Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Gatchell, Edward Samuel December 27 1863 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   EDWARD SAMUEL GATCHELL, a young, popular and successful business man of
Selma, was born in this city, December 27, 1863. His father, Henry, well known
as "Harry" Gatchell, was born in Ireland and died at Selma, in 1869, in the
prime of life. He was of a family of two sons and five daughters, and was the
only one of the family who immigrated to the United States or ever married. Soon
after coming to Alabama he married Miss Susan J. King, a native of Alabama. She
yet survives, and lives with her son, Edward S. There were three sons, all of
whom are living. Of these, Harry Gatchell was a mechanic by trade; during the
war he was master mechanic for the Alabama & Tennessee River railroad at Selma,
but at the time of his death he had been, for several years, city clerk of
Selma, where he is yet remembered as a popular, cultured and highly esteemed
gentleman. He was a Mason of high standing. Edward S. Gatchell was reared in
Selma, and by reason of the early death of his father, and the moderate
circumstances in which the family was left at his death, found it necessary to
divide his time between labor for a livelihood and attending school, the former
receiving by far the larger portion of his time. Notwithstanding this, he
secured a fair literary education, and attended the Dallas academy. For three
years he remained in the office of J. C. Graham & Co., cotton merchants, and
then attended school for a brief season. He then took a position as clerk in the
drug store of Cawthon & Coleman, of Selma, with which firm he remained two
years. During the winter of 1879-80 he attended Prof. Callaway's school at
Selma, and in July, 1880, he went into the store of Brooks & Wilkins, druggists,
at Selma, with whom he remained until 1883, becoming, in the meantime, a
licensed druggist. In 1883 he became an express messenger with the Southern
Express eompany, remaining with that company until 1885, enjoying the entire
confidence of the company. From 1885 to 1887 he was a clerk in the wholesale
grocery store of H. C. Keeble & Co., at Selma, and in 1887 he became the
Baltimore & Ohio Express company's first agent at Selma, holding the position
until September, 1887, when, on account of having become associated with Walter
S. Butler in the book and stationery business in 1886, he found it necessary to
devote his whole time to this business, and now, as a member of the firm of
Butler & Gatchell, book dealers and stationers, he exhibits unusual tact and
business capacity as business manager for one of his age. On March 6, 1888, Mr.
Gatchell married Miss Minnie S. Taylor, of Montgomery, Ala. He is a Knight
Templar Mason, has been grand royal arch captain of the grand chapter of royal
arch Masonry of the state of Alabama; he is high priest of St. John chapter, No.
28, and senior warden of Selma Fraternal lodge, No 27. He is also an Old Fellow,
and a member of the Presbyterian church. He is an elder in the church and
represented his presbytery as a delegate to the general assembly held at Hot
Springs; Ark., in 1892, an honor that seldom comes to so young a man.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 873-874
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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