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Military Commission for Captain Charles L Smallwood who was a prominent Tuscaloosa merchant.

Sage was the son of Frederick William (F.W.) and Lillian Olmsted Monnish. He died of typhoid fever in 1908 at the age of 21.

F.W. Monnish, at his own expense and under his personal supervision, built and gave to the First Baptist Church a…

Frederick William (F. W.) Monnish was born in Frankfurt Germany on September 18, 1859. At the age of 17, he emigrated to America landing at New Orleans. He then traveled to his uncle's home near Coaling, Alabama where he was employed doing odd jobs…

Lillian was born in Connecticut and moved with her family to Olmsted Station, Alabama near Cottondale. Her father was the post master in Olmsted Station. She was a graduate of the Alabama Central Female College and a talented artist.

She married…

John G. Allen was plant manager at BF Goodrich.

Sam Moore Phelps was a native of Grove Hill but lived and practiced law in Tuscaloosa for most of his life. He organized the law firm now known as Phelps, Jenkins, Gibson and Fowler in 1968 and was a member of the Tuscaloosa County and American bar…

Coleman Young was born May 24, 1918, in Tuscaloosa, Ala., to Coleman Young, a dry cleaner, and Ida Reese Jones.

He moved with his family to Detroit in 1923. At Ford Motor Co. he became involved in union activities and civil rights…

Thomas P. “Tommy” Hester is photographed here as the Campaign Chairman for 1978 Leukemia Drive.

A native of Moundville, Tommy was born on April 12, 1933. He is a graduate of Hale County High School, the University of Alabama, and the Louisiana…

Cliff Davenport, (also known as Clifford Delmar Davenport or C. D. Davenport) executive vice president of the Tuscaloosa Chamber of Commerce, on left, greets Prabhat Sarang at the President's Mansion at the University of Alabama. The woman nearest…

Portrait of businessman William Engel who in October 1966 helped bring the McGregor-Doniger clothing manufacturing company to Cottondale. Mr. Engel, though from Birmingham, had lived in Cottondale as a child.