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Author: Will T. Hale

   ALBERT GALLATIN EWING, JR. Prominent not only in the professional life of

Nashville, but active and influential in the public affairs of city, county and

state, Albert G. Ewing, Jr., holds a position of note among the leading lawyers

of his community. He was born, January 27, 1868, in Davidson county, Tennessee,

near Nashville, a son of Albert G. Ewing, Sr., and grandson of Orville and

Milbrey (Williams) Ewing, natives of Nashville.



   His great-grandfather, Nathan Ewing, a son of Andrew Ewing, who was born in

Virginia, and settled in Tennessee in early pioneer days, was a man of much

prominence in the early history of Nashville- The family name was originally

spelled "Ewin," but he added to it a "g," and it is of frequent occurrence in

the annals of both the city of Nashville and of the state of Tennessee. He had

the distinction of being the very first clerk of the criminal and civil court of

Davidson county.



   Albert G. Ewing. Sr., was born in Nashville seventy-sis years ago, and is now

living in this city, a retired merchant and manufacturer. He is a man of true

worth and integrity, and held in high respect throughout the community. He has

been a life-long Democrat, and during the Civil war served as a Confederate
soldier.



   Born and reared in Nashville, Albert G. Ewing, Jr., obtained his rudimentary

schooling in the city, subsequently further advancing his studies at the

Washington & Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia, and later studied law under

John B. Minor at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. In 1891 Mr.

Ewing was graduated from Vanderbilt University with the degree of Bachelor of

Laws, and the same year was admitted to the Tennessee bar. He at once opened a

law office in Nashville, but a few months later removed to Rome, Georgia, where

for eight years he was actively engaged in the practice of law. Returning to

Nashville, Tennessee, in 1900, he resumed practice in this city, and as a lawyer

is meeting with characteristic success, having .a large clientage.



   An active and influential member of the Democratic ranks, Mr. Ewing has been

twice elected state senator from the seventeenth senatorial district, and served

in that capacity from 1905 until 1907 with credit to himself and to the

satisfaction of his constituents. He had the honor of drawing and introducing

the bill which became the present State Reformatory Law, and likewise the bill,

with the exception of its amendment, which was passed, and became the present

assessment act. The amendment attached to it the present "Back Assessment"

feature of the law, and was not of his initiative, it not being in the original

bill. In 1909 Mr. Ewing was elected city attorney for a term of four years, and

is serving the municipality well and wisely.



   Socially Mr. Ewing belongs to the Commercial Club; fraternally he is a blue

lodge Mason, a Royal Arch Mason and a Woodman of the World; and religiously he

is a member of the Emanuel Baptist church.



   In 1897, in Rome, Georgia, Mr. Ewing married Miss Sarah Leila Berry, who

presides over his home with true southern hospitality and grace.



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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913



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