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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JOHN R. ROBERTSON, Banker, was born in Hale County, this State, July 28, 1842,
and is a son of Henry C. and Julia O. (Yancey) Robertson, natives of Virginia.
The senior Mr. Robertson was a planter, and died in Sumter County, this State,
in October, 1879.

  John R. Robertson attended the common schools of his immediate locality until
twelve years old, and then entered the academy for boys kept by the Rev. W. A.
Stickney, at Marion, this State. After completing a course of studies here he
went to Texas, and assumed control of a plantation which his father owned, and
was there when the war broke out. He enlisted as a private soldier in Company D,
Fifth Texas, and was promoted by regular gradation until attaining the rank of
major. He gave four years to the cause of the South, and participated in many
battles. He was wounded slightly while skirmishing around Richmond in June, 1864.

  Returning from the war in 1865, Mr. Robertson spent one year in the "Old
Dominion," and returned to Texas, where he engaged at farming for three years.
In December, 1869, he came to Demopolis, and engaged in the banking business in
partnership with Mr. R. H. Clark. After one year Mr. D. F. Prout bought out Mr.
Clark's interest, and the business was continued under the firm name of Prout &
Robertson. This commercial institution does a large business, and is rightly
regarded sis a solid concern.

  Mr. Robertson has achieved far more than the ordinary measure of success, and
being yet in the prime of manhood, there is no extravagance in asserting that a
bright future yet awaits him in his chosen field of life. He is identified with
other substantial enterprises, among which may be mentioned the Presidency of
the Demopolis Oil Mill Company, and the directorship of the Memphis & Pensacola
Railroad, a line now in process of construction.

  Mr. Robertson was married in May, 1865, to Miss Virginia, daughter of H. P.
and Mary (King) Watson, of Christian County. Ky.

  He is a member of the Episcopal Church, one of its wardens, takes an active
interest in all its affairs, and was for some years superintendent of the
Sunday-school at his home. He is also a member 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.
COTTON BELT.


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