Source: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1911, page 20 REUBEN FRANCIS KOLB, of Montgomery, Ala. was born April 16, 1839 at Eufaula, Barbour county, Ala.; is the son of Davis Cameron and Emily Frances (Shorter) Kolb,,, the former of Cheraw, Cheraw district, S.C., the latter of Eufaula, Ala; and the grandson of Jesse and Susan Kolb of Cheraw, S.C., and of Reuben C. and Mary (Gill) Shorter of Eufaula, Ala. The great-grandfather came from Germany, was a major in the Revolutionary Army and was killed on Pedee River, S.C. on which spot a monument of his devotion to his adopted country. Capt. Kolb was educated in the common schools of Eufaula and at the University of N.C. from which he graduated in June 1859. He is a farmer. Was Commissioner of Agriculture from 1886-180, and unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1890 and 1892. He was a Sergt. in Co. B., 1st Ala. Inf Regt. for 12 months; then raised and commanded Kolb's Battery of Artillery through the War of Succession, during the last year of which he was in command of a Battalion. He is a Democrat, and was for twenty-five years on Executive Committee of Barbour County; a Baptist. He married at Eufaula, Ala. Jan. 3, 1860, Calledonia Cargile, the daughter of Thomas and Louisa Ann Cargile of Eufaula, Ala.