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JAMES A. FANNIN, farmer, Madison, was born on the old farm, where he now lives, in 1821, and was the son of Jeptha and Catharine (Porter) Fannin. The father was a native of North Carolina, and came to Georgia about 1808, and settled on the land where the son now lives. All was then a dense woods, and the site of the home was cut out of the brush and trees, and in a log cabin, quickly built, the fearless pioneers began their new life. He helped organize the county, and was the first clerk of the superior court. He was one of the first to volunteer in the second war with Great Britain, and an interesting and prized heirloom of the family is the sword the brave soldier wore in the war of 1812. He was in middle life when the war with the Creeks occurred, and was one of the Georgians to go to battle against the Indian foes. The mother of James A. Fannin was the daughter of Oliver and Elizabeth (Watson) Porter. The father was a soldier of the revolutionary war, and after the struggle was ended, came to Georgia and settled in Greene county. They were in the midst of Indians, and their block-house, erected in the woods, was the scene of frequent fights with the red skins. Mr. James Fannin was reared on the farm and obtained his education in the old log school- house. In 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Third Georgia regiment, under Capt. James Reed, then Capt. Andrews and then Capt. James K. Wright. He was out one year, when he returned home, by reason of expiration of enlistment. He then joined the Joe Thompson battery, and was placed with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, and was in the battles of Bentonville, Soldiers' lane, and many skirmishes. After the war he returned to the old home, where he has since lived. He has been a member of the masonic order since 1850, and lives on the land his father took up in the original purchase, beside many acres which have been added to it by both of them. Mr. Fannin is a well-known and esteemed citizen of Morgan county.
[Source: Memoirs Of Georgia, Vol 2, 1895 - Submitted by Brenda Wiesner]

JONAS H. HOLLAND, attorney, Madison, was born Nov. 26, 1843, and was the son of Jonas H. and Eunicie (White) Holland. The father was born in Virginia and came to Georgia in 1816, on horseback, and took up a farm and built a home in Jasper county. His marriage was of a romantic type—he being only sixteen years old and his sweetheart a Virginian lass only thirteen. Their youth led to many objections on the part of parents in the "Old Dominion," but they were finally overcome by the assistance of an uncle, who signed his bond to take care of his wife, and a friendly minister, who made them man and wife. Placing his child-wife on a horse, he mounted another, and thus they journeyed to his new home, far away from parents, brother, sisters and friends. His wife died in 1818, and he remained a widower until 1826. Mr. Holland's father was a son of Joseph J. and Elizabeth Ann (Odom) Holland. Joseph was a native of Ireland, and came with his parents to America, when the colonies were subjected to the tyranny of Great Britain. He fought with the patriots, and attained the rank of colonel, and was twice wounded in battle. His parents were cruelly persecuted by the tories, even to the extent of having their homes burned over thir heads. A memento of this heroic service to his country is an old flint-lock pistol, carefully preserved, in Mr. Holland's home—a treasure prized above all others by the family. Mr. J. H. Holland's mother was born and grew up in Jones county, and was a faithful member of the Hardshell Baptist church. The son spent the ordinary life of a fanner boy, educating himself by reading, with a few opportunities of schooling. In 1861, tie enlisted in the Glover guards and went to Virginia, but was not sworn in on account of his youth; so he returned home in Jasper county, to later join the militia. After the war he fanned until 1869, when he began the study of law, and was soon admitted. He was the first justice of the peace in the Monticello district after the war. In 1869 he married Kate Harris, daughter of Thomas and Martha (Peteet) Harris, and to them have been born five children—two of whom are living— Thomas and Martha E. The mother has always lived in Morgan county, and belongs to the Baptist church, as does her husband. He has been a member of the masonic fraternity since he reached his majority, and is a temperance man by example and teaching, never having drank a drop of liquor in his life. He has frequently canvassed the county in behalf of teetotalism. In 1872-3 he was justice of the peace in Morgan county; and in 1883, as a member of the Baptist church, was appointed a delegate to a meeting in Monterey, Mexico. Besides his extensive law practice, he has always manifested great interest in farming and stock raising, and his efforts were instrumental in securing the first colt show ever held in Georgia, which was held at Madison, Aug. 12, 1888.
[Source: Memoirs Of Georgia, Vol 2, 1895 - Submitted by Brenda Wiesner]

WARREN J. IVEY, farmer, Rutledge, was born in 1838, and is the son of Wilkins S. I. and Jane (Herring) Ivey. The father was born in Greene county in 1812, and came to Walton county when eight years old, and remained there until his death. He was judge of the Walton county superior court five years, and was sheriff thirty-six years, holding that position when he died. He was a prominent Mason, and an influential citizen. His father, and the grandfather of W. J. Ivey, was Jeremiah Ivey, who was a native of Virginia, and who came to Georgia about 1800. He built him a home in the thick woods of what is now Morgan county, and, clearing a farm, began life as a pioneer. He was a deacon in the Baptist church for years. Mrs. W. S. I. Ivey was a daughter of David Herring, who was a Virginian by birth and an early resident of Georgia. Mr. Warren J. Ivey was brought up on the farm and attended the common schools. In 1862 he enlisted in Company D, Eleventh Georgia infantry, under Capt. Nunnaly, and Col. Tige Anderson, but was sent home on account of severe rheumatism. Upon his recovery, a few months later, he joined Company D, Second cavalry, Capt. William Grant, Col. Cruse, in Gen. Forrest's command. He saw much active service and lots of hard fighting. At Murfreesboro. he was with Forrest when his cavalry captured 1,300 Federal infantry with three small regiments, and his company, dismounted, fought two days again near Murfreesboro. He was in east Tennessee, and had a hard fight at Sevierville, when his company surrendered, and he himself surrendered three times in one day and escaped each time. He was orderly sergeant of his company when it went to Chattanooga, and met Sherman, and had a hot time of it from there to Atlanta. He was in the battle of Perryville, Ky., and was at Salisbury, N. C., at the time of the surrender. After hostilities had ceased he returned to Walton county, Ga. His father gave him 125 acres of woodland, and like his ancestors, he set to work to clear it and build himself a log cabin. In 1867 he married Sallie F. Cheney, daughter of Linton L. and Elizabeth (Spence) Cheney. By this union there are two children: Walter C, and Lillian. The mother was born and reared in Morgan county. Both are members of the Primitive Baptist church. He is a master Mason, and is one of the most successful and best fanners in the county. That he is a man who can get on in life with his neighbors is attested by the fact that he was never interested in a case in court, or never required as a witness.
[Source: Memoirs Of Georgia, Vol 2, 1895 - Submitted by Brenda Wiesner]

TINSEY STROUD
Since writing the foregoing, the writer has come into possession of some additional information in regard to Tinsey Stroud, daughter of John and Sallie Stroud.
She was born in the latter years of the Eighteenth century, probably about 1795, in Morgan county Georgia. As before mentioned she married John J. Fielder, about the year 1814.
The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Fielder:
James A. V. Fielder, born in 1815. Died before he attained his majority.
Alvin Alsten Fielder, born in 1818. Married Susan Trammell, of Morgan county, Georgia, in 1837.
Rufus Fielder, born Jan. 12th, 1821 in Monroe county, Georgia. Married Mary Malissa Dailey, May 12th, 1842.
Elon Fielder, born in 1823, married first Elizabeth Harris. Two children by this marriage. Married second, Martha Leverett. Five children by second.
Mary Fielder, born April 16th, 1825 in Pike county, Georgia. Married John Young Trammell, who was a son of John Trammell, of Georgia. (July 29th, 1833.)
Sallie Fielder died before she was grown.
[Source: "The Strouds : a colonial family of English descent" by A. B. Stroud, Lakeland, Fla.: Child Printery - Submitted by K. Torp]

W. T. Thompson

IT is probable that nearly everybody of mature age in Georgia has heard of a book published as far back as 1840, under the title of "Major Jones' Courtship." It was one of the earliest, as it was one of the best specimens of American humor. The older generation especially knew it almost by heart and had profound pleasure in its humor, which, though sometimes broad, was genuine humor. Few people, however, know that the author of that work was one of the greatest editors
Georgia has ever known. Colonel William Tappan Thompson was the founder, and for thirty-two years the editor of the Savannah Morning News. He it was, who in his younger days, more as an amusement than "anything else, threw off the book which has immortalized his name as one of the literary men of America. Georgia has been peculiarly rich in humorists more so indeed than any other State in the Union the list including such men as A. B. Longstreet, William T. Thompson, Charles H. Smith, Richard Malcolm Johnston, and Joel Chandler Harris. All of these have been men of national reputation, and Mr. Harris' reputation is worldwide.

W. T. Thompson was a worthy member of this distinguished coterie, and the only one not a native Georgian. He was born at Ravenna, Ohio, on August 31, 1812, being the first white child born in what is known as the "Western Reserve of Ohio." His father was a Virginian, and his mother a native of Dublin, Ireland, who came to this country with her father, an exile from Ireland, because of having been conspicuous in resisting the British government during what was known as "the Rebellion of 1798." His mother died when he was but eleven years old; and while the loss was irreparable, she had lived long enough to instill into the boy principles of truth and honor which abided with him through life. Shortly after the death of his mother, his father returned to Philadelphia, and he soon passed away. The boy was thus thrown upon the world at an early age. Without then deciding upon a career, and having in view merely the making of a living, he entered the office of The Philadelphia Chronicle. He must have made the most of his opportunities, for in a year or two he was appointed private secretary to the Honorable James D. Wescott, then Territorial Governor of Florida. This brought him into the South, with which he was identified for the next fifty years.
He served under Governor Wescott as his secretary; he also read law under him, and in 1835 he left Florida and settled in Augusta, Georgia, where he became associated with Judge A. B. Longstreet, the author of the well known "Georgia Scenes," and who was at that time editor of The States' Eights Sentinel. He assisted Judge Longstreet in getting up his paper, and continued his study of the law. But the fates had not destined Colonel Thompson for a lawyer. The Seminole War broke out in the year that he settled in Augusta. He volunteered as a member of the Richmond Blues, of Augusta, and served throughout the campaigns of 1835 and 1836. Returning from Florida in the fall of 1836, his natural taste for literary pursuits prevailed, and he established The Augusta Mirror, the first purely literary paper ever published in Georgia.

At this time he was married to Miss Caroline A. Carrie, daughter of Joseph Carrie of Augusta, who for forty-six years walked by his side, giving to him and their children an unselfish devotion, to which he pays a tribute in a dedication of "Major Jones' Courtship," where he alludes to her as "having blessed the morn, cheered the noon, and brightened the evening of my life." The Mirror, though an excellent journal and popular, did not meet with financial success. It was merged with The Family Companion, published in Macon, where

Colonel Thompson took up his residence. The business connection was not congenial. He gave up The Companion and moved to Madison, Georgia, and took charge of The Miscellany, a weekly published in that town. Under his editorial conduct the paper grew rapidly in favor and prosperity, and it was through its columns that Colonel Thompson first gave to the world the famous work which brought him national reputation as a humorist, "Major Jones' Courtship." These letters attracted such wide attention and possessed such richness of wit and humor, that he was induced to collect and publish them in book form under the above title. They should have made his personal fortune, as well as his literary fame ; but as often happens in similar cases, the profits of his labor went to publishing houses. This was but the beginning of his literary labors. He became author of "The Chronicles of Pineville," "Major Jones' Travels," and other sketches, and a well known farce entitled "The Live Indian," a comedy out of which John E. Owens, a comedian, made fame and money, without pay to the author.

In 1845 he edited "Hotchkiss' Codification of the Statute Laws of Georgia." Numerous sketches, mainly humorous, also came from his facile pen. He dramatized Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," and his dramatization was produced both in America and Europe. But his literary work, which has established his fame as one of the great humorous geniuses of the country, brought him but small reward. In 1845 he became associated with Park Benjamin in the publication at Baltimore of The Western Continent, a weekly paper, of which he soon became sole editor and proprietor. In 1850, Colonel Thompson disposed of The Western Continent and removed to Savannah, where he established The Morning News. The city was already the home of two well established dailies, and the venture looked like a rash one ; but all these years of preparation for that is what they proved to be had ripened and strengthened Colonel Thompson until he knew enough of his own powers to feel certain that he could make the venture with success. The News, under the management of its able editor, steadily prospered, and from that time until his death, March 24, 1882, a period of thirty-two years, he was its editor-in-chief. At the time of his death, he had been in charge editorially of a daily paper for a longer period continuously than any of his contemporaries. He built up a journal known from one end of the Union to the other as one of the strongest of the Southern dailies, both as to editorial conduct and as to the soundness of its business management. The Morning News had become thoroughly well established, and Colonel Thompson was well known over the State, when the antebellum troubles culminated in that colossal war which will go down in history as one of the most terrific struggles in the annals of time. He was well advanced in middle life in 1861, and there was no occasion for him to go to the front; but devoted in his loyalty to the cause of the South, he became an aide-de-camp to Governor Joseph E. Brown, and in this capacity rendered valuable service. At the latter part of the war, when Savannah was besieged, he refused to avail himself of the opportunity presented to remain in quietness at his home, but joined the Confederate forces on their evacuation of the city, shouldered his musket and shared the fortunes of the army up to the end of the struggle in April, 1865. Immediately thereafter he returned and took up his editorial duties.

Like the large majority of newspaper editors who love their profession, Colonel Thompson was never an office seeker. He was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention in 1868, which nominated Seymour and Blair for President and Vice- President. In 1877 he represented his county in the Constitutional Convention which framed the present organic law of the State; he participated in the State Convention during the year 1880, but far above all other honors, he valued that of being editor of the great journal of which he was the father and founder, and for which he ever felt a paternal affection.

His home life was beautiful. Devoted to his wife and children, his happiest hours were thus spent in his own home cir-cle. He was an unassuming man of amiable temperament and retiring disposition; but beneath this outward gentleness there dwelt an undaunted spirit and a sound judgment; and so in the thick of the fray which comes to every man who dons the editorial harness, he was a strong tower to his friends and a terror to his enemies. Sometimes people mistook his earnestness for bitterness; sometimes he was judged to be bigoted and narrow minded ; but all these utterances which led to these faulty judgments were begotten of the man's intense convictions, and behind these strong utterances there was a nature as sweet and simple as that of a child. Strangely enough, even to the end of his life he was a diffident man ; and though possessed of fine social qualities, this barrier of diffidence had to be broken down by long acquaintance before one could get at the social side of him.

He was naturally a conservative in his views always favorable to reformation of evils, both in a political and social way; he was opposed to extremes, and he wanted to be certain that the proposed reform had a sound foundation before committing himself to it.

Throughout life he had a fondness for the stage ; and while a young man in Philadelphia he belonged to an amateur the- atrical company which had the honor of first attracting public attention to the great Edwin Forrest. He was full of interesting reminiscences of those days, and possessed himself the dramatic faculty in such high degree that his intimate friends all asserted that he would have won fame and fortune as a comedian. One can well believe this in view of the humorous and dramatic character of the most of his literary productions.

William T. Thompson served Georgia well and faithfully for more than thirty years, both in peace and in war ; and he sleeps upon the soil of the State to which he gave the same loyal and heartfelt devotion as the best of its native born sons.
Men of Mark in Geogia

WILLIAM WEST, of Virginia, married Alice Egmond Lawrence. Their son, William Lawrence West, born in Virginia, in 1801, died in Morgan County, Georgia, in 1874. He married Sarah Parthena Skidmore, born in Virginia in 1808. She died in Georgia in 1884. Their daughter, Nancy Maria West, was born in Virginia in 1827, and died in Georgia in 1901. She married, in 1844, Plen Brawner, born in Virginia in 1812, who died in Georgia in 1853. Their daughter, Mary Jane Brawner, born in Georgia in 1844, married, in 1860, Dr. Augustine Shi, who was born in 1834 and died in 1900. Mary Elizabeth Shi, born in 1876, in Virginia, married in 1896, William Haisten, who was born in 1872 and died in 1901. Their daughter, Ida Mae Halsten, born in 1898, married Ewing Snoddy. They make
their home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and have three children, Elizabeth, Ewing, Jr., and Mary Lee Snoddy. Mr. Snoddy, through his mother, is descended from many of the first families of Virginia, and Mrs. Snoddy's ancestor, William West, according to family tradition, is the son of William West (a De La Warr) and Letitia Martin.
[Source: "The West family register : important lines traced 1326-1928" by Letta Brock Stone, pub. Washington, D.C. by W.F. Roberts Co, 1928 - Submitted by K. Torp]

Wilson Lumpkin, of a famous Georgia family, was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, on January 14, 1783. In October, 1804, he was elected to the Legislature and served therein for the succeeding ten years. In 1814 he was elected to the Federal Congress, and in 1818 returned to Morgan County, which had become his home, to resume work on his plantation. After serving as a commissioner to run certain geographical lines made necessary by a treaty lately made with the Creek Indians, in 1819 he was returned to the Legislature and in 1821 was again appointed a boundary commissioner. In 1825 he was elected a member of the Georgia Board of Public Works to ascertain the feasibility of building either canals or railroads in the state. The decision was in favor of railroads, and the line of railway recommended by Mr. Lumpkin and the engineer who accompanied him was substantially the same as that surveyed as the Western & Atlantic twelve years later. In 1826 he was again elected to Congress and took his seat in the Twentieth Congress. In 1828 he was re-elected to the Twenty-first Congress, and in 1830 to the Twenty-second Congress. In these Congresses he supported Governor Troup in his contention with President Adams over the relation of Georgia to the Indians. In 1831, when he still had a full term to serve, he was elected governor of Georgia. He retired from the governor's chair in 1835; served as an Indian commissioner in the removal of the Cherokees beyond the Mississippi in 1836-37; was a member of the United States Senate in 1837-41; and in 1841-43 was identified with the reorganization of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. He died in 1870, spending the later years of his life on his plantation, engaged in reading, writing and corresponding with his numerous friends.
Source Georgia and Georgians

Massey, William Calhoun, is one of the representative business men and popular citizens of the capital city of Georgia and is a scion of ancestry long and prominently identified with the annals of American history. He was born in Madison, Morgan county, Ga., July 10, 1866, a son of Nathan and Mary Elizabeth (Calhoun) Massey, the former born in Greene county, Ga., June 29, 1807, and the latter, his fourth wife, in Abbeville district, S.C., June 22, 1821. The Massey family originated in Normandy, where there is still a town bearing the name. Representatives of the family were participants in the wars under William the Conqueror, and upon them were conferred grants of land comprising the counties of Durham and Chester, Ireland, after the Norman conquest. Col. James Massey, for meritorious service in the English army, was elevated to the peerage, and the honor is still held by the head of that branch of the family resident at the ancient seat in Ireland. William Massey was one of the early colonists of Virginia. Gen. Elijah Massey and Maj. Thomas Massey were gallant soldiers of the American Revolution and close friends of General Washington. The Calhoun family has also been one illustrious in the history of America. Nathan Massey, the father of the subject of this review, was numbered among the pioneer settlers of Morgan county, Ga., where he removed from Greene county and became prominent in the affairs of the new county. He gained a competency and was one of the extensive planters of Morgan county, owning a number of fine tracts of land and also having mercantile interests in the city of Madison for a number of years. The Civil war resulted in the destruction or confiscation of a large portion of his estate, and he passed the closing years of his life in Fulton county. He was a zealous member of the Baptist church, as was also his father, Reuben Massey, and his integrity and honor were impregnable. His wife was a strict Presbyterian. Both were active in church work and in the upholding of charitable enterprises. Mr. Massey attained to the age of eighty-five years, his wife having been seventy-seven years old at her death. Nathan Massey was an appreciative and active member of the Masonic fraternity, and aided in the establishing and upbuilding of various Baptist churches as well as the Georgia female college, at Madison, which flourished before the war. Owing to an ocular defect he was found ineligible for active service in the Confederate army, but he rendered effective aid to the cause, especially in caring for the families of soldiers and providing for the necessities of the ill and wounded soldiers, a number of whom they received into their own home. One of these was a relative, the poet Sidney Lanier, who was there restored to health after his release from a Federal prison. William C. Massey was afforded the advantages of the excellent public-school system of Atlanta, where he was reared to maturity, and he supplemented this by a course in business training. He finally determined to prepare himself for the work of expert shorthand reporting, and with this end in view perfected himself in both the Graham and Pitman systems and also devoted much time to collateral studies. Not finding an opening as official court reporter he engaged in special newspaper work for the local papers and also did much general reporting for various assemblies and proceedings where his services came into requisition. In 1893 he accepted the position of private secretary to H.M. Atkinson, the well known railroad magnate, and later he occupied a position in the United States civil service, in the war department, being assigned to duty in the office of the adjutant-general in the first Department of the Gulf, which was abolished after the Spanish-American war. He was tendered a position in the Philippines but determined to remain in Atlanta, and to follow the work of the profession for which he had fitted himself. With marked initiative talent he conceived the plan of gaining practical control of the general stenographic business in Atlanta, with a view to improving the service and bringing it up to the highest standard of efficiency. In 1904 he organized the Massey Reporting Company, modeled after large enterprises of the sort in the metropolitan centers but adapted to local needs. He has achieved splendid success and built up an important and representative business. He is known as an expert shorthand reporter and his services in this line have been in demand at many important conventions and in the reporting of notable public addresses. He is now the incumbent of the offices of commissioner of the Fulton superior court and the United States court of claims in Atlanta, and assistant official reporter of the Flint circuit, his technical services being of great value in these positions. Mr. Massey is a member of the National Shorthand reporters’ association and is a member of its executive committee in Georgia. He was captain of that popular military organization, the Atlanta Grays, at the inception of the Spanish-American war, at which time it was held in readiness to enter the volunteer service of the United States, but was not called into requisition. Captain Massey was in the military service with the state troops from 1891 to 1900, when he resigned his commission as captain, after having made an admirable record. In politics he is a Jeffersonian Democrat and his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church. On June 15, 1899, he was married to Miss Rosabel Jones, daughter of Dunwody and Cornelia (Ashley) Jones, of Atlanta, both representatives of distinguished families long established in America. Mrs. Massey was summoned to the life eternal on Dec. 15, 1904, leaving no children. She was a woman of gracious presence and marked culture and is deeply mourned by a wide circle of devoted friends.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Kim Mohler)

Means, Alexander, physician and educator, was born at Statesville, N.C., Feb. 6, 1801. He was educated at home and in a school conducted by Milton Ladd at Wilkesboro. At the age of fourteen years his education was finished so far as attending school was concerned, but he remained a student all his life. About 1816 he came to Georgia, walking the greater part of the way. He taught for a time in Greene county and later at Madison in Morgan county, where he began the study of medicine under Drs. Randolph and Walker. In 1825 he took a course of lectures in the Transylvania university at Lexington, Ky., after which he began practice in Putnam county, but after one year there formed a partnership with Dr. Henry Gaither at Covington, where he remained for six years. In the meantime he had united with the Methodist Episcopal church and in 1829 was licensed to preach. When the manual labor school was established at Covington by the Georgia conference in 1834, Dr. Means was elected the first rector, which position he held until the school was absorbed by Emory college four years later. He then took special courses in the old Pennsylvania college and the Jefferson medical college, and in 1840 was made professor of chemistry and pharmacy in the medical college at Augusta, where he remained for nineteen years, at the same time engaging in educational work elsewhere. In May, 1854 he was called to the presidency of Emory college, having served the previous year as president of the Masonic female college at Covington. He resigned the presidency of Emory in 1855 and in the summer of 1857 visited Europe, afterward serving for about twelve years as professor of chemistry in the Atlanta medical college. He was a member of the secession convention in 1861, and in 1868 was appointed the first state chemist of Georgia, a position he held until 1877. He was a preacher of rare eloquence and power and wrote a number of poems. He died on June 5, 1883.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Kim Mohler)

Adair, George Washington, capitalist, founder, was born March 1, 1823, in Morgan county, Ga. He was one of the builders of every Atlanta enterprise; promoter of the Atlanta cotton factory; president of the Georgia pacific railroad; and president of the Tallapoosa land company. He died in September, 1899, 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]

Hill, Joshua, was born in Abbeville district, S. C., in 1812. He was educated in the public schools, studied law and after being admitted to the bar located at Madison, Ga., where he began his professional career. In 1856 he was elected to Congress on the American ticket and served until 1861, when he retired with the other Georgia Congressmen. In 1866 he was appointed collector of customs for the port of Savannah; registrar in bankruptcy in 1867; was elected United States senator in 1871 and served until March 1873. He was a delegate to the constitutional convention in 1877 and died at Madison in 1891.
(Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. VOL III Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Angelia Carpenter)

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