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Changing Huntsville, 1890-1899 Changing Huntsville1890-1899ByChanging Elizabeth Humes Chapman All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without express permission of the Historic Huntsville Foundation, Inc. Republished by the Historic Huntsville Foundation, Inc. P. O. Box 786 Huntsville, Alabama 35804 1989 Changing Huntsville 1890-1899 ELIZABETH HUMES CHAPMAN Table of Contents Illustrations..........................................................................................................vii P reface.............................................................................................................. ix Forew ord............................................................................................................xi A bstract............................................................................................................ xiii Chapter 1 Northern Influx..........................................................................1 Chapter 2 Political Expression................................................................ 25 Chapter 3 Woman’s Suffrage...................................................................27 Chapter 4 Newspapers.............................................................................. 35 Chapter 5 Personalities............................................................................41 Chapter 6 Piedmont...................................................................................59 Chapter 7 Monte Sano Dairy...................................................................63 Chapter 8 An Encampment.....................................................................67 Chapter 9 Fires of Huntsville...................................................................73 Chapter 10 Civic Organizations................................................................ 75 Chapter 11 The Opera House.....................................................................85 Chapter 12 The Church..............................................................................89 Chapter 13 Observance of Festivals......................................................... 93 Chapter 14 Recreation................ ............................................................. I l l Chapter 15 Clubs....................................................................................... 121 Chapter 16 Schools...................................................................................135 Chapter 17 As They C ooked...................................................................153 Chapter 18 The Color L in e.....................................................................159 Chapter 19 Obituaries.............................................................................. 165 Conclusion........................................................................................................181 Index...................................................................................................................183 Illustrations Elizabeth Humes Chapm an............................................................Frontispiece A H atchet............................................................................................................34 Church of the N ativity.....................................................................................40 “Piedmont,” the Garth H om e..........................................................................61 Portico of the Chapman Home, “Gladstone Place” .....................................62 The Smokehouse at “Gladstone Place” ......................................................... 66 Fire Fighting Equipment, Typical of the 1890’s ......................................... 72 Churches of H untsville.....................................................................................88 A D oll................................................................................................................ 110 A Horse.............................................................................................................. 120 “Abingdon Place,” Residence of the Humes Family................................ 134 A Beaten Biscuit M achine.............................................................................. 157 The Negro Cook was Usually the Boss......................................................... 158 A Big Occasion at the Big Spring...................................................................163 Sacred to the Memory of- - - ..........................................................................164 vii Preface Only a fortunate few have discovered Changing Huntsville, 1890-1899. History buffs browsing through the rare book collection of the Huntsville- Madison County Public Library and researchers in the local college and university libraries are almost the only ones. Those few must surely have been enchanted with their find. It is a treasure trove of information on life in Huntsville during the last decade of the nineteenth century, but the sparkle and verve with which it is written make it much more than a col­ lection of facts. So few copies of the book have been accessible because it was privately printed in a limited edition of one-hundred. The Historic Huntsville Foun­ dation edition now makes Changing Huntsville, 1890-1899 readily available for the first time. The attitudes and opinions expressed by individuals quoted in Changing Huntsville, 1890-1899 are characteristic of the late 19th century. They do not necessarily reflect those of the Historic Huntsville Foundation member­ ship. The original edition does have a most attractive format with many illustrations, both photographs and drawings. Our Foundation edition almost exactly duplicates the original. The illustrations are all included. The charm­ ing brush drawings were done by the well-known Alabama artist, Rosalie (Pettus) Price who is Miss Chapman’s niece. Mrs. Price states, “Aunt Eliza­ beth occupied a special place in my life. She, never having married, lived with her mother in Huntsville. After her mother’s death she came to live with my family in Birmingham.” We extend our sincere appreciation to Meg Pattillo for designing the new cover and to Lee Harless for original drawings of the Church of the Nativity, “Abingdon Place,” and “Piedmont” to replace illustrations of the same locations which would not reproduce properly. The credit for the format goes to Dorothy Scott Johnson who edited and published the first edition for the family. Publication Committee: February, 1989 Joberta Wasson, Chairwoman Bertha Hereford Dorothy Scott Johnson Lynn Jones Patrick McCauley Mickey Maroney Harvey Jones, Consultant ix Foreward Changing Huntsville, 1890-1899, is published in memory of my sister, Elizabeth Humes Chapman (1884-1967), who wrote it in 1932 as her thesis for her Master of Arts in History at Columbia University. A teacher in the public schools of Alabama for over fifty years, she spent the last years of her professional career in the History Depart­ ment of Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Alabama. Although widely travelled and thoroughly knowledgeable about the histories of the United States. Western Europe and Egypt, she chose as the subject of her thesis that small part of the world in at she knew best, her native city. During the documented decade she grew from a thin, brown-eyed little girl with bright red hair into a slim, graceful teenager. Her memories of this youthful period in her life are an essential element of the thesis. Among the members of her family whom she mentions are her mother, Rosalie Sheffey Chapman, and her grandfather, Reuben Chapman, Gover­ nor of Alabama from 1847 to 1949. It is my hope that her report of this decade will be significant to those who wish to explore this moment of history. Ellelee Chapman Pettus (Mrs. Erie Pettus, Sr.) Birmingham, Alabama March 10, 1972 xi The purpose of this thesis is to reproduce life in Huntsville, Alabama, from 1890 through 1899. It was a period of change from the ideals of the Old South to the new industrialism which swept away old families, old culture, and old customs. I have given the conditions accompanying the change, and have tried to keep the spirit of the men who instituted it. Then I have gathered as many of the old manners and customs as I could get authentic record of and reproduced them in their several settings as closely as I could. My sources of information have been the newspaper files in the Court of Records office at the Court House in Huntsville. Judge Thomas Jones, of that court, gave me as much assistance as he could. Wherever the account of a person was not full enough to be clear, I have solicited their relatives for further information. In the case of Miss Howard Wee den, I used information given me about her life and education by Mrs. Milton Humes who was one of her intimate friends. I have also used her books, Shadows on the Wall, Old Voices, and Bandanna Ballads. Mrs. Tracy Steele and Miss Katie Steele gave me access to old papers and family records. Mrs. Eugene Gill gave me family records of the Mastin family. The Church of the Nativity files were opened for me by Mrs. John Kirkpatrick, Reverend and Mrs. Cary Gamble; Mrs. Gamble also gave me a copy of Mr. George Gordon’s composition, Hark! Hark! My Soul! The music for old dances was copied by me from A Casket of Dance Music, an old book which the Clays used for their music and dancing classes. Some old songs which Mother, Miss Jennie Sheffey, Mr. Frank Newman, and other singers in Huntsville used during these
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