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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  THOMAS M. SCRUGGS, Secretary of the Decatur Mineral and Land Company, was born
in Decatur, Ala., in September. 1855. He attended school in his younger days at
Grenada, Miss.; entered the University of the South in Tennessee in 1872, and
remained there three years. In 1875 he was matriculated at the University of
Virginia, and graduated from that institution with the degree of LL. B. in l876.
He immediately began the practice of law in Memphis. Tenn., in partnership with
J. E. R. Ray, now associated with R. W. Fraser of that city.

  The Decatur Mineral and Land Company was organized Februarv 3, 1887, with
Milton Humes, president; Noble Smithson, vice-president; C. F. Robinson,
secretary; and W. W. Littlejohn, treasurer; capital stock, $350,000. Mr. Scruggs
was made its secretary in July, 1887, which position he occupies to the present
time.

  He is interested financially in the Decatur National Bank, the Electric Light
Company, Decatur Land and Improvement Company, and in other matters at Memphis.
Mr. Scruggs is an active member of the Episcopal Church and of the I. O. O. F.

  T. M. Scruggs is the only child of Phineas Thomas Scruggs, who was born in
Colbert County, Ala., in l830. He became a druggist at Decatur, married
Elizabeth Marshall Murphy, and died in 1855.

  Phineas T. Scruggs was the youngest son of Rev. Finch C. Scruggs, who was born
in Buckingham County, Va., about 1799. He went to Tennessee at an early day, and
became minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married a Miss Thomas, of
that State, and settled in Colbert Reserve, in Colbert County, Ala., in the
thirties; came to Decatur about 1840, and remained there the balance of his
life. Their children were: Loyis S., a merchant at Holly Springs, and a major in
the Confederate Army; Solomon K., a captain in the late war, and now in Mexia,
Texas; Edward, a soldier, who was killed at the battle of Chickamauga: and
Phineas T.

  P. T. Scruggs was married the second time to Mrs. Susan J., widow of Captain
Thomas B. Murphy, of Memphis, Tenn., in 1840, by whom he had a daughter,
Catharine, who is now the wife of Charles Guthry, an artist of Paris, France.

  Mrs. Susan Murphy had three children by her first husband, one of whom was the
wife of Phineas T. Scruggs, and the mother of our subject.

  Thomas Murphy was an Irishman; a captain in the War of 1812, and a wealthy
planter in Alabama.

  Rev. F. C. Scruggs died in 1881, while on a visit at Holly Springs, at the age
of about eighty years.


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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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