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Joseph Alston Huger
Huger, Joseph Alston,
one of the representative citizens of Savannah and one who stands
prominent in business affairs, comes of stanch old Southern stock
and is a veteran of the Civil war, in which he rendered yeoman
service in defense of the cause of the Confederacy. He was born in
Pendleton, Anderson county, S.C., June 15, 1843, and is a son of Dr.
Joseph A. and Mary Esther Huger, both of whom were likewise born in
South Carolina, the former having been a native of the city of
Charleston. Dr. Joseph A. Huger was a skilled physician and surgeon,
and also carried on an extensive enterprise as a rice planter. His
father, Daniel Elliott Huger, was a distinguished and influential
citizen of the state of South Carolina, a lawyer by profession,
served with distinction on the circuit bench, and also represented
his state in the United States senate. His wife, whose maiden name
was Isabella J. Middleton, was a daughter of Arthur Middleton, one
of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The founder of
the Huger family in America was Daniel Huger, a French Hugenot, who
came to this country in 1685, settling in South Carolina, with whose
annals the name has ever since been identified, and the family have
become linked, through marriages in several generations, with other
prominent families of South Carolina, such as Middletons, the
Pinckneys, the Rutledges and the Blakes. The maiden name of the
mother of the subject of this review was Huger, and she and her
husband were second cousins. Her brother, Gen. Benjamin Huger, was a
distinguished officer in the Confederate service during the Civil
war. Representatives of the Huger family were found enrolled as
patriot soldiers of the Continental line in the war of the
Revolution. Joseph A. Huger, received his early educational
discipline in boarding schools of North Carolina, where the family
had a summer residence, and in a military academy at Columbia, S.C.,
where he was a student at the time of the outbreak of the Civil war.
In the summer of 1861, at the age of seventeen years, he withdrew
from school to enter the service of the Confederacy, receiving a
commission as second lieutenant and later being promoted to first
lieutenant. At the close of the war he was in command of a light
battery of Georgia regulars, having served during practically the
entire course of the great internecine conflict. He took part in the
battles of Port Royal and Secessionville, in many skirmishes along
the coast from Charleston to Brunswick, and was with the command of
Gen. Joseph Wheeler in the operations about Atlanta, his battery
forming a part of Wheeler's artillery until it entered Savannah. At
the time of Lee's surrender Mr. Huger was with Johnston's army in
North Carolina. He never surrendered, having succeeded in making
good his escape and returning to his home. Since the war he has
given his attention to the rice planting industry, owning and
managing the old homestead plantation which had been owned by both
his father and grandfather, the fine old place lying opposite
Savannah, in Beaufort county, S.C. He is also president of the
company owning and operating the Planters' rice mill, in the city of
Savannah, and president of the Georgia-Carolina Navigation Company.
In politics Mr. Huger gives unqualified allegiance to the Democratic
party, but he has never sought or held public office. He is a member
of the Savannah board of trade and of the Oglethorpe club. Mr.
Huger married Miss Mary Elliott, daughter of Dr. Ralph E. and
Margaret (Mackay) Elliott, of Savannah, and the children of this
union are five in number. Eliza Mackay is the wife of Robert C.
Harrison, of Savannah, a nephew of Gen. W.W. Gordon, and the names
of the other children are Caroline Pinckney, Emma Middleton,
Percival Elliott and Clermont Kinloch. (Source: Georgia
Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Vol
II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Kim
Mohler)
LESLIE, WILLIAM
PERRY
Lawyer, was born in 1819, in Monroe County,
[Alabama] and died October 10, 1867, at Pascagoula, Miss. He was a
brother of Judge John W. Leslie, who was born May 11, 1814, in
Pendleton District, S. C., and died September 10, 1897, in
Monroeville, who was judge of probate of Monroe County, and occupied
other prominent positions in the public affairs of the county. His
father was a planter. He was reared on a farm until he was eighteen
years of age, then became clerk in a store for two years. He moved
to Claiborne and read law in the office of A. B. Cooper for about
two years, and was admitted to the bar in 1840 or 1841. He practiced
law in Sparta in partnership with W. B. H. Howard for several years,
then returned to Claiborne in the spring of 1843, and formed a
partnership with Mr. Cooper which lasted until 1850, when Mr. Cooper
moved to Wilcox County. At that time he formed a partnership with
Judge R. C. Torrey, and remained in that association until 1861. In
1861, he was elected to the State senate from the district composed
of Monroe, Covington and Conecuh Counties. He was a Union man and
opposed to secession, but after war was actually in force, he raised
a company of artillery, principally from Monroe County, in the fall
of 1861, and volunteered as a private. He was assigned to a second
lieutenancy, and remained in service until some time in 1863, when
he was relieved because of ill-health. At the close of the war, he
sold his property in Monroe County and in 1866 moved to East
Pascagoula, Miss., and erected on the bay a large steam saw and
planing mill. He was also founder of several industrial
establishments at Claiborne. On a visit to Mobile on business in
October, 1867, he contracted the yellow fever and soon after died.
Married: in April, 1847, to Miss Agee, daughter of W. A. Agee of
Monroe County, and sister of Hon. N. A. Agee. He had six children.
Last residence: Pascagoula, Miss. [transcribed by Therman K.]
LACY,
SHERIFF, lawyer and register in chancery, was born May 7,
1853, in Randolph County; son of Abner Wise and Martha (Brewster)
Lacy, the former a native of Maury County, Tenn., who settled in St.
Clair County, where he held numerous official positions and was at
the time of his death, in 1887, probate judge of the county;
grandson of William and Mary (Wise) Lacy who lived in Virginia,
Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, and of Sheriff and Malinda (Wortham)
Brewster of South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. He received a
common school education in St. Clair and Talladega Counties, and
read law in the office of Bradford and Bishop, in Talladega,
1879-81. He was licensed to practice his profession the latter year,
and in 1882, located at Jasper, where he has since resided. In 1883,
he was appointed register in chancery for Walker County and has
continued to fill that office. He was a member of the Alabama
legislature, 1898-99; county solicitor, Walker County, 1886-87-88;
for several years a member of the board of aldermen, Jasper; member
city board of education. He is a Democrat; and a Baptist. Married:
December 24, 1876, to Mary Ella, daughter of John Marion and Ruth
(Skinner) McCollough, of Macon County, the former a native of
Anderson District, S. C, a Confederate soldier under Hood and was
killed in Peachtree Creek battle, near Atlanta, Ga. Children: 1.
Ernest Renfroe (q. v.); 2. Cecil Justus; 3. Clyde; 4. Pauline; 5.
Ruth; 6. Lorene. Residence: Jasper.
[History of Alabama and
dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen,
Mrs. Marie (Bankhead) Owen, 1921 – Transcribed by
AFOFG]
George Felder
Hair
The Hairs are an old and prominent family of the
old Barnwell district. While farming has always been a dominant
interest in the family, the present generation is numerously
represented in the professions, several of the sons having been
physicians or dentists, including Dr. George Felder Hair, who for
twenty years has been a resident of Bamberg and is a former
president of the State Dental Society.
The remote ancestry of
the Hairs is German, though members of the family have lived in the
South since colonial times. The late Judson E. Hair was born in
Barnwell County June 30, 1847, and died June 16, 1919. He was a
student in the University of Georgia at Athens when the War Between
the States broke out, and he and the other members of his class
volunteered and went to Charleston to enter the Confederate service.
He was with Lee's army for eleven months, and was a musician in the
hand. His mature years were spent as a farmer and merchant in and
around Blackville. He was one of the prominent Baptist laymen, being
one of the founders and leaders of the church at Blackville and a
deacon. Judson E. Hair married Maggie Capres Felder, who was born
near Branchville, South Carolina, in 1850, and is still living at
Blackville. When she was a small girl her father died as a result of
hardship and exposure endured while a Confederate soldier. The
family of Judson E. Hair and wife comprised twelve children, seven
of whom are living: Lorena Blanch, who was married to Thomas J.
Martin, of Anderson, in 1886; Dr. George F.; Arthur B., a hardware
merchant and farmer at Blackville; John Pinckney, deceased; Joseph
Roger, deceased; Dr. Isaac Murray Hair, a dentist at Spartanburg;
Dr. Harry B., also a dentist practicing at Columbia; Mary E.,
deceased; Mrs. D. D. Walters, of Columbia; Mrs. Maggie E. Still and
Mrs. Abigail Sanders, of Blackville; and Dr. Judson E., deceased. Of
the younger generation some mention should be made of the two sons
of Mrs. Lorena Blanch Martin, of Anderson. These sons, Haskell Hair
and Rhett Felder Martin, are both married, but when the war came on
and they were called in the draft they claimed no exemption. The
older went overseas as a lieutenant, and saw much of the front line
service with the Expeditionary Forces. He was at Chateau Thierry and
other historic points on the French front. He is now practicing as
an architect at Greenville. The other, Rhett Felder Martin, who is
in the coal and wood business at Anderson, was on a transport bound
for France when the armistice was signed, and the boat was then
turned about and landed him in America. Earl Walters, a son of Mrs.
D. D. Walters, of Columbia, was a volunteer at the age of eighteen
in the World war and was overseas with the first forces sent to
France and remained throughout the war. He was a sergeant and
participated in all the important engagements of the Expeditionary
Forces. Like all the others he had many narrow escapes from death,
but he escaped without a mark.
George Felder Hair, who was
born at Blackville October 31, 1870, was liberally educated,
attending the common and high schools of his native town, graduated
in a business course at Newark, New Jersey, in 1888, and during the
following year was employed by the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing
Company at Staten Island, New York. This experience aroused his
interest in the dental profession and he entered the oldest dental
college in the world, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, where
he was graduated with the class of 1892. Doctor Hair practiced at
Anderson for ten years, and since 1901 has been busy in his
profession at Bamberg. He has filled all the important offices in
the State Dental Society, including the office of president, and is
now a member of the State Board of Dental Examiners. He is also
affiliated with the National Dental Society. Doctor Hair is a
Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, also a member of the Knights of
Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World and
Improved Order of Red Men. He has never been active in politics, and
is a leader in the Baptist Church at Bamberg, being a deacon and a
teacher in its Sunday school. On May 5, 1892, he married Miss Leila
E. Boylston, of Blackville. Her father is a veteran ex-Confederate
soldier, George W. Boylston, for many years a prominent citizen of
Blackville. Doctor and Mrs. Hair have two children. Blanche, the
daughter, is the wife of J. J. Cudd, a financier and farmer at
Spartanburg. The son, P. Belton Hair, received his A. B. degree from
Furman University at Greenville, and while there served as a
volunteer for three months in the Students Army Corps until the
signing of the armistice. He is now in his third year of the Atlanta
Dental College of Georgia, preparing for the profession in which his
father and some of his uncles have done such distinguished
work.
[History of South Carolina, Volume 5, Edited by Yates
Snowden and Harry Gardner Cutler, 1920 – Transcribed by
AFOFG]
John W.
Parker, Jr. M.D.
Since his honorable discharge from
army duty as specialist in gastrointestinal diseases at the Base
Hospital at Camp Wadsworth, Doctor Parker has located at Greenville
and now gives all his time to his specialty, in which he is one of
the foremost authorities in South Carolina. Doctor Parker has
practiced medicine in this state since graduating from the
University of Maryland.
He was born at Durham, North Carolina,
April 16, 1880, a son of John W. and Jane (Lunsford) Parker of
Durham. He grew up in the famous tobacco city, was educated in
Rutherford College and the University of North Carolina, and did his
work in preparation for the medical profession at the University of
Maryland where he graduated in 1905. The first three years he
practiced in Lee County, South Carolina, and from that time until
1914 at Williamston in Anderson County. He had become well
established in his profession at Greenville when the World War came
on, and he volunteered his services in the Medical Reserve Corps.
Upon being taken into the National army he was assigned to duty as
specialist in gastro-intestinal diseases at the Base Hospital at
Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, and was on continuous duty there from
January 3rd until September 8, 1918.
Doctor Parker has
specialized for a number of years in gastro-intestinal diseases, and
his skill and success have brought him well deserved recognition
from the medical profession. He has every advantage bestowed by
experience, personal skill and complete facilities. These facilities
in his fine suite of offices in the Wallace Building at Greenville
include the latest Bellevue Model X-Ray machine of the Woppler
Electric Company.
Doctor Parker is a member of the County, State
and American Medical Associations. He married Miss Andrina Anderson
of Anderson County, a daughter of George W. and Narcissa (Nesbitt)
Anderson. George W. Anderson was born in Greenville County, South
Carolina, March 7, 1828. He was the son of John Anderson, a native
of Ireland, who came to America with his parents, Thomas and Nancy
(Ewing) Anderson, in his childhood and settled in Greenville,
Greenville County, where he died in 1837. Of ten children living at
the time of John Anderson's death, Major Anderson and his sister are
the only ones surviving. Thomas and Nancy Anderson, the
grandparents, spent the remainder of their lives in Greenville
County, the latter living to be nearly 100 years old. The mother of
Major Anderson was Mary Terry, who survived her husband a great many
years, dying at the age of seventy. Four sons of John and Mary
Anderson served in the Confederate army; James, John, David and
George W. James died in 1863 from sickness contracted in the
service; John was captured at the fall of Petersburg and died from
the effects of his treatment on the boat while on his way to
Charleston to be released; David survived the war and farmed in
Alabama until his death in 1896. George W. was educated chiefly at
the Cokesbury High School. He taught for one year in Alabama, but
began a mercantile business in Laurens County, South Carolina, in
1851. For several years before the war he was a major in the state
militia, commanding the upper squadron of the Tenth Regiment of
cavalry. In the fall of 1863 he entered the army as a private in
Company K, Seventh South Carolina Regiment of cavalry, commanded by
Col. A. C. Haskell, and served with it to the close of the war. He
was in the battles of Drewry's Bluff, and shortly afterward detailed
as a courier for Gen. G. T. Beauregard, serving as such for some
time, after which he returned to his command, and participated in
the battle of the Crater. He was present at Lee's surrender at
Appomattox. Major Anderson located in Williamston, South Carolina,
in 1868. As a merchant after the war he was very successful. He was
a very active and loyal churchman and at that time when prohibition
was very unpopular, he took a strong stand in support of it and was
instrumental in the publication of a prohibition paper. To the poor
and needy he was unusually kind and generous. He was married
February 21, 1860, to Miss Nancy Narcissa Nesbitt, who survived him
nine years, and died November 27, 1901, leaving seven children, four
sons and three daughters. Her maternal ancestry includes the notable
Nesbitt family of Spartanburg County. She is a granddaughter of
James Nesbitt and a great-granddaughter of Jonathan Nesbitt of
Spartanburg County. Jonathan Nesbitt was a Revolutionary hero. At
the battle of Cowpens the breech of his gun was shot off by enemy
fire. He was participant in a number of other battles in North
Carolina, and at his death was buried with military honors in old
Nazareth Presbyterian Church in Spartanburg County. The Nesbitts
were among the founders of this historic congregation. They had
located in Upper South Carolina a number of years before the
Revolutionary war and represented some of the finest of the
Scotch-Irish stock in that vicinity. One of the prominent members of
the family was Col. Wilson Nesbitt, who was a member of Congress in
1817-18, and had in this and otherwise a brilliant career. He
married Miss Susan Tyler DuVal of Washington, District of Columbia,
and he died at Montgomery, Alabama, to which place he had removed
from Spartanburg County later in life.
The two children of
Doctor and Mrs. Parker are: Andrina Anderson Parker and John W.
Parker, III.
[History of South Carolina, Volume 3 Edited by Yates
Snowden and Harry Gardner Cutler, 1920 – Transcribed by AFOFG]
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