A Dowling Family of the South

Download or read book A Dowling Family of the South written by R. A. Dowling and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noel Baxter Dowling married Elizabeth Wells, daughter of his father s neighbor, Eben Josiah Wells. Dowling was the son of a Dale County, Alabama, pioneer, John Dowling, who came from Darlington District, South Carolina. Noel Baxter Dowling saw the new Midland Railroad as an opportunity. He sold his 100 acre farm in Ozark and moved his family to Pinckard near the junction of the roads coming from Campbellton, Florida, and Columbia, Alabama. He d dabbled in the mercantile business in Ozark. Noel Baxter Dowling erected one of the two "hotels" needed to handle the drummers who came there to work the surrounding countryside ... It was in this period that Haywood Hart, a son of N.B. entered business. The old fifteen by twenty foot store in which this boy started his fortune still stood on the Dowling farm west of Pinckard. "H.H." as he was known became the first millionaire to descend from ancestor Robert Dowling ... Yet one of his first endeavors had been the job of "butch" boy on his hometown's railroad, selling onion plants, seed, newspapers, etc. Eventually, Hayward Hart came into the possession of the Houston Hotel in Dothan, Alabama.