The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-18
JABEZ L. M. CURRY.
A Baef Sketch of His Useful Tiff

pr. J. L. M. Curry was born in 1895. and when he was quite young his father, wealthy planter, settled about six miles from Talladega. Ala. He took his degree in law at Harvard University He was a classmate of the late President Hayes. Dr. Curry graduated in his literary career before he was 20 and received his law di- ploma about the age of 21. Soon after his graduation he enlisted in the Mexican war in a regiment of Texas rangers. He returned to Alabama in 1S7. The same year he married daughter of the late Chancellor Bowie and was first elected to the Legislature from Talladega County. He was then in his 22nd year. He was elected to the Legislature again in 1853 and 1855.
 The campaign in 1855 was a famous one. It was the great battle between the Dem- ocratic and Know Nothing partses. Dr. Curry was opposed by ex-Governor Par lawye, and public speaker, They met in public debate in many voting precincts of the County. Curry won by majority of 27O. His party friends and admirers all ways regarded and referred to this as one of the patriotic services of his life.
 In the Legislature he took high stand and was recognized as a party leader.
 bama Legislature, ls47-4s, lS5s-54 is55-56, and a distinguished member of United States Congress 1857-1S61. He was mem Der of Confederate Congress 1881 -'63; an aide on stan of General Joseph E. John ston and Joseph Wheeler, and Lieutenant Colonel of cavalry Confederate army 1S63-
 65. He was President Howard College of Alabama, 186c-1S6S; Professor of English, Philosophy and Constitutional and Inter national Law, Richmond College, Va, 1S6S-'S United States Minister to Spain, 1885, President Board of Foreign Mis- sions of Southern Baptist Convention and Board of Trustees Richmond University President Southei n History Association. etc. He was also General Agent of Pea body Educational Fund and of John F. Slater Fund. He died February F, 1903.
 He was the author of Constitutional Gladstone; The Southern States of the American Union in their Relation to the Constitution and the Resulting Union; Es- tdbliShment and DiSeStabliShment in the United States; History of the Peabody Educational Fund; History of Confederate | States, etc., etc.
 pr. Curry was thus distinguished as an author, as d soldier, and as a publicist | record as an educator. For more than thirty years he was chiefly identified with the cause of public education in the South and his appeal for the schools of the peo- pie was heard with deep and ever growing appreciation in the legislative halls oi
 every Southern State.
 Impassioned and without reserve in his | devotion to the South, he spoke with com.
 manding power--reinforced by a long ex. | perlence in public life, by the gifts of g vigorous and surpassing eloQuence, anC | by the convincing logic of utter consecra
 tion to his subject and his cause. He be
 lieved in childhood and in the children
 His devotion to the church. the State, the
 to the service of. the children of the South | Those who love to honor him are moved | not only by their admiration for a grea
 and resourceful leader, but by their desire i and of constructive statesmanship whicf
 he so nobly and so fruitfully represented