Madison County AlArchives Biographies.....Rison, John Lewis 1839 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JOHN LEWIS RISON, Druggist, Huntsville, was born in this city October 18,
1839. His father, Archibald Rison, was born near Carthage, Tenn., November 3,
1803. After receiving a good education, he came to Huntsville about 1822, and
became a manufacturer of cotton gins, his being among the first establishments
of that kind in the city. He continued this business until his death in 1862. He
was a member of the Methodist Church and of the Masonic fraternity. He reared
three sons, Wm. R., John L. and Wilson B. William R. was a lieutenant in the
Fourth Alabama Cavalry Regiment in the late war; Wilson B. was a lieutenant in
the Fourth Alabama Infantry and afterward a member of Fourth Alabama Cavalry
Regiment, and was killed at Lexington, Tenn. The mother of these sons, Martha
(Bibb) Rison, was born in Huntsville February 22, 1816. J. L. Rison's
grandfather, Richard Rison. a native of Virginia, immigrated to Tennessee about
1785, became a planter, and spent the balance of his days there. He reared a
large family, and two of his sons fought in the battle of New Orleans. His
ancestors came from Wales.

  Our subject was reared and educated in Huntsville. When but fourteen years of
age he began the drug business as a salesman. In 1860 he established a drug
store of his own, and has conducted the business until the present time with
marked success. Mr. Rison is a public-spirited man, and has taken an active part
in the various schemes to develop Huntsville, and place her upon her present
high road to greatness.

  He was married February 22, 1860, to Miss Martha T. Erwin, daughter of Rev. A.
R. Erwin, a minister of the Tennessee Conference (Methodist Church), and
President of the Huntsville Female College. Her mother was Louisa Boyd Erwin.

  Mr. Rison is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a Knight of Pythias
and a Knight Templar Mason.


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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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