Morgan County AlArchives Biographies.....Hedges, W. W. 1854 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  W. W. HEDGES, Real Estate and Insurance, Decatur, son of John W. and Martha
(Thomas) Hedges, was born in Bourbon County, Ky., in 1854. His father's
ancestors came from England, and settled first in Maryland, and afterward in
Kentucky. His father is a farmer and still living. His mother's family came from
Virginia to Kentucky at a very early day. They have eight children, of whom W W.
is the eldest. He was reared in Bourbon County, Ky., and graduated at the
University of Lexington, in civil engineering, and subsequently taught school
two years; was bookkeeper in the Deposit Bank of North Middletown, Ky., eighteen
months; spent two years in the West, returned, and was cashier of the same bank
seven years. In July, 1887, he came to Decatur, and engaged in the real estate
and insurance business with P. H. Flynn. He assisted in organizing the Exchange
Bank, of Decatur, with a capital stock of $100,000, and was elected its cashier.
He is a stockholder in, and the treasurer of, the Gateway Land Company and of
the Mutual Building Company, also stockholder in the Mineral Land Company,
Decatur Building Company, and the Casa Grande Stables Co. Mr. Hedges is a member
of the Christian Church and the Masonic fraternity.

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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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