Madison County AlArchives Biographies.....Duncan, William T. 1844 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  WILLIAM T. DUNCAN, Merchant, Huntsville, a native of Buckingham County, Va.,
was born January 31, 1844. His parents Geo. M. B. and Mary Jane (Gills) Duncan,
were natives of Tennessee and Virginia, respectively. He was graduated from the
Virginia Military Institute in 1864, and was at once appointed to the
Engineering Department of the Confederate Government with the rank of captain.
He was connected with the service until the close of the war, and surrendered
with Gen. Joe Johnston at Greenboro, N. C. Returning home he taught school one
year, and in 1867 embarked in mercantile business. In January, 1871, he came to
Huntsville, in a clerical capacity, and in 1876 formed a partnership with Mr. E.
S. Johnston. In addition to his general merchandise business, he is prominently
identified with the Huntsville Compress Company and with other important
industries. He was married in February, 1869, to Miss Louisa Johnson, the
accomplished daughter of Alex. Johnson, Esq., of Virginia, and has had born to
him six children, three only of whom are living. The family are members of the
Baptist Church, and Mr. Duncan is a Knight of Honor.

  The senior Mr. Duncan, a planter by occupation, and teacher by profession, was
a graduate of Nashville University, and died in Virginia in 1885, at the age of
69 years. His father, William Duncan, was a native of Virginia, and migrated in
an early day to Tennessee. The Duncans came originally from Scotland, and the
Gill family came to this country from England.


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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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