Etowah-Bullock County AlArchives Biographies.....Tanner, James L. 1858 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JAMES L. TANNER, prominent young Attorney-at-law, Gadsden, Ala., a native of
Macon County, this State, son of Lemuel H. and Ophelia (Masters) Tanner, was
born September 18, 1858. The senior Mr. Tanner, a Georgian by birth, was an
extensive planter; came to Alabama in 1844, settled in Macon, now Bullock
County, and from there entered the Confederate Army, wherein he served gallantly
as a  member of the  Third Alabama, in General Lee's army, for three years or
more in the late war. He was a prominent Freemason, and a consistent member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He died at Union Springs July 13, 1885.
His widow yet survives him, and resides at Tallassee, this State. The Tanners
are of French and English extraction, and the Masters are descendants from the
English and Irish.

  The subject of this sketch was reared at Union Springs and educated at the
State University of Alabama, graduating from the law department, class of 1880.
For a short time before entering college he was on the road as a traveling man,
selling dry goods, and, after graduating, was connected for a while with the
Eufaula Times and News. In February, 1881, he opened a law office at Union
Springs, and from there, in June, 1883, came to Gadsden. Here he formed a
partnership, in May, 1887, with Hon. Wm. H. Denson. At this writing (1888)
Denson & Tanner are recognized as the leading law firm at the Gadsden bar. He is
a member of Governor Seay's staff.

  Mr. Tanner was married, December, 1886, to Miss Sallie Ward, daughter of Mrs.
Sarah Ward, widow of O. W. Ward, deceased, of this city.


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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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