Butler County AlArchives Photo person.....Julius C. Richardson 1893
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Source: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 572
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   JULIUS C. RICHARDSON is one of Alabama's younger men who have attained
distinction at the bar and in the field of politics. He is the son of Rev. Simon
Peter and Mary E. (Arledge) Richardson. His father was a noted Baptist preacher
in his time, well known throughout the south for his uncompromizing attitude
toward "the flesh and the devil." The island of Key West, Fla., was the place
where Julius C. Richardson first saw the light, the time being on the 18th of
April, 1851. Coming to Alabama when a young man, Mr. Richardson was educated at
the A. & M. college at Auburn, Ala., at Summerfield institute, and at the
Southern university, at Greensboro. At this point it became necessary to supply
himself with some of the sinews of war before he could prepare for his chosen
profession, and the school-room, that stepping stone to future greatness, and
the poor young man's treasury where he may honorably replenish his exhausted
exchequer, found in him an earnest and successful teacher. In 1872 he became a
matriculate of the law department of the Cumberland university, Lebanon, Tenn.,
taking the bachelor's degree there the following year. After prospecting some
little, in January, 1874, he selected Greenville as a location and immediately
entered upon a successful career, though he had for his associates such talented
lawyers as Hilary A. Herbert, Judge John K. Henry, Thos. J. Judge, and others
not less renowned, and at this time (1892) he is the acknowledged leader of a
bar made illustrious by the names of Watts, Crenshaw, Porter and Lomax. His
success is due to a keen perception of right, the ability to sift a case
thoroughly, selecting its strongest points, and a tenacity of purpose which
stops not short of a favorable decision. Mr. Richardson's reputation at the bar
soon brought hin the offer of political honors, but he could not be prevailed
upon to accept until a vacancy occurred in the state senate in 1886, caused by
the death of Judge John K. Henry. Mr. Richardson was selected to fill out the
unexpired term. Of this selection the Montgomery Advertiser said: "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." During the session he proved himself
thoroughly alive to the interests of his district, and as a member of the joint
committee of the house and senate on the revision of the code of Alabama
rendered much valuable service by his entire familiarity with the subject in all
its intricate details. In writing of him at this time, a biographer remarks that
"no man of his age has been more successful. He has the quickest and acutest
perception, and is possessed of a mind thoroughly trained and organized for the
law, which he loves for its own sake. He is a brilliant conversationalist, an
extensive miscellaneous reader, an eloquent speaker and writer, and possesses
great dignity of character." In literature Mr. Richardson is an acknowledged
connoisseur. At his office he has one of the finest and most complete law
libraries in the state. At his house he duplicates this, and adds all the best
authors to be found in the field of good books. In November of 1874, Mr.
Richardson was married to Miss Bettie M. one of Greenville's worthy and
accomplished young ladies, the daughter of D. T. McCall Esq., a representative
of an old and highly respected family of Butler. Two children were born to the
union - Terry M. and Mack. In 1891, the wife and mother entered upon that life
in whose pleasures we may not participate till the "golden thread be broken."
Mrs. R. was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is remembered as an
earnest christian woman, whose delight was charity, and whose devotion to home,
husband and children was of that type which secures a place in the memory of all
with whom she came in contact.



Additional Comments:
Bio from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 572-574 published by Brant &
Fuller (1893)

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