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John William Abercrombie (1866-1940) —
also known as John W. Abercrombie —
of Anniston, Calhoun
County, Ala.; Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
County, Ala.
Born near Kellys Creek, St. Clair
County, Ala., May 17,
1866.
Son of Henry M. Abercrombie and Sarah A. (Kendrick) Abercrombie.
Democrat. Member of Alabama
state senate, 1896-98; Alabama
superintendent of education, 1898-1902, 1920-27;
president, University of Alabama, 1902-11; U.S.
Representative from Alabama at-large, 1913-17.
Baptist.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Order; Phi
Beta Kappa; Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons;
Woodmen;
Kiwanis.
Died in Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., July 2,
1940 (age 74 years, 46
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.
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Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825-1903) —
also known as Jabez L. M. Curry —
of Talladega, Talladega
County, Ala.; Washington,
D.C.
Born near Double Branches, Lincoln
County, Ga., June 5,
1825.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1847-48, 1853-57; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1857-61; Delegate
from Alabama to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Representative
from Alabama in the Confederate Congress 4th District, 1862-64;
defeated, 1863; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
president, Howard College, Alabama, 1866-68; college
professor; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1885-88.
Baptist.
Died near Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., February
12, 1903 (age 77 years, 252
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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James Ferguson Dowdell (1818-1871) —
of Alabama.
Born near Monticello, Jasper
County, Ga., November
26, 1818.
Lawyer;
candidate for Alabama
state house of representatives, 1849, 1851; U.S.
Representative from Alabama, 1853-59 (7th District 1853-55, 3rd
District 1855-59); colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; president, East Alabama College at Auburn, 1868-70.
Died near Auburn, Lee
County, Ala., September
6, 1871 (age 52 years, 284
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Auburn, Ala.
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Richard Channing Jones (b. 1841) —
of Camden, Wilcox
County, Ala.
Born in Brunswick
County, Va., April 12,
1841.
Son of Rev. John Jones and Mary (Walker) Jones.
Lawyer;
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Alabama
state senate, 1882-85; president, University of Alabama,
1890-97; delegate to
Alabama state constitutional convention, 1901.
Burial
location unknown.
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Marion Letcher (b. 1872) —
of Douglasville, Douglas
County, Ga.; Conyers, Rockdale
County, Ga.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Shorter, Macon
County, Ala., September
4, 1872.
School
principal; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American
War; president, Douglasville College (Douglasville, Ga.),
1900-01; superintendent
of schools; U.S. Consul in Acapulco, 1909-11; Chihuahua, 1911-16; U.S. Consul General in Christiania, 1919-20; Callao-Lima, 1920; Copenhagen, 1921-26; Antwerp, 1929-32.
Burial
location unknown.
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Harry Toulmin (1766-1823) —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Taunton, England,
September
7, 1766.
Secretary
of state of Kentucky, 1796-1804; first president,
Transylvania University, 1804-18; judge of
Mississippi territorial supreme court, 1804; U.S.
District Judge for Alabama, 1818-19.
Died in Millry, Washington
County, Ala., November
11, 1823 (age 57 years, 65
days).
Interment somewhere
in Millry, Ala.; cenotaph at Springhill
Cemetery, Mobile, Ala.
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