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GEORGIA'S 
 
 ENERfiL SSSEMBLY 
 
 OF 1880-1. 
 
 BIOGRSPHICSL SKETCHES 
 
 Senators, Representatives, the Governor, and Heads 
 OF Departments. 
 
 ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS. 
 
 COPYRIGZi^TED BY JAS. P. HAREIHON & CO. 
 
 ATLANTA, GEORGCA 
 Jas. P. Harrison <fe Co., Printers, Electrotypers and Binders. 
 1882. 
 
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 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year iSSz. by 
 
 JAMES P. HARRISOX i CO.. 
 In the otnce of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
 
 
PREFACE 
 
 T is not to gratify the pride of indis'iduals that we have 
 compiled and published this work, but to present, in their true 
 ■y§// light, the characteristics and the lives of those whom the people 
 have chosen as the makers and the administrators of their laws 
 Such a review has two natural and beneficial consequences, the one being 
 the development to the public of the good that exists in the persons 
 whose lives are reviewed, the other the influence it exerts over others, 
 <'ausing them to emulate the recorded virtues of their fellow-citi- 
 zens whom they may succeed in positions of honor and trust. 
 Man shrinks naturally from the criticism of tlie world, and if it 
 were known that each individual would, at intervals, pass the ordeal of 
 a public portraiture of his acts, his life would be more consistent with 
 the recognized rules of right. "We are, however, far from believing that 
 fear of exposure, or the love of eulogy, are the only incentives to upright 
 living. On the contrary, there are many who act from correct motives as 
 a fixed habit, and who do right from principle, without considering the 
 question of policy; but even such as these would probably avoid some 
 of the errors of impulse, were they to realize that there is, continually, 
 " a chiel amang them taking notes." 
 
 In collecting the data on which to base the sketches that appear in 
 this book, we have gone to the most reliable authentic sources which 
 were available, and have avoided everything that might be censured as 
 fulsome praise, or as an uncharitable exposition of character. The truth 
 is what we have aimed at, and we believe each individual has been fairlj' 
 represented as to the leading features of his life. It is certainly cause for 
 congratulation that in searching for these facts of individual history, we 
 have found so little to censure and so much to admire in our law-makers 
 for the years 1880-'S1. We discover from this fact the sagacity of the 
 masses displayed in the selection of capable and faithful legislators. 'We 
 
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 find real gratification in the consideration that in every county of the 
 State there are scores of citizens equally able and eciually meritorious 
 who may, some day, be called to the public service of the Common- 
 wealth. Georgia is rich in the elements required to constitute safe and 
 wise legislation, so we need not apprehend the degeneracy of our laws, 
 nor of our public policy. Her rights, her honor, and her welfare are safe 
 in the keeping of her citizens, whether acting in the capacity of freemen 
 selecting legislators, or serving in this capacity themselves. 
 
 It is our purpose to continue, from session to session, taking notes of 
 representatives of the people, and these we will publish in the form of 
 this volume. Thus we hope not only to contribute our mite in perpetua- 
 ting the history of the law-makers of the State, but in causing the citizens 
 generally to emulate the good that we portray, and eschew the vices we 
 may condemn. 
 
 In the completion of this book — the collection of its facts, and the pro- 
 duction of the likenesses it contains — we have performed a great amount 
 of labor and made large expenditures. This being the initial volume of 
 a contemplated series, we expected to encounter difficulties which will 
 be diminished in the future progress of our design. Trusting that our 
 labors will be appreciated and 'rewarded by the honorable gentlemen in 
 whose behalf they have been jjerformed, we otler this volume to the 
 public. 
 
OFFICJiJRS OF STAFF. 
 
 HON. ALFRED HOLT COLQUITT. 
 
 (GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA) 
 
 ^|T affords us great pleasure to introduce, with a fine portrait, this 
 (21 distinguished Georgian to our readers. Governor Colquitt, we 
 
 i/ have no doubt, is this day the most beloved and popular man in 
 the State. From his youth he has been distinguished for his morality 
 and modest worth. He was the most dutiful and devoted of sons, the 
 truest of brothers, and he never lost a friend. His whole life does not 
 furnish a solitary instance of guile, and hardly one of resentment or 
 hostility towards any human being. It is no wonder then, that when 
 the qualities of heart such as this distinguished man possesses have 
 been so ably supported by a judgment, prudence and discernment far 
 above the sum of those traits which fall to the lot of most men, that 
 he should have been the favorite, and almost the pet, of the public. 
 
 Governor Colquitt entered upon the practice of the law directly up- 
 on his graduation at Princeton College, and if he had continued his 
 career in the profession, there is not a doubt of his success. There is 
 too much of the natural endowment of the magnificent genius of his 
 father about the Governor for his failure as a speaker or a lawyer. 
 But the profession was not congenial to his tastes, and he soon left 
 the practice of law, and eagerly entered upon the noblest of all hu- 
 man pursuits — the life of a Southern planter. 
 
 General Colquitt at one time ranked very nearly at the head of the 
 list of Georgia planters, both in the extent of his planting interest and 
 his success. We believe his crops have approached very nearly one 
 thousand bales in the better days of our planting experience. 
 
 In 1852 the people of the Second Congressional District of Georgia 
 almost forced a nomination on Governor Colquitt, and after one of the 
 most laborious and splendid campaigns ever occurring in Georgia, he 
 was elected by a handsome majority. That canvas of the Second 
 District, it is said, made Herschell V. Johnson, Governor of Georgia. 
 
 Governor Colquitt was as quiet, earnest, honest and respectable in 
 his position of Representative in Congress as he had always been in 
 every other post of duty, and, after serving his time, retired, against 
 the earnest entreaties of his friends. 
 
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 It is needless to say vhere Alfred H. Colquitt was when the voice 
 of his State called upon her sons to stand by her in the terrible arbitra- 
 ment of arms. He was elected to the Colonelcy of that fine regiment, 
 the Sixth Georgia, and rose steadily, by dint of hard and conscientious 
 service to the position of Major-General. There was not a man in 
 the army who possess«=.d more completely the confidence of General 
 Beauregard, and there were times, when serving under this great man, 
 that General Colquitt might be said to have been entirely intrusted 
 with the duties of the command. 
 
 As an officer, there was so much balance and unpretentiousness in 
 discharge of duty in General Colquitt's movements as a soldier at all 
 times, that the interest and excitement of battle hardly emphasized his 
 traits of character, and hair-breadth escapes, and heroic courage and 
 staunchness in the midst of the deadly fight, were matters of course, 
 just as the dress-parade and the division inspection. In one of the 
 fights before Charleston he received a ball through the crown of his 
 hat ; but no newspaper man or paragrapher ever heralded the fact. It 
 was only quietly mentioned in a short note to a most confidential 
 friend. 
 
 The battle of Ocean Pond, one of the most brilliant and complete 
 affairs of the war, owed its success, so far as generalship was con- 
 cerned, to the masterly conduct of General Colquitt on that field. He 
 is beyond all doubt the real hero of that memorable battle. 
 
 But the success and proud name won by our subject during the 
 awful four-years' conflict, is entirely, subordinate to his noble character 
 as [an upright, devoted patriot and Christian. Governor Colquitt's 
 nearest and dearest friends never heard him in the most unguarded 
 moment speak in terms of self-praise, and hardly in allusion to per- 
 sonal claims of any sort. Never did a human being have less egotism, 
 and less use for the personal pronoun " I." He is a member of the 
 Methodist Church, and with his natural zeal and solidity of purpose, 
 is a devoted one indeed. Among the most distinct and unquestionable 
 claims which Governor Colquitt may justly prefer to the public favor 
 and gratitude, may be named his zeal and labors in behalf of the ag- 
 riculture of the State. For six consecutive years, Goveinor Colquitt, 
 as President of the State Agricultural Society, rendered the most effi- 
 cient service in aid of all measures that promised to advance the inter- 
 ests of the Georgia farmer. And now, while in the highest seat of 
 authority and honor in his State, he has not relaxed his efforts in the 
 noble cause. 
 
 A notable feature of Governor Colquitt's private life is the affection 
 which the African race has always manifested for him. An evidence 
 oi this is the fact that the old family negrces have r<mained with him 
 
OF REPRESENTATIVES. 3 
 
 down to the present day. as his friends know, greatly to his pecuniary 
 injury. Therefore, it is not at all surprising to those who know the 
 Governor so well, that the following most interesting and memorable 
 incident should have occurred : Upon the day that the fraternal del- 
 egation from the African Methodist Church was presented to the Gen- 
 eral Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, held in 
 Atlanta, in May 1877, before the delegation were introduced to the 
 Conference and the audience, one of the colored speakers, Mr. John- 
 son, becoming very thirsty from the excessive heat, asked for a glass 
 of water. Promptly the Governor supplied it, and, with his usual 
 grace and kindness, he handed it to the delegate. When this dele- 
 gate was introduced by the Bishop to the Conference, his opening re- 
 marks were as follows : 
 
 " Let me state a circumstance which has just now occurred. When 
 in the vestry, there, we were consulting your committee, among whom 
 was your illustrious Christian Governor, the Hon. A. H. Colquitt. 
 Feeling an unusual thirst, and expecting in a few minutes to appear 
 before you, thoughtlessly I asked him for a glass of water to drink. 
 He, looking about the room, answered : " There is none ; I will get 
 you some." I insisted not, but presently it was brought and handed 
 me by the Governor ; I said : ' Governor, you must allow me to deny 
 myself this distinguished favor, as it recalls so vividly the episode of 
 the Warrior King of Israel, when, with parched lips, he cried from the 
 rocky cave of Adullam. ' Oh, that one would give me drink of the 
 ^ water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate !' And when 
 three of his valiant Captains broke through the hosts of the enemy 
 and returned to him with the water, for which his soul was longing, 
 regarding it as the water of life, he would not drink of it, but poured 
 it out to the Lord. So mav this transcendent emblem of purity and 
 love from the hand of your most honored co-laborer and friend of the 
 human race, ever remain as a memorial unto the Lord of the friend- 
 ship existing between the M. E. Church, South, and the African M.E. 
 Church upon the first exchange of fraternal greeting." 
 
 Governor Colquitt, after the war, retired almost from public obser- 
 vation, in his quiet attention to matters of private business interests. 
 But modest as his. walk was, he did not withdraw himself beyond the 
 respectful, we might say, affectionate memory of the people of his 
 native State. When, in 1876, it became necessary to provide a suc- 
 cessor in the gubernatorial office to Governor Smith, the will of the 
 public mind, as if by a spontaneous and universal impulse, designated 
 Governor Golquitt as the choice of the people. It might be said, that 
 there was no opposition to him, and. after being nominated by accla- 
 mation, and by one of the largest and most influential Conventions 
 
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 ever held in this State, he was elected by the unprecedented majority 
 of 82.000 votes. There never vi^as such a vote cast for a favorite son 
 of Georgia — will there ever be such another } 
 
 Since Governor Colquitt's term of service began, he has been re- 
 peatedly brought before the public upon occasions of marked interest. 
 Notably we might recall his reception of President Hayes on his visit 
 to Atlanta. No such performance of the sort was ever more univer- 
 sally applauded. Mr. Evarts was heard to say, just after the Gover- 
 nor closed his speech of welcome : " I have not felt as happy in fifteen 
 years." 
 
 The International Sunday School Convention which assembled in 
 Atlanta, first called the Governor to the chair for the purpose of 
 organization, and then elected him the permanent presiding officer 
 of the body. We doubt if there ever assembled in the United States 
 a more talented, a more impressive, or a more influential assemblage 
 of men. 
 
 The friends of Governor Colquitt felt that the compliment paid him 
 by this Convention was a marked one indeed, and we have reason for 
 knowing that he felt it most profoundly. The Governor's speech, upon 
 taking the chair, made a deep impression upon the Convention, and 
 his admirable tact and dignity during the entire week in which he pre- 
 sided over the body, only augmented the favorable opinion which the 
 address inspired. The friends which the Governor made in that Con- 
 vention embraced names among the most distinguished in the several 
 religious denominations, both in Canada and the United States. Many 
 of these joined in a most urgent request, that Governor Colquitt 
 should take part in the great annual gathering of the friends of Sun- 
 day School work which took place at Chautauqua, in the State of 
 New York. The invitation, so flatteringly extended, was accepted, 
 and it will be a long time before the godd effect on the public feeling 
 North will cease to be felt. We cannot convey a better impression of 
 Governor Colquitt's appearance at Chautauqua, and the part he acted 
 there, than by reproducing the following from a correspondent of the 
 press who was fully informed of all the particulars : 
 
 A MOST IMPRESSIVE SCENE. 
 
 " The reception which was accorded to the Governor of Georgia, at 
 Chautauqua, in many of its aspects, was most unusual and very strik- 
 ing. After the years of bitterness and strife, which have been divi- 
 ding and estranging the North and the South, it was a fact well cal- 
 culated to attract a profound interest, to witness the fraternizing de- 
 monstrations which, beginning in Atlanta at the great Sunday School 
 Congress seemed to find the most energetic expression at Chautauqua 
 
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 on the occasion of Governor Colquitt's recent visit. We cannot recall 
 in the recent years, if ever in our experience, when a public man has 
 met with such a hearty and honoring popular demonstration as greeted 
 our beloved Chief Magistrate on his appearance at Fair Point. 
 
 " Governor Colquitt, on reaching the place of this unique gathering, 
 which, be it known, was at a spot, called Fair Point, on a lakelet called 
 Chautauqua, near Lake Erie in Western New York, was welcomed by 
 several thousands of people from a number of the neighboring States, 
 and he was with a solemn if not imposing ceremony received with 
 hearty greetings from Dr. Vincent, ex-Governor Patterson, and Bishop 
 Foster. To this distinguished reception Governor Colquitt responded 
 in a speech of some length, and, from its immediate impression upon 
 the thousands who listened to it, it must have been a speech of signal 
 if not unusual power. Those who heard it speak of that address as 
 one of surpassing impressiveness. We have read that response of 
 the Governor with the highest gratification and we trust a pride not 
 disallowed. 
 
 " But in all this, there was something of that premeditation and pre- 
 arrangement, that prepares the mind for formality and effort, which of 
 themselves are not usually regarded as enhancing our pleasure in lis- 
 tening to a public speaker. When, however, it was announced, after 
 certain exercises had been concluded, that, in a few hours Governor 
 Colquitt would terminate his visit to the delightful grounds of Fair 
 Point and return to his distant home, the sudden thought occurred to 
 the good friends who had so generously received him, to extemporize 
 an address of farewell. How beautifully and feelingly this was done 
 the address of Rev. Mr. Peltz abundantly proves. But it must not be 
 deemed individious or as offending against propriety when we say, that 
 the response of Governor Colquitt was rarely approached in eloquence 
 and pathos. The example of this most unusual demonstration must 
 make its impression, and with telling effect. It is worth more than all 
 the nostrums of the political quacks who pretend to heal the body 
 poHtic by party tricks and selfish schemes." 
 
 It is in vain that the captious and hypercritical take exceptions to 
 such demonstrations by a high official character. 
 
 It remains for such men as Governor Colquitt to restore the reign of 
 a trusting and fervent brotherhood between the alienated sections of 
 our unhappy country. 
 
 But we cannot extend this sketch. We, as a people, are fortunate 
 in having such a Chief Executive. Not a citizen in Georgia has the 
 least distrust as to Governor Colquitt's discharge of the high trust 
 which popular favor has devolved upon him. Merciful in his nature, 
 when the ends of public justice demand it he is as firm as the beaten 
 
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 anvil. Liberal in his views of what should be done to advance the 
 interests of his beloved State, he is altogether opposed to reckless or 
 speculative measures in seeking to promote those interests, and, while 
 we have no mind among us that improves a suggestion for the behalf 
 of the State niore readily than Governor Colquitt, no man can be more 
 conservative of the good old ways that have proved themselves. In 
 short, Governor Alfred H. Colquitt is both a good and a wise man. 
 
 In 1880, Governor Colquitt was re-elected Governor for a second 
 term. The circumstances connected with his re-election were pecu- 
 liarly dramatic. He really did not desire re-election, but heavy assaults 
 had been made upon his administration, and he fearlessly and promptly 
 went before the people and overwhelmingly won the issue. The con- 
 test raged both for the Democratic nomination and the election. Up- 
 on the resignation of General Gordon as United States Senator, Gov- 
 ernor Colquitt appointed Ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown to the va- 
 cancy. This simple matter gathered the storm against Governor 
 Colquitt, and an unprecedented campaign ensued. The issue was 
 clearly made of Colquitt and anti- Colquitt. The delegates to the Con- 
 vention were selected by the largest primary meetings ever held in the 
 various counties of the State. With the exception of General Gordon 
 and Governor Brown the great body of the public men of the State 
 took ground against Governor Colquitt. The Democratic Convention 
 met in Atlanta August the 4th, 1880, and continued in session seven 
 days of warm, contliciing deliberation. Hon. L. N. Trammell was 
 elected President of the Convention, and presided with wonderful' 
 ability. Governor Colquitt received 208 2-3 votes on the first ballot 
 of the 350 votes in the Convention. His vote ran to 224 13-30, or in 
 9 votes of a two-thirds .majority. He was recommended as the choice 
 of the Convention for Governor, and the body adjourned. 
 
 A portion of the minority of the Convention after adjournment put 
 out Hon. Thomas M. Norwood, as their candidate for Governor. The- 
 ensuing campaign was very heated. The State has never been more 
 thoroughly agitated by a political contest. The strongest men of the- 
 State threw themselves into the canvass against Governor Colquitt, 
 but vainly. He was impregnably planted in the affections and confi- 
 dence of the people. The result was. Governor Colquitt's re-election 
 by the amazing majority of 54,345. The whole vote was 182,353, of 
 which he received 118,349. His majority was nearly as large as his 
 competitor's vote. It must ever remain a political marvel that Gov- 
 ernor Colquitt, after sO' fierce an opposition, should have had such a 
 triumph. Yet his victories have all been of this character, showing 
 phenomenal popularity with the masses. 
 
 The results of Governor Colquitt's administration have been very 
 
OF REPRESENTATIVES. 7 
 
 remarkable. Taxation has been reduced from 50 cents on the $100 
 to 30 cents, or over one-third. Increased revenues have added a half 
 million of dollars to the treasury, and another half a million has been 
 gleaned from outside sources. A floating debt of $350,000 was wiped 
 out. Over two millions of the public debt have been paid. The e.x- 
 penses of every department have been reduced. The State securities 
 have risen in value to equal any in the country. The prosperity of 
 the Commonwealth has steadily advanced. Agriculture has grown. 
 Commerce has increased. Law and order have been more firmly es- 
 tablished. Temperance and religion have spread. Every possible 
 interest of our great State has thrived during the long and beneficent 
 rule of this able Christian Governor. 
 
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 HON. N. C. BARNETT. 
 
 (SECRETARY OF STATE.) 
 
 ig\:?rATHAN CRAWFORD BARNETT, the present Secretary of 
 ^^\/ State, is a native of Columbia county, Georgia. His father, 
 ""CJ William Barnett, and his mother, Anna Crawford, sister of Hon. 
 William H. Crawford, were native Virginians — the former was of En- 
 glish, and the latter of Scotch descent. He was the youngest of five 
 children, having two brothers and two sisters. 
 
 When quite young, his father died, and his mother removed to Ogle- 
 thorpe county, where he was subsequently reared and educated, finish- 
 ing his education at Meson Academy, located at Lexington, Georgia. 
 At this period, Oglethorpe county was populous and wealthy, and the 
 peer of any county in the State in intelligence and influence, having 
 as citizens a number of men of sterling worth and eminent talents, 
 the most noted of whom were William H. Crawford, Thomas W. Cobb, 
 Stephen Upson, and George R. Gilmer, whose memories are now per- 
 petuated by counties in this State bearing their honored names. Be- 
 fore becoming of age, he removed with his mother to Walton county, 
 residing in the town of Monroe, and the county alternately, where he 
 became associated as friends with Walter T. Colquitt, father of our 
 present Governor, Alfred B. Holt, John J. Groves, Hugh A. Haralson. 
 Egbert B. Beall, Dr. Hampton W. Hill, Isaac Hill, Sheriff of the county, 
 and General Robert M. Echols, the latter gentleman appointing him 
 Adjutant of the regiment then commanded by him. Three counties 
 in the State bear the names of Colquitt, Haralson and Echols. 
 
 After his marriage with Miss Margaret J. Morton, only daughter of 
 Josiah Morton, Esq., of Clarke county, Georgia, he removed to that 
 county, and, at Watkinsville, engaged in planting and merchandising. 
 Whilst in this county his fellow-citizens first elected him a surveyor, 
 to assist in surveying the Cherokee purchase, after which they elected 
 him Major of the battalion in which he resided, and subsequently to 
 the Colonelcy of the regiment of the county. 
 
 In 1836, he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Leg- 
 islature, during which session many important measures looking to 
 the welfare of the State were inaugurated, the most notable of which 
 was the projected construction of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, 
 which measure he warmly supported, believing that it would be (as 
 time has since proven) an enterprise of vast importance to the whole 
 State. He served in the capacity of Representative two sessions, after 
 
OF REPRESENTATIVES. 9 
 
 which, on account of private business, he withdrew at a time when he 
 was prominently mentioned in connection with the office of State 
 Senator. At these sessions he made the acquaintance of many of the 
 prominent men of this State, such as the Hines, Warrens, Hills, Bealls, 
 Holts, Harris, Meriwether, Miller, Jenkins, Stephens, Toombs, Blacks, 
 Turner, Culver, and a host of others, many of whom have passed 
 away, hut have left names and characters worthy of imitation. 
 
 In 1840, he lost his first wife, and in the following year he married 
 Miss Mary Ann Cooper, the eldest daughter of Dr. David Cooper, of 
 Hamilton, Georgia. He has had the misfortune and deep affliction to 
 lose all his children except three — two sons and one daughter. 
 
 He was first elected Secretary of State in November, 1843, and 
 again in 1845, serving with Governor George W. Crawford. He was 
 re-elected in 1847, serving with Governor George W. Towns. He was. 
 superseded in 1849. by Hon. George W. Harrison, of Randolph county, 
 a former State Senator from that county, and father of Mr. Jas. P, 
 Harrison, the publisher of this work. In 1851, he was again re- 
 elected to the same office, serving with Governor Howell Cobb, and 
 was superceded in 1853, by Colonel E. P. Watkins, of Atlanta. He 
 was again re-elected upon the consolidation of the office of Surveyor- 
 General with that of Secretary of State, in December, 1861, and con- 
 tinued in that position during the administration of Governor Joseph 
 E. Brown. He also served one term after the war, during the admin- 
 istration of Governor Charles J. Jenkins. 
 
 When Georgia was declared a Territory by Congress, and military 
 authority established over the State, he willingly followed in the foot- 
 steps of Governor Jenkins and the other State House officers, when 
 they were deposed, taking with him the Great Seal of the State, which 
 he retained in his possession until the adoption of the State Constitu- 
 tion of 1868. He was again re-elected Secretary of State in 1873. the 
 first election after the Democrats came into power, serving with Gov- 
 ernor James M. Smith, and again in January, 1877, by an increased 
 majority, serving with Governor A. H Colquitt. 
 
 The Constitutional Convention which met in 1877, and framed the 
 present Constitution of the State, reduced the terms of office of the 
 Governor and State House officers from four to two years, and made 
 the latter elective by the people, instead of by the Legislature. This 
 constitutional provision did not, however, affect the terms for which 
 the incumbents had been elected. These terminated with the fiscal 
 year, 1880. When the Democratic State Convention of that year as- 
 sembled, Colonel Barnett was again nominated, this time by acclama- 
 tion, for re-election to the office of Secretary of State, and this action 
 of the Convention was ratified at the polls by an almost unanimous 
 vote of the people. 
 
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 Few men have served their State so long in the same position, and 
 so acceptably to all, as Colonel N. C. Barnett. Possessing an integ- 
 rity above doubt or suspicion, a patriotism of the highest order, a 
 familiarity with the duties of his ofifice, resulting from so many years 
 of service therein, and enjoying the confidence of all Georgians, it 
 was not surprising that his election in 1880 was unanimous. 
 
 Although he has passed his four-score years, his physical health is 
 good, and his mental perceptions are unimpaired and undimmed by 
 the lapse of years, and he bids fair yet to serve his State, with the 
 ability and fidelity that have so eminently characterized his past career. 
 
 This venerable and beloved public servant has presented to Geor- 
 gians ati example most worthy of emulation. There is not a spot or 
 blemish on his record as an officer, nor on his character as a man. 
 
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 HON. D. N. SPEER. 
 
 (TROUP COUNTY.) 
 
 ,rv-l^AJOR D. N. SPEER is a native of Troup county, Georgia. 
 ,S/vl V °f Scotch- Irish stock, he descended from one cf the best and 
 c^^S^^ lY^ost prominent families in South Carolina. Was educated 
 at Oglethorpe University, graduating in 1858. 
 
 In i860 he married Miss Amelia R. Moreland. the accomplished 
 daughter of the late Dr. John F. Moreland. He entered the Confed- 
 erate army as Captain, in 1861. Served in 1862 and 1863 in the Army 
 of Northern Virginia as Major, on the staff of General John B. Gor- 
 don. Served in 1864 and 1865 as Lieutenant- Colonel on the staff of 
 Lieutenant-Generai S. B. Buckner in the Trans-Mississippi Depart- 
 ment. 
 
 From 1865 to 1880 Major Speer practiced law with great success, 
 as a member of the law firm Speer & Speer, and the records of Troup 
 Superior Court will show that said firm did the largest practice ever 
 done in that county, for the same time. 
 
 In July, 1880, a mass meeting of the citizens of Troup county pre- 
 sented Major Speer's name to the people of Georgia as a candidate 
 for the office of State Treasurer, saying : " Major D. N. Speer was 
 born in this county, his life has been spent among us, his character is 
 without spot or blemish, his superior judgment, his integrity and finan- 
 cial ability are all of the very highest order, and we, his fellow-citi- 
 zens, who have known him from his childhood do thus publicly com- 
 mend him to the people of Georgia as one peculiarly fitted for the 
 office of State Treasurer." 
 
 The State Democratic Convention in August, 1880. nominated Ma- 
 jor Speer by acclamation, and though opposed by Hon. John W. Ren- 
 froe, who then held the office, Mr. Speer was elected Treasurer of the 
 State of Georgia by the extraordinary majority of 93,104, bringing 
 with him to the discharge of his duties the entire confidence of the 
 people of Georgia, who felt that the public revenue was in safe hands. 
 The Joint Finance Committee of the last Legislature examined into 
 the condition of the State treasury, and their report said : 
 
 " Hon. D. N. Speer, Treasurer of the State, deserves the gratitude 
 of the people of Georgia for his conduct in withdrawing the State's 
 funds from the Citizens' Bank, as well as for his efficiency and the good 
 management of his office. When he entered the office he found 
 .$332,432.75 of the State's funds deposited in the Citizens Bank. He 
 at once began withdrawing this money, to meet all the wants of the 
 
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 State, so that at the time of the suspension of said Bank there was on 
 deposit only $103,218.46, thus, as the Committee thinlc, saving to the 
 Stale a large sum of money ($229,214.29)." 
 
 The people of Troup county, in mass meeting, have again presented 
 Major Speer to the people of Georgia as a candidate for State Treas- 
 urer. The State Democratic Convention which met in Atlanta on 
 July 20th, 1882, renominated Major Speer by acclamation for the office 
 of Treasurer of the State of Georgia. 
 
 For years Major Speer has been a Director in the Atlanta and West 
 Point Railroad Company, Vice- President and Director of the LaGrange 
 Bank. 
 
 He was born June 6th, 1836, is a handsome man, of striking per- 
 sonal appearance, of graceful manners, over six feet in height, of strong 
 will and great energy. He rarely fails in his undertakings, and com- 
 mands the respect and confidence of all who know him. 
 
 Major Speer is one of the most successful men ever reared in Troup 
 county, having made, report says, nearly $50,000 in the last eighteen 
 months, from the increased value of his investments in the stocks of 
 the Central Railroad, Georgia Railroad, and Atlanta and West Point 
 Railroad Companies. Having amassed a fortune perhaps as large as 
 that possessed by any man of his age in Georgia, Major Speer's 
 success in life illustrates what can be accomplished by honesty, energy 
 and superior judgment. 
 
 The following extracts will serve to show his character and stand- 
 ing in the State : 
 
 "A HEALTHY SHOWING — THE TREASURER'S REPORT — A CLEAR 
 DOCU.MENT. 
 
 "Georgians can with pardonable pride and real interest read the State 
 Treasurer's last annual report. Treasurer Speer has in a straight-for- 
 ward business-like way managed the affairs of his office, we believe 
 satisfactorily to the whole people. Such conduct always receives its 
 own reward. We are glad to know that secure and roomy burglar- 
 proof safes have been added to the vaults of the State by the present 
 Treasurer, and the office has a business air to it. When an inquirer 
 wants facts as to the people's money, he can now get them — for the 
 books are open to all. — Daily Times, Cobunbus. 
 
 "Georgia has never had a more faithful and efficient Treasurer than 
 Hon. D. N. Speer, the present incumbent. He is an organized Dem- 
 ocrat — thoroughly competent for the office he has so ably filled for the 
 past two years, and we are decidedly in favor of his renomination for 
 State Treasurer by the Democratic Convention when it assembles in 
 July." — North Georgia Citizen. 
 
14 BIOGRAPHICAL SKEICHES 
 
 HON, D. N. SPEER. 
 
 "The Georgia press is unanimously of the opinion that this able officer 
 will be renominated for Treasurer by acclamation. By his able man- 
 agement of the State's finances, combined with his uniform courtesy, 
 he has won the esteem of the whole people, and to-day Dan. Speer 
 is the most popular official connected with the State government. His 
 friends in Troup know his capacity, and are proud of the position he 
 has acquired. — LaGrange Reporter. 
 
 TREASURER D. N. SPEER. 
 
 " In justice to Mr. Speer we will say that Georgia never had a better 
 or more faithful officer. He can at any hour show a clear balance 
 sheet, and his integrity and superior financial ability are known and 
 recognized from one end of the South to the other. We have just ex- 
 amined his last report and find a most promising exhibit of our State 
 affairs— for the fiscal year ending October 6th, i88r, we find a balance 
 in the Treasury of $794,547.51. The liability of the State $9,726,660.00. 
 — Banner- Watchmati. 
 
 THE treasurer's REPORT. 
 
 We have on our table the report of Major D. N. Speer, Treasurer 
 of the State of Georgia, to the Governor, showing the financial trans- 
 actions of the State for the year ending October ist, 1881, the bonded 
 debt, assets, and interest paid by the State. 
 
 The balance in the Treasury October I St, 1880, . . % 688.86547 
 Received in the Treasury from October ist, 1880, to Oc- 
 tober 6th, 188 1, both inclusive 1,384,03201 
 
 $2,072,897 48 
 Disbursements from October ist, 1880, to October 6th, 
 
 1 88 1, both inclusive 1,278.34997 
 
 Balance in Treasury October 6th, 1 88 1 * 794.547 51 
 
 The following is the total bonded debt of the State on the ist of 
 
 October, 1881 : 
 
 Total bonded debt $9,126,660 00 
 
 Total indorsement on (secured by first lien) bonds of 
 
 South Georgia and Florida Railroad 464,000 00 
 
 Total indorsement on (secured by first lien) bonds of 
 
 Northeastern Railroad, 260,000 00 
 
 The interest payable by the State will amount annually 
 
 to $657,421 40 
 
 The assets of the State exclusive of public buildings are as follows : 
 
 "Western and Atlantic Railroad — 138 miles — lease ten 
 years to run — an annual rental $300,000. 
 
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 Macon and Brunswick Railroad— 195 miles— sold for 
 i^'i, 125,000, of which about $945,000 is yet due. See 
 Act 1879. 
 
 Memphis Branch— 5 miles— sold for $9,000, due Jan- 
 uary, 1881. 
 
 South Georgia and Florida Railroad— 58 miles— (con- 
 tingent)— has never defaulted in paying interest. 
 
 Bonds Oconee Bridge, value $ j^goo 00 
 
 Bank State of Georgia— 1,833 shares, no value • . . 
 
 Bank of Augusta— 830 shares, no value 
 
 Georgia Railroad and Banking Company— 186 shares, 25,000 00 
 
 Atlantic and Gulf Railroad — 10,000 shares — par 
 $1 ,000,0000 — no market value, . 
 
 Southern and Atlantic Telegraph, guaranteed by Wes- 
 tern Union Telegraph Company— 440 shares, . . 10,00? 00 
 
 The report of the Treasurer is a very clear and satisfactory one and 
 accounts for the high financial standing of the State in the money mar- 
 kets of the world. We refer with pleasure to the able manner in which 
 Major Speer has conducted the financial affairs of the State, the pleas- 
 ant, accommodating and efficient manner in which the State's business 
 is attended to in his office. — Etiquirer-Sun. 
 
 The State of Georgia is fortunate in having her Treasury in the 
 hands of a man who has demonstrated by the successful management 
 of his own affairs his ability to manage the finances of the great State 
 of Georgia. 
 
Ki;HNS, PHOTO. 
 
 HARRISON &. CO., eUB'63. 
 
 
TEi: SUFy^TU. 
 
 JAMES STODDARD BOYNTON. 
 
 (PRESIDENT.) 
 
 HE subject of this sketch was born in Henry county, Ga., on 
 
 fthe 7th day of May, 1833. His father, Elijah S. Boynton, was a 
 native of the State of Vermont, who early came South, and was 
 one of the first settlers of Henry county. He was of Scotch descent. 
 Mr. Boynton's mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Moffet, 
 came from a South Carolina family, and was of French extraction. 
 James was the seventh son and eleventh child. His opportunities as 
 a boy were of the most meagre description. His parents, though in 
 fair circumstances, were never wealthy. His only education was that 
 derived from the old-field school, which was kept open but a few 
 months in each year, and the curriculum of which embraced only an 
 elementary English education. During the rest of the year young 
 James worked on the farm, following the plow, carrying corn to the 
 old country mill, or, perchance, with gun or rod, pursuing the pleas- 
 ures of shooting or fishing amongst the fields or along the banks of 
 the beautiful stream of his native county. But even amidst these 
 peaceful events, his active mind was not idle, fired no doubt by the heroic 
 deeds of Southern valor in the Mexican war, the warm, enthusiastic 
 heart of the spirited boy dreamed of glory, and his practical mind, not 
 content with idle vision, planned for himself a military career. Young 
 Boynton determined, if possible, to secure an appointment to West 
 Point. In order that he might prepare himself for this life, in 1849 he 
 was placed in the family of John W. Crockett, and attended the school 
 of Rev. W. A. Rogers, a clergyman of the Methodist Church, a most 
 competent teacher, and one who has since attained great prominerice 
 in the church and as an educator. Boynton was at this time sixteen 
 years of age, wholly ignorant of the ways of the world, with so little 
 education that he had never looked into a grammar, and knew of no 
 higher branch of mathematics than arithmetic ; warm hearted and 
 confiding, in .figure angular, over six feet in height, weighing only 
 ninety pounds, ungainly, with a pallid, colorless face, and hair sandy 
 
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 to whiteness, he seemed unable to keep pace with those around him 
 who had had so many and great advantages, and to them he seemed just 
 the proper victim for their glee and sports. But that spirit which has 
 made the man. shone out clear and bright in the lonely boy. The first 
 attempt at a practical joke was met with so prompt a resentment and 
 such a ready offer to fight the aggressor, that he was not troubled by 
 any similar attempt, while his pleasant and genial disposition soon 
 made him a favorite with all the school. To the surprise of every- 
 body, his indomitable will and energy, coupled with his natural quick- 
 ness, enabled him not only to avoid falling behind in the studies of his 
 classes, but won for him a reputation for talent and scholarship among 
 his compeers. In November. 1S49, he lost his father, who left him as 
 his patrimony one hundred acres- of land and one negro. Young 
 Boynton. still intent on carving out his fortune in a military career, 
 determined on continuing his studies. He chose for his guardian 
 \Vm. Beck, Esq., who took young Boynton to his house and treated 
 him as one of his family, aiding him to continue his studies and 
 encouraging him in his efforts to attain the objects of his ambition, 
 and promising to furnish the means necessary for its attainment. 
 During a portion of this time, in order to increase his limited means, 
 he taught one of the country schools, still continuing, however, his 
 preparation for West Point, l-nfortunately for young Boynton, Mr. 
 Beck died in 185 1, soon after he became his guardian. This was a 
 severe blow, and destroyed all hopes of West Point, as without Mr. 
 Beck's aid. he could not bear the expense, and he had no other friend 
 who would aid him ; but nothing daunted Boynton, with the consent 
 of Mr. Jno. A. Smith, who had taken Mr. Beck's place as guardian, 
 sold his property and determined to apply for admission into the 
 Georgia Military Institute at Marietta. Ga. In order to prepare him- 
 self, he re-entered Mr. Roger's school, which he had left in order to 
 become a teacher, but remained there only a short time. Going to 
 Marietta in the spring of 1S52. with his scanty supply of money, all 
 he had in the world, this brave boy learned that his hopes of a military 
 education must be forever abandoned ; his utmost means could, by 
 the strictest economy, support him but two years, while three was the 
 least number that would suffice to enable him to graduate. Chafing 
 under this disappointment and chagrin, in an evil hour he fell in with 
 a sharper, who. playing upon his feelings and taking advantage of his 
 youth and inexperience, got him for the time in his power, having 
 induced young Boynton to go with him to Rome, fleeced him of most 
 of his money and left him " a stranger in a strange land." By some 
 chance Boynton went thence to Cave Springs, without any definite 
 plans. There he fell in with and made friends of some of the boys of 
 
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 Hearne's School at that place. Wherever he was, and under whatever 
 circumstances, Boynton seemed to thirst for knowledge ; his active 
 mind could not rest in idleness, and we are not surprised to find him 
 next a student at Hearne's School. There he staid until his exhausted 
 hoard compelled him to lay aside his books and seek for something 
 which would furnish food and clothing. Returning to Henry county, 
 without plans for the future, an offer from Col. L. T. Doyal, a promi- 
 nent lawyer of McDonough, determined his future career, and accept- 
 ing it, he became a law student in Col. Doyal's office. About this time 
 he met and fell in love with Miss Fannie Loyall, of Monticello, Jasper 
 county, Ga. His love was returned, and to his desire to become 
 independent and to enter on a career of usefulness, was added the 
 earnest desire to be united in marriage to the object of his affections. 
 Spurred on by necessity, ambition and love, he applied himself with all 
 the earnestness of his ardent nature, and with every talent of his vig- 
 orous mind to master the principles of the law. At the expiration of 
 seven weeks he presented himself for admission to the bar during the 
 October term of Henry Superior Court, and during the third week of 
 October, after a most rigid examination, he was admitted by that able 
 jurist. Judge Jas. A. Stark, receiving the congratulations of the Judge 
 and the entire bar on the thoroughness of his preparation and the 
 credit with which he had passed his examination. On November 15th, 
 1852, Mr. Boynton, then nineteen, moved, with his library and all his 
 worldly goods (except a negroj, which were contained in a one-horse 
 wagon, to Monticello, Jasper county, Ga., and opened a law office. 
 Without friends, without money, with only a limited and irregular edu- 
 cation, but with a brave heart, an upright character and brilliant mind, 
 he started the battle of life. In the face of his difficulties, on the 2d 
 December, 1852, he was united in marriage to Miss Fannie Loyall 
 and she, who, with the devotion that only woman's love can produce, 
 was willing to share the fortunes and privations of this poor young 
 attorney, was to him through life a very help-meet, encouraging, aiding, 
 comforting every trial, and shaping that character of noble manhood 
 which enabled her in after years to see, with feelings of joy and pride, 
 her husband, the honored and respected man among those who had 
 known him first only as the struggling orphan boy. After his marriage 
 Mr. Boynton lived in Monticello, practicing his profession, until Janu- 
 ary, 1858, when he removed to Jackson, liutts county, Ga., and entered 
 into copartnership with Col. Jas. R. Lyons. Rising rapidly in his pro- 
 fession and making many friends, in January, i860, he was elected 
 Ordinary of Butts county, Ga., over a popular political opponent whose 
 party had a majority in the county. His conduct of the office and 
 business of the Ordinary was most excellent, and gave great satisfac- 
 
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 tion. Although this office exempted him, and although he had been a 
 conservative on the question of secession, yet Mr. Boynton, when the 
 war came on, deemed it his duty to leave office, friends, wife, family 
 and home, and he joined the ranks of the Thirtieth Georgia Regiment 
 and served seven months as a private. When the regiment was reor- 
 ganized in 1862, so great was his popularity, Private Boynton was 
 elected Major of the regiment, and proved himself an efficient, trusted 
 •and favorite officer. In December, 1862, he became Lieutenant-Colo- 
 nel. His regiment served at Savannah. Charleston, Wilmington, 
 Pocotaligo and Jacksonville, but in May, 1863, was ordered to Jackson, 
 Miss., and went through the arduous campaign which ensued in that 
 State, and finally joined the army in Tennessee, a few n-eeks before 
 the battle of Chickamauga. During this campaign Col. Boynton 
 ■earned a high reputation for courage and ability, and on the evening 
 before the evacuation of Jackson, his Colonel. Manghum. and Lieuten- 
 •ant-Colonel Boynton were, by general order issued by General Walker- 
 ^specially mentioned for gallantry displayed. His regiment was in the 
 thickest of the fight, losing in one and a half hours 55 per cent, 
 of its men ; and those who were present bear witness that where the 
 fight was thickest and the danger greatest, there was ever the gallant 
 Boynton cheering on and encouraging his men. with a splendid cool- 
 ness and courage that set death at defiance. Col. T. W. Manghum. a 
 most gallant soldier, being seriously and permanently wounded in this 
 battle. Lieutenant-Colonel Boynton became Colonel of the regiment. 
 From that time on. the regiment followed the fortunes of the Western 
 army. At Missionary Ridge, at Dalton, during the seventy-two days 
 retreat to Atlanta, and in the battles around Atlanta, the Thirtieth 
 Georgia bore its full share of danger and of toil, and never did the 
 Thirtieth Georgia go into action, so long as he commanded it. e.\cept 
 under the leadership of Col. Boynton. He was no carpet knight ; he 
 only asked his men to follow where he led. The writer has been 
 informed by a friend of Col. Boynton that just before the retreat from 
 Dalton to Atlanta commenced, he was detailed to sit on a court-mar- 
 tial, which would last two or three months, in Atlanta. As soon as 
 he heard of it he applied in most urgent terms to be relieved from 
 that duty and to be allowed to remain with his regiment. The request 
 was granted, and he never left them until he was stricken down by the 
 enemy while forty yards in front of his men. leading them on to the 
 charge in the battle near Decatur, on the 22d of July. 1864. His 
 wound detained Col. Boynton from his regiment until January. 1S65. 
 but at that time, although an invalid from his wound, which has kept 
 him in bad health until the last three or four years, and although unable 
 to move without his crutches, a mere skeleton, he rejoined his com- 
 
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 mand and remained with them until they were disbanded. During 
 the war, in 1863, Col. Boynton had moved his family to Griffin, and 
 there, after the war, he resumed the practice of the law. In the sum- 
 mer of 1866 he was elected over Col. A. D. Nunnally, an old and 
 popular citizen of the county, Judge of the County Court. This 
 position he filled with marked ability until the court was abolished. 
 Judge Boynton, it is believed, was the first Judge to hold the Stay 
 Laws of 1865 unconstitutional. From 1869 to 1872 Col. Boynton was 
 Mayor of Griffin. In 1877 he lost his devoted wife, so long the 
 sharer of his joys and woes. He has not since married. His family 
 consists of his two sons, the only children he"ever had. From 1872 
 to 1880 Col. Boynton devoted himself to his profession; but in 1880 
 he was called by the people of the Twenty-si.xth Senatorial District 
 from his retirement and unanimously elected to the Senate. On the 
 assembling of that body he was unanimously chosen President of the 
 Senate, the only instance we believe on record where a new member, 
 serving his first term in the Legislature, has ever, without opposition,^ 
 been called to preside over the Senate of Georgia and become ex 
 offic/o Lieutenant-Governor of the Commonwealth. Such is a brief 
 sketch of this self made man, who, by his genius and goodness, has 
 fought his way from obscurity to the proud eminence on which he 
 stands. Of his religious convictions we can say that he is an earnest 
 and consistent member of the Missionary Baptist Church. Of him 
 as a soldier, his record spea"ks in tones louder than mere words to- 
 tell of his gallantry, ability and fidelity. Of his capacity for public 
 office, the records of those he has filled are his most fitting witness,, 
 and are volumes which tell of his capacity. Another evidence is that 
 in no race before the people has Col. Boynton ever been defeated. As 
 a lawyer, learned, clear, with a perfect equipoise, with a dexterity in 
 the management of cases rarely met ; as a speaker, logical, perspicu- 
 ous, easy, often rising into eloquence, and with a power of invective 
 whenever roused that sweeps all before, he stands the equal of 
 any man to day at the bar of Georgia. Perhaps his highest tribute is 
 that the unlearned, untutored boy of nineteen, who, on seven weeks 
 preparation, entered the ranks of the profession, stands a leader 
 of the bar of that same circuit in which he was admitted, and which 
 numbers among its members some of the ablest lawyers in the State. As 
 a legislator Col. Boynton was noted for his courtesy to his colleagues, 
 his clearness of insight into any measure pending, and the soundness 
 of his views and measures. In a session of five months no appeal 
 from the decision of their new member and presiding officer was ever 
 sustained. Entering the Senate of Georgia at its last session, and 
 glancing around to see the distinguished looking men of that body,. 
 
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 the eye of every visitor naturally fell upon the President standing six 
 feet and three inches in height, with broad and ample shoulders, a 
 figure not too heavy, his clear blue eyes looking out from a face that 
 blended benevolence with firmness and decision, his ample brow 
 shaded now with locks no longer sandy to whiteness, but light brown, 
 with health in every lineament, and intellect and honesty stamped on 
 every feature, such is the picture presented by Jas. S. Boynton. 
 
 The family history records that the father of the subject of this 
 sketch was by trade a carpenter and cabinet maker, and that he made 
 the President's and Secretary's desk in the Senate chamber of the 
 old capitol at Milledgeville. It is no stretch of imagination to picture 
 the old man recounting with pride his labor ; but could he have looked 
 into the future, he could to-day see the son whom he left to battle 
 unaided with the world, standing behind the President's desk in the 
 newer capitol of Georgia, the President of that body for which he 
 deemed it an honor to labor. We must here leave the subject of this 
 hasty biography, standing to-day in the prime of a noble manhood, 
 in the full maturity of great powers, in the enjoyment of his well 
 earned honor ; tried in many stations and found wanting in none, we 
 can point to him as a man who hath done the State some service, and 
 who will, if his life is spared, do her splendid service in the future. 
 
OF SENA TORS. 23 
 
 HON. JAMES BAGGS. 
 
 (EIGHTH DISTRICT.) 
 
 HE subject of this sketch is a modest, Christian gentleman, a 
 -,^_C) useful citizen, and a clear-headed and faithful legislator. He 
 '^£^^ was born in Jefferson county, Ga, in the year 1825, and removed 
 with his parents to Baker— now Dougherty county — in 1830. In 1836 
 his father died, and when the Indian war broke out, though yet quite 
 young, James became a soldier and rendered valiant service in the 
 campaigns with our wily foes in the State of Florida. In 1848 he lo- 
 cated in the town of Newton, now the county site of Baker county, 
 and engaged in the mercantile business. In this pursuit he was emi- 
 nently successful, both in the acquisition of money and in the estab- 
 lishment of a wide-spread reputation for the strictest integrity in bus- 
 iness and high moral worth. 
 
 In 1857 he was married to Miss Mary Brock, from which union 
 two children were born, one of whom died in infancy and the other 
 still living at the age of 24, as a young man who bids fair to emulate 
 the character of his father. 
 
 When the late war of the States was inaugurated Mr. Baggs volun- 
 teered in the service of the Southern Confederacy, and as First Lieu- 
 tenant of Company , 6th Georgia Regiment and rendered efficient 
 
 service until compelled, by ill health, to retire. He was honorably 
 discharged from the army and returned to his home. 
 
 At the close of the war he found his fortune in ruins, but with char- 
 acteristic energy, went to work to repair his losses. In 1869 he lo- 
 cated in the city of Savannah, where he prosecuted a commission 
 business successfully until the severe financial panic of 1873, ^t; which 
 period he retired to his farm in Southwest Georgia, where, struggling 
 under a burden of debt created at the unfortunate date mentioned, he 
 has pursued the business of planting and merchandising on a limited 
 scale. 
 
 For many years he has been a consistent member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, South, and is beloved by all who know him for his 
 Christian virtues. 
 
 His election to the Senate in 1880 is an attestation of his popular- 
 ity at home, and his service as a Senator shows him to have been 
 watchful of the interests of his constituency and of the welfare of 
 Georgia. 
 
24 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 HON. J. H. BAKER. 
 
 (TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT.) 
 
 OOHE HON. J. H. BAKER is a native of Warren county, Ga.. 
 -^^O having been born Aug. 7th, 1824. This was also the native 
 "^ S^county of his father and mother, the former still living at a ripe 
 old age, the latter having died in 1833. His education, which is lim- 
 ited, was obtained at the country schools taught in the neighborhood 
 where his childhood and youth were spent. To the pursuit of agricul- 
 ture he has devoted his life, and by sound practical judgment and a 
 steady industry, he has achieved a gratifying degree of success. 
 
 When war was declared by the United States against the Republic 
 of Me.xico he yielded to the impulses of patriotism and volunteered in 
 the service of his country, following her flag through many conflicts 
 to the day of her final triumph. Returning to his home he laid aside 
 the armaments of war for the implements of husbandry. He served 
 his country for his country's sake, seeking for himself nothing more 
 than that glory which attaches to the faithful and unflinching volunteer. 
 
 In 1848 he was married to Miss Louisa A. Trice, of Pike county. 
 Nine children bless this hapoy union. 
 
 When the war between the States was inaugurated he entered 
 promptly into the military service of the Southern Confederacy, and 
 by many acts of personal heroism, merited and received promotion to 
 the office of Colonel. As a soldier he was brave ; as an officer, he 
 never failed, in the hour of danger, to inspire his command with cour- 
 age by his own intrepidity. At the close of this contest he 
 once more returned to his home and resumed the pursuit most 
 congenial to his tastes, endeavoring, by his wonted energy and in- 
 dustry, to re-establish the fortunes which had been despoiled by war. 
 
 In 1872 he was chosen as a representative of Monroe county, and 
 in that position rendered good service to his constituency. His elec- 
 tion as Senator, which occurred in October, 1880, was a compliment 
 of which any citizen might be proud, his district being composed of 
 three among the best counties of Georgia, whether they be considered 
 with reference to the wealth or the intelligence of their inhabitants. 
 
 Though unpretending and modest, his real merit as a man and his 
 sound, practical judgment as a legislator, gave him popularity with 
 the citizens of the Twenty-second District. This he fully sustained 
 during the course of his Senatorial career, in which he was always at 
 his post, never failing to support the interests of his immediate con- 
 stituents or the welfare of the State at large. 
 
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 HON. JAMES W. BARKSDALE. 
 
 (TWEXTV-XIXTH DISTRICT.) 
 
 (^N the character of the Hon. James W. Barkesdale we have an ex- 
 Qj emplificationof the Christian gentleman, the excellent citizen and 
 "^ the sound, practical, vigilant legislator. Descended from one of the 
 best families of the State, he has illustrated the manly virtues which 
 made his ancestors honorable, and has always enjoyed the highest 
 esteem and confidence of those who know him. He lives in the county 
 of Wilkes, where he was born on the 5th of December, 1830. In 1859 
 and I S63 he was chosen as the representative of his county and as 
 such demeaned himself as a quiet, but a sound and influential mem- 
 ber. As a proof of his fidelity in this capacity, he was elected, in the 
 trying period of 1865, as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 
 which met in that year for the purpose of restoring Georgia to her 
 original place in the Union. Then, as a further evidence of his char- 
 acter and standing, we refer to his election as Senator in 1880, with- 
 out opposition, and by the unanimous votes of his constituency. 
 
 His marriage to Miss Sarah F. Wooten, of Wilkes county, was 
 celebrated on the 24th of March, 1S54. They have one child— a 
 daughter. 
 
 Senator Barksdale enjoyed the advantages of good country schools 
 where he obtained a fair English education. He adopted the pursuit 
 of agriculture as most congenial to his taste, having been raised on a 
 farm and early taught by his father the best methods of culture prev- 
 alent in his youth. To this vocation he has adhered, and he is re- 
 garded as one of the most progressive and successful planters in the 
 State. Appreciating the importance of this pursuit to the general 
 welfare, and convinced of the beneficial influence of science applied 
 to the culture of the soil, he has taken the lead in the general ad- 
 vance of Southern agriculturists, to whom he is presenting a most 
 valuable example. A condition of financial independence has re- 
 sulted from the intelligent culture of his ample fields. Over a 
 home of plenty and of happiness he presides. His noble, gen- 
 erous heart keeps the latch-string on the outer side, and all who 
 enter his abode are greeted with that old-time hospitality which has 
 ever been the glory of this Commonwealth. 
 
 In all the relations of life Senator Barksdale has proven himself a 
 good and useful man. As a speaker he has never sought to become 
 distinguished, yet as a thinker he has always selected the policy most 
 
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 beneficial to the State. In view of the soundness cf his judgment 
 and the honesty of his purpose, criticism of his acts and votes as a 
 legislator would only confirm the high esteem of those whom he has 
 represented. He is yet in the prime of life, destined, we hope, to 
 serve the State many years in her law-making councils. 
 
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OF SEX A TORS. 29 
 
 HON. \\. V. BOND. 
 
 (THIRTY-FOURTH MSI kICI j 
 
 ^/N briefly sketching the life of the Hon. W. P. BonH, we instinct- 
 (f>| ively begin with his genial nature, which, like a magic power, 
 ''^ draws one to his heart. No person, unless it be such an one as 
 is " fit for naught but treason, stratagem and spoils," can escape this 
 influence. No wonder that in the race for Senator he came off tri- 
 umphantly when we consider how closely he draws men to him by 
 his generous and companionable character. 
 
 Though not born to an inheritance of worldly wealth, nature gave 
 him the elements of a manhood that has never known how to fail in 
 any design. As a poor boy, he worked his way through the schools 
 of his neighborhood, and when he had attained majority, and selected 
 medicine as his profession, though without pecuniary means to pursue 
 the necessary studies and to defray his expenses while attending col- 
 ege, friends came to his aid and enabled him to graduate in his pro- 
 fession. For two years he pursued the study of medicine under the 
 instruction of Dr. Reagan, of Lithonia, after which he completed his 
 course at the Georgia Medical College, Augusta. Returning to his 
 home, in DeKalb county, he entered at once upon the practice of med- 
 icine, which soon enabled him to re-imburse the advances of those 
 who aided him in his studies and to acquire, besides, a competency for 
 his easy support. The manifestation of a kind heart and sound judg- 
 ment in his practice not only assured success as a practitioner, but 
 made him hosts of friends, whose confidence in his skill was complete. 
 Year after year only served the more to endear him to those who had 
 known him in his first life-struggles and who saw him, with pride, as 
 the accomplished physician to whom they entrusted their health and 
 their lives. 
 
 His election to the Senate was his first departure from the strict ad- 
 herence to his professional labors, and even while engaged in the 
 duties of a Senator, he was under the necessity of obeying calls to the 
 bedsides of the sick of his district, who felt that their restoration to 
 health was in his hands. 
 
 Of his course in the Senate we cannot speak too highly, for there he 
 certainly came up to the full measure of duty. It may be truly said 
 that he was a " working member," and that in all that he found to 
 do he was untiring. On every question that was brought before the 
 Senate he felt an earnest interest, and his action was always prompt 
 
30 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 either in approval or in opposition. One subject.however, was his special 
 " pet," and he always kept it before his niind and urged it upon other 
 Senators. Comprehending the insufficiency of our State Lunatic 
 Asylum to afford the necessary accommodations for the unfortunati 
 people who, in Georgia, were deprived of reason, his large heart cast 
 its sympathies over them, and he labored arduously for an appropria- 
 tion that would secure ample provisions for all of this unfortunate 
 class. Some Senators were anxious to establish a branch Asylum in 
 the up-country, yet he, while as much devoted as any to the interests 
 of that section of the State, yielded his prejudices of locality for the 
 one great object, which was to furnish a home for the insane, and 
 gave his influence and his vote to the policy of enlarging the present 
 institution. In this effort he triumphed, and by that triumph the 
 hearts of thousands were made to rejoice. To his efforts, more than 
 to any other single influence, the passage of the bill to enlarge and 
 improve the State Lunatic Asylum is due. Had he shown sectional 
 prejudices and contended for a branch of that institution in the upper 
 portion of the State nothing would have been done to alleviate the 
 situation of the insane who were excluded from the asylum for want 
 of room, many of whom were confined in county jails or held under 
 guard at their homes. 
 
 Dr. Bond has been twice married, his first wife being Miss Sarah 
 A. Born, his second, who is now living, being Mrs. Sarah A. Harris. 
 He is still in the prime of life, possessed of a splendid physique and 
 excellent constitution — a face in which the qualities of a noble nature 
 unmistakably beam. 
 
OF SENATORS. i\ 
 
 HON. J. F. BROWN. 
 
 (SEVENTEENTH DISTRICl.i 
 
 ON. J. F. BROWN was born in Crawford county, Ga., March 
 ,^ 5th, 1832 ; completed his literary course at Brownswood Uni- 
 
 5^ versity, and graduated in medicine at the New York University 
 in 1855 with honors. On the 25th of January, 1S35, he was married 
 to Miss A. E. Henderson. 
 
 In 1880 he was elected to the position of State Senator from the 
 Seventeenth District, and though a quiet and modest member of the 
 Senate in 1880 and 1881, proved a most useful and industrious repre- 
 sentative of his district and of the general interests of the State. As 
 one of the Joint Finance Committee his services were practical and 
 beneficial, his views being neither extravagant nor parsimonious. 
 Steering uniformly between the extremes of waste and stringency, 
 he was a safe legislator, in whose hands neither the rights nor the 
 interests of the people could suffer. 
 
 No one was more laborious in efforts to properly comprehend the 
 public necessities, nor more prompt in deciding the path of duty. 
 
 As a speaker, he made no pretensions to eloquence, nor did he tax 
 his people with the expense of needless and meaningless harangues. 
 When it was necessary for him to express his convictions on any 
 question, it was done concisely, clearly and with force. 
 
 As a man, Senator Brown is warm-hearted, generous and compan- 
 ionable. At home he is esteemed for kindness, charity and punctu- 
 ality in the discharge of all personal obligations. To the poor and 
 needy he is a benefactor who never turns away without accompanying 
 the acts of a generous hand with the sympathies of a noble heart. 
 Raised in the lap of luxury and wealth, he has never felt the chilling 
 influence of penury, but, to those less fortunate in this respect, he has 
 ever a cheering word, feeling that although deprived of the wealth of 
 this world, they may be nature's greatest noblemen. 
 
 No wonder that such a character should have the esteem and confi- 
 dence of the people who know him, and that he should have been- 
 deemed worthy the position and the honors of a Senator. 
 
 The record he has made in the Senate is most creditable, showing 
 that he has been faithful and efficient in all thmgs pertaining to the 
 interests of his immediate constituency and those of the State at large. 
 
 As a member of the National Democratic party, he is true and firm, 
 and, while a novice in the political field, is decided in his convictions 
 
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 of polilical policy and unyielding in his devotion to the principles he 
 has espoused. Close attention to the healing art, in the practice of 
 which he is eminent, has detained him from the arena of politics until 
 quite recently, and prevented his attainment of that distinction as a 
 political leader which he might have otherwise won. His medical 
 practice is extensive, and, but for the noble generosity of his nature, 
 would have proved the means of large fortune. 
 
 While in the Senate he made hosts of friends who will be gratified 
 should his district reward his fidelity and distinguished services by re- 
 turning him as its representative in that forum. 
 
OF SENA TORS. 33 
 
 HON. WILLIAM B. BUTT. 
 
 (TWENTV-FOURTH DISTRICT.) 
 
 fURING the sessions of 1868, 1869 and 1870, the subject of this 
 sketch represented the county of Marion, in the General As- 
 sembly, and in those days, when the State was passing through 
 the throes of reconstruction, was found ever true to the honor and 
 interests of the Commonwealth. 
 
 He was chosen Senator from the Twenty-fourth District in 1880 and 
 as such served his constituency with great ability, grasping at the same 
 time, by a broad comprehension, the interests of the whole people, 
 which he guarded with steady zeal. 
 
 Senator Butt proved himself to be an orator of no common charac- 
 ter by his speeches in the Senate during the sessions of 18S0 and 
 1 88 1. His strong convictions of policy were expressed with force 
 and ability, interwoven with which were illustrations, quaint, yet 
 always impressive. The power of his logic made anecdote its hand- 
 maid, so that its pleasing influence never failed to soothe the feelings 
 of his hearers in the midst of acrimonious debate, convincing his aud- 
 itors and competitors that, whether right or wrong in his convictions 
 of public policy, he was always right in heart. 
 
 His opportunities for education did not extend beyond the common 
 schools of his neighborhood, but he has pursued a course of self-in- 
 struction which has stored his mind with a large degree of practical 
 intelligence. 
 
 Having determined upon the profession of law, he entered, in early 
 manhood, upon the study of that science. He has attained to dis- 
 tinction at the bar, and enjoys a lucrative practice. 
 
 His father, William B. Butt, was a native of Columbia county, Ga. 
 His mother was Miss Elizabeth Campbell, of Louisville, Jefferson 
 county. His father died in 1864. His mother yet survives to enjoy 
 a just pride in the honorable character of her son and to receive his 
 kindly ministrations. His devotion to his mother and attention to her 
 wants is one of the noble characteristics of his heart. He is now only 
 thirty-eight years of age, possesses a splendid form — a face beaming 
 with intelligence — and a constitution well preserved by good habits. 
 
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• OF SENA TORS. 35 
 
 HON. S. M. H. HVRD. 
 
 (THIRTV-EIGHI H UISTRICI.) 
 
 ^ENATOR BYRD was born in DeKalb county. Ga., in the year 
 d^ 1831. His parents were Rev. Elijah and Mrs. Ann E. Byrd. 
 ^^ He attended the primary schools in Decaiur and graduated at 
 Emory College, then presided over by Bishop George F. Pierce, with 
 the class of 1852. 
 
 He was brought up under the strictest rubles of morality, and is an ex- 
 ample worthy of emulation, having never used tobacco in any form or 
 taken a single glass of intoxicating liquors. A member of the Meth- 
 odist Church from boyhood, he has filled most of the positions that 
 laymen fill in that Church. He has served on the County School 
 Board and as County Surveyor ; has been a member of the Executive 
 Committee of the Georgia State Agricultural Society, and was elected 
 by that Society as a member of the Board of Trustees of the State 
 University, which position he now occupies. He has constantly man- 
 ifested an interest in the moral and educational advancement of the 
 people, and has endeavored to elevate his own occupation as a 
 farmer by organizing and encouraging such associations as would 
 lead farmers to more intimate social relations in which they might in- 
 terchange opinions. 
 
 He was married to Anna W. Pettus, daughter of Dr. John G. 
 Pettus, then of Jefferson county, Florida, in 1864, and has two chil- 
 dren, a daughter, twelve, and a son four years of age. 
 
 Although Senator Byrd has lived on his farm and pursued the call- 
 ing of a farmer, he has not neglected to improve himself by the accu- 
 mulation of useful, practical knowledge. With ample means at his 
 command, he has devoted himself to the reading of books of science 
 and history, from which his mind is stored with an ample fund of in- 
 telligence. 
 
 He is a useful member of society and a pillar of the church in his 
 section, a good and kind neighbor, the friend of the poor and needy, 
 whom he has never turned away without needed relief. His time and 
 means have been liberally contributed to the various interests of his 
 church, and his advocacy of internal improvements has done much to 
 advance the railroad and other like enterprises, by which his section 
 of the State is being developed. 
 
 Senator Byrd went into the service of the Southern Confederacy 
 with the first company that was organized in Polk county. He served 
 first as Captain and A. Q. M. of Phillips' Legion and afterwards as 
 
36 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 Major and O. M. of the brigades of Generals Wofford and Du Bose 
 to the close of hostilities, surrendering with the Army of Virginia at 
 Appomattox. 
 
 Asa member of the Senate, elected in 1880, he was active, indus- 
 trious and indefatigable in the discharge of his duties. During his 
 term as a legislator he devoted much labor in devising necessary laws 
 for the advancement of agriculture and the interests of education. 
 As a friend and advocate of temperance he did all in his power to 
 save the State from the ruinous traffic in intoxicating liquors. To the 
 questions of State finances and her great railroad interests he devoted 
 much of his time. As Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture 
 his labors were assiduous, his reports practical and almost universally 
 met with the approval of the Senate. 
 
 Senator Byrd is now in the prime of life and in buoyant health. 
 His constituents could not select an abler, more worthy or more use- 
 ful representative of their district. 
 
OF SENA TORS. 37 
 
 HON. J. E. CARTER. 
 
 (TWELFTH DISTRICT ) 
 
 OpHE HON. J. E. CARTER was born at Wrightsboro, Columbia 
 AO county Ga., June 4th, 1825. His father, William R. Carter, was a 
 '^^5^^ nativeof South Carolina, and his mother whose maiden name was 
 (Ann Ellen O.) Harris, was a native of this State. His mother died 
 in 1863, aged 68 years, and his father died in 1872, at the age of 87 
 years. He has one brother and one sister living and one sister dead. 
 His primary education was acquired at the schools of Stewart county, 
 after which he became a student ff Mercer University, where he re- 
 mained only until he reached the junior class, at which time he re- 
 turned to his home and commenced the study of medicine, to the 
 practice of which, in connection with farming, he has devoted his sub- 
 sequent life. He is a member of the Methodist Church. 
 
 His practice as a physician is very extensive, and his operations in 
 the farming line are very large. 
 
 In all things to which he has given h.s attention he has been suc- 
 cessful, this fact showing the soundness of his judgment and the 
 qualities of industry and perseverance by which he has always been 
 distinguished. 
 
 He was elected to the Senate in 1872, and served a term of four 
 years. In 1880 he was again elected to this position, having been ex- 
 cluded during the intervening years by the rule of rotation which has 
 been adopted in his district. It will be seen that whenever it is the 
 right of Stewart county to select the Senator for that district, the lot 
 falls on Dr. Carter. This is as it should be, for there could be no better 
 or truer man selected for the position. 
 
 While makmg no claim to the qualities of a speaker or debater, he 
 keeps a constant watch for the interests of his constituents, and ac- 
 complishes his measures by laboring for them before Committees and 
 with the Senators individually. He is a gentleman of sound judg- 
 ment and pleasing address, and with an honest heart that would ap- 
 prove only that which is right, it is not a difficult matter for him to 
 impress Senators favorably to his purposes. 
 
 He began political life as a Whig ; was a member of the American 
 or Know Nothing party, which was organized for the double purpose 
 of preventing the ascendency of the Catholic Church in this country 
 and the supremacy of the foreign element in the enactment and the 
 enforcement of laws. He is now a Democrat. 
 
 He was married to Miss Martha A. HoUiday, in Stewart county, 
 January 8th, 1858, and has eight living children, four boys and four 
 girls. 
 
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 OF SENA TORS. 39 
 
 HON. W.M. A. CURTIS. 
 
 (FORTIETH DISTRICT.) 
 
 , /SON. Wm. ASBURY CURTIS was born April 26th, 1841, in 
 Cherokee, now Clay county, N. C. He is the son of ihe Rev- 
 James D, and Clarissa H. Curtis, his mother's maiden name hav- 
 ing been Sanderson. Senator Asbury is the eldest of eleven children, 
 ail of whom are still living except two. Until the age of fifteen he en- 
 joyed no other educational advantages than such as were afforded by 
 the " old tield schools" of his native county, but at that age he entered 
 Fort I-Iembree Academy, under the charge of Prof. John O. Hicks, 
 from whom he received the principal part of his education in the few 
 years intervening his entry into the Academy and the beginning of the 
 war between the States. He entered the military service of the 
 Southern Confederacy with the first company that left his county in 
 1861, being then in his 20th year, and served in Company A, Second 
 Regiment of Cavalry, of North Carolina, as a private in the ranks, 
 until the final surrender in 1S65. He was connected with the Army of 
 Virginia, and served under Generals Lee, Stuart, Hampton and Bar- 
 ringer. Although engaged in thirty-one battles and skirmishes with 
 the enemy, he was never either wounded or captured. 
 
 On his return from the war he again entered Fort Hembree Acad- 
 emy under his former preceptor, but retired therefrom in four months 
 for want of means. Yet impelled by a thirst for knowledge, he pursued 
 his studies alone, until he had mastered several higher branches of 
 education. 
 
 Mr Curtis has been a consistent member of the i\I. E. Church, 
 South, since August, 1865, and has devoted much of his time to the 
 interests of Sabbath-schools in his section. 
 
 He has given little attention to politics, and has never aspired to 
 political honors but in two instances — once in North Carolina and 
 once in this State ; in both of these instances— having been brought 
 into the field by the urgency of friends — he was successful. He studied 
 law and was admitted to the bar in North Carolina in the year 1869, 
 but findmg the practice uncongenial to his taste, he abandoned the 
 profession and has since devoted himself to the business of teaching 
 school. He commenced teaching school in 1866, in Union county, 
 Ga., and afterwards taught in North Carolina until 1873, when he 
 removed to Rabun county, in this State, and established Rabun Gap 
 High School, of which he is now the proprietor. This institution has 
 been in successful operation for over eight years. Mr. Curtis is a 
 
40 S/OG/^APN/a^L SKETCh'ES 
 
 generous otac. aS i$ attested by the fiact that durins^ hb proprietorship 
 of this school he has donated more than $i.ioo to orphans and de- 
 saviour poor children who have sought education under his care. 
 
 He vk-as ekcied to the S^iate from the 40th Districr. over M. G. 
 Cohrell £sq^ of Unioa. and H. G. Staihdredge, £sq^ of Towns 
 county, receivii^ a majority of 1 1 5 votes over the former gentleman. 
 
 Mr. Curtis was married to Miss Mary R, Butler, of Clay ccunty. 
 North Carolina, on the 15th of January. 1867. and is blessed with six 
 children — two girts and four boys^ 
 
 As a writer. Mr. Curtis b graceful, precise and fofvible : as a 
 speaker, ckar and logical : as a thinker, iaborioos ac<l profound : as a 
 dtiaen. pub&c spirited and patriotic : as a legislator, industrious. in> 
 tcD^gecit and aeakMis for the enforcement of that policy which he 
 deems beneficial to the people of the State. He takes no steps in the 
 dark, but considers well the effect of any action before :: is performed. 
 The education of the Eiasses i> a subject nearest ;o his heart, and 
 to this much of his innuence was deroced daring the sessions of the 
 Senate in which he sstrved. 
 
OF SEX A TORS. 4 1 
 
 HON. W. HEFLIX DANIEL. 
 
 (THIRTV-SEVENTH DISTRICl.i 
 
 ■^/^ON. W. HEFLIN DAN IK L is a native of Heard county, Ga.. 
 ^M/ having been born November i8th, 1853. His education was 
 ^%^ obtained at the scliools of his native county, with the exception of 
 a few months spent at the Univer<^ity of this State. When but sixteen 
 years of age he commenced teaching school, and pursued this calling 
 for three years. He then decided to make law his profession, and 
 promptly entered upon the study of this science, devoting himself 
 assiduously thereto for about two years, when he was admitted to :he 
 bar with credit, and entered upon the practice in his native county. 
 
 In 1877, he was chosen a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 
 and at once took rank with the leading spirits of that body of able 
 and true men. So handsomely did he perform the trust confided to 
 him as a delegate to that Convention, that he was elected to the Leg- 
 islature in 1878, serving with ability in the House of Representatives 
 during the sessions of 1878 and 1879. 
 
 His election to the Senate in 1880, by the voters of Heard, Carroll 
 and Troup, was a just compliment to one who in every position which 
 required fidelity and intelligence, had proved himself worthy. The 
 record of his service in the Senate reflects credit upon his mind and 
 heart. It may be truly said of him that he was a faithful, industrious 
 and able Senator-aUvays at his post of duty— watchful of every interest 
 coming under the care of the law-makers of the State— comprehend- 
 ing the deficiencies in existing statutes and clearly conceiving the 
 needed remedies. Though only twenty-eight years of age, he pos- 
 sessed a dignity of demeanor common to men of advanced years, his 
 countenance ever wearing the expression of one who felt the influence 
 of stern and important duties. His earnestness, absolute freedom 
 from levity, and his unaffected dignity, secured the respect of all who 
 came within his presence. As a presiding officer, he acquitted him- 
 self in a manner which won the admiration of the Senate, for he ruled 
 with decision, and decided the most intricate and perplexing questions 
 of parliamentary law with a clearness which would have been credita- 
 ble to old and experienced parliamentarians. 
 
 Mr. Daniel is a forcible speaker, and while capable of eloquence. 
 prefers to carry his convictions to the minds of others through the 
 instrumentality of stern, logical argument. 
 
UARRISQU & CO^fub'ra. 
 
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 MM>.^^^t^^. 
 
OF SENA TO/sS. ^3 
 
 Mr. Da liel is a gentleman of fine literary taste, which he deliehts 
 to cultivate, devoting himself to such works of fact and fiction as tend 
 to elevate aid improve. He is a progressive man, destined, if his life 
 should t>e scared, to prove useful to his country and generation. We 
 predict for him a brilliant destiny. 
 
S/00/f,4PmCAL SA£TCN£S 
 
 \{<^\. K. r. s nr.NMARK. 
 
 (SEVKNTH DISTRICT-^ 
 
 ^:~NA';\"'K, riCXMARK, who w^s one of the vounijest of the 
 ^^ Sen.4tv>rs electevi in jSSo. was hkewise one ot the most modest as 
 ■ "- weU as amv^nj: the most ijifted and culti\*ated. Although he rarely 
 enc^A^evi m the debates of the Sei>ate. when his voice was hearvi it was 
 in behalf of s<*»xi policy, and his vxuxis were uttered wisely and iogi- 
 V AuY. Without the effort t\^r show, he confined himself to the ques- 
 tiv>n At issue. s^^'J"^ expression to his convictions with an earnestness 
 o! manner th.xt rexnfaled unmistakably his sincerity and the purpose 
 t.> renvier faithful service to his State and his constituency. He was, 
 .it the time of his election, only iwenty«fiv« \-ears of age. having been 
 txvn in l^rvvks cc»unty. Georgia, on the 4th of December. 1S54. 
 
 He has enjv>\"ed splendid educational adx^antages. both at Mencer 
 
 and at the Vniv^ersitv of the State. As a lawyer he has 
 
 ;ained an en vj.^ble standing, his reputation as a practitioner 
 
 s; ... viy advancingr. *n*i giving promise of a future which youi^ attor- 
 
 ;:cvs might be excusevi for envying. 
 
 His constituency have ever\- reason to be proud of his Senatorial 
 reooTvi for. whi'e ewr present at the post of duty, and casting his vote 
 on aJl questions, we do not think he ever contributed to the enactment 
 of an in judicious statute, or to the continuance of an <ypressi\^ or 
 :i>;arious law. As Chairman of the Committee on Journals he per- 
 tor:ned his duties well, his ckxse attention to the current business and 
 his cultured mind eiuibJing him to judge both of the accuracy and 
 the style of the daihr records. 
 
 Mr. Denmark won the respect, the contidence and the (riendshi"> v^f 
 aU with tchom he xras brooght into assodatioa. If he had been -r.v r>e 
 assamii^ he might have been less bek>\<ed> for \rfaile his friends would 
 have bcMi gratified to have had him entw more frequently into the 
 <fiscasaoQS of the siession, they could bat esteem in a high degree the 
 gnc^ol modesty \riiich caused him to prefer his own silence to that 
 of others. Socfa aman should not be set aside by the custom of county 
 rotazkm in the selection of Smators. His legislative career has ooly 
 passcd its davnii^. and he should be again returned from his district. 
 
 Senator Dennuo^ was married to Miss M. £. Lane, on the 6th of 
 January. iSSi. His panntts are both living, their home being Brooks 
 county. Georfiia. 
 
OF SENATORS. 
 
 HON. BENJ. C. DUGGER. 
 
 (FORT^'-FIRST DISTRICT^ 
 
 ^i N 1 880 Mr. Dugger made his first appearance in the Senate of 
 ^y Georgia, but having for six consecutive sessions represented the 
 
 ^ county of Fannin in the House, was by no means a stranger to the 
 legislation of the State. As Senator, he evinced the same zeal for the 
 rights and interests of his constituents which characterized his course 
 as a Representative, and his votes will show that he was always gov- 
 erned by a sound discretion and an honest heart. Mr. Dugger does 
 not claim to be a public debater, and was seldom known to take an 
 active part in the discussions of the Senate. However, he is not of 
 that clas.s of men who will remain silent when duty requires speech, 
 and therefore, on several questions affecting the interests of tho?e he 
 represented, he gave expression to his views w:th an earnestness and 
 zeal that proved his devotion and fearlessness. His attendance u{X)n 
 the sessions of the Senate were prompt and regular, his chair being 
 seldom vacant. 
 
 .Mr. Dugger is eminently social in his disposition— telling a joke 
 with much zest, and being the victim of many innocent anecdotes. It 
 is now reported of him that since the adoption, in his district, of the 
 rule of rotation, which gives the Senator to the counties alternately, 
 he has moved from the last county of his residence, in order that he 
 might be eligible to re-election. We cannot bear witness to the truth 
 of thib report, yet if it be a joke, no one will enjoy it more heartily 
 than Mr. Dugger. 
 
 It is rumored, also, with perhaps some truth, that he intends to 
 make the race for Congress in the Ninth District, believing that he 
 would serve the constituency of that district with greater practical 
 benefit than the brilliant young Representative who has won his posi- 
 tion by disintegrating Republican and Democratic organizations. 
 
 We cannot better portray the life of .Mr. Dugger anterior to his 
 Senatorial career, than by the adoption, entire, of the following sketch 
 written by the fluent and graceful pen of Mr. Samuel Echols, and pub- 
 lished in his Legislative Sketches of 1878 : 
 
 "Who shall judge a mao from manoers, 
 Who shall know Tiim by his dress ? 
 
 Poor men may be fit for princes. 
 Princes fit for something less. 
 
 Homespun shirt and crumpled jacket, 
 May beclothe the golden ore 
 
 Of the deepest thought and feeling- 
 Satin vest could do no more. 
 
 — President Lincoln t /avar it e lines. 
 
KUHSS PHOTO. 
 
 HARRISON & CO., PUB'aS, 
 
 /Z^ 
 
OF SENA TORS. 47 
 
 " What would the Georgia Legislature be without the member by 
 the name of Dugger ? He has served in six consecutive sessions ; and 
 is likely to come to the House until he is called to take a seat in one 
 not made with hands. 
 
 " Mr. Dugger is an honest man. Not a member of any House with 
 whom he has served will say nay to that proposition. He is not an 
 Apollo in personal beauty, nor a Daniel Web-ter in learning or elo- 
 quence, nor does he profess to be either. Then, loo, he is a Republi- 
 can, and that, by some men, would be considered a crime. But he is 
 honest — honest in his homeliness, in his unpreteniiousness to learning, 
 and in his Republicanisni. 
 
 " His father was a soldier in 1S14 under General Jackson, and when 
 the late war occurred, had a sign painted over his door, 'Union.' His 
 son shared his sentiments, and maintained them throughout the strug- 
 gle, although taking no part in the conflict. 
 
 " Mr. Dugger is one of twenty children of John and Sarah Dugger. 
 He had twelve brothers and seven sisters. He was born in Carter 
 county (now Johnson), Tenn.. on the 7th of December. 1813, and 
 there received a meagre rudimentary education. His avocation since 
 boyhood has t^ieen chiefly farming, though he has been at times en- 
 gaged in mining. He was, in 1835, captain of a militia company in 
 Tennessee. In 1847, he opened the Ducktown Copper Mines, in Polk 
 county, Tenn. In 1855 he removed to Fannin county, Ga., where he 
 has since resided. In 1848, he married Mrs. Mary L. Taylor, of Polk 
 county. 
 
 "Mr. Dugger came to the Legislature of 1S73, and has been re- 
 elected to every succeeding one. His Republicanism does not par- 
 take of the dishonest propensity which characterized too many of his 
 party in the South since the war." 
 
48 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 HON. R. T FOUCHE. 
 
 (FORTY-SECOND DISTRICT.) 
 
 §ENATOR FOUCHE is a native of Hancock county, Georgia.- 
 He was born October 29th, 1835. His parents were native Geor- 
 _ gians, and are now living at a ripe old age in the city of Rome. 
 His father, having devoted his life to the profession of a teacher, at- 
 tained to eminence as an instructor. From him the subject of this sketch 
 received that instruction which prepared him to enter the State Uni- 
 versity far advanced. There he remained for two years, when he 
 entered upon the study of the law, to the practice of which he was 
 admitted after an examination in which he acquitted himself with a 
 degree of credit that gave promise of the distinction to which he has 
 attained in his profession. 
 
 He volunteered in the Confederate army as a private in the Eighth 
 Georgia Regiment, in 1861, and participated in the first battle of 
 Manassas, with many of the most promising young men of the State, 
 sharing in the glory won by his regiment in that fearful conflict which 
 gave victory to Southern arms. In all the great battles fought on the 
 soil of Virginia he took part, evincing a gallantry which led to his pro- 
 motion to the office of Major in the regular army. In 1864, he re- 
 ceived a gun-shot wound that came near destroying his life, the ball 
 passing through his lungs. 
 
 Returning home after peace was declared, he resumed the practice 
 of law, and soon took rank with the most eminent and successful 
 practitioners at the Cherokee bar. 
 
 No district in the State was more ably or faithfully represented in 
 the last Senate than the Forty-second. The election of Maj. Fouche 
 to this responsible position, which was accomplished after a heated 
 contest, reflects credit upon the intelligence of his constituents. They 
 gave to the Senate a member who not only proved faithful and zealous 
 in promoting the interests of his own district and section, but one who 
 possessed the capacity to conceive and the ability to enforce those 
 views of public policy most promotive of the general welfare. Though 
 distinguished for native modesty, he rose above this impediment to 
 the full measure of his duty as a Senator, and urged his views with 
 an earnestness and resolution which in more than one important in- 
 stance gave him success over a large majority of the Senate — his rea- 
 sons for the views he would enforce being so clearly and forcibly pre- 
 sented as to p'roduce a change in the opinions of Senators and secure 
 the triumph of his policy. 
 
OF SENA TORS. 
 
 49 
 
 As a speaker, he is free from all efforts to win personal applause or 
 fame — his unassuming manner always indicating that he spoke only 
 for his cause and country. His service in the capacity of Chairman of 
 the Finance Committee was laborious and marked him out as a finan- 
 cier of ability, and as a vigilant and conscientious guardian of the 
 treasury of the people. Although free from all semblance of penu- 
 riousness and always ready to vote for beneficial and constitutional 
 appropriati-:>ns of public moneys, his record shows that he opposed 
 every proposed measure of doubtful propriety or constitutionality that 
 required any portion of the people's money. In more than one instance 
 he had his vote recorded in the negative where all other votes of the 
 Senate had been cast in favor of the appropriation. Thus he obeyed 
 his conscientious convictions and refused to aid in establishing a prece- 
 dent which he could not approve. This opposition was not waged in 
 the spirit of captiousness, but with calm dignity, and in adherence to 
 what he deemed a correct principle. 
 
 Major Fouche was married to Miss Rebecca Sprouce, of Bartow 
 county, February 20th, 1868, and has two children, a son and a 
 daughter. 
 
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OF SENATORS. 51 
 
 HON. \V. R. GORMAN, 
 
 (IWENTV-FIFTH DISIKICT.) 
 
 00 HE Senate of 1880 and 18S1 was certainly the most modest and 
 \\y unassuming body of legislators ever assembled at the capitol of 
 ^^T^ this State. Among these men, who were none the less profound 
 because of their modesty. Maj. Gorman was perhaps most distinguished 
 for this virtue. Although a sound thinker, his voice was seldom heard 
 in debate, and then more in the style of e.xplanation, or the history of 
 a question, than of forensic argument. But there was no Senator 
 who did more to induce wise and beneficial legislation. While always 
 at his post in the Senate, ready to cast his vote on all measures, it was 
 in the committee rooms that he achieved most for the welfare of 
 Georgia. 
 
 He was born in Baldwin county October 3Sih, 182S. His father. 
 Dr. John 13. Gorman, a South Carolinian by nativity, was one of the 
 most distinguished physicians of that State and an accomplished 
 author, the merits of whose works were attested by the fact of their 
 translation into several languages of the Old World, among which 
 were the Turkish and the Greek. He died in 1863. The mother of 
 Senator Gorman wa?, before her marriage to his father. Miss Mary 
 Scarry, daughter of the Hon. Wm. Searcy, who served many terms as 
 a member of the Legislature of this State. She died in 1829. 
 
 Senator Gorman having received an academic education, entered the 
 University of Georgia in 1848, and completed his literary course by a 
 term of eighteen months at Harvard. He studied law and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar before arriving at 2t years of age, but the practice 
 being less congenial to his taste than the pursuit of agriculture, he 
 has devoted his life to this pursuit. To the ample heritage received 
 from his father, he has continued to make additions by habitual indus- 
 try and frugality, and has the gratification of possessing a fortune suf- 
 ficient for his comfort and convenience, every dollar of which has 
 been honestly and conscientiously acquired. 
 
 In 1867, he erected on his farm a merchant mill, and has devoted 
 much attention to this machinery, both as a means of pleasure and 
 profit. It is located on a stream which affords immense water-power, 
 making this one of the best mill sites in the State, and which, in all 
 probability, will at no distant period become the site of an extensive 
 cotton manufactory. 
 
 Major Gorman has always been habitiv.Ily temperate. He is fond 
 
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 of society and strongly devoted to home and family. His attendance 
 upon the sessions of the Legislature were at the sacrifice of his purest 
 enjoyments, which he finds in ihe midst of his family at his country 
 seat. 
 
 Although actively opposed by a strong man in his race, he was 
 nevertheless elected by a large majority. This is mainly attributable 
 to his kindness and generosity, which are proverbial in his section, and 
 to his active and untiring efforts for the advancement of the interests 
 of agriculture, public education, the construction of works of internal 
 improvement, and every measure or enterprise beneficial to his county 
 and State. 
 
 He is a Democrat — was opposed to secession in the manner in 
 which it was attempted — and prefers peace to war. 
 
 Though his fortune was well-nigh lost as a consequence of the 
 conflict between the States, he has regained it by manly industry and 
 the exercise of a sound, practical judgment. 
 
 He was married January 3d, 1856, to Miss Sallie Burt, a highly re- 
 spected and accomplished lady of Talbot county. They have nine 
 children, one of whom, a daughter, is gaining considerable reputation 
 as a writer. 
 
OF SENA TORS. 53 
 
 HON. DuPONT GUERRY. 
 
 (THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.) 
 
 00 HE subject of this sketch was born at Americus, Sumter county, 
 |fo Ga., on the 26th day of March, 1848. His father, Wm. B. 
 
 cT^Guerry, is a descendant of the French Huguenots who, many 
 years ago, settled in the State of South Carolina. His mother, whose 
 maiden name was Sarah A. Dixon, is a descendant of a South Caro- 
 lina family of English extraction. 
 
 DuPont Guerry owes his entire education to two years' attendance 
 at the common schools of his native town, and to the careful instruc- 
 tion of his father, who aided him materially in his studies. He has, 
 therefore, entered upon the duties of life without the advantages af- 
 forded by a regular course at college or university. 
 
 Before he had attained the age of fifteen years, he volunteered in the 
 military service of the Confederate States, and presented himself, 
 ready for the privations of the camp and the perils of the field, as a 
 private in the Army of Northern Virginia. Much to the regret of 
 this boy-soldier and patriot, he was rejected by General Pendleton on 
 account of extreme youth and smallness of stature. Thus disap- 
 pointed in his effort to serve his country in the ranks of the noble 
 army mentioned, he turned, with manly resolution and hope, to the 
 army then under the command of General Joseph E. Johnston ; but 
 about this time the news reached him that the militia officers of 
 Georgia were called to service, and he joined them on their organiza- 
 tion at Atlanta. When the militia (proper) were called out and their 
 reorganization took place, he was elected a lieutenant, although at that 
 period he was scarcely sixteen years of age. This opportunity to 
 serve his State was most gratifying to him, and he improved it to the 
 utmost, being ready at all times to give his life for the cause he had 
 espoused. He engaged in all the battles, on the right, which were 
 fought at the city of Atlanta, in July, 1864, and there was no soldier 
 who evinced greater gallantry in that army of chivalric men. Those 
 who were eye-witnesses of his valor are enthusiastic in its praise. He 
 was, also, in the battle of Griswoldville, and more than sustained his 
 reputation for bravery in that contest. When Macon was captured by 
 General Wilson he was in that city, and preferring to escape rather 
 than to be paroled, he and his father and a few others retired from 
 that place after night through the railroad bridge, and succeeded in 
 avoiding capture. 
 
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OF SENA TORS. 55 
 
 The war having terminated in a short time after his retreat from 
 Macon, his career as a soldier was brought to a close ; but if it had 
 ■continued, the South would have found in this young volunteer not 
 only a heart inspired with the spirit of true chivalry, but a mind cap- 
 able of planning and executing great military movements. 
 
 Determining to pursue the profession of law, in which his father 
 was engaged, he accordingly began the study of that science. De- 
 voting himself closely and assiduously to his books, he was, in due 
 time, after a most creditable examination, admitted to the bar. and 
 commenced the practice of the law at Americus, in conjunction with 
 his father, in the year 1870. With the same earnestness, industry and 
 resoknion which distinguished him from childhood, and a mind, 
 naturally judicial, well-stored with the eternal principles which consti- 
 tutes the legal science, he entered upon the duties of counsellor and 
 attorney. Although he commenced the practice in the presence of a 
 bar of great ability, he sustained himself from the beginning, and very 
 soon received the most complimentary recognition of his ability and 
 promise from the Chief Justice and Justices of the Supreme Court of 
 Georgia. His efforts before that tribunal very early marked him out 
 as the peer of the first legal minds of this State, and as the years 
 have passed, he has steadily developed his powers and extended his 
 reputation as a lawyer. 
 
 In 1876, he was married to Miss Fannie Davenport, of Americus, a 
 lady of rare beauty and accomplishments, who, having been his play- 
 mate in childhood and his friend in youth and early manhood, was a 
 fit companion of his after life. This union has been blessed with 
 three children, whose presence gives cumulative happiness to their 
 home. 
 
 His election to the Senate in 1880 was a merited compliment from 
 one of the most wealthy and intelligent constituencies in the State. A 
 more able, indefatigable, or faithful representative of that district, or 
 of the interests, rights and honor of the Commonwealth, could not 
 have been selected. He was a member of the standing committees of 
 the Senate on the Judiciary, Finance, Banks, Public Buildings, Railroads 
 and Internal Improvements, being the chairman of the Committee on 
 Banks and acting chairman of the Committee on Finance during a 
 great portion of the session of 1 881, owing to the providential absence 
 of its distinguished chairman, Hon. R. T. Fouche. He was, in addi- 
 tion, chairman of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance, and of the 
 Joint Special Committee appointed to investigate and advise as to the 
 acceptance of certain irregular U. S. bonds which were tendered the 
 State Treasurer in payment of the balance due as purchase money for 
 the Macon and Brunswick Railroad. He was likewise a member of 
 
56 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 the Joint Special Committee appointed to investigate the lease of the 
 Western and Atlantic Railroad. Few if any Senators were placed in 
 so many important positions requiring industry and intelligence, yet 
 he was equal to the task imposed, and discharged every duty cheer- 
 fully, promptly, and with great ability. During the session of 1881, 
 he was present at every roll call, and always ready to advocate such 
 measures as he deemed beneficial to the State, or oppose those which 
 he regarded bad in policy or wrong in principle. His opposition to 
 the acceptance of the irregular bonds of the United States, was de- 
 cided. After a full investigation, as Chairman of the Committee, he 
 presented the majority report which was adverse to their ac- 
 ceptance, and sustained that report by a speech that has seldom been 
 equaled in the Senate of Georgia for clearness and force of argument. 
 He handled the subject like an intellectual giant, making the line oL 
 duty so plain that scarcely a Senator was left to oppose his views. 
 But for this effort the bonds in question would, in all probability, have 
 been accepted, and a loss to the people of JJyoo.ooo might have re- 
 sulted as a consequence. 
 
 On the bill introduced by himself to compel the railroads of Geor- 
 gia to adopt and enforce joint rates, he made a masterly argument. 
 Then, when the Cole charter was before the Senate on its final passage. 
 his powers as a debater were brought into exercise by the opposition 
 which that measure encountered from the Hon. Mr. McDaniel. That 
 gentleman desired to subject the bill to a material amendment, and 
 the effort he made to accomplish this purpose met successful resistance 
 only in the argument of Mr. Guerry, which may be truly characterized 
 as overwhelming. Although young and inexperienced in legislative 
 debate, he proved to be in that contest more than the equal of the dis- 
 tinguished and experienced Senator mentioned. Those who heard his 
 speech on that occasion made predictions for his future which, if veri- 
 fied, will place him as the peer of Georgia's greatest jurists and states- 
 men. When it is considered that he is only thirty-three years of age, 
 with good constitution, expansive intellect, and studious and abstemi- 
 nous habits, such a prediction, in the presence of what he has already 
 achieved, cannot be deemed extravagant. 
 
 Senator Guerry is still small of stature — his average weight being: 
 only 115 pounds — but in this small casket there is an intellectual gera 
 of brilliancy and power. 
 
OF SENATORS. 57 
 
 HON. J. W. HARRELL. 
 
 (SIXTH DISTRICT.) 
 
 ^ rON. J. W. HARRELL was born in Duplin county, N. C, June 
 ^ I,/ nth, 1835. His father was James Harrell, and his mother, in 
 ^^€^ her maidenhood, was Helen M. Hufham. Though of limited 
 means they were of high social rank. James was the eldest of ten 
 children and was compelled in childhood to labor in order to aid in the 
 support of the family. His education was limited, being only such as 
 could be obtained in the schools of the neighborhood. 
 
 In the year 1852 his father moved with his family to Lowndes 
 county, Ga., where both of his parents are yet living. James w^s at 
 this lime seventeen years of age, and by a manly and upright career, 
 he soon won the contidence and esteem of all who knew him. As an 
 evidence of his popularity we mention the fact that when only twenty- 
 one years of age he was chosen Justice of the Peace in the district in 
 which he lived, and in 1856 was chosen ta.x collector of Lowndes 
 county, and elicited, by his fidelity to his duties, high encomiums from 
 the Comptroller-General of Georgia. 
 
 At the age of twenty-four years he was married to Miss Mariana 
 Newsom, an accomplished lady of Lowndes county. They have a 
 family of eleven children, consisting of five boys and six girls, all of 
 whom are remarkable for amiability of character, not one of the fam- 
 ily ever having used a profane or vulgar expression or entered into un- 
 pleasant disputation with the others. 
 
 In i860 he was elected Ordinary of his county by a handsome ma- 
 jority, and though when the war commenced he joined a company 
 and was in the act of going into the military field, he yielded to the 
 urgent solicitation of his constituency and remained at home, serving 
 out his term of office. But, as soldiers became more in demand, he 
 reported for duty and was detailed to remain at home, on the volun- 
 tary application of the Government Purchasing Agent and the Enroll- 
 ing Officer, his great success as a farmer, by which he produced larger 
 supplies for the government than any other citizen being the actuating 
 motive for these officers in making this application. They represented 
 that he was accomplishing more good at home, by the raising of sup- 
 plies and the care of the women and children than he could do in the 
 field. This application was heard, considered and promptly granted. 
 He was detailed, but the call for details to enter the service having 
 soon been made, he promptly responded and was with the army in its 
 retreat from Atlanta, fighting the enemy at Macon and Griswoldville. 
 
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OF SEX A TORS. 
 
 59 
 
 He came out of the war with little more than a small landed estate 
 and a few head of cattle and other stock. But he went to work with 
 true energy and soon attained again to a condition of financial inde- 
 pendence. 
 
 Senator Harrell may be truly characterized as a model citizen. He 
 is industrious, practical, moral, and generous to all, particularly to the 
 poor and needy. From such as need assistance he has never turned 
 with indifference, but has always aided them to the extent of his 
 ability. His integrity and his philanthropy are proverbial in the section 
 where he is known, and these qualities have won for him the highest 
 confidence and respect of the people of all classes and conditions. 
 
 Although urged before every election for the Legislature since the 
 war to become a candidate in his county, he positively refused until 
 the election in 1880, when he was elected Senator from the Sixth Dis- 
 trict. His service in this capacity has been all that his people should 
 desire, for he was always at his post of duty, ready to vote and act 
 with intelligence and fidelity. He makes no pretensions as a public 
 speaker, but is a good worker in behalf of a measure which meets the 
 approval of his judgment. 
 
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 HON. R. B. HARRIS. 
 
 (SECOND DISIRICT.) 
 
 tENATOR HARRIS was born in Palerma, Bryan county, Georgia, 
 May 15th. 1838. He is the son of Dr. Raymond and Mary 
 (Law) Harris, the former a native of Columbia county and the 
 latter of Liberty county, Ga. 
 
 The subject of this sketch received his education in I he schools of 
 Liberty county, and graduated in medicine and surgery at the Sa- 
 vannah Medical College, having pursued the study of the science 
 under Dr. R. R. Arnold of that city. As a practitioner of medicine 
 he has been particularly successful, due, no doubt, to the excellence 
 of his judgment and the completeness of his medical education. 
 
 In his section he is universally popular, winning all hearts by the 
 kindness and generosity of his own, and his manly character, coupled 
 with a natural politeness, which is exhibited to all, whether rich or 
 poor, learned or unlearned. 
 
 He entered the Confederate military service as a private in 1861. 
 and as a member of the Savannah \' olunteer Batallion. In the same 
 year he was appointed an assistant surgeon, and was sent to Rich- 
 mond, Va., and placed in charge of a floor in the First Georgia Hos- 
 pital. He was then sent to the Fifty-seventh Georgia Regiment in 
 the field, and continued as one of the medical officers of that com- 
 mand until it surrendered at High Point, N. C. He was distinguished 
 by his fidelity and kindness to the sick and wounded, always laboring 
 to do the utmost to alleviate their pangs and restore them to health. 
 
 He is a thorough Democrat in his political views. During the year 
 1876 he served as Mayor of the town of Jesup, and as chairman of the 
 Board of Health of the city of Darien from 1878 to 1S81. His con- 
 test for the Senatorship was heated and violent, and resulted in a con- 
 test of his seat, which was decided in his favor, after a thorough 
 investigation by the Committee on Elections, the Senate voting to 
 declare him elected by a large majority. 
 
 His course in the Senate evinced a capacity for great usefulness. 
 As chairman of the Special Committee on Hygiene he drafted and in- 
 troduced a number of bills designed to promote medical science and 
 the public health in Georgia. Among these was the bill to provide for 
 a State Board of Pharmaceutic Examiners, which passed both Houses 
 and is now in beneficial operation. 
 
 He made no claims to oratory, but was an indefatigable worker for 
 
62 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 the measures in which he felt an interest, both in the open Senate and 
 before the committees. During the first portion of his senatorial 
 service he was cramped, embarrassed and restrained by the doubt cast 
 upon his right to a seat in the body by the contest of his opponent. 
 He was married to Miss Laura Dasher in 1866, and has been 
 blessed with three bright and beautiful children. 
 
OF SENA TORS. 6y 
 
 HON. JAMKS H. HICKS. 
 
 (SIXTKKN'l'H IiIS'l RICI .) 
 
 ^OHE name, Hicks, is intimately associated with tlie legislation of 
 |\^ Georgia for many years past, the father of the present Senator 
 ^^^ by this name, having been often a member of both branches of 
 the General Assembly, and having always proved an efficient and faith- 
 ful servant of the people. He was a native of what was once Mont- 
 gomery county, but being divided became Emanuel. In this latter 
 county the subject of this sketch was born, June 21, 1841. When the 
 county of Johnson was formed that portion of Emanuel which em- 
 braced the home of Senator Hicks became a part of it, and it is there 
 that he now resides. His father was one of the most active, ener- 
 getic and enterprising men of his section, and is still living at the age 
 of 84 years. His mother, who was a Miss Hightower, is yet living 
 at the age of 73 years. 
 
 The subject of this sketch had the good fortune to be instructed by 
 noble parents in the essential duties of life, and has, in all periods, and 
 under all circumstances, shown himself true to his early teachings, 
 illustrating a devotion to the principles of true honor by all his actions. 
 His education was mainly received at the schools of his neighborhood. 
 A short time before the commencement of the war between the States, 
 he entered Trfhity College, North Carolina, but when he saw the gath- 
 ering storm threatening his native State, he laid aside the books of the 
 student for the arms of the patriot soldier, and joining the Army of 
 Virginia was in ail the battles fought within the Old Dominion, except 
 two. He went into the military service of the Southern Confederacy 
 as a private, but was soon promoted to the office of first lieutenant, 
 and then to a captaincy, in which last position he proved a most gal- 
 lant and efficient officer, often by his bravery eliciting praise from his 
 superior officers. 
 
 At the close of the war he engaged for a short time in farming — 
 then turned his attention to the study of law. He was admitted io 
 the bar after a thorough examination, in which he acquitted himself 
 well, and soon commanded a lucrative practice ; but the profession 
 became distasteful to him and he returned to the pursuit of agriculture, 
 in which he has been successful. Although not a politician, he was 
 elected to the Constitutional Convention of 1877 over a prominent and 
 popular candidate, and was elected to the Senate in 1880. In both of 
 these positions he has performed his duty well and has received from 
 
OF SENA TORS. 65 
 
 his constituent? assurances of the acceptability of his services. While 
 not an orator, he was a most useful member of the Senate, strong and 
 clear in judgment, and industrious both in committee and in the Sen- 
 ate in the enforcement of his views of policy. His seat was seldom 
 vacant, and his vote was always promptly and fearlessly given on all 
 questions. 
 
 He was reared under the political instruction of an old line Whig, 
 but like most of others who were once allied by sympathy or actual 
 membership with that great old party, is a zealous Democrat, being 
 firmly set against its enemies who are likewise the enemies of good 
 government and its honest and' economical administration. He is an 
 active, earnest and useful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 South. 
 
 On the 8th of February, 1866, he was married to Miss Annie E. 
 Brinson, cousin of the Hon. J. A. Brinson, the present able Represen- 
 tative of the county of Emanuel. 
 
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 HON. LEMUEL JOHNSON. 
 
 rrHIRD DISTRICT.) 
 
 HE subject of this sketch was born in Appling county, May 
 18th, 1845. His father, Duncan Johnson, was a prominent far- 
 
 c)^ mer and public man, representing the county of Appling several 
 times in the House. He died June 27th, 1857. His mother, whose 
 maiden name was L. Sellars, died September 28th, 1867. Both of his 
 parents were natives of Nofth Carolina. 
 
 Being left an orphan, with little property, his early life was a severe 
 struggle. The opportunities to acquire an education were extremely 
 limited to him, consequently his literary advantages were confined to 
 such as could be obtained at the common schools of his neighborhood. 
 In the midst of all his privations he manifested a pure integrity, which 
 commanded the respect and confidence of those who knew him, and 
 evinced an indomitable will and energy which yielded to no obstacle 
 that he encountered. He grew up to manhood ripe for practical use- 
 fulness and possessed of the esteem of his fellow-citizens. By his 
 devotion and tender attention to his mother while she lived, he was 
 distinguished as a noble, generous son, and he has since shown him- 
 self at all times a man of the purest sympathies. 
 
 He was married to Miss Annie J. Youmans, of Pierce county, Ga. 
 They have five children and a home where happiness in its purity 
 continually dwells. 
 
 By a course of constant industry and good judgment, he has ac- 
 quired a handsome estate, consisting mainly of lands. As a farmer 
 he has been very successful, and is devoted to this pursuit. 
 
 Though often urged by his friends to become a candidate for office, 
 he resisted every temptation to abandon private life until his candidacy 
 in 1880, which resulted in his triumphant election, over a strong man 
 to the Senate. 
 
 As a Senator he was always at his post, serving his constituents 
 and the people at large, with the same earnestness, industry and in- 
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 HON. S. G. JORDAN. 
 
 (TWENTIETH DIST.RICT.) 
 
 tENATOR JORD.A.N was born in Washington county, Ga.. May 
 nth, 1846. He is the son of Hon. Elisha Jordan, one of the 
 most prominent and useful citizens of Washington county. He 
 was brought up under the influence of parents possessed of high, social 
 and moral qualities, and was impressed in early life with those obli- 
 gations that rest upon every citizen. His preliminary education was 
 obtained at the schools of his native county and of the county of Han- 
 cock, after which he attended the Georgia Military Institute, at Mari- 
 etta and the State University, at Athens. 
 
 When the war between the States commenced, he was at the Mili- 
 tary Institute, being then too young to enter the military service of 
 the Confederate States. He remained at this institution until the 
 battalion of cadets was ordered to the field under Major F. W. Ca- 
 pers, and joined the Confederate army at the Chattahoochee river. 
 He was in the defense of Atlanta until ordered to Milledgeville, and 
 confronted Sherman from Oconee River bridge to the sea, under the 
 command of General Wayne, and was within sight of the smoke 
 from his home while gallantly defending the bridge mentioned. Yet 
 turned not away from the path of duty, but pressed on with the de- 
 fenders of his country and her rights. 
 
 The war being over, he entered the University of the State in 1867, 
 taking position in the sophomore class, half advanced, graduating in 
 August, 1869, in the same class with Hon. Emory Speer, Howard Van 
 Epps, A. Pratt Adams, B. H. Hill, Jr., and about fifty others. This 
 was one of the largest classes that has ever graduated at the State 
 University. He took five prizes in declamation while a student at the 
 University, carrying off the palm in every contest but one. 
 
 In the Senate he sustained his reputation well, as a speaker, for 
 though seldom heard in its debates, he always made a good impres- 
 sion by his efforts 
 
 He is a firm believer in the principles and policy of the Democratic 
 party, and has done as much to secure its triumph in Georgia as any 
 young man in the State. For six years he battled for its supremacy 
 in his county, and was a candidate in the first contest in which his 
 party triumphed. He was prominently mentioned for Representative 
 in 1878, but declined the candidacy for the sake of harmony which he 
 greatly preferred to self-advancement, setting thereby an example 
 
70 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 worthy of emulation by ambitious young men who sometimes become 
 too impatient at the delays in their promotion. In iSSo he was the 
 regular nominee of the organized Democracy. His opponent was a 
 well known and popular man. and the contest was heated and vigor- 
 ously prosecuted on both sides, but Senator Jordan was elected by a 
 handsome majority. 
 
 In early manhood he studied law and practiced this profession for 
 several years, but finding the pursuit of agriculture more congenial, 
 devoted himself to this interest and abandoned the law. He has 
 proved a successful planter. His rural home is situated in proximity 
 to his ample fields, and is provided with all that tends to comfort and 
 convenience. In 1873 he was married to Miss Susie Fowler Hines. 
 
 There was no Senator who commanded higher respect or exerted 
 greater influence than Mr. Jordan. Decided in his convictions, sincere 
 in his expressions and earnest in his views, he was a fit representative 
 of a noble constituency. He was free from levity, yet always pleas- 
 ant, and his deportment that of an accomplished gentleman. 
 
OF SEX A TORS. 71 
 
 HON R. N. KING. 
 
 (FOURTH DISTRICT.) 
 
 OOHE subject of this sketch is a native of Camden county, Ga., his 
 %^ father having been born in North Carolina and his mother xn 
 
 d^ Florida. He is the only survivor of a family of twelve children. 
 His education, which is limited, was obtained in the common schools 
 of his native county. The good moral training imparted by reli- 
 gious parents fell on fruitful soil and has developed in him a noble 
 character, appreciated, beloved and honored for its constituent 
 virtues. 
 
 The high standing and popularity of Senator King among those 
 who know him most intimately is a proof of his worl^, on which 
 strangers will rely. He has always possessed the confidence of his 
 county people, and, by their votes, has frequently been called to posi- 
 tions of trust. In each instance his discharge of the duties imposed 
 has been faithful and in the exercise of sound sense. In the years 
 1875 and 1876 he represented Camden county in the House, and has 
 also held the offices of County School Commissioner, Tax Collector 
 and that of U. S. Collector for the Port of St. Marys. 
 
 In his race for the Senate he was opposed by a popular candidate, 
 but his election was accomplished by a good majority. 
 
 He began business as clerk in a dry goods store, but soon was en- 
 abled to go into the mercantile business on his own account, his 
 habits being economical, and his character giving him the friendship 
 and aid of moneyed men. 
 
 When the war began he joined the Confederate army as a private 
 in the infantry branch of the service, but was soon elected first lieu- 
 tenant of his company, in which position he served with signal gal- 
 lantry until, by a special permit of Mr. Randolph, (then Secretary of 
 War) he organized and commanded a company of cavalry to the date 
 of the final surrender of Southern arms. 
 
 At the close of the war he returned to his home and saw the Ipr- 
 tune he had acquired by honest and patient industry swept away. 
 Only its fragments were left, yet with characteristic resolution and in- 
 dustry he put his "hands to the plow " and soon regained a financial 
 independence. 
 
 He was married in 1853 to Miss Anna Johnson, daughter of Mr. V. 
 
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OF SENA TORS. 73 
 
 C Johnson, of New York city, and had the misfortune to lose his 
 wife December 25th, 1876, He has five children— three sons and two 
 daughters. 
 
 Senator King is a clear and forcible writer, and always evinces a 
 strong and practical judgment. He made a faithful, vigilant and in- 
 :te)ligent representative of the public interests. 
 
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 HON. \V. H. MATTOX. 
 
 (THIRTIETH DISTRICT.) 
 
 ^>-ENATOR MATTOX is a native of the county of Elbert, having- 
 ^^ been born on January 5th, 1S36. His father was several times 
 ~3^' elected to the General Assembly from Elbert county. Being pos- 
 sessed of a handsome estate, and appreciating the value of education 
 in the conflicts of life, he gave to his sort, the subject of this sketch,, 
 the very best opportunities afTorded by the schools of his county, and 
 then the means of attending the State University, from which he grad- 
 uated with honor in 1856, after a course of close attention to his 
 studies. In 1861 he volunteered in the military service of the South- 
 ern Confederacy, and commanded Company G, of the Fifteenth 
 Georgia Regiment, to the close of hostilities, distinguishing himself 
 as a brave and efficient officer and a man of exemplary morals. 
 
 In 1865 he was elected Representative from the county of Elbert, 
 and was chosen Senator in 1868, but lost his seat in a contest waged 
 by his opponent, who is said to have received a minority of the popu- 
 lar vote of his district. He was elected to 'the Constitutional Conven- 
 tion of 1877 by the largest vote which was cast for any candidate in 
 his district. His election to the Senate in 1880 was by an almost 
 unanimous vote of his constituency. 
 
 While Senator Mattox seldom engaged in the debates of the Senate, 
 he was silent as a consequence of native modesty, but not for the lack, 
 of the powers of true oratory. On several occasions he exhibited the 
 qualities of an orator when duty urged him forward, and caused him 
 to break over the restramts of his natural timidity. He was always 
 clear in his conceptions and his expressions — logical, earnest and forc- 
 ible, clothing his thoughts in chaste and elegant language. On one occa- 
 sion, when the University of the .State was assailed in a heated debate, 
 and its practical usefulness in fitting the young men of Georgia for suc- 
 cess in life was called in question, he rose in defense of his Alma Mater ^ 
 electrifying the Senate by the ability and eloquence which he displayed. 
 Although the distinguished Senator to whom he replied employed 
 much ridicule and sarcasm to accomplish the defeat of the measure 
 pending in behalf of the University, and though the style of his speech 
 was calculated to excite bitterness of feeling on the part of the friends 
 of that institution, Senator Mattox sustained his reputation for courtesy,, 
 and evinced the most generous disposition from the beginning to the 
 close of his response, by which he gained a complete and signal tri- 
 
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 uniph for the University as an educator and for himself as an orator. 
 By this effort he won the congratulations of the Senators generally, all 
 of whom expressed a regret that he was so seldom a party to the dis- 
 cussions of the Senate. On this occasion he spoke under the direct 
 influence of an inspiration which awakened his love of the old Uni- 
 versity, kindled to a blaze his pride in her achievements, and broke 
 not only the seal of his silence, but developed in him the elements of a 
 true and effective oratory. It is to this effort of Senator Mattox that 
 the gratitude of the young men of Georgia is due for free tuition in 
 the State University. The pending bill to appropriate $2,000 for this 
 purpose would have been defeated had he remained silent, but he spoke 
 with an eloquence which charmed and a logic that convinced, and the 
 measure was triumphant which made tuition forever free at the Uni- 
 versity of Georgia. 
 
 Senator Mattox is yet in the prmie of manhood, and, if he lives, is 
 destined to render good service to the State. 
 
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 HON. R. L. McWHORTER. 
 
 (NINETEENTH DISTRICT. 
 
 SENATOR R. L. McWHORTER was born in Oglethorpe county, 
 Georgia, January 29th, 18 19, and was left an orphan at the age of 
 '^ five years, hisfather dying andleaving his mother possessed only of 
 a small farm of seventy acres. On this farm he labored until he was- 
 fifteen years of age, at which period his mother married and moved 
 to the county of Greene. Here he worked on the farm and attended 
 the neighborhood schools alternate years, securing in this way, a plain 
 English education. When twenty years old he entered, as a clerk, the 
 store of Messrs. Janes & Wilborn, at the town of Penfield, Greene 
 county. His salary, which, the first year, was only fifty dollars, was 
 advanced, the third year, to five hundred dollars, and at the close of 
 the third year he was made a partner in the firm. Soon thereafter he 
 married Miss Janes, daughter of Col. Absalom and Mrs. Cordelia Janes. 
 He was left a widower in the year 1847, and subsequently married 
 Miss N. Pope Thurmond, of Albany, Georgia, a relative and a ward 
 of the Hon. David A. Vason. He has one son living by his first wife 
 and three by his last wife. He retired from the mercantile business 
 and engaged in the pursuit of agriculture on a splendid farm m the 
 county of Greene, where he continued to reside until the close of the 
 war, when he again moved to the town of Penfield. He united with 
 the Baptist church at Baird's, in Oglethorpe county, in the year 1838, 
 and has since proved an active, prominent and useful member of that 
 denomination, having been called to serve in the capacity of Clerk of 
 the church, and Chairman of the Finance Committees of both the 
 Georgia Association and the State Baptist Convention for many years. 
 Although eminently useful to his church and denomination, his ser- 
 vices to the State have been pre-eminently valuable. He was elected 
 to the House of Representatives first in the year 1S57, and re-elected 
 in 1859, being a member during the memorable session of i860, by 
 which the question of secession was, after a violent contest, deter- 
 mined. He was a firm Union man, and opposed, with all his power 
 and influence, the measures of the extremists of that period. He be- 
 lieved then that the Hon. A. H. Stephens, in his great speech, deliv- 
 ered before the General Assembly of that year, truly foretold the fate 
 of the South in the event of secession, and fully co-operated with that 
 distinguished statesman and patriot in his efforts to avert such a fate 
 from his country. But when his State seceded he espoused her cause. 
 

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 and led the first company that went from Greene county into the war. 
 His company, the Dawson Greys, was ordered to Portsmouth, \'a., 
 the last of April, 1861, and formed a part of the Third Georgia Regi- 
 ment. Being a close friend, personal and political, of Hon. A. R. 
 Wright, he was prominent in making him Colonel of that regiment. 
 Soon after, when Col. Wright was promoted to the rank of Brigadier- 
 General, the subject of this sketch was transferred to his staff with 
 the rank of Major. He continued in this position until the final sur- 
 render of General Lee, at Appomattox Court-House, Va. 
 
 Returning home, he felt that the South was entering upon a new 
 era. In surveying the prospect he then said : " I see nothing but poor 
 whites and free negroes ; and the people overwhelmed with debts 
 founded on slavery." Thus impressed, he at once espoused the cause 
 of the oppres-^ed, and was a leader in the policy of compounding the 
 debts contracted before and during the war. For this he was severely 
 denounced by the Shylocks of the State. In 1865 he was elected to 
 the House of Representatives from the county of Greene, and it was 
 mainly by his efforts that the courts were closed to creditors, and that 
 the widows and orphans of the heroes who fell in the war, and manv 
 other good people, were saved from the fate of being turned from 
 their homes into the streets and highways of the country. 
 
 He favored a conciliatory policy on the part of the South in the pro- 
 cess of regaining her position in the Union, and, consequently, voted 
 for the Hons. Joshua Hill and James Johnson for United States Sena- 
 ators from Georgia. When Congress required the States to be reorgan- 
 ized under the original reconsiri ction acts, and ordered a convention 
 of the people, he exerted all his power and influence to induce the ac- 
 ceptance of the terms proposed and the sending of our best white 
 men to the Convention. At this period a terrible political storm spread 
 its dismal form over Georgia and the South. Major McWhorter was 
 ineligible to a seat in that Convention, but receiving Congressional par- 
 don, was elected to the House of Representatives in 1868, and on the 
 assembling of the General Assembly was chosen lipeaker of the House 
 of Representatives. He was again elected to this position after the 
 reorganization of the General Assembly by virtue of the supplemental 
 act of reconstruction, and presided with much ability during the 
 stormy sessions of 1870 and 1871. In 1872 he was again elected to 
 the House, and took a prominent stand on all the leading measures of 
 that session, giving his influence to the lease of the State road, the 
 farming out of the State convicts, and the relief measures of that pe- 
 riod. He was elected to the Senate in 188 1. As a legislator, Maj. 
 McWhorter has shown himself practical and far-seeing. In 1868, he 
 advocated the policy of employing the State convicts on the work of 
 
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 building a State Capitol. The details of his plan were well conceived,, 
 and if his views had been adopted, a very large amount would have 
 been saved in the execution of this essential work. He was the first 
 Representative who proposed laws for the protection of fish in artifi- 
 cial ponds, a measure which has already accomplished much good, 
 and which is destined to result in the successful culture of fish in all 
 sections of Georgia. 
 
 During the present session, he introduced a bill prohibiting the man- 
 ufacture within the State and the importation to this State of what 
 are known as commercial fertilizers. He was a zealous advocate of 
 this policy, and although it was defeated in the Senate by a large ma- 
 jority, believes that the interests of the agricultural people require its 
 adoption. His convictions are based on the theory that the use of 
 commercial fertilizers operates to prevent the saving and utilization of 
 domestic manures, and that the former only stimulate the soil fo'' a 
 season, while the latter would permanently add to and increase the 
 producing powers of the land. 
 
 He also introduced in the present session a bill to so amend the law 
 as to the introduction of local and special bills as to authorize their 
 introduction originally into both Houses. This he regards important 
 as a measure of economy, for the effect of the present law on this sub- 
 ject detains the Senate with little to do until the House shall have 
 passed and transmitted material for work. A change of the law 
 would enable both bodies to commence and proceed with this class of 
 legislation at the same time, thereby shortening the session and greatly 
 reducing the expenses of legislation in Georgia. This bill was, how- 
 ever, defeated, but it will again be introduced and ultimately passed 
 if the will of Senator McWhorter is enforced. It is now believed by 
 many that if this law had been in operation at the commencement of 
 this session, it would have been shortened at least forty days, and its 
 expenses reduced fifty thousand dollars. 
 
 In such a sketch as this it is impossible even to enumerate the pub- 
 lic and praiseworthy acts of a man whose life, for thirty years, has 
 been devoted to the interests of his Church and State. 
 
 As a public speaker. Senator McWhorter is clear, forcible, logical 
 and earnest. He makes no pretentions to eloquence. Socially he is 
 a most genial gentleman, full of good cheer. He loves to hear or tell 
 a joke, and excels in this. There are few now living who are so fa- 
 miliar with the legislation of the State during the last quarter of a 
 century, and it is pleasant to hear him in reviev^r of the events of that 
 period. 
 
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 HON. HENRY D. McDANIEL. 
 
 (TWENTY SEVENTH DISTRICT.) 
 
 l^T^R. McDANIEL'S name has been a familiar one in the coun- 
 
 , ^ cils of our State for many years past, and is a synonym to 
 
 c<\£^vj3 integrity, ability, and zeal in the discharge of public duty. 
 Quiet and unostentatious, he yet achieves success by his thorough 
 understandmg of whatever subject he undertakes to handle, and his 
 logical treatment -of it. His ability has been recognized in every pub- 
 lic body of which he has been a member by his appointment upon 
 important committees, and he is recognized as one of the leaders in 
 any assemblage of which he is a member. 
 
 Mr. McDaniel was born in Monroe, Walton county, where he now 
 resides. He was educated at Mercer University, graduating in 1856, 
 and at the age of nineteen, carrying off the first honor of his class. 
 Entering upon the practice of law, he has followed it unremittingly, 
 except during the years of the war, when he was in military service. 
 He was a delegate to the Secession Convention of r86i. He opposed 
 secession, and voted against secession resolutions, but voted for the 
 ordinance when he saw the policy had been determined upon. In 
 July, 1861, he entered service as first Lieutenant in the Eleventh Geor- 
 gia Regiment, and in November, 1862, was made Major of the same 
 regiment. He participated in all of the campaigns of the Army of 
 Northern Virginia, until severely wounded. During the third day of 
 the battle of Gettysburg he commanded Anderson's Georgia Brigade, 
 which was employed to repel the enemy's cavalry on the right flank 
 and rear of General Lee's army. Gen. Law took command of Hood's 
 Division after that officer was wounded. 
 
 At the retreat from Gettysburg he was wounded so seriously in the 
 abdomen that the most skillful surgery was necessary to save his 
 life. He was attended by Dr. E. J. Roach, one of the prominent 
 physicians of Atlanta at this time. On the day that he was wounded 
 he was in command of his regiment. He was in the hospitals and 
 prison at Johnson's Island until 1865. 
 
 Returning home after being released from prison, Mr. McDaniel 
 was elected a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, where he 
 served on some of the most important committees and proved himself 
 one of the most efficient members of that body. 
 
 His political disabilities were removed by the General Amnesty Act 
 of 1872. In October of that year he was elected Representative from 
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82 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 
 
 Walton county; in October, 1874, elected Senator of the Twenty- 
 seventh District, and in December, 1877, re-elected Senator from the 
 same district. 
 
 Mr. McDaniel was reared as a Democrat, but voted with the Union 
 party for Bell and Everett in i860, that being his first vote for Pres- 
 ident. 
 
 Since the war he has been unswerving and prominent in the Demo- 
 cratic ranks. 
 
 Senator McDaniel is a son of Mr. Ira O. McDaniel, one of the early 
 and successful merchants of Atlanta. His mother's maiden name 
 was Rebecca Walker, daughter of Mr. Daniel Walker, of Monroe, 
 Walton county. 
 
 In 1865 he was married to Miss Hester C. Felker, daughter of Mr. 
 Stephen Felker, of Walton county. 
 
 For several years he has been a Director of the Georgia Railroad 
 and President of the High Shoals Cotton Factory. 
 
 In 1S73-74 he was a member of the House, and served as Chair- 
 man of the Committee on Corporations and as a member of the Ju- 
 diciary Committee, but being also acting Chairman of the Finance 
 Committee, was chiefly devoted to that class of legislation relating to 
 to the subjects of taxation and finance. He was most zealous and de- 
 termined in his opposition to any proposition looking to the payment, 
 under compromise or otherwise, of what are known as the "bogus 
 bonds," and favored the 8 per cent. loan. He opposed the Atlantic 
 and Gulf Railroad Aid Bill for extension into Alabama, making the 
 adverse report of the Finance Committee thereon and speaking against 
 the measure. He was the author of the Railroad Tax Bill of 1874 
 and of all subsequent amendments to the tax laws relating to rail- 
 roads and of acts to perfect the system of railroad taxation. The 
 Apportionment Act of 1873, providing Representatives for the counties 
 of McDuffie, Douglass, Dodge and Rockdale, and otherwise re-ap- 
 portioning Representatives, was introduced by him into the House. 
 
 He introduced in the Senate, during his term of ~i875-'76 .the Con- 
 stitutional amendment against the payment of fraudulent State bonds, 
 which was ratified by the people and incorporated into the Constitu- 
 tion of 1877 almost in totidem verbis. He is also the author of the 
 Homestead Waiver Act of 1875, the principle of which, though op- 
 posed, was made a part of the present Constitution. He also intro- 
 duced the Act of 1876, to adjust the rights of purchasers of home- 
 steads sold under the unconstitutional act of 1868, a bill covering the 
 most intricate questions of law, which passed without amendment, 
 and has been sustained by the Supreme Court. Also author of the 
 Act of 1876, prescribing the mode of taxation of banks, which passed 
 
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 without amendment and is obeyed by both State and National banks, 
 and perhaps the only Act since 1865 which has been effectual in reach- 
 ing banks of all kinds. 
 
 During the session of 1877 he was Chairman of the Finance Com- 
 mittee of the Senate and devoted himself mainly to questions of 
 finance. He was an advocate of a Constitutional Convention. 
 
 In i878-'79, as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, 
 he was the author of numerous bills designed to carry into effect the 
 new Constitution, such as the Homestead, the Jury, Lobbying and 
 ■other subjects. He gave his influence to the creation of a railroad 
 commission which was accomplished during this term of his Senato- 
 rial service. 
 
 As Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate in i88o-'8i 
 he labored most assiduously to perfect the judiciary system of Geor- 
 gia, introducing many bills and proposing many important amend- 
 ments for the purpose of improving our laws and facilitating their en- 
 forcement. Among these is the Act to revise and perfect fee bills 
 of Sheriffs and Clerks of Superior Courts. A bill in relation to the 
 fees of Ordinaries was introduced by him and passed by the Senate, 
 but was defeated in the House. 
 
 Senator McDaniel was an active, laborious and leading member of 
 the Senate of i88o-'8i. He remained at his post and watched with 
 the closest scrutiny every proposed measure. Nothing which he 
 deemed incompatible with the interests and welfare of the people of 
 the State was suffered to become law if it was in his power to prevent 
 it. He has gained the reputation of one of the most able, indefati- 
 gable legislators the State has ever had, and we sincerely trust that a 
 Senator so important to the public welfare will not be put aside under 
 the operation of the rule of rotation which prevails in many districts to 
 the serious injury of the public. The people of his district have 
 thus far shown their intelligence by re-electing him, regardless of this 
 absurd rule, and when they cease to do this they will inflict injury upon 
 themselves and upon the Commonwealth at large. 
 
 Senator McDaniel is a lawyer of splendid attainments and lucra- 
 tive practice, a close, concise and logical reasoner, a genial and com- 
 panionable gentleman, a just citizen, a charitable neighbor and what 
 is more than all, a consistent Christian. He is now in the prime of 
 vigorous manhood and bids fair to render his State and country still 
 J4iore eminent service than in the past. 
 
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 HON. P. W. MELDRIM. 
 
 (FIRST DISTRICT.) 
 
 ^57^ W. MELDRIM. the subject of this sketch, is the son of Ralph 
 J^r , and Jane Meldrim. (the maiden name of the latter bein^: Faw- 
 V:-'- ceti), late of the city of Savannah, and natives of the Emerald 
 Isle. He was born in Savannah, Ga.. December 4ih. 1S46. 
 
 His education was acquired at the Chatham Academy, under a pri- 
 vate tutor, and at the State University. He graduated in that insti- 
 tution with the class of 186S, and in her iac\' department in 1S69, 
 and commenced the practice of his profession in the city of his nativ- 
 ity during the winter of the last mentioned year. 
 
 While at the University he was chosen the anniversary orator of 
 the Phi Kappa Society, and by his effort then gave earnest of his sub- 
 sequent brilliant achievements in the sphere of oratory. 
 
 In 1878 he delivered in Savannah, the address before the Irish So- 
 cieties of that city, on St. Patrick's Day, his chosen subject, being 
 ^' Ireland in America." To say that his address on that occasion was 
 eloquent and brilliant, is to use general descriptives which fall far 
 short of justice to an effort which, to be properly characterized, de- 
 mands analysis and exposition in detail. This is not appropriate to 
 this brief sketch of a life along which the subject has strewed a thou- 
 sand gems of oratory which tvince his extraordinary powers of con- 
 ception and expression. 
 
 At the commencement of the State University in 18S0. he delivered 
 the address before the Literary Societies, and was selected to intro- 
 duce General John B. Gordon at the Jasper Centennial in Savannah, 
 on the occasion of laying the corner stone of that monument erected 
 to the memory of the invincible soldier who g,ave his life for consti- 
 tutional liberty. 
 
 In June, 1 881, he repeated, by request, at the South Georgia Col- 
 lege, at Thomasville. an address which he had delivered in 1880, on 
 the subject of "The Execution of Charles I; its Causes and its Con- 
 sequences." 
 
 The foregoing are mentioned simply as examples to show that he 
 has attained a reputation as an orator of a most enviable character. 
 Hundreds of other instances in which he has displayed this elegant 
 and useful accomplishment, a gift from the Creator, might be men- 
 tioned were it permissible in a sketch necessarily brief. 
 
 As a practitioner of law he is methodical, untiring and full of zeal 
 
86 BIOGRAPHICAL SKEICHES 
 
 for the rights of his clients. Though his practice is extensive he yet 
 finds time to devote to other things as will appear by the following 
 summary : 
 
 Established Chapters of the Chi Phi Fraternity at Athens, Penfieid 
 and Oxford. Is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows 
 and Masonic Orders. Is Past Grand Chancellor of the Knights of 
 Pythias. Is Vice-President and acting President of Jasper Monumen- 
 tal Association of Savannah. Is Vice-President of the Alumni Soci- 
 ety of the University of Georgia. 
 
 This summary gives a fair insight of the industry and energy, as 
 well as the public spirit, which are characteristic of this distinguished 
 young Georgian. 
 
 In i8So he was nominated for the Senate in the First District, and, 
 without opposition, was elected to that position. 
 
 On the 30th day of June, 1881, he was married to Miss Fannie Casey, 
 daughter of Dr. H. R. Casey, of Columbia county, Ga. 
 
 His career in the Senate was active, high-toned and brilliant. He 
 was ever ready to give his vote and his voice to those measures of 
 policy, or to the statutes which seemed to him essential to individual 
 and public welfare. In all his acts he reflected the liberality and intel- 
 ligence of his constituents, and for this was beloved and admired by 
 all who witnessed his course. His efforts in debate sustained his rep- 
 utation as an orator. As chairman of the Committee on Military 
 Affairs, he was indefatigable in his labors in behalf of the perfect or- 
 ganization, equipment and discipline of the volunteer troops of the 
 State. His speeches on this subject both before the committees and 
 in the Senate, were models of eloquence and logic. Then, when the 
 bill to make tuition forever free at the State University, /ii's Alma 
 Mater, was put upon its passage, and the measure violently opposed,, 
 he came to the rescue, fearlessly and grandly, aiding materially in 
 bringing about the happy result of its triumphant passage. 
 
 His constituents and the people of Georgia have reason to be proud 
 of his talents and his character. 
 
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 HON. SAMUEL H. MOSELEY. 
 
 (THIRTY FIRSr DISTRICT) 
 
 fANIEL MOSELEY. the father of Hon. Samuel H. Moseley, 
 was born in South Carolina, but removed in early life to Franklin 
 county, Georgia, where he married Miss Phoebe Stonecypher, and 
 with whom he lived in the utmost happiness until her death in the year 
 1865. Daniel Moseley, at the period of his marriage, was poor in 
 this world's goods, but with good health, proud hearts and unconquer- 
 able wills the young couple entered upon the battle of life, soon acquir- 
 irg, by industry and frugality, a comfortable fortune. Three sons, of 
 whom Samuel was the youngest, were the result of their union. He 
 was born in Franklin county, November 17th, 1831. Educational 
 facilities in that locality were meagre during the minority of Senator 
 Moseley, so he was never admitted to more than such advantages as 
 were afforded by his neighborhood schools. The father being a far- 
 mer, the son was early taught to take a part in the labors of the field, 
 and-passed much of his boyhood and youth in this hardy rural pursuit, 
 to which may be attributed the splendid muscular development which 
 he possesses. 
 
 Early after attaining his majority, young Moseley manifested a fond- 
 ness for mercantile pursuits and entered upon this business as a clerk 
 in his county town, and then in Athens, Clarke county. By close 
 attention to his duties, scrupulous industry and economy, he soon ac- 
 quired sufificient means with which to open business on his own account. 
 For many years he was associated in his chosen vocation with Co!. 
 Thomas Morris and Maj. J. M. Freeman, two of the best and most 
 successful merchants who ever lived in the county of Franklin. 
 
 On the 8th day of January, 1859, he was married to Miss Georgia 
 D. Cheek, a most beautiful and accomplished iadycf his native county. 
 To their union were born two daughters and three sons. 
 
 At the commencement of the late war, Senator Mosely volunteered 
 in the service of the Confederate States, and was elected Captain of 
 the company which he joined as a private. The Southern cause had 
 no defender more g.'llant than he. 
 
 At the close of the war he found his estate almost entirely exhaus 
 ted, but without murmuring or complaining, he set about regaining 
 what he had lost, and being seconded and encouraged in all his efforts 
 by his noble wife, he soon again possessed the means of comfort and 
 financial independence. 
 
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 Although Senator Moseley has always been a business man in the 
 true acceptation of this term, he has never lost sight of those ques- 
 tions of pubUc policy that have, from time to time, agitated the coun- 
 try. Through life he has given his adhesion and support to the Dem- 
 ocratic party, and is now as true to its principles "as the needle to the 
 pole." 
 
 In 1877, he u'as chosen as a delegate to the Constitutional Conven- 
 tion, and in 1880 was elected Senator from the 31st District over a 
 popular opponent, and by a large majority. 
 
 As Senator, Mr. Moseley was a most industrious member — always 
 at his post of duty — watchful, quick to perceive the true policy and 
 with the nerve to sustain it in the face of whatever opposition it might 
 encounter. His efforts to secure the opening of the Savannah river 
 and to protect that stream against unlawful obstructions, have placed 
 his constituents under more than ordinary obligations to him. 
 
 In personal appearance he has an imposing figure and a face that 
 beams with intelligence ; and, if there ever was a countenance that 
 revealed, unmistakably, a warm and generous heart, it is his. He is 
 six feet one inch in height, and weighs one hundred and ninety pounds- 
 He is courteous and dignified in deportment ; genial and companion- 
 able, full of good cheer, and fond of both giving and taking a genu- 
 ine joke. His kindness of heart and generous nature are proverbial, 
 and those who know him most intimately declare that no one will go 
 farther to serve a friend or will sooner forgive an enemy. 
 
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 HON. JAMES G. PARKS. 
 
 (ELEVENTH DISTRICT.) 
 
 §ENATOR PARKS was born on the 25th of June, 1853. his father 
 being Wiley G. and his mother Tabitha J. Parks, the former a 
 ^-TdT native of Yadkin county, N. C, the latter of Laurens county, Ga. 
 His father, a distinguished minister of the Methodist Church, died in 
 1877. His mother is still living with the subject of this sketch. 
 
 His opportunities of education were good, his primary instruction 
 having been received at the excellent schools of the town of Dawson, 
 after which he entered the State University, in which he pursued a 
 course of study that marked him out as a young man who appreciated 
 the opportunities at his command, and who was determined to pre- 
 pare himself for a life of usefulness. In addition to the regular course 
 in the University he passed through a course in the law department, 
 graduating in 1874 and entering at once upon the practice of the pro- 
 fession which he had chosen. From the very beginning his talents 
 have been recognized as of the highest order, and his practice has been 
 large and lucrative. 
 
 His nomination to the Senate in 1880 was by acclamation, and his 
 election was without opposition, compliments rarely conferred upon 
 men who have won the universal esteem and confidence of the people 
 by lives of faithful public service. 
 
 As a Senator he acquitted himself with a zeal for the public inter- 
 ests, an intelligent comprehension of public policy, and a faithfulness 
 to the public trust, which established the wisdom of his constituents 
 in selecting him as their representative. His vigilance and close atten- 
 tion to the business before the Senate attracted the observation of all, 
 and his zealous advocacy of his views, and determined resistance to what 
 he regarded bad policy, made him the most active member of the Sen- 
 ate. As a debater he was forcible, earriest and persistent, relying 
 upon stern logic for his triumphs, yet embellishing this with a splen- 
 did eloquence which he commanded at pleasure. In him there was 
 no fanaticism, but a high morality, joined with a practical judgment, 
 making him the friend and advocate of every measure required to pre- 
 serve the people from the debasing and destroying influences of the 
 trafific in ardent spirit?. It was not his policy to legislate recklessly on 
 this subject, but to proceed deliberately and wisely in order to crush 
 out the terrible evil that underlies crime, insanity, the wreck of human 
 character, usefulness and happiness. His efforts for this purpose 
 
OF SENA TORS. 91 
 
 were distinguished, and if the entire legislation on the subject of tem- 
 perance had been confided to him we would to-day enjoy the beneficial 
 operation of laws which are needed greatly in Georgia. 
 
 There was scarcely any important question presented for the decision 
 of the Senate that did not elicit an expression of his views, and he 
 never spoke withuut offering thoughts that were practical and argu- 
 ments which were strong. It was not the love of declamation, but a 
 desire to serve his State, that brought him so often into the debates of 
 the body, and if he had spoken less frequently we would have had 
 fewer good laws and more bad ones, as the result of legislation in 
 1880 and 1881. 
 
 Not only the people of his district, but of Georgia, generally, have 
 reason to be proud of his career in the Senate and to expect of him a 
 future distinguished for usefulness to the State. We feel warranted 
 in saying that Senator Parks is a model worthy of imitation. To his 
 talents as a lawyer and a law-maker he has added the character of a 
 Christian, and renders important service to the Methodist Church, of 
 which he has long been a consistent and worthy member. 
 
 On the 19th of October, 1875, he was married to Miss Ella G. 
 Allen, of Dawson, Ga. They have one child, a son, two years of age,, 
 their firstborn having died in infancy. 
 
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 HON. B. F. PAYNE. 
 
 (THIRTY-NINTH DISTRICT.) 
 
 tENATOR PAYNE was born in Cherokee, now Milton, county, 
 Ga.,on tlie 14th day of May, 1846. His father, Dr. D. H. Payne, 
 is a native of Franklin county, Ga., and his mother, whose maiden 
 name was (Julia) Jones, is a native of Oglethorpe county. They are both 
 still living in Cherokee county. He has four sisters and one brother. 
 
 He attended the schools of Cherokee county from 1866 to 1870, 
 when he entered the State University at Athens and there completed 
 his education. 
 
 His means being limited he found it necessary to work and teach in 
 order to defray his expenses at school and at the University, so he 
 went to Arkansas for this purpose. There he taught a country school 
 and worked on an adjacent farm in spare hours, keeping bachelor's 
 hall and doing his own cooking during the time. Thus, by hard phys- 
 ical labor, and the instruction of the children of the neighborhood, and 
 also by rigid economy, he acquired the funds that enabled him to com- 
 plete his education. Following the example and imbued with the in- 
 domitable spirit of our distinguished Senator, ex-Governor Brown, he 
 knew not the possibility of failure, and by his successes he has fur- 
 nished an additional example which should encourage poor young 
 men to be the architects of their own fortunes. An important feature 
 in the character of both Gov. Brown and Senator Payne consists in 
 the fact that their habits were strictly moral and temperate, and that 
 they lived apart from the dissipated and the vicious. 
 
 Mr. Payne is a consistent member of the Methodist Church, and a 
 man of pure morality. 
 
 He is by profession a lawyer, and ranks very high at the bar of his 
 circuit as a practitioner, realizing a handsome income from that pur- 
 suit. In politics he is a Democrat, true and unflinching. 
 
 In 1879 he was married to Miss Strickland, in the town of Canton, 
 Cherokee county. They have one child living. 
 
 His election to the Senate in 1880 shows the esteem in which he is 
 held in his district, and is a very high compliment to a gentleman who 
 is the junior of so many prominent and worthy men of his constitu- 
 ency. 
 
 As Senator, all who observed his career will bear testimony to the 
 fidelity, industry and ability he constantly displayed. He was always 
 at bis post, ready and willing to cast his vote in accordance with his con- 
 
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 victions of duty, and to give expression to sentiments and arguments 
 essential to the objects he would accomplish. The Senate was occasion- 
 ally highly edified by his eloquence, argument and sparkling wit, for, be it 
 known, that his speeches were not the dry and unembellished efforts 
 which often bore listening Senators to the core, but were full of those 
 elements that please even a wearied audience. 
 
 Senator Payne is yet a young man, who, should he live, will render 
 his State honorable and valuable service. He is a most agreeable 
 person socially, always pleasing in address and conversation, warm- 
 hearted, courteous and generous. 
 
 He is 5 feet 10 inches in height, slender and graceful in form, blue 
 eyes, black hair and fair complexion. 
 
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 HON. WILLIAM P. PRICE. 
 
 (THIRTY-SECOND DISTRICT.) 
 
 tENATOR WILLIAM P. PRICE is a native of Lumpkin county, 
 Ga., having been born at Dahlonega, where he now resides, on the 
 29th day of January. 1835. At the age of ten years he became a 
 printer boy in his native village. Having passed through all grades of 
 that art, he left Georgia and settled in Greenville, South Carolina, when 
 only sixteen years of age. At nineteen he entered Furman University, 
 but left college before graduating to take editorial charge of the Soitthern 
 Enterprise, a journal which is still thriving in that growing city. 
 While engaged as editor he read law in the office of the late General 
 Waddy Thompson and General W. K. Easley, and, in January, 1856, 
 at the age of twenty-one, was admitted to the practice of that profes- 
 sion, both in the courts of law and equity, before the Appeal Court 
 then sitting in Charleston. Soon after this he formed a partnership 
 with the late Hon. James L. Orr, then Speaker of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives, U. S. Congress, which partnership continued until Mr. Orr 
 was elected Governor of South Carolina. 
 
 At the opening of the war, in 1861, Mr. Price enlisted in Kershaw's 
 Second South Carolina volunteers, which was the first regiment mus- 
 tered into the Confederate service in Virginia. With this command 
 he participated in the battles of Bull Run, on the i8th of July, and 
 Manassas on the 21st of July, 1861. In October of that year he was 
 severely wounded in a skirmish at Lewinsville, Va., which caused his 
 discharge from the army in 1862. He continued, however, with the 
 army, and was frequently on staff duty. He participated in the seiz- 
 ure of Suffolk with Jenkins brigade. In 1864, while at Jonesboro, Ga., 
 accompanying Gist's brigade, he was elected to the Legislature of 
 South Carolina from Greenville district. In 1865 he was again elected 
 from that district, and served until October, 1866, when he resigned 
 and moved back to Georgia, settling in his native village. 
 
 In 1868 he was elected by a handsome majority to represent Lump- 
 kin county in what was known as Bullock's Legislature. During the 
 days of reconstruction he was twice arrested by the United States 
 authorities and tried for political offenses, but each time acquitted. 
 
 In the fall of 1870 he was nominated to represent the old Sixth 
 District in Congress and was elected by a majority of 6,600 over the 
 Republican nominee with an Independent candidate in the field. He 
 served in the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses, and was re- 
 
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 garded as one of the most efficient and useful members from the 
 South. In 1877 he was again returned to the Legislature from Lump- 
 kin county, and in 1880 was elected to the Senate from the counties 
 of Dawson, Lumpkin and White. 
 
 Though an ardent Democrat, he has, both as a State Legislator and 
 Congressman, eschewed partisan politics and advocated only those 
 measures which looked to the educational, the moral and material 
 advancement of the people. Through his efforts the North Georgia 
 Agricultural College has been established, which will probably engage 
 his lifetime labors. Temperance legislation he has always encour- 
 aged. He is the special friend of internal improvements, devoting a 
 large portion of his time to questions of transportation in connection 
 with canals and railroads. It was through his efforts mainly that an 
 appropriation was made by Congress for the survey of the line of 
 a water route from the Mississippi to the Atlantic Ocean. He has 
 since the war introduced into our Code all the laws we have on the sub- 
 ject of mines and mining, and has made himself widely known and dis- 
 tinguished for his knowledge and success in this branch of law. 
 
 In 1856, shortly after attaining his majority, and about the com- 
 mencement of his professional life, he was married to Miss Martha 
 A. Martin, the eldest daughter of the late Col. William Martin, of 
 Dahlonega, a lady richly endowed with rare intellectual attainments. 
 She had been the companion and associate of his early boyhood, and 
 has for twenty-five years shared his labors and successes. They have 
 six children. When quite young they together united themselves to 
 the Baptist Church, and, although devoted to that denomination, they 
 have always been liberal towards the pastors and churches of other 
 Christian persuasions. 
 
 Col. Price writes better than he speaks. He, in fact, rarely makes 
 speeches, but when he does he prefers to deal in facts and figures, and 
 refrains from either speaking or writing upon a subject until he has 
 thoroughly investigated it. 
 
 Whatever success he has achieved, either at the bar or in public life, 
 has been gained by earnest and untiring industry. He has met and 
 overcome many difficulties, and esteems those things most highly 
 which are attained by the greatest effort, the severest toil. 
 
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 HON. JOHN. S. REID. 
 
 [TWENTY- EIGHTH DISTRICT.] 
 
 JON. JOHN S. REID was born in Puinam county, Georgia, on 
 tile 2istdayof December, 1839. His parents were Edmund 
 and Elizabeth Reid. The former was a native of Hancock 
 county, the latter of Wilkes, her maiden name being Terrell. They 
 are still living in Putnam county. 
 
 Senator Reid received his education at Eatonton High School and 
 the Georgia Military Institute, at Marietta. His home training was of 
 the most healthful, moral character — his parents instilling into his mind 
 and heart those principles of moral conduct which have ever made 
 him, in his walk and conversation, respect the feelings and the rights 
 of others. The injunction, "neither to offer nor submit to insult," 
 has been scrupulously obeyed by him, making for him the merited 
 reputation of a just and gallant gentleman. 
 
 He entered the service of the Confederate States as Second Lieuten- 
 ant in the Third Georgia Infantry, commanded by Colonel (afterwards 
 General) A.R.Wright, on the 26th of April, 1861. His regiment 
 reached Portsmouth, Virginia, sometime previous to the secession of 
 that State, and remained there, (with the exception of a portion of the 
 summer and fall of 1861, when detached and ordered to watch the Fed- 
 eral movements on the North Carolina coist), until the evacuation of 
 Norfolk, when it joined the Army of Northern Virginia, and remained 
 with that branch of the service until the close of the war. He was in 
 most of the battles fought by the army under General R. E. Lee, during 
 the year 1862, being severely wounded in the battle of Sharpsburg, 
 on the 17th of September. He recovered from his wound during the 
 winter and was promoted to a Captaincy, returning to his command 
 in time to participate in the battles around Fredericksburg and Chan- 
 cellorsville, in 1863. He was with General Lee in the Pennsylvania 
 campaign on Cemetery Heights, at Gettysburg, on the second day of 
 July, in the charge made by Longstreet and the right of A. P. Hill's 
 corps. He was left on the battle field where he remained until the 
 next day, when he was taken to a Federal hospital nearby, and thence 
 to Laird's Island, near the city of New York. At this place he was 
 detained about three months, at which time being sufficiently recov- 
 ered from his wound, he was removed to Johnson's Island, where he 
 v^as kept a prisoner until the close of the war. 
 
 He has been twice married, first to Miss Louisa Dennis, on the ist 
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 of November, 1866, and last to Miss May Johnson, on the 21st of 
 December, 1880; his first wife having lived until 1879, when she died, 
 leaving two sons, who are now living. 
 
 He is a farmer by profession, and has made this pursuit a success. 
 In 1880 he was elected to the Senate by a handsome majority, from 
 one of the best districts of the State, and although he demeaned him- 
 self as a quiet and unassuming member, he was nevertheless ever 
 watchful of the interests of his constituency and sound in his choice 
 of policy for the Commonwealth. As he has barely reached the mer- 
 idian of life, much may yet be expected from him in behalf of his 
 native State, for whose rights he has often gallantly offered himself as 
 a sacrifice in the terrible conflicts of the late war. 
 
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 HON. C. A. SMITH. 
 
 (fIFTH DISTRICT.) 
 
 f^ON. C. A. SMITH was born June 301!), 1842. in Telfair county, 
 / Georgia, his father, William C. Smith, a native of the State of 
 North Carolina, being one of rhe early settler*: of the county 
 mentioned. The maiden name of his mother was Edwards. She was 
 also a native of North Carolina. His father died in 1855 ''"d his 
 mother in i860. He had five brothers and three sisters of whom he 
 is the youngest. His education was obtained in the schools of his 
 neighborhood. 
 
 He entered the Confederate service, at the age of 19 years, as a 
 private, and in 1862 was promoted to the position of Captain of his 
 company. He served through the entire war in the Army of Virginia, 
 was wounded three times, and after each recovery, rejoined his com- 
 mand and gallantly served his country. 
 
 At the close of the war he settled in Clinch county, where. he has 
 since resided, engaged in the pursuits of merchandising and farming. 
 By steady adherence to business and a course of prudent economy, he 
 has acquired a handsome fortune. As a member of the Missionary 
 Baptist denomination he is zealous, pious and influential. As a public 
 speaker he is clear, concise and impressive, coming directly to the ma- 
 terial points and never wasting his own time or that of his auditors by 
 the needless protraction of his remarks. He was seldom heard in the 
 debates of the Senate, but was always prompt in his appearance in the 
 committee-rooms, and earnest for or against measures brought to his 
 consideration in committee. 
 
 Mr. Smith was married on the 15th day of November, 1866, to Miss 
 Mamie Smith, of Clinch county, and their union has been blessed with 
 seven children. 
 
 He has always been a Democrat, and as such was elected to the 
 Senate in 1880 by a handsome vote of his constituency. 
 
 At his home he is cordial and hospitable, and never has been known 
 to turn an indifferent ear to the calls of the poor. 
 
 There is no better citiz^^n than Senator Smith, and no Senator ever 
 looked more closely or an.xiously after the interests of his district or 
 was more vigilant in behalf ot the general good of Georgia. 
 
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 HON. D. A. SMITH. 
 
 (TWENTV-THIRD DISTRICT.) 
 
 JON. D. A. SMITH, son of J. H. and S. R. Smith, was born in 
 ^^ ^ Telfair county, Georgia, October 14th, 1830. His father died 
 ^^^ August. 1866, at the age of 72, and his mother still lives in 
 Telfair county, aged 80. Both of his parents were born in Richland, 
 South Carolina, and during their long lives they have not failed to 
 illustrate the highest moral principles or to instil them into the minds 
 and hearts of their children. 
 
 Senator Smith was educated at Columbia, South Carolina, and grad- 
 uated in medicine at the Cincinnati Medical College in 1855. To this 
 profession he has devoted his life, and he enjoys a large and lucrative 
 practice in his district. 
 
 He is an ardent friend of the education of the people and has given 
 his own children the very best opportunities in this regard which are 
 possible in this country. His eldest son living is now a student at Van- 
 derbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, and has already won several 
 recognitions of distinction as an assiduous and brilliant scholar. His 
 eldest son died October 4th, 1872, while a student at the State Univer- 
 sity of Georgia, and his death fell heavily upon the heart of his father, 
 who cherished him with profound affection and a just pride. He has 
 two younger children, to both of whom he has given the best advant- 
 ages appropriate to their years. We mention these facts to show his 
 appreciation of general education, of which he is the friend and advo- 
 cate. 
 
 Senator Smith prefers the retirement of private life to official pre- 
 ferment. 
 
 In 1877 he yielded to the urgent solicitation of friends and became 
 a candidate for the mayoralty of the town of Butler, to which he was 
 elected. He resigned this position to accept th^Senatorship, to which 
 he was elected in 1880 by a handsome majority. In his career as 
 Senator he was industrious and watchful, always at his post, ready to 
 cast his vote for the welfare of Georgia. Although he seldom made 
 speeches, he was none the less useful, for he devoted his time most 
 industriously to the consideration of all measures brought before the 
 Senate, and was consequently prepared, at all times, to cast his vote 
 intelligently. 
 
 Senator Smith was married in Macon county, Georgia, November 
 13th, 1855, to Miss M. C. A. W. Wadsworth. He is a kind-hearted and 
 philanthropic gentleman, beloved by all who know him. 
 
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 HON. THOMAS JEFFERSON SAHTH. 
 
 (FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.) 
 
 •HOMAS JEFFERSON SMITH was born March 31st. 1842. in 
 
 Wy Telfair county, Georgia. His father, Columbus Smith, was a 
 
 d^ prominent citizen of that county, devoted to farming, and for 
 
 many years serving as tax collector by the almost unanimous votes 
 
 of his people. The maiden name of his mother was McEachin. His 
 
 father died in i860 and his mother in 1874. 
 
 Senator Smith was educated at the schools of his neighborhood, yet 
 by a habit of close reading and study, has so enriched his mind with 
 useful knowledge as to impress others with the belief that his educa- 
 tion was received under the greatest advantages. 
 
 On the 4th of March, 1862, he joined the Confederate army as a 
 volunteer, and was elected Second Lieutenant of Company B, Forty- 
 ninth Georgia Regiment, October 5th, 1862, being afterwards promoted 
 to the rank of First Lieutenant. He remained in the military service 
 of the Confederate States until the day of the final surrender, being 
 always at his post of duty and ever ready to enter with gallantry into 
 the fearful conflicts waged for the cause that was lost. 
 
 At the close of the war he went upon his farm in Telfair county, 
 devoting himself with true energy to the pursuits of agriculture and 
 stock raising. Nothing has turned him away from these occupations, 
 and he has, by perseverence, industry and economy, succeeded in 
 acquiring a handsome property. 
 
 In 1874 he was chosen to represent the county of Telfair in the 
 lower House, and made himself generally popular by the intelligence 
 and fidelity of his course. 
 
 On the 15th August, 1877, he was elected a member of the E.xecu- 
 tive Committee of the Georgia State Agricultural Society and con- 
 tinued to serve in this capacity for three years. He was elected to the 
 Senate by a handsome majority over his opponent in 1S80. 
 
 He was married, November 22d, 1874 in the county of Telfair, to 
 Mrs. Nellie Clemons. They have two children. 
 
 As a Senator he was attentive to his duties. By a great degree of 
 natural modesty he was restrained from speaking in the Senate, hav- 
 ing been seldom heard in the discussions of that body. But he was 
 active and laborious as a member of the Committees on Agriculture 
 and Internal Improvements, doing much to guide the members of 
 those committees to correct conclusions and wise policy in regard to 
 the important measures brought before them. 
 
 Mr. Smith is, socially, a genial gentleman, winning the esteem of 
 others by a sincere and modest demeanor. 
 
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OF SENATORS. 107 
 
 HON. STEPHEN G. TREADWELL. 
 
 (FORTY-THIRD DISTRICT.) 
 
 tENATOR TREADWELL, the son of Green Treadwell, of 
 North Carolina, was b')rn March 8th, 1841. His mother's mai- 
 den name was Buffington. His father was a sober, industrious, 
 tionest and frugal farmer — his^mother a noble mother of a noble son, 
 who, in his childhood and youth made upon him, indelibly, those 
 good impressions which in all his life have been most prominent. At 
 the time of his election to the Senate he was forty years of age, pos- 
 sessed of a splendid physique, and a heart as generous as ever pulsated 
 in mortal form. He was elected by a majority most complimentary, 
 and which attests the great popularity he enjoys in his district. Hav- 
 ing had limited opportunities for education, he makes no pretensions 
 as a public speaker, but has proved none the less valuable as a Sena- 
 tor on this account. It was seldom that he was heard in the discus- 
 sions of the Senate, but when he spoke it was briefly, forcibly, and to 
 the point. Before the committees and on committees, he was active 
 and laborious. It was the committee-room which proved the sphere 
 of his best achievements, for there it was that his sound discretion 
 watched and analyzed every measure proposed, and elicited his warm 
 approval or his determined opposition. In the Senate he was vigilant 
 and always ready to guard and advance the interests of the people by 
 casting his vote fearlessly and wisely on every proposition. 
 
 Senator Treadwell is one of those noble men, whose face is an index 
 to his character, and whom it is impossible for an honest man to 
 meet without loving at first sight. There is nothing smill or mean 
 in his nature— he is the soul of honor and an example of liberality 
 and hospitality, which, if emulated, would restore our people to the 
 proud reputation they enjoyed before the feet of a victorious foe had 
 invaded our State, despoiled the property of her citizens, and made 
 selfishness seem a virtue from necessity. Senator Treadwell has 
 never pulled in the latch-string of his dwelling, but amid all the pinch- 
 ing privations wrought for him by our enemies, has acted upon the 
 hypothesis that every man will fare best who divides his bread with 
 his neighbor. And the fact that he has triumphed over the condition 
 of poverty to which he was brought by the war, and now enjoys a 
 splendid competency, sustains his theory and invites Georgians to re- 
 turn to those habits which made them peers of Virginians in their 
 •character for genuine hospitality. 
 
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 The wife of Senator Treadwell was a Miss Mason. They have 
 but one child, a daughter, and on her they have lavished their love, 
 giving her the very best opportunities for education and accomplish- 
 ment. His residence, at the village of Tilton, Whitfield county, is 
 the seat of happiness and hospitality. If he has an enemy the fault 
 is not his, for his rule of life is, and has always been, to "do unto 
 others as he would that others should do to him." Everybody who 
 knows him has a good word for him, so that a visitor to his district is 
 never surprised that he should have been its Senator. A State made 
 up of such citizens might well be regarded blessed in peace or war, 
 for he has proven himself gallant in the field, intelligent and faithful 
 in her law-makmg bodies, and true to all his social obligations. 
 
OF SENATORS. 105 
 
 HON. RICHARD LAWSON STOREY. 
 
 [TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT] 
 
 ijJ^OHE subject of this sketch was born in Jackson county, Georgia, 
 '•^Q February ist, 1823. His father, Hon. John T. Storey, a native 
 
 d^ of South Carolina, moved to this State when a young man, and 
 settled in the county mentioned. He married Miss Lucy McLester, 
 who was also a native of South Carolina, before his removal to this 
 State. When Robert Lawson was quite a small boy his parents moved 
 to the county of Floyd, settling in that portion of the county, which 
 was afterwards Chattooga. His father was one of the brave and noble 
 hearted pioneers of civilization in Georgia, who held their homes in 
 joint occupancy with the Cherokee Indians. He was a man of excel- 
 lent morals, intelligent and resolute, never flinching in the hour of 
 danger nor yielding to any obstacles that were encountered in his path. 
 In several hard contests he was triumphantly elected to represent the 
 county of Chattooga, in the House and in the Senate. 
 
 Robert L. was a good boy — possessed of a gentle, affectionate and 
 kind disposition, by which he won the esteem of all who knew him. 
 In early manhood he attached himself to the Presbyterian Church, 
 following the excellent example of his pious parents. He was the 
 second son, in a large family of boys and two girls, all of whom hon- 
 ored the parents that gave them existence. His opportunities for edu- 
 cation, like those of the young men generally of the early days of 
 Cherokee Georgia, were very limited, being acquired at neighborhood 
 schools, taught at such intervals as the boys could be spared from the 
 labors of the farms. 
 
 In November, 1843, he accompanied his father, then the Senator 
 from Chattooga county, to Milledgeville, and received an appointment 
 to a clerkship in the Senate. Soon after the close of the legislative 
 session he was appointed to a clerkship in the office of the Secretary 
 of State, which he held for one year and a half, when he was called 
 to a private Secretaryship in the E.xecutive office under Gov. Craw- 
 ford. He served in this position until the end of Gov. C.'s last term. 
 Subsequently, for two years, he served as clerk in the offices of the 
 Comptroller and Surveyor-General, after which he retired to private 
 life. 
 
 During his period of public life at Milledgeville, he married Miss J. 
 C. Dickson, of Sparta, Hancock county, and when he retired from the 
 Capitol it was to his farm, with the view of prosecuting the pursuit of 
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 and moved to the Lone Star State, whither his parents and his brothers 
 and sisters had previously gone. His stay in that State was brief, the 
 influence of its climate being so injurious to the health of his little 
 family, that a return to his native Georgia was promptly made. Set- 
 tling in Wilkinson county, he successfully prosecuted the mercantile 
 business for several years, when he purchased the farm on which he 
 now lives, and engaged in the pursuit of agriculture. 
 
 The loss of his wife was a sad bereavement, which he was called 
 upon to bear. In the course of time he was again married to Miss 
 Sarah King, daughter of a prominent and popular planter of Wilkin- 
 son county. They have three children living, one of whom is the 
 wife of Dr. J. H. Redding. 
 
 On the breaking out of the war between the States, Mr. Storey 
 entered the Confederate service as Captain, and after six months was 
 elected unanimously as Colonel of a regiment, and served faithfully 
 as such until 1864, when he received the appointment of Collector of 
 the 47th Confederate District of Georgia. At the close of the war 
 he returned to p.'ivate life with only a small portion of his estate left 
 to him by the ravages of the conflict. But he went to work with the 
 energy and sound judgment of a true man, and was soon gratified by 
 success in building up his fortune to an independence. 
 
 Originally he was an old line Whig, but on the dissolution of that 
 party allied himself with the Democracy and has proved an earnest 
 advocate of its principles and policy. He was nominated for the Sen- 
 ate in 1880 by the organized Democrats of his district, and after a 
 warm and exciting contest was elected by a handsome majority. 
 
 As a Senator, he was true to his trust, never avoiding responsibili- 
 ties and always voting for good laws, and against bad ones. Through 
 life he has been distinguished for extreme modesty, and this has pre- 
 vented the full development of his powers as an orator. His constit- 
 uency honored themselves by sending such a man to the Senate, and 
 a repetition of the act would give to the State a Senator who would 
 always prove a faithful sentinel over the rights, the welfare and pros- 
 perity of the people. 
 
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 HON. ALLATIA COLEY WESTBROOK. 
 
 (TENTH DISTRICT.) 
 
 O^HE HON. A. C. WESTBROOK was born near Henderson, 
 '^^ Houston county, Georgia, on the 19th of March, 1842. His pa- 
 *" d^ rents, Richard Nixon Westbrook and Josaphia Coley, came from 
 North Carolina with their parents, in 1825, and were married July 3d, 
 1832, in Pulaski county, moving immediately thereafter to the place 
 where the subject of this sketch was born. While the ancestry of Mr. 
 Westbrook were of no high patrician order, or royal blood, they were 
 distinguished for unsullied integrity and heroism. Their titles and hon- 
 orswere won by their own brave deeds. 
 
 He claims descent from Britons, whose fame will live in history long 
 after her titles of nobility shall have passed away, and from men, who, 
 by their valor, aided to throw off the oppressive dominion of the 
 mother country from the infant colonies of North America. 
 
 Inspired by the examples of his ancestors, and inheriting their 
 characteristics of mind and heart, he possessed, at an early age, the 
 ambition to become the architect of his own fortune. Having passed 
 his childhood years at the common schools of his native county, when 
 he was only fourteen years of age he left the paternal roof to shape 
 his own destiny. Believing with Mr, Pope that 
 
 " Fortune and fame from no condition rise." 
 Act well your part, there all the honor lies. 
 
 He commenced life as a mechanic, succeeding to the vocation of a 
 country merchant, by which, before he arrived at majority, he had ac- 
 quired about $2,000.00. 
 
 Actuated by a strong desire to elevate himself to a position among 
 the more conspicuous of his countrymen, and knowing his educational 
 deficiencies, he placed himself under the care of his cousin, Henry W. 
 Battle, who was, at that time, at the head of a male High School in 
 Chunennuggee, Macon county,Alabama. Entering this school with the 
 purpose of preparing for Chapel Hill, North Carolina, he prosecuted 
 his studies in the classics and mathematics withgreat assiduity, and was 
 making rapid progress when the war between the States commenced. 
 Fired with the prevailing zeal for State rights, like many thousands of 
 our youths, he was carried into the maelstrom of civil strife. At the 
 first call for volunteers, he abandoned school and returned to Georgia, 
 volunteering as a private in the First Regiment of Infantry. He shared 
 the privations and hardships of his regiment in the defeat of the Con- 
 
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 federates by General McLe'lan at Laurel Hill and Cheat Mountain, Vir- 
 ginia, and was one of the boys who, rather than surrender, roamed over 
 the mountains more than a week without food. He was wounded at 
 the battle or Greenbriar, Virginia, but very soon thereafter participated 
 in the terrible encounter between the First and Twelfth Georgia Regi- 
 ments, when General Henry R. Jackson attempted to retake Cheat Moun- 
 tain. On that dismal morning, his file leader, McPherson Felder, of 
 Houston county, was instantly killed, one of the bravest and purest 
 boys who ever gave his life for hi-; country. Young Westbrook stood 
 over the body of his fallen comrade after the line of battle gave way, 
 and was the first to call the attention of Colonel Johr^on to the fatal 
 mistake which had been made. He was with General Stonewall Jackson 
 during a number of his engagements, and followed him to Romney in 
 his celebrated winter campaign. 
 
 When the twelve months for which he volunteered had expired, he 
 and his brother E. W. formed a company of cavalry, of which he was 
 chosen First Lieutenant and the latter Captain. This company was 
 attached to the Eighth Georgia Regiment which rendered efficient ser- 
 vice around Petersburg during the latter part of the war. Early in 1865, 
 while suffering from rheumatism and the wound received at Greenbriar, 
 Virginia, he was promoted toaCaotaincy and ordered to the command 
 of the post at Albany, Georgia. He remained in this position until the 
 surrender of General Lee. 
 
 During the stay of young Westbrook at Chunennuggee, Alabama, his 
 father was rendered suddenly unable, by an accident, to manage his 
 own business, and resolved to make a division of his slaves and other 
 property among his children. The subject of this sketch had imbibed 
 an early prejudice against the institution of slavery and was only preven- 
 ted from setting his slaves free by the existing laws of Georgia. When 
 he attained his majority he determined to set them as nearly at liberty 
 as was possible under the State laws, and consequently, applied for a 
 furlough for this purpose, which was disapproved by every officer un- 
 til it reached General Lee, who gave it his approval. 
 
 Returning to his home, he assembled his slaves, and gave each the 
 liberty of selecting his own home. This they appreciated, and when 
 emancipation became general, he had the satisfaction of seeing all of 
 his old slaves comfortably settled and doing well. These slaves have 
 constantly manifested gratitude to him for his generosity, and have 
 frequently importuned him to gather them together on a plantation, 
 where, under his management, they might make some returns for his 
 kindness, by rendering him gratuitous service. They remember also 
 how, when a small boy, he would repair to their cabins, in violation 
 of law, and teach them to read. They still regard him__as their best 
 
OF SENA TORS. 1 1 5 
 
 friend and call on him for aid and council whenever in trouble, know- 
 ing that they can never ask in vain. 
 
 At the close of the war Captain Westbrook was the only member of 
 his family who had not lost all they posssssed. He had invested the 
 proceeds from the sale of his slaves in cotton, and was financially in- 
 dependent. His fortune was generously shared with his youngest 
 brother and sisters. He at once embarked in the mercantile business 
 at Albany, and by a liberal policy towards his patrons, has achieved 
 eminent success. Many of these are freedmen whom he has credited 
 and advised, greatly to their benetit. He has really been the true 
 friend and the protector of the colored people of that section. At 
 one time he was on their bonds to the amount of at least $100,000.00. 
 He was always touched with sympathy for them and has given them 
 the aid of his money and his credit to help them on in their struggles. 
 
 In 1868 he was, without solicitation on his part, elected treasurer of 
 Dougherty county, but for good reasons declined to accept the office. 
 In 1870 he was chosen a member of the council of Albany, and in 
 1872 Mayor of that city, and when he retired from these offices he 
 enjoyed the reputation of having been one of the best officers who 
 had ever served that city. 
 
 In 1874 he was elected, by an overwhelming vote, to represent the 
 people of Dougherty county in the House for the sessions of 1S75 and 
 1876. The service rendered the State during these sessions, by Mr. 
 Westbrook, were able and beneficial, he having instituted those in- 
 vestigations which resulted in the discovery of the errors in the treas- 
 ury under the administration of Mr. Jones. 
 
 In 1878 he was nominated by both the Democratic and Republican 
 parties, and almost unanimously returned to his seat in the House. 
 At the sessions of 1878 and 1879, he took an active part as a member 
 of the committee of investigation, in exposing Comptroller-General 
 Goldsmith's conduct in the management of that office, and his final 
 impeachment by the Legislature. 
 
 The Act creating a Railroad Commission for the regulation of freights 
 and passenger tariffs, was, in the main, derived from a bill previously 
 introduced by him. He gave to this measure a hearty support. 
 
 In 1875 he was an able and successful advocate of the Act restrict- 
 ing and regulating the rate of interest in this State, and in 1879 
 gave his undivided support to the bill reducing the rate of interest 
 from 12 to 8 per cent. He deemed these measures necessary to pro- 
 tect the poor from the extortion and oppression of soulless corpora- 
 tions and heartless capitalists. At this session (1879) he introduced, 
 what is commonly known as the Convict Bill, the same having been 
 mamiy passed by his influence. The marked humanity manifested by the 
 
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 author of this bill entitles him to a high rank in comparison with the 
 world's great philanthropists. There can be no higher exercise of 
 practical statesmanship than that which seeks to mitigate the suffer- 
 ings of the unfortunate class undergoing necessary punishment for 
 violations of. the law. 
 
 When the Senatorial Convention met at Albany" in 1880, it was a 
 question of dispute whether the candidate under the established rule 
 belonged to Worth, Lee or Dougherty. A majority of the Convention 
 decided that the candidate should be taken from the former county, 
 and selected the Hon. W. L. Lane, a very worthy and estimable gen- 
 tleman. No one could or did object to him as a man of suflficient 
 character and integrity, but there were many who questioned his fit- 
 ness and ability for the position, and the right of Worth to the Sena- 
 torship at that time. Henoe, there was a very strong expression of 
 dissatisfaction, and before the canvass had proceeded far, a strong desire 
 to change the nomination. Captain Westbrook was undoubtedly the 
 choice of a large majority, and had been excluded by the rotation rule 
 unjustly. Therefore, leading men of both political parties requested 
 him to come out and make the race, which He consented to do. Mr. 
 Lane wisely came down, and the delegates to the same Convention 
 that nominated him indorsed Captain Westbrook in the very strongest 
 terms. Three other candidates contested his election, each county 
 furnishing one, but he carried the district overwhelmingly, there being 
 cast against him but twelve votes in Dougherty, eighty in Lee and one 
 hundred and thirty-six in Worth county. 
 
 In the July adjourned term, 18S1, of the Legislature of 1880, when 
 what is known as the Reese House Convict Bill passed the House by 
 a large majority, and came up in the Senate, Captain Westbrook advo- 
 cated its passage with great zeal and ability. His investigations upon 
 the convict law, and the treatment of the convicts in the previous ses- 
 sion, enabled him to bring to bear, upon the questions involved, a vast 
 fund of information and an array of facts which, perhaps, no other man 
 in the Senate or State could have done. When this bill was defeated 
 in the Senate Captain Westbrook introduced, in that body, a bill of his 
 own, it being a compromise or modified bill on the line of Mr. Reese's. 
 This he advocated in two or three able arguments, which gained for 
 him a high and deserved reputation as a debater. Untiring in his ef- 
 forts to ameliorate the condition of the friendless prisoners of Geor- 
 gia, he, in the Committee on the Penitentiary, opposed the majority 
 report and made a very able and exhaustive minority report, which 
 appears in the Senate Journal of 1881. 
 
 Mr. Westbrook opposed all amendments to the present Railroad 
 Commission law, and resisted, successfully, all efforts to curtail the 
 
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OF SENATORS. 119 
 
 HON. JOHN M. WILSON. 
 
 a'HIRTV-SIXTH DISTRICT.) 
 
 i^TOHE spbject of this sketch is the son of John F. and Mary P. Wil- 
 %i^ son, both of whom were natives of South Carolina, his mother's 
 '^ d^ maiden name being Stubbs. His father, who was a prominent 
 farmer, and who preferred the pursuits of private life to the public ser- 
 vice, died on the 27th November, 1858. His mother, who was distin- 
 guished for the excellence of her character, died on the 4th of April, 
 1859, having instilled into the minds and hearts of her children those 
 conceptions of moral duty which characterize them as men and women 
 abounding in noble charity, and who adhere to principles of the strictest 
 integrity in all of their dealings with mankind. Senator Wilson has 
 four sisters and three brothers living, among the latter is Dr. A. H. 
 Wilson, an eminent physician, of the county of Campbell. 
 
 When James M. was about to enter upon a collegiate course he 
 was prevented by the breaking out of the war between the States. 
 He entered the military service of the Southern Confederacy in Com- 
 pany "G." of the Eleventh Georgia Regiment, Anderson's Brigade. Af- 
 ter the battle of Chickamauga, he was transferred to the Western Army. 
 Upon the consolidation of the command in North Carolina, he was 
 appointed ordinance officer of General Henderson's Brigade, with the 
 rank of First Lieutenant. He was slightly ivounded at the second 
 battle of Manassas. No soldier was more gallant than he, and none 
 more devoted to the cause of the South. At the close of the war, like 
 many of his countrymen, he was left without means with which to 
 prosecute the pursuit upon which he had determined without placing 
 his own hands to the plow. By the abolition of slavery his patrimony 
 was taken from him, and he was under the necessity of learning to toil 
 for his fortune. With strong will and stout heart — too proud to repine 
 — he went to work with determined resolution, and soon carved his way 
 to independence. 
 
 He was elected to the House of Representatives from Campbell 
 county in 1867, and to the Constitutional Convention in 1877, making 
 an industrious and useful member in each instance. His election to 
 the Senate in 1880 was almost without opposition. So general was his 
 popularity in his district, that he was chosen with great unanimity. 
 Every one who knows him regards him as an honest, honorable, and 
 most worthy citizen, to whom any people may safely confide their 
 interests and their rights. This conviction in regard to his merit has 
 
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 been fully sustained by the fidelity and sound judgment which he 
 evinced as Senator, and we apprehend that his career in that body will 
 long be remembered and cherished to his honor. 
 
 Senator Wilson entertained the opinion that the Agricultural Depart- 
 ment of the State as now organized and conducted, was a useless bur- 
 den upon the tax-payers, demanding large sums annually for the 
 support of its officers and to defray other expenses, while it conferred 
 upon the citizens no corresponding benefits. Although his views were 
 peculiar to himself, his convictions were so strong as to actuate him 
 in the introduction of a bill to abolish the Agricultural Department. 
 When this measure came up for final action in the Senate, it was 
 defeated almost by a unaninious vote, yet the mover remained firm in 
 the opinion that the Department accomplished only a waste of the 
 people's money, and he still believes the time will come when it will 
 be abolished as a useless appendage to the government of Georgia. 
 What he did in the premises was done in obedience to his honest con- 
 victions, and such action coming from one of the solid farmers of 
 Georgia, is, to say the least of it, ominous of a contest ahead in which 
 this Department will be under the necessity of showing results to jus- 
 tify its continuation. 
 
 Senator Wilson was married in December, 1871, to Miss Adeline S. 
 Longino, daughter of a prominent and prosperous citizen of Campbell 
 county. They have two children, a son and a daughter. He is just 
 entering upon the prime of life, and bids fair to serve his State most 
 usefully for many years. 
 
OF SENATORS. 121 
 
 HON. JOHN H. WOODWARD. 
 
 (FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.) 
 
 tENATOR WOODWARD was born in Sumpter district, South 
 Carolina, January i6tli, 1831. He isthesonof Stephen Wood- 
 ward, Representative of Bibb county in the legislative session 
 •of 1840, and who, for many years, served as one of the Justices of the 
 Inferior Court and Justice of the Peace in that county. His wife, whose 
 maiden name was JJarnett, was born in the year 1808. in South Caro- 
 lina. Both of the parents of the Senator still live in Dooly county. 
 When he was an infant they moved to Montgomery county, Alabama, 
 where, after remaining five years, they returned to Bibb county, in 
 this State. In youth he received a fair education, but its completion 
 was interfered with by bad health, so that he abandoned school, and, 
 without a tutor pursued a course of study at his leisure which resulted 
 in obtaining a degree of practical knowledge, fitting him eminently 
 for the duties of life. His means being limited, it was necessary for 
 him to labor for his support in the intervals of study. ' 
 
 He has devoted his life to various pursuits, among which farming 
 and the practice of law have engaged most of his attention. By the 
 former he has accumulated a competency, and he now enjoys a lucra- 
 tive practice at the bar of his section notwithstanding his feeble health 
 once caused him to abandon the practice for years. 
 
 He entered the Confederate service, in the Tenth Georgia Battalion, 
 as a Lieutenant, but after a short service, was compelled to resign and 
 retire from the army. So soon as his health permitted he again joined 
 the army as Lieutenant of the Bibb County Volunteers, but was 
 again forced, by ill health, to retire, his malady being hemorrhage of 
 the lungs, each attack of which threatened his life. Not content to 
 remain passive while his countrymen were battling for the right of 
 self-government, he made a third effort to serve his country in the 
 fearful struggle. He therefore organized a company of home guards, 
 of which he was chosen Captain ; but his company was disbanded on 
 the restoration of peace without having seen service in the field. 
 While at home, during the war, he was elected Judge of the Inferior 
 Court of Dooly county. Since the war he has served as deputy 
 Sheriff and tax receiver of Bibb county. In 1867 he ran as a candidate 
 for the Senate in the district which he now represents, but was then 
 defeated. In 1870 he was elected to the House of Representatives, 
 and in 1880 was chosen to his present position as Senator from the 
 
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 Fourteenth District. As a legislator he has fulfilled the expectations 
 of his most sanguine friends, making an intelligent and influential 
 member, first of the House and then of the Senate. He is a man of 
 clear head and warm heart, a good lawyer and a Christian citizen. 
 Long continued ill-health has proved a great embarrassment to his 
 career of usefulness, but he has reason to feel proud that he has 
 achieved so much while burdened with such severe infirmities. He 
 has been twice married, his first wife being Miss Carrie M. Sheatsand 
 the second Miss Mamie B. McCormick. 
 
 At present his health is much improved, and it is hoped by his 
 friends that he may enjoy a long life of usefulness and happiness. 
 
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 REV. JOHN W. HEIDT, A. M. D. D. 
 
 (CHAPLAIN OF THE SENATE.) 
 
 CV-^ EV. JOHN W. HEIDT was born in Macon, Georgia, July 12th, 
 Q/; I' 1841. He is the son of Emanuel and Frances L. Heidt, of Sa- 
 ^-"l -- vannah, the maiden name of the latter having been Grayson. 
 
 It is impossible, in a brief sketch like this, to present all of the de- 
 tails of so useful a life as that of Mr. Heidt. His early home instruc- 
 tions were calculated to develop the noble qualities which he pos- 
 sesses, and he has uniformly illustrated the benefits of those instruc- 
 tions. His opportunities for education were good, and he wisely im- 
 proved them, completing his literary course at Emory College, Geor- 
 gia and a legal course at the University of this State. 
 
 After his admission to the bar he commenced the practice of law 
 in the city of Savannah, where he, at once, took high rank and com- 
 manded a large and lucrative practice. In 1862 he was appointed to 
 fill a vacancy in the office of Solicitor-General of the Eastern Circuit, 
 and was subsequently appointed, by Governor Brown, to a full term. 
 In this position he served until 1869. Hisappointment to this position, 
 by the Governor and confirmation by the Senate, constituted a compli- 
 ment of which any young lawyer might feel proud, when it is consid- 
 ered that his selection was from a bar whose members were distin- 
 guished for legal ability and legal knowledge. 
 
 Notwithstanding the brilliancy of his prospects as an attorney and 
 counselor at law, there came to him a higher inspiration directing him 
 to another and more important field of labor. However strong may 
 have been the influence of his ambition for distinction in his chosen 
 profession; although there were none who had better reasons to an- 
 ticipate usefulness, honor and eminence at the bar ; indeed, while the 
 rewards of his genius, and his professional labors were already crowd- 
 ing upon him, the "still small voice," which bade him preach the gos- 
 pel to fallen men, was heard and heeded. Casting away the plans of 
 his life, abandoning the pleasures, the profits and the honors of a 
 chosen profession, he girded on the ministerial armor and set out with 
 an imperishable and resistless resolution to obey his call to the minis- 
 try. There were some of his friends who thought him unwise to give 
 up the practice of the law; yet, while he respected their feelings, 
 there was no influence that for a moment could disturb his purpose. 
 The demand upon him was by no means dubious, and he entered into 
 the new field of labor, filled with brighter hopes than had ever cheered 
 his spirit before. Attaching himself to the Methodist Conference of 
 
OF SENA TORS. 1 25 
 
 Georgia, he spent about ten years in an itinerancy which placed him 
 in a variety of locations. Wherever he was sent he went with cheer- 
 fulness and a determination to perform his whole duty, and we ven- 
 ture the assertion that no minister was ever more generally beloved 
 by those for whom he labored. His call to the pastorate of Trinity 
 church. Atlanta, in 1878, gave him a field of usefulness in which he 
 became greatly distinguished. The debt which rested as an incubus 
 upon that congregation was, through his influence, speedily discharged, 
 and by the earnestness and zeal of his ministerial labors many hun- 
 dreds were added to its membership. Devoted to the cause he had 
 espoused and untiring in the work it imposed, he awakened all with 
 with whom he came in association to the reality and profound impor- 
 tance of religion. With such a pastor it was impossible for members 
 of the church to remain either indifferent or asleep. The full and 
 overflowing inspiration of his own heart aroused the hearts of others, 
 and during his pastoral charge of Trinity, a degree of activity pre- 
 vailed which its congregation had never experienced before. 
 
 As a minister, Mr. Heidt is clear, eloquent, profound and zealous — 
 entering at all times upon the work before him with an earnestness 
 which subordinates all the powers of his mind to the end in view. 
 Forgetting all considerations of self for the objects of his mission, he 
 seldom fails to enlist the confidence of his hearers. The fruits already 
 harvested from his influence during his three years* pastorate of Trinity 
 church, show how greatly his efforts were rewarded, and how strong 
 he is in the propagation of the gospel. 
 
 While acting as pastor of the church mentioned, he was unanimously 
 elected Chaplain of the Senate of Georgia, to succeed that wise and 
 good man. the Rev. John P. Duncan, D. D., whose death left a vacancy 
 in that office. In this capacity he renderd most acceptable service to 
 the Senate, until its final adjournment in October, i88r. 
 
 About this time he succeeded the Rev. Mr. Mayson, as President of 
 LaGrange Female College, having been urged to accept this position 
 by many friends of that institution, who were familiar with his char- 
 acter. He is now the President of that excellent college, which is in- 
 creasing in popularity and prosperity under his wise and faithful ad- 
 ministration. 
 
 Mr. Heidt is a most pleasant and companionable gentleman, always 
 brim full of cordiality and good cheer. The religion of his heart has 
 no shadows, but casts a halo around him that is full of brightness, and 
 that tells how true happiness may abide in a pure. Christian spirit. 
 
 Note.— Sketches of the Hons. A. T. Hacket, A. L. Hawes, B. F. Suddath and James 
 L. Neal do not appear herein from the fact that we were unable to procure the neces- 
 sary data for their preparation. This we sincerely regret. 
 
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 HON. A. O. BACON. 
 
 (SPEAKER.) 
 
 ^OHE distinguished subject of this sketch was born October 
 %^ 2oth, 1839, in Bryan county, Georgia, his father, the Rev. Augustus 
 "^5^ O. Bacon, being a Baptist minister, and his mother the niece of 
 Judge William Law, of Savannah. Both of his parents dying young, 
 he was left in infancy under the maternal care of his grandmother, and 
 had all the advantages of pious moral training, accompanied with the 
 highest educational culture, at her home in Liberty county, until he 
 reached the age of sixteen years, when he entered the University of 
 Georgia, at Athens, where he graduated in his twentieth year. 
 Throughout his scholastic course he was distinguished for the highest 
 probity of character, close attention to his studies, and won the highest 
 respect and admiration of his classmates. 
 
 After his graduation in the year 1859, he turned his attention to the 
 study of law, in which science he soon became proficient, under the 
 able training of Chief Justice Lumpkin. General T. R. R. Cobb, and 
 Hon. William Hope Hull. 
 
 He settled in Atlanta for the practice of his profession in October, 
 i860, but the political agitations of the country, which soon thereafter 
 culminated in the conflict of arms, called him from his professional 
 duties, and in May, 1861, he went into the army as Adjutant of the 
 Ninth Georgia Regiment, serving with his command two years in Vir- 
 ginia. 
 
 In 1864 he married Miss Virginia Lamar, of Macon Georgia, and 
 after the restoration of peace, resumed the practice of his profession 
 at that place, where he has since resided. 
 
 Earnestly intent upon achieving professional reputation and distinc- 
 tion among his brethren of the bar, while engaged in the arduous 
 duties of his profession, he prepared and published in 1866, a Digest 
 of the Supreme Court Reports, an enlarged edition of which is still in 
 use, and which bears the mark of the most careful and thorough anal- 
 
128 BIOGKAPHICAL SKETCHES. 
 
 ysis of the legal principles found in the first forty volumes of the Supreme 
 Court Reports. 
 
 As a lawyer, Mr. Bacon took high rank, not only for his clear and 
 strong presentation of the cases entrusted to him by his clients, but 
 also for erudition, as his arguments were characterized by the abun- 
 dance of authorities with which he supported them. His rise in his 
 profession was rapid, and he soon commanded the confidence of the 
 public in his skill and judgment as a successful practitioner. 
 
 In 1868, while in his 28th year, he was nominated by the State Dem- 
 ocratic Convention sitting in Davis Hall, Presidential Elector for the 
 then Fourth Congressional District of Georgia, a high compliment under 
 the circumstances, for his nomination to this position on the same day 
 with what is known as the great Bush Arbor mass-meeting at Atlanta 
 was intended to invoke the highest oratorical ability to discuss the 
 great questions which were agitating the State, and which demanded 
 the ablest men in the Democratic party to discuss the principles which 
 would lead the State through the convulsions that had followed recon- 
 struction, to the destiny of peace and prosperity ; and his able canvass 
 proved that the Democratic party had selected in him one of its boldest 
 and most eloquent advocates. The Democratic ticket was elected by 
 over 45,000 majority in the State, and Mr. Bacon's political history 
 commenced with his participation in the Electoral College, and casting 
 the electoral vote of Georgia for Seymour and Blair. 
 
 In December, 1870, he was elected as one of the Democratic Repre- 
 sentatives from the county of Bibb to the Legislature of 1871 and 
 1872, and was a member of the Judiciary Committee of the House, 
 and took a leading and prominent part in all the public debates con- 
 nected with the legislation of the State, which threw him prominently 
 before the people as one among the most prominent leaders of the 
 Democratic party, 
 
 In the fall of 1872 his constituents indorsed him by a re-election, 
 and when the Legislature met in 1873, he was elected Spei.ker of the 
 House for two years, a compliment not only paid to his ability as a 
 leader, but to his fidelity as a Representative. As Speaker of the 
 House, he seemed to be, from the outset, born for the place. His 
 administrative ability being only equalled by his accurate knowledge 
 of parliamentary law, the business before him was conducted with the 
 highest decorum of debate and his rulings were so clear, and announced 
 with such firmness, that all sides were satisfied with their legal and 
 parliamentary justice. 
 
 In the fall of 1874 he was again re-elected to the House for two 
 years, and was defeated in the nomination for Speaker by only two 
 votes ; and, though twice declining the position of Speaker pro tem.^ 
 he finally accepted on a unanimous election. 
 
OF REP RES EN TA TI 1 'ES. 1 29 
 
 In the fall of fS76 he was again elected to the House for two years, 
 and on the meeting of that body, in January, 1877, was unanimously 
 elected Speaker without opposition; and under the new Constitution 
 he was re-elected in December, 1877, for two years. Upon the or- 
 ganization of the House, in 187S, Mr. Bacon was again unanimously 
 elected Speaker for two years without opposition. 
 
 During Mr. Bacon's services in the Legislature he has been called 
 upon, by his views of public duty, to take part in the advocacy of 
 very many public measures, which have been generally approved by 
 the whole people of the State, while the bill he had passed creating 
 the public road system of Bibb county, and the bill organizing the 
 public school system of said county, have linked his name with these 
 two great public benefits to h:s constituents, and have been the founda- 
 tion of other like systems and organizations in other parts of the 
 State. 
 
 Mr. Bacon is a man of marked personal appearance, being about 
 six feet high, handsomely chiseled features, clear blue eyes and with 
 great culture of manners, and of pleasant, bright expression, indica- 
 ting a man at peace with himself and the world. 
 
 As a lawyer, he is laborious in the preparation of the cases, faithful 
 to the interests of his clients, learned in the general principles of his 
 profession, knowing the law as a science rather than a pursuit, bring- 
 ing into his argument before the courts the, clearest exposition of the 
 legal principles involved with the severest and subtlest logic to carry 
 out the analogies drawn from legal authorities. Ouick to perceive all 
 distinctions, adroit in avoiding all difficult complications, and truly 
 eloquent when he reaches the climax of his propositions in welding 
 them home by forcible illustrations, enriched by pure diction and 
 learned information, eliciting from the court the closest attention and 
 frequently admiration for the close-pressed, convincing logic with 
 which he unites proposition after proposition until he reaches the 
 conclusion of his case. As an evidence of Mr. Bacon's thorough 
 knowledge of the law and his ability in expounding the same, may be 
 mentioned the fact that he has received direct compliments from the 
 Supreme Bench of the State, in its published decisions, upon several 
 arguments made before that tribunal. 
 
 In home life he is social in his nature, genial in his temper and fond 
 of making all around him participate in his own flow of good humor 
 and spirits. 
 
 Few men of his age in this State have ever filled public positions 
 with more unostentatious ability. Few have risen more rapidly to 
 the front ranks and impressed their name so indelibly on the legal 
 and legislative history of the State. 
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 In 1880 he was again elected to the House of Representatives from 
 Bibb county, and, without opposition, was chosen Speal<er of that 
 body, presiding to the final adjournment of the General Assembly in 
 1 88 1 with his customary ability and impartiality. He is at present 
 prominently spoken of as the next candidate for the position of Gov- 
 ernor of Georgia, his friends urging his claims with earnestness and 
 confidence. 
 
OF REPRESEN TA TI VES. 1 3 1 
 
 HON. JOHN. L. ADDERTON, 
 
 [SUMTER COUNTY.] 
 
 tNE of the Representatives of Sumter county, was born in North 
 Carolina, May 31st, 1833, and removed to Georgia in 1848. His 
 "Q^ educational facilities were limited to those afforded by the com- 
 mon schools of the country. He settled in Americus in 1854, and by 
 hard work and rigid economy saved a little money. He studied and 
 read law with Hon. \V. A. Hawkins, and was admitted to the bar in 
 1854, and practiced the profession for a year or two. He married Miss 
 Guerry, daughter of James P. Guerry, in 1857, and has two children, 
 a daughter and a son. 
 
 In the spring of 1862, he entered the Confederate army as Second 
 Lieutenant, and was soon raised to the rank of Captain, in which 
 capacity he continued until 1 864, when in consequence of physical 
 disability, he was honorably discharged from the service, his discharge 
 bearing the flattering indorsement of his superior officers, that he was 
 one of the best Captains in the army. He did service in the army of 
 Northern Virginia, under Generals Longstreet and Hood, and retired 
 from the army when the forces were around Petersburg, Virginia. 
 
 Captain Adderton has been the recipient of many honors from his 
 fellow-citizens, and has long enjoyed their confidence and esteem. 
 He has held the office of Judge of the Inferior Court of Sumter county, 
 he has served the city of Americus in the capacity of Alderman, and 
 in 1880 was elected, with Hon. S. T. Feagin, to represent the county 
 of Sumter, in the lower branch of the Georgia Legislature. He lives 
 in the city of Americus, and successfully cultivates the soil for a live- 
 lihood. 
 
132 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 HON. LEMUEL B. ANDERSON. 
 
 (NEWTON COUNTY.) 
 
 'HE subject of this sketch was born on the 2d of October, 1839, 
 in Union district, South Carolina, and is a son of Henry and 
 Lotta T. (Askew) Anderson. His parents having removed to 
 Newton county, Georgia, he entered school, and from 1849 to 1857 
 was a student at Covington and at Oxford. 
 
 In 1858 he was admitted to the bar. He served in the army of 
 Northern Virginia during the war as Major of the Seventh Georgia 
 Regiment, and was from 1865 to 1868 Judge of the Inferior Court of 
 his county. 
 
 From 1868 to 1873 he was Solicitor-General of the Flint Judicial 
 Circuit. In 1875,. 1876, 1877, 1878 and 1879 he was a member of the 
 House of Representatives, and was again elected in 1880. 
 
 He was married December ist, 1871, to Miss Maggie Sommers, of 
 Rockdale county. 
 
 In politics Mr. Anderson is an Independent, favoring honest, capa- 
 ble and independent men for official positions, without regard to any 
 particular political faith. He is a man of energy and ability. 
 
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 HON. THOMAS N. ARRINGTON. 
 
 (BROOKS COUNTY.) 
 
 • HOMAS N. ARRINGTON was born in Twiggs county, Geor- 
 gia, in the year 1825, where he was raised and educated. He 
 did not enjoy the advantages of a collegiate course, but ob- 
 tained a fair common school education and was an intelligent gentle- 
 man of great practical good sense. He moved to Brooks county, 
 Georgia, about the year 1851 and continued to reside there up to the 
 time of his death. He was married three times. By his iirst wife 
 he had four children. His second wife died during the war without 
 children. Not long after the close of the war he married Miss Fannie 
 Denmark, a daughter of one of the most substantial and worthy 
 farmers of Brooks. She, with six children she bore him during their 
 marriage, still survives him. Mr. Arrington was a planter of consid- 
 erable means for this section of the country, and being a man of great 
 energy and good, practical judgment, he was eminently successful in 
 his business. While many of our people become infatuated with the 
 idea of large cotton crops, he never forgot to raise an abundance of 
 provisions at home. He never had his smoke-house or corn cribs in 
 the Northwest. He made a considerable amount of cotton but 
 seemed to have a special fondness for raising good horses and cattle, 
 large hogs and a good many of them, large crops of oats, corn, pota- 
 toes, sugar-cane, etc. He was a man of energy, honesty and charity. 
 He sold quantities of provisions, but the poor and needy never went 
 away from his place empty handed because they had not the money to 
 pay for what they wanted. His liberality in this respect was remark- 
 able, and it is doubted if an instance can be found in the county where 
 T. N. Arrington refused to help a worthy object of charity. 
 
 Mr. Arrington was nominated for the Legislature by the Democrats 
 of Brooks* in the year 1880. There was a regular Radical candidate 
 in the field (a negro), and afterwards there cams out an Independent 
 Democratic candidate. Many of Mr. Arrington 's friends feared that 
 as the Democrats were thus split he might be defeated, but they had 
 miscalculated his strength, for he was elected by a large majority. 
 He served his county faithfully. He died very suddenly in December, 
 1881. 
 
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 HON. G. W. AWTRY. 
 
 (CARROLL COUNTY.) 
 
 §EORGE W. AWTRY was born in Carroll county, Georgia, in the 
 year 1829. His father, Jacob Awtry, was a native of Green 
 county in this State, and his mother, whose maiden name was 
 (Nancy) Hill, was a native of the county of Rutherford, North Caro- 
 lina. Tne former died in 1859, the latter in 1852. He has one brother 
 and three sisters. He received a common school education, and has 
 devoted his life principally to farming, teaching and mercantile busi- 
 ness. He was Postmaster in 1855 and 1S56, United States JNIarshal 
 for Carroll county in i860, and represented that county in the House 
 in 1863, 1864 and 1865. In 1871 he moved to the West, but the cli- 
 mate disagreeing with his health, he returned to his native State and 
 county. He is a Democrat of the old school, and has always been an 
 ardent admirer of General Andrew Jackson, having entered upon the 
 conflict of this life at the same time that " Old Hickory" began his first 
 administration as President of the United States. 
 
 In 1852 he was married to Miss Martha D. Embry, of Carroll 
 county, and has two children living. 
 
 As a Representative Mr. Awtry was always at his post, and while 
 he was seldom a participant in the discussions of the House, his views 
 were clear and his votes creditable to his judgment. He is a man of 
 sterling qualities and a most useful citizen. 
 
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 HON. W. J. BARNES. 
 
 (MERIWETHER COUNTY.) 
 
 fLTHOUGH born in the county he so well represents, June 
 / 29th, 1838, the subject of this sketch is the son of a Virginian, 
 Mr. [ordan Barnes, a successful farmer and merohint, who died 
 in Meriwether county in 1868. 
 
 The mother, however, was a Georgian, and, before her marriage, a 
 Miss Mary B. Ledbelter, of Baldwin county. She died in 1866. The 
 family consisted of four daughters and two sons, Representative 
 Barnes being the younger of the sons. He attributes much of his 
 success in life to the careful training and pious teachings of his rev- 
 ered parents. 
 
 Mr. Barnes was educated in a great part in Meriwether county 
 schools, but spent one term at Irving College, Tennessee. Adopting 
 the profession of medicine, he vi'ent to Philadelphia to pursue his 
 studies, but John Brown's famous raid created such intense feelmg 
 that, in company with other Southern students, he came to Augusta 
 and completed his course. 
 
 Dr. Barnes commenced the practice of medicine in i860, and for 
 eight years continued it with a good degree of success, but he did not 
 find the profession suited to his taste, and abandoned it for the life of 
 a farmer and merchant, which opened up for him a wide sphere of 
 usefulness. 
 
 In these pursuits he has been quite successful, and is looked upon 
 as one of the best agriculturists in his county. Nor is it alone in pri- 
 vate life that Dr. Barnes has won position and influence. He has 
 been selected by the people of Meriwether to fill several important 
 public offices. 
 
 For a half dozen years he was a member of the Board of Education 
 and from 1876 to 1880 he served as Justice of the Peace, an office 
 which he resigned for the higher one of a Representative in the Gen- 
 eral Assembly. 
 
 Although his nomination was unanimous, he was opposed at the 
 ballot-box by an independent candidate whom he easily defeated by a 
 handsome majority, a compliment due him for his fidelity to Demo- 
 cratic principles and his efforts in releasing the county from carpet- 
 bag rule. 
 
 Dr. Barnes has long enjoyed the blessings and comforts of an at- 
 tractive home and loving family circle. On January 17th, 1861, he 
 
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 married Miss M. A. Finle3% the accomplished daughter of a prominent 
 farmer living in his neighborhood, and this happy union has been 
 more closely cemented by the birth of two boys and one girl, thereby 
 making his home doubly pleasant and attractive. 
 
 Of good height and figure, dark eyes and black hair, and a 
 genial and trusting disposition. Representative Barnes is one of the 
 most popular and companionable members of the House, as well as a 
 conscientious and faithful legislator. 
 
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 HON. POPE BARROW. 
 
 (CLARKE COUNTY.) 
 
 .(CT|T is universally conceded by all who have watched the proceed- 
 {^ ings of the present Legislature, that this brilliant young states- 
 *^ man is one of the clearest headed reasoners, ablest debaters and 
 •most influential legislators in either branch of the General Assembly. 
 
 With an earnestness that is characterized by sincerity and frankness, 
 Mr. Barrow never advocates a measure without winning the respect 
 and challenging the admiration of his opponents. Without rhetorical 
 display or useless argument, he strikes directly at the core of the mat- 
 ter under discussion, and while he never loses an opportunity to make 
 a good point in his own favor, he scorns to resort to trickery to win 
 success. It is doubtful if any member of the House has made so fa- 
 vorable an impression as a debater, or won as much reputation for 
 wise and prudent statesmanship. Always the gentleman, he never 
 addresses the House without having its fullest attention, and most 
 profound respect. On the floor of Congress, it is safe to assert, Mr. 
 Barrow would win still higher and deserved honors, possessing as he 
 does the eminent abilities requisite for a successful Congressman. 
 
 Mr. Barrow is a native of Oglethorpe county, the home of genius, 
 where he was born August ist, 1839, his parents being David C. Bar- 
 row and Sarah (Pope) Barrow. The former is a native of Baldwin 
 county, was a member of the Legislature before the war, and is now 
 a Trustee of the State University. The latter was a native of Ogle- 
 thorpe county, and a granddaughter of Governor Wilson Lumpkin, 
 who, in addition to his other honors, was a member of Congress before 
 the late war. 
 
 Pope was {.he eldest of eight children, only four of whom are now 
 living, three sons and one daughter. Lieutenant-Colonel James Barrow, 
 who left West Point Military Academy in 1861, to join the Confeder- 
 ate army, fell at the head of the Si.xty-fourth Georgia Infantry while 
 bravely leading them at the battle of Olustee. Daniel C. Barrow, Jr., 
 is now an Assistant Professor at the State University, and a young 
 man of rare promise. 
 
 After spending his boyhood in Oglethorpe county, where he was 
 well fitted for College, Pope entered the State University, and gradu- 
 ated in 1859, with the degree of A. M. Choosing the legal profession 
 he soon after was admitted to the bar, and at once his rare talents as 
 a pleader, and his clear conceptions of law brought him to the front 
 rank, and secured him a lucrative and growing practice. 
 
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 As a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1877, Mr. Bar- 
 row won new honors by his able discussions of great political 
 questions and constitutional principles. Few older and more distin- 
 guished men in that grand body of Cieorgia's noblest sons, made for 
 themselves a better record than did the young and gifted delegate from 
 Clarke county. 
 
 And when, in 1880, he came to the General Assembly, he found 
 himself familiar with the duties of a legislator, and thoroughly posted 
 as to the real character and purposes of the new Constitution. Some 
 men never learn by experience and observation, but Mr. Barrow is not 
 of this class. Every day's experience and observation ripens and de- 
 velops his best energies and talents, and he will yet reflect honor upon 
 his naive State in the halls of Congress. 
 
 la his private and home life Mr. Barrow is even more popular and 
 bel wed. As a friend, he is firm and devoted, and as a neighbor, kind 
 an J considerate. But within his own charming home circle, where a 
 loving and lovely .wife and four manly boys and one sweet girl make 
 hi n feel indeed that the " dearest spot of earth to him is home, sweet 
 home," his best elements of character unfold themselves in all their 
 purity and strength. 
 
 On March 5th, 1867, Mr. Barrow was united in marriage to Miss 
 Sallie Craig, at Madison, Florida, a charming and accomplished wo- 
 man in every sense, and a granddaughter of the lamented President 
 Alonzo Church, of the University. Her father. Captain Lewis A. Craig, 
 of Virginia, was made a Brevet Major and Lieutenant-Colonel for his 
 gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras, Cherubusco 
 and Monterey. His death occurred in 1852, while he was yet in the 
 army. 
 
 In 1867 Mr. Barrow's father was elected a member of the Board of 
 Trustees of the State University, and in 1872 the same honor was 
 conferred upon him, and a few years later his brother, David C. Bar- 
 row, Jr., was elected an Assistant Professor. Thus closely is he iden- 
 tified with Georgia's venerable institution of learning, in whose behalf 
 both in the Constitutional Convention and the present General Assem- 
 bly, his eloquent voice and ablest -arguments were used, and that too 
 with marked success. H:s Alma Mater has no truer or better friend 
 or more chivalrous defender than he. 
 
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 HON. JOHN F. BATES. 
 
 (BURKE COUNTY.) 
 
 'HIS gentleman is a native of the county he has the honor to rep- 
 resent in the General Assembly, and was born in 1840. His 
 father, William C. Bates, who died in 1874, was from South 
 Carolina, and married a Miss Mulkey, of Georgia, whose death oc- 
 curred in 1873. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was the youngest of four children, three 
 boys and one girl, and was educated at a fine school at Alexander. 
 On arriving at the years of manhood he engaged in farming as the 
 chosen occupation of his life, and has been quite successful in his ag- 
 ricultural pursuits. In 1869 he married Miss Eugenia Harrington, 
 a most estimable young lady, who has made his home life attractive 
 and joyous. 
 
 Mr. Bates is a member of the Methodist Church, and in both public 
 and private life is highly esteemed for his many excellent traits of 
 character. As a legislator he has quietly but efficiently discharged his 
 duties, and can return to his constituents with a clear record in the 
 House. 
 
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 HON. ALVA T. BENNETT. 
 
 (JACKSON COUNTY.) 
 
 'HE subject of this sketch was born in Jaclcson county, Georgia, 
 
 ^ October 20th 1828, where he was raised and educated. He left 
 school at the age of seventeen, and engaged in farming, follow- 
 ing that pursuit until 1850, when he became stricken with the gold fe- 
 ver, and went to California where he remained three years, acquiring 
 valuable experience, if not wealth. Three years after his return from 
 California he married Miss Sarah L. Morgan, of Jackson county, this 
 event having occurred on the 5th of November, 1856. 
 
 In 1861 he resigned the office of deputy Sheriff and entered the army 
 of the Confederate States as First Lieutenant in a company of State 
 troops, serving near Savannah for six months. In 1862 he was elected 
 Captain of Company E, of the Thirty-fourth Georgia Regiment ; served 
 through the Kentucky campaign under General Kirby Smith; was with 
 the first brigade tnat crossed the mountains at Cumberland Gap; was in 
 the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, and with his command marched 730 
 miles in the summer of 1863; endured the 48 days' siege of Vicks- 
 burg, and was there slightly wounded, captured and paroled and was 
 soon after exchanged. He was in the fight at Loudon Bridge, and 
 was with his command on Lookout Mountain during the fight at Mis- 
 sionary Ridge. In February, 1864, on account of sickness, he had to 
 resign. 
 
 On his return home he was elected Judge of the Inferior Court, 
 which position he held until 1868. In that year he was elected to the 
 Legislature, and was re-elected in 1876, 1878, and 1880. He was a 
 gallant soldier and a capable officer, having been at one time in com- 
 mand of his regiment. His frequent elections to the Legislature of 
 Georgia, show the high esteem in which he is held by his constituents. 
 He is a man of earnest and sincere character, immovable from any po- 
 sition which he conscientiously assumes, and possesses a sound, prac- 
 tical judgment. 
 
 His services to his county have shown him to be a man worthy of 
 public confidence, and able to do for his constituency all that could 
 be accomplished in their behalf. 
 
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 EDWARD BIRD. 
 
 (EFFINGHAM COUNTY.) 
 
 ^; DWARD BIRD, the subject of^^this sketch, was born in Effing- 
 ^^ ham county, Georgia, September 30th, 1825. He acquired a good 
 ^ s' English education at Springfield Academy. In May, 1850, he 
 was married to MiFS Ann E. Wilson, of Effingham county, and has 
 three children now living. He is one of the number who organized 
 the Effingham Hussars upwards of thirty-five years ago, and was a 
 regular member of that company until the close of the late war be- 
 tween the States. In 1861 he carried the company into active service, 
 being then the only one of the original organizers who survived. Soon 
 after entering the Confederate service, he was promoted to the rank of 
 Colonel, which position he continued to hold until the surrender of 
 General Johnston's army at Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1865. 
 
 Mr. Bird, who is a very unostentatious and unaspiring character^ 
 has never sought positions of honor or distinction, preferring through 
 life to illustrate the wisdom of attending to his own and letting the 
 business of others alone. It is true, he has held positions both of 
 honor and trust in his county, but they were thrust upon him by his 
 fellow-citizens. It was only at the urgent request of his friends that 
 he would consent that his name should be used for any office. His 
 pursuit in life has been the timber and lumber business. This he 
 has carried on extensively. 
 
 He is a true friend to education, and has proved his faith by his 
 works, in giving most liberal educational advantages to his own chil- 
 dren. No member has proven more industrious or intelligent than Mr. 
 Bird. He has performed his duty modestly, yet well. 
 
 He is a member of the Methodist Church, a consistent Christian, 
 and a generous man. His popularity in the county he represents is 
 universal. 
 
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 HON. WILLIAM BRANCH. 
 
 (IRWIN COUNTY.) 
 
 OC>HIS gentleman is the son of the late David Branch, who was a 
 y^Q farmer in Irwin county, but a native of South Carolina, and who 
 "^5^ died in 1859. 
 
 His mother, Mrs. Millie (Fletcher) Branch, also of South Carolina, 
 is still living in the county represented by her son. 
 
 The boyhood of Representative Branch was one of a good deal of 
 work and very little play, as he enjoyed no school privileges, and re- 
 mained on his father's farm until twenty-three years old. 
 
 Starting at that age as a farmer, by his natural acquirements, sturdy 
 industry, and good management of his affairs, he succeeded in making 
 a comfortable home for himself and family. 
 
 But the war proved disastrous to his fortunes, and with the return of 
 peace he was compelled to make a new start. Happily, success again 
 crowned his efforts, and he has been enabled to restore his shattered 
 fortunes. 
 
 In 1859 Mr. Branch married Miss Louisa J. Whidden, by whom he 
 has five boys and three girls, who have made a happy home still more 
 attractive. 
 
 Elected as an Independent Democrat in a close contest, Mr. Branch 
 has made a legislator whose record his constituents can but commend. 
 
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 HON. J. C. BRANSON. 
 
 (BARTOW COUNTY.) 
 
 4^0l-IE subject of this sketch was born in Abbeville district, South 
 |l^ Carolina, near Due West or Erskin College, on the 27th day 
 '^5^ of March, 1839. His father, Levi IJranson, was a native of 
 Guilford county. North Carolina; his mother whose maiden name was 
 Jane Wilson, was born in Abbeville district, South Carolina. 
 
 J. C. Branson received a collegiate education at Cherokee Baptist 
 College, Bartow county, Georgia, and Emory and Henry College, 
 Virginia. He was made to work on the farm when not at school, 
 during the period of his primary studies, and to this may be attributed 
 the splendid physique which he acquired, and which is so well pre- 
 served. 
 
 After completing his college course he studied law under Colonel War- 
 ren Aiken, and was admitted to the bar in November, 1859, at Spring 
 Place, Murray county, Georgia, the Hon. Leander W. Crook, Judge of 
 the Cherokee Circuit, presidmg. 
 
 He is not a member of any Church, but inclines to the Methodist 
 persuasion. 
 
 On the 27th of April, 1862, he was married in Cassville, Georgia., to ' 
 Miss E. M. Reynolds, eldest daughter of Mr. Benjamin* Reynolds, of 
 Bartow, then Cass county, Georgia. 
 
 He has only one child, Bertram Branson, a bright and noble-hearted 
 little boy, who served as a page of the House, in 1880-81. 
 
 J. C. Branson has always been a Democrat. He went into the Con- 
 federate army as a private, in Captain W. W. Rich's company of cavalry, 
 and continued to serve in that capacity until relieved on account of 
 feeble health. Subsequently he was made Adjutant of a battalion of 
 cavalry, commanded by Colonel John B. Wilcoxon, of Newnan, Coweta 
 county, Georgia, and, after service of one year, his health failed to 
 such a degree as to render his retirement from the service necessary. 
 
 In 1 874, he was appointed Judge of the county court of Bartow county, 
 by Governor James M. Smith, and held this position for two years. 
 In 1880 he was elected to the House of Representatives, and in the 
 capacity of a legislator he has rendered most acceptable service to his 
 constituency, and to the general interests of the people of Georgia. 
 He was a member of the Special Judiciary and the Railroad Com- 
 mittees, two of the most important committees of the House, and 
 his services on both marked him out as a man of ability and devotion 
 to the interests of Georgia. 
 
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 He introduced a bill providing for the sale of tlie Western and Atlan- 
 tic Railroad, which was defeated in the House of Representatives. It 
 was his belief that the road could then be sold for ten million dollars, a 
 sufficient sum to extinguish the debt of the State, and relieve the people 
 almost entirely from the burden of taxation. He now thinks his plan 
 should have been adopted, as the opportunity for realizing the sum 
 indicated for the road has passed away under the liberal policy of 
 granting charters for rival lines. 
 
 He also introduced and urged the passage of a bill providing for 
 the imprisonment in the Lunatic Asylum, of persons acquitted of the 
 crime of murder under the plea of insanity. This measure was 
 freely and favorably commented on by many newspapers in various 
 States of the Republic, but was defeated in the House. 
 
 He was an earnest and zealous advocate of the bill authorizing 
 counties and municipal corporations to tax railroads as other property 
 within their respective jurisdictions. This measure passed the House 
 of Representatives, but, after much debate, was defeated in the 
 Senate. With equal zeal he opposed what is known as the " Cole 
 Charter," believing that its legitimate effect would be serious injury to 
 the Western and Atlantic Railroad, and a permanent reduction of its 
 value. This road being the property of the people, he was opposed to 
 any charter for private uses, which would depreciate it in value. This 
 bill became a law, and the future will reveal the wisdom or the folly of 
 those who opposed and those who favored it. 
 
 He is an "organized Democrat," and perhaps the first man in Georgia 
 who declared in unqualified terms his intention to vote for Hon. A. 
 H. Stephens for Governor. 
 
 The following paragraph, characteristic of its author, was contribu- 
 ted by "Bill Arp," (Hon. Chas. H. Smith), to aid us in completing this 
 sketch of his friend and neighbor : 
 
 " If I had time I would touch up my friend, John Branson, for he 
 is a good fellow, and you can say so — but I am harvesting, and very 
 busy by day, and very tired by night. As to his farming peculiarities, 
 I will say that he has a special fancy for raising bumble-bee cotton 
 and nubbin corn to feed the steers on. As a lawyer, he is patronized 
 by every man in the settlement who wants to pay his debts and can't, 
 and by those who can pay and don't want to, and he succeeds well for 
 both. As a religious man, he holds the stakes for Bob IngersoU and 
 Jere Black, and cries, " lay on McDuff, i'll see a fair fight on both 
 sides." As a politician, he goes in for the fun of the thing, and can't 
 be fooled with platforms or principles. As a legislator, he belongs to 
 the Joe Brown School, /. e. Branson first, and the State second, and 
 the whole country afterwards. As a citizen, he is whole-souled. 
 
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 liberal, kind, neighborly, and always good company. I don't reckon 
 the Markham House ever had a boarder they made less off of than 
 Branson. In haste. 
 
 (Signed) Chas. H. Smith." 
 
 Of course the critical portion of the foregoing contribution is in- 
 tended as pleasantry, yet it serves to vary the usual monotony of 
 biographical sketches, and to show the exhaustless and inimitable 
 humor of the author. 
 
 Mr. Branson is now in the very prime of his life — popular at home, 
 beloved by all who know him, for his generous heart, and having yet 
 before him, we believe, a long career of usefulness. 
 

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 HON. JESSE A. BRINSON. 
 
 (EMANUEL COUNTY.) 
 
 ^7^ HE subject of this sketch is a native of Ikirl<e county, where he 
 'a^ was born, December 25th, 1826. His father was Judge B. E. 
 "^cJ' Brinson, of that county, who married Miss Mary Lewis, of 
 Emanuel county, and was the father of two sons and four daughters, 
 all living and married, and well-to-do residents of Emanuel county. 
 Both parents are now dead. 
 
 Mr. Brinson was married May iiih, 1851, to Miss Mary Durden, of 
 his county, who lived until July 9th, 1881, and bore him six children, 
 two sons and four daughters, the same as his father's family. The 
 eldest daughter, Mary, is married to Mr. Jethro Sumner. It is a 
 "healthy, happy and prosperous family. 
 
 The life of Mr. Brinson has been a busy as well as an industrious 
 one. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, was for several years 
 chairman of the Emanuel County Agricultural Society, has been Jus- 
 tice of the Peace, a Tax Collector, and Clerk of the Superior Court, 
 in his county, and a gallant officer in the army in the defense of At- 
 lanta, in 1864. 
 
 As a legislator he has had some experience, having served in the 
 House in 1868, when it was no easy matter for a Democrat to secure 
 favorable action in behalf of his constituents. In the present General 
 Assembly he has made a good record. While he is not much of a 
 public speaker, he is a clear-headed thinker, and acts wisely and hon- 
 estly in all matters of legislation. Faithful to his duties, he has voted 
 fearlessly for what he considered best for his people. 
 
 Mr. Brinson is a prosperous farmer, of a genial disposition, and 
 •quite fond of hunting' and fishing. He believes that work and play 
 should go hand in hand, as prosperity without health is but half a 
 blessing. 
 
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 HON. ORVILLE A. BULL. 
 
 (TROUP COUNTY,) 
 
 OOHIS young gentleman bears the name of one of Georgia's dis- 
 ^^Q tinguished public men and honored citizens, Judge O. A. Bull, 
 '^t)^ of Columbia county, who was a prominent lawyer in Troup 
 county, and Judge of the Superior Court of that Circuit, which has 
 since been divided into the Coweta and Atlanta Circuits. 
 
 Judge Bull married Miss Martha Robertson, of Clark county, who^ 
 is still living in Troup county. He died in 1868. Two sons and three 
 daughters were the fruits of this marriage, and are all living except 
 one son, Lieutenant-Colonel G. A. Bull, of the Thirty-fifth Georgia In 
 fantry, a young man of remarkable genius, who gallantly fell at the 
 battle of Seven Pines. 
 
 Orville was educated at the LaGrange High School, and the Uni- 
 versity of Georgia, in Athens, from which he graduated in 1870, with 
 the degree of A. B., his deceased brother having graduated from the 
 same institution in 1854, with the degree of A. M. 
 
 After leaving College, young Bull taught school for several years, 
 and was at one time Principal of the LaGrange High School. Choos- 
 ing the profession of law, he became Solicitor of the County Court of 
 Troup, the only public office he has held excepting that of member of 
 the present General Assembly. 
 
 Mr. Bull is a speaking as well as working legislator, and has made 
 a good record for industry and ability. He is unmarried, and a most 
 genial and good natured companion. His pen-drawings of members 
 of the House evince great talent as a humorous cartoonist, and win 
 universal praise from all sides. No member has been more popular 
 or made a larger number of friends than the talented young Repre- 
 sentative from Troup. 
 
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 HON. HENRY MARSHALL BURCH. 
 
 [LAURENS COUNTY.] 
 
 §TANDING high in the estimation of his county, and especially 
 respected and beloved by those who know him personally, is the 
 ■-^ subject of our sketch, Henry Marshall Burch, son of Alfred and 
 Sarah I.. Burch, born in Ttlfair county, September the 9th, 18 2. 
 When he was quite young, his father moved to Montgomery county, 
 and placed him at the common schools of that county, where he re- 
 ceived his education. On the 23d of April, 1854, he married Miss 
 Amarantha L. R. Gay, of Laurens county. He then settled in that 
 county, six miles east of Dublin, where he now resides as a successful 
 farmer. In February, 1863, he enlisted in Company F, Second Geor- 
 gia Regiment, as Orderly Sergeant, and served gallantly under General 
 Johnston, in his North Georgia campaign, after which he was promo- 
 ted to the rank of Second Lieutenant. He was severely wounded 
 near Kennesaw Mountain, in 1864, which rendered him unable to en- 
 ter active service for some time. He filled the position of Judge of 
 the Inferior Court from 1864 until that office was abolished by the 
 Constitution of 1866. He was a member of the House in 1877, 1879, 
 and was again elected in 1880. 
 
 His politics up to the war were those of old line Whig. Since that 
 time he has been a staunch Democrat of the Jeffersonian school, 
 warmly advocating the principles it maintained. 
 
 Mr. Burch has been a consistent member of the Baptist Church 
 since 1855. He is a man in the prime of life, very energetic, and has 
 great zeal for the advocacy of principles which he believes to be right. 
 
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 HON. W. S. BASINGER. 
 
 (CHATHAM COUNTY.) 
 
 y^Y^^>E have been unable to secure the necessary data for a bio- 
 >^^jl^ graphical sketch of this distinguished gentleman, and conse- 
 ^ >r(;S '^ quently can give only a brief glance at some of the more 
 recent events in his public life. 
 
 For several years previous to his election to the present General 
 Assembly, he was a member of the eminent law firm of Jackson, Law- 
 ton & Basinger, his partners being General Henry R. Jackson and 
 General Alexander R. Lawton, gentlemen who have won the highest 
 honors as military commanders and legal advisers. No law firm in 
 the State had a more substantial reputation. 
 
 Colonel Basinger therefore came to the Legislature with a standing 
 in legal circles that placed him at once in the front rank of the ablest 
 members of the House, and secured to him positions on the most 
 important committees. 
 
 Speaker Bacon knowing well his capacity and fitness for the several 
 duties assigned him, placed Colonel Basinger at the head of the Com- 
 mittee on Banks, and right well has he discharged the delicate trusts 
 connected with this chairmanship. 
 
 As Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, and as a 
 member of the General Judiciary Committee, and the Committee on 
 Corporations, he has likewise displayed his thorough knowledge of all 
 legal questions, of military organization and discipline, and of the laws 
 governing corporations. No committeeman has done better or more 
 conscientious work than he. 
 
 Colonel Basinger is a quiet, unostentatious member, and seldom speaks 
 on any question ; if he does address the House, it is where he has 
 something to say that is worth listening to, and which is always pre- 
 sented in a dignified, pointed and practical manner. He wastes no 
 words, resorts to no tricks of oratory, yet never fails to hold the close 
 attention of the House to the close of his brief but comprehensive 
 speeches. 
 
 In January, 1861, by order of Colonel A. R. Lawton, of the First 
 Georgia Regiment, under instructions from Governor Joseph E. Brown, 
 the Oglethorpe Barracks, in Savannah, were taken possession of by 
 Colonel Basinger then a company officer for the State of Georgia, 
 thus making him one of the earliest actors in the opening scenes of 
 ithe " War between the States." 
 

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 HON. HUGH A. CARITHERS. 
 
 [WALTON COUNTY.] 
 
 i'TOHE father of this gentleman came from South CarolinA to Madi- 
 -(v^ son county, where he married Miss Mary Griffith, and became 
 '^^i^ a successful farmer. Both are now deceased, the former dyingf 
 May 27tb. 1S55, and the latter May .:4th, 1S51. leaving two sons and 
 one daughter. 
 
 Hugh was born in Madison county. July 14th. 18:17. and was edu- 
 cated at the common schools in that neighborhood, picking up the 
 rest of his education by observation and study, thus fitting himself 
 for a career of usefulness. 
 
 Raised on a farm, it was natural that he should adopt the profession 
 of agriculture, to which he has devoted himself with more than ordi- 
 nary success, and now counts among his assets a fine mercantile bus- 
 iness. 
 
 Wisely desiring to commence life for himself with a well-chosen 
 companion, he was married to Miss Mary A. Griffith, daughter of a 
 prominent farmer. November i6th, 184S. and as the result of this 
 happy union eight sons have been born to them, five of whom are 
 living. 
 
 Mr. Carithers is a man of energy, popularity and integrity, as is 
 shown by his election as an Independent Democrat to the present 
 General Assembly, defeating the regular nominee by a large majority- 
 As a Representative he has made an excellent record for industry, 
 faithfulness and wise legislation. Madison has been honored by his 
 popularity and well performed services. 
 
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 HON. S. R. CHRISTIE. 
 
 (TERRELL COUNTY.) 
 
 HIS gentleman may be said to belong to a representative family 
 ivi^ in more than the usual sense, as he had two uncles who served 
 ^ d^ in the General Assembly of Georgia, and one in that of Florida.. 
 But he needs not to draw upon this fact to prove his titness to serve 
 in the same capacity, as his eminent qualifications as a legislator were 
 known to the people of Terrell county before they conferred this 
 honor upon him by their votes. 
 
 In 1874 he was elected Sheriff of that county, serving three consec- 
 utive terms of two years each with marked ability. It was in this 
 capacity that he discovered the existence of irregularities in the wild 
 land instructions of the then Comptroller-General, and refused to be 
 governed by them. A rule was brought against him by the trans- 
 ferees of wild land fi. fas, but after the Superior Court and the Su- 
 preme Court acted upon the matter it became plain that Sheriff 
 Christie was in the right. 
 
 Out of this legal contest grew the famous investigation committees 
 of the General Assembly that overhauled the wild land department 
 of the Comptroller-General's office, and finally secured the impeach- 
 ment of that official, and the inauguration of a new and better system 
 for that department. 
 
 Mr. Christie is a native of Randolph county, where he was born 
 March 25th, 1848, and the son of N. J. and Elizabeth (Haddan) 
 Christie, the former now residing in Dawson and the latter dying in 
 1876. These excellent parents reared their son to.love truthfulness, 
 honesty, sobriety and studiousness, to the end that he might become 
 a useful citizen and a worthy Christian. 
 
 Leaving school at an early age to enter the army during the late 
 war, his school advantages were cut short just as he was rounding off 
 his education for practical purposes. Still he, in due time, completed 
 his studies, and for several years successfully taught school himself, 
 after which he engaged in farming, and at the present time he also 
 has a warehouse in Dawson. 
 
 Added to his public services for the county, Mr. Christie has bad 
 municipal honors bestowed upon him by the citizens of Dawson, who 
 fully appreciate his sterling qualities of head and heart. In that city 
 he was married May 7th, 1879,10 Miss Ella J. Stevens, and during. 
 
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 the November session of the General Assembly he was called home 
 to attend the funeral of their first child. 
 
 Mr. Christie is tall, well-proportioned, with auburn hair and light 
 complexion, and prepossessing in appearance and manners. He 
 comes of a good Democratic and Methodist ancestry, and is firm in 
 their political principles and religious faith. 
 
OF REPRESEN TA TI VES. 1 59 
 
 HOX. ARCHIBALD CLARK. 
 
 (WAYNE COUNTY.) 
 
 ff^^ O member of the present General Assembly is more highly 
 ^^.^^ respected and generally esteemed by his associates, both in 
 
 ~^ L his public capacity and in social life, than the Representative 
 from Wayne county. 
 
 His honest, frank countenance, and his sincere utterances in behalf 
 of any measure he may advocate on the floor of the House, never fail 
 to win for him respectful attention and due consideration. He is never 
 bold or impetuous in his arguments, yet his mildness of speech is tem- 
 pered with an earnestness and straight-forwardness that carry convic- 
 tion to all who are open to his approach. 
 
 The Rev. Archibald Clark is a Virginian, born in Mecklenburg 
 county May 12th, 1824, and the youngest child of Archibald Clark, a 
 successful farmer, who married Miss Sarah Northington, a most esti- 
 mable lady, noted for her p ety and rare domestic virtues 
 
 From his early infancy Archibald was made the subject of her earn- 
 est prayers and pious training, and although she died when he was 
 but eight years old, her prayers and instructions produced an indelible 
 impression on his mind and heart, and at the early age of twelve 
 years he joined the Methodist Church, fully prepared for its obliga- 
 tions. 
 
 Graduating with honor at Randolph-Macon College, of Virginia, in 
 the class of 1844, with the present Bishop, H. N. McTyeire, he joined 
 the Virginia Conference the following year and remained an active 
 and useful member of the same until November, i860, when he "lo- 
 cated," with the intention of moving to northwestern Georgia. 
 
 Early in his ministerial career Mr. Clark made a wise selection of a 
 life companion, and on May 17th, 1847, he was married in Buckingham 
 county, Virginia, to Miss Sarah D. MoUoy, whose presence and labors 
 have made his home attractive and happy, while seven noble and manly 
 boys bear tender testimony to her love, devotion and pious training as 
 a Christian mother. 
 
 From childhood he has been enlisted in the temperance cause, hav- 
 ing joined a Juvenile Temperance Society in his youth, and strictly ad- 
 hered to its principles through all the years that have intervened. Nor 
 have his labors in behalf of this good cause been without influence^ 
 The liquor trafific has been excluded from Jesup, the town in which he 
 resides, and no little credit has been awarded him for this great re- 
 form. 
 
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 Although a Methodist in faith and practice, the subject of this 
 sketch is also a large-hearted, God-serving Christian, and by his 
 earnest preaching and faithful labors, he has drawn many souls to 
 righteousness that found a home in other than his communion. While 
 he has sought to build up and strengthen the Methodist Church, he 
 has never lost sight of an opportunity to do good in his Master's 
 name for other denominations, and to carry the Sunday School and 
 Church privileges into any unoccupied or poorly supplied neighbor- 
 hood. 
 
 In no sense is Mr. Clark a political preacher. As a warm friend to 
 the cause of education, he served the people of his county for seven 
 years as their efficient Superintendent of Public Schools, and in other 
 ways contributed to the growth and improvement of that section of 
 the State. 
 
 It was natural, therefore, that a people, in appreciating his valuable 
 labors in their midst, should select him as a fit person to represent 
 them in the General Assembly at the Capital. No county has been 
 more worthily or faithfully represented than the county of Wayne. 
 Mr. Clark, who is a ready and pleasant speaker, has never failed to 
 discuss such questions as seemed to him to demand his attention, and 
 he has endeavored to speak and vote for the best interests of his con- 
 stituents. In the frequent absence of the Chaplain of the House the 
 Rev. Mr. Clark officiated for him in the most acceptable manner, and 
 a beautifully bound copy of the Bible was presented him at the close 
 of the session by some of the members, in view of his services as 
 Chaplain. 
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 HON. ZIMRI S. COFFIN. 
 
 (STEWART COUNTV.1 
 
 t^jloHE subject of this sketch was born in Guilford county, North 
 f^Q Carolina on the 20th of May, 1833, being a descendant of an old 
 ■^ £r\^ and honorable family of the name, who came to this country in 
 the early colonial days and settled on the island of Nantucket. His 
 mother, whose maiden name was Rachel Osborn, was a native of Guil- 
 ford county, North Carolina, and still lives on the old homestead at an 
 advanced age. He was married July 29th, 1869, to Miss V. A. Clements, 
 of Stewart county, Georgia, this marriage having been blessed with 
 one daughter and five sons, illustrating a characteristic of the Coffin 
 family, which is, perhaps, the most prolific of any that ever settled in 
 the Colonies of North America. It is estimated that there are now 
 in the United States over one hundred thousand descendants of the 
 original pair who landed in this country. The record of this family 
 has been kept with special care by its members, and reunions, at 
 which very many of its representatives have appeared, have kept up 
 an interest in its private history which is worthy of emulation. 
 
 His education was acquired at a private school of his neighborhood, 
 enabling him, while pursuing his studies, to give aid at intervals in 
 the management of his father's farm. 
 
 When twenty two years of age he went to Philadelphia and attended a 
 course of lectures on dental surgery in Pennsylvania College. Having 
 completed his course in that institution he located in the city of Newbern 
 North Carolina, and practiced his profession with good success until 
 the commencement of the war between the States. During his resi- 
 dence at Newbern he devoted much of his leisure time to the com- 
 pletion of his education. To aid him in this he employed a private 
 tutor, under whose instructions he made great progress in the studies 
 of the languages, ancient and modern. At the beginning of the war 
 he was appointed an agent of the Ordnance Department for the State 
 of North Carolina, with the rank of Captain, which position he held 
 until the close of hostilities, giving perfect satisfaction to the State. 
 His cash and property accounts, which involved very large sums, 
 always balanced to a cent, demonstrating more clearly than any other 
 influence the strict integrity of his character. 
 
 When the war closed he converted his property into cash and came 
 to Georgia, where he invested all of his large means in the timber 
 business. For several years he prosecuted this pursuit with success 
 
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 but in 1866 his entire property was swept away by the failures of 
 others who had his finances in their power. Thus reduced to penury, 
 he resumed the practice of his profession and pursued it for several 
 years with eminent success, enabling him to purchase a body of land 
 on the Chattahoochee river once owned by General Toombs, where he 
 now resides, happy in the bosom of his family, whom he has provided 
 with every comfort and luxury possible to farm life. He is combining 
 the mercantile business with the pursuit of agriculture. 
 
 His services as a member of the House of Representatives were 
 highly creditable to him and beneficial to his constituents and the 
 State. 
 
 He is of quiet disposition, unaffected and retiring in his nature — not • 
 disposed to enter into the discussions of measures, but when called 
 out by circumstances, is an easy and fluent speaker and cogent 
 reasoner. 
 
OF REPRESENTA TI VES. 165 
 
 HON. BEVERLY C. COOK. 
 
 (TROUP COUN rv.) 
 
 /:rY, r) ^ASborn in Elbert county, Georgia, on the 26th day of Marcli, 
 ^r^.'^L 1835, his parents, Beverly C. Cook, and Martha Cook, being 
 '--'^^"^'^ ^ natives of that county. They were persons of strict integ- 
 rity, upright and intelligent. The father died when the subject of 
 this sketch was only five months old. The mother, after the death of 
 her husban'd, moved to Troup county, near the village of Long Cane, 
 where she resided until her death, in 1859. 
 
 Beverly was educated in the country school near the village, until 
 at the age of seventeen, when he entered Maryville College, in East 
 Tennessee, where he completed his education in 1854. Returning 
 home, he chose the profession of medicine, graduated at the Medical 
 College of Georgia, at Augusta, with honor in 1857. Dr. Cook loca- 
 ted at Long Cane, where he successfully practiced his profession until 
 the commencement of the civil war, in 1861, between the States, when 
 he volunteered as a private in a cavalry company, but his services 
 being needed in the field as surgeon, he was invited by the Secretary 
 of War to go before the Army Medical Board ai Charleston, to be 
 examined for that position, which invitation he accepted. The exami- 
 nation was satisfactory, and Dr. Cook was commissioned as a medical 
 officer, with the rank of Captain in the Confederate States army, 
 which position he held until the close of the war. 
 
 On his return home, he found most of his property gone, and his 
 country shrouded in gloom ; but this state of things only stirred up 
 the patriotism of the man, and re-kindled his love of country. With 
 a strong will, a predominant characteristic of his nature, he realized 
 the true situation of affairs, and set to work at once to rebuild his 
 ruined fortune. He renewed the practice of his profession, which he 
 continued successfully for several years. Of late, however, he has 
 been engaged in farming, and now ranks high as one of the successful 
 agriculturists of Troup county, so noted for its superior class of 
 farmers. 
 
 Dr. Cook married Miss Anna Reid, a most e.xcellent and accom- 
 plished lady, in 1859, and has two children, a son and daughter. It 
 is his nature to be kind and gentle to all, and no one ever enters his 
 home without finding there a most delightful domestic retreat. He is 
 a consistent and acceptable member of the Methodist Church. 
 
 The many friends in Troup county of Dr. Cook, presented his name 
 
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 to the Convention as a suitable man to represent them in the Genera? 
 Assembly of 1880, and he was chosen without opposition, receivmg 
 more votes in his county than both the candidates for Governor at that 
 time, a very flattering exhibition of public trust and confidence. In 
 his political life, he has always been a Jeffersonian Democrat, faithful 
 to the trust transmitted by the fathers of the Republic, and ever ready 
 to do or dare in upholding constitutional liberty in all its purity. 
 
 As a Representative, he is faithful to the trust confided to him, being 
 always at his post, and participating in all important legislation with 
 the activity and energy characteristic of a debater who is forcible and 
 clear in his argument. 
 
OF REP RES EX TA TI VES. 1 67 
 
 HON. REESE CRAWFORD. 
 
 (.MUSCOGEE COUNTY.) 
 
 5OX. REESE CRAWFORD, son of Justice ISI. J. Crawford, 
 of the Supreme Court of Georgia, was born in Hamilton, 
 Harris county, October the 29th, 1847. His preparatory educa- 
 tion was received in schools at Columbus, Washington, District of 
 Columbia, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. After the war, he entered the 
 State University and graduated in the class of 1868, which com- 
 prised some of the most brilliant intellects that have graduated from 
 that institution. Mr. Crawford volunteered in 1863, as a member 
 of the Third Georgia Cavalry, he was subsequently in the Alabama 
 Corps of Cadets, and just before the close of the war was made 
 Captain, and assigned to duty on the staff of General Howell Cobb, 
 
 He was admitted to the bar in 1868. at Muscogee Superior Court,. 
 Judge Worrell presiding, and has since followed the profession of law 
 in the city of Columbus. Mr. Crawford was city attorney of the city 
 of Columbus in 187 1-2, and 1873-4-5 was Solicitor of the County 
 Court of Muscogee, but becoming tired of the office, resigned. In 
 December, 1877, he was elected a member of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives, and again in 1880. He has for years past been President 
 of the Young Men's Democratic Club of Columbus, and prominent 
 in the politics of the county. He was married to Miss Augusta J. 
 Benning, daughter of General Henry L. Benning. 
 
 The mother of Mr. Crawford is a sister of the Hon. Augustus Reese, 
 of Morgan county, whose reputation as an able and incorruptible 
 jurist will descend as a proud heritage to his descendants. 
 
 Mr. Crawford is one of the rising young men of the Fourth Con- 
 gressional District, for whom higher honors are in waiting. 
 
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 HON. RICHARD D. CROZIER. 
 
 (RANDOLPH COUNTY.) 
 
 Ok^ ORN in the county he so ably represents in the present Gen- 
 ^-fC/ ^''^' Assembly of the State on October 4th, 1848, Mr. Crozier 
 ^\£y^ in his youth received the benefit of some of the educational 
 institutions that have made Randolph county the pride of her sister 
 counties. 
 
 His father, John C. Crozier, died in 1861 and his mother (a sister of 
 Richard Davis, a prominent politician of that county, after whom he 
 vt'as named) died in June, 1881. The family consisted of five sons and 
 two daughters, one son having been County Surveyor for several 
 years. 
 
 Mr. Crozier is a planter, and by close attention to his farming in- 
 terest he has made himself a comfortable home and provided well for 
 the future. 
 
 In politics he is an organized Democrat, and as such defeated his 
 competitor, who was an Independent and an ex-member of the Legis- 
 lature. 
 
 Although a scholarly speaker and easy writer, Mr. Crozier has not 
 been conspicuous on the floor of the House as a debater, but has made 
 a fine reputation as a prudent and watchful legislator and a hard- 
 working committeeman. 
 
 As chairman of the committee who arranged the public joint ser- 
 vice of prayer in the Hall of Representatives for the recovery of Pres- 
 ident Garfield, he so discharged his delicate trust as to win the high- 
 est commendations from his associates and the public at large. 
 
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 HON. J. J. CRUMBLEY. 
 
 (QUITMAN COUNTY.) 
 
 ORN in Randolph county August 2d, 1837, this gentleman was 
 ^}^ but forty-three years old when elected to the present General 
 "^'vT'^ Assembly, yet he had been tax collector of his county for 
 twelve years, and also a member of the Board of Education. 
 
 The people of Quitman county had tried him at home, and, finding 
 him honest, faithful and competent, they sent him to represent them at 
 the Capital of the State. Although not accustomed to public speak- 
 ing he has proved a good working member, especially on the Finance 
 Committee, having had much experience, as a collector of taxes, with 
 financial offices. 
 
 Mr. Crumbley is a son of Anthony Crumbly, of Washington county, 
 and Zilpah (Grooms) Crumbley, who were the parents of four sons 
 and one daughter, all of whom are now past middle life. The mother 
 still lives in Quitman county, but the father died some years ago. 
 
 After completing his education at Scienceville Academy, young 
 Crumbley engaged in agricultural pursuits, and to-day is the owner of 
 quite an amount of real estate in his county. He married, in 1859, 
 Miss Fannie S. Raines, by which union he has four children, for whom 
 he has always provided a good home and all the comforts of life. He 
 is a kind father and husband and a respected neighbor and friend. 
 
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 HON. Y. A. DANIEL. 
 
 (MADISON COUNTY.) 
 
 EPRESENTATIVE D.\NIEL was born March 13th, 1843, 
 in Madison county, Georgia, and was the son of James and 
 Rebecca Daniel. His father, who was a native of Madison 
 county, died in 1859: his mother, whose maiden name was Jones, and 
 who was a native .of Jackson county, died in 1849, when the subject 
 of this sketch was a mere child. 
 
 Mr.' Daniel completed his education at Jonesboro, and has devoted 
 himself since to farming. He was a Lieutenant in the Thirty-Seventh 
 Georgia Regiment 
 
 In 1867 he was married to Miss Mary H. Eberhart, of Madison 
 county. They have six children. 
 
OP REPRESENTATIVES. 17 r 
 
 HON. B. J. DAVIS. 
 
 [LUMPKIN COUNTY.] 
 
 TiCP^' ^" J' DAMS, Representative from Lumpkin county, is a 
 pTp native of Monroe county, Georgia, having been born there on 
 ^^^^ the 1 2th of March, 1840. He is the son of James M. and 
 Matilda J. Davis, now residing in Tallapoosa county, Alabama. He 
 was educated at Forsyth and New Market, in his native county, and 
 has, by patient and persevering study at home, advanced himself far 
 bevond his attainments acquired at school. He is now not only a 
 splendid mithematician, but has acquired a knowledge of the Latin 
 and Greek languiges, by his personal efforts, unaided by a tutor. It 
 may be truly said of him, that he is one of the most thoroughly self- 
 educated men in Georgia. 
 
 Immediately preceding the war between the States he was engaged as 
 a student of law in the offi:e of Colonel Wm. Martin, of Dahlonega, 
 and responded promptly to the call of his State for volunteers, entering 
 the military service as a private in the First Georgia Regiment. This 
 regiment was di>banded in March, 1862, but he immediately joined 
 the Fulton Dragoons of Cobb's Legion, attached to the Army of 
 Northern Virginia, and served wiih that command through all the 
 battles, from the memorable Seven Pines fight until he lost a leg at 
 Ream's Station, on August 25th, 1864. This occurred while he was 
 most gallantly fighting the enemy. 
 
 After his wound healed he returned to Dahlonega, and was elected 
 Clerk of the Superior Court of Lumpkin county. He held this ofBce 
 until removed by military power in 1868, during the process of recon- 
 struction. 
 
 During the legislative sessions of 1868, 1869 and 1870, he served as 
 clerk of the House Judiciary Committee. In 1871 he engaged in the 
 office of the Western & Atlantic Railroad, in Atlanta, being employed 
 a portion of the time as chief record clerk, and the remainder of his 
 term as ticket agent. He remained with this road until 1876, when 
 he returned to Dahlonega, and in 1877 edited the Mountain Signal 
 with much ability. 
 
 He has figured prominently in the politics of the Ninth Congres- 
 sional District, and has done much to insure the success of the Hon. 
 Emory Speer in his career as an Independent Democrat. 
 
 In 1880, he was elected to the House of Representatives from the 
 county of Lumpkin, and in this position rendered efficient service to 
 
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 his constituents. As a warm and zealous supporter of the policy of 
 general education, and as the mover and advocate of the bill to appro- 
 priate money to rebuild the Agricultural College at Dahlonega, he 
 evinced his influence and power as a legislator. To him niuch credit 
 is due for the final passage through the House of the bill which caused 
 this splendid institution to rise from its ashes. He rendered important 
 and valuable service to the State as a member of the Committees on 
 Finance, Education and Enrollment, and was always ready in the 
 House to oppose such measures as he deemed unwise, and advocate 
 those that he regarded beneficial. 
 
 In 1873 he was married to Miss Lila Davis, of Lumpkin county, 
 Georgia, and has two girls and a boy as the fruit of this happy union. 
 
 At present, he is chief clerk in the office of the United States Mar- 
 shal, at Atlanta. 
 
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OF REP RE SEN TA TI VES. 1 7 5 
 
 HON. T. S. DAVIS. 
 
 (OF HABERSHAM COUN 1 V.) 
 
 S. DAVIS was born in Pickens district, South Carolina, in the 
 year 1844, and is a prominent member of the Legislature. His 
 parents, Major Young Davis, and his mother, Nancy Davis, for- 
 merly Miss Nancy Swift, moved to White county, Georgia, in 1846, 
 and afterwards during the war to the famous Currahee farm, near 
 Toccoa, in Habersham, where they now reside. Mr. Davis, like 
 his father, is chiefly distinguished for a certain cool, pleasant, but un- 
 conquerable persistence in forwarding his views, which are always 
 his conscientious convictions. At the age of seventeen, he entered 
 the Confederate army, under Captain E. S. Barclay, in Phillip's Legion, 
 and, though wounded three times, carried his musket as a private, 
 from Greenbrier River to the fall of Richmond, at which he was 
 captured. To his fidelity, his bravery and patriotism no better proof 
 can be given, than that he was elected to his present position as 
 Representative, by the suffrages of the brave men with whom he 
 suffered so long. In the year 1867, he was married in Oconee county. 
 South Caroliha, to the beautiful and accomplished Miss Isabella Ram- 
 say, daughter of Mr. Ramsay, one of the oldest and wealthiest fami- 
 lies in that section. His canvass for the Legislature was made upon 
 some local issues, which he discussed with his opponent in a manner 
 highly creditable to himself. Every pledge made by him to his people 
 during the canvass, he has fully redeemed. 
 
 As a recognition of his sterling worth and ability, he was placed on 
 several of the Standing Committees, among which, and in which his 
 work will be especially recognized, is the Committee on Finance. 
 He also occupied a prominent position as a member of many Special 
 Committees, among which may be mentioned the committee to com- 
 plete the sale of the Macon and Brunswick Road, of which committee 
 he was chairman. 
 
 He is now engaged in the milling and lumber business, in which he 
 has been quite successful, and has accumulated not a fortune, but 
 quite a competency. 
 
 A kinder-hearted, more charitable man can not be found. He is 
 indeed the friend of the poor and unfortunate ; and his sympathies 
 are always ^ookti-deep. He is one of the most popular young men 
 of his section, and his popularity is especially noticeable among the 
 rising men of his county. , 
 
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 HON. WILLIAM THOMAS DAY. 
 
 (PICKENS COUNTY.) 
 
 ^\\^^- DA\ was born in Walton county September 30th, 1830. 
 ^c^jMt/ His father, Lewis Day, was a successful farmer. He was 
 c<\C^vj 5orn in. South Carolina in 1805. and died November i6th, 
 1876. His mother was Alpha Dixon, a native of Cherokee county^ 
 was born in 1807 and is now living. He had five brothers and four 
 sisters, and received his education in the common schools. He fol- 
 lowed farming until 21 years old, then commenced to read law, and 
 was admitted to the bar in 1855. 
 
 He is a liberal Republican and was in the Convention in 1861 when 
 the State seceded, and opposed secession, but when the war began he 
 supported the South in her efforts to achieve independence, and en- 
 tered the Confederate service as Captain, serving three years. He is 
 conscientious in his views, believes Republican principles to be prefer- 
 able, and though he is a supporter of that party, yet he is very liberal 
 in his views, and has the good feeling and respect of men in both 
 parties. In the election to the House, in 18S0, he received the votes 
 of both parties. 
 
 He was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1877, and 
 has served faithfully and efficiently each time. 
 
 He was married in 1S66 to Miss Turza Craig, of Harris county, and 
 has five children. 
 
OF REPRESEN TA TI VES. 1 7 5 
 
 HON. WILLIAM DENTON. 
 
 (WARE COUNTY.) 
 
 MONG the quiet but faithful members of the House, none is 
 more respected than the Representative from Ware county, 
 who is punctual in his attendance upon the daily sessions, and 
 watchful of the best interests of his constituents. 
 
 Mr. Denton is a native Georgian, and was born in June, 1842. 
 While yet a mere youth, he suffered the loss of his parents by death, 
 which deprived him of many advantages that would otherwise have 
 fallen to his lot. Still, with energy and perseverance he managed to 
 fit himself in a creditable manner for the duties of a busy and useful 
 manhood. 
 
 After following merchandizing for a time, Mr. Denton turned his 
 attention to agricultural pursuits, and for several years past has been a 
 most prosperous farmer. In all his later labors he has had the en- 
 couragement of an excellent wife, who was Miss Mary A. Hargroves, 
 daughter of Mr. Abraham Hargroves. 
 
 In politics Mr. Denton is a Democrat, and has served his party with 
 fidelity and in an acceptable manner. As a member of the Methodist 
 Church he has lived a consistent Christian life, honoring Christ in 
 both his public and private walks. Without display of any kind, he 
 seeks to live a life of usefulness and honor wherever his lot may be 
 cast. 
 
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176 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 HON. WILLIAM C. DIAL. 
 
 CHEROK.EE COrNTV. 
 
 '^v 
 
 'HIS gentleman was bom April nth, 1826, in Laurens county. 
 South Carcdina, his parents bdng natives of that State. Since 
 " IT his father's death his mocber has resided with him in Cherokee 
 county. 
 
 Havii^ but limited educatiiMial advantages in his yoHth. he was 
 compelled to learn mu(± that was desirable by observation and patient 
 labor. At the age of twenty-foar years he went to California to seek 
 his fortnne in the then alluring gold mines, and after a varied and useful 
 experience he came back to Georgia, in 1853. and engaged in farm i n g . 
 Two years later he was married to Miss Sarah A. L. Foster, which 
 union has been blessed by so. children, four of whom are living. 
 
 When the tocsin oi war sounded ^Ir. D. responded to the caU and 
 entered the Qmfederate service as 2 Litv---- -nd came out as a 
 Captain, havii^ done gallant ser%\:e H ibled, however, for 
 
 some time by a wound ':~ izt in November, 
 
 1862. 
 
 Captain Dial e r t r i _ . t : . . i ^ an 
 
 Independattcaiivi._i:c ::: . - I --_. .---—-.,. -._ :-tip .; i-„ op- 
 posttioo, was elected by a e : : 1 ' . i. ority. Few members have been 
 more ponctnal in -"rt!: i..? faithfrd in the i.i:'.i-^t of 
 
 their duties, or r:.; t -t;: - -^ociates in the H — 
 
 Rq w ese nta tiTt I i s ^ .r rersooala: 
 
 d^iufied maoneri ^ : ; ,. ". the ctHrr 
 
 he resides, bdce 1 : -5 : :: -ember of the Mediodist I --: 
 
OF RF.PRESEX TA TI J 'ES. 177 
 
 HON. F. G. DuBIGN'ON. 
 
 (BALDWIN COUNTY.) 
 
 ^^?<:>HE subject of this sketch, the Hon. Fleming Grantland du- 
 W^ Bignon was born on July 25ih, 1854, at Woodville near Milledee- 
 ^^v ville, the old country seat of his maternal grandfather. His 
 father, Captain Charles duBignon, was born and reared on Jekyl 
 island, on the sea coast of Georgia. He was a private gentleman de- 
 scended from the stock of political refugees from France, who were 
 ■compelled to abandon their country in one of the political revolutions 
 that have convulsed that state within the last century. His mother, 
 Mrs. Ann \'irginia duBignon, is the daughter of the Hon. Seaton 
 Grantland. She has been characterized through life as being a true 
 and unfailing friend, and as having great strength of will and purpose. 
 It is generally thought that Mr. duBignon resembles his mother 
 in disposition. In fact, it is but natural that growing up amid scenes 
 in which her girlhood had developed into such lofty womanhood, and 
 his childhood guided by her impressive hand, he should possess her 
 clear-sightedness and directness of purpose. 
 
 His early education was begun under the private tutorship of the 
 celebrated Rev. Washington Baird, D.D., who came to Georgia from 
 Massachusetts many years since at the instance of Mr. duBignon's 
 grandfather to take charge of the early education of his mother. 
 After receiving a military education at Lexington, Virginia, he went 
 thence to the University of that State. A tour of over a year through 
 Europe, completed his education. Returning to his native country, 
 he settled in Savannah, where he was admitted to the bar, and began 
 the practice of the law in that city. In 1875, he married Miss Carro 
 L. Lamar, daughter of the late Colonel Charles A. L. Lamar, of Savan- 
 nah, about which time he removed to Milledgeville, and has since 
 practiced his profession in that town. He began the practice of law 
 there under the favorable auspices of family influence, but had to 
 meet in the court-room men not only possessed of equal advantages 
 of birth and position, but who had, besides, experience and estab- 
 lished reputations. 
 
 The young advocate possessed the capacity to win success, in the 
 face of such opponents as McKinley, Lawson, Lofton, Williamson 
 and Furman. 
 
 It was soon acknowledged that he was strong in debate and pos. 
 sessed to a great degree the graces of an accomplished orator. 
 
OF REP RES EN TA TI FES. 1 79 
 
 In 1876 he formed a law partnership with Mr. R. Whitfield, and for 
 ^hese gentlemen the community at lar^e prophesied a brilliant career. 
 (Mr. Whitfield has been twice elected to the office of Solicitor-General 
 of the Ocmulgee Circuit, and Mr. duBignon is now a member of the 
 Georgia Legislature.) 
 
 In 1875 he was offered and accepted the position of County Judge 
 of Baldwin county, but still continued his practice in the other law 
 courts. In the many cases that he has represented in the courts he 
 developed his talent for public speaking and soon won the reputation 
 of being a popular speaker. His manner before judge and jury is 
 dignified, clear and precise, and he prosecutes the cause of his clients 
 with ardor and intense persistency. In 1877, he resigned the position 
 of County Judge. 
 
 At this time he withdrew from the copartnership with Mr. Whit- 
 field and associated himself in the practice with Mr. A. McKinley 
 who was the Judge of the County Court. 
 
 The claims of what is known as society upon him have always 
 been duly recognized, and he always actively supports the advance- 
 ment of literature, the arts and sciences, and everything tending to 
 the promotion of refinement. 
 
 In 1880, he began to turn his attention to politics, and became the 
 candidate for Representative of Baldwin county in the General As- 
 sembly. In the election he was successful, defeating his opponent, 
 the Mayor of the city of Milledgeville, by an overwhelming majority. 
 
 His career in the House of Representatives is too recent to need a 
 repetition here. By his compeers, he is regarded as being clear- 
 sighted, talented and eloquent, giving promise of success in the field 
 of politics towards some of whose elevated heights his friends, it 
 seems, would feign exalt him. 
 
I So BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHED 
 
 HON. TAMES M. DcPREE. 
 
 (.MACOX COUNTY.) 
 
 5ON. JAMES McCULLUM DuPREE, can be classed among- 
 the ablest of the young members of the General Assembly, in 
 which he is now serving, with increasing honor and ability, his 
 second term. A ready debater and graceful speaker, his clear, practi- 
 cal ideas of legislation have not fallen upon mattentive ears. His tri- 
 bute to the Hon. James F. Glover, of Twiggs, a deceased member, 
 was remarkably beautiful and impressive, and stamped its author as 
 a young man of superior culture and attractive oratory. 
 
 Mr. DuPree is a native of Twiggs county, and was born in Jeffer- 
 son\nlle, July 17th, 1S50. His father. Dr. Ira E. DuPree, was a physi- 
 cian of great prominence and ability, as well as an active member of 
 ihe Whig party. He was born in Washington county, and was twice 
 married, his first wife being Miss Nancy Bryan, of Twiggs county, 
 and his second, her sister. Miss Fanny Bryan, mother of the subject 
 of this sketch, who is still living. 
 
 Owing to the death of his father, in i86g, James did not finish his 
 preparation for College, but entered the Law Department of the Uni- 
 versity of Virginia, attending the lectures of the term of 1S69-1S70. 
 On his return home he was admitted to practice at the Houston Supe- 
 rior Court, in December, 1871, and a year later settled in Macon county. 
 where he still resides. 
 
 In 1875 ^^^- DuPree tvas married to Miss Delia Bryan, of Br}-an- 
 ville, in Dooly county, a graduate cf the celebrated Wesleyan Female 
 College, of Macon, and a young lady of superior culture and accom- 
 plishments. Two children, a son and daughter, have blessed this 
 union, and made still more attractive and joyous an already happy and 
 charming home. 
 
 The Democratic State Convention, held in Atlanta in 1876, chose 
 Mr. DuPree as one of the Presidential Electors of the Third Congres- 
 sional District. Being then only twenty-five years of age, he could 
 well claim the honor of being the youngest in the list of Georgia's past 
 and present Electors. He not only made a fine canvass of his dis- 
 trict, and made considerable reputation as a young politician, but 
 assisted in casting the electoral vote of the State for Tilden and Hen- 
 dricks. 
 
 This campaign was bur the opening up of a brilliant and usefu] 
 public career to Mr. DuPree. who two years later was elected from 
 
OF REP RESENT A TI VES. 1 8 1 
 
 his county to the General Assembly. After serving one term with 
 credit to himself and benefit to the State, he was re-elected to the 
 present General Assembly, triumphing over older and better known 
 competitors, after a warm and well conducted canvass. 
 
 The objections to Mr. DuPree were too trifling to secure his defeat, 
 one being that he was a lawyer, and another that he was a new resi- 
 dent of the county. But his course in the House has been such as to 
 show to his constituents that a farmer or an older citizen could not 
 have represented them with greater impartiality, more practical sense, 
 or acknowledged ability. 
 
 Although one of the youngest members of the House, whether in 
 the committee room or on the floor of the hall of Representatives in 
 debate, Mr. DuPree exhibits a familiar acquaintance with legal ques- 
 tion, financial matters and political ecor omy. He is a studious, thought- 
 ful legislator, and adheres in all his actions to a high standard of hon- 
 esty and integrity both in private and public life. 
 
 Inheriting from his mother, one of the choicest spirits of her sex, 
 the amiable and modest manner that makes him so popular in his in- 
 tercourse with the world. Mr. DuPree presents a noble example to 
 the young men of our day, so many of whom fail to conquer their 
 own spirits, refine their manners, and control their appetites. With 
 health and long life spared to him, he promises to add another name 
 to the list of distinguished sons of Twiggs county, who have reflected 
 honor upon this State. 
 
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OF REPRESEN TA TI VES. 1 8 3 
 
 HON. W. M. DYKES. 
 
 • (MACON COUNTY.) 
 
 |R. DYKES was born in Twiggs county October 7th, 1824, his 
 parents having removed to that county from South CaroUna. 
 
 "^^ During- the war of 1836 they were great sufferers, losing all 
 their property, even to the clothing of the family, which comprised 
 two boys and three girls. 
 
 The subject of this sketch obtained his early education from the 
 country schools of that period, and in later years supplemented it by 
 hard study at night. In this way he was enabled to become suffi- 
 ciently proficient to adopt the profession of medicine, in which he has 
 had a large and successful practice. 
 
 In addition to his medical practice Dr. Dykes has given consider- 
 able attention to farming operations, and also to public affairs. He 
 has been an efficient member of the Board of Roads and Revenue in 
 his county since 1875, and is considered one of the most prudent and 
 clear-headed citizens of Macon county. 
 
 Plain, practical and unassuming. Dr. Dykes attracts no special at- 
 tention as a member of the House, yet no legislator is more faithful 
 to his duties, or takes a firmer stand in favor of wise, economical and 
 needed enactments. Without making speeches he exerts a silent in- 
 fluence in the right direction, and will return to his constituents with 
 a full conviction that he has discharged his trust with honor and 
 fidelity. 
 
 Dr. Dykes was married to Miss Nancy C. Beverly, February 21st, 
 ^85 1, and is the father of six promising children. He is a member of 
 the Baptist Church, and a good man in all the relations of life. 
 
1 84 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 HON. WILLIAM DYER. 
 
 (WARREN COUNTY.) 
 
 
 HIS gentleman is a native of the county he represents, and was 
 born February ist, 1827, his parents being Thomas and Caro- 
 '^^ lina A. Dyer. The latter died in 1832, leaving a son and 
 (laughter, but by a second marriage five daughters were added to the 
 family. The father died in 1863. 
 
 William attended the schools in his county during his boyhood and 
 completed his education by a year at the well-known Wrightsboro 
 Academy in Columbia county, after which he went into merchandis- 
 ing and milling for several years, but is now a most successful farmer. 
 
 In manner, Mr. Dyer is quiet and unassuming, of light build and 
 dark complexion. He married Miss Elizabeth S. Dozier, of Columbia 
 county, in 1849, and they have a family of four sons and three 
 daughters. As a husband and father, he is kind and devoted, and as 
 a neighbor and friend, he is faithful and obliging. 
 
 Before the war Mr. Dyer was a Whig, but since the surrender he 
 has acted with the Democratic patty, by whose votes he was elected 
 to the present General Assembly. 
 
OF REP RES EN TA Tl VES. 1 8 5 
 
 HON. T. J. EDWARDS. 
 
 (TATNALL COUNTY.) 
 
 tR. WILLIAM H. EDWARDS, the father of this gentleman, 
 was a distinguished physician of South Carolina, and was killed 
 ^ by the falling of a tree as he was riding by on his way to visit a 
 patient in Tatnall county, where he was then residing, and where his 
 son was born April 4th, 1839. 
 
 Four sons and one daughter were left to mourn the sudden and 
 untimely death of their father. All of these sons have grown to be 
 men of influence in their communities, three having represented their 
 counties in the General Assembly, while the fourth has held several 
 important offices in his county. 
 
 The education of young Edwards was quite limited, yet he managed 
 to improve it year after year, by practical observation of men and 
 things, and a general course of reading. In agricultural matters he 
 has become well posted, and is considered one of the best farmers m 
 Tatnall county. 
 
 Being imbuded with a patriotic spirit, the subject of this sketch did 
 not allow his youth to keep him out of danger, and at the commence- 
 ment of the war he enlisted as a private soldier, and served until the 
 surrender. While serving as a courier for General Anderson, he had 
 a number of narrow escapes, once when his horse was shot from 
 under him, and another when his clothes were torn by flying bullets. 
 He made a brave and plucky soldier, and did good service for his un- 
 fortunate country. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Edwards was united in marriage to Mrs. Sarah A. Sykes, 
 daughter of Rev. Wm. F. Conley, a well-known Methodist preacher 
 of Tatnall county, by whom he has five sons and two daughters. 
 The eldest daughter is an accomplished scholar, and quite proficient 
 in her knowledge of music. 
 
 Mr. Edwards, although a Democrat who was proud to follow in 
 the footsteps of his father, at one time the fourth Democrat in his 
 entire county, has not sought office for the love of it. In 1880 he was 
 solicited by the people of his county to run as an Independent Demo- 
 crat, and, after a close contest and strong opposition, he was elected 
 by a small majority to the present General .A.ssembly, where he has 
 served his county and the State with a fearless fidelity to duty and a 
 purpose to enact wise and needed legislation. 
 
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OF REPRESEN TA TI VES. 1 87 
 
 HON. JOHN B. ESTES. 
 
 (HALL COUNTY.) 
 
 4r>iZ>HIS gentleman was born in Anderson district, South Carolina' 
 A\^on the 4th day of June, 1835. He is a son of Dr. Micajah and 
 ^dv Nancy Estes. Micajah Estes was born in Anderson district 
 and Nancy Estes in Greenville district, South Carolina. The former 
 is still living at Gillsville, Banks county. The latter died in Franklm 
 county, Georgia, January 23d, 1853. 
 
 Colonel John B. Estes was educated in the common schools of Frank- 
 lin county, but he was fortunate in having as tutors such eminent educa- 
 tors as Morgan H. Looney, C. S. Weld and Rev. G. H. Cartledge, and 
 when he was eighteen years old his education was as complete and 
 thorough as most graduates from our best colleges. He started out 
 in life a school teacher, and his success in that field is pointed to to- 
 day with pride by many ladies and gentlemen who were his pupils. 
 Early in life he joined the Presbyterian Church and is now a ruling 
 elder in that denomination. 
 
 While engaged in the active and laborious work of teaching he read 
 law and was admitted to the bar, but did little practice before the war. 
 When the tocsin of was was sounded, in 1861, he was a co-principal 
 (Hon. A. D. Candler being his partner) of the Clayton High School 
 at Jonesboro, Georgia. He at once raised a company in Clayton 
 county, known as the " Estes Guards," which was afterwards attached 
 to the Forty-fourth Regiment Georgia Volunteers. On the organiza- 
 tion of the regiment the lamented Robert A. Smith was chosen 
 Colonel and the subject of this sketch Lieutenant-Colonel. At the 
 battle of Gaine's Mills, near Richmond, Colonel Smith was killed and Mr. 
 Estes was promoted to the Colonelcy. In this position he served and 
 engaged in all the battles fought by Jackson's corps, until May, 1863, 
 when, owing to ill health, he was reluctantly compelled to tender his 
 resignation and return to his home an invalid. After the war he went 
 regularly into the practice of law, locating at Carnesville, Georgia. 
 He was not long in rising to the head of his profession, and his large 
 and lucrative practice in northeast Georgia is the best evidence of the 
 fact that his talents are fully appreciated by the people. 
 
 Mr. Estes is a Democrat of the old school, his father before him 
 having been a staunch supporter of Calhoun and the doctrine he advo- 
 cated. In 1 87 1 he moved to the thriving city of Gainesville, in Hall 
 county, where he has resided ever since. 
 
iSS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 In early life he married Miss Fannie C. Bryan, of Covington, a pol- 
 ished lady, tit in every way to be the companion of a gentleman of 
 Mr. Estes ability and standmg. He has two children, Claud, a prom- 
 ising young barrister, and Hubert, a lad of ten years. 
 
 Mr. Estes is a man that would command attention in any crowd. 
 He is six feet high, weighs i8o pounds, black eyes and black hair that 
 is slightly sprinkled with gray. 
 
 As Chairman of the Committee on Corporations, he often addressed 
 the House, and always with marked effect, and he rarely failed to carry 
 his point with his impassioned eloquence and logical argument. 
 
 Temperate in all things, studious in his profession, honest and fair 
 in all his dealings, and withal an humble Christian, there is no won- 
 der that the people of the thriving county of Hall should have chosen 
 him to represent their interests in the Legislature, and we 'predict 
 that his usefulness will be utilized in the near future in some more ex- 
 alted position. 
 
OF REPRESENTATIVES. 189 
 
 HON. JAMES OLIVER FARNELL. 
 
 (DECATUR COUXIV.) 
 
 5ON. JAMES OLIVER FARNELL was born in Dooly county, 
 Georgia, on the 26th of January, 1828. His father was it; mod- 
 erate circumstances, but having eight children, they had only 
 such opportunities for an education as the then sparsely settled countv 
 of Dooly offered. 
 
 Upon arriving at manhood, he married on the 25th day of January, 
 1849, Miss Mary Youngblood. She died in April the following year, 
 leaving liim one child, Alfred Farnell, now one of Decatur county's 
 most active, industrious and thorough-going farmers. Mr. Farnell 
 did not long remain a widower, for in March, 1851, he married Miss 
 Mary Cross, by whom he has three children living. 
 
 Mr. Farnell was elected a member of the House of Representatives 
 from Dooly county for the years 1859 and i860. It was here, during 
 those sessions of the Legislature, that the writer first met him, and 
 can bear testimony to the honest and faithful manner in which he dis- 
 charged his duties — always at his post and watchful as to the interests 
 of his constituents. In politics, Mr. Farnell was an old Whig^ 
 although his father and all of his relatives were Democrats. So firmly 
 did he believe in the principles of that party, that to this day, if you 
 ask him what is his politics, he will say : •' I am an old Henry Clay 
 Whig." It was during the session of i860, that we had to meet the 
 Secession question. Mr. Farnell opposed it with all of his power and 
 influence, believing that our salvation was in the Union, and not out 
 of it. As a loyal citizen, after Georgia had seceded from the Union, 
 he entered the State service, and served for six months as First 
 Lieutenant of a company stationed in Savannah. At the expiration 
 of that time, he raised a volunteer cavalry company, and commanded it 
 as Captain until the close of the war, doing much hard service under 
 Generals Wheeler, Bragg and Johnston, specially distinguishing himself 
 in the battle of Chickamauga. 
 
 At the close of the war, and when General Breckinridge was making 
 his way out of the country, Mr. Farnell, from his boldness, courage 
 and sagacity, as well as his knowledge of Georgia, was selected to 
 accompany and pilot him to the coast of Florida. Many amusing 
 incidents and hair-breadth escapes occurred during this trip, but never 
 did he resign his charge or betrayed the confidence reposed in him. 
 until he saw the distinguished Kentuckian safely aboard a vessel, and 
 beyond the reach of the Federal soldiers that were pursuing him. 
 
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OF REP RESENT A TI I 'ES. 191 
 
 After this, Mr. Farnell returned to his old home, with health im- 
 paired and property all gone. His friends did not allow him to remain 
 quiet long, for in 1865, they elected him Sheriff, but before the time 
 expired, he resigned the office. In 1868, he was tendered the nomina- 
 tion for Senator from the Fourteenth Senatorial District. This honor 
 he declined to accept. In 1870, he left Georgia and went to Texas. 
 In 1872 he returned, purchased lands and settled in Decatur county. 
 Here he devoted his time entirely to agricultural pursuits until the 
 fall of 1877, when he was elected a Representative from this county 
 to the Legislature, and was re-elected in 1879 for the years 1880 and 81. 
 Mr. Farnell was again unfortunate in loosing his wife ; she died in 1877. 
 He soon afterwards married his present wife. Miss Temperance Wood, 
 by whom he has one child, a boy — the pet of his old age. He is now 
 living about eight miles from Bainbridge, on the west side of Flint 
 River, devoting his whole time to farming, except when his friends go 
 to see him, then he will hunt, fish, or do anything else that will add to 
 their pleasure. 
 
 Never was there a more open, free, frank, and out-spoken man than 
 J. O. Farnell. If he likes you, you will know it ; if he dislikes you, 
 he had rather tell you so than not. There is nothing hidden about 
 his whole character. He is now an Independent man in politics, but 
 never has been a Republican— always voting with the Democratic 
 party on State or national issues. In early life he united himself with 
 the Baptist Church, and is now a member of the Baptist church in 
 Bainbridge, and Superintendent of a Sabbath-school near his resi- 
 dence. 
 
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 HOX. GUILFORD G. FLVNT. 
 
 b.^ ErKESEXTATIVEaG.FLYNTw»sbonim Walton county. 
 October 4ttu i$>x tus parents bui^ JoKn Ftytit and Henrietta 
 I Hjitchee^ Flyttt. natives ol that coanty. He vas brou^t to 
 Monn?e conny ivlKn qake yoon^. Tbere were eight sons in the 
 fjtnnly. all of vhom grew to manhood, and four of whom are now 
 Uririg. John S< Ftynt. sged sixty years. \V. L. Fhmt. aged fifty-six years. 
 aicd T. \V. Flytit. aged fihy-foor and die sobjcct of this sket«^. 
 
 Cvvooel Fiync and his brothers had TeffxKmiledoppoctanities for se- 
 cvuriii^ more than a meagre edncttion. as they attettded school only at 
 rare iotianrals daring th«r bovhood. Obtainii^ a hmited knowked^ 
 of the simplest Enghi^ brandies, taught in the old fietd schools, and 
 possesswg the will diat orercomes obstacles,, they haTe been abie in 
 their maiAMiod to discharge intd^goitljf die duties devolving upon 
 educated ckiaen& 
 
 lo 1S56 the subject of this sketch removed to Xewton cooaty. Mis- 
 sssqipi wliere he was r esiding in 1S61. when hostilities were com- 
 menced between die Nordi and the SoudL Although opposed to 
 secessioa. he acquiesced in the action of his State, and in 1S61 was 
 ^kcted Captain of a conqpany of voiunteers. When die Eighdi Mis- 
 sissippt Regiment was formed, he wast^osen ColoneL and soon after- 
 wards placed in command of the Fooordi Mrssissypi Brigade. 
 
 This Brigade was ordered to Fensacola. Florida, and on it« arrival 
 his regiment was assigned to the Second Brigade, commanded by Gen. 
 R. H. Aodason. Tlib r e gi me n t was again tra n&f c ri e d, this time to 
 die Ftrss Brigade^ oo mm a ndBd ly General John K. Ja cks on. Upon the 
 tnuBsierof GenemlJacksoikCQlaiid FWttt was phced in command of 
 the br^adelfaRh. iS6>3.whi^ p osi u onhe hdd unlfl Fensacola was 
 cmcnaied. FmSng in hedkh. he r eigned and did only occasaonal 
 service ther caller. 
 
 Wiiii die eiuquion of five years* engaigemenK in merchmidBing 
 ViSrotD iSrs) CbloDel FlfM has been an active; pfogressrpe and snc- 
 cessful farmer. 
 
 In poGdcs he was a Whig, p rew ows to the war. Since dwn he has 
 been acting w«h die Democratic pam. by wtndi pu^ he was dected 
 a mf.mlw.t of the preseat General Assendbly. He is strong in his 
 poety atuchmeafts and by wise ooonsd and heroic devo tio n, he has 
 < y t rg i med iMgcily to Ae snocess of diepoity angaioing and retain- 
 
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 — :e ir^ 2 local law, 
 own coanty. 
 
 Colonel F.y:.. ..:^. ... ..vice married, tbeseomd time. .:. . yy.. hxA 
 
 has five children by this marriag^e. In private and in public life, among 
 friends and strangers, ' vst genial goitleman and trustwortbj 
 
 official. He has alwa ^n active interest in every measure 
 
 which, in his judgment, iended to advance the interests of die people 
 of Monroe coanty. His convictions were ^aoag, ^iXiA when convinced 
 that any policy was right and important to the local into-ests di. the 
 county, he went to work with energy and detenainatiofn to have it en- 
 forced . By his earnest and resolute conduct be has sometimes brought 
 upon himself the censure of those who differed with him. and yet it 
 has been almost, if not universally, true that future devdopmoits 
 sustained him and convinced his opponents of his wisdom and sound- 
 ness of judgmenL Monroe county is largely indebted to his influence 
 for her prosperity, and her people have never had a truer friend or a 
 more resolute defender of their local interests. As a friend, be has 
 always proved as true " as steel."- In him are all the dements of a 
 noble character, a sound thinker, an indefatigable worker, and zs. un- 
 oompromisiDg advocate and defender of the right. 
 
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 HON. BENJAMIN FORDHAM. 
 
 (WILKINSON COUNTY.) 
 
 ^OHE subject of this sketch was born in Wilkinson county, Geor- 
 ^Q gia, on the 23d day of February, 1818. 
 
 '^ S^ His father, Benjamin Fordham, was a native of Jones county. 
 North Carolina. His mother, whose maiden name was Elcy Miller, 
 was a daughter of Rev. Phillip Miller, a Methodist minister, and was 
 born in Lenoir county. North Carolina. 
 
 His parents were married February 17th, 1805, and soon thereafter 
 emigrated to this State. The product of this union was fourteen 
 children, eight boys and six girls. His mother died July 27th, 1863 ; 
 his father, March 19th, 1864. 
 
 His opportunities for education were very limited, he having attend- 
 ed school about two years while a small boy, and six months after 
 arriving at his majority. 
 
 He remained under the parental roof until twenty-one years of age, 
 when he went to Henry county, Alabama. There he engaged in 
 the business of an overseer, for near two years in the swamp of the 
 Chattahoochee River. While there he came near losing his life in 
 an attempt to swim the river at the shoals, where the current was 
 very rapid. He was only saved by the exercise of that manly fortitude 
 which has characterized his life, and the interposition of Providence, 
 that enabled him to land safely on the opposite bank after great 
 exertions. This occurred in 1841, at the end of which year he re- 
 turned to the old homestead in Georgia. He was then twenty-three 
 years of age. 
 
 He next engaged as a clerk in a country dry goods store, where he 
 remained for six years, during which period he acquired some money 
 and property. 
 
 On the 23d of Febiuary, 1846, he married Miss Rose Ann McLord. 
 The result of this marriage was five children — three sons and two 
 daughters. One of his daughters is dead, the other still living with 
 her parents as a sweet solace to their old age. The sons are good 
 citizens — courteous gentlemen — and are all married. 
 
 Finding that the sedentary life he was living had impaired his health, 
 he abandoned the mercantile business, and purchasing a farm devot- 
 ed himself to agriculture. 
 
 He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1850, and served his term of 
 four years with satisfaction to all concerned. He was then chosen by 
 
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 the people as deputy Sheriff, and served two years in that capacity, 
 retiring with the full confidence and favor of his constituents. 
 
 Before the war he was identified with the Whig party, but is now 
 a true and staunch Democrat. 
 
 He served in the Confederate army in the vicinity of Atlanta, about 
 three months, and fought valliantly at the battle of Griswoldville, 
 where he was shot through his clothing, and escaped wounding, 
 although many of his comrades were killed by his side. 
 
 He is now sixty-four years of age. He has never been a member 
 of any religious denomination, but has been a zealous member of the 
 Masonic fraternity since 1856. 
 
 By uniform courtesy and kindness, and devotion to principles of 
 honesty and honor, he has acquired and enjoyed an enviable popu- 
 larity wherever known. 
 
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 HON. FRED. C. FOSTER. 
 
 (MORGAN COUNTY.) 
 
 OOHE subject of this sketch is the present Representative in the 
 \\V^ State Legislature from the county of Morgan. He is the eldest 
 
 o^ son of the late Hon. A. G. Foster, and was born in Bibb county, 
 near Macon, October 25th, 1S45. His mother's maiden name was 
 Carolina Corbut. It will thus be seen that his ancestry, paternal and 
 maternal, were of the most respectable character. 
 
 He was educated at Mercer University, at Penfield, having received 
 his preparatory course at Madison Male Academy. 
 
 He entered the Confederate service when quite young, first in Find- 
 lay's Battalion, subsequently became connected with the Second 
 Georgia State Line, and afterwards with Cumming's Brigade. In 
 each of these branches of the service he discharged his duty faith- 
 fully and gallantly, maintaining the respect and confidence of his as- 
 sociates aud superiors. He read law in his father's office, and wis 
 admitted to practice in the Superior Court in the spring of 1870. Be- 
 coming associated with his father, who was a leading and successful 
 attorney in Madison, he rose rapidly in his profession. His father was 
 Register in Bankruptcy in this District and Colonel Foster naturally 
 became familiar with the practice in the bankrupt courts. At his 
 father's death, which event occurred in 1880, Colonel Foster succeeded 
 him in his lucrative practice, and by his energy, skill as a practitioner 
 and talent, now occupies a position in his profession enjoyed by few 
 men of his age. Such has been his success in his profession, and 
 such his reputation as an attorney that his name appears on .one side 
 of every important case, civil or criminal, that has been returned to 
 our courts. 
 
 He married Miss Julia Floyd, of Madison, April 12th, 1872, and 
 has since then, as he had for years before, resided in Madison, been 
 rewarded by an interesting family and is enjoying all of the comforts 
 which either wealth or taste may suggest. He is proverbial for his 
 hospitality, and there is no lady in the State who knows better how 
 to please and entertain her numerous guests than his accomplished 
 wife. 
 
 In 1877 he was elected Mayor of the city of Madison, defeating his 
 competitor, Hon. Sam. Dye, the then incumbent after quite a spirited 
 and exciting contest. He was re-elected without opposition, the suc- 
 ceeding year. 
 
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 In the administration of the city's affairs he was wise, prudent and 
 economical. He found the city crippled with the burden of an out- 
 standing bonded debt, incurred by its subscription of $30,000000 to 
 the Griffin, IVTonticeilo and Madison Railroad, which has never yet 
 been completed, and which has long since passed into other hands,, 
 thereby causing the city to become embarrassed to the full amount of 
 her subscription without having been benefitted one cent by her liber- 
 ality and enterprise. Mayor Foster, during his two terms of office, 
 succeeded in meeting every debt incurred by the city, to meet current 
 expenses, and at the same time pay off quite a sum of this bonded 
 debt. It may be safely said that the example thus successfully set by 
 him as Mayor has been emulated by his successors until the city of 
 Madison, despite the monetary crash of the past four years, presents 
 an enviable financial record. 
 
 Colonel Foster was elected to the Legislature in i88r, having defeated, 
 in nomination by primary election, Mr. E. W. Butler, one of the most 
 talented and popular, as well as meritorious young men in the county. 
 
 Mr. Foster is a Democrat of the anti-CoIquitt, Brown and Gordon 
 element, and during his candidacy opposed the election of General 
 Colquitt, and in the Legislature opposed the election of Hon. J. E. 
 Brown to the United States Senate. His ancestry were old line 
 Whigs, and it was natural that he should oppose Senator Brown, an 
 opposition that has abated nothing in intensity since Mr. Brown's 
 election to the Senate. Morgan county gave Mr. Norwood a major- 
 ity for Governor, and no man contributed more to guaranteeing that 
 majority than did Hon. F. C. Foster. 
 
 As a legislator, Mr. Foster has proven his devotion to the people, 
 who have sent him with their confidence, and his legislation in behalf 
 of his country has been able, dignified and successful. He served 
 with honor to himself and credit to his State on the Judiciary Com- 
 mittee during the past session of the Legislature, and we doubt very 
 capitally whether that committee had a solitary member more able 
 and efficient than he. 
 
 Mr. Foster is yet in the vigor of early manhood, possessed of a 
 noble and dignified physique, of popular manners — the favorite of a 
 host of admiring friends, future and higher honors await him. He 
 would make a fine representative in Congress, an able Judge — indeed, 
 he is qualified, by his talents, to fill with honor any office to which the 
 partiality of his party may elevate him. 
 
 Such is a brief sketch of Hon. Fred. C. Foster, Morgan county's 
 talented young Representative. 
 
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 "HON. SAMUEL DAY FULLER. 
 
 (WILCOX COUNTY.) 
 
 §AMUEL DAY FULLER was born in Baldwin county, Georgia, 
 March i8th, 1828. His father, Samuel Fuller, moved from 
 North Carolina to this State and was married to Miss Kendrick, 
 daughter of ColonelThomas Kendrick, of Columbia county, Georgia. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was educated in Bibb county, where he 
 was married, on the 25th of December, 1849 to Miss Sarah Jane 
 Bowman, daughter of Mr. Ryal-Bowman, of North Carolina. Hav- 
 ing been reared on a farm, he has devoted his life to the pursuit of 
 agriculture, and has been very successful in his avocation. 
 
 Mr. Fuller was Judge of the Inferior Court of Wilcox county for 
 six years immediately preceding the war of the States, and resigned 
 that position to accept the Captaincy of a company which went from 
 his county to the Army of Virginia in the Forty-ninth Georgia Regi- 
 ment. With his command he was in several of the important battles. 
 At the time of the evacuation of Atlanta he commanded a company 
 in the brigade of General C. D. Anderson, and was in Savannah when 
 that city was evacuated, serving as aid to General Anderson. From 
 Savannah he went with his command into South Carolina and contin- 
 ued in the military service of the Confederate States until paroled in 
 1865, when, returning to Georgia, he was elected to the State Senate 
 from the Fourteenth District. 
 
 On the 5th of December, 1877, he was elected to the House of 
 Representatives, and again in 1880 he was elected to that position 
 without opposition. This is a fact of which few public men can 
 boast, and is a proof of the excellence of his character. 
 
 He is quiet and unassuming in his manners, a true Democrat, a 
 good citizen, public spirited — always looking after enterprises and ad- 
 vocating policies which tend to promote the general welfare — an intel- 
 ligent, industrious and faithful Representative. 
 
 Since ihe year 1858 he has been a consistent member of the Mis- 
 sionary Baptist denomination, and is, by all who know him, esteemed 
 as a noble. Christian gentleman. 
 
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 HON. LOUIS F. GARRARD. 
 
 (MUSCOGEE COUNTY ) 
 
 .R. GARRARD was born November 25th, 1847, at Columbus. 
 His father. Mr. W. W. Garrard, was one of the leading citi- 
 zens of his city and State. His mother's maiden name was 
 Urquhart. Louis F. Garrard was a member of the Alabama Corps of 
 Cadets at the outbreak of the war ; at the age of sixteen was trans- 
 ferred to the Nelson Rangers, which acted as escort to General Ste- 
 phen D. Lee. At the battle of Nashville, for gallantry on the battle- 
 field, he received a flattering recommendation from General Lee, secur- 
 ing for him a commission in the Regular Army of the Confederate 
 States, to take effect upon the close of hostilities. 
 
 Since the war he has been prominent as a citizen of Muscogee 
 county, serving as one of the Commissioners of the county, and, by 
 his marked financial ability, has the entire confidence of the whole 
 community. After a service of four years in'this capacity, he received 
 a unanimous re-election. He was put forward by the people as a can- 
 didate for legislative honors, and, in the election, led the ticket. 
 
 In the House, Mr. Garrard is a member of the Committee on Fi- 
 nance. He is the author of the celebrated Garrard bond bill, which 
 has elicited wide-spread discussion and most favorable comment from 
 men of distinguished financial ability throughout the State. This bill 
 is an original idea with Mr. Garrard, and stamps him as a deep thinker 
 upon financial subjects. He is looked upon as one of the rising finan- 
 ciers of the country. 
 
 Mr. Garrard is a member of the legal profession, and enjoys a lucra- 
 tive practice. He was a member of the House in 1878, 1879 and was 
 again elected in 1880. 
 
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 HON. JAMES T. GLOVER. 
 
 (TWIGGS COUNTY.) 
 
 w'>OHE subject of this sketch was born in Nash county, North Car- 
 ■;\^ olina, on the 2d of November. 1821. His father was Thomas 
 "^^S^ Glover, and the maiden name of his mother was Sarah Reese. 
 When he was only six years of age, his parents moved to the county 
 he now represents, and in the common schools of that county he re- 
 (.eived a substantial, practical English education. 
 
 He has devoted his life to the pursuit of farming, in which he has 
 been quite successful. 
 
 On the 15th of December, 1846, he was manied to Miss Mary 
 Combs, who lived only three years after marriage. On the 30th of 
 September, 1852, he was again married to Miss Georgia A. Burns. 
 
 Mr. Glover served for eight years as Judge of the Inferior Court of 
 Twiggs county, and was elected to the House of Representatives in 
 1877, 1878 and 1 88 J. each time without opposition. This is a very 
 forcible indication of his good standing among those who know him 
 best. Such an attestation of the worth and general popularity of a 
 citizen is seldom met, especially in a period like this, when so many 
 aspire to legislative honors. He is a plain, substantial man. possessed 
 of sound, practical judgment and an honest heart — not ambitious for 
 public positions, but an illustration of the "office seeking the man who 
 would not seek the office." 
 
 Having held the office of Judge of the Inferior Court before and 
 during the entire war between the States, he bore no part in that con- 
 test, although his fidelity to the cause of the South was unquestiona- 
 ble. He is a Democrat of the strictest sect, a consistent member of 
 the Baptist Church, and a man of great benevolence. While in the 
 1 louse he has performed good service as a member of the Coiimi' tees 
 on Agriculture, State of the Republic, Academy for the Blind, etc. 
 
 At the conclusion of this brief sketch of the life of Mr. Glover, it 
 becomes our sad duty to announce his death, which occurred on the 
 4th day of September, 1881. This event which filled so many hearts 
 with sorrow and deprived Georgia of one of her most useful citizens 
 and most worthy legislators, was feelingly and eloquently announced 
 by Mr. DuPree, of Macon county. 
 
 A committee was appointed to draft and present suitable resolutions 
 in regard to this providential bereavement, which committee consisted 
 of Messrs. DuPree. of Mxcon, Rice, of Fait )n, Fuller, of Wilcox, 
 Clarke, of Wayne and Rainey, of Schley. 
 
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 The committee reported appropriate resolutions, which being read, 
 Mr. DuPree, of Macon, Clarke, of Wayne, Burch, of Laurens, and 
 others, spoke in a most feeling manner, portraying the virtues of the 
 deceased as a Christian, a citizen and a legislator. The resolutions 
 were unanimously adopted, and the House adjourned for a day in re- 
 spect to his memory. 
 
 Mr. Glover was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and as such 
 was most highly esteemed by his brethren, and his death by them was 
 deeply mourned. The lodge of which he was a member, added very 
 strong testimonials in regard to his character, for those noble charities 
 which never fail to adorn human life, and likewise to a nature compris- 
 ing all the elements that constitute the worthy citizen, the devout 
 Christian and the able legislator. 
 
 The Church of which he w&s a member has sustained an almost 
 irreparable blow by the unexpected death of this good man, and has 
 expressed the most profound grief on account of this providence. 
 
 The entire community in which he was born and reared to manhood, 
 and ivho have followed him with their approbation in his private and 
 public career, have felt keenly the hand of affliction which removed 
 this noble citizen and Representative from life. 
 
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 HON. ARTHUR H. GRAY. 
 
 (CATOOSA COUNTY.) 
 
 00 HIS gifted and prominent young statesman, is a son of Colonel 
 45^ John D. Gray, deceased, late of Graysville, and was born at 
 ^d^ Macon, January 31st, 1850. His father was a native of London, 
 England, but early in life came to South Carolina, where he married 
 Miss Anna A. Gresch, of Charleston, who died at Macon, leaving two 
 children, Charles W. Gray, and the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Colonel Gray was a man of strong will-power and untiring energy, 
 of large and well balanced brain, and warm and true heart in his 
 nature. He was, perhap?, more closely identified with the leading 
 practical enterprises of Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, than 
 any man of his time ; and many of the accomplished works that to-day 
 chiefly illustrate and dignify our State, bear the impress of his hercu- 
 lian energy and vigorous intellect. With such a father to guide and 
 direct, it is not surprising that ihe early education of his sons has 
 peculiarly fitted them for the practical duties of life. 
 
 The early years of the subject of this sketch were unmarked by any 
 startling events. Too young to participate in the mighty struggle for 
 independence, in which so many of the gallant sons of the South died, 
 to win immortal fame, he was yet old enough to be strongly impressed 
 with the self-sacrificing spirit of patriotism that animated every breast 
 in those stormy times ; and that .spirit has grown with his growth, 
 strengthened with his strength, matured with his manhood, and to- 
 day finds him devoting all that he has of ability and will to the 
 service of his State. 
 
 The brief period preceding his maturity was spent by young Gray 
 at the University of Georgia, and, ever popular, with strong personal 
 magnetism, he there formed many strong ties of friendship that he 
 has delighted to cherish. Brilliant, and having acquired knowledge 
 almost by intuition, his beloved Alma Mater sent him forth from 
 the class of 1871-72 to battle with the world and win new laurels for 
 her brow. 
 
 Shortly after his college life was over, Mr. Gray engaged in the 
 practice of law at Ringgold, in Catoosa county, where he has since 
 resided. Always taking a lively interest in public affairs, he soon 
 entered the pub'ic arena, and in 1874 was elected a member of the 
 General Assembly, to which position he was re-elected in 1877 and in 
 1880. His experience, sound judgment and usefulne.ss as a legislator. 
 
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 have been fully recognized. As a member of the present body, he 
 occupies the chairmanship of the important Committee on Local and 
 Special Bills, and is also chairman pro tern of the special Judiciary 
 Committee. 
 
 Since his first entry into political life, Mr. Gray has been strongly 
 devoted to the interests and organization of the Democratic party of 
 his district and State, and has worthily filled several important posi- 
 tions in the party organization. In 1876 he was elected Messenger 
 to bear to the city ot Washington the electoral vote of the State for 
 Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks, for President and Vice- 
 President of the United States. He wes also a delegate from the 
 Seventh District to the National Democratic Convention, that nomi- 
 nated the illustrious Hancock for President, and is now a member of 
 the Democratic Executive Committee of the State. 
 
 The success which has been already attamed by this talented young 
 man shows that he has inherited in a most eminent degree the strong 
 mental characteristics that distinguished his father ; and with his veins 
 full of the commingled blood of sturdy old England and vigorous 
 Young America, his heart imbued from earliest recollections with 
 a love of magna cJiarta, a pupil of the schools of Madison, Jefferson, 
 and of Calhoun, with truth and honor for his watchwords, we may 
 hope for this brilliant young Georgian a career of exceeding useful- 
 ness to his people and State, honor to himself, and pride to his 
 friends. 
 
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 HON. S. C. HALE. 
 
 (DADE COUNTY.) 
 
 HE HON. S. C. HALE was born in Washington county, Ten- 
 nessee, in the year 1816 His opportunities for acquiring an 
 education were quite unfavorable. He was married in 1836 to 
 Miss Frances Thompson. They lived together about thirty- five years 
 and raised eight children, four sons and four daughters. Thev moved 
 to Dade county, Georgia, in the year 1840. He was elected to the 
 office of Bailiff in 1841, served one year and was elected Justice of 
 the Peace. He served in this capacity from that time utitil the State 
 seceded. He was elected to the State Senate in 1854 and served two 
 terms. In i860 he was nominated as a delegate to the State Conven- 
 tion and was almost unanimously elected by the people of Dade 
 county. He was not in favor of the immediate secession of Georgia, 
 but when it was decided by the Convention that such should be the 
 action of the State, he signed the ordinance and rendered the South 
 all the aid in his power during her struggle for independence. 
 
 He held the position of Captain in the Confederate army, and was 
 engaged as an organizer and drill officer. 
 
 During the war his family took refuge in Randolph county, Ala- 
 bama, but at the close of hostilities returned to Dade county. 
 
 He has been a consistent member of the Primitive Baptist Church 
 for many years. His family are strictly pious, all its members having 
 made good citizens. 
 
 Soon after the war he was chosen one of the Judges of the old 
 Inferior Court, which has since been abolished. He has filled many 
 public offices, but has never been an aspirant. In each instance he 
 h^s been called out by the people of his county, who had unlimited 
 confidence in his strong, common sense, and his fidelity to.their rights 
 and their welfare. 
 
 Having had the misfortune to lose his first wife by death, he was 
 married to Miss Maggie Andrews, of Fulton county, Georgia, in 1881. 
 
 In 1880 he was elected to the House of Representatives and served 
 his State and constituents with satisfaction to those by whom he was 
 elected. 
 
 His principal pursuits have been farming and stock raising for 
 market. 
 
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 HON. J. N. HAGIN. 
 
 (PAULDING COUNTY.) 
 
 ^CT N. HAGIN, the present Representative of Paulding county, was 
 (y, born in originally DeKalb, now Fulton county, Georgia, in the 
 i^ year 1830, and received a plain English education in the schools 
 of his neighborhood. 
 
 He was raised on a farm and has wisely and industriously adhered 
 to this pursuit. His success has been satisfactory, as he has always 
 realized a competency for the comfortable support of his family. 
 
 In 1849 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Stuart, in Paulding 
 county. They have nine children. 
 
 For many years he has served the people of Paulding county as 
 Tax Collector and Justice of the Peace, always giving satisfaction in 
 both positions. 
 
 In politics he announces himself an Independent. 
 
 He is not a member of any Church, but is a man of good moral 
 habits, a generous and kind-hearted neighbor, and an enterprising 
 citizen. 
 
 His height is six feet, and his weight two hundred pounds. As a 
 Representative he was always in his place and has, no doubt, received 
 from his constituents the plaudit : " Well done, faithful servant." As 
 he is not gifted as a public speaker, he was seldom heard in debate, 
 but he displayed commendable industry before committees, and in 
 presenting to the minds of the members, individually, the measures 
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 HON. J. FRANK HALL. 
 
 (ECHOLS COUNTY.) 
 
 ^R. HALL was born in Tatnall county May 4th, 1840 and is one of 
 the most distinguished physicians of Echols county, and one of 
 ^■^ the most skillful in the State. He was the son of James and 
 Rebecca (Bell) Hall, natives of Montgomery county. The former is 
 now living in the same county, and the latter died in 1852. 
 
 Dr. Hall has four brothers and four sisters, and attended school 
 at Randolph High School, Cuthbert, Georgia. 
 
 He studied medicine under Dr. Paul Eve, now deceased, one of the 
 most distinguished physicians of Nashville, Tennessee, and received 
 his diploma of M. D. at twenty-one years of age. 
 
 He was a Surgeon, and also held a Lieutenant's commission in the 
 cavalry service of the Confederacy, was all through the war, and was 
 at the surrender. He wa,s a brave, fearless soldier, and bears on his 
 person several scars from wounds received in battle. It is said of 
 him that he has no fears of danger, and was most gallant in battle. 
 
 Since the war he has served in various public capacities, always with 
 credit. He was Judge of the Commissioners' Court of Echols county 
 from 1873 to 1876, and acted as deputy United States Marshall with 
 satisfaction to all. 
 
 He is a Republican in politics, and of a liberal order. He votes 
 this ticket conscientiously and modestly. 
 
 He is of slender build, five feet eleven inches tall, weighs 130 pounds, 
 has a most genial disposition, of a kind nature and very sociable 
 manners. 
 
 He has a most estimable wife, to whom he was married in 1863. 
 Her name was Lurana A. Mobley. They have ten children, having 
 lost two, and very bright children they are, too. 
 
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 HON. Lafayette harp. 
 
 (CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY.) 
 
 HIS affable member was born in Upson county, the 28th of 
 April, 1830. When he was six months old, his parents made 
 him a citizen of the county he now represents, and in which he 
 was reared and educated. Upon leaving school he engaged in farm- 
 ing, and has since made it his pursuit. In 1849 he married Miss 
 Callie King. Mr. Harp was in service during the war, first with the 
 Sixth Georgia Regiment, General Colquitt's Brigade, and afterwards 
 was Captain of a company of State troops under General Phillips. 
 One time during the war he was Judge of the County Court of Chatta- 
 hoochee. He was Sheriff in 1871-72, Tax Collector for 1872 to 1877,. 
 when he was elected as an Independent to the House of Representa- 
 tives, and was again elected to this position in 1880, serving his con- 
 stituency with much satisfaction. He was always at his post of duty, 
 ready to cast his vote intelligently and fearlessly for the public good. 
 
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 HON. WM. W. HARRELL. 
 
 (DECATUR COUNTY.) 
 
 >HIS Representative was born in Pulaski, but at the age of one 
 month became a resident of Decatur county, and has there 
 resided and been a Democrat ever since. He was Sheriff of 
 the county over twenty years ; has kept a hotel and livery stable, 
 and traded in horses, engaged in railroad business, sold dry goods, 
 and done a little of everything which promises him profit and pleasure. 
 He went into the army in the First Georgia Regiment, the first that 
 left the State. Was for a while in service in Florida, then in Virginia. 
 Before leaving home he was a Lieutenant of his company, but re- 
 signed and served as private until 1863, when, being elected Sheriff, 
 he returned home and held this office for several years. In 1867 he 
 was elected to the Legislature, and re-elected in 1877, and again in 
 1880 by a good majority. On the 29th of June, 1843, he was married 
 to Miss Anna Boyd. Mr. Harrell is influential among his people at 
 home, and respected in the House of Representatives as being one of 
 its most estimable members. 
 
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 HON. SAMUEL T. HEATH. 
 
 (BURKE COUNTY.) 
 
 ^R. HEATH is the son of the late Jordan and Sarah Mobley 
 Jt/ Heath, natives of Burke county, where he was born in 1839. 
 ■tN' He was carefully trained by his excellent parents, and en- 
 joyed good advantages for securing a thorough education. He was a 
 student at Emory and Henry Colleges, and the University at Lexing- 
 ton, Virginia, leaving the latter institution in 1861, to command a 
 company in the Confederate army. 
 
 At the close of the war, having done good service for the " Lost 
 Cause," young Heath returned to his native county, where he engaged 
 in farming, a pursuit in which his father had been quite successful' 
 Asa dutiful son, of industrious habits, he had learned from assisting 
 his father how to carry on the best system of agricultural labor, and 
 hence his own success was assured from the start. 
 
 Mr. Heath is a member of the Methodist Church, and in all the 
 walks of life bears the reputaiion of being a good citizen. He has 
 been twice married, and has a family of two children. As a legisla- 
 tor, he is faithful and conscientious, but does not attract attention by 
 speech-making or conspicuous displays. 
 
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 HON. E. J. HENRY. 
 
 (FANNIN COUNTY.) 
 
 /3ON. EMANUEL J. HENRY was born in Macon county, 
 ^1/ North Carolina, April 17th, 1829, and is the son of John Wiley 
 Henry and Martha (Dickey) Henry, natives of that State, both 
 of whom have been dead for several years, his father dying in 1857, 
 and his mother in 1S77. They are buried in Fannin county, in this 
 State. 
 
 Emanuel had only limited school privileges in North Carolina and 
 Georgia, yet he was able to lay the foundation of an education that 
 has served him well in the capacity of a preacher of the Gospel. He 
 had one sister, Mary A. Henry, who married Mr. A. D. Kilpatrick, of 
 North Carolina, 
 
 During his youth he was noted for his truth and honesty, and his 
 devotion to his parents and sister. As he entered the years of man- 
 hood his good qualities ripened into a religious faith, and he joined 
 the Baptist Church, of which, for twenty-two years, he has been a 
 useful and honored minister. 
 
 Adopting the calling of a farmer, also, Mr. Henry has won a good 
 measure of success by his industry, prudent management and agricul- 
 tural skill. Before reaching his majority, he chose a life companion, 
 in Miss Hiley Webster, of Marion county, formerly of North Carolina, 
 by whom he has had eleven children, nine of whom are still living. 
 
 Having been reared a Whig, with a strong love for the Federal 
 authority, Mr. Henry opposed secession, " first, last, and all the time," 
 refusing to take up arms for the Southern cause. This led some of 
 his political enemies to cause his arrest, imprisonment, trial by a drum- 
 head court-martial, and sentence to death at Murphy, North Carolina, 
 in 1863. 
 
 Through the efforts of Captain John Hendrix of the State troops, 
 now residing in Atlanta, his life was saved, and since the war he has 
 been a consistent Republican. This, however, has not prevented him 
 from participating in public matters. He was elected to the Constitu- 
 tional Convention of 1877, and to the present General Assembly, an 
 evidence that the people of his county have confidence in his ability 
 to serve them, and his patriotism to represent them faithfully. 
 
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 HON. JOHN T. HESTER. 
 
 ^nO^GHERTV COUNTY. > 
 
 (p^^OHX T. HESTER was born in Washington. Wilkes county. 
 {^l Georgia, on the 14th of December, 1S40. His parents. Simeon and 
 "^^^ Sarah D. Hester ^Saf-ah U.Graves beinij her maiden nameV were 
 natives of X'irginia. His mother died when quite young— his father 
 only a few year> since. His education was acquired at the primary 
 schools and the Male Academy of his native town. Washington. 
 
 He began active life by teaching school, and then commenced the 
 study of medicine until the war came on. when, being an ardent friend 
 of the South and her cause, he promptly laid asi>ie his books for his 
 musket, and entered the militarv service of the Confederate States, 
 and proved a gallant soldier to the close of the war. 
 
 After the battle of the Wilderness. Captain Hester lingered awhile 
 with the wounded heroes of the Southern army, dispensing kindnesses 
 to them and sending messages to his mother. He started on to fol- 
 low his regiment, and was suddenlv halted by a Federal soldier, who, 
 presenting his tixed bayonet, ordered the Captain to throw down his 
 sword and surrender. Being without means of resistance adequate 
 to the situation, he obeyed the order and marched before his cap- 
 tor, but suddenly turning and seizing the musket of the Federal, he 
 wrested it from his hands, changed the captive to the captor, the cap- 
 tor to the captive, and marched him before him into the Confederate 
 lines a prisoner of war. But for this strategy and daring Captain 
 Hester's ser\ices would then have been lost to his struggling country, 
 and he would probably have languished and died in some Northern 
 prison. 
 
 He has been married twice, his first wife being Miss A. T. Collins, 
 of Macon, and his second. Miss Sallie Hutcherson. He has two chil- 
 dren, a son by his first and a daughter by his present wife. 
 
 He is now. and has been for several years, a merchant, and has been 
 ven.- successful in this pursuit, acquiring a handsome property, by 
 close attention to business and the exercise of a sound, practical judg- 
 ment. 
 
 Politically, he is a Democrat, as were his parents before him. As a 
 debater, he is sincere, earnest and forcible, alwaj-s commanding the 
 respectful attention of his audience, and at least con\nncing them that 
 he is honest in his e.xpressions. 
 
OF REPRESENTA TIVES. 
 
 HON. THOMAS D. HIGHTOWER 
 
 (STEWART COUNTV.j 
 
 •JJ^ H E name above designates one of the honorable Representa- 
 ' V9 lives in the present ('[882; Legislature of Georgia from Stewart 
 •'o county. He was born of quite respectable parentage in the 
 year 1849. From what State the parents of Mr. Hightower came, or 
 the county in which he was born, is not known to the writer. The 
 weight of moral influence of the family in politics, religion and tem- 
 perance, was never intentionally on the wrong side. Hence the sub- 
 ject of the present notice was favored with that moral example and 
 influence so important in developing boys and young men into good 
 •citizens. 
 
 Mr. Hightower's educational advantages were very good and very 
 •well improved, and to a very respectable literary education he added 
 a professional education in the Lumpkin Law School, connected with 
 the State University of Georgia. Thus equipped, it is not strange 
 that, with good natural giff^, industry and close application, Mr. High- 
 tower should soon reach a point of honor and a lucrative practice. 
 
 In the year iJ?73 he was married to Miss MoIIie Feagin, of Lump- 
 kin, Stewart county, Georgia, who has proved to be a suitable and 
 worthy companion of one whose purpose is to serve his country as 
 •well as himself and family. 
 
 In conclusion, it may be said but few men raised up in our midst, 
 however favorable their opportunities may have been, have reached 
 the prominence that he has at the age of thirty-two years. Nor has 
 this been done by any other means than a plain, straightforward way 
 of rightly attending to business. And while his name has not often 
 been before the people, and never at his own instance, for public 
 favor, yet he has invariably met the wants and expectations of his 
 -constituents, and has ever proved himself worthy of the trust and 
 honor conferred upon him. He was elected to represent Stewart 
 county in the State Legislature in October. 1880. and hence is one of 
 our present Representatives. 
 

 
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OF REPRESEN TA TI VES. 2 1 7 
 
 HON. J. W. HIGHTOWER. 
 
 (EARLY COUNTY.) 
 
 i^OHIS gentleman claims Laurens county as his birthplace, and 
 ^\I^October 20th, 181 3. as his natal day. His parents were Geor- 
 '^ o ■ gians, and died in Dooly county some years ago. Two sisters 
 and one brother, now over fifty years of age, are still living. 
 
 In the matter of school education, he was scantily provided for, but 
 he made good progress in obtaining and putting into use an excellent 
 industrial education. He could hoe, plow, pick cotton, or pull fodder 
 with any of the boys, and grew up to be a self-reliant, industrious 
 young man. 
 
 Soon after his father moved to Dooly county, in January, 1836, he 
 disolayed his patriotism by joining the "Buckskin Hussars," a cavalry 
 company commanded by Captain David Graham, and going to Flor- 
 ida to fight the Seminole Indians. 
 
 Mr. Hightower removed to Early county in January, 1853. and has 
 resided there ever since. He was elected one of the first commis- 
 sioners of that county, and held the office until sent to the General 
 Assembly in 1880, where he had served his country in 1861 with his 
 usual earnestness and fidelity. After nearly twenty years he is again 
 in that responsible position, and still serving his people with much of 
 his old-time zeal ajid energy. 
 
 In no sense can Mr. Hightower be called a politician, for he has de- 
 voted a long and useful life to the pursuit of agriculture, and is proud 
 to be classed with the sturdy, honest farmers of the land. An old 
 line Whig before the war, he has voted with the Democrats since, but 
 taken no prominent part in political matters. 
 
 A successful, thrifty farmer likes to have a comfortable home and 
 a wife and children to make it cheerful and attractive. Mr. Hightower 
 has been sadly bereaved in this respect, as death has three times 
 robbed him of his chosen companion. 
 
 In December, 1837, he married Miss Sarah Mayo, of Dooly county, 
 who died in November following. In February, 1842, he married 
 Miss Mary Roberts, of the same county, who died July 12th, 1857^ 
 leaving four boys and one girl. Two years later he married Miss 
 Theodosia G. Ransom, who died in February, 1864. leaving three 
 girls, two of whom are now dead. 
 
 The present wife of Mr. Hightower was Mrs. Susan V. Hall, a 
 widow lady with two children, and the daughter of William Harring- 
 
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 ton (now deceased), of Terrell county. By this last union a son and 
 daughter have been added to the family circle. Mr. Hightower has 
 lived a temperate, steady life, full of outdoor exercise, and has come 
 to a good old age, with strong mental and physical powers, and is a 
 fine example of what industry and sobriety can do for a young man of 
 energy. 
 
OF REPRESEN TA TI VES. 2 1 9 
 
 HON. A. W. HILL. 
 
 (WILKES COUNTY.) 
 
 /:^> ^ AELLBORN hill, as he is familiarly called, comes of a fine 
 v^^±>^/' family, and well sustains its reputation for clear-headedness, 
 ^^^"n%^ '^ untiring energy, and success in life's endeavors. 
 
 His father, Colonel L. M. Hill, of Wilkes county, was for twenty 
 years a member of the General Assembly of this State, and made 
 a most excellent record as a wise and prudent legislator. In his 
 business matters, he has been remarkably successful, and, although 
 the war robbed him of a large share of his property, he is to-day one 
 of the wealthiest men in his section of Georgia. 
 
 His mother, from whom he derives his middle name, was Miss 
 Martha S. Wellborn, a cousin of Judge C. J. Wellborn, of Blairsville, 
 late State Senator from that district, and elected Judge of the newly 
 created Northeastern Circuit by the present General Assembly. Her 
 marriage to Colonel Hill formed a union that has been greatly blessed 
 in all that goes to make home happy and life desirable. 
 
 Wellborn is next to the youngest of an interesting family of twelve 
 children, and was given abundant educational advantages, completing 
 his studies at the University of Virginia, Mercer University, and at 
 the University of Georgia, graduating from the law department of 
 the latter institution. 
 
 Although educated for the law, Mr. Hill followed in the footsteps 
 of his father and brothers, and gave himself to financial matters. 
 For some time he held the responsible position of cashier of the 
 bank of Washington, in Wilkes county, and rumor says he proposes 
 to re-enter financial circles as a banker in Atlanta. Having shown 
 his capacity and fitness for this profession, it is safe to predict ample 
 success to him in whatever part of the State he may locate. 
 
 Mr. Hill was married December 20th, 1 871, to Miss Sallie Buchanan, 
 the accomplished daughter of Judge Hugh Buchanan, of Newnan, 
 now member of Congress from that district. Her death occurred 
 after a few brief years of wedded life, and during the present session 
 (December, 1880), Mr. Hill was married to Miss Lucy Cobb Irwin, 
 step-daughter of Dr. J. M. Johnson, a distinguished physician of 
 Atlanta, and a niece of the lamented and heroic General, Thomas R. 
 R. Cobb. 
 
 Two children by his first marriage, a bright boy and lovely girl, serve 
 to make more joyous and attractive his new home, in which there is 
 
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 never a lack of those domestic virtues and tender affections that serve 
 to make home the dearest spot on earth to a devoted husband and 
 loving father. In his home-life, as well as in his intercourse with 
 the world, he is one of the most genial, entertaining and popular men 
 in the State. 
 
 As a Representativ'e of one of the wealthiest, oldest and most 
 distinguished counties in Georgia, Mr. Hill has sustained himself with 
 dignity, ability and faithfulness. Although not a frequent debater, 
 he has done excellent service in the committee room. His training in 
 banking and financial matters has proved of great value to him, as it 
 has enabled him to serve with rare ability on the Finance Committee 
 and the Committee on Banks. Among all the younger members, it is 
 doubtful if any one has made a better record for efficient service, 
 general popularity and faithfulness to duty than the subject of this 
 sketch. 
 
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OF REPRESENTATIVES. 223 
 
 HON. HENRY HILLYER. 
 
 (FULTON COUNTY.) 
 
 >HE subject of this sketch was born at Athens, Georgia, on the 
 ist of June, 1S46, and is a son of Hon. Junius Hillyer, one of the 
 last survivors of a galaxy of distinguished Georgians who shone 
 conspicuously in the ante belluin history of the State. 
 
 Mr. Hillyer was educated partly in Washington city, where his father 
 was Solicitor of the United States Treasury, under the administration 
 of Buchanan, and partly at Athens, Georgia, in which latter place his 
 collegiate studies were interrupted by the war. On the suspension of 
 the University in September, 1863, he joined the State troops, and re- 
 mained in service until the close of hostilities. He then entered upon 
 the study of law with his father, and was admitted to the bar at Wat- 
 kins:ville, Clarke county, August term, 1866. In December, of that 
 year, he came to Atlanta, and entered the office of his brother, Hon. 
 George Hillyer. In the fall of 1868, he became a member of the law 
 firm of Hillyer & Brother, and soon made rapid progress in his pro- 
 fession. His first entrance into political life was in the summer of 
 1876, when he was nominated for the Legislature by the Democratic 
 party of Fulton county. He was elected, and at once took a promi- 
 nent stand in that body. As a member of the Judiciary Committee, 
 he stood deservedly high, and was regarded as a rising man. He was 
 an active opponent of the bill for the sale or lease of the Macon & 
 Brunswick Railroad, which was defeated at that session, and fought 
 with warmth the calling of a Constitutional Convention. In the Sen- 
 atorial contest he was a supporter of Hon. Benjamin H, Hill. 
 
 Upon the reorganization of the Legislature under the new Constitu- 
 tion, he was again a candidate, but was defeated by Hon. N. J. Ham- 
 mond, by a majority of not quite 100 votes. At this election ten or 
 twelve candidates were in the field, and it is worthy of note that the 
 next candidate for point of votes fell 500 below him, while the differ- 
 ence between his vote and the highest cast was scarcely 200. 
 
 The appointment of his brother as Judge of the Superior Court, in 
 June, 1877, left him in sole charge of a heavy practice. Industrious 
 in his habits, and careful in his business methods to a marked degree, 
 he proved fully equal to the responsibility. 
 
 In October, 1879, he was married at Hartford, Connecticut, to Mrs. 
 Eleanor Talcott, formerly of Monticello, Georgia, of which place her 
 father, the late William S. Heard, was a prominent merchant. 
 
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224 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 At the solicitation of his friends he was again induced to become a 
 candidate for the Legislature, and was elected in the fall of 1880, by a 
 majority of 1077 over Hon. E. F. Hoge, one of the most popular men 
 in the county. 
 
 To his re-entry into the political arena, Mr. Hillyer brought an in- 
 creased degreee of experience and ability which soon made itself felt. 
 He was again placed upon the Judiciary and other important Com- 
 mittees, and was regarded as one of the ablest lawyers and safest leg- 
 islators in that body. In the Senatorial election of 1880, he nomina- 
 ted and actively supported Hon. Joseph E. Brown. 
 
 As a citizen, Mr. Hillyer is characterized by an active, public spirit. 
 The Young Men's Library of Atlanta, one of the first institutions of its 
 kind in the South, owes much to his zeal and energy in the work of 
 building it up. He was one of its early members, and for a number of 
 years served respectively as Director, Vice-president and President. 
 
 In religion, he is a consistent member of the Baptist denomination, 
 having connected himself with it at the age of nineteen. 
 
 To conclude, it may well be said, that few young men of his age 
 in Georgia, have a more substantial and growing reputation. Careful 
 and industrious, of fine practical sense and sterling integrity of char- 
 acter, he is eminently a safe man, and will ever- continue to retain a 
 strong hold upon the confidence of his clients and constituents. Ad- 
 ded to these, a robust constitution, with intellectual abilities of no 
 common order, give earnest of a long career of usefulness and honor. 
 
OF REPRESENTA TI VEb. 225 
 
 HON. JOHN J. HUNT. 
 
 (SPALDING COUNTY.) 
 
 fOHN J. HUNT was born March 3d, 1847, in the then village of 
 Marietta, now the city of Marietta, Cobb county, Georgia. His 
 father, William H. Hunt, likewise a native Georgian, represented 
 Cherokee county in the Georgia Senate in the year 1847, and prior to 
 the war was Clerk of the United States Court, and during the war 
 was Clerk of the Confederate States Court. 
 
 He graduated at Athens College when quite young, was afterwards 
 a'tutor in the College, and at a later day occupied a Professor's chair 
 in the Georgia Military Institute, at Marietta. 
 
 The mother of the subject of this sketch was a native of the State 
 of Virginia. Her maiden name was Mary Jane Taylor. She was a 
 lady of cultured manners, benevolent and kind, and greatly loved on 
 account of her pleasing and amiable character. She died in 1870. 
 
 Mr. John J. Hunt entered the Confederate army at the age of fifteen, 
 consequently he had little opportunities to receive an education. The 
 war over, it was inconvenient for him to attend school, and it was by 
 self-instruction alone that he acquired a taste for reading and study. 
 In this he was aided by a year's experience as a teacher of a country 
 school. In 1869 he read law in the office of Boynton & Dismukes, at 
 Griffin, Georgia, and in November of that year was admitted to the 
 bar at Upson Court. 
 
 He did not begin the practice of law at once, but entered the news- 
 paper business. He and the late H. E. Morrow published the Middle 
 Georgiaji at Griffin. Mr. Hunt afterwards was one of the editors and 
 proprietors of the Daily News. In 1872 he abandoned the news- 
 paper business and commenced the practice of his profession, in which 
 he has since been engaged. 
 
 He was nominated by the Democracy of his county to the office of 
 Ordinary and elected in 1877, which public position he held until Oc- 
 tober, 1880. when he resigned the place to accept a seat in the Legis- 
 lature, having been nominated by the Democratic party and elected to 
 that place. 
 
 In 1877 he was actively opposed to the calling of a Constitutional 
 Convention, believing the Constitution of 1868 to be a good one, and 
 considering it dangerous to tamper with the organic law of the land. 
 Although at the time severely censured by some for his views on that 
 subject, it can now be determmed whether he was correct in his judg- 
 ment. 
 
226 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 In politics, Mr. Hunt is an organized Democrat, having alwaj's voted 
 that ticket, conducted his journals in the interest of that party, and 
 filled office only by its call. At the same time he is liberal in his views, 
 and has an aversion to political intolerance. At times he censures 
 what he conceives to be the errors of his own party. He has made 
 a prominent, industrious and useful member of the House, always 
 quick of perception and ready for action when the interests of his 
 constituents or the welfare of the State have made demands upon him. 
 
 As a debater, he is fluent, logical, zealous and impressive. Should 
 he live, he bids fair to prove one of the most able and useful men of 
 this State. 
 
 In his election to the House the people of Spalding county acted 
 wisely, for their young Representative has made a record of which 
 both they and he may justly feel proud. 
 
OF REPRESENTATIVES. 227 
 
 HON. NATHAN L. HUTCHINS. 
 
 (GWINNETT COUNTY.) 
 
 3ON. N. L. HUTCHINS was boni at Lawrenceville, Gwinnett 
 ^^ ^ ■ county, Georgia, on ths 4th day of October, 1835. He was 
 ^'^^ the son of the Hon. Nathan L. Hutchins, a distinguished lawyer 
 and for many years Judge of the Western Circuit, and of Mrs. Mary 
 Dixon Hutchins, who was the daughter of Hon. Hines Holt, Sr., once 
 the Slate Treasurer of Georgia. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was married on the 29th of March, 1866, 
 to Miss Carrie Orr, of Lawrenceville. 
 
 He graduated at Emory College and entered upon the study of the 
 law, to the practice of which he was admitted a short time before the 
 commencement of the war between the States. Entering early the 
 military service of the Confederate States as First Lieutenant of a 
 company in the Sixteenth Georgia Regiment, he was soon promoted 
 to the Captaincy of his company and served with conspicuous gal- 
 lantry in that position until he was placed, as Lieutenant-Colonel, in 
 command of the Third Georgia Battalion of Sharp Shooters. He bore 
 a gallant part in the battles of Malvern Hill, Crampton's Gap, Sharps- 
 burg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Knoxville, Wilderness, Cold Harbor 
 and all the battles in defense of Richmond of the memorable cam- 
 paign of i864-'5. He was wounded three times in the battles of 
 Sharpsburg and the Wilderness, and severely in a skirmish on the north 
 side of the James, which occurred as General Grant's mine was 
 sprung near Petersburg. 
 
 On the 6th of April, 1865, three days before the surrender of General 
 Lee, he was taken prisoner at Sailors' Creek, where General Ker- 
 shaw's, Custis Lee's and part of Pickett's divisions were surrounded, 
 and, after a sharp engagement, compelled to surrender. He was con- 
 fined in the old Capitol Prison, at Washington, and at Johnson's 
 Island until July, 1865, when, being released on parol, he returned 
 home and resumed the practice of his profession. 
 
 His fidelity and gallantry as a soldier and his genial, unassuming 
 disposition, won for him the confidence and esteem of officers and 
 men. 
 
 He took an active part in the famous charge of Longstreet's corps 
 at the Wilderness, by which the advance of the left wing of Grant's 
 array was checked, and in the noted flank movement of Wofford's 
 Brigade, which contributed so much to the Confederate victory. He 
 
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 was wounded at the commencement of the engagement, yet, with his 
 arm in a sling, remained with his command throughout the day. For 
 his skill and gallantry in the operations around Knoxville. in the fall 
 of 1863, he was specially complimented in the General's report. 
 
 In 1857, while a student of law, he was appointed Clerk of the In- 
 ferior Court of his county at the request of the Judges. In 1865, at 
 the urgent solicitation of his personal and political friends, he made 
 an eight days' race for a seat in the Constitutional Convention, feeling 
 all the while that the race was hopeless, as his county had been vio- 
 lently opposed to secession. His defeat was only by a small majority. 
 
 In: 1872 he was strongly indorsed for the Judgeship of the Western 
 Circuit, but Judge Rice was the successful applicant, being greatly the 
 senior of Mr. Hutchins, and a man of great personal popularity. 
 
 In 1876 he was elected to the House, was re-elected in 1877, and 
 again in 1880. 
 
 As Chairman of the Finance Committee and in all the duties of a 
 legislator he has evinced an ability and zeal for the public welfare 
 which have distinguished him as a law maker and endeared him to the 
 people. 
 
 In 1877 he was chosen by the stockholders of the Georgia Railroad, 
 as one of the directors of that corporation. This was done in his 
 absence and without his solicitation or knowledge, and was a high 
 compliment to his ability and his integrity. 
 
 There are very few men who enjoy so enviable a position in the es- 
 teem of their constituency. " Brave and gentle, benevolent and firm, 
 talented and modest," he is beloved by all who know him and is the 
 pride of those whom he represents. 
 
 As a lawyer, he has attained a high position, being able, learned 
 industrious, honest, and conscientious in the discharge of his duties. 
 
OF REPRESEXTA TI VES. 229 
 
 HON. DAVENPORT JACKSON. 
 
 (RICHMOND COUNTY.) 
 
 C70HIS gifted young legislator was born in the city of Savannah on 
 ■^vl^ the loth of April, 1850, \vh<^re his distinguished father still re- 
 "^ d^ sides. Mr. Jackson graduated at the University of Georgia in 
 1868 and entered the law department of that institution, in which he 
 also graduated, and, upon the presentation of his legal diploma, was 
 admitted to the bar at Watkinsville in 1S70. During the same month 
 he located in the city of Augusta, where he has since been actively- 
 engaged in the practice of his profession. 
 
 On the 18th day of January, 1872, Governor James M. Smith, with- 
 out the knowledge of Mr. Jackson, paid him the high compliment of 
 appointing him Solicitor-General of the Aueusta Judicial Circuit, and 
 the Senate, then in session, promptly confirmed the nomination. At 
 the time of this appointment Mr. Jackson had been but two years at 
 the bar, and as the statute required, as a condition precedent to eligibil- 
 ity to this office, three years' practice, his appointment was illegal. Hav- 
 ing made no application for this position, he was much surprised to 
 learn that it had been conferred upon him and promptly apprised the 
 Governor of his ineligibility ; but, in August following, the General 
 Assembly did Mr. Jackson the unusual honor to pass for him a special 
 enabling act, thereby removing this statutory impediment. 
 
 In January, 1873, Mr. Jackson was re-appointed for a full term of 
 four years, and accordingly held the ofhce of Solicitor-General until 
 January, 1877, when he declined to be a candidate for another term. 
 He was nominated to this important and responsible position when 
 only twenty-one years of age, and is said to have been one of the 
 youngest men ever appointed to that position in the State ; yet his ability 
 and tact became conspicuously apparent at the outset, and although 
 very young and comparatively inexperienced, it is doubtful whether, 
 in the annals of Georgia, a more brilliant and successful prosecuting 
 officer ever adorned her judiciary or made more character or reputa- 
 tion in the office. He was vigilant, untiring, methodical and able in 
 the discharge of his official duties, which were particularly difficult 
 and onerous in this important circuit, embracing, as it did, the city of 
 Augusta, one of the largest and commercially one of the most im- 
 portant cities in the State. His pleadings were models of terseness 
 and precision, his knowledge of commercial law both accurate and 
 philosophical, and in the arena of debate he was a match for the ablest 
 and most skilled opponent. 
 

OF R KPRESEN TA TI VES. 2 3 1 
 
 In August, 1S78, at a meeting of the Alumni of the University of 
 'Georgia, held in Athens, Mr. Jackson was nominated by Judge Martin 
 J. Crawford for the position of Trustee of said University, and was 
 elected, young as he was, by a large majority over his opponent, and 
 is still a member of that disiinguished board of eminent men. 
 
 In September, 1880, Mr. Jackson was nominated for the lower 
 branch of the General Assembly from Richmond county, and was 
 elected without opposition. He is a member of the Judiciary Com- 
 mittee and of the Railroad Committee, and Chairman of the Commit- 
 tee on the Public Library. 
 
 Mr. Jackson is a worthy son of a noble sire. His father, General 
 Henry R. Jackson, the poet, soldier, lawyer and orator, is one of the 
 most remarkable men our State has ever produced. As an orator of 
 brilliancy, polish and power, he has few equals and no superiors. En- 
 dowed by nature with a splendid imagination, rich and copious vocab- 
 ulary, retentive memory and infinite resources, he really " wielded 
 the club of Hercules adorned with flowers," and is an adversary to be 
 dreaded, either on the hustings or in the forum. As is rarely the case 
 in such instances, the son, who is the subject of this sketch, is, in every 
 respect, worthy of his distinguished sire, and already ranks as one of 
 the most gifted and promising young men in the State. One of the 
 distinguishing peculiarities of Mr. Jackson's well poised intellect is his 
 striking power of analysis. He readily seizes upon the strong points 
 of his cases at the bar and unravels the tangled judicial skein with 
 consummate skill and ease. His faculty of statement — one of the 
 most enviable gifts in a speaker — is unsurpassed. He marshals his 
 facts and states his legal propositions with clearness and force, and 
 lifts the fog which hangs about the atmosphere of a difficult legal 
 problem with the sunbeam of a clean cut, incisive intellect. His ora- 
 tory is finished, his language chaste, scholarly and classic, and rarely, 
 even in the fervor of debate or rapidity of utterance, does he make a 
 grammatical blunder or use an inelegant phrase. 
 
 As a lawyer, Mr. Jackson is diligent and laborious in the prepara- 
 tion of his cases, prompt and faithful in the interest of his clients and 
 exceedingly alert, watchful and adroit as a practitioner and debater. 
 Few men of his age have attained such prominence at the bar, or 
 ■more completely the confidence of the public. He has built up a lu- 
 crative practice, and is destined to leave his impress upon the history 
 •of his State. 
 
 As a legislator, he is making a brilliant and substantial reputation, 
 -and is, without doubt, the most graceful and efficient presiding officer 
 that has filled the Speaker's chair during the present session. 
 
HARRISON a, CO PUB'RS. 
 
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OF REPRESENTATIVES. 233 
 
 HON. J. S. JAMES. 
 
 (DOUGLASS COUNTY.) 
 
 •HE subject of this sketch was born in Campbell county, Georgia, 
 March 20th, 1849. His father, Stephen James, was born in 
 North Carolina, and his mother, whose maiden name was 
 Martha Shippy, was born in Georgia. His father died in 1872; his 
 mother is still living in Douglass county ; he has thirteen brothers and 
 sisters living. 
 
 His education, which is limited, was obtained at the county schools, 
 and by his own " hard study " at night, when the labors of the day 
 were over. 
 
 He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, a con- 
 sistent Christian and a good citizen. 
 
 In 1872 he was elected Justice of the Peace, in which position he 
 served two years and resigned. Was elected Mayor of Douglassville 
 in 1874. Has held no other oflfice, except the position he now holds 
 as Representative from Douglass county, to which he was elected in 
 1880. Up to the year 1874 he was engaged in farming; since that 
 time he has merchandized and practiced law. He is a Democrat. 
 
 In 1869 he was married to Miss Anna Maxwell, of Douglass county, 
 and they have one child living. He is a successful lawyer and a 
 rising man. As a Representative, he was prompt, industrious, intelli- 
 gent and faithful to all the interests of his county and of the State. 
 
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 HON. CHARLES G. JANES. 
 
 (POLK COUNTY.) 
 
 fHARLES G. JANES was born in Polk county, Georgia, June 
 26th, 1851. His father, the Hon. Wm. F. Janes, was one of the 
 most prominent and popular men of Cherokee, Georgia, having 
 been a member of the General Assembly when the county of Polk 
 was formed. His mother, Mrs. Emily A. Janes, was the eldest 
 ■daughter of Mr. William Peek, known before the war, as one of the 
 most successful planters of northwest Georgia. 
 
 The education of Mr. Janes was obtained under the direction of 
 his father, and under the instruction of Prof. P. J. King, an excellent 
 teacher, who prepared him for college. His education was completed 
 at the Universities of Georgia and Virginia — this including the 
 science of law. Mr. Janes has, from early childhood, been a close student 
 — fond of literary pursuits — and is now one of the best read men of 
 his section of the State. He is one of the mosc learned and successful 
 lawyers in Upper Georgia, there being only one obstacle in his way, 
 which is an extreme modesty that has continued to embarrass him as 
 anadvocate. 
 
 He is a Democrat of the strictest devotion to principle, but liberal 
 to those who differ with him politically. A proof of this is found 
 in the fact that, while the Independents are largely in the majority in 
 his county, he was elected to the Legislature of 1877 by a majority of 
 nearly 400 votes in a total vote of 1,270. He was again elected by 
 a handsome majority in 1880. 
 
 When only twenty-four years of age, he was appointed by Governor 
 Smith, Judge of the County Court of ^Polk county. The law creating 
 the court required that the Judge should be twenty-five years of age, 
 so that he was not permitted to hold the position. 
 
 Mr. Janes is a young man of much promise, educated and refined, 
 a sound thinker and good reasoner, with much of life ahead of him. 
 His friends are hopeful of most worthy and honorable achievements 
 by him. 
 
OF REP RE SEN TA TI VES. 235 
 
 HON. S. H. JEMISON. 
 
 (BIBB COUNTY.) 
 
 >HIS young Representative was one of the earnest debaters of 
 '{<\y) the House But few bills were passed during the session of 1 88 1 
 ^^ without being ventilated by him. Naturally of a nervous tem- 
 perament, his speeches were full of vivacity. It may be said that, as an 
 orator he was impressive. On some occasions, when more than ordi- 
 narily warmed up by his subject, the House appeared to feel his influ- 
 ence as a speaker. A notable instance is now in our memory when 
 he defended the lawyers as a class, against an unwarranted attack from 
 some member. This effort will long be remembered by those present 
 His address was eloquent and impassioned, eliciting applause as it. 
 was delivered, and complimentary notice afterwards, even from those 
 who entertained for him no special love or admiration. 
 
 Hon S H Jemison was born May 17th. 1852, on a plantation 
 in Jackson parish, Louisiana. His father, Robert William Jemison. 
 was born in Twiggs county, Georgia, but was reared in Bibb county. 
 He died in Macon, Georgia, December, 1878. His mother was Miss 
 Sarah Caroline Stubbs, and was born in Baldwin county, Georgia. 
 She is living in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has two brothers living and 
 two dead. Samuel H. being the youngest of the f^ve boys, spent his boy- 
 hood at Monroe. He was educated at the common schools in Ouachita 
 parish, Louisiana, and at Lexington University, Lexington. Virginia. 
 When about fifteen years of age he insisted somewhat against the wishes 
 of his parent, on learning a trade, became a practical printer, and served 
 faithfully in various duties connected with a daily; afterwards he was ed- 
 itor and joint proprietor of the Macon Dally 5/ar, a vivacious little 
 sheet which was obliged to be discontinued on account of the 
 impossibility of getting associated press dispatches, and the size 
 of the city not admitting of two dailies. Upon the death of the late 
 A R Watson, he was appointed city editor of the Macon Telegrafi/, 
 and Messenger, but the work interfering so seriously with the profes. 
 sion he had chosen, that of attorney at law, he resigned, and leaving 
 all other pursuits, entered into and gave his undivided attention tc 
 the practice of law. having been admitted before the Superior Couri 
 of Bibb county, upon a license from the Superior Court of Louisiana 
 His practice has been of very gratifying proportions. He neve: 
 has solicited or desired public office until 1881. but had filled th^ 
 
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 capacity of Corporation Attorney for the city of Macon, since the 
 death of his father in 1878, who preceded him in that office. 
 
 He is of light stature, weighs about 135 pounds, five feet eight and 
 one-quarter inches tall, with dark hair, and sharp features. 
 
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 HON. WILLIAM L. JOHNSON. 
 
 (JOHXfON COUNTY.) 
 
 ViO-'^^^ born in Edgefield district, South Carolina, in 1824, on 
 lr\v/ ^j^g ^jj^ ^£ jyj^y^ jfj which district he received a limited edu- 
 cation, at Germanville Academy. His school days inter- 
 spersed those of labor in the work-shop, i ntil he was twenty-one 
 years of age. He is the son of Seaborn and Barbara (Whitman) 
 Johnson. 
 
 Farming has been Mr. Johnson's principal occupation, though for a 
 number of years he added to this pursuit that of merchandising. 
 
 On the 19th of May, 1850. he was married to Miss Sarah McGraw. 
 Three years later he moved to Madison county, Florida, whence, after 
 remaining twelve months, he again moved, settling in Washington 
 county, Georgia, tn this county he resided until 1871, holding the 
 office of Justice of the Peace for fourteen years. 
 
 When only twenty-one years of age, Mr. Johnson was made Cap- 
 tain of a company of militia in Edgefield district, which rank he held 
 for six years. At the outbreak of the late civil war he raised a com- 
 pany in Washington county, of which he was elected Captain, which 
 was attached to the Twenty-eighth Georgia Regiment— General Col- 
 quilt's Brigade. After twelve months' service he was retired on account 
 of ill health. A short time after his return home, however, he connected 
 himself with the State soldiery, and served for a year and a half as a 
 private, declining to hold any rank. 
 
 Having lost his first wife, Mr. Johnson was married a second time, in 
 1867, to Mrs. Francis Page {nee Miss Bennett), of Terrell county, 
 Georgia. 
 
 In 1 87 1 he removed to Johnson county, where he now resides. He 
 was elected to the House of Representatives in 1878. and again in 
 1880, in both instances by handsome majorities. Mr. Johnson is a 
 Democrat, and has been all his life. 
 
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 HON. PRIMUS W. JONES. 
 
 (BAKER COUNTY.) 
 
 ^CTT would be hard to find a more energetic, hopeful and prosperous 
 'Cl man than the Representative from Baker county, who has carried 
 '^ his name into every cotton mart in the world by yearly bringing 
 in for sale the first new bale of cotton for the season. It has now be- 
 come a fixed fact, so far as such things can be made certain, that he 
 is to be the first to produce a bale of cotton from the growing crop. 
 In everything connected with his farming matters he manifests the 
 same energy and desire to excel. 
 
 Mr. Jones is a native of Meriwether coUnty, where he was born. 
 May loth, 1844, and is the son of the late John Jones, one of the most 
 highly respected planters in Lincoln county, who died February 17th, 
 1874. His mother, before marriage, was a Miss Elizabeth Strozier, of 
 Wilkes county, and is still living in Atlanta. 
 
 The family consisted of four sons and three daughters, and Primus 
 enjoyed a happy boyhood, mixing hunting, fishing and outdoor sports 
 with work and study, so he grew up with a vigorous physical develop- 
 ment to sustain his mental powers. 
 
 The maturer years of Mr. Jones have been full of industry and 
 crowned with success, and he is now one of the wealthiest and most 
 thrifty farmers in southwest Georgia. Being unmarried, he resides 
 with his sisters, thereby depriving some woman of an excellent and 
 desirable husband. 
 
 Elected, after an exciting campaign, as an Independent Democrat, 
 the subject of this sketch has proved one of the best members in the 
 House, serving his people with a zeal and faithfulness unbiassed by 
 partisan feeling, and winning and retaining the respect and confidence 
 ■of his associates. 
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240 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 HON. HENRY CLAY JONES. 
 
 (Dekalb county.) 
 
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 was Hon. John W. Jones, and was born at Rockbridge, Ma- 
 ryland. In early lite, the latter removed to Bourbon county, 
 Kentucky, thence to Georgia, and settled in Monroe county. He rep- 
 resented that county in the Legislature of Georgia. Removed to 
 Griffin, and practiced medicine several years. He was elected to Con- 
 gress in 1846 on the Whig ticket, defeating Hon. George W. Towns. 
 He was renominated, but declined further public honors. He after- 
 wards removed to Auburn, Alabama, and subsequently to Atlanta, 
 He was elected to the first chair in the Atlanta Medical College, in 
 1855, and held that position until the time of his death, in 1871. 
 
 The maiden name of Col. H. C. Jones' mother was Miss Charlotte 
 Pratte Rogers, of Athens, Georgia, who died in Atlanta, in 1856. 
 
 He, (H. C. J.) was educated in academies in Atlanta, Auburn, Ala- 
 bama, and Warrenton, Georgia, and in the Georgia Military Institute, 
 at Marietta, and the law department of Kentucky University, where 
 he graduated in February, 1871, with XS\& first honor. 
 
 He read law with J'ldge Charles D. Davis, at Monroe, Walton county, 
 and commenced the practice in Atlanta, m 1871, but removed his office 
 and residence to Decatur, where he now lives. He has three brothers 
 living — he also has three sisters living. He is the youngest except a 
 sister, who is the wife of Burt O. Miller, of Augusta, a son of Hon. 
 Andrew J. Miller. 
 
 He volunteered as a private, in Company B, Seventh Georgia Reg- 
 iment, when only 16 years old ; was color-bearer of that regiment, 
 and afterwards a First Lieutenant in the Fifth Georgia Battah'on. 
 
 He was never a member of any church, but is a believer in the doc- 
 trine of the Christian Church, as taught by Alexander Campbell. 
 
 He has held no other office except Chairman of Decatur Town 
 Council, and delegate to State Convention, which nominated Seymour 
 delegates. Is an attorney at law — taught school about four years in 
 Walton and Warren counties in this State, and one year in Bourbon 
 county, Kentucky. Was connected with the business department of 
 the Atlanta Intelligencer newspaper for a time after the war. 
 
 As to characteristics, he is highly social in his nature, loves his friends 
 and they never desert him ; he is very generous, and is sometimes 
 called a spendthrift. He is a Democrat — a ready debater, and pro- 
 
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 nounced by his people and the press a gifted orator of classical culture. 
 He was married to Miss MaryJM. Ramspeck on the 9th of April. 
 1872, in Decatur, Georgia. Has three children. He is 5 feet 1 1 inches 
 high, has dark hair and eyes, and weighs 180 pounds. 
 
 He was elected to the Legislature by a large majority over three 
 opponents — all men of experience and mental and moral worth. He 
 retains the confidence of his fellow-citizens, having labored diligently 
 and faithfully on important committees and in the sessions of the 
 House, where he obtained^an enviable reputation as a speaker and a 
 business man. 
 
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 HON. A. J. JULIAN. 
 
 (FORSYTH COUNTY.) 
 
 5OX. A. J. JULIAN was born in Dawson county, Georgia 
 December 2nd, 1842. His father, George H. Julian, was a native 
 of Rutherford county, North Carolina, and his mother, whose 
 maiden name was Adeline Webster, was born in Harwinton, Litch- 
 field county, Connecticut. His father died October 23d, 1858; his 
 mother resides with her son, the subject of this sketch, in Forsyth. 
 He is the only child of his parents. His education was acquired at a 
 school in Gainesville and at Hearn School, Cave Springs, Georgia. 
 He was taught very early in life the great evils of intemperance, card 
 playing, and like dissipations, and, as a consequence, is of sober habits, 
 and knows not one card from another. Sobriety, virtue and keeping 
 the Sabbath-day holy are rules of life which he has cherished and 
 observed from childhood. He is a member of the Baptist Church. 
 
 In 1872 he was elected Justice of the Peace, and served until 1873, 
 when he resigned. Was elected in October, 1880, as a member of the 
 House of Representatives from Forsyth county. As a Justice of the 
 Peace, his rulings were always impartial, conscientious and intelligent, 
 and, as a Representative, he has constantly endeavored to promote 
 the local interests of his constituents in harmony with the public 
 good. He is a planter and trader, and his success may be inferred 
 from the fact that he never bought a bushel of corn nor a pound of 
 meat for domestic use. 
 
 It has been a rule of his life never to give up an undertaking until 
 he has accomplished his purpose, and to do everything well which he 
 performs. 
 
 He was bom a Democrat, rocked in the cradle of Democracy, 
 and is still true to the principles and policy of that party — bowing 
 his knee to no strange god, however subtle the wiles of the tempters 
 to political apostasy. 
 
 His active political experience is confined to the period of his can- 
 vass for the Legislature. He was a candidate only fifteen days. His 
 public speaking has only been in the church and Sunday-school. 
 
 On the 19th day of April, 1864. he was married to Miss Minnie A. 
 Bailey, of Cherokee county, Alabama, daughter of Dr. Bailey, once 
 prominently known in Chattooga county, Georgia. They have four 
 children now living — all daughters. Chestatee High School, in Dawson 
 county, was established by his wife in 1880, and is now one of the 
 most popular and prosperous schools in North Georgia. 
 
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 His natural timidity is a ruling trait of his character. This has 
 sometimes been considered pride, as it has had the effect of making 
 him seemingly unsocial. In this he is misjudged, for there is no man 
 more free from ostentation, and no one who is more thoroughly con- 
 siderate of others whatever may be their condition in this life. He 
 deeply regrets the fact that this timidity of his nature should have 
 been attributed to a desire or intention of slighting any one, and re- 
 gards it as a weakness over which he would be glad to triumph. 
 
 In 1880 he was elected to five different offices or positions, in 
 Church and State, a fact which shows the esteem in which he is held by 
 those who know his merits. He ascribes all that he has accomplished 
 to the good training he received from his parents in his childhood and 
 youth. This is a feature that should impress upon all parents the 
 importance of bringing up their children under proper moral instruc- 
 tion. Solomon asserts that those who are reared under proper moral 
 influences will observe them in after life. 
 
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 HON. JAMES KEEL. 
 
 (CALHOUN COUNTY.) 
 
 EPRESENTATIVE KEEL was born in Calhoun county, 
 February 9th, 1851, and was the son of William and Mary 
 M. Keel, of North Carolina, both of whom died in October, 
 1865, within four days of each other, leaving two sons and one 
 daughter. 
 
 James was thoroughly educated at the well known Emory and Henry 
 College, in Virginia, and concluded to divide his talents between mer- 
 cantile pursuits and the practice of law, in both of which he has been 
 successful. Before and during the year 1878, he served as Solicitor 
 of the County Court of Calhoun, but resigned in order to give his 
 attention to merchandizing. Two years later he was elected to the 
 present General Assembly, where he has done good service for his 
 State and county. 
 
 Mr. Keel was married November 14th, 1875, to Miss Genevieve 
 Cook, of Baker county, and two interesting children have followed 
 this happy union of loving hearts. Both in private and public life, 
 Mr. Keel is quite popular, being a gentleman of easy and pleasant 
 manners, and a fine conversationalist. 
 
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 HON. J. J. KIMSEY. 
 
 (WHITE COUNTY.) 
 
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 »HIS estimable gentleman is a native of Cherokee county, where 
 he was born May 23d, 1849, and is a son of the late Thomas 
 M. Kimsey, who came to Georgia from North Carolina, and- 
 married Miss Emiline Stover, now residing in White county. 
 
 Under most excellent religious home training, and the advantages of 
 a common school education, young Kimsey settled himself for useful- 
 ness in his section of the State. In addition to the practice of law,, 
 to which he gives studious attention, he is an honored preacher of the 
 Baptist denomination, and serves the Church as well as the State in a 
 most acceptable manner. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Kimsey has served four sessions (including two extra 
 sessions) in the General Assembly, and was re-elected in 1880 without 
 opposition. Modest and courteous in his demeanor, yet he is zealous 
 and faithful in looking after the interests of his county. He has not 
 spoken frequently, but when he does address the House, he commands, 
 a respectful hearing. 
 
 in 1876 Mr. Kimsey was married to Miss Lou E. Craig, a young 
 lady of piety and worth, and three children have blessed the union, 
 only one, however, being now alive. In his home circle, as in his 
 public life, the subject of this sketch, is a model Christian gentleraaru 
 and a worthy example for the young men of his section. 
 
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 HON. LUCIUS M. LAMAR. 
 
 (PULASKI COUNTY.) 
 
 »HE Hon. Lucius AI. Lamar, the Representative from the county 
 
 ^ of Pula'^ki, is a member of that historic and brilliant family of 
 
 cT'' Lamars that are amon^r the most potential in Georgia, that have 
 been distinguished for valor in war, and statesmanship in peace, and 
 for genius in both, and who have illustrated themselves in every depart- 
 ment of the government. Among its illustrious members may be 
 mentioned General Mirabeau B. Lamar, first President of the Repub- 
 lic of Texas, and Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, present United States Senator 
 from Mississippi, one of the first statesman and orators of the country. 
 
 Hon. L. M. Lamar, the subject of this sketch, was born on the 27th 
 day of July, 1834., in Bibb county, Geori^ia. His parents were Jef- 
 ferson Jackson Lamar and Rebecca Lamar, who were born in Putnam- 
 county, Georgia. His mother's maiden name was Rebecca Lamar. 
 His parents died in Stewart county, Georgia, his father in 1837. and 
 his mother in 1840. He has only one living sister, Mrs. William Polk, 
 who resides at Rapides Parish, Louisiana. 
 
 Young Lamar was prepared for College at that famous school at 
 Mt. Zion, conducted by the celebrated Mr. Beman. He entered the 
 State University at Athens, and graduated at this eminent seminary 
 of learning in 1852. 
 
 In 1853. he married a lady of wealth, great beauty and high social 
 standing, Miss Mary F. Rawls, of Macon, by whom he has had six 
 interesting children, five boys and one girl. His sons are nearly all' 
 grown and are well started in life, manly, useful, enterprising men. 
 
 Colonel Lamar, after his graduation, gave his attention to planting, 
 on a large scale, and was one of the large and successful phnters of 
 the State. He was a fine type of the courtly, hospitable and princely 
 planters of the ante-war era, living royally, and dispensing a generous 
 and elegant hospitality with a lavish hand. When the war broke out 
 he was among the very first to offer his services, and he made a most 
 effic ent and chivalrous soldier and capable and glittering officer. 
 
 He went into the Confederate service as Captain of the Macon 
 Guards. He had, however, in his chivalric eagerness tendered his 
 company to Governor Brown to go to Charleston when Fort Sumter 
 was not surrendered, before the secession of Georgia. His company 
 was ordered to Tybee Island, where it was mustered into service and' 
 formed part of the Second Georgia Regiment, but on the company's 
 

OF REPRESEN TA TI VES. 249 
 
 ■extending the term of enlistment to three years, or the war. it was 
 ordered to report to General Lee, at Richmond. There was a fortun- 
 ate coincidence in this, as the company became attached to the famous 
 Eighth Georgia Regiment of Infantry, which became so bloodily con- 
 spicuous in the great struggle, and whose best fame is connected with 
 its command by Colonel Lamar. The Colonel of the Eighth upon its 
 organization was Colonel Francis S. Bartow, who was made General, 
 and fell in the first battle of Manassas, where the regiment covered 
 itself all over with glory, and where all the field officers were either 
 killed or wounded, Colonel Lamar, as the senior Captain, was promo- 
 ed 10 the Colonelcy of this historic regiment, and made an adminis- 
 tration as heroic and shining as any Colonel in the Confederate service. 
 In the Yorktown campaign he led the regiment in a splendid charge 
 at Dam No. i, and recaptured the works from which a brigade of North 
 Carolina troops had been driven. The loss of the enemy from chis 
 charge was very heavy, and the movement highly complimented by 
 General Anderson, who, under the suggestive soubriquet of " Old 
 Tige," won his fine character as a fighter. The regiment remained 
 in the trenches at the dam that they had so dashingly carried at the 
 point of the bayonet against enormous odds, for twenty-three days, 
 and finally returned with the army to Richmond when the Peninsula 
 was evacuated. 
 
 Colonel Lamar was twice wounded during his military carter, at 
 the first battle of Manassas and at Garnett's Farm, during the seven 
 days' fight around Richmond. At the battle of Garnett's Farm he was 
 ordered to charge the enemies" field works. He had 105 men killed 
 and wounded by one volley of grape and musketry, having to go 
 through an abatlis of felled timber with the branches sharpened. 
 Colonel Lamar in leading this desperate charge received a frightful 
 wound in the groin by a minnie ball. The unconquerable gallantry 
 of this heroic Lamar, men noted for stern courage and invincible he- 
 Toism, was displayed by a characteristic incident. As he lav on the 
 ground, the blood pouri'^g from him in what he had every reason to 
 believe a fatal wound, he raised himself on his elbow and waved his 
 men on with his sword. He was left on the field, and was taken by 
 the enemy. While being conveyed to the rear on a stretcher by four 
 Federal soldiers, General Winfield S. Hancock commanding the Fed- 
 eral forces, ordered the litter bearers to halt, and place the stretcher 
 under the shade of an oak. General Hancock was very kind. He 
 had quite a long conversation with Colonel Lamar. He requested his 
 surgeon to examine the wound, and ordered one of his staff to get a 
 bottle of wine for the wounded officer. The Aid was absent a short 
 while, and on his return saluted the General and informed him that 
 
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 the wine could not be had, as the wagons had been sent to the rear. 
 General Hancock said that he was just preparing to fall back to a new 
 position when the charge was made, and that it was a useless sacrifice 
 of life. 
 
 Colonel Lamar was recaptured two days afterwards by the Confed- 
 erates at Savage Station. He was treated with great kindness and 
 courtesy by the Federal officers, who did every thing in their power to- 
 alleviate his sufferings. He was confined to his bed three months by 
 his wound, and was six months on crutches. He was granted six 
 months leave of absence, with permission to accompany his relative, 
 Colonel L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi, to Europe, he having been 
 accredited to the court of Russia as Minister. Colonel Lamar de- 
 clined to go on being tendered the position of Judge of the Military 
 Court for General Beauregard's command, comprising the States of 
 South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. His wound prevented him- 
 from returning to his regiment. He remained at the head of this im- 
 portant Military Court until hostilities ceased, when he surrendered 
 at Greensboro, North Carolina, with General Joseph E. Johnston. 
 
 His military career was very brilliant, and he displayed real soldierly 
 capacity. But for his desperate wound, that took him from the field, 
 he would have become one of our best Major Generals. 
 
 After the war, he moved from Macon to Pulaski county, and devo- 
 ted himself to his plantation there. He lived the quiet life of the 
 farmer until he was called from his privacy and elected a member of 
 the General Assembly of 1 880-1881. He has taken a very prominent 
 stand in the House. He has introduced a number of important meas- 
 ures which he has carried through. His speeches are models of rhet- 
 orical finish and propriety, and delivered with the grace of the true 
 orator. He is a striking figure. A large, symmetrical frame, a dark 
 handsome face, with bright, black eyes, and long, black, silken hair, 
 gracefully clustering on his broad shoulders, a manner genial, courte- 
 ous and thorough-bred, and his whole appearance marking manliness 
 and cul ure. Colonel Lamar is a superb specimen of our Southern 
 gentleman. His striking qualificationns as a legislator have been so 
 conspicuous as to betoken and foreshadow his transfer to the National 
 House of Representatives, where he would continue the proud mis- 
 sion of his illustrious family name, and illustrate his district and 
 State. 
 
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 HON. THOMAS W. LAMB. 
 
 (GLYNN COUNl V.) 
 
 ^Vlf^R. LAMB was born on Cumerland Island, Camden county, 
 ••^'fvV Georgia, September 7th, 1847, being the son of Burrel B. 
 ■^"^^^^^ and Matilda R. Lamb. His ancestors, who were Virginians, 
 served with distinction in the war of the Revolution, by which the 
 Colonies succeeded in establishing their independence of the mother 
 country. 
 
 At the commencement of the Confederate war, though only fifteen 
 years of age, he joined the military service of the Confederate States, 
 as a private in Company G, Fourth Georgia Cavalry. 
 
 As a soldier he was brave and true — always ready to obey the 
 command of his officers whatever required to do. No matter how 
 gloomy the prospect, the heart of young Lamb was full of cheer, and 
 many who otherwise would have grown despondent, were buoyed up 
 by his vivacious and hopeful spirit. As a brave and bright soldier, 
 he gave promise of a manhood full of usefulness, and he has amply 
 fulfilled this promise, for he ranks with the most prominent men of 
 the seaboard. There is not, nor has there ever been, in Glynn county, 
 a man of greater popularity. His education was acquired in Glynn 
 County Academy, and when he quit school he went to farming, 
 which he has pursued with good success. Although he began almost 
 without a dollar, he has acquired a handsome property, owning a 
 beautiful home in Glynn county, surrounded by productive lands. 
 
 His prosperity is a blessing to his people ; for his ear is always 
 open to the cry of suffering, and his hand always ready to extend 
 relief. Such men have a grand mission on earth, for their acts elevate 
 and adorn human nature. 
 
 Mr. Lamb has held the office of Sheriff for six consecutive years- 
 and has given entire satisfaction to all classes of the people. 
 
 He would have held the office indefinitely, and by earnest entreaty 
 of the Bench, Bar, and people, for they were all his friends and 
 admirers. But his people, before 1878, had been beaten so badly in 
 every race for the Legislature, that they were determined to put forth 
 a man, who, combined with influence over the voters of the county, 
 possessed ability to represent it with credit. 
 
 It was universally conceded, that if it was possible to beat the race, 
 Mr. Lamb could do it. He was approached upon the subject, and 
 cheerfully consented to make the race for the honor of his county. 
 This was indeed a case where " the office sought the man." 
 
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 Entering the field with a majority of from two to three hundred 
 against him, after an active campaign, he was elected by near a 
 hundred and fifty votes, and redeemed the good old county of Glynn 
 from negro supremacy. He was again elected in 1880, by a hand- 
 some majority. Young, active, energetic, brave and true, his friends 
 fondly believe that he now stands upon the threshold of a life of 
 future usefulness and honor. 
 
 The grand characteristic of Mr. Lamb is his love of truth in all 
 things, and his utter contempt of anything that is mean and base. 
 
 He was married on the 20th September, 1866, to Miss Laura W. 
 Kendrick. 
 
GF R EPI^ESEA^ TA TI VES. ' 253: 
 
 HON. DAVID W. LESTER. 
 
 (JONES COUNI Y.) 
 
 5ON. DAVID W. LESTER, Representative of Jones county 
 in the Georgia Legislature, is the only living son of David and 
 Elizabeth Lester, was born in Jones county, i Georgia, in the 
 house he now occupies, September 8th, 1832. 
 
 His father, David Lester, was born in Newberry district, South 
 Carolina. April 8th. 1796. 
 
 His mother, Elizabeth Mullings, before marriage, was born in Han- 
 cock county, Georgia. December 12th, 1804 ; died December 24th, 1862, 
 at the Brown House, Macon, Georgia, while on her way home from' 
 a visit to her brother. She was supposed to have died from extreme 
 grief, caused by learning that the subject of this sketch was danger- 
 ously ill with typhoid fever. The father departed this life at his home 
 in Jones county, Georgia, May 6th, 1874. and was laid in Rose Hill 
 cemetery, Macon, Georgia, by the side of the wife who had loved' 
 and encouraged him through a long life. 
 
 The daughters of this family, who lived to be grown and married 
 were six, and one son. Of these David W. Lester and one sister are 
 among the living. 
 
 Hon. David W. Lester, being the only son living and youngest 
 child, was given every opportunity for improving his faculties that 
 money could obtain. 
 
 He was sent very early in life to Mercer University, Penfield, Geor- 
 gia, where he remained two years. Then he was sent to a military 
 school, at Greenwood, South Carolina, from which he returned after 
 one year, and entered the same class he had left, keeping the course 
 while in Greenwood Seminary, and graduated in 1854, with the highest 
 honors of his literary society, and second honor in his class, mem- 
 bers of which were John H. Seals, Judge George Hillyer, Hon. R. N. 
 Ely and Hon. Jessie Asbury. 
 
 During his early life, and to the present day, he has been a friend 
 to the weak and the poor, never allowing small boys to be imposed 
 upon by large ones in school when it was in his power to prevent it. 
 
 Having completed a successful career in college, he read law with 
 the expectation of casting his lot with the legal fraternity, but was 
 induced by his aged parents to remain with them at their country 
 home while they lived. This he found to be a big cross, as he was 
 ambitious for fame in his chosen profession. Yet it was impossible 
 
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 to deny them, as they were alone ; so he remained and comforted his 
 parents to the extent of his abihty, as long as they lived, doing all in 
 his power to make their last their happiest days. 
 
 In the late war he held i. commission as Major of militia, and was 
 First Lieutenant in active service. Since the war he has been Notary 
 Public and ex officio Justice of the Peace, member of the Board of 
 Education, and County School Commissioner, elected to both in 1871. 
 Resigned the oflfice of County School Commissioner November ist, 
 1880, to take a seat in the Legislature. He is also Master of Wallace 
 Grange of Patrons of Husbandry, deacon and clerk of Blountsville 
 Baptist church, and superintendent of Forteville Sunday-school. His 
 present occupation is farming, at which he is very successful. 
 
 In politics, he is a Bourbon Democrat. Hon. David W. Lester, 
 notwithstanding his health is and has been for some time very bad, 
 is an active man, but very prudenr and conscientious in the per- 
 formance of any duty or trust, that falls to his lot. In accordance with 
 this trait in his character, he refused to make use of any improper means 
 to secure his election to the Legislature. Yet he was chosen by a hand- 
 some majority against the most bitter and determined opposition. 
 He made quite a reputation in college as a speaker, and received the 
 highest honor his society could confer in consequence of his capacity 
 in this line. But on account of the change of plan in his life, as 
 mentioned above, no occasion for much public speaking has occurred 
 since he left college. As a debater, his style is earnest and convinc-- 
 ing, though not so stormy as most American debaters. 
 
 He was married to Miss Lou Calhoun, September nth, 1855, near 
 Columbus, Georgia. Again to Mrs. S. M. Patton, September 25th, 
 1866, at Griswoldville, Jones county, Georgia. From the first marriage 
 there are no children living. Four daughters and two sons are the 
 fruits of the second marriage. The writer knowing whereof he 
 speaks, can say his domestic life reaches as near bliss on earth as can 
 be found. In personal appearance he is tall, well proportioned, and 
 wears a heavy moustache, sprinkled with gray. 
 
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 HON. T. L. LEWIS. 
 
 (MILTON COUNTY.) 
 
 O^ EPRESENTATIVE LEWIS was born at Cumming, in For- 
 C^IV syth county, January 12th, 1848, and was the son of Major 
 '^(y^ John Lewis, a native of Anderson district, South Carolina, and 
 a most highly respected citizen. He died in 185 1, but his widow, who 
 was a Miss Eveline J. Lenoir, is now living at Duluth. 
 
 There were three sons by this marriage, Dr. C. R. Lewis, and Major 
 John Lewis, Jr., and the subject of this sketch, who were given the 
 advantages of an academic education in their native town. The latter 
 graduated with credit to himself and honor to the academy, and in 
 due time became an efficient School Commissioner for his county,, 
 serving from 1871 to 1879 in that capacity. 
 
 Mr. Lewis is a lawyer by profession, and has succeeded in building 
 up quite a lucrative practice. He is full of perseverence and pluck, 
 and as a member of the General Assembly always has his own way 
 of considering public questions. If he believes a measure to be un- 
 wise or extravagant, no amount of persuasion can secure his voice or 
 his vote in its support. He is conscientious, faithful and independent. 
 
 On September 12th, 1880, Mr. Lewis was married to Miss Cora M. 
 Stanford, an intelligent and worthy young lady of Milton county, and 
 this happy union has been blessed with one child. 
 
UF REPRESEN TA TI VES. 2 5 7 
 
 HON. WILLIAM. R. LITTLE. 
 
 (FRAXKlIX COUXTV ) 
 
 0>0HE subject of this sketch is a native of the county which he so 
 f^^ ably and efficiently represents, having been born on Nail's 
 ""^^ Creek, December 6th, 1850. His father, Crawford H. Little, 
 was the youngest son of JameS Little, who was one of the first settlers 
 of the county. The family of which Mr. Little is a member has 
 always been one of the leading families of that section of the State. 
 
 The old county of Franklin furnished a great portion of the territory 
 which now composes Hart and Banks counties, and before the cutting 
 ofT of this territory it was noted for its prominent men. The father 
 and the uncles of Mr. Little at various periods held almost every 
 office in the gift of the people, from State Senator down to Justice 
 of the Peace, and they, in all positions and under all circumstances 
 proved themseved worthy of the trust bestowed. 
 
 The father of Mr. Little was married to Miss L. C. Neal, a most 
 amiable and intelligent woman, to whom were born six sons and one 
 daughter, all of whom live in Franklin county. 
 
 Mr. Little was educated in the schools of his county except the 
 last two years of his scholastic life, during which time he was urder 
 the tuition of Professor J. W. Glenn, the justly celebrated principal of 
 Martin Institute, located at Jefferson, in Jackson county. Soon after 
 quitting school, Mr. Little entered the office of Colonel J. B. Estes 
 the present Representative from Hall county, where he read law. On 
 being admitted to the bar, he entered at once into a lucrative and suc- 
 cessful practice in Carnesville, the county seat of Franklin, where he 
 has ever since resided. 
 
 Soon after his admission to the bar, Mr. Little married Miss Dudley 
 Few, a beautiful and accomplished lady of Oconee county, and four 
 sprightly little boys are the issue of this marriage. 
 
 Mr. Little, who is a zealous member of the Presbyterian Church, 
 is quiet, genial and courteous in society, strong in his attachments to 
 friends, firm in his convictions, and unswerving in honesty and integ- 
 rity. 
 
 As a public speaker, Mr. Little is plain, logical and convincing, and 
 at times his manner is impassioned and eloquent. 
 
 In the House, no member has been more prompt in the discharge 
 of duty, or more punctual in attendance. While many of the younger 
 members have been more conspicuous, no county has a Representa- 
 tive of whom she can more justly feel proud than Franklin. 
 
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 HON. JOHN W. MADDOX. 
 
 (CHATTOOGA COUNTY.) 
 
 5ON. JOHN W. MADDOX, the young and promising Repre- 
 sentative from the county of Chattooga, was born in that county 
 he so well and ably represented, June 3d, 1848. His parents. 
 Dr. G. B. T. Maddox and Sarah A., the former a native of Green the 
 latter of DeKalb county, came to Chattooga from Marietta about the 
 year 1845. The maiden name of his mother was Dixon. His par- 
 ents both died in the county of Chattooga, about the time the subject 
 of our sketch became old enough to begin to think of doing some- 
 thing for himself. Before he was old enough for the service, he vol- 
 unteered in the Sixth Georgia, commanded by Colonel J. R. Hart, 
 though nothing but a boy, was conspicuous for his bravery and un- 
 compromising in the discharge of his duty to the close of the war. 
 "While the writer was not personally acquainted with his mother, he has 
 often heard her praised for her many noble traits. His father, a prac- 
 ticing physician, a man of great public spirit and enterprise, of many gen- 
 erous and noble impulses, zealous in the late war for the Sunny South, 
 to which he remained true to the last — died in 1869. Like many other 
 Southern men, he lost all his property, or nearly so, during the late war. 
 leaving the subject of our sketch penniless, and three little brothers 
 and a sister to take care of. At this time our young friend's prospect 
 was indeed dark and gloomy. No money or moneyed friends, with a 
 very limited education, all around him ashes and desolation, both ar- 
 mies having passed through the county, leaving not acock to indicate 
 the approach of day. 
 
 He turned his attention to farming, and did that as he dues every 
 thing else, with all his energy. It was not his taste. He concluded 
 Texas had more advantages and went there, herded cattle, driving 
 them through to Kansas. Then came back to Georgia and commenced 
 the study of law, "Young America" style, on his own hook. Was ad- 
 mitted to the bar, standing an examination of three hours on the stat- 
 utes alone, without missing a single question, and was licensed by 
 Judge J. W. H. Underwood. At once he began with his characteris- 
 tic energy to fight his way up, and now has a fine practice in Chattooga 
 and adjoining counties. 
 
 He was married August 15th, 1872, to Miss Bettie Edmondson, and 
 they have one daughter and three sons, all bright and promising. His 
 accomplished wife is entitled to full one half of his wonderful success. 
 
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 He was Mayor of Summerville, Chattooga county in 1878, which office 
 he filled with honor to himself, and gave full satisfaction to all, and 
 could have been re-elected but declined to serve the second term, as 
 his time was fully occupied by his profession. 
 
 Colonel Maddox was earnestly solicited by many friends to make 
 the race for Representative in 1878, but declined to go into politics, 
 but was prevailed upon to become a member of the Board of Roads 
 and Revenues in 1879 ^nd 1880, transacting nearly all the business. 
 At the urgent request of many friend?, in 1880, with reluctance he 
 agreed to become a candidate for the Legislature, and his majority, 
 four hundred and eighty-five (4S5), speaks for itself ; his opponent was 
 a gentleman of the highest order, against whom no one has aught to 
 say. 
 
 For his opportunity, beginning without means or help from any 
 source, at a time when the whole South was prostrated, when his own 
 immediate section was a howlmg desolation, without education, with 
 only his native intellect and never tiring energy, indomitable will, 
 Georgia furnishes no superior example of success. His intellect is 
 bright, sharp and penetrating, his judgment correct in the main, his 
 fund of common sense and tact in straits equal to his every emer- 
 gency. If he lives and his progress for the next decade equals the past, 
 he will need no other sketch, Georgians will all know him, and we 
 shall be surprised if his power be not felt in the halls of Congress. 
 Of his late legi>lative career all know; it is in the public prints. His 
 chairmanship of the House Committee on the investigations of the 
 Railroad case, demonstrate his standing in the House; He allied him- 
 self with the Democratic party, and was doing efficient service several 
 years before he was old enough to vote, and has at all times affiliated 
 with the party, but at the same time is liberal in his views, conceding to 
 those who differ with him politically their right to do so, always with 
 that deference that is due from one gentleman to another. He is 
 charitable to a fault, always ready to assist the poor, and champion 
 the rights of the oppressed. He is fully identified with the people he 
 represents, having been born and raised in the county, and the only 
 man who ever represented the county that was a native and to the ma- 
 nor born. As a debater he has but few equals in upper Georgia. He is 
 a man of fine personal appearance, generous and courteous to all. 
 

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OF REP R ES /•;. \T I'ni 'ES. 2 6 1 
 
 HON. EDWIN MARTIN 
 
 (HOUSTON COUNTY.) 
 
 00 HE subject of this sketch was born at Winchester, Tennessee, 
 ^\^ on October 4th, 1848. His father, Edwin Martin Sr., was a 
 
 d^ native of Fairfield district, South Carolina, while his mother, 
 Susan Martin, nee Witt, was born in Patrick county, Virginia. 
 
 Owing to the war between the States coming on just as young 
 Martin was growing up, he received only an academic education, and 
 when the schools were broken up, in 1862, his father placed him in the 
 •office of the Winchester Home Journal, where his education was 
 greatly improved, and where he acquired a practical knowledge of the 
 typographic art. 
 
 In 1863 his parents removed to this State to seek a quiet home 
 during the dark days, in which the "Old Dominion" was overrun by 
 Federal armies and bands of marauders. In 1864, at the age of six- 
 teen, he entered the service of the Confederacy as special courier for 
 General B. J. Hill, a friend of his father, and who held a cavalry com- 
 mand in the Army of Tennessee, during General Hood's campaign 
 to Nashville, and afterwards did arduous service with a "Corps of Ob- 
 servation" in north Alabama. 
 
 Just before the close of the war, young Martin, while on duty as 
 •courier, was captured by a detachment from Croxton's command, but 
 being quite youthful in appearance, and unarmed, he had the address 
 to escape by a ruse. He was riding at the time a mare with a young 
 colt, and thus easily passed off as a citizen of the country, especially 
 as he had no written dispatches or documents on his person to betray 
 him Rejoining his command the same day, he remained in the ser- 
 vice until the close of the war. 
 
 After the surrender, young Martin returne 1 to his home in Perry, 
 Houston county, where he devoted himself to study and the reading 
 of the standard English authors. A portion of the time he assisted 
 Major J. M. Richardson, Principal of Perry Male Academy, receiving 
 tuition in payment for his services as teacher. 
 
 In 1877 he devoted himself to the study of law, and, at the age of 
 nineteen, was admitted to the bar, after a thorough examination at the 
 February term, 1868, of Houston Superior Court. He practiced his 
 (Chosen profession for several years with success, being a portion of 
 the time junior partner of Hon. Samuel D. Killen, and senior partner 
 with Hon. W. D. Nottingham, since Judge of Houston County Court. 
 
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 In 1872 Mr. Martin purchased the Houston Home Journal, which 
 he successfully edited and published until April, 1880, when he sold 
 it to engage in other pursuits. He was personally and editorially an. 
 earnest worker in the dark and troublous political days of our State, 
 being an organized Democrat. He was not an aspirant for office, but 
 served in several important political conventions, among them the Gu- 
 bernatorial Convention of 1876. 
 
 Mr. Martin was nominated by the Democrats of Houston county 
 for a seat in the present General Assembly, and was elected without 
 opposition. He is Chairman of the House Committee on Public 
 Printing, and a member of several other committees, and he has been 
 a diligent worker in behalf of the agricultural and material interests- 
 of the State. 
 
 In 1873 ^l""- Martin married Miss Maggie C. Mann, of Perry, and 
 the union has been blessed with two children. 
 
 He is a Baptist in faith, Master i>f Houston Lodge No. 35, F. and: 
 A. M., and Treasurer of Ferry Lodge, Knights of Honor. 
 
OF REPRESENTATIVES. 263 
 
 HON. J. H. MARTIN. 
 
 (TALBOT COUNTY.) 
 
 COHERE were few members of the last General Assembly who 
 
 'i^t^ were more industrious or watchful of public interests than 
 ^ S^ " Martin, of Talbot." Seldom absent from his seat, he was ever 
 ready to oppose, in his earnest manner, any measure which he deemed 
 unwise or uncalled for legislation. 
 
 In the committee-room he was even more watchful and critical, and 
 no bill received his support or vote that did not clearly show on its 
 face that there was .^ome merit in its provisions, or that the public 
 interests demanded its enactment. Reinia: a lawyer of most positive 
 character, it is easy to understand the faithful manner in which he dis- 
 charged his duties as a committeeman. 
 
 Although not a very pleasing speaker, Mr. Martin never failed to 
 attract and hold the attention of the House when discussing any im- 
 portant question. As a member of the Finance Committee, he often 
 took the rioor in support of, or opposition to, some bill that had been 
 before the Committee. On such occasions his remarks were forcible 
 and clear, and showed a familiar acquaintance on his part with finan- 
 cial and legal points. 
 
 Mr. Martin is a native of Talbot county, and comes from an excel- 
 lent family. The war prevented him from obtaining a collegiate edu- 
 cation, but his thirst for knowledge has enabled him to store his mind 
 with varied and valuable information. 
 
 As a merchant, lawyer, and public official, he has won success and 
 hon r, and old Talbot county is proud to number him among her 
 rising young men. 
 
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 HON. c. c. McAllister. 
 
 (MONTGOMERY COUNTY.) 
 
 OOHE parents of Representative McAllister were natives of South 
 %^ Carolina, although he was born in Telfair county March 5th, 
 
 ^d^ 1831. His father, Samuel McAllister, died in 1862, but his 
 mother, Sarah McAllister, still lives in Montgomery county. 
 
 There were six children in the family, three boys and three girls 
 and only the rudimentary elements of an education were given them. 
 The subject of this brief record seems to have overcome his early dis- 
 advantages in this respect by observation and reading. At all events, 
 he has made a successful and intelligent farmer, and an honored and 
 useful public servant. 
 
 In 1 861 he was elected a Judge of the Inferior Court of his county, 
 holding the position for four years, and in 1876 he was chosen a 
 member of the Board of County Commissioners, which office he va- 
 cated on taking his seat in the General Assembly. 
 
 During all his public career, Mr. McAllister has aimed to serve his 
 people with fidelity, and to exercise a judicious and economical influ 
 ence in the management of county affairs. His several elections to 
 offices of trust show that his course and his fitness for serving the people 
 have been fully indorsed by them at the polls. 
 
 Mr. McAllister, in 1853, married Miss Sarah J. McArthur, whose 
 father has occupied a seat in both bran:hes of the General Assembly 
 in past years, and eight living children, two of whom are now married, 
 have blessed this union. The home of this family is made attractive 
 by the graces of religion and a love of ennobling literature. 
 
 As an active member of the Methodist Church, in which he lakes 
 a deep interest, Mr. McAllister gives a hearty support to all that pro- 
 motes the best interests of mankind. 
 
OF REP RES EN TAT I VES. 265 
 
 HON. JAMES M. McBRIDE. 
 
 HARALSON COUNTY.) 
 
 (/TV.'T, O member of the present General Assembly has manifested 
 ^'\/ greater jealousy for the interests of his constituents, or spoken 
 "^b" or labored more persistently in their behalf, than has the tal- 
 ented young Representative from Haralson county, whose unwearied 
 watchfulness never allowed a measure in which his people were in any 
 way interested to escape his observation. 
 
 He is an earnest speaker, a strong and positive debater, ?nd hardly 
 •ever fails to win the attention of the House and carry his point. 
 Always on the alert, he finds frequent opportunity to discuss the merits 
 •of local and general bills in which his eagle eye discovers some pro- 
 vision that affects more or less the people of his county. 
 
 Mr. McBride comes of good Scotch parentage and displays in his 
 •strong and manly character many of the best traits of that sturdy race 
 Hi-i father, William McBride, was born in South Carolina in 1800, but 
 removed to Jackson county and then to Fayette county, where he filled 
 •important county offices for many years. In 1844 he married Miss 
 Sophia McKenzie, who came to Georgia in 1840 from the Highlands of 
 Scotland, and afterwards removed to Haralson county, where he died 
 in April, 1878, and she followed him to the grave in August of the 
 succeeding year. 
 
 James, who was one of seven promising children, enjoyed the usual 
 education? 1 advantages of a country neighborhood, and, after leaving 
 school, came to Atlanta, where he spent four years as a clerk in the 
 •extensive crockery house of his brothers, McBride & Co., during which 
 time he revie ved his former school studies and supplemented them 
 with a valuable fund of practical knowledge. 
 
 Choosing the profession of law, he commenced its study under J. 
 A. Blance, Esq., and when admitted to the bar he found himself fully 
 prepared for the duties that were devolved upon him as a professional 
 man. Since that time he has built up quite a practice, and won a sub- 
 stantial reputation. 
 
 He was married, in November, 1874. to Miss Mattie Johnson, a 
 young lady well qualified to be a "help-meet" to him, and their home 
 is one of domestic joy and comfort. 
 
 Mr. McBride was sent to the present General Assembly by the 
 largest majority ever given a Representative in Haralson county, and 
 ■well has he repaid his people for this mark of their confidence and 
 

OF REPKESEN TA TI J ^ES. 267 
 
 esteem. His rare fidelity to their interests, his dignified and manly 
 course in the House on all occasions, and his valuable services in the 
 committee, all prove that Harabon county could not have sent a better 
 Representative from among her most distinguished sons. 
 
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 HON. W. H. McCLURE. 
 
 (TOWNS COUNTY). 
 
 tLTHOUGH born in Fannin county, September 24th, 1849, Dr.. 
 McC!ure"s father was a North Carolinian and his mother a Soutb 
 O' Carolinian. The former is dead, and the latter is now residing- 
 in Fannin county. The family consisted of two sons and three 
 daughters, whose educational advantages were confined to the com- 
 mon schools in that vicinity. 
 
 The subject of this sketch supplemented his advantages in various 
 ways, and in 1875 was enabled to graduate from the Atlanta Medical 
 College, and enter upon the successful practice of his profession in 
 Towns county. 
 
 Dr. McClure has never been a politician, yet he has of late held 
 two ofifices, that of Census Enumerator and member of the General 
 Assembly, to which latter position he was elected in 1880, and the 
 wisdom of his constituents in thus honoring him has been fully vindi- 
 cated by his faithful and efficient services in the House. 
 
 The year following his graduation, Dr. McClure married Miss A, 
 T. Holmes, of his county, and a little daughter four years old now adds 
 to the attractions of his delightful home her sweet smiles and merry 
 laughter. 
 
OF RF.PRESENTA TI VES. 269 
 
 HON. BENJAMIN GRESHAM McKENNEY. 
 
 (UPSON COUNTY.) 
 
 CV<> ENJAMIN GRESHAM McKENNEY was born in Monroe 
 (5'C^ county, Georgia, June loth, 1824, and lived there until Decem- 
 "^vT^^ ber, 1839. when he moved to Upson county, where he has 
 resided ever since. 
 
 His parents were William and Rebecca McKenney. His father 
 was born in Lincoln county, Georgia, and his mother in Hancock. 
 The maiden name of his mother was Hunt. His father died March 
 Sth, 1854, and his mother December Sth. 1878. Both died in Upson 
 county. Of a family of ten children, only two are now living, the 
 subject of this sketch and a brother. 
 
 He was educated in the common schools of Monroe and Upson 
 counties. On the 4th day of January, 1844, in Upson county, he was 
 married to Miss Sarah A. McKindley. They have had eighteen 
 children — thirteen of whom are still living. 
 
 He has always pursued the business of fanning, by which he has 
 made a good support for a very large family. 
 
 Although a moral man he is not a member of any Church. Politi- 
 cally he is a staunch Democrat. 
 
 His height is si.\ feet ; his weight about two hundred pounds, and 
 his health uniformly good. 
 
 As a Representative, he has been true to his constituents and to 
 the best interests of the State at large — always at his place and 
 prompt in his performance of every duty, either in the House or on 
 committees. 
 

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 OF REPRESENTA TI VES. 271 
 
 HON. JOHN D. McLEOD. 
 
 (TELFAIR COUNTY.) 
 
 HIS gentleman was chosen at a special election, to fill the un- 
 expired term of the lamented Hon. John Wilcox. He was born 
 in Montgomery county, June 7th, 1846, where he was reared 
 and educated. His business career commenced in Darien, first as a 
 clerk and then as proprietor of a store. After four years spent in 
 that city he returned to Montgomery county— called home by the 
 death of his father. 
 
 The senior McLeod was a prominent public man during his life 
 time, having represented his county in the General Assembly and been 
 County Clerk for several years. He was much respected for his 
 sterling qualities, and died in 1875, deeply mourned by a large circle 
 of relatives and friends. 
 
 Two years after his father's death, young McLeod removed to 
 Lumber City, where he still resides, and engaged in mercantile pur- 
 suits. By close attention to business and a judicious management 
 of his affairs, he has been quite successful, and stands high in the 
 community as a man of integrity and ability. He is a member of 
 the Methodist Church. 
 
 As a legislator, Mr. McLeod has made a good reputation. Although 
 quiet in his manners, and not much of an orator, he gives prompt 
 and faithful attention to the interests of his constituents, and generally 
 keeps a watchful eye on the main questions that come up for discus- 
 sion. In all his intercourse with his associates, he displays the quali- 
 ties of a Christian gentleman, and is universally popular with all 
 classes. 
 
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 HON. S. WARREN MAYS. 
 
 (RICHMOND COUNTY.) 
 
 JON. S. WARREN MAYS, one of the Representatives from 
 Richmond county, is a native of Montgomery, Alabama, but 
 since early childhood has been a resident of the State of whose 
 Legislature he is now a member. His father, the late Thomas 
 S. Mays, Esq., died when the subject of this sketch was quite young. 
 
 His early life was spent in Richmond county, Georgia. His educa- 
 tion being completed at Emory College, Oxford, where he was gradu- 
 ated in the class of 1872, and immediately thereafter was tendered 
 and accepted the Chair of Mathematics and Natural Science, at Kan- 
 sas City Female College. He did not discharge the duties of his 
 professorship but a short time, being compelled to resign on account 
 of illness. Mr. Mays studied law in the ofifice of his step-father, 
 Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, and was admitted to the bar at Augusta, in 
 1874. Since his entrance into the ranks of the legal fraternity, his 
 success has been marked, a good practice speedily being acquired by 
 him. His fine presence, coupled with a good delivery, soon gave Mr. 
 Mays a reputation as a forensic orator, and these gifts, reinforced by 
 a high order of intellect, and ready adaptation to the duties of his 
 profession, entitle him to high rank in the future as a lawyer and 
 advocate. In connection with the practice of his profession, Mr> 
 Mays has had considerable experience in journalism. 
 
 Mr. Mays has never consented to enter public life until i88c, when 
 he was a candidate for the Legislature, to which ofifice he was elected. 
 
 Notwithstanding a severe and lengthy attack of illness which kept 
 him out of his seat during the early part of the last session, he won 
 an enviable position in the House, and by his successful care of their 
 interests, has earned the confidence and approval of his constituents. 
 Noticeable among his legislative efforts have been the passage of the 
 bill establishing the City Court of the county of Richmond, and his 
 successful defense of the vast manufacturing interests of Augusta 
 against the threatened injury to the canal dam by the cutting of fish- 
 ways, etc. 
 
 Mr. Mays is only twenty-eight years of age, but his talents have 
 placed him in line with his seniors in the courts and legislative halls. 
 
OF REPRESENTATIVES. 273 
 
 HON. R. VV. MAYS. 
 
 (BUTTS COUNTY.) 
 
 c>r>HIS gentleman was born in the county he represents, Septem- 
 -^i^ ber 30th 1842, and was the son of a prosperous farmer, who 
 '" 2i^ vvas murdered for his money by Confederate stragglers, near 
 his own home soon a''ter the close of the war. 
 
 Dr. Mays was educated at Emory College, and, when only twenty- 
 one years old, entered the Confederate army as a member of the 
 Thirteenth Georgia Regiment. He was severely wounded at the battle 
 of Chicamauga, and retired from service for a time, but after his re- 
 covery he voluntarily re-enlisted and served to the end of the war. 
 
 Although a graduate of the Mobile. Alabama, Medical College, and 
 well posted in his profession, Dr. Mays has preferred to devote the 
 greater portion of his time to farming, which he made quite profitable. 
 His wife was Miss Laura J. Gray, of Butts county, to whom he was 
 married in 1880. 
 
 Somewhat liberal in his political views, and honest and straight- 
 forward in his dealings. Dr. Mays has won and retained the confidence 
 and esteem of the people of his county. Twice they have elected 
 him to the office of Tax Collector, and in 1880, after a most exciting 
 contest, he was elected to the General Assembly. He was also one 
 of the Census Enumerators for taking the last census. Being a man 
 of nervo'js temperament and untiring energy, his life is one of con- 
 stant labor, and marked by usefulness and honor. 
 
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 HON. L. L. MIDDLEBROOKS. 
 
 (NEWTON COUNTY.) 
 
 fUCIUS LAMAR MIDDLEBROOKS was born near Starrsville. 
 Newton county, Georgia, the 8th day of February, 1848. His 
 father died in 1849, on the day of the great frost in April, leaving 
 the family in moderate circumstances, and the ividowed mother with 
 the heavy care of raising and training six children. 
 
 The first school attended by the subject of this sketch was Jeffer- 
 son Academy, in Newton county, taught by W. S. Montgomery, but 
 he only went a few days. The most valuable schooling he ever re- 
 ceived was while in attendance at Grove's Academy,under Mrs.Johnson, 
 a Northern lady. While at this place in the pursuit of an education, 
 he ran away to join the army, and was mustered into the Confederate 
 service on the 25th day of September, 1862. and enlisted in a battal- 
 ion stationed at Atlanta, under Colonel G. W. Lee, whose term of 
 service was for twelve months. At the expiration of that time, Mr. 
 M. returned home, and in the reorganization of the Georgia militia, 
 by order of Governor Brown, was elected a Lieutenant, and with his 
 command went to the front and served till the close of the war. He 
 was in Atlanta during the siege of 1864, rendering faithful service for 
 his country. He was actively engaged in the fight at Griswoldville, 
 and at that place received a slight wound. From Georgia the com- 
 mand proceeded to South Carolina and to various places, until the 
 surrender of the Southern armies. 
 
 Colonel M. came home from the army and engaged in farming. In the 
 year 1867 he attended school about six months at Starrsville, and this 
 was the last opportunity he ever had of attending to educational ad- 
 vantages, which he deeply regrets. In the fall of 1867 Colonel M. 
 went to Honduras, where he obtained practical knowledge of the cus- 
 toms, advantages and disadvantages of that tropical country. But 
 this country with its varied scenery and rich products had not suffi- 
 cient charm for him to remain and become a citizen. He returned to 
 his native State in 1868, more devoted than ever to her people, and to 
 all her interests. He expects, in Georgia's sunny clime, to spend the 
 remnant of his days, and will ever lend a helping hand to develop her 
 resources and keep her in the van of States. 
 
 Colonel M. was made a Justice of the Peace in 1869. He moved 
 to Covington in 1870, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 
 1 87 1. Colonel M. is a graceful speaker, his utterance free and eas3% 
 
OF REP RE SEN TA TI VES. 275 
 
 he never seems at a loss for a word. He has held various offices in his 
 county, Clerk of City Council and Treasurer of the city of Covington 
 for three terms. Was elected to represent Newton county in the last 
 Legislature, which position he has filled with credit to himself and 
 fidelity to his constituents. 
 
 Colonel M. married Miss Emma P. Corley, daughter of James T. 
 Corley, of Covington, Georgia, on the 12th day of November, 1874. 
 They have two fine, healthy children. 
 
 In politics he is a Democrat, believes in the right of the people to 
 control their own affairs, that tne poor and the ignorant should be 
 aided and instructed, and that the wishes of the people should be re- 
 spected, however humble in life they may be, and that this course will 
 give us a government stronger and more permanent than that of a 
 selfish aristocracy. 
 
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 HON. A. L. MILLER 
 
 (HOUSTON COUNTY.) 
 
 LEXANDER LAWTON MILLER was born in Richmond 
 county, Georgia, on the 6th of November, 1848, and is a son of 
 J. N. and N. S. Miller. He graduated at the South Carolina 
 College in 1869, and was married on the 26th of October, 1876, to 
 Miss K. D. Hurt, of Fulton county. 
 
 Mr. Miller was admitted to the bar in 1871, and has, since that time 
 been following his profession. He was elected to the Legislature of 
 1877, was re-elected to the House of 1878 as a Democrat, and was 
 again elected in 1880. 
 
 Mr. Miller is an active member of the Finance Committee of the 
 present House — a committee whose reports will satisfy the most en- 
 thusiastic advocates of retrenchment in public expenditures, and has 
 rendered, during his entire service as a legislator, eminent services as 
 a member of this committee. He is a conscientious man, opposed to 
 extravagance in the use of the public moneys, and therefore a most 
 valuable guardian of the people's rights. He is a young man of 
 splendid talents, and is destined, we believe, to attain still higher po- 
 sitions in the service of his country. 
 
 H6 is a fluent, graceful and forcible speaker, and uncompromising 
 in his advocacy of what he considers right, while he is equally so in 
 opposing the wrong. 
 
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 HON. THOMAS W. MILNER. 
 
 (BARTOW COUNTY.) 
 
 HOMAS W. MILNER was born in Bartow county. Georgia, 
 September ist, 1846. His father, Rev. Richard A. Milner, was, 
 at the time of his death, pastor of the Presbyterian church at 
 Cartersville. He was a man of brilliant talents and profound piety, 
 but was called from life before he had reached its meridian. 
 
 The subject of this sketch obtained his primary education at the schools 
 of his native county, afterwards entering the Georgia Military Insti- 
 tute, at Marietta, as a cadet, and continuing his course there until the 
 close of the war, except a period of about one year, during which, with 
 the other cadets, he was in active service. Those who were with him 
 in camp and on the battle-field bear testimony to his distinguished 
 bravery. 
 
 At the conclusion of the war he began the study of law under his 
 uncle, Hon. James Milner, of Bartow county, and after applying him- 
 self for two years to the study of the science, he was admitted to the 
 bar in September, 1867. He entered at once upon a large and lucra- 
 tive practice at Cartersville. 
 
 In 1 87 1 he was married to Miss Annie E. Harris, one of the most 
 accomplished young ladies of Georgia, and daughter of Colonel J. 
 Watt Harris, of Cartersville. 
 
 We find the following paragraph in Biographical Sketches for 1878 : 
 "The command of words, the logical arrangement of ideas, the graces 
 of diction and gesture which constitute the elements of oratory, are 
 here combined with an active and comprehensive mind. Mr. Milner 
 is wanting in no talent which is essential to success as a forensic or 
 popular debater. Nor has he failed to make good use of his endow- 
 ments. He is one of the foremost men of the legal profession in 
 northwest Georgia, and on the stump in the fierce political contests 
 that have been waged in the Seventh Congressional District, he has 
 proven himself a foeman worthy the steel of the ablest opponents of 
 the organized Democracy. 
 
 "In 1868, when but twenty-two years of age, he rang out the praises 
 of our gallant Gordon, in his race for Governor against Rufus B. 
 Bullock, and in every campaign since, State or National, he has aided 
 on the stump to carry the banner of Democracy." 
 
 Notwithstanding the fact that Bartow county gave Dr. Felton very 
 large majorities for Congress, Mr. Milner, who was his active and un- 
 
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 compromising opponent, was elected to the House of Representatives 
 by an overwhelming vote. He led four other candidates by five 
 hundred votes, this indicating th ; great esteem in which he is held by 
 the people of Bartow county. This was in 1877. Again he was elected 
 to the same position in 1878 and 1880. 
 
 During the exciting debates of the session of 1878, when the rep- 
 resentatives of the people undertook to clear out the " Augsan 
 Stable," supposed to be teeming with corruption, and therefore pro- 
 ceeded to try certain officers of State by impeachment, Mr. Milner 
 was an active participant, and a leader in the work of reform and pun- 
 ishment. He was selected by the House of Representatives as one of 
 the committee to conduct the trial of the impeachment against Hon. 
 John W. Renfroe, and acquitted himself with great ability on that oc- 
 casion. His opening argument on the part of the House was a great 
 effort, fully equalling his reputation as a lawyer of ability and dis- 
 tinction. 
 
 As a legislator, Mr. Milner is clear in his conceptions of good policy 
 and laws, zealous to avoid bad legislation and to achieve all the good 
 possible for the people, and is an industrious and indefatigable 
 worker. The reputation which he earned in preceding sessions was 
 sustained by his career of 1880 and 1881. 
 
OF REPRESEN TA TI VES. 279 
 
 HON. ROBERT E. MITCHELL. 
 
 (GWINNETT COUNTY.) 
 
 NOTICEABLE feature of the present Legislature is the 
 unusual number of really young men whose names appear on 
 Its rolls. These members, however, are, as a rule, active, pro- 
 gressive and influential, zealously seeking to promote both the inter- 
 ests of their counties and the general welfare of the State. 
 
 Prominent among this class stands the Hon. Robert Emmett 
 Mitchell, who so ably represents his native county, where he was born 
 May 14th, 1853, of distinguished parentage, both on the paternal and 
 maternal side. 
 
 His father, Hon. Madison R. Mitchell, was for many years a prom- 
 inent citizen of Gwinnett county, which he had represented in the 
 House, while his father, Major Thomas Mitchell, enjoyed the higher 
 honor of having presided over the Senate, and a half brother, of the 
 same name, was also at one time a Representative from Gwinnett. 
 By inheritance, therefore, young Mitchell is a born legislator. 
 
 His mother, a most estimable and superior woman, was, before her 
 marriage to his father. Miss Caroline Agnes Orr, the eldest sister of Hon. 
 Gustavus J. Orr, now State School Commissioner. Robert being the 
 youngest of seven children, and losing his father at an early age, was 
 the especial charge of his excellent mother, who, assisted by his older 
 brothers, gave him all the educational advantages possible with her 
 limited means. 
 
 At seventeen years of age he started out in the world for himself^ 
 and by teaching school a part of the time he was enabled to pay his 
 expenses while completing his education at the State University, at 
 Athens, from which he graduated with honor in the class of 1876 
 having declined free tuition, and paid his own way through the entire 
 course. 
 
 Having had a pleasant experience in teaching as a means of raising 
 funds to pay his college expenses, young Mitchell decided to adopt 
 this noble profession, and accepted a situation as Principal of the fine 
 High Fchool at LawrenceviUe, in his own county. This position he 
 filled with increasing popularity and flattering success until chosen to 
 represent the county in the General Assembly of 1880. 
 
 Gwinnett has two Representatives in the House, and she wisely di- 
 vided her honors between one of her most brilliant young men and a 
 distinguished citizen of riper years, Hon. N. L. Hutchins, whose valu- 
 
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 able services have done so much to benefit the county and reflect honor 
 upon the noble father whose spotless name he bears. 
 
 While Mr. Mitchell has beer, extremely modest as a young member, 
 he has never failed to discharge his duty, whether as i speaker on the 
 floor of the House, or in the committee-room, or as a worker and 
 voter. Whenever he addresses the House he speaks directly to the 
 subject under discussion in a pleasing and intelligent manner, and 
 wins close attention. 
 
 No young member has done better service for the cause of educa- 
 tion, a subject which his daily life has made perfectly lamiliar to him 
 and which, in the committee-room and on the floor of the Hou<=e, he 
 has always advocated with great earnestness and success. 
 
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 HON. JAMES W. MOORE. 
 
 (HANCOCK COUNTY.) 
 
 t^OHIS gentleman is a native of Raytown, in Taliaferro county, where 
 4\^^ he was born February 2d, 1827, his father, James Moore, having 
 '^ d^ come to this State from Virginia, and married a lady of Jones 
 county. They became the parents of twelve sons and four daughters- 
 all of whom they made objects of especial care and training. 
 
 James was educated in the schools of Raytown, which he attended 
 for the brief season of two years. Making good use of these meagre 
 educational advantage, he fitted himself for a more than ordinary career 
 in public life. Besides filling the positions of Tax Collector and Sheriff 
 in his county, he was Commissary of the Forty-ninth Georgia Regi- 
 ment, with the rank of Captain, and also served on the staff of Gen- 
 eral E. L. Thomas, in the Army of Northern Virginia, until the close 
 of the war. 
 
 Like many others. Captain Moore suffered the loss of considerable 
 property by the late war, yet he still has an attractive home and a well 
 cultivated farm. After the death of his first wife, a Miss Chandler, of 
 Raytovvn, he married Miss Culver, of Culverton, which latter union 
 has been blessed by four sons and four daughters. 
 
 As a Christian gentleman, 'holding membership in the Methodist 
 Church, he is devoted to his estimable wife and intere>ting children, 
 and his highest aim is to make home happy. 
 
 Hancock county has repeatedly honored Captain Moore with offices 
 of trust, and he has never failed to discharge his duties faithfully and 
 efficiently. As a Representative he is prompt and attentive to his du- 
 ties, and while not a speech-maker, has many opportunities to promote 
 wise and needed legislation. 
 
OF REP RE SEX TA TI VES. 283 
 
 HON. A. M. MOORE. 
 
 (PIERCE COUNTY.l 
 
 tR. MOORE was born in the beautiful little village of McDon- 
 ough, Henry county, Georgia, and is now one of the respected 
 inhabitants of Pierce. His father, Andrew R. Moore, was born 
 in Rockbridge county, Virginia, and died in i860. His mother's 
 maiden name was Emily Louise Lamar, of Lincoln county, Georgia, 
 and died in 1850, leaving a family of three boys and one daughter. 
 
 Dr. Moore attended school at McDonough, Griffin and Lexington, 
 Virginia, and, after studying law, was admitted to the bar when 
 twenty years old. He has a very retentive memory, and it was said 
 of him when a boy, that after hearing a sermon at church, and return- 
 ing home, he would repeat it almost verbatim. 
 
 He taught school with success, and wherever he has lived has 
 always been a great favorite with the children. 
 
 After practicing law some time he studied medicine in the Medical 
 College at Atlanta, was the valedictorian of his graduating class, and 
 as a speaker has gained some notoriety. 
 
 He has filled several important offices, having been Judge of the 
 Inferior Court before the war ; afterwards Judge of the County Court 
 for several years ; then Clerk of the Superior Court for four years, and 
 was obliged to resign the office of County School Commissioner, which 
 he had held for four years, to take his seat in the House of Represen- 
 tatives in 1880. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, has been 
 Worshipful Master of his home lodge for many years, and has been 
 appointed several times to represent them in the Grand Lodge. He 
 is also a member and officer in Chapter R. A. M. 
 
 He enlisted in the Confederate service in the first company which 
 was formed in his county. In every public office, including the 
 present office of Representative, Dr. Moore has given entire satis- 
 faction. 
 
 He was married in 1854 to Miss Mary Brown, of LaGrange, Geor- 
 gia, but she lived only a few years, and in 1858 he was married to. 
 Miss Sallie J. Stowe, of Decatur, Georgia. He has three children 
 and two grand-children. 
 
 He is of medium height, thick set, with ruddy features, and by nature 
 generous, frank and of a very social disposition, which has always 
 drawn around him a large circle of friends. 
 
 He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a Democrat in 
 politics, though he has never taken an active interest in politics. 
 
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 HON. B. F. MOORE. 
 
 (TALIAFERRO COUNTY.) 
 
 /SON. B. F. MOORE was born in Taliaferro county, Georgia,. 
 \/ June 27th, 1827. He is the son of Elisha and Elizabeth Moore, 
 originally of Virginia, both of whom died in Taliaferro county, 
 Georgia. His father was a soldier in the war of 181 2, and held many 
 important positions in his county. 
 
 He was educated at the schools and academies of Taliaferro county, 
 and was raised as a farmer boy, working for and with his father. At 
 the age of twenty-one he entered a store as clerk, but returned to 
 farming, to which he has devoted much of his life — blending with 
 this pursuit the business of a trader and speculator in which he has 
 been very successful. Most of his property has been acquired by 
 land trading, which he has carried on extensively since the close of the 
 war. 
 
 On the 17th day of January, 1850, he married Miss Amanda 
 Rhodes, by which union eight children have been born — five of these 
 are now living. 
 
 In 1877 he was elected to represent his county and voting for the 
 call of a convention to create a new constitution, his term was ended 
 by the action of that convention. He was re-elected in 1880, and has 
 most faithfully served his constituency and discharged his duty to the 
 State as a Representative. 
 
 At the age of twenty-four years he was elected Judge of the Inferior 
 Court of Taliaferro county, and served as such for twelve years, which 
 period embraced the years of the late war between the States. He is 
 a conservative Democrat. It has been a rule of his life never to 
 betray a trust and always to prove loyal to his constituents. He has 
 never accustomed himself to public speaking, and was seldom known 
 to participate in the debates of the House. He is a high-toned, hon- 
 orable man, companionable, kind-hearted, generous and genial — one 
 who may be characterized as " Nature's nobleman." 
 
OF Ki:/'KESKX 7 A TI VES. 285 
 
 HON. WILLIAM J. NORTHERN. 
 
 (HANCOCK COUNTY.) 
 
 /TV r) \ILLIAM J. NORTHERN was born in Jones county, Geor- 
 --^^M^ gia, July 9th, 1S35, his parents being Peter and Louisa 
 ^>#^^ Northern. 
 
 His education was acquired in the schools of his neighborhood and 
 at Mercer University. He graduated at this institution in 1S53. and 
 immediately entered upon the duties of an instructor, teaching until 
 1875, the only years lost from this pursuit being those of the war, 
 when he was engaged in the military service of the Confederate States. 
 His success has jtroven his intrinsic merits as a teacher, as will be seen 
 by the following paragraph contributed by one intimately acquainted 
 with his career : 
 
 "In 1854 he began teaching at Mt Zi'>n, in Hancock county. In 
 1856 he became associated with Dr. C. "P. Beman, in Mt. Zion High 
 School. At the close of the year Dr. Beman withdrew, and Mr. North- 
 ern assumed control of the school, and continued as its principal until 
 1875. 'Ihe school became quite distinguished, receiving the highest 
 indorsement of such gentlemen as the late Hon. Linton Stephens, 
 William M. Wadley, President of the Central Railroad, Prof. Andrew 
 A. Lipscomb, Chancellor of the State University, Rev. D. E. Butler, 
 Dr. H. H. Tucker, formerly President of Mercer University, and oth- 
 ers of like reputation and attainments. Mr. Northern had scholars 
 from Tennessee, South Carolina, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Flor- 
 ida and Louisiana, as well as from Georgia. A large number of the 
 young men educate'd at this school have already filled important sta- 
 tions in life. Several were members of the Constitutional Convention 
 of 1877, others have been prominent in our State Legislatures, and 
 quite a number hold eminent positions as lawyers, ministers, and 
 teachers, in this and other States. 
 
 " Mr. Northern gave to his profession as an instructor the strength 
 of his life. He was often solicited to accept places in popular institu- 
 tions of learning, but preferred the charge of the school which he had 
 built up. Continued ill health, the result of close application, forced 
 him to quit teaching at the close of 1874, when he retired to farm life, 
 in which pursuit he has been enterprising and successful." 
 
 He is a member of the Baptist denomination. In i860 he was mar- 
 ried to Miss Mattie M. Neal. For many years he was one of the 
 trustees of Mercer University, and as such did much to aid the pros- 
 
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 perity of that splendid institution, In 1876 he was first elected to the 
 House of Representatives from Hancock county. He was re-elected 
 in 1877, and again in 18S0. 
 
 Mr. Northern is devoted to education and temperance and labored 
 most arduously for the promotion of both of these great interests 
 during his legislative history. In 1880-81 as chairman of the Com- 
 mittee on Education he rendered most valuable service to this cause. 
 His efforts were highly appreciated by the House and the country at 
 large, as well as by the members of the Committee, which the follow- 
 ing notice, clipped from a city paper, will attest : 
 
 ANOTHER LEGISLATIVE COMPLIMENT. 
 
 "At a meeting of the Committee on Education yesterday afternoon, 
 Mr. Northern, the chairman, was taken quite by surprise at being dis- 
 placed on motion of a member of the Committee who called Mr. 
 Mitchell, of Gwinnett, to the chair. 
 
 "Mr. Adderton,of Sumter, proceeded immediately to produce a beau- 
 tiful cane, prope ly inscribed and in very appropriate and beautiful 
 language, as the representative of the Committee, presented it to Mr. 
 Northern as a token of friendship and appreciation for his services in 
 the educational interests of the State. 
 
 "Mr. Northern, in receiving this expression of appreciation, alluded 
 feelingly to his pleasant associations with the members of the Com- 
 mittee and accepted the beautiful gift to be treasured among the pleas- 
 ant memories of his life." 
 
 His course in regard to temperance legislation is well known in 
 Georgia, and though not the chairman of the Special Committee on 
 this subject, was far more active and enthusiastic in regard to it than 
 any other member. He was selected by the ladies to present their pe- 
 tition in favor of prohibitory laws against the liquor traffic, and per- 
 formed this duty with an earnest enthusiasm which gave him at once 
 the position of temperance leader in the House. His address, as the 
 petition was unfurled, bearing on its face the signatures of more than 
 thirty thousand citizens, was impressive and eloquent. His zeal in 
 this cause did not abate, and although there was a defeat of all propo- 
 sitions in the form of a general temperance statute, he had the satis- 
 faction to know that severe wounds were inflicted upon this hydra- 
 headed evil by the enactment of many local statutes prohibiting the 
 sale of intoxicating liquors in various counties and parts of counties 
 in this State. The work he so anxiously inaugurated and for which 
 he labored so ardently was accomplished only in part, but what has 
 been done is an earnest of the final complete triumph which, at no 
 distant period, will be achieved. So long as a friend of temperance 
 
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288 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 legislation lives in Georgia the name and conduct of Mr. Northern 
 will be cherished. 
 
 As a legislator Mr. Northern was generally useful, always forming 
 intelligent views of measures proposed, and giving his voice and vote 
 to the best laws and wisest policy. 
 
OF REPRESENTATIVES. 289 
 
 HON. DAVID W. ORR. 
 
 (COBB COUNTY). 
 
 EPRESENTATIVE ORR was born in Jackson county, July 
 1st, 1829, where his early years were spent, and his education 
 obtained in the public schools. He was engaged in farming 
 until the war commenced, when he joined the Confederate army and 
 proved himself a brave and faithful soldier. 
 
 Before the war he was a Whig, but since the surrender he has acted 
 with the Democratic party. In 1877 he was elected a Justice of the 
 Peace in his county, and in 1880 was sent to the Legislature by the 
 almost unanimous choice of the people of Cobb county, whom he has 
 served with ability, fidelity and honor. 
 
 Trained in early life by Christian parents, John and Elizabeth Ech- 
 ols Orr, of North Carolina, the subject of this brief sketch has devel- 
 oped many sterling traits of character in his later years, and is a most 
 useful and exemplary member of the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 It is due Mr. Orr to state, that he was opposed to secession during 
 the agitation of that perplexing and exciting question, but when the 
 Southern States had acted in the matter and there was no longer any 
 use to argue the point, he promptly accepted the decision and shoul- 
 dered his gun for service in the field. 
 
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 HON. JOHN PALMOUR. 
 
 (DAWSON COUNTY.) 
 
 fIKE his father before him, Mr. Palmour has ever been a staunch 
 Jackson Democrat, although he opposed secession and favored 
 - Kj the Union movement. When, however, the Confederate States 
 were established, he entered the army and served for nearly a year as 
 Lieutenant of a company from his section of the State. During the 
 rest of the time until the surrender he was a Justice of the Inferior 
 Court of Dawson county. Both as a soldier and judicial officer he 
 did good service for his people during the entire war. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Palmour was elected by the voters of Dawson county 
 to represent them in the General Assembly, which he did in the most 
 acceptable manner, and he is again serving them in a similar capacity. 
 He has made a thoroughly good and safe legislator, and well merits a 
 continuance of the support and confidence of his constituents. 
 
 Mr. Palmour is a married man, a member of the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church, South, and a successful agriculturalist. Personally he is 
 a pleasant, kind-hearted ger»tleman, and in all the relations of life is 
 much esteemed by those who know him. 
 
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 HON. J. B. PARK. 
 
 (GREENE COUNTY.) 
 
 ^^f^ORGAN county, fifty-six years ago, was the birth-place of 
 ^i^lj^ Judge Park, and while she has given to the State many illus- 
 c^^C^vj? trious names, she may well feel proud of the gifted son who 
 to-day represents a sister county, also rich in noble sons, in the Gen- 
 eral Assembly. 
 
 Few of his associates have had a more active and useful career in 
 public life, or borne their honors more gracefully than he has done. 
 He has been Judge of the Inferior Court of Morgan county; a mem- 
 ber of the General Assembly in 1868-9 and 1878-9, as well as of the 
 present body ; Chairman of the Board of Education of Greene county 
 for several years ; Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, 
 and Mayor of the city of Greensboro. 
 
 Judge Park was elected to the present General Assembly as an In- 
 dependent Colquitt-Brown Democrat, and his majority was most cred- 
 itable. Pronounced and firm in his convictions, he always advocates 
 his measures with earnestness and clearness, never obscuring his 
 points with rhetorical flourishes, or weakening his arguments by mere 
 words. His opponents always respect his opinions, because he is 
 sincere, courteous and zealous in their advocacy. 
 
 In 1849 Judge Park was married to Miss A. E. Billingslea, of Greene 
 county, the accomplished daughter of a highly respected Methodist 
 preacher, and this happy union has been blessed with seven sons and 
 two daughters. One of his sons, a lawyer, is County Treasurer, and 
 an alderman of Greensboro. 
 
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 HON. WILLIAM L. PEEK. 
 
 (ROCKDALE COUNTY.) 
 
 fCTT is doubtful if there is a more popular, genial and gentlemanly 
 Qj, member in the House, than he who so well represents the above 
 ^ named county. 
 
 With a smiling face, a frank and graceful manner, and an easy flow 
 of language, he never fails to favorably impress all who come in con- 
 tact with him both in public and private life. 
 
 Mr. Peek is a native of Rockdale county, which was a part of New- 
 ton county at the time of his birth, July 31, 1837. His parents, H. H. 
 and Mary (White) Peek, are also natives of the county, and still re- 
 side there. The family consists of two sons and three daughters. 
 
 William had only the advantages of a common school education, 
 but his thirst for knowledge grew with his physical development, and 
 by a long course of reading and observation he has come to be classed 
 among the most intelligent and successful citizens of his county. 
 
 He, several years ago, married Miss Susan Smith, of Rockdale county, 
 and his delightful home is made still more attractive by the presence 
 of seven interesting children. As a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church and a temperance advocate, Mr. Peek devotes much of his 
 influence in behalf of religion and good order in his community. 
 
 As a representative of the thrifty, intelligent and prosperous farm- 
 ers of Georgia, he has been prominent in the General Assembly in 
 advocating and laboring for those measures calculated to advance the 
 agricultural interests of the State, and in most instances he has not 
 labored in vain. 
 
VF REPRESENTATIVES. ' 293 
 
 HON. EDWARD ALONZO PERKINS. 
 
 (BURKE COUXTV.) 
 
 ^:> DWARD ALONZO PERKINS was born in Burke county, Geor- 
 ^£) gia, on the 8th day of March, 1849. He was the son of Dr. David 
 ^6'^ S. and Mrs. Francis A. Perlcins. His educational pursuit was in- 
 terrupted by the war, he having, at the commencement of hostilities, 
 progressed no farther than the course taught in the high schools of the 
 State ; but since the war he has been an assiduous student, and has ac- 
 quired a large fund of useful knowledge, eminently fitting him for the 
 practical duties of life. 
 
 At the time when Sherman made his march to the sea through the 
 heart of Georgia, the subject of this sketch was attending a high 
 school at VVhitesville, thirty miles above Savannah, and was cut off 
 from his home by the Federal army. Although not sixteen years of 
 age, he obeyed the spirit of patriotic chivalry, and presenting himself 
 for the military service of the Confederate States, was received and 
 made a member of Pruden's battery of artillery from Milledgeville. 
 He served in the fortifications around the city of Savannah, and sub- 
 sequently made the march through South Carolina to Augusta, where, 
 being seized with a severe attack of typhoid fever, he was taken to his 
 home. 
 
 At the close of the war he entered upon the study of medicine. He 
 became a pupil at the INIedical College of Augusta in November, 186S. 
 ■graduating from that institution on the ist of March 1S70— seven days 
 before arriving at his majority. Since that time he has been engaged 
 in a large, successful and lucrative practice of his profession in Burke 
 county. 
 
 He was married to Miss Julia E. Jackson, daughter of Rev. George 
 L. Jackson, a prominent Baptist minister of Burke county, the ceremony 
 being solemnized September 29th, 1870. 
 
 Dr. Perkins is and has ever been a Democrat. Inheriting his devo- 
 tion to the principles of that party from his father and grandfather, he 
 may be said to have been born a Democrat. He has been elected three 
 times consecutively to the House of Representatives ; first in 1876, then 
 in 1877, and again in 1880, without opposition. 
 
 Dr. Perkins, as a Representative, is clear in his conceptions of 
 policy, and industrious in the discharge of all his duties, commanding, 
 by a courteous demeanor, the highest esteem of his associates and all 
 with whom he is brought in contact. The interests of his constitu- 
 
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 ents and the rights of the people at large will always be secure when 
 confided to his care. As Chairman of the House Standine Ciimmittee 
 on the Lunatic Asylum, he rendered mo=t valuable services, and as a 
 member of the special committee to investigate the various penitentiary 
 camps his duties were arduous and well performed. 
 
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 HON. JOSEPH H. POLHILL. 
 
 (JEFFERSON COUNTY.) 
 
 .^>OHE subject of this sketch was born in Louisville, Jefferson 
 ^^Q county, Georgia, on the ijth of December, 1841. His father, 
 ^ rV^ Thomas H. Polhil', was a gentleman of polished manners, fine 
 conversational qualities, exceedingly popular, and a good lawyer. His 
 mother, Miss Francis M. Boyd, was the daughter of Rev. Mr. Boyd, 
 who well deserved and won the character of an eloquent pulpit orator. 
 He was for some time the pastor of the Robertsville Baptist church, 
 in South Carolina, one of the wealthiest churches and situated in one 
 of the most aristocratic neighborhoods in the whole country. But he 
 did not live long to spread the Gospel truths through the instrumen- 
 tality of his eloquent tongue. He fell like a brave warrior, with his 
 armor on and in the midst of the conflict for the truth of the Christian 
 religion, He left a young and beautiful wife and two perfectly lovely 
 little daughters to mourn his untimely end— little Francis and Eusebia- 
 The elder of these two, Francis, was the mother of Mr. Polhill. The 
 writer knew her from childhood, and can testify to her amiability and 
 sweetness of disposition. She was truly one of the best women of 
 her day, and was ready to make any sacrifice to serve others. She. 
 with her father and mother and husband, were all members of the 
 Baptist Church, and died in the full faith of the Gospel of Christ. 
 
 With such ancestry, it was not difficult to rear a man such as is our 
 present subject. The writer knows but very little of the boyhood of Mr. 
 Polhill, only from accounts which he has had from others, but doubts 
 not that he was all that could have been expected of a good boy. 
 He was educated at the Academy in Louisville, and afterwards sent 
 to Erskine College, South Carolina, where he made such strides in his 
 course of studies that he graduated on 13th August, 1859, dividing the 
 first honor. 
 
 Mr. Polhill as a soldier. Not a more faithful soldier ever entered 
 the ranks of the Confederate army. He left his county with the first 
 company that went from it, the Jefferson Guards, as Lieutenant, which 
 went to Virginia, first in the Third Battalion, but was afterwards Com- 
 pany C, of the Twentieth Georgia. After the battles around Rich- 
 mond, Mr. Polhill resigned and obtained permission to raise a new 
 company, of which he was elected Captain, and which was attached 
 first to the Thirteenth Georgia Battalion, and afterwards with the 
 Sixty-third Georgia Regiment, but still later was a part of the First 
 Regiment Georgia A'olunieers. 
 
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 Mr. Polhill was with Hood in the Tennessee campaign of 1864, and 
 in that cold and trying march led his company while barefooted, de- 
 clining to go to the rear, even though called upon, preferring to endure 
 the sufferings imposed by his condition. 
 
 On the 14th of August. 1862, while at home on furlough, he married 
 the accomplished daughter (Miss Virginia A. Brown) of Judge James 
 A. Brown, of Louisville. No doubt much of Mr. Polhill's present posi- 
 tion and high moral character is due to his charming Christian wife. 
 
 After his return from the army he taught school in the day and read 
 law at night. In 1870 he commenced the practice of his profession. 
 In 1871 he formed a law co-partnership with Colonel James G. Cain, 
 of Louisville. As a lawyer, Mr. Polhill is equal to any in his section. 
 He is a fine advocate and an excellent judge of law, and no doubt will 
 soon wear the ermine of the bench if he so elects. 
 
 In i87o-'7i-'72 he was a member of the Town Council of Louisville. 
 In i873-'74-'75 he was chairman of the Council. He has been a 
 member of the Board of Trustees of Louisville Academy since 1870, 
 and a member of the County Bjard of Education for several years. 
 
 Mr. Polhill has had the unbounded confidence of the people where 
 he was born, reared and educated, and where he has lived during his 
 whole life — --the home of his parents and grandparents. Few men of 
 the State have such a record. Mr. Polhil embraced the religion of his 
 fathers, and has been a member of the Baptist Church for years. 
 
 The people of Jefferson county honored themselves in honoring him- 
 Though modest, and, by nature, retiring in manners, he has always 
 been ready to advocate, both in private and in the halls of legisla- 
 tion, truth, justice and equal rights. 
 
 Mr. Polhill was elected to the Legislature in 1876, and his ability 
 soon made him rank with the most conspicuous of those who took 
 part in the debates. He went back to his constituents with the plaudit 
 of "well done, good and faithful servant." He wa^ re-elected in 1877 ; 
 also i878-'79- 80. He still holds the position, and has made himself 
 felt in the Georgia Legislature. He is now Chairman of ihe Special 
 Judiciary Committee and member of several other committees. On 
 account of his industry, impartiality and good judgment as Chairman of 
 the Judiciary Committee, the committee presented him with a beautiful 
 gold-headed cane as a testimonial of their appreciation of his valuable 
 services. Mr. Polhill is still a young man. Should he live. Georgia 
 will be proud in the future to recognize him as one of her best and 
 most useful sons. 
 
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 HON. WILLIAM A. POST. 
 
 (COWETA COUNTY.) 
 
 v^p^HE subject of this sketch was born on the 22d day of Decem- 
 "S^ ber. 1848, in Coweta county, Georgia. He is the youngest 
 ■^ d^ child of Allen and Sarah A. Post, who were both native Geor- 
 gians, the latter of whom is still living in Meriwether county, Georgia, 
 where his father died on the 9th day of May, 1876, in the eightieth 
 year of his age. He has one brother, Z. T. Post, who is a prominent 
 farmer in his native county, and in the thirty-fifth year of his age. 
 
 Mr. Post received a liberal ediicatioi at the Grantville High School, 
 principally under the tutorship of his half-brother, James H. Croley, 
 and Professor Leonidas Jones. His education, however, did not stop 
 with his school days, but, by close study and extensive reading, he is 
 now considered a ripe scholar and a polished gentleman. As a child 
 he was remarkably kind, affectionate and obedient, and always a 
 universal favorite among his school and playmates. 
 
 His early pious training had a great deal to do perhaps in shaping 
 his high moral cha-acter now. In early life he attached himself to 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and has lived a consistent, 
 active worker in all its institutions, and especially in the Sunday- 
 school, where, as Superintendent, he introduced many new and inter- 
 esting features in its management. 
 
 Being yet young his public life has but fairly commenced. He has 
 filled the office of Mayor of the town of Grantville, where he now 
 resides, for three terms. In this position he won the confidence and 
 admiration of all its citizens, and displayed ma; ked executive ability, 
 mingling in beautiful harmony the administration of economy and 
 justice, tempered with mercy, as none but a large, wise-hearted man 
 could do. 
 
 By profession, Colonel Post is a lawyer, and as such stands de- 
 servedly high at the bar of his circuit. His zeal for his client's cause 
 knows no bounds. This characteristic of his nature runs through 
 all his acts, both private and public. Strong in his convictions, un- 
 swerving in fidelity, he never shirked a duty nor deserted a friend. 
 As a legislator, he is ever prompt, vigilant and active, and in every 
 instance has shown himself the friend to the people — advocating such 
 measures as in his opinion would afford relief to the poor, and ameli- 
 orate the condition of the dii-tress^ed. Perhaps the mott eloquent 
 speech he ever made, and one that was reoorted and copied exten- 
 
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 sively throughout the State, was delivered in the House of Represen- 
 tatives, August 9th, 1881, in support of a bill for the better inspection, 
 management and control, of the convicts of this State. 
 
 Having visited, as a member of a special committee appointed for 
 that purpose, the various convict camps in the State, and witnessed 
 the shocking cruelties to which some of them were subjected, he 
 was well prepared to expose those irregularities, which he did in a 
 manner that received the applause of the House and galleries, the 
 universal commendation of his constituents, and endeared his name 
 and memory in the hearts of all humanitarians. Thi^ speech is re- 
 garded by many as one of the most able and eloquent that was 
 delivered in either branch of the Assembly during the entire session. 
 
 As a public speaker he is logical, and often times eloquent, present- 
 ing his views in a clear, forcible and impressive manner. As a writer, 
 he is terse and pointed, clothing his ideas in chaste and beautiful 
 language. He has written many essays for public occasions that 
 would have done credit lo more pretentious pens. 
 
 Colonel Post was married July ist, 1869, to Miss Susie G. Arnold, 
 of Grantville, and a happier and more congenial union is nowhere to 
 be found. They have two children, and a happy, pleasant home. 
 Their home is proverbial for hospitality, and its occupants for broad, 
 Christian charity. 
 
 In personal appearance he is fine looking. With tall, commanding 
 form, well proportioned and erect, with piercing eyes, and clear cut 
 features, high forehead and determined look, he will impress you at 
 once on first sight. 
 
 Genteel in manners, tasty in dress, fluent in conversation and social 
 in disposition, manly and brave, he will face a foe, and yet so tender 
 hearted he will weep like a child at the misfortune of a friend. 
 
 In every position of trust he has been true to duty, and has so 
 endeared himself in the hearts and confidence of his constituency, 
 that already his name is being spoken of in connection with higher 
 honors in the near future. 
 
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 HON. W. R. RANKIN. 
 
 (GORDON COUNTY ) 
 
 •HIS genileman is what would properly be characterized a self- 
 made man. The circumstances of his father not enabling him to 
 educate his son, the latter set out to accomplish this object by 
 his own industry, which he has succeeded in doing after many years 
 of patient and unyielding effort. He attended the High School at 
 Anderson C. H., South Carolina, and the famous Thalian Academy, 
 and it was at these that he acquired an education, his expenses having 
 been paid with money gained by the honest toil of his own hands. 
 
 He selected law as his profession and entered upon the study of 
 the science with the same resolution by which he had been distin- 
 guished during his b'terary course, and, being admitted, began the prac- 
 tice with a prospect of success. In this he has not been disappointed 
 for his practice has steadily increased until it is now both large and 
 lucrative. 
 
 He was elected in I874 to the House of Representatives from Gor- 
 don county ; again in 1877, and in 1880, gaining at each session a still 
 stronger hold upon the esteem and confidence of his constituency and 
 extending his sphere of popularity over the State by his sagacity as 
 a legislator. During the present session he earned for himself a 
 splended reputation as Chairman of the Committee on Railroads, while 
 by his speech in opposition to the "Cole Charter" he not only re- 
 ceived the highest encomiums of his friends, but even those who dif- 
 fered with him on the question expressed their admiration of his pro- 
 found effort by which, for hours, he held the House in rapt attention. 
 He uttered the sincere convictions of his mind, and endeavored to 
 prevent the grant of a charter which he and many others regarded as 
 injurious to the interests of the people. This speech was regarded as 
 one of the ablest of the session and was commented on freely and in 
 a complimentary manner by the press of the State, 
 
 Mr. Rankin was married July 4th, 1867, to Miss Maggie J. Ramsey, 
 They have five children. 
 
 At the close of the present session the members of the Committee 
 on Railroads gave expression to their high esteem and confidence by 
 presenting to Mr. Rankin, as their Chairman, an elegant gold-headed 
 cane. This was a pleasant episode in his life which he gratefully 
 cherishes. We predict for him a future of great usefulness, and con- 
 gratulate the State in view of his ability and his fidelity to her varied 
 joterests. 
 
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 HON. W. A. OUILLIAN. 
 
 (BANKS COUNTY.) 
 
 5ON. W. A. QUILLIAN, Representative of Banks county, was 
 born in White county, October 17th, 1846. His father, Fletcher 
 A. Ouillian, who died November 23rd, 1864, married Miss K. 
 M. Meadows, who is now living in Canton. They were both natives 
 of Franklin county. 
 
 Being the eldest of seven boys, after the death of his father, he as- 
 sumed the management of affairs at home. The war had deprived him 
 of all but a meager portion of his school privileges, yet he was en- 
 abled to successfully bear the heavy burdens thrown upon his young 
 shoulders by the loss of his father. 
 
 Mr. Ouillian has not given himself much to public office. During 
 the war he was Orderly Sergeant of a company, has been Postmaster 
 in his county, and now represents it in the Legislature. This com- 
 prises his public record, all of which, to his credit be it said.shows that he 
 has been faithful, zealous and respected in whatever position he was 
 called to fill. 
 
 In private life he has devoted himself with some measure of success 
 to agricultural pursuits, merchandizing, and the occupation of a ma- 
 chinist. All his life he has been a steady, hard-working citizen, serv- 
 ing his people in public life only when the call of duty summoned him 
 from his usual employment. 
 
 Mr. Ouillian was married, February 14th, 1868, in White county, to 
 Miss Clarissa M. Dean, by which union he is the father of three chil- 
 dren. 
 
 Elected to the Legislature by a handsome majority, he is now serv- 
 ing his people in a manner that will convince them that they made no 
 mistake in the election of Mr. Quillian. 
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304 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 HON. N. RAWLINS. 
 
 (DODGE COUNTY.) 
 
 Ok^ EPRESENTATIVE RAWLINS is the son of the late John 
 Q)Wi|/ Rawlins, of South Carolina, who came to Pulaski county in 
 c^o^ 1819 and settled there. A year later he returned to his native 
 State, where he married a cousin, Miss Elizabeth Rawlins, whom he 
 brought to his farm in Pulaski. 
 
 The fruits of this marriage were the subject of this sketch, who was 
 born December i6th, 1824, and nine brothers and sisters, all of whom 
 are dead except two sisters. His father died October ist, 1856, and 
 his mother, August 6th, 1850, a truly sad picture of the ravages of 
 death in a single household. 
 
 The school advantages of Nicholas were limited to twenty days, but 
 his thirst for knowledge was such that he managed to " pick up " the 
 rudiments of an education at home, and to fit himself for usefulness 
 in life. 
 
 Before reaching the age of thirty years he was brought into public 
 life, being first elected a Justice of the Peace in 1853, next Tax Col- 
 lector in 1856, and re-elected in 1858 ; then Sheriff in i860, with a re- 
 election in 1864, and service as Deputy Sheriff for several years ; and 
 finally as Representative in 1876. 
 
 The Constitutional Convention of 1877 cut short the terms of the 
 members of that General Assembly, but the constituents of Mr. Raw- 
 lins wisely re-elected him in 1880, and he has made a most excellent 
 Representative in all respects. 
 
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 HON. MILTON P. REESE. 
 
 (WILKES COUNTY.) 
 
 fF late years this county has sent her most gifted young men to 
 represent her in the House, and Colley, Hill and Reese have re- 
 flected back upon the county that honored them, no little credit 
 by their ability, good conduct and wise legislation. 
 
 Mr. Reese comes from a noble ancestry. His father. Judge Wm. 
 M. Reese, who has so ably represented his District in the State Senate, 
 is the son of a former Surgeon in the United States Navy, who was a 
 grandson of David Reese, a member of the Convention that framed 
 the Declaration of Independence, to which he patriotically signed his 
 name. 
 
 Judge Reese was born m Philadelphia, but married Miss Lucy M. 
 Pettus, of Wilkes county, where they have resided for many years. 
 They have one son and one daughter. Milton was given the best of 
 educational advantages, going from the famous school of Colonel R. M. 
 Johnston, in Hancock county, to the University of Virginia, where his 
 education was finished. 
 
 About eighteen months before the war closed young Reese went 
 into the Confederate service with the Cadets of the Georgia Military 
 Institute, and remained until the surrender. He then adopted the 
 profession of law, and has come to be regarded as one of the best pos- 
 ted and most successful young lawyers in the State. 
 
 Elected to the General Assembly by a very flattering majority, he 
 has more than met the expectations of his warmest supporters. Strong 
 and clear in debate, and fully posted in regard to legal and constitu- 
 tional questions, he has exerted no small influence in the discussions 
 of the House. Asa member of the most important committees, espe- 
 cially that of Railroads and the Judiciary, he has done some of the 
 hardest work that has fallen to the lot of any Representative. Full of 
 energy and ambition, and with eminent qualifications for success, he 
 has made a record for faithful and effective service for which his con- 
 stituents may well feel proud. 
 
KUilNS, PHOIO^ 
 
 HAI nlsuS & CO., PUB'i 
 
 
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 HON. R. D. RENDER. 
 
 (MERIWETHER COUNTY.) 
 
 EPRESENTATIVE RENDER was born in the covnty he 
 has the honor to represent, May nth, 1842. His father was 
 Robert L. Render, a native of Wilkes county, and died in Meri- 
 wether county. His mother, Elizabeth H. (Anderson) Render still 
 lives in Meriwether. He had one brother and five sisters. 
 
 His early education was of a fine order, and was received at the re- 
 nowned Mercer and State University at Athens. As a student he 
 applied himself assiduously to his tasks and was an apt scholar. He 
 gained some notoriety as a declaimer while at College, and won the 
 second prize for declamation in the Sophomore class of i860. 
 
 He studied law at Greenville, his home, and was admitted to the 
 bar in that place. He has, however, devoted the most of his time to 
 agricultural pursuits. He owns a fine farm, and is a very successful 
 planter. He is one of the most valued and respected citizens of Mer- 
 iwether, and when he was made the regular nominee of the Demo- 
 cratic party to the House of Representatives he carried his election by 
 a large majority over the Independent candidate. He has fulfilled the 
 trust placed in his hands in a highly satisfactory manner. He was 
 very prompt in his attendance upon each session, and took an earnest, 
 watchful interest in every measure. If there was an appearance of a 
 bill being unconstitutional, it was contested by Mr. Render, and not a 
 few unconstitutional bills suffered severely at his hands. 
 
 He seldom addressed the House, but when he did, it was in a point- 
 ed and pleasine manner. He was a member of the Special Commit- 
 tee on the Judiciary, Committee on Corporation, and others, and was 
 always ready to do his duty in them all. 
 
 He was married to Miss Sallie E. White, of Lowndes county, Ala- 
 bama, January 25th, 1871, and has no children. 
 
 He is of medium height, light hair, blue eyes, pleasant face, and 
 though naturally reserved in manners at fir.st, is a good companion 
 after a little acquaintance, and his friendship for his friends is almost 
 unlimited. He is a close observer and a Careful thinker, and well 
 posted in matters of the times. 
 
 In politics he is a Democrat, in religious sentiment a Baptist, being 
 a consistent member of that denomination. He was a member of the 
 Constitutional Convention in 1877, and has been an efficient Chair- 
 man of the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of 
 Meriwether county, until his resignation to take his seat in the House, 
 in x88o. 
 
KUHNSV BHOTO. 
 
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 HON. F. P. RICE. 
 
 (FULTON COUNTY.) 
 
 ^^TT P. RICE was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, October 28th, 
 |2J^, 1S38. His father, William Hardin Rice, was a native of the 
 -Ti State of Vermont, and is of Welsh extraction. His mother, 
 whose maiden name was Elmira James, was born in Whitefield, New 
 Hampshire. She is of English descent. His parents came to Atlanta 
 in its early days. Thev are now living here at a ripe old age. 
 
 F. P. Rice received his education in Atlanta, being neither possessed 
 of the means nor the desire to leave the schools of his own home for 
 others that offered no better advantages. In his youth it was not so 
 common to pass a collegiate course before entering upon the stern 
 duties of life, and the young hero whom we sketch launched out early 
 as the architect of his own fortune, with only a rudimentary English 
 education, but feeling himself equal to the work before him. 
 
 He commenced business by selling books, papers and periodicals, 
 and peddling articles of small value, but of utility, on the streets. In 
 this pursuit he was always successful, seeming 'o win custom by his 
 frank and genial disposition. 
 
 When a small boy, he was wisely impressed with the importance of 
 learning a trade, and, as he always does, he acted out his convictions 
 promptly, signing an indenture of apprenticeship to the trade of book- 
 binding for a term of three and a half years. Having served out his 
 term faithfully, he began work as a journeyman book-binder, and 
 worked two months in that capacity, when it occurred to him that he 
 could make more money at some other pursuit. He accordingly com- 
 menced contracting for small jobs of masonry, and soon, by perse- 
 verance, industry and economy, accumulated a sufficient capital to 
 warrant him in taking larger contracts. It was his good fortune to 
 secure a large job on the Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama Rail- 
 road. This embraced all the masonry on that line between White- 
 water and the Chattahoochee river, and the splendid execution of this 
 work stands to-day as a monument to his faithfulness and practical 
 judgment. 
 
 At the close of the war he went into the business of a broker in At- 
 lanta, but soon abandoned that pursuit for the lumber trade. This 
 he engaged in and prosecuted on a large scale until ^ short time since. 
 
 He has accumulated money and property rapidly since the date of 
 his first railroad contract, and has invested all of his surplus capital 
 
310 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 in the Gate City. As a consequence, he now owns a large amount of 
 valuable real estate here, most of which is well improved. His real 
 property in Atlanta is estimated as being worth at least one hundred 
 thousand dollars, and its value is constantly increasing. 
 
 From his entry upon business life as a newsboy to the present day, 
 he has been scrupulously punctual in the performance of his financial 
 engagements, and it is now a source of true gratification to him that 
 he has never had a debt to pass maturity unpaid. This feature in his 
 history is most worthy the imitation of the youth of Georgia. It cre- 
 ated in his favor the confidence of observing men of means, and he 
 never lacked a friend in times of need. 
 
 From early manhood he has manifested an interest in the politics of 
 the country, and has always helped his friends in their political con- 
 tests. He is a Democrat, always has been, and expects to be, but is the 
 friend of all, of whatever party, condition or color, who act honestly 
 and live uprightly. He is particularly the sympathising friend of the 
 poor. The churches, charitable institutions and schools of Atlanta 
 and Fulton county have had no more earnest nor more liberal sup- 
 porter, considering his means — indeed, his interest in the subject of 
 education is limited only by the extent of the State, as is evidenced by 
 his introduction of a bill to appropriate the remaining half of the 
 rental of the State Road to the purpose of general education in Georgia. 
 
 Three times he has been elected a member of the City Council of 
 Atlanta, and has rendered good service in this capacity, looking after 
 the public interest with the same vigilance, and sustaining an admin- 
 istrative policy, at all times, with the same sound judgment which 
 has characterized the management of his private estate. 
 
 In 1880 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Fulton 
 county, leading all other candidates in the race. So universal was his 
 popularity that from his entry into the contest his election was spoken 
 of. not as a contingency, but as a certain result. 
 
 His co'irse as a Representative was marked by sound discretion, 
 zeal for beneficial laws, and unabating labor before the committees 
 and the House to secure the passage of such bills as would not only 
 promote the interests of his immediate constituency, but of the State 
 • at large. Therefore, we find him introducing and urging the "Cole 
 Charter" and the Atlanca and Alabama Railroad charter, both of 
 which are valuable feeders to the trade and travel of Atlanta, and both 
 developers of the material resources of Georgia. One gives us a 
 shorter route to the Atlantic and to the Queen City of the West, while 
 the latter assumes the name of "The Southern Pacific," and stretches 
 out towards the Pacific coast, traversing the rich coal and iron fields 
 of Alabama, and the cotton fields of the Southwest, pouring its im- 
 
OF REPRESEN TA TI FES. 3 1 1 
 
 mense freights, gathered from hitherto undeveloped sections, into our 
 own Gate City. But for the untiring and unyielding efforts of Mr. 
 Rice, it is probable that both of these great works of internal improve- 
 ment would have been defeated. The future can only show how much 
 he has achieved for the city of Atlanta, the State and the country, by 
 his persistent eff jris in behalf of these great enterprises. 
 
 He also gave his inlluince to the building of a new Capitol for the 
 State, in Atlanta, and although his effort for this purpose was unsuc- 
 cessful, his labors in tliis behalf are none the less commendable. If 
 he should b^ elected to another term, as he probably will, it may 
 be confidently expected that he will carry the measure triumphantly 
 through the next General Assembly. 
 
 The writer of this sketch bears testimony to the fact that he was a 
 most watchful, industrious, laborious and intelligent Representative, 
 He served on several important committees of the House, but took 
 more interest in the Committee on Railroads than in any other, be- 
 cause the great projects referred to had to pass the ordeal of that Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 He was married to a daughter of Rev. I. G. Mitchell, of Atlanta, 
 May 6th, 1851, and has one son, aged about fourteen years. Although 
 inclined to the Methodist persuasion, he is not a member of any 
 church. His habits are moral and temperate, his sympathies are 
 strong, his nature generous. He never forgets a friend, and has hosts 
 of them here and elsewhere in Georgia. No man knows more people 
 in this city and county, nor in the State at large, than he, and we doubt 
 if he has a single enemy among them all. 
 
 It is absolutely true that he has never been defeated in politics nor 
 failed in his business ventures. He lives at 198 Peachtree street, 
 where he has resided for a number of years, and where it is his purpose 
 to spend the remainder of his life. 
 
 Should he be again called into the field by his friends, as a candi- 
 date for the House, he can point to his legislative career with pride, 
 and to his whole life as an evidence of his ability and inclination to 
 «erve the people well. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 HON. JAMES MADISON RITCHIE. 
 
 (RABUN COUNTY) 
 
 'HIS gentleman was born in Pickens county, Soutti Carolina, Jan- 
 ,^^ uary 15th, 1825, but his parents removed during that year ta 
 ■^ c>^ North Carolina, where they remained seven years, and then came 
 to Rabun county, Georgia. 
 
 His father was a native of North Carolina, where he was born in 
 1780, and served in the war of 1812. His mother, before marriage, 
 was Miss Rebecca Moore. The former died in September, 1850, and 
 the latter in August, 1879, leaving a family of eight daughters and 
 four sons. 
 
 James spent his boyhood on a farm in Rabun county, and was edu- 
 cated at the schools in his neighborhood. In 1850 he made a trip to 
 the West, but returned the following year, and engaged in farming. 
 Another attack of the " Western Fever " followed soon after, and in 
 company with a brother and several friends, he made a trip to Cali- 
 fornia, via Panama. 
 
 In 1856 Mr. Ritchie was married to Miss Maria E. Dickerson, by 
 whom he has had four children. During the late war he served for 
 nearly two years in the Confederate cavalry. He has been justice of 
 the Peace in his county, and is now a Notary Public. 
 
 Yielding to the earnest solicitations of his friends he became a can- 
 didate for the Legislature, and was elected to the House by a small 
 majority. Although not conspicuous as a worker or speaker, Mr> 
 Ritchie has made a good legislator, and his constituents have no cause 
 to regret that they conferred this honor upon him. 
 
GF REPRESEN TA TI VES. 3 1 3 
 
 HON. HENRY C. RONEY. 
 
 (McDUFFIE COUNTY. ) 
 
 'ENRY C. RONEY wes born in Warren county, Georgia, De- 
 cember the 31st, 1S44. His parents were Thomas and Jane 
 "%'^ Roney. He left school at the commencement of the war in 
 1861, and joined the McDuffie Rifles, at the ae;e of sixteen, and, after 
 leaving with the company, was remanded home on account of his 
 youthful age. Determined, however, to enter the service, he joined 
 the ne.xt company leaving the county, the Gardner \'olunteers, with 
 which he went to Virginia. This company was a part of the 22d 
 Georgia Regiment, commanded by John Jones and in General A. R. 
 Wright's Brigade. He was with his command throughout the cam- 
 paigns of the Virginia army ; was slightly wounded at Gettysburg, 
 and severely at Petersburg, on the 23d of June, 1864, in the ankle, 
 making him a cripple for ten years. 
 
 Returning home, he found all of his property gone, and, for a sup- 
 port, engaged in teaching, having to use crutches on account of the 
 wound received. With means acquired from teaching, together with 
 some loaned him, he was enabled to enter the University of Georgia 
 in 1867, and graduated therefrom in the class of 1870. With his cer- 
 tificate from the law-school of the University, he was admitted to the 
 bar of Hancock Superior Court in October of that year. He has since 
 practiced his profession at Thomson, his present home. He has 
 twice been Mayor of Thomson. On the nth of December, 1873, he 
 was married to Miss Bettie Florence, of Giennville, Alabama. 
 
 Mr. Roney is a gentleman of brains and culture, and a firm adhe- 
 rent of the principles for which he risked life and fortune in his early 
 youth as a soldier. The heroism which marked his career as a soldier 
 has characterized the events of his life since, when as a cripple he left 
 his country's service to make a future for himself. He has overcome 
 the obstacles which the loss of fortune threw in his way in 1865, 
 having attained in the ranks of his profession a reputation of high 
 character and a competency for the comfortable support of his family. 
 
 At the election in 1877, for a Representative, Hon. J. S. Jones was 
 elected to represent McDuffie county. On account of his resignation 
 a second election was held, resulting in the election of the subject of 
 this sketch by 600 majority over two opponents. 
 
 Mr. Roney was nominated by the people of McDuffie county to 
 represent the Senatorial District of which that county is a part, and 
 
314 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 in the District Convention tied his opponent for another county, and a 
 third man had to be brought in to break the dead-lock. He was 
 elected to the House in iSSo. and has fully sustained his early repu- 
 tation as a wise and prudent legislator. 
 
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 HON. HENRY M. SAPP. 
 
 (THOMAS COUNTY ) 
 
 JON. THEOPHILUS SAPP, the father of the subject of this 
 sketch, was a gentleman of high character and great wealth, 
 and a native of Burke county. He declined all political prefer- 
 ment, but accepted the office of Judge of the Inferior Court of his 
 county. He married Miss N. F. Clark, of Jasper county, who died in 
 1862, his own deaih occurring in 1878, in that county. 
 
 Henry was born in Chattahoochee county, June 19th, 1840, and has 
 one brother and sister. After completing his preparatory education, 
 he entered Emory College, at Oxford, and graduated in the class of 
 1859, numbering among his most distinguished classmates Rev. Dr. 
 A. G. Haygood, now President of the College, and Rev. Dr. J. W. 
 Heidt, recently elected President of the Methodist Female College at 
 LaGrange. 
 
 He read and practiced law until two years after graduating, when 
 he entered the Confederate army, where he did gallant service for the 
 cause he had so zealously espoused. He was wounded in 1864, and 
 had a very narrow escape from death. Later he was elected Captain 
 of the City Light Guards, of Columbus, one of the finest volunteer 
 commands in the service. 
 
 At the close of the war, in 1865, Captain Sapp was happily wedded 
 to Miss Lizzie Blackshear, a niece of General Thomas Blackshear, 
 one of Georgia's distinguished sons. One child only has blessed this 
 union and gladdened a home where domestic joy prevails, and a gen- 
 erous and charming hospitality is extended to a large circle of ad- 
 miring friends. 
 
 As the result of careful and pious home training in his youth, he 
 grew up to manhood in the development of good habits and stern in- 
 tegrity of character, and is now a faithful Steward in the Methodist 
 church at Thomasville. 
 
 With his genial and pleasant manners. Captain Sapp has drawn 
 around him many of the people of his county who admire his sterling 
 qualities and untiring energy, and who have, in consequence, pressed 
 him into their service on various occasions. 
 
 He was for a time President of the South Georgia Agricultural 
 Fair Association, of Thomasville, and being a successful and promi- 
 nent farmer, brought to that position a thorough knowledge of its 
 duties and responsibilities. He is now a member of the Board of 
 Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Thomas county. 
 
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 A.lthough a prize declaimer during his college career, Rep'Tsenta- 
 tive Sapp does not seek to display his oratorical powers in the House. 
 He is a rather quiet member, but always at his post of duty and with 
 an eye on pending legislation. He prefers to let his distinguished col- 
 league do the talking for both, while he never shrinks from his share 
 in the arduous labors of the committee room, or the dull routine 
 work of the House. Thomas county has been as ably and as wel| 
 represented as any sister county having no larger delegation. 
 
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 HON. EDMUND G. SCRUGGS. 
 
 (GLASCOCK COUNTY.) 
 
 tR. SCRUGGS was born in Warren county, Georgia, on the 22d 
 of June, 1 83 1, and is the son of W. G. Scruggs. He was 
 reared in moderate circumstances, received his elementary edu- 
 cation in Warren county, attended school in a little log-cabin ; but 
 when he became grown, not being satisfied with his early attainments, 
 he attended school again under the tuition of Mr. W. W. Swain, a 
 very prominent teacher of Warren county. Afterwards he studied 
 medicine under Dr. Sterling Gibson, a brother of Judge Gibson, of 
 the Augusta Circuit, graduating in 1858, since which time he has de- 
 voted himself to the practice of his profesj-sion. 
 
 During the late war, Dr. Scruggs served as Captain in Company A, 
 of the Forty-eighth Georgia Regiment. Reengaged in all the battles 
 in which his regiment took part, being wounded at the battle of 
 Sharpsburg, and also at the terrible battle of Gettysburg. 
 
 In politics Dr. Scruggs is a Democrat. He has served his county 
 in the Legislature nineteen years, and has always given satisfaction to 
 his constituency, and grown in popularity from his entry into public 
 life. 
 
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 HON. LEMUEL SELLERS. 
 
 (APPLING COUNTY.) 
 
 ?^R. SELLERS was born in the county he now represents, 
 .November 23d, 1827, and spent his boyhood in the schools 
 ■xN' of that neighborhood. As he had ten brothers and sisters — 
 only one of each being now alive — his early advantages were not 
 many, nor were they especially valuable. 
 
 His father, Samuel Sellers, was the son of a Revolutionary soldier, 
 who came to South Carolina from Wales, but who was living in North 
 Carolina when his son was born. This son married Miss Mary Bishop 
 of the same State. Both have been dead a long time — the former 
 dying in 1837 and the latter in 1830. 
 
 Lemuel naturally adopted the life of a farmer, and, being a steady, 
 industrious young man, succeeded well in his efforts to secure a home 
 of his own. On January 19th, 1849, he was united in marriage to 
 Miss Elizabeth Hall, of Appling county, the daughter of a well-known 
 farmer and ex-member of the General Assembly. This union has 
 made him the father of si.xteen children, eleven of whom are yet 
 living. 
 
 Mr. Sellers first represented his county in the General Assembly of 
 1871 and 1872, so that he is not without the proper experience to 
 enable him to serve his constituents in the present Legislature. His 
 business training as a successful farmer and stock raiser, has also 
 fitted him for public life, and his votes have been cast with an eye to 
 the best interests of the people. 
 
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 HON. C. H. SHOCKLEY. 
 
 (COLUMBIA COUNTY.) 
 
 fH. SHOCKLEY was born in Appling county, Georgia, October 
 ^ 24th, 1846, and was reared by pious parents, yet he is not a 
 member of any Church. His father, Curtis H. Shockley, was 
 often called to represent his county in the Georgia Legislature. 
 
 The subject of this sketch studied law in the office of Colonel R. 
 M. Johnson, of Hancock county, and practiced in Columbia county 
 since. He is universally popular at home and highly respected by 
 his associates of the House for his frank, open character, and particu- 
 larly for his manly and liberal style of debate. 
 
 He entered the Confederate military service, and served first in the 
 Twentieth Georgia Battalion of Cavalry, Young's Brigade ; then 
 served as a scout when Sherman passed through this State and South 
 Carolina. He was in the battles of Bath, Haw's Shop, Cold Harbor, 
 Louisa C. H., Trevillian's Station, White Oak Swamp, the fight near 
 Stoney Creek Station, Reem's Station, Cousin's Farm, and was at the 
 blowing up of the mine at Petersburg, though not in the fight that 
 ensued. He was a brave and gallant soldier, never shirking duty, nor 
 flinching in the hour of peril. He is of small stature, florid com- 
 plexion, and eminently .social. 
 
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 HON. JAMES BENJAMIN SILMAN. 
 
 {JACK.SOX COUNTY.) 
 
 C^OHE subject of this sketch was born on the 25th day of January, 
 yii^ 1836, and is the only surviving child of the marriage of James 
 "^ d^ Hughes Silman and Eliza Gilham Scott, both of Jackson county. 
 
 His father having died, his mother married Middleton Cowan, who 
 fully supplied to him the place of a natural parent. Owing to his 
 limited means, Mr. Cowan could not give his step-son more than the 
 rudiments of a common English education, but allowed and encour- 
 aged him to accept assistance from others, who manifested a desire to 
 aid him in acquiring a good education. 
 
 Notably through the kindness of the Rev. Henry Newton and Mr. 
 A. M. Scudder, of the High School, at Athens, he, in 1855, with less 
 than one year's preparation, entered the Freshman class of Franklin 
 College, half advanced. He remained at this seat of learning only a 
 few months, retiring from it on account of protracted sickness. 
 
 During the fall of 1855 he taught a school at Clarksville, Georgia. 
 The next year he opened the same school, but in a short time aban- 
 doned it, and, in the early spring of 1856, entered the office of the 
 Hon. Cincinnatus Peeples, of Athens, as a student of law. In Sep- 
 tember thereafter he was admitted to practice, in November fol- 
 lowing was married to Miss Jarrett, of Jackson county, and in Jan- 
 uary, 1856, located in Jefferson, his present home. Here he glided 
 smoothly along till the war cloud of i860 and 1861 gathered 
 and broke, and, having voted for secession, he determined to de- 
 fend it, and, as Second Lieutenant, in June, 1861, he entered the 
 Confederate army with Captain Jarrett's company, which formed 
 a part of the Eighteenth Georgia Regiment, commanded by Gen- 
 eral W. T. Wofford. He served in this regiment till March, 1S63, 
 when he resigned on account of a severe wound received through the 
 right shoulder at Gaines' Farm, near Richmond, on June 27th, 1862. 
 
 In the summer of 1863 he was appointed by the Hon. E. G. Caba- 
 niss, Collector of Confederate Taxes for the county of Jackson, which 
 position he filled till the end of the war, when he resumed the practice 
 of law. 
 
 Noting the radical changes in the law, brought about by the results 
 of the war, some years ago he conceived the idea of preparing a book 
 of legal forms adapted to these changes, and began the preparation of 
 
OF REPRESEXTATIVES. 323 
 
 the work. In January, iSSo. he associated Colonel P. G. Thompson 
 with him, and they have prosecuted the work to compleiion. 
 
 In 1S80 he was elected to the Legislature from his county by a very 
 flattering vote and upon a very short notice of his candidacy. 
 
324 BIOGRAPHICAL SKEICHES 
 
 HON. JAMES VAN BUREN SMITH. 
 
 (UNION COUNTY.) 
 
 Q^ LTHOUCjH born in McMinn county, Tennessee, on November 
 ^'§/ loth, 1837, the subject of this sketch was only two years old 
 ''u"^ when his father, Lofton N. Smith, removed with his family to 
 Union county. 
 
 James was reared and educated and has since resided in thi^. county. 
 When about fifteen years of age his father died, which compelled 
 him to labor very industriously on rented land to support his widowed 
 mother and her little children. This devotion to mother has been 
 rewarded by One who has promised to reward lilial affection with 
 His richest blessings. 
 
 During the year 1859 Mr. Smith was united in marriage to Miss 
 Martha E. Watkins, of Union county, but when the war broke out he 
 left his young bride and rushed to the defense of the land he loved. 
 He was soon raised to be Lieutenant in the Sxth Georgia Cavalry, 
 and participated in the battles of Perryville and Chickamauga and 
 other lesser conflicts. He was wounded m the battle of Kingston, 
 Tennessee, and sent home, but was captured with General V^ance at 
 Knoxville, Tennessee, while returning to his command after his re- 
 covery, and confined in Fort Delaware until the close of the war. 
 
 For several years before and after the war, Mr. Smith was engaged 
 in teaching, but during the last four years he has been carrying on a 
 mercantile business. Being a man of strong moral principle and good 
 habits, and attentive to his business and his customers, he has suc- 
 ceeded most creditably. 
 
 Mr. Smith has two brothers living, both of whom have won an hon- 
 ored place in professional ranks. They are M. L. Smith, K^q.. a well 
 known lawyer in Dawsonville, and Rev. Felix G. Smiih, a zealous min- 
 ister of the Methodist Church. James joined this Church when quite 
 a boy, and has been a consistent member ever since. His children, 
 three sons and three daughters, have been carefully raised under 
 religious influence and with good, educational advantages. 
 
 As a member of the present General Assembly, he has made no dis- 
 play as a speaker, but has quitely and effectively discharged his duties 
 in the committee-room and on the floor of the House. Always 
 courteous and dignified, no member is more respected for his modest 
 worth and quiet demeanor. 
 
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 HON. JAMES Mcintosh smith. 
 
 (OGLETHORPE COUNTY ) 
 
 §IDNEY LANIER, a Georgia poet, won a reputation a few years 
 since for being tlie author of a poem, entitled : " There is more 
 in the" man than there is in the land." Mr. Lanier would find 
 in the subject of this sketch the reality of the hero which his fancy 
 painted in the poem referred to. Coming out of the war with only 
 about a thousand dollars with which to operate upon, Mr. Smith in- 
 vested it in a farm in Oglethorpe county. And here we are reminded 
 again of a couplet in Lanier's poem : 
 
 There was a man which he !ived in Jones. 
 Which Jones is a county of red hills and stones." 
 
 Yet in a section where lands were worn from long and careless culti- 
 vation, Mr. James M. Smith has, by farming alone, within thirteen 
 years, amassed what is for a Georgia farmer, a large fortune. His 
 crops, grown upon his own land, at the low price prevailing in 1877, 
 realized to him an income of $60,000.00. He raised over eight hundred 
 bales of cotton ; nor was this the only production of his farm which 
 he had for sale. For, besides growing a sufficient amount of cereals 
 for his home consumption, he had a large surplus to send to market. 
 We doubt if there is another instance in the history of Southern plant- 
 ing, since the war, so remarkable as is the success which Mr. Smith has 
 achieved, when all the circumstances are considered. And in this 
 instance we think the quotation appropriate: "There is more in the 
 man than there is in the land." 
 
 Mr. James M. Smith was born in the county of Wilkes, in this State, 
 on the 1 8th of September, 1840, being now thirty-eight years of age, 
 His father, Zadock Smith, was born in Virginia, and moved to Wilkes 
 county in 1805, where he continued to reside until his death in August, 
 1867. His grandfather was a native of Maryland, and served as 
 Captain in the Continental Army, under General Washington. Zadok 
 Smith, the father of this sketch, served in the war of 1812, as Captain 
 under General Floyd ; was a planter after moving to Wilkes ; a mem- 
 ber of the Baptist church at Fishing Creek for fifty years, and 
 married three times. James Mcintosh is the son and only child by 
 his second wife, who was Miss Phoebe B. Boatwright. His grand- 
 mother was a Barksdale, the same family now residing in Wilkes, 
 noted tor their energy, industry, integrity and business capacity. 
 
 Mr. Smith was educated partly in the old-field schools of his neigh- 
 
326 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 borhood, attending one year at the Danburg Academy in his n£ftive 
 county. At the age of sixteen, he taught school at Pine Grove 
 Academy, Dear his father's residence, to the satisfaction of his patrons. 
 The next year he, with the assistance of one negro, cut and hewed 
 three thousand cross-ties, and hauled them from one to two miles tc 
 the railroad within the short space of six months. Subsequently, he 
 entered Hiawassee College, in East Tennessee, where he remained 
 three years, at the expiration of which time, the President and Pro- 
 fessors being elected to positions in Strawberry Plains College, in 
 Jefferson county, Tennessee, he went there and was graduated u-ith 
 the first honor in a class of fourteen. Immediately afterwards he 
 was chosen Principal of Fincast'e Academy, in a village or town by 
 that name, situated in Campbell county, where he taught for a term of 
 five months, when he joined Captain Frank Richardson's company, a 
 command organized under the laws of the State of Tennessee, just 
 previous to the secession of that State, for the purpose of defending 
 the counties bordering on Kentucky. At the expiration of his enlist- 
 ment in this comm.and, he joined Zollicoffer's army, and was discharged 
 on account of an affection of the eyes. 
 
 At the close of the war he settled down in Oglethorpe county, 
 Georgia, where he now lives, and commenced farming, to which he 
 has devoted, almost exclusively, his time and talents. 
 
 Mr. Smith is a Democrat of the most unwavering type and, even 
 In his early manhood, exemplified his devotion to the Democracy. 
 While living in East Tennessee, he frequently addressed the peopie 
 in favor of the rights of the South, often confronted by audieri' es of 
 twenty to one against him, and in the face of threats tr> shoot him 
 down for his utterances. 
 
 In 1876, the people of Oglethorpe county elected Mr. Smith to the 
 Legislature, giving him a majority of seven hundred out of nine 
 hundred votes. He was elected to the House in 1877, having no 
 opposition either in the primary or the general election. 
 
 He is unmarried, and, while not a member of any Church, is a 
 strong advocate of churches and Sunday-schools, giving liberally of 
 his means to them all. 
 
 He is esteemed by his people for his staunchness and public spirit 
 as a citizen and Representative, and admired by his friends for his 
 solid worth, generosity and genial disposition. He is a capable 
 speaker, and though he does not practice, has read law, and while so 
 extensively engaged in farming, keeps himself well read up in litera- 
 ture. All in all, Mr. Smith is one of the remarkable men of the 
 present General Assembly. 
 
 The foregoing sketch, taken from the sketches of legislators for the 
 
OF REPRESEN TA TI I 'ES. 327 
 
 year 1878, is so full and correct in its details, that we can do no better 
 than adopt it as our own. Mr. Smith was again elected to the House 
 in 1880, and demeaned himself throughout the session of that year 
 and the year 18S1, as an able and staunch representative of the 
 interests and the rights of the people of Georgia. He was at all 
 times watchful of the public weal, and the active opponent of every 
 measure likely to prove injurious to the general pro-^perity. Still pur- 
 suing his avocation a« a farmer with customary success, and setting 
 to Georgia agriculturists an example full of benefits, he has likewise, 
 as a legislator, given lessons of industry and economy which, if ob- 
 served by the people s lepresenlatives, would lighten the burdens of 
 taxation. 
 
^ his father in Wilkes county, although now residing in Meri- 
 'rV^ wether county, and his mother, who died in 1839, in Henry 
 
 328 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 HON. W. SPEARMAN. 
 
 (HEARD COUNTY.) 
 
 • HE parents of the subject of this sketch were born in Georgia, 
 
 county. They were God-fearing parents, and their son, who was 
 born in Heard county, January 2nd. 1833, was early trained under the 
 best of religious influences, and is now an active member of the Meth- 
 odist Church. 
 
 He was also taught to form habits of industry, and from 1839 to 
 1852, he was allowed each alternate year for attending school, the suc- 
 ceeding one to be devoted to farm labor. Thus it was that he was 
 trained and fitted for public station as well as to be a successful farmer 
 in his later yea'*s. 
 
 In January, 1861, Mr. Spearman was elected Justice of the Peace and 
 Notary Public, which offioe he held until elected to the General As- 
 sembly in 1880. He was a Lieutenant in the State service from Sep- 
 tember, 1863 to March, 1864 and in the Militia force from November 
 of that year to the close of the war. 
 
 Mr. Spearman was married, December 8th, 1S53, to Miss Elizabeth 
 Brown, by whom he has had five sons and one daughter, only two of 
 whom, a son and daughter, are now living. In private life he is a 
 most devoted husband and tender father, as in public life he is a faith- 
 ful and honored citizen of his county. 
 
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 HON. W. N. SPENCE. 
 
 (MITCHELL COUNTY.) 
 
 •HIS young gentleman has proved himself one of the most en- 
 ergetic and faithful Representatives of the present General As- 
 sembly, of which he is a talking as well as a working member. 
 Whenever impelled by his honest convictions of duty, he promptly and 
 zealously advocates or opposes any local or general bill that comes up 
 for discussion, and while not a pleasant speaker, he seldom fails to hold 
 the attention of the House by the force and clearness of his arguments. 
 
 Mr. Spence was born in Stewart county, February 25th, 1851, and 
 is the son of William and Susan Spence, the former, now living in 
 Mitchell county, is a native of Emanual county, while the latter, who 
 died in 1863, was born in Stewart county. The family consisted of 
 three sons and three daughters, and but for the misfortunes of war 
 they would have had abundant advantages for intellectual culture and 
 development. 
 
 William, however, despite these drawbacks, resolved to secure a 
 classi:al education, and to this end engaged in farm labor for two 
 years, the proceeds of which secured him a two years course in col- 
 lege. Another two years on the farm furnished the means for two 
 more years at college, and in 1874 he completed his education at the 
 then popular University of Kentucky, located at Lexington in that State. 
 
 No doubt this persevering struggle for an education had much to 
 do with the proper development of the character of young Spence. 
 He was ambitious, industrious, zealous and studious, with a mind ca- 
 pable of high culture and a body equal to any amount of mental and 
 physical labor. 
 
 Mr. Spence resides in Camilla, the county site of Mitchell, of which 
 town he was the popular and efficient Mayor in 1876 and the year fol- 
 lowing. So well did he discharge this lirst public trust committed to 
 him by his people, that in 1S80 they chose h'm to represent them in 
 the General Assembly of the State. 
 
 A member of the Baptist Church, and a young man of fine princi- 
 ples, Mr. Spence gives promise of a life of eminent usefulness for the 
 people of this section. With an honest ambition to rise, an untiring 
 industry to win success, and a hold upon the masses, his prospects are 
 certainly very flattering in that direction. 
 
 Although unmarried at ihis time, it is hardly possible that so worthy 
 and desirable a young man will be allowed to continue long as a bach- 
 elor. A good wife will make him still more useful both in private and 
 public life. 
 
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 HON. LYCURGUS L. STANFORD. 
 
 (HARRIS COUNTY ) 
 
 QO HIS distinguished son of Georgia was born in Putnain county 
 a\^ on the loth day of December, 1831. His father, Nehemiah 
 ^^ Stanford, was born in Warren county, Georgia, the 26th dav of 
 June, 1805, moved with his father in early life to Putnam county, 
 lived there till 1859, when he removed to Murray county, in this State 
 where he now resides. He is a man of fine practical sense, of strict 
 integrity, honest and upright, and of excellent moral character. 
 
 His mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Wyatt, born in Mecklen- 
 burg county. North Carolina, in 1802, of honorable parentage, mar- 
 ried in 1829, and wa.> a woman of superior intelligence, an indulgent 
 mother, a devout and faithful member of the Methodist Church, and 
 died in August, 1854. 
 
 He was educated at Jefferson Academy, in Stanfordsville, till the 
 age of eighteen, when he entered Maryville College, East Tennessee, 
 and graduated there in July, 1854, with honor, and on the 12th day of 
 December of the same year he married Miss Maggie E. Henry, of 
 Blount county. East Tennessee, an accomplished and most excellent 
 young lady, the daughter of the late John Henry, of that county. 
 
 In 1855, he was chosen Professor of Mathematics in Milltown Sem- 
 inary, located in Chambers county, Alabama, which position he filled 
 till May of that year, when, owing to the death of the Principal, he 
 was placed in charge of the institution, which he managed with great 
 success for two years, at which time he was elected President of 
 Hamilton Female College which high position he filled with honor, 
 and successfully built up and sustained the same till the commence- 
 ment in July, 1858, when he resigned the presidency of the college, 
 owing to the death of his wife, which occurred on the 23d day of 
 May, 1858. He then entered the law department of Cumberland 
 University, located at Lebanon, Tennessee, and graduated in Decem- 
 ber, 1858, and returning to Hamilton, commenced the practice of law 
 as a copartner with Colonel James M. Mobley, and in June, 1859, mar- 
 ried Miss Maggie A. Passmore, a most estimable and accomplished 
 young lady, the eldest daughter of James and Nancy Passmore, of 
 Harris county. 
 
 In the political campaign of i860, he took an active part, being by 
 birth and education a Southern Jeffersonian Democrat, advocated the 
 great and fundamental doctrine of States Rights, and when the alle- 
 
332 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 
 
 giance of his State was dissolved from the Federal government, and 
 civil war was inaugurated, he proved his faith by his works, and vol- 
 unteered as a private in Company B, Third Georgia Cavalry, Colonel 
 Martin J. Crawford commanding, and soon rose to the rank of a Cap- 
 tain in the regiment, and led his brave comrades through many of 
 the hard fought battles of the Army of the Tennessee — a brave sol- 
 dier, always at his post of duty, ready and willing to peril his life in 
 the defense of constitutional liberty. 
 
 He was captured at the battle of Resaca, on the 14th day of May, 
 1864, carried to /ohnson's Island, Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie, and re- 
 mained a prisoner, suffering many hardships and deprivations till the 
 close of the war. In July, 1865, he returned home and found his 
 State desolated and ruined by the ravages of a cruel war, his town in 
 ashes, civil government subservient to military power and usurpation, 
 his hearth-stone shrouded in deepest gloom, his wife having died in 
 December, 1862. Truly a sad and melancholy picture, but '' Nil des- 
 perandiim " being his motto, and guided by that hope which springs 
 eternal in the human breast, he girded himself about as a strong 
 man, accepted the situation in good faith, and at once set about to 
 build up the ruin and desolation of his home. 
 
 And, like a wise and prudent man, he saw that it was not good to 
 fight the battles of life alone, and on the 31st day of 'October, 1865, 
 he married Miss Marietta Walker, the accomplished and intelligent 
 daughter of the late James S. Walker, of Harris county. And 
 although thus bereft in early life. 
 
 Truly, light shineth in his house, 
 An angelic being presideth there 
 To soothe and woo from every care. 
 
 In the dark and gloomy period that followed immediately after the 
 war, he dissented from the non-action policy advocated by many of 
 the political leaders of the State, knowing the power of the Federal 
 government to annihilate constitutional liberty and forever to abolish 
 local self-government in the States, having called by solemn congress- 
 ional enactment a Convention to frame a new Constitution in accord- 
 ance with the reconstruction measures of Congress, he thought it 
 wise to participate in that Convention, and advocated the selection of 
 the wisest and best men to be sent as delegates to the same ; and at 
 the Senatorial Convention of the Twenty-fifth District, he was, with- 
 out his knowledge or consent, selected as a suitable and proper. person 
 to represent that district as a delegate in the Constitutional Conven- 
 tion which assembled in the city of Atlanta, on the 9th day of Decem- 
 ber, 1867. It was in this Convention that he greatly distinguished 
 himself for statesmanship and patriotic devotion to his country, and 
 
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 333 
 
 obtained the appellation of being one of the immortal thirteen Han- 
 cock Democrats, who stood like a stone-wall for three long months 
 battling for the fundamental principles of constitutional liberty. 
 
 The impartial historian of the future, when he contemplates this 
 dark and gloomy period in the history of the State, will doubtless 
 pause, to do honor to the names of the patriotic men who at that 
 time, by devotion to principle, saved the State from impending ruin 
 and political desolation, — rescued from the hands of the enemy the 
 "ark of the covenant," constitutional liberty, and planted it again 
 upon the ramparts of their country. He has twice represented his 
 county in the General Assembly of the State, in 1877 and 1880, and 
 as a legislator he is faithful to the trust confided, always at his post 
 of duty, actively participating in all important legislation, and as a 
 member of the General Judiciary Committee of th'e House has much 
 influence, being highly respected as a good lawyer, a man of firmness 
 and integrity of character. As Chairman of the Temperance Com- 
 mittee he has acted faithfully, and done much, in a conservative man- 
 ner, to inaugurate a healthy reform on this subject, and to restrict the 
 growing evil of intemperance in the State. As a citizen and a man 
 he is affable and pleasing in manners, polite and courteous, social, 
 kind, benevolent and generous ; temperate in habit, modest and 
 rather retiring in disposition, a kind husband and indulgent father. 
 
334 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 
 
 HON. JAMES STAPLETON. 
 
 (JEFFERSUN COUNTY.) 
 
 fSON, whose father served for thirty-five years in the General 
 Assembly of the State, ought himself to have some of the qual- 
 ifications of a good legislator. 
 
 As the Rev. James Stapleton is such a son, the reader of this brief 
 sketch will not be surprised to learn that he is mw serving his seventh 
 year in the Georgia Legislature, where his honored father served so 
 long and well. 
 
 Born in Jeffersrn county fifty-seven years ago, and being the only 
 son of his parents, his boyhood was passed in the quiet of farm life, 
 where he was early trained by Christian parents to be honest, truthful 
 and moral. And although they have been dead for many years, the 
 lessons those parents taught him are still a living power in h s life and 
 character. 
 
 In addition to the care of a store and farm, which have yielded him 
 an ample competency of this world's goods Mr. Stapleton is a Min- 
 ister of the Baptist Church, and being an interesting and intelligent 
 speaker his sermons and public addresses are generally well attended 
 and well received. He has made a good legislator, and will no doubt 
 again serve his people in that capacity. 
 
 Mr. Stapleton is of average weight and full height, with a cheerful 
 countenance 'that wins the love and confidence of those about him. 
 He was married, in 1853, to a Miss Howard, and after her death he 
 married, in 1872, a Miss Matthews, and has eight children now living 
 to enjoy his bounty and have the benefit of his good counsel and 
 worthy example. 
 
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 OF KF.PRESEX TA TI I 'ES. 335 
 
 HON. ADOLPHUS E STROTHER. 
 
 (LINCOLN COUN IV.) 
 
 HIS very efficient and hijjhly esteemed Representative was born 
 ^\^ in Lincoln county, which he so creditably represented in the 
 last Legislature, on the loth day of March, 1S44. His opportuni- 
 ties for acquiring an education, limited as they were to the best schools 
 afforded in the county, were utilized and improved by him to meet the de- 
 mand"^ of a mind of no ordinary calibre. The war interfered with his 
 progress, when he had just arrived at eighteen years of age. 
 
 Volunteering as a private in Irwin's Artillery of Colonel Cutt's Bat- 
 talion, March loth, 1862, he continued therein until seven days before 
 General Lee's surrender, when he was captured at Fort Gregg, one 
 mile south of Petersburg, Virginia, an 1 was imprisoned for two months 
 at Point Lookout. His military record, and his companions in arm=, 
 attest his fidelity in many scenes of severest trial. 
 
 On the 4th day of October, i856, he was married to Miss M. E. 
 Holliday, of Columbia county, Georgia, a most estimable lady, with 
 whom, and their three children, he lives at a home rendered happy by 
 their well directed and harmonious labors, and attractive to their many 
 friends by their genial manners and liberal hospitality. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Baptist Church, and in 1873 was elected Superintendent of 
 Greenwood Sunday School, which position he still fills. 
 
 From his youth up, he has made farming, in which he delights, his only 
 occupation. In the Legislature he was placed on several important stand- 
 ing committees, is also on the special committee raised to visit Augusta 
 and e.xaminethe dam constructed by the City Council across Savdnnah 
 river at the head of the canal. In all the positions assigned him, he 
 rendered important service ; and, when occasion demanded, tackled 
 the leading minds of the Legislature. His speeches, as reported 
 in the journals of the day, attest the man of thought, deep penetration, 
 culture, nerve and perseverance. Suflfice it to say, he used the office 
 of Representative well, and purchased for himself a good degree. 
 

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 HON. JOSEPH MILTON SUMNER. 
 
 (WORTH COUNTY.) 
 
 »H IS county was originally a part of Irwin county, and before 
 the division was made the subject of this sketch was born 
 within its borders, his natal day being August i6th, 1836. 
 
 His father, Joseph Sumner, a native of Jefferson county, was a 
 soldier in the war of 1812. A year previous he had married Miss 
 Mahala Smith, of Washington county, although both were raised in 
 Emanuel county. They moved to Irwin county about the year 1825, 
 while that section of the State was still infested with Indians and wild 
 beasts. 
 
 In this almost wilderness home he commenced the business of cattle 
 raising, in which he succeeded very well ; but his family increased in 
 members so rapidly that he could neither get rich nor give them more 
 than limited advantages for obtaining an education. 
 
 His fifteen children all grew to manhood and womanhood e.xcept 
 one, and themselves reared large families. Ten of the children are 
 now living, and the mother, who is eighty-four years of age. The 
 father died last June, aged eighty-seven years. 
 
 Mr. Sumner followed in the footsteps of his revered father, and be- 
 came a successful farmer and stock raiser, as well as a liberal and 
 kind-hearted friend of the poor and unfortunate. He married, De- 
 cember 16th, 1858, Miss Elizabeth J. Young, by whom he has had eight 
 children, all of whom are living. 
 
 He was elected a Justice of the Peace in 1865 (after his return from 
 the Confederate army, where he served most gallantly until wounded 
 near the close of the war), and held the office for four years. He was 
 also deputy Sheriff of Worth county in i877-'78, but has never been 
 an aspirant for official position. At the earnest solicitation of many 
 friends he consented to be a candidate for the present General As- 
 sembly, and was elected over a very popular and estimable opponent. 
 He has made a good working member, and we^l protected the interests 
 of his constituents. 
 
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 UF REPRESEN TA TI VES. 339 
 
 HON. M. D. C. M. SUMMERLIN. 
 
 (WASHIXGTON COUN TV ) 
 
 i^^ HIS genial and popular gentleman represents Georgia and the 
 '^l^^ Carolinas. While he was born April 5th. 1848, in Macon county, 
 '^^^ Georgia, his father, C. D. Summerlin, first saw the light in 
 Duplin county, North Carolina. October ist, iSii, and his mother, 
 Mary (Shealy) Summerlin, was born in Lexington district. South Car- 
 o'.ina, November 28t.h, 1823, and both are yet alive. 
 
 Young Summerlin was educated in the schools of Macon county, 
 and at the age of sixteen went into the Confederate service as a 
 member of the State troops that rallied to the defense of Atlanta, 
 fought at Griswoldville, and stood to their arms until the surrender. 
 
 In January, 1S67, he entered the Freshman class- half advanced — of 
 Franklin College, in Athens, and graduated in the class of 1870, which 
 furnishes four members to the Legislature now in session. In October 
 of the same year he went to the Medical College of South Carolina, at 
 Charleston, where he remained until March. The following October 
 he entered the Louisville, Kentucky, Medical College, from which he 
 graduated March 4th, 1872, and returned home, to Macon county, to 
 practice his chosen profession. 
 
 Having succeeded in building up a good practice. Dr. Summerlin, 
 on June 17th, 1874. was married to Miss M. Willie Gainer, only child 
 of Captain W. W. Gainer, of Washington county, whom he first met 
 and loved at first sight, the day he graduated from College, at Athens, 
 four years previous. 
 
 Soon after his marriage the Doctor removed to Washington county, 
 and to the practice of medicine added the duties of a farmer, a com- 
 bination which his fine physique and mental powers enabled him to 
 make successful. Three sons and one daughter have been born to 
 him. the first of whom died when only nine months old. 
 
 The Doctor is a man of rare good humor, and universally popular 
 with all classes of people. He is of commanding figure and attractive 
 appearance, and has been one of the most conspicuous members of 
 the present House. He is a member of St. Omer Commandery of 
 Knights Templar, and one of its handsomest Sir Knights when in 
 uniform. 
 
 It is a singular fact that Representative Summerlin was elected to 
 the General Assembly in 1880 by a vote (1,880) corresponding exactly 
 
340 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 with the year of his election. As a legislator he is faithful and labo- 
 rious, being Chairman of the Blind Asylum Committee, and a member 
 'of the Committees on Lunatic and Deaf and Dumb Asylums, on Mil- 
 itary and on Hygiene. His speeches are very short and well spiced 
 wi h humor. 
 
OF REPKE^Ky 7 . / 7 / / 'ES. 341 
 
 HOX. J. L. SWEAT. 
 
 (CLINXH COUNTY.) 
 
 i:>OHERE was not a more active or useful men ber of the Georgia 
 %^ Assembly of iSSo-'8i tlian Representative Sweat, of Clinch. As 
 
 cT Chairman of the Committee on Enrollment, his duties were con- 
 stant, and, towards the close of the session, exceedingly laborious and 
 tedious. No one worked harder than he did to finish the task re- 
 quired of him, and to his indomitable energy much of the successful 
 clearing out of bills before the House adjourned is attributable. He 
 not only earned a fine reputation as an indefatigable worker in the 
 committee-rooms, but made an enviable reputation on the floor of 
 the House as an orator. His influence among the members was very 
 great, and he was listened to in his impassioned eloquence with undi- 
 vided attention. He was an earnest advocate of temperance, as well as 
 of several impo:f\nt general bills, and his watc'iful eye strove to take 
 advantage of every change in the situation to turn the tide in favor of 
 just legislation. 
 
 Representative Sweat is thirty-four years old, having been born 
 September 21st, 1847. in Ware county, Georgia. He ij the son of 
 Samuel and Maria (Strickland) Swea% of Georgia. Both parents died 
 when he was young and left him to battle with the world alone, and 
 though he was thus early bereft of a kini, loving mother's counsels 
 and care, and a watchful father's advice, he has grown up with tem- 
 perate and industrious habits. 
 
 He received his education in the common schools and at Blackshear 
 Academy, and entered the Confederate service in the early part of 
 1862, when but fourteen and a half years of age. He served until the 
 close of the war, and was one of the most faithful and gallant soldiers 
 of the army. The close of the war found him without means, and 
 he began to hew out and be the architect of his own fortune. He 
 engaged as clerk in a store and at other work until 1869, when, having 
 studied for the legal profes'^ion and been admitted to the bar, he com- 
 menced the practice of law. His abilities soon brought him promi- 
 nently before the public, and he succeeded in obtaining a large and 
 profitable legal business. He has been made a member of nearly 
 every Congressional and State poliical nominating Convention from 
 Clinch county for years, and is one of the most popular of its citizens. 
 He served in the capacity of Chief Clerk of the House of Represen- 
 tatives during the sessions of i875-'76, and the experience gained at 
 
OF REPRESENTATIVES. 343 
 
 the time, together with other positions he has held in the clerical force 
 of the House, made him familiar with the work of legislation and its 
 intricacies. 
 
 He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and in 
 politics a Democrat. His county made a good choice when they 
 elected him to represent them in the lower House, and we predict that 
 there is a very bright legislative future before him. In judgment 
 level-headed, in argument clear and logical, and in speech eloquent 
 and convincing, he will do honor in any position he may be elected 
 to fill. 
 
 He was married to Miss Maggie Marietta Hitch, daughter of Syl- 
 vanus and Ann A. (NichoUs) Hitch, at Homerville, Georgia, January 
 loth, 1869. They have two children. The oldest, Lee Lumpkin 
 Sweat, is eleven years old, and Lula Marietta Sweat is seven years old. 
 He is of medium stature, weighs i6o pounds, 5 feet 8 inches in 
 height, full chest, square shoulders, dark hair and features, and com- 
 manding appearance. By nature, generous, frank and sociab'e, he 
 makes friends wherever he goes. 
 
OF REPRESENTATIVES. 345 
 
 HON. CICERO ALLEN THARP. 
 
 (BIBB COUXTV.) 
 
 n^ MONG the delegates in the House during the last session, the 
 Si^J\/ name of Cicero Allen Tharp is entitled to prominent notice. He 
 
 0^ was born in Twiggs county, Georgia, on the 29th of October, 
 1819. His father, who^e name was John Allen Tharp, removed with 
 his family to Bibb county in 1S22, and settled in what was afterwards 
 known as the Warrior district, ju<;t before the county was laid off, and 
 before the survey was made in the forest for the location of the town 
 of Macon. The father of John Allen was the Rev. Vincent Tharp, a 
 native of ^"irginia, who was born in 1760, and was, at an early age, a 
 soldier in the Revolutionary war. After having twice married, he re- 
 moved to Georgia, and was first licensed to preach in iSoo, in Warren 
 county, where he was baptiz =d into Briar Creek church in that county 
 before he removed to Twiggs county, where many of his descendants 
 hive resided, and who were among the most respectable and wealthy 
 citizens of the county. Among them were the Rev. Charnick Tharp, 
 a son, and Rev. B. F. Tharp, a grandson, subsequently of Houston 
 county. The Rev. Vincent Tharp was well stored with practical 
 knowledge and a vast deal of intelligence of general history, both State 
 and National, of our political system, institutions, etc. In politics, he 
 has ever been a true and unflinching Democrat of the Jackson school, 
 and no man in his old district, commonly known as "The Unterrified 
 Warrior," has ever exercised a more potent party influence. In 1845, 
 for the purpose of serving a friend and relative who was an aspirant 
 for the office of Sheriff, he allowed his name to be placed on the Dem- 
 ocratic ticket as a candidate for deputy Sheriff, and both were elected. 
 In 1852 he was elected Sheriff of Bibb county, and continued until 
 1856. As an evidence of his ti lelity to duty, he is one of the very few 
 who have held that office in any county in Georgia that has never had 
 a rule entered against him. His return of all collections was prompt 
 and correct. His friends never claim for him the talents of the cul- 
 tured orator, but his whole public service shows that he is clear- 
 headed, with sound judgment, deliberate and honest in his opinions, 
 which are conscientiously formed and fearlessly expressed whenever 
 and wherever opposed. 
 
 Mr. Tharp has been raised a farmer, and has had also considerable 
 experience as a merchant. He has combined both employments, and 
 by prudent management he is in independent circumstances. His 
 
346 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 own religious feelings incline to the Baptist, the Church of his an- 
 cestors, though he is liberal towards all denominations. He is a libera! 
 patron to the cause of religion, education, charity and public enter- 
 prise. A tasteful and comfortable academy building in his old district 
 bears his name in honor of his being its founder. 
 
 He was married on December 28th, 1851, in Bibb county, to Miss 
 Eliza A. Bradley, formerly of Liberty county, Georgia. She is the 
 daughter of John A. Bradley, Esq., a respectable citizen and success- 
 ful trader of South Cirolina. Tney have had six children ; three 
 have died ; the surviving three are daughters, and are prosperously 
 married. 
 
 He has also filled various commissions, prominent among them that 
 of Commissioner of Public Properties and Revenues of the county of 
 Bibb, which Commission built the present magnificent Court House 
 which is an ornament to the county and the handsomest in the State- 
 
 The person of Mr. Tharp is very prepossessing, and will attract at- 
 tention in any assemblage of gentlemen. His stature is faultless, 
 being full five feet ten inches in height, and weighing about 20a 
 pounds. His complexion is ever ruddy, showing the full bloom of 
 health. He is perfectly erect in form, and all his actions are graceful. 
 His constitution is robust, and he is the picture of health. His 
 spirits are always lively, and his manners and conversation ever polite 
 and social. Though now sixty-two years of age, there are few men 
 at forty years who possess more activity and can en Jure more physi- 
 cal labor. He gives promise of many years of usefulness to his- 
 "family and his fellow-citizens. 
 
OF REPRESENTATIVES. 347 
 
 HON. JAMES THOMPSON. 
 
 (CHARLTON COUNTY.) 
 
 OOATNALL COUNTY was the I irthplace of this Representative, 
 ^^, who is the son of Richard Thompson and Lucretia (Rogers) 
 ^d^ Thompson, now deceased, the former in 1829 and the latter in 
 1856. James was the eldest child, having been born April 6th, 181 5, 
 and had nine brothers and sisters. By a second marriage, in 1831, 
 his father added eight children to the already large family. 
 
 The subject of this sketch, being the eldest of this large family, was 
 kept pretty busy at home helping his father on the farm, which pre- 
 vented him from gaining more than a meagre education. Yet he made 
 up for his lack of book knowledge by a quick perception, an ambi- 
 tion to succeed in life, and an untiring and restless industry. 
 
 Before attaining his majority, 1833, he responded to the call of his 
 State for troops to protect the inhabitants from Indian outrages. 
 For nearly three years he was in service in Florida and Georgia, and 
 was attached to General Floyd's forces that penetrated Okeefenokee 
 Swamp, and fought the Indians at Trader's Hill, and finally restored 
 peace and quiet. 
 
 In civil life, also, Mr. Thompson early responded to the call of duty, 
 having been Constable, a Justice of the Peace, a Judge of the Inferior 
 Court and a member of the General Assembly, his first election to this 
 latter position being as earlv as 1S55-56. 
 
 Including his present service in the Legislature, which was con- 
 ferred upon him without opposition, Mr. Thompson has held public 
 trusts for the people of Charlton county for forty years, ana always 
 with credit to himself and honor to his county, making in all things 
 an enviable record for faithfulness, integrity and industry. 
 
 In private life he is a successful farmer and a good neighbor, honest 
 and just in his dealings with all men, and observing as far as possible 
 the teachings of the Golden Rule. In religious matters he is governed 
 by the faith and practice of the Primitive Baptist Church, of which he 
 is a consistent m.ember. 
 
 Mr. Thompson has been twice married, fi-'st to Miss M. J. Hines, in 
 1883, and then to Miss Mary C. Scott, in 1835, but is now a widower, 
 his last wife dying in 1876. Of the seven children born of this union, 
 four are married and settled in life, and Mr. Thompson is proud to be 
 called "grandpa " by sixteen of their children. 
 
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OF REPRESENTATIVES. 349 
 
 HON. JOHN VV. TURNER. 
 
 (FLOYD COUNTY.) 
 
 C^OHE Hon. John W. Turner was born November 5th, 1829, in Lin- 
 ^^ coin county, Georgia, this being also the native county of his 
 O^ father, John W. Turner and his mother, Delia Turner, whose 
 maiden name was Nally. His father, who was a prominent farmer 
 and successful teacher, died in Lincoln county in the year 1832, leav- 
 ing a widow and two children, one boy and one girl, the laiter having 
 died in 1852. 
 
 Being deprived of his father when only three years of age, Mr. Tur- 
 ner did not acquiie any further education than could be obtained at 
 the "old-tield schools " of his neighborhood, but he nevertheless grew 
 up to a useful and honorable mannood. At the age of fourteen he 
 left the homes of his relatives where he had lived after the death of 
 his father, and went to work on a farm. By persevering industry he 
 soon acquired an indep* ndence when he married Miss Virginia F. Dean, 
 the accomplished daughter of a prominent physician and farmer of 
 Floyd county. They have four children, three boys and a girl. His 
 mother, who resided with him for many years, and who in her widow- 
 hood and old age received his kind ministrations, died in January, 1881. 
 
 Mr. Turner was chosen as a Representative from Floyd county to 
 the Legislature of 1859 and i860. He responded promptly to the 
 call of his State for volunteers to sustain her in the act of secession, 
 and no braver soldier or purer patriot ever drew his sword in behalf 
 of popular liberty. Entering the Confederate army in 186 1 as a Lieu- 
 tenant, he was in the same year promoted to Captain. Though 
 wounded five times in battle, he continued to follow the flag of his 
 native South and to fight for her cause. He was captured at Nash- 
 ville during the memorable campaign of General Hood, being at the 
 time on the staff of General Henry R. Jackson, of Savannah, and hav- 
 ing passed through all the conflicts from Atlanta to Nashville. He 
 was held as a prisoner until the close of the war, when he returned to 
 his home, and putting his shoulder to the wheels succeeded in rebuild- 
 ing his ruined fortunes. 
 
 In 1875 and 1876 he represented the county of Floyd, and was again 
 elected to this position in 1880, after a most heated contest, in which 
 he triumphed by a handsome majority. 
 
 Mr. Turner is a warm hearted, genial, companionable gentleman, an 
 
350 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 upright, honorable citizen, and a clear headed and faithful Represen- 
 tative. No one is more beloved than he by the constituency he serves, 
 and no one more thoroughly merits the public confidence. No one is 
 more devoted to his native State — he carries on his body the indispu- 
 table signs of his valor as a soldier and his patriotism as a citizen. 
 
OF REP RESENT A TI VES. 351 
 
 HON. CICERO A TURNER. 
 
 (MONROE COUNTY.) 
 
 fICERO A. TURNER, was born at Barnesville, Pike county, 
 Georgia, on the first day of May, 1849. His father, Charles G. 
 Turner, was a leading merchant of Barnesville for many years. 
 His nivther was a daughter of Rev. John Milner, a Baptist minister 
 of prominence-and extensive influence. Cicero was the youngest of 
 of a l.irge family of brothers and sifters, and his father having died 
 when he was at a very tender age, he was dependent for training 
 upon a loving, affectionate and pious mother. The effect of that 
 training is visible in his life as a man and a Christian. 
 
 His mother removed, with her family, to Forsyth in 1S61. In 
 his youth he readily understood the importance of a thorough educa- 
 tion, and, amid many difficulties, realized the crowning desire of his 
 youthful mind and entered the State University at Athens, in the 
 Junior class. Disappointment, however, awaited him, and he was 
 not permitted to finish the course of study, owing to the long and se- 
 vere illness of his mother, which demanded his presence at home. 
 But his mind having been carefully trained in the preparatory schools, 
 and possessing an insatiable desire for that knowledge which comes 
 from a study of books, he contmued to apply himself diligently. He 
 taught school, for a short period, and in the intervals of labor pre- 
 pared himself to be a lawyer. He was admitted to practice in 1S73. 
 Possessing a mind liberally endowed by nature, and aided by habits 
 of industry and painstaking, he soon won a proud position in his 
 chosen profession, and now ranks among the ablest young lawyers 
 of middle Georgia. He has never aspired to political preferment, 
 but has occasionally accepted office. More than once he has served, 
 with much benefit to the city of Forsyth, as a member of the city 
 government. In 1880, contrary to his inclination, he consented to 
 become a candidate for the General Assembly from Monroe county, 
 and was elected by a large majority, receiving a much larger 
 vote than any of the four candidates. He served with marked 
 ability as a member of the House of Representatives during the two 
 sessions— in the winter of 18S0 and the summer of 188 1. It can be 
 truly said that in point of ability and influence, he was the peer of 
 any member of that body, containing as it did some of the ablest 
 men in the State. He took active part in many of the debates, es- 
 pecially in discussions involving legal and constitutional questions. 
 
OF REP RE SEN J A TI VES. 3 5 3 
 
 As an orator he had no superior in the General Assembly. Having a 
 handsome presence, a full, clear, strong voice pleasant to the ear, a 
 mind cultivated and richly endowed with the gifts of wisdom, a heart 
 moved only by sentiments of purity and a love of the right, he 
 readily commanded the attention of all and his words carried persua- 
 sion with them. 
 
 In boyhood he became a member of the Forsyth Baptist church, 
 and has ever lived a consistent. Christian life. In 1871 he married a 
 daughter of Professor R. T. Asbury, President of Monroe Female 
 College, a lady of grace and culture, possessing the winning ways 
 and the many virtues that adorn the highest life, fitting her to be a 
 true companion for a worthy man. 
 
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OF REPKESE.X TAlJl 'ES. 3 5 5 
 
 HON. H. D. D. TWIGGS. 
 
 (SPEAKER PRO TEM. OK THE HOUSE.) 
 
 ^iUDGE H. D. D. TWIGGS was born on the 25th day of March 
 ^^ 1839. in Barnwell county, South Carolina, during a visit of his 
 ^ mother to his maternal grandmother. He is the sdn of Colonel 
 George '.V. L. Twiggs, of Richmond county, Georgia, and the nephew 
 of General David E. Twiggs, formerly of the United States Army. 
 Judge Twiggs' father was one of the largest and most successful 
 planters in eastern Georgia, where the fertile lands of the Savannah 
 river valley developed a class of princely agriculturists, whose 
 wealth and polish have done so much to mould that courtly and solid 
 society justly the boast and pride of the city of Augusta to this day; 
 he died at the age of tifty-two years at one of his plantations in 
 Baker county, Georgia. 
 
 His mother was Miss Harriet E. Duncan, of South Carolina, a 
 lady of remarkable mind and accomplishments, and who is still alive, re- 
 siding with her distinguished son, the subject of this biographical 
 sketch, at Summerville, one of the delightful suburbs of Augusta, 
 where she enjoys the pleasures of a cultivatad and polished society 
 and the rising fame of her son. 
 
 Judge Twiggs graduated in 1858, at the Georgia Military Institute, 
 where he rapidly developed a mind that indicated genius and power. 
 After leaving that institution he entered the Lumpkin Law School at 
 the University of Georgia, and was admitted to the bar in 1861. 
 
 The war coming on just as he was equipped for the forensic forum, 
 in which he has gained such deserved fame since, he entered the army 
 of the Confederate States of America as a First Lieutenant of in- 
 fantry in the First Regiment of Georgia Regulars. In this unexpected 
 field his military training, coupled with a quickness and aptitude of 
 mind not excelled by any within the writer's knowledge, he took a 
 stand as a soldier of intrepid valor and capacity for command, ac- 
 knowledged by his comrades without dissent. The regiment to which 
 he belonged was one of those whose names have been enrolled among 
 the foremost for intrepidity and daring that formed the immortal le- 
 gions of the Army of Northern Virginia. He was always found 
 ready for duty, and performed it with a dash and daring that finally 
 placed him as its Lieutenant Colonel, after he had participated with it 
 in the principal battles of the Revolution and was twice severely 
 v^founded. In fact, he showed himself throughout his career as a true 
 
356 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 soldier and worthy representative of tliat soldierly stock from which 
 he descended — the stock that gave to the Army and Navy of the 
 United States some of its very finest officers. 
 
 When the war ended he resumed the practice of law at Augusta. 
 In this arena his talents and genius soon moved him to .the front of 
 his profession, and in 1870, at the urgent solicitations of the bar of 
 his circuit, he was appointed by Governor Bullock, Judge of the Su- 
 perior Courts of the Middle Circuit. At that time there was no Re- 
 publican lawyer in that circuit qualified to fill the office — and though 
 reluctant to accept a position f;om the party then in power, he was 
 urged by his strong personal friend, General A. R. Wright, to accept 
 the position. He did so, at the same time openly, avowedly and 
 uncompromisingly mantaininehis attitude as a Democrat. In this 
 appointment. Governor Bullock certainly showed great insight inta 
 the powers of the appointee for Judge Twiggs' mind is eminently 
 judicial. It could have been truthfully said of him, when on the 
 bench, what Macaulay said of Hallam, " he sums up with a calm, steady 
 fmpartiality, turning neither to the right nor to the left, glossing over 
 nothing, while the advocates on both sides are alternately biting their 
 lips, to hear their conflicting misstatements and sophisms exposed." 
 
 Notwithstanding the fact that he was one of the youngest men 
 ever appointed to the bench of the Superior Courts of Georgia. alU 
 with one acclaim, not excepting the oldest and ablest lawyers who 
 appeared before him, pronounced him one of the very ablest and 
 clearest Judges who has ever filled that responsible position in the 
 State. His first appointment was for an unexpired term, and when it 
 ended, he was re-appointed by Governor James M. Smith, and re- 
 mained Judge of the Middle Judicial Circuit until 1874, when dec'ining 
 to again become an applicant, he was succeeded by Ex-Governor Hers- 
 chel V. Johnson. 
 
 Since his retirement from the bench he has practiced law at Augusta. 
 His success at the bar has been remarkable, and has been only ap- 
 proached by his success on the bench. As a criminal lawyer and ad- 
 vocate he has no superior and few equals in the State, and though en- 
 joying a large practice, the writer is creditably informed, he has never 
 yet lost a capital case, when engaged either for the defense or the pros- 
 ecution. With a natural judicial mind, which has been trained and 
 brightened by experience on the bench, he combines a brilliant imagi- 
 nation with a remarkable quickness of apprehension that makes him 
 almost irresistible as an advocate. He is ready in debate, ingenious in 
 reasoning, lively in expression, powerful in statement, speaks with a 
 clear and ringing voice, all of which united with a person handsome, 
 manly, and particularly impressive, makes him what he is, one of the 
 
OF REP RE SEN TA TI VES. 3 S7 
 
 most eloqu'^nt, powerful and attractive speakers in the State, at- 
 tractive alike to those who know him and to strangers ; indeed it could 
 be said of him what Dryden s.iid of Halifax — 
 
 "Of piercing wit and pregnant thought. 
 
 Endowed by nature and by learning taught , 
 
 To move assemblies." 
 
 Judge Twiggs entered politics for the first time when he was elected 
 to the General Assembly from Richmond county. Upon the assem- 
 bling of the Legislature he was elected Speaker /);v /"tv;/. which office 
 he filled with the same tact urbanity and power that has characterized 
 him in every important position where his talents have placed him. 
 As a parliamentarian presiding over the House, he was impartial, 
 ready, and clear. On the floor of the House he was vigilant, active 
 and strong, either to oppose or advocate any measure that he thought 
 required his support or disapp'oval. Fearless and unflinching in the 
 discharge of duties, there was no member who stood higher in the es- 
 timation of his associates. He grappled the most important measures 
 that came before the body with the same ease and familiarity he 
 would try an assault and battery case before the courts, in fact you 
 might 
 
 "Turn him to any cause of policy, 
 The Gordian knot of it he will unloose 
 Familiar as his garter." 
 
358 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 HON. JOHN B. WHEELER. 
 
 (WALKER COUNTY.) 
 
 0<5HIS gentleman is the acknowledged leader in the House of the 
 f^Q " Retrenchment and Reform " wing of the Legislature, and 
 ■^5^ many are the lobbyists who have felt the power of his influence 
 in defeating their " jobs " and ra''ds upon the treasury of the State. 
 
 Honest and firm in his convictions of right and justice, no amount 
 of "bull-dozing" or persuasion can move him from his positions. He 
 will ever go so far as to vote single-handed and alone against what 
 he conscientiously believes to be wrong. 
 
 Mr. Wheeler was born October 12th, 1829. in Campbell county* 
 Tennessee. His father, Benjamin N. Wheeler, was a native of Vir- 
 ginia, and married Miss Rebecca Bridgman, of the same State. In 
 1833 they came to Walker county, where the former died in 1840 and 
 the latter in 1850. The family then consisted of seven children, and 
 three sons and three daughters are still alive. 
 
 Being a boy of considerable independence and pluck, John at once 
 "struck out" for himself, determined to make an honest living or die 
 in the attempt. Success crowned his patient endeavors, and he pur- 
 chased a small farm, married a young wife, Miss Catherine J. Jack- 
 son, of Tennessee, and raised a family of six boys and three girls, two 
 of whom are now married. 
 
 The war somewhat destroyed his fortunes, but not nothing daunted, 
 he set to work earnestly after the surrender, and made good in a few 
 years his losses. He now has a fine farm and a good property, the 
 result of his untiring industry and excellent business qualities. 
 
 Mr. Wheeler is no politician, although he has held several county 
 offices, and \\ now in the General Assembly. With his sound views 
 of public honesty and economy, there is nothing attractive to him 
 in official station. Yet he shrinks from no duty imposed upon by 
 the people of Walker county, of which he is one of the oldest and 
 most respected citizens. 
 
 During the four years he has been serving in the House, he has 
 pursued but one course, and that has been marked by a consistent 
 desire to suppress useless legislation, cut off extravagant expenditures, 
 defeat all schemes to rob the treasury through doubtful appropria- 
 tions, and put good and true men into office. 
 
 Mr. Wheeler has very properly been called the " Watch Dog of the 
 Treasury," and the cutter-off of useless debate by calling the " pre- 
 
OF REP RES EX TA TI J 'ES. 359 
 
 vious question." For these valuable offices, condemned by some and 
 applauded by many, the House complimented him with a vote of 
 thanks. Even those who most keenly felt the power of his retrench- 
 ment and reform policy, are compelled to acknowledge his honesty 
 and integrity of purpose and character. 
 
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 HON. URIEL BAYLIS V.'ILKINSON. 
 
 (COWETA COUNTY.) 
 
 )0N. Uriel Baylis Wilkinson, of Coweta courity, Georgia, is the 
 ^ ^ son of Thomas and Lucy Wilkinson, and grandson of Pleasann 
 "^^ Wilkinson. He was born in Wilkes county, Georgia, May 13th, 
 1819. his father was a farmer, who, commencing poor, acquired a 
 good property before his death, which occu-red in Heard county, 
 Georgia. 1854, at the age of sixty-five years. His mother was a 
 daughter of Uriel and Susan Crosby, whose maiden name was Reno. 
 She departed this life in Heard county, Georgia, in 1855, about one 
 year after the death of her husband. To his parents were born eleven 
 children, fiv-e sons and six daughters. U. B. Wilkinson is their third 
 son and fourth child. 
 
 The subject of this notice never enjoyed the advantages of an early 
 and collegiate course of instruction. What education he obtained he 
 acquired principally by attending old-field schools between the laying 
 by of crops and picking cotton. The greater portion of the eighteenth 
 year of his age he attended school at an Academy, in Wilkes county, 
 of some distinction for training youths. In January, 1838, Mr. Thomas 
 Wilkinson moved with his family to Heard county, Georgia, where he 
 continued to farm, and never sought nor held any public offi:e. 
 
 In 1839, before reaching his majority, Mr. Wilkinson engaged in 
 the mercantile business in the city of Newnan. Being a novice in the 
 business, and commencing to merchandise about the beginning of the 
 great financial panic, which bankrupted so many men of both experi- 
 enre and means, it would have been miraculous for a youth, accus- 
 tomed only to a farm life, with neither theory, nor practice, nor money 
 to have been successful. Mr. Wilkinson failed in this his first effort 
 to merchandise, and closed out his business in 1840. He was unable 
 to meet his demands, but pa'd his debts as faf as he could, asked in- 
 dulgence of his creditors, and returned to the farm until he p.iid all he 
 owed, dollar for dollar, though his debts were contracted while in his 
 minority. In 1841 he read law under John Ray, E-q.. of Newnan; 
 but he did not apply for admittance to the bar, as he had a natural 
 fondness for merchandising, which business he re-entered, permanently 
 established, and has successfully followed it for more than thirty years. 
 For several years after the war he did a very successful business in 
 Savannah as commission merchant and cotton broker. He then re- 
 turned to Newnan, where for several years he has been engaged in 
 
362 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 banking, and at the sime time he lias carried on large farming inter- 
 ests in Coweta and other adjoining counties. For the last few years 
 he has owned a paper mill, and has been engaged in manufacturing 
 paper in Carroll county. 
 
 Major Wilkinson has been a Democrat all his life, as his votes for 
 Presidents of the United States show. He cast his first vote in the 
 fall of 1840 for Martin Van Buren. In 1844 he voted for James K. 
 Polk. In 1848 for General Lewis Cass. In 18^2 he voted for Frank- 
 lin Pierce. In 1856 he voted for James Buchanan. And in i860 he 
 voted for J. C. Breckenridge. Smce the war he has voted successively 
 for Seymour, Greely, Tilden, and Hancock. 
 
 Mr. Wilkinson has been prominently connected with politics in his 
 county ever since he was old enough to vote. He is cool, far-seeing, 
 clear headed, a safe adviser, and a good organizer. Few men have 
 had more influence in giving direction to and controlling the elections 
 of his county than U. B. Wilkinson. He has never sought public 
 office. Yet he has frequently been called upon by his fellow-citizens 
 to fill positions of honor and trust. He has been Justice of the Peace, 
 Judge of the Inferior Court, both in Heard and Coweta county. He 
 has been Clerk of the Court of Ordinary in Heard county, and Judge 
 Ordinary of the county of Coweta. He was Confederate States Com- 
 missioner under the impressment act of the Confederate States Con- 
 gress, appointed by Ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown. He was also 
 Confederate States Depositary, appointed by Mr.Memminger, Secretary 
 of the Treasury of the Southern Confederacy. He is at present Pres- 
 ident of the Peoples' Bank, Newnan, Georgia, whose business interests 
 he has guarded with unceasing vigilance, and to the entire satisfaction 
 of the stockholders. At their last election the sovereign people o^ 
 Coweta county, by the largest vote polled, asked Mr. Wilkinson to be 
 their representative in the State Legislature for 18S0 and 1881. This 
 honor he accepted. In his labors as a Representative, he was untir- 
 ing. Daring a session of 116 days he was present at every sit- 
 ting of the body. He drafted many of the most important bills, and 
 while he never engaged in public debate, the influence of his counsels 
 was greatly felt in giving direction to the business of the House of 
 Representatives. 
 
 Mr. Wilkinson was a strong believer in the constitutional right of 
 secession. He believed the South had sufficient cause to withdraw 
 from the Federal government. In his opinion it was expedient as well 
 as right for the States to secede. Therefore he accordingly used his 
 influence and voted for secession. He felt the cause of the Con- 
 federacy was his cause. With him there was not anything too valua- 
 ble or sacred to contribute to the success of the South. He was so 
 
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 sanguine of the final success of the Southern Confederacy that as late 
 as 1S64 he loaned the government two hundred thousand dollars, at 
 4 per cent per annum, not a dollar of which was ever paid. He also 
 had at the close of the war, forty thousand dollars of Georgia sixes, 
 which WTre claimed to have been issued for war purposes. No man 
 more strongly supported nor moresanguinely believed in the final suc- 
 cess of the "Lost Cause," than Mr. Wilkinson. 
 
 Major U. B. Wilkinson was married in Meriwether county. Georgia. 
 January 23d. 1S45, to Miss Amelia T. SpratHn, daughter of Henry 
 Spratlin, of Wilkes county. Georgia. His wife's mother was a daugh- 
 ter of Colonel William and Mary Johnson, whose maiden name was 
 Hill, all of Wilkes county, Georgia. To Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson, ten 
 children have been born, six sons and four daughters, five of whom 
 are dead, two sons and three daughters. 
 
 Mr. Wilkinson is a consistent and zealous Christian. He joined the 
 Baptist church at Enon, Heard county, Georgia, and was baptized in 
 the Chattahoochee river, in 1838. He was ordained a Deacon in the 
 Franklm Baptist church. Heard county, in 1851. He was clerk of the 
 Western Baptist Association for about twenty consecutive years. He 
 has been sent by his Association as a delegate to the Georgia Baptist 
 State Convention since 1846. He has, most of this time, been a mem- 
 ber of, and frequently chairman of, the Finance Committee. He has 
 also been frequently sent by the Baptist State Convention as a delegate 
 to the Southern Baptist Convention. So that Mr. Wilkinson is not 
 only a successful business man, a wise politician, but, most important 
 of all, he has b<"en for forty years, and is now, a most devout Christian 
 and active church member, against whom no ecclesiastical charge has 
 ever been preferred. 
 
 It can be truly said of Hon. Uriel Baylis Wilkinson, that he is a true 
 and just man, a good citizen, a wise politician, a devoted husband, a 
 kind and affectionate father, a devout and active Christian. His life 
 abounds with examples worthy of the imitation of his children, and 
 of his fellow- citizens. 
 
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 HON. ISAIAH WILLIAMS. 
 
 (DOOLY COUNTY ) 
 
 EPRESEN'TATIVE WILLIAMS is the son of Hiram Wil- 
 liams, of Dooly county, who was born in South Carolina, and 
 '-''6^ who has raised a family of eight sons and three daughters. 
 Isaiah was born in that county April 7th, 1842. was carefully reared 
 at home under good moral influence, and had the advantgcs of an 
 ordirary common school education. 
 
 He was married February 27th, 1866, to Miss Nancy C. Sheppard, 
 and now has a family of two boys and four girls. By occupation a 
 successful and industrious farmer, Mr. Williams has also served his 
 State and county with honor and fidelity in public positions. 
 
 During the late war he was a soldier in the Confederate army, and 
 since the surrender he has been a Justice of the Peace for his district. 
 In the two sessions of the present General Assembly, it has been the 
 good fortune of Mr. Williams to be on the right side of all questions 
 that had to do with wise, prudent and economical legislation. 
 
 Mr. Williams is a member of the Baptist Church, and in his private 
 and public life never fails to exemplify the virtues and graces of a 
 Christian character. Beneath a quiet exterior, however, he keeps in 
 reserve a strong under-current of firmness and decision, and it is hard 
 to move him except in the right direction. He must be convinced 
 that a measure is just and desirable before he yields his support to its 
 adoption. 
 
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 HON. WILLIS MARCELLUS WILLINGHAM. 
 
 (OGLETHORPE C(K'NTV.) 
 
 tR. WILLINGHAM was born on the yih of March, 1845. '" 
 Oglethorpe county. His parents moved to Lexington, the 
 ^ county seat of Oglethorpe, when he was seven years of age- 
 Here he attended the Meson Academy, Professor Thomas B. Moss, 
 being the Principal. He was prepared for entering college in 1862. 
 but entered the army instead, at the age of seventeen, as a volunteer 
 in the Sixty- fourth Georgia Regiment, and served until Johnston's 
 surrender. He was severley wounded in the left shou'dcr at Olustee, 
 Florida. Sometime subsequent to the surrender deciding to follow 
 the profession which his father had honored, Dr. Willingham studied 
 medicine, attended first a course of lectures at the Long Island Medi- 
 cal College, in Brooklyn, New York, and a subsequent course at the 
 Atlanta Medical College, where he graduated in the class of 1874. 
 
 Since his graduation, he has been in regular practice in Oglethorpe 
 county. He was married November the i8th, 1874, to Miss Lizzie G. 
 Oliver, of Crawford, Georgia. 
 
 Dr. Wilhngham was a member of the Legislature of 1873-74 and 
 1878-79. from Oglethorpe county, and was nominated and elected 
 without opposition to the present Legislature. In the House, while 
 he made no pretensions as a speaker, yet, whatever he has to say and 
 his votes are characterized by the soundest discretion. The writer of 
 this sketch has been for years well acquainted personally with Dr. 
 Willingham, and has ever been impressed with the sound judgment 
 and great common sense which distinguish him. He is a true man 
 in every sense of the term, and possesses the utmost contidence of his 
 constituency, both as a citizen and as a public official. 
 
 He is a man who improves upon acquaintance, and holds on to 
 friends. 
 
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 HON. W. R. WILSON. 
 
 (GREENE COUNTY.) 
 
 ^OHE subject of this sketch was born in Greene county, January 
 %i^ loth, 1835, his father, Thomas B. Wilson, being a wealthy 
 '" d^ merchant and farmer, who had risen from humble circumstances 
 by his excellent business tact and unwearied industry. 
 
 Although a native of Virginia, he married Miss Martha Williams, 
 of Greene county, who died August 26th, 1861, and his own death 
 occurred August 23d, 1873. By this marriage there were six children, 
 three sons and three daughters, all now grown to manhood and 
 womanhood, and settled in homes of their owr. 
 
 Representative Wilson had good educational advantages during his 
 boyhood, and was duly entered at Mercer University, where he closed 
 his Sophomore year and finished his collegiate course by marrying 
 Miss Mary F. Edmondson, an attractive and worthy young lady of 
 
 Eatonton. 
 
 Following in the footsteps of his father, young Wilson engaged in 
 farming and mercantile pursuits, and has come to be regarded as one 
 of the most practical and successful agriculturists in his county. 
 
 Although not a politician, Mr. Wilson has never failed to discharge 
 faithfully and well any public trust put upon him by his people. When 
 but twenty-two years of age he was elected a Justice of the Peace, an 
 office which he held for eighteen years. Conservative in his views, he 
 has made an excellent legislator, and still further proved himself a 
 public servant of strict uprightness of character and more than ordi- 
 nary capacity. 
 
 He is the father of five children, and has a home made attractive by 
 domestic happiness and the comforts of a successful industry. Of 
 stout build and light, ruddy complexion, Mr. Wilson possesses a quiet, 
 genial and unobtrusive disposition, which makes his presence agreeable 
 in any circle into which he may be thrown. 
 
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 HON. JONATHAN WITHROW. 
 
 iGlLMER COUNTY.) 
 
 fT has always been considered an honor to hail from Buncombe 
 county. North Carolina, and Mr. Withrow having been born 
 ^ there May 14th, 1815, shares this honor with many public men 
 of greater distinction. 
 
 His father, John Withrow, a gunsmith and farmer, was a native of 
 the " Tar Heel State," and also his mother, Susanna (Ashworth) 
 Withrow. They raised a family of ten children, the mother dying 
 in 1852 and the father in 1861. 
 
 The early years of young Withrow were full of hard work, with 
 very limited school privileges, yet he succeeded in laying the founda- 
 tion of a practical education that has served him well in his latter 
 years of public usefulness. 
 
 Before leaving his native .State, Captain Withrow commanded a com- 
 pany of militia, a fact which brought upon him a similar honor after 
 his removal to Gilmer county, where he engaged in merchandizing, and 
 later in farming and stock-raising. 
 
 Elected Judge of the County Court in 1843, he continued to hold 
 the office for the unusually long period of sixteen years, a most con- 
 vincing proof that he was an honest, faithful and impartial judicial 
 officer. 
 
 When elected Judge he found the county burdened with a debt of 
 $4,000, and a high rate of taxation in force, but his excellent and 
 economical financial views enabled him to work a speedy reform. The 
 rate oi taxation was reduced and the debt entirely paid off during the 
 first four years of his administration of affairs. 
 
 And yet one of the chief characteristics of Judge Withrow, is his 
 unvarying and untiring generosity and kindness of heart to the poor, 
 especially the widow and orphan, and Heaven alone can reveal the 
 full record of his charities and kindnesses, the result of his rare success 
 in business. 
 
 His country, in her hour of need, also .'hared in his generosity. 
 During the first three years of the war he not only supplied, without 
 return, the Confederate government with 4,000 pounds of bacon, 600 
 bushels of corn, fifty sheep, sixty hogs and eighty head of cattle, but 
 provisioned a " Home Guard " company of eighty men, of which he 
 was Captain, out of his own supplies. 
 
 It is needless to suggest, that such a man must have come out of 
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OF REPRESENTATIVES. 369 
 
 the war somewhat crippled in his resources, although sound in body 
 and mind. Nothing daunted, however. Judge Withrow proceeded to 
 repair his shattered fortunes by economy, industry and wise manag,e- 
 ment. In 1880 the people of his county elected him to the General 
 Assembly, and he has served them in the councils of the State with the 
 same fidelity and success that marked his career as County Judge. 
 
 He has been twice married ; first to Miss Margaret Patterson, of 
 Cherokee county, North Carolina, in 1835; and then to Miss Susanna 
 Plemons, of Gilmer county. He has six children by the former wife, 
 and three by the latter, all of whom have been well provided for by 
 his success in life. 
 
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 HON. SEABORN WRIGHT. 
 
 (FLOYD COUNTY.) 
 
 3ON, SEABORN WRIGHT was born in Floyd county, about 
 two miles from Rome, and is in his twenty-fourth year. His- 
 father is the Hon. Augustus R. Wright, one of the most bril- 
 liant orators Georgia has ever produced, who served in both the Fed- 
 eral and Confederate Congresses with distinction. His mother, formerly 
 Miss Adeline Allman, of Chattooga county, is a gentle and estimable 
 lady and a devoted mother. 
 
 The subject of this sketch, after attending the schools of his county, 
 was sent to Mercer University, at Macon, where he graduated with 
 honor, in his eighteenth year. 
 
 Returning to Floyd county, he rt-ad law, and was admitted to the 
 bar at the January term, 1878, of Floyd Superior Court. He rose 
 rapidly in his profession, being especially fitted for a successful advo- 
 cate, and was engaged in several important criminal cases, including 
 three murder cases, obtaining a modified verdict in each. 
 
 In 1874, when Dr. William H. Felton announced himself an inde- 
 pendent candidate for Congress, Mr. Wright at once allied himself 
 with the movement, and cast his political fortunes with the Independ- 
 ents of his district. He stumped the district during three successive- 
 campaigns for Dr. Felton, and notwithstanding his youth and boyish 
 appearance, he everywhere drew large audiences and won unbounded 
 applause. His effective campaigning was highly appreciated by Dr. 
 Felton and his friends. 
 
 In 1880, Mr. Wright announced himself an Independent candidate 
 for the House of Representatives. Two strong men were nominated 
 by the Democratic Convention, and the fight was a bitter and an earn- 
 est one. Mr. Wright made a brilliant race. He obtained many an 
 •' organized " vote, and when the result was declared, it was kno\vn 
 that he was triumphantly elected. 
 
 His career in the last Legislature was a very successful one. He at 
 all times exhibited a prudence and wisdom remarkable in one so young, 
 and his manly deportment, genial manners and brilliant oratory made 
 him a general favorite. He introduced a number of important bills 
 and was a member of the principal committees. 
 
 On the 28th day of February, 1882, Mr. Wright was married to 
 Miss Anna Moore, daughter of Mr. W. A. .Moore, of Atlanta, a charm- 
 ing and accomplished young lady, whose gentle manners and amiable 
 
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 disposition, won hosts of friends. With such a companion, Mr. 
 Wright's prospects, both in law and in politics, are as bright and prom- 
 ising as the most ambitious could desire, and we venture the predic- 
 tion that ere many years have elapsed, his presence will grace the halls 
 of our National Legislature at Washington. 
 

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 HON. J. T. YOUNGBLOOD. 
 
 (WASHINGTON COUNTY*) 
 
 Q<^HERE is no more genial and popular member in the House than 
 /VO Judge Youngblood, who so well represents his native county. Al- 
 '^ J^ though modest and retiring in his manners, he is prompt to act 
 in public matters, and his good nature and sound sense have won for 
 him many friends during the present session. 
 
 Judge Youngblood was born May 27ih, 1822, is parents, Isaac R. 
 and Elizabeth (Kennedy) Youngb'ood, being natives of Hancock 
 county. They raised a family of thirteen children, of whom only two 
 of the boys are now alive. The father died in 1863, and the mother 
 seven years later. 
 
 Possessed of but limited educational advantages, the subject 
 of this sketch started out in life as a farmer, then added merchan- 
 dising, and in both pursuits was successful, and honored from the start. 
 This fact led his fellow-citizens to bestow upon him the burden of 
 public duties, and in 18 ^i he was chosen a Justice of the Peace, and 
 in i860 was elected one of the Judges of the Inferior Court, to which 
 position he was re-elected in 1864. 
 
 He was among the first to respond to the call for volunteers in 1861, 
 and went out as a private in the company (Company E) from Wash- 
 ington county, commanded by Captain S. A. M. Jones, of the First 
 Georgia Volunteers, Colonel J. N. Ramsay, but was soon promoted on 
 account of his fine business qualities to Quartermaster. Of com- 
 manding figure, cheerful disposition and generous nature, he made a 
 handsome, faithful and popular soldier. 
 
 Since the war. Judge Youngblood has grown in popularity as he has 
 also increased in his business interests, and is now one of the "solid 
 men " of Washington county, where it requires no ordinary qualities 
 of head and heart to reach this distinction. His election to the present 
 General Assembly is a high tribute to his excellent private character 
 and well tried public virtues. Prompt in his attendance, wise in his 
 discussions, and prudent in his action'', he has proved a most worthy 
 and successful Representative. 
 
 Judge Youngblood has been twice married, his first wife. Miss Mary 
 G. Carson, of Burice county, to whom he was wedded in 1856, dying 
 a year after marriage. His second choice was Mrs. Mary S. Sneed, to 
 whom he was married in 1865. His delightful home, however, is not 
 now cheered by the presence of living children. Otherwise he has 
 all the joys and comforts of a life well lived, and blessings and privi- 
 leges wisely improved. 
 
I^UUUS, PHQIO. 
 
 HARRISON & CO., PUB'BS. 
 
 
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 HON. CHARLES THORNTON ZACHRY.* 
 
 (HF.XRV COUNTY.) 
 
 ^3HE Stern, brave anJ chivalric man, the subject of this sketch, 
 %^ was born near Covington, Georgia, in the county of Newton, at 
 ^ d^ what is known as the "Old Zachry Homestead." This property 
 has never passed from the ownership of the family since its settle- 
 ment by his parents, James B. and Olive Zachry. They moved from 
 Putnam county where his father's ancestors settled after their arrival 
 from the eastern shore of Maryland, and his mother from the 
 vicinity of Alexandria, Virginia. There are still on the eastern shore 
 of Maryland some of the Zachry family, while around Orange Court 
 House, in Fairfax county, Virginia, a few of the good and virtuous 
 relatives of the Christian mother of Colonel Zachry may yet be found. 
 
 In his boyhood years schools and colleges were very rare, hence, 
 like most men of that day. he had not the advantages of a Univerrjty 
 education. This fact has made him zealous in behalf of the educa- 
 tion of his children, and he has given them almost every advantage 
 which money could command. 
 
 His devotion to active business and his success in its pursuit, have 
 kept him out of politics and, for the most part, out of the public 
 service. 
 
 When the late war between the States came on. he was a member 
 of the Whig party, and opposed to secession, but when the call for 
 volunteers was made, he was one of the first who responded, "ready." 
 Here Colonel Zachry began a course where success rewarded bravery. 
 A braver officer never drew his sword in behalf of constitutional 
 liberty. His war record began by his election as Captain of a com- 
 pany of Henry county volunteers, named in honor of the command- 
 ing officer, the "Zachry Rangers." The flag of this company was 
 subsequently taken by General Sherman, and is now on exhibition at 
 the Army and Navy Museum in Washington City. 
 
 The " Zachry Rangers " were first ordered by Governor Brown to 
 rendezvous at Camp Stephens, near Griffin. On the organization of a 
 regiment. Captain Zachry was unanimously elected Major. This 
 regiment afterwards became the famous Twenty-Seventh Georgia, 
 and Major Zachry was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, 
 while absent in an effort to see his wife, whose death occurred before 
 he could reach his home. This election evinced the high esteem and 
 •confidence entertained for him by the men of his command. 
 
 * Contributed by Hon. Henry Jackson 
 
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 After the evacuation of Manassas, the Twenty-Seventh Georgia Regi- 
 ment was t-ansferred to Yorktown wi'h Johnston's army, and rendered 
 valuable aid in resisting the march of McClelland to Richmond. It 
 remained with General Anderson until after the battle of Seven Pines, 
 when it became a part of Colqu'tt's Brigade. At the battle of Seven 
 Pines Colonel Smith became disabled, and the co nmand devolved 
 upon Lieutenant-Colonel Zachry, who led it to the battle of Sharps- 
 burg. 
 
 In the sanguinary seven days' fight around Richmond, the command 
 of Lieutenant-Colonel Zachry greatly distinguished itself as one of 
 the best in the service. This was due as well to the valor of his men, 
 as to the masterly leadership of its commanding offi:er. 
 
 At the battle of F.harpsbu''g Lieutenant-Colonel Zachry was 
 wounded twice, one of the balh he still carries in his person. For 
 several days his life was despaired of and his family telegraphed as to 
 the disposition of his remains. But, after an illness of several weeks, 
 he recovered, when he was immediately promoted to the rank of 
 Colonel, and was in command of his regiment when the Federals 
 made their first attack from the north branch of the Rappahannock 
 river, z.*. Fredericksburg. Too much cannot be said of Colonel 
 Zachry 's bravery and skill on that occasion. It seems that in no 
 emergency was the Twenty-Seventh found lacking — none to which 
 it was not equal. 
 
 At the second battle of Cold Harbor, Generals Hoke and Wilcox 
 lost thei- Imes, but they were successfully re-taken by Colonel Zachry 
 at the head of five companies. The ef!i:iency of this command was 
 largely due to its comminding officer who yv^as every inch a soldier. 
 
 At the battle of Olustee, Florida, Colonel Zachry's command greatly 
 distinguished itself — acting the most important part in a-^hieving that 
 brilliant victory. Near the close of that eventful day, when the tide 
 of battle seemed to turn, alternately, from one side to the other of the 
 contending hosts. General Colquitt sent one of his staff officers to 
 show the Twenty-Seventh Oeorgia into position in the line of battle 
 and to remind Colonel Zachry that everything depended upon his 
 command. The reply of Colonel Zachry showed that he was of the 
 stuff of which a soldier is made. As he rode at the head of his regi- 
 ment with the fire of battle in his eye, he said : " Major, tell the 
 General that I will do my best — not only he but the enemy shall know 
 it when we are in line." This was no vain boast for, soon the enemy 
 were in full retreat, leaving their dead and wounded on the field. 
 
 Colonel Zachry was not only brave and fearless himself, but he in- 
 spired his command with courage Cowardice either in the officer or 
 in the ranks, he unsparingly punished. The discipline he exercised 
 was a marked characteristic of his military qualities. 
 
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 In the summer of 1864. I was ordered to report to General Alfred 
 H. Colquitt, as Adjutant-General of his brigade, to supply the place 
 of Captain George Grattan, who had been seriously wounded a short 
 time previously. I found the command in the trenches before Pcters- 
 bur^:, on that portion of the line which was afterwards known as 
 " Colquitt's Salient." Soon after my arrival I heard of " Old Zack." 
 Whenever allusion was made to any severe fighting, in which the 
 brigade had been engaged previous to my connection with it, what 
 "Old Zach" had done would be stated in the most glowing terms. 
 Regarding General Colquitt, now the distinguished Governor of the 
 State, as the head of the brigade, " Old Zach " was certainly his right 
 arm. Upon inquiry as to who this gallant soldier wa^, and what had 
 become of him, I was informed that he was Charles T. Zachry, of the 
 Twenty-Seventh Georgia Regiment, and then on duty in command of 
 Martin's North Carolina Brigade ; that he was rarely with his own 
 regiment because whenever the head of a brigade was removed by 
 the casualties of war, " Old Zach " was very apt to be assigned to the 
 command of it. The first time I ever saw him was when Colquitt's 
 Brigade was ordered to report to Mahone to make the attack of the 
 19th of August, on the Fifth (Warren's) Corps, then entrenched along 
 the line of the Weldon Railroad. To my surprise he was by no means 
 old ; though known by the soubriquet of " Old Zach." He was in the 
 very prime of life, and the soldier was to be seen in every inch of him, 
 from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet. He had the cool, 
 gray eye that is always accompanied by the most determined courage 
 and his wiry, iron-gray moustache involuntarily re-called the immortal 
 " Old Guard " of Napoleon. Whilst I then had but a moment's con- 
 versation with him, I fully realized that I was in the presence of one 
 of those men whose home is the battle-field, and whose name would 
 become historic if the war but lasted long enough. Colonel Zachry 
 returned to his brigade and I saw no more of him until January, I865, 
 when he took command of Colquitt's Brigade, the latter having gone 
 to Georgia on leave of absence. This position he occupied until a 
 few days before the surrender, when General Colquitt returned. 
 
 Hoke's Division, in which the brigade was, had been detached from 
 the Army of Northern Virginia, and ordered to report to General 
 B'-agg at Wilmington, to assist in the defense of Fort Fisher, then 
 threatened by the expedition under General Terry. Though sent all 
 the way from Richmond, thus weakening that immortal band which, 
 headed by the beloved Lee, was defending the Capital of the Southern 
 Confederacy, Bragg allowed Fort Fisher to be carried by assnult in 
 the very presence of this magnificent division, without firing a gun. 
 Soon after the fort fell, the enemy of course advanced upon us, and it 
 
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 was just at this juncture that Colonel Zachry took command. Never 
 was more arduous service done by soldiers — stationed on a narrow strip 
 of land, with the ocean on one side and the Cape Fear river on the 
 other, both swarming with Federal gunboats and monitors, they were 
 subjected for days to a direct enfilading and reverse fire of every 
 species of weapon known to modern warfare, mortars, eleven-inch 
 guns, parrotts, and last, but far from least, the rifle played upon them 
 incessantly, and could you have seen " Old Zach " under these circum- 
 stances, you would have supposed him happier and much more at 
 home than in his present seat in the House of Representatives. I am 
 quite confident that he would rather face an eleven-inch shell than 
 rise up at his desk and say: " Mr. Speaker." Wilmington was evacuated 
 and "Old Zach," as usual, had the post of honor, the command of the 
 rear guard. Slowly and stubbornly he fell back, and many of the 
 enemy were made to bite the dust when they pressed him too closely. 
 
 Hoke's Division moved to the neighborhood of Kinston, where it 
 was joined by some of Johnston's army then falling back before Sher- 
 man. It was discovered by those in command that a division of the 
 enemy was disconnected from the rest of the Federal army in that sec- 
 tion, and a flank movement was projected by which to take it in rear 
 and capture it if possible. This flank movement was executed by 
 Zachry 's Georgia and Kirtland's North Carolina brigades, and a most 
 brilliant success it was. When these two brigades were in the imme- 
 diate vicinity of the rear of the enemy, a deserter informed them of 
 their danger, and just as they were endeavoring to extricate them- 
 selves the attack was made. Most of them were taken prisoners, to- 
 gether with what artillery they had. The successful e.xecution of this 
 movement required coolness and quickness, and '• Old Zach" was fully 
 equal to the emergency. Stonewall Jackson could not have handled 
 his troops more beautifully. The battle commenced when his brigade 
 was moved by the flank, and the rapidity and precision with which he 
 brought them into line under a severe fire, was beautiful to behold. 
 
 For the next week the fighting was almost daily, and wherever the 
 miost bullets could be found, there would be seen the gallant Colonel. 
 
 The next general engagement in which he participated was the bat- 
 tle of Bentonville. Here Hoke's Division was united with the main 
 body of Johnston's army. It had been said that Lee's soldiers had 
 never met the same class of troops as composed the army of Sherman, 
 or they would not have been so universally victorious. Longstreet's 
 Division had met them at Chickamauga and the result is known. 
 Now, a second division of Lee's was to face them, and I believe that 
 command would have died to a man before it would have given an 
 inch. Early in the morning blankets were piled, guns inspected, and 
 
OF REPJ^ESEN TA TI VES. 379 
 
 everything prepared for a desperate engagement. The skirmishers 
 were informed that it was expected of them to drive back Sherman's 
 line without assistance from the main body of the command. "Old 
 Zach" was everywhere, happy at the thought of a brilliant victory, 
 and inspiring courage and hope wherever he went. On came Sher- 
 man, but Zachry's skirmishers soon stopped his line, and, wonderful to 
 say, they were never driven in. For two hours that little band of de- 
 voted veterans, emulating their brethren upon the glorious fields of Vir- 
 ginia and Maryland, drove back line after line, and never for a moment 
 fell back on the main body. Soon the command to advance was given, 
 and Hoke's division went through the enemy in front of it, and over 
 their works, capturing their artillery, with the same ease that Stone- 
 wall Jackson was accustomed to march on Banks. Being unsupported 
 on the right, it was compelled to halt, and this fearful delay subse- 
 quently cost Zachry half his brigade, for by the time the line was per- 
 fected and the forward movement resumed, the enemy had erected 
 heavy earthworks in front and protected themselves by abattis which 
 no human being could penetrate under fire. Yet right into the abat- 
 tis went Coloriel Zachry with his devoted followers, but all to no pur- 
 pose. This handfull of men could not carry the position, though one- 
 half of them were left on the field in the attempt. The position we 
 occupied was held until Sherman had sent a corps to take us in rear, 
 but a rapid change of front saved us, and soon we were, in turn, en- 
 trenching. Never did a line of breastworks arise more rapidly from 
 the ground, and not a moment too soon, for here came the enemy 
 upon us like an avalanche. But Lee's soldiers were not to be run 
 over, and they retired probably more rapidly than they advanced. 
 
 Here was enacted a scene which never can pass from my memory, 
 for it united the highest dramatic effect, even though in the midst of 
 the terrible tragedy being enacted, with comedy. Our line was so 
 thin, that the men were often more than a yard apart. The North 
 Carolina Junior Reserves were with us. composed of boys fifteen aud 
 sixteen years of age, and gallantly did these little fellows bleed and 
 die for their country. Even now I can see a small, pale faced boy of 
 fifteen, with his rifle clasped in one hand, and the other arm torn off 
 by a shell, lying down in the trench praying to God that he might see 
 his mother before he died. The enemy were not one hundred yards 
 from us, and as successive bodies of fresh troops came up, they would 
 assault our line endeavoring to carry it by storm. If a hat was lifted 
 above the works, in a minute a ball would be through it. As the 
 firing would grow more severe on the right, the men and boys would 
 close down in that direction ; if the attack was on the left, a corres- 
 ponding movement would be made in that direction. But above artil- 
 
380 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 lery, musketry and cheering, would be heard the ringing voice of "Old 
 Zach:" "Now, boys, sachez to the right." "Now, boys, sachez to the 
 left." He was carrying on a dancing class in the midst of one of the 
 most terrific battles of history ! 
 
 Georgia sent many a gallant son to Virginia, but none did more to 
 illustrate her in his place than Charles T. Zachry, of Henry. And I 
 do not hesitate to say, the larger the command given him, in my hum- 
 ble opinion, the greater would have been the success achieved. A 
 better regimental or brigade commander never drew a sword or set a 
 horse, and when the surrender was made no more stainless blade was 
 returned to the scabbard. I am informed that his appointment to the 
 rank of Brigadier General was ordered when the "Stars and Bars'"" 
 were furled forever. 
 
 As I see the quiet and unassuming member from Henry moving 
 about in the Houce of Representatives, I can hardly realize that he 
 is now the battle-scarred veteran, and was once the brilliant cavalier 
 beside whom I was so proud to ride upon many a hard fought field. 
 Georgians should honor him everywhere ! 
 
OF REP RES EN TATIl 'ES. 38 1 
 
 HON. W. S. ZELLARb\ 
 
 (CAMPBELL COUNTY.) 
 
 fR. W. S, ZELLARS was born in Newton County, Georgia, Feb- 
 ruary 7th, 1S32. He is the second son now living of Solomon 
 Zellars, who was married to Miss Emily Tatom, in 1824. While 
 the doctor was quite young his father moved to Campbell county, 
 Georgia, with which county the family have since been identified.. 
 
 In his youth the doctor had such advantages in the way of educa- 
 tion as are usually found in a country school. He was afterwards 
 sent to Nashville for a collegiate course, and from there to the Atlanta 
 Medical College, from which he graduated in 1856. After leaving 
 Atlanta he settled in Palmetto and engaged in the practice of his pro- 
 fession. 
 
 In 1858 Dr. W. S. Zellars was married to Miss Annie Watts, a daugh- 
 ter of L. B. Watts, Esq., by whom he had one son, now Dr. W. A. Zel- 
 lars, a practicing physician of Palmetto, Georgia, and one of the rising 
 young men of the county. His wife did not long survive the birth of 
 their son. In 1866 Dr. Zellars married Miss M. K. Camp, daughter 
 of Colonel Benjamin Camp, who resides near Campbellton. 
 
 In 1867 Dr. Zellars was appointed Deputy Collector of Internal Rev- 
 enue, which office he held till elected to the Legislature of 1868. Here 
 he served three years. In 1872 he was appointed Inspector of the 
 port of Savannah for the term of four years, but resigned the position 
 before the time for which he was appointed expired. 
 
 While not a Republican, the doctor is an admirer of the financial 
 policy of that party, and has always, when elected to any office, been 
 free to act untrammeled by promises made when seeking the suffrages 
 of the people. 
 
 When in the Legislature Dr. Zellars' work was principally on com- 
 mittees, in which measures for the amelioration of the poor were 
 considered. He takes great interest in public matters relating to his 
 profession, and has done good work for trie different asylums. 
 
 While not often making a set speech before the House, the doctor is 
 always ready to defend his own views, and is quick to detect and 
 profit by the weak points in his opponent's argument. 
 
 " The boy is father to the man." In his boyhood days the doctor's 
 chief delight was breaking young oxen to work, and the more unman- 
 ageable they were the better pleased he was. What better training 
 
382 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 could the doctor have had for the position he afterwards filled in our 
 State politics? In i860 Dr. Zellars was an ardent supporter of 
 Stephen A. Douglas, and in 1870 when he introduced the bill to create 
 the county of Douglas, he at the same time named it in honor of that 
 great statesman. 
 
APFJJFDIJ. 
 
 HON. W. J. WINN. 
 
 (THIRTV-FIFTH DISTRICT.) 
 
 /TV^^ \E have been unable to obtain a sketch of the Hon. W. J. 
 y;i5&<\^ Winn, Senator from the Thirty-fifth District. Being unac- 
 ^^^'^r^ quainted with the details of his earlier life, and knowing 
 him only as a Senator in the last General Assembly of Georgia, we 
 must, necessarily, fall short, in this notice, of a proper and deserved 
 tribute to his character. Having been closely associated with him 
 during the legislative sessions of 1880 and 1S81, and having observed 
 his conduct as a man and a Senator with more than ordinary interest, 
 we are now enabled to speak of him confidently as one gifted with 
 most liberal natural endowments, which have been educated and cul- 
 tivated to a high degree. 
 
 While uninformed in regard to his scholastic life, we have observed 
 in him the evidences of studiousness and good mental training, taking 
 it as a conclusion that he has not only enjoyed excellent and thorough 
 primary instruction, but passed the customary collegiate course. 
 These conclusions, however, are only deductions from the manner of 
 his present life. Socially he is genial, good natured and vivacious, 
 making every one feel at home in his presence, and that it is a privi- 
 lege to enjoy companionship with him. 
 
 Having selected law as his profession and devoted himself to the 
 study of its principles, he was admitted to the practice after a most 
 creditable examination, and rapidly rose to the highest rank as a law- 
 yer in his c'rcuit. It was only a brief period after his admission to 
 the bar, when he commenced a lucrative practive. 
 
 From early manhood he has manifested a deep interest in politics. 
 State and national, but was never called personally into a political 
 contest until the year 1880, when urged by a multitude of friends, he 
 entered the field as a candidate for the Senate, to v.'hich position he 
 was elected by a handsome majority. 
 
 Mr. Winn was an active and industrious Senator. As chairman of 
 the Committee on Corporations, his labors were arduous, intelligent 
 
HARRISON & CO„PUe'RS 
 
 HON. WILL. J. WINN, 
 
 \^Autci^-a/>h not received. 
 
APPENDIX. 385 
 
 and beneficial to the State. He was always at the post of duty, and 
 not only gave his votes in behalf of wise and salutary laws, but fre- 
 quently brought to bear in their behalf the influence of his superior 
 powers as an orator and a debater. In respect to his capacity as a 
 speaker, we feel justified in saying that he had no superior in the Sen- 
 ate of 1880. His style is chaste, eloquent and logical, free from the 
 slang and unrefined expressions that so often mar the purity and ele- 
 gance of forensic oratory. His courtesy in debate and in all his asso- 
 ciations with fellow-members of the Senate, was observable, and gave 
 him a large degree of personal popularity. 
 
 Senator Winn has scarcely reached the meridian of life, and is pos- 
 sessed of a physique of splendid development, showing capacity for 
 severe endurance, and giving the hope of a long life of usefulness to 
 his country. 
 

 KUHNS, PHOTO. 
 
 HARRISON lo CO., PUB'RS. 
 
 
APPENDIX. 387 
 
 HON. J. H. BREWER. 
 
 (ELBERT COUNTY.) 
 
 fn% LTHOUGH we have made frequent and earnest efforts to ob- 
 |/ tain a sketch of the Hon. J. H. Brewer, Representative of El- 
 ^ bert county, we have been unable to do so. This, to us, is mat- 
 ter of sincere regret, for while ignorant of the details that make up his 
 useful and honorable life, we feel confident they would afford an ex- 
 ample worthy of emulation by the young men of the State, and pre- 
 sent him to the public as one deserving the high esteem of Georgians. 
 It would be a pleasure could we begin with his boyhood and follow 
 him step by step, to the period when the people of his county, enter- 
 taining confidence in his ability, his patriotism and his integrity elec- 
 ted him to represent their interests and the interests of the Common- 
 wealth in the House. Unfortunately this privilege is denied us, and 
 we are only permitted to say that, in his place as a Representative, he 
 proved faithful to the trust confided in him, meriting the approbation 
 and preserving, unimpaired, the confidence of his constituents. Com- 
 ing from one of the best counties in Georgia, we do not hesitate to say 
 he was one of her best law-makers, exercising, at a'l times, a sound, 
 practical judgment, which enabled him to avoid such errors of policy 
 as are dangerous to the welfare of the State. No member of the 
 House was more punctual in attendance upon the duties of that body ; 
 none more closely scanned the various subjects presented for 
 consideration. He was truly a watchman on the wall-towers of Geor- 
 gia, vigilantly guarding her interests against the enactment of bad 
 laws, and giving his influence to the passage of measures which her 
 welfare demanded. If he be judged by his votes, his legislative career 
 will meet with the approbation of the people, and, after all, this is the 
 true test of a law-maker. 
 
388 APPENDIX. 
 
 HON. ELIJAH F. DuPREE. 
 
 (PIKE COUNTY ) 
 
 ^OHE subject of this sketch was born in the county of Meriwether, 
 |l^ Georgia, on the 15th of January, 1849. His parents having died' 
 ^ S^ while he was quite young, he was taken and reared and educated 
 by his aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Spratlin. Under the fostering care of 
 this noble Christian woman, young DuPree was taught to practice the 
 strictest morality, and to have great respect for good and religious 
 people, and it was a source of gratification to her in her last days to 
 know that her favorite nephew was a peer among his fellows, and one 
 that had not only won but merited their confidence and esteem. 
 
 Colonel DuPree has a good education, having graduated at the Uni- 
 versity of Georgia, at the age of twenty-three years, in the class of 
 1872. He is, however, of a very quiet, unostentatious disposition, and 
 must be known, to be rightly appreciated. He moved to Pike county 
 in 1873, and commenced the practice of law, and was married in June, 
 1875, to Miss Biddie G. Reaves, of Zebulon, a lady of one of the best 
 families in the State, and gifted in those womanly accomplishments 
 that render home homelike and attractive. Tbeir union is blessed 
 with three bright and happy children, and their parents are very proud 
 of them. 
 
 Colonel E. F. DuPree is devoted to his profession as a lawyer, and 
 is a close student, and the people of Pike and surrounding counties 
 are beginning to appreciate the honesty and talent of this young advo- 
 cate, he is building up a good practice. Colonel DuPree lives on his farm 
 one mile from the court-house, and is considered one of the best farm- 
 ers in this community, and by thrift and economy, he is slowly, but 
 surely accumulating;;' a competency. 
 
 The people of Pike in convention, nominated him a delegate to 
 the Gubernatorial Convention in 1880, where he supported Colquitt 
 for Governor, believing that he thus represented the wishes of his 
 people. Upon his return from that convention, the people of Pike in 
 another convention, showed their appreciation of his services by ten" 
 dering him the nomination as the Representative from that county to 
 the lower House of the General Assembly, which position he secured 
 without opposition., ind hasfillledit to the satisfaction of his constit- 
 uents. 
 
APPEXDIX. 389 
 
 HON. W. W. PRICE. 
 
 (OCONEE COUNTY.) 
 
 (CTT is to US a matter of sincere regret that we should have failed 
 ^1 to obtain a sketch of the Hon. W. \V. Price, after so many and 
 '^ determined efforts for this purpose. We can only meet the situ- 
 ation by reference to his course as a legislator during the sessions of 
 1880 and i8Sr, and must do this in general terms. Up to the present 
 hour we have anticipated his sketch from the pen of a friend, and this 
 failure renders it impossible for us to treat, specifically, even his acts 
 as a Representative. 
 
 There were many members of the late House who were seldom 
 heard in its debates, and the subject of this brief mention was one of 
 this class. Some were silent because of an extraordinary degree of 
 modesty which enslaved them ; others because of conscious inability 
 to speak well ; and some because they preferred to guard and advance 
 the interests of their people by listening and watching and voting. 
 
 When Moses was sent to give laws to the Hebrews and to enforce 
 them for the welfare of that branch of the human race, he was deemed 
 none the less worthy, or able, because as he alleged, he could not speak. 
 He was nevertheless made the law-giver and governor of his coun- 
 trymen, and so acquitted himself as to render his fame imperishable- 
 This allusion is designed to show that all the credit and honor, that 
 come from the enactment of salutary laws, should not be ascribed to 
 such Representatives as are gifted with the power of public speaking. 
 Those who, like Mr. Price, seldom engaged in debate, but watched 
 with constant vigilance and cast their votes after proper consideration, 
 are entitled to a large part of that praise accorded to our legislators. 
 
 There was, perhaps, no one i-n the House during his term of ser- 
 vice, who labored more earnestly to comprehend the real necessities of 
 Georgia than Mr. Price, or who more faithfully guarded her varied 
 interests by his votes. With him the question was aKvays present : 
 ''Is this necessary and right?" If unnecessary, or if wr )ng in prin- 
 ciple or policy, it would have been as easy to move Stone Mountain 
 with your breath as to induce his vote for such a measure. To secure 
 his support it must have been rii^ht and necessary, for he wisely as- 
 sumed that all things that "are lawful are not expedient. If more of 
 our law-makers had been governed by this consideration our statutes 
 would tiot have been so frequently chang'-d as to keep a majority of 
 
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 HARRISON a, C&.j PUB'I 
 
 
APPENDIX. 391 
 
 the public ignorant of their provisions. Tnetime is coming whentht 
 law-maker who proposes the fewest statutory changes will be regarded 
 the most wise and most beneficial. The demand of Georgians sh^ould 
 be : " Give us good laws, and then let these good laws remain." When 
 this rule is observed, our people will know under what laws they live 
 and will seldom violate them. 
 
 We are confident that the votes of Mr. Price will show that he never 
 gave his sanction to the disturbance of a beneficial statute, nor in be- 
 half of one likely to be injurious. This fact not only exemplifies the 
 soundness of his dib.creiion, but his fidelity to those whom he repre- 
 sented. The journals of the House, we believe, attest the ability and 
 faithfulness of his legislative career, and sustain what we have written 
 in his commendation. 
 
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APPEADIX. 393 
 
 HON. JOSEPH LAWTON SINGLETON. 
 
 (SCRIVEN COUNTY.) 
 
 (CtOSEPH LAWTON SINGLETON was born near Robertville, 
 Q), South Carolina, and is now over fifty- five years of age. His father, 
 "^ Charles Singleton, was a wealthy planter, of the class peculiar to 
 the prosperous days of ante-bellimi times — one of the number who 
 illustrated the characteristic civilization of the South, ncted for culture 
 and refinement and a lavish hospitality. His mother, Caroline Law- 
 ton, was the daughter of Joseph J. Lawton, a representative of one 
 of the most illustrious Carolina families. His uncle. Rev. Joseph A. 
 Lawton, is now living, and has the love, respect and confidence of the 
 whole community in which he has lived for seventy years. His uncle. 
 Dr. B. M. Lawton, who died a few years ago, was frequently honored 
 by the people of Barnwell district (now county) as a member of both 
 branches of the South Carolina Legislature and also member of the 
 Secession Convention. 
 
 Young Singleton lost his mother when an infant, and was reared by 
 an aunt, his father's only sister. He was sent when quite young to 
 Hamilton University, New York. Here he received a liberal academic 
 education. When he returned South, he commenced the study of 
 law, and was admitted to the bar, and for many years has held, if not 
 the foremost position, certainly one equal to any of those who practice 
 in his section of the State. 
 
 Mr. Singleton was always a Calhoun Democrat in principle. And 
 when the war between the States occurred, he espoused the secession 
 side of the question, and his best efforts were devoted to the South. 
 He was a gallant officer in the Confederate army. Since the close of 
 the war, he has devoted his life almost exclusively to the practice of 
 his profession. Though taking an active part in politics, he has rarely 
 ever permitted his name to be used as a candidate for any office in the 
 gift of the people. His friends urged him to become a candidate for 
 a seat in the Legislature of 1880, he reluctantly consented, and was 
 elected by an almost unanimous vote. He -erved with much ability 
 in the General Assembly of i88o and 1881. 
 
 Punctual in attendance, quick to know his duty, and inflexible in 
 resolve, he served his State wiih faithfulness and acceptability, and did 
 honor to his constituents. He introduced few bills, but followed those 
 with care and energy until they became laws. His votes were cast 
 conscientiously and \vhen his promise was once given to a candidate, 
 it was remarked that he never faltered in his friendship. 
 
394 APPENDIX. 
 
 Perhaps there is no man in the State superior to him in social qual- 
 ities. As a talker he is brilliant, and so interesting as to attract a 
 crowd whenever he may be engaged in conversation. Mr. Singleton 
 is now only in the prime of life, and bids fair to do much good for his 
 country. 
 
 Note — Sketches of the following members of the House of Representatives do not 
 appear in this work, because we were unable to obtain the necessary facts, viz : Hons. 
 D. C. Bacon, of Chatham, J. B. Beatty of Webster, C. E. Broyles, of Whitfield, W. 
 C. Carter, of Murray, S. T. Feagan, of Sumter., William Gaskins, of Coffee, W. M. Ham- 
 mond, of Thomas, J, V. Heard, of Miller, T. A. Jackson, of Carroll, A. J. Mathews, 
 ■of Hart, J. J. McCants. of Taylor, M. B. McClelland, of Colquitt, D. A. McLucas, of 
 Fayette, R. E. Morrow, of Clayton, G. N. Nichols, of Chatham, W. H. Patterson, of 
 Fulton, T. F. Rainey, of Schley, R. F. 0. Smith, of Bryan, S. B. Story, of Marion, R. 
 A. Turnipseed, of Clay, W. S. Walker, of Berrien, C. H. Walker, of Crawford, F. Walker, 
 ■of Jasper, P. B. Whittle, of I.owndes, J. Wilson, of Bulloch, and W. B. Wingfield, of 
 Putnam. 
 
 The sketches of a few members were received after most of the book was published, so 
 they are out of their true alphabetical position. 
 
APPENDIX. 39 S 
 
 HON. JOHN T. HENDERSON. 
 
 (COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE.) 
 
 OOHIS gentleman was born December i8th, 1S26, in Newton county, 
 ^^Q Georgia. His father was Isaac P. Henderson, a Marylander, 
 
 5^ and his mother's maiden name was Ruth Sheppard, of North 
 Carolina family. In the days of his boyhood Colleges and High 
 schools were few and far between. His " young ideas " received their 
 initial culture at an "old-field " school on the banks of the Alcova river. 
 Colleges began to multiply, however, and in 1844 young Jack, as he 
 was familiarly known, entered the Freshman class of Emory College, 
 Oxford, where he remained until July, 1846, and then entered William 
 and Mary College, in Virginia. He took an " irregular " course, but 
 pursued his chosen studies with such assiduity and success that he 
 received a certificate of proficiency in each branch. After leaving 
 College in July, 1847, he entered into the business of manufacturing 
 cotton gins and was also engaged in farming in a small way. Judge 
 Henderson accumulated property so rapidly, and his slaves increased 
 to such a number, that he was compelled to enlarge his operations and 
 provide a greater area of land. He therefore retired from the business 
 of manufacturing and devoted his energies and ample means to agri- 
 cultural pursuits and was chiefly engaged in successful planting, until 
 the outbreak of the civil war. 
 
 In his social and domestic life he was an eminent exemplar of that 
 old fashioned, hearty hospitality which was always a peculiar trait of 
 the educated Southern planter. 
 
 He had married in 1848 — soon after attaining his majority — Miss 
 Pauline F. Woods, a lady remarkable for her attractions of mind 
 and person, and still giving abundant evidence of the correct taste 
 and judgment of her many admirers. This union was blessed 
 with a fair share of sons and daughters- true scions from the 
 parent stock — and the first thirteen years of family life went 
 smoothly and pleasantly and prosperously by. During the first 
 year of the war Judge Henderson entered the military service as 
 Captain of a company in a regiment of State troops. In Sep- 
 tember, 1 861, immediately upon the assembling of the companies 
 of the Sixth Georgia Regiment at Savannah, Captain Henderson was 
 elected its Colonel, and the regiment became a part of General George 
 P. Harrison's brigade. In 1862 Colonel Henderson became .sorely 
 afflicted with nervous dyspepsia, from which he did not recover until 
 
396 APPENDIX. 
 
 1872. Necessarilly retiring from the army, he again devoted his time 
 and weakened physical energies to his planting interests which, in the 
 meantime, he had removed from Newton to Early county. There he 
 led a life of sad affliction, on account of his shattered health, until 
 again called into the service of the State in 1S63. Though utterly 
 unfit for the trials and privations of an active military campaign, he 
 held his position and determined, at all hazards, to serve his country 
 in her hour of peril to the utmost extent of his ability. 
 
 in 1872, as already stated, he recovered a fair degree of health, but 
 vi^as never after so robust in health as his personal appearance would 
 seem to indicate. 
 
 In January, 1869, he returned to Newton county, where he con- 
 tinued his devotion to the cultivation of the soil. In 1874 he was ap- 
 pointed Judge of the County Court of Newbern, over which he pre- 
 sided with an ability and almost intuitive knowledge of law which was 
 siarprising in one who had not made it a special study. 
 
 Upon the abolition of the County Court, in 1877, he retired to his 
 farm, whence he was called by Governor Colquit, in September, 1879^ 
 to the office he now so ably fills. 
 
 Under his administration, with his keen appreciation of merit, his 
 knowledge of human nature, his natural and acquired attainments, his 
 long and successful experience in practical agriculture — in widely dif- 
 ferent sections of the State — conjoined to his pleasing address* and 
 other graces of mind and manner, the Department of Agriculture has 
 slowly but steadily increased in popularity with the people, until its 
 beneficial effects upon the agriculture of the State is now rarely ques- 
 tioned, even by the most ignorant opposer of progress. 
 
 We are not now sketching the Department, although indeed its 
 history for the last three years would very properly make a part of 
 this revi ;w of the life and character of its chief oflficer. 
 
 Judge Henderson's first appointment was to fill the unexpired term 
 of his predecessor, Hon. Thomas P. Janes, who had resigned with 
 three years to run. Judge Henderson was reappointed by Governor 
 Colquitt in July last for the full term of four years, commencing 
 August 26th, 1882, subject only to the approval of the Senate. 
 
 In person. Judge Henderson is over six feet in height, very erect, 
 and of corresponding avoirdupois, weighing over 200 pounds, and with 
 that dignified and commanding carriage which is at once suggestive 
 of the fact that he was born to be a chief among his fellows. 
 
 In social life he is cordial, generous, open-hearted and hospitable. 
 He is in possession of an abundant store of good anecdotes and 
 pleasant reminiscences, and a fund of ready wit. Though not a pro- 
 fessional politician, he is by no means wanting in the elements neces- 
 
APPENDIX. 397 
 
 sary to a successful career in that direction," if he were so minded 
 He is thoroughly alive to the interests of his native State, and espe- 
 cially those of the class to which he has all his life belonged — the 
 farmers — and has already acquired an extensive reputation abroad for 
 his efforts and valuable services in their behalf. He has before him a 
 broad field of usefulness as a public officer, the head of the " people's 
 department" of the State Government, (for so it may justly be called) 
 and the Legislature should see to it that his hands are held up, and 
 that there be no lack of means to inaugurate practical schemes for 
 the lasting good and advancement of our greatest industry. 
 
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 ESTEY ORGAN COMPANY, 
 
 Soutbern Depot for most Celebrated New York Pianos. 
 STEINWAY, DECKER RROS.,a,na the popular 
 
 RIAJSrO.' 
 chandlse. 
 
 GATE CITY 
 Importers direct from Europe of all kinds of Musical Mer- 
 Nobody can underbuy us. Nobody can undersell us. 
 
 Address ^S'3?E"Z* OISG-j^I^ CO., .u^tla».ta, O-a. 
 
 McBRIDE & CO. 
 
 OWN THE GATE CITY STONE WATER FILTER for the World 
 
AD VER TISEMENTS. 
 
 J^^^fea W, P, NORTHEN, 
 
 IvC A.:iT O-r' A.C; T TT =aZ3iT3- 
 
 '^BADGE 
 
 A 
 
 SPECIALTY' 
 
 JEWELER 8 ENGRAVER 
 
 47K WHITEHALL STREET, 
 
 ATLANTA. - - GEORGIA 
 
 DR. C L. REDVVINE, 
 
 WHOr^ESALE A>T) RETAIL 
 
 DRUGGIST, 
 
 21 MARIETTA STREET, corner BROAD, ATLANTA. GA. 
 
 Besides a fall line of DRUGS, CHEMICALS, FAXCY ;uk1 TOILET GOODS, 
 I have jus received a large assortment of 
 
 D. LANDRETH & SON'S TURNIP SEED, 
 
 {Crop of 18S2.) Also GARDEN' GRASS and FIELD SEED. Call and examine my 
 stock before buying elsewhere. C. Ij. ISEX5"^xni;TE. 
 
 ESTABLISHED 24 YEARS. 
 
 AN ORGANIZED BUSINESS COMMUNITY. 
 
 Students on 'Change. No theory. No copying from hook.s. 
 Students enter actual business the day of commencing. 
 The best course of instruction for young and middle-aged men. 
 Illustrated Circul.vr Mailed Free ox Aim-licatiox. 
 
 1828—8831 
 
 
 50,000 
 
 3^-a.rssr3r. 
 
 Catalogue free. 
 
 Beins the ititroilueci- of this famous fruit, I have the nriflinal 
 trees, iirotnirerl fioiu the oiii,'inator, in kruitio>j at POMONA. 
 NUUSERY, from which I am propagating my atoclc for sale. Apply 
 to headiiiiarters and get the genuine. Liberal discount to the trade. 
 Alsj, SinH Fruit.i, Trees, Putnts and Vines in variety. 
 
 WM. PARRY, Parry P. O., N. J. 
 
AD VER TISEMENTS. 
 
 JONES' CARRIAGE FACTORY, 
 
 TTT". E. TOnSTElS^ S-a.periri.ten.d.eri.t, 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 235 Marietta Street, 
 
 CARRIAGES, 
 PHAETONS, 
 BUGGIES 
 
 I AND WAGONS OF BEST 
 
 GRADES. 
 
 ATLANTA, GA. 
 
 General Repairs solicited. Call and Purchase, or Leave Orders. 
 
 A.NDREW P. Stewart. 
 
 Jos. Smith. 
 
 STEWART & SMITH, 
 
 ( Successors to Stewart & Fain.) 
 
 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN 
 
 Stoves, Hollow Ware, Block Tin, 
 
 TIN PLATE, SHE3T IRON, TINNERS' FINDINGS, 
 
 BA.BY CARRIAGES, 
 
 Willow Ware, Wood Ware, House Furnishing- Goods, Plated 
 
 and Brittania Ware, Plumbing, Gas and Steam Fitting. 
 Nos. 6g WHITEHALL and 80 
 
 BROAD STREETS, ~ 
 
 ATLANTA, Ga. 
 
 SIGN OF THE BIO DOO. 
 
 Isaac Steinheimkr. 
 
 30 
 
 Alexander Kreislb. 
 
 STEINHEIMER & KREISLE, 
 
 DEALERS IN ■ 
 
 Ready-Made Clothing 
 
 liats, O-ezits' I^-a.r3n.isli.ixig- 0-ood.s, 
 TRUNKS, SATCHELS, and VALISES, 
 
 No. 30 WHITEHALL ST. ATLANTA, GA. 
 
AD VER TISEMENTS. 
 
 THE EXCELSIOE STOVE HOUSE, 
 
 36 & 38 PEACHTREE STREET. ATLANTA. GA„ 
 
 WlKU.KSAl-E AND KeTAIL 
 
 Stoves, House-Furnishing Goods, 
 
 STAMPED AND PLAIN TINWARE, 
 
 Japanned and Enamei-lkd Ware, Gkanitized Ihon Wahe; Steam, 
 Water. Gas Pipe and Fittings-, Gauohs?, Cocks, v\ histles, 
 Oilers. Plumbers' Mateiitals, Bath Tubs. Wateh Closets, 
 Wash Stands, Marblk Slabs ; Chandeliers, Brack- 
 ets, Pendants, Hall Lights, for Gas and Oil, 
 FOR Dwellings, Stores and Churches. 
 
 Slate and Warbleized Iron Mantels and Grates. 
 
 FIRE SETS. COAL VaSES, BRASS AXDIRONS, 
 
 (The Finest Stock in the South.) 
 
 FURNACES, RANGES, Fine STOVES, MANTELS and GRATES 
 
 a specialty — must be seen to be appreciated. 
 
 Contractors for Galvanized Jron Cornice?, Window Caps, Door 
 
 Heads, Meam Heating, Gas Fining, Plumbing. Tin and Sheet Iron 
 
 Rooiing. Manufactuiers of Concrete Sewer Pipe. Agents for 
 
 Kno"wles' Steam Pumps and ]\Iack's Injector. 
 
 HUNNICUTT & BELLINGRATH. 
 
 F.J. COO LEDGE & B RO., 
 
 53 South Broad Street, ATLANTA, GA., 
 
 WHOLESALE 
 
 Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes, 
 
 — AND — 
 
 MACHINE, ENGINE and CYLINDER OILS of all kinds a specialty- 
 Write for prices. 
 
 McCOMBS&MEAKIN, 
 
 Founders and_Machinists, 
 
 STAMP MILLS. STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS, 
 STEAM PUMPS, FREIGHT CARS, PUL- 
 LEYS, SHAFTING, HANGERS, etc, 
 ' OarLe Hvdlills, Broolss' Orig-in.a,l Oottoxi Presses, 
 ATLANTA, GEORGIA. 
 

 DEN- 
 
 Office, No. 24 WHITEHALL ST„ 
 
 1ST, 
 
 SOUTHERN COPYING COMPANY. 
 
 J. E. HARDING, Manager. 
 
 ATLANTA. - - - GEORGIA. 
 OLD PICTURES COpTeD AND ENLARGED. 
 
 Agents wanted in every town and county in the South, r'o you desire an agency ? Send for terms to agents. 
 If you cannot take an agency, but have pictures of your own you wish copied, and there are no agents ot 
 ours in your vicinity, write for retail nrices, and send picture direct to us (either by mail or express), and 
 they will receive our best attention. Address : SOUTHERN COPYING COMPANY, 
 
 JNo. 9 Marietta St., Atlanta, Ga. 
 
AD I 'ER 7ISFMEXTS. 
 
 TO THE PUBLIC. 
 
 I 
 
 BEG TO STATE to the people of Atlanta ami of Georgia that I 
 have purchased the entire outfit of the 
 
 Thompson Restaurant, 
 
 And shall use ray best endeavors to make it the best appointed 
 
 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KIND IN THE SoUTH. 
 
 Will be added, and in all things it will be kept abreast with the 
 times. I shall not be content to supply "the best the market 
 affords," but will create a market of my own when necessary to 
 give my patrons the good things they may want. With experience, 
 energy, and ample means at my command, I shall leave nothing 
 undone that can contribute to the success of the .concern. 
 
 With a cordial gi'eeting to former patrons, and an invitation to 
 new ones, I shall hope to desf rve the good will of all. 
 
 REMEMBER. 
 
 Politicians can rest assured that thej^ will not be annoyed by 
 Free Lunchers in Mercer's Exchange Room or Restaurant. 
 
 W. L. JAKYIS, 
 
 M A N r F A CT r R E Tl F 
 
 Fine Carriages, 
 
 F.MBRACIXG 
 
 Pony Phaelons, 
 
 Basket Phaetons, 
 Doctors' Phaetons, 
 Four Passenger Extension 
 
 Top Phaetons, 
 
 Top and No '1 op Buggies, 
 
 and Business Wagons. 
 
 REPOSITORY AND FACTORY: 
 
 44, 46 and 48 Line Street, • 
 
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 EN- 
 
 Office, No. 24 WHITEHALL ST., 
 
 TIST 
 
 .A.Xi:^-^-3:T'X-A., o-.^. 
 
 SOUTHERN COPYING COMPANY, 
 
 J. E. HARDING, Manager. 
 
 ATLANTA. - - - GEORGIA. 
 OLD PICTURES COpTeD AND ENLARGED. 
 
 Agents wanted in every town and county in the South. To you desire an agency ? Send for terms to agents. 
 If you cannot take an agency, but have pictures of your own you wish copied, and there are no agents of 
 ours in your vicinity, write for retail orices, and send picture direct to us (either by mail or express), and 
 they will receive our best attention. Address ; SOUTHERN COPYING COMPANY, 
 
 jNo. 9 Marietta St., Atlanta, Ga. 
 
AD VER IISEMENTS. 
 
 TO THE PUBLIC. 
 
 I 
 
 BEG TO STATE to ilie people of Atlanta and of Georgia that I 
 have purchased the extire outfit of the 
 
 Thompson Restaurant, 
 
 And shall use ray best endeavors to make it the best appointed 
 
 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KIND IN THE SoUTH. 
 
 "Will be added, and in all things it will be kept abreast with the 
 times. I shall not be content to supply "the best the market 
 affords," but will create a market of my own when necessary to 
 give my patrons the good things they maj- want. With experience, 
 energy, and ample means at my command, I shall leave nothing 
 undone that can contribute to the success of the .concern. 
 
 With a cordial greeting to former patrons, and an invitation to 
 new ones, I shall hope to deserve the good will of all. 
 
 REMEMBER. 
 
 Politicians can rest assured that they will not be annoyed by 
 Free Lunchers in Mehcer's Exchange Room or Restaurant. 
 
 W. L. JAEYIS, 
 
 manufacturp:!! of 
 
 Fine Cakeiages, 
 
 EMBRACING 
 
 Pony Phaetons, 
 
 Basket Phaetons, 
 Doctors' Phaetons, 
 Four Passenger Extension 
 
 Top Phaetons, 
 
 Top and No '1 op Buggies, 
 
 and Business Wagons. 
 
 REPOSITORY AND FACTORY: 
 
 44, 46 and 48 Dine Street, • 
 
AD VER TI SEMEN TS. 
 
 CapilalistSjBuilders, Railroad Companies & Pafiiiers, 
 
 LOOK TO YOUR INTERESTS! 
 
 TO PRESERVE YOUR BRIDGES, TRESTLE WORK, DEPOTS, 
 WATER TANKS, CROSS TIES, FENCE POSTS, TELE- 
 GRAPH POLES ; also, CAR ROOFS, DWELL- 
 INGS, GIN HOUSES and OUT HOUSES, 
 
 THE ATLANTA GUTTA-PERCHA ROOFING PAINT 
 
 (Fire and Water-Proof) will Preserve Vood and Metal for Ages. 
 
 No moisture can penetrate wood when painted with this paint,as it strikes 
 into the wood, filling the pores, and becomes part and parcel of the wood. 
 It neither cracks, runs, blisters or scales off, can only be worn out by fric- 
 tion. It forms a heavy coat under the surface as well as on the surface, 
 and will require an age to wear it out. Wood or shingles, painted with 
 this has very much the a^jpearance of slate. For metal it is unequaled — 
 it not only prevents rust but actually arre.sts and destroys rust already 
 set in. It has greater tenacity for adhereing to metal than any paint yet 
 known to science. It has an elastic body, and will expand and contract 
 with the metal without cracking or scaling otf, dries rapidly and makes 
 a hard, glossy siirface that is impervious to water, effectually stopping 
 leaks in metal roofs. No degree of heat will make it run — no degree of 
 cold will make it break or crack — it is a great preventative against fire. 
 Wood or shingles well painted with this paint is perfectly secure against 
 sparks, cinders or coals flying from adjacent chimneys, or burning build- 
 ings, and can't be set on fire by anj'- reasonable exposure to flames. It is 
 better than the best roof paint in the market, and cheaper than any good 
 roof paint. It is equally good on brick to keep out moisture. 
 
 Willsell paintin any quantity, or take contracts for painting in any 
 part of the Union. All irork (inarantecd. 
 
 Active, energetic agents wanted, and none but those willing to work 
 need apply, to whom liberal compensation will be given. Correspon- 
 dence solicited. 
 
 ED. HOLDAND, Sole Proprietor and Manufacturer, Office No. 12, 
 West Alabama street, Atlanta Ga. 
 
 Also manufacturer of Artificial Stone for pavements, sidewalks and 
 private walks, very handsome, and more dural^le than granite. Terms 
 reasonable. 
 
A I) VER TISEMEX TS. 
 
 The subject of this sketch is neither a law-maker or a law- giver, 
 having chosen the medical profession as the one most congenial to his 
 taste. Perhaps no man in Georgia is more widely and favorably 
 known than Doctor Salter. His name is as familiar as household 
 words, and thousands rise up and call him blessed because of the good 
 work in which he is engaged and the good he has accomplished. 
 
 For twenty-two years Doctor Salter has been a close student and 
 practitioner of medicine, and in that time, unaided, has treated over 
 twenty thousand patients. His success has been extraordinary, and 
 his cures sometimes approaching the marvellous. 
 
 There is no use of extea'ling this sketch, but if you. reader, or any 
 of your family, are laboring under disease of a chronic nature, lay 
 aside your prejudice and consult Doctor Salter at once. He makes a 
 specialty of the following diseases : 
 
 CANCERS, TUMORS and FISTULAS successfully treated with- 
 out the knife. 
 
 RHEUMATISM cured in every case amenable to treatment in 
 one to three months. 
 
 DISEASES OF THE THROAT cured in two weeks to three 
 months. 
 
 NASAL Catarrh and CATARRH OF THE THROAT 
 cured in one to five months. 
 
 DISEASES OF WO.MEN AND CHILDREN successfully treated. 
 No caustic u^^ed. 
 
 EPILEPTIC FITS, not due to injury, etc., cured in six to twelve 
 months. 
 
 NERVOUS DEBILITY, from any cause, successfully treated, and 
 a cure affected in one to four months. 
 
 BLOOD DISEASES cured in from one to twelve months. 
 
 KIDNEY DISEASES cured in one to three months. 
 
 NEURALGIA and other NERV3US DISEASES cured in due 
 time. 
 
 DISEASES OF THE LIVER permanently cured. 
 
 TERMS OF TREATMENT. 
 
 Consultation free. Prctjcripiion and medicine, per month, Ss oo, in 
 all chronic cases, except cancers and tumors, for which I charge $10.00 
 for first month and $5.00 per month thereafter. 
 Call on or address 
 
 S. F. SALTER, M. D., 
 Cor. Broad and Walton Streets, Atlanta, Ga. 
 
lo AD VER TISEMENTS. 
 
 H.I. KIMBALL HOUSE. 
 
 ^TLAjSTTA, ga. 
 
 SGOVILLE & TEEEY, Proprietors. 
 
 The largest and best appointed Hotel in the Southern State?. All 
 modern improvements. 
 
 THE DUVAL HOUSE, Jacksonville, Fla., 
 
 One of the most popular Hotels in that famous winter resort. 
 
 SCOVILLE & LEE, Proprietors. 
 
 "THE ARLINGTON," Lynchburg, Va., 
 
 The comforts of a home and a cuisine unsurpassed have made this 
 Hotel popular. SCOVILLE & CO.. Proprietors. 
 
 THE NORVELL HOUSE, Lynchburg. Va., 
 
 The traveling public of many years remember, with favor, the 
 Norvell " and its comforts. TERRY & CO., Proprietors. 
 
 THE BUFORD HOUSE, Charlotte, N. C, 
 
 Brand ftew. Appointments perfect, and is conceded to be the " Par- 
 lor Hotel " of North Carolina. 
 
 SCOVILLE BROS., Proprietors. 
 
'THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST." 
 
 MillDui'q Wcigoq Coii\pkiiy, 
 
 LIBKARY BUILDINO, ATLiANTA, GA. 
 
 The largest and best stock of CARRIAGES, PHAETONS. BUGGIES, SPRING 
 and FARM WAGONS in the city, will be found at all times at L\brary Building, Nos. 
 39, 41 and 43 Decatur street,. Atlanta, Ga. Call on us for prices, if in the city, or write 
 
 H. L. ATWATER, Manager, 
 
 :W Special prices to the Trade. !'• o. Box 350. 
 
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 Moldings, Phrenology, Ravelin, Sliips, 
 (pages nr,4 and 1219) Steam engiiie, Tim- 
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 It contains duringf the year above 400 costly and elesfant engravings — 
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 paper, every number contains something to suit each member of the 
 family. Able writers contribute to its columns. Its contributions. 
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AD VER TISEMENTS. 
 
 13 
 
 C. H. & A. W. FOMCJIlit 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 BOOTS, SHOES AND SLIPPERS, 
 
 33 WHITEHALL STREET, 
 
 ^^TL^^IITT^^. 
 
 C3-EOI^C3-I^^. 
 
 
 PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR 
 
 FACTORIES, OPERA HOUSES, RESIDENCES, VILLAS, 
 COTTAGES, STORES, CHl^RCHES, Etc., Etc., 
 
 AT MODERATE CHARGES. 
 
 TJ^^AJf^jPA^ Af^PI^JT^.f-TP)^^ A ^ff:p]APT-r^^ 
 
 208 7TH Street, Augusta, Ga. (p. o. box 583) 
 
 AYER'S HAIR VIGOR. 
 
 The relations of the human hair to personal comeliness, and to 
 health, render the laws which govern its growth and decay a study 
 of practical importance Recognizing this fact, Medicine aud 
 Science liave joined hands in the work of searching out for the 
 hair a remt-dy for the various disorders which impair its vitality 
 and prevent its growfh. It has been our aim to discover and combine 
 in one preparation, superior to all others for toilet use, the choice 
 ingredients requisite to restore the youthful appearance of the hair, 
 and render it strong, vigorous and abundant. I'his object has 
 been accomplished in the production of Tver's Hair Vigor, 
 which restores gray hair to its original color, prevents baldness, 
 preserves the hair and promotes its growth, cures dandruff and 
 all diseases of Ihe scalp, and is at the same time a superior 
 dressing. 
 
 The Vigor is not a dye ; but daily applications for a week or 
 two so stimu.ate the roots and color glands, that faded or gray, 
 light or red hair, gradually changes to a rich brown color, or even 
 black, as may be desired after which the shade is maintained by 
 occasional use. By its use, also, thin hair is thickened, and bald- 
 ness often though not always, cured. It is colorless and elegantly 
 perfumed ; while its immediate softening and beautifying effects 
 are very lasting, making it the most economical as well as the best 
 dressing in the world. 
 
 "^^i^DR. J. C. AYER & CO , 
 
 Lowell, Mass., U. S. A. 
 
 S^= Sold by all Druggists and Dealers in Medicines, Perfumery and Cosmetics. 
 
14 
 
 AD VER TISEMENTS. 
 
 ¥esleyan Female Institute, 
 
 STAUNTON, VIKOINIA. 
 
 Opens Its 33d annual session September 20th, 1882. One of the First Schools 
 FOR Young Ladies in the United States. Thorough in all departments Buildings 
 -and surroundings beautiful. C.imate and home comforts unsurpassed. One hundred 
 and thirty-nine boarding pupils from eighteen States. Refers to over a thousand pupils 
 and patrons. Terms among the best in the Union, combining all important advantages in one 
 charge, viz: board, W ashing. Fuel, Gas Lights, Engli-h Course, Latin, French, German, 
 Instrumental Music, etf , for entire scholastic year from September to June, $238 00. 
 
 For catalogues, write to REV. WM. A. HARRIS, D. D., President, 
 
 STAUNTON, VIRGIXIA. 
 
 AUGUSTA FEIALE SEIIIARY, 
 
 STAUNTON, VIRGINIA. 
 
 Miss Mary J. Baldwin, Principal. 
 
 OPENS SEPT. 6th. CLOSES JUNE, 1883. 
 
 Unsurpassed in its location, in its buildings and grounds ; in its general appointments 
 and sanitary arrangements , its full corps of superior and experienced teachers ; its un- 
 rivalled advantages in Music, Modern Languages, Elocution, Fine Arts. Physical Culture, 
 and instruction in the Theory and Practice of Cooking ; the successful efforts made to 
 secure health, comfort and happiness ; its opposition to extravagance ; its standard of 
 •solid scholarship. For full particulars apply to the Principal for catalogues. 
 
AD VER TTSEMENTS. 1 5 
 
 THE KENNESAW ROUTE, 
 
 By its superior managemeat and unsurpassed facilities, 
 has earned the confidence of the traveling public, and is 
 steadily growing into public favor. 
 
 ONLY ROUTE TO 
 
 Cinciimati, Louisville, Indianapolis, 
 
 CHICAGO, CLEVELAND, DETROIT, ST- LOUIS. 
 
 THE MOST COMFORTABLE AND RELIABLE TO 
 
 WASHINGTON, BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, 
 
 AND ALL EASTERN POINTS. 
 
 Five Daily Trains lo the West by this Line ! 
 
 Run from New Orleans to Washington, via Atlanta ; Savannah and 
 Maoon to Cincinnati, via Atlanta; Atlanta to Louisville via Nash- 
 ville. Leavina; New Orleans at5 v.v; Savannah 7:30 p. m., and 
 Atlanta 2:50 p. m. TRAINS RUN DAILY— SUNDAY 
 NO EXC;EPTI0N Smooth Track, Steel Rails, Rock 
 Ballast, Comfortable Cars. Westinghouse Air- 
 Brakes, Miller Platforms, etc. By taking the 
 Kennesaw Route you save time and money, 
 secure expt-dilion, and avoid all un- 
 necessary and vexatious delays. 
 
 The Kennesaw Route via Knoxville. 
 
 THIS IS TH3 FAST MAIL AND EXPRESS LINE. 
 
 The Kennesaw Route via Cincinnati to Eastern Cities. 
 
 Fare the same by all lines to New York and Eastern Cities. 
 For further information, address 
 
 P>. W. WRENN, 
 General Passenger Agt., Atlanta, Oa. 
 B. A. ANDERSON, General Manager. 
 
1 6 AD VER TISEMENTS. 
 
 THE PIEDMONT mHHiE 
 
 THE GEEAT THROUGH ROUTE BETWEEN THE 
 
 SOUTH, SOUTHWEST AO THE EAST. 
 
 Passing through the high, breezy uplands and picturesque scenery 
 of the foot-hills of the Blue Ridge. Quick transit to all the leading 
 Cities ! Splendid Pullman Car service! Appointments all first class!' 
 
 Tbe Shortest, Safest, Speediest, Cheapest and Best Route between 
 Galveston and Texas points, New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Sel- 
 ma, Atlanta, Richmond, Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia and 
 New York. 
 
 The Atlantic Coast Line 
 
 The Fast Mail Passenger Route via Richmond and Wilmington to 
 Charleston, Columbia, Augusta, Savannah, Florida and the South. 
 
 PERFECT PULLMAN CAR SERVICE 
 
 to all points reached, traversing the most beautiful an^ attractive sec- 
 tions of the South. Thoroughly comfortable coaches,' rapid and safe 
 transit. 
 
 For all information, call upon or write to 
 
 A. POPE, Gen. Pass. Agt, 
 
 No. 2:9 BEOADWA?, NEW ?OEK. 
 He. 7 lOth STREET, KIOHMOND, VA.. 
 
AD VER 71SEMENTS. 
 
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 Wood and Photo-Engraving Co., 
 
 70-3 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILA. 
 
 WOOD ENGRAVERS, 
 PHOTO ENGRAVERS, 
 
 AND SOLE LICENSEES OP THE 
 
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 By which Engrvings can be made 
 DIRECT FROM NATURE ! 
 
 No Pt n Drawing Required. The Engrav- 
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 process by which Engravings can 
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 Oue-Half the Cost ot Wood €nts 
 
 CROSSCUP & WEST ENGRAVING CO., 
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 AD VER TISEMENTS. 
 
 Shorter Female College 
 
 A Complete College Course for Young Ladies. 
 
 The Buildings Heated by Steam and Lighted with Gas. 
 
 Open Grates for Yentilation and for Fires, when Necessary. 
 
 Large Kooms, Carpeted and Handsomely Furnished. 
 
 Bath Kooms and Water Closets, Hot and Cold Water in the 
 Building. 
 
 German Student Lamps for Study, in each Room. 
 
 Bed Rooms well attended by Servants. A Geenrous Table. 
 
 A Perfect Drainage. JSTo Local Cause far Sickness. 
 
 The most Approved Styles of School Furniture, Instruments 
 and Apparatus. 
 
 The Climate of Rome is Scarcely Surpaseed in any part of the 
 South. 
 
 Catalogue gives full information. 
 
 L R. GWALTNEY, President. 
 
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AD VER TISEMENTS. 
 
 CINCINNATI. NEW ORLEANS, 
 tp:xas pacific railway 
 
 in:effect August, 1882. 
 
 Cincinnati Southern Division, 
 
 Xlorida Sontliern R'y. 
 
 THE ''ORANGEJELT" ROUTE. 
 
 Office Genera i- Superintenuent, 1 
 Palatka, January 29, 1S«J. J 
 
 Bead Down. I 
 
 Read Up. 
 
 r'-50 nt 1 2:40pm!Lv Atlanta 
 
 1:40 am :i:2'* pni' " Marietta 
 
 2:-Jfi am' 4::in pm- " 
 
 3:14 am, 4:.5o pm " 
 
 4:47 am ('•::<4 pm " 
 
 6:04 am 7:42 pm " 
 
 5:55 am' 7::W pm " 
 
 7:50 am 9:35 pm ' 
 
 8:40 am 10:08 pm ' 
 12:40 m 1:52 am • 
 
 1:05 pm 2:15 am' • 
 
 2:.32 pml 3:35 am; ' 
 
 2:42 pml 3:44 am ' 
 
 Cartersville " 
 Dultou 
 
 Kingston " 
 Bovce " 
 
 Cliattan'ga " 
 Spring City " 
 Kockwood " 
 Pt. Bnrnside" 
 Somerset " 
 June. City " 
 Panville •' 
 Hi Bridge 
 
 3:11 pm 4:11 am " Hi Bridge 
 3:33 pm 4:33 ami " McholsviUe 
 4:05 pm 5:05 am, " Lexington 
 4:30 pm 5:2ti am " Georgetovvn 
 7-00 pml 7:40 am Ar Cin cinn ati Lv 
 
 Arl 1:40 pml 3;5S am 
 "1 12:47 m 3:10 am 
 11:42 am I 2:0S am 
 11:15 ami i:41 am 
 9:4fi am 12:16 nL 
 8:26 am 11:05 pm 
 8:30 am lii:25 pm 
 6:40 am \ s:23 pm 
 6:06 am I 7:50 pm 
 2:36 am I 3:40 pm 
 2:20 am 3:00 pm 
 12:57 nt 1:26 pm 
 12:47 nt ! 1:16 pm 
 12:23 nt 12:47 m 
 12:05 nt ,12:26 m 
 11:40 pm 12:00 m 
 11:10 pm 11:28 am 
 8:40 pm 8:45 am 
 
 Lookout Mountain Line. 
 
 Kead Up. 
 
 Bea d Do wNj ^1 
 
 8:00 ami 6:42 pmlLv N. Orleans Arl 9:22 amlll:15 pm 
 ..■!^.. "112:05 nt |lv Mobile Arl 4:00 am' 
 
 Vlcksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Division 
 
 Bead Down. 
 
 Bead Up. 
 
 S::i5 am 
 2:10 pm 
 2:40 pm 
 
 Lv Monroe 
 " Delta 
 Ar Vicksbui-f 
 
 5:35 pml 
 12:00 m 
 11:30 am' 
 
 Vicksburg and Meridian Division 
 
 Bead Down. 
 
 Read Up. 
 
 8:00 pm|Lv Vicksburg Ar 
 10:43 pm '• Jackson 
 
 11:28 pm| " Brandons " 
 
 1:44 am " Forest " 
 
 4:45 am'Ar Jleridian Lv 
 
 6:20 am, 
 3:50 am! 
 2:58 am I 
 12:50 nt 
 10:20 pm 
 
 Alabama Great Southern Division. 
 
 ID Down, i _ I «ead 
 
 6:30 am Lv Meridian Ar lo:U(i pmj... 
 7:(M am " Livingston " I 8:27 pm.., 
 9:.57 am " Tuscaloosa " | 5:33 pm .., 
 12:21 m i '• Birmingham'- \ 3:13 pmi.. 
 2:.50 pmi " Attalla " |12:.55 m .. 
 
 6:30 pmlArOhattan'ga L v 9:0 amL 
 
 Cincinnati Southern Division. 
 
 idDown. I I Read 
 
 7;30 pmi Lv Chattan'ga Arl 8:30 am 
 9:35 pmj A r Spring City " 6:40 am 
 4:11 am " Hi Bridge " |12:23 nt 
 5:(X) am[ " Lexington " ll:4(i pm 
 7:40 am •' Cincinnati Lvl 8:40 pm 
 
 LV. 
 
 LV. 
 
 
 Arr. 
 
 arr. 
 
 A M 
 
 PM 
 
 
 P M 
 
 P M 
 
 8 30 " 
 
 2 45" 
 
 Palatka, 
 
 145" 
 
 8 00" 
 
 8 44" 
 
 3 01" 
 
 Francis, 
 
 131" 
 
 7 45" 
 
 8 55 " 
 
 3 12 " 
 
 Brittaiiis, 
 
 120" 
 
 7 35 " 
 
 9 03" 
 
 3 20 " 
 
 Mac Williams, 
 
 112" 
 
 7 27 " 
 
 9 20" 
 
 3 36 " 
 
 Blue Pond, 
 
 12 56" 
 
 7 10" 
 
 9 37" 
 
 3 53 " 
 
 Johnson, 
 
 12 40" 
 
 6 54" 
 
 9 43" 
 
 3 59 " 
 
 McMeekiu, 
 
 12.34" 
 
 6 48" 
 
 S56" 
 
 4 11" 
 
 Waits' Crossing, 
 
 12 22 " 
 
 6 36 " 
 
 1000" 
 
 4 15 " 
 
 Mill No. 1, 
 
 12 17 " 
 
 6 31" 
 
 10 07" 
 
 4 22" 
 
 Magnesia Springs, 
 
 12 10 " 
 A. M. 
 
 eai" 
 
 10 18" 
 
 4 33 " 
 
 Perry, 
 
 11 59 " 
 
 6 13 • 
 
 10 :^4 " 
 
 4 4S " 
 
 Tarver, 
 
 1143" 
 
 5 58" 
 
 10 45" 
 
 5 00" 
 P. M. 
 
 Ciainesville, 
 
 11 30 " 
 
 A. M. 
 
 545 '• 
 
 
 4 54" 
 
 River Styx, 
 
 11 16 " 
 
 
 
 5 03 " 
 
 Micanopy, 
 
 10 58 " 
 
 
 
 5 09 " 
 
 Boardman, 
 
 10 48" 
 
 
 
 5 18 " 
 
 Lochbie, 
 Orange Lake 
 
 10 30 " 
 
 
 
 5 23 " 
 
 10 20" 
 
 
 
 5 35 " 
 
 Reddick, 
 
 Martin, 
 
 Ocala. 
 
 CONNECTIONS. 
 
 10 00" 
 
 
 John Scott, Vice-President and General Manager 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 E. P. Wilson, General Ticket ai.d Passenger Agent, 
 Cincinnati Southern Railway. Cinciiuiiiti, Ohio. 
 
 H. CoUhran, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, 
 Alabama Great Southern Railroad, Chattanooga, 
 Tenn. 
 
 J. Hardv, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, 
 
 Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad, Vicksburg. Miss. 
 
 James F. MoGuire, General Passenger and Ticket 
 
 Agent, Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railroad, 
 
 Monroe, La. , .. 
 
 R. II. Garralt, General Agent, Vick.sburg and ^e\v 
 Orleans. 
 
 H. M. Cottingham, General Southern Agent, At- 
 lanta, Ga. 
 
 Beau Campbell, General Traveling Agent, Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio. 
 
 At Palatka with fast River Steamers for all points 
 in South Florida, St. Augustine, Green Cove Springs, 
 Jacksonville, and all points East West and North. 
 With Palace Steamer "St. Johns" for Charleston and 
 New York. 
 
 At Waits' Crossing with Peninsular Railroad for 
 Waldo. 
 
 At Perry Junction with Ocala Division for Mican- 
 npy. Orange Lake, Ocala and intermediate points. 
 
 At Gainesville with Transit Railroad for Ceder 
 Keys, Pensacolaand New Orleans. 
 
 At Ocala with South Florida Stage Company for all 
 liitericir points in South Florida. Tampa, and Char- 
 lotte's Harbor, and Hacks for Silver Springs. 
 
 Tourists and Sportsmen Tickets at greatly reduced 
 
 N.' R. Grfellf, H. S. Ming, 
 
 Gen'l Supt. Gen'l Pass, and Tkt Agt. 
 
 apl 6-tf. 
 
 Norttieasteni Railroad of Geoiila. 
 
 Sit PERINTEN dent's OFFICE, \ 
 
 " ATHENS, Ga., March 28, 1882. J 
 On and after March 29, 1882, trains on this road will 
 run as follows: 
 
 EASTWARD. 
 
 NO. 53. NO. 1. 
 
 Leave Athens I 6:35 am I ■^:iO p m 
 
 Arrive at Lula 9:00 a m S^r^P'" 
 
 Arrive at Atl«nta I 1:30 p m 12:.-)0 a m 
 
 Arrive at Clarksville I 10:35 a m | 
 
 WESTWARD. 
 
 NO. 50. NO. 2. 
 
 Leave Clarksville I 7:10 ami 
 
 Leave Atlanta I 4:00 am 2:40 pm 
 
 Arrive at Lula I S:35 a m |=*?- 1^ '" 
 
 Arrive at Athens I 1:13 pm j 8:00 pm 
 
 ! All trains daily, Sundays excepted. , , .. 
 I \11 trains connect at Lulu and Rabun Gap Junction 
 with passenger trains both east and west on Rich- 
 mond and Danville Railroads. 
 Tickets on sale at Athens for all points. 
 
 H. R. BERNARD, 
 W. J. HOUSTON, Superintendent. 
 
 Gen'l Pass, and Ticket Agent. jul 2<-tt^ 
 
AD VER 'I I SEMEN TS. 
 
 SAVANEH FLORIDA & WESTERN RY. 
 
 SUPERINTKNDENT'S OFFICE, | 
 
 Savannah, ]iec. 3, IftM. j 
 On and a^ter Sunday, December 4. Issl, Passenger 
 Trains on tSis road will run as follows : 
 
 FAST MAIL. 
 
 Leave Savannah daily at 11:15 a ni 
 
 Leave Jesup daily at 1:20 p m 
 
 Leave Waycross dailj- at 3:00 p m 
 
 Arrive at Callahan daily at 4:.'56 p m 
 
 Arrive at Jacksonville daily at 5:40 p m 
 
 Leave Jacksonville daily at 9:00 a ni 
 
 Leave Callahan daily at 9:45 a m 
 
 Arrive at Waycross daily at 11:45 a ni 
 
 Arrive at Jesup daily at 1:40 p in 
 
 Arrive at Savannah daily at 3:40 p ni 
 
 JACKSONVILLE EXPRESS. 
 
 Leave Savannah daily at 11:00 pm 
 
 Leave Jesup 
 Leave Waycross 
 Arrrive at Callahan 
 Arrive at Jacksonville 
 Arrive at Live Oak 
 Leave Live Oak 
 Leave Jacksonville 
 Leave Callahan 
 Leave Waycross 
 Arrive at Jesup 
 Arrive at Savannah 
 
 ALBANY EXPRESS. 
 
 Leave Savannah daily at 4:45 p m 
 
 '• 7:30 pm 
 
 10:00 pm 
 
 Leave Jesup 
 
 I^eave Waycross " 
 
 Leave DuPont •' 
 
 Arrive Thomasville " 
 
 Arrive Bainbrldge " 
 
 Arrive Albany " 
 
 Leave Albany " 
 
 Leave Bainbridge " 
 
 Leave Thomasville " 
 
 Arrive DnPont " 
 
 Arrive Waycross " 
 
 Arrive Jesup " 
 
 Arrive Savannah " 
 
 J. S. TYSON, 
 
 Master Trans. 
 R. G. FLEMING, Supt. 
 
 JAS. L. TAYLOR, 
 Gen'l Pass'r Agent, 
 apl 20-tf 
 
 Georgia R ailroad. 
 
 GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY, ~ 
 
 OKFICI 
 
 \ RAILROAD COMPANY,) 
 
 CE General Max.\gkr, J- 
 
 AUQUSTA, Ga., July I, 1882. J 
 
 Commencing Sunday 2d instant, the following Pas- 
 senger schedule will be operated : 
 
 NO. 2 EAST DAILY. NO. 1 WEST DAILY 
 
 L've Atlanta. 8:20 a m I L've Augusta 10:30 a m 
 
 Ar. 
 
 Athens 4:00 p m 
 
 vS'Hshiiigton.2:.i5 pm 
 
 Camak 1:57 p m 
 
 Mil ledge ve..4;48 p m 
 
 Macon 6:45 l) ni 
 
 Augusta 3:55 p m 
 
 Ar. 
 
 Macon 7:10 a m 
 
 Milledg'e.... 9:10 a m 
 
 Camak 12:2!) a m 
 
 Washingt'nll:2u a m 
 
 Athens 9:4.'5 a m 
 
 Atlanta 5:45 p m 
 
 COVINGTON ACCOMINIODATION. 
 1 Daily, except Sundays.) 
 
 L've Atlanta 6:00 p m l L've Covington.. 5:40 a m 
 
 ar. Covington 8:20 p m | ar. Atlanta 8:00 a m 
 
 DECATUR ACCOMMODATION. 
 (Daily, except Sunday.) 
 
 L've Atlanta 12::<0 p m I L've Decatur '2:00 p ni 
 
 ar. Decatur 1:00pm |ar. Atlanta •2:;i0 p m 
 
 NO 4 EAST DAILY NO. 3 WEST DAILY. 
 
 L've Atlanta 8:45 p m I L've Augusta 8:50 p m 
 
 ar. Athens 8:30 am '• Athens fi:00pm 
 
 ar. Augusta 6:30am |ar. Atlanta 6:40am 
 
 Trains Nos. 2, 1, 4 and 3 will if signaled stop at any 
 regular scheduled Flag Station. 
 
 Close connection to and from Washington on Sun- 
 days. 
 
 Connects at Augusta for all points East and North- 
 
 Su'perb Improved SLEEPERS to Augusta, PULL- 
 MAN SLEEPERS Augusta to Waahington, D. C. 
 Bk^Only one change Atlanta to New York. 
 
 E. R. DORSEY, 
 JOHN W. GREEN, Gen'l Pa.ss. Agent. 
 
 General Manager. jul27-tf 
 
 3:00 a m 
 
 5:00 a m 
 
 7:20 a m 
 
 8:15 am 
 
 (exceptSunday;12:10a m 
 
 1:20 p m 
 
 5:40 p ni 
 
 6:45 p m 
 
 9:40 pm 
 
 11:25 p m 
 
 '2:30 a m 
 
 1:00 a 
 .. 6:30 a m 
 . 9:45 a m 
 .11:30 a ni 
 . 4:40 p ni 
 . 5:00 p m 
 . 8:30 p m 
 . 1:00 a m 
 . 4:00 a m 
 . 6:25 a m 
 . 9:05 a m 
 
 EAST TENNESSEE, 
 
 VIRGINIA & GEORGIA RAILROAD. 
 
 GEORGIA DIVISION. 
 
 I 
 
 The Shortest Line Atlanta to Macon— The 
 Shortest Line to Florida. 
 
 Condensed Local Passenger Schedule, in effect 
 August 25th, 188'2. 
 
 No. 1 . 
 
 7:40 am 
 8:45 am 
 9:10 am 
 10:20 am 
 1:10 pm 
 3:02 pm 
 4:1X1 pm 
 4:lis pm 
 6:30 i)m 
 7:.50 pm 
 9:39 pm 
 10:2K pm 
 11:25 pni 
 1:15 am 
 2:40 am 
 3:00 am 
 4: -15 am 
 5:35 am 
 
 3:(K1 am 
 4:30 am 
 7:20 am 
 8: 111 am 
 
 .A rrive 
 Leave 
 
 Arrive 
 Leave 
 
 Arrive 
 Leave 
 
 Leave 
 Arrive 
 
 Lerve 
 Arrive 
 
 Dallas 
 
 Powder Springs 
 
 Austell 
 
 ATLANTA 
 McDouough 
 
 Jackf-on 
 Indian Spring 
 
 MACON 
 Cochran 
 Eastman 
 
 McRae 
 
 Ba-\ley 
 
 JESUP 
 
 Sterling 
 
 BRUNSWICK 
 
 S. F. & W. B'y. 
 
 Leave Jesup Arrive 
 
 " Waycross " 
 
 •' Callahan " 
 
 Arrive JACKSONVILLE Leave 
 
 Leave 
 Arrive 
 
 8:30 am 
 10;:<5 am 
 11:30 am 
 
 ]:(«) pm 
 
 3:20 pm 
 
 5:10 pm Leave 
 
 No. 2. 
 
 6:20 pm 
 5:15 pm 
 4:.50 pm 
 3:40 pm 
 1:10 pm 
 11:28 am 
 10:28 am 
 10:10 am 
 8:00 am 
 7:0fJ am 
 5:08 am 
 4:13 am 
 3:12 am 
 1:17 am 
 11:45 pm 
 11:00 pm 
 9:10 pm 
 8:30 pm 
 
 11:"J5 pm 
 9:40 pm 
 6:45 pm 
 5:35 pm 
 
 5ro. 4. 
 
 Arrive 
 Leave 
 
 Arrive 
 Leave 
 
 Dallas 
 
 Powder Springs 
 
 Austell 
 
 ATLANTA 
 
 McDonough 
 
 Jackson 
 
 Indian Springs 
 
 MACON 
 
 Coehrai 
 Eastnia 
 McRae 
 Baxley 
 JESUP 
 Sterlin 
 
 Leave 
 Arrive' 
 
 Leave ; 
 
 Arrive 3:40 nm 
 1:35 pm 
 12:10 pm 
 11:00 am 
 8:55 am 
 7:15 am 
 
 Arrive BRUNSWICK Leave 
 
 ing 
 iWH 
 
 Trains Nos. 1 and 2. between Dallas and Macon, run 
 daily, e.xcept Sundays. Trains Nos. 3 and 4, between 
 Macon and Jesup, except Sundays. Other trains run 
 daily. 
 
 Trains ;io and from ;,Hawkinsville connect with 
 mainjline trains at Cochran. 
 
 Trains arrive Macon, both south and north, in 
 time to connect with trains for all diverging points. 
 Trains north arrive Atlanta in time to connect with 
 all trains for North, East and West. 
 
 J. E. MALLORY, 
 Ass't Sup't, Macon. 
 
 J.J. GRIFFIN, 
 A. G. P. A. Atlanta. 
 
 M. N. EEATY, 
 Ass't Supt't, Atlanta. 
 W. V. MCCRACKEN, 
 Superintendent, Atlanta. 
 JAS. R. OGDEN, 
 Gen'l Pass. Agent. 
 
ADVER TI SEMEN TS. 
 
 CENTRAL m SOnTHf ESTERN R. R't 
 
 Savannah, r.A., Fob., IStli, 1S82. 
 On and after Sunday. February llltli, IS82, pansen- 
 BPr iniiiis on llie Central and Soiitliwestern Kailroads 
 and braiK^he.s will run as follows ; 
 
 :a1) DOWN'. 
 
 Xo. 1 
 
 F)-om Savannah. 
 
 READ DOWN. 
 
 iN'o. 3 
 
 9:20 a m Lv., 
 4:45 p m ar... 
 6:45 p ni ar... 
 3:40 am ar... 
 :<:00 a la ar... 
 7:17 a m ar... 
 8:40 a in ar... 
 
 ar... 
 
 ar... 
 
 ...Savannah 
 
 ..Angusta 
 
 ..Macon 
 
 ..Atlanta 
 
 ..Columbus 
 
 ..Kiifaula 
 
 ..Albany 
 
 ..Milledgeville 
 
 ..Eatonton 
 
 2i^o. 13. 
 
 From Augusta. 
 
 0:30 a m Lv.. 
 3:45 p m ar.... 
 <i:45 p ni ar.... 
 3:40 a m ar ... 
 3:U0 a m ar... 
 7:17 a m ar.... 
 8:40 a m ar..., 
 
 ar.... 
 
 ar.... 
 
 Xo. 2. 
 
 ...Augusta 
 
 ..Savannah 
 
 .Macon 
 
 ..Atlanta 
 
 ..Columbu.s 
 
 .Eufaula 
 
 .Albany 
 
 ..Miledgeville. 
 ..Eatonton 
 
 ..Lv 7:30 pm 
 
 ...ar 5:20 a m 
 
 ...ar 7:2(1 a m 
 
 ...ar 12:50 p m 
 
 ...ar 1:411 pm 
 
 ...ar 2:40 p m 
 
 ...ar 1:03 pm 
 
 ... ar it:44 a m 
 
 ...ar ll:.30a ni 
 
 Xo. 13. 
 
 .Lv 8::«)pm 
 ...ar 7:15 a ni 
 ...ar 7:20 a m 
 ...:ir 12:50 p m 
 ...ar 1;40 p in 
 ...ar 2:4(1 ii m 
 ...ar 1:03 pm 
 ...ar 9:44 a n\ 
 ...ar 11:30 a n- 
 
 From Macon. 
 
 Xo. 4. 
 
 7:10 a m Lv. 
 3:45 p m ar... 
 4:45 p m ar... 
 9:44 a m ar... 
 11:30 a m ar... 
 
 ..Macon 
 
 ..Savannah 
 
 ..Augusta 
 
 ..Milledgeville.. 
 ...Eatonton 
 
 IvV 7:3.) p m 
 ..ar 7:15 u m 
 ..ar 5:20 a m 
 
 Xo. 1. 
 
 7:45 a m Lv. 
 2:50 p in ar... 
 1:03 p m ar... 
 
 Fi'om Macon. 
 
 ..Macon 
 
 ..Eufaula 
 
 ..Albany 
 
 Xo. 3. 
 
 Fi-om Macon. 
 
 Xo. 13. 
 
 8:15 a m Lv 
 
 1:40 p m av 
 
 Macon 
 
 Columbus 
 
 Lv 8:00 pm 
 
 ar 3:00 am 
 
 From Macon. 
 
 8:00 a m Lv Macon... 
 
 12:50 p m ar Atlanta.. 
 
 2:15 
 fi:55 
 7:17 
 8:40 
 3:00 
 
 5:20 
 7:15 
 
 o. 1. From. Atlanta. 
 
 pm Lv Atlanta. 
 
 pm ar. Macon 
 
 a m ar Eufaula 
 
 am ar Alljaii\ 
 
 a m ar CoUiinbus 
 
 ar MiUt^d.<( \ ille 
 
 ar Eatonton 
 
 a m ar Augu>>ta 
 
 a m ar Savannah 
 
 .Lv 8:15 pm 
 ...ar 3:40 a ui 
 
 Xo. 3. 
 
 1 V 12 20 am 
 
 ir (> «).im 
 .11 2 40 p m 
 
 11 1 iM p m 
 
 .11 1 4(1 ]) m 
 
 r 'Mia m 
 
 ii 11 «),i m 
 ai 4 4) p in 
 
 11 < 4 > ]) ni 
 
 Xo. 4. 
 
 From ((/luint)u\^ 
 
 11:.50 a m Lv Coliiir.biis I.v 
 
 5:10 p m ar Macon ar 
 
 3:40 a m ar Atlanla ar 
 
 7:17 a m ar Eufaula ar 
 
 8:40 a m ar Albany ar 
 
 ar MilledgeviUe ar 
 
 ar Eatonton ar 
 
 5:20 a m ar Augusta ar 
 
 7:15 a m ar Savannah ar 
 
 o. 11. 
 
 :0(l a in 
 :45 a m 
 50 p 111 
 4(11) m 
 113 p m 
 
 44 a m 
 ::«) a m 
 
 45 p la 
 45 1) m 
 
 Xo.2. 
 
 From Eufaula. 
 
 13:05 p ra Lv Eufaula 
 
 4:28 p m ar Albany 
 
 7:10 p m ar Macon 
 
 3:00 a m ar Columbus.. 
 
 3:40 a in ar Atlanta 
 
 5:20 a m ar .-Vugusia 
 
 7:15a m ar Savannah. 
 
 Central k Southwestern Mmt CoDtiDned. 
 
 AO. 18. 
 
 F'om Albany, 
 
 Xo. zO. 
 
 10:25 a m Lv Albany Lv 1:46 p m 
 
 2: 10 p in ar Eufaula ar 
 
 7:10 p in ar Macon ar 7:10 p m 
 
 3:00 a m ar Columbus ar 3:00 a in 
 
 3:40 a m ar Atlanta ar 3:40 am 
 
 ar MilledgeviUe ar 
 
 ar Eatonton ar 
 
 5:20a m ar Augusta ar 6:20 am 
 
 7:15 a m ar .Savannah ar 5:15 a m 
 
 Xo. 17. From Eatonton and MilledgeviUe. 
 
 2:15 p ni Lv Eatonton 
 
 3:5s p in Lv MilledgeviUe 
 
 0:45 p m ar Macon 
 
 :'.:00 a m ar Columbus 
 
 s:4o a m ar Albany 
 
 !:4'>.' m ar Atlanta 
 
 ■V.2I' a !•! ar Augusta 
 
 ,":15 ;i lii ar Savannah 
 
 Cf. A Whitkhkad, Wii.mam Rogkrs, 
 
 V"n. Pass. Agent. Gen. Supt.. Savannah. 
 
 .T. C. SiiAW, W. F. Shkli.man, 
 
 Cicn. Trav. Agent. Sup't S. \V. R. R., Macon. Ga 
 
 THE 
 
 GEORGIA PACIFIC RAILWAY CO. 
 
 SUPKRINTEN'DKNT'S OkFICK, 
 
 Atlanta, Ga.. .July mh. 1882. 
 
 On and after July ISth, the fo lowing schedule will 
 take eflecl between Atlanta and Winn's : 
 
 DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAYS. 
 
 No. 1. I No. 2. 
 
 Leave Atlanta, 7::W a m Leave Winn'.-', 11:40 am 
 Ariive Winn's, 10:00 a m | Arrive Atlanta, 2:15 p in 
 
 Trains will arrive and depart from tlie Georgia 
 Pacific Railway Depot grounds in Atlanta. 
 
 T. Y. SAGE, 
 W. J. HOUSTON, Superintendent. 
 
 Gen '1 Passenger Agent. jul 27-tf. 
 
 NasliyiUe, CMtaiioop & St. Louis Railway 
 
 AHEAD OF ALL COMPETITORS I 
 TDon't I'orget It I 
 
 — By tills Line you secure the— 
 
 OF SPEED, SAFETY, 
 ■OMFORT, SATISFACTION, 
 
 MAXIMUM ; 
 
 MINIMUM 
 
 OF EXPENSE, ANXIETY, 
 BOTHER. FATIGUE. 
 
 Be sure to buy your Tickets over the 
 
 N., O. & St. L. R^y. 
 
 Call on or address 
 
 A. B. Wrkxn, Trav. A., Atlanta. Ga. 
 
 J. L. MiLA.M, P. A., Knox ville. Tenii. 
 
 W. T. Rook s, P. A., Cliaitanooga. Tenn. 
 
 W. L. Danlkv.G. I', 'iiid T. A.. 
 jul 'JO-tf Nashville, Tenn. 
 
By B. IVi. WOOLLEY, 
 
 ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 
 
 Reliable evidence given, nnd 
 reference to cured piitients and 
 phj Hicians. Send for my hook on 
 the Habit and iis cure. Free. 
 
 By B IVI. WOOLLEY, 
 
 ATLANTA, GEORGIA. 
 
 It quiets the nerves, promotes 
 health and morals. Costs less 
 than whiskey. Try it. Office, 
 b3i Whitehall street. 
 
 Jk-TL^IsTTJ^ 
 
 Tfunk Factoty, 
 
 LIEBERIAIf & KiTJPIAI 
 
 Salesroom, ISTo. 92 T\^h.iteliall Street. 
 
 okixxjiivf:: s-sOlk l^ja^'i nx^:Tt 
 
 Trunks and Valises, 
 
 EnuLish Russett Gj.ad.^ton'e Valises, 
 Ladies' Morocco Satchels, 
 
 Ladies' and Gentts' Dressing Cases, 
 Tc^uRisr Equii'MENis, 
 
 Tourist Baos, Club Bag--, 
 
 Rubber Pillows and Cushions, 
 
 l;^*" All kinds of Trunks or Sample Cases Made to 
 Order and Repaired. 
 
 50 & 92 VVHrrEHALL STREET. 
 
GENTS' FURNISHER 
 
 1 1 & 13 Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 Representing WANAMAKER & BROWN, of Pliiladel- 
 pliia, tlie Largest Dealers and Mannfactur- 
 ers of Fine Clotliiug in the World. 
 
 I take pleasure in calling your attention to my line of samples, comprising, in 
 part, a full line of 
 
 CHEVIOTS. CREPES, 
 
 CASSIMERES (Fancy Mixed), WORSTEDS, 
 
 SUITING, DIAGONALS, 
 
 FLANNELS, TRICOTS, 
 
 SERGES, CLOTHS. 
 
 YACHT CLOTHS, VESTINGS, 
 
 DOESKINS, Etc., Etc, 
 
 (Constajit changes are being made in this line, as the season advances, and new goods 
 are brought out.) . <• «. d> 
 
 I am making a splendid line of Business buits to measure from $15.00 to $22.00, 
 euaranteeing perfect fit and satisfaction. . „ „ • j . 
 
 (There was a time when the cry of wolf had its effect. Some competitors tried to 
 scare off my trade with the lame story of our having our custom orders hlled from ready- 
 made stock. This LIE I have never been able to trace to responsible parties. 1 o-day 
 mv business ir. Atlanta is so well known that it speaks for Itself.) , , , j 
 
 We carry two lines of samples— one representing the immense stock of ready-made 
 Clothine Krom this line we order children's and boys' ready-made suits. I he second 
 line represents our Piece Goods stock, and here is where the bulk of our business is done. 
 This line, in variety and magnitude, is greater than the combined stocks of our competi- 
 
 ""^^Railroad Police, Band and School Uniforms gotten up at shortest notice aud at spe- 
 cial prices, having facilities for doing this class of business that no other house can com 
 
 """''■ FURNISHING GOODS. 
 
 My stock of Gents' Furnishing Goods is the largest and most complete in the Stat 
 
 "^""^N^UuDERWEAR— Silk, Cashmere, Angora, Lisle (in white, brown and fancy). Gauze, 
 Bolbriggans, Lace, Open Work and Fancy. ,,..,■ . . j 
 
 Gloves— A full line of Kids, in embroidered and p. am backs, in street, party and 
 opera shades. Castor, Berlin and Lisle, dress, walking, and diiying. 
 
 Half Hose— In Silk, Cotton and Lisle, plain, colored and embroidered. 
 
 Handkerchiefs— In Silk and Linen, embroidered, bordered, initials, fancy, hem, 
 stitched and plain 
 
 Canes— In every variety. 
 
 Umbrellas— In Silk, Gingham, Alpacca ond Cotton ,„,.,,,,. 
 
 Scarfs Ties and Bows- No other such stock south of Philadelphia. 
 
 Linen Collars and Cuffs— To keep ray assortment full it requires a stock of 800 
 dozen. This speaks for itself. 
 
 I carry the largest and most complete stock of fine Shirts in the city, both laun- 
 dred and unlaundred-my own make. (I keep no trash called shirts.) My hne of 
 Colored Shirts includes Cheviots,, Penangs, Madras and Percales. 
 
 ^~ I make the best White Shirts to order, si.\ for $9.00. 
 
 REMEMBER THE PLACE: ^^ ^ ^^ WHITEHALL STREET, 
 
 (O.I.OS.TK James' Bank Block), ATLANTA GA. 
 
THE GEORGIA BOOK STORE. 
 
 TO 
 
 PHIL] 
 
 6, 8 & 10 Marietta Street, Atlanta, 
 
 C-^F0Rv_:O 
 
 Books and Stationery, 
 
 ARTISTS' MA lERIALS, Etc. 
 
 A SPECIALTY. New and Second Hand GEOR- 
 GIA REPORTS. GEORGIA FORM BOOK, 
 Price, $4.00. 
 
 "Bright Days on Georgia Plantation," New Boofi,$1.50. 
 1870. EST^BXjISBCEID 1870- 
 
 AET GALLEET, 
 
 33% Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 Photographs, Crayons, 
 
 India Ink Portraits, 
 
 Finished in Latest Styles at Reasonable Prices. 
 
 FIRST PREMIUM AT COTTON EXPOSITION for the best 
 India ink Portraits; also, FIVE MEDALS at last North Georgia 
 P'air were awarded us. 
 
 ^= Call and see our New Styles PHOTO PLACQUES, FILES, 
 PORCELAINS, etc. 
 
 J. H. & W. T. KUHNS, Proprietors. 
 
LIBRAHY Ul- UUiMuncoo 
 
 014 415 792 8 
 
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