- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- Alfred Austell letters, 1863-1876
- Creator:
- Austell, Alfred, 1814-1881
- Date of Original:
- 1863/1876
- Subject:
- Banks and banking--Georgia
Correspondence
Austell, Alfred, 1814-1881--Correspondence - People:
- Austell, Alfred, 1814-1881
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
image/x-djvu - Description:
- This collection consists of three letters written by Alfred Austell to his sister. Austell writes about sending a check in the mail; travel plans; the decrease in property values; how family members are doing; and responds to his sister's letters.
Processing Information: This collection was re-processed in 2012.
Transcriptions of two letters are included in this collection.
Alfred Austell (1814-1881) was born in eastern Tennessee to Jane Wilkins and William Austell. He married Francina Cameron of LaGrange, Georgia, in 1853, and they had four children: Alfred, Jr., Janie, Leila, and William. In 1865, Austell and E. W. Holland purchased the Bank of Fulton and he also established the Atlanta National Bank. He served as president until his death. Austell was also a partner in a number of cotton brokerage firms including Austell and Camp, Austell and Inman, and Austell and Swann. In addition to his dealing in the cotton trade, Austell invested in real estate in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as in railroads in several southern states. Austell also served on Atlanta's first board of education and on the finance committee of the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta. Although he was opposed to secession, Austell supported Georgia when it voted to secede. Upon the conclusion of the Civil War, he was a member of the committee that passed resolutions celebrating the end of the Civil War, condemning the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and obeying the laws of the United States. He died on December 7, 1881, in Atlanta, Georgia.
America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia received support from a Digitizing Historical Records grant awarded to the Atlanta History Center, Georgia Historical Society, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Digital Library of Georgia by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_turningpoint_ahc0472f-001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ahc/turningpoint/do:ahc0472f-001
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. All requests to publish, quote, or reproduce must be submitted through the Kenan Research Center.
This collection is open for research. - Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Alfred Austell letters, MSS 472f, Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center., as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Original Collection:
- Alfred Austell letters, MSS 472f, Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center.
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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