The age-herald., 1900-09-26

bpiscophl clefBytnhn or tJUuiSfilei W1it probably celebrate today's sacrament of marriage.
 No bride of Alabama has gone elsewbith- CT whose qualities of womanhood and. at tributes of the higher life have constituted her more worthy honor to Alabamians than this Montgomery bride of this Septem- Der morning. She is womanly and lovely in the old-time Southern sense of gentle Womanliness and loveliness she Is young woman of rare culture
 MT. Buckner Speed, on both the paternal and maternal side, comes of eminent Ken lucky families
 Gen. Rufus N Rhodes, and Mrs. Rhodes. and Mrs. Robert Jemison returned to Bir- mingham last night after a prolonged stay in the East. General Rhodes health, which had been very unsatisfactory, is greatly improved. MT. Robert Jemison went to Atlanta yesterday afternoon to meet the returning party, and he was ac- companied by his daughter. Miss Bessie Jemison, and Miss Margaret Nixon and Miss Louise Walker all of whom return ed to the city at night.
 The strongest and richest law firm in Ala bama and one of the strongest in the States of the South has been formed by the union Of the famous Birmingham firms of Walker, Porter & Walker, and Tillman & Campbell. The firm consists of William A. Walker and his eldest son, William Mudd Walker; Alberto Martin Porter; John P. Tillman and Edward K. Campbell. The firm name is Walker, Tillman, Campbell, Porter 6 Walker, and the union becomes effective October l. The offices will be those in First avenue, now occupied by Walker, Porter & Walker
 William A. Walker is at fifty-four the moro active head of the bar of Brming- ham, and is one of the most eminent and successful lawyers of Alabama. He was born here within mile or two of where the present Jefferson County courthouse stands, and has dwelt here all his life. For many years he was in law practice with the lamented Goldsmith W. Hewitt. Aside from his great knowledge of law, he Is a man of ideal private life, and one whom all the people delight to hold in high es- teeqn
 John P. TIMman, though still young man, has been prominently before and honored by the people of Alabama for more than fifteen years; and by the bar of Alabama he is esteemed one of its ablest Judges of law and one of its most astute lawyers He is Dallas County man, and came to Birmingham thirteen years ago. He enjoys extraordinary personal pateular- ity. In 1886 he was selected to codify the laws of Alabama.
 Edward K. Campbell is Virginian, and he came to dwell in Birmingham sixteen years ago. He was then a very young man, just graduated from the University of Virginia; but he was also a very able man, and learned as a lawyer and in vari- ous sciences. Turbulent and widely pro- gressive Birmingham, demanding the best of all talents, came quickly to appreciate Mir. Campbell, and since that time he has steadily advanced towards great success. He is held now to be one of the most able lawyers amongst many lawyers of ability. His personal influence is very powerful
 Alberto M. Porter was born in Jefferson County, where his father also was born, and he comes like MT. Walker from those who were amongst the first settlers of what is now known as the mineral region. He has long been accounted a lawyer of great ability, and has been most successful. Withal he has won multitude of friends by whom, as by everybody, he is known as Bert Porter. Unhappily his health has been unsatisfactory for several months; but he is HOW rapidly improving, and ex- poets to resume active work in October,
 William Mudd Walker, the younger mem- Der of the new firm, was graduated with distinction from the law school of the Alabama University in 1885 He dlstin- guished himself throughout his college career, and has already won an enviable place amongst the best of the younger lawyers of Birmingham
 Walker, Tillman, Campbell, Porter and Walker are attorneys for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company; the Kan sas City, Memphis and Birmingham Rail- road Company the Republic s eel and Iroo Company; the loss-Shsffield Steel and Iron Company; the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company; Western Union Tele-. graph Company; Jefferson County Savings Bank; First National Bank of Birming- ham; Birmingham Railway and Electric Company; East Lake Land Company; Bir- mingham Gas Company; Consolidated Electric Light Company of Birmingham; Avondale Cotton Mills, and the Alabama Brewing Company.
 
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