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Adolph Catlin Cade Jr.(born 1904) was president of the Allen & Jemison Company, retiring from that company in 1968. Cade had joined the company in 1926 as an order clerk, held various posts before becoming president of the company after his father's…

Tuscaloosa County Sheriff Nathan Chism was elected to office in 1954 and re-elected three consecutive terms (a record at the time).
The County Sheriff’s Department underwent vast changes under Chism’s control. More hours were devoted to daily…

Samuel Clabaugh was a successful Tuscaloosa businessman and civic leader. In 1916, he was one of the founders of the Tuscaloosa Rotary Club and served as president of the club.
In the same year, a committee was appointed by the Tuscaloosa County…

Tuscaloosa native, W. W. “Foots” Clements took a summer job at the local Dr. Pepper bottling plant during his time at the University of Alabama in 1935. Starting as a small-town distributer, “Foots” was propelled into a life-long sales career. He…

David M. Cochrane graduated from the University of Alabama in 1938 and began practicing law in his hometown, Tuscaloosa. He won the bout for probate judge for the first time in 1959. He stood for conservative budgeting and community advancement…

John Taylor Cochrane was a Tuscaloosa native and West Alabama railroad pioneer.

Cochrane worked with a group of civic leaders at Carrollton to develop a short-line railroad that would connect Pickens County's county seat with the Mobile and Ohio…

On Feb. 27, 1988, Memorial Coliseum at the University of Alabama was renamed Coleman Coliseum in honor of Jefferson Jackson Coleman.

A native of Livingston, Alabama, Coleman enrolled in the University of Alabama in 1924. The next year, at 19 years…

W.A. Collier established a drug store in 1887 that was among the first in Tuscaloosa then known as Dill and Collier. Collier gained a controlling interest in the firm and was touted as a superior druggist and pharmacist, making his business one of…

Camille Wright Cook was the first tenured female member of the faculty in the University of Alabama School of Law in 1976 and became the first woman to hold an endowed chair in 1992 when she was named the John S. Stone Chair of Law.

Cook was a…

James Corder, a leading social, political and religious leader in Pickens County, Alabama, died in 2003. Corder, who led the first civil rights march in that county, died of natural causes in a Reform nursing home.

Corder led the county’s first…