Escambia County AlArchives Biographies.....Curry, Turner W. October 15 1859 - living in 1893
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 22, 2004, 8:07 pm

Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   TURNER W. CURRY, deputy United States marshal for the southern district of
Alabama, is a native of Alabama, born in Talladega county, October 15, 1859. His
father, Thomas W. Curry, was born in Georgia in 1840, served as captain of a
cavalry company in the late war, and at this time resides a few miles east of
Talladega. He is a man of fine scholastic attainments and a most reputable
citizen of the county in which he has resided since 1865. He was married at
Auburn, Lee county, Ala., in. 1854, to Sophronia E. J. Turner, who died in 1876,
the mother of the following children: William T., Turner W., Walker, Artemisia
E., wife of David Spence, and Mary J. William Curry, father of Thomas W.,
emigrated to Talladega county in an early day from Georgia, and became the
possessor of a large tract of real estate, which he afterward divided among his
children, giving to each at marriage a valuable plantation. One of his sons,
Hon. J. L. M. Curry, now general agent of the Peabody Educational fund, has been
called the Horace Mann of the south. He is an ex-congressman, ex-minister to
Spain, and one of the leading legislators, statesmen, educators, authors and
philanthropists of the south. Turner Curry grew to manhood in his native county,
and at the age of nineteen accepted a clerkship in the mercantile establishment
of R. Nichols, in which capacity he continued one year and then engaged in
farming, and was thus Occupied for a period of three years, meeting with
gratifying success during that time. Relinquishing agricultural pursuits he went
to Birmingham, Ala., where for two years he served as a member of the city
police force, thence returned to the farm, where he resided until appointed
deputy sheriff of Talladega county. He served in the latter capacity four years,
and in 1888 was appointed deputy United States marshal for the southern district
of Alabama with headquarters at Brew-ton, and is the present incumbent of that
office. It can be stated without any qualification whatever that a more popular,
fearless and efficient public servant that Mr. Curry has never been connected
with the marshal's office in southern Alabama. His official record is, indeed, a
most creditable one, as is attested by the fact of his holding commissions from
other districts, and such is his reputation for fearlessness and bravery that he
is frequently called upon from different parts of the state to make arrests in
extreme cases where other officers have failed. A few years ago, in the county
of Randolph, he arrested and carried away five desperate "moonshiners," and
that, too, in the face of a mob of enraged sympathizers, and recently he
succeeded in breaking up a detachment of the notorious Simms gang, after killing
two of the desperadoes. He is cool and collected on occasions of danger, does
not hesitate to enforce the law at all hazards, and is said to be a "dead shot,"
but resorts to the use of arms only in the most extreme cases. Mr. Curry is a
member of the Pythian fraternity and a communicant of the Methodist church. He
married July 3, 1891, in Brewton, Annie C., daughter of C. B. Hunt, and is the
father of one child, Benjamin Walker Curry.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 955-956
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/

File size: 3.8 Kb