Sumter County AlArchives Biographies.....Tartt, Thomas Morrison 1821 - 1885
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  THOMAS MORRISON TARTT was born in North Carolina April 1, 1821. He was adopted
by an uncle, whose name was the same as his own, and was reared by him from the
age of ten. He received his education at Philadelphia and Columbus, Ohio. While
still quite young, his uncle placed him in charge of a farm, near Gainesviile,
Ala., but he had no taste for farming, and soon entered a commission house at
Mobile—Tartt, Stewart & Co.,—of which his uncle was the head. Here he developed
the remarkable traits of his character which afterward made him so successful as
a merchant. In 1866 he was married to Annie Maria Jones, near Sumterville, and
they, in 1867, moved to Livingston, where Mr. Tartt went into business as a
merchant, and continued it until his death. As a business man, Mr. Tartt's life
was particularly worthy of attention.

  He sailed through the hard times of 1873. The commercial crash carried down
hundreds of the leading merchants of that country, but he was one of the few who
came out unhurt, he succeeded in accumulating a fortune, where others could
secure but a competency, and was one of the men who could successfully compete
with the "Sheeney" system of advancing, now in vogue in that country.

  Mr. Tartt was a public-spirited, philanthropic citizen, and as such was highly
esteemed by the commuity in which he lived. He died in Livingston in 1885. His
wife was reared by an uncle, the Rev. D. P. Bestor, a Baptist minister of this
State, who was quite prominent in his day.


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

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


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