Toulmin, Harry T. (Harry Theophilus), 1838-1916.

Toulmin was born on 1838 Mar. 4 to Theophilus Lindsey and Amante Juzan Toulmin, in Mobile Co., Ala. He received his education at the University of Ala. and at the University of Va., and was admitted to the Ala. bar in 1860, beginning his practice in Mobile, Mobile Co., Ala. He entered the Confederate Army as a private in the Third Ala. Infantry Regiment in 1861 Apr., rising to the rank of colonel in 1864, and remaining at that rank until the end of the war. Toulmin resumed his law practice in Mobile in 1865, was a presidential elector in 1868 and 1870, married Mary M. Henshaw in 1869, and in 1870 was elected to the Ala. Legislature, where he also served as chairman of the judiciary committee, and as a member of the committee on corporations. In 1874 Nov. he was elected as judge of what was then the Ala. sixth judicial circuit, and was re-elected in 1880, the circuit having been changed from the sixth to the first judicial circuit. He resigned the position in 1882 to resume his law practice, but in 1886 Dec. President Grover Cleveland appointed him U.S. judge for the southern district of Ala. He was trustee of the Ala. medical college, and president of the board of trustees of the Mobile Y.M.C.A.