ALSTON,
LEMUEL JAMES, a Representative from South Carolina; born in the eastern
part of Granville (now Warren) County, N.C., in 1760; moved to South
Carolina after the Revolutionary War and settled near Greens Mill, which
soon became the town of Greenville; studied law; was admitted to the bar
and commenced practice in Greenville; member of the State house of
representatives, 1789-1790; elected as a Republican to the Tenth and
Eleventh Congresses (March 4, 1807-March 3, 1811); moved in 1816 to
Clarke County, Ala., and settled near Grove Hill, where he presided over
the orphans’ court and the county court from November 1816 until May
1821; died at “Alston Place,” Clarke County, Ala., in
1836.
Source:
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present;
transcribed by A. Newell.
BLOUNT, WILLIAM
ALEXANDER, lawyer,
state senator, was born Oct. 25, 1851, in Clarke County, Ala. He was
educated in the public schools of St. Louis, Mo.; in 1872 he graduated
from the University of Georgia with first honors; in the following year
graduated from the law department of that institution; and has received
the degrees of A.B., LL.B. and LL.D. In 1873 he began the practice of
law in Pensacola, Fla.; and in 188494 was city attorney. In 1885 he was
a member of the constitutional convention of Florida; and in 1892 was
chairman of the revision committee of the Florida statutes. In 1893 he
declined the appointment to the Supreme Court of Florida; and in 1902 he
served as a member of the Florida state senate. In 1900-04 he was
president of the Pensacola chamber of commerce.
Source: Herringshaw's National Library
of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the
Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by
William Herringshaw, 1909 Transcribed by Therman
Kellar
LEWIS, AARON, soldier of the American
Revolution, aged 75, and a resident of Clarke County; private S. C.
Continental Line; enrolled on April 20, 1833, under act of Congress of
June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance,
$53.33; sums received to date of publication of list, $160. —
Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st
sess., 1833-34. He resided in Pike County, June 1, 1840, aged 80.—
Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.
Source: History of
Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen,
Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company,
1921; Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer
LEWIS,
AXIOM, soldier of the American
Revolution, aged 75, resided in Clarke County, June 1, 1840, with
William R. Hamilton.— Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.
Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography,
By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J.
Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer
