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Miller
County,
Georgia  Hello and welcome to the Genealogy Trails Miller County Georgia
Biographies Geer,
William I.,
is
engaged in the practice of law at Colquitt, and is one of the
representative
members of the Miller county bar. He was
born in Calhoun county, Ga.,
July 28, 1872, and is a son of Peter Franklin Marion Geer and Mary E.
(Blocker)
Geer, the former of whom was born in the state of New York and the
latter in South Carolina. The father was
an able physician, and served
as surgeon in the Confederate army during the Civil War, after which he
resumed
the active practice of his profession at Bluffton, Ga.,
where he died in 1884. William I. Geer
attended school at Dawson
and Fort Gaines,
Ga.,
and supplemented this discipline by a course of study in Mercer
university in
the city of Macon. He read law in the
office of Judge Bush, of
Colquitt; in 1898 was admitted to the bar of Early county, and has been
engaged
in the active practice of his profession in Colquitt since that time. He was associated in practice with Judge Bush
for one year, since which time he has conducted an individual
professional
business. He is a staunch adherent of
the Democratic party, and in 1901 was appointed county solicitor, by
Governor
Candler. He is a member of the Knights
of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World.
Mr. Geer married Miss Ada Dancer, daughter of William R.
and Marry J. (Clifton)
Dancer of Colquitt. Mr. Dancer held the
office of ordinary of Miller county at the time of his death, and was
one of
the prominent and honored citizens of the county.
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