Jefferson-Sumter County AlArchives Biographies.....Altman, John J. August 17, 1851 - 
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Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), page 245-246

“John J. Altman was born among the refined and cultivated people of Sumter 
county, Ala., August 17, 1851.  He is the son of John W. Altman, who came from 
South Carolina, and settled in Sumter county, in 1836.  He married Sarah Hitt 
of South Carolina.  Young Altman commenced life as a farmer’s boy, who is 
ofttimes the architect of his own amusement.  He obtained his primary education 
at the schools of his own neighborhood, and at the age of sixteen began to 
teach in his native town, to enable him to prosecute his own further studies.  
When he had accumulated some funds, he attended Cooper’s institute, in east 
Mississippi.  Later he took a course of law lectures at the university of 
Virginia. In 1871 he opened a law office in Butler, Ala., the county seat of 
Choctaw county, and was associated in the practice with Chancellor Cobbs, now 
chancellor of the western chancery division of Alabama.  After four years of 
practice at that place he went to Birmingham, and became the partner of Capt. 
Sprott, until 1883.  He was a democratic elector from the sixth congressional 
district when Cleveland was elected president the first time, and was mayor of 
Livingston, Sumter county seven years.”

Additional Comments:
In the 1900 US Census, Jefferson County, Birmingham Ward 6, page 215A, lines 33-
37 is found John J. Altman, a lawyer, his wife, Cora A., born April 1852, and 
children Ida L, age 23, John W., age 21, and Addie B., age 16



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