The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-15
CULPEPPER EXUM DIES AFTER AN ILLNESS OF MANY MONTHS

funeral Of Former Mayor
 and One of Birmingham's
 Most Prominent Citizens
 Will Be Held This After
 noon
 Culpepper Exum, for many years one of Birmingham s
 leading citizens, died at his
 home, 2913 Highland avenue, yesterday morning at 5;30 o'clock.
 The funeral will be held
 from the residence this after noon at 3 o'clock, followed by
 interment in Elmwood ceme- tery.
 1 failure following a protraeted illness and ! superinduced by a recent attack of influ- Irenza.
 All day yesterday constant stream of i friends visited the residence showing the high esteem in which the deceased was held in the city where he had lived since 1S97
 PALLBEARERS FOR FUNERAL The funeral services today will be con- ducted by the Rev. Dr. James E. Dil- | lard, pastor of the Southside Baptist T 1. n. Bryan. for many years a devoted friend of the deceased. The active pallbearers have been announced as follows: F. B. Fowlkes, Wm. NJ. Walker, Murray Brown, w. w. Crawford, P. G. Shook, S. N. Gore, Oscar Wells, George G. Craw- fcrd, George w. Connors. F. A. Bur bridge
 The following honorary pallbearers have been named Erskine Ramsay, Hubert Drennen, W. II. Hassinger, Herman Saks, pr. N. A. Barrett. Robert Jemison. Jr., Morris w. Bush, Louis Saks, k. l.. Brown. Ross c. Smith. w. H. McDowell, Eugene Fies, E. W. Barrett, E. H. Cab | aniss, Dr. J. II. Phillips. pr. P II. Woodall, G. B. Mccormack. A. c. De- shazo H. L. Badham, Sol. Caheen. Crawford Johnson, J. D. Kirkpatrick, l Robert Jemison, Sr.. Victor H. Hanson, Maj. F. NJ. Tutwiler, Walter Moore, Thomas Bowron, Col T. o. Smith, Hugh Morrow, Lee c. Bradley, R. E. Chad wick James l. Martin, John r. Till man, R. w. Fonville. George c. What ley. W. H. Kettig, NJ. " Joseph. A. c. Ramsay. Leroy Percy. pr. Cunningham Wilson, Dr. James McLester, James Weatherly, Frank Nelson, Jr.. J. w. Mo Queen, c. T. Fairbairn, w. E. Leake, c. F. DeBardeleben, Frank H. Crackard ILL FOR LONG TIME l. t-- .t., for the past two or three years. About five months ago he had to take to his bed and it was only within the past two weeks that he had been able to make a few short trips downtown. When he contracted the influenza it proved too much for his lowered vitality and the end came early yesterday morning as the result of heart attack.
 NJ. V. Jones and others last night started n movement among the merchants for closing downtown stores for five minutes at the hour of the funeral this afternoon. It Is expected that the merchants will a~. be glad to pay this tribute of re- spect to one who was not only al- ways their friend, but to show the feeling of the entire community for MT. Exum. the evidence of the high regard in which he was uni-
 
 the loss the city has sustained in his death.
 Dr. N. A. Barrett, president of the city commission, announced last night that special meeting of the commits sion will be held this morning to take action on the death of the former mayor and former president of the commission. Dr. Barrett will recommend, and 1t is expected that the commission will ap- I Int; 1J4 of the city hall at noon today as mark of respect.
 Few men of Birmingham had greater variety of interests than MT. Exum. Coming to Birmingham ir May, 1897. he built the Birmingham Fertil- izer Company factory at East Birming- ham. and from that time on his inter- ests increased until he was president of numerous organizations and inter- ested in many others
 Mir. Exum was boIn June 16, 1S66 in South Carolina, and was son of pr. Robert B. Exum. who served in the Confederate service during the war between the states He grew up on a farm and later be- came a travelling salesman This first interested him in the fertilizer busi- ness and it was his first field when he came to Birmingham. At the time of his death he was president of the Cres- cent Coal Company. president of the Birmingham Fertilizer Company. press- dent of the Steel Cities Chemical Com pany. vice president of the Aetna Ex- losives Company. vice president of the Brown-Exum Realty Company of New York. member of the firm of R. A. Erown X Co. and a member of the board of directors of he First National Rank.
 IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS
 As an instance of the active part he took in public affairs in addition to his business interests MT. Exum was elected mayor of Birmingham in 1910. In 1911 the commission act was created and he was appointed first president Of the commits sion by the governor He was a former president of the Alabama State Fair As sociation, former president of the Bir- minsham Country Club and former presi- dent of the Chamber of Commerce. the term he filled being that of 1s04. He was member of all the prominent clubs
 He was Mason, Knisht Templar, thirty second degree Scottish Rite Mason, Q Shriner. member of tho Elks. the T. P. A. and of the Rotary Club
 He is survived by Mrs Exum and five children. Lestra K. Culpepper. Jr.. Frank K, Jane and Martha; che sister Mrs T. B. Hinnant of Lake City. g. C.. and a number of nieces and nephews of which R. A. Brown of Birmingham is one.
 One of the most recent conspicuous ex- amples of Mir. Exams public spirit and the workings of his impulses was during the coal famine of 191s-1a A terrible spell Of cold weather struck Birmingham at time when there was almost no coal to be procured and fhe poor of the city were arin Ir