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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JOHN WESLEY DuBOSE, A. M., was born in Marengo County, Ala., October 31, 1849,
and is a son of Joel C. and Esther G. (Cleland) DuBose, natives of Darlington
District, South Carolina.

  The senior Mr. DuBose was a merchant in early life at Charleston, S. C. He
came to Alabama in 1838, settled in Marengo County, and as he owned a large
number of slaves, turned his attention to farming. He served his county in
various offices, and was a very popular Whig in politics. He was the only member
of that party ever elected to office in that county. He and his wife were
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They reared four sons and three
daughters, to-wit: Joseph L., served in Stewart's Cavalry during the war and
died in the West; Maybank D., teacher in Alabama, served in General Rhodes'
Brigade in Virginia, and was wounded at Spotsylvania and Snicker's Gap; Abner
G., a farmer and merchant near Corsicana, Texas; and the subject of this sketch.
Mr. DuBose died in 1858, at the age of fifty-six years, and his wife in 1864.
Mrs. DuBose was of Scotch-Irish descent.

  The subject of this sketch was reared in his native county, attended schools
near Linden, and when a youth was sent to Goodman Institute, where he remained
several years. The Southern University of Greensboro, Ala., in 1874, conferred
upon him the Master of Arts degree. Since 1880 to the present time he has been
continuously in charge of the Gadsden Public Institute.

  Professor DuBose before coming to Gadsden was Superintendent of Sumter County,
and since coming here, he has been Superintendent of Etowah County. He was
married in October, 1817, to Miss Lizzie Lake Cobbs, the accomplished daughter
of Judge James Cobbs, of Mobile, Ala., and has had born to him four children:
Edgar L. (deceased), Maggie C., John W., Jr., and James Guerin.

  Professor DuBose and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
the Professor is of the Masonic fraternity. He is the author of the history of
Gadsden and Etowah County, as published in this volume, and it will be found to
be one of the most accurate, as well as one of the most readable chapters in the
book.



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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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