Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Smith, Algernon L. 1868 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   ALGERNON L. SMITH, president of the Barbour machine works, was born in
Prattville, Autauga county, Ala. in 1868. He is a son of B. F. and Sarah A.
(Holt) Smith, the former of whom was a manufacturer of sash, doors and blinds at
Prattville, Ala. B. F. Smith was a son of Daniel and Hannah (Tuck) Smith. Mrs.
Sarah A. Smith was a daughter of Daniel and Eliza (Pratt) Holt. Algernon L.
Smith was raised in Prattville, and attended Howard college two years, but was
compelled to leave college on account of ill health. He then traveled in the
interest of the Prattville cotton gin from 1886 to 1889, when he settled down in
Anniston and became connected with the Barbour machine works at that place.
These works were established in 1882 at Eufaula, Ala., with a capital of
$50,000, but were removed to Anniston in 1888. Robert J. Woods was then
president of the company: William Petry was made secretary and treasurer and
Algernon L. Smith vice president, but in 1892 Mr. Smith was made secretary,
treasurer and general manager, and in 1893 was made president, which position he
still retains. These works employ about forty hands, and manufacture cotton
gins, cotton presses, feeders, condensers, cotton seed crushers and the perfect
cotton elevator system, and one of the most valuable industries in Anniston. Mr.
Smith, for so young a man, has developed admirable business qualifications, and.
his services are properly appreciated.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 617

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