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William Martin Teague

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William Martin Teague

Birth
White Plains, Calhoun County, Alabama, USA
Death
18 Mar 1915 (aged 71)
Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
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Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
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Wholesale grocer of Montgomery, educated at Central Institute, then localed in Coosa County, AL, and known as Bragg's Gymnasium. Left school at 17 & joined the 3rd Alabama Regiment commanded by Col. Tennent Lomax, going in as a private in Co.I, May 5, 18861, and being mustered in at Lynchburg, VA. He was wounded at Gettysburg & captured and taken prisoner to Chester, PA. where he was held 3 months, paroled, came home & tranferred to the commissary at Eufaula, where he severed until the close of the war. After the war, he farmed & then went into the mercantile business. He moved to Montgomery & with H. M. Hobbie formed the partnership of Hobbie & Teague. In 1875, with G.W. Barnett (a wife's uncle) & J.W. A. Jackson (his father-in-law), he went into the hardware business until 1891. In 1892 he formed a partnership with his three sons, Robert S., Abner J. and William M,Jr., in the wholesale hardware, under the name of Teague & Sons. Mr. Teague is a member of K and H, National Union and the Elks. He was married in December, 1864, to Isabella, daughter of John W. A. Jackson, of Montgomery and to them have been born ten children. SOURCE: Memorial Record of Alabama, Vol II, p. 752-3.
Wholesale grocer of Montgomery, educated at Central Institute, then localed in Coosa County, AL, and known as Bragg's Gymnasium. Left school at 17 & joined the 3rd Alabama Regiment commanded by Col. Tennent Lomax, going in as a private in Co.I, May 5, 18861, and being mustered in at Lynchburg, VA. He was wounded at Gettysburg & captured and taken prisoner to Chester, PA. where he was held 3 months, paroled, came home & tranferred to the commissary at Eufaula, where he severed until the close of the war. After the war, he farmed & then went into the mercantile business. He moved to Montgomery & with H. M. Hobbie formed the partnership of Hobbie & Teague. In 1875, with G.W. Barnett (a wife's uncle) & J.W. A. Jackson (his father-in-law), he went into the hardware business until 1891. In 1892 he formed a partnership with his three sons, Robert S., Abner J. and William M,Jr., in the wholesale hardware, under the name of Teague & Sons. Mr. Teague is a member of K and H, National Union and the Elks. He was married in December, 1864, to Isabella, daughter of John W. A. Jackson, of Montgomery and to them have been born ten children. SOURCE: Memorial Record of Alabama, Vol II, p. 752-3.

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