Madison County AlArchives Biographies.....Echols, Wm. H. 1834 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  WM. H. ECHOLS was born at Huntsville, March 11, 1834. In 1854 he entered West
Point Academy, and after graduating therefrom in 1858, was an engineer in the
United States Army. In 1861, he resigned and entered the engineering corps of
the Confederate Army, with the rank of captain, and soon rose to major. He was
stationed at Fort Jackson, on the Mississippi River, at Savannah, and at
Charleston. After the war he was for a time civil engineer on the Memphis &
Charleston Railroad. From there he became book-keeper in the Bell Factory Cotton
Mills, near Huntsville, Ala., and afterward was secretary, treasurer and
superintendent, a position he held until the mills were closed in 1884. He is
now a director in the Huntsville National Bank.

  Mr. Echols was married in January, 1859, to Miss Mary B., daughter of Dr.
Chas. H. Patton, and they have two sons and one daughter. William H. Echols, the
eldest, is a graduate of the University of Virginia, a civil and mining
engineer, and is now a professor in the Mining School of Rolla, Mo. His
daughter, Susan P., is the wife of Robert E. Spragins. Chas. P., is now a cadet
at West Point Academy.

  Mr. Echols is a Freemason and a Knight of Pythias.

  His family tree is old and full of branches. He was a son of William and Mary
(Hobbs) Echols, who were both born in Virginia,—he in 18(10 and she in 1808.
William Echols came from Pittsylvania County, Va., about 1812, with his parents,
who settled near New Market. When a young man he came to Huntsville, and clerked
for Patton & Bierne. When he became of lawful age he embarked in merchandising
on his own account, and continued in business until 1853, when he retired.

  He served several terms as Mayor of Huntsville, and was for some years Probate
Judge of the county.

  He was an active, enterprising business man and a broad-gauged citizen, with
liberal ideas. He died in 1864. He had twelve children, of whom W. H. Echols was
the eldest. John H. Echols was Secretary of State of Mississippi during the war;
Larkin W. Echols was a soldier in an Alabama regiment, and was a successful
planter and merchant at Senatobia, Miss.; David H. Echols was a railroad man—he
was drowned in the Yazoo River, Miss., while on a hunting tour; James H. Echols
was a Lieutenant in Russel's Regiment, Wheeler's command, and was killed at
Atlanta; Chas. P. Echols is a farmer in Mississippi; Martha, was the wife of W.
H. Muse, an attorney, who was once Secretary of State of Mississippi; Mary was
the wife of Col. E. J. Jones, of the Fourth Alabama, who was killed at the first
battle of Manassas; Ellen is the wife of Dr. Walker, and lives at the Cape of
Good Hope, Africa; Eliza, once widow of Capt. Oliver Gaston, is now the wife of
Dr. N. D. Richardson, Nashville, Tenn.; Susan is the wife of Wm. C. Collier,
Nashville, Tenn.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

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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