HARAWAY, William E., was born
in Giles County, Tenn., January 25, 1817;
received his primary education in the common
schools; read medicine under Dr. Kyle, at Rogersville, Ala., and began practice in Limestone
county; practiced there two years, coming thence
back to ltogcrsville, where he devoted his time
and talents to the practice of his profession for
thirty years. In 1880, he retired from the practice of medicine, moved into Florence, and was
elected Judge of the Probate Court, and held the
office one term.
At the outbreak of the war, Doctor Haraway
volunteered as a soldier, but being the only physician in the neighborhood where he lived, the people
entered such an universal protest against his leaving, that he was compelled to remain at home.
The Doctor is a public-spirited man, fully
abreast of the tide of modern progress. lie is at
present largely interested with other gentlemen in
the organization and construction of an important
line of railway. He was married at Fort Hampton, Limestone County, December 4, 1S44, to
Eliza C. Bonner.
The Doctor is a son of Samuel and Xancv
(Williamson) Haraway, natives of Virginia, and
descendants from Scotch ancestrv. He is a selfmade man and his present ample fortune is the
result of his individual effort and industry.
HENTZ, Caroline Lee (Whiting) - Lauderdale was the home at one time of Mrs. Caroline
Lee Hintz, the popular novelist. She was the daughter of Col. John "Whiting of Lancaster, Massachusetts, and was
born about the beginning of the century. In 1824 she married Prof. N. M. Hentz, the son of a lawyer of Metz, and who
was at the time associated with Mr. George Bancroft, the after-time historian, in the conduct of a seminary in the
vicinity. Two years later, they removed to Chapel Hill, N. C. R. where Prof. H. served as professor of ..... and languages for several years. While residing in Cincinnati, in 1832, the first tragedy of her maturer years ("'De Lara,") was written for a Boston theatre, and took tho prize of $600 offered for the best production of the kind. It was two years after that, the family came to this State, and made Florence
their home. Here, absorbed in family and school duties, Mrs. Hentz passed nine years of the most domestic portion of her
life. In 1843 she and her husband removed to Tuskaloosa to take charge of a female seminary; and from thence in a year
or two to Tuskegoe, and subsequently to Columbus, Georgia. She died of pneumonia in Marianna, Florida, Feb. 11, 1856,
just after completing " Ernest Linwood," and did not know of its great success. Of her other works, w Linda, or the Pilot
of the Belle Creole," " Robert Graham," Marcus Warland, and The Planter's Northern Bride," are those best known.
Mrs. Hentz was not sufficiently identified with Alabama for her merits as an author to be presented here ; but none have
failed to remark how thoroughly she had observed the salient traits of Southern character. She is the only novelist of her
reputation who has laid the scenes of her stories among us, save Mr. Simms, and they will convey faithful pictures of
refined life at the South as long as the English language is spoken. Nor is it as a novelist that those who knew her
longest most fondly remember her. As a wife, mother, and educator, she had a practical existence, and brightened tho
pathway of others with her womanly love and devotion. She left two daughters who have won some distinction in literary
circles: Mrs. George P. Keyes of Montgomery, and Mrs. Branch ; and a son resides in Florida.
Alabama - Her Resources and History by Willis Brewer 1872
