Etowah County AlArchives Biographies.....Richardson, William Hall April 6 1849 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    REV. WILLIAM HALL RICHARDSON, at present a well-known local divine of the
Presbyterian church, at Gadsden, Ala., was born in Kentucky, April 6, 1849, the
son of Dr. Samuel B. and Eliza J. (Price) Richardson. The family is an English
one, but of long residence in America, the American founders of the family
having settled in Maryland, Virginia and one of the Carolinas. The father of
Rev. William H. Richardson was one of the most eminent surgeons of his day. He
was born in Warren county, Va., the son of Samuel and Catherine (Hall)
Richardson, October 11, 1803. He received a fine literary education in the Old
Dominion and in Lexington,, Ky., and began the study of medicine with an elder
brother, and afterward attended the Transylvania university of Lexington, Ky.,
graduating in 1826. The following year he took the medical degree at
Philadelphia. He went to Paris, shortly after, and spent a, year there,
completing his medical education. His practice was all in the cities of
Lexington and Louisville, Ky., where he was known as one of the leading
physicians and surgeons of his day. He died August 18, 1864. His family
consisted of seven children, as follows: Kate, Edmund T., John B., a physician
of Louisville, Ky.; Bainbridge, Samuel, William H., Juliet E., wife of Luke
Malone of Chicago, Ill. The mother of these children survived the father several
years. Rev. William H. Richardson was educated at the university of Virginia and
at the university of Berlin, and at Saxe-Weimar, Germany, at a private school.
He was thoroughly classical in his education, so far as his studies were
concerned. He abandoned the idea of practicing law, and entered the celebrated
theological seminary at Hampden-Sidney, Va., where he spent two years and then
entered actively on the ministry. He shortly after came to Alabama and was
ordained a minister of the Southern Presbyterian church, at Selma, in the fall
of 1876. Since that time he has been a pastor at Mobile, Uniontown and Marion.
He had the distinguished honor of being a delegate of the southern general
assembly at the Pan-Presbyterian alliance in 1884, which met at Belfast,
Ireland. In perfecting himself in his education he has traveled much, has been
three times to Europe and twice to Canada, once to Cuba, and has traveled
extensively in Africa. Mr. Richardson has been twice married, first in
Shelbyville, Ky., in 1872, to Maggie B., daughter of Rev. D. T. Stewart, a
prominent educator and Presbyterian divine. By this marriage he has two
daughters, Ada and Olivia, both living. The first wife died in 1887, and he was
married on July 30, 1889, at Marion, Ala., to May, daughter of Charles Lovelace.
The family of Lovelace was an old and aristocratic one of Virginia. Two children
were born to this union, Estelle and William H., Jr. Mr. Richardson is a
democrat in politics, and took a course of law at the university of Tuscaloosa,
Ala. Dr. Samuel B. Richardson, the father of William H., was one of the best
surgeons in this country. It was for the purpose of perfecting himself in that
branch of his profession that he went to Paris, and while there his
opportunities were most excellent. Some of the greatest surgeons of all times
were his preceptors, Velpeau, Amusat, Dubois, Ricord, of Paris, and Sir Astley
Cooper, of London. "With such advantages, and with the knowledge he had acquired
on this side of the Atlantic, conjoined with superb native talent, illimitable
ambition, ample pecuniary means, untiring energy and application to study, and
an insatiate passion for the profession of his choice; what wonder that Dr.
Samuel B. Richardson had few equals and no professional superiors in the land of
his birth."



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1018-1020
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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