Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Whetstone, James H. 1853 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    JAMES H. WHETSTONE, of the firm of Stringfellow, Whetstone & Co. of
Anniston, Calhoun county, Ala., was born in Autauga county in 1853, a son of
Lewis M. and Mary (Herrman) Whetstone. The father was a native of South
Carolina, born in 1808, and came to Alabama in 1820 and settled in Autauga
county and followed farming all his life. He was a son of William H. Whetstone.
Mrs. Mary J. Whetstone was a daughter of John G. and Maria Herrman. The
grandfather was a native of Switzerland, but drifted into France while quite
young and espoused Napoleon Bonaparte's cause and fought with him at Moscow and
the battle of Waterloo, and was also present at the time Napoleon returned to
France from the Isle of Elba and fought with him till the last. After the battle
of Waterloo he came to the United States and landed at Mobile, and then moved to
Vernon, where he remained many years. He lived to be eighty-six years of age.
James H. Whetstone attended the university of the South one and a half sessions
and then began agricultural pursuits, and in 1876 he went to Montgomery and
accepted a position as salesman in a store, where he remained until 1882, when
he removed to Anniston and engaged in mercantile business, and in 1886 formed a
partnership with W. W. Stringfellow and engaged in the lumber and building
material business, and since that time has conducted a large trade; they also
run a large planing mill and turn out all kinds of building material; they also
deal in coal. In 1882, Mr. Whetstone married Mary Beasley, daughter of Joseph
and Carolina Beasley. Mrs. Whetstone was born in Lowndes county, Ala. Mr.
Whetstone is one of the leading and wide-awake business men of the city, and he
and wife are members of the Episcopal church.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 622

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