Madison County AlArchives Biographies.....Barron, William J. 1832 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  WILLIAM J. BARRON, D. D. S., was born near Gurleysville, Madison County, this
State, January 22, 1832, and is a son of Samuel B. and Martha (Cotton) Barron,
natives, respectively, of South Carolina and Tennessee. He came to Huntsville in
1855, as a salesman in a dry goods establishment, and in March. 1862, joined
Forrest's command. He was with Forrest until 1863, when he was transferred with
the Fourth Alabama Cavalry to Wheeler's command. He was captured near
Winchester, Tenn., in September of that year, and sent to Johnson's Island,
where he remained until the close of the war. In June, 1865, he returned to
Huntsville, and was engaged in the dry goods business until 1867, at which time
he took up the study of dentistry. In the winter of 1867-8, he attended Dental
College at Baltimore, Md., and has since that date given his time to the practice.

  Doctor Barron was married June 6, 1872, to Miss Emma Halsey, daughter of
William Irby and Martha (Cain) Halsey, and has had born to him four children:
Noel Irby, Eugene, William LeRoy and Julia. Both he and his wife are members of
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

  Samuel B. Barron, father of Doctor Barron, was born March 23, 1793. He learned
the blacksmith's trade, at which he earned sufficient money to educate himself,
and afterward made an enviable reputation as a professional educator. He spent
many years of his life in Madison County, where he died May 15, 1842, leaving a
wife and four young children. His father came from Ireland; the Cotton family
came from England originally.


Additional Comments:
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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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