Greene County AlArchives Biographies.....McQueen, Joseph P. June 22 1854 - living in 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 26, 2004, 12:25 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) HON. JOSEPH P. MCQUEEN, a prominent attorney of Eutaw, Greene county, Ala., was born in that county, June 22, 1854. He is a son of John and Sarah E. (Pickens) McQueen, John McQueen being a son of James McQueen, a native of Scotland, who early in life emigrated to the United States, and settled in Robeson county, N. C., and became an extensive planter. The wife of James McQueen was a Miss McRae, of Scotland. Mrs. Sarah E. McQueen was a daughter of Col. Joseph Pickens, of Eutaw, Ala., and a grand-daughter of the distinguished Gen. Andrew Pickens, of South Carolina, of Revolutionary fame. John McQueen was reared in Robeson county, N. C., on a farm, and when twenty-one years old he emigrated to Bennettsville, Marlboro district, S. C., where he read law and practiced his profession for a number of years. At the same time he had large agricultural interests. He represented that district for fourteen years consecutively in the congress of the United States, and was a member of that body at the time South Carolina seceded, and afterward he served four years in the congress of the Confederate States. He was recognized as one of the ablest members of that body, both by his fellow-members and by his fellow-citizens. He and his wife were the parents of three sons, viz.: John, now a lawyer of Birmingham, Ala.; James W., a resident of Birmingham, and Joseph P. John McQueen died at Society Hill, S. C., in 1867, but his wife still lives, and resides with her son, Joseph P. McQueen. Joseph P. McQueen received his early education in the common schools of both North and South Carolina, and after the death of his father he removed with his mother to Eutaw. Ala., and commenced the study of law under Chancellor James B. Clark, and continued on with Clark & Coleman when that law firm was formed. He was admitted to the bar in 1875, since which time he has been continuously engaged in the practice of his profession. Like his father before him he is a democrat in politics, and represented Greene county in the legislature of Alabama in the sessions of 1884 and 1885. For six years he was chairman of the democratic executive committee of Greene county, and he is now, and has been for several years, a member of the state democratic executive committee. He is recognized as one of the most eloquent speakers in this part of the state, and his services have been regularly brought into requisition by the democratic party in his county in all recent campaigns. He is an extensive land owner and stock dealer, and makes a specialty of breeding blooded horses and cattle, and in connection with a lucrative law practice operates a large plantation adjoining the town of Eutaw, upon which his family residence stands. Mr. McQueen was married in December, 1875, to Miss Roberta Kirksey, daughter of Robert and Anna (Parker) Kirksey, a native of Marengo county, Ala., by whom he has had five children, four of whom are living, viz.: Anna, John, Joseph P. and Robert. Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1049-1050 Published by Brant & Fuller (1893) Madison, WI This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 3.6 Kb