Official bond books, 1817-1937.

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Official bond books, 1817-1937.

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Each county official in Alabama must file a performance bond with the probate judge of his/her respective county (see Ala. Code, 11-2-3 [1975]). This series consists of transcriptions or photoduplications of the bonds filed by county officials. Information includes name of individual bonded, effective dates, amount of bond, bond sureties, and office that the individual is filling. Offices for which bonds were required include sheriff, county treasurer, tax collector, tax assessor, county administrator, county surveyor, constable, justice of the peace, notary public, county superintendent of education, circuit clerk, county coroner, and treasurer of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama. The books may also contain oaths of office, powers of attorney, statements, and other performance surety bonds. Included are records for the years 1817-1825, 1868-1883, 1874-1890, 1900-1909, and 1933-1937. Of particular interest are the volumes covering the years 1868-1883 and 1874-1890, which contain bonds of African Americans and Republicans elected and appointed to office in Montgomery County during Reconstructon. The volume for the years 1874-1890 includes additional and extended bonds required of elected Republican officials by Democrats trying to remove them from office. Among the officials who filed bonds for office or signed as sureties on the bonds of elected officials are Bolling Hall, Henry Crommelin, Arthur Bingham, Charles H. Scott, Eugene Beebe, Hilary A. Herbert, Thomas Goode Jones, Josiah Morris, James T. Holtzclaw, Jacob Griel, Adolf Weil, Jacques Loeb, Frederick Wolffe, John H. Clisby, Robert McKee, W. W. Screws, Thomas Scott Sayre, and Daniel Sayre.

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Hall, Bolling, 1767-1836

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Bolling Hall was born in Virginia. As a young man, he served in the Revolutionary War. He moved to Hancock County, Georgia, where he became a prominent citizen. He was a member of the Georgia General Assembly, 1800-1802 and 1804-1806, and a Representative in the 12th, 13th, and 14th Congress from 1811 to 1817. He moved to Alabama to become a farmer. Hall died on March 25, 1836. From the description of Bolling Hall letter, 1814. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 807810...

Beebe, Eugene H.

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Air Force officer. From the description of Reminiscences of Eugene Beebe : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451184 ...

Herbert, Hilary A. (Hilary Abner), 1834-1919

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Hilary Abner Herbert (March 12, 1834 - March 6, 1919) was Secretary of the Navy under President Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897. He also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama. From the description of Letter, March 29, 1893. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 18178390 Hilary A. Herbert was an Alabama and Washington, D.C., lawyer, author, Democratic United States representative, 1877-1893, and secretary of the Navy, 1893-1897. ...

Wolffe, Frederick, b. 1831.

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Frederick Wolffe, a native of Bavaria, emigrated to Mobile, Ala. where he became a cotton broker. By 1874 Wolffe had moved to Montgomery, Ala., was involved in cotton trading and railroads, and worked for the Republican Party. Wolffe became a prominent member of Montgomery's Jewish community, and served as a trustee and treasurer of Kahl Montgomery. Wolffe also served as the local representative of the Erlanger Syndicate, a German Jewish financial house which owned contr...

Clisby, John H. 1840-1902.

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Weil, Adolfo

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Sayre, Daniel 1808-1888.

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Loeb, Jacques 1855-1912.

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Screws, W. W. 1839-1913.

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Sayre, Thomas S. b.1856.

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Scott, Charles Henderson

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Charles A. Scott was a charter member of the U.S. Forest Service, a member of the Nebraska Sand Hill Reconnaissance Survey Party, Professor of Forestry at Iowa State College, and Kansas State Forester. From the description of Records 1900-1960. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 45816761 ...

Crommelin, Henry, 1904-1971

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Henry Crommelin was born August 11, 1904, in Montgomery, Alabama. He received his commission as ensign in the U.S. Navy in 1925, and achieved the rank of rear admiral in 1952. He served as commander of Battleship Division 2 from 1956 to 1957. Crommelin died in March 1971. From the description of Crommelin, Henry, 1904-1971 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10615278 ...

Jones, Thomas Goode, 1844-1914

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Thomas Goode Jones was born on 1844 Nov. 26 at Macon, Ga. He was educated by tutors, Mongomery, Ala. schools, the schools of Dr. Charles Minor and Gesner Harrison in Virginia, and the Virginia Military Institute. Within months of joining the Confederate Army he rose to the rank of major. Following the war, he served as captain of the Montgomery Greys, Co. A., Second Regiment, Ala. State Troops, and colonel of the Second Infantry Regiment, Alabama State Troops, from 1880 to 1890. Between 1866 and...

Holtzclaw, James T. 1832-1893.

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McKee, Robert 1830-1909.

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Bingham, Arthur, 1819-1894.

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Morris, Josiah 1818-1891.

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Montgomery County (Ala.). Probate Judge.

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Griel, Jacob 1839-1900.

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