Escambia County AlArchives Biographies.....Downing, Wiley W. November 15 1860 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    WILEY W. DOWNING, eldest son of Elisha and Esther M. Downing, was born
November 15, 1860, in Conecuh county, Ala. After obtaining an elementary
education in the common schools, he entered, at the age of sixteen, the
Richardson Cadet school at Mobile, which he attended two years and then became a
student in the Southern university at Greensboro, Ala., where he pursued his
studies for a period of three years. Later, he attended college at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., where he graduated in December, 1882, after which he returned home and
accepted a position as custom-house clerk with Bares & Downing, in whose employ
he continued about nine months. He then engaged with his father at Brewton, and
some months later went to Texas, where he spent the greater part of a year,
returning at the end of his tour to Escambia county, thence removing to
Ellsville, Miss., where for some time he was engaged in the lumber business. His
next venture was in the mercantile business at Orange Home, Fla., where he
conducted a very satisfactory trade for a few months, and then, returning to
Brewton, accepted a position with the Cedar Creek milling company, in which he
subsequently purchased a third interest, which he still owns. Mr. Downing is a
cultured gentleman of pleasant address, has a large circle of friends in
Escambia county, and is one of Brewton's most intelligent and progressive
citizens. In 1887, December 27, he wedded Miss Annie M. Ferara, the beautiful
and highly accomplished daughter of S. Ferara, of Pensacola, Fla. Mr. and Mrs.
Downing have two interesting children, Wiley W. and Annie M. Politically, Mr.
Downing is a democrat; fraternally, a member of the Masonic order, and in
religion, a Methodist. Mrs. Downing belongs to the Catholic church.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 962
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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