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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    CHARLES C. THACH, B. E., Chair of English and Latin, Agricultural and
Mechanical College, Auburn, Ala., was born at Athens, this State, in 1860. His
parents were Robert H. and Eliza (Coleman) Thach, natives of Alabama. The senior
Mr. Thach was a practicing lawyer for many years at Athens, and died there in 1866.

    Charles C. Thach received his education at the State Agricultural, and
Mechanical College, Auburn, and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Mr.
Thach began teaching at Hopkinsville, Ky,, in the High School, in 1877, where he
remained one year, and in 1878 was elected to the position of assistant
professor in the preparatory department of the Agricultural and Mechanical
College at Auburn. He was elected principal of that department in 1870. In the
session of 1880-81 he attended lectures at the Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore. The following year, 1881, he was chosen to fill the chair of Modern
Languages in a college conducted under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church
at Austin, Tex. In 1882 he was elected Adjunct Professor of Languages in the
Agricultural and Mechanical College at Auburn; in 1884 he filled the chair of
English and Modern Languages, and in 1886 was chosen to his present position.

    Professor Thach is one among the youngest of the Faculty of Auburn, and
among the youngest educators in the State, and yet the mantle of learning has
never fallen on more worthy shoulders. There are few men who possess the varied
attainments of our subject, clue not less to his natural capacity, the innate
power of mind, than to earnest, persevering and well-directed industry in the
acquisition of that priceless treasure, knowledge. He justly ranks among the
brilliant men of the State.

    Professor Thach was married in November, 1886, to Miss Nellie S., daughter
of Professor Otis D. Smith, of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, at
Auburn. Their union has been blessed with one child, Elizabeth.

    The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

    [Professor Thach is the author of the chapter on the Agricultural and Mechanical College,
this volume, the only complete history of that institution ever published. A perusal of it
will repay the reader.— ED).]


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

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.


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