Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Thomason, Robert P. 1851 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    ROBERT P. THOMASON, Merchant and Banker, Oxford, was born in Harris County,
Ga., December 21, 1851, and is the son of John Thomason, a planter, who came to
Alabama in 1853, lived in Tallapoosa County till 1868, and removed thence to
Elmore County, where he now resides.

    The subject of this sketch spent the first seventeen years of his life on
his father's plantation in Tallapoosa County, and by dint of perseverance and
application to study, without the aid of professional instruction, acquired
something like an elementary education. He began life for himself as a salesman,
at the age of seventeen years, and at the age of twenty-one embarked in business.

    From 1879 to 1883, he "drummed" for a New York grocery house, and in the
latter year established the wholesale grocery business over which he now
presides at Oxford.

    This was the first jobbing concern opened up in this part of the State, and
from a limited affair, with a capital of $10,000, it has grown until its trade
reaches throughout Northeastern Alabama and into Georgia, and now employs a
capital of $100,000. The style of the company at present is C. J. Cooper & Co.

    In addition to his mercantile business, Mr. Thomason is largely interested
in real estate at Oxford and Anniston, and in the banking house recently
established in connection with his grocery concern.

    Remembering the fact that young Thomason came to Oxford penniless, the
preceding details need no comment at our hands to elaborate his success as a
business man.

    Mr. Thomason, in July 1875, at Talledaga, married Miss Mary Scott, the
accomplished daughter of Wm. Scott, Esq.

    The senior Mr. Thomason was a gallant Confederate soldier during the late
war; his father served through the war with Mexico, and his grandfather was a
Revolutionary soldier. His great-grandfather, Cooper Thomason, came from
Scotland prior to the War for Independence, and settled in Virginia, where he
lived to the remarkable age of 104 years. Old Cooper Thomason had eight or nine
sons in the Colonial Army during the Revolution.

    It might be remarked that the war record of the Thomasons is also a matter
that needs no elaboration at the hands of the writer.

    They all appear to have been well-to-do planters.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.

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