Twitty, Frank Elmore, senior member of the law firm of Twitty & Reese, of Brunswick, and recognized as one of the representative members of the bar of Glynn county, was born in Smithville, Lee county, Ga., Dec. 13, 1867, a son of Charles Russell and Ellen (Paul) Twitty, the former born in Lancaster, S. C., in 1816, and the latter in Wadesboro, N. C., Nov. 8, 1836. Charles R. Twitty was a successful educator and a man of high scholarship. For several years, just prior to' the Civil war, he was professor of languages in the Carolina female college, at Ansonville, N. C. Later he held a professorship in the Greenville female seminary, of South Carolina, retaining this incumbency several years and then removing to Lee county, Ga., about 1865. He taught in that county several years, and was similarly engaged about four years in Mitchell county, from which he removed to Gordon county, where he continued in pedagogic work several years. He passed the closing years of his life on his farm near Reeves Station, Gordon county, where he died March 10, 1878. His widow survived him and is now the wife of Rev. W. L. Curry, of Pelham, Ga. The late Francis M. Paul, of Nashville, Tenn., was an uncle of the subject of this sketch. Mr. Paul was the editor and publisher of the Chattanooga Rebel, which he issued during the Civil war and which was one of the best known of all papers published in the interests of the Confederate cause. He was born in Wadesboro, N. C., about the year 1834. and died at his home, in Nashville, Tenn., in 1899. Frank E. Twitty. was a member of the class of 1888 in the literary department of the University's of Georgia, completing a portion of the work of the junior year, and then withdrawing to devote his attention to the study of law, entering the law department of the same institution and being graduated as a member of the class of 1887, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He began the practice of his profession in Camilla, Mitchell county, and has been established in practice in the city of Brunswick since 1890, having gained precedence through his devotion to his profession and through his distinctive ability in the same. Since 1904 he has been associated with Millard Reese, under the firm name of Twitty & Reese. He is a stanch and effective advocate of the principles of the Democratic party, and for the past nine years he has been chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Glynn county. He has served for several years as attorney for the city of Brunswick, and is now attorney for the county of Glynn. He is a member of the Missionary Baptist church, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and also of the Chi Phi fraternity, Eta Chapter, University of Georgia.

Comprising Sketches Of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, And Persons, Arranged In Cyclopedic Form Edited By Ex-Governor Allen D. Candler And General Clement A. Evans Vo. 3 1906

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