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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JAMES BERNEY STANLEY, Editor of the Greenville Advocate, was born in
Hayneville, Lowndes County. Ala., August 9, 1845, and was the fourth son of
Robert H. and Emma Stone Stanley. His father was a Carolinian of English
parentage; his mother was a daughter of a British officer, and was born in Paris.

  His first work of which we have any record, is in connection with the Southern
Messenger, a weekly paper printed at Greenville, his family having already
removed to that place. He entered the office of this paper as an apprentice in
1853, and remained there for two years. He was then entered as a cadet of the
Glennville Collegiate and Military Institution, but did not remain there but one
session, when the whole college, aroused by Southern patriotism, entered the
army in defense of the Southern Confederacy. The subject of this sketch joined
the Seventeenth Alabama, and remained with it until the close of the war.
Although he was in active service all the time, and witnessed some of the
bloodiest of the fights, he was wounded in but one battle. On the memorable
field of Franklin, Tenn., he received two severe wounds, which disabled him for
several months.

  Immediately after the close of the war Mr. Stanley returned home, and in
November, 1865, he commenced the publication of the Greenville Advocate. Day by
day the paper grew more and more in the favor of the people, until to-day it is
welcomed in thousands of families.

  Although he is a stanch Democrat, and has always been a strong advocate of the
principles of his party, he is not particularly fond of politics, and has never
shown any desire for office, though he has been sent by his county as a delegate
to every State Convention since 1867, and in 1884 was elected by that convention
as an alternate delegate from the State at large to the National Convention in
Chicago, which nominated President Cleveland. He has held a number of important
offices in various societies; three years ago he was elected Grand Vice-Dictator
of Alabama, of Knights of Honor, and, probably, would have been Grand Director
to-day, could he have attended the last session of the Grand Lodge.

  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but is a man of views too
broad to believe that there is but one church, and that all that is good and
holy is in that church. As all earnest Christians should be, he is constantly
striving to impress the minds of the young with the sacred teachings of the holy
scriptures, and is rarely ever absent from the Sunday School, of which, until
recently, he was superintendant.

  In May, 1882, on a steamboat on the Alabama River, the editors of the State
almost unanimously elected him president of the Editors and Publishers'
Association of Alabama. The members of the Press showed their appreciation of
his abilities as an officer by re-electing him the succeeding three years by
acclamation. He takes a great interest in the brotherhood, and does everything
in his power to make each meeting of the Association as pleasant as possible.
Two years ago he was appointed by the President of the National Press
Association as a member of the National Executive Committee from Alabama, and at
the meeting of that Association in Cincinnati last year he was retained in that
position by election.

  The success of his paper and the noble qualities of his character, have won
for him a wide reputation and given him rank among the journalists of the country.

  He was united in marriage to Miss Lulu Reid, December 7, 1867. His wife was
indeed a helpmate, whose worth was only rivaled by her modesty.


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.


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