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terms. those of 1859-60, and 1861-62. He was a member of the old city board, and was its chairman. He was also one of the commissioners appointed by the governor to adjust the city debt. In 1855 he was elected president of the Mobile Savings bank, which position he still holds. and he has for the past fifteen years been president of the Stonewall Fire Insurance company. Col. Hearin was married in 1847 to Susannah Glid- don, daughter of John S. Gliddon of Mobile, by whom he has had four children, two of his sons being in business with him.
JAMES M. HENDERSON, real estate dealer in Mobile, was born Decem- ber 10, 1843, in Warren county, Miss. He received his early education in his native county. Leaving school at the age of seventeen, he entered the Confederate service as a private soldier, enlisting in company K, First Mississippi artillery, and serving therein until April 9, 1865, when he was captured at Blakely, Ala. During the time of his service in the Confederate army he participated in several of the important battles of the war. He was in the battle at Vicksburg, in 1862. when the Confederate ram, Arkansas, passed through the Federal fleet from the mouth of the Yazoo to the city: at Port Hudson, in 1863; Atlanta, 1864; Blakely. 1865, beside others of minor importance. After the war was over he devoted himself to farming in Warren county, Miss., until 1867. He then went to Kansas City, and remained there one and a half years. He was then two years in southwest Missouri, engaged in the grocery business. In October, 1874, he removed to Mobile, and became a clerk for three years, and afterward bookkeeper for eight years, for Oates & Botter, grain deal- ers. He then went into the real estate business for himself, and has been thus engaged ever since. He was married, in July, 1873, to Miss Eugenia C. Haig. daughter of George Haig. a native of South Carolina, by whom he has two children, Bessie and. Robert M.
JAMES J. HENDON, M. D., physician and surgeon of Mobile, was born in Carroll county, Ga., November 13, 1853. His father was James H. Hendon, a native of Georgia, and a farmer by occupation. His father was Elijah Hendon. The mother of J. J. Hendon was Diademah Smith, a native of Georgia, and her father was Gabriel Smith. Both parents of Dr. Hendon are now living in St. Clair county, Ala. He took a high school education, and in 1876 began the business of life as a school teacher, teaching and attending school alternately for several years. In 1881 he took up the study of medicine under the instructions of Dr. D. E. Cason, of Ashville, Ala. He took a full course of medicine at the Med- ical college of Alabama, and gradauted in 1886. He at once began the practice of medicine in Mobile, where he has since remained, and where he is in possession of a lucrative practice. He is a member of the Mobile county Medical society and the Alabama state Medical associa- tion. He is a member of the democratic party, and the Methodist Epis- copal church, south. He is an Odd Fellow, and a member of the Knights . and Ladies of Honor, and of the Legal Friendship. He was married
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October 14, 1885, to Miss Laura A. Moore, of Mobile, by whom " he has. two children. both daughters. Dr. Hendon is the proprietor of a drug store which he conducts in connection with his practice, which is very extensive.
WILLIAM H. HOLCOMBE, sheriff of Mobile county, was born in that county, July 19, 1854. His father was Albert D. Holcombe, a native of Georgia, who died in 1863. He was the son of Henry B. Holcombe, a native of Virginia. William H. Holcombe's mother was Claudine Gosson, a native of Mobile county. She is still living. Her father, John Gosson, was a native of Louisiana, and of French descent. William H. Holcombe was educated in the private and public schools of Mobile county. Throughout his youth he was variously employed, selling wood, clerking. working at railroad construction, and in fact anything that he could find to do. In 1880 he was appointed deputy sheriff by Peter Burke, then sheriff 'of Mobile county. and held that office two years. He was then appointed a member of the board of county commissioners by Governor O'Neal, and served out an unexpired term. which lasted about three years. He was then appointed in 1885 by Willis G. Clark chief inspector of customs for the port of Mobile, and served under Mr. Clark, who was then collector of the port. While still acting in this capacity in 1833 Mr. Holcombe was elected sheriff of Mobile county, and he still retains the office. His term expires in 1892. In politics he is a democrat, and has never scratched a ticket. He is a farmer and gardner by occupation, and his home is still on the old Holcombe homestead, three and a half miles from Mobile. He served as a member of the democratic executive committee of Mobile county for a number of years, and has twice been a delegate to the state conventions of his party. He is a Knight of Pythias, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Honor and a member of the Ancient Order of United Work men. He was married June 17, 1575, to Miss Shannon Luker, of Mobile, by whom he has one daughter.
CHARLES LOWNDES HUGER. one of Mobile's prominent citizens, and president of the Mobile Cotton exchange, and of the Mobile Cotton Com- press association, was born at Spring Hill, a suburb of Mobile, April 27, 1844. He is a son of John Middleton and Elizabeth Allen (Deas) Huger, the former of whom was a native of South Carolina, and the latter of whom was the daughter of James Sutherland Deas of South Carolina.
Charles L. Huger was educated principally at the university of Louisiana, now the Tulane university, in New Orleans. He also attended one of the French schools of that city. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army. as a member of the Crescent rifles, and subsequently he became adjutant of the First Louisiana infantry. In 1865 he was appointed ordnance officer on the staff of B. M. Thomas, with the rank of major. In April, 1865. he was taken prisoner at Blakely, opposite Mobile, and for about two months he was held a prisoner at Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island. At 33*
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the close of the war, Maj. Huger located at Mobile, and engaged in the business of compressing cotton. and he has ever since been thus engaged. He is a member of the Manassas and Athelstan clubs and of numerous other organizations and societies. He was married, in 1-65. to Miss Ruth Dargan, daughter of the late Judge E. S. Dargan, who was a member of the Alabama supreme court, and who also represented his state in both- the Federal and Confederate congresses. To his marriage with Miss Dargan. Col. Huger has had four children, ali of whom survive.
DANIEL ELLIOTT HUGER, a prominent citizen and cotton merchant of Mobile, was born in Camden, S. C., November 30, 1836. He is the son of John Middleton and Elizabeth Allen (Deası Huger, the former of whom was a native of South Carolina. and was the son of Judge Daniel Elliott Huger, who was born in Charleston, S. C., and was the son of Gen. Isaac Huger, an officer in the Revolutionary war, and of Huguenot ances- try. The mother of Mr. Huger was the daughter of James Sutherland Deas, of South Carolina. About 1840, John M. Huger moved his family to St. Mary's parish, La., where he engaged in sugar planting until about the beginning of the war. He then removed to New Orleans. About 1884, he removed to New York city, where he now resides. His wife died in 1890. They were the parents of ten children, six of whom still survive. Daniel Elliott Huger was reared in St. Mary's Parish, La., and was educated at Drennon Springs. Ky. About 1856 he came to Ala- bama, locating in Mobile, and engaged in commercial business, in which he continued until the beginning of the war. He became first sergeant of company A, Third Alabama infantry, in 1861. served through the war in the western army, being promoted to position after position, until he reached the rank of colonel of the Sixty-second regiment. After the close of hostilities, Colonel Huger returned to Mobile and re-engaged in the cotton business. in which he has ever since continued., He is a mem- ber of the Mobile county Exchange, and was one of its organizers. He has been its president three different times. Colonel Huger was married, in 1861, to Miss Hattie Brevard Withers, daughter of that distinguished soldier, Maj .- Gen. Jones M. Withers of the Confederate army. By this marriage Colonel Huger has two daughters.
HARRY T. INGE, M. D., a practicing physician of Mobile, Ala., was born in Greene county, Ala .. September 20, 1561. His father was William B. Inge, a native of Alabama. who died in 1-72. An extended notice of this gentleman may be found in connection with the sketch of Hon. Z. M. P. Inge, elsewhere in this work. Harry T. Inge graduated from the university of Alabama. in 18-1. and at once he entered the medical department of the university of Virginia. and there took his first course in lectures. In the fall of 1852, he entered the medical department of the university of the city of New York. from which he graduated in 1853. He at once began the practice of medicine in Mobile, where he has since continued to follow his profession. In the fall of 1891, he took a
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post-graduate course in the New York Polyclinic institute. He is a mem- ber of the Mobile county Medical society, and the Alabama state Medical association. In 1984, he was elected a counselor of the Alabama state Medical association, and still serves in that capacity. He was elected alternate orator of the State Medical association, in 1>86, and in 1889, he was elected orator of the association. In 1893, he was elected president of the Mobile county Medical society. and president of the quarantine board of Mobile bay. He is physician in charge of the Protestant orphan asylum, a position he has held for seven years. He has con- tributed several articles to medical journals. In politics, he is a demo- crat, and is an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias. a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. and of the Improved Order of Red Men. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. and was married June 27, 1883, to Miss Belle Peterson. of Greensboro, Ala .. by whom he has four sons. In personal appearance. Dr. Inge is a striking figure, being six feet four inches in height. weighing 240 pounds, and is, withal, a well proportioned man.
HON. ZEBULON MONTGOMERY PIKE INGE, attorney-at-law of Mobile, was born in Greene county. Ala .. February 7, 1856. His father was Maj. William B. Inge, a native of North Carolina, and a planter by occupation. He was a graduate of the university of Alabama, and was the first matriculant of that institution. He was a son of Dr. Richard Inge, a native also of North Carolina, a physician by profession. who removed to Alabama the same year in which the state was admitted into the Union. He died in 1873. His father, whose name was also Richard Inge, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and refused to accept a pension, saying that he did not charge his country anything for his serv- ices. This remark brought him into general notoriety. He was a native of England, having come to America with his parents when he was but a child. His wife was Elizabeth Herndon, a native of Alabama, who died in 1564. Her father was Thomas H. Herndon, a native of Vir- ginia, and a merchant by occupation. He was of English ancestry. The Herndon family is numerously represented throughout the several states, and many of them have been prominent citizens. Z. M. P. Inge gradu- ated from the Southern university, at Greensburo, Ala., in 1875, at the age of nineteen years. In the fall of the following year he entered the university of Virginia, and there spent one year in the law department. He was admitted to the bar in October. 1-76, and for one year thereafter continued his law studies in the office of Herndon & Smith, of Mobile, the former being his uncle and the latter his uncle-in-law. In 1577 he entered upon the practice of Jaw in Mobile, where he has since con- tinued and where he is recognized as a prominent and able attorney. He was admitted to the supreme court of the state December 4, 1584, and to the United States court at Mobile January 8, 18-4. He is a member of the state Bar association. In 1955 he was appointed trustee of the
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Mobile city bond holders, which position he still holds. He is local attorney for the Southern Building and Loan association of Huntsville. Ala. Politically he is a democrat, and in 1854 he was elected to the state legislature without opposition, being nominated by the straight-out democrats, and being subsequently indorsed by the independents and by the republicans. He was the only man on the straight ticket that was elected. He resigned the office in the fall of 155, in order that he might be eligible to the appointment of trustees of the city bond holders. While he served in the legislature he was a member of the ways and means committee and the committee on the revision of laws. He has frequently been a delegate to the state conventions of his party, and was for several years secretary of the democratic executive committee of Mobile county. In connection with the trusteeship which he holds, it may be stated that when he was appointed the bonds were quoted under 30 per cent .. while now they are above 90. He has been prominently identified with the mystic societies of Mobile, whose objects are to celebrate Mardi Gras carnival, and he is a member of the Chi Phi college fraternity. He was married December 4, 1878, to Miss Nona Johnston. of Hale county, Ala., and is the father of four children living, two of whom are sons. Mr. Inge was named for his great-uncle, Zebulon Montgomery Pike Inge, a contemporary of Gens. Grant, Early. Jackson, et als., at West Point, who was killed at the battle of Reseca de la Palma in the Mexican war, and who was named for Gen. Zebulon Montgomery Pike of Revolutionary fame, and the discovarer of Pike's Peak, which bears his name.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS KETCHUM, M. D., is one of the most eminent and successful physicians of Alabama. He was born in Augusta, Ga., April 6, 1825. The family of which he is a member is of Welsh ancestry, and first settled in America in New Brunswick. Ralph Ketchum, the father of Dr. Ketchum, was born on Long Island in 1780, and was married in 1807 in the city of New York to Christina Colden Griffiths, a daughter of General Griffiths, an officer in the British army, whose family was related to the Coldens of New York and also to the Cadwalladers of Pennsylvania. He subsequently moved to Georgia and became a cotton merchant in Augusta, where five sons were born to him, all of whom became prominent in southern history. Richard Colden Ketchum was a distinguished Presbyterian minister, and married a daughter of Judge A. B. Longstreet. Maj. William B. Ketchum commanded a battery of artillery in the Confederate service. Charles E. Ketchum became colonel . of the Thirty eighth Alabama infantry. Capt. John R. Ketchum was killed in the battle near Atlanta. The family moved to Mobile in 1835. Dr. George A. Ketchum was educated by private tutors. He was about to enter the sophomore class at Princeton when his father's failure in business compelled him to change his plans, and to accept a position as assistant in the Female academy at Livingston, when he was little more than sixteen years old. He afterward read medicine with Dr. F. A. Ross,
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of Mobile, and was resident medical student in the city hospital for about two years. In 1844-45 he took a course of lectures at the South Carolina Medical college. Thence he went to Philadelphia, where he was an interne for some four months in the Blocksicy Alnshouse. He graduated from the university of Pennsylvania in 1846, and immediately began the practice of his profession in Mobile. His professional success was marked and rapid. In the yellow fever epidemies of 1847 and 1848, he ventured for the first time in the history of medicine to administer large doses of quinine in the early stages of the disease-a practice which afterward became very general in the southern states. In 1848 he was elected physician to the city hospital, and during the same year in con- junction with Dr. J. C. Nott and others established a private infirmary for the accommodation of sick negroes, which became quite a prosperous institu tion, and continued in use until the close of the Civil war. In 1858 he joined with Dr. Nott and others in organizing the Medical college of Alabama. In this institution he was elected professor of theory and practice of medicine, which position be still holds. In 1861, he was one of four delegates sent from Mobile to the convention held in Montgomery, which passed the ordinance of secession. He went as a volunteer surgeon with the first company of state artillery to Pensacola, and was there com- missioned surgeon of the Fifth Alabama infantry, which regiment was soon ordered to Virginia. On his way through Mobile he learned that nearly all the physicians of the city. had joined the army, leaving the people almost destitute of medical aid. At the earnest solicitation of leading citizens he was induced to accept the post of surgeon to the home organization formed for the defense of the city, and this position he con- tinued to hold till the close of the war. He has been at various times, before, during and after the war, a member of the Mobile city council, and in this capacity was one of the deputation, which in 1865 surrendered the city to Gen. Gordon Granger. In 1847, he took part in the organiza- tion of the Medical association of the state of Alabama, and was its first secretary. He took part in the re-organization of the association after the war, in 1868; was its orator in 1870: its president in 1874: and since that date a member of the board of censors and committee of public health. He has been a member of the Mobile Medical seciety, since its organiza- tion; and has been several times its president. He has also been a member of the American public health association and of the American Medical association. In 1871 he was elected president of the Mobile board of health, and has been annually re-elected to that position ever since. In 1873 and in 1874, the board of health was pushed aside by an adverse city administration. The result was that in 1573 Mobile was visited by an epidemic of yellow fever, and in 1574-75, by a sweeping epidemic of small- pox, all due to the inefficiency of the temporary health authorities. In November, 1874. when the people waked up to the conviction that it was in the grasp of an epidemic, they clamored for the restoration to power
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of tlie board of health in which they had confidence, and such energetic steps were taken that the onward march of the pestilence was promptly checked. One of the greatest services Dr. Ketchum has, rendered the people of Mobile has been the result of efforts continued for some twenty years to secure them an abundant supply of pure water. In recognition of his services in this regard there has been erected to him in Bienville square a beautiful bronze fountain, where day and night, the sparkling waters sing the praises of the city's benefactor. For many years Dr. Ketchum has had the largest and most responsible practice in Mobile. His great success is due, at least in part, to his unusually cheerful and hopeful disposition, which encourages the most despondent patient and is certainly a most important element in the treatment of some diseases. His professional knowledge is large and varied. He is a man of quick perception, sound judgment, and great resources in emergencies; kind and obliging in disposition and yet of great firmness and decision of character. Besides his other qualifications he has a thorough understand- ing of the political system under which we live; he has oratorical powers of a high order; and united to this, great personal magnetism; so that if he had chosen politics for the field of his active labors, instead of medicine, it is certain that he would have risen to the highest rank. As it is he has been recognized as a leader of the democratic party for the past twenty-five years. The possession of natural genius and of great persistence of purpose are the two secrets of the great success with which his career has been crowned, Early in his career he married Miss Susan Burton, a member of one of the original Quaker families which came over with William Penn. He has one living child. a daughter. His family is of great social influence in Mobile. The following is a partial list of his published papers : Periodicity of disease, Proceedings of the Medical associa- tion of Alabama, 1851; Valedictory address, Proceedings of the Medical association of Alabama, 1851: Report on the diseases of Mobile, ibidem; Annual oration, Transactions of the Medical association of Alabama, 1870; Annual message, The Sanitary needs of the state, ibidem, 1874.
DR. SAMUEL ECKERT LIGHTCAP, dentist of Mobile. Ala., is a son of Samuel Lightcap, who was born in Montgomery county, Penn., Octo- ber 25, 1816, Samuel Lightcap has always been a machinist and locomo- tive engineer, which pursuits. he followed in Pennsylvania for fully half a century. He is yet hale and hearty, and well preserved, though he is in his seventy-sixth year. He makes his home with his son. The father of Samuel Lightcap was John Lightcap, a native of Pennsylvania, having been born near the city of Philadelphia. He was a farmer, and the son of Jacob Lightcap, an Englishman who came to this country prior to the Revolutionary war. The mother of Samuel Lightcap was Sarah Other. holt, who was born in Pennsylvania, but whose parents were born, reared and married in Germany. Dr. Lightcap's mother was Mary Ann Eckert, who was born in Pottstown. Montgomery county, Penn., February 29,
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1826, and she died in the same place, having resided there all her life, on October 27, 1882. Her father was Jacob Eckert, who was born in Pennsylvania, and who was a son of Andrew Eckert. The Eckert family, as is evident from the name. is of German origin. Dr. Samuel Eckert Lightcap, was born at Pottstown, Penn., October 4, 1860, and was the youngest of nine children, five of whom were sons and four daughters. Two of the sons, and two of the daughters still survive. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native town, and, having determined to fit himself for the dental profession, he entered the Philadelphia Dental college, graduating therefrom in 1853. For several years following this he pursued his profession as a journeyman. traveling quite extensively through the United States and Canada. In 1889, he located permanently, at Mobile, and there engaged in business for himself, since which he has been eminently successful. and is now one of the leading dentists in that city. He has a very large and lucrative practice. He was mar- ried, on September 11, 1888, to Miss Lottie Oldenburg, a native of Ber- lin; but a resident at the time of her marriage, of Milwaukee, Wis.
ELISHA B. LOTT, tax collector of Mobile county, Ala., was born in that county October 16, 1819. His father was Jesse Lott, a native of Georgia, and a farmer by occupation. who settled in Mobile county in 1800, and died in 1843. The mother of E. B. Lott was Levica Williams, a native of Washington county. Ala., and she died about 1875. Mobile county has eeen the home of E. B. Lott all his life, and he has lived in the city of Mobile since November, 1838. He spent his boyhood days on a farm, and received a common school education. He was eighteen years old when he left his parents and moved to Mobile, and at that time his father gave him his choice of going to Mobile or to Kentucky to attend school. He chose to go to Mobile, and after clerking for a couple of years in Mobile he engaged in merchandising for himself, and followed that line of business until 1853. In 1854 he was elected tax collector of Mobile county, and with the exception of the years 1855 and 1856, and three years during the war, he has held the office ever since. He has been elected to the office thirteen times, and if he finishes his present term will have served thirty-seven years. In June, 1849, he made a trip to California, mainly on account of the impaired condition of his health, and returned in 1852, with health fully restored. While in California he gave his attention principally to mining. In 1862 he entered the Confederate service as a member of the Thirty-sixth Alabama infantry, and served until the close of the war. coming out as a first lieutenant. He was wounded in the right hip in the battle of Chickamauga and was in conse quence disabled three months. In politics he is a democrat, and he is a member of, and deacon of. the St. Francis-street Baptist church of Mobile.
*He is a Mason and a member of the Young Men's Christian association. He was married January 20, 1845. to Miss Mary E. Swain. of. Mobile.
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