Marshall County AlArchives Biographies.....Neely, Edwin O. June 25, 1859 - 
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Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), page 497

Edwin O. Neely, the able editor of the Guntersville Democrat, was born near 
Columbia, Tenn., June 25, 1859, the son of J. N. Neely, a carriage maker who 
had acquired a comfortable fortune at his trade, and purchased a flouring mill 
at Columbia.  It thus transpired that the son learned the business of a miller, 
and worked at that calling at various points, until his twenty-third year.  IN 
the year he stopped work in the mill and began to prepare himself for a 
business life.  He accordingly took a course at the Goodman’s Knoxville 
Business college, after which he entered the employ of a firm of Nashville 
contractors and builders, and spent four years in traveling for the firm.  He 
came to Alabama in the spring of 1887, and first leased, and then purchased, 
the Guntersville Democrat, which paper he has since published with great 
success.  October 4, 1884, he was married to Miss Lois Peck, daughter of Hon. 
Joseph A. Peck, of Monroe county, Tenn., and their union is brightened by the 
presence of a little daughter, Ethel, and two sons, Carl and Albert.

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