Butler County AlArchives Biographies.....Gaston, Zell 1863 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  ZELL GASTON, Attorney-at-law, Greenville, of the firm of Carmichel & Gaston,
was born in Butler County, this State, June 21, 1863, and is a son of Lucius C.
and Amanda J. Gaston, natives, respectively, of the States of Georgia and Florida.

  Mr. Gaston attended the common schools of his neighborhood until about sixteen
years of age, at which time he entered the Agricultural and Mechanical College
at Auburn, where he remained four years. From the Agricultural and Mechanical
College he entered the Alabama University, and from there graduated as Bachelor
of Arts, class of 1884. Returning to Greenville, he accepted the principalship
of the public schools, and taught therein for the two succeeding years. He read
law in the office of the Hon. J. C. Richardson, of this city, was admitted to
the bar in February, 1886, and entered at once into a partnership with John C.
Carmichel, in the practice of law.

  Mr. Gaston is now, and has been for some time, County Superintendent of
Education; he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Knights and Ladies of Honor
and of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

  He was married January 26, 1887, to Miss Lelia Dulin, daughter of Adam B.
Dulin, Esq., of this place.


Additional Comments:
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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.
TIMBER BELT.


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