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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JAMES R. STEVENS, Banker, was born in Caswell County, N. C., and is a son of
George and Susan P. (Richardson) Stevens, natives of Virginia and North
Carolina, respectively. George Stevens was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and a man of Scotch blood. He married in North Carolina and moved to
Christian County, Ky., where he died. His wife died at Huntsville in July, 1887,
at the age of seventy-four years. She was a daughter of James Richardson, of
North Carolina.

  The subject of this sketch was six years old when his parents settled in
Kentucky. He received his education in the schools of the vicinity, mostly at
Penbrook and Hopkinsville. At the age of eighteen he entered the store of his
uncle, Edward Richardson, as a saleman at Brandon, Miss., and succeeded his
uncle in the business in 1860. In July, 1861, he entered the Confederate Army as
a member of Company I, Sixth Mississippi Regiment, and was elected its third
lieutenant. He participated in the battle of Shiloh, and after this battle, when
the regiment was re-organized, was elected its major. He fought at Corinth, Fort
Gibson, Fort Hudson, Baker's Creek and in the siege of Vicksburg, where he was
captured July 4, 1863. After the war he returned to Brandon, and re-opened his
business and conducted it until 1874, when he moved to Huntsville, Ala., and
there engaged in mercantile business until 1880, when he retired. After this he
was elected president of the National Bank of Huntsville, in January, 1881,
which position he now holds. He was one of the incorporators of the North
Alabama Improvement Company, and is a director and treasurer of the same. He is
also one of the incorporators and a director of the Decatur Land, Iron and
Furnace Company.

  He was married in December, 1867, to Miss Mattie Lee Patton, daughter of Dr.
Chas. Patton, of Huntsville. He has one son, James R., who is now in the
Episcopal High School, at Alexandria, Va. His wife died on the 22d of December,
1875.

  Mr. Stevens is a K. of II., K. of P., an Odd Fellow and a Freemason.


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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