Georgia Genealogy Trails - Georgia Biographies

Abbott, John, entomologist, author. He was for many years a resident of Georgia. He was the author of The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia, which in 1797 was published in London, with over one hundred colored plates.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Anderson, George Thomas, soldier, was born in 1824 in Georgia. In 1855-58 he was captain in the first United States cavalry. He was a confederate soldier and veteran of the Mexican war; and attained the rank of brigadier-general. He died April 4, 1901, in Anniston, Ala.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Alston, William J., congressman, was born in Georgia. He moved to Alabama; in 1837 and 1855 he was elected a representative to the South Carolina state legislature from Marengo county; and in 1839 was a member of the state senate. In 1849-51 he was a representative from Alabama to the thirty-first congress.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Abercrombie, John William, educator, college president, statesman, was born May 17, 1866, in St. Clair County, Ala. In 1886-87 he was president of Ashland college of Alabama; 1888-89 was president of Cleburne institute; and in 1890-1901 was president of Bowdon college of Georgia. In 1891-91 he was superintendent of Anniston city schools; in 1897-98 was president of Anniston College for young ladies; in 1898-1902 was state superintendent of education for Alabama; and since 1902 has been president of the University of Alabama. In 1896-99 he was a member of the Alabama state senate.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Ackerman, Amos T., lawyer, public official, was born in 1819 in New Hampshire. In 1850 he moved to Georgia and settled in Elberton, where he practiced his profession. In 1866-70 he was United States attorney for the district of Georgia; and in 1870-72 was attorney-general of the United States. He died in Elberton, Ga.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Adair, George Washington, capitalist, founder, was born March 1, 1823, in Morgan county, Ga. He was one of the builders of every Atlanta enterprise; promoter of the Atlanta cotton factory; president of the Georgia pacific railroad; and president of the Tallapoosa land company. He died in September, 1899, in Atlanta, Ga.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Adams, David, soldier, statesman, was born Jan. 28, 1766, in Waxaw, S.C. He served in the revolutionary army during the latter part of the war; subsequently removed to Georgia and settled in Jasper County, where he engaged in Indian warfare as a scout; and was major of militia for ten years. He afterward became brigadier-general of militia. He served twenty-five years in the legislature; and was frequently speaker of the house. He died May 17, 1847, in Jasper County, Ga.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Adamson, Charles, lawyer, manufacturer, founder, was born March 17, 1859, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1882-90 he practiced law in Philadelphia, Pa.; and in 1889-90 was a member of the city common council. In 1890 he organized the Cedartown land improvement company of Georgia. In 1896 he organized the Cedartown cotton company to make fine hosiery yarns; in 1898 organized the Southern extension cotton mill company; and in 1899 organized the Paragon mills; and in each of these corporations he was either president or manager. In 1899 he consolidated these three companies, aggregating twenty-five thousand spindles, becoming vice-president of the corporation. In 1896 and 1904 he was a delegate from Georgia to the republican national conventions. In 1907 he was president of the Southern association of hosiery yarn spinners.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Adamson, William Charles, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 13, 1854, in Bowdon, Ga. In 1874 he graduated with the degree of A.B. from Bowdon college of Georgia; and subsequently he received the degree of A.M. from that institution of learning. Since 1876 he has practiced law in Carrollton, Ga.; in 1885-89 was judge of the city court; and for several years was city attorney. In 1892 he was a presidential elector; and in 1901 was a delegate to the Ecumenical Council of Methodism held in London, England. In 1897-1911 he was a representative from Georgia to the fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a democrat.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Akerman, Amos Tappan, lawyer, cabinet officer, was born 1823 in New Hampshire. In 1850 he settled in Elberton, Ga.; and served the confederate government in the quartermaster's department; but after the war he was a republican and reconstructionist. He was appointed district attorney for Georgia in 1866; and was attorney-general of the United States in 1870-72.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Alexander, Edward Porter, soldier, educator, railroad president, author, was born May 26, 1835, in Washington, Ga. He graduated from West Point academy In 1857; was promoted second lieutenant corps of engineers; and served in the United States army in the Utah expedition in 1858. He was instructor in engineering at West Point in 1859-60; and was professor in mathematics and engineering in the South Carolina University in 1866-69. He served with distinction in the confederate service; and became brigadier-general of artillery. Until 1862 he was president of numerous and important railroads in the southern states. In 1897-1900 he was engineer-arbitrator of the Nicaraguan and Costa Rican boundary commission. He is the author of Railroad Practice; and various pamphlets and articles on railroad and other topics.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Alford, Julius C., congressman, was born in Georgia. In 1835-37 he was a representative from Georgia to fill a vacancy; and also served in 1841-43 as a representative from Georgia to the twenty-seventh congress. He died in Troup County, Ga.
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Allen, Benjamin Thomas, lawyer, public official, was born Feb. 23, 1852, near Thomasville, Ga., where the thriving village of Metcalf is located. He was educated at the Fletcher institute of Thomasville, Ga.; and at the Valdosta institute of Georgia. Since 1877 he has been engaged in the practice of law, and for one session was reading clerk in the Florida state legislature. He now practices his profession in Pearson, Coffee County, Ga.; and is prominently identified with the business and public affairs of his community. His paternal ancestors came to Georgia from North Carolina in the early nineteenth century, and were of Irish extraction.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Allen, Moses, clergyman, patriot, was born Sept. 14, 1748, in Northampton, Mass. In 1777 he took charge of the church at Midway, Ga. The British forces under General Prevost burned his church and devastated the district in 1778. He officiated as chaplain to the Georgia brigade; and was captured when Savannah was reduced by the British in December. His eloquent, patriotic appeals and energetic exertions in the field had rendered him obnoxious to the British, and they refused to release him on parole with the officers. He was confined in a loathsome prison-ship, and was drowned in attempting to escape, Feb. 8, 1779.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Alston, William J., congressman, was born in Georgia. He moved to Alabama; in 1837 and 1855 he was elected a representative to the South Carolina state legislature from Marengo county; and in 1839 was a member of the state senate. In 1849-51 he was a representative from Alabama to the thirty-first congress.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Anderson, Clifford, lawyer, jurist, was born March 23, 1833, in Virginia. He was elected judge of Macon city court in 1856; and served ten years as attorney-general of Georgia. He died in 1898 in Macon, Ga.
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Anderson, George Thomas, soldier, was born in 1824 in Georgia. In 1855-58 he was captain in the first United States cavalry. He was a confederate soldier and veteran of the Mexican war; and attained the rank of brigadier-general. He died April 4, 1901, in Anniston, Ala.
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Andrew, James Osgood, clergyman, bishop, was born May 3, 1794, near Washington, Ga. He entered the South Carolina conference in 1812; preached in Georgia and North Carolina; and was presiding elder for several years. In 1832 he was chosen bishop of the general conference that met at Philadelphia, Pa. In 1846 the Methodist Episcopal Church south was organized as an independent body, in a general conference held at Petersburg, Va. Bishop Andrew presided as senior bishop over this organization until his death. He published a volume of Miscellanies; and Family Government. He died March 1, 1871, in Mobile, Ala.
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Andrews, Eliza Frances, educator, journalist, lecturer, author, was born Aug. 10, 1840, in Washington, Ga. Her father was Judge Garnett Andrews, an eminent jurist and the author of Reminiscences of An Old Georgia Lawyer. In 1857 she graduated from the La Grange college of Georgia; and in 1885-97 was professor in the Wesleyan College of Macon, which institution conferred upon her the degree of A.M. She has lectured on various subjects; is a fine linguist; and is a most accomplished field botanist. She is the author of A Family Secret; A Mere Adventure; Prince Hal; Botany the Year Round; and War-time Journal of a Georgia Girl.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Andrews, Garnett, lawyer, legislator, jurist, author, was born Oct. 30, 1798, near Washington, Ga. For thirty years he was judge of the northern circuit of Georgia; represented his district several times in the Georgia state legislature; and in 1852 was a candidate for governor of Georgia. He was the author of Reminiscences of An Old Georgia Lawyer, giving an interesting picture of the social life of the state during the early years of the nineteenth century. He died about 1875 in Washington, Ga.
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Angier, Nedom L., educator, physician, statesman, was born Nov. 10, 1814, in Acworth, N.H. In 1834-43 he taught school in Georgia. In 1843 he began the practice of medicine in Randolph County; and in 1847 moved to Atlanta, Ga. In 1867 he was a member of the Georgia state constitutional convention; and in 1868-72 was state treasurer of Georgia. In 1876-78 he was mayor of Atlanta; and took an active part in locating the state capitol in that city. He died Feb. 3, 1892, in Atlanta, Ga.
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Arbuckle, Howard Bell, educator, chemist, scientist, was born Oct. 5, 1870, in Lewisburg, W.Va. He was educated at the Hampden-Sydney college of Virginia, from which institution he received the degrees of A.B. and A.M.; and in 1898 he received the degree of Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, Md. Since 1898 he has been in the department of chemistry and biology at the Agnes Scott college of Decatur, Ga. He has made original researches on atomic weight of zinc and cadmium.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Ashburn, George W., soldier, statesman, was born in Georgia. During the civil war he was a strong opponent of secession; and raised a company of southern loyalists, subsequently enlarged to a regiment, of which he was colonel. After the civil war he advocated the congressional plan of reconstruction. He was chosen a delegate to the Georgia constitutional convention of 1867 and did much toward perfecting this constitution of his state. He died April 1, 1868, in Georgia.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Ashmore, Otis, educator, lecturer, astronomer, author, was born March 6, 1853, in Lincoin County, Ga. His life work has been in the educational field; and he has had a wide experience in the best schools of Georgia. For ten years he was a scientific teacher in the Savannah high school; and since 1896 has been superintendent of schools of that city. He is a well-known writer and lecturer on educational and scientific subjects. He is the author of Grier's Almanac, the best known publication of its kind in the south; and is also the author of A Manual of Pronunciation.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Atkinson, Henry Morrell, capitalist, founder, was born Nov. 13, 1862, in Brookline, Mass. He was educated at Harvard College. Since 1886 he has been a citizen of Atlanta, Ga.; and until 1889 was engaged in the cotton business. He then established the Title guarantee and trust company, of which he is president. He is chairman of the board of directors of the Georgia railway and electric company; and is an officer and director in various other corporations.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Atkinson, Samuel C., lawyer, jurist. He was associate justice of the state supreme court of Georgia in 1900-07.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Atkinson, Spencer R., lawyer, jurist. He was chairman of the railroad commission of Georgia. In 1898 he became associate justice of the state supreme court of Georgia.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Atkinson, William Yates, lawyer, governor, was born June 26, 1855, in Newnan, Ga. In 1878 he began the practice of law in Newnan, Ga. In 1886-94 he was a representative in the Georgia state legislature; and in 1890 and 1892 was president of the democratic state conventions. In 1894-98 he was governor of Georgia. He died Aug. 8, 1899, in Newnan, Ga.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Avery, Isaac Wheeler, lawyer, journalist, author, was born May 2, 1837, in St. Augustine, Fla. In 1869 he became chief editor of the Atlanta Constitution. He is the author of Digest of the Georgia Supreme Court Reports; and History of Georgia. He died Sept. 8, 1897, in Atlanta, Ga.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]
Abbott, Joel, physician, congressman, was born March 17, 1766, in Fairfield, Conn., and moved to Georgia. In 1809 he was elected to the Georgia state legislature; and was a representative in congress from Georgia to the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth congresses in 1817-25. He died Nov. 19, 1826, in Washington, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Angellotti, Frank M., lawyer, jurist. He practiced law in San Rafael. Cal. Since 1902 he has been associate justice of the state supreme court of California for the term ending 1910; and resides in Sacramento, Cal.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Ackerman, Amos T., lawyer, public official, was born in 1819 in New Hampshire. In 1850 he moved to Georgia and settled in Elberton, where he practiced his profession. In 1866-70 he was United States attorney for the district of Georgia; and in 1870-72 was attorney-general of the United States. He died in Elberton, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Akerman, Amos Tappan, lawyer, cabinet officer, was born 1823 in New Hampshire. In 1850 he settled in Elberton, Ga.; and served the confederate government in the quartermaster's department; but after the war he was a republican and reconstructionist. He was appointed district attorney for Georgia in 1866; and was attorney-general of the United States in 1870-72.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Andrews, Eugene Douglas, lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 6, 1872, in Vicksburg, Miss. He received a thorough education in the public schools and academies of his native state; and graduated from the University of Virginia. He at once entered upon the practice of law; and has attained success in his profession at St. Louis, Mo. He has been very prominently identified with the business and public affairs of St. Louis, Mo.; and in 1903 declined the office of assistant city attorney of St. Louis to become counsel for the Commercial telegraphers' union of America.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Anderson, Robert Houston, soldier, was born Oct. 1, 1835, in Savannah, Ga. He graduated from the United States military academy; attained the rank of second lieutenant in 1857; and resigned from the United States army in 1861. He entered the confederate army in 1861; and rose by successive advancements to brigadier-general in 1864. In 1867 he became chief of police in Savannah, Ga. He died Feb. 8, 1888, in Savannah, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Austell, Alfred, planter, financier, was born on Jan. 14. 1814, in Jefferson county, Tenn. For many years he was a cotton planter at Campbellton, Ga.; and became a general of militia. In 1858 he became a financial leader in Atlanta, Ga.; in 1865 established the Atlanta national bank; and became head of the largest cotton house in the world. He died Dec. 7, 1881, in Atlanta, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Angier, Nedom L., educator, physician, statesman, was born Nov. 10, 1814, in Acworth, N.H. In 1834-43 he taught school in Georgia. In 1843 he began the practice of medicine in Randolph County; and in 1847 moved to Atlanta, Ga. In 1867 he was a member of the Georgia state constitutional convention; and in 1868-72 was state treasurer of Georgia. In 1876-78 he was mayor of Atlanta; and took an active part in locating the state capitol in that city. He died Feb. 3, 1892, in Atlanta, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Bacon Augustus Octavius, United States senator, was born Oct. 20, 1839, in Bryan County, Ga. In 1868 he was elected presidential elector on the democratic ticket; in 1871 was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, of which body he has served as a member for fourteen years; and during eight years was speaker. He was several times a candidate for the democratic nomination for governor of Georgia. In 18951907 he was United States senator; and is now serving a second term, ending in 1913.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Baldwin, Abraham, lawyer, college president, congressman, United States senator, was born Nov. 6, 1754, in Guilford, Conn. He settled in Savannah, Ga.; and was chosen a member of the state legislature. He originated the plan of the university of Georgia; drew up the charter; persuaded the assembly to adopt it; and was for some time its president. In 1785-88 he was a representative from Georgia to the continental congress; and was a member of the convention which framed the constitution of the United States, which he duly signed. In 1789-99 he was a representative from Georgia to the first, second, third, fourth and fifth congresses. In 1799-1807 he was a United States senator. He died March 4, 1807, in Washington, D.C.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Baldwin, Foy Spencer, educator, author, was born July 6, 1870, in Charlotte, Mich. Since 1895 he has been professor of economics at Boston university. He is the author of History of Mining Legislation in England.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Baldwin, Frank Dwight, soldier, was born June 16, 1842, in Manchester, Mich. He was educated in the common and high schools of Constantine City, Mich.; and graduated from Hillsdale college, He served with distinction throughout the civil war; served in the Michigan horse guards as second lieutenant; and became captain of the nineteenth regiment Michigan infantry. In 1866 he entered the regular army as first lieutenant; he became captain in 1879; and lieutenant-colonel in 1899. In 1901 he was promoted to colonel of the twenty-seventh regiment; and attained the rank of brigadier-general in 1902. In 1864 he received a medal of honor for distinguished bravery in the battle of Peachtree Creek, Ga.; and received a medal of honor in 1874 for distinguished gallantry in action against the Indians in Texas. In the Philippines he commanded the first body of civilized troops on the island of Mindanao, where in the battle of Bylan the Moros lost over three hundred men. He is now in charge of the department of Colorado, with headquarters at Denver.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

BARTLETT, Napier, journalist: b. Georgia, 1836; d. there after 1896. He removed to New Orleans, La., when a young man and there became a distinguished journalist. He served in the Confederate army and later became editor of various newspapers in New Orleans. He wrote: Clarimonde; Stories of the Crescent City; A Soldier's Story of the War.[Source: THE SOUTH in the Building of the Nation Volume XI; Ed. by James Curtis Ballagh, Walter Lynwood Fleming & Southern Historical Publication Society; Publ. 1909; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]

Beck, Erasmus W., lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 21, 1833, in McDonough, Ga. In 1871-73 he was a representative to the forty-second congress to fill a vacancy.
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Bell, Hiram Parks, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1827, in Jackson County, Ga. In 1861 he was a delegate to the secession convention; and was a state senator the same year. He resigned to enter the confederate army in 1862; and raised a company, of which he was elected captain. He was dangerously wounded at Chickasaw bayou; and attained the rank of colonel. He was a representative from Georgia in the second confederate congress in 1864-65. In 1873-79 he was a representative from Georgia to the forty-third and forty-fifth congresses as a democrat. He died iii 1907 in Gumming, Ga.
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Banks, Mary Ross, litterateur, author, was born March 4, 1846, in Macon, Ga. Her literary fame was attained principally through her book entitled Bright Days on the Old Plantation, which was published in 1882.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Bartlett, Washington, governor, author, was born Feb. 29, 1824. in Savannah, Ga. He published the first book printed in California entitled ns It is and as It May Be. In 1886-87 he was governor of California. He died Sept. 12, 1887. in Oakland, Cal.
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Blackwell, Andrew Jackson, soldier, railroad president, founder, was born Jan. 29, 1842, in Georgia. He entered the confederate army in the third regiment Georgia volunteers. In 1882 he took up a site at what is now Blackwell, on the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma territory, a location not at the time highly prized by others. He has been its mayor and justice of the peace. He also founded the town of Rock Falls, Okla; and is president of the North Oklahoma railroad.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Bliss, Daniel, missionary, author, was born Aug. 17, 1823. in Georgia, Vt. He is a congregational missionary; and since 1864 has been president of the protestant college at Beyrout, Syria. He is the author of Mental Philosophy; and Natural Philosophy, both in Arabic.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Brantley, William Gordon, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 18, 1860, in Blackshear, Ga. He was educated at Blackshear academy of Georgia; and studied for two years at Georgetown University. He represented Pierce County in the Georgia House of Representatives in 1884-85; and represented the third senatorial district in the Georgia state senate in 1886-87. He was solicitor-general of Brunswick circuit in 1888-96. In 1897-1911 he was a representative from Georgia to the fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, fiftyeighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a democrat.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Brown, Joseph M., governor. In 1909-11 he was governor of Georgia.
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Brown, Julius L., lawyer, business president, was born May 31, 1848, in Canton, Ga.; and is the son of the late Governor Joseph E. Brown. He was educated at the University of Georgia. Then in 1870-72 he was assistant United States attorney; and for twenty years was general counsel for the original lessee of the Western and Atlantic railroad. For a number of years he was president of the Georgia mining, manufacturing and investment company; and is now master in chancery in the United States circuit court. He is a thirty-two degree mason; past grand commander of the grand commandry of Georgia knights templar; and past vice-president of the grand high priesthood of Georgia.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Brownson, Nathan, physician, surgeon, colonial governor. He was a member of the provincial congress in 1775; was for some time a surgeon in the army; and speaker in the legislature of 1781. In 1781-82 he was colonial governor of Georgia. In 1776-78 he was a delegate from Georgia to the continental congress; speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives in 1788; president of the senate in 1789-91; and in 1789 was a member of the convention that framed the state constitution. He died Nov. 6, 1796, in Liberty county, Ga.
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Buchanan, Hugh, soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 15, 1823, in Scotland. He was elected to the state senate of Georgia in 1855; and was re-elected in 1857. He was a delegate to the democratic national convention of 1856; was a presidential elector in 1860; was a delegate to the democratic national convention of 1868; and was a judge of the superior court in 1872-80. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1877. In 1881-85 he was a representative from Georgia to the forty-seventh and-forty-eighth congresses. He died June 20, 1890, in Newman, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Bulloch, Archibald S., banker, jurist, was born about 1770. He was collector of the port of Savannah. Ga.; was navy agent; was president of hank; and was one of the justices of the state court in Georgia. He died in Savannah, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Bulloch, William Bellinger, lawyer, banker, founder, United States senator, was born in 1776 in Savannah Ga. In 1809 he was elected mayor of Savannah. Subsequently he became collector of the port; and during the war of 1812 served in the Savannah heavy artillery. In 1813-15 he was United States senator to fill a vacancy. In 1816-43 he was president of the state bank of Georgia, having been one of the founders of that institution. He died March 6, 1852, in Savannah, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Bulloch, William Gaston, physician, inventor, was born Aug. 4, 1815, in Savannah, Ga. He entered the confederate service as surgeon with the rank of major; and afterward had charge of hospitals. He was president of the Georgia medical society; and for some time professor of surgery in Savannah medical college. He invented a useful maxillary splint for the lower jaw. He died June 23, 1885, in Georgia.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Bullock, William B., soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born in 1776 in Georgia. In 1797 he began the practice of law; and in 1809 was mayor of Savannah. Ga. He served in the war of 1812 in the Savannah heavy artillery. In 1813 he was a representative from Georgia to the United States senate to fill a vacancy. He was the founder of the State bank of Georgia. He died May 6, 1852, in Savannah, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Butt, Archibald Willingham, soldier, was born in Georgia. In 1901 he was captain and quartermaster United States army; and is now captain the quartermaster's department at Havana, Cuba.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Bowen, John S., soldier, was born in 1829 in Georgia. He was severely wounded at the battle of Shiloh, where he commanded a brigade in Breckinridge's corps; and stubbornly resisted Grant's advance near Port Gibson in 1863. He was in all the battles around Vicksburg; and took a prominent part in the negotiations for its surrender. He died July 13, 1863, in Raymond, Miss.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Beadle, Samuel Alfred, educator, lawyer, author, was born Aug. 17, 1857, in Atlanta, Ga. In 1867-71 he attended Store's school at Atlanta, Ga. In 1878-84 he taught in the public schools of Mississippi; and since 1884 has practiced law in Jackson, Miss. He has always been interested in literary pursuits; and has contributed extensively to current publications. He is the author of Sketches from Life in Dixie; Fragments; and a volume of Short Stories.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Benteen, Frederick William, soldier, was born Aug. 24, 1834, in Petersburg, Va. He war in 1861-65; was colonel of the United States volunteers; and he served gallantly in numerous battles and skirmishes. He was a brigadier-general of the Missouri militia; and he was brevetted a brigadier-general of the United States army. He resided in Atlanta, Ga.; where he was prominent in the business and public affairs of that city. He died about 1898 in Atlanta, Ga.

Bissell, Evelyn L., physician, surgeon, was born Sept. 10, 1836, in Litchfield, Conn. He was assigned to surgical duty in the civil war; and at its close was on duty in Atlanta, Ga. For seven years he was examining surgeon for the pension department of the United States government. He subsequently established himself as practicing physician and surgeon in New Haven, Conn. He died about 1908 in New Haven, Conn.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Burns, James Austin, soldier, educator. civil engineer, lawyer, author, was born Jan. 25, 1840, in Oxford, Maine. In 1861 he entered the United States volunteer service as lieutenant in the seventh regiment Connecticut infantry; and was promoted to be captain in 1862. He filled the chair of chemistry in the Southern medical college in Atlanta; where he practiced law. He was the author of a series of Juxtalinear Translations of the Classics. He died in 1902 in Atlanta, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Butterworth, Benjamin, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 22, 1822, in Warren county, Ohio. He practiced law in Cincinnati, Ohio; and was a state senator in 1873-74; and in 1879-81 he was a representative from Ohio to the forty-sixth to the fifty-first congresses. In 1884 he was appointed commissioner of patents in the department of the interior. He died Jan. 16, 1898, in Thomasville, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Bacon Augustus Octavius, United States senator, was born Oct. 20, 1839, in Bryan County, Ga. In 1868 he was elected presidential elector on the democratic ticket; in 1871 was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, of which body he has served as a member for fourteen years; and during eight years was speaker. He was several times a candidate for the democratic nomination for governor of Georgia. In 1895-1907 he was United States senator; and is now serving a second term, ending in 1913.
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Baker, Thomas Hudson, soldier, physician, surgeon, planter, statesman, was born April 28, 1839, in Bartow County, Ga. He received a thorough education in the public schools of his native state; and graduated from the Washington University of Maryland. During the civil war he was company commander in the eighteenth regiment Georgia volunteers; and he subsequently became assistant surgeon, then surgeon, and at the surrender was origade surgeon. In 1873-76 he was a representative in the Georgia state legislature; and in 1880-81 and 1900-01 was a member of the Georgia state senate.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Bailey, David J., congressman, was born in Georgia. In 1851-55 he was a representative from Georgia to the thirty-second and thirty-third congresses. He died in Georgia.
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Barnes, George Thomas, soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born on Aug. 14, 1833, in Richmond County, Ga. He served in the confederate army as first lieutenant of artillery, and as captain and major; and was in the battle of Shiloh. He was a member of the state house of representatives of Georgia in 1860-65. He was a delegate from the state at large to the national democratic convention held in New York in 1868; at St. Louis in 1876; and at Cincinnati in 1880. In 188591 he was a representative from Georgia to the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses. He died in 1901 in Augusta, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Barnett, Samuel, journalist, author, was born March 6, 1824, in Washington, Ga. He was president of the Washington bank; in 1871 was commissioner; and in 1872 was secretary of the Georgia state agricultural society. He was editor of the Chronicle. He was the author of Interest Table; Buckle's Outline View of Georgia; and other works.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Barnett, William, congressman, was born in Virginia. In 1812-15 he was a representative from Georgia to the twelfth and thirteenth congresses; and was then appointed one of the commissioners to run the Creek boundary line. He died in Georgia.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Barrow, Pope, soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born Aug. 1, 1839, in Oglethorpe County, Ga. He served in the confederate army. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1877; and was a representative in the Georgia state legislature in 1880-81. In 1882-83 he was United States senator to fill a vacancy.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Barry, John, clergyman, bishop, was born 1799, in Ireland. He was the first to establish a catholic day-school in Georgia. He was present at the council of Baltimore as theologian in 1846; and was appointed vicar-general of the diocese of Savannah in 1853, where he volunteered to nurse the victims of the yellow fever. In 1857 he was created bishop. He died Nov. 21, 18o9, in France.
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Berrien, John McPherson, soldier, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born on Aug. 23, 1781, in New Jersey. In 1809 he was solicitor-general of Georgia; and the next year he became judge of the eastern circuit. During the war of 1812 he had command of a regiment of volunteer cavalry. He served in the state legislature for several years. In 1825-29 and 1841-53 he was United States senator. In 1829-31 he was attorney-general. In 1845 he was elected one of the judges of the supreme court of Georgia. He died Jan. 1, 1856, in Savannah, Ga.
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Black, Edward J., lawyer, congressman, was born in 1806 in Beaufort, S.C. He served several years in the Georgia state legislature. In 1839-45 he was a representative from Georgia to the twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth congresses. He died in 1846 in Barnwell, S.C.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Brown, John, soldier, clergyman, educator, college president, was born June 15, 1763, in Ireland. In 1779 he joined the revolutionary army as a volunteer; and fought under General Sumter. In 1809 he was elected professor of logic and moral philosophy in the university of South Carolina. In 1811 he became president of the University of Georgia. He died Dec. 11, 1842, in Fort Gaines, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Bryan, Jonothan, patriot, was born Sept. 12, 1708, in South Carolina. He removed to Georgia in 1752; and was active in the affairs of the colony. In 1754 he was made a member of the first royal council under Governor Reynolds; and was an associate judge of the first general court. He represented the district of Savannah in the provincial congress in 1775; and was a member of the council of safety. Although seventy-two years old, he entered the continental army and fought under Wayne. The county of Bryan, Ga., was named in his honor. He died March 12, 1788, in Georgia.
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Bryan, Joseph, congressman, was born Aug. 18, 1773, in South Carolina. In 1803-06 was a representative to the eighth and ninth congresses from Georgia. He died Sept. 5, 1812, in Georgia.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Brown, Joseph Emerson, lawyer, jurist, governor, United States senator, was born April 15, 1821, in South Carolina. In 1849 he was elected to the Georgia state senate; in 1852 he was a Pierce elector; and in 1855 he was elected judge of the superior courts of the Blue Ridge circuit. In 1857 he was elected governor of Georgia; and was re-elected in 1859. He was a secessionist in 1860; and was active and energetic as a war governor after the state had seceded. In 1861 he was again elected governor; and in 1863 he was again elected to that high office. In 1868-70 he was chief justice of the supreme court of Georgia, which position he resigned to accept the presidency of the Western Atlantic railroad company. In 1880-91 he was United States senator. He died Nov. 30, 1894, in Atlanta, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Bulloch, Archibald, lawyer, planter, congressman, governor, was born about 1730 in Charleston, S.C. In 1775 he was elected a member of the provincial congress, and became its president; and during the following year he was again called upon to preside over the second provincial congress, and sent as a delegate to the continental congress, meeting at Philadelphia. He was the first republican president of Georgia in 1776-77, holding that office when the state constitution came into existence. He died Feb. 22, 1777, in Savannah. Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Bulloch, James, planter, legislator, jurist, was born in 1701 in Scotland. In 1735 he was special agent to the Creek Indians; was a member of the South Carolina colonial assembly in 1754; and justice of Christ Church parish of Georgia in 1767. He died in Georgia.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Bartlett, Charles Lafayette, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 31, 1853 in Monticello, Ga. He was prosecuting attorney for the Macon judical court in 1877-81; He was a member of the house of representatives of Georgia in 1882-83 and in 1884-85 and was a member of the state senate in 1889. He was elected judge of the superior court of the Macon circuit in 1893. In 1895-1911 he was a representative from Georgia to the fifty-fourth, fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Bartlett, Napier, soldier, journalist, author, was born in 1836 in Georgia. He waa the author of Clarimonde, a novelette; Stories of the Crescent City; and A Soldier's Story of the War. He died in 1877.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Bass, William C., clergyman, college president, was born Jan. 13, 1831, in Augusta, Ga. In 1859 he became a professor in the Wesleyan female college of Georgia; and in 1874 succeeded to the presidency of that institution.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Battey, Robert, physician, surgeon, author, was born Nov. 26, 1828, in Augusta, Ga. He has been successful in-the execution of a number of difficult surgical operations on the urinary organs of both sexes. Of the methods used, several were original with himself. In 1873-1875 he was professor of obstetrics in the Atlanta medical college; and in 1873-1876 edited the Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal. In 1876 he was president of the Georgia medical association. He died Nov. 8, 1895, in Rome, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Beck, Marcus W., lawyer, jurist. He is an associate-justice of the state supreme court of Georgia.
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Bell, Hiram Parks, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1827, in Jackson County, Ga. In 1861 he was a delegate to the secession convention; and was a state senator the same year. He resigned to enter the confederate army in 1862; and raised a company, of which he was elected captain. He was dangerously wounded at Chickasaw bayou; and attained the rank of colonel. He was a representative from Georgia in the second confederate congress in 1864-65. In 1873-79 he was a representative from Georgia to the forty-third and forty-fifth congresses as a democrat. He died iii 1907 in Gumming, Ga.
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Bendire, Charles Emil, soldier, educator, author, was born in 1836 in Georgia. He was honorary curator of the department of zoology in the United States National museum; and a captain and brevet major in the United States army. He was the author of Life Histories of North American Birds. He died in 1897.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Bethune, Marion, congressman, was born in Georgia. In 1871 he was a representative from Georgia to the forty-first congress.
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Bigby. John Summerneld, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 13, 1832, in Coweta County, Ga. He was a member of the Georgia state constitutional convention of 1867-68. He was solicitor-general of the Tallapoosa circuit in 1868; and was judge of its superior court until 1871; and representative from Georgia to the forty-second congress as a republican.
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Bignon, Fleming Grandtland Du, lawyer, jurist, statesman, was born July 25, 1853, in Milledgeville, Ga. In 1877-79 he was county judge of Baldwin County, Ga.; in 1880 was a member of the state legislature; in 1882 became a member of the Georgia state senate; and in 1888 and 1889 was president of the state senate. In 1896 he was an unsuccessful candidate for United States senator on the gold platform.
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Black, George Robinson, soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 24, 1835, in Scriver County, Ga. He divided, his attention between the law and agriculture; and during the civil war was lieutenant-colonel of the sixty-third Georgia regiment, of Confederate army. In 1865 he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention; and served with distinction as a member of the Georgia state senate in 1877-78. He was a representative from Georgia to the forty-seventh congress. He died Nov. 3, 1886, in Sylvania, Ga.
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Blodgett, Foster, soldier, statesman, was born Jan. 15, 1826, in Augusta, Ga. He became mayor of Augusta in 1859; and was re-elected in 1860. During the civil war he was captain of the Blodgett artillery from Augusta. After the civil war he joined the repuoucan party; and was appointed postmaster of Augusta in 1865, but was removed from that office in 1868 and reinstated in 1869. In 1867 he was made president of the Union republican club of Augusta, and during the same year he was again chosen mayor. He was a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1867; and in 1870 claimed to have been chosen United States senator from Georgia; but failed to secure his seat. He died Nov. 12, 1877, in Atlanta, Ga.
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Blount, James H., lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 12, 1837, in Clinton, Ga. He is a noted lawyer of Macon, Ga. In 1873-93 he was a representative from Georgia to the forty-third to the fifty-second congresses. He died March 8, 1903, in Macon, Ga.
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Boggs, William Ellison, soldier, educator, clergyman, was born May 12, 1838, in India. In 1861 he served in the civil war. He filled several pastorates; and in 1888 accepted the chancellorship of the University of Georgia.
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Boynton, James Stoddard, soldier, lawyer jurist, governor, was born May 7, 1833, in Henry county, Ga. H« attained the rank of colonel in the civil war, having risen from private in the third Georgia regiment. In 1866 he was elected judge of the county court; in 1880-84 was president of the Georgia state senate; and in 1883 was governor of Georgia to fill a vacancy. He died in 1902 in Griffin, Ga.
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Brantly, William Theophilus, lawyer, author, was born Nov. 17, 1852, in Augusta, Ga. Since 1885 he has been professor of the law school m the University of Maryland. Since 1894 he has been reporter of the court of appeals of Maryland. He is the author of Law of Personal Property.
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Benjamin Andrew.

BORN in Dorchester, South Carolina, about 1730, Mr. Andrew led the life of a planter. He came of that sturdy Puritan congregation which, abandoning England in 1630, after a residence of some sixty-five years in Massachusetts, removed to South Carolina and formed a settlement on the northeast bank of the Ashley River about eighteen miles above Charles Town. In 1754 Mr. Andrew, bringing his family with him, left Dorchester in South Carolina, and made a new home in the Midway District, subsequently constituting a part of St. John's Parish in the Colony of Georgia. Here he became the owner of a swamp plantation and engaged in the cultivation of rice.

In the preliminary discussions and demonstrations which eventuated in a declaration of independence on the part of the parish of St. John and afterwards of the Colony of Georgia, Mr. Andrew allied himself with the revolutionists, and, in company with Lyman Hall, Button Gwinnett, Daniel Roberts, Samuel Stevens, Joseph Wood, Daniel Baker, and other local patriots, was earnest in the support of the rights of the American provinces in their struggle with Great Britain for liberation from kingly rule.

In the spring of 1773 William Bartram, the naturalist, who, at the request of Dr. Fothergill, of London, had undertaken a visit to the Floridas "for the discovery of rare and useful productions of nature, chiefly in the vegetable kingdom," gives us this glimpse of the home of Mr. Andrew, then not many miles distant from Midway Meeting House in St. John's Parish. "In the evening," writes Mr. Bartram, "I arrived at the seat of the Hon. B. Andrew, Esq., who received and entertained me in every respect as a worthy gentleman would a stranger, that is, with hearty welcome, plain but plentiful board, free conversation, and liberality of sentiment. I spent the evening very agreeably, and the day following (for I was not permitted to depart sooner) I viewed with pleasure this gentleman's exemplary improvements in agriculture, particularly in the growth of rice, and in his machines for shelling that valuable grain, which stands in the water almost from the time it is sown until within a few days before it is reaped, when they draw off the water by sluices, which ripens it all at once; and when the heads, or panicles, are dry ripe, it is reaped and left standing in the field in small ricks until the straw is quite dry, when it is hauled and stacked in the barnyard. The machines for cleaning the rice are worked by the force of water. They stand on the great reservoir which contains the waters that flood the rice-fields below.

"Towards the evening we made a little party at fishing. We ehoso a shaded retreat in a beautiful grove of magnolias, myrtles, and sweet bay trees, which were left standing on the bank of a fine creek, that from this place took a slow serpentine course through the plantation. We presently took some fish, one kind of which is very beautiful; they call it the red-belly. It is as large as a man's hand, nearly oval and thin, being compressed on each side; the tail is beautifully formed; the top of the head and back of an olive green, besprinkled with russet specks; the sides of a sea-green, inclining to azure, insensibly blended with the olive above, and beneath lightens to a silvery white or pearl color, elegantly powdered with specks of the finest green, russet and gold; the belly is of a bright scarlet red or vermilion, darting up rays or fiery streaks into the pearl on each side; the ultimate angle of the branchiostega extends backwards with a long spatula, ending with a round or oval particoloured spot representing the eye in the long feathers of a peacock's train, verged round with a thin flame-coloured membrane, and appears like a brilliant ruby fixed on the side of the fish; the eyes are large, encircled with a fiery iris; they are a voracious fish, and are easily caught with a suitable bait.

"The next morning I took leave of this worthy family, and sat off for the settlements on the Alatamaha, still pursuing the high road for Fort Barrington, till towards noon, when I turned off to the left, following the road to Darian, a settlement on the river twenty miles lower down and near the coast."

We offer no apology for making this quotation, because it conveys a pleasant impression of person and place. Of the first Executive Council convened upon the election of John Adam Treutlen as Governor of Georgia in 1777, Benjamin Andrew was chosen President, with Samuel Stirk as clerk. Three years afterwards Mr. Andrew was elected a member of the Continental Congress. His associates were Edward Telfair, George Walton, Lyman Hall, and William Few. Upon the conclusion of the war of the Revolution Mr. Andrew became an Associate Justice for the county of Liberty, and in that capacity sat for several terms with Chief Justice Walton.

One of his sons bore arms in the primal contest for freedom, and subsequently removed from Liberty County to Washington, Wilkes County, where, on the 3d of May, 1794, a son was born unto him—James Osgood Andrew by name—who acquired some prominence as a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. The honorable Benjamin Andrew died in Liberty County, Georgia, toward the close of the last century.

C. C. Jones, Jr.

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John Baker

THE State of Georgia honored herself when, in 1825, she named one of her greatest agricultural counties for that affluent farmer, partisan soldier, and useful citizen, Colonel John Baker. He was a son of Benjamin Baker, who was a soldier under the illustrious Oglethorpe in his expedition against St . Augustine in 1740, and who was very active in securing a proper constitution for the Province of Georgia. He was also clerk of M id way Church for twenty-seven years, and his manuscripts are valuable historical documents. Colonel John Baker served the colony of Georgia as a Lieutenant in the King's Troops.

Our subject was elected a delegate to the Georgia Provincial Congress, which met in the Long Room at Tondee's Tavern in Savannah on the 4th of July, 1775. He was also a member of the Georgia Council of Safety. In January, 1776, he was elected by a company of St. John's parish as their captain, and on January 8, 1776, was commissioned as "Captain of the Saint John's Riflemen." Being assigned to the fort at Sunbury, he took charge and repaired the entrenchment around the fort and assisted in putting this important work in first-class condition with the materials that could be procured. He marched with seventy-five militiamen and made an attack on Fort Wright on the St. Mary's River; but, owing to the treachery of the McGirths and other members of his company who deserted and carried off nearly all his horses, he was obliged to retreat. The McGirths left a record of cruelty and bloodshed during the war that would cause the most savage to blush.

McCall says: "At the White House in Liberty County, 1779, at the head of a few militia, he defeated the enemy. Among those of the enemy killed was Lieutenant Gray; his head was almost severed from his body by one blow from the sabre of that relentless and fearless hard fighter, Robert Sallette."

A short time after this, Colonels Baker and Twiggs, commanding the Georgia Militia, made an attack upon McGirth's men at Midway Meeting House, where they captured some prisoners. Colonel Baker, learning that some Continental officers and prisoners on parole were going from Savannah to Sunbury, went in search of them and overtook them at Mrs. Arthur's house. Captains Mosby, Nash, Booker, Hicks, and Templeton and Lieutenants Mosely, Davenport, and Mitchel were captured and with the other prisoners were sent up to Cannouchee. On March 3, 1776, we find Colonel Baker in Savannah with Captain James Screven, demanding the release of Captain Rice and his crew who had fallen into the hands of the British while attempting to dismantle some vessels at Savannah wharf. Meeting with disappointment, Colonel McIntosh with three hundred men marched to Yamacraw Bluff and threw up some breastworks. The space between Montgomery and Williamson streets is thought to be the exact location where the fortifications stood. Here he mounted three four-pounders. Lieutenant Daniel Roberts and Mr. Raymond Demere were sent with a flag of truce to demand the release of Rice, and were themselves taken prisoners. A demand from shore being made for the prisoners, and an insulting reply being given, two shots from the battery were fired at the vessels. When the signal from the British read that if two others of proper rank were sent they would treat with them, Colonel John Baker and Captain James Screven were sent. Upon arriving close to the vessels the British returned insulting replies to their demands, and Colonel Baker fired upon the speaker, and he and Captain Screven beat a hasty retreat to the shore. Fortunately no one in the boat was killed. Our battery opened fire and kept it up for four hours, during which time Commodore Bowen and others fired the rigging of the Inverness, when she drifted upon the Nelly, setting her and other vessels on fire. The British officers and men fled and crossed Hutchinson's Island, but many were killed; three vessels were destroyed, six dismantled and two escaped. Colonel Baker was wounded at Bull Town Swamp, where he fought General Prescott with a few militiamen.

Colonel Baker and Maj. John Jones, having had a disagreement, were about to fight a duel. They were both to fight in full uniform on horseback and with their broadswords; the hour arrived, when, unexpectedly, General James Screven appealed on the ground. He knew the determined courage of these men, and, approaching them, he said: "My friends and companions in arms! Can it be, when your country is bleeding at every pore and needs the support of her sons in her defence, that you are about to sacrifice your lives to feelings of personal hostility and revenge? If you cannot extend to each other the hand of confidence and friendship, for your country's sake, do not destroy each others lives." The appeal was heard; the drawn swords were returned to their scabbards; and the spirit of patriotism in these great heroes triumphed over the desire for private revenge. To live and war for dear ones and country was more noble than to die for themselves. After the Revolution Colonel Baker served against the Indians with General James Jackson.

Colonel Baker died June 3, 1792, in Liberty county, the place of his birth, and his sacred ashes rest at Sunburv. Among his honored descendants are Win. Harden, member of the Georgia Legislature and librarian of the Georgia Historical Society for the last thirty years, and Hon. Marcus S. Baker, tax receiver of Chatham county.

Wm. Bekkien Burroughs, M.D.
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Abraham Baldwin

AMONG the notable men who helped to mould the character of the State of Georgia as well as fix the destiny of the government of the United States, Abraham Baldwin played a conspicuous part. He seemed to have been one of those "providential men" who are set apart in the scheme of human development to fill a large place in public affairs. No thoughtful student of history can contemplate his career nor measure his achievements without saying "for these things was this man come to the kingdom."

He was born November 6, 1754, at Guilford, Connecticut. Of his early life we know little. We have hints that he was a dreamy, thoughtful lad, asking questions often that his elders could not answer. The loss of his mother at an early age put a shadow over his boyhood life that made him even more reserved and determined to honor her memory by developing his powers as best he could and filling a useful career. Longfellow described a boy in his case when he says:

"A boy's will is the wind's will,

But thoughts of my youth are long, long thoughts."

His father must have given him exceptionally good advantages for he graduated from Yale College in 1772 at eighteen years of age. He was regarded as one of the best mathematical and classical students of his day and was immediately employed as tutor in his alma mater. He filled a professorship in this institution until 1779, when he began the study of Theology. He then served as chaplain in the Continental Army until the close of the war.

Upon the termination of hostilities between this country and England he began the study of law. With unflagging industry the intense grasp of his powers soon mastered the science, and under the advice of General Xathanael Greene he moved to Savannah, Georgia, in 1784, and began the practice of his profession. At Savannah his commanding personal bearing and his magnetic intellectual force brought him into immediate notice. It may sound strange to readers of our own time, but within three months from the date of his arrival in Savannah ho had been elected a member of the Georgia Legislature. When he took his seat in the Legislature the providence of his coming to Georgia began to be revealed. His first dream of a great commonwealth was a commonwealth of educated constituents. He drew a charter for a complete system of State education, supported by taxation of all property in the State, with a great university at the head and common schools at the base. The charter, born in the brain of this militant educationist, lawyer, and statesman, adopted by the State before the Federal Constitution had been ratified, has come down to us practically unaltered to this day. His provisions have been, one after another, put into execution by successive legislation until now the system, as outlined by Baldwin in 1784, is well nigh complete. Only one provision indeed remains to be added, viz.: the provision for secondary schools in each county in the State.

From the preamble to this charter, which as a whole has evoked encomiums from the learned and the virtuous, we make the following extract as illustrating the wisdom and patriotism of Mr. Baldwin:

"As it is the distinguishing happiness of free governments that civil order should bo the result of choice and not of necessity, and the common wishes of the pcople become the laws of the land, their public prosperity and even existence very much depend upon suitably forming the minds and morals of their citizens. When the minds of the people in general are viciously disposed and unprincipled, and their conduct disorderly, a free government will be attended with greater confusions and evils more horrid than the wild, uncultivated state of nature. It can only be happy when the public principles and opinions are properly directed and their manners regulated. This is an influence beyond the reach of laws and punishments, and can be reclaimed only by religion and education. It should therefore be among the first objects of those who wish well to the national prosperity to encourage and support the principles of religion and morality, and early to place the youth under the forming hand of society, that by instruction they may be moulded to the love of virtue and good order. Sending them abroad to other countries for their education will not answer these purposes, is too humiliating an acknowledgment of the ignorance or inferiority of our own, and will always be the cause of so great foreign attachments that upon the principles of policy it is inadmissible."

The State of Georgia was then in a most impoverished condition. The losses and distractions experienced during the war just ended had been immense. In the face of every retarding circumstance Mr. Baldwin compassed this important measure; and the University of Georgia to-day is a living monument of his wisdom, prescience and patriotism. The munificence of the Hon. John Milledge and the co-operative aid of Governor John Houstoun and the Honorables James Habersham, William Few, Joseph Clay, William Houstoun, and Nathan Brownson, were potent factors in the consummation of this educational scheme, which for a century has proven of incalculable benefit to the commonwealth of Georgia. Had he performed no other public duty than this, Mr. Baldwin's title to the gratitude of succeeding generations would have been unquestioned.

His political advancement was rapid. In 1785 he was elected by the Legislature to a seat in the Continental Congress, and from that time until the day of his death he remained in the public service. When he died, four years of his second term as United States Senator from Georgia had not expired.

Of the convention, which in 1787 framed the Constitution of the United States, he was a very active member. It is stated on good authority that some of the essential clauses of that memorable instrument were formulated by him.

"His manner of conducting business" says the author of the sketch which appears in the fourth volume of The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans "was worthy of the highest commendation; he may have wanted ambition to make himself brilliant, but he never wanted industry to make himself useful. His oratory was simple, forcible, convincing. His maxim of never asserting anything but what he believed to be true could not fail to be useful in carrying convictions to others. Patient of contradiction, and tolerant to the wildest opinions, he could be as indulgent to the errors of judgment as if he had stood the most in need of such indulgence for himself."

Mr. Baldwin was a Federalist. So manly was his course in Congress and in the Senate of the United States, so conservative were his views, so conscientious was his conduct in the discussion of all constitutional questions, and so steadfast his adherence to what he conceived to be the cardinal principles of government, that he acquired and retained in a wonderful degree the confidence of the party to which he was attached, the respect of those who held different notions, with regard to the political questions which then agitated the country, and the approbation of his constituents. Of him it has been truthfully said he "died with the consciousness of having faithfully and fearlessly filled the measure of his public duties." Col. C. C. Jones, in Biographical Sketches of Delegates to the Continental Congress, says:

"In private life he was correct in all of his habits and given to benevolent deeds. Never having married he expended his accumulations in assisting worthy young men in acquiring an education and in establishing them in business. In this regard his charities were akin to those which so beautified the life of Alexander Stephens. Upon the death of his father in 1787 he assumed in large measure the payment of his debts and the maintenance and education of his six orphan children. So far as the record stands the reputation of Mr. Baldwin for purity of character, honesty of purpose and act, fidelity to trusts reposed, and genuine benevolence, is most admirable."

To Connecticut is Georgia greatly indebted for Lyman Hall and Abraham Baldwin. Of their adopted citizenship she is justly proud, and in token of her appreciation of their virtuous lives and useful services she perpetuates their names in two of her counties.

Mr. Baldwin died in harness as a senator from Georgia at the national capital, on the 4th of March, 1807. His last illness was so short and his death so unexpected that none of his relatives, except his brother-in-law, were able to be present at his funeral. But it seemed as if the public in general were his near relatives. There have rarely been witnessed more general and genuine marks of regret at the loss of any of the great benefactors of our country, particularly among the members of Congress from Georgia. In this State his loss was most deeply felt, though very sensibly perceived in the councils of the Union. Though his funeral was two days after Congress dissolved, many members stayed expressly to attend it. His remains were deposited by the side of his old friend, General James Jackson, his former colleague, whom he had followed to the grave just one year before. G. R. Glenn.
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John Berrien

THIS soldier of the Revolution was born at Rocky Ford, four miles from Princeton College, New Jersey, in the historic "Judge Berrien Mansion" which his father owned and occupied, and from which General Washington wrote and delivered his farewell address to his army, November 2, 1783. It was while General Washington was the guest of the Berrien family at this house that he signed, on September 3, 1783, the Treaty of Peace with Great Brittain. The sloping green in front of this historic house still held the camps of the American soldiers who had won the independence of the colonies.

John Berrien's father was Judge John Berrien, one of the Justices of Nova Csesarea; his mother was Margarette (Eaton) Berrien. He received an excellent school education and, at an early age, became an officer in the King's army. When the polonies rebelled against the King he resigned his office, and was shortly after commissioned Second Lieutenant in the First Battalion of Continental troops, Company B., commanded by Captain Oliver Bowen. He was at this time only fifteen years old.

Georgia was slow to rebel against the King, but quick to raise troops for her defence after she had thrown off allegiance to the Crown. From General Lachlan McIntosh's order book we find that on the lGth of April, 1777, with headquarters at Sunbury, ho commanded "all the Continental troops to parade at three o'clock, when the officers are to take the oath of fidelity to the United States of America, before a civil Magistrate. Lieutenant Berrien is appointed to act as Aide-de-Camp to the General, with the rank of Captain."

When General McIntosh was appointed by General Washington to a command in the Northern Army, Captain Berrien was selected by him as Brigade-Major, and in that capacity he joined the army at Valley Forge. He was very conspicuous in the battle of Monmouth, where he was wounded in the head. He was in several other engagements, and continued in service until the close of the Revolution. On the return of peace, being qualified by an active and well-cultivated mind and correct judgment for public usefulness, the greater part of his life was occupied in offices of honor and trust, the duties of which he performed with integrity and diligence.

He was decorated by the hands of the illustrious Washington with the "Eagle," the emblem of the Society of the Cincinnati. This "Eagle" is known as the "Washington-Berrien Eagle." A die, made from it by Tiffany, has been adopted by the Georgia Society as its "Eagle." This relic is now owned by the writer of this sketch, a great-grandson of Major Berrien, having descended to him through his mother, who was the oldest daughter of Senator John Macpherson Berrien.

"The flag of the 'Eagle' will never be furled,

Though battle skies scowl with the wrath of a world;

Like the brave bird, its emblem, the wilder the blast

The broader its storm-scorning folds will be cast."

Major Berrien went through all the chairs of the Society of the Cincinnati, and while holding the office of President held also the office of State Treasurer.

In 1784, he was commissioned Captain of the first Cavalry Company raised after the war, and this company, "The Liberty Independent Troops," is one of the oldest in America, having passed its one hundred and twenty-second year.

Major Borrien died in Savannah, and is buried in the old Savannah cemetery. Upon his marble shaft is the following inscription:

"Major John Berrien, died 1815. In early youth he drew his sword in defence of his country, and served with reputation in the war of the Revolution."

Wm. Berbien Burhouohs, M.D.

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Butt, Archibald Willingham, soldier, was born in Georgia. In 1901 he was captain and quartermaster United States army; and is now captain the quartermaster's department at Havana, Cuba.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Calhoun, James S., governor, was born in Georgia. In 1851-52 he was the first governor of the territory of New Mexico.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Casey, Zadoc, congressman, was born in 1796 in Georgia. In 1833-43 he was a representative from Illinois to the twenty-third to the twenty-seventh congresses; also held the office of lieutenant-governor of the state; and was a member of one of the state constitutional conventions. He died in 1862 in Caseyville, Ill.
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Chastain, Elijah W., congressman, was born in South Carolina. In 1851-55 he was a representative from Georgia to the thirty-second and thirty-third congresses. He died in Georgia.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Christy, John H., congressman. He was elected a representative from Georgia to the fortieth congress. He died in Georgia.
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Clark, Alexander, clergyman, author, was born March 10, 1834, in Jefferson county, Ohio. He was a methodist protestant clergyman of Pittsburg; and in 1870 became editor of the Methodist Recorder. He was the author of The Old Log Schoolhouse; Workaday Christianity; The Red Set Freedman; School Day Dialogues; The Gospel in the Trees; Rambles in Europe; Starting Out, a Story of the Ohio Hills; and Ripples on the River, a collection of poems. He died July 6, 1879, in Georgia.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Clark, John, educator, clergyman, was born Nov. 29, 1758, in Scotland. After various adventures he taught a backwoods school in South Carolina; and then in Georgia, where he was also appointed a class-leader nmong the methodists; became an itinerant methodist preacher in Georgia. He died Oct. 11, 1833, in St. Louis, Mo.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Charlton, Thomas Usher Pulaski, lawyer, jurist, legislator, author, was born in 1779 in South Carolina. In 1803 he was a member of the Georgia state legislature; was attorney-general in 1804-08; and was judge of the superior court of the eastern circuit of Georgia in 1808-12. He was again a member of the state legislature in 1812; was mayor of Savannah in 1819-20; and was again judge nf the superior court in 1824. He published a volume of reports; a Life of James Jackson; and other works. He died in December, 1835 in Georgia.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Chastain, Elijah W., congressman, was born in South Carolina. In 1851-55 he was a representative from Georgia to the thirtysecond and thirty-third congresses. He died in Georgia.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Clark, John, educator, clergyman, was born Nov. 29, 1758, in Scotland. After various adventures he taught a backwoods school in South Carolina; and then in Georgia, where he was also appointed a class-leader nmong the methodists; became an itinerant methodist preacher in Georgia. He died Oct. 11, 1833, in St. Louis, Mo.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Carey, George, congressman, was born in Charles County, Md. In 1823-27 he was a representative from Georgia to the eighteenth and nineteenth congresses. He died June 14, 1844, in Upson County, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Charlton, Walter Glasco, lawyer, was born June 5, 1851, in Savannah, Ga. He received his education at the Rock academy; attended the Pen-Lucy school of Baltimore county, Md.; and studied in the University of Virginia. He has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Savannah, Ga.; and has served as alderman of that city for three terms. He has been solicitor of the eastern circuit of Georgia; was chairman of the democratic party of Chatham County for three terms; was chairman of the democratic congressional convention of the first district in 1886; and was temporary chairman of the state convention in 1885.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Carnes, Thomas P., lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Maryland. HE was solicitor-general, attorney-general and judge of the supreme court; and in 1793-95 he was a representative from Georgia to the third congress. He died May 8, 1822, in Milledgeville. Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Clark, Alexander, clergyman, author, was born March 10, 1834, in Jefferson County, Ohio. He was a Methodist protestant clergyman of Pittsburg; and in 1870 became editor of the Methodist Recorder. He was the author of The Old Log Schoolhouse; Workaday Christianity; The Red Set Freedman; School Day Dialogues; The Gospel in the Trees; Rambles in Europe; Starting Out, a Story of the Ohio Hills; and Ripples on the River, a collection of poems. He died July 6, 1879, in Georgia.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Clarke, John Thomas, lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Jan. 12, 1834, in Putnam County, Ga. He served as judge of the superior courts of the Pataula circuit in Georgia in 1863; and was re-elected in 1882. In 1878 he was a member of the Georgia state senate. He died July 22, 1889, in Smithville, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Calhoun, James S., governor, was born in Georgia. In 1851-52 he was the first governor of the territory of New Mexico.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Candler, Allen Daniel, soldier, educator, college president, congressman, governor, was born Nov. 4, 1834, in Lumpkin County, Ga. In 1857 he graduated from Mercer university of Macon, Ga. He entered the confederate army as a private; and he rose through the intermediate grades to the colonelcy of his regiment. In 1866-70 he was president of Baily Institute of Griffin, Ga. He was a member of the Georgia legislative House of Representatives in 1872-78; and was a member of the state senate in 1878-80. In 1883-91 he was a representative from Georgia to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat. In 1894-98 he was secretary of state of Georgia; and in 1898-1902 he was governor of Georgia. He is the author of a biography of his great grandfather, entitled Colonel William Candler.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Candler, John Slaughter, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 22, 1861, in Villa Rica, Ga. In 1882 he began the practice of law in Georgia; and in 1887-96 was solicitor general of that state. In 1896-1902 he was judge of the superior court; and since 1902 has been judge of the supreme court of Georgia. In 1898-99 he was a colonel in the Spanish American war.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Candler, Milton A., lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born on Jan. 11, 1837, in Campbell County, Ga. He was a member of the state legislature in 1861-63; and a member of the state constitutional convention in 1865. He was a member of the state senate in 1868-72. In 1875-79 he was a representative from Georgia to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Cann, James Ferris, soldier, lawyer, was born Dec. 11, 1868, in Savannah, Ga. He attended the Georgia military academy; and graduated in law from the University of Virginia. He is president of the Citizens' club; and secretary of the Savannah volunteer guards. He served as captain of company K, second regiment Georgia volunteer infantry, also as judge advocate and provost marshal of the fourth army corps during the Spanish-American war; and he is now captain of company C, first regiment infantry Georgia volunteers.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Casey, Zadoc, congressman, was born in 1796 in Georgia. In 1833-43 he was a representative from Illinois to the twenty-third to the twenty-seventh congresses; also held the office of lieutenant-governor of the state; and was a member of one of the state constitutional conventions. He died in 1862 in Caseyville, Ill.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Blackburn, Gideon, clergyman, founder, college president, was born Aug. 27, 1772, in Augusta county. Ga. He passed the last forty years of his life in the western states in preaching and organizing churches; and in 1803-09 in his mission to the Cherokees, establishing a school at Hywassee. He established a school in Tennessee in 1806; and in 1827-30 was president of Center college of Kentucky. He died Aug. 23, 1838, in Carlinville, Ill.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Chappell, Absalom Harris, lawyer, congressman, author, was born Dec. 18, 1801, in Hancock County, Ga. He was a representative of the Georgia state legislature for three terms; a member of the state senate; and president of that body. In 1843-45 he was a representative from Georgia to the twenty-eighth congress. He died Dec. 11, 1878, in Georgia.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Charlton, Robert Milledge, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, author, poet, was born Jan. 19, 1807, in Savannah, Ga. He served in the Georgia state legislature; became United States district attorney; and in his twenty-seventh year was appointed judge of the supreme court of eastern Georgia. In 1852-53 he was United States senator from Georgia. He was the author of Leaves from the Portfolio of a Georgia Lawyer; as well as a variety of historical and other lectures and -literary addresses. He died Jan. 18, 1854, in Savannah, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Chivers, Thomas Holley, physician, poet, was born in 1807. He was the author of Virginalia, or Songs of My Summer Nights; Atlanta, a Paul Epie in Three Lustra; and The Lost Pleiad. He died in 1858 in Georgia.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Christy, John H., congressman. He was elected a representative from Georgia to the fortieth congress. He died in Georgia.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Cabaniss, Henry Harrison, journalist, was born June 21, 1848, in Forsyth, Ga.; and was assistant .secretary of the Georgia state senate for eighteen years. He is now proprietor of the Journal, a daily newspaper of Atlanta, Ga.; and president of the National union, a fraternal insurance society.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Cabaniss, Thomas Banks, soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 31, 1835 in Forsyth, Ga. He entered the confederate army in 1861; and surrendered with General Lee at Appomattox. He was elected to the house of representative of Georgia in 1865; and four times subsequently to the state senate. He was solicitor-general of the Flint circuit for a term of four years; and has been mayor of his native city. In 1893-95 he was a representative from Georgia to the fifty-third congresses as a democrat.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]
Hawkins, Benjamin, soldier, United States senator and Indian agent, was born in 1754 in what is now Warren county, N. C. He attended Princeton college until his senior year, when the institution was closed on account of the Revolutionary war. His knowledge of the French language led Washington to press him into service as a member of his staff, to act as interpreter with the French allies. He was at the battle of Monmouth, was in several other engagements, and was one of the founders of the society of the Cincinnati in 1783. After North Carolina ratified the Federal constitution he was elected on of the first United States senators from that state, taking his seat in 1790. At the close of his term in the senate he was appointed agent of the three great Indian tribes east of the Mississippi and entered upon his duties at Fort Hawkins (now Macon) in December, 1796, serving until his death, which occurred at the agency on June 6, 1816. Although not a native of Georgia he was for twenty years closely identified with the state’s progress especially in the negotiation of Indian treaties.
(Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. VOL III Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Angelia Carpenter)

Herbert, Rev. Henry, was an English clergyman, who volunteered to come as a missionary with the first emigrants who left that country for Georgia. Stevens says that through his labors the first settlers brought with them 115 Bibles, 116 common prayer books, 312 copies of the catechism and over 500 volumes of religious literature. After about three months in the new colony he started to return to England but died on the voyage.
(Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. VOL III Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Angelia Carpenter)

Graham, Patrick, who succeeded Henry Parker as bailiff during the rule of the trustees, was for a time president of the board, and was afterward a member of the colonial council for a number of years.
(Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. VOL III Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Marilyn Clore)