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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...Episcopal Church, and in Masonry is affiliated with the Lodge, Chapter and Knight Templar Commandcry and with the Zamora Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Birmingham. JOSEPH B. L.ssrrna came to Birmingham about fifteen years ago. He was then just twenty-one years of age, recently married. and had as cash assets only $75. He was a young man of great self-reliance, had confidence in his own abilities, and he succeeded in persuading the owners of the Bullard Investment Company to sell to him on credit.-His individual business connections have grown even more rapidly than the city, and as proprietor of the Bullard Investment Company he has handled an immense volume of business, chiefly in real estate loans. Mr. Lassiter was born at Midland City, Dale County, Alabama, August 10, 1883, son of George W. and Cinderella (Sanders) Lassiter. His father, a native of West Florida, came to Alabama when a young man, married here and gave most of his active life to farming, with cotton culture as the chief feature. He now lives at Hartford, Alabama. His wife died in 1896, at the age of forty-two. George Lassiter is a member of the Methodist Church, South. He and his wife have nine children, seven of whom are still living. Joseph B. Lassiter was the fifth among the children. He received his early education in the common schools of Southern Alabama, and later took a course in the Alabama-Georgia Business College at Macon, Georgia. On December 15, 1904, he married Catherine Bullard, daughter of Robert Bullard. They have one daughter, Dorris R. Mr. and Mrs. Lassiter are members of the First Christian Church, in which he is a deacon. Besides the Bullard Investment Company Mr. Lassiter is president of the Interstate Securities Company, which does a title...
This new, factually rich and visually stunning publication is the first major history of Birmingham for more than four decades.
Birmingham was a village worth only one pound in the Domesday Survey, yet it rose to become the second city of the British Empire with a population that passed a million. Its growth began when Peter de Birmingham obtained a market charter in 1154 for his little settlement by an insignificant river, with all roads leading to its all-important market-place, the great triangular Bull Ring, with the parish church of St Martin's in the middle. In the succeeding centuries, Birmingham has been a product of market forces, as a market of agriculture, trade and metal work.By the 18th century, Birmingham overtook Coventry as the biggest town in Warwickshire and by 1800 it was 'the toy shop of Europe', having cornered the markets for gun-making, jewellery, buttons and buckles with a bewildering variety of specialist craftsmen and traders. The factory system had already begun and men like James Watt, Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley and William Murdock made Birmingham the powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution, selling their wares in vast quantities to the entire world. The middle of the 19th century saw Birmingham pioneering political reform, education and municipal government.In this first single-volume history of the city for half a century, Dr Upton looks at why Birmingham grew and what it has become. It has always been a place in which to experiment, from the steam engine to the factory in a garden; from the Bull Ring to Spaghetti Junction. To some, the story of Birmingham is one of great industries: Boulton and Watt, Dunlop, Cadbury's, G.K.N., Lloyd's Bank and Austin Rover. But there are many lesser known tales: of the Bull Ring Riots, the Onion Fair, the first floodlit football matches and the tripe sellers. It is a story of communities, too. The Quakers settles in the 17th century, the Irish and Italians in the 19th and, more recently, people from the Caribbean, the Indian subcontinent, China and Vietnam have all made Birmingham their home.As Birmingham makes it marks on the map of Europe again, one thing is certain... the story of the city that brought us Joseph and Neville Chamberlain, Thomas the Tank Engine, Fu Manchu and Mendelssohn's Elijah can hardly be dull. Chris Upton's lively account ensures that Birmingham's fascinating story loses nothing in telling.