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| Description: Biography of W. C. and C. Milo Williams |
State: LA |
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| Source: Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 460. Published by the Goodspeed Publ |
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Biography: W. C. Williams & Bro., architects, New Orleans, La. These brothers, W. C. and C. Milo Williams, established their business at 47 Carondelet street, New Orleans, in 1884. They are both practical men, of experience, thorough training, and well qualified for executing all work appertainlug to their profession. The father of the brothers, William H. Williams, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1817, and was a son of Jacob Williams who was a merchant of that city. William H. Williams was educated in his native city, and in 1848 he immigrated to New Orleans, where he was subsequently married. He was a civil engineer and followed his profession up to the time of his death in 1886. He was prominently identified officially with the city of Carrollton, which was at that time an independent municipality. He was surveyor of the city and held other prominent positions after coming to New Orleans. For a number of years he was connected with the levee board of the city, and was engineer on the great delta survey of the
Mississippi river. He was one of the representative man of the city and held many positions of trust. He was president of the Carrollton school board for seventeen years. In politics he was democratic. His wife, whose maiden name was Lavinia Pollard, was the daughter of Charles Pollard of Virginia. The senior member of the firm, W. C. Williams, was born in New Orleans in 1860; was educated in that city and there learned his profession. The junior member, C. Milo Williams was born in New Orleans in 1867. For the past six years he has been deputy surveyor of New Orleans. The firm has been unusually successful in a business way, and they are wide-awake, enterprising men. Among the prominent buildings they have planned and supervised are: the Quarantine buildings at Cubbitt Gap, the Louisiana Furniture factory in New Orleans, the Felicity Street Methodist Episcopal church and a large number of private residences averaging in price from $3,000 to $20,000.
Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 460. Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.
From the NOVA Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Eusgenweb/la/orleans.htm |
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| Description: Biography of Charles Williams |
State: AZ |
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| Source: History of Arizona, 1893 |
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Biography: Few men in the county have reached such a high degree of
excellence in their calling as has Charles Williams, the
prominent and successful fruit grower who resides two miles
northwest of Phoenix. He is a native Kentuckian, born in
Trimble County in 1850, but when a mere boy left that state
and went to Illinois where he worked by the month in Piatt
County. He was thus employed for a few years and then,
having accumulated some money, went to Colorado. This was
in 1870 or 71 and he settled at Greeley, where he followed
farming for some time. From there he went to Old Mexico,
partly for his health and partly to find a good location
and later made his way to Southern California. In 1888 he
came to Arizona, settled in Phoenix and as his extensive
traveling had reduced his means, began working by the month
at whatever he could find to do. In the spring of 1890 he
bought twenty acres of land for $200 and as there were no
improvements he immediately began making some and has now
one of the nicest little homes in the place. Mr. Williams
has four acres in strawberries which will yield an average
per year of 4,000 boxes per acre at ten cents per box. He
also raises blackberries, asparagus, peaches, pears,
grapes, apricots, figs, dates, almonds, garden truck of
all kinds and flowers. Mr. Williams is also in the dairy
business to some extent, owning some fine cows and making
good butter for the market. He is known as the Strawberry
King of Arizona. He was a candidate for county assessor on
the Republican and made a good race, although the county
was largely Democratic. He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity.
On the 13th of September 1876 he married Miss Sarah Mimmack,
a native of England, and they have four interesting children:
Frank, Mary, Lucy and Ida. |
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| Description: Biography of O.C. Williams |
State: AZ |
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| Source: History of Arizona, page 500 |
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Biography: One of Navajo county's best known citizens is O.C. Williams, who
has long been prominent in the political, civic and religious
affairs of this section of the state, being at the present
time under-sheriff of the county.
He was born in Colonia Duplan, old Mexico on June 21, 1894 and
is a son of Frederick G. and Nancy a. (Clement) Williams, the
latter of whom is now residing in Holbrook. The father, who
died in 1918 was also one of the early colonists to Arizona,
settling on the Little Colorado in 1876 at Obed, near Joe City,
having been one of the early settlers at Colonia Duplan in 1890.
In October 1909 he again became a resident of Arizona, locating
on a ranch near Tucson, on which he farmed up to the time of
his death. To him and his wife were born nine children. O.C.
Williams received his education in the public schools of old
Mexico and Tucson. He worked for a while on the home ranch
near Tucson and in 1914 became an employee of the city. In
the following year he went to work as a machinist for the
Tucson Farms, but later in that same year went to Hurley
New Mexico where he engaged in the electric work for the
Chino Copper Company. In 1917 because of his wife's
impaired health, he moved to Salt Lake City, Utah and
soon afterwards bought a garage at Gunnison that state.
In 1918 he sold the garage and went to work for the Gunnison
Valley Sugar Company, having charge of the machinery and in
December of that year came to Holbrook. For a while he served
as Manager of two mail routes, those to Fort Apache and Keams
Canyon and later took up electric work for the town of Holbrook.
In January 1921, Mr. Williams was appointed deputy assessor in
which capacity he served until June of that year, when he
accepted the appointment as under sheriff. In 1922 he was
appointed deputy U.S. Marshal, having charge of this district
and still holds that positing in connection with the position
of under sheriff. He is a finger print expert.
On September 18, 1917 he married Martha Webb of Tucson, but
who was born at Snowflake, this state on Nov. 22, 1891. At
this place was established the first high school in Arizona,
of which the principal was E.M. Web, Mrs. Williams father. Mr.
and Mrs. Williams have two children, living, Orlando C. Jr.
and Buehl LaMar. Mr. Williams is a member of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in which he has held many
positions. |
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| Description: Interesting Kindred of Benjamin Williams |
State: NC |
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| Source: Written by Miss Roxana Williams, 4207 Raeford Road, Fayetteville, N.C. |
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Biography: Interesting Kindred of Benjamin Williams
Governor of North Carolina - 1799
Have you ever considered the number of people bearing the name of Williams?
According to A. D. Weld French in his work on the "Williamses", the name
springs from William which in turn is derived from Wilhelm, a contraction of
Will and Helmet, and meaning or indicating "stout warrior". The Indians had
warriors bearing the names "Sitting Bull", "Yellow Bear", and "Crazy Horse",
but the Welsh, English, and Scotch went them one better; They had their
"Williamses".
This fighting proclivity of the Williamses, it would seem was not absent
from the kindred of Benjamin Williams.
S O L D I E R S
Among the Roanoke River or Warrenton, North Carolina, branch of this kindred
were the following military men: Col. William Williams, militia colonel from
Martin Co. in 1775, and a patriot of the Revolution; his son, Gen. William
Williams of Martin Co. for whom Williamstown the county seat of Martin Co.
was named; Col. Joseph Williams, born June 6, 1793; and Cap. Solomon
Williams; Major William Williams; Col. Solomon Williams, killed in the Civil
War; his son Major William Williams; Col. Walter Clark, a colonel at
seventeen years of age in the confederate States Army, later Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of North Carolina; Capt. Sterling H. Gee, CSA; Col.
Joseph John Williams of Tallahassee, Florida, Capt. Archibald Davis
Williams, Cornelius Williams, Harry G. Williams and William A. Williams ---
the last four killed in the Civil War.
Warrior spouses of kindred of the Warrenton, North Carolina, branch of the
family of Governor Williams included: Col. Daniel B. Allen, Col. Gauntt,
Col. William H. Poke of Tennessee (brother of James K Poke, President of the
United States), Col. Charles Eaton, Capt. Thomas E Irby who was killed in
the Civil War, Col. Andrew Joyner, Honorable Charles J. Gee who signed
articles of Secession separating North Carolina from the union, Col.
Whitmell H. Anthony, Gen. David Clark, and Gen. Junius Daniel, CSA.
Honorable George E. Badger, Secretary of U S Navy, may properly belong to
this group. He married the widow of General William Williams and there is a
likelihood that she herself was of Williams' descent.
Turning to the Neuse River or Goldsboro --- Kingston branch of the family of
Governor Williams, we find as early settlers in the forest primeval in the
vicinity of the Neuse, the following solder brothers: (1) Col. Ben Williams
of Johnston County who left his extensive lands on the Neuse River to his
nephew Gov. Ben Williams then living in "New Bern Town"; (2) Col. Joseph
Williams of Duplin County, and (3) Col. John Williams who settled at White
Hall on the Neuse River (now Seven Springs, Wayne County, North Carolina)
where he conducted a trading post with the Indians. In 1732 trails and
primitive roads led for many miles from the West and southwest to White
Hall. Tradition is to the effect that this outstanding pioneer trader met
his death through murder while conducting a "party of Africans" through the
wilderness. He was not only a fearless pioneer trader, he was also the
father of Governor Ben Williams who as a young soldier was promoted to the
rank of colonel for gallantry on the battlefield of Guilford Courthouse.
Another son of Col. John Williams, the Trader with the Indians was Col. John
Pugh Williams distinguished for gallantry in the battle of King's Mountain.
Among other kindred of Gov. Williams connected with the Furnifold M.
Simmons, and Col. William Joyner and Gen. William Preston Wooten of Lenoir
County of World War I. Also from the vicinity of the Neuse, among the
kindred of Gov. Williams have come Gen. Stephen Miller, Col. John Bright
Hill, one time president of the Reserve Officers Association of North
Carolina, Cols. Wentworth and Dudley Pierce of World War I, and Commander
Edward Banks Gibson and Lt. Col. Charles Pierce of World War II. The aviator
warrior Commander Gibson from a position in the sky dropped the first bomb
on the Japanese at Guadal Canal. While assisting in the bombing of the
Southern Philippines, Lt. Col. Charles Pierce met his death in an aviation
mission in Borneo.
The Cape Fear River of Fayetteville, North Carolina branch of this family
originated in Joel Williams, a cousin of the Governor Williams. Although
this pioneer settler had the misfortune of being drowned in the Cape Fear
River about the year 1761, his descendants of the Cape Fear Region have
evidence their proclivities as fighters. His young son Joel, Jr., served for
a time in the Revolutionary War and in the Civil War, among those serving
were Capt. J. Marshall Williams, one of those "first at Bethel and last at
Appomatox". Making the supreme sacrifice were: James Bryan, James Williams,
John C Williams, and Alexander Williams. The last three were brothers and
although born in Cumberland, N.C., they had moved to Mississippi some years
prior to the war. The rank of these victims of war is not known to the
writer.
Alexander may have been the commander of a regiment; one writer refers to
him as such. Among the spouses of descendants of Joel Williams in the Civil
War was Col. Kenneth Murchison and Brigadier Gen. John Murchison. It seems
that the rank of Brig. Gen. Was conferred upon Col. John Murchison a few
hours before his death.
In World War I, among the descendants of Joel Williams, founder of the Cape
Fear branch of the kindred of Gov. Ben were: Brig. Gen. Alex Williams, Major
Marshall Mcd. Williams (death, service-connected); Capt. Isham Rowland
Williams (winner of Distinguished Service Cross); Commander Hicks Williams
(death, service-connected); Commander Lawrence Sprunt, Lt. Commander John
Murchison; Capt. Henry Williams, Capt. Peter Williams, Jesse Williams, the
latter a victim of a cloud of German mustard gas. Dr. Murchison of
Wilmington, brother of John referred to above, also served in WWI, and his
sister Lucy, occupied a prominent position in the WAAC's. She is now the
wife of Reginald Hallett, Episcopal Bishop of Indiana.
In the Korean War, was Marshall McD. Williams III, a Lt. Aviator reported
missing in action. Lt. Williams operated a jet photographic plane for
intelligence purpose in the North Korean area. In connection with the Cape
Fear River branch of the kindred of Governor Benjamin Williams, should also
be mentioned a brother of the pioneer settler, Joel Williams, viz. Colonel
Nathan Williams, founder of the Sampson County branch of the family. He was
born in Virginia in the year 1735 and served in the North Carolina Line in
the Revolutionary War. Three of his descendants in the Civil Was lost their
lives, two of them being brothers.
S O C I A L L I F E and O L D H O M E S
Although military life may hold a lure for the men, it is in the social life
that their spouses find attraction. In this latter sphere, among interesting
kindred of Gov. Williams were: Mrs. Kenneth Murchison (Catherine Williams of
Fayetteville), whose Orton Plantation near Wilmington was one of the meccas
of social life and of note throughout the State. Likewise of note was the
mansion of her daughter Mrs. James Sprunt of Wilmington. Here President Taft
was entertained amid great civic fanfare. Mrs. Sprunt was the wife of the
South's foremost cotton exporter, who in addition to this distinction was a
philanthropist and author of note.
Also worthy of note was the white stone or marble villa of Mrs. Frank Ellis
(sister of Mrs. Sprunt) at Number 1 Peachtree Circle in Atlanta, Georgia,
which is said to have contained the most elegant marble stairway of any
private home in the South. These daughters of wealth, it seems, were not
wholly without background, as their grandmother, Mrs. Joel Williams III of
Fayetteville, North Carolina, was a grand daughter of the Marquis of
Thormond, whose brother, Lord Heathfield, Commanded the regiment which held
for the British Empire, the Rock of Gibraltar during a three year siege.
Their grandmother was also kindred of the family of the Baronet Sir
Farquhard Campbell, for whom the town of Campbellton (now a part of the town
of Fayetteville) was named. It seems that a great grandfather of Mrs. Joel
Williams was the Marquis William Bryan of Pasquotank County, North Carolina,
(1689) whose descendants constitute a quantity of the stellar socialites of
North Carolina, having within their accredited lineage through Lord Needham
(father in law of the Marquis), a number of early kings of Europe.
Through her husband, Mrs. Joel Williams III was the owner or mistress of 210
Negroes and a plantation of eight thousand acres of land on the Cape Fear
River. Her brother-in-law, Alexander Williams was the owner of 300 Negroes
and his cousin; John C. Williams of Cumberland County, N.C. was owner of
200. Their distant cousin of Williams' descent, the wife of Gen. David
Clark, was through her husband, mistress or owner of 336 Negroes and
plantations totaling 20,000 acres on the Roanoke River. She was the mother
of Col. Clark, for many years Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of N.C. Her
summer home "AIRLIE" is one of the most beautiful depicted in the volume
entitled "Old homes in N.C." "Montmorency", the home of General William
Williams of Warren County, N.C., another cousin, is also depicted in that
volume being noted for its heavy Ionic Columns and its woodwork of exquisite
carving. Most of this woodwork is now in the Museum of the DuPont's in
Delaware. The family of Gen. Williams is said to have owned in the aggregate
40,000 acres of land on the Roanoke River. The Williams' holdings at the
junction of the Roanoke and Tar Rivers were first called Williams Quarters,
then as the settlement grew, Williamstown which later was contracted into
Williamston. Tradition says that General Williams' granddaughter, Mrs. Lucy
Williams Polk was so completely surrounded by servants, that she never laced
her shoes. She was the owner of 100 Negroes and a sister-in-law of James K.
Polk, President of the U.S. With reference to old homes of interest owned by
kindred of Governor Williams, mention should also be made of those in
Sampson and Duplin Counties. In Sampson County was situated the plantation
manor of Col. Abner Faison (son of a planter with ?00 slaves) and the Holmes
mansion of Clinton.
BUSINESS AND CLUB WOMEN
Contiguous to the pioneer Elliott's estate above mentioned lay the 20,000
acre estate of the Highland Scotch business woman Jennie Bahn McNeil who
made her annual trip to the markets of Philadelphia accompanied by three
thousand head of her cattle under the care of appropriate herdsmen and
drivers. In Philadelphia, it was her privilege to dine with her great
friend, Benjamin Franklin. Among the descendants of the famous Jennie Bahn
McNeil is Miss Roxana Worth Williams, a member of the Cape Fear contingency
of the kindred of Governor Benjamin Williams. Miss Roxana was one of the
organizers of the curb market of Fayetteville, which once occupied the
basement of the Court House of Fayetteville, but now has a nice building of
its own and is resplendent in displays of fruits, vegetables and other
products of the farm, prepared and ready, at a stated price, for the take of
the city housekeeper. The Williams subdivision on the edge of the city of
Fayetteville, which subdivision in time promises to become a portion of the
city with street after street of dwellings, is another product of her
planning.
Not only is business but also in club life, have women of the Williams
connection shown much aptitude. Outstanding among them have been Mrs. R.O.
Everett (nee Catherine Robinson), state President of the Professional
Women's Club. In patriotic societies also, kindred of Governor Williams have
not been backward. Outstanding among them have been the writer's mother,
Mrs. Marshall Williams (nee Mary Lyde Hicks), State Regent of the Daughters
of the Revolution and State President of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy; Mrs. R.O. Everett, also a state President of the Daughters of
the Confederacy; Mrs. James Sprunt (nee Luola Murchison), State President of
the Society of colonial Dames. Among others of great usefulness has been
Mrs. E.R. McKeithan, who has served for years on the Board of Directors of
the Confederate Women's Home at Fayetteville, N.C. In fact her own home is
something of an institution, being Fayetteville's oldest residence and noted
for its colonial beauty and 150-year-old garden. Mrs. McKeithan is a sister
of Judge Crawford Biggs, former Solicitor General of the United States, and
is one of the honorary State Presidents of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy.
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It would not be fair to close this article without mentioning
other kindred of Governor Williams who have much claim to distinction. Among
these are the Haywood's of Raleigh, the Henderson's of Salisbury (Professor
Archibald Henderson is of this branch), the Guion's of Newbern, the Wooten's
of Kinston, and the family of the wife of Judge Faircolt a justice of the
Supreme Court of N.C.; also of the family of Judge W. R. Allen of the State
Supreme Court. In these families of charm and importance, may be found a
kinship of Governor Benjamin Williams.
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If any inaccuracy is found in this article, it is requested that it be
communicated to the writer at Faison, N.C., where he maintains a domicile.
The writer and his brothers; Major Marshall Williams, Commander Hicks
Williams, and Capt. I Rowland Williams, descend from Joel Williams, the
founder of the Cape Fear River branch and from Barbara Williams of the Neuse
River contingency of the kindred of Governor Williams and are allied by
birth and rearing with the Faison family of Faison.
BRANCHES FROM THE TREE OF JOHN WILLIAMS OF ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY
John's son William Williams came to North Carolina and became the forefather
of the clan of General William Williams of Warren County, and also the
forefather of General Samuel Williams of that County. (See the respective
researchers of Blanche Humphrey Abee and the late A.W. Graham Clark, and of
Groves on Alstons and allied Families. Grove's work starts only with William
Williams of North Carolina).
A son of isle of Wight" John who settled in Bertie County, N.C., bringing
with him a number of slaves judging from the number of free land grants
procured by him. (See researchers of Blanche Humphrey Abee and General
William Preston Wooten). "Bertie" John died in Bertie County, N.C., in the
year 1757. Through his son Isaac, "Bertie" John was a great grandfather of
Governor Ben Williams, and through his son Isaac, "Bertie" John was the
grandfather of Joel Williams of the Cape Fear contingency of the kindred of
Governor Williams. (See the will of "Bertie" John probated in Bertie County
in the year 1757 and the researchers of the Reverend John Bryan Williams on
the Governor Williams Family of North Carolina.) Oddly to relate, "Bertie"
John's son Isaac never came to North Carolina with his father or else went
back to Virginia to live on family lands in that part of old Lunenburg now
Mecklenburg County, Va. In what is now Mecklenburg County he lived to
advanced age on his plantation on the Roanoke River in Virginia, a few miles
from Warrenton, N.C.
A grandson of Isaac's grandfather, John Williams of Isle of
Wight County, Va., was Benjamin Williams who was born in Virginia but
settled in North Carolina and became the forefather of the Onslow County
contingency of the kindred of Governor Williams. He was also the forefather
of Mrs. Furnifold Simmons, wife of North Carolina's U.S. Senator Simmons,
and the forefather of Serene Williams Hicks. (See researchers of Blanche
Humphrey Abee and Onslow County Wills.) A complete genealogical list of the
descendants of Serene Williams Hicks may be found in a genealogical work
(booklet form) prepared by Mrs. Marshall Williams (nee Mary Lyde Hicks) on
the Hicks Family of Old Duplin, which removed from Onslow County into what
is now Duplin County.
As descendants of Barbara Williams have been outstanding for
their social culture, it might be well to point out Barbara's exact descent
from John Williams of Isle of Wight County, Va. She was his great
granddaughter through her grandfather, "Bertie" John, and through her
father, James Williams. Her father James Williams died in 1736. Barbara
married a Whitfield and her descendants may be found in Volume 1 of the
North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, as part of the
Whitfield Family. Large contingencies of her descendants are also carried in
the two-volume work of Emma Morehead Whitfield.
Through an odd coincidence the writer, through his father, is a
descendant of Isaac Williams, a grandfather of Gov. Williams; and through
his maternal grandfather, the writer is a descendant of Serene Williams
Hicks of the Onslow contingency of the kindred of Gov. Williams, and through
his maternal grandmother, the writer is a descendant of Barbara Williams, a
granddaughter of Governor Williams' great grandfather "Bertie" John. As a
result of this medley of relationships, the writer had a traditional
knowledge that a relationship existed between the various contingencies of
the kindred of Governor Williams.
And thus endeth like "Life's fitful dream", this simple,
incomplete, kaleidoscopic picture or review of ten generation of the kindred
of Governor Williams of North Carolina, - their respective Williams lineage
covering in John Williams whose will was probated in Isle of Wight County,
Va., in the year 1692. |
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| Description: History of DeKalb County, TN |
State: TN |
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| Source: Extracted from: Goodspeed?s History of Tennessee, 1887 |
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Biography: p. 7
Among the first lawyers of DeKalb County were?D.O. Williams?
p. 11
The early physicians of Alexandria down to the war were as follows in the order given:?O.D. Williams?
p. 14
Alvin Avant, Attorney at Law, of Smithville, was born ia Dekalb County in 1856, a son of William C. and Nancy (Williams) Avant. The father is of French descent, Born in 1822 in Dekalb County. His father, Benjamin Avant, was a native of Virginia, who immigrated to Dekalb County at an early date. William C. married and settled in the Twelfth District of his native county, where he is a prosperous and respected farmer and possessor of 300 acres of valuable land. His wife was also born in Dekalb County, of English descent She is now sixty-two years of age. Of their eleven children, Alvin is the fifth. His early education was received at Fulton Academy in Smithville. At the age of eighteen he commenced the study of medicine under the care of Dr. J. s. Harrison. In 1873 he entered the medical department of the university at Louisville, Ky., graduating in March of the next year as M. D. For one year he practiced in Smithville, at the expiration of which time he abandoned medicine and took up the study of law. His preceptor was M. D. Smallman, now judge of the Sixth Circuit of Tennessee. Mr. Avant was admitted to the bar in 1879. The same year he was elected county attorney, serving two years. January, 1881, he became superintendent of public instruction, holding the office four years, declining another re-election. Since that time he has given his attention to his profession. In 1881 he entered into partnership with Hon. B. M. Webb and Judge J. S. Gribble, the latter withdrawing in 1883, The firm being known as Webb & Avant Our subject is a talented, able lawyer, enjoying a good practice. He is a gentleman in the full sense of the word, and highly esteemed by a large circle of friends. He is a member of the Christian Church, and a Democrat. His parents belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church South. |
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