Asbury G. McCurry
Julian B. McCurry
There can be no happier connection in either business or professional life than that which exists between father and son, the older man contributing his broad experience and thorough knowledge of human nature to the assets of the firm, while the young man gives of his enthusiasm and youthful energy. This desirable combination finds an illustration in the firm of A. G. & Julian B. McCurry, of Hartwell, Georgia, which is made up of Asbury G. McCurry, father, and Julian B. McCurry, son. and which is known as one of the strongest legal firms and among the largest real estate owners in Hart County and that section. Both men have won high reputations in law, the father being an attorney of forty years' experience, in whose career many hard-fought legal battles have occurred, while the son is a representative of the younger type of lawyer and business man, who has inherited many of his father's sterling qualities of character.

Asbury G. McCurry was born in 1852 on a farm six miles from Hartwell, in Hart County, a homestead which has been in the family name for more than a century. He was reared on the farm, but early displayed a predilection for the law, and entered and was duly graduated from the University of Georgia, following which he entered upon the practice of his profession. For forty years he has been accounted one of the leading lawyers of Northeast Georgia, and during this period has had charge of many important legal interests. A democrat in politics, he has taken a leading part in public affairs, and on several occasions has been sent as representative from Hart County to the Legislature of the state, in which body his-record was one of excellent service. In 1895 he was appointed a member of the committee of the Legislature to revise the code of Georgia. He is now a director of the Hartwell Railway Company and a trustee of the Eighth District Agricultural School. Mr. McCurry has contributed largely to the upbuilding of Hartwell, erecting many of its business houses. While he was too young to take an active part in the Civil war, the family was "well represented in that struggle by five of his brothers who took part as soldiers under the flag of the Confederacy. Mr. McCurry married at Hartwell, Miss Frances Benson, who was born at Pendleton, South Carolina, in 1855, a daughter of John B. and Elizabeth (Norton) Benson. Her father was one of the earliest settlers at Hartwell, where he built the first house erected in this city. He served as a member of the State Senate during the Civil war period, always took an important part in public affairs, and died in 1892, at the age of sixty-eight years. Mrs. Benson, who was a great friend of Mrs. Joseph E. Brown and served as maid of honor at her wedding, died in 1881, at Hartwell. Three children were born to Asbury G. and Frances McCurry, of whom one died in infancy.

Julian B. McCurry was born at Hartwell, Georgia, April 22, 1879, and received the foundation for his education in the public schools. After some preparation under his father's preceptorship, he entered the University of Georgia, taking an academic course for three years and from which institution he was graduated in law in 1901, and immediately became associated with his father in the practice of law. Like his father, he has taken an active part in democratic political affairs. In 1902 was elected as a member of the House of Representatives, being the youngest member of the body, and in 1909-10 was sent as representative from the Thirty-first District to the State Senate, of which body he was honored with election as president pro tem. He has been foremost in movements making for the betterment of Hartwell, both in a business and civic way, and is known as one of the men to whom the city must look for its further advancement. He is now vice president of the Hart County Bank.

On June 7, 1911, Mr. McCurry was married in Morgan County, Georgia, to Miss Richmond Virginia Walton, daughter of P. W. Walton, a well known banker and planter of that county. They have no children.
[A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians Volume 5, by Lucian Lamar Knight, 1917 - Submitted by Brenda Wiesner]

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