Butler County AlArchives Biographies.....Richardson, Julius C. 1851 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 September 16, 2011, 9:30 pm Source: See below Author: Smith & De Land, publishers JULIUS C. RICHARDSON, a prominent Lawyer, son of the Rev. Simon Peter and Mary E. (Arledge) Richardson, was born on the Island of Key West, Fla., April 18, 1851, and was educated at Auburn College, Summerfield Institute, and the Southern University, at Greensboro, Ala. From l870 to 1872 he gave his time to teaching. In the latter year he entered the law department of the Cumberland University, at Lebanon, Tenn., and graduated therefrom, as Bachelor of Laws, in 1873. In January, 1874, he located at Greenville, where he at once entered upon a successful practice in his chosen profession, and where he, at this writing (1888), is recognized as standing at the head of the Butler County bar. His practice is general, and extends largely throughout Central and Southern Alabama. He was elected to the State Senate in 1886-87, where, as a member of the joint committee of the House and Senate on the revision of the code of Alabama, he rendered much valuable service and proved himself entirely familiar with the needs and purposes of the undertaking, and was identified with the principal legislation of the session. Another writer very justly describes him as a man of "quick and acute perception, possessed of a mind thoroughly trained and organized for the law which he loves for its own sake . . . . He is a most brilliant conversationalist, an extensive miscellaneous reader, an eloquent speaker and writer, and possessed of much dignity of character." In an article devoted to the Senator, the Montgomery Advertiser says of him: "He is a source of pride and pleasure to his friends throughout the State. As a public man he has always been upright, honest and true, and his ability to fill the honorable position to which he has been called by the people of his district, is unquestioned and unquestionable." Mr. Richardson diversifies the duties of professional life to some extent by turning his attention occasionally to fruit culture, in which he has achieved decided success. Within his well-cultivated fields devoted to the purpose, he produces some remarkable results in horticulture and venticulture; his varieties of grapes are probably the finest in the State. A sort of modern ethics that seems to prevail in the treatment of popular living men in publications of this character confines us at times too much to a bare recital of well-known facts, leaving no room for the play of imagination or the display of any pyrotechnics in the eulogy of the worthiest of men. Thus, in the present instance, the publishers find themselves reduced to the presentation of the outlines of one of Alabama's most promising young men. As a mark of distinction and as a means of testifying to the high esteem in which Julius C. Richardson is held, the publishers take pleasure in prefacing this sketch with a handsome and life-like steel-plate portrait of that gentleman. Mr. Richardson was married in November, 1874, at Greenville, to Miss Bettie McCall, the accomplished daughter of D. T. McCall, Esq., of that place, and has had born to him two children: Terry M. and Mack. Additional Comments: Extracted from: 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/butler/bios/richards959gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb