Madison-Limestone County AlArchives Biographies.....Hundley, Oscar R. 1854 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  OSCAR R. HUNDLEY, Attorney-at-law, was born in Limestone County, Ala., October
30, 1854, and is a son of Orville M. and Mary E. (Holding) Hundley, both natives
of Alabama. His father is of English descent, and is a graduate of Marietta
College, Marietta, Ohio, in classical course, class of 1853.

  Oscar R. Hundley received excellent educational advantages, preparing for
college at Phillips' Exeter Academy, of Exeter, N. H., completing his course
there in 1872. He then entered Marietta College, where he pursued his studies
during 1873-4. hi 1876 he entered Vanderbilt University, and graduated from the
law department, with distinction, in 1877, taking the degree of B. L. He was
admitted to the Huntsville bar in December, 1877, and has been in active and
successful practice since.

  Mr. Hundley has achieved a flattering and  elevated position for a young man,
not alone in the practice of his chosen profession, but in public life, into
which he has been called by his political party.

  In 1882 he was elected City Attorney of Huntsville, and re-elected in 1883.
While an incumbent of this office he prepared and published the revised code of
the city ordinances which are now in use.

  In May, 1886, he received, unsolicited, the nomination for the State
Legislature, and was elected the following August, by the largest vote of any
candidate on the legislative ticket. He was placed upon important committees in
the ensuing session, and made an exceedingly favorable impression. He was
chairman of the Committee on Fees and Salaries, and a prominent member of the
Judiciary Committee. He was recently renominated for another term in the
Legislature, by the convention of his party, receiving the largest vote in the
convention, over nine other candidates, on the first ballot.

  In August, 1887, he was appointed, by Governor Seay, commissioner to represent
the State of Alabama at the Constitutional Centennial Convention. held at
Philadelphia, the 17th, 18th and 19th of September, that year. Mr. Hundley was
chairman of the Huntsville & Flora Railroad Committee, and assisted materially
in securing and building that important line of road. He is attorney for the
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad for Alabama, and enjoys a general
lucrative practice in the various courts.

  Mr. Hundley was married in February, 1878, to Miss Anna E. Thomas, of
Nashville, Tenn.

  He is a Knight Templar Mason; has been an officer of the State Grand Chapter,
and is a prominent member of the I. O. O. F. and Knights of Pythias, being now
Past Grand Chancellor of the State in the latter order.


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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