DEFOREST ALLGOOD was born in Trion, Chattooga County, Georgia, March 31, 18.10. He was the only son of Judge A. P. Allgood and his wife, Mary Ann Marsh. His father, whose sketch appears in this work, was one of the early pioneers of manufacturing industries for this section, leading all others in its development. Isolated as they were from the busy markets and from all conveniences, having no railroads at that time, these strong men, thrown entirely on their own resources, overcame all these disadvantages.

DeForest Allgood, reared in such a school, and early learned how to master difficulties. He was familiar with the cotton mill business from boyhood up. He was given careful training at home by precept and by example. At the age of fourteen years he was placed in the schools at LaFayette, Georgia; where he took a high stand in all his classes. After finishing this course, he returned to work side by side with his father in the office and in the mills, becoming a master of the business.

Judge Allgood died in 1882, and DeForest Allgood at twenty six years of age became the president and manager of the large Trion cotton mills. In 1884 he married Miss Susie Wright, a highly cultured lady of Griffin, Georgia. They had two sons, Andrew P. Allgood and DeForest Allgood, Jr., but young DeForest died when quite a boy.

Up to 1888 this section had no railroads. The nearest markets were Rome, twenty five miles away, and Chattooga, forty miles away. Mr. Allgood, recognizing the future of the cotton mill business and its certain growth and prosperity in the South, wanted to enlarge his mills. He also recognized the disadvantage of handling his machinery as well as his finished product for so long a haul on wagons. So he commenced negotiations for a railroad and was largely instrumental in getting a plan put through which would insure better facilities. By the end of 1888 the road was completed from Chattooga to Cedartown, as a part of the Central of Georgia system.

In 1889 he commenced building the number two Trion mill, with 16,000 spindles and 424 looms, but did not live to see the great engine set in motion this large mill developed by his energy and brains. He died on January 20, 1890. Mr. All. good was a Mason and Knight Templar. He was devoted to this order and contributed largely to its local success by money and personal interest.

There never was a man more truly loved and respected by his people than DeForest Allgood, and none more popular in his section of the State. He deserved all this high esteem. He was kind and generous, courteous and gentle, but at the time firm and just in his dealings.

The mill prospered under his management and stands as a great monument today to the foresight and energy of two captains of industry-Judge A. P. Allgood and his son, De. Forest Allgood.
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William Scott Kendrick, M. D. Among southern physicians whose names are at once recognized both on the basis of their individual attainments and their high professional associations, one of the chiefs is Dr. William Scott Kendrick, who was formerly dean of the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons, was incumbent of the chair of medicine in the Atlanta Medical College, of which he was one of the organizers, and is now senior professor of medicine, medical department of Emory University and has for a number of years conducted a large practice in his home City of Atlanta.
 
Doctor Kendrick was born in Chattooga County, Georgia, a son of Thomas and Martha (Scott) Kendrick. Both parents were natives of York County, South Carolina, his father of English and his mother of Scotch-Irish lineage. His father was a farmer and died in 1876, and of the twelve children the first three died in infancy, and all the others are still living. There has been no death in the family for more than half a century, a fact which indicates the sturdiness of the line.
 
Doctor Kendrick as a boy had rural surroundings and rural advantages. He attended a country school in the Dirt Town Valley of Chattooga County. So well did he make use of his opportunities that when still a boy he was elected principal of this large country school, and for five years pursued with success and with generous appreciation the duties of educator. Doctor Kendrick began the study of medicine under Dr. Robert Battey of Rome, Georgia, and received his degree of

Doctor of Medicine from the Atlanta Medical College. After two years of practice Doctor Kendrick went abroad, and spent one year in post-graduate work.
 
He later became dean of the Atlanta Medical College, an office he held for practically twenty years. He was largely instrumental in effecting the consolidation in 1900 of this institution and the Southern Medical College, submitting to the coalition the title of the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was elected dean of the new school and remained the executive head of the institution until September, 1905, when he resigned the office as well as the headship of the chair of medicine to found a new school, named the Atlanta School of Medicine. In that he filled a similar chair to the one he had held in the old. In establishing the new college there was associated with him, outside of his teaching colleagues, his wife, who had been a most wonderful aid to him in all his college career. He was largely instrumental after an urgent appeal from the representatives of the American Medical Association and the Carnegie Foundation in consolidating the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons with the Atlanta School of Medicine, and here, as before, assumed the head of the chair of general medicine. Doctor Kendrick holds a rather unique position in the naming of medical colleges. In the consolidation in 1900 of the Atlanta Medical and the Southern Medical colleges he submitted the name the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons, which was endorsed by the faculty. In the consolidation of the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons with the Atlanta School of Medicine in 1913, he was instrumental in removing the name Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons, also the Atlanta School of Medicine, and put back his former name, the Atlanta Medical College. The fact that this college came to rank as one of the foremost institutions of the kind in the South must be credited in no small degree to the effective direction given by Doctor Kendrick. He is senior professor of medicine, medical department, Emory University.
 
Doctor Kendrick is medical director of the Southern States Life Insurance Company, is chief state consultant and examiner of the New England Benefit Insurance Company and state referee for the Mutual Benefit of New Jersey. Among southern physicians Doctor Kendrick is regarded as a physician and surgeon of the highest attainment, and one who has been singularly successful as an able and popular educator. So far as the popular expression of influence from one man can be measured, that from Doctor Kendrick already transcends anything that he might have accomplished as an individual practitioner, since he has been able to impress his ideals as well as his knowledge upon hundreds of young men preparing for a life of service in this splendid social profession. The greater part of his time is given to his executive and class room duties in the Atlanta Medical College. He is also a member of the Medical Association of Georgia.
Doctor Kendrick has for the years since he attained manhood given regular support to the democratic party. He is a ruling elder in the Central Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, and Mrs. Kendrick is also an active member of that church. On December 28, 1887, he married Miss Tallulah Groves, daughter of Maj. William L. and Jane (Scott) Groves, of Chattooga County. Doctor Kendrick and wife have no children.

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Kendrick, William Scott, M. D., of Atlanta, one of the leading representatives of his profession in the south, was formerly dean of the Atlanta college of physicians and surgeons and is now the incumbent of the chair of medicine in the Atlanta school of medicine, of which he was one of the organizers and which has gained marked precedence among the medical colleges of the south. He was born in Chattooga county, Ga., and is a son of Thomas and Martha (Scott) Kendrick, both of whom were born in York county, S. C, the former of English and the latter of ScotchIrish lineage. The father was a farmer by vocation and his death occurred in 1876. Of the twelve children in the family the first three died in infancy and the others are all living, there having been no death in the family for more than half a century—a fact indicating the sturdiness of the line. The early educational discipline of Doctor Kendrick was secured in a country school in Dirt Town valley, Chattooga county. That he made good use of the opportunities afforded is evident when adversion is had to the fact that as a youth he was elected principal of the large country school in which he himself had been a student, and for five years he devoted himself to teaching, meeting with marked success in this field of endeavor. He studied medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Robert Battey, of Rome, Ga., and graduated at the Atlanta medical college, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He thereafter was engaged in the active work of his profession for two years and then passed one year abroad, pursuing special postgraduate work. He later became dean of the Atlanta medical college, retaining this incumbency for practically eighteen years, and was largely instrumental in effecting the consolidation in 1900 of this institution and the Southern medical college, under title of the Atlanta college of physicians and surgeons. He was elected dean of the new school and retained the incumbency until 1905, when he resigned the office, as well as the chair of medicine, to accept a similar chair in the newly organized Atlanta school of medicine, in the establishing of which both he and his wife were associated, as were they also with the college of physicians and surgeons. He is a member of the executive and building committees of the Atlanta school of Medicine, which has taken rank as one of the foremost institutions of the sort in the south. Doctor Kendrick is medical director of the Southern States Life Insurance Company and the Empire Mutual Annuity and Life Insurance Company; is chief state consultant and examiner of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company and state referee for the Mutual Benefit, of New Jersey. He holds membership in the Medical Association of Georgia, being known among his professional confreres as a physician and surgeon of the highest attainments, and an able and popular educator in technical lines. His political proclivities are indicated in the stanch support he accords to the Democratic party, and he is a ruling elder in the Central Presbyterian church, of Atlanta, of which Mrs. Kendrick also is a devoted member. On Dec. 28, 1887, he was united in marriage to Miss Tallulah Groves, daughter of Maj. William L. and Jane (Scott) Groves, of Chattooga county. They have no children. Dr. Kendrick has accomplished a notable work as an educator in the line of his profession and gives the greater portion of his time to his executive and classroom duties in the Atlanta school of medicine, whose splendid upbuilding has been largely conserved through his able and devoted efforts.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister)

Maddox, John W., representative in Congress, a prominent member of the bar of Rome, Floyd county, and an honored veteran of the Confederate service in the Civil war, was born in Chattooga county, Ga., June 3, 1848, a son of George B. and Sarah A. (Dickson) Maddox, the former born in Greene county and the latter in Dekalb county, Ga.  Josiah E. Maddox, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Virginia, whence he removed to Georgia and settled in Greene county in 1818.  His father was a Continental soldier in the war of the Revolution.  The maternal great grandfathers of Mr. Maddox were born natives of North Carolina and active participants in the Revolution.  John W. Maddox was reared to manhood in his native county and in his youth received a common school education, which he has since effectively supplemented through individual study and wide experience with men and affairs.  In August 1863, when but fourteen years of age, he tendered his service in defense of the Confederacy by enlisting as a private in Company E, Sixth Georgia Cavalry, with which he took part in the memorable battle of Chickamauga and the various other engagements of Gen. Joe Wheeler’s cavalry until Feb. 14, 1865, when he received a wound that disqualified him for further service in the field, and was given his honorable discharge.  After the war he was finally led to take up the study of law, for which he had a seemingly natural predilection.  He was admitted to the bar in September, 1877, since which time the greater portion of his attention has been given to the work of his profession, in which he has been most successful, and he has been called to distinguished offices of public trust by the people of his native state.  His unwavering allegiance has been given to the Democratic party from the time when he attained his majority.  He served as mayor of Summerville, Chattooga county; was a member of the board of road and revenues of said county; was a representative of that county in the state legislature two terms; was state senator from the forty-second district one term; was district judge of the Rome circuit six years; and represented the seventh district of the state in congress for twelve years, his last term ending in March, 1905.  In a fraternal way he is identified with the Masonic order.  On August 15, 1872, Judge Maddox was married to Miss Frances Elizabeth Edmonson, daughter of H. D. C. Edmonson, of Summerville, Ga., and the children of this union are as follows: Berta, wife of L. O. Hand, of Rome; G.E., engaged in the practice of law in that city; John D., a successful lawyer in Los Angeles, Cal.; Linton, an electrical engineer in Savannah; Frank R., a chemist, residing in Pulaski, Va.; James, attending school in Atlanta; and Robert, a student in the Rome schools.
  (Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Joanne Morgan)