Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Whiteside, William W. 1858 - ************************************************ 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: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 September 9, 2011, 10:02 am Source: See below Author: Smith & De Land, publishers WILLIAM W. WHITESIDE, prominent Attorney-at-law, Oxford, is a native of what is now Calhoun County, this State, where he was born February 13, 1858. His early life was spent on his father's plantation and in attendance at the old-field school, completing his education, however, at Oxford College, from which institution he was graduated in 1879. Prior to his graduation he taught school and, in the meantime, read law. He completed his law studies at Cumberland University, Tenn., in 1881, and located immediately in the practice at Oxford, where he has since remained. In the practice of his profession he has met with much success, and, though a young man, he is at this time regarded as one of the brightest lights at the Calhoun Bar. In 1884 he was elected to the lower house of the Legislature, and in that body took a conspicuous part, acquiting himself with much credit and to the entire satisfaction of his constituency. Mr. Whiteside was married at Alexandria, December. 1884, to Miss Alice Cooper, the accomplished daughter of W. P. Cooper, Esq., and has had born to him two children: William Cooper and Kenneth Whittington. Mr. Whiteside and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is identified with the order of the Knights of Honor and the Masonic fraternity. Josiah W. Whiteside, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a native of North Carolina, and came with his parents in 1837 to Alabama; his wife was Elizabeth J. Small, a native of McMinn County, Tenn. She died in 1873, leaving four children, viz.: Lizzie, James M., Joseph, and William W. His second wife, Amanda Little, of Calhoun County, to whom he was married in the fall of 1875, is the mother of one child: Worth. The Whiteside family are probably of English origin, and came into North Carolina at a very early date in the history of our country. John Whiteside, the grandfather to the subject of this sketch, was a native of North Carolina, and his wife was a Miss Hemphill; they reared a family of six sons and two daughters: J. W. Leander, Adolphus, Thomas, William J., James M., Mary, and Ellen. Mary married Dr. S. C. Williams; she and her husband are both dead. William W. Whiteside's grandfather, Matthew Small, was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister. He married a Miss Buchanan, at McMinn, Tenn., and settled in Alabama about 1835. In 1845 he moved into De Kalb County, and in 1875 located at Sulphur Springs. He died in 1883. He reared a family of four sons and two daughters. His sons were all soldiers in the Confederate Army. The Small family came originally from Scotland. 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/calhoun/bios/whitesid872gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb