The Lanier Home Page Compiled by Wayne D. Lanier Sterling Lanier
Sterling was born in Rockingham County, N.C., Oct. 21, 1791. More has been published about his life than about any other member of this line of the operated, a chain that stretched from Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee to operated hotels in Macon, Ga., Montvale Springs, Tenn., and Montgomery, Ala. References to Sterling Lanier are frequent in the two book length biographies of Sidney Lanier [one by Mims, 1905, and one by Starke, 1933]. He married Sarah Vivian Fulwood on 28 Sep. 1818 in Clarke County, Georgia, her home. Their and a passionate supporter of the Confederacy. In Macon (which was more important than Atlanta at this time) he owned two hotels, The Floyd House of The Exchange in Montgomery, meeting place of the Alabama Secession Convention and the first Confederate Cabinet, as well as the La Farge Hotel | |
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