Colbert County AlArchives Biographies.....Almon, Edward Berton April 18 1860 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   EDWARD BERTON ALMON is one of the prominent attorneys of Tuscumbia, Ala., and
is a member of the law firm of Kirk & Almon, was born at Moulton, April 18,
1860. He is a son of George W. and Nannie (Eubank) Almon. He was reared on a
farm and attended the common schools until he was about seventeen years of age,
at which time he entered the state normal school at Florence, graduating from
that institution, and also graduating in 1883 from the university of Alabama. He
began the study of law with his brother and was admitted to the bar at Bel
Green, Franklin county, in 1884. He practiced there one year and then located at
Tuscumbia and practiced alone until 1886, when he formed a partnership with
James T. Kirk, under the, firm name of Kirk & Almon, which is one of the leading
law firms in north Alabama, and enjoys a lucrative practice. Mr. Almon has been
identified more or less with politics, and has served as chairman of the
democratic executive committee of Colbert county. He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Knights of Honor, and is also
a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. Mr. Almon's father, George W.
Almon, was born at Pulaski, Tenn., in 1817, and came to Alabama in 1822, and
settled in Lawrence county. Here he received a common English education, and
followed farming for a livelihood. His wife was born in Huntsville, Ala., in
1822, and is the daughter of Thomas Eubank, a native of Virginia. Edward B.
Almon was married December 13, 1887, to Miss Luie Clopper of Tuscumbia, and has
two children, Lottie and Louise. Mr. Almon was nominated in 1892 by the
democratic party for state senator from the thirty-first senatorial district,
composed of Colbert, Franklin and Marion counties, and in the election in August
was elected by a majority of 1,090 votes, carrying each one of the counties. His
opponent was a Kolb or Jeffersonian democrat, and the canvass was a spirited
one, extending over thirty days. Mr. Almon canvassed the entire district, and
carried Colbert county, which had usually gone republican, by 500 majority, that
having previously been its usual republican majority, and was recognized as one
of the ablest, best and most popular men in the Alabama senate.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 686-687

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