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DeKalb County, Georgia
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Stephen Lovic
McElroy
Stephen Lovic
McElroy, M. D. Though one of the younger men of the profession, Doctor
McElroy has a practice and standing as a physician and surgeon at
Ocilla which makes him easily one of the leaders in the profession in
Irwin County.
He belongs to an old Georgia family and was born at Norcross in
Gwinnett County, Georgia, March 17, 1876, son of Stephen Tilly and
Laura (Lively) McElroy, both of whom were born in DeKalb County,
Georgia. Laura Lively was the daughter of Milton Lively, and she died
in August, 1883, at the age of thirty-seven in DeKalb County. The
father, who was born in August, 1844, and grew up in DeKalb County,
moved after the Civil war to Norcross when the Southern Railroad was
built through that section and closely identified himself with the
business affairs of Norcross from its founding. He became well known as
a miller and furniture manufacturer and acquired extensive business
interests at Norcross where he is now living retired. After the death
of his first wife he married Mrs. Thomas Lowery, widow of Rev. Thomas
Lowery, and they have two children, Nantilly and Mina. By the first
marriage there were six children: Fanny Nola, wife of M. E. Matthews,
of Atlanta; William M., who is postmaster and a merchant at Norcross;
Beatrice, wife of John Huddeston of Atlanta; Mina, wife of John N. Cobb
of Jacksonville, Florida; Ruby, wife of Dr. William H. Born of McRea,
Georgia. The father of these children is active in the Methodist
Episcopal Church and is a stanch democrat.
The fifth among his mother's children, Dr. Stephen L. McElroy grew up
in Norcross, gained an education in the public schools, also attended
the Young Harris Institute, and in 1900 was graduated M. D. from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons at Atlanta. Doctor McElroy has since
done postgraduate work in Tulane University at New Orleans. He first
began practice at Allapaha, Georgia, where he remained two years,
afterwards located at Villa Coocha, and since the spring of 1907 has
had his home in Ocilla. Here his standing in the profession is
indicated in many ways. He is now serving as president of the Irwin
County Medical Society, and also belongs to the state medical
organization. He is examining physician for the Prudential, the
Pennsylvania, the Mutual, the Equitable, the Masonic Mutual, the
Southern State Life and various other insurance companies.
Fraternally he is a Mason, and is liberal in his support of all church
and charitable organizations. Doctor McElroy owns and cultivates 200
acres of fine land three miles from Ocilla in Irwin County. Mrs.
McElroy is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Ocilla
and takes much part in church and social affairs.
On November 27, 1902, at Allapaha, Georgia, Doctor McElroy married Miss
Frances Belle McMillen, who was born in Berrien County, Georgia,
daughter of N. J. and Julia (Griffin) McMillen. They have one daughter,
Julia Addis McElroy, born at Ocilla September 10, 1907.
Source: A standard history of Georgia and Georgians, Volume 6 By
Lucian Lamar Knight
Charles M. Candler.
Charles M.
Candler. Full appreciation of the manifold advantages and attractions
of his native state has been shown by this representative member of the
Georgia Bar and his unwavering loyalty has been manifested not alone in
sentiment but also in action, his services having been potent in the
furtherance of the civic and material welfare of the Empire
Commonwealth of the South. A broad-minded and progressive citizen, Mr.
Candler is well known throughout Georgia and is familiarly referred to
as Murphey Candler. His inviolable hold upon popular esteem has been
often given distinctive assurance and his name has been frequently
mentioned in connection with nomination for governor of the state in
which he is a scion of an old and distinguished family. He is of the
fifth generation in line of direct descent from Col. William Candler,
who rendered distinguished service as a patriot soldier and officer in
the War of the Revolution and who became the founder of the family in
Georgia. Hon. Milton A. Candler, father of him whose name initiates
this review, was for thirty years senior member of the law firm of
Candler & Thomson, of Atlanta, and was not only one of the able and
steadfast lawyers who lent dignity and distinction to the bar of the
state, but was also long and prominently concerned with public affairs
in Georgia. He represented the state as a valiant soldier of the
Confederacy in the Civil war and was called upon to serve in many high
offices of public trust, a specific tribute to his memory being entered
on other pages of this publication, so that further data are not
demanded in the present connection. His wife, whose maiden name was
Eliza C. Murphey, was a daughter of Hon. Charles Murphey,
representative of the Atlanta district in the United States Congress
under the administration of President Pierce.
Charles Murphey Candler was born at Decatur, DeKalb County,
Georgia, on the 17th of March, 1858, and after due preliminary
discipline he was matriculated in the University of Georgia, in which
he was graduated as a member of the class of 1877 and from which he
received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He made an excellent record as
an undergraduate, was class speaker during his sophomore and junior
years in the university, and in his senior year was the champion
debater of the institution. Inherent predilection and ambitious purpose
led Mr. Candler to prepare himself for the profession that had been
signally dignified by the character and achievements of his honored
father, and after giving close and effective attention to the study of
law he was admitted to the bar, in Atlanta, in 1879. In the capital
city of his native state he has won and maintained high prestige as one
of the representative members of the Georgia bar.
Mr. Candler's association with public affairs in Georgia had its
virtual inception in 1886, when, as a young man of twenty-eight years,
he was elected a representative of DeKalb County in the Lower House of
the State Legislature, in which he thus served four years. In his
second year in the Legislature he was joint author of the present
public-school law of the state, and he was otherwise active and
influential in the work on the floor of the House and in the
deliberations of the various committees to which he was assigned.
Concerning his public career the following pertinent and succinct
record has been given and is worthy of reproduction in this article:
"After an interval of thirteen years he came back to the General
Assembly in 1902, and in that year he was the author of the present
franchise tax law of Georgia,—a law that has brought millions of
dollars into the state treasury without working hardship upon any one.
His services from 1902 to 1909 were continuous in the Legislature, and
in the year last mentioned he resigned the office of Representative in
the House to qualify for appointment to the important position of which
he has since been the efficient incumbent, that of member of the Board
of Railroad Commissioners of Georgia, of which body he is the chairman.
From 1902 to 1904, inclusive, Mr. Candler was a member of the lower
house of the legislature; in 1905-6 he was a member of the state
senate. He was re-elected to the House of Representatives for the term
of 1909-10, his resignation having, however, taken place before he had
qualified, as he had in the meanwhile received appointment as a member
of the Board of Railroad Commissioners. In 1906 Mr. Candler was joint
author of the present child-labor law of Georgia, and in 1907 he
formulated and ably championed to enactment the present railroad
commission law of the state. In 1907-8 he was chairman of the house
committee on appropriations. In 1908 he was chairman of the house
committee on convict-lease investigation and had much to do with the
abolition of the extremely odious convict-lease system that had been a
blot on the escutcheon of Georgia. At the present time Mr. Candler is
serving with great circumspection and ability as chairman of the Board
of Railroad Commissioners, a body that owes its enlarged jurisdiction
and powers to the law of which he himself was the author, as previously
noted. During these years of public service Mr. Candler has steadily
grown in the confidence and esteem of the people and has frequently and
urgently been pressed to become a candidate for governor. He has made a
special study of the tax system of the state and earnestly advocates
much needed reforms in the same. In three different legislative
sessions he introduced general tax reform bills providing for a modern
system, with assessment and equalizing boards, both state and county,
and with insistent advocacy of the policy of separating the sources of
taxation in the state in general, the various counties and the
municipalities. It is perhaps within the bounds of consistency to say
that upon methods of taxation he is to-day one of the best informed men
in public life in Georgia. He and his former law partner, Hon. Hooper
Alexander, were for years leaders in the General Assembly of the state
in every movement looking to public improvement ; and though they did
not accomplish all they desired or all that was needed, they have left
the indelible stamp of their loyal and earnest efforts upon the history
of the state, with also a record of much good accomplished for the
perpetual benefit of the State of Georgia and its people."
Mr.
Candler accords the staunchest of allegiance to the
democratic party and is a most effective exponent of its principles and
policies, with broad and well fortified opinions concerning matters of
governmental and economic import. His character is the positive
expression of a strong, true and steadfast nature, and he well merits
the unequivocal and uniform confidence in which he is held in the state
which has been his home from the time of his nativity. Mr. Candler and
his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church, in which he is
an elder and superintendent of the Sunday school. He is a member of the
board of trustees of Agnes Scott College, one of the admirable
educational institutions of Georgia and the entire South, and his civic
progressiveness and public spirit have been shown in so many ways that
they are evident to all who make even a cursory survey of Georgia
history within the past quarter of a century.
In 1882 was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Candler to Miss Mary
Scott, a daughter of Col. George W. Scott, of Decatur, who was a
leading manufacturer and capitalist of the state and the founder of
Agnes Scott College, of which mention is made in the preceding
paragraph. Mr. and Mrs. Candler have five children, namely: Laura E.,
George Scott, Rebekah, Milton A., and Charles Murphey, Jr.
Source: A standard history of Georgia and
Georgians, Volume 6 By
Lucian Lamar Knight
Hillyer, Junius
Hillyer, Junius, a distinguished lawyer,
jurist and
politician of Georgia,
was born in Wilkes county, April 23, 1807, and died in Decatur, Dekalb
county,
June 21, 1886. He was the second son of Shaler and Rebecca (Freeman)
Hillyer
and was descended in the seventh generation from John Hillyer, who
lived at Windsor, Conn., in 1639,
and who was the immigrant from whom all the Hillyers in the United
States are descended. Both
of Junius Hillyer’s grandfathers were soldiers of the Revolution. His
paternal
grandfather, Asa Hillyer, served first as a private and then as surgeon
in the
Continental troops of Connecticut.
His maternal grandfather, John Freeman, served as a soldier in the
Continental
troops of Georgia,
the greater portion of the time under General Elijah Clarke. He was in
the
battles of King’s Mountain, Cowpens, Ninety-six, Kettle Creek, Savannah
and Charleston
and served part of the time with the rank of captain.
Shaler Hillyer, father of the subject of this
memoir, died when the latter was fourteen years of age, and his widow
soon
afterward removed from her home in Wilkes county to Athens,
Ga., for the purpose of educating her three
sons – John F., Junius and Shaler G. – at Franklin
college, where Junius was graduated in 1828. Having studied law during
his
senior year, he was admitted to the bar within a month after his
graduation and
at once began the practice of his chosen profession in Lawrenceville,
Ga.,
where he remained one year. He then returned to Athens in 1829, opened
a law office
in that place, devoted himself with unremitting energy to his
profession, in
which he rose very rapidly, soon gaining a large practice, and
occupying a
place in the front rank of that brilliant and celebrated “bar of the
western
circuit,” composed of such men as Howell and Thomas R.R. Cobb, Charles
and
William Dougherty, William Hope Hull, Nathaniel G. Foster, William C.
Dawson,
Alexander H. Stephens, Robert Toombs and Cincinnatus Peeples. In
politics he
was a Democrat, having joined that party upon its formation under the
leadership of Andrew Jackson, and he occupied a prominent place in the
councils
of the party. He, at different times, held the positions of
solicitor-general,
judge of the western judicial circuit of Georgia, member of Congress
and solicitor
of the United States
treasury, at Washington.
Judge Hillyer took an active part in the development of the educational
and
industrial interests of the state. He was for many years a trustee of
the University of Georgia and also of Mercer university.
He was one of the original projectors and stockholders of the Georgia
railroad, the first enterprise in
railroad building ever undertaken in Georgia. He joined the Baptist
church in 1826 and continued throughout his life a consistent member of
that
denomination. On Oct. 6, 1831, Judge Hillyer married Mrs. Jane
(Watkins)
Foster, daughter of George and Mary (Early) Watkins, of Greene county,
Ga. She was a woman of
remarkable strength of mind and loveliness of character and died in
1880, at Decatur, Ga.,
to which place the family had removed in 1871. This marriage was a
singularly
happy one and was blessed with eight children, namely: Dr. Eben Hillyer
of
Rome, Ga.; Judge George Hillyer, of Atlanta, Ga.; Maj. Shaler Hillyer,
of
Selma, Ala.; Mrs. Mary H. Whitfield, of Decatur Ga.; Carlton Hillyer,
ofAugusta, Ga.; Henry Hillyer, of Atlanta, and Misses Kate R. and Eva
W.
Hillyer, of Decatur. All of the children are living (1906) except Maj.
Shaler
Hillyer, who died in 1868. Judge Hillyer’s career as a judge, lawyer
and member
of Congress was brilliant and his ability was universally recognized.
He was
especially distinguished for his power before a jury as an advocate and
for his
success in the court room with the cases committed to his care, either
on the
civil or criminal side of the court. His moral character was of the
highest, he
possessed the confidence and admiration of the people of Georgia, and
took rank among the
distinguished men of the generation in which he lived.
(Source: Georgia
Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans,
Publ. 1906. Transcribed
by Kim Mohler)
Hulsey,
William H
Hulsey,
William H., one of
Atlanta’s well known and highly honored citizens, is a
veteran member of the bar of the capital city, has represented Fulton
county in the state legislature, was mayor of Atlanta
in 1869, and is one of Georgia’s
valiant sons who went forth as a soldier of the Confederacy in the war
between
the states. To him should be accorded lasting distinction for the able
and
successful efforts which he put forth in effecting the founding of the
public-school system of Atlanta,
and his name will be indissolubly associated with this great work in
all future
annals of the fair capital of the Empire state of the South. Mr. Hulsey
was
born in Dekalb county, Ga., Oct. 1, 1838, and is a son of Eli J. and
Charlotte
(Collier) Hulsey, the former of whom was born in Jasper county, Ga.,
and the
latter in Dekalb county. Mr. Hulsey was afforded the advantages of the
common
schools but his broad and liberal education, both academic and
professional,
has been acquired almost entirely through his own efforts outside the
school
room or college. He was admitted to the bar in 1859 but did not give
much
attention to the active work of his profession until after the close of
the
Civil war. He was among the first to respond to the call for defenders
of the
cause of the Confederacy, and in April, 1861, enlistd as a private in
Company
F, Sixth Georgia infantry. He took part in the battle of Big Bethel,
but was not
with his regiment at the time, nor did the regiment participate in any
battle
during the period he was with it. Soon after his enlistment he was made
first
lieutenant of Company F, but early in 1862 he resigned his office
returning to
his home in April of that year, and in the same month was elected major
of the
Forty-second Georgia infantry, with which command he continued in
service until
the close of the war. He was with his regiment in the battle of
Tazewell,
Tenn., the engagement at Cumberland Gap, the Kentucky campaign, in all
of the
battles in and around Vicksburg, Miss., in all of the battles of the
Georgia
campaign from Dalton to Resaca, in the engagement at which latter point
he was
wounded, and in the battles in and about Atlanta, his regiment being
also
engaged in the battles of Franklin and Nashville, Tenn., in which
latter he was
again wounded. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and at the close
of the
war was ranking officer of the Forty-second Georgia regiment. After the
war he
took up his residence in Atlanta,
closely identifying himself with the rebuilding of the prostrate city
and
becoming one of the leading members of its bar. He has here continued
in the
active practice of his profession during the long intervening years and
his
name is one honored by all classes of citizens. He is a conservative
and
unfaltering advocate of the principles and policies of the Democratic
party, in
whose cause he has rendered effective service. He was solicitor-general
of the
Coweta circuit for two years, when he was removed by Governor Bulloch,
his
retirement being caused for political reasons. In 1869 he was elected
mayor of
Atlanta, and within his administration was founded the present
public-school
system of the city – a work in which he took the deepest interest and
which he
undoubtedly did more to promote than did any other one man. He reverts
with
distinctive pride and satisfaction to his efforts in this connection
and is
fully justified in the attitude which he thus assumes. He was twice
elected to the
state legislature from Fulton county, served as
a member of the city council for several terms and in 1896 was elected
judge of
the court of ordinary of Fulton
county, in which office he served one term. He is a Master Mason, a
member of
the United Confederate Veterans, and he and his wife hold membership in
the
Methodist Episcopal church South. On April 26, 1865, was solemnized the
marriage of Colonel Hulsey to Miss Marion J. Bateman, daughter of
Claiborne and
Sarah M. (Jordan) Bateman, of Monroe county, Ga., and they have seven
children
– Eli B., William E., Hallie A., Marion B., Fred W., Eula and Luther J.
(Source: Georgia
Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and
Persons,
VOL II, by
Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Kim Mohler)
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]
McClelland, John E., senior member
of the well known law firm of J. E. & L. F. McClelland, of Stone
Mountain, Dekalb county, is one of the able and popular members of the
bar of that section of the state and the firm of which he is a member
controls an excellent practice. Mr. McClelland was born in
Sandtown, Jasper county, Ga., Feb. 26, 1869, a son of Rev. John F. and
Elizabeth (Reagan) McClelland, the former born in Henry county, Ga., in
1840, and the latter in Rockdale county, Oct. 14, 1845. The
father was a distinguished clergyman of the Presbyterian church, held
various pastoral charges in Georgia, and was chaplain of the house of
representatives of the state legislature in 1884-5. He was in the
active work of the ministry at the time of his death, which occurred at
Stone Mountain, June 24, 1885, and his widow still resides in this
place. He was insistently loyal to the Confederacy during the war
between the states, as he enlisted in 1861, as a private in Company I,
Forty-fourth Georgia infantry, in which he was promoted to first
lieutenant and served in this capacity until the final surrender.
He took part in many of the most notable battles of the great conflict,
including those of Gettysburg, Spottsylvania, Manassas and the Seven
Days’ fighting around Richmond. After due preparatory discipline
John E. McClelland was matriculated in Emory college, in which he was
graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and later received the
degree of Master of Arts. He then took up the study of law,
thoroughly fortified himself in the science of jurisprudence and was
admitted to the bar. He is associated with his brother in the
practice of his profession and they have a representative clientage in
Dekalb county. Mr. McClelland is aligned as a supporter of the
principles of the Democracy, is a member of the Georgia bar
association; is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
and the Masonic fraternity, including the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine; and both he and his wife hold membership in the
Presbyterian church. On Sept. 26, 1888, Mr. McClelland was united in
marriage to Miss Cora Spence, daughter of J. S. Spence, of
Lawrenceville, Ga., and they have three children-John Spence, James
Ralph and Ellis Forsyth.
[Source: Georgia
Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and
Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Renae Donaldson]
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