Edward Crenshaw, prominent member of the  Greenville bar, and son of
the late Judge Walter H. Crenshaw, is a native of  Butler county, Ala.,
born on the 29th day of August,1842. He was liberally  educated in the
universities of Alabama and Virginia, completing the law course in the
latter institution, and in 1861 entered the Confederate service as
second lieutenant of company K, Seventeenth Alabama volunteer
infantry, and in March, 1863, was promoted captain of company B,
Fifty-eighth Alabama  regiment. May, 1864, he received the appointment
of second lieutenant in the  Confederate marine corps, and subsequently
became first lieutenant of marines on the Confederate privateer
Tallahassee, which captured about forty Union vessels during the war.

On leaving the service, Mr. Crenshaw began to practice his profession
in Greenville, and in 1869 was elected clerk of the  circuit court for
Butler county, the duties of which position he discharged  in a highly
creditable manner until 1874. Since the expiration of his official
term Mr. Crenshaw has given his entire attention to his  profession,
and now has a large and lucrative legal business in Butler and other
counties of southern Alabama. He stands high among his professional
brethren of the Greenville bar, and is a fitting representative of the
family which, for many years, exerted such a powerful influence in the
legal profession of southern Alabama. Mr. Crenshaw and Sarah E.
Britton were united in marriage in 1873, and to their union have been
born two children, Arthur Crenshaw and Edith Crenshaw.