Background
Mertins, Gustave Frederick was born on August 19, 1872 in Evergreen, Alabama, United States. Son of of Gustave Ferdinand and Jennie A. L. W. (Stahl) M.
Mertins, Gustave Frederick was born on August 19, 1872 in Evergreen, Alabama, United States. Son of of Gustave Ferdinand and Jennie A. L. W. (Stahl) M.
Educated College of Saint Anthony, Geneva, Switzerland. Private tutelage, Kolmar, Posen, Germany. Academy and the law departments, Washington and Lee University, 1887, 1888, 1890-1893.
Practiced, Montgomery, Alabama, since 1893. Special assistant to attorney-general of the United States in bankruptcy fraud prosecutions, 1910.
Member Alabama State Bar Association. Mason ( Knights Templar, Shriner).
Married Bessie P. Screws, of Montgomery, Alabama, February 26, 1908.