Morgan County AlArchives Biographies.....Forest, William Edward 1850 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  DR. WILLIAM EDWARD FOREST, President of the Decatur Building and Investment
Company, was born March 17, 1850, in Burlington, Vt. He is a son of John R. and
Caroline (Powers) Forest, the former a native of England.

  William E. Forest graduated at the University of Vermont, at Burlington, in
1874, in the classical course, and again at the University of New York, in 1876,
in the medical course. He practiced ten years in the hospitals of New York City
and elsewhere, was connected with the Women's Asylum and the New York
Dispensary, and contributed many monographs to medical journals. He was a member
of several medical societies while actively in the practice.

  In 1883 Dr. Forest invested extensively in real estate in North Alabama, and
in these speculations was remarkably successful. In 1887 he made Decatur his
home, and became one of the organizers of the Decatur Land and Improvement
Company, and has since become a stockholder in nearly all the enterprises in
that booming city. He is president of the Building and Investment Company and of
two brick manufacturing companies: president of the Wire Fence Company; largest
stockholder and director in the Gas & Oil Company; and secretary in the
Artificial Ice Company. He is a Knight of Honor, a member of the Ancient Order
of United Workmen, Knights and Ladies of Honor, and the Masonic fraternity.

  Dr. Forest was married February 4, 1879, to Miss Lucia, daughter of Augustus
Kimball, of Burlington. Yt. They have two children: Lucia and Edith.

  Dr. Forest's grandfather came to the United States from England in 1836;
settled at Montreal, Canada, and there spent the rest of his life. His son, John
R., was born in 1821, and was fifteen years of age when his parents came to this
country. He grew to manhood in Vermont, and there for some years edited a paper.
He died in 1884.


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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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