The third guy from the left is Dothan postmaster Byron Trammell (1873-1938). He became Dothan's postmaster in 1903, the same year Buck Baker (1869-1920) was elected to the Dothan city council. On June 21, 1905, Trammell walked into his own house in Dothan and murdered one of his boarders who was a cotton broker for Malone & Sons Company. In 1906, a Dothan jury found Trammell not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. That was the second time Trammell had been found not guilty for shooting somebody to death. In 1903, Trammell shot and killed a deputy U.S. marshall in front of the Exchange Hotel and was found not guilty by a Montgomery jury.  Since Trammell's insanity was temporary, he continued to serve as postmaster of Dothan.  In 1909, Trammell was instrumental in putting together the political pressure from the Wiregrass region which resulted in Dothan getting a new U.S. District Courthouse and post office with the construction of the Federal Building at the northwest corner of Troy Street and North Foster.

 

A "Silent Northern" Motor Car in front of the Hotel Martin (model for THE HARRISON HOUSE), 1909. From left: Joe "Buck" Baker (model for the character of BUCK BANNON) ; C. F. "Doug" Baker (model for the character of HEARN BANNON); Eugene Lauck, a drug salesman from Montgomery; Byron Trammell, Post Master; Ed Winters, US Deputy Marshall; Dan W. Baker (model for the character of JEFF BANNON). [clippings from the June 23, 1905 SELMA TIMES; from the June 30, 1905 BIRMINGHAM TIMES; from the May 24, 1906 CANEBRAKE HERALD (Uniontown); the August 7, 1912 DOTHAN EAGLE)