Morgan-Lauderdale County AlArchives Biographies.....Falk, Louis M. 1839 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  LOUIS M. FALK, Merchant, Decatur, was born in Schneidemuhl, Prussia, December
7, 1839, and is a son of Myer W. Falk, a native of the same city. He received a
good German education, became a merchant, and in 1856 landed in Philadelphia. He
spent a short time in New York, and came to Florence, Ala., where he clerked in
a store.

  In 1857, he established a store of his own, twenty-two miles south of Decatur,
and named the place Falkville, a station on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad.
When the war broke out, he enlisted in the Confederate Army for one year, but
this company was not received, and in the summer of 1862 he enlisted in Company
A, Fourth Alabama Cavalry, and served mostly in this State and Tennessee. In
1864, he was captured near Pond Spring, Ala., and sent to Camp Douglas, where he
was imprisoned until the close of the war. Subsequently, he clerked for a while
in Nashville, and in Danville, Ala., where he afterward went into business in
partnership with an uncle.

  In 1869, Mr. Falk located in Decatur, where he has since been successfully
engaged in merchandising, and where he is now the oldest merchant in the city.
He is a stockholder in the Decatur Land Company, the Electric Light Company, the
Artificial Ice Company, and vice-president of the Decatur Wire Fence
Manufacturing Company. He is a director in the First National Bank, an alderman
and member of the School Board.

  Mr. Falk was married in 1873, to Miss Hattie Goodheart of Cincinnati, Ohio,
and three children have been born to this union, viz.: Morrey L., Harvey L., and
Estella May. Mrs. Falk died July 5, 1886. Mr. Falk is a Royal Arch Mason, a
Knight of Pythias, and a member of the I. O. B. B.


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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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