Background
Harry was born on March 4, 1838 in Mobile County, Ala. He was the son of Theophilus Lindsay and Amante E. (Juzan) Toulmin. He was a grandson of Judge Harry Toulmin, a prominent figure of frontier days.
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Harry was born on March 4, 1838 in Mobile County, Ala. He was the son of Theophilus Lindsay and Amante E. (Juzan) Toulmin. He was a grandson of Judge Harry Toulmin, a prominent figure of frontier days.
After obtaining his preparatory education in the private schools at Toulminville and Mobile, he entered the University of Alabama in 1852. Although he left this institution in his sophomore year, he resumed his studies in 1856 at the University of Virginia, where he devoted a year to law. Subsequently he became interested in the Civil Law and attended a course of lectures at the University of Louisiana (now Tulane University), studying in the office of a local attorney at the same time. This interest was short-lived for one year later, in 1860, he returned to Mobile where he studied in the office of Col. Robert H. Smith and was admitted to practice before the Alabama bar.
The outbreak of the Civil War interrupted his work, and soon after its commencement he was fighting as a private in the Conferedate army. He quickly rose from the ranks and by the end of the war held a commission as colonel. During the course of hostilities he was wounded three times, took part in numerous battles, and participated in the campaigns of Dalton and Atlanta.
When peace was restored he resumed practice with Colonel Smith. In 1868 he was chosen presidential elector and two years later was elected for a two-year term to the Alabama legislature.
In 1874 he again ran for office and was elected for a six-year term as judge for the sixth judicial circuit of Alabama. In 1880 he was reëlected to the same position (although the circuit was somewhat realigned and was then known as the first circuit) but in 1882 resigned to return to his practice.
Upon the creation of the federal Southern District of Alabama in 1886, President Cleveland appointed him district judge. His nomination was confirmed by the Senate January 13, 1887, and on January 31 he took the oath of office. He remained in this office until his death.
During his long career on the bench he earned for himself the affection and esteem of the bar, as shown by the genuine expressions of respect vouchsafed him on the occasion of the announcement of his contemplated resignation, a resignation forestalled by death. His decisions were seldom reversed by the upper courts and were at one time complimented by William Howard Taft. Among the first to use the injunction in labor disputes, he applied it in 1893 to prevent striking shop employees from interfering with strike-breakers in the Louisville & Nashville Railroad strike. It had been an ambition on the part of Toulmin to be a federal judge, and he took pride in his long service.
He died in Toulminville, a quarter-mile from his birthplace; his wife survived him.
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Quotations: A little over a month prior to his death, on making known his plans to resign, he said: "I am happy that my early ambitions have been realized and I trust that my stewardship will bear the light of day".
On May 4, 1869, he married Mary Montague Henshaw.
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