Maj. Joseph Hardie, husband of Margaret Discretion Isbell Hardie. Son of John Hardie and Mary Meade Hardie of Thornhill Plantation. 1855 graduate of Princeton.
Joseph Hardie was born 26 June 1833 at Whitesburg, Alabama. He was married on 16 December 1856 to Margaret Discretion Isbell in Talladega. He was a merchant in Selma, Alabama, until May 1861 when the company of militia, called the "Governor's Guard," was activated as Company A of the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment, and he was sent to Virginia as its adjutant.
The 4th Alabama distinguished itself at the first battle of Manassas. At the end of his one year term he resigned and returned to Talladega where he formed Hardie's battalion of reserve cavalry. He was captured at Selma at the end of the War and returned to Talladega under parole. In 1865 he returned to Selma where he was a merchant and formed a bank. He and Maggie had no children, but they raised two of their nieces:
James Hardie's daughter Mary Virginia (who married Louis Jeffries) and Mary Hardie Bradford's daughter Alva Hardie Bradford (mother of Anna Meade Minnegerode). Joseph Hardie moved to Los Angeles,California, where he died on 15 May 1915 and she died 23 September 1916.
Alpha Delta Phi Catalog (c1869), p. 72: (Alabama Chapter, Univ. of Ala., Tuscaloosa), Joseph Hardie, 1855, Talladega, Ala.
p.71 (his brother-in-law) Taul Bradford, Talladega, Ala. (grad. 1854).
p.206: Joseph Hardie, Alabama, 1855
p.184: Taul Bradford, Alabama, 1854
A HERITAGE OF WITNESS: South Highland Presbyterian Church 1888-1988 (1988), p. 10:
"Joseph Hardie (1833-1915) was a most outstanding man. He was a native of Talladega, Alabama, attended the University of Alabama and graduated from Princeton in 1855. He married Maggie Isbell of Talladega, and they moved to Selma, where he became a merchant. After serving in the Civil War, he was a successful cotton merchant in Selma, until he moved to Birmingham in 1889. In Birmingham, he established the City National Bank, but in 1892 he sold out and retired from Business. He had previously made some exceedingly lucrative investments in California.
Major and Mrs. Hardie lived on Highland Avenue. Although they had no children, they raised two nieces of Major Hardie's. In their later years they spent most of their time in California.
Major Hardie was always very active in the work of the YMCA. He served as president of three of its International Conventions. He started the first YMCA for Negroes in the South and was very instrumental in the founding of Tuskeegee Institute. He entertained Booker T. Washington in his kitchen because Washington said, "The time hasn't come for me to sit in the dining room."
Major Hardie was very important in the early life of our church, and his influence continues--he was the great-uncle of Mr. Julius T. Hendrick, father of Mrs. Gray Buck, Jr., of our present congregation.
Major Hardie was chosen the chairman of the Building Committee for the new sanctuary. We don't know how many members were on the roll of the church at this time, only a year after the church re was organized. Their numbers must have been small, but they bravely decided on very grand plans for their new church."
Oakland (California) TRIBUNE, Monday, May 17, 1915: "SPONSOR FOR TUSKEEGEE DIES IN LOS ANGELES
By Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, May 17.--Funeral services were held here for Major Joseph Hardie, of Birmingham, Ala., former head of Young Men's Christian Association work in the south and credited by Booker T. Washington with having been the real sponsor for the Institrute at Tuskeegee.
Major Hardie was born in Huntsville, Ala., June 26, 1863. He had spent the last 20 winters here.
He died Saturday night."
Joseph Hardie was born 26 June 1833 at Whitesburg, Alabama. He was married on 16 December 1856 to Margaret Discretion Isbell in Talladega. He was a merchant in Selma, Alabama, until May 1861 when the company of militia, called the "Governor's Guard," was activated as Company A of the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment, and he was sent to Virginia as its adjutant.
The 4th Alabama distinguished itself at the first battle of Manassas. At the end of his one year term he resigned and returned to Talladega where he formed Hardie's battalion of reserve cavalry. He was captured at Selma at the end of the War and returned to Talladega under parole. In 1865 he returned to Selma where he was a merchant and formed a bank. He and Maggie had no children, but they raised two of their nieces:
James Hardie's daughter Mary Virginia (who married Louis Jeffries) and Mary Hardie Bradford's daughter Alva Hardie Bradford (mother of Anna Meade Minnegerode). Joseph Hardie moved to Los Angeles,California, where he died on 15 May 1915 and she died 23 September 1916.
Alpha Delta Phi Catalog (c1869), p. 72: (Alabama Chapter, Univ. of Ala., Tuscaloosa), Joseph Hardie, 1855, Talladega, Ala.
p.71 (his brother-in-law) Taul Bradford, Talladega, Ala. (grad. 1854).
p.206: Joseph Hardie, Alabama, 1855
p.184: Taul Bradford, Alabama, 1854
A HERITAGE OF WITNESS: South Highland Presbyterian Church 1888-1988 (1988), p. 10:
"Joseph Hardie (1833-1915) was a most outstanding man. He was a native of Talladega, Alabama, attended the University of Alabama and graduated from Princeton in 1855. He married Maggie Isbell of Talladega, and they moved to Selma, where he became a merchant. After serving in the Civil War, he was a successful cotton merchant in Selma, until he moved to Birmingham in 1889. In Birmingham, he established the City National Bank, but in 1892 he sold out and retired from Business. He had previously made some exceedingly lucrative investments in California.
Major and Mrs. Hardie lived on Highland Avenue. Although they had no children, they raised two nieces of Major Hardie's. In their later years they spent most of their time in California.
Major Hardie was always very active in the work of the YMCA. He served as president of three of its International Conventions. He started the first YMCA for Negroes in the South and was very instrumental in the founding of Tuskeegee Institute. He entertained Booker T. Washington in his kitchen because Washington said, "The time hasn't come for me to sit in the dining room."
Major Hardie was very important in the early life of our church, and his influence continues--he was the great-uncle of Mr. Julius T. Hendrick, father of Mrs. Gray Buck, Jr., of our present congregation.
Major Hardie was chosen the chairman of the Building Committee for the new sanctuary. We don't know how many members were on the roll of the church at this time, only a year after the church re was organized. Their numbers must have been small, but they bravely decided on very grand plans for their new church."
Oakland (California) TRIBUNE, Monday, May 17, 1915: "SPONSOR FOR TUSKEEGEE DIES IN LOS ANGELES
By Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, May 17.--Funeral services were held here for Major Joseph Hardie, of Birmingham, Ala., former head of Young Men's Christian Association work in the south and credited by Booker T. Washington with having been the real sponsor for the Institrute at Tuskeegee.
Major Hardie was born in Huntsville, Ala., June 26, 1863. He had spent the last 20 winters here.
He died Saturday night."
Maj. Joseph Hardie, husband of Margaret Discretion Isbell Hardie. Son of John Hardie and Mary Meade Hardie of Thornhill Plantation. 1855 graduate of Princeton.
Joseph Hardie was born 26 June 1833 at Whitesburg, Alabama. He was married on 16 December 1856 to Margaret Discretion Isbell in Talladega. He was a merchant in Selma, Alabama, until May 1861 when the company of militia, called the "Governor's Guard," was activated as Company A of the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment, and he was sent to Virginia as its adjutant.
The 4th Alabama distinguished itself at the first battle of Manassas. At the end of his one year term he resigned and returned to Talladega where he formed Hardie's battalion of reserve cavalry. He was captured at Selma at the end of the War and returned to Talladega under parole. In 1865 he returned to Selma where he was a merchant and formed a bank. He and Maggie had no children, but they raised two of their nieces:
James Hardie's daughter Mary Virginia (who married Louis Jeffries) and Mary Hardie Bradford's daughter Alva Hardie Bradford (mother of Anna Meade Minnegerode). Joseph Hardie moved to Los Angeles,California, where he died on 15 May 1915 and she died 23 September 1916.
Alpha Delta Phi Catalog (c1869), p. 72: (Alabama Chapter, Univ. of Ala., Tuscaloosa), Joseph Hardie, 1855, Talladega, Ala.
p.71 (his brother-in-law) Taul Bradford, Talladega, Ala. (grad. 1854).
p.206: Joseph Hardie, Alabama, 1855
p.184: Taul Bradford, Alabama, 1854
A HERITAGE OF WITNESS: South Highland Presbyterian Church 1888-1988 (1988), p. 10:
"Joseph Hardie (1833-1915) was a most outstanding man. He was a native of Talladega, Alabama, attended the University of Alabama and graduated from Princeton in 1855. He married Maggie Isbell of Talladega, and they moved to Selma, where he became a merchant. After serving in the Civil War, he was a successful cotton merchant in Selma, until he moved to Birmingham in 1889. In Birmingham, he established the City National Bank, but in 1892 he sold out and retired from Business. He had previously made some exceedingly lucrative investments in California.
Major and Mrs. Hardie lived on Highland Avenue. Although they had no children, they raised two nieces of Major Hardie's. In their later years they spent most of their time in California.
Major Hardie was always very active in the work of the YMCA. He served as president of three of its International Conventions. He started the first YMCA for Negroes in the South and was very instrumental in the founding of Tuskeegee Institute. He entertained Booker T. Washington in his kitchen because Washington said, "The time hasn't come for me to sit in the dining room."
Major Hardie was very important in the early life of our church, and his influence continues--he was the great-uncle of Mr. Julius T. Hendrick, father of Mrs. Gray Buck, Jr., of our present congregation.
Major Hardie was chosen the chairman of the Building Committee for the new sanctuary. We don't know how many members were on the roll of the church at this time, only a year after the church re was organized. Their numbers must have been small, but they bravely decided on very grand plans for their new church."
Oakland (California) TRIBUNE, Monday, May 17, 1915: "SPONSOR FOR TUSKEEGEE DIES IN LOS ANGELES
By Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, May 17.--Funeral services were held here for Major Joseph Hardie, of Birmingham, Ala., former head of Young Men's Christian Association work in the south and credited by Booker T. Washington with having been the real sponsor for the Institrute at Tuskeegee.
Major Hardie was born in Huntsville, Ala., June 26, 1863. He had spent the last 20 winters here.
He died Saturday night."
Joseph Hardie was born 26 June 1833 at Whitesburg, Alabama. He was married on 16 December 1856 to Margaret Discretion Isbell in Talladega. He was a merchant in Selma, Alabama, until May 1861 when the company of militia, called the "Governor's Guard," was activated as Company A of the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment, and he was sent to Virginia as its adjutant.
The 4th Alabama distinguished itself at the first battle of Manassas. At the end of his one year term he resigned and returned to Talladega where he formed Hardie's battalion of reserve cavalry. He was captured at Selma at the end of the War and returned to Talladega under parole. In 1865 he returned to Selma where he was a merchant and formed a bank. He and Maggie had no children, but they raised two of their nieces:
James Hardie's daughter Mary Virginia (who married Louis Jeffries) and Mary Hardie Bradford's daughter Alva Hardie Bradford (mother of Anna Meade Minnegerode). Joseph Hardie moved to Los Angeles,California, where he died on 15 May 1915 and she died 23 September 1916.
Alpha Delta Phi Catalog (c1869), p. 72: (Alabama Chapter, Univ. of Ala., Tuscaloosa), Joseph Hardie, 1855, Talladega, Ala.
p.71 (his brother-in-law) Taul Bradford, Talladega, Ala. (grad. 1854).
p.206: Joseph Hardie, Alabama, 1855
p.184: Taul Bradford, Alabama, 1854
A HERITAGE OF WITNESS: South Highland Presbyterian Church 1888-1988 (1988), p. 10:
"Joseph Hardie (1833-1915) was a most outstanding man. He was a native of Talladega, Alabama, attended the University of Alabama and graduated from Princeton in 1855. He married Maggie Isbell of Talladega, and they moved to Selma, where he became a merchant. After serving in the Civil War, he was a successful cotton merchant in Selma, until he moved to Birmingham in 1889. In Birmingham, he established the City National Bank, but in 1892 he sold out and retired from Business. He had previously made some exceedingly lucrative investments in California.
Major and Mrs. Hardie lived on Highland Avenue. Although they had no children, they raised two nieces of Major Hardie's. In their later years they spent most of their time in California.
Major Hardie was always very active in the work of the YMCA. He served as president of three of its International Conventions. He started the first YMCA for Negroes in the South and was very instrumental in the founding of Tuskeegee Institute. He entertained Booker T. Washington in his kitchen because Washington said, "The time hasn't come for me to sit in the dining room."
Major Hardie was very important in the early life of our church, and his influence continues--he was the great-uncle of Mr. Julius T. Hendrick, father of Mrs. Gray Buck, Jr., of our present congregation.
Major Hardie was chosen the chairman of the Building Committee for the new sanctuary. We don't know how many members were on the roll of the church at this time, only a year after the church re was organized. Their numbers must have been small, but they bravely decided on very grand plans for their new church."
Oakland (California) TRIBUNE, Monday, May 17, 1915: "SPONSOR FOR TUSKEEGEE DIES IN LOS ANGELES
By Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, May 17.--Funeral services were held here for Major Joseph Hardie, of Birmingham, Ala., former head of Young Men's Christian Association work in the south and credited by Booker T. Washington with having been the real sponsor for the Institrute at Tuskeegee.
Major Hardie was born in Huntsville, Ala., June 26, 1863. He had spent the last 20 winters here.
He died Saturday night."
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