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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  CHARLES P. LANE, Lawyer, Politician and Real Estate Dealer, is a descendant of
well-known Southern ancestry. He is a son of George W. and Martha (Davis) Lane,
the former a native of Georgia, and the latter of Virginia.

  George W. Lane was reared in Limestone County, Ala., and when young was
elected probate judge of that county. He was subsequently elected Circuit Judge
of Huntsville District, and in 1861, was appointed Judge of the United States
District Court by President Lincoln, which office he held until his death in
1805. He was a Whig in politics, and a strong loyal Union man.

  The mother of our subject was the daughter of Capt. Nicholas Davis, one of the
most noted men of his time.

  Charles P. Lane was born in Huntsville, Ala., March 18, 1854, and is the
youngest of a family of eleven children. He received a good education, and
before attaining the age of eighteen years was licensed to practice law in the
circuit court of Limestone County. He began his public career in 1880, when he
was elected to the State Legislature from his county, upon the Democratic
ticket. In that session he became noted by his independence of strict party
lines in favoring the minority report on elections, offered by B. M. Long, the
only Republican in the House. By this action he became known as a
"Republican-Democrat." In 1882, he was nominated by the Greenback Convention as
their candidate for attorney-general, making the campaign upon a platform
favoring fair elections and a repeal of the then existing convict laws. In 1884,
he was honored with the nomination by the Republicans, Greenbacks and
Anti-Bourbons for governor, but declined to make the race. The same year he
served as a Blaine and Logan elector. In 1885, he established The New South, at
that time the only Republican paper in the State.

  In 1886, he was a candidate for the State Legislature. He is a young man of
pleasing address and superior capabilities, and has a promising future. During
the year 1887, he was the representative in the North of four large land
companies—Sheffield, Decatur, Florence and Huntsville. Mr. Lane is now
practicing law.

  Mr. Lane was united in marriage in 1881 with Miss Ella Abercrombie, of
Tuskegee. Ala., daughter of John Abercrombie, who died in the army, and
granddaughter to Col. James Abercrombie, long known as the "Whig Congressman"
from the Eufaula District.

  Four children have been born to them: Madge, George, Mattie and Sarah.


Additional Comments:
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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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