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Richmond County,
Georgia
BARNES, George
Thomas, a Representative from
Georgia; born in a suburb (now called Summerville) of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., August 14, 1833; attended private schools,
Richmond Academy, and Franklin College; was graduated from the
University of Georgia at Athens in 1853; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in Augusta; during the Civil War
served in the Confederate Army in the Washington Light Artillery
Company of Augusta, Ga., as second lieutenant and major brevet; member
of the State house of representatives 1860-1865; member of the
Democratic National Committee 1876-1884; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1885-March
3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the
Fifty-second Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Augusta,
Ga., October 24, 1901; interment in the City Cemetery. JAMES GARDNER GOULD, the eldest son of Judge William Tracy Gould, and Anna, daughter of James Gardner, a merchant of Augusta, was born at Summerville, a suburb of Augusta, August 14, 1825. He came of a distinguished lineage, which is fully set forth in the sketch of his father, Judge William Tracy Gould. J. G. Gould in his youth was a pupil at the Richmond Academy, a famous school, one of the earliest established in Georgia, and yet doing effective work. After that he came under the charge of his father's highly esteemed classmate, Prof. Hawley Olmstead, at Wilton, Conn., where he and his classmate, E. Olmstead, were fellow-pupils and together prepared for college. In 1839 Hawley Olmstead became rector of the Hopkins Grammar School at New Haven, and young Gould accompanied him there, entering Yale with the freshman class in 1841. From the very first of his collegiate course he took a high position in his classes, graduated with first honor and was the valedictorian. A man of amiable disposition, irreproachable character, and great intellectual attainments, these qualities made him a universal favorite in his classes. After graduation he returned to Augusta, and studied law in the school which had been established there by his father in 1833. He was admitted to the bar in September, 1847. In 1S48 he was appointed tutor in Yale college, which position he held for four college terms, and left after commencement in 1849, returning home, where he began the practice of law with brilliant prospects. Shortly after establishing himself in the practice, he married Harriet Glascock Barrett, daughter of Thomas Barrett, a prominent merchant of Augusta, and granddaughter of Thomas Glascock, an eminent Georgian and former speaker of the General Assembly, and a member of Congress. Of this marriage there were two children, Harriet Glacock Gould, now Mrs. Harriet Gould Jefferies, and James Gardner Gould. On July 4, 1853, Mr Gould, by special invitation delivered the oration at Augusta, Ga., in commemoration of the Declaration of Independence, and gave a most able and scholarly address to a large and appreciative audienee, following the example of his distinguished father, Judge William Tracy Gould, who had been honored in the same way five years before. This brilliant and promising career was cut short by an untimely death. He had gone to Marietta, Ga., with his wife and child, and there died. The Superior Court was at the time in session, and on motion of the Hon. Joseph E. Brown, since Governor and United States Senator, the court adjourned to attend his funeral, and he was buried with Masonic honors. During the winter his rvmains were transferred to the beautiful cemetery in Augusta, Ga. Source: "Men of Mark in Georgia: a complete and elaborate history...", Volume 2 By William J. Northen - Transcribed by Barb Ziegenmeyer Nancy Strong, the mother of Thomas Barrett, was born in London, England, May 3, 1779. She came from England to the United States of America with her half brother, John Hartridge, and his family, in 1797. She became acquainted with Mr. Thomas Barrett, an Englishman, (and like herself a native of London), at Savannah, Ga., where they were married October 20, 1799. She never returned to her native land. Mr. Barrett and his wife removed to Augusta, Ga., where the former engaged in the "mercantile and commission business," and by his correct deportment and assiduous attention to business he secured the esteem and confidence of numerous friends. For a number of years he held the office of Clerk of the Board of Trustees of the Richmond Academy. He was Worshipful Master of the Augusta Lodge at the time of the death of President Washington in 1799, and gave the order that all brother Masons should wear a "badge of mourning on their sleeves" for a period, in memory of their distinguished brother. During the latter part of his life he was incapacitated for business on account of failing health, which rendered him almost helpless. He was blessed with an admirable wife, and a charming family of children—eight daughters and one son. He looked, however, on the period of his dissolution as that which could alone terminate his sufferings. He died, aged forty-two years. Owing to Mr. Barrett's protracted illness and inability to attend to his business, he left his wife and six children without means of support. His noble helpmate, however, possessed practical sense and unbounded energy, and these traits enabled her to rear her children in such a way that they reflected credit on their self-sacrificing, Christian mother. She was deeply religious and was one of the founders of the Augusta Orphans' Asylum.
O'Connor, Jeremiah J., one of the
progressive
business men and representative citizens of Augusta, was born in that
city, Oct. 4, 1855, and is a son of Michael G. and Julia Agnes
(Mullane) O'Connor, both native of County Cork, Ireland, where their
marriage was celebrated and whence they immigrated to the United States
in 1850, locating in the city of Augusta, where the father died in 1858
and the mother in 1885, the subject of this review being the only
surviving child. Mr. O'Connor attended the parochial and public schools
of Augusta during his boyhood days, but early assumed the practical
responsibilities of life, and it has been his portion to win
independence and success through his individual efforts. When but
eleven years of age he became a cash boy in a local dry-good
establishment, and even prior to this, in the Civil-war period, he
found employment in a local factory in which was manufactured
ammunition for the Confederate government. In the dry-goods store of
Gray & Turley, later Jas. W. Turley, which he entered as a cash
boy, he rose through various grades of promotion to that of buyer and
manager and that his services were appreciated is shown not less in
this fact than in his continuing in the employ of the one firm for the
long period of eighteen years. In 1885 he became a salesman in the shoe
store of William Mulherin & Co., and two years later was admitted
to partnership, the title of the firm being simultaneously changed to
Mulherin, Rice & Co. O'Connor, Jeremiah J., one of the progressive business men and representative citizens of Augusta, was born in that city, Oct. 4, 1855, and is a son of Michael G. and Julia Agnes (Mullane) O'Connor, both native of County Cork, Ireland, where their marriage was celebrated and whence they immigrated to the United States in 1850, locating in the city of Augusta, where the father died in 1858 and the mother in 1885, the subject of this review being the only surviving child. Mr. O'Connor attended the parochial and public schools of Augusta during his boyhood days, but early assumed the practical responsibilities of life, and it has been his portion to win independence and success through his individual efforts. When but eleven years of age he became a cash boy in a local dry-good establishment, and even prior to this, in the Civil-war period, he found employment in a local factory in which was manufactured ammunition for the Confederate government. In the dry-goods store of Gray & Turley, later Jas. W. Turley, which he entered as a cash boy, he rose through various grades of promotion to that of buyer and manager and that his services were appreciated is shown not less in this fact than in his continuing in the employ of the one firm for the long period of eighteen years. In 1885 he became a salesman in the shoe store of William Mulherin & Co., and two years later was admitted to partnership, the title of the firm being simultaneously changed to Mulherin, Rice & Co. The senior member of the firm, William Mulherin, died in 1893, and a few months later the surviving partners, Rice and O'Connor, formed a co partnership, under the title of the Rice & O'Connor Shoe Company, and they have three large and finely appointed stores in Augusta, doing an extensive business in both the jobbing and retail departments of their flourishing and important enterprise. Mr. O'Connor is a stanch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party; is a member of the city council, in which he represents the third ward; and served three years as a member of the board of education prior to entering the municipal council. He and his wife are communicants of the Catholic church and he is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Knights of America. On Sept. 8, 1887, Mr. O'Connor was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth I. Rice, daughter of Matthew Rice and a sister of his business associate, Patrick H. Rice. They have seven children: Matthew R., Arthur B., Thomas M., Marion A., Elizabeth R., Gerald A., and Joseph J. Source: Cyclopedia of Georgia Transcribed by Friends for Free Genealogy O'Connor, John J., is established in a very successful retail grocery business at 1289 Broad street, Augusta, in which city he was born, June 11, 1873, being a son of Patrick J. and Mary E. (Murray) O'Connor, the former of whom was born in county Mayo, Ireland, Jan. 10, 1842, and the latter in Augusta, Ga., in March, 1846. The father was for many years engaged in the grocery business in Augusta, and was for a number of years a member of the city council. He served from 1888 to 1903 as sheriff of Richmond county and died on Christmas day of the latter year, having been one of Augusta's well known and highly honored citizens . He was prominent in local politics, as a stanch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party, and was a communicant of the Catholic church, as is also his widow, who still resides in Augusta. He is survived by two sons and three daughters, all of whom reside in Augusta, the subject of this sketch being the elder of the two sons. Thomas H. is engaged in business in his native city; Anna Catharine is the wife of James P. Armstrong, cashier of the Irish-American bank; and Mary Ellen and Margaret remain with their mother. John J. O'Connor completed his educational training at Spring Hill college, in Mobile, Ala., and thereafter served six years as deputy sheriff of Richmond county, during the regime of his father in the office of sheriff. He resigned this position in 1899, and has since been engaged in the retail grocery trade, having a well stocked and well appointed establishment and en¬joying an excellent supporting patronage. He is a Democrat in his political allegiance and is a communicant of the Church of the Sacred Heart, one of the principal Catholic churches of Augusta. He is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and the Ancient Order of Hibernians. On Aug. 5, 1898, Mr. O'Connor was united in marriage to Miss Mary Genevieve Daly, daughter of James and Mary (McAndrew) Daly, of Augusta. Mr. Daly is manager of the extensive department store of J. B. White & Company, of Augusta. Mr. and Mrs. O'Connor have five children, namely: Mary Elizabeth, M. Genevieve, Margaret V., Patrick J. and John J., Jr. Source: Cyclopedia of Georgia Transcribed by Friends for Free Genealogy Oertel, Theodore E., M. D., specialist in the treatment of tuberculosis and the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, is one of the popular and successful practitioners of the city of Augusta. He was born in Westerly, Washington county, R. I., April 20, 1864, a son of Rev. John A. Oertel, D. D., who was born in Germany, and Julia A. (Torrey) Oertel, who was born in Newark, N. J. Rev. Dr. Oertel is a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal church and is an artist of distinguished talent, his painting entitled "Rock of Ages" having given him a world wide reputation, reproductions of the same being now found in thousands of homes. He and his wife now reside in Vienna, Va. Dr. Theodore E. Oertel secured his more purely literary education chiefly in the schools of the Protestant Episcopal cathedral at Garden City, Long Island, N. Y., and he was graduated in the medical department of the George Washington university, at Washington, D. C, as a member of the class of 1892, duly receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1893 he was engaged in post-graduate work in the city of Chicago; in 1893-5 was pathologist in West Side German dispensary in New York city; and in 1896 he came to Georgia for the purpose of establishing a pathological department in the state hospital for the insane, at Milledgeville. He there remained as pathologist for nearly three years, at the expiration of which, in the autumn of 1898, he located in Augusta, where he has since been actively engaged in the work of his profession, as a specialist in the lines noted, having built up a very large practice and one which brings to him patients from Georgia and adjoining states. Since 1898 he has held the chair of histology and bacteriology in the Medical College of Georgia, which is a department of the state university. He is a member of the American medical association and the Medical Association of Georgia, as well as the Richmond county medical society, of which last mentioned he is an ex-president. In the state association he is chairman of the committee on tuberculosis; is the author of a valuable and authoritative textbook, entitled Medical Microscopy, published in 1902; and is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church, as is also Mrs. Oertel. On April 24, 1893, Doctor Oertel was united in marriage to Miss Marie Cecile Rollings, of Washington, D. C, and they have one son, Robb Church Oertel, born March 31, 1898. Source: Cyclopedia of Georgia Transcribed by Friends for Free Genealogy Payne, George E., wholesale and retail liquor merchant, 1126 Broad street, Augusta, was born in Greenville county, S. C, Jan. 25, 1870, a son of William H. and Mary Jane (Davis) Payne, both of whom.were born in that county of the old Palmetto State. The father, who was a member of a South Carolina regiment in the Confederate service in the Civil war, is a prosperous farmer of Greenville county. His wife died on Aug. 26, 1882. George E. Payne was given the advantages of the public schools of the city of Greenville, S. C, where he also completed a course in Perry's business college, in which he was graduated at the age of eighteen years. He then entered the employ of his uncle, James E. Payne, of Greenville, who was engaged in the wholesale and retail liquor business, remaining thus employed until the state dispensary law of South Carolina went into effect, in 1891, after which he served for four years as storekeeper and gauger for the United States government, in Greenville. From 1895 to 1900 he was engaged in the distilling business near the city and in the latter year he removed to Augusta, where he has since been engaged as a wholesale and retail dealer in liquors. Mr. Payne lends his support to the Democratic party. On Oct. 4, 1891, he was united in marriage to Miss Minnie A. Fleidner, of Greenville, S. C, and they have two children—Alvin L., born April 29, 1893, and Lillie May, born in May, 1895. Source:
Cyclopedia of Georgia Transcribed by Friends for Free Genealogy Montgomery Cunningham Meigs Son of Charles Delucena Meigs. Soldier b in Augusta GA 3 May
1816, studied at the University of Pennsylvania and was graduated at
the US Military academy in 1836 with an appointment in the artillery,
but in 1837 was transferred to the corps of engineers. He was advanced
to 1st lieutenant in 1838 and to captain in 1853. Meanwhile he was
occupied in the building of Fort Delaware, in the improvement of
harbors in Delaware River and Bay, and in various other works along the
Atlantic coast until 1841, when be became superintending engineer of
the construction of Forts Way, Porter, Niagara and Ontario, and so
continued during 1841-9. He then spent the year 1849-50 in Washington
DC in the engineer bureau, after which he served again as the
superintending engineer on the building of Fort Montgomery, where he
was sent in 1852, but his orders were changed to Washington DC and he
was given control of the survey for the aqueduct before he took charge
of this work. In November 1852, he returned to Washington under orders
to take charge of designing and construction the Potomac aqueduct, also
superintending the building of new wings and iron dome of the capitol
extension, and the extension of the US general post office and
completion of Fort Madison in Annapolis MD. He was sent to Florida in
Oct 1860, to take charge of the building of Fort Jefferson, but in 1861
was appointed to organize an expedition to relieve Fort Pickens FL,
which was besieged by the Confederate forces. On 14 May 1861, he was
promoted to colonel of the 11th infantry, and on the 15th was made
quartermaster- BRYAN MORELL THOMAS BATTEY, Mrs. Emily Verdery, journalist, born in Belair, near Augusta. Ga., about the year 1828. She began her career as a journalist soon after the close of the Civil War, writing first for several Georgia newspapers, and traveling and corresponding for the "Ladies Home Gazette" of Atlanta, under the editorial guidance of her brother-in-law, Col. John S. Prather, an ex-confederate cavalry officer. Mrs. Battey went to New York in 1870, securing editorial positions at once on the "Tablet," the "Home Journal" and the "Telegram" and occasionally writing for the "Star," the "Democrat," the "Herald" and "Harper's Magazine." The "Sun," under the management of Hon. Amos I. Cummings and Dr. John B. Wood, frequently printed reports, special articles and editorials from Mrs. Battey's facile pen. In 1875 she became a salaried member of the staff of the "Sun," which position she held until 1890. While filling that position Mrs. Battey wrote for several syndicates, as well as special articles for newspapers in various parts of the country, signing various pen-names. She is not and never has been one of those workers who desire to acquire notoriety. Her aim has always been to do earnest work, and that work has always been excellent. The story of her career she tells in a lecture "Twenty Years on the Press." Her long experience on the New York press has made her well acquainted with leading women of the world, social, literary, political and religious. No woman knows better than she the history of the founding and progress of the various important women's clubs, guilds, temperance and religious societies and associations of the United States. The fruit of this wide knowledge has ripened for the delectation of those audiences that have heard her lecture, "The Woman's Century." She is a highly cultured and charming woman. Her home is now in Georgia and Alabama, with her relatives of the Verdery family. Childless herself, she has devoted her earnest life to her family ties and the study and assistance of her own sex. (American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Volume 1, Publ. 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow) BECK, Miss Leonora, educator, born near Augusta, Ga., in 1862. At an early age she showed an unusual aptitude for linguistic study, speaking several modern languages when nine years old. She was well grounded in Latin and Greek when fifteen years old. Oxford College, Ala., having thrown open its doors to young women, and being the only college for men in the South which received them, Miss Beck entered and received a careful and thorough training for her chosen profession. At the age of sixteen years she was graduated with A.M. distinction and at once accepted the position of young lady principal in the Bowden, Georgia, College, which she held for two-and-one-half years. During her connection with that institution Miss Beck instructed in metaphysics, Latin and Greek about one-hundred students, ranging from the ages of fifteen to thirty years. Her success as an educator becoming more generally known, she was urged to accept many positions of trust and honor, but declined them. The Jackson Institute was her next field of labor, and that now famous school owes its popularity and success in a great measure to the energy of thought and action which characterized her work while connected with it. In 1889 Miss Beck removed to Atlanta to engage in founding a first-class school for girls. That college, first known as the Capital Female College, is now known as the Leonora Beck College. The success of the school has been remarkable. In everything Miss Beck does there is an earnest purpose. She is an occasional contributor to the periodical press. A series of essays on Robert Browning is, perhaps, her most enduring contribution to literature. (American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Volume 1, Publ. 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow) CADWALLADER. Mrs. Alice A. W., philanthropist, born in St. Clairsville, Ohio, in 1832. At an early age she became the wife of Mr. Cochran, a Virginian, who died, leaving her with a family of three small children. Six years after his death she was united in marriage to N. J. White, who was killed in the battle of Antietam. Mrs. White took charge of the sanitary supplies of Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and served subsequently under the Sanitary Commission on the steamer "R. C. Woods;" at Jeffersonville, Ind.; and over the White Women's Refugee Hospital, at Nashville, Tenn. She settled in Nebraska, pre-empting a homestead, on which she lived two years. During that period and for two years afterward she filled the office of Grand Vice-Templar in the order of Good Templars. Then the crusade spirit fired the Great West, and, laying down her Good Templar work, with other sisters, she joined in the crusade against the saloons in Lincoln, Neb. In 1880, in Lincoln, Neb., she became the wife of Rev. Joseph Cadwallader, of the Congregational Church. On account of his failing health they removed to Jacksonville, Fla., where in 1886 she was made president of the State Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In that office she brought the work in that State from a condition of apathy and indifference to a healthy and steadily increasing growth. She resigned her position as State president and is now engaged in the crowning work of her life, the establishment of the Woman's Industrial Home, in Augusta, Ga. (American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies Vol 1 Publ. 1897 Transcribed by Marla Snow) Hildebrandt, Nicholas, Jr., is a successful retail grocer of Augusta, having succeeded to the business of his uncle, Nicholas Hildebrandt, Sr. He was born near Bremerhaven in the Province of Hanover, Germany, June 28, 1876, and is a son of Louis and Carolina (Ehlbeck) Hildebrandt. The father came from Germany to the United States when a young man, passing eight years in New York city and then returning to his fatherland, where he married Miss Carolina Ehlbeck, after which he turned his attention to farming, a vocation with which he continued to be identified, in Germany, until his death, which occurred in 1897. His widow still resides in the homestead, near Bremerhaven. The subject of this sketch has two brothers and one sister in America,—Wilhelmina is the wife of Nicholas Von Soosten, of Brazilton, Crawford county, Kan.; Rev. John C is a clergyman of the Lutheran church and is stationed at Redbud, Randolph county. Ill., and Fritz H. resides in Independence, Kan. Nicholas Hildebrandt, Jr., was reared to the age of sixteen years in his native land, where he secured good educational advantages. He then, in 1892, came to America, in company with his uncle, Nicholas Hildebrandt, Sr., who had taken up his residence in Augusta, Ga., in 1881, and who had been back to his native land for a visit. On his return to Augusta he brought his nephew and namesake, as indicated. In this city young Hildebrandt entered the employ of the wholesale and retail grocery firm of Richers & Gehrken, with whom he remained nine years, serving as house salesman and later representing the concern as a traveling salesman. In 1901 he entered the employ of his uncle, Nicholas, Sr., who conducted a fancy grocery and fish market at 224-6 Sixth street. On Jan. 1, 1903, he purchased the business of his uncle and has since continued the same with gratifying success, having an attractive and finely stocked establishment and making a specialty of the handling of fancy groceries, fish, oysters, game, etc. Mr. Hildebrandt has identified himself with the Democratic party and with the Augusta German-American shooting club, and is a member of St. Matthew's Lutheran church. Source Georgia: comprising sketches of counties, towns, events, institutions, and ... edited by Allen Daniel Candler, Clement Anselm Evans Hill, Audley, is one of the representative wholesale merchants of Augusta, being senior member of the firm of Hill & Merry, dealers in produce and provisions. He was born in the city of Savannah, Ga., Oct. 15, 1864, and is a son of Joseph A. and Mary Eleanor (Maxwell) Hill, the former of whom was born in Wilmington, N. C, and the latter in the State of Georgia. They now reside in Grovetown, Columbia county, Ga., the father being a retired planter and cotton merchant. He was a member of an artillery corps in the Confederate service during the entire period of the war between the states. When the subject of this review was a child his parents removed from Savannah to Grovetown, where he secured his early educational training, later being a student in private schools in Augusta. At the age of seventeen years he initiated his busines career, becoming a clerk in a business establishment in Augusta. In 1889 he engaged in the wholesale commission business, handling produce and provisions, and in 1893 he admitted to partnership A . H. Merry, with whom he has since been associated, under the firm name noted in the opening lines of this article. The firm controls a large wholesale trade in produce and provisions and has high standing in the business circles of the city. Mr. Hill is a member of a local lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons, is found stanchly arrayed as a supporter of the cause of the Democratic party, and both he and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church. On April 29, 1890, he was united in marriage to Miss Hortense Panknin, daughter of Dr. Charles F. Panknin, of Charleston, S. C, and they have six children, viz: Audley, Jr., Maxwell, Mary Eleanor, Hortense, Frederick P. and Elizabeth N. Source Georgia: comprising sketches of counties, towns, events, institutions, and ... edited by Allen Daniel Candler, Clement Anselm Evans EVE, Miss Maria Louise, poet, was born near Augusta, Ga., about 1848. She is of old English ancestry. Her first literary success was a prize for the best essay awarded by "Scott's Magazine." She has since contributed, from time to time, articles on literary and other subjects to some of the prominent magazines and papers. In 1879 her poem "Conquered at Last" won the prize offered by the Mobile "News" for the best poem expressing the gratitude of the South to the North for aid in the yellow fever scourge of the preceding year. That poem was reproduced in nearly all of the papers and many of the magazines of the North, and also in some periodicals abroad. Its great popularity throughout the North, attested by the large number of letters received by her from soldiers and civilians, cultured and uncultured, was a complete surprise as well as a great gratification to her. In June, 1889, a short poem by her, entitled "A Briar Rose," won the prize offered by the Augusta "Chronicle." At the request of the secretary of the American Peace and Arbitration Society, in Boston, as a message of welcome to the English Peace Deputation to America in October, 1887, she wrote a poem, "The Lion and the Eagle." The underlying thought of the "Universal Peace," as found in one of her published poems, led the secretary to communicate with her in regard to it, and she has since written a number of poems bearing on the subject, which is perhaps the most practical work that she has done on any of the great lines of advancement and progress. Possessing that order of mind which crystallizes in thought rather than in action, she feels that anything she may hope to achieve must be chiefly through the channels of literary effort. Her writings are comparatively small in bulk, her endeavor being always toward force and directness, rather than expansiveness of thought. (American Women, Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Volume 1 Copyright 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow.) WILLIAM SCHLEY, lawyer, legislator, judge, congressman, and the eighteenth governor of Georgia, was born in the city of Frederick, Md., December 10, 1786. His people removed to Georgia, and his education was obtained in the academies of Louisville and Augusta. In 1812 he was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Augusta until 1825, when he was elected judge of the Superior Court for the Middle District. This office he filled with ability until 1828. In 1830 he represented Richmond county in the General Assembly, and in 1832 was elected a member of the Twentythird Congress as a Democrat, serving during 1833-4-5. In 1835 he was elected governor of Georgia, and served his full term of two years. During his administration the second Creek Indian war broke out, and in company with Generals Scott and Jesup he repaired to Columbus, where for six weeks he remained assisting the military authorities in every way possible to bring about a speedy conclusion of the troubles. In his first message to the Legislature in 1836 he strongly recommended the construction of the Western and Atlantic Railroad. To this work he devoted much time. He twice visited the engineers on the several routes for the purpose of giving instruction and procuring information and had the pleasure before the end of his term of signing the law authorizing the construction of the road. During his term he recommended a geological survey of the State, and the establishment of a lunatic asylum. Governor Schley was a pronounced Democrat, and a very strict constructionist. In 1826 he published in Philadelphia a digest of the ''English Statutes in Force in Georgia," in which he placed notes on Magna Charter and strongly enunciated his views. It is not amiss to insert the exact, words of Governor Schley in that connection. He said: "It was necessary in the formation of the Federal Government that each State should give up a part of its sovereignty, delegating to the General Government such powers as were necessary for its existence, and to enable it efficiently to sustain its own dignity, and to protect the individual States. This was accordingly done by the original framers of the Constitution, and their acts were ratified by the States. But neither the Convention who formed nor the States who ratified this Constitution had the most distant idea that the doctrine of constructive power would be carried to the alarming extent contended for by some politicians of the present day, and which threatens the total restriction of States rights and State sovereignty. If the doctrine be persisted in, and no remedy be provided for the evil, the Federal Government, like Aaron's rod, will swallow up the State Government, and a final consolidation of the whole will put an end to that beautiful system of liberty which is now the pride and boast of the free people of these States." Governor Schley was an able lawyer, a sound judge, and a legislator of breadth and progressive ideas. Indeed, he may be said to have been in advance of his time in many of his ideas, and was a most statesmanlike executive. Profoundly devoted to the State, and to the people of Georgia, he took a deep interest in everything affecting their welfare and was always ready to contribute of his time, his talents and his labor to anything that would forward the interests of Georgia. On December 22, 1857, a new county then being organized in the southwestern part of the State, was named in his honor. He died at Augusta, Ga., on November 20, 1858, nearly seventytwo years of age. COMPILED BY THE PUBLISHER. Men of Mark in Georgia Volume 2 A.B. Caldwell Publisher 1910 Few,
William was born near Baltimore, Md. He
received
a
good
education,
studied
law
and
began
to practice at Augusta, Ga. During
the Revolutionary war he served as
colonel in the Continental army, and was especially distinguished for
the
bravery in battles with the Indians. He
was made presiding judge of the Richmond county
court; was surveyor-general in 1778; was several times a delegate to
the
Continental congress, and to the Federal constitutional convention of
1787; was
one of the first United States
senators from Georgia,
and in 1794 became circuit judge. In
1799 he removed to New York City, was elected a
member of the legislature of the state in 1802 and died at Fishkill,
July 10,
1828, after having filled many important positions in the city and
state of New York. Fleming,
Robert Alexander, who died at
his home in the city of Augusta,
Feb. 9, 1890, was one of the able and influential business men of that
city and
left the impress of a noble manhood on the history of his times, having
also
been a loyal soldier of the Confederacy during the civil war. Mr. Fleming was born in Lincolnton, Lincoln
county, Ga.,
April 9, 1825, being a son of Robert A. and Thursa Fleming, both of
whom were
likewise natives of that county, and representatives of old and honored
families of the state. Mr. Fleming
secured his educational discipline in the schools of his native town
and
located in the city of Augusta when a young man, having been a
prominent cotton
factor in this city prior to the Civil war, as well as after its close. On Nov. 23, 1862, he tendered his services in
defense of the cause of his loved Southland, enlisting as a private in
the
Sixty-third Georgia infantry, with which he served until the close of
the great
internecine conflict between the states. He
took
p-art
in
a
number
of
important battles and
campaigns, was a
participant in the battles of Recaca, new Hope Church, Kennesaw
Mountain,
Peachtree Creek, Atlanta and Jonesboro, and was with General Hood in
the
campaign to Nashville. From that point
he went out in the campaign to Murfreesboro,
under General Forrest, in the rear guard of Hood’s army.
His record as a soldier was one of
unfaltering fidelity and utmost gallantry, his loyalty to what he
believed
right being as pronounced in this relation as was it in all other
associations
of his life.-a loyalty absolutely inviolable. After
the
close
of
the
was
Mr.
Fleming returned to Augusta
and resumed
his operations as a cotton factor, bravely facing the depressed
conditions
which obtained throughout the south thought the ravages of war and
bending all
his masterful energies to recoup his fortunes and to aid in rebuilding
the
industries and institutions of his home city and state.
He continued in the cotton business until
about 1883, and was very successful in his operations.
In 1886 he became associated with Landon
Thomas, Jr., and Frank E. Fleming is founding the banking house of
Fleming,
Thomas & Co., which built up a large and representative business
and with
which he continued actively identified until his death.
He was also largely interested in cotton mills
in this part of the state, as a stockholder in the Graniteville
Manufacturing
Company and the Langley Manufacturing Company. He
was
a
stanch
Democrat
in
his
political proclivities,
and his life was
guided and guarded according to the Golden Rule. He
was
a
true
humanitarian,
just
and
tolerant,
finding
an element of good in every man. He
was
an
appreciative
member
of
the Masonic fraternity. On
Nov.
5, 1867, Mr. Fleming was united in
marriage to Miss Louise Anderson, daughter of Isaac and Lucinda (Baker)
Anderson, of Warren county, Ga., and she survives him, as do also their
five
children, namely: T. Henry, Edward C.,
Mary Lou (Mrs. William Martin), Robert A., Jr., and Claude A. One who knew the subject of this memoir long
and well has given the following beautiful and consistent estimate of
his
character; “Mr. Fleming was quiet and retiring was successful in his
various
business undertakings because of careful planning and correct methods. He was his own counselor.
In the serene quietude of a masterful
personality he possessed rare abilities that guided and crowned a
career that
brought to his preeminence among his associated and contemporaries. Beautiful in character, chaste in ambitions,
his life was characterized by a nobility and exaltation of purpose
refreshing
to contemplate. As a man among men he stood ‘four square to every wind
that
blows,’ and his generosity and his kindness of heart gained him the
affectionate regard of all who came within the sphere of his gracious
influence.”[Source:
Georgia:
Sketches, Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions & People, Vol. 2,
Publ.
1906 Transcribed By: Maggie Coleman] Flynn,
Jeremiah C., has been engaged in
the retail grocery business at 1017 Ninth street Augusta,
for the past thirty years, and is one of the representative Business
men and
popular citizens of that city. He was
born in County Cork, Ireland, Jan. 31. 1843, and is a
son of Edmund and Mary (O’Connor) Flynn, both of whom passes their
entire lives
in the fair Emerald Isle. Jeremiah C.
Flynn was reared and educated in his native land, whence he came to the
United
Stated in 1866, at the age if twenty-three years. He
landed
in
New
York
city
on
the
first day of October,
and after a sojourn of bur one week in the national metropolis he made
his way
to August, where he has since maintained his home.
Here he has been identified with the grocery
business since 1872, and since June 26, 1876, he has been engaged in
this line
of enterprise at his present location, where he has a substantial
trade, based
on years of upright dealing and careful and discriminating selection of
stock. Mr. Flynn is an uncompromising
adherent of the Democratic party and has shown a commendable interest
in local
affairs of a public nature. He served
fifteen years as a member of the board of police commissioners of
Augusta, and for ten of
those years was president of the board. He
then retired from office, but after an interim of five
years, in
December, 1905, he was again elected police commissioner, for a term of
five
years. He is a communicant of St.
Patricks’ church, Roman Catholic, is identified with the Ancient Order
of
Hibernians, and the Augusta
retail grocers’ association, while for several years he was a member of
the
Irish Volunteers, a local military organization, in which he served as
colorbearer. In November, 1873, Mr.
Flynn was united in marriage to Miss Anna M. Kelleher, of Augusta, and
she was summoned to the life
eternal on Nov. 6, 1901, being survived by seven children:
Mary, Edward C., Nellie, John, Jeremiah C.,
Jr., Leo E. and Bessie L. Mary is now
the wife of W. W. Teague, and Nellie is the wife of C. J. Vaughan. Ford,
Frank G., cashier of the National
Bank of Augusta, with which he has been
identified since 1867, is a veteran of the confederate service in the
war
between the states and is one of the well known and honored citizens of
Augusta, where he was born
on May 16, 1842. He is a son of Dr.
Lewis D. and Frances Emily Ford, the former of whom was born in the
historic
old city of Morristown, N. J., and the latter in
Hamburg, S.
C. Lewis D. Ford, M. D., LL. D., was one
of the distinguished physicians and surgeons of Georgia and was for
many years
engaged in the practice of his profession in Augusta, where both he and
his
wife passed the closing years of heir lives, honored by the entire
community. doctor Ford rendered
noteworthy service to the Confederacy during the Civil war, having been
for
some time surgeon of the Georgia hospital in the city of Richmond, Va.,
and
later occupying a similar position in a Confederate hospital in his
home city
of Augusta. Frank G. Ford secured his
early educational training in Richmond academy,
in his native city, and then entered the University of Georgia,
in which he was a student at the outbreak of the Civil war, when, like
so many
other of the young men of the South, he gave prompt evidence of his
loyalty to
the Confederate cause. On May 11, 1861,
he enlisted as a private in Company A, Fifth Georgia volunteer
infantry, with
which he saw long, arduous and loyal service, taking part in the
battles of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga
and Shiloh and serving with his command in the entire campaign from
Dalton to Atlanta,
also taking part in the engagements at Bentonville and Averasboro, N. C. He was slightly wounded in the battle of
Murfreesboro but was
incapacitated for only a brief interval. He
was
promoted
to
sergeant-major
and
later
to second
lieutenant of
Company H of the regiment in which he originally enlisted, and of which
he
remained a member until the close of the war, his command being
surrendered
with Johnston’s
army. For about two years after the
close of the war Mr. Ford was in the service of the United States
government, as a clerk in the chief
quartermaster’s department, in Augusta. In
1867 he assumed the position of collection
clerk in the National bank of Augusta and has ever since been
identified with
this old and substantial financial institution, having risen through
the
various grades of promotion to his present responsible office of
cashier, which
he has held since 1898. He is unwavering
in his support of the Democratic party, and for many years he served as
a
member of the board of police commissioners of Augusta, having been
chairman of the board
for a considerable portion of the time. He
is president of the board of trustees of the Augusta
Young Men’s
library association fund, is affiliated with the United Confederate
Veterans
and with the Royal Arcanum. On Nov. 10,
1871, Mr. Ford was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ellen Ives, daughter
of
Adrian C. and Amanda W. (Thew) Ives, who were then resident of Augusta,
and they have three children
living: Frances Emily is the wife of
C. D. Cohen, of Norfolk,
Va.; Miss Ellen Ives Ford remains at the
parental home, and Adrian Chauncey is a representative young business
man of Augusta. Forsyth,
John, fifteenth governor of Georgia, was born in Frederick
county, Va.,
Oct. 22, 1780. After graduating at
Princeton, he studied law and was admitted to the bar at Augusta, Ga.,
in 1802. In 1808 he became
attorney-general of the state, was elected representative in Congress
in 1813,
and Unites States senator in 1818, resigning the latter position in
1819 to
become United States Minister to Spain. In
the capacity he completed the delicate
task of negotiating the transfer of Florida to
the United States, returned
to America
in 1823 and was at once elected to Congress. In
1827
he
became
governor
of
the
state and in 1829 was
again elected to
the United States
senate. He was a delegate to the
anti-tariff convention in 1832, and secretary of state under Presidents
Jackson
and Van Buren. He died in Washington, D.
C., Oct.
21, 1841. Frain,
Richard A., a
prominent retail grocer of Augusta,
was born in the city which is now his home, the date of his nativity
having
been Jan. 4, 1865. He is a son of
Sanders A. and Mary Ann (Stevens) Frain, both of whom were born in
County Wexford, Ireland. The father came
to America
as a young man and located in Augusta, later
returning to Ireland,
where his marriage was solemnized. He
then came to the United States with his bride and again took up his
residence
in Augusta, where he was engaged in mercantile business until his
death, which
occurred in 1870, his wife also passing away in the same year, as did
also his
tow brothers, Walter and Richard A., both of whom were resident of
Augusta at
the time. The subject of this review was
thus a child of but five years when he was doubly orphaned, and he is
the only
survivor of the immediate family. His
father was in the Confederate service as a member of a Georgia regiment
during the Civil
war. After duly availing himself of the
advantages of the common schools of Augusta, Mr.
Frain here entered Richmond
academy, where he continued his studies until he had attained the age
of
sixteen years, though he had commenced to assist in his own maintenance
when
but seven years old, by working in a local grocery.
After leaving school he continued to be
employed as a grocery clerk until 1894, since which year he has been
established in a successful retail grocery business at 1370 Broad
street, and
he I held in high esteem as a reliable and enterprising business man
and loyal
citizen of his native city. He owns the
building in which his attractive sore is located; as well as another
store,
which he rents, the same being utilized as a drug store.
He is a Democrat in politics, is a Royal Arch
Mason, and both he and his wife are communicants of the Church of the
Atonement,
Protestant Episcopal. On July 21, 1891,
Mr. Frain was united in marriage to Miss Frances L. Hoops, daughter of
John C.
Hoopsa, of Augusta, and they have four children,-Richard A., Jr., born
April
19, 1892; Harold C., May 21, 1894; George C., Sept. 1, 1899; and
Frances
Lucille, Sept. 27, 1902. Gardner, James, was born in Augusta, Ga., Jan. 28, 1813. His father was born in Glasgow Scotland, emigrated to this country, married Miss Elizabeth McKinnie, of Newburn, N. C., and they made their residence in Augusta. James Gardner attended the Richmond academy, where he took his initiatory education, as did many other Georgians, some of whom became distinguished, such as Hon. John P. King, and Gov. William Schley. This academy has long been famous for its thorough system of instruction, and its firs-class teachers. It also enjoyed the distinction of having been visited by General Washington, when, as president of the United States in 1791, he was in the city of Augusta, the then capital of Georgia. In this school, as also in Union college Schenectady, N. Y., where he graduated with honors, James Gardner displayed remarkable aptitude for the acquirement of knowledge. After graduation, he returned home, and entered the law office of George W. Crawford, under whom he studied law and was soon admitted to the practice. So pleased was Governor Crawford with his law pupil that he took him in partnership, and the firm of “Crawford & Gardner” lasted until the junior partner was honored by the distinction and great responsibility belonged to the middle circuit. Since then it has gone to the capital of the state so far as to require its incumbent to reside there and have an office in the capitol. It was thus a high compliment to James Gardner that he should have been appointed, while so young a man, to this office. It is known that he, more than once, was appointed by the governor to attend important criminal cases in distant parts of the state. While he did not have the gift of impassioned and lurid oratory, he possessed what was more important to his high office-profound legal knowledge, and a forceful logical manner of presentation of his argument that made him an acknowledged by all, was his unusually gifted pen. No man wrote with more logical force, polish, and brilliancy than did James Gardner. He had fully posted himself in the political history of the United States, and took his stand boldly in defence of Jefferson’s theory of our government and its constitution. He was in deed and in truth a Jeffersonian Democrat-the best form of Democrat. He purchased the “Constitutionalist” and devoted his great energy and brilliant pen to the strong, unflinching, and ever earnest presentation of Democratic principles. His paper soon became the leading Democratic paper of Georgia. It was said of James G. Blaine, one of the greatest men of the north in his day, that as soon as he became editor of the “Kennebec Journal”, he made himself felt in politics. And so it was said of James Gardner, as soon as he became editor of the “Constitutionalist,” he made himself felt in state and national politics. So rapidly did his influence grow, and so strongly was it felt, that in 1857 he was presented to the Democratic convention of the state by his numerous friends and admirers all over Georgia for nomination for the high office of governor. And though such men of marked distinction and influence in the state as Hon. J. H. Lumpkin, of Rome, and Hon. R. G. Lamar, of Macon, were being vigorously pressed for the high honor, Gardner was for several days in the lead. But being as patriotic and unselfish as he was personally able and brave Mr. Gardner had authorized a friend to withdraw his name if he deemed it best for the harmony of the party. Still the fight went on until a compromise man, Hon. Joseph E. Brown, of Cherokee county, was selected. Gardner’s paper at once gave him its most valuable and powerful support, and Brown was elected governor. And though the banks and their friends asked, “Who is Joe Brown?” they were soon silenced, and found out who Joe Brown was. The war followed during Brown’s administration, and when it was ended, Mr. Gardner, who had fought the policies of the Republican party in all its hostile phases, as they were most ably, yet frankly presented by Horace Greely, who afterward became the bondsman of Jefferson Davis, favored the nomination of Greely for the presidency. He was ready to take the hand offered across the bloody chasm. One of the bravest of the brave, Mr. Gardner had a woman’s sympathetic heart and he could but admire the great journalist who showed manly sympathy for the south. Mr. Gardner had the reputation of being a duelist, but he never fought but one duel, in which he bore himself with calm courage and becoming courtesy to his antagonist. Dueling was popular in that day, but he settled honorably, where he was consulted, more duels that he ever fought or encouraged. He married in 1847, the charming and accomplished Miss Martha G. S. Jordan, daughter of Green Hill and Elizabeth Taylor (Sanford) Jordan of Milledgeville, Ga. He lived in his native city, Augusta, from his birth until his death, which sad event occurred on Oct. 7, 1874, leaving his wife and six children to mourn his loss. In his death Georgia lost a noble, faithful and able son, who blazed for himself, socially, politically and professionally, an honorable and attractive career in her illustrious history.(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Renae Donaldson) Gardner,
William
Sanford,
cotton
broker and real estate and insurance agent, with offices at 124,
Eighth street,
Augusta, Ga.,
was born in the city, which is now his home, June 9, 1859.
He is a son of James and Martha G. S. (Jordan)
Gardner, the former of whom is now deceased. His
father
was
for
a
number
of
years editor and proprietor
of a daily
paper, the Constitutionalist, in Augusta,
where he died in 1874. William Sanford
Gardner was educated at the Richmond academy of Augusta, and he has
been engaged
individually in his present line of enterprise since 1888.
He has built up a large and representative
business, and being essentially loyal to the city of his nativity takes
a deep
interest in all that concerns it welfare and advancement.
He is a member of the Augusta
exchange and board of trade, and also of the New York cotton exchange. His political faith is shown in the
unqualified allegiance he accords to the Democratic party, and he was
formerly
a member of that well know military organization, the Richmond Hussars. In November, 1885, Mr. Gardner was united in
marriage to Miss Elizabeth H. McLaws, a daughter of Judge William R.
McLaws,
and niece of Gen. LaFayette McLaws, well known and honored citizens of
Georgia
and both now deceased. Mr. and Mrs.
Gardner have one son, James, who was born May 26, 1888. Hogrefe,
Charles W., a
successful
hardware merchant of Augusta, was born in that
city, Sept. 27, 1878, and is a son of Henry and Augusta Georgia
(Weigle)
Hogrefe, the former of whom was born in Charleston,
S.C., Feb. 21, 1850, and the latter in Augusta, Georgia,
in recognition of which fact she received her two significant Christian
names.
They still reside in this county, the father being a well known market
gardner and having a
finely improved place not far distant from the city. Both are of stanch
German
descent. Charles W. Hogrefe prosecuted his studies in Houghton
institute and
later in Richmond academy in Augusta, being graduated in the latter old
and popular institution at the age of sixteen years. Soon afterward he
entered
the employ of Maurice Walton, in whose hardware establishment he
remained as a
salesman for a period of eight years, familiarizing himself with the
various
details of the business. On Oct. 31, 1903, he resigned his position
with this
concern and on the 1st of the following month engaged in the
same
line of business on his own account, becoming one of the organizers and
incorporators of the Hogrefe Hardware Company, which was named in his
honor and
of which he has been the general manager from the start. He is now a
half owner
of the business, in which he is associated with John J. Evans, who is
one of
the well known and honored business men of Augusta. The Hogrefe
Hardware Company has the
state agency for the Blakeslee gasoline engines, manufactured in
Birmingham, Ala.,
and has built up a splendid business in the handling of these fine
engines,
which are of the highest type and challenge all competition. Mr.
Hogrefe is a
member of Holy Trinity English Lutheran church, as is also his wife,
and he is
superintendent of its Sunday school. In a fraternal way he is
identified with
the Royal Arcanum. On Jan. 12, 1901, Mr. Hogrefe was united in marriage
to Miss
Lillie L. Story, of Augusta,
and they have one son, Carl Raymond, who was born Nov. 22, 1903.
Holliday,
William
Zellars,
an eminent physician of Augusta and a member of the faculty of the
Medical
College of Georgia, was born on the family homestead, ten miles east of
Washington, Wilkes county, Ga., Jan. 4, 1860, his parents being Allen
T. and
Elizabeth (Zellars) Holliday. The father, who was a farmer and also
engaged in
the lumber business, died in 1865, leaving a widow with six young
children to
rear and educate. Just at that time the country was struggling with the
unsettled and demoralized conditions incident to the Civil war, making
the task
of the widowed mother one of peculiar difficulty and responsibility.
But with
true courage she met and overcame the obstacles as they presented
themselves,
conducted the affairs of the family with rare business ability, and
established
for each of her children a character for industry, honor and moral
integrity.
The subject of this sketch, therefore, spent the early years of his
life on the
farm, where he received that training in industry, perseverance and
self-denial
which constitute the basis of all honorable living, and which have been
the
main factors in his subsequent success. His
early
education
was
received
in
the
neighboring
schools, which for
that day were very good, offering him the opportunities of studying
Latin,
Greek and the higher mathematics, in which branches he became quite
proficient,
thus forming a substantial basis for his professional education that
followed.
At an early age he decided in favor of a professional life and at the
age of
nineteen years began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. John L.
Wilkes,
at Lincolnton. That was in September, 1879. The first six months of the
following year were passed in the office of Dr. Joseph W. Sanders, a
prominent
physician of Penfield. Having qualified himself for college by this
preparatory
course of study, he entered the University of Maryland school of
medicine, where he was graduated in March, 1882, with the degree of
Doctor of
Medicine. Within thirty days after receiving his degree he located at
Harlem, Ga.,
and assumed the duties and responsibilities of the active practitioner
of
medicine. Although but twenty-two years of age and almost an entire
stranger in
the locality, he soon demonstrated his skill and established himself in
a
lucrative practice. After nearly ten years here he became desirous for
a field
in which his talents could find a wider scope and removed to Augusta,
where he soon became recognized as
one of the leading physicians. Doctor Holliday is a close student of
everything
pertaining to his chosen profession, and he has kept fully abreast of
the march
of progress in the science of medicine. He has taken several
post-graduate
courses in the New York post-graduate medical
school and New York
polyclinic. For several years he has made a specialty of the disease of
children, in which branch of medicine he is justly regarded as one of
the
leading physicians in the state. Since taking up his residence in
Augusta he has been
connected the greater part of the time with the work of teaching in the
Medical
College of Georgia, giving instruction in various departments, for the
last
three years as professor of pediatrics. He is a member of the American
medical
association, the Medical Association of Georgia, and the Richmond
county medical society. In a period
of twelve years he was five times elected president of the local
medical
society and in April, 1905, at the annual meeting at Atlanta, he was
elected president of the
Medical Association of Georgia. His election to this office was the
highest
compliment his profession could pay, and under his administration the
membership of the association was increased more than in any decade of
its
previous history, the work of the organization having also been much
improved
and a general interest aroused among the members of the profession in
the
state. Doctor Holliday is a member of the Richmond
county board of education, one of the trustees of the Masonic hall of
Augusta,
a director of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and takes great
interest
in charitable and benevolent work generally. In April, 1885, Doctor
Holliday
was united in marriage to Miss Ella Collins, of Harlem,
and they have one daughter, Edith. Hollingsworth,
Samuel
L.,
who was long in railroad service, in the capacity of conductor, is now
engaged
in the grocery business in Augusta,
having an attractive and thoroughly metropolitan retail establishment,
at the
corner of Telfair and Ninth streets. Mr. Hollingsworth was born on a
plantation
in Newton county, Ga.,
Sept. 14, 1858, and is a son of James M. and Martha Hollingsworth, both
of whom
were likewise born in Newton
county, the former on Dec. 22, 1824, and the latter on Dec. 23, 1828.
The
father, who was a prosperous planter and a man of influence in his
community,
died in October, 1892, and his wife passed away in September, 1899. They resided in that portion of Newton county
which is now
included in Rockdale county. They are survived by four children, of
whom the
subject of this sketch is the only son. Elizabeth
is the widow of J.C. Granade; Mary is the wife of E.J. Argo; and Sudie
is the
wife of W.Y. Nelms, of Atlanta.
The elder sisters reside in Rockdale county. Samuel L. Hollingsworth
was reared
on the homestead plantation, and his early educational advantages were
those
afforded by the common schools of Rockdale county. In 1883 he entered
the
employ of the Georgia
railroad, in the capacity of flagman, serving three years and then
being
promoted to the position of freight conductor. Six years later he was
made a
passenger conductor, and continued to hold this position for ten years,
at the
expiration of which, on Sept. 13, 1902, he resigned his position to
engage in
the retail grocery business in Augusta,
having since given his entire attention to this enterprise. His
establishment
is one of the best in the city and controls a large and prosperous
trade. Mr.
Hollingsworth’s eldest son, Panola V., is associated with him in the
business,
under the firm name of Hollingsworth & Co. Mr. Hollingsworth is a
Democrat,
a Master Mason, a member of the First Presbyterian church, and is
identified
with the Merchants’ protective association and the Order of Railway
Conductors.
On Dec. 21, 1876, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Leila Marbut,
of
Rockdale county, and they have five children, viz.: Ada Viola, Libbie
S.,
Panola V., Grady DeWitt, and Scott. Ada V. is the wife of C.W. Brown, a
representative hardware merchant of Augusta, and Libbie S. is the wife
of W.W.
Zealy, of Athens, Ga. Jones, William R.,
who is successfully established in the retail grocery business at 1256
Broad street,
Augusta, was born in Johnston
county, N. C, Feb. 10, 1858. He is a son of William Alvin and Mary Jane
(Hill)
Jones, both natives of North Carolina,
the former born in Johnston and the latter in Wake county. They passed
their
entire lives in that state, the father having been a member of a North
Carolina
regiment in the Confederate service during the Civil war and a planter
by
vocation. William R. Jones received somewhat meager educational
advantages in
the schools of his native county, but his youth was passed in the days
of great
prostration through the South after the close of the war between the
states, so
that his opportunities were far different than they would have been
under
normal conditions. He was associated in the work and management of the
home
plantation until he had attained the age of twenty-two years, when he
located
in Goldsboro,
N. C, where he engaged in the retail grocery business, in which he
there continued
until 1886. He then removed to Augusta, Ga., where he was employed for
four years by the street railway company. He then established his
present
grocery business, which he has since conducted most successfully,
having at all
times a fresh and select stock of staple and fancy groceries and
putting forth
every effort to meet the demands of his excellent patronage. He is
aligned as a
loyal supporter of the cause of the Democratic party, and is affiliated
with
the Independent Order of Heptasophs and the Ancient Order of United
Workmen. In
August, 1895, Mr. Jones was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Spears,
daughter
of the late Dr. Madison L. Spears, of Augusta,
and they have one son, William Russell, who was born Dec. 11, 1896. Kellogg, William C,
M. D., one of the representative younger physicians of the city of
Augusta, was born in Greenwich,
Fairfield county, Conn., April 6, 1874. He is a son of George
and Millie (Benedict) Kellogg, both of whom were born in New Canaan,
Conn., where they now
maintain their home, both families having been early founded in New
England. Doctor Kellogg secured his preliminary
educational training in the public schools of his native state, after
which he
entered Yale university, in which he was graduated as a member of the
class of
1896, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His technical course was
taken in
the medical department of the famous Johns Hopkins university, in the
city of Baltimore, in which he was
graduated in 1900, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For the
ensuing
eighteen months he served as resident surgeon in Barnes hospital, in
the city
of Washington, D. C, and in the autumn of 1901,
he located in Augusta,
where he has met with marked success in his profession, confining his
practice
to the treatment of the diseases of the eye, ear, nose, throat and
skin. He is
a member of the Medical Association of Georgia and is secretary and
treasurer
of the Richmond
county medical society. He is a member of the Congregational church. On
Sept.
18, 1903, he was united in marriage to Miss Loubelle Kniffin, of
Binghamton, N. Y., and they enjoy marked popularity in the
social life of Augusta. Kent, Lewis W.,
an honored -veteran of the Confederate service in the Civil war, has
been
successfully engaged in the retail grocery business at 1319 Estes
street, Augusta, since 1889.
He is a native Georgian, having been born on a plantation in Hancock
county,
April 13, 1844, and is a son of William R. and Sarah (Morgan) Kent, the
former
of whom was born in North Carolina and the
latter in Georgia.
The parents removed from Hancock to Glascock, and thence to Richmond
county,
Lewis W. having been six years of age at the time of the second
removal, and he
has ever since maintained his home in Richmond county, where he was
afforded
the advantages of the schools. At the age of sixteen years he left the
home
farm and took up his abode in the city of Augusta,
and in 1864 he tendered his services to the Confederacy, enlisting as a
private
in Company D, First Augusta battalion, Wright's brigade, Hardee's
corps. He was
promoted to the rank of corporal and continued in the service until the
close
of the war. He took part in the battles at Griswoldville,
Ga., and Honey Hill, S. C, and in the fights with
Sherman's army around the city of Savannah. At Lawton's farm, near
Savannah,
in December, 1864, while on picket duty, he and two of his comrades
captured
and disarmed seven deserters, turning them over to the Confederate
authorities.
All were tried by court martial on the following day and were convicted
and
executed. At the close of the war Mr. Kent
returned to Augusta,
where he was for seventeen years in the employ of the street railway
company.
In 1889 he engaged in the retail grocery business in his present
location,
having erected a commodious and substantial building, which constitutes
both
store and residence, and here he has a very satisfactory factory trade.
Besides
this property he also owns four tenant houses which yield a good
income. In politics
Mr. Kent is aligned as a
supporter of the Democratic party, and he is identified with Camp No.
1094, United Confederate Veterans. On March 23, 1865, Mr. Kent married
Miss Isabelle Touchstone, daughter
of the late William E. Touchstone, of Cobb county, Ga., and they have
six children, namely:
Minnie, William E., Lewis L., Walter E., Ernest F. and Margaret. Minnie
is now
the wife of T. H. Stringer, of Augusta.
Kettle Creek.—One of the most important battles in the South during the
Revolution was fought at Kettle creek, in Wilkes county, on Feb. 14,
1779.
Colonel Boyd, of the British army, with a force of 800 regulars and
Carolina
Tories, tried to effect a junction with Colonel Campbell at Augusta.
Through the alertness and activity
of the Americans he was forced to go up the Savannah river to a point
about
eighteen miles above the mouth of Broad river
before he could effect a crossing. After crossing the river he went
west until
he thought he was far enough inland to avoid the Americans, then turned
toward Augusta. On the morning of
the 13th he crossed Broad river at a place
called Webb's Ferry and proceeded toward Little river, where he
expected
McGirth to join him with reinforcements. Meantime a junction had been
formed by
the Americans under Pickens, Dooly and Clarke near the mouth of Broad
river and the whole force, under the command of
Pickens started in pursuit of Boyd. Captain Neal, with a small party,
was sent
to the rear of Boyd, with instructions to send word occasionally so as
to keep
Pickens informed of the enemy's movements. This duty was faithfully
executed
and on the night of the 13th the Americans encamped within four miles
of the
British, who knew nothing of their proximity. Early on the following
morning
they began the march and came upon the British on the north side of
Kettle
creek, while they were engaged in killing some cattle and getting
breakfast.
The line of march was the order of battle. Dooly on the right and
Clarke on the
left, each with one hundred men, while Pickens, with two hundred,
occupied the
center. Orders were given not to fire until within thirty-five paces of
the
foe, but as the Americans approached the pickets discharged their
pieces and
fell back with the alarm. Boyd formed his line under shelter of a fence
and
some fallen timber, but was soon overpowered and compelled to retreat.
He
received three wounds, which proved mortal and Major Spurgen assumed
command in
his place. After a warm contest for about an hour the British retreated
through
the swamp and across the creek. Clarke followed and the battle was
renewed with
vigor on the other side. The Americans at last gained the high ground
for which
they had been contending and the enemy fled from the field in
confusion. The
British lost 70 killed, a number wounded and 75 prisoners. The American
loss
was 9 killed and 23 wounded, two of whom afterward died. The importance
of the
action was greater than the numbers engaged would indicate. It broke up
the
Tory forces in North Carolina so effectively
that they never afterward gave the people of Georgia any trouble. Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, lawyer, author, and educator, was born at Augusta, Sept 22, 1790. In 1813 he graduated at Yale college, studied law at Litchford, Conn., and was admitted to the bar in 1815. He began practice at Greenboro; was elected to the legislature in 1821, and the following year was elected circuit judge. After a short period on the bench he resumed the practice of law, locating in Augusta, where he established the Sentinel. This paper was consolidated with the Chronicle in 1838 and Judge Longstreet gave up law to enter the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. Upon the retirement of Ignatius Few from the presidency of Emory college Judge Longstreet succeeded him and remained president of the institution until 1848. He was a brilliant and versatile writer, his productions embracing religious, legal and humorous subjects. His stories delineating Georgia life and character have been the delight of three generations. He died at Oxford, Miss., Sept 9, 1870.(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Joanne Morgan) Lynch, George G., general superintendent of the Charleston & Western Carolina railroad, with headquarters in the city of Augusta, Ga., was born in Enfield, Halifax county, N.C. March 8, 1852, being a son of George G. and Emma (Whitaker) Lynch, the former of whom was born in Edgecombe county, and the latter in Halifax county of that state. Prior to the Civil war the father was a special agent of the United States postoffice department, having held the position for many years. At the outbreak of the war he resigned and accepted a similar position with the Confederate government, serving most faithfully in that capacity until the close of the great conflict between the North and South. At the time of his death, which occurred Dec. 28, 1886, he was general agent of the Atlantic Coastline railroad, his death occurring in Weldon, N.C., where his devoted wife also died, in 1883, at the age of sixty-three years. He was a nephew of Green Lynch, who served as a midshipman on the United States warship “Constitution,” in the war of 1812. Of the children of George G. and Emma (Whitaker) Lynch two sons and four daughters are living, namely: George G., subject of this review; Margaret C., wife of Albert L. Pierce, of Halifax, N.C.; Magdaline B., wife of L. B. Tilley, of Manchester, Va.,; Mary Emma, wife of F. Overton, of Little Rock, Ark.; May C., wife of Benjamin F. Arrington, of Wilmington, N.C.; and Adolphus B., paymaster of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, with residence in Wilmington, N.C. George G. Lynch, subject of this
sketch
attended the schools
of his native county until he had attained the age of sixteen years,
when he
initiated his career by the railway service by taking the position of
office
boy in the employ of the old Wilmington & Weldon railroad at Weldon. His father was at the time, general agent of
the road at that point. In 1869, after
about a year’s service, Mr. Lynch was promoted to the position of
freight clerk
in the same office, serving in this capacity until 1872, when he became
a
freight conductor on the road and two years later he was promoted to
the
position of passenger conductor, retaining this incumbency until May
20, 1881,
when he was sent to Florence, S.C., as assistant master of
transportation of
the Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta and the Cheraw & Darlington
railroads. In 1885 he was made
trainmaster of the Columbia division of the
Atlantic Coast Line, with headquarters at Florence.
About five years later he became assistant
superintendant of transportation, retaining this office and remaining a
resident of Florence until July 1, 1902, when he
was transferred to the city of Charleston, S.C.,
where he became superintendant of the Charleston
district of the same system. He held this position until April 1, 1905,
when he
was promoted to his present responsible office. He
has
been
in
continuous
railway
service
for nearly forty
years and is
a trusted, valued and able executive, popular in a most unqualified
sense. Mr. Lynch is a member of the
Commercial club
of Augusta, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, is a staunch
adherent of
the Democratic party, and both he and his wife hold membership in St.
John’s
church Methodist Episcopal South, in Augusta. On
Dec.
18,
1873,
Mr.
Lynch
was
united in marriage to Miss
Florence
Whitaker, of Halifax
county, N.C. She died in July, 1886,
leaving two children--Deleon and Ida E., the former now a passenger
conductor
on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, and the latter the wife of William
S.
Taylor, of Rocky Mount, N.C. On June 19,
1889, Mr. Lynch married Miss Clara M.
Whitaker, a sister of
his first wife, and they have two children--James M. and Adolphus B.,
both of
whom are attending school. Marks, Charles F., of the Mulherin & Marks Shoe Company, of Augusta, of which he is president and treasurer, is one of the representative young business men of that city, which has been his home from the time of his birth, which here occurred on July 29, 1978. He is a son of David W. and Della V. (Roberts) Marks. He attended the public schools of Augusta and then took a course of study in the Hephzibah high school, at Hephzibah, this county. After leaving school he took a position as bookkeeper in the cotton office of Alexander & Alexander, of Augusta, remaining with this concern for ten years, at the expiration of which, on June 1, 1904, he engaged in the retail shoe business, having purchased the stock and trade of the well known firm of William Mulherin’s Sons & Co., at 870 Broad street. He immediately organized the business under the present title, becoming president and treasurer of the company, his associate in the flourishing enterprise being William J. Mulherin, who is vice-president and secretary. Mr. Marks gives his allegiance to the Democratic party, is affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and for five years was a member of the Oglethorpe light infantry. On Aug. 29, 1901, he was married to Miss Nellie R. Hightower, of Augusta. (Source: Georgia
Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans,
Publ. 1906. Transcribed
by Kim Mohler) Marks,
William B.,
the
able and popular manager of the Augusta Drug Company, one of the
leading
wholesale drug concerns of the city of Augusta,
was an organizer of the company and is one of its principal
stockholders. He
was born in Augusta, March 22, 1862, and is a
son of David W. and Della V. (Roberts) Marks, the former of whom was
born in Augusta, Feb. 1, 1833, and the latter in Pensacola, Fla.,
Dec. 15, 1843. The father has passed his entire life in Richmond
county, in and near Augusta.
He now resides in his fine old homestead, Monte Sano, in the village of
Sumerville,
being a retired capitalist. His cherished and devoted wife passed away
on the 8th
of May, 1902, at the age of sixty-one years. During the Civil was David
W.
Marks was identified with the
manufacturing of ammunition for the Confederate government, in the
arsenal at Augusta. William B. Marks
was graduated in that old and popular local institution, Richmond
academy, at the age of eighteen years, and in 1883 he was graduated in
the Georgia medical college, in Augusta, the medical
department of the University of Georgia, receiving the
degree of Doctor of Medicine. He had no intention, however, of
following the
medical profession, having taken the technical course in compliance
with the
wishes of his father. In 1885 he became a clerk in a drug store, where
his
knowledge of medicine soon enabled him to master the business in all of
its
details, and he was made a licensed pharmacist. In 1897 he engaged in
the drug
business for himself, purchasing the entire interest of the late George
J.
Howard in the Howard & Willett Drug Company, wholesale and retail
druggists. In 1900 he became one of the organizers of the Augusta Drug
Company,
his associates in the enterprise being John Phinizy and N.L. Willett,
and he
has since been general manager of the business, which is exclusively
wholesale
in its functions. Public-spirited and progressive as a business man and
citizen, Mr. Marks takes a deep interest in local affairs, and his
political
allegiance is given unreservedly to the Democratic party. In his youth
he was a
member of the Clark light infantry, of Augusta.
On Oct. 28, 1888, he wedded Miss Jennie Eugenia Summerau, of Augusta,
and they have two children – Ruth N.
and Earl W. Martin,
Clarence Datus,
auditor of traffic of the Central of Georgia Railway Company and the
Ocean
Steamship Company, with headquarters in the city of Savannah,
was born in Augusta, Richmond county, Ga., Feb. 6, 1876. He is
a son of Orin Datus Davis Martin, who was born in Wytheville, Wythe
county, Va., Aug. 10, 1837, and Adaline Martin, who was born in
the city of Chicago, Ill., Feb. 1, 1851. Col. John Martin,
great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a member of
the
house of burgesses of Virginia, representing Caroline county in
1739-40, and
King William county from 1753 to 1755, inclusive, being still a member
of the
body at the time of his death, in 1756. The maternal great-grandfather
of Orin
D.D. Martin was Gen. Thomas Davis, of Fayetteville, N.C., who served as
general of
the Continental line during the Revolution. Clarence D. Martin was
educated in
the schools of his native city, and entered railway service on Feb. 15,
1892,
since which time he has been consecutively the incumbent of the
following named
positions: to March 10, 1893, clerk in the auditor’s office of the
Georgia
railroad; March 30, 1893, to Sept. 10, 1894, chief clerk freight
department
auditor’s office, same road; Sept. 10, 1894, to Nov. 6. 1899, traveling
auditor
same road; Nov. 6, 1899 to Feb. 11, 1901, traveling auditor of the
Atlanta
& West Point railroad and The Western railway of Alabama; Feb. 11,
1901, to
August 1st following, division traveling auditor of the
Central of
Georgia Railway Company; Aug. 1, 1901, to July 1, 1902, general
traveling
auditor of same railroad and also of the Ocean Steamship Company, of
Savannah;
July 1, 1902, to July 1, 1903, freight and passenger accountant for
same
companies; and since that time to date of this writing, auditor of
traffic for
same companies. Mr. Martin is a member of the Presbyterian church. Mattison,
William A.
– The
city of Augusta
is fortunate in the personnel of its municipal officials, and one of
the able
representatives is Mr. Mattison, who is superintendent of streets and
drains.
He was born in Abbeville, S.C., Oct. 3, 1862, and is a son of Frank
and Sarah (Mosely) Mattison, both of whom were likewise born in
Abbeville
district. The father, who was a planter by vocation, went forth in
defense of
the Confederate cause, as a member of a South Carolina regiment, and
was killed in battle near the
close of the war. His widow now resides in the home of her son William
A.,
subject of this sketch. After the war she, in company with her three
children,
removed to Augusta,
where she has since resided. Her elder daughter, Elizabeth, became the
wife of
Thomas Wallace and both are now deceased; Emma is the wife of Henry
Starnes, of
Augusta. The
paternal grandfather, Archibald Mattison, was a native of Scotland, and
he at
one time owned an interest in Stone mountain, Ga. William A. Mattison
received
his entire educational discipline under the effective instruction of
his
mother, who is a woman of much culture and who devoted herself
earnestly to the
care and education of her children. The only son, owing to the death of
his
father, as noted, was early compelled to depend largely upon his own
resources
and to assist his widowed mother was his early ambition. When but eight
years
of age he secured employment as a driver of cattle and later he worked
in a
cotton mill. While yet in his ‘teens he learned the machinist’s trade,
and was
employed thereafter as a mechanic for several years. From 1890 to 1900
Mr.
Mattison was engaged in the real estate business in Augusta, and during
this period he also
conducted a grocery store, which he still owns. Prior to 1890 he was a
member
of the fire department of Augusta,
and from 1900 to 1904 he was a member of the board of police
commissioners. In
January, 1904, he was appointed to his present office, in which he is
giving a
most satisfactory administration. He is a stanch Democrat, a member of
the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of the World.
On April
1, 1886, Mr. Mattison was married to Miss Willie Kilgore, of Athens,
Ga.
She died on Aug. 28, 1889, and on Jan. 25, 1892, he wedded Mrs.
Marcella
(Jones) Dinkins, of Aiken county, S.C. George F. Mattison is a son of
the first
marriage of the subject of this review, and Lula, daughter of Mrs.
Mattison by
her first marriage, is the wife of Jesse Sells, of Augusta. Maxwell,
Charles A.,
superintendent
of the municipal canal and water works of the city of Augusta, was born
on the Brandywine river, near the city
of Wilmington, New Castle
county, Del.,
Oct. 14, 1844. He is a son of Hamilton and Elizabeth (Watson) Maxwell,
the
former of whom was born in County Antrim, Ireland, and the latter in
Delaware
county, Pa.
In 1867 they removed from the state of Delaware
to Conshohocken, Montgomery county, Pa., where they passed
the remainder of their lives, the father passing to his reward in 1891,
and the
mother’s death occurred in 1901. Hamilton Maxwell was a cotton
manufacturer, an
able and honorable business man, and a worthy citizen. Charles A.
Maxwell was
educated in Genessee college, Lima, N.Y., and at the age of nineteen
years he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, as
rodman
with an engineering corps. He advanced to the position of leveler and
finally
to that of transit man, remaining in the employ of the company
mentioned for a
period of five years, during which he gained most valuable experience.
He
thereafter was employed one year as a bookkeeper in Philadelphia, and
then identified himself
with his father’s cotton mill, at Conshohocken, being concerned in the
management of the enterprise from 1867 until 1882. He then accepted a
position
as traveling representative for a yarn-commission house in
Philadelphia,
in whose interests he came to Augusta
in 1886, made plans for and superintended the erection of a cotton mill
here
established by the firm. He remained manager of the mill for some time
and has
continuously maintained his home in Augusta.
At the time of the erection of the new postoffice building in Augusta
Mr.
Maxwell was employed in the office of its superintendent. Later he
remodeled a
cotton mill in this county, after which he had charge of the equipping
of the
power plant of the Augusta street
railway. Since 1891 he has been in the service of the city government
in
various capacities, and has been superintendent of the canal and water
works
since 1895, being an able and popular official. He is a stalwart
supporter of
the Democratic party, is a Knight Templar Mason, and is a member of the
American Water Works association. On June 6, 1866, he was united in
marriage to
Miss Frances C. Likens, of Wilmington, Del., and they have one
daughter,
Frances C., who remains a member of the home circle. Maxwell,
Thomas R.,
dealer
in furniture, wholesale and retail, in the city of Augusta, was born on
the
homestead plantation, in Dublin county, N.C., Oct. 29, 1856, which
county was
also the birthplace of his parents, John and Catharine (Quinn) Maxwell,
who
there passed their entire lives. The father was a successful farmer and
served
during the Civil war as a soldier of the Confederacy. Thomas R. Maxwell
attended school in a limited degree, but that he made good use of his
opportunities and gained much through individual study outside the
schoolroom
is evident when it is stated that at the age of twenty-one years he
began
teaching school. During his career as a pedagogue he greatly widened
his scope
of knowledge through well directed study and reading. For several years
he
taught in the schools of his native county during the winter months,
passing
the intervening summers on the farm and in the turpentine woods. In
1887 he
located in Goldsboro, N.C., where he became manager of a small
furniture store. On May 1, 1888, he took a clerical position in a
furniture
establishment in the city of Charleston, S.C., and in December
following he
removed to Augusta, where he engaged in the same line of trade on his
own
account, his sole capital at the time being $320. By good management,
progressive methods and fair dealing he has built up a large and
prosperous
business and attained to success of no equivocal order. In 1900 he
erected one
of the finest business blocks in the city, the same being located at
1030, 1032
and 1034 Broad street, the block having three large and finely
appointed
business rooms, two of which he rents, the third being occupied by his
furniture business which now represents one of the largest and most
important
enterprises of the sort in the city. He is also a stockholder in the
large
furniture house here conducted under the title of Thomas & Barton
Company;
is also interested in furniture stores in Columbus
and Savannah, Ga.,
and Charleston, S.C.,
and in former years he had branch furniture stores in Charlotte,
N.C., and Richmond, Va.
In 1901 he erected his beautiful modern residence, in Summerville, a
most
attractive suburb of Augusta.
He is a director of the National Exchange bank and the Merchants’ bank,
both of
Augusta; is a
member of the directorate of the O’Connor & Schweers Paint Company,
and
also of the Thomas & Barton Company, previously mentioned. Mr.
Maxwell is
the owner of a large amount of valuable realty in Augusta, including a
number of residence
properties. He is a Master Mason, and is identified with the
Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Travelers’ Protective
association
and the Augusta Country club. He is a stanch adherent of the Democratic
party,
and both he and his wife are members of the Broad Street Methodist
Episcopal
church South. On Oct. 5, 1892, Mr. Maxwell was united in marriage to
Miss Lula
C. Dickerson, of LaGrange, Ga., and they have four children: Allan Q.,
Nina E., Edna, and Lula. Fleming, William H., was born in Richmond county in 1856. He attended the Summerville academy and graduated with honors at the state university. In 1877 he was elected superintendent of the public schools of Augusta and Richmond county, but resigned in 1880 to enter the legal profession. In 1888 he was elected to the state legislature from Richmond county, was three times reelected and during his fourth term was speaker of the house. In 1896 he was elected as a Democrat to represent his district in Congress, and was twice reelected. [Source: Georgia: Sketches, Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions & People, Vol. 2, Publ. 1906 Transcribed By: Maggie Coleman] Fogarty, Daniel Gregory, one of the leading members of the Richmond county bar, is established in the practice of his profession in the city of Augusta, and is one of the prominent factors in the ranks of the Democratic party in that part of the state. He was born in the city which is now his home, July 21, 1867, a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Molony) Fogarty, the former of whom was born in county Clare, Ireland, both having come from the Emerald Isle to America when young. At the outbreak of the Civil war Thomas Forgarty enlists, at Memphis, Tenn., as a private in a regiment raised in that state for the Confederate service. The command was assigned to the Western army and he continued with his regiment through practically the entire course of the war, having several times been severely wounded. He participated in the battles of Shiloh, Chattanooga and Chickamauga, and in one of the spirited engagements in the vicinity of the city of Atlanta he received a serious wound, being sent, with other wounded soldiers, to Augusta, Ga., where he remained incapacitated for further service in that field until the close of the wart. Here he was married, became a prosperous merchant of the city, and here he continued to reside until his death, which occurred on Nov. 9, 1880. His widow still maintains her home in Augusta. They became the parents of two sons and one daughter, the subject of this sketch being the eldest of the number. John Thomas, who is a bachelor, resides in Augusta, and Catharine A. is the wife of Daniel P. Sullivan, a prominent merchant of Augusta, and they have three children-Elizabeth, Dorothy and Donald Gregory. Daniel G. Fogarty graduated from Spring Hill college, near Mobile, Ala., as a member of the class of 1887, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then read law in the office of Maj. Joseph B. Cumming, of Augusta, where he made excellent progress in his technical studies, spared no pains to fully assimilate the knowledge gained and was admitted to the bar, in Augusta, April 25, 1889. He forthwith engaged in the practice of his chosen profession in his native city, where he has gained marked prestige and retains a representative clientage. Essentially public-spirited and taking a deep interest in the cause of the Democratic party, Mr. Fogarty has been a zealous worker in the party ranks and has been called to various positions of public trust. He represented Richmond county in the state legislature in 1894-5; was elected for 1896-7, and was an active and valued worker in the house, both on the floor and in the committee room. During his last tern he was chairman of the special judiciary committee. Since 1897 he has been chairman of the Democratic executive committee of the eighteenth senatorial district. On Dec. 12, 1901, Gov. Allen D. Candler conferred upon him the appointment of solicitor of the city court of Augusta, and he continued in tenure of this position until Sept. 23, 1905. He was elected and served as alternate delegate at large from Georgia to the national Democratic convention, held in the city of St. Louis, Mo., in July, 1904. He is a popular member of the Commercial and Country clubs of Augusta and is held in high esteem in political, social, professional and business circles. Mr. Fogarty is a bachelor. [Source:
Georgia:
Sketches, Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions & People, Vol. 2,
Publ.
1906 Transcribed By: Maggie Coleman] McAuliffe, Michael J., has been engaged in the retail grocery business in the city of Augusta for the past quarter of a century and for twenty years he has maintained his headquarters in his present location, at the corner of Gwinnett and Kollock streets, where he has a commodious store and residence. He was born in Augusta, March 12, 1854, and is a son of Timothy and Ellen (Buckley) McAuliffe, both of whom were born in County Cork, Ireland, where they grew to maturity and were married. They immigrated to the United States early in the year 1854, and soon after their arrival took up their residence in Augusta, where they passed the closing years of their lives. Besides Michael J. they are survived by one other son and one daughter. Timothy is a resident of Grovetown, Richmond county, and Mary A. is a resident of Columbia county. Two other sons, John and Patrick, were in the Confederate service in the Civil war, and the former lost an arm in battle. Both died a number of years ago. Michael J. McAuliffe was afforded the advantages of the parochial school of St. Patrick’s church in Augusta, and at the age of twelve years he began working as a cash boy in a local wholesale and retail dry-goods store. For sixteen years he was in the employ of Mullarkey Bros., dry-goods merchants, being bookkeeper and confidential man for the firm during the last ten years of this period. He then resigned his position and engaged in the retail grocery business, which has enlisted his attention ever since, and in which he has gained a very marked success. For ten years he served as captain of the Irish Volunteers, a local military organization. His political support is given to the Democratic party, and both he and his wife are communicants of the Catholic church, being members of the Church of the Sacred Heart. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus; is president of the Irish-American Investment Company, of Augusta, and is a director of the Irish-American bank. On Oct. 11, 1877, he was united in marriage to Miss Margaret M. Murphy, of Augusta, and they have six children, namely: John Leo, Frank J., Harry V., Jerry P., Margaret M. and Elizabeth C. [Source:
Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Renae Donaldson] McCarthy, Thomas F., is established in the retail grocery business at the corner of Ninth street and South Broadway, Augusta, having been in this line of enterprise in that section of the city for nearly thirty years. He was born in Augusta, Sept. 11, 1859, and is a son of Patrick and Sarah (Horn) McCarthy, the former of whom was born in County Cork, and the latter in County Athlone, Ireland. Both came to America and took up their residence in Augusta when young folk, and here their marriage occurred. The father, who had been identified with railroad operations during the greater portion of his active career, died in 1880, and his widow passed away in 1893, both having been devoted communicants of the Catholic church. They are survived by three sons,-William, a resident of Chattanooga, Tenn.; and John and Thomas F., of Augusta. Thomas F. McCarthy received his preliminary education in the parochial schools of Augusta, after which he became a student in Richmond academy in that city, but left this institution at the age of eighteen years, to take a position as cashier in a local dry-goods establishment. Later he became a salesman in a grocery store, familiarizing himself with the details of the business and, in 1877 he engaged in this line of trade on his own responsibility. He has prospered in is undertaking, being the owner of a good property and controlling an excellent trade. His political allegiance is given to the democracy; he and his wife are communicants of St. Patrick’s church, Roman Catholic, and he is affiliated with the local organization of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. On Jan. 19, 1855, Mr. McCarthy was united in marriage to Miss Susan Hickey, who died March 6, 1900, leaving one son, Francis, who was born on July 9, 1895. On June 14, 1905, Mr. McCarthy married his present wife, whose maiden name was Mary Mura. [Source:
Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Renae Donaldson]
McKenzie, John H., a member of the firm of John H. McKenzie’s Sons, representative brick manufacturers of Augusta, was born in that city, Nov. 18, 1871, and is a son of John H. McKenzie, Sr., who was long a leading business man of this city, where he died in April 1904. Further data concerning this honored citizen, his family and business relations are given in the sketch of his elder son, Charles F., which precedes this, and in which connection also is given detailed information concerning the business of the firm of John H. McKenzie’s Sons. John H., Jr., secured his early educational discipline in the Augusta public schools and Richmond academy, after which he took a course in Osborn’s business college, in which he was graduated. In the meanwhile, when about fifteen years of age, he had begun to associate himself with his father’s business operations, learning the business in its every detail, including brick making, brick laying, plastering and contracting, and in 1902 he became a member of the firm of J. H. McKenzie & Sons. Since the death of the honored father the manufacturing and contracting business has been continued under the title of J. H. McKenzie’s Sons, the subject of this sketch having the personal charge and supervision of the brick works of the firm, located about two miles distant from Augusta, and also being superintendent of the McKenzie plantation, of 868 acres, eleven miles from the city. He is an able and energetic young business man and is well upholding the high prestige of the name which he bears. Mr. McKenzie is a stanch Democrat, a member of the Christian church, is identified with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and was formerly a non-commissioned officer in the Clinch Rifles. On June 28, 1891, he married Miss Addie Inez Brown, daughter of John T. Brown, of Windsor, S. C. They have no children. [Source:
Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Renae Donaldson] Merry, Arthur Holmes, member of the wholesale produce and provision firm of Hill & Merry and senior member of the firm of Merry Bros., manufacturers of brick, in the city of Augusta, was born in that city, Aug. 20, 1864. He is a son of Henry A. and Arabella V. (Holmes) Merry, the former of whom was born in Washington, Wilkes county, this state, in 1833, and the latter in Columbia county, in 1840. They now reside in Augusta, the father being a retired planter and merchant and a veteran soldier of the Confederate service in the Civil war. After a preparatory course in Augusta, Arthur H. Merry was matriculated in Emory college, Oxford, Ga., where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1888, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. After leaving college he assumed a clerical position in the office of the Polar Ice Company of Augusta, three months later taking a position ,as bookkeeper for the Augusta Brick Company. At the expiration of one year he became the Augusta representative of the celebrated Bradstreet Commercial Agency, serving as such from 1889 until 1893, in which latter year he associated himself with Audley Hill in the wholesale produce and provision business, under the title of Hill & Merry, which still obtains, the firm standing as one of the leading concerns of the sort in Augusta. He is associated with his younger brothers, Ernest B. and Walter D., in the brick-manufacturing business, under the firm name of Merry Bros. The fine plant of the firm is located on the southeastern environs of the city and has an annual capacity for the output of from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 brick. The headquarters of the firm of Hill & Merry are located in the Triangular block, in the best business section of Augusta. Mr. Merry is a member of the executive committee of the Georgia-Carolina Brick Manufacturers' association, and is secretary of the Mutual Fire Indemnity Association of America, an Augusta concern of most substantial and important sort. His political allegiance is given to the Democratic party, and he and his wife are zealous members of St. John's church, Methodist Episcopal South, in which he is secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees, member of the board of stewards, and assistant superintendent of the Sunday school. On Oct. 22, 1890, Mr. Merry was united in marriage to Miss May C Pierce, daughter of Joseph B. and Sophia A. (Boardman) Pierce, of Hartford, Conn., the latter being now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Merry have four sons, namely: Pierce, Kenneth Holmes, Arthur Brian, and Guy Hamilton, aged respectively at this writing, in 1905, thirteen, nine, two and a half years and eight months. [Source:
Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister] Mertins, Frederick G., one of the leading merchant tailors and dealers in men's furnishing goods in the city of Augusta, was born in Rosenberg, western Prussia, Germany, on April 1, 1861, being a son of Gottfried and Wilhelmina (Kuhn) Mertins. On Aug. 20, 1872, when he was a lad of eleven years, Mr. Mertins came with his parents to America, the family first settling in Abbeville county, S. C, where they remained on a farm until Jan. 3, 1878, when they removed to Augusta, Ga., where the father still resides, the devoted wife and mother having been summoned to the eternal life on June 28, 1905. Of the ten children the subject of this sketch was the only son, and his seven surviving sisters are: Johanna Christina, now the wife of Czarnitzki Arnold; Laura, wife of Frederick Wilhelm Werner; Henrietta, wife of Charles Sancken; Ida, wife of Richard DeFlorin; Lena, wife of Henry Frey; Mary, wife of Louis Edebohls; and Bessie, wife of Sidney Elliott. Frederick G. Mertins secured his earlier educational training in his native land and supplemented this by attending the schools of Augusta after the removal of the family to this city. Before he was twenty-one years of age he had served a four years' apprenticeship at the baker's trade, and for three years he held the position of foreman in the bakery conducted by George Evers, of Augusta. He then retired from the work of this trade to learn that of merchant tailoring, under the able direction of his father, who was a skilled and practical operator in this line and at the time engaged in business in Augusta. The son has ever since been identified with the merchant-tailoring business in this city; has been successfully established in trade on his own account since 1890, and for the past ten years has also handled a select line of gentlemen's furnishing goods. He controls an extensive business in the merchant-tailoring department of his enterprise, keeping two solicitors constantly employed on the road, thus drawing his trade from a wide section of territory tributary to Augusta and extending into the states of North and South Carolina and Florida. His fine establishment in Augusta is located at 763 Broad street and he is also interested in a most prosperous merchant-tailoring business in Columbia, S. C, the same being conducted under the title of the F. G. Mertins Company. Mr. Mertins enjoys marked personal popularity in both the business and social circles of his home city, and is a loyal and progressive citizen. He exercises his franchise in support of the principles and policies of the Democratic party; he and his wife are members of St. Matthew's Lutheran church; he is a Knight Templar Mason; a member of the Mystic Shrine, and of the Knights of Pythias. On Aug. 20, 1895, Mr. Mertins was united in marriage to Miss Maggie Rosa Henderson, daughter of Andrew and Hannah (Hardman) Henderson, of Augusta, and they have three children: Alma Ruth, Grace Hazel, and Frederick G., Jr. [Source:
Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister] Meyer, Frederick Carl, stands at the head of the firm of F. C Meyer & Co., wholesale and retail dealers in hay, grain, feed, lime, cement, etc., in Augusta, and is one of the representative business men of the younger generation of that city, which has been his home from the time of his birth, Oct. 25, 1877. His parents, John Henry and Emma (Ludekens) Meyer, were born in Germany, but their marriage was solemnized in Augusta, Ga., where they still reside. Of their three children the subject of this sketch is the eldest, the others being Helen and Gretchen, the latter now the wife of Lester Pierce. Frederick C Meyer secured his preparatory educational training in Richmond academy, in Augusta, and then entered the Georgia school of technology in Atlanta, where he remained a student for three years. In January, 1895, at the age of seventeen years, he entered the employ of W. M. Nixon, who conducted a large feed establishment in Augusta, and he continued to be associated with this enterprise for a period of six years, familiarizing himself with all details of the business. In 1900 he engaged in business for himself at 847 Broad street and has here built up a large and important trade in the lines noted in the opening sentence of this sketch. In 1905 Mr. Meyer erected a substantial new building on Calhoun street, for the accommodation of his rapidly expanding business. Here he has a warehouse 88 by 154 feet in dimensions, affording storage capacity for 100 car loads. The equipment throughout is of the best modern type and the firm of F. C Meyer & Co. has gained high standing, indicating the enterprise and initiative ability of its founder and head. He is a Democrat in his political proclivities, is a member of the First Presbyterian church and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. [Source:
Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister] Miller, Andrew Jackson, who died at his home in the city of Augusta, Feb. 3, 1856, was one of the distinguished lawyers and honored citizens of Georgia and served two terms as president of the state senate, of which body he was a member at the time of his death. He was born at Point Petre, near St. Mary's, Camden county, Ga., March 21, 1806, and was a son of Thomas Harvey Miller, of Scotch descent, whose wife Mary Scott (Jackson) Miller, was likewise of Scotch extraction, her family having early been founded in America. Thomas Harvey Miller served as a captain in the war of 1812, under Col. E. F. Tattnall, Forty-third United States infantry, and under Generals Floyd and McIntosh. He was present at the capture of St. Mary's, Ga., by Admiral Cockburn, Jan. 23, 1815. His company was stationed in Camden county, pursuant to resolution of the state senate, Nov. 18, 1812, and well merited thanks were returned by resolution of the senate Dec. 12, 1815, to the officers and soldiers under General Floyd. Andrew Jackson Miller attended an academic institution in Georgia until he had attained to the age of sixteen years, after which he passed one year in the United States military academy, at West Point, N. Y. After his return to Georgia he took up the study of law under effective preceptorship, being admitted to the bar in 1825 before required age, by special legislative act. He at once entered upon a successful practice, in Augusta, where he has made his home through the remainder of his life. In 1836 he was elected to represent Richmond county in the state legislature, and in 1838 was elected to the state senate, being thereafter continuously reelected until his death, and within this long service twice served as president of the senate. In 1853 he filled an unexpired term as judge of the superior courts of the middle circuit. He was president of the Medical College of Georgia, city attorney of Augusta, director of the Georgia Railroad Company, captain of the Oglethorpe infantry, and a zealous member of the Presbyterian church. The National Cyclopedia of American Biography speaks of him as follows: "During his twenty years of unbroken public service he was a controlling spirit in the state. He was one of those rounded and well balanced men of great abilities and resplendent virtues who mould the times in which they live. He was esteemed the most learned and industrious lawyer in a galaxy of legal giants. His research of cases was absolutely exhaustive, his discrimination unerring and his memory faultless and unfailing. No lapse of time made him forget and once to know was always to remember and use. Connected with his supreme legal power was a crystal sense of honor and conscience. In his long practice he prosecuted murderers but three times, and then on condition that if the evidence created doubt of guilt he would retire from the case or inform the jury. . He became an oracle of law : he rose to his highest stature as a public leader. His public service was practical and illustrious. He was an effective pioneer in Georgia's system of railway improvements and one of the creators of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. He was the author of and worked unceasingly for the just measure, now an almost universal law,—the protection of the rights of married women in the distribution of their estates he was a sagacious and trusted political leader. The Whig party had no more influential or wise adviser." In 1828 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Miller to Miss Martha B. Olive, who was born in Columbia county. Ga., May 17, 1809, and who died on Oct. 9, 1880. They were the parents of ten children, of whom three are living. [Source:
Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister] Miller, Frank Harvey, of Augusta, one of the leading members of the Georgia bar and chancellor of the diocese of Georgia of the Protestant Episcopal church, was born in that city, Oct. 13, 1836, and is a son of Andrew Jackson and Martha B. (Olive) Miller. A memoir of the father appearing in this publication, so that a recapitulation of the ancestral and personal data is not demanded in the present connection. Frank Harvey Miller prosecuted his studies at the academy of Richmond county at Augusta, and Villa school. Mount Zion, Ga., after which he was for two years a student in the University of Georgia. After leaving college he took up the study of law under the direction of his honored father, one of the distinguished members of the bar of the state, and was admitted to the bar in November, 1856. He has been engaged in the active practice of his profession since Feb. 15, 1856, in Augusta, practicing in all the state and Federal courts of Georgia, the Federal courts of South Carolina, and in the Supreme court of the United States. He is devoting his more advanced years specially to commercial and ecclesiastical law, being chancellor of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Georgia and one of the lay judges of the court of review of the fourth judicial department of the United States, as established by the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church. He is one of the most zealous churchmen in his native commonwealth and is locally identified with the historic old St. Paul's church, of Augusta. Mr. Miller is a stanch advocate of the basic principles of the Democratic party, but has never held office save that of commercial notary public. He is a member of the Georgia bar association, of which he was at one time president, and he is at the present time vice-president of the Augusta bar association. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and is chairman of the board of trustees of the local Masonic Hall. At the outbreak of the war between the states Mr. Miller ardently espoused the cause of the Confederacy. On Nov. 10, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Ninth Georgia infantry, of which he was made first lieutenant, and on Feb. 9, 1862, was promoted to the office of adjutant in this regiment. The regiment was mustered out on April 16, 1862, when the members of the organization entered the regular service. Soon afterward he was appointed acting assistant to the district attorney of the Confederate States and thus served until the close of the war. On July 6, 1859, Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss Julia Dyer Kitchen, daughter of William K. and Sarah Ann Kitchen, of New York city. They have five children, namely: William Kitchen, Bertha, Frank, Sarah and Julia. Miller, James R., editor and publisher of the Statesboro News, and known as one of the most progressive citizens and influential business men of Bulloch county, stands out in bold relief as a type of the native sons of Georgia who have that spirit of enterprise which has brought such magnificent development and advancement to the Empire state of the south. He is in the very prime of life and yet is to be designated as one of the pioneers of the thriving little city of Statesboro, where he was born June 5, 1865. He is a son of Augustus B. Miller, who was born in this same county in 1836 and here passed the greater portion of his life. He died in the city of Savannah in 1894, at the age of fifty-eight years. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Wallace, was born in that portion of Burke county which is now included in Jenkins county, in the year 1845, and her death occurred when she was but thirty years of age. Her father was ordinary of Burke county for seven years and was a man of influence in his community. Rev. Samuel Miller, paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a prominent pioneer clergyman of the Baptist church in Georgia, a man of fine intellectuality and one beloved by all who knew him. After his death the Baptist association of the state erected a monument to his memory, at his late home, in Macedonia, Bulloch county. Augustus B. Miller was a loyal soldier of the Confederacy in the Civil war, having enlisted, Oct. 10, 1861, as a member of Company E, Fifth Georgia cavalry, which was assigned to the army commanded by General Johnston. He was on guard duty on the coast the greater portion of the time and received his honorable discharge in 1862, on account of impaired health which incapacitated him for farther field service. James R. Miller, the immediate subject of this sketch, received very limited educational advantages in his boyhood, as the south was still suffering the great depression which followed upon the war between the states. He attended the district schools of his native county as opportunity afforded and thus gained the foundation for that broad and practical knowledge which he has gained through personal application and association with men and affairs. In 1884 he entered in the general merchandise business in Statesboro, but the business proved unsatisfactory and he retired from the same after the lapse of a period of six months. Thereafter he built up a profitable enterprise as a contractor and builder and operator of a saw mill. To him is given the credit and distinction of having erected more houses in Statesboro than has any other one man, there having been only thirteen houses in the village when he first engaged in business here. It is in large measure due to his initiative and unflagging energy that the town has made such rapid advancement, being now the metropolis as well as the county seat of Bulloch county. In 1892 Mr. Miller founded a newspaper called the Bulloch Times, but disposed of the same the following year. He then established the Statesboro Star, which he soon afterward consolidated with the Bulloch Herald, under the title of the Statesboro News, of which he has since been editor and publisher, the plant being well equipped and the paper maintained at a high standard. For the past three years Mr. Miller has financed the Bulloch county agricultural exhibit at the Georgia state fair and other fairs. On one occasion he secured second prize for his exhibit of agricultural products at the state fair, in Atlanta, there having been sixteen competitors. He has expended $2,000 of his own money to bring the agricultural exhibits of his county up to so high a standard in such competition, and he conducts at his own expense an experimental farm for the benefit of the farmers of Bulloch and surrounding counties. At the last state fair he secured the first prize for the largest and best display of peas, having 144 varieties on exhibition. He also received first premium on his display of Georgia forage having 100 bales of hay, no two alike, and defeating the man who had won the blue ribbon in this line in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, in 1904. He has won all prizes offered on sea-island cotton for the past three years and now has on hand 65 different varieties of Georgia oats, and 60 of wheat, while he is propagating 50 varieties of onions and other products on a similar basis. Premiums have been given him on rice and on twenty-seven varieties of potatoes. His farm, one of the model places of his section of the state, is conducted under his general supervision by the aid of the most competent hired assistants, and has demonstrated what may be accomplished here by proper utilization of the conditions and means at hand. His example and his enterprise are well worthy of general emulation. In politics he is a stanch advocate of the principles and policies for which the Democracy stands sponsor and is prominent in the local councils of the same. On Nov. 29, 1888 Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss Emma Aliff, who was born and reared in Bulloch county, a daughter of Frank and Sarah (Nevils) Aliff. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have eight children, all of whom remain at the parental home, namely: Walter, Frank, Bessie, Ruth, Grady, Grace, Katie Lee and Maude. [Source:
Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister] Garrett, Cornelius B., a representative cotton factor of the city of Augusta, was born in Edgefield county, S. C., Oct. 20, 1865, and is a son of Capt. William A. and Margaret Alice (Houston) Garrett, the former of whom was born in Edgefield county, Dec. 5, 1840, and the latter in Abbeville county, S. C., Aug. 10, 1840. Their marriage was solemnized in Hamburg, S. C., in 1860, and in 1870 they removed to Augusta, Ga., where the father established the prosperous cotton factorage business now conducted by the subject of this sketch. William A. Garrett was a valiant soldier of the Confederacy in the Civil war, having served as a captain in a South Carolina regiment, and as paymaster of a regiment from his native state during the closing months of the war. He died on Dec. 6, 1903, and his widow still maintains her home in Augusta. Cornelius B. Garrett was graduated in Richmond academy, in Augusta, at the age of sixteen years, and thereafter was for two years a cadet student in the Bingham military school, at Asheville, N. C., in 1879-80. He completed his educational training in the University of Georgia, after leaving which institution he became a clerical assistant in the cotton brokerage office of his father, who was then associated in business with William A. Lattimer, under the firm name of Garrett & Lattimer, the junior member later retiring from the firm. In 1900 Benjamin B. Russell, Jr., became a member of the firm and the present title of Garrett & Russell was then adopted. Upon the death of his father, in 1903, Cornelius B. Garrett succeeded to his interest in the extensive and important business, and the firm continues as one of the leading cotton factorage concerns in this section of the state. Mr. Garrett is a member of the Augusta cotton exchange and board of trade, and is serving on its board of directors. He is a Democrat in his political adherency, is a member of the Presbyterian church, and was for several years a non-commissioned officer in the local military organization known as the Clinch Rifles. On June 1, 1887, Mr. Garrett was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Wilson Nash, of Atlanta, and they have three children,--Rita Alice, VonHolt Nash, and Isabelle Stafford. (GEORGIA:
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Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. VOL III Publ. 1906. Transcribed
by Marilyn Clore) Barnes, George Thomas, soldier,
lawyer, congressman, was born on Aug. 14, 1833, in Richmond county, Ga.
He served in the confederate army as first lieutenant of artillery, and
as captain and major; and was in the battle of Shiloh. He was a member
of the state house of representatives of Georgia in 1860-65. He was a
delegate from the state at large to the national democratic convention
held in New York in 1868; at St. Louis in 1876; and at Cincinnati in
1880. In 188591 he was a representative from Georgia to the
forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses. He died in 1901 in
Augusta, Ga. Bass, William C., clergyman, college
president, was born Jan. 13, 1831, in Augusta, Ga. In 1859 he became a
professor in the Wesleyan female college of Georgia; and in 1874
succeeded to the presidency of that institution. Battey, Robert, physician, surgeon,
author, was born Nov. 26, 1828, in Augusta, Ga. He has been successful
in-the execution of a number of difficult surgical operations on the
urinary organs of both sexes. Of the methods used, several were
original with himself. In 1873-1875 he was professor of obstetrics in
the Atlanta medical college; and in 1873-1876 edited the Atlanta
Medical and Surgical Journal. In 1876 he was president of the Georgia
medical association. He died Nov. 8, 1895, in Rome, Ga. Blodgett, Foster, soldier,
statesman, was born Jan. 15, 1826, in Augusta, Ga. He became mayor of
Augusta in 1859; and was re-elected in 1860. During the civil war he
was captain of the Blodgett artillery from Augusta. After the civil war
he joined the repuoucan party; and was appointed postmaster of Augusta
in 1865, but was removed from that office in 1868 and reinstated in
1869. In 1867 he was made president of the I nion republican club of
Augusta, and during the same year he was again chosen mayor. He was a
delegate to the constitutional convention of 1867; and in 1870 claimed
to have been chosen United States senator from Georgia; but failed to
secure his seat. He died Nov. 12, 1877, in Atlanta, Ga. Boggs, William Robertson, soldier,
educator, architect, was born March 18, 1829, in Augusta, Ga. He
attained the rank of brigadier-general in the confederate service
during the civil war. Brantly, William Theophilus, lawyer,
author, was born Nov. 17, 1852, in Augusta, Ga. Since 1885 he has been
professor of the law school m the university of Maryland. Since 1894 he
has been reporter of the court of appeals of Maryland. He is the author
of Law of Personal Property. Bulloch, Stephen Greenleaf,
clergyman, author, poet, was born June 18, 1809, in Boston, Mass. In
1830-37 he was a unitarian clergyman of Augusta, Ga.; and later of
Boston, Mass. He was the author of Poems, Lays of the Gospel, Communion
Thoughts; Contemplations of the Saviour; The Holy Land and Its
Inhabitants; The Harp and the Cross; Honour, or the Slave Dealer's
Daughter; Manual of the Evidences of Christianity; and Studies in the
Evidences of Christianity. He died Oct. 12, 1870, in Cambridge, Mass.
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