Etowah County AlArchives Biographies.....Gaither, George F. March 6 1854 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    GEORGE F. GAITHER, one of the leading representatives of the alliance party,
was born March 6, 1854, in Tishomingo county, Miss., the son of Richard and
Matilda (Thompson) Gaither. His mother died there when he was sixteen years of
age, and his father removed to Etowah county, Ala. He was educated in his native
state and commenced life as a teacher, and taught for fifteen years. He has been
identified with the alliance movement in Alabama since its inception. In 1888,
he was elected secretary and treasurer of the alliance exchange, and a year
later was re-elected to that office. In 1890, he was made general manager and
served a year in that position, declining re-election to this office, and is now
a director. He was the only man in Alabama who responded to the call for a
national people's party convention in May, 1891, at Cincinnati, and was elected
as a member of the national executive committee and attended the St. Louis
convention, in February, 1892, and the Omaha convention in July following. He
has been elected chairman of the state executive committee of the party in
Alabama, and as such called to order the Birmingham convention of September,
1892. He was one of the electors on the Weaver ticket, and stumped the state. He
was married on the 7th of December, 1872, to Sarah E. Thompson, by whom he has
five children: Italia, wife of L. D. Cole, Jr., Nora Agnes; George F., Jr., Rex
S. and Quinton Orestes. He is an Odd Fellow and a Mason, in both of which
organizations he has held office, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church. He engages in farming, and has a plantation of about 623 acres. In 1886,
he was elected county superintendent of Etowah county, but declined re-election
in 1890.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1015-1016
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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