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    SAMUEL KING McSPADDEN. Chancellor of the Northeast Division of Alabama,
resident of Centre, son of the Rev. Samuel and Rebecca (Donalson) McSpadden,
natives, respectively, of the States of Virginia and South Carolina, was born in
Warren County, Tenn., November 12, 1823. The senior McSpadden, a minister of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, died at the old homestead, in Wilson County.
Tenn., in 1860, at the age of eighty-three years. He was one of the original
agitators of the questions that led to the division of the old Presbyterian
Church and the organization of the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination. His
home was on the Cumberland River and in the bounds of the Cumberland Presbytery,
and it was from that fact that the denomination mentioned took its name.

    The subject of this sketch may be said to be a self-educated man. He learned
the saddler's trade at Winchester, Tenn., and worked at it until 1848. He came
to Alabama in 1842 and lived seven years at Talladega. While at that place he
began the study of law, pursuing the study finally under the distinguished
Samuel F. Rice, and was admitted to practice before George W. Stone, the present
Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. This was in 1848 or '49, and Mr.
McSpadden began the practice in 1850 in Cherokee County, where he has since made
his home. He entered the army as a private in the Nineteenth Alabama Infantry in
1861, and upon the final organization of that regiment was appointed its major.
In 1862, upon the return of the army from Kentucky, Major McSpadden was promoted
to lieutenant colonel. The regiment was then at Knoxville. He had commanded the
regiment from the time it left Kentucky, and at Tiillahoma he was promoted to
colonel. At Resaca he fell into the hands of the enemy, May, 1864, aud was taken
to Johnson's Island, where he was detained until March, 1865. He never again
joined his command, though he met them in Salisbury, N. C. It should have been
mentioned that Mr. McSpadden was elected to the State Senate in 1857, and that
he was a member of that body at the time he entered the army.

    Chancellor McSpadden was first elected by the Legislature, session of
1S65-6, and in 1868 the United States Congress declared him further incompetent.
This retired him to his practice, to which he devoted himself until again made
Chancellor, in 1885. He was elected to the Senate in 1882, and resigned as a
member of that body to accept the Chancellorship. In November, 1886, the
unexpired term for which he had been appointed having expired, he was regularly
elected for the ensuing term of six years.

    At Centre, Ala., June 14, 1854, Samuel King McSpadden was married to Miss
Charlcie Ann Garrett, daughter of Gen. John H. Garrett. To this union was born
one child, Lulu, now the wife of Hon. H. W. Cardon, of Centre.

    The Chancellor and Mrs. McSpadden are members of the Presbyterian Church,
and he of the Masonic fraternity.


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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