Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Cunningham, George A. March 23 1863 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    GEORGE A. CUNNINGHAM, of the firm of Cunningham & Blakey, pharmacists at
Selma, of which city he is a native, was born March 23, 1863. His father, Thomas
Mosby Cunningham, who was a native of Marengo county, died a few years ago at
Selma, where for many years he was en-gaged in the drug business. He began the
life of a druggist at an early age as a clerk in a drug store in Dayton, Marengo
county. He subse quently became proprietor of the same drug store and conducted
it as proprietor until a short time before the war. He then dame to Selma and
established himself here in the same business. However, Wilson's. famous raid
toward the latter part of the war reduced him to poverty, his place of business
and stock of goods being entirely destroyed. After the war he managed to resume
his drug business, and continued it with success up to the time of his death.
His widow and family still reside in Selma, highly respected by all. George A.
Cunningham was reared and educated in Selma, but after the death of his father,
with whom he became a drug clerk at the age of twelve or thirteen years, found
himself under the necessity of earning his own support, and became a clerk in a
drug store at Selma, thus defraying the expense of a six months' term at school
in a private academy at Selma. By this means he succeeded in securing a fair
literary education. For the first two years after his father's death he was a
drug clerk for different firms at Selma, and then for nine years he was clerk
for Cawthon & Coleman at Selma. He then completed a course in pharmacy at the
Philadelphia college of pharmacy, and traveled for one year for the Peaslee
Gaulbert Co., a wholesale drug firm of Louisville, Ky., through Tennessee,
Alabama, Georgia and a part of Florida. On July 1, 1891, he became associated
with R. O. Blakey, the firm name being Cunningham & Blakey. They purchased the
drug establishment owned by O. B. Heidt & Bro., and since that time have enjoyed
a large and steadily increasing trade, both wholesale and retail. Mr. Cunningham
is a young man, energetic, self-made and of high character. He is a Mason of the
Selma Fraternal lodge, No. 27, is an Odd Fellow and a member of the Episcopal
church.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 856
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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