Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Gaboury, Joseph A. 1852 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
     JOSEPH A. GABOURY, a proimnent civil engineer and railroad contractor of
Jacksonville, Ala., was born near Montreal, Can., in 1852. He is a son of
Francis and Catharine (Lavigne) Gabuory, both of whom were natives of Canada.
The ancestors of Mr. Gaboury were among the early discoverers of America, coming
to this country in 1642, and afterward settling first in Canada. Joseph A.
Gaboury was reared and educated in Canada until he was eighteen years of age,
having attended by this time the university, and taken a classical course and a
course in civil engineering. Graduating at the age of eighteen, he remained a
short time in Canada, and was soon engaged as civil engineer on the Cincinnati
Southern railway. He aftewrard served in the same capacity on the Big Sandy
railroad; on the Fort Worth & Denver City railroad; on the Knoxville & Ohio
railroad; on the Western North Carolina railroad; on the Tidesville and Lake
Harney railroad; on the Georgia division of the East Tennessee, Virginia &
Georgia railroad; on the Blue Mountain Mineral railroad; on the Arcadia, Gulf
Coast & Lakeland railorad; on the Columbus, Ga., street railroad, and on the
Capital City street railroad, Montgomery, Ala. ; on all these railroads working
as contractor as well as engineer, except the Fort Worth & Denver City railroad.
The steet railways in Columbus, Ga., and Montgomery, Ala., he built and owned,
but afterward sold them. In 1883, he adopted electricity as a motive power and
claims to have been the first man in the United States to successfully and
practically apply electricity as a motive power, and that in Montgomery, Ala. He
is a large real estate owner and dealer, one of the largest in the state. He is
the sole owner of the Blue Mountain railroad, in connection with which he
intends opening up extensive iron beds, owned by himself. In 1876 he married
Miss Marion Dolan of Georgia, by whom he had one child - John D., Mrs. Gaboury
was born and reared in Columbus, Ga., and died in 1882. In 1884 Mr. Gaboury
married Alice O'Dwyer of Montgomery, Ala., by whom he had four children:
Francis, Charles, Arthur and Philip. The mother of these children died in 1891,
and in 1892, Mr. Gaboury married Miss Carrie Frank of Jacksonville. Both Mr. and
Mrs. Gaboury are members of the Roman Catholic church.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 594-595

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