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Chancellor Hurieosco Austill, attorney-at-law of Mobile, Alabama, was born in that city, February 16, 1841. His father was Col. Jeremiah Austill, a native of South Carolina, and an officer in the war of 1812. He served in the Alabama legislature, and by occupation was a cotton factor (?) and a farmer.
Col. Jeremiah Austill died in 1881. He was a son of Evan Austill, a native of North Carolina, and a son of Isaac Austill. There is a family tradition that the Austill family came from Saint Austell, England.
The mother of Hurieosco was Margaret Eads, who was distantly related to Capt. Eads of Mississippi Jetty fame. Her ancestry is traced back to Wales. She died in 1890. Each of Hurieosco's parents was eighty-five years of age a the time of their death.
He (Hurieosco) graduated from the University of Alabama, in 1861, and went directly from college into the army of the Confederate States. He was at once appointed Second Lieutenant of the First Alabama Battery of Artillery, and held a commission throughout the entire war in that command. During the Kentucky campaign, in December, 1862, he was appointed to a Captaincy in the Twenty-Second Alabama, in the way of a detached position.
He was once slightly wounded, and was captured at Fort Morgan and held a prisoner for twelve months, or until the close of the war. Four of those months were spent at Fort Lafayette, and six months at Fort Deleware. He came home from the latter prison in a very bad state of health, and it required a year for him to recuperate.
In 1800 he entered upon the study of the law in the Office of Dargan & Taylor, of Mobile, and was admitted to the bar in 1808, practicing at Mobile ever since. He is a member of the State Bar Association, and in counsel for the following projected railroads: Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City; Mobile & Northwestern, and the Mobile & Dauphin Island Railroad.
Politically he is a democrat, and was elected to the lower house of the legislature in 1880, serving one term. He was elected to the state senate in 1882 for four years. In 1874, he was elected chancellor of the Southern Division of Alabama, and served one term of six years. He is a member of the Baptist church. He was married December 24, 1874, to Miss Aurora R. Ervin, of Wilcox County, Alabama, by whom he has six children, three sons and three daughters.
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