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Henry County,
Georgia History
Biographies
Beck,
Erasmus W., lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 21, 1833, in
McDonough,
Ga. In 1871-73 he was a representative to the forty-second congress to
fill a vacancy.
[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]
Boynton, James Stoddard,
soldier, lawyer jurist, governor, was born May
7, 1833, in Henry County, Ga. He attained the rank of colonel in the
civil war, having risen from private in the thirti Georgia regiment. In
1866 he was elected judge of the county court; in 1880-84 was president
of the Georgia state senate; and in 1883 was governor of Georgia to
fill a vacancy. He died in 1902 in Griffin, Ga.
[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]
Capt. William A. Puller
Capt. William A. Puller
was born in Henry County, Georgia, April 15, 1836. He left his father's
farm at the age of nineteen and immediately entered the service of the
Western & Atlantic Railroad, where he remained for about twenty
years. He retired from the railroad in 1876, and entered the mercantile
business in Atlanta, in which he continued until the year 1881. With
the exception of a few months' service with the Georgia Pacific
Railroad in the early '80s, Captain Fuller never re-entered active
business life after his retirement in 1881. In 1863 Governor Joseph E.
Brown commissioned him captain in recognition of his services in
defeating the object of the Andrews raid of 1862, which was designed to
burn the bridges of the Western & Atlantic Railroad between Atlanta
and Chattanooga and cut the Confederate base of supplies. Captain
Fuller died at his home in Atlanta, December 28, 1905.
A Standard History
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