Madison County AlArchives Biographies.....Mastin, Edmund I. 1841 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  EDMUND I. MASTIN, Mayor of Huntsville, is a son of William J. and Mary (Clark)
Mastin, both natives of Virginia.

  Wm. J. Mastin was of English stock and his progenitors came to America with
Lord Fairfax. Frank Mastin, grandfather of our subject, was a captain in the War
of 1812.

  Wm. J. Mastin came to Alabama in his youth, and resided in Huntsville until
his death in 1845. He was a graduate of the Law and Classical Department of Yale
College, and a staunch Whig in politics. He was a member of the convention which
nominated Henry Clay in 1844. His mother was also of English lineage, and died
in 1881.

  The subject of this biography was born in Huntsville, in 1841, and has lived
here all of his life He is one of three brothers. Wm. F., who served as
adjutant-general with General Buckner during the war, died while Mayor of
Huntsville in 1871. Gustavus B. commanded a company in the Fourth Alabama
Infantry, and was killed in the battle of Seven Pines, in 1862.

  Our subject was educated in the schools of Huntsville and at the Lagrange
Military Institute, which was destroyed during the war. He entered the army in
1861, as drill-master, and subsequently became adjutant of the Eighth Arkansas
Regiment; adjutant-general of Kelley's Brigade of Infantry under General
Buckner, and also adjutant-general of the Fourth Division of Cavalry, commanded
by Gen. J. H. Kelley, in Wheeler's Corps.

  He was taken prisoner at Charleston, Tenn., in 1864, and sent to Camp Chase at
Columbus, Ohio, and from there to Fort Delaware, where he was selected as one of
600 men for special retaliation, sent to Morris Island and placed under the fire
of Confederate batteries. He was fortunate enough to escape unharmed, and was
released from Fort Delaware in June, 1865.

  Since the war Mayor Mastin has been engaged in the family grocery trade; as
contractor on the Memphis & Chattanooga Railroad, and is now engaged in brick
manufacture and contracting and building. He has served as City Clerk for four
years, and is serving his sixth year as Mayor of the city. He is a genial and
accomplished gentleman, and deservedly popular with all classes. He is a member
of the I. O. O. F. and the K. of P. fraternities.


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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