Lowndes County AlArchives Biographies.....Haralson, Jonathan, Judge October 18, 
1830 – July 11, 1912
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Source:  Confederate Veteran Vol. XXXI (1923)


JUDGE JONATHAN HARALSON

Judge Jonathan Haralson, for sixteen years associate justice of the Alabama 
Supreme Court, died recently at his home in Montgomery, Ala.  He was one of the 
most distinguished jurists of Alabama, and retired from the bench in 1908.  He 
was in his eighty-second year.

Jonathan Haralson was born October 18, 1830, in Lowndes County, Ala., the son of 
William Browning Haralson, and early settler from Georgia in Lowndes County.  He 
graduated from the University of Alabama in 1851 with the degree of A.B., 
receiving the degree of A.M. from the same institution in 1854.  After receiving 
his degree of L.L.D. from the University of Louisiana in 1853, he practiced law 
at Selma.

During the War of the States Judge Haralson was the agent at Selma of the Niter 
and Mining Bureau of the Confederate States.  In 1876 he was appointed by 
Governor Houston as judge of the city court of Selma, which office he held until 
1892, when he was elected associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.  He 
was again reelected associate justice in 1898, and remained on the bench until 
he retired in 1908.

Judge Haralson was for many years a trustee of Howard College and also of Dallas 
Academy.  He was also a trustee of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute.  In 1892 
Mercer University, Macon, Ga., conferred upon him the honorary degree of L.L.D.  
He was twice married.  His first wife was Miss Mattie Ellen Thompson, daughter 
of John W. Thompson, of Columbus, Ga.  On May 20, 1869, he married Miss Lida J. 
McFadden, daughter of Robert H. McFadden, of Greensboro, Ala.  He is survived by 
his wife, two daughters, and two granddaughters.

Additional comments:

Jonathan Haralson is buried in the Old Live Oak Cemetery in Selma, Dallas 
County, AL.  With him are his second wife, Lida, some of their children and 
grandchildren, and some of her sisters.