Cherokee County AlArchives Biographies.....Burnett, James F. March 28 1856 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   JAMES F. BURNETT, a prosperous young business man of Cedar Bluff, Ala., is a
son of W. E. J. and Mary (Brandon) Burnett, and was born in Thomasville, Ga.,
March 28, 1856. W. E. J. Burnett was born in Alexandria, De Kalb county, Tenn.,
but in 1837, while yet a lad, was brought to Alabama by his parents, who settled
at Gaylesville, in the eastern part of Cherokee county, where John S. Burnett,
father of W. E. J., carried on mercantile business for a number of years, and
thence moved to Cedar Bluff, and then to Rome, Ga., where he continued in
business until his death. W. E. J. Burnett grew to manhood in Cherokee county,
was married, in 1850, near Chattoogaville, Ga., and immediately thereafter took
up his residence in Cedar Bluff, where he carried on merchandising until 1855,
and then moved to Thomasville, Ga., for the improvement of his health, but where
he died a year later, leaving a family of three sons and their mother to mourn
his loss. The children are John L., a lawyer of Centre, Ala.; W. H., in charge
of and a large stockholder in a cotton factory at Spring Garden, and James F.,
who was but three months old when his father died. The mother now lives with
this, the youngest, child. James F. was reared in Cherokee county, was educated
at the Gaylesville high school and at the Nashville Business college, and began
his business life, in 1880, as a member of the mercantile firm of R. Lawrence &
Co., at Cedar Bluff. In 1886 in partnership with his brother, John L., he
started his present general merchandise business under the firm style of James
F. Burnett & Bro., and in February, 1891, the other brother, W. H., was taken
into partnership and the firm name changed to that of Burnett Bros. The firm
have been very successful and now do a business of about $30,000 per year, and
keep constantly on hand a well selected stock of assorted merchandise, valued at
$6,000. James F. Burnett is the secretary and treasurer of the Cedar Bluff Land,
Mining & Manufacturing company, and he is personally interested in valuable
mineral lands near the town. In politics he is a democrat and is zealous in his
devotion to the party. He was delegate to the last two state conventions and
also to the congressional convention, and his influence is felt thorughout the
political circles of his county. He is a master Mason and is treasurer of Cedar
Bluff lodge, No. 486; also a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which
he is a steward, and in the Sunday school of which he is an earnest worker. The
mother of this family is a fine-looking lady, and, having been left a widow in
their infancy, has done a noble work in rearing them to a ripe maturity and
useful citizenship. His son, John L., is considered to be one of the best
lawyers of his section and has twice been a member of the house of state
representatives and once of the senate, while W. H. and J. T. are filling
substanial and respectable positions in the walks of life.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 635-636

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