Elmore County AlArchives Biographies.....Austin, William A. September 19 1848 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   EX-JUDGE WILLIAM A. AUSTIN, of Wetumpka, Elmore county, Ala., was born in
Newton county, Ga., September 19, 1848, and when a child was brought to Alabama
by his parents, who settled in that part of Coosa, county now known as Elmore
county. The father of the judge was Taliaferro L. Austin, a native of North
Carolina, who married Elizabeth H. Loyall, of Georgia, and died in 1884. As a
boy the judge attended school in Elmore county up to the beginning and for a
while during the progress of the Civil war, and from 1861 to 1864, in Newton
county, Ga., whither his father had returned, coming back at a later period to
Elmore county, Ala., where the son pursued his studies until he was about the
age of nineteen years, when he left school to assist on the home farm in Elmore
county. At the age of twenty-three he left the home place to do farming on his
own account. From 1880 onward, for some years, he was a member of the Elmore
county democratic executive committee; in 1884-5-6, he was a justice of the
peace of beat No. 12, and in September, 1888, he was appointed by Gov. Thomas
Seay, probate judge of Elmore county, to fill out the four years' unexpired term
of J. A. Lancaster, removed. In March, 1892, he was nominated, on the democratic
ticket, for the same office by a majority of 700, but was defeated by a
combination. On his retirement from office, he resumed farming, which he had
relinquished in 1888, to assume the judgeship. The judge is a Knight of
Phythias, a Knight of Honor, and is a member of the Missionary Baptist church.
He was married, in 1873, to Miss Susan F., daughter of Frank Simms, ex-treasurer
of Coosa county, and to this union have been born seven, children, viz.:
Taliaferro (called Tollie, familiarly), Frank S., Grace, Maxwell, William A.,
Bessie K. and Ola G. The judge is considered to be one of the most skillful
agriculturists of his neighborhood, and as a, citizen and official he has the
respect of the entire community.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 933-934
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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