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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  OSCEOLA KYLE, JR., son of Ponsonby and Adaline (Tranum) Kyle, was born in
Tuskegee, Macon County, Ala., January 9, 1862.

  He was reared in, and received his early training at, the schools of his
native village. At the age of fifteen he attended the University of Alabama for
one year; but his father and elder brother dying in 1878, he was called home,
and went to work. In 1880 he began the study of the law in the office of Brewer
& Brewer, in Tuskegee, and in April, 1881, was admitted to the bar.

  Like most young men who aspire to follow the legal profession, he was poverty
stricken; and after his admission to the bar, was without means to begin
practice. He went to Birmingham, Ala., and worked at various employments for two
years— sometimes clerking, and for awhile staying in a lumber yard in said city.
In 1883 he went to Opelika, Ala., and for awhile studied law over again in the
office of Gen. Geo. P. Harrison, who kindly assisted him in many ways.

  Early in 1884 he formed a copartnership with W. J. Sanford, and a few months
later established an office of his own.

  In 1886, at the age of twenty-four, after a spirited canvass, he was elected
to the Legislature by a handsome majority, as one of the representatives of Lee
County, and served with credit to himself and people. His record is worthy of
special remark, on account of his being the youngest member of the General
Assembly.

  While in Opelika he was elected and served as City Attorney for one year,
filling the position satisfactorily to the municipal government. In 1887 he
located in Decatur, practicing his profession, and upon the organization of
Company I, Third Regimcnt Alabama State Troops, was elected first lieutenant;
and also joined the Knights of Pythias.

  Mr. Kyle's father was born in New York City in 1823, located in Wetumpka,
Ala., about 1848, and, with the exception of one year spent in Liberty. Mo.,
lived in Alabama the remainder of his life, He served through the late war as
assistant surgeon in the Confederate States Army, and was captured and
imprisoned one year at Ship Island. This was near the close of hostilities. He
died in 1878.

  O. Kyle's mother was a native of Montgomery County, Ala., and was a daughter
of Tombs Tranum, a large planter, and a pioneer who served in early Indian wars,
and was a resident of Alabama many years before the Indians left the country.
Ponsonby Kyle reared five children, of whom our subject was the youngest.


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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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