Limestone County AlArchives Biographies.....Rawls, Robert M. 1861 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    ROBERT M. RAWLS, Editor and Proprietor of the Alabama Courier, a Weekly
Democratic paper, published every Wednesday at Athens, was born in Lincoln
County, Tenn. Jan. 6, 1861. He was a son of Luke H. Rawls, who was a merchant
during his life, and who died in 1873 at the age of sixty-six years.

    Robert M. Rawls was the youngest of twelve children. He received his
schooling at Jackson, Tenn. and at the age of sixteen years, entered a newspaper
office in that town and learned the printer's trade. From the office of the
Fayetteville Observer, where he had worked about eighteen months, he took charge
of the Lynchburg, (Tenn.) Sentinel, going thence, within a few months, to a
position upon the Nashville World, then a new paper, and upon which he set the
first line of type ever placed in a "stick" for its columns. He remained upon
the World until January, 1883, when he came to Athens and in partnership with J.
J. Turrentine, purchased the Courier. Mr. Tnrrentine withdrew from the paper in
1884, since which time Mr. Rawls has been sole proprietor.

    Mr. Rawls is now and has been since May, 1886, treasurer of the Alabama
Press Association.

    He was married in Athens, May 8, 1883, to Miss Fannie Black, daughter of the
late John W. Black, and has had born to him two children, a son and a daughter.
Mr. Rawls is a wide awake, public spirited, progressive young man, and gives the
people of his county one of the best papers they have ever had.


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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.
CEREAL BELT.


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