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JAQUES LOEB, the well known merchant of Montgomery, Ala., was born in Alsace, France, March 31, 1855. He came to America soon after the Franco-Prussian war, in 1872. when Alsace Lorraine had been wrested from France, and popular sentiment in those provinces was so averse to being Germanized, that thousands of young men left the land of their birth, and emigrated to France, and to America, to avoid enlistment in the German army. He settled in Montgomery soon after his arrival, went into the grocery and dry goods business, in which he is still engaged, the firm name now being Winter & Loeb. Mr. Loeb is also a director in the Far- ley National bank, is a member of the Knights of Pythias, B'nai B'rith. president of the Young Men's Hebrew Association, since 1889; member of the Masonic fraternity, and is socially very popular. He is of high standing in the community, and in the commercial world, for ability, integrity, and progressiveness, and possesses superior talents and edu- cation. He takes a leading part in the community in everything tending to moral and intellectual advancement. He has twice visitid Europe, since 1872. In 1880, during the first of those visits, when the Hon. Andrew White was minister of the United States at Berlin, and the Hon. William M. Evarts was secretary of state at Washington. Mr. Loeb became the subject of international correspondence, as the German authorities placed him under arrest, and threatened to forcibly enlist him in their army. Only the efficient and timely interference of the U. S. legation at Berlin, in his behalf, made his peaceable return to the home of his choice possible. Mr. Loeb had become naturalized as an American citizen, as soon after his arrival in Montgomery as the laws per- mitted. Mr. Loeb has been a member of the state militia of Alabama, serving for several years, under Capt. John G. Winter, and Capt. Garland, of the Montgomery True Blues. He was married, in 1885, to Selena Weil, daughter of the late Hon. Henry Weil, of Montgomery, Ala., and is now the father of three children, named as follows: Lucien and Cecil, twins, and Blanche. Mr. Loeb's father was born in Alsatia. in 1812. He was a merchant up to 1882, when he retired. His name is Gabriel. He mar- ' ried Caroline Borach. a native of Alsatia, and to them were born ten children, of whom eight are now living: Melanie, wife of A. Baer, liv- ing in Alsatia; Raphael, also of Alsatia; Emily, wife of I. Winter, of Montgomery. Ala. ; Michael. of the Loeb Carriage company, Montgomery; Jaques, of Montgomery; Ben Loeb, of Loeb & Loeb, Montgomery; Flo- rine, wife of Leon Loeb, of Loeb & Loeb,'Montgomery, and Isadore Loeb, of Alsatia. The mother of this family died in 1886. His father has three brothers living, whose respective ages are seventy-nine, eighty- four and eighty-nine.
TENNENT LOMAX, solicitor for the county of Montgomery, was born in Montgomery, Ala., April 29, 1858, and educated at the university of Alabama, graduating in the academic department in 1878, and in the law . department in 1879. He was admitted to the bar in July, 1879, and at
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once commenced to practice law in Montgomery, forming a partnership in 1888 with J. R. Tyson, which continued until the latter was elected circuit judge in August, 1892. Mr. Lomax was assistant solicitor of the Montgomery district from 1880 to 1886, when Montgomery county was made a separate district, and Mr. Lomax was, in 1886, elected solicitor for said county for six years, and re-elected in 1892. In 1888 he was a delegate to the national democratic convention and was secretary of the democratic state committee from 1878 to 1888. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, I. O. R. M. and the Elks. Tennent Lomax, father of the gentleman whose name heads this sketch, was born in Abbeville, S. C., in 1820, and moved when a young man to Alabama, settling in Eufaula, and in 1846 entered the service of the United States government in the Mexican war, raising a company of which he was made captain. He served through that war and afterward located in Columbus, Ga., where he edited the Times for about ten years. He was state printer in Georgia for several years, and was president of the convention that nomi- nated Gov. Brown. In 1857 he moved to Montgomery, Ala., and engaged in planting until the war broke out, when he raised the second regiment of Alabama troops, being made colonel of the regiment, which by order of Gov. Moore, of Alabama, was sent to Florida, and took possession of the fort and navy yard at Pensacola, Fla. Not being allowed to take Fort Pickens by assault, he asked for the recall of his regiment, and his regiment was disbanded on its return to Montgomery, and Col. Lomax was then-made lieutenant-colonel of the Third Alabama regiment, which was then organized, and was stationed at Norfolk about seven months, when his colonel, J. M. Withers, was promoted to brigadier-general and Lieut .- Col. Lomax was made colonel, and served as such until he was killed at the battle of Seven Pines, June 1, 1862. Just a few days prior to this battle he had received his commission as brigadier-general, but preferred to remain with his regiment until the latter had been in at least one battle. Gen. Lomax was married twice, first, in 1851, to Miss Sophy Shorter, daughter of Gen. R. C. Shorter, of Eufaula, Ala., and sister of Gov. John G. Shorter. His second wife was Mrs. Carrie A. Shorter, née Billingslea, of Georgia. There were no children by the first wife, but to the second there were born two children, Tennent, and a sister who died in infancy. William Lomax, grandfather of Tennent Lomax, was born in South Carolina. He was a lawyer, and was a mem- ber of the legislature of his native state. The maternal great-great-grand- father of Mr. Lomax was named Slatter, and was a soldier in the Revo- utionary army. The Lomax family were of English - stock, and the Tennents Irish Presbyterians, one of them being the founder of the famous Log college at Neshaminy, Penn. The Shorter family came from England.
JUDGE THOMAS NICHOLAS MCCLELLAN, associate justice of the supreme court of Alabama, son of Thomas Joyce and Martha F. (Beatty)
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McClellan, whose ancestry respectively were Scotch-Irish and Irish, was born Feburary 23, 1853, in Limestone county, Ala. ; educated at Oak Hill college and Cumberland university, Tennessee, graduated from the law department of the latter institution with the degree of bachelor of law, at the age of nineeten, and immediately entered upon the practice of law in co-partnership with his brother, Hon. Robert A. Mcclellan, at Athens, Ala .; was register in chancery from 1874 to 1878; member of the Ala- bama senate, representing the first district, composed of the counties of Lauderdale and Limestone, from 1880 to 1884, re-elected in 1888, and on March 6th, 1889, while filling a civil term in the office of the attorney- general, was appointed associate justice of the supreme court, by Gov. Thomas Seay, to fill a vacancy resulting from a statutory increase of the membership of the court from three to four, the term expiring Decem- ber 1st, 1892. Judge Mcclellan's career as attorney-general for the state of Alabama, established his ability and soundness as a lawyer, placing him in the front ranks of the bar. His argument before the United States superme court in the case of Smith vs. The State of Alabama, 124 U. S., 465, involving interesting questions of inter-state common law, was a specimen of forensic logic and of constitutional research, which was complimented in high terms by many of the members of that tribu- nal. The judicial opinions are marked by industrious investigations, strength of style, and soundness of judgment, and every year adds to his increasing reputation and renown on the bench.
DR. GEORGE W. MCDADE, one of the oldest and most popular of the physicians of Montgomery, was born at Mount Meigs, Montgomery county, Ala., January 4, 1835, and was educated in the Montgomery county schools, at Brockwell's academy, at Alexandria, Va., and then at the Georgia military institute, graduating at the latter in 1856. Then he went to New Orleans and studied medicine at the university of Louisi- ana, graduating early in 1861, and in the spring of the same year went into the Confederate service as assistant surgeon of the Fifth Louisiana battalion, afterward known as the Twenty-first Louisiana regiment, and served until 1862, and then was made surgeon of the same regiment and accompanied it to Columbus, Ky., Island No. 10, and Corinth, Miss .; at the latter place he was transferred to the hospital service and located in Montgomery, in what was known as the general hospital, where he served about two years, and then was given charge of the hospital at Kingston, Ga. He had charge of that hospital until the retreat to Atlanta, and thence to Barnesville, and Opelika, and at Opelika, Ala., he was transferred again to Montgomery, Ala., where he took charge of the Stonewall hospital, and remained in charge until the war closed. After the war he returned to Mount Meigs, and practiced medicine a year, and then went to Brazil, where he practiced two years, and then came back to Mount Meigs for a year; in 1872 he went to La Grange, Tex., where he practiced about five years, and then came to Montgomery, Ala.,
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where he has practiced with wonderful success ever since. The doctor was married, in 1862, to Mary E. Micou, daughter of Henry O. Micou, of Georgia, and to them were born four children, one daughter and three sons. William McDade, father of the doctor, was born in Georgia. He was a farmer, and married Anabella Turner, who bore him eight children, of whom the doctor is the youngest. The doctor was but one year old when he lost his father, and but two years old when his mother died, and yet, notwithstanding his lack of early parental care, he has risen to his present high estate.
WILLIAM EDWARD MCGEHEE was born at White Sulphur Springs, Ga., where his parents were spending the summer in August, 1844, and received his education at his parents' home in Montgomery county, Ala. Leaving school at the age of eighteen, on account of ill health, he remained on his father's plantation in Montgomery county, Ala., until' 1863, when he entered the Confederate service under Gen. Clanton, but was soon discharged on account of his physical condition, and returned to his father's farm, and after the war took charge of the farm, from 1865 to 1880, and then moved to Montgomery, Ala., and went into the grocery business. He is a member of the board of revenue of Mont- gomery county, Ala., and has been since 1889. He was also elected mag- istrate in Montgomery county, and served six months and then resigned. He belongs to the National Union, Masons, and to the Methodist Episco- pal church. His marriage took place, in 1867, to Mary C. Boyd, daughter of Dr. J. C. Boyd, of Macon county, Ala., and to them have been born ten children, as follows: Lizzie, Addie, Mattie, Mildred S., Talulah, James H., William B., Charles A., Gordon O., and Alice T. Abner McGehee, father of W. E., was born in Alabama. He was a farmer all his life, and died in 1848. He married Elizabeth A. Smith, and to them were born two children, of whom William E. is the only survivor. Mrs. Elizabeth A. McGehee died in 1849.
MOSES MCLEMORE, a prominent planter of Montgomery county, was born in this county in 1857. He is a son of Andrew J. and Sarah C. (Smith) McLemore, the former a native of Jones county, Ga., the latter of Orangeburgh district, S. C. Andrew J. McLemore came with his par- ents to Alabama about 1820, received a common school education, and married Margaret Caffey, who died, leaving three daughters. In 1854 Mr. McLemore married again, and spent the rest of his life in the vicin- ity of Moses MeLemore's present home. He owned a fine plantation, and negroes, was never in public life nor performed any military service. He was well read and had a large fund of information. He was for many years a member of the Missionary Baptist church, and died in 1870, aged fifty-five. His father was the Rev. James McLemore, a Missionary Bap- tist minister, who came from Georgia to Alabama about 1820, and fol- lowed the ministry in this state for many years. He is said to have built the first church in Montgomery county. He was a Virginian by birth,
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and died before Moses MeLemore was born, greatly loved by his people. His wife survived him a number of years. She was an energetic woman, and attended the plantation affairs very successfully. They raised a large family of sons and daughters. only two of the daughters now sur- viving. The mother of Moses Mclemore is still living. She is a daughter of Jacob and Mary Smith, natives of South Carolina, where they lived all their lives. Mrs. McLemore came to Alabama with an uncle, Daniel Rast, who settled in Lowndes. She is the mother of four children, viz .: Mary, Moses, Laura A. and Sterling Price. Moses was educated at the county schools and at Montgomery, and at the age of seventeen began life for himself as a farmer. He married, in 1890, Annie Benom Tanner, daughter of L. H. and Ophelia A. Tanner, who came from Georgia to Alabama. Mr. Tanner died at Union Springs, and Mrs. Tanner is still living. Mrs. McLemore was born in Tuskegee, Ala. Mr. McLemore is one of the leading farmers of the county, owning 2,900 acres of fine farming land. He has followed farming all his life, and for some years he also carried on merchandising, and ran a cotton gin. When he started in life he had but a few hundred dollars, inherited from his father's estate; now he is worth many thousands of dollars, all of which, with the exception just mentioned, he has acquired by his own industry and economy.
HON. JAMES R. MCLENDON, living near Naftel. Montgomery county, Ala., was born in Pike county, Ala., in 1828. He is a son of elder George Granberry and Martha (Martin) Mclendon, the former of whom was born in Morgan county, Ga., in 1807, and the latter near Augusta, Ga., in 1806. In 1818 G. G. Mclendon came to Alabama with his parents, and was reared among the Indians, receiving but a very limited educa- tion, attending school in Pike county, three months after his marriage, which was of more benefit to him than all his previous schooling. He was married in Pike county, January 15, 1828, having lived there since 1824, and having lived for some years previously to 1824 in Conecuh county. For some years after his marriage he followed farming, and in 1832 he united with the Missionary Baptist church, and his mind was so absorbed in religious matters that he decided to enter the ministry. He then devoted himself closely to reading and study, and became a pro- found Biblical scholar. In July, 1840, he was regularly ordained as a minister of the gospel, and had his first charge at Aberfoil, in what is now Bullock county. He was a member of and one of the organizers of Salem Baptist association, and he is believed to be the only surviving member of that association. About 1844 that association sent him on a mission into southern Alabama and Florida, and he served there several years. He was then universally known throughout southern Alabama and western Florida. He has been in active church work for over fifty years, and is one of the best theologians in the state. While firm in his own convictions, yet he is tolerant of the opinions of others He is one
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of the great pulpit orators, and has discussed scriptural, doctrines from his standpoint with some of the ablest divines of other denominations, and he is frequently consulted on theological questions by other divines. He has been a Mason since 1851, and has advanced to the royal arch degree. He was a member of a large family born to Josiah Mclendon, who was probably a Georgian by birth, who was of Scotch ancestry, came to Alabama in 1818, and lived in Conecuh county until 1824, when he removed to where Brundidge, Pike county, now stands. He afterward went on a visit to Georgia, and died there. Mrs. Martha Mclendon, wife of G. G. Mclendon, was a daughter of John Martin, who was a native of Maryland, but removed from Georgia to Alabama about 1818, settling near Horse Shoe Bend on the Tallapoosa river. He afterward moved to Butler county, and still later to Pike county, near Brundidge, and there died. He was a farmer all his life, and reared a large family of children, all of whom are dead. Mrs. McLendon died in 1887. Hon. James R. Mclendon is the eldest of a family of six sons and four daughters, those besides himself being: Jonathan D., who was in Wheeler's cavalry during the war, and whose memoir appears elsewhere in this work; Josiah J., who was in the war a short time and in many battles; Jasper G., who was wounded at Shiloh, captured and never afterward heard of; Joseph F., who was killed at Shiloh; Judson, who was killed in 1891 on the Louisville & Nashville railroad near Mont- gomery; Jane E. and Julia, both died in infancy; Julia Ann, deceased wife of George Edge, and Josephine, deceased wife of J. M. Tolbert. Mr. McLendon was reared on a farm, received a good English education, and after attaining his majority he attended the military school at Tuskegee. He then became a school teacher, and has followed that profession more or less ever since. He was married in Montgomery county in November, 1856, to Mary J., daughter of Dr. J. C. and Caroline Courtney, natives, respectively, of South Carolina and Montgomery county, Ala. Dr. Court- ney was a physician in early life, but in later life he was a farmer ard nurseryman. He died in Chilton county in 1889. Mrs. McLendon was born and reared in Montgomery county, and is the mother of thirteen children. In August, 1862, Mr. Mclendon joined the Partisan Rangers, company H, Fifty-first Alabama mounted infantry, under Col. (now Senator) John T. Morgan, fought at Murfreesboro, was sick during the battles around Chattanooga, participated in the Georgia campaign from Dalton to Atlanta, and lost his left hand on July 28, 1864. He was at first taken to Thomasville hospital, but soon afterward furloughed home, and remained sixty days. He was then made superintendent of the hos- pital garden at Meridian, Miss., where he remained until the close of the war. For a short time he resided in Butler county, and taught school, but since 1865 he has been a resident of Montgomery county. He owns 180 acres of land, and has been very much devoted to farming, and his crops are so varied that he is universally known as the "diversified
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farmer." He has been so successful as a farmer that he has many times taken the first premiums at the state fair for the best individual display. He is a frequent contributor to various periodicals, and some of his arti- cles have attracted wide attention, particularly one on "Music on the Farm." In 1888 and 1889 he served his county in the legislature of the state, with credit to himself and satisfaction to his constituents. He was a member of the committees of education and on temperance. He was formerly a lecturer for the Montgomery county Alliance, and was one of its most worthy members; but when the Alliance entered into politics, he withdrew from it his countenance and support, having become interested in the movement because he expected it would be devoted to the education of the farmers. Both he and his wife are members of the Missionary Baptist church. and are highly esteemed members of society.
JOSEPH MANEGOLD, the chief confectioner of Montgomery, was born in Westphalia, Germany, April 8th, 1851, and came to America with his parents in 1852. They settled in Quincy, Ill., where Joseph was educated. Leaving school at the age of twelve, he was apprenticed to the baker's and confectioner's trade and then, in 1872, settled in Montgomery, where he remained until March, 1879, working at his trade and then went to Ohio. In the fall of 1874 he returned to Montgomery, and started in the candy business, which he has carried on ever since, now doing a wholesale and retail business. He was married, in 1885, to Frances B. Sutter, daughter of Jacob Sutter, of Montgomery, and to them has been born one daughter, Frances Estelle Manegold. John Manegold, father of Joseph, was born in Westphalia, Germany, was in the Prussian army in the Revolution of 1848, and came to America in 1852 and settled in Quincy, Ill., as above stated, where he lived until 1870, and then went to Kansas City, then to Cincinnati, O., and then, in 1884, came to Montgomery, Ala. He also is a baker. He married Clementina Kneckenberg, and has born to him four children, as follows: Joseph, John, Frances, wife of Oliver Hoenie, of Warrior, Ala., and George. His wife died in 1868.
GEORGE M. MARKS, one of the legal lights of Montgomery, Ala., was born in Montgomery county, June 28, 1853, and educated at Green Springs, Ala., Bellevue high school, Bedford county, Va., the university of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, and the Virginia Military institute, grad- uating from the latter in 1874; he then spent two years in a law course at the university of Virginia, finishing there in 1876. He commenced to practice law at Atlanta, Ga., remaining about a year, and then came to Montgomery, Ala., forming a partnership with Benjamin Fitzpatrick, which lasted about three years, when Fitzpatrick moved to Elmore county, Ala., and Mr. Marks, in 1884, formed a partnership with Lester C. Smith and Gordon McDonald, which lasted a year, and in October, 1886, Mr. Marks formed a partnership with P. C. Massie, which still continues. Mr. Marks was married, in 1878, to Hettie Lockett, daughter of Napoleon Lockett, of Perry county, Ala. The father of George M. Marks was
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Samuel B. Marks, and his mother was Mary L. Crain. Samuel B. Marks was a native of Georgia, born in 1816, and died in 1869. He was a colonel on Gen. Wither's staff during the war of 1861-5, starting in as a major of the Thirteenth Alabama. The maternal great-great-grandfather of George M. M. Marks was George Mathews, a general in the Revolutionary war, and afterward governor of Georgia, and United States senator from the same state. Mr. Marks is one of the most reliable advising attorneys in the city of Montgomery.
SAMUEL BLACKBURN MARKS, planter and capitalist, was born in Montgomery county, Ala., April 7, 1844, and received his education in the schools of Montgomery, Ala., and at Tuscaloosa, at the university of Alabama, leaving the latter to enter the Confederate service in the spring of 1863, when he enlisted in company A, Seventh Alabama cavalry, com- manded by Col. Joseph Hodson, and served all through the war as a private. He took part in many cavalry skirmishes, and was wounded at Lowndes- boro, Ala., during Wilson's (Federal) raid. After the war he went to planting in Montgomery county on land owned by his father, and devoted his time to that for two years, and since then he has devoted his time to his other business interests. He is interested in the Jasper Coal and Coke company, in Walker county, Ala., and is a stockholder in the First National bank and the Merchants' and Planters' bank in Mont- gomery, Ala. He was married, first. in 1868 to Martha Means, daughter of Robert Means, of Pointe Coupee parish, La., and to them was born one child, Hugh Means Marks, who died in 1874. Mrs. Martha Marks died shortly after, and Mr. Marks married, in 1879, Laura L. James, daughter of Lorenzo James, of Clarke county, Ala., and to them have been born three children, as follows: Ellen Scott, Charles Lewis and Henry Churchill Marks. William. Meriwether Marks, father of Samuel Black- burn Marks, was born in Oglethorpe county, Ga., in 1806, and moved to Alabama in 1820, with his parents, locating in Montgomery county, where he lived until his death in 1876. He was married, first, to a Miss Olive, and by her he had one daughter, Ann. now widow of William Matthews, and living at Tuscaloosa, Ala. The second marriage of William Meriwether Marks was in 1830, to Catherine Crain, daughter of Spencer Crain, of North Carolina, and to them have been born seven children, of whom six lived to maturity, as follows: James, deceased; Mary L., widow of Dr. J. M. Williams, of Montgomery county, Ala. ; Spencer C., of Montgom- ery; Rebecca, deceased, unmarried; Samuel B., of Montgomery and Eliz- abeth T., widow of Walter L. Bragg, of Montgomery. Nicholas Meri- wether Marks, grandfather of Samnel B., was born in Albemarle county, Va., and moved to Oglethorpe county, Ga., and about 1820, came to Ala- bama, where he died.
SPENCER CRAIN MARKS, cotton commission merchant, was born in Montgomery county, Ala., March 7, 1840, and -educated in the schools of Montgomery county and Greene county, Ala., finishing at the university
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