph T .. Lawson A., and Morris T., only three of whom are living: Alexander R. Wilson, of Meridian Miss. : Joseph T. Wilson and Lawson A. Wilson of Birmingham Ala. His grandfather was a native of Virginia, and a soldier in the war of 1812.
DR. LEWIS G. WOODSON, an oculist of Birmingham. is a Virginian by birth, having been born in the Old Dominion. in Goochland county, April 5, 1852. He was educated in medicine at the university of Vir- ginia, and afterward took a course at the university of Maryland. Here he graduated in 1557, and went into the Presbyterian Eye, Ear and Throat hospital at Baltimore, for the benefit of the valuable knowledge to be acquired there, where he remained some time. afterward locating at St. Joseph, Mo. Here he remained only ten months. and in 1888 removed to Birmingham. He is a member of both the State Medical
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association and the Jefferson county Medical society. He is a K. P. and a member of the Episcopal church. He was married in June, 1859, to Clara Vernon Lee, daughter of Dr. Paul C. Lee, of Montgomery, Ala. They have two children, Charles Pollard Woodson and Clara Lee Woodson. Dr. Woodson's father was also a Virginian. He was born in that state in the stirring period of 1796. He wasa lawyer of ability, and was at one time editor of the National Intelligencer at Washington. as he was also of the old Richmond Whig, the recognized leader of the whig party, in the south, for many years; and was one of the escort to Gen. Lafayette upon the occasion of his visit to this country, in 1-25. His mother's name was Charlotte Crittenden Woodson, daughter of Tucker Woodson, of Kentucky, and great-niece of Thomas Jefferson, president of the United States. They had eleven children, only one of whom is dead. The liv. ing ones are: Pocahontas C., widow of A. A. Montero. an exile from Portugal, deceased, she now resides in Greenville, N. C .; William Wade, of Wythe county, Va .; Dr. L. A. Woodson, of Patton, Ala .; Mary E., wife of ex-Gov. Thomas J. Jarvis of North Carolina, minister to Brazil under President Cleveland; Emily, widow of Charles H. Barsksdale. of Richmond, Va .; Caroline, wife of D. W. Bacon, of Vaiden, Miss. ; Rev. Charles J., of North Carolina; Dr. L. G., of Birmingham; Julia, wife of A. O. Gaylord, of Plymouth, N. C., and Byron Woodson, of St. Joseph, Mo. Dr. Woodson's father died in 1875. and his mother in February, 1890. The grandfather of Dr. Woodson was William Woodson. born in Vir- ginia in 1750, and was a Revolutionary soldier. The Woodson family are descendants of the celebrated John Woodson, of Dorchester, Eng., who came to Virginia as a surgeon with Sir John Harvey in 1624, bringing with him his wife, whom he married in Devonshire.
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DR. BENJAMIN L WYMAN was born in Tuscaloosa, Ala .. August 1, 18563 and was educated in the State university, at Tuscaloosa, where he graduated in 1876. He afterward attended the university of Virginia, taking the medical course in that celebrated institution, and graduating therefrom in 1877-8. He took a post-graduate course in the university of the city of New York in 1979. and later in the year acted as assistant physician in the asylum on Blackwell's Island, N. Y., for six months; was then connected with the hospital on Randall's Island, N. Y., a year, from which latter place he went to Tuscaloosa and accepted an important place in the state insane asylum, where he remained four years and a half. Then, after taking another post-graduate course of three months, at the New York Polyclinic, he located in Birmingham, where he now is. Dr. Wyman is one of the progressive young physicians of the state, having 'added to a store of useful, technical and collegiate knowledge. the broadening experience of much time spent in the wards of the numerous institutions for the cure of disease with which he has been connected. Dr. Wyman is a member of the Jefferson county Medieal
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society, of the State Medical association, and of the Jefferson county Board of Medical examiners. He is also prominently connected with the I. O. O. F.
LAMAR COUNTY.
WILLIAM H. KENNEDY, M. D., of Kennedy, Lamar county, Ala., is the oldest and most experienced practitioner in the county. He was born in Tuscaloosa county, Ala .. January 2. 1829, and is the youngest of the three children born to Reuben B. and Mary (Davis) Kennedy. natives of South Carolina. Reuben B. came to Alabama, when quite a young man, and settled in Tuscaloosa county, where he lived thirty-five years, and then migrated to Texas, where he passed the remainder of his days. The paternal grandparents of the doctor. were natives of Virginia, and were named. Maxwell and Frances Kennedy, who came to Alabama, when the state was a dense wilderness, and inhabited only by wild men. The doctor was reared and educated. in his native county. until he had reached twenty years of age, when he entered the Memphis medical school, from which he graduated in 1551, made a successful practice of medicine until 1861, and then attended the New Orleans medical school. for advanced studies in his profession. Since leaving this institution he has been in constant practice, in the vicinage of his present residence. Indeed, so great was the demand for his services, that he was not permitted, by his neighbors, to take np arms during the Civil war, but was retained at home to care for the sick, and for the wounded soldiers, who flocked to him for surgical aid, and almost made his house a hospital. The doctor is also an extensive planter, owning 6.000 acres of land, of which he keeps 350 under cultivation, and he is also in the drug business at Kennedy, thus having his hands as well as his brains constantly employed. The marriage of the doctor took place, in 1855. to Miss Eliza C., daughter of Martin Cooper, of Mississippi. The seven children born to this union were named as follows: Fannie, wife of W. T. Walker: John O., a ris- ing young physician: James T., a farmer: Mollie, wife of Dr. John H. Duncan: Joseph L., Eddie and Elijah, deceased. The adult portion of the family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. south. and are looked upon with much respect. Fraternally, the doctor is a Free- mason. and politically, he is a democrat. He is liberal in his donations to all laudable enterprises, and has always been popular with his fellow- citizens, having been the first successful democratic candidate from his district for the legislature after the close of the late war. Since that time he has not placed himself in the field.
JAMES S. MCEACHIN, a rising young lawyer of Vernon, Lamar county, Ala., was born in Tuscaloosa. Ala .. January 20. 1-62, the eldest of a family of six children, born to Archibald B. and Dora (Somerville) McEachin, natives respectively of North Carolina and Virginia. His
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paternal grandparents were Peter and Maria (McEwen) MeEachin, both North Carolinians, and his maternal grandparents were James and Helen (Wallace) Somerville, both of whom were born in Orange county. Va. Archibald B. McEachin is still living, and is quite prominent at the Tus- caloosa bar. James S. McEachin received a first class academical educa- ion in Tuscaloosa. preparatory to his entering the university of Alabama, from the law department of which institution he graduated in 1852. and now holds a high position at the bar of Lamar county. He has filled the office of district solicitor of the sixth circuit. having been appointed by Gov. Jones, and has filled the position of chairman of the democratic county committee, of both Tuscaloosa county and Lamar county, and has on several occasions been sent as delegate to democratic conventions- performing his duty thoroughly on all occasions, and to the satisfaction of his numerous friends. For twelve years he has been a member of the state troops, and was the organizer of the Warrior Guards of Tuscaloosa. He served two years as lieutenant of the Birmingham rifles, organized the Jones rifles of Lamar county, and hold the captaincy thereof three years, and is now major in the Second regiment of state troops, having it would seem, an innate predilection for military tactics. Mr. McEachin was married in August, 1882, to Miss Anna G., daughter of John W. Mc- Pherson, and a native of Virginia. This felicitous union has been blessed by the birth of five children, named as follows: John W., Helen W., Tillie, Archibald B. and Henderson S. Mr. McEachin is an Odd Fellow, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. His position in social circles is an enviable one, and profession- ally he is highly respected by his fellow-practitioners as well as by the public in general.
ANDREW J. MARTIN, of the firm of A. J. & J. K. P. Martin, of Ken- nedy, Lamar county. and Raleigh. Pickens county, Ala., was born in Pickens county, this state. February 2, 1839, and is the eldest of a family of eight. His parents. Caswell and Elizabeth (Powell) Martin, were natives of North Carolina, and among the first settlers of Pickens county, Ala., where Caswell Martin was engaged in farming and merchandising, and was quite prominent as a citizen. His death occurred in 1877, at the age of sixty-six. The paternal grandparents of Andrew J. Martin were Serod D. and Charity Martin, of North Carolina, and his maternal grand- mother was Lucy Powell. of the same state. Andrew J. was reared and educated in Alabama. In 1:32 he entered the Confederate army, and served until the close, but was not in any of the leading battles, as his health was frail and did not permit him to perform any very onerous duties. In 1846 he married Mrs. Katie B. Ashley, of Arkansas, widow of Henry Ashley, and daughter of George W. Carroll, of Maryland. For a number of years Mr. Martin was postmaster at Raleigh, and has always been regarded as a sterling democrat and an upright business man. The stock
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carried by the firm at Kennedy is valued at 810.000, and that at Raleigh at $5,000, and the standing of the firm and its credit are of the first class. Mr. Martin is a substantial citizen, and contributes freely to all public enter- prises; he exercises his right of suffrage with care, voting for good and competent men.
LEE S. METCALFE, sheriff of Lamar county, Ala., is a native of the county and was born November 9, 1562, the second in the family of ten children born to Wiley S. and Virginia E. (Bradley) Metcalfe, of Alabama and Virginia. The parents of Wiley S. were James and Elizabeth (Bunk- head) Metcalfe, and were born respectively in North Carolina and Tennes- see, and the parents of Mrs. Virginia E. Metcalfe were William R. and Ellen S. (Cowington) Bradley, natives of Virginia. Lee S. Metcalfe was reared a farmer and still follows that vocation. He is the owner of 950 acres, of which he keeps 175 under cultivation. In 1888, he was elected sheriff of the county by the democratic party and is filling the office with much credit to himself and to the satisfaction of the public. In 1889, he married Miss Jola Guin, a native of Alabama, and daughter of Jason Guin. Two children bless the union and are named Wiley L. and Jason S. Mr. Metcalfe and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and lead pious lives and useful ones, that gain the respect of all who know them, not only at Vernon, their place of residence. but throughout the county of Lamar.
THOMAS B. NESMITH, attorney-at-law, at Vernon, Lamar county, Ala., is a native of this state, born in Morgan county. June 13, 1832. His parents were Thomas and Elizabeth (Roberts) Nesmith, natives, respect- ively, of South Carolina and Tennessee; his paternal grandparents were Alexander and Elizabeth (Martin) Nesmith, and his maternal grandfather was Zacheus Roberts, of Pennsylvania. His paternal great grandfather, Thomas Nesmith, was a hero of the American Revolution, and was one of the earliest settlers of Alabama. His father, Thomas Nesmith, came to Morgan county, Ala., with his father. Alexander Nesmith, in 1524, and here passed the remainder of his life. Thomas B. Nesmith was educated at private schools in his native county, and taught school two years, and, at the age of twenty-three, entered the academy at Somerville, studied there one year, then for seven years taught school, studying law in the meanwhile. He began the practice in 1866, at Pikeville, then the county seat of Marion county, and, for ten years, met with unvarying success and enhancing reputation; in 1876 he removed to Vernon, the county seat of Lamar county, where he has since resided in active and lucrative practice, holding rank with the ablest lawyers of the county. Mr. Nesmith has always been prominent as a member of the democratic party, and has enjoyed its confidence to a marked degree. For nine years he was county solicitor of Marion. and during that period was county super- intendent of public instruction: was a delegate to the state constitutional convention; was general county administrator for several terms, and was
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solicitor for the third judicial circuit for four years, 1826-80. He repre- sented Lamar county in the state legislature in 1882-83, and in 1884-85, and has held several offices of less importance, in all cases serving with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of his constituents. In addition to the performance of his legal dnties and official functions, Mr. Nesmith also gives considerable attention to agriculture, having 200 acres of land in a fine state of cultivation. He owns 3,500 acres, of which at least 800 acres are underlaid with first-class coal. Mr. Nesmith was united in marriage June 11, 1569, to Miss Minnie C. McLain, a native of Alabama, and daughter of Allen B. McLain. He had the misfortune, however, to lose his amiable wife, June 7, 1882, when she died in the Methodist Episcopal faith, the mother of four children: Allen (deceased), Christopher C., Daisy, and Thomas B. Mr. Nesmith is likewise a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church. south, and is a Freemason and an Odd Fellow. His standing is high, professionally and socially, and he is public spirited, liberal and philanthropic, contributing freely of his means to churches. schools, and other public institutions.
JUDGE WILLIAM A. YOUNG is a native of Lamar county. Ala., and was born October 29. 1-57, the second in a family of ten children, born to James P. and Martha (Box) Young, natives of South Carolina and Ala- bama, respectively. James P. Young came to Alabama in 1836, and set- tled in Fayette county, where he engaged in tanning and farming. He is a prominent citizen of Lamar, and is president of the Veteran association of that county. The paternal grandparents of William A. Young were Alexander and Esther Young, of South Carolina, and his maternal grandparents were Lyles and Mary Box. of Tennessee. William A. Young was educated in the public and private schools of Lamar county, and at the Vernon institute. At the age of twenty-three, he entered the law department of the university of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa, and with one exception, completed his law education in a shorter period than any other on record in that department. After graduation he opened prac- tice at Vernon, which he successfully continued for six years, when he was appointed probate judge by Gov. Seay in 1887. He filled the posi- tion with punctilious attention to every detail of the business brought before him, and was on the first day of August, 1992. by a handsome majority, elected to the same office. He has also served as mayor of Vernon one term, and has filled the position of chairman of the county democratic executive committee of Lamar. The marriage of Mr. Young took place in 1-57, the bride being Miss Mary C. Crew. a native of Ala - bama, and daughter of Titus L. Crew, of Tennessee. Two children have come to bless the household, and are named Albert and Oliver. Mr. Young is an Odd Fellow, and, with Mrs. Young, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. His hand is always open to the demands of charity, and he is a liberal contributor to all commendable enterprises. -
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ROBERT ANDREWS, mayor of Florence, and register and master in chancery of Lauderdale county, was born in Florence, August 10, 1842. He is the son of Robert and Martha (Jackson) Andrews. the former of whom was a native of Lancaster. Penn., and who came to Alabama at an early age. Settling in Lauderdale county, he followed farming and mer- chandising in Florence as a member of the firm of Kirkman & Andrews. His death occurred in 1847. Mrs. Martha Andrews was born in Nash- ville, Tenn., and was the daughter of James Jackson. who was one of the pioneer settlers of Lauderdale county. Capt. Andrews was edu- cated at the North Carolina Military institute at Charlotte, under Gen. D. H. Hill. and afterward at Stewart's college, Clarksville, Tenn., , where he was at the beginning of the war. He immediately left college and returned home. In the fall of 1861 he joined the Twenty-seventh Alabama infantry as a private soldier. He was promoted to first lieu- tenant at Fort Donelson, and upon the re-organization of the company he was elected captain. He was captured at Fort Donelson and held pris- oner of war seven months, two months at Camp Chase and five at John- son's Island. He was wounded at New Hope Church. Ga., in May. 1864, and was in the hospital six months. He surrendered at Jackson, Miss., September 16. 1865. After the war he returned to Florence, and then spent about twelve months in merchandising in Greene county. In 1872 he returned to Florence and engaged in the insurance business until 1878, and in February of that year, he was appointed register in chancery by the Hon. H. C. Speake. and since then he has been twice appointed by the Hon. Tobias Cobbs. and is now serving his third term. Capt. Andrews was elected mayor of Florence in December. 1559. for one year. and he has since been twice re-elected. He served two years as United States commissioner, and then resigned. He is a master Mason, is a member of the grand lodge of the K. P., and has filled the chairs of sub- ordinate lodges.
JOHN THOMAS ASHCRAFT, a prominent member of the Lauderdale county bar. was born in Clay county. October 15. 1859. He is the son of Andrew J. and Eleanor E. (Wiley) Ashcraft. His father was born in Jackson county, Ga .. December 1-, 1839. John, the grandfather of A. J., came from England and settled in Anson county. N. C .. where his father. Thomas, was born August 6. 1786. The mother of A. J. was the daugh- ter of Ephriam Able. a Baptist minister of Culpeper county. Va. Mrs. Eleanor E. Ashcraft. the daughter of John Wiley, was born in St. Clair county. Ala., September 21, 1839. John Wiley's father was Thomas, his grandfather was an Englishman, his mother was Tabitha Noel, the daughi- ter of a Scotchman. Thomas and Tabitha were married in North Caro- lina, where John was born in 1509. Thomas was in the Indian war, and was lying sick in Talladega when the battle of Jackson's Ford took place.
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Near the site of this battle John soon afterward settled. John Wiley married Susan, the daughter of Thomas Fairris, who came from the Emerald Isle and settled in Edgefield. S. C., where Susan was born Aug- ust 20, 1812. John Wiley, his father and mother, were Presbyterians, his wife a Methodist. Andrew J. Ashcraft came with his parents to Talla- dega county, Ala. (afterward changed to Clay), when a boy, where he he lived till he moved to Whitesboro. Tex., in February, 1889. He is a farmer and machinist. He volunteered and was enrolled in the Fourteenth Alabama. company I. Contederate States army. in March, 1862, and sur- rendered with Lee. being then chief steward in the receiving and forward- ing hospital. He and his wife are the parents of eleven children, eight of whom are living. John Thomas Ashcraft is the eldest. His boyhood was spent on his father's farm and in the schools of the community. At the age of seventeen he entered the Lineville high school, remaining two years. The next two years were spent at the Agricultural and Mechani- cal college, Auburn, Ala., graduating in 1550 with the degree of bach- elor of engineering. He was then co-principal of the Newton, Dale county, high school, till the summer of 1882, when he went to Pike connty as co-principal of the Brundidge high school, remaining there three years. In 1855 he accepted the chair of natural science and applied mathematics in Savoy college, Texas. Was principal of the Bells, Tex .. high school the next year, and returned to Clay county, Ala., in the sum- mer of 1887. Was principal of the Lowndesboro, Ala,. institute, 1888 -- 89. His vacations were spent in driving through the country, stimulating young men and women to seek: an education. Many came to his schools, and he has enjoyed the pleasure of seeing a good proportion press on through the college and university to honorable positions in the profes- sions and other walks of life. In July. 1589, he moved to Florence, Ala., and was admitted to the practice of law on the 19th of September. Here he has since practiced his profession with success. He is a member of the order of I. O. G. T., an active Baptist and an ardent democrat. On December 21. 1556, he married Anna A .. daughter of Dr. G. Hendrick, a prominent physician of Brundidge, Ala. She is a graduate of Judson institute, Marion, Ala .- class 1883. After returning from the war, it was his father's peculiar pleasure to gather the neighboring children around his fireside on the long winter evenings and encourage them to the study of their books. which had been neglected for four years. To a desire for knowledge there kindled does the subject of this sketch attribute his past achievements and present position in life.
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