Fulton County, Georgia Genealogy and History

Pardee, Don Albert, judge of the United States district court for the fifth judicial district, since May, 1881, was born at Wadsworth, Medina county, Ohio, March 29, 1837, son of Aaron and Eve¬line (Eyles) Pardee. He received his early education in his native county, and was a member of the class of 1854 in the United States naval academy, Annapolis. He studied law; was admitted to the bar of Ohio in 1859, was thereafter engaged in the practice of his profession in Medina until September, 1861, when he entered the Union service; was made major and later lieutenant colonel of the Forty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, with which he was in service until December, 1864, being brevetted brigadier-general for gallant services. In 1865 he located in the city of New Orleans, La., where he resumed the practice of his profession. In 1867 he was made register in bankruptcy. In 1868 he was made judge of the second judicial district of Louisiana, being re-elected in 1872 and 1876, and in 1879 he was a senatorial delegate to the constitutional convention of the state. In 1880 he was the Republican candidate for attorney-general of Louisiana, and in May, 1881, was appointed to his present position as judge of the fifth judicial circuit of the United States circuit court. In June, 1898, he took up his residence in Atlanta, Ga., where he has since maintained his home, though his official address is the United States court, New Orleans, La.
Source: Cyclopedia of Georgia

Pendleton, John T., judge of the superior court of the Atlanta circuit and one of the distinguished lawyers of the capital city, is one of the best known attorneys and jurists in the state and is a man honored by all who know him. He was born in Christian county, Ky., March 24, 1845, a son of William and Isabella Pendleton, both natives of that county, and the former a merchant by vocation. After due preparatory discipline he was matriculated in Bethel College, Russellville, Ky., being a student there at the time of the inception of the Civil war. Ardently loyal to the cause of the Confederacy, he forthwith abandoned his studies to tender his aid in the cause of the Southern States, although but sixteen years of age at the time, and in September, 1861, enlisted in the First Kentucky cavalry, in which he fought right gallantly in many of the most important battles in which the Western Army was involved. He was in the forefront of his command in the celebrated charge against the Federal infantry in the battle of Perryville; was later transferred to Gen. Nathan B. Forrest's command, and served under that gallant leader during the greater portion of the war. In 1862 he was detailed in Gen. Joe Wheeler's flying squadron, following that intrepid leader in many of his raids. Shortly after the battle of Missionary Ridge Judge Pendleton was taken prisoner by the Federal troops, being sent to the prison at Fort Delaware, where he was confined until the close of the war, when, with all other prisoners, he was released on parole. In 1867 he attended the Louisville law school, where he remained as a student one year, taking preparatory legal training. During the session of 1868-9 he was a member of the law class of famous old Washington & Lee university at Lexington, Va. At the close of the session, as an honor graduate, he delivered the valedictory address for the large law class and duly received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. The New York World, in its report on the commencement exercises of the university that week, mentioned the speech of Judge Pendleton as one of the notable addresses of the week, though there were several speakers of national reputation present on the occasion. Among his most treasured mementos is his diploma from the law department of Washington & Lee university, chiefly by reason of the fact that on the same appears the signature of Gen. Robert E. Lee, who was then president of the institution.
The fact that General Lee had been made president of the college at the close of the war drew to the institution hundreds of young Southerners, the enrollment at the time of Judge Pendleton's graduation having been in excess of 1,000. No other southern university has ever had an equal enrollment at any time. Immediately after his graduation Judge Pendleton removed to Atlanta, taking up his residence here in the autumn of 1869, and was admitted to the bar of the state in April of the following year. This city has ever since been his home and the scene of his successful and noteworthy efforts as a lawyer and jurist. In 1874 he was elected recorder of the police court of Atlanta, and served in the dual capacity of recorder and city auditor for four years, the two offices being conjoined at that time. He served four years as assistant city attorney and for four years as judge of the recorder's court, making a record which gained to him the confidence and high esteem of the community. Thereafter he was engaged in the active practice of his profession until April, 1905, when he was appointed judge of the superior court of the Atlanta circuit, by Governor Terrell, to succeed Judge Joseph H. Lumpkin, upon the latter's elevation to the supreme court of the state. In politics Judge Pendleton is an unswerving adherent of the Democratic party. He is a prominent and valued member of the Second Baptist church, in which he has been a deacon since 1887, and he has twice served as superintendent of the Sunday school. He was for two terms incumbent of the office of church treasurer, and for a quarter of a century was teacher of the Bible class. He has also been president of the state mission board of his church and a member of the home-mission board of the Southern Baptist convention. In 1870 Judge Pendleton was united in marriage to Miss Ella J. Bowie, of Westmoreland county, Va., and they have two children, namely: Mary Belle Stewart and Kate Nunnally.
Source: Cyclopedia of Georgia

Paxon, Frederic John, secretary and treasurer of the Davison-Paxon-Stokes Company, one of the largest department stores of Atlanta, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 22, 1865. He is a son of Philip Henry and Eliza (Hatt) Paxon, natives of England, the former born in London, in 1826, and the latter in Reading, in 1831. The ancestry is of pure English strain in the agnatic line, the original orthography of the name having been Paxton. The great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, for some unknown reason, dropped the "t" upon registering as a queen's counsel. Mr. Paxon is a direct descendant of Sir Joseph Paxton, the celebrated architect of the Crystal Palace, in London. The family is of pure Saxon origin and the name was in the early days written dePaxton, representatives of the same settling in Scotland and Ireland and in the city of London. Frederic J. Paxon secured his educational discipline in the public schools of Philadelphia and Camden, N. J. At the age of fourteen years he entered the employ of the American Baptist publication society at Philadelphia and remained identified with the society there until 1887, when he was appointed general manager of its southern territory, with headquarters in Atlanta, where he took up his residence in December of that year. He remained in this position until May, 1901, when he became a member of the firm in which he is now an interested principal, as noted in the opening of this article. He is one of the trustees and also president of the Carnegie library in Atlanta; member of the directorate and vice-president of the Atlanta chamber of commerce; trustee of the Atlanta Baptist college; vice-president and director of the Union Savings bank; secretary and treasurer of the Modern Puritans, a fraternal organization; chairman of the finance board of the Second Baptist church, and also of its Sunday school; chairman of the advisory board of the Young Women's Christian Association, and also of the advisory board of the Young Men's Christian Association, and is lieutenant-colonel on the staff of Governor Terrell. He is one of the twenty-five leading citizens chosen to inaugurate and set in motion the proposed Exposition of 1910.
Source: Cyclopedia of Georgia

Peck, William Henry, author and educator, was born in the State of Louisiana, but was for many years a resident of Atlanta, where many of his stories were written. He was a tireless worker and wrote nearly a hundred serial stores, most of which were published in the New York Weekly, which paper paid him a salary of $10,000 a year. Some of his stories sold as high as $5,000, although he is not classed by critics and reviewers as a literary man. This is chiefly due to the fact that his productions were published in the weekly story papers instead of book form. He finally removed to Florida and died there in 1899.
Source: Cyclopedia of Georgia

BELL, Miss Orelia Key, poet, born in Atlanta, Ga., 8th April, 1864. Her birthplace was the Bell mansion, a stately Southern home in the heart of the city. The house has become historic, as it was, soon after Orelia's birth, the headquarters of General Sherman's engineering corps, and the room in which she was born and spent the first three months of her life was that used by General Sherman as a stable for his favorite colt. Miss Bell is of gentle birth on both sides of her house, and is very thoroughly educated. A poem by her father, "God is Love," has been the key-note to some of her highest and sweetest songs. She suffered loss of home and property but met her reverses with a brave front and a song in her heart, and her spirit, strong in courage and purity, has voiced itself in countless melodies that have won for her both fame and money. She writes always with strength and grace. Power and melody are wedded in her poems. Her warmest recognition from the press has come from Richard Watson Gilder of the "Century." Page M. Baker, of the New Orleans "Times-Democrat," Charles A. Dana, of the New York "Sun." Mrs. Frank Leslie, Henry W. Grady, and Thaddeus E. Horton, and her own home papers the "Constitution" and the "Journal." Her poem "Maid and Matron" has been used by Rhea as a select recitation. To the instructions of her friend, Mrs. Livingston Mimms, leader of the Christian Science movement South, and founder of the first Church of Christ (Scientist) in Georgia, Miss Bell owes the inspiration of her most enduring work, the International Series of Christian Science Hymns, to the writing of which she gave much time.
(American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Volume 1, Publ. 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow)

BLONDNER, Mrs. Aline Reese, musician and educator, born in Georgia. She received a classical education from her father, Rev. Augustus Reese, a graduate of Oxford College. Her first musical instruction was given to her by her mother, Celeste Dewel Reese, who was educated in Troy Female Seminary, Troy, N. Y. Aline played at first sight, when eight years of age, with facility and skill, memorizing with rapidity and exciting the admiration of all who heard her play, when, as a tiny child, she appeared in many public exhibitions, executing on the piano compositions which required technical skill and ability. She received further musical education from Prof. George Briggs on piano, violin and guitar, and on the organ from Prof. Charles Blondner, of Philadelphia. In 1878 she took lessons from Prof. Asger Hamerik, of Baltimore. In 1879 she went to Leipsic, Germany, where she took private lessons from Herr Carl Reinecke for two years. In the summer of 1881 she went to Weimar, where Liszt received her as a pupil. Mrs. Blondner is now teaching in her own studio in Nashville, Tenn. She has a class in the Nashville College for Young Ladies. She is organist in the First Baptist Church and is widely known as pianist, organist and teacher.
(American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Volume 1, Publ. 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow)

BRYAN, Mrs. Mary Edwards, author, born in Jefferson county, Fla., in 1846. Her father was Major John D. Edwards, one of the early settlers in Florida and a member of the State legislature. Mary was educated by her cultured mother until she was twelve years old. The family moved to Thomasville, Ga., where she enjoyed the advantages of good schooling and made rapid progress. When she was sixteen, she was married to Mr. Bryan, the son of a wealthy Louisiana planter, with whom she went to his plantation on the Red river. One year later, under the pressure of painful circumstances, she returned to her father's home. There she began to write for the press. She wrote regularly for the "Literary and Temperance Crusader, '' published in Penfield, Ga. She contributed many columns to that journal, in both prose and verse, and her productions attracted attention. In 1859 the "Crusader" was enlarged, improved and removed to Atlanta, and Mrs. Bryan was engaged as literary editor. She filled the position with brilliant success and brought the journal into prominence. At the end of 1859 she resigned her position on the "Crusader" and became a correspondent of the "Southern Field and Fireside." After the Civil War she became the editor of the Natchitoches, La., "Semi-Weekly Times," writing political articles, sketches, stories and poems. Her next position was on the "Sunny South," published in Atlanta, Ga., which paper she edited for ten years. In 1885 she removed to New York City, where she served as assistant editor of "The Fashion Bazaar" and of "The Fireside Companion." Among her novels are: "Manch" (New York, 1879); "Wild Work," a story of the days of reconstruction in Louisiana (1881), and "The Bayou Bride" and "Kildee" (1886). Mrs. Bryan has a family of four children and several grandchildren. Her home is now in Atlanta, Ga., where she has editorial charge of "The Old Homestead," a monthly magazine."
(American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies Vol 1 Publ. 1897 Transcribed by Marla Snow)

William F. Pattillo, the oldest fire insurance agent in Atlanta, in point of continuous service, and one of the best known business men of the State, is a native Georgian, born in Harris county, on March 20, 1846; son of James Pattillo, who was a native of Greene county, later a resident of Harris county, and throughout life a farmer. His mother was Sarah (Oslin) Pattillo, daughter of William Oslin, of Harris county, who was a native of Greene county, Georgia.

James Pattillo saw service during the latter part of the War, in 1864, and was in the Battle of Griswoldville, on the Central Railroad, south of Macon, Georgia. In November of that year he was elected Judge of the Inferior Court of Harris county, and served two terms. Though a Democrat, he was appointed by President Grant and served as Deputy Internal Revenue Collector for Harris, Talbot and Upson counties. He lived to the great age of eighty.four, dying in West Point, Georgia, in 1905.

James Pattillo was a son of John Pattillo, also a native of Greene county, who served in Captain E. D. King's Company, Georgia Militia, from August 23, 1813, to March 10, 1814. He also was a farmer and died in Harris County.

John Pattillo was a son of John V. Pattillo, a Revolutionary soldier. The family was founded in Virginia by George and Henry Pattillo, brothers, who came from Scotland to America in 1740. The family, originally French, had migrated from France to Scotland, and from these two immigrants all the American Pattillos arc descended. The family history goes back to Robert Pattillo, a member of the King's Archer Guards centuries ago, who so distinguished himself in the insurrection in Gascony that the then King Louis VI appointed him Governor of one of the Provinces, and conferred upon him the coat of arms, which is an unbent bow resting on a shield, upon which is emblazoned a crescent and a mailed glove, with rose in hand. The motto is: "Et decerpta dat odorem," meaning, "the plucked flower gives perfume."

The subject of this sketch, after passing through the local schools of his native county, entered the old Georgia Military Institute, at Marietta, and with the other students of that institution entered the Confederate Army in. April, 1864, as a member of the Cadet Battalion, which served until the close of the war. They were paroled after the surrender, and Mr. Pattillo returned to his home in Harris county, where he engaged in farming until the spring of 1868, when he took a commercial course at Dolbear's Commercial College in New Orleans.

In July, 1868, he moved from Harris County to Atlanta and entered the fire insurance business as a clerk for his uncle, W. P. Pattillo. He was later admitted to partnership by his uncle, under the firm name of W. P. & W. F. Pattillo. The firm conducted the leading fire insurance agency of Atlanta until 1889, when in a separation of their interests by mutual consent; W. F. Pattillo became general agent of the Southeastern Department of the Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance Company of Germany. This company he and his uncle had represented locally from 1875 to 1877, and from 1877 to 1889 as general agents also. In 1889, Mr. Pattillo assumed the general agency for the company, which position he has held until the present time, this position carrying with it the right to appoint all the local agents in his territory, and to pay all the fire losses in his district-a position of great honor and responsibility. His connection of thirty-six years with this one company is the strongest possible evidence both of his ability and his fidelity.

From 1873 to 1910 Mr. Pattillo resided in the town of Decatur, six miles out of Atlanta, and it is strictly within the truth to say that no citizen of the town has been a more useful citizen. Numerous times he has served as a member of the Council; as a trustee of the town school; as a member of the County School Board, and even up to the present moment, though not now a resident of the town, is a member of the board of trustees of the Decatur M. E. Church, South, Decatur.

He has been active in church work all of life since manhood. From 1874 to 1910 he was a trustee and steward of the Methodist Church in Decatur; from 1881 to 1908, he was superintendent of the Methodist Sunday School. For fifteen years he was chairman of the Orphans' Home Conference Board of the North Georgia Conference.

In 1870, Mr. Pattillo was married to Mary E. Moss, daughter of Judge Henry E. Moss, of Harris county. They have been blessed with a splendid family. Their children have Iven: William Franklin, Jr.; Olin Louis; Mario Ketclle (now Mrs. Doctor Charles E. Boynton, of Atlanta) ; James Raleigh; Emory Moss (I), who died in 1884; and Emory Moss (II). William Franklin Pattillo, Jr., the eldest son, married Ruth Holleyiiian, daughter of Thomas U. Holleyman, a prominent educator of Georgia, and died in his early prime, September 26, 1801, leaving two children: Frances H., and Annie Marie who, with their mother, reside at Decatur.

Mr. Pattillo has made a substantial success in a business way. He is at the present time president of the Bank of Decatur; and a director of the Fulton National Rank, of Atlanta, of which he was one of the active organizers. His entire business life has been spent in the city of Atlanta, in which he at the present moment resides, and he has won the esteem and confidence of a very large constituency by his high character and the excellent moral influence which he has exerted.

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Hill, Charles Dougherty, has to his credit the distinction of having made a record as one of the ablest public prosecutors in his day and generation in Georgia, having rendered most noteworthy service as solicitor-general of the Atlanta circuit. A lawyer of most solid attainments and greatest facility in the marshalling of facts and evidence, he has also the incisive keenness and versatility which are such valuable adjuncts to technical knowledge. Of him it has well been written: "Felicitous of speech, quick at repartee, ready at all times with bright and sparkling quotations from his favorite authors, and rich in all the varied resources and accomplishments of the orator, he stands without a peer among the able and distinguished prosecuting officers of Georgia. Mr. Hill possesses a peculiar mind. It is not only quick in its perceptions but also remarkably firm in its retentiveness. He never makes a note in the trial of any case, however important it may be, and never mistakes the evidence in the argument of his cause to the jury. His preparations are purely mental and in none of his great speeches has he employed the use of a pencil. Perhaps no lawyer at the bar has a more prodigious memory." This worthy member of the bar of Georgia's capital city is also a representative of one of the best known and most honored families of this commonwealth. He was born near LaGrange, Troup county, Georgia, Nov. 3, 1852, and is a son of the lamented and distinguished Senator Benjamin H. Hill, of whose career specific mention is made in this work. Mr. Hill passed his boyhood days in his native county and there received his early educational training. In 1867 his parents removed to Athens, Ga., and after further preparatory study young Hill entered the law department of the state university, in that city, being graduated as a member of the class of 1871. He was admitted to the bar in Twiggs county and after practicing two years, with somewhat discouraging results, he decided to abandon the work of his profession and to engage in agricultural pursuits. He accordingly purchased a farm, and to the same he gave his personal supervision until the death of his father, in 1882. This called him to Atlanta, and after his honored father had been called from the scene of life's activities he "decided to resume the profession which had now become to him a solemn legacy.'' He assisted his brother in a prosecution of a number of criminal cases, and in this connection made a "brilliant reputation by his eloquence and adroit legal manipulations." In 1885 he was elected solicitor-general of the Atlanta circuit and was several times reelected. The review from which previous quotations have been made continues as follows: "Since entering upon the discharge of his duties as the state's prosecuting attorney Mr. Hill has been a terror to evildoers and while he claims that he has never convicted an innocent man it is equally true that a guilty one has rarely escaped. Mr. Hill has been identified with a number of celebrated murder trials, and his speeches delivered on these occasions have been masterpieces of forensic eloquence. The courtroom is always crowded to overflowing as soon as the report spreads that Solicitor Hill is about to make his closing speech to the jury. No man is more truly the idol of his friends or more conspicuously the life and center of every group in which he happens to be found. His humor is always captivating and his wit lively, good-natured and sparkling. He has very little artificial reserve and speaks with frankness and candor, never hesitating to give his opinion freely on any subject. Generous, open-hearted, indulgent and kind, he is one of the best of husbands as well as one of the cleverest and truest of men."
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Hillyer, Henry, is on of the well known and honored citizens of Atlanta, where he was for many years engaged in the practice of law, as one of the leading representatives of his profession in the capital city, and he is now virtually retired from practice, giving his attention to his various capitalistic interests. He was born at Athens, this state, June 1, 1846, and was there reared and educated, having been a sophomore in the University of Georgia when his loyalty to the Confederacy caused him to lay aside his studies and tender his services in its defense. In September, 1863, he enlisted as a private in Company H, Ninth infantry, Georgia State Guard, with which he served several months, when he was assigned to duty in the quartermaster's department, in which he served until the close of the war at Selma, Ala., and Griffin, Ga. He then returned to his home in Athens, there read law in the office of his honored father, and was admitted to the bar in August, 1866, at Watkinsville. In the following December he took up his residence in Atlanta, where he entered the law office of his elder brother, George H., with whom he formed a partnership in 1868, under the firm- name of Hillyer & Bro. This alliance continued until 1892, save for the interim from 1877 to 1883, during which his brother served on the circuit bench, and the firm built up a large and representative practice. In 1892 Mr. Hillyer discontinued the work of his profession to devote his attention to other interests. He is a conservative Democrat, has taken an active part in the councils of his party, and served two terms as a representative of Fulton county in the state legislature, 1876-80. For many years he was active in the work of the Young Men's Christian association and the Young Men's library association, of Atlanta, having served as president of the latter, which was finally merged into the Carnegie library. He is a deacon in the Second Baptist church. In 1879 Mr. Hillyer was united in marriage to Mrs. Eleanor Hurd Talcott, of Hartford, Conn. She was a daughter of William S. Hurd, who was a native of Oxford, Mass., and who was for many years a leading merchant of Monticello, Ga., where his daughter Eleanor was born. Mrs. Hillyer was summoned to the life eternal on Oct. 19, 1902, and is survived by one son, William Hurd Hillyer, who is a well known journalist and writer.
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Hirsch, Joseph, honored citizen and progressive business man of Atlanta, is one of the philanthropists of Georgia whose benefactions have gained to him wide recognition, though they have ever been given without ostentation. It has consistently been said that he "has accomplished more in behalf of true charity than any other man in the state." From the same source is derived further appreciative estimate, in the following words: "His magnificent contribution to the Grady hospital and his unremitting efforts in behalf of that institution have made it a lasting monument to his memory, and his services will be gratefully remembered as long as the Grady hospital continues to perform its mission of charity. Though Mr. Hirsch has been identified with this country to such a marked extent as to suggest an American nativity, he is nevertheless of foreign birth. He was born in the empire of Germany, July 13, 1845, and the entire period of his boyhood was spent under the flag of his fatherland." He is a son of Nathan and Flora (Bantu) Hirsch, both of whom passed their entire lives in Germany, where the former was born May 7, 1800, and where his death occurred March 7, 1892. The wife and mother passed to the life eternal in the year 1878. They became the parents of seven children, concerning whom the following brief record is here incorporated: Raphael died in Marietta, Ga., and his remains rest in one of the cemeteries of Atlanta; Caroline became the wife of Henry Rosenbaum and died in Atlanta, in 1901; Esther became the wife of Nathan Loeb and passed her entire life in Germany, where she died several years ago; Morris married Amelia Huntzler and died in the city of Atlanta, Feb. 5, 1906, having been a prominent business man; Henry married Rosalie Huntzler and is a prominent clothing merchant of Atlanta; the subject of this sketch was the next in order of birth and was the last of the children to seek a home in America; Yette is the wife of Aaron Guthman, residing in Germany. From a previously published sketch are derived the following data: "His father was a very successful merchant, and the influence of parental example, as well as the instinct of heredity, had much to do with formulating the characteristics of Mr. Hirsch and with his subsequent career as a business man. Even at school his ideas were suggestive of the business attitude that was to distinguish him in later life. Germany at that time, though one of the foremost nations of Europe, was not attractive to the ambitious youth as was the republic beyond the waters, his brothers having preceded him to America as already intimated. At the age of fifteen years Mr. Hirsch resolved to cast in his lot with the New World. Accordingly, in 1860, he embarked for America, arriving in due course of time in New York city, only to find the country agitated and disturbed by the imminence of Civil war. It was out of the question for him to return home, and he had no other alternative than to face the perils of the situation. He remained in the north only a short time, coming thence directly to Georgia and taking up his abode in the little town of Marietta, a cultured and enterprising center of business activity, and remained there for a while, in the capacity of clerk in a mercantile establishment. He then went to Acworth, a few miles north, where one of his brothers was engaged in business. Here he remained several months, but, realizing that his business education was deficient in respect to the methods of this country, he went to the city of Philadelphia, where he passed several months as a student in a leading business college, becoming a competent bookkeeper and accountant through the training there received. He served for a time in the Confederate ranks at the time of the war between the states, as a private in a company commanded by Captain O'Neill, in the Seventh Georgia infantry. For a time after leaving Philadelphia he resided in Wheeling, W. Va., then returned to Georgia, and in 1867 he took up his residence in Atlanta. The city was then suffering from the ravages of General Sherman's forces and was lying prostrate in dust and ashes. He recognized the fact, however, that Atlanta was destined to become the business center of the south, and for that reason he decided to establish his home here,—a choice which has been amply justified and which he has never had occasion to regret. Under the firm name of M. & J. Hirsch, he and his brother engaged in the clothing business, in which line of enterprise they continued to operate until theirs was recognized as the leading wholesale and retail clothing establishment in Atlanta. In 1878 the retail department of the business was eliminated and the firm continued exclusively in the wholesale trade. The success of these sterling business men was achieved by the adoption and rigid enforcement of simple rules of faithful attention to business, and square, honest and open-handed methods in dealing with the large trade that was accorded in the course of years. The subject of this sketch has since identified himself with various other industrial and commercial enterprises, and his capitalistic interests are large and important. He is president of the Parian Paint Company, one of the extensive manufactories of paint in the south and one which controls a large wholesale trade. His elder son, Jacob H., is secretary and treasurer of this company. Concerning the generosity and benevolence of Mr. Hirsch, who has ever manifested a high appreciation of his stewardship and of the responsibilities which financial success imposes, the following has been written: "Mr. Hirsch first came into public notice as a friend of charity, at the inception of the movement to erect a Hebrew orphans' home. In addition to a handsome sum of money he gave to that enterprise the unstinted labor of a whole year. The success of this movement was no sooner assured than a similar enterprise was inaugurated for the erection of the Grady hospital. Mr. Hirsch had been a warm personal friend of Mr. Grady, and no man in Atlanta was more anxious to perpetuate the fame and memory of that lamented Georgian than was Mr. Hirsch. The proposition to erect a city hospital as such a memorial met with his unqualified approval, and he decided to do all in his power to insure the success of this movement. He donated a magnificent sum to the Grady hospital and gave the movement a splendid start, but his interest in the hospital did not cease with this momentary assistance. He became the life and center of the movement; he engineered the work, and devoted himself night and day to the success of this great enterprise. He was frequently dismayed by the outlook, but, in spite of discouraging circumstances, the building was finally completed and was dedicated to the cause of charity. The hospital has grown into one of the leading institutions of the south, and the fame of Mr. Hirsch has spread throughout the length and breadth of the country. A large crayon portrait of Mr. Hirsch is one of the ornaments of the public reception room of the Grady hospital. Mr. Hirsch has always evinced a deep interest in the public schools of Atlanta, and for years has been an active and influential member of the board of education." In politics he gives his allegiance to the Democratic party, and he has served as a member of the city council for nearly a decade, being one of the valued members of that body, ever showing a loyal and public-spirited interest in all that concerns the city of his home. He is president of the Hebrew benevolent association and vice president of the Hebrew orphans' home. He is affiliated with the B'nai B'rith and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Hirsch's home life is ideal in its associations and relations. On March 29, 1871, he was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca Hutzler, daughter of Morris and Sarah (Manheim) Hutzler, of Worms, Germany, and of this union have been born three children: Sarah L., who was born Nov. 15, 1875, is the wife of Arthur L. Weil, of Savannah, Ga., and they have two children—Elise R. and Edward A.; Jacob H., who was born Jan. 18, 1877, is secretary and treasurer of the Parian Paint Company, as already noted. Fle married Miss Jeanette Weil, and they have one child, Joseph, Jr.; Milton M., was born July 7, 1879, and remains at the parental home.
Source Georgia: comprising sketches of counties, towns, events, institutions, and ... edited by Allen Daniel Candler, Clement Anselm Evans

FELTON, Mrs. Rebecca Latimer, orator, born seventeen miles south of Atlanta, Ga., 10th June, 1835. Her father was a native of Maryland, and her ancestry is a blending of English, Scotch and Irish. Governor Talbot of Georgia was a maternal relative. Mrs. Felton looks back upon her childhood as a time of surpassing freedom and happiness. She lived in the country, rode, romped, fished and was as free as air to come and go. Music has always been a passion with her, and as she developed it became an accomplishment and an art. She shared the first honor when she was graduated and was the youngest girl in her class. In her early education and through her college life she had the best and most thorough instruction to be had in the State. She became the wife of William H. Felton early in life, and after the war assisted her husband in a large school of nearly a hundred pupils. In 1874 her husband became a candidate for Congress, as an independent Democrat, removed from the sectionalism and ostracism of the regular organization, which dominated southern politics at that era. The wife became the helper of her husband and at once stepped to the front. Her pen was as ready as her brain, and the State gazed in wonder at the heroic work and indomitable perseverance of this remarkable woman. During the six years that her husband remained in Congress, she was his private secretary and general counselor. She intuitively comprehended his duties to his constituents and became so prompt and skillful in his work that it was hard to tell where her work ended and his began. His fame as a debater and student of public questions became national, and yet every printed speech passed through her hands, and his super-excellence as an orator and collector of statistical facts perhaps was largely due to her discriminating mind and thorough revision, as well as her inspiring sympathy and enthusiastic loyalty to his interests. During six years of Congressional life and six years in the State legislature Tier hand was on the helm of his political barque, and he took no important step without her aid and counsel. She traveled with him during campaigns and talked to the people in private, while he addressed them in public. Yet with all these efforts Mrs. Felton is an enthusiastic farmer and a regular contributor to farm journals. She keeps up the duties of a house keeper as well as the duties of a wife and mother. Of her five children only one survives, and perhaps her distinguished domestic trait is her devotion to her only child and to her family. She makes frequent temperance addresses, her temperance work being as illustrious as her political life. She is the first southern woman who has been selected to deliver commencement addresses to female colleges. Her vindication by speech and in print of the maligned factory people of the South has endeared her to all fair-minded persons. She is treasured in the hearts of the laboring people. When she visits the factory towns, she is met by welcoming crowds. Two years ago, during a visit to the State capital, she was invited by the House of Representatives to occupy a seat beside the Speaker "as a woman in whom the State takes pride." As she was escorted down the aisle, the body stood to do her honor, and the speaker welcomed her "as the first woman ever so honored by the State." She is one of Georgia's lady managers of the World's Fair. When the board met to organize, Mrs. Felton was selected as their temporary president, and under her ruling, the permanent president, Mrs. Potter Palmer, was elected. Her later life has been one of continual triumph, and her struggle for truth, justice and reform is bearing sweet fruit in the reverence and love of her people. Of her early life she writes : "With a snow-white head and the sun declining to the West, I believe I can honestly say that a free, happy life in childhood is the best solace of old age." In appearance Mrs. Felton is distinguished and impressive, in speaking she is eloquent, and her ringing, sympathetic voice goes to the hearts of her hearers.
(American Women, Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Volume 1 Copyright 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow.)

HURT, JOEL (Jr.). Among the younger men of Atlanta possessed of a high order of business ability, and who by their own efforts have achieved notable success, is the subject of this sketch. He was born in Olivet, Russell county, Ala., July 31, 1850, and is one of four living children of Joel and Lucy A. Hurt. His father was born and reared on a plantation in Putnam county, Ga., and was the eldest of eight children of Henry Hurt, a planter and slave owner, who moved with his entire family to Russell county, Ala., about the year 1825. His mother is a daughter of Col. Nimrod W. Long, of Russell county, Alabama.

Joel Hurt was attending school when the war between the Slates began, but at the age of thirteen, his three older brothers having joined in the Confederate service, was taken from school to aid his mother in managing his father's estate. When the Confederacy fell, the bulk of the family property, which at the time consisted chiefly in slaves and Confederate bonds, was swept away. By these reverses young Hurt was confronted at this early period in life by a condition of affairs which made it necessary for him to earn the means to continue his education. But he was self-reliant, and determined to pursue his studies. At the age of fifteen he entered Hurtsboro Academy, then taught by Prof. E. N. Brown, and by periods of work to pay for his tuition, he was enabled to finish his preparatory course. At the age of eighteen he entered the University of Georgia, and graduated with the degree of C. E., in 1871. After graduating, and just before leaving college, he received an appointment as assistant engineer under H. P. Blickensdoerfer, C. K., then engaged in running the preliminary line for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad through the territory of Arizona. After completing this survey he was engaged on other roads as civil engineer until 1875, when, on account of the almost complete suspension of railroad building in the South, he located in Atlanta, and with his brother, E. F. Hurt, engaged in the real estate and insurance business.

In May, 1876, he was married to Miss Annie Bright Woodruff, daughter of George W. and Virginia Woodruff, of Columbus, Ga.

In 1879 Mr. Hurt undertook to revive the Building and Loan Association in Atlanta. After visits to Philadelphia and other cities he obtained a charter for the Atlanta Building and Loan Association, of which he was secretary and treasurer until its charter expired, a period of over six years. Through it was invested in homes for working people about two hundred thousand dollars without the loss of a single dollar to the members Following the " Atlanta" were organized a number of other associations working on the same plan, among them the Home Building and Loan Association, of which Mr. Hurt is secretary and treasurer.

In 1882 Mr. Hurt enlisted the business men of Atlanta in the organization of the Atlanta Home Insurance Company, of which he was elected secretary. The care, zeal and efficient manner in which lie discharged the duties of his position is well known and freely acknowledged by all intimately acquainted with the successful history of the company. Business was commenced with a capital of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. During the first five years it has paid three annual dividends of ten per cent, each to policy holders, and eighty thousand dollars to the company's stockholders, while the company has now a capital of two hundred thousand dollars, and a re-insurance reserve of fifty thousand dollars.

Probably the most beneficent service performed by Mr. Hurt toward enhancing the good of Atlanta was in behalf of opening Foster street, now Edgewood avenue. With the cooperation of Mr. S. M. Inman, he inaugurated the movement in 1886. The work was regarded by many as impossible, as it involved the opening of the street through three blocks for a distance of fifteen hundred feet near the center of the city, and the widening of Foster street twenty feet for a distance of one and a quarter miles, besides the building of an expensive viaduct over the Richmond and Danville Railroad 600 feet long. The opening of this magnificent avenue from the center of a great city like Atlanta was indeed a great undertaking worthy of the men who accomplished it. It is the only street in the city upon which one can stand and see the entire distance of a mile and a half, and its benefits will ever increase with the growth of Atlanta.

In addition to his connection with the enterprises already named, Mr. Hurt is president of the East Atlanta Land Company, organized in May, 1887, with a capital of $600,000. This company owns valuable property in the city and eastern suburbs; contributed liberally toward the opening of Foster street or Edgewood avenue, and has projected plans for doing much for the up-building of Atlanta.

Mr. Hurt has illustrated by his career of continued success, what can be accomplished by one possessed of natural business aptitude, a high sense of honor, and animated by worthy motives. At an age when most men have merely laid the foundations of their plans, he has achieved important and far-reaching results. He has been a hard, persistent worker, a builder rather than a speculative dreamer—a man of action instead of wasting time on fine spun theories. Starting without resources beyond willing hands and a good, active, clear brain, he holds now a place of power and influence in the community. He has made right use of his opportunities, and wherever placed has acquitted himself admirably. His industry and energy are qualities suggested in his tone and bearing. He is deliberate in forming judgments and plans, but firm in executing plans once adopted. He has demonstrated in every position he has filled, and in all his undertakings, unusual tact and rare practical business sense, while confidence in his honesty and integrity has never been forfeited by a single act which had the shadow of wrong doing. These qualities place him as a leader among the younger business men of public spirit and progressive ideas in Atlanta, and give promise of continued usefulness and added honors in the years to come.
Source: History of Atlanta, Georgia, by Wallace Putnam Read, 1889, Submitted by C. Anthony

HEARNE, Miss Mercedes Leigh

HEARNE, Miss Mercedes Leigh, actor, was born in Atlanta, Ga., 20th March, 1867. She is widely known by her stage name, Mercedes Leigh, which she chose when she began her professional career. Miss Leigh was born into the changed conditions that followed the Civil War in the South, and her early life was full of the echoes of the great struggle. She was educated in a private school in Philadelphia, Pa. At an early age she developed marked dramatic talent, which was carefully cultivated. Her histrionic powers and her emotional nature fitted her for stage work. She went to England, and while there achieved a brilliant success in London drawing-rooms as a dramatic reader. The critics abroad gave her high rank, and at home she has repeated Tier successes on an even greater scale. Besides her dramatic talents. Miss Leigh is the possessor of poetic talent of a fine order. Her work in verse bears every mark of culture. Her home is now in New York.
(Source: American Women, by Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Vol 1, 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow

AlbertS. Thurman

Albert S.Thurman. Born about three years after the close of the Civil war, Judge Thurman was named in honor of one of the great distinguishedofficers of the Confederacy, General Albert Sidney Johnston, and thus in his personal cognomen he has been enabled to perpetuate the fame of a great commander and to signalize his father's loyal devotion to the cause of the Confederacy during the period that brought so much of unmerited disaster and distress to the fair Southland. Judge Thurman, a representative member of the bar of Jasper County and now serving on the bench of the city court of Monticello, judicial center of that county, is a scion of a family whose name has been worthily linked with the history of Georgia for nearly a century. The lineage of the Thurman family traces back to staunch old Irish stock but the name early became one of prominence in England, whence came the founder of the American branch, John Thurman, who left England at the time of the Bacon rebellion and who settled in the Virginia colony.

Albert Sidney Thurman was born in Calhoun County, Alabama, on the 15th of April, 1868, and is a son of David Richardson Thurman and Matilda Brown (Shepherd) Thurman. The father of Judge Thurman was a son of William Thurman, who was born in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, and whose parents had settled in what is now Fulton County, Georgia, in 1826, their home having been established near Fort Walker, then in Henry County. The great-grandfather of Judge Thurman obtained a large tract of land in the present County of Fulton and there William Thurman was for many years an extensive planter and representative citizen. He continued his residence in Georgia until the time of his death, and he attained to the patriarchal age of ninety-two years. He was a man of strong individuality and sterling character, was an old-line whig in his political proclivities, and he and his wife, whose maiden name was White, became the parents of seven sons and six daughters, all of the sons having served as valiant soldiers of the Confederacy in the Civil war, and David R., father of Judge Thurman, was the youngest of the children, his birth having occurred in the year 1839. The mother of Judge Thurman was born in the year 1843, the seventh in order of birth in a family of ten children, and she is a daughter of Abraham Shepherd, who was a native of Virginia and who settled in what is now Jasper County, Georgia,in 1815

Samuel M. Inman

Samuel M. Inman. The death of Samuel M. Inman, long known as "the first citizen of Atlanta," on January 12, 1915, at the age of seventy-two, recalls a life which should be an inspiration to the living. As a constructive business man and a citizen of broadest liberality and creative genius he impressed his career upon his home city to its lasting advantage, and by his sustained operations as a merchant for almost half a century he really became on of tlie merchant princes of America. A man of great wealth and the creator of great industrial enterprises, his life emphasized the truth that enterprise and wealth are not inconsistent with the highest standards of character and conduct.
The original ancestry of the Inman family was English. It was an ancient family name in Great Britain. The Inmans became identified with America in the Colonial period. In the Revolutionary war the patriots had no more valiant soldier than Capt. Shadrack -Inman, who at the head of his troop of horse was in the forefront of almost every one of the partisan engagements fought in the desperate campaign in the South during the years 1779-1780. He was the right-hand man of such leaders as Twiggs and Clarke, and after participating in many victories he fell while gallantly leading his command in the battle of Musgrove's Mill, the most complete victory won by the patriots in any of the engagements, since with the loss of four killed and nine wounded they inflicted upon their enemies a loss of sixty-three killed and 160 wounded and captured.
The late Mr. Inman of Atlanta was a great-grandson of Abednego Inman, who also served as a Revolutionary soldier. The line of descent was traced through John Inman, a son of Abednego, through Shadrack W. Inman, who in his time was one of the most highly esteemed merchants of Atlanta. Shadrack W. Inman married Jane Martin, and while their home was at Dandridge, Jefferson County, in East Tennessee, their son, Samuel Martin Inman, was born, February 19, 1843. Mr. Inman's two brothers, John H. and Hugh T. Inman, both now deceased, made a great success in a business way. An uncle, Walker P. Inman, also a successful business man, was one of the best loved men who ever lived in Atlanta.
The early education of the late Mr. Inman was acquired in the Maryville College of Tennessee. He was sent from there to Princeton University, and was a student there when the Civil war broke out. At the age of eighteen he left college and offered his services to the Confederacy, joining Company K of the First Tennessee Cavalry, which became a part of Johnston's Western Army, and he served part of the time as lieutenant of the company, and was also detailed on special duty with the division staff.
At the close of the war in 1865 he established himself in business for a short time at Augusta, Georgia, but in 1867 moved to Atlanta. Here he became a partner with his father under the firm name of S. W. Inman & Son, this being changed in 1869 to S. M. Inman & Company. For a great many years the firm of S. M. Inman & Company stood in the front rank of cotton firms of the world. An honorable trader, dealing in actual cotton, buying, selling and exporting, by his rare judgment and rigid integrity he built a name in the mercantile world second to that of no other man in the business. With a fortune amassed through his connection with the cotton business, he was for many years a director in the Atlanta National Bank, the Lowry National Bank, the Equitable Life Insurance Company, and the Southern Railway, and was a stockholder in the East Atlanta Land Company and in many other large enterprises. In the early days he foresaw the greatness of Atlanta and from time to time invested until he became one of the largest holders of real estate, and much of his estate is now composed of the valuable ground and improvements of this city.
He could never be brought to accept public office and chose to exercise his influence through his business and through his position as director and trustee in many public and quasi-public institutions. To the people of Atlanta he was always known affectionately as Sam Inman, and was always ready to spend and to be spent in the service of Atlanta. The great Technological School is due more to his efforts than to those of any other one man since he led in the movement which resulted in its erection. He subscribed heavily to the school at its beginning, and secured from the city $75,000 and a pledge of $2,500 annually for its support. As a member of the board of commissioners of the school its instant and splendid success was largely due to his wisdom and labors. The Young Men's Christian Association, the hospitals of the city, and nearly every other constructive philanthropy is a permanent record to his benevolence and business judgment.
When the business men of Atlanta undertook the Cotton State Exposition in 1895 Mr. Inman was made chairman of the finance committee. In this capacity he bore the many burdens of-this great undertaking. The exposition commenced September 18, 1895, scheduled to continue 100 days. It was soon discovered that $100,000 would be immediately necessary or the exposition would be compelled to close its doors at the command of the sheriff. It was then that Mr. Inman undertook to give half of the amount needed if the other fifty directors would furnish the remainder. This was done and the exposition continued a success.
Mr. Inman's name will always be closely associated with the growth and development of that noble institution known as Agnes Scott College. His work in behalf of that institution was taken as the main theme of an editorial which appeared in the Atlanta Constitution at the time of Mr. Inman's death. A few paragraphs taken from that editorial will throw some further light upon the career of this great Atlanta citizen and his work and influence.
'' An incident which at Mr. Inman's request received publicity for the first time after his death illustrates his characteristic devotion and characteristic modesty and .generosity. For some years one of the projects nearest to his ' heart has been Agnes Scott, he holding the position of chairman of the board of trustees. A few months ago when he felt his health failing, he made it known to the trustees that he wanted to resign and that if the trustees would relieve him he would donate $25,000 to the institution, with the understanding that the gift be duplicated. The transfer was quietly arranged, the new chairman undertaking the work of raising the additional subscription. In two weeks the duplicate subscription had been completed, adding $50,000 to the fund.
"Previously Mr. Inman had contributed fifty thousand dollars to the Agnes Scott on condition that the amount be duplicated. The condition was met. So, first and last, this one institution has been helped by him directly and indirectly in an aggregate of one hundred fifty thousand dollars. Equally typical was his gift of the old homestead on Peters street as a Presbyterian orphanage. Oglethorpe University will also be his debtor for a large sum. The story of Mr. Inman's advance of fifty thousand dollars to save the exposition of 1895 is well known, and yet all of these were but few of his many acts of benevolence and charity.
"Mr. Inman was a type of the Southern Christian gentleman who brought over their creed from the old regime and practiced it, not in words but deeds. Achieving much in business, generous and intelligent in philanthropy, vigilant in his civic duty, he shunned publicity. His desire simply was service, and if that desire was fulfilled he was satisfied. Forward civic movements found him in the forefront, but always without noise. Philanthropy found in him a ready friend, but an unpretentious one. Essentially cultured, he was democratic. He worked side by side with the pioneers of Atlanta building this city from a mass of debris to its present greatness. But he never asked, nor courted, praise for his service. To him it was all 'in the day's work' a matter of course, warp and woof of his nature, tasks to be met and discharged as a duty.
"These characteristics explain how he won the title of the 'first citizen.of Atlanta.' In his achievements, no less than his unvarying gentleness and consideration, he eminently deserved it."
At the same time another writer in the Constitution recalled Mr. Inman's many years of close association and friendship with other native Tennesseans who were among the first and foremost in Atlanta's development, namely— James W. English, Robert J. Lowry and William T. Newman. Reviewing the records of Atlanta's past from Reconstruction days to the present, this writer found that "in every civic movement initiated since the war; in every enterprise, state or national, where Atlanta had a part; in every opening for the city's progress, industrial, artistic or social, the names of these four men illuminate the pages. When they agreed that Atlanta should achieve in movements far reaching or those only local, success was achieved as the city's churches, schools and hospitals testify.
"Mr. Inman won the title 'first citizen' when at a crucial moment in the inceptive days of the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895, he made possible the success of that enterprise. He was with his three friends on the committee of citizens who promoted the Grady Hospital; who were the first to work for and contribute to the Georgia School of Technology, and subsequently the first givers to the fund for Oglethorpe University.
"Mr. Inman presided over the first conference held in any Southern state looking to a system of industrial education to be applied in the common school system. Out of that conference grew a wide-spread interest in the subject throughout the industrial South and with him associated in this effort for a more practical education were his three friends."
In conclusion this writer also testifies to the individual character of Mr. Inman. He was an individual who, "alone anywhere, at any time, would have stood the t^st of the highest standards of Christian manhood and citizenship. He possessed the first requisite in his masterly self control, that highest principle of civilization. No matter what the incident, whether antagonistic to his views, whether complex, involving traditions and prejudices Mr. Inman was splendidly self contained, fearlessly sincere and forcefully reserved. He was tolerant of the views of any man, though he might differ from him, and he was God-blessed with a rich store of common sense."
Concerning his work in behalf of Agnes Scott College, to which he gave so liberally of his money, and of which he served as a member of the board of trustees from 1899 and as chairman of the board from 1903 until his death, the president of the college said: "He gave, however, far more to the college than dollars. He gave himself, his interest, his influence, his leadership and his prayers. It is impossible to estimate the value of these things. The interest he has awakened in the college in Atlanta and throughout the whole country, the friends he has made for it, his leadership in the Board, and wherever he has been known, have been potent factors in placing the institution upon its present large basis."
In the resolutions passed by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Mr. Inman was referred to as "one of the master builders of Atlanta and a leader in all that is best in Southern civilization," and declared that in his death "Atlanta loses its first citizen, Georgia one of its noblest men, and the South not only a great man of affairs and a leader in its development, but a great example of civic virtue, a pattern and inspiration to the youth of the land."
Resolutions of similar purport were passed by the Retail Merchants Association of Atlanta, and the finance committee of the city council, of which Mr. Inman was a member at the time of his death, declared: "Samuel M. Inman has on many occasions when the progress and good name of the city of Atlanta was at stake promptly come forward with his fortune and his influence to tide the city over the crisis; by his life as well as generous contributions he has made possible the development and establishment of some of the leading educational institutions in and near Atlanta and posterity will reap the benefit of his devotion and his liberality."
Mr. Inman was survived by his wife, two sons, Henry and Frank M. Inman, and one daughter, Mrs. J. W. Cooper of Philadelphia. He was twice married, his first wife was Miss Jennie Dick of Rome, Georgia. They were married in 1868 and she died in 1890, and was the mother of his two sons and daughter. In December, 1892, Mr. Inman married Miss Mildred McPheeters. Mrs. Inman was born at what is now Bedford City, Virginia, and was closely associated with her husband in much constructive social and civic work in Atlanta. She is president of the Atlanta Art Association. She was also a vice president of the Cotton States Exposition at Atlanta in 1895. She is a member of the Society of Colonial Dames and of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
A standard history of Georgia and Georgians, Volume 4 By Lucian Lamar Knight

Hon. Nash R. Broyles

Hon. Nash R. Broyles, associate justice of the State Court of Appeals of Georgia, who for many years prior to entering upon his present duties held the office of city recorder of Atlanta, was born in this city, October 16, 1868, and is a son of the late Col. Edwin Nash Broyles, and a member of one of Atlanta's first families. Col. Edwin Nash Broyles was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina, November 14, 1829, a son of Maj. Cain Broyles, an able legal practitioner and an officer of some prominence during the War of 1812, and Lucinda (Nash) Broyles. a descendant of John Nash, the famous Revolutionary hero for whom the City of Nashville, Tennessee, was named. He was still a lad when he moved to Greene County, Tennessee, and for some time lived at Greeneville, where he secured his elementary education. Subsequently Colonel Broyles attended Washington College, at that time under the management of Prof. A. A. Doke, a Presbyterian clergyman of note and a graduate of Princeton, and at college the youth distinguished himself for his proficiency in logic and mental philosophy. When he was admitted to the bar, he began practice at Greeneville, with such contemporaries as Gen. Thomas D. Arnold and Judge Samuel Milligan, of Greeneville, William H. Sneed, of Knoxville, and Thomas R. Nelson, of Jonesboro.
In 1853 Colonel Broyles came to Georgia and first located at Cedartown, where he remained in practice for some time. He was fortunate in making the acquaintance of Governor Brown, who, impressed with the abilities of the young legist, made him compiler of the statutes of the preceding Legislature, in 1857. During the war between the states, Colonel Broyles, although an ardent lover of the Union, loyally endorsed the cause of the Confederacy, and rendered the government important and valuable service in various capacities. During the war he was private secretary and military aide to Governor Brown. At the close of hostilities he took up his residence at Atlanta, and there continued in active practice during the remainder of his life. On all questions touching the interests of the general public, Colonel Broyles was one of the best posted men in Georgia, but he was bound heart and soul to his profession, and political offers could not attract him from his devotion thereto. It was his honest belief that he could best serve the public and his community by confining his work to the courts and leaving the political tasks to those whose inclinations ran in that direction. Ever a close student, he continued his studies to the last, even when extended ill health had enfeebled his activities and dimmed his faculties. He passed away February 13, 1897.
Colonel Broyles was twice married, first in 1861 to Miss Elizabeth D. Arnold, the accomplished and cultured daughter of Gen. Thomas D. Arnold, and one of the most brilliant women of the South, and second in 1883, to Miss Sallie Trippe Hardy, daughter of Dr. Weston Hardy, of Cartersville, Georgia. Four surviving children were born to the first union. Hon. Arnold Broyles, clerk of the Fulton County Superior Court; Hon. Nash R. Broyles; Mrs. Pearl Broyles Parks, the wife of Lloyd Parks; and Bernard C. Broyles, a prominent citizen of Atlanta. To the second union there was born one son, Harold Hardy.
Nash R. Broyles graduated from the Atlanta public schools at the age of fifteen years, and entered the University of Georgia, at Athens, graduating from its literary department in 1888 and its law department in 1889. Immediately thereafter he became his father's law partner, father and son practicing together under the firm style of Broyles & Son until the former's death in 1897, after which the son continued alone. In 1893 Nash R. Broyles was appointed United States Commissioner, by Judge William T. Newman, and held that position until 1899, when he was elected recorder of the City of Atlanta. This latter office he filled with signal ability, with the result that, by repeated re-elections, he served until November 14, 1914, when he resigned to accept the higher position which he now fills. Upon his re-election as recorder, by the people, after a hard fight waged against him by the disorderly element of Atlanta, a banquet in his honor was given, January 3, 1911, by the citizens of Atlanta. This notable affair was attended by the governor of the state, the justices of the Supreme and Appellate courts, the federal judiciary, the mayor, and the council of the city, and several hundred of Atlanta's most prominent citizens.
At the August primary, of 1914, Judge Broyles was overwhelmingly nominated to become one of the associate justices of the State Court of Appeals, which nomination was fully ratified at the polls on the 3d of November following. This promotion at the hands of the people was one which could not be construed otherwise than as a strong endorsement of the splendid record he had made as recorder and in other capacities. The oath as associate justice of the Court of Appeals was administered to him by Governor J. M. Slaton, November 14, 1914, and he is now one of the three judges who compose that distinguished body.
Nash R. Broyles was the first judge of the first Juvenile Court ever established in the South. He held this judgeship for many years, along with the office of city recorder of Atlanta, and it was chiefly due to his efforts that the Fulton County Reformatory for Juveniles was established. His first entry into state politics was unique and spectacular. In 1912, just thirty days before the primary, he announced his candidacy for the Court of Appeals against Judge J. R. Pottle, an able jurist and a very strong man politically, and, without making any campaign, tied Judge Pottle and Later, in the state convention, withdrew in his favor. This is' the only known instance in the history of the state where a state-wide political contest resulted in a tie, where only two candidates were in the field.
Judge Broyles is a democrat, a member of the Episcopal Church, and belongs to the Chi Phi college fraternity. It is said that every man has a hobby. If Judge Broyles has one, it is the subject of law-enforcement. He earnestly believes this to be the most serious question in the United States today. He is deeply concerned at the increase of crime in the country, and never loses an opportunity to plead before his fellow-citizens for better law enforcement. He has spoken with telling effect on this subject, without any reward, or the hope thereof, in all sections of Georgia. When the unfortunate and bloody riot occurred in Atlanta, in 1906, by his firm and unyielding attitude on the bench, and his swift and severe punishment of the ringleaders of the outrage, while his life was being hourly threatened and an armed guard had to protect his home and family, day and night, he did more to stop the rioting and restore law and order than all the bayonets of the soldiers. His great aim in life has been to render equal and exact justice and with the technicalities of procedure he is often impatient, especially since these sometimes serve to protect the guilty; but he has always been rigid in probing for the facts and fearlessness as a judge as his stand for righteousness, for law and for truth.
Judge Broyles was married November 8, 1894, to Miss Harriet D. Hall, of Charleston, South Carolina. They are the parents of one daughter, Mrs. Sargent Hamilton of Washington, District of Columbia.
A standard history of Georgia and Georgians, Volume 4 By Lucian Lamar Knight

Hon. Joseph M. Terrell

Hon. Joseph M. Terrell. On Sunday morning, November 17, 1912, in Atlanta, Georgia, there passed from earth's scenes one of Georgia's foremost citizens, the Hon. Joseph M. Terrell, a man honored and beloved all over the state. Mr. Terrell was born in Meriwether County, Georgia, June 6, 1861, the son of Dr. Joel E. G. and Sarah (Anthony) Terrell. His father was a noted physician of that county, who, during the war, only failed to enlist in the Confederate service because of a petition presented to the Government by the citizens of the county requesting that he be allowed to remain at home to care for the sick and wounded, in which line of duty he rendered valuable service. His mother, Sarah Anthony Terrell, was a daughter of Dr. Joseph Walker and Martha (Render) Anthony, her father being'a prominent medical practitioner of Meriwether County.
The early life of Joseph M. Terrell gave promise of that which was to follow. At the early age of fourteen years he had acquired a good common school education and never attended school after this. Although a ripe scholar, as attested by his many state papers, he never attended college. After leaving school he took charge of his father's plantation and successfully managed it, but while he liked agriculture and always retained his interest in it, his' ambition was set in another direction. Even at this early age he was already dreaming of being a lawyer and of the wide field of usefulness this noble profession would open up to him. It was not surprising, therefore, to those who knew him that he left the farm after a few years to enter upon the study of his chosen profession in the office of Maj. John W. Park of Greenville. Before he had reached his majority he was admitted to practice and opened an office in Greenville. Here and in the counties composing the Coweta Circuit he followed his profession for a number of years, taking first rank as an able and conscientious attorney. His public life began in 1884, when he was elected to the House of Representatives from Meriwether County, entering that body as its youngest member. In 1886 he was re-elected. These legislatures had as members some of Georgia's most distinguished sons, who afterwards became governors, senators and judges', filling various positions of honor and trust in the state. Young Terrell early proved himself to have an aptitude for statecraft, which placed him easily among the first of his contemporaries. In 1890 he was elected to the State Senate, where, as chairman of the finance committee, he won the confidence and admiration of the entire state for the familiarity and ability with which he handled the financial questions affecting the people. In 1892 he was elected attorney general over two able and distinguished competitors. While the incumbent of this office he was remarkably successful with the litigations he conducted for the state, and during this period, of the many cases he handled before the Supreme Court of the United States he never lost one.
At the expiration of his ten years term as attorney general, a longer term than had been served by any of his distinguished predecessors, Mr. Terrell became a candidate for governor, and was nominated for that high office over two distinguished Georgians on the fifth of June, 1902—a birthday present, he was wont to say, from the people of his beloved state. The day following the nomination he was just forty-one years old. The success of his administration as governor is evidenced by the public records of the state. Perhaps the most enduring fame which will abide from his administration was the establishment of agricultural schools in each congressional district of Georgia.
Although not a college graduate. Sir. Terrell always manifested the greatest interest in the education of the youth of the state, and much was done by him to advance the cause of education along all lines as citizen, legislator and governor. Upon the death of the lamented Senator Clay, the appointment of United States senator was tendered to Governor Terrell by Governor Joseph M. Brown, which he accepted and hold for about one year. While serving in the Senate as an ambassador from Georgia, without warning came the sudden stroke which cut short in the prime and vigor of his useful manhood this loved and distinguished Georgian. The attack of paralysis came early in 1911. For a while Mr. Terrell rallied from the shock and apparently improved, but Bright's disease overtook him, and the weakened condition of his system, rendered so by the paralytic stroke, made it impossible for him to withstand its ravages,, and he died at his residence at 121 Juniper Street, Atlanta, at 7.10 o'clock on the morning of Sunday, November 1, 1912. His death caused mourning throughout the state. Through respect to the former governor and United States senator, Governor M. Brown issued an official proclamation ordering flags on all public buildings in the state at half mast on Monday, the day of the funeral, and giving permission for the body to lie in state in the rotunda of the capitol. The governor also called his official staff and all state house officers to act as an official escort for the remains. All state house offices were closed from 11 o'clock until after the funeral and the capitol flags were displayed at half mast for ten days. Four of the senator's brothers and two brothers-in-law acted as pallbearers: Dr. E. B. Terrell, W. A. Terrell, J. R. Terrell, H. W. Terrell, Hines Holt, of Columbus and R. Spivey of Greenville. After services in the Second Baptist Church the body was escorted to the terminal station and taken to Greenville, Meriwether County, where it was interred in the family burial ground. The escort was composed of some of the foremost citizens of Atlanta and of the state, including Governor Joseph M. Brown, Governor-elect John M. Slayton, ex-Governor W. J. Northen, ex-Governor Henry D. McDaniel, Justices Fish, Lumpkin, Evans, Beck and Hill, of the Supreme Court of Georgia; Clark Howell, ex-attorney general, and many other judges, public officials and members of the Atlanta Bar Association, besides a number of prominent citizens in various walks of life. One of Senator Terrell's old friends, who had been a boyhood playmate and served with him in the Legislature, Judge Hiram Warner Hill, associate justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, furnished a biographical tribute to the departed Georgian, to which we are indebted for the principal facts in regard to his career which appear in this article. Judge Hill further said: "To every student of the history of Georgia and her public men for the past quarter of a century, the public record and career of ex-Senator Terrell is familiar. Whether viewed as lawmaker in the capacity of representative, state and United States senator, or as chief counsellor of the state as attorney general; or as chief executive guiding and directing the ship of state for the permanent happiness and prosperity of her people, or as a private citizen without fear and without reproach, he stood every inch a man. His was a full wellrounded character. It was as natural for ex-Senator Terrell to have pursued the course in public and private life he did as it is for a duck to swim. It was a part of his being. His public career is a part of the history of his state and country. Ex-Senator Terrell was a born leader of men. He gave promise of this in his early infancy. As a boy his comrades recognized in him a leader. It was a leadership that attracted by the law of love and not that which impelled through fear. His friends followed 'Joe' Terrell in later life wherever he led because they loved and had an abiding faith in him. He was pre-eminently a lovable man. No one left his presence without being made to feel that he was his best friend. It was easy for a man of his type to be a leader.
"Though gentle and kind as a woman, one not knowing him must not get the idea that he was lacking in firmness or courage. He possessed both of these qualities to a large degree. But his whole life refutes the idea that in order to be firm and a bold fearless leader one must be harsh or cruel. His very nature was gentleness, kindness, firmness and manly courage. He was possessed of the most optimistic and hopeful nature and always lived in the light. The shadows and darkness had no place for him. Only the bright side of things was visible. Even in the valley of the shadow this characteristic did not desert him.
"While Georgians point with pride to his brilliant and successful public career, it is his genial personality upon which his friends love most to dwell. He was as approachable as a child and yet he had the manly dignity which never failed to command respect. No one in trouble ever failed to have a listening ear. No friend elated with success ever failed to receive his hearty congratulations. The rich and the poor, the powerful and the weak alike had access to his counsels. His hand was ever open to the needy, and his lips ready to speak comfort and cheer to the disconsolate and sorrowing. One of the most beautiful traits of ex-Senator Terrell's life was his pure Christian character. Amidst all the storm and stress of political strife he never wavered in his devotion and following after Him who was his guide and example. Such a life must be an inspiration to the youth of the land for generations to come. Such a life does not go out—it simply goes on.
"For his rugged honesty, fidelity to duty, purity of life, and lofty patriotism, this loyal friend and able statesman will be secure in the hearts and affections of the people he loved so well."
Mr. Terrell was married in 1886 to Miss Jessie Lee Spivey, the daughter of Thomas Spivey of Meriwether, Georgia. Mrs. Terrell and four brothers survive Mr. Terrell. They are: Hon. J. R. Terrell, solicitor general of the Coweta Circuit; Dr. E. B. Terrell, of Greenville; Dr. H. W. Terrell, of LaGrange and W. A. Terrell, of Decatur.
Henry Walker Terrell, M. D. In these days of strong competition and advanced knowledge in all the arts and sciences it is by no means an easy task to attain a high place in so difficult a profession as that of medicine and he who does so must be a man of strong mentality and a hard worker, and must, moreover, have sterling moral qualities if he would hope to gain a high class of patronage. One of those who have successfully passed all tests requisite to this end is Dr. Henry Walker Terrell of LaGrange, who is one of the leading physicians and surgeons of LaGrange, Troup and Meriwether counties, and one of five noted physicians in the Terrell family. Doctor Terrell was born in Greenville, Meriwether County, Georgia, October 12, 1871, the son of Dr. Joel E. G. and Sarah (Anthony) Terrell. His paternal grandparents were David M. and Eliza (Chapman) Terrell, the former being a prominent and highly respected citizen and planter of Meriwether County. Dr. Joel E. G. Terrell, father of the subject of this memoir, was graduated in the first class of Atlanta Medical College and afterwards attended Jefferson Medical College at Philadephia, where also he was graduated. He began the practice of his profession in his native City of Greenville, and became one of its leading medical practitioners, which position he retained until his death in 1886 at the age of fifty-three years. During the war he was anxious to enlist, but the citizens of Greenville and Meriwether County got up a strong petition, which they presented to the Confederate Government, begging that he be allowed to remain with them to attend to the sick and wounded, as the city and county had only two other doctors whose services were available for home use. The request wasi granted and it was commonly said that the doctor did far more good to the cause by his services at home than he could possibly have done by engaging in military service. He and his wife were active members of the Baptist Church, in which he was a deacon. Mrs. Dr. Joel Terrell was a daughter of Dr. Joseph Walker Anthony, her mother's maiden name being Martha Render. Her father, a graduate of the old University of Pennsylvania, was a prominent medical practitioner in Meriwether County and was the eldest of the three physicians who ministered to the sick in that county during the war. He died in 1875 at the age of seventy years. His wife survived him several years. To Dr. Joel E. G. Terrell and wife six children were born, as follows: Annie, who married Hines Holt and died in 1912; Joseph M., now deceased, a former governor of Georgia and United States senator, to whom further reference will be made; E. B., a graduate of the University of Louisville, Kentucky, who became a physician but retired from active practice in 1913, owing to poor health; William A., now engaged in the insurance and real estate business at Decatur, Georgia; J. Render, a resident of Greenville, Georgia, who is solicitor general of the Coweta Circuit, and Dr. Henry Walker Terrell, whose name forms the caption of this article.
Henry Walker Terrell, who was the youngest member of his parents' family, acquired his literary education in the schools of Greenville and then entered the Atlanta Medical College, where he was graduated in the class of 1892. Beginning the practice of his profession in Columbus, Georgia, he remained there one year, at the end of that time returning to Greenville. Here he remained five years and then, in 1898, came to LaGrange, where a larger field of activity awaited him. Since then he has established himself firmly among the leaders of his profession in this locality. His office and laboratory are equipped with X-ray apparatus and other modern accessories. Like his late brother, the ex-governor, he is a man of firm convictions but of a kind and amiable disposition, qualities which have made for him a host of friends. Doctor Terrell is a member of the county, state and American Medical associations, being councillor for the fourth district of the Georgia Medical Association. He is chairman of the LaGrange Board of Health. A democrat in politics, he has, however, no political aspirations, but served as mayor of Greenville in 1895-96. His religious affiliations are with the Baptist Church, in which he is a deacon. His maternal uncle, Dr. Edward R. Anthony, of Griffin, Georgia, is a well known physician, being one of the five doctors in the family.
Dr. Henry W. Terrell was married, December 12, 1894, to Miss Lena McGehee, a native of Meriwether County and daughter of Olin W. and Ophelia (Hall) McGehee. Her father died in 1913, while serving in the Legislature as member from Meriwether County. He was a well to do farmer and a Confederate veteran. Doctor and Mrs. Terrell are the parents of one child, Lena, who was born in LaGrange, September 29, 1905. Mrs. Terrell is an active leader' in missionary and orphan home work and is a lady of wide acquaintance highly esteemed by her numerous friends.
A standard history of Georgia and Georgians, Volume 4 By Lucian Lamar Knight

Fleming, Charles Campbell

Fleming, Charles Campbell, of Atlanta, who holds the office of secretary of the southeastern tariff association, is a native Georgian and a scion of families established in America in the early colonial era. He was born in Macon, Bibb county, Ga., Sept. 6, 1847, a son of Allen and Elizabeth Campbell (Martin) Fleming, the former born in Jefferson county, Ga., Oct. 13, 1804, and the latter in Morristown, N. J., June 11, 1819. Both passed the closing years of their lives in Columbus, Ga., and their remains rest in Rosehill cemetery at Macon. “In death they were not long divided,” as the father passed away July 9, 1874, and the mother May 6, 1875. The Fleming ancestry is traced back to Scotch-Irish derivation and the original American progenitors came from the northern part of Ireland prior to the war of the Revolution. Five brothers of the name, with one sister, landed at Charleston or some North Carolina seaport. The great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch was the founder of the Georgia branch of the family, having located in Richmond county, where the grandfather of Charles C. was born and whence he removed eventually to Jefferson county, where his son Allen was born, as noted above. The mother of Mr. Fleming was a direct descendant of Lord Campbell, whose brother was the reigning Duke of Argyle, and who settled in New Jersey in the early colonial days, his descendants being now very numerous in that state. Charles Campbell Fleming was reared and educated in Georgia and since 1894 has held his present position as secretary of the Southeastern tariff association, being one of the representative business men of Georgia’s capital city. He is a stance advocate of the principles of the Democratic party but has never sought or held public office. He is a member of the Capital City club, and both he and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church, though his family has been identified with the Presbyterian church for generations back. On June 4, 1884, he was united in marriage to Miss Effie Davis, daughter of Henry Davis, of Memphis, Tenn., in which city she died on Aug. 21, 1886, leaving no children. On Nov. 17, 1891, Mr. Fleming married Miss Minnie W. Gay, of Atlanta, a daughter of Capt. Edward S. and Mary E. Gay, and this union has been blessed with one son, Charles Campbell Fleming, Jr., born Sept. 29, 1892. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the brother and sister of Mr. Fleming: Goode Holt Fleming was born in Griffin, Ga., Oct. 18, 1849, married Lizzie Meek, of Jacksonville, Fla., and died in Macon, Ga., Jan. 3, 1906; Allen Walter Fleming was born in Griffin and died in infancy, about 1857; James Martin Fleming was born in Griffin, Sept. 11, 1856, and still living; William Pope Fleming was born in Atlanta, married Miss Annie M. Johnson, of Macon, and now resides in Macon; Mary Elmina Fleming was born in Columbus, Ga., became the wife of Harry Mix, and died in Macon, Oct. 11, 1892.
[Source: Georgia: Sketches, Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions & People, Vol. 2, Publ. 1906 Transcribed By: Maggie Coleman

Howell, Evan P

Howell, Evan P., soldier, journalist and lawyer, was born at Warsaw, Milton county, Ga., his father having come from North Carolina about 1820. He was reared on a farm, received an academic education, graduated at the Lumpkin law school in 1859, and began practice in Washington county. When the war broke out he enlisted in the First Georgia and served for about a year in Virginia. A company of artillery was then organized in Washington county, and he was made captain. This organization, known as Howell’s battery, began its active service at Fort McAllister, was in the operations around Vicksburg, at Chickamauga, and was then with the western army until the end of the war. He then located in Atlanta and in 1867 became an editorial writer on the Atlanta Intelligencer, later becoming city editor. After a short time in this position he resumed the practice of law, which he continued until 1876, when he bought a half interest in the Constitution, and here he became associated with the late Henry W. Grady. For three terms he served in the state senate; was one of the commissioners to build the state capitol; was a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1876, 1880 and 1884, and in each of these conventions was a member of the committee on platform; has been a director in every railroad built into Atlanta since the Civil war; was appointed by President McKinley a member of the commission to investigate the war with Spain, and was called on to participate in numerous other important functions. He died in Atlanta in 1905.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Kim Mohler)

Hudson, Thomas G

Hudson, Thomas G., of Atlanta, is the incumbent of the important office of commissioner of agriculture of the State of Georgia, and has given a most discriminating and able administration. He was born in Schley county, Ga., Nov. 3, 1867, and is a son of John N. and Amanda M. Hudson, the former of whom was born in Laurens county, Ga., in April, 1832, and the latter was born in Monroe county, in November of the same year. John N. Hudson served several years as county school commissioner of Schley county and was elected to the state senate in 1878, serving one term. In March, 1862, he enlisted in the Confederate service as a member of Company B, Seventeenth Georgia infantry, in which he held the office of chaplain. Thomas G. Hudson has been identified with agricultural pursuits from his youth to the present, having received his educational discipline in the schools of Schley county and in the South Georgia male and female college at Dawson. He is the owner of a valuable landed estate in Schley county and is one of the most able and progressive representatives of the agricultural industry in the state. In politics he is an uncompromising adherent of the Democratic party, and he has been accorded distinctive marks of popular confidence and esteem. He represented his county in the lower house of the state legislature in 1892-3, in the senate 1896-7, and again in 1902-3 and 4. On Aug. 1, 1905, Gov. Joseph M. Terrell appointed him to his present office, that of state commissioner of agriculture. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church South. On Nov. 5, 1889, Mr. Hudson was united in marriage to Miss Katie Royal, daughter of Thomas and Josephine (Baisden) Royal, of Schley county, and they have two children – Charles Baisden, and Gertrude.
(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)

Johnston, J. Harry

Johnston, J. Harry, vice-president and manager of the R. W. Burnham Furniture Company, 1124 Broadway, Augusta, one of the oldest and most important concerns of the sort in the city, was born in Milledgeville, Baldwin county, Ga., Nov. 14, 1870. He is a son of John W. and Martha A. (Wood) Johnston, the former a native of Kingston, Cherokee county, Ala., and the latter was born near Sandersville. Washington county, Ga. The father, who followed mechanical pursuits during the greater portion of his active career, is now living retired in Summerville, an attractive suburb of Augusta. The mother died in Milledgeville, May 6, 1888, and is survived by two children—the subject of this review and Birdie, who is now the wife of Edward W. James, of Augusta. After a preliminary course of study in the public schools of Milledgeville, J. Harry Johnston entered the Georgia military college, in that city, where he remained a student until he had attained to the age of eighteen years. He then, in 1888, took up his residence in Augusta, being here employed about three years as bookkeeper for the firm of Thomas & Maxwell, dealers in furniture. He then went to Atlanta, where he was bookkeeper for two years in the office of George E. Hoppie, president of the Atlanta Traction Company and the Atlanta Bank Punch Company. In 1893 he returned to Augusta and became bookkeeper for the late R. W. Burnham, who was engaged in the furniture business at 1138 Broad street. He has ever since been identified with this old and popular house, the concern being now known as the R. W. Burnham Furniture Company, under which title it was incorporated on Aug. 29, 1900. Shortly after taking the position of bookkeeper Mr. Johnston was promoted to the position of manager, holding this office both prior to and for several years after the death of Mr. Burnham, who passed away on Dec. 13, 1895. Upon the incorporation of the business he acquired an interest in it and has since been vice-president and manager of the company, which has made significant advancement under his able and indefatigable supervision, being not only one of the oldest furniture houses in Augusta, but also one of the best known and most popular. Mrs. B. Burnham, widow of the late R. W. Burnham, is president of the company, and her minor son, R. B. Burnham, is also a stockholder in the concern. The attractive headquarters of the company have been maintained in the present location since 1890, and the establishment is equipped with a large and select stock in all lines of furniture. Mr. Johnston is a Democrat in his political allegiance, is a Master Mason, is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Order of Beavers, and became a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks on Dec. 13, 1905. On Nov. 17, 1895, he was united in marriage to Miss Mamie Almena Shields, of Thomson, McDuffie county. Ga., and they have two children,—Harry Shields, born Nov. 22, 1896, and Bessie, born May 26, 1899.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister)

Jones, Charles Colcock

Jones, Charles Colcock, lawyer and historian, was born in the city of Savannah, Oct. 28, 1831. In 1852 he graduated at Princeton and three years later at the Harvard law school. In 1856 he was admitted to the bar and began practice in his native city in partnership with John E. Ward. In 1860 he was elected mayor of Savannah and just before the outbreak of the Civil war made many speeches in different parts of the state in favor of secession. In 1862 he entered the army of the Confederate States as colonel of artillery and served until the close of the war, surrendering with Johnston's army in April, 1865. The following December he removed to New York city, where he practiced law until 1876, when he returned to Georgia and took up his residence in Augusta. From that time until his death he was interested in the study of the archeological remains of Georgia's former inhabitants. On this subject he wrote a number of interesting pamphlets, most of which are to be found in the collections of the Georgia Historical Society. He was also the author of several other works, the most important of which is a history of Georgia in two volumes. From 1879 until his death he was president of the Confederate survivors' association of Augusta. Altogether his published works number fourteen books, ten pamphlets, and twenty-nine addresses. He died at Augusta on July 19, 1893.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister)

Jones, John W

Jones, John W., physician and legislator, was born on April 14, 1806, in Montgomery county, Md. While still in his boyhood he went with his parents to Kentucky, where he received a liberal education and took up the study of medicine. After graduating at the Jefferson medical college, of Philadelphia, Pa., he located at Griffin, Ga., and in a few years came to be recognized as one of the leading physicians of the state. In 1846 he was elected to Congress as a Whig, but after one term returned to the practice of his profession, removing to Alabama. A few years later he returned to Georgia and was for some time a professor in the Medical College of Georgia, at Augusta.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister)

Jones, Sam D.

Jones, Sam D., a representative business man and president of the chamber of commerce of Atlanta, was born on the old family homestead, Walnut Grove, Campbell county, Va., May 27, 1856. He was graduated in the Virginia polytechnic institute in 1878, and in the following year was graduated in Richmond college in the city of Richmond. He entered educational work and for nine years was president of Virginia institute, at Bristol, Va., where he conducted a large and successful school for young women. He resigned this position, came to Atlanta in 1898, and in the metropolis of Georgia he has since been identified with the manufacturing business. He is now the president of the Atlanta stove works. Mr. Jones is a son of William S. and Virginia Judith (Moorman) Jones, the former of whom was born on the same old homestead, Nov. 15, 1821. He was a Virginia planter and slave-holder of the old regime and was a man of prominence and influence in his community. His wife was born near Lynchburg, Campbell county, Va., Dec. 31, 1826. Mr. Jones' paternal grandmother bore the maiden name of Martha West, was a direct descendant of Sir Thomas West, who was knighted the third Baron West, and of Johanna de la Ware, a granddaughter of Lord Mowbray, who was of the royal house of England. In America Mr. Jones traces his lineage to Col. John West, a brother of the third Lord Delaware (de la Ware), who made the first permanent English settlement in America and sacrificed a large fortune in so doing. Col. John. West was for many years a member of the council of Virginia, and from 1635 to 1637 was the acting governor of the colony. So faithfully did he serve the colony that, in 1659, the house of burgesses passed an act acknowledging his services and freeing him from taxation. West Point, Va., was the home of Colonel West and was named for him. He was the great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. On his father's side Mr. Jones is of the ninth generation in descent from Pocahontas, the daughter of Powhatan, the Indian chief. In 1675 Jane Rolfe, granddaughter of Pocahontas, married Robert Bolling, of Bolling Hall, England, and a descendant of a sister of Anne Boleyn, wife of King Henry VIII. On his mother's side Mr. Jones' ancestors are also English, and the coat of arms is still preserved in the family. He is a collateral descendant also of Capt. Robert Adams, an officer in the war of the Revolution. Mr. Jones was married on Oct. 10, 1883, to Miss Elizabeth D. Harrison, daughter of Rev. Joseph R. and Sarah (Lunsford) Harrison, of Roanoke county Va. The children of this union were five in number and all are living except the eldest, Eoline. The others are Harrison, William Saunders, Lulu Dean and Bolling Henry. Jr.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister)

Jones, William Henry

Jones, William Henry, is a representative furniture dealer of Augusta, his finely equipped establishment being located at 1210 Broad street, where the enterprise is conducted under the title of the Jones Furniture Company. He was born in Taliaferro county, Ga., July 22, 1849, and is a son of Henry B. and Margaret (Rudisill) Jones, both of whom were likewise born in that county, where the mother died in 1871, and the father in 1895, the latter having been eighty years of age at the time of his demise. He was a soldier in the Confederate service during the war between the states, as were also three of his sons. Benjamin Jones, grandfather of the subject of this review, came to Georgia from North Carolina, as did also John Rudisill, the maternal grandfather. William H. Jones was educated in the schools of his native county; was reared on the home plantation, where he remained until he had attained the age of twenty years, when he took a position as clerk in a general store, in Jefferson county. He later became proprietor of a general store in that county, thus conducting business from 1869 to 1897, when he removed to Augusta and established his present furniture business. He has succeeded in building up a most prosperous enterprise and is one of the reliable, progressive and popular business men of the city. In politics he is a stalwart adherent of the Democratic party, and both he and his wife are members of St. James church, Methodist Episcopal South, in which he is a steward. On Feb. 17, 1876, Mr. Jones was united in marriage to Miss Julia Elizabeth Palmer, daughter of William and Julia (Matthews) Palmer, of Jefferson county, and they have five children: Harry Hill Jones, the only son, is now associated with his father in business; Julia Matthews is the wife of Jesse Mercer Rainwater, their marriage having been solemnized Oct. 18, 1905; Estelle Lois is a student in LaGrange female college, at LaGrange, Ga.; and Susie Rae and Dollie Palmer, the younger daughters, remain at the parental home.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister)

Kendrick, William Scott, M. D

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)

Looney, George C

Looney, George C., principal of the Sunny South institute, a private school of high grade, located at 97 Washington street, Atlanta, Ga., was born in Carnesville, Franklin county, Ga., Feb. 6, 1836. His father, Judge Noah Looney, was a son of Robert and Betsey (Quinn) Looney, and a nephew of John Looney, both Robert and John having been soldiers of the Revolution, belonging to the patriot band of Col. Ben Cleveland, whose successful destruction of Ferguson’s command of British and Tories at King’s mountain had an important effect in determining the conclusion of the war in the south. Professor Looney’s mother, Frances Cleveland (McNeil) Looney, was the granddaughter of Rev. John Cleveland, a clergyman of the Baptist church and a brother of Col. Ben Cleveland, whose monument was unveiled in Greenville, S.C., Oct. 7, 1880, at the centennial celebration of the important and heroic battle above mentioned. A peculiar family characteristic of both the Looneys and Clevelands was the fitness and tact for teaching which they developed early in Georgia and South Carolina. Abednego Franklin, son of Mary Cleveland, who was a sister of Col. Ben Cleveland and a cousin of Frances Cleveland Looney, was the founder of Franklin college at Athens, now the University of Georgia. In the records of the Cleveland family it is also stated that it was in the early settlement that a teacher by the name of Looney established one of the first schools taught on Georgia soil. It is quite natural, therefore, that the three sons of an intermarriage between the Looney and Cleveland families, Morgan H., George Cleveland and Martin V., should have become prominent teachers from their earliest manhood. The lives of many of the most successful men of the south, in all the learned professions and of the various southern states, attest the superiority of the training received from these educators. George C., the subject of this sketch, was in charge of a very excellent school at Palmetto, Ga., with many young men in attendance, when the war between the north and south was precipitated. Early in 1862 his “boys” and other young men of the vicinity organized a cavalry company and elected him their captain. They at once went into camp at what was then called Big Shanty, reported to Governor Brown, who instructed the company to remain there and drill for service until he should make a call for cavalry volunteers. They had not long to wait until Col. W. F. Lawton, of Albany, Ga., was authorized to raise a cavalry regiment, the Second Georgia cavalry, into which Captain Looney’s company was taken, as Company I. But a short time elapsed till they were a part of Forrest’s brigade, with the Third and Fourth Georgia and Eighth and Tenth Texas cavalry regiments. Before the close of the war Captain Looney had become a commander of the regiment, and Capt. Sim Zellars, a most gallant young soldier, had command of the famous invincible old Company I. Upon Johnston’s surrender Colonel Looney received paroles for himself and regiment at Salisbury, N.C. and at once resumed his status as a quiet citizen of Georgia. After a happy month with parents, brothers and sisters at home, he exchanged his military titles for the old, familiar, much abused but honorable appellation of “Professor,” and opened a school at Fayetteville, Ga., which had been rendered famous before the war by his brothers and himself and which was known as Fayetteville seminary. From this institution, both before and after the war, went forth many prominent men and women into prosperous and successful high life, and from it he acquired mostly the reputation as an educator that clings to him to-day. He has been thrice married,--first to Miss Maggie Tomlinson, a cousin of Samuel Taliaferro and of Judge Adam S. Poole, of Fulton county, and they became the parents of one child, Sarah Frances, who is now teaching in a very fine school near Atlanta. His second marriage was to Miss Evelyn Camp, granddaughter of John and Sarah (Jennings) Camp and a niece of Narcissa Jennings Bryant, all of Virginia. Of the several children of this union only one is living, Mrs. Eva Cleveland Thorton, who is a successful teacher in Atlanta. His present wife, Mrs. Minnie Looney, whose fine ability as a teacher and disciplinarian, renders teaching a pleasure to her husband, her school and herself, was a widow at the time of her marriage to Professor Looney, having at the time two little daughters, Lois and Eunice Ellis. Mrs. Looney is the daughter of J.W. and N.M. (Bishop) Duffee, who are highly respected and popular residents of Campbell county, residing near Fairburn. Professor Looney still retains unimpaired his activity, vivacity and enthusiasm in the school room and puts, perhaps more than ever, his whole soul into his work---that of encouraging, lecturing to, leading and educating young men and women for useful and happy lives.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Joanne Morgan)

Lumpkin, Thomas Beggs

Lumpkin, Thomas Beggs, general agent in Atlanta of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, was born in Oglethorpe county, Ga., Sept. 10, 1868. At the age of fourteen years he removed to Athens, where he soon found employment. Coming to Atlanta in 1891 he engaged as traveling salesman with the wholesale dry-goods firm of Ridley-Ragan Company, remaining with them for thirteen years. During the last seven years of this time he was a junior partner. Retiring from this business in 1903 he took up life insurance, in which he has been very successful. He has never been an aspirant for any office, but has preferred to devote his time to his business and leave to others all political ambitions. He is a member of the Piedmont Driving club and of the Athletic club of Atlanta.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Joanne Morgan)

Maddox, Robert F.

Maddox, Robert F.---Atlanta was an enterprising town of some 15,000 inhabitants when Col. Robert Flournoy Maddox, attracted by the wide-awake spirit of the progressive young metropolis, came up from Lagrange to identify himself with the forces of development which were then busily at work at his place at this place. If the change of residence was fortunate for Col. Maddox it was equally as fortunate for Atlanta, because of the person in this resourceful and robust business man, Atlanta secured an important acquisition. Even before the war, Col. Maddox was an active agent in promoting whatever promised to advance the welfare of the city, but it was not until after the war that his influential position in the world of finance enabled him to do his best work in this respect. Public-spirited and enterprising he was always ready to put aside his own personal interests to serve the cause of his fellow citizens, while out of his private means he always responded cheerfully and generously to every call which the community made upon him. Men like Col. Maddox have made Atlanta what she is today. They have blazed out her pathway of progress and have been her pillars of strength. Happy for Atlanta that she has had so many of them. Col. Maddox was born in Putnam county, Ga., on Jan. 3, 1829, of sturdy Scotch parentage. His father was Edward Maddox, an enterprising planter, who moved from Troup county to Putnam early in the century and married Mary F. Sale, of Lincoln county, Ga. Notley Maddox, his paternal grandfather, was an officer in the war for American independence. From his parents, Col. Maddox acquired the traits of character which are usually strongly accentuated in the Scotch, viz., integrity, sturdiness and piety, and throughout his long career he illustrated them with peculiar force. On the farm he laid the foundations of the vigorous health, which he enjoyed for so many years of his life, and which enabled him to accomplish so many difficult undertakings, requiring physical capacity of endurance as well as mental and moral equipment of the very highest order. He was given the benefit of excellent academic advantages, and he supplemented what he learned at school by keeping his eyes open and cultivating his powers of observation. He possessed the rare faculty of being able to assimilate what he learned, and when he started out in life he was well-equipped for success. Locating in Lagrange, Ga., in 1851, he was shortly afterward elected sheriff, but subsequently gave up this office to become county treasurer. But his chief interests were centered in manufacturing and he was more than ordinarily successful in conducting his business affairs. During his residence in Lagrange, he served in the city council with such men as Benjamin H. Hill, John E. Morgan, Judge Bigham and others who were destined some few years later to figure with prominence in state politics. Being impressed with the idea that Atlanta was the coming metropolis of the state, Col. Maddox made the place his home in 1858, and until the outbreak of the war in 1861 he was actively identified with the interests of his adopted home, having taken his place from the start in the forefront of Atlanta’s enterprising business men.

As soon as hostilities began, he closed up his store with patriotic promptness and organized the Calhoun Guards, of which he was made captain. Shortly afterward, Governor Brown placed him temporarily in charge of 6,000 troops at Camp McDonald. In 1862 he was made lieutenant-colonel of the Forth-second Georgia regiment and in 1863, colonel of the Third Georgia reserves. Intrepid as an officer, he was distinguished throughout his four years’ service at the front by his uncompromising devotion to the cause of the South as well as by his daring gallantry in defense of the flag. On either side of the line there were few better soldiers than Col. Maddox and none braver. Returning to Atlanta at the close of the war he was confronted with the necessity of starting life anew without one cent of money in his pocket, but, undismayed by the outlook, he went to work with characteristic determination, resolved to pluck success from the ruins which everywhere confronted him, and how well he succeeded, let the story of his subsequent life tell. Rapidly getting on his feet again, he was elected in 1866 to represent Fulton county in the legislature, and while serving in this capacity, was appointed by Governor Jenkins as state agent to buy food for the destitute sufferers under an appropriation of $200,000 made by the state, and in return for his faithful performance of this duty he received the cordial personal thanks of the chief executive. Subsequently, Col. Maddox rendered the city important service in both branches of the council, especially in the lower, where he served as chairman of the finance committee, and besides wiping out the city’s floating debt, succeeded in reducing the rate of interest from 18 to 7 percent. Until 1879 he was engaged in the cotton business, and dealt in such side lines as tobacco and fertilizers, but in 1879 he organized the Maddox-Rucker Banking Company, which was eventually built up into one of the strongest financial institutions of the South and which he served as president until the time of his death. But while the banking business absorbed most of his time, he was interested in various other enterprises, all of which brought him successful results. From 1889 to 1891 he was president of the Atlanta & Florida railroad. Punctilious in all of his business engagements, he enjoyed the confidence of his business associates and the esteem of his fellow citizens. He never swerved from the path of the strictest rectitude, and though he accumulated an immense fortune, there were no dirty shillings in the splendid legacy which he bequeathed to his children, no stain upon the honored record which he left behind him at the close of his long and useful career.

In 1860 Col. Maddox was united in marriage to Miss Nancy Reynolds, daughter of Col. Permedus Reynolds, one of the leading citizens of Newton county. Mrs. Maddox died in 1890. Two children, both of whom survive, were the fruit of this union: Robert F., Jr., now vice-president of the Maddox-Rucker Banking Company, and Eula M., wife of Henry S. Jackson, son of the late Justice Howell Jackson of the United States supreme court bench. Col. Maddox died at his home in Atlanta on June 6, 1899, having reached his seventy-first year, and the entire community was plunged in the deepest grief over the loss occasioned by his death. He was an active member in the First Methodist church and was as liberal in his religious benefactions as in the support of public enterprises.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Joanne Morgan)

Maddox, Robert Foster

Maddox, Robert Foster, vice-president of the Maddox-Rucker Banking Company, Atlanta, was born in that city, April 4, 1870, and is a son of Col. Robert F. and Nancy (Reynolds) Maddox, the former of whom was born in Lagrange, Troup county and the latter in Covington, Newton county, Ga. Notley Maddox, paternal great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a patriot soldier in the war of the Revolution. Col. Robert F. Maddox, a sketch of whose life precedes this, was lieutenant-colonel of the Forty-Second Georgia Volunteer infantry in the Civil war and afterward became one of Atlanta’s most honored and influential citizens. In 1880 he founded the Maddox-Rucker Banking Company, one of the solid and popular financial concerns of the city of Atlanta, and he continued president of the bank until his death, June 6, 1899. Robert F. Maddox, the subject of this sketch, was afforded the advantages of the Atlanta schools and then attended the University of Georgia until 1887, when he was matriculated in famous old Harvard university, Cambridge, Mass. He has been identified with the Maddox-Rucker Banking Company since 1889, entering the same in the capacity of collector, and since that time he has advanced through all the executive grades to the position of which he is now the incumbent, that of vice-president of the institution, while he also controls other capitalistic interests of much importance. He has served as a director in many of the fairs and expositions held in Atlanta and other parts of the South, and formerly served as vice-president of the Southern Inter-State fair association. In 1902-3 he was chairman of the executive council of the Georgia bankers’ association, and he has been vice-president of the American Bankers’ association. He is president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, treasurer of the Old Dominion Guano Company, treasurer of the associated charities of Atlanta, trustee of the Grady hospital and also the Atlanta Medical college. He is a staunch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party, and is a member of the board of stewards of the First Methodist Episcopal church South, of Atlanta. On June 12, 1895, Mr. Maddox was united in marriage to Miss Lollie Baxter, daughter of Nathaniel and Laura Lavender Baxter of Nashville, Tenn. They have two children, Robert Foster, Jr., and Nathan Baxter.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Joanne Morgan)

Manahan, Manning Willis, M.D

Manahan, Manning Willis, M.D., one of the prominent and able representatives of the homeopathic school of medicine in the state of Georgia, controls a large and prosperous professional business in the city of Atlanta, having his offices in the Grand Opera House building. He claims the old Buckeye state as the place of his nativity, having been born in Hartland township, Huron county, Ohio, Jan. 5, 1859. He is a son of George W. and L. Sophia (Morse) Manahan, the former of whom was born in Cayuga county, N.Y., Oct. 1, 1812, and the latter in Venice, that county, March 18, 1818. The father died in East Orange, N.J., in February, 1891, and the mother died in Norwalk, Ohio, in September, 1894. The doctor’s paternal grandfather was Thomas Manahan, who was born on Long Island, N.Y., Dec. 25, 1772, and died in Hartland, Ohio, Dec. 3, 1858. He married Violetta Silcox, who was born in Flanders, N.J., Jan. 7, 1779, being a daughter of Henry and Sally Silcox, who afterwards moved to what is now Elizabeth, N.J. She died in Norwalk, Ohio, Dec. 19, 1873. Her father distinguished himself during the Revoluntary war, as a trusted follower of the great Washington. He was a lineal descendant of Captain Luce, who was born in 1680 and who was an officer in the British army in the war of 1712 between England and France. Captain Luce died in 1765. L. Sophia (Morse) Manahan was a daughter of Judge Isaac Morse, who was born in New Haven, Conn., Feb. 8, 1782, and who died at Venice, Cayuga county, N.Y., July 14, 1864. Judge Morse was descended from Rev. Jedediah Morse, a distinguished clergyman of the Congregational church and prominent as a geographer. There were three brothers in this family, Samuel F.B. Morse, the inventor of telegraphy, and Sidney Edwards Morse, a prominent American journalist, inventor and geographer. Doctor Manahan was graduated in the classical course in the high school at Norwalk, Ohio, and later took a university course. In March, 1882, he was graduated in Cleveland Homoeopathic hospital college, where he secured his degree of Doctor of Medicine, and also the first clinical prize, receiving honorable mention for a very high percentage in his class examinations. He has attained to distinction and prestige in his profession and has been engaged in the practice of the same in Atlanta since 1882. He is a member of the American institute of homoeopathy, the Southern homoeopathic medical association, and the Atlanta medical club. He is ex-president of the United States board of pension examiners at Atlanta; has been medical examiner for a number of life-insurance companies, and for a number of years has served as surgeon to the Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Accident association of America, surgeon to Iowa State Traveling Men’s association, also holding a similar position with the International Travelers association, of Dallas, Tex. He is a charter member of Gate City Lodge, No. 2, Free and Accepted Masons, of Atlanta, and was reared in the faith of the Presbyterian church, but is tolerant and liberal in his religious views. On Sept. 21, 1881, Doctor Manahan was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Estelle Walker, daughter of George R. and Lucyra (Scott) Walker, of Norwalk, Ohio, where her father is a prominent attorney at law. Dr. and Mrs. Manahan became the parents of two children, both of whom are now deceased: George Leroy was born in Norwalk, Ohio, Jan. 22, 1883, and died in Pensacola, Fla., March 3, 1886; Manning Maurice was born in Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 3, 1885, and died July 26, 1888.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Kim Mohler)

Matheson, Kenneth Gordon, A.M., L.L. D.,

Matheson, Kenneth Gordon, A.M., L.L. D., president of the Georgia School of Technology, Atlanta, was born at Cheraw, S.C., July 28, 1864, a son of John F. and Mary E. Matheson, the former a native of Lochalsh, Scotland, and the latter born at Cheraw on Nov. 7, 1832. His great-great-grandfather, Capt. William DeWitt and James Chapman, and four sons of the latter, James, Jr., John, William and Allan, were soldiers in the American army in the Revolutionary war. William and John were killed at Camden, S.C., being regulars under Dekalb, and Allan, though very young, served as a trooper during the war. Martin DeWitt, a great-great-great-grandfather, although a very old man, also served in the war for independence. Allan Chapman married Eleanor, daughter of Capt. William DeWitt, and this couple were the great-grandparents of Doctor Matheson. Captain DeWitt was so active in his devotion to the cause of liberty that his house was burned by Tories, and it is related that one occasion, while he was in the army, his wife and son, John DeWitt, then a boy of sixteen years of age, were accosted at their home by a party of British. When the boy resented some insolent remark addressed to his mother he was struck on the head with a sword by an officer, inflicting a scar that he carried to his grave. Capt. William DeWitt became a man of prominence after the war and was elected high sheriff of the Cheraws. In 1782, when a treaty was signed, Governor Rutledge issued writs of election to General Marion, and Captain DeWitt was elected representative. Two years later he was elected senator. To accept these positions he had to resign the office of high sheriff, in which he was succeeded by Allan Chapman. Captain DeWitt married Mary Devonald, a woman of great beauty, whose father, Daniel Devonald, had an original grant of land and was a wealthy planter. Another maternal ancestor of Doctor Matheson was Dr. Thomas Graham, a member of the well known Graham family of Virginia and North Carolina. The original American representative of this family was an officer in the battle of Flodden Field in 1746, and came to this country soon afterward. The descendants of the Graham, DeWitt and Chapman families have occupied many positions of prominence in the Carolinas and Alabama. John F. Matheson, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a prominent banker, and an influential and much beloved citizen of Cheraw, where he continued to reside until his death in 1878. Doctor Matheson received his early education in the Cheraw academy, after which he entered the South Carolina military academy at Charleston, an institution locally known as the “Citadel,” where for three years he was battalion adjutant. During this time he formed the acquaintance of Capt. Lyman Hall, recently graduated at West Point, and then adjutant of the military post at Charleston. Between the two grew up a friendship that remained unbroken until the death of Captain Hall on Aug. 16, 1905, being at that time president of the Georgia School of Technology. After leaving the “Citadel” Doctor Matheson was for three years commandant of cadets in the Georgia military college at Milledgeville, and for the succeeding two years held the position of assistant professor of English in the University of Tennessee. This place he resigned to accept that of commandant and professor of English in the Missouri military college at Mexico, Mo., the first genuine military school west of the Mississippi. He was offered the position of assistant superintendent of this school, but declined to enter Leland Stanford university, where he took a post-graduate course and was granted the degree of Master of Arts in 1897. The same year he came to Atlanta as assistant professor of English in the school of which he is now the executive head. Three months later he was raised to the full professorship. Since coming to Atlanta he has done effective post graduate work in the University of Chicago and Columbia university, of New York. In the latter institution he completed all the residential requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. After the death of Captain Hall the trustees of the technological school voted to retain Doctor Matheson as chairman of the faculty for an indefinite period, and on June 21, 1906, he was unanimously elected to the presidency of the institution. Just the day before this election he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from the Washington and Lee university. Doctor Matheson is a Democrat in his political convictions and in religious matters he holds to the faith of the Presbyterian denomination, being now an elder in the North avenue Presbyterian church, (Southern) of Atlanta. On Dec. 27, 1898, he was united in marriage to Miss Belle Seddon Fleet, daughter of Alexander Frederick and Belle (Seddon) Fleet, of Virginia, and they have three children: Belle Seddon, Kenneth Gordon and Frederick Graham, aged respectively six, four and one and a half years. (1906) Col A.F. Fleet is a graduate of the University of Virginia, and during the Civil war was adjutant of General Wise’s brigade. He is now superintendent of the Culver, Ind., military academy, a son, John S. Fleet, being assistant superintendent of the same school. Another son, Henry W., is a lieutenant in the regular army of the United States, and W.A. Fleet, is a Cecil Rhodes student at Oxford, England. Mrs. Matheson’s mother is a niece of John Seddon, former secretary of war of the Confederate States. Doctor Matheson is a member of the Kappa Alpha college fraternity and the Auxilium club, of Atlanta.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Kim Mohler)

Fairman, Henry Clay,

Fairman, Henry Clay journalist and author, was born in Mississippi in 1849. He was reared and educated in his native state, but subsequently removed to Atlanta, where he became editor of The Sunny South. His storied and poems are popular through the South. His masterpiece, a story entitled “The Third World,” has been compared with the works of Rider Haggard and Jules Verne on account of its daring imagination and vivid description.
[Source: Georgia: Sketches, Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions & People, Vol. 2, Publ. 1906 Transcribed By: Maggie Coleman]

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.
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Beckwith, Charles Minngerode, educator, clergyman, bishop, author, was born June 3, 1851, in Prince George county, Va. in 187379 he was master of grammar schools in the university of the South. In 1881 he became priest in charge of St. Luke's cathedral of Atlanta, Ga. In 1886 he became rector of Christ church of Houston, Texas. In 1892 he became rector of Trinity church at Galveston, Texas; and in 1902 was consecrated protestant episcopal bishop of Alabama. He is the author of The Trinity Course of Church Instruction; and The Teacher's Companion to the Trinity Course.
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Beckwith, John Watrus, clergyman, bishop, was born Feb. 9. 1831. in Raleigh, N.C. In 1886 became protestant episcopal bishop of Georgia. He died Nov. 23, 1890, in Atlanta, Ga.
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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.
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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.
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Bowen, John Wesley Edward, educator, college president, author, was born Dec. 3, 1855, in New Orleans, La. He was educated at the university of New Orleans; and at the Boston university school of theology and the school of all sciences. In 1882-92' he filled pastorates in Boston, Newark, Baltimore and Washington. Since 1893 he has been professor of historical theology and is now president of Gammon theological seminary at Atlanta, Ga. He is editor of the Voice of Atlanta, Ga.; and editor of the Steward Missionary Magazine. He is the author of National Sermons; Discussions in Philosophy and Theology; The United Negro; The Educational History of the Negro; Appeal to Caesar; and numerous Monographs.
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Bradley, Henry Stiles, educator,, clergyman, author, was born March 22, 1869, in Jackson county, Ga. In 1890 he became professor of natural sciences, and in 1899-1901 was vice-president of Emory college. In 1901-05 he was pastor of the methodist church in Atlanta, Ga.; and since that time has been a clergyman of St. Louis, Mo. He is the author of Christianity—as Taught by Christ.
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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 governhad seceded. In 1861 he governor; and in 1863 he was again elected to that high office. In 186870 he was chief justice of the supreme court of Georgia, which position he resigned to accept the presidency of the Western atlantio railroad company. In 1880-91 he was United States senator. He died Nov. 30, 1894, in Atlanta, Ga.
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Bullock, Rufus Brown, business man, governor, was born March 28, 1834, in Bethlehem, N.Y. He formed the Southern express company, and became one of its active managers. During the civil.war he continued this occupation under the direction of the confederate government, establishing railroads and telegraph lines on interior routes. After the cessation of hostilities he resumed the management of express affairs; and was elected one of the trustees and secretary of the Southern express company. He was also associated in the organization of the first national bank of Georgia, and was elected its president. He became president of one of the largest cotton mills in Atlanta. He was the twenty-seventh governor of Georgia in 186972. He died in 1907 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]

Bumstead, Freeman Josiah, physician, author, was born on April 21, 1826, in Boston, Mass. In 1867-71 he was a professor in the college of physicians and surgeons of New \ork City. He was the author of Pathology and Treatment of Venereal Diseases; and translations from the French of Ricord and Cullerier. He died Nov. 28, 1879, in Boston, Bumstead, Horace, soldier, educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born Sept. 29, 1841, in Boston, Mass. In 1863 he graduated from Yale; in 1870 from Andover theological seminary; and received the degree of D.D. from the university of the City of New York. In 186465 he was a major in the forty-third regiment United States colored troops; served in the siege of Richmond and Petersburg; and later served in Texas. In 1872-75 he was pastor of the second congregational church at Minneapolis, Minn. In 1875-78 he was professor of natural science in Atlanta university of Georgia; and in 1888-1907 was president of that institution of learning. He is now engaged chiefly in literary work in Brookline, Mass.
[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.
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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.
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Avary, Mrs. Myrta Lockett, journalist, author, poet, was born in Halifax, Va. She married Dr. James Corbin Avary, now of Atlanta, Ga. In 1897-1903 she was on the editorial staff of the Christian Herald of New York City; and is a writer of sociological articles and stories of tenement life. She is the author of A Virginia Girl in the Civil War; and Dixie After the 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]

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.
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Mynatt, Pryor L.,-In the early part of the eighteenth century Richard Mynatt, a young Englishman, came over to Virginia and settled in Prince William county, where he married and became the founder of the American branch of the Mynatt family. To him were born several children. William, the eldest son, moved into Fauquier county , Va., where he married, established a home and reared a large family. His second son, Joseph, imbued with the desire, so prevalent in those days, to penetrate further into the new country, crossed over the mountains to eastern Tennessee and settled in Knox county. There he met and married Eliza Hickle, also a native of Virginia, though of German descent. Of this union there were four children, and it is of Pryor L., the eldest of the number, that this story is told,-truthfully told, with the earnest hope that it may be an inspiration to other lads to make of themselves men of whom it may be said that “the world was better for their having lived.” Pryor L. Mynatt was born on a farm in Knox county, Tenn., Sept. 7, 1829. Here his youth was passed in aiding in the farm work and attending the country schools, where he eagerly acquired all the knowledge afforded by the primitive institutions. Very early in life there came to the lad a love of books and a thirst for knowledge, and this predilection was fostered and encouraged by his mother, a woman of more than ordinary mentality. As most of the travel at this time was through the country and as the Mynatt home was on the public highway, the lawyers, passing to and from the sessions of court, would often stop here for a night or for a rest during the day. The boy heard much of the outside would through this source and listened eagerly to the discussions of these men, who represented the profession that was the gateway at that time for many broad fields of culture and eminence, and when very young he determined to make of himself a good lawyer. His people had ever been farmers and lovers of the soil, and his father preferred that he should remain on the farm, but his mind was firmly fixed and, believing that he could do best with the legal profession, he held tenaciously to his purpose, though often contending with the greatest difficulties. Perhaps there are no conditions more conducive to growth in self-reliance or to the development of resources within oneself than those of a farm life with limited financial means. It is a training that enables a man the better to comprehend and master the details and complexities later in life. Obstacles that at the time seem hard and discouraging prove in the end strong factors in character building and the work brings strength intellectually as well as physically. No one realized this more thoroughly than did Mr. Mynatt, and though he gave up farm life when it became necessary in furtherance of his designated aim, he never ceased to feel grateful for its influence in molding his character. Patiently and faithfully he worked his way through the college at Marysville, Tenn., where he was graduated in the summer of 1849. For a time he taught school in Tennessee and Alabama, to meet the expense of his law studies. Later he went to Knoxville and entered the office of a prominent lawyer. Completing his law course at Lebanon, Tenn., he began practice at Jacksboro in that state, but, desiring a broader field, he returned to Knoxville, where within a short time he gained a lucrative practice and a fine reputation as a lawyer. Mr. Mynatt was an ardent southerner and, believing in the rights of secession he went heart and soul with the Confederacy, enlisting in 1861. Early in 1862 he was a private in Company I of the Second Tennessee cavalry, commanded by Col. Henry M. Ashby. On Nov. 21, 1862, he was appointed captain and assistant commissary of subsistence and assigned to duty with the First Tennessee regiment of cavalry, commanded by Col. James E. Carter. In 1863 he was promoted to the rank of major and assistant commissary of subsistence, with the same rank, on the staff of Gen. W. Y. C. Humes, commanding Humes’ division of cavalry, and held that position until the close of the war, being paroled, with this division, at Charlotte, N. C., May 3, 1865. At the close of the war it was impossible for those who had espoused the southern cause to return to eastern Tennessee, the feeling being so bitter that their very lives were endangered by attempting to return, in addition to which their homes had been destroyed and their property confiscated. Colonel Mynatt, with many other former residents of eastern Tennessee left homeless by the war, settled in Atlanta, Ga. Here he opened an office and began the practice of law. Atlanta was in ashes and the outlook was anything but promising, but, notwithstanding the difficulties, he soon built up a good practice. He had been a faithful, painstaking student, mastering thoroughly the principles of the law; he was endowed with one of those clear, perceptive minds that quickly grasp the main points of a case, and at the same time he had the patient care for detail. Thus fortified, and imbued with an ardent love for his chosen calling, he was most thoroughly prepared for the work that came to him. He soon established himself on a very high plane with the bar, not only of Atlanta, which was one of the strongest, but also of the entire state, as a fine constitutional lawyer. He was a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1877, serving faithfully and with marked ability in connection with all questions considered by that body and adding greatly to his reputation by his untiring efforts in behalf of the railroad commission. Not long after the adoption of this law he successfully defended it against the attack upon its constitutionality by three of the strongest railroad powers, represented by some of the state’s ablest lawyers, in a litigation extending over a period of more than three years and carried through both state and United States courts. This was regarded as a great legal victory for both the commission and for Colonel Mynatt. One of his strongest characteristics as a lawyer was the careful preparation of his cases as to every detail, with lucid presentation and pleading. This enables him to gain many difficult and involved cases,-believed by the most eminent lawyers to be impossible of bringing to successful issue. The Air Line railroad case, which involved $11,000,000 and which attracted wide attention because of the unique questions in the case, after long and arduous labor he gained for the owners as against the bondholders, who were about to take possession of the property. Thoroughly trained as a corporation lawyer, his opinions on all questions bearing upon this branch of his profession were highly valued by his fellow lawyers. His integrity intellectually as well as morally placed him on the highest plane with his professional confreres and many young men who studied in his office felt the power of this combined influence and gained a lasting respect for the dignity of the profession. Colonel Mynatt was a leal and loyal Democrat and aided the party in every way possible. As a member of the legislature of 1878 he was a faithful and efficient worker. When the prohibition laws were passed in Atlanta some of the liquor dealers and manufactures contested the constitutionality of these laws and very able counsel was employed on both sides. Colonel Mynatt was the leading lawyer for the defense and in this ably conducted legal fight he won his case, which was carried through both state and Federal courts. He also gained the great Tumlin estate case, involving $75,000, against the views of his own able associates in the cause. He was for a long time senior counsel for the East Tennessee & Georgia railway system and for the Atlanta & Florida railroad. Loving his profession, he never descended to the tricks of a trade but held always to the highest ideals, maintaining the dignity and integrity of his profession as well as of the man. Quick of perception, broad and tolerant in his views, a thorough investigator of the law and facts in his cases, invariable careful in the preparations of his causes for trial, it was not surprising that success should result. He was for many years a member of the Presbyterian church, and in December, 1880, was ordained an elder in the Central Presbyterian church, of Atlanta, proving a faithful, and useful officer. His Christian faith guided and guarded him in every relation of life. In 1860 he married, at Knoxville, Tenn., Alice, third daughter of Major Campbell Wallace, and to them were born four children-Campbell Wallace, Joseph Lyon, Pryor L., Jr., and Alice Wallace. Tender and true always in the home life, as elsewhere, his loved ones of the immediate family circl were ever made glad by the sound of his returning footsteps. Colonel Mynatt died in Atlanta, Sept. 2, 1900, and is survived by his wife and two of his children-Joseph Lyon and Allice Wallace, now residing in Atlanta. A distinguished jurist said of him: “He had great success as a lawyer; he was diligent, industrious and learned; one main reason for his success was the excellence of his character. Such a life is, indeed, an inspiration to us all and will live after him, a shining example pointing the way to what is noblest in our profession.”
[Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Renae Donaldson]

McDaniel, Sanders, a prominent member of the Atlanta bar and one who has had to do with much important legal business, both as attorney and counselor, is a representative of one of the old and honored families of Georgia. He was born in Monroe, Walton county, Sept. 19, 1867, and in the same place were also born his parents, Henry Dickerson and Hester (Felker) McDaniel. Data concerning the paternal ancestry of Mr. McDaniel reveal that among the number were John Baldwin and Henry Terry, of Prince Edward county, Va., who were his great-great-great-grandfathers and were of stanch English lineage; Henry McDaniel, of Amherst county, Virginia, who removed to South Carolina more than a century ago, was of Scotch-Irish descent and was great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, who is also in the fifth generation in direct descent from John Holliday, of Lincoln county, Georgia, and John N. Walker, a native of Maryland who located in Lincoln county, Ga., early in life, later removing to Walton county. Both these ancestors were of English descent, and the latter was a soldier in the Continental line during the war of the Revolution. Ira Oliver McDaniel, grandfather of Sanders, was one of the early merchants of Atlanta, served a number of terms in the municipal council and was prominent and influential in all undertakings advanced for the upbuilding of the city, materially, morally and religiously. Stephen Felker, maternal grandfather of Mr. McDaniel, graduated, in 1886, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then began the work of preparing himself for the legal profession, and was admitted to the bar in 1888, in the Walton superior court. He commenced practice in Monroe, where he became local counsel of the Georgia and the Gainesville, Jefferson & Southern railroads. In 1895 he took up his residence in Atlanta, where he has since been actively engaged in practice. He is assistant division counsel of the Southern railway and local counsel for Fulton county of the Georgia railroad. Since 1902 he has been a member of the law firm of Dorsey, Brewster & Howell, division counsel of the Southern railway of Georgia. He is president of the Central bank block association, whose fine building is located on Whitehall street viaduct and railroad street. Mr. McDaniel is a stanch adherent of the Democratic party but has never been a seeker of political office. He is a member of the Capital City club, the Piedmont Driving club and the Chi Phi college fraternity. On May 14, 1895, he was united in marriage to Miss Anne Henderson, daughter of William A. and Harriet (Smiley) Henderson, of Knoxville, Tenn., and they have one child, Harriet Smiley.
[Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Renae Donaldson]

McEachern, John N., president of the Industrial Life & Health Insurance Company, of Atlanta, and a member of the board of aldermen of the capital city, is a native Georgian, having been born in Cobb county, April 9, 1853. He is a son of David L. and Esther M. A. (White) McEachern, both of whom were born in Cabarrus county, N. C.,-the former on Jan. 15, 1814, and the latter on Dec. 23, 1817. They passed the closing years of their years of their lives in Cobb county, Ga., the father having been a farmer by vocation. At the time of the Civil war he was appointed by President Davis to look after the interests of the wives and widows of Confederate soldiers from Cobb county, his loyalty to the cause of the Confederacy being of the most insistent type. Wilkes W. White, an uncle of the subject of this review, organized a company for the Confederate service, the same having been recruited at Marietta, and which became a part of the Seventh Georgia infantry, in which he was promoted to the office of colonel. He was wounded in one of the engagements commonly designated as the Seven Days’ battles, in the vicinity of Richmond, and his injuries were so severe that he was compelled to retire from active service. John N. McEachern was afforded the advantages of the common schools of his native county, where he was reared to maturity and continued to reside until 1889, when he removed to the city of Atlanta and secured a position as solicitor for a Baltimore insurance company. He proved most successful in this connection and remained thus employed for two years, when he effected the organization of the Industrial Life & Health Insurance Company, which is incorporated under the laws of the state. He was forthwith elected president and general manager of the company which, under his able administration, has forged to the forefront, having now more than 150,000 policies in force and being the largest insurance company of the sort having its home office south of the mason & Dixon line. Mr. McEachern is know as one of the leading insurance men of the state and is a citizen of liberal and public-spirited views. In politics he is a stanch Democrat and has represented the seventh ward on the board of aldermen since 1903. He is treasurer of the board of stewards of the Park Street Methodist Episcopal church South, of which both he and his wife are zealous members, and is a director of the Wesleyan Memorial hospital, of Atlanta. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. On Sept. 30, 1896, Mr. McEachern was united in marriage to Miss Lula C. Dobbs, daughter of Ransom and Vesta (Dupee) Dobbs, of Cobb county, where she was born and reared. Mr. and Mrs. McEachern have three children, namely: Elizabeth Florine, born July 22, 1897; John Newton, born Feb. 20, 1899; and Lula Christine, born Jan. 30, 1901.
[Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Renae Donaldson]

McElreath, Walter, is numbered among the representative members of the Georgia bar and is successfully established in the practice of his profession in the city of Atlanta. He was born at Lost Mountain, Cobb county, Ga., July 17, 1867, and is a son of William A. and Jane (McEachern) McElreath, both of whom were likewise born at Lost Mountain. The McElreaths, or McIlraths, are a very ancient Scottish family, having lived in Galloway from the earliest days of Scotch history until the time of the Covenanters, when most of the family migrated to County Antrim, Ireland, after having furnished several martyrs to the cause of the Covenanters. About the close of the eighteenth century Michael McElreath, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came to America and settled in Spartanburg county, S. C. In the year 1828, immediately upon the removal of the Creek Indians from Western Georgia he removed from South Carolina to Georgia and located where the town of Winston, Douglas county, now stands. A few years later, after the removal of the Cherokees from northern Georgia, his son John, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, settled on the old McElreath homestead at Lost Mountain, Cobb county, where members of the family still reside, the identification of the name with the history of western and northern Georgia having been continued from the time of the Indians to the present. The maternal ancestors of Mr. McElreath were the McEacherns and McKinleys, Scotch people who settled in the community around the old Rock River church, in North Carolina. An interesting and unusual condition, as designating the purity of the Scotch-Irish ancestry of Mr. McElreath, is that for a period of more than a century he has had no ancestor, in either the paternal or maternal line, whose family name did not have the Scotch prefix of “Mc”, save in the case of his maternal grandmother, whose name was White but who was of Scotch genealogy. William A. McElreath was a valiant soldier of the Confederacy throughout the Civil war, having enlisted in 1861 as a private in Company D, Seventh Georgia volunteer infantry, and took part in many of the most important engagements of the great conflict, from first Manassas to Appomattox. Walter McElreath, the immediate subject of this review was afforded the advantages of the common schools of his native county, after which he continued his studies in Washington & Lee university at Lexington, Va. He then took up the study of law, being admitted to the bar at Marietta, Ga., in November, 1894. In January of the following year he engaged in the practice of his profession in Atlanta, where he has given his undivided attention to his work as a lawyer, having built up an excellent general practice, devoting himself, however, almost exclusively to civil practice and making a specialty of corporation law. He is known as a man of broad general culture, a close student of the law, a forceful advocate and a successful practitioner. In politics he has always accorded an unwavering allegiance to the Democratic party, but has taken an interest in political affairs only from the standpoint of a public-spirited citizen. He has filled the office of president of the Young Men’s Democratic league of Fulton county, but has never sought or held public office, considering his profession worthy of his best thought and his full attention. He and his wife are members of Grace Methodist Episcopal church, South, and he is a member of its board of stewards. On Nov. 26, 1896, Mr. McElreath was united in marriage to Miss Bessie Anderson, daughter of Hon. Charles H. and Martha (Summers) Anderson, of Powder Springs, Ga.
[Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Renae Donaldson]

McGehee, Charles C., manager of the southern department of the Home Life Insurance Company, of New York, has his headquarters in the city of Atlanta, is one of the prominent business men of the city, and is a representative of one of the old and honored families of Georgia. He was born in Columbus, Muscogee county, Ga., on Oct. 22, 1870, a son of Christopher C. and Josephine (Garrett) McGehee, the former of whom was born in Russell county, Ala., and the latter in Lumpkin, Stewart county, Ga. His paternal great-great-grandfather was Edward McGehee, who was a patriot soldier in the war of the Revolution. The original American progenitor was Thomas McGregor or Mack Gehee, who changed his patronymic to the latter form on fleeing from Scotland to America, in the latter part of the seventeenth century. The clan McGregor had been outlawed in Scotland during the reign of Charles II, of England, and the name was proscribed on this account, the annals of Scotland recounting the deeds of the sturdy patriots of this famous clan. This Thomas McGregor, or Mack Gehee, was born near Loch Katrine, Scotland, and upon coming to America he settled in King William county, Va., where his last will and testament was probated in July, 1724. Representatives of the family removed to Prince Edward county, Va., where in 1796, was born Isaac McGehee, grandfather of the subject of this sketch. During the year 1801 the family removed from the Old Dominion to Georgia and settled on the Broad river, where they were extensive tobacco planters in that and succeeding generations. Christopher C. McGehee gave loyal service to the Confederate cause during the war between the states, having first enlisted as a private in the City Light Guards of Columbus, Ga., which company was promptly sent to the coast of Virginia near Norfolk. He spent about a year in Virginia and then returned to Columbus, where he was for some time connected with the naval iron works, operated in the interest of the Confederate government. Later he served two years in the army in Virginia, rose to the rank of captain, took part in a large number of engagements, and in one battle received a severe wound, being struck with a fragment of shell. He was identified with the cause of the south during the entire period of the war. Mr. McGehee is now living in Atlanta, where he gives his entire attention to the management of his property. Charles C. McGehee was graduated in the University of Georgia as a member of the class of 1887, with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, and two years later, in 1889, before he was nineteen years old, he was graduated in Harvard university, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Soon after leaving the latter university he became identified with the insurance business, and eleven years of his early business career were marked by his association with the Atlanta Home Insurance Company as special agent and later as assistant secretary. Since 1901 he has been associated with the Home Life Insurance Company of New York as manager of its southern department, embracing the states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. At the time of this writing (1905) the Atlanta office is the largest producing office maintained by the company in the entire Union. That the efforts of Mr. McGehee have been exceptionally able and discriminating is evident when reversion is had to the fact that when he assumed his present position the Atlanta general office held only eighth place. Mr. McGehee has never sought political preferment. Both he and his wife are members of St. Marks Methodist church, prior to which he was for many years a member of the First Methodist Episcopal church South, of which he served as steward for four years. He is identified with the Calumet and Harvard clubs, of New York city; the Virginia Historical Society; and the Capital City and Piedmond Driving clubs, of Atlanta. On Nov. 16, 1892, Mr. McGehee was united in marriage to Miss Pattie McClung, daughter of Matthew and Julia (Anderson) McClung, of Knoxville, Tenn. She died on Sept. 4, 1897, and is survived by her only child Pattie McClung McGehee, who was born on the 18th of the preceding month. On Oct. 22, 1903, Mr. McGehee wedded Miss Vera Hatcher, daughter of Benjamin T. and Martha (Estes) Hatcher, of Columbus, Ga.
[Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Renae Donaldson]

McKee, Hugh L., the efficient and popular cashier of the Atlanta postoffice, was born in
Conecuh county, Ala., Feb. 14, 1865, and in 1872 his parents removed thence to a place near Pensacola, Fla., where he was reared to the age of fourteen years, being afforded the advantages of the schools of Milton, that state. He then came to Atlanta and entered the employ of S. M. Inman & Co., with whom he remained six months, at the expiration of which he secured the position of clerk and collector in the Atlanta National bank, with which institution he continued to be identified about fifteen years, within which he was advanced to the office of paying teller. He finally resigned to engage in the real-estate and loan business, to which he gave his attention until 1904, when he assumed his present position, in which his service has been most acceptable to the postoffice officials and the general public. Mr. McKee is well known in the capital city and his circle of friends is circumscribed only by that of his acquaintances. He has attained to the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite Masonry and is an appreciative member of the various bodies of the time-honored fraternity. He is treasurer of Georgia Lodge, No. 96, Free and Accepted Masons; is a member of the finance committee of the Georgia consistory of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; and the Tarab Temple, ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He holds membership in the Capital City club and the Piedmont Driving club, and his political support is given to the Republican party. He recently declined an appointment in the consular service to Germany.
[Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Renae Donaldson]

Miles, William Burtis, holds prestige as one of the most skilled and successful contractors and builders of Georgia, and no further evidence of his signal ability in his line of business is demanded than that afforded by the magnificent state capitol of Georgia, for the erection of which his firm were the contractors and of the building of which he had personal supervision. He came to Georgia for this purpose and has since maintained his residence and business headquarters in the city of Atlanta, where he is held in high esteem as a citizen and as a progressive and public-spirited business man. Mr. Miles was born in West Liberty, Logan county, Ohio, May 28, 1843, a son of Abram Cole Miles, who was born in Charlestown, West Virginia, in April, 1814, and Martha Jane (Miller) Miles, who was born in New York city, in 1816, both having been residents of West Liberty, Ohio, at the time of their death and the father having been a successful contractor and builder of the old Buckeye State. The subject of this review was afforded the advantages of the common schools of Ohio, passed his boyhood and youth in his native town, and learned the carpenter's trade under the able direction of his father.] He was in the state of New York at the outbreak of the Civil war, and on Aug. 8, 1862, at the age of nineteen years, he enlisted as a private in the First New York sharpshooters, and was thereafter in active service until the close of the war. He took part in the engagements at Suffolk, Va., Mine Run, the battle of the Wilderness, siege of Petersburg and in many minor conflicts; was a member of General Grant's forces and present at the final surrender of General Lee, at Appomattox. At the battle of the Wilderness he was promoted to sergeant-major and he received his honorable discharge, in the city of Rochester, N. Y., May 3, 1865. After the close of his military career Mr. Miles located in the city of Toledo, Ohio, and initiated his career as an independent contractor and builder, soon gaining distinctive recognition. In 1882 he became associated with I. K. Cramer and Charles D. Horn, under the firm name of Miles, Cramer & Horn. Mr. Cramer retired in 1884, after which the firm of Miles & Horn continued in active and successful business until the death of Mr. Horn, in August, 1887. In addition to the construction of many fine business blocks and private residences, the firm constructed a large number of court houses, school houses, churches and other public or semi-public buildings throughout Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, gaining a very high reputation and building up a business of magnificent proportions. In 1884 Miles & Horn secured the contract for the erection of the new capitol of the State of Georgia, in Atlanta, and in the autumn of that year Mr. Miles removed to this city, where he has since continued to maintain his home and business headquarters. The capitol building was completed in 1889, the death of his partner having occurred in the meanwhile, and the structure is an enduring monument to the scrupulous fidelity and marked technical ability of Mr. Miles, under whose personal supervision the building was erected. He has been very successful in his other professional operations throughout the south, where he has secured and completed many important contracts, and he has thoroughly identified himself with the business and civic interests of Atlanta. He is a stanch adherent of the Republican party, and while he has not been a seeker of public office he served four years as a member of the Atlanta board of education—1897-1901. Since 1890 he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Georgia school of technology. He is a deacon in the First Presbyterian church and is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic. On Sept. 22, 1868, Mr. Miles was united in marriage to Miss Sarah M. Morehead, only daughter of George and Emeline E. (Hall) Morehead, of Putnam county, Ohio, and of this union have been born five children: William Herman was born in 1869 and died in 1882; Harry Hall was born in 1874 and maintains his home in Atlanta; Maud was born in 1875 and died in 1899. Bertha was born in 1883, and Herbert LeRoy, in 1895 and remains at the parental home.
[Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister]

Mims, Livingston, whose death occurred at his home in Atlanta on March 5, 1906, was for more than a quarter of a century a prominent figure in the business and civic life of Georgia's fair capital city. To say that he was a typical representative of the "Old South" is not to be taken as meaning that he had fallen behind in the march of progress. He possessed in a marked degree those elements of chivalry and hospitality that were such charming characteristics of the true southern gentleman of the antebellum days, but at the same time his forcefulness and intellectual power were distinct factors in the development that followed the great internecine conflict. Major Mims was born at Edgefield, S. C, in January, 1830. When he was about five years old his parents removed to Mississippi and settled at the place now known as "County Line," about half-way between Crystal Springs and Terry. He was educated at Old Crystal Springs, adopted the law for his profession, and before he was twenty-one years of age was admitted to the bar. While practicing his profession in Mississippi he formed the acquaintance of such men as Jefferson Davis, Sargent S. Prentiss, John A. Quitman, Henry S. Foote, Albert G. Brown and other brilliant celebrities that occupied the arena of public life at that time. For Jefferson Davis he formed an affection, born of the deepest conviction, and that affection lasted as long as life itself. After serving some time in the office of clerk of the supreme court Major Mims was elected to represent Hinds county in the Mississippi legislature from 1859 to 1861. When the Civil war began he joined the "Brown Rebels," which company he equipped with uniforms and named for Governor Brown, who was elected captain. He was attached to the staff of General Pemberton and was in the engagements at Jackson, Raymond, Champion's Hill and the siege of Vicksburg. After that city capitulated in 1863 he served for some time on the staff of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Between himself and General Johnston a stanch friendship grew up, which led to their becoming business partners after the war, and which lasted until the latter's death in 1891. In 1868 Major Mims went to New York, where he had a conference with President Beers, of the New York Life Insurance Company, which resulted in his being made the general manager for that company in the states of Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Upon returning home he formed a partnership with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and Gov. Ben. R. Humphreys, of Mississippi, under the firm name of J. E. Johnston & Co. Three offices were established with General Johnston at Savannah, Major Mims at Selma, Ala., and Governor Humphreys at Vicksburg. In 1877 the three offices were consolidated at Atlanta and Major Mims took up his residence in that city. About the same time Governor Humphreys died and General Johnston retired from the firm, leaving Major Mims manager of the business, which position he retained until his death. He was also the manager for several of the leading fire insurance companies and his knowledge of both life and fire insurance was thorough, which gave him a high standing in the councils of insurance men. He was one of the organizers of the Southeastern tariff association and served as its president from 1889 to 1894. In political matters he was a Democrat of the old school—one of the kind that has an abiding faith in the American people—and though he was never particularly active in Georgia politics he yielded in 1900 to the solicitations of his friends and became a candidate for mayor. He opened his campaign with a speech at the Grand opera house, delivered to the ladies of the city. On this occasion he appeared in full evening dress—a costume never before worn by a candidate for office in Atlanta when he was to make a political speech. As an example of his quaint way of putting things the following utterance from that speech is worthy of preservation: "I do not know exactly the church to which I owe allegiance, as I am a contributor to several. My wife is a Christian Scientist, my daughter is an Episcopalian, my father was a Baptist, my mother was a Presbyterian, and I am a Confederate Veteran with inclinations to the Salvation Army." His opponents in that campaign were Frank P. Rice, I. S. Mitchell and D. N. McCullough, and after a spirited contest he was elected by a handsome plurality. During his administration franchises were first assessed for taxation; $200,000 of water works bonds were sold at a premium of $10,000, although they bore only three and one half per cent interest, a thing that has not happened before nor since; much of the street railway franchise legislation was carried through the council; the gross income tax of the Georgia Railway and Electric Company began; the debts of the former administration were paid and an addition made to the perpetual charter fund of the city. Without disparagement to other mayors of Atlanta it is safe to say that none has ever been more zealous in the discharge of his duties nor more intelligent in executing his obligations to the municipality, though all the time he was in office he found time to converse with his friends who happened to visit him, and never missed an opportunity to crack a joke or listen to an interesting anecdote. But it was in social matters that Major Mims was at his best. For twenty years he was president of the Capital City club, of which he was one of the charter members. At the head of this famous social organization he dispensed its hospitalities to three presidents of the United States—Cleveland, Harrison and McKinley—besides a number of cabinet officers, United States senators and governors of states. On such occasions the reputation of the club was fully maintained, for he was a host "to the manner born." The hospitality of his home was proverbial and he loved its associations. For a period of twenty years he was away from Atlanta but twice: once in 1891, when he went to Washington, D. C, to attend the funeral of his old friend and comrade in arms, General Johnston, and again in 1901, when as mayor of the city he visited the exposition at Charleston, S. C, accompanied by the members of the city council and a large number of Atlanta's citizens. When once asked why he did not travel more, he promptly responded: "What do I want to go away for? I have a nice home, an attractive wife and daughter, my books, my chair, my slippers and my plain wholesome food, which is the best in the world to me. I won't go except when I have to go." This answer was characteristic of the man. He loved his family and his books, and found pleasure in the associations with both. Being a wide reader he was naturally a gifted and entertaining conversationalist. Although he was full of mirthfulness and enjoyed a good joke, his heart overflowed with the milk of human kindness and many citizens of Atlanta can bear testimony to his generous and well directed charity, which was always of the unostentatious kind. Major Mims was married three times. His first wife died about one year after their marriage; the second bore him a daughter, who is now the wife of Joseph E. Thompson, and died when that daughter was but a child. Mrs. Thompson was president of the Woman's Board of the great Cotton States Exposition held some years ago in Atlanta. In this capacity she showed such marked executive ability and such grace and largeness in entertainment that it did much to create a more united feeling between North and South and elicited much encomium. The third wife of Major Mims, and the one who survives him, was Miss Sue Harper, daughter of Col. W. C Harper, a distinguished lawyer of Brandon, Miss. She is a descendant of that stanch old Scotch ancestry that fled to Ireland in an early day to escape religious persecution. Although a woman of great personal beauty, her physical charms are more than surpassed by her amiable disposition and intellectual attainments. Major Mims was a man of striking personal appearance and brilliant intellect, and for forty years this charming couple walked hand in hand down life's pathway, congenial in thoughts, tastes and desires, bestowing the blessings of their felicitous personalities upon all who came within the sphere of their influence. Major Mims' maternal grandmother was Eunice Burr, a near relative of Aaron Burr, and it is thought that it was from this branch of his ancestry that he inherited his handsomeness and brilliancy. Professor Silliman of Harvard university was of the same lineage. Major Mims was made the special protege of a Mrs. Davis, a sister of his mother, and with her took long horseback rides in his boyhood to the different educational institutions of Mississippi. She was a woman of rare attainments and doubtless wielded a great influence in cultivating in him the love for the good, the true and the beautiful, which in later years became such marked traits of his character. This Mrs. Davis was the "unknown admirer and relative" who placed the stone over Aaron Burr's grave at Princeton, N. J. Upon the occasion of Major Mims' death the mayor of Atlanta, J. G. Woodward, ordered the city flag at half mast and had the city offices closed to give the officials and employes in the various departments an opportunity to attend the funeral. The following quotations, from the Atlanta Evening News of March 5, 1906, show the character of Major Mims and the esteem in which he was held by his fellow-townsmen. "In the room occupied by the late Livingston Mims there is a marble slab over the mantelpiece with this motto painted upon it; 'The pleasure of doing good is the only one that never wears out.' The motto was original with Major Mims. He lived up to his motto. Major Mims was a lover of flowers and his large lawn on Peachtree street was laden with more beautiful flowers than any place in the city. He took great interest in Mrs. Mims' work and read every article she wrote. He sympathized entirely with his lovely wife in her chosen work and nothing interested him more. * * * While Major Mims was distinctly a product of the Old South, and while he attained the ripe age of seventy-six years, there was never an hour when he was not abreast of the times and never did he fail to fit into his modern environment. He managed successfully a great business and he made, when three score years and ten had silvered his hair, one of the best mayors Atlanta ever had. * * * But with all his manifold qualities we like to think of him as a rare and splendid type of the old-time Southerner, in whom gentle and tender emotions were mingled with courage and strength. He loved honor; he loved fidelity; he loved his fellow man. * * * But rarest of all exotics in his life, loveliest and most sweet and tender, has been the gentle flower that bloomed nearest his heart—she who stays while he is gone.”
[Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister]

Mitchell, Eugene Muse, senior member of the well known and successful law firm of E. M. & G. F. Mitchell, Atlanta, was born in that city, Oct. 13, 1866. He is a son of Russell Crawford Mitchell, who was born in Madison county, Ga., Feb. 27, 1837, and Deborah Margaret (Sweet) Mitchell, who was born at Mount Pleasant, Fla., March 12, 1847. There is a large family connection in Atlanta, noted for several generations for wealth and political prominence. In the agnatic line Mr. Mitchell is descended from the ancient Mitchell family of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Thomas Mitchell, the progenitor of the family in Georgia, was a lieutenant in the Continental line during the Revolution, and settled in Wilkes county, Ga., about 1777. He later became civil engineer for the state, being one of the engineers who established the boundary line between Georgia and North Carolina. William Mitchell, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a soldier in the war of 1812, taking part in the battle of New Orleans, and his brother-in-law, Arnold Thomason, was General Jackson's courier who carried the news of the victory to Washington. Alexander W. Mitchell, great-uncle of Eugene M., took up his residence in Atlanta about 1844, and shortly afterward Rev. Isaac G. Mitchell, grandfather of him whose name heads this article, also located in this city. Upon him devolved the privilege of performing the marriage ceremony for the first couple to be wedded in the village of Marthasville, as Atlanta was then known. Russell C Mitchell was a member of the city council of Atlanta in 1872; served as alderman from 1877 to 1880, and in the latter year was mayor pro tem. He was a descendant also of James Dudley, who was rewarded for services as a Revolutionary soldier by special act of the Georgia legislature in 1822. William Charles Sweet, maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a soldier in the Seminole war and also served as lieutenant in the Confederate ranks during the Civil war. On the maternal side Mr. Mitchell is descended also from Capt. John Munnerlynn, who served with Gen. Francis Marion in the Revolution; also from Capt. John McKenzie and Chaplain John Bethune, of the Highlanders' regiment of North Carolina royalists in the Revolution. Russell C Mitchell enlisted in the Confederate service in July, 1861, as a private in Company I, First Texas volunteer infantry, with which he took part in the battles of Seven Pines, second Manassas and nine other engagements, being severely wounded in Hood's famous charge at Sharpsburg. He was made orderly sergeant in 1862, and from 1863 until the close of the war was in service as superintendent of a military hospital. Eugene Muse Mitchell availed himself of the advantages of the public schools of Atlanta, winning the Peabody scholarship medal, and prepared for college in the Means high school. He was graduated in the University of Georgia as a member of the class of 1885, with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science, securing first honors in the latter and third in the former, while he had the highest senior average recorded in the university up to that time. In 1886 he was graduated in the law school of the university, securing the degree of Bachelor of Law. He was admitted to the bar in the same year and forthwith established himself in his native city, where he built up a representative professional business, devoting himself for a number of years more particularly to criminal law, being engaged in several noted cases, including the Myers' case and the Bryan murder case. He now devotes himself more closely to the specialties of real-estate, probate and commercial practice, and is associated with his brother, Gordon F., under the professional title noted in the opening lines of this article. The firm controls a large and important business. Mr. Mitchell is also secretary and treasurer of the Continental Land Company, one of the largest land-holding corporations in Atlanta. For the past twenty years he has taken a prominent part in nearly every political campaign in which principles and not merely men have figured as issues, but he has invariably and insistently resisted the importunities of his friends to become a candidate for political office. He is unwavering in his allegiance to the Democratic party, has served as a member of the county executive committee of the same, and as secretary of the Young Men's Democratic league, of Atlanta. In May, 1905, he was elected a member of the Atlanta board of education, for a term of five years. From 1899 to 1903 he was a trustee of the public library of Atlanta, in the organization of which he bore a leading part. For three terms he was president of the Young Men's library association, of which he was also secretary for many years. As chairman of the historical committee of this association he caused to be collected the valuable library of books pertaining to the history of Georgia now in the local Carnegie library. He was for several years a member of the Atlanta artillery, a local company of the state militia, and served as first sergeant in the same. He is identified with the Georgia bar association, the Atlanta bar association and the Chi Phi college fraternity. He is past grand in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, and past sachem in the Improved Order of Red Men. On Nov. 7, 1892, Mr. Mitchell was united in marriage to Miss Mary Isabel Stephens, daughter of John and Annie E. (Fitzgerald) Stephens, of Atlanta, and they became the parents of three children,—Russell Stephens Mitchell, who died in 1894; Alexander Stephens, who was born in 1896; and Margaret Munnerlynn, who was born in 1900.
[Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister]

Mitchell, Gordon Forrest, is engaged in the practice of law in the city of Atlanta, as junior member of the firm of E. M. & G. F. Mitchell. In the sketch of his brother and professional coadjutor, Eugene M. Mitchell, in this work is outlined the family history, and to this sketch mentioned ready reference may be made for such data. Mr. Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Nov. 17, 1872, and after completing his curriculum of the Means high, school in his native city, he was matriculated in the law school of the University of Georgia, being graduated as a member of the class of 1891, and admitted to the bar in the same year. He has since been engaged in the active work of his profession in Atlanta and has been associated with his brother in practice since 1891, their attention being given more specially to real-estate, probate and commercial law. He is a stanch adherent of the Democratic party, taking a loyal interest in its cause but never having been a seeker of office. He is a member of the Atlanta bar association, the Chi Phi college fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Atlanta Athletic club and the Saturday Night club.
[Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister]

LACY, SHERIFF, lawyer and register in chancery, was born May 7, 1853, in Randolph County; son of Abner Wise and Martha (Brewster) Lacy, the former a native of Maury County, Tenn., who settled in St. Clair County, where he held numerous official positions and was at the time of his death, in 1887, probate judge of the county; grandson of William and Mary (Wise) Lacy who lived in Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, and of Sheriff and Malinda (Wortham) Brewster of South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. He received a common school education in St. Clair and Talladega Counties, and read law in the office of Bradford and Bishop, in Talladega, 1879-81. He was licensed to practice his profession the latter year, and in 1882, located at Jasper, where he has since resided. In 1883, he was appointed register in chancery for Walker County and has continued to fill that office. He was a member of the Alabama legislature, 1898-99; county solicitor, Walker County, 1886-87-88; for several years a member of the board of aldermen, Jasper; member city board of education. He is a Democrat; and a Baptist. Married: December 24, 1876, to Mary Ella, daughter of John Marion and Ruth (Skinner) McCollough, of Macon County, the former a native of Anderson District, S. C, a Confederate soldier under Hood and was killed in Peachtree Creek battle, near Atlanta, Ga. Children: 1. Ernest Renfroe (q. v.); 2. Cecil Justus; 3. Clyde; 4. Pauline; 5. Ruth; 6. Lorene. Residence: Jasper.
[History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Mrs. Marie (Bankhead) Owen, 1921 – Transcribed by AFOFG]

George Felder Hair
The Hairs are an old and prominent family of the old Barnwell district. While farming has always been a dominant interest in the family, the present generation is numerously represented in the professions, several of the sons having been physicians or dentists, including Dr. George Felder Hair, who for twenty years has been a resident of Bamberg and is a former president of the State Dental Society.
The remote ancestry of the Hairs is German, though members of the family have lived in the South since colonial times. The late Judson E. Hair was born in Barnwell County June 30, 1847, and died June 16, 1919. He was a student in the University of Georgia at Athens when the War Between the States broke out, and he and the other members of his class volunteered and went to Charleston to enter the Confederate service. He was with Lee's army for eleven months, and was a musician in the hand. His mature years were spent as a farmer and merchant in and around Blackville. He was one of the prominent Baptist laymen, being one of the founders and leaders of the church at Blackville and a deacon. Judson E. Hair married Maggie Capres Felder, who was born near Branchville, South Carolina, in 1850, and is still living at Blackville. When she was a small girl her father died as a result of hardship and exposure endured while a Confederate soldier. The family of Judson E. Hair and wife comprised twelve children, seven of whom are living: Lorena Blanch, who was married to Thomas J. Martin, of Anderson, in 1886; Dr. George F.; Arthur B., a hardware merchant and farmer at Blackville; John Pinckney, deceased; Joseph Roger, deceased; Dr. Isaac Murray Hair, a dentist at Spartanburg; Dr. Harry B., also a dentist practicing at Columbia; Mary E., deceased; Mrs. D. D. Walters, of Columbia; Mrs. Maggie E. Still and Mrs. Abigail Sanders, of Blackville; and Dr. Judson E., deceased. Of the younger generation some mention should be made of the two sons of Mrs. Lorena Blanch Martin, of Anderson. These sons, Haskell Hair and Rhett Felder Martin, are both married, but when the war came on and they were called in the draft they claimed no exemption. The older went overseas as a lieutenant, and saw much of the front line service with the Expeditionary Forces. He was at Chateau Thierry and other historic points on the French front. He is now practicing as an architect at Greenville. The other, Rhett Felder Martin, who is in the coal and wood business at Anderson, was on a transport bound for France when the armistice was signed, and the boat was then turned about and landed him in America. Earl Walters, a son of Mrs. D. D. Walters, of Columbia, was a volunteer at the age of eighteen in the World war and was overseas with the first forces sent to France and remained throughout the war. He was a sergeant and participated in all the important engagements of the Expeditionary Forces. Like all the others he had many narrow escapes from death, but he escaped without a mark.
George Felder Hair, who was born at Blackville October 31, 1870, was liberally educated, attending the common and high schools of his native town, graduated in a business course at Newark, New Jersey, in 1888, and during the following year was employed by the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company at Staten Island, New York. This experience aroused his interest in the dental profession and he entered the oldest dental college in the world, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, where he was graduated with the class of 1892. Doctor Hair practiced at Anderson for ten years, and since 1901 has been busy in his profession at Bamberg. He has filled all the important offices in the State Dental Society, including the office of president, and is now a member of the State Board of Dental Examiners. He is also affiliated with the National Dental Society. Doctor Hair is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, also a member of the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World and Improved Order of Red Men. He has never been active in politics, and is a leader in the Baptist Church at Bamberg, being a deacon and a teacher in its Sunday school. On May 5, 1892, he married Miss Leila E. Boylston, of Blackville. Her father is a veteran ex-Confederate soldier, George W. Boylston, for many years a prominent citizen of Blackville. Doctor and Mrs. Hair have two children. Blanche, the daughter, is the wife of J. J. Cudd, a financier and farmer at Spartanburg. The son, P. Belton Hair, received his A. B. degree from Furman University at Greenville, and while there served as a volunteer for three months in the Students Army Corps until the signing of the armistice. He is now in his third year of the Atlanta Dental College of Georgia, preparing for the profession in which his father and some of his uncles have done such distinguished work.
[History of South Carolina, Volume 5, Edited by Yates Snowden and Harry Gardner Cutler, 1920 – Transcribed by AFOFG]

Swann, Joseph Charles, physician; born in Alabama, Feb. 22, 1869; son of W. A. J. and Nancy (Taylor) Swann; attended Bowdoin College, Georgia, 1887-1888; married in Alabama, Jan. 18, 1898, Cassie Dobson; six children. Engaged in practice of medicine twenty years; four years physieian-in-charge of United States Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia. President Bank of Wedower. Republican. Baptist. President Randolph County Medical Society.
[Herringshaw's American blue-book of Biography: Prominent Americans of 1912- An Accurate Biographical Record of Prominent Citizens of All Walks of Life]

Hill, Charles Dougherty, has to his credit the distinction of having made a record as one of the ablest public prosecutors in his day and generation in Georgia, having rendered most noteworthy service as solicitor-general of the Atlanta circuit. A lawyer of most solid attainments and greatest facility in the marshalling of facts and evidence, he has also the incisive keenness and versatility which are such valuable adjunts to technical knowledge. Of him it has well been written: “Felicitous of speech, quick at repartee, ready at all times with bright and sparkling quotations from his favorite authors, and rich in all the varied resources and accomplishments of the orator, he stands without a peer among the able and distinguished prosecuting officers of Georgia. Mr. Hill possessess a peculiar mind. It is not only quick in its perceptions but also remarkably firm in its retentiveness. He never makes a note in the trial of any case, however important it may be, and never mistakes the evidence in the argument of his cause to the jury. His preparations are purely mental and in none of his great speeches has he employed the use of a pencil. Perhaps no lawyer at the bar has a more prodigious memory.” This worthy member of the bar of Georgia’s capital city is also a representative of one of the best known and most honored families of this commonwealth. He was born near LaGrange, Troup county, Georgia, Nov. 3, 1852, and is a son of the lamented and distinguished Senator Benjamin H. Hill, of whose career specific mention is made in this work. Mr. Hill passed his boyhood days in his native county and there received his early educational training. In 1867 his parents removed to Athens, Ga., and after further preparatory study young Hill entered the law department of the state university, in that city, being graduated as a member of the class of 1871. He was admitted to the bar in Twiggs county and after practicing two years, with somewhat discouraging results, he decided to abandon the work of his profession and to engage in agricultural pursuits. He accordingly purchased a farm, and to the same he gave his personal supervision until the death of his father, in 1882. This called him to Atlanta, and after his honored father had been called from the scene of life’s activities he “decided to resume the profession which had now become to him a solemn legacy.” He assisted his brother in the prosecution of a number of criminal cases, and in this connection made a “brilliant reputation by his eloquence and adroit legal manipulations.” In 1885 he was elected solicitor-general of the Atlanta circuit and was several times reelected. The review from which previous quotations have been made continues as follows: “Since entering upon the discharge of his duties as the state’s prosecuting attorney Mr. Hill has been a terror to evildoers and while he claims that he has never convicted an innocent man it is equally true that a guilty one has rarely escaped. Mr. Hill has been identified with a number of celebrated murder trials, and his speeches delivered on these occasions have been masterpieces of forensic eloquence. The courtroom is always crowded to overflowing as soon as the report spreads that Solicitor Hill is about to make his closing speech to the jury. No man is more truly the idol of his friends or more conspicuously the life and center of every group in which he happens to be found. His humor is always captivating and his wit lively, good-natured and sparkling. He has very little artificial reserve and speaks with frankness and candor, never hesitating to give his opinion freely on any subject. Generous, open-hearted, indulgent and kind, he is one of the best of husbands as well as one of the cleverest and truest of men.”
(Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. VOL III Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Angelia Carpenter)

Graves, John Temple, editor of the Atlanta Georgian and known as one of the greatest orators of America at the present day, having a reputation that extends throughout the national domain, is one specially entitled to a place of honor in this publication. A man’s reputation is the property of the world. The laws of nature have forbidden isolation. Every human being submits to the controlling influence of others or, as a master spirit, wields a power, either for good or evil, on the masses of mankind. There can be no impropriety in justly scanning the acts of any man as they affect his public and business relations. If he is honest and eminent in his chosen field of endeavor, investigation will brighten his fame and bear its measure of lesson and incentive in an objective way. Any piece of biographical writing should be an impression and interpretation quite as much as a summary of facts, which should not be permitted to tyrannize, though properly employed as a wholesome corrective of prejudice or whimsy. In studying a clear cut, sane, distinct character like that of John Temple Graves interpretation follows fact in a straight line derivation, and there is small use for indirection in viewing his splendid achievements. He was born in Willington district, Abbeville county, S. C., Nov. 9, 1856, and is a scion of patrician ancestry. He is a son of James Porterfield and Kate Florida (Tomes) Graves, the former of whom was born in Washington, Ga., Sept. 3, 1820, and the latter in Abbeville, S. C., her death occurring about two years after the birth of him whose name initiates this paragraph. The latter’s paternal grandfather was Col. John Temple Graves, a distinguished officer in the war of the Revolution, in which he was specially commissioned by General Greene to oppose the passage of Lord Cornwallis across the Yadkin river, in North Carolina, a duty which he performed with great skill, as history records. (See White’s Historical Collections on Georgia). The maternal great-grandfather of Mr. Graves was Patrick Calhoun, an officer and legislator of the Revolutionary period and an older brother of the great statesman, John C. Calhoun. Mr. Graves’ maternal grandfather, William Calhoun, was an extensive planter and influential citizen of Abbeville, S. C., and owing to an impediment in his speech gained the sobriquet of “Cotton Billy.” James Porterfield Graves went forth in defense of the Confederate cause in the war between the states, enlisting in 1861 and becoming adjutant-general of his regiment in the Army of Northern Virginia. Concerning the prestige of John Temple Graves as an orator another writer has spoken in the following appreciative words: “Perhaps no American of this generation has enjoyed so early in life and in such sustained connection, so many and such dazzling triumphs of eloquence as the subject of this sketch. The nephew of John C. Calhoun, his grandfather the patron and benefactor of McDuffie and the intimate friend of Hayne, Preston and Legare, he was born in an atmosphere of eloquence and statesmanship. When Henry W. Grady died, in the meridian of his brilliant and fortunate life, it was remarkable to observe the unanimity with which the press and the people of the north and south turned with expectancy to John Temple Graves, then quietly editing the Daily Tribune, of Rome, Ga. Up to that period his growth had been gradual, but out of the nation’s bereaved hour his name flared up immediately into fame and was soon on every lip. Since that period his career has been a succession of triumphal marches that have landed him upon the pinnacle of a national fame as the south’s representative orator and one of the most eloquent of living Americans. With a brilliant reputation for college oratory, Graves began life as a teacher in the public schools of West Point and LaGrange, making during this time two memorial speeches over Confederate graves and by the same attracting much attention. The routine life of the school room was irksome to his eager ambition, and he sought more congenial employment. About this time the sensational contest between Joseph E. Brown and Gen. A. R. Lawton convulsed the state, and the young orator and journalist caught its graphic points in a ringing article that went into Avery’s History of Georgia as the ‘finest bit of descriptive writing of that decade.’ From this he blossomed easily into newspaper life and went to Florida, where he rose rapidly from reporter to managing editor of the Union, the only daily in the state. He afterward established the Daily Herald, which became the leading factor in Florida politics, and its editor became, with one exception, the most distinguished man in the state, at the age of twenty-nine years. He engaged actively in three political campaigns and with his eloquence swept the hustings as with a prairie fire. The chronicles of 1882-7 in that state speak of his campaign speeches as without parallel in the history of Florida. It was a common thing for his enthusiastic audience to carry him on their shoulders from the public platform, and in many instances the horses were unhitched from his carriage and he was drawn by the leading citizens through crowded streets, amid shouting multitudes, pelting him with flowers and greeting him with adulation. And all this not as a candidate,--for he always ignored and declined office, but simply as a spontaneous tribute to an eloquence which Henry W. Grady declared the most phenomenal he had ever listened to. After having led the Democratic electoral ticket in Florida in 1884, the health of the young journalist-orator and that of his wife failed in the Florida climate, and he returned to Georgia. He was immediately offered and accepted the position of editor-in-chief of the recognized Atlanta Journal, in 1887, but the desire for absolute freedom and independence of utterance led him to resign this responsible position and its brilliant prospects and to accept the editorship and control of the Rome Tribune, which was established under him and recorded three phenomenally brilliant and successful years under his management, until he voluntarily resigned the editorship, in loyalty to a political conviction which differed from the views and interests of all its other owners. During this period, and within a year after his return to Georgia, Graves was chosen without an effort, to lead the Democratic electoral ticket of Georgia in 1888, and thus presented the only instance in the political history of the south of a young man, under thirty-two, who had in two successive presidential campaigns been chosen as a Democratic elector at large in two great states and led the ballot in both of them. About this time Henry W. Grady died. Graves and Grady had been bosom friends, and the former had a letter from the latter saying that no man ever understood him as did the friend who survived him, and was destined to complete his work. Graves’ oration over Grady’s dead body has gone into all languages, been published in all countries, is spoken today by American youths in all the great American colleges, and is fixed in literature as one of the few classics in American oratory. One sentence of this oration, “And when he died he was literally loving a nation into peace,” is graven upon Grady’s monument in Atlanta and will live as long as the life it commemorates. From the day of the Grady memorial John Temple Graves was in demand all over the country. Every platform was open to him. He could choose his audience anywhere in the republic, and in the measure of his strength he met the obligations of his genius and opportunity. It is needless in an abridged and circumscribed compilation of this order to enter into details as to the notable places to which and the distinguished assemblies before which Mr. Graves has been called as an orator, for his fame rests not only on the pages of history but in the hearts and minds of countless people. His influence has permeated the national life in no uncertain way and his impassioned utterances, bearing ever the mark of impregnable sincerity, have swayed thousands. Even the wings of Jove’s bird sometimes grow weary, but not so gifted voice and mind of John Temple Graves. Can a better estimate of the man be offered than that given in his own words? “I have never felt that I was greater than others. I believe the merit of all my work is in its sincerity. I have never in one conscious moment of my public life said one word I did not believe to be true. I have never with pen or tongue championed an unworthy cause. I have never used position, power or opportunity to gratify a private grudge or prosecute a private gain. I have loved my country, loved humanity and reverenced God, and in the greater honors that I have deserved, which have come to me so lavishly, I have always felt the pain of my own unworthiness and offered to myself and to the world no other explanation than I was sincere.” The good and great of the land have united in plaudits to the oratory, the sincerity and to the manliness of this Georgian, and no blot mars the fair escutcheon which is his to protect and honor. From 1902 to 1906 Mr. Graves was editor of the Atlanta News, his newspaper work having been consecutively carried forward for many years, and since the spring of 1906 he has been editor of the Atlanta Georgian, whose fame and prestige are assured under his control. He was graduated in the University of Georgia in August, 1875, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and his scholarship has been ripened and glorified by his natural predilection and his subsequence application. He is staunch in his allegiance to the Democratic party, and in 1906 became a candidate for the United States senate, finally withdrawing from the race because of the exigent demands placed upon him by business interests. He is an elder in the Presbyterian church. On April 17, 1878, Mr. Graves was united in marriage to Miss Mattie G. Simpson, daughter of Jack and Mary (Harris) Simpson, of Hancock county, Ga., and she died eleven years later, leaving no children. On Dec. 3, 1890, he married Miss Anne E. Cothran, daughter of Hugh D. and Laura E. (Smith) Cothran, of Rome, and the names of the children of this union are here entered, with respective dates of birth: John Temple, Jr., April 25, 1892; Laura Cothran, Dec. 30, 1894; James de Graffenreid, April 5, 1896; Cothran Calhoun, July 2, 1901; and Anne Elizabeth, Feb. 3, 1905.
(Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. VOL III Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Marilyn Clore)