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Joseph William Burke was a lawyer, industrialist, patriot, and brigadier general in the U.S.A. He helped rebuild Alabama’s mining and manufacturing interests after the Civil War, helped establish the Catholic Church at Jacksonville, and his home, “Bellevue,” occupied the present site of Jacksonville State College.
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Jacksonville, Alabama · United States
