Butler County AlArchives Biographies.....Stollenwerck, F. September 20 1860 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
F. STOLLENWERCK, the gentleman whose biographical sketch is herewith presented
is a descendent of an accomplished French family which settled many years ago in
St. Domingo, from which island his grandparents were obliged to flee during the
negro insurrection and seek refuge in the United States. They located in New
York city and the subject's grandfather was afterward deputed by congress to
test the culture of the grape in Alabama and other parts of the south. A. G.
Stollenwerck, father of F. Stollenwerck, is a native of Alabama, born in Greene
county in the year 1838, and is now a resident of the city of Birmingham, where
he does an extensive business as a stock and bond broker. In 1852 he contracted
a matrimonial alliance with Miss Julia F. Fowlkes of North Carolina, but, at the
time of her marriage, a resident of Marion county, Ala., and reared the
following family of children: H. A., cotton buyer of Birmingham; E. L., master
of trains on the Louisville & Nashville railroad; Frank; A. G., Jr., manager of
the Wheeling Pottery company, Wheeling, W. Va.; Herbert, who was bookkeeper for
the Dunham Lumber company, and was accidentally killed in a railroad accident,
July 10, 1890; Julia; Clayton, manager of Southern States Lumber company,
Caryville, Fla.; Mary; Samuel; Leslie and Nettie. F. Stollenwerck was born
September 20, 1860, in Marion county, Ala., in the schools of which he received
a practical education. At the age of fifteen he began clerking in a cotton
buyer's office in Selma, Ala., and after continuing in that capacity three
years, formed a partnership with his father and for five years thereafter was
extensively engaged in the cotton trade at Selma and other cities of the state.
Relinquishing the cotton business, he next accepted the position of cashier in
the bank of Joseph Steiner & Sons, Greenville, Ala., the duties of which he
discharged until the spring of 1889, when, in partnership with his
brother-in-law, W. H. Calhoun, he purchased a half-interest in the Dunham Lumber
company, with which he is still identified and of which he is now
vice-president. Mr. Stollenwerck's business career has been highly successful
and his creditable standing in the social circles of his community attests the
estimation in which he is Meld by his fellow-citizens of Dunham. He has
inherited in a marked degree many of the refined characteristics of his
ancestors, and, being in the very vigor of life, has before him a future fraught
with much that is promising. On the 6th day of July, 1882, in the city of
Greenville, Ala., Mr. Stollenwerck was united in marriage with Emma Calhoun, the
accomplished niece of Col. H. A. Herbert, M. C., and now secretary of navy in
the cabinet of President Cleveland. Mrs. Stollenwerck was early left an orphan
and grew to womanhood under the watchful care of an aunt, Mrs. Buell, who spared
neither money nor pains in procuring for her the best educational advantages
obtainable. She is a graduate of the Greenville Collegiate institute, where she
took the first honors of her class, and is a lady of refinement and varied
accomplishments, with decided talents as an artist. The home of Mr. and Mrs.
Stollenwerck has been gladdened by the birth of one child, Frank, an interesting
boy of nine years. Mr. Stollenwerck is a democrat in his political belief,
belongs to lodge No. 776, K. of H., and with his wife is a member of the
Episcopal church in which he holds the position of vestryman.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 579-581

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