History of Abbeville, (Abbeville County) South Carolina United States of America

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James S. Cothran, representative, was born in Abbeville district, S.C., Aug. 8, 1830. He was graduated from the University of Georgia in 1852, and was admitted to the bar in 1854. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army as a private; was severely wounded at the battles of Centreville, Chancellorsville and Jericho Mills; and was present at the surrender of the army of northern Virginia at Appomattox, having attained the rank of captain. At the close of the war he resumed the practice of law at Abbeville; was solicitor of the 8th judicial circuit, 1876-81; judge of the circuit court, 1881-87, and a Democratic representative from the third South Carolina district in the 50th and 51st congresses, 1887-91.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Abner Smith Lipscomb, jurist, was born in Abbeville, S.C., Feb. 10, 1789; son of Joel and Elizabeth (Childs) Lipscomb. His father was a Revolutionary officer, and both parents were natives of Culpeper county, Va. He studied law with John C. Calhoun and George Bowie at Abbeville, S.C., and settled in the practice of law in 1811 at St. Stephens (Ala.), at that time in Mississippi Territory. He served as captain of volunteers in the expedition against the Indians in the war of 1812. He was a member of the Alabama territorial legislature, 1817-19; judge of the supreme court of the state of Alabama, 1820-24, and chief justice, 1824-35. He was a representative from the Mobile district in the Alabama legislature, 1838, and in 1839 he removed to Texas. He was secretary of the republic under President Lamar, 1839-41, and a member of the convention of 1845 that accepted the terms of annexation proposed by the United States and framed the constitution of the state. He was an associate justice of the supreme court of the state, 1846-57. Lipscomb county, Texas, was named in his honor. He received the honorary degree LL.D. from theUniversity of Alabama in 1834. His opinions are published in Minor's, Stewart's, and Stewart and Porter's reports, and in "Texas Law Reports" Vols. I. to XVII. and his decisions are quoted by the supreme courts of Iowa, Massachusetts and other states and by the United States supreme court. He died near Austin, Texas, Dec. 3, 1857.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Thomas Perrin Harrison, educator, was born in Abbeville, S.C., Oct. 11, 1864; son of Francis Eugene and Mary Eunice (Perrin) Harrison; and grandson of James and Sarah (Earle) Harrison and of Thomas Childs and Jane (Wardlaw) Perrin. He attended the school at Abbeville, and was graduated at the South Carolina military academy in 1886. He taught two years and took a post-graduate course in Johns Hopkins university, 1888-91, receiving his Ph.D. degree in 1891. He was associate professor of English in Clemson agricultural college, S.C., 1891-95, and became professor of English in Davidson college, N.C., in 1895. He was married, Jan. 9, 1894, to Adelia, daughter of James Turner and Adelia (Lake) Leftwich.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Anderson Crenshaw, jurist, was born in Abbeville district, S.C., May 22, 1783. He was graduated at South Carolina college, Columbia, in 1806, the first graduate of that institution. He then practised law in his native county and in 1819 removed to Alabama, where he was judge of the circuit court 1821-38; judge of the supreme court, and chancellor of southern Alabama, 1838-47. He died in Butler county, Ala., in 1847.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor