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Spalding
County Biographies
BAILEY, David Jackson
(1812—1897)
BAILEY, David
Jackson, a Representative from
Georgia; born in Lexington, Ga., March 11, 1812; educated by a private
tutor; moved to Jackson, Butts County, in 1829; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1831 and practiced; elected to the State
legislature before he was twenty-one, but was not permitted to take his
seat because he was not of legal age; served as captain of a company
through the Seminole and Creek Wars; served in the State house of
representatives in 1835 and 1847; member of the State senate in 1838,
1849, and 1850; delegate to the Democratic county conventions in 1839
and 1850; secretary of the State senate 1839-1841; elected as a State
Rights candidate to the Thirty-second Congress and as a Democrat to the
Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress; again a
member of the State senate, in 1855 and 1856, and served as president;
resumed the practice of law in Jackson, Ga.; member of the secession
convention in 1861; entered the Confederate Army during the Civil War
and became colonel of the Thirtieth Regiment, Georgia Infantry; moved
to Griffin, Spalding County, Ga., in 1861, where he died June 14, 1897;
interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. [Source: Biographical
Directory of the United States
Congress, 1771-Present, contributed by A. Newell]
Hon. Thomas
Edwin Patterson.
Few members of
the Spalding County Bar have
advanced more steadily to eminence than has Hon. Thomas Edwin
Patterson, pioneer commissioner of Georgia, and a man whose devotion to
the cause of civic betterment is, aside from his success as a lawyer,
the most interesting feature of his career to the general public
regard. A native son of Spalding County, he was born on his father's
plantation, October 8, 1868, and is a son of H. T. and Anna (Martin)
Patterson. He belongs to an old and honored family of Georgia, whence
his grandfather came from North Carolina, not long after the year 1800,
and his parents were both born and passed their lives here, his father
being a prosperous and prominent planter.
After attending Sunnyside District School, in Spalding County,
Judge Patterson entered Harperville College, Mississippi, where he
spent two years and one year at Bowden College, Georgia, and like many
others who have succeeded in the law spent a period in the school room.
After three years as a teacher in the country districts, he took up the
study of his chosen calling, and was admitted to the bar in 1892 and at
once engaged in practice at Griffin, where he has continued to the
present time with a constantly increasing clientele. His knowledge of
the law, both broad and accurate soon brought him to the forefront, and
he has been called upon to fill offices of importance and
responsibility. He has been both solicitor and judge of the City Court
of Griffin at various times, and in July, 1911, was appointed a member
of the Georgia State Prison Commission, with which he is still
identified. His professional connections include membership in the
Spalding County Bar Association and the Georgia State Bar Association.
Judge Patterson is well known in fraternal circles, being a member of
the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council, Commandery and Shrine in Masonry, in
which he is past master, past high priest and past eminent commander;
and of the Improved Order of Red Men, in which he is past great sachem
of Georgia. For a number of years he has taken an active and helpful
interest in the work of the Sunday school as teacher of a Baroca Class,
as well as in other religious movements, and is ex-president of the
Georgia State Mission Society of the Christian Church. As jurist,
lawyer and citizen he has performed successfully and conscientiously
the duties devolving upon him, and is generally accounted a credit to
his profession and to the county in which he was born and has spent his
life.
On June 20, 1894, Judge Patterson was united in marriage with
Miss Mary Brewster, of Newnan, Georgia, and a member of an old and
honored family of this state. She has been active in the religious and
charitable work of the Methodist Church and has been state president of
the Georgia Women's Christian Temperance Union for many years. She is
prominently known in social circles of Griffin.
Source: A standard history of Georgia and
Georgians, Volume 4 By Lucian Lamar Knight
Lloyd Cleveland.
Admitted to the
bar in 1881, Lloyd Cleveland
has for nearly thirty-five years found abundant opportunities for a
successful professional career at Griffin, and his reputation is second
to none among the members of the bar of Spalding County.
Born in Griffin July 13, 1861, he is a son of James Rice and Mary H.
(Beall) Cleveland. Both parents were born in Georgia, the. father being
of English and the mother of Scotch stock. His father was a dentist by
profession.
Attending the common schools as a boy and later Mercer University of
Macon. Lloyd Cleveland was graduated in July, 1880, and after
continuing the study of law privately for a time, was admitted to the
bar in 1881. Since then he has been constantly engaged in practice, and
in addition to a large volume of private business is now serving as
division counsel for the Central of Georgia Railroad Company. He also
represents as attorney the Spalding County Merchants and Planters Bank
and the Griffin Banking Company, and is a director in the latter. He is
a member of both the Spalding County and the Georgia Bar associations.
Fraternally Mr. Cleveland is affiliated with the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks and is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner. On
November 9, 1886, he married Miss Maggie E. Thompson of Greenville,
Georgia, and a native of this state. They are the parents of two sons.
Phillip McLauren, the older, is now a young attorney associated with
his father in practice. The second son is Alan, who is a student and
also a practical young farmer.
Source: A
standard history of Georgia and Georgians, Volume 4 By Lucian Lamar
Knight
Hendley Varnon
Kell.
Every community
is estimated largely by the
men of worth, it has produced, or who reside within its borders and
contribute to its moral or material advancement. The City of Griffin,
Georgia, can boast of a goodly number of capable, enterprising citizens
of high moral integrity, among whom is Hendley V. Kell, president of
the H. V. Kell Company and now holding the office of county
commissioner. Mr. .Kell was born in Spalding County, Georgia, March 23,
1869, the son of John Mcintosh and Julia Blanche (Monroe) Kell. The
father, who graduated at the Annapolis Naval Academy in 1843, was
subsequently an officer in the United States navy, serving therein
until 1861, when, on the breaking out of the war, he entered the
Confederate navy as lieutenant. He saw service on the Sumpter and the
famous privateer Alabama, and continued to fight- for the Confederacy
until its collapse, at which time he was an officer on the Richmond. On
his return home he engaged in farming in Spalding County and was a well
known and highly respected citizen. From 1886 until his death in 1899
he was adjutant-general of the state.
Hendley V. Kell acquired his literary education chiefly in the
public schools, which he attended until 1887, then taking a course in
the Alabama Polytechnical Institute, at Auburn, Oklahoma. For five
years subsequently he was employed in the census office at Washington,
D. C., after which, in 1895, he engaged in farming and has since
continued in that occupation. Other interests, however, have from time
to time engaged a part of his time and attention. In 1900 he founded
the H. V. Kell grocery house, and in 1904 organized, as a stock
company, the H. V. Kell Company, of which he is president. His fellow
citizens, recognizing his business ability, in 1911 elected him county
commissioner for a term of six years, and he is now serving as chairman
of the board and has been since re-elected. As a live, up-to-date
citizen, with a pride in local achievement, Mr. Kell has few superiors.
Diligent and conscientious, he puts his heart into every task that
comes his way and is never satisfied until it has been well and
efficiently accomplished. It is to men of this type that every thriving
community owes such degree of progress and prosperity as it has
attained.
In 1897 Mr. Kell was married at Auburn, Alabama, to Miss Caro
Dowdell, of Auburn, Alabama. She died in 1900, and in 1907 Mr. Kell
contracted a second marriage with Miss Evey Kenan, of Darien, Georgia.
Of this union there is one child, Evey Livingston Kell. Mr. Kell is a
member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in which he was formerly
junior warden and is now vestryman.
Source: A standard
history of Georgia and Georgians, Volume 4 By Lucian Lamar Knight
BLOODWORTH, James M
BLOODWORTH, James
M., life insurance; born, Griffin, Ga., Apr. 30, 1871; son of James M.
and Marie (Bonnell) Bloodworth; educated in public schools; married,
Atlanta, Ga., June 27, 1894, Annie Laurie Brown; children: E. Carleton,
Annie Laurie and James. Began active career at fifteen and was
identified with retail shoe business for several years; in same line of
business on own account, 1895-97; traveling salesman for a shoe
manufacturing house of Cincinnati, 1897-1902; with Union Central Life
Insur¬ance Co. at Cincinnati, 1902-12; general man¬ager at St.
Louis department of Home Life Insurance Co. of New York since February,
1912. Baptist. Member Business Men's
League. Clubs: Missouri Athletic, Adver¬tisers'. Recreation:
fishing. Office: 512-514 Wright Bldg. Residence: Hamilton Hotel.
(Source: The Book of St. Louisans, Publ. 1912. Transcribed by Charlotte
Slater)
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