Madison-Walker County AlArchives Biographies.....Lovett, J. A. B. 1847 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  J. A. B. LOVETT is the youngest son of A. J. and Mary (Hardwick) Lovett, and
was born in Walker County, Ala., March 3, 1847. At the age of thirteen he was
placed in the village school at Ashville, Ala., where he continued until April,
1863, when he joined the Confederate Army. He was captured by the Federals in
June, of the same year, and was held in Northern prisons two years.

  On September 2, 1866, he was joined in marriage to Miss Frances P. Gilbert, of
Shelby County, Ala. Soon after this Mr. Lovett joined the ministry of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, for which he was educated at Cumberland
University, Lebanon, Tenn.

  Professor Lovett has been connected with Southern education about twenty
years. In 1882 he organized the Huntsville Graded Schools, and he is now their
efficient Superintendent. In 1885 he established the Alabama Teacher's Journal,
of which he is still senior editor and publisher.

  In 1886 Professor Lovett was on the programme of the National Educational
Assembly, and read a paper on Federal Aid to Education, which was printed in
pamphlet and furnished to the United States Congress, then in session. He was
also a member of the same body in 1888, when he appeared before the House
Committee on Education. Professor Lovett is justly regarded as being one of our
ablest and most progressive educators, and he enjoys the confidence and esteem
of his many patrons. While he was eminently successful as a minister, having
served his congregation in Huntsville a number of years as pastor, his principal
qualifications lie in the direction of school management and class instruction.


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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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