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Amelia Weidenreich Marx

mARX, JULIUS LEE, banker, was born Feb- ruary 6, 1866, at Mobile; son of Isaac and Amelia (Weidenreich) Marx, the former a na- tive of Geklingin-Rhine Pflaz, Germany, who came to Alabama in the early forties, located in Demopolis in 1844, and resided there until the beginning of the War of Secession, when he Joined the C. S. Army and served in the quar- termaster department, the latter who lived at Prankenthal Rhine Pflaz, Germany, and was educated in Berlin, who came to Demopolis in 1853. He attended the private and public schools of Demopolis, and was graduated from Spring Hill college, near Mobile, A. B., 1886. The degree of A. M. was later conferred upon him by the same college. He became a banker, and is now president of the Marx Banking Company, Demopolis. He is president of the congregation of B'nai Jerushun, Demopolis, and superintendent of the Sunday school; is past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, an Elk, and a member of B'nai B'rith. Married: March 1, 1898, at Chattanooga, Tenn., to Hattie Simp- son, daughter of Aaron and Fannie Simpson, of Chattanooga, Tenn. Children: 1. Amelia Simpson, b. March 6, 1906, at Demopolis; 2. Julius Simpson, b. October 1, 1910, at Demo- polis. Residence: Demopolis.

uring the American Civil War, Mobile was one of the most important Confederate ports, and it maintained its trade with the West Indies and Europe despite a Union blockade begun in 1861. The port functioned until August 1864, when the Battle of Mobile Bay, fought between the opposing Union and Confederate fleets, was won by the Union admiral David Farragut. Two forts at the bay’s entrance, Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island and Fort Morgan on Mobile Point, surrendered immediately thereafter. In the spring of 1865 the Union general Edward R.S. Canby successfully laid siege to Fort Blakely and Spanish Fort, on the east side of the bay. After 26 days the forts, and then the city, were evacuated, and Union forces entered Mobile on April 12, 1865.

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