Butler County AlArchives Biographies.....Flowers, F. A. February 2 1846 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
F. A. Fowlers, fourth son W. H. and Sarah Flowers, was born in Georgia, county
of Fayette, February 2, 1846, and there spent the years of his youth, moved to
Alabama, Butler county, December, 1857, farmed with his father two years, then
engaged in the lumber business. His first practical experience in life was as
sawyer for the lumber firm of Milner & Caldwell, in whose employ he continued
until 1867, at which time he went to Bluff Springs, Florida, where he operated a
saw mill about two years for Evans & Tait. In 1873 he moved to Bolling, Ala.,
where he has since been identified with the lumbering interests of Butler
county, as a member of the firm of Milner, Caldwell & Flowers. Mr. Flowers is a
practical lumberman, shrewd in the management of his business affairs and is one
of the popular and highly respected citizens of Butler county. He was married
March 4, 1869, to Carrie, daughter of J. S. Wood, a prominent merchant of
Greenville, and is the father of two children: Mamie and Maude. He is a democrat
in politics, a member of the K. of P. fraternity, and, with his wife, belongs to
the Baptist church of Greenville, Ala.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 560


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