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UPDATED WITH PODCAST – Did you know that a woman from Birmingham, Alabama patented the first workable windshield wiper?...

 
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UPDATED WITH PODCAST – Did you know that a woman from Birmingham, Alabama patented the first workable windshield wiper?

Mary Anderson was born in Greene County, Alabama in 1866. She moved with her widowed mother and sister to the booming town of Birmingham, Alabama in 1889. She built the Fairmont Apartments on Highland Avenue shortly after she arrived in Birmingham. By 1893, she had moved west to Fresno, California where she operated a cattle farm […]

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PATRON + Oldest man in Lauderdale in the 1890s was born in 1788

“OLD UNCLE DAVE” The Oldest Man in Lauderdale Dead (Transcribed from Times Daily July 18, 1890, Florence, Alabama) David Hutchings was born in Morganton, S. C. about 1788 and was over one hundred years of age, and up to March 1st of this year was a remarkably active, industrious old man. He came to North […]

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PATRON – Some Local News In Alabama 1877-1879

LOCAL NEWS IN ALABAMA 1877-1879 (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 08, No. 01, Spring Issue 1946 Huntsville jail has been satisfactorily repaired. Selma is being put in excellent sanitary condition. The work on the Muscle Shoals Canal is progressing finely. Montgomery consumes 12,000 pounds of ice per day, all made at home. Wagons […]

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BIOGRAPHY: Isaac E. Young (bef. 1841 – 1871)

ISAAC E. YOUNG BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (Bef. 1841 -1871) COLBERTIANS By R. L. James SECTION III OBITUARIES AND CEMETERY RECORDS To the Readers of the Alabama Historical Quarterly: (The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 07, No. 03, Fall Issue 1945) I am releasing another section. No. 3, of my article “Colbertians.” I hope it will be […]

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