Jefferson County AlArchives Biographies.....Chisholm, Robert October 4, 1844 - March 25, 1910 ************************************************ 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: Carolyn Golowka http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002972 June 24, 2006, 3:25 pm Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), pages 253-254 Robert Chisolm, an ex-Confederate soldier of distinction, and a member of the Birmingham bar, was born in Beaufort, S.D., October 4, 1844. He attendee Beaufort college until the age of fifteen, when he went to the Citadel Military academy at Charleston, S.C. He resigned from the academy in 1861, and went as a volunteer aid on the staff of Gen. Micah Jenkins, and afterward went to Port Royal, serving during that engagement as an aid to Col. Dunnovant, commanding the post, and was in the battle of Port Royal. Immediately after, he was brevetted a lieutenant, and was assigned to duty at the camp of instruction, near Columbia, S.C. In 1862, he was made adjutant of the Twentieth South Carolina regiment, commanded by Col. Laurence M. Keith, and resigned in July, 1862, to become captain in the provisional army of the Confederate States. He raised a company of sharpshooters, which was afterward attached to, and formed part of, the Twenty-seventh South Carolina regiment, with which regiment he remained until the war closed. He was in all the severe battles around Richmond – Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Battery Harrison, near Wilmington, N.C., Town Creek, and Bentonville; was offered promotion to the rank of major by Gen. Thomas Jordan, chief of Gen. Beauregard’s staff, but declined it on account of his age. After the war he entered the office of Gen. James Connor and studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1867, and practiced in Charleston, S.C., till 1887, in which year he removed to Birmingham, Ala. He served five years as judicial justice for Chalreston, S.D., being appointed by Gen. Wade Hampton, then governor. He is as present a member of the board of education of Birmingham, and he and his partner are attorneys for the Central Railroad and Banking company, of Georgia, and the Macon & Birmingham railroad. Mr. Chisolm was married in June, 1865, to Margaret Horry Laurens, a daughter of John Laurens, and grand-daughter of Henry Laurens, first president of the American congress, of South Carolina. They have had eight children as follows: Eliza L., John L., Alexander, R., Louisa S., Henry L., Caroline B., Heyward, and Margaret H. Mr. Chisholm is a K. P. and an Episcopalian. His father was Robert Chisolm, a native of South Carolina, and his mother was Miss Louisa Screven Guerard. Additional Comments: Robert and Margaret married on January 28, 1965. Margaret was born December 19, 1846 and died December 14, 1906. Their children were: John Lauren Chisolm, b. January 21, 1867, d. September 20, 1876 Eliza Lauren Chisolm, b. September, 1870, m. Benard Robertson Guest Robert Chislom, b. December 11, 1873, d. December 11, 1873 Margaret Horrey Laurens Chisolm, b. June 6, 1876, d. October 17, 1876 John Laurens Chisolm, b. January 1878, married Frances Moore Burwell Margaret Laurens Chisolm, b. December 5, 1878, d. May 30, 1879 Louise Screvens Chisolm, b. November 1879, d. December 20, 1958, m. Daniel Elliot Huger Alexander Robert Chisolm b. July 18, 1891 Henry Laurens Chiosolm, b. May 26, 1883, m. Marry Agnes Jackson Caroline Ball Chisolm, b. February 20, 1885, married Robert E. Cotton Heyward Chisolm, b. April 12, 1886 Margaret Horry Chisolm, b. July 27, 1891, d. November 12, 1919, m. George Legrand Watkins File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/jefferson/bios/chisholm38nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb