Bullock County AlArchives Biographies.....Norman, James T. 1830 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    JAMES T. NORMAN, Attorney-at-law, was born January 30, 1830, at Columbus,
Ga. His parents were James S. and Leah J. (Marks) Norman. His father was a
native of London, England, and his mother a Georgian. The former came to the
United States when a boy, and lived in South Carolina two years, afterward came
to Georgia, and, in 1854, located permanently in Russell County, Ala. He died in
l871, at Union Springs, Ala.

    Our subject received a common-school education; studied law in the office of
Thomas & Downing, at Columbus, Ga., was admitted to the bar in 1849, and
admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Alabama, in 1857. He came to
Union Springs in 1854. He entered the Confederate Army as a lieutenant in the
Twenty-third Alabama Infantry; was afterward promoted to the rank of adjutant,
which he filled until May, 1863, when he was taken prisoner, and kept two months
in the State penitentiary, at Alton. Ill.; was then transferred to prison on
Johnson's Island, where he remained until February, 1865, and was patroled a
short time before the surrender.

    Immediately returning home. Mr. Norman began the practice of law at Union
Springs, which he has successfully followed ever since. In 1882, he was elected
to the Alabama Senate, and reelected in 1884. He was married in October, 1851,
to Miss Mary F., daughter of Dr. David, and Miriam (Eiland) Dean, of Georgia. To
them five children have been born: Miriam, James D., Frederick D., Mary E., and
Thomas J. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
COTTON BELT.


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