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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

WILLIAM WHITSON LITTLEJOHN. Cashier of the First National Bank of Decatur, son
of Wiley J. and Margaret H. (Chisholm) Littlejohn, was born in Fayette County,
Tenn., September 18, 1845. The senior Littlejohn was in his day a prominent
farmer in Fayette County, Tenn., and a sugar planter on Bayou La Fourche, La.,
until 1856, when he moved to Memphis, Tenn., where he remained until his death
which occurred in 1873. He reared five children, of whom William W., was the
second.

  The subject of this sketch was educated in Memphis, Tenn. In the spring of
1862, he entered the Confederate service as a member of the One Hundred and
Fifty-fourth Tennessee Volunteers; was soon after detailed and acted as a
courier at General Lee's headquarters during the remainder of the war. After the
war, he was first employed as messenger in the Tennessee National Bank at
Memphis, which position he held two years. He was messenger for six months in
the Merchants National Bank, book-keeper for eight months, and teller for about
three years, until the bank closed in 1873. He acted as bookkeeper in the State
National Bank several years, in the German National Bank one year, and in 1877
removed to Decatur, where he assisted in the management of Polk Hotel. In 1880,
he became one of the incorporators and cashier of the Bank of Decatur, now the
First National Bank of Decatur.

  Mr. Littlejohn was one of the prime movers in the early enterprises of
Decatur, which have resulted in achievements exceeding the expectation of the
most sanguine. It has been said of him and his work in projecting this
enterprise "that he built better than he knew."

  Mr. Littlejohn was married in April, 1872, to Miss Martha R., daughter of the
late Dr. Thomas G. and Levinia C. (Wood) Polk, and they have two children,
namely : Thomas P. and Margaret C.


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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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