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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  J. R. STUART, Attorney and Counselor-at-law, Decatur, was born in Morgan
County, this State, and educated at Union University, Murfreesboro, Tenn. A
short time before he was due to graduate in special course in languages, he was
called home to engage in business. He subsequently read law, and was admitted to
the bar in 1874. He was elected Clerk of the City of Decatur in 1878, and has
continued since in that office. He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1880, and
re-elected in 1884. In law he has been remarkably successful, while in official
positions he has discharged his duties with distinguished ability. He is at this
time active in the advancement of the City of Decatur, and is identified with
many of her most prominent enterprises.

  John H. Stuart, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Morgan
County, June 15, 1825; learned the carpenter's trade while a young man, and at
the age of eighteen years embarked in mercantile business. He came to Decatur in
1842, and from there two years later, moved to Somerville. In 1851 he was
elected Clerk of the Circuit Court; in 1858 he was a traveling man, and, in
1861, resumed the mercantile business at Somerville. After the war he returned
to Decatur, where he has since been one of the most successful merchants of this
place. He entered the army in 1861 as captain of a company; the regiment to
which he was attached failing to be received into service, it was disbanded. He
therefore, in the spring of 1862, joined Company H, Twenty-seventh Alabama, and
was soon afterward made its captain. At Fort Donelson he fell into the hands of
the enemy and was held many months as a prisoner of war at Camp Chase, and
Johnson's Island. After his exchange, which took place in September following
his capture, he was tendered the colonelcy of a Mississippi Regiment, but
declined it, preferring to remain with his old command. He afterward took part
in the battles of Corinth, Baker's Creek, Resaca, Cassville, Lost Mountain and
Atlanta. During Hood's raid into Tennessee, he had charge of a scouting party,
and at the head of about one hundred rangers met General Wilson at Elyton. This
engagement proved decidedly unfortunate, as he lost all his command.

  In 1846, Captain Stuart was married to Miss Sarah J. Gresham, of Somerville,
and has reared two children: John W. and Mary, now Mrs. Banks.

  Captain Stuart's father was named Robert A., a native of White County. Tenn.,
and the family are of Scotch-Irish extraction.


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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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