Lauderdale-Madison County AlArchives Biographies.....Weakley, James Harvey 1798 - 1856
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JAMES HARVEY WEAKLEY was born in Halifax County, Va., in 1798, and was brought
by his parents to Davidson County, Tenn., in 1799. He was educated at the
Cumberland University, and, in 1817, appointed by Gen. John Coffee surveyor of
public lands of Alabama. General Coffee was a warm personal friend of Samuel
Weakley, the father of the subject of this sketch.

  James H. Weakley's first position in the surveyor-general's office, then
located at Huntsville, was that of chief clerk, and he remained in that capacity
until the death of General Coffee, in 1833, when he was immediately appointed by
Andrew Jackson as the successor of his late chief.

  Mr. Weakley remained surveyor-general of public lands until that office was
abolished in 1851 by an Act of Congress. He then at once embarked in cotton
commission business at New Orleans, and remained there the rest of his life. He
died in 1856.

  To his many friends and associates, James H. Weakley was known as "Judge," a
title peculiarly appropriate to his quiet dignity of manner and to his exemplary
character. He married at Huntsville, Ala., in 1830, Ellen M. Donegan, a a native
of the city of Cork, Ireland. She came to America with her brother, and spent
some time with a relative in Baltimore, and afterward visited Huntsville, where
she first met Mr. Weakley. After Mr. Weakley's death she removed to Nashville,
and spent the rest of her life at the Convent Academy of St. Cecilia.


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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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