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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  REV. MARTIN LUTHER FRIERSON, Pastor of the Florence Presbyterian Church, and
Professor of English in the State Normal School at this place, was born in
Williamsburg County, S. C., May 6, 1838. His parents were Daniel and Jane
(McIntosh) Frierson, natives of South Carolina, and of Irish and Scotch
extraction, respectively.

  Mr. Frierson, of this sketch, received his academic education at the famous
Mt. Zion School, taught by the Rev. C. P. Beman, D. D., at Mt. Zion, Ga., and
subsequently graduated from Oglethorpe University, near Milledgeville. From
Oglethorpe, he entered the Ninth South Carolina Regiment of Infantry, C. S. A.
The Ninth Regiment being disbanded in 1862, he entered the Fourth South Carolina
Cavalry, with which he surrendered at Greensboro, N. C. While with the Ninth, he
participated in all the battles fought by Longstreet; in the Fourth, he was
under General Butler. At the close of the war he returned to his native county,
studied law, came into Alabama in 1869, and was admitted to the bar in Lawrence
County in 1870. For the four succeeding years he devoted his time to the
practice of law, and, in 1874, entered the Presbyterian ministry, taking charge
of a group of churches comprising Decatur, Somerville and Fairview, all in
Morgan County. He preached at those places about one year, when he was elected
to the professorship of English language and literature in the State Normal
School at Florence.

  In 1877 Mr. Frierson succeeded his brother, the Rev. E. O. Frierson as pastor
of the Florence Presbyterian Church, and has since devoted his time to the
Church and the interests of education.

  While a resident of Lawrence County, Mr. Frierson established the Courtland
News, (1872), which paper, at the end of one year, he removed to Decatur, and
there published it as The News for two succeeding years.—and it is written of
him, that "he made it a red-hot political paper."

  Since going into the ministry, he has had nothing to do with politics. In
April, 1888, he was elected to the presidency of the Florence Synodical Female
College.

  He was married in Williamsburg County, S. C., August 21, 1862, to Miss
Margaret Gordon, and of the nine children born to this union, we quote the
following: The eldest, John G., is a practicing physician of much promise at
Florence; the second, Daniel Irving, died in February, 1872, at the age of five
years; the third, William  Rogers, died February, 1870, at the age of eighteen
months, and the rest are named, respectively, Sarah Camilla, Danella Isidora,
Jane McIntosh, Louise Margaret, Lucy H. and Martin Luther, Jr.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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