Fayette County AlArchives Biographies.....Peters, Robert Frierson October 11 1862 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    ROBERT FRIERSON PETERS, attorney-at-law, of Fayette, Fayette county, Ala.,
was born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., October 11, 1862. He is the eldest of four
children born to Benjamin F. and Ada M. (Frierson) Peters, the former a native
of South Carolina and the latter of Tennessee. The father was a Presbyterian
minister of distinction, and is still living at the age of seventy-five. His
parents were Jordan and Elizabeth 'Crews) Peters, both of South Carolina. The
parents of Mrs. Ada M. Peters were Robert and Mary C. (McCrea) Frierson, of
Tennessee. Benjamin F. Peters occupied a prominent position in the public eye
while a resident of Fayette county, being superintendent of instruction in the
county, as well as a popular minister of the gospel. Robert F. Peters was reared
in Fayette county, and educated by his father, who is a graduate of the
university of Virginia. At the age of twenty-four he entered the university of
Alabama, and graduated in 1887 from the department of law. He immediately began
practice at Fayette Court House, where he has since remained, and where he now
has a very large and lucrative practice. He also takes an active part in the
politics of the county. He was appointed by Gov. Seay, in 1887, circuit clerk,
and has filled that office up to the present time. In 1892 he was a candidate
for the position of representative in the legislature from Fayette county. He is
now county solicitor. He is a very popular young man in the county in which he
lives. He was married June 2, 1891, to Miss Lena Jones, daughter of James B.
Jones. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, and of the Masonic fraternity.
He is also a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and is a liberal
supporter of all public enterprises that are worthy of support.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1025
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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