Etowah County AlArchives Biographies.....Pope, Benjamin F. March 9 1840 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    BENJAMIN F. POPE, solicitor of the city court of Gadsden, is the son of
Burwell T. and Johanna T. (Lester) Pope. The family is of English descent. The
father, who was himself a lawyer and a circuit judge, moved to Wetumpka in 1838,
where Benjamin F. was born March 9, 1840. His father was elected a member of
congress in 1865 but refused the iron-clad oath and died May 8, 1868, from a
disease brought on by excitement over his arrest for not permitting negroes to
be called for jurors in his court. Of the father's family there were eight
children, only three of whom are living, viz.: Benjamin F. and his sisters,
Sarah, M. E., widow of Richmond Hammond, Attalla, Ala., and Lula R. Pope,
Birmingham, Ala. The mother of these children died in 1870. Benjamin F. Pope was
educated at Ashville and studied law with his father, but had taught school
several years previously, in the Ashville academy. He was admitted to practice
in 1859, and went into partnership with his father. He removed to Gadsden in
1861, and was married that year to Sarah E. Germany, and the union was blessed
with ten children, seven of whom are now living: William B., traveling man for a
wholesale house of Atlanta; James W., president of Enterprise Lumber company;
Joseph Walter, secretary and treasurer of Gress Lumber company, Atlanta, Ga.;
John O., student in dentistry; Ada O.; Louis Wyeth and Wesley M. Mr. Pope has
made one of the foremost citizens and reliable business men of Gadsden. He is
now solicitor of the city court. In his political opinions he is a democrat. He
has taken nine degrees in Masonry, has held various offices in the grand and
subordinate bodies of Masonry in his state and was grand master of the grand
council in 1888.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1018
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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