Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Mooring, John S. 1862 - ************************************************ 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: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 15, 2004, 12:58 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) JOHN S. MOORING, president of the Anniston National bank, was born in Sumter county, Ala., in 1862. He is a son of James A. and Martha A. (Scott) Mooring, the former of whom was born in 1840 in North Carolina and came to Alabama in 1841. He and his wife were parents of three children, only one of whom is living, John S. Mooring. James A. Mooring served during the war in the commissary department of the Con federate army and after the war was over was elected to the legislature from Sumter county, being the first democrat elected from that county after the war. He was a son of John W. Mooring, a farmer by occupation. John S. Mooring was reared in Sumter county, Ala., and removed to Mobile in 1870 with his parents. He at once entered the Mobile schools and in 1874, at the age of twelve years, he entered Emory and Henry college of Virginia and graduated in 1878. He then spent one year at the university of Virginia. In 1879 he was elected professor of mathematics in Bowdoin college, being then only eighteen years of age and the youngest professor in the state. In 1880 he resigned and embarked in the mercantile business at Meridian, Miss., remaining there five years. He then removed to Anniston, and at first accepted a position as book-keeper for the Clifton Iron company, and in January, 1888, he was elected secretary and treasurer of the company. This position he resigned in 1890, and in March of that year he was elected chashier of the Anniston National bank, then just organized. On the death of the president of the bank, in May, 1890, he was elected to succeed Mr. S. A. Wood in that position, and he has continued in that place ever since. At that time he was the youngest bank president in the state, being but twenty-eight years old. In 1882 he married Margaret J. Love, daughter of Lorenzo and Sarah A. Love, and to this union there has been born one child, Theodore A. Mrs. Love was born in Marion, Ala., in 1863. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mooring are members of the Baptist church. He is one of Anniston's most progessive citizens and has the universal respect of all who know him. Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 604 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb