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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  MILTON HUMES, Attorney-at-law, son of John N. and Jane C. (White) Humes, was
born at Abingdon, Va., in August, 1844. John N. Humes was born in Knoxville,
Tenn., abont 1800; was educated for the law and graduated from one of the New
England Colleges. After marriage he settled in Virginia and became a planter on
an extensive scale. He was a very influential man. His wife was a Presbyterian,
but he was an admirer of the Swedenborgian doctrine. They raised a large family,
viz.: Capt. John N., killed at Antietam: Gen. W. Y. C., a lawyer at Memphis;
James W., deceased, who was a colonel from Tennessee in the Confederate service,
and afterward an attorney at Abingdon; Andrew R., a captain from Virginia in the
Confederate service—he died at Memphis during the yellow fever epidemic in 1878;
Thomas W., a teacher at Huntsville; Frank A., an attorney at Abingdon. Va., was
a captain in the Confederate service; Milton, subject of this sketch; Elizabeth
W., now widow of Dr. L. B. Sheffey; Ellen W., wife of Dr. D. K. Tuttle, of
Baltimore—he was a professor of chemistry in the University of Virginia; entered
the army with the rank of colonel and in the capacity of a scientist.

  John N. Humes died in 1872. He was a son of John N. Humes, who, with two
brothers, came from Scotland. They settled in Pennsylvania, and he, at
Knoxville, Tenn., where he became a successful merchant. He married Margaret,
widow of James Cowan, of Knoxville, and sister of Gen. Gilbert Russel, of
Virginia. They had three sons and two daughters, namely: John N.; Thomas W., who
was for several years President of the University of Tennessee, at Knoxville;
Andrew R., a farmer, who died young; Mary, wife of Hon. John White of Kentucky,
who was, at one time, Speaker of the House of Representatives in the United
States Congress; and Elizabeth, wife of a Mr. White, of Tennessee.

  Jane C. (White) Humes, our subject's mother, was a daughter of James White, of
Abingdon, Va., a native of Pennsylvania. He was eminently successful as a
business man, and became very wealthy. He owned a large number of plantations
all through the South besides, vast interests in iron, lead and salt. He married
a Miss Elizabeth Wilson, of Virginia, and reared a large family, namely: James
L., W. Y. C., Thomas W., Newton K., Addison, Frank, Milton, Jane C., our
subject's mother; Eliza, wife of Dr. Hannnm of East Tennessee; and Eleanor.

  Milton Humes received his early education in an academy at Abingdon. He
enlisted in the late war as a private soldier in Company A, Sixty-third Virginia
Infantry, in the fall of 1861. He was engaged in battle at Princeton, W. Va.,
Charleston and Suffolk; at Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. He was made captain
at Dalton; received a severe flesh wound, being shot through both legs near
Marietta; was recommended for promotion to the rank of major, and assigned to
the Army of Tennessee, and fought at Bentonville, N. C., which was his last
battle. Captain Humes' mother having died during the war, and his home having
been broken up, he came to Huntsville, and began the study of law with Beirne &
Gordon. He took the degree of LL.D. in 1867, at Lexington, Va.; located at
Huntsville, and has been enjoying a successful practice there ever since. He has
a large railroad practice, having for years been attorney for the Memphis &
Chattanooga Railroad Company, the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad
Company, and the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad Company in Alabama.

  In 1884 Milton Humes was elected to the Legislature, and was made chairman of
the Judiciary Committee. He is attorney for and director of the "North Alabama
Improvement Company," also director of the "Alabama Black Band Coal, Iron and
Railroad Company" of Jackson.

  Captain Humes was married June 1, 1870, to a daughter of Reuben Chapman,
ex-Governor of Alabama. He and his wife are members of the Episcopal Church.


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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