Biography:

Businessman, public official. Born– May 20, 1863, in Sulphur Springs, Ga. Married– Minnie Holly , 1887. Children– Three. Education– Graduate, Chattanooga High School about 1880. Worked as a salesman for Vance and Kirby Hardware Company, Chattanooga, 1881-1887; associated with Smith, Echols, and Bennett Hardware,  Gadsden, 1887-1914; after 1914 ran his own insurance agency. Mayor of Gadsden 1905-1906; on Etowah Co. Draft Board during WWI. Member Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce,  and Y.M.C.A. Wrote reminiscences for Gadsden Evening Journal, later published as A History of Gadsden. Died February 16, 1929.

Source:

“Introduction” to Early History of Northeast Alabama and Incidentally of Northwest Georgia.  Ed. W. Stanley Hoole and Addie S. Hoole.  University:  Confederate Publishing Company. 1979.

Publication(s):

A History of Gadsden in Early History of Northeast Alabama and Incidentally of Northwest Georgia. University, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1979.