Edward Hawthorne Moren
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 Birthdate: December 25, 1825
Birthplace: Dinwiddie County, Va.
Marital status: Married July 5, 1860, at Centerville to Mary Frances,
a native of Alabama, daughter of Samuel Wilson and Frances
(Stringfellow) Davidson, the former who came to Alabama in
1819, from Mecklenburg, N. C., and represented Bibb County
in the legislature in 1840.
Education: He received a common school
education and graduated from a medical college in New York
Moren, Edward Hawthorne, physician and
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama, was born December 25, 1825,
in Dinwiddie County, Va., and died March 19, 1886, at
Centerville; son of Daniel and Mary (Crawford) Moren, the
former who was a merchant and farmer and who was, for
several terms, a member of the senate of Virginia, the latter a
native of South Carolina. He received a common school
education and graduated from a medical college in New York;
soon after entered the U. S. Army as assistant surgeon and
served in that capacity during the Mexican War, resigning in
1848. |
He settled in Bibb County in 1851, and devoted himself
to his profession for ten years. In 1861 he was chosen to
represent Perry and Bibb Counties in the upper house of the
general assembly, and in 1865 was re-elected, both times
without opposition. He was a member of the committee of
finance and taxation, and afforded valuable aid when he
devised a system of revenue to aid the treasury of Alabama at a
time when it was almost exhausted and public credit was in
imminent peril. He was also chairman of the joint committee
on retrenchment. In 1861 he entered the C. S. Army as surgeon
with the Twenty-ninth Alabama, and was subsequently put in
charge of a hospital at Greenville. During the election of 1870,
when an injunction had been issued, intending to defeat the
popular will as expressed by the ballotbox, and to retain the
executive and the treasury in the hands of a party which had
been condemned by the people, Dr. Moren was elected
Lieutenant-Governor. He was a member of the board of regents
of the University of Alabama; was an old line Whig; and a
Mason. Married: July 5, 1860, at Centerville to Mary Frances,
a native of Alabama, daughter of Samuel Wilson and Frances
(Stringfellow) Davidson, the former who came to Alabama in
1819, from Mecklenburg, N. C., and represented Bibb County
in the legislature in 1840, and was an elder of the Presbyterian
church, which through his efforts and the efforts of a few
others was founded in Centerville, and built in 1859, who died March 4, 1863, the latter who was a South Carolinian and died October 30, 1848. Last residence: Centerville.
Authorities:
Thomas McAdory Owen, History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Vol. IV, 1238.
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