Butler County AlArchives Biographies.....Donald, James G. August 1 1828 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
  DR. JAMES G. DONALD, an old and reliable physician, whom every body in Butler
county reveres for his many excellent qualities of head and heart, is descended
from a long line of illustrious Scotch ancestors, the name appearing prominently
in the early annals of Scotland. The first christian king of that country was of
the name of Donald, and the last of the Donald dynasty died in 903 A. D. When
the independence of Scotland was lost, the family retired from public notice.
About the year 1700, Alexander Donald with his wife emigrated to North America
and settled in the colony of Virginia and afterward the entire family moved to
the state of South Carolina, where they remained until the year 1818. The above
Alexander was the doctor's great-grandfather. West Donald, the doctor's father,
was the son of James Donald, who reared a family of five sons and three
daughters, West being the second in order of birth. He was born in Chester
county, S. C., in 1785, followed planting and served as captain in the militia
of his native state. He was a great admirer of John C. Calhoun, and took a
prominent part in opposition to the government during the troubles in South
Carolina, growing out of the ordinance of nullification. West Donald and
Margaret Caldwell, daughter of Joseph Caldwell, a native of Ireland and a
patriot of the Revolution, were united in marriage about the year 1827 in
Abbeville district, S. C., and to their union were born three children, namely:
Joseph, a physician and planter of Dallas county, Ala.; Mary, widow of John C.
Chisom, and James G., whose name introduces this sketch. Some years after the
father's death, which occurred in 1834. Mrs. Donald removed to Alabama, settling
in Dallas county, where she died in 1877. Dr. James G. Donald was born in
Abbeville district, S. C., August 1, 1828, and in 1845 entered Erskine college
at Due West, his native state, from which he graduated in 1850. Subsequently he
attended lectures in the university of Louisiana at New Orleans, from which
institution he graduated in the spring of 1854, locating immediately thereafter
at Monterey, Butler county, where he has ever since carried on a large and.
lucrative practice. The doctor was first married in 1856 at Monterey to Mary
Steen, who bore him three children, and whose death occurred in 1864. The
following are the names of the children of their marriage: Joseph, deceased;
Robert, farmer and merchant of Monterey, and Elizabeth, wife of Charles Scott of
Wilcox county, Ala. The doctor's second marriage was solemnized in 1866 with
Eugenia Steen, a sister of his former wife, a union blessed with the birth of
the following children: Mamie, wife of Thomas Moore.; Julia, a teacher of Butler
county; Bertha; Erskine, medical student at Mobile college; Claude, James,
Charles and Dan. The doctor affiliates with the democratic party, is a master
Mason, and with his wife belongs to the Baptist church. He has, by close
attention to the wants of the public and by a life consecrated to his
profession, succeeded in establishing much more than a local reputation as a
successful physician and surgeon, and although past the age when most medical
men retire, is still in the enjoyment of a very extensive practice in Butler and
adjoining counties. He is a genial, courteous gentleman, a respected and useful
citizen, and has been closely identified with the growth and porsperity of
Monterey and the county of Butler.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 556-557


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