Madison County AlArchives Biographies.....Landman, George P. 1839 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  GEORGE P. LANDMAN, Cotton Broker, Huntsville, son of George P. and Eliza
(Griffin) Landman, was born in Madison County, this State, in January, 1839. At
the age of fifteen years, with John Reed, at Huntsville, he began life as a
clerk. Two years later he was with Bradley, Wilson & Co., of New Orleans, in
charge of their branch office at Huntsville. Early in the beginning of the war
he joined the Fourth Alabama Cavalry, and remained with it, participating in all
of its battles, to the close of hostilities. After the war he engaged at
merchandising, and in 1869, at the head of the firm of Landman, Scruggs & Co.,
engaged in cotton commission business. At this writing (and since the fall of
1887), the style of the firm is Landman & Co. This firm does purely a cotton
brokerage business. and handles from 10,000 to 18,000 bales per annum. In
addition to his cotton interests, Mr. Landman is variously interested in other
important Huntsville industries, and is altogther one of the most enterprising
and successful business men of his city.

  Mr. Landman was married, August 30, 1860, to Miss Mary F. Sivley, and the
children born to this union are named respectively: Lucy Lee, Lillie B. (Mrs. R.
S. Halsey), Laura M. (Mrs. Kepley), Emma E., Arthur, Joseph and George P. The
family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Mr. Landman is
a K. of P.

  The senior Mr. Landman, was born in this county, near Huntsville; was a
planter by occupation, and died while yet a young man. His widow married a Mr. 
 Reedy, and is still living.


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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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