Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Fort, Lewis P. July 22 1852 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   LEWIS P. FORT, merchant of Bridges, was born July 22, 1852. He is a son of B.
J. Fort, whose biographical memoir appears elsewhere in this work. He received
when young a country school education, and then attended Erskine college, at Due
West, S. C., during the junior year. He then returned to Bridges, his native
town, where he has since resided as a farmer, merchant, stock raiser and hotel
keeper, limiting himself, however, for the last four years to the business of a
general merchant, and. that of a hotel keeper. His business in the former line
amounts to about $5,000 per annum. He was married in 1877 to Miss Lila Gilmer of
Dallas county. In politics he is a democrat. He is a member of the order of
Knights of Pythias, and he is a master Mason. In religion he is a member of the
Presbyterian church.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 869
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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