Butler County AlArchives Biographies.....Crenshaw, Edward August 29 1842 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    EDWARD CRENSHAW, prominent member of the Greenville bar, and son of the late
Judge Walter H. Crenshaw, is a native of Butler county, Ala., born on the 29th
day of August, 1842. He was liberally educated in the universities of Alabama
and Virginia, completing the law course in the latter institution, and in 1861
entered the Confederate service as second lieutenant of company K, Seventeenth
Alabama volunteer infantry, and in March, 1863, was promoted captain of company
B, Fifty-eighth Alabama regiment. May, 1864, he received the appointment of
second lieutenant in the Confederate marine corps, and subsequently became first
lieutenant of marines on the Confederate privateer Tallahassee, which captured
about forty Union vessels during the war. On leaving the service, Mr. Crenshaw
began to practice his profession in Greenville, and in 1869 was elected clerk of
the circuit court for Butler county, the duties of which position he discharged
in a highly creditable manner until 1874. Since the expiration of his official
term Mr. Crenshaw has given his entire attention to his profession, and now has
a large and lucrative legal business in Butler and other counties of southern
Alabama. He stands high among his professional brethren of the Greenville bar,
and is a fitting representative of the family which, for many years, exerted
such a powerful influence in the legal profession of southern Alabama. Mr.
Crenshaw and Sarah E. Britton were united in marriage in 1873, and to their
union have been born two children, Arthur and Edith Crenshaw.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 554


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