JOHN THOMAS ASHCRAFT

            John T. Ashcraft, the subject of this sketch, is a lawyer by nature, by education and by actual training and experience, occupying a very prominent place at the bar of Lauderdale County, where he has practiced for the past eleven years.
            Mr. Ashcraft was born in Clay County, Ala., and after receiving a thorough common school education, entered the Agricultural and Mechanical College, now the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn, from which he was graduated with the degree of B. E. in 1880. subsequently he was engaged in teaching, and during that time read law and was admitted to practice.
            In 1889 he removed to Florence and entered upon a legal career that has been successful to a remarkable extent. He is recognized as one of the best attorneys in North Alabama, is a hard worker and energetic in looking after the smallest details of the business of his clients.
            Mr. Ashcraft is a Democrat of the highest and best type, and while he has ever been an indefatigable worker for his party and for the interest of his personal friends among the aspirants for office, he himself has invariable declined to make a race for any position, notwithstanding that his friends have repeatedly urged him to do so. He has preferred to devote his time to his practice, which, in fact, occupies all of his hours. Mr. Ashcraft’s success has been so marked that it is the cause for frequent congratulations from his many warm friends in this, his adopted city. He is easily one of the leaders of the legal fraternity in Lauderdale. [Souvenir And Industrial Edition. The Florence Herald, 1900.]

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