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| Banks, Robert Webb |
| BANKS, ROBERT WEBB, planter and Condederate soldier, for some time a resident of Alabama, where he was educated in part and where he married, was bom in Columbus, Miss., in 1843; son of Col. Dunston and Lucretia (Webb) Banks, the former one of the earliest residents of Columbus, Miss.; grandson of Ralph and Rachel (Alston) Banks, natives of Virginia and North Carolina, who removed to the Broad River settlement, Elbert County, Ga., and of Thomas and Martha (Dickens) Webb, of North Carolina. Mr. Banks was a cadet in the University of Alabama, 1861-62; in the latter year enlisted as a private in Co. B, 43rd Mississippi infantry regiment; was sergeant major, 37th Mississippi infantry regiment, and later transferred and promoted adjutant, 29th Alabama infantry regiment After the war he engaged in planting; during 1866-90 was a warehouseman; 1870-90 was in newspaper editorial work; 1889-92 collector of internal revenue in President Cleveland's first administration; and receiver of public moneys during his second term. He was lieutenant-colonel of the Third Mississippi volunteer infantry in the Spanish-American war; and was at one time in the employ of the Tennessee planters company at Memphis. Author: "The battle of Franklin," 1908. Married: November 18. 1869, to Alice Clay, daughter of Col. Felix and Sarah Anne (Parrish) Sherrod, of Lawrence County. Children: 1. Sarah Felix, m. Charles David Hill, of Louisville. Ky.; 2. Lucile Webb; 3. Robert Webb; 4. James Oliver; 5. Alice Sherrod. Residence: Columbus. Miss. |
| [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 Veneta McKinney] |
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| Barry, William Sullivan |
| BARRY, William Sullivan, politician, congressman, Confederate soldier: b. Columbus, Miss., Dec. 10, 1821; d. there, Jan. 29, 1868. After graduation at Yale College in 1841 he began the practice of law at Columbus, but in 1847 became a planter. He was a member of the legislature from Oktibbeha county, from 1850 to 1852; removed to Sunflower county in 1852; was elected to Congress in 1853 as a Democrat; and there made a reputation for alertness, penetration, and skill in debate. In his speech on "Civil and Religious Toleration," delivered Dec. 18, 1854, he strongly assailed the Know-Nothing party. He declined reflection, and resumed the practice of law at Columbus; and there was elected to the legislature of 1856 and that of 1858; and was speaker of the house. In 1861 he was a member of the secession convention, and was made president of that body; and was later elected a member of the provisional Confederate congress, but resigned in order to organize a regiment, the Thirty-fifth Mississippi, and became its colonel. He was in the defense of Vicksburg, and was taken prisoner there. Being exchanged, he served Sears' brigade in the Atlanta campaign, commanding the brigade at times. He was wounded at Altoona; and after recovery was again captured at Blakely, Ala., on April 9, 1865. After the surrender he lived in retirement until his death. |
| [Source: THE SOUTH in the Building of the Nation Volumes XI-XII; Edited by James Curtis Ballagh, Walter Lynwood Fleming & Southern Historical Publication Society; Publ. 1909; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.] |
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| Cocke, William |
| Born in Amelia county, Virginia, 1748. Lawyer. Member of Virginia House of Delegates. Officer in Virginia Militia. Removed to the present State of Tennessee. Delegate from Boonesborough to the Transylvania Convention or House of Delegates, 1775. Captain in North Carolina Militia; fought at King's Mountain, 1780. State Attorney of Greene county, 1783. Member of North Carolina Legislature. Member of first and second Franklin Conventions at Jonesboro, 1784. Brigadier-General in Franklin militia, member of Council of State and Secretary of State of Franklin, 1784-1787. Delegate from Franklin to Congress with memorial seeking recognition as a State, 1785. One of Franklin Commissioners to North Carolina to negotiate separation, 1786. Territorial Attorney General from Washington District until 1794. Member of Territorial House of Representatives, 1794-1796. Introduced bill to establish Blount College September 4, 1794. Appointed Charter Trustee of Blount College, 1794. Charter Trustee of Greeneville College, 1794. One of Commissioners to build wagon road from Southwest Point to Cumberland settlements and to manage lottery for same, 1794. Charter Trustee of Washington College, 1795. Delegate from Hawkins county to Constitutional Convention of 1796, and one of Committee that drafted the Constitution. One of first United States Senators from Tennessee, 1796-1797; 1799-1805. Cocke county named after him, 1797. Candidate for Governor, 1807. Judge of First Circuit, 1809-1812. Removed to Mississippi, 1812. Served as Volunteer in war of 1812. Member of Mississippi Legislature. United States Agent for Chickasaw Indians, 1814. Died at Columbus, Mississippi, August 22, 1828. (William Goodrich: The American Historical Magazine, Volume i. Caldwelts Bench and Bar. Goodspeed History.) |
| [Source: University of Tennessee record, Volume 1 By University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1898- Transcribed by AFOFG] |
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| Meek, Alexander Beaufort |
| MEEK, ALEXANDER BEAUFORT, author and lawyer, was born July 17, 1814, in Columbia, S. C, and died November 30, 1865, in Columbus, Miss.; son of Rev. Samuel M. and Anne (McDowell) Meek, both natives of South Carolina, who came to Tuscaloosa from South Carolina, the former of whom was a Methodist minister, a physician and a druggist; grandson of John and Elenor (Mills) Meek; brother of Benjamin Franklin Meek (q. v.). His ancestors on both sides were of Irish descent, and those on his father's side came from County Antrim. He graduated from the University of Alabama, A. B., 1833, and A. M., 1836, and received the honorary degree of A. M. from the University of Georgia, 1844. He was admitted to the bar in 1835, and practiced law in Tuscaloosa. When the troubles with the Creek Indians occurred in 1836, he volunteered as en- sign in the U. S. Army. During that same year, he was appointed attorney general of the State by Gov. Clay to fill a vacancy, and held that position until the following winter. He was editor of the "Flag of the Union," at Tus- caloosa, 1835-1839, and of the "Southron," a literaiy magazine* 1889-1842. In 1842, Gov. Fitzpatrick appointed him Judge of the probate court at Tuscaloosa, and he held that position until 1845. During the latter year he was appointed assistant secretary of the U. S. treasury by President Polk, and became legal adviser of that department. After holding the office about two years, he retired with the commission of federal attorney for the southern district of the State, and was retained in that position until the close of Mr. Polk's term. He was associate editor of the Mobile "Daily Register' 1851-1858; represented Mobile in the Alabama house of representatives, 1853-1855, and as chairman of the committee on education, secured the establishment of a system of free public schools in the State. In 1854, he was appointed Judge of the probate court of Mobile by Gov. Winston, and hold the office until May, 1855; was elector on the Buchanan ticket, 1856; and a representative in the State legislature and speaker in the house, 1859-1861. He was a trustee of the University of Alabama, 1862-1864. He was author of "The Red Eagle," 1855; "Songs and Poetry of the South," 1856; "Romantic Pas- sages in Southwestern History," 1857; and an unfinished "History of Alabama"; and prepared a supplement to Aiken's "Digest of Alabama," in 1842. Married: (1) in 1856, to Mrs. Emma Donaldson Slatter, of Mobile, the widow of Hope Hull Slatter; (2) in 1864, to Mrs. Eliza Jane Cannon, of Columbus, Miss., the widow of William R. Cannon, who was for a long time president of the Mississippi senate. He had no children. Last residence: Columbus, Miss. |
| [History of Alabama and Dictionary of Biography by Thomas McAldory Owen, Published by S. J. Clark Publishing Company 1921. Submitted by Veneta McKinney] |
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| Muldrow, Henry Lowndes |
| MULDROW, Henry Lowndes, representative, was born in Lowndes county, Miss. He was graduated at the University of Mississippi, A.B., 1856, and LL.B. in 1858, was admitted to the bar in 1859 and settled in practice in Starkville. He served in the Confederate army, 1861-65, rising from private to colonel of cavalry. He was district attorney for the sixth judicial district of Mississippi, 1869-71; represented Lowndes county in the state legislature in 1875, and was a Democratic representative from the first Mississippi district in the 45th, 46th and 47th congresses, 1877-85. He was first assistant secretary of the U.S. interior department, 1885-89, a trustee of the University of Mississippi and a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1890. |
| [Source: The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary Of Notable Americans. Vol 3, Publ. 1904. Transcribed By Richard Ramos] |
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| Sims, William Henry |
| SIMS, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, lieutenant governor of Mississippi, was bom July 31, 1837, at Lexington, Oglethorpe County. Ga.. and died February 28, 1920. at Birmingham; son of James Saunders and Amanda Booker (Moore) Sims, who were both of Virginia extraction, the former who was for fifty years a prominent physician of middle Georgia. Mr. Sims received his general education at Meeson Academy, Lexington, Ga., and at the University of Georgia, at Athens, where he was graduated. He studied law In the office of Thomas R. R. Cobb, and at the Harvard Law school, Cambridge, Mass. He removed from Georgia to Columbus, Miss., in 1869. where he became a member of the bar. and was just beginning his practice when the War of Secession broke out. He enlisted in the C. S. Army in the Tombigbee Rangers, with the rank of first orderly sergeant, and soon became second lieutenant of his company, which became a part of an infantry brigade under Gen. Prank Cheatham at Union City, Tenn., and began service as Co. A. Blythels battalion. It was afterwards Co. A. Forty-fourth Mississippi regiment. He participated in the battle of Belmont, Mo., and was promoted to the rank of captain after the battle of Shiloh. His regiment fell back with Bragg's army to Saltlllo, Miss., was transferred to Tennessee, and engaged in the three days fight against Rosecrans at Stone River. He was wounded at Chickamauga, but remained in active service during the four months fighting between Dalton and Atlanta. At the beginning of that campaign, he was detached from regimental duty, and was occupied as Inspector-general of Tucker's brigade, until Hood's flank movement into Tennessee. After the fall of Atlanta, he was put in command of his regiment as lieutenant-coloneL In December, 1864, at the battle of Franklln. Tenn.. while leading his regiment in a night fight, he received a severe wound through the knee Joint, was taken to Columbia, Tenn., to the hospital, and as a result of this wound, the lower part of his left leg was amputated. He was captured by the U. S. army, on the fall of Columbia, and after remaining in the hospital for three months, was imprisoned at Louisville, and under President Andrew Johnson's order that conscious rebels should not be discharged from prison, but should be held for trial for treason, was one of the three last officers released from the prison. He returned to his home at Columbus, Miss., and resumed his law practice; was elected probate Judge of his county. In 1866; but In 1869, was removed from office under the reconstruction military regime, and again practiced law. He formed a partnership with Col. Samuel M. Meek; later Judge Jehu A. Orr joined the firm, and subsequently the firm became merely Orr & Sims. In 1875. Col. Sims was nominated and elected State senator, from the eighteenth dis- trict of Mississippi, composed of Lowndes, Oktibbeha, and Clay Counties, and when John M. Stone, president pro tempore of the senate, succeeded to the governorship, he was made president of the senate, and became as such, acting lieutenant-governor. At the next election in 1878, he was elected lieutenant-governor for a four year term, thus holding this office for six years; and after declining other nominations, returned to Columbus, Miss., in 1882, to practice law. He was offered appointments to positions on the circuit court and supreme court benches of Mississippi, but declined them both. In 1885. he served as both temporary and permanent president of the State Democratic convention; was a delegate from the state at large to the national Democratic convention at St Louis, Mo., 1888, and to the convention at Chicago, in 1892, when he acted as chairman of his delegation; and was first assistant secretary of the Interior during President Cleveland's administration, from 1893-97. In 1898. he removed to Birmingham with his son, Henry Upson Sims, and from then until his death on February 28, 1920, In his eighty-third year, he kept In close touch with his business Interests, which were quite extensive in Birmingham; but he never practiced law in Alabama. In commenting upon his death, the Birmingham Ledger, on February 28. 1920. said: - "Col. Sims was a fine type of the real southern gentleman. He was courteous and kindly. He was one of the best-read men and most cultivated. He had no use for little and mean things and was open In expression of disapproval of anjrthing which deflected from the high standard of southern manhood which he set for himself. "Largely owing to the loss of his foot and the inconvenience of an artificial limb, becoming more cumbersome as he grew older. Col. Sims' life during the past few years had been largely that of a recluse in his handsome home on South Twelfth avenue, but even there he kept In close touch with the outside world and his opinion of big men and events was eagerly sought by the scholarly and cultured. "Governor Sims was a man of scrupulous integrity, whose word was literally as good as his bond. He held honor highest of manly traits and In that respect was unyielding to compromise." Married: August 11, 1870, at Lexington, Ga., to Louisa Upson, daughter of Francis Lewis and Serena (McKinley) Upson; granddaughter of Stephen Upson, one of Georgia's lawyers in the time of Andrew Jackson, who came from Connecticut to Lexington, Ga., about 1808 or 1809, and for whom Upson County, Ga., was named; great-granddaughter of Dr. Francis Davis Cummins, a Presbyterian minister who accompanied Capt Jack from Mecklinburg County, N. C, to Philadelphia, when Capt. Jack was a delegate from the Mecklinburg convention to bear the announcement of the Mecklinburg Declaration of Independence to the Philadelphia convention. Mrs. Sims was the first State regent in Mississippi of the Daughters of the American Revolution in that state, and continued state regent of Mississippi until removing her residence to Birmingham. Mrs. Sims died in Birmingham July 21. 1913. William H. Sims had but one child, Henry Upson Sims (q. v.). Last residence: Birmingham. |
| [Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography by Thomas McAdory Owens - Vol IV. Published by S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. 1921. Submitted by Veneta McKinney] |
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| Stewart, George W |
| Stewart, George W. - M. D. While the professional position and attainments of Doctor Stewart are such as to command respect throughout Kiowa County, where he has lived since the opening of the reservation to settlement, and over the state at large, it is a matter of knowledge to comparatively few how vigorously he contended with difficulties and embarrassments in his early youth to gain what his ambition craved. Doctor Stewart is a Southerner by birth and training, and his early youth was spent in the section of the South ravaged by the Civil war. It was only after reaching his majority that he was able to take up his long deferred plans for gaining an education, and was a farmer, a merchant and teacher before beginning the practice of medicine. His great-grandfather Charles Stewart emigrated from Scotland to Virginia in the closing years of the eighteenth century. From Virginia he moved into Georgia, and thence into Alabama, followed his vocation as a farmer in those various localities, and died in Pickens County, Alabama, but near the city of Columbus, Mississippi. Doctor Stewart's grandfather was John Stewart, who was born in Georgia in 1795, and died in Milam County, Texas, in 1860. He was likewise a farmer, lived in the States of Alabama and Mississippi, and a short time before the war moved to Texas, where he died. Doctor Stewart was born in Itawamba County, Mississippi, September 10, 1856. His father was Wiley S. Stewart, who was born in Pickens County, Alabama, in 1831, and died at Fulton, Mississippi, in 1872. He was a farmer and stock raiser all his active career, and from Pickens County removed to Itawamba County, Mississippi, and was living there when the war came on. He saw four years of service in the Thirty-second Mississippi Regiment of Infantry, was shot through the arm in the Battle of Chickamauga, and returned home from the war a physical wreck, and never fully regained his health. He married Mary A. Cobb, who was born in North Carolina in 1833 and is now living at the venerable age of eighty-two with her son Doctor Stewart at Hobart. There were eight children in the family, a brief record of them being as follows: John A., a farmer at Hobart, Oklahoma; Dr. George W.; Wiley M., a farmer near Hobart; Sidney Jackson, a farmer at Denton, Texas; Mary, who is now living at Gorman, Texas, the widow of T. L. Gates, who was a merchant in Gorman, Texas, and died there; W. P., who is with the Warden Printing Company at Oklahoma City; R. L., a farmer at Sentinel, Oklahoma; and L. F., who is an educator and is vice president of the Panhandle Agricultural School at Goodwell, Oklahoma. As one of the older members of this family and with his youth passed in the time and under the conditions briefly suggested above, Doctor Stewart had a youth of many cares and responsibilities besides those immediately concerned with his individual advancement. His common school education was derived from the schools of Itawamba County, Mississippi, and in 1878, at the age of twenty-two, he graduated from Fulton Academy in that county. For a few years he combined merchandising with farming and was a teacher for six years. In 1888, with such savings as he had managed to accumulate in addition to supporting his own home and family, he entered the Memphis Hospital Medical College at Memphis, Tennessee, and was graduated M. D. in 1890. Doctor Stewart is still a close student of his profession, and in 1908 took a post-graduate course in the Chicago Post Graduate School. His practice began at Fulton, Mississippi, in 1890, and in 1893 he removed to Cause in Milam County, Texas, practiced there until 1896, and practiced in Hill County, Texas, until 1901. In that year he came to Hobart as one of the pioneer physicians to locate in Kiowa County, and has since enjoyed a large general medical and surgical practice. Since Oklahoma entered statehood he has been county superintendent of health of Kiowa County, and is also prominent in medical organizations, having served two years as president of the Kiowa County Medical Society and is now its vice president, and is a member of the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. His offices are in the Jones Building on Fourth Street. Doctor Stewart is a democrat and served three terms on the Hobart City Council. He is a member and president of the board of trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is a charter member of Hobart Lodge No. 198, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, being a past master by service; and is a charter member of Hobart Chapter No. 37, Royal Arch Masons, and is also affiliated with Hobart Camp No. 84, Woodmen of the World. Doctor Stewart in 1883, when a young man still struggling to fit himself for his chosen work back in Mississippi, was married at Fulton to Miss Margaret E. Nabors. She died in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1907. Oscar Stewart, the oldest child of this marriage, is now one of the prominent men of Oklahoma, and is superintendent of the State Institute for the Blind at Muskogee. He is a graduate of the School for the Blind at Austin, Texas, afterwards attended Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee, is an ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and in 1914 was urged to take the nomination for Congress from his district, but refused that honor, though his abilities insure him many substantial distinctions in public affairs. He is an active democrat. Oscar Stewart married Miss Jane Robertson of Virginia, and their two children are Wilhelm, born August 12, 1907; and Virginia Elizabeth, born in October, 1908, these being the only grandchildren of Doctor Stewart. Otho, the second child of Doctor Stewart, is a graduate of the Southwestern University at Georgetown, Texas, and is now pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Coweta, Oklahoma; Oland, the youngest child, is now a student in the University of Oklahoma at Norman. Doctor Stewart was married at Hobart in 1908 to his present wife, Miss Ida Wilkie, who is of German descent and came to Oklahoma from Wisconsin. |
| [Source: A Standard History of Oklahoma V 4 by Joseph Bradfield Thoburn - 1916 -- Veneta McKinney] |
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| Teasdale, Thomas C |
| THOMAS C. TEASDALE; professor Rhetoric and Elocution, 18731877. B. A. Literary and Theological Seminary, Hamilton, N. Y., (now Madison University) about 1830; D. D. Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., 1852; pastor Baptist churches, Philadelphia, Pa., Camden and Newton, N. J., New Haven, Conn., Springfield, 11l., Washington, D. C, and Columbus, Miss., 1830-1863; Chaplain C. S. A. two years; corresponding secretary S. S. Board Southern Baptist Convention two years. Published Revival Discourses; Reminiscences of a long life; and some denominational books. |
| [University of Tennessee record, Volume 1 By University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1898- Transcribed by AFOFG] |
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| Tucker, Gardiner C |
| TUCKER, GARDINER C, Episcopal clergyman, was born October 1, 1851, in Boston, Mass. His father and grandfather were both Baptist ministers. When he was three weeks old, his mother died, and his father placed him in charge of Mrs. Willett, of Boston, Mass. Two years later, his father died, and he went with Mrs. Willett to Madison, Wis., and six years later, to Alton, Ill. When he was sixteen years old, he went to Columbus, Miss., where two of his elder brothers resided at the time, and entered the employ of Humphries, Hudson and company, merchants. He withdrew from the mercantile business in 1873, and purchased the Columbus "Index," a Democratic paper, published weekly and tri-weekly, of which he was editor and proprietor for three years. In 1876, he moved to St. Louis, Mo., and in the fall of that year, entered the Baptist ministry. In the spring of 1877, he was ordained, and remained in the Baptist ministry at St. Louis until 1879, serving during that time as secretary of the Baptist association of the City and County of St. Louis. At the end of that time, his religious beliefs having changed, he applied to Bishop Charles F. Robertson, of Missouri, for holy orders in the Protestant Episcopalian church. He was accepted and ordained deacon, March 27, 1881, and was ordained priest, July 7, 1882, in the Church of the Holy Communion at St. Louis, by Bishop Robertson. He was rector of Christ church, Collinsville, 111., for eighteen months, when he was called to St John's Protestant Episcopal church. West St Louis. In 1885, he was called to St. John's Protestant Episcopal church at Mobile, and has continued as rector of that parish. He was for several years review editor of the Mobile "Register," was chaplain and a commissioned officer of the First regiment, Alabama State troops; is a member and treasurer of the Gulf City Guards; is a Democrat; is chaplain of his commandery of Knight Templars; grand chaplain of the order of Odd Fellows in the state; is a Knight of Pythias; and is past protector of the Knights and Ladies of Honor. Married: in December, 1873, to Mel- ville L. Eckford, of Columbus, Miss. Children: five sons and three daughters. Residence: Mobile. |
| [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 Veneta McKinney] |
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| Witherspoon, Samuel Andrew |
| WITHERSPOON, Samuel Andrew, a Representative from Mississippi; born near Columbus, Lowndes County, Miss., May 4, 1855; attended the public schools; in 1872 moved with his mother to Oxford, Miss.; was graduated from the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1876; professor in the University of Mississippi 1876-1879; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1879 and commenced practice in Meridian, Lauderdale County, Miss., the same year; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1911, until his death in Meridian, Miss., November 24, 1915; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery. |
| [Source: Congressional Biographies of the United States Congress, 1737-present; transcribed by A. Newell.] |
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