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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    MARCUS G. WILLIAMS, President of the Athens Female College, was born at
Boonville, Mo., October 25, 1831, and is a son of the Rev. Justinian Williams,
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, late of the Tennessee Conference.

    The Rev. Mr. Williams was placed in charge of Huntsville Station, in 1837,
and spent most of the remainder of his life in Alabama, preaching, and died in
1859, at the age of seventy-two years.

    Professor Williams was educated at La Grange College, Alabama: studied
medicine awhile, but feeling that it was his duty to preach, turned his
attention to theology, and was licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, in March, 1854. During the following fall, he entered the
Tennessee Conference on trial, and remained there until the outbreak of the war,
when he was made Chaplain of the Third Tennessee Infantry. At the end of the
first year, his commission as Chaplain having expired, he raised a company of
cavalry for the Ninth Alabama, and, as Captain, commanded it about a year and a
half. He left the service on account of an injury received at Murfreesboro, and
returned to Lawrence County and taught school for a short time. In 1867 he was
transferred to the Arkansas Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, going
thence, at the end of two years, to the Southwest Missouri Conference. He
remained in Missouri eleven years, devoting his time to the ministry, and to the
advancement of education. He resigned his Professorship in the Central Female
College, Lexington, Mo., to come to the North Alabama Conference, Methodist
Episcopal Church, South (1880). Since coming here he has had charge of New
Market Circuit and New Market High School, Madison County; Tuscumbia Station and
Tuscumbia Male Academy. and Leighton Circuit, and came to his present position
by election. January, 1884. He preaches at Elkmont and State Line gratuitously,
and fills the pulpit at Athens in the absence of the regular pastor.

    Professor Williams was married in Lauderdale County, Ala., October 23, 1856,
to a Miss Coffey, and has reared two daughters, one of whom is adopted, but is
as near to him and as dear to him, seemingly, as his own child. Both his
daughters are teachers in the college over which he presides.


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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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