F. Stollengwerck, the gentleman whose biographical sketch is herewith
presented, is a descendant of an accomplished French family which
settled many years ago in St. Domingo from which island his 
grandparents were obliged to flee during the negro insurrection 
and seek refuge in the United States.  They located in New York city 
and the subject's grandfather was afterward deputed by congress to
test the culture of the grape in Alabama and other parts of the south.

A. G. Stollenwerck, father of F. Stollenwerck, is a 
native of Alabama, born in Greene county in the year 1838 and is 
now a resident of the city of Birmingham, where he does an 
extensive business as a stock and bond broker.  In 1852 he
contracted a matrimonial alliance with Miss Julia F. Fowlkes of North
Carolina, but, at the time of her marriage, a resident of Marion
County, Ala., and reared the following family of children:  H.A.
Stollengwerck, cotton buyer of Birmingham; E.L. Stollengwerck, master
of trains on the Louisville & Nashville railroad; Frank Stollengwerck;
A. G., Jr., manager of the Wheeling Pottery company, Wheeling, W. Va.;
Herbert Stollengwerck, who was bookkeeper for the Dunham Lumber
company, and was accidentally killed in a railroad accident, July 10,
1890; Julia Stollengwerck; Clayton, manager of Southern States Lumber
company, Caryville, Fla.; Mary Stollengwerck; Samuel Stollengwerck;
Leslie Stollengwerck and Nettie Stollengwerck.

F. Stollenwerck was born September 20, 1860, in Marion County, Ala.,
in the schools of which he received a practical education.  At the age
of fifteen he began clerking in a cotton buyer's office in Selma,
Ala., and after continuing in that capacity three years, formed a
partnership with his father and for five years thereafter was
extensively engaged in the cotton trade at Selma and other cities of
the state.  Relinquishing the cotton business, he next accepted the
position of cashier in the bank of Joseph Steiner & Sons, Greenville,
Ala., the duties of which he discharged until the spring of 1889,
when, in partnership with his brother-in-law, W. H. Calhoun, he
purchased a half-interest in the Dunham Lumber company, with which he
is still identified and of which he is now vice-president.

Mr. Stollenwerck's business career has been highly successful and his
creditable standing in the social circles of this community attests the
estimation in which he is held by his fellow citizens of Dunham.  He
has inherited in a marked degree many of the refined characteristics
of his ancestors, and, being in 'the very vigor of life,' has before
him a future fraught with much that is promising.  On the 6th day of
July, 1882, in the city of Greenville, Ala., Mr. Stollenwerck was
united in marriage with Emma Calhoun, the accomplished niece of Col.
H. A. Herbert, M. C., and now secretary of navy in the cabinet of 
President Cleveland.

Mrs. Stollenwerck was early left an orphan and grow to womanhood under
the watchful care of an aunt, Mrs. Buell, who spared neither money nor
pains in procuring for her the best educational advantages obtainable.
She is a graduate of the Greenville Collegiate institute, where she
took the first honors of her class, and is a lady of refinement and
varied accomplishments, with decided talents as an artist.  The home of
Mr. and Mrs. Stollenwerck has been gladdened by the birth of one
child, Frank, an interesting boy of nine years.  Mr. Stollenwerck is a 
democrat in his political belief, belongs to lodge No. 776. K of R., 
and with his wife is a member of the Episcopal church in which he holds 
the position of vestryman.