Etowah County AlArchives Biographies.....Slack, J. C. October 19 1850 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    DR. J. C. SLACK, one of the leading citizens and a prominent physician of
Gadsden, Ala., was born in Meriwether county, Ga., October 19, 1850, the son of
J. W. and Susan E. (Edwards) Slack. His father was a native of Georgia, where he
lived until 1854, when he removed to Gadsden, making that his home until his
death, which occurred in 1885. He was an able lawyer, and was admitted to the
Georgia bar at about twenty-one years of age. In after years he was known as a
thorough educator, and taught school at Gadsden many years prior to the war. He
was a representative man of the community, a democrat in politics, but never
held office. He was a member of Gen. Forrest's cavalry during the war, but was
not long in the service on account of failing health. He had a family of eleven
children; two of the daughters married and died in a few years, each leaving one
daughter, namely: Fannie B. and E. Dannie Hodges. The eldest brother, Eugene,
volunteered at the outbreak of the war, and though but sixteen years,
distinguished himself as a brave and gallant soldier. He died of fever shortly
after the battle of Fort Donelson, and several of the children died in the great
diphtheria scourge of 1872. Only two of the children are now living, Dr. J. C.
Slack and his brother, Ed Slack, of Gadsden, a man of untiring energy and marked
business capacity. The last named has five daughters and one son, Charles H. The
mother (Mrs. S. E. Slack) for many years was one of the leading teachers of
Gadsden, and now lives at the old homestead in quiet retirement: Dr. Slack
received his preparatory education at Gadsden, and studied medicine in 1868 with
Dr. W. H. Howell and in 1871-2 he attended the Louisville medical college, and
again in 1879-80, graduating in the spring of 1880, and has practiced
continually since. He was married in the fall of 1873 to Miss Mary Hodges, of
Ashville, Ala., and they have become the parents of five children, namely: John
R., Eugene Burton, Walter Willard, E. Paul and Guy Alfred. The mother died in
the spring of 1886, and the doctor married, in 1889, Miss Laura O. Freeman, of
Cherokee county, and they have one child, Estelle. The doctor is a member of the
firm of Day & Slack, proprietors of the Parlor drug store, in Gadsden. He owns a
large farm in Cherokee county. Is a democrat in politics, a Knight Templar, and
is, a consistent member of the Baptist church.



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

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