Saintclair County AlArchives Biographies.....Inzer, John W. 1834 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    JOHN W. INZER, Attorney-at-law, Ashville, was born in Gwinnett County, Ga.,
in 1834, and lived there until he had nearly attained his majority. He attended
the common schools of his neighborhood, and "Gwinnett Labor School," near
Lawrenceville, Ga., where he received the greater part of his education.

    He read law with Morgan & Walker, of Talladega, was admitted to the bar in
that city in May, 1855, and at Ashville began the practice of his profession. He
was appointed Probate Judge of St. Clair County in 1859, and held the office
eleven months.

    Judge Inzer was the youngest member of the Secession Convention of 1861, and
voted against the ordinance; but after it was passed he signed and supported it
to the best of his ability. After the war, Governor Parsons appointed him
Probate Judge of his county. He held the office only for a short time, when he
resigned. In 1866 he was elected to that office and held it until removed by the
reconstruction. In 1874 he was elected to the State Senate, and remained in that
body two years. In August. 1875, he was elected delegate to the Constitutional
Convention, in the labors of which he took an active part. Since that time he
has been engaged at the law—his practice extending throughout the State. He has
never been an office-seeker nor-place hunter, and has not been a candidate since
l875.

    When the war broke out Judge Inzer was in feeble health; nevertheless he
entered the army in 1861 as a member of the Ninth Alabama Battallion of
Infantry. In 1862 he was transferred to the Eighteenth Infantry, and in
February, 1863, the Ninth Battallion being reorganized, he again became a member
of that command, held the rank of captain one week, and was promoted to the
office of major of the battalion, Rush Jones being its colonel. In July the
Ninth Battallion became the Fifty-eighth Alabama Regiment, and Inzer was made
lieutenant-colonel. During the war he was engaged in many battles, among which
were Shiloh, Corinth. Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge and
others. He was captured on November 25, 1863, at Missionary Ridge and carried to
Johnson's Island, where he was kept in confinement until the close of the war.
Until he was captured, his regiment never went into battle without him.

    The Judge's grandfather, John Inzer, was an Englishman, and a soldier in the
Colonial Army during the Revolutionary War. (He afterward settled in Maryland,
and later on emigrated to North Carolina). His maternal grandfather, John Reid,
was an Irishman; he too was a Revolutionary soldier. Our subject's father, Rev.
Henry White Inzer, a minister of the Baptist Church, was a native of North
Carolina; removed thence to Georgia when a young man, and was there married to
Miss Phebe H. Reid. He served as a captain in the Florida War, and in 1854
immigrated to Alabama, settling in St. Clair County, where he died April 25,
1881. His mother was born and raised in North Carolina. She is now living with
Judge Inzer, her only son.

    Judge Inzer was married in 1866, to Miss Sallie E. Pope, of Columbiana, a
daughter of Capt. Wiley H. Pope, late of the Twenty-fifth Alabama Regiment, and
afterward Clerk of the Circuit Court of Shelby County.

    Judge and Mrs. Inzer have three children, two daughters and one son. The
family are members of the Baptist Church, and the Judge is a Royal Arch Mason
and Past Master of the Lodge.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.


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