Etowah County AlArchives Biographies.....Elliott, James M. Jr. 1854 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JAMES M. ELLIOTT, Jr., Manufacturer, Gadsden, Ala., was born in Rome, Ga.,
November 12, 1854, there attended the common schools, and graduated in 1874,
from Emory and Henry College, Virginia. Leaving school, he engaged in steamboat
business, and, in connection with lumber manufacture, continued thereat until
1885. Since the latter year, having closed out his steamboat interest, he has
given his entire attention to the production of and traffic in lumber. From 1883
to 1886 he operated in lumber in Alabama, Kansas and Texas, and in 1887
organized the Elliott Car Company, of which he is president and general manager.
He is also connected with the Kyle Lumber Company and the Elliott Pig Iron
Company. In January, 1878 he married Miss Nena Kyle, the accomplished daughter
of Col. Robert Kyle, of Gadsden.

  Mr. Elliott is a son of James M. and Emily J. (Hoss) Elliott, natives,
respectively, of Virginia and Alabama. J. M. Elliott, Sr., settled at Rome, Ga.,
in 1847, and from that time until 1881 was in the steamboat business on the
Coosa River. He was the second man that ever ran a boat on this river. He began
life a poor boy, but at this writing he is possessed of a handsome competency.
In 1871, he organized the Round Mountain Pig Iron Works, and was the general
superintendent of that concern a number of years. He is now the president of the
Elliott Pig Iron Company, located at Round Mountain. His forefathers were among
the early settlers of Virginia. He has reared a family of three sons and three
daughters. The sons are all active business men, and the daughters, with one
exception, are married.


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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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