Hale County AlArchives Biographies.....Chadwick, Shelby W. September 26 1842 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    SHELBY W. CHADWICK was born in Hale, then Greene, county, Ala., September
26, 1842. He is a son of Shelby W. and Mary A. (Meredith ) Chadwick, the former
of whom was a native of Greenup county, Ky., and a son of John Chadwick, a
native of England. He was an early Kentucky settler, and a soldier of the
Revoutionary war. He was the father of four sons and three daughters, and
followed farming for a livelihood. His son, Shelby W. Chadwick, was raised in
Kentucky, and came to Alabama in 1832, when a young man, locating in Greensboro,
where he carried on merchandising for several years, and died in 1854, aged
forty years. He was a volunteer in the Creek Indian war. He was married in 1839
to Mary A. Meredith, who was born in Madison county, Ala., and was a, daughter
of Elisha W. and Sarah Bowling (Cabell) Meredith, both of whom belonged to
prominent families of Virginia. She was reared in Sumter county, Ala., bore her
husband four sons, and died in 1868. The eldest son went to Texas before the
Civil war broke out, took part in that war with a Texas command, and died in
1867. Two other sons are now residents of Texas. Shelby W. Chadwick was reared
in Greensboro, and was in attendance at the Southern university when the Civil
war broke out. He then entered the Greensboro guards, and served with then
throughout the war. April 2, 1865, he was taken prisoner along with a, portion
of his regiment, and held until the close of hostilities. He then returned to
Greensboro, and served as clerk for a number of years, when he began
merchandising on his own account. He continued in the mercantile business until
1879. In 1880 he was elected county treasurer of Hale county, and by successive
re-elections, held the office twelve years. He is a democrat in politics, and
had served previous to his election as county treasurer, as councilman and
treasurer of Greensboro. He is an official member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, south. He is secretary of the Southern university, is a master Mason and
a Knight of Pythias. He was married in 1855 to Miss Jane Cammack, who was born
in Hale county, and who has borne her husband six children, the eldest son, John
Chadwick, being a licensed pastor in the Methodist Episcopal church, south, of
which the family are members. In 1886, Mr. Chadwick began a private exchange and
collection business in Greensboro, and he has since continued in that line. He
also represents several old line fire insurance companies, having been in the
insurance business since 1880. For twenty years he has been steward and
recording secretary of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, at Greensboro, and
for the last seven years he has been superintendent of the Sunday school.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1055-1056
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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