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FROM THE FVND IN MEMORY OF
FRANK.LIN BOAJWITCH DEXTER,
SECRETASIY- LIBRAI^JAN- H ISTORJAN OF "kAIE

HISTORY OF

SOUTH CAROLINA

EDITED BY
YATES SNOWDEN, LL. D.
In collaboration with
H. G. CUTLER,
General Historian
and an Editorial Advisory Board including
Special Contributors

Issued in Five Volumes
VOLUME IV

ILLUSTRATED

PUBLISHERS
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1920

COPYRIGHT, 1920
BY
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

History of South Carolina

Narciso Gener Gonzales, who with his brother,
Ambrose E., founded and established "The State,"
inherited from his Cuban ancestors the consuming
Southern fire for political and intellectual independ
ence, and added to it such a remarkable degree of
persistence and practical judgment as to weld his
character into a great force which permeated South
Carolina, and territory and peoples far outside its
limits. He was born at Edingsville, Edisto Island,
South Carolina, on August 5, 1858, being the second
son of Ambrosio Jose Gonzales, a native of Matan-
zas, Cuba.
The father of Narciso G. was a co-patriot and
military leader with Narciso Lopez, who began the
struggle for Cuban independence ten years before
the birth of the future South Carolina journalist.
The elder Gonzales was also one of the historic
junta of five members who declared for the inde
pendence of Cuba in 1848 and adopted the present
flag of the southern republic. He organized the first
filibustering expedition, and, as brigadier-general,
himself^ ^^<=«eded in rank and authority by Lopez
inlrJ'fil'li? I ^°"^^'^^ yas the first Cuban wounded
Wn mh % '"dependence, at Cardenas, May 20,
1850. When the Spaniards crushed the rebellion he
fhTci* ,Sc".'t".™ "c'c'ioSr?" <T'^>«''

served under Beaure^arH w,,^ ^ capacity he
and at the surrender nfi ^^S^^,^ ^"^ Pendleton,
boro. North Caro]£ °n igefwf ' f "^^' ^l G^^^"'
the Confederate artlile^vH ^Iso in charge of
and determined man w .1 <.T^^ brilliant, able
traits in the ch.r^^",:/".^ u^l^^A^^ the seeds of such

^"^..^^."¦•f'^ .-"d Florida. In' that capacitrhe
ardf- " ~
ston wa;
s w;
in the character of his son.
fifSen yea?ratLr'He"^h' "' ^P"^' ""*'' he was
schoolingTn vlgfn'a.^^*';^" ""^"^"'^ °"« y^^' of
the basif of ^slZlk^c\tc:tilTZT '""'"T
superb mental equioment tZ u\ ,Otherwise the
became his by v™of hf, n J*""^ "?" ^^' "°ted
and healthful intellectual dlr P^"'«tent reading
ing and broaden ngexner;enf/*'°?'u?"d the harden!
f 75-76 he served fs a LTegraohifon" ^"''^ ^'^^- I"
ton County, South Carolini XL?^^^'°';^'" Hamp-
C'"b along the line of ttrCrfS rSS'I^^,

became campaign correspondent for the Charleston
Journal of Commerce. Still a youth, in 1877-78, he
was a telegraphic operator at Savannah and V aldosta,
Georgia, and in August, 1880, regularly entered bouth
Carolina journalism as a reporter on the Greenville
Daily News, resigning a few months later to become
regular Columbia correspondent of the Charleston
News and Courier. In the succeeding fall he was
sent to Washington as the correspondent of that
paper He had the painful .duty of writing of the
death of Garfield and reportmg the Guiteau trial.
In August, 1882, Mr. Gonzales was advanced to
the ed^t^ial staff of the News and Courier at
Charleston, but in the following year returned *¦,
Columbia and organized a regular bu-reau for tha^
naoer which s still maintained. He remainea in
charge of ft until the outbreak of. the political revo
lution of 1890, resigning his position at the close of
Governor Richardson's administration.
Mr. Gonzales was Planning . .x trip as newspaper
rorresuondent to the Hawaiian Islands, but at, the
nsTtrce of friends and admirers throughout Sth
Carolina was induced to remain in Columbia and
establish a daily P^^^^^^f^:^^:''.-:^ ^^Z^r,
the Tillman P°l'"es. According y ^^^^ ^^^^^^
Ambrose E.,. he started ^he P^^ ^^^ manager, -was
of which, with h'niself as editor ^^ ^^
issued February 18, 891^ For tw Vbrose E. he
actively eng^g^^'/^^^rilicv of the paper as long
controlled the editorial pohcy o
"T'^8oTMr Gonzales offered his serv-es to the
In 1095 '>"-^- ^ Thev -were decimcu, ft,.:!-
C"''^". iranfcould^e/t serve the cau^e of *«r
Sldent Vf ^^ -r'^th Ipain he re-
nf the Cuban army, ^ho wa^ Maximo Gomez
^^'l ^C-Jbf Sou°gi the expedition was fir^st
'" S'"'rL the Spaniards it to/y^^^'/ southern
hard ---^l\X:^on% the -centr^Uro*a or^
til he received his

HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Mr. Gonzales was an active figure in the newspaper
and political world of South Carolina. The State
continued the policy upon which it was founded — of
unflinching opposition to the Tillman regime. Its
editorials were especially severe during the period
of the August primaries of 1902, when Lieutenant-
Governor James H, Tillman, nephew of Benjamin
R,, and himself a candidate for the governorship,
was the centrtB figure at which the shafts of The
State were directed. The city and the state were
shocked beyond expression when Mr, Gonzales was
shot down by Lieutenant Governor Tillman within
sight of the State House, and expired four days
afterwards, January 19, 1903, Mr, Tillman was tried
during the following summer and acquitted.
This is no place and no fitting publication in which
to express an opinion as to culpability or judicial
justice. Suffice it to say that journalism and South
Ca,rolina suffered a great loss in the tragic death of
Narciso Gener Gonzales.
Ambrose Elliott Gonzales. If any marked dis
tinction were to be made between the two Gonzales
brothers who founded The State nearly thirty years
ago, Narciso Gener Gonzales raight be called the
steering wheel of the great newspaper, and Ambrose
Elliott, its balance. Since March, 1893, the latter
has been its president, treasurer and general raan
ager, and since the death of his brother in January,
1903, he has ably borne unusual burdens and re
sponsibilities. While N. G. Gonzales was in close personal con
tact with politicians, statesmen and public men, his
a.rdent nature ever responding, unless principle was
involved, to the throbbing of the public pulse, and
transferring it to the columns of the newspaper
which they both loved, Ambrose E., with his jaws
set, ¦ was straining in the managerial harness, and
supervising a thousand and one mechanical and finan
cial details involved in the publication of a growing
and progressive journal far too ambitious, for its
field, — its very existence for years depending upon
the ability of this one man to "take punishment."
While one was adventuring in Cuba as a lieutenant
of the native Army of Liberation, the other was
serving with his usual energy and ability as captain
and quartermaster in the, armies of the United States
at Santiago, their paper being turned over to the
management of trusted friends, until Cuba had been
freed. It was an ideal combination — that of the brothers
Gonzales — and made The State a powerful news
paper. And when the steering wheel was stilled by
death, it devolved upon the balance wheel of The
State to largely assume the functions of both,
Ambrose Elliott Gonzales was born in Colleton
County, South Carolina, May 29, 1857, the eldest
son of General Ambrosio Jose Gonzales, the Cuban
patriot, and colonel of artillery in the Confederate
army, and Harriett Rutledge Elliott, of Beaufort,
that state. His main education was not derived
from books. As a boy, he was instructed at home
and received a brief year of schooling at a private
institution in Virginia. Then, at the age of sixteen,
he learned telegraphy and entered the employ of the
Charleston & Savannah Railway Company, as agent
and telegrapher at Grahamville.
The four years which he spent at that lonely rail

way station, in the middle 70's, were not free from
danger and responsibility. The negroes in the com
munity, — many of them turbulent and desperate fel
lows, full of their new-found freedom, outnumbered
the whites nearly a hundred to one, and the boy in
charge of large sums of railway and express rnoney,
working in an office without a safe and sleeping in
a railway shack without locks on doors or windows,
soon developed fortitude and self-reliance, invaluable
training for the years to follow. (During his serv
ice at Grahamville he was an enthusiastic member
of the Beaufort County Red Shirt Riders.)
Leaving the railroad in 1879, young Gonzales re
turned to the plantation where he spent two years
farming. Two years later, he went to New York to seek his
fortune, — and found it, in the opportunity afforded
him to get 17 to 18 hours' work each day, and here,
save for a few months' similar service in New Or-^
leans, he worked for the Western Union and Postal
Telegraph Companies, always, to meet the elder
brother's obligations, holding down two positions,
one on the heavy press wires at the main offices
through the night, the other on the Stock, Produce,
or Petroleum Exchanges by day.
After four years of double work, impaired health
forced him to seek outdoor eraployment and in 1885
he began his connection with South Carolina news
paperdom as general traveling agent for The Char
leston News and Courier. He came to Columbia in
1890, as secretary of the State Department of Agri
culture, and in January, of the following year, joined
his brother in the establishment and development of
The State. In this work, with the co-operation of
a large and harmonious body of fellow editors and
business associates, he is still engaged.
Mr. Gonzales has, off and on, in the few idle
moments of a very busy life of fifty years — for, as
shown, he has been a hard worker since boyhood —
written many stories in the Gullah dialect of negroes
in tide-water Carolina. It is a fallow field which
few have cultivated.
The dialect of the South Carolina coast negro
differs greatly from that of his fellow black in the
interior of the state ; from the Georgia negro, as
immortalized by Joel Chandler Harris; from the
negroes of Louisiana and the Gulf States; from the
negroes north of Mason and Dixon's line — and, nec
essarily, from the negro of the minstrel shows, a
darkey that "never was on sea or land." The charm
of Mr. Gonzales' negro stories, their psychological
and philological value, con.sist in the fact that he not
only talks, but thinks as the negro. A master of
English and an ardent devotee of nature study, he
writes with exquisite charm and scientific accuracy
of "all out of doors"; the changes of the seasons,
the songs of birds, the ebb and flow of the tides and
"the glory of the sunlight on the broad marshes" of
Beaufort River and the Combahee — all are given in
the English of the sea-coast planter of the old
regime, and sometimes iu the observations of Pom
pey, or Quakoo, in unadulterated Gullah. When
Mr. Gonzales' book of Gullah stories appears, the
philologist, the lover of negro folklore, the sociologis.t
and the lover of wholesome humor, will find some
thing really worth reading in the wilderness of
modern bookdom. — Yates Snowden.

HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Wii.i.iAM E. Gonzales. When the completion of
the Panama Canal brought the Pacific coast of
South America so near to our own shores, it was
natural that the great Northern Republic, seeking
closer relations with her South American sisters,
should raise Peru, so interesting historically, so full
of promise industrially, from a mission to an em
bassy, putting her on a diplomatic footing with Chile,
Brazil and Argentina.
It was natural too that in seeking for its first
,'\mbassador to a proud and sensitive reiniblic, the
administration should have selected one who not
only had behind him a record of fine achievement
during seven years of difficult service as minister to
Cuba but who, by inheritance, and a life of news
paper training in service to the public, was eminently
fitted for the task. And so William E. Gonzales
was honored by the first Ambassadorship to the land
of the once mighty Incas.
William E. Gonzales is a native of Charleston
where he was born April 24, 1866, the son of Am
brosio Jose and Harriett Rutledge (Elliott) Gon
zales. The career of his father, distinguished Cuban
patriot and artillery officer of the Confederacy, is
developed in the biography of N. G. Gonzales, one
of the founders of The State newspaper. William
E. Gonzales was educated at Kings Mountain Mili
tary School, Yorkville, South Carolina, and at the
South Carolina Military Academy, Charleston, and
during 1884-88 he was identified with the Charleston
News and Courier as correspondent and assistant to
his brother, N. G. Gonzales, at the Columbia bureau
of that newspaper. He then became private secre
tary to Governor J. P. Richardson and retained
that position for two years. A year or two after
the establishment of The State, he joined his broth
ers on the paper, serving as its telegraph and news
editor until 1903, when after the death of his
lirother, N. G. Gonzales, he was appointed editor.
In June, 1913, he was appointed minister to Cuba,
where he served with distinction for seven years,
cementing more closely the already cordial relations
existing between his country and the Island Re
public. Mr. Gonzales' appointi-neni as Ambassador to Peru
was confirmed by the Senate in Septeml)er, 1919.
Ho took the oath of office on the 5th of January,
1920, and sailed for his new post on the 7th of
April, RoRERT Elliott Gonzales, One of the brilliant
young men which South Carolina has given to lit
erature passed beyond, When in December, 1916,
Robert E. Gonzales, the son of William E., the am
bassador to Peru, laid down his life on the Mexican
border in line with his soldierly duties. He was
born at Columbia in April, 1888, and was therefore
in his twenty-ninth year, when pneumonia claimed
him as its victim at El Paso, Texas, Without
previous military training, he had volunteered his
services to the American army and with his usual
aptitude for rapidly absorbing the duties of any
task in hand had already been advanced from the
ranks to a sergeancy, when the end came to one
of the most promising newspaper men in the South,
Although his connection with The State had com
menced only in 191 1, the five years of his editorial
connection therewith had- placed him in the front

rank of metropolitan paragraphers ; and those vvho
know the strong qualities of the modern journalist
realize that where many may make a reputation as
forceful writers of long and finished editorials, it
is the rare exception for one to excel in pithy, strik
ing and varied condensation. A good editorial
writer may be made; the gifted paragrapher, who
is of such importance to the development of the
newspaper of today, must be born with a certain
instinct to grasp the fine and vital piths of world
matters and convey them, like flashes of lightning,
to the people,
Robert E, Gonzales graduated from the Univer
sity of South Carolina in 1909 with the degrees of
A, B, and A, M, He was a brilliant and popular
student, but when he joined the staff of The State
two years later he seemed, without apparent effort,
to grasp matters of politics, of state and society,
which those of mature years had been years in
mastering. With the pungent paragraphs which
were shot from his active mind also flowed into
the columns of The State graceful and classical
word-songs, which were born of his university edu
cation. Two years after his death, Ambrose E.
Gonzales, his uncle and president and publisher of
the newspaper on which the younger man had made
his mark, prepared an introduction to the post
humous volume, "Poems and Paragraphs," of Robert
E, Gonzales, In the introduction is the following
worthy introduction to the deceased : "In these
poems and paragraphs are revealed the versatile at
tainments of a mind which leaped in an instant from
graceful poetic imagery to the current slang of the
ball field ; from classic forum to the arena of mod
ern politics; from the mythical love of the shadowy
past to the insistent realities of today. The quaint
and kindly philosophy, the spontaneous humor, the
shrewd and subtle wit and the rare gift of epigram
matic expression, were tempered by an infinite
human syrapathy which sought to cheer and help
rather than hurt his fellows — a generous nature
which so controlled and directed the keen shafts of
the mind that, with the power to wound and often
the provocation, yet touched so charitably the follies
and foibles of mankind that he left no sting. In
this fine chivalric spirit he volunteered as a private
soldier, and in his country's service, faithfully per
formed, laid down his young life on the Mexican
border, ending at twenty-eight an earthly career so
full of achievement that its promise was immeas-
ural)le,'' Gen, Wii.ie Tonks. There is, in the intensified
energy of the husiness man fighting the every day
battle of existence, but little to attract the attention
of the idle observer, but to the mind fully awake
to the reality and true meaning of human existence
there are noble and irhpressive lessons in the story
of the life of the man who without other means
than a strong heart and a clear head conquers ad
versity, and who, toiling on through the years of an
arduous career, approaches the suriset of life with an
honorable competence and rich in the respect and
esteem of his fellow men. The record of such men,
who influence and mould events, is always inter
esting and instructive, and become even more so
when such lives present in combined view the ele
ments of rhaterial success harmoniously blended

HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

with completeness of moral attribute and the at
traction of unblemished reputation. Such char
acters stand forth as the proof of human progress;
the illustrations of human dignity and worth.
In point of continuous service General Jones is
one of the oldest bankers in the State of South
Carolina, a half century having intervened since
he first entered the employ of the Carolina National
Bank at Columbia. Aside from his career as a
banker, his citizenship has been perhaps most note
worthy through his interest and active participa
tion in military affairs.
General Jones was born at Hillsboro, North Caro
lina, October 17, 1850, a son of Cadwallader and
Annie Isabella (Iredell) Jones. The Jones family
is of Welsh ancestry, the progenitors having come
to Araerica raany generations ago. On the maternal
side General Jones is a great-grandson of the dis
tinguished James Iredell, who served as one of the
early associate justices of the United States Su
preme Court. His mother was a daughter of James
Iredell, Jr., who served as governor of North Caro
lina, and also represented that state in the United
States Senate.
Cadwallader Jones, his father, served with dis
tinction as colonel of the Twelfth South Carolina
Regiment in the Confederate army. He was a farm
er and lawyer and for thirty years held the office of
circuit solicitor in North Carolina, and after mov
ing to South Carolina he represented York County
in the State Senate.
Gen. Wilie Jones spent his early boyhood days
on his father's plantation near Rock Hill in York
County, surrounded by the environment common to
the youth of that period, but his vision was fixed
upon a wider horizon than that which encompassed
the farm. He pursued the curriculum of the com
mon school, though for his success in life he has
always felt a deep debt of gratitude to his mother,
a gentlewoman of rare refinement and charm of
manner, who supervised his early moral and in
tellectual training. His father was a wealthy plant
er and slave owner, as indeed the family had been
for generations, but with the coming of the Civil
war, the freeing of the slaves and the subsequent
and disastrous period of reconstruction, the family
fortune was swept away and it became necessary
for the boy to lay aside all dreams of a college
course and provide for himself. His early business
experience was acquired as a clerk in a general
store at Rock Hill, where he was given his board
and a wage of $2.50 per week.
In 1869, when a lad of nineteen years, he came
to Columbia, where he has since made his home.
His first occupation in the capitol city was as a
clerk in the offices of the railroad company, a posi
tion he shortly resigned to accept employment with
the Carolina National Bank, and there began
his career in the banking business. He served as
cashier of the Carolina National Bank for twenty-
three years, and also for a number of years as
vice president. He later became associated with
the Palmetto National Bank of Columbia, and in
January, 1906. was made president, serving as such
for eleven years, when he was made chairman of
the board of directors, in which capacity he still
continues to exercise that careful supervision and
guidance of the bank's affairs which have been

potent factors in making the Palmetto National
one of the sound financial institutions of the South.
While still a young man General Jones became
interested in the State Militia, and he enlisted in
the National Guard in 1874. For fifteen years he
was captain of the Governor's Guards at Columbia,
and for twelve years served as colonel of the Sec
ond South Carolina Regiment, and later became
brigade commander of the South Carolina troops.
His great-grandfather, Cadwallader Jones, of Vir
ginia, served as a major on the staff of General
LaFayette. His grandfather, Cadwallader Jones,
of North Carolina, was a midshipman after the
close of the Revolutionary war and was later com
missioned a captain in the United States army.
He later made his home in Hillsboro, North Caro
lina, where he engaged extensively in agricultural
pursuits, and where he conducted a large planta
tion, owning as many as 600 slaves. General Jones
had four brothers in the Confederate army, three
of whom were wounded in action. He also had
three uncles, one brother of his father and two
brothers of his mother, killed while serving as
members of the Confederate army. There are
five counties in North Carolina named in honor
of his kinsmen, namely: Jones County, Iredell
County, Johnstone County, Dare County and Polk
County. June 2^, 1898, he was appointed by Governor
Ellerbe, colonel of the Second Regiment, South
Carolina Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned
to service as a part of the Second Brigade, First
Division, Seventh Army Corps, United States army,
under command of Gen. FitzHugh Lee. Orders
having been received to proceed to Cuba, the regi
ment under command of Colonel Jones embarked
from Savannah, January 3d, arriving at Havana
without accident on the morning of January 6, 1899.
Colonel Jones was the first of his command to
go ashore, and he refers to this fact in his official
report to the adjutant general as follows: "As I
came down the long rope ladder alone the Regiment
were all looking at me, and when I put my foot on
Cuban soil a cheer from a thousand throats went
up — It seemed loud enough to shake the old boat.
I was very proud to be the first man of the Sec
ond Regiment to step on Cuban soil." The details
of the career of the regiment during its service in
Cuba is best told in the annals of the War Depart
ment, and reflects glory and credit upon our nation's
history. An evidence of the esteem and admiration
the men of the Second Regiment had for their col
onel and the ties of love that had been borne of
his vigilance for their comfort and welfare, is mani
fest through the presentation to him of a beautiful
gold-mounted, embossed sword by the enlisted men
of the regiment. Inscribed upon the scabboard
were the words : "Presented to
Col. Wilie Jones
Second South Carolina, U. S. V. I.
by the
Enlisted Men of His Regiment
April 17th, 1899."
Upon his return home after the closing of the
war Colonel Jones continued actively in the mili
tary affairs of his state until 1915, when he retired
with the rank of major general.

HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

General Jones has always taken an active inter
est in political affairs, though not himself an office
seeker. He was chairman of the Democratic State
Committee from 1898 to 1912, and also served as
a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1895.
From December i, 1901, to June I, 190-2, he was a
member of the board of directors of the South
Carolina, Inter-State and West Indian Exposition
at Charleston. His interest in municipal^ affairs
is indicated, in part, by his service as president of
the Columbia Chamber of Commerce. He is a
member of the Episcopal Church, and for nearly
fifty years has been a member of the time hon
ored Masonic fraternity, having been initiated into
the mysteries of the craft in Richldnd Lodge No.
39 at Columbia in 1874. He is also affiliated with
the Knights of Pythias and the Elks.
May 20, 1886, General Jones married Annie Reaux
Caldwell, and to this union have been born a son
and a daughter : Caldwell Jones, now a prominent
and successful farmer in Lexington County, and
Annie Reaux Jones, now Mrs. R. A. Childs of Co
lumbia. In addition to his other interests General Jones
is extensively engaged in farming, and is num
bered among the successful planters of the state.
He owns and operates one of the largest planta
tions of this section — a valuable tract of land in
Lexington County, just across the Congaree River
from Columbia, and it is there that he finds his
greatest diversion and relaxation from the more
exacting cares of strenuous business. He possesses
to a marked degree the vitality and vigor of his
younger years, and an activity that comes to him
as a heritage from his years of military training.
His life has ever been an active one and his ef
forts have been contributing factors towards the
betterment of the' community in which he has
lived. William Ashmead Courtenay, Because of his
•many indispensable services to the city, Charles
ton might properly claim William Ashmead Courte
nay as one of its most useful figures, though the
later years of his life were spent in a village and
town which he founded, Newry in Oconee County,
\vhere some of his children and where many of
his interests still remain.
Mr. Courtenay was born in Charleston, Febru
ary 4, 1831. He died while temporarily residing at
Columbia March 23, 1908. He was descended from
Edward Courtenay, Sr., who married Jane, a daugh
ter of James Carlile of Newry, a prominent town
in the north of Ireland. Edward Courtenay, Jr.,
grandfather of William A. Courtenay, was born at
Newry September 9, 1770. In 1791 he and his
brother John left Ireland for Charleston, South
Carolina, but John subsequently settled at Savannah.
Georgia. Edward Courtenay possessed exceptional
scholarship and for many years conducted a widely
known school of the higher grade at Charleston.
William A. Courtenay, whose father was Edward
F. Courtenay, passed his boyhood at a time when
the circumstances of his family were greatly reduced.
Up to his twelfth year he depended upon a member
of the household for his education and afterward
acknowledged a lasting debt to the three years he
spent in the Classical and English Academy of Dr.

J. C. Faber. In his fifteenth year he had to leave
school and earn his own living. From 18S0 to i860
he was in the publishing and book selling business
at Charleston, in association with his older brother,
S. Gilman Courtenay. He had a great natti^al fond
ness for books, and he has served in many important
ways the cause of culture in his native state. As
a book seller he bad the opportunity which he im
proved of regular intercourse with such literary lead
ers as William Gilmore Simms, Henry Timrod, Wil
liam J. Grayson, and others. In the fall of i860
he accepted a position as business manager of the
Charleston Mercury, then the leading political jour
nal of the cotton states. He surrendered that im
portant post at the outbreak of the war, responding
to the first call 'to arms. He was with the Confed
erate armies in many of the greatest campaigns in
his native state and Virginia and became a captain.
The close of the war found him without means
and with limited opportunities of starting life anew.
For raany years he was active in the shipping and
commission business, and for a man whose tastes
ran so strongly in the direction of literature he
showed remarkable ability in practical business. For
twenty-two years he handled his shipping and com
mission business at Charleston and was also identi
fied with the management of steamship lines to Bal
timore, Philadelphia and New York. During this
time he served three years as president of the
Charleston Chamber of Comraerce,
There is probably no more distinctive epoch in
the history of Charleston than the period of eight
years beginning in 1879 when William A. Courtenay
was mayor. Toward the close of his administration
occurred the earthquake of August 31, 1886, when
the city was all but destroyed. So disastrous a
calamity had never occurred up to that time in the
United States. The present generation has few re
minders of that disaster. Charleston was rebuilt
anew and on a sounder foundation that ever. The
wisdom of its reconstruction was largely supplied
by Mayor Courtenay, whose plans were not carried
out without considerable opposition, but eventually
were approved by all. He substituted granite blocks
and flagging for plank and cobblestone roadwavs
and brick pavements ; caused heavy flagging to be
placed on the high battery to resist the fdrce of
cyclones and storm tides ; converted the undesirable
and neglected location at the west end of Broad and
Beaufain streets into the "Colonial Lake" ; caused the
public station to be removed to a better location;
crirainals to be more humanely cared for; renovated
the City Hall Building and improved City Hall Park ;
effected a 2 per cent reduction in the interest on the
ante-bellum 6 per cent bonds; changed the fire de
partment from a political to a non-partisan force;
and he also established the William Euston Home,
an institution designed in accordance with the will
of William Euston "to make old age comfortable"
and laid out the attractive village which became the
home of many men and women who in earlier life
had lived in homes of their own. These were
some of the larger features in the constructive work
which Mr, Courtenay performed while mayor of
Charleston and brief as it is the list is a striking
testimonial to his vigor as an executive and his
broad-minded vision and public spirit.
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Legislature founded the "Historical Commission of
South Carolina," of which he was chairman for
years. In spite of the heavy demand made upon him
by his business affairs he was untiring in his devo
tion to Southern literature and history and he pre
pared and published many historical documents. He
was primarily responsible for publishing the defini
tive edition of the poems of his friend, Henry Tim-
rod; also the Life of William Lowndes, the Poeras
of Carlyl McKinley, Lederer's Travels, and a num
ber of biographies. He published in a de luxe edi
tion Early Voyages to Carolina. In 1906 he pre
sented to the Charleston Library 400 volumes, relat
ing chiefly to South Carolina history.
South Carolina education had no more devoted
friend than the late Mr. Courtenay. He represented
the state on the Peabody education trust, and while
mayor of Charleston studied the needs of the city
schools as carefully as the larger problems of public
administration and construction. He was school
coraraissioner and in later years one of the city
school buildings was named for him. It was in rec
ognition of his many constructive efforts in behalf
of education that the University of Tennessee
awarded him the honorary degree LL. D,
After 1893 Mr. Courtenay's business interests
were in Oconee County. In that year he established
the Courtenay Manufacturing Company, purchasing
a water power on the Little River and building the
company's plant and naming the town Newry in
honor of the original family seat in Ireland, This
mill was notable for many reasons. It was the first
projected in the South for the manufacture of prints
cloth. It was also the first to install a complete
sewage and water system in every house in the mill
village. Mr. Courtenay acquired 3,000 acres of land
which he and his sons have developed to a high de
gree for building sites and as farms. On a prominent
hill near the village stands the handsome Courtenay
residence, where Mr. Courtenay lived from 1893
until 1907. In the latter year he moved to Co
lumbia. Mrs. Courtenay survived him until January i, 1918.
At present there are six living children. Campbell
Courtenay is president and treasurer of the Court
enay Manufacturing Corapany and lives at Newry.
Carlile Courtenay is traveling solicitor for the Res
cue Orphanage at Columbia. Ashmead Courtenay is
retired and resides at Charleston. St. John Court
enay is vice president and general manager of the
Courtenay Manufacturing Company. Edith is the
wife of John M. Bateman of Columbia, while Julia
is the widow of Henry B. Richardson of Columbia.
Sorae of the personal characteristics of the late
Mr. Courtenay have been described in a previous
publication and raay properly be quoted here : "Of
a nervous temperament, his was an impetuous and
in some respects aggressive nature, involving con
stant effort to restrain impulses and check too hasty
action. He possessed quick perceptive power, tire
less energy, strong facility for organization, won
derful capacity for work and marked excutive ability.
In what he did he looked rather to the best perma
nent results than mere transient success, and ever
aimed for the highest and best achievements. His
thoughts and actions in public life were marked
throughout by force of expression and vigor of

action. Impatient of unnecessary delays, this with
some, left the impression of needless austerity and
impulsiveness, but under all this seeming brusque-
ness there was a genial disposition, as well in social
life as in all intercourse for the dispatch of business.
He was thoroughly patriotic, a constant friend, a
devoted husband and kind father."
Hon. Nathaniel Barksdale Dial. While the
honors of politics have been strangely bestowed on
some conspicuous occasions, the choice by the South
Carolina Commonwelath and people of Nathaniel
Barksdale Dial as junior United States senator is
consistent with all the finest political traditions of
the old Palmetto State. Senator Dial, whose term
in the United States Senate began March 4, 1919,
has some interesting points of contrast with old
time political leaders. He is hardly a politician
at all, but a business man, and one who represents
in the broadest degree the productive interests of
his home state. He is a lawyer by profession, a
farmer by occupation, a manufacturer and for years
has been a constructive leader in the development
of the financial, manufacturing, and the varied re
sources of South Carolina.
He was born on his father's farm near Laurens
April 24, 1862, a son of Capt. Albert and Martha
Rebecca (Barksdale) Dial. Capt. Albert Dial who
gained the title by service as captain of a company
of militia before the -war, was born in Laurens
County September 10, 1825, a son of Hastings Dial.
a native of Abbeville County, and a grandson of
James Dial, a native of North Carolina. The
Dial family on coraing frora England settled in
Pennsylvania and about the time of the American
Revolution moved to North Carolina. Hastings
Dial married Mary Hudgens, a daughter of Capt.
Ambrose Hudgens, who was a revolutionary patriot.
The Hudgens is one of the oldest and most his
toric families of Laurens County. Albert Dial
devoted his time to farming until 1870 and in that
year became a merchant at Laurens, building one
of the largest commercial enterprises of the city.
In 1887 he was made president of the People's'
Loan and Exchange Bank and held that office until
his death. Doctor Dial married Martha Rebecca
Barksdale in 1847. She died in 1866, the mother
of two sons and three daughters. Captain Dial
married Mattie S. Drummond in 1887.
Nathaniel Barksdale Dial received a common
school education, attended Richmond College and
Vanderbilt University, and during 1882-83 was a
student of law in the University of Virginia. He
began practice at his home town, and for seven
years was a member of the firm Haskell & Dial and
for the past fifteen years has been senior partner
of Dial & Todd.
His political record can be told in a few words.
When he was a young man he served three terms as
mayor of Laurens. For several terms he was a
member of the State Democratic Executive Com
mittee and in 1888 a delegate to the National Con
vention which nominated Grover Cleveland for the
second time. He declined in 1903 the office of
consul at Zurich, Switzerland. Twice Senator Dial
contested the nomination for United States Senate
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a candidate for the office in 1912, receiving over
30,000 votes. In 1918 he was one of four candidates
for the nomination. Senator Tillman died before
the primaries, and that left the contest between
Mr. Dial, Mr. Rice and forraer Governor Blease.
With Senator Tillman eliminated there was no
question as to Mr. Dial's success. He carried forty-
two out of the forty-five counties of the state and
had a liberal majority over both his rivals. He
had no opposition in the general election.
Senator Dial entered the Senate with a wide
diversity of experience and association. His knowl
edge of the law is of course important, and from
earliest manhood he has been identified with the
agricultural element in his state. In 1887 he was
one of the promoters of the People's Loan and
Exchange Bank of Laurens, of which his father
was president. Later he organized the Enterprise
National Bank and the Home Trust Company, is
president of both these institutions, and has been
an officer and stock holder in other banks. He
organized, built and was president of the Laurens
Cotton Seed Oil Mill and the Laurens Glass Works.
He is a cotton manufacturer, having aided in build
ing several mills and is president of the Laurens
Cotton Mills, and president of the Laurens Bonded
Warehouse Company which he organized in 1897.
A great deal of his time and enthusiasm has been
expended in promoting the splendid natural re
sources of his state. He organized the Georgia-
Carolina Power Company near Augusta, of which
he was the first president, he organized and built,
and was president of the Ware Shoals Manufac
turing Company, a corabined hydro-electric plant and
cotton mill, and with two associates organized and
built the Reedy River Power Company and Sullivan
Power Company, being president of both these cor
porations. Through this intimate and diversified
connection with the life and affairs of his home
state Senator Dial is truly a leader in the new
South and the nation.
November 4, 1883, he married Miss Ruth Mitchell
of Lexington County. She died in 1903, and four
of her six children are living. Haskell, Wessie
- Lee, Frances Rebecca and Laura Emily. Wessie
Lee is the wife of N. G. Williaras. In 1906 Mr. Dial
married Miss Josephine Minter, daughter of Capt.
J. R. Minter of Laurens. They have four children :
Fannie D., Dorothy, Nathaniel and Joseph D.
Joseph A. McCullough, now chief attorney for the
United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company of
Baltimore, a position of great responsibility and
distinction recognized as such by lawyers every
where, is a native of South Carolina, and achieved
prominence in this state. Because of his many
pleasant social, professional and other connections
with Greenville, it was with much reluctance that
he transferred his residence from that city to Balti
more in the fall of 1918.-
Mr. McCullough was born in Dunklin Township,
Greenville County, Septeraber 9, 1865, a son of
Rev. A. C. and Anne Rebecca (McCullough) Stepp.
His father was a prominent Baptist ministet;, was
born in the extreme upper part of Greenville County,
and for many years did a valuable work in his
vocation in this section of South Carolina.

Ml'. AlcCullough's family name was therefore
Stepp. When he was an infant he was adopted
by his rhaternal uncle. Col. James McCullough, and
by act of the Legislature his name was changed to
Joseph A. McCullough. The principal reasons for
this were : The child's mother was in very frail
health at the time and was not expected to live,
though she did live for several years ; his uncle
having no children of his own wished to perpetuate
through him his narae and possessions.
This uncle. Col. James McCullough, was one of
the notable men of his day. His father Joseph
McCullough, a Scotchman, came frora County An
trim, Ireland, in the early part of the last century,
and was distinguished in Greenville County as a
man of large affairs, a planter, stockman, merchant
and lover and owner of noted race horses. His
plantation was a famous center of old time hos
pitality in Greenville County. The late Col. James
McCullough commanded the Sixteenth South Caro
lina Infantry in the war between the states.
Joseph A. McCullough attended the country
schools in the neighborhood of Colonel McCullough's
plantation, spent two sessions in Wofford College
at Spartanburg, and four years in the University
of South Carolina. He graduated from the latter
with the degree of A. B. and LL. B. in 1887. He
was prominent in college fraternities, literary clubs,
and editor in chief of the South Carolinian, the
college paper.
His long and active experience as a lawyer began
at Greenville in 1887. His first law partner was
Capt. A. Blythe, later he formed a co-partnership
with Louis W. Parker, subsequently with W. C.
Benet of Abbeville, the firm becoming Benet, Mc
Cullough & Parker. W. G. Sirrine was a member
of the firm McCullough & Sirrine until 1898. Then
for a number of years Mr. McCullough was affili
ated with J. P. Carey of Pickens under the firm
name of Carey & McCullough. Following this
partnership John J. McSwain and later E. M. Blythe
were associated with Mr. McCullough, and finally
B. F. Martin carae into the firm. When Mr. Mc
Cullough left Greenville to go to Baltiraore, the
firm name was McCullough, Martin & Blythe.
Several times at different periods Mr. McCullough
was a member of the South Carolina Legislature
and as such was instrumental in having enacted
many useful laws. For several years he was chair
man of the South Carolina Child Labor Commission,
and secured the enactment of the first Child Labor
Law in the state. He was also one of those respon
sible for the first compulsory education law. Mr.
McCullough served on the Greenville delegation
that secured the $1,000,000 appropriation for the
present system of good roads in Greenville County.
This was the first large bond issue of this kind
in the state, and Greenville County's pre-eminence
in that respect set an example that has been followed
by a number of other counfies. By appointment of
the governor Mr. McCullough acted as special judge
in courts throughout the state and is generally
known as Judge McCullough.
For several years he was a member of the South
Carolina Historical Commission and was a member
of the Executive Committee of the Southern Socio
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Board of Governors. He is also a member of the
Advisory Board of the present Child Labor Com
mittee, and a member of its Executive Coraraittee
and as such is working for more beneficent laws
affecting juvenile offenders.
Judge McCullough represents a family notable
for strong religious convictions and principles, and
nothing in his own career has afforded him more
satisfaction than the tirae and energies he has de
voted to his church, the Methodist Episcopal South.
For several years he has been recognized as one of
the most useful laymen of that church not only in
his home state but throughout the Conference.
At Greenville he was a member and official of the
Buncombe Street Methodist Church, where one of the
associations that brought him the greatest pleasure
was as teacher of the Baraca class for several years.
In the litigation over the affairs of the Vandertiilt
University he was a meraber of the commission
appointed by the General Conference to represent
the church's interests. Following the ending of this
contention a coraraittee was appointed by the Gen
eral Conference to investigate and report upon the
validity and legal standing of the church's various
institutions, including schools, colleges, benevolent
institutions, boards, in order to prevent further
cases similar to that at Vanderbilt .and to prepare
charters for the institutions that would forestall
similar difficulty. Mr. McCullough was a member
of this commission. He is now a member of the
Board of Trustees of Eraory University at Atlanta.
the new denominational institution which with mil
lions of dollars of endo-wments is being made one
of the great universities of the country. Since
1910 Judge McCullough has been a member of the
Court of Appeals of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South. This court meets annually to decide upon
appeals from the various conferences of the church.
Prior to his removal to Baltiraore he was a raember
of the Board of Trustees of Wofford College. Dur
ing his last term in the Legislature he was a raem
ber of the committee on education and as such
was ex-officio a member of the Board of Trustees
of Winthrop College and the University of South
Carolina. The university, his alma mater, has hon
ored him with the degree LL. D. For a number of
years he was also a member of the South Carolina
Historical Commission.
Through a series of quite accidental and in a
measure providential circumstances, Mr. McCullough
removed from Greenville to Baltimore, where he
had been offered and assumed the position of chief
attomey for the United States Fidelity & Guaranty
Company, a position of such importance that it
might well be prized by any lawyer. He took up
his residence in Baltimore in October, 1918. Since
then he has been paid some unusual honors in
business and church life at Baltimore, having been
elected a member of the Board of Directors of the
National Bank of Comrherce of Baltimore and hav
ing been made a member of the Board of Stewards
of the Wilson Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church
South. He is a member of the Building Committee
having in charge the erection of a beautiful new
church home. He has also been made a member of
the Church Board of Education of the Baltimore
Conference.

With so many exacting duties and interests filling
his life, it seems hardly possible that Mr. Mc
Cullough would have time to devote to a hobby.
Nevertheless he has a well deserved distinction
as a connoisseur and collector of books, both of
rare volumes and of modern books of handsome
bindings. He has in fact been mentioned in the
Public Library Index as one of the few notable
collectors in the South. On leaving Greenville
he loaned his library to Furman University. He
has also received notice an an orator and lecturer,
specific mention of him being made in "Oratory of
the South since the War," and "American Oratory
of Today."
Judge McCullough's home in Baltimore is No. 7
Overhill Road, Roland Park. He has been twice
married. His first wife whose maiden name was
Miss Maud d'Avigny of Atlanta, Georgia, died in
1914. Two of her sons are living, Mr. C. F. Mc
Cullough of Greenville and Lieutenant McCullough.
Lieutenant McCullough was a ipember of the Butler
Guards of Greenville, served in the Mexican border
troubles, later volunteered in the National army,
and participates in the record of the Thirtieth
Division in France. He has since made application
for a commission in the regular army.
In January, 1916, Judge McCullough married Mrs.
Emma (Lumpkin) Clark, member of the prominent
Georgia Lumpkin family and widow of the late
James Clark, president of the Drovers & Mechanics
National Bank of Baltimore.
Hugh Lawson Oliver has been a resident of
Georgetown since 1890 and has been acquiring an
increasing part and responsibility in local busi
ness and civic affairs.
He was born at Madison, Georgia, April 9, 1873,
a son of Rev. Hugh F. and Elizabeth Matilda
(Smith) Oliver. His mother was a daughter of
David Henry Smith of Georgetown and a descend
ant of the historic character Landgrave Thomas
Smith, one of the early governors of the Province
of the Carolinas. Rev. Hugh F. Oliver was a
son of Thaddeus Oliver who was killed at Johns
Island as captain of a Georgia company in the
Confederate army. Thaddeus Oliver was well
known in Southern literature as author of "All
Quiet Along the Potomac." A brother of Rev.
Hugh Oliver was James H. Oliver, a rear admiral
in the United States Navy and first governor of
the Virgin Islands formerly the Danish West Indies.
Hugh Lawson Oliver attended public school in
South Carolina and Georgia and for two years was
a student in Furraan University and in 1892 took
a commercial course in Kentucky University. In
his early years he engaged in lumber manufacture
and for six years was teller of the People's Bank
of Georgetown. Since 1910 he has been engaged in
the real estate and insurance business and is presi
dent of the Mutual Building and Loan Association.
Mr. Oliver served as a member of the Legislature
in 1919-20 and was a local magistrate in 1915-16.
In 191S he was appointed aide de camp on the staff
of Governor Richard I. Manning with the rank of
lieutenant-colonel. He is chancellor commander of
his lodge of Knights of Pythias and is also affiliated
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Order of Elks. He is superintendent of the Sun
day school of the Prince George Winyah Episcopal
Church. November 17, 1897, Mr. Oliver married Etta
White Bourke, daughter of William O. and Ida
C. (Jeannerette) Bourke. Her father was a prom
inent Georgetown raerchant. They have three chil
dren, Hugh Lawson, Jr., Henrietta Hunt and Vir
ginia Bourke. The son was educated in the Win
yah High School at Georgetown and during the
late war served as a member of the One Hun
dred and Fifth Transport Headquarters and Mili
tary Police in the Thirtieth Division under Col.
H. B. Springs.
Andrew Comstock Dibble has been a member of
the South Carolina bar for forty-nine years. The
greater part of that tirae he has spent at Orange
burg. Many honors, dignities and responsibilities
have been interwoven with his routine work as a
lawyer. He was born in the City of Charleston, August 13,
1849, a son of Philander Virgil and Frances (Evans)
Dibble. His father was a hat merchant. In 1862
the family removed to Orangeburg. Andrew
C, Dibble acquired his education in the public schools
of Charleston and in the Whilden School at Orange-
hurg, and after the war of the '60s as a youth was
employed in a general store until 1868. Then, at
the age of nineteen, he entered the law office of
Izlar & Dibble as their office clerk. His brother,
Samuel Dibble, whose sketch appears elsewhere, was
a member of that firm. The subject of the sketch
was qualified and admitted to practice law in 1871.
The following nine years he practiced at Bamberg,
but in April, 1880, returned to Orangeburg. Soon
after, when his brother Samuel was elected a mem
ber of Congress, Mr. Dibble, in connection with
his own business, attended largely to his brother's
law practice. From 1885 until 1896 he served as
master in equity for Orangeburg County. In 1896
he formed a partnership with Charles G. Dantzler,
afterwards a circuit judge, and continued this part
nership for two and a half years, after which for
two years he practiced alone. He served for a
number of years, until 191 1, as assistant secretary
in charge of the water and light departments of
Orangeburg. He was elected judge of probate for
Orangeburg County in 191 1, which included, under
special statute, the master's work, filling that office
with admirable competency until 1916, when he was
reappointed to the office of master in equity, which
office he is now holding, having been reappointed in
1920 for the term of four years.
Judge Dibble has long been a prominent layman
in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, serving
as member and chairman of the Board of Stewards
for thirty-six years, and was once elected to the
General Conference of his church. During his resi
dence at Bamberg he was superintendent of the
Sunday school eight years, and while there was
also a member of the town council four years.
For three years he was assistant superintendent and
for thirty-two years has been superintendent of
the Sunday school of his church at Orangeburg.
Judge Dibble is a council degree Mason and a mem
ber of the Woodmen of the World.

For his first wife he married Mary Jane Clark,
of Orangeburg, November 8, 1871. "They had two
sons : Francis Eldon and Emmet Clark. The former
is a Methodist minister and the latter is manager
in Cuba for a real estate holding corapany. Judge
Dibble married for his second wife Rachel Agnes
Clark, Deceraber 21, 1889. To this union were born
three children, Ruth Ann and Mary Lou, both
teachers in the public schools at Orangeburg, and
Andrew Comstock, Jr., who for a time was assistant
horticultural agent at Clemson College, and is now
in the horticultural and landscaping business on his
own account, being located at Orangeburg.
Daniel Oscar Herbert, president of the Peoples
National Bank of Orangeburg and a prominent
lawyer, has had an active professional and business
career covering nearly forty years.
He was born in Newberry County, April 19, 1857,
son of Capt. C. W. and E. S. (Goggins) Herbert.
The Herberts came from England to New Jersey
prior to the Revolution, and the family has been in
South Carolina since about 1790.
Daniel O. Herbert graduated with first honors
from Wofford College in 1878, and received the
Master of Arts degree in 1879. He took his law
degree at Vanderbilt University in 1881, and the
following year was admitted to the bar. He has
had many interests outside of his profession. From
1887 to 1890 he was a United States postoffice in
spector traveling in the New England states and also
on the Pacific coast. Since 1890 he has practiced
law at Orangeburg, South Caroline. In 1898 he
raised a company for the Spanish-American war
and served as captain of Company C, Second South
Carolina Volunteer Infantry, a part of the Seventh
Army Corps, under the command of Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee. For a number of years he was attorney and
director of the Peoples Bank of Orangeburg, and
since it became the Peoples National Bank has
been president. He has also been active in local
affairs as a member of the City Council and on the
Board of Education. From 1902 to 1906 he was a
member of the South Carolina Legislature from
Orangeburg County.
Mr. Herbert married in January, 1893, Julia S.
Sally, a daughter of A. M. Sally, of Orangeburg.
They have six children, several of whom have hon
orable records as soldiers in the great war. Alex
ander Sally, the oldest, during the World war was
an ensign in the United States Navy; Mary Herbert
is the wife of Frank W. Raysor, who was a first
lieutenant in the army, with a record of service in
France ; Walter C. is a graduate of Clemson College
and was ensign in the United States Navy; Daniel
Oscar, Jr., is a student in Clemson College; while
the two youngest are Sallie and Julia Herbert.
Henry Calhoun Folk, son of Henry Nimrod
Folk and a brother of John Francis Folk, has for
many years been prominent as a merchant, banker,
manufacturer and man of affairs in Bamberg
County. He was born in Colleton County, December 4,
1859, and was liberally educated, graduating in 1880
with the Bachelor of Arts degree from Wofford
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merchant at Bamberg, and in the meantime many
other important interests have engaged his time and
attention. Cotton production on a large scale is
carried on by Mr. Folk on 2,000 acres he
owns in Bamberg, Barnwell and Colleton counties.
He is a director of the Bamberg Banking Company
and also oi-ganized and was president until he sold
out a few years ago of the Peoples Bank. For
twenty years he was a director in the Bamberg
Cotton Mills, and also vice president, but has dis
posed of his interests in this industry.
He is widely known over the state in politics and
public affairs. He was elected a member of the
Legislature from old Barnwell County in 1890,
serving four years. Through his legislative experi
ence he was well qualified for effective presentation
of the cause of the new county division, and when
Bamberg County was created the General Assembly
appointed him one of the commissioners to determine
assets and liabilities and apportion the same as be
tween the old county and the new. In that work
the commissioner for Barnwell County was George
H. Bates. From the organization of the county in
1896 until 1918 Mr. Folk served as county chairman
of the democratic committee. For sixteen years he
was master in equity of Bamberg County, from 1900
to 1916. Mr. Folk is a Methodist and a raember
of the Knights of Pythias.
In April, 1880, he married Elizabeth Weissinger,
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J, Weissinger of
Blackville, They are the parents of seven children :
Ethel, wife of R. B. Still, of Blackwell; Lucille,
wife of J. C. Guilds, head master of Carlisle School ;
Henry N., associated with his father as a merchant
at Bamberg; John W. Folk, also a business associate
with his father ; Leonard, wife of C. E. Black, of
Bamberg; and Miss Virginia and Oliver Faber Folk
William Doyle Morgan is a prominent George
town banker, and for raany years served as mayor
of that city. His life has been one of achievement,
though his early youth was a struggle imposed by
the necessity of helping support his widowed mother
and sisters.
Though he was born in New York City, Feb
ruary 5, 1853, he was brought to Georgetown, South
Carolina, a few months later by his parents, John
and Mary Morgan. His father and mother were
natives of Ireland. His father died just after the
close of the war between the states. At that time
William Doyle Morgan was about thirteen years
of age, and left school to go to work. Subsequent
years were a time of larger responsibilities and
for thirty years he has been one of the leading
bankers in this section of the state. He became
president of the Bank of Georgetown at the time
of its organization in 1891, and has also served as
president of several building and loan associations
and president of the Chamber of Commerce and
a director in other business undertakings.
In April, 1891, he was elected mayor of George
town, and served for fifteen consecutive years with
out opposition for nomination or election, except
the last term of two years. While serving as
mayor, he had electric lights installed and a com
plete system of waterworks and sanitary sewerage
built, concrete sidewalks and other municipal im

provements put in without increasing the tax levy.
He, with the aid of Congressman William Elliott of
South Carolina, was prominent in securing appropri
ations for the iraprovement of Georgetown Har
bor and its ocean entrance.
Herman Brown. One of the largest firms doing
business in the south part of the state is Simon
Brown's Sons, general merchants of Blackville.
The constituent and active members of this firm
are Herman Brown and Isadore Brown, brothers,
whose commercial enterprise and civic spirit are
important contributions to the record of a notable
family in the state.
Their father was the late Simon Brown. A native
of Russia, he came to New York in early manhood
and settled at Blackville, South Carolina, in 1859.
A year or so later, when South Carolina seceded,
he willingly volunteered to fight for his adopted
state, and served as a private in Gen. Johnson
Hagood's regiment throughout the war. When the
war was over he returned to the Black Hill com
munity, and for nearly forty years was a leader in
its business affairs, conducting a large general mer
cantile establishment and also accumulating large
blocks of real estate and farm land. He died in
1906. He was a member of the Masonic order.
Simon Brown married Philipena Asher, who was
born in Germany, where they were married. Twelve
of their thirteen children reached mature years, and
the family is now widely scattered over the country-.
Besides the two brothers engaged in business at
Blackville, there are two other sons, Charles Brown
of Barnwell and the late Col. Mile Brown, also of
Barnwell. Col. Mile Brown was a member of
Governor Richardson's staff, and became prominent
in both railroading and the financial world. He
promoted the Sea Board Line, having built and
owned the first railroad leading from Barnwell to
Blackwell, and afterward promoted the road now
owned by the Sea Board leading from Dentrfark to
Savannah. Mr. Herman Brown was born at Blackville, Soutli
Carolina, October 11, 1876, and was liberally edu
cated, attending McCabe's University School at
Petersburg, Virginia, and the great South Carolina
military institution. The Citadel, at Charleston. His
business career covers a period of over a quarter of
a century. At the age of seventeen he was employed
by his father as bookkeeper. In 1904 he and his
brother Isadore succeeded their father and organized
the Simon Brown's Sons. This firm in recent years
has done a business valued at half a million dollars
annually. Their chief store is a general supply
point for all the community around Blackville.
They are also cotton buyers, dealers in horses and
mules, and both jointly and individually are ex
tensively engaged in planting. They own about
3,000 acres in Barnwell and Bamberg counties.
These farms are devoted to diversified agricuhure,
cotton, corn, peanuts, cantaloupes and cucumbers.
-Herman Brown, while he has sought political
and official honors at no time, has been honored
with unremunerative and responsible public trusts.
He is a member of the Public Service Commission,
served as chairraan of all the Liberty Bond drives
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prosecuted his business interests has. been in the
nature of a generous public service. He is a director
of the Bank of Western Carolina, the horae offices
of which are at Aiken, South Carolina, the com
pany operating a chain of ten banks in various towns
in the state. Mr. Brown is a charter member of
the Orangeburg Lodge of Elks, is affiliated with the
Masons, Knights of Pythias and Woodmen of the
World at Blackville. In 1902 he married Miss
Zelma Beerwald, a native of Philadelphia, where
her father, D. Beerwald, was a prominent mer
chant. The two children of their marriage are
Stanley and Jenice Brown.
Isadore Brown, the other member of the firm,
was born December 31, 1872, was educated at An
napolis, Maryland, and The Citadel at Charleston,
and for a niimber of years has been associated with
his brother in business and other interests. He
married Miss Sadie Cohen, of, New York, and their
family consists of two daughters and two sons,
Rosa and Philepina, Sol, and Leon. Isadore Brown
is affiliated with the Elks, Masons, Woodmen of the
World and Knights of Pythias.
Enoch Silvis Caroll Baker. An illustration of
the varied services that can be rendered by an ener
getic and able young lawyer is afforded in the
career of Enoch S. C. Baker of Conway. He has
been engaged in general practice there since January,
1914, and September i, 1915, formed a partnership
with Julian O, Norton, under the firm name of
Norton & Baker. Since June 15, 1918, they have
edited and managed the well known Conway news
paper The Field. Mr. Baker organized in 1914
and is director of the People's Building and Loan
Association and its attorney. During the war he
volunteered his services to the Government, and
while he was never called to railitary duty, per
formed many patriotic services at home, being chair
man of the Legal Advisory Board and captain of
Company D of the First Regiment, South Carolina
Reserve Militia, at Conway. He has also served
about six years in the National Guard of South
Carolina, in various positions from private to cap
tain. He volunteered for the Officers' Training
Camp known as Camp Fremont, California, and was
ready to go, but the camp was given up by the
Government on account of the signing of the
armistice a few days before it was to open) for
training. He served one term in the Legislature,
from 1914 to 1916.
Mr. Baker was born July 25, 1886, in Horry
County, a son of John Grant and Louisa (Allen)
Baker. His father was a Confederate soldier and
spent his life as a planter and farmer. The son
attended public schools in Horry County, and gradu
ated with the Bachelor of Science degree from The
Citadel at Charleston in 1908. For three and a half
years he taught in his home county, for one year
being an instructor in the Burroughs High School
at Conway. In January, 1912, Mr. Baker entered
the law department of the University of South
Carolina, and June 13, 1913, was awarded his Bache
lor of Law degree and admitted to the bar. He
was in practice at Lake City frora June, 1913, to
January, 1914. . ^, , ,
Mr. Baker is a deacon of the Baptist Church and

superintendent of its Sunday school, and is also'
president of the County Sunday School Association.
He is affiliated with the York Rite Masons and the
Shrine, Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows and Woodmen of the World. He is a
member of the Grand Lodge of Masons, being a
district deputy grand master. June 28, 1914, he
raarried Pearle Allen, of Darlington, South Carolina.
Isaac Hamilton Hunt, though .born . at , Fernan-
dina, Florida, was brought back, to South Carolina
when six months old, and has spent all his life in
the. state where his family and ancestors have lived
for generations. He is a son of Walter Herbert
and Susan (McCaughrin) Hunt, his father a
former merchant of Newberry. Isaac H. Hunt
was reared in a cultured home and given liberal
educational advantages, at first in the public
schools, later in Newberry College and finally
at the University of South Carolina. He be
came a student of law under his brother, Wal
ter H. Hunt, and was admitted to the bar
December 14, 1894. The partnership of Hunt
and Hunt continued for several years, and then
became Hunt, Hunt & Hunter, one of the most
widely known and prominent law firms of the state.
Mr. Hunt has also taken an interest in public
affairs, and for two years, 1916-18, served as a mem
ber of the State Board of Conciliation. He is a
member of the board of trustees of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary, located at Louisville,
Kentucky. He was a trustee of the South Carolina
Baptist Hospital at Columbia for several years, is
a deacon in the First Baptist Church at Newberry,
and moderator of the Reedy River Association. He
is a Knight Teraplar Mason and Shriner and a past
grand of the Independent Order of- Odd Fellows.
June 27, 1906, he married Unity Elizabeth Gibson,
of Newberry County, who is a granddaughter of
Joseph Caldwell, one of the signers of South Caro
lina Ordinance of Secession.
John Burness Steele the Georgetown banker
might appropriately claim an active business career
of half a century. He has done his work well, and
'made each year count for increased capability and
eventually he was in business for himself as a
merchant, but for many years past has been best
¦ known as a banker.
Mr. Steele was born in Georgetown March 27,
1851, son of John J. and Sarah Ann (Davies) Steele.
His father was overseer of several extensive rice
plantations. The son had a common school educa
tion and spent his youth in the period of the war
and reconstruction when the state and its busi
ness life presented few opportunities to an. ambi
tious young man. Beginning in 1866 when he was
only fifteen years of age, John B. Steel became
clerk in a general store. With an increasing range
of responsibilities he continued as an employe until
1880, when he established himself in business as a
general merchant at Georgetown. He sold his mer
cantile interests in 1899. Mr. Steele is president
of the Georgetown Grocery Company, one of the
largest wholesale concerns of its kind in the state.
He helped organize the Peoples Bank and has been
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most substantial financial concerns of Georgetown
County. He is also a director and vice president
of the Georgetown Farm Land and Homeseekers
Company, and a director in all the local building
and loan associations. Mr. Steele has also been
able to influence agricultural development of the
state, being the individual owner of 3.200 acres,
much of which has been reclaimed under his owner
ship. He operates 400 acres as a producing plan
tation. Mr. Steele has served as a member of the
City Council of Georgetown.
In 1873 he married Miss Sophia Elizabeth Christie
of Georgetown, daughter of George W. and Har
riet (Pigott) Christie. Her father was an old time
stage and mail contractor and also a merchant. Mrs.
Steele died in December, 1918.
Rev. George Edward Davis. Orangeburg now has
one of the strongest Baptist churches in South
Carolina, and the interests, the working energy, the
membership and the general prosperity of the insti
tution are in a large measure due and credited to
the leadership of the pastor. Rev. George Edward
Davis. Rev, Mr, Davis entered upon his duties at the
First Baptist Church of Orangeburg December 10,
1908, In eleven years he has had the satisfaction
of seeing the membership more than double, until
now 750 are enrolled on the church records. He
has also carried out an important program of mate
rial improvement, remodeling the church edifice and
enlarging it, and also providing for separate Sunday
school quarters, all at a cost of about $30,000.
Rev. Mr. Davis was born at Baltimore, and has
been in the ministry for seventeen years. He at
tended public school at Baltimore, was a student
in the Hall Institute at Sharon, Pennsylvania, and
took his theological course in Crozer Seminary at
Chester, Pennsylvania. He graduated June 3, 1903,
and was ordained the same month at the First
Baptist Church of Baltimore, Before coming to
Orangeburg he was pastor at Alderson, West Vir
ginia, and also at Clifton Forge, Virginia, and in
those places as at Orangeburg he distinguished him
self by the ardor and sincerity of his preaching,
and from many sources the opinion has been ex
pressed that he is one of the ablest pulpit orators
in the state.
September 10, 1894, at Pittsburg, Rev. Mr. Davis
married Miss Katherine Test, of Sharon, Pennsyl
vania, who has been closely associated with and an
able assistant to her husband in all his labors.
James Judson Magness was for many years a
prominent planter and merchant in upper South
Carolina, and raerabers of his family are araong the
well known people of Spartanburg County.
He was born in Cleveland County, North Caro
lina, April 9, 1839. His father, Joseph, was born
in the sarae state, and his grandfather and four
brothers were Revolutionary soldiers, all taking part
in the battle of Cowpens, where one of them gave
up his life. James Judson Magness w;as reared and
educated near Shelby, North Carolina, and spent
four years in the Confederate army as captain of a
North Carolina company. Several times bullets
passed through his hat and clothing, but he was

never wounded. After the war he came to South
Carolina, locating at Grassy Pond, where he began
his career as clerk in a store. Later he bought the
store and acquired about a thousand acres of land,
and was extensively engaged in planting and mer
chandising until his death in 1909. He was a very
active member of the Methodist church, gave the
site for that denomination at Grassy Pond and also
land to the Baptist church in the same place.
March 26, 1868, he married Evelina Sarratt, who
was born in Spartanburg District, December 19, 1841,
second among the five children of Gilbert and Lu
cretia (Irvine) Sarratt. Her father was a promi
nent slave holder and planter in Spartanburg County
before the war, and Mrs. Magness was reared with
every comfort and acquired a very liberal education.
She attended school at Shelby, North Carolina, and
also Limestone College. During the war, she did
what she could to supply educational advantages to
the children of her community as a teacher. Mrs.
Magness is now living at Spartanburg and is the
mother of eight children : Hettie, wife of C. B.
Sloan ; Joseph G., who died at the age of five years ;
Sarah Pacolet, wife of E. D. Byers ; David Anthony,
deceased; William Tillman, deceased; Katherine,
wife of W. J. Woodruff, of Spartanburg; James
Judson, deceased, and Irvine B., of Spartanburg.
Alexander Samuel Salley, Jr. To his work as
secretary of the Historical Commission of South
Carolina Mr. Salley has brought insight, a critical
judgment and the patience of a true historian, and
for that reason his fifteen years of consecutive
service have been featured by a broad constructive
program far beyond the nominal scope of his routine
duties. Mr. Salley was born in Orangeburg County June
16, 1871, and his ancestry have been in the state
for 18s years. Henry Salley settled in the Province
of South Carolina in 1735. A son of this pioneer
was John Salley, who commanded a company of
South Carolina troops in the Revolution. A son
of the Revolutionary captain was George Elmore
Salley (1788-1828), a captain of cavalry in the war
of 1812, and sometime a representative and senator
in the General Assembly pf South Carolina. His
son, grandfather of Alexander Samuel Salley,
Jr., was Dr. Alexander Samuel Salley, born in 1818
and died in 1895, He was a surgeon in the Con
federate army, and soraetirae a member of the
House of Representatives of South Carolina, Alex
ander McQueen Salley was born in August, 1847,
and with his wife is still living in Orangeburg
County, He has spent his active career as a planter
and banker and served as sheriff of his county from
1880 to 1892, and again from 1908 to 1916. In 18^
he married Sallie A, McMichael, who was born in
1849. Alexander Samuel Salley, Jr,, was educated in the
South Carolina Military Academy, now known as
The Citadel, the military college of South Carolina,
graduating in 1892 without degrees. He was ad
mitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of
South Carolina in 1899, and prior thereto and for
some time afterward was clerk in a law office. His
deepest enthusiasm from childhood has been history.
It was his favorite subject in school and while

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studymg law and doing clerical work in law offices.
He began making investigations among local records
and collected printed material on South Carolina,
and this work carried on now for a quarter of a
centtiry, makes his collection one of the largest single
repositories of South Carolina history, his collection
of the writings of William Gilmore Simms being
undoubtedly the largest in existence. Mr. Salley
was elected secretary of the South Carolina His
torical Society in October, 1899, and allowed no
other important interest to intrude upon his his
torical labors. From that position he was elected
secretary of the Historical Commission of the state,
which position he has held since April i, 1905. He
is author or compiler of between forty and fifty
volumes and pamphlets on various phases of the
history of South Carolina and has contributed many
newspaper and magazine articles on historical
subjects. Mr. Salley is a member of the St. Cecilia Society
in Charleston, South Carolina Historical Society, the
Audubon Society of South Carolina, the American
Antiquarian Society of Worcester, Massachusetts,
and, as indicating some of his diversions, he belongs
to two dancing clubs in Columbia and a hunting
club of Orangeburg. He is a democrat in politics.
Just after he graduated from college in 1892, Mr.
Salley received an appointment in the Corps of En
gineers of the World's Fair at Chicago. He served
only a few days, not being physically fit for the work
at the time, and resigning retumed home.
At Atlanta, Georgia, July 11, 1918, Mr. Sally mar
ried Harriet Gresham Milledge, member of a very
distinguished Georgia family. She is a great-grand
daughter of John Milledge, one of the early gov
ernors of Georgia and also a United States senator
from that state. The father of Governor Milledge
was an officer in early Georgia under Oglethorpe.
Mrs. Salley is a daughter of Richard Habershara
and Rosa (Gresham) Milledge. Her father's mother
was Catherine Elliott Habersham, a daughter of
Richard Wylly and Sarah Hazard (Elliott) Haber
sham, the latter of Beaufort, South Carolina.
Richard W. Habersham was at one time a member
of Congress from Georgia and a grandson of James
Habersham, the last Royal Lieutenant Governor of
the Province of Georgia.
Henry David Still. "Big business" in South
Carolina is best represented by the fruits of the
fields, and without any disparagement of the grow
ing investment of capital in cotton mills and other
industries, the big business men of the state are
the planters and farmers. For several generations
one of the families most closely and prominently
identified with the planting activities around Black
ville and the southern part of the state is that of
Still. One of the younger men of the faraily is Hal,
or Henry David Still, who spends much of his
time supervising the cultivation of hundreds of acres
in Barnwell County.
This family originated in France, where the name
was spelled Stelle. When the great-grandfather
came to this country and acquired American citizen
ship, the name of the South Carolina branch became
Still, though there is another branch of the family
living in Arkansas who spell their name Stell.

The grandfather of Henry David Still was Samuel
Hutchins Still, who was born in 1812. Though
nearly fifty years of age, he enlisted in the Con
federate army, and received wounds in that struggle
from the result of which he died in 1872. Some of
the land he bought and operated still comprises a
part of the Still estate around Blackville.
A very prominent member of the family was the
late Henry David Still, Sr., whose life was one of
commendable industry and productive effort. He
was born at. Blackville February 13, 1851, and in the
high tide of his career had about 5,000 acres under
his direct management, growing immense crops of
cotton, grain and truck. A man of practical affairs,
he also took a keen interest in politics, though he
was never known to directly seek any political office.
However, he did serve as councilman at Blackville
several times, and in other positions that involved
much work on his part without corresponding re
muneration. At the time of his death he was a
merchant at Blackville.
Henry David Still, Sr., married Marian Bowman.
She was bom at Orangeburg and is now living at
Blackville. The Bowman family is of Revolutionary
stock and English descent. Mrs. Still's grandmother
was a Miss Koger, daughter of Capt. Joseph Koger,
who played a gallant part as a Revolutionary soldier.
The Blackville Chapter of the Daughters of the
Araerican Revolution is known as the Joseph Koger
Chapter. Reddick Asbury Bowman, father of
Alarian Bowman, was reared in a community of
Orangeburg County where now stands the town
of Bowraan, named in his honor after his death.
This land was originally a Crown grant to the
Bowman ancestors.
Henry David Still, Jr., was born in Blackville,
January 25, 1882. He acquired a thorough educa
tion, attending the graded schools at Blackville and
graduating from the Military College of South
Carolina at Charleston in 1901. He was associated
with his father in the store and on the plantation,
and since his father's death has concentrated most
of his time on his farming interests. About fifteen
hundred acres in Barnwell County are managed by
him. He is also in the real estate business at
Blackwell, and has other property interests in and
around that town and in Orangeburg County.
Mr. Still is a man of extensive influence in his
county and other sections of the state, has been
interested in politics, though like his father has
sought no political preferment. He has served as
councilman at Blackville and also as school trustee
and has given much of his time to the duties of the
latter office for twelve years. He became a Mason
at the age of twenty-one, is affiliated with the Royal
Arch Chapter and is a member of the Knights of
Pythias. A Baptist, Mr. Still is chairman of the
Building Commission of the church at Blackville,
now arranging for the erection of a church edifice
to cost $75,000.
At Blackville, June 22, 1904, Mr. Still married
Miss Margaret Eugenia Hair. Her father is Mr. J.
E. Hair, mentioned elsewhere in this publication. Six
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Still, Margaret
Eugenia, Henry David, Jr., Marion Bowman, Martha
^Murray, Judson Pinkney and Joseph Koger Still.
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Robert' H. Jennings, whose career has been asso
ciated in increasing prorainence with the business
life of Orangeburg for a quarter of a century, is
still active in business, public affairs and fraternal
circles. On both sides he is of Revolutionary and
Colonial stock, and the patriotic record of the fam
ily has gained another distinction recently through
the service of his only son in the World war.
Mr. Jennings was born in Sumter County, South
Carolina, July 19, 1869. His father, James Jennings,
was of Scotch-Irish descent and also- a native of
Sumter County. The Jennings faraily carae to
America in the seventeenth century, and the great
grandfather of Robert H. rnoved frora Virginia to
South Carolina in Colonial times. James Jennings
married Teresa M. Yates, a native of Sumter County
and also of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Two of her
brothers were Confederate soldiers, and one. Doctor
Yates, was shot through the thigh and permanently
crippled. Beginning life with a public and high school edu
cation in his native county, Robert H. Jennings
became a bookkeeper in Sumter City, but in 1894
moved to Orangeburg. He was a merchandise
broker and in November, 1898, formed a co
partnership, Jennings & Smoak. In 1910 the
Orangeburg Fertilizer Company was established with
P. M. Sraoak as president and Mr. Jennings, vice
president and secretary. Mr. Jennings is also presi
dent of the Orangeburg Ice and Fuel Company.
For eight years he served as president of the
Chamber of Comraerce, for three times was a mem
ber of the city council and is now a member of the
City Iraproveraent Coraraission. He has a number
of interests in Orangeburg County besides those
briefly noted above.
Fraternally Mr. Jennings is a past raaster of Shib
boleth Lodge No. 28, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, is a York and Scottish Rite Mason, and
for fifteen years has been affiliated with the Mystic
Shrine. He is also past exalted ruler of Orange
burg Lodge No. 897 of the Elks, and is a raeraber
of the Knights of Pythias.
Noveraber 12, 1895, at Surater, he raarried Tavie
H. Moses, a native of that city. Her father. Perry
Moses, was a Sumter manufacturer, and was one
of five brothers who were Confederate soldiers.
Perry Moses served as lieutenant in the corapany
of which his brother Joshua was captain, and
Joshua lost his life in the war. Mrs. Jennings is
also of Revolutionary and Colonial stock.
The only son, Robert H. Jennings, Jr., early
responded to the patriotic call in the World war,
and was commissioned first lieutenant in the Ma
chine Gun Company of the 323rd Regiment. He
went overseas as a member of the Eighty-first Divi
sion, and spent several months on the battle lines
in France. He is now secretary and manager of
the Orangeburg Ice and Fuel Company.
John Leslie Stokes, who is a graduate in medi
cine and dental surgery, has for raany years been
one of the distinguished men in the latter profes
sion- in the South, and for the past two decades has
made his horae at Orangeburg.
Doctor Stokes was born on the old horaestead

"Rural Retreat" in Barnwell County, January 6,
i860. His father, Jefferson Stokes, was born iri
Colleton County, this state, 1829, gave the greater
part of his active life to farming and planting, and
for four years was a gallant and dutiful Confederate
soldier. He was many times wounded and went
to his grave with a withered hand. His death
occurred in 1910. The raother was Mary Elizabeth
(Tatum) Stokes, a native of Orangeburg County,
who died many years ago. The Tatums were an
old South Carolina faraily of Revolutionary stock.
Her father was a Methodist minister, and her broth
er, John S. C. Tatum, also served four years in the
war between the states.
John Leslie Stokes reached the years of his raa
jority with both a literary education and profes
sional training. After attending the schools of
Barnwell County he took up the study of dentistry
in 1879 under Dr. R. Atmar Smith of Charleston.
He remained with his preceptor until 1882 and also
took the regular course of the Charleston Medical
College. From 1882 until 1885 Doctor Stokes prac
ticed dentistry in accordance with the custom of
dentists of that period, as an itinerant, having a
series of towns and communities which he attended
in a professional capacity. In 1885 he entered the
dental departraent of Vanderbilt University, and
graduated with first honors in operative dentistry.
The medal awarded him as a token of his student
proficiency he still preserves. In 1892 Doctor Stokes
returned to Vanderbilt as demonstrator and chief
in the dental school. While there he completed
his medical education and was awarded his M. D.
diploma. Doctor Stokes practiced in Georgia from 1883 to
1897, and located at Orangeburg in 1900. Soon
afterward he employed successfully cocaine as a
local anaesthetic in the extraction of teeth, and he
has never been able to learn of a dentist in the
state who made use of that method at an earlier
time. The name of his patient was Dr. J. R. Stokes,
a dentist of Rock Hill, South Carolina.
Doctor Stokes immediately became associated with
the South Carolina Dental Association in 1900, and
received a state license from that body. He has
been prorainent in the South Carolina Dental Asso
ciation, serving as first vice president and as presi
dent in 1913, and presided over the convention of
the State Association at the Isle of Pines. He is
also a member of the Edisto District Dental So
ciety and is affiliated wtih the Knights of Pythias.
Doctor Stokes was first married at Madison,
Georgia, in 1886. His three children by that union
are John Tatum, Lawrence I. and Annie Fannin
Stokes. The sons are both ex-service men, and
are now associated in the hardware business at
Petersburg, Virginia. John joined the array at
Carap Wheeler, Macon, Georgia, and soon after
ward was sent overseas with the rank of second
lieutenant and served with the expeditionary forces
thirteen months. Lawrence was with the navy for
the same length of tirae.
In 1909 Doctor Stokes married Mrs. Aitken Kelly,
a native of South Carolina and meraber of an old
family of the state. They have one child, Mary
Elizabeth Clifton Stokes.

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Dr. Laurens H. Irby is a graduate in medicine,
and for many years practiced his profession in
Spartanburg County, though he isi now retired and
giving his time to his farming and banking interests.
Doctor Irby was born in Laurens County in
1865. The family name is one of the oldest and
most honored in that section of South Carolina,
vvhere it was established by a family of Revolu
tionary stock. One of the Irbys was a lieutenant
governor of South Carolina before the war and
others were prominent in professional political and
business affairs.
The old Irby plantation where Doctor Irby was
born is seven miles west of Laurens. His father
Capt. George M. Irby, now deceased, was captain
of a company in the Confederate array. In 1870
he removed with his faraily to Spartanburg County
and settled in the southern portion two miles from
Enoree and six miles south of Woodruff, where
he gave his time to planting.
Doctor Irby as a boy attended school at Wood
ruff and graduated from the University of Tennessee
at Nashville in the medical course in 1894. Then
for over fifteen years he practiced his profession
at Woodruff, but since 191 1 has given no time to
his professional work and is giving his attention
to business and agriculture. Doctor Irby owns a
fine plantation where his father lived for so many
years near Enoree. This plantation grows a large
amount of cotton produced in Spartanburg County.
Doctor Irby is also a director of the Farmers and
Merchants Bank of Woodruff and of the W. S.
Gray cotton mills. He is a prominent citizen of
Woodruff and for three terms held the office of
lyor. ictor Irby first married Miss Lillie Druramond
w. 'ied and left four children: Jaraes D., Annie
J..OU, lo orge S. and Rosa. Annie Lou is the wife
•o ' '^ Willis of Atlanta, and Rosa is the wife
of 1 ivugore of Woodruff, a son of S. M. Kilgore.
Doctor Irby married for his second wife Miss
Annie White of Charlotte County, Virginia. They
have one daughter, Virginia,
Milton O. Alexander could not hold the position
of superintendent of the "largest cotton mill under
one roof in America" without possessing sorae un
usual qualifications and exceptional experience which
make his career of special interest to the history
of South Carolina.
He was born in the Rocky River coraraunity of
Cabarrus County, North Carolina, and is still a cora
paratively young man, in his forties. His mother,
Martha (McClellan) Alexander is novv deceased.
His father L. H. Alexander is still living in Cabarrus
County. This is one branch of the large and prom
inent Alexander family of Mecklenburg and Cabar
rus counties. North Carolina, who for generations
have been among the most prominent leaders of
that section. The Alexanders were soldiers and pa
triots in the Revolutionary war, and seven different
members of the family were signers of the famous
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, L. H,
Alexander served the Confederacy throughout the
war in Company A of the Twenty-first North
Carolina Regiment.
Milton O. Alexander grew up on his father's farm.
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and finished his education in the Rocky River Acad
emy, a school founded by the early Scotch Presby
terian settlers of Mecklenburg and Cabarrus coun
ties, and raade famous because so many famous men
gratefully acknowledged it as a source of their early
training and inspiration.
Mr. Alexander was still a boy when he acquired
his first technical experience in cotton raills. He
was an operative in the mill of the Odell Manufac
turing Company at Concord, North Carolina, later
worked in the Union Cotton Mills at Lafayette,
Georgia, and from there came to the Union Cotton
Mills of Union, South Carolina, since which date
he has been a permanent citizen of this state. From
Union he went to Seneca and from there came to
Greenville in 1902 to assume the heavy responsibili
ties of superintendent of the Woodside Mill, Wood-
side Mill deserves in every particular the fame
attaching to it as the largest cotton raill under one
roof in America. The plant has 112,000 spindles in
operation. The manufactured products are wide
print cloths, twills and cords. In equipment, in the
quality of goods produced, in the high class sur
roundings and in the educational and welfare work
conducted for the employes, this is truly one of the
model raills of the country.
Practical cotton raanufacturers regard Mr. Alex
ander as a raill superintendent and textile raanu
facturer of the first rank. He is a member of the
Southern Textile Association and is a deacon in the
Second Presbyterian Church of Greenville. Mr.
Alexander raarried Miss May Park of Lafayette,
Georgia. To their marriage were born three chil
dren, naraed Ralph and Ruby, twins, and Eloise.
George Furman Norris. The interest attaching
to the career of George Furman Norris as a South
Carolina citizen is due to his activity and prorai
nence in the cotton industry. He is a raeraber of a
widely known faraily who for raany years have
conducted one of the largest cotton mills in Pickens
County. Mr. Norris himself was born in Orangeburg
County, South Carolina, in 1883, a son of G. M. and
Harriett Henrietta (Connor) Norris. His father is
still living at Orangeburg, and is proprietor of a
large plantation in lower Carolina. But in addition
to his planting and other business interests he has
for many years past been associated with cotton
manufacturing. With his brother the late Col. D. K,
Norris of Pendleton, he organized and built the
Norris Cotton Mills at Cateechee in Pickens County
in 1895, This is a very successful textile property,
and has been continuously under the ownership and
raanageraent of the Norris family. Col. D. K. Norris
also made a name in public affairs, and for many
years was president of the Pendleton Agricultural
Society. George Furraan Norris graduated from Clerason
College in 1903, and took an active part in the man
agement of the Norris Cotton Mill at Cateechee in
1905. He has since been associated with his brother
T, M. Norris in that industry. T. M. Norris is
president and treasurer while George Furman Nor
ris is secretary and assistant treasurer of the Norris
Cotton Mills Company. This company is capitalized
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spindles. The plant produces a large amount of
cotton products, known technically to the trade as
convertibles. Mr. Norris is a member of the various cotton
manufacturers associations, and is lending his time
and co-operation heartily to the remarkable coramer
cial and industrial development in Greenville and
upper South Carolina. For four years he was
chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee
of Pickens County.
Until 1918 he lived at Cateechee and in July of
that year moved his faraily to his beautiful new
home on Jaraes Street near Rutherford Street in
Greenville. The Norris family have always en
joyed home life in the ideal sense of the word, and
they now have an environment in one of the most
handsorae and costly residences in the City of Green
ville. Mr. Norris married Miss Lottie Ridgell of
Batesburg, South Carolina, daughter of Dr. E. C.
Ridgell. Their home circle now contains three chil
dren, Marion, George Furman, Jr., and Edgar. The
family are members of the First Baptist Church. Mr.
Norris is a member of the board of deacons and
chairman of the finance coraraittee. He is a raember
of the Masonic order and belongs to Living Arch
Chapter, No. 21, Royal Arch Masons of Clemson
College, South Carolina. He is also a member of
Kiwanis Club of Greenville, Poinsett Club, San
Souci Country Club and of the Charaber of Com
merce. May, 1919, Mr. Norris organized with others the
Keowee Mills Company of Greenville, South Caro
lina. The corapany are large handlers of cotton
goods. Ralph Traywick Wilson is superintendent of
education for Laurens County. He was born on a
farm in that county November 13, 1891. While
quite young for the responsibilities he enjoys he is
regarded as one of the most capable schoolmen in
this section of the state.
He is a son of Williara and Payne (Wallace) Wil
son, both of whom were born and reared in Laurens
County. His father was of Scotch ancestry, his fore
fathers coming frora Virginia to South Carolina.
William Wilson was a Confederate soldier, but spent
his active career as a farmer and died in 189S at the
age of fifty-six. The mother also of Scotch lineage
is still living at the age of sixty-two. She was the
mother of seven sons, Ralph T. being the youngest.
Superintendent Wilson grew up on a farm, attend
ed public schools, and prepared for college at the
Wofford Fitting School, He is a graduate of Wof
ford College with the class of 1912, and has since
taken special work in the University of South Caro
lina. His record as a teacher in the common schools
opened for him a larger career in educational af
fairs. For five years he was princip;il of the Gray
Court-Owings schools and in 1919 was elected county
superintendent. Mr. Wilson married Miss Clara Woods in 1916.
They are iriembers of the Methodist Church and he
is affiliated with the Masonic Order and the Wood
men of the World.
Williams Brooks Patton, M. D. For more than
forty years Doctor Patton has lived at Cross Anchor

in Spartanburg County, and for thirty years has
been a busy physician in that community. In many
respects Doctor Patton exemplifies that fine all
around character and influence so often attributed
to the old time country doctor. He has never
regarded his duty fulfilled to his fellow men and
community through his profession alone but has
actively befriended every movement that would
improve and broaden the welfare of his locality,
county and state.
Doctor Patton was born in Tylersville Township,
Laurens County, in 1868, a son of M. P. and
Sallie (Gore) Patton, also natives of Laurens Coun
ty. The family removed to Cross Anchor in Spar
tanburg County in 1876. Doct(->r Patton acquired a
good coramon school education, and took his medical
course in the University of Georgia at Augusta,
graduating in 1889. He then returned to his home
town and has served his people there for thirty
years. He is a raan of splendid ability in his'
profession and stands high in the county and state
raedical societies and is also a member of the
American Medical Association.
During the World war he was chairman and
examining physician of Local Draft Board No. 2
under the selective service law. The jurisdiction
of this board was the southern section of Spartan
burg County. Doctor Patton had a high sense of
his responsibility in this position and he gave so
much of his time and thought to the work that he
might properly claim some of that high praise
that has been accorded the adrainistration of the
selective draft law in general throughout the nation.
He was also active in Red Cross and other war
auxiliary movements.
Doctor Patton is a raember of the Board of
Trustees of the State Deaf and Dumb Schools at
Cedar Springs. In April, 1919, he was elected
president of the Association of Township School
Trustees of Spartanburg County.
The one great interest that has dominated Doctor
Patton outside his professional work for many years
has been the subject of rural education. He has
kept in touch with the advanced ideas in rural
schools but has not been satisfied merely with
the possession of knowledge but at every opportunity
has sought to make his influence count in behalf
of the schools of his immediate neighborhood. For
a number of years he has served as chairman of
the Board of Trustees of Cross Anchor School
District No. 15. In that district his work has been
exemplified until the school district ranks among
the very first in the entire state. The Cross Anchor
schools were organized under his leadership in
1907. This school ranks now as one of the best
secondary schools in the state. It has been Doctor
Patton's aim to make it a model rural school, of
direct benefit to the community it serves and further
more an example and inspiration to other similar
communities in the state. To support the school
a tax is levied of sixteen mills. This is the highest
rate in the state, and being in excess of the maxi
mum prescribed by the present law a special act
of the General Assembly was necessary to validate
it. The Cross Anchor schools have ten grades, a
superintendent and four assistants, and the build
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spacious auditorium on the second floor. It is
Doctor Patton's cherished desire to see this school
not only the educational but the civic and social
service for the town and surrounding country. All
who have had any part in educational work would
appreciate the many obstacles which Doctor Patton
has had to overcome in realizing his . ambitions for
the Cross Anchor schools. The best citizens in
that community are now unanimous in saying that
Doctor Patton has been the chief outstanding in
fluence in behalf of local education and other im
provements. No doubt Doctor Patton would recognize one
source of inspiration for his plans in behalf of
local schools in his own faraily of children. He
and his wife, whose raaiden name was Mary Lela
Melton, have five children, Wendell Melton, Lillian
Agnes, Newell Preston, Marie Wallace and Dorothy.
Mrs. Patton was born in Union County, a daughter
of the late Rev. N. K. Melton. Her father was
an active minister of the Methodist Conference of
South Carolina for nearly half a century.
Robert Wallace Shand was born at Columbia
February 27, 1840, a son of Rev. Peter John and
Mary (Wright) Shand. The Shand family in
Araerica was founded by Robert Shand frora Scot
land, who settled in South Carolina in the last de
cade of the eighteenth century. On the maternal side
Robert W. Shand has among his ancestors five colo
nial governors, four of them of South Carolina and
one the last royal governor of Georgia. Another
maternal ancestor was Chief Justice Robert Wright.
Robert W. Shand received his primary education
at home, directed both by his scholarly father and
his cultured mother. He. attended the Columbia
Male Academy and in December, 1859, graduated
A. B. from South Carolina College. He studied law
under Gen. Maxey Gregg and was adraitted to the
bar early in 1861. In April of the sarae year he
enlisted in the Confederate army, serving as a pri
vate and non-commissioned officer in Company C
of the Second Volunteers, and after February, 1863,
was a lieutenant on bureau duty until the close of
the war.
In January, 1866, he began the practice of law
at Columbia, but during the sarae year reraoved to
Union, where he had his home until 1883. In 1878
he was elected a member of the Legislature in Union
County, and resigned in September of the follow
ing year to accept the duties of official reporter for
the Supreme Court of South Carolina. He held that
office until 1895 and through it probably conferred
his chief service upon his horae state. He is au
thor of "Shands Manual," a standard law work pub
lished in 1882. In 1905 the State Bar Association
honored him with the office of president. April 15,
'863, Robert W. Shand raarried Miss Louisa Coffin
Edwards, daughter of Dr. Philip G. and Anna M.
(Coffin) Edwards of Charleston. Mr. Shand died
in Columbia, September 4, 1915.
WnxiAM Munro Shand, who took up the profes
sion of law following the footsteps of his honored
father Robert W. Shand, has found his time and
talents engaged in a varied list of business affa:irs,
and is how an officer in several of the leading en

terprises, of Columbia. He was born in Union, South
Carolina, December 13, 1881, and was about two years
old when his father returned to Colurabia. He re
ceived a public school education, and afterwards en
tered the University of South Carolina, where he
graduated in the literary course in 1901 and from
the law department in 1903. He then engaged in a
general civil practice, but more and more has spe
cialized in the real estate law and has become ex
tensively indentified with real estate business.
Mr. Shand is secretary and treasurer of the. Co
lumbia Land and Investment Company, is president
of the Shand Builders Supply Company, and is at-.
torney for two building and loan assocations. He
is a director of the National State Bank of Colum
bia and of the Homestead Bank. Mr. Shand is a
raember and vestryman of Trinity Episcopal Church.
April 25, 1905, he married Selina Strieker Coles
of Jacksonville, Florida, They have four children :
Helen Coles, William Munro Jr., Louisa loor and
Mary Wright.
Capt. J. B. Humbert. The agricultural and social
community of Princeton in Laurens County has no
finer figure than the veteran Captain Humbert, an
ex-Confederate soldier, a planter, former legislator
and in many ways his record is interwoven with that
of his community.
He was born in Tennessee in 1837, son of Rev.
John G, and Mary Elizabeth (Guinn) Humbert.
Though a native of Tennessee he is of an old South
Carolina family. His father was born at Beaufort,
this state, of French Huguenot ancestry, descended
from Peter Humbert, a Frenchman who sailed from
Genoa to South Carolina in 1734 and settled on a
grant of land in Beaufort, obtained from King
George. Rev. John G. Humbert was a Methodist
rainister and in the early '30s moved to Tennessee.
but in 1840 returned to South Carolina and settled
on land now occupied by Captain Humbert in Sulli
van Township in the extreme western part of Lau
rens County.
Captain Humbert, being the son of a well-to-do
planter and minister, received a good preparatory
education at home and in schools. He was graduated
in i860 from Wofford College at Spartanburg. Cap
tain Humbert is one of the last survivors of the
Confederate soldiers who went through the entire
war. He enlisted at Orangeburg, where he was then
teaching school, early in 1861. His first service was
as lieutenant of Company I, Second South Carolina
Artillery. He was on duty with this comraand at
Fort Johnson on the South Carolina coast during
the seige of Fort Sumter. After the victory of the
Confederate troops at the battle of Secessionville,
in 1862, in which the Second Artillery was engaged.
and in which Captain Humbert was among those
fighting, by special commendation by the command
ing officer, he was promoted to captain of his com
pany, and commanded it throughout the remainder
of the period of hostilities. All of his service was
with the artillery in his horae state and North Caro
lina, until the close of the war.
Captain Hurabert following the war engaged in the
lumber business for two years at Orangeburg. An
other two yeai-s he traveled over much of the western
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ritory. In 1869 he established his home at his
father's locality in Sullivan Township of Laurens
County. This home is two railes from the Town
of Princeton. For half a century he has been one
of the successful and leading farmers in that re
gion. Captain Hunibert is now eighty-two years of age,
but he enjoys to a remarkable degree what has been
described as "green old age" and in spirit is remark
ably youthful. Captain Humbert was representati-ve
of Laurens County in the famous Wallace House in
1876, when the Legislature for the first time after
the war was dominated by white raen and could
pursue its work unharapered by the reconstruction
regime. On three subsequent occasions Captain
Humbert was honored by his fellow citizens by elec
tion to the Lower House. For half a century Cap
tain Humbert has been a faithful and devoted su
perintendent of the Sunday school of Mount Bethel
Methodist Church. Many gray headed men and
women were at one time children in the Sunday
school presided over by him, and many who have
gone out from the community recall with grateful
memory his kindly leadership in that capacity.
In 1864 Captain Humbert married Miss M. Emraa
Poosen, daughter of Maj. George H. Poosen of
Orangeburg. She graduated with honor at the
Spartanburg Feraale College in i860 and has been a
faithful and efficient wife. The four living children
are: Henry Boscom Hurabert, who graduated at
Erskine College and for sixteen years was an effi
cient supervisor of Laurens County, and is now en
gaged with the State Highway Coraraission. John
Benson Hurabert, their second son, graduated at
Wofford College in 1895. He is a successful millman
and is now secretary and treasurer of the Orr Cot
ton Mill, South Carolina, Their two daughters, Emma
Lou Humbert and Mary Theresa Hurabert, gradu
ated with distinction at Winthrop College and are
both raarried and doing well their husbands being
Frank Nash and Allen J, Sullivan.
William T. Brockman. After getting a thorough
education and being equipped both by training and
by natural talents for his chosen career. Doctor
Brockrnan began practice at Greer and in ten years
has built up a large business, and is one of the
active, progressive, public spirited citizens of that
fortunate little city of Upper Carolina.
Doctor Brockraan was born at Reidville in Spar
tanburg County, South Carolina, October 11, 188 1,
son of J. Hiram and Frances (Hoy) Brockman.
The Brockraans are an old and distinguished family
of Upper South Carolina. Williaira T. Brockraan,
grandfather of Doctor Brockraan, was a first cousin
of T. P. Brockman, one of the prominent characters
m the early history of the state. Other .members
of the same family were Col. Ben T. Brockman and
Capt. Jesse K. Brockman, both of whom were dis
tinguished as officers in the Confederate army.
Again and again the history of Spartanburg County
in different epochs has to speak of the influence
and iraportance of this- family. J. Hiram Brock
man was a native of Spartanburg County and mar
ried Frances Hoy, daughter of Maj. William Hoy
of the same county. Her mother was a member
of the prominent Dean family of, the same county.

Doctor Brockman received his early education
in the Acaderay at Reidville, in Furman University
at Greenville, and studied medicine in the South
Carolina College of Medicine at Charleston. He
was graduated with the class of 1909, and at once
began practice at Greer, the rich and rapidly growing
little city located about half way between Green
ville and Spartanburg. In 191 1 he took post-graduate
work in the New York Polyclinic, and while pursu
ing a general course paid particular attention to
diseases of children. He is a member of the
County, State, Southern and American Medical
associations. Doctor Brockman raarried Miss Bernice Wood,
daughter of Mr. J. Terry Wood, a merchant at
Greer. They have a son William Thomas Brock
raan, Jr., living and a daughter Mary Leonard,
deceased. Robert Andrew Sullivan". The growth of intelli
gence and sound optimism has advanced agriculture
to a combination of science and vocation, the pro
found possibilities of which can only be mastered
after years of continuous effort and study. Man,
whose faith is pinned to the soil and whose delight
and reward it is to use its stored fertility for the
most enlig-htened needs of civilization, has brought
it to a stage of usefulness unequalled in any other
walk of life. To such must come the greatest
material satisfaction also, as witnessed in all pros
perous farming communities, of which Anderson
County is one of the best examples. Since the
earliest history of this part of the state certain
farailies have been connected with its continuous
advancement, lending color and enthusiasm and
splendid purpose to its. unfolding prosperity. Of
these none are better or more favorably known than
that of which Robert Andrew Sullivan represents
the present working generation in Fork Township.
Mr. Sullivan was born in Anderson County, Mardi
II, i8S5, a son of John S. and Malinda (Parker)
Sullivan. His father was born in Greenville County,
South Carolina, in 1814, and died in Anderson
County, in 1886, and his raother was born in the
latter county, where she now resides, a venerable
figure, in her ninetieth year. She is a daughter
of Robert and Polly (Gambrell) Parker, and a
granddaughter of John Parker, a native of Ireland
and a Revolutionary soldier in the Colonial army,
who settled in Anderson County after the close
of that struggle and lies' buried in Ebenezer Ceme
tery. John S. Sullivan was a Confederate soldier
during the war between the states, and in the Florida
war fis well, and passed his life in agricultural
pursuits. His first wife, a Miss Bell, bore him
eight children, while he and Malinda (Parker)
Sullivan, were the parents of only one child. They
were faithful members of the Baptist Church.
Robert Andrew Sullivan was given his educa
tional training in the public schools of Anderson
County, and was reared on the home farm, having
been a resident of Fork Township since he reached
the age of eighteen years. He has always devoted
himself to the pursuits of the soil, and at the
present time is the owner of a mag^nificent property
of 520 acres of cultivated land, on which he has
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extensive character. He has excellent facilities for
handling his enormous stock and produce interests,
and in his management supports the most improved
methods known to scientific agriculturists of the
present time. Aside from any intrinsic value, his
home surroundings evidence a more than ordinarily
exacting nature, tastes that are only content with
the best that a country life has to offer, and large
requirements in the way of rnind improvement
and diversion. To bear upon his work he brings
not only a thorough knowledge of whatever has
already been discovered and tested, but an earnest
desire to improve upon the kind and extent of his
own operations.
Mr. Sullivan was married in 1877 to Mary Frances
Chamhlee, daughter of John and Lucinda C. (Dob
bins) Ohamblee and a granddaughter of James and
Nancy (Watson) Chamhlee. Mr. and Mrs. Sul
livan have eleven children, as follows : Luther P.,
John W., Essie M., Arthur C, Hattie, Mallie,
Elbert N., Leila, Claudia, Lucile and Ruth. The
family belongs to the Baptist Church. Mr. Sullivan
has been a democrat since the days of ^1876, when
he took an active part in the so-called "Red Shirt"
campaign. Thomas F. McAfee, a meraber of the State
Board of Embalming Examiners, is active head of
a business at Greenville which admits of no quali
fication as being one of the best undertaking organ
izations in the state.
Mr. McAfee was born in White Coutity Georgia,
in 1888, a son of C. M. and Lucinda (Stringer)
McAfee. When he was a child his parents removed
to Gainesville, Georgia, where he acquired his edu
cation in the public schools. In 1901 when only
thirteen years old he had his first experience with
an undertaking house at Gainesville and later at
Atlanta had the good fortune to secure a position
with the firm of H. M. Patterson & Son, He made
a close study of every phase of the undertaking
business and the science of embalming under Mr.
Patterson, long regarded as one of the foremost
men of his profession in the South.
Mr McAfee came to Greenville in 1914 and took
over the Greenville Undertaking Company. Through
neglect and bad management there was nothing left
of this comnany of importance in either good will
or assets. Later in partnership with Mr Arthur
Ramseur he formed the present firm of Ramseur,
McAfee & Company, Mr, McAfee being- the active
man in the concern. By hard work and application
and by strictly honorable and conscientious dealing
with the public, Mr. McAfee started with a small
capital and has developed an enterprise of which
not only himself but the City of Greenville is justly
proud The spacious and modern quarters are at
219 South Main Street, occupying three floors.
There is a' complete automobile equipment of am
bulances and hearses, consisting of the most ex
pensive cars than can be bought. There are ten
motor driven vehicles. ..i. , •
In a business ¦ which more perhaps than m any
other so- much is left to the honor of the one
conducting it, Mr. McAfee has established a char
acter and reputation that give him a place of the
utmost trust and confidence on the part of the

people. Thoroughly equipped in the science of
embalming, he has made a close study of the pro
fession and carries out the best modern practice in
the conduct of funerals. His assistants are all
highly trained men, and work in utmost harraony
with his instructions.
His standing as a rnortician was recognized by
his appointraent in June, 1919, by Governor Cooper
as a member of the State Board of Embalming
Examiners. Mr. McAfee is also a meraber of the
Greenville Chamber of Commerce, and of a large
number of fraternal orders and societies. He mar
ried Miss Mary May Hill of Greenwood County,
South Carolina. Their three children are : Thoraas
F., Jr., Charles, and Mary.
James T. Williams, for thirty-five years a mer
chant at Greenville, one of the former mayors of
the city, has lived a life of exceptional activity
and purpose. As a youth he was a Confederate
soldier and it is not the least of his distinctions
and probably the greatest source of his pride in
declining years that he has lived to see a fine
family grow up in his home, with three sons with
creditable army records.
Mr. Williams was born at Greenville in 184S,
son of James T. and Anna (D'Oyley) Williams.
His grandfather was Dr. T. B. Williams, one of the
early physicians of Greenville and a raan of pro
rainence in his day. The Williams family came
originally frora Virginia.
James T. Williams before he was sixteen years
old enlisted at Greenville in Corapany A of the
Sixteenth South Carolina Infantry, and was all
through the war with that command. He was in
carapaigns in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Tennessee and Mississippi and was wounded to
wards the close of the war at the battle of Franklin.
Following the war he worked at various occupa
tions for very small wages and also did some farm
ing. It was in 1875 that he engaged in the hard
ware business at Greenville as member of the firmi
of Wilkins, Williams & Company. In 1882 he
acquired his partners' interests, and continued it
successfully under his individual narae until 1909,
v/hen after giving it thirty-five years, of close
attention and able management he retired, Mr,
Williams' service as mayor of Greenville covered a
period of eight years, from 1893 to 1901,
At Lincolnton, North Carolina, he married Miss
Sally McBee of that place, daughter of Vardry
A, McBee and granddaughter of Vardry McBee,
whose historical prominence as one of the founders
tnd upbuilders of Greenville has been sketched in
detail on other pages of this publication. The si.x
children of Mr. and Mrs. Williams are James T.
Williams, Jr., Maj. Vardry McBee Williams, Lieut.
Col. Suraner McBee Williams, Maj. Silas Williams,
Miss Mary Elizabeth Williams, at home, and Miss
Sarah McBee Williams, who lives with her oldest
brother James T. Williams, Jr., in Boston. All
of the sons are men of distinction.
Jaraes T. Williams, Jr.,iis now editor in chief of
the Boston Evening Transcript. He was educated
in Furman University, the University of the South,
and graduated from Columbia University. At the
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missioner of the United States by appointment of
President Taft. A young man from South Carolina,
which originated secession, he is now the editor of
the classic of journalisra in "Yankeedom," thei
Transcript being the typical exponent of the "New
England conscience." He was a member of the
Washington staff of the Associated Press from 1902
to 1906, and entered the service of the Boston
Evening Transcript as Washington correspondent in
1906. For a time he was also editor of a leading
paper in Arizona, and has been editor of the Boston
Evening Transcript since Noveraber, 1912.
The second son, Maj. Vardry McBee Williams is a
graduate of Clerason College and was a raajor
in the National army in France. Lieut. Col. Sumner
McBee Williaras, who was educated in Furman
University and at West Point Military Academy,
has had an active military career and is now lieu
tenant-colonel on the staff of Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood at Chicago.
Maj. Silas Williaras is a graduate of the Uni
versity of the South and of Harvard Law School,
and left his law practice in Chattanooga when he
volunteered in the Officers Training Corps. He was
a raajor of artillery in the National array.
James Newton Watkins. While his home and
many of his interests in business as well as family
have been located at Greenville for nearly forty
years, James Newton Watkins is a coraraercial
figure known in many of the larger cities of the
South, and has earned distinction araong a class
of business men noted for exceptional qualifications.
For raany years Mr. Watkins has been traveling
representative for one of the oldest and highest
class mercantile houses in America. He has also
figured prorainently in the South Carolina Asso
ciation of the Travelers Protective Association of
Araerica, and a happy and well deserved recogni
tion of his prorainence in this organization came
in June, 1919, at the National Convention at New
Orleans, when he was unanimously elected "National
Director." Mr. Watkins was born in Waterloo Township
of Laurens County, South Carolina, in 1862, a son
of Capt. Henry H. and Hannah (Culberson) Wat
kins. On both sides he is descended from families
that have possessed and exemplified the best qual
ities of Araerican life, whether as private citizen,
as statesman or as soldier. The Watkins faraily
is descended frora two brothers, John and Henry
Watkins, who were natives of Wales and came to
Virginia in the earliest colonial times and located
at Jamestown. Mr. Watkins' grandfather, John C.
Watkins, was born in Prince Edward County, Vir
ginia, and came to Laurens District in South Caro
lina about 1790. His family and descendants have
lived in that community ever since and the old
home place is still owned by them.
Capt. Henry H. Watkins, who was born in Water
loo Township of Laurens County in 1818, in the
same house where his son first saw the light of day,
served as captain of a corapany in the Confederate
army, part of a regiment from Laurens County,
in the war between the states. His wife Hannah
Culberson is a raember of the Culberson family
which has produced many men of prominence in

southern history. Her father was John L. Culber
son, and she was a second cousin of Governor
Culberson of Texas, who was father of the present
Senator Charles Culberson of that state.
James Newton Watkins is a brother of Judge
H. H. Watkins, United States District Judge of
Anderson, South Carolina, a jurist of the highest
personal distinction.
The Watkins home place in Laurens County where
James Newton grew up was one of the old time
plantations of great extent and generous manage
ment. Mr. Watkins lived there until he was eighteen
years old. His parents then, for the purpose of
giving their children superior educational advan
tages, moved to Greenville, where Mr. Watkins
continued his education in Furman University. He
acquired his first business experience as clerk in
a store at Greenville, and has called that city his
home since 1880. He first went on the road as
traveling representative for the firm of Sharpless
Brothers at Philadelphia, dress goods, beginning
in 1891. For the past fifteen years he has been
traveling salesman for Arnold, Constable & Com
pany of New York, dealers in fine silks and dress
goods. This is one of the famous mercantile houses
of America, having been established for nearly
100 years. Mr. Watkins represents the house in
the Southern States and Cuba. The character of his
trade is such, selling only to the higher class stores
in the larger cities, that his duties keep him on
the road only about si-x raonths in the year.
As noted above Mr. Watkins has long been promi
nent in the Traveling Men's organization, the United
Commercial Travelers and the Travelers Protective
Association of America. He is a former state
president for South Carolina of the Travelers Pro
tective Association, and member of the State Council
and chairman of the Hotel Committee of the United
Coramercial Travelers.
A number of business interests give Mr. Watkins
plenty to do while at home in Greenville. He is a
director of the American Bank at Greenville, is
owner of much valuable property in the city and
also e.xtensive lands and farms in Laurens, Green
ville and Chester counties. He also owns some
timber tracts.
Above all else he loves Greenville because it is
the home of his family. He married Florence
Virginia Sharp of Mississippi, member of a very
prominent family of that state. They have three
ciildren: Mrs. Vivian V. Workman, wife of Maj.
William D. Workman, Capt. W. Royden Watkins
and Miss Floride Watkins, who died August 2^,
1919- Mr. Watkins can feel proud of the part that
hi.s individual family has plaved in the great war.
His son-in-law Major Workman was a major in
the One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment, and
his son Capt. W. Royden Watkins was a captain
ot Company H of the One Hundred and Eighteenth
Kegimeiit. They won their present respective ranks
by soldierly efficiency of service, Royden having
enlisted in the army as a private. Both served in
the Expeditionary Forces in France for many
months, and the One Hundred and Eighteenth In
fantry distinguished itself during the fighting in
the early days of October, when especially at Bran-
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and they have the credit of being the regiment
that broke the Hindenburg line.
R. C. Bruce, M. D. A native South Carolinian
whose early service was not without distinction in
the field of education. Doctor Bruce is a Green
ville physician and surgeon who has already won
a high place in his profession.
He was born in Kershaw County, South Caro
lina, in 1882, son of Joseph B. and Mary (Hough)
Bruce. He received his literary education in The
Citadel, the noted miliary school of Charleston,
graduating in 1900. During the next ten years he
spent most of his time in school work in his native
county and for four years held the position of
County Superintendent of Schools. In 1906 Doctor
Bruce entered the Medical Department of Vander
bilt University at Nashville, Tennessee^ and on
graduating in 1910 began practice at Greenville.
His coming to the modern industrial City of
Greenville the center of the textile industry of the
South, was a happy choice for Doctor Bruce. He
has done exceedingly well there, building up a
splendid practice, and is highly esteemed not only
by the public at large but in his profession as well.
He is a Methodist, a democrat and a member of the
County, State, Tri-State and the Southern and the
American Medical associations. And in 1919 took
post-graduate work in the University of Pennsyl
vania. He married Miss Anne Hough of Anderson
County, and they have three children: Robert Jr.,
Nancy and Martha.
J. Broadus Knight, clerk of the United States
Court for the Western District of South Carolina,
is probably as deeply versed in state and national
politics as any other South Carolina man. He
knows national politics frora the most favorable
standpoint of many years of residence at the na
tional capital where he came to know personally
and by reputation nearly all the conspicuous figures
in Congress and the successive administrations since
the beginning of the present century.
Mr. Knight was born in Greenville County Novera
ber 4, 1879, son of J. Edward and Eugenia (Arnold)
Knight. The history of this family goes back in
South Carolina prior to the time of the Revolutionary
war. His great-grandfather John Knight was a
Revolutionary soldier, a native of Kershaw County.
Mr. Knight's father was born in Laurens County,
and both his father and great-grandfather lived in
that section.
J. Broadus Knight graduated from Erskine College
in South Carolina in 1901 and frora Massey's Busi
ness College in 1902. A young raan of good busi
ness and social qualifications he was selected in
1902 as private secretary by Congressman Joseph T.
Johnson, and with Judge Johnson he acquired his
first acquaintance with Washington politics. In 1905
he became private secretary to the late Senator Ben
jamin R. Tillman, and was the trusted secretary and
advisor to that great South Carolinian frora 1905
to 1915. Thus for thirteen years he spent a large
part of every year at Washington, and the ex
perience not only brought hira wide and varied
kno-«'ledge of men and affairs but iraproved his own
capacity for service. In May, 1915, Mr. Knight

was appointed clerk of the United States District
Court for the Western District of South Carolina,
with offices in Greenville. Thus his official duties
bring him back to his native cciunty. He holds
this appointment under Federal judge and former
Congressman Joseph T. Johnson.
While so much of his time has been taken up
by public affairs, Mr. Knight is the prominent
leader in at least one iraportant department of
South Carolina's agriculture, asparagus growing. He
owns a fine farm in Edgefield County, and makes a
specialty of growing asparagus. This is a crop
that adds not a little to South Carolina's volume
of production and Mr. Knight has taken it upon
himself to get the asparagus growers together
and secure the best possible advantages to them
for their products. He organized in 1915 the South
Carolina Asparagus Growers Association, and in
January, 1919, at the annual convention was again
honored with the position of president of the asso
ciation. In 1905 Mr. Knight married Miss Kathrine Jones
of Mount Carmel, South Carolina. They have
two children, John Broadus Knight, Jr., and Kath
erine Knight.
Alonzo T. Guy superintendent of the F. W. Poe
Manufacturing Company, is a successful cotton mill
man, versed in every phase of superintendence and
operation, and is also a manufacturer of cotton raill
raachitlery. His horae for a nuraber of years has
been at Greenville.
He was born at Augusta, Georgia, in 1872, son of
John T. and Mary (McGowan) Guy. He acquired
a good education in a private school at Langley,
South Carolina, and in Houghton Institute and
Richraond Military Academy at Augusta, his home
town. On reaching his majority he went to work
in the textile trades, and has been through every
phase of experience and has served in practically
every capacity in some of the textile raills of the
South. For a number of years he has been an
overseer, his principal connections being with the
mills at Pelzer and with the Poe mills at Green
ville, with which he is still connected. The Poe
mills at Greenville are noted as among the best
managed and raost successful cotton manufacturing
plants in America, and to this splendid reputation
the skillful and faithful services of Mr. Guy have
contributed in no small degree.
As above noted Mr. Guy for a nuraber of years
has been interested in the developraent and applica
tion of improved labor saving machinery and other
devices for cotton raills. In this connection he is
associated as partner with Mr. E. D. Roy in the
Roy Specialty Company, manufacturers of special
devices for textile plants, including a patented
rocker shaft bearing said by cotton mill engineers
to be one of the best labor saving devices applied
to the cotton industry. The company also raanu-
factures stock raachine bearings, protection rod
bearings, etc. Mr. Guy is also interested in the
Rotary Check Strap Corapany, raanufacturers of
rotary check straps. Practical cotton mill men
everywhere recognize and appreciate the value of
these devices, which have been adopted by nuraerous
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by the above named corapanies constitute one of
the growing and important industries of Green
ville, Mr, Guy is a member of the Southern Textile
Association, is affiliated with the Junior Order
United American Mechanics, the Knights of Py
thias and the Improved Order of Red Men, and his
church home is the Fourth Presbyterian Church.
He raarried Miss Mamie McElroy of Oconee County.
Mareen Walker Duvall. An instance of a man
starting out in life with few visible assets, and
through wise disposal of his opportunities trans
forming his .condition into one of more than ordi
nary prosperity and influence, is found in the career
of Mareen Walker Duvall, of Cheraw. Some
twenty-eight years have passed since he embarked
in mercantile affairs, as a dealer in naval stores,
and during the period that has passed he has con
stantly enlarged his holdings, increased his interests
and broadened his influences until he is now ac
counted one of the most substantial citizens of his
communitiy, and a man who is a decided factor
in business and financial affairs in his home city
and the surrounding country.
Mr. Duvall is a native of Chesterfield County,
South Carolina, and was born on the old planta
tion homestead of the Duvall family, which was
located seven miles south of the coraraunity of
Cheraw, May 26, 1856. His father, G. W. D^uvall,
was a native of Prince George County, Maryland,
who carae in young manhood to South Carolina
and secured a large and valuable plantation near
Cheraw and became a prominent and wealthy planter
of his locality, although the outcome of the war
between the states caused him to lose a large part
of his fortune. The educational advantages granted
to Mareen Walker Duvall were limited, including
attendance at the private schools of Cheraw and
Charleston, the Porter Military Institute and the
High School of Charleston. He had been reared
largely as a farmer's son, but his inclinations were
toward a mercantile career, and eventually he de
voted himself to this line of endeavor and gradually
gained experience therein. In 1891 he embarked
in business on his own account, handling naval
stores at Cheraw, and since that time has developed
the business to large proportions, in addition hav
ing added dealing in wholesale groceries. He now
has varied and important interests and is a stock
holder and director in the Bank of Cheraw and the
Merchants and Farmers Bank of this city, and like
wise has holdings in cotton mills, etc., which combine
to raake him one of the leading business factors
in his city and the surrounding community. He and
the merabers of his faraily are active and consistent
members of the Episcopal Church, in the work
of which they have taken a leading part. While
he has not been an office holder or seeker, Mr.
Duvall has been interested in civic affairs, and
particularly in movements for the betterment of his
community, in which he has co-operated construc
tively and helpfully with other energetic and public-
spirited business men of large interests.
In November, 1877, Mr. Duvall was united in
marriage at Cheraw with Miss Margaret D. Evans,
of this comrnunity, a daughter of Capt. John C.

and Ann (LaCoste) Evans, of Chesterfield County,
and td this union there have been born six children :
Gideon Walker, cashier and vice president of the
Bank of Cheraw, and a prominent business man
of this city; Howard Mareen, president of the
Merchants and Farmers Bank of Cheraw; and
E. H,, W. E. and Elise. The oldest daughter died
aged sixteen years.
Charles O'Neal Goodwin. It is a century or
more since the Goodwin family became established
in Upper South Carolina in Greenville County.
During three generations the name has represented
lan'l owners and planters and people of the highest
character and citizenship. Charles O'Neal Goodwin
himself spent most of his life as a practical farmer,
has appeared much in public affairs in Greenville
County, and is now in the ranks of industrial lead
ers as outside manager of the Victor cotton mill
in Greer.
His grandfather Joseph Goodwin came from Vir
ginia early in the last century and located in Green
ville County. The old horae place of the Goodwins
is Lima, a village of Saluda Township. Charles
O'Neal Goodwin was born in that township of
Greenville County in 1864, son of William Calvhi
and Sarah (Hawkins) Goodwin. His father, born
in the sarae locality in 1824, was well known in the
citizenship of Greenville County, serving many years
as county coraraissioner, while his brother the late
John H. Goodwin was for several years a member
of the Legislature.
Charles O. Goodwin acquired his education in the
country schools near Lima, the private school at
Gowansville and finished in Furman University at
Greenville. He then returned to the farm at Lima
and gave more than thirty years of his life to the
practical affairs of agriculture. He still owns
valuable farm interests in Saluda Township. In
1919, he assumed his present position as outside
manager of the Victor cotton mill at Greer, and ha.s
since made his horae at Greer. The Victor mill is
, one of the best plants of the Victor-Monaghan
Company's chain of cotton raills through Upper
South Carolina.
Mr. Goodwin though busied with farming found
time to give close and studious attention to local
affairs and served as a meraber and chairman of
the County Board of Equalization for fifteen or
twenty years, and is a member of the State Board of
Equalization for four years. Other political honors
have been bestowed upon him by his county. In
1912 he was elected a raember of the House of
Representatives, serving through the sessionsof 1913-
1914, and one of the most capable members of the
House. He is a member of the Baptist Church.
Mr. Goodwin married Miss Sue Martin. Their
only daughter. Marguerite, is the wife of Janies
M. Whitmire.
John Irving Westervelt. Greenville is a city
that has grown so rapidly in power and has come
to bulk so large in industrial affairs that the per
sonal forces behind and responsible for that growth
and development are often lost sight of. Of the
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have had most to do' with its leading industries, one
is John Irving Westervelt, who, while his influence
still continues in many respects is content to classify
himself as retired. For many years he has been
interested in cotton manufacture and in the build
ing of cotton mills.
He was born at Pinopolis in Berkeley County,
South Carolina, in 1862, a son of Harman and
Emily (Gaillard) Westervelt. His parents united the
Knickerbocker stock of New York with French
Huguenots of Lower South Carolina. The West-
ervelts of Holland Dutch origin lived for several
generations in Bergen County, New Jersey, although
engaged in business affairs in New York City.
One of the members of this family Jacob A. West
ervelt was at one time raayor of New York. Mr.
Westervelt's grandfather for whora he was named,
came frora New York at the age of nineteen to
Cheraw, South Carolina, and aftewards moved to
Charleston. He married the daughter of Dr. John
Douglas. Harman Westervelt, who was born at Cheraw, was
graduated in dentistry at the University of Maryland
about the beginning of the war between the states.
Early in that war he was put in charge of all the
telegraph wires in and around Charleston under
General Beauregard. While on a furlough in 1863 he
was accidentally killed. Thus John Irving Wester
velt has no conscious memory of his father.
His mother Emily Gaillard was a member of the
prominent French Huguenot faraily of Gaillard in
Charleston, and was a daughter of Dr. Theodore
Gaillard and granddaughter of John Gaillard. John
Gaillard has many distinctions in the history of
South Carolina, having represented the state for
many years in the United States Senate and having
been prominent in many other capacities.
John Irving Westervelt received his early educa
tion in the Holy Communion Institute, now the
Porter Military Academy at Charleston. His first
business employment was in the office of the Register
of Mesne Conveyance at Charleston, where he re
mained two years. A more important eraployraent
and one bearing especially upon his future life work,
was in the office of the late Arthur Barnwell, cotton
exporter. He was closely associated with Mr. Barn
well for nineteen years. From the cotton exporting
office he went to the Charleston cotton mills owned
by Mr. Barnwell and others, and after three years
there came to the Pelham Mills in Greenville County,
as treasurer of the corporation. Mr. Barnwell was
president of this well known cotton industry near
Greer. After eight years with the Pelham Mills Mr. West
ervelt devoted his energies to the building of cotton
raills and the manufacture of cotton at Greenville.
He is credited with having been foremost among the
men who started Greenville on the road to its
present position as head of the great textile manu
facturing industry of the South. In 1899 he char
tered the Brandon raill and corapleted the plant
in 1900, and as its executive continued the man
ageraent for several years. In the meantime he
also built the Judson Mill and the Carolina Mill,
'the latter now the Poinsett Mill. He was mainly
responsible for bringing the Southeastern Life In
surance Company from Spartanburg to Greenville,

and was president of the corapany for several years.
He was one of the four local men responsible for
the building of the Greenville-Carolina Power Com
pany plant at Greenville, now a part of the Southern
Power .Company.
Mr. Westervelt retired from the cotton mill busi
ness in 1914, and since then, though nominally
engaged in the general cotton business, has been
practically retired and spends much of his time in
travel and looking after other interests connected
with his well earned leisure.
Mr. Westervelt married Miss Melville Cain of
Pinopolis, daughter of Maj. William Henry and
Henrietta (MacBeth) Cain. Her grandfather Hon.
Charles MacBeth was for several years mayor of
Charleston. Mr. and Mrs. Westervelt have two
children. The son Melville Cain Westervelt married
Miss Sarah Conyers, daughter of Mr. W. P. Con
yers, the well known Greenville capitalist, and they
have a daughter Marie Conyers Westervelt. Mr.
Westervelt's daughter is naraed Irving Gaillard
Westervelt. She is the wife of Mr. James Drayton
Clames of Spartanburg County, and is the mother
of one daughter, Melville Cain Claraes.
John W, Arrington, Recently the new industries
coraraittee of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce
held a meeting which is likely to raark an extremely
significant and vital epoch, the results of which it
will be the duty of a future historian to describe.
At that meeting John W. Arrington offered for seri
ous consideration the prospect of raaking Greenville
a center of garment manufacturing, and in proposing
the extension of that line of industry he offered it
as a logical climax in the developraent of horae
industries, the circle of which is already complete.
Mr. Arrington graphically described how a person
raight ascend to the top of one of Greenville's
tall buildings and looking about over the surrounding
country see cotton growing in the fields, being
ginned and baled, turned into thread and thence
by thousands of looms converted into cloth, then
bleached, finished and dyed, and next in the chain
of manufacture cut up and converted into garments
for the uses of the ultiraate wearer. He clairaed
that Greenville is the only place in the world where
all these processes are carried on.
The entire discussion and proposal was in line
with the character of John W. Arrington known as
one of the raost prorainent and progressive raen
in the textile industry in the South and president
of the Union Bleaching & Finishing Company, an
industry which his genius and persistence has prac
tically raised from failure and made as important in
its relations to the cotton industry of South Caro
lina as his present proposal of garment factories
seems likely to be.
Mr. Arrington was born in Warren County, North
Carolina, in 1866, a son of Samuel P. and Hannah
(White) Arrington. When he was a child his par
ents reraoved to Petersburg, Virginia, where he
spent his boyhood and school life. About the
time he was grown he entered the cotton manufac
turing industry at Richmond, Virginia, and since
then . has been continuously identified with the tex
tile industry. After a few years in Richmond he
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Carolina, and in 1904 carae to his present home in
Greenville. Up to that time and for some years following
the bleaching industry, one of the important ad
juncts of cotton manufacture, was considered im
practicable and unprofitable in the South. A few
bleaching plants had been started, carried on for
a time, and for the most part ended in failure.
This was the situation in Greenville when Mr.
Arrington arrived. The plant of the Union Bleach
ing Company, which had been established only a
comparatively short time had lost heavily, and its
business was so near to total failure that the future
seemed hopeless. With characteristic energy and
optimism Mr. Arrington took hold, and after a very
trying experience and heavy cost to himself and
against the advice of friends who told him the busi
ness could not succeed, brought the plant to a place
where it justified all expectations, and is now not
only one of the largest and most complete plants of
the kind, but by its product has earned the confidence
and patronage of converters all over the country.
In 1908 Mr. Arrington was asked to read a paper
before the American Cotton Manufacturers Asso
ciation on "The Advantages and Disadvantages of
Bleaching and Finishing in the South." In the
course of this interesting address, which contains
rauch important history, Mr. Arrington said : "Until
something like the last fifteen years practically
the entire product of southern looms consisted of
coarse heavy fabrics, a large percentage of them
for export and only a small proportion of thera
being finished. When convertible goods of print
cloth yarns and finer becarae a sufficient factor of
Southern production to be appreciable the need
was felt for finishing them where raade and it was
not long before this want was supplied. Our com
pany is now the youngest in operation of the sev
eral which have been launched. The non-success
of sorae of our predecessors is a fact well known
to the trade, which fact we think raay be attributable
to two causes : the difficulty of securing and raain-
taining corapetent manageraent on the practical end
of the business and the further fact that they raay
have tried to accoraplish in their infancy a large
variety and high grade of work such as had taken
their Eastern corapetitors a generation or raore
to reach. As the South was content for a long
tirae to make only coarse and heavy fabrics, so has
been the policy of our corapany to attempt at first
only the raore siraple and easy classes of work in
our line. The arguraent most frequently heard in
the past against the South as a place for finishing
IS that the water is not good. Such arguraent is
without foundation in fact. The water generally
throughout the South is all right, I believe, but
certainly it is in that mountain section of it with
which I ara familiar."
As he brought out in his address, the problem
of both skilled and unskilled help in the Union
^leachery was long a serious one. At first Mr
Arrington secured skilled and experienced operatives
overseers and others from the old established tex-^
hie plants m New England. He found, however,
that these people did not fit in with different social
and business conditions in the South, and as a class
were not permanent and loyal assistants. To over

come this he set about educating and training prom
ising persons born and reared in the coraraunity,
and gradually he has perfected an organization that
is not only skillful and efficient but loyal and
satisfied, all being native Southerners and enjoying
happy and comfortable home surroundings in the
near neighborhood of the mill. This would doubtless
stand as one of Mr. Arrington's most satisfying
achievements since the results not only contribute
to the success of his own enterprise but are a
factor in developing self-sufficiency and industrial
character in an entire community.
The Union Bleaching Company now occupies a
large plant, and handles immense quantities of
cloth manufactured in nearby mills. All the proc
esses are confined to finishing, bleaching and dye
ing, and the finished output is over 1,000,000 yards
a week. From the arrival of the cloth to the
finishing of the product requires on the average
about ten days, and when the goods leave the
bleachery they are packed in boxes made in the
factory ready for shipment direct to dry goods
dealers and commission men in New York, Phila
delphia, and all the larger cities of the East, West
and North. The industry at present employs about
165 persons on the pay roll. John W. Arrington
is president of the company, his son John W. Arring
ton, Jr., is treasurer, and another son R. W. Arring
ton is secretary.
Besides being president of the Greenville Chamber
of Commerce Mr. Arrington is also president of
the Poinsett Club, the Kiwanis Club, and a member
of the Country Club of Greenville, and the New
York Club and Arkwright Club of New York. He
married Miss Mary Carter Sublett of Virginia.
They have four children, John W., Jr., Richard W.,
Miss Octavia Page and Nelson Battle. Richard W.
and Nelson Battle both received their comraissions
as lieutenants in the officers training camp, and were
in active service during the war. Lieutenant Richard
W. was still in France in the early months of 1919.
Jefferson F. Richardson came to Greenville when
a young man, and has matched his increasing ex
perience and ability with the tremendous growth
and expansion of the city. Largely under his owner
ship and raanageraent the Greenville News became
one of the leading papers of the South. He was in
journalisra many years, and has applied himself to
an increasing range of affairs that have a vital and
significant relation to the welfare of upper South
Carolina. He was born at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862,
son of J. C. E. and Priscilla (Calder) Richardson,
both raembers of old families in that city. He re
ceived his early education in the St. Phillip Street
graded school and the high school of Charleston,
and was only eighteen years old when in 1880 he
carae to Greenville to take the management of the
Greenville News, which had been purchased by his
brother, Mr William H. Richardson of Suramer-
^'"e- Ihe News had been founded in 1876 by Colo
nel Speights. Mr. Richardson found it a small
dai y, six columns four pages, one of the only three
daily papers m South Carolina at the time. Mr.
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noted journalist, who came to Greenville at the
same time to take the position of editor of the
News, and continued as sarae for several years. Mr.
Richardson succeeded well in the worthy task he
set himself, to make the News grow and prosper as
rapidly as Greenville itself, and- one of the early
important additions to the facilities of the News as
a newspaper was the taking of the full Associated
Press dispatches, beginning in 1888. Later Mr.
Richardson succeeded to be one of the publishers with
A. B. Williams of the paper, and continued as its
active publisher until November, 1909, when he
sold out his interest to Messrs. Thompkins and Cald
well, owners of the Charlotte Observer. Even today
the News in its substantial character as a newspaper
reflects its former ownership and management.
In 1901 Mr, Richardson was appointed postmaster
by President McKinley and filled that office during
the terras of the succeeding Presidents Roosevelt
Taft and Wilson, until 1916. As postmaster he was
personally instrumental in getting frora Congress
the appropriation for building the annex to the
postoffice at a cost of about $127,000.
Mr. Richardson is now best known in business
life as a raanufacturer of textile machinery. He
entered the field in 1915, establishing the Greenville
Loom Reed and Harness Company. On April i,
1918, this company was raerged with another con
cern making similar machinery under the name of
the Acme Loom Reed and Harness Company. Mr.
Richardson is general manager of this, one of the
important manufacturing enterprises of Greenville,
For nearly forty years Mr. Richardson has been
keenly interested in every phase of the civic growth
and improvement of Greenville. For fourteen years
he was a meraber of the City Council. In that period
he carried through a nuraber of important municipal
improvements through his initiative and individual
effort. Foremost araong his public achieveraents was
the work which constituted him the recognized
"father" of the present excellent street railway sys
tem. He was chairman of the finance committee
of the Council at the time it was proposed to change
from the old horse car to the electric system. He
was the father of the Police -Commission now in ex
istence. By making general trips to Philadelphia
he succeeded in getting frora the builders of the
proposed system a contract binding thera to build
lines not only through the main streets of the city, but
belt lines taking in all the surrounding cotton mills
as well. He also secured substantial financial and
other rights for the city in return for granting the
franchise. This foresighted and well considered
planning at the opportune time practically insured
the wise development of the street railway systera,
results of which are in striking evidence at the
present time. Mr. Richardson was also instru
mental in getting for Greenville in 1898 a military
camp for soldiers in training for service in the
Spanish-American war. For seven months ten
thousand men were in training near the city, and
the camp did a great deal to revive business after
a period of stagnation. , , .- ,
Mr. Richardson was the founder of the first board
of trade in Greenville in 1881 and was its first sec
retary and treasurer, the late T. C. Gower being
president. Besides the important business affairs

above noted Mr. Richardson is a directior of the
Bank of Coramerce, of the Greenville Building and
Loan Association, of the Furman Investment Com
pany, the Graceland Cemetery Company, and vice
president of the Home Fund Life Insurance Com
pany. He raarried Miss Athena Tindal of Clarendon
County. Her father, the late H. F. Tindal of that
county, was one of the largest planters and land
owners in the state, and was a brother of the
late Hon. James E. Tindal, a trustee of Clemson
College and at the tirae of his death secretary of
the State of South Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Rich
ardson are the parents of five children: Henrietta
Athena, J. F. Richardson, Jr., Mary Martha, Eleanor
Elizabeth and Williara Henry.
James Overton Lewis raade a record of almost
thirty years continuous association with the drug
business at Greenville, and is still active in affairs,
though no longer in the city, busying hiraself with
the manageraent of a beautiful farm close to the
city limits.
Mr. Lewis was born in Oconee County near old
Pendleton in 1861, a son of Dr. Thomas L. and
Eliza C. (Maxwell) Lewis. He was named in honor
of his grandfather. Dr. Thoraas L. Lewis, a native
of the old Pendleton District, was a graduate of
the South Carolina Medical College at Charleston,
and spent all his raature years as a practicing phy
sician, earning the grateful raeraory of a large
circle of patients. His wife Eliza C. Maxwell was
a member of a prominent family of Upper South
Carolina, being a sister of Dr. Robert Maxwell,
a prominent physician and surgeon in Anderson
County. Dr. Robert Maxwell was a son of Capt.
Robert John Maxwell, who served in the War of
1812 a^ commander of a corapany, and was a son of
Col. Robert Maxwell, a native of Ireland and one
of the earliest settlers in the Greenville District of
South Carolina. He made a brilliant record as a
soldier in the Revolutionary war. Some of the
interesting facts concerning the Maxwell family will
be found on other pages.
James Overton Lewis graduated in 1882 from
Adger College at Walhalla, and the following year
came to Greenville, entering the drug store of
Thomas Sloan as a clerk. He was there four years,
then spent two years in the First National Bank,
and in 1889 engaged in the drug business for himself
in partnership with Mr. O. B. Hartzog under the
narae Lewis and Hartzog. His narae and his place
of business became landraarks in Greenville, and his
career as a druggist was one of uninterrupted
success for almost thirty years, until he left his
store and business in 1918. His home and the scene
of his present activities are "Birnie Hill," a beauti
fully located and choice estate of seventy-five acres
on the Augusta road, a short distance south of
Greenville.. It is an excellent farm, and has greatly
increased in value because of its location close to
the city.
"Birnie HiU' was the old horae of the late James
Birnie, father of Miss Mary Scott Birnie, who is
now Mrs, Lewis. The late James Birnie was born
in Aberdeen, Scotland, of an ancient and honorable
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estate in Aberdeen was and is known as "Ashgrove,"
Left an orphan in childhood James Birnie at the
age of ten years was brought to Araerica by an
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Williara Birnie, who
settled at Charleston. Williara Birnie becarae a
wealthy and prominent citizen of Charleston, being
the founder and president of what is now the First
National, the oldest bank of the city. Jaraes Bir
nie finished his education in the College of Charles
ton, from which he graduated, studied law and was
admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-one. He
soon afterward came to Upper South Carolina and
began practice at Greenville, where the Birnie
family refugeed during the war. He died in the
prime of young manhood at the age of thirty-one.
In a brief lifetime he had compressed the experience
and achieveraents of a mature career. He held the
highest rank in the bar, was attorney for the old
Charlotte & Atlanta (Air Line) Railway, now the
Southern Railway, and had many other legal con
nections. He possessed unusual mental and moral
qualifications. He held raany offices in the Masonic
order, being a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite
Mason, was a prorainent layman of the Presbyterian
Church and at the time of his death was serving
as superintendent of the Sunday school.
Mr. and Mrs, J. O. Lewis have eight children,
naraed : Mary B., John Maxwell, Annie Sloan,
Williara Birnie, Thomas L., Jeannette, Carolina and
Jaraes Overton.
The military record of this family is exceptional,
three sons having served in the great European war.
John Maxwell Lewis served in France with the
Eighty-First Division in the Army of Occupation,
William Birnie Lewis also served in France with the
Thirtieth or Wild Cat Division, Thomas L. Lewis
joined the navy and served throughout the war
period, receiving his honorable dischorge in March,
1919. Wallace C. Bobo was born at Union in Union
County, South Carolina, August 22, 1882. H|is
parents F. G. and Mary (Wix) Bobo were natives
of the sarae county. The outstanding feature of
his career has been his early continuous association
with the cotton mill industry of South Carolina,
beginning when he was eleven or twelve years old.
Less than forty years of age, he has given a quarter
of a century of his life to one line of work, and if
the secret of his success was sought it would un
doubtedly be found in this long contemplation cora
bined with exceptional talents which have been un
covered and developed as he went from one task
to another.
Obviously he started on the very lowest round of
the ladder and at such meager and insufficient wages
as were paid to boy workers in the cotton mills at
that time. He could probably recall raany obstacles
and also some sources of encouragement outside
himself, but on the whole he has relied on his efforts
and his ambition to proraote hira to the position he
now enjoys as one of, the most capable and skillful
manufacturing execfitives of the textile industry.
Mr, Bobo worked in the raills at Union and in
Union County until 1906, when he reraoved to
Greenville County, He has been superintendent
of the Judson Mills in Greenville since 1912, The

Judson Mills in many respects represent the high
est stage reached by textile manufacture in the
South, They are also among the largest and most
coraplete mills. This is one of the coraparatively
few textile plants in the South manufacturing fitie
dress goods. The product of the mills are India
lawns and fancy sheer goods, all of the finest quality
and design, and raany of these patterns are a com
bination of silk and cotton. All the details of the
technical processes in this manufacture are under
the direction of the superintendent, Mr. Bobo, and
they call for the highest degree of exceptional skill,
good taste, unerring judgraent, and the faculty of
eraploying and directing the right kind of operatives.
It was the possession of this unusual combination
of abilities that brought Mr. Bobo to his present
responsibilities. The raachinery and equipment of
the Judson Mills are of the most modern and
highest type. The mill is equipped with 1,288 looms ^
and 52,640 spindles. The corapany has a capital
stock of $1,200,000 and the president and treasurer
is Mr. B. E. Geer.
Mr, Bobo though oue of the busiest men in
Greenville is regarded as one of the useful and high
class citizens, is a member of several fraternal
orders including the Masons, and of the Baptist
Church. He married Miss Massie Stallings, and
their five children are Louise, Wallace, Harold,
Furman and Louis.
Lawrence P. Slattery. In no section of South
Carolina is the modern work of the contractor and
engineer more in evidence than around Greenville.
Greenville is setting the pace for many other pro
gressive localities in the way of hard roads and other
permanent improvements vital to the continued
growth and prospertiy of the state.
Some of the best examples of this class of en
gineering construction stand to the credit of Slattery
& Henry, incorporated, a firra of contractors at
Greenville of which Mr. Slattery is president and
secretary. He is a native of Greenville, and a son
of John and Mary (Grace) Slattery. His mother,
who is still living, was born in the historic City of
Charleston. His father, Capt. John Slattery, who
died at Greenville in 1916, was born at Kilrush,
County Clare, Ireland, and when a young man
came to Araerica and located at Charleston in 1867,
but after 1876 he and his family made their home
in Greenville. He was prominent in the mercantile
and cotton business, and has been frequently placed
araong those substantial business raen who built
Greenville from a small village to its present pre-
erainence as the leading cotton manufacturing city
of the South.
It was in the Greenville public schools that Law
rence P. Slattery received his early advantages,
supplemented by a special course in engineering at
Clerason College. For seven years following his
college course he was connected with the noted
engineering organization of J. E. Sirrine at Green
ville, a concern that has probably done more engi
neering and. construction work in the South than any
other, and is almost equally noted for the training
of men who have achieved prominence in their
independent careers.
One of these is Mr. Slattery, who in, 1913 founded

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the firm of Slattery & Henry, incorporated. They
have been in business with all their resources en
gaged for several years in the construction of street
paving, concrete, sewers, etc. This organization
built all the hard surface roads in Greenwood
County, and also the concrete roads and water
system at Camp Sevier (Greenville), and a great
deal of street paving in Greenville, Greenwood, and
other cities, besides various public works throughout
the state.
Mr. Slattery married Miss Louise Phillips of
Savannah, Georgia.
Eugene Luther Witherspoon is founder and
active head of probably the largest business of its
kind in South Carolina. In 1894 he established the
firm of Witherspoon Brothers & Company, which
was incorporated in 1901. He is president, his
brother, H. L, Witherspoon, vice president, and T.
E. Hinson, vice president and secretary. This in
dustry at Sumter is engaged in the raanufacture of
caskets and coffins, and now does a business extend
ing over thirty-two states. There were only four
employes twenty-five years ago, while now the firm
uses the service of sixty persons.
Mr. Witherspoon was born at Darlington, South
Carolina, March 6, 1867, a son of J. Boyd and Eliza
Jane (Horton) Witherspoon. He is the eighth gen
eration of the Witherspoon faraily, which was found
ed at Charleston by John Witherspoon in 1734.
Some years later members of the faraily settled at
Kingstree and Witherspoon has been one of the
best known naraes in that agricultural coraraunity
from that time to the present. J. Boyd Witherspoon
was a Confederate soldier and spent his active life
as a farmer.
E. L. Witherspoon had a public school education
and in 1889 at the age of twenty-two began clerking
in a store at Sumter. Five years later in 1894 he
established his present business. He is also a di
rector of the City National Bank of Sumter and is
an active raeraber of the First Baptist Church.
March 7, 1894, he married Hattie Julia Anderson of
Lee County, They have two children. Hazel Ander
son and John Knox.
John T. Woodside. A prominent cotton manu
facturer and public-spirited citizen of Greenville
is one of South Carolina's native sons. He was
born and reared on a farm in Greenville County,
and was of a frail constitution from boyhood until
he was nearly forty, a son of Dr. John L. and
Perraelia (Charles) Woodside.
Mr. Woodside obtained the fundaraental principles
of an education in the comraon schools, and taught
school for a short period. His next experience was
at Reedy River, in the office of what was then
known as the Reedy River Manufacturing Company,
now Conestee, where he remained about seven years,
rising frora clerk to the more important position of
assistant secretary to the Mill Company. Later, he
purchased an interest in a general store at Pelzer,
continuing one and one-half years. Then he dis
posed of his interest and moved to Greenville, where
he felt he could better enlarge the scope of his

mercantile operations. Here he opened a grocery
business, which proved very successful, and which he
continued to operate for a period of ten years.
Mr. Woodside not being content to reraain in that
line, sold his business to engage in the cotton milling
business. In 1902, he inaugurated the Woodside
Cotton Mill; being a raan of sound business judg
raent, he experienced no trouble in getting together
a sufficient nuraber of stockholders araoijg local
people to make the initial capital stock, $200,000
for building and carrying on the operations of the
Woodside Cotton Mills.
The original plant was completed and began oper
ations early in 1903, and those farailiar with the
Woodside Textile Industry, need not be informed
of the reraarkable success of this business under
Mr. Woodside's direction and able manageraent.
The original plant has been extended until it
stands to-day, the largest cotton raill under one roof
in America. Besides this Greenville Mill,, Mr. Wood-
side directs the operation of the Simpsonville Cotton
Mills at Simpsonville, and the mill of the Fountain
Inn Manufacturing Company at Fountain Inn. The
three mills are operated under the name of The
Woodside Cotton Mill Corapany, of which Mr.
Woodside is president. Mr. Woodside fills an im
portant place in hot only Greenville industries, but
as a citizen who has found time to devote to the
educational and social welfare of thousands of its
wage earners.
Woodside Mill village is a model of its kind. The
Woodside Free School, the Young Men's Christian
Association and chapel, testify to Mr. Woodside's
interests in the welfare of the eraployees. These
various departments are carried on under the au
spices of the Welfare Department of the Wood-
side Mill, a capable superintendent being in charge.
Most of. the facts above stated are accessible to
all who know and wish to know the correct history
of the Greenville District. Mr. Woodside's modest
conviction is that he has been merely the instrument
for carrying out these ideas, and that the raost he
will claim is that he has tried to be faithful to his
trust. Mr. Woodside is a raember of the First Presby
terian Church. He married Miss Lou Carpenter of
an old and prorainent South Carolina family.
B. Arthur Morgan, who began the practice of
law at Greenville in 1885, has with increasing years
exerted a steadily increasing infiuence that gives
his narae recognized associations of power and
achieveraent in nearly every quarter of the state.
He is still a lawyer, also a banker, and as a forraer
raember of the Legislature his name is identified
with some historic measures.
He was born in Pickens County, South Carolina,
in 1864, son of Benjamin F. and Mary (Hamraett)
Morgan. His great-grandfather was a Revolu!-
tionary soldier, and about the close of the war
for independence moved frora Virginia to Greenville
County, South Carolina. Benjamin F. Morgan was
born in the eastern part of Greenville County, and
in 184s moved to Pickens County. Mary Hammett
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of the cotton mills at Piedmont and a prorainent
figure in the constructive affairs of his day.
B. Arthur Morgan grew up on a farra. He fin
ished his education in the Piedmont Institute at
Pickens Courthouse, and studied law with Wells
& Orr at Greenville. Admitted to the bar in 1885
he began practice with his preceptors, and the firm
later became Wells, Orr & Morgan. For several
years Mr. Morgan had as his associate and partner
former Governor Martin F. Ansel under the narae
Ansel & Morgan. In recent years Mr. Morgan has
carried the burdens of a large practice individually.
In 1907 he organized and has since been president
of the Bank of Comraerce, one of the very sound
and flourishing financial institutions of Greenville,
with a capital stock of $100,000.
In 1900 he was first elected a member of the
Legislature, and was re-elected, serving in the Legis
lature until the close of 1906. He was speaker pro
tem. The most important raeasure associated with
his name was the Morgan Bill, which he introduced
but which was not passed during his term — later
the substance of the bill was passed and the old
Dispensary Law, which had become odious to the
people of the state, was abolished with all its train
of attendant evils.
Mr. Morgan served as a member of the Wade
Hampton Monument Coraraission, by which under
state authority the monument to General Hampton
was erected. On the occasion of its unveiling Mr.
Morgan was spokesman for the Commission and pre
sented the monument to Governor Heyward. During
the war with Germany he was legal adviser for the
home service department of the Red Cross in that
organization, with activities in Greenville and Camp
Jackson. He served as judge advocate general on
the staff of both Governor Heyward and Governor
Ansel, four years in each position. These are only
the most conspicuous points in the service that has
been marked by steady devotion to the best interests
of his home locality and state.
Mr. Morgan married Miss Jennie Rose, daughter of
Hon. George M. Rose of Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Mr. Rose who was born in 1846 of distinguished
North Carolina ancestry, served as a Conferedate sol
dier during the last year of the war and for half a
century has been a member of the Fayetteville bar
and again and again has been the recipient of public
honor. He was a leader in the movement for restor
ation of white rule in North Carolina.
Mr. and Mrs. Morgan have four children : Capt.
George R., Helen A., B. Arthur, Jr., and Rose Mor
gan. The son George graduated frora Clerason Col
lege arid from Corriell Uriiversity, receivirig his de
gree iri mechariical engineering frora the latter insti
tution. At the beginning of the war with Gerraany
he entered the army at Madison Barracks, New
York, and was cofnmissioned captain and assigned
to Company E, Three Hundred and Twelfth In
fantry, Seventy-Eighth Division. After further
training at Camp Dix he went overseas and was in
active service with the Third Army Corps as rhem-
ber of one of the combat divisions on the fighting
front. ' The Seventy-eighth Division was designated
for return to the United States in the spring of 1919.

Judge Thomas J. Mauldin. There has never been
a more popular judge of the Thirteenth Judicial Cir
cuit than the present incumbent. Judge Thomas J.
Mauldin of Pickens, This is an assertion vouched
for by both the bar and the laity, and Judge Mauldin
is fully as popular in the Greenville part of his
district as in his home county.
Judge Mauldin is raember of a family that has
furnished many notable names to the state. He
was born in Pickens County in 1870, a son of Joab
and Deborah Reid (HoUingsworth) Mauldin. The
Mauldins were influential in the history of the old
Pickens District, out of which Pickens County was
formed in 1868. His paternal grandfather was
Maj. Milton Mauldin, a man of wide prominence
in his day, and a major in the old South Carolina
Militia before the war. Joab Mauldin served
throughout the war between the states in the Con
federate army. A cousin of Joab was the late Lieu
tenant Governor Mauldin of Greenville, whose
career with incidental reference to the family his
tory is contained in other pages.
Judge Thoraas J. Mauldin was educated in the
Military College of South Carolina, The Citadel at
Charleston, where he graduated in 1891. He stud
ied law in the office of his uncle the late Col. C. L.
HoUingsworth at Pickens. Adraitted to the bar in
1892, he began practice with his brother Mr. I. M.
Mauldin, now a resident of Colurabia. He also
taught school for several terms. Judge Mauldin
has been a prominent member ot the Pickens bar
over a quarter of a century. After his brother re
moved to Columbia he practiced in partnership with
Mr. B. A. Morgan, now of Greenville, under the
firm narae of Morgan & Mauldin. In 1904 he was
elected to the Lower House of the Legislature, serv
ing one term, and in 1908 was elected To the State
Senate, and at the conclusion of his term in that
body entered upon his duties as judge, an office to
which he was elected in 1912.
Judge Mauldin is also director of two banks in
Pickens County. He owns three well improved
farras in that county. He is a Knight Templar
Mason and Shriner and a raeraber of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. Judge Mauldin married
Miss Frances Miles Hagood, a sister of W. M. Ha-
good of Easley, one of the leading cotton manu
facturers of South Carolina.
CoL. Wattie Gaillard Smith, who died February
9, 1920, had his home at Orangeburg, and for many
years he had been prominent in the promotion and
management of cotton mills in that section of the
state, although his duties for the past several years
as state warehouse commissioner kept him rather
steadily at Colurabia.
Colonel Smith finished his education at Wofford
College at Spartanburg, where he lived in the home
of his uncle. Dr. Whiteford Smith, an educator of
distinctive culture and literary prominence. Col
onel Smith belongs to a family containing many well
known raerabers, and had much of the literary in
stinct of his ancestors. He was born at Williams-
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Julius and Sarah Elizabeth (Cobb) Smith. He was
the only child of his parents. Two weeks before
he was born his. father, a native of Charleston.
South Carolina, and a graduate in both the academic
and law departments of South Carolina College,
had given up his practice as a lawyer at Williamston
and entered the Confederate army in April, 1861.
He was captain of the Gist Rifles of Williamston.
In the second year of his service at the battle of
Sharpsburg (Antietam) he was mortally wounded,
dying soon afterward, and was buried at Shepards
town, Vireinia.
Colonel Smith's mother was born at Anderson,
South Carolina and is a daughter of Josiah Cobb.
The latter brought his family to Anderson County,
South Carolina, where Sarah Elizabeth Cobb was
reared, though she was educated at Alexandria.
Colonel Smith's father and his brother. Dr. White-
ford Smith, were descended through the maternal
line from Caleb Whiteford of Scotland. He was
possessed of great literary genius and was a con
temporary and friend of Oliver Goldsmith and is
mentioned in one of the latter's poems. Dr. White
ford Smith, in whose home Wattie Gaillard Smith
spent several years of his youth, was for thirty-two
years professor of English literature at Wofford
College. In the meantime Wattie Gaillard Smith
had attended school at Atlanta, Georgia, and also in
the common schools of Barnwell County. He en
tered Wofford College in 1879, and after leaving his
studies there was employed in the offices of the
Clifton Manufacturing Company, owners of cotton
mills at Clifton, near Spartanburg. He remained
twelve years and rose frora the status of clerk to
payraaster and cotton buyer. In 1890 he engaged in
the cotton mill business for himself, organizing and
building the Bamberg Cotton Mills at Bamberg. He
was president and treasurer of the company. In
1900 he organized the Orangeburg Manufacturing
Company, building the Orangeburg Cotton Mills
and was president and. treasurer of this institution
several years. Of late years Colonel Smith's chief
business had been cotton buying and exporting. He
ranked with the prorainent and successful cotton
raen of the state. As a resident of Orangeburg he
was for eight years an alderman and a forraer presi
dent of the Chamber of Commerce.
He was also interested in the Edisto Savings Bank
of Orangeburg, was president of its Business Men's
League, and served with official rank in various
organizations! of the National Guard. He was com
missary general on the staff of Governor Heyward,
Colonel Smith was a Master Mason and Shriner,
Knight of Pythias, past exalted ruler of the Elks,
and a member of the Methodist Church.
February i, 1917, he became state warehouse cora
raissioner, succeeding Senator McLaurin in that
office. He took a prominent part in the organiza
tion of the new Southern Cotton Association, and
vigorously promoted the interests of the cotton
planters of South Carolina, During his official resi
dence at Columbia he was usually found , in the
offices of the state warehouse coraraissioner on
Pulaski Street, near Gervais.
Like his Whiteford ancestors he had a knack for
writing and literary production,, and contributed
numerous articles to the press. He had cultured

tastes in the matter of books and literature and his
beautiful home in Orangeburg has a selected library
that indicates this taste and also its exercise.
In 1885 Colonel Smith married Miss Mamie A.
Begg of Spartanburg County. She was a daughter
of James and Mary A. Begg and a sister of William
R. Begg, famous for his achievements as a scholar
and lawyer.
Colonel Smith by his first marriage had four chil
dren : H. G. Smith ; Jennie, wife of W. J. Ligon, of
Anderson; Whiteford Smith; and Gertrude, wife of
R. B. Geiger, of St. Matthews. On October 19, 1898,
Colonel Smith married for his present wife Miss
Lucia Cuthbest Weathersby of Barnwell County.
The only child of this marriage, W. G. Smith, Jr.,
died at the age of fifteen months.
Capt. Sam D. Willis. Great expectations have
been entertained throughout America of the in
fluence to be derived frora the infusion of the great
body of young men trained in arms and disciplined
by service at home and abroad through the ranks
of private citizenship, with the new ideals and
standards of duty acquired while in the army. As
probably the first returned soldier to be appointed
to important public office in South Carolina, the
eyes of the state are upon Capt. Sam D. Willis, who
in August, 1919, was selected by Governor Cooper
as successor of the late Sheriff Rector of Green
ville County.
Captain Willis was born in Greenville in 1891, a
son of Gideon T. and Julia (Hollis) Willis. His
father is a retired citizen of Greenville, a Confederate
veteran, and for many years identified with the city
as a merchant. The raother represented an old Spar
tanburg County family.
Captain Willis received his early education in the
Oakland School and also attended the Central High
School of Greenville. In the brief period since he
attained his majority he made commendable progress
in coramercial lines, being employed on leaving school
by the Arnold Company, later with the mercantile
house of Henderson and Ashmore, and was con
nected with the Piedmont Shoe Corapany when he
entered the active military service. He resumed
his place with that firm when he returned from Eu
rope. Captain Willis has had a long and thorough mili
tary training. He enlisted as a private in the Butler
Guards November 29, 1910. He served successively
as corporal, sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieu
tenant and captain. He went to the Mexican border
with the Butler Guards in 1916 as second lieutenant.
Early in the war with Germany he accompanied the
Guards when mustered into the United States serv
ice at Camp Sevier, and while there by competitive
examination was promoted to first lieutenant. He
went overseas with the Thirtieth Division, and in
June, 1918, was given active command of his com
pany and shared in the glorious exploits of the But
ler Guards in front line duty in France. He was
slightly injured October 8, 1918, and for a brief time
was in a hospital. On the basis of his meritorious
record with his company he was promoted after the
armistice to captain. As a commissioned captain he
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returned from France and received his honorable
discharge at Camp Jackson April 30, 1919.
As his record in the National Guard and Regular
Army indicates. Captain Willis has the qualities of
the real soldier and a leader of men. He is an ex
pert rifleman, and was representative of the South
Carolina National Guards in several rifle tourna
ments. The appointment of Captain Willis to the
office of sheriff was a political event of more than
passing note, and aroused a large amount of cora
ment by the public and the press. Newspaper articles
all over the state drew attention to the significance
of the appointment as a gratifying evidence of the
breaking away frora old factional politips and open
ing a prospect for new standards and ideals for
public service. How the press and the general pub
lic regards his appointment is perhaps best set forth
in the editorial of the Colurabia State : "The young
officer. Captain Willis, fresh from the fields of
France, where he participated in the smashing of
the Hindenburg line and free of the entanglement
of local and partisan politics, who has been appoint
ed sheriff of Greenville by Governor Cooper, has
before him a rare opportunity to serve his people.
"The Sheriff is the ranking peace officer of the
county and on him rests the largest responsibility of
the execution of the laws and the protection of life
and property. As an officer he should have neither
friends nor enemies. Entitled as every man is to
political opinions of his own, he should be the last
man to give noisy expression to them. If a contro
versy of any kind arises which divides the com
munity, his effectiveness as an officer is instantly
weakened if he allows himself to be aligned on one
side or the other. If there be, for example, a race
riot, or disorders accompanying a strike, his business
and his only business is to enforce the law by arrest
ing the offenders. If he allows himself to appear
the champion of either party to the controversy he
loses the confidence of the community and destroys
his usefulness as an officer.
"Captain Willis knows what it is to obey and to
command. He knows that the Hindenburg line could
not have been broken if the Thirtieth Division had
been infected by politics. As the sheriff of Green
ville he can do the people of South Carolina a serv
ice not less than he has rendered his country as
captain of the "Butler Guards." He can set the ex
ample of the people of the State of what a brave,
prompt, nor-oartisan sheriff should be and the
less he shall think about the chances of election to
the office in the primary the better will be his cori-
duct and the greater the regard that he will win.
We don't know him but we suspect that Governor
Cooper has had these things in raind in making the
appointment and in that way has served well not
only the people of Greenville but of the whole State.
The Governor's purpose is to show the people what
the sheriff ought to be and what shall come of it
is in the hand and in the heart of the gallant young
veteran who fought in the Thirtieth."
June 19. 191 S, Captain Willis raarried Miss Ethel
Gray of Americus, Georgia. They have a daughter,
Virginia, born in 1916.
Francis Asbury Lawton has been a resident of
Greenville since 1904, is a prominent figure in the

wholesale lumber and lumber manufacturing interests
of South Carolina. He is a brother of T. Oregon
Lawton, Jr., president of the Southeastern Life In
surance Company of Greenville.
Mr. Lawton was born in Barnwell County, South
Carolina, a son of T. O. and Mary (WiUingham)
Lawton, and represents an old and prominent family
of South Carolina. One of his ancestors was an
officer in the Araerican army during the Revolution,
and his branch of the family is related to that of
Gen. Alexander R. Lawton, one of the most dis
tinguished figures of the South.
Francis Asbury Lawton grew up on a plantation
in Hampton County, was well educated, and since
a youth has been engaged in the lumber business.
For a nuraber of years he was associated with his
brother T. Oregon Lawton. His large interests as
a wholesaler and manufacturer of lumber have given
hira a place araong the prominent lumber men of
the South.
Since locating in Greenville his wholesale lumber
business has been carried on under the corporate
narae of the Lawton Lumber Company. He also
controls important retail lumber interests, such as
the Oregon Luraber Company of Greenville. Active
in business, he is also one of the public spirited men
in Greenville in every movement requiring general
co-operation. He is a meraber of the Baptist Church.
Mr. Lawton married Miss Edjth Hard, a native of
Charleston, South Carolina, and daughter of Maj.
C. F. Hard of an old and well known family of
Charleston, but now a resident of Greenville. Mr.
and Mrs. Lawton have five children : Charles H.,
Edith, Phoebe, Francis A., Jr., and Thomas Oregon,
Capt. Thomas Charles Gower, who was captain
of artillery in the National Guards nearly two years
and recently returned frora France is in civil life an
electrical engineer and contractor at Greenville and
head of the Gower-Mason Electric Company. It
is perhaps noteworthy that he is grandson of the
man who established the 'first system of street
car transportation in Greenville, an old horse car
line, long before electricity was known of as a
source of power in transportation.
The Gower family has indeed played a notable
part in the industrial .history of Greenville. His
grandfather, Thomas Claghorn Gower, who carae to
Greenville in 1841 at the age of nineteen, was grand
son of an Englishraan who settled in Massachusetts
in early days. Thoraas Claghorn Gower was born
at Abbott, Maine, in 1822. He learned the trade pf
carriage maker, and soon after coming to Green
ville established his first carriage making shop on a
farra fourteen miles below the town. Later he re
turned to Greenville and became a partner in the
firm of Gower & Company, carriage and wagon
manufacturers, a business that had been originated
by his older brother Ebbin Norton Gower, who had
preceded him to Greenville. This firra continued in
business until after the war. Thomas M. Cox having
become a member in the meantime, the firm name be
coming Gower, Cox & Gower. On the death of the
older brother Mr. H. C. Markley took his place,
and the title was Gower, Cox & Markley. This fa
miliar name appearing on wagons was seen all
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wagons were strong and substantial, equal to the
stress and hard usage demanded in a day when the
greater part of transportation was carried by such
vehicles, and they were never a discredit to the
factory name which was stenciled on the sides. A
large plant was built on the Reedy River near South
Main Street, and this was always known as the
"coach factory." During the war between the
states this factory had great usefulness and served
to raanufacture wagons and other vehicles for war
use. The firm's office was headquarters in the early
days for the general business transactions of people
throughout all of upper Carolina, and before the
war the firm were agents for the Newberry Bank.
Thomas Claghorn Gower through his active part
in this business and in other ways was a dominat
ing figure in Greenville. He served as quartermaster
during the war, attached to Hampton's Legion, and
was honored with a number of prominent public
offices, serving Greenville as raayor, alderraan, and
in other capacities. For several years he was chair
man of the board of school trustees, and held that
office when the city's first graded school was estab
lished. The old horse car line which he built was
operated for thirty-one years before the advent of
electric power.
Thoraas Claghorn Gower raarried Jane Jones Wil
liaras, daughter of Squire West Allen Williaras, for
whora the town of Williamston in Anderson Coun
ty was named. He discovered the spring there and
gave it to the town, of which he was the founder.
Squire Williams was the son of Samuel Williaras.
Arthur Gilliard Gower, a son of the pioneer Green
ville manufacturer, was born at Greenville in 1862,
was reared and educated there, and also spent some
tirae in the Southwest. He was at Tombstone, Ari
zona, when silver was discovered. After his re
turn to Greenville he was messenger for the Express
Company four years, and then for a long period was
engaged in the coal and builders' supply business.
In later years he has been prorainent in real estate
circles. Capt. Thoraas C. Gower was born at Greenville
in 1889 and is a son of Arthur Gilliard and Addie
E. (Cheatham) Gower. He was educated in the Fur
man University at Greenville and studied electrical
engineering at Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, New
York. He served in the Signal Corps of the Regular
Army from 1908 to 191 1. The Gower-McBee Elec
tric Corapany, with Captain Gower as president, was
founded at Greenville in 1912. The firra name was
changed to the G^wer-Mason Electric Company in
1919. This firm does an extensive business as
electrical contractors, installing electric lighting and
power systems for industries, and as general dealers
in electrical goods and supplies.
Not long after the beginning of the war with
Germany Captain Gower went into active service
as a member of the South Carolina Coast Artillery,
originally a part of the National Guard. He received
a commission as second lieutenant and later was
assigned to a regiment of railroad artillery. Having
been promoted to the rank of captain he went over
seas in October, 1918, as regimental signal officer,
his company forming a part of the Seventy-Fifth
Railroad Artillery. He returned home April 13,
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1919, after practically two years in the army and re
ceived his honorable discharge.
Maj. Thomas Henry Moffatt, one of the promi
nent officers in the great war from South Carolina,
is widely known over the state, particularly at Co
lurabia, where for the past ten years he has been suc
cessfully engaged in the practice of law.
Major Moffatt was born in Chester County, Feb
ruary 13, 1885, son of Thomas Henry Moffatt, a
farmer and raerchant. His mother was a member
of the Mcllwain family. Major Moffatt was edu
cated at Erskine College, and graduated in 1905
from The Citadel, Charleston's famous military
school. For one year. he taught in a private school
at Selraa, Alabama, was also a teacher in the public
schools of his native state, and studied law in the
University of South Carolina, graduating in 1910
LL. B. Major Moffatt was admitted to the bar in
1910 and has since been engaged in general prac
tice. He was a member of the well known law firm
of Barron-McKay-Frierson & Moffatt, but is now
practicing independently.
He entered the officers training camp in May, 1917,
and in August was commissioned a captain. He saw
ten months of service in France-, and attained the
rank of major in the Three Hundred and Seventy-
first Regiment. He was mustered out February 28,
1919. Major Moffatt is a Mason and a member of
the Knights of Pythias.
Wofford Fletcher Davis. While South Carolina
has an impressive array of opportunities for ara
bitious young raen, some that present the great
est fascination to thriving young genius, industry
and ability are those found in the cotton mill indus
try. Some of the biggest men in the industrial af
fairs of the state were at one tirae boy workers,
earning a few cents a day in sorae humble capacity
in the cotton raill.
One of them is Wofford Fletcher Davis. Born at
Inman in Spartanburg County, about forty years ago,
he was about ten years old when his parents, John
and Martha (Burnett) Davis moved to Spartanburg.
There he finished his meager education. He left
school to go to work. His first work was during
the construction of the Spartan raill. He was given
duties corresponding to his strength and youth, car
rying water for the workraen eraployed on the con
struction. When raill was finished he began work
as a sweeper boy at 25c a day.
In those days he was doing more than work and
earning his wages. He was quick, intelligent, stu
diously bent on getting ahead, gave^ good honest
services, and all these qualities were appreciated by
his employers so that his promotions followed rap
idly. He went into the card room and for some
years worked as carder and overseer of carding in
mills in Spartanburg and Columbia. His longest
and most important connection has been with the
Brandon Mill at Greenville. He became overseer
of carding in 1909. In the latter part of 1917 when
the veteran superintendent of the mill, Mr. W. F.
Walker resigned, Mr. Davis was the choice of the
raill management to take his place. During these
years be has gained the technical experience of the
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with his tact and good judgment in the handling of
raen make him an exceptionally qualified textile su
perintendent. The Brandon mill is one df the largest and raost
modern textile plants in the Piedmont region, and for
years has been successful at every point of its opera
tion. The mill has 86,000 spindles and 2,100 looms,
and manufactures sheetings, shirtings, and other
goods. Incidentally it should be mentioned that this
was one of the first mills to take up modern welfare
and coraraunity work araong its eraployes. During
the last year or two a new nursery building and a
new community building, have been erected. Mr.
Davis is a meraber of the Southern Textile Associa
tion, is a Baptist, and fraternally is affiliated vvith
the Masons, Odd Fellows and Woodmen of the
World. In his marriage to Miss Lillian Osteen of Green
ville he is connected with another family prominent
in the textile industry. Her father the late Frank
M. Osteen was regarded as one of the most success
ful and highly remunerative cotton raill superin
tendents in the South. Originally he was with the
Piedmont Manufacturing Company at Piedmont,
and from there come to Greenville to take charge
of the Brandon Mill while it was under construction.
He remained superintendent until Mr. F. W. Poe,
president of the Poe Manufacturing Company, who
had a great regard for Mr. Osteen's abilities, raade
hira a flattering offer to take charge of the Poe
Mills. From that time Mr. Osteen was with the Poe
plant until his death. Mr. Poe has said of hira that
he was one of the best superintendents in the history
of the textile industry, and his death was a corre-
ponding great loss not .only to his faraily, but to the
mill and his community.- Mr, and Mrs. Davis have
two children, Marion and Wofford Davis.
Harry R. Stephenson is a practical expert in the
textile industry, and as superintedent of the Union
Bleaching Company has been in no inconsiderable
measure responsible for an industry that has served
to complete and diversify the great cotton milling
production of Greenville.
He was born at Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1889, a
son of R. J. and Ida (Roberts) Stephenson. His
grandfather carae frora England and settled in
eastern Tennessee, where he established a woolen
mill. His branch of the Stephenson family bore a
close relationship to that of George Stephenson, in
ventor of the steam engine. R. J. Stephenson is still
living at Knoxville, where he was born. His wife
was member of a western North Carolina family,
her father having raoved frora that state to eastern
Tennessee. Harry R. Stephenson acquired his education in
the public schools of Knoxville and the University
of "Tennessee and left there after a special course
in mechanical engineering, to go to Philadelphia and
enter the Philadeljihia Textile Institute. He is
therefore a man of college and technical training
and what he learned in the shop and laboratories of
the Institute concerning, etigineering and textile chem
istry has had abundant opportunity to prove out in
a practical way singe Coraing to Greetiville in ' 1910.
Here he entered the plant of the Union- Bleaching
and Finishing Company, an industry ' that was

founded by Mi;. John W. Arrington as noted else
where in, this publication. In 1915 Mr. Stephenson's
skill and ability and usefulness having been demon
strated he was promoted to his present position as
superintendent. He is a member of the Southern
Textile Association.
Mr. Stephenson raarried Miss Bessie Keenan of
Colurabia, South Carolina. The Keenans are an
old faraily of historic Charleston, and frora that
city Mrs. Stephenson's father raoved to Columbia,
after many years in the naval stores business at
Charleston. Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson have a beau
tiful home on the Buncombe Road, made the more
attractive because of its coramanding view of the
Paris Mountain. Their one child is Harry R. Steph
enson, Jr.
W. Frank Walker. When the textile industry of
South Carolina seeks to honor its most influential
figures, not so rauch those who have supplied capital
as those who have distributed directly by work and
technical management, hardly any one man is en
titled to more consideration than W. Frank Walker,
now living retired at Greenville. Mr. Walker made
cotton mill work and operation his life career, spent
over forty-seven years in the business, was a prom
inent cotton mill superintendent, and frora first to
last never had any outside interests and it is said
that he was never without a position, his abilities
being in constant demand.
He was born in what is now Oconee Courity then
the old Pendleton District in 1858, a son of Stan
hope W. and Jane (Sraith) Walker, the latter a na
tive of Greenville County. Stanhope Walker was
of Scotch-Irish ancestry, son of a Virginian, and a
native of Rutherford County, North Carolina. Early
in life he raoved to Pendleton District of South
Carolina. W. Frank Walker began working in cotton raills
when fourteen years' old. His most noteworthy em
ployment in early life began at the age of eighteen
in 1876 in the old Piedmont Mills at Piedmont in
Greene County. This is one of the faraous cotton
mills of the South and one of the oldest of those
still in operation in South Carolina It was organized
in 1872 by ,Colonel Hamraett, and Mr. Walker entered
the'mills while Colonel Hamraett was president. Mr.
Walker began at the bottora. of the ladder and was
content to distinguish himself by faithful and dili
gent work, and while working he also studied all the
technical processes of cotton manufacture, and in
a few years was pronounced an expert in every
branch of machinery and technical process and
everything connected with the physicial equipment
of such a mill. There were many promotions in his
early life, which eventually brought him the su
perintendeney of the Piedmont Mill, a place in which
he served for eight years. He then took a similar
position in the Monarch Mills at Union, remained
there also eight years, and came to Greenville as
superintendent of the Brandon Mills. Mr, Walker
voluntarily retired from the business to which he had
devoted over forfy-seven .years in September, 1917.
V^hile, as stated tfbove, he has sought no .other
business connection outside of cotton milling,^ he has
a. keen interest in the communities where .he has
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became a member of the Methodist Church at the
age of twenty, and has served in many capacities,
especially as teacher in the Sunday school. He is
now chairman of the board of stewards of the St.
Paul Methodist Church at Greenville and teacher
of the Married Ladies Bible Class. Mr. Walker
first married Miss Harriet A. McElrath, who died
in 1912. His present wife is Miss Luna Eleanor
Wright of Honea Path.
David Gaillard Ellison, founder and head of the
David G. Ellison Fire Insurance Agency, one of the
leading organizations of its kind in the state, is rec
ognized as one of the representative business men
of the Ccipital city.
He was born in Fairfield County, February 22,
1879, a son of Robert Emmet and Katherine Lydia
(Gaillard) Ellison. His father, whose death oc
curred in 1907, was a well known live stock dealer,
and also served as sheriff of Fairfield County for six
teen years.
David G. Ellison spent his boyhood days in Fair
field County, where he attended the public school,
supplementing this with a course of study at Mount
Zion. In 1897 he became a resident of Columbia
and soon thereafter established the corapany of
which he has since remained the head, and in which
he has built up one of the principal fire insurance
agencies in South Carolina.
In addition to his personal business, Mr. Ellison
has found time to devote much attention to the
public welfare and has been an active champion of
those measures conducive to the public good. He
served for four years as chairman of the State
Board of Pardons, and is a member of the board of
directors of the Columbia Charaber of Coraraerce,
also a member of the board of trustees, Colurabia
Hospital. He is secretary and treasurer of the
Guaranty Building & Loan Association,- and a di
rector in the Bank of Colurabia, and treasurer of
the South Carolina Fair Association, which was
organized in 1868.
December 14, 1910, Mr. Ellison married Miss
Sophie Aldrich, of Barnwell, South Carolina, a
daughter of Hon. Robert Aldrich, who served for
many years as circuit judge. Mr. and Mrs. Ellison
have two children : David Gaillard, and Sophie Aid-
rich. Col. Robert Anderson Thompson was the last
survivor of the signers of South Carolina's Ordi
nance of Secession. That was only one of raany
distinctions that belonged to his long and useful
career. He was bom in Pickens County June 13, 1828,
and died at his" home near Walhalla August 7, 1914,
at the age of eighty-six. His great-grandfather
James Thompson was a native of Ireland, raarried
in that country, and carae in 1776 to the American
colonies then struggling for their independence.
After a brief residence in Virginia he moved to
the Union District of South Carolina, and at once
identified himself with the cause of the Colonists.
William Thorhpson, grandfather of the late Colonel
Thompson, was a native of Union County, South
Carolina. 'In the same cotinty waS born. Charles
Thompson:- Charles Thompson married Mahala

Gaines, who represented two prominent Virginia
families, Gaines and Pendleton. Her father Rev.
Robert Gaines was a native of Virginia and a Metho
dist minister.
Robert Anderson Thompson represented good an
cestry. His early life was unfavored by special for
tune or circumstance. He had limited advantages in
the old field schools of Pickens District and really
acquired his education in a printing office. As a
boy he began an apprenticeship which he served in
the offices of the Pendleton Messenger, and later
for three years associated with Hon. Frank Burt,
editor and publisher of the paper. He was also
connected with the Laurensville Herald at Laurens.
In 1853 he bought the Keowee Courier at Pickens,
and for forty-five years was one of its owners and
editors, first at Pickens and afterward at Walhalla.
Colonel Thompson was a man of broad and increas
ingly wise views, was profound in his study of
human affairs, and had the logic and the use of terse
language to express his opinions and ideas. He was
a splendid type of the older generation of newspaper
men and made his paper an instrument of uplift
throughout the state. Though he had little contact
with good schools and universitities he continued
getting an education all his long life, and lived in the
companionship of good books and in association
with strong men and high ideals. , He always ac
knowledged a great debt to his study of the life of
Franklin. Moreover he lived in an atmosphere cal
culated to bring out the best of his talents. His own
home was not far from Fort Hill, the home of Caro
lina's greatest statesman.
In 1853 Colonel Thorapson was appointed cora-
raissoner in equity for Pickens District and was re
elected to the same office by the Legislature every
four years until 1870, when the duties of his office
became a function of the Court of Common Pleas.
This office required frequent visits to Columbia and
kept him constantly in touch with the leading men
of the state. An incident of his long tenure of office
is that his official bond of $20,000 was given through
out and continuously by five raen, leading citizens of
his district, whose naraes were Andrew F. Lewis,
Williara Hunter, Williara S. Grisham, Jaraes E. Hay
good and Elihu H. Griffin. He raerited this confi
dence and all his life his own word was his bond,
and he prized nothing more than his honor and in
tegrity. During this period he was also elected by the Legis
lature for several years as a member of the board
of free schools and one of the commissioners of pub
lic buildings. These offices carried no compensa
tion, but they were opporunities which he strove to
realize for a vital and effective public service.
Colonel Thompson was one. of the seven members
of the secession convention elected frora the old
Pickens District. The ordinance passed Deceraber
20, i860, was signed by all of the 170 members of
the conventions. Colonel Thompson's name stood
in the middle of the list of signatures, but as above
noted he was the last of that group of noted South
Carolinians to. pass to the Great Beyond. As soon
as the convention adjourned he raised a corapany
of infantry which, became Corapany B of the Second
Regiraent of Rifles, Jenkins Brigade, Longstreet's
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proraoted to lieutenant colonel of his regiment, but
on account of failing health he was corapelled to re
tire in 1863 frora field of duty, though in other ca
pacities he gave his active support to the cause until
the close of the war. His service continued un
abated through his newspaper and through his per
sonal influence during the era of reconstruction. He
waged an unceasing fight against the reign of the
alien and the demagogue until the white man was
restored to leadership in the carapaign of 1876 under
Col. Wade Harapton.
Colonel Thompson had carried on the study of
law for a number of years and in 1870 was adraitted
to the bar before the Circuit Court at Walhalla by
Judge Jaraes L. Orr. He practiced his profession
with Gen. Sarauel McGowan, Col. James L. Orr, Jr.,
Capt. W. R. Wells and others. For several years
he held the office of coraraissioner of internal revenue
and register and referee in bankruptcy, and in 1900
he was chosen a raember of the State Legislature and
his elderly and dignified figure was conspicuous in
the deliberations of that body for two years. He
repeatedly served as chairraan of the county demo
cratic committee, often a member of the state demo
cratic convention. He was a ruling elder of the
Presbyterian Church, and for many years a prom
inent Mason.
Colonel Thompson raarried Miss Virlinda Rose
Starritt in 1858. She came frora -Clarksville, Georgia.
Her death occurred in 1909. Seven children were
born to their marriage : Elizabeth Rose, deceased ;
Mahala; Robert Starritt; Charles Jackson; Pickens
Reid ; Isabella, deceased ; and William Hunter, de
ceased. Carroll Brown Wardlaw. An acquaintance with
Carroll Brown Wardlaw is esteemed a privilege by
his neighbors and friends in Broadway Township
of Anderson County. He has spent his life there,
is a broad-minded and progressive farmer, and
though at times he has had difficulties and obstacles
to overcome he has managed to find a way to rear
and provide for his family and discharge all the
varied responsibilities of a good citizen.
He was born in that township Septeraber 12, 1853,
a son of Hugh S. and Elizabeth (Harris) Wardlaw,
a grandson of Jaraes and Nancy Wardlaw, James
being a native of Ireland and an early settler in
Abbeville County where Hugh Wardlaw was born.
The latter lived to the age of seventy-one, and spent
his life as a farmer. Six of his eleven children ^re
still living. The mother was born in Anderson
County and died at the age of forty years.
Brown Wardlaw grew up on the home farm and
at the age of twenty-two married Miss Lulu Smith,
daughter of William Sraith of Anderson County.
At the time of their marriage they had practically
no capital and have achieved success by honest toil
and frugal manageraent. Mr. Wardlaw has owned
considerable land at different tiraes and his present
home farm coraprises 120 acres. He and his wife
are active members of the Baptist Church. Their
children are: Margaret; Dorsie Lola; Joseph Major;
Eunice Gertrude, who died, married at the age of
twenty-seven ; Harris Brown, who died when eleven
years old ; Williara Hugh ; Ruby Amanda ; and Lu
cile.

Charles Robert Davis Burns. While he is now
giving his attention to his thriving business at Wal
halla, Mr. Burns is a prorainent figure in Oconee
County and is distiguised by a long and efficent
record of public service. He has been active in poli
tics since early life, and is a raan of splendid busi
ness judgraent and thorough personal integrity.
He was born in Laurens County November 18,
1861, a son of John D. and Jane (Davis) Burns,
both natives of the sarae county. Their respective
farailies came to this state from Virginia in early
times. The paternal grandfather, James Burns, was
a native of South Carolina and of Revolutionary
stock. The maternal grandfather, William Gaston
Davis, also a native South Carolinian, moved to
Tennessee and spent the rest of his life in Shelby
County. John D. Burns moved to Walhalla from
Laurens County in 1872 and died there December
3, 1883. He was born January 20, 1816. During the
war he operated the Laurens Railroad to Newberry.
At Walhalla he was engaged in the milling business
and was a farraer. His wife died June 25, 1872, in
her fiftieth year. They were the parents of two chil
dren, Laura E., widow of J. T. Ellison of Green
ville County, and Charles R. D. Burns.
The latter was eleven years old when his parents
raoved to Walhalla, and he grew up in that town
and acquired a good education at Newberry College
and at Adger College, He read law, but the death
of his father and father-in-law corapelled hira to
look after their estates, and subsequently he was
diverted frora his ambition for a professional career
by his interest in politics. He was appointed store
keeper and gauger in the revenue departraent of the
Federal Government, and eight months later was
made deputy revenue collector at Columbia, where
he lived five years. Returning to Walhalla, he was
elected a member of the Legislature in 1894 and re
elected in 1896. Several times he has been county
chairman of the democratic committee for Oconee
County, Mr. Burns was elected clerk of the court
for Oconee County, in 1900, and by re-election held
that office and made a raost creditable record therein
for eight years. - Since leaving office he has con
ducted a real estate business and is conveyancer of
deeds and mortgages. He also owns some valuable
farra interests. Mr. Burns is a Master Mason and
a prominent Odd Fellow, being a past grand master
of the grand lodge of the state. His church affilia
tion is with the Baptist denomination.
November 28, 1882, he married Miss Bertha H.
Schroeder, who, died November 22, 191 1, at the age
of forty-nine. Her father, Jacob Schroeder, was a
conspicuous figure in the early history of Walhalla.
He was president of the Gerraan Colonization So
ciety that established the Town of Walhalla in 1850.
He was born in Hanover, Germany, spent many
years in Charleston, South Carolina, and laid the
basis of his fortune in the coal business. He sub
sequently used much of his wealth and influence to
promote and upbuild the Town of Walhalla, where
he was engaged in the milling industry and also had
extensive farraing interests. For a time he conducted
the American Hotel at Walhalla, He was a Lutheran
and died at Walhalla in 1880, Mr. and Mrs. Burns had
three children: Bertie, wife of Charles W Wick
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the age of ten years ; and John D., who is a business
associate with his father.
Mr. Burns attributes rauch of his success in life
to his early marriage and consequence identity
with the staid business element araong whora he
lives. His wife was a valuable help-meet in every
political or business endeavor. He is gradually re
tiring from public affairs, and giving the greater part
of his time to private interests, in order to enjoy
in his latter days that happiness and contentment,
which has come as the results of his active and suc
cessful efforts earlier in life,
Hon. Edward Colgate Dennis, a Darlington
lawyer, has built up a splendid practice since estab
lishing his office there, and has won an invaluable
place in its citizenship.
He was born in Bishopville, Lee County, April
10, 1872. His grandfather. Dr. John E. Dennis, was
a native of Halifax County, Virginia, and came to
South Carolina about 1827. Dr. Robert E. Dennis,
father of the Darlington lawyer, was also a native
of Bishopville. The Dennis faraily is of Welsh an
cestry. The raother of Edward Colgate Dennis was
Mary G. Green, who was born in that part of Sumter
County, now Lee County, daughter of Rev. H. D.
and Rebecca (Abbott) Green, the father a native of
Georgetown, South Carolina, and of English an
cestry. Edward Colgate Dennis was the fourth among
eight children, and spent his early life at Bishopville.
He was liberally educated, attending the Bingham
Military School of North Carolina, and Vanderbilt
University at Nashville, where he was graduated
Bachelor of Science in 1895. He was admitted to
the bar in December, 1898, had some active experi
ence in Philadelphia for two years, and on January
I, 1901, opened his offices at Darlington. He has
been in practice there steadily since then, and has
handled a great deal of important litigation for indi
viduals and corporations.
April 10, 1907, he married Blanche C, Moorer,
daughter of Dr, D, F. Moorer of St. George; South
Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis have one son and
one daughter, Edward C, Jr., and Blanch M, Mr,
Dennis served as mayor of Darlington in 1011-12,
He was elected to the State Legislature in 1918, and
is now servin.g in the session of 1019-20. He is
affiliated with the Masonic Order, Knights of Pythias,
and Woodmen of the World, and is a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
J, Waddy Thompson, The incumbent of the office
of auditor of Laurens County since 1910, J, Waddy
Thompson during his administration of affairs has
shown himself an efficient, faithful and courteous
official, with trained abilities for the handling of the
numerous intricate details pertaining to his position,
an earnest wish to serve his county and his fellow-
citizens well, and a personality that readily attracts
and indefinitely holds the friendship of those with
whom he comes in contact during the course of his
official duties.
Mr. Thompson was born October 10, 1866, on his
father's farm in Laurens County, a son of Oliver C,
and Harriet (Howard)' Thorapson, A personal
sketch of Oliver G, Howard appears elsewhere in

this volume, in which will be found a history of
the family. J, Waddy Thompson was reared on the
home farm and secured a public school education,
and when his father was elected county auditor
of Laurens County, in 1888, he became the elder
raan's deputy and continued to serve as such during
the six years of his incurabency. For twelve years
thereafter, Mr. Thorapson devoted his energies to
farming on the home place, subsequently turning
his attention to cotton trading, a business to which he
devoted five years, and in which he was successful.
In 1910 he was first elected auditor of Laurens
County; ^nd so satisfactory has been his service that
he has been retained in the position by consecutive
re-election ever since. He is generally recognized
as an admiraible official with high ideals of public
service. Mr. Thompson was married in 1890 to Miss Mamie
O. Henderson, daughter of Williara E. Henderson
of Laurens County, and seven children have been
born to thera. One of their sons, William Gary
Thompson, served in the quartermaster's depart
ment in the United States army during the great
war, but was not called upon for service overseas.
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are devout members of the
Baptist Church, in the faith of which their children
have been reared.
Samuel Clarence Reid. Practically the entire
life of Samuel Clarence Reid, since -he attained ma
turity, has been passed in one or another official po
sition which has been connected with the preserva
tion of law and order. When he was still a young
man he became an officer of the law, and, with short
intermissions, he has continued to be identified with
it and to occupy posts calling forth the exercise of
ability, skill and discretion as well as of the posses
sion of courage and physical ability. At present, Mr.
Reid is sheriff of Laurens County, a position which
he has held since 1916 and in which he has estab
lished an excellent record.
Samuel Clarence Reid was born October 4, 1871,
in Newberry County, South Carolina, but was reared
in Laurens County. His parents were Samuel War
ren and Mary (Rodgers) Reid. His father, bom
in Newberry County, fought through the War be
tween the states as a soldier of the Confederate
army, and following the close of that struggle re
turned to his vocation as a farraer and passed the
remainder of his life in the peaceful atmosphere of
the country, where his death occurred. Mrs. Reid,
who was born in Laurens County, still survives her
husband, and is the mother of six sons and two
daughters. Reared on the horae farra and carefully trained
to be an agriculturist, Sarauel C. Reid secured an
"old field" education and when he began his career
it was as an assistant to his father on the horae
place. There he remained until he was twenty-one
years of age when he went to Clinton and secured
employment as a clerk in the establishment of Bailey
Brothers.' He remained in that position for one
year only, however, and then resumed farming, at
which he spent two years. In February, i8g6^ oc
curred his marriaee to Miss Alma Estelle Bramlett,
and two daughters have been born to this union.
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where he clerked for while and was then made a
private policeman. He served eighteen months in
this capacity, during which time his abilities were
recognized and he was made chief of police of Clin
ton, an office in which he served eight years ¦ and
three months. Next he was made a deputy sheriff
and returned to Laurens, where he has since raade
his home, and acted as deputy for four years. At
the expiration of his terra of office -he identified hira
self with a furniture concern, with which he was
connected for about one year and then became asso
ciated with the Gulf Refining Corapany, to which
he gave his services for a short time. In 1916
he was given the shrievalty by vote at the polls, and
since that time has established an excellent record
in his iraportant office.
Mr. Reid is a self-made man and one of cour
age and marked skill as an investigator, and has
been successful in the clearing up of mysterious
crimes and in the preservation of law and order in
his county where he is feared by evil-doers. He is
a valued and popular raember of the local lodges of
Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodraen of Amer
ica, and holds the faith of the Baptist Church,
of which Mrs. Reid and their daughters are con
sistent members.
Clarence Alva Power has had an active and use
ful career as farmer, surveyor, and public official in
Laurens County, and is now clerk of courts.
He was born in that county January 14, 1874. The
Power faraily is Scotch-Irish, and seven brothers
of the name carae to the United States in an early
day, settling in Virginia and the Carolinas. Mr.
Power's grandfather was Lewis Power, a native of
Laurens County. Luke D. Power, father of the
clerk of court, was born in Laurens County and
served as a Confederate soldier and the rest of his
life was spent in farraing. He raarried Sarah Evel
ine Langston, who was born in Laurens County.
Her father Judge William H. Langston was judge
of probate of Laurens County after the Civil war
and a man of prorainence. Luke D. Power was a
Presbyterian and his wife was a Baptist. They had
four children : William S., Clarence A., Evie F., wife
of Arch C. Owings, and Eulie E.
Clarence A. Power was reared on a farra and
had a good education, having attended school for
three years at Furman University, Greenville, South
Carolina. While farming, he took up surveyinp'.
and has followed that profession for a number of
years in connection with other duties. He lived on
his farm until he removed to Laurens in 1902 to
take up his duties as deputy sheriff. In the same
year he was elected county auditor and filled that
office from 1903 to 1909. He then resuraed his pro
fession as surveyor, and in 1912 became clerk of
court, and has given a careful and efficient admin
istration to that office for seven years.
Mr. Power is prominent in the Woodmen of
the World, and is past head consul for South Caro
lina. He is also past raaster of his Lodge of Masons,
is a Knight Teraplar and Shriner and a meraber of
the Knights of Pythias. He and his faraily are Bap
tists. He married in 1897 Miss Maud Hunt, daugh
ter of William P. Hunt of Greenville. They are
the parents of six children.

Hon. Preston Lang Bethea, The Bethea faraily
has contributed a number of men prominent to the
life and affairs of South Carolina. The Betheas
were originally English and settled in Virginia at
an early date, several of the Virginia soldiers of
the Revolution bearing that name.
Preston Lang Bethea, who for many years has
been one of the prominent planters of Dillon, was
the first representative for that county in. the. State
Legislature and is its present representative in the
State Senate. He was born in what is now Dillon,
but then Marion County, April 10, 1870. His grand
father was William W. Bethea, a native of Marion
County. His father. Dr. J. F. Bethea, born in the
same county, served as a surgeon in the Confederate
army, and after the war engaged in practice in '
Marion County, and continued active in his pro
fession for many years. He died at the age of
seventy-one. His wife was Hannah Jane Bethea, a
daughter of Dr. Alfred W. Bethea, a practicing
physician who was killed by a deserter during the
Civil war. Dr. J. F. Bethea and his wife had a
family of fourteen children, Preston L. being the
oldest of the living sons.
He grew up in his father's home in Marion County,
and received his education in Wofford College and
graduated in 1891 from the Peabody Normal Col
lege of the University of Nashville. For three
years he taught school, and then took up his career
as a farraer and planter. His plantation in Dillon
County comprises about 1,500 acres, devoted to the
cultivation of cotton, corn and tobacco, with cotton
his principal crop. He operates a "cotton gin on his
farm and the plantation is one of the larger ones
of Dillon County and supports a number of families.
When Dillon County was formed in 191 1, Mr.
Bethea was chosen its _first representative and filled
that office two terms. "In 1918 he was again called
upon for public duty as a member of the State Senate.
For four years he was a meraber of the state peni
tentiary board. Mr. Bethea is affiliated with the
Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias and the
Woodraen of the World,
In 1894 he married Miss Josie Wetherly, a daugh
ter of C. M. and Mary McLeod Wetherly. She was
born at Bennettsville in Marlboro County. They
have two children: Mary, wife of Dr. B. F. Hardy;
and Colin W., a student in The Citadel at Charles
ton. Senator Bethea also has a grandson, Benjamin
Franklin Hardy, Jr.
Monroe Reid McDonald. Oconee County has
been the home of the McDonald family since pioneer
days, and for the most part the name has been asso
ciated with the agricultural interests of that section
of the state. An exception to the general rule is the
case of the well known Walhalla attorney Monroe
Reid McDonald, who has achieved success both in
his profession and in politics and is the present rep
resentative of that county in the State Legislature.
He was born on a farm near Richland in Oconee
County Noveraber 11, 1888. His great-grandfather
McDonald came from Scotland and developed from
the virgin wilderness some of the land near Richland
in Oconee County. His son Henry Duffie McDonald
was born near Richland and spent his life there as
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Donald, father of the Walhalla lawyer, was born
near Richland in 1850 and spent all his life in that
one locality. He died in 1892. His mother's maiden
name was Millie Kelley. Nelson C. McDonald mar
ried Martha J. Isbell, who was born near Dalton,
Georgia, June 9, 1840, and is still living in Oconee
County. Her grandfather Robert IsbeU was a native
of England and an early settler in Oconee County.
He married Sallie Roberson, related to old "Horse
shoe" Roberson, one of the prorainent local char
acters in history in Oconee County in the Revolu
tionary war. Her father, Robert Isbell, Jr., married
Lucinda Wright.
Monroe Reid McDonald, one of seven children,
grew up with his brothers and sisters on the farm
and after completing the work of the comraon schools
entered the University of South Carolina, taking a
special academic course for two years and then
studying law. He graduated from the law depart
ment of the University in June, 1910, and in the
same month was admitted to the bar before the Su
preme Court. He has since been diligently; at prac
tice in Walhalla. He first represented his county
in the Lower House of the Legislature in 1913-14
and was again elected in 1918. He and all his family
are' Methodists and he is affiliated with the Knights
of Pythias and the Masonic order.
October 14, 1915, he married Miss Mattie Ether-
edge of Columbia. Their two children are Monroe
Etheredge and Howard Cecil.
Hon. Oliver G. Thompson. A long life of quiet,
dignified service and usefulness to his community
might properly entitle Judge Thompson to lasting
memory among the good and true men of Sotith
Carolina, though he will be longest remembered in
his home county of Laurens where he was born and
where he has spent nearly all of the more than three-
quarters of a century allotted to him.
His birth occurred on a farm November 23, 1843.
His parents Ellis and Frances (Garrett) Thompson
were natives of the same county, and the father lived
to the age of seventy and the mother to sixty-seven.
¦Their sturdy qualities were transmitted to their
children, twelve in nuraber, all of whom reached
mature years. Three of the sons served in the
Confederate arriiy. Henry Thompson and Judge
Thompson were merabers of Company G of the
Third South Carolina Regiment, at first under the
command of Gen. M. L. Bonham and later under
General Kershaw, Toward the close of the war
when the hopes of the Confederacy were rapidly dim
ming, John Thompson, a boy in years, and Ellis
Thompson, the father, then well advanced in age,
both answered the call for raore troops. The father
served with the Coast Guards. Judge Thompson
has long been identified with the United Confederate
Veterans and for the last ten years served as colonel
of the Laurens County regiraents. He is regarded
as the unofficial historian of everything connected
with the Confederacy and its loyal soldiers in Lau
rens County. , , , r
He was about seventeen years of age when he left
the home farm to join the Confederate army and
when the war was over he returned horae to the
labor of the fields and the reconstruction of his own
and the family fortune. More than half a century

since then he has given time to agricultural pursuits,
though frequently interspersed with official duties.
He was active as a farmer until 1889, when he was
elected auditor for Laurens County, having for ten
years previously served as a local magistrate. Alto
gether his public career covers a period of forty
years. He was auditor six years and in January,
189s, was chosen probate judge. To the exacting du
ties of that office he has given an administration
exceedingly careful and worthy of commendation
by all concerned.
In 1864 while home on a furlough from the army
Judge Thompson raarried Harriet Howard. She
was born in Greenville County, a daughter of Stewart
Howard. Judge and Mrs. Thompson reared a fam
ily of twelve children, two of whora are now de
ceased. Mrs. Thompson is a Baptist while he is a
Presbyterian. They have lived together five years
beyond their golden wedding anniversary. They
still raake their home on the farm.
Henry Davis Barnett. As soon as his education
was finished Henry Davis Barnett took his place in
the mercantile establishment of his father at Sumter
and his name has been increasingly associated with
the business and civic affairs of that city for forty
years. He is now head of the oldest mercantile
establishment under one manageraent in Sumter.
This business not only handles a complete stock of
goods needed in the city and surrounding territory,
but deals extensively in cotton and fertilizers.
Mr. Barnett was born at Manville, South Carolina,
April 8, 1862, son of Benjarain J, and Zelda (Lorgea)
Barnett. His father was a merchant of Sumter
County and a veteran of the Civil war. He was in
Corapany B of the First Regiment Engineers Corps
in the Army of Northern Virginia, and was with the
army until his surrender at Appomattox in 1865.
Henry Davis Barnett finished his education in the
public schools of Charleston in 1879 and then re
turned to Surater to engage in the general mer
chandise business. In 188,1 he became manager of
the business operated under the firra name of B. J.
Barnett, and upon the death of his father in 1897
succeeded as head of the firm and is now its sole
owner. Mr. Barnett has supplied raeans and other
influence to the upbuildini? and proraotion of all the
manufacturing industries centered at Sumter. He
also owns a large araount of farra land. He is a di
rector in the First National Bank of Sumter, vice
president of the Cotton Warehouse Company, vice
president of the Palmetto Fire Insurance Company,
and a director in several other corporations. His
substantial character as a business man and citizen
is widely attested. For three consecutive terms he
served as an alderman and for six years was chair
man of the finance committee. Mr. Barnett is affili
ated with the Masons, Elks and Knights of Pythias,
and for two terms was president of the Teraple
Sinai at Surater. He married at New York City in
1913 Emma Klein, a daughter of Dr. Henry Klein,
now deceased. They have two children, Ruth Hen
rietta and Lucille Frances Bamett.
Edgar Charles Haynsworth is an active mem
ber of the Surater law firm of Haynsworth & Hayns
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more than a century and into which have gone the
services and talents of at least three generations
of the Haynsworth family.
Edgar Charles Haynsworth was born at Sumter
June 27, 1859, the oldest son and child of William
F. B. and Mary (Charles) Haynsworth. His great
grandfather, Henry Haynsworth, was born in Sura
ter District and was aiplanter by occupation. He
was a scout under General Sumter during the Revo
lutionary war. He died in 1823.
One of the original members of the law firm of
Haynsworth & Haynsworth at Sumter was William
Haynsworth, grandfather of Edgar C. He was born
at Sumter in 1798, and died in September, 1865. He
began the practice of law at Sumter in 1817. In
1851 He was a member of a convention held in Co
lumbia to determine upon the question of iraraediate
secession for South Carolina. In November, 1823,
he married Sarah E. Morse, daughter of Josiah B.
Morse of New Haven, Connecticut. She died in
July, 1877.
William F. B. Haynsworth, oldest child of Wil
liara Haynsworth, was born at Sumter in 1824, was
educated in public schools, graduated in 1844 from
South Carolina College at Columbia, and studied
law with his father. He was admitted to the bar
in 1845, and was associated with his father in prac
tice for six years. For fifteen years until the close
of 1866 he held the office of coraraissioner in equity.
He then resumed private practice. He was elected
president of the Bank of Surater in 1889. In 1877
Governor Wade Harapton appointed hira treasurer
of Sumter County and he filled that office for ten
years. William F. B. Haynsworth married Mary
Charles, a daughter of Col. Edgar W. Charles of
Darlington in 1858. Eight children were born to
their marriage, Edgar Charles being the oldest.
Edgar Charles Haynsworth was educated in pri
vate schools, completed his work at Furman Univer
sity in 1879, and after that was a teacher and student
of law until admitted to the bar in June, 1883. For
a few months he practiced with his father, but in
1884 went to Columbia and joined his cousin in the
firm of Lyles & Haynsworth. He practiced at Co
lumbia until 1892 and then returned to Sumter and
again became associated with his father in the law
firm of Haynsworth & Cooper. Since 1909 he has
served as master in equity. He has also been a mem
ber of the city school board, for four years was a
member of the Sumter County board of education.
June 27, 1888. he married Clara Talley of Colum
bia, daughter of William H, and Agnes (Thompson)
Talley, To their marriage have been born seven
children, of whora five survived childhood: William
F, B„ is city engineer of Greenville; Alexander T.
is a farmer in Sumter County ; Agnes H, is the wife
of Harry E, Duvenstedt, superintendent of an elec
tric plant at Clearwater, Florida; Mary C, is at
home; Clarence Hugh, the youngest, is a civil engi
neer and was in training with the Aviation Corps
at the signing of the armistice,
William McIntyre Monroe has been an organizer,
executive or director in probably a majority of the
important business concerns of the City of Marion,
In early life he was a clerk and from that humble

station has made his way to independence and in-
^"nlfwas born on his father's plantation in Marion
County December 3, iSSL son of Mr, and Mrs.
David Monroe and of Scotch and English ancestry.
He was ten years old when the war broke out and
his character and habits were largely formed as the
result of the discipline imposed by the general im
poverishment of the country during and after that
struggle He received his education in the country
schools, and a few terms in Marion. Several years
after the war he went to work in a general merchan
dise store at Marion and for forty years was a
hard working merchant, banker and business man.
Since 1913 he has disposed of many of his interests.
He is president of the Merchants Grocery Company,
has been a director and vice president since organ
ization of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, was one
of the organizers and is a director of the Marion Na
tional Bank, is a director in the Marion Manufac
turing Company, being one of the organizers of these
cotton mills, and is still extensively engaged in the
fertilizer business.
Politically he has always acted with the democratic
party and for forty years has been a, steward in the
Marion Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Mr. Monroe has reared an interesting family. May
16 1882, he married Mary A. McMillan, a daughter
of Maj. S. E. and A. S. McMillan of Marion. Of
the nine children born to them six grew to mature
years : James Marvin, who is engaged in the fertilizer
and insurance business and is auditor of the Au
gusta Northern Railway and lives at Marion; Wil
liam McMillan, Jr., who is connected with the South
ern Pacific Railway at San Francisco ; Samuel Wal
ter, a druggist who died October 14, 1908; Howard
Rogers, who is assistant postmaster at Marion ; John
Theodore who served as a yeoman in the United
States navy and died October 8, IQ18; Clarence Alva,
who was first lieutenant with the Three Hundred and
Ei.ghty-Fourth Infantry in the army and is now in
the insurance and fertilizer business.
Charles George Rowland at the age of sixteen
started his business career. His work, ability, exper
ience and a constant effort all through the years have
brought him an unusually conspicuous place among
the business men of Sumter.
Mr. Rowland was born in Henderson, North. Caro
lina, August 19, 1862, a son of George Harris and
Catherine Jane (Cheatham) Rowland. His father
was a merchant and planter. The son was educated
in the Horror School in North Carolina. For two
years in 1878-P0 he clerked in his father's store at
Fair Bluff, North Carolina. He then became . a
telegraph operator and moved to Suffolk, Virginia,
after which he became telegraph operator and as
sistant agent at Marion, South Carolina, with the
Atlantic Coast Line, and in 1882 was assigned to
the duties of agent and operator at Mavsville,
South Carolina, For a few months in 1891 he
was engaged in the turpentine industry in Georgia.
Selling out these interests he came to Sumter in
the same year and until 1000 was agent for the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad,
He became one of the organizers and treasurer of
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1905 he organized the Farmers Bank & Trust Com
pany, which was converted into the Bank of South
Carolina, now the National Bank of South Carolina,
of which he is president. It has a capital of $200,-
000 surplus of $225,000, deposits aggregating $1,700,-
000. He is president of the Anchor Motor Company,
is president of the Rowland Warehouse Company,
vice president of the Planters Mule Company, and
vice president of the Surater Machinery Company.
When Sumter was granted a commission form of
government he was one of the first three chosen
by the Governor to handle the affairs of the com
mission. He is a former raeraber of the hospital
board, and for ten years was head of the water de
partraent of the city governraent. He is a Mason
and Knight of Pythias and a deacon in the First
Presbyterian Church.
July 18, 1893, he raarried Miss Erama Corbett of
Sumter. They have two sons. Earl served as a
lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Eighteenth
Machine Gun Battalion, Eighty-First Division, and
is now cashier of National Bank of South Carolina
George Harris was a lieutenant of artillery- at Louis
ville, Kentucky, when the war closed and is now re
ceiving teller with the National Bank of South
Carolina. Col. David Cardwell. A resident of Colurabia
fifty years and throughout that period a railroad
man, being one of the oldest veterans in the service
of the Southern Railway System, Col. David Card-
well is also an impressive figure as a soldier, and is
chairman of the board managing the Soldiers' Home
in South Carolina, and is adjutant general and chief
of staff of the South Carolina Division, United Con
federate Veterans.
Before he was nineteen years of age by actual
count he had been under fire sixty-seven times. He
volunteered at the age of sixteen in 1862 in the
Confederate army, joining McGregor's Battery,
Stuart Horse Artillery, attached to William Henry
FitzHugh Lee's Division of Cavalry, Gen. J. E. B.
Stuart's Corps. His first battle was Seven Pines in
July, 1862. He participated in the Gettysburg cam
paign in July, 1863, and afterwards in the battles
of The Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Five Forks, and
all other engagements of the Army of Northern
Viriginia. He was in the fighting at Apporaattox
just before the surrender. On the day before that
climax to the war his battery had gone to Lynch
burg and was the last battery in Lee's command to
surrender. Colonel Cardwell was born in Richraond, Vir
ginia, in 1846, son of David Adams and Rebecca
Miller (Drinker) Cardwell, the former a native of
Petersburg and the latter of Alexandria. Few Con
federate soldiers after the war could iramediately
reinstate themselves in satisfactory economic posi
tions. Colonel Cardwell as the best eraployraent he
could find, worked in a coffin factory at Richmond.
The factory made coffins used in the re-interring of
Federal soldiers that had been killed in Virginia.
The work paid him very small wages. Colonel
Cardwell came to Columbia in 1869, He began as
clerk with the railroad then known as the Charlotte
and South Carolina Railroad, extending from Char
lotte to Columbia; was also employed by the Co

lumbia & Augusta Railroad, extending from Colura
bia to Augusta, These lines have since passed
through various consolidations and in later years
have been incorporated in the Southern System.
Colonel Cardwell has been continuously employed
by lines now in the Southern System, He is assist
ant general freight agent of the Southern Railway,
with jurisdiction over the entire system.
He served with the rank of colonel on the staff
of Governor John Peter Richardson, of South Caro
lina, and this title has been bestowed upon him from
various other sources, including the United Con
federate Veterans, Of the latter organization he is
now adjutant general and chief of staff of the
South Carolina Division, and was chairman of the
board of trustees of the State Confederate Infirm
ary at Columbia, He is also the author of a history
of Pelham's Battery, Stuart Horse Artillery, in which
he served.
Colonel Cardwell married Anna Cook Sinton,
raeraber of a well known Virginia family. They
have four children : David, Jr., Edward Sinton,
Thomas Davant, Virginia, wife of Dr. F. M. Dur
ham, of Columbia.
MacMillan Campbell King, who since 1902 has
been a prominent cotton manufacturer in Greenville
County, is president and active head of the Pelham
Mills near Greer, has had a successful career hiraself
and in achieving it has made a narae not unworthy
of a family relationship that contains many brilliant
and prominent raen.
The Kings are an old Charleston faraily. His
grandfather, Mitchell King was active in business
affairs and citizenship in that locality in ante-bellura
days. A. Campbell King, father of the Pelham man
ufacturer, served in the Confederate army in the
war between the states as a raember of the faraous
Marion Artillery, which took part in the defense of
Battery Wagner, where he was desperately wounded.
At the close of the war he was commissioned a cap
tain. MacMillan C. King had three soldier uncles
in the paternal line. Henry C. King was captain of
the Sumter Guards ; Gen. J. Gadsden King as a
brigadier general distinguished himself at the siege
of Atlanta; while Dr. Mitchell King was a soldier in
the Mexican war.
A. Campbell King raarried Mary Lee Evans, of a
family long prominent in the history of South Caro
lina. Her grandfather, Josiah J. Evans was one of
the first settlers of Society Hill and married Doro
thea Dewitt. Mary Lee Evans was a sister of Joe
Evans, who was killed at the second battle of Manas
sas, and also of Campbell Evans, who served with
.the rank of lieutenant in a North Carolina company
in the war.
MacMillan Campbell King was born at Society
Hill in Darlington County, South Carolina, in 1873.
He has three brothers and two sisters ; Mr. G.
Kirkwood King, a retired resident of Henderson-
ville. North Carolina; Brig. Gen. Campbell
King; Mitchell King, a young man who has had a
very brilliant career in business, and is one of the
powers at the head of the cotton seed oil industry
of the South, his home being at Atlanta, Georgia ;
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ida, and Mrs. W. B. W. Howe of Hendersonville,
North Carolina.
Mr. King's brother, Brigadier-General Campbell
King is one of the famous soldiers produced by the
great European war. He graduated from Harvard
University, practiced law for six years at Atlanta,
Georgia, with his cousin Alexander C. King, who
is now solicitor-general of the United States. He
gave up his secure position as a member of the At
lanta bar and a large practice in 1897 to enlist in. the
Regular United States army as a private. He joined
the Cavalry, and during the Spanish-American war
was promoted to lieutenant and served for a nuraber
of years in Cuba and the Philippines. Later he
graduated frora the war college at Fort Leavenworth,
was sent to Washington as an instructor, and early
in the war with Germany went to Europe on the
staff of General Sibert. He was promoted to brig
adier-general and he and General Duncan were the
first two American citizens to be decorated by the
French Government with the Croix de Guerre, and
he himself has received every other decoration be
stowed by the American Governraent for service in
Europe. He was chief of staff of the Third Array
Corps and with the Army of Occupation in Ger
raany. A brilliant soldier, he is also a raan of ripe
scholarship, and has all the fine qualities of a high
minded and able American citizen.
MacMillan Campbell King received his early edu
cation in the schools of Summerville and the high
school at Charleston, and at Charleston began his
business career in the office of Williara S. Hasty
& Son, general insurance.- He was there for six
years as a clerk and for eight years as a partner.
In J902 after his raarriage he came to his present
home at Pelham, Greenville County, to take charge
of the Pelham Mills of which he is president.
In igoi Mr. King married Miss Louisa Barnwell,
daughter of Arthur and Louisa (Wilkinson) Barn
well of Charleston. Her father, the late Arthur
Barnwell, of the distinguished and historic Barn
well family of Charleston, was the third son of
Edward and Margaret (Marigault) Barnwell, and a
descendant in direct line frora John Barnwell,
known as "Tuscarora John,'' founder of the family
in Charleston, The Barnwells as a family have
produced several congressmen, senators, and prora
inent raerabers of the professions.
Arthur Barnwell, who was born in August, 1845,
and died in September, 1918, entered the Confederate
army as a private at the age of fifteen, serving with
the Beaufort Artillery until the close of the war.
He left the army literally penniless. On his way
home to Greensboro, North Carolina, where he
was surrendered he stopped at .Sumtejr, Soiuth •
Carolina, where the Barnwell family had refugeed,
and there borrowed a gold dollar from his brother
Heyward Barnwell. That was the sole capital
with which he builded his subsequent fortune. Arriv
ing at Charleston he went to work in the office of
Gibbes & Corapany as a clerk. The first year his
total salary was $20. That was increased and at
the end of his third year he went to Savannah,
Georgia, and engaged in business as a partner with
one of Mr. Gibbes' sons. Returning to Charleston
he engaged in the cotton export business, from
which he retired in 1884.

The name of Arthur Barnwell is associated with
one of the oldest cotton mills in Upper South Caro
lina. In 1880 he bought the old Buena Vista Cotton
Mill on Enoree River at Pelham in Greenville
County, and this with the old Batesville mill nearby,
was one of the first cotton mills to be established
in the South and had been built long before the war
by Lester & Bobo. The old Buena Vista mill was
completely wiped away by a flood in 1890, after
which the present modern plant was built. For the
reconstruction of the mill the Pelham Manufacturing
Company was organized, and subsequently was re
incorporated with the name of Pelham Mills, under
which it has since been conducted. This is one
of the raost sticcessful cotton factories in the South.
Mr. and Mrs. King have a daughter Miss Mar
guerite Barnwell King.
Ernest M. DuPre. On Gervais Street in Colum
bia, are several evidences of the business enterprise
and activity of members of the DuPre family. In
the eight hundred block construction was begun in
June, 1919, of a modern three-story brick and cement
building, constituting one of the best equipped auto
mobile salesrooms and stations in the state. This
is the new home of the DuPre Auto Company,
owned by Ernest M. DuPre.
Ernest M. DuPre was born in Due West, South
Carolina, January 20, 1876, and is a son of B. Clark
and Margaret W. (Barmore) DuPre. The family
at one time lived at Due West, where B. C. DuPre
had charge of the business of the Associate Re
formed Presbyterian. In 1890 he moved his family
to Colurabia, and founded the Dupre Printing
Company, and is also well known in public affairs
as county auditor of Richland County.
Ernest M. DuPre left school after completing the
studies of the fifth grade, but subsequently prepared
himself for entrance to Clemson College. He was
in Clemson through his sophomore year, and then
returned to Columbia. For a time he worked as a
printer for the Southern Presbyterian and the
Christian Advocate, but was unable to see a future
in the printing service. He was next employed by
the Escott-Mclntosh wholesale grocery house, with
which he remained six years, and theri joined the
E. A. Beall Grocery Company. As his experience
and personal resources improved he engaged in
business for himself. At first he handled heavy
groceries for the wholesale trade, and then en
gaged in the wholesale fruit and produce business,
organizing the Ernest M. DuPre Company, of which
he is sole owner.
For the past ten years Mr. DuPre has been one
of the leading dealers in automobiles in Columbia.
The Dupre Auto Company and the DuPre Tractor
Company are the local sales agencies at Columbia
for the distribution of the Ford cars and the Ford-
son Tractor. The local agency has originated more
deraands . for the Ford cars than can be filled, and
since taking up the distribution of the Fordson
Tractors the DuPre Tractor Company in less than
a year has placed over seven hundred tractors on
South Carolina farras, a significant fact, indicative
of the agricultural advanceraent of the state. It was
due to the efforts of Mr. DuPre that Henry Ford
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through his influence this South Carolina institution
of agricultural education was presented with other
implements by different raanufacturers.
Mr. DuPre has been a steady worker all his life,
has given himself unreservedly to the matters in
hand and has seen his business grow and prosper
under his care. He possesses to a remarkable degree
the confidence of his business associates and custom
ers, which confidence has been gained by long years
of square dealing. He has been especially influential
in raaking Colurabia one of the leading coraraercial
centers of the South and a great center for the
automobile trade. He is a prominent meraber of the
South Carolina Automotive Trade Association and
also of the City Association.
In civic affairs and other matters of public inter
est Mr. DuPre has been an active participant. He
served four years as a raember of the Columbia
City Council under the old aldermanic form of
government, and served four years more after the
Commission form of government was adopted by the
people. In 1910, he served as supervisor of the cen
sus for the Seventh District. He is a member of
the Colurabia Chamber of Commerce, also a director
in the National Loan & Exchange Bank, of Colum
bia. In the time honored Masonic fraternity he has
attained distinction as a thirty-second degree, Scot
tish Rite Mason, and in the York Rite, as past raas
ter of Richmond Lodge; past high priest of Colum
bia Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, and past com
mander of Columbia Commandery of Knights
Templar. He is also high priest and prophet in
Hejez Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
In June, 1898, he raarried Miss Annie I. Jones,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Jones of Co
lumbia. They have seven children : E. Randolph,
Annie Celeste, Gilbert C, Albert, Mary Frances,
Isabelle and John Paul.
Charles James Lem mon, M. D. For ten years
a practicing physician and surgeon at Sumter, Doctor
Lemmon has -brought an immense amount of en
thusiasm to his chosen calling, and has neglected
no opportunity for research and experience that
would add to his equipraent and nearly every year
has modified his own experience by active contact
with prominent men in the profession all over the
country. Doctor Lemmon was born at Mavsvihe, South
Carolina, October I, 1883, son of Wallace Eli and
Lillie (Mcintosh) Lemraon. He grew up on his
father's farra, had a public school education, attended
the Carlisle Fitting School at Bamberg, South
Carolina, and graduated Bachelor of Science from
Clemson College in 1905. He received his Doctor
of Medicine degree frora the- Medical College of
the State of South Carolina at Charleston in 1908,
and the following year was spent in Roper Hospital.
Doctor Leramon came to Sumter in 1909, and during
the greater part of his residence has engaged in
general practice. He is attending surgeon at the
Tourney Hospital. His vacations and absences from
home have been spent largely in post-graduate work,
attending institutions in Illinois, in the Mayo Broth
ers Hospital, New York Post Graduate School and
Harvard Post Graduate School. He is a member
of the Sumter County, South Carolina State, South

ern Medical and American Medical associations,
and is affiliated with the Kappa Sigma and the
Alpha Kappa Kappa college society. Doctor Lem
mon is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner.
He holds the rank of junior lieutenant in the
Naval Reserve. He is one of the prorainent busi
ness men of Surater, being president of the Cora
mercial Company and a director of the Commercial
Bank & Trust Corapany. One of his hobbies is
gardening. Doctor Lemmon married November 14,
1912, Grace Brogdon. They have two children,
Charles James, Jr., and Addie Katherine.
Aaron Cohen Phelps. To name the conspicuous
business interests of Sumter during the past thirty
years, and it will be found that the personal busi
ness record of Aaron C. Phelps coincides with this
commercial history at many prorainent points. Mr.
Phelps has long been recognized as one of the
most substantial, able and public spirited citizens of
Surater. He was born at Charlotte, North Carolina, May
25, 1863, a son of Herraan Morris and Theodosia
Phelps. His father was a Charleston raerchant.
Educated in public and private schools to the age
of twelve and after that by night study and through
his own efforts, Aaron C. Phelps has had a business
career of over forty years. He carae to Sumter
in 1872 and from 1875 to 1895, a period of twenty
years, was connected with one firm of general raer
chants. During ten years of that time he also
operated the Sumter Insurance Agency, a business
which he founded. In 1896 he organized the Surater
Cotton Oil Company, was its secretary and treasurer,
and held the same office with its successor the
Atlantic Cotton Oil Company, which owned and
operated mills at Charleston, Bennettsville, Camden,
Gibson and Surater. In 1901 the business of the
Atlantic Cotton Oil Company was taken over by the
Southern Cotton Oil Company, and Mr. Phelps
remained with the larger corporation as district
raanager until 1906. In that year he raoved to
Draper, North Carolina, and was vice president and
general raanager of the Gerraan-American Corapany,
a large cotton milling industry. He returned to
Sumter in 1914, and becarae an associate in business
with Henry J. Harby. The Harby & Corapany was
incorporated in 1915, with Mr. Phelps as vice presi
dent and general raanager. He is also president and
treasurer of the Surater Roller Mills, is president
and treasurer of the Interstate Clay Company, is
president of the Liberty Holding Company, a director
of the City National Bank of Sumter, the Sumter
Trust Company, and the Palmetto Fire Insurance
Company. Though an exceedingly busy man he has for many
years been interested in military affairs. He served
as a member of the Sumter Light Infantry from
1878 until 1894, retiring with the rank of captain.
In 1918 during the war he organized the Sumter
Light Infantry of the South Carolina Reserve Militia,
and was commissioned captain and in March, 1018,
promoted to major of the Separate Battalion of the
First Regiment South Carolina Reserve Militia.
Mr, Phelps served as president of the Sumter Cham
ber of Comraerce for 1917-18, was chairman of the
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and during 1917-18 was chairman of the County
Council of Defense and a raember of the State
Council of Defense. Mr, Phelps was president in
1917-18 of Sinai Temple at Sumter,
May 24, 1884, he raarried Arabella Solomon of
Sumter. She died August 3, 1893, leaving one son
Hugh Alvin now of Washington, North Carolina.
January 16, 1895, Mr. Phelps married R. Virginia
Moses. They have four children : Lucile, wife of
R. C. Williams of Sumter, Dorothy, wife of D. G,
F, Beultraan, Albert Carroll a student of The Citadel
at Charleston, and Perry Moses.
Benjamin Brown Kirkland is head of two large
business houses of Columbia vitally connected with
and performing an important service to the entire
state. One is the B. B. Kirkland Seed Corapany
and the other is The Kirkland Distributing Com
pany. Mr. Kirkland was born in Barnwell County, April
17, 1870, a son of Col. B. B. and Margaret A. (Dun
bar) Kirkland. His father was for raany years a
successful planter. Benjarain Brown Kirkland was
educated in the public schools and at an early age
entered upon his business career. He clerked in a
general store for fifteen years and for eight years
was merchandise broker at Columbia. He estab
lished The Kirkland Distributing Company in 1908
and is the chief owner of this corporation. The
business is that of wholesale distributing of flour,
feed, grain, produce, and the company manufactures
a line of special flours, particularly self-rising flours,
the use of which is by no means confined to the
State of South Carolina. The business is housed in
a large plant and warehouse at the corner of Lady
and Lincoln streets. This company began business
in igoo and was incorporated in 1908. Mr. Kirland
is also owner of the B. B. Kirkland Seed Company,
handling feed, agricultural and garden seeds, sup
plies for poultry and livestock breeders and raisers.
He is also a director in the Carolina National Bank
and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Mr. Kirkland built the handsome Kirkland Apart
ments, comprising six modern apartments on Pen
dleton Street. He is a deacon in the First Christian
Church of Columbia. He has ever taken an active
and lively interest in public and community affairs ;
is a member of Columbia Chamber of Commerce,
also the Rotary Club. While a resident of Eauclair
he served as alderman, also as mayor, and was
chairman of the board of trustees at the time of the
construction of the handsome school building at
Eauclair. July 25, 1895, he married Evelyn Ella Ceruti of
Nassau, West Indies, They have seven children,
Evelyn E,, Benjamin Brown, Catherine, Elizabeth,
Elsie, Wilbur and Martha Ann,
Julius A. Mood, M, D, A resident of Sumter
since 1881, Dr, Julius A, Mood has had a career
of genuine distinction as a physician and surgeon
and his versatile gifts and abilities have made him
widely known over the state as well as in his home
city. Doctor Mood was born at Lincolnton, North
Carolina, April 22, 1854, and comes of an old Ameri

can family. His first American ancestor was Peter
Mood, a native of Germany who came to the Ameri
can colonies in 1749 and settled at Oxford, Pennsyl
vania. He became an American soldier durmg the
Revolution, was captured by the British and died
in a British prison. His son also named Peter was
born at Oxford, Pennsylvania, in 1766, and in 1788
moved to Charleston, where he was a business raan
and where he died. John Mood, grandfather of
Doctor Mood, and a son of Peter Mood just men
tioned, was born in Charleston in 1792 and for a
number of years was in the business of silversmith,
but finally entered the Methodist Episcopal ministry
and died at Charleston in 1864.
Doctor Mood is a son of Henry McFarland and
Laura A. (Clark) Mood, his maternal grandfather
being William M. Clark of Abbeville County. His
father was born in Charleston in 1819, and from
1838 for over half a century was an active minister
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Doctor Mood, who was one of five children, received
his early education at Cokesbury, Abbeville County,
graduating from Wofford College at Spartanburg
in 1875, and in 1879 corapleted his professional
course in the Medical College of the State of South
Carolina at Charleston. He practiced for a year
or so in Laurens County and in 1881 located at
Sumter. Doctor Mood served with the rank of
major and as a surgeon in the Spanish-American
war. During the World war he was chairman of
the local exemption board and a raeraber of the
district exemption board. For twenty years Doctor
Mood conducted a private hospital and much of
his work as a physician and surgeon was centered
in that institution. It was afterward merged into
the Sumter Hospital.
Doctor Mood has the distinction of serving as the
first mayor of the City of Sumter. He was elected
in April. 1887, to that office and filled it for two
years. He has been a member of the Sumter School
Board since it was organized and is chairman of
the Board.
In 1876 he married Alma K. Archer, daughter of
John B. Archer of Spartanbur.g. She died in 1882,
the mother of four children. Doctor Mood married
for his second wife Janie A. Brogdon, daughter of
John C. Brogdon of Sumter County.
Henry Ashleigh Mood, M. D. A physician and
surgeon at Sumter his work has brou.ght him in
creasing recognition and prestige during the last
thirteen years. Dr. Henry A Mood is a former
president of the Sumter County Medical Society
and was a member of the District Medical Advisory
Board during the late war.
He is a son of Dr. Julius A. and Janie (Brogdon)
Mood, his father a Surater physician whose career
has been reviewed elsewhere. The son was born
at Sumter February 12, 1884, was educated in the
public schools, in Clemson College and graduated in
iqo6 from the Medical College of Virginia. Since
then he has been busily engaged in a general medical
and surgical practice. He is a raeraber of the Sumter
Countv, State and American Medical associations,
April 28, 1908, he married Margaret Ethel Cobb
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Preston Maurice, Norwood Cobb and Henry Ash
leigh, Jr.
Lucian Winter McLemore is a member of the
Sumter bar, and for a number of years has given
much of his time to his work as a railway attorney.
He was born at Augusta, Georgia, April i, 1883,
a son of Matthew Preston and Catherine (Nicholas)
McLemore, His father was a raerchant. The son
was educated in public and private schools and
studied law in the offices of Wilcox & Wilcox at
Florence, South Carolina. He was admitted to the
bar December 5, 1907. For one year he was secre
tary to the general superintendent of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railway. From 1907 to 1912 he practiced
with the firm Willcox & Willcox, and in the latter
year removed to Sumter. He is now division counsel
for the Atlantic Coast Line Railway.
November 4, 1903, Mr. McLemore married
Norma Davidson of Augusta, Georgia. They have
five children, Lucian Winter, Jr., Eugene McKinnie,
Preston Davidson, Irvin Alexander- and Norma
Davidson. Herbert Altamont Moses. For more than a cen
tury and a half the Moses family has furnished
conspicuous and able members to the commercial
and professional life of South Carolina. For the
greater part of a century the faraily has been prom
inent at Surater, where they have been lawyers
and merchants.
The ancestor of the faraily in South Carolina was
Myer Moses, an Englishraan who settled in Charles
ton about the raiddle of the eighteenth century. He
became a successful merchant in that city, and dur
ing the Revolutionary war lent his personal aid
and resources generously in behalf of the wounded
and prisoners and the cause of the colonists in
general. Letters written by Gen. Thomas Sumter
testify to the important aid he rendered. During
the siege of Charleston in 1780, he suffered severely
from the eneray's shells. His infant child was killed
in its nurse's arms and his home was burned. His
first wife died before he came to. America, and their
only daughter Rebecca was raarried to Solomon
Harby of Charleston in 1787. Myer Moses' second
wife was Rachel Andrews of Boston. She and
seven children survived his death on February 15,
1787. She afterwards becarae the wife of Solomon
Woolf and lived to be eighty-two years of age and
to see her one hundred sixty-third descendant.
The second generation was also represented by
Myer Moses, who was the oldest son of Myer and
Rachel (Andrews) Moses. He was born at Charles
ton February 10, 1779. He represented his home
county in the Legislature from 1810 to 1812, for
many years was captain of a corapany of railitia,
and during the War of 1812 was major in the South
Carolina Volunteers. Capt. Myer Moses married
Esther Phillips of Philadelphia, daughter of Jonas
Phillips of that city and a Revolutionary soldier,
and also a descendant of Dr. Samuel Nunez of Spain.
an early settler in Georgia. Capt. Myer Moses died
in New York March 20, 1833, survived by his widow
and five children. Montgomery Moses, representa
tive of the third generation, was born at Charleston,
August 27, 1808. He came to Sumter and with

his brother Franklin J. Moses practiced law the
greater part of his active career. His last years
were spent in Newberry where he was judge of
the Circuit Court and where he died December
17, 1886, In 1832 he married a cousin Catherine
Phillips of Philadelphia. She was descended on her
mother's side from Mathias Bush, a signer of . the
non-importation act of 1765.
All the sons of Montgoraery Moses served the
Confederacy. The, oldest, Myer B., was in the
Second South Carolina Regiment, was captured at
the battle of Cedar Creek and was confined in prison
at Point Lookout, Maryland, until the close of the
war. Zaiegman P., entered the Confederate service
in February, 1861, and was in the Navy Departraent.
Dr. Frank J. Moses was an assistant surgeon, ap
pointed in July, 1861, and serving the entire tirae
in Virginia. H. Clareraont Moses enlisted in Jan
uary, 1861, was severely wounded at the first battle
of Manassas, and after returning to his coraraand
was proraoted a first lieutenant and continued on
duty the rest of the war.
The fifth of the soldier brothers was the late
Altaraont Moses, whose career both as a sojdier,
business raan and citizen conferred distinction upon
his home city of Sumter. He was born at Sumter
August 5, 1846, was educated in local schools, and
was a student in the Arsenal at Columbia when the
war broke out. He served in the Signal Corps,
part of the time within the eneray's lines in North
Carolina. He was a telegrapher for the Confederate
Government, and at the time of the surrender was
at Gastonia, North Carolina. From there he was
able to take a train toward his home for part of
the way, but frora the North Carolina line had to
make the rest of the journey on foot. Soon after
the war he returned to Sumter and in a few years
becarae a merchant, and was in that business until
about 1896. He was one of the organizers of
the Sumter cotton raills, secretary of the corporation
until his death. He was an organizer of the Bank
of Sumter and was also on its board of directors
until his death.
His interest in public affairs was constant from
the tirae he reached his majority. He was a meraber
of the Surater Light Infantry in early manhood,
and was a first lieutenant when he retired from
that organization. For several terras he was a
member of the Town Council and an even longer
period served on the town school board. At differ
ent times he was secretary and chairman of the
democratic organizations and a raember of the State
Deraocratic Executive Coraraittee, In 1888 and again
in 1904 he was a South Carolina delegate to the
National Democratic Convention.
The service which chiefly justifies placing his
name high among South Carolina's prominent citizens
was rendered as a legislator. He was elected to
the House of Representatives in 1886 and for nine
teen years until his death was a member of either
the House or the Senate. At his death he was
chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, a
chairmanship he had held for some years. He was
a deep student of public affairs, a man of wide
information, and hardly a question could come up
upon which his co-legislators could not depend
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also active in fraternal affairs, being grand chancellor
of the Knights of P34hias and worshipful master of
the Masons, and held other offices in other orders.
In January, 1871, at Surater he married Octavia
Cohen, daughter of Marx E. and Arraida H. Cohen.
Altamont Moses died Deceraber 8, 1905, survived
by his wife and six children. On January i, 1917,
his widow in^a letter to the City Council of Sumter
and the Board of County Coraraissioners donated
$1,000 endowing the "Altaraont Moses Scholarship
Loan Fund," the income from the principal to be
loaned at not more than 4 per cent to students
needing help, and the fund to be governed by a
board, three members of which were named by
Mrs. Moses, two by the City Council and two by the
County Commissioners.
The six children of Mr. and Mrs. Altamont
Moses are Katherine, Herbert Altaraont, Vivian
Mordaunt, Emile Phillips, Arraida and Henry
Phillips. Katherine was born at Sumter July 28, 1874. After
graduating from the Sumter schools she took a
special course in Converse College, and in 189S
was elected a teacher in the Surater city schools
and that has been her work and service continuously
ever since; at present she is connected with the
Girls High School, She is a member of the Civic
League of Sumter, of Dick Anderson Chapter,
United Daughters of the Confederacy, and is regent
of Sumter's Home Chapter, Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution,
Herbert Altaraont Moses, who is the oldest son
of his father, was born at Sumter June 23, 1876,
and was educated in public and private schools
and corapleted his work in the South Carolina
College in 1896. Following his graduation he worked
in cotton raills and in the newspaper and insurance
business, and in 1898 he enlisted as a private in the
First South Carolina Infantry in Corapany M for
service in the Spanish-American' war, and was a
corporal when mustered out in November of the
same year. He is secretary of Phillips & Company,
Incorporated, wholesale grocers at Sumter, and is
also cashier of the Sumter-Barnwell Company. For
twelve years he was actively associated with former
Governor Richard Manning in business and politics,
and was secretary to Mr. Manning while governor.
He is actively engaged in the fire insurance business.
Mr. Moses is a meraber and treasurer of the Fort
nightly Club, and is an official of the Congregation
Sinai, and he is a member of the Sons of the
Revolution. In November, 1919, he was married to
Natalia Marguerite Sloss of New York City.
Vivian Mordaunt Moses, the second son of Alta
mont Moses, was born April 3, 1878, was educated
in the Sumter public schools, spent one year in
school at New York, and graduated from South
Carolina College in 1899. The following year he
graduated from the law school of the sarae college,
but instead of practicing went to New York City
and was soon placed on the staff of reporters of the
New York Journal. He distinguished hiraself in
journalisra, and after a year or two with newspapers
entered the magazine world atid has been in the
editorial department of many of the foremost pub
lications. During 1912-13 he was associate editor of
Nash's Magazine in London.' In 1917 he left jour

nalism for the moving picture field and in 1920 is
general manager of the Guy Empey organization.
July I, 1908, he married Miss Elizabeth Mcllravey of
New York City.
The fourth of the family is Emile Phillips Moses,
who was born at Sumter May 27, 1880. He attended
Sumter schools. South Carolina College and the
Georgia School of Technology, and in 1903 took
the examination for admittance to the United States
Marine Corps. He was sent to the training carap
for officers at Annapolis, and received his commis
sion early in 1904. He was a member of this famous
department of our military establishment in the
Nicaraguan corapaign and has seen extensive service
on both sides of the Pacific and along the Atlantic
seaboard. He was entrained for port of embarka
tion for France when the armistice caused the order
to be countermanded. He was commissioned a
major of Marines in 1918. On October 23, 1914, he
married Miss Caroline Angier, a. daughter of Will
Angier of San Diego, California. They have two
children, Elizabeth Angier and Emile Phillips,
second. Armida Moses was born in Sumter September
7, 1884, and graduated from Winthrop College in
1903, subsequently taking a course in Columbia
University where she graduated with the Master
of Arts degree in 1909, history being her major
study. She is a member of the American Historical
Association and is greatly interested in public mat
ters. For several terms she was president of the
Civic League of Sumter and for many years has
been treasurer of the Public Visiting Nurse Fund
of the League. She has held many important posi
tions with the State Federation of Women and with
the State and -National organization of the Daugh
ters of the Confederacy, and in 1920 was chairman
of the educational committee. She is a member of
the Daughters of the American Revolution. For
several terms she was president of Camp Dick Ander
son of the United Daughters. She has done a
great deal of newspaper work.
Henry Phillips Moses, youngest of the family,
was born at Sumter September 27, 1886, and after
finishing in the Surater schools entered Clerason
College. At the end of his junior year, his father
having died, he returned home, engaged in the fire
insurance business, and is head of the Henry P.,
Moses Company doing a large business in that line!
He is also a director of the National Bank of
Sumter, the Coraraercial Bank & Trust Corapany,
Phillips & Corapany, Incorporated, and is secretary
and treasurer of the Commercial Company. He
is past worshipful master of Clareraont Lodge of
Masons, and is secretary and treasurer of Congre
gation Sinai. June 17, 1912, he married Miss Char
lotte Virginia Eraanuel of Denver. Their children
are Henry Altamont, Charlotte Virginia and Mary
Octavia. Henry Hardin Arnold. While his duties as a
member of the State Railroad Commission require
his frequent presence and make him a well known ,
figure in the capital city, Henry Hardin Arnold has
his home and the bulk of his business affairs in the
upper part of the state in old Spartanburg Coiinty.
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he represents the sturdy yeomanry developed by
generations of successful enterprise in agriculture.
He has two sons in business in Spartanburg County,
and he personally represents the fourth consecu
tive generation of a family identified with the agri
cultural development of that region for more than a
century. Mr. Arnold was born near Woodruff in Spartan
burg County in 1851, son of Thomas and Martha
D. (Hardin) Arnold. The place where he was
born, also the birthplace of his father, is five mileis
from the town of Woodruff and about fifteen railes
southwest of Spartanburg. The raili'oad coramis-
sioner's great-grandfather, Aaron Arnold, brought
the family to that locality about 1805 or 1806. He
came from Tennessee and was a young married man
with several children, including Nimrod Arnold,
who was born in Tennessee in 1802, and Nimrod
was the grandfather of Henry Hardin Arnold. Ever
since those early years of the nineteenth century
the Arnold family have lived upon and owned land
in that imniediate vicinity. Thomas Arnold had five
brothers who were Confederate soldiers, and all of
them gave their lives as a sacrifice to the cause;
Commissioner Arnold's home place is one of the
best plantations in Spartanburg County. He was
a successful farmer, handling a large and well
ordered property, long before he consented to accept
public office. For several terms he represented his
county in the Legislature, beginning with the ses
sion of 1905. He put in about ten years altogether
in the Lower House of the General Assembly, At a
still earlier date he had served as a magistrate. For
two years, 1917-18, Mr, Arnold was a member of the
board of directors of the state penitentiary.
He was elected a member of the State Railway
Coraraission of South Carolina in 1918 and took up
his duties early in 1919. To the duties of that office
he has brought an unusually deep sense of respon
sibility to the public welfare and also a thoroughly
trained and raethodical business raind.
Since early youth Mr. Arnold has been a raember
of the Baptist Church. He was first a raember of
the old Green Pond Church and in later years has
been a member- of the Belleview Baptist Church,
organized in 1891. Mr, Arnold donated the land
for the Belleview church, becoming one of its char
ter members and its clerk. He served many years
as clerk of the older church, and that position with
the two organizations he has held continuously for
about forty years. He is one of the prominent
Baptist laymen of South Carolina.
Mr, Arnold has long been happily raarried and
is the father of eight living children: Claud P.,
Walter H., Roy O., Bruce K., James R., Maggie,
Fannie, wife of B. H. Cannon, and Annie Belle.
Bruce is postmaster of Woodruff. Claud P, arid
Walter H, Arnold are in the wholesale grocery
business at Woodruff. James R. Arnold volunteered
in December, 1917, in the medical departraent, was
trained at Fort Oglethorpe, and spent nine months
'in France and Germany, being with an evacuation
hospital in Germany. He returned home in June,
1919- Noah Graham Osteen by, reason of his long
personal experience as a printer and newspaper man,

covering more than half a century, is one of the
most interesting of the old timers still left. He
is regarded as an authority on many phases of gen
eral history as well as journalism. In 1906 before
the South Carolina Press Association he read a
paper made up largely of his reminiscences of
newspapers, newspaper raen and connected events
in his experience of half a century.
Mr. Osteen was born January 25, 1843, at the
horae of his maternal grandfather Jonathan Weston
on Camp Branch near the Concord Presbyterian
Church in Surater County. His great-grandfather
Thoraas Osteen came from the eastern part of
North Carolina and settled in the Privateer section
of Surater County near the Bethel Baptist Church,
but later moved west and finally settled about
¦ Natchez, Mississippi. While his son Jacob, grand
father of Noah G. Osteen, had married and re
mained in South Carolina, four other sons moved
West with Thomas Osteen. Sorae of the descend
ants of the older branches of the faraily had been
known in Georgia, others in the Carolina Mountain
District, and also in Florida. Thomas Osteen was
a soldier in the American Revolution, Jacob Osteen
was father of Charles Leroy Osteen, who married
Elizabeth Jane Weston, daughter of Jonathan Wes
ton. Jonathan Weston carae from the Pamlico
section of North Carolina in early life and settled
near the Concord Church. He married Mary Prin
gle of that neighborhood, a daughter of William
Pringle, Jonathan Weston was the only son of
William Hardy Weston, a ship builder who was
accidentally killed in early manhood, when he fell
through the frame of a vessel on which he was
working. Noah Graham Osteen had the advantages of
irregular terras in country schools until he was
about thirteen. In the reminiscences mentioned
above he says : "About this tirae the Wilmington
- and Manchester Railroad was built and Sumterville
changed its charter to a town and dropped off the
' 'ville.' Occasionally when I carae to town I visited
the printing office, sight-seeing, and got it into my
head to be a printer. In the latter part of 18551
when I was less than thirteen years old I read in
the paper that two boys were wanted to learn the
printer's trade and that boys frora the country would
be preferred. I talked the matter over with ray
father and he carried rae to town to secure one of
the places. Being sraall for my age there was some
objection to me on that account, but Mr. Gilbert
took me on trial and I afterward entered a five
years' apprenticeship, serving altogether nearly five
and a half years. Soon after commencing on trial
with Gilbert & Richardson ' another partner was
added in the person of Mr. H. X. Darr, a practical
printer from Charleston, but he soon bought out
Mr. Richardson, so that I served riiy apprenticeship
with Gilbert & Darr."
Mr. Osteeri secured his real education in a print
ing office, which has been the uni-versity for so
many men, and he has never had any' permanent -
line of business or vocation except printing. His'
apprenticeship was ended eai-ly in 1861 -and the next
eighteen montbs, he was employed -by Gilbert' & Darr '
to print the Horry Dispatch;- which- they had juSt
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County. After that paper was suspended in 1862
on account of the Civil war, Mr. Osteen went to
Columbia and was employed until near the end of
the war in the lithograph printing business, the
larger part of the time with Blanton Duncan, who
had a contract for printing Confederate money.
After he lost his contract Mr. Osteen resumed
letter-press printing and was with the South Caro
linian, then run by F. G. de Fontaine and Henry
Tirarod. The type, presses and paper were reraoved
from Columbia before the approach of Sherman's
army and Mr. Osteen hiraself left the capital city
on the last train. F, G, de Fontaine had an arabition
to build up a raetropolitan paper in Charleston,
He raoved the material of the office frora Colurabia
to Charleston, and eraployed Mr. Osteen and sorae
others of his old force. F, G. de Fontaine was a
fine writer and had been a brilliant newspaper
correspondent, but he lacked the capital and his
friends failed to raeet his expectations. After a few
months' struggle he broke down and raoved back to
Colurabia. About that tirae Mr. Osteen had raarried and deter
mined to return to his old home at Sumter. In
Septeraber, 1866, he bought a half interest in the
Sumter News, which had been started a few months
previously by Mr. H. L. Darr, one of his forraer
eraployers and instructors. The partnership of Darr
& Osteen was forraed and continued for sixteen
years. During this partnership the narae of the
paper was changed frora the Sumter News to the
True Southron and was conducted in vigorous op
position to the carpet-bag and scalawag regirae
that controlled South Carolina in reconstruction
days. It kept at the head of the editorial column
"This is a white raan's country and must be ruled
by white 'men." It insisted on a straight-out fight
and during the Carpenter and Butler carapaign was
the only paper in the state that opposed to the last
a coalition of the deraocrats and republicans in the
effort of the white element to get into control.
The noraination of General Harapton for governor
was first made in the True Southron and his elec
tion broke the backbone of the republican party
then headed by D. H. Chamberlain.
In 1881 Mr. Osteen becarae sole owner of the
True Southron and also of the Surater Watchraan.
The two papers were united as the Watchraan
and Southron. In 1895 in connection with the
Watchman and Southron The Daily Item was start
ed by his son Hubert G. Osteen, who had been
associated with him as editor of the Watchman and
Southron. In 1904 the business was incorporated
as the Osteen Publishing Company and is now con
ducted with C. P. Osteen as president and H. G.
Osteen, editor and manager. Noah G. Osteen is
still a raember of the working force of the estab
lishraent, and while he does not atterapt the heavy
responsibilities he assumed fifteen or twenty years
ago, it is a matter of pride and satisfaction to him
that he can hold up his end of the work regularly
every day.
In his veteran's experience as a newspaper man
Mr. Osteen has rendered all the service which
properly makes a man prominent and respected in
his state and community. He has never aspired
to the honors and responsibilities of public office.

His ambition has been satisfied in giving to Sumter
the best newspaper he could. During the war he
was a raember of Col. J. P. Thomas' Battalion of
Reserves in Columbia and was under arras for three
days and nights preceding Sherman's entry into the
capital city. As a democrat he opposed the Ben
Tillman movement in 1890 and later was a vigorous
opponent of Cole L. Blease in all his campaigns.
From 1881 to 1908 Mr. Osteen was active in the
Knights of Honor and was dictator for several
years until 1908, when he retired. He was a member
of the Improved Order of Red Men, from about
1898 until 1917, and for several years was Sachem
of the Tribe. He is a raeraber of the Sumter
Presbyterian Church.
March 6, 1866, at Charleston he married Esther
Ann, daughter of Thomas and Louisa A, (DuBois)
Doar of Christ Church, Charleston County. Mrs.
Osteen's first husband was James Anderson. She
has two living children by that marriage, D. B.
Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee, and Mrs. S. A.
Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Osteen had four children,
Dr, Charles Porter Osteen, Hubert G. Osteen, Dr.
Noah G. Osteen, Jr., and Moneta Osteen. The
older son. Dr. Charles P. Osteen, a prominent phy
sician at Surater, raarried Mrs. Emma Nigels of
Darlington, South Carolina, and has two children,
Emma and Esther. Dr. Noah G,, Jr., is a dentist at
Sumter and by his marriage to Marian A. Nettles
of Darlington has five children naraed May Willis,
Susie, Noah Eugene, Charles P. and Aness. Hubert
G. Osteen married Elizabeth Duvall, daughter of
H. P. Duvall of Cheraw, and they have three chil
dren, Elizabeth, Hubert D. and Annie Frances.
Hubert G. Osteen, who is editor of the Daily
Item and the Watchman and Southron at Sumter,
is son of the veteran South Carolina newspaper
man Noah G, Osteen, whose career has been de
scribed fully above.
Hubert G, Osteen was born at Sumter December
25, 1870. Besides the common schools he attended
the Peabody Normal College at Nashville, Tennes
see, as a Peabody scholar in 1887 and graduated in
1890. During 1890-91 he taught in Burke County,
Georgia, and was also connected with the graded
schools of Surater 1893-94, For over a quarter of
a century he has been associated with his father
in the editorial and business management of the
Watchraan and Southron at Sumter and founded
in 1894 the Daily Item,
On July 28, 1898, he married Elizabeth Duvall,
daughter of H. P, Duvall of Cheraw, They have
three children, Elizabeth, Hubert D, and Annie F.
Charles Porter Osteen, M. D. While he has
been actively engaged in the work of a busy physi
cian and surgeon for a quarter of a century, Doctor
Osteen has also raanaged to continue his interests
as a newspaper man and is president of the Osteen'
Publishing Company at Sumter, He is a director
and was one of the organizers of the People's Bank
at Sumter, and is former vice president of the
Sumter County Medical Society,
He was born at Sumter December 10, 1866, a son
of N. G. and E. A. (Doar) Osteen. At the age of
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learned the printing trade thoroughly, at the same
time continuing his general studies by private tutor.
He continued in the newspaper business until 1890,
when he entered the Medical College of South Caro
lina and the following year the University of Nash
ville, where he graduated in the class of ^^92.
He is also a member of the State Medical Society.
Hon. Thomas Butler Pearce, who on taking his
place in the State Senate in 1919 was recognized
as the youngest member of that body, was a boy
when he began making himself useful in his father's
establishment, the wholesale grocery and produce
house of C. C. Pearce & Corapany. Hard work,
unremitting attention to his duties, a studious and
keen business ability, have placed him at the age
of thirty the active head of that notable organiza
tion, including a main establishraent at Colurabia
and branch houses in several cities of the state.
Mr. Pearce was born in Decatur County, Georgia,
in 1888, a son of C. C. and Zudie (Butler) Pearce.
His father, who was born in Thomas County,
Georgia, in 1854, had a farra training and left the
farm early in life to engage in business. He moved
to Columbia in 1900, buying out the wholesale gro
cery and produce business of A. M. Metz & Com
pany. Since then the firm of C. C. Pearce &
Company has grown and expanded and is now the
largest wholesale grocery and produce concern in
South Carolina and one of the most important in the
South. Besides the headquarters of the firm at
Columbia there are branch houses operating under
the titles, Pearce, Edwards & Company at Spartan
burg, Pearce, Woods & Corapany at Greenville, and
Pearce, Prince & Company at Greenwood. C. C.
Pearce is still the nominal head of the business,
but the active raanageraent devolves upon his son,
Thomas Butler.
Senator Pearce acquired his early education in the
schools of Whigham, Decatur County, Georgia ; at
Charlotte, North Carolina, and spent two years in
the Bingham Military Acaderay at Mebane, North
Carolina. Before he was twenty-one years of age
he had acquired a thorough knowledge of the rou
tine details of his father's house, and also distin
guished hiraself as a road salesman. He was sent
to Spartanburg to establish the firm of Pearce, Ed
wards & Company there, and remained in that city
three years. He resumed his residence at Colurabia
in 1915..
Senator Pearce for several years has been a promi
nent figure in the Travelers' Protective Association
of South Carolina. He is president of the' post of
the association both at Spartanburg and Columbia
and in igi8 was honored with the presidency of the
South Carolina Division, serving one year. At pres
ent he is a member of the legislative committee of
the South Carolina Division.
He wa» nominated in the deraocratic primaries of
1918 for state senator to represent Richland County
and was elected in November. During the session
of 1919 he was a member of the finance and other
committees and did much useful work not only for
his home city and county but the state at large.
Senator Pearcfe married Miss Anna Verina Trib-
ble of Anderson in 1915. They have a son, Thomas
Butler Pearce, Jr.
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As a leading business executive he had many
responsibilities during the period of the war, serving
as assistant food administrator for South Carolina
and taking part in all the various Liberty Loans',
Red Cross and other campaigns.
One of his brothers, Robert Roy Pearce, was an
American soldier and died from pneumonia in
France October i, 1918. He had been educated m
Clemson College and volunteered as a private in
Company G of the One Hundred and Fifth Ammu
nition Train, Old Hickory Division, before he was
twenty-one years of age. He trained at Camp
Sevier, Greenville, before going overseas.
Richard Dozier Lee. Two generations of the Lee
family have borne the name Richard Dozier and
have been prominent lawyers and members of the
Sumter bar.
Richard Dozier Lee senior was born August 5,
1850, son of Col. George W. and Susan (Dozier)
Lee. He was graduated from South Carolina Col
lege in 1867, read law, was admitted to the bar in
1872, and as he began practice at Sumter the asso
ciations of the name have been continuous in
the legal profession of that city for over forty-five
years. He served during 1883-85 as a member of
the House of Representatives from Sumter. He
was also a prominent leader of the democratic party
for many years, being a member of the State Con
stitutional Convention in 1895 and a presidential
elector in 1900, and president of the Democratic
Electoral College in 1901.
April 22, 187s, he married Miss Mary Dozier,
daughter of Hon. Richard Dozier of Georgetown,
South Carolina. Richard Dozier Lee, Jr., a son of
these parents, was born at Sumter December 9,
1885. He had the advantages of the public schools,
supplemented by the University of South Carolina,
from which he graduated A. B. in 1907. In 1909
he was graduated in law frora the University of
Virginia and has been successfully engaged in prac
tice at Sumter since February i, 1910. He is a
member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity.
On October 19, 1910, he married Miss Alice
Hagood of Columbia, South Carolina. Their two
children are Alice Hagood and Richard Dozier
third. Shepard Kollock Nash, who served as a second
lieutenant in the American army during the World
war, is one of the younger members of the Sumter
bar, and had earned his first successes in his pro
fession before he entered the army.
He was born in Sumter County December 13,
1893, a sori of Shepard and Anna M. (Law) Nash.
His father though a farmer served fifteen years
as clerk of the Court of Sumter County. The
son was well educated in public schools, attended
Davidson College of North Carolina, and studied
law in the office of J. H. Clinton, He was adraitted
to the bar in May, 1917, and at once began practice
at Sumter. A year later in May, igi8, he enlisted,
attended. training camp, and was raade second lieu
tenant of the One Hundred and Fifty-Sixth Depot
Brigade, He was with the array until mustered
out Deceraber 28, 1918, and just before the signing
of the arraistice had been recommended for
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Mr, Nash is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite
Mason and Shriner and a member of the Kappa
Alpha college fraternity, October 25, 1917, he mar
ried Nancy Witherspoon McKay and they have one
son, Shepard Kollock, Jr.
Ralph Dickson Epps has builded wisely and well
his reputation as a lawyer, and enjoys many prom
inent associations with the life and affairs of the
City of Surater, where he has been in active practice
for the past fifteen years.
He was born in Williamsburg County, South Caro
lina, October 12, 1876, a son of Isaac and Charlotte
Susan (Dickson) Epps. His father was a farmer
and teacher. The son managed to acquire a good
education, attending the public schools and grad
uating in 1897 from The Citadel at Charleston.
He followed his father's vocation of teaching for
several years. For two years he was a teacher in
the Philippine Islands. He also taught two years
in Surater but had graduated, and was adraitted
to the bar before coming to Sumter. He was a law
student at the University of South Carolina, com
pleting his work in 1904. The year following he
taught instead of practicing law, but in 1905 settled
down to the regular work of his calling at Sumter.
He has a large general practice. He has also been
active in public affairs, being a raember of the
Lower House of the State Legislature in 1913-14
and a senator from 1915 to 1918 inclusive. He was
not a candidate for re-election. Mr. Epps is a
director of the Young Men's Christian Association,
a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a
raeraber of the Fortnightly Club, a past Chancellor
commander of Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 17,
past council commander of the Woodmen of the
World, is affiliated with Lodge No. 64, of Masons,
Knights Templar Coraraandery No. 9, at Orange
burg, and is a raeraber of Oraar Teraple of the
Mystic Shrine at Charleston.
In January, 1900, he raarried Miss Evelyn Paxton
Merrimon of Cokesbury, Greenwood County. They
have a son Claud Merrimon, born March 18, 1908.
Moffatt Barmore DuPre. The DuPre name has
long been a conspicuous one in Richland County.
Moffatt Barraore DuPre is founder and active head
of the Moffatt B. DuPre Corapany, wholesale fruits
and produce, a line of business in which his ener
gies have been engaged since early youth.
He was born in Abbeville County December 9,
1881, a son of Belin Clark and Margaret W. (Bar
raore) DuPre. His father is county auditor of
Richland County and was founder of the DuPre
Printing Corapany. The family have lived at Co
lumbia since i8go. Moffatt Barmore DuPre pursued
his education in the Colurabia High School, but
when a boy began assisting his father in the print
ing business, and worked there for seven years, at
tending school at the same time. The printing busi
ness was not congenial and he took up work in the
wholesale business, handling fruits and . produce,
and spending seven years in learning the business
in every detail. In March, 1910, he established the
Moffatt B. DuPre Company, handling wholesale
fruits, produce and candies, and is president, treas

urer and raanager of this iraportant business, lo
cated at 820 Gervais Street.
Mr. DuPre has been actively associated with every
movement in the commercial life of Columbia for
many years, is a prominent worker in the Charaber
of Commerce, and has served as president of the
Cofiimbia Association of Credit Men and a raeraber
of the Rotary Club. He is a Knight Templar and
Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and a member of
the First Baptist Church.
April 23, 1901, he married Evelyn Agnes Jones,
daughter of John A. Jones of Columbia.
Richard Baker Belser is an attorney by training
and profession but gives a large part of his time to
real estate business. Some of his other iraportant
interests are represented by his office as vice presi
dent and director of the National Bank of Sumter
and president of the Real Estate Holdings Com
pany. He was born in Clarendon County March 14,
1879, on the Woodside plantation near Summerton,
son of Ritchie Hugh and Gulielma Maria (Baker)
Belser. His father was a farmer and merchant.
Richard B. Belser from 1879 to 1885 lived on the
¦Woodside plantation and moved to Summerton in
1886 and there he lived untill 1900 and during that
period he attended the schools at Summerton. Dur
ing the last four years of this period from 1896
to 1900 he pursued the regular collegiate course
at the University of South Carolina, graduating in
the class of 1900. For three years he raanaged the
Sumter Telephone Company and then during 1903-04
he attended the University of South Carolina tak
ing the junior and senior law courses of the uni
versity and graduating with distinction in the law
class in 1904. Since then he has practiced his profes
sion as a lawyer but has given most of his time to 'the
real estate business and has built up an extensive
real estate loan and sales business.
In 1910 he was elected a raeraber of the Legisla
ture, and has sat continuously in that body, being
now in his fifth consecutive terra. He has been a hard
working legislator and increasing experience has
brought him increasing prominence both on the
floor and in the coramittee roora. During the war he
served as government appeal agent and as city fuel
administrator of Sumter. He was for six years
a director and for two terms was president of the
Sumter Chamber of Commerce. He has been an
active raember of the Presbyterian Church since
1896. August 24, 1904, he married Miss Mabel Lee
Field of Selma, Alabama. They have four children :
Sarah Conway, born March 20, 1906 ; Mabel Field,
born October 6, 1909 ; Richard Baker, Jr., born
January 2, 1912; and Edith Fitzhugh, born February
7, 1916.
Raymon Schwartz is a prominent member of
the bar of Sumter. He was born in that city August
4, 1894, son of Isaac and Edith Ra(jhel (Solomon)
Schwartz. Raymon was educated in public schools and took
both the collegiate and law work jn the University
of South Carolina. He was graduated A. B. with the
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to the bar m June, 1915, at the age of twenty-one,
and has since been engaged in general practice
at Sumter. He is a Mason and Shriner and a
member of Sinai Congregation.
Edvvin Warren Moise who bears the name of
his distinguished grandfather, whose career as a
soldier and officer has been recited at length on
other pages, is a son of Marion Moise, whose life
as a lawyer is also the subject of sorae paragraphs
elsewhere in this publication.
Edwin Warren Moise was born at Sumter August
19, 1884. He was educated in public schools, in
Clernson College, in Randolph and Macon Academy
in Virginia, and in the Georgia School of Technology
at Atlanta. For three years he was associated with
his father and his uncles in the contracting and
building business, and has since been in the ma
chinery and automobile business at Sumter, where
he is president of the Carolina Machinery Corapany.
He is a member of the Masonic order, the Knights of
Pythias, and Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks and belongs to the Hebrew Synagogue at
Sumter, being a trustee.
August 14, 1910, he married Louise Lenoir of
Sumter. They have four children, E, W. IV, Lenoir,
Paul and Harold.
Benjamin F, Neves. While his entire active
career has been spent in working and supervising
his business as a farmer in the rural locality of
Tigerville, Benjamin F. Neves has for a number of
years occupied a place of real distinction and in
fluence in the life and affairs of Greenville County,
His name is prominently associated with several
forward movements in his locality and is as well
known in Greenville City as in his home community.
He was born at Tigerville in 1852, a son of A. A.
and Anne (Poole) Neves. His grandfather William
Neves was a native of Virginia, and when he was a
boy his parents settled in Greenville County. That
was not long after the close of the Revolutionary
war. Benjamin F. Neves grew up on a farm and has
always been a farmer, though in connection for a
number of years he conducted the principal mer
cantile enterprise at .Tigerville. He is owner of
about 800 acres of land adjacent to . Tiger-ville.
This is one of the largest individual land holdings
in Upper Greenville County.
His chief interests, however, center in the activi
ties which have made him a public figure. He
has been honored with raany positions of trust, and
these positions have come to him solely on account
of his high character and the wisdom and ability
with which he has handled every public undertaking.
Mr. Neves was practically the founder of the
Nortli Greenville Acaderay at Tigerville. He had
associates, but it devolved upon hira to carry the
chief burden, both financially and otherwise, and
this justly noted schpol owes hira a lasting debt
of gratitude. The North Greenville Acaderay was
established in 1892 as the North Greenville High
School under the auspices of the North Greenville
Baptist Association. The time of its establishment
coincided, as will be recognized, with the beginning
of the tremendous financial depression. Mr. Neves

soon found himself practically alone in the task
of securing funds and completing the plans for the
school. In the face of discouraging circurastances
he succeeded in keeping the spirit of the institution
alive. In 1907 the school was taken over by the
Baptist Home Mission ]3oard and its name changed
to the Nortli Greenville Acaderay. The school has
three large and substantial buildings, one being
the main school building and one dormitory each
for young men and young women. It is a happy
situation, commanding an imposing view of the
Blue Ridge Mountains. This school has done a
splendid work in sending out young men and young
women well fitted for the serious business of life.
The second public work for which Mr. Neves
deserves credit came in connection with the build
ing of the Greenville County Courthouse. A com
mission was appointed for that purpose -by the
governor of South Carolina. The head of the
commission was Alester G. Furman of Greenville.
Mr. Neves was appointed a meraber representing
North Greenville County. This beautiful and im
posing building at Greenville since corapleted is
regarded by competent authorities as the finest
courthouse in the state. It cost about $160,000, but
its chief distinction is the unconventional character
of the building. It is a raodern seven-story office
building, and has none of the customary architec
tural devices and inconveniences of the ordinary
courthouse, and was erected strictly for the most
expeditious handling of the county's business.
During the war with Gerraany Mr. Neves served
as chairman of Local Draft Board No. i, cora
prising all the townships in North Greenville County.
Mr. Neves married Miss Lucinda Elizabeth Mc
Kinney. They are the parents of five children :
William D. Neves, a civil engineer at Greenville;
Dr. C. A, Neves, who served as a major in the
Medical Reserve Corps in France; Ralph G. Neves,
who volunteered for service on the Mexican border,
later joined the National army and was wounded
and later discharged; Emraa, wife of Rev. B. K.
Truluck; and Elzie 0„ wife of E. E. Reese. The
faraily are raembers of the North Greenville Baptist
Church. Malcolm C. Woods has been a meraber of the
Marion bar nearly twenty years. He is a nephew
of associate justice C. A. Woods, of the South
Carolina Suprerae Bench.
He was born in Darlington, South Carculina,
Deceraber 29, 1874, son of John and • Augusta
(Moore) Woods. His father was a raerchant. The
son was well educated in local schools, graduated
from Wofford College in 1895, from Harvard Uni
versity in 1897, and began the practice of law in 1901.
He was associated with his uncle Judge Woods in
practice until the election of the latter to the Su
prerae Court. He has always enjoyed a large prac
tice and has given rauch of his tirae to public
duties. For a number of years he has been a raember
of the County Board of Education. He was chair
man of the Legal Advisory Board and meraber of
the local Board of Exeraption of Marion County
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Sarah Powell of Marion. They have three children,
John, Malcolm C, Jr., and William.
Julius Henry Walker. A brief characterization
fitly spoken appeared at the head of an editorial
in the Columbia State, written by Mr. Gonzales, the
editor, in the phrase "A Noble Columbian Passes,"
with reference to the death of Julius Henry Walker.
The late Mr. Walker had the true policies of nobil
ity — a broad and purposeful life, full of energy in
behalf of enterprises not associated with his selfish
interests, the traits of gentleness and devotion at
home and in friendships, and a siraplicity of char
acter that is perhaps the best expression of true
wisdom. He Avas born at Edgefield, South Carolina, March
31, 1853, and died at Columbia April 24, 1913, at the
age of sixty. His parents were Rev, Charles Bruce
and Caroline (Simkins) Walker, He was educated
in the Governor Tompkin's schools of Columbia
and the Law School of the State University, - His
education, both in and out of school, gave him a
broad culture, not inconsistent with his splendid
business abilitj'. For many years he was a leader
in the building of modern Columbia, showed bound
less faith in its possibilities, and lived to see some
of his hopes realized.
At the time of his graduation he was too young
to be admitted to the bar. Accordingly he found
a place of usefulness as clerk in the Central Na
tional Bank as bookkeeper. Upon the reorganiza
tion of the Loan and Exchange Bank in 1886, with
the late Judge A. C. Haskell 'as president, Julius
H. Walker became cashier. His influence and ability
contributed largely to the remarkable success of
this bank. Later he returned to the Central Na
tional as vice president, and was virtually in control
of that institution. He held that office until about
the time the bank was merged in the Palmetto Bank
& Trust Company, of which he became vice president
and treasurer. After serving a number of years
he resigned to devote his attention to his extensive
real estate interests. He was founder of the firm of
Walker, Ravenel & Company, which began business
in 1899, and in 1914, after his death, was incor
porated. He was one of the most loyal friends of
the University of South Carolina, and as a member
of its board of trustees had a prorainent part in
its development for many years. During 1898 he
was president of the Columbia Charaber of Cora
merce. As senior member of the firm Walker,
Ravenel & Corapany the developraent of Greater
Columbia became almost second nature with him.
Through his efforts several miles of electric railway
were built in the city.
For several years he was a vestryman in Trinity
Episcopal Church. His business associates had im
plicit confidence in his ability and integrity, and his
many friends likewise admired the beauty and
affecton of his home life. He raarried Miss Mar
garet Washington Lowndes, daughter of the late
Thomas Pinckney Lowndes, of Charleston, of the
historic family of that narae. She is still living, as
are the four children, Julius H., Jr., Ann, Caroline
and Margaret.
The editorial referred to at the beginning of this
article may be appropriately quoted as a closing
comment and tribute ;

"During the past two years, when evidences of
Columbia's achieveraents have been of daily record,
we have had through those evidences a thousand
moments of sorrow. For to think of Columbia's
magic growth is to think of Julius H. Walker and
to deplore the tragedy of fate by which he is stricken
to inactivity on the Sve of the fulfillment of his
hopes that were supported by ceaseless faith in and
labor for his home city. With unfailing belief in
the future of Columbia, which in his early boyhood
he saw lie a wilderness of ashes and stark ruins, he
gave courage and inspiration to others, and so ex
tended, in wide circles, the glow of his optimism.
But Mr. Walker was more in this community than
an optimist and city builder. Although not an old
man, when he died yesterday after a long illness
he was one of the very few Columbians of this
period in business here thirty years ago. He was
of the old and the new Columbia, and he brought
with him into the new the best, the soul, of the old,
that splendid integrity, that contempt of meanness,
that scorn of selfishness, that fine combination of
courtesy and strength, for which there can be no
suijstitute in honorable business or in the character
of the gentleman."
Julius H. Walker, who bears the name of his
honored father, is not only a leader in business
affairs at Columbia, but has a distinction that in
future years will doubtless transcend many more
material achieveraents. In July, 1919, he was elected
state commander of the South Carolina Division of
the American Legion, being the first in his state to
hold that office in this patriotic organization.
He was born at Columbia in 1896 and for three
years he enjoyed the military and scholastic train
ing of South Carolina's famous military college.
The Citadel, at Charleston. He was studying law
in the University of South Carolina when, in June,
1917, he volunteered for service in the L'nited States
Army. He was one of the representatives from
South Carolina University to enter training and
study for the ambulance service, the members of
which were recruited from among students of Amer
ican colleges. He spent five months in preparation
at AUentown, Pennsylvania, and sailed for France
December 25, 1917, being a member of a unit of col
lege men that were assigned to duty in the ambu
lance service of the French army. He was on con
tinuous duty at the front for sixteen months. He
was with the One Hundred and Seventy-Second
French Division that took GJient, Belgium, just before
the armistice was signed. Although these boys were
American soldiers they served under French officers.
Mr. Walker returned home in April, 1919, and
soon afterward took his place in his father's firm
of Walker, Ravenel & Company.
William A. Sheldon, M. D. Through more than
a quarter of a century Doctor Sheldon's home and
services as a physician and surgeon have been cen
tered at Liberty in Pickens County. But from that
town his name and reputation have gone abroad,
chiefly through the esteem and admiration ef his
fellow physicians, who have come to regard him
as one of the raost capable men of the profession
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Doctor Sheldon was born at Cross Anchor in
bpartanburg County in 1867, a son of William
Harris and Adeline (Glenn) Sheldon. His mother's
tamily, the Glenns, have for several generations
been influential people in Anderson and Oconee
counties. Doctor Sheldon is a grandson of Wil-
hani Brown and Anna {Hill) Sheldon, both natives
of Rhode Island. William Brown Sheldon came to
South Carolina about 1816 or 1817 in company with
James and Nathaniel Hill, formerly figures in the
cotton mill industry at Providence, Rhode Island.
"The Hill brothers located on the Enoree River in
the extreme lower part of what is now Spartanburg
County, and there erected the first cotton raill in
this state. William Brown Sheldon found his loca
tion on Duncan's Creek in Laurens County where
he established a grist mill and a small mill for
the manufacture of wool and cotton yarns. Doctor
Sheldon's father William Harris Sheldon was born
on Duncan's Creek, seven railes southeast of Laurens
Courthouse in 1820. In later years the family
moved to the vicinity of Cross Anchor in Spartan
burg County. William Harris Sheldon who died
December 12, 1901, was during his active life a man
of large affairs and made and partially lost three
substantial fortunes. In 1873 he moved with his
family from Cross Anchor to the Tom Shelor Farm
in Oconee County. He served as a Confederate
soldier and had undeniable talent and capacity for
business and leadership araong men.
Doctor Sheldon was educated in the North Georgia
Agricultural College at Dahlonega, where he was
graduated in 1888. He took his medical work in
the Atlanta Medical College where he graduated
in 1892. The first year he practiced in Anderson
County and in 1893 located at Liberty. For years
he has enjoyed a large general practice and is local
surgeon for the Southern Railway. He is a member
of the County, State, Southern and American Med
ical associations, and the American Association of
Railway Surgeons.
Doctor Sheldon married Miss Ida Templeton,
daughter of David and Sarah (Stoddard) Temple-
ton. Her father was also a Confederate veteran and
is now deceased. Her mother is still living. Her
parents were born in Laurens County and repre
sented old and well known families there. Doctor
and Mrs. Sheldon have .two sons, William Garnett
and Eugene Sheldon. William Garnett Sheldon
volunteered in the Hospital Corps at the beginning
of the great war and saw duty in France, principally
at Base Hospital No. 81. He is now attending
Emory University at Atlanta, Georgia.
Brig.-Gen. William Woodbury Moore. For up
wards of a century the name Moore has appeared
in distinctive characters on many pages of South
Carolina's military annals. His father a captain
in the famous Hampton Legion during the Civil
¦War and with a son who is a captain in the famous
marines organzation at the present time, it would
be difficult to say whether the brilliant military and
civic record of Gen. William Woodbury Moore has
been the result of inheritance and ancestry or the
productive force originating in his own m«nd and
His grandfather, John Augustus Moore, was a

native of Peterboro, New Hampshire. When a
young man he came to South Carolina with his
maternal uncle, Ferguson, and located at Gilli-
sonville, then a part of Beaufort District. It was
at Gillisonville, in Beaufort District, that General
Moore's father, Henry Woodbury Moore, M. D.,
was born in 1831. In the war between the states he
served as assistant surgeon with the rank of cap
tain, being attached to the Hampton Legions.
Dr. Moore married Martha Elizabeth Rowell, a
native of old Beauford District. Her parents dying
when she was very young, she was reared by her
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Craddock. A
brother of Henry Woodbury Moore was Maj. -Gen.
James W. Moore, who served throughout the Civil
war as captain and adjutant of the Second South
Carolina Cavalry attached to the Hampton Legions.
Afterward he held the rank of major general in the
State Militia, and for nearly twenty years repre
sented Hampton County in the State Senate. He
was one of the raost prorainent lawyers in the state
bar, his home being at Gillisonville, in Hampton
County. With such worthy forbears to arouse his early
purpose and ambitions, Williara Woodbury Moore
was born at Hendersonville, in Colleton County,
South Carolina, Deceraber 30, 1868. He received his
preliminary education from the comraon schools of
the county and during 1884-85 attended The Citadel,
the historic narae for the South Carolina Military
Academy. He left there at the age of seventeen
and then took up the task of building his own career.
His first experience was as clerk in a country store.
In the fall of 1887 he removed to Barnwell, where
he has had his horae for over thirty years. He was
clerk in the general raerchandise store of John I.
Brunson, and in 1888 went with the firm of A. P.
Manville & Company, and continued with the same
house when it was succeeded in 1889 by McNab,
Walker & Company until it went out of business in-
1895. In that year General Moore engaged in mer
cantile business on his own account and continued
until 1901. From that year until 1910 he was a
cotton buyer and a traveling salesman for different
firms. He is a director of the Barnwell Banking
Company at Barnwell. He is a Mason, is past chan
cellor of Barnwell Lodge No. 16, Knights of Pythias,
and a member of Lodge No. 5, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, at Columbia.
Ever since leaving the South Carolina Military
Academy General Moore has been almost contin
uously connected with the State Militia and National.
Guard. Beginning in 1889, he was a raember of the-
company at Barnwell known as the Barnwell Guards.
Afterward he was first sergeant in the Brown
Guards at Barnwell. In 1891-92-93 he was second
lieutenant of this organization and was elected captain
of Company E of the Third Regiment, National
Guard, May 12, 1904. He resigned the commission
February 16, 1907, and was appointed at that time
colonel on the staff of Governor Ansel. This ap
pointment he held four years, until elected adjiiant
general of South Carolina in 1910.
On November 5, 1890, General Moore married
Miss Loulie M. Peeples, youngest daughter of
Capt. Williara B. and Katherine Peeples. To this
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and James Tillinghast Moore. Catherine on August
I, 1917, became the wife of Rev. W. E. Davis, pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church, Clemson College,
South Carolina. The son, James Tillinghast Moore,
born September 5,- 1895, graduated frora the Barn
well High School in 1912, and in 1916 from the
South Carolina Military Academy. June 28, 1915,
previous to his graduation from The Citadel, he
enlisted in Company B, Second Regiment, South
Carolina National Guard. Upon the call of the
President June 19, 1916, he entered the Federal
service and on June 23, 1916, was comraissioned
second lieutenant of machine gun company. Second
South Carolina National Guard. He assisted in the
organization of this unit and reraained with it until
September 26, 1916. Resigning from the National
Guard, he accepted a commission in the United
States Marine Corps, his first detail of service being
at Winthrop, Maryland. December 10, 1916, he was
transferred to the Dominican Republic, where he
is now stationed. On May 22, 1917, he was pro
moted to first lieutenant, and on May 23, 1917, was
promoted to captain, being forty-first on the list of
captains, and on July i, 1918, he was promoted to-
major. United States Marine Corps.
General Moore married for his second wife on
October 29, 1900, Florella M. Saunders, eldest
daughter of Capt. Thomas M. and Ada Saunders.
The service by which he has become known
throughout the State of South Carolina is in the
state position of adjutant general, to which, as
above noted, he was first elected in igio, to fill
out the unexpired terra of Gen. J. C. Boyd, who
died December 21, 1910. In igi2 General Moore
was re-elected adjutant general without opposition,
and in igi4 he was re-elected, defeating his opponent
by raore than 30,000 votes. In 1916 carae another
election without opposition, and that was also true
of the election of 1918.
It is the privilege of the editor to quote herewith
an interesting stateraent made by Capt. J. Wilson
Gibbes, who was a schoolmate of General Moore
at The Citadel, and is now clerk of the House of
Representatives of South Carolina. Captain Gibbes
says :
"The achieveraents of the adjutant general's office
under the administration of General Moore are not
able, resulting in lasting good to the departraent and
in greater efficiency of the state's National Guard
system. Owing to his zeal, his indefatigable efforts
and his intelligent handling of military matters, the
state's military scheme has been strengthened and
freed from debt. Among his official accomplish
ments these stand out prominently :
"A coraplete settleraent with the Federal Gov
ernment of the shortage of $104,000 of property
'issued to the state and lost during the last fifteen
years, followed by the institution of a system of
accurate accounting by each officer of the National
Guard. "An increase in the legislative appropriation for
the National Guard, first, from $11,000 to $15,000,
and 1917 to $30,000, in 1918, $62,499.50 and in 1919
$90,400. "Reduction in 1915 from three state regiraents to
two, thereby securing greater efficiency for the
smaller body than could be secured for the existing

organization with the funds allowed by the General
Assembly. Up to that time General Moore's repeated
appeals for a larger appropriation were unsuccessful.
"Elimination of the weak elements in the regi
ments and the strengthening of the others.
"The state's railitary organization placed on safe
and sound basis, both from the standpoint of finances
and frora that of efficiency. Out of debt and always
a balance to its credit.
"General Moore was the originator and promoter
of the state mobilization site at Styx, near Columbia.
The 1,007 acres there have been improved and build
ings have been erected. Through General Moore's
efforts the camp has one of the best rifle ranges in
the South. Colonel Page, instructor-inspector, in
his annual report, says that the carap is an ideal one
frora every viewpoint. This camp now bears his
name, 'Camp Moore.'
"General Moore worked indefatigably for the pas
sage of the Pay Bill for the National Guard of the
United States. Adjutant-General Sadler of New
Jersey paid him an unsolicited compliment when he
declared that the National Guard of the whole
country is under lasting obligations to him and
others for their services in Washington.
"The ten years of General Moore's tenure of
office constitute a record of fine achievement, in the
face of many obstacles, trials and disappointments,
during which the fibre of a strong man was devel
oped for the good of his state.
"It is not generally known, but General Moore made
an earnest effort to serve his country on the firing
line in the present war, and it is not his fault that
his some-what portly stature prevented the accept
ance of his services."
Richard Harry Peters. Though after an absence
of fifteen years. Doctor Peters returned to South
Carolina in May, 1919, and located at Greenville,
he has always had a great following of admirers
and friends in this state, acquired during his long
residence at Spartanburg, where he was director of
rausic in Converse College. Doctor Peters is a man
of re^l eminence in the musical art and profession.
He is an organist, pianist, conductor, composer, and
in South Carolina and elsewhere has been the central
figure around which has been developed much of the
good musical taste and interest of a large section of
the American public.
Doctor Peters is a native of England, born at
Brighton, March 24, 1867, a son of Richard and Re
becca (Harwood) Peters. As a boy he was prepared
for a scholastic profession, but his talent and inter
est in rausic becarae so evident that he was given
every opportunity to develop along that line in
stead. He was educated in the Scotsford House
School for Boys and Haddington Collegiate Insti
tute at Brighton, and studied piano, theory and organ
privately. At the age of ten he was admitted to the
choir of St. Patrick's Church in Brighton, the largest
and most fashionable church in that city. He became
choir leader and solo singer in the choir and at the
age of sixteen held his first position as organist and
choir master. At the age of twenty-one he had
taken the degree Bachelor of Music by examination
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Organists and Associate of the Royal College of
Organists in London.
Three years later he was honored with the degree
Doctor of Music by exaraination. He was then
twenty-four years of age, probably the youngest doc
tor of music by exaraination at that tirae in the
world. In a competition at Crystal Palace, London,
he was appointed music master and concert organ
ist at St. John's College in St. John's, Newfound
land, arriving in that city and beginning his career
as a factor in American rausic in 1891. After the
great fire of 1892 he left St. Johns, spent a year
elsewhere in Canada, and in 1894 carae to Spartan
burg, South Carolina, as director of music in Con
verse College. That was his office for twelve years.
In that time largely due to the prestige and influence
of Doctor Peters, the Converse School of Music be
came one of the raost important centers of musical
education and influence in the Southern states. For
ten years of his residence at Spartanburg he was also
director and manager of the annual rausic festival,
an event that made Spartanburg noted as a musical
center. In 1904 Doctor Peters removed from Spartanburg
to Baltiraore, where he spent several years engaged
in his profession. While in that city he was organ
ist and choirraaster of Emanuel Protestant Episcopal
Church six years. For three years he was also con
ductor of the Wednesday Club of Richmond, Vir
ginia, and for three years was conductor of the
Oratorio Society at York, Pennsylvania. He was
dean of the Maryland Chapter of the American Guild
of Organists for three years. During 1904 he was
a solo organist at the World's Fair in St, Louis.
In June, 1919, Doctor Peters returned to South
Carolina to becorae organist and choirraaster of the
Buncombe Street Methodist Church at Greenville.
In response to the natural demand for more ex
tended usefulness he has also organized classes in
musical study and individual instruction, and main
tains a music studio at Greenville at 201 Lavinia
Doctor Peters married Mrs. Lula (Butler) Thomp
son, widow of the late Dr. Waddy Thompson. Both
the' Butler and Thorapson families are among the
oldest and most historic in upper South Carolina.
Robert Leland Edmunds throughout his active
life of a little more than thirty years has identified
himself continuously with banking and financial
affairs He has been in the service of several insti
tutions at Sumter continuously throughout this
^^He was born in Richland County, South Carolina,
October 25 1867, and is a brother of the prominent
Sumter educator, Sarauel H. Edraunds His par
ents were Rev. Nicholas William and Mary Claudia
(Leland) Edmunds. His father was for twenty-
five years pastor of the First Presbyterian Church
Robert L Edmunds attended public schools and
finished his work in the South Carolina College now
the State University, in 1885, In 1888 he began
his service with the First National Bank as a
clerk and was with that institution continuously
until' 100; rising to the rank of cashier. From
Ss to 1910 he^erved the Farmers Bank & Tmst

Company as cashier and in 1910 became secretary
and treasurer of the Sumter Trust Corapany. He is
also secretary and treasurer of the Liberty Holding
Corapany, a real estate organization. Mr. Edraunds
is a deacon in the Presbyterian Church of Sumter.
In July, 1893, he married Everida Anderson of
Sumter. They have three children : Mamie, Robert
Leland, Jr., and Margaret,
William M. Thompson, of Greer in Greenville
County is a veteran in the hardware trade, and as
a traveling salesman he covered all the towns of
upper South and North Carolina for many years.
He is also a veteran automobile salesman and has
the distinction of being the second Oldest representa
tive of the Ford car in South Carolina.
Mr. Thorapson was born in Spartanburg County
in 1866, a son of C. S. and Elizabeth (Morgan)
Thorapson. His father was born and reared in the
vicinity of Wellford in the western part of Spartan
burg County, was a soldier in the Confederate army,
and soon after the close of the war removed to
Haywood County in western North Carolina,
where he spent his active career as a farmer. His
wife was a meraber of the well known Morgan
family, pioneer settlers in the western part of
Spartanburg County. The pioneer generation of
this family included Jesse Morgan, grandfather of
Mr. B. A. Morgan, president of the Bank of Cora
raerce of Greenville.
Williara M. Thorapson grew up on his father's
farm in western North Carolina. He had limited
advantages, and his start in life was raade with a
capital of only 20 cents. He worked at various occu
pations and before he was of age returned to South
Carolina and eventually located at Greer in Green
ville County. As a traveling salesman in the hard
ware trade Mr. Thorapson ' for twenty-five years
represented the Weddington Hardware Company of
Charlotte. He became representative of the Ford Autoraobile
Corapany at Greer in December, 1907. The first
year he sold eight cars, thirty-five the second year,
seventy-five the third year, and his business and sales
have been growing ever since. The year before
the great war he sold 400 cars, but was able to fill
only an allotment of 350. He also has the exclusive
Ford business at Greenville, and on South Main
Street has the largest and most complete automo
bile trade building in Greenville, a four-story build
ing equipped with every convenience. Mr. Thomp
son is a resident of Greer and divides his business
time between the two cities.
He is a half owner in the Thompson Hardware
Company of Greer. With Mr. Keating, his partner,
he put up in the summer of 1919 a large two-story
modern building, which will be used as a department
store. Mr. Thorapson married Miss Edna Green of Greer.
Their four daughters are Mildred; Gertrude, the
wife of F. L. Marchant; Frances and Evelyn.
J. Robert Martin was elected in 1916 and is now
serving as solicitor of the Thirteenth Judicial Cir
cuit, comprising Greenville and Pickens counties.
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he has come in close contact with politics, under
stands the good and evil in political affairs, and has
a keen insight into the complexities of motives which
move men in their dealings with one another. It is
a fact of no small signifiance that Mr. Martin en
tered the political game when factionalism ran high
and a personal candidate only after his success as
a lawyer was assured and when his principles and
convictions and attitude hardly needed any explana
tion before the people. Mr. Martin could hardly be
called conventional, either in his private business or
in his professional work, and early in life he deter
mined to carve out his career along the lines of his
individuality. Hence he never becarae an ally of any
machine or organization in business or politics, and
in doing what his conscience approved and in fol
lowing the course dictated by his judgment he nat
urally made some personal enemies, but many more
friends, who knew where he stood and the attitude
he would take to his duties and obligations in office.
He was elected by a splendid majority. By each of
the three factors — rural, raill and city vote — he was
favored, and during the three years of his adrainis
tration he has more than met the expectations of
his friends and made for hiraself a state-wide rep
utation. Mr. Martin, son of A. B. and Sarah (McDill)
Martin, was born in Abbeville County, South Caro
lina, and is of Scotch-Irish descent. And he doubt
less acquired .^some of the rugged character of his
mature years from his active contact with the farra
as a boy. While he recognizes that the welfare of
the individual is closely bound up with that of
society in general, Mr. Martin raight say with ap
proximate truth that he has depended entirely upon
his own efforts to proraote hiraself in the world of
affairs. As a boy he had only a few winter terms
of school, later attended the Donalds High School
one year, and frora there entered Erskine College.
After graduating he taught the old field school where
he himself had learned his first lessons. He also
taught at Lickville and at Old Hundred, in Green
ville County, Unexpectedly the offer was made hira
of taking charge of the preparatory school of Ers
kine College, an office he held one year. Then for
two years he was principal of the Piedmont graded
schools of Greenville and Anderson counties, and
besides teaching the day ^school he taught a private
class of mill boys at night. Those were busy days,
but Mr. Martin found surplus time and energy which
he devoted to the study of law, and finally, in
June, 1902, entered the offices of Martin F. Ansel
and finished his studies under that capable pre
ceptor, passing the bar examination the following
December. Mr. Martin then' accepted the unusual
opportunity to ground himself thoroughly in the
technique of law practice by serving as stenographer
and clerk to Mr. Ansel, and was so engaged for
four years until Mr. Ansel was elected governor of
South Carolina.- Since tken Mr. Martin has given
his entire attention to his private practice. A num
ber of times before elected to the office of solicitor
he was employed to assist the state in the prose
cution of cases. His principal law business, how
ever, comes from representing, in personal injury
suits, those with whom in his youth and early raan
hood he was closely associated, he, always adhering

to his idea of individuality, championing the cause
of the individual rather than the corporate interest.
Altogether Mr. Martin has worked hard and taken
and given hard knocks, and all his experience has
never served to bias his mind or embitter his heart,
and has left him with deep sympathies for those
who struggle in all their daily lives, those who are
unfortunate as well as fortunate, and he is kindly
as well as strong, considerate as well as fearless
and prompt. Mr. Martin has prospered, is owner
of sorae valuable business property in Greenville,
and while a man of substantial means he started
life without financial aid or assistance. He is a
member of the Shriners and of several other fra
ternities. In 1906 he was married to Miss Rankin,
of Liberty, South Carolina, and to them were born
two children, Margaret and Robert.
Claude M. Hemphill is superintendent of the
Monaghan plant of the Victor-Monaghan Company
at Greenville, and is an unusual and splendid type
of the practical cotton mill man. From early boy
hood he has spent most of his working hours within
sigfht and hearing of the clicking spindles and whirl
ing looms.
No one could have started in the industry on a
humbler scale, and few could rise to larger responsi
bilities in the industry than Mr. Hemphill. He was
born at Woodruff in Spartanburg County in 1880,
a son of Milton B. and Ellen (Cannon) Hemphill.
When he was an infant he lost his father by death.
His mother is also deceased. From Woodruff the
faraily raoved to Clifton, a raill village near Spar
tanburg. Claude had very few opportunities to at
tend school. Life was a serious business to hira at
a time when the average boy has no care and no
responsibility. When he was ten years old, in i8go
he went to work in the mill at Clifton. The world
has passed through many epoch raaking stages since
1890, a period of less than thirty years. Those trans-
forraations which amount to revolutionary changes
have been applied to the southern cotton industry
perhaps more than to any other form of American
industrial life. When Mr. Hemphill went to work
in the cotton mill at Clifton, the standards of wages,
and every other condition affecting cotton mills, were
at an exceedingly low point. His own wages' were
only 5 cents a day. Five or six years passed before
this energetic and ambitious boy received more than
30 cents a day. ThusVithin his own time and ex
perience has occurred tremendous advances of wages
for even the humblest employment, and the environ
ment of the mills has changed in corresponding ratio
resulting m better living and housing conditions'
schools, playgrounds, welfare work, so that the mill
boy of the present day has better opportunities than
many boys in well to do families when Mr. Hemphill
was learning his trade.
In the face of the.se adverse conditions Mr. Hemp
hill steadily made his way upward and created his
own opportunities. He specialized so far as possi
ble on the weaving part of cotton mill work. In
1893 the fanuly moved from Clifton to Gaffnev and
he was employed in the mills of that citv until 1899.
then for ijA years he worked in a mill at Atlanta
Georgia, and in 1901 returned to South Carolina
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his own home. He was proraoted to assistant over
seer of weaving in the Victor' plant at Greer. In
191 1 the Victor-Monaghan Corapany transferred him
to their plant at Greer as overseer of weaving, and
in 1914 he was made superintendent of the Greer
plant. Five years later in March, 1919, he was given
one of the highest promotions in' the southern textile
industry when made superintendent of the Monaghan
plant of the Victor-Monaghan Company at Green
ville. This plant is the central mill and the raost im
portant of the chain of mills operated by the Victor-
Monaghan Company, the greatest cotton manufac
turing corporation in the South. The Monaghan
plant has 62,000 spindles and manufactures a wide
variety of print cloths, pajama checks, fancy goods,
etc. Mr. Hemphill is earnestly identified with the .
Methodist Church. He is father of a fine family. He
married Miss Annie Wilson of Greer and their eight
children are Constance, Mary, Lewis, Agnes, Claude
M., Jr., Eva, Walton and Fred.
Capt. Charles W. Gentry, who holds the rank
of captain by reason of his former service in the
medical department of the National army, is a phy
sician widely known in upper South Carolina and
has practiced both in Spartanburg and Greenville.
Doctor Gentry who was head of the Greenville
Ambulance Company, a volunteer unit in the late
war, was born at Spartanburg in 1877 and is a
member of the prominent family of that name in
Spartanburg. Doctor Gentry graduated from Clem
son College in 1898. He had his first military ex
perience in the same year when he volunteered in
Company C it Anderson of the First South Caro
lina Infantry, National Guard. He was on duty
during six months of the Spanish-American war
period. His medical studies were carried on in the
University of Maryland at Baltimore, where he
graduated in 1903. He practiced four years at
Enoree in Spartanburg County, and in 1907 entered
upon a busy career at Greenville, which was only
interrupted at the beginning of the war.
The Greenville Ambulance Company, known as
Company 323, was organized at Greenville under the
auspices of the Red Cross early in the war. It was
trained at Camp Oglethorpe two weeks and then at
Camp Jackson, was assigned for active duty with
the Eighty-First Division, and was one of the two
ambulance corapanies put on the front line during
the last great drive of the war beginning November
7th and ending with the armistice November nth.
In fact their duties continued practically uninter
rupted until the 19th of November. That in Cap
tain Gentry's company there was never a man lost
either by sickness, wounds or from any cause.
During his service Doctor Gentry was serving with
the rank of lieutenant but later was promoted to
captain. He was really captain in comraand of the
organization during the strenuous fighting period of
October and November. Doctor Gentry returned
home in June, 1919, and received his honorable dis
charge at Camp Jackson. Imraediately after his dis
charge from the service he was tendered and ac
cepted the commission with r^nk of raajor in the
Medical Reserve Corps. In July he resuraed the

practice of his profession at Greenville with offices
at 328^ North Main Street.
Doctor Gentry married Miss Sue M. Dendy of
Walhalla, South Carolina, e. daughter of Styles P.
Dendy, who served as grand master of the State of
South Carolina, where he was a very prorainent
Mason. Doctor and Mrs. Gentry have one child,
Allie E. Gentry. Doctor Gentry is a raeraber of the
Masonic fraternity and also Knights of Pythias.
Capt. Stephen Nettles is a prominent young
Greenville lawyer, who in the suramer of 1919 re
suraed the work of his profession after retiring from
the army with the rank of captain.
Captain Nettles was born at Manning in Clarendon
County in 1889, a son of Rev. Stephen A. and Sue
Lesesne (Galluchat) Nettles. The Nettles faraily
has been long prorainent for its representation in the
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His
grandfather the late Rev. Abraham Nettles was bom
in Dorchester County, South Carolina, in 1808, of
English ancestry, and spent all his active career in
the Methodist ministry. He died at the age of
eighty-nine. Rev. Stephen A. Nettles has long been
prominent in the work of his church, is a graduate
of Wofford College at Spartanburg, and has filled
many pulpits in South and North Carolina confer
ences. He is now located at Fairfield, North Caro
lina. Sue Lesesne Galluchat is descended from the
Galluchat and Lesesne families, French colonists
of San Domingo Island, which they left on account
of Revolutionary troubles in 1791, then settling at
Charleston. Capt. Stephen Nettles was graduated from Wofford
College in 1908, spent one year in the law school
of Columbia University of New York, and in 1911
graduated with the degree LL, B. frora the Harvard
University Law School, For eight years he has
been a member of the Greenville bar, has an im
portant practice, and enjoys an enviable position
among the best citizenship.
Soon after the outbreak of -the war with Gerraany
Captain Nettles was raustered into the National
service as second lieutenant of Company G in the
Second South Carolina Infantry. This was raerged
in the One Hundred and Fifth Aramunition Train,
Thirtieth Division, and trained at Camp Sevier,
Greenville, Captain Nettles sailed for France May
II, 1918, and on his arrival overseas was made
assistant general staff officer of Section Three, Thir
tieth Division, attached to Division Headquarters.
He participated in all the battles of the famous Old
Hickory Division in Flanders and on the Somme.
He was proraoted to captain in February, 1919, and
on returning frora France was discharged at Camp
Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina, April 9, igig.
On November 8, 1919, Captain Nettles married Miss
Mary G. Dillard of 'Washington, Georgia.
Francis Marion Moise is one of the younger gen
eration of the Moise family in Sumter, playing a
worthy part in business affairs and living up to the
traditions of his noted family.
He was born October 3, 1893, and is a son of the
late Sumter lawyer, Marion Moise, and a grandson
of Edwin Warren Moise, whose careers as a soldier
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HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Francis Marion Moise was educated in public
schools, the University of South Carolina, and fin
ished his work in the University of Georgia in 1914.
The year following he spent farming and has since
been secretary and treasurer of the Carolina Ma
chinery Company, Incorporated, at Sumter.
December 7, 1916, at Sumter, he raarried Ella Pau
line Blanding, daughter of Robert C. and Elizabeth
(Scott) Blanding. They have one son, Francis
Marion, Jr., born January 7, 1918.
Ernest Carlisle Dye. There were so many fac
tors contributing to the manifest superiority of the
American soldier during the recent war that it is dif
ficult to discriminate among them. However, much
praise has been bestowed by high officials and it is
the duty of Americans to remember that highly im
portant and valuable service rendered in raaking the
American fit for army duty by the dental profes
sion, a work that was splendidly carried out through
the Preparedness League of Araerican Dentists.
Particular reference to this organization and its
work can be properly raade here, since Dr. Ernest
Carlisle Dye of Greenville was director for the State
of South Carolina of the League.
The league, organized under the auspices of the
National Dental Association, was ready for work
soon after the country declared war, and at that time
Doctor Dye was raade director for South Carolina.
In that capacity he appointed a county director in
practically every county in the state. These dentists
with unswerving loyalty and devotion to their coun
try's interests gave freely of their time and pro
fessional skill in making every soldier entering the
draft service dentally fit. They did this without
a cent of expense to the government or to the sol
diers. Doctor Dye, hiraself in Greenville County
exarained and treated many soldiers sent out from
that county, and obviously in doing so he had to sac
rifice much of his time and private practice. It is
well known that many of the causes for rejection
during the early examination by army authorities
were due to defective teeth. Later on raany of these
candidates were accepted, and this was due not so
rauch to a relaxing of the strict regulations as to the
remedying of defects by the skillful work of mera
bers of the dental profession, most of it being done
as part of the program of the Preparedness League
of American Dentists.
Doctor Dye was born in Clarendon County, South
Carolina, in 1882, a son of William M. and Isabel
(Cole) Dye. When he was a small child his parents
removed to Charleston where he grew up. He ac-
quired a very liberal education, graduating from the
Charleston High School, Charleston College, and
taking his degree from Wofford College at Spartan
burg with the class of 1905. After this thorough
fundamental equipment he spent three years in the
dental department of Vanderbilt University, and
graduated in 1911. Since then Doctor Dye has been
engaged in a busy practice at Greenville and his rank
in the profession of the state was the basis for the
assignment to him of the duties of director for the
state of the Preparedness League. In addition to
this patriotic contribution to his country's welfare.
Doctor Dye was at the same time a member of the

regular medical advisory board for the First District
of South Carolina.
He is a prominent member of the American and
South Carolina Dental Associations, and has been
secretary of the latter for the past five years ending
in 1918. He is a raember of the Knights of Pythias
and Woodmen of the World. Doctor Dye married
Miss Augusta Sprott of Manning, South Carolina.
Augustus M. Hayes. A resident of Greenville
since 1888, the personality and enterprise of Au
gustus M. Hayes has had an increasing influence in
the city's rapidly expanding life and commerce. He
is now at the head of the largest wholesale flour and
grain business in upper South Carolina, and is a cit
izen of prominent and public spirit who gives his
aid to all worthy civic enterprises.
Mr. Hayes was born at Asheville, North Carolina,
in 1868. Asheville was at that time a small and
obscure village, and Mr. Hayes' birthplace is the
present site of the Swannanoa Hotel, one of the
largest hotels in that resort city. His parents W. A.
and Rhoda Amelia (Davis) Hayes, were also natives
of western North Carolina. In the early childhood
of Augustus his parents removed to Greenville
County, South Carolina, and the latter grew up on
a farm there.
On moving to Greenville in 1888 he engaged in
the retail grocery business and conducted a high
class store of that kind for fifteen years. In 1903
he established his present wholesale business in
flour and grain, and he handles raore of those com
modities than any other concern in upper South
Carolina. The offices and extensive warehouse are
located on East Court Street.
Mr. Hayes is a member of the First Presbyterian
Church. In 1918 he bought the Paris Mountain
Hotel situated at the top of Paris Mountain only
a few miles north of Greenville. This hotel ^as
built by the Altamont Hotel Company in 1889,
and was run for several years as a resort hotel.
Later it was sold and used as a Bible school by
Rev. Mr. Holraes, a Seventh Day Adventist. In
recent years the building has been in disuse. It is
Mr. Hayes' intention in the near future to have
this valuable and attractive property developed either
as a modern resort hotel or as a sanitarium.
Mr. Hayes married Miss Mamie Pauline Hughes.
Their two children are Augustus M., Jr., and Mary
Pauline. F. S. Earle is one of the oldest merchants in Co
lumbia, having been in business in this city over
thirty years. His name is prominently associated
with municipal affairs, being an ex-mayor and a mem
ber of the present commission form of city govern
ment. Mr. Earle, though he was born in the State of
Alabama m 1865, represents an old family of Upper
South Carolina the Earles having located in Green
ville County before the Revolutionary war. Several
ot the family have been prominent in public affairs.
The parents of F. S. Earle were Thompson and Caro-
Irae (Leaphart) Earle, who for several years lived
in Alabama where F. S. Earle was born in 1865.
In 1869 the family returned to South Carolina, chief
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son Earle was a Confederate soldier and spent his
last years at Columbia.
F. S. Earle attended the Thompson School and
South Carolina College af Colurabia, graduating
from the latter in 1885. The following year he en
tered the drug business, and that has been his chosen
work and business for over thirty years. The Pal
metto Drug Store on Gervais Street, of which he is
proprietor, is a widely known business institution and
has enjoyed splendid prosperity. In the summer of
1919 Mr. Earle purchased adjoining property for the
purpose of making additions to his present building.
As a young man he proved his serviceableness and
usefulness to his horne community, and has fre
quently been the choice of his fellow citizens for
offices of trust. He served as raayor of Colurabia
from 1900 to 1904, having a previous good record in
the council. Since 1904 he has been a raember of
the city council. When the Commission form of
government went into effect in 1910, consisting of a
mayor and four comraissioners, Mr. Earle was as
signed the responsibility of the department of water
works, sewerage and fire department. Probably no
member of the present governraent has a more thor
ough and technical knowledge of city affairs than
Mr. Earle.
He married Miss Olive Miller. Her grandfather
was Maj. J. N. Miller, a prominent South Carolina
soldier and citizen. They have one daughter, Mrs.
Margaret Frazier.
Maj. Franklin Leland Anderson. Firmly en
shrined in the memory of those who knew and loved
hira, the late Maj. Franklin Leland Anderson is
recognized to have been one of the best representa
tives of the old school of Southern gentleraen, re
nowned for his chivalry, high Christian character
and sterling raanhood. His birth occurred at his
father's old homestead in South Carolina at the
junction of Ren's Creek and South Tyger River,
which property, known throughout Spartanburg
County as Holly Hill, reraained his home until his
death. He came into the world on January 30, 1830,
the seventh son of James Mason and Polly (An
derson) Anderson. Holly Hill has been the horae
stead of four generations of the Anderson family,
and the beautiful estate with its commodious brick
mansion was brought into its present state of culti
vation by Major Anderson. Frora it can be obtained
a view of the river and surrounding country that is
unsurpassed by any other in the state, and this
property is regarded as one of the finest and raost
valuable in the South. .
Major Anderson attended the Poplar Springs
Academy and was fortunate in having for his in
structors the well-known educators, James K. Dick
inson, George McDuffie, Mr. Brogles and others.
Later he took the usual course at the University of
Virginia at Charlottesville, and there corapleted his
classical studies, although through his life he kept
on adding to his store of knowledge through exten
sive reading, travel and by exerting his powers of
observation, so that he was at all tiraes a very well
informed man. ....
Major Anderson was elected and commissioned by
the governor of the state, captain of the Cashville
Company of the old Sixty-Sixth South Carolina

Militia, and was later commissioned major of the
lower battlion of the same regiment, serving in all
for a period of seven years in the militia. Accord
ing to the then existing state laws, this period of
service exempted him for further service in the
militia, but to a man of his character this exemption
did not satisfy him or relieve him in his own mind
from further responsibility with reference to proper
military protection of his district, and a few months
prior to the declaration of war betwen the North
and the South he enlisted as a member of the Spartan
Rifles, under the coraraand of James Walker, which
was one of the first companies organized for the
service, and he was made a sergeant. He was one
of the first to leave his native county, and served
during the first year of the war as a meraber of
the Fifth Regiraent, South Carolina Volunteers,
Col. Micha Jenkins coraraanding. With the re
organization of the troops during 1862 in Virginia
he became a member of Corapany A. Holcomb Le
gion, Col. P. F. Stephens commanding, and with
the exception of an unimportant attack of three
days, was not ill during the entire war, and took
part in every engageraent, both major and minor,
in which his regiraent participated, and he was also
fortunate in escaping capture. His record as a
soldier is one in which his family may well take
pride, for he fought gallantly for the "Lost Cause,"
and lived up to the highest ideals of railitary honor.
Both by inheritance and conviction Major Ander
son was Presbyterian, and he joined the Nazareth
Presbyterian Church when a young man and con
tinued in its service the remainder of his life, being
ordained an elder later on in life. This church gave
him an outlet for his religious convictions, and he
set an example to his fellow members in godly living
and Christian charity not easily forgotten. Often
sent as a delegate td the conventions of his church,
he became well known to the religious leaders of
his state, and he was twice made a delegate to the
General Asserably, the highest court of the church.
Upon the reorganization of Antioch Church, near
Cashville, South Carolina, when it was taken to
Reidville, South Carolina, Major Anderson trans
ferred to it, and his efforts in its behalf greatly
aided in bringing it to its present flourishing con
dition. Big of heart. Major Anderson gave with an
open-handed generosity, not only to the church, but
to all worthy charities and public-spirited raove
ments throughout the country. Among other bene
factions, he, with Col. T. J. Moore, furnished the
requisite funds for the education of a young raan
for the rainistry of the Presbyterian Church who
is now a distinguished divine and faithful worker
in the church of his faith.
On October 19, 1858, Major Anderson was first
married tp Susan N. Norris, a daughter of
Capt. William Norris, of Union, South Carolina.
Mrs. Anderson died in 1863, leaving three young
children, naraely : Julia, Frank N. and William N.,
the last named being only three weeks of age.
Julia N. died in April, 1866. Frank N. is a promi
nent resident of Spartanburg, South Carolina, and
William A. is residing in Texas. The second mar
riage of Major Anderson took place on Novem
ber 28, 1868, when he was united with Ada Eppes,
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Dr. Benjamin Franklin and Ann Elizabeth (Fields)
Eppes, both of v.-liom were born in Sussex County,
Virginia. Mrs. Anderson was educated at the War
renton Female Serainary in North Carolina, and
was an accomplished musician in her youth. She
is a lady of great culture and attainments. During
the war in her section she took an active part in
working for the soldiers and relieving the suffering
of the wounded, and it was but natural that she
should bestow her heart and hand upon one of the
veterans of that great struggle, and aid him in his
further developraent in church and state. Major
and Mrs. Anderson becarae the parents of the fol
lowing children: Victor Eppes, Benjamin Mason,
who is deceased; Katherine Eppes, Thomas Mason,
Walter Cary, Jaraes Leland, John Marshall and
Henrietta Maria.
With the death of Major Anderson Spartanburg
County lost one of its raost representative raen.
He was a man who possessed in marked degree
the power to stimulate others to whole-hearted en
deavor, and reached the understanding of the public
directly and surely. In all of his work in behalf of
his church or coraraunity he was so convincing be
cause of his simplicity and integrity that he attained
to the full measure of the popular heart and confi
dence and won support for the raeasures he was
advocating, soraetiraes against almost insuperable
obstacles. His inspiration was always for activi
ties of the best and highest character, and being a
constructive optimist with a practical vision and an
abiding faith in the best in human nature, he never
faltered in his good work, but kept it up as long
as he lived. Major Anderson always had the broader
sense of the responsibility of citizenship, and never
evatled the discharge of civic duty. He was not
easily deceived in men or raisled in measures so that
when he advocated any raoveraent his associates had
instant faith in it, and realizing that he possessed
vision, courage and initiative, were glad to follow
in his lead, knowing that he always had the good of
the coramunty at heart and could be depended upon
to. handle, with tact and success any problems which
raight arise, no raatter how difficult they raight be.
In other words. Major Anderson possessed in the
fullest measure those qualities which are conspicuous
in the best citizenship and Christian raanhood, and
so developed thera that his faraily and coraraunity
were given the full benefit of them.
Thomas L Charles is president of the Conestee
Cotton Mills at Conestee in Greenville County. His
name serves to introduce one of the most promi
nent families of upper South Carolina as well as
one of the oldest cotton mill industries in that sec
tion of the state.
His great-grandfather John Charles carae from
England about 1789 and settled in Greenville County
about ten miles below Greenville. He was the old
est of three brothers who came with him from Eng
land at that time. A son of John Charles was lonsr
prominently known as Capt. John Charles. He wai
born in the home community in Greenville County
December i, 1812, and died there November 19 1901
when nearly ninety years of age. Capt. John Charles
was a captain of South Carolina Militia before the
war.

Probably the most notable member of the family
was the late Joel D. Charles, son of Israel Charles,
who was a brother of Captain John. He was born
at Woodville in Greenville • County November 11,
1843, and died at his home at Reedy River, now
known as Conestee, September 25, 1898. He earned
distinction by his service as a Confederate soldier
in Colonel Orr's Regiment, which made a gallant
record in the Army of Northern Virginia. A year
or two after the war he began farming in Wood
ville and later entered the cotton manufacturing
business in partnership with J. A. David. These
men bought and took charge of the old McBee fac
tory, often known as the Reedy River factory, on
the Reedy River, eight miles below Greenville. This
is one of the historic mills of upper South Carolina,
having been established by Vardry McBee some tirae
during the '40s. The firm of Charles & David made
enlargements and improvements to the plant, and
after the death of Mr. David, Joel D. Charles took
entire control and continued improvement and addi
tions. During his ownership was built the present
dam, one of the first extensive and valuable water
power sites in the state. His energy and resources
were constantly directed toward enlargement and
additions to equipraent, and the same policy has
been continued by his son, resulting in the making
of this plant one of the most modern and best equip
ped cotton mills in the state. It was Joel D. Charles
who gave it the narae of the Reedy River Man
ufacturing Company. Around the plant grew up the
beautiful village of Conestee where the Charles
family and the families of the several hundred peo
ple employed in the mill, store, cotton gin and other
community enterprises make their horaes. It is a
location of great charm, and in that wholesome at
mosphere has been developed an ideal community.
It was through Joel D. Charles that the first night
school at Reedy River was established, as he was a
firm believer in education and did much for the
advancement of education in that section. He was
a school trustee for many years. Joel D. Charle.=
was a prominent Mason, active in church work, and
throughout his life gave generously of himself and
his means to his community.
Thoraas I. Charles, who is a son of Joel D. and
Ida (Woodside) Charles, was born at Conestee, and
is a young business raan of many talents, formerly
a successful lawyer. He was educated at Furman
University and his first business experience was ac
quired as a stenographer in the office of the Pelzer
Manufacturing Company when Capt. Ellison Smyth
was president. While there he studied law and after
his admission to the bar began practice at Green
ville m partnership with Mr. W. G. Sirrine under the
firm name of Sirrine & Charles. Four vears later
he abandoned law practice to return to Conestee and
engage m the cotton industry. At that time he took
charge of the Conestee mills 'as president and treas
urer, and in every way has proved a worthy successor
to his honored father.
of°T"n'"f' n %Ti?"' 'T^^T^'"' ^'^^'"'es was chairman
of. Local Draft Board No. 3 of Greenville County
tl IS board had jurisdiction over six townships in-
cudmg the southern half of the county. He was
also in charge of the various loan drives and in
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charge of the War Camp Community and benevol
ent campaigns, including the United War Work
campaign, the Salvation Army and other drives.
During the war most of the material manufactured
by the Conestee Mills was produced for the govern
ment. Mr. Charles is a meraber of the Conestee Presby
terian Church. He married Miss Lois V. Puckett
of Cartersville, Georgia,
Richard Charlton Keenan, lifelong resident of
Columbia who from humble beginnings has risen to
a high position among the successful business men
of the city, has for raany years served with fidelity
and great capability as a city official. His best monu
ment in the years to corae will be the results of this
official service, especially exemplified in the im
provement of the streets of the city and in the do
nation of the beautiful acreage which has been
officially called Keenan Park.
Mr. Keenan was born at Columbia March 15, 1858,
a son of .Alexander and Eleanor (Kearney) Keenan.
His parents were born in the north of Ireland. His
father came from County Derry to South Carolina
in 1828, first locating in Chester County, and after
ward removing to Columbia.
Richard C. Keenan was educated in O'Donnell's
School at Columbia and graduated in 1872 frora the
Male Academy while it was under the direction
of Hugh S. Thompson. Mr. Keenan has always
lived on Elmwood Avenue, close to its junction with
Main. He was born in that block, and in recent
years has built the beautiful apartments along the
thoroughfare. After his sehool days he began business in the role
of drayman. It was an individual service in the be
ginning, but from year to year he kept increasing
his facilities and eventually was head of the chief
concern of its kind in the city. Through this busi
ness he laid the foundation of his present substantial
fortune. One experience and achievement, of Mr. Keenan
is of great importance and yet seems apart froip the
main current of his life. A number of years ago
he became associated with the local superintendent
of the United States Experiment Station at Colura
bia. He had never lived on a farra, and much of
his business time was still taken up by his drayage,
and yet his interests and enthusiasra raade him an
adept in modern scientific agriculture. By his work
and experiments he developed and propagated the
now famous Keenan-Columbia long-staple cotton,
the plant being developed entirely from short-staple.
For this purpose of satisfying his newly aroused am
bition as a cotton planter, he acquired a farm just
north of the city and two miles from the state capitol.
,This farm has been chiefly devoted to the production
of his valuable long-staple cotton.
For many years Mr. Keenan has given his faith
ful unselfish services to the municipal government
of Columbia, He was elected an alderman under
the old form of city government in 1909. When the
cbmraission form of government was adopted, he
was elected council superintendent of the street de
partment, the office he still holds, Mr, Keenan has
nothing in common with the average routine char
acter of a city official. He has looked upon his

office as an opportunity to do big and lasting work,
and is appropriately called the father of the present
extensive system of modern street paving in Colum
bia. His achievements are such as to constitute
results of which he and his fellow citizens may
well be proud. In his department Mr. Keenan has
insisted upon economy but not at the expense of
efficiency. He has always been an advocate of the
best material, machinery and equipment and the
most skillful and efficient labor. In former years
the Palmetto Steam Fire Engine Company was also
under his charge. There he carried out the same
ideas of thoroughness as in the street department,
and laid the foundation for Columbia's present fire-
fighting organization, one of the best in the state.
In earlier years Mr. Keenan was president of the
old Palmetto Volunteer Fire Department, and was
elected president and is now vice" president of the
Volunteer Fire Association. Beginning with the
year igio the annual reports of the City of Colurabia
carry a full and coraplete record of the splendid pub
lic services of Mr. Keenan.
Now that he is retired from active business life
he gives more and more of his attention to his du
ties as a city official. His private time is taken up
with the management of his farm and the Keenan
apartments already mentioned.
In October, 1919, negotiations were completed
whereby the City of Columbia accepted the donation
of fifty acres from Mr. Keenan, this being a por
tion of the Keenan farm, to be used for a public
park, with the addition of another tract of about
thirty-five acres purchased by the city. A large
part of this land is covered with a beautiful growth
of timber, also a fine stream of water, valuable fea
tures which time and the work of landscape garden
ing will not have to supply. This tract was selected
by the landscape expert as the most beautiful site
within twenty miles. At a token of appreciation of
this splendid gift the park, on the recomraendation
of mayor, has been named Richard C. Keenan Park.
It is Columbia's first real park, all the former small
parcels of land used and devoted to such purpose
having been alloted to other ends. It is difficult to
conceive of a lasting memorial which vrould better
satisfy the ambition of a man of good taste than a
beautiful park named in his honor. In the words of
a local Columbia paper "Columbia is to have a park
and to 'Uncle Dick' Keenan, as the donor of the
fifty acres and who made the recreation center pos
sible, is known, to Uncle Dick will go the thanks
of Columbians of the present and of those genera
tions which are to come on and which will be told
of the generosity of this loyal citizen,"
Mr, Keenan is a member of the Trinity Episcopal
Church, He marrfed February 14, 1883, Miss Mary
V, Baukntight of Lexington, South Carolina, daugh
ter of Dr. 'W. J. Bauknight. They have four chil
dren : Walter A., Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Cato, Mrs.
Carrie Louise Martin and Richard Charlton, Jr.
Vardry McBee. The early history of Greenville
had no more interesting or significant figure than
Vardry McBee, who in fact measured up to all that
was intended when he was called "a model raan of
enterprise for the South and the country." After
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twelve years before his death, which occurred at
Greenville, January 23, 1864, in his eighty-ninth
year, an interesting sketch of his career was pub
lished in De Bow's Review of Septeraber, 1852. It
is a historic document, and the salient features of
the article are reproduced here.
He was born in Spartanburg District of South
Carolina, June 19, 1775, and the Revolutionary bat
tles of Cowpens and Cedar Springs were fought
within a few miles of his father's home, and he
was old enough to see and be irapressed by many
events of that struggle. His parents came from
Virginia and were among the earliest settlers of
Upper Carolina. His father, though of the religious
faith of the Friends, commanded a company for
several years in the Revolution. After the war, be
ing heavily in debt, he had to raortgage his property,
including the famous Liraestone Springs, and finally
lost his fortune altogether.
Vardry had to leave school at the age of twelve
and for the next six years was a farra laborer on
the Liraestone Farra, where his father reraained,
though- the title had passed to other owners. In
1794 he began an apprenticeship at the saddler's
trade at Lincolnton, North Carolina. During 1800,
after completing his apprenticeship he was employed
for a brief tirae as a clerk in Charleston, but in
the fall of the same year accompanied his parents
on their removal to Kentucky. The following year
he established a saddlery in raiddle Tennessee, but
soon returned to North Carolina and engaged in
business as a raerchaut at Lincolnton, where he pros
pered and laid the foundation of a large fortune.
In 1805 he retired from mercantile lines, and devoted
his time to agriculture and other increasing interests.
Agriculture was his favorite subject, and he re
claimed a large amount of bidly worn soil and again
and again carried off premiums for maximum pro
ductiveness of his fields. Fully three-quarters of a
century ago he was practicing the modern doctrine
of restoring soil fertility by the use of clovers and
other leguminous crops. In 1812 he was elected
clerk of the County Court at Lincolnton and held
that office twenty-one years.
While Mr. McBee did not become a resident of
Greenville until 1836, he had bought in 1815 a large
domain of several thousand acres in and around
the village. At that time he had only a modest for
tune, as fortunes were then estimated, and it was
against the protests of friends and relatives that he
bargained with Col. L. J. Allston for these lands at
a price of $27,500. While a few acres of the property
at the present time would appraise at raore than that
figure, it required unusual sagacity and foresight
to approve the wisdora of the purchase 100 years ago.
Greenville then contained only a few houses and
about a hundred inhabitants, but Mr. McBee saw it
on one of the great western thoroughfares, recog
nized its climatic and topographic advantages, and
particularly the imraense water power whicli would
raake a great center of industry.
Soon after making the purchase he gave his per
sonal impetus to industrial progress, building a flour
mill in the village in 1817, another one of stone in
1829. Seven miles below the city on Reedy River,
he developed frora time to time a nucleus of manu
factures, including grist mill, paper mill, cotton fac

tory, and woolen raill — all pioneer industries that
have special interest to the raodern industrial City
of Greenville.
After reraoving to Greenville in 1836 he devoted
himself to . the improvement of his lands and agri
culture. He would have been an exceptional farmer
even in the twentieth century, since he abhorred the
idea of "mining" the wealth of the soil, and always
practiced the sound policy of steadily making his
land better.
He was extremely liberal toward every local im
provement. He gave lands for tht- male and female
academy at Greenville and sites for the various
churches. In the history of early railroad con
struction through this part of the South his name
and service are indelibly fixed. He succeeded Gen
eral Hayne as president of the project of the Louis
ville & Cincinnati Railroad! When the project of the
Greenville & Columbia Railroad was about to fail, he
subscribed $50,000, thus raaking the largest individ
ual subscription ever raade to a railroad in the
United States up to that tirae. He also liberally sup
ported the enterprises of the Seaboard & Roanoke
and the Charleston, Louisville & Cincinnati Rail
roads, To quote the direct words of the article from
which the above is taken : "It may with great truth
be said of Mr, McBee, that very few raen who have
raade their fortunes have appropriated so rauch of
them to public purposes * * * Mr, McBee never
engaged in an enterprise that did not succeed. As a
saddler he commenced his fortune, had a high rep
utation for his work, and laid the foundation of that
immense estate which he now owns. As a mer
chant, with nuraerous branches of his mercantile
business at Lincolnton, Spartanburg, Greenville and
elsewhere, during some fifty years, he has been
everywhere successful. As an extensive manufac
turer of cotton and woolen cloths and paper he has
been equally successful.
"In morality and all the proprieties of life, Mr.
McBee has no superior. His habits are all strictly
temperate and raethodical. He is a man of great
industry and activity. He retires to bed early and
arises before daylight every morning. Having been
crippled when a young man, by being thrown from
a horse, he is not able to walk any distance. He
consequently lives mostly in his saddle during the
day. Although now nearly seventy-seven years
old, he rides fifty miles a day, and feels no incon
venience from it. He enjoys fine health, though his
constitution has always been delicate. There is the
same uniformity and regularity in his dress that
there is in his habits and manners. In person, Mr.
McBee is small, with a mild and pleasing expression
of face. In his manners he is kind and gentle, with
the simplicity of a child. Seldom is he excited by
anything, but there is in him a sleeping passion which
IS sometimes aroused."
In 1804 he married Miss Jane Alexander, daughter
of Col. Elias Alexander of Rutherford County,
North Carolina. The unfretted currents of their
lives ran side by side for nearly sixty years, and
she died less than two months after her beloved
husband on March 13, 1864. A granddaugliter of
this historic couple is Mrs. C. M. Landrum of Green
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Andrew H. Miller, of Greer, is one of those rare
men who do large and iraportant things in distinct
and unrelated lines. He is a man of most versatile
gifts and of inexhaustible energy. He has long
been a successful raeraber of the bar, and since
becoming identified with Greer has exerted himself
without stint in the building up of that now pros
perous commercial and industrial center. One class
of interests that knows him very well is livestock
men, He was formerly owner of one of the finest
herds of Red Polled cattle in the South.
He was born in Welford, in Spartanburg County,
son of J. J. and Martha (Fleming) Miller. Both
the Miller and Fleraing families have been identi
fied with Spartanburg County several generations.
Mr. Miller's father is still living.
As a youth Mr. Miller showed his enthusiasm
and enterprise by acquitting himself creditably in
several lines of work outside the ordinary routine
of school and home. He acquired a liberal education,
graduating Master of Arts in 1898 frora Furman
University at Greenville. For three years he was
professor of Latin in Furman University, and for
one year was master of mathematics at Pantops
Academy in Charlottesville, Virginia, and while at
Charlottesville studied law in the University of Vir
ginia. He was admitted to the bar of South Caro
lina in 1899. Before locating at Greer he served one
year as president of the Orangeburg Collegiate In
stitute. Greer is only a short distance from the
locality in Spartanburg County where he was born.
While Mr. Miller would probably never be satisfied
to give up the profession of law, in which he takes
a great deal of pleasure both as a profession and a
business, he has the restless spirit of activity and
ambition to do things which has brought him into
association with practically every moveraent for the
upbuilding of the Greer coraraunity. He devoted
several years to making one of the finest stock
farms in the South, stocked with Red Polled cattle.
He had several imported bulls of the highest rating
and developed a herd that attracted the attention
and patronage of the leading stock breeders of the
country. Due to the press of other business and
for personal reasons, he disposed of this famous
herd in January, 1919.
Mr. Miller was the chief promoter in organizing
two banks in Greer and of several other large
commercial and industrial enterprises that have been
large factors in building up Greer frora a small and
unimportant country village to a live, prosperous
and growing little city, the center of an iraraediate
population of not less than 10,000. Mr. Miller is a
first-class farraer' and has done all he could to pro
mote modern agriculture in his section.
He has also oeen a prominent figure in local and
state politics and in 1915 was candidate for the
democratic nomination for Congress from the
Fourth District. He is a raeraber of the Masonic
Order. Mr. Miller married Miss Sallie Virginia Vaughan
of Louisa County, Virginia. They have five chil
dren, Julian S., Frank Vaughan, Louise, Harold
and Alvin.
Lieut. Julian S. Miller was probably one of the
youngest commissioned officers in the National Army
during the great war. He is a graduate of The

Citadel, South Carolina's great railitary school, and
was only seventeen when he was commissioned a
lieutenant in the National Army. He went to France
with the Expeditionary Forces, and was on duty
until honorably discharged. He returned home in
January, 191 9.
Cot. Edgeworth M. Blythe was born at Green
ville, July 31, 1872, son of Absalom and Emily
(Earle) Blythe. His father is also a lawyer by
profession and is present city judge of Greenville.
Emily Earle is a meraber of the historic Earle
family, who were among the first settlers and
founders of Greenville.
Colonel Blythe was fortunate in his early home
life and in the advantages conferred upon him. He
attended Furman University at Greenville and in 1891
graduated from South Carolina's famous military
school. The Citadel, at Charleston. For two years
he taught in the Greenville County public schools
and was instructor at Clemson College during 1894-
96. While teaching in Clerason he studied law, was
adraitted to the bar in 1896, and began practice at
Greenville in the same year. Later he took a course
in the law department of the University of Michigan,
graduating LL. B. in 1901. He served as United
States comm-issioner at Greenville from 1903 to 1917.
He is a past master of Recovery Lodge No. 31 An
cient Free and Accepted Masons. From 1899 to
1917 he was a raember of the board of visitors of
The Citadel.
In 1899 he organized Company A of the First
South Carolina Infantry, becoming its captain, and
was promoted to raajor in 1905, and in May, 1915,
to colonel of the First South Carolina. As colonel
he commanded his regiment on the Mexican border
in 1916. In Deceraber of that year he resigned his
commission, but later received a commission as major
in the National Army and was assigned to duty at
Carap Lee, Virginia.
Before receiving his coraraission in the National
Array Colonel Blythe served without compensation
as chairraan of the Greenville County Exemption
Board. Robert Roper Scales, manufacturing chemist, an
Englishman by nativity, received his technical train
ing in England, has been active in his profession in
the United States nearly twenty years, and is head
of the Scales-Wilson Company of Greenville.
He was born at Nottingham, England, in 1876, son
of Luke Roper and Mary J. (Copestake) Scales, na
tives of the same city. These farailies represent the
best type of middle class English people, always con
servative, substantial and useful, the class recognized
as the "back bone" of the English race.
Mr. Scales was educated in the public schools "oi
Nottingham or the People's College as it is generally
known. There he specialized in practical and ap
plied chemistry and chemical engineering. On com
ing to the United States in igoo he practiced as a
chemist at Boston for several years and had a wide
and varied experience in connection with a number'.
of prominent chemical industries in the northeastern
section of the United States. He came to South
Carolina in 1914, and this state he regards as his
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as a raanufacturing cheraist, and founded the Scales-
Wilson Company, manufacturers of a large nuraber
of popular and extensively sold soda water flavors,
flavoring compounds, food colors and specialties.
His products took the first prize at the East Tennes
see State Fair at Knoxville, and they are sold at
wholesale to the trade throughout the United States.
Mr. Scales is a member of the National Association
of Soda Water Flavor Manufacturers.
His association with South Carolina was made of
a permanent nature through his marriage to Miss
Lida James of Fairfield County. The James and
the Carr families, the latter in the maternal line,
represents two of the old and wealthy families of
that section of South Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Scales
have four children, Mary, Lida, Robert and James.
Mr. Scales is a member of the Masonic order and
belongs to Cyrus Chapter No. 2.2 of Greenville,
South Carolina, the Knights Templar and the
Shriners. He is also a member of Greenville Lodge
No. 858 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
and several social organizations. With his family he
is a member of the First Presbyterian Church.
J. Hudson Williams, whose name has become
prominent in the financial and real estate circles of
Greenville, is one of the most active and energetic
of the public spirited young business men who have
made and are making Greenville a commercial and
manufacturing center of the first importance.
He was born at Greenville in 1884 a son of W. A.
and Willie (Hudson) Williams. His mother is still
living. The Williams family for generations have
been prominent in Newberry and Greenville coun
ties, where Mr. Williams' father and grandfather
were born. The old seat of the Hudson family is
Marlboro County. Mr. Williams' maternal grand
father was the late Judge Joshua Hudson of Ben
nettsville. He was long distinguished as a lawyer
and jurist and his "Recollections," published by the
State Company at Columbia containing the remines-
censes of a long and useful life are one of the most
valuable contributions to the historical literature
of South Carolina. The Recollections contain many
anecdotes and ten portraits of the distinguished
friends and associates of Judge Hudson.
J. Hudson Williams acquired his early education
in the public schools of Greenville and finished his
education in Clemson College. After leaving col
lege he took up a -business career and for several
years has been at the head of a personal organization
handling rauch of the local real estate and promoting
business and comraerce generally.
Mr. Williams raarried Miss Louise McGee of
Greenville, South Carolina. They have one daugh
ter, Caroline Williaras.
Charles O. Milford. Few men have developed
their powers and abilities so rapidly in a special
field as Charles 0. Milford, now general agent for
the Southeastern Life Insurance Company at Green
ville. Several localities of the state, and his old
associates at Furman University, have known hira
as a talented musician and teacher, and he has ap
parently carried his experience and abilities as a
teacher and educator into his new work and has
had almost remarkable success in training other men

to accomplish results similar to those he himself has
obtained in insurance.
He was born in Anderson county, this state, in
1887, son of C. J. and Lou (Saylors) Milford. Sev
eral generations of the Milfords have lived in Abbe
ville and Anderson counties. The original ancestors
came from the north of Ireland and first settled
in Virginia, whence branches went to the New Eng
land as well as to the Southern States. In the
South the family is especially strong in Georgia,
South Carolina and Tennessee, and everywhere rep
resentative of the highest type of American char
acter. Charles O. Milford acquired a good education,
especially in music. He studied both voice and in
strumental at Dayton College of Music in Virginia,
and later entered Furman University at Greenville,
where he was graduated with the A. B. degree in
1914. He was head of the Furman Glee Club and
other musical organizations, and at the same time
was choir director of the Pendleton Street Baptist
Church. As a teacher he did some splendid work
at Simpsonville, in Greenville County, where for
four years he was principal of the high school, build
ing it up from a small enrollment to a school of
standard course and strength. He also organized
and managed a musical association that produced
with credit, among other things, two operas. Simp
sonville has become noted as a rural center of the
soundest culture, and probably nothing has con
tributed more to this than Mr. Milford's profes
sional work.
Mr. Milford entered the insurance business in the
spring of 1918 as an agent of the Southeastern Life
Insurance .Company of Greenville, assigned to duty
at Anderson. His work was soon getting notice in
the horae office, and he won several monthly records
for business obtained. The company made hira gen
eral agent at Anderson, and then, on January I,
1919, gave him promotion to one of the best posi
tions in the service, as general agent at Greenville,
with a territory in upper South Carolina comprising
a specially rich section of the state. He has con
tinued to win honors both for volume of business
written personally and for the success of the men
under him.
Mr. Milford is affiliated with the Masonic order,
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the
Woodmen of the World, and is a member of the
Baptist Church. He married Miss Clara Todd, of
Simpsonville, who is a graduate of Cox College at
Atlanta. They have one son, Charles O., Jr.
AiwsLEY Hall Monteith is prominent among that
group of business men who give life and spirit to
the growing achievements and fame of Greenville.
Mr. Monteith during the past ten years has built up
a large business as a wholesale confectioner and
cigar merchant, and takes the deepest personal in
terest in the welfare of the- city where his own suc
cess has been so pronounced.
Mr. Monteith was born at Columbia, South Carolina,
forty years ago, a son of Walter S. and Joan Eliz
abeth (Yates) Montieth, both now deceased. The
Monteith family is one of the oldest in Columbia.
They are of' Scotch origin, came from the north of
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before the Revolutionary war. Mr. Monteith's uncle,
Mr. A. H. Monteith was born in Columbia in 1838
and is now accorded the distinction of being the
city's oldest inhabitant. Mr. Monteith's grandfather,
Galloway Monteith, was also born at Columbia. The
late Walter S. Monteith was a Confederate soldier,
serving throughout the war -as one of the couriers
on the staff of Gen. Wade Hampton.
Ainsley Hall Monteith was reared and educated
in Columbia and when hardly more than a boy had
his first business experience. For several years
he was in the fertilizer business under Mr. 'Wash
ington A. Clark. Soon after coming to Greenville
in 1909 he entered the wholesale cigar and confec
tionery trade, and has met with the success charac
teristic of the fine class of young business men who
have promoted Greenville as the "best city in the
State." He is an active participant in the cit/s
varied activities, and belongs to the public spirited
group doing so much in so many ways for Greenville.
An interesting evidence of his faith in Greenville
was his promotion and financing of a modern apart
ment house in Cagle Park. The plans for this apart
ment were perfected in the spring of 1919, and when
complete the building will be modern and luxurious
in every appointment. Its location in the Cagle
Park section insure its occupancy by the highest
class patrons. Mr. Monteith married Miss Birdie
Greenbaum. Thomas Benson Wallace. A veteran cotton mill
manager of the first class and until March, 1919,
superintendent of the Dunean mill at Greenville.
Thomas Benson Wallace has a remarkable record
for steadiness and long continuance of service in
one industry. He resigned his position as superin
tendent of Dunean mill to enter the flour and feed
business with T. F. McDow under the style of Wal
lace & McDow and they have been very successful
in their new enterprise.
Born in Morgan County, Georgia, in 1856, Mr.
Wallace shows many of the striking characteristics
of his Scotch ancestry. His grandfather was Ga
briel Wallace of Pickens County, South Carolina.
The family moved to Georgia before the war. Mr.
Wallace is a son of J. E. and Emily A. (Davis)
¦Wallace. The father was a first cousin of Judge
'William Wallace, the distinguished South Carolina
jurist and statesman of war times and reconstruc
tion days.
Thomas Benson Wallace had his early boyhood
greatly influenced by the strenuous period in which
it was passed, that of the war and reconstruction.
When he was only ten years old he went to work
in a cotton milL This was the historic Gregg mill
at Graniteville in Aiken County, South Carolina.
From there he went to Columbus, Georgia, and
worked in the Eagle and Phoenix mills until 1870.
One notable feature of his record is that continu
ously since 1870 he has been in the service of one
firm or group of interests. In that year he went to
work in the mill at Tallassee Falls, Elmore County,
Alabama, owned by the Tallassee Falls Manufactur
ing Company. He was in the mills operated by this
company and its successor the Duck Mills Corpo
ration continuously for thirty-six years, including
his service in the mill at Columbia, South Carolina,
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to which place he was transferred frora Tallassee
Falls. In 1906 he became superintendent of the
Watts mill at Laurens, South Carolina, and in 1912
removed to Greenville to superintend the construc
tion and equipment and take charge as superintend
ent of the Dunean mill, 'which began operations that
year. This is owned by the same company as the
Watts mill at Laurens.
Mr. Wallace was not off a cotton raill pay roll
since he started to work as a boy in 1867, until
1919, and has actually been absent frora duty only
a few days in over fifty years. For all the great
volurae of work he has perforraed and the unceasing
application to business Mr. Wallace retains a re
markably youthful appearance, this being a family
trait of the Wallaces. Many would take him to be
not raore than forty-five years old.
Mr. Wallace has been a prominent member of the
Southern Textile Association since it was organized
and was elected its president in 1913. He is a Knight
Templar Mason and a Shriner. The maiden name
of his wife was Susan L. Kimbrough of Alabama.
They hive four children : Lieut. James M. ; Clifton
N.; Mrs. Minnie Wallin, wife of E. C. \yallin; and
Miss Mabel Wallace. The oldest son, Lieut. James
M. Wallace, was a practicing physician in Greenville
and at the outbreak of the war enlisted in the Med
ical Reserve Corps, and went with the troops over
seas in the summer of 1918. He arrived in France
the ISth of September and saw active duty with the
Expeditionary Forces in France until he received his
discharge when he resumed his practice in Green
ville, South Carolina.
James Spencer Verner, whose public service has
kept him prominently before the people of Columbia
for a number of years, was born at Walhalla, South
Carolina, March 12, 1877, son of John Samuel and
Mary (Phillips) Verner.
He was reared in Columbia, attended the graded
schools, and graduated from South Carolina Col
lege with the class of 1897. For three years he en
gaged in teaching, and the greater part of the sub
sequent time has been spent in public office. For
eight years he was United States commissioner and
for four years city recorder of Columbia. He is a
member of the Presbyterian Church. April 29, 1903,
at Columbia he married Eliza Bellamy Duffie, daugh
ter of W. J. Duffie. They have four children:
James S., Jr., William Duffie, Mary Bellamy and
Ellen Douglas.
Judson Clyde Moore, M. D. While he is a native
of and first practiced medicine in Williamsburg
County, Lower South Carolina, where the Moores
have lived for several generations as planters of
wealth and prominence. Doctor Moore for over ten
years has been identified in a professional and busi
ness capacity with Upper . South Carolina, Spartan
burg and Greenville counties. His home is at Dun
can, in Spartanburg County, where he is one of the
busiest men of his profession.
He was born in 'Williamsburg County in 1881, a
son of Benjamin Warren and Eliza (McKinzie)
Moore, The McKinzies and the Moores are of
Scotch origin. Doctor Moore was reared in the
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acquired a good common school education, studied
medicine in the Medical College of the State of
South Carolina at Charleston, where he was grad
uated in 1905, The following two and a half years
he spent at Cades, in Williamsburg County. In
1908 he located at Duncan. Although a small town,
Duncan is in the heart of the rich agricultural
regions and is surrounded by a closely populated
territory. Doctor Moore is almost constantly busy
with his professional deraands, and has also exerted
his business abilities both at home and in adjoin
ing sections. He has acquired the foundation of a
comfortable fortune in farming land and business
property, owning a ten-horse farm in Spartanburg
County not far from Duncan. In the adjoining
county of Greenville, at Grier, he owns valuable
business property on which in the summer of 1919
with his business associates he began the erection
of a fine business block of concrete and ornamental
brick construction. This building, two stories high,
is planned so that additional stories may be super
imposed as required.
Doctor Moore has a beautiful home adj.oining
the town of Duncan. His residence occupies an
elevated site, and the surroundings are such as to
utilize the highest advantage for comfort and rest-
fulness of the country. Both - Duncan and Greer
are on the main line of the Southern Railway and
the Piedmont & Northern Railway, about half way
between Greenville and Spartanburg, and in the
heart of the fastest growing and richest section of
the South. Doctor Moore is local surgeon for the
Piedmont & Northern Railway. He- is a member
of the County, State and American Medical
associations. He married Miss Julia Inabinet of Orangeburg
County. Her mother was an Amaker and both of
these names represent some fine old Huguenot stock
of Lower Carolina. Doctoi"' and Mrs. Moore have
four children, Verdier, ' Lila, Mae, Ruth and Jud
son Clyde, Jr. .
Otis Prentiss Mills. Those best acquainted with
the life and affairs of Greenville County during the
last half century would be surprised to discover
any constructive movement for the benefit of the
city, industrially, as a civic, educational and social
center, in which raerabers of the Mills faraily have
not had some part and a quickening interest and
syrapathy. One of the men who did raost to build
up the textile industry of Greenville was the late
Capt. Otis Prentiss Mills. His -son who bears the
sarae narae was for raany years a cotton raanufac
turer, in late years has becorae interested in the
automobile business. He expended much time and
energy in behalf of the Good Roads moveraent in
this section of the state.
The late Capt. Otis Prentiss Mills who died at
his horae in Greenville July 23, 1915, was born in
Henderson County, North Carolina, February 22,
1840. He served with gallantry and distinction as
a soldier and officer in the Confederate army in a
North Carolina regiment. He was through all of
fhe great carapaigns of Lee's Array of Northern Vir
ginia, beginning as a private and coraing out of the
war as a captain. In 1865 he sought a new location

in which to build up his fortune and removing to
Greenville was from the first a leader in that com
munity's growth and prosperity. He was a raerchant
until about 1888, when he organized the Greenville
Fertilizer Factory. In 189S he organized and became
president of the Mills Manufacturing Company,
cotton manufacturers, building one of the best equip
ped mills in this section at the southwest end of Mills
Avenue. While he was a raerchant he also con
ducted a high class dairy farm near the city. His
civic leadership and public spirit was always on a
par with the enterprise and initiative which character
ized his business achievements.
Captain Mills married Susan Cordelia Gower, who
is still living. Her father was the late T. C. Gower
of the old firra of Gower, Cox & Markley, one of
the pioneer business houses of Greenville and for
many years a bulwark of its coraraercial life.
Otis Prentiss Mills, who was born at Greenville,
is a most fortunate man, fortunate in his parentage
and early home associations, also in the choice of
his business interests and also in the destiny which
has made Greenville the community which his pur
poseful life could best serve. He was well edu
cated in the Greenville public schools, at Clemson
College and in the New Bedford Textile Schools in
Massachusetts. He practically grew up in the tex
tile industry, going into his father's mill when a
boy and by progressive stages learning every branch
of the cotton manufacture. For a nuraber of years
he was vice president of the Mills Manufacturing
Company. He is now chiefly interested in the autoraobile busi
ness, being owner of the Highland Autoraobile Com
pany, distributors of Milburn Light Electric car, the
Packard automobile, the Velie pleasure cars and com
mercial trucks.
Capt. J. Hertz Brown is one of the many young
professional men who left their business and, their
home to serve in the great war with Gerraany. He
resumed his career as a lawyer at Spartanburg in
the, spring of 1919.
Captain Brown was born at Charleston in 1886,
a son of Samuel C. and Frances M. (Hertz) Brown'
His parents are still living at Charleston. The
Browns have been identified with Charleston citizen
ship for several generations. Samuel C. Brown for
many years was a phosphate rock miner in Charles
ton and Berkeley counties, and is now retired'.
Captain Brown attended the public schools oif his
native city, graduated with the ...class of 1908 from
the College of Charlestion and studied law in the
law department of the University of South Carolina
at Columbia. He was 'admitted to the bar in De
cember, 1909, and after about a year at Charleston
moved to Spartanburg in October, 1910. For two
years he was connected with the Spartanburg Herald
but in 1912 opened his law office.
Before coming to Spartanburg Captain Brown
had served five years as a raeraber of the Sumter
Guards at Charleston. During the border troubles
m Mexico he re-entered the National Guard at
bpartanburg, and being transferred to the Federal
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he was one of three men who organized the Coast
Artillery at Spartanburg known as the Second Com
pany, South Carolina Coast Artillery, National
Guard. With this company he was called into the
service of the new National Army July 25, 1917. On
reaching Charleston the corapany was made the
Seventh Corapany and stationed at Fort Moultrie.
From there Captain Brown was called to Fortress
Monroe, taking a special course in heavy artillery.
November 27, 1917, he was promoted frora lieutenant
to captain. On his return to Fort Moultrie he was
made coast defense adjutant and served as such
until September i, 1918. At that date he was as
signed to the Seventy-Fifth Regiment, Coast Artil
lery Corps and with that organization as regimental
adjutant, left for France on the 5th of October.
The Seventy-Fifth was not called into action at the
front prior to the signing of the arraistice. He was
was returned to America in February, 1919, and re
ceived his honorable discharge from the army
March 24.
In May, 1919, Captain Brown was apopinted coun
ty chairman for the Victory Loan campaign and took
Spartanburg City and County over the top in record
time. During the same month he resumed the active
practice of law. He is a steward of the Bethel Meth
odist Church, is a Knight of Pythias, a Free Mason,
and a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Captain Brown married Miss Kathleen Sanders
of Spartanburg, daughter bf the late C. P. Sanders,
an eminent lawyer whose career has been sketched
on other pages. Captain and Mrs. Brown have one
daughter, Kathleen.
William Benjamin West as secretary of the South
Carolina Cotton Seed Crushers Association has re
sponsibilities and duties that bring him in close touch
with one of the greatest industries of the South. Mr.
¦West is a man of wide business, educational and
public experience, and for many years was a suc
cessful educator.
He was born in Greenville County, South Carolina,
July 10, 1870, a son of Dr. Benjamin Perry and
Mary A. (Donaldson) West. His father practiced
medicine for many years in upper South Carolina.
The son was well educated in the coramon schools,
attending high school under Prof. J. B. Watkins,
and finished his work at Furman University in
Greenville in 1892. For six years he was connected
with the schools at Bolton and three years at Albany,
Alabaraa. In 1907 Mr, West becarae connected with
the auditor's oifice of South Carolina, and for two
years was with the fertilizer department of Clera
son College. In 1913 he was made first assistant
secretary of the South Carolina Cotton Seed Crush
ers Association, and since 1917 has had full charge of
that office. Governor Ansell during his administra
tion appointed Mr. West to take charge of the books
of the state dispensary, an institution which 'was
eradicated during Governor Ansell's term. During
the great war Mr. West served as chairman of the
city fuel administration of Columbia. " He was a
trustee of School District No. 4 and has long been
active in the Baptist Church, serving as chairman of
the board of deacons for ten years and is one of
the leading workers in the Baptist Church Sunday
school.

December 26, 1894, Mr. West married Mittie E,
McKinney. Her father Zachariah Taylor McKinney
is a prorainent cotton mill man, Mr. and Mrs. West
have four children. Clarence Taylor, a graduate
of Clemson College with the class of 1916, now a
supervising chemist; William Alfred, a bookkeeper
in a bank at Columbia; Julien, a student in Clemson
College; and a small daughter, Margaret E.
Essie Inman is one of the highly qualified mem
bers of the Greenville bar, and in addition to his
private practice he has for the past four years per
formed the duties of master in equity.
Mr. Inman wa^ born in Pinckney Township, of
Union County, South Carolina, in 1880, a son of
Daniel and Sarah Ann (Palmer) Inman. His father,
who is still living in Pinckney Township, was born
in Chester County, of English ancestry, and is a
veteran of the Confederate war, having served with
the Chester County troops in that conflict. Not long
after the war he removed to Union County.
Essie Inman received the best of literary and pro
fessional advantages, having graduated from Fur
raan University at Greenville in the class of 1904
and frora the law department of the University
of Virginia with the degree LL. B. in 1906. The fol
lowing year, after his admission to the bar, he began
practice at Greenville and regards that city as his per
manent home. He is a fine type of the successful
young lawyer of the best class. He was elected
master in equity for Greenville County in 1915, a
position he still holds. In this office, requiring the
judicial teraperament, a thorough knowledge of la;w
and equity in all civil cases, he has given the highest
satisfaction both to the members of the bar and all
whose interests corae under his jurisdiction and for
his decision.
Mr. Inraan is a member of the Baptist Church.
He raarried Miss Margaret Schiffley, of Orange
burg, South Carolina, and they have four fine
daughters, Caroline Margaret, Mary Ellen, Essie
Pearl and Sarah Moseley. •
Mr. Inman is a member of the Masonic order.
Woodmen of the World, Knights of Pythias and
Junior Order of United Araerican Mechanics.
Homer Dunlap Henry. With the average ad
vantages and opportunities of a plain farmer boy.
Homer Dunlap Henry in the past twenty or thirty
years, has achieved a leading place as a banker, and
an official in several other leading business enter
prises, and in all coraraunity affairs in his horae
town of Clinton.
He was born on a farm in Laurens County, April
17, 1874, son of Bluford M. and Adaline (Blakely)
Henry, also natives of Laurens County. His pa
ternal grandparents were Matthew and Elizabeth
Henry. The maternal grandparents were George
"Prophet" and Docia Blakely. Bluford M. Henry
spent his life as a farmer, served as a Confederate
soldier during the entire war from 1861 until the
close, entering the array at the age of sixteen. He
lived to his seventieth year, and his wife is still
living. Both were active Presbyterians. Their eight
children were reared on a farm.
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Carolina at Clinton. After school, he accepted a po
sition as bookkeeper for the J. W. Copeland Com
pany, a local firra of raerchants at Clinton. Later
he sold goods on his own account for a nuraber of
years and afterward was eraployed in a clerical
capacity for Jacobs and Corapany, a large advertis
ing agency of Clinton, South Carolina. At inter
vals, coraprising a total service of seven years, he
was city clerk of Clinton, and in connection with that
business he dealt in real estate, insurance and
loans. Mr. Henry was once one of the proraoters and
assisted in the organization of the Coramercial Bank
of Clinton in 1910, has served as a director and
officer from the beginning, was cashier until April,
1918, and since then has been president of this in-
:stitution, which has made a marked progress since
organization. He has been very active writing fire
and life insurance since the spring of 1898 and now
Jias a business under the name of H. D. Henry &
Company which is a credit to the community. Dur
ing the past ten years, his name has been associated
with several other well known local business enter
prises. He and his associates organized in 1910,
the Clinton Bonded Warehouse Company and he has
been an officer and director of the company con
tinuously. He has also been director and officer of
a live stock company since organization. For sev
eral years he has had considerable farming interests,
however, giving a liraited araount of his time to
sarae. Mr. Henry was raarried March 30, 1898, to Miss
Eddie Nash, daughter of W. E. and Mary (Wright)
Nash of Clinton. They have four children, three
daughters and one son, Agnes, Edward, Mary and
Addie Elise. Mr. and Mrs. Henry are raembers of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Henry is
treasurer on the board of stewards. He is also a
past master of his Masonic lodge and a member of
Knights Templar and Shriners. Mr. Henry's earnest
endeavor is to, render a "personal service" Where it
is needed to do the greatest good, and he is known as
the "poor man's friend."
Alvin H. Dean. If a poll of the bar could be
taken, there is no question that Alvin H. Dean of
Greenville would receive a large nuraber of votes
as the most prominent jury lawyer in the state.
Naturally gifted in oratory, since boyhood able to
reason and to speak on his feet, his many years
in his profession and active contact with men and
affairs, have given him an unequivocal power and
influence in gaining recognition for the cause he
presents in a court room. In the section of Upper
South Carolina where most of his work is done,
court rooms are usually crowded when it is known
that Alvin H. Dean is to make a plea in sorae im
portant trial.
Mr. Dean is a member ' of the law firm Cothran,
Dean, & Cothran, representing counsel for the
Southern Railway, the Charleston & Western Caro
lina Railway, and a number of other corporations
and firms.
Mr. Dean who was born in Spartanburg County
'in 1863, son of Capt, Alvin H. and Eugenia (Miller)
TDean, represents one of the oldest and most prom
inent farailies of the old county of Spartanburg,

with the history of which the records of the Deans
are closely interwoven. It is a Scotch-Irish family.
Capt. Alvin H. Dean, Sr., served as captain of
Corapany E in one of the regiments of Hampton's
Legion, and displayed all the personal heroism and
leadership associated with the character of the
ablest soldier. He was also prominent in affairs
of politics and public life in Spartanburg County
and was a successful planter there. He represented
the county in the State Legislature for several
terms. One of the brothers George B. Dean served
as sheriff of Spartanburg County.
When Captain Dean died at Greenville in August,
1919, the local newspapers devoted much space
to his life and services and from the facts then
recalled some additional matters should be noted
here. He was born in Spartanburg County February
20, 1837, and was therefore in his eighty-third year
at the time of his death. His parents were Alfred
College in North Carolina and soon after the be
ginning of the war raised a company of cavalry
which became Company E of the Second South
Carolina Regiment. After some duty around
Charleston he and his company were ordered to
Virginia, and there participated in the closing scenes '
of the seven days battle around Richmond, the
second Manassas and all the engagements of the
Maryland carapaign including Sharpsburg. Be
cause of ill health Captain Dean resigned in 1862,
being succeeded to the captaincy by his brother
George B. Dean. Later having recovered his health
he was offered the position of major in the state
troops, but declined in favor of return to his old
company of which he had been chosen a commis
sioned officer. With it he continued to serve until
the end of the war, participating in the battles of
Fort Fisher, Anderson, Bentonville and other en
gagements. For many years Captain Dean was a
colonel of the Spartanburg regiment of the United
Confederate Veterans.
Eugenia Miller, mother of the Greenville lawyer,
was married to Captain Dean in i860. She was
a daughter of James A. Miller, well known in
Spartanburg County before the war, having been
one of the deacons of the historic Nazareth Church,
one of the oldest Presbyterian Churches in South
Carolina With this church the Dean family was
also affiliated. The Deans, the Millers, the Moores,
the Andersons and such families represented the
wealth and culture of Spartanburg County in its
early history. Captain Dean was survived by the
good wife who had traveled through the years
as his companion . for more than half a century
and also by four children, Alvin H., James M.,
Kate A. and Anna Belle.
Besides the mental talents with which he was
endowed Alvin H Dean had the good fortune of
health and strength and he spent much of his boy-
¦i "a-u farm. He attended the local schools
in Reidville and Spartanburg, also Furman Uni-
vf !,'^ K^'. 9t""^'"^' *"d took his law course in
Vanderbilt University at Nashville, where he was
licensed to practice in 1884, The same year saw
him locate at Greenville and begin the career which
has contmued uninterrupted for thirty-five years.
Uuring more than a quarter of a century of this
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nearly every prominent suit and litigation in the
courts of Upper South Carolina, While his prac
tice as a jury lawyer is both civil and criminal,
what appeals to the popular imagination is quite
naturally the display of his unusual powers in a
criminal case, and in such cases his success has
been so unvarying and so long continued that his
services have come to be regarded as alraost indis
pensable. In politics he has distinguished hiraself as an
able carapaigner, though his busy law practice has
left him little leisure for office holding. He served
as alderman of Greenville from 1892 to 1896, and
in 1895 was elected a member of the State Senate,
being re-elected in 1899 and serving in, that im
portant body and in many ways influencing its
work until 1904. He is affiliated with the Knights
of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
the Elks, the Woodmen of the World, and is a
meraber of the college fraternity Sigma Alpha Ep-
silon. For a number of years he has served as a
deacon of the Second Presbyterian Church, and is
a director of the Norwood National Bank of Green
ville. Mr. Dean has kept his health and vigor
by continued interest and participation in outdoor
recreation, particularly in riding and driving good
horses. In March, 1886, he married Miss Lida Byrd of
Greenville County, who died in 1894. In August,
1898, he married Miss Sallie Preston of Virginia.
In the spring of 1919 Mr. Dean was signally
honored by the Order of Elks by appointment to
the highest office in the State of South Carolina,
that of grand exalted ruler for the District of
South Carolina. He is a past exalted ruler of
Greenville Lodge No. 858 of the sarae order.
D. Lesesne Smith, M. D. During sixteen years
of active work as a physician Doctor Sraith has
utilized- his abilities in the field of children's dis
eases, is a recognized authority among the profes
sion in South Carolina, and has done sorae very
valuable work since locating at Spartanburg ten
years ago. He is perhaps most widely known
through his infants' and children's sanitarium, con
ducted every sumraer at Saluda, North Carolina.
Doctor Smith was born at Charleston in 1877, a
son of Samuel Porcher and Henrietta (Palmer)
Smith. Through his father and mother he is con
nected with some very prominent families at Charles
ton. His father was descended from Press Smith
a nephew of Bishop Sraith, the first Episcopal
bishop of South Carolina. In the paternal line
there is also kinship with the Lesesne and Porcher
families, both distinguished names representing the
French Huguenot colonists.
Doctor Smith attended Clerason College, and re
ceived his medical education in the Medical College
of the State of South Carolina at Charleston. He
graduated with the class 6f 1903, and practiced
at Newry until he removed to Spartanburg in 1909.
Doctor Smith's private practice is now limited to
diseases of children. For the past six years he has
conducted his sanitarium at Saluda. Under his
manageraent it has proved a haven of refuge for
many babies during the heated term, but its bene
fits are not confined to the individual cases received.

since it is a source of education and enlightenment
on the modern care of infants and every mother
who spends any time there goes horae better equip
ped for her own duties and inevitably spreading an
influence for good in her environment.
During 1919 a correspondent of the Greenville
Daily News wrote an interesting article concern
ing this institution, calling attention to the fact
that children frora every part of the United States
corae to Doctor Smith's hospital during summer. .
During 1918 children frora fourteen states extending
from Maine to California were admitted. The
original plant began with one building, while now
there are five buildings with complete sanitary and
modern hospital equipment. In constant attendance
at the hospitals are two or more physicians and
eight graduate nurses. One of the raost iraportant
features coramented upon by the correspondent was
the diet kitchen, which in Doctor Smith's opinion
stands first in the successful treatment of infants,
good and wholesome food supplementing the pure
and fresh air. A nuraber of generous Spartanburg
people have contributed to the expenses of raain-
taining a charity branch of the baby hospital and
Doctor Sraith and his assistants have given their
tirae free of charge to the treatment of the patients
in this branch.
By state appointment Doctor Smith is also physi
cian to the South Carolina School for the Deaf
and Blind at Cedar Springs near Spartanburg. He
is a raember of the County, State and American
Medical associations. He has been twice married,
and his wives were sisters Miss Araraie and Miss
Nettie Hane, of Fort Motte, South Carolina. Doc
tor Smith has four children: Lesesne, Jr., Keith
Hane, Porcher and Nettie Hane.
Thomas M. Marchant occupies a distinctive po
sition in the cotton industry of the South through
his association as active vice president of the Victor-
Monaghan Mills. He has spent practically all his
years since early youth in the business, in which
his father earned pre-eminence as one of the pioneer
cotton mill raen of South Carolina..
A place of special historic iraportance belongs
to the old Batesville Cotton Mill, one of the oldest
textile plants of South Carolina. Thomas M. Mar
chant was born in the Batesville community of
Greenville County during the decade in which the
Civil war was fought. His parents were Martin
Luther and Mary (Smith) Marchant. Martin Luther
Marchant, who died raany years ago, was a meraber
of a South Carolina faraily, but spent his youth- and
early manhood in Florida. Several years before
the war he returned to South CaroHna and began
the operation of the old cotton raill at Batesville.
That made him one of the pioneer manufacturers
in Greenville County. During most of the war he
raanufactured goods for the Confederate Govern
raent. The Batesville Mill during his active con
nection with it was a -vfooden building. Several
years after the war it was destroyed by fire and
was then replaced by the brick structure which is
still in use. Martin Luther Marchant spent his last
years as a planter in the Batesvije coraraunity.
Thoraas M. Marchant has never had any serious
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igoo he became connected with the Victor Manufac
turing Company and later became active vice presi
dent of the Victor-Monaghan Mills, a corporation
which owns and operates a systera of textile plants
coraprising eight large and modern cotton mills
located at Greenville, Seneca, Walhalla, Jonesville,
Arlington, Union and two mills at Greer. The
capital stock of the Victor-Monaghan Mills is up
ward of $7,000,000 and the number of spindles in
operation is 242,000. It is easily the largest textile
organization in the South and one of the largest
in the world.
Mr. Marchant married Miss Jessie Speed, of Abbe
ville, South Carolina. They have two sons, Thoraas
M. and Preston B.
Columbus Ben Martin of Greenville has been
one of the widely influential and useful citizens of
that community for many years, was for over twelve
years connected with Furman University, has a
substantial position as a business man and has also
proved his ability on many occasions as a public
official. Mr. Martin was born in 1876 near Gray's Court
in Laurens County, South Carolina, son of Fountain
B. and Martha Caroline (Wallace) Martin. His
family is of old and influential connections with
South Carolina. The Martins have lived in Laurens
County for upwards of a century and are of Scotch-
Irish origin. The Wallace family is especially dis
tinguished in South Carolina, through the well
known services of Judge Wallace, a leader in what
was known as the Wallace House, the session of
the Legislature which redeemed South Carolina
frora carpet bag rule in 1876.
Columbus Ben Martin acquired a liberal educa
tion, entering Furman University at Greenville in
the fall of 1895 and graduating in 1899. He then
took up school work and for two years was head
master of the Furman Preparatory School. Later
he took post-graduate work in Latin and Greek at
Cornell University, -w'here he was awarded the
Master of Arts degree in 1905. He then became
professor of Latin in Furman University, and was
one of the able teachers and also active in the
administrative work of the university until June,
1917. Hundreds of young men who were students
in Furraan while he was a meraber of the faculty
received a lasting impress for good from his work
as a teacher and his influence upon their character.
While a classical scholar he was equally useful
in the practical business administration of the uni
versity, and in raany ways helped improve its facili
ties and broaden its influence in the educational
affairs of the state. Since retiring frora the uni
versity Mr. Martin has been in the stock and bond
business at Greenville and is also connected with
the real estate departraent of the Citizens Trust
Corapany. He has worked untiringly and unselfishly for the
upbuilding of Greenville, and served two terms as
an alderman frora the Sixth Ward, being chairman
of the Light and Water Committee, and also raayor
pro tem and for a brief time city recorder. He
therefore has a thorough knowledge of municipal
administration. Mr. Martin married Miss Willie Gray Harris,

daughter of W. P. Harris of Laurens County. Her
father is one of the most prominent planters in
his section of the state, and is widely known for his
progressive work in agriculture and his achieve
ments in farm mangement and the adaptation of
farm machinery. He has been a pioneer in several
phases of South Carolina agriculture and has carried
out many experiments that have served to increase
both the quality and quantity of South Carolina
products. Once each year Clerason College awards
a certificate to the farmer making the most notable
production in agriculture, and in 1918 this certificate
was awarded to Mr. Harris for his Irish potatoes.
He is considered an authority and is the author of
prize winning articles on agriculture. Mr. and
Mrs. Martin have four children, Willie Gray, Louisa
Harris, Columbus Ben, Jr., and Martha Wallace.
Clarence LeRoy Kibler, A. B., M. D., a former
vice president of the South Carolina Medical Asso
ciation, is a prorainent eye, ear, nose and throat
specialist at Colurabia, and has achieved a remark
able success in his field of practice.
Doctor Kibler, who for a number of years was
a general practitioner, is a son of John David Au
gustus and Hattie Elizabeth (Drafts) Kibler. His
father successfully corabined the vocations of phy
sician and farraer in the community known as Kibler
in Newberry County this state, where Clarence
LeRoy was born July 16, 1873. He had a public
school education, finished a course A. B. degree at
Newberry College in 1896, and took his raedical
degrees from the University of Baltimore in 1899
and Maryland Medical College in 1907, being first
honor graduate. The following eight years he spent
in professional work in West Virginia, and then had
an extended period of study and experience in the
eye, ear, nose and throat hospitals of Baltimore
and New York. He carae to Colurabia in 1908 and
has since confined his attention to his special field
of practice. He served two years as president
of the Columbia Medical Society and was the only
raan ever honored with two consecutive terras.
He is a member of the South Carolina Medical
Association, and a fellow of the American Medical
Association and the Southern Medical Association,
a member of the medical staffs of the Columbia
and Baptist Hospitals and is surgeon for the Sea
board Air Line, and Columbia, Newberry & Laurens
Railroad. He is also a member of the Medical
Advisory Board Sixth District and member of Free
Beneficiary Carap appointed by Governor Blease by
act of Legislature.
Doctor Kibler assisted in organizing the Union
National Bank of Columbia now the Liberty National
Bank of South Carolina and has been its vice presi
dent since organization. He is a meraber of the Ridge-
wood Club, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite
Mason- and Shriner, and raember of board of direc
tors of the Young Men's Christian Association.
November 29, 1899, he married Miss Viola Estelle
Griffith daughter of David Jefferson and Sallie
Lewie Griffith. Her father was a former state
senator. Doctor and Mrs. Kibler are merabers
of Ebenezer Lutheran Church of which he is a
deacon and he is a member of the board of trustees
of Newberry College.

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Maj. Richard Eugene Carwile, who was the
officer in charge of the draft in South Carolina,
has. been one of the successful members of the
Columbia bar for the past thirteen years.
He was born in Ridge Springs, South Carolina,
son of William Edward and Chloe Ann (Watson)
Carwile. Major Carwile is a graduate of South
Carolina College, taking his A. B. degree in 1901.
For a period of four years he taught school, being
connected with schools at King's Mountain, North
Carolina, and in his native state at Gaddy, Hamer
and Boykin. In the meantime he studied law and
began practice at Colurrtbia in 1906. During the war
he was first a captain in the National Army and
was later promoted to major and put in charge of
the draft machinery of his native state. Major
Carwile is a member of the Trinity Episcopal Church
of Columbia.
Edwin C. Bailey. When Edwin C. Bailey was a
boy his home was in the small country village of
Greer, in Greenville County. As boys are wont to
do, he often looked abroad and felt the stir of ambi
tion to mingle with the affairs of larger cities and
industiial centers. Eventually he chose to remain
where he had grown up, and in making that choice
he determined to do what he could to make Greer
measure up to his own ambitious standards and has
since had the satisfaction of seeing, it grow into a
modern little city containing an active, progressive
and prosperous population of several thousands,
with large and successful cotton mills and nuraerous
other industries and coraraercial enterprises. Both
as a banker and citizen Mr. Bailey has been one
of the chief factors contributing to this advance
ment. He was born at Greer in 1872, son of W. C. and
Victoria (Cunningham) Bailey. This is one of the
old-time families of the coraraunity and his father
was the first agent for what is now the Southern
Railway upon its corapletion through Greer in the
early seventies.
Mr. Bailey received his education at Greer, was
identified with several lines of work in early life,
and when the Bank of Greer was established in
1900 he becarae its cashier. Several years after he
was elected president. He has since been the active
executive and devotes all his tirae to the prosperous
institution, which is capitalized at $50,000. Through
his bank and as a private citizen he has promoted
or assisted in promoting a number of local indus
trial and commercial concerns. Greer, surrounded
by a rich agricultural country, is one of the best
towns of its size in the Carolinas.
His public spirit and progressiveness have been
recognized by the county at large, and when the
country was at war he served as a meraber of the
County Council of Defense and is also a member
of the Greenville County Library Board. For sev
eral years he was a meraber of the Board of Public
Works at Greer. Mr. Bailey is a member of the
Masonic order and a Presbyterian. He married
Miss Kate Gainey, of Fayetteville, North Carolina,
and they have three children, James, Edward and
Julian.

William Hay Townsend, now Circuit Court
judge and a resident of Colurabia, has been a hard
working lawyer for thirty years, and the bar and
public have long recognized in him one of the raen
whose qualifications are most ample for the judicial
office. He was born at Barnwell in Barnwell County
January 9, 1868. His father William Hutson Town-
send, who died at the early age of thirty-one, was
also a lawyer and engaged in the insurance busi
ness. Judge Townsend's raother was Harriet Ford
Hay, a woraan of unusual intellectual attainments
and to her he is indebted for much of his early
training and the encouragement to make the best
of his abilities. Judge Townsend is of mingled
English, Scotch and Irish ancestry. His ancestor
Rev. William Hutson was pastor of the Circular
Church at Charleston before the Revolutionary war.
His great-great-grandfather was Col. A. Hawks
Hay, coraraander of the Fourth Regiraent of West
chester railitia in the Revolution. Judge Townsend's
great-grandfather Col. Frederick Hay carae from
New York to Barnwell County soon after the
Revolution. Judge Townsend spent his boyhood days at Barn
well and Aiken. He attended public schools and had
private tutors, and among his studies he displayed
special preference for history. He lacked means
to take a collegiate course, and at the age of eighteen
began the study of law under James Aldrich. He
owes rauch to this able lawyer, but even more
to his own diligence and perseverance. In 1889
at the age of twenty-one he was admitted to the
bar and he took up the practical work of his pro
fession with a zeal and energy that have been suffi
cient to overcome every obstacle to sterling success.
His first partner was Col. Williara Elliott of Beau
fort, who practiced law there until 1894, when he
reraoved to Barnwell. Judge Townsend served as
solicitor of the Second Judicial Circuit in 1898-
1900. From 1900 to 1903 he was Code Commissioner
of South Carolina, and corapiled and edited the
Code published in 1902. In 1903 he becarae assistant
attorney general of South Carolina, and held that
office a nuraber of years, his official duties requiring
his residence at Columbia. Judge Townsend has
long been active in the Presbyterian Church, and
was forraerly an elder of the Barnwell Church,
and now of the First Church in Columbia.
Thomas Smith Bryan is known to many thou
sands of people outside of Columbia, especially all
the raen in public affairs who raake that city their
headquarters, as the veteran book store raan and
with the largest printing plant in the state. The
corapany of which he is president has been the
mediura through which the people of South Caro
lina have purchased their books and kept in touch
with the literary world for three quarters of a
century. Mr. Bryan was born October 21, 1856, at Charles
ton, a son of Jonathan and Georgia (Sneed) Bryan,
but when he was twelve years old in 1868 his raother
removed to Columbia, and Mr. Bryan has according
ly been a resident here for raore than half a cen
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Academy, and in 1872 at the age of sixteen entered
his uncle's book store as a clerk. It was congenial
work, he studied the business, and when his uncle re
tired in 1882 he succeeded hira, and has now been its
president for over thirty-five years. It is really an
institution in the state and Columbia would hardly
be Columbia without the Bryan book store. In
this connection Mr, Bryan has also established a
large printing shop, and for years has had the
reputation of furnishing the raost dependable print
ing service in the state. The original business was
established in 1844, and it is therefore one of the
older houses in continuous existence in the state
and the South,
Mr. Bryan is also vice president of the Carolina
National Bank, is president of the Richland Build
ing and Loan Association with assets of $200,000, and
is vice president of the Enterprise Building and Loan
Association. He is a raeraber of the Ridgewood
Club, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason
and Shriner, and is active in the Presbyterian
Church, being an elder in the First Church at Co
lurabia. Mr. Bryan married Miss Fannie Jordan of Winns-
boro. South Carolina, daughter of Rev. Donald E.
and Cornelia (Gifford) Jordan. Her father was a
Presbyterian minister.
Jesse Timothy Reese is one of Columbia's lead
ing real estate and insurance men and has been
engaged in that business practically ever since he
finished his education.
He was born at Colvimbia Deceraber 7, 1881, a
son of Jesse T. and Saluda (Radcliffe) Reese. His
father spent most of his active career as a farmer.
The son was well educated in the local public schools
and attended The Citadel at Charleston. During the
past twelve or fifteen years he has built up a large
clientage in real estate and fire insurance and is
secretary and treasurer of the Enterprise Build
ing and Loan Association.
Mr. Reese is a deacon in the Baptist Church and
is a trustee of the South Carolina Baptist Hospital.
October 14, 1909, he married Mary 'Mobley of Fair
field County. They have four children named
Saluda Radcliffe, Mary Mobley, Jesse Tiraothy, Jr.,
and Jaraes Adger.
James A. Bull, of Greenville, is- founder and
owner of one of the most famous groceries and
food stores of the South. To furnish pure food
to the public is a task worthy of the best talents
and energies of any raan, and that task has been
the hobby and passion of James A. Bull since boy
hood. In a business way, however, that is only
one of his interests at present. He is an extensive
farmer, is owner of the noted resort property of
Chick Springs, and recently promoted and is one
of the owners of the Steedly Clinic and Sanitarium
at the Springs.
Mr. Bull was born at Sandy Flat, near O'Neall,
in the upper part of Greenville County, in 1872,
son of D. H. and Martha (Fowler) Bull. His
parents were both born in Greenville County and
his father is still living. His grandfather, William
Bull, was born in England. His uncle and aunt
early in the nineteenth century had come to South

Carolina and acquired large tracts of land in upper
Greenville County. After their death William Bull,
as one of their heirs, came to South Carolina ta look
after the properties, in 1836, and remained a per
manent resident at O'Neall. He married after com
ing to Greenville County.
Jaraes A. Bull was born and reared on a farra.
Leaving school at the age of seventeen, he went
as clerk in a grocery store. Not long afterward
he started in business for hiraself with a small stock
of goods on Coffee Street. Mr. Bull says he believes
many of his patrons of tha.t tirae came to hira prin
cipally out of a syrapathetic interest in a "boy"
merchant. But if the first patronage was bestowed
out of sympathy, their permanent patronage was
based on the quality of service he rendered. He
worked early and late, operating on a very sraall
capital, and in the course of a few years saw his
affairs prospering and expanding. In 1897 he
founded the present Bull grocery store at the south
west corner of Main and North streets. Nothing
that he can see or that his friends anticipated at
the tirae could raeasure the growth of this store in
subsequent years. It would raake a long story to
tell the history of the business in detail. In 1918
the volume of sales contracted by this store araounted
to nearly $500,000. The business is now housed in
a modern building, consisting of basement, main
floor and second floor, while another story is to
be added to take care of the constantly increasing
demands. The second floor at present is given
over to the bakery and pure food kitchens, where
are daily prepared great quantities of cakes, pies,
salads and other delicatessen products. This feature
alone of the business has given Mr. Bull a great
reputation and accounts for a large share of his
patronage. Altogether the volume of transactions
represents and is a reflection of the personal char
acter, service and the strict honesty which has
marked all the dealings of Mr. Bull with his patrons.
He is a man of ideals, and the fundamental princi
ple of his work has been that in providing food for
the people he is under the highest obligation to pur
vey only the best and sell it at the closest margin
of profit. Not only araong the people of Greenville
and upper South Carolina but in the trade at large
Mr. Bull's grocery has becorae one of the faraous
merchandising concerns of the South.
Mr. Bull acauired the famous Chick Springs prop
erty east of Greenville in 1905, In July, 1914 was
corapleted the. Chick Springs Hotel at a cost of
over $100,000, though the replaceraent cost at the
present time would be nearly double that figure.
This hotel structure might be corapared favorably
with any of the raodern hostelries found in the
favorite resorts of the South. It is of Spanish arch-
iwu''^' *'!,'¦" ''°'''." '" ^^'^^^' ^""6 proof, and with
all the modern equipment and facilities. The build
ing Itself IS in harraony with its magnificent sur
roundings in the beautiful foothills of the Blue
Ridge Mountains, located at an alijtude of 1,200
feet above sea level and acqessibfe to all the great
cities of the South and East hy less than 1,000 miles
of railway journey. The original feature of the
site is the medicinal qualities of the Chick Springs,
which have been appreciated for over three-quarters
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In the spring of 1919 Mr. Bull promoted and or
ganized the Steedly Clinic and Sanitarium, of which
he is vice president, with Dr. B. B. Steedly, the
noted surgeon and head of the Steedly Sanitarium
of Spartanburg, as president. Mr. Bull sold the
former hotel building and thirty acres of ground
to the sanitarium corapany, and he still retains
eighty acres of original Chick Springs property in
his own right. In April, 1919, the work of remodel
ing the hotel building for a modern sanitariura was
begun, and when completed the institution will have
material facilities equal to or superior to any found
in the most famous resort centers of the country.
But the well laid plans conteraplate a much more
iraportant prograra than the furnishing of raaterial
equipment. The name of Dr. Steedly as president
of the company guarantees the high character of
the institution, and it is known that he proposes to
surround himself with a group of specialists of such
recognized eminence in raedical and surgical circles
that the institution will have a prestige second to
none in America.
Mr. Bull is also extensively engaged in farming in
Greenville County. Througii his capable and intel
ligent tenants he is a large producer of cotton and
other agricultural products. He is a meraber of the
Baptist Church. Mr. Bull married Miss Sunnie
E. Stroud, a native of Greenville County. Their
family of seven children comprise Martha, Frances,
Ruth, Jaraes, Paul, Margaret and Dan.
Capt. J, Roy Pennell is state highway engineer
for South Carolina, He was appointed to that office
in March, 1917, It is a raatter of distinction rather
than discredit that he was on duty in his official
capacity only a few raonths in the first two years
of his official tenure.
He comes of a railitary family. The Pennells
have furnished five names to the roll of honor
in South Carolina. His oldest brother Col. R. M.
Pennell was graduated frora West Point Military
Academy in 1906, and his service with the regular
army was continuous. Another brother B, F. Pen
nell was a private in the Thirty-Fourth Field Artil
lery, R, E, Pennell, was a lieutenant of artillery with
the One Hundred and Twenty-Second Regiment in
France, and E, C, Pennell was a sergeant in the
One Hundred and Seventeenth Engineers,
Capt. J. Roy Pennell was born at Belton in Ander
son County, South Carolina, in i888, a son of J. R.
and Nannie M. (Browne) Pennell, His parents
still live at Belton, His grandfather was born in
trie north of Ireland of Scotch parentage and on
coraing to South Carolina settled in Anderson Coun
ty near Belton, J. R. Pennell for raany years has
been a successful farraer in that community. Nannie
M. Browne is meraber of one of the families resident
in Anderson County since Revolutionary times, and
the Brownes have been participants as soldiers in
every war of our nation since the Revolution.
J. Roy Pennelf was educated in Clemson College
and graduated in 191a frora the University of South
Carolina, He specialized in engineering in both
institutions. After his graduation he was for one
year an instructor in engineering in the University
of Pennsylvania. He then returned to his native
state and became county engineer of Marion County,

and later was employed in a technical capacity by
the State Highway Departraent of North Carolina.
He resigned that position to go to the Mexican
border in 1916 as captain of Company A, South
Carolina Engineers. Soon after his return to the
Southwest he was appointed state highway engi
neer of South Carolina in March, 1917, Only a
few months later, after getting his official duties
organized at Columbia, his work was interrupted
when on July 25, 191 7, he entered the Federal army
as captain of Corapany A of the One Hundred and
Seventeenth Engineers. In October, 1917, he went
to France with the Rainbow Division. He was on
active duty in France for over fifteen months. In
July, 1918, he was made captain of engineers with
the railway ' artillery, a branch of the American
army that proved one of the most effective units
in the fighting organization. The One Hundred and
Seventeenth Engineers as an organization also made
a notable record, and as proved by various cita
tions. Captain Pennell served in France until Jan
uary, 1919. He then resuraed his duties as state
highway engineer. His office has the technical su
pervision of all the highway construction now going
on in the state, and a better qualified official than
Captain Pennell could not be found.
Joe E. Timberlake. At the annual meeting of
the South Carolina Wholesale Grocers Association
at Columbia in the spring of 1919, the honor of
association president for the following year was
given to Joe E. Timberlake of Columbia, who
while one of the younger is at the same time one
of the ablest wholesale grocers in the two Carolinas.-
Mr. Tiraberiake who has been a resident of Colura
bia since 1912 was born in 1885 at "Timberlake,
Person County, North Carolina, son of J. L. and
Mary (Gates) Tiraberiake. The coraraunity where
he and his father were born was naraed for the
family. "Three Timberlake brothers, nati-ves of
France, came to America, one settling in Virginia
and the other two in the extreme northern part of
North Carolina. J. L. Tiraberiake is still a resident
of his native community, a merchant and planter.
Joe E. Timberlake entered upon a business career
very early. He had a local school education and
at the age of twelve went to work in his father's
store. His career has been entirely raercantile.
After several years with his father he formed
other associations and connections, and has been
in the wholesale grocery line since 191 1. September
17, 1912, he carae to Colurabia as assistant manager
of the Thomas & Howard Corapany, wholesale
grocers. Later he was promoted to manager and
he is now manager, secretary and treasurer as well
as a partner in the company. Besides looking after
the interests of the firra at Colurabia he has super
vision of the Spartanburg branch, and the company
maintain altogether four stores in South Carolina,
the others being at Greenville and Charleston. The
parent concern is at Durham, North Carolina, in
which state the firra has a number of branches.
Durham is the horae city of Mr. Thomas, the senior
partner of the house.
Mr. Timberlake, who is one of the active, public
spirited young business men doing most for the
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Liberty National Bank, a prominent member of the
Colurabia Rotary Club and a member of the Wash
ington Street Methodist Church. He married Miss
Estelle Flintora of Rougemont, North Carolina.
Their family circle consists of eight children, Ruth,
Helen, Mary Estelle, Josephine, Joe E., Jr., "Thomas
Howard, Lloyd Flintom and Austin Carver.
BuNYAN Robert Cooner, whose associations with
business affairs in Columbia go back nearly a quar
ter of a century, is widely known all over the
state as a grain and provision raerchant and estab
lished the first strictly wholesale flour and feed
house in Colurabia.
He was born in Edgefield County January II,
1872, a son of Nicholas G, and Martha (Norris)
Cooner. His father was widely known over the
state as a Baptist rainister. Bunyan R. Cooner
was educated in the high school at Batesburg
and has lived in Columbia since 1895. He was one
of the men who established the wholesale grocery
house known as Bell-Cooner Company, and was its
president two years. His uncle Mr. Norris then
entered the business and in 1906 he sold out. In
that year he established the Columbia Grain & Pro
vision Corapany and later organized the Adluh
Milling Corapany for the raanufacture of flour, meal
and feed stuff. He is now a director of the South
Eastern Corn Mills Association and of the Sweet
Feed Manufacturing Association. For eight years
Mr. Cooner was a director of the Columbia Charaber
of Coramerce. He is a raeraber of the Columbia
Club, and is a York and Scottish Rite Mason and
Shriner and a Knight of P3rthias.
June 18, 1910, he raarried Inez Irby of Halifax
County, Virginia. They have two children, Mar-
jorie and Bunyan Robert, Jr.
Miller C. Foster is a Spartanburg la'wyer, and,
like so raany of the young professional raen of the
state, "did his bit" in the late war. He trained in
the officer's camp at Fort Oglethorpe, was comrais
sioned a lieutenant, and on December I, 1917, was
assigned to the Fifty-Third Infantry, Sixth Di
vision, United States Regular Army. With this
orgafiization he saw nine months' service as a mem
ber of the American Expeditionary Forces, his or
ganization having spent about fifty days on the battle
front in France. After the armistice, upon appli
cation for a discharge from the array, he was trans
ferred to the Thirty-Fifth Division on March 9,
1919, this division being at that tirae the next on the
list to sail from France for America.
Lieutenant Foster was born in Spartanburg
County in 1888, son of Robert and Rosa (Caldwell)
Foster. He is a member of one of the older fami
lies of the county. Both his grandfather and great
grandfather were born in Spartanburg County. His
mother represented an old Scotch-Irish name in the
county history, and she is buried at the historic
Nazareth Church.
When Miller C. Foster was six years of age his
parents moved to Spartanburg and he was reared
and educated in that city. He graduated frora
Wofford College in 1907 and then for four years
taught school. A part of the tirae he was superin
tendent of the city schools of Bennettsville. He

entered the law school of the University o'f ¦ South
Carolina in 191 1 and was graduated in 1913, after
which he entered upon the practice of his profession.
In the four years previous to the beginning of the
war with Gerraany he had made rapid advance to
prominence and success in his profession. He was
junior partner of the law firm of Wyche & Foster,
the senior partner being Maj. Cecil C. Wyche. After
his release from the army Mr. Foster resumed his
legal career at Spartanburg.
Governor William L. Mauldin. It has been well
said that the record of official service is frequently
written in the sand, but the influence and memory
of an exalted character are permanent. It was
the steady light of his character that lent special
distinction to the late Governor William L. Mauldin,
and this temple of the inner raan which he built
so carefully and wisely seems now of much greater
importance than his long and successful business
career and his really distinguished public service as
a lieutenant governor and from 1886-90 acting gov
ernor of South Carolina. He retired for a period
of about ten years when he again entered public
life and was a member of the South Carolina State
Senate and held the office of president pro tem at
the time of his death.
Govemor Mauldin was born at Green'viille in
1845, and died at his old horae in that city in 1912.
The Mauldin faraily is of Scotch origin and the
grandfather of Governor Mauldin was one of the
earlier settlers in Pickens County, South Carolina.
The father Samuel Mauldin was born in Pickens
County and removing to Greenville during the '30s
became a pioneer raerchant there.
Even more noteworthy was Govemor Mauldin's
maternal ancestry. His mother Caroline Anne Mc-
Hardy Mauldin was a daughter of Robert McHardy,
a native of Scotland, and a sister of Admiral John
B. B. McHardy of the British navy. She was born
at St. Augustine, Florida. The McHardys were a
distinguished clan of Scotland possessing coats of
arms and other insignia of social and patriotic dis
tinction. The late Dr. Malcolm McDonald Mc
Hardy, chief surgeon of the Royal Eye Hospital in
London, one of the most eminerit raerabers of the
medical profession in England, was a cousin of
Governor Mauldin.
During a portion of his boyhood William L.
Mauldin attended the old Lee Acaderay at Asheville,
North Carolina. Soon after the war between the
states started in 1861 and at the age of sixteen
he r'an away frora school to join the Confederate
army, and was accepted in spite of his age. His
first service was , with a South Carolina Infantry
Regiment, but later he was transferred to the cav
alry, and it was in that branch of the Confederate
army that he won special credit and a record of
unusual merit. He was in nearly all the great battles
with the Army of Northern Virginia.
Still lacking the years of majority when the war
closed he entered the drug business at Greenville,
and continued in that line almost to the time of
his death. The old Mauldin horae was at the corner
of Main Street and Washington Avenue, now at the
very heart of Greenville's business district. In the
old days the residence stood at a considerable dis-

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tance from the corner in a grove of beautiful trees,
while the Mauldin store marked the corner of the
street. His public and political records were made largely
incidental to the steady prosecution of his business
affairs. At the age of thirty-two he was raayor
of Greenville. He built and was president of the
old Greenville and Laurens Railroad, now a part
of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. He was elect
ed and served as a raember of the South Carolina
House of Representatives, later was chosen to the
the State Senate, and in 1886 was elected lieutenant
governor, being re-elected in 1888. By virtue of
this office he becarae president of the Senate, over
which body he presided for four years with raarked
distinction as a parliaraentarian. No ruling of his
was ever reversed. While an incumbent of that
office the question of establishing Clerason College
and accepting the Thoraas G. Clemson will bequeath
ing land for same was voted upon and becoming a
tie vote, Mr. Mauldin's vote broke the tie and the
college was built. At times he was acting governor.
In that office he had many important decisions to
make and at all tiraes had to raaintain a close super
vision over the affairs of Governraent. At the close
of his terra of office as lieutenant governor the
Senate had engrossed and presented to hira a reso
lution expressing the raost flattering coraraendation
of his services, every sentence of which has been
approved by later judgment of his career. After
his death in 1912 the Senate recalling the service
from 1900-1912 again presented his family a beauti
ful tribute of esteem and affection.
All who knew hira unite in saying that Governor
Mauldin was faithful to every trust and that he
confined to a rare degree all the . choice virtues of
the able and upright' gentleman. While he was
successful in business, accumulated substantial re
sources, the chief heritage he left to his family
and posterity was his good name. He was passion
ately devoted to his faraily and gave all his children
a splendid education, and they in their t;ime and
generation have lent additional credit and distinction
to the faraily narae.
Mrs. Mauldin, who survives her husband, bore
the raaiden narae of Eliza Thompson Kern. They
were married in 1871. Mrs. Mauldin is the only
daughter of Col. John Frederick and Eliza (Earle)
Kern of Laurens, South Carolina. On her maternal
side she is a great-granddaughter of Chancellor
Thompson, who was father of Gen. Waddy Thornp-
son, member of Congress and a minister to Mexico
about 1850. Mrs. Mauldin's mother was the daugh
ter of Dr. Robertson Earle and Eliza (Thorapson)
Earle. Of the six children born to Governor and Mrs.
Mauldin five are still living: Caroline Louise, wife
of Clarence Howland of Catskill, New York; Capt.
Oscar K. ; Dr. William L. ; John McHardy of Green
ville ; and Mary Chambliss, wife of Lieut. W. S.
Miller. Capt. Oscar K. Mauldin served with the rank of
captain in the Spanish-American war and with the
same rank and title in the National army in the
American Expeditionary Forces in the World war.
He was on the fighting front for a number of
months, and was gassed. In civil life he is a lawyer.

a member of the Greenville bar, and he resigned
his seat in the South Carolina House of Represen
tatives to join the army.
Dr. William L. Mauldin has well earned distinc
tion as a meraber of the Greenville medical frat
ernity. He was educated in the Furman University
at Greenville, graduating in 1897, and took his med
ical studies in the University of Maryland. Since
graduating in 1901 he has practiced in his native
city. He married Miss Nellie Smith of Rocking
ham, North Carolina, and they have a son, William
L. Mauldin III.
Enric a. Blackwell, one of the younger members
of the Columbia bar, has made exceeding good use
of his opportunities and abilities in promoting him
self to a well deserved position in the capital city.
He was born in Abbeville County April 10, 1891,
a son of George F. and Fannie (McAllister) Black-
well. He grew up on his father's plantation, at
tended the coramon schools, and finished his law
course in the University of South Carolina in 1913.
He has been in practice for six years. He is a
member of the Columbia Club, the Young Men's
Christian Association, and the Richland County Bar
Association. T. Oregon Lawton has been president of the
Southeastern Life Insurance Company of Greenville
since 1914. He has been called by his associates the
soul of the company, and his administration of a
great and coraplex business distinguishes him as one
of the leading .insurance officials and executives
in the Southeastern states.
The Southeastern Life Insurance Company is a
great and vital institution of South Carolina, since
it was the pioneer organization of the kind in the
state, and its benefits are not to be measured entirely
by the service it renders its patrons. It is said
that before the Southeastern was founded approxi
mately $3,000,000 every year went out of South Caro
lina to pay premiums to foreign corapanies, and less
than 10 per cent of that araount was invested in
loans or deposits in South Carolina. At the present
time the araount of insurance raoney held in South
Carolina is approxiraately $20,000,000.
The company was organized at Spartanburg in
the fall of 1905, with a capital of $100,000. The
founder Col. Elliott Estes became the first presi
dent of the corapany and C. W. Estes, now superin
tendent of agents, general agent. In 1910 control
of the stock of the corapany was secured by Green
ville men, when the headquarters of the company
were raoved to the latter city. At that time the
corapany had about $2,500,000 insurance in force,
with assets of $190,000. In 1919, in spite of the un
favorable conditions of war tiraes, the corapany has
assets of over $1,000,000 and $15,000,000 of insurance
in force. The company also built and owns the
handsorae office building known as the Southeast
ern Life Building. T. O. Lawton is president of
the corapany and F. A. Lawton vice president.
Mr. Lawton was born at Allendale, Barnwell
County, South Carolina, in 1876, son of T. O. and
Mary (Willinghara) Lawton, both now deceased.
The Lawton family is an old and prominent one
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representative having been Gen. Alexander Robert
Lawton, rauch of whose life was identified with
the State of Georgia arid who becarae celebrated as
a lawyer, statesraan and soldier of the war between
the states. General Lawton was a grandson of
Joseph Lawton, a planter of South Carolina, vvho
served as a lieutenant in the American army during
the Revolution.
When T. Oregon Lawton was a child his parents
raoved to Hampton County, where he grew up
on a plantation, attending local schools, and later
was, a student in Furman University at Greeriville,
and graduated in 1897 from Erskine College. Araong
his early experiences he taught for two years, then
for several years he was in the luniber business,
raost of the time in association with his brother
Mr. F. A. Lawton. His qualities as a business
man had been thoroughly tried out when he was
selected as executive head of the Southeastern Life
Insurance Company, a responsibility that has in
spired his highest enthusiasra and efforts, reflected
in the splendid record of the business.
Mr. Lawton is a member of the Baptist Church.
He married Miss Bessie Miller and their four
children are Samuel Miller, Mary WiUingham,
Frances E. and Thomas Maxwell.
John D. Hamer. In the patriotic response made
to the deraands of this country at war the legal
profession certainly set an inspiring exaraple, and
hundreds of young lawyers, raany of whora had
already become well established in a successful
practice, left their offices and sought positions where
they could serve their country best in the military
forces. One of these was John D. Hamer, of Spartan
burg. He made several attempts before he was
accepted in the army. At the beginning of the
wir he was a -member of the Coast Artillery of
South Carolina, He resigned and entered the train
ing camp at Fort Oglethorpe to try for an officer's
commission. He was disqualified on account of a
rainor physical defect. He then enlisted as a private
in Company C of the One Hundred and Seventeenth
Engineers, which afterwards became a part of the
faraous Rainbow Division. However, the same
physical defect kept him frora passing the physical
examination and he was rejected. Later he suc
ceeded in getting his physical disabilities waived by
the War Department and enlisted in the Eighty-
First or Wildcat Division at Camp Sevier, and was
attached to Headquarters Company of the Three
Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Infantry on May 25,
1918. Mr. Hamer had the good fortune to reach
France, sailing with his division the 1st of August,
and was in all the subsequent overseas duties of the
Eighty-First. He was promoted from private to
sergeant. He was in France about ten months.
returning home June 18, 1919, and was honorably
discharged on the 25th of June.
Mr. Hamer was born in Marion County, South
Carolina, in 1890, son of M. R. and Mary (Town-
send) riaraer. His father was born in Marion
County and his mother in Robeson County, North
Carolina. The family has lived in Spartanburg
several year's and M. R. Hamer is treasurer df Con
verse College. John D. Haraer was educated in

the schools of Spartanburg and took both his aca
demic and law courses in the University of South'
Carolina. He graduated in law with the class of
1914 and in the same year took up his professional
work at Spartanburg. On Septeraber i, 1919, he
resumed the general practice of law at Spartanburg.
In the meantime he had been appointed by Governor
Cooper as magistrate in the city of Spartanburg for
Spartanburg County.
Thomas H. Pope. When in the spring of 1916
President Wilson appointed Thomas H. Pope post
master of Greenville all classes and factions united
in acknowledging that the honor and responsibility
were most fitly bestowed. Mr. Pope has a wide ac
quaintance with South Carolina people and with
the affairs of the state and is a man of great personal
force and executive ability, a fact which is reflected
in the efficient administration he has given of the
postoffice. Greenville is a postoffice of the first
class and its volume of business is constantly grow
ing. Mr. Pope was born at Greenwood, South Caro
lina, in 1872, son of Rev. Thomas H. and Mary C.
(Gary) Pope, representing old and distinguished
families of the state. The Popes -came to South
Carolina originally frora Virginia. His grandfather
Judge Thoraas H. Pope of Newberry County was a
brother-in-law of Judge O'Neill both prominent law
yers and jurists in their day. The two were asso
ciated in the building of the old Colurabia and
Greenville Railroad before the war. Thomas H.
Pope of Greenville is a great-nephew of Chief
Justice John Belton O'Neill of South Carolina. His
father Rev. Thomas H. Pope was born in Newberry
County, was a Baptist minister and died at Green
wood in 1875. His mother Mary C. Gary was a
daughter of the late Dr. Charles F. Gary also of
Newberry County, and was related to Judge Eu
gene B. Gary, who is now chief justice of the
South Carolina Supreme Court at Columbia.
In 1879 when he was seven years old Thoraas H.
Pope was brought to Greenville by his mother,
and that city has since been his home. After re
ceiving his education, he chose a business career,
and is best and most widely known as a traveling
salesman. This work followed for many years
brought him in close contact with leading business
and professional raen of the state, and resulted
in the formation of friendships and acquaintances
that have given him a distinct influence in politics
and public affairs. He served for a considerable
period as state secretary of the Travelers Protective
Association, and was also a state councilor for the
United Commercial Travelers, both of which organ
izations have a large merabership and influence in
South Carolina,
Mr, Pope raarried Miss Kate Miller, daughter of
the late J, P. Miller, member of the f5rra of Fergu
son & Miller, in whose place of business Mr. Pope
was eraployed as a boy and youth for eight years.
This was one of the noted old tirae raercantile
establishments of Greenville, established in pioneer
days before the railroads, and enjoying an exten
sive trade over a great district from the mountains
down mto Central South Carolina. Messrs. Fer
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tion and influence in their time. They raarried
sisters, and the business which they took up and
continued had been originally founded by their
father-in-law Mr. Grady nearly lOO years ago. Mr.
and Mrs. Pope have six children: Louise, Thoraas
H., Jr., Mary C, Dorothy, J. P. Miller and Har
riet K.
Hon. Proctor Aldrich Bonham, lawyer and state
senator of Greenville, is a son of Gen. M. L. Bon
ham of Anderson, whose career of distinction and
service is described on other pages of this publica
tion. Senator Bonham, who on his own merit has
gained a high place in the law and general recogni
tion as an active, useful and efficient public official
was born at Abbeville, South Carolina, August 28,
1883. He was eleven years old when his parents
moved to Anderson, and he continued his educa
tion there, later spending two years in Georgetown
University, District of Columbia, and one year in
Charleston College. Two years of his law studies
were pursued in his father's office at Anderson
and he finished his legal preparation in the Uni
versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in 1905.
In January of the following year he located at
Greenville, and has been busily engaged in the law
and in public service ever since. In the summer of
1908 he was a successful candidate for the nomina
tion for solicitor of the Tenth Judicial Circuit, was
elected, and for two terms of four years each
vigilantly and vigorously performed all the duties
of prosecution devolving upon his office. His
friends then put him in the race for the State Senate
in 1916 and he is still serving his first four year
term. He is a member of the judiciary and other
prominent committees, and is chairman of the Green
ville County Delegation in the General Assembly.
Senator Bonham married Miss Margaret Rion
of Columbia, member of the prominent family of
that name in Columbia. They have three children:
Milledge Lipscomb, Lucile Addison and Proctor Al
drich, Jr., deceased.
Arthur B. Carter. While long known in various
sections of the South as an expert in all the tech
nical phases of cotton manufacture and an authority
on and dealer in all the machinery and supplies
used in the textile trade, Arthur B. Carter has
doubtless conferred his most important public serv
ice to the State of South Carolina at large as presi
dent of the South Carolina Automobile Association
and the active leader in augurating the state-Wide
good roads movement.
Mr. Carter with one or two other Greenville
men had the chief _ responsibility in organizing the
automobile association in 1915. He is president of
the association and in 1916 under his leadership
it began an active campaign to bring about a sys
tem of first-class concrete highways over the state.
The primary system contemplates improved high
ways connecting every county seat. Mr. Carter has
been exceedingly liberal of his time and efforts
in co-operation with his associates in working out
plans for the consummation of this object. It is
not only a great material undertaking involving
huge expenditures of money, but in no small degree

its success hinges upon popular education as to
the advantages and necessities of good hard roads
and the sure economic advantages that follow in
the wake of their construction. As charity begins
at home, so the good roads movement in South
Carolina had its origin in the same county where
Mr, Carter has his home. In fact Greenville
County is looked upon as the pioneer county in the
state in the history of the good roads. Its people
approved the first large bond issue for that purpose,
and the satisfaction derived from the roads al
ready constructed has spread as a stimulating and
encouraging wave of influence to all the surround
ing counties, and the experience of Greenville County
is counted uppn as one of the determining factors
in the campaign brought to a head before the Legis-
latui-e in 1919 to authorize a general state system
of highways, with provisions for the payment of
interest and sinking fund on the bond issue largely
met frora revenues derived from automobile taxes.
Mr. Carter was/ born in Randolph County, North
Carolina, in 1877, son of Henry C. and Lucy Carter.
He gained his early literary education in Bellwood
Institute in Cleveland County, North Carolina, and
received a thorough technical training for his life
work in the Lowell Textile Institute in Massachu
setts. His first active business association was
with the Georgia Manufacturing Company at Athens,
and while there he was elected secretary of ' the
Southern Textile Association, an office he has held
ever since. He has been a resident of Greenville
since 1912 and under the narae A. B. Carter is a
dealer in textile raachinery and supplies, with trade
connections all over the South. He is southern agent
for several of the large raanufacturers of textile
machinery and supplies, and has a large and profit
able business.
Mr. Carter was also the leading spirit in the move
ment which brought about the building in Green
ville of the Southern Textile Exposition, housed in
a permanent structure, and with annual expositions
attended by textile men from all over the South.
This exposition has gone far to assure Greenville
a permanent place as center of the textile industry.
Mr. Carter is a member of the Araerican Man
ufacturers Association, was the leader of the organ
ization of the Rotary Club in Greenville, which is
the parent organization of a number of otlier Rotary
clubs in South Carolina cities. He was one of the
organizers and is a director of the Citizens Bank
and "trust Company at Greenville. He married Miss
Mary Coggins of Albemarle, Stanly County, South
Carolina. "They have four children, A. Dewey,
Tula, Madge and Ruby.
William H. Austin. The story of the Austin
family, of which William H. Austin, one of the lead
ing business men of Greenville is a meraber, furn
ishes some of the earliest dates and most prominent
associations to the pioneer annals of Upper South
Carolina. His great-great-grandfather Samuel Austin was
one of the first white raen to become permanently
identified with what is now Greenville County. He
was born in Londonderry, Ireland, and in 1761
settled near Enoree River, fifteen miles east of the
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as high constable under George III until the outbreak
of the Revolution. He then joined the Patriot array
and besides his own services ten of his sons were
loyal soldiers in the cause of independence, and few
if any farailies of South Carolina contributed raore
of its members to that cause than the Austins. In
1769 Nathaniel Austin's daughter Mary was mur
dered by the Indians, Several years later her brother
Col. Williara Austin killed one of the Indians con
cerned in this tragedy.
One of the prominent merabers of this faraily in
a later generation was the late J. Thomas Austin,
prorainent in public life for several years, and who
represented Greenville County in the "Wallace
House" of 1876, when South Carolina was finally
redeemed from reconstruction rule. He was the
son of Dr. Thomas C. Austin and a first cousin
of John Wickliffe Austin.
John Wickliffe Austin was the father of the
Greenville business man first raentioned above. He
was born at "Gilder," the ancestral home of the
Austins in Austin Township, which was naraed for
this family. His father was Dr. Manning Austin,
who at one time owned "Gilder."' John Wickliffe
Austin raarried Emma Latimer, of the Latimer fam
ily of Upper South Carolina, of which the late
Senator Latimer was a distinguished member.
Williara H. Austin was born in Dunklin Township
of Greenville County about forty-eight years ago
and has been active in business at Greenville since
1898. Mr. Austin married in Spartanburg Miss
Erama Cannon of that city. They have two chil
dren, Gabrielle and Charley.
Cyril Granville Wyche, who is assistant United
States district attorney with office at Greenville,
took up the duties of this position and began private
practice after an exceptionally thorough training
and with all the advantages aft'orded by four years
of residence at Washington as private secretary to
the late Senator B. R. Tillman.
He was born at Prosperity, Newberry County,
South Carolina, in 1890, son of Dr. C. T. and Carrie
(Sease) Wyche. The Wyche family is of English
origin, has an English coat of arms, and the ancestry
is traced back in unbroken line to the thirteenth
century. Its progenitors in America first lived in
Virginia, from which commonwealth descendants
have spread to the Carolinas and other states.
Dr. Cyril Thomas Wyche, whose home is at
Prosperity, was born on the Tar River in North
Carolina, is a graduate of the -College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Baltimore, and has lived in South
Carolina since 1882, He has achieved honors not
only in his profession but in public affairs as well,
having represented Newberry County in the Legis
lature for twenty years, during which time he was
speaker pro tem of the House for four years,
and chairman of the coraraittee on education. His
greatest enthusiasra is for the cause of education,
and to that he has unselfishly devoted both tirae
and efforts. He is the "father" of the public school
at Prosperity, and is constantly planning and work
ing to iraprove the coraraori schools of the state
arid the higher iristitutioris of learning. He has
served as a member of the board of trustees of

the University of South Carolina, and of Winthrop
College. Doctor Wyche married a sister of Judge Thomas
S. Sease of Spartanburg, and a daughter of the
late Leonard Sease, who died in 1918 at the age of
ninety-four. Leonard Sease was the father of
twelve children, eleven of whom are still living. One
of his daughters was past seventy-five at the time of
his death — a remarkable instance of family vigor
and longevity.
Cyril G. Wyche is a graduate of the University
of South Carolina with the class of 191 1. In the
same year he received appointraent as private sec
retary to Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, a position
which in itself opened up opportunities for experi
ence and knowledge surpassing the curriculura of the
best schools. He also found time during the four
years he was at Washington to attend the law
classes of Georgetown University, and received his
LL. B. degree in 1915. Such had been his record
in scholarship and so well thought of was he by older
men in public life, that he was soon chosen as assist
ant attorney for the Western District of South Caro
lina, his appointment taking effect September I, 1916.
This position brought him to Greenville, where in
addition to his official responsibilities he has gained
a substantial private clientage.
Mr. Wyche married Miss Mary Wheeler of Pros
perity, his own native town. They have two chil
dren, Mary and Caro Wyche.
Paul Trapier Hayne. There are two outstand
ing facts which give Paul Trapier Hayne an excep
tional position in the citizenship of Greenville. One
and perhaps the less important, is that he came to
Greenville May 18, 1872, when there was little to
distinguish this from the unimproved country vil
lages of upper South Carolina, many of which still
felt the scourge of military invasion and oppression.
While thus a pioneer in point of time, Mr. Hayne
is best known and esteemed by the great business and
social community of -today because of his long,
unfaltering and devoted service in behalf of the
public school systera. He is chairman of the board
of trustees of the Greenville public schools, the
oldest raember of the board, and has served with
it alraost from the inception of the public school
system, in Greenville. More than that, he is cred
ited vvith having done raore than any other one raan
to build up an adequate system of public education
in keeping with the population, the wealth and
the eminent industrial position of Greenville.
Mr. Hayne, who has the distinction of having been
one of the youngest soldiers of the Confederacy in
the war between the states, was born in Charleston
Deceraber 14, 1846, son of Isaac W. and Alicia Paul
ine (Trapier) Hayne. He is a meraber of the his
toric Hayne family in South Carolina. One of his
direct ancestors was that historic character Col.
Isaac Hayne, a leader of the Partisan Rangers in
driving the British and Tories from South Caro
lina in the last years of the Revolution. On one
daring raid within the limits of Charleston he was
captured, and a few weeks later a British court of
inquiry, in order to overawe the patriotic element in
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notable prisoner, and he was sentenced to be hanged.
As one historian describes the scene, — "attended by
thousands of spectators, Hayne walked to the gal
lows in a firm, manly and unostentatious manner, and
ascending the steps parted from his friends with the
simple assurance that he would endeavor to show
them 'how an American should die.' " Mr. Hayne's
father was a first cousin of the great nullifier, Rob
ert Y. Hayne, whose career need not' be raentioned
here since it forms a conspicuous part of the general
history of South Carolina.
Paul Trapier Hajme is a grandson of William
Edward Hajrne of Charleston. His father, Isaac W.
Hayne was a lawyer and jurist of distinction and
for twenty years was attorney general for South
Carolina. The maternal grandfather was Paul Trapier
of Charleston, representing one of the most inter
esting families of the- French Huguenots. Paul
Trapier was a grandson of the original Trapier who
landed at Georgeto-\^n, South Carolina, early in the
seventeenth century. On the same ship was a count
ess, also a fugitive frora France, and she had raade
her escape by being concealed in a hogshead. Soon
after the landing of the ship at Georgetown, these
two fugitives were raarried, and they became the an
cestors of all members of the Trapier faraily in South
Carolina. Paul Trapier Hayne was reared in Charleston, at
tended private schools 'there, and was only fifteen
years old when he enlisted, in the Beaufort Artillery.
During the first period of his service he was with
the artillery forces defending -the coast against the
Federal fleets. Later He was in Johnston's array in
land w,firfare, and took part in the last battles of the
war at Averasboro and Bentonville, North Carolina,
and surrendered -with Johnston's array at Greens
boro. ' ' '
During the greater part 'of -his business life Mr.
Hayne has been an underwriter and has enjoyed a
large and profitable clientele in the general insur
ance business at Greenville. Mr. Hayne first becarae
identified with the public school organization in 1888,
several years af ter ' public ¦ free schools: -had been
established. At that tirae the total expense df schools
was about seven thousand dollars annually,
and only seven teachers were eraployed. Through
all the subsequent years Mr. Hayne has labored
unselfishly and without -''consideration of his
own tirae and business' interests to develop school
facilities not only- apace; with the demands of the
increasing population, but in proportion -to the ris
ing standards of educStidnal ideals. -The fact that
Greenville now has fhe -largest high school in -the
state, and that all the plans look to an -enlargeraent
rather than retrenchmerit in fhe matter-o'f provisions
for broad and thorough'training for the young, fur
nishes Mr. Hayne rriore cause for satisfaction and
pride than anything elSe in the history of -this raod
ern city. '»,,.-,-' , ,
Mr. Hayne married Miss Mittie Irvine, daughter
of the late Dr. O. B. Irvirie of Greenville. They ha-ve
six living children: Coh' Paul Trapier Hayne, Jr.,
who has gained high diStindtion as an officer in the
United States Array ;'F. Ir-v>ine, Mrs. Adele Hayne
Scott, Mrs. Henry Mclver, Mrs. R. E. Houston, and
Mrs, E. E. G. Roberts. ' -

Maj. Isham Dean Wingo. Of American offi
cers who have recently resumed the thread of civil
life in South Carolina, one who endured the intensity
of the great campaigns in northern France during
1918 is Maj. Isham Dean Wingo, now of Green
ville. Major Wingo left a position in the Lancaster cot
ton mill in the summer of 1917 to join the Officers
Reserve Corps in the training camp at Fort Ogle
thorpe, Georgia. He received his coraraission as
captain and was assigned to the 76th Field Ar
tillery at Hattiesburg, Mississippi. This regiment
was sent overseas in the early months of 1918, and
was made a part of the Third Division of the
American Corabat Forces in France. General
Pershing in his review of the operations of the
American Army has assigned special credit in a
number of instances to the Third Division, begin
ning with its rapid raovement to check the German
Aisne offensive in the latter part of May near
Chateau Thierry where it reraained holding the
bank of the Marne against the Gerraan assaults in
July. In the allied offensive beginning July i,
1918, the Third Division joined' in the pursuit of the
retiring Germans across the Marne, and during that
time 'Major Wingo and his comraand were for
twenty-eight days in continuous fighting without re
lief. He was also in the prelirainary operations in
the Argonne Forest. As captain he was Battery
Commander of Battery D, Seventy-Sixth Field Ar
tillery, Third Division. Out of 135 officers of the
Seventy-Sixth only twenty-eight carae out of this
carapaign alive and ready for continued service. In
fact, the Seventy-Sixth suffered some of 'ihe heaviest
losses borne by any American unit in the war. In
the late suramer of 1918 Major Wingo was detailed
to return to Camp Mea.de for special duty as in
structor and other duties and with other officers
was scheduled to return to France in October.
Their departure was delayed on account of the
ravages of influenza, and before they were ready to
retum the armistice was signed. Major Wingo re
ceived his well merited proraotion to the rank of
major at Camp Meade, and with that rank he re
ceived his honorable discharge in Deceraber, 1918.
Major Wingo was born at Gaffney, South Carolina,
in 1890, son of Rev. Dr, Ishara W, and Lula Cynthia
(Dean) Wingo. The Wingo faraily have been iden
tified with Spartanburg County since prior to the
Revolutionary war. The late Rev. Dr. Wingo who
died in 1913, was throughout his active career a
Baptist rainister and educator, was a native of Spar
tanburg County, and raost of his life was spent
there and in Greenville County. As rainister he
was pastor of a nuraber of important churches, and
took a great interest in education, being the founder
and benefactor of two schools at Campobello. For
sorae years he was a professor at Furman Univer
sity of Greenville. Major Wingo's mother was a
member of the well known Dean family of Spar
tanburg County. This is also a name that has had
prorainent connections in that county since pre-
revolutionary days.
Major Wingo who educated in Furman University
and in 1912 he went to Lancaster to become asso
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Cotton Mill. As noted above he left his work there
to join the army.
Since returning to South Carolina early in the
spring of 1919 he has engaged in business at Green
ville as president of the Piedmont Peerless Com
pany, distributors of Peerless automobiles, for the
Piedmont section.
James H. Price has had a very successful career
as a lawyer since beginning practice at Greenville,
his native city, in 1907. Prior to that time he had
lived in Washington for several years, and as a
Washington correspondent he came in touch with
men high in official life and altogether had experience
that could not but be productive of the greatest val
ue in his profession.
He was born at Greenville November 6, 1882, a
son of Jaraes M. and Eliza (Land) Price. His
father, a native of Dahlonega, Georgia, came to
Greenville Courity with his brother, the late Col. W.
P. Price about 1855, and from this section went into
the Confederate array, serving all through the war
with Butler's Guards. He was wounded in the battle
of Fredericksburg. Later for many years he was in
the printing and newspaper publishing business at
Greenville. After his public school course at Greenville, James
H. Price went to Washington, and studied law in
George Washington University, from which he re
ceived his LL. B. degree in. 1906. It was while a stu
dent in law school and for a year after that M,r.
Price had his journalistic practice, chiefly as White
House reporter for the Washington Times. Havin<?-
been reared in the atmosphere of a newspaper office,
and having become an expert Pittman shorthand
writer, it was not difficult for him to "break in" as a
reporter, even in the awesortie and dignified environ
ment of official Washington. Older newspaper men
soon came to regard his work as worthy of their
recognition, and he acquired a good standing among
high officials on account of his unvarying courtesy, his
keen and persistent sense for news, and the accurate-
ness and truthfulness of his stories and interviews.
Many who set out to make journalism their profes
sion might have envied his prospects when he left
Washington to I'eturn to his native city and practice
law. , He was first in practice with Mr. J. J. McSwain,
and later formed his present alliance under the
firm narae of Bonham & Price. He handles legal
business in all the courts, and is one of the thorough
ly well qualified and competent members of the
Greenville County bar. Since 1908 he has served
on the Greenville board of health, and is readily
interested in all public spirited movements. Mr.
Price is affiliated with the Masonic order, the Knights
of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World, the Im
proved Order of Red Men, and is a raember of the
Central Baptist Church. He married Miss Alyce
Baker of Greenville County. Their two sons are
named James H., Jr,, and 'William Baker.
Henry Lawrence Galloway. While the greater
number of the years of his active life have been spent
on a farm, Mr, Galloway has been interested in sev
eral commercial and financial organizations in Dillon
and Marlboro counties, and is now president of the
First National Bank of Clio.

He was born in what is now Dillon, then Marion
County, April 22, 1873. His paternal ancestors carae
originally frora a Galloway district in Scotland and
were Americans before the Revolutionary war.
Grandfather James Galloway was born in Marlboro
County near Blenheim, and before the war owned a
large plantation operated with slave labor. The
father of the Clio banker was James S. Galloway, a
native of Marlboro County a planter by occupation
and all through the war he served as lieutenant of
Company G, "Twenty-Third South Carolina Infantry.
He lived to the age of seventy-four and at one time
was a member of the board of county commissioners
of Marion County. Lieutenant Galloway married
Mary Lou Bethea, daughter of Levi and Mary Ann
Bethea, of a prominent family of Marion County.
Henry Lawrence Galloway was the third in a
family of seven children, all of whom are still liv
ing. He grew up on his father's farm, attended the
local schools, and also took a business course at
Augusta, Georgia, and after a brief experience at
Dillon when that was a small village he began farm
ing at the age of twenty-six. He kept an interest
in farming and planting ever since. In igo8 he assist
ed in organizing the People's Savings Bank and was
its first cashier. Later he sold his interests and en
gaged in the insurance business in connection with
farraing. In 1917 the First National Bank of Clio
-v^as organized and Mr. Galloway has been its pres
ident from the beginning. The bank has a capital
stock of $25,000 and surplus of $3,500.
In 1900 Mr. Galloway married Annie Barrentine,
of Clio. Their four children are Louise, Henry, Jr.,
Gladys and Jaraes B, Mr. Galloway has been for
seven years secretary of his Masonic Lodge, is
Senior Warden, is a Past Chancellor of the Knights
of Pythias, is a thirty-second degree Mison and
Shriner, is Past Consul Commander of the Wood
men of the World, and has been a faithful and
active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church
for many years, serving on the building committee
of the new edifice which is now being erected.
While he is principally a business man ahd con
sequently busy, Mr. Galloway has found time to con
tribute much correspondence from his home locality
to the "Columbia State."
Henry, Earle Bates, at the age of seventeen, en
tered a cotton mill at Spartanburg and since that
time, for a period of thirty-five years, has acknowl
edged no business interest or association superior to
the textile industry, and has become very prominent
as a cotton raill man.
Mr. Bates was born at Spartanburg in 1867, son of
E H, and Carrie (Thorapson) Bates. His father
also a native of Spartanburg, was a man of sound
classical education and culture. He left St. John's
College where he was a student to enter the Con
federate Army and served until the close of that
conflict, first as lieutenant of his company and be
fore the war closed was commissioned a captain.
For a number of years after the war he followed
educational work and in later life was a farmer.
Henry Earle Bates acquired a good education in
the Spartanburg schools and from his father. He
has had a practical experience in every phase of
cotton milling, and since 1905 has been associated
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several years he has been superintendent of the Vic
tor Mill at Greer, This is one of the eight great
cotton mills owned and operated by the Victor-
Monaghan Company, the Victor raill at Greer being
the parent of them all. The Victor is a cloth mill,
having 59,136 spindles and manufactures fancy cloths
and specialties.
Mr. Bates is a member of the Southern Textile
Association, is a Mason and in religion a Baptist. He
married Miss Josie Parrott of Pickens County.
Their two daughters are Merle, wife of J. T. Wood,
Jr., and Miss Carrie Linda Bates.
Capt. John J. McSwain. A lawyer and for a
nuraber of years a trusted citizen of Greenville,
Captain McSwain returned to civil life in 1919 after
a most interesting experience as a soldier and offi
cer. His work as an officer of the American Na
tional Array was exceptional in spirit, methods, and
results, and might be regarded as expressive of the
combination in his ancestry of a family of minis
ters with a family of soldiers.
His paternal grandfather. Rev. W. A. McSwain,
a native of North Carolina, came to Laurens County,
South Carolina, early in the nineteenth century, and
for many years labored in the cause of the Methodist
Church. Dr. E. T. McSwain, father of Captain Mc
Swain, gave his life's labors to the arduous practice
of raedicine in Cross Hill Township of Laurens
County. Janie McGowan, wife of Dr. E. T. McSwain, was
the daughter of Capt. John J. McGowan of Laurens
County, and a niece of the famous General Mc
Gowan, commander of McGowan's Brigade in the
war between the states, the history of which was
written by J, F. J. Caldwell of Newberry.
John J. McSwain was born at the home of his
parents in Cross Hill Township, May i, 1875, and
grew up on a farm, his early advantages being sup
plied at home and the neighboring district schools.
He was prepared for college by Rev. A. M.
Hassell, and won by competitive examination a
scholarship to the Wofford Fitting School at Spar
tanburg, where he spent four months. He won a
scholarship in the University of South Carolina,
which he entered in the fall of 1893. He graduated
in 1896 with the degrees A. B. and L. I. sumraa cura
laude. A period of teaching followed, during which
he was connected with schools in Marlboro County,
with the Presbyterian High School of Colurabia and
the high schools at Donalds and Honea Path.
In the meantirae at nights and during vacations
he was diligently studying law, was adraitted to
practice in 1899, but did not begin the serious wTirk
of his profession until he established his home at
Greenville in May, 1901. For five years he was
associated with Mr. Joseph A. McCullough, and since
then has had several partners. For four years he
served as referee in bankruptcy, and has otherwise
been active in public affairs, as trustee of the public
schools of Greenville, and since its founding in 1905,
till May, 1919, he was a trustee of the Odd Fellows
Home at Greenville, and most of that tirae was
chairman of the board. . , ,
Until the war Captain McSwain had no military
training or experience. He entered the first offi
cers' training school at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia,
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in May, 191 7, and was recomraended for a captaincy.
Having raany iraportant interests of clients to, ad
just, and being financially embarrassed, he obtained
leave of absence from the War Departraent until
January, 1918. He advertised all his real estate for
sale except his home, and thus raised enough money
to liquidate pressing obligations, and financed the
balance on long terra notes. His professional busi
ness he turned over to other attorneys.
His coraraission as captain was dated January 14,
1918, and he was first ordered to Carap Beauregard,
Louisiana, and put in coraraand of Company A, One
Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Infantry, composed of
volunteers from Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Most of these volunteers were sent to France in
May, 1918, and were replaced by drafted men from
Ohio and Kentucky. Captain McSwain sailed with
his company and regiment on August 6th, but soon
after arriving in France the Thirty-Ninth Division
was made into a Depot Division and its enlisted
strength ordered to the front, except non-commis
sioned officers, and these were used in training other
troops for the front. For the month of November
Captain McSwain was assigned to the tactical school
at Chattillon-sur-Seine for the Second Army Corps,
and at his personal request was slated to go to the
front in December, the signing of the armistice of
course making that order inoperative. His service
in France was almost entirely devoted to the train
ing of troops.
The character of that service has been described
in the newspapers on several occasions. Those fa
miliar with his work as a training officer, say that
his success was due largely to the nature of the dis
cipline he employed. It had none of the qualities
exeraplified by the Gerraan martinet raethod. Essen
tially it was" the policy of treating every soldier as a
gentleman, assuming that every soldier would fight
and wanted to fight, and would therefore work hard
to become effective and efficient. Captain McSwain
found that the men responded to this sort of appeal.
He discussed the issues of the war in numerous
talks; told how important it was for the future of
civilization that Gerraany and its military and auto
cratic system be crushed, and how the present issues
were even greater than those at stake in our own
'Revolution, when American Continentals were heroes
in spite of lack of pay, clothing and food. He also
contrasted the manner, the bearing and the progress
in training of his own company with other troops
whose officers ruled by iron-handed methods, and it
was a source of pride to Captain McSwain that the
coraparison was always favorable to his own raethod.
His colonel sometimes coraplained that he placed
too rauch faith in his soldiers ; that he trusted them
too rauch. To which he would relply that he would
be afraid to go into battle with them if he could
not trust thera.
Captain McSwain believes that the wonderful suc
cess of the Araerican array is not due to the foreign
and unAmerican discipline advocated by the old
school, but carae in spite of such raethods, and was
due to the unconquerable deterraination of each sol
dier to put the Hun to rout or fall with his face to
the foe. As President Wilson told the Araerican
forces at Chaumont on Christmas day, "The Amer
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Secretary Baker told the newly commissioned offi
cers of a training camp in August, 1917 : "You are
given authority, not for your personal pleasure or
gratification, but that you may serve your country
by leading the soldiers with you, not under you."
Captain McSwain considers that the raost important
quality in an officer is leadership, and that no man
can be a true leader unless he possesses both physical
and moral courage, and that moral character is the
foundation of it all.
Captain McSwain is a meraber of the Methodist
Church, and is popular in a number of orders, in
cluding the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Woodmen
of the World, Odd Fellows, Junior Order United
American Mechanics. On April 26, 1905, he mar
ried Miss Sarah McCullough, daughter of Col. John
W. McCullough of Greenville County. They have
one daughter, Janie, now in the public schools of
Greenville City.
Dr. Wade Stackhouse. Success in any of the
pursuits or activities of life invariably challenges
the admiration of the world. It is of little con
sequence whether it be in the professions, in com
merce or trade, in -finance, in public life, or along
agricultural lines, it is the one distinctive and dis
tinguishing characteristic of all the transactions of
life. Accordingly, when an individual has achieved
success in several fields of endeavor, he is entitled
to more than ordinary distinction, and in this con
nection the career of Dr. Wade Stackhouse, presi
dent of the Bahk of Dillon and owner of the
Carolina Milling Company, presents featutes worthy
of mention.
Doctor Stackhouse was born October 28, 1868, in
Marion (now Dillon) County, South Carolina, a
son of H. M. and Martha (Stackhouse")" Stackhouse.
On his father's side, the family is traced back 160
years, when the first of the name, a Pennsylvanian
of Welsh descent, came to what is now Marion
County, where William Stackhouse, the great-grand
father of the Doctor, and Isaac Stackhouse, his
grandfather, were born and passed their lives as
planters. There also was born H. M. Stackhouse,
who is still living at the advanced age of eighty
years, a Confederate veteran who served throughout
the War between the States. Martha Stackhouse,
a daughter of Wesley and Lucretia (Bethea) Stack-
house, and a raember of a family which came to
South Carolina prior to the Revolutionary war, died
in 1904, at the age of sixty-two years. She and her
husband were the parents of five children : Rev. R.
E., presiding elder of the Columbia District of the
Methodist Episcopal Church ; Doctor Wade, of this
re-view; Alice, the wife of J, C. Dunbar of Sumter
County; Augustus, who is engaged in extensive
farming operations near Dillon, in Dillon County;
and George M., a paymaster in the United States
Navy since prior to the Spanish-American war.
Wade Stackhouse received his preparatory educa
tional training in the public schools, following which
he attended Peabody College, at Nashville, Ten
nessee, and was graduated with the class of 1887,
He then entered upon his medical studies at Van
derbilt University, from which institution he was
graduated in i8gi with the degree of Doctor of
Medicine and immediately entered upon the prac

tice of his profession, in which he continued success
fully for thirteen years. In the meantime, in 1894,
he had acquired a small farm near Dillon, and since
that time his holdings have been augmented greatly
by his good manageraent and business capacity, he
at this time being the owner of some 2,700 acres of
land, all in Dillon County. He also has other varied
and important interests, and is the owner of the
Carolina Milling Company, a flour, com and feed
mill station at Dillon. At the time of his election
to the presidency of the Dillon Bank, in 1904, he
found his time too busily occupied for him to con
tinue as a practitioner and he reluctantly gave up
his practice in medicine. A man of sterling qual
ities. Doctor Stackhouse is esteemed and respected
by all who have the honor of his acquaintance.
"While he has been deeply concerned in his business
and financial operations, he has never neglected the
finer things of life, and enjoys the best in literature,
reading extensively and appreciating the productions
of his favorite authors. He has traveled extensively
and is one of the most cultured men in his section
of the state.
In December, 1892, Doctor Stackhouse was united
in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Steed, a member
of an old and honored family of this part of South
Carolina, and they are the parents of four children:
Ruth, Steed, Mary Elizabeth and Martha.
Alonzo Iler, whose home is at Greenville, with
which city as headquarters he represents in the
Southern states L. R. Wattles & Corapany of Canton
Junction, Massachusetts, manufacturers of sizing
compounds, cotton softeners and sizing tallows, has
had years of connection and experience with the
cotton mill industry, as did his father before him.
The interest attaching to Mr. Iler's personal career,
which has been one of advancement and growing
prominence, is increased by the fact that he has two
soldier sons and is probably more proud of their
patriotic record than of his own business achieve
ment. His father, James Franklin Iler, was born at
Lawrenceville, Georgia, and had almost lifelong
associations with the cotton mill industry of the
South. For three years of the war he served in
the Confederate Array in the Twenty-First Georgia
Light Guards, going out from Augusta. In the last
year of the war he was sent back to Augusta to
take charge of a cotton mill making clothing for the
Confederate soldiers. In 1875 he removed with his
family to Piedmont, South Carolina, where for a
number of years he was general manager for the
Piedmont Manufacturing Company. This mill was
one of the oldest in upper Carolina, having been
founded by Col. H. P. Hammett. James Franklin
Iler married Susan Bumbalowe.
In the home of these parents at Au.eusta, Georgia,
in 1867 Alonzo Iler was born, and acquired his first
experience in the textile industry wheri a boy. He
began work in the Piedmont mill as a sweeper and
has filled practically every position in a cotton mill.,
During three years at Providence, Rhode Island, he
completed his education as a machinist in large ma
chine shops of that city. On his return to South
Carolina he became chief engineer and master me
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a similar position with the Union cotton mills at
Union, and then for seven years as an expert me-
•^tianic and engineer, he represented in the Southern
states the C. & G. Cooper Corapany, manufacturers
of engines and boilers. In 191 1 Mr. Iler became
Southern representative for L. R. Wattles & Com
pany, and on assuming that position established his
home at Greenville. He is a Knight Templar Mason
ana Shrmer and a member of the Methodist Church.
Mr. Iler married Miss Abbie Davenport. Her
father, the late Hon. Frank Davenport, of Green
ville County, was representative to the State Legis
lature and was long regarded as one of the most
substantial citizens of the Greenville section. Mr.
and Mrs. Iler have five children: Harry, Don, Mrs.
H. L. McConnell, Miss Nancy Ann and Miss Katie
Walton. Harry Iler when a boy joined the National Guard
of South Carolina and was one of the original
members of the famous band of the First South
Carolina Regiment. This regiment in the war with
Germany became the One Hundred and Eighteenth
Infantry of the National army, in the Thirtieth or
"Old Hickory" Division. Harry Iler was all through
the service in France and Belgium, serving in the
regimental band. He returned home in April, 1919.
Don Iler, before the war with Germany began,
held a civil service position as a stenographer in the
United States navy at Charleston. On the outbreak
of the war he volunteered in the regular service of
the navy, and was soon promoted to chief petty offi
cer. That is his present rank, and for a number of
months he has been connected with the transport
service of the navy.
David Elwood McCuen, one of the progressive,
public spirited younger business men of Greenville,
is a member and assistant manager of Cooper &
Griffin, Incorporated, cotton raerchants and export
ers, with main offices in Greenville. This is one of
the great cotton firms of the South. It maintains
offices in many American cities, and connections in
England and other parts of Europe.
Mr. McCuen was born in Savannah, Georgia, July
23, 1882, a son of D. E. and Rosa (Payne) McCuen.
His parents were both natives of Florida. Mr. Mc
Cuen grew up and received his education in Savannah
and graduated from the University of Georgia in
1901. He has been in the cotton business ever since
leaving college and has been a resident of Greenville
since 1906. Mr. McCuen was the member of the firm
Cooper & Griffin selected to go abroad after the
signing of the armistice and re-establish the trade
connections of his house, and handle manv other
iraportant business affairs in the war stricken coun
tries of western Europe. In raaking this trip he was
one of the few civilians accorded that privilege in
the early months following the war and it gave him
the greatly prized opportunity of seeing the countries
of England, France, Italy, Belgium and Holland
at first hand. With his mission successfully ac
complished he returned to Greenville in April 1919.
Mr. McCuen has for several years been actively
interested in the Y. M. C. A. work. He was elected
a member of the Greenville Y. M. C. A. in 1913 and
in April, 1918, was chosen president. During the
year of his presidency the services of the Greenville

organization were largely directed to taking care
of many thousands of soldiers quartered at Camp
Sevier, and Mr. McCuen labored unceasingly in be
half of that department of army welfare work.
An honor deeply appreciated by hira and one of
special distinction was his election as president of
the Greenville Rotary Club in 1919. Mr. McCuen is
a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, and is a mera
ber of the Vestry of Christ Episcopal Church at
Greenville. He raarried Miss Hallie Withers of
York, South Carolina. Their three children are
named Virginia Joye, Hallie Withers and David
Elwood, Jr.
Hugh Charles Haynsworth. In 1817, two
years after the close of the War of 1812, 'William
Haynsworth began practice at Sumter and thus
established the firra of Haynsworth & Haynsworth,
which continuously for 102 years has been in exist
ence, has represented some of the finest and sound
est legal talent and has been maintained by mem
bers of three generations of the Haynsworth faraily.
One of the present firm of Haynsworth & Hayns
worth is Hugh Charles Haynsworth, a grandson
of the lawyer whose name was inscribed on the Sum
ter bar in 1817.
Hugh Charles Haynsworth, whose ancestry on
both sides came from England to America prior to
the Revolution, was born at Surater May 27, 1875,
a son of William Francis Baker and Mary (Charles)
Haynsworth. His father was likewise a lawyer and
a member of the firm Haynsworth & Haynsworth
at Sumter.
The son was educated in private schools, attended
public school two years, and in 1892 entered Fur
raan University where he was graduated A. B. in
1895. He was a raember of the first class gradu
ated from the Sumter graded schools. After leav
ing Furman University he taught school about nine
years, at one time being principal of the Pendleton
Street graded school of Greenville, again as assist
ant in a boys' high school at Montgomery, Alabama,
and for one year was acting professor of economics
and philosophy and for two years professor of mod
ern languages at Furman University. While
teaching he also studied law under the direction of
his father and was admitted to the bar in 1904.
Since then he has been in active practice, his prac
tice being confined to the . Sumter bar.
Mr. Haynsworth is a director of the National
Bank of Sumter and the Sumter Trust Company,
and attorney for both corporations and is president
of the Sumter Cotton 'Warehouse Corapany. He
served two terms as a member of the city council
of Surater, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias,
Woodraen of the World and the Fortnightly Club,
the Waccaraaw Club (hunting) and is superintendent
of the Sunday school of Grace Baptist Church. He
is a member of the board of trustees of Coker Col
lege. December 15, 1908, he married Miss Emilie E.
Beattie, daughter of William and Fannie (Perry)
Beattie, her father a raerchant of Greenville. To
their raarriage were born four children, Huglh
Charles, Jr., Perry Beattie, Emilie Virginia, and
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Arthur Buist Jordan. It is a well-established
fact that of those individuals whose capable force-
fulness adds to the prestige of the coraraunities in
which they see fit to locate, raany have had to de
pend entirely or in large part upon their own re
sources in securing their start in life. The fact that
they have had to stand alone seeras to have sup
plied a needed stiraulus for continued and persist
ent effort. They have early learned the lesson that
if they desire to rise in the world they raust bend
every energy to the task at hand and let no possible
opportunity slip by. Of the raen who have raade
their way to position and prorainence through exer
cising their own energies, one of the best known at
Dillon is Arthur Buist Jordan, who is prominent
in journalistic circles as editor and proprietor of the
Dillon Herald and president of the South Carolina
Press Association, and who is also widely known in
financial and business circles and as a leading and
Influential meraber of the state deraocracy.
Mr. Jordan was born in Barnwell (now Baraberg)
County, South Carolina, August 3, 1876, a son of
Lawrence M. and Adaline (Barr) Jordan. The
Jordan faraily originated in England, frora whence
came to Araerica two brothers prior to the Revolu
tionary war and located at Port Royal, where one
of the eraigrants became proprietor of a tavern.
Ezekiel Jordan, the grandfather of Arthur B., was
born in Colleton County, South Carolina, where he
passed the greater part of his life as a planter.
Lawrence M. Jordan was born in Colleton County,
and was little more than a lad when he enlisted for
service in the Confederate Army during the War
between the States. He served with the Confederacy
and returned to his native county, later going to
Barnwell County, where he was engaged in farming
for a time and later took up contracting. Adaline
(Barr) Jordan was born in Orangeburg County,
South Carolina, a daughter of John Barr of the
sarae county and a granddaughter of a native of
Germany who came to America about the middle
of the seventeenth century, settling in South Caro
lina with a colony of his fellow-countrymen. Of
the children born to Lawrence M. and Adaline Jor
dan, three are living: William M., a resident of
Greenville, South Carolina ; Arthur B. ; and Mrs. J.
W. Jennings, who lives at Bamberg, this state.
Arthur B. Jordan was educated in the public
schools and also received private instruction, and
was still a boy when he began to learn the printer's
trade. After leaving high school, when twenty-one
years of age he took charge of the Dillon Herald,
and has been proprietor and editor of this weekly
publication ever since. He has a large subscription
list throughout Dillon and the country surrounding,
the paper going into several other counties, and the
publication is loyally supported by local merchants
and professional men, who find it an excellent ad
vertising mediura. It is a clean, reliable and well-
edited sheet, presenting authentic news, tiraely edi
torials and interesting features, and during the long
period of its existerice has been- a steadfast booster
of the city and a co-operator in worthwhile move
raents which have raade for progress. In the move
ments mentioned, Mr. Jordan has not only held the
columns of his paper open, but has worked per
sonally and to good effect. In the ranks of the jour

nalistic craft, the name of Mr. Jordan is well and
favorably known, and he has been honored by his
fellow editors by election to the presidency of -the
South Carolina Press Association, which he now
holds, and to a directorship in the National' News
paper Association. He has been prominent in public
affairs for a number of years, and in addition to
minor offices has served Dillon as mayor two terms,
was chairman of the Local Exemption Board and
chairraan of Red Cross work during the World war,
and has been raaster in equity during the past ten
years. He is one of the raost forceful and influen
tial democrats in this locality, and at present is chair
raan of the Dillon County Democratic Party. His
fraternal connections include membership in the
Knights of Pythias, the Masons and the Junior Or
der United American Mechanics, in which, as in
other activities, he has as many friends as he has
acquaintances. For a long period he has had large
business, financial and agricultural interests, and at
this time is vice president of the First National Bank
of Dillon, a stockholder in other local enterprises
and the owner of valuable farming land, which is
being operated by tenants. He is a man of sub
stantial worth, whose judgment is sound and sag
acity keen, and few are better informed on impor
tant issues of the day, while those who know him
well recognize in him a man of earnest purpose and
progressive principles. He is interested in all that
pertains to modern advancement and improvements
along material, intellectual and moral lines, and his
charities extend to many worthy enterprises.
In 1901 Mr. Jordan was united in marriage to Miss
Hortense Harapton, of Leaksville, North Carolina,
and to this union there have been born six children,
as follows : Buist, Jord, Harvey, Hortense, Cath
erine and John David,
Wade Hampton Ramsey has lived all his life of
sorae forty years in the Wedgefield coraraunity of
Surater County. From working for others he has
developed extensive raercantile interests of his own,
and is also one of the leading planters of that sec
tion. Mr. Ramsey was born about five miles from
Wedgefield in Middleton Township of Sumter Coun
ty, a son of M. G. and Miranda "T. (Nettles) Ram
sey. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather
were named Willis Ramsey and in the preceding
generation the head- of the family was a native Scot
and settled in Sumter County about the tirae of the
Revolutionary war. The Raraseys have lived there
ever since. One of the uncles of Wade Harapton
Rarasey was the late James G, Ramsey, who as a
youth went to Georgia and when the war between
the state broke out volunteered in a Georgia regi
ment. As color bearer for this regiment he had
the distinction of carrying the Confederate flag
furthest north. That was in the battle of Gettys
burg. The Nettles family is of English ancestry, and
their first settlement in South Carolina was in
Darlington County,
Wade Hampton Ramsey grew up on his father's
plantation and supplemented his education in the
local schools with attendance at Colonel Bailey's
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ness as bookkeeper and office manager for the Ay-
cock Mercantile Company at Wedgefield, a concern
with which he was identified about sixteen years.
He then started in business for himself and is now
president of the Wedgefield Mercantile Company,
extensive dealers in general merchandise, and with
a trade reaching out all over the rich and growing
section of Sumter County around Wedgefield. Mr.
Ramsey owns sorae substantial agricultural interests
at Wedgefield, and is magistrate for Middletown
Township. He is a meraber of the Masonic order
and a Baptist in religious faith. He raarried Miss
Helen Cain of Sumter County and their four chil
dren are Willis, Wade, Marion and Esther.
Hon. D. L. McLaurin, serving his third consecu
tive term as representative of Marlboro County in
the Legislature, has been a merchant of McColl
many years and is head of a thriving wholesale gro
cery house that is one of that town's chief business
institutions. Mr. McLaurin was bom in Marlboro County Sep
tember 4, 1874. His grandfather was L. L. Mc
Laurin also known as Captain McLaurin, a native of
Scotland who came direct to South Carolina when
a young man. John F. McLaurin, father of the Mc
Coll merchant was bom in Marlboro County, served
in the -Confederate army, being about sixteen years
of age when he enlisted, and after the war was a
farmer 'and merchant. He also represented his
county in the Legislature six years and died at the
age of sixty-six. His wife was Kittie Hubbard, a
native of Marlboro County and a daughter of Peter
Hubbard, also of Scotch ancestry.
D. L. McLaurin was third in a family of eight
children, seven of whom are still living. He re
ceived his education in Winston-Salem, North Caro
lina, in Davis Military School and in the high school
at McColl. His career as a merchant has been con
tinuous since 1902, when he became a retail grocer
at McColl. In 1913 with a view to serving the splen
did territory naturally tributary to McColl he estab
lished a vvholesale house, and the McColl Grocery
Company of which he is president does an extenswe
jobbing grocery trade over large territory not only
in South Carolina, but across the line in North Caro
lina. Mr. McLaurin is also extensively interested m
farming and owns a plantation in Marlboro County
and other land in Scotland and Robeson counties.
North Carolina. Mr. McLaurin has served as mayor
of McColl and is now in his sixth year as a member
of the House of Representatives, and is on the most
important committee of the Legislature, the ways
and means committee. In 1898 he married Miss
Effie Willis, daughter of J. F. Willis of Marlboro
County. Their five children are Bertram, Clarissa,
Winifred, Willis and Leon. Mr. McLaurin and fam
ily are members of the Presbyterian Church.
CoL. William G. Kennedy who died January 11,
1893, in his sixty-fourth year, exemplified in a pe
culiar degree the aspirations and the ideals of the
old South and perhaps his best services were ren
dered in his attempt and endeavor to preserve the
chivalry and the raanhood of the older generation, in
which his own youth had been spent. In a practical

way perhaps he will be longest remembered as the
veteran editor of The True Southron at Sumter.
He was born in Sumter County in April, 1829, a
son of Francis L. Kennedy, He attended South
Carolina . College from 1846 to 1849, Though he
never graduated, he became a fine classical scholar
and acquired a literary taste that shaped his after
life. He studied law and was admitted to the bar,
but never practiced. He possessed ample means and
his services therefore were irapelled by deeper and
better raotives and not by self-seeking. In 1854
he was appointed to a position on the staff of Gov
ernor Adams with the rank of colonel. At that tirae
a position on the governor's staff was an honor rauch
sought after, since the governor accompanied by his
staff was required to make the round of the state
and inspect the militia.
About 1869 Colonel Kennedy moved frora his
home place known as Rosehill to Surater, and soon
took control of the editorial department of the Sum
ter News, which at his suggestion was later changed
to The True Southron. At that tirae the state was
in the hands of the carpet baggers and opposition
on the part of the native white people had almost
ceased. Some of the raost influential papers were
even advocating a compromise with those who were
despoiling the state. Colonel Kennedy showed no
disposition to compromise. He had none of that
spirit in hira. He used all the power of h\s paper
and the vigor of his individual influence to combat the
horrors of reconstruction, and for a time had to
carry on the carapaign in his coraraunity alraost
single handed. Thiis he contributed in no small
raeasure to the triuraph of the Harapton campaign.
In the meantirae in July, 1875, he had resigned his
position as editor, and then for several years engaged
in the merchandise business. The last four years of
his life were spent almost as a helpless invalid.
For many years he was devoted to the study of
literature. Besides the many keen and vigorous
editorials that flowed from his pen, he wrote a large
number of poems, the best of which was entitled
"Ichabod, or The Glory of the South Has Departed,"
This was a laraent over the condition in which the
war and reconstruction had left the olH South, but
it closed with a hope and a belief that ancient wrongs
would be righted and that the South would arise
anew transforraed, a hope that is being rapidly real
ized in the stirring days of the present.
Colonel Kennedy married Miss Mary E. Dick. He
was survived by his widow and five children.
Garner Brown White is in many respects chief
repository of history and of the accumulated asso
ciations of a century and a half for the White family
in Chester County. That distinction of course be
longs to him apart frora his busy career. Many
know hira as president of one of the leading banks
of the county, and also as a veteran dentist, a pro
fession he has followed for over forty-six years.
Doctor White is a direct descendant of the original
settler of the White family in this sestion of South
Carolina. This original settler was his great-great
grandfather, John White, who was born in County
Antrim, Ireland, and came to South Carolina in
1767 with his family, locating in Chester County, on
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i^nt, dated in 1767, the original document being
one- of Doctor White's most cherished possessions,
(fcsferibes the grant as "450 acres situated on Bul-
Kjk's Creek Road, on the north side of Broad
R¥ver,'' In modern geography the land is recognized
a!#''situated three miles southeast of the City of
Cffester in Chester County. While there were other
I^fids granted at that time, the distinguishing, fact of
mis grant is that the land has been continuously
m'the possession of this one sturdy and long-lived
f^ily for over a century and a half.
"''The faraily line from John White the iraraigrant
fti Doctor White goes through Williara White,
Garner White, Matthew White, to Garner Broyvn
White. Just north of the White grant stands the
3ld Purity Presbyterian Church, one of the oldest
churches in Upper South Carolina. John White was
6ne of its founders, and both the father and grand
father of Doctor White were ruling elders.
' Williara White, who was born in County Antrim
in 1753, was a small boj' when the faraily carae to
Araerica. He served with conspicuous gallantry in
the Revolutionary war, being with the array frora
1776 to 1782. Like other merabers of the family,
he was an ardent patriot, and was in nearly all the
battles of the Carolinas, including King's Mountain.
Garner Brown White, who was born near Chester
in 1854, had a liberal education, attending Erskine
College' and studying dentistry in the Baltimore
Dental College, where he was graduated in 1875.
Since that date he has been in the practice of his
profession. He is president of the People's National
Bank of Chester and on numberless occasions during
the last forty years has responded to the deraands
made upon him for assistance in promoting the busi
ness, social, religious and educational welfare of his
home city.
An institution in whose work he has taken great
pride is the Spratt Building & Loan Association at
Chester. He was the chief organizer in 1892 and
for twenty-seven years has been its president. Dur
ing that time and through the aid and resources
furnished by the association nearly 1,000 homes have
been built in Chester and vicinity and at least an
equal number of farailies and individuals have been
encouraged in that great virtue of thrift and horae
ownership. Doctor White is also a member of the
Board of Visitors of the Colored Normal, Indus
trial, Agricultural and Mechanical College, a state
institution for the education and training of colored
youth, located at Orangeburg. He has been inter
ested in this school for a number of years and has
done much to iraprove its facilities.
Doctor White for over a quarter of a century
was a deacon of the Associate Reformed Presby
terian Church at Chester and during the past ten
years has been an elder therein. 'While, as these
facts indicate, he is a. busy man of affairs, his avoca
tion, has been history, particularly local history per
taining to Chester County. When local newspaper
men and others desire an authority on the past in
Chester County they invariably consult Doctor
White. He has also written much on historical
topics. Doctor White married Miss Carrie Torbit Henry,
member of an old family of Chester County, who
died in 1915. Her only son, Matthew Henry "White,

is assistant cashier of the People's National Bank
of Chester.
Franklin Alexander McLeod is solicitor of the
Third Judicial Circuit, and is one of the young men
who have raade their mark in the law during the
past ten years in South Carolina.
Mr. McLeod was born at Lynchburg this state
May 16, 1884, a son of Capt. William J. and Effie
Mary (McLean) McLeod. His father was both a
merchant and farmer. Frank A. McLeod spent his
early life in the Lynchburg community, attended
local schools, and in 1906 took his A. B. degree frora
Wofford College. For two years he was a popular
school teacher. He took his law course at the Uni
versity of South Carolina and graduated LL. B. in
1911. Since that date he has been winning honors
as a lawyer at the Surater bar. He was appointed
in 1917 as solicitor of the Third Circuit, and in 1918
received confirraation of his temporary administra
tion by election for a term of four years.
Mr. McLeod is an active member of the derao
cratic party, is a Kappa Alpha college fraternity man
and is affiliated with the Masons, Knights of P3fthias
and Woodraen of the World. He is also a member
of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
at Sumter. July 2, 1918, he married Miss Eudora
Dwight Kirk of Charleston.
Franklin Pierce McGowan was born at Cross
Hill, in Laurens County, South Carolina, on Novem
ber II, 1855. His father was Capt. John J. McGowan,
a veteran of the Florida Seminole war and of the
war between the states. His mother was Mary Wells
McGowan. Mr. McGowan as a boy attended the
public schools of Laurens County and was graduated
from Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina,
in 1878, and thereafter taught in the public schools
of Laurens County. While teaching he read law,
and later read law in the office of Parker & Mc
Gowan, at Abbeville, South Carolina, and was ad
mitted to practice law by the Supreme Court on
May 31, 1881, and has since practiced continuously
in the state and Federal Courts, as represented by
the Reports beginning with 18 S. C. unto the present
time. On July 12, 1887, he was married to Miss Mat-
tie Calhoun, of Ninety-Six, South Carolina, who
was a daughter of Dr. John A. Calhoun. They have
five children, as follows : J. Calhoun McGowan law
yer, at Charlotte, North Carolina; W. B. McGowan,
law student at the University of Virginia; F. P.
McGowan, Jr., a Rhodes scholar at Oxford Univer
sity, England; Miss Charlotte McGowan, and Miss
Rosa Bell McGowan.
Mr. McGowan, following the inclination of early
boyhood to aid in educational work, served for four
years on the board of education for Laurens County.
He has taught many young men and also many young
men have read law under him and have found him
to be an inspiring and stimulating instructor For
four years he was upon the city council of Laurens,
as alderman, and as mayor pro tem. He was elected
a member of the General Assembly, House of Rep
resentatives, and served for two years, and this was
toUowed by his election to the State Senate without
opposition and he served four years when he de
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of South Carolina, designated Mr. McGowan to pre
side over the Courts of Coraraon Pleas and General
Sessions for Colleton County in March, 1916, and
at the end of the term, the members of that bar
unanimously passed resolutions commending Mr.
McGowan for his fairness and for his profound fear
ing as a lawyer and judge. When war broke out
with the Gerraan Empire in 1917, Mr. McGowan
was designated as a perraanent member of the legal
advisory board for Laurens County under the raili
tary selective laws, and rendered valuable service
to the country, and at the sarae time all three of his
sons were in the military service, and one of them
was for more than eighteen months in France.
Mr. McGowan is widely known as a scholar of
liberal culture, acquainted not only with classic lit
erature, but having an intimate knowledge of history
and philosophy. He has a special fondness for agri
culture and takes a deep interest in all movements
for the improveraents of conditions in the rural
districts, as witnessed by his desire to assist in or
ganizing and operating a Farm Loan Association
in Laurens County. All varieties of life find in him
a sympathetic friend; he is at home with the work
ers in the cotton mills, in the fields, and in the shops ;
he is at home with the professors in the universities
and with the judges on the bench. Mr. McGowan is
widely recognized by the brethren of the bar as un
usually familiar with the decisions of the Supreme
Court of South Carolina, and his grasp of the prin
ciples of equity and of their application in the ad
ministration of justice is freely recognized and ac
knowledged by the profession. Many times have
opinions that were written by him, acting as special
referee in equity cases referred to him, been af
firmed without further comraent by the circuit
judges and then affirraed and adopted as the opinion
of the Supreme Court.
John Calhoun McGowan is a member of an old
and prominent family of South Carolina, where he
was reared and educated and admitted to the bar,
but for the past five years has been a resident of
Charlotte, North Carolina, and is a member of the
legal staff of the Southern Power Company.
Mr. McGowan was born at Laurens, South Caro
lina, a son of F. P, and Mattie (Calhoun) McGowan,
His maternal grandfather was Dr. John Wesley Cal
houn of Ninety-Six, one of the descendants of Wil
liam and Edward Calhoun, founders of the famous
Calhoun family of South Carolina. The McGowans
are people of equal prorainence in South Carolina
history. Mr. McGowan's grandfather, John Jackson
McGowan, was a brother of General McGowan,
commander of McGowan's Brigade, one of the fa
mous organizations in the Confederate array. F, P.
McGowan is a well known lawyer at Laurens.
John Calhoun McGowan was a raember of the
class of 1910 of the University of South Carolina.
After passing the exaraination before the Supreme
Court he was admitted to the bar in December, 1913,
and for a time practiced his profession with his
father at Laurens, In 1914 he became a member of'
the legal department of the Southern Power Cora
pany and its affiliated interests including the South
ern Power Utilities Company and the Piedmont &
Northern Railroad. These companies have har

nessed and brought into public use the great water
power resources of the Central Piedmont region, and
comprise one the greatest hydro-electric systems in
the South.
Mr. McGowan enlisted in the army in 1918 and
was assigned to duty in the judge advocate general's
department at Camp Jackson. In September of the
same year desirous to get into active field duty he
entered the Field Artillery Central Officers' Training
School at Camp Taylor, Louisville; Kentucky, and
was undergoing the rigorous training at that school
when the armistice was signed. He received his
honorable discharge November 29, 1918.
Mr. McGowan is a raember of the First Presby
terian Church at Laurens, and is affiliated with Lau
rens Lodge No. 260 Ancient Free and Accepted Ma
sons, Carolina Consistory No. i. Ancient and Ac
cepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry and Oasis
Teraple Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, and is a raember of the Charlotte Lodge of
the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and
the American Legion.
Edgar Torrence Elliott. Because of the extent
and quality of his usefulness, his financial soundness
and acuraen, his public spirit, integrity, and nearness
to the fundamental requirements of citizenship, Ed
gar Torrence Elliott, president of the First National
Bank of Dillon, and a leading and veteran stock
dealer, affords an encouraging example of success
gained through the proper use of every-day abilities
and opportunities. Of Mr. Elliott it may be said
that his life-work has been a response to his early
teaching and to the needs of his environment. He
has laboriously climbed every round in the business
and financial ladder.
Mr. Elliott was born at High Point, Guilford
County, North Carolina, Septeraber 24, 1862, a son
of Jesse and Maria Jane (Aldred) Elliott, natives
of the Old North State. He was less than fourteen
years of age when he carae to South Carolina,
May 12, 1876, the family locating at Marion, where
Mr. Elliott attended public school. His first em
ployment was with J. Stockhouse, a livestock dealer,
with whom he remained until 1890, then coming to
Dillon, where he erabarked in the sarae line of busi
ness on his own account, and is now one of the
oldest established livestock dealers in the business
at Dillon, buying and selling horses, raules and other
stock. In 1917 he became one of the organizers of
the First National Bank of Dillon, of which he
has since been president. His reputation in busi
ness and financial circles is of the highest character,
and his connections are numerous and important.
Mr. Elliott was married in 1893 to Lyda David,
of Bennettsville, South Carolina, and they are the
parents of four sons and four daughters : Edith,
Rebecca, Edwin Torrence, Jr,, Margaret, John F,,
Lyda, J. D, and Dick, Fraternally, Mr. Elliott is
affiliated with the Masons and takes an active in
terest in the work of that order. For sorae years
he rendered efficient and conscientious service to
Dillon as a member of the town council, and while
thus connected was a member of the committee ap
pointed to supervise -the building of the water works
and light plant. He is at this tirae chairraan of the
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been able to show through his work his friendship
for education. Mr. Elliott is also a raember of the
board of executors of the estate of H. P. Price,
which was left in trust, as there were no heirs. He
has, throughout his career, deraonstrated what a
raan can accoraplish by pursuing practical and
straightforward methods, and by exercising always
in his associations with his fellow men the qualities
of integrity, consideration and kindness.
Hugh Osgood Wallace, who is widely known
among the textile raills and industries of the South,
is located at Greenville and is treasurer of the Green
ville Textile Supply Corapany. For many years he
was in the general hardware business, and as such
became known throughout the state of North and
South Carolina.
Mr. Wallace was born at Kenansville in Duplin
County, North Carolina, Deceraber 21, 1876, son of
Bland and Mary (Williams) Wallace. Bland Wal
lace, who is still living at Kenansville at the ad
vanced age of eight-four, was a native of Duplin
County, served through the war as a Confederate sol
dier, and for a number of years was sheriff of Duplin
County, retiring from that office in 1888.
Mr. H. O. Wallace attended private school at Ke
nansville under a famous educator. Prof. R. W.
Millard. Professor Millard furnished instruction
and inspiration to many of the raost notable raen
North Carolina has produced. In 1894, before reach
ing his sixteenth year, Mr, Wallace entered the
hardware store of Williara E, Springer & Corapany
of Wilmington, North Carolina. He reraained with
that firm until igi4, a period of twenty-two years,
and in that time his abilities had won him prorao-
tions and a widespread influence in hardware cir
cles. In 1914 Mr. Wallace came to South Carolina,
locating at Anderson as assistant buyer for the gen
eral hardware departraent of the Sullivan Hardware
Company. Later he was promoted to full charge
of the departraent of cotton mill machinery supplies
for that firm until January i, 1919, when he becarae
purchasing agent for about fifty of the leading cot
ton raills of the South. August i, 1919, he organized
the Greenville Textile Supply Company and became
its treasurer and general mariager.
Mr. Wallace married Miss Louise Bauks of Wil
mington. Their three children are : Anna, Mary
and Eleanor.
James P. Carey, Jr. An unusual nuraber of dis
tinctions surround the name Carey in the profession
al and civic affairs of Pickens. The Careys are a
family of Revolutionary ancestry. Jaraes P. Carey,
Sr., father of James P. Carey, Jr., is a son of Capt.
John W. L. Carey and has been a raember of the
Pickens County bar over thirty-five years, and during
the past ten years his son James, Jr., has shared
with him the honors of the law and numerous public
interests. Jaraes P. Carey, Sr., was born in Oconee County,
April 27, 1858, and was educated in Newberry Col
lege and Adger College. He was adraitted to the
bar in 1882. Many years of practice have given hira
an enviable position among the state's best lawyers.
On numerous occasions he has served as a judge by
appointment frora the governor, and has been a lead

er in the general affairs of the growth and develop
raent of upper South Carolina. He has been presi
dent of the Pickens Railroad and is still one of the
raen depended upon for active leadership in many
community affairs. He married Miss Lynda Lovett
in 1885,
Their son, James P. Carey, Jr,, was born in 1886.
He received his literary education in Clemson Col
lege and in the University of South Carolina, and
studied law under his father at Pickens. Since his
admission to the bar in 1908 he has been his father's
partner and busied with the handling of many im
portant interests. He is an unusually able and suc
cessful young lawyer and his experience has been in
all the local and state and also the Federal courts.
He represented his county in the Legislature in
1912. During the period of the war with Germany
he was chairman of the legal advisory board for
Pickens County, chairman of the Red Cross war
fund coraraittee, chairraan of the Salvation Army
Relief Fund for his section of the state, and is
chairraan of the war savings stamp committee for
Pickens County, and in various other ways he ful
filled active and patriotic duties. For four years
Mr. Carey was United States commissioner at
Pickens. He is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, hav
ing membership in Hejaz Temple at Greenville,
South Carolina. He married Miss Kate Robinson
and they have one daughter, Katherine.
William Anderson Woodruff, M. D. Since 1905
a physician and surgeon in active practice at Catee
chee in Pickens County, Doctor Woodruff repre
sents two old and prominent families of Spartan
burg County, and his own career has reflected honor
and credit on his ancestry. Doctor Woodruff is one
of the trustees of the Medical College of South
Carolina. He was born at Woodruff in Spartanburg County,
in 1876, a son of Frank B. and Margaret (West
raoreland) Woodruff, both of whora are still living
at Woodruff. His grandfather, Isaac Woodruff,
was a pioneer settler in the lower part of Spartan
burg County and founded the Town of Woodruff,
named in his honor. This has become a small city
of importance, a center of wealth and cuhure, in the
raidst of a rich agricultural region, and among other
industries it has two large cotton mills. Both the
Woodruff and Westraoreland families are of distin
guished ancestry and have been established in lower
Spartanburg County for several generations. Dur
ing the war between the states Doctor Woodruff's
father and mother were represented in the struggle
by the service of all his father's older brothers and
by the mother's older brothers and her father Mar
garet Westmoreland Woodruff is a daughter of j R
Westmoreland. Frank B. Woodruff, who was bom
at Woodruff m 1849, has for many years been a use
ful and energetic educator, but is now living re
tired. He taught a large number of young raen,
many of whom have since becorae citizens of prom
inence and importance.
William Anderson \\'oodruff finished his literary
education in the University of South Carolina, frora
which he graduated A. B. in 1900. The following
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Medical College of South Carolina at Charleston,
completing his course in 1905. The same year he
began practice at Cateechee, and has since acquired
a large and profitable business in that industrial com
munity, and in the surrounding territory. Doctor
Woodruff is recognized as a man of standing not
only for his professional work, but as a citizen of
substantial resources and large property interests.
In 1919 he was elected by the Legislature and ap
pointed by the governor as a raeraber of the board
of trustee's of the Medical College of South Carolina,
his alma mater. This old and historic institution is
classified by the American Medical Association as a
"Class A" medical college, and is an institution that
is an honor and credit to the state. Doctor Wood
ruff is a raeraber of the County, State and Araerican
Medical associations, is a Mason and a member of
the Baptist Church. He raarried Miss Norraa
Griffin, of Pickens Coiinty. Their two sons are
Williara Anderson, Jr., and Frank B. Woodruff II.
Edward Wallace Evans, a prominent planter arid
banker of Bennettsville, was born while the War
between the States was in progress. Such fortune
as the family possessed up to that time was swept
away in the ruin of the war. Edward W. Evans
began his early career without the incumbrance of
any inheritance except a good manly character and
the inclination to win an honorable place by hard
work. His life, and the ample possessions he en
joys, are of themselves the best evidence of his suc
cess. He was born at Society Hill at the edge of Ches
terfield County November 17, 1863. His father Sara
uel W. Evans owned a large plantation before the
war and in that struggle was captain of a Confederate.
company. The mother was Alexina Wallace, a
native of Columbia. She died at the age of thirty-
six and her husband when seventy-one, and all their
eight children, three sons and five daughters, grew
to mature years.
Edward Wallace Evans was the youngest of the
family. He lived at Society Hill until he was nine
teen years of age and received his early education
in public and private schools. About the time he
reached his majonity he and his older brother
Thomas Smith Evans had formed a partnership asso
ciation that was a model fraternal arrangement,
and continued until it was severed by death. For
three years Edward W. Evans worked for his
brother on the latter's farra in Marlboro County.
Their partnership affairs were centered in the farm
five miles west of Bennettsville, and that is still the
home of Edward W. Evans. The latter now has in
cultivation 3,600 acres, eraploys about a hundred
negroes, and is one of the leading cotton planters
of that section raising the long staple cotton. His
average crop is about a thousand bales and in 1919
he sold his cotton for 47c a pound. He also has
property at Bennettsville and is vice president of
the U. S. Bank and a director in the People's Na
tional Bank, is president of the Marlboro Fertilizing
Company, vice president of the Pee Dee River Cot
ton Company. He has been offered $200 an acre
for his land in Marlboro County, but up to the
present time that land is not for sale. Mr. Evans,

who has never married, is a member of the Epis
copal Church.
All this property constituting a handsome for
tune was built up by year after year of effort, en
ergy and good manageraent on the part of him
and his brother Thoraas S. Early in their partner
ship they drew up wills by the provisions of which
instruraents in case of death the property held jointly
should automatically pass to the ownership of the
surviving brother. Thomas S. Evans died in March,
1913- The oldest of the Evans brothers was W. D.
Evans, who for raany years was a prorainent leader
in state politics, representing Marlboro County in
the Legislature and Senate, and later was a raera
ber of the Railroad Commission. He was one of
the first trustees of Clemson College and held that
post at the time of his death. His son J. J. Evans
succeeded hira as trustee of Clemson College and
has also been active in public affairs, representing
Marlboro County in the House and Senate.
Clough Cole Good. A resident of Greenville since
1898, Mr. Good has for a number of years been rec
ognized as one of the city's most astute judges of
real estate values and most careful and successful
investors. His deals have all been in substantial
property, and development and use carried on under
his direction have comprised a really constructive
asset to the city and community.
Mr. Good, who is still a coraparatively young raan,
forty-nine years of age, was born in 'York County,
this state, and is a son of Dr. J. B. and Amanda
(Cole) Good, his early life being spent on Bullock's
Creek in York County. Before coming to Greenville
he was for about seven years a clerk in the store of
Joseph Wylie & Company of Chester, South Caro
lina, beginning, at a very modest salary. In contrast
with raany young raen he seeraed tq be aware of
"where he was going" — had a conscious purpose and
the energy and ability to realize his ambition. He
raade it a point to save soraething from his in
come, and these savings he invested in real estate.
His judgment was remarkable. It is said that prac
tically every investment he raade resulted profitably.
He had a special knack for picking up good deals in
business property. As soon as his resources and
credit justified, he began buyihg business property
pn South Main Street, south of Reedy River, the
district generally knpwn as West Greenville, but in
reality a continuation of the business center of the
city. He still owns raany pieces of highly valuable
property in that section, all improved with store and
other business structures. Mr. Good has handled a
number of leases on business property on Main
Street in the vicinity of McBee Avenue. One of the
most notable real estate transactions in the history
of the city was his purchase of the Chicora College
property on South Main Street. The big building
was then converted and remodeled into an apartment
house and theatre. It is located in the midst of ex
tensive grounds fronting on Reedy River, and is a
very attractive as well as valuable property.
One of Mr. Good's early investments was the pur
chase of seventy five acres of the old Judge Gantt
plantation about five miles south of Greenville. This
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adjoining lands of the old Turner plantation (owned
by Mrs. Good), until the present area of the plan
tation is about 800 acres. "This place is named Oak-
vale and is a station on the Piedraont & Northern
Interurban and the Southern Railway. Through
this property Mr. Good ranks as one of South Caro
lina's successful planters, specializing in cotton. He
is also engaged in the fertilizer and raanure shipping
business, a side-track on the plantation affording
araple roora for freight cars for this purpose. Mr.
Good built a fine residence at Oakvale, and he and
his wife lived there eight years, after which they
returned to their city home in Greenville.
Mr. Good also bought and developed the Verner
Springs property, but later sold it at a handsorae
profit. He is a director of the American Bank of
Greenville and was also connected with the organ
ization and is a director of the Bank of Commerce.
He is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner.
Mrs. Good bore the maiden narae of Eva McHugh,
a daughter of J. A. and Elizabeth (Turner) McHugh
of Greenville County. Mrs. Good has always taken
an active interest in her own and her husband's
business, and they have planned not only some ex
tensive business affairs for the future, but also much
practical philanthropy in behalf of their coraraunity.
J. Watt Kirkpatrick. About the time he had
finished his college course, J. Watt Kirkpatrick felt,
or thought he felt, a distinct call to the profession
of law. It was contrary to his more natural inclina
tion for business, especially merchandising, and he
had been reading Blackstone something less than a
year when he decided, as wise men do, to change his
mind and his vocation.
That his choice of mercharidisirig has caused hira
no regrets and that it fits his talents and abilities
is evident from the fact that he is today one of the
responsible executives and managing partners in the
famous Belk system of stores, with nearly a score of
splendid establishments in both the Carolinas. Mr.
Kirkpatrick founded the Belk store at Greenville
and is its responsible manager.
He was born in Mecklenburg County, North Caro
lina, in 1879, a son of Rev. A. Grier and Lizzie
(Gary) Kirkpatrick. The Kirkpatricks as a family
have been prominent people in Mecklenburg County
for several generations. His father, who died in
1904, was an able minister of the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian Church, and had also organized and
for a time was president of Linwood College in Gas
ton County.
Much of the early life of J. Watt Kirkpatrick was
spent m York County, South Carolina, which adjoins
Mecklenburg County, his birthplace. He was edu
cated in Erskine College, graduating in 1900, and for
the following year he taught school and studied
with increasing uncertainity, law. It was at Gas
tonia that he formed his first affiliation with the
Belk mercantile interests. In 1910 he came to York
u "S" ,F^™''"a, where he opened a new store for
the Belk Company, with the firm name Kirkpatrick-
fr^ t5'°,'"P^"^' ^''" retaining his interests at York
Mr Kirkpatrick in 1916 established the store of the
Belk-Kirkpatrick Company at Greenville, and is
now local managing partner in both stores, and has

given thera his personal as well as company standards
of exacting mercantile management.
"The Belk system of stores now numbers twenty-
two, located in the best cities of North and South
Carolina, and the num'ber has been growing steadily
even under war conditions. Altogether these
stores make up the most extensive merchandise or
ganization in the South. All of thera are raodern
department stores, carrying goods for both men and
woraen. The head of the systera, and its founder,
is Mr. Henry Belk of Charlotte, North Carolina, who'
is ably assisted by his brother. Dr. J. M. Belk — ^both
of them being "natural born" merchants. The Belk
brothers had an inconspicuous start with the small
store at Monroe, North Carolina, and have since ac
quired a fortune. That fortune has 'been well earned,
since the keynote of their enterprise has been char-^
acter, exemplified in the strictest principles of hon
esty and absolutely fair dealing with their patrons.
They have trained a number of young men to their
own exacting standards, and most of these, like Mr
Kirkpatrick, are now managing partners in the vari
ous branch stores. It is a distinction appreciated
throughout these two states for a young man to have
his name associated with that of Belk in the firm
title of one of the systera of stores.
Mr. Kirkpatrick takes an active part in the civic
social, religious and educational affairs of Green
ville, which is now his horae city. He is a deacon
of the Associate Reforraed Presbyterian Church.
Miss Kate McLaughen of Gastonia, North Carolina,
became his wife, and they have two children, George
Grier and J. Watt, Jr.
Calvin Morton Fuller, cashier of the Bank of
Mountville, is raember of a family which has played
a prominent role in the affairs of that section of
Laurens County for many years.
His grandfather, Williara P. Philips, was a country
physician and farmer near Mountville and was the
father of fourteen children, living to see all of thera
buried. Calvin Lafayette Fuller, father of the
Mountville banker, was born in Laurens County in
1848, spent his career as a farmer, and died at the
age of fifty-nine. His wife, Carrie Philips, was born
in Laurens County in 1848, and died at the age of
forty-five Of their ten children five died in in-
r?"?!' J ¦'¦"°5^ to reach mature years are: Benjarain
Kuthledge, a raerchant at Mountville ; William Phil
ips, who ^yas. twenty-three years of age when killed
by an explosion of a steam boiler in 1900; Clemen-
hne Golden, wife of Dr. J. H. Teage, of Laurens;
Rosa Lee wife of J H. Motes, a farmer of Mount
ville; and Calvin Morton. Calvin Lafayette Fuller
was an elder for many .^-ears in the Presbyterian
Church. -^
Calvin Morton Fuller was born in Laurens County
August 21, 1882, grew up on a farm and finished his
education m the Presbyterian College of South Caro
lina. He did not graduate, and after taking a com
mercial course spent several years as a merchant.
ft was one of the men who helped organize in 1912
the Bank of Mountville, and has since held the post
ot cashier. ^
iln^w^Vi'^'' 'I a. Master Mason and Woodmen of
hvtP^^"?^-!,^"! *'*';.'''-' ^'f^ 's ^<^tive in the Pres
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Miss Effie Winebrener of Waterloo. They have five
children. John C. Bethea. During a period of more than
ten years, John C. Bethea has been before the pub
lic in capacities of official importance, and in this
time has established a record for conscientious and
efficient performance of duty that entitles hira emi
nently to the esteera and general confidence in which
he is held. A native of Marion (now Dillon) Coun
ty, South Carolina, he was born Septeraber 30, 1877,
a son of Edwin A. and Annie E. (Godbold) Bethea.
The Bethea faraily originated in France, and the
first American ancestor settled in Nanseraond
County, Virginia, frora whence, in 1746, a later
member raade reraoval to South Carolina, locating
in what is now Dillon County, then Marion District.
There was born William Bethea, the great-grand
father of John C, and his son, John C. Bethea the
elder, both of whom were large planters, the latter
being the owner of approxiraately 10,000 acres.
Edwin A. Bethea was born in the sarae county, on
the old faraily home, and passed his active career
in the pursuits of planting, in which he raet with
generous success. In 1861, when little more than
a child, he took up arras in the Confederate service
and during the entire period of the war between
the states fought gallantly for the Gray, the larger
part of his service being as a courier for General
Butler. He married Annie E. Godbold, daughter
of Asa Godbold, who was born in Marion Courity,
South Carolina, one of the prorainent planters of
that county. The Godbold family was of English
origin. Of the eleven children born to his parents,
John C. Bethea was the sixth in order of birth.
Eight grew to maturity and four are living at this
writing. John C. Bethea attended the country schools and
was reared on the home place and trained in the
duties of farraing, but his inclinations led toward
city life and participation in business affairs, and
he accordingly erabarked in the raercantile trade at
Latta, Dillon County, from 1900 to 1907. In the
latter year he turned his attention to the livestock
business and continued therein two years, and in
1909 was elected auditor of Marion County, a posi
tion which he occupied during that and the follow
ing year. When Dillon County was established, in
1910, he was elected clerk of the court, -a position
in which he has been kept to the pesent time by
successive re-elections. He has rendered, efficient,
faithful and constructive service to his native local
ity, and no public official in the county has a cleaner
or more comraendable record. Mr. Bethea was a
meraber of the Exeraption Board of Dillon County
from the tirae that the United States entered the
World war until the signing of the peace terras. He
has always placed his services entirely at the com
mand of his coraraunity and has been ready to lay
aside personal interests to assist the general wel
fare. . , .
In 1910 Mr. Bethea was united in marriage with
Miss Zelle McNeill, daughter of Hugh McNeill of
Meridian, Mississippi. One child was born to this
union, namely Hugh McNeill. Mr. Bethea is a
York Rite Mason and Shriner, and a member of
the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World

and the Junior Order of United American Me
chanics, in all of which orders he is very popular.
He is the owner of a twenty-horse farm, consisting
of 425 acres, upon which he cultivates and raises
cotton, corn and general farm produce.
Andrew Chalmers DanieL. A busy school man
and progressive educator, Andrew Chalraers Daniel
is superintendent of the city schools of Clinton, and
took up the responsibilities of that office over six
years ago, after a varied experience as a teacher in
other localities and institutions.
He was born at Spartanburg, October 21, 1883, a
son of Andrew Chalraers and Mary (Crawley) Dan
iel, also natives of Spartanburg County. His paternal
grandparents were Andrew Jackson and Nancy
(Snoddy) Daniel. The Daniel faraily carae to
South Carolina from Virginia and the name was
formerly McDaniel, indicating its Scotch origin. A.
C. Daniel, Sr., spent his life as a farmer in Spartan
burg County. His wife, also now deceased, was a
daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Brewton) Craw
ley. The Crawleys, Scotch-Irish, came to South
Carolina from North Carolina.
Andrew C. Daniel, the youngest of four children,
was nine years of age when his parents removed to
the City of Spartanburg, where he had the advan
tages of the very superior schools of that city. He
graduated from high school and in 1904 received his
A. B. degree from Wofford College. He remained
three years in Wofford as director of physical train
ing and also carried on special post-graduate studies
in history and sociology. Mr. Daniel had charge
of public schools at Inman for two years, for one
year was superintendent of schools at Springfield,
and for three years school superintedent at Honea
Path. He came to Clinton to become superintendent
of the city schools in 1913. He is a raeraber of the
Laurens County Teachers' Association and also the
State Teachers' Association. Mr. Daniel is affiliated
with the Knights of Pythias and a raember of the
Baptist Church.
In June, 1914, he raarried Miss Laura Aull, a na
tive of Newberry, South Carolina. They have one
son, Andrew Chalmers Daniel, Jr.
John McKindree Simmons. When John McKin-
dree Simraons was fifteen years of age he was left
an orphan, and from that time forward he had to
work out his problems largely unaided and with
only such resources as he could draw from his char
acter and willingenss and diligence. His standing
as a merchant and citizen of Mountville is cora
plete evidence of how well he has utilized his op
portunities. He was born on a farra in Laurens County July 9,
1869, a son of James Andrews and Mazie (Medlock)
Simmons. His parents were also born in Laurens
Count5'. His father in early life was a merchant,
and though past middle age served during the latter
part of the war in the Confederate army. He was
born in 1818 and spent many years as a farmer near
Princeton. His wife died at the age of sixty.
John McKindree Simraons lived on a farra until he
was about fifteen years of age. After the death of
his parents he went to live with his brother at Green
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experience as a clerk. In Septeraber, 1891,. he and
his brother, J. W. Simmons, went into business to
gether at Cross Hill. In January, 1893, Mr. Sim
mons sold his share of the business to his brother
and bought the store of his brother, O. B. Simmons,
at Mountville. During the past quarter of a century
he has done an extensive business as a general raer
chant at Mountville. He also owus sorae farm lands
and is owner of local cotton gins and was one of the
organizers of the Bank of Mountville and is now
president. In 1896 he raarried Cora Teague. They have five
children. Mr. Simmons is a raeraber of the Univer
salist Church, is past master of his Masonic lodge,
and is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the
Woodmen of the World.
Benjamin Rutledge Fuller. Living in the corn-
munity where he was born and reared, Benjamin
Rutledge Fuller has achieved a gratifying degree of
success as a raerchant and business raan. He has
been selling goods to the people of Mountville and
that coraraunity in Laurens County for practically
a quarter of a century.
He was born on his father's farra near Mount
ville Deceraber 21, 1874. He is a son of Calvin
Lafayette and Carrie (Phillips) Fuller, both natives
of Laurens County, and a grandson of Williara A,
and Jane (Griffin) Fuller, and William and Clemen
tine (Golden) Phillips, His parents were both born
in the year 1849, and his mother died at the age of
forty-five and his father at fifty-nine. Calvin L.
Fuller spent his active life as a farraer and for raany
years was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church.
He and his wife had ten children, five of whom died
in infancy. The son, Williara P. Fuller, was killed
by an explosion at the age of twenty-three. Benjamin
R. Fuller is the oldest of the living children; his
brother, Calvin Morton, is cashier of the Bank of
Mountville. One sister is Mrs. Dr. J. H. Teague of
Laurens and another is Mrs. J. H. Motes of Mount
ville. Benjamin Rutledge Fuller acquired a comraon
school education, and for a tirae was a student in
the Presbyterian College of South Carolina at Clin
ton. He started out with the ambition to become
a doctor. Other interests and experiences crowded
in upon his attention and tirae, and while clerking in
a store at Mountville he definitely deterrained to
raake raerchandising his vocation. He was a clerk
for eight years, and for fifteen years following that
was a meraber of the general merchandise firm of
Rasor & Fuller. Since January I, igi8, Mr. Fuller
has been in business alone, and carries a large stock
of goods and general supplies to raeet the demands
of his trade.
In igoo he married Mrs. Antho (Watts) Dial,
who died soon after their raarriage. He then mar
ried a sister of his first wife, Mrs. Elizabeth (Watts)
Hudgens. They have four living children. Mr.
Fuller is a Presbyterian, a Master Mason, Knight
of Pythias and Woodman of the World.
Hon. Joe Cabell Davis. One of the greatest
ideals of the American people is that which means
equality before the law. In the hands of the judi
ciary rests the interpretation of the law. It follows

therefore that care, discrimination, close examina
tion of an individual's public acts and his standing
in private life is given before he is chosen to hold
the power that in any community civilization de
mands for orderly living, for civic advance, for
peaceful progress and for general content. A man
who is selected for the place of honor so described
must have, together with the record of an upright
life, many other qualifications and these include a
comprehensive knowledge of general law, a high
moral standard, together with a sympathetic under
standing of the frailties of human nature, ability
to evenly balance testimony, and the courage to
make decisions without fear or favor. Such a raan
is Hon. Joe Cabell Davis, judge of the probate
court of Dillon.
Judge Davis was born at Ingleside, Virginia, July
30, 1867, a son of Col. Ashley L. and Sallie Eppes
(Cabell) Davis. On his father's side he is of Nor
raan, Scotch and Irish descent, and on his mother's
side of Scotch and Irish ancestry. His father was
a second cousin of Jefferson Davis, and Judge Davis
is the last of his narae in his line. Col. Ashley L.
Davis was born at Lunenburg, Virginia, and was a
wealthy planter. At the outbreak of the war be
tween the states he enlisted in the Confederate serv
ice, in which he rose to the rank of colonel. He
never surrendered and remained an unreconstructed
son of the South up to the tirae of his death. Mrs.
Davis was a daughter of Gen. Benjamin 'W. S. Ca
bell, of Bridgewater, Virginia, and a sister of Gen.
W. S. Cabell of Texas, better known as "Old Tig"
Cabell, ex-commander-in-chief of the United Con
federate Veterans. Under the guardianship of this
noted character, Joe Cabell Davis was reared from
the time his mother died when he was five years of
age, until he was fourteen, when he returned to Vir
ginia frora Texas and resuraed his educational
training in the schools of Danville. It was the in
tention of the family that he should enter the med
ical profession, and with this object in view he read
raedicine under Drs. John R. and Crandall Cabell,
at Danville, but found the profession not to his
liking and therefore never followed it.
For some two years Judge Davis was a traveling
salesman, but eventually turned his attention to the
life insurance business in which he spent a quarter
of a century lacking two years, during which time
he was special agent for some of the leading com
panies of the country, including the Mutual Life In
surance Company of New York. In igo3 his work
brought hira to Dillon, where he decided to settle
permanently, and in which community he soon made
a favorable impression upon the people. In 1912 he
was chosen probate judge, was re-elected four vears
later, and has recently entered upon his third four-
year term as probate judge of Dillon Countv. Wis
dom and efficiency have marked his entire career
upon the bench, and in the estimation of his fellow-
citizens and judicial associates there has never been
.a more just or satisfactory incumbent of the high
office. Judge Davis is widely known in fraternal
circles, holding membership in the Knights of Pyth
ias, of which he has been district deputy for six
.vears ; the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
t^^oyed Order of Red Men, the Junior Order of
United American Mechanics, the Loyal Order of

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Moose and the Woodmen of the World. He is wide
ly known in other circles throughout the state, and
IS essentially one of the raen of action of his com
munity. Since young manhood he has belonged to
the Episcopal Church, and for some years has served
as senior warden at Dillon.
. On August 3, 1898, Mr. Davis was united in mar
riage with Miss Lucy Rebecca Brantley, of But
ler, Georgia. They have no children.
William Rasor Richey, Sr. It comes as no
surprise to the average citizen to be told that Lau
rens County numbers among its attorneys sorae of
the most able coraraercial and corporation lawyers
of the state; from the character of the section and
the tendency of the tiraes, one would naturally ex
pect a gravitation of such legal talent hither. It is
also a truth that the county seat of Laurens has a
noticeable proportion of lawyers who have large
and important interests outside of their professional
limitations. Even to the general reader the name
of William Rasor Richey, Sr., suggests itself as a
signal illustration of this element of the le^al fra
ternity, for his connections with big enterprises of
a financial and commercial nature are extensive and
important. Mr. Richey was born near Cokesbury, Abbeville
County, South Carolina, Septeraber 24, 1854, a son
of Isaac Cown and Jane (Rasor) Richey, natives
of this state. His paternal grandparents were Wil
liam and Betsy (Cown) Richey, and his maternal
grandparents, John and Nancy (Brownlee) Rasor.
Isaac C. Richey was a farmer by- occupation and
served with gallantry in the Confederate array as
a soldier during the war between the states. Wil
liara Rasor Richey, one of a faraily of five sons and
five daughters, attended the "old field" school dur
ing his boyhood and youth when his services were
not required on the farm. At the age of eighteen
years he began clerking in a store for W, Z. McGee
at Cokesbury, and remained with him frora Novem
ber, 1872, to February, 1873, then accepting a posi
tion to clerk and keep books for McGee & Cason
at Hodges, South Carolina, reraaining until 1875.
At that time he formed a partnership in a raercan
tile business with John M. Miller, with whora he
was associated in business until 1881, when Mr. Mil
ler withdrew. Mr. Richey continued the business
alone until 1886. In the meantirae he had com
menced the study of law, under J. T. Johnson at
Laurens, and was admitted to the bar in the spring
of 1885. The following year, when he disposed of
his business holdings at Hodges, he removed from
that place to Laurens, where he formed a partner
ship for the practice of law with Mr. Johnson, un
der the firm name of Johnson & Richey, which
association continued until mutually dissolved Jan-
' uary I, 1898. Mr. Richey then continued the prac
tice of law alone until 1907, when his son, Williara
R. Richey, Jr., became associated with hira, under
the name of Richey & Richey. Mr. Richey has long
ranked among the most able lawyers at the bar,
and has enjoyed a large and lucrative practice.
His clientage has always been extensive and the
legal interests entrusted to him of a very important
character. He has a thorough understanding of the
law as a science, and stands among the foremost

trial lawyers of the county, his power of analysis,
his penetration to the foundation principles and his
logical presentation of the facts, combined with his
winning personality, being an explanation of his
unusual and uniform successes before a jury. He
is the representative of a large number of corpora
tions. Mr. Richey has long been identified with public
affairs. He was intendant of the Town of Hodges
in 1883 and 1884. In 1896 he was elected one of the
coraraissioners of public works for the City of
Laurens,' a post which he resigned during the same
year to accept that of mayor of Laurens, He vvas
elected again in 1899, but declined the nomination
in 1901. His public service was characterized by
fidelity of the highest character and his adminis
tration of the affairs of each of his several offices
was marked by the securing of needed civic im
proveraents and benefits to the coraraunity.
In 189s Mr. Richey was one of the leading movers
in the organization of the Laurens Telephone Com
pany, with which he has been identified ever since,
having been secretary, treasurer and general man
ager from its inception, and president since 1907.
He is also a meraber of the board of directors for
the Laurens National Bank, and vice president
thereof, and has .been identified with several other
financial institutions. He belongs to the various
organization of his profession, and is fraternally a
Chapter Mason and a Knight of Pythias. He and
Mrs. Richey, with their children, belong to the
Presbyterian Church, which they support gen
erously, as they do also other worthy movements
of a moral, educational and charitable character.
Mr. Richey was married in 1875 to Miss Julia
Hart, daughter of Dr. B. C. Hart, Of Cokesbury,
South Carolina, and to them there have been born
the following children: Louise, who married J.- J.
Adaras, cashier of the Laurens National Bank;
William R., Jr., of whom a personal sketch will be
found elsewhere in this volurae ; Annie, who raar
ried C, E. Parker, an architect in the United States
treasury departraent; Elizabeth, who raarried Gil
bert M, Tyler; Robert Hart, an expert accountant
of Colurabia, South Carolina; Grover Cleveland, a
graduate of the University of South Carolina, a
meraber of the bar but now engaged in the automo
bile business in Columbia. '.'Ml of the sons served
in the United States army during the late war with
Germany. The railitary record of William Rasor
Richey, Jr., appears in his sketch. Robert Hart
Richey volunteered and becarae sergeant in the
One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment, Thirtieth
Division, with which he went overseas, and was
present at the breaking of the Hindenburg line,
being honorably discharged when the Thirtieth Di
vision was raustered out. Grover C. Richey also
volunteered in the One Hundred and Eighteenth
Infantry and was sent to a training camp in Texas,
where he was comraissioned second lieutenant.
However, the commission was not awarded until
he arrived in France, when he was assigned to the
Fifty-Ninth Infantry, Fourth Division, with which
he was in operation frora Chateau Thierry to the
Vesle River. He was wounded August s, 1918, by
three raachine gun bullets, which penetrated his leg
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service in the line, and he was transferred back to
the S. O. S'. After the armistice had been signed
he was sent to the United States, arriving Decem
ber 25, 1918, and after being in the hospital at Camp
Jackson was honorably discharged in March, igig.
Hon. B. E. Nicholson, a prominent lawyer and
legislator, who died at his home at Edgefield Jan
uary 22, igig, was born at Cedar Grove, Edgefield
County, and his entire life was a striking testimonial
to the native qualities inherited from his family and
his individual ability.
He was educated in public schools and the Uni
versity of South Carolina, taught school for several
years, read law in the office of Sheppard Brothers,
and for eighteeri years practiced his profession. He
was an active factor in every public movement in
his home county, served for four years in the House
of Representatives from Edgefield, and at the time
of his death was. in his second term as senator.
Mr. Nicholson was vice president of the Bank of
Edgefield, president of the Edgefield Building &
Loan Association, was county attorney and inter
ested in many other affairs. He was superintendent
of the Sunday school of the Methodist Church and
was a Mason. He married Miss Helen Sheppard,
oldest daughter of Governor John C. Sheppard.
Mrs. Nicholson and five children survive him.
Wad Thomas Dean. The best interests of a com
munity are in safe keeping when influenced by such
a character as the late Wad Thoraas Dean of Ander
son County, widely known by his personal friends
as Waddy Dean. He was a Confederate soldier, had
to begin after the war with practically no money,
and by an industrious and self-sacrificing life pro
vided liberally for his growing family and gained
a place of honor and esteem among all who knew
him. He was born in Anderson County June 18, 1846,
a son of Moses and Narcissa (Lewis) Dean. His
parents were likewise natives of Anderson County,
his father a farmer by occupation. Waddy Dean
spent his boyhood on a farm, and his best advan
tages in books and school came from the common
schools of the time. He was very young when the
war came on, but volunteered his services in the Con
federate cause and served with all the spirit of a
veteran until the close.
September ig, 1872, he married Sallie West. Mrs,
Dean still survives him at the age of seventy and
occupies the old home place with her son, James
Fred. Dean. Mr. and Mrs. Dean at the time of their
marriage located on a farm just north of the Town
of Starr. By frugal management and after many
years a good home was achieved and by reliance
on farraing. Waddy Dean acquired sufficient pros
perity to satisfy his modest ambitions. He was never
a seeker for public office, though a democrat, and in
early life he and his wife joined the Baptist Church.
They reared six children : Ella, widow of the late
William Mattison ; Bet, who was married to J. T.
Hopkins; Alice, wife of Alonzo Traylor ; Pally,
who married A. V. Barnes ; DeWitt ; and James
Fred Dean.
James Fred Dean was born April 11, 1888, grew
up on the home farm and had a good comraon school
education. Farming has been his choice of voca

tion, and study and work along that line have brought
hira a reputation as one of the raost progressive men
in the agricultural life of Anderson County. He
handles 600 acres and his management is a credit
to his honored father. He is a Master Mason.
August 29, 1912, he married Kittie Lee, a daughter
of James Reid.
Lawrence Rosborough Craig, M. D. The science
of medicine embraces a vast field of knowledge and
the successful physician raust be a man of varied
learning. Never at any time has the healing art
demanded more in its practitioners than at tha present
day and never has the profession given so fair an
account of itself. Find the leading physician in a
community and this acquaintance will indicate, with
few execeptions, the raan of most intellectual attain
ment, the keenest mind, the most progressive spirit,
and, in most cases, the greatest public benefactor.
Of the physicians of Dillon County, one who has
contributed no less to the general welfare than he
has to his own interests during the period of his
practice, and particularly within recent years, is
Dr. Lavvrence Rosborough Craig, a leading practi
tioner of Dillon, but recently returned from service
overseas with the American Expeditionary Forces.
Doctor Craig was born in Fairfield County, South
Carolina, January 19, 1882 a son of John Rosbor
ough and Susan Wade (Hicklin) Craig, being of
Scotch-Irish descent on both sides of the faraily.
His paternal grandfather, Arthur Kennedy Craig,
was a native of Fairfield County, South Carolina,
where he was a planter, and during the war between
the states represented the old South State in gath
ering supplies for the maintenance of the Army
of the Confederacy. Arthur Kennedy Craig's pa
ternal ancestor, Jaraes Craig, landed at Charlestown,
South Carolina, frora Templepatrick, near Belfast,
Ireland, in the year 1773, and at once identified
himself with those who sought independence from
the Mother Country. During the War of the Revo
lution he served as captain with the forces of Gen.
Thomas Sumter. The maternal ancestry of the sub
ject of this sketch is none the less prominent in
the political, railitary, and professional history of
the state. Susan Wade (Hicklin) Craig's great
grandfather was Capt. Swanson Lunsford, of Vir
ginia, an officer in "Light Horse Harry" Lee's
Legion, and his remains now rest in the grounds
of the state capitol of South Carolina. Swanson
Lunsford's only child, Marv, was the wife of Dr.
John Douglas of Chester County, and in addition
to their daughter Rebecca who was the wife of
Dr. James Cloud Hicklin of York County, the
parents of Susan Wade (Hicklin) Craig, there were
several other daughters and four sons, all of the
latter being physicians, prominent in the Army of
the Confederacy and the political and educational
history of the times. John Rosborough Craig was
born m Fairfield County and during the recon
struction period was one of the active and influen
tial men of his community. He was a leading mer
chant and planter, a man widely known in business
circles, and one who was held in universal confi
dence because of his sterling character and strict
integrity He and his wife were the parents of
twelve children, ten of whom grew to maturity and
who are living at the time of this writing in 1919.

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Lawrence Rosborough Craig, the second child and
son of his parents, was reared at Blackstock, South
Carolina, where he attended the public schools.
Later he was sent to the University of- South Caro
lina, at that time known as South Carolina College,
He then attended the Medical College of Virginia,
where he completed his education and was gradu
ated with his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1906,
and then became assistant to Dr. Stewart W. Pryor,
in the hospital at Chester, South Carolina, where he
reraained about six raonths. Going then to Haraer,
he was engaged in practice until 1908, when he carae
to Dillon. For three years he carried on a suc
cessful and growing professional business, but in
191 1 secured an interest in the Baker-Craig Sana
torium at Charleston, of which he was one of the
organizers, and went to that city to superintend
the construction of the building. In 1913 he sold
his interests in this institution and returned to Dil
lon, where he has since raade his home, and where
he is now in the enjoyment of an excellent and rep
resentative practice. A profound scholar and sympa
thetic raan, he has attracted raen to him and held
their friendship.
On May 18, 1917, Doctor Craig was commissioned
first lieutenant in the United States Medical Re
serve Corps and was called into active service one
month later. On June l8th he was ordered to Gettys
burg, Pennsylvania, and assigned as surgeon of the
Sixtieth Infantry, Regular Army, and during the
next month was selected to organize and equip, as
well as train Motorized Field Hospital No. 29, of
the Regular army, and commanded this organization
until November, 1917. He was promoted to cap
tain in the Medical Reserve Corps, September 7,
1917. In November he was transferred to the
United States Army General Hospital at Fort Logan
H. Roots, Arkansas, where he served as adjutant of
the post. Later he was assistant to the coramanding
officer. In April, 1918, Captain Craig was ordered to
Camp Zachary Taylor, at Louisville, Kentucky, to
join Base Hospital No. 40 for overseas service, and
accompanied that organization across the Atlantic,
landing at Glasgow, Scotland, in July, igi8. This
organization was detailed to take over the base hos
pital at Sarisbury Court, Hants, England, where it
remained for some tirae after the signing of the
arraistice. While with this organization. Doctor
Craig served in various capacities.
On his return from his- military service. Doctor
Craig at once resumed his practice, which has since
developed in a raost gratifying raanner, and has
steadily continued to irapress hiraself raore and more
favorably upon the profession which he honors.
He is a member of the Dillon County Medical So
ciety, the South Carolina Medical Society, the Amer
ican Medical Association, the Society of Military
Surgeons, and the Atlantic Coast Line Surgeons
Society. He likewise has numerous social, business
and civic connections of importance, and is active in
all phases of the busy life which surges about him.
Doctor Craig was married in 1909 to Mrs. Daisy,
Duval Harllee, of Mobile, Alabaraa, and they are "
leading and consistent raerabers of the Presbyterian
Church. Mrs. Craig is of Huguenot descent, is a
raember of the Colonial Dames of America, of the
Daughters of the American Revolution and of the

Virginia Historical Society. Fraternally, Doctor
Craig is affiliated with the Masons and the Knights
of Pythias,.
Henry Clinton Summers, Jr., a former member
of the Legislature and actively identified with the
family plantation and business interests near Pen
dleton, was born at Pendleton December 24, 1876.
His great-grandfather, was a colonel in the Revo
lutionary war. Phileraeon Waters, his grandfather,
was a soldier in the war with Mexico, and his father
is Henry Clinton Summers, Sr., ¦ who was born in
Newberry County in 1844, son of William Warren
Summers, also a native of Newberry County. The
latter was killed while a soldier in the Mexican
war and was buried at Vera Cruz. Henry Clinton
Suraraers, Sr., continued the military record of the
family by enlisting in the Confederate Army and
serving throughout that war. He carae to Anderson
County as a locoraotive engineer on what is now
known as the Blue Ridge Railroad, living at Pendle
ton. Several years ago he bought the old Dr. J. B.
E. Adger plantation, known as "Boscobel," arid has
sirice lived there practically retired. He is a thirty-
secorid degree Mason and both his sons are Master
Masons. He married Mary Jane Scruggs, who was born in
Greenville County in 1847 and died in 1916. They
had three children : Lillie, wife of Hon. Cole L.
Blease ; Henry C. ; and Jack Cherry, who was born
April 22, 1880, and is now associated with his brother
and father in the cultivation of Boscobel plantation.
All the children were born at Pendleton.
Henry Clinton Suraraers, Jr., was educated at New
berry and Clemson colleges, and during his early life
was a merchant at Newberry for three years. Since
then he has given his time to agriculture, and his
progressive efforts as a farraer have been accorn-
panied by a high degree of public spirit in his civic
association. He is a stanch democrat, was elected
to fill an unexpired terra in the Lower House of the
Legislature, and was then an unsuccessful candi
date for the State Senate. Later he was again elect
ed a raeraber of the Legislature from Anderson
County, and filled out his term with signal credit
and efficiency. He is affiliated with the Knights of
Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Elks and the Iraproved Order of Red Men, of which
latter order he is the great sachera, the highest office
in the order.
Walter L. Gassaway is one of the very well
known bankers and financiers of Upper South Caro
lina, is president of three banks, including the Amer
ican Bank of Greenville, and is also extensively en-
ga.ged in cotton manufacture.
"The original seat of the Gassaway family was the
Valley of Virginia. One branch of the faraily in
cluded the late Henry Gassaway Davis of West Vir
ginia. James D. Gassaway, father of the Greenville
banker, was a son of the settler who came frora
the Valley of Virginia in the early part of the nine
teenth century and established a pioneer horae in
Pickens County, South Carolina. James D. Gassa
way for many years, beginning before the war, was
concerned with large and extensive business affairs
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veloped land, and in many substantial ways helped
build up the community.
Walter L. Gassaway was born at Central in Pick
ens County in 1862, being a son of Jaraes D, and Mar-
iah (Douthitt) Gassaway. When he was about eighteen
years old and soon after leaving school, he carae
to Greenville and went to work in the store of B. M.
McGee on Pendleton street. Mr. McGee was a noted
raerchant of forraer days, and was not only success
ful himself but his store "graduated" a number of
young raen who have since raade their raark in the
world. Mr. Gassaway acquired a sound knowledge
of banking while cashier of the Greenville Savings
Bank, of which Mr. J. W. Norwood, one of the
state's raost successful bankers, was president. He
was cashier there two years and in 1890 organized
the Araerican Bank in the building located at the
junction of Augusta and Pendleton streets, where
it has continued to enjoy a most successful career
and is now one of the leading financial institutions
in this part of the state. For several years Mr. Gas
saway has been president of the bank. He is also
president of the Bank of Central at Central, South
Carolina. His interests as a cotton raanufacturer are also at
Central, where he built and is president and treas
urer of the Isaqueena Mills. These raills under his
skillful raanageraent have grown and prospered and
the capital stock. of the corapany is now $315,000,
while the mill itself is equipped with 660 looms and
25,680 spindles. The product of the Isaqueena Mills
are print cloths.
Mr. Gassaway married Miss Minnie Quinn, raera
ber of a well known faraily of eastern North Caro
lina. Mrs. Gassaway is known to Greenville not
only as a woman of great personal charm, but of
unusual business talents, and has made a splendid
success in liusiness affairs. Mr. and Mrs. Gassaway
have a beautiful country estate on the Spartanburg
Road just outside the city liraits. It is not only
iraproved with all the adornraents and conveniences
that taste and money can afford, but it also has a
profitable commercial feature in the shape of a model
dairy. Mr. and Mrs. Gassaway have one daughter,
Susan Mariah Gassaway,
P. D. Brooker. The Brooker faraily, represented
by Dr. P. D. Brooker, a former president of the State
Dental Society, has furnished many notable names
to South Carolina. They have been represented in
nearly every walk of life, and a strong trait of the
family has been a zeal and enthusiasm that have
led them to became willing raartyrs when need be
for a good cause.
The Brookers are of Scotch-Irish origin and were
first settled in South Carolina at Beauford prior to
the Revolutionary war, A branch of the family
later located in Lexington County at Swansea, where
men of that name have lived for several generations.
A retired resident of Swansea today is Dr. W. t'
Brooker. an uncle of Doctor Brooker of Columbia.
Doctor Brooker of Columbia is a grandson of Rev.
William Brooker and a great-grandson of Rev. John
Brooker, both Baptist ministers of early tirae prom
inence in South Carolina. They helped found many
churches and spread the influence of the Baptist
Church over a wide territory. They were especially

well known in the central section of the state, and
several of the largest and most prominent churches
of that denomination were founded by them. They
were also large landholders and planters in Barn
well and Lexington counties. Rev. Williara Brooker
raarried Mary Loftin, member of the well known
Loftin family frequently mentioned in the early his
tory of Edgefield County. That this family is inti
mately associated with the development of South
Carolina history is borne out by the fact that not a
single ancestor up to the present generation was
born outside of South Carolina,
Norton W. Brooker, father of Dr. P. D. Brooker,
was born near Swansea in Lexington County Janu
ary 26, 184s. He raarried Fannie Hair, of the Hair
faraily of Barnwell County.
Norton W. Brooker, who died at his horae in Co
lurabia, January 27, 1918, enjoyed those experiences
and had the character and activities which make up
the important personage in history. His record as
a soldier in the Confederate army was especially
conspicuous. Veterans who are familiar with his
record assert that he was one of the bravest and
most dashing soldiers in the Confederate ranks. A
mere youth, he went to Columbia soon after the
war began and joined Captain Taylor's Company of
Cavalry, which became a part of Hampton's Legion.
During the last two years of the war he was a
courier on the staff of General Lee. He was well
equipped for a work that presented every hazard
and danger and was never known to shirk the per
formance of duty. In the closing months of the
war, when General Sherman's army was approach
ing Columbia, he was enjoying a brief furlough at
his horae in Lexington Gbunty. Learning of the
invasion that threatened the city, he hurried to
Columbia and joined in its defense, an effort that
was of course futile on account of the overwhelm
ing superiority in nurabers of the invaders. He Was
an eye witness of all the events leading up to and
including the surrender of the city to the Union
array and the burning of the city by General Sher
raan's troops. He went with Mayor Goodwyn out
on the Broad River Road north of the city to Gen
eral Sherraan. At the time of his death Norton W,
Brooker was the last surviving witness to the sur
render of Columbia. His subsequent writings and
addresses forra the raost authentic record of that
subject that have been the occasion of so rauch con
troversy. His personal witness and the evidence
he adduced makes a perfect proof that the city was
wantonly destroyed by the soldiers under Sherman.
When some years ago it was proposed to place a
marker at the place of surrender Mr. Brooker desig
nated the exact location for that purpose. He did
not remain to be taken captive by the invading army,
but escaped to join the evacuating Confederate troops
just, north of the city on their way to Charlotte, He
was at Richmond when the war closed.
After the war Norton W, Brooker studied law,
was admitted to the bar, and established his home
,at Ridge Spring in what was then Edgefield County,
in subsequent years he became one of the prorainent
Uwyers of South Carolina In 1894 he removed to
Columbia, where he continued the practice of his
profession He was always an aggressive fighter
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tion enabled him to take an active and leading part
in the public affairs of the state. He was a practical
reformer. For a number of years he was a meraber
of the board of directors of the state penitentiary,
and in this capacity worked patiently and confi
dently over a period of several years for the com
pletion of the canal at Columbia, and as a humani
tarian measure for the better health and comfort of
the prisoners of that institution established the De
Sassure Farm in Kershaw County. One of his most
creditable acts and one in which he took greatest sat
isfaction was the breaking up of the system of leas
ing convicts to railroad contractors and others who
were interested entirely in the work they could get
out of the convicts and frequently exposed their
charges to every degradation and hardship. To the
end of his life Norton W. Brooker was a sincere and
earnest worker in behalf of prison reform and bet
ter treatment of convicts. For a number of years
he was a meraber of the sinking fund commission and
rendered useful service to the state in locating farms
not on the tax books. Mrs. Norton W. Brooker died
in 1915.
Norton W, Brooker has four sons and two daugh
ters active in the present life of Columbia : Dr. P.
D. Brooker, Norton W. Brooker, Jr., B. O. Brooker,
William Brooker, and Misses Pauline and Georgia
Brooker. Another son, A. F. Brooker, lives in
Cleveland, Ohio.
Their son P. D. Brooker was born at the old home
of his parents at Ridge Spring in Saluda County in
1874, and lived there until he was about nineteen
years of age. He received part of his education in
Worcester Acaderay in Massachusetts, and for two
years lived in Chicago. For nearly two years he
was in the office of the secretary of state at Colura
bia. He studied dentistry in the University of Mary
land, graduating D. D. S. in 1899. For the past
twenty years he has been one of the most active
members of his profession at Columbia, and has
achieved real erainence in the profession. Besides
being ' a forraer president of the South Carolina
State Dental Society he is a member of the state
Board of Dental Examiners. He is especially inter
ested in educating the public to the importance and
necessity of the care of the teeth from childhood.
He is a leader in every movement to raaintain the
dental profession in South Carolina upon the same
progressive standards as characterized in other sec
tions of the United States, has taken great interest
in its relationship to the general public health, and
all of its humanitarian, charitable and war work
activities. Doctor Brooker married Miss Inez Green, of Bel
ton. They have one son, Norton William Brooker.
Elias Alford McCormac. For three-quarters of
a century the McCormac family has been identified
with the agricultural interests of what is now Dillon
County, where a worthy representative of this family
is found in Elias Alford McCormac. This sterling
and industrious citizen has passed his entire career
on the property which he now operates, and has not
only placed himself among the substantial farmers
of his part of the county, but at the same time has
established an excellent record for the highest type
of citizenship. Vol. IV— 7

Mr. McCormac was born on his present farm, ten
miles west of Dillon, in Dillon County, South Caro
lina, September 25, 1853, a son of Alexander Little
and Elizabeth (Alford) McCormac. The McCor
mac faraily originated in Scotland, frora whence it
came to America in 1788, in which year its original
member located in North Carolina, in Richmond
County, in which state was born the grandfather of
Elias A. McCormac, Daniel McCormac. He fol
lowed the pursuits of farming through a long and
industrious life, and this vocation was also adopted
by his son, Alexander L. McCormac, who was born
in Robeson County, North Carolina, in April, 1828.
Alexander L. McCormac came to Dillon (then Mari
on) County, South Carolina, about 1845, and took
up the farm which is now owned and occupied by
his son, there spending the reraainder of his life.
A crippled hand exempted him from railitary serv
ice during the war between the states, but he served
the South well in serai-official capacities and as a
citizen, although his death occurred while the strug
gle was still going on, in 1863. He was tax col
lector when he died. His widow, who lived to the
remarkable age of ninety years, died January 14,
1920. She was born July 15, 1829, in Robeson Coun
ty, North Carolina, and was in the best of health
and spirits and in possession of all her faculties.
She was a daughter of Elias Alford, of Scotch-Irish
descent, who was an infant during the Revolutionary
war and a native of Robeson County. Alexander L.
and Elizabeth McCormac were the parents of the
following children : Eugene Little, of Maxton, North
Carolina; Corrine Pace, the wife of B. F. Davis, of
Marion, South Carolina; Elias Alford; Hortense,
deceased, who was the wife of J. C, Henagan; Ida,
who died at the age of four years; Cora, the wife
of T. I. Rodgers, of Bennettsville, South Carolina;
and Alexander H., of Asheville, North Carolina.
Elias A, McCormac received his education in the
public schools and was reared on the horae farm
where he was thoroughly trained in all the arts of
the husbandman and also taught the lessons of in
dustry, economy and honesty. When he reached
man's estate he adopted farming as his life work,
and to this he has continued to apply himself with
continued and increasing success. He is the owner
of a splendid property situated ten miles west of
Dillon, consisting of 536 acres, which he devotes to
the cultivation of cotton, corn, wheat, oats and
tobacco. Mr. McCorraac is an agriculturist of the
modern school, using advanced methods and up-to-
date highly iraproved raachinery, and the results
which he obtains speak voluraes for his. good raan
ageraent, enterprise and industry. He is a raan of
the strictest integrity, who has the unqualified re
spect and confidence of the people of his coraraunity,
and as a citizen has faithfully discharged every duty
devolving upon him.
In 1898, December 14th, Mr. McCormac was united
in marriage with Mary Flyn, daughter of the Rev.
James F. Cousar Flyn, a Presbyterian minister
who for seventeen years filled the pulpit in the
church of that faith located across the road from, Mr.
McCormac's home. Five children have been born
to this union: Jaraes Alexander, Elias Alford, Jr.,
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William Christian Rasor. President of the
Bank of Cross Hill, William C. Rasor was a raer
chant in that community of Laurens County for
nearly a quarter of a century and in business and .
civic affairs his name is associated with every worthy
undertaking launched in his home town.
He was born on a farm in Laurens County Febru
ary 14, i860, a son of James Christian and Lucy Ann
(Agnew) Rasor, both natives of Abbeville County.
His paternal grandfather, Ezekiel Rasor, and his
maternal grandfather. Captain Agnew, were both
soldiers of the Confederate array. Jaraes C. Rasor
spent his active life as a Laurens County farmer
and was a raan of great energy and progressive spirit.
He lived to the age of eighty-four and his wife to
seventy-nine. They were Baptists in religious faith
and James C. Rasor was for several years a mera
ber of the board of county commissioners. Of
their children seven are still living. These children
were Maggie, Elizabeth, Amelia, Emma, Ida, Wil
liam C, Ella, James Sarauel, Sallie and John B.
Maggie, Araelia and Eraraa are deceased.
Williara Christian Rasor grew up on his father's
farra and received his early education in the old
Field schools. He was at home until twenty-one,
and he started out with $500 given him by his father.
That was a modest capital, but he used it to ex
cellent advantage, multiplied it and achieved real
success. He continued farming until 1886, when he
became a merchant at Coronaca, where he remained
four years, and then opened a store at Cross Hill,
where he sold general raerchandise for nineteen
j'ears. Mr. Rasor is a large land owner. He was
one of the founders of the Bank of Cross Hill in
January, igo6, and has been its first and only presi
dent. He and his wife are raerabers of the Baptist
faith. In January, 1884, he raarried Ella Lou Clardy, a
native of Laurens County and daughter of Jaraes
M. Clardy. They have four sons : Jaraes Henry,
a merchant at Cross Hill ; William Earle, who was
a sergeant in ground service of the Aviation Corps
with the Expeditionary Forces in France ; Charles
Clardy, associated with his brother in the store;
and Jake, still at home.
Almon Edwin Spencer, LL. D. Coraing of a
faraily of educators and ministers. Doctor Spencer
has spent most of his active life as a faculty meraber
and at tiraes as administrative executive in the
Presbyterian College of South Carolina at Clinton.
He is now vice president of that institution and for
many years has held the chair of Professor of
Greek and French.
He was born at Tuskegee, Alabama, December 14,
1867, son of Almon and Jane Hoge (Nail) Spencer.
His father except for the three years he wore a Con
federate uniform during the war between the states
gave all his mature life to teaching. He had earned
and paid his way through college, graduating from
.Harvard University in 1852. In several southern
states he conducted private schools. Not long after
the war he moved to Kentucky and for twenty years
conducted a prorainent private educational institu
tion at Pisgah, near Lexington. In i88g he carae
to South Carolina and taught for several years in
Spartanburg County, where he becarae well known.

He died in 1895 at the home of his son Almon E.
at Clinton. The ancestry of the Spencer faraily goes
back to one of the early settlements made at Had
dam, Connecticut. The first Spencer came from
England. Jane H. NaU, mother of Doctor Spencer,
was a daughter of Rev. Robert NaU, D, D., a native
of North' Carolina, but whose work as a Presbyterian
minister was done almost entirely in Alabama. He
was one of the prominent Presbyterian divines in
that state for over half a century. The NaU family
is also connected with the Wyatts of North Carolina,
included in which family is a former governor of
that comraonwealth.
Almon Edwin Spencer grew up in a home of
educational and religious ideals. He attended a pri
vate school conducted by his father at Pisgah, Ken
tucky, and was twenty-one years of age when his
parents moved to South Carolina. Thanks to his
father's able instruction and his o-wn diligence at
his studies, he entered the Central University at
Richraond, Kentucky, in the sophomore class. He
graduated A. B. in 1888, and received his Master of
Arts degree in 1897 and the honorary degree LL. D.
in 1914. Frora February, 1889, to June, 1891, Doctor
Spencer taught at Reidville, South Carolina.
Since 1891 his work has been almost altogether
connected with the Presbyterian College of South
Carolina. During all that time he has been teacher
of Greek and French. From 1897 to 1904 he was
also president, resigning that office in order that
the new board of raanageraent when the control
of the college passed to the Presbyterian Church
raight have free rein. Again, in the period of 1910-11
Doctor Spencer was called upon to perform the
duties of acting president, and since then has been
vice president. He has kept in close touch with the
training of the student body of the institution for
over a quarter of a century, and is the meraber of
the faculty probably most cordially reraerabered
by the former student body. Doctor Spencer is a
meraber of the Knights of P3rthias.
In 1891 he married Miss Mattie Calvert, of Spar
tanburg, a daughter of William W. and Martha
(Leonard) Calvert. The Calverts came to South
Carolina frora Maryland, and a nuraber of genera
tions ago they were of the same family as that of
Lord Baltiraore. Mrs. Spencer's father was a farm
er, and did a gallant and courageous part as a Con
federate soldier. Her brother, A. B. Calvert, was
for many years mayor of Spartanburg. Her oldest
brother was also a prominent dentist in that city.
Mrs. Spencer was educated in Lander CoUege when
that school was located at Williamston, South Caro
lina. Doctor and Mrs. Spencer are parents of three
children, namely. Elise, Marjorie and Almon Cal-'
vert. Their only son entered the United States
navy at the age of nineteen. He saw service for
twenty raonths during the late war. Nine months
of that time he was on the U. S, S. Delaware in the
North Sea.
Rev. Lucius Ross Lynn, president of the Thorn-
well Orphanage at Clinton, has been an ordained
minister of the Presbyterian Church for over twenty
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Georgia and Florida in addition to his present re
sponsibilities at Clinton, South Carolina.
/-•o^tor Lynn was born at Covington, Tennessee,
^arch 7 1875, son of John Wilson and Margaret
Ellen (McCain) Lynn. His parents were natives of
Tennessee. The Lynn faraily was founded in Ches
ter County, South Carolina, about 1756 by an an
cestor who came from the north of Ireland and was
of Scotch descent. The McCain family came from
Scotland and first settled at Waxhaw, North Caro
lina. John W. Lynn was a farmer and well known
citizen of Tipon County, Tennessee, holding several
county offices.
Lucius Ross Lynn, the third in a' faraily of ten
children, grew up on his father's farm and in early
life began his preparation for the ministry. He
received his A. B. degree m 1896 from the South
western Presbyterian University at Clarksville,
Tennessee, and took his theological course in the
same institution and receiving his Doctor of Divinity
degree in 1917.
Ordained a minister by the Savannah Presbytery at
Savannah, Georgia, in November, 1898, he spent
3/4 years at Darien, Georgia, then did home mission
work at High Springs, Florida, for ij4 years, and
beginning in 1903 was for six years pastor at Palatka,
Florida, and from 1909 to 1918 had charge of the
Springfield Church, one of the largest in Jacksonville,
Florida. Doctor Lynn came to his present work in
1918, being elected president of the Orphanage in
June of that year.
In igoi he married Miss Edith Deweese, of
Brighton, Tennessee. Six children were born to
their marriage, five of whom are still living.
Lautjence Albert Manning, Sr., is one of the
prorainent and industrious planters of Dillon County
classed with the progressive t}rpe of tillers of the
soil who are acknowledged to be as broad and scien
tific in their raethods and as fruitful in valuable re
sults to the community as the workers in any other
branch of modern industry. In the field of agri
culture it has often happened that the fathers and
grandfathers have secured the broad and fertile
tracts of land which the sons and grandsons have
brought to their full capacity of productiveness. The
rough, preliminary labors of the pioneers are as nec
essary as the developing work of the later genera
tions : all have corabined for the general advance
ment of the wonderful agricultural interests of the
South. On the property on which he now operates, eight
miles west of Dillon, at Manning's Cross Roads,
DiUon County, Laurence Albert Manning was born
May 9, i860, a son of Thomas J. and Annie Maria
(Haselden) Manning. This branch of the Manning
family was founded in America by John Manning,
the great-great-grandfather of Laurence A., who emi
grated from Europe about 1760 and settled in Vir
ginia, frora which colony his son, also naraed John,
carae to South Carolina and becarae largely inter
ested in planting in Marion County. In that coun
ty was born Mealy Manning, the grandfather of
Laurence A., who followed in his father's footsteps
and engaged in planting, becoraing one of the suc
cessful and wealthy men of his locality and the owner
of some 7,000 acres of land in Marion and Marl

boro counties. Thomas J. Manning, the father of
Laurence A., was born in Marlboro County, and
early adopted the family vocation of planting, in
which he was successfully engaged at the outbreak
of the war between the states. He did not go to
the front in active service, but as a meraber of the
Horae Guards raet his death in 1864 while engaged
in rounding up deserters, having at that time the
rank of major. He married Annie Maria Haselden,
daughter of Maj. James C. Haselden, who was born
in Marion County, of English ancestry, and to this
union there were born the following children : James
H., former state senator from Dillon County, and a
leading planter of the Latta community; Mrs. Dr.
David, of Dillon; Laurence Albert, of this notice;
and Mrs. E. B. Berry and Mrs. T. W. Barry, of
Latta. The private schools of DiUon County (then Ma
rion), furnished Laurence A. Manning with his edu
cational training, and when he was but seventeen years
of age he began working on the farm which he now
owns. His father had died when he was only four
years old and he helped his elder brother conduct
operations on the home place until his brother, J.,H.,
married, Laurence A. continuing on the home farra
and he here began independent activities. Gradually
he secured possession of the horae place by buying
the interest of the other heirs, and at this time he
has 930 acres, of which 650 acres are now under
cultivation and greatly productive as a result of his
progressive methods and excellent manageraent. On
this property he has about twenty-five tenant farailies,
averaging five persons to a faraily, and the prin
cipal crops consist of cotton and oats. The crops
raised on the Manning property are as fine in qual
ity and as large in volurae as any which can be pro
duced in South Carolina, and Mr. Manning holds
his land at $500 per acre. He has one of the raost
beautiful homes in Dillon County, modern in every
respect and with every convenience, and here the
genial owner proves himself the most congenial and
hospitable of hosts to his numerous friends who
are always sure of a hearty welcome at the portals
of his horae.
Mr. Manning was married December 6, 1893, to
Orana Wilson Hamer, daughter of J. H. Hamer, of
Little Rock, South Carolina, and they have been
the parents of four children : Anna Haraer and Mary
NeiU, who reside at horae, and two children who
died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Manning are con
sistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church
at Little Rock. Mr. Manning has always taken a
keen and helpful interest in public affairs and was
one of the raembers of the first board of coraraission
ers of his town, where his business interests are
numerous and important.
W. Carl Wharton, raayor and prorainent business
man of Waterloo, is a son of Col. John Henry
'Wharton, a distinguished citizen of Laurens County
whose career has been elsewhere sketched.
W. Carl 'Wharton has spent all his life at Water
loo, and was born there June 13, 1878. He acquired
a liberal education, graduating from Furraan Uni
versity at Greenville with the class of 1900. For
several years he conducted a general store at Water
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interests. He is at present traveling representative
for the Planters Fertilizer Company of Charleston.
Mr. Wharton shows his public spirit in everything
he does. He is giving his horae town a vigorous
administration as mayor. He is a raember of the
Masonic order. Knights of Pythias and Woodmen
of the World, and like his father, is deeply inter
ested in the Baptist Church. He serves his horae
church as deacon and treasurer, and as assistant
superintendent of the Sunday school and teacher of
the Bible class.
In 1904 he married Miss Florence Butler, daughter
of Thoraas Welsman Butler of Charleston. Mr.
Wharton died in January, 1919, the mother of two
chUdren, WiUiara Larsen and Katherine Gibbs Whar
ton. William Rasor Richey, Jr. Of the raen who
have rendered distinguished service to their state
and country as soldiers, public officials and' private
citizens, few have more deservedly earned the con
fidence and gratitude of their fellow-men than has
Hon. Williara Rasor Richey, Jr., prominent attorney
ot Laurens, ex-member of the South Carolina Legis
lature and late raajor in the United States array.
No period of his life is lacking in those details
which make interesting biography, and the record
which he has established along all lines of activity
has been one which is worthy of emulation by the
rising generation,
Mr. Richey was born at Hodges, South Carolina,
December 8, 1883, a son of WiUiara Rasor Richey,
Sr., a sketch of whose career wUl be found else
where in this work. He received his early educa
tion in the public schools of Laurens, and in 1905
received the degree of Bachelor of Sciences from
the Citadel, at Charleston, following which he
studied Ijtw with his father as his preceptor, and in
May, 1907, was adraitted to the South Carolina bar.
Mr. Richey was at once taken into partnership by
his father, with whom he has since been associated
under the firm style of Richey & Richey, one of
the forraidable corabinations of Laurens County,
which has won distinction and high reputation for
its success in nuraerous hard-fought and iraportant
legal battles. In 1907 Williara R. Richey, Jr., en
tered the South Carolina National Guards as first
lieutenant, and in 1910 was made captain, a position
which he held at the time of his resignation in
J915, In May, 1917, he enlisted as a volunteer in
the service of his country and went to Fort Ogle
thorpe, where he was comraissioned captain August
15, 1917. and transferred to Camp Jackson, where
he was assigned to Company L, Three Hundred and
Se'venty-First Infantry, a negro regiraent, with
which he went overseas April 5, 1918. This regi
ment was later cited by General Retain, marshal
of France, and received a flag decoration. After a
brief period of training in France the regiraent went
into the trenches, and Septeraber 26, 1918, went
"over the top" for the first time. The regiraent was
in the Meuse Argonne offensive frora Septeraber 25
to October 6, and Septeraber 28 Captain Richey was
gassed, although he remained with his comraand
until all objectives had been reached, and was not
evacuated frora the field until October i. For this
he won an official citation frora General Pershing

for "extraordinary heroism and gallantry in action.''
After a month in the hpspital he rejoined his com
pany in the front-line trenches, where he was sit
uated the day the armistice was signed. Later he
was promoted to the rank of major, and February
12, 1919, returned to the United States, where he
was honorably discharged February 28, 1919.
In 1916 Mr. Richey was elected representative in
the Legislature from Laurens County, winning over
eleven opponents in the first primary. He served
in the sessions of 1917 and 1918, going from Camp
'Jackson and attending in military uniform the
more important sessions toward the close of his
legislative service. In the Legislature he was the
author and original introducer of the first "bone
dry" prohibition bill introduced in that body, which
he successfully maneuvered to passage by the lower
house, but which met its death in the Senate.
Mr. Richey is a Shriner Mason, a member of the
Woodraen of the World and a Knight of Pythias,
and he and his wife are members of the Presbyte-
'rian Church. In 1907 Mr. Richey married Miss
Nellie Bolt, of Laurens County, and they are the
parents of one child, Sarah R., who is attending
school. Mr. Richey's entire career has been one of
notable achievement, of praiseworthy enthusiasra in
official service, and of splendid loyalty to his
country. Thomas Lafayette Walker Bailey, M. D. Be
ginning his professional work at Clinton in 1893,
Doctor Bailey has fulfiUed the highest mission of the
competent physician and surgeon and his entire ca
reer has been one of steadfast and devoted service,
combined with many unusual abUities and talents for
his chosen vocation. '
Doctor Bailey was born on a farm in Laurens
County August 9, 1870, and is descended from Wil
liam Bailey, who came from England, and he and
his wife, Ann, had nine children. One of these
was Zachariah Bailey, who raarried Wineford Cole
raan, They in turn had a faraily of ten children,
WiUiam Bailey being the grandfather of Doctor
Bailey. WUliam Bailey married Louise Gary, and
their two sons were William Franklin and Samuel
Thomas Bailey. The original WiUiara Bailey was
a Baptist minister and his descendants have almost
invariably held to the same religious faith.
William Franklin Bailey, father of Doctor Bailey,
was born in Laurens County, as was also his wife,
Agatha Frances Walker. He was born Septeraber
22 1840, and died at the age of seventy-five. His
wife died m 1906, aged fifty-eight. Williara F. Bailey
was a farmer in Laurens County for many years,
and during the war between the states was in the
Confederate army, being five times wounded.
fhoraas L. W. Bailey grew up on his father's
tarm and as a boy had the advantages of the old
field schools. He was taught his first lessons in a
log cabm which was fitted up with slab benches. He
also attended the tuition schools in Waterloo and
• H it i?e acquired his early medical education
in the U. b. Grant University at Chattanooga, Ten
nessee, graduating M. D. in 1893. He then returned
to tiis native community and began his active prac
tice at Llmton. He was a post-graduate student in
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York in 1899, in the Baltimore CoUege of Physicians
and Surgeons in 1903, and in the New York Poly
clinic in 1915 and 1918. He is a member and forraer
president of the Laurens County Medical Society,
served three terms as a member of the State Board
of Counselors of the State Medical Association and
is a member of the American Medical Association.
During the period of the war he volunteered his
services to the United States Governraent and was
commissioned in the Medical Reserve Corps, but
was never called to active duty. He is a Master
Mason and Knight of Pythias and a deacon in the
Baptist Church at Clinton.
Doctor BaUey married in 1900 Miss Julia Mc
Neill, a native of Greenwood County. At her death
in 1907 she left three chUdren: Julia Agatha, Lewis
M,, and T. L. W. Bailey, Jr. Doctor Bailey mar
ried in 1910 Miss Annie Mae Drummond, a native
of Laurens County. Their five children are naraed
Washington Drummond, Mary Ellen, Frances Ade
line, Julia Ophelia and Annie Rogers Bailey.
Hunter A. Gibbes, a member of the Colurabia bar
for twenty years, has enjoyed some of the most
influential connections with his profession in the
state, and on different occasions has proved an able
leader of different raovements connected with the
general welfare.
Mr. Gibbes was bom at Quincy, Florida, January
26, 1876, son of James G. and Rhoda E. ('Walker)
Gibbes. Mr. Gibbes was well educated, and grad
uated from the Law Department of the University
of South Carolina in 1899. He was adraitted to the
[bar and has since been in active practice at Co
lumbia. J. ., c- ..u
For several years he was secretary of the bouth
Carolina Bar Association and was president of the
Richland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals He also served two years as county attor-
-lev for Richland County and for several years was
secretary of the City Democratic Executive Com
mittee prior to the adoption of the Commission form
,f government. Mr. Gibbes is a director of the
Commercial Bank and secretary and treasurer of
he Fidelity Building and Loan Company, and pres-
dent of the West End Realty Company. ^^ . , ^
fHe is a past chancellor commander of the Knights
U Pvthias Columbia Lodge No. 106, and is a mem-
Ir li the Columbia Club. He belongs to Trin-
fv Episcopal Church. He served as chairman of
e speakers bureau. Victory Loan, for South Caro-

TnwN Henry Miller, M. D. The raany years he
steadily practiced medicine at Cross Hill con-
>„tes only one of the many ser-^jices Doctor MiUer
r ^„rlpred that community. He is in some re-
r [c the founder of Cross Hill, having had the first
• there Everything that has made for the
""^^ii, and improvement of the community never
'k"ed a friend in Doctor M.iller.
'^M was born in that section of Laurens County
r TO 1857, a son of Henry and Mary Thompson
Wr-^lvan) Miller, both also natives of Laurens
Mcbowaw^ mother was a daughter of William
•r° r Ln and a granddaughter of Patrick Mc-
IcGoWan TrelanH Henrv Miller.

Vows"'

*who came from Ireland. Henry Miller,

father of Doctor Miller, owned a farm, part of
which is now included in the townsite of Cross
Hill. Henry MUler entered the Confederate army
early in the war, and at the close of hostilities re
turned home iU with brain fever and died three
days later at the age of forty-six. His oldest son,
WiUiara Martin Miller, deceased, entered the army
at the age of sixteen. Doctor MUler besides this
brother had four sisters, two of whom are now de
ceased. The widowed mother after the death of
her soldier husband played a self sacrificing part in
rearing and educating her chUdren, and lived to the
age of eighty-three. She was a devout Presby
terian. John Henry MiUer graduated from the Patrick
Military Institute at Greenville, and in 1878 com
pleted his medical course in the Louisville Medical
College. He has -since taken post-graduate work in
New York in 1881, 1884 and 1904, while in 1913
he went abroad and enjoyed the superlative ad
vantages of the clinics and hospitals of Berlin and
Vienna and also toured other sections of Conti
nental Europe and visited Ireland, Scotland and
England. Doctor Miller has practiced raedicine at
Cross Hill for over forty years, and, as elsewhere
noted, buUt and operated the first store there. He
is still in the drug business.
He is a former president of the Seaboard Railway
Medical Association and a meraber of the County,
State and Tri-State Medical societies. In 1918 he
volunteered his services to the Governraent, and
they were accepted on November 9, 1918, just two
days before the arraistice. Doctor MUler was a
raeraber of the Legislature six years, frora 1904
to 1907, and again from 1910 to igii. He is a Mas
ter Mason, Knight of Pythias and Woodman of the
World and an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
May 15, 1883, Doctor Miller married Lelia Black,
who died in 1885. In 1888 he married her sister,
Ella lown Black.
James Boyd Kennedy. WhUe Doctor Kennedy
spent several years as a teacher and student in
northern colleges and universities, the greater part
of his service as an educator and scholar has been
given in his home state. He is and for several
years has been professor of history and economics
in the Presbyterian College of South Carolina.
He was born on a farm near York in this state
September 6, 1870, son of WUliara Meek and Rachel
(McGill) Kennedy, also natives of York County
and of Scotch-Irish lineage. Doctor Kennedy is of
Revolutionary stock, and his father was a Confed
erate soldier. William M. Kennedy divided his
active career between farming and merchandising,
and was eighty years of age when he died in 1915.
His widow is still living.
James Boyd Kennedy is one of eight children
and as a boy attended the public schools of York, ,
later entering Erskine College, where he graduated
with the A. B. degree in 1892, In the same year
he began his career as a teacher in the public schools,
and while there have been some interruptions his
work in the educational field covers practically a
quarter of a century. In 1905 he won the Master
of Arts degree frora Erskine College. He was
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the next three years he was an instructor in his
alma mater, Erskine College. During 1904-07 .he
was a post-graduate student in the Johns Hopkins
University of Baltiraore, winning his Doctor ot
Philosophy degree in the latter ye^r. From the
Johns Hopkins he went to Wells CoUege at Aurora,
New York, as professor of economics, and from
1910 to 1913 was professor of sociology and econom
ics at Union College. Since 1913 he has been pleas
antly engaged in his work at the Presbyterian Col
lege of South Carolina, where he is regarded as
one of the .ablest merabers of the faculty. He is
also highly respected as an authority on loc^ and
Araerican history and economic subjects. He. is
a raeraber of the American Economic Association
and fraternally is a Knight Teraplar Mason and
Shriner. Doctor Kennedy is a raember of the
Associate Reforraed Presbyterian Church.
Jesse Herbert Teague, M. D. Doctor Teague is
now rounding out twenty years of successful prac
tice as a physician at Laurens. He has spent raost
of his life in that coraraunity, and is honored for
his abilities and services as a professional man
and as a public spirited citizen. „ ,. ,t
He was born at Mountville, South Carolina, No
vember 27, 1872, son of Martin Miller and Mary
Eugenia (Fuller) Teague, both natives of Laurens
County, and a grandson of Jesse and Celia (MUler)
Teague and WUliara Arthur and Jane Sirapson
(Griffin) Fuller. His maternal grandmother first
married a Mr. Cook, and her mother was a Simp
son. The Teagues were originally Welsh, first set
tled in Virginia, and frora that comraonwealth
carae to South Carolina. Doctor Teague's father
vvas born Deceraber 2, 1831, and died in August,
1909, while his raother was born AprU 13, 1844,
and died February 28, 1918. They were members
of the Universalist Church. Doctor Teague's
father went out with the first company from Lau
rens County in the war between the states and
served untU the close of hostUities. He spent his
active life as a farmer. There were four sons and
five daughters in the faraily, two of the sons dying
in infancy and two of the daughters in childhood.
A brother of Doctor Teague is WiUiam Arthur
Teague, a farmer near Mountville. The three
living daughters, all married, are May L., Cora Jane
and Celia Irene.
Doctor Teague spent his early life on the farm.
He corapleted his literary education in the Pea
body Institute at Nashville, and before beginning
the study of medicine was a teacher in Spartanburg
County for raany years. He received his M. D.
degree from the University of Maryland at Balti
more in 1900 and at once located for practice at
Laurens. He is a member of the County Medical
Society, the South Carolina Medical Associ'ation,
and is a fellow of the American Medical Associa
tion. During the war Doctor Teague was a mem
ber of the examining board for Laurens County.
This board, by the way, sent more soldiers to the
array than any other local board in the state. Doc
tor Teague is also a Mason, Knight of Pythias and
Woodraan of the World.
May 10, igoo, just as he was ready to begin his
professional career, he married Miss Clementina

Golding Fuller, daughter of Calvin Lafayette Fuller
of Laurens County. They have four children:
Calvin Fuller, Martin Miller, Clemiegene and Jessie.
James O. Sanders, M. D. Anderson city and
county has long had due appreciation of the good
citizenship and character of the Sanders family,
several members of which' have been prominent.
Dr. James O. Sanders is one of the most success
ful physicians of the county, and has been in prac
tice nearly twenty years.
His father was the late John B. Sanders, who
died at Anderson, March 23, 1916. He was born
in Oconee County, May 10, 1849, son of James
Sanders, a native of the same county and member
of a pioneer family there. James Sanders and three
sons served as Confederate soldiers, two of the
sons being killed in battle. John B. Sanders grew
up on his father's farra and made farming his
life occupation. He was too young for military
service during the war. He married Sarah Ellen
Jenkins, daughter of Jesse Jenkins, of Oconee
County. Two of her brothers were Confederate
soldiers and one of them was drowned while in
the army. After his raarriage John B. Sanders
located on a farm in Oconee County, but fifteen
years later moved to a farm near the City of Ander
son. In 19 10 he retired from the farm and spent
his last days in Anderson. He and his wife were
raembers of the Baptist Church. John B. Sanders
never accumulated a large estate and probably had
no ambition to do so, the chief aim and object
of his life being to provide for and educate his
children, and his life as a devoted husband, father
and friend well merits a long memory.
He and his wife had ten children : J. Walter, of
Anderson ; Jaraes O, ; Eugenia, wife of John Thomp
son, a farraer of Anderson County; John L.
formerly a practicing dentist at Anderson, but now
a physician; Dr. R. Lee, who is a graduate of
the University of Tennessee, practiced seven years
at Anderson, spent three years with the Mayo
Brothers at Rochester, Minnesota, and then located
at Memphis, Tennessee, and during the World war
was an array surgeon ; Wade A., a civil engineer
living at Florida; Gertrude, wife of (Seorge H.
BaUes at Anderson; Charles M., who was a dentist
in the United States Array during the war; Lucius
C, a physician who served as a surgeon in the
First Division of the army in France, sailing over
seas in 1917; and Clifton, who died at the age of
eighteen while a student in Clemson College,
Dr. James O. Sanders, who as the above record
shows is one of a notable group of physicians and
surgeons, all members of this family, was born
on his father's farm in Oconee County, May 23,
1875. He spent his early life in the country and
frora country schools entered Clemson College and
in 1900 graduated in medicine from the Baltimore
Medical College, Since then he has had a busy
career as a physician at Anderson, and though
attending a general practice his services are more
and more in deraand as an obstetrician. He has
taken post-graduate work in the New York Poly
clinic, the New York Post Graduate School, the
Chicago Polyclinic and the New York Lying-in
Hospital. He is a member of the Anderson County
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ical Association. Doctor Sanders is also affiliated
with the Masonic Order, Knights of Pythias, Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows and is a member of
the Baptist Church. In 1905 he' married Miss Frances
Rogers. Their three children are Sarah, Jaraes and
Ellen. James Henry Sullivan. Unless the attorney of
today is a man of sound judgment, possessed of a
liberal education and stern training, he is severely
handicapped in the race for success and position.
The reason for this lies in the spirit of the age,
with all its complexities. Modern jurisprudence has
become more and more intricate because of new
conditions and laws. Years of experience, constant
reading and natural inclination must be superin
duced upon a careful training. With so many im
portant raatters before the country which involve
serious probleras of jurisprudence, it is necessary
for the men who belong to the profession to be
able to cope with them, and the history of the
• courts for the last few years in Laurens County
proves that its legal fraternity is unusually capable.
One of the raen who has already risen to a place
of recognized importance in his profession in Lau
rens County, and who has also served efficiently in
positions of public trust, is Jaraes Henry Sullivan,
of Laurens.
James H. Sullivan was born May 26, 1888, on a
farra in Laurens County, a son of Jared Dunklin
and Rosalie (Moore) Sullivan, and a raember of
an . old and honored family of this state. His
father was born at Laurens, February 11, 1842, and
died on his farm in Laurens County, September i,
1912. He was a son of Charles Pinckney and Sarah
(Smith) Sullivan, the former born in Greenville
County, South Carolina, and a lawyer by profes
sion who practiced at Laurens and died there in
1876, He was a son of Hewlett Sullivan, also a
native of Greenville County, the latter being a son
of Charles Sullivan, and a member of a family' of
Scotch origin.
Hewlett Sullivan was a Revolutionary patriot and
fought in the Colonial army, winning distinction
at the conflict at Hay's Station, He raarried Mary
Dunklin, The mother of James Henry Sullivan is
StUl living on the old homestead in Laurens County,
and is a native of Greenwood County, South Caro
lina, and a daughter of John W. and Rosalie
Amanda (Cobb) Moore, both the Moore and Cobb
families being old and honorable ones in the state.
Charles Pinckney Sullivan was educated at the Uni
versity of South Carolina, where he vvas graduated
in 1838, and subsequently won distinction as a law
yer. He was also prominent in public affairs, and
was sent by the citizens of his community as their
representative in the State Senate. Jared Dunklin
Sullivan was educated at the University of South
Carolina, at which institution he was a student at
the time of his enlistment, in 1862, in the Confed
erate army for service during the war between the
states. He went to the front with the Sixth South
Carolina Cavalry, with which he served bravely
until the cessation of hostUities, when he had at
tained the rank of orderly sergeant. After the war
he was engaged in raerchandising at Laurens for a
time, but eventually turned his attention to farraing.

snd during the latter years of his life was county
farra demonstrator. He farmed with success and
was also well known in public affairs and served
as a meraber of the lower house of the State Leg
islature in 1909 and 1910. He and Mrs. Sullivan
were raembers of the Methodist Church. They
reared nine chUdren on the farm and in the faith
of the Methodist Church, and all but two of these
still survive.
James Henry Sullivan attended the public schools
an the University of South Carolina, from which
latter he was graduated with the class of 1908, with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In the following
year he was granted his Master's degree, and in the
meantime, in 1908 and 1909, had pursued a post
graduate course and also studied law. For one
year thereafter he read law in an office at Laurens,
and upon examination was admitted to the bar here
in 1910. In 1909 and 1910 he was engaged in teach
ing school at Brunson, South Carolina, but in 191 1
entered upon the practice of his profession and
continued until 1913, when he temporarily gave up
his legal activities to accept the appointraent ten
dered hira by the State Board of Education to the
office of county superintendent of education for
Laurens County. In 1914 he was elected to the
sarae office, which he retained until July, 1919, and
at that time returned to the practice of law. In
1919 he was appointed postraaster at Laurens, a
position which he now holds, and in which he is
rendering his townspeople excellent service in ele
vating the efficiency and expediency of the raail
service. His ideals of the legal profession are
high and in practice he lives up to thera, being a
leader in all movements looking toward a betterment
of existing conditions in the courts and the cora
raunity. tlaving gained the confidence of the peo
ple, he is a raan whose influence cannot be lightly
estiraated, for it is far-reaching and powerful in its
effect. Mr. Sullivan was married in 1915 to Miss Leona
Youraans, of Harapton County, South Carolina.
They are devout merabers of the Methodist Church,
and as a fraternalist Mr. Sullivan is a Knight Tem
plar Mason and a Shriner. He has been a generous
contributor to all public-spirited movements, and
during the period of the war was an active par
ticipant in the various patriotic enterprises launched
for the securing of national revenue.
Francis Rapley Owings is founder of. the VU
lage of Owings in Laurens County. He is an ex-
Confederate soldier, and at the age of seventy-nine
still carries hiraself with sorae of the railitary bear
ing of his youth. ¦ He enjoys good health, and his
long career has been a constant exemplification of
public spirit, industry and good works.
He was born on a farm a mile west of his pres
ent horae April 3, 1840, a son of Jonathan and Sarah
(Childress) Owings. His great-grandfather, Rich
ard Owings, was also a native of Laurens County
and the son of a native Virginian of English an
cestry. The grandfather, WiUiam Owings, was
born in Laurens County and married a Miss Par
sons. Jonathan Owings, father of the Owings
business man, was born in Laurens County and
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Childress, a native of South Carolina and of Dutch
lineage. Richard Childress married. Sarah De Jor-
nett. There were six children in the family of
Jonathan Owings and wife. All grew to raature
years : Richard Leander died while a Confederate
soldier ; Elizabeth is deceased ; Jonathan De Jor-
nett, deceased, was a Confederate soldier and after
ward a farmer; Joanna, deceased; John Thoraas,
living near Owings Station; and Francis Rapley,
living at Owings.
Francis R. Owings spent three years in the Con
federate army and was present m many battles but
never wounded. After the war he began farming,
and in 1873 established a store which became the
nucleus of the present town of Owings. He was
engaged in business there for raany years, and is
still active in affairs. He helped organize the Bank
of Owings and is stUI on its board of officials as
vice president.
In 1859, at the age of nineteen, he raarried Susan
Abercrorabie. She was born January 27, 1840, and
was a daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Childress
Abercrombie. Her grandmother Abercrorabie was
a 'VVoods before her raarriage, and her grandmother
Childress was an Adams before marriage. Of the
six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Owings one died
at the age of two years. Those still living are
Sarah Elizabeth, Eliza Jane, Susan Evaline, 'Wayne
Marvin and George Walton. The son Wayne is a
Methodist minister, while George is a physician,
farmer and banker. Mr. and Mrs. Owings have
given the best years of their life to the allegiance
of the Methodist Church. He is a deraitted mem
ber of the Masonic order.
Baylus Foster McMurtrey. One of the outstand
ing men in the citizenship of northern Anderson
County is Baylus Foster McMurtrey, whose occupa
tion from boyhood has been farming, and out of
ordinary opportunities and circumstances has
achieved a gratifying success.
He was born in that county July 17, 1870, a son
of William Hunter and Amanda CWatkins) Mc
Murtrey. His father, a native of Anderson County,
was a son of James and Dorothy (Teague) Mc
Murtrey, natives of Laurens County. His great
grandfather, William McMurtrey, was born in Ire
land and on coming to South Carolina settled in
Laurens County, where he married Rebecca John
son. Baylus Foster McMurtrey grew up on his father's
farra and was the youngest of six children. In
1902 he raarried Miss Rosa Welborn. She was born
in Anderson County, a daughter of Cash Augustus
and Georgiana (Harper) Welborn, natives of An
derson County. Her paternal grandfather, Augus
tus Welborn, was born in Virginia of Scotch-Irish
ancestry. C. A. Welborn and wife had the following
children: Robert Lee, Mollie, William Charles,
Rosa, John D., Gussie, Carrie and Hallie. Hallie
is the wife of Clifford Owen, who was a soldier with
the American Expeditionary Forces in France.
The three children of Mr. and Mrs. McMurtrey
are William Raymond, Toramie Watkins and Rosa
Lee. Both Mr. and Mrs. McMurtrey are members
of the Baptist Church.

Charles E. Spencer is one of the representative
lawyers of the state, and for nearly half a cen
tury has rendered an enviable service in his pro
fession and as a citfzen of York. He is a meraber
of the Board of Trustees of the University of South
Carolina, being one of the oldest living alumni of
that institution.
Mr. Spencer was born in Sumter County, July
30, 1849, son of Elisha and Mary Alice (Fraser)
Spencer. His mother was also a native of Sura
ter County. Elisha Spencer, a native of Connecticut,
came in 1835, when about sixteen years of age to
Sumter County, South Carolina, to live with an
uncle, William Rogers, of Bishopville, whose home
had been there for some years.
Charles E. Spencer was twenty years of age when
he graduated frora South Carolina CoUege in 1869.
With a college equipraent, he was confronted with
the peculiarly hard and difficult conditions follow
ing the war. There were few real opportunities
for a young raan of ability and education to earn
a living. He accepted the role of school teacher,
and at Yorkville taught in the King's Mountain
MUitary Academy, and has raade that coraraunity
his home ever since. He studied law at the State
University of Columbia, graduating in 1872, and
has been in active practice ever since. Besides his
law practice he is a director of the York Loan and
Savings Bank. Mr. Spencer is a deacon of the
Presbyterian Church.
His first wife was Miss Sallie Clawson, who is
survived by two children : Mrs. Mattie Spencer
McDoweU and Charles W. F. Spencer. Mr. Spencer
married for his present wife. Miss Agnes C. Moore.
They have two children, Claud Edward and Donnom
Witherspoon Spencer.
James Traywick Carson. Though a native of
Anderson County, Jaraes Traywick Carson spent a
number of years as a Georgia farmer and is now
again identified with Anderson County, where he
is one of the most substantial farmers and land
owners. Mr. Carson was born April 28, 1872, a son of
James Aaron and Sallie (Wright) Carson, and a
grandson of John Carson, who was a native of
Ireland. James A. Carson was born in Cobb
County, Georgia, was reared in Anderson County,
South Carolina, and has been a farmer bv occupa
tion and is now living in Newton Countv, Georgfa.
He was a Confederate soldier throughout the war.
His wife was born in Anderson County and died
at the age of fifty-three. They had eight children,
Jaraes Traywick Carson grew up in Anderson
County, and had limited educational advantages.
On December 11, 1892. he raarried Naomi Stone, a
daughter of E. M. Stone of Anderson County.
They started life with no capital, and in twenty-
five years have achieved a prosperity sufficient to
satisfy all their ambitions. Mr. Carson farmed for
fifteen years in Newton Countv, Georgia, and then
returned to Anderson County. His home place com
prises 227 acres, with fine improvements, including
a raodern residence recently constructed. He also
owns another tract of 263 acres. Mr. Carson had
always been a hard worker and man of enterprise,
and to these qualities is due his success. He and his
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Church, and they have reared eleven children, six
sons and five daughters.
Robert Erskine Campbell, M. D. Many people
StUl living in Laurens County have an affectionate
memory of Dr. Robert Erskine CampbeU of Cross
HUl. In his time he was one of the ablest and busiest
practitioneers of the county, and his success as a
physician was accompanied by a fine spirit of char
ity and a well rounded character that raade him
a beloved as weU as pioneer resident of Cross HiU.
He was. bom in Laurens County AprU 4, 1812,
and died at his home in Cross HUl in 1875. The old
homestead is now' owned and occupied by his daugh
ter, Mrs. J. G. Williams. The original part of this
home was built in 1853. Doctor CampbeU's father
was Dr. Robert Carapbell, also a physician, of Scotch-
Irish ancestry.
Robert Erskine Campbell married Miss Tabitha
Meek of Newberry County. Of their nine children
two are now deceased: Rev. Thomas A. Carapbell,
who was a Baptist rainister; and Ida, who raarried
Rev. Mr. Rahn, of the Lutheran Church. Of the
seven living children the oldest is Sarah Meek, who
raarried a Mr. Nance. Tabitha became the wife of
Judge Norton. Nannie I. is the widow of the late
Col. John Griffin Williams. Virginia married J. D.
Watson, Anna became the wife of George L.
Carter. Florence is the widow of the late J, C.
Corley, and her children are naraed Robert C, John
Williams, Isabelle, Sarah, Gordon and Anna. Rev.
Robert E. Campbell, the youngest of the family
is rector of an Episcopal Church at JacksonvUle,
Florida. CoL. John Griffin Williams was one of the
exemplary characters in the life and affairs of Lau
rens County during a period beginning before the
war between the states and continuing untU the
twentieth century.
He was born June 4, 1833, at his father's planta
tion home "White Plains" in Laurens County, and
died at his horae in Cross Hill February 24, 1902.
His grandfather, Washington WUliams, was of
Revolutionary stock, a meraber of the noted Jaraes
Williams family of Kings Mountain. Colonel Wil
liams was a son of John Drayton and Phoebe
(Young) WiUiams. His father was also a native of
South Carolina, born and reared in Laurens County,
and became a wealthy planter and slave owner. His
name appears as a signature to the South Carolina
Ordinance of Secession.
On his father's plantation, in a home supplied
with every comfort, and with rauch of the spirit of
the old tirae Southern aristocracy. Colonel 'WUliaras
grew to manhood. He finished his education at
South Carolina College at Columbia. At the begin
ning of the war he volunteered his service to the
Confederate governraent and his home state and
raised a company known as "Williams' Company,"
members of which he uniformed and equipped at his
own expense. As captain of this corapany he served
all through the period of hostilities. He returned
home undefeated in spirit, applied hiraself with ac
customed vigor to his farraing and showed the qual'
ity of a real leader in the storray times of reconstruc
tion. He was an active figure in the "Red Shirt"

corapaign of 1876 and after the election of General
Harapton as governor served on his staff with the
rank of colonel. Colonel Williaras also represented
Laurens County in the Legislature two terms. As
he helped his state to redeem itself from the ruin
of war, so he was successful in his individual work
as a farmer and planter. He was a devoted meraber
of the Methodist Church, and in every sense was a
progressive citizen and had an ideal character as a
friend and horae raaker.
He raarried for his first wife Miss Theresa Wil
liams, of the sarae family name, but not related.
She lived but a short time after her marriage. In
1868 Colonel WiUiams married Miss Nannie I.
Campbell, a daughter of Dr. Robert Erskine Camp
bell, whose personal career is briefly noted else
where. Mrs. WUliaras survives her honored hus
band and is still living at Cross Hill. She is a de
voted raeraber of the Methodist Church.
Cornelius Otts, a former solicitor of the Seventh
Judicial Circuit, is a Spartanburg lawyer of wide
and varied experience in his profession, in business
and public affairs. He has won erainence in his pro
fession by the hardest kind of work and from
restricted opportunities in early life.
He was born in Union County, South Carolina,
in 1869, son of James D. and EUen J. (Gault) Otts.
Both parents are now deceased. His father, also
a native of Union County, received his education
in the University of North Carolina at Chapel
HUl. He left his studies in that institution in 1864
to enter the Confederate Army, and was in the fight
until the close. After the war he taught school at
Charlotte, Raleigh and Greensboro in North Caro
lina. Exposure and hardships of war had made
serious inroads on his health. Due to a severe
attack of measles his lungs became affected, and in
1874 he had to leave the South altogether and seek
restoration in Colorado. From there he went to
Florida and died in 1875. His widow survived
him until igo2.
Cornelius Otts was only six years old when his
father died, and he grew up and remained until'
manhood on a farra in Union County. He was
only a boy when he conceived an arabition to
becorae a lawyer, and that arabition never left him.
He first began the study of law under Colonel
McKissick of Union County. Then foUo.wed a
period of years when he deferred the goal of his
ambition at the request of his mother, who desired
that he remain on the farm, and he devoted his
time and talents to agriculture until 1896. While
farming and a student of the law he was elected
to the Legislature from Union County. In the
meantirae, however, in 1895 he had been admitted
to the bar and had begun practice in the same
year. In that year he was elected and served as
a member of the State Constitutional Convention
and had the distinction of being the youngest mem
ber of the body. During the convention he attracted
the notice of George D. TUlman, who became a
warra friend of the young delegate from Union,
and noting his talents and marked adaptability for
the law lent every encourageraent in attaining his
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House of Representatives and he served during the
session of 1897. In that year Cherokee County was
carved out of Union County, and in i8g8 Mr. Otts
located for the practice of his profession at Gaff
ney, county seat of the new county. In 1904 Chero
kee County sent hira again to the House of Repre
sentatives, and during that session he was the leader
in the fight against the State Dispensary System and
carried the campaign to a successful conclusion.
In 1906 Mr. Otts was again sent to Colurabia as
state senator for Cherokee County, and served as
such until ApriJ igog.
He left the Senate to accept appointraent as solici
tor of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, and was the
active, vigilant and determined representative of
the state in the prosecution of crirainals for almost
four years. In the meantime in igio he established
his permanent home in Spartanburg, and there he
has continued to enjoy a large and increasingly re
munerative practice. Mr. Otts has been admitted
to all the State and Federal courts. His work is not
confined to any one class, but embraces all phases
of litigation. It is said that he has the largest
private law library in South Carolina.
Mr. Otts in spite of a very busy career has had
some military experience. He was a member of
the Pea Ridge Rifles, which was Company K of
the old Third South Carolina Regiraent in 1888.
While at Gaffney he was made captain of the Lirae
stone Guards, which was Company M of the First
South Carolina Regiment.
Mr. Otts helped organize the first BuUding and
Loan Association in Gaffney and was its attorney
and a director untU he removed to Spartanburg.
He also served as a director of the Merchants and
Farraers Bank of Gaffney and is still a director of
the Globe Cotton Mills of that city. Mr. Otts
raarried Miss Sibbie O. Spears of Union County.
William Walker Thompson spent his boyhood
in the period of the war and reconstruction, had
to take up his individual career without means
and resources except those contained in his own
character and energy, and has so far prospered
that he is now one of the large land owners of An
derson County, possesses a fine farra residence and
has an interesting and happy faraily,
He was born June 6, 1857, in Aridersori Couuty,
sori of Beverly L. arid Mary (Welborri) Thorapson,
both of whora are natives of the same county. His
grandfather, Jaraes Thompson, was born in Lau
rens County and married Harriet McElroy, of
Greenville County. Later they settled in Anderson
County, where he spent his career as a farmer.
Jaraes Thompson's chUdren were Annie, Beverly L.,
Lizzie, William, Dorlie (who died whUe a Confed
erate soldier), SaUie, and Josie (better known as
Maggie) .
Beverly L. Thorapson, father of WiUiara Walker
Thorapson, left his faraily to enter the Confederate
army and after one of the battles was reported
raissing and his exact fate was never determined.
His wife, who was a daughter of WiUiam and
Nancy (Wadell) Welborn, survived him several
years, and she was the mother of the following chil
dren: Robert, William Walker, Lawrence R.,
Nancy Harris and John Thompson.

WiUiam Walker Thompson remained with his
mother to the age of twenty-seven and in that tirae
acquired his education . and made the best possible
use of his opportunities to gain a substantial start
in life. In 1884 he married Miss Ella McMurtrey.
They have children whose names in order of birth
are Wade, Lawrence Hunter, James R., Mary,
Ella, Kathjeen and Wilraa. Mr. and Mrs. Thorapson
are members of the Hopewell Baptist Church.
Lawson Abner Bolt. The Bolt family has been
in South Carolina over a century and has been rep
resented by many sturdy sons of toil, farmers, pro
fessional raen, soldiers and good citizens all.
The original American ancestor came from Ireland
and settled in Virginia. Three of his son's, John,
Abram and Edmund, were born in Virginia, and
came frora there with their parents to South Caro
lina, settling in Laurens County. John Bolt, one
of the three sons, was the great-grandfather of Law-
son Abner Bolt of Centerville Township, Ander
son County. John Bolt spent his life in Laurens
County, and his son Asa Bolt was born in Laurens
County, and raarried Hannah Crombie, and came
with his family to Anderson County in 1851, settling
in Pendleton Township. Asa Bolt and wife had
nine sons who were Confederate soldiers. Their
naraes were William, Toliver, John K., Thomas,
Crombie C, Abrara, Lewis Martin,- Edmund and
Oliver. Four of these sons gave up their lives dur
ing the war, two being killed in battle and two dying
of disease. William and Oliver are now living.
There were three daughters also : Elizabeth, Mary
Caroline and Teresa Adaline. Elizabeth is still liv
ing. Abram Bolt, father of Lawson Abner, was bom in
Laurens County and spent his life as a farmer. He
married Mary MatUda Clark, and their chUdren
were : Martha Jane, widow of John Thomas Mil
ford ; Lawson Abner ; Thomas Lorenzo, who was
killed by accident at the age of eighteen; and J.
Adolphus. Lawson Abner Bolt grew up on the home farm and
farming has been his life pursuit. January 18, 1883,
he raarried Maraie Eliza Burns. She died in 1894,
the mother of four chUdren: Nannie, wife of J. An
son Shirley; Robert Abram; Irene, a trained nurse;
and Roy, who was killed by accident at the age of
twelve years. In 1897 Mr. Bolt married Ella C.
Little. They have six chUdren, named Macie, Mat-
tie Nell, Ruth, John Abner, Harvey Ligon and
Charles Adolphus.
Mr. Bolt's son, Robert Abram, now associated with
his father on the farm, has a rather unusual mUitary
record. He volunteered as a private in Company K
of the First South Carolina Regiment for service
on the Mexican border. He was transferred to a
supply company and made stable sergeant, and his
service on the border ran from AprU 17, 1916, to
November i8th of the same year. Not long after
returning horae he was recalled to service by the
entry of Araerica into the war with Germany. He
volunteered and on AprU 19, 1917, went to Camp
^tyx. South Carolina, but upon examination was
discharged for disability. June 5, 1917, he registered
li J ¦ ^*^* ^"'^ °" the 14th of July was again
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burg, and later was transferred to Fort Benjamin
Harrison at Indianapolis with the Ninety-Third En
gineers. He went overseas Septeraber 30, 1918, with
the One Hundred and Thirty-Eighth Engineers, and
while on the way over was raade sergeant and in
France was promoted to first class sergeant. He
rendered service in France as a locomotive engineer.
He was with the Expeditionary Forces eight months
and received his honorable discharge June 21, 1919.
He was educated at Clemson CoUege.
Mr. L. A. Bolt has always been a progressive
farmer and kept abreast of all advances in agricul
ture. For twelve years he was cotton statistician
to the Federal Departraent of Agriculture. He is
a member of the Masonic order and Woodmen of the
World and he is a Methodist. Mrs. Bolt is a Pres
byterian. Pleas Mahaffey. The qualities of adaptability,
persistence, common sense and good judgment have
prevailed in the life of Pleas Mahaffey, winning for
him an enviable rank araong the business, agricul
tural, social and political eleraents of Townville and
Anderson County. His career has been one worthy
of eraulation, for he started life in modest circum
stances, and solely through individual effort has ad
vanced himself to a place of prorainence, prosperity
and independence.
Mr. Mahaffey is a product of the agricultural re
gions of Anderson County, his birth having occurred
in Fork Township September 11, 1871, his parents
being Pleasant Shaw Mahaffey and Catherine (Kate)
(Pitts) Mahaffey. His father was born in Laurens
County, South Carolina, November 23, 1832, a son
of Lewis Mahaffey, also a native of that country,
the latter being a son of Martin Mahaffey, one of
three brothers who as Revolutionary patriots emi
grated from Ireland and settled in Laurens County.
Kate (Pitts) Mahaffey was born in Laurens County,
a daugher of Belton Pitts, who came to Anderson
County many years ago, about the same tirae as
Pleasant Shaw Mahaffey, although the latter and
Mr. Pitts' daughter were raarried in Laurens Coun
ty. Pleasant S. Mahaffey was a Confederate sol
dier during the war between the states. In early
life he taught school, and many of his students have
since become prorainent citizens in various walks
of life. Of strong intellect, he was a raost able edu
cator, and in later life, as a farmer, attained most
gratifying success, for a long period being one of
the foremost agriculturists of Fort Township, where
he is stUl living in highly respected old age. Mrs.
Mahaffey died in 1892, aged fifty-eight years, having
been the mother of the following chUdren : Helen,
Caroline, Emma, Allie, Lewis Martin, Clayton Ben
net, Gertrude, Pleas and Luta (Louise). Pleasant
S. Mahaffey is the oldest resident of Fork Township,
and has led the life of a consistent Christian as a
devout member of the Baptist Church.
Pleas Mahaffey was given a good coramon school
education and was reared on the home farm, where
he remained until reaching the age of twenty-one
years. At that time he went to. Anderson where,
for four years, he served as assistant clerk of the
courts, subsequently entering upon his mercantile
career at Townville. He started as a partner of J.
W. Shirley, whose interest in the business he soon

took over by purchase, and since that tirae has con
ducted his establishraent alone, doing a constantly
increasing business as a general merchant. During
the twenty years in which he has followed mer
cantile lines he has prospered greatlv, and while
he began in a small and inconspicuous way, has
built up his business to a large proportion, and now
occupies an enviable position as a merchant, and
has the entire confidence of the community and a
high rating in business circles as a man of the
strictest integrity and probity of character. He
has also extensive farraing interests, being the
owner of a farra of several hundred acres in An
derson County, which he devotes largely to the rais
ing of cotton, corn, etc. In all of his undertakings
he is progressive and enterprising, being quick in
his adaptation of modern ideas and methods. He is
a consistent member of the Baptist Church, and is
fraternally affiliated with the (Woodmen of the
World. Mr. Mahaffey was married in igo6 to Miss Alice
Morrow, of Howe, Texas, and they are the parents
of two chUdren, Clay Randolph and Denniss Mor
row. William H. Muller. Aside from any considera
tion which might arise from his association with one
of the fine old famUies of South Carolina, William
H. Muller has erected around him a solid wall of
professional and general confidence, and as an at
torney of Dillon during seven years has built up a
patronage ofttimes not acquired in a score of years.
His public services during this tirae have been of
the most helpful character and he is rightly ad
judged one of the raost useful and constructive of
his coraraunity's citizens.
Mr. Muller was born in Lexington County, South
Carolina, December 7, 1883, a son of William G.
Muller. The Muller family originated in Germany,
but has resided in the United States from a -period
shortly following the close of the Revolutionary
war. The grandfather of W. H. Muller, William G.
Muller, the elder, fought as a soldier of the Con
federacy during the war between the states, in which
he rose to the rank of colonel, and following the
close of that struggle resumed his activities as
a physician in Lexington County, where his death
occurred. His son, WUliam G. Muller, the younger,
passed his entire life in planting, and became a well-
to-do and influential citizen of his coraraunity, where
he was held in the highest respect and esteera. He
married Mary Ella Varn, a native of South Caro
lina and a daughter of Aaron Varn, also born in this
state, and WUliam H. Muller is the second in order
of five children born to this union.
Williara H. Muller was reared on a plantation in
Colleton County, South Carolina, where he received
his early education in the rural schools. Later he
was sent to the South Carolina College, now the
University of South Carolina, where in igo5 he was
graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He
then took up the study of law, and in igo7 was ad
mitted to the South Carolina bar and began the prac
tice of his profession at BennettsvUle, in corapany with
Knox Livingston. Later he went to Columbia, as
assistant to the general counsel for the Southern
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sition and came to DUlon, where he entered into
partnership with J. B. Gibson. They are now in the
enjoyment of a large and lucrative general prac
tice and have represented a number of iraportant
concerns, their practice being largely corporation
and coraraercial law. To his profound knowledge
of the law, Mr. Muller adds an interesting and confi
dence-inspiring personality and a keen desire to ob
serve the best tenets of his calling. In February,
igi6, he became president of the Bank of Dillon,
a position which he stUl retains, and in which he has
made the institution one of the substantial banking
houses of the county.
In 1915 Mr. Muller raarried Octavia Bethea, daugh
ter of John C. and Marietta Bethea, and they are the
parents of two children : a daughter, Mary, and a son
W. H. Muller, Jr, Fraternally Mr. MuUer is affiliat
ed with the Masons and the Knights of Pythias, and
he and his wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal
Church, in which he is Sunday school superintendent.
He has been very active in local civic affairs, and
during the period of the war served as chairraan of
legal advisory of the county, as chairraan of the Lib
erty Loan coraraittee, as fuel adrainistrator, and as
chairraan of the Red Cross. He also has been chair
man of the board of stewards of the Methodist Epis
copal Church, and in various other ways has contrib
uted to the welfare of his community and its people.
William Micajah Brown is a resident of Wal
halla. He is one of the leading business men of that
city and has filled a large position in public affairs,
being former mayor. Many of those who know hira
in his business and public capacity are unaware of
the strenuous struggles he went through as a youth
to earn his living and overcorae the handicaps of
circurastances and adversity.
He was born in Transylvania County, North Caro
lina, May 18, i860. His father, Henry Brown, a
native of South Carolina, soon after the birth of
his son enlisted in the Confederate array and in the
second year of the war he died at Petersburg, Vir
ginia, where he fills a soldier's grave. His wife
was Joanna Thomas. She was a native of North
Carolina. She was left a young widow with two
sons and a daughter, and made a brave fight to
rear her children.
At the early age of ten years Williara Micajah
Brown was thrown on his own resources. Up to that
time he had attended school but a few days and
never after that was a regular student, though by
individual experience and a constant habit of ob
servation has acquired a range and volume of
knowledge that would do credit to a raan of acaderaic
training. At the age of teri years he went to Co
lurabia and a year later to Charlotte, North Caro
lina, where he remained nine years. Two and a half
years of that tirae he worked as an apprentice at
the trade of baker. He also worked as a carpenter
and learned the trade of cigar maker. These con
fining occupations undermined his health, and when
it became necessary to leave Charlotte he reraoved
to the western part of North Carolina and had sev
eral years as a farraer. With health restored he be
came a resident of Oconee County in 1891. He ac
quired a tract of farra land on White Water River
in the northern part of the county and combined

¦agriculture with merchandising and for eight years
operated the White Water Inn, which he buUt
as a house of public entertainment on his own land.
In igo6 Mr, Brown raade another iraportant change
when he removed to the county seat of WalhaUa.
Here he engaged first as a dealer in horses and
mules, harness, buggies and wagons, later added a
general line of agricultural implements, and stiU
later automobiles and tractors. He has continued
this important business service to the town and
surrounding country coraraunities, and has one of
the chief businesses of its kind in Upper South
Carolina. His store rooras are of concrete, and they
and his raodern and handsorae residence are part
of his material contribution to the town. He has
been really a constructive worker in the growth
and developraent of Walhalla, and it was his. lead
ership and sterling qualities recognized by his fel
low citizens that caused thera to vote him into the
office of mayor for three consecutive terms. At the
close of his third term he declined further election.
During the war period Mr. Brown was not only
a liberal contributor but a leader in raising funds
for war purposes. He still has farm interests, and
out of the steady work and application of right prin
ciples of living through many years has accumu
lated a competence and a business and social posi
tion that are part of true success in life.
In 1889 Mr. Brown married Miss Lou Glazener,
of Transylvania County. North Carolina. Both are
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their
children are Fred, Arthur, Clyde C, Lloyd, Myrtle,
Ruth, Grace and Maurice. The oldest son is an in
dependent farmer, while Arthur is associated with
his father in business. Clyde C. left Wofford Col
lege to enter the army, and both he and his brother
Lloyd were members of the American E.xpeditionary
Forces in France.
William Augustus Strother. W'hile Walhalla
is one of the most progressive young cities of the
state, there are many who would agree in the opin
ion that to a large extent the community owes its
original source of enterprise and inspiration and
progress to WiUiam Augustus Strother, whose name,
influence, means and initiative have been identified
with practicaUy every forward looking iraproveraent
and undertaking in that locality for a period of
nearly half a century.
Mr. Strother was born in Edgefield County, South
Carolina. February 14, 1845, son of George J. and
Eloise (Bates) Strother. His father was a native of
Edgefield and his mother of Lexington Countv. The
maternal grandfather, George Strother, a native of
Edgefield County, spent his life there and died
m young manhood. The Strother famUy is of Eng
lish oris-in, and came to South Carolina frora Vir
ginia. The first of the name in this state was Jere
miah Strother, who settled in Edgefield County on
the Saluda River. Mr. Strother in the maternal line
IS originally of German ancestry. The first of the
Bates family in South Carolina was Michael, who
settled in Newberry County.
¦William Augustus Strother as a bov on hjs
fathers farm acquired a practical if not liberal edu
cation. Whatever plans may have been made for
nis higher education were abandoned at the outbreak

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of the war between the states. At seventeen he
enlisted in the army. At that time his older brother,
Edward F. Strother, and others upon whom his
father depended largely for operating his plan
tation, were already in the war, and at his father's
request the son was sent back home. In January,
1863, when more insistent need for his services was
felt, he enlisted in Company K of the Second Heavy
ArtUlery, and was with that comand until the close
of the war.
The four years following the war he spent farming
on the old homestead. He then bought a tract of
land near Ridge Springs, took his bride to that lo
cality and remained a farmer there untU 1872.
Mr. Strother's history has been linked with that
of Walhalla since 1872, thojigh in the following year
he returned to his farm for a couple of years. He
has been a permanent resident of Walhalla since
1875. His locating here was largely due to the
wishes and inducements held out by his father-in-
law, the late Capt. J. P. Mickler. Captain Mickler
for many years was a merchant and leading citizen
of Walhalla, but finally removed to Greenwood,
where he spent the last ten years of his life. In the
early years of his residence in Walhalla Mr. Strother
was associated with Captain Mickler in merchandis
ing. In one way or another he has retained an
active part in mercantile affairs at Walhalla ever
since, and at the same time ha.s owned and looked
after farms in the outlying country.
It is almost an industrial record of Walhalla to
note even briefly the enterprises with which Mr.
Strother has been identified as a contributor or
founder. These enterprises include the cotton mill,
oU mill, electric light and power plant, and banking
interests. For several years he was at the head of
the People's Bank of Walhalla, which was after
wards merged with the present bank of Walhalla.
WhUe there were many who deplored the lack of
raodern means of Uluraination in the town, Mr.
Strother was the most prominent in taking prac
tical steps to supply that iraproveraent and organized
the present Walhalla Light & Power Company,
with which he is still connected. He was also
active in the organization of the Walhalla Cot
ton MUl, in which he is a stockholder, and was
an organizer and an original stockholder in the
Heterick Hosiery MUl. With his partner, James
Pinney, he built the West Union OU MUl, which
is owned and operated by thera. The firra also
deals extensively in groceries, cotton and fertilizers
at West Union and operates a flouring and grist
mUl. Mr. Strother's career has been one of real public
advantage, though he has never sought the honors
of politics and has held several minor local offices
out of a raere sense of duty. However, he was
captain of a "Red Shirt" Corapany in the campaign
of 1876, when under the leadership of Gen. Wade
Hampton South Carolina relieved itself from the
burden of negro and carpet bag rule.
In 1871 Mr. Strother married Hassie M. Mickler,
daughter of Capt. J. P. Mickler, and a native of
Edgefield County. "To their marriage were bom four
children: Carrie, wife of Dr. J. W. BeU, of Wal
halla; Bessie, wife of J, H, Darby, a cotton raUl
operator at Seneca, but a resident of Walhalla;

Eloise, at home; and Irene, wife of Dr. C. P. Corn,
physician at Johnson's Depot, South Carolina. Mr.
and Mrs. Strother are members of the Methodist
Church. George Pierce Browne, owner and publisher of
the Anderson Daily Mail, learned the printing busi
ness when a boy, was a practical printer for a num
ber of years, but has made his best success as a
newspaper man in the management of the Daily Mail.
He was born on a farm in the southern part of Ander
son County August 27, 1867, son of Jasper and Elvira
(Sraith) Browne, also natives of South Carolina.
George Pierce Browne, youngest of eight children,
lived at horae to the age of thirteen, and during
that tirae attended the aid field school. His best
education has been acquired by experience as a print
er and newspaper raan. Going to Columbia at the
age of thirteen, he lived with an uncle who was pub
lisher of a religious paper, and in his uncle's print
ing shop he acquired a thorough training in aU the
mechanical details of the art.
Hon. James W. Hamer, Sr. Since its establish
ment in South Carolina prior to the Revolutionary
war, the Hamer family has unfaUingly sustained the
most practical and intelligent interests of the state
and has manipulated with equal courage and ability
the implements of the land tUler and the weapons
of the soldier. Its raen have deraonstrated the worth
of industry and integrity, and its women have kept
their households in order and taught their chUdren
to be fair, honest and considerate in their dealings
with their fellowraen. It was in such an atmosphere
that Hon. James W. 'Haraer, representative frora
DUlon County in the State Legislature and one of
the leading planters of his county, was reared by
his parents, R. P. and SaUie (McCaU) Haraer,. to
whora he was born at Little Rock, South Carolina,
November i, 1871.
The Hamer faraily originated in England and its
original Araerican progenitor carae to this country
prior to the War of the Revolution. R. C. Haraer,
the grandfather of J. W. Hamer, was born in Marl
boro County, South Carolina, and was one of that
county's extensive planters. He was also a prorai
nent and influential citizen and a meraber of the
coraraission that had charge of the building of the
old Court House at Marion. R. P. Haraer, Sr., was
born in the vicinity of Little Rock, where he spent
his entire life as a successful planter. He died, high
ly respected and esteeraed, at the age of seventy-
four years. Mr. Hamer married SaUie McCaU,
daughter of Col. William McCaU, of Florence Coun
ty, South Carolina, a large landholder, and- a member
of a family of Scotch origin which located in South
Carolina prior to the Revolutionary war. To R. P.
and Sallie Hamer there were born thirteen children,
of whora seven are living: Lizzie, the wife of T D.
Stackhouse, of Columbia. South Carolina; WiUiam
M of AshevUle, North Carolina; May H., the wife
of 'W H Hardin, of Chester, this state ; Jaraes W. ;
Sadie, the wife of Dr. J. R, Rodgers, of Dillon;
Maude, who is unmarried; and Norraa L., the wife
of J. D. Manning, of DiUon.
Jaraes W. Haraer obtained his early education in
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he pursued a course at Wofford College, in 1891-92.
He is one of the prominent planters of his part of
the state, and is accounted a business man of superior
ability, and a man of the soundest and strictest in
tegrity. For a tirae he resided at Dillon, where he
had a commodious and attractive home, but in 191 1
returned to his native place of Little Rock, where
he erected his beautiful and modern residence, one
of the finest in this part of DUlon County. From
young manhood he has been interested in politics,
in which he has taken an active and prominent part,
and in 1916 was elected representative to the Lower
House of the South Carolina Legislature, a posi
tion to which he was re-elected in 1918. Since join
ing that body he has been a meraber of the ways and
means committee, and through his able and consci
entious labors has had a part in securing some rauch
needed legislation for his county and state. His
capacities as a legislator have measured up fully
to his abUities in other directions and his services
have served to stamp hira indelibly as one of the
really useful raen of his tirae. He is well known
fraternally, belonging to the Masons, the Woodmen
of the World and the Knights of Pythias.
On Deceraber 24, 1896, Mr. Haraer was united in
raarriage with Miss Sallie Beeden, of Bennettsville,
Marlboro County, a daughter of Thomas J. and
Sallie (Townsend) Beeden, the former a prominent
planter in the vicinity of Bennettsville, where Mrs.
Hamer was reared and educated. They are the par
ents of four children : Louise, the wife of James
Hasty, of Dillon; Lura Deane, the wife of Houston
Manning, of Latta; and AUeen and James W., Jr.,
who reside with their parents.
George Warren Gignilliat is a native of Geor
gia, but has spent his raature career in the state
where his Huguenot ancestors settled in colonial
tiraes and where the narae Gignilliat for generations
has been one of deserved prominence.
Mr. Gignilliat, who for forty years has been one
of the conspicuous leaders at Seneca, was born at
Darien, Georgia, January 17, 1854, a son of Norman
Page and Charlotte Gignilliat CTrezevant) Gignil
liat. The Gignilliat family was established in Araer
ica by Jean Francois Gignilliat, a French Huguenot,
native of Switzerland, who came to Araerica about
1685 and settled in South Carolina. He raarried
Susanne Le Surerier, a daughter of Jacques Le
Surerier of French Huguenot colonists in South
Carolina. Jean Francois Gignilliat's son Abrahara
had a son John, whose son in turn, Jaraes Gignilliat,
married Charlotte Pepper, and their son Gilbert
Gignilliat married Mary McDonald. Gilbert and
his wife were the grandparents of the Seneca busi
ness raan. Charlotte Gignilliat Trezevant was a
daughter of John F. and Margaret (GigniUiat)
Trezevant. The Trezevants trace their ancestry
from Daniel Trezevant, a French Huguenot who
settled in colonial tiraes in South Carolina. "The
GignUliats settled on the Santee River in South
Carolina. George W. GignUliat through his paternal
grandraother, Mary McDonald, has a strong strain
of Scotch blood, being also related to the Farqu-
hars. Mr. Gignilliat's father was a native of
Georgia and his parents spent all their lives in that
state. His father was a rice planter with large

possessions and many slaves, but his fortune was
swept away by the war, and at its close the famUy
located at Marietta.
George Warren Gignilliat, who was one of four
sons and four daughters, grew up at Marietta, at
tended district school, spent two years in school at
Griffin and at the age of sixteen entered the Uni
versity of Virginia. He spent only one year there,
his father dying, and as a result he returned home.
In 1873 he was graduated from the University of
Georgia, and about the same tirae he accepted a po
sition with the Roswell Manufacturing Company at
Roswell, Georgia. He was. with that firm four
years and then with such capital as he had been able
to save in the meantime he moved to Seneca in Sep
tember, 1878, and engaged in the general merchan
dise business. Though his circumstances were ex
ceedingly modest, he prospered in business, and
continued a service of supplying general merchan
dise in that coraraunity for over twenty years. The
cotton and fertilizer business next occupied his at
tention, and in that his son Charles N. became his
partner under the firra narae of G. W. Gignilliat &
Son. They maintained a large cotton warehouse,
operated a cotton seed oil mill, and in addition han
dled a large volurae of loan and mortgage business.
In January, 1917, they engaged in the wholesale
grocery business under the name of G. W. Gignilliat
& Company. Mr. GignUliat is therefore one of the
leading business and financial figures in his section
of the state. He has studiously kept out of politics,
though for one term he was mayor of Seneca, and
is a Master Mason and Knight of Pythias.
'With good reason he is proud of his family of
children, and his home life is his chief source of
happiness. June 16, 1880, Mr. GigniUiat married
Miss Sue Lawrence, a daughter of Joseph N. Law
rence of Pickens County. They have living chil
dren: Charles N., noted above as his father's
business associate, is a graduate of Clemson Col
lege and an electrical engineer by profession. The
oldest daughter. Lulu, is a graduate of Winthrop
College, whUe the other daughters. Sue L. and
Norma, are graduates of the College for Women
at Colurabia. The youngest son, George Warren,
Jr., received his A. B. degree frora Davidson Col
lege in North Carolina, being first honor man of
his class, was awarded the Master of Arts degree
by Harvard University, and after serving in the
National army during the World war became in
structor m the United States Naval Academy at
Annapolis. Joseph Shelor Stribling, M. D. For over thirty
years this well qualified and able physician has prac
ticed his profession in the Seneca coraraunity of
Oconee County, and his raany services have earned
hira a place of peculiar affection and regard. Doctor
Stribling represents some of the old and prominent
families of South Carolina. He has the unusual
distinction of being the grandson of a Revolutionary
soldier. •'
Doctor Stribling was born on his father's farm
at Kichland in Oconee County January 10, 1864,
^T %l ¦^•' ^'°^^^ ^"'l A""a (Verner) Stribling.
the Stnblings are of Welsh lineage, the first Amer
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great-grandfather, Thomas Stribling, moved from
Virginia to North Carolina, whUe the next genera
tion, represented by Jesse Stribling, came to South
Carolina. and settled at. Richland. Jesse Stribling
reared his family at Richland. His wife was Eliz
abeth Sloan, member of an old and prominent
South Carolina family. M. Stokes Stribling and two
of his older brothers were Confederate soldiers.
Through his mother Doctor Stribling is related to
the Verner family, which came to South Carolina
from Pennsylvania. Anna Verner's father was
John Verner, Jr., who was a son of John and Mary
(Pettigrew) 'Verner. John Verner and John, Jr.,
fought side by side as Revolutionary soldiers. John
Verner, Jr., was born loi years and four days before
his grandson. Dr. Stribling. The latter's mother was
a meraber of the Daughters of the American Rev
olution in the Columbia Chapter. John Verner, Jr.,
settled at Retreat in Oconee County.
Doctor Stribling, the youngest of the twelve chil
dren of his parents, grew up on his father's farm
at Richland, obtaining his early education in the
country schools. In 1866 he graduated from Erskine
College with the A. B. degree and in 1888 received
his medical degree from Bellevue Hospital Medical
College of New York City. He had also taken one
course of lectures in the University of Maryland
at Baltimore. Imraediately on returning from the
university he located at Seneca in 1888, and rapidly
acquired a good practice and has continued his work
all the intervening years. He is a member of the
County Medical Society, the State Medical Society,
whose annual meetings he attended as a delegate
for many years, and belongs to the American Med
ical Association. Doctor Stribling has farra inter
ests, is a director of the Seneca bank, but has been
too busy with his profession to mingle in politics.
He is a Master Mason and Knight of Pythias and
member of the Presbyterian Church.
His first wife was Sarah M. Livingston, who died
without chUdren. He then raarried Miss Susan
Bell, and they have one daughter, Susan Stribling.
James Pierce Coates. A prorainent school man
who has been connected with several school systems
in the state is city superintendent at Seneca,
Mr. Coates is one of the educators who are doing
so much to vitalize and raise the standards of mod
ern education in South Carolina.
He was born on a farm in Laurens County July
17, 1888, a son of Williara and Myra (Cox) Coates.
He grew up on a farra, attended rural schools, also
the graded school at Cross Hill, and achieved his
own liberal education largely through his own earn
ings and by exercise of rauch thrift and diligence.
For one year he taught in a country school and in
the fall of 1907 entered the University of South
Carolina as a scholarship student from Laurens
County. Mr. Coates graduated with the A. B. de
gree in 1911. Since then he has taken three sum
mer courses at Peabody Institute, the first being un-
dfr scholarship privUeges. He. attended the school
for vocational teachers in agriculture at Clemson
CoUege in the suramer of 1918.
The two years following his graduation from
university Mr. Coates was principal of a three-
teacher graded school in Laurens County. For two

years he was principal of the high school at Fort
Mill, then superintendent of the ' city schools at
Beaufort for two years, and in 1917 took up his
present congenial duties as superintendent of the
city schools of Seneca.
Mr. Coates married Miss Bessie Madden, of Lau
rens County, in 191 2. They have one daughter,
Elizabeth. The family are members of the Baptist
Church. Leonce Vaughan, president of the Bank of Harts
ville, is one of the well known men in financial af
fair's, though thirty years or more ago he was toil
ing in the ranks and has made his industry and native
intelligence win him every promotion and new open
ing in the world of affairs.
He was born on a farm in what is now Florence
then Darlington County, March 30, i860. The famUy
is of Welsh descent, the name having originally been
spelled Vychan. His grandfather, Williara Vaughan,
was also a native of Darlington County and a farra
er. The father, E. H. Vaughan, served in the Confed
erate army, followed farming and merchandising,
and died at the age of fifty-six. The mother's maid
en narae was Elizabeth HoUomon, a native of South
Carolina, and daughter of Elias HoUomon who
came to this state from North Carolina.
Leonce Vaughan was the fourth in a faraily of elev
en children, nine of whom reached mature years and
six of whom are still living. He grew up on a farm,
and afterwards through his own efforts and earnings
supplemented a common school education with a
course in Trinity CoUege in North Carolina, and
in a business college at Atlanta. He entered the
commercial field as a bookkeeper, and followed that
occupation for a number of years. He raade him
self useful, earned the confidence of his associates,
proved his capacity for handling larger affairs, and
has risen steadily in the scale of coraraercial promi
nence, Mr. Vaughan organized in 1903 the Bank of HartS-
vUle, was its cashier untU elected president ten years
ago. The bank originally capitalized at $50,000, now
has a capital of $75,ooo and is one of the stanch in
stitutions in eastern South Carolina.
Mr Vaughan married in 1888 Julia Coker, a daugh
ter of Josiah M. Coker. They have three chUdren :
Edith, LucUle and Leonce, Jr, Mr. Vaughan and
faraUy are active raembers of the Baptist Chutch.
John Wakefield Wickliffe, M, D. A physician
and surgeon who has avaUed himself of some of
the very " exceptional opportunities of his profes
sion. Doctor Wickliffe is a member of the medical
fraternity at West Union, where with the exception
of a few years he has practiced since 1889.
He was born in what is now Oconee County Oc
tober I, 1865, son of Isaac and Celeste (Wakefield)
Wickliffe. His great-grandfather, Isaac Wickliffe,
was born in Culpepper County, Virginia, Deceraber
8, 1752, and came with his family to South Carolina
in 1794. He died July 21, 1797- His wife was
Franky Edwards, who was born May 6, i757. and
died December 13, 1822. When Isaac Wickliffe
carae to South Carolina he first settled on the
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moved to GreenvUle Court House. He and his wife
had two sons and a daughter.
WUliam Edwards Wickliffe, grandfather of Doc
tor Wickliffe, was born May 15, 1795, and died July
2, 1878. He married Caroline Blassingame, a daugh
ter of Gen. John and Elizabeth Blassingame.
Isaac Wickliffe, father of Doctor Wickliffe, was
born at Greenville March 28, 1830, and died March 29,
1906. He was a lawyer by profession, served as a
Confederate soldier, and located at Pickens Court
House in 1850. After the CivU war he was elected
district judge and served about a year, untU that
office was abolished. He was always known there
after as Judge Wickliffe. In 1870 he moved to
West Union, and remained a resident of that com- -
munity until his death. In Oconee County he served
as school commissioner for twelve years and held
other minor offices.
In 1859 Isaac Wickliffe raarried Celeste Wake
field, a daughter of John Wakefield and meraber
of the well known Wakefield family of Anderson
County, where she was born. She was the mother
of the following children : William Edwards, de
ceased ; Mary ; John W. ; Caroline, deceased ; Mil
ton ; Easley ; Charles Walton ; and Emma. Many
of the facts and dates herein recorded- are taken
frora an old faraily Bible that has been in the
Wickliffe faraily since 1776.
Doctor Wickliffe acquired a good literary educa
tion in Adger CoUege at Walhalla, and in 1888 grad
uated in medicine from the College of Physicians
and Surgeons at Baltimore and also from the Uni
versity of New York City in 1889. He iraraedi
ately located in West Union and practiced with a
steadily growing clientage untU 1894. In that year
he removed to Newfoundland, where he practiced
one year, and from 1896 to 1901 was connected with
the Manhattan State Hospital in New York City.
He returned to West Union in 1901, and has con
tinued an uninterrupted practice there for the past
eighteen years. He is a raeraber of the Oconee
County Medical Society, the State Medical Asso
ciation and the Araerican Medical Association.
Doctor Wickliffe married Miss Mary Barbour of
Newtown, Newfoundland, in 1901. She was born
and reared in Newfoundland, and is the daughter
of Capt. Joseph Barbour. Most of her people were
seafarers by occupation. Doctor and Mrs. Wickliffe
have four children, named Celeste, Margaret,
Franky and Isaac Barbour Wickliffe.
Frank S. Holleman, cashier of the Seneca Bank,
has been a factor in the business life of Oconee
County for raany years, and is a son of the late
Joseph 'W, Holleraan, whose raany services to the
coraraunity are held in grateful raeraory.
Frank S. Holleman was born at Walhalla August
21, 1868, son of Joseph W. and Salena (Sharp)
Holleman. Joseph W. Holleraan was born at
Sandy Springs in Anderson County March 14, 1841.
His father died four months before he was born,
and he grew up practically araong strangers. At
the very beginning of the war he volunteered, en
listing in Orr's Regiment of Rifles, raised by James
L. Orr, afterwards governor, and served with con
tinuous fidelity and bravery throughout the entire
war. Not long after his return from the army he

was elected county treasurer of Oconee County,
and by repeated re-elections was retained in those
duties for sixteen years. For several years he was
also master in equity for the county, and up to the
time of his death was commissioner of pensions
for his comrades in the Confederate service. This
duty he performed as a matter of love, without
corapensation. He and his wife were members of
the Presbyterian Church at Walhalla, and for many
years he was a ruling elder. Joseph W. HoUeman
died at.<Walhalla May 26, 1917. His wife was born
near 'Walhalla June 28, 1842, and died there Febru
ary 17, 191 1. She came of one of the /oldest and
raost prorainent farailies of Oconee County, the
Sharps. Frank S. Holleman acquired a comraon school
education at Walhalla. He first engaged in busi
ness as a liveryraan in his horae city, and during
that tirae served a term as mayor. For a number
of years he has been interested in farming, still
has farra lands and for several years personally 'su
pervised them. In 1901 he became assistant cashier
of the Seneca Bank, and since 1904 has been cashier
of that institution. Mr. Holleraan is a member of
the Knights of Pythias and a Presbyterian.
In igo4 he married Miss Grace Thompson, daugh
ter of Madison L. Thompson of Seneca. Their
five children are Frances, Joseph L., Louis S., Frank
S., Jr., and Salena.
William Henry Trescot, who was born at
Charleston November 10, 1822, and died at Pendle
ton, South Carolina, May 4, i8g8, was a South
Carolinian whose reputation belongs largely to the
nation. He was conspicuous in the diploraatic af
fairs of the United States, and at the tirae of the
war between the sections was prorainent in the
Confederate governraent.
His parents were Henry and Sarah (McCrady)
Trescot, the former a native of South Carolina, a
son of Edward and Katharine (Bocquet) Trescot.
Edward Trescot was born at Cornwall, England,
and his wife was of Huguenot ancestry. Their
remains now repose in the old Huguenot Church
in Charleston.
Williara Henry Trescot graduated from the Col
lege of Charleston in 1840, taking first honors. He
studied law at Harvard, was adraitted to the bar
in 1843, and while practicing law he also managed
a cotton plantation. His talents well fitted hira for
public life and particularly those departraents above
the sphere of ordinary politics. In Deceraber, 1852,
he becarae United States secretary of legation in
London. He was assistant secretary of state in
the Federal Governraent in i860, but resigned when
South Carolina seceded. On account of the illness
and absence of General Cass he was made secretary
under warrant by the president June 20th, and
served as such untU the return of General Cass.
He -was a raeraber of the Legislature in 1862, 1864
and 1866 and during the war was on the staff of
General Ripley and also a member of the executive
councU. He was one of the revisers of the state
code. After the war he went to Washington as a
commissioner to represent his home state in mat
ters arising under the reconstruction act. In 187;
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m 1877 again entered the public service of the
United States as counsel for this country before
the fishery Commission of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
In 1880 he was sent as one of the plenipotentiaries
to China to revise the treaties with the American
Government. In 1881 he was the chief representa
tive concluding the, negotiations regarding rights of
the United States on the Isthmus of Panama. In
1881 he was a special envoy to Peru, ChUi and
Bolivia, then at war, and in 1882 he served as plen
ipotentiary with General Grant to negotiate a com
mercial treaty with Mexico. His later years were
spent in the practice of law at Washington, where
he also acted as the agent of the State of South
Carolina in settling questions growing out of the
war. Among his writings besides nuraerous addresses
were : "Thoughts on the Foreign Policy of the
United States," 1894; "Diploraacy of the Revolu
tion," 1852; "The Diploraatic Systera of the United
States," 1853; "An American View of the Eastern
Question," 1854; "Diplomatic History of the Ad
ministration of Washington and Adaras," 1857;
"Memoirs of Gen. John Pettigrew,'' 1870.
After retiring frora Washington Mr. Trescot
spent his last years on his plantation at Pendleton,
South Carolina.
Laurie Marvin Lawson. The law, public affairs
and banking have given Mr. Lawson a busy career
since he opened his offices and began practice at
Darlington fifteen years ago.
Mr. Lawson was born in Darlington County Sep
tember 19, 1873. His grandfather, Lewis Lawson,
was a native of Virginia and came to South Caro
lina about 1840. W. R. S. Lawson, father of Laurie
Marvin, was also a native of Darlington County,
served as a Confederate soldier throughout the en
tire war, and was a successful planter. He married
Julia Watford, a native of Darlington County, and
a daughter of Green Watford of the same county.
Laurie Marvin Lawson is the oldest of four chU
dren, was reared in his native county, and finished
his literary education in the Peabody Norraal School
at Nashville. He attended the law school of Cum
berland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, graduat
ing in 1902. He located at Darlington January i,
1904, and has handled a large general practice. He is
also interested in farming and farm lands, is director
of the Bank of Darlington and a director of the
Carolina National Bank and vice president of the
Bank of Oates. Mr. Lawson served three terms in
the House of Representatives and one term in the
State Senate. He is affiliated with the Masonic
order, the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of
the 'World.
William Mathews Alexander, who is known
all over Oconee County for his substantial character
and his success in private affairs and his public lead
ership, is the present sheriff of that county.
UntU he entered upon his official duties he had
seldom interested himself in affairs outside the
border of his home farm. He was born in Pickens
County October 6, 1874, son of Joseph Carson and
Sarah Elizabeth (McKenzie) Alexander. His
father, a native of GreenviUe County, was left an
orphan in his chUdhood and when about sixteen
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years of age enlisted in the Confederate army and
saw four years of active service. After the war
he married and settled on a farm in Pickens County
and soon afterward removed to Oconee County,
where for half a century he has been identified with
the agricultural community. He is now past seven
ty-four years of age and lives on his farm six mUes
east of Walhalla. He was chosen to represent Pick
ens County in both branches of the Legislature, was
a raember of the State Constitutional Convention of
1895, and subsequently served in the Senate from
Oconee County. His wife was a native of Charles
ton, a daughter of Francis E. and Mrs. (Simmons)
McKenzie. She died more than thirty years ago.
William M. Alexander was a sraall boy when his
parents raoved to Oconee County, where he grew up
on his father's farra, and has found in farming a
congenial and profitable occupation for his active
years. He was elected sheriff in igi8 and began his offi
cial duties January i, igig. Mr. Alexander married
Mrs, Annie (Cobb) McKenzie of Oconee County
October 24, 1897. They have three chUdren, Jo
sephine, Willie and Jack Alexander.
Probably every large newspaper in the country
has carried some item during the past two or three
years concei>ning Jack Alexander, whose record as
a youthful soldier is indeed unique. He was born
Noveraber 29, 1902, and was a student at Raiburn
Gap in Georgia in March, 1917, and enlisted in the
Seventeenth Infantry of the regular army. He
had only recently put on his first pair of long
trousers. In spite of his age he succeeded in con
vincing the authorities of his eligibUity for service,
and worked so diligently that in August, 1917, he
was raade a sergeant. His parents took steps to
get him out of the array and the following Novera
ber he was dismissed. In February, 1918, he re-
enlisted in the Coast Artillery and the following
June was again raised to the rank of sergeant.
With his command he arrived in France in August,
1918, and was W4th the Forty-Fifth Artillery untU
the signing of the arraistice. He returned to New
York City February 2, 1919, and has since been
granted his honorable discharge. It is believed
that he was the youngest soldier in the United States
array during the World war and was probably the
youngest noncoramissioned array officer in all the
allied armies. This fact has received widespread
recognition and Jack is a true hero of the war.
Sheriff Alexander is a raember of the Knights
of Pythias, is a Master Mason and Odd Fellow and
a meraber of the Methodist Church.
William Simpson Hunter. In his business re
lations WUliam Sirapson Hunter was always a
merchant, and his abUity to concentrate all his
energies along that one line is responsible for the
unusual success he won. His home was at Seneca,
where he lived for many years, and where his mera
ory is likely to be long cherished by his associates
in the coraraunity.
He was born in Pickens County October 21, 1852,
son of Andrew and Mary Reraer (Simpson) Hunter.
The Hunters carae to South Carolina frora Penn
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physician, and lived and practiced his profession
many years in Pickens County. Andrew Hunter, a
native of Pickens County, was a Confederate soldier,
and while he was in the array his wife reraoved the
faraily to Anderson County, and that was afterwards
their home.
William Simpson Hunter grew up on a farm, at
tained a coramon school education and also attended
school at Walhalla for a short tirae. He was about
twenty-two years of age when he went into the store
of M. W. Coleman at Seneca as a clerk. After some
years he was taken in as a partner, the partnership
continuing until the death of Mr. Coleraan. The
business was continued by Mr. Hunter, part of the
time with other partners, but at the time of his death
he was sole proprietor. He worked hard, had his
heart in the business, and his honest dealings won
him a great patronage and made friends everywhere
in Oconee County.
Mr. Hunter was never a candidate for public office,
though exceedingly public spirited. In early life he
confessed religion an'd joined the Presbyterian
Church, and was an active worker both in church
and Sunday school. When the Presbyterian Church
of Seneca was organized he was ordained a deacon
and after many years of service on the Board of
Deacons was made a ruling elder. He- held that
official relation to the church when he died March
23, 1918.
In 1887 he married Miss Nina Dickinson Lewis,
daughter of John J. and Carrie (Dickinson) Lewis.
Her father was born at Pendleton and her mother
at Charleston. John J. Lewis was a Confederate
soldier, and for si.xteen years was clerk of the
court in Pickens County. He died in 1910, at the
age of seventy-two, whUe Mrs. Hunter's mother
died in 1880. In his home life Mr. Hunter found
his chief delight, and the companionship of his
wife and daughters was his recreation frora the cares
of business. Mrs. Hunter and three daughters sur
vive hira: Carrie, wife of T. B. AUen Jones, of An
derson; Sue Ellen, wife of R. G. Carson, of Holly
Hill ; and Anne Anderson Hunter, at home with
her mother. The youngest daughter gets her middle
name frora her great-great-grandfather General
Robert Anderson, a distinguished Revolutionary
character. Lafayette Asbury Edwards, who was president
of the Citizens Bank of Serieca at the time of his
death, achieved uriusual success arid prorairience in
business affairs, and his life, because of the early
obstacles and handicaps he overcame, should prove
a real inspiration to all who read its record.
He was born at Athens, Georgia, in 1865, son of
John and Sarah Edwards. His father died while a
Confederate soldier. The boy was reared by an
older brother in Georgia, spending a few years with
an uncle in Louisiana, and owing to these circum
stances and conditions had no school opportunities.
His brother taught hira to read and write. The
most significant event in his early destiny was his
marriage at the age of twenty to Miss Lula Keese,
a native of South Carolina.
Soon after his marriage he embarked all his
modest capital, his credit and his .faith in a mer
cantUe venture. The location was at Turnersville,

in the mountains of Rabun County, Georgia. The
stock was a meager and humble one, and was housed
in a small store roora which served the double pur
pose of store and residence. Mr. Edwards remained
there two years, later was a raerchant for eight
years at Fair Play, South Carolina, for ten years at
Oakway in this state, and in the raeantirae had
opened a store at Westrainster in Oconee County,
which he continued for four years. These enter
prises are briefly mentioned, but marked important
phases in his upward course as a merchant. He
handled his business with a rare degree of skUl and
prudence, and the changes he made were always to
his advantage.
When the Citizens Bank of Seneca was organized
Mr. Edwards took stock and in igo6 was elected
president. At that time he removed to Seneca, and
was engaged in his duties as president until his
death in igi6. He had survived his wife, who was
a woraan of strong force of character and had rauch
to do with the role he played in business affairs..
They were members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, and he was a Knight of Pythias.
Three sons survive and continue the worthy tradi
tions established by their honored father. Their
names are William Thomas Edwards, who succeeded
his father as president of the Citizens Bank of
Seneca ; Julius Edwards, who is in business at
Chicago, Illinois ; and John Edwards, assistant
cashier of the Citizens Bank of Seneca.
Lawrence Eugene Carrigan is directing a busi- .
ness at Society HUl which has been serving that
community with general merchandise for seventy
years. It was established by his father in 1849.
Mr. Carrigan was born at Society Hill in Darling
ton County July 4, 1861, son of WUliam Adam Carri
gan a native of Cabarrus County, North Carolina, and
a grandson of Robert Carrigan, a native of Georgia.
Great-grandfather William Carrigan was born in
Ireland and on coming to this country landed at
Charleston and from there went to Oglethorpe,
Georgia. He was a soldier in the armies under Gen
eral Gates and General Greene in the Revolution.
Wilham Adam Carrigan located at Society HiU in
1849 and m that year established his store and was
active Iri its manageraent for over half a century.
For ten years he was also an associate partrier in
the firm of Carrigan & Selcox, commission raerchants
at Charleston. He was a man of great value, force
and influence in ,the coraraunity of Society Hill
where he died in 1907 at the age of seventy-two!
Wl ham A. Carrigan married Catherine Elizabeth
Hill, a native of Darlington County, daughter of
James W. HUl of the same county and of Scotch
ancestry. Lawrence Eugene Carrigan was fourth in a family
of nine children. Those still living besides himself
Y^i, r' ^' ^' Carrigan, Mrs. A. M. Hursey, Mrs.
AM. Lorapayrac, Mrs. John P. Scott and Mrs. J. A.
Wilson. •'
r, ^'-3' *x^'"''i&an received his early education in St.
David s Academy at Society Hill, and attended the
Univer.sity of South Carolina frora 1883 to 1885.
tie took up farming, but in 1891 joined his father
m business and in the same year he married Miss
Mary Winter. He was also made president of the

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Peoples Bank of Darlington and filled that office
about seven years. For two terms, 1907 to 1910, he
was a member of the Legislature and in 1918 was
again chosen to represent his home district in the
House of Representatives. He has been a leading
man in his community and in state affairs for raany
years. Mr. Carrigan has six sons: Ernest William, An
drew N., Robert E., Glenn B., Marion R., L. E., Jr.,
and four of them were in the government service
during the World war, all passing the physicial ex
aminations without a flaw. Andrew was with the
Army of Occupation in Germany. Mr. and Mrs.
Carrigan also have three daughters : Ena, Mary and
Catherine Elizabeth. Mr. Carrigan is a Knight
Templar, Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, belongs
to the Knights of Pythias and Woodmen of the
World, and is an elder and for raany years has been
an active worker in the Presbyterian Church and
Sunday school.
William Franklin McLees. Araong the old and
honored faraUies of Anderson County one whose
raerabers have resided in the county since 1805 and
have established enviable records for progressiveness
in agriculture, straightforwardness in business af
fairs, public spirit as citizens and sobriety and
probity in private life, is that bearing the name of
McLees. A worthy representative of this family is
found in the person of William Franklin McLees,
formerly connected with commercial affairs at An
derson, and later, until 1919, the owner and operator
of a valuable farm in Fork Township.
William Franklin McLees was born in Anderson
County, South Carolina, July 18, 1875, a son of
George Robert and Anna Eliza (Brown) McLees,
natives of Anderson County, as were also his grand
parents, William and Rebecca (Seawright) McLees.
His great-grandfather was Robert McLees, who was
a son of John and Margaret (Boggs) McLees, who
were born in County Antrim, Ireland, and there
married October i, 1786, following which they im
migrated to the United States on the ship Volunteer,
landing at Charleston, South Carolina, in January,
1787. They settled in Newberry County, this state,
where they spent the rest of their lives, and were
the parents of the following chUdren : James, Rob
ert, Jane, Martha and Andrew, of whom Robert and
Andrew came to Anderson County in 1805.
Robert McLees and his wife were the parents
of nine chUdren : Jaraes, William, Robert, George,
MUton, John Boggs, Jane, Elizabeth and Sallie.
WUliam and Rebecca (Seawright) McLees, the
grandparents, had three children : George Robert,
Frank and Elva. George Robert and Anna Eliza
(Brown) McLees had six chUdren: William Frank
lin, Ella Elvira, Mattie Rebecca, Dewitt Talmadge
and J. Brown Chalraers, twins, and CecU, George
Robert McLees fought as a Confederate soldier
during the War between the States, following the
close of which he settled down to the pursuits of
farraing, in which he was engaged untU his death
at the age of seventy-five years, whUe his widow,
who still survives, is now in her sixty-fifth year.
Early in life Mr, and Mrs. McLees united with the
Presbvterian Church,
William Franklin McLees was educated in the

district schools and reared on the horae farra, where
he reraained, assisting his father, until he reached
his rnajority. Having tendencies toward a mercan
tile life, he at that time formed a partnership with
his uncle, Andy Brown, and for four years operated
a general store at Anderson, Subsequently for two
years he worked for Brown & McClure, and again
entered business as proprietor of R. W. McGee, in
the conduct of a grocery store. Later for four
years Mr. McLees was a traveling salesman for the
Dexter Grocery Corapany of Anderson, but in igo6
again turned his attention to the occupation of his
youth, farraing, and was engaged successfully in
agricultural pursuits in Fork Township up to and
including the year 1919, when he disposed of his
property. His business record was an excellent one
and his integrity in all transactions gave him the
reputation of a man of high principles.
Mr. McLees was raarried in 1896 to Miss Fannie
McGukin, a daughter of Thomas and Matilda
McGukin, of Irish ancestry, and to this union there
have been born five chUdren : Thomas, Louise, Cal
houn, Mary Eunice and Sarah. The parents are
devoted members of the Presbyterian Church, and
their children have been reared in that faith, while
their education has been carefully attended to in the
public schools. Mr. McLees is a Master Mason and
a meraber of the Knights of Pythias and the Wood
men of the World., As a citizen he has contributed
materially to the raoveraents which have raade for
progress in his coraraunity.
John Franklin Craig, clerk of court for Oconee
County ten years, was a successful merchant before
his induction into public office, and is meraber of a
family with a long and noteworthy record in this
state. His great-grandfather, John Craig, was a native
of Scotland. He came to Araerica and espoused
the cause of the colonists in the Revolutionary
struggle. For his services in that war he was given
a tract of 640 acres, which was located in Pickens
District, South Carolina. His son Robert Craig
was born in that county. Robert Craig was the
father of William Speed Craig, a native of Pickens
District, who married Nancy Mahala Algood. The
Algood faraily carae to South Carolina frora Georgia.
Nancy's father, Alexander Algood, was the first
settler in Pickens County. WUliam S. Craig served
with special gallantry as a Confederate soldier from
August, 1861, untU the close of the war. He fol
lowed farraing during his active career, and all of
his nine sons and two daughters grew up on the
farra. That the family possesses great vitality and
vigor is evidenced by the fact that all these chUdren
are stUl living.
One of them is John Franklin Craig, who was born
in Pickens County October 24, 1870. He acquired
a comraon school education, and at the age of twenty-
six left the home farm and for two years clerked
in the general store of his brother at Seneca. The
following three years he managed his brother's store
at Walhalla and then engaged in business on his
own account. After five years the Craig-Verner Mer
cantile Corapany of Walhalla was organized and
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In that year he was elected clerk of court for
'Oconee County, and began his duties in January,
1909. He was re-elected in igi2 and again in igi6.
Mr. Craig is a stanch deraocrat and a member of
the Baptist Church.
February 15, 1900, he married Miss Fleta Henry,
daughter of "William Henry of Seneca. They have
one son and two daughters, John Franklin, Jr.,
Sarah Louise, and Margaret Eugenia.
Edward P. Rogers, cashier of the First National
Bank of HartsvUle, has been with that institution
nearly ten years and is raember of an old and promi
nent family of Florence County, where he was born
December 23, 1888. His paternal ancestors came
from Wales about the time of the Revolutionary
war and settled in what is known as the Welsh Neck
coraraunity of Florence County. Both his grand
father and father bore the initials F. M. Rogers, and
both were farmers and natives of Florence. Mr.
Rogers' mother was Ella D, Bull, a native of Orange
burg and a daughter of N. A. Bull, who was born
in Connecticut of English origin and was for raany
years a raerchant at Orangeburg. Edward P. Rog
ers was the third in a faraily of five chUdren. He
grew up at Florence, attended the graramar school
there, also had a high school education and gradu
ated in 1909 frora the Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
After leaving college he spent about a year at To
ledo, Ohio, and in 1910 located at HartsvUle and
has been continuously connected with the First Na
tional Bank of that city, Frora assistant cashier he
was proraoted to cashier in igi4. This bank is cap
italized at $25,000 and surplus of $10,000, J. W. Mc-
Cown of Florence is president,
Mr, Rogers is also raeraber of a firra at Hartsville
which does a large business in autoraobiles and
accessories, handling the Velie and Oakland cars.
Mr. Rogers who is unmarried is a Scottish Rite Ma
son and Shriner, and takes an active and public spir
ited part in local affairs. He has been a meraber of
the Hartsville city council since igi7.
Alexander May Redfern. M, D, As the forraer
students and graduates of Clerason College in
tegrated in the life and affairs of the entire state,
so has the reputation and the memories of the kindly
services performed by Dr, Alexander May Redfern,
college physician since the institution was founded,
spread abroad. Dr, Redfern is one of the older
merabers of the medical fraternity of the state and
one of its most capable physicians.
He was born in Anson County, North Carolina,
March 21, 1862, a son of David T. and Mary (May)
Redfern. His father was also a native of Anson
County, served as a Confederate soldier frora 1862
until the close of the war, and spent the greater
part of his life as a planter in Chesterfield County.
He represented that county three terras in the Lower
House of the Legislature, being the first deraocrat
elected after the War between the States. For two
terras he was in the State Senate and for about ten
years was a trustee of Clemson College. He died
in 1891, at the age of sixty-seven. Both he and
his -wife in early life joined the Baptist Church,
and in that faith reared their three sons and four
daughters. His widow is still living at the age

of seventy-four, residing at Chesterfield. She was
born in that county and is descended frora Captain
John May, who was of English lineage, a native of
Virginia, and settled in Anson County, North Caro
lina, sorae tirae prior to the Revolutionary war, in
which he served. His son Peter May founded the
family in South Carolina, settling in Chesterfield
County. Alexander May, father of Mary May Red
fern, was born in Chesterfield County, was a grad
uate of Yale College and studied medicine, but
owing to the duties of administering his large landed
possessions inherited he never practiced raedicine.
In the paternal line Doctor Redfern is a great-
grandson of Nimrod Redfern, who immigrated frora
Ireland about 1780 and settled in Anson County,
North Carolina. Townley Redfern, his son, was
born and reared and spent his life in Anson County.
Doctor Redfern grew up on a farm, attended Fur
man University at GreenvUle, and was graduated
from Wake Forest College in his native state in
1884. He did his medical work in the Long Island
Hospital College, graduating in 1886 with the dis
tinction of valedictorian of his class. Doctor Red
fern practiced medicine at Chesterfield untU 1893,
in which year he accepted the appointraent as col
lege surgeon at Clemson, and in that community
has found full opportunities for his professional
enthusiasm and abilities. He has done advanced
work in the Post-Graduate Hospital in New York
City and in Tulane University of New Orleans, and
is a member of the Oconee County and State Med
ical Societies and the American Medical Associa
tion. Doctor Redfern is a Knight Teraplar Mason
and Shriner and a raeraber of the Baptist Church.
In 1892 he raarried Annie Strayhorn. She died
in 1914, the raother of two children, Thomas Craig
and Annie. In igi6 Doctor Redfern married Helen
Bradford. They also have two children, Elizabeth
and Helen.
Thoraas Craig Redfern, son of Doctor Redfern,
graduated frora Clerason College in 1912. He Isegan
the study of raedicine in Johns Hopkins University
and graduated in 1916 from Long Island Hospital.
He remained there one year as an. interne, and in
March, 1917, volunteered in the Medical Depart
ment of the United States Navy. He was given
the rank of junior lieutenant, and when discharged
was a full lieutenant. His active duties began in
June, 1917, and in October he went overseas with
the Marines. He was on duty at the Base Hospital
at Brest until July, 1918, when he was detaUed for
duty at the front during the battle of the Argonnne
Forest and at other battle fronts, and continued so
until the signing of the armistice. He received his
honorable discharge February 21, 1919.
James William Johnson is one* of the oldest
active lawyers of the Marion bar, where he has
practiced nearly forty years. His name is also asso
ciated with banking and public affairs.
He was born at CarroUton, Mississippi, Septem
ber 13, 1854, son of James Steven and Falba (Love)
Johnson. His father was also an attorney, and
the law has been alraost a family profession for
several generations. J. W. Johnson was educated
in the high school of Lenoir, North Carolina, at
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nessee, Davidson College in North Carolina, and in
1877 began the study of law in the office of his
uncles Chancellor W illiam D. and John Monroe
Johnson at Marion, South Carolina. He was ad
mitted to the bar in 1880 and forthwith engaged in
a general practice, and his work continued steadily
through subsequent years brought him all the best
and substantial rewards of the successful lawyer.
Mr. Johnson is also vice president of the Marion
National Bank and two terms was mayor of Marion
and for about twenty years a trustee of the city
schools. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
February 23, 1882, he married Annie Prince John
son, of Marion, who passed away July 18, 1917.
They had a family of six children : William Alexan
der, who is a graduate of law from Yale Univer
sity aud is now a practicing attorney at Portland,
Oregon; Falba Love, who received her Master of
Arts degree from Columbia University of New
York and is engaged in teaching at Cincinnati, Ohio ;
Annie Bluett, a graduate of Chicorah College for
Women at Columbia and at home; James Steven,
who is a graduate of Davidson College, North Caro
lina, and is cashier of the Marion National Bank ;
Cecil, a civil engineer and a graduate of The Citadel
at Charleston, who used his mUitary training there
to effective purpose during the World war, serving
as corporal in the Three Hundred and Twenfy-
Sixth Engineer Corps and going overseas in July,
1918, as a raember of the Eighty-First Division; and
Carroll Burnett, a graduate of the Wmthrop Normal
and Industrial College with the class of igiP-
HA.RVEY Cleveland Routh. Through persistent
application and unceasing labor, Harvey Cleveland
Routh has won his way to the most stable and sat
isfying compensation of country life. In the shadow
of his sixty-ninth year he finds himself possessed
of a handsome property, and of the esteem of his
fellow citizens. From the life of this honored resi-
den? of Fork Township, Anderson County reach
out many tendrils of help and encouragement. Born
among the most modest of surroundrags on a farm
in Whitfield County, Georgia, January 7, i8:>o, he
s a son of Pleasant MUler and Clarissa (Harlow)
Routh? the former a native of Tennessee and the
latter of South Carolina. . 
-The Rouths are of Irish extraction, and the ma
ternal grandmother of Mr. Routh was a niece of
he historic character, Ben Cleveland. The parents
of Mr Routh were married in Tennessee and removed
from that state to Northern Georgia, where they
spent the remainder of their lives the mother pass-
ng away at the age of forty-eight years after the
Wrth of the following twelve children: James Can
non WiUiam Finley, Kinsley Lafayette, Mary
Adelaide, Edward (Bud), Rice Judson Robert
Franklin Samuel Houston, Harvey Cleveland,
A fred Woodfin, Frances Joseph me and Anna Eliza.
Of the sons, James Cannon, William Finley, Kins-
lev Lafayette, Edward, Rice Judson Robert Frank-
fn and Samuel Houston served as Confederate sol-
i" ^„rW the war between the states, and the
diers during the war ^^^^^^ ^^
^«'^' "narisra (Harlow Routh was the second
'^¦ft nf Pleasant M Routh. His first wife, whose
miden riara s"not reraerabered, bore hira a daugh-

ter, Evaline. After the death of his second wife,
Pleasant Al. Routh broke up housekeeping and re
moved to Texas, where his death occurred at the age
of sixty-three years.
Harvey C. Routh was educated in- the district
schools and reared as a farmer, and in 1871 brought
his youngest sister, Anna Eliza, to South Carolina to
live with their sister, Mary Adelaide, Mrs. W. L.
Broyles, who with her husband was living in Ander
son County, since which time Mr. Routh has been
a resident of Fork Township. In 1879 he raarried
and for the following ten years lived on a farm
near Sloan's Ferry in Anderson County, and then
reraoved to the community in which he now resides.
He has been a successful farraer and is the owner
of a valuable and well ;..iproved property, the equip
raent of which evidences his ability and progressive
spirit. For fifteen years he also conducted a country
store, showing coramercial abUity Oi a high char
acter and winning the esteem of all whom he met
in a business way. Starting in life a poor man, he
has raade the most of his opportunities, and as a
result is today considered one of the substantial
citizens of Fork Township. Early in life Mr. Routh
raade a profession of religion, was baptized, and
united with the Baptist Church, of which he has
since been a consistent raeraber and generous con
tributor. On November 13, 1879, Mary Anna MUls Hyde
becarae the wife of Mr. Routh. At the age of sixteen
she was graduated frora the Reidville Female Col
lege in ReidvUle, South Carolina, her father being
president of that school at the time. After that until
her marriage she taught in some of the best schools
in the upper part of the state. Mrs. Routh died
April 30, i8go, and was buried in the ceraetery of
TownvUle Presbyterian Church. She was the mother
of three chUdren. Walter C. Routh, who graduated
from the Patrick MUitary Institute, Anderson,
South Carolina, and is a resident of Spartanburg,
married Bertie Dillard and has one chUd, Ruth
Sara Routh. Foster M. Routh, M. D., attended
Clerason College several years, and later graduated
frora the South Carolina Medical CoUege at Charles
ton, began practice in Colurabia, and was a lieu
tenant of Medical Corps in the United States Array
during the period of the World war. Doctor Routh
raarried Zoe Peeples. Grace Mary Routh, who grad
uated at Converse College at Spartanburg and
taught school three years, is now the wife of Dr.
Jaraes M. Hobson of Anderson County. Dr. and
Mrs. Hobson have two chUdren, Eleanor Hobson
and James Harvey Hobson. Dr. F. M. Routh and
Dr. J. M. Hobson are both Masons and Shriners.
Rev. Ezekiel Foster Hyde, father of the late
Mrs. Routh, was long a distinguished preacher and
educator in South Carolina. He was born near
Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, May i, 1814. the third
son of Sherman Hyde, a native of Connecticut, and
descendant of an English family that was founded
in Connecticut in Colonial tiraes. Sherraan Hyde
raarried Anna Lodor, of New Jersey, descendant of
the faraUy of that narae that eraigrated from Eng
land to Holland and thence to America. The Hydes
moved to Canada prior to the "War of 1812. Seven
sons and two daughters coraprised the faraily of
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The third son, Ezekiel Foster, went to New York
in 1832 and frora that state in 1841 carae to South
Carolina, WhUe in New York he united with the
Presbyterian Church. When about twenty-one he
was. impressed with a call to preach the gospel. His
earty education had been only that of the common
schools of Canada. He prepared for college under
Capt. Richard Ashley, a graduate of West Point
Military Academy. Later he entered Union College,
New York, where he graduated in 1841 and in the
fall of 1841, on coming to South Carolina, entered
the Theological Seminary at Columbia and was
graduated in 1844. In the spring session of that
year at Columbia he was licensed to preach by the
Charleston Presbytery, and in the fall of that year
was called to the pastorates of Aveleigh, Smyrna,
and GUder's Creek Presbyterian churches in New
berry County. After serving three or four years
at these churches he was called to Liberty Springs
and Duncan's Creek churches in Laurens County.
In 1852 he removed to Waterford, Mississippi, where
he preached four years. After his return to South
Carolina in 1856 he preached at different tiraes to
the churches at Warrior's Creek and New Harraony
in Laurens County, Williamston and Belton in An
derson County, Mount Calvary and Antioch in
Spartanburg County, Richland and Retreat in Oconee
County, and Providence and Rocky River in Abbe
ville County. WhUe serving these churches he also
taught school at Cross Hill in Laurens County, at
ReidvUle in Spartanburg County, at Richland in
Oconee County, and at Townsville in Anderson
County. After three score years and ten of faithful service
Rev. Ezekiel Foster Hyde died at his home in An
derson County, October 22, 1884. He was buried
at Roberts Church, Anderson County. This church
has recently celebrated the 120th anniversary of its
founding in a raeeting of one week's duration con
ducted by Rev. G. G. Mayes, one of the former
pastors of Richland Church.
From a beautiful tribute to the memory of Rev.
Mr. Hyde by Rev. T. C. Ligon is quoted the follow
ing paragraphs : "Brother Hyde was eminently a
godly man. His whole life was a manifestation of
sincere piety. For more than fifty years he was a
professor of the religion of Jesus Christ, and for
more than forty years a preacher of the Gospel,
and yet never was there a blight on his Christian
character. He was modest, gentle and unassuming
in society and amongst his brethren; was an earnest
and instructive preacher of the Gospel; and in pri
vate conversation was especially entertaining. To
know him well was to love and to appreciate hira
most. His faith was strong and his end was peace.
The Master called him, and there is every reason
to believe that his spirit is in glory."
In 1845 Rev. Mr. Hyde married Miss Caroline Au
gusta Hammond, a sister of Govemor Hammond
of South Carolina. She lived only about three
(^ears after their marriage, and her only daughter,
Katharine Spann Hyde, died March 18, 1900, at Au
gusta, and was buried there. In 1850 Rev Mr
Hyde married Miss Nancy Adele Hunter, of Lau
rens County, where she was born in 1825. She was
educated at Salem, North Carolina. She died March

18, 1892, and was buried beside her husband at
Roberts Church, Anderson County.
To this marriage were born five- daughters, the
one still living being Adele Hunter Hyde, now Mrs.
Oscar Harris. The four deceased daughters were:
Mrs. H. C. Routh; Mrs. H, C, Harriet Palmer, who
died in 1884 and was buried in Pelzer; Miss Louisa
Cunningham Hyde, who died March 20, 1886, and
was buried at Roberts Church in Anderson County;
and Miss Lodor Hyde, who died December 22, 1918,
and is also buried at Roberts Church.
William Egleston, M. D. Since locating at
HartsvUle in igoo Doctor Egleston has had a most
busy and useful career. He is one of the leading
physicians and surgeons of that community, is presi
dent of the People's Bank, and is also a member of
the state board of health.
He was born at Winnsboro, South Carolina, Sep
tember 2, 1873, son of DuBose and Louise (Aiken)
Egleston. His grandfather, George W. Egleston,
was a native of Lenox, Massachusetts, and settled in
Charleston early in the last century and for raany
years was a prominent lawyer of the Charleston bar
and a founder of the New England Society of that
city. He died while the war between the states was
in progress. DuBose Egleston was a native of
Charleston, and served in Company A, Second Regi
ment (Kershaw's Brigade), during the war, hold
ing the rank of lieutenant. His wife was a daughter
of James R. Aiken of Winnsboro and of the weU
known Aiken family that originated in County An
trim, Ireland.
Doctor Egleston was fourth in a large family of
thirteen chUdren. He acquired a good education,
attending the Mount Zion graded school at Winns
boro, the University of the South at Sewanee, Ten
nessee, and in i8g8 graduated from the medical de
partment of the University of Tennessee at Nash
viUe. For two years he practiced at Barnwell and
since igoo has raade his home in HartsvUle. Be
sides a large private practice he is physician for the
Atlantic Coast and Seaboard Airline Railway. He is
a member of the County, State and American Medi
cal associations, and of the American Public Health
Association. He is a member of the Cincinnati So
ciety, a member of the New England Society of
Charleston, of the Huguenot Society of South Caro
lina, and is a Mason.
Doctor Egleston was one of the organizers of the
People's Bank of Hartsville in 1910, served as its
vice president, and since 1917 as president. In 1900
he married Miss Annie Bonham Aldrich, daughter
of Col. Robert Aldrich of Barnwell. They have four
children : Louise A., Sophia B., WUliam and DuBose.
Herbert Ashton Lewis, though he taught school
while attending college as a means of completing
his higher education, has been primarily a banker,
and IS one of the leading financiers of Marion
County. He was born in Marion County February 10, 1876,
a son of Alien C. and Delia (Lee) Lewis, He
spent his early life on his father's farra and has for
a number of years been interested in farming in
connection with his banking affairs. He attended
public school and afterward taught district school
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He entered the Bank of Marion as messenger, was
prornoted to bookkeeper and finally became cashier,
serving in that office from January, 1909, until Sep
tember, 191 1, when the bank was liquidated. In
igii Afr. Lewis organized the Planters - Bank of
Marion, and in the offices of cashier and vice pres
ident has had a great deal to do with the pros
perity of that institution and the service it has
rendered the community. The bank has a capital
of $40,000, surplus of $10,000, undivided profits of
$16,000 and deposits averaging about $400,000.
Mr. Lewis is also ,vice president of Hamer &
Lewis, an insurance firm. For four years he was
treasurer of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of
which he is an active member, and is affiliated with
the Knights of Pythias. December 26, 1906, he
married Aliss Bell Jollye, of WhiteviUe, North Caro
lina. They have three chUdren, Dorothy Amanda,
Katherine Lee and Elizabeth.
Joseph M. Bell. Among the bankers of South
Carolina Joseph M. BeU of Colurabia has had an
alraost unique experience. He has been with one
institution, climbing the ladder of promotion, for
thirty years, since early boyhood.
Air. Bell was born at Augusta, Georgia, Septem
ber 15, 1876, and banking has been a business on
both sides of his family. His father, John, Bell,
was a native of Beaufort, South Carolina, and of an
old family of this state. The Bells refugeed frora
Beaufort to Colurabia during the war between the
states. Emily MUligan, mother of Joseph M. Bell,
was a daughter of Joseph MUligan of Augusta,
Georgia, who during war times and for a period pre
ceding and following the war was cashier of the
Georgia Railroad and Banking Corapany at Augusta,
a position in which he was succeeded by his son
Joseph MUligan, Jr. John BeU was for sorae years
teller of the Carolina National Bank in Columbia,
an institution in which his son is now cashier.
John Bell died at Columbia in 1888, when his son
Joseph was twelve years of age. This event in the
family created an economic necessity and was re
sponsible for Joseph M. Bell entering upon his life
career while he was still in the eighth grade of the
coraraon schools. Through the family friendship
of Gen. Wilie Jones, in 1889 he was given work
with the Carolina National Bank as an outdoor run
ner or clerk. Thirty years have passed, but Mr.
Bell has never severed his connection with the
Carolina National Bank and he has won on efficiency
and merit an executive position in one of the strong
est banks of the South. He early attracted attention
by his determination to give the best he had, and
was advanced frora one post of responsibUity to an
other until he becarae cashier.
Mr. Bell is also secretary and treasurer of the Do
mestic Building and Loan Association of Columbia.
He is secretary-treasurer of the Columbia Cotillion
Club, a member of Richland Lodge of Masons, Omar
Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston, and is
a comraunicant of the Trinity Episcopal Church.
He married Miss Helen Iredell Jones, daughter
of Capt. AUen Jones of Colurabia. She is a de
scendant of the noted Governor Iredell Jones of
North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. BeU have three
chUdren: Joseph M., Jr., John and Helen. The son

Joseph is now a student in South Carolina's noted
railitary school. The Citadel, at Charleston.
John Quincy Stilwell, claira agent at Colurabia
for the Seaboard Air Line RaUroad, is a veteran
railroad man, and took up active raUroad business
whUe his father was still active in his career as one
of the leading raUway buUders in the South.
His father was the late James Stilwell, who was
born in Newberry County of English ancestry. He
was a Confederate soldier during the war between
the states, and subsequently as a railroad contractor
carried out the construction work on some of the
raost important railway projects in South Carolina
and Georgia. He did a portion of the construction
work on the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta, now
part of the Southern system, and on several other
lines that have since become leading rail highways
through this part of the South. He was in every
sense a man of affairs, of great intellectual and ex
ecutive capacity, could solve problems quickly and
carry out big programs of action. He spent his
last years at Johnston in Edgefield County. Jaraes
Stilwell raarried Nancy Elizabeth Inlow, and their
son John Quincy was born at Silverstreet in New
berry County October 23, 1865.
As a boy he attended school at Beaufort, South
Carolina and Augusta, Georgia, and left school to
take up railroad work. For twenty-eight years he
had a busy raUroading career, serving successfully
as section foreman, district section foreman- and
roadraaster, raost of the tirae with the Charleston
& Western Carolina Railroad, though for a tirae
he was connected with the Central Railroad and
Banking Corapany of Georgia.
Mr. StUwell for twenty-three years raade his
home at McCormick, in what was then AbbevUle,
now McCormick County. He was prominently asso
ciated with J. E. Britt and one or two other leaders
in the several years of effort which brought about
the organization of the new County of McCor-
raick in 1916, with the Town of McCorraick as county
seat. Mr. StUwell and his associates perfected the
arrangeraent with the McCormick interests of Chi
cago (of the Harvester fame), owners of the town-
site and a large part of the surrounding. country,
whereby a large body of that land was divided into
suitable tracts to be sold to settlers and horae own
ers. Thousands of acres that had been kept cora
paratively idle for years were thus released for de
velopment, and through that deal the to-vyn and
county of McCorraick received its principal impetus
leading to the present great prosperity and expan
sion of that region. Mr. StUwell and associates also
built the oil mill at McCormick, and he was elected
and represented AbbevUle County in the Legislature
for one term.
Mr. StUwell came to Colurabia in 1916 to take up
his new duties as claira agent for the Seaboard Air
Line RaUway. His office is entrusted with the ad
justment of many matters of great value and ira
portance to the corapany in South Carolina and
Georgia. Mr. StilweU is a Knight Templar Mason
and Shriner, being affiliated with Omar Temple of
the Shrine at Charleston.
He married Miss SaUie Bush, of Aiken, South
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was near Silverton in that county. They have seven
children : Lawrence Jackson, Mrs. Nina Wilkins
Bracknell, Airs. Bessie Anna Cheatham, Mrs. Kate
Louise 'Wheeler, James Raymond, 'WUliam Henry
Howard StUwell and Miss Nancy Elizabeth Stilwell.
The son Jaraes Raymond is now a raedical officer
in the United States Navy. I
Wade Hampton Fletcher has spent all his life
in the northern portion of Marlboro County, and for
many years has been a factor in the growth and de
velopraent of the coraraunity of McColl, which was
established as a viUage when he was a boy of about
fifteen years.
He was born on a farra about three miles from
the present town of McColl Noveraber 4, 1868. His
grandfather was Joshua Fletcher and his father
Joshua D. Fletcher, the forraer a native of North
Carolina and the latter of South Carolina. Joshua
D. Fletcher entered the Confederate array when
about sixteen years of age, and after the war fol
lowed planting. He raarried Elizabeth , Easterling,
a native of Marlboro County. She was twice raar
ried and by her first husband had five chUdren and
also five by her marriage to Joshua D. Fletcher. She
attained the advanced age of eighty-three years.
Wade Harapton Fletcher received a high school
education in his native county and for over thirty
years has been engaged in farraing, merchandising
and banking. For several years he was associated
with his wife's father in the manageraent of gen
eral raerchandise. He then sold out and devoted all
his time to his plantation of 200 acres. He became
one of the organizers of the Farraers and Merchants
Bank at McColl, has served as president of this
substantial institution, John C, Fletcher is vice presi
dent and Dr. J. C. Moore second vice president.
The bank has a capital stock of $25,000. Mr. Fletch
er is a raember of the Masonic order.
In 189s he raarried Miss Annie Tatura, daughter
of F, P, and Margaret Tatum, an old and prominent
family of Marlboro County. Mrs, Fletcher received
her finishing education in the Greensboro Female
College, They have two children : F. Tatum and
Julia Margaret,
Alexander Deems Matheson is president of the
Planters National Bank of Bennettsville and is con
tinuing many of the extensive mercantUe, planting
and other interests developed by the enterprise of his
late father, Alexander James Matheson, who a few
years before his death, it was claimed, employed
more farm labor than any other one raan in the
state, Alexander Jaraes Matheson was born in Marlboro
County in 1848 and died Septeraber 26, 1918, His
father, Donald Matheson, was a native of Scotland
and carae to South Carolina at the age of fifteen,
and his career was devoted to the law and to plant-^
ing. Alexander J. Matheson had limited advantages
as a result of the war, and in 1868, at the age of
twenty-one, became foreman on a farm in Marion
County, The following year he operated a larger
farm on a stock sharing plan. Following his mar
riage he rented a small farm and also opened a
stock of merchandise, but was unsuccessful in the
latter venture. Seeking better opportunities in a

new country, he visited raany states in the west, but
finding no opening to his satisfaction he returned
home and resuraed his career with renewed de
terraination. Again becoming a merchant, he was
this time successful from the start. One of his
best assets was a courage which raade hira always
willing to "take a chance." In 1873 he bought on
credit a twenty-five horse plantation in the Pee Dee
section, and his enterprises both as a merchant and
planter prospered and brought hira a great bulk of
property in various localities. For a number of
years he was a merchant at Blenheim, seven railes
south of Bennettsville. He was owner of a nura
ber of plantations, at one time operated about
200 plows and had his farms supplied with model
equipment of buildings, impleraents and retail
stores that supplied the demands of his own labor
and of others in the coraraunity. He also became
extensively interested in real estate at Bennettsville,
was president of the Marlboro Grocery Company,
was a partner in a wholesale cotton establishment,
and was manager of the Matheson Real Estate Com
pany of Bennettsville. Alexander J. Matheson
raoved on terras of ready fellowship with raany of
the prorainent men of the state. He was widely
traveled, having spent much time in Europe. He
was a meraber of the Presbyterian Church and a
leading Sunday School worker.
In 1870 he married Miss Sarah Ellen Jarnigan,
a native of Marion County and a daughter of Ben
jamin and Mary (Jones) Jarnigan, both natives of
South Carolina and the latter of Marion County.
Alexander Deems Matheson, who was born in
Marlboro County Noveraber 11, 1886, is the youngest
.of nine children, eight of whom reached mature
years. He received a public school education supple
mented by courses in the University of South Caro
lina. In 1909 he engaged in general merchandising,
and for several years was his father's private sec
retary. He succeeded his father as president of the
Planters National Bank at BennettsvUle. Mr. Mathe-r
son also owns a forty horse farra, comprising about
1,000 acres, and gives rauch tirae to its manage
ment. He is affiliated with the Masonic order.
Knights of Pythias and the Elks. In 1912 Mr.
Matheson married Nonie McLaurin, daughter of
Senator John L. McLaurin. They have one son,
Alexander D., Jr.
William L Byerly, M. D. The splendid prac
tice and professional standing Doctor Bverly en
joys at HartsvUle is the result of hard and con
scientious work since locating there, and also of
an unusually thorough and complete medical educa
tion and training.
He was born in Baltiraore Countv Alarvland
August 31. 1888, oldest of the five chUdren of w"l-'
ham and Annie E. (Houck) Byerly. He had -ood
advantages at home and in the local schools as a
boy, and m 1907 received his A. B. degree from
Western Maryland College. He then entered th™
"t^Balim^of""'"! °^"^? University of Maryland
at Baltimore, graduated in 191 1, following which
he spent three years in hospital work in the UnT
versity Hospital at Baltimore. '
Mr. Byerly came to Hartsville in 191s The
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ing the World war, when in October, 1918, he
joined the Medical Reserve Corps and served as
first lieutenant at Camp Lee. He was in the service
six months. Doctor Byerly is affihated with the
Knights of Pythias.
In T915 he married Marv Elizabeth Jackson, of
Baltiraore. They have one son, WUHam Luther, -Jr.
James W. Campbell, M. D. As a physician and
surgeon Doctor Campbell's services have rnade hira
widely and favorably known over his native York
County, at GreenvUle, where he was on duty as
an army surgeon for many months, and since dis
charged from the array has resumed his practice
in the neighboring County of Gaston over the state
line in North Carolina.
Doctor Campbell was born in the Bethel com
munity of York County Noveraber 26, 1870, a son
of Sarauel L. and Margaret Rebecca (Wallace)
Campbell. Both the Wallace and Campbell farailies
are of Scotch ancestry, the Campbells coming to
America frora the north of Ireland. His grand
father, Isaac Carapbell, married Betsie FuUer.
Sarauel L. Campbell was a native of the Bethel
community, and early in the war between the states
entered the Confederate Army in Company H of
the Eighteenth South Carolina Regiment. He was
shot through the head at the battle of Boonesboro,
Maryland, was blinded and totally disabled.
When Doctor Campbell was eight years of age
his parents removed to Clover, in 'York County,
and he received his early education there. He
studied medicine in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons at Baltimore, graduating April 23, 1893.
Then followed a long period of work in his pro
fession at Clover, in "York County, where he re
mained until the sumraer of 1916.
Doctor Carapbell was for many years an active
member of the National Guard of South Carolina.
He became a private in the Hospital Corps of the
First South Carolina Regiment in 1906, the follow
ing year being comraissioned lieutenant, and even
tually proraoted to captain. He was coraraissioned
captain in the National Array in August, 1917. For
over thirty raonths he was on active duty in the
National Guard in the United States Array. During
May, June and July, 1917, he was on duty at
Colurabia and in August was sent to Carap Sevier
at Greenville, where he was a surgeon with the
One Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry. Because
of physical disability he was prevented from going
overseas with this regiraent, and was then assigned
to duty with various raedical corps organizations
at Camp Sevier. He received his honorable dis-
cfiarge from the Medical Corps with the rank of
captain in January, igig, and in March of the sarae
year located for practice at Gastonia, North Caro
lina. His reputation as a physician preceded him
to his new home, and he has an abundant and suc
cessful practice there. He is a raeraber of the Gaston
County Medical Society and the Araerican Medical
Association. Doctor Campbell married Miss Lena E. Carap
bell of York County, daughter of the late Dr. A. P.
Campbell of that county.

William J. Thackston. Nowhere in South
Carolina has modern progress counted its results
more rapidly and in more conspicuous relations to
the well being of a coraraunity than around Green
ville. Situated in one of the oldest of the Araer
ican colonies and states, Greenville is a city throb
bing with the life and spirit of modern times. It is
therefore to be expected that sorae of the city
builders are raen yet far frora old, and still active
in affairs. One of thera is William J. Thackston,
who has been identified with Greenville and vicinity
all his life, and through his business affairs has
been able to proraote many of the most progressive
and important improvements.
Mr. 'Thackston was born at BatesvUle in Green
ville County, twelve railes from Greenville, in 1866.
He is of Welsh ancestry on his father's side and
Scotch-Irish through his mother. His parents were
William F. and Katharine (Young) Thackston.
Through his raother he is descended from one of
the oldest farailies of the county. Her father was
James Young and her grandfather, William Young.
William Young came from Virginia to Greenville
County between 1790 and 1800. In 1800 the Youngs
built a stone residence on the Buncombe road five
miles northwest of Greenville, and this is now the
oldest inhabited house in Greenville County, being
occupied by William J. Thackston's brother and
sister. The house has been continuously owned
by the faraily, and the property now comprises a
large araount of adjoining farra lands.
William J. Thackston graduated in 1886 from
Furraan University at Greenville, and for about
five years taught school. He received his business
training as clerk in a store at Piedraont MUls at
Piedraont. For several years he was junior partner
to his father in the jewelry business at Greenville
under the firm name of W. F. Thackston & Son.
That business name and title Mr. Thackston still
retains for his own -business. Ever since about
1886 he has been dealing in real estate, and he is
one of the oldest and most successful real estate
raen. All his business opportunities he has con
verted into substantial benefit to the coraraunity and
has taken a part in every moveraent that has con
tributed to the moral and material growth of his
city, now the center of the textUe industry of the
South. Araong the raost important of these raoveraents
should be raentioned the securing of the present
extensive interurban system for Greenville, the
P. & N. Railway, extending to Spartanburg on the
east and to Anderson and Greenwood on the south.
This is part of a great associated industry, the
lines of the Southern Power Company, comprising
the most extensive hydro-electric developraent in
the South. Mr. Thackston is interested in all raove
ments of civic welfare and social betterment, and
during the great war was a raeraber of the Green
vUle County CouncU of Defense, and in September,
1918, was raade chairraan of that body. He devoted
raost of his time untU the war ended to patriotic
work for his county, state and nation.
Mr. Thackston married Aliss Rebecca Snyder, of
Grenada, Mississippi, Their four children are Vir
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Capt. Rufus Randolph McLeod, who was a young
South Carolina officer in the famous Thirtieth Divi
sion and participated at some of the notable points
of advance by the Araerican troops on the western
front during the summer of 1918, since the war has
resumed his practice as a lawyer at Hartsville, where
he had won his first cases at the bar before entering
his country's service.
He was born at Oswego, South Carolina, May 21,
1890, a son of N. S. and Catherine E. (Pegues) Mc
Leod. His grandfather Daniel McLeod was a na
tive of Scotland, came to Araerica when a young
raan, and was a farraer first in North and then in
South Carolina. N. S. McLeod is a native of Me-
chanicsvUle, South Carolina, and has spent his life
as a farraer. Catherine E. Pegues is a daughter of
William Pegues of one of the old French Huguenot
famUies of this state.
Captain McLeod is the youngest in a family of
eleven children, nine of whom reached mature years.
He spent his early life in Sumter County, attended
the "Welsh Neck High School, the College of Charles
ton, and graduated LL. B. from the law department
of the University of South Carolina in 1915. In
the same year he was adraitted to the bar and began
practice at Hartsville.
Captain McLeod joined the National Guard in
igo8. On April ig, 1916, he was proraoted to sec
ond lieutenant, and in April, 1917, was raustered
into the Federal array. For a time he was assigned
to guard duty, was then trained for overseas serv
ice at Carap Sevier, Greenville, and on May 11, igi8,
sailed for France. He was in the Thirtieth Division,
which did its first front line duty with British troops
in Belgiura, and later helped break the Hinden
burg line at Bellicourt, at Cambrai, and the San
Quentin front. He and his raen after nearly a
raonth of continuous front line duty, were taken out
for rest on the 19th of October and on the 25th of
that month Lieutenant McLeod was made an in
structor in an army school at La Valbom, where he
served until December 21st. He was then returned
to his division in France and came home with them
in the spring of igig. He was promoted to first lieu
tenant February 13, igi8.
In June, 1919, he organized Company D of the
First Separate Battalion of the South Carolina Na
tional Guard and has been chosen captain of that
organization. After his return frora abroad in 1919,
Captain McLeod married Miss Sue Des Champs,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Des Champs of
BishopvUle, South Carolina. Captain McLeod is '
serving as town recorder of Hartsville. He is a
Mason, Knight of Pythias and Woodmen of the
World. Laurence Albert Manning, Jr., one of the sub
stantial citizens of the younger generation of Dil
lon County, is vice president of the Bank of Latta
and head of the firra Alanning & Shine, state man
agers for North Carolina and South Carolina of
the Provident Life and Accident Insurance Com
pany. His aggressive qualities and records as an
insurance man have on several occasions consti
tuted him one of the premier figures in that line
in the country.
Mr. Manning was born near Little Rock, Dillon

County, South Carolina, June 27, 1884, a son of
Senator J. H. and Florence (Ellerbe) Manning.
The Manning family was founded by John Manning,
great-great-great-grandfather of Laurence A. John
eraigrated frora Europe about 1760 and settled in
Virginia. Thence his son John Manning carae to
South Carolina and became extensively interested
in planting in Marion County. In Marion County
was born Mealy Manning, the great-grandfather.
He followed in his father's footsteps as a planter,
and becarae one of the successful and wealthy men
of his locality, owning 7,000 acres of highly culti
vated, fertUe and valuable land in Marion County
and the adjoining county of Marlboro. Thomias J.
Manning, .grandfather of Laurence A. Manning,
was born in Marion County and early adopted the
family vocation of planting, in which he was suc
cessfully engaged at the outbreak of the war be
tween the states. He did not go into active service
at the front but becarae a raeraber of the Horae
Guard, in which he rose to the rank of raajor.
While in that capacity in the work of rounding up
deserters, he met his death in 1864. He married
Annie M. Haselden, daughter of Maj. Jaraes C.
Haselden, who was born in Marion County of Eng
lish antecedents. They were the parents of the fol
lowing chUdren: James Haselden; Mrs. Doctor
David of DUlon ; Laurence A. ; Mrs. E. B. Berry,
and Mrs. T. W. Barry, both of Latta.
James Haselden Manning was born in Dillon,
then Marion County, South Carolina, AprU 16,
1857, and was seven years of age when his father
died. His educational advantages were confined, to
the local public schools. At the age of fifteen he
took charge of his mother's property and managed
it untU her death, when the estate was divided. He
continued his work in the vicinity of Little Rock
until 1905, in which year he raoved to his present
home at Latta and erected there one of the finest
houses in DiUon County. He is one of the coun
ty's extensive planters, owning 2,100 acres here and
5,000 acres in Marion County. He was one of the
organizers of the Bank of Latta in 1904 and was
its president two years. In 1909 he was elected the
first state senator from Dillon County and filled
that office eight years, being elected without oppo
sition. On December 5, 1877, he married .Miss
Florence Ellerbe, daughter of Capt. W S Ellerbe
and d sister of WUliam H. Ellerbe, who was twice
elected governor of South Carolina and died during
his second term, and also sister of J E Ellerbe
who represented the Sixth District of South Caro
lina for four terms in Congress. Senator J H
Manning and wife had the following children:
1 homas Laholrae Jaraes Douglass, Laurence .Albert,
Robert Hamer, Houston, Gertrude and Howard
.Laurence Albert Manning, known as Junior to
distinguish him from his uncle, Laurence A. who
s an extensive p anter eight miles west of Dillon,
was given excellent educational advamages and
Arts frnm'^w'l ^/'^'^i °^ ^''' ^'"d Bachelor of
Arts from Wofford College, Spartanburg. He re-
nf M^lu"™"".'" '905 and the latter in 1907 He
South Carol- ''"^^-,°* '"^ '" *^ Unive?sf ty o
bouth Carolina until 1907, and in that year was
licensed by the South Carolina Supreme Court He
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and abroad. In 1905 he becarae connected with
the New York Life Insurance Corapany, and has
been in the insurance business off and on ever
since. In 1916, with headquarters at Kirksville,
Missouri, he led the agency force of the Araerican
National Assurance Corapany of St. Louis in paid
for business. He is now a member of the firm
Manning & Shine, as noted above. During August,
1919, the first raonth in which this firm acted as
managers for the Provident Life and Accident In
surance Company of Chattanooga, they led all the
other agencies in the United States in written,
issued and paid for btvsiness, sending in over a half
million in applications during that month.
Mr. Manning also has numerous other interests.
As noted above, he is vice president of the Bank
of Latta, is a member of the Latta Auto Corapany,
owns a half interest in the operation of a seventeen-
horse farm and is interested in real estate.
Mr. Manning was a resident of St. Louis, Mis
souri, in 1918, and while there he took subscrip
tions for and sold about $400,000 worth of the
Fourth Liberty Loan. He is a member of the
Commission of Public Works of the Town of
Latta, but has never been a candidate for public
office. He is a democrat not only by inheritance
and family tradition, but by the seasoned conviction
that the democratic party is further reraoved frora
the sinister influences of the money power and or
ganized wealth and more of a people's party. He
is a member of the Latta Methodist Church.
Throughout his career while advancing himself he
has brought good fortune to his associates, and it
is undoubtedly a part of his definite policy in life to
make his efforts count for the general welfare.
On April 22, 1914, at Fayette, Missouri, he raar
ried Miss Minnie Holland, a daughter of Rev.
John Holland of Fayette. She was a teacher before
her marriage and taught in West Virginia, Arkan
sas, and also in the Columbia Female College at
Columbia, South Carolina. They have one daughter,
Florence Emma Manning.
Hugh Thomas Shockley is headmaster and
owner of Hastoc School for Boys at Spartanburg.
When he founded that school in 1907 he took to it
a certain group of ideals and principles which have
in recent years been accorded special emphasis and
recognition by the progressive educators through
out the country. 'The present prosperity of the
school is the result of work begun on a sound
basis and continued with strict adherence to the
original plans and ideas.
Mr. Shockley was born at Spartanburg in 1881,
son of B. F. and Cornelia (Huggin) Shockley.
His mother is still living. B. F. Shockley, who died
in 1916, was the first wholesale, grocery merchant
of the Piedmont section of South Carolina. He
was in that line of business at Spartanburg for
nearly thirty years and founded the splendid es
tablishment now operated by the Thomas & How
ard Company. He was in every sense one of .Spar
tanburg's best citizens.
Son of a prosperous business raan, Hugh Thoraas
Shockley had liberal advantages and opportunities
during his youth. He graduated in 1900 with the
degrees A. B. and A. M. from Wofford CoUege.

The following three years he was physical director
in Wofford CoUege and professor of English in
Wofford Fitting School. For one year he was
assistant in English in the college. He is widely
known in athletic circles, was formerly physical
director of the Spartanburg Young Men's Christian
Association, and for two years was president of
the State High School Athletic Association. From
1904 to 1907 Mr. Shockley was principal of one of
the public schools of Spartanburg.
It was to satisfy a demand for a select limited
high school for boys that he opened and founded the
Hastoc School in 1907. It was begun as a day
school, but gradually has afforded facilities for a
boarding department. Each year there has been an
increase in the number of enrollments, and each
year some additional facilities to equipment and
schoolroom space have been made necessary. The
main buUding is now a two-story structure, tbe
additional story having been added in 1917. The
building and the dorraitory adjoining occupy the site
on North Liberty Street where there has been a
private school for half a century. Perhaps the best
known of the forraer schools was that conducted by
the ¦ well remembered Professor Saras for raany
years. For the school year 1919-20. the Hastoc School
has an even hundred students, twenty being board
ing pupils who live in the dorraitory, and raore than
eighty day pupUs. These figures represent the
utraost capacity of the school at the present time,
and many applications for its facilities have had to
be denied.
The object of the school as stated by Professor
Shockley "is to develop strong, manly characters, and
to provide thorough instruction in studies leading to
entrance to college, or such as will give business
foundation for the boy who may not be able to
attend college." The school has fulfilled its purpose
to a degree that entitled it to distinction among
the boys' high schools of the South. Many of its
former students have made notable records in ad
vanced work, have won appointments to the mil
itary and naval academies, and the school is ac
credited by the Association of Colleges and Sec
ondary Schools of the Southern States. While
diploraas frora the Hastoc School are accepted in
full value by many institutions, the raost distinctive
tribute to its advantages has been won by students
in corapetitive examination for entrance to various
institutions. Their superior preparation has again
and again been evidenced not only by what they
have shown in examination but by subsequent work
through college or university careers.
Probably the outstanding feature of the Hastoc
School is the close contact between teacher and
pupil, and the incidental increased individual at
tention paid by the instructors to the boys under
them. The numbers of pupils have been carefully
restricted so that the proportion between teacher
and student should be approximately one to fifteen.
The evUs of schoolroom congestion under the pub
lic system of education, whereby one teacher has
supervision of frora twenty to a hundred pupils,
has been freely discussed and acknowledged in
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ing contrast with that system that the Hastoc
School from the first has ordered its work.
Professor Shockley is a York Rite Mason and
Shriner, is past high priest of the Royal Arch
Chapter, past commander of Spartanburg Com
mandery Knights Templar, and is a member of
grand lodge Knights of Pythias and the Imperial
Palace of Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan.
He IS a deacon of the First Presbyterian Church of
Spartanburg, raeraber of the board of directors and
chairraan of boys' work of the Spartanburg Young
Men's Christian Association, and is associated with
several business enterprises, being a director of
Mechanics BuUding and Loan Association.
Augustus Henry Hayden, M. D. What higher
relation can an individual bear to the coraraunity in
which he lives than does that raeraber who with
knowledge gained through long and diligent re
search and with skUl perfected by years of ripe ex
perience, devotes himself to the task of staying the
ravages of disease, mitigating the pangs of suffer
ing and restoring the stricken to health? And then,
when the faithful physician supplements high profes
sional qualifications with noble personal traits of
character, he rises into an exalted sphere of activity,
and his life is a boon to his fellow-raen. Such a life
has been that of Dr. Augustus Henry Hayden, one
of the prominent physicians and surgeons of Ches
terfield, and a highly respected and esteemed resi
dent of his coraraunity.
Doctor Hayden was born at Charleston, South
Carolina, October 21, 1859, a son of Augustus Henry
Hayden. The elder raan was born at Hayden's,
near Hartford, Connecticut, Noveraber 16, 1817, and
arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, on his twen
ty-first birthday. He became a prominent citizen of
his community, where he died Septeraber 5, 1894,
and was a Confederate soldier during the war be
tween the states. Mr. Hayden raarried Charlotte
Elizabeth Kinloch, of Charleston, June 21, 1846.
Mrs. Hayden, who died at the age of seventy-eight
years. May 3, 1902, was a sister of the eminent phy
sician and surgeon. Dr. R. A. Kinloch, who was well
known in raedical circles throughout the United
States and Europe. Mr. and Mrs. Hayden were the
parents of six children : Elizabeth Haskell ; Emma
Kinloch, of Charleston ; Nina, wife of A. P. Otis,
of that city; Dr. Augustus Henry; Annie Booth, the
wife of Algernon Sidney Sraith of Charleston; and
Julia Henry, the wife of Dr. Charles M. Rees, of
that city.
After attending the public schools of Charleston,
the private schools of Joseph CaldweU and Professor
Sachleben, both in Charleston, Augustus H, Hayden
pursued a course at the University of the South,
Sewanee Tennessee. For a few years thereafter he
lived in the North and West, being variously em
ployed, but eventually returned to his home in
Charleston, South Carolina, where he became in
terested in the study of medicine under the pre-
ceptorship of his uncle, Dr, Robert Alexander Kin
loch, He graduated from the Medical Colletre of
the State of South Carolina, Charleston, in 1888, in
which year he located at Charleston, but a short
time thereafter removed to Darlington, where, in
1893, he was united in marriage with Mary Sparks

Spain, daughter of Maj, A. C. Spain, a prominent
South Carolina attorney. Removing to Summerville,
this state. Doctor Hayden continued in practice there
for fourteen years, and then went to- Columbia,
where he resided during the period that his son
was attending college at the South Carolina Univer
sity. Eventually he came to Chesterfield, where he
has built up a large and lucrative professional busi
ness and attained standing of the highest character
in raedical circles. His skUl, syrapathy and specialized
knowledge have served to gain him public confidence
in the highest degree and his splendid personal char
acteristics have strengthened 'and solidified his repu
tation. Doctor Hayden is a meraber of the Ches
terfield County Medical Society, the South Carolina
Medical Society and the American Medical Associa
tion, and occupies an excellent place in the esteem
of his fellow-practitioners, who recognize in him
one who has always respected the highest profes
sional ethics.
Doctor and Mrs. Hayden have one son, Augustus
Henry III, who has just returned frora France,
where he saw active service with the faraous One
Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry (the old First
Regiment National Guard of South Carolina), Fifty-
Ninth Brigade, Thirtieth (Old Hickory) Division,
U. S, A. During the sumraer of 1919 he was in
the eraploy of the United States Public Health Serv
ice a:t Charleston, resigning his position with the
government September ist, 1919, for the purpose of
taking up a course in dentistry. He entered the
Atlanta Southern Dental College, Atlanta, Georgia,
where he is now pursuing his studies.
Harry Russell Wilkins is one of the lead
ers in the progressive young business element of
Greenville, and in both public and business life has
shown that proraptness of decision and action which
raakes for large and definite results.
Mr. Wilkins was born at Gaffney, South Carolina,
August 10, 1885, and represents several old and
prorainent farailies in Upper South Carolina. The
Town of Gaffney, where he was born, was founded
by and named for his maternal great-grandfather,
Capt. Michael Gaffney, a native of Granard, Ire
land, who moved frora Charleston to Upper South
Carolina and settled at what is now Gaffney about
1805. The Wilkins family came from Virginia to South
Carolina during the eighteenth century and settled
in that part of Spartanburg County now Cherokee
County. Mr. Wilkins, who is a son of Robert Rus
sell Wilkins and Lura Dean (Gaffney) Wilkins,
after graduating frora the Gaffnev High School,
won a scholarship and entered The Citadel, South
Carolina's chief railitary school, and was graduated
there in 1908. He was an instructor at the Porter
Military Academy at Charleston for two years, 1908-
igio, and after one year in the real estate business
m Gaffney he raoved to Greenville and identified
hiraself with the business interests of that city.
He is the senior raember of the firm of Harry W^il-
kins and Company, real estate brokers and dealers,
with offices in the Swandale BuUding, GreenviUe
South Carolina.
In AprU, 1917, when the United States entered
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composed of. his aged father, mother and three sis
ters, was seriously handicapped by his responsibil
ities to his family and the extensive buUding opera
tions which his firm (The William Goldsmith Com
pany) was engaged in doing for a number of cot
ton mills in South Carolina. Due to these circum
stances he was unable to follow his own inclination
and enter the war at that time.
However, the opportunities that carae to hira to
do a "man's duty" at horae, both frora a civU and
military standpoint, were eagerly accepted. He as
sisted Col. Henry T. Thorapson in the organization
of the South Carolina Reserve Militia, devoting his
time and energy to the work of shaping the neces
sary legislation and getting it enacted by the Legis
lature He also organized the local GreenvUle cora
pany, known as the Markley Guards, of which he
was made captain, which company he instructed and
trained untU he was appointed, by Governor Man
ning, major commanding the Second Battalion of
four companies in the First Regiraent of South
Carolina Reserve Militia. Capt. Hope Sadler suc
ceeded him as commander of the Markley Guards.
He also organized and drUled and instructed two
companies of cadets at Furman University, and
was active in many of the war auxUiary undertak
ings and campaigns.
Although over the draft age, he felt that his
early training and talents should be available to his
country in war. He resorted to strenuous efforts to
relieve himself of his building operations and shape
his personal responsibilities so that he could offer
his services in the army, which he did in the spring
or summer of 1918. At that time the war was in
its most critical phase, and not even the most san
guine expected it would be over until 1919,
Before going to Washington to volunteer his
services Mr. Wilkins received a number of strong
letters endorsing hira for a coraraission in the Na
tional army. Some of these letters indicate the rec
ognition paid hira by men high in official life, and
the following extracts have an appropriate place in
this sketch. Governor R. I. Manning said: "Major
Wilkins graduated from The Citadel in 1908, has had
several years' experience in the National Guard, and
is now a major in the State Reserve MUitia. He is
a man of excellent character, good education, and
is a fine officer. I cheerfully recommend Major
Wilkins to your favorable consideration for the
service which he desires to enter."
From Col. Asbury Coward, a distinguished Con
federate officer in the war between the states and
superintendent of The Citadel frora 1890 to 1908:
"Mr. Wilkins is fully corapetent to coramand any
company of soldiers. Since he graduated from The
Citadel he has had several years' experience as an
officer in the National Guard. I heartily recoramend
that he be made a captain in the National Army or
any other body of troops."
A prominent business man of Greenville, Mr. G.
G. Slaughter, wrote,: "Major -Wilkins is a man of
sterling character, good habits, and full of energy:
a man of splendid executive ability, a natural
leader, and will measure up to any responsibUities
placed upon him requiring above qualifications."
Upon his volunteering his application for a cap
tain's commission was approved, but the story of

Mr. Wilkins' efforts to get his physical examina
tion and his application for a commission passed
upon ig a long one, involving tedious and seem
ingly unnecessary delays due no doubt to the tra
ditional red tape and, the lack df efficient office
forces of the departments in Washington. Mr. Wil
kins passed a successful examination before the
army medical board in Washington, and he made
three separate trips to Washington in his efforts to
get in the array, but on account of delays beyond
his control orders were not issued for hira to report
for duty until early in November. The arraistice was
signed on November nth, and not being able to get
in the army he did not wish to accept a coraraission
in the Officers' Reserve.
Robert Obadiah Purdy, Jr. No record of South
Carolina heroisra, no roll of the worthy sons, whose
character and deeds and sacrifices have added lus
ter to her escutcheon, and whose raeraory she cher
ishes, would be coraplete without the narae of Robert
Obadiah Purdy, who cheerfully gave his life that
the blessings of civUization and the heritage of hu
man freedom should not perish frora the earth.
Robert O. Purdy, Jr., a son of Judge Robert O.
and Hattie Ingrara Purdy, was born in Surater,
South Carolina, April 5, 1891, and was reared in his
native town, universally recognized by associates
as a boy of pure life, high ideals and great prora
ise. His education began in the schools of his horae
town, and was corapleted at the University of South
Carolina, where he graduated in the School of Law
in 1914. Shortly thereafter he began the practice
of law as a raember of the firm of Purdy and Bland,
of which his honored father was the head. Here
he soon gave proraise of great usefulness and emi
nence in his chosen field.
When he heard the first call of his country for
the military service of its young raen, within an
hour he made application to be enrolled in the serv
ice. After the requisite period of training at Fort
Oglethorpe, he was commissioned as second lieu
tenant, and immediately volunteered for overseas
duty. In August, 1917, he bade farewell to country
and loved ones, and erabarked from New York in
September of that year. He was assigned to the
Twenty-Eighth Regiraent Infantry, First Division,
Regulars, a unit signalized subsequently both by its
great heroisra and by its long list of casualties.
Having been gassed in March, 1918, he was confined
to a hospital for about one month. In the capture
of Cantigny, he sustained a wound, though not of
very serious character. For a brief tirae he was
assigned to detached duty, but at his earnest re
quest was returned to his division and attached to
Corapany M of his old regiraent. At his own re
quest, that he might take part- with his unit in an
attack on the Paris Soissons road to be raade on
the morning of July 19th, he was relieved frora
laison duty on the i8th. At 7 a. m. of the 19th the
First and Third Divisions were given the lead in
the attack. A comrade, himself severely wounded
in the sarae engageraent, states that Purdy was
wounded on this day and gave hiraself first aid. He
was urged by a captain of his regiraent to go to
the rear. He replied that his wound did not in
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men. His comrades tell how that, fearlessly leading
his platoon, he reached his objective, under a heavy
machine gun fire from an exposed flank, and while
looking over his men to see that they were all right,
he was struck by a machine gun bullet in the heart
and instantly killed. On the spot where he fell in the
moment of triumph he was buried. He was officially
reported as killed leading his platoon on July 21 st,
but according to the statement of a number of his
comrades he was killed on July igth.
It was a costly sacrifice. Rare talents, well cul
tured, lofty character, pure life, unselfish impulses,
combined to win the respect and confidence of all
who knew him, while a sunny, genial disposition,
sonalrty of rare magnetism.
If the good that men do lives after them, then by
his life and by his death, Robert Purdy has be
queathed a noble heritage to others who come after
him. To the above tribute and appreciation written by
Rev. Dr. W. J. McKay of Sumter, it would be pos
sible to add many other comments found in the
Sumter Herald and other state papers. The Uni
versity publication. The Carolinian, for January-
February, 1919, contains an article on Lieutenant
Purdy compiled by Yates Snowden, editor in chief
of the History of South Carolina. One paragraph
from that article is : "Robert Purdy will always be
remembered by his fellows as a boy and a raan of
singularly high (some thought Quixotic) ideals;
keen intelligence, fine sense of humor and with a
genius for friendship — and so it is not surprising to
note in the Garnet and Black for 1914, the year he
was called to the bar, his high stand in all student
activities, the Euphradian Society, college publica
tions, the Civic Club, the German Club, football and
the Y. M. C. A."
Mr. Snowden quotes one near to him who wrote :
"I think he was about the happiest man I ever saw
and happy because he was clean and high. He thought
in high ideals and lived as he thought. His con
ceptions of the duty of a lawyer were differeut frora
the conceptions usuaUy entertained, and his ideas
of the methods of becoming a lawyer were also
different. When urged more than once to put him
self in the way where he might be employed in crira
inal cases or trivial cases to attract notoriety, he
courteously and smilingly declined to cheapen him
self in that way."
Professor Snowden also quotes the telegram of
Brig.-Gen. Johnson Hagood: "Robert Purdy kiUed
7 a. m. July nineteenth leading his platoon in attack
Paris Soissons Road buried where he fell. Excellent
officer, fearless and devoted to duty; much liked by
officers and men. Death great loss to his regiment."
In conclusion should be quoted the words of one
of his fellow lieutenaiits of the Twenty-Eighth Iri-
fantry: "Lieutenant Purdy was absolutely fearless —
exposing himself to danger in order to set an ex
ample to his raen. I have had a number of men tell
me that, and have visited him while engaged in
trench warfare and know it to be raore than true. He
was always cheerful under fire — joking and cheering
and encouraging those around him. The officers
and men request that I extend their deepest sympathy
to you. I, myself, feel the loss of a real friend,"
Judge Robert O, Purdy has received from the
division commander of the First Division a citation

for his son Lieut. Robert O. Purdy for .gallantry in
action and general meritorious conduct.
Judge Robert O. Purdy, whose many years of
earnest work as a lawyer, judge and citizen have
given him enviable place in the affection and esteem
of the people of South Carolina, is a resident of
Sumter and came to South Carolina in 1881.
He was born near LawrencevUle, Virginia, Febru
ary II, 1857, a son of James and Jane Purdy, who
came to Virginia from Ireland after their marriage.
He acquired a common school education, spent two
years in the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical
College, and took his law degree from the University
of Virginia. Judge Purdy practiced for many years
as a member of the Sumter bar, served as mayor of
Sumter and on the city council, and in 1902 was elect
ed circuit judge, which he voluntarily resigned in 1907
to resume the duties of a private citizen and the
practice of his profession. He is connected with a
number of financial institutions as attorney and in
their management.
December 18, 1883, he married Miss Hattie H.
Ingram, of Manning, South Carolina. She died in
October, 1914. Her father was Dr. John I. Ingram.
To Judge and Mrs. Purdy were born nine children,
seven of whom are still living. The oldest son was
Robert O. Purdy, Jr., whose distinguished record as
a soldier and officer ih the World war has been de
scribed on other pages.
Robert T. Caston was born at Camden, the coun
ty seat of Kershaw County, South Carolina, Febru
ary 20, 1851, a son of W. Thurlow Caston. His
father, a native of Lancaster County, South Caro
lina, was left an orphan at an early age, but secured
a good educational training and after his gradua
tion from Davidson College, North Carolina, entered
the legal profession. While his abilities were great,
he died before he had gone far on the road to
prominence, in young manhood. His widow, who
bore the maiden name of Sarah A. Bryce, and was
a native of South Carolina and a daughter of Robert
Bryce, of Columbia, survived him to the age of
eighty-two years. Of their chUdren, Robert T. is
the only survivor and the mother lived with this son
and died at his horae.
Robert T. Caston attended private schools and
Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, and
graduated from the latter in 1871, with the degree
of Bachelor of Arts. In that same year he went to
Texas, where for the next four years he taught in
the public and private schools of Hunt, Hopkins,
Johnson and H counties, and in the meantirae
applied himself assiduously to the study of law.
In 1875 he returned to South Carolina, where
he completed his preparations for his chosen pro-
- fession in the office of Bobo & Carlisle, lawyers,
ot Spartanburg, and was admitted to the bar in the
same year. For about a year he was connected
with the probate judge's office at Lancaster, but in
1875 changed his scene of activity to Cheraw, where
he entered the partnership of Mclver & Caston, with
Judge Mclver. This association continued untU
ttie elevation of Judge Mclver to the bench, when
Mr. Caston joined W. L. T. Prince, and later was
associated with the son of his forraer partner. Judge
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He has a representative clientele, including some of
the largest concerns and most prominent business
men and banks of the county. While engaged in
practice, Mr. Caston carae into contact with financial
affairs, in which he was first interested in a pro
fessional capacity and later as a personal participant.
In 1887 he was one of the organizers of the Bank
of Cheraw, and two years later was elected its presi
dent, a position which he has retained for over
thirty uninterrupted years. The bank has assuraed
and held a leading position araong the institutions
of Chesterfield County, standing high in reputation
in banking circles of the state and in the confidence
of the people. He is largely and profitably interested
in farraing, is a director in the Cheraw Cotton MiUs,
and has nuraerous other financial and business inter
ests. He is a leading meraber of the Methodist Epis
copal Church and chairman of the board of school
trustees of Cheraw.
Thomas M. Lyles is a lawyer of distinction at
Spartanburg, and has devoted himself corapletely to
his profession, allowing none of the influences which
so often attract a lawyer to other fields to swerve
him from the vocation which he has so gladly ac
cepted as his true and best mission.
Mr. Lyles was born in Fairfield County, South
Carolina, in 1880, a son of John Woodward and
Susan C. (Morris) Lyles. The first white chUd
born in Fairfield County was a Lyles and the family
is one of the oldest and best known in that part of
the state. John Woodward Lyles, who was born
in the western part of Fairfield County, is probably
today the best known citizen of the county and a man
of fine character and of broad usefulness. As a boy
he enlisted in the Confederate array and served until
the close of the war. For the past twenty years
he has been clerk of the Court of Fairfield County,
his horae being at Winnsboro, the county seat. He
also represented that county in the State Legislature,
has been county chairman, and a former meraber
of the board of trustees of the state penitentiary,
Thomas M, Lyles graduated with the class of 1901
from the famous Citadel at Charleston. The next
three years he spent teaching school, and he then
entered the law department of the University of
South Carolina, graduating in 1906. He at once
came to Spartanburg and has developed a general
practice in aU the courts and also has represented
a number of important commercial and industrial
corporations. He served one term in the House of
Representatives, 1915-1916, but did not offer for re
election. For seven years he practiced alone and is
now a raeraber of the law firra of Lyles, Daniel &
Drummond, a firm title that speaks for itself araong
the legal profession of the state. A former meraber
of the firra was Judge J. T. Johnston, ex-Congress-
raan from this district.
John F. Floyd. Students of political science have
long realized that the efficacy of deraocratic govern
ment is derived not so rauch from the forra as frora
the personal vigor and character of these entrusted
with administrative powers. Spartanburg is one of
the wisely and efficiently governed cities of South
Carolina. The form of government is by "commis
sion," and while that expedites administration and
concentrates responsibility, it is significant that rauch

of the vigor of raunicipal affairs has been continued
through from the old regime, and is due primarily
to the fact that John F. Floyd has always been the
coraraission mayor, as he was mayor under the old
system. Altogether Mr. Floyd has been mayor of Spartan
burg twelve years. He was first honored with the
office in 1905, holding it four years. Then came an
other term, and when the new charter was adopted
he was called upon as the raan best fitted by experi
ence and- native ability to guide the city in the new
channels of raunicipal administration,
Mr. Floyd was born in York County, South Caro
lina, in 1866, son of Andrew G. and Susan Elizabeth
(Hall) Floyd. The family moved to Spartanburg in
1869, and Andrew G. Floyd for many years was in
the wholesale grocery business and one of the city's
most substantial and highly respected citizens, giv
ing of his personal energies to its upbuUding from
a small town to a modern industrial center.
John F. Floyd was reared and educated in Spar
tanburg, and in 1894 entered the furniture and under
taking business. Since 1908 he has confined his
attention exclusively to undertaking, and has the
most complete establishment of the kind in the
city. He is affiliated with the lodges of Masons,
Elks, Woodmen and Red Men. Mayor Floyd raar
ried Miss Leita Russell, daughter of Dr. W. T. Rus
sell of Spartanburg, and their family consists of
four children, naraed Williara Russell, John Gordon,
Elizabeth and Sarah.
Charles M. Drummond, a forraer member of
the House of Representatives, has won high stand
ing in the profession of law since beginning practice
at Spartanburg in 1909. In early life he had a
thorough military training, being a graduate of
The Citadel at Charleston, and was an enthusiastic
worker in war activities during 1917-18.
Mr. Druramond was born near Woodruff in Spar
tanburg County in 1882. The family residence was
established there nearly a century before his birth.
His great-grandfather Ephraira Druraraond, with his
wife, who was related to the family of the famous
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, came from Virginia and
settled in the Woodruff coraraunity in I78g. His
descendants have lived in that locality ever since.
Mr. Drummond's grandfather was Rev. Simpson
Drummond, one of the pioneer Baptist ministers
in Upper South Carolina, Dr, Madison W, Drum-
Woodruff and vicinity and served as an assistant
surgeon in the Confederate army during the war. He
married Gertrude Shell, a native of Laurens County,
and Charles M. Drummond is one of their children.
Mr, Drummond graduated from South Carolina's
faraous military school in igo4, and with such high
standing in scholarship that he was selected as an
instructor in the Staunton (Virginia) Military, In
stitute. In addition to his duties there he also stud
ied law, and was admitted to the bar in igog. In
the sarae year he opened offices at Woodruff and
Spartanburg and carried on an individual practice
until October, 1918, when he became a member of
the prominent Spartanburg law firm Lyles, Daniel
& Druraraond. Air. Druraraond served in the Legis
lature during the sessions of 191 1 and 1912, having
been elected in loio. A large amount of his tirae and
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during the war. He had charge of three of the Lib
erty Loan campaigns for Woodruff Township and
was township chairman of the Council of Defense,
also had charge of the War Savings Stamp cam
paign in the same township, and Was the first chair
raan of the Red Cross Chapter of Woodruff Town
ship. Mr. Druramond is a member of the Masonic order
and the Knights of Pythias, and his place of wor
ship is the First Presbyterian Church. He raarried
Miss Virginia May of Staunton, Virginia, and they"
have one daughter, Kittie Lomax and one son,
Charles M., Jr.
John Newell Hargrove. To such vigorous and
resourceful men as John Newell Hargrove, Dillon
County is indebted for its place among the highly
productive localities of South Carolina. Forty-three
years of age, and a native of Little Rock, this state,
where he was bom August 22, 1876, this earnest and
high-minded planter and cotton dealer is a sincere
appreciator of the dignity and worth of his calling,
and of its enorraous worth and importance as a
fundamental feature of community existence. Mr,
Hargrove has also contributed to the progress of his
coraraunity by public service of a valuable character,
and at this tirae is a raember of the board of coun
ty comraissioners,
John Newell Hargrove- was the third in order of
birth of the four children of James D. and Mary
Jane (McDonald) Hargrove. The Hargrove family
originated in Wales, frora whence the original Araer
ican settler came to this country at a very early date
in the history of the colony of Virginia, where he
made settleraent and which was the faraily's home
for a number of generations. The raother of Mr.
Hargrove's grandfather was an Adaras, who located
in Delaware, also at an early day, and later raoved
to Marlboro County, South Carolina, and the grand
father was a native of that county, where he spent
his life as a planter. Jaraes D. Hargrove's raother
was a daughter of Joshua Ammons, who was with
General LaFayette when he was wounded, and car
ried him off the battlefield. In later years he walked
frora his horae in Marlboro County, South Carolina,
to Fayetteville, North Carolina, in order that he
might meet his old coraraander.
Jaraes Hargrove was born in Marlboro County,
South Carolina, but in young raanhood raoved to
Marion (now Dillon) County. During the war be
tween the states he enlisted in Kershaw's Brigade of
the Confederate army, and served four years in the
Quartermaster's Department, coraing through the
war safely, although his brother was wounded. Mrs.
Hargrove was bom in North Carolina, a daughter
of John and Katie (McLucas) McDonald, natives of
Scotland, the forraer of whora was born on the Isle
of Skye and carae to the United States at the age of
twelve years, locating at Richraond, North Carolina.
Jaraes D. and Mary Jane Hargrove became the par
ents of four chUdren: Sarah, whp died in infancy;
Jaraes, a resident of Dillon ; John Newell, of this
review; and Norman B., postraaster of DiUon and
one of the leading merabers of the county legal pro
fession. John Newell Hargrove was but two years of age
at the tirae his father died, and when he was only

fifteen years of age he took over the responsibUities
attached to the raanageraent of the home farra. it
wUI thus be seen that he had fevv chances of attain
ing an advanced educational training, but he made
the most of his opportunities, and is today a well-
informed and well-read raan, with broad and de
finite knowledge upon all practical subjects. He has
devoted hiraself to farraing throughout his career,
and at this tirae is the owner- of the home estate, con
sisting of 161 acres and lying seven miles north of
DiUon. He is largely interested in buying and sell
ing cotton, and maintains an office at Dillon for
handling this business. Mr. Hargrove's success and
prominence have been earned by dUigence and in
tegrity, and these and other excellent qualities insure
hira a bright and promising future.
In 1905 Mr. Hargrove was raarried to. Cora McRae,
daughter of Roderick and Mary (Smith) McRae,
and they are the parents of one daughter: Sarah.
Mr. Hargrove has long been interested in civic af
fairs, and in 1916, was elected a meraber of the
board of county comraissioners of Dillon County.
He made such an excellent impression upon his
constituents that in 1918 he received the re-election
and stUI continues to give of his valuable services in
efficiently discharging the duties of this iraportant
office. Mr. Hargrove is a thirty-second degree Ma
son, a Shriner and a meraber of the Knights of
Pythias and the Woodmen of the World, and he and
Mrs. Hargrove are faithful members of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, South.
Walter Fore Stackhouse. A lawyer who has
practiced at Marion for twenty years, Mr. Stack-
house has frequently been called to positions of trust
and responsibility, and has rendered a great deal of
valuable service outside the strict limits of his pro
fession. He was born at Little Rock, South Carolina, De
cember I, 1873, a son of Col. E. T. and Anna (Fore)
Stackhouse. His father was a weU known Confed
erate veteran and otherwise spent his life as a planter.
Walter F. Stackhouse was educated in the public
schools, graduated in 1895 frora Wofford College,
finishing his course in the law departraent of the
University of South Carolina in 1897 and then con
tinued his law course by post-graduate work in Har
vard University, In 1898 he began practice at Marion.
Mr. Stackhouse is a raember of the Board of Edu
cation of Marion County and is a former member
of the County Road and Highway Commission. He
IS also a trustee of Wofford CoUege and was a
member of the Chi Psi college fraternity there. He
IS a Royal Arch Mason and Knight of Pythias, and
for eighteen years served as a steward of the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Marion.
October 24, 1900, he married Daisy Waller of
Greenwood. Ibra Charles Blackwood, present solicitor of the
Seventh Judicial Circuit, is a native of Spartanburg
County, and has raade his own way to successful
prominence in professional affairs and for seventeen
years has been coming steadily to the front as a law
yer and leading citizen.
He was born in the upper part of Spartanburg
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vina (Bums) Blackwood, both natives of Spartan
burg County. His maternal grandfather Bums came
to South Carolina from Scotland. His grandfather
Blackwood was born in England, first settled in
Virginia, afterwards locating in the extreme upper
part of Spartanburg County, in a community which
subsequently was known as Blackwood postoffice.
Ibra Charles Blackwood was born and reared on
the Blackwood plantation and left there at the age
of fifteen to enter Furraan University at GreenvUle,
and afterwards was a student in Wofford College at
Spartanburg. He had to depend largely upon his
own efforts to put hira through college and also pre
pare for the bar. He read law in Spartanburg in
the offices of Wilson & Hydrick and also with a firra
of which Mr. Hoke was a partner. Adraitted to the
bar in 1902, he has since been in active practice at
Spartanburg, and is now associated with Mr. P. D,
Barron in conducting a general practice in all the
courts. The same year he was admitted to practice
he was elected a meraber of the Legislature and
served two consecutive terras. Mr. Blackwood was
chosen solicitor for the Seventh Judicial Circuit in
1916, and has raade an enviable reputation for the
efficient and courageous raanner in which he has con
ducted all litigation in behalf of the state.
Mr. Blackwood is not only a good lawyer but is
an able public speaker, and frequently has been ora
tor of the day on public occasions. He is a Knight
Templar Mason and Shriner and is grand marshal
of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina. Mr. Black
wood married Miss Margaret Hodges, a native of
Tennessee. Rupert Howard Fike, M.^ D. While one of. the
thoroughly trained and qualified general physicians
and surgeons. Doctor Fike throughout his profes
sional practice has devoted himself to the special
science of Roentgenology and the opinion of his
professional associates concurs that he is one of the
most skUlful operators with the X-Ray in the South.
He gives all his time to his special services as Roent
genologist for the Steedly Hospital at Spartanburg.
Doctor Fike was born in Spartanburg in 1887. His
great-grandfather was a native of Nuremberg, Ger
many, and on coming to America settled on Dutch
Fork in Newberry County, South Carolina. Doctor
Fike's grandfather George A. Fike, after a trip to
Mississippi returned to South Carolina and settled
at Cherokee Springs, in Spartanburg County in 183S.
The faraily have lived in the county now for eighty-
five years. Doctor Fike's parents were George O.
and Ella Estella (McKinney) Fike, the latter still
living. The father had his home at Cherokee Springs
for a number of years and then removed to Spartan
burg. He was a business men of great sagacity, but
best known and reraerabered for his strict honor
and rectitude, and his life in business as a citizenship
constitutes a record which his chUdren and descend
ants may weU cherish. , . .• • ,,1,
Doctor Fike received his early education in the
crammar and high schools of Spartanburg and grad
uated from Clemson College with the class of
1908 He took his medical course in the Medical
Department of the Lincoln Memorial College at
KnoxviUe, Tennessee, graduating in 1912. He had
already determined to specialize in X-Ray work and

diagnosis and his training in that line was acquired
by extensive post-graduate courses in Johns Hop
kins, Baltimore, Massachusetts General Hospital at
Boston, and the New York Polyclinic. As a specialist
he has contributed' much to the splendid standing
of the Steedly Hospital at Spartanburg, to which
he gives his entire professional services. Doctor
Fike is a meraber of the County and State Medical
societies and the Araerican Medical Association.
Miss Ethel 'Lee Ewing of KnoxviUe, Tennessee,
became his wife. She is a member of the Ewing
family of Virginia. Their two children are Rupert
H., Jr., and Eleanor Ewing.
Henry Mullins. A lifelong resident of Marion
County, Henry Mullins has irapressed his personal
abUities and influence at many points in the county's
affairs in the past thirty years. He is a lawyer by
profession, has a large practice and a prominent
place in the bar, is also a banker, and has frequently
been honored with positions of trust and responsibil
ity in his home community and in the state.
He was born at the Town of Mullins, named in
honor of his faraily, November 16, 1864, son of Wil
liam Sidney and Sarah (Hodges) Mullins. It is
said that the South Carolina family of that name
belongs to the same ancestry as the famous Pris
cUla Mullins famed in song and story of New Eng
land. WUliara S. Mullins was also a lawyer, a
planter, served as a member of both Houses in the
Legislature. Henry Mullins' boyhood alternated between school
and farra work and though his father was a raan
of substantial resources and lent him every encour
agement to take up the profession of law Henry
chose to be dependent upon his own resources and
worked to pay his way through college. He grad
uated frora the South Carolina University with the
A. B. degree in 1887, having prepared for university
at the Mullins Acaderay and the Hopewell Acaderay.
He studied law for several years with that eminent
jurist C. A. Wood of Marion. Since admission to
the bar he has always raade Marion his horae, and
araong other prominent interests represented by him
he is attorney for the Atlantic Coast Line Rail
way. Mr. Mullins is also prominent as a banker, having
established and for many years been president of
the Bank of Mullins and was one of the organizers
and is vice president of the Planters Bank of Marion.
For nearly twenty years he served as chairman of
the boqrd of trustees of the public schools. By ap-
pointinent he has also filled the office of special judge
several times.
Mr. MuUins is a meraber of the Episcopal Church,
is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the
Mystic Shrine and the Knights of Pythias and is
an active democrat.
Noveraber 4, 1891, he married Miss Louisa Nor
wood, daughter of George A. Norwood of Green
ville. To their marriage were born six children.
The son Edward H. served with the rank of lieu
tenant in the famous Rainbow or Forty-second Di
vision in the 'World war. He is a graduate of the
law departraent of the University of South Caro
lina and since returning from overseas has been
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Don Carl Cook had just completed his legal edu
cation when the war with Gerraany was declared,
and after nearly two years of service in carap and
overseas he returned and began practice at Harts
ville, as a partner of another soldier, Capt. R. R.
McLeod. Mr. Cook was born on a plantation twelve railes
frora Lake City in Florence County March 24, 1895,
son of E. A. and Itaska (Brown) Cook. His father
was a native of Williarasburg County, his grand
father Jesse D. Cook was born in the sarae locality,
while the great-grandfather was Jesse Cook, a native
of Columbia. E. A. Cook has spent his active life as
a planter and farmer. Itaska Brown was born in
WUliamsburg County, a daughter of James Brown.
Don Carl is the second in a family of twelve chU
dren. He spent his boyhood days on a plantation three
miles from Lake City, attended high school there,
prepared for college in the Wofford Fitting School
at Spartanburg and received his law degree from the
University of South Carolina in 191 7, being admitted
to the bar at the same tirae.
At the beginning of the war he joined the Fourth
Company, South Carolina Coast Artillery, National
Guard, and afterward was mustered into the Federal
service with the Sixty-First Coast ArtUlery and
raade a corporal. With his regiment he went over
seas and spent six months in France. He was given
intensive training with the Sixty-First Regiraent.
Mr. Cook landed at New York February 17, 1919,
and soon afterward formed a partnership with Cap
tain McLeod under the firm narae of McLeod &
Cook, attorneys and lawyers. Mr. Cook is a mem
ber of Company D, of the First Separate Battalion
of the South Carolina National Guard. He is affili
ated with the Woodmen of the World.
Tracy Clarence " Easterling. On the basis of
his record for the past twenty years it is appropriate
to speak of Mr. Easterling as one of the really
constructive forces in the educational affairs of
South Carolina. He has always been more than a
teacher in the commonly accepted sense of that term.
Likewise he has done much more than administer
schools according to the routine formula. He has
succeeded in adapting school instruction and school
work in response to the modern demands made upon
schools as a vital function in American institutions.
Mr. Easterling, whose best work probably has been
done at Marion where he has been superintendent of
schools for a nuraber of years, was born art Marl
boro June 20, 1873, a son of Crawford and EmUy
(Fuller) Easterling. His father was a farraer. He
began his education in the public schools of Bennetts
ville and afterwards attended Wofford College at
Spartanburg. He was principal of the high school
at Marlboro and spent two years as principal of the
Alfordsville schools in North Carolina, and while
there aroused public sentiment and secured taxation
for the construction of a good modern school. For
three years he was also at Rowland, North Carolina.
Mr. Easterling then returned to Wofford College,
where he graduated A. B. in 1902. He then spent
four years in the Wofford Fitting School, three
years of the tirae as business raanager. Mr. Easter

ling began his work at Marion as superintendent of
city schools in igo6. He has been the raoving spirit
in iraproving the equipment and facUities of these
city schools until they are now araong the best in
the state. In fact the Manual Training School is
regarded as the raost efficient among siraUar schools
in South Carolina. He has also introduced a de
partraent of doraestic science, and a business train
ing department. Marion has some excellent school
buildings and the chief school has an auditorium
with 1,200 seats. One thousand pupUs are enrolled
in the city schools and Mr. Easterling directs the
work of a staff of twenty-two teachers.
He is a member of the South Carolina Teachers'
and City Superintendents' Association, belongs to the
Southern Education Association and is superintend
ent of his Sunday school in the Methodist Church.
He is also interested in farming and is secretary and
treasurer of the Dixie Land Company.
August 25, igi4, Mr. Easterling raarried Sadie
Estell Kendrick of Rock Hill, South Carolina.
Francis W. P. Butler, M. D. It is doubtful if
any living South Carolinian can claim a more impos
ing list of historic naraes in his iramediate and remote
family connections than Doctor Butler of Columbia,
whose own life has been one of constant devotion
to the best ideals of his profession and the tradi
tions of his family. The deeds and achieveraents of
his forefathers are raatters of intiraate knowledge
in South Carolina history, and only a few facts need
be stated.
His paternal great-grandfather was Gen. Williara
Butler, whose reraote ancestors lived in Normandy
and included the great English royalist, James, Duke
of Orraond. Gen. WUliara Butler was born in
Prince Williara County, Virginia, in l7Sg. The
father of WiUiam Butler was Capt. James Butler,
who a few years before the opening of the Revo
lution eraigrated with his family to South' Carolina.
Capt. James Butler and his four sons and two
sisters were all active participants in the Revolu
tionary struggle. Capt. James Butler lost his life
in a bloody conflict with a party of Tories led by
"Bloody Bill Cunningham,," the entire corapany
being butchered, and several years later it fell to
the lot of Gen. William Butler to avenge this death
and finally disperse the Cunningham band. During
the Revolution Gen. William Butler rose frora lieu
tenant to raajor general, and was also a prominent
leader in the civU life of his state. For thirteen
years he was a raeraber of Congress, resigning his
seat to give way to John C. Calhoun.
His son, grandfather of Doctor Butler of Colum
bia, was Dr. Williara Butler, who was born jn
Edgefield district, at what was known as Butler
Church. Several of Doctor Butler's brothers achieved
high distinction as soldiers and civic leaders, includ
ing Pierce M. Butler, who was one time governor
of South Carolina, and who was killed leading the
Palmetto Regiment up the heights of Cherubusco in
the Mexican war. Doctor Butler rode to PhUadel
phia on horseback to study medicine, reraaining in
that city untU he graduated. He was assistant sur
geon in the United States Navy, and while sta
tioned at Newport, Rhode Island, raet Jane Tweedy
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States Navy and sister of Oliver Hazard Perry and
Commodore M. C. Perry. It was the naval victory
of Oliver Hazard Perry on Lake Erie that won the
War of 1812, whUe Comraodore N. C. Perry gained
lasting fame as commander of the expedition which
opened up commercial relations between United
States and Japan. Shortly after his marriage to
Miss Perry, Dr. William Butler retired from the
navy and, returning to South Carolina, located on
his plantation in Edgefield County, South Carolina,
on Saluda River, and later moved to Lowndes Hill,
a. short distance from GreenvUle. In 1848 President
Polk appointed Dr. WiUiam Butler agent to the
Cherokee Indians in the Indian Territory. His fam
ily accompanied him overland in carriages and
wagons to Fort Gibson.
'WUliam Butler, fourth son of Dr. WUliam and
Jane Tweedy Perry Butler, was born in 1S37 near
Greenville. He was serving in the United States
Artillery when the war between the states started,
and resigned from the United States army. He
joined' his people and was a colonel in the Con
federate States army, stationed in Fort Sumter,
Charleston, in command of what was known as the
Regulars. While stationed in Fort Sumter he was
told that sraoke was coraing out of the powder mag
azine. He called an orderly and ordered him to
go in, and the colonel followed and thej' put out
some refuse that had caught fire from the pipe of
a drunken Irishman. Colonel Butler was offered a
commission as brigadier general just before the
close of the war, and refused it. How unmodern
this was.
The tenth chUd and sixth son of Dr. William and
Jane Tweedy Perry Butler was a character whose
name and deeds are made farailiar in every text
book history in South Carolina. This was the late
Gen. Mathew Calbraith Butler, who was born at
his father's plantation near Greenville, March 8,
1836, and died AprU 14, 1909. When his parents
went out to the Indian Territory it is said that
he drove a mule hitched to a one-horse wagon.
He remained in the West untU 1851. He then re-
' turned to Edgefield to live with his uncle. Judge
A. P. Butler, United States senator frora South
Carolina, and from that time his youth was spent
in an environment calculated to bring out the very
finest qualities of his character. It has been justly
said that few men in the United States could boast
a prouder family inheritance than General Butler.
"For three generations his ancestors and relations
on both sides of the house have been distinguished
in public service as naval and array officers, judges,
governors and United States senators."
Mathew C. Butler entered South Carolina Col
lege in 1854, but left after the junior year and
studied law under his uncle. Judge Butler. He was
admitted to practice and began his professional
career at Edgefield. In 1861, at the age of twenty-
five, having previously married, he went out as
captain of the Edgefield Hussars. He rose from
captain through the regular grades of Confederate
States Army to major general of cavalry on the
25th of August, 1864. He was a brUliant soldier,
beloved by aU his men and feared and respected
by the enemy. It is said that he never ordered a
soldier to go where he would not go hiraself.

However, his railitary career and his briUiant ca
reer as a lawyer and a United States senator and
the chief figure in restoring white raen's govem
ment to South Carolina in 1876 is a subject that
properly belongs to the general history of South
Carolina. For twelve years he was a colleague of
General Hampton in the United States Senate, and
after retiring from office, six years later, he forraed
a law partnership at Washington. A remarkable
honor came to hira on May 28, 1898, when he was
appointed and comraissioned by unanimous consent
of the Senate to major general in the United
States army. This honor came to him nearly thir
ty-four years after his victory at Reams Station
that won him the rank of major general of cavalry
in the Confederacy. At the close of the Spanish-
Araerican war he was appointed a member of the
Cuban Peace Commission with General 'Wade and
Admiral Sarapson.
Soon after his admission to the bar Mathew C.
Butler married Maria Sirakins Pickens, fourth
chUd of Col. F. W. Pickens. She was a great-
granddaughter of the first Andrew Pickens, the
great Revolutionary leader of the upper section of
South Carolina. His son, the second Andrew Pick
ens, held the office of colonel in the Regular Array
during the War of 1812 and was afterward governor
of South Carolina. Francis W. Pickens, father of
Mrs. M. C. Butler, was educated in South Carolina
College, becarae a lawyer at Edgefield and was for
ten years member of Congress from South Caro
lina. In 1858 he was sent by President Buchanan
to Russia. Some years later, in i860, he was made
governor of South CaroUna. His horae near Edge
field was known as "Edgewood," and this place be
carae the horae of Gen. M. C. Butler after his mar
riage. General Butler had charge of the estate
when Governor Pickens went to Russia.
Dr. Francis W. P. Butler was born at the Edge-
wood estate in Edgefield County December 18,
1858, and was reared at Edgefield, South Carolina.
He attended Wofford College at Spartanburg and
the Carolina MUitary Institute at Charlotte. When
his father was United States senator he was in
Washington, and began the study of medicine in
that city while acting as secretary to his distin
guished father. Returning to Squth Carolina in
1879, he entered the Medical College of the State
of Charleston, and was graduated with honors in
the class of 1881, For thirteen raonths he was
an interne in Roper Hospital, and then engaged in
general practice at Fort Lawn in Chester County.
After six raonths of post-graduate study in the
New York Polyclinic he located at Columbia, where
he practiced four years, and then followed his pro
fession four or five years at Edgefield. Accepting
the appointraent of acting assistant surgeon in the
United States array, he spent about five years at
the various army posts in the West. Since then
Doctor Butler has resumed his general practice at
Columbia. October 28, 1898, he married Miss Lilian Jones,
daughter of Capt. Iredell Jones of Rock Hill. Airs.
Butler is a niece of Gen. Wilie Jones of Columbia
and a granddaughter of Jaraes Adams, the faraous
South Carolina secessionist and governor of South
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and Mrs. Butler have two daughters : Ellen Iredell
and Mariah Pickens Butler.
Mrs. F. W. P. Butler, on her father's side, is de
scended frora Allen Jones, distinguished in colonial
and Revolutionary history of North Carolina. She
is also related to the Iredell family. James Iredell
was judge of the United States Court, and his son
was governor of North Carolina in ante-bellura
times. Mrs. Butler is also descended from the
Johnstone family of North Carolina.
Lieut.-Col. M. C. Butler, United States Army,
was killed just before the late war in Europe. He
graduated from West Point in 1888, and rose to the
rank of lieutenant colonel of cavalry, the same
branch which his distinguished father and name
sake followed. He was the fourth son of M. C.
and Maria S. Butler. Colonel Butler gained raore
distinction than any raember of the family in his
generation, and if he had been spared to fight the
Huns might have been even raore prominent.
The next meraber of the family who has attained
prominence in the state professionally as a lawyer
and politician is Thomas Bothwell Butler of Gaff
ney, South Carolina. He is a nephew of Gen. M. C,
Butler and son of Dr. P. P. Butler, M, C. Butler's
elder brother. He has demonstrated thus far in
his career the possibilities of even more prom
inence, for he has enjoyed all the honors his
county can give and is now leader of the bar in his
city and ranks with the best lawyers in the state
Maj, Bernard Manning is one of the noted six
brothers, sons of foriner Governor R. I. Manning,
all of whora were soldiers or officers in the World
war. He is the second living son of forraer Gov
ernor Manning. One of his older brothers was
killed in France.
Major Manning was born on his father's farm
near Sumter and graduated with the A. B. degree
frora the University of South Carolina in 1909. Dur
ing 1911-12 he was vice consul general at Genoa,
Italy. He left the Government service and when the
war with Gerraany began was cashier of the Na
tional Bank of Sumter. He resigned to enter the
officers training camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia,
in May, 1917, and on June 8th was comraissioned a
second lieutenant of infantry. Soon afterward he
was transferred 'to the artillery and on the 15th of
August was coraraissioned captain of artUlery, being
retained at Carap Oglethorpe as instructor of the First
Battery, Second Officers Training Carap during its
period of training. On Deceraber 15, 1917, he reported
to Carap Jackson, South Carolina, and was given
comraand of the Headquarters Corapany of the
¦Three Hundred and Sixteenth Field ArtiUery, in the
Eighty-First (WUdcat) Division. On July 29, 1918,
he was coraraissioned raajor, and in .August went
overseas with his comraand to France. The Field
ArtUlery was put under intensive training, and the
Three Hundred and Sixteenth and several other
regiments had completed their work and were sched
uled for front line service only a few days before
the signing of the armistice. Major Manni;ig re
turned home in the latter part of May, 1919, and was
discharged at Carap Lee on June 14th. The foUow
ing month he reraoved to Spartanburg and engaged
in business as a stock and bond broker. His older

brother Vivian since the war has located at Green
vUle. Major Manning married Miss Katharine Word
Burton of Baltimore, member of the distinguished
Virginia family of that name. They have a son
Burton Manning.
H. Clyde Harvley. The business of administer
ing the municipal government of a city like Green
ville is as everyone wUl acknowledge a raan's job.
But it is not the iraportance of the office itself, but
the raanner in which he has adrainistered it that dis
tinguishes the present mayor, H. Clyde Harvley.
Mr. Harvley is the youngest mayor in South Caro
lina, and one of the youngest men in the country to
fill the raayor's chair in a city the size of Greenville.
Mr. Harvley has performed the duties of this ex
acting office in addition to giving daily attention to
his private business responsibilites. He was born
in Edgefield County, South Carolina, December 17,
1886, son of J. K. and Ida (Adkins) Harvley, both
of whom are living. When he was a child, his par
ents removed to Greenwood County, where he grew
up and received his education. He was only a boy
when he entered raUroad service, becoming telegraph
operator and station agent, and on March i, 1913,
he was transferred to Greenville and given the re
sponsibilities of local representative for the C. &
'W. C. Railway, a part of the Atlantic Coast Line
System. Mr. Harvley had not been long in GreenvUle be
fore he manifested an interest in politics and pub
lic affairs that attracted notice to him. In 1915, he
was elected alderman and filled that office for two
years. In the city councU he was chairman of the
light comraittees, and he raade that raore than a per
functory responsibility. The citizens generally give
hirn credit for inaugurating the present beautiful
white way of GreenvUle, considered the last word
in street lighting and the best found in any city of
the size in the South. Up to the tirae Mr. Harvley
becarae a raeraber of the city council no provision
had been made for a sinking furid to take care of
the bonded indebtedness of the city. He took charge.
of this raatter, and secured the necessary legisla
ture providing a sinking fund.
In 1917, Mr. Harvley by vote of the people, became
mayor of Greenville. In that office he has proved
himself a more than efficient city executive, pro
gressive, and at the sarae time affording vigor for
the administration with economical management. As
mayor he brought about the municipal ownership of
the water works. A special election approved a bond
issue of $1,000,000, of which $800,000 were used to
buy the plant of a private corporation and $200,000
for en arging the facilities of the plant. Mr. Harvley
was also the first mayor of GreenviUe to open a
municipal coal and wood yard. This has proved a
great boon, particularly to the poor and needy, and
its value was especially proved during the hard win-
tf of I?i7-i8, Mr. Harvley is a member of the
baptist Church, and in politics is a democrat. Fra
ternally, he IS a Mason, belonging to the Greenwood
Blue Lodge, No. 91, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, Cyrus Chapter. No. 22, Royal Arch Masons,
Commandery No. 4, Knights Templar, and Hejaz
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the Improved Order of the Red Men, Loyal Order
of Moose, No. 133, and United Order of American
Mechanics He married Miss Blanche Barber of
Jr'airfax, Barnwell County, South Carolina.
Lanneau Durant Lide is a Marion lawyer, has
a large practice that is of itself a matter of public
interest, and has frequently come in touch with
public affairs, being at present a representative in
the Legislature.
He was born at Marion November 29, 1876, a
son of 'VViUiam Henry and Gertrude (Durant)
Lide. While his boyhood was spent on his father's
farm he attended the public schools at Marion and
for three years was a student in Furman University.
Before his adraission to the bar he was deputy
clerk of courts and for one year was private secre
tary to C. A; Woods of the Supreme Court, He
read law privately, was admitted to practice in
May, 1902, and has since been engaged in his pro
fession, specializing in corporation and timber law.
He is a member of the Marion County, South
Carolina, and American Bar associations. He is
also a raember of the county board of education, was
elected in 1918 for the legislative term of 1919-20.
and is a local counsel for the Atlantic Coast Line
Railway. Mr. Lide is a director of the Farmers
and Merchants Bank of Marion. During the war
he was an inspector for the local draft board. He
is also a director for the Marion National Bank
and fraternally is affiliated with the Masons,
Knights of Pythias and Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. He is a deacon of the Baptist
Church. April 24, 1907, he married Miss Fleetwood Mont
goraery of Marion, daughter of J. D. and Mary J.
(Watson) Montgomery. Their one son, Lanneau
Durant, Jr., was born March 23, 1914.
S-4MUEL Wilkins Norwood has a directing part
in several of the largest business and industrial
institutions at Marion. He is organizer and presi
dent of the Marion National Bank, is vice president
of the Augusta Northern Railway, and is also a
brick manufacturer and farmer.
He was born in Effingham, South Carolina, Sep
tember 28, 1871, son of George A. and Mary Louisa
(Wilkins) Norwood. His father for many y,=ars
was engaged in the general raerchandise and cotton
business, and at the age of fifty becarae a banker.
The son was educated in the public schools of
Marion, and graduated frora Furman University at
GreenvUle in 1892. He then spent a year in the
Greenville Savings Bank, another year as cashier
of the First National Bank of Wadesboro, North
Carolina, and in 1895 engaged in the general mer
chandise and farm supply business at Marion.
Mr. Norwood organized the Marion National
Bank, which started business October i, 1911. The
record of the past eight years shows that this is
one of the strongest and best managed banks in
that section of the state. It has a capital of $100,-
000' surplus of $20,000, average deposits of $400,000,
undivided profits of $15,000, and has paid out $48,-
000 in dividends. Mr. Norwood has been president
of the bank since the beginning. , . , ^ ^
He is one of the leading officials in the Pee Dee

Brick & TUe Corapany at Blue Brick, South Caro
lina, the largest industry of its kind in South Caro
lina. It manufactures 10,000,000 brick annually, em
ploying from forty to fiftv men.
August 29, 1894, Mr. Norwood raarried Marion
E. Park of Flora, lUinois. She was the great-
granddaughter of Thomas Park, one of the first
members of the faculty of South Carolina College,
now the University of South Carolina. Mrs. Nor
wood died November 29, i8g8. Her only son is
Capt. Edmund Park Norwood, who was granted
a certificate of graduation frora The Citadel at
Charleston several raonths in advance of the regular
comraencement in order that he might enlist for
service in the World war. April 10, 1917, he
joined the Sixth Machine Gun Battalion and later
was made a captain of the Eighty-First Corapany
of the United States Marines. On May, 22, 1911,
Mr. Norwood married Elizabeth Albertine of.
Marion. They have six children, Alice Buck, Eliza
beth Albertine, Mary Louisa, Samuel Wilkins, Jr.,
Joseph and William Buck.
Charles H. Speights, a prominent Greenville
business man, grew up in that city and is a sbn of
the late Col. A. M. Speights, whose name was a
household word in the politics and public affairs of
South CaroUna forty years ago.
Colonel Speights, who died at Seattle, Washing
ton, in 1903, is well entitled to a place in the hall
of farae in South Carolina's historic characters.
His services were especially notable during the era
while the state was atterapting to redeera itself
frora carpetbag rule. Colonel Speights was a jour
nalist when that word raeant soraething. When a
boy he started a printing office, and was a native
of the City of Beaufort, South Carolina. From
there he enlisted in the war between the states,
and earned merited distinction as a Confederate
officer in Hampton's Legion. At the close of the
war he reraoved to Georgia, and for a few years
was engaged in the newspaper business at Griffin
and Atlanta. Returning to South Carolina in 1875,
he established his horae at Greenville and founded
the GreenvUle Daily News. For sorae time this
was one of the few daily papers in South Carolina.
It was the first paper in Upper Carolina to take the
Associated Press reports. Colonel Speights founded
the News at an auspicious and also a critical pe
riod. He had it well under way so that it could
strike many hard blows in the historic carapaign of
1876, which elected Wade Harapton and brought
about the redemption of South Carolina. Through
the colurans of the News Colonel Speights fought
relentlessly for Hampton's election, and those well
versed in the history of that period accord the in
fluence of Colonel Speights and his newspaper the
significant influence which brought about the elec
tion of General Harapton. Colonel Speights was a
splendid writer, and was an exeraplar of that per
sonal journalism which now no longer exists in the
Araerican press.
Colonel Speights married Virginia Caroline Clai
borne, descended from the Claiborne family of
Virginia. Their son, Charles H. Speights, was born
at Griffin, Georgia, in 1866, and was nine years old
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nuraber of years he has been a business raan of
that city.
August I, igig, he entered the brokerage business
with' Charles S. Allen, dealing in cotton raill stocks,
real estate and insurance.
Mr. Speights is a Knight Teraplar Mason and
Shriner. He raarried Miss Maraie Miller of Green
ville, and their three children are Agnes, Carolyn
and Charles H., Jr.
Stobo j. Simpson. At the bar of Upper South
Carolina at the beginning of the present century
there was hardly a raore irapressive figure, one
exeraplifying greater scholarship and aU the learn
ing of the true lawyer, than that of the late Stobo •
J. Simpson of Spartanburg.
Mr. Simpson who practiced law for a third of
a century was for a number of years senior mera
ber of the law firm Sirapson & Bomar. He died
October 28, 1910, when only fifty-seven years of
age. He came of the prominent Simpson family
of Laurens County, where he was born March 14,
1853, son of J. Wistar and Anne Patillo (Farrow)
Sirnpson. Educated in the viUage schools of his
native town, he prepared for college in the Laurens
Male Academy then conducted by Col. John W.
Ferguson, and in the fall of 1871 went North
and entered the sophomore class of Princeton
University. "Through lack of funds he was unable
to complete his university career and in 1873 began
teaching at Laurens. During 1874 he was principal
of the Clinton High School and in 1875 was elected
principal of the Laurens school. While teaching he
was diligently using all his spare hours to study
law, and at the spring terra of district court in
June, 1876, he appeared before the exaraining magis
trates at Greenville, and earned their coraraenda
tion for his knowledge of the law and was ad
mitted to practice. He at once located at
Spartanburg and became associated with his dis
tinguished uncle Col. W. D. Sirapson, a part
nership that lasted until 1879. He then becarae
junior partner in the new firra of Evins, Boraar
& Sirapson, but Colonel Evins was removed frora
this partnership by death in 1884, after which the
firm continued as Boraar & Simpson until the
death of Maj. John Earle Bomar in 1899. For
about a year -a son of Major Boraar, Horace L.
Bomar, had been in the firm, and the professional
business was continued under the new title of
Simpson & Bomar. This firra enjoyed a distin
guished position araong the law firms of upper
South Carolina, and had a clientage second to
none. Mr. Simpson was 'thoroughly devoted to his
profession, and while he had sorae business inter
ests and occasionally entered a political carapaign,
his absorbing passion frora youth until death was
the law. And being endowed with a splendid
raind and a judicial teraperaraent it was not long
after beginning the practice of the law before he
became one of the leading lawyers at his bar, and
in a few years was recognized as one of the great
lawyers of his state. But more notable even than
his high attainments as a lawyer were his integrity
and purity of life. The leading newspaper of
South Carolina commenting editorially upon the

abUity and character of Mr. Simpson, after his
death, said "Could it be said of the profession
that its average of attainments in knowledge of
the principles and practice of the law reaches so
high as did those of Mr. Sirapson, it would be to
say that the bar of no state approaches it" and
"Could it be said of the legal profession of South
Carolina in respect to integrity of conduct and
purity of life, that it measures to the standard set
and successfully maintained by Stobo J. Sirapson,
criticisra of it would be in vain."
In 1886 he was elected and served one term in
the Legislature, being a meraber of the Judiciary
Coramittee. He was not a candidate for re-election.
In 1892 he was a candidate on the anti-TUlman
or conservative ticket for the State Senate. Repre
senting the same faction of the state democracy he
made the race for delegate to the .Constitutional
Convention in 1896.
Mr. Simpson was elder in the First Presbyterian
Church at Spartanburg, and a trustee of Con
verse College. May 18, l886, he married Miss M.
Eloise Simpson, daughter of Chief Justice W. D.
Sirapson. She was also born in Laurens County
and since the death of her husband has continued
to reside at Spartanburg.
Gideon Walker Duvall. Because of the extent
and quality of his usefulness, his coramercial and
financial soundness and acumen, his public spirit, in
tegrity and nearness to the fundaraental require
ments of citizenship, Gideon Walker Duvall, vice
president and cashier of the Bank of Cheraw,
affords an encouraging example of success gained
through the proper use of every day abilities and
opportunities. Mr. Duvall was born at Cheraw,
Chesterfield County, South Carolina, October 9,
1878, a son of Mareen Walker Duvall, and a grand-
/son of G. W. Duvall, a native of Prince George
County, Maryland, who came to South Carolina
about 1825 and settled seven miles frora Cheraw,
where he was a prominent planter up to the out
break of the war between the states.
Mareen Walker Duvall was born on his father's
plantation May 26, 1856, and was given excellent
educational advantages in the public schools of
Cheraw and Charleston, the Porter MUitary Insti
tute and the High School of Charleston. In 1891 he
engaged in the mercantile business, handling naval
stores at Cheraw, and there continues his business
at the present, in addition to doing a large whole
sale business in groceries. He is a prorainent busi
ness raan and a stockholder and director in the Bank
of Cheraw and the Merchants & Farraers Bank of
Cheraw. He was married in November, 1877, to
Miss Margaret D. Evans, a daughter of Capt. John
C. and Ann (LaCoste) Evans, of Chesterfield Coun
ty, and to this union there were born five children:
Gideon Walker, Howard Mareen, E. H,, W. E. and
Elise. The parents are merabers of the Episcopal
Church.
^nr^n^ ^^^^^ °^ the children of his parents, Gideon
Walker Duvall received his education and training
in the public schools and the Patrick Military Acad
emy, Anderson, South Carolina, from which he was
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devoted himself to dealing in naval stores, cotton and
wholesale groceries. In December, 1904, he actively
entered into financial affairs, when he accepted the
tendered cashiership of the Bank of Cheraw, and in
1910 was made active vice president. These two
positions he has since retained, and has discharged
their duties in a manner that has added materially to
the bank's prestige and bettered the position which
it holds in public confidence. In addition Mr, Du
vall is the owner of a large plantation near Cheraw,
which he devotes to general agricultural purposes.
Mr. Duvall was married February. 14, 1906, to Mary
Eraack, daughter of John D. Emack, of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and six children were born to this
union : Margaret, Mary Cyrene, Virginia Emack,
Mary Emack II, John Emack and Gideon Walker,
Jr., the last-named deceased. Fraternally Mr. Du
vall is conriected with the Masoris, arid his religious
faith arid that of his family ideritifies thera with
the Protestant Episcopal Church. He has been iden
tified with numerous civic movements, and at pres
ent is chairman of the board of public works. His
business and financial interests are nuraerous, varied
and important, and he is vice president of the Che
raw Cotton Mill, vice president of the Pee Dee
Knitting Mill, and vice president of the Banks of
Chesterfield, Ruby and Mount Croghan. Mr. DuvaU
invests his various occupations with the requirements
of good judgment, good heart and unquestioned in
tegrity, which far-sighted qualities insure him a
permanent place among the substantial upbuUders of
his native coraraunity.
Edgar Alphonso Hines, M. D., who since 1909
has been secretary of the South Carolina Medical
Association, began his professional career nearly
thirty years ago and since 1897 has practiced at
Seneca. Through his work with the State Associa
tion and in other ways he is one of the best known
physicians and surgeons of South Carolina.
He was born in Wayne County, North Carolina,
November 19, 1867, a son of John C. and Nannie F.
(Thompson) Hines, also natives of North Caro
lina. The grandfather, Eli Hines, of Scotch-Irish
lineage and a native of North Carolina, lived for
many years at WUmington in that state, where he
followed his trade and business as a railway coach
builder. The mother of Doctor Hines was born at
Cedar Grove, Orange County, North Carolina, and
she died leaving two chUdren, Charles Payne Hines,
now of Hillsboro, North Carolina, and Edgar A.
who at the time of her death was ten years old. The
father married for his second wife Clara Williams,
a native of North Carolina. She died more than
twenty years ago, leaving two children, Henry and
WiUa. John C. Hines is now seventy-five years of
age and lives with his son, Charles P. For raany
years he was a railroad bridge buUder, and the
necessities of his work required a frequent change
of residence.
His father lived in WUraington, North Carolina,
and Augusta, Georgia, whUe Doctor Hines attended
graded schools. 'When the latter was about nine
teen his father reraoved to Brunson, Harapton
County, South Carolina. Doctor Hines attended an
academy at Cedar Grove, North Carolina, and frora
his father had learned rauch about railroad bridge

construction. He becarae a corapetent workman in
that line. It was from his work as a bridge buUd
er that he acquired the money sufficient to pay for his
professional education. Doctor Hines was a student
at the Bingham Military School, then at Mebane,
now at AshevUle, North Carolina, untU his junior
year. In i88g he entered the Medical coUege of t'he
State of South Carolina and graduated in 1891.
For two years Doctor Hines practiced at Gilli
sonville in Harapton County, then four years at Cal-
hotin near Clemson College and in 1897 located at
Seneca in Oconee County, where he has since re
sided and with few interruptions has been continu
ously engaged in the general practice of medicine.
Doctor Hines is known among his associates as a
man of great earnestness in his calling, and one who
keeps thoroughly abreast of the tiraes. He has done
post-graduate work in the Johns-Hopkins Medical
College, Harvard Medical School, the Lying-in Hos
pital of New York City, the Chicago Post-Graduate
Medical School and Hospital, the New York Post-
Graduate School and in 1914 went to London and
pursued courses in internal medicine and the diseases
of children in the London Hospital. During 1915
Doctor Hines was superintendent of the Anderson
County Hospital at Anderson.
For twelve years he has been one of the valuable
members of the South Carolina State Board of
Health and has contributed rauch to the efficiency
by which that board is known in other states. He
is a member of the County Medical Society, the
American Medical Association, the Southern Medi
cal Association, and was elected secretary of the
State Medical Association in 1909. In 1912 he was
raade editor of the Journal of the State Association,
and StiU retains that position. During the war. with
Gerraany he was the medical raeraber of the District
Exemption Board of the Western District of South
Carolina and gave much of his tirae to patriotic
work. Doctor Hines has been a pioneer in chUd wel
fare work in the South publishing numerous articles
on this subject, and in recognition of this interest
was made a section chairraan at the International
School, Hygiene Congress, Buffalo, New York, in
igi3. He was also elected president of the South
eastern Sanitary Association in igig and chairman
of the Section on Public Health of the Southern
Medical Association the sarae year.
He is a Master Mason and Knight of Pythias, and
for more than twenty years has been a ruling elder
in the Presbyterian Church and has served as com
missioner to the General Assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian Church. For several years he has also
been superintendent of his Sunday school. Doctor
Hines married Miss Mary Woodbury Moore, July
25, i8g4. Her father was Gen. James W. Moore, of
Hampton, distinguished as an able lawyer and leader
in politics. The seven living children of Doctor and
Mrs. Hines are Cornelia R., Nancy T., Mary M.,
Leola, Edgar A., Jr., Elizabeth L., and Elbridge.
Norman B. Hargrove. In the less extensive and
populous cities of a state the postmaster is very like
ly to be Ijrought into contact with a greater nura
ber of the inhabitants and at raore frequent inter
vals than any other raeraber of the community. Few
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become familiar with his presence and deportment
and cognizant of his habits and characteristics, and
there are likewise few, on the other hand, whora he
has not learned to know. With such an intimate re
lationship existing between the raan conducting the
postoffice and the citizens depending upon it, for
tunate and thrice happy is the incumbent of that
office when all the men, woraen and youth of that
place have for hira only words of commendation.
Such is the favored position of Norman B. Hargro-ye,
the efficient and popular postmaster of DUlon, who
is the possessor of those qualities of candor, sin
cerity, faithfulness and affability which give the best
class of public officials a high standing in the esti
mation of those whose interests are entrusted to
their care.
Norman B. Hargrove was born at Dillon, South
Carolina, January 25, 1879, a son of James D. and
Mary Jane (McDonald) Hargrove. "The Hargrove
family originated in Wales, from whence the original
Araerican settler carae to Virginia at an early date.
The raother of Mr. Hargrove's grandfather was an
Adams, who located at an early day in Delaware,
and the grandfather was a native of that county,
where he spent his life as a planter. James D. Har
grove's mother was a daughter of Joshua Amraons,
who was with General LaFayette when he was
wounded, and carried hira off the battlefield. In
later years he walked from his home in Marlboro
County, South Carolina, to FayettevUle, North Caro
lina in order that he raight raeet his old commander.
James Hargrove was born in Marlboro County,
South Carolina, but in young manhood raoved to
Marion (now Dillon) County. During the war be
tween the states he enlisted- in Kershaw's Brigade of
the Confederate Army, and served four years in the
Quartermaster's Department, coming through the
war safely, although his brother was shot. Mrs.
Hargrove was born in North Carolina, a daughter
of John and -Katie (McClusor) McDonald, natives
of Scotland, the former of whom was born on the
Isle of Skye and came to the United States at the
age of twelve years, locating at Richmond, North
Carolina, James D, and Mary Jane Hargrove be
came the parents of four children : Sarah, who died
in infancy; James, a resident of Dillon; John NeweU,
county commissioner of DUlon County, and a promi
nent planter and cotton dealer of DUlon; and Nor
man B,
Norman B, Hargrove attended the public schools
of his native place, following which he entered the
University of South Carolina and took the law
course and a special course in English, and was duly
graduated with the class of 1903 and the degree of
Bachelor of Laws, He iraraediately embarked in
practice at Dillon, where he has attracted a large
clientele, and where he has steadily advanced to a
commanding position as a leader of the local bar.
In 1917 Mr. Hargrove was appointed postmaster of
Dillon, and his continuous conduct of that office
up to the present time has raet with the entire ap
proval of the community.
In igi2 Mr. Hargrove was married to Miss Daisy
Godbold, of Marion County, South Carolina, and
they are the parents of one daughter, Bessie, Mr.
Hargrove is a member of the Masons and the
Knights of Pythias, in which he has numerous

friends, and he and Mrs. Hargrove are constant
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
John May Hamer. For seven years the narae of
John May Haraer has been identified with Dillon
County, and during this tirae his zeal has found an
outlet in the occupation of planting, a field of en
deavor in which he has worked his way to prorai
nence and prosperity. He belongs to a family which
is weU known for its agricultural prowess and good
citizenship, and was born in Marlboro County, South
Carolina, September 6, 1873, being a son of the Rev.
Louis M. and Elizabeth (Thomas) Hamer.
The Haraer faraily, originating in England, was
established in America prior to the war of the Revo
lution, and early settled in South Carolina, where
Robert Hamer, the grandfather of John M., was en
gaged in planting for many years and was a man of
substance and worth. Rev. Louis M. Hamer was
born in Marlboro County, and was a Methodist
preacher, being for nearly forty years a member of
the South Carolina Conference. He died when
eighty-two years of age, one of the most highly re
spected raen of his tirae, beloved by his people and
respected by raen of all creeds and denorainations.
He raarried Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of Nathan
Thomas, also a native of South Carolina, and she
lived to the advanced age of ninety-one years and
was a woman of many splendid qualities of raind
and heart and of warra Christian sympathies. They
became the parents of thirteen children, of whom
seven grew to maturity, and three are living at this
writing: Bascom Henry, a planter near Clio, Marl
boro county; Mattie M., wife of E. W. Smith, of
Clio ; and John May.
John May Hamer was educated in the public
schools and at Wofford College, Spartansburg, South
Carolina, after graduation from which institution
he engaged in teaching school. For two years he
had classes at Harapton and Darlington, but while
he was a successful and popular educator he decided
that his best opportunities lay in the tilling ofthe
soU and he accordingly took up farming, in which he
has been engaged with great success to the present
tirae. He now resides five mUes north of Little
Rock, where he has a large, valuable and attractive
estate, under a high state of cultivation and very
productive of cotton. He owns about 225 acres in
Marlboro County, a part of this tract including the
old home place, and he also owns sixty acres near
Marlboro. Mr. Hamer gives employraent to raany
people,_and is accounted one of his community's sub-
stan-ciai mc.i, who nas exerted a wholesome influ
ence upon his community and its institutions. He
is fraternally affiliated with the local lodge of the
Knights of Pythias, in which he has numerous
friends, and he and the members of his family belong
to the Methodist Episcopal Church and have contrib
uted materially to the success of its movements. He
is a friend of good roads and education and co
operates with other public-spirited men in advancing
enterprises for the general welfare.
Mr. Hamer was raarried in 1901 to Miss Ludie
Davis, a daughter of Fletcher F. and Mary (Stocks)
Davis, of Hampton, South Carolina, the forraer of
whom enlisted in the Confederate array when six
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between the states. Mr. and Mrs. Hamer have had
four children : May Reece, Louis -Fletcher and Mary
Elizabeth, who reside with their parents and are
attending the public schools; and Walter L., who
died in infancy.
William Reuben McGee. In any consideration
of the first class and modern farraers the discus
sion sooner or later coraes around to WUliara
Reuben McGee, who is owner of a real farra, is
a real farm manager, and does everything accord
ing to the best light of modern practice and busi
nesslike efficiency.
Mr. McGee was born at McGee Bridge on the
Savannah River March 20, 1869. He is a son of
Julius Franklin and Mattie Jane (Jones) McGee,
both the McGee and Jones famUies being of his
toric interest in that county. Julius Franklin
McGee was a son of Elias and Sarah (Landrum)
McGee, while the former was a son of Jesse
McGee, who on coming to Anderson settled on the
Savannah River in the locality known as McGee's
Bridge, where many of his descendants are still
found. William Reuben McGee was but twelve years
old when he lost his father. He grew up on a farm,
had a common school education, and lived at home
with his two brothers and two sisters. He had charge
of the home farm from the age of sixteen years,
working with his brothers until 1893, when his
brothers, became partners' with him in business.
They dissolved partnership in 1914. Mr. McGee
was in the grocery business at Anderson for about
six months. In 1892 he built for his widowed mother
a good modern farm residence.
December 28, 1903, Mr. McGee raarried Miss
Mary Jane Glenn, a daughter of Thoraas and
Elizabeth (Meadows) Glenn. In 1904 he took his
bride, to his present farm, admittedly one of the
best in Anderson County, situated nearly midway
between Anderson and Starr. He owns 365 acres,
and since coming into possession of the land has
improved it with a beautiful farra residence. Mr,
and Mrs. McGee have two chUdren, Vera and Lois.
During the war Mr. McGee bought $2,.qoo worth of
Liberty Bonds and $1,100 worth of 'War Savings
Staraps. Arthur Lee Easterling during his long incum
bency of the office of superintendent of schools of
Marlboro County has been the prime mover in every
thing that would advance and improve and increase
;he efficiency of the local school system.
Mr. Easterling was born in AdarasonviUe Township
of Marlboro County November 26, 1875, meraber of
an old and honorable ancestry and faraily in this
part of the state. His parents were D. J. and Sarah
Louise (Sutherland) Easterling. His grandfather,
Harris Easterling, great-grandfather, Joel Easter
ling were natives of Marlboro County. Grandfather
Easterling fought all. through the war with the Con
federate army and died while on his way home. The
Easterlings are of remote English ancestry and have
been in South Carolina since prior to the Revolu
tionary war. Professor Easterling's raother was a
daughter of Alexander Sutherland, a native of Scot
land County, North Carolina. Her father came di
rect from Scotland and reared twelve sons who

became widely scattered through the south and west
Arthur Lee Easterling was the second in a fam
ily of seven children. As a boy he attended the Pal
metto Academy near Pine Grove Church, subse
quently the Marlboro High School, when that was
recognized as one of the best secondary schools in
the state, especially by reason of its splendid teach
ers, D. C, Roper, Rev. D. C. Curry and Rev. R. C.
Craven. Mr. Easterling finished his education in
the University of South Carolina, and for about six
years he taught in various districts of Marlboro
County. He married Lulu Manning, a daughter of Captain
Frank Manning of Marlboro County. After his
marriage Mr. Easterling settled on a farm and now
lives on a valuable plantation about a mUe from
Bennettsville. He was first elected superintendent
of education in the county in January, 1906, and
was elected for his present term in 1916. During his
incurabency of the office the school finances have
been increased and raany new school buildings and
other iraproveraents have corae about, and the en
tire status of education has been greatly iraproved
under his manageraent.
Mr. Easterling is affiliated with the Masonic Or
der, Knights of Pythias and Woodraen of the World
and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
He and his wife have five chldren, four sons and
one daughter, Eldred Lee, a student in the Univer
sity of South Carolina; D. Frank, Angeli, WiUiam
Harris and Elbert Tew.
Lawrence R. Kirkpatrick, M. D. President of
the Marlboro County Medical Society, Doctor Kirk
patrick is one of the leading professional men of
BennettsvUle and holds the rank of raajor in the
Medical Reserve Corps, having been on duty with
the National Army nearly two years during the
war. Doctor Kirkpatrick was born in Macon County,
North Carolina, October 22, 1879, a son of Rev.
M. R. and Laura (Holt) Kirkpatrick. His father
was a native of Alabama and his mother of Graham,
North Carolina. Doctor Kirkpatrick was the oldest
of four chUdren and received a liberal education,
attending Davidson College in North Carolina and
is a graduate of the North Carolina Medical College
with the class of ig02.
Doctor Kirkpatrick practiced fifteen years at Max-
ton, North Carolina, and in Deceraber, igi6, moved
to Bennettsville, He had barely begun his pro
fessional work in his new home when he volunteered
for patriotic duty and in September, 1917, was com
missioned a first lieutenant. In October of that year
he joined the training camp for medical officers at
Oglethorpe and was soon appointed assistant divi
sion surgeon of the Fifteenth Cavalry Division at El
Paso, Texas, In April, 1918, he was proraoted to
captain, serving as assistant carap surgeon at Carap
Travis, Texas, and on October i, 1918, was pro
raoted to major and was surgeon of the One Hun
dred and Sixty-fifth Depot Brigade untU discharged
December 22, 1918. In January, 1919, he was com
missioned raajor in the Medical Reserve Corps.
He resumed his practice at BennettsvUle in Janu
ary, 1919, and soon afterward was honored with
election as president of the Marlboro County Med
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Carolina, the Americal Medical, and the Tri-State
Medical Associations. He is affiliated with the Ma
sonic fraternity. Major Kirkpatrick married in igo8
Sarah Crosland. They have one son, Lawrence
Randolph, Jr.
J. H. Meadors, cashier of the Bank of Little Rock,
has for seven years held this post, and has been an
• influential factor in making his institution one of the
sound and stable banking houses of Dillon County.
It is the arabition of raany men to be manipulating
the affairs of sorae great metropolitan bank, but if
they fully realized what a splendid field there is for
sound business and financial abUity in the smaller
agricultural coraraunities, the sraaller localities would
benefit. While Mr. Meadors might have succeeded
in one of the great cities as he has at Little Rock,
he had the good sense to avoid the overcrowded mu
nicipalities and devote his energies to a quieter com
munity, which is a great credit to his judgment and
to the enterprising town where he is so highly es
teemed. Mr. Meadors was born at Ninety-Six, Greenwood
County, South Carolina, March 22, 1888, a son of
Rev. 'W. P. and Jane (Hutchinson) Meadors, the
forraer a native of Laurens County, and the latter
©f Greenwood County, South Carolina. Reverend
Meadors was a rainister of the Methodist Church
for about thirty-nine years, and one of the well-
known, greatly beloved raen of his people. The
third in order of birth of his parents' six living
children, J. H. Meadors was educated in the public
schools and upon corapleting his studies became
agent for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, being va
riously located on that line during the next five
years. In igi3 he was raade cashier of the Bank
of Little Rock, and since that time has applied him
self unremittingly to the duties of that position.
He has established himself firmly in the confidence
of his associates and of the bank's patrons, and has
shown himself a raan of undoubted ability, conserva
tive in his views, quick and accurate in his judg
ment, and possessed of sound knowledge concerning
banking conditions. He is fraternally affiliated with
the Masons, the Woodmen of the World and the
Knights of Pythias. Since early manhood he has
been foremost in the public enterprises which have
proved advantageous to his horae locality, and is
generally one of the influential citizens of his cora
raunity. Mr. Meadors was raarried in 1912 to Minnie Earle
Bethea, daughter of Festus and Sallie (Stackhouse)
Bethea, of Dillon County, South Carolina, and to
this union there have been born two children : Char
lotte Stackhouse and Joseph Hutchinson, Jr. Mr.
and Mrs. Meadors are corisisterit members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Rev. Julius Richard Earle. For generations
the Earles have been a numerous and prominent
family in South Carolina, and of the many indi
viduals bearing the narae probably none was raore
conspicuous for his nobUity of character, his
integrity, his influence for good in the coraraunity,
and a well rounded business ability than the late
Rev. Julius Richard Earle of Anderson County.
Nearly all his life was spent in the coraraunity

known as Evergreen in that county, where he was
born September 11, 1829, and where he died August
31, 1912. His geneology which has been traced to
remote sources introduces a nuraber of interesting
relationships. The faraily went frora France to
England with Williara the Conqueror, the first being
known as Earl of Newton, afterward Earl of
Shrewsbury. The Earles were also Lords of North
Pelherton in County Soraerset and in the reign of
Edward II were Lords of the Manor of Soraerton
Parva, called Soraerton Evieigh. Frora Soraerset
shire one branch of the faraily settled in County
Devon. When Charles was deposed t-wo brothers
who were royalists carae to the United States,
settled in Virginia with Lord Fairfax, from whora
they perhaps received grants. The "Doomsday"
book gives an account of the family and the coat
of arms which was a lion's head pierced with a
spear. From the Lord of Newton, Henry de Earle, were
descended Sir Walter Earle, who in 1619 was a
member of the "Virginia Corapany of London" and
a general in the parliamentary army; Dr. John
Earle was tutor and chaplain to Charles II and
Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury after the
restoration. Another descendant was John Earle, . who with
his wife Mary came from England and settled in
Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1652. He was
the ancestor of the South Carolina family. He ac
quired a grant of sixteen hundred acres for the
transportation of a colony of thirty-two persons.
This grant was dated in 1652. He brought with
him three children across the ocean, Samuel, John
and Mary. Samuel, who died in 1667, had a son
Samuel, whose son Samuel Earle was the father
of Baylis and John Earle, who in 1763 moved to
the Pacolet River, Baylis settling on the South
Carolina side in what is now Spartanburg County
and his brother John on the North Carolina side
of that stream.
Elias Earle, son of Samuel and Anna (Sorrell)
Earle was a half-brother of Baylis and John Earle.
He was born in Frederick County, Virginia, June
19, 1762, and in 1782 married Frances 'Wilton Rob
inson. He reraained in Virginia untU 1878 and then
reraoved to the Three Forks of Saluda River in
GreenviUe County, South Carolina, and subsequently
to Anderson County where he died May 19, 1823.
His son Sarauel Girard Earle was born May I,
1789, married Elizabeth Hampton Harrison, who
died in January, 1858. His chUdren were: Elias
John, Adolphus, who died in chUdhood; James
Washington; Julius Richard; Samuel Girard;
Claudius Eugene; Frances Wilton and Alexander
Campbell. This brief account traces the interesting ancestry
to the person of the late Rev. Julius Richard Earle.
Early in the nineteenth century the family becarae
identified with the followers of Rev. Alexander
CampbeU, and though Julius Richard Earle was al
ways a Baptist minister he received his education
m the coUege of Bethany, Virginia, now West Vir
ginia, founded by Alexander CampbeU.
In 1852 he raarried Lucy Ann Margaret Brock
man, daughter of Col. Thomas P. Brockman of
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For nine years Rev. Mr. Earle lived in Franklin
County, Georgia, and while there was a meraber of
the Legislature and raajor of railitia. During the
war between the states he was a Confederate sol
dier and in 1869 he entered upon the ministry of
the Baptist Church. For many years, in fact until
his death, he devoted much of his time to preaching
the gospel and serving' the cause of Christ, and his
notably long pastorates were those of Townville,
Salem and Sardis churches.
His choice of a permanent horae was near old
ShUoh Church which he served as a pastor con
jointly with the raanageraent of a farm. That farra
has long been faraous in Anderson County on ac
count of its development and productivity. This
home is known as Evergreen, being a part of the
original "Old Evergreen" tract. During 1890-92
he was a raeraber of the Legislature from Ander
son County, At the time of his death he was said
to be the oldest meraber of the Masonic fraternity
in the state.
The wife of Mr, Earle died June 30, 1907. A brief
record of their children follows : Georgia Agnes, de
ceased, raarried Nathaniel O, Farraer ; Sarauel Girard,
who died in 1900, married Ella Calson of Kentucky
and afterward Kate Kelly of Texas ; Thomas Brock
man, who married Eugenia Elvira Thompson, who
• died in 1892, and he is now farming near Montgom
ery, Alabama ; Mary Kilgo, deceased, was the wife of
James Edward Anderson; Elias John married Eliza
Jane McGregor and lives in Oklahoraa ; Dr. Clau
dius Eugene is a resident of North Carolina and
married Fannie Warren ; Elizabeth Harrison be
came the wife of Daniel T. Thorapson and lives at
Charlotte, North Carolina; Julius Richard raarried
for his first wife, Lula Perry Hix and afterward,
Eva Merritt, and is a prorainent lawyer at Wal
halla, South Carolina; Benjamin Francis married
Susie Allen and lives in Anderson County ; Decima
Irene died in 1892, the wife of Charles 'W. Britt;
James Henry Earle is a South Carolina citizen
mentioned particularly elsewhere; Eloise Mittelene,
who raarried Charles L. Dean and now resides in
Atlanta, Georgia. The youngest of the faraily is
Paul Robinson Earle, whose interesting career is the
subject of a separate sketch.
Paul Robinson Earle. The fields and planta
tions of Paul Robinson Earle are said to produce
more cotton to the acre than those under any other
ownership in Anderson County. The distinction of
Mr. Earle rests not alone upon his abUity as a
planter, but his enthusiastic citizenship, his public
spirit and his gifts and talents in other fields.
Youngest son of Rev. Julius Richard Earle, whose
career has been elsewhere described, Paul Robinson
Earle was born in Anderson County October 20,
1878. He was educated in the comraon schools and
in Clemson College, and carae direct from college
to his occupation as a farmer. He has always done
farming on the practical as well as the scientific
basis, and the results fully justify his processes and
raethods. His home, the old Earle homestead
known as Evergreen, is twelve miles south and
west of Anderson. Here he has many hundreds of
acres under cultivation. This horae was reraod
eled by hira in 1913 and is of handsome Colonial

architecture and has all modern conveniences, in
cluding hardwood floors. This place is of unusual
interest because of the raany ancient relics handed
down by Mr. Earle's ancestors. He also owns a
large plantation in Georgia. Outside of agriculture
Mr. Earle has some valuable business interests, be
ing a large stockholder in the Citizens National
Bank of Anderson and one of its directors.
He was one of the sound patriots of Anderson
County during the war period. He gave his time
and personal efforts in behalf of the various Lib
erty Loans, War Savings campaign, the raising of
funds for Young Men's Christian Association, Red
Cross and other purposes. Mr. Earle has a bit of
military record of his own. During the Spanish-
American war he served as a private in Company C
of First South Carolina Regiment. He is affiliated
with the Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Earle is nationally known as a trap shooter.
He cherishes a handsome gold raedal as token of
his championship of the State of South Carolina in
this class of sport. For winning the White Moun
tain handicap at Maple Wood, New Harapshire,
carries a beautiful gold Swiss watch valued at $100,
In his home are raany other handsorae trophies of
his prowess with the gun, won in different con
tests both in his horae state and elsewhere.
In 1904 Mr. Earle raarried Miss Rebecca Edwards,
daughter of the late Lemuel J. Edwards, a prom
inent farmer and citizen of Clark County, Georgia.
Mr. and Mrs. Earle are the parents of three chil
dren, Julius Edward, Margaret Elizabeth and Eraily
Alethea. This record would not be coraplete with
out mentioning the fact that Mr. Earle has been,
for many years, one of the staunchest raembers of
old Shiloh Baptist Church.
John Harrington Hamer, D. D. S. Prominent
araong the citizens of Dillon, because of his high stand
ing in professional circles and his valuable services in
public life, is Dr. John Harrington Haraer, raayor of
the city and one of his county's leading raembers of
the dental profession. His entrance into profes
sional life occurred sixteen years ago, and whUe his
personal interests have always been large, necessi
tating close attention, he has found time to apply to
the welfare of his community, a fact which was
taken into consideration by the citizens when they
chose him as chief executive. While he has occu
pied the mayoralty chair for only a comparatively
short period, he has already shown his capacity in
a manner entirely satisfying to the people who chose
him as their representative.
Doctor Haraer was born at Little Rock, South
Carolina, May 25, 1879, a son of J. H. and Alice
(Richardson) Hamer. The Hamers are of English
origin, and on first coming to the United States lo
cated in Iowa, but subsequently moved to North
Carolina and then to South Carolina, where, in Marl
boro County, Robert Hamer, the grandfather of the
doctor, was born. J. H. Haraer, Sr., was born in
Marion (now Dillon) County, South Carolina, and
passed his entire life in agricultural pursuits with
the exception of the period that he spent as a soldier
of the Confederacy during the war between the
states, Mrs. Haraer was of Scotch ancestry.
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Harrington Haraer received his early education in
the public schools of Little Rock and then went to
the Oak Ridge Institute, a preparatory school. En
listing as a student at the University of Maryland,
he was graduated therefrora with the class of 1903,
receiving the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery,
and during the sarae year established hiraself in
practice at Dillon, which has since been his home and
the scene of his professional success. He has a large
and important clientele and has demonstrated his
abUity in such a distinctive raanner that he is ac
counted one of the leading practitioners of Dillon
County. He has invested in realty, and at the pres
ent tirae has several valuable holdings, including a
farm, which he rents. Doctor Hamer, as noted,
has raanifested a keen interest in public affairs, and
has been able to assist his community in its strug
gles toward progressiveness and advancement. He
becarae the candidate of the deraocratic party in
1919, in AprU of which year he was elected raayor
of DUlon. Noted as a man who can get results, he
chose his assistants and advisors purely from the
standpoint of practical efficiency, which priraarily
iraplied industry, faithfulness, honesty and experi
ence. During the period of his incurabency he has
carried out, to the best of his abUity, the proraises
of his speech of acceptance.
Doctor Haraer was raarried in 1906 to Sallie In
grara, of Manning, South Carolina, daughter of I. C.
and Lula (Mood) Ingrara, and to this union there
have been horn four children : John Harrington, Jr.,
Clarence Hicks, Sarah Lula and Laurence- Manning.
Doctor Haraer is a prominent Mason, being past
raaster of the Blue Lodge and a raeraber of the
Chapter, Council and Knights Templar, in addition
to belonging to the Shrine and to the Knights of
Pythias and Woodmen of the World. He is ex
tremely popular in fraternal, professional and politi
cal circles, and at this tirae is one of Dillon's fore
raost citizens.
Sam R. Zimmerman. Some of the oldest and best
faraily traditions in upper South Carolina are rep
resented in this young and prosperous business man
and textUe expert of Greenville, where he has had
his home and business headquarters since igo6.
His great-grandfather Ziraraerman carae to South
Carolina during the eighteenth century from Ger
many. The grandfather, Jacob Ziraraerman, was
born in 1798 at St. Matthews, then in Orangeburg
County, now the county seat of Calhoun County.
He raarried Mary Riley, a celebrated beauty, known
as the "belle of Orangeburg." She was of Irish an
cestry, and her raother, a Macauley, was born in
Scotland. Jacob Zimmerman moved to upper Caro
lina in 1838 and bought Cedar Springs in the east
ern part of Spartanburg County, living there untU
his death at the age of eighty-three. His brother,
Maj. David Ziraraerman, also lived at Cedar
Springs. Their cousin, John Conrad Ziraraerraan,
had preceded them to this section of the state, and
in 1830 purchased Glenn Springs in Spartanburg
County, not far from Cedar Springs.
L. C. Zimmerman, who is a retired business man
and farmer living at Greer, in GreenvUle County,
and is the father of Sara R. Ziraraerraan, was born
at St. Matthews, South Carolina, in 1838, and ac

quired his education at Cedar Springs in one of the
best private schools of the time. Long, long after
ward the war broke out, and. from Spartanburg
County he enlisted in Company D of the Palraetto
Sharpshooters, which was at first an independent
state organization. About a year later it was ab
sorbed in. the regular Confederate army, still retain
ing its popular title, and the i-ecords of the Palmetto
Sharpshooters are araong the most illustrious of
any body of southern troops. It comprised a regular
regiraent of twelve corapanies, and served all, through
the war in Lee's array of Northern Virginia. The list
of battles in which L. C. Ziraraerman participated is
a long one, including the first and second. Manassas,
seven days' fighting around Richmond, siege of Peters
burg, South Mountain, Winchester, Fredericksburg,
Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Spottsylvania Courthouse,
He was in the war from the beginning to the end,
being present at the surrender at Appomattox. He
was commended as the best sergeant of the Pal
metto Sharpshooters, and afterwards commanded
his corapany with the rank of lieutenant. His cora
pany was comraanded by Capt. A, H. Foster, and his
first colonel was Colonel Jenkins, who was super
seded by Col, Joe Walker.
The war over, he retumed to Duncan in Spartan
burg County, to which place the family had removed
frora Cedar Springs. 'There he followed a business -
career as a merchant until 1882, when he established
hiraself as a raerchant at Greer. He retired a few
years ago with a competence earned by nearly half
a century of effort.
L. C. Zimmerman married Miss Rosa Few, who
was born at the Few plantation in the upper part
of Greenville County, This is a distinguished old
family of Colonial and Revolutionary antecedents.
Her great-grandfather, James Few, is recognized in
history as "the first martyr of the Revolution," hav
ing been murdered by the tories in Gaston County,
North Carolina, at the beginning of the war in
the South. He was a brother of Col. William Few
of Augusta, Georgia, who was one of the two dele
gates from that state to the convention which fraraed
the Constitution of the United States. The faraily
r.emo-ved from Augusta to Greenville, South Caro
lina, soon after the Revolution. Rosa Few was a
daughter of the late Benjarain Few and granddaugh
ter of WUliam Few of GreenviUe County,
L. C, Ziraraerman and wife had five chUdren:
B. F„ Mrs, Martha Drummond, John, Sam R. and
Airs, Floride J, Watkins. Sara R. Zimmerman was
born at Greer in 1886, and besides his schooling in
his native village he attended Clerason College.
His first experience in the cotton raill business was
acquired with the Victor-Monaghan Company at
Greer, and from there he moved to GreenvUle in
1906. He is purchasing agent for the Victor-Mon
aghan mills and other cotton mills in the Carolinas
and Georgia to the nuraber of about forty. His
main office, where he transacts this extensive busi
ness, IS with the Victor-Monaghan mUls at Green
ville. Energy and ambition have brought this young
man to a most commendable success in the textile
indiistry. He is a member of the Methodist Church.
IS affiliated with the Masonic order, is a raember of
the Country Club, but is especially happy in his home
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He married Miss Martha WiUiams, of GreenvUle,
daughter of Robert Gillam and Eliza (McKay) Wil
liams, the latter still living. Robert GiUam WiUiams,
who died at GreenvUle a few years since, carae to
this city from Newberry in 1887, was a successful
business man of affairs and acquired important prop
erty interests in the city and county. He was a son
of John Hopkins and Martha (CaldweU) WUliaras
of Newberry County, and a great-grandson of John
Caldwell, frora whom John CaldweU Calhoun was
named. Eliza McKay WiUiams, mother of Mrs. Zimmer
man, was born in Greenville and was educated in
the Woman's College at Baltimore. Her parents
were Robert and Octavia (Atwood) McKay. Her
father was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, but when
an infant was brought to America, his parents first
living at Baltimore and when- he was four years
old establishing their home at Charleston. In the
sarae year Lafayette paid his second visit to. Amer
ica, and it is a part of the family record that the
great Frenchman whUe in Charleston fondled the
young MaKay. Robert McKay about the time he
was grown moved to GreenvUle, was one of the first
newspaper publishers in the city, and at the age of
twenty-two was elected clerk of the court and later
was judge of the Probate Court. He died in 1894-
His wife, Octavia Atwood, was the daughter of Dr.
Curtis Burke Atwood, a prominent physician of
Newberry County who had his sumraer horae at
GreenvUle. Doctor Atwood was a native of Con
necticut, and carae to South Carolina through his
friendship with John C. Calhoun, who was his class
mate in Yale College.
Milton V. Miller, whose home and business in
terests have been centered at GreenvUle since 1902,
possesses rare attributes for ability to handle exten
sive and varied undertakings and has been respon
sible for the success of several prominent concerns
in upper South Carolina, He has for several years
been in the wholesale grocery business, and is head
of one of the oldest concerns of the kind in the
upper part of the state. ,.t . ,- -i-
He was born at Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
son of P. A. and Mary Victoria (Hampton) Miller,
who were also natives of North Carolina. Mis
mother was of the North Carolina Hamptons, a
family related to that in South Carolina, of which
Gen. Wade Hampton was the iUustrious representa-
MUton V. Miller was reared and educated in Win
ston-Salem, and acquired his first business experi
ence as a traveling representative for the Reynolds
Tobacco Corapany of that city. On locating in
GreenvUle he was one of the founders m 1902 of
the Crescent Grocery Company, wholesale grocers.
This is the second oldest wholesale grocery house in
GreenvUle, and the business has enjoyed a continu
ous success and is a house of the highest standing
in coraraercial circles, having an enviable record
of prompt service and honorable dealing. Mr. Mil
ler is president of the company and Mr. M. L. Berry
is secretary and treasurer. ,..,..
Mr MUler and Mr. Berry were also the founders
of the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company, of which they
are respectively president and secretary-treasurer.

They established and are proprietors of a simUar
plant at Newberry.
Mr. Miller's interests have extended outside his
home state. He personally developed some success
ful oil wells in Texas, near Nacogdoches, and is
secretary of the Carolina Oil Company of Texas,
which owns and operates these wells.
Mr. Miller is a Knight Templar Mason and
Shriner and is past master of Recovery Lodge No.
31, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and past
commander of GreenvUle Coraraandery No. 4,
Knights Templar. He married Miss Addie May
Webster, of Winston-Salem. Their four children
are Elizabeth, Addie May, Milton V., Jr., and Nancy
Earle. James B. Gibson is one of the leading raerabers
of the DiUon bar and is president of the Dillon
County Bar Association. He was born in Marl
boro County, South Carolina, Deceraber 30, 1879, a
son of Simeon Gibson, a native of the sarae cora
raunity and a life long farmer. His father served
one term in the General Assembly of South Caro
lina, this being the only tirae he ever offered hiraself
for public office. The Gibson family is of Scotch
origin and the original progenitor in Araerica came
to this country during the Revolutionary war. The
mother of Mr. Gibson was Elizabeth Breeden of
Bennettsville, South Carolina, a daughter of Wil
liam K. Breeden.
The only son of his parents, J. B. Gibson received
his early education in the public schools of Marl
boro, and the Gibson High School, at Gibson,
North Carolina, which school was at that time
conducted by that able teacher Frank P. Wyche.
In 1897 he entered Wofford College and graduated
from that institution in 1901. He studied law for
a whUe in the office of the late John D. Shaw in
Laurinburg, North Carolina, and later entered the
Law School of the University of North Carolina,
graduating from this institution in June, 1903, with
the degree of LL. B. In February previous to his
graduation he stood exaraination before the Su
prerae Court of North Carolina and was licensed
to practice in the courts of that state. In May,
1903, he obtained his license frora the Supreme
Court of South Carolina. In June, 1903, he located
at Dillon in copartnership with the late Col. Knox
Livingston, which firm was continued until the
death of the latter in 1912. Immediately after the
death of Colonel Livingston Mr. Gibson formed a
partnership with his brother-in-law, W. H. Muller,
under the firm name of Gibson & MuUer. Mr. Gib
son's firra enjoys a large and lucrative practice, the
following corporations being their clients. The At
lantic Coast line Railroad Company, The Sea
board Air Line Railway Company, 'The Southern
Cotton Oil Company, The Southem Express Com
pany, The Southern Bell Telephone Company, The
Beaufort County Lumber Company, and other in
terests. During the World war Mr. Gibson was Govern
ment Appeal Agent for Dillon County, and in addi
tion to this work, he took an active interest in every
Liberty Loan, War Savings Stamp and Red Cross
campaign in the county. He is also the owner of
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of 500 acres, the operation of which he personally
supervises and has gained some excellent results
from his activities in this direction.
In igog Mr, Gibson was married to Miss Argent
Bethea, daughter of John C. Bethea, and they have
two chUdren, Jim and Argent, Mr. Gibson is a
Blue Lodge Mason and a meraber of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks and other orders.
Machen T. Moore, M. D., who rendered sorae
especially valuable service in connection with the
¦United States Public Health Departraent during the
war, has since resumed his private practice as a phy
sician and surgeon in that city, and is a man of the
highest qualifications both professionally and per
sonally. He was born at Princeton in Laurens County,
South Carolina, in i8g2, son of S. C. and Luna Grace
(Machen) Moore. His maternal grandfather, Em
ory Machen, for many years cultivated an extensive
plantation in Laurens County. S. C, Moore after
raany years of residence at Princeton is now a suc
cessful raerchant at Honea Path in Anderson
County. Doctor Moore completeed his literary education in
Furman University at Greenville. He attended the
Medical College of the State of South Carolina at
Charleston, graduating in the spring of igi5, and
during the sumraer did post-graduate work in the
New York Lying-in Hospital. He then began prac
tice at Greenville. Soon after the beginning of the
war with Gerraany he was engaged by the United
States Public Health Service for work at GreenvUle,
and in February, 1918, he becarae acting assistant
surgeon in charge of the Public Health Service for
GreenvUle and a large surrounding territory. After
the war was over the Governraent's equipment and
supplies connected with the local Public Health Serv
ice was turned over to the Greenville city authorities
to be used to continue the work inaugurated under
Government auspices. WhUe Doctor Moore has re
mained nominally in charge of the local service, he
has actively resumed his growing private practice,
establishing his offices in the Finlay BuUding.
Doctor Moore is a meraber of the County, State
and Araerican Medical associations. He raarried Miss
Mary Trenholm, member of the historic family of
that name in Charleston. Their two chUdren are
Mary Elizabeth and Machen T., Jr. "Both Doctor
Moore and his wife are raembers of the First Bap
tist Church of Greenville. Doctor Moore became a
meraber of this denoraination at Honea Path at the
age of twelve years.
Alfred D. Kennedy is the vice-president and gen
eral manager of the American Machine and Manu
facturing Company at Atlanta. A great center of
industry, particularly of cotton mills, its industrial
growth has received a great irapetus through the
Araerican Machine and Manufacturing Company,
designers and builders of a complete line of ira
proved oil raill machinery, through whose output
Atlanta, Georgia, is becoming a city increasingly
known in every cotton growing country in the world.
This company supplies not only a large domestic
trade, but has an important and ever growing ex
port business for its machines in all the Latin-Amer

ican countries, in the Philippines, China and other
parts of the Orient. One interesting index of this
phase of its business is an elaborate catalogue of its
machinery printed in the Spanish language. The
corapany has in its employ engineers, designers and
expert mechanics' of the highest technical training,
who are constantly improving its machinery and
designing new systems, always keeping abreast with
the best modern practice. Besides cotton oil ma
chinery the company manufactures waste cleaning
and fiber reclaiming systems and special raachinery
of various kinds. Its founders had in view the fact
that previously the cottonseed oil mUls of the coun
try, all of which are located in the South, were
required to send to the North for their machinery
requireraents. These can now be supplied from At
lanta, which is the gateway of the South's industrial
region. The establishment of this plant in Atlanta,
with its corps of highly paid skilled mechanics and
other employes, and the money it brings to the city
for its products, was a notable addition to the city's
growing resources and wealth.
Mr. Kennedy is a native of South Carolina, having
been born in Camden in 1881, a son of A. D. and
Martha (Bissell) Kennedy, both members of prom
inent families of Camden. Camden, as is well
known, is one of the historic cities of the state, and
still retains much of the charm of the ante-bellum
days. Mr. Kennedy is a nephew of the late Gen.
John D. Kennedy of Camden, a distinguished officer
of the Confederacy.
Alfred D. Kennedy was educated in the Univer
sity of South Carolina and in the Georgia Institute
of Technology at Atlanta, Georgia, where he gradu
ated with the class of 1903. Immediately on com
ing out of college he took a position with the South
ern Cotton OU Company, and remained with that
great corporation for several years. His work was
chiefly in connection with the mechanical equipraent
of the various cottonseed oU raills in the southern
states. It was in 1910 that he became associated
with the interests which established the plant of the
American Machine and Manufacturing Company at
Atlanta. Mr. Kennedy is a raeraber of the Episcopal
Church. He raarried Miss Jane Thornton, of At
lanta, and their two sons are Alfred D., Jr., and
Albert Thornton.
Thomas Benton Gibson. A few citizens of
Marlboro County .whose memories go back forty or
fifty years remember the time when Thomas Benton
Gibson was perseveringly engaged in the arduous
role of a "one-horse cotton farmer." The fields in
which he raised cotton are today covered with long
rows of substantial houses and other buildings con
stituting the Town of McColl, of which he is by
every right the foremost citizen if not the founder
of Its prosperity. Mr. Gibson is widely known as a
banker, and for many years was a leading official
in the Marlboro cotton mills.
He was born in Richmond County, North Caro
lina, January 17, 1851, descended from Scotch ances
try and from one of two brothers, John and Na
thaniel Gibson, who, with their widowed mother,
moved from Virginia about 1760 and settled ten
miles northeast of Rockinghara in Richmond County,
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McCoU banker and in past years a cotton miU owner,
was a captain in the Confederate army, and spent
his life as a planter, whUe one of his brothers was
a Methodist rainister.
Thomas Benton Gibson had the opportunity of at
tending only the old field schools, and had the great
est difficulty in utilizing even their meager resources
on account of other demands upon his tirae. 'When
he was ten years old the war broke out and his
father and older brother went into the army. He
remained horae as the chief support of his faraily,
which consisted of six daughters and a younger
brother. In 1865, when Sherman's army passed
through South Carolina, one division of it camped
on the Gibson farm, and destroyed all the crops and
other property and carried away the able bodied
negro slaves. Under such circumstances, and the
subsequent irapoverishraent of all the country, in
cluding the Gibson family, Thomas Benton Gibson
could spare little time away from his father's farm
to attend school. He busied himself in the fields,
and had a mechanical ability which kept him tinker
ing at soraething in the farm workshop when not
otherwise engaged. He had the training and disci
pline that frequently can be gained only from hard
ship, and his education has served him well in later
years. He remained at home until reaching his raa
jority, then hired out to his father for eight dollars
a month, and a year later farmed a portion of his
father's estate for himself. He left the cotton fields
to go to work as clerk in the store of R. J. Tatum
where the town of Tatum is now located in Marl
boro County. The confining nature of his duties re
quired a change of occupation in 1879, and he again
spent two years working on the farm. In 1882 he
and his cousin, F. B. Gibson, opened a store at Lau
rel HUl, North Carolina, and in 1885 Mr. Gibson
returned to his old horaestead in Marlboro County,
South Carolina.
In 1884 the South Carolina Pacific Railway, the
first railroad in Marlboro County, was constructed
from the state line to Bennettsville. Along the route
was located the station of McColl on the Gibson
plantation. There was little besides the station and
a store to identify the place until 1891, when the
first cotton mill was established, and with Mr. Gib
son as one of its raost active promoters this indus
try has become the nucleus of -what is now the Marl
boro Cotton Mills Corapany as a result of the con
solidation of five cotton raills in the vicinity. Mr.
Gibson has long been identified with the cotton mill
business, became secretary and treasurer of the raUls
at McColl upon their organization, and also served
as president of the Marlboro Cotton MUl Corapany.
In 1897 he helped organize and becarae president of
the bank of AIcCoU, and he still holds that official
honor and responsibUity. He has also been a direc
tor of the South Carolina Pacific Railway Corapany
since the road was built.
At every point of progress since McColl was
founded Mr. Gibson's enterprise and personal influ
ence have been irapressed upon its growth and devel
opraent. He has aided in the establishment of good
schools, good churches, the extension of business
and industry and for many years served as chair
man of the Board of Trustees of the local public
schools. He has usually held some official place in

the Methodist Church and has given some effective
work to the democratic party.
Mr. Gibson has enjoyed an ideal home life. He
raarried on May 12, 1886, early in his business -career.
Miss Sallie Belle Tatura. To their union were born
seven chUdren, naraely : Atlanta, wife of W. G.
Bogle, of Columbia; Bessie, wife of Bassill Beach,
of McColl; Thoraas Kirkland, of BennettsvUle;
Marie, wife of Earl Bethea, of Dillon; and Frank
and Jack, both at home. One daughter, Maggie,
died when fourteen months old.
Thomas McNally. In the County of Union
where he was born and reared Thomas McNally
has achieved a notable position as a cotton factor,
is a citizen of raany business interests, of wide in
fluence in public affairs and his career is the raore
notable because it is one largely of self achieve
raent. Mr. McNally was born at Union, a son of Thomas
and Catharine (Lindsay) McNally. His father, a
native of County Antrim, Ireland, and of Irish an
cestry came to America in the late '40s. He lived
for a short time at Charleston and about 1850 moved
to Union. After coraing to this country he married
Catharine Lindsay. She was a member of one of
the real "F. F. V.'s," her family being raentioned in
the work "Horseshoe Robinson," the author of
which was entertained at one of the Lindsay homes
in Virginia.
Thomas McNally was fourteen years of age when
his father died. That - interfered somewhat with
the plans made for his early training. However, he
acquired a good education in the grararaar and high
schools of Union, and entered upon his business
career without handicap and with a treraendous
araount of energy and sound business qualifications.
The cotton industry has always been his chief line
of effort. The McNally Cotton Company of which
he is president is one of the largest cotton buying
concerns in this section of the state. Mr. McNally
is also a large land owner. Among other properties
he owns the land on which is situated the Blackstock
battlefield, one of the landmarks of the Revolution
ary war. His public spirit has led him again and
again to join forces with the group of civic leaders
who have been responsible for the increasing wealth
and the progressive character of Union as an im
portant city of South Carolina.
Mr. McNally as a Knight Templar Mason and
Shriner. He married Miss Floride Kelly, daughter
of the late T. E. Kelly and meraber of an old fara-
ily of Union County. They have two chUdren,
Catharine Lindsay McNally and Paul McNaUy.
Jesse Edward Parker, purchasing agent for the
Marlboro Cotton MUls Corapany, has had a widely
diversified coraraercial experience, and for a num
ber of years gave most of his time to travehng as
representative of some nationally known corpora
tions. He now has the responsibUity of purchasing
all the equipraent and supplies for the cotton raanu
facturing industry in Marlboro County, with head
quarters at McColl.
He was born near the site of the present thriving
City of McColl on July 9, 1870. He is of Scotch-
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in the Revolutionary war, and in his hopor the City
of Parkersburg, West Virginia, was named. Mr.
Parker's grandfather, Lewis Parker, was a nati've
of Marlboro County, South Carolina, volunteered his
services at the time of the Mexican war, and was a
planter by occupation. John R. Parker, father of
Jesse E. Parker, was born in Marlboro County, and
besides his interests as a planter followed the pro
fession of civil engineer and surveyor. He sur
veyed a large nuraber of the boundary lines that
raarked out the limits of Marlboro County. When
the war of secession came on he raised the first
company of volunteers from Marlboro County and
was all through the war. He was several tinies
wounded, but despite the hardships of army service
lived to be seventy-five years of age. He raarried
Judith Gibson, daughter of Jaraes Gibson, of an old
South Carolina family. Jesse Edward Parker was
the oldest of three sons, one of whom is now de
ceased. He grew up in Marlboro County, attended the
Military Academy at Winston-Salem, North Caro
lina, and his experience has been almost altogether
in coraraercial lines, though for several years he
has owned a farra in Marlboro County, operating
it through a tenant. For nine years Mr. Parker
was a traveling representative of the Standard Oil
Company, and for some time was also connected
with the United States Steel Corporation. He re
signed a place as traveling freight agent for the
Seaboard Air Line RaUway to take up his present
work as purchasing agent for the Marlboro Cotton
Mills Company, an office he has filled for the past
four years.
On October 6, 1906, Mr. Parker raarried Miss Ola
C, Hawkins, a daughter of Bayliss Hawkins, of Bir
mingham, Alabaraa. They have two chUdren, Sarah
Elizabeth and Judith Gibson. Mr. Parker has taken
much interest in local- affairs, and has served as
raayor and is a member of the Board of Aldermen
at McColl. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish
Rite Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine at
Charleston. Charles E. Mackey becarae a meraber of the
South Carolina State Board of Embalraing Exara-
iners when the board was first organized, and has
reraained a meraber by successive appointraents to
the present time. That is only one fact in raany that
indicates a recognition that is state wide of his abil
ities and services as one of the most proficient and
progressive funeral directors in South Carolina.
It is a profession in which Mr. Mackey has had an
interest and fundaraental ambition for the highest
type of service since he was a boy. He is one of
the raost prominent undertakers in his tirae and a
raember of the present well known firra of funeral
directors at Greenville known as Jaraes F. Mackey
& Sons.
James F, Mackey was born at Columbia, South
Carolina, in 1851, and died at his home in Greenville
August 16, 1916. His father, J. J. Mackey, a native
of New York, carae to South Carolina as an appren
tice to the gunsraith trade in Columbia, He finished
learning his trade in that city and was married there
to Miss Bullard. In 1862 he removed with his fam
ily to Greenville. He went to GreenvUle under the

especial authority and order of the Confederate gos-
ernraent for the purpose of taking charge of what
was then known as the State Gun Factory. "When
this official service was terrainated by the close of
the war, he remained a perraanent resident of Green
vUle. James F. Mackey lived from early boyhood in
Greenville and as a youth went to work in the store
of "BUly" Watson, afterwards entering the eraploy
of J. C. C. Turner, who was in the furniture and
undertaking business. He had a gift and genius
for friendship, became one of the raost popular men
of the town, and possessing good business ability
as well acquired a partnership with George L. Dantz
ler, another pioneer undertaker, under the firm name
of Dantzler & Mackey. Still later he returned to
Mr. Turner and their partnership was conducted
as Turner & Mackey. In 1894 Jaraes F. Mackey,
retiring frora this firm, bought the undertaking busi.-
ness of Smith & Smith, and reestablished it under
his own narae on the second floor of the building
at 105 East Washington Street, where until 1919
Jaraes F. Mackey & Sons were still located. After
- two years on the second floor he bought the building
and to accoramodate his increasing business occu
pied the first floor as well. In 1905 he added
to the two-story structure and erected a three-story
business building that was regarded as model and
raodern for its special purposes. In that year his
son Charles E. Mackey came into the business, mak
ing the firm name James F. Mackey & Son. A short
time before James F. Mackey died his other son,
Arthur H. Mackey, was admitted to partnership,
thus giving the firm its present name of Jaraes F.
Mackey & Sons.
The late Mr. Mackey was a man of exceptionally
high character and one who was held in the greatest
esteem by all who knew him. He built his business
upon honor. He was one of the founders and for
ten years, until his death, secretary of the South
Carolina Funeral Directors' Association. He was
the leading spirit of this organization and its mem
bers generally looked to hira as a leader in its af
fairs. For several years he was also a member of the
Board of Trustees of the public schools of Green
ville, and was a charter member and elder of the
Second Presbyterian Church. In the erection of the
new church buUding he was a meraber of the buUd
ing committee and gave much time to planning and
supervising the work. He was a member of the
various Masonic bodies, including Lodge, CouncU,
Chapter and Coraraandery.
James F. Mackey married Miss Nellie Hipp, of
Newberry County, South Carolina. She was left
an orphan when a girl and at the age of nine came
to GreenvUle to live with her aunt, Mrs. Charles
¦ u^I y- b""^^!' Mackey and his wife had seven
wumS^"' .^7- ^^.^' Yeager, Charles E„ George
WhUden, Arthur H., Alice S., Nellie May and Mar
garet S., Two of the sons have distinguished them
selves as soldiers.
George Whilden Mackey, who is a graduate and
postgraduate of Davidson College of North Caro
lina, was a lieutenant in the National Army, and in
April, igig, was still with the Army of Occupation
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brother, is now actively engaged with his brother
as a meraber of James F. Mackey & Sons. He is
also physical director in the Central Young Men's
Christian Association of Greenville, South Caro
lina. Charles E. Mackey was born at GreenvUle in 1884
and became a partner with his father when twenty-
one years old. He had a strong desire to learn the
undertaking business and a strong arabition to excel
as an embalmer, and his splendid success in the pro
fession is largely due to the fact that his heart has
been in the business. Many iraproveraents have been
made during his manageraent of Jaraes F. Ma.ckey
& Sons. In March, 1919, he effected the purchase
of the Jennings BuUding on the corner of East
Washington and Brown streets in GreenvUle, and
this buUding is being remodeled as a raodern and
beautiful home for the Mackey undertaking estab
lishment. The reraodeled building wUl include a
beautiful funeral chapel and every convenience for
carrying on a large modern business, "including a
coraplete automobUe equipment.
Mr. Charles E. Mackey is a raember of the Rotary
Club, and is a deep student of Masonry. He is
worshipful master of Recovery Lodge No. 31, An
cient Free and Accepted Masons, a raeraber of Cy
rus Chapter No. 22, Alpha Council No. 10, Royal and
Select Masons, GreenvUle Comara'ndery No. 4,
Knights Templar, and a charter member of Hejaz
Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston. He and
his famUy are members of the Second Presbyterian
Church. Mr. Charles E. Mackey raarried Miss Cath
arine Renneker, of Charleston, and their two chil
dren are Emma and Charles E., Jr.
David Wardlaw Moore, who represents the old
and prominent Moore family of Abbeville County,
where he was born at Cokesbury in 1867, has
since 1907 been a resident of Greenville, where
the family acquired property interests many years
ago. Mr. Moore has becorae one of the large realty
owners in this city, and on moving there he built
one of the beautiful and costly residences on West
Washington Street, in the heart of the fine residence
section of the city.
Mr. Moore is a son of William A. and Margaret
(Wardlaw) Moore, and is a brother of Hon. W. J.
Moore of Greenville, one of the state's prorainent
lawyers and a raeraber of the Legislature.
The late William A. Moorfe, who died in the early
eighties, was a native of historic Abbeville County
and was a prominent and wealthy planter of Cokes
bury both before and after the war. His judgment
and vision enabled him to estimate the possibilities
and probabilities of Greenville long before the war.
Foreseeing that it would become an iraportant cen
ter, he bought property in Greenville County at
ridiculously low prices as corapared with what it is
worth today. However, he personally never real
ized the phenoraenal increase in values. He was a
fine business man, was concerned with affairs of
great magnitude in his day, and had the character
which brought him the love and respect of hosts of
^people. He was one of the influential raen in his
part of Abbeville County. His wife belonged to
the Wardlaw faraily of AbbevUle County. This is a
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conspicuous narae in South Carolina history and
is frequently mentioned on other pages.
David Wardlaw Moore was reared and educated
at Cokesbury and in South Carolina College, and for
many years was successfully engaged in planting
and merchandising there. Among other advantages
which he secured upon removing to Greenville, one
that he especially appreciated; was the superior edu
cational facUities made available for his children.
He and his family are members of the Methodist
Church. Mr. Moore married Miss Lulu Valeria Vaughan.
Her father. Rev. S. D. Vaughan, was a widely known
minister in the South Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Church. One of Mr. and Mrs. Moore's
sons, Ralph Vaughan Moore, is deceased. Their liv
ing children are seven in number : Mary Louise,
Genevieve, David Wardlaw, Jr., Catharine, Janie,
Dial and Dorothy.
Hamlet Smith Lipscomb, who came to raanhood
more than forty years ago, has filled in his active
life with raany interests, chiefly as a raerchant and
planter, and has always been identified with, his
native county of Spartanburg. He is proprietor
of a large and prosperous raercantile business at
Trough in that county, while his residence is on a
beautiful and historic horaestead on the Glenn
Springs Road, three miles from the City of Spartan
burg. Lipscomb is a name that carries a great deal of
historic tradition not only in South Carolina but in
other southern states. The Lipscombs of Texas
were closely connected with the Spartanburg County
branch of the faraily. One of the Texas Lipscorabs
was a judge of the Supreme Court of that state.
The Lipscombs of South Carolina have been within
the borders of the state since colonial times. WU
liam Lipscomb was one of three brothers who left
Halifax County, Virginia, and while he settled on
Thicketty Creek in Spartanburg County, another
brother located in Newberry County and the third
settled in Kentucky. WUliam Lipscomb was an
Aiherican officer of the Revolutionary war and
other raerabers of the faraily were in that conflict
either as officers or privates. Descendants of WU
liara Lipscomb have owned and lived upon the orig
inal homestead from a date prior to the Revolu
tionary war until the present time. Hamlet Smith
Lipscomb himself owns a large tract of land there.
This community was originally in Spartanburg
County, but was part of that portion of Spartan
burg "which together with other territory taken
from Union and York counties comprise the pres
ent County of Cherokee.
Hamlet Smith Lipscomb was born on the ancestral
Lipscorab place on Thicketty Creek in 1858, a son
of Edward and Melissa (Littlejohn) Lipscomb. The
Littlejohns are an equally old family of Union
County. Mr. Lipscomb finished his education in
Furman University at Greenville. Since early raan
hood he has been interested in business affairs and
planting. He conducts a large and prosperous store
at Trough, the seat of one of the largest cotton
raUls in the state, that of the Pacolet Manufacturing
Company. In 1904 Mr. Lipscorab bought for his
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Col. Edwin Bobo, the old Bobo homestead on the
Glenn Springs Road. This is one of the most his
toric and beautiful estates in South Carolina. The
farm as owned by Mr. Lipscomb contains 249 acres.
The Glenn Springs Road has been paved with
asphalt from the city limits of Spartanburg to the
Bobo or Lipscorab residence. This paving, even
tually to be extended to the county liraits, is a part
of the raodern road systera of Spartanburg County.
Mr. Lipscomb has greatly iraproved and added to
and raodernized the original Bobo home. In its
original form it was a substantial brick structure.
The additions to the building and the parts recon
structed are of Flemish bond masonry. Mr. Lips
comb has completed a large and beautiful colonial
gallery extending around three sides of the house,
and that gallery tends to emphasize the handsome
and massive architectural outline. The location is
such as to secure a fine view of the surrounding-
country and the City of Spartanburg.
Mr. Lipscomb raarried Miss Alice Wood of Spar
tanburg County. They have three chUdren, and the
the children have received the best advantages of a
liberal education. The son, Virgil W. Lipscomb, was
a gold medal graduate of Furman University, won a
scholarship in the University of Virginia, and com
pleted his education in that old and noted institution.
The accomplished daughters are Misses May and
Anne Lipscomb, both of whom were educated in
Columbia University, New York City.
William Jacob Murray, M. D. While a boy on
the plantation in Colleton County, WUliam Jacob
Murray determined to become a professional raan, a
physician, and his ambition has been carried out to
a degree of success and achievement that gives him
rank among the ablest physicians of Columbia. He
is also prominent in business affairs, and has been
a man of extrerae usefulness to his coraraunity and
state. He was born at St. George in Colleton County
March 9, 1856, a son of Thomas Jefferson and Eliza
D. (Frances) Murray. The Murrays came originally
from Scotland. Thoraas J. Murray was a planter,
served with the rank of captain in the First Volun
teers in the war between the states, and for one
terra represented his home district in the Legisla
ture. Doctor Murray, who has always acknowledged
a strong influence upon his early life and character
frora his mother, grew up on the plantation. He
was only a boy when his father died, and he had
serious responsibUities thrust upon him. WhUe he
spent much of his time in the fields he was a reader
and a student by preference, and all his life has
found a special joy in raatheraatics and history.
He worked as a clerk in stores to pay his way
through school, and afterward entered VanderbUt
University at NashvUle, Tennessee, where he was
graduated M. D. in 1882. For nearly forty years
Doctor Alurray has been a prorainent member of
the raedical profession.
In a business way he is president of The Murray
Drug Company, president of the Homestead Build
ing and Loan Association, director of the National
Loan & Exchange Bank of Columbia, South Caro
lina, Southern States Life Insurance Company of

Atlanta, Georgia, and the Southern Home Fire In
surance Corapany of Charleston, South Carolina,
He is a democrat in politics and a member of the
Methodist Church.
In 1884 Doctor Murray raarried Miss Mary A.
Connor, daughter of Mr. L. E. Connor of Charles
ton, South Carolina. They have four children:
Janie C., now Mrs. H. H. Harris, of GreenvUle,
South Carolina; W. J. Murray, Jr.; J. L. Murray;
and Mary E,, now Mrs. A. S. Tompkins, of Colum
bia. Capt. James Bryson Murphy recently resumed
the practice of law at Columbia, where during the
five years after his admission to the bar he had won
an enviable prorainence. For over two years he was
in the army, spending nearly a year in France.
Captain Murphy, who comes of a fighting soldier
ancestor, was born at Itasca, Texas, in 1887, but his
father's people have been South Carolinians for sev
eral generations. His grandfather was a beloved
rainister of the Associate Reforraed Presbyterian
Church in South Carolina. His father, James B.
Murphy, was born near Rock Hill in York County,
and attended the Associate Reforraed College at
Due West. He left that institution to join the Con
federate Array in the early spring of 1861. He was
graduated just "before entering the array. In Ten
nessee he becarae first lieutenant of the Maury
County Grays, forming a part of one of the Ten
nessee regiments. At the battle of Malvern Hill he
was promoted to captain by Gen, Simon Buckner for
"exceptional bravery on the field of battle," Later,
being captured and taken prisoner to Johnson's Is
land in Lake Erie, he dyed the Confederate gray of
his uniform to a darker color and having found a
shovel and contrived the appearance of an ordinary
workman, he made his escape over the ice to main
land, and finally got to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where
he erabarked on a Confederate blockade runner
bound for Wilraington, North Carolina. The ship
was wrecked off Capt Hatteras, but he succeeded in
getting ashore and returning to Tennessee three
days before the battle of Chickaraauga reentered the
Confederate service under Gen. Braxton Bragg. He
was in active duty during the remainder of the war,
and then settled at Colurabia, Tennessee. He studied
law, was admitted to the bar, and subsequently re
moved to Itasca, Texas, where he practiced his pro
fession until the time of his death.
His wife was Elizabeth Looney. Her father. Col.
Abe Looney, of Columbia, Tennessee, distinguished
himself as a Confederate officer in the war between
the states. Elizabeth Looney Murphy was a cousin
of Attorney-General Looney of Texas, whose home
IS at Greenville in that state.
Captain Murphy spent his early years at Itasca.
^ or five years he was a resident of Arizona, engaged
in the cattle business, with headquarters at Clifton,
He determined to come to his father's state in 1911
to finish his education, and entering the University
of South Carolina in 1912 he won the Gonzales gold
medal for oratory, the most highly prized honor of
the university. He also received his law degree in
that, year, and at once began the practice of his pro
fession at Columbia,
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services and entered the first officers' training camp
at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. He was commissioned
a captain in the Field ArtUery August 14, 1917, and
on August 27th was assigned to the Eighty-first Di
vision at Camp Jackson, commanding Battery D,
Three Hundred and Eighteenth Field ArtiUery, One
Hundred and Fifty-sixth Brigade, under Gen Wil
liam J. Snow, who later was proraoted to rhajor
general, and raade chief of artillery in the array.
For part of his training Captain Murphy on Decera-
bes 26, 1917, was sent to the School of Fire at Fort
SiU, Oklahoma, where he graduated. April i, 1918,
he rejoined his regiment and erabarked for France
August gth, landing at Liverpool August 21st and
in France August 23d. He was with his coraraand on
duty in France until June 3, 1919. He returned to
this country June nth, and was raustered out July
9, 1919, after twenty-six months of service.
Despite this long absence from professional duties,
he found his prestige as a lawyer unimpaired, and
today enjoys a large and lucrative practice. Captain
Murphy is a York Rite and Scottish Rite Mason and
Shriner. In November, 1919, he raarried Miss Kath
erine Zerap, daughter of Dr. Frank M. Zemp of
Caraden and raeraber of an old faraily in that his
toric city.
William Augustus Shealy, assistant state su
perintendent of education, has been a teacher and
business raan in South Carolina through practically
aU the years since he left college.
He was born August 16, 1871, and coraes of long
lived and vigorous stock. His grandfather Shealy
is still living at the age of ninety-eight. His parents,
John A. and Happy (Boland) Shealy, had a faraily
of ten children, and all of them are stUl alive.
WiUiam A. Shealy graduated A. B. from New
berry College. He taught country schools in New
berry, Lexington and Saluda counties, and for ten
years was in the oil miU and banking business. He
was principal of the Olympia graded school for
seven years untU 1918. He entered upon his present
duties at Columbia as assistant state superintendent
of education October 15, 1918. Mr. Shealy is a past
chancellor coraraander of the Knights of Pythias
and raeraber of a nuraber of other secret organiza
tions. He is a deacon in the Lutheran Church and
superintendent of the Sunday school.
February 18, 1896, in Lexington County, he mar
ried Miss Allie Rawl, daughter of Benjamin Rawl.
They have two children, Vernon, aged tvventy-one,
and Carolina, aged fourteen. Vernon has been with
the American Expeditionary Forces in France.
Jackson V. McElveen, state supervisor of rural
schools, is a young educator weU qualified for the
great responsibUities of this office. Mr. McElveen
is known as a man who gets results, and his efforts
are guided by high and consistent purposes and
ideals that fit weU into the present educational pro
gram of South Carolina.
He was born in WiUiamsburg County, this state,
February 26, 1889, son of B. M. and Frances
(Gowdy) McElveen. He grew up on his fathers
farra, and had a comraon school education, and in
1912 graduated B. A. from the University of South
Carolina. For the past seven years he has been en

gaged in teaching, and in 1916 was elected superin
tendent of education for WUliamsburg County. He
was called from the duties of that office to his pres
ent place in 1918.
Mr. McElveen is a democrat, a raeraber of the
Masonic order and Woodmen of the World and a
Methodist. September 7, 1916, at Georgetown, he
raarried Sarah Esther Doar, daughter of Josiah
Doar of Georgetown. Mrs. McElveen represents
one of the old farailies of the state. Her father,
who died in 1914, held the office of sheriff and county
superintendent of education in Georgetown County,
and for a number of years was editor of the George
town Times.
Gibbons G. Slaughter. Until the close of 1918
Gibbons G. Slaughter carried on his business letter
head the names of over fifty cotton raUls, one of
thera the largest single plant in the United States,
and altogether representing raore corapletely than
any other list that might be *corapiled, the cotton
raanufacturing interests of the South. The relation
ship which Mr. Slaughter sustained to this raighty
group of industries was as purchasing agent. For
several years the textile industries of the South
knew him most conspicuously as the largest cotton
mill purchasing agent in the United States. At
one tirae he bought for approxiraately 1,650,000
spindles besides general supplies for a group of
cotton seed oil mills.
No one could achieve and hold such a position
who was not a rare expert, with a mind and experi
ence filled with the complicated details that enter
into such an industry. Mr. Slaughter has in fact
that type of mind which masters raany thousands of
iteras of technical knowledge and keeps them all sys
tematized and ready for prompt use at a moraent's
notice. He also has that qualification of the good
executive, the ability to make prompt decisions at the
expense of a few mistakes.
Mr. Slaughter has had the opportunity of a quar
ter of a century to acquire much of his knowledge
and experience. He was born in Person County,
North Carolina, April 23, 1877, son of J. W. and
Malinda (PhUlpbt) Slaughter. When he was four
teen years old his parents moved to Burlington,
North Carolina, and in that noted center of cotton
mUl raanufacture he lived two years and gained
sorae of his first practical experience. He then
went to Greensboro, North Carolina, and on Octo
ber 2, 1899, went to Maine and Massachusetts,
learning the intricacies of textile machinery in the
great shops of the Saco-Lowell Company, largest
raanufacturers of textile raachinery in the United
States. He was with that firra five years. In De
cember, 1904, he returned south and took a position
in the mUl supply departraent of Montgomery &
Crawford at Spartanburg. In March, 1906, he
took charge of a siraUar departraent with the SuUi
van Hardware Company of Anderson, South Caro
lina, and soon succeeded in building up a mill sup
ply business for the firm. In 1909 he was made
southern sales agent for the Holyoke Belting Com
pany of Holyoke, Massachusetts, with headquarters
at GreenvUle.
In 191 1 Capt. Ellison A. Smyth offered him the
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which he was interested. Soon afterward John T.
Woodside, president of the Woodside Cotton Mills,
made arrangements to place his three raills with
Air. Slaughter as purchasing agent. From this
nucleus of thirteen mills Mr. Slaughter found his
clientele increasing rapidly until in 1918 he was pur
chasing agent for over fifty cotton mills, the largest
group of textile industries represented by any in
dividual in the United States.
Mr. Slaughter retired frora these connections in
the latter part of igi8 and beginning in January,
1919, became southeastern sales agent for Alexan
der Brothers of Philadelphia, well known manu
facturers of leather belting, and in May, 1920, or
ganized the G. G. Slaughter Machinery Company
of which he is president. The firm handles textile
raachinery and power plant equipraent and acts as
southern agents for sorae of the leading raanufac
turers of textUe raachinery in New England and
naturally will have continued association with the
textile raills of the South.
The City of Greenville knows hira not only as a
premier purchasing agent but as a very virile and
progressive citizen, who has worked constantly for
the development of Greenville as a central point in
the textile industry of the South. He was one of
the organizers and was secretary untU 1918 of the
Southern Textile Exposition at Greenville, which
built in that city a beautiful exposition building for
the annual exposition. Mr. Slaughter again and
again has demonstrated that he has both time and
capacity to do large things, and much of his most
appreciated work has been that prompted by his
thorough public spirit and performed for the dis
interested purpose of seeing his community become
better and greater.
Mr. Slaughter married Miss Minnie Grace SoUey.
of Talledega, Alabama, daughter of Rev. J. M.
Solly, a Baptist minister of that state. Mr. Slaugh
ter had the great raisfortune to lose his wife by
death in Noveraber, 1918. She was the mother of
five children : Guerry Gibbons, Phillip Homer,
James Frederick, Edwin Francis and Edith Winni-
fred. He married again June 9, 1920, Miss Vesta
Helen Owens of Canon, Georgia.
James Alexander Stoddard, professor of secon
dary education in the University of South Carolina,
has given the best energies of his life for a number
of years to the cause of education in his native state.
He is a man of ripe scholarship and especially effi
cient as a teacher and inspirer of teachers.
Mr. Stoddard, who is of Scotch-Irish, French and
Dutch ancestry, was born near Owings in Laurens
County, South Carolina, October 12, 1876. He is
one of a family of five sons and two daughters, be
ing the fourth son and fifth child of Robert Jaraes
and Deree (DuPree) Stoddard. His father and
two uncles were soldiers in the Confederate Array,
one uncle being kUled in action and the other
wounded. The father was all through the war frora
1861 to 1865, and except for a brief furlough and
illness was in field duty nearly four years. He was
in raany of the battles in Virginia, including Freder
icksburg. James A. Stoddard grew up on a farm, and at
tended a one or two-teacher school near home.
Later he won a normal scholarship in the South'

Carolina College, now the University of South Caro
lina, in 1896. Having insufficient funds to complete
his education there, he left college after the sopho
more year and spent two years teaching in rural
schools. He resumed his place in college in igoo,
graduating B. A. in igo2. As a teacher he was con
nected with the public schools at Liberty, Darling
ton, and the Heath Springs High School, untU his
appointment as assistant state superintendent of edu
cation July IS, igi8. On October 15, 1918, he was
given a reassignment of duty as professor of sec
ondary education at his alma raater, and as state
high school inspector under the State Departraent of
Education. But in June, 1920, he retired frora the
inspectorship to give his full tirae to his work in the
university. Mr. Stoddard is a raember of the Presbyterian
Church, and is affiliated with the Alasonic order, the
Woodmen of the World, the Knights of Pythias and
the Improved Order of Heptasophs. January 5,
1905, he raarried Effie Linda Toland, of Woodruff,
South Carolina, daughter of Dr. Hugh and Linda
(Lowrie) Toland, the former a native of Laurens
County and the latter of Edgefield County. Mrs.
Stoddard is descended frora the Revolutionary Lang-
stons of Laurens County, Dicey Langston being an
ancestral aunt. Her father was for months an inde
pendent scout in the Confederate army with "Deb"
Stuart and later was an array surgeon. Mr. and
Mrs. Stoddard's children are naraed Mary Floride,
Robert James, Hugh Toland, David Lowrie and
Effie Linda.
Marcus W. Price, a graduate in both the law and
literar3r courses in the University of South Carolina,
was in the army with the rank of lieutenant, and
recently began practice with the brightest prospects
for a substantial professional career at Columbia.
Mr. Price was born at Danville, Virginia, in 1894,
son of Charles W. and Georgia (Spencer) Price.
The Price faraily have lived in Pittsylvania County,
Virginia, since prior to the Revolutionary war. The
Spencers were an equally old family m Charlotte
County. Mr. Price, whose mother is still living, was liber
ally educated, and his home has been at Columbia
since 1912. He holds three degrees from the Univer
sity of South Carolina, A. B., AI. A. and LL. B. The
first he received in 1916, and graduated in the law
course, in 1918. He has also done post-eraduate
work in the University of Virginia and Harvard
University. He was a popular member of the stu
dent body at the University of South Carolina, and
ivas especially interested in the university publica
tions. During 1918 Mr. Price enlisted in the National
Army as a private, and was trained in both field ar
tiUery ^ and. the infantry. Later he entered the
officers training camp at Camp Joseph E. Johnston
at Jacksonville Florida, and was commissioned a
leutenant October 16, 1918, For some months after
tne armistice he was assigned to duty on the staff
of the Purchase, Storage and Traffic Division at
Washington, He is now post adjutant of the Rich
land County Chapter of the American Legion
Mr Price opened his office in the Carolina Na
tional Bank Building in November, 1919, and entered
upon an individual practice.

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F. C. Withers, business manager of the State,
has spent a quarter of a century with that paper, in
fact contributed to some of its very first issues.
Air. Withers spent his boyhood at Winnsboro, and
while there sold the Charleston News and Courier.
Later he entered South Carolina College at Colum
bia, and while there was the first college correspond
ent for the State, which was founded in February,
1891. He wrote the account of the coraraenceraent
exercises of that year. In the fall of 1891 he began
teaching school at Ridgeway, also taught at Green
wood, and in October, 1893, became traveling repre
sentative for the "State." For six years he solicited
subscribers up and down South Carolina, was then
called to the home office as cashier, served succes
sively as cashier and advertising raanager, and has
since been identified with the business offices as
raanager and assistant treasurer of the State Cora
pany. ¦While Mr. Withers has not been an active par
ticipant in politics, he has used his influence as a
good citizen and has held several posts requiring
rauch hard work with practically no compensation.
For several years he was a meraber of the Board of
School Commissioners of Columbia, for seyeral
years was president of the Columbia Associated
Charities, and is a deacon in the First Presbyterian
Church. Mr. Withers is married and has a family
of three chUdren, a son and two daughters.
John Gordon Hughes went to Union in 1900, ira
mediately after his graduation from the Law De
partment of the University of South Carolina, and
in twenty years his efforts and experience have
builded hira a secure prestige and a large business
as a lawyer. He has represented many irnportant
interests and has been an effective worker in many
branches of the public welfare.
Especially since laying the foundation of a law
practice he has been inclined to assume responsibU
ities of public office. He served as a member of the
House of Representatives from 1906 to 1910, and
for four years from 1914 to igi8 was a member of
the State Senate. During the war Mr. Hughes was
Government appeal agent for Union County un
der the Selective Service Law, and was manager of
the Speakers' Bureau for practically all of the war
^campaigns in that county.
Mr. Hughes was 'born at Trenton in Edgefield
County, South Carolina, December 11, 1877, and
represents several old and prorainent faraUies of
that section of the state. His parents were S. T.
and Elizabeth M. (Wise) Hughes, the forraer a
native of Edgefield County, where the faraily was
founded by John Hughes, great-great-grandfather
of the Union lawyer. John Hughes carae to South
Carolina frora near Lynchburg, Virginia, about the
close of the Revolution. S. T. Hughes' maternal
great-great-grandfather was Capt. Benjamin Hatcher
of Edgefield County, who took a conspicuous part
in the Revolutionary war and was kUled in a battle
with the British. Elizabeth M. Wise was the daugh
ter of John A. Wise of Edgefield County.
John Gordon Hughes acquired both his literary
and legal education in the University of South Car
olina, graduating A. B. in 1897 and with the degrees
Master of Arts and LL. B. in 1900. He has been a
very prominent member of the Pi Kappa Alpha

fraternity, being chapter president while in the uni
versity, was grand chancellor from 1906 to 1909,
and since the latter date has been grand princeps,
national head of the fraternity. For the past fif
teen years he has been a vestryman of the Church
of the Nativity, Episcopal, and is a past exalted
ruler of the local lodge of Elks and a member of
the Knights of Pythias, Dramatic Order Knights of
Khorassan, thirty-second degree Mason, Independent
Order of Red Men, Loyal Order of Moose. In 1919
Mr. Hughes was elected president of the Alumni
Association of the University of South Carolina.
Clarence E. Smith, city health official at Colum
bia, has for many years been prorainent in the pub-
die health raovement in South Carolina, and is one
of the raen who have done most to advance the
standards and the practical achievements in that line.
Safeguarding the public health is of course safe
guarding the private health of the individual, and the
work carried on by Doctor Smith and men in his
line over the state is therefore of direct and vital
interest to every citizen..
Doctor Smith was born near Newbern, North
Carolina, in 1877, son of W. B. and Fannie (Blount)
Smith. The Sraith and Blount faraUies have lived
in eastern North Carolina for several generations.
That of Blount is very historic and prominent, and
included Governor Blount and other raen of erai
nence. Clarence E. Smith attended school at New
bern and studied veterinary science in the Kansas
City Veterinary College, of which he is a graduate.
Later he took post-graduate studies in pathology,
bacteriology and chemistry in Columbia University,
New York, and while there specialized in public
health work, which he adopted as his profession.
Doctor Smith's services were acquired by Green
ville, South Carolina, in igo8 as public health officiaL
He remained there ten years, and in September, 1918,.
carne to Columbia to fiU a similar position in the.
capital city. His talents and efficiency have woni
for hira the highest regard and the fullest co-opera
tion of the various members of the city adrainistra
tion. and he has had a free hand in organizing and
carrying on public health work.
On June 30, igig, the United States Public Health
Service was withdrawn from Columbia, and after
that date the city health department took full charge-
of its normal activities and also the activities forra
erly carried on by the Federal Government. Doc
tor Smith has rapidly reorganized and has retained!
as far as possible all the beneficial features of the-
public health service. His department inspectors are
constantly busy enforcing the health ordinances in
visiting public and private premises, and safeguard
ing the city food and mUk supply, and Columbia is
to be congratulated on the thoroughly corapetent
and scientific man at the head of its health offi'ce.
Doctor Smith has built a fine modern home- in
Colurabia. He raarried Miss Gladys Flatau;. of
Greenville. They have a son, Clarence E., Jr.
William Maxey Stokes is a busy lawyer of
Hartsville, has a large practice, and has won- steadily
increasing success since he opened his office there
about eight years ago.
He was born in Darlington County Ottober 15,
1886. His grandfather, Gabriel Stokess came to
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Williara C. Stokes, was born in Darlington County,
and has spent his active life there as a planter. The
mother of the Hartsville lawyer is Mary F. Walters,
who was bom in Darlington County, daughter of
Jasper Walters, of an old and well known family of
that section.
WUliam Maxey Stokes, oldest of six chUdren,
grew up on his father's plantation, was educated in
the Welsh Neck High School, in Stetson University
at DeLand, Florida, and in igil graduated from the
law department of the University of South Caro
lina. Upon his admission to the bar he at once lo
cated at HartsvUle, and has been kept busy by his
clientele there.
In 1914 he married AzUe Nix, a daughter of Jacob
Nix. Mr. Stokes is a meraber of the Masonic order,
both in York and Scottish Rite, and of the Mystic
Shrine. B. F. Pegues. In a conspicuous place on the roll
of Chesterfield County's able raerabers of the legal
profession is found the narae of B. F. Pegues, a
native of the great state which he has always raade
his horae, and a splendid type of the alert, progres
sive and public-spirited citizen whose record is an
indication that success is ambition's answer. His
prominent connection with iraportant cases of legal
jurisprudence has made him a more or less famUiar
figure in the courts, and no lawyer at Cheraw has
a better record for high and straightforward pro
fessional conduct, or for success earned without
honor. B. F. Pegues was born in Marlboro County, South
Carolina, June 13, 1883, a son of John K, Pegues, a
native of the same county and a prominent and pros
perous agriculturist and planter. He served during
the war between the states as a Confederate soldier,
and died at the early age of forty-two years, his
death, no doubt, having been hastened by his array
experiences. Wesley L. Pegues, grandfather of B.
F., was a well-to-do planter and preacher of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and a native of the
northern part of Marlboro County. The latter's
father, James Pegues, held the rank of major of
mUitia, the latter being the son of Claudius Pegues,
a captain in the array of General Marion during the
Revolutionary war. The father of Claudius was
also Claudius Pegues, who was the first representa
tive of the state from the old Cheraw district, and
the latter's father, likewise named Claudius Pegues,
was the progenitor of the family in this country,
coming from France. The raother of B. F. Pegues
was Nan (Gillespie) Pegues, a first cousin of her
husband, and a granddaughter on her raother's side
of Gen. Sarauel Gillespie, who traced his ancestry
back to Ireland.
The third son in his parents' family, B. F. Pegues
attended the public schools of Marlboro County, and
was graduated from Clemson College in igo3. Two
years later he received his Bachelor of Law degree
when he graduated from the University of Virginia,
and in the same year was adraitted to the bar and
began practice at Cheraw. His earnest and constant
labors soon caused his health to fail and he was com
peUed to give up his practice for the tirae being.
From 1907 untU igi2 he engaged in- farming, but in
the latter year, his health having been fully regained.

he resuraed his practice, and since then has rapidly
corae to the forefront in the ranks of his calling, few
lawyers having raade a raore favorable, irapression
upon the Cheraw bar either for legal abUity or for
personal individuality.
Mr. Pegues was raarried in 1914 to Hannah Wil
son, of Darlington, South Carolina, and they are
the parents of one daughter, Mary Devonald. Mr.
Pegues is a meraber of the Masonic fraternity, and is
serving as a raember of the state board of pardons,
a position to which he was appointed by the govern
or. His life has at all tiraes been characterized by
unfaltering adherence to those principles which,
aside frora any business or social distinction to which
he has attained, win for the individual the un
qualified respect and trust of his fellowraen.
William Melton Burney since graduating from
the University of South Carolina, has been a pro
gressive young business raan of Columbia, active in
real estate and fire insurance circles for several
years, and is now head of a prosperous insurance
agency. He was born on the university campus at Colum
bia February 4, 1889, son of Dr. William B. and
Minnie H. (Melton) Burney, His father was pro
fessor of chemistry in the University of South
Carolina. Mr. Burney attended the local high
schools and graduated frora the university with the
class of 1910. The following five years he spent in
the real estate and fire insurance business, and then
formed a partnership, but since June, 1918, has been
sole proprietor of the business. He represents the
Southeastern Life Insurance Company of Greenville
as general agent.
October 3, 1912, Mr. Burney married Miss Floride
Cunninghara, daughter of John Cunningham of
Rosemont Place in Laurens County. Mr. and Mrs.
Burney have one daughter, Pamela C. The faraily
are raerabers of the Presbyterian Church.
David Gregg McIntosh represents the old and
prominent Mcintosh faraUy of Darlington County,
and in his own career was for a number of years a
railroad man, but is now prominently engaged in
planting, with his home at Society HUl.
He is descended frora John Mcintosh, a native of
Scotland, who on coming to America located in the
Welsh Neck settleraent, in wh^t is now Darlington
County, about 1750. David Gregg Mcintosh is also
descended from James H. Mcintosh, who raarried
a sister of the noted Episcopal Bishop Gregg.
David Gregg Mcintosh was born at Society HiU
March 20, 1877. His father, Lucas Mcintosh, was
born in the same house where his son now resides
and for many years was a prosperous planter. He
and three of his brothers were Confederate soldiers.
His oldest brother, David G., attained the rank of
colonel in the Confederate army and afterwards
was a prorainent lawyer of Baltimore. Another
brother. Dr. James Mcintosh, was a surgeon in the
army, while Edward Mcintosh was a captain, rising
to that rank from a private. Lucas Mcintosh en
tered the Confederate array when a boy and was
only eighteen when the war closed.
Lucas Mcintosh raarried Rosa Evans, who was
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Evans, of. the sarae locality, and granddaughter of
Judge Josiah J. Evans, a distinguished mernber of
the South Carolina bar in the early days. The
Evans family orginated in Wales. David Gregg
Mcintosh is the oldest of six children.
He was educated at Darlington, and as a young
raan learned telegraphy and becarae an operator in
the service of the Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard
Air Line Railway. He spent about ten years in that
work, being located at Various points in North and ,
South Carolina and Virginia. In 1910 he bought
a plantation in Chesterfield County, and while active
in its management keeps his home at the old Mcin
tosh place at Society HiU. He owns 1,200 acres
and has ten families, aggregating about fifty people,
eraployed in growing and caring for his crops of
cotton and tobacco and his livestock.
In 1911 Mr. Mcintosh married Mary Hutchinson,
daughter of PhUip Henry Hutchinson. They have
one son, PhUip. Mr. Mcintosh is affiliated with the
Woodmen of the World and is a raeraber of the
Episcopal Church.
John Terry Wood. Reidville Township, which is
in the extreme western part of Spartanburg County,
has been the home of the Wood family for about 120
years, and that entire community has been permeated
by the famUy influences and no one name has con
tributed more generally to the substantial and high
character of the locality. - The Wood family com
prise a race of raen physically and raentally strong
and long lived. The old Wood horae place is within
three railes of the present city of Greer in Green
ville County.
Thus as a merchant and citizen of Greer, where
he has lived for the past eighteen years, John Terry
'Wood is still in close touch with the traditional home
of the family and the scenes of his youth. He
was born in Reidville Township in 1862, son of John
T. and Martha (Wood) Wood. His father was
born and spent all his life on the old Wood place,
his ancestors coming to South Carolina from Vir
ginia. During the war he was a Confederate sol
dier. John Terry Wood grew up on the farm, and en
gaged in the raercantUe business at the old horae
in 1888, and in igoo established his present business,
a high class general dry goods store at Greer. WhUe
he has built up a very large and successful enter
prise, he also conducts a general farraing business
at the old homestead.
Mr. Wood is one of the high type of business men
who have made Greer a synonym in the commercial
world for the best credit and highest rating with
the commercial agencies, and for aU the taxing re
sponsibilities of his private business he has given his
tirae and raeans generously to the public welfare.
He is one of the men responsible for Greer's wide
ly extended reputation for its paving, sewerage,
waterworks, lights and other public works, and as
one of the most raodern and progressive sraall cities
in the South, surrounded by a country that is notable-
for its agricultural wealth.
Mr. Wood represented GreenviUe County in the
Legislature in 1916, and is now a member of the
board of public works of Greer. He is a meraber
of the Masonic order and a Methodist in religion.

Mr. Wood married Miss Lulu E. Leonard, of
Spartanburg County. Their five children are: Bes
sie I., wife of Dr. E. E. Smith ; Bernice, wife of Dr.
W. T. Brockman; Miss Cuyler Wood; Oliver G.;
and J. Terry, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Wood undoubtedly
derive a gre_at deal of satisfaction from their chil
dren. All were given the very best of educational
advantages, the daughters being graduates of Chi
cora College. Oliver G. is a graduate of The Cita
del, while J. Terry is a Clemson raan with the class
of 1914.
Oliver G. Wood for a young man has already at
tained distinction in world affairs. Graduating
from The Citadel in 1912, he soon afterward re
ceived appointment to a position in the United
States Legation at Pekin, China, frora there re
turned to Washington, and not long after the be
ginning of the war with Germany was promoted to
a more responsible office in the diplomatic service
at Madrid, Spain, under Ambassador Joseph E.
WiUard and is now stationed in Roumania.
William Godfrey. The high awards that are at
tainable in fortune, character and influence through
a life of industry and probity, guided and regulated
by a sense of conscientious obligation, are illustrated
in the career of WUliara Godfrey. With no extraor
dinary endowraent of faculty, unaided by inheri
tance or friendly support, he was content to enter
into the life which a rising community afforded, and
to follow up the opportunities which opened be
fore hira with steadiness and industry, gaining, step
by step, the rare fruits of well directed enterprise,
untU he finds hiraself, whUe yet his powers are only
ripened and matured, the possessor of an enviable
fortune, the director of a large industry, a trusted
repository of trusted interests, and 'the head of a
family circle which yields the richest fruits of sat
isfaction of which our huraan lot is capable, whUe
it reflects credit upon the wise and guiding hand
that has trained its harraonious merabers to lives
of usefulness and honor.
William Godfrey, president of the First National
Bank of Cheraw, was born at Cheraw, South Caro
lina, November 2, 1870, a son of S. G. Godfrey. His
father, a native of the same place, was a soldier of
the Confederacy during the war between the states,
being first lieutenant of Corapany C, Eighth Regi
raent, South Carolina Volunteer Infantry. At the
close of the war, in which he made a gallant record
for bravery and faithful discharge of duty, he re
turned to farming in the vicinity of Cheraw, and
there his death occurred when he was fifty-seven
years of age. His father, Williara Godfrey, was a
native of Marlboro County, South Carolina, and was
president of the old Merchants Bank of Cheraw,
the largest bank of its day in the state outside of
Charleston. Williara Godfrey of this review is de
scended in the eighth generation frora John God
frey, who came from England and landed at Charles
ton, South Carolina, in 1670. He acted as governor
of South Carolina in 1675, and was also a raeraber of
the grand council and lord proprietor's deputy. The
great-grandfather of Williara Godfrey, "Thoraas
(Godfrey, was a raeraber of the troops of Francis
Marion during the Revolutionary war, and his wife
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also a Revolutionary soldier and officer. Another
forefather of William Godfrey, his great-great
grandfather, Henry WUliam Harrington, held the
rank of general during the Revolutionary war, and
his great-great-grandfather, John Wilson, was a
captain during that struggle, while the latter's son,
John Side WUson, was governor of South Carolina
in 1820-1821 and the author of "WUson's Code of
Dueling." The mother of WUliam Godfrey, Harriet
(Powe) Godfrey, began playing the organ at Charles
ton when she was a girl of but sixteen years, and
while she is now seventy-eight years of age is still
organist in St. David's Episcopal Church, having
been in this post for sixty-two consecutive years in
the same church. She is the raother of thirteen
children, of whom seven are living at this time, and
WiUiara was the fifth child in order of birth.
After attending the public schools of Cheraw,
William Godfrey pursued a course at The Citadel,
from which he was duly graduated in 1890. He
then began the lumber business in North Carolina,
where he had seven years of experience, but in
1900 returned to Cheraw and established hiraself
in business here as a manufacturer of luraber. Since
that tirae he has advanced to a prorainent place in
the trade, and is one of the best known and most
thoroughly inforraed men in the luraber business
in the state. He was president of the South Caro
lina Luraberraen's Association, and as an authority
on the subject is co-author of the Lumber Rules of
Inspection, used in grading luraber. He was one
of the promoters and buUders of the Chesterfield &
Lancaster Railroad, of which he was vice president,
this road now being a part of the Seaboard Air
Line. While his business and financial interests are
heavy and important, he has always found the time
and inclination to aid the interests of his home lo
cality, and was forraerly president of the Cheraw
Board of Trade and of the Cheraw Club. During
the great World war he was a member of the district
board of the Eastern District of South Carolina
for the handling of the draft problem. He has long
been a prorainent worker in the Episcopal Church,
and is treasurer of the Episcopal Diocese of South
Carolina. Mr. Godfrey was raarried in 1897 to Miss Cora
Page, of North Carolina, and they are the parents
of five daughters, Caroline, Page, Harriet, Margaret
and Cora, who have been granted excellent educa
tional advantages.
Thomas Edward Smith. Unlimited faith and
enthusiasra have as rauch to do with the growth and
progress of a coraraunity as capital and natural
resources. Thoraas Edward Smith has a bountiful
supply of all four of these coraraodities, and has
used thera most effectively in the promotion of a
large and satisfactory business at Greer and for the
advancement and welfare of that town, which he
sincerely regards as the best town of its size in the
State of South Carolina.
Mr. Smith, who is widely known over upper South
Carolina, was born at Greer in 1870, a son of J. P.
and Mary Jane (Wood) Smith, both now deceased.
His maternal grandfather was John Taylor Wood
of Spartanburg County. The paternal grandfather
was Samuel G. Sraith, who was born on the old

Smith home in Spartanburg County and lived to
the venerable age of ninety-two. Greer is located on
the line between Greenville and Spartanburg coun
ties, and the late. J. P. Smith while born near the
town was a native of Spartanburg County, and
spent a great part of his life in Greenville County in
the sarae vicinity about a mile and a half from
Greer. Thomas Edward Sraith raay be said to have had
a genius for business and coramerce manifested even
when he was a boy. At the age of seventeen he
left the farm and began clerking in a store at
Greer at $12.50 a raonth. A more important
training and influence was his subsequent employ
ment with W. W. and Frank Burgiss, brothers,
whose enterprise and highly intelligent manage-^
raent as cotton buyers and business proraoters gave
the Town of Greer such weU deserved farae and
practically started it on its growth and expansion,
which through subsequent years has brought it to'
fame as orie of the wealthiest arid raost progressive
cities of its size iri the South. Under the Burgiss
Brothers Mr. Smith developed qualifications as an
expert cotton buyer, and for several years was en
gaged in that line and in the coraraercial fertUizer
business. In 1899 he entered the mercantile business as a
meraber of the firra O. P. and T. E. Smith. Thev
were successors to the firm of Smith-Mayfield Cora'-
pany, which had been established several years be
fore. In 1906 Thoraas E. Sraith acquired the sole
ownership, and the firm was -carried on under his
name until 1919, when he disposed of his mercan
tUe interests to enter the brokerage business, dealing
in cotton and stocks.
Mr. Smith is one of those broad gauge citizens
who are looking as carefully to the welfare of the
community as to their individual success. This pub
lic spirit has been a fact greatly appreciated by the
Town of Greer. Mr. Smith served two terras as
niayor and up to 1918 had acted continuously for
about eighteen years in sorae public capacity as
member of the Board of Health, Board of ToWn
Commissioners and in other ways.
Mr. Sraith raarried Aliss Fannie Bailey of
¦^1',^-^:'^}^''°^ the weU known banker of that
city Mr E. C. Bailey. They have two sons, William
Bailey Smith and Gordon C Smith.
A AI McNair, one of the leading merchants of
Hartsville, was born in North Carolina, at St Pauls
?AK'".^f At'^^^'4?" °* ^^^'^^^ a"d Betha Jane
(Alford) AIcNair. His grandfather was a native of
Sco land. Air. McNair was reared and educated in
t'!lZ'^''^'"'%^'^'^I"'-'^ '^^"^ to Darlington County
r^r T?'= clerked m a general store seven miles
west of Hartsville, at a place known as Clyde. He
also worked for a man engaged in the turpentine
business there. In 1881 he engaged in the turpentine
and naval stores industry on his own account, but
atter two years returned to North Carolina. He
came back to this state in 1885, opened a business at
Uyde, and was one of the leading commercial men
ot that community for about fifteen years, operating
a general store and also engaging in the turpentine
industry. From Clj-de he moved to Hartsville, and
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cotton, operates cotton gins, and owns some valu
able and extensive planting property. He is also a
director and vice president of the Bank of Harts
ville. In 1889 he married Miss K. "McKinnon. To their
marriage were born ten children, and nine of them
are still living, named Margaret, Catherine, Morti
mer, Bessie, Christine, Marion, LiUa Maria, Ruth
and Carl Alilton.
^^^ Busey Simmons, who graduated with the de
gree D. D. S-. frora the Atlanta Dental CoUege in
1905, has since that year been located for practice
in his profession at Piedmont, South Carolina. This
is one of the most thriving and progressive mill
towns in the South. Doctor Simraons has attained
that success due to an ambitious, progressive and
earnest practitioner. His dental offices and laboratory
are located in a separate building erected especially
for his purpose. These offices are arranged with
such convenience as to admirably facUitate his work.
The equipment of his operating rooras and his labo
ratory represents the last word in a profession that
means so much to the welfare of humanity. Doctor
Simmons himself is well deserving of the title Dental
Surgeon, and is a fine type of the American dentist.
His work has brought hira unusual honors in pro
fessional circles. He is a forraer president of the
South Carolina State Dental Association, and in
many other ways has been honored by his feUow
practitioners. He was the leading spirit in the or
ganization of the Piedraont Dental Association, which
was. organized in igio and of which he has since
been secretary and treasurer. This association is
coraposed of dentists frora the counties in the
Piedmont section of South Carolina, and its in
fluence has done rauch to buUd up and raaintain
high standards.
In the spring of 1919 Doctor Simmons added an
X-Ray machine and apparatus to his equipment.
This enables hira to accoraplish an indispensable
work for his patients and perform a service which
hitherto was not available in that locality. Doctor
Siraraons has raade this equipment a community as
set, since his facihties are open to the use of local
physicians and surgeons in surgical and other cases
where the X-Ray is of vital iraportance. Doctor
Siraraons is hiraself an adept in minor surgery.
He was born at MonroeviUe, Monroe County,
Alabama, in 1883, a son of C. M. and Kate (Busey)
Siramons. His parents were also natives of Ala
bama. Doctor Simraons grew up in his native town,
and took all his dental work in the Atlanta Dental
College. He is a member of the Masonic order.
Knights of Pythias and the Baptist Church. He
married Aliss Lulu West, of GreenvUle, and they
have one son, Williara West Simraons.
\\''illiam Dunkling Garrison. That portion of
the flower of South Carolina's manhood which sur
vived the battles and hardships of the war between
the state had alraost with exception to face poverty
' and rebuUd their own fortunes and those of the
state practically from the ground up. One of those
who with exceptional energy and courage solved the
problems of the after war period was the late Wil
liam Dunkling Garrison of Anderson County.

He was born in GreenviUe County, September 6,
1843, and died at his home in Anderson County July
9, 1911. The family tradition is that three Garrison
brothers came from England to Virginia, and after
ward settled in South Carolina. One of these
brothers was Peter Garrison, grandfather of the late
WUliam D. Garrison. Another was Samuel Garri
son, and the third was always known as General
Garrison. Peter Garrison married Martha Wood,
and they were pioneers in Greenville County. Ed
mund Barsdale Garrison, father of William D. Gar
rison, was a native of Greenville County and spent
all his life there. He died at the advanced age of
eighty-four, on January 7, 1904. He married Sarah
Moon Cureton, and they had the foUowing chUdren :
Williara Dunkling, John Abner, David Cureton, Mrs.
Mary Watson, Thoraas Garrison, Mrs. Mattie Sirap
son, Mrs. Ella Major, Mrs. Bettie Sullivan, Mrs.
Eraraa Poor and Edraund B. Garrison.
William Dunkling Garrison left his father's farra
where he had spent his early life and at the age of
eighteen entered the Confederate Array and for
nearly four years was a soldier of the South. He
served as corporal and later as captain during his
array career, and for raeritorious service was pre
sented with a sword. He was wounded in battle, and
suffered the hardships and privations of a soldier's
life. After the war he was made captain of the
"Red Shirt" campaign, which made possible the elec
tion of Wade Harapton and the restoration of white
rule. After the close of the war he possessed a
single dollar, and in the general poverty of the state's
resources he had little choice of opportunity in earn
ing a living. He worked willingly at whatever was
offered, and on Deceraber 17, 1868, raarried Miss
Esther Annie Reid. She is a daughter of Thoraas
Lytle and Annie (Sitton) Reid. They started house
keeping with a greater stock of courage, resolution
and hope than actual money, and for a number of
years had struggles and hardships. For sorae time
Mr. Garrison was employed by Mr. Perry, manager
of the Pendleton Manufacturing Corapany at Au
tun. Having bought a tract of land to the east of Den
ver in Anderson County, he began its developraent
and established a horae, and nearly every year
brought him sorae addition to his resources and
prosperity, and at the tirae of his death he left a
good estate. He was always honest and true in all
life's relations and was a consistent Christian. He
and his wife early became members of the Baptist
Church, and in that faith reared their chUdren. He
was a democrat, but aside from his participation in
the carapaign of 1876, when the ignorant negro and
the carpet bagger were thrown out of the state gov
ernment, he was never in politics.
Air. and Airs. Garrison had the following eleven
children : James Reid, a farmer and business man
at Denver ; Lewis Cureton, an Anderson County
farrrter; Henry Newton, also a farmer in that coun
ty; Annie Sitton, wife of W. E. Eskew, a farmer in
Anderson County ; W. Dunkling, Jr., who died in
October, 1918; LUlie Esther, wife of Ennis Chap
man, cashier of the bank at Denver ; John Crayton,
a farmer. Avho married Virginia ^^'ilson, and died in
1918; Sarah Moon, wife of Nathan Kesler, of Ma
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Maraie Eugenia, who is unraarried and a teacher;
Thomas Edmond, at home, raarried Nettie McPhail,
and they have two little daughters, Sarah Reid and
Lou Nell.
William Dunkling Garrison, Jr., who, at the
tirae of his death in October, 1918, was a candidate
for the office of coraraissioner of agriculture, cora
merce and industries, was a raan thoroughly con
versant with the wants and needs of South Carolina
along these lines. He was known as Farmer Garri
son and had done so much and was so faraUiar with
real estate values and labor conditions as related to
those industries that his loss was greatly deplored.
He was a son of Williara D. and Esther A. (Reid)
Garrison and spent the first twenty-five years of
life on his father's farm in Anderson County. In
1903 he graduated from Clerason College in the
agricultural course. For 25^ years he was superin
tendent of the Coast Land Experiment Station of
Charleston, his duties being to encourage the grow
ing of forage crops, and while there he also assisted
the Department of Agriculture in combating plant
diseases. From there he went to Clemson College,
where he was superintendent of the experiment sta
tion for two and one-half years. He taught the stu
dents practical agriculture and conducted many ex
periraents there. For eight years he was superin
tendent of the Clerason Coast Experiraent Sta
tion, located at Suramerville, and there reclaimed a
section of crawfish land by tUe drainage. This land
was worthless, but since reclaraation, it equals that
of the best land in the country. He also served on
the board of trustees of Clerason College. He was
general manager of the Charleston Farms Corpora
tion and conducted the business activities of that
corapany, which consisted of general farraing and
stock raising and the encourageraent of these in
dustries. Samuel Henry Edmunds. A continuous service
since 1895 as superintendent of the Surater city
schools is a notable distinction by length of yeJrs
alone, but even raore so because of the quality and
character of the service rendered by Mr. Edmunds,
who is one of the raost prorainent educators of the
South today.
He was born at Mill Grove in Richland County,
May 28, 1870, a son of Rev. Nicholas WUliam and
Mary Claudia (Leland) Edmunds. His raother's
father, Dr. A. W. Leland, was for many years a
raeraber of the faculty of the Presbyterian Theolog
ical Seminary of Columbia, South Carolina. His
father, the Rev. Dr. N. 'W. Edmunds, was for
twenty-five years pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Sumter.
Samuel H. Edmunds spent his boyhood in the
country or in a vUlage, and attended the coramon
schools of Sumter. His parents doubtless at some
considerable sacrifice gave him the opportunities
and privileges of a liberal education. He was grad
uated in 1890 with the A. B. degree from Davidson
College in North Carolina and has since taken post
graduate work, attending Columbia University and
the University of Chicago. In 1914 the Presbyterian
College and in 1916 Wofford College conferred upon
him the honorary degree of Litt. D.

In i8go, the year he graduated from Davidson
College, Air. Edmunds become principal of the city
schools of Sumter. He left that city in 1893 and
for two years was principal of the Presbyterian
High School for Bo'ys at Rock Hill. Otherwise his
service at Surater has been continuous since 1890.
In 189s, he was elected superintendent of the city
school systera.
The work of Doctor Edmunds in the Surater city
schools that has been most widely commented upon
is the systera of raUitary training which he intro
duced about fifteen years ago, long before the sub
ject of "preparedness" was a current phrase and
idea. He organized a company of boys, later se
cured expert assistance as commandants and from
time to tirae introduced military equipment and kept
the organization growing and broadening until for
years it has been regarded as an indispensable part
of the school work at Surater. Obviously the mU
itary instruction was best appreciated when Amer
ica becarae engaged in the treraendous task of pre
paring for the World war. Many of the boys who
went into the ranks were the better equipped for
their previous training at Surater, and it is especially
noteworthy that of all the high school boys from
Sumter who entered the officers' training camps
only one failed to receive his commission. This was
due to a change of course in middle of session.
The Review of Reviews published two articles on
preparedness and railitary training as exemplified
by the Sumter schools and the experience of that
institution has been widely copied and applied in
the general raovement to make military discipline
and drill a feature of public school work.
In igi2 Dr. P. P. Claxton issued a buUetin on
the Surater High Schools and this bulletin was re
produced and commented upon editorially by news
papers over the whole country. The Sumter Daily
Item wrote a very appreciative editorial leader at
the tirae. The opening paragraph is quoted: "The
Sumter schools have been for twenty years the
town's greatest asset and have been the means of
attracting to Sumter a large percentage of the pres
ent population, a great many farailies having re
raoved frora other places to make their homes here
on account of the educational advantages afforded
by the schools. But now the schools have become
an asset of great value in another way. As a means
of procuring publicity of the raost desirable sort
the schools have corae into prominence in conse
quence of the comments of United States Commis
sioner of Education, Dr. P. P. Claxton, on the ex
cellence of the system and the remarkable results
accomplished by Superintendent Edraunds. The at
tention of school and college raen, of prominent
educators, and of others interested in educational
affairs has been attracted by Doctor Claxton's bulle-
ton on Sumter's schools and newspapers and educa
tional journals from Boston to San Francisco are
commenting editorially on the 'remarkable and un
usual work' of Superintendent Edmunds."
Doctor Edmunds was appointed by the governor
m 1916 a member of the State Board of Education.
in April 1918, he was chosen federal state director
of the United States Boys' Working Reserve He
IS chairman of the Educational Research Corarais
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Fairchild of Washington. Doctor Edmunds is a dem
ocrat and a Presbyterian; a Mastor Mason and
Knight of Pythias.
On December 24, 1896, he married Miss Eliza
Champion Davis, the granddaughter of Bishop T.
F. Davis and the great-granddaughter of ChanceUor
DeSaussure. They are the parents of six children :
Sara DeSaussure; Leland Nicholas; Samuel Henry;
DeSaussure Davis ; Champion Moore and Thomas
Frederick. Allen McIver Coker is a representative of the
prorainent Coker faraily, whose varied part in busi
ness, industry and public affairs has been a matter
of comraent on several pages of this publication.
Allen Mclver Coker is a prorainent merchant and
planter at Society Hill and was born in that commu
nity September 10, 1870. His father was WUliam C.
Coker and his grandfather Caleb Coker, who was
also grandfather of several other prominent business
raen of the present generation.
The late Williara C. Coker lived a life of great
usefulness and varied service and eventfulness. He
was a captain in the Confederate Army. In business
affairs he was a planter, raerchant, banker and cotton
mUl president, served in the State Senate and was
a member of the old Legion of Honor. He died
when about seventy years of age. Capt. William C.
Coker married Mary Mclver, a native of Darlington
County, and daughter of Allen and Sarah Wither
spoon (Ervin) Mclver, representing old and well
known families of Darlington County.
Allen Mclver Coker was the oldest of seven chU
dren. He attended school at Society HiU, St. John's
School in Darlington County and graduated with
the Bachelor of Science degree from the South
Carolina College at Columbia in 1892. Two years
later, in 1894, he entered upon the business career
which has been continued with sustained industry
and success for a quarter of a century. Through
out this time he has corabined both merchandising
and farming. He is a partner in business with A. H.
Rogers, and they handle not only a large stock of
general raerchandise but deal in fertUizers and other
farra supplies.
Mr. Coker is a raeraber of the Woodmen of the
World. In February, 1916, he married Laurie E.
Druramond, of Aiken County.
William Adam Carrigan, M, D, As a physician
and surgeon Doctor Carrigan has been a busy and
successful practitioner in his old home community of
Society Hill for nineteen years.
He was born there December g, 1875, and is a
son of Williara Adara and Catharine Elizabeth. (Hill)
Carrigan. His father, a native of North Carolina,
located at Society Hill in 1849 and established a busi
ness in that year which he personally conducted
for over half a century and which is still carried on
by his son Lawrence E, He was also a partner for
sorae years in a coraraission business in Charleston.
He died at Society HUl in 1907, at the age of seventy-
two, and left behind him an honored name not only
as a business man, but as a citizen and friend. The
mother of Doctor Carrigan was a native of Darling
ton County and a daughter of James W. HUl, of
Scotch ancestry.

Dr. William A, Carrigan received his primary
education at Society HUl, attended the Oak Ridge
Institute, and took his medical course in the Univer
sity of Maryland, where he graduated in 1902. In
the sarae year he returned to Society HiU and be
gan the practice which has continued uninterrupted
ly to the present tirae. He is a raeraber of the
County, State and Araerican Medical associations,
and is local surgeon at Society Hill for the Atlantic
Coast Line Railway.
In 1900 he married Miss Mamie H. Goode, of
Mecklinburg County, Virginia. They have one
daughter, Elizabeth HUl Carrigan.
Judge Charles Pinckney Townsend is the old
est practicing lawyer of the South Carolina bar and
the oldest living graduate of South Carolina Col
lege. All his early conteraporaries who were ad
mitted to practice before the war between the states
have long: since laid down their briefs or have been
called to the bar of final jurisdiction. Judge Town-
send has these and many other interesting distinc
tions of long and honorable service, as a lawyer,
judge and leader in jpublic affairs of his home state.
He has spent all his life at BennettsviUe in Marl
boro County, where he was born July i, 1835, a son
of Mekin and Rachel I. (Pearson) Townsend.
Through his father he is of English and through
his mother is of Welsh descent. His great-grand
father was a Revolutionary soldier. His grand
father was Jabez Townsend, a native of Marlboro
County and an extensive planter there. Mekin
Townsend was a merchant at Bennettsville, served
four years as county sheriff, and died in December,
1854, at the age of forty-five. Rachael Pearson, also
a native of Marlboro County, was a daughter of
Lemuel Pearson of the same county, and grand
daughter of Moses Pearson, who served with the
rank of captain in the Revolutionary war.
Judge Townsend was the third in a family of eight
children and the only one now living. He graduated
from South Carolina CoUege in Deceraber, 1854, and
by subsequent study was adraitted to the bar in
1857. He therefore appeared in court and as 'a
young attorney pleaded his first cases several years
before the storm of war broke. During that war he
spent four years in the Confederate army, being
captain of Company G of the Eighth South Carolina
Volunteers. Before the war he had represented
Marlboro County in the Legislature during 1858-59,
and in 1862 was again elected a member of the Legis
lature. More than thirty years later he was chosen
to a seat in the General Assembly. In 1866 he was
elected coraraissioner in equity and in 1871 chosen to
the office of circuit judge, a position he honored by
his ability and faithful and efficient adrainistration.
He also served four years as assistant attorney gen
eral of the state and three years as assistant United
States district attorney. Judge Townsend was for
several years private secretary to Senator J. L. Mc
Laurin at Washington. He was also captain of a
railitia company for two years. He is the oldest Ma
son in Marlboro County, having been affiliated with
that order for sixty-two years. He has also been
a constant and faithful meraber of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
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Amanda McConneU, of Colurabia. The children of
that union were: Sadie, widow of T. W, Bauchier;
Floride, deceased ; Nellie, widow of Dr, A. S, Town-
send; Rachael, wife of D, W. Smith; Benjamin;
Fannie, deceased ; Charles, deceased ; Edgar, who is
living. On October 3, 1889, Judge Townsend married
Nannie Henley. By his second wife he has three
chUdren : Charles P., who served as a first lieuten
ant in an Engineer Corps in France; WUliam B.,
who was captain of the Twenty-Seventh Infantry,
United States Regular amy, was sent to Siberia; and
Elinor, a student in Converse College at Spartan
burg. I
William Dargan Coggeshall. Those who know
something of the career and the varied interests
associated with the Coggeshall narae at Darlington
credit Air. Coggeshall with a particular genius in
coraraercial lines. He started in life with prac
tically nothing, and by his initiative, organizing abil- ¦
ity and energy is now head of several of the raore
substantial concerns of his home city.
He was born in that part of Darlington County
that is now Florence County April 7, 1872, son of
Peter C. Coggeshall and grandson of Peter C.
Coggeshall, Sr., the forraer a native of Darlington
County and the latter of Massachusetts of English
origin. The raother of the Darlington business raan
was Nancy Lide Wilds of Welsh ancestry, a daugh
ter of Peter A. Wilds and a granddaughter of Capt.
John Terrell, who was from Marlboro County and a
prominent farmer of that section.
William Dargan Coggeshall, the next to the
youngest araong eleven children, ten of whom are
StUl living, acquired his early education in Black
Swamp Township of . Darlington County and after
leaving school clerked for about two years. He
was only twenty years of age when he raade his first
independent venture in commercial affairs, organ
izing Coggeshall & Corapany, a grocery and crock
ery business. In 1900 he acquired all the other in
terests, and in 1904 organized the W. D. Coggeshall
Company, of which he is proprietor. He is also
owner of the Carolina Ice and Packing Company,
the Darlington Developraent Corapany, the Darling
ton Wholesale Grocery Corapany, and has many
farras in Darlington, Berkely and Chesterfield coun
ties, land holdings aggregating between eight and
ten thousand acres.
October 23, 1895, Mr. Coggeshall raarried Emraa
Edwards, daughter of Col. B. W. Edwards and a
niece of Maj. J. L. Coker. Mr. and Mrs. Coggeshall
have five sons and one daughter, three of the sons
having played honorable parts in the "World war.
Howard E., the oldest, was a United States Marine,
Marion Lide was a lieutenant of artillery, and WU
liam Dargan, Jr. was also with the colors. The
youngest children are Berryman Edwards, Emma
Lucia and James Rolarid.
Air. Coggeshall has built up the largest mercan
tUe business in this section of the state, his busi
ness now running into the millions. He is also one
of the largest planters in South Carolina, and is
without a doubt the largest planter of staple cotton
m the South East, Mr, Coggeshall cultivates several
acres in fish which he has found very interesting

and profitable. He is also the largest tobacco planter
in South Carolina.
Archibald Kelley Odom. For twenty-two con
secutive years Archibald Kelley Odom has served
as cashier of the Bank of McColl, which he helped
to organize and which his ability and faithfulness
have done so much to foster into prosperity.
Mr, Odom was born in Marlboro County Decem
ber 22, 1859. His father, James W. Odom, was a
native of the same county, served as a Confederate
soldier during the war between the states, and carae
out of the army to take his place among the farm
ers and husbandmen of the county. The grandfather,
also Jaraes Odom, was a native of South Carolina,
and of English ancestry. Mr, A. K. Odom's raother
was Mary Lester, a native of this state, daughter of
WUliara Lester of an English family.
One of a faraily of seven chUdren, Archibald
Kelley Odora grew up on the home farm, attended
the old field schools, and for about two years of
his early life clerked in a store at BennettsviUe. He '
was ageflt for the railway at McColl for 4J^ years
and Mount Airy, North Carolina, for two years and
for two years was in the mercantUe business at Mc
Coll, In 1897 he organized the Bank of McColl,
and it has had only one cashier from the time it
opened business untU the present. He is affiliated
with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias
and is a member of the Alethodist Church.
In 1892 Mr. Odom married Miss Mary Fletcher,
daughter of Capt. Raiford Fletcher, of Marlboro'
County, where she was born and reared. They have
two sons, Raiford J. and Grayson.
Thomas Holloway Coker, Jr., is a veteran news
paper man of eastern South Carolina, and is editor,
publisher and owner of the HartsviUe Messenger
He was born at Society HUl, South Carolina, Au
gust 29, 1875. The Cokers are an old and prominent
family of the Society HUl community. His great
grandfather, Caleb Coker, was a native of the sarae
coraraunity, was a raerchant and planter and the
grandfather, Thoraas Coker, likewise was a mer
chant of Society Hill, as was also Mr. Coker's father,
1 homas H. Coker, Sr., who is now a retired mer
chant Thomas H. Coker, Sr., married Ellen Hart,
daughter of Capt. John Hart, who was kiUed during
the war between the states. The grandfather, Rob
ert Hart, was a native of Hartsville, and the town
was named m honor of the Hart family. Mrs. Ellen
Coker died m 1888^ at the age of fort5'-two, and her
sister, Elizabeth H. Hart, subsequently became the
wife of Thomas H. Coker, Sr. Of the children of
the first marriage two died in infancy. Those to
grow up were John H., S. Rachel, Thomas H., Jr.,
ArZ u"i^''""^K'^^° '^'^d in 1905, the wife of
t nZ j°^^"'.r^^ *^ ^^'^ond marriage there
IS one son, Lewis Maxwell Coker
the^n'^'^f' Holloway Coker, Jr., was educated in
P.tr .t M-rf°' °r ^?='^*y H'"' ^'^0 attended the
vo, [h .1 I '^^'^ /"''!*"'= ^^ Anderson, and as a
and fnr ^'"^ '" ''¦' ^^"^"""'^ ^t°^e at Society Hill,
XZ. ^^^.yea'-s .was associated with his father
shmentf V n'' r '° ^"^^ ^°°^' ^°^ mercantile estab
lishments at Darlington and did office work in Harts
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ests of the HartsvUle Messenger, Thoraas H. owning
two-thirds, and his brother one-third. This paper
was first established in 1893 by T. J. Drew. In 1898
it was raoved to Darlington, where iJ was published
about four years, but since 1902 has been a fixture
in the life and affairs of the HartsviUe community.
In 1904 Air. Drew, its founder, died, and the business
was then carried on by a stock company in which
several of the Coker faraily were actively inter
ested. T. H. Coker, Jr., and his brother Leon W.
bought out the paper in 1907, and a few years later
' the former became sole owner, and under his raan
ageraent and direction the paper has becorae what it
is today, one of the most influential weeklies in the
eastern part of the state, and with a splendidly equip
ped plant for printing and publishing.
In 1908 Air. Coker married Lillian Singleton, a
daughter of Richard Singleton of Columbia. They
have three daughters : Virginia, born in igog, Char
lotte, born in 191 1, and Ellen Hart, born in 1914.
Mr. Coker is affiliated with the Woodmen of the
World. Besides the newspaper business he is in
terested in real estate.
Bright Williamson has been president of the
Bank of Darlington for thirty consecutive years,
and in raany other ways has borne an influential
part in the commercial, civic and patriotic affairs of
that community.
He was born March 3, 1861, six railes east of
Darlington Courthouse, and is raember of an old
and prominent family. His parents were Benjarain
Franklin and Martha (Mclver) WUliarason.
His maternal grandfather was Evander Roderick
Mclver, who was born near Society Hill, South Car
olina, in 1790, and lived there until after his mar
riage in 1814. He then raoved to Marion County,
near Hopewell Church, and conducted a general
merchandise store in Darlington on the corner
of Square and Orange streets. About 1832 he moved
to Tuskeegee, Alabama, along with many other
South Carolinians, leaving his wife and children in
Darlington. He intended to provide and prepare a
place in Alabama for his permanent residence, but
became discouraged with the prospects on account
of the wildness of the country and the danger frora
the Indians. Personally he stood in high favor
with the Indians, and was a good friend of "Jira
Boy" the chief, -who at different tiraes made him
handsorae presents. He used his slaves to handle
a contract for buUding a raUroad, but the rail
way project failed and he never collected any part
of the debt, amounting to about $18,000. Alto
gether his experience in the West was unfortunate.
In 1836 he started to return to South Carolina, but
died at Talladega Springs. His remains were sub
sequently removed to Tuskeegee.
Evander Roderick Mclver has been described as
a man rather under-sized in stature, exceedingly
graceful and easy in raanner, and very eloquent,
though not given to speech raaking. He was popu
lar and influential and for many years was clerk of
the court for Darlington County. He supervised
the buUding of the brick courthouse which was
burned at the time of Sherraan's invasion. He also
served as an officer in Colonel Rutledge's Regiraent
during the War of 1812. His friend. Bright WU

liamson, grandfather of the Darlington banker, was
captain of a company which went from this section,
and successively became adjutant and at last colonel
of the regiraent. He also served as an officer in
the Indian wars in Florida and was appointed briga
dier general by the governor of South Carolina when
the state troops were raobilized at the tirae of the
nullification movement.
Evander Roderick Mclver married Eliza Ann
Cowan in 1814. She was a daughter of John Cowan
and Elizabeth Salter, who lived at Elizabethtown in
Bladen County, near Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Eliza Cowan was related to several farailies prorai
nent in social life in North Carolina, including the
McAlisters. The McAlisters were also kinsmen of
the WUliamsons. Eliza Cowan has been described
as a woraan of most remarkable and araiable quali
ties, of charming manner and disposition, and a
stanch Presbyterian.
Benjarain Franklin WUliarason, a son of Col.
Bright Williamson, raentioned above, was born Feb
ruary 3, 1814, and was educated in the best schools
of the period, graduating frora the state college in
1833. In that year he was given a half interest in
two farras, one on the Pee Dee River and the other
on Black Creek, known as the Oaklyn Plantation.
He subsequently disposed of his river lands and
concentrated his interests at Oaklyn, where he built
a modern home and began the foundation of a career
that eventually made him recognized all over the
state as a planter and business man. At the tirae of
the beginning of the war between the states Oaklyn
in point of production was probably not excelled by
any other plantation in South Carolina. Benjamin
Franklin 'WUliarason spent fifty-three years as a
planter. It was a matter of greaj: pride with him that
he could claira never to have bought a ton of hay
or a bushel of corn untU 1881. Though at that tirae
his purchase of corn was limited to only fifty bushels,
the fact was one which he disliked to reraeraber.
His plantations produced an abundance of bacon,
rice, flour, vegetables and fruit. Meat was pro
vided by beeves slaughtered on the place, and his
hams and mutton were the very choicest.
In 1841 Benjamin Franklin WUliarason married
Lenora Wilson, who died in 1855, leaving four sons.
In 1858 he married Margaret Mclver, daughter of
Evander Roderick Mclver. She was the mother of
three sons and three daughters. All the sons becarae
planters. Benjarain F. 'WUliarason died at Oaklyn
- October 20. 1887.
Bright Williamson grew up in the cultured at
mosphere of his father's home, Oaklyn. He received
his education in Sandy Ridge Academy and in Kings
Mountain School under Col. Asbury Coward, in the
University of Virginia, and in Eastman Business
College at Poughkeepsie, New York. Mr. WUliam
son entered the Bank of Darlington in 1889 as
cashier, and since the following year has been its
president. He has also been an official in various
other local enterprises, including the Darlington
Phosphate Company and the Darlington Oil Mills,
also the Darlington Brick Company.
During the World war Mr. WUliarason was first
with tirae, resources and influence in raatters of pa
triotisra. He was chairman of the registration and
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erty Loan campaigns. He is also a raeraber of the
State CouncU of Defense, and served as a meraber
of the local deraocratic coraraittee.
Eugene K. DeLoach is one of the younger busi
ness raen who are rapidly broadening the coraraer
cial and industrial aspects of Colurabia, taking the
city out of the groove in which it has run many
years, and making its . resources responsive to the
tremendous demands now coming in frora the back
countries upon the cities for every conceivable line
of supplies and material that have to do with the
comfort and convenience of huraan life.
Mr. DeLoach has given Columbia and the South
one of its prominent raanufacturing industries, the
DeLoach Quick Ice Machine Corapany, of which
he is president. In forraer years ice-raaking and
refrigeration involved coraplicated raachinery and
equipment, costing a large sum, and avaUable only
for ice plants in large cities. The DeLoach Quick
Ice Machine is a small,, practical, low priced ice-
making equipraent containing a feature based upon
the corapany's original patent, the center freeze,
allowing the raachinery to be manufactured and in
stalled at low cost and operated by inexperienced
help. Hundreds of the DeLoach machines have
been bought by small rural communities and even
by individual farmers, dairymen and merchants.
The plants raanufactured at Columbia represent sev
eral types and a number of sizes, running as high as
one for the raanufacture of six tons of ice daily,
and down to the sraaller units suitable for hotels
and raeat raarkets. It is claimed that the DeLoach
ice machine can manufacture ice at a cost running
between 12 and 15 cents a hundred pounds, and with
this low cost of production, and with the small per
centage of depreciation on the plant, even the most
remote plantation in the South has access to one of
the most indispensable products of civUization.
Mr. DeLoach was born at Statesboro, Georgia,
in 1888. He graduated from the University of
Georgia at Athens with the class of 1909. He came
to Columbia in 1913 as manager of the Keely Insti
tute of South Carolina, a corporation capitalized for
$35,000. He later purchased the institution, of whicli
he is stUl the president. Mr. DeLoach has also
acquired the controlling- interest in the Keely In
stitute of Florida, located in JacksonvUle, and of this
institution he is also the president. The Keely treat
ment, which can only be administered through duly
authorized Keely institutes, is a scientifically correct
treatment for the cure of drug and alcoholic addicts.
Through the splendid organization, and highly effi
cient personnel, connected with the operation of
these institutes, Mr. DeLoach is firra in the belief
that he has, and is, doing a great work for the
betterraent of raankind in that during the past
seven years he has been the raeans through which
happiness has been brought into raany darkened
horaes by transforming physical and mental wrecks
into self respecting citizens and bread winning hus
bands and fathers.
For several years he was successfully engaged in
the real estate business, having founded the De-
Loach Real Estate Agency. Always alert to new
opportunities, he realized the great possibilities
open to the manufacture of a practical smaU ice

manufacturing and refrigerating plant, and as a
result of considerable study and improvement has
given to the world the DeLoach quick ice raachine.
In February, 1919, he organized the Quick Ice Ma
chine Companyt the title of which has since been
changed to the DeLoach Quick Ice Machine Com
pany, of which he is president. The capital stock
has also been increased from $100,000 to $200,000,
and through Mr. DeLoach's energetic and skillful
management the company, whose manufacturing
plant is at Columbia, has a business taxing its entire
facUities. Some of the leading citizens of South
Carolina are stockholders in the company.
July 31, 1912, Mr. DeLoach raarried Miss Annie
Mae Olliff, of Statesboro, Georgia, born December
28, i8go, and they have two sons, Eugene Olliff,
born November 3, igi3, and James Gordon, born
May 8, 1918, the birthplace of each being Columbia,
South Carolina. The family worship at the First
Baptist Church, and Mr. DeLoach is a meraber of
Myrtle Lodge No. 3, Knights of Pythias, and also
the Ridgewood Country Club, at Columbia.
Julius Stewart McInnes, who entered his pro
fession as a lawyer at Darlington in 1915, has gained
a substantial practice and has also been one of the
most prominent younger leaders in public affairs,
having represented his county in the Legislature,
and in 1916 raade a vigorous carapaign for Con
gress. He was born at Georgetown, South Carolina, Sep
teraber 12, 1891. The McInnes family is of Scotch
ancestry. His grandfather, John A. McInnes, was a
native of Scotland and carae when a young man to
America and located in Georgia, He was in the
Confederate array and was kUled in battle near
Charleston. John Alexander McInnes, father of the
Darlington lawyer, was born in Georgia and spent
his active life as a farmer and stockman. He mar
ried Martha McClellan, daughter of WiUiara Ben
jamin McClellan and of the family for whom Mc-
Clellanville was named. The McClellans were also
of Scotch ancestry,
Julius Stewart McInnes, the oldest of four chil
dren, grew up at Darlington, attended school there,
received his Bachelor of Science degree frora the
College of Charleston, and pursued the law course
at the University of South Carolina in 1915, He
was admitted to the bar the sarae year and began
practice at Darlington, where he is member of the
firm Cork & McInnes, handling a large general prac
tice, Mr. McInnes represented Darlington County
in the Legislature in 1915-16.
July 24, 1915, he married Miss Maud Pearcy,
daughter of J, H, and Dora Pearcy, of Virginia.
They have two chUdren, Robert Craig and Ann
Pearcy. Mr, McInnes is affiliated with the Masonic
order, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Wood
raen of the World,
Travis Coleman Cork. For a man of his years
Mr. Cork has won an enviable position in the legal
profession at Darlington, and the firm. of Cork and
Alclnnes, of which he is senior partner, enjoys some
of the best practice in local courts.
Mr. Cork was born near Ware Shoals in AbbeviUe
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etta (Medlock) Cork. The first' meraber of the
Cork faraily in America was John Cork, who came
from Ireland and settled in Fairfield County, South
Carolina, about 1740. The grandfather of the Darl
ington lawyer was James B. Cork, a native of Fair
field County and a farmer and planter. James Cork
was also born in Fairfield County and served as a
Confederate soldier. The rest of his life he spent as
a farmer and he died at the age of sixty-nine. His
wife was a native of Laurens County, daughter of
Travis Medlock and granddaughter of James Travis
Medlock, both natives of Laurens County and of
Scotch ancestry.
Travis Coleman Cork was the third in a famUy
of five children, consisting of two daughters and
three sons. He acquired his literary education in
Erskine College at Due West, finishing his junior
year there and took his law degree in the University
of South Carolina in 1913. He had in fhe raean
tirae served as secretary to Judge Woods. In Sep
teraber, 1913, he located at Florence and served for
a tirae as referee in bankruptcy. In June, 1915, he
came to Darlington and was in active practice with
George Dargan until 1918. Mr. Cork entered the
army and trained with the Field Artillery at Camp
Taylor, Kentucky. After the war he formed a part
nership with Julius S. McInnes under the narae
Cork & McInnes.
Mr. Cork is a -member of the Masonic Order and
is present dictator of the Moose Lodge. He mar
ried Harriet Ruff in 1914. She formerly lived at
Ridgeway, South Carolina, and is a daughter of W.
H. Ruff of that place. They have one daughter,
Eloise Davis, I
William Henry Willimon is conspicuous araong
the citizens of Greenville County not only through
his tenure of the office of county supervisor, but
as head of one of the most progressive and success
ful agricultural enterprises in the county. For all
the varied wealth of its industrial life South Caro
lina is essentially an agricultural state. Men who,
like Mr, Willimon, take it upon theraselves to give
their best energies and business experience to the
development of agriculture on a broad, modern
scale, are performing a service of inestimable
value, Mr. Willimon was born in Greenville County in
1867, a son of R, C, and Martha C, (Ashmore) Wil
limon, The Willimons originated in Holland, one
branch in America settling in Pennsylvania, another
in Alabama and another in Greenville County, South
Carolina. Mr. Willimon's grandfather, Abraham
Willimon, came to Greenville County when a young
man and settled a few miles below Greenville, Wil
liam H. Willimon is now living on the place where
he was born. It is located seven miles south of
Greenville, on the Fork Shoals Road, and is one of
the richest 'agricultural sections of the county.
Fortified with a good comraon school education
and a course in a business coIIcrc in Kentucky, Wil
liam Henry Willimon has devoted the best years
of his life to farming. At the sarae tirae he has been
grateful for a thorough business training, which he
acquired while an employe of the American Bank at
Greenville. He was with this bank five years, but
with that exception has given his tirae to his exten

sive planting interests at his place seven railes south
of Greenville on the Fork Shoals Road. Here he
has about 600 acres in farms. These farras are occu
pied and conducted by high class tenants, with whora
Mr, Willimon co-operates on a basis that might well
be accepted as a model standard. The results are
seen in the spirit and the position of the tenants
themselves, who have good horaes, good stock and
farra implements, and are enjoying increased pros
perity every year.
Naturally Mr. WiUiraon became widely known
over GreenvUle County as a representative of the
agricultural interests. In 1914 he was elected su
pervisor of the county, taking office January i,
1915. His administration has been a most satisfac
tory and progressive one. Greenville County is
constantly growing in wealth and population. This
is one of the counties that have no county com
raissioners. AU the county business, the building
and maintenance of good roads, the maintenance
and operation of all county institutions, and the
handling of all the fiscal affairs of the county, corae
under the supervision of the board of supervisors.
The office is therefore a raost responsible one, in
volving the outlay of a large part of the county's in-
corae. An important feature of Mr. WUliraon's ad
rainistration has been the building of GreenviUe
County's good roads, the best in the state, on which
something over $1,000,000 has been expended,
Mr. 'Willimon Is a raeraber of the Methodist
Church. He raarried Miss Maud Pack, of Green
vUle County. Their four children are Robert
Charles, Henry, Eugene and Alice.
Paul Vernon Moore is son of the late Col. Thora
as J. Moore of Spartanburg, and his life energies
and interests have been largely directed in behalf
of publicity, organization and other co-operative en
terprises for the purpose of advertising and putting
into effective channels the raagnificent resources of
Spartanburg and Spartanburg County.
Mr. Moore, who until recently was secretary of
the Charaber of Comraerce of Spartanburg, was born
at Moore in Spartanburg County in 1874. Concern
ing his faraUy and the career of his honored father
a raore detailed article appears on other pages. Paul
Vernon Moore was reared on the family plantation
at Moore, and was educated in the University of
South Carolina, graduating with the degree Bachelor
of Science in 1894. At the university he was a mera
ber of the Sigma Nu fraternity.
For the past quarter of a century in addition to his
extensive private interests he has devoted himself
heart and soul to those movements which require
organization and close co-operation on the part of
all citizens for their success. In 1900, during the
Charleston Exposition, he was raanager of the
Spartanburg County exhibits, which won two capi
tal prizes for the county. In 1907 he installed and
had charge of the South Carolina exhibit at the
Jamestown Exposition. Mr. Moore was elected sec
retary of the Spartanburg Charaber of Comraerce in
1913, and filled that office continuously until Septera
ber I, 1919. Then, as a result of his father's death,
he resigned and returned to the horae plantation at
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business affairs left without proper guidance when
Colonel Moore died.
Mr. Moore in igo8 was elected secretary and raan
ager of the Spartanburg Fair Association. For sev
eral years he had charge of the raost successful fairs
in South Carolina. In igi7 as an official of the
Chamber of Commerce and also as a patriotic pri
vate citizen he was one of the leading men of Spar
tanburg who secured the location of Camp Wads
worth and the artiUery range. This involved the
turning over to the governraent of approxiraately
15,000 acres. Mr. Moore worked night and day for
weeks on the complicated task presented in getting
the numerous individual land owners in harmony as
to price, terms for selling their rights to the govern
raent. Wadsworth was one of the largest and most
iraportant training caraps for the National Array.
During the war period the Chamber of Commerce
under Mr. Moore's direction was given over alraost
entirely to the various war work activities. He was
active in the organization in which centered the cara
paigns for proraoting Liberty Loans, Red Cross,
War Camp Community Service, and in the cam
paigns Spartanburg and Spartanburg County went
over the top in record time. Mr. Moore is a raera
ber of the Board of Coraraissioners of Steele Institu
tion of the Deaf and Blind at Cedar Springs, South
Carolina. His father was for forty years chairman
of this board.
Mr. Moore married in igog Miss Ethel Seabrooke,
of Memphis, Tennessee. They have two children :
Elizabeth Seabrooke, born September, 3, 1911 ; and
Thomas Andrew, born July i, 1915.
Ivy Milton Mauldin, whose name recalls one of
the most prominent families of Upper South Caro
lina, has achieved success and prominence both as
a lawyer and banker, and for several years has
lived at Columbia, the state canital, where he is
active vice president of the Palraetto National
Bank, He was born near Pickens, South Carolina, De
cember 17, 187s, son of Joab and Deborah Reed
(HoUingsworth) Mauldin. A number of references
are made to the Mauldin famUy in this work. They
have been a very patriotic family, and in the past
century have contributed largely to the growth and
historv of Upper South Carolina. Air. Mauldin's
grandfather, Maj. Milton Mauldin, acquired his title
as a member of the militia, and took great pride in
that work. He died just before the beginning of
the war between the states. He was a man of great
enterprise, and at one tirae operated a wagon fac
tory and a mill. His fine country seat in the lower
part of what is now Pickens County was a favorite
place for the assembling of the people of that sec
tion, and Maior Mauldin always entertained with
great hospitality.
Joab Mauldin, who was born in Pickens district,
served with distinction as a soldier in the war be
tween the states, and afterwards unon the creation
of Pickens County by the constitution of 1865, was
elected sheriff of the county. He held that office
acceptably for twelve years. After that-he was en-
gas-ed in farming near Pickens.
His wife, Deborah Reed HoUingsworth. was a
daughter of Ivy and Cynthia (Clayton) Hollings-

worth. In a series of articles published in the New
York Sun some years ago on "History of Distin
guished FamUies and Personages," by Emily Emer
son Lantz, considerable space is given to "HoUings
worth Lineage." It is stated that the narae Hol-
lingsworth is widely honored throughout. the United
States, the narae being of Saxon origin and the
annals dating from the Norman Conquest. In these
annals mention is made of one of the manors as
that of HoUingsworth. Valentine HoUingsworth,
Sr., ancestor of the American family, was a member
of the Society of Friends and raany of his de
scendants settled in Maryland, some later tending
westward whUe others moved south. Some of the
old settlers of Union District, South Carolina, bore
this name and the records at Union Court House
bear testimony to the generosity and prosperity of
men and women of this name. The father. of Ivy
HoUingsworth came from Union, it is said, and
located in that territory now designated as the southJ
ern portion of Pickens County. The wife of Ivy
HoUingsworth, Cynthia Clayton, was a daughter of
Stephen Clayton, whose immediate ancestors moved
to Upper South Carolina frora Virginia and Mary
land. Deborah Reed HoUingsworth was a South Caro
lina woman whose meraory deserves to live long.
Highly educated herself, in early life she realized
the need of educational work in her country cora
raunity. Accordingly she organized and taught suc
cessfully many private schools, and later as her own
family grew she insisted that her children should
have the best advantages obtainable and all her
seven sons and two daughters had the benefit of a
college education.
Ivy Milton Mauldin was therefore fortunate in
his choice of ancestors. He has done the best to
realize the opportunities created for him in his early
life. In 1896 he graduated with the degree Bachelor
of Science from Clemson College. He was a raem
ber of the first class graduating from that well
known institution and was active in the student
body, being one of the cadet captains of the corps
of cadets. From college he entered the office of
his uncle, the late C. L. HoUingsworth, at Pickens,
studied law one year, and after successfully passing
the board of examiners and the Suprerae Court of
South Carolina was licensed to practice in AprU,
1898, Having had mUitary training at Clemson CoUege,
he was raade captain of the local military company
known as the Pickens Guards, and upon the out
break of. the war with Spain he organized a com
pany of infantry which became an integral part of
the Second South Carolina Reaiment and he en
tered the service as captain of Company K of that
regiment. He was in active service in Cuba and was
with his command until mustered out at the close of
hostilities. His early interest in mUitary affairs
has never been allowed to wane and so far as op-
portiinity offered he gave his influence toward im
proving the military condition of the state during
the war.
After returning from his army service, Mr Maul
din entered the practice of law at Pickens, and
atter some time formed a partnership with hi»
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Thirteenth Circuit. They enjoy a very substantial
practice. Soon after coming to the bar Mr. Maul
din was elected to represent Pickens County in the
lower house of the Legislature, serving one term.
The law was his principal work until igos, when
he was elected cashier of Pickens Bank, one of the
oldest financial institutions of Pickens County.
That bank continued to prosper and expand under
his active management. In 1914 he was appointed
to the office of state bank examiner for the State of
South Carolina. He continued the duties of that
position until he resigned in 1917 to accept the
active vice presidency of the Palmetto National
Bank of Colurabia. His work as banking examiner
was done in a manner raost acceptable to the bank
ers as well as' to the public generally, and he made
his office a valuable adjunct to the scheme of the
state's development, and carefully safeguarded all
the interests entrusted to his charge. It is said
that under his management the duties and effective
agencies of the office crystallized into a scherae far
exceeding the best expectations of the proraoters
of the law providing for the office of state bank
exarainer. Besides his office as a raeraber of the Legislature
from igoo to 1902 Mr. Mauldin was a member of the
Board of Education for Pickens from 1908 to
1914, and since 1912 has been a member of the
board of trustees of Clerason College, his alma
mater, having been elected to that position by the
General Assembly. He takes a deep and personal in
terest in the affairs of this great institution. Mr.
Mauldin has prospered in a business way, has ac
quired considerable property arid is. an officer in a
number of banking and business institutions. In
politics he is a democrat of liberal views. He be
lieves in political progress, but is not a radical, nor
an extreme critic of the conscientious and capable
efforts made by public men throughout the state
looking to the betterment and welfare of the people
and the proraotion of every deraocratic institution
, in the state. He is a meraber of the Columbia Club
and Ridgewood Club of Columbia and since youth
has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South. He has liberally supported his
church and all its affiliated interests and his ability
as a financier contributed much to the building of
the present handsorae Methodist church at Pickens.
June 25. 1902, at Central in Pickens County, he
married Vera, daughter of L. Ross and Annie M.
Eaton, Mrs. Mauldin is a cultured woman, and is
descended from the same sturdy and accoraplished
people to whora the credit for raaking Upper South
Carolina a progressive section is due. She was edu
cated at Williaraston Female College, and at Chicora
College, two well known institutions of the state.
Her people have long been recognized as leaders of
thought and successful in achieveraent in Pickens
County. Mr. and Mrs. Mauldin have one daugh
ter. Ivy.
One who has known Mr. Mauldin for many years
speaks of his place as a citizen in the following
language: "He bears an honored narae and has
well lived up to the distinguished heritage from both
sides of his family. He has measured weU up to
the deraands of true citizenship. He has opinions
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well matured and crystallized from a patient and
charitable study of the free people amongst whora
he has raoved all his life and of whom he is one.
He is public spirited, thorough and capable, and
during the comparatively short time since reaching
his majority he has contributed doubtless as rauch
to the betterment of his state as a public man and
citizen as any man from the upper section of South
Carolina." Colin Smith Monteith, secretary of the State
Bar Association of South Carolina, is one of the
most prominent younger lawyers of the Columbia
bar. He was born at Columbia January 9, 1882, son
of Walter Shields and Joe Ann Elizabeth (Yates)
Monteith. As a boy he attended the grammar and
high schools of Columbia, and later studied law in
the offices of J, S, Muller and B. L, Abney." For
a time he earned his living as clerk in a railroad
freight department. He was admitted to the South
Carolina bar in January, igog, and has steadily prac
ticed law since that date, with a rising reputation
and growing clientage and influence. He was elect
ed city attorney for Columbia in June, 1914, and was
re-elected to that office in June, igi6, and again in
1918. He is now in his second term as secretary of
the Bar Association, being first elected in August,
1917, and re-elected in August, igi8.
Mr. Monteith is a democrat and a member of the
Main Street Methodist Church of Colurabia. On
January 9, 1902, at Colurabia, he married Mary Joe
Thomas, daughter of H. G. and Belle G. Thoraas of
Georgia. They have five chUdren : Colin S., Jr.,
Isabel G., Elizabeth C, Walter S. and Caroline Mon
teith. William Gordon Belser. Since he was adraitted
to the bar in 1900 the career of William Gordon Bel
ser has brought him enviable distinction as a lawyer
and he has also becorae prorainently identified with
raany iraportant real estate interests and organiza
tions in and around Columbia.
Mr. Belser, who was born October 8, 1875, on
Woodside Plantation near Suraraerton in Clarendon
County, is linked by blood ties with sorae of the
oldest and most substantial famUies of the state.
His great-great-grandfather, Christian Belser, set
tled at Charleston about 1760. He is said to have
accumulated a considerable estate. He died at
Charleston in 1813 and was buried in St. John's
Lutheran churchyard. Next in line is the great
grandfather, Jacob Belser, who for sorae years was a
lawyer of the Charleston bar, but in 1818 raoved to
the High Hills of the Santee in Sumter District. He
operated a large plantation there until his death in
1833. The grandfather was William States Belser,
who in 1844 acquired the Woodside plantation near
Summerton and lived there until his death in 1850.
Ritchie Hugh Belser, father of the Columbia lawyer,
for many years carried on an extensive plantation
in Clarendon County. He died in 1896. The maiden
narae of his wife was Gulielraa Maria Baker, daugh
ter of Dr. Charles Richard Furman Baker and Caro
line Haynsworth, both of Sumter District. The
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resentatives over the state. Through his mother,
who is StiU living and making her home with her
son at Columbia, WUliam Gordon Belser is a direct
descendant of Dr. Richard Furman, a distinguished
Divine of the Revolutionary period, in whose honor
Furraan University at Greenville was named.
Williara Gordon Belser acquired his early educa
tion in the high schools of Suraraerton. In 1892 he
entered South Carolina College, now the Univer
sity of South Carolina, and was graduated with the
highest honors and the A. B. degree in 1895. In the
faU of 1896, for the purpose of pursuing the study
of English language and literature, he entered Johns
Hopkins University of Baltiraore. In 1897, on ac
count of the death of his father, he was called home
and had to take active charge of the business affairs
of the family. He was able to resume his prepara
tion for a professional career in 1899, when he en
tered the University of South Carolina and gradu
ated LL. B, in June, igoo. In July of the same year
he formed a partnership in law with WiUiam D.
Melton at Columbia. The firm of Melton & Belser
has continued with a large and profitable clientiele
ever since. It is now composed of Williara D. Mel
ton, W. Gordon Belser, J. Edwin Belser and Irvine
F. Belser.
In the raeantirae Mr. Belser has also becorae en
gaged in real estate developraent in and around
Columbia and also has important farraing interests
in Clarendon County, He is president of the North
Columbia Land Company, treasurer of the Argus
Investment Corapany, secretary of the Exchange In
vestment Company, and a director in the Home
stead Building and Loan Corapany of Columbia and
of the Acme BuUding and Loan Corapany.
In politics he supports the conservative branch of
the deraocratic party in South Carolina. His only
fraternal connection is with the Phi Kappa Alpha in
the South Carolina College Chapter. He was for
merly a raeraber of the Episcopal Church of Sum
merton and is now affiliated with Trinity Church of
Columbia. Noveraber 17, 1909, Mr, Belser raarried Miss
Mary Elizabeth WUson, daughter of Judge John S,
and Elizabeth (Ingram) Wilson. Her mother was
a daughter of Dr. John I, Ingram, long a prominent
physician at Manning in Clarendon County, Her
father. Judge John S. WUson, who is descended
from the Wilson family that has been prorainent in
WiUiarasburg County since before the Revolution,
is a prorainent lawyer, served eighteen years as
solicitor of the Third Circuit, and has been judge
of the Third Circuit since igo8,
Mr. and Mrs. Belser were happUy raarried nearly
nine years. Mrs. Belser died October 15, 1918.
Mr. Belser is the father of six children : Elizabeth,
born in 1910; Williara Gordon, Jr., born in 191 1;
Gulielma, born in 1912; Pauline, born in 1914; Caro
line Gordon, born in igi6; and Alice Witherspoon,
born in igi7.
John Calvin Bruton. As a wholesale dealer in
and raanufacturer of lumber, John C. Bruton has
been prominent in southern lumber circles for a
number of years. For about five years he has had
his home and business headquarters at Columbia.
He is a man of large and substantial resources and

a valuable addition to the citizenship of South Car
olina. Mr. Bruton was born in Montgomery County,
North Carolina, February 8, 1856, son of James T.
and Jane (Bruton) Bruton. Bruton is a name of
French Huguenot origin. The first in America left
France and settled in old Williamsburg, Virginia, in
the early part of the seventeenth century. Members
of the faraily built there an Episcopal church that is
still standing and is known as Bruton Church, and is
said to be the first Protestant Episcopal church
erected in Araerica. Some of the descendants of
those old settlers subsequently moved to Montgomery
County, North Carolina, prior to the Revolutionary
war. In that section of the Old North State and
neighboring counties the name has long been one
of enviable and honorable prorainence.
Largely as a result of the war John C. Bruton
inherited little frora his honorable ancestry except
a good name and character. He grew up in the
impoverished period of the reconstruction, when
there was no raoney, no productive industries, and
scarcely anything to which a young man of special
abilities could turn, his hand. As a youth Mr. Bru
ton was reared upon the farm. He educated him
self by that intensive practical experience which
many men who never saw the doors of a college
have found a sure and reliable preparation for life.
For several years he was a farmer, and when about
thirty years of age engaged in the mercantUe busi
ness at Troy, county seat of his native county of
Montgoraery. While at Troy he first engaged in
saw railling. Later he reraoved his headquarters to
Fayetteville, and in tirae became one of the prom
inent lumber manufacturers of North Carolina. In
extending his investments he acquired some valuable
timber lands in South Carolina, and the better to
raaiiage and direct his business affairs he moved to
Colurabia in igi4.
Mr. Bruton is president of the Southern Whole
sale Luraber Company, manufacturers and whole
salers of pine lumbers, with headquarters at Colura
bia and offices in the Liberty National Bank BuUd
ing. Mr. Bruton is individually an owner of hard
wood tiraber lands and manufactures much hard
wood luraber. He and his corapany operate several
luraber mills. Mr. Bruton is a member of the
Methodist Church, and has served in various .official
capacities connected therewith since he was twenty-
one years old, a term of continuous service seldom
equaUed. In August, 1878, he married Miss Louisa Parker,
of Montgomery County, North Carolina, and to
this union were born seven children, naraely: Jar
vis T., deceased; Henrietta J., now Mrs. Barna
Allen, of Troy, North Carolina; Zula, the wife of
Rev. Walter A. Stansbury, pastor of Grace Meth
odist Episcopal Church at Wilmington, North Caro
lina ; Alice, now Mrs. \Y. H. Watkins, Jr., resides in
Ramsieur, North Carolina; Vannie is Airs. F. T.
yi'ay. of Lumberton, North Carolina; Lola mar
ried C. W. Rankin, and resides in FayettevUle,
North Carolina; Winifred is now Mrs. Albert
Stewart, of Fayetteville. The wife and mother
passed to her eternal rest January 3, 1893.
December 3, 1895, Mr. Bruton married Miss
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they have nine chUdren: Louise, Mary, Margaret,
Helen, Elizabeth, Ruth, John C, Jr., Jane and
Grace. Though his life has been an active one, and his
business success has come to him as the result of
untiring effort, Mr. Bruton has ever found time
and opportunity to aid in those public moveraents
tending towards the betterment and welfare of the
community in which he has resided, and has con
tributed of his time by serving as public adminis
trator, justice of the peace and other positions,
elective and appointive. He is a member of the
Masonic fraternity, having been initiated into the
mysteries of the craft more than forty years ago.
He also holds membership in the fraternal order
of Woodmen of the World. .
Fighting the every day battles of life with reso
lute courage and typical American grit, contending
with handicaps and restricted by limited opportuni
ties in his youthful days, John C. Bruton through
his self developed capacities has attained a position
of success, typical of what can be achieved when
there is a wiU to do, and a heart to dare.
William Pinkney Hamrick. From early boy
hood to the present tirae there has been no interrup
tion to the working career of WiUiam Pinkney Ham
rick in cotton miUs, beginning as an obscure boy
worker, and today as superintendent he is one of
the prominent men in the textUe industry of the
^ H*was born in Rutherford, North Carolina Sep
tember 17, 1871, a son of Albert L. and Juha (Webb)
Hamrick He lived on his father's farm whUe get
ting his education in the public schools but at the
age of fourteen went to work in a cotton mill as
drawing boy at wages of thirty-five cents a day.
With the aid of his active inteUigence and unceas
ing industry he has been climbing upward to lar^r
responsibUities and rewards ever smce^ He came
to Columbia in 1900 as overseer of <:fdmg and since
1915 has been general superintendent of the Pacific
Olympic, Richland and Capital City Mills. He s
also president of the Hampton Mills. Cooperative
Store As a miU superintendent he directs the la
bors of fifteen hundred employes and has their com
plete trust and confidence, having once been a hum
ble operative hiraself. ^, ,
Mr Hararick is a raeraber of the Rotary Club,
Chamber of Commerce, is affiliated with the Masons,
Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias and is a dea
con of the Baptist Church. . !
August 12, 1889, he married Nancy Sniith, 01
Rutherford County, North Caroliria, daughter ot
George W. and Pauline Sraith. To their raarriage
were born five chUdren, George Albert, Jesse Louis,
Coatsworthy Pinkney, Jennie Keever and Smith
Whaley. Maj. Trelawney E. Marchant. While he has
become well known araong the financial interests of
his home state as assistant cashier of the Palmetto
National Bank at Columbia, Major Marchant has
given alraost a third of his years since he attained
majority to mUitary duty.
Major Marchant was honorably discharged frora
the array July 16, 1919. As a boy before he was

of age he was serving in the State Militia, enlisting
in 1905 with the New Brookland Light Infantry.
He served successively as corporal, sergeant, sec
ond lieutenant in 1910, as captain in 1912, and in
1915 became major of the Colurabia Battalion, part
of the Second Regiraent of the South Carolina Na
tional Guard. In that capacity he did duty on the
Mexican border in 1916-17. On July 25, 1917, the
Second South Carolina was converted into the One
Hundred and Fifth Aramunition Train with the
Fifty-fifth Field Artillery, Thirtieth or Old Hickory
Division. Still with the rank of major he reached camp July
14, 1918, and was on the fighting front from July
until the signing of the arraistice. He was in the
San Mihiel salient and took part in several phases
of the Meuse-Argonne offensive.
Major Marchant was born in Lexington County in
1887, a son of Julian and Addie (Senn) Marchant,
both of whom reside at New Brookland, Lexington
County. Julian Marchant was born in Orangeburg
County, son of James C. Marchant. James C. Mar
chant was a brother of Martin Luther Marchant,
of a prorainent faraily long identified with the pro
fessional and industrial affairs of upper South Caro
lina around Greenville.
Trelawney E. Marchant was educated in the
schools of Lexington, had a business college course,
and except for the three years of his active mUi
tary duty has been connected with the Palmetto
National Bank of Columbia. This is one of the
largest financial institutions of the South, the presi
dent being J. P. Matthews.
James H. Craig, state bank examiner of South
Carolina, is a banker by training and experience,
and has been an official of the State Banking De
partment since 1914.
Mr. Craig, whose official quarters are in the Lib
erty National Bank Building at Colurabia, retains
his horae in the city of Anderson, where he was
born in 1882. He is a son of S. T. and Maraie
(Partlow) Craig, of Anderson, the forraer now de
ceased. Both his father and grandfather were na
tives of Anderson County, and were of the sturdy-
Scotch-Irish race which is represented by many of
the sturdiest and best families of Anderson County.
James H. Craig was educated in the Anderson
public schools and in the North Georgia Agricul
tural College at Dahlonega. Leaving college on
account of the death of his father, he went to -work
and soon afterward was appointed deputy. clerk of
court in Anderson County. In 1906 he was elected
county auditor, and re-elected for several consecu
tive terms, and upon retiring frora office he organ
ized the Dirae Savings Bank in Anderson,
The atilities evinced by hira during his career as
a banker brought hira favorable notice, and in 1914
he was called to the position of assistant state bank
examiner under I, AI, Mauldin, In igi8 the state
authorities promoted him to state bank examiner.
In that capacity he has general supervision of all the
state banks in South Carolina, and conducts regu
larly a thorough examination of each of thera.
Frora his official experience of five years Mr.
Craig is in a position to furnish some very eloquent
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of wealth in the state during the past five years.
During this period the deposits in the State Banks
have grown from $39,000,000 in 1914 to $151,000,000
in 1919, an increase of over $100,000,000. As shown
a large proportion of this gain is credited to the
year since the close of the war, showing that the
irapetus to thrift given by war necessities has by no
raeans lost its force in South Carolina. The total
bank resources of the state now aggregate nearly
$200,000,000 as compared with $76,000,000 in the year
1914, Mr. Craig is a deacon in the First Baptist Church
of Anderson. He is past grand raaster of the Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows of the state and is also
affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Red
Men. He raarried Miss Lucy Barton, also a native of
Anderson. Their six children are Dorothy Barton,
James H., Jr., LucUe, Mabel, Marian and Virginia.
Maj. Charles Cecil Wyche. The record of Maj.
Charles CecU Wyche both in peace and war has run
true to the dignity and achievements of his faraily,
which has long been prominent in Virginia, North
Carolina and South Carolina. Major Wyche began
the practice of law at Spartanburg ten years ago,
and he left a large professional business and other
interests to help America win the war.
May 16, 1917, he was appointed first lieutenant of
infantry in the Officers' Reserve Corps and detailed
to duty as instructor at the first officers' training
carap at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. August 15,
1917, he was proraoted to captain of infantry and
detailed as instructor in the second officers' train
ing camp at Fort Oglethorpe, and was coraraanding
officer of the Fifth Training Corapany. Noveraber
27th he was transferred to the Eighty-First Di
vision at Carap Jackson, South Carolina, and again
assigned to duty as instructor in the officers' training
carap of that division. April i, igi8, he was as
signed to special duty as assistant division judge ad
vocate of the Eighty-First Division, and on May
10, igi8, detailed on special duty as carap judge
advocate at Carap Jackson. On account of his
splendid record as camp judge advocate he was of
fered a commission in the judge advocate gen
eral's departraent, which he declined because he
preferred duty with troops.
He was promoted to major of infantry August 2,
1918, and transferred to the One Hundred and Fifty-
Sixth Depot Brigade. September 14, 1918, he was
ordered to duty at Array General Staff College at
Langres, France, and on Noveraber 6, 1918, was
transferred to the Third Division of .the regular
army, which at that time constituted a part of the
First American Array Reserves on the Argonne-
Meuse front, where he was put in coraraand of the
Third Battalion, Fourth Infantry. While denied
the privilege of participating in the actual fighting.
Major Wyche had the opportunity of serving in the
array of occupation in Gerraany. During the raarch
to the Rhine he coraraanded his battalion with such
ability as to win the coraraendation of his brigade
and regiraental coraraanders and the chief of staff
of his division. His battalion was araong the first
of the American troops to reach the Rhine River,
and this battalion led the Third Division in its raarch

through Coblenz, Germany. He was in the Army
of Occupation, stationed at Meisenheira, Gerraany,
and had his headquarters in the chateau of Capt.
Fritz Von Backhausen, late of the German army and
before the war a raiUionaire raanufacturer, where he
reraained until January 14, 1919, when in accordance
with the privilege granted to officers in general orders
G. H. Q., he asked for full and iraraediate separa
tion from the service. He was then transferred to
the Thirtieth Division, being placed in coraraand
of the Second Battalion, One Hundred and Eight
eenth Infantry, which coraraand he held until April
I, igig, when this battalion returned to the United
States and was mustered out of service, after which
Major Wyche resumed his law business at Spar
tanburg. Alajor Wyche was born near Prosperity in New
berry County, South Carolina, July 7, 1885, a son
of Dr. Cyril' Thoraas and Carrie (Sease) Wyche.
His mother's name is imraediately recognized as
representing a family of distinguished lawyers and
jurists. In the paternal line Alajor Wyche has a
distinguished ancestry. His descent is traced in
unbroken line from Richard de la 'Wyche, who in
1200 A. D. was of record at Alderly, in Cheshire.
Later generations were represented by William of
Davenham, England; Richard of the sarae place;
William Richard and Richard. Richard Wyche of
London, second son of Richard of Davenham, was
born in 1554 and was a member of the Coramittee
of the first East India Company, incorporated by
charter from Queen Elizabeth on Deceraber 31, 1600,
and was also with the sarae corapany when incor
porated under Jaraes I on May 30, 1609. He
claimed lineal descent from Sir Hugh Wyche, who
was lord raayor of London.
The Rt. Hon. Sir Peter Wyche, sixth son of
Richard and Elizabeth, was knighted by Charles I
December 16, 1626, at Whitehall, and two years
later was raade a gentleman of the Privy Chamber.
He was appointed, in 1627, ambassador at Constan
tinople, at which post he reraained untU 1641, when
he returned to England, and was raade Priw Coun
cillor and CoraptroUer of the King's Household, in
which capacity, with thirty-five peers and a few
other notables, he signed the King's declaration of
abhorrence at the idea of making war upon his
Parliament. It was said by his descendant. Sir Cyril Wjxhe
(1694-1756) that he lent Charles I 30,000 -pounds,
and in Gutchs Colla. Curiosa." it appears he con
tributed 360 lbs. 5 oz. 13 dwt. of plate more than any
ot the colleges of Oxford for the use of the King
to the great injury of his familv. He was buried
December 7, 1643, in the south aisle of Christ
Church Cathedral, Oxford, where a splendid raon
uraent was erected to his memory.
Sir Peter Wyche, eldest son of 7 Sir Peter W
was born in London, 1628, knighted at The Hague
May, 1660, and shortly afterwards returned to
England and was incorporated M. A. of Oxford
He was declared one of the Fellows of the Royal
Society upon its foundati'on by charter in 1662, and
in 1665 vvas nominated chairman of a committee of
the society appointed to consider the improvement
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extraordinary to Russia. He married, February ig,
1666, Isabella, daughter of Sir Robert BoUes.
Sir CyrU Wyche, second son of 7 Sir Peter W.,
was born at Constantinople, 1630. and baptized there
by Cyril Lucas, the patriarch, from whom he took
his name. He was knighted by Charles II May,
1660, at The Hague, He was among the first Fel
lows of the Royal Society. Subsequently he was
chosen president of the society November 30, 1683,
but held office only one year, when he was suc
ceeded by Samuel Pepys. He became Secretary
of State for Ireland 1692, and one of the Lords
Justices of Ireland July, 1693, with Henry, Lord
Capel, and WUliam Duncombe.
Jane Wyche, daughter of 7 Sir Peter W., fi.rst
Countess of Bath, one of the Ladies of the Bed
chamber to Henrietta, Queen of Charles I, married
Sir John GrenvUle, Knt. Earl of Bath, Duke of
Albemarle, Earl of Granville, etc.. Chief Gentleman
of Bedchamber and Privy CouncUor to Charles I.
She was grandmother of John Grenville, Earl of
GranvUle, etc., who in 1724 was lord lieutenant of
Ireland, and 1730-42 took the lead in the House of
Lords and overthrew the party led by Sir Robert
Walpole. He then became head of the administra
tion. The Rev. Henry Wyche, son of Richard and
Elizabeth and a Alaster of Arts from Cambridge,
was instituted to the rectory of Sutton in Surry
June 10, 1636. He died in September, 1678. Henry
Wyche, son of Henry, first appears in the records
of Surry County on the south side of the James
River in Virginia, in 1679. In 1687 Henry Wyche is
mentioned as one of the first foot soldiers of Surry
County, Virginia. His will, dated August I, 1712,
was proved in Surry County March 18, 1714. George
Wvche, son of Henry, resided in Sussex County,
where his wUl, dated October 5, 1753, was proved
July 15, 17=;;. He was the great-great-great-grand
father 'of Alajor Wyche. Peter, son of George, was
born October 30, 1748, and died December 10, 1803.
James, son of Peter, was born in 1785 in Brunswick
' County, Virginia, and in 1825 removed to GranvUle
Countv, North Carolina, where he lived until his
death Alarch 28, 1845, He was several times a raera
ber of the State Legislature, being at the time of
his death a member of the Senate, He was the first
president of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, and
held that office until his death. His wife, Pamela
Evans, was born in Cumberland County, Virginia,
being the daughter of Lieut. WUliam Evans, who
served in the Continental array in the Revolution.
Dr. Cyril "Thoraas Wyche, father of Major Wyche,
is still living in Prosperity in Newberry County.
He was born in Granville County, North Carolina,
Alay 26, 1857, son of William Evans and Sallie
(Reavis) Wyche and grandson of James Wyche and
Pamela Evans. Doctor Wyche attended- the cora
raon schools of North Carolina, took the sumraer
course in the University of North Carolina and
graduated frora the College of Physicians and
Surgeons at Baltiraore, and also had special courses
in the hospitals of New York. For raany years
he has been a successful physician and druggist.
In early life he taught school, and since 1882 his
home has been in South Carolina. He practiced
medicine in Edgefield County and later at Pros

perity. In raany ways his life has been associated
with the largest public interests of his home com
munity and state. He led the fight for establish
ing the high school at Prosperity, and was chair
raan of its board of trustees for iriany years. He
finally realized his ambition when the modern high
school building was erected. For many years he
was chairman of the coramittee on education in the
House of Representatives, serving- in the lower
house of the Legislature altogether for about four
teen years and during his last term being unan
imously elected speaker pro tera. He was also
raeraber ex-officio of the board of trustees of Win
throp College and the University of South Carolina,
and took an active interest in the welfare of both
institutions. His narae is associated with m.uch ira
portant legislation. He was author of the pure
food law and was appointed by Governor McSwee-
ney to represent South Carolina at the Pure Food
Conference at Washington. He also advocated the
Dispensory as a step toward prohibition, and has
always been one of the warraest friends of the
prohibition moveraent. He had the satisfaction re
cently of seeing enacted a corapulsory education law
along the lines which he had advocated so many
years both in the Legislature and out. He also led
the movement for establishing a State Health De
partment, and at a meeting of the State Aledical
Association at Anderson was elected delegate to
the American Medical .A.ssociation at Chicago, and
was also first vice president of the State Aledical
Association. Several times he was honored with
election as mayor of Prosperity. He is a Alason.
Doctor Wyche married Miss Carrie Sease, and
besides Major Wyche they have another son at
GreenvUle, C. G. Wyche, a daughter in Columbia,
Airs. James F. Goggans, and a daughter of New
York City, Aliss Coro Wyche.
Alajor Wyche was educated in the Prosperity
High School, and in ig02 won the scholarship to
The Citadel from Newberry County by competitive
examination. He was a prominent member of the
student body at The Citadel, being president of the
Polytechnic Literary Society, representing his school
in the Intercollegiate Oratorical Contest in igo6,
winning the medal in the oratorical contest at The
Citadel in the same year, and represented his school
' in the intercollegiate debate between The Citadel
and Charleston College, in which his side was vic
torious. He also availed himself of the privUeges
of The Citadel to acquire the fundamentals of mil
itary training, a knowledge that proved conspic
uously useful to him and to his country in the
great war.
Alajor Wyche after leaving The Citadel served
as principal of the Lees Graded School at Lees,
South Carolina, in igo6-07, as principal of the West
End Graded School at Spartanburg in 1907-08, and
during igo8-09 was private secretary to United
States Senator Frank B. Gary. He studied law in
the office of Senator Gary, also under his uncle.
Judge T. S. Sease, and whUe in Washington carried
courses in law at Georgetown Universtiy. He was-
admitted to the bar in Alay, 1909, and until Jan
uary, 1911, was associated in practice with former
Governor John Gary Evans at Spartanburg. After
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he forraed a partnership with MiUer C. Foster.
The firm of Wyche & Foster represented many im
portant interests, but at the beginning of the war
against Germany both members of the firra volun
teered and entered the array.
Major Wyche was elected to represent Spartan
burg County in the Legislature in 1912, being the
only candidate for that office elected on the first
ballot. In the Legislature he was a raember of the
judiciary committee, was author of the bill abol
ishing the hosiery mill at the state penitentiary,
was appointed on the committee to inspect state
colleges in 1914, on the coraraittee to investigate the
State Hospital for the Insane in 1914, and on a
special coraraittee to prepare relief legislation for
farraers at the extra session of 1914. Although he
was one of the youngest raerabers of the Legisla
ture, he was recognized as a leader, and took a
prorainent part in the debates of the House of
Representatives. Major Wyche is a Mason, Elk,
Woodraan of the World and Red Man. He mar
ried Evelyn Crawford of Old Fort, North Carolina.
Washington Augustus Clark, a raeraber of the
Advisory Board of the History of South Carolina,
has had a personal career and has been connected
with so raany interesting phases of South Carolina's
development that the publishers present the record
as part of the biographical history of the state.
He was born on James Island in Charleston
County February 22, 1842, a son of Ephraira Mikell
and Susan Jane (Bailey) Clark. Both the Clark and
BaUey faraUies are of English descent. On coming
to this country they settled on Edisto Island, where
was planted the second perraanent colony in South
Carolina. The first perraanent colony had located
at Charleston in 1670 and that on Edisto Island,
about forty raUes south of Charleston, was planted
in 1680. Both farailies remained in that coraraunity
until after the Revolution and were always engaged
as planters, raising indigo, rice and sea island cotton.
Mr. Clark's great-great-grandfather was Jaraes
Clark. The great-grandfather, also named James
Clark was an officer in the Edisto Island Corapany
in the Revolutionary war. This Jaraes Clark raar
ried Elizabeth Griraball, who was a descendant of
Paul Grimball, at one time secretary of the Colony
of Carolina. The third generation was also rep
resented by James Clark, grandfather of Washing-
tori, and he married Sarah Mikell. Their son was
Ephraim Mikell Clark. Susan J. Bailey was a
daughter of Edward and Susan J. (Patterson)
BaUey, and a granddaughter of Ralph BaUey.
As a boy on James Island, Washington A. Clark
attended country schools frora 1850 to 1856. From
1857 to 1859 he was. a student in Mount Zion College
at Winnsboro, his studies being directed by J. W.
Hudson, James H. Rion and J. Wood Davidson.
He entered South Carolina College at Colurabia
in January, i860, and was raade a raember of the
Clariosophic Society and the Delta Psi fraternity.
He would have graduated in 1862 but for the fact
of the war. He first left college Noveraber 7, 1861,
after the battle of Port Royal, going as second lieu
tenant of the College Cadets. However, he had gone
with the College Cadets to the scene of the bom
bardment of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, but

this was a very brief interruption to his regular
duties. As second lieutenant of CoUege Cadets he
was attached to Colonel GaiUard's regiment at Char
leston, and was stationed at the Washington Race
Course untU December 16, 1861. The company was
then disbanded and the students ordered to retum
to college in January, 1862. However, Mr. Clark
at that date enlisted for the period of the war in
Company I of the Third South Carolina Cavalry.
In October, 1862, he was detailed to organize the
Signal Corps at Charleston, and he served on Jaraes
Island and the fortifications around Charleston untU
the evacuation of that city, Febriiary 17, 1865. He
was surrendered with General Johnston's Army at
Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865.
After resuming civil life Mr. Clark returned to
Jaraes Island and in February, 1866, began planting
sea island cotton. He continued that industry untU
1871. On February ist of the latter year he re
moved to Columbia and at once began the diligent
study of law in South Carolina University and in
October of the same year forraed a copartnership
with Cyrus Davis Melton, his father-in-law, for the
practice of his profession. He has therefore been
a raeraber of the South Carolina bar nearly half a
century. The firm of Melton & Clark was in exist
ence untU the death of the senior partner on De
cember 4, 1875. In January, 1879, Mr. Clark formed
a copartnership with Judge Samuel W. Melton, a
brother of his former partner. In 1881 J. S. Muller
becarae a raeraber of the firm. S. W, Melton died in
1890, and the firra of Clark & Muller continued untU
1904, when Mr. Clark took in his son as Clark &
Clark, a law firra that is stUl in existence. .
WhUe successful as a lawyer Mr. Clark is doubt
less best known through his long and active con
nection with banking. On January 10, 1881, he was
elected president of the Carolina National Bank of
Colurabia, and there has been no interruption to his
service and his wise guidance of the affairs of that
institution to the present tirae. For all the public
character of his work Mr. Clark has never held a
political office. For raany years he was a director
of cotton raills in Colurabia, and in the Electric
Street RaUway and Electric Light Company, and has
always been identified with the democratic party
of the state and nation. He favors the essential
policies and principles of that party, but exercises
the privUege of forming his views independent of
party. Mr. Clark has never joined a secret society,
has given his tirae when not at business to his home
and famUy, and has been a ruling elder in the Pres
byterian Church for the past thirty-five years.
At Chester, South Carolina, December' 26, 1866,
Mr. Clark married Esther Virginia Alelton, daughter
of Cyrus Davis and Mary (Buford) Melton. Mrs.
Clark is reraerabered as a woraan of great piety,
the pattern of a devoted wife and mother, and her
death on October 4, 1890, was a source of keen grief
to many outside the home circle. On February 10,
1802, Air. Clark married Rosa Berwick Legare. The
following is a brief record of Mr. Clark's children:
Edward Bailey Clark, unmarried; Melton Clark,
who raarried Charlotte Woodrow, daughter of Rev.
.lames \Voodrow, D. D., LL. D. ; Mary Buford
Clark, wife of Fletcher S. Brockman, who is now
at the head of the Y, M, C. A, in the United States ;

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J^.rJ?^^?" ^^-^'^' '^w Pa'-tner of his father, who
married Mary Etta Cathcart; Jaraes Clark, a banker,
who married Nell Mae Mathews; LUly Virginia
Clark, wife of J. C. WUkinson of the Royster Guano
Company; Susan Clark, who married Rev. Edwin
C. Lobenstine, a missionary of the Northern Pres
byterian Church at Shanghai, China.
Jesse Wade Drake is a representative of the
third generation of the Drake faraily to live in An
derson County, and his own worthy part in local
affairs has been played chiefly as a farmer on the
place where he was born in Varennes township.
He 'was born January 21, 1878, a son of Thomas
Franklin and Florence (Snipes) Drake, both na
tives of Anderson County. His grandfather, Alexan
der Drake, was born in Ireland in 1818, came to
America when a young man, settled in Anderson
County, and spent the rest of his life there, dying
at the age of eighty-four. Both he and his son
Thomas F. were Confederate soldiers. He married
Jane Emmerson, a native of Anderson County and
daughter of Colonel Emmerson. Florence Snipes
was a daughter' of Matthew Snipes of Anderson
County. Jesse Wade Drake, one of five chUdren, three sons
and two daughters, grew up on the farm, acquired
his education in the country schools and one year
in Clemson College, and from early life has found
the greatest stimulus to his ambition and enterprise
in the environment of farming and country life.
In 1902 Mr. Drake raarried Miss Mamie Norris,
daughter of Frank Norris and a granddaughter of
John E. Norris. To their marriage were born two
children, Susie and Thomas Franklin. All the family
are members of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr.
Drake is a Mason.
He owns and resides on the farm where he was
born, and for a number of years has made a study
of raodern methods and farm practices, and the re
sults that have followed his efforts and management
attracted much attention to him as an efficient agri
culturist. William Columbus Scott is one of the repre
sentative farraers and planters in the community of
Anderson County. 'Wlien Mr. Scott married and
settled down to farming he and his wife kept house
in a log cabin, but their efforts have prospered them
and they have reared a good faraily and have raade
ample provision for all their needs present and
prospective. Mr. Scott was bom in Anderson County October
5, i8.';2, a son of WUliara Anderson and Elmira
Ethelinda (Durham) Scott, who were also natives
of Anderson County. William A. Scott was a Con
federate soldier, and except for the period of the
war spent his life as a farmer. WUliara C. Scott,
only son of three chUdren, grew up in the country,
acquired an acaderaic education and lived at home
to the age of twenty-t-yvo.
At that age he married Mary Ida Scott, daughter
of Newton Scott, of an unrelated family. Mr. and
Mrs. Scott settled on their present farm in the no'rth-
ern part of Anderson County in 1877. He has be
come a large land owner and for twenty years also
conducted a country store and cotton gin. Several

years ago he built a commodius and substantial
farm residence. He has never sought political
honors, preferring to devote his time and energy to
his farm, business and family. He and his wife are
active members of the Baptist Church and he is a
Master Mason.
Three of their children died in childhood. The
four to grow up are : Addie, wife of C. G. Steven
son; Minnie Leona, wife of Dr. C. M. Tripp, of
Easley; John Donald, who is a farmer and Master
Mason and married Margaret McAllister; and Al-
wyn, wife of Edward Woefel.
H. Olin Jones. In January, 1919, the South
Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of
Architects honored one of its raerabers with the
office of president. It was a professional recogni
tion of the many qualifications and talents Mr. H.
Olin Jones of Greenville has put into his work.
Araong architects as araong lawyers and doctors
there are the good, the bad and the indifferent. It
is not possible to judge a man's work by the pro
fession he assumes. Accepting only as a basis of
judgment the facts which can readily be ascertained,
Mr. Jones has succeeded in both the fundaraental
and the broader and higher aspects of his art and
profession, and has raaintained such strict stand
ards that all his work expresses the artistic as well
as the practical side of building construction.
Mr. Jones has been a resident of GreenviUe since
191 1. He was born at Elberton, Georgia, October
30, 1880, a son of William Baylis and Mary Jo
sephine Jones. When he was four years old his
parents moved to Atlanta, in which city he grew
up. He was educated in the local schools and was
graduated in igoi from Emory CoUege at Oxford,
Georgia. While in coUege so far as possible he
emphasized the scientific and technical studies, hav
ing in view at that time the profession of archi
tecture. He overcame the average irapulse to get
into practical work at the earliest moraent, and
for ten years, from 1901 to 191 1, though finding
many opportunities for productive work and making
his living therefrom, he did not consider hiraself
launched in the forraal practice of his profession,
but accepted various opportunities in construction
and engineering eraployraent and thereby acquired a
thorough training and drafting and such technical
details necessary to the architect. He also raade a
constant study of raaterials, their source, their
adaptability or fitness for the purpose used, and
did practical work that familiarized him with tira
ber in the forest, stone and brick in the quarry or
clay bed, until all these materials were perfected
and were assembled into a complete structure.
Probably no architect in the state has a more thor
ough knowledge of materials than Mr. Jones,
He began his professional work as an architect
at Greenville, His artistic education has not been
neglected, and he combines with the experience of
a practical builder and judge of materials a fine
artistic perception that is expressed in practically
all the structures which he has designed ,and super
vised. Mr. Jones was supervising architect of the new
Greenville County Courthouse, corapleted in 1916,
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a structure of which every citizen is proud. He
was co-designer of the Greenville City Hospital.
He was architect of the First Baptist Church in
GreenvUle, built the Casino Theater in that city and
has designed and built a number of buildings, school
houses, community houses, churches, etc., for the
large industrial corporations as an adjunct of wel
fare work. A number of the modern business struc
tures in Greenville and other cities attest his skill,
and his services have been much in demand by
builders of modern private residences.
Mr. Jones is a raerriber of the South Carolina
State Board of Architectural Examiners, which
board holds his professional principles high, as
Mr. Jones has refused to engage in any building
project in which are not expressed his ideals. He
is thoroughly convinced of the actual and intrinsic
value of beauty in architecture. Some of his work
has been taken as models and has been studied and
commended by the highest architectural author
ities. Air. Jones raarried Aliss Eleanor Keys, of Green
ville, South Carolina. They have one daughter,
Josephine Burress Jones.
Minter W. Bobo has been known in a business
way in seyeral localities of South Carolina during
the past thirty years, is now a resident and prominent
business raan of Spartanburg and is widely known
over the state as district manager of the 'Woodmen
of the World, one of the fraternal insurance orders
strongest in membership and influence in the state.
Air. Bobo was born at Crosskeys in Union County,
South Carolina, in 1866, son of Williara L. and
Nancy (Bishop) Bobo. His father, who was a
farmer, died in 1870. The paternal grandfather.
Dr. William L. Bobo, a native of Union County,
moved to Mississippi, where other raembers of the
Bobo family had located in pioneer days, and he
lived in that state until his death. Several of this
faraily. became prominent in the history of Mis
sissippi as they have in South Carolina. One of the
family was the late Colonel Simpson Bobo, a dis
tinguished citizen of Spartanburg.
Alinter W. Bobo, who was only four years old
when his father died, grew up on a farra, but at the
age of eighteen went to work in the store of John
R. Alinter at Sedalia. He was associated in busi
ness -with Mr. Alinter for sixteen years, and then
went into business at Union, and in igio came to
his present home town of Spartanburg. Since then
he has been one of the leading undertakers of Spar
tanburg County.
.-^s district raanager of the Woodraen of the
World Air. Bobo has a district embracing twenty-
one counties in the richest section of the state. He
has been one of the chief builders of this great
order in South Carolina. There are now in round
numbers 46,000 members in the state, carrying
$60,000,000 of insurance. The insurance business
produced through Air. Bobo's Spartanburg office
alone amounts to an average of about $15,000 per
day. Air.. Bobo is also a member of various other
fraternities and is a Baptist.
He married a member of a prominent historic
family of Upper South Carolina, Miss Anna Farrow,
daughter of Abner Farrow of Cross Anchor in Spar-^

tanburg County. They are the parents of four chil
dren : Anna Lucile, a graduate in music at Con
verse College; Helen Minter, a student in Converse;
Minter W., Jr., now attending Spartanburg High
School; and Melissa Francina.
Charles P. Hammond has been identified with
business affairs in Abbeville County and Spartan
burg for many years. His experience has been chiefly
as a merchant, and in certain lines of merchandising
and salesmanship he has few equals, as his asso
ciates and friends agree. Mr. Hammond has had
the enviable experience of seeing the fruitage of his
labors when his own life was still at the meridian,
and with a prosperous business he found time and
also the inclination to devote hiraself to work that
has the broader welfare of his fellow raen at stake.
Outside of his horae and family Mr. Hammond
has now one suprerae interest, the Textile Indus
trial Institute of Spartanburg, of which 'he is chair
man of the Board of Trustees. This is, as the United
States Coraraissioner of Education has said, "one of
the significant new departures of education in this
country." In its present forra it represents an auxil
iary educational plant close to the great cotton mills
of Spartanburg, and its growth and development
have already proceeded far enough to more than
justify the ideals of the founder. Rev. D. E. Camak,
who is president of the Institute, and formerly was
a minister of the Methodist Conference of South
Carolina. Rev. D. E. Camak while a student in
Wofford College determined to devote his life to
the service of the mUl people, and studied plans and
had visions of the best raeans to do so through
several years of his regular ministry. With ex
ceedingly few resources and supporters' he made the
formal beginning of the Institute work on Septera
ber 5, 191 1, and had to endure raany vicissitudes and
discouragements in following years, Graduallv prom
inent mill men came to his support, until $10,000 had
been raised for building purposes. One of the first
and largest donors was Mrs, Eliza A, Judd of Spar
tanburg, who gave $25,000, while over $30,000 was
raised by the citizens of Spartanburg. Gradually
the Institute acquired resources and a standing which
has enabled it to accomplish great work, though
even now it is only at the beginning.
The essential idea of the founder was "to find,
tram. Christianize and place leaders for the 500000
cotton mill population in the South." The plans
as carried out are without doubt one of the most
important contributions to the development of what
JS known as continuation schools" in America No
pupil IS admitted to the Institute except those who
must earn their living by work in the mills. Ar
rangements have been made with the Spartanburg
cotton mUls to employ students in pairs, each work
ing every other week, and thus keeping one hand
on the job constantly. The partner who is off duty
111 the mi 1 is of course on dufv in the school. In
the school work the entire student bodv is divided
into two sections, and thus two separate" schools are
conducted by one corps of teachers. During the
weel< of mill work student operatives are still under
school discipline and certain courses not taken up in
Clay time the week before are this week taught at
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the equivalent of seven school months at books,
while by working vacations he can get paid for
seven months mill work in twelve.
While the working arrangement with the local
cotton mills has been very satisfactory, the raan
agers of the school are now working on a proposed
enlargement and development that, when carried
out, wiU give this institute truly a significant place
in the scheme of industrial education. It is pro
posed to secure instead of the customary endowment
for the support of the school, funds- with which to
erect a cotton mill on the campus, the raill to be
run by student labor and to serve as it were the
laboratory of the institution, while the coramercial
products of the mUl will go a large way toward
supporting the institute. The plan has already gone
far enough so that what is regarded as one of the
finest cotton miUs in the South is now being erected.
Mr. Charles P. Hararaond was born at Abbeville,
South Carolina, in .1870, a son of C. V. and Mary
(Rutledge) Hararaond, both now deceased. His
father was also born at AbbevUle, and his English
ancestors on coming to America first located in Vir
ginia. Mr. Hararaond's raaternal grandfather was
- PhU Rutledge, a native of AbbevUle County, but
who lived raany years in Greenville and Spartan
burg counties, and was a widely known character in
his day. He owned and drove the stage line from
Charleston to AshevUle, North Carolina.
Charles P. Hararaond grew up at Abbeville and
graduated from Wofford College at Spartanburg in
1891. He left coUege to return horae and engage
in business with his father under the firm narae of
C. P. Hararaond & Corapany. They had a retail
shoe business, but raore important stUI was a plant
where they manufactured shoes to order. A large
business was built up representing the taking of
orders for and manufacturing boots and shoes from
individual measureraents, the trade coming from
men of distinctive tastes throughout the Carolinas
and Georgia.
In 1903 Mr. Hammond left AbbeviUe and came
to Spartanburg to establish a retail furniture busi
ness which for several years has been conducted
under the firm narae of the Hammond-Brown-Wall
Company. This is a house of unusually high stand
ing and success. Mr. Hammond still retains his
interest as the senior raember of the firm, but most
of his time is taken up with his work as a traveling
salesman and raanufacturers' agent in South Caro
lina. He represents sorae of the leading furniture
raanufacturers of the Grand Rapids of the South
zt High Point, North Carolina.
Mr. Hararaond was one of the charter organizers
of Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at
Spartanburg, and for several years was chairraan
of its Board of Stewards. He is forraer president
of the Wesley Bible Class Federation of South
Carolina. The principal buUding on the carapus of the Tex
tile Industrial Institute is known as Hararaond Hall,
and was named as a deserved honor indicating Mr.
Hammond's important services, Mr. Hammond met
Rev. Mr. Camak at the time the latter was evolving
his idea for the school. Mr. Hammond, who is a
business man accustomed to prompt judgraent, was
quickly convinced, and announced that he was

ready to do all in his power to forward the suc
cess of the project. It was through his influence
with wealthy cotton mill interests that the first dona
tions were made and the vision brought to realiza
tion. Air. Hararaond has been a heavy contributor
and is continuing his financial as well as other sup
port to the Institute.
Mr. Hararaond married Miss Ersula Wasmansky,
of AbbevUle. Her father had an interesting career.
He was a participant in the revolutionary movement
against the tyrannical house of Hapsburg in Austria
in 1848, and when the revolution failed he fled to
America. For many years he was clerk of the
Probate Court of AbbeviUe County. He was noted
for his marvelous penmanship and gifts as an en
graver. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond have seven chil
dren : Aline, Arthur W., Ethel, Lambert, Louise,
Mary and Wardlaw.
Edwin Grenville Seibels. For upward of half
a century the name Seibels has probably had raore
significance than any other in insurance circles in
South Carolina. Edwin G. Seibels has been in the
insurance business over thirty years, and has de
veloped one of the leading general agencies in the
country for both fire and marine business at Co
lumbia. He has been equally active as a public
spirited citizen of his native city.
Mr. Seibels was born in Columbia in September,
1866, son of Edwin Whipple and Maria J. (Smith)
Seibels. He is of remote German ancestry, his
great-grandfather, John Jacob Seibels, having corae
frora Gerraany and settled in Charleston in 1760, ¦
his great-grandmother being a daughter of Sir John
Teraple of Stowe in England. Mr. Seibels was well
educated in private schools and in Thorapson's
Acaderay. In 1885 he was graduated from the
South Carolina College, now the University of South
Carolina, with the degree of B. E. He began his
insurance career with the firm of Seibels & EzeU,
general agents of the London Assurance Corporation
in the South. In 1886 he becarae a member of the
firm of E. W. Seibels & Son, which succeeded Seibels
& Ezell, and in 1S90 he was appointed special agent
of the Caledonian Insurance Corapany. In i8g8 he
was appointed manager of the southern departraent
of the Glens Falls Insurance Corapany. In igo4
the Royal Exchange Assurance of London was
placed under the management of Mr. Seibels, and
he now represents several other large companies
as manager for their fire business, as well as being
manager for several large marine companies. In
igig a corporation composed of about fifteen of. the
largest fire companies in America was organized
for the purpose of writing cottori business, covering
shipments to all parts of the world, and known. as
the Cotton Fire & Marine Underwriters, of which
Mr. Seibels was made manager.
Of his record as a citizen there should be re
called his services as the originator of the Tree and
Park Commission of Columbia, on which he served.
He was also president of the South Carolina Alumni
Association and initiated the movement for the
establishraent of an eridowraent fund for the college,
acting as first chairraan of the Endowment Board.
He is a former president of the Couth Carolina
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meraber of the Columbia Club, and active in the
Sigma Alpha EpsUon coUege fraternity, ha-ving
served as president of his chapter in 1884. He is a
raeraber of the Episcopal Church.
W, AI, Haynsworth is a prorainent banker and
planter of Darlington, a forraer raayor of the city,
and for many years has been closely identified with
every step in the advancement and progress of that
locality. He was born at Darlington July 4, 1854, His
great-grandfather, Richard Haynsworth, came from
England, the faraily first being established in Vir
ginia and later in South Carolina, The grand
father of the Darlington banker was Dr,. James
Haynsworth, of Sumter County, a graduate in raed
icine frora the University of Pennsylvania and who
practiced for raany years in Surater, His son,
Thomas Baker Haynsworth, was born at Sumter,
and married Elizabeth McCaU, daughter of James
Sanders AlcCall, of Darlington County, where she
was born,
W, M. Haynsworth is the fifth in a faraily of
eight children, four of whom reached mature years.
He spent his early life at home, attended St. John's
Acaderay, and began his business career as a travel
ing salesraan, a vocation he followed fourteen
years. He was elected vice president of the Peo
ple's Bank of Darlington in 1904, and since the
following year has held the office of president of
this substantial institution, which has a capital stock
of $100,000 and is one of the leading banks in that
section of the state. The vice president is L. E.
Carrigan and the cashier George Onslow, Mr.
Haynsworth also has extensive farming interests,
operating a large plantation in Darlington County.
In 1888 he raarried Miss Aramie Saunders, of
Sumter, She was the mother of his five sons and
died December 24, 1908, Harlee S, Saunders, the
oldest of the sons, is now manager of the Sprague
Electric Company of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania ;
Moses Saunders was with the Army of Occupation
in Gerraany; Julius Dargan is connected with the
Westinghouse Electric Company of Pittsburg; Wil
liam AlcCall, Jr., is a cadet in the United States
Naval Academy at Annapolis ; and Jaraes Stuart,
the youngest, is attending school at Darlington. In
igio Mr. Haynsworth married Marie Kelley, of
Lee County.
For three terms, beginning in 1898 and ending
in 1904, Air. Haynsworth served as raayor of Dar
lington. His adrainistration was notable for raany
progressive iraproveraents, including the building
of the combined Opera House and City Hall, and
refunding the bonded debt of the town, whereby
the indebtedness was reduced from $72,000 to
$50,000, a saving in principal and interest on the
old bonds of about $54,000. Continuously since
1892 he has served as meraber of the school board
of St. John's School. He is also raeraber of the
Board of Stewards of the Trinity Methodist Epis
copal Church, and was chairman of its BuUding
Coramittee. When . the present church was buUt
in 1901. Air. Haynsworth forraerly owned the
electric li.ght plant and was president of the Dar
lington Light and Water Corapany for a number
of years, until he sold his interest in this company.

William Jacob Murray, Jr. In the business
world, as weU as in all other fields of human en-
deavo'r, "youth will be served," and among the
younger business raen of Columbia whose initiative
and enterprise have been potent factors in the wel--
fare and commercial advanceraent of the capital
city, William Jacob Murray, Jr., secretary and as
sistant treasurer of the Murray Drug Company, has
won for himself deserved recognition.
He was born in South George, South Carolina,
February 20, 1888, a son of Dr. W. J. and Mary
A. (Connor) Murray. Of Doctor Murray, the fa
ther, who is the founder and president of the Murray
Drug Corapany, a sketch appears elsewhere in this
work. . , , J
Williara Jacob Murray, Jr,, received the educa
tional advantages afforded by the Columbia city
schools, supplementing this with a course of study
and training in The Citadel, South Carolina's famous
military school, at Charleston. Graduating with the
degree of B. S. July i, 1907, he retumed to Columbia
and immediately engaged in business with his fa
ther, without the loss of a single day. Desirous
of mastering the fuUest details of the busmess, he
began in the most humble capacity and by dUigence
and close application fitted himself for more re
sponsible duties, winning successive promotion . untU
in July, 1916, he was made secretary and assistant
treasurer, and it may be truthfully said that his
loyalty towards and hearty co-operation with his
honored father have been important factors in the
UpbuUding of the business.
In addition to his personal business affairs Mr.
Murray has taken active interest in all those move
ments tending towards the public welfare. He' is a
director in the Bank of Columbia, is a Mason and
a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, whUe in social circles
he holds membership in the Ridgewood Club, the
Columbia, the CotUlion, and the Shriner's clubs.
Mr. Murray raarried Miss Minnie E. Blalock
April 5, 1914, and they have one daughter, Vesta
Blalock Murray. Mrs. Murray is a daughter of
Hon. R. J. Blalock, the present raayor of Columbia.
John Jefferson Cain was for twenty-five years
active in the business of general contracting. A
splendid raeraorial to his business enterprise, expe
rience and skUl is found in the modem Jefferson
Hotel at Colurabia, an eight-story brick and steel,
fireproof hotel buUding, one of the best hotels in
the South. Mr. Cain is president of the Jefferson
Hotel Company and now devotes his time largely
to the management of its affairs.
He was born at Petersburg, Virginia, August 7,
1867, a son of George R. and Elizabeth (Beausoi)
Cain. His father was a shipbuilder. The son had
a public school education, in his youth learned the
trade of stone carver, but from the age of twenty-
one to forty-five followed his chief business as a
general contractor. Mr. Cain is a Knight Templar
Mason and Shriner and an Elk.
In June, 1891, he married Myra Maddox, of
Nashville, Tennessee, Their son Robert William,
vice president and manager of the Jefferson Hotel
Company, married in February, 1917, Katie Graham
Thompson, of Lexington, Kentucky, and has a
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wife of Mortimer Cosby, of Danville, Virginia, who
saw active service in the army during the war.
Robert William Cain is a son of John J. Cain,
builder and owner of a famous hostelry, the Jeffer
son Hotel at Columbia.
The son was born May 28, 1893, and to a large
extent has adopted his father's profession and in
terests as his own. He was educated in the Bing
ham MUitary Institute, and pursued a course in
civil engineering in the Georgia School of Tech
nology at Atlanta and later in the South Carolina
College at Colurabia. Since then he has been asso
ciated with his father in the Cain Construction Com
pany, and is vice president and manager of the
Jefferson Hotel Company.
Maj, Richard Furman Watson was born at
Ridge Spring, Saluda County, in 1879, a son of Col.
R. B. and Lucy (Mclver) Watson. His mother,
now deceased, was born at Society Hill in Darling
ton County, where the Mclvers have been conspicu
ous in business and social life for a number of gen
erations. The Watsons go back to Welsh ancestry. William
Watson, an ancestor of Major Watson settled at
Ridge Spring in what iB now Saluda County in 1740.
He settled on a grant of land from the King of
England coraprising at that time about 20,000 acres.
This land has since been owried and lived upon
continuously by the succeeding Watson generations,
a period of 180 years. A portion of the original
grant is now the home of Col. R. B. Watson and
other raerabers of the faraily own and live on ad
joining plantations. Residence for over a century
in one locality is a rarity in Araerican life, and that
in itself constitutes one unusual distinction of the
Watson faraily.
A son of the original settler in South Carolina,
was Capt. Michael Watson, whs served as captain
of a corapany throughout the Revolutionary war.
He was the great-great-grandfather of Major Wat
son. Major Watson's father. Col. R, B. Watson was
born in 1836, a son of Elijah and Elizabeth (Briggs)
Watson. He was a captain and brevet major in the
Confederate array and though badly wounded at the
battle of Gettysburg, he still lives on the ancestral
plantation and has becon^e famous for his achieve
raents in agriculture and stock breeding. Though
now advanced in years Colonel Watson stiU leads a
life full of useful activity and his lovable char
acter and long life of service have brought hira
deep seated esteera at horae and abroad.
Richard Furman Watson was liberally educated
for his life 'vvork. He graduated frora Furman Uni
versity at Greenville and after teaching school two
years spent several years at Washington, District of
Columbia, where he worked in the day and at night
studied history and English in George 'Washington
University and took the law course at the (George
town Law School, He was graduated in law in 1905
and in the same year began practice at Greenville.
He served as city recorder or police judge for eight
years, resigning once to go to the border in 1916
and finally when he went back in service in 1918.

Since he was a very young man Major Watson
has taken an active interest in raUitary affairs. For
eighteen years he was a member of the National
Guard of South Carolina, having enlisted as a pri
vate. He helped to reorganize the famous Butler
Guards of GreenvUle, was for many years its captain,
and later was promoted to major of the First Bat
talion of the First South Carolina Infantry. He
was major in command of this battalion, including
the Butler Guards, during the Mexican border
troubles, but on his return from the border he re
signed his commission to devote himself to his neg
lected business. In September, 1918, he was com
missioned captain of infantry United States Army,
and assigned to the Eighty-Ninth Infantry, Twen
tieth Division, in which organization he served until
his discharge in December following. He is now a
reserve major.
Although a busy and successful lawyer, Major
Watson has of late years devoted rauch of his tirae
to farming and fruit growing. He owns several
farras in Greenville County, has an interest in the
Watson plantation at Ridge Spring, and is intensely
interested in progressive agriculture and horticulture.
Major Watson raarried Miss Susan Armstrong
Coker, daughter of the late Maj. James L. Coker, of
Hartsville, founder of Coker College. Major and
Mrs. Watson have four children, Margaret Arm
strong, Susan Coker, Lucy Mclver, and Richard Fur
man, Jr.
Robert Edward Rivers, who for many years has
been immersed in affairs as a planter, banker and
business man of Chesterfield, is a great-great-grand
son of WUliara Rivers, a native of England, who
carae to the American colonies in time to join in
the struggle for independence, and served with the
rank of lieutenant in Marion's army in South Caro
lina, The faraily was thus established at a very early
day in Chesterfield County, where Frederick Rivers
spent his active career as a planter. Robert Edward
Rivers was born in Chesterfield March 2, 1861. His
father, Calvin Rivers, a native of the sarae county,
became a Confederate soldier, was on duty for a time
in Battery 'Wagner at Charleston Harbor and at the
close of the war was paroled at Macon, Georgia.
Except for the period of the war he gave his time
to planting, and lived to the age of seventy-five.
He raarried Louise Gatewood, a daughter of Philip
Gatewood of Anson County, North Carolina. She
died when about sixty-seven years of age.
Robert Edward Rivers was the oldest of seven
children, all of whom are still living except one.
He acquired his literary education in Wake Forest
College in North Carolina, and since early raanhood
has had large planting interests, though his abili
ties have found an outlet in many other fields. He
served is clerk of courts and auditor of his home
county for raany years. He was one of the organ
izers of the Bank of Chesterfield, and was on its
board of directors untU igi3, when he becarae presi
dent, an office he stiU holds. This is one of the
strong banks of Eastern South Carolina and has a
capital stock of $50,000. Judge M. J. Hough
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ond vice president and C, C. Douglas is cashier.
Air. Rivers furnishes eraployment to about two
hundred and fifty people who live as tenants on his
plantation of i,8oo acres. He also owns consider
able real estate in the VUlage of Chesterfield and is
president of the Chesterfield Warehouse Company.
He is affiliated with the Woodraen of the World, is
active in the Baptist Church, being raoderator of his
district, and has been one of the trustees of Coker
College since its foundation,
March 13, igoi, Mr. Rivers raarried Flora Mc
Rae. Their chUdren are Flora Bell, John Robert,
Charles Vogle, Alary Kate, Ada Lee and Jaraes
Archibald, twins, and Louise, who died in her third
year. John Purley Cooper, of Mullins, probably had
a distinct genius for commercial affairs, in view of
his record. He had hardly attained manhood when
he was organizing and taking an active part in the
executive direction of several business concerns.
He was born at MuUins June 30, 1881, son of
Noah Bryant and Lucinda (Jennette) Cooper, His
father was also a merchant and farmer. Educated
in the MuUins High School, he began his career
as clerk in a general store and at the age of
twenty organized the Palmetto Grocery Corapany.
This business, commanding a capital of $50,000, has
felt the impetus and energy of Air. Cooper frora
the beginning. He is secretary and treasurer of the
corporation. Mr. Cooper is also president and was
one of the organizers of the Merchants and Plant
ers Bank at Mullins and is president of the Loris
Grocery Corapany of Loris, South Carolina, and
president of the Cooper Smith Company of Con
way. He was only twenty-four years of age when he
was elected mayor of MuUins. During the war
he was active in behalf of various patriotic causes,
being county chairman in the Third Liberty Loan
Drive. He is a trustee of the Alethodist Episcopal
Church and has some active interests in local agri
culture, owning and operating a 200 acre farm.
January 21, 1908, he married Miss Ethel Mae
Bethea, of Dillon, daughter of Dr. J. Frank Bethea,
of Dillon. They have four children : John Purley!
Jr., Franklin Bethea, Noah Bryant and Hannah
Bethea. ^\'1LLIAM AIarshall Shirley, whose raature years
have been spent as a farmer in Anderson County,
is member of a well known and prorainent faraily
in that section of the state. No other family name
has entered raore frequently into the historical rec
ords concerning the growth and progress of the com
munity around Honea Path than that of Shirley.
Air. Shirley was born in Anderson County January
26, 1851. He is the youngest of the ten children of
Obediah and Jane (Armstrong) Shirley. He was
the only son of the family too young to Alter the
Confederate array. Obediah Shirley was born on
Little River in Abbeville County in 1804, and died
on his farm near Honea Path in i88g. He had spent
practically all his married life on that farra. His
parents, John and Elizabeth (Fields) Shirley, were
natives of Virginia and early settlers in Abbeville
County. The wife of Obediah Shirley was a daugh

ter of John and Isabella (Bryson) Armstrong, the
Armstrongs having also come from Virginia. She
died at the age of eighty-seven. Of her ten children,
five sons and three daughters grew to raature age.
These chUdren, constituting a group, many of them
heads of prominent famUies in South Carolina, were
John Jasper, Jaraes Marion, Isabella, who becarae
the wife of John Wesley Bigby, Nathaniel A., Archi
bald P., Martha Jane, who becarae the wife of Jaraes
Bigby, Elizabeth, who married Richard T. Kirkpat
rick, and William AIarshall. The last naraed and
his sister, Mrs. Kirkpatrick, are the only survivors
of the children. All of them grew up on the home
farm and were trained in the faith of the Baptist
Church in which their parents were active.
Mr. Shirley acquired a comraon school education
and in 1873 married Alargaret Major, a daughter
of Ephraim Jenkins and Elizabeth (Long) Major
of Anderson County. Sorae further particulars
regarding .this well known Anderson County faraily
are published elsewhere. After his raarriage Mr.
Shirley and his young wife went to live with his
parents, and for over twenty-one years he reraained
manager of the homestead farm and solicitously
looked after the welfare of his father and mother
until they died. Afterwards he succeeded to the
ownership of the old place, and this farra has fur
nished him his chief occupation and the source of
his prosperity. Air. and Airs. Shirley have three
daughters : Jane, widow of W. C. Sharp ; Elizabeth,
wife of James R. Austin, cashier of the Citizens
Bank of Honea Path ; and May, wife -of E. F. Lati
mer, of Abbeville County. Mr. Shirley has always
been a stanch democrat, but has not been in politics
for the sake of office. He and his wife are mem
bers of the Baptist Church.
Howard AIareen Duvall, president of the Aler
chants and Farmers Bank of Cheraw, has had sev
enteen years' experience with the uncompromising
and accuracy-compelling methods of the monetary
science as revealed behind the counters and in the
offices of South Carolina institutions. As are aU
reliable and successful bankers, he is methodical
in his habits and practical in his ambitions. Steadi
ness in life's aim has been imparted to him bv a long
line of worthy ancestors, and the abilities which
have made him a leader in a number of enterprises
have been partly his inheritance from these same
worthy pioneers in trade and industrv. Air DuvaU
was born at Cheraw, Chesterfield "Countv, South
Carolina, February 28, 1S80, a son of Alareen Walker
^" i,r ^^^^'¦'^* (Evans) Duvall, and a grandson of
G, W, DuvaU. G. W. Duvall was born in Prince
George County, Alaryland, and came to South Caro
lina about 1825, here becoming a prominent planter
seven miles from Cheraw, He lost much of his
property because of the war between the states, but
continued as a prominent citizen, and during the
reconstruction period served as a member of the
State Senate of South Carolina,
Mareen Walker Duvall was born on his father's
p antation in Chesterfield County, May 26, 1856, and
although his boyhood was passed during and right
tollowing the war between the North and South,
he was given excellent educational opportunities and
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ton, the Porter MUitary Institute and the Haigh
School of Charleston. In 1891 he engaged in the
mercantile business at Cheraw, handling naval stores,
cotton, etc., and there continues his business at the
present time, in addition to doing a large business
in wholesale groceries. He is a prominent business
man, and a stockholder and director in the Bank
of Cheraw and the Merchants and Farmers Bank of
Cheraw. He was married in November, 1877, to
Miss Margaret D. Evans, a daughter of Capt. John
C. and Ann (LaCoste) Evans, of Chesterfield Coun
ty, and to this union there were born five chUdren:
Gideon Walker, vice president and cashier of the
Bank of Cheraw; Howard Mareen, of this notice;
E. H. ; W. E., and Elise. The parents of these
chUdren are members of the Episcopal Church.
Howard Mareen Duvall received his education in
the public schools of Cheraw and in a high school
at 'Washington, D. C, and upon his return to his
native city accepted a position as bookkeeper with
the Merchants and Farmers Bank in 1902. From
that time forward his advancement was steady and
continuous, and in July, 1915, he was elected the
president of the institution, a capacity in which he
has raade this banking house one of the most stable
and prosperous in the county and this part of the
state. Mr. DuvaU is a heavy stockholder in the
bank, and his wide acquaintance with the farraers
and business men of the state renders him a valuable
adjunct to its success. He is also president of the
Cheraw Oil and FertUizer Corapany, cotton seed
products, is extensively interested in farming and a
promoter of stable and conservative interests, and
as a citizen and banker raaintains standards in keep
ing with the best welfare of the community. He is
a popular member of the local lodges of the Ma
sons and Knights of Pythias fraternities, and with
his family holds merabership in the Episcopal Church.
He is a generous contributor to aU worthy, enter
prises, whether civic, educational or religious in
character. In FeTDruary, 1912, at Cheraw, Mr. Duvall was
united in marriage with Miss Margaret MaUoy,
daughter of H. D. Malloy, a weU known business
man of this city, and to this union there have be»n
bom two children: Howard Mareen, Jr., and Mar
garet Wilson.
Richard Hughes Sullivan since 1913 .has been
meteorologist and section director of the Climatalogi-
cal Service of the United States Weather Bureau in
South Carolina, with official headquarters at Colura
bia. He is among the older raen in point of continu
ous service in the United States Weather Bureau.
His career recalls the historic fact that originally
the Weather Bureau was a function of the War De
partraent, specially designated as the Signal Corps.
Therefore, when Mr. Sullivan began his duties as
a weather observer he qualified by exaraination and
formally enlisted in the United States Army on Sep
tember 24, 1887, as a private, at the Indianapolis
arsenal. He served three years, eight months, until
getting an honorable discharge by special act of
Congress on June 30, 1891. On July i, i8gi, the
meteorological service of the army was transferred
to the Departraent of Agriculture, henceforth to be
known as the United States Weather Bureau.

Mr. Sullivan is a thorough scientist, and his long
experience in the Weather Bureau and his studies
and pursuits raake hira an exceedingly interesting
character. He was born at Madison, Indiana, De
cember II, 1863. Mr. Sullivan is the son of WiUiam
Blackmore Sullivan, whose parents, Aaron and Lu
cinda (Blackmore) Sullivan, came to Southern In
diana from the English settlements in Virginia and
Maryland when the exodus to Kentucky and to what
was then the Northwest took place. The original
name was O'Sullivan, and the original ancestors in
America came to this country about the tirae of the
revolutions in England in connection with Charles
I and II. They were Protestants frora the north of
Ireland. Aaron Sullivan was a raan of high stand
ing in his community and was a Union sympathizer
during the war between the states. He died in Jef
ferson County, Missouri, at the horae of a son. His
wife died during the youth of their sons WUliam B.
and Alfred, and was buried at Madison, Indiana.
Maj. Williara B. Sullivan, the father of our subject,
was reared in the home of his uncle, Dawson Black-
more, who was said to have been the first male chUd
born at Madison. The Blackmores came to Indiana
from the vicinity of Baltiraore in an early day and
always occupied a high position in the social and
business world. Williara B. Sullivan developed into
an experienced business raan and an expert account
ant. He became financially interes'ted in several im
portant grocery and produce houses and finally em
barked in general stearaboating enterprises before the
war, in connection with relatives by the narae of
Wharton. During the war one of their boats, the
City Belle, was the first to bring in Union soldiers
after the surrender at Vicksburg. Major Sullivan
was a Northern sympathizer, and though he never
served in the array he greatly assisted the Union
cause through his business of comraon carrier, trans
porting Grant's and other Union troops, and it
was thus he came by his sobriquet "Major." His
wife was frora Kentucky and wholly in sympathy
with that state's attitude, whUe her brother was in
the Confederate service throughout the war. In
creasing raUroads and other circurastances resulted
in a general decline of river transportation and a
consequent depreciation in the value of river prop
erty, so that by the tirae of the Jay Cooke faUure,
the fortunes of such investors including that of Ma
jor Sullivan, were absorbed. Being subject to verti
go, his death resulted in 1881 frora a fall frora an
upper story window. He lies buried in Fairmount
cemetery at Madison, Indiana. A gentleman of cul
ture and refineraent, and a syrapathetic and loving
companion in his faraily, his raeraory is deeply
cherished and revered by his surviving chUdren.
The mother of the subject was Mary Esther
Hughes, a daughter of Richard Franklin and Sarah
Jane (Hughes) Hughes, both of the old Hughes
faraily of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Her birth,
education, training and social ideas were all of the
type coramon to the slave holding aristocracy of the
South. She was a woraan of unusual strength of
character and intellectuality and of superior business
judgment, and through her gentleness of raanner
left an irapress upon the general faraily history. The
Kentucky branch of the Hughes faraily was found
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1763, who was but thirteen years of age when the
Declaration of Independence was signed at Phila
delphia. During the earlier years of the Revolution
he was a student in Washington-Henry Academy in
Hanover County, but in 1779 he ran away and en
listed as a private soldier, serving as such for two
years. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant
in 1781 and acted as captain during the siege of
Yorktown and at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis.
He raarried in 1783 Ann, daughter of Col. William
Meriwether of Albemarle County, Virginia, and re
sided for several years on the plantation in Powhat
an County, which he had inherited from his father.
His wife was a great-granddaughter of Nicholas
Meriwether, one of three brothers, who came from
Wales to 'Virginia during the reign of Charles II.
A great-grandson through another line, Francis, emi
grated to South Carolina, where he died, leaving a
large faraily; the Town of Meriwether, Edgefield
County, South Carolina, was naraed after one of his
descendants. In 1786 John Hughes removed to Ken
tucky and settled on a 1,000 acre tract in Jefferson
County, about seven miles west of LouisvUle. He
served in the War of 1812 in which he attained the
rank of raajor. At one tirae he served in the Senate
of the Comraonwealth of Kentucky. He died De
cember II, 1842, and was buried in the faraily grave
yard on his own plantation. He was the largest
slave holder in Kentucky at the time of his death.
John, the oldest son of Maj. John Hughes, married
Esther, daughter of Richard and Nancy Neville
(Hughes) Cox; their son, Richard Franklin Hughes,
raarried Sarah Jane Hughes, a cousin. The latter
were the grandparents of Richard Hughes SuUivan.
The grandfather died in his twenty-seventh year,
leaving a young widow and three children, one of
whora was Mary Esther (Hughes) Sullivan. The
grandraother reraained a widow to her death, which
occurred at Madison, Indiana, on February 28, 1882,
at the age of sixty-six years. Mary Esther Hughes
was raarried to WUliara Blackraore Sullivan at Madi
son, Indiana, October 18, 1859, and of the eleven
.children born of their union but two survive, War
wick Miller SuUivan and Richard Hughes Sullivan.
She died at the horae of our subject in Grand Junc
tion, Colorado, on February 4, 1904, aged sixty-
four years, and lies in the faraily lot in Fairraount
cemetery, Madison, Indiana. The orginial ancestor
of this branch of the Hughes family in America was
Stephen Hughes, who was born in Caernarvonshire,
Wales, February 12, 1687. His son John was the
father of Maj. John Hughes, the great-great-grand
father of our subject. Among the family connections
of the descendants of the coraraon ancestors, Stephen
Hughes and Nicholas Meriwether, were Patrick
Henry, Joseph E. Johnston, Meriwether Lewis, of
the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Northwest,
and the founders of some of the raost prorainent
famUies of the old Southern artistocracy. In Eng
land and Wales the lineage is traced back to Rich
ard NevUle, Earl of Warwick, the House of Cecil
and other noble families of the British Isles. The
Hughes faraily is of fighting stock, for each genera
tion has been well represented in the soldiery of our
country. Richard Hughes Sullivan was left fatherless when
a youth, and received the best guidance and encour

ageraent from his noble mother. He grew up in a his
toric community. In that section of Southern Indiana
lived some of the finest families drawn from the
old Colonial stock of the East and South. The
physical environment was also calculated to bring
out and develop those habits of observation and keen
naturalistic instincts which have become part of the
professional equiment of Mr. Sullivan. He was
educated in the common and high schools of Madi
son, and by private tutors, and acquired a thorough
grounding in the branches of science, Latin, English
and history. After leaving school he worked as a
clerk, then began learning the printers' trade at
Madison. He finished his apprenticeship in the office
of the Madison Courier, where he performed every
duty required in a printing and newspaper office of
that character. Leaving the Courier office he became
foreraan of the Reveille at Vevay, Indiana, and in
1885 reraoved to Louisville, Kentucky, where he was
employed by a book printing firm, later as a composi
tor, and occasionally as a reporter with the Courier-
Journal, and subsequently had experience with those
high lights in Araerican journalism, the New Orleans
Picayune, Cincinnati Times-Star, Pittsburg Post and
Coraraercial Gazette, Governraent Printing Office,
Washington Post, New York Herald, Boston Globe,.
Richmond (Virginia) Whig and Post-Dispatch, Nor
folk Landmark and Jacksonville Times Union. The
free and easy raethods of newspaper raen at that
tirae raade the general atraosphere of the profession
uncongenial to Mr. Sullivan. Nevertheless, it gave
hira opportunity to associate with raen of culture and
refineraent, and he iraproved the tirae by study and
systeraatic reading. He finally returned to Louis
ville and continued his studies with the intention of
entering the meteorological service, then controUed
by the Signal Corps, United States Army. After
passing the entrance and physical examinations suc
cessfully he was detaUed as observer at Indianapolis,
and his subsequent posts of duty have been at Kan
sas City, Missouri ; Denver, Colorado ; Indianapolis
(twice); Nashville, Tennessee; Grand Junction,
Colorado; Wichita, Kansas; and since 1913 at
Colurabia. Besides the duties embraced in the post of meter-
rologist, Mr. SuUivan has charge of the river obser
vation in what is known as the Santee River District,
embracing about 16,000 square mUes of territory,
taking in the Saluda, Broad, Congaree, Catawba and
Wateree rivers. He has also recently inaugurated a
road service, issuing reports on the condition of ten
main highways of South Carolina.
Mr. Sullivan's services have been in great deraand
as a lecturer and writer on various topics connected
with his professional and official duties. For raany
years he has been an interested student of bird life,
and has pursued his studies in this field with par
ticular reference to the relation of bird movements
to climate and weather changes. He maintains a
most elaborate sj'stem of charts showing his obser
vation on this subject. He has frequently addressed
public meetings with lectures on the general work
of the weather service, and also special topics on
the practical functions of the Weather Bureau. Sev
eral of his papers on bird life have, been published
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ics as The Woman in History and the Militant
Church. , ^ . ,.
Mr. Sullivan is an independent democrat in poli
tics, is a member of the Sons of the American Revo
lution, the Woodmen of the World, and Richland
Lodge No. 39, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons
of South Carolina, is a former president of the Au
dubon Society of Kansas, and he and his family are
members of the Episcopal Church. .
At Kansas City, Missouri, June lo, 1890, he married
Miss Clara Alda Amberg, daughter of Charles Fred- ,
erick and Susan (Hummer) Amberg, of Indianapo
lis, Indiana. On both sides of her house she is of
Holland Dutch ancestry. Her paternal grandfather
was a native of HoUand, and his name von Omburgh
was Americanized into Amberg bv his children. Mr.
and Mrs. SuUivan have three children: Esther Lou
ise wife of Ralph B. Potts of Wichita, Kansas ; War
wick Amberg, a resident of El Paso, Texas; and
Richard Franklin Sullivan.
Tohn Wolff Crews, who received his degree
LL B. from the law department of the University
of South Carolina in June, 1914, has since^been en
gaged in a growing general practice at Columbia,
Ind has had political as weU as professional dis
tinctions. He was elected in 1916 and again in
1918 as a member of the State Legislature and
led the ticket in 1918. r^ . c, ^u
Mr Crews was born in Laurens County, boutn
Carolina, Febmary 14, 1890, a son of 'WUliam
Thomas and Elizabeth Cornelia (Wolff) Crews.
He is a grandson of Thomas B. Crews, -vvho was
born in North Carolina in 1832 and practically grew
up in a printing office. He served as first lieutenant
in the First South Carolina Cavalry during the war
and for many years was editor and proprietor ot
the Laurensville Herald. He was a raeraber of both .
houses of the Legislature and postmaster at Laurens
during Cleveland's administration. WUliam Thomas
Crews is also a newspaper man.
John W. Crews attended the public schools of his
native town before entering the university. He is
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South
October 18, 1916, he married Juanita Wilkins of
Eugene, Oregon. Their son John Wilkins Crews
was born October 30, 1918.
William Moultrie Gibbes, Jr., has for a. quarter
of a century or more been an active factor in bank
ing circles at Columbia, and is an executive officer
in a nuraber of banking and business institutions in
the state. .
Representing an old and prorainent faraily of
South Carolina, he was born at Columbia December
14, 1869, son of William Moultrie and Mary (Clark)
Gibbes and a grandson of Dr. Robert WUson Gibbes.
As a boy he showed a strong preference for com
mercial affairs. He left Kings Mountain Military
School at YorkvUle, South Carolina, before com
pleting his course and had his first regular position
in the banking field with the Central National Bank
of Columbia, His interests have expanded with ex
perience and increasing ability, and today Mr. Gibbes
is cashier of the Palmetto National Bank, secretary-
treasurer of the Palraetto Trust Corapany, president

of the Economic Building and Loan Association,
vice president of the Guaranty BuUding & Loan
Company, vice president of the Carolina Wholesale
Hardware Company, and vice president of the Lower
Main Street Bank.
He is past chancellor commander of Capital Lodge
No. 10, Knights of Pythias, and a member of Trinity
Church of Columbia. January 27, 1916, at Char
lotte, North Carolina, Mr. Gibbes married Mary
(Minnie) Moore, daughter of James Osborne Moore.
Benjamin Livingston Abney has a high position
in the bar of South Carolina won by forty years of
conscientious work and application of exceptional
talents to his profession. He has been content to ba
a good lawyer, and as such be is recognized, and has
seldom turned aside from his profession at the invi
tation of political honors.
Mr. Abney, .whose full Christian name was Ben
jamin Livingston Lindsay, was born February 25,
1859, near the Saluda River in Edgefield County. He
attended Newberry College and the University of
Virginia, and was admitted to the bar December 13,
1880. After one year of practice at Edgefield he
moved to Columbia January i, 1882. The only pub
lic position in which he has consented to serve was
as representative from Richland County in the State
Legislature for six years.
Francis Marion Hinson is engaged in the busi
ness of farraing, though after leaving college and
university he taught school for several years. He
is one of the leading planters of Marlboro County.
His home and farm are four miles east of Ben
nettsviUe. That farra was his birthplace, where he
first saw the light of day May 23, 1873. The corn-
fortable old house in which he still lives was built
by his grandfather, B. C. Hinson, who came to
this state from North Carolina when a young raan.
The father of Francis Marion Hinson was A. D.
Hinson, a native of Marlboro County, who went
into the Confederate army when a young boy and
spent his active life as a planter. He died at the
age of sixty-four. He married Martha Parham, a
native of Marlboro County, and daughter of Daniel
and Frances Parham, who were of Scotch ancestry.
Francis Marion Hinson was second in a faraily
of five chUdren, all of whora reached mature years.
He grew up' on the farm, attended high school and
later South Carolina College, now the University of
South Carolina, For two years he taught in Orange
burg and then returned to the farra, where he has
found ample opportunities for his enterprise, has
made a success of his business, and is regarded as
one of the raost substantial raerabers of the agri
cultural community. His horae farra contains 102
acres, whUe he owns another place of 156 acres four
railes south.
In Deceraber, 1912, Mr. Hinson raarried Miss
Bertha Goudelock, of Union, South Carolina, daugh
ter of Sarauel Davis and Belle CWhitlock) Goude
lock, the forraer a native of Cherokee and the lat
ter of Union County. Mr. and Mrs. Hinson have
two sons, W. Alexander, born in 1914, and Francis
Marion, Jr., born January 6, 1920. Mr. Hinson is
affiliated with the Masonic order and the Loyal
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Col. Charles S. Webb. Greenville is conceded to
be the best paved city in South Carolina. That is
only one of many distinctions of this industrial cen
ter, but as much as anything else it serves to throw
into relief the well balanced powers and resources
located there. Development of a well harmonized
system of paving was the outstanding feature of
the four years' administration of Charles S. Webb,
as mayor, and frora nothing does he derive raore
satisfaction from all his experience in politics than
this achievement.
Serving in public office has been only an inci
dental feature of Colonel Webb's career. He has
been a cotton raerchant for a third of a century, and
had built up an organization under his own narae
that is recognized in all- the exchanges and raarkets
of the world.
A resident of Greenville for over fifteen years,
Charles S. 'Webb was born at Webb's Ford, Ruther
ford County, North Carolina, a son of Rev. George
Milton and Priscilla Jane (Blanton) Webb. His
parents represented two of the most distinguished
famUies of western North Carolina. His father
was a Baptist minister for raore than half a century.
Webb's Ford was the ancestral home for several
generations, but during the sixties, when Charles
S. was an infant, his parents raoved to the adjoin
ing county of Cleveland, locating at the county
seat at Shelby, where the 'Webb chUdren were reared.
Colonel Webb has three brothers and one sister
living. One brother is Judge James L. Webb, of
Shelby, a judge of the Superior Court of North
Carolina. Another, a figure of national distinction,
also of Shelby, is Hon. Yates Webb, who has rep
resented his district in Congress for eighteen, years
and has attained the dignity of a real statesman.
He has served as chairraan of the House judiciary
coramittee, and is probably best known as one of
the authors of the Webb-Kenyon law, which ren
dered effective local and state legislation against
the liquor traffic and in reality was the opening
wedge by which national prohibition was brought
about. He was recently appointed Federal judge by
President Woodrow WUson for the western district
of North Carolina.
Charles S. Webb received his early training in the
cotton business at his horae town of Shelby, begin
ning in 1886, and has continued in the one line with
out interruption to the present tirae. For several
years after leaving North Carolina he was in busi
ness at Athens and Gainesville, Georgia, and since
1903 Greenville has been his horae. He is president
of C. S. Webb, Incorporated, a cotton-buying and
exporting organization that ranks araong the largest
in America. Colonel Webb has built up an enor
raous cotton business since coming to GreenvUle. C.
S. Webb, Incorporated, has a capital of $250,000, and
handles approximately 100,000 bales of cotton an
nually. The firm also owns a half interest in the
Piedraont Bonded Warehouse & Corapress Cora
pany and the Standard Warehouse Company, of
Greenville, giving the Webb company a storage
capacity for 71^,000 to 100,000 bales. It also owns the
Spartanburg Warehouse Company, of Spartanburg.
The New York partnership of C. S. Webb, Incorpo
rated, is Stephen M, Weld & Company of that city.
Colonel Webb raade it well understood that he was

retired from politics when he finished his last term
as mayor. But for years he was prorainent in pub
lic administration and affairs both in Georgia and
South Carolina. While a resident of Gainesville
he served as raayor and built the city hall. He was
raade lieutenant colonel and colonel on the staffs of
two Georgia governors — Governor Candler and Gov
ernor Terrell. He was chairman of the democratic
executive committee of Hall County, Georgia, in
populist days, and his personal influence kept that
, county in the regular democratic column. He was
delegate from Georgia to the national democratic
convention at Chicago in i8g6.
In igo8 he became a member of the city councU
of Greenville. He took up the subject of modern
paving for the city's streets in a practical and thor
oughgoing raanner through his position and influence
as chairraan of the coraraittee on streets, and through
several carapaigns he kept this issue prominently be
fore the public. He was an alderman until 1914,
when he was elected mayor and by re-election served
until 1918. In the office of mayor he brought about
the final corapletion of the street paving project
which he had inaugurated as alderman, and it was
due entirely to his wise, progressive and energetic
administration that Greenville now enjoys the dis
tinction of having the most and best paved streets
of any city in the state. It is no exaggeration to
link these improveraents as a creative force and in
fluence with the concurrent increase in population,
rise in taxable values, great expansion of property
developraent and iraprovement, and many other wide
spread benefits to the entire community. Other ira
portant items of civic progress also attributed to
Mayor Webb's adrainistration are "the white way,"
the $35,000 bridge over the Reedy River, and the ex
tension of the sewer system. He made several trips
to 'VVashington and exerted his influence in other di
rections to secure the location of Camp Sevier at
Greenville. Obviously Colonel Webb could not be interested
in good streets without showing a like interest in
modern highways. The good roads system of which
Greenville County is so proud was inaugurated by
the highway coraraission of which he was a raember,
and he only resigned his official connection with the
commission when he became mayor. He served as
president of the Greenville Chamber of Coramerce
in 1914, and he launched the raovement for the or
ganization of the Poinsett Club at Greenville and
also the Greenville Country Club. He is a meraber
of the local lodge of Elks, of the New York Club,
of New York City; of the Capital Club, of Atlanta,
and IS individually a member of the New York Cot
ton Exchange and the Liverpool Cotton Exchange.
Colonel Webb married Miss May Waddell, who
was born at Reidsville, North Carolina. They have
two daughters, Mayjane and Miss Charles Webb.
Christopher Atkinson, prorainently connected
with the business interests of Columbia, acquired
his early training and experience in Charleston.
He IS a native of Virginia, born at Charlotte
w-Vr ?,"^^ October 21, 1872, a son of Rev. Dr.
William R, and Lucy Morton (Hannah) Atkinson.
His tather was a prominent minister of the Presby
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cated in public schools and attended The Citadel
at Charleston and the South Carolina College.
After leaving school he became clerk in a machinery
supply house in Charleston, supplying raachinery and
equipraents to all sections of the state. Mr. Atkin
son has been secretary and tredsurer of the Co
lumbia Supply Company since it was organized in
May, 1902.
He is a Knight of Pythias and a raember of the
Ridgewood Club of Columbia, On October 3, 1900,
he married for his first wife Eleanora Norvelle de
TrevUle, of Summerville. They had four chUdren,
naraed Eleanora N., Lucy Hannah, Christopher de
TreviUe and Virginia Louise. Mrs. Atkinson died
October 25, 191 1. On November 5, 1913, he mar
ried Miss Elise Latimer, of York, South Carolina.
Judge M. J. Hough, of the Chesterfield bar, has
for fifteen or raore consecutive years adrainistered
the office of probate judge with a singular degree
of fairness, patience and the knowledge of law and
huraan nature required for his d'elicate and exact
ing duties.
Judge Hough was born in Chesterfield February
10, 1873. The Hough family came from England
and has been in South Carolina sin^e the period of
the Revolutionary war. His grandfather, William
Hough, was a native of Chesterfield County and
was a planter and before the war represented his
county in the Legislature. M. J. Hough, Sr., served
as a captain in the Confederate army under General
Butler, after the war became a prominent member
of the Lancaster bar, and served as solicitor of the
Sixth Circuit at the tirae of his death. He married
Ada Clifton, a native of Chester County and a
daughter of Jesse A. Clifton, who was of Irish
ancestry. Judge M, J. Hough was fourth in a family of ten
chUdren. He spent his early life at Lancaster, at
tended common schools and took his law course in
South Carolina College. He was admitted to the
bar in 1899, and in the same' year began practice in
Chesterfield. He was elected to fill out an unex
pired term in the Legislature in 1901, and in 1903
was called by popular election to the ofiice of probate
judge. Since his first campaign he has had no oppo
sition for this office.
February 11, 1903, Judge Hough married Pearl
Evans, daughter of Maj. W. A. Evans. They have
four chUdren, Leo Evans, WUliam, Minor and Agnes.
Judge Hough is a raember of the Baptist Church.
Adam Counts Cromer. The career of Adam
Counts Croraer is an expression of practical and di
versified activity, and in its range has invaded the
realms of agriculture, raerchandising and railling, all
of which have profited by the breadth and conscien
tiousness which are distinctive features of his work
and character. Mr. Cromer started upon' his inde
pendent career with the advantages of good birth
and careful home training, but had little else to aid
him in his efforts to gain success. As a consequence,
he has relied upon his own abilities and resources,
and these have been equal to the task of gaining for
him an enviable position among the well-to-do agri
culturalists of Fork Township, Anderson County.
Mr. Cromer was born in Newberry County, South
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Carolina, December 19, 1861, a son of Adam Francis
and Sarah (Counts) Cromer, his parents being na
tives of the same county, where they were raarried.
His grandparents were Adam and Fannie Croraer,
and he is a descendant of a native of Germany,
whose first name is not reraerabered, but who was
among the German colonists who settled at Dutch
Fork, Newberry County, during the pioneer period
of that region. Adam Francis Croraer served two
years as a soldier of the Confederacy during the
war between the states, and then returned to the
pursuits of civil life, resuraing his vocation of farra
ing in Newberry County until 1875. In that year he
removed his faraily by private conveyance to Ander
son County, arriving in Deceraber and settling in
the Double Springs neighborhood, where his wife
died in 1884, leaving the following chUdren : Lizzie
A,, John S,, Jaraes H. and Adara Counts. Adam
Francis Cromer later married Mrs. Tinsie Garabell,
who bore him no children, and sometime after his
second marriage he removed to a farm near Bel
ton, South Carolina, where he rounded out his long
and honorable career and died at the age of seventy-
five years. He was a Lutheran in his religious faith,
a consistant Christian and an exeraplary citizen, and
reared his chUdren to lives of honesty and sobriety,
their training having assisted thera in gaining posi
tions of honor in the world.
Much of the boyhood of Adam Counts Croraer was
passed in what was known as the reconstruction pe
riod, when the unsettled conditions which followed
the closing of the war between the states were such
as to preclude the idea of the securing of any great
advantages either of an educational or any other
character. However, he made the most of his op
portunities, and when he left the home farra at the
age of twenty-one years it was with high ambitions
and strong determination that he faced the world.
For seven months he resided in Florida, but re
turned to Anderson County, where he took up farm
ing in Fork Township, and his hard and persistent
labor enabled him to become the owner of a good
property, to which he has continued to add until he
now has 339 acres, aU under cultivation and with ex
cellent modern improveraents. In addition to being
a practical and skilled agriculturist, he also has an
excellent record to business achievements. During
twelve years he was the proprietor of a country
store, in the conduct of which he met with marked
success, as he did also in operating a gin mill and
saw mUl in former years. His reputation in busi
ness circles has always been of the best, and as a
citizen he has discharged his duties in a manner
that has left no doubt as to his public spirit and
willingness to do his part in advancing coraraunity
interests. In November, 1897, Mr. Cromer was united in
marriage with Mary Elizabeth Bradberry, daughter
of Mrs. Amarintha Bradberry, of Fork Township,
and of their children the following survive: Grace
Estelle; Sallie Augusta; LUlie; James Counts, who
has been a member of the United States Army Re
serves since July, 1918; Josephine; Fred Calhoun;
and Ernest Harold. The family holds membership
in the Baptist Church and Mr. Cromer is a popu
lar meraber of the local lodge of the Woodraen of
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Eli Williamson Register, now in his tenth year
of service as sheriff of Darlington County, repre
sents one of the oldest and most honored families
of that section of the state. The Registers have
been m South Carolina since early pioneer times.
Sheriff Register was born in Darlington County
February 19, 1871, the third in a family of eleven
chUdren born to J. L. and Margaret (Register)
Register. His parents were also natives of Darling-
tori County.
Mr. Register was reared and educated in his
horae locality, attended the coraraon schools, and in
early life took up farraing, a vocation he followed
for over a quarter of a century, and still owns farra
interests, though his tirae for the raost part is de
voted to his official duties. Mr. Register was elected
sheriff in 1910 and by repeated re-elections holds
that office today.
In i8g4 he married Leora Andress, widow of
J. C. Register. They have eight children, Blanch,
Robert, Henrv, 'William, MUton, Edith, Leora and
Rea. Air. Register is affiliated with the Woodraen of
the World.
Joseph A. Piper. There was a tirae in the recol
lection of older citizens when GreenvUle's industrial
life was represented by a few sraall shops. Now
there are scores of large factories and with Green
ville the center of the great textile industry in the
South the aggregate is increasing every year. A
real contribution to this industrial prosperity of the
city is represented by the enterprise of Joseph A.
Piper, head of J. A. Piper Roofing Company, which
in a few years has attained the proportions of a
principal industry.
Mr. Piper was born at Durham, North Carolina,
in 1878, a son of J. G. and Annie E. (Turrentine)
Piper. His parents were also natives of North
Carolina, his grandfather having come to Durham
from Virginia. Joseph A. Piper was reared and
educated in Durham and his first business experi
ence was in one of the great tobacco houses of that
city. At an early age, however, he engaged in the
roofing business with his father. Then going to
Charlotte he was connected with the old Charlotte
Roofing & Paving Corapany, continued work at his
trade in Shreveport, Louisiana, and later in New
Orleans. At the death of his father he returned to
Durhara and there organized a. roofing business of
his own.
Mr. Piper carae to GreenvUle about igo8 as presi
dent of the Piper Roofing & Manufacturing Com
pany and as manager of their Greenville branch,
and in 1914 he established the J. A. Piper Roofing
Company, of which he is secretary-treasurer-raan-
ager and principal owner. While the facilities of
the company are such as to enable it to meet all
the varied demands for this class of product, its
primary interest is in supplying roofing material to
the great textile industries of the Piedmont region.
It was for the purpose of getting a central point
araong the group of such industries that Greenville
was chosen as the horae of the business. During
the period of the European war there was a steady
increase in. the volurae of business notwithstanding
the restrictions placed upon all factories using metal.

and since the signing of the armistice plans have
been raade and are now being executed for a tre
mendous expansion. In the spring of 1919 Mr.
Piper bought the business and equipment of the
W B, Toole shingle manufacturing plant at Augus
ta Georgia, reraoi/ing it to GreenvUle. He also ac
quired valuable property in the business center,
where during 1919 a large plant has been under
course of construction. On corapletion it will repre
sent the raost complete business of the kind in the
South for the manufacture of metal shingles and
sheet metal specialties, so that hereafter the de
mands for those coraraodities can be raet practical
ly at horae without resort to northern sources of
Mr Piper is a raeraber of the Charaber of Com
merce and one of the live and public spirited citi
zens of Greenville. He is affiliated with the Masonic
order He married Miss Mamie Howard of Ran
dolph County, North Carolina, and their two chil
dren are Joe H. and H. E.
Emslie Nicholson. How much the welfare and
resources of a community may be influenced and
directed by a single individual is well Ulustrated
in the career of Eraslie Nicholson of Union. For
thirty years a banker, he has been for a somewhat
shorter period a prominent cotton manufacturer,
has developed several great raills in Union County,
and through his enterprise and leadership has pro
vided the opportunities for hundreds of famUies to
achieve and enjoy economic usefulness, social priv
ilege and a solid basis of welfare and contentment.
Mr. Nicholson was born at Union, son of Wil
liara A. and Rebecca (Hobcraft) Nicholson. His
father was a native of Scotland and his raother of
England. They were raarried in Aiken, South Caro
lina, and then raoved to Union, where WiUiam A.
Nicholson for raany years was active in business
and a bulwark of financial strength and citizenship.
In his character as a business man for some years
he took care of the raoney and carried accounts
for many of the planters and other patrons in his
section of the state. Out of that developed the
banking firm of W, A. Nicholson & Son, and from
that carae the present Nicholson Bank & Trust
Company, the second bank to be established in
Union County,
Emslie Nicholson, son of a prosperous raerchant
and banker, had good advantages at horae and also
in school, attending the famous Bingham AlUitary
School under Maj, Robert Bingham, located at
Mebane, North Carolina, He graduated in 1882
frora Davidson College in North Carolina, Mr,
Nicholson became associated with his father in the
banking business in March, 1889, and since then
through three decades has been cashier of Wra. A.
Nicholson & Son for eight years, president for ten
years and has always been president of the Nichol
son Bank & Trust Company,
He becarae interested in an executive capacity
with cotton raanufacture in 1897, when he estab
lished the Excelsior Knitting Mills at Union. He
has ever since been president of this concern. In
the fall of 1907 he succeeded the late John A. Fant
as president and treasurer of the Monarch Cotton
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Mr. Fant established this industry in igoo. During
the past ten years under the presidency of Mr. Nich
olson the capacity of the raills has been doubled.
It now has 78,528 spindles. In igi7, the Lockhart
MUls at Lockhart, in Union County, were consoli
dated with Monarch Cotton Mills at Union, under
the name of the Monarch MUls, both under the
management of Mr. Nicholson, and they now have
a combined capital stock of $2,500,000. The plant
at Lockhart has 57,184 spindles and manufactures
sheetings and prints.
These mUls, coraprising one of the largest cotton
mill corporations in the South, are growing and
prospering under the personal and active manage
ment of Mr. Nicholson. It is easy to understand
therefore that he is one of the big men in the tex
tile industry of Araerica. He has been concerned
not merely with financial and technical adrainistra
tion of the mills. His interest has been concerned
equally with the human element in them. The mills
are widely noted for their improveraents, beautiful
surroundings, the comfortable and convenient homes
and the high standard living conditions of the oper
atives, the school buildings and opportunities for
education, the welfare departraent, and raany other
things that are serving to put the industrial life of
the South on the highest possible plane.
In the spring of 1919 Mr. Nicholson completed
arrangeraents for building the Wallace Thorapson
Hospital at Union, at a cost of $50,000. He is
president of the Board of Trustees of this notable
enterprise. In every sense throughout his career
he has been a generous, public spirited citizen, active
in civic affairs and patriotisra. He is an elder in
the First Presbyterian Church, was chairman of its
.buUding committee when the handsorae church edi
fice was erected. His experience as a builder and
financier and reputation for getting things done
efficiently and econoraically was also the cause of
his being selected as chairman of the Building Cora
raittee of Union County's Court House.
Mr. Nicholson first raarried Miss Kathleen G.
Murphy, now deceased, representative of an old and
prominent Union County family. The one son of
this marriage still living is W. Shepard Nicholson,
now in the cotton coraraission business in New York.
The present Mrs. Nicholson before her marriage
was Miss Helen C. Haltiwanger of Greenwood.
They have one daughter, Helen Dorothy Nicholson.
James L. Jefferies, M. D. WhUe Spartanburg
has been his horae and the scene of his practice as
a physician for the past twenty years. Doctor Jef
feries began practice in 1889 in his native county
of Union, now Cherokee, in a locality where his an
cestors have lived for 150 years.
Doctor Jefferies represents the seventh genera
tion of his faraily in Araerica. These different gen
erations have furnished soldiers to nearly every
war of this nation, including the early Colonial wars,
and two members of the eighth generation, sons of
Doctor Jefferies, were in the World war, one being
an officer.
The history of the faraily begins with Edward
Jefferies, an Englishman and an Episcopalian, who
came to the American Colonies in 1730 and settled

in King and Queen County, Virginia. Nathaniel
Jefferies, who was a son of Edward Jefferies, repre
senting the second generation, was probably a na
tive of Virginia, and served as a soldier in the
Indian wars. This Nathaniel Jefferies was a true
frontiersman, a leader of raen, but easUy inspired
to leave settled localities and seek a new home in
remote and unsettled regions. About 1760 he came
South, his destination being South Carolina. He
settled on the Broad River at the mouth of Brown's
Creek in that section of Union County where it
joins Chester and Newberry counties. In 1758 he
received a patent frora the King of England to a
large tract of land in that region. He raarried
Sarah Steen, sister of Colonel Steen, one of the
prorainent officers in the War of the Revolution.
In 1759 on account of an outbreak of Indians in
Upper Carolina, Nathaniel Jefferies removed his
faraily to Caraden, and there he joined a body of
volunteers organized to fight the Indians. In 1768
or 1769 he raoved with his faraily to Thickety Creek
in what is now Cherokee County, a few railes south
west of the present Town of Gaffney. The land
which he acquired 150 years ago has been occupied
by his descendants ever since and is stiU part of the
Jefferies holdings. Nathaniel Jefferies himself, how
ever, soon removed to another plantation on Gil-
key's Creek in the eastern part of what is now Cher
okee County. This place is known as the "Brick
House" plantation on account of the brick residence
that was built there before the Revolutionary war
and is stUI standing, one of the most venerable land
marks in that section of the state.
The record of Nathaniel Jefferies included other
service from time to time in combating the hostUe
Indians. When the Revolution carae on he vol
unteered as an ardent patriot in the warfare against
the Tories and later fought against the regular Brit
ish troops and according to the testiraony of those
who served with him was a man of splendid courage
and of all the resourcefulness of the typical Ameri
can backwoodsman. In keeping with his spirit of
adventure and pioneering, he did not reraain per
raanently anchored in South Carolina, though he
lived here for nearly forty years. In 1798 he raoved
to the dark and bloody ground of Kentucky, and
died in that state in 1812.
His son John, representing the third generation,
reraained in South Carolina and was the ancestor
from whom Doctor Jefferies is descended. John,
though a boy, was a Revolutionary soldier- and was
with his father in the battle of King's Mountain.
John Jefferies died in 1851 at the age of ninety-one.
One of his sons was Col. Jaraes Jefferies, a signer
of the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession.
The branch of the faraUy including Doctor Jeffer
ies had as the representative of the fourth genera
tion Nathaniel Jefferies, while the fifth generation
was represented by John Jefferies. Dr. James L,
Jefferies is a son of John Davis Jefferies, and Har
riet (Littlejohn) Jefferies. John Davis Jefferies
was a Confederate soldier in Corapany F of the
Fifteenth South Carolina Infantry and was badly
wounded at the battle of Boonsboro, Maryland. His
brother, Hon. Williara Jefferies was widely known
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was a meraber of the faraous "Wallace House" of
the South Carolina General Assembly in 1876.
Dr. Jaraes L. Jefferies was bom in Draytonville
Township in what was then a part of Union (now
Cherokee) County in 1867. He graduated from
Wofford College at Spartanburg with the class of
1887. Following that he studied medicine in the
University of Virginia and the University of New
York, graduating from the latter in 1889. For the
following ten years he practiced in his native coun
ty and in 1899 came to Spartanburg. He is a mem
ber of the County, State and American Medical As
sociation, and a raan of high standing both in his
profession and as a citizen.
Doctor Jefferies raarried Miss LUIian Sifly of
Orangeburg. Their five children are John W., Jaraes
S., Frances, Eleanor and Edwin. The sons John and
Jaraes both volunteered in the World war and John
was in the army untU after the signing of the armis
tice. William Henry Daniel, Sr., was a big. strong
raan in the life and affairs of Marion County for
many years. The people of that coraraunity would
do well to cherish his raeraory with special respect
on account of the varied and important services
he performjd and particularly the constructive part
he played in raolding and upbuilding the fortunes
of the county.
He was a youthful soldier of the Confederacy,
came out of that war and accepted conditions as he
found them, and though his name seldom appeared
in connection with politics, he was a true leader of
the people always.
He was born near Durham, Wake County, North
Carolina. March i, 1841, a son of Thomas Cary and
Mary (Shipp) Daniel. He was of English ancestry.
His father was a waggoner, owning and operating
a wagon freight business at a time when Fayette
vUle, North Carolina, at the headwaters of the Cape
Fear River, was the transfer and shipping point
between water borne traffic and a large inland terri
tory west and north of that city. Thomas Cary
Daniel died as a Confederate soldier in 1862.
Williara Henry Daniel, Sr., had only a comraon
school education in his native state. On April 23,
1861, at the age of twenty, he enlisted at Fair Bluff!
North Carolina, and was a meraber of Company C
of the Twentieth North Carolina Regiment. In
June, 1862, he was transferred to Richmond, Vir
ginia, serving in the Seven Days' Battle under Gen
Stonewall Jackson and D. H. Hill in General
Rhodes' Division, and afterwards was in Lee's Army
of Northern Virginia. The end of the war found
hira a prisoner in the Federal prison at Elmira
New York. '
After the war he had to reconstruct his life in
accordance with the unsettled and oppressive condi
tions burdening every southern industry. For a
time he was in the turpentine business, and in part
nership with James Battle was in that industry at
Nichols, South Carolina, from 1873 to 1877. From
that time until his death he was one of the ablest
business men in Marion County. In 1876 he engaged
in the mercantile business under his individual narae
at MuUins. The business was incorporated as the
W. H. Daniel Supply Corapany in i^, and is still

continued as a general supply business, being one of
the oldest of its kind in the Eastern Carolinas.
About 1897 he also became interested in the tobacco
industry, organizing two companies and building the
two first tobacco redrying plants in South Carolina.
Nothing shows his business character to greater
advantage than his activity as a banker. He was one
of the organizers and large stockholders of the
Merchants and Farmers Bank at Marion. This is
the second bank in the county and the first to do a
farm loan business in that section of the state.
Up to that tirae Mr. Daniel had been benefiting
from the usual method of doing business with a
country community under the lien and supply sys
tem. Such undertakings were very remunerative
and were the basis of the accuraulation of nu
merous fortunes. Mr. Daniel had high ideals and
purposes and was in this respect as in others al
ways ready to sacrifice his personal interest for
the public good. His aid was given to the organ
ization of the Merchants and Farmers Bank largely
with a view to ending the old mercantUe farra lien
supply business, which, as is well known, has been
the curse of raany agricultural coraraunities in the
South. The system of. banking put into effect by
the Merchants and Farmers Bank practically revolu
tionized farming in Marion County. The present
prosperity of that community is without doubt to a
large degree the result of new methods put into
practice under the impetus of Mr. Daniel and his
alssociates. The failure of the Merchants and
Farmers Bank to place a branch bank at MuUins
to take care of the tobacco industry caused him to
sell his interests in that town and concentrate his
energies at Mullins, where he organized the Bank
of Mullins, the oldest institution of the kind there.
He was its vice president as long as he lived. He
was one of the organizers, stockholders and di
rectors of the Marion Cotton OU Company and the
Marion Cotton Mills.
The extent of his business interests is concisely
shovyn in the foUowing: President of the W. H.
Daniel Supply Company, vice president of the Bank
of Mullins, president of the L. B. Graverly To
bacco Corapany, director of the Phoenix Tobacco
Company of Mullins; president of the L. Smith
Acree Company, fertilizer manufacturers at Mul
lins; president of the Planters Warehouse Com
pany; director of the Merchants and Farmers Bank,
Marion Cotton Oil Company and the Marion Cotton
Mills at Marion.
He was always interested in agriculture and di
versified farmmg, owned and developed several
large farms, introduced the tobacco industry and
built the first tobacco sales warehouse at Mullins
•hllL'" f A^'^*^¦ ''"¦'t the first large mercantile
business at Mullins ; was one of the organizers of
h.nW fS^ Vr'^''' *^ *',"' Masonic lodge, the first
bank at Mullins, and the first cotton mUl, the first
oil mill and tobacco sales and raanufacturing busi
ness in Marion County.
These enterprises were in themselves largely con
nected with the welfare of the comraunitrbut he
w:,s '^IZL^^A "^""^y '? typically public causes. He
Tnd nflnf '^ '" ^T'*. '¦°^^^' ^"'l ^^'th his money
and influence caased the opening of some of the
most important highways in Marion County, two

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181

of them being the present highway and river bridge
connecting Mullins and Nichols and the Sandy Bluff
highway and river bridge.
In politics he was a democrat, but his chief en
thusiasm during his life was in behalf of the cause
of prohibition. He was initiated as a Master
Mason at Pee Dee Lodge No. 83 in 1869, and in
1879 deraitted to Damascus Lodge and gave that
lodge the lot on which its present temple is built
and was one of the building- committee. He was
a Missionary Baptist and was one of the organizers
and builders of the First Baptist Church in Mullins,
giving largely to the new building and placing the
first brick in the present structure. He was treas
urer of the church from the time of its organization
until his death. At his death he was also a mem
ber of the trustees for Coker College, representing
the Pee Dee Association.
Iri 1871, at MuUins, WUliam H. Daniel, Sr., mar
ried Miss Lou Martin, a daughter of Aaron Martin
of Mullins, a farmer and private banker and for
many years regarded as one of the wealthiest men
in the MuUins community. . By his first marriage
Mr. Daniel had four children: Robert, deceased;
Kate, wife of George R. Reaves; and Mary and
Rufus, both deceased. In 1881, at Marion, he mar
ried Miss Elizabeth Watson. Her father, James
'Watson, represented one of the oldest families of
the old Marion district, and at the beginning of the
Civil war the Watsons were chief among the ex
tensive land and slave owners in this district and
lost a fortune through the war. Mr. .Daniel by
his second marriage had the following three chU
dren : W. H. Daniel, Jr., of MuUins ; Willena, Mrs.
H. E. Yarboro of MuUins; and James Watson, de
ceased. William Henry Daniel, Jr., a son of the late
WiUiam Henry Daniel, Sr., whose influence and
activities bulked so large in the affairs of Marion
County, was born at MuUins May 2, 1882.
He was educated in the local schools and at an
early age became associated with his father in raer
chandising and farming. Since his father's deatli
he has been president and manager of the W. H.
Daniel Supply Company and also gives his super
vision to the management of about 600 acres of
farming land in Marion County. Mr. Daniel is a
Knight of Pythias and Odd FeUow and is treasurer
of the Baptist Church, succeeding his father m
that office.
June 24, 1906, he married Miss Eva BeU of In
dian Town, South Carolina. They have five chil
dren: Hazel, Florence, WUliam Henry III, Eva
Ellen and John Shipp.
John Michael Bateman has been a Columbia
business man for thirty years or more, has done
his work quietly but weU, has sought none of the
unusual distinctions, but has earned. confidence and
esteem in the coraraunity of the capital city.
He was born at Colurabia October 20, 1864, a son
of Tohn D and Phoebe Bateraan, his father dying
in 1881 and his mother in 1878. As a boy he at
tended the Columbia Male Academy, when Hugh S.
Thompson was its principal and for that reason
usually known as Thompson's School. On account

of Ulness he left this school at the age of fifteen,
but afterwards carried on his education through the
instruction of private tutors. Frora school days to
the present his time has been closely devoted to
business affairs. Mr. Bateraan is secretary and
treasurer of the Palmetto Ice Company. For a num
ber of years he was a meraber of the National Guard,
retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Such
leisure as he has found is used for several interest
ing avocations. One of these is collecting local In
dian antiquities. He prepared a monograph on the
Carolina Indians and has also complied and pub
lished short historical sketches of the city of Col
umbia and of the Governor's Guards.
In 1896 he raarried Edith, daughter of William
Ashmead Courtenay of Charleston. They have one
son, WUliam A. Courtenay Bateman.
James Phinney, who has spent most of his life
at West Union, very early determined upon a mer
cantUe career and by strict attention to one line
and by comraendable industry has achieved a sound
and prominent place in the affairs of Oconee County.
He is junior member of the firra Strother & Phin
ney, whose interests and activities include a large
part of the commercial life of West Union.
Mr. Phinney was born near Little Rock, Arkan
sas, July 4, 1858, but his father's family were South
Carolinians. When he was eight years of age his
parents Hugh M. and Susan (Nance) Phinney, the
former a native of Chester, South Carolina, and the
latter of Virginia, returned to South Carolina and
settled at West Union in Oconee County.
James Phinney as a boy obtained a common school
education. More than thirty-five years ago he
opened a small stock of general raerchandise al West
Union and had raade an independent success of his
efforts before he joined W. A. Strother, the veteran
business raan of Oconee County. The firra was
formed twenty years ago and the partners raake a
splendid business team. For several years they han
dled general merchandise, but their operations are
now of a raore general nature, dealing in groceries,
cotton and fertUizers, operating oil raills and selling
oU raill products. They own and operate the West
'Union OU Mill and also the flouring and grist raUl.
Mr. Phinney also has farra interests.. He is. an
ardent deraocrat, but has devoted his tirae strictly
to business and through his business has contributed
his best service to his coraraunity and state. His
first wife was Carrie Darby, by whora he has three
children. After her death he raarried Miss Carrie
Stuke. John Manning Horton, whose activities as a
farraer have been continued for over thirty-five
years in the Pendleton community of Anderson
County, represents an old and respected narae of
that section.
He was born near Belton Deceraber 24, 1858, a
son of John Calhoun and Harriet (Vandiver) Hor
ton, both natives of Anderson County, and a grand
son of Grief Horton. John C. Horton spent his
life as a farmer, and in 1878 raoved to the northern
part of Anderson County where he died when near
ly eighty years of age. He was a plain and unpre
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he and his wife possessed raany sterling qualities
of heart and raind which they passed on to their
children. These chUdren were : Jaraes Enoch ;
Lucy, deceased; John Manning; Oza Enoch and
MUlard Cortez Horton, prorainent lawyers of At
lanta, Georgia ; and Bennett, deceased.
John Manning Horton grew up on a farm and
had a public school education. He lived at home
to the age of twenty-three and in 1881 he raarried
Lucinda Harper and then established a horae of his
own. Air. and Mrs. Horton are raembers of the
Baptist Church. They have six children : John Wil
liam, a druggist in Georgia; Isa Marie, wife of Jeff
Williams ; Sada, at horae ; Childs Clinton, a physi
cian at Pendleton ; Manning, a farraer in Anderson
County; Jaraes Henry and Douglas C. Horton.
Charles C. Wilson. Probably the most widely
known architect in South Carolina, with a reputa
tion and influence extending far beyond the bor
ders of the state, and esteemed no less by his profes
sional colleagues than by his clientele, is Mr. Charles
Coker Wilson of Columbia.
His Scotch-Irish and Welsh ancestors were prom
inent among the early settlers of the Pee Dee, and
all four of his great-grandfathers. Dr. James P.
Wilson, Enoch Evans, Thomas Coker and Maj. Rob
ert Lide, did valiant service for American inde
pendence in the partisan warfare under Gen. Fran
cis Alarion.
Mr. WUson was born at HartsviUe in Darlington
County on November 20, 1864, and spent his boy
hood on a plantation near there and in the vUlage
of Society Hill, He attended the country schools
of the neighborhood, and later raade his way
through the South Carolina College. He graduated
in 1886 in the course of raechanics ind engineering
under Alaj. Benjamin Sloan, with the degree of
A. B., and at once secured appointment as first as
sistant engineer for the Columbia, Newberry and
Laurens RaUroad under Mr. Charles EUis as chief
engineer. In his work for the Colurabia, Newberry and
Laurens Railroad he was stationed for one year in
Colurabia as resident engineer in charge of the
bridge across Broad River, and took advantage of
the opportunity to pursue a post-graduate course at
the university in civil engineering, winning the de
gree of C. E. in 1888. Subsequently he took a course
in ijiodern languages, which brought him the de
gree of M. A. in igoo. In i8gg and igoo Mr. Wil
son studied architecture in Paris in the Atelier
Duray. Air. Wilson's early career was devoted to civil
engineering, and notwithstanding a decided prefer
ence for architecture, he has never entirely aban
doned that field, and has nearly always had some
engineering work on hand. His practice has in
cluded railway location and construction, bridge's,
highways, water supply, sewerage and sewage dis
posal. He was the first to propose the "sand-clay"
raethod of road surfacing, which has since been
so widely adopted for light traffic roads, and his
work as city engineer of Colurabia, 1896-1899, pre
pared the way for the great developraent of munici
pal works in that city a few years later. Under his

leadership public opinion was crystallized for prog
ress, and he was the author of the constitutional
araendraent relieving bond issues for waterworks
and sewers from the narrow limits formerly im
posed, and thus raaking possible the development
of such works not only in Columbia, but in Charles
ton, Florence, Rock Hill and other cities. Later
he was the author of another amendment permitting
the assessraent of abutting property for street im
provements, making possible the extensive pa-\^ing
programs in raany South Carolina cities.
In architecture Mr. Wilson's practice has covered
North and South Carolina, and has extended into
Virginia, Georgia, Florida and Alabama, and he has
to his credit many of the most important buUdings
in those states. At Gastonia, North Carolina, and
the surrounding territory, his practice is so large
that he maintains a branch office in charge of .his
close friend, Mr. Hugh E. White.
His work is characterized always by direct,
straightforward and eminently practical planning,
by great simplicity and dignity of architectural ex
pression and by sound and substantial construction.
Mr. Wilson has long recognized that the prac
tice of architecture has grown too complicated and
covers too wide a field to be successfully handled
by one man, and has surrounded himself with a
staff of able co-workers especially skilled in the
several branches of the work, and has devoted his
own efforts largely to executive functions, the busi
ness administration of construction under his
charge, and the co-ordination of the efforts of his
associates in the office and field.
In professional practice Mr. Wilson has always
stood for high standards and ideals, and to his
constant efforts is due in no slight degree the al
most complete abandonraent in this territory of
illicit comraissions.
He is a raember of the American Society of Civil
Engineers and of the Araerican Institute of Archi
tects and enj^oys the distinction of a fellowship in
the latter body, which is conferred only upon one
who shall have notably contributed to the advance
ment of the profession in design, instruction, lit
erature or education.
Mr Wilson was a leader in the organization of
the Mate Associations of Architects and of the
both" Nnrtf r ' American Institute of Architects in
both North Carolina and South Carolina, and was
own state^""'' "" °^ *''' ^°'^'^' '" '''=
When the law was passed in 1917 to define the
Whci'r"r ^"^ J,^' P^'=''« of architectore n
and re^,V?lt"n' '"^ '° '?"'-°^"^^ ^°' '^e examination
and registration of architects. Governor Mannincr
appointed Mr Wilson a member of the Statf
Board of Architectural Examiners, and upon the
organization of the hoard he was e ected cha^?raan
which position he still holds. cnairraan,
Mr. Wilson raarried Miss Adeline Selby of Co-
ElTzabeth"fnd^7 ''\^-*^° '^'^"'^d daughters! Alice
t.lizabeth and Jean Livingstone WUson. The for
mer ,s a graauate of the College for Woraen in
grtu'to wol-^'^'l McCIintocI, has dor'p"os't"-
versitv Ne„ -t i""" ^T- ''™^ ^t Colurabia Uni-
Tstic wor^-^ R°u-' ^"'^ ''^?^ '="g^ged in journal
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detit at Chicora College for Women in Columbia,
and IS specializing in art.
Neill O'Donnell has had a career in business
at Sumter that is the object of admiration to his
host of friends and acquaintances. Some thirty-five
or forty years ago he was a traveling salesman
representing a Charleston house. On January I,
1883, he became a merchant at Surater, and has suc
cessfully proraoted his interests and those of several
organizations with which he has been actively as
sociated, untU there is hardly a better known, as
there is hardly an older figure in the business life
of Sumter today.
He was born in Donegal, Ireland, December 23,
1859, was educated in the common schools of his
native country, and after coming to the United
States in 1874 attended the Wyoming Seminary in
Pennsylvania three years. He gained a general ac
quaintance with South Carolina while a traveling
salesman, and on the first of January, 1883, estab
lished a business now known as O'Donnell & Co.,
Inc., of which he is the president. He has been
president of the O'Donnell Dry Goods Corapany
since 1917 and in that year built a fine fireproof
home for the business. Since May 9, 1910, he has
been president of the First National Bank of Sum
ter. Under his presidency the bank completed a
fireproof granite faced buUding in 1914.
For the past thirty years Mr. O'Donnell has been
a trustee of the local schools. He also served for
two years on the City Council. On February 2,
1887, he married Miss Katie Bogin of Surater.
Oscar Baker Martin is one of the inspired and
inspiring men connected with the United States De
partraent of Agriculture as director of the Club
and Horae Demonstration work in the South for
the department. He has tremendous opportunities
and responsibilities, and has made them the medium
of a great and growing service.
Mr. Martin is a South Carolina raan and widely
known throughout the state as forraer superinten
dent of public instruction for South Carolina. He
was born near Central in Pickens County in 1870,
son of Thomas C. and Harriet M. (Baker) Martin.
The Martins are one of the old and prorainent
Scotch-Irish families of upper South Carolina. Thev
located in this state from Virginia. Thomas C.
Martin was born in Anderson County, and the fam
ily lived there and -in adjoining counties for sev
eral generations. Thomas C. Martin was a farmer
and was a Confederate soldier. ^
Oscar Baker Martin received his education in the
North Georgia Agricultural College and graduated
A. B. from Furman University at GreenviUe in
1892. He was a farm boy and his rural training was
probably an indispensable qualification for his pres
ent duties. During 1892-93 he was principal of the
public schools at Donalds, and for ten years begin
ning in 1893 was principal of public schools at
Greenville Mr. Martin's service as state superin
tendent of education in South Carolina be.gan in
1003, and continued until 1908. ^During that time
his official headquarters were in Co umbia^ Marked
improvements were made in the schools durmg his

term. Some of the most helpful legislation was in
the school library act, the school building and the
high school act.
Mr. Martin came to Washington in 1909 to be
come assistant in Boys' Demonstration Work in the
South with the United States Department of Agri
culture. Later he was appointed to his present posi
tion as director of Club and Home Demonstration
Work in the South. His jurisdiction extends frora
Maryland to Texas and Oklahoraa. He is author
of nuraerous bulletins, reports and special paraphlets
which go out under the iraprint of the Departraent
of Agriculture. Under his direction are about a
quarter of a raillion boys and an equal nuraber of
girls in boys' and girls' clubs, and also about 480,000
women enroUed in the Home Deraonstration clubs.
WhUe the late Dr. S, A. Knapp originaUy planned
these distinctive features of the Departraent of Agri
culture, Mr. Martin was practically frora 'the first
in close touch with hira in his plans and proposals,
and as a field worker and frora the offices of central
authority deserves great credit for the spread and
extension of the modern club idea in agricultural
education and practice. The boys corn club idea as
demonstration work was first inaugurated in the
South. The first Girls' Canning Club was organized
at Aiken, South Carolina, in January, 1910. Mr.
Martin made special report on this club to Dr. Knapp
during the suraraer of the sarae year. These were
the first juvenUe clubs in the country to work under
the leadership and with the co-operation of the Fed
eral Department of Agriculture. A great deal has
been written about the history and development of
the club idea in agricultural extension work, and it
is a matter of state pride that its beginnings should
have been raade in South CaroHna, and that a South
Carolina raan should have been from the first identi
fied with the moveraent. The original boys corn club
was followed by pig clubs, calf clubs, and later a
great development has been raade in horae deraori-
stration for the woraen, teaching raany arts and prac
tices directly relating to increased horae efficiency.
In this special work today there are about 1,000
women agents reporting to Mr. Martin's departraent
at Washington.
Mr. Martin is a member of the Baptist Church
and of the Kappa Alpha. He married Miss Dora
Cook of Laurens, South Carolina.
James Armstrong Cathcart, who has built up
one of the largest insurance agencies in the state
at Columbia, was born in that city August 3, 1881,
and has discovered and raade for himself most of
his opportunities in business.
He is a son of WUliam Richard and Katherine
Stewart (Kelly) Cathcart. His father was a Con
federate soldier at Fort Sumter, and was com
mended for gallantry in a special order by General
Beauregard. James A. Cathcart grew up in Colurabia and en
tered business iraraediately after graduating frora
the Columbia High School in June, 1897. His early
experiences were in insurance and banking, and
from 1903 to 1906 he was secretary-treasurer for
the Colurabia Trust Company. Since January of
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ness of his own in insurance and real estate. He
represents seven fire insurance corapanies as local
agent, and is general agent for three casualty and
surety corapanies. Mr. Cathcart was honored with
the presidency of the South Carolina Underwriters'
Association for two terras.
Politically he is a deraocrat, a meraber of the
Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias, a mem
ber of the Colurabia Cotillion Club, the South
Carolina Club, the Ridgewood Club and the Colura
bia Club, and is an active member and superin
tendent of the Sunday school of the Trinity Epis
copal Church.
At Colurabia Deceraber 2, 1908, he raarried Annie
Whitner Sloan. Her father. Col. John T. Sloan,
was a Confederate soldier and was later distin
guished as lieutenant governor of South Carolina.
Mr. and Mrs. Cathcart have four children : James
Armstrong, Jr., Jane Beverley, Katherine Stewart
and John Sloan Cathcart.
Bernard B. James is postraaster of Union, a pop
ular official, and a business raan of long and sub
stantial standing in Union County.
He was bom in the upper part of that county
in 1868, a son of Rev. Albert A. and Sarah (Collins)
James. His father lived a life of rare usefulness
and seryice. Almost until his death in igio in his
eighty-sixth year he was busy with the duties of the
Presbyterian ministry. As a young raan he had
served as chaplain of the Eighteenth South Caro
lina Regiraent in the war between the states. His
labors and sacrifices for over fifty years were raade
in one coraraunity, as pastor of the old Fair Forest
Church in the extreme upper part of Union County.
He preached to that coraraunity, baptized and mar
ried and officiated at funerals for alraost two gen
erations, and his purposes and ideals throughout
were of the raost unworldly character, sufficient to
entitle him to long meraory at least in the community
to which he was so unselfishly devoted.
Bernard B. James had a careful training in his
father's home, was educated in private schools, and
for two years, 1885-86, was a student in the Uni
versity of South Carolina. He began his business
career as clerk in mercantUe establishments and
later became prominent as a cotton buyer. Through
that business he became weU known at Newberry,
Seneca, Blackstock and other towns. Mr, James
has filled the office of postraaster of Union since
early in 1913, and has raade the office a medium of
important service to the coraraunity and his reports
and accounts have been coraraended by the higher
officials of the postoffice department at Washing
ton, Mr. Jaraes has been a lifelong raeraber of the
Presbyterian Church and is elder in the First Church
at Union. He raarried Miss Melissa Brown of Paco
let in Spartanburg County. They are the parents
of five children : Kathleen, Harold, Rupert, Bernard,
Jr., and George.
The son Harold has a railitary record. He was a
member of the 1917 class of the University of South
Carolina. . He was graduated with honors ahead of
his class in order to permit hira to enter the array.
He enlisted as a private, was attached to the Base

Hospital at Camp Sevier, and went overseas with
the 'Thirtieth Division. He was proraoted to sergeant
and saw a great deal of active duty until after the
signing of the armistice. He has since been granted
a soldier's scholarship in the Sorbonne at Paris, and
during the spring of igig was a student there, spe
cializing in the French and Spanish languages.
Richard Pride Morgan is president of the Citizens
National Bank and mayor of the City of Union.
That community has a high regard for his executive
as well as his financial talents. He is a young man,
started his career without pomp or ceremony, has
worked his way steadily upward, and is undoubtedly
one of the most influential men today in the modern
affairs of Union County.
He was born in Union County in 1877, son of Na
thaniel B. and Mary (Bearden) Morgan and a grand
son of Benjamin Morgan. His grandfather was
born in Culpepper County, Virginia, came to the
Union district of South Carolina between 1828 and
1830, and after his marriage there moved to Nash
ville, Tennessee, where his son Samuel was born.
Nathaniel when a young man returned to his father's
old place in Union County, South Carolina, and was
married there. This old homestead is near Wilkins-
ville, now in Cherokee County, forraerly a part of
Union County.
In that old horae locality, of the family Rich
ard P. Morgan was born and grew up on a farm,
attended high school at Union, and with the equip
ment of a business college course went to work when
a boy in an office. Later he was secretary of one of
the cotton raills at Union. He rapidly built up that
firra confidence in himself, shared by others, which
is the bulwark of a successful business career. In
1908 he organized the Citizens Savings Bank, was its
cashier, and in 1910 was elected president. This bank
in 1912 was raerged with the Citizens National Bank,
and since that date Mr. Morgan has been its active
president. This is a very prosperous institution,
having a capital of $150,000, surplus and profits of
^''1',°°°,?" deposits aggregate more than $1,000,000.
1^^-V Morgan was elected mayor of Union in 1918.
While he has sorae of the conservative nature al
ways associated with the successful banker, his ad
ministration has been thoroughly progressive, all
the resources at command being devoted to public
improveraents and promoting that rapid growth and
development -which is making Union one of the not-
\% 'ndustrial and coraraercial -centers of the state
Mr. Morgan was a busy man in his community in
connection with war work and assisted in several
Ked Cross carapaigns in the Young Men's Christian
Association war work campaign and in a general way
was active m other war auxiliary raovements. The
bank raade very liberal terms and advances to pur
chasers of Liberty Bonds, and carried a large amount
M 1/^"°" "¦•t'fi.'^ates for the Government.
of on. n°/T ^-^"'?'^ i^'^? ^^'^y Jeter, raeraber
^L H- A- ^^ '"''°J'? f^'"'''" of Union County.
i'itEtT,.'rAoT,L'.' ^""'^^^ '' °"^ -"' ^-^-
Edwin Warren Moise was one of the distin
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prove of permanent value in the history of South
Carolina. He served his beloved Southland as a
gallant soldier and officer, was a lawyer of brilliant
parts and achievements, a public official, and above
all his character and generous nature will stand every
test to which they can be subjected.
He was born at Charleston, South Carolina, May
21, 1832. His grandfather Abraham Moise was a
native of Alsace, and from there emigrated to the
West Indies and married the daughter of a prorai
nent Jewish faraily of the Island of St. Eustatius.
Upon the raeraorable insurrection of the slaves in
1791 he fled to Charleston. His son Abrahara, Jr.,
was born in 1799, and raarried Caroline Moses, a
daughter of Isaac C. Moses and a granddaughter of
Meyer Moses.
During the early life of Edwin Warren Moise his
people were in only modest circumstances, and at
the age of thirteen he had to leave school and earn
his own living. For a time he was in a wholesale
grocery house in Charleston, and during two years
in the registry office studied law. In 1856 he re
raoved to Columbus, Georgia, and began practice,
and had a promising and profitable business as a
lawyer when the war came on.
He was not a secessionist, but a Douglas demo
crat, and he had the courage to campaign over Georgia
in opposition to the secession moveraent. But like
many other noble Southerners he accepted the situa
tion as it was, and in July, 1861, he pledged his loy
alty to the South by organizing a company of 120
men, 50 of whora he raounted at his own expense,
using for that purpose aU his raodest fortune of
$10,000. The company was named for hira and aft
erwards becarae Company A of the Seventh Con
federate Cavalry with him as captain, and Col. W.
C. Claiborne commanding the regiment. In 1863 he
was made major of this regiment and near the close
of the war was appointed its coraraander, though he
never received his coraraission as colonel. He was
in the array of Northern Virginia in the battles of
Yellow Tavern, Brandy Station, Gettysburg, where
he was slightly wounded. Five Forks, Petersburg
and the battle of the Mine. He was assigned to
dangerous duty with 200 men, of building the daras
at Hetch Run in Virginia near Petersburg to pro
tect Lee's right flank against Grant. During the
last raonth of the war he was in North Carolina
under the coramand of General Johnston. During
the retreat- from Bentonville to Raleigh, in one of
the last phases of the last campaign of the war, he
was assigned the dangerous and difficult duty of
burning the bridges behind the retreating army at
Smithfield, North CaroUna, and carried out that
order, making his escape only through a thick rain
of bullets. He also had a conspicuous part in the
battle of Bentonville.
At the close of the war General Moise settled at
Surater, and soon had a successful practice in the
Provost Court. He carae out of the array with only
one wounded horse, and sold that to pay the first
raonth's board of his faraily. He continuously prac
ticed until 1876, in which year he was elected adju
tant and inspector general upon the ticket headed by
Harapton. He was re-elected in 1878 and served un

til 1880, after which he declined to become a candi
date. He had been a delegate to the reconstruction
convention in Columbia in 1865, and was one of the
able lieutenants under Harapton in redeeraing South
Carolina frora the carpet bag rule. Though he was
content with the role of a private citizen thereafter,
he was always ready to sacrifice raeans and time in
behalf of every moveraent for the advanceraent of
his horae coraraunity and state, and was especially in
terested in the cause of public education. General
Moise died in 1903 in the seventy-first year of his
age. Frora the many warm tributes paid him at the tirae
the following seeras to express raost clearly the
ideals of his life and character : 'Tt is given to few
men of the prominence attained by General Moise
to be so generally beloved and to have so raany
sincere friends and so few eneraies. And the ene
raies he had were raade in the service of his state
and country, and it was the principles that he repre
sented and not his personality that raade enemies, for
he was one of those rare men who make friends
easily by his spontaneous geniality. To the poor
and needy he was a friend indeed, and ever present
help in time of trouble, and he has no raore sincere
raourners today than are to be found araong the
poor and improvident — whites and negroes alike —
who, when all others refused thera, never appealed
in vain to him. His was a charity that was so broad
that it covered a multitude of sins and he extended
it to the unworthy as generously and freely as to
the worthy. Generous to a fault, his benefactions
were raade while he lived and he died a poor raan,
as far as this world's goods go, but rich beyond
corapare in good deeds bestowed and kindnesses done
in the narae of humanity. His fame as an advocate
and orator will live after him and his success at the
bar was coramensurate with his ability. For years
he was the adraitted leader of the Surater bar as an
orator and his reputation extended beyond the bor
ders of the state."
In 1854 Edwin Warren Moise raarried Miss Esther
Lyon, daughter of George Lyon of Petersburg, Vir
ginia. They becarae the parents of twelve children
and those surviving their honored father were: Ma
jor Marion, Charles, Edwin, Clifton, Albert, Mrs.
Ansley Davis, Mrs. Andrew Davis, Mrs. A. D.
Cohen, Mrs. Agnes Bogin, Mrs. Nina Soloraons and
Miss Jessie Moise.
Marion Moise, who for thirty-three years was a
prorainent member of the Surater bar, had many
abUities and services to distinguish his lif^ and earn
him long and lasting memory, particularly in the
coraraunity which he loved to call home.
A son of Edwin Warren and Esther (Lyon) Moise,
he was born on Sullivan's Island, Charleston County,
South Carolina, June 14, 1855. As a boy between
the age of six and twelve he shared in the priva
tions which the entire family endured as a result
of the war, but after that the prosperous position
of his father gave him a boyhood relieved of care
or anxiety, and he grew up with leisure to examine
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choose his career after thorough preparation. He
was indebted to his father for rauch of his early in
tellectual guidance and his farailiarity with the Bible
and Shakespeare. He attended the schools of Sura
ter, also the 'Virginia MUitary Institute at Lexing
ton, and during a part of the year 1872 was in
South Carolina College. Most of his legal education
was acquired whUe clerk in the law office of his
father at Sumter. He began practice in 1877 and
the Sumter Bar Association after his death adopted
a resolution, one sentence of which reads as follows :
"For thirty-three years he has been an honored mem
ber of the bar of Sumter, and from the organization
of your association one of its most prorainent, in
fluential and respected members."
He served as state senator of South Carolina
from 1886 to 1890, and for two terms acted as in
tendant of the "Town of Sumter without renuraera-
tion. For eightpen years he was vice president of
the Bank of Sumter, was a director of the Surater
Savings Bank and was financially interested in a
nuraber of business institutions. For seventeen years
he was member of the board of trustees of the Sum
ter graded schools. In politics he was a democrat,
was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the
Knights and Ladies of Honor, the Masonic fratern
ity and the Euphradian Society, and was one of the
most active members of the Jewish Congregation
Sinai. November 7, 1877, about the time he began
his law practice, he married Isabel DeLeon. They
were the parents of seven chUdren, five of whom
survive their father.
Marion Moise died January 30, 1910, and it was
significant the tribute paid his meraory came not
only frora the social class in which he moved, but
from rnany of the humble and unfortunate. The
Columbia Record expressed editorially one of the
best reviews of his character and services in the
following words :
"Blessed with an abundance of this world's goods,
one of the leading and most briUiant attorneys at
the South Carolina bar, a gentleman who was one
of the most popular in this county, one who had
been honored with public trusts for years; having
the confidence of thousands of people throughout
the country; a banker, lawyer, real estate dealer,
trustee of estates, director in banks and other en
terprises, ex-intendant and alderman, member of the
City Board of Education, prominent in Chamber of
Coraraerce circles, socially prorainent; a man who
took special pleasure in assisting his feUow citizens
and most particularly those in distress; a gentleraan
of optiraistic nature, ever ready to contribute liber
ally to any cause for the good of his city or country
a brilliant orator, and best of all a raost devoted hus
band and loving father, brother, and son— his death
IS a heavy loss to Sumter and South Carolina. In
latter years his only political or official service was
as a meraber of the City Board of Education in which
he took great interest. He was very proud of the
city schools. He could have had almost any office
in the gift of the people of Surater County, but he
sought not public honors. He was raodest as to
himself, rather inclined to be reticent except when
duty called him to the front. He could hold an

audience spell-bound with eloquence, sway crowds
by his pleading, and few men were his equal in di
plomacy. ? * * No bigger-hearted or more pub
lic spirited citizen ever walked the streets of Sumter.
Hundreds of Surater's best citizens are standing on
the streets with bowed heads, sad hearts and not a
few with tears in their eyes. Men, women and chil
dren are shocked and pained. "They can scarcely
realize that the 'Major' is dead."
David DeLeon Moise rejfresents the third con
secutive generation of his family in Sumter, and
like his honored father and distinguished grandfather
is also a lawyer by profession, inheriting many of
their brilliant qualifications and talents.
He was born at Sumter April 15, 1880, son of
Marion and grandson of Edwin Warren Moise,
whose careers are sketched preceding this. He was
liberally educated, at first in the public schools of
his horae town, later in The Citadel, South Caro
lina's military school at Charleston, and in 1902
graduated frora Washington & Lee University. Soon
afterward he began the active practice of law at
Sumter and was alone in practice until the death of
his father in 1910, when he formed the partnership
of Lee & Moise. Mr. Moise has a number of promi
nent business connections, being vice president of
the National Bank of Sumter, president of the Fi
delity Fire Insurance Corapany, vice president of
Palraetto Fire Insurance Company, vice president of
the Carolina Machinery Company, president Sumter
Stemery Company and for several years was presi
dent of the Sumter Chamber of Commerce.
He is an earnest student of politics and affairs
and is one of the raost useful raembers of the House
of Representatives for the last six years. He be
gan his service in the House in 1915 and has served
continuously through 1920. Mr. Moise is a Knight
Teraplar Mason and Shriner, meraber of the Knights
of Pythias and Woodraen of the World. October
12, 1904, he raarried Anita Harby, daughter of Hor
ace and Emraa H. Harby of Sumter. Their three
chUdren are Marion, Marie Virginia and Davis
DeLeon, Jr.
Francis Marion Moise is one of the younger gen
eration of the Moise family in Sumter, playing a
worthy part in business affairs and living up to the
traditions of his noted family.
He was born October 3, 1893, and is a son of the
r -c-j "'e*" 'awyer, Marion Moise, and a grandson
of Edwin Warren Moise, whose careers as a soldier
and lawyer is told on other pages.
Francis Marion Moise was educated in public
schools, the University of South Carolina, and fin
ished his work in the University of Georgia in 1914.
trie year followmg he spent farming and has since
been secretary and treasurer of the Carolina Ma
chinery Corapany, Incorporated, at Surater
Deceraber 7, 1916, at Sumter, he maried Ella Pau-
/c^ Blanding, daughter of Robert C. and Elizabeth
(Scott) Blanding. They have one son, Francis
Marion, Jr., born January 7, 1918.
Langdon Dinkins Jennings is rounding out his
tenth consecutive year as mayor of the City of
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that city, being a lawyer of long standing and large
practice, a banker, and has the reputation of hav
ing prosecuted all his varied endeavors with a high
degree of success.
He was born in Sumter County January i8, 1871,
a son of WiUiam Hamilton and Mary E. (Dinkins)
Jennings. He spent his boyhood on his father's
farra, attended public schools, and studied law at
home. He was admitted to the bar in May, 1896,
and since that date has had a general practice at
Sumter. He is a former magistrate of the county,
and was first elected mayor in AprU, 1910. His term
as mayor has been marked with many improvements
that have helped to distinguish Surater arnong the
progressive cities of the state. In 1919 a municipal
electric light plant was completed for the ctiy.
Mr. Jennings is president of the People's Bank of
Surater, being one of the organizers and president
from the tirae the bank opened business, and is also
a director of the Booth-Boyle Live Stock Company
and of the Jennings-Blending Live Stock Company.
He is also a director in the Jennings-Gainey Furni
ture Company, and individually owns 3,500 acres of
farming land.
Mr. Jennings raarried for his first wife Esther
Annie Dinkins. His second wife was Augusta
Gwynne Dinkins. He is the father of two chUdren,
Isabelle and Augusta Gwynne. Mr. Jennings is a
steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is
affiliated with the Masons and Knights of Pythias.
Alfred Moore is an important figure in the in
dustrial affairs of Upper South Carolina, and resides
at Wellford in Spartanburg County. His name and
activities are identified with some of the best known
cotton industries in that section of the state.
Mr. Moore is manager of the Tucapau Mill in
Spartanburg County, not far from his horae town
of Wellford. He is president and treasurer of the
Gaffney Manufacturing Company at Gaffney, presi
dent and treasurer of the Jackson Mills at Iva in
Anderson County, and president of the Fort Prince
Spinning Company of Wellford. All of these are
high class and successfully operated cotton manu
facturing plants and raake a large contribution to
the industrial wealth of Upper South Carolina.
Mr. Moore, who was born at Wellford in 1867,
is member of several noted pioneer famUies of the
county. His parents were Dr. Alfred L. and Martha
(Evins) Moore, both now deceased. His father,
who was born in the western part of Spartanburg
County in the Dean community, moved to Wellford
after his marriage, and spent raany long and busy
years as a practicing physician.
Martha Evins was a sister of the late Col. John
Harailton Evins of Spartanburg, who for raany
years was a distinguished member of the Spartan
burg bar, served as a member of Congress from
1876 to 1884, and raade a brilliant record as a sol
dier and officer in the war between the states in
which he coraraanded a regiment. Martha Evins
was a daughter of S. M. Evins and a granddaughter
of Alexander Evins, who served under "Mad" An
thony Wayne in the Revolutionary war. Alexander
.Evins became one of the founders and a ruling elder
of Nazareth Presbyterian Church, the oldest church
in Spartanburg County. Martha Evins' mother was a

daughter of Gen. Thomas Moore, who fought at
the battle of Cowpens when only sixteen years old,
and afterwards becarae a brigadier-general in the
War of 1812, and was equally prorainent in state
politics, serving as congressraan frora South Caro
lina from 1801 to 1813 and again frora 1815 to 1817.
Glenn W. Grier. Since leaving college Glenn W.
Grier has given his undivided attention to the cotton
mill industry. He has a wide and varied knowledge
of the industry in general, and has been particularly
expert in the manageraent of the mills at Fairmont
in Spartanburg County.
Mr. Grier was born at Georgetown, South Caro
lina, in 1883. The Grier faraily orginated in Scot
land and its merabers carae to America from the
north of Ireland, first locating in Pennsylvania and
thence coraing southward to Meclclenburg County,
North Carolina, York County, South Carolina, and
Georgetown in lower South Carolina. Mr. Grier rep-
sents the branch of the faraily at Georgetown. His
father Rev. Jaraes E. Grier was a Methodist rainister
of the South Carolina Conference. The son grew up in
a number of coraraunities where his father was a
pastor, and received the best of educational oppor
tunities. He graduated from Wofford College in
Spartanburg with the class of 1903, and also spent
two years in Vanderbilt University. His first con
nection with the cotton raill business was in the
raills at Clinton, South Carolina. He came to the
Fairmont Manufacturing Company at Fairmont
in Spartanburg County in 191 1, and is secretary and
raanager of the big business which is the chief fea
ture of that town. The Fairraont raills constitute
a textUe plant of the first class equipped with raodel
K draper looms of which there are 328, and 12,608
spindles. The raill raanufactures print cloths and
fancies. Fairraont mUl is one of the oldest in South Caro
lina, having first been started in 1846. The miU and
surrounding viUage have a raost beautiful location
on the Middle Fork of the Tyger River. The large
dara buUt by the corapany affords one of the finest
water powers in the Piedraont region.
Mr. Grier is a business executive who concerns
himself with the general welfare of his town and
aU other matters of interest to Spartanburg County.
Besides his position in the mill he is postmaster
of Fairmont. In the spring of 1917 he married Miss
Floy E. Edwards of Baltimore. They have a son
Glenn W., Jr.
LoNNiE Murdock Gasque, as a merchant, lawyer,
public official, is one of the most widely known raen
of Marion County, where he has spent all his life.
He was born at Marion Septeraber 25, 1865, a son
of Eli Henry and Sallie (Shaw) Gasque. His
father who was a son of Henry and Harriet (Port
er) Gasque was born at Marion May 8, 1834. In
May, 1861, he became a private in the Eighth Missis
sippi Regiraent, later was proraoted to first lieuten
ant, was in raost of the campaigns under Bragg,
Hood and. Johnston and was twice wounded. Dur
ing the war he engaged in the raercantile business
in Marion County and in 1870 raoved to the City of
Marion and for a long period of years was one of
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alderraan and raayor of the town, an official in the
Alethodist Church for raany years, and was past
high priest of Marion Chapter, Royal Arch Masons,
past master of Clinton Lodge No. 60, Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons, and became grand high priest
in the Grand Chapter of the state. He was twice
married, his first wife being Sallie Shaw and his
second wife Sarah Foxworth.
Lonnie AI. Gasque was educated in the Marion
High School, the University of South Carolina, and
Wofford CoUege. For a nuraber of years he was
associated with his father in the raerchandise busi
ness until the store was sold in 1904. He studied
law under J. Monroe Johnson, was adraitted to the
bar in igo8, and has since engaged in a general prac
tice. Frora igi4 to igi8, two terras, he served as sol
icitor of the Twelfth Circuit. He was a member of
the Legislature in i8g7-98, the first Legislature under
the new constitution. In 1899 he was chief clerk in
the comptroller's office at Columbia, and again rep
resented his horae county in the Legislature frora
1904 to 1912. He is a director of the Planters Bank
of Marion. Mr. Gasque is a Knight Teraplar Mason
and Shriner, a Knight of Pythias and a raeraber of
the college fraternity Phi Delta Theta. He is a
forraer steward of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
October 2-j, 1891, he raarried Evelyn Oliver, who
died July 7, 1895, leaving a daughter Maggie Eve
lyn. On AprU 12, i8g9, Mr. Gasque married Lizzie
Oliver. Clarence McLaurin. The personal influence and
financial stabUity of Clarence McLaurin are the re
sult of energetic application to farming and capable
management of his varied and important interests.
This leading planter, who resides in one of the finest
homes in the state, located eleven miles west of
DiUon, in D.iUon County has been the architect of
his own fortunes, and at a tirae in life when most
men are just getting into their stride has already
a number of notable achievements to his credit.
Farming and merchandising, under his methods.
have yielded him a gratifying income, and while he
has been busily engaged in forwarding his personal
affairs, he has- not lost sight of the interests ahd
needs of his community, and his well manifested
public spirit has caused hira to be accounted one
of his locality's useful, helpful and constructive
citizens. Air. McLaurin was born at what is now the com
munity of AlcCall, Alarlboro County, South Caro
lina, Noveraber 13, 1871, a son of John McLaurin.
His father was a native of the same locality and
a lifelong planter, a vocati6n in which he achieved
success, and when only sixteen years of a.ge en
listed in the army of the Confederacy and fought
with valor throughout the war between the states.
He married Kittie Jane Hubbard, a native of
Alarlboro County, South Carolina, and a daughter of
Peter Hubbard of the same county, and they became
the parents of seven children, of whom Clarence
was the second in order of birth.
Clarence McLaurin attended the public schools of
the rural community in 'which he was born, follow
ing which he pursued a course in the military school
at Winston-Salem, North Carolina, known as Davis
School, Upon the corapletion of his studies he re

turned to the horae place and continued to assist his
father in his operations until 1895, in which year he
erabarked upon independent planting ventures and
in the sawmill business. In 1902 he built his pres
ent coraraodious residence eleven railes west of Dil
lon, where he has continued to make his home, and
in which coraraunity he is now the owner of 1,200
acres of splendidly cultivated land, on which he
raises great crops of cotton, corn and other products.
He is an excellent farmer, thoroughly versed in all'
modern raethods, and energetic, industrious and
practical. His reputation in business circles is one
that can be gained only by a raan whose record
has shown nothing but honorable transactions and
his status as a citizen is equally high.
Mr. McLaurin was raarried on July 15, 1896, to
Miss Sallie McLean, daughter of Dr. AdviUe Mc
Lean, a native of .North Carolina, who settled in
Marion County, South Carolina, just foUov/ing the
close of the war between the states, and for tbiny-
five years was a prorainent practicing physician
there. He raarried Diana Alford, of a prominent
faraily of old Marion County, and Mrs. McLauren
is their only child who grew to maturity. She was
educated at Winston-Salem, in the Salem Academy,
and is a lady of culture, refinement and many social
gifts and graces.
In addition to his large plantation Mr. McLaurin
has numerous other interests, prominent among
which is his general store at Minturn, Marlboro
County, which he has built up to large proportions.
He also has social and civic connections of a prom
inent character, and is generally accounted one of
the representatives of the leading DiUon County
citizenship. In igio, the tirae of death of Mrs. T. C. McSwain,
Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin took her two sons into
their home and have cared and are educating them
same as if they were their own chUdren. The elder,
AlcCallura, now twenty-three years of age served
eighteen raonths in the Thirty-Fifth Division, over-
.seas service, and is now attending South ckrolina
University of Law, and the younger brother,
ihomas C, Jn fifteen years of age, is attending
high school. The McSwain boys are sons of Dr.
Ihomas Curtis and Mary McCallum McSwain. Doc
tor McSwain is from FayettevUle, North Carolina, a
very brilfiant man and noted surgeon, and was as
sistant surgeon in the United States Army in the
bpanish-Amencan war, serving eighteen raonths in
the Philippines He graduated frora Colurabia Uni
versity New York, and is now in South Araerica.
Mrs McSw.^in vvas a daughter of the late Brown
McCallum of this county, and was an attractive,
cultured woman. Since her death her two sons have
made their home with Air. and Mrs. AIcLaurin.
J^JfJj^"^^ Mangum.. a striking iUustration of
what perseverance, integrity, and faithful discharge
ot duty will accomplish, when combined with a high
o/'lLlsT't' --^'fonsibility, is found in the carfer
of Inglis Parks Mangum, who has been before the
p bl^"nffl Chesterfield County as the incumbent of
been .1.^'% 'If" ^^^' ^"^ w'^° ^'n^e igi2 has
he Ls , "L^^^ ""^.""t^' °"""^ this long period
he has exhibited qualities of faithfulness and con
scientiousness, which with his recognized ability.

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have served to place him high in the confidence of
the people.
Mr. Mangum was born in Chesterfield County,
South Carolina, April 20, 1869, a son of Gibson D.
Mangum, a native of the same county. The father
was but si.xteen years of age when he ran away frora
home and raanaged to enlist in the Confederate
army, subsequently serving three years as a private
during the war between the states. For raany years
he was engaged in agricultural pursuits and be
carae a well-to-do and highly respected citizen of
his county, where his death occurred at the age of
seventy-one years. His widow, who survives hira
at the age of seventy-five years, and is in the best
of health and spirits, bore the raaiden name of
Elizabeth Rigg, and is a native of this county. Of
their eleven children, ten grew to maturity, and
eight are living in 1919.
The second in order of birth of his parents' chil
dren, Inglis Parks Mangum attended the common
schools, after leaving which his education was self-
secured. As a youth he began teaching in the public
schools, and while so engaged became interested in
•civic affairs, gradually becoming a decided influ
ence in local politics. He was but twenty-seven
years of age when, in 1896, he was elected county
treasurer of Chesterfield County, and so efficient and
satisfactory were his services as the incumbent of that
high position that he was retained therein for ten
years, longer than the incumbency of anjy other man
who has ever held the office. During his term of
office he did much to place the finances of the county
upon a sound basis and his industry and wise man
agement resulted in the inauguration of a number of
greatly-needed reforms. For the following six years
he applied himself to farming on his large planta
tion, but in 1912 he was again called to public office,
this time as clerk of the courts. In 1916 he was
again chosen for a term of four years and at present
is devoting his entire time and energies to his offi
cial duties, having recently disposed of his plantation,
although he still owns a small and valuable prop
erty. Mr. Mangum is a public official whose work
has been constructive and useful and whose record
bears no stain or blemish. As a fraternalist he be
longs to the local lodges of the Masons and Knights
of Pythias. For thirty-three years he has been a
faithful raember of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
in the work of which he takes an active and helpful
interest, and educational matters have also had the
benefit of his co-operation and support, as have all
worthy charities.
Mr. Mangum was married April 17, 1901, to Sarah
Ella Funderbark, and they are the parents of four
daughters and three sons : Mary Inglis, Atha Thom
as, Sarah Reece, Alma Elizabeth, Thomas Gibson,
Inglis Parks, Jr., and Ben Welsh.
W. J. Perry, M. D. In adding the name of Dr.
W. J. Perry to its citizenship in 190S, Chesterfield
was to profit by the services of a man who possessed
both the ambition and abUity to make himself a
factor of professional usefulness. Not only has he
become one of the leading physicians and surgeons
of Chesterfield County, but has also been promi
nently identified with banking, planting and real
estate interests, and at the sarae time has rendered

valuable services to his community in movements
for the general welfare. He is a native of Union
County, North Carolina, and was born near Wingate,
October. 5, 1877, fifth in the family of nine chUdren
of WUliara Marion Perry and Martha E. (Moore)
Perry. Doctor Perry is a raeraber of an old and honored
Araerican family and comes of good fighting stock.
His great-great-grandfather was Jereraiah Perry,
vvho met the death of a patriotic soldier of the Con
tinental line during the War of the Revolution, and
his great-great-great-grandfather was Paul Perry.
His great-grandfather, the honored Williara Perry,
volunteered as a soldier during the Mexican war,
and raised a corapany, not seeing active service on
account of the terraination of the war. He rose to
the rank of captain, and the sword that he used is
still one of the faraily's raost cherished possessions.
The sword was taken from the body of Jeremiah
and presented to the doctor by his grandraother.
Jereraiah Perry, the grandfather of Doctor Perry,
was a native of Union County, North Carolina, and
there was also born Williara Marion Perry, father
of Dr. W. J. who enlisted in the Confederate army
when but seventeen years of age and fought through
the War between the States as a private, achieving
an enviable record for gallant and faithful perform
ance of duty. At the close of his mUitary service
he returned to his native locality, where during the
reraainder of his life he engaged in farming. He
was one of the progressive agriculturists of his day
and operated his land with the latest improved ma
chinery and the most highly approved modern meth
ods. His wife, Martha E. Moore, was born in the
same county, a daughter of Samuel R. Moore, also
of that county, and a granddaughter of Moses
Moore. After completing his primary educational train
ing in the public schools of Union County, W. J.
Perry, who had no intention of following an agri
cultural career, took up his professional studies in
the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons,
frora which noted institution he was graduated with
the class of 1900, receiving the degree of Doctor of
Medicine. His first location was in Toxahaw, Lan
caster County, South Carolina, where he reraained
untU 1905, in November of which year he estab
lished himself in practice at Chesterfield. Since then
a gratifying patronage has grown up around him,
and a large following has responded to his practical
demonstration of skill and resource. A rare qual
ity among professional men, he has also shrewd
financial sagacity, and is one of the wealthiest men
in Chesterfield County, holding large interests in
real estate and bank stock, as well as being the own
er of a plantation of 900 acres, in two tracts which
is farmed on shares. He is rated as one of the well-
informed citizens of the community, taking an in
terest in politics and allying himself with movements
raaking for progress and advancement along all
lines of activity. In addition to belonging to the va
rious organizations of his profession, he holds mem
bership in the Masonic fraternity. He has a tactful
and sympathetic manner, and a personality which
inspires confidence in his good will and ability.
In 1898 Doctor Perry was married to Martha Grif
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occurred in 1907, when he was united with Essie
Burns Buchanan, and they have three sons : William
Louis, Percival and Jerry Buchanan.
William Joseph Keenan has been a business raan
of Columbia for over thirty years, and is one of the
veteran factors in that typical South Carolina in
dustry, naval stores. He has one of the oldest
firms in that line in the state.
Air. Keenan was born at Charleston, South Caro
lina, September 15, 1857, son of Dennis and Cather
ine (Woods) Keenan. His father was in the cot
ton business for many years. The son had a public
school and private school education and for three
years clerked in a wholesale dry goods house and
then entered the naval stores business at Charleston.
Beginning as clerk, he was made manager of one of
the large concerns in that city, and being thoroughly
equipped by broad and detailed experience he carae
to Colurabia in 1885 and established the W. J.
Keenan Naval Stores business. He has conducted
that continuously and is also a director of the
National Loan and Exchange Bank. Mr. Keenan is
a member of the Colurabia and Ridgewood clubs
and forraer president of the latter.
July 7, 1886, he raarried Miss Mary Motz of Co
lurabia, daughter of Capt. PhUip Motz. They have
an interesting faraily of five children and several
grandchildren. Eleanor is the wife of Sidney Brown
Hyatt of Colurabia, and has two children naraed
Mary and Julia. May is the wife of Edward Cay
of Colurabia. Elizabeth married Harry Roberts
Stephenson of Greenville and has one son, H. R.,
Jr. Julia is the wife of Capt. Cosmo Lowry Walker,
of Colurabia, a captain in the Thirtieth Field Artil
lery of the National Array. Williara Joseph Keenan,
Jr., holds a coraraission as a first lieutenant and is
now with the Expeditionary Forces in France.
Joseph W.-^lker began his business career at Co
lurabia in 1901 at the age of sixteen, and frora a
hurable start has risen to a position -among the
prominent cotton men of the South.
He was born at YorkvUle, York County, in 188 1,
son of J. O. and Alinnie (Lowry) Walker. The
Lowry faraily are descendants of early Scotch
Presbyterian settlers of York County. J. O. Walker,
who died a few years ago, was a native of Union
County, but in early life his faraily moved to York
County. His raother was a meraber of the historic
Bratton family of York County. All these various
families represent a high character of citizenship
which has long been associated with the people of
York County, and the Walkers, Lowrys and Brat-
tons have at different times played an important
part in the history of the state.
Joseph Walker left school at Yorkville at the
age of sixteen, and carae to Colurabia in igoi. For
two weeks he worked at wages of $3.50 a week in a
furniture store. Then came the opportunity to
engage in the cotton business with W. E. Smith &
Company. For two seasons he bought cotton on the
street and then entered the eraploy of the AI. C.
Heath Corapany. For two years he remained on a
salary and then was proraoted to a raembership in the
firm, with which he enjoyed successful relations for
twelve years. Mr. Walker in igi7 established the

firra of Hollowell & Walker, and for the season
1918-19 the volurae of its business was estimated at
65,000 bales of cotton. Mr. Walker was honored
in August, 1919, by being elected a raeraber of the
New York Cotton Exchange. He is also a mem
ber of the Rotary Club of Columbia.
He raarried Miss Claudia Sadler of Rock Hill,
York County. Their four children are Joseph, Jr.,
Marian Adele, Robert Cosmo and Claude.
Lewellyn Fletcher Pearce. For nearly ten
years Mr. Pearce h'as been quietly and efficiently per
forming his work and raaking good with the Co
lurabia Railway, Gas and Electric Corapany, and re
cently the general public was raade aware of his
iraportance and value to that corporation when he
was elected secretary of the corapany.
Mr. Pearce was born at PrattviUe, Alabama, in
1886, son of W. W. and Mary Elvira (Spigener)
Pearce. His mother died at PrattviUe, Alabama, and
was raeraber of a prorainent South Carolina family.
Her father. Col. Lewellyn Spigener, forraerly of St.
Matthews, South Carolina, went to Alabaraa before
the war, and was colonel of an Alabama regiment in
the Confederate army. W. W. Pearce was a native
of Alabama, and since 1904 has been engaged in busi
ness in Columbia.
Lewellyn Fletcher Pearce finished his high school
education in PrattvUle, and after coraing to Colum
bia attended Draughan's Business College, receiving
diplomas in bookkeeping and stenography. He en
tered the service of the Columbia Railway, Gas and
Electric Company in 1910, first as stenographer in
the office of Mr. WUliara Elliott, general manager,
and in January, igi2, becarae stenographer for Mr.
Edward Wales Robertson, president of the corpora
tion. While his nominal duties for five years were
as stenographer to the president, he was, as a matter
of fact, achieving additional responsibilities from
tirae to time and acquiring a knowledge of the cor
poration's affairs that put him in direct line for
promotion. Then for two years he practically dis
charged the duties of the office of secretary, and
on Deceraber 17, igig, the directors gave him his
well merited promotion to that office. At the time
he was elected secretary of the Parr Shoals Power
Company. These are the corporations chiefly re
sponsible for the public service, the street railway,
electric light and power and gas in the City of Co
lurabia. Mr. Pearce also has business charge of
the office building of the National Loan and Ex
change Bank.
In igii at Columbia he married Miss Sadie Greg
ory, member of the well known Union County fam
Uy of that name. Their three children are: Lewellyn
Gregory, Edraund Spigener, and Mary Emily. Mr.
Pearce and family are merabers of the Shandon
Methodist Church, South.
Alexander Mason Gibbes, a son of Wade Hamp
ton Gibbes, has had an interesting and successful
business career since he left college in early life,
and IS today the active head and owner of the
Gibbes Machinery Company, wholesale and retaU
dealers in machinery, with headquarters at Colum
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son of Wade Hampton and Jane (Mason) Gibbes.
His father was born at Columbia April 3, 1837, was
prepared for college by James H. Carlisle, spent
154 years in the Arsenal at Charleston, and in June,
i860, was graduated frora the West Point Military
Academy. On Deceraber 20, i860, he resigned his
office as a lieutenant in the United States Army,
and on the day that South Carolina seceded was ap
pointed a lieutenant of the South Carolina Regulars.
He resigned to go with the army into Virginia and
served under Wise in the West Virginia campaign
as major of artillery. During a part of 1861 he
served as commander of the Conscript Camp at
Columbia, was with Kirby Smith in Kentucky, for
one year was coraraander of the post at Wilraington,
North Carolina, and served as major of artillery in
Longstreet's Corps from the Wilderness to Peters
burg. He was desperately wounded and surrendered
with Lee's army at Appomattox. After the war
he held the office of county treasurer of Richland
County for ten years and for 4^4 years was post
master of Columbia. He was a raan of genuine
distinction in the City of Columbia, was a mera
ber of the city council an.d for twenty-one years
was a director of the Central National Bank.
Alexander Mason Gibbes attended the Colurabia
graded schools and the South Carolina College,
but had to leave college in the midst of his sopho
more year to go into business with his father. In
1902 he took over the business individually and^
changed the firm name from W. H. Gibbes & Com
pany to the Gibbes Machinery Corapany, which was
incorporated Deceraber 31, 1913. This corapany
does business all over North and South Carolina and
portions of Virginia and Georgia as both wholesale
and retaU machinery dealers. Automobile parts
manufactured by the company are shipped through
out the entire United States. Mr. Gibbes is also a
director in the National Loan and Exchange Bank
of Colurabia, was president of the Columbia Auto
mobUe Dealers' Association, president South Caro
lina Autoraotive Trade Association, and vice pres
ident of the City Developraent Corapany. He is a
meraber of the Chamber of Comraerce and the Co
lumbia and Ridgewood clubs.
April 9, 1902, at Columbia he married Caroline Le
Conte, daughter of Louis and Caroline LeConte.
To their raarriage were born four chUdren naraed
Caroline LeConte, Elizabeth Mason, Margaret E.,
and Alexander Mason, Jr.
J. C. McCain is now rounding out his second four
year terra as sheriff of Richland County. At the
close of his second terra his record has more than
justified the support and backing of the best citizen
ship of the county and the capital city of the state.
He has been first an efficient sheriff, and then a
popular official, has enforced the la-w without fear or
favor, and has given the best of his individual talents
and ability to the service.
Mr. McCain, who has long been a resident of Co
lurabia, was born in Edgefield County, July 29, 1865,
son of Rev. John K. and Sallie (Reynolds) AlcCain.
His parents are both deceased. He was only a sraaU
boy when his raother died. She was a raeraber of
the well known Reynolds family of Edgefield Coun
ty. His grandfather, William L. McCain, was an

early Scotch-Irish settler of AbbeviUe County, and
assisted in developing the famous Dorn gold raine in
that county.
The late Rev. John K. McCain was a greatly
beloved Methodist minister. Born in AbbevUle
County, he has many of the best characteristics of
the hardy Scotch-Irish who settled in Virginia,
North Carolina, and South Carolina. He worked
under the itinerant systera of the ministry, and filled
raany pastorates in cities and coraraunities in Upper
South Carolina.
Sheriff McCain lived for three years with his
grandparents on a farm near Greer in Greenville
County. He had that best of all training for a youth,
life on a farm, until he was twenty-one years of
age. Mr. McCain is an old railroad man. For six
teen years he was a popular conductor, first on the
Southern Railway, later with the Colurabia, Ne-w-
berry & Laurens RaUroad. His horae has been in
Colurabia since Septeraber, 1893. He was elected
sheriff of Richland County in 1912 and re-elected in
igi6. He is also in business at Colurabia, being own
er of the McCain Drug Corapany, which raaintains
one of the best drug stores on Main Street. In fra
ternal circles Mr. McCain is a meraber of the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he is
past noble grand. As a Knight of Pythias, he is a
past chancellor; he also holds membership in the
Elks, Eagles, Woodmen of the World, Red Men,
Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and in
the Order of RaUway Conductors.
December 23, 1886, he raarried Miss Hattie Leit-
ner of Fairfield County. Their five children are Wil
liara A., Alice F., Sallie R., Hattie LucUe and Sue I.
Capt. John Frost Walker, Jr., for fifteen years
has been a prorainent raeraber of the Union bar,
though for over two years his service beginning on
the Mexican border and continuing during the war
with Germany allowed him little time for active prac
tice. Captain Walker was born in Richland County,
South Carolina, in 1882, son of J. F. and Nannie B.
(Flannigan) 'Walker. His grandfather was the
late George E. Walker, one of the first architects of
South Carolina. He was architect of the State
House at Columbia and also the Custora House at
Charleston. J. F. Walker for many years has been
a prominent factor in the public affairs of Rich
land County and is clerk of the court of that coun
ty in Colurabia.
John Frost Walker, Jr., was educated in the pub
lic schools of Colurabia and graduated frora the law
department of the University of South Carolina in
igo4. In the summer of that year he entered the
law school of the University of Virginia. After re
turning from Virginia he took up the practice of law
and in a few years had acquired a large business and
clientage at Union and his prestige in the local bar
was sufficient to bridge over the long interruption
to his professional activities caused by the war and
almost immediately on resuraing his place in the
local bar he was presented with all the work he
could handle.
Captain Walker served two terms, four years, in
the Legislature, representing Union County from
igi3 to 1916. He is a veteran of the South Caro-

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lina National Guard or Alilitia. As a boy , in Co
lumbia he was a raeraber of the Governor's Guard and
with that organization he attended the funeral of
the late Governor Harapton. As captain of Com
pany E of the First South Carolina Infantry he
went to the Mexican border in command of his
company in 1916, -and was on the border untU his
regiment was returned to the state in December,
igi6. In April, igi7, he was called into the Na
tional Array, retaining his rank as captain. At first
he was captain of Corapany E of the One Hundred
and Eighteenth Infantry of the Thirtieth Division.
In April, igi8, he was transferred to Carap Wads
worth at Spartanburg and made captain of Com
pany L in the Sixty-Second Pioneer Division. He
was with that organization untU December, igi8,
and in March, igig, was assigned to duty at New
port News, Virginia. He was discharged Septera
ber 25, 1919, at Carap Gordon, Georgia.
Captain 'Walker was married in June, 1908, to
Miss Cornelia Greer of Union, daughter of J. M.
Greer. They have two children, J. Frost Walker,
III, and Wesley Martin Walker.
Capt. Andrew Adger Manning is a Spartanburg
lawyer, and in the sumraer of igig resumed his prac
tice in that city after two years in the army. He
is the eldest son of WiUiara Sinkler Manning, also
of Spartanburg, and a nephew of forraer Governor
Richard I. Manning.
Captain Manning was born in Sumter County No
veraber 30, 1880, the son of Williara Sinkler Man
ning and his wife, Margaret Crawford Adger,
daughter of Wjlliara and Margaret Hall Adger of
Charleston. In 1881 his parents raoved to Spartan
burg, where his father had accepted a position with
D. E. Converse. Though W. S. Manning retained
his farming and other interests in Lower South
Carolina, he grew up with the cotton mill business
and became an active factor in the affairs of Spar
tanburg, a director or stockholder in banks and
cotton mills, a trustee of Converse College and also
of the Diocese of South Carolina. Of the seven
children of WiUiara S. and the late Margaret
Crawford (Adger) Manning, three only are now
living, Andrew A. Manning, Charles S. Manning
of Louisville, Kentucky, who was also in the service,
and Margaret, wife of Edwin Malloy of Cheraw,
South Carolina.
Andrew A. Manning attended the schools of Spar
tanburg, graduated from Wofford College in 1901,
and in law from the University of Virginia, where
both his father and his grandfather had 'been stu
dents in their day, in 1904. He had been employed
in legal work for the Government for some years
when the war with Germany came. He gave up
his position and entered the service in line duty,
was in training at Camp Oglethorpe, and in the fall
of 1917 was comraissioned a lieutenant of infantry
and ordered to the Fifty-Sixth Infantry, and sorae
months later to the Three Hundred and Third Cav
alry. Afterward this cavalry regiment was con
verted into two field artillery regiments, and Man
ning with other officers, was ordered to the School
of Fire for Field Artillery at Fort Sill, Oklahoraa.
After his graduation there he was returned to his
regiraent, made an instructor in Officers' School and

thereafter placed in command of Battery C, Fifty-
Second Field Artillery, Eighteenth Division.
After his discharge from the army he resumed
law practice at Spartanburg, South Carolina, in
June, igig. Mr. Manning is a Knight Templar Ma
son and Shriner and a meraber of the Episcopal
Chvtrch. Hon. John Knapp Hamblin. Probably no recent
achievement has done more to put South Carolina
-in the van of progressive states than the enactment
of the corapulsory education law in the 1919 session.
For all the absorbing interest of the great war and
reconstruction newspapers and journals all over
the country have commented upon that piece of legis
lation, which was enacted after a long period of op
position and indifference and put South Carolina
araong the most enlightened states of the Union. •
It is an honor and distinction such as any senior
statesman of South Carolina might covet to have
his narae associated with that law. Significant per
haps of the vitality and the progressive spirit of
South Carolina is the fact that the author of the biU
is one of the state's brilliant young lawyers, who
has achieved an enviable place in his profession and
in public affairs since he located at Union about
fifteen years ago.
John Knapp Harablin was born at Magnolia in
Duplin County, North Carolina, March 22, 1881, a
son of J. C. and Rebecca (Carroll) Harablin. His
father was a native of Greenville, Pennsylvania,
and his raother of North Carolina. The son acquired
a coraraon school education, attended the University
of North Carolina, and studied law also at Chapel
Hill. He paid his own way through college and law
school. In his early life he taught school at Pel-
hara, Georgia, and in 1903 came to Union and began
the practice of law. His attainments have well mer
ited the many official honors bestowed upon him. He
has been city attorney and United States commis
sioner and is now county attomey of Union County.
He was elected to represent Union County in
the House of Representatives in 1917. He served
capably during the sessions of 1917-18, and by re
election in 1918 became a member of the historic
session of 1919. He is fourth ranking member of
the judiciary committee. Besides his authorship of
the compulsory education law passed in 1919, he was
co-author of the biU, which failed to pass, providing
compulsory sewerage systems for miU vUlages; was
co-author of the bill prohibiting sale of alcoholic
patent medicines which became a law, and was co
author of the bill requiring dental and medical in
spection of all school chUdren, which was enacted
into law.
Mr. Hamblin is deacon of the West Side Baptist
Church and teacher of the Baraca Class in its Sun
day school. His first wife. Miss Eva Croom of Mag
nolia, IS deceased. He married for his present wife
Miss Mary Atkins of Norwood, North Carolina.
They have a son Merriman Hamblin and a daugh
ter, Carroll Spencer Hamblin.
S. . C. Hays, M. D. A prominent physician and
surgeon at Clinton, Doctor Hays began his pro
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diligent preparation. He is a graduate of the Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia Uni
versity of New York. He received his M. D. de
gree there in igi3, and has honorary membership
in the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Fraternity.
For two years he remained in New York City as
an interne in Bellevue Hospital and one year in
the Nursery and Children's Hospital.
Leslie St. Clair Hays was born March 2, 1888,
at Clinton, son of A. Nixon and Margaret (Adair)
Hays, both natives of South Carolina. His father,
who died raore than twenty years ago, at the age of
forty-two, spent his active life as a raerchant at
Clinton and at Greenwood. His raother is still
living. Dr. Hays was the only son araong three children.
He grew up at Clinton, and in 1906 received his
A. B. degree frora the Presbyterian College of
South Carolina. He reraained with that institution
.one year as an instructor, spent another year as a
teacher in the high school at Dillon, and then be
gan the study of raedicine in New York City. Doc
tor Hays is especially well known for his skill and
proved ability as a surgeon. He has charge of the
Clinton Hospital, which was erected in 1917, and
is also surgeon for the Thornwell Orphanage at
Clinton. He was president for 1919 of the -Laurens
County Medical Society, is a raeraber of the State
Medical and Southern Medical associations, a Fel
low of the Araerican Medical Association and also
belongs to the Clinical Congress of Surgeons. He
is a Knight Templar Mason, member of the Mystic
Shrine, Knights of Pythias and Presbyterian Church.
Doctor Hays volunteered to do his part in the
United States Army during the war. He was com
missioned a lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps
in 1918 and until December of that year served as
an operating surgeon at the General Hospital No.
14 at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. In 1916 he raar
ried Miss Virginia Owens, who died in igi7. In
1919 Miss Helen Happ becarae his wife.
Skottowe Bellinger Fishburne, M. D., who be
gan general practice at Columbia twenty years ago,
in a few years had attained high rank araong his
professional brethren in the capital city and in recent
years has confined his work exclusively to a special
ty in eye, ear, nose and throat.
Doctor Fishburne's early life was one of much
self denial and adversity, but he inherits the char
acteristics of some notable ancestors. He was bom
at JohnsonviUe in WUliamsburg County, South
Carolina, in 1875, son of Rev. Charles CarroU and
Mary Isabelle (Bellinger) Fishburne. The Bel
lingers are a family of rauch historic interest, par
ticularly in the old Colleton district. They were
descended from Landgrave Edraund BeUinger, who
with a grant of land frora the King of England
settled in Charleston about the year 1700 or soon
afterward. A specially famous character was Rev. Lucius
Bellinger, grandfather of Doctor Fishburne. He
was an Evangelist of the ante-bellum days. Though
a Methodist, he never joined a Conference, his in
dependent spirit and desire to be free frora the re
strictions of conferences or organizations of earthly
authority prompting him' to perform his work ac-
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cording to the light of revelations ana his own con
victions. He preached the old fashioned Bible doc
trines of heaven and hell, and preached with such
realisra and such a gift of word painting and such
religious fervor and eloquence that few evangelists
ever had greater success measured by the number
of converts. In his time he was frequently referred
to as the "war horse" of the pulpit.
The Fishburne faraily is of English origin, and
for a number of generations they have been prom
inent in Charleston and the lower section of the
state. Rev. Charles Carroll Fishburne was a Metho
dist minister of. the South Carolina Conference and
filled a number' of charges in the lower counties.
He died leaving his widow and a nuraber of chil
dren, Skottowe being a sraall boy at the tirae. Their
home was at Bamberg, where Doctor Fishburne
first attended school. He also attended the Car
lisle Fitting School. His education was seldom
continuous, since he had to do his duty in helping
support his raother and the other chUdren. The
persistence and self reliance with which he pursued
his ambition for a professional career have been
qualities of the greatest value since he entered upon
his chosen work. He had to leave the State "Uni
versity at Columbia at the corapletion of the junior
year. He studied raedicine in the Medical College
of the State of South Carolina and was graduated
with the class of 1900. In the same year he located
at Colurabia and started to acquire a practice with
out a cent of capital. His talents and his enthu
siasra for his work soon brought him favor and a
growing general practice. For six years he was
county physician of Richland County and for three
years city health officer of Columbia. He resigned
the latter office in AprU, 1918.
In the meantirae, as a result of post-graduate work
in New York in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and
throat. Doctor Fishburne was thoroughly well quali
fied for his special line of practice, which he has
followed since the summer of igi8. For seven
months of the period of the war with Gerraany
he held the rank of captain in the Medical Reserve
Corps and was stationed at Carap Gordon, Georgia,
as a specialist of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He
is a raember of the Columbia Medical Society and
the State and Southern Medical associations.
Noveraber 11, igo3. Doctor Fishburne raarried
Miss Marion Lee Green, of Colurabia, daughter of
the late Meltiah B. and Marion Elizabeth (Spige
ner) Green. Grandfather Green was a native of
Springfield, Massachusetts, and of an old faraily of
that New England city. Coraing south and set
tling in Colurabia, he reared a large faraily, and
every one of his sons joined the Confederate array
in the war between the states.
Christopher H. Peake. Union County has hard
ly a more widely known and more prominent citi
zen than Christopher H. Peake, extensively en
gaged as a planter, a man of important resources
and influence, and a former lawyer and public of
ficial. Mr. Peake was born on a plantation three miles
from Union and is a son of Glenn D. and Narcissa
(Beaty) Peake, being of English ancestry in the
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He was liberally educated, attending the Univer
sity of Virginia. He was in the law school when
it was presided over by the great jurist and scholar
John B. Minor. With a training received in one of
the best law schools of the country, he returned
to Union and began the private practice of law.
This was soon interrupted by his election as Mas
ter in Equity for Union County. In that office he
served steadUy, efficiently and with rare skill of ad
ministration for nearly twenty years. Since retir-
.ing from office Mr. Peake has given his chief time
and attention to agriculture. He owns several fine
farms in Union and Spartanburg counties, and is
one of the largest planters in that section of the
state. He was one of the organizers of the Farmers
Bank & Trust Company, of Union, and was raade
its president. This bank has a capital stock of
$100,000, and does a general banking business.
Air. Peake has always been public spiritedly iden
tified with raovements affecting the welfare of his
home city and county. He is a raeraber of the
Masonic Order. He married Miss Agnes Rice, of
Union, member of a well known family of that
county. George R. Koester. While few newspaper editors
or publishers ever get into the millionaire class or
achieve social prominence as one of the Four Hun
dred, they are supposed to have a wealth of ex
perience and an insight into raen and events which
sets thera apart and gives them a distinction com
pensating in some respects for the uncertainties of
their profession and the lack of curaulative pros
perity. The real newspaper raan in fact has only
a raodest passion for money, and his achievements
must be measured by other standards.
Araong South Carolina newspaper men who have
given their time and talents ungrudgingly to the
success of their newspaper and have achieved
definite and satisfying results in that direction, one
of the raost conspicuous in George R. Koester, who
founded and raade successful the Colurabia Record,
but at Greenville, where he has lived since 1911,
has been even more successful in making the Pied
mont one of the highest class newspapers in the
state. George R. Koester was born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, in 1870, but in all other respects than
the accident of birth is a South Carolinian, since
his parents, William and Susanna (Wells) Koester,
came to Charleston when he was three months old
and he was reared and educated and had his first
newspaper experience in that city. His mother was
a native of New Jersey. The Koester famUy were
participants in the German Revolution of 1848 and
WiUiam Koester came to America when a very
young raan.
George R. Koester attended the public schools of
Charleston, and in 1885 entered Furraan University
at Greenville. During his school days in GreenviUe
he acquired a love for the city which has been
SteadUy growing and an increasing impetus to his
labors as a newspaper man in this city.
Mr. Koester taught school in 1887 and in the
sumraer of 1888 became a reporter for the Charles
ton Sun. In i8go he went with the Charleston
World as reporter and traveling correspondent and

in 1891 joined the staff of the Columbia Register,
first as a reporter and later as an editorial writer.
He founded the Columbia Record in 1897 and
conducted it until 1909, when he sold the property.
He made the Record the first really successful and
paying evening newspaper in Central and Lower
Carolina, and it remains as such to this day. He
had founded the Record without any capital, and it
was his individual personality permeating both the
editorial and business offices that was responsible
for its growth and success.
Mr. Koester came to GreenvUle in 191 1 and
bought The Piedraont, Greenville's afternoon news
paper, which was then in the hands of a receiver.
Behind it was a record of failure and considerable
dissatisfaction on the part of the public, a handicap
that Mr. Koester set about to overcome. In a few
years The Piedmont had outrun its inauspicious en
vironment, and has steadily grown until now every
evening issue contains from twelve to twenty-four
pages, and it stands as a raarvel araong newspaper
men how such a paper- can be published in a city
of the size and business of Greenville. The Pied
mont is a fine business property as well as fulfilling
all the other obligations and responsibilities of the
true newspaper. With its growth Mr. Koester found
it a physical impossibUity to handle both the editorial
and business departraents, and in order to provide
needed capital for further expansion he sold the
controlling interest in the paper in March, igig, to
Mr. J. Rion McKissick, who then becarae managing
editor in charge of the editorial and news coluran,
while Mr. Koester continued as publisher.
While The Piedraont today is truly a raonuraent to
Mr. Koester, he himself gives credit to sorae others
who have aided him in making this paper what it is.
It was Mr. Lewis W. Parker who brought hira to
Greenville and was his financial backer until the
day of his death. After a fire in igi6 had brought
heavy loss to the Piedmont plant. Air. Ben E. Geer
carae to Mr. Koester's rescue and made possible
the installation of a thoroughly raodern plant.
In recording the change of raanageraent and con
trol in The Piedraont in the editorial colurans.
Air. Koester in a happy vein that is characteristic
of many of his editorial utterances, told soraething
about his newspaper career and experience. He
said : "It IS not what a raan wants but what he-
gets that counts in this world. I have had a sneak
ing notion all along that that is true, but now I
'}¦ 000"'"'^'^, the newspaper game in the sum
mer of 1888, nearly thirty-one years ago. It was
not long before I formed an ambition to becorae an
editor. By an editor I raean one who has nothing
to do but read, study, confer with his fellow men
and write editorials. I have written a few thou
sand ftailes raore or less of editorials since I first
R °i;' °''.' °" the editorial page of the Colurabia
Register m 1892, but I have never been an editor in
my conception of an editor, for I have always had
twh I v,^''" *?"'" ^^'"S^^ to do on the papers with
which i have been connected besides providing stuff
to type up their editorial columns. And now I
hllL ¦ . "^A-f^ without obsequies my dreams of
being just editor of sorae paper.
hnvl';n7i"^r*' '""""^^^ ^P ^^ a business man and
have indulged a notion that I was just about ton

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times as well qualified to be an editor as I was
qualified to be a business man. Tangible results
are hard things to argue against. I may have won
some laurels by writing editorials, but they are
figurative laurels, whereas the business success of
the papers I have managed was evident to all men.
So there you are."
Mr. Koester could not keep wholly out of ed
itorial work. In the days when he was editor of
the Columbia Record and the GreenviUe Piedmont,
he was known as a controversial editor with a par
ticular aptitude for politics. Shortly after he sold
The Piedmont and dropped his editorial work on that
paper to devote his time to its business manageraent.
The Piedmont lost the services of an especially brU
liant paragrapher. Paragraphers who are more
than mere space fillers are hard to get. In this emer
gency Mr. Koester undertook to furnish a daily
paragraphic column for the Piedmont. He does
that work at home at nights and has made a success
of this branch of editorial work that he took up
so late in life. People throughout this country have
become famUiar with the credit line "From the
GreenviUe, S. C, Piedmont" by seeing it appended
to quotations from his column in the leading mag
azines and papers and on the movie screens.
Evidently Mr. Koester is a glutton for work and
responsibUity. When not in the newspaper counting
roora or editorial chair he has been working for
other public interests, and is especially widely known
as a Bible teacher. He is probably the only teacher
who teaches two Bible classes each Sunday. For
raerly he was a member of and teacher in the First
Baptist Church, but became interested in the needs
of the Poe VUlage Baptist Church, a miU church,
which he joined. In this church he teaches the
Bible class of the Baptist denomination in the
raorning, and the Bible class of the Methodist con
gregation, which meets in the same church in the
afternoon. In 1893 Mr. Koester married Eleanora Price
Browne. She was born in Barnwell County, They
have two children, George R., Jr., and Miss LUla
Browne Koester.
James S. Fouche, M. D. .A. physician and sur
geon, who served nearly a year with the rank of
captain in the Medical Corps in France, Dr. Fouche
was in practice in Abbeville County, the home of
his family and ancestors for several generations
until he entered the army, and since his return
has located at Columbia, where he is engaged in
the general practice of raedicine and surgery.
Doctor Fouche was born at Ninety-Six in Abbe
ville County in 1886, son of Laurens M. and Mollie
(Prince) Fouche. His mother was a sister of
Judge George E. Prince, of Anderson. The Fouche
family is of French Huguenot ancestry. In the
early part of the nineteenth century they came
from France and settled in Abbeville County. Doc
tor Fouche's grandfather, Maj. J. W. Fouche, was
a Confederate -officer all through the war. His
home at Ninety-Six during his absence was the
place of residence for the women and children of
many farailies who went to that city from Colum
bia. Doctor Fouche's father was for several years

connected with the office of collector of internal rev
enue at Columbia.
Doctor Fouche was educated in the Ninety-Six
High School, took a preparatory course at Phila
delphia, and studied medicine in the Medical Col
lege of South Carolina at Charleston, where he was
graduated in June, 1912. One year he spent in
Roper Hospital at Charleston, and in 1913 began
practice at Ninety-Six.
In the spring of 1918 he volunteered in the Medi
cal Reserve Corps, receiving his training at Carap
Johnson, Florida, and was commissioned lieutenant.
Early in September, 1918, he went overseas to
France and was attached to the United States Array
Hospital No. 39 at La Rochelle. La Rochelle hap
pens to be the ancient home of his ancestors the
Pouches. He was assigned duties as first assistant
in the operating room, and his later work in the
hospital kept hira in France for eleven months. In
the meantirae he was promoted to' the rank of cap
tain. He returned to America and received his hon
orable discharge in August, 1919. A young raan
of exceptional talents, of fine social connections.
Doctor Fouche on the basis of his previous record
has a brilliant career still before hira.
Robert Charlton Wright, editor and publisher
of the Columbia Record, has been a practical news
paper man from early youth, but has also had an
extensive experience in railroad and public utilities
management. Mr. Wright, who was born at Guyton, Georgia,
thi_rty miles from Savannah, January i, 1873, is de
scended from Carolina families of long and honor
able lineage. His ancestor, John Wright, with two
brothers, Laban and Stephen Wright, moved frora
Virginia to Bamberg County, then a part of Barn
well District, about 1790. On the raaternal side his
grandraother was Miss Sarah Folker, of Charles
ton. Mr. Wright is the third son of Williara A. and
Theodora (Patterson) Wright, the forraer a native
of Effingham County, Georgia, and the latter of
Key West, Florida. William A. Wright was a
newspaper editor at Savannah and later a lawyer and
judge in Waycross, Ware County, Georgia.
Robert Charlton Wright attended comraon schools,
was educated under a private tutor, and entered
journalisra with a weekly paper at Waycross. Dur
ing the early 'gos he was eraployed by the Savannah
Tiraes and the Atlanta Constitution, and in
i8g4-95 did advertising and press agent work for
the Plant System of RaUways. Subsequently he
was identified with the more practical side of rail
way transportation work at Savannah, and in 1903
moved to Columbia, where he continued in the sarae
business for several years. In 1907 he becarae sec
retary of the Street Railway, Power and Gas Cora
panies at Colurabia.
Mr. Wright has been an active factor in the Co
lumbia Record for the past nine years, becoraing
treasurer of the Record Publishing Corapany in
Noveraber, igil. During 1912 and afterward he
was an editorial writer for the Record, and be
came its publisher on April i, 1916, He bought
an interest in the paper on October I, igi7, ,In
October, igig, he acquired the raajority stock of
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Benjamin F. Alston, Jr. All the qualities of
enterprise and public spirit that mean raost to a
coraraunity have been exemplified by Benjarain F.
Alston, Jr., since he moved to Union. Mr. Alston
is raanager of the Union plant of the Southern Cot
ton Oil Corapany and has been in the cotton oil in
dustry for raany years. He is young, progressive
and public spirited as a leader in coraraunity life.
He served as president of the Union Chamber of
Coraraerce, as a raeraber of the City Council, dur
ing the war was fuel administrator for Union
County, and was also chairman of the Union Chap
ter of the Red Cross and was chairman for Union
County in the fifth or Victory loan. Under his
leadership he had the satisfaction and distinction
of seeing Union County pass its quota first among
the counties of the state,
Mr. Alston is a native of Charleston, where his
parents, Benjarain F. and Caroline (Glover) Als
ton, still reside. His father, who was born at
Georgetown, South Carolina, has been a Charleston
business raan for many years. The Alstons go back
to colonial times in Lower Carolina. Industrially
the faraily has long been propiinent as rice plant
ers. Two especially conspicuous raembers of the
faraily were the Governors Alston. Caroline Glover
is raeraber of the prorainent Siraonton family, which
has also produced several ' prominent characters,
notably the late Judge Siraonton.
Benjamin F. Alston, Jr., was educated in the
grararaar and high schools at Charleston. On leav
ing that city in 1901 he spent two years in Colurabia,
another two years in Lower South Carolina, and in
1905 carae to Union, where he has since been man
ager of the local plant of the Southern Cotton OU
Company. He is a raeraber of the Episcopal Church. He
raarried Miss Ruth F. Foster, of Union County.
Their three chUdren are Ruth, Charles Siraonton
and Isabel.
John Broadus Stepp, who is a graduate physician,
left his profession a nuraber of years ago, and for
the good of his health engaged in the activities of
the country and now for raany years has been a
farraer and business raan in Spartanburg County.
His own career has been one of exceptional use
fulness and his name is interesting for its family
associations. Doctor Stepp was born in Dunklin Township of
Greenville County, South Carolina, in 1862, a son of
Rev. A. C. and Ann Rebecca (McCullough) Stepp
His father, a native of North Carolina, came in
young raanhood to GreenvUle County and was a
lifelong Baptist minister. His versatUe talents gained
hira a narae also in the public and political history
of South CaroUna. He represented GreenvUle
County m the Legislature for a terra or two, but
doubtless his services in a public way are best re
membered as the author of the priraary election
law of South Carolina, under the provisions of
which the white citizens were enabled to control
the state in the historic election of 1876.
Doctor Stepp's raaternal grandfather, Joseph Mc
CuUough, a native of County Antrim, Ireland
came to GreenvUle County in the early part of the
nineteenth century and settled in Dunkin Township

He was a famous character, a man of large affairs, a
planter, stockman, merchant, and a lover and owner
of noted race horses. His varied interests were cen
tered at his home place on the old main Augusta
road. The McCullough plantation had a well jus
tified fame in the ante-bellum days, partly as a-
center of trade and business, but even more be
cause of the generous hospitality extended there
and the periodical occasions upon which it becarae
the sporting center for a large part of the state.
Many stories of old residents center around the
McCullough plantation. There was a race track
on the plantation, and McCullough's own thorough
breds were frequently pitted against the best horses
from every section.
One of Joseph McCullough's sons was the late
Col. James McCullough, who commanded the fa
mous Sixteenth South Carolina Infantry in the war
between the states. Hon. Joseph A. McCullough,
formerly a prominent lawyer of Greenville, now
general counsel for the Maryland Casualty Com
pany of Baltiraore, is a son by adoption of the late
Col. James McCullough, who was his uncle. His
real narae was Joseph A. Stepp, brother of Doctor
Stepp, but upon adoption took the name of his
uncle. John Broadus Stepp attended Captain Patrick's
Military School at GreenvUle, and studied medicine
at the Atlanta Medical College, where he graduated
with the class of 1886, being awarded the prize for
surgery in his class. He remained at Atlanta to
practice his profession, and in a few years had aU
the work that an able and ambitious doctor could
desire. FraU . health was the determining reason
that obliged him to abandon a professional career,
and on returning to South Carolina he located at
Switzer, Spartanburg County, and took up planting.
Now for a nuraber of years he has made his horae
in Spartanburg, where he is engaged in the fertUizer
busmess, associated with the International Agricul
tural Corporation as division sales manager.
Doctor Stepp has also exercised no inconsiderable
infiuence in public and political affairs in his home
county and state and for many years was a raera
ber of the democratic executive committee of the
county. He married Miss Rose Lee Switzer, daugh
ter of the late Col. David A. Switzer, representing
a prominent pioneer family of Spartanburg County,
ln^'Mr!%^^' ^^ *^ T°*" °f Switzer. Doctor
and Mrs Stepp have two children: Katharine Eu
genia and Elizabeth Payne Stepp.
nre^d^nt^''f^fif'''T^''-^"'^^^' LL. D., who became
?m. lf= f *^ University of South Carolina in
ern\.h 1 ""a"^ Jcars been a distinguished south
ern scholar and man of letters and affairs and is
a native son of South Carolina.
f w-,T-^^ ^°^'^ ^t Charleston May 13, 1858 a son
raater !s'"w"''i -^^"'^ ^^Ukie) Currell. Sis alma
whilst, Washington and Lee University, from
which he graduated with the degrees A. B.'and B. P.
n trC: "^^S ^^^""^^^ the Master of Arts degree
tSS, %if"'i ""^ ^.°.'=t°'' °f Philosophy degree in
him b *v,^ ^T^^-" ^^- °' h^s been bestowed upon
We /JX University of Alabama, Davidson Col
lege and the University of Florida
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of English in Harapden-Sidney College in Virginia,
and from 1886 to 1895 held a simUar chair in David
son College of North Carolina. On leaving David
son College in 1895 Doctor Currell returned to his
alma mater, Washington and Lee University at
Lexington, Virginia, where he was professor of
English and modern languages untU 1899 and then
held the chair of English untU 1914. He was a
high standing man araong the alumni of Washington
and Lee University, whose graduates for over
f-wenty years have come to appreciate his work and
his personality. In 1914 he was caUed to his pres
ent duties with the "University of South Carolina.
He is well known in literary circles over the South
and has appeared as a lecturer on literary and
educational topics at many chautauqua assemblies
and on other occasions.
June 28, 1888, he married Sarah Scott, of Carring
ton, Virginia.
Harold Root Mull, president of the Davis Motor
Company, has the honor of being the youngest au
toraobile distributor in Colurabia, and is also one
of the youngest in the country having a business
of such magnitude.
Twenty-six years ago in 1894 he was born at
Elyria in Lorain County, Ohio, son of A. P. and
Marion Adele (Mole) MuU. His parents were
natives of the same state. Harold R. Mull began
his education in the schools of Wellington, Ohio.
Later his father brought the faraily to "Washington,
North Carolina, where the elder Mull took charge
of a stave raill. Harold R. Mull attended school
there, and took two years of general postgraduate
work at Findlay, Ohio.
Mr. Mull has made a serious business of his boy-/
hood enthusiasm for autoraobiles and raotor me
chanics. On leaving school he became junior ex
perimental raan in the Stearns-Knight factory at
Cleveland, where the faraous raotors of that narae
were manufactured. Then for lYz years he traveled
in the Carolinas and Georgia as factory service
engineer for the Willys-Overland Corapany of To
ledo. This was the work that gave him a splendid
foundation experience as a technical and practical
engineer. In July, 1917, Mr. MuU resigned from the Willys-
Overland Company and began business in Columbia
as the Lexington-Columbia Company. The partner
ship was composed of A. P. and H. R. MuU, the
older member being his father. This company han
dled Lexington cars. Later they took the contract
for the Davis cars, and the name of the business
was changed to the Davis Motor Company. In
September, 1919, Mr. Mull bought his father's in
terests in the Davis Motor Company of Colurabia,
and at the same time sold to his father his interest
in the Mull Motor Company at Charlotte, which
was founded and is stUL conducted by A. P. Mull.
In 1920 the Davis Motor Company corapleted a
new building, two stories and baseraent, in the
center of the motor district of Columbia. This
buUding has a frontage of forty-three feet on Main
Street and eighty-five feet on Calhoun " Street, with
plate glass front on both streets. The first floor
is used for show and stock rooms, and the second
floor for a service department. The Davis Motor

Corapany handles the Davis and Bell cars and the
Kalaraazoo trucks.
Mr. Mull is the youngest raeraber of the Colum
bia Automobile Trades Association and was re
cently elected a member of its board of directors.
He is intimately associated with that group of ac
tive young raen who coraprise the raoving spirits
in the automobile industry in Columbia, and who
are doing such a broadly good work in behalf of
iraproved highways and other progressive move
ments. Mr. Mull is affiliated with the Elks and
Kiwanis Club.
He raarried Miss Marion Gibson, of Grafton,
Ohio, and their two chUdren are Harold Root, Jr.,
and Leland Gibson Mull. The Mull horae is at 321
Congaree Avenue, in the exclusive Wales Garden
section of Columbia.
Wade J. Fowler. Though only thirty years of
age. Wade J. Fowler is by no means a "Tyro in the
automobile industry of the South. The business
which he established eight years ago in Georgia is
StUl one of his interests. For the past three years
he has been one of the live factors in the automobile
business at Colurabia." The men associated with
the automobile industry at Columbia are admittedly
the raost progressive group of the city and have
had more to do in influencing the extension of good
roads improveraents and other lines of progress
than can be clairaed by any other individual group
in the capital city.
Mr. Fowler, who is owner of Fowler's Battery
Service at Columbia, was born at Simpsonville,
Greenville County, South Carolina, in 1890, son of
Dr. W. D. and Maraie (Jones) Fowler. His father,
a native of Laurens County and raeraber of a well
known family of the name there, has for many
years been a prominent citizen at Simpsonville, and
a leader in more than one line of activity in that
growing town which is the center of a rich agricul
tural section. For many years he carried the bur
dens of a large practice as a physician, and since
retiring from his profession a few years ago has
found his chief interest in banking as president of
the Bank of Simpsonville.
Wade J. Fowler acquired his education in the ex
cellent high school of Simpsonville. Before school
days were ended he had assisted his father in the
pharmacal departraent of the latter's work. Phar-
raacy became his first business. For five years he
was associated with Reid's Pharmacy in Savannah,
Georgia. Mr. Fowler engaged in the drug business
for hiraself in 191 1 at ThoraasviUe, Georgia, and
in the following year made his start in the automo
bile business in the same town. In April, 1917, he
decided upon Colurabia as a perraanent home and
established the Fowler's Battery Service, this be
ing the WiUard Service Station at Colurabia. The
business is one of the features of Motor Row in
Colurabia, being located at North Main Street near
the corner of Calhoun. Fowler's Battery Service
also raaintains stations in Augusta, Georgia, and
Orangeburg, South Carolina.
Mr. Fowler is second vice president of the Co
lurabia Autoraotive Trades Association and also a
meraber of the state organization. Fraternally he
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Club. He married Miss Clara Neel of Thomas
vUle, Georgia.
William Tertius Capers Bates, M. D., who
since igi6 has lived retired at Columbia, vvas for a
number of years a prominent figure in the life of the
state, serving three terras as State Treasurer. He
was a boy soldier of the Confederacy, and in later
life satisfied his arabition for useful work in the
profession of physician, as a planter and banker, and
always has exemplified the finest fidelity to the ideals
of citizenship and personal raanhood.
Dr. Bates was born at McCantsvUle, in Orange
burg County, S. C, July i6, 1848, son of Dr. Rezin
W. and Elizabeth (Evans) Bates, through his father
being of English ancestry and through his raother
Welsh. His father likewise practiced raedicine and
was identified with planting. He was at one tirae
a member of the State Legislature.
While he has lived beyond the age of three score
and ten .Mr. Bates has achieved long life and per
forraed a great deal of useful work against the hand
icap of physical weakness. He has seldom for a
long consecutive period enjoyed robust health. As a
boy he lived much outdoors, and acquired a fondness
for nature and raanual labor that no doubt prolonged
his years. When he was sixteen years of age in 1864
he entered the Confederate array. After the war he
prepared for college at Pine Grove Acaderay and in
1868 received his M. D. degree frora South Carolina
College, now the University of South Carolina, and
was valedictorian for his class. He was also a stu
dent in the Bellevue Medical College of New York
City in 1868-69, and while in active practice was a
constant student of raedical literature and wherever
possible sought association and acquaintance with
the leading men of his profession.
Dr. Bates was in active practice from 1869 until
1886. His horae was at St. Matthews until 1881,
when he raoved to Columbia and raade a specialty of
diseases of the raind and nervous systera. While a
resident of Colurabia he was elected president of the
Richland County Medical Society. When he had to
give up his profession on account of faUing health
he returned to his old horae at St. Matthews in 1886,
and there found other interests to engage his time.
He was elected and served as president of the Bank
of St. Matthews, and again returned to Columbia
for his service as state treasurer, serving from No
vember, 1890, until February, 1897. In 1916 Dr.
Bates again located at Colurabia and built his present
beautiful horae in Wales Garden.
At the tirae of his resignation in 1919 Dr. Bates
was the oldest living trustee of the University of
South Carolina, and for raore than twenty years was
devoted to its upbuilding and prosperity. He is a
raember of the Chi Psi college fraternity, a Knight
of Pythias, and a democrat, and affiliated with the
Methodist church.
December 23, 1872, Dr. Bates married Miss Mary
B. Wannamaker, of the prominent Wannamaker
faraily of South Carolina. She died in 1910, and on
Deceraber 26, 191 1, Dr. Bates raarried Miss Lillian
Rigby Dally. Mrs. Bates, who has been a leader in
civic and social affairs of the state for several years,
was born in New York, but was reared under the
best of southern influences. She is a daughter of
John Richard and Sophia (Sullivan) Dally. Her

raaternal great-grandraother was Lady Eleanor
¦White of the Irish nobility. The Dally faraily carae
originally frora England and were identified with the
early colonial period of New York City. Mrs. Bates
spent part of her early girlhood in Charleston and
part at Port Royal in the roraantic and historic Rap
pahannock Valley of Virginia. She began her mu
sical education in the Academy of the Visitation at
Georgetown, D. C, and is a graduate of the Boston
Conservatory of Music. Her fame as a musician is
a deservedly high one, and she is widely known in
all the cultured centers of the South. Mrs. Bates is
president of the Music Club of Columbia, and is vice
regent of the Columbia Chapter, Daughters of the
Araerican Revolution, and also a member of Wade
Hampton Chapter, United Daughters of the Confed
eracy. Doctor and Mrs. Bates have a son, Williara
Wesley Bates, who was born at St. Matthews May
28, igi6.
Paul K. Switzer, M. D. About thirteen raUes
south of Spartanburg is the station and VUlage of
Switzer, the native and ancestral horae of this well
known and prorainent young physician and surgeon
of Union.
Doctor Switzer, who has attained an eminent place
in his profession, was born at Switzer in Spartan
burg County in 1888. The community of that
name was thus honored in behalf of his grandfather,
Frederick Switzer, a native of Orangeburg County.
He moved to the present coraraunity of Switzer in
1836. Frederick Switzer married a Miss Branden
burg. They and their descendants represent a fine
sturdy family of substantial people, land owners
and planters. The old horaestead at Switzer is still
occupied by Jaraes M. and Julia (Archer) Switzer,
parents of Doctor Switzer. They were natives of
Spartenburg County, Julia Archer being a daughter
of the late J. B. Archer of that county. The Archers
are a family of long standing and prominence, hav
ing corae to that section of South Carolina before
the Revolutionary war.
Doctor Switzer after spending his early boyhood
in the familiar horae associations at Switzer at
tended Wofford College at Spartanburg, graduating
in ig07, and took his raedical work in the Aledical
College of the State of South Carolina at Charles
ton, graduating in igio. For about 3V-. years he
practiced at Fort Motte in Calhoun Countv, and
since igi4 his abilities have won his rapid advance
raent in a large general and surgical practice at
Union. He is one of the proprietors of the Union
Hospital and a member of the County, State and
American Medical associations. He has made him
self useful both in his profession and in civic and
social affairs. During the late war he served six
months with the rank of lieutenant in the Aledical
Reserve Corps, being stationed at Carap Greenleaf
near Chattanooga.
Dr. Switzer raarried Miss Alollie Lavton She
represents one of the old and well known farailies
of Spartanburg County. They have two sons, Paul
K. bwitzer, Jr., and James Layton.
Capt. George Benet, M, D„ who gained distinc
tion in the late war as an army surgeon, since Oc
tober 1, igig, has been engaged in private practice,
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bia. He is a son of Judge W. C. Benet and a brother
of United States Senator Christie Benet, also a
grandson of Gen. Sarauel McGowan.
Doctor Benet was born at AbbevUle, South Caro^
lina, July 3, 1888, and had finished his literary
and medical education and was preparing to begin
private practice when the World war broke out.
He attended the University of South Carolina and
the University of Virginia, spending two years in
each school, and took the medical course in the Har
vard Medical College, graduating M. D. with the
class of 1913. This training was supplemented by
hospital work in the Free Hospital for Women in
Boston, the Brigham Meraorial Hospital in Boston
and the Boston City Hospital and St. Luke's Hos
pital of Chicago.
After corapleting his hospital work Doctor Benet,
abandoning his prior plan of coraing to Columbia,
saUed for England in December, 1915, and was en
rolled as a captain in the British Army Medical
Corps. He had previously served as a meraber of
the Harvard Unit of the American Ambulance Hos
pital at NeuUly, and for a brief time was with the
French army as a surgeon at Annel near Com
piegne. After six raonths in the British Medical
Corps he returned home and had further hospital
experience in Boston. Soon after America entered
the war Captain Benet, in May, 1917, went overseas
as an American officer with the rank of captain in
the Medical Corps, and was attached to the British
army and saw duty for a short tirae as surgeon
in the Fulhara Military Hospital at London. He
was also assistant laison officer attached to Gen
eral Goodwin's staff in the British war office. Sub
sequently he went to France as battalion medical
officer to the Sixteenth Devon's Battalion, English
army, and with that organization was on the line
at the Sorame, on the "i^'pres-Lys line and on the
Tournai-Lille advance.
Doctor Benet received the second highest nfUitary
medal given by the British Government, the British
Military Cross. On March 22, 1919, he married
Mile. Madeleine Volpert. Her father. Colonel Vol-
pert, of the French army, is now living at Biarritz,
but his ancestral home is at Nancy. After his mar
riage Captain Benet went to London and spent five
months in surgical work in the Middlesex Hospital.
He returned home to Columbia in October, 1919,
and a few weeks later began private practice in
the city.
Pressley D. Barron, whose work as a lawyer at
Union has reflected additional honors upon a fam
ily long and prominently known in the state, was
born near Tirzah in York County in 1877.
He is a son of Samuel D. and Lucy (Bynum)
Barron. His raother was a native of York County
and is related to the Bynum famUies of both North
and South Carolina, the narae being one of special
distinction in North Carolina. The Barrens are
of Scotch-Irish origin, first settled in Virginia and
Maryland, and came from Virginia to York County,
South Carolina, not long after the close of the
Revolutionary war. Some of the Barrons were
araong the founders of the Associate Reforraed
Presbyterian Church in South Carolina. Pressley
D. Barron's grandfather was John R. Barron, whose
brother. Dr. A. I. Barron, was one of the signers

of' the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession, and
otherwise prominent in his day and generation.
Samuel D. Barron tried to get into the Confederate
army when fourteen years of age, having run away
from horae for that, purpose, and two years later
was accepted and served as a soldier.
Pressley D. Barron was educated in Erskine Col
lege and the University of South Carolina, taking
both the acaderaic and law courses in the latter
institution. Adraitted to the bar in igo3, he began
practice at Rock Hill with Hon. D. E. Finley, and
in igo4 established his perraanent horae at Union,
the county seat of Union County. He has enjoyed a
large general practice in all the courts. His two
younger brothers, Sarauel E. and Glenmore B. Bar
ron, are also lawyers and associated with hira in
the firra of Barron, Barron and Barron.
At the tirae of his admission to the bar Mr.
Barron represented York County in the Lower
House of the Legislature. He gave much of his
time to patriotic work during the war, serving as
assistant to the attorney general in the prosecution
of disloyalty and in enforcing the espionage act.
Mr. Barron married Miss Carrie W. 'Wideman,
of Due West, South Carolina.
John Ashby Sawyer. A resident of Union since
i8g4, the work and influence of John Ashby Saw
yer have been a raatter of iraportance to the com
munity. He is a lawyer of high standing and of
tested abilities. His name is also associated with
a number of those raoveraents in his locality which
have borne raost iraportant fruit in general advance
ment and development.
Mr. Sawyer was born in Lexington County, South
Carolina, in 1864, a son of George and Rebecca
(Quattlebaum) Sawyer, also natives of Lexington
County. His father served as a soldier in the Con
federate army. Mr. Sawyer up to the age of nine
teen remained on the home farra, acquiring a good
education in the local schools, and at that stage of
his early youth went to Colurabia and became as
sistant clerk of the Supreme Court, and held that
office frora 1884 to 1893. In the meantime he studied
law in the University of South Carolina, graduat
ing in 1889. He left South Carolina in 1893 and
spent some months in the West. On returning to
his home state he located at Union in the fall of
1894, and became law partner of Judge D. E. Hy
drick of Spartanburg, now associate justice of the
Supreme Court of the state. They maintained law
offices both at Spartanburg and Union, and the firm
had a business of almost state-wide iraportance.
The firra was dissolved when Judge Hydrick was
elected a raember of the Supreme Bench. Since
then Mr. Sawyer has continued his work at Union,
doing a general law practice. He served as a raem
ber of the Legislature from 1899 to 1900.
His best work in the public interest has been
in his horae town and county. He was a raember
of the board of trustees of the Union public schools
for raore than fifteen years, and was secretary of
the building committee which erected the hand
some high school building. He was secretary of
the building committee when the magnificent county
court house of Union County was constructed. A
similar honor came to him as secretary of the
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was thus actively associated with the buUding of
the three notable structures at Union, representing
religion, education and justice.
In this brief record of a busy lawyer mention
should also be made of the part he played during
the recent war. He was a member of the Legal
Advisory Board for Union County, was in charge
of the Young Men's Christian Association drive in
the fall of 1917 and in charge of the drive for the
United War Works Fund in the fall of 1918.
Mr. Sawyer married Miss Mattie Belle Clark.
She was born in Anderson County, and her parents
have lived in Union for a number of years. They
have two children : George Clark Sawyer, no-w in
his second year of the University of South Carolina ;
and Ashby Nevitt Sawyer, now a student in the
Union High School.
Baxter Morgan Haynes, M. D. While his work
as a physician has brought him steadily increasing
prorainence in the raedical profession, for a num
ber of years, particularly as a 'specialist in internal
medicine, the public generaUy appreciate the serv
ices of Doctor Haynes most for what he has done
as county health officer of Spartanburg County.
It is only in comparatively recent years that the
public health moveraent has assumed definite irapor
tance and generally recognized responsibUities in
the life and welfare of the country. In former
years practically all the influences directed toward
the prevention of disease and the safeguarding of
the public health emanated from private physicians,
and in the raodern raoveraent, under the auspices of
local, municipal, state and national governraents, the
physician is again naturally the leader of such work.
As county health officer in Spartanburg Doctor
Haynes has not been content with a routine per
forraance of his duties. He has organized and
carried out several educational carapaigns through
the public schools, churches and the press, has writ
ten and contributed to the Spartanburg new.spapers
articles calling specific attention to matters of san
itation, cleanliness, preventive measures and con
servation of health, and has done an imraense
araount of good particularly in the anti-t-yphoid
carapaign. Throughout he cooperates with the
United States Public Health Service.
Doctor Haynes, who is also a raeraber of the State
Board of Medical Exarainers, was born at Forest
City in Rutherford County, North Carolina, in
1879, a son of John and WiUie (Suttle) Haynes.
The Haynes family has lived in Rn'dierford County
for many years. The grandfather was born and
reared there. John Haynes was a brother of the
late Raleigh Haynes, who built and operated great
cotton raills at Henrietta and Cliffside, and becarae
one of the dorainant factors of the cotton raill in
dustry of the South.
Doctor Haynes was educated in the high school
at Rutherfordton, graduated from the Bostic Acad
eray, and in 1903 received his medical degree from
Chattanooga Medical College. He also graduated
from the North Carolina Medical College at David
son in 1905. He began his private practice at Cliff-
side in 1903. Doctor Haynes is the type of physician
who is never contented with present attainments
and experience. He has kept in touch with the

eminent men and the eminent work of his profes
sion, and has taken eleven post-graduate courses at
Philadelphia and other important centers. Grad
ually he has specialized his work in internal med
icine and for several years has confined his practice
to that line.
Doctor Haynes has been a resident of Spartan
burg since 191 1. Governor Manning appointed hira
to the position of county health officer, and by ap
pointment of Governor R. A. Cooper he is a raem
ber of the State Board of Medical Examiners. He
belongs to the County, District, State, Tri-State and
Araerican Medical associations, and is a meraber of
the International Congress on Tuberculosis. He
is also a raember of , the .A.merican Public Health
Association and vice president of the Southeastern
States Sanitary Association.
Doctor Haynes is one of the leading members of
the First Baptist Church and president of the Baraca
class, is a Knight Templar Mason and prorainent in
the Mystic Shrine.
In 1910 he married Miss Grace BaUenger of Spar
tanburg County. Their three children are Baxter
M. and John Eugene and Mary, twins.
Theodore Maddox, M. D. A physician and sur
geon whose work has brought him a high degree of
professoinal esteera at Union, where he has prac
ticed for over fifteen years. Doctor Maddox was
also a raajor in the Medical Reserve Corps during
the war with Germany and saw active service on
the Mexican border with the Second South Caro
lina Regiment.
He was born in Clark County, Georgia, in 1875, a
son of Reuben and DoUie (Troutt) Maddox. 'The
Maddox and Troutt families were Virginians dur
ing colonial times, while raore reraotely the Aladdox
line is of Welsh origin. From Wales some of the
narae went to Ireland and thence carae to Virginia.
Many other states have becorae the horaes of
branc'hes of the Maddox faraily, particularly Ala
baraa, Mississippi and Texas, and some of the name
have become wealthy and prominent, especially in
banking and finance.
Dr. Theodore Maddox acquired his literary edu
cation at Gainesville, Georgia, and was graduated
in April, 1902, from the Atlanta College of Phy
sicians and Surgeons. Soon afterward he raoved
into Union, the county seat of Union County, South
Carolina, and built up and has enjoyed for a nura
ber of years a large general practice in surgery.
He has taken post-graduate courses in the New
York Polyclinic and is a member of the County,
State, Southern and American Medical associations.
He was surgeon with the rank of captain in the
old Second Regiment National Guard of South
Carolina, and went with that command to the Mexi
can border in 1916. Early in 1917 he volunteered
m the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States
Army He reported early in January, 1918, in the
school of instruction. Camp Greenleaf, and in Feb
ruary, 1918, w»s assigned instructor, remaining there
ior SYz months. He was assigned to the Sixteenth
iJivision during the month of August, 1918, where
he served until discharged January 22, 1919, serv
ing as assistant division surgeon, as chief sanitary
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Doctor Maddox is affiliated with the Masons,
Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and other fraternities. He married Miss
Mary Murphy. Her father, the late Francis Mur
phy, was a prominent Charleston merchant. The
Murphys had a summer home in Union County, and
in that way Doctor and Mrs. Maddox became ac
quainted. They have three children, Francis, Elea
nor and Theodore.
Frank Killian Spratt. One of the most suc
cessful and fastest growing mercantile enterprises
of Upper South Carolina is the Spratt Wholesale
Grocery Corapany at GreenviUe. It has been buUt
up from raodest beginnings by two very progressive
brothers, Frank K. and John Spratt, the latter being
manager of the Laurens and Clinton branches of the
Dixie Flour and Grain Company.
The Spratt family were of the first white set
tlers in what is now York County, South Carolina.
Thoraas Spratt came frora Pennsylvania with his
faraily a good raany years before the Revolutionary
war and was the first settler in what is now Fort
Mill Township, in the upper part of York County.
In raany ways he was a raan of prominence and
distinction. He was given large grants of land
by the Catawba Indians. Much of this land, at
and around Fort MUl, is still owned by his descend
ants. He had the greatest respect and friendship
of the Indians, who conferred upon him the title
"Kanawha," and he was a sort of "great father"
to them. Col. Thomas Spratt, one of his sons, was
the first white child born west of the Yadkin River.
Frank Killian Spratt was born in 1882 at Ches
ter, South Carolina, where his parents, B. M. and
Fannie (Killian) Spratt, are still living. He at
tended Chester High School and Davidson College,
and on finishing his college education erabarked in
the wholesale grocery business. With his brother
John he established the business first at Laurens,
later at Clinton, and in igi3 at Greenville, which is
now the main establishraent of the Spratt Wholesale
Grocery Corapany.
Mr. Spratt since coming to Greenville has allied
himself with the progressive element of its citizen
ship and business affairs. He is a meraber of the
Rotary Club, is a Mason and a raeraber of the
Presbyterian Church. He married Miss Edna Gar-
lington, daughter of Mr. John C. Garlington, a
well known newspaper man of Spartanburg. They
are the parents of three children, named Frank
Killian, Jr., Edward O. and Ann Conway.
Col. John Henry Wharton. There is probably
no better known figure in the life and affairs of
Laurens County than Col. John Henry Wharton of
Waterloo. He was a Confederate soldier, has made
farming his chief business in life, but has again
and again answered the call to duty in public af
fairs, and has filled practically every office within
the gift of his feUow citizens in town and county.
He was born in Laurens County October 8, 1847,
a son of WUliam Nelson and Leanna (FuUer)
Wharton, also natives of the sarae county. His
grandfather, Samuel Wharton, was a native Vir
ginian and came to Laurens County before he mar
ried. His wife was a Miss Sullivan. The Whar

tons are of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Henry Fuller,
maternal grandfather of Colonel Wharton, was a
native of Laurens County. Williara N. Wharton
spent his life as a farraer, was an active Baptist,
and he and his wife had a family of four daughters
and three sons.
John Henry Wharton was not yet fifteen years
of age when he joined the Confederate army in
August, 1862. He enlisted in Company D of James'
Battalion, and subsequently served with the Third
South Carolina Regiment. He was a private and
carried a musket all through the war frorn. the
time of his enlistment untU the close of hostilities.
Later he was a meraber of the staff of Governor
Thorapson with the rank of colonel, and held the
sarae rank on the staff of the State Coraraander of
the United Confederate Veterans, an organization in
which he has long been active.
Colonel Wharton after the war began farraing,
and in that productive vocation has spent fully half
a century. For a tirae he was also a merchant at
Waterloo and built the cotton gin in that town.
He served as county coraraissioner four years, clerk
of courts two terms, for ten consecutive'years was
a meraber of the Lower House of the Legislature,
and is now in his eighth year as state senator frora
Laurens County. He was also a railroad corarais
sioner of the state for six years, and was a mem
ber of the Constitutional Convention of i8gs. Col
onel Wharton has been a deacon in the Baptist
Church for forty-five years and superintendent of
its Sunday school fifty-two years. He is affiliated
with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, also
the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the
World. In i86g he married Laura Harris, a daughter of
Richard Harris of Laurens County. Colonel and
Mrs. Wharton had seven daughters and one son.
Eula Lee, wife of H. C. Fuller, of Waterloo ; Gene
vieve, Mrs. J. C. Sraith, of Waterloo; W. Carl
Wharton; Maraie Sue, wife of Izy Gray, of Wood
ruff; Leonide, deceased, who married Clyde Fuller,
of Greenwood; Belle, Mrs. Jonas Gray, of Wood
ruff; Elizabeth, wife of Alonzo Keller, of Green
wood; and Ella, who married Andrew Taylor, of
Greenwood. Samuel Dwight Cain. Though one of the most
capable educators and school adrainistratives Sumter
County has ever had, Sarauel Dwight Cain has in
recent years given his tirae entirely to farraing and
planting, and is also raaking a signal success of his
operations in agriculture.
He was born in Surater County AprU 3, 1876, a
son of WiUiara OdeU and Ida (Dwight) Cain. His
father was educated in The Citadel at Charleston,
and at the age of sixteen entered the Confederate
army as a private and served all through until the
close. After the war he becarae a farraer and
planter and also served two terms, from 1886 to
1890, as a meraber of the Legislature frora Surater
County. Sarauel D. Cain was educated in the coramon
schools, also attended the Bailey Military Institute,
and in early life began his career as a teacher. For
nine years he was principal of the consolidated
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by eight years as county superintendent of schools.
He finally declined to serve again or becorae a candi
date for reelection. He was first appointed county
superintendent to fill a vacancy, and was then regu
larly elected for three terms.
January 26, 1900, he raarried EmUy Sophia Wil
liaras, of Colleton County, daughter of Rev. Robert
Snead and Eugenia (McMUlan) Williaras. Her
father was a Baptist rainister. Mr. and Mrs. Cain
have five children : Odelle WUliaras, a student in
Clerason College, Dwight McMillan, a high school
boy, Richard Manning, Sarauel Dwight, Jr., and
Robert Scott.
Edward S. Tennent. Hardly any citizen of
South Carolina could desire a raore vital relation
ship with the essential prosperity and industrial
activities of the state than Edward S. Tennent
through his office as secretary of the Cotton Manu
facturers' Association of South Carolina frora July
17, 1917, to July, igig, and his own private business
as purchasing agent for over fifty cotton raills.
Mr. Tennent is a resident of Spartanburg and has
been in the cotton mill supply business for twenty
years or raore.
He was born at Marion, South Carolina, in 1862,
son of Dr. Edward S. and Harriette (Taylor) Ten
nent. His father, a native of Charleston, was for
raany years a successful physician in that city. He
was descended through his grandmother frora Land
grave Thoraas Sraith, one of the first settlers of
Charleston. Edward S. Tennent of Spartanburg
cherishes the possession of a document not only of
interest to his family but to the State of South
Carolina as well. It is a deed granted by the
Lords Proprietors of South Carolina in 1688 to
Landgrave Smith, conveying title to six and a half
acres of land, now in the beautiful Battery resi
dence section of Charleston.
Harriette Taylor, mother of Edward S, Tennent,
was a raeraber of the prorainent Taylor faraily of
WUraington, North Carolina. She was an aunt of
Col. Walker Taylor of that city.
Edward S. Tennent spent raost of his boyhood
and many years of his raature life in North Caro
lina at Wilmington. He came to Spartanburg in
1898, and with this city as his home he engaged in
the cotton mill supply business. He has gradually
built up a clientage which now constitutes him the
purchasing department for cotton raills, including
sorae of the largest and raost famous not only in
South Carolina but in North Carolina and Georgia.
Mr. Tennent carries in his mind ready for instant
use an astonishing volurae of facts and figures re
garding costs, supplies and all the commercial con
ditions affecting an immense range of commodities
that cotton mills regularly buy and use.
The Cotton Manufacturers' Association of South
Carolina, of which Mr. Tennent was secretary and
treasurer, includes in its membership all the cotton
mills of the state, 116 mills in all, operating 4,500,000
spindles and representing a capital of many mil
lions of dollars — the greatest effective organization
in the productive economy of South Carolina.
Mr. Tennent married Miss Ann Geddings Hardy,
daughter of Col. Washington Hardy of Asheville^

North Carolina. They have two chUdren, Edward
S., Jr., and Harriette Taylor.
William Davis Melton has a conspicuous posi
tion araong the lawyers of South Carolina, derived
from a long experience and an unqualifiedly success
ful practice at Columbia for a quarter of a century.
He was born May 2, 1868, near Richburg in Chester
County, South , Carolina, of Scotch-Irish ancestors,
and a son of Dr. W. C. D. and Mary Jane (Poag)
Melton. His ambition and determination were
largely responsible for his early education. Frora
1887 to 1890 he a.ttended the University of Vir
ginia, and in the raeantirae, from 1883 to 1887, had
worked as clerk in country stores, had kept hooks
and also sold merchandise. Air. Melton graduated
in law from South Carolina College, now the Uni
versity of South Carolina, in 1892 and began prac
tice at Columbia in 1893. May 11, 1898, he raar
ried Caro Belser, of Suraraerton.
Edward A. Jenkins. What is now close to a
raillion dollar a year autoraobile and truck business
at Colurabia has been developed by Edward A.
Jenkins, who was one of the first enthusiasts when
the raotor car was in its experiraental stages, and
is also one of the veteran automobile dealers of the
capital city.
The automobile has in fact been Mr. Jenkins'
overwhelraing subject of thought and study and
enthusiasm since the industry becarae a practical
reality in Araerica. Particularly is he interested in
the truck and the wonderful possibilities of that
vehicle as a raethod of solving the raany critical
probleras of transportation. A newspaper corre
spondent not long ago discovered that Mr. Jenkins
has been a student of transportation from the time
he was six years of age, when he was given the
responsibility of driving a pair of mules to a wagon.
Apparently he has never been in the raUroad busi
ness. He knows every practical developraent in the
transportation of goods and passengers over all
kinds of highways except those of steel.
Mr. Jenkins is still a young raan in his thirties
and was born July 28, 1881, at Sumter, South Caro
lina, son of Thomas B. and Margaret (Edwards)
Jenkins. The Jenkins family is an old and honored
one in South Carolina history. Several years before
the Revolutionary war four Jenkins 'brothers carae
from England and Jenkins Island on the coast was
settled by and naraed for the faraily. In an earlier
generation there was also a Rev. James Jenkins,
who ranked as one of the foremost clergymen of the
state. Edward A. Jenkins grew up at Sumter and as a
young man he and two of his brothers were asso
ciated in business there. In 1905 he came to Co
lumbia and opened an autoraobUe sales place at
1216 Main Street. He sold sorae of the first cars
that were run over the streets of Columbia. He was
agent for the Reo car, and he was one of the few
men who could get reasonably satisfactory results
from some of the one and two cylinder cars of that
now ancient period of autoraobile history. His
business at Columbia was exceedingly prosperous,
and he was so busy selling cars, looking after the
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a personal one to car owners, that he had no time
to attend to the practical and routine affairs of his
office. He was intent upon the larger and what he
considered the raore vital aspects of his business,
and left his office records largely to inefficient
subordinates. Eventually there carae a tirae of ac
counting, and it was found that his capital had been
seriously overstrained, and the technique of business
adjudged hira a failure.
This unexpected misfortune did not abate his
optimisra and enthusiasm, and, accepting the situa
tion, he raade the best of it, and for afcout four
years worked for others, but all the time was a
student of transportation problems. He re-entered
business for hiraself in 1913, and profiting by his
earlier experience has maintained a thoroughly cora
plete and modern system of bookkeeping and office
management, constituting a model systera for the
autoraobile industry.
In developing a business of such large volurae
Mr. Jenkins is not ashamed of the fact that he has
been influenced by the quality of "sentiraent" in
contradistinction to the ideas of some that business
is of necessity wholly cold-blooded. He believes in
the ideal of service, and his interest never culminates
and ends with the formal terms of a sale. His
service department, and his parts department, have
been made of the most vital importance and have
done much to extend the popularity and increase
the demand for autoraobiles and raotor trucks.
Mr. Jenkins looks upon the motor truck as one of
the most useful tools of modern civilization. A
motor truck suggests in his mind the building of
good roads as a raeans of quick and easy transporta
tion for farmers, affording them a better market for
their products, and with still larger results in induc
ing young people to stay on the farms and in increas
ing the number of farms and farraers and
answering the vital problera of today in relieving the
world shortage in farra products.
As one of the prorainent figures in the autoraobile
trade of the country, Mr. Jenkins was signally
honored on Deceraber 11, igig, when he was elected
president of the Automotive Trades Club of Co
lumbia. His business, carried on under his indi
vidual name as E. A. Jenkins, is easily one of the
important industrial and coramercial enterprises of
Columbia and South Carolina.
October 30, 1902, Mr. Jenkins raarried Miss
Alberta Sanders, of Charleston, a descendant of .in
old and honored faraily of South Carolina. To this
union have been born four children : Thomas
Joseph, now serving in the U. S. Navy; Margaret
Marshall, a student in the Colurabia High ' School ;
Albert S., and Edward A., Jr. .
Mr. Jenkins takes an active interest in all public
welfare moveraents, and is a member of the Co
lumbia Chamber of Coraraerce and the Ridgewood
Club. Thornton Whaling, D. D. As president of the
Colurabia Theological Seminary since 1911, Doctor
Whaling has realized the cherished ambitions of a
lifetime for a congenial and effective service as a
teacher and director of theological education. He
has done much in the past eight years to give the
serainary its distinctive usefulness in the Presby

terian Church of the South, but, however iraportant
that service has been, his previous record is such as
to call for raore than cursory attention.
Dr. Thornton Whaling was born at Radford in
Montgomery County, Virginia, June 5, 1858, a son
of Alexander Lewis and Aggie Lewis (WUliams)
Whaling. He is connected with the Lewis faraily
in both the paternal and raaternal lines. The ma
ternal branch of that family were Scotch-Irish
people of the Valley of the Virginia. The paternal
Lewises were of the English branch of Eastern
Virginia. Doctor Whaling is therefore of Scotch-
Irish and English ancestry.
He acquired a liberal education, being a student
two years at Davidson College in North Carolina,
and received his A. B. degree frora Roanoke Col
lege of Virginia in 1879. For two years he was a
student at Union Serainary, New York, and for one
year at Colurabia Serainary, South Carolina. The
degree Doctor of Divinity has been conferred upon
him by Austin College of Texas, Roanoke Uni
versity, the degree LL. D. by Southwestern Presby
terian University, and the degree Litt. D. by
Louisiana College.
He was ordained a Presbyterian minister Novem
ber 20, 1883, and served as pastor at Cheraw, South
Carolina, frora 1883 to i8go. Even in that period
he was deeply interested in his educational work.
He becarae a trustee of Davidson College and was
one of the regents of the proposed South-Atlantic
University. "The Woodrow controversy in the
Presbyterian Church began in 1885, and for various
reasons Doctor Whaling had sorae considerable
share in this famous debate, as a friend of Doctor
Woodrow and an advocate of the toleration of his
views. In 1890 Doctor Whaling went to Birminghara, Ala
bama, as pastor of the newly organized South High
land Presbyterian Church. He served there until
1892, had the satisfaction of seeing the church grow
rapidly^ and it has since becorae one of the strongest
churches of the South. While there he was offered
the presidency of one or two colleges and several
educational positions. The choice he accepted raade
hira professor of Philosophy and Econoraics in the
Southwestern Presb3rterian University at Clarks
vUIe, Tennessee. He held that chair frora 1892 to
i8g6. Probably his most interesting experience as a
pastor was in charge of the famous old church at
Lexington, Virginia, from i8g6 to 1905. That
church probably has the largest congregation of any
Presbyterian Church in the South and one of the
largest in the country. Washington and Lee Uni
versity and Virginia Military Institute are both
located at Lexington, with an aggregate of over a
thousand students, and during the pastorate of
Doctor Whaling the gallery of his church was always
crowded with these young raen. Visitors frequently
came to Lexington for the express purpose of seeing
this great congregation of raerabers and others
crowding the floor below and the students and cadets
packing the gallery above. It was an audience suffi
cient to inspire even the raost prosaic preacher.
Frora igos to igio Doctor Whaling was pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church of Dallas, Texas.
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him to succeed every pastor it had ever had. The
first call was given in i8g4, the next in igoi, and
the last, which he accepted, in 1905. It was and
is a great church, having now a. merabership of
1,500 and a Sunday school still larger. During, his
pastorate 500 raerabers were added and a new edifice,
costing approximately $200,000, was constructed.
That is without question one of the raost attractive
church buUdings in the South.
On July I, igii. Doctor Whaling entered upon his
present duties as president and professor of Didactic
and Poleraic Theology at the Columbia Theological
Seminary. Doctor Girardeau had prophesied a quar
ter of a century before that this would be Doctor
Whaling's final destination, and the latter had been
pleased to regard it as his aspiration and inspiration
from that time forward. In a congenial and useful
work. Doctor Whaling has had the satisfaction of
seeing his plans and efforts becorae fruitful in many
ways. The seminary has prospered, has trebled its
number of students, and the endowment and assets
are now approxiraately $500,000.
During this period of his life Doctor Whaling has
published the following volumes : "Jesus and Chris
tian Doctrines" and "Questions on Theology." He
has in preparation a book on theology which will
embody the studies of a lifetime.
In one way or another Doctor Whaling has been
connected with every 'Theological Seminary in the
Southern Presbyterian Church with one exception,
either as professor or as director. He was president
of the Board of Directors of the Union Theological
Seminary of Virginia from igo3 to 1905, and for a
nuraber of years was director of the Austin Theo
logical Serainary in Texas. He was Bible lecturer
at Trinity College, North Carolina, in 1913, and
frora i8go to i8g8 was associate editor of the Central
Presbyterian, and from 1890 to 1893 review editor
of the Magazine, of Christian Literature. December
20, 1883, he married Lucy Muller, of Colurabia, South
Carolina. Albert E. Hill, a prorainent member of the
Spartanburg bar, was solicitor of the Seventh Ju
dicial Circuit from 191 3 to 1917, and when first
elected was the youngest solicitor in the state. His
own personal and professional attainraents have
been a credit to the prorainent faraily he represents.
Mr. Hill was born at the Hill ancestral home in
the Hobbysville coraraunity in the southern part of
Spartanburg County AprU 14, 1883, a son of W. J.
and Cassie PriscUla (Farrow) Hill. His raaternal
grandfather was Capt. A. T. Farrow of Cross An
chor, the Farrows having been identified with Upper
South Carolina frora early tiraes.
This branch of the Hill family has been in Amer
ica almost three centuries. The iraraigrant ances
tor was Joseph Hill, a native of England, who carae
to the American colonies in 1638, landing at Boston
and subsequently locating at Charlestown, Massa
chusetts. In 1650 he founded the town of Maiden,
Massachusetts, named for Maiden, England, the an
cestral seat of the Hills. Joseph HiU was a leader
and man of large affairs in his day, prorainent in
all the iraportant enterprises of Maiden and vicin
ity, and represented his town in the colonial House
of Commons and in various other public capacities.

A lawyer by profession, he drew up the organic laws
for the government of Maiden.
A direct descendant of this Joseph HiU was
Leonard Hill, the great-grandfather of the Spartan
burg la-wyer. Leonard Hill w-ill always have a high
place in the history of South Carolina on account
of his pioneer work in establishing the textile in
dustry. When a young man he was engaged in the
cotton manufacturing business in Smithfield, Rhode
Island. In 1818, with his cousin, John Clarke, he
organized the colony including assistants and help
ers who were familiar with the textile industry, and
with their faraUies brought them to South Carolina
by boat, landing in Charleston. The sarae boat
brought cotton raill machinery, tools and equip
raent, and all of this material was transported
overland by slow and laborious process to Upper
Carolina, and was used to buUd a cotton miU on
the Tiger River at Hill's Factory in the lower sec
tion of Spartanburg County. Historians generally
are agreed that this was the first cotton raill in
South Carolina. About the sarae tirae another mill,
subsequently known as the Burnt Factory, on ac
count of its destruction by fire soon. after comple
tion, was erected in the sarae vicinity. Probably
the deterraining factor in locating the HUl's Fac
tory was the avaUability of water power from the
Tiger River.
Albert E. HUl's grandfather, Albert Hill, was also
a cotton manufacturer .for many years, and during
the war between the states he had charge for the
southern Confederacy of manufacturing cloth for
the southern soldiers at his cotton mUl, which was
operated during the war.
Mr. HiU's father, W. J. HUl, gave his time to
planting industry. He resided at Hobbysville in
the lower section of Spartanburg County, where
Albert E. Hill was born and reared.
Albert E. Hill, subject of this sketch, is the elder
of two sons. His brother, Walter F. Hill, who re
sides in Spartanburg County, is a druggist by pro
fession, but is now manager of the gas departraent
of the South Carolina Light, Power & RaUways
Corapany of Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Albert E. Hill was educated in the public schools
of his native county. Afterward he received his
college education both in literary and law at the
University of South Carolina, and after leaving the
University he was eraployed in the oflice of clerk
of the Supreme Court at Columbia. On leaving
there he taught school for two years. Mr. HiU be
gan the practice of law in Spartanburg in 1909, and
at the general election of 1912 was chosen solicitor
of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, beginning his du
ties January 21, 1913, and serving untU January,
1917. During his term as solicitor he endeavored
to make an equitable enforceraent of the law and
proved a terror to the law violating eleraents of his
district, particularly those connected with the iUicit
sale and distribution of liquor and drugs. WhUe
solicitor he represented the state in several noted
criminal cases of extraordinary interest, and both
while in office and in private practice Mr, HUl has
achieved recognition as one of the ablest trial at
torneys in Upper South Carolina. He is a man of
courageous decision and action, has a rare skill in
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the oratorical equipment associated with the best
forensic traditions.
Mr. Hill is a raember of the Masonic order, the
Elks and Red Men, he having been at one tirae
Great Sachera of the Red Men of South Carolina,
and Great Representative to the Great Council of the
United States, and a Past Grand Exalted Ruler of
Spartan Lodge No. 637, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, and at the present Grand Representa
tive to the Grand Lodge of Elks. Mr. and Mrs. HUl
are now raembers of the Methodist Church, Mrs.
Hill formerly being a member of the Presbyterian
Church. Mr. HUl was married to Aliss Nellie Schorb of
York, South Carolina, December 30, 1909. Mrs.
HUl is an honor graduate of Erskine College. She
is the daughter of George T. and Ella (Cherry)
Schorb, and the granddaughter of John R. Schorb,
who was at one time professor in the famous
Mount Zion Institute at "Winnsboro, South Carolina,
and afterward at the head of YorkvUle Female Col
lege at YorkvUle, now York, South Carolina.
Mr. and Mrs. Hill are parents of two children,
Nell HUl. born December 12, 191 1, and Albert E.
Hill, Jr., born December i, 1919.
James Rogers Young, M. D., whose skUl and
abUities as a surgeon has attracted to hira a broad
reputation, is a raember of the medical fraternity.
at Anderson, where he has practiced for the past
fourteen years.
His people have lived in South Carolina for several
generations, and have been active as educators,
business men and steadfast and patriotic citizens.
Doctor Young was bom at Due West, South Caro
lina, April 2, 1882, a son of Henry M. and Flora
(Todd) Yoifng, both natives of South Carolina. His
grandparents were John N. and Duphemia (Strong)
Young. John N. 'Young, who came to South Caro
lina in boyhood from Ohio, was a minister of the
Associate Reformed Presbjrterian Church and for
forty years a teacher in Erskine College. He was
il source of enlightenment and spiritual courage to
an entire generation who surrounded him at Erskine.
Henry M. Young grew up in Abbeville County, was
a soldier of the Confederate army, and since the war
has spent the greater part of his life as a merchant
at Due West, and is still living in that old educa
tional town, at the age of seventy.
Doctor Young grew up in Due West, graduated
from Erskine College in 1901, and took his medical
course at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennes
see, where he received the degree Doctor of Medicine
in 1906. He at once began practice at Anderson, and
in a short time his special abilities as a surgeon
confined hira more and more to the practice of that
specialty. His qualifications have been improved by
several post-graduate courses in surgery, and he now
gives practically all his time to that branch of his
profession. He is a member of the medical staff of the Ander
son County Hospital, and is a meraber of the Ander
son County and State Medical societies and the
^ Araerican Medical Association. He is a Knight of
Pythias, a member of the Rotary Club of Anderson,
and belongs to the Associate Reformed Presbyterian
Church.

Doctor Young married Miss Gennie Lind Moffatt
in 1906. They have six children.
Pinkney Venning Mikell, M. D. WhUe he be
gan practice at Columbia twenty years ago. Doctor
' Mikell since 1917 has given his tirae exclusively to
his specialty in treating the eye, ear, nose and throat,
and has won a highly enviable place among the
specialists of his line in South Carolina.
The Mikell faraily has contributed much of the
history and substantial development to Edisto Island
on the -coast of South Carolina. About the year
1682 Lord Cordross, a nobleman from the north of
England, came to Carolina, bringing with him a
colony of North Britons, most of them Baptists in
religion. Landing at Port Royal, the colony in about
1686 moved to the mouth of the Edisto River on
Edisto Island, where they made settleraent, and
where the Mikells have ever since lived. One of
the prorainent merabers of the colony was Ephraira
Mikell. Another prorainent representative of the
family of the present generation is Townsend Mikell,
whose home is stUl on Edisto Island. He compiled
an interesting genealogical history of the Mikell
family and had it published in igio. For two cen
turies or more the Mikells have 'been substantial
planters and gentlemen of affairs, and have always
swayed much influence in the affairs of the coast
country of Charleston County.
Doctor MikeU was born on Edisto Island March
27, 1878, son of Isaac Jenkins and LucUla (Venning)
Alikell, and grandson of Isaac Jenkins and Araaran-
tha (Townsend) MikeU. The father of Doctor
Mikell was born in 1851.
The public schools of Edisto Island gave Doctor
Mikell his first advantages, foUowed out by attend
ance at Porter's MUitary Academy at Charleston
and the Uni-i^ersity of South Carolina. He was
graduated in igoo frora the Medical College of
South Carolina at Charleston, and in. the sarae year
began his general practice at Colurabia. Since No
veraber, 19 17, he has raade the practice of diseases
of the eye, ear, nose and throat his exclusive spe
cialty. He is a raember of the Columbia Medical
Society, the American Medical Association and the
South Carolina Medical Association.
By his marriage with Miss Annie Alice Sloan of
Colurabia Doctor Mikell has four chUdren, Isaac
Jenkins, Jr., John Triraraier Sloan MikeU, Annie
Alice and LucUla Venning MikeU.
Doctor Mikell is a meraber of the Colurabia Ro
tary Club, the Ridgewood Club, and is a Knight
Templar and a Shriner.
Ashby Davis McFaddin, a prominent member of
the Columbia bar, served as master for Richland
County frora 1907 to 1919.
He was bom at Harvin in Clarendon County,
South Carolina, Noveraber 24, 1872, son of Sarauel
John and Kate (Hodge) McFaddin. His father
was engaged in the naval stores business and farm
ing. The son grew up in Clarendon County, attended
the public schools there, and graduated frora the
Law Departraent of the University of South Caro
lina in 1897. For over twenty years he has been
in active practice at Columbia, and has the reputa
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able attorney. He served as a raeraber of the Legis
lature frora 1904 to 1906.
Mr, McFaddin is affiliated with the Knights of
Pythias, Independent Order of Odd FeUows and
the Masonic Lodge, He is a meraber of the Ridge
wood and Columbia Clubs.
George Rogers Reaves. While he has been a
meraber of the Legislature several times and is a
former raayor of Mullins, Mr. Reaves' main inter
ests have been anchored in the soU as a leading
agriculturist of Marion County.
He was born at Mullins in that county September
3, 1863, a son of George Washington and Eraraa
(Rogers) Reaves. His father was also a planter of
Marion County. Educated in the public schools,
with a commercial course in Kentucky University,
George R. Reaves began his career as clerk in a
general store and for a number of years was man
ager for W. H. Daniel at Mullins, and since the
incorporation of the W. H. Daniel Supply Com
pany has been secretary-treasurer and is now secre
tary. Mr. Reaves owns a farm of 600 acres and
eraploys twenty plows and is one of the leading
producers of cotton and other diversified crops.
Mr. Reaves was the first president of the Bank of
Mullins, and served in that office for several years.
He is now a director oi the Bark of Alullins. He
has served several terms as councilman and is an
ex-mayor of Mullins and was for two terms in the
Legislature, being elected in 1904 and igo6. He is
a member of the Baptist Church.
February 15, 1893, he married Kate Daniel of
Mullins. They have eight children : George Henry,
a graduate of Clemson College, who served as
second lieutenant in the Seventh Division with the
American E.xpeditionary Forces ; Mary D., a grad
uate of Coker College with the class of 1918;
Lucile, a student of Coker College ; James Clar
ence, Inez, Katherine, Marion and Dorothy May.
David Tilden Riley. The South Carolina State
Pharmaceutical Association is an organization that
has a much broader scope of service than looking
after the interests and welfare of its druggist mera
bers. It is one of the chief instruraents for the
administration of the Pure Drug Law, and safe
guarding the public against frauds in medical prep
arations. At the annual meeting of the association
at Greenville in igig the president elected for the
following year was David Tilden Riley, who for
the past ten years has been a prorainent druggist at
Florence. Mr. RUey was born in Orangeburg County, Octo
ber I, 1876, a son of William B. and Eliza C.
(Bozard) RUey. The horae place where he was
born was near Bowman, and has always been known
as the "Four Holes" section. William B. Riley was
a Confederate soldier throughout the entire period
of the war, and through several campaigns was under
the coraraand of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.
David Tilden Riley was educated in the Orange
burg Collegiate Institute, the University of South
Carolina and the Medical College of South Carolina.
He graduated, frora the latter with the degree Ph. G.
in igo2. His first' professional service was as
pharraacist for the Atlantic Coast Lumber Company

at Georgetown, then in the drug store of 1. A. Rigby
at Spartanburg, one year with a drug business at
Bennettsville, and on raoving to Conway he organ
ized the Norton Drug Company. Later he organized
the Palmetto Drug Corapany at MuUins, though he
never lived in that town.
Mr. RUey has been a resident of Florence since
igo8. Here he organized the Riley Drug Company,
in igo8 the Ellerbe Drug Company, and in igio
established his present business, the Riley Drug
Company, of which he is sole proprietor.
Mr. Riley is a deacon in the Baptist Church, is a
Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, and is a char
ter meraber of the Florence Rotary Club, which was
organized in February, 1920. He married Miss Josie
McBride, and they have one daughter, Kathleen.
James P. McNeill worked on his first cases as
a young lawyer nearly forty years ago. Most of his
career has been spent at Florence, where he has had
many prominent connections as a lawyer and man
of affairs.
Judge McNeill was born in Bladen County, North
Carolina, and received an academic and normal edu
cation in his native state. He took the normal course
at the University of North Carolina, and for three
years taught school. He studied for his profession
in the famous law school conducted by Judges B. P.
Dick and J. H. Dillard at Greensboro, North Caro
lina. He finished his course in 1881 and began
practice at Conway, South Carolina, and two years
later reraoved to Florence.
He has the distinction of being the first probate
judge elected when Florence County was organized.
He held that office for eleven years, finally declining
reelection in igoo. He was also for a number of
years one of the comraissioners of the Florence
graded school. He was one of the proraoters of the
Commercial & Savings Bank and -is still a director
with that institution and has continuously been its
attorney since the organization of the bank. Among
other prorainent professional connections he is at
torney for the Florence Loan & Investment Company
and local attorney for the Atlantic Coast Line Rail
road Company. For many years he was a trustee
for the Columbia College for Women, and was presi
dent in 1918 of the Scottish Society of America. He
is deeply interested in the Flora AlacDonald CoUege
for Women. Judge AIcNeill married Miss Alma
Chase, of Florence, December 18, 1888.
Charles Frederick Williams, M. D., one of the
most widely known physicians and surgeons in South
Carolina, is superintendent of the State Hospital
for the Insane at Columbia.
He was born in York Countv, South Carolina,
August 6, 1875, a son of LeRoy Russell and Clem
entine Virginia (WaUace) WiUiams. His father
spent most of his life as a planter, and for many
years was judge of the Probate Court. Doctor
Williams was educated in the Banks High School
and studied medicine in the University of Mary
land, graduating in i8gg. After two years of prac
tice in his horae town of York he entered the United '
States army as a surgeon, and for three years was
on duty at different posts and in foreign countries.
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time was in Japan. Doctor WUliams returned to
his native state and began his private practice at
Colurabia in 1903. In 1907 he was elected secretary
of the State Board of Health and served as a state
health officer untU 191 1. He then resigned and after
special study abroad in European raedical centers
he resumed his private practice.
Doctor WUliams accepted his present post as
superintendent of the State Hospital for the In-
saSe in 1915. He is a raeraber of the County, State
and Araerican Medical associations, the Southem
Medical Association, the American Psychological
Association, the National Tubercular Association,
and is a raan of the highest standing in profes
sional and civic circles. He is a Mason, a raember
of the Rotary Club of Columbia and a deacon in
the Presbyterian Church.
Deceraber 8, 1903, he married Miss May WUson
of Manning, South Carolina, daughter of Frank
N. and Louisa (Barron) Wilson. They have three
chUdren, Virginia Wallace, Louise Barron and
Adaline Hughes.
Wilfred Leadan Brooker. By his work as an -
educator WUfred Leadan Brooker is one of the
most highly esteeraed citizens of the state, though
in his devotion to this work he has had to sacrifice
many of the rewards which make other professions
and occupations attractive.
Mr. Brooker, who has long been identified with
the school institutions of Florence County, was born
in Swansea, South Carolina, July 3, 1875, a son of
Dr. WUliam T. and Cornelia Francis (Stivender)
Brooker. His father was a Confederate soldier and
devoted his active life to the profession of medicine.
Wilfred L. Brooker attended public schools and
completed his higher education in South Carolina
College, now the University of South Carolina.
He received his A. B. degree in i8g7. On leaving
college he taught for three years, and in igo2 grad
uated with the Master of Arts degree Suraraa Cum
Laude frora the University of South Carolina. For
twenty years he has been a teacher. He taught
mathematics in the Orangeburg Collegiate Institute,
was teacher of French and English in the famous
Bingham Military Academy in North Carolina frora
igo2 to 1904, and frora 1904 to igio was superin
tendent of the city schools of Aiken. Since 1910 he
has been superintendent of the Florence City
schools, one of the largest school systera in the
state, with sixty-six teachers on his staff and en-
rollraent of 3,300 pupils.
Mr. Brooker has held the chair of raatheraatics
in the suraraer sessions of Winthrop CoUege, and
for three years beginning with 1906 was principal
of the Suramer School of Western South Carolina,
in the Aiken, Baraberg and Barnwell district. He
has been a raember of the State Board of Educa
tion since 1916, having been appointed to that of
fice by Governor Richard I. Manning. He is*a mera
ber of the South Carolina Teachers' Association and
the National Education Association. Mr. Brooker
finds his chief diversion in co-operating with and
assisting his high school boys in athletics. He is
a member of the Baptist Church.
December 28, ig04, he married Miss Iva Imogene
Plunkett of North, South Carolina. She died Sept

eraber 22, 1916, the raother of four children, WU
fred L., Jr., Lofton Plunkett, Iva, and Iraogene.
Col. Arthur L. Gaston. The personal career of
Col. Arthur L. Gaston, distinguished for raany years
as a lawyer, public official and soldier, serves to
introduce onei of the most historic families of
Chester County and the State of South Carolina.
He is directly descended from John Gaston, who
was his great-great-grandfather. John Gaston was
from County Antrira, Ireland. His ancestors were
French Huguenots and had settled in the north of
Ireland following the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes. John Gaston on coming to America severaf
years before the Revolution settled in what is now
Chester County at Cedar Shoals on Fishing Creek.
He held an appointment as magistrate under the
crown and was known as Justice John Gaston.
When the Revolution came on he proved an ardent
patriot, and his son Joseph was a soldier in that
war, fighting in several of the Carolina carapaigns
and was wounded at the Battle of Hanging Rock.
A brother of Justice John Gaston was Alexander
Gaston, whose son. Judge William Gaston, filled a
conspicuous place in North Carolina history as con
gressman, judge and United States Senator.
The Revolutionary soldier, Joseph Gaston, was the
great-grandfather of Arthur L. Gaston. The latter's
grandfather was Dr. John B. Gaston. The faraily
has lived continuously in Chester County since John
Gaston's original settleraent.
Arthur L. Gaston was born at Chester in 1876, son
of T. C. and Adelaide (Lee) Gaston. His father
likewise was a distinguished raeraber of the bar of
the state, and served as the first solicitor elected in
Chester County in 1876 after the restoration of
white men's government in South Carolina. Two of
his brothers. Captain J. Lucius Gaston and Williara
H. Gaston, were killed at the Battle of Seven Pines
during the war between the states. Two other
brothers were surgeons in the Confederate array — •
Dr. John Brown Gaston, who died at Montgomery,
Alabama, and the late Dr. James McFadden Gaston,
who for raany years after the war practiced raedi
cine at Atlanta, Georgia, and was known nationally
in his profession for his substantial achievements.
Col. Arthur L. Gaston took his A. B. degree
from Davidson College in i8g6, and did post-graduate
work in the University of Virginia, where he also
studied law in the summer law school. Admitted
to the bar in the spring of i8g8, he began practice
at Chester, but soon left his law office to go into
the array. As a raeraber of the National Guard of
South Carolina he volunteered for the Spanish-
Araerican War, was first lieutenant of D Corapany,
First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry. He served
four years as lieutenant colonel on the staff of
Governor R. I. Manning, and for six years repre
sented Chester County in the Lower House of the
General Assembly.
His work as a lawyer has brought hira real emi
nence in the South Carolina bar. He is the directing
head of a law office which handles the legal business
of a number of important corporations in addition
to a large general civil practice. He is senior mera-
Ijer of the law firra of Gaston & Harailton at
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Bank, the Baldwin Cotton MiUs of Chester, and is
active in the Presbyterian Church as a deacon.
Naturally his services were of great value to the
community and the country ' during the recent great
war. He was chairman of the Local Board of Ches
ter County under the selective draft law, and was
district chairraan of the Liberty Loan carapaigns and
the Victory campaign. Each tirae he had the satis
faction of seeing his district reach and pass the
quota. Colonel Gaston has two chUdren. David Aiken,
the older, is a son of his first wife, deceased, who
was Miss Virginia Aiken, of Greenwood, daughter
of David Aiken. His daughter, Sarah Elizabeth
Gaston, was born to his marriage with Edith Smith,
also deceased. His second wife was a daughter of
Col. J. Rice Smith.
J. Frank Bethea. When a blameless life coraes
to an end it is but natural that those associated
with its action should feel sorrow at the termina
tion of a career so useful and uplifting. Yet some
times the full force of a man's influence cannot conie
into play until he is reraoved from the scenes of his
operations. Until he has passed beyond, his virtues
are not appreciated or his influences fully felt. The
deeds he has executed then appear, and the stand
he has taken upon moral questions results in benefit
to others. Happy indeed raust a faraily be to pos
sess a record of one of their loved ones like that
left by the late Dr. J. Frank Bethea, against whora
none can rightly breathe a word of censure. For
years he was one of the leading raembers of the
medical fraternity of Dillon County, and for raore
than a third of a century he had rainistered to the
ills of suffering huraanity at Dillon and in the
surrounding country.
Doctor Bethea was born July 2, 1837, in Marion
(Dillon) County, and was a son of 'WiUiam and
Mary (Bethea) Bethea. He attended the public
schools of his native community, and, having de
cided upon a career in raedicine, pursued a course
at the Charleston Medical College, and graduated
with his diploma at Richmond, Virginia, during the
period of the war between the states. Following
the close of that struggle he located for practice
on his plantation four raUes from DUlon, where
he practiced untU about 1885, buUding up a large
following and a splendid reputation in his calling,
and attaching hundreds to himself by silken bonds
of gratitude and reverence. When he died, in
ig07, his community lost one of its most splendid
characters and a citizen who always ably and con
scientiously performed every duty devolving upon
him. The clairas of medicine to the gratitude of
mankind have never been adequately recognized,
although sparing words of praise have been occa
sionally given. Among its professors and practition
ers have been found types of moral heroisra whose
achievements might well place thera with the saints
and martyrs whom the whole world unites to rev
erence. The wide field covered by raedicine and
surgery brings the practitioner into the closest of re
lations with the people, in fact incorporates his with
their daily lives. Whether his skill, knowledge and
ability are fully recognized or not, a thoroughly
qualified man of raedicine is a vital force in any

community, and his wUl be found to be an underly
ing influence in the uplifting movements to which
all Christendom subscribes as civilization advances.
It was to this honored class of men that the late
Doctor Bethea belonged.
Doctor Bethea was married September 6, 1865, to
Miss H. Jane Bethea, daughter of Dr. Alfred and
Flora (Bethea) Bethea. She was born Deceraber
3, 1846, on the plantation upon which she now re
sides, four mUes west of DiUon, her father being a
prominent physician and surgeon who was born
near this place, and a graduate of the Jefferson
Medical College of PhUadelphia. He raet his death
in February, 1865, while a member of the Home
Guards engaged in rounding up deserters frora the
Confederate army. Doctor Bethea served as a raem
ber of the State Legislature. The wife of Dr.
Alfred Bethea and raother of Mrs. H. Jane Bethea
was born in Marlboro County, South Carolina,
near McColl, where her parents were natives and
prorainent planters. Mrs. H. Jane Bethea was
educated at Salem Academy, North Carolina, and
was the only child of her parents. She is a woman
.of many attainments and gracious social qualities,
and her home has been the scene of important func-^
tions. She and her husband were the parents of
fourteen children, of- whom six are living: Pres
ton L., who resides near Clio, South Carolina-
Tristram, of DUlon; Frank, living near Latta, this
state; Victor A. and Fitzhugh Lee, residing with
their mother; and Ethel, who is the wife of I P
Cooper of Mullins, South Carolina. '
David Reece Williams. In the law and public
affairs probably no one family has furnished raore
conspicuous raen in Lancaster County during the
last century than that of Williams.
The venerable Judge D. A. Williams, still living
at Lancaster at the age of eighty-four, now retired
±rom a hfe made conspicuous by a long and hon
orable record as a public official and good citizen
was born in 1835 in the Flat Creek community of
Lower Lancaster County. He inherits many of the
strong qualities and virtues' of his Welsh ancestry.
these ancestors came from Wales to Maryland,
thence to Virginia and from there settled on the
Yadkin River in North Carolina and in Lancaster
County South Carolina. Judge Williams served all
through the war between the states as a Confederate
soldier, studied law, qualified for the bar, but never
nrnw -' .5"^'"^ \° Jl"^, ^"""^ that he was elected
probate judge, and filled that office with admirable
efficiency for several years during and following the
vefrf r °" r"°^-. ^fter that for nearly twenty
Co^mtv .>^%u°"°«^'^ ''y.*^ P*=°Pl« of Lancaster
County -wh the office of clerk of courts. Judge
D. A. Williams married Sarah Clyburn, and thev
WUli.'ms 'n' ^J'V^" daughters: Thoraas Yancy
W R w?^-^''^ •^^'^" Williams, J. O. WiUiaras,
W-1I- Willian,s George W. WiUiams, Steve C
Dobson'' ^- ^"^^" """"^ ^"' R' A'
an^.ml'w '^"'^''i" °^^'^ ^"=« Williams has made
an enviable record as a South Carolina lawyer and
at ifn?. .""'""S''o'" P."^"= ^^^'''' He was bom
at Lancaster in 1878, and graduated with the A. B.
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1898. He received his LL, B. degree from the law
department of the university in 1905. During a
career of fifteen years he has becorae one of the
leading lawyers of Lancaster, and has been called up
on to represent many large and iraportant interests.
He was elected frora Lancaster County to the State
Senate, serving four years, untU 1917. His brother
Thomas Yancy WiUiams is also a brUliant lawyer,
a graduate of the State University, and. was for
twelve years a meraber of the House of Representa
tives and four years in the State Senate of South
Carolina. David R. Williaras served eight years as a raem
ber of the Board of Trustees of the Lancaster
graded schools. He raarried Miss Rosa BaUey, mem
ber of the prorainent family of that name of Clinton.
South Carolina. Their four chUdren are David
Reece, Jr., Bailey, Frances and Rose Ellen.
John McLure Hemphill. The name of this well
known lawyer and legislator at Chester serves to re
call the record of raany of his brUliant relatives and
ancestors who have figured so conspicuously in the
professional and public life of South Carolina and
other Southern states for a century or raore.
The Heraphill faraily and the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian Church were established about the
same tirae in South Carolina. Rev. John Heraphill,
great-grandfather of. the Chester lawyer, was a
native of County Derry, Ireland, of Scotch parent
age, and was a minister of the Associate Reformed
denomination. On coming to this country he first
located in Pennsylvania, and from there came to
Chester County, South Carolina, riding on horse
back and locating at Hopewell Church in Chester
County. He helped establish that, one of the oldest
Associate Reforraed Presbyterian churches of the
South. For many years he was a prorainent min
ister. One of his sons, great-uncle of John McLure
Hemphill, was a historic character in the republic
and early State of Texas. His narae was John
Hemphill. He was born at Hopewell in Chester
County in 1805 and was educated in the schools
there, graduated from Jefferson College, Pennsyl
vania, in 1825, and after a perioc} of travel and
study was admitted to the bar at SumtervUle, South
Carolina, in 1829. He was lieutenant in a corapany
in the Seminole Indian war in Florida in 1835-36.
In 1838 he removed to the Republic of Texas and
located at old Washington, the first capital of the
republic, and becarae a close friend and associate
of President Sam Houston. In 1840 he was elected
a circuit judge and located at San Antonio. In 1841
he was made chief justice of fhe Supreme Court,
Republic of Texas, and after the republic becarae the
State of "Texas continued to hold that erainent posi
tion until 1858. In that year he was chosen as
United States Senator from Texas and represented
the state untU the secession of 1861. He then be
came a member of the Confederate Congress from
Texas and died in the Confederate capital at Rich
mond in December, 1861. Texas lawyers say that
Justice Hemphill's decisions are the ^clearest and
most authoritative in early Texas practice.
James Hemphill, a brother of Judge John Hemp
hill, was also a la-wyer of great eminence. His
life was spent in South Carolina, where he died in
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1902. His fame as a lawyer was raost notable in
civU cases. He was bom at the old HemphUl home
place near Hopewell Church in Chester County in
1813, and was also educated at Jefferson College in
Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1833. After
beginning practice he established his home at Ches
ter. He was strongly opposed to the secession
raoveraent, but with the outbreak of the war re
mained with the state and was the chosen leader
in civil affairs in his horae town and section during
the period of the war and reconstruction. He is
remembered as a man of great learning, of lovable
character, possessing a keen sense of huraor and
gift of story telling and historic rerainiscence.
One of his sons was' the late Hon. John J. Hemp
hill, who raade a brilliant career as a lawyer and
congressman. As a mere youth he served in the
Confederate army and studied law in the 'bffice of
his father James Hemphill at Chester. He was
elected a congressraan in 1876, when white rule was
restored in South Carolina, He continued to serve
in Congress by successive elections until 1890. He
then resuraed private practice at the City of Wash
ington, and lived there the rest of his life.
Another uncle of John McLure Heraphill is Rev.
Dr. Charles HemphUl, who has given his life to
scholarship and the service of the church and is now
president of the Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nary at Louisville, Kentucky.
One other member of this family is Major Calvin
HemphiU, one of the ablest of Southern journalists,
forraerly editor of the Charleston News and Courier
and the Richmond Times-Despatch.
Paul HeraphUl, father of John McLure Heraphill,
was born at Chester in 1861, graduated from Prince
ton University with the class of 1882, studied law
with his father and was admitted to the bar in
1883, and for nearly thirty years ranked with the
high class lawyers of the South Carolina bar. He
served one term in the General Asserably. He died
in 1912. Paul Heraphill raarried Bessie McLure,
who is also deceased. Her father was the late
Judge John J. McLure, a son of Thoraas McLure
of Chester County. The McLures in ante-bellum
times were extensive planters and slave owners.
Judge McLure, who died March 24, igig, was reared
at Chester, graduated from Princeton University in
1846, was admitted to the bar in 1848, was a captain
in the Confederate army, was president of the Bank
of Chester many years, and also held the office of
magistrate and in many other ways was a leader in
his home coraraunity.
John McLure Heraphill was born at Chester in
1887 and graduated frora the University of South
Carolina in 1908. He had the honor of being junior
president of the Euphratian Society in the university,
and two of his uncles, Hon. John J. HemphUl and
Maj. David HemphiU, had each been president of
that society. He studied law in the HemphUl law
office at Chester, was admitted to the bar in 1910,
and has found a large place of usefulness in his
profession. With his brother Paul HemphiU, city
attorney of Chester, he is engaged in a large general
practice. He was elected to represent his county in the
House of Representatives of 1916 by the largest
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He served as meraber of the judiciary coraraittee
and later on the ways and raeans committee and was
one of the framers of the bill under which bonds
were voted for good roads for Chester County. Mr.
Heraphill was a raeraber of the City Council from
1914 to 1916. He was a delegate to the National
Democratic Convention which norainated Woodrow
Wilson for a second term at St. Louis in 1916, and
has been county chairman of the executive cora
mittee of his party. He is a Knight Templar Mason
and Shriner and has been chancellor coraraander of
the Chester Lodge of Knights of Pythias. During
the war he was an active carapaigner in behalf of
the governraent.
Mr. Heraphill raarried Miss Helen Witherspoon,
of York County. Their son, Robert Witherspoon
HemphUl, was born in 1915.
John Daniel Smyser, M. D., a specialist who
confines his practice to diseases of the eye, ear,
nose and throat, began his professional career at
Florence soon after graduating frora the College of
Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore in 1912. His
home has been at Florence and his duties as a
general physician and specialist uninterrupted save
frora the period of the World war, in which he
served with the rank of lieutenant. South Carolina
National Guard, and captain of the Regular Array
in the Medical Reserve Corps, much of the time on
active duty in France. He was mustered out as
major of the Medical Reserve Corps. He organized
the South Carolina Field Hospital, with headquar
ters at Florence.
Doctor Smyser -was born at Perth Amboy, New
Jersey, about thirty years ago, a son of Capt. John
D. and Anna Hude (Sraith) Srayser, and is of
mihtary ancestry on both sides of the house. The
Srayser faraily was established by two brothers who
came frora Germany about the time Germantown,
Pennsylvania, was being settled. They established
their horae at York, Pennsylvania. Doctor Srayser's
great-great-grandfather had an iraraense estate near
York. The paternal grandfather of Doctor Srayser
was Judge Daniel M. Srayser of Norristown, Penn
sylvania. Capt. John D. Srayser was a cadet at the
Naval Academy at Annapolis during the Civil war,
and spent all his active career in the navy, rising
to the rank of captain. He achieved distinction as
a naval officer. His older brother. Dr. Eugene
Smyser, was a raedical student in the University of
Pennsylvania when the Civil war broke out, and at
once volunteered in the Union Array, becoming a
surgeon in the Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment.
Through his mother Doctor Smyser is related to
several other Araerican railitary lieroes. One of his
mother's family connections was . Comraodore Bain
bridge of the Navy, also Gen. James Parker of the
Army, and her mother was a Kearney, a cousin
of Gen. Phil Kearney, the great Western scout and
Civil war leader. Anna Hude Sraith was a daugh
ter of Dr. Charles McKnight Smith, a resident of
New Jersey, and a surgeon of recognized distinction.
John Daniel Smyser acquired his academic educa
tion at McChesney Institute at Paterson, New
Jersey, and in the University of Maryland. He
studied medicine in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons at Baltimore, graduating in igio, and had

the benefit of two years further training and experi
ence in Baltimore hospitals before he located at
Florence, South ' Carolina, in 1912. For a time he
handled a general practice, but after perfecting
himself by post-graduate work, has limited his prac
tice to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.
April 10, 1917, a few days after the declaration of
war against Germany, Doctor Smyser was commis
sioned a lieutenant in the Medical Corps, N. G. S. C,
being one of the first if not the first officer com
missioned from South Carolina. He was assigned
to duty as an instructor in the Medical Corps at
Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, which was the Medical
Officers' Training Cartp. He remained there untU
the following Septeraber, and was then ordered to
Camp Sevier, Greenville, South Carolina, to organize
Field Hospital No. 120 for the Thirtieth Division,
then in training. He remained at Camp Sevier untU
March, 1918, when he was sent overseas as a casual
officer. Captain Smyser had charge of the evacua
tion of the wounded in the field at Chateau Thierry,
and his discharge papers show that he was in active
service at the front at Montdidier, Noyon, Cham
paign, Marne and Aisne-Mame. Doctor Smyser
also attended the United States Army Medical
Corps at Longres, the largest medical school in the
world, and later was assigned to duty as an in
structor in that school. His special work in France
was brain surgery. He lectured to the Army Dental
School on the relation of oral diseases to dentistry.
Leaving France he arrived in Araerica Alarch 28,
igig, and was discharged April 19, 1919, with the
rank of major. He is st'Ul retained in the Reserve
Corps with the rank of major.
Resuraing his horae and practice at Florence
Doctor Smyser in November completed the elaborate
equipment and furnishing of his new offices on the
second floor of the City Savings Bank Building.
These offices constitute in fact a modern sanitarium
for treatraent of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and
throat. They contain X-Ray and other apparatus
and equipraent, indispensable to a specialist in these
diseases, and giving to the City of Florence an
unexcelled institution of its kind in the South.
Doctor Smyser is a member of the County, State
and American Medical associations. He raarried
Miss Janie Sue Saunders, meraber of a prorainent
family of that name of Surater County.
F. Gentry Harris of Spartanburg has given every
proof of capacity for large service inherent in a
young raan of ability, integrity and phenomenal
energy. Mr. .Harris is a lawyer, but for nearly two
years gave a large part of his time and energies to
war and patriotic duties.
He was born at Spartanburg in 1803, 'son of J.
"West and Hattie (Gentry) Harris. The Harris and
Gentry families have long been prominent in Spar
tanburg County. His paternal grandfather was
David Golightly Harris, a son of W. W. Harris.
The latter was an early settler in Spartanburg, a
wealthy man of his day, owning a large section of
'and now in the heart of the business district.
•^^r. Harris is a grandson through his mother of
L M. Gentry, who for a number of years was sheriff
of Spartanburg County. His son and an uncle of
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tired from law practice. He was for many years
a prominent raeraber of the Spartanburg bar and
for sixteen years was probate judge.
F. Gentry Harris acquired a thorough and liberal
education. He received his A. B. degree from
Furman University with the class of igii, and
was awarded the Master of Arts degree by Wofford
College in 1914. At intervals of his college career
and subsequently he taught school, being instructor
of English and raathematics in the Furman Fitting
¦ School two years and for a similar period was con
nected with the Hastoc School for Boys at Spartan
burg, and was also principal of one of the graded
schools of Spartanburg. In the meantime he was
studying law under Bomar & Osborne and was ad
raitted to the bar in 1917, His professional career
was hardly under way when the war came on and
the various patriotic movements enlisted his time
and enthusiasm to the sacrifice of his growing pro
fessional duties. He raade repeated efforts from
the time of the declaration of war to get into the
army, but owing to a cataract over his right eye,
which renders it totally blind, was unsuccessful until
finally he was accepted at Carap Wadsworth in the
quarterraaster's departraent. He was forraally en
rolled in the railitary branch frora October 8, 1918,
to March 23, 1919.
In an earlier period of the war he was a four-
rainute man making speeches in behalf of the va
rious loans and other drives. His raost notable work
as a civilian was in organizing and carrying to suc
cessful issue the War Savings Starap campaign in
Spartanburg County. Up to March i, 1918, that
county had fallen far behind Charleston County,
which was leading with sales of $130,000, while
Spartanburg County had sold only $26,000. Under
the leadership of Mr. Harris the pupUs of the pub
lic schools were used as the medium for a general
popular approach, and through influences set in
raotion by bira and his associates total sales of
$149,000 was reached in two raonths, from March
1st to May ist. This put Spartanburg County
$7,000 in the lead of Charleston, and at the end of
the year Spartanburg led Charleston by $94,000.
Mr. Harris organized a "lirait" club, comprising
subscribers to the then raaxiraura amount of $1,000
per person, and secured 700 merabers in Spartanburg
County. After his discharge from the army Air. Harris
again enlisted his services with the Governraent as
acting field director of the educational division for
the sale of War Savings Staraps. This involved a
state wide campaign, working again in cooperation
with public schools and other civic agencies. After
some weeks of hard work and rauch travel Mr. Har
ris resumed the private practice of law at Spartan
burg in June, 1919.
Hon. John Lyles Glenn. When the South Caro
lina State Bar Association chose John Lyles Glenn
as president, it appropriately honored one of the
ablest lawyers in the state. Mr. Glenn has been in
active practice at Chester for nearly forty years, is
a banker, has been prominent in politics and public
affairs, and is easily one of the outstanding figures
in the life and affairs of the state today.
Mr. Glenn was born - at Lowryville in Chester

County, April 26, 1858, a son of Dr. Ephraira Lyles
and Louisa (Carter) Glenn. His father after
graduating from the Medical College of the State of
South Carolina at Charleston took up the work of
the profession, to which he gave the rest of his
life, serving the people of York and Chester coun
ties with singular zeal and consecration.
When John Lyles Glenn was about twelve years
old the family moved from Lowryville to the Tirzah
neighborhood in York County. He grew up on a
farm, attended county schools in Chester and York
counties, and in 1876 entered Wofford College at
Spartanburg. He was graduated with the class of
1879. His law studies were pursued in Vanderbilt
University at Nashville, and he was adraitted to
the bar in 1881, at once beginning practice at Chester,
where he has since had his home. Many years of
hard and faithful work have effected his reputation
as one of the leading lawyers of the state. In addi
tion to a large general practice Mr, Glenn is district
counsel for the Seaboard Air Line Railway.
He was a meraber of the Constitutional Conven
tion of 1895, and served in the State Senate four
years, from 1896 to 1900. He was a delegate to the
democratic convention at Baltimore when Woodrow
Wilson was norainated in 1912. During the great
World war while two of his sons were with the
colors he was perforraing all the duties of a patriotic
citizen at home. He served as food adrainistrator
for Chester County and as district chairraan of the
Legal Advisory Board. Mr. Glenn is president of
the National Exchange Bank of Chester and has
long been a figure in the South Carolina Bankers'
Association. He served one terra as president of
the State Bar Association, and at one tirae was a
raeraber of the State Board of Education and is now
president of the Board of Trustees of Wofford
College. Mr. Glenn married Miss Alice Hall, raember of a
prominent family of that narae in Fairfield County.
Mrs. Glenn was educated at the old 'Williamstown
Female College and is a graduate of the Colurabia
Feraale College. She shares with her husband raany
scholarly tastes and attainments, and in school she
excelled in matheraatics and in her own home has
done much to educate her chUdren. Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn have a faraily of eight chUdren, five daughters
and three sons. "The sons are all young raen of
distinction and part of this record, may very appro
priately be devoted to them.
The oldest, James Hardin Glenn, is his father's
law partner. He graduated from Wofford College
in 1909, studied law at Columbia University in New
York, and was admitted to the bar in 1912. He
married Miss Ola Allison, of York County, and
they have a daughter, naraed Elizabeth Carroll Glenn.
The youngest son is Thoraas Hall Glenn, also a
graduate of Wofford. He has raade an enviable
record as an educator, having much of his mother's
ability in that line. During the war he volunteered
and served with the United States Marine Corps,
and had been picked for the Naval Aviation Service
when the war ended.
Few Americans were longer identified with the
World war than the second son, Capt. J. Lyles Glenn,
Jr. He was graduated with honors from Wofford
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athletics, particularly baseball, but his participation
in athletics was no bar to his scholarship. He won
two or three scholarship prizes and was one of
the Rhodes scholars frora South Carolina. He went
to Oxford University in England to benefit from
this scholarship in September, 1914. After about six
weeks' work in the university he voluntarily joined
Mr. Hoover's Food Relief Commission in Belgium.
He was soon in active service behind the German
lines. Subsequently, in company with C. G. Bowden
of Tennessee, he went into Northern France, stiU
behind the German lines, distributing supplies in
behalf of the American Food Commission. These
two intrepid young men were the first to engage
in that work in Northern France. Their exploits
were raade the subject of sorae widely read . article
on the war published in Hearst's Magazine in No
veraber, 1917. The adventures described, in that
article occurred in February, 1915. Captain Glenn
remained with that work for eighteen months. Dur
ing the faU and early winter of 1915-16 he was
again at his studies in Oxford, In February, igi6,
he became an arabulance driver for the French
array. His duties were in and around Verdun
at the tirae of the stupendous assault on that
fortress, in raany respects the raost spectacular event
in the entire war.
Captain Glenn was again busy with his studies at
Oxford in igi7, when America joined the Allies.
He was given his A. B. degree in advance of the
regular time, and returning to Araerica entered the
Officers Training Carap at Fort Oglethorpe. He re
ceived his coraraission as second lieutenant of in
fantry and was at once ordered overseas as a
casual officer. In France he attended the British
Infantry Array School. He was assigned to duty
with the First Division of the United States Regular
Army and on January 5, igi8, was promoted to first
lieutenant and was iraraediately given coraraand of
Corapany G of the Twenty-sixth Infantry, First
Division. He was with that organization at the
battle front, was wounded but reraained in continu
ous service untU July 8, 1918. At that date he
was ordered horae and at the sarae tirae was pro
raoted to captain. He was assigned to instruction
duty at Carap Gordon Officers Training School and
continued there until the close of the war. He re
ceived his honorable discharge March 4, 1919, and
then returned horae to Chester. It was his rare
experience to have been in close touch with sorae
phase of the great European front alraost continu
ously frora the early raonths of the struggle.
General Retain, the hero of Verdun, gave Captain
Glenn a citation, based upon his leading a raid on
the German trenches in June, 1918, and bringing
back a nuraber of Gerraan prisoners and very im
portant information. He made this raid while on
the battle front in Picardy. He led his company
of 120 men, and in the citation General Retain refers
especially to Captain Glenn's conspicuous intelligence
in forraing the plans for this raid and his subse
quent leadership. More recently Captain Glenn has
been notified through the State Departraent that he
has been awarded by King Albert the Belgian
decoration of the Chevaliers of the Order of the
Crown — this on account of his services with the
Food Commission in Belgium.

Before entering Oxford Captain. Glenn had the
law in view, and he specialized his studies along
that line while abroad. He finished his law work
after returning home and leaving the army, and in
the spring of 1919 was adraitted to the bar and
entered his father's law firm at Chester. Captain
Glenn married Miss Sarah Terrell, of Atlanta, daugh
ter of Mr. W. A. Terrell and a niece of the former
governor and ex-senator Terrell of that state.
Charles Davis Boling. One of the most im- .
portant technical posts in the textile industry m
South Carolina is filled by Charles Davis Boling as
master mechanic of an important, group of the
Pacific MiUs Corporation. Mr. Boling began work
in a cotton mill when he was ten years of age. His
experience in the industry covers forty years. His
is an inspiring exaraple of how a raan may rise
above his circurastances and make himself master
of his work and achieve a position of dignity and
influence in the world. .
He was bom at Travelers Rest in GreenviUe
County in 1869, a son of S. C. and Lydia (Alton)
Boling. His grandfather, Benjamin Boling, and two
brothers left their native state of Virginia about
1818, two settling in Upper GreenvUle County, while
the other went to Georgia. The Bolings originated
in Roanoke County, Virginia. They are of the same
ancestry as the wife of President WUson, who is
directly descended from the famous Indian princess
Pocahontas. S. C. Boling was born in 1842 in the
Travelers Rest coraraunity of Greenville County, and
died in 1912. One of his brothers, an uncle of
Charles D. Boling, was the late Capt. John W. Bol
ing of Upper Greenville County. He was one of the
prorainent men of his day in public life, representing
his county in the Legislature and filled other posi
tions of responsibUity, and was captain of a company
from Greenville County in the war between the
states. Charles D. Boling spent the first ten years of his
life on his father's farm in Greenville County. He
attended a few terms of school, but his real educa
tion was acquired while in close touch with the
practical affairs of life. He became a bread and
butter winner when he left the farm to begin work
in the old Camperdown raills in Greenville in 1879.
Probably no task for which boys of his age and
capabUity were fitted failed to be assigned to him
during the next nine years. In 1888 he entered a
machine shop, and served the apprenticeship which
made him a machinist. In i8go he became master
mechanic of the Clifton Manufacturing Company at
Spartanburg. He first came to Columbia in l8g5,
whUe Richland Mill was in progress of construction,
becarae its raaster raechanic, and reraained at Colum
bia untU igio. During the next five years he was
raaster raechanic at a mill in Atlanta, and then re
turned to Columbia and is now master mechanic
of the Olympia, Granby, Capital City and Richland
Mills, these four plants constituting what is known
as the Hampton group of the Pacific Mills Corpora
tion, one of the largest single groups of cotton mills
in the state. Mr. Boling has charge not only of
the machinery and equipment of the mills but of all
the physical properties as well, including the resi
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mill villages. He is also vice president of the Moun
tain Foundry and Machine Works at Greenville.
As a popular man in his home city Mr. Boling
was elected and served as an alderman in the
City Council from 1895 untU 1910. On leaving
Columbia in 1910 to go to Atlanta, at a meeting of
the members of the City Council at the Ridgewood
Club he. was presented with a loving cup bearing the
inscription "Presented as a token of esteem from
his friends, and of love from his fellow workmen,"
the occasion being a banquet given in his honor
by his fellow members of the city administration.
Mr. Boling married Miss Augusta DiU, of Green
ville, member of an old and prorainent family of
that county. Her father was Joab Broughton Dill.
His mother, Dorcas (Broughton) Dill, was the
daughter of Joab Broughton, one of the pioneer citi
zens of Greenville County and a captain in the
War of 1812.
While Mr. Boling himself had to obtain his educa-
tidn largely in the school of experience, he has given
his two sons college training. One of them is
Dr. J. R. Boling of Columbia and the other is
C. AI. Boling, connected with the United States
Rubber Company at Detroit. Dr. John R. Boling is a
graduate of the American Medical College. He
volunteered in the Medical Reserve Corps, was
called into active service in July, 1917, and was on
duty for two years, until discharged in July, 1919,
when he resumed his practice at Columbia. For
several months prior to the armistice he was in
constant service with Evacuation Hospital No. 9,
apd subsequently served in a similar capacity with
the Army of Occupation in Germany.
Hon. Da'vtd Hamilton, a prominent Chester
la'wyer, junior member of the law firm of Gaston
& Hamilton, of state vfide prominence, has rapidly
achieved substantial honors in his profession and in
public life.
He was born at Chester October 12, 1883, a son of
James and Mary (Hindman) Hamilton. His father,
also a native of Chester County, died in 1902. For
a number of years he was engaged in school work,
serving as county superintendent of schools for
Chester County, and afterward was proprietor of
a book store at Chester.
David Hamilton is a graduate of the Chester
High School, and took both his academic and law
work in the University of South Carolina, gradu
ating in 1907. The same year he began practice at
Chester, in partnership with Col. A. L. Gaston. This
firm handles a large corporation practice and repre
sents many of the most important civil cases tried
in the courts of the district. Mr. Hamilton is also. a
director in the Commercial Bank and. a. director in
the Chester Building and Loan Association.
He was elected to the Lower House of the Legis
lature in 1918, and during the session beginning in'
January, 1919, was a member of the judiciary com
mittee. He is a deacon in the First Baptist Church,
and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Improved Order of
Red Men. December 29, 1910, Mr. Hamilton mar
ried Miss Alice Whitlock, of Chester County. Their
two children are named David Lee and Thomas
Booker.

William Bright Fletcher. One of the leading
plantation enterprises in the northern part of Marl
boro County is that of the Fletcher Brothers, who
operate extensive cotton fields and cotton oil raills
on both sides of the state line. William Bright
Fletcher has his home place three miles north of
McColl, and has lived there practically all his life.
He was bom on the horaestead farrn October 12,
1861. His father, Thoraas Fletcher, was born in
the sarae locality, and except for his service in the
Confederate army was devoted to planting all his
active career. He lived to the age of seventy-three.
The grandfather was Joshua Fletcher, a native of
Wayne County, North Carolina, who carae to this
state about 1800 and was also a planter. The
Fletchers are of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Thomas
Fletcher raarried Novella Adaras, a native of Marl
boro County and a daughter of Jonathan Adams
of the sarae county. Jonathan Adaras before the
war owned many slaves and had extensive plant
ing interests. The Adams family is of English
ancestry and has been in South Carolina since prior
to the Revolution.
WUliam Bright Fletcher, who was the fourth
araong six children, grew up on the horae farra and
has lived there except for a period of about six
months when he was twenty-one years of age. At
that time he made a trip to Texas, but found no
opportunity sufficient tp attract him to permanent
residence in the Lone Star State. Since then he
has been engaged in farming. In November, 1892,
he married Miss Sinah Gibson, who was born just
over the line in North Carolina. They had one
son, Robert, who was a soldier with the American
Expeditionary Forces in France. He was gassed at
Toule September 29th and died in France October
7, 1918. He was in the Forty- Second (Rainbow),
Division, Company 166-D, having enlisted May 29,
1918, in the Eighty-First Division and afterward
transferred to the Rainbow Division. Robert Fletcher
was born October 31, 1892, and was educated in the
common and public schools of McColl and in Wof
ford College.
William B. Fletcher is associated with his brother
Jesse A. in the ownership of 1,800 acres of land
in Marlboro and 2,100 acres in Scotland and Robert
son counties. North Carolina. This is an extensive
planting industry, which requires the service of
about 300 people. They own a large oil mill on
the South Carolina plantation and manufacture oil
from their own cotton.
John M. Wise has been a meraber of the Chester
bar for fifteen years, and practically all his interests
since he reached manhood have been identified with
Chester" County.
He was born in that county July 17, 1877, a son
of L. S. and Margaret (Tims) Wise. His grand
father, Daniel Wise, came to Chester County from
Lincoln County, North Carolina, about 1820, settling
ten railes west of Chester in the coraraunity known
as Baton Rouge. Daniel Wise married Sarah Stokes,
of that county. L. S. Wise was born in Chester
County in 1832, and was a Confederate soldier from
the beginning of the war until the close. He joined
the state troops at Charleston soon after the fall
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regular Confederate array. He was with Lee's
array at the surrender of Appomattox. He married
in 1866 Miss Margaret Tims, and soon after his
marriage settled on the old homestead in Halselville
Township, about ten railes southwest of Chester.
His widow still lives ther.e, within a raile of where
she was born about seventiy-three years ago. Alar
garet Tiras' grandraother was a McKeown, meraber
of one of the old and historic farailies of Chester
County. John M. Wise was born on the old horaestead
where his mother is living today, and he still owns
a one-half interest in a fifteen-horse farm, and is
engaged in general farming in addition to his pro
fessional work. In that community he attended
country schools when a boy and later was a student
in Catawba College at Newton, North Carolina,
and a business school at Atlanta. In 1902, as a
popular young farmer and citizen, he was elected
a member of the Legislature from Chester County.
He served in the sessions of 1903-04. At the same
time he was carrying a heavy schedule of work in
the law department of the University of South Caro
lina, and was graduated in igo5. In that year he
established his office at Chester, and has lived in
that city and built up a large general practice as a
lawyer. He is also a director in the National Ex
change Bank at Chester.
Mr. Wise served two years, igii-12, as mayor of
Chester. He is a Baptist and has been superin
tendent of the First Baptist Sunday School since
1914. He married Miss Nettie Brice, of this city
in igo8, and they have one daughter, Alargaret.
James Baxter Westbrook. For a citizen of such
versatile gifts and qualifications as Mr. Westbrook,
every community has numerous demands upon his
services. He is the present raayor of Chester, is a
successful lawyer, has been prorainent in local mUi
tary affairs, has held various public offices and is
one of the leading farraers of Chester County.
He was born in the Wellridge coraraunity of
Chester County, nine mUes southeast of Chester, in
1876, a son of Robert Harvey and Isabelle (AIcDiU)
Westbrook. His parents are both now deceased.
They represented old families of the county, resident
there for several generations. He now owns the farra
where he was reared and which originally belonged
to his Revolutionary ancestor, his great-great-grand
father McDill. His father was a Confederate
soldier, volunteering when sixteen years of age,
and was in the South Carolina Cavalry, under Gen
eral Wade Hampton.
Judge Westbrook grew up on a farm, was edu
cated in the old field schools of his coraraunity, and
attended Erskine CoUege at Due West. He studied
law at Chester, and a special act of the Legislature
was required to adrait him to the bar at the age
of twenty years. Frora igo3 to 1907, four years,'
he was probate judge of Chester County, the follow
ing two years was clerk of the court, and then
applied hiraself to private practice at Chester.
He served six years as a member of the City
Council and was elected raayor in the spring of igig
Judge Westbrook has the complete confidence and
support of aU the best citizens in that office, and is
giving Chester an admirable raunicipal administra

tion. During the war he was captain of the local
company of the South Carolina Reserve Militia, and
held that position until the new National Guard was
organized. For two years ending in igig, by appointment of
Governor Manning, he was a meraber of the State
Board of Pardons. He is identified with the Asso
ciate Reforraed Presbyterian Church. He is fond
of horses and hunting, and these are his chief
diversions. Judge Westbrook raarried Miss Jennie Caldwell
of Chester, a daughter of Jaraes McCalla and
Janie Steele (Brice) CaldweU, and a sister of Air.
R. B. Caldwell, president of the Coraraercial Bank
of Chester. To their marriage have been born three
children, Bethia, Isabella and Janie Brice.
¦William M. Love, M. D. Three successive gen
erations of the Love family have produced erainent
and most capable physicians and surgeons. Dr.
WUliam M. Love began his career as a physician and
surgeon nearly forty years ago, and has practiced
at McConnellsviUe, and for the past nine years at
Chester. His father was a physician and surgeon
who graduated from the Charleston Medical CoUege
seventy years ago, in 1849. A son of Dr. William
M. Love made a brUliant record as an Araerican
soldier with the British and Araerican armies in
France during the World war.
Williara M. Love was born at McConnellsvUle
in York County, South Carolina, in i860. He repre
sents one of the oldest famUies established in that
part of the state. The founder of the family in
South Carolina was Alexander Love, who married
Margaret Moore in York County, Pennsylvania in
1760. About 1765 Alexander Love came to vvhat
is now York County, South Carolina, settling on
Fishing Creek, about a raile and a half from old
Yorkville. At that time this community was a part
of Craven County, North Carolina. After the
separation from that state it was Craven County
South Carolma Alexander Love was a raember of
the Provisional Congress which met at Charleston
m 1775. Later he was a member of the South
Carolina Legislature. When the district of which
rlnT.T. ^¦¦"•dent was laid out it was naraed at his
lequest York District in honor of his former horae
County" '" '""*" ^^^" '* ^^^^m^ York
A descendant of this pioneer was Robert Mitchell
Love,_ grandfather of Dr. WiUiam M. Love. The
la ters parents were Dr Robert and Jane (Herap-
Wh r r^''? HemphUls are also a distincti-^e
f.r in .'l "\^^""'^'' ^"^ ^°™e of the iraportant
thronbli'cation.'"'"'"^ ^'^ '°'^ °" °*- P-»-« °f
Com.'ie'"^'f^Q Love was graduated from the Medical
ius fhir? f "'' Carolina at Charleston in 1881,
He nrpntf; r° ^f^", ^^'^' '^'^^ ^^^ther's graduation
miti/ Torn ,.'" 'V' ''°™'^ *°^" °f McCSnnellsville
ha ei in^'pH^^ ? ''' '¦'™°^'^^ *° Chester. Here he
surserv ^.nH^- T "?"*'" ''°th in medicine and
prorierf;ri. " also the possessor of substantial
property resources He is a meraber of the County,
assTciatlon; '''• ^°"*"" ^"^ ^'-"''^^" Medical
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ber of an old and prominent faraily of the state.
Their two sons are Robert C. and Dr, Samuel Glenn
Love. The forraer is in the drug business at
Chester. Dr. Sarauel Glenn Love was born at McConnells
viUe in 1892, was educated in the high school there
and in Davidson College in North Carolina. He
spent one year of medical study in the Charleston
Medical College and three years in the University
of Maryland, graduating in 1914. He spent a year
as an interne in the University Hospital at Balti
more, and then took up general practice with his
father at Chester. In April, 1917, when America
declared war on Germany, he volunteered in the
Medical Reserve Corps. Soon after being sent to
Washington he was "loaned" to the British Govern
ment and was assigned to duty in the Leith War
Hospital at Seafield, Scotland, in August, 1917.' He
remained at that post of duty until January, 1918,
and after that was in the hospital service at Leith
until March. He was then in training camp at
Blackpool and on the 15th of March was sent to
France. In June, 1918, he was returned to the
Araerican Array and was assigned to Red Cross
Hospital Unit No. no. With that unit he remained
untU after the signing of the armistice. Frora the
beginning of Araerica's cooperation as a national
force with the great offensive in the sumraer of
igi8 Doctor Love was in active and constant service
at the front. He was surgeon on the casualty
operating teams throughout the Chateau Thierry '
battles. The organization to which he belonged
began its serious work at VUliers-Dancourt and con
tinued throughout the Argonne-Meuse drive. His
work was "battle-casualty" surgery. As the casual
ties were very high his work was arduous. He
was gassed and frequently exposed to bombing
operations on the part of the enemy. He received
the highest comraendations frora his superior officers
for his untiring devotion to duty, his surgical skUl,
his coolness and good judgraent, and his conscienti
ous deportraent. On returning to Araerica in March,
1919, he was discharged. The year of igig he was
resident surgeon in Park Hospital in New York
City. James Teague Harris of Spartanburg, is a raan
of exceptional business judgment and ability, and has
that rare faculty of being able to recognize hidden
values and develop latent possibilities where they
had never been suspected. He is a large property
owner and has developed some of the raost suc
cessful enterprises in bringing into profitable use
and enjoyment the natural resources of the state.
Mr. Harris was born at Waterloo, Laurens County,
in 1855. At the age of six years his right hand and
arm were accidentally crushed between the cogs of
a cane mill so that he has lived his life with the
use of a sturdy left hand only.
¦Through his paternal grandmother, Jane Mcjun-
ken, he is a descendant of Sarauel and Anne Logan
Mcjunken, Revolutionary patriots of Union County,
and through his raother, Jane Teague, of the Garys,
Griffens and Teagues of Newberry.
He was sent to Wofford College for his education,
but the death of his father, besides losses attend
ant upon the war, forbade a college course, and
whUe a raere boy began to work with a zest and

deterraination to do things despite difficulties that
has reraained with him through all his business
career. Probably his two most conspicuous successes were
his development of the Harris Lithia Springs in Lau
rens County and White Stone Lithia Springs in
Spartanburg County. Mr. Harris bought the orig
inal property of the Harris Lithia Springs at not
rauch raore than $7 an acre. In recent years it
was sold to an Augusta corporation for $100,000.
In the raeantirae Mr. Harris had conducted the
property himself, and by judicious advertising had
given a well justified fame to the springs and their
lithia water. He also bought and developed the
White Stone Springs in Spartanburg County in
rauch the sarae manner and with equal financial suc
cess, having sold it for $100,000'. The White Stone
Lithia Water was awarded first honors in the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in igo4
and also at other fairs and expositions. While Mr.
Harris was active raanager he spent a large araount
of money for publicity purposes, and improved the
property with buildings and other facUities so as to
make it a convenient meeting place for a number of
state conventions of professional, business and po
litical organizations.
Mr. William P. Harris, a brother of James T., died
Noveraber, igig. He had becorae noted as an ex
ponent of advanced agriculture in South Carolina
and was one of the faraous potato growers in the
South. He introduced the Lookout Mountain jdo-
tatoes to South Carolina, and won raany prizes ahd
honors on his agricultural products. Clemson Col
lege awarded .him a certificate for merit and achieve
ment in agricultural production.
Mr. Harris has made his horae in Spartartburg
since l8g6, and numerous examples of his enter
prise might be adduced. He organized the Bank of
Spartanburg, has erected sorae sixty or seventy resi
dences in the city, also the Harris Building, a busi
ness block with offices on the second floor, and at a
tirae when Spartanburg was greatly in need of a
theater building he put up the Harris. Theater, one
of the raost popular institutions in the city. Mr. Har
ris also owns a large amount of farm land in
Spartanburg County and directly supervises its
raanageraent. He is a very busy raan and his busi
ness tends toward the side of public benefit and the
public welfare always.
In 1883 Mr. Harris raarried Miss Mamie Boyd,
daughter of Rev. George M. and Mary Thompson
Boyd. Their three chUdren are James T. Harris,
Jr., his associate in business ; Miss Marie Harris, a
teacher of French phonetics and language, and Mrs.
Merton 'Warren Brush, of Spring Hill Farra, Carapo-
beUo. William Pressly Robinson, of a prominent
faraily of that narae in Lancaster County, has turned
his talents and energies to effective purpose in the
profession of law, and there is probably no meraber
of the Lancaster bar with a clientele of raore gener
ous proportions qnd raade up of raore important
interests. Mr. Robinson was born at Lancaster in 1875, a
son of Nathaniel P. and Elizabeth A. (Lathan)
Robinson. His father, who died three mUes north
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and a raan of wide influence in his community. He
was born November 20, 1848, and in the fall of
1864 became a meraber of a company of state
troops raade up of sixteen year old boys. He saw
four raonths of service for the Confederacy. After
the war he devoted his years to farraing. . He was
fpr forty years an active member and official of the
ShUoh Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church,
serving as deacon and elder. He and his wife had
five chUdren: Mrs. D. M. Walkup, Rev. Dr. R. L.
Robinson (president of the Woraan's College at Due
West), WUliara P., Mrs. N. B. Cousar, and A. B.
Robinson. The mother of these chUdren died in
1909. William Pressly Robinson graduated frora Erskine
CoUege at Due West in igoi, and in igo5 'finished
his law course in the University of South Carolina.
For fifteen years he has practiced law at Lancaster.
He early achieved a place of standing in his pro
fession, and has acquitted hiraself with credit in
handling a general practice, including representation
of such interests as the Farraers Bank & Trust Com
pany of Lancaster, of which he is attorney and
director, the Merchants and Farraers Bank of Heath
Springs, and several other corporations. He was
elected a raeraber of the Legislature in igo8 and
served one term. During the war period besides the
service he rendered as a member of the Legal Ad
visory Board, he was a popular speaker and worker
in behalf of the Liberty Loan carapaigns. Red Cross
drives and other patriotic causes.
Mr. Robinson is an active meraber of the Associ
ate Reforraed Presbyterian Church. He raarried
Miss Lillie Belle Neely of Ebenezer, York County,
daughter of John B. Neely. They have two chUdren,
Charles Neely and Susie Robinson.
Edwin R. Lucas, who left the University of
South Carolina to take a position in a bank at
Spartanburg, was connected with financial institu
tions over the Carolinas and subsequently engaged
in the cotton industry. Mr. Lucas is now manager,
secretary and assistant treasurer of the Baldwin
Cotton MiUs at Chester.
These mills and the surrounding village constitute
one of the raodel industrial coraraunities of the
South. Originally the business was known as the
Wylie plant of the Harapton MiUs, but the business
was bought by the Baldwin interests of New York
in June, igi6, and has since been known as the
Baldwin Cotton MiUs. Under the present owner
ship, many notable improvements have been made,
especially in the upbuilding of the raill village, the
beautification of the surroundings, and increased
efficiency in the plant and increased coraforts and
facUities of living to the people who depend upon
the industry as their source of livelihood. The raiUs
are capitalized at $600,000, and the machinery con
sists of over 31,000 spindles and nearly 800 Draper
looms. The output is sheetings and yarns. About
800 people find employraent in the raUls, and raost
of them live in the miU viUage consisting of several
streets of attractive cottages, with a raodern school
buUding, a -well equipped library, coraraunity center,
churches. Young Men's Christian Association, play
grounds and various organizations for the expres
sion of the coraraunity spirit of social, religious and
benevolent activities. During 1919 the corapany

erected two handsome hotels, one for men and one
for women, these furnishing comfortable quarters
for the unmarried employes.
Edwin R. Lucas, who was born at HartsviUe,
Darlington County, South Carolina, in 1870, is a
meraber of an historic family of lower South Caro
lina. His great-grandfather, Jonathan Lucas, was
sent here on a mission by the English government in
colonial times to establish the rice planting industry
in lower Carolina. One result of his efforts was the
establishment of the first rice mUl in the state. Mr.
Lucas is a son of Dr. Benjamin Simmons and Ella
S. (King) Lucas. His father, also a native of
Darlington County, was a physician and saw four
years of service in the Confederate Army, being
Captain of Company A in the 7th South Carolina
Infantry. Edwin R. Lucas continued his education by grad
uation frora South Carolina CoUege, now the Uni
versity of South Carolina, in 1889. He was then
in Spartanburg two years connected with the First
National Bank, then becarae cashier of the Green
ville Savings Bank at GreenvUle and later cashier of
the City National Bank of the sarae city, and subse
quently was cashier and resident raanager of the
Blue Ridge Bank at Asheville, North Carolina. On
leaving Asheville he entered the cotton business at
Walhalla, South Carolina, and left the Walhalla
Cotton Alills to come to Chester on January i, 1916.
Since then he has been general manager of what is
now the Baldwin Cotton MUls of Chester.
Mr. Lucas raarried Miss Susan Arnette, who was
born and reared in the old Monticello section of
Fairfield County. Their three children are Eleanor
Siraraons, William E. and Susanne.
Hon. Martin F. Ansel. Governor Martin Fred
erick Ansel, who left the Governor's chair eight
years ago, is today regarded as one of the state's
most distinguished and useful citizens, as for four
years he was its distinguished chief executive. Many
well inforraed students regard Governor Ansel's
two adrainistrations as araong the most impressive
and important in the political history of South Caro
lina. Not even Rutledge, McDuffie or Hampton,
declares one writer, "can furnish a career more
interesting, raore helpful or more inspiring in true
worth and honest endeavor than the well poised,
self-trained, raUd raannered man who held the reins
of governraent for the four years frora 1906 to 1910."
Martin Frederick Ansel was born in Charleston,
South Carolina, December 12, 1850, son of John J.
and Frederika (Bowers) Ansel. When he was a
child his parents moved to WalhaUa, Oconee County,
in the upper part of the state, and the home where
he lived as a boy is stUl occupied by members of
the Ansel family. Though an extreme youth at the
tirae, the features and events of the great war raade
a lasting impression upon Governor Ansel. Those
critical tiraes not only made him thoughtful and
serious in advance of his years, but developed self
reliance and initiative that compensated somewhat
for the lack of opportunity to enjoy a college educa
tion. His early training was received in the cora
raon schools of Walhalla. He studied law under
Major Jaraes H. Whitner, and was adraitted to the
bar in 1870, when he was only twenty years of age.
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Carolina, but in January, 1876, began his long resi
dence at Greenville, South Carolina, from which he
was called to the governor's mansion in Columbia
and to which he returned upon the close of his
second term as governor. He began participation
in politics actively at the time of the reorganization
of the state government and the restoration of white
rule under the leadership of Harapton. Young
Ansel was one of the most ardent adherents of
Hampton, and was even then recognized as a man
who could execute as well as receive orders and
responsibUities. But he was in the full tide of a
successful law practice before he became a candidate
on his own account. In 1882, at the age of thirty-
two, he was elected a member of the Legislature,
and was re-elected in 1884 and 1886. In 1888 he was
raade solicitor for the Eighth Judicial Circuit, and
held that office for twelve consecutive years, until
igoi. It was his work as solicitor or prosecuting
attorney that first brought hira a wide spread repu
tation among the people of South Carolina. He
was a candidate for govemor in 1902, and in 1906,
after one of the hardest fought carapaigns in recent
years, was norainated governor with a raajority of
about 10,000 out of a possible voting population of
90,000. He was re-elected in 1908, and held office
until the beginning of igii. In January of the latter
year he resumed practice at Greenville.
It is possible to note in only a limited way the out
standing features in Governor Ansel's administra
tion of state affairs. His first act, and the one
which made his administration raeraorable in the
history of the state, was the abolition of the State
Dispensary Law, under which for several years a
systera of liquor selling by the state had been carried
on. As is well known, the State Dispensary system
was abolished, leaving the matter to local option
whether each county should have a county dispen
sary, and before the close of Governor Ansel's sec
ond term only six counties in the state raaintained
such a dispensary.
Governor Ansel had a very busy and business like
administration. Frora the time that his own pro
fessional career was assured he has given rauch
thought to the problera of public education, a prob
lem in which his own early life was involved, and
he has never lost an opportunity to improve and
broaden the opportunities for the youth of his
state. While governor he set a valuable precedent
by making an official visit to every educational in
stitution and almost every school in South Carolina.
Such an impulse was given to popular education that
about 150 additional high schools were established.
"This alone," declared Dr, S. C. MitcheU, president
of the University of South Carolina, "is an achieve
ment of which any executive might well be proud
and which will give the administration a perraanent
place in the history of the state for all tirae."
Governor Ansel was a member of the Executive
Coraraittee of the first Governors' Conference called
by the late President Roosevelt and held at the White
House in 1908. In the Governors' Conference in
1910, also held at Washington, he prepared, printed
in paraphlet forra, and read at the request of that
body "A Brief Review of the Law of Extradition."
In 1912 and again in 1916 Governor Ansel, at the
request of the chairman of the Speakers' Bureau
of the National Deraocratic Executive Committee,

made an extensive campaign speaking tour of the
northern and middle western states.
Governor Ansel is a man of deep piety and strong
convictions, is an elder in the Presbyterian Church
at Greenville, and has always been generous of his
tirae and service while a raeraber of various boards
of charitable and civic institutions. His horae life
has been a very beautiful and happy one. February
21, 1878, -he married Ophelia A. Speight, who died
December 25, 1895. On August 23, i8g8, he raarried
Mrs. Addie R. Harris, of Pickens, South Carolina.
Governor Ansel has two chUdren : Mrs. Gertrude
Ansel Worley and Mrs. Frederika Ansel Bunch,
and a stepson, Capt. Henry H. Harris.
William Stacy Foxworth. The dominating
characteristic of a great American whose life was
one long service of benefit to mankind and his coun
try was described as a constant and presevering eag
erness to "do the duty that lay nearest." Apparently
that has been the sura of the practical phUosophy of
Williara Stacy Foxworth, one of the leading business
men, bankers and philanthropists of South Carolina.
He was born near the Town of Marion April 23,
1854, son of Wesley Samuel and Ann Eliza (Wood
ward) Foxworth, members of substantial planting
faraUies of Marion County. As a boy he entered
school at Marion. Early in his school career his
father went into the army, enlisting in Tucker's Cav
alry at the outbreak of the war. He died while a
Confederate soldier, leaving his widow with five
children, WiUiam being the oldest. The son had to
do the chief part in looking after the family and
an added source of discouragement was raany debts
which had accuraulated, partly as a result of his
father's too willingness to become security for
friends. In 1866, through an accident, William S.
Foxworth lost his right arra. Up to that time he had
felt equal and adequate to the duties and burdens
of life, but with his physical abUities thus impaired
permanently it was perhaps only natural that he gave
way to a period of despondency. In the meantirae
his raother secured hira the privUeges pf a good
private school at Marion, and after the advantages
of that institution he was able to secure a place as
a teacher and his prospects iramediately brightened.
After that he went steadily ahead, doing his work,
and doing what he could for his mother and other
raembers of the family, at the same time look
ing out for his own future. By 1879 he had accurau
lated less than $1,000 of capital and with that began
a business career. The turning point in his career
carae when he joined the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, and since then, placing his reliance
on the rock of Christian religion, his capacity for
business and his ability for service have been greatly
expanded. His mercantUe interests at Marion grew,
and he has becorae the actuating influence in many
local enterprises. Mr. Foxworth has been president
of the Planters Bank of Marion from the date, of its
organization, was one of the organizers and is vice
president of the Marion Manufacturing Company,
one of the leading cotton raUls of that section of the
state, is a director of the Farmers and Merchants
Bank, of the Augusta Northern Railroad, and several
tiraes has been an alderman of his home city.
Not the amassing of wealth, but the expenditure
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raanity has been the chief purpose in Mr. Foxworth's
career for many years. It is said that after he had
accumulated $100,000 he determined to use every ad
dition to his capital for religious ahd philanthropic
purposes. He has been one of the most prominent
Methodist laymen in constructive missionary work
both at horae and abroad. He maintains a raissionary
in China, where the "Marion Station" has long been
an outpost of Christian faith in that country. He
has also helped educate raany boys both for business
and the rainistry. For raany years he was a steward
in his horae church and in 1908 was elected district
lay leader of the Layraan's Missionary raoveraent for
the Marion district.
February 4, 1882, Mr. Foxworth married Miss
Catherine Smith, daughter of James Sraith of Robe
son County, North Carolina, "To their marriage were
born six children,
FuRNEY Rhem Hemingway, One of the younger
members of the South Carolina bar, Mr. Heming
way has already established himself securely in the
practice of his profession at Kingstree.
He was born in WUliamsburg County, February
ig, i88g, son of AUard Belin and Mary Louise
(Britton) Hemingway. His father was a farmer
and also a merchant. The son was educated in
public schools and graduated frora the Academic
Department of the University of South Carolina
with the A. B. degree in 1912. FoUowing his grad
uation he taught school three years and then after
a thorough education in law was admitted to the
bar in 1919 and began practice at Kingstree;
Henry Orr Britton, who was one of the boy
soldiers of the Confederacy in the War between
the States, and had three sons in the World war,
has been a lifelong resident of Williarasburg County
and for the past twelve years has filled the office
of clerk of court.
Mr. Britton was born at Indiantown, Williarasburg
County, August 15, 1848, son of Thomas Nelson
and Rebecca Ervin (Gordon) Britton. He grew
up on his father's plantation, had a public school
education, and on September i, 1864, was enrolled
in the Confederate army as a private in Company E
of the Seventh Infantry. He perforraed the sol
dier duties required of him until the close of the
great struggle in April, 1865. FoUowing the war he
took up civU pursuits as a farraer, and farraing
and planting has been his occupation for over half
a century.
Mr. Britton served eleven years as deputy sheriff
of Williamsburg County, and was elected to his
present ofiice as clerk of court in igo6. He gave
much of his time to various patriotic activities dur
ing the war, and has since been deeply interested
in a plan for compiling and preserving short biogra
phies of every soldier and sailor representing Wil
liarasburg County in the great war.
Mr. Britton is a deacon of the Presbyterian
church. Mr. Britton's first raarriage was to Miss
Carrie Ford, and he has one child by that raarriage
Ula, who is the wife of W. S. Booth, of Manor'
Georgia. In February, i88g, he married Mary a'
Daniel of Williamsburg County. They are the
parents of four children. Mary is Mrs F T
'Watson, of St. Matthews, South Carolina The
three sons are Harry, John Daniel and 'William

Johnson. Harry entered the service in May, 1918
and served overseas with the Three Hundred and
Twenty-fourth Regiment in the Eighty-first Divi
sion. John Daniel spent the greater part of his
enlistraent period with a supply corapany at Camp
Sevier. WiUiara Johnson went with the Federal
ized National Guard of South Carolina to the Mex
ican border in June, 1916, and afterwards entered
the World war as a raeraber of the Charleston Light
Dragoons, and was with the division headquarters
of the Thirtieth Division in France.
1 William Marshall Bridges. Born in Spartan
burg, South Carolina, July 21, 1885, the only son
of Williara Pressley and Harriet (Padgett) Bridges.
Attended the public schools of Spartanburg and
was graduated frora Furraan University (A. B.) in
the year igi3. Thereafter studied law at "Wake
Forest College and the University of South Caro
lina and was adraitted to the bar of North Caro-
lin and South Carolina, respectively. Entrance upon
his professional career was made at Henderson
ville, North Carolina, where, during the course of
several years, he built up a good clientele. With
the entrance of our country into the World war he
was designated as counsel for the Exemption Board
of his county, serving at the sarae time as Food
Administrator for the County of Henderson. Like
so many attorneys during the trying period of the
war, personal aggrandizement and desires were for
gotten in service to his countrj'.
In the early part of igig he returned to his native
state, locating at Florence, South Carolina, and
associated with three other young men in the prac
tice of law under the firm name of Arrowsmith,
Muldrow, Bridges & Hicks.
On the third day of Noveraber, 1915, Air. Bridges
married Leila Alai McKenzie, the only daughter of
Leila (Pettigrew) McKenzie and Joseph Sanders
McKenzie, of Bannockburn. To this union has been
born one daughter, Mai McKenzie Bridges.
John Eraser Livingston, who died at Columbia,
February 23, igig, was president of the Columbia,
Newberry & Laurens Railroad. He was working
as an office boy in a railroad station in North Caro
lina when sixteen years of age. He began with the
road of which he becarae president, as an agent more
than a quarter of a century ago.
Mr Livingston was born at Abbeville, South
Carolina March 22, 1869, son of John F. and Fan
nie (McCaw) Livingston. His father was a planter
betore the war and served through that struggle as
a lieutenant of cavalry in the Confederate army
and afterwards became a merchant
s„rr,'iLH^K'' "°*!'" '' ''¦" '"''"§ and he was also
Inftlr K»'^ T 'A'^^=^."d two brothers, one of the
latter being J. B. Livingston of Charleston.
John f-. Livingston, Jr., had very limited educa-
xpe ie'ncT'V'^'N'" *5^ =°'^"°" schools. His first
Carol n. In o""°\^'"§^ Z""' ^t Gastonia. North
bia and wJs September, 1886, he came to Colura-
lina pir /"'' '° *'\' ^^^"* °^ the South Caro-
aZt a N 1°' ''^'/^l ^'^''- I" '892 he becarae
lZJI^ r^"/^ °! ^^^ Columbia, Newberry and
inJ^alen?" .*¦ r'^i ""^-^'¦°? ^^^5 to 1897, was solicit
ing agent at Columbia. He was then made cora-
niercial agent, handling ,the freight, passenger and

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general traffic of the road, and in May, igi2, became
president of this important South Carolina road.
By his close attention to business and intelligent
direction of the affairs of the company he greatly
improved both the physical and financial condition
of this well known South Carolina railroad.
Mr. Livingston was a member of the Columbia
Club, a Mason, an Elk, a Knight of Pythias and
a deacon in the First Presbyterian Church.
November 12, 1895, he married Miss Mattie Cald
well Withers of Columbia. Of the five children
born to them, two survive, naraely: Otis Withers
and Sarah Margaret. The son who was born Sep
teraber 14, 1897, at the close of the great war was
at Camp Gordon, Georgia.
Carl Belden Epps, B. S., Ph. G., M. D. A prom
inent Surater physician, whose special talents have
brought him to rank as one of the leading surgeons
of his native state, Carl Belden Epps, was born near
Kingstree, South Carolina, Marph 7, 1882.
His parents were Isaac and Charlotte Susan (Dick
son) Epps. His father was a farmer and a tutor.
Doctor Epps attended public schools, had a private
teacher, was also a student in the Cokesbury Con
ference School, and graduated from the literary de
partment of the University of South Carolina- in
1903 with the B. S. degree. In igo6 he took the
degree Ph. G. from the South Carolina College of
Pharmacy, but that was only a step toward his raedi
cal training. He graduated in May, igii, from the
Medical College of South Carolina at Charleston,
and then spent one year as externe and interne in
Roper Hospital, Charleston, South Carolina. He
has also attended surgical clinics in the Post-Gradu
ate College and Hospital in New York, and com
pleted a course in operative surgery in the Chicago
Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. Since
leaving Roper Hospital he has practiced medicine
and surgery in Sumter, South Carolina. Doctor Epps
is a member of the Surater County, South Carolina,
Southern and Araerican Medical associations and is
former secretary of the County Society. He served
as assistant surgeon to Tuomey Hospital for four
years, and in igi8, succeeded the late Dr. S. C,
Baker as operative surgeon. During the war he was
surgeon on the medical advisory board for the Eighth
District, including Sumter, Lee, Clarendon and part
of Orangeburg counties. He volunteered for service
in the Medical Department of the United States array
in August, igi8, but was never ordered out, WhUe
a literary student at the university he was one of
the editors of the Carolinian and in the Medical Col
lege was editor in chief of the Aesculapian. Doctor
Epps is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. November 28, igi6, he raarried Miss Mary Purdy,
a daughter of Judge R. O. Purdy. They have two
children, Mary Purdy and Carl Belden, Jr.
Robert E. Abell, M. D. While he was trained
in general raedicine and as a physician. Doctor
Abell during his active career has devoted hiraself
exclusively to surgery, a field in which his talents
and achieveraents have won hira a particularly high
place. Doctor Abell was the founder and is chief
surgeon of the Chester Sanatorium and practically

all his professional interests are centered in that
institution. He attained the rank of captain in the
Medical Reserve Corps during the European war.
.Doctor Abell was born at Lowryville in Chester
County in 1887, a son of J. L. and Sophie (Erwin)
Abell. He spent about three years in Davidson
College of North Carolina and took his medic.1l
education in the University of Maryland. He grad
uated with the M. D. degree in 1912 and then
spent ~three years in the Maryland University Hos
pital where he had rare opportunities for experi
ence and training in surgery.
Returning to his native county in 1915 he estab
lished hiraself at Chester and in the same year
founded the Chester Sanatorium, of which he is
chief surgeon. The success of the sanatorium has
led its stockholders to greatly develop and iraprove
its facilities. Henceforth the hospital under Doc
tor AbelTs raanageraent seeras destined to take its
place among the best institutions of the kind in
the state.
Doctor Abell after joining the Medical Reserve
Corps w-as attached to the base hospital at Camp
Jackson with the rank of lieutenant, subsequently
assigned to E\acuation Hospital No. 26, and with
that organization went to France in October, igi8.
He was immediately assigned to service in the
advance zone of operations within gun range and
was promoted to captain. At the time of the sign
ing of the arraistice he had been recoramended for
proi.iotion to major. He remained in France until
January 16, igig, and was mustered out of serv
ice on February 2.
Doctor Abell is consulting surgeon for the South
ern RaUway and the Seaboard Air Line Railway,
and is chief surgeon for the Lancaster & Chester
RaUway, and Carolina and North Western Railway.
He is a member of the County, State, Tri-State,
Southern and American Medical associations. He is
¦ also a Knight Templar Mason and a raember of
the Omar Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Charles
ton, and is a deacon in the Presbyterian church at
Chester. Doctor Abell married Aliss Alice Glenn,
a daughter of Hon. J. Lyles Glenn of Chester
of one of the most prorainent families in that
section of the state. Doctor and Mrs. Abell have
a son, Robert Ephraim Abell, Jr.
Robert Reid Berry, M. D. Representing sorae
of the sturdy faraily eleraents in Spartanburg Coun
ty, Doctor Berry has raade his own active career
a source of service and benefit not only in his pro
fession but as a citizen in the community of Buffalo
in Union County.
He carae there fresh frora medical school in 1901.
Buffalo is the horae of the Buffalo plant of the
Union-Buffalo Mills, and has a large and unusually
intelligent and progressive raill population. It is
just such a coraraunity as a physician arabitious to
make the most of his profession, not so much for
himself as for others, would find most attractive.
Doctor Berry for fifteen years has been extremely
busy in his practice as a physician and surgeon.
He has been alraost equally absorbed in a broad
range of civic duties, particularly in recent years.
During the war he was raember of the local
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medical examiner and to that work devoted much
of the tirae which ordinarily would have been de
raanded by his private practice. At the present
time. Doctor Berry h chairraan of the body com
posed of township highway commissioners who have
charge of the expenditure of over a mUlion dollars
for building good roads in Union County. This
task is obviously one of great raagnitude, represent
ing one of the raost vital improvements in that sec
tion of the state. It seeras characteristic of the
coraraunity to caU upon Doctor Berry whenever a
raan of all around abUity is needed for leader
ship in any public enterprise.
Doctor Berry was born near ReidvUle in Spartan
burg Courity in 1877, a son of C. P. and Mary Eliza
beth (Nesbitt) Berry. His father was bo.m iri the
upper edge of GreenviUe County, and spent prac
tically all his life on a farra near ReidvUle in Spar
tanburg County. Mary Elizabeth Nesbitt was a
daughter of Joseph Nesbitt. -The Nesbitts are a
historic faraUy of Spartanburg County, arid sorae
reference to the family is made on other pages of
this publication.
Doctor Berry spent two years in the University
of South Carolina, and studied medicine in the
Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, now a
part of the Medical Department of the University of
Pennsylvania. He was graduated in 1901 and prior
to coming to Buffalo spent one. year in a PhUadel
phia hospital. He is a raeraber of the County, State,
Southern and American Medical associations and
of the Presbyterian Church. Doctor Berry married
Miss Sarah Palmer of Union County. They have
five children : Robert R., Jr., James A., Walter P.,
Joseph Nesbitt and David Pinckney.
Joseph C. McCall. The coraraunity of Green
ville has long come to look upon Joseph C. McCall
as a citizen of invaluable service and influence.
The work he has done in behalf of a better and
raore efficient city cannot be measured by the ira
portance of any office or official honors bestowed
upon hira. He was formerly connected with one
of the largest industrial corporations in upper South
Carolina, the Victor-Monaghan Mills, of which he
was the auditor and assistant secretary. On the
1st of August, igig, he left the mills to becorae
the secretary of the Hobbs-Henderson Company's
department store, and he is also the secretary of
the Hobbs Dry Good's Company, wholesale dealers
in dry goods and notions.
Air. McCall was born in Trion, Georgia, in 1874,
a son of E. J. and Frances (Carapbell) McCaU.
When he was seven years old his parents raoved .to
GreenvUle County, South Carolina, locating at Pied
mont, where he secured his education. At the age
of fifteen he carae to Greenville, and that city has
since been his home. He was employed in the gro
cery business, and foUowed it for about twelve
years. In 191 1 he became associated with the Vic
tor-Monaghan Mills Corporation of GreenvUle, one
of the great textile industries of the South and
of the nation, leaving this large corporation to enter
upon his present relations with the dry goods
business. For a number of years Mr. McCall has been
one of the raen upon whora has devolved the great

est responsibility in the public and municipal affairs
of Greenville, For two years he served as a rriem-
ber of the Board of Fire Comraissioners and two
years as a meraber of the Board of Police Com
raissioners. In 1916 he was elected a meraber of
the City Council, representing the Fourth 'Ward,
and in that body was a member of the finance com
mittee and a meraber of the water coramittee. The
water coraraittee handled the negotiations under
which the Paris Mountain Water Company, fur
nishing the municipal water supply, was bought by
GreenvUle. Mr. McCall is no recent performer in
civic office. He gives his time, his study, and all the
wisdom and judgment which he would devote to
the more important business. Such is his high-char
acter that it is often said of him that he "can have
anything he wants" in the City of Greenville. He
is a raan of equal high standing in the financial
and industrial world.
Mr. McCall is secretary of the Greenville Council
of the United Coraraercial Travelers and a raem
ber of the Fourth Presbyterian Church. He mar
ried Miss Jessie McGee, who was born and reared
in Abbeville County. Their -fihree children are
named Jessie, Mary France and Joseph C, Jr.
William Franklin Ashmore, M. D. It was less
than twenty-five years ago that the poptjlar mind of
the world was astounded by one of the reraarkable
discoveries of science, the "Roentgen Ray," named
in honor of its discoverer. Prof. WUliara Conrad
Roentgen, who is still living. This remarkable dis
covery was known for many years as the X-Ray.
Nothing has done more to facilitate surgery and
eliminate guess work from medical and surgical
diagnosis than the Roentgen Ray. A distinct science
has been built up on the original discovery, and to
day every modern hospital and every surgeon, physi
cian and dentist relies upon the data furnished by
Roentgen-Ray laboratories.
. It is as a specialist in Roentgenology that Dr. WU
liam Franklin Ashmore has made his services most
notable. He is a physician and surgeon of long
standing and practice, and is now giving all his time
to his extensive laboratory, with its splendid and
costly equipment as a Roentgenologist in Green
vUle. He was born in GreenvUle County AprU 22, 1872.
The old home place where he was born and reared
was in . a community known as Lenderman Post-
office, eight raUes south of GreenviUe, on the Fork
Shoals Road. The Ashmores are an old and large
faraUy in Upper South Carolina, most of thera hav
ing settled in Greenville County. Doctor Ashraore's'
father, Pascal A. Ashraore, was also born in Green
ville County, and was one of four brothers who
served as soldiers in the Confederate army.
At the age of twenty. Doctor Ashmore left home
and entered the Atlanta Medical College, graduating
in 1894, and for a quarter of a century has been a
hard working member of his profession. He prac
ticed the first two years in his native county, then
for seven years in Oconee County, and from there
removed to Anderson where he buUt up a large pro
fessional business and remained fifteen years. In
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widest possible scope for his special field he moved
his home to GreenvUle in January, 1919.
He now limits all his work to Roentgenology and
diagnosis. He took up that special line of work in
1908, and has acquired the most elaborate Roentgen-
Ray equipment, not surpassed by that found in any
hospital in the state. He furnishes practically all
the high class work of this kind in Greenville and
is Roentgenologist to the Greenville City Hospital.
Doctor Ashraore is a raeraber of the GreenvUle
County, the State, Tri-State, Southern and Amer
ican Aledical associations, and is also a popular raera
ber of the GreenvUle social community.
He married for his first wife Miss Maraie Reid,
of Oconee County. By that union he has one daugh
ter, Mamie Elizabeth Ashmore. For his present
wife he married Miss Lucia Cater, of Anderson
County. They have two daughters, Thelma and
Hazel. (
William Barnwell, president of the National
State Bank of Columbia, was born in Fort Motte,
Orangeburg County, South Carolina, March 7, 1862,
a son of Charles Heyward and Charlotte (Thom
son) Barnwell. His father brought his faraily to
Columbia in 1869 and became known among the
prominent educators of the day, nurabering among
his pupils the present President of the United States,
Woodrow Wilson.
Williara Barnwell was but seven years of age
when he carae with his parents to Columbia, there
growing to maturity and receiving his educational
training under the careful supervision of his father.
At the age of fourteen, he becarae bookkeeper in
one of the mercantile establishments of the city,
and ten years later began his career as a banker
by- accepting a position as teller in the Loan and
Exchange Bank of - Columbia. Later he was en
gaged for a number of years in the real estate and
insurance business.
In November, 1901, he organized the State Bank
of Columbia, which began business with a capital of
$100,000. Mr. Barnwell was made cashier of the
institution, and continued as such until January,
1909, when he was elected president, which position
he has since continuously filled. In January, 1913,
-the bank was made a national bank, the capital was
doubled and the narae of The National State Bank
of Colurabia, was adopted. The institution has been
highly successful from the start, reflecting in no
uncertain manner the capable and careful manage
ment of its officers.
In addition to his banking interests, Mr. Barn
well is also vice president of the Palmetto Ice Cora
pany, is a raeraber of the . Episcopal Church, and
holds membership in the Ridgewood Club, the Co
lumbia Club, and the Columbia Kiwanis Club.
January 6, 1886, he married Miss Mary Utley, of
Rome, New York, daughter of a well-known banker
of that city. She died in 1916 and in September,
1917, Mr. Barnwell married Miss Maraie Taylor,
of Ridgeway, South Carolina.
Delano G. McAlister -is one of the veteran lo
coraotive engineers of the Southern Railway. His
horae has been Columbia for thirty years and, be
sides being regarded as a leading representative of

the railroad raen located in the capital city, he has
taken a broadly public spirited part in aU civic affairs,
was a leader in various war drives, and is a direc
tor of one of the leading banks of the city.
He was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1872,
a son of John H. and Artelia' (Smith) McAlister.
The McAlisters have furnished several well known
naraes in the history of Central North Carolina.
His mother was a daughter of I. D. and Patsy
(Daniels) Sraith, the latter a member of the weU
known Daniels faraily of Mullins, South Carolina.
Delano G. McAlister had a coraraon school edu
cation. He lost his parents when he was a boy
and in 1888 at the age of sixteen he came to Colum
bia and went to work as a fireman on the old Rich
raond & DanvUle Railroad, now a part of the South
ern Systera, with a run between Columbia and
Charlotte. For thirty years he has been firing
or piloting engines on tJiat run, having been pro
moted to engineer at the age of twenty and since
the age of twenty-five has had a passenger run.
For his skiUful, careful and efficient service he has
many times been designated for special duty. His
standing as a locoraotive engineer is shown in the
fact that the company has always selected him to
take charge of presidential specials over his division.
He has piloted raany other special trains carrying
iraportant personages and parties.
Mr. McAlister is chairman of the South Caro
lina State Legislative Board for the Brotherhood
of Locoraotive Engineers. Under the old forra of
city governraent he represented the Third Ward
in- the Board of Aldermen. He served as state
chairman of the labor division in the War Savings
Stamps Campaign, and also as a member of the
Central Coramittee in the Liberty Loan Campaigns.
Mr. McAlister is a member of the board of di
rectors of the Liberty National Bank of Columbia
and is also a director of the Young Men's Christian
Association. In Masonic circles he has attained
prorainence as a raember of both the York, and
the Scottish Rites. He is past master of Acacia
Lodge, No. 94 ; past high priest of Colurabia Chapter,
No. 5; past iUustrous master of Union CouncU,
No. 5; past commander of Colurabia Commandery,
No. 2, Knights Teraplar; past grand patron of
the South Carolina Grand Chapter of the Eastern
Star; assistant rabban in Omar Temple of the
Mystic Shrine at Charleston, .and iraperial repre
sentative from Omar Temple..
He married Miss Kate Bell of Walhalla, South
Carolina. She is a niece on her mother's side of
Judge Logan Bleckley, who was chief justice of
the Supreme Court of Georgia. Mr. and Mrs.
McAlister have one daughter. Miss Katharine
McAlister. James A. Summersett, who died January 16,
1919, was prominent in the insurance and real
estate business at Columbia and was for raany years
previously engaged in raUroading, which was large
ly a family profession or occupation.
Mr. Summersett was born in New Hanover Coun
ty, North Carolina, Septeraber 12, 1865, a son of
Christopher H. and Mary (Hines) Summersett.
His father was a railroad man of many years expe
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cation, learned telegraphy and was an operator for
a period of twenty-five years, being assigned ' to
raany stations and serving several different com
panies. He later becarae train raaster of the C.
N. & L. Railroad until 1906. Mr. Summersett was
a resident of South Carolina since 1890 and on leav
ing the railroad he entered the real estate and in
surance business and became president of Sum
mersett & Dial, Incorporated, one of the leading
firms of its kind at Columbia, and this position he
still held at his death.
Mr. Sumraersett took an active part in local
affairs. During 1904-05 he was grand chancellor
of the Knights of Pythias and during that period
twenty-nine new lodges were organized. He was
also a past grand of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, a raember of the Grand Lodge, be
longed to the Improved Order of Red Men and to
the Junior Order of United Araerican Mechanics,
and to the Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan,
having been instrumental in securing the charter
and organizing the teraple of that order.
October 19, 1888, he raarried 'Miss Anna Black-
well of South Carolina. They became the parents
of six children : Nelle, a graduate of the University
of South Carolina and of Randolph-Macon College,
and now a high school teacher; Jaraes A., Jr., captain
of the Eighteenth United States Infantry, who was
on detached service during a greater part of the
war and had command of the Ninety-Sixth Borab-
ing Squadron ; Ruth is the wife of Clyde H. Gande-
lock, private secretary to the general superintend
ent of the Southern Railway at Charlotte, North
Carolina ; Mattye is carrying on the business of
Sumraersett and Dial, Incorporated, along the lines
and principles as laid down by her father; Benjamin
K. and Dorothy.
Franklin Chalmers Rogers, whose narae is par
ticularly associated with the raanageraent of the
First National Bank of Mullins, is a banker of twen
ty years' experience and also is interested in the
local agriculture of Marion County.
He was born at Mullins February i, 1870, a son
of George Washington and Mary Ann (Smith)
Rogers. His maternal grandparents were Stephen
and Pollie (Huggins) Smith. He was educated in
public schools and Wofford College, and up to igoo
his chief work was .teaching. He then entered the
Bank of Mullins as assistant cashier, but resigned
in October, igio, to assist in organizing the First
National Bank of Alullins, This is one of the lead
ing banks of Marion County, with a capital of $1301,000,
surplus and undivided profits of $25,000, and deposits
of over $500,000, Mr. Rogers is acting vice presi
dent and cashier. He is a director of the Bankers
National Life Insurance Company of Orangeburg,
South Carolina. He is also secretary and treasurer
of the White Oak Camp Company, and is an ex-
alderman of Mullins. He is affiliated with the
Knights of Pythias, Woodraen of the World, and
Junior Order of United Araerican Mechanics and is
a trustee of the Macedonia Methodist Episcopal
Church, South.
June 6, i8g8, he raarried Laura Louise Sraith,
daughter of Albert and Virginia (Collins) Sraith!

Their four children are named Leon Chalmers, ^De
Arraond, Mary Louise and George BraUsford.
Jesse Clifton Rivers is the present state ware
house coraraissioner of South Carolina, being the
uanimous choice of the Legislature for that office,
and beginning his service on March I, 1920. He
resigned his seat in the Legislature, where he had
sat for six continuous years representing Chester
field County, where Mr. Rivers has long been iden
tified with farming and business affairs.
He was born in Chesterfield County at Mount
Croghan, January 29, 1876. The Rivers family is
one of the oldest in South Carolina. It was found
ed by three brothers, John B., William and Thomas,
who came from England about 1750 and settled
near what is now the city of Charleston. They
owned large estates on the islands and were planters
and slave owners. The head of this particular
branch of the family was John B. Rivers. His son,
Frederick Rivers, was a patriotic soldier, and many
of his descendants have participated in the various
wars of the country. Frederick Rivers was with
Marion and his men, and was granted land in Ches
terfield County for his services in the Revolution.
These lands were in Chesterfield County, where the
Rivers faraily were original settlers about 1785.
Isaac Rivers, a son of Frederick Rivers, served with
Jackson in the War of 1812, and was in the final
battle of that war at New Orleans when the Brit
ish were defeated. Frederick Rivers, a son of
Isaac, was also a soldier, being a meraber of the
Palmetto Regiment in South Carolina in the Mexi
can war.
The father of the state warehouse coraraissioner
was Philip Rivers, who w'ith five brothers, left home
on the sarae day to enter the Confederate array, and
only three returned when the war was over. They
were all members of Company B, in the Twenty-
sixth South Carolina Regiment. PhUip Rivers mar
ried Haley Massey, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. The
Alassey family settled in Lancaster County near
Waxhaw in the seventeenth century.
Jesse Clifton Rivers completed his high school
course at Chesterfield and under a private tutor,
John Davis, prepared for college. He entered Wof
ford College as a member of the class of 1894, but
owing to sickness and misfortune in the family
was unable to complete his course. His early ex
periences were farraing near Mount Croghan in
Chesterfield County, and in all subsequent years he
has been interested in agriculture. He left the
farm and in 1910 organized and managed a mer
cantile business at Mount Croghan, and was active
ly identified with that enterprise until 1915.
Mr. Rivers has been an important figure in the
piibhc life of Chesterfield County for raany years.
He served continuously by election frora his horae
people, as raagistrate from igoo to 1914, seven con
secutive terms. In.1914 he was chosen a meraber
of the Legislature and was elected three tiraes from
Chesterfield County, serving six years. The Legis
lature chose hira warehouse coraraissioner on Febru
ary 19, 1920, for a term of two years. Mr. Riyers
i^ what IS known as a Ben Tillman democrat, and
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He is a prorainent raember of the Masonic and
Woodmen of the World orders. He has been
worshipful raaster for ten years, serving Mount
Croghan Lodge five years, and for the past five
years has been master of Ruby Lodge. He was
for fifteen years clerk of Mount Croghan Carap
of the Woodraen, and is now consul commander of
that camp. His church is the Methodist Episcopal
and he is superintendent of the Sunday school at
Mount Croghan.
October 21, 1895, Mr. Rivers married Miss Lou
GuUedge. On Septeraber i, 1901, he married Miss
Mary Allen. His two children by his first mar
riage are Ruth W., now the widow of W. A. Simp
son, and John L. Rivers. There are nine children
by his second marriage, namely: Louis P., Leroy
S., W. Howard, T. Duncan, George K., Bessie,
Blanch, Lucy and Jessie.
William James Crosland, M. D. Coraing of a
faraily of physicians. Doctor Crosland after getting
his degree. Doctor of Medicine, and spending a
year in hospital practice at Charleston, located at
Bennettsville twenty years ago, and as a profes
sional man has made hiraself one of the invaluable
citizens of that coraraunity, has been favored with
a large and profitable practice and is one of the
substantial members of the city and county.
He was born in Marlboro County, January 21,
1873. His great-grandfather, Edward Crosland,
came to South Carolina from Virginia. The grand
father. Dr. William Crosland, was born in Marl-
,boro County, the youngest of twelve children. He
was a busy and able country doctor, and for many
years looked after a large practice not only in Marl
boro, but in adjoining counties. W. D. Crosland,
father of Dr. WUliara J., was born at Bennetts
ville, and at the age of sixteen entered the Con-
fede.ate array. After the war he took charge i^f
his father's estate, and spent most of his life in busi
ness affairs. He died at the age of forty-five. He
raarried Sallie Weatherly, a native of Bennettsville,
daughter of Colonel T. C. Weatherly, whose father
carae to South Carolina from Pennsylvania and was
of Welsh and French ancestry. Col. T. C. Weather
ly is remembered as a physical giant, standing six
feet seven inches tall and weighing 425 pounds.
For many years he was active in politics, and rep
resented Marlboro County in the Legislature.
Williara Jaraes Crosland received his literary edu
cation at Wofford College, where he spent four
years, and he also pursued the course of the South
Carolina State Medical College at Charleston four
years. He graduated in raedicine in 1898, and the
following year reraained an attache of Roper Hos
pital. He located at BennettsviUe in 1899. He is
special physician for the Southern Cotton OU Com
pany, the Central Saw Mill Corapany and the B.
& C. Railway Corapany, and is a raeraber of the
American Medical Association, the State Society
and the Tri-State Association. Since coming to
BennettsviUe he has also acquired rauch valuable
real estate in the town and is owner of several
farras in the outlying district.
Dr. Crosland married for his first wife, Fannie
China, a daughter of Dr. A. J. China of Sumter.
After her death Margaret Kirkley of Camden be

came his wife. She left four children : Alargaret,
Sarah, Jaraes and Annthroop. Doctor Crosland
married for his second wife, Lucille Kirby of War
ren County, Kentucky. They have one daughter,
Lucile Kirby. Doctor Crosland is a Knights Tem
plar Mason and Shriner.
Molton Ancrum Shuler. a graduate from the
law school of the University of South Carolina
in 1912, Mr. Shuler has been busily engaged in
practice at Kingstree since that date, and has also
found tirae to respond to raany calls upon his abili
ties for coraraunity service and patriotic work.
Mr. Shuler is member of an old and prominent
South Carolina family and was born in Orangeburg
County, Noveraber 4, 1885, a son of Brown Rufus
and Lulu C. (Richburg) Shuler. His father is a
farmer. As a boy he lived in the country, at
tended country schools, was a student in Orange
burg College, and defrayed some of the expenses of
his higher education by teaching two years in Aiken
County. When he graduated frora the University
of South Carolina Law School in 1912 he was win
ner of the Joseph Daniel Pope raedal for his work
on the subject of Equity.
Sorae of his public services at Kingstree included
four years as a raember of the County Board of
Education and as chairman of some of the war-
work drives and meraber of the Legal Advisory
Board during the war period. He is now mayor
of Kingstree. He is a steward, lay leader in the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, served as chair
raan of the rainute raen for the Kingstree district
during the centenary carapaign for the church, and
is superintendent of the adult department of the
WiUiamsburg County Interdenominational Sunday
School Association.
October 12, 1915, Mr. Shuler raarried Miss Re
becca China Nettles.
John De Saussure O'Bryan. In the five years
of his law practice at Kingstree Mr. O'Bryan de
voted nearly two years to some phase of raUitary
or patriotic duty.
He was born at Heinemann in Williarasburg
County, February 7, 1890, son of Williara M, and
Mary Gertrude (Oliver) O'Bryan. His father was
one of the substantial farmers of that county.
The son acquired a liberal education, in private and
public schools, in Clemson College, in the Presby
terian College, and graduated from the law depart
ment of the State University at Columbia in 1914,
He at once began general practice at Kingstree and
he is now associated with the firm, StoU & O'Bryan,
who handle a generous share of the important liti
gation in the local courts.
Mr. O'Bryan received his early military train
ing as member of the second officers training camp
beginning in August, 1917. On AprU 18, 1918, he
joined the army as a private and subsequently was
coraraissioned a second lieutenant of infantry. Most
of his tirae was spent as an instructor of machine
gunners. He was on duty until mustered out
January 10, igig.
In the meantirae he had seen rauch active duty
.at home, serving as first chairman of the local ex
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Chapter, and as a meraber of the Legal Advisory
Board and also as Food Adrainistrator. Mr. O'Bryan
is a Phi Kappa Phi college fraternity raan and is
also a Mason.
Roscoe Everett Whiting, senior meraber of the
law firm of Whiting & Baker at Florence, was for
merly in the Federal service in the Philippines, and
later at 'Washington, where he finished his legal
education. He was born at Newport, Maine, August 9, 1881,
a son of Roscoe S. and Sarah (Prilay) Whiting.
His father was a farraer and also an operator in
the luraber and tiraber business of the Pine Tree
state. Roscoe E. Whiting attended public schools
and took his college course in Bowdoin College of
Maine. He graduated in 1901, receiving a Phi Beta
Kappa appointraent, and the following four years
he spent in the Philippine Islands as chief of the
Land Tax Division of the Departraent of Assess
ments and Collections. On returning to this coun
try he located at Washington, D. C, in 1906, and
while studying law at the George Washington Law
School, from which he graduated with distinction
in igog, he was also in the secret service division of
the Treasury Departraent. He resigned his position
in igog, in which year he was adraitted to the Dis
trict of Colurabia bar, and in October carae to
Florence, South Carolina.
Mr. Whiting during the past ten years has been
one of the leading attorneys in this section of the
state. He was forraerly in practice with J. W.
Ragsdale, under the firm narae Ragsdale & Whiting,
until after the election of Mr. Ragsdale to Con
gress. In 1914, he forraed his present partnership
with D. G. Baker.
Mr. Whiting is a director of the Farraers and
Mechanics Bank of Florence. '
David Gordon Baker, who represents Florence
County in the State Senate, has earned many dis
tinctions as a lawyer and public leader in the City
of Florence since beginning practice there in 1905.
He was born in Marion County, February 17,
1884, son of Williara W. and Sarah (Gordon) Baker.
He grew up on his father's farra, attended district
schools in his native county, and afterward entered
the law departraent of the University of South
Carolina, frora which he received his degree in
1905. Since then he has been busily engaged in a
general practice and is a raeraber of the firra Whit
ing & Baker at Florence.
Mr. Baker is a forraer alderman of Florence and
in 1918 was elected to his present seat in the State
Senate. He is a Mason. April 25, 1906, he married
Julia C. Badger, of DiUon, South Carolina. They
have two chUdren, Badger and WUliam.
Louis William Gilland. Taking up the sarae
profession which his father Thomas M. GiUand
honored for many years in WiUiarasburg County,
Louis WUliara Gilland has been a practicing lawyer
at Kingstree for seventeen years and has also
been one of the leaders in public affairs, deserving
of the confidence and support of the best poople.
He was born at Kingstree May 23, 1880, son
of Thomas M. and Louise (Brockington) Gilland.
His early education was acquired in public schools!

in the University of South Carolina, from which
he graduated A. B., in 1902, and then in the law
departraent until graduating in 1903. His sound
learning and industry early gave hira a creditable
position in his profession. In 1907 he was called
upon to serve as mayor of Kingstree, holding that
office untU igii, and again was similarly honored
frora 1917 to 1919. For several years he was also
a member of the County Board of Education and
is a trustee of the graded school systera of Kings-
tree. He was chairraan of the exemption board
during the war. Mr. Gilland is a director of the
Wee-Nee Bank, and is an elder in the Presby
terian Church.
April 18, 1906, he raarried Miss Nell Crawford
Flinn. They have four chUdren, Jaraes Srayth,
Williara Flinn, Ann Brockington and Louis 'WU
liam, Jr.
Henry Lee Scarborough of Surater is an apostle
of better farraing, particularly better cotton, better
hogs and better raethods of farm management. He
is a man of varied interests and activities, but his
life has been largely centered and anchored in the
soil. His father was the late WUson DuPre Scar
borough, who died November 3, 1915, and was one
of the most useful and public spirited men of
his generation in Surater County. He was born
in that county July 3, 1842, grew up on a farm,
had a liraited education, leaving college during his
first year to enter the Confederate army. He served
a few months in Virginia, then became a private-
in Corapany E of the Palmetto Battalion of Light
Artillery, was soon appointed sergeant and later
proraoted to senior second lieutenant. Toward the
close of the war he comraanded a hea-vy battery -
and was in the last fight at BentonvUle, North
Carolina. He was made a captain of his company
the war closing before he received his commission.
He took an active part in reconstruction days,
particularly in preventing violent outbreaks in his
part of the state. He held many local offices, being
chairraan of his board of education, and was elected
a member of the Legislature in 1878, and in 1880
and in 1892 was elected to the State Senate, but
lost his seat by fraud. He married Gertrude Camilla
Spencer. .."P^nry Lee Scarborough was born at Bishop
ville in Surater County June 9, 1866, and was edu
cated in subscription and public schools and spent
one year in The Citadel and two years in the Uni
versity of South Carolina. He is a member of the
Clariosophic Literary Society and Sigma Alpha Ep
sUon Fraternity. As a boy he accustomed hiraself to
the work of his father's plantation and for many
years has been one of the leading farraers and plant
ers of Surater County. He has also been an extensive
cotton buyer and lumber manufacturer. He served
as treasurer of Sumter County four terms, beginning
in 1894, and left a most creditable record when
he voluntarily retired from office at the end of
eight years. He was also for six years commissioner
of public works at Sumter and in 1912 was elected
clerk of court and again in 1916 for a second term
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of the draft board. He is a member of the Agricul
tural and Mechanical Association of South Carolina
and is also deeply interested in the Sumter County
Fair Association He has been an elder in the
Presbyterian Church for raany years, is superin
tendent of the Sunday school, director of the Sumter
Young Men's Christian Association, is a Royal
Arch Mason, Woodman of the World and has held
the chief chairs of both these orders. Also a mem
ber of the Travelers' Protective Association having
- tepresented the South Carolina Division in several-
national, conventions  January .17, J889, he married
Miss Leonora Eraraa Eichelberger of Manning,
South Carolina. Their one son is Alfred Scar
borough, born June 20, 1893, who graduated from
Davidson College, North Carolina, in 1915, and has
since been engaged in farming at Eastover, South
Carolina. He was a raember of the Beta Theta
Phi college fraternity at Davidson and represented
his chapter in the National Convention in 1914. He
was president of the student body in his senior
year, president of Euraenean Literary Society and
president of the Pan-Hellenic Council of the college.
He is also a Mason, being a Knight Templar and
Shriner, and a Knight of Pythias, and is an elder
its Sunday school. He was rejected for railitary
service in the war, but took a very prorainent part
in all local war and patriotic raoveraents. Alfred
Scarborough raarried Miss Sarah Hamer, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Hamer of Hamer, South
Carolina, on Noveraber 8, 1916. They have one son,
in the Presbyterian Church and superintendent of
Robert Lee, born September 29, 1918.
Judge Ernest Moore, who forty years - ago suc
ceeded to the practice of his honored father at Lan
caster, and is now in his second term as judge of
the Sixth Judicial Circuit, is a raember of the
Scotch-Irish Moore famUy which carae originally
from the north of Ireland to Pennsylvania, and
about the middle of the eighteenth century estab
lished horaes in North and South Carolina. Those
coming to South Carolina located in Lancaster, York
and Chester counties.
Judge Moore's ancester who located in York
' County had a grant of land from the King of
England. That land has been owned by. sorae mera
ber of the Moore faraily continuously unto the
present time. This old ancestral heritage is in the
southern part of York County about twelve miles
from the City of York.
Judge Ernest Moore is a son of WUliara A. and
Nancy (Ross) Moore, and was born Deceraber 5,
1856, in York County, though his parents at the
tirae lived in Lancaster County. WiUiara A. Moore
was born in York County in 1820 and died at
his home in Lancaster in 1878. He was a lawyer
from early raanhood until his death and his pro
fessional career was centered at Lancaster. Prior
to the war he represented his county in the Legis
lature, and was especially distinguished for his
sound qualities and learning as a lawyer. His wife
was a daughter of John M. Ross, who in ante
bellum times was an ordinary or county judge of
the old York district, whUe on her raaternal side
she was a niece of Gen. D. H. Hill, a native of
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York County and one of the raost distinguished
leaders of the Confederacy.
Ernest Moore acquired his early education in
private schools and was graduated in the class of
1878 from the law department of Washington and
Lee University. His father died about the time
of his graduation and he succeeded to his large
practice and his high merits and all around abUities
gained him a front rank in the Lancaster bar which
he has maintained through four decades. Like his
father he has been devoted to his professional in
terests,, and, only in recent years has accepted the
burdens of public office. Several times by appoint
ment from the governor he served as special judge.
In 1914 he was elected Circuit judge of the Sixth
Judicial Circuit, coraprising York, Chester, Lan
caster and Fairfield counties, and was re-elected in
1918. Judge Moore and faraily are raeraber of the
Presbyterian Church. He raarried Miss Mary Hall
in 1883. Her father was the late Rev. Dr. W. T.
Hall, a prorainent Presbyterian clergyraan and for
raany years professor of theology in the Presby
terian Theological Serainary at Colurabia. Mr. and
Mrs. Moore have seven children : WUliam Ross,
Maude, Nannie Hill, Marion, Dorothy, Ernest, Jr.,
and Eliza Witherspoon Moore.
The son, Williara Ross Moore, was commissioned
a lieutenant after a period of training at Fort Ogle
thorpe, and was assig:ned to duty with the Coast
ArtUlery. He was with the Expeditionary Forces
in France nearly a year.
Chester M. Goodyear, -who has for many years
been identified with the cotton industry in various
phases, has given Greenville one of its newer and
raore distinctive industries, having a large plant for
the raanufacture of cotton waste.
Mr. Goodyear was born at Augusta, Georgia,
about forty years ago, son of Alfred R. and Sophia
(Payne) Goodyear. His raother was born in
Georgia. His father, a native of Connecticut, went
to Augusta, Georgia, in 1858. This is a branch of
the faraous Goodyear faraily of New England, of
which Charles Goodyear, originator of India rubber
raanufacture, was a raeraber.
Chester M. Goodyear was reared and educated in
Augusta, and was seventeen years old when he had
his first experience in cotton manufacturing. He
has ever since been connected with some phase of
cotton trade and cotton raanufacture. Probably his
most valuable experience was acquired in the River
side Mills at Augusta, the largest plant in the vvorld
devoted to the manufacture of cotton waste, liriters,
etc. For several years Mr. Goodyear was selling
agent of cotton mill waste, representing in that
capacity something over ninety cotton mills in the
Carolinas and Georgia.
Mr. Goodyear established his horae at Greenville
in 1915. In 1918 he established a plant in that city
for the manufacture of cotton waste, linters, batting,
and simUar goods. This was a new industry in
Greenville and was the only plant of its kind in the
Piedraont region of the Carolinas. The business has
rapidly grown and expanded, beginning with a ca
pacity of 15,000 pounds of waste per day, and has
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mer of 1919 Mr. Goodyear began the construction of
a modern steam drying plant for drying and reclaim
ing waste and damaged cotton, requiring an invest
ment of about $400,000. As the figures given would
indicate, this plant is a large consumer and shipper
of Waste and daraaged cotton, and reclaims a great
amount of material that would otherwise 'be of no
value and is converted into a shape for use in the
regular channels of raanufacture. According to the
report of the Governraent Census Bureau for 1914,
there were forty-nine such establishments in the
United States producing ' cotton waste,' using a
capital of nearly $10,000,000 and producing goods
valued at over $16,000,000. Thus Mr. Goodyear
occupies a field which is productive in the highest
sense of that term.
Mr. Goodyear is a meraber of the Masonic order,
belonging to the Chapter, Council, Commandery and
Shrine. He is also a meraber of GreenviUe Lodge,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; a raember
of the Kiwanis Club, San Souci Country Club,
Poinsett Club, United Coraraercial Travelers, Inter
national Coraraercial Men's Association and Trav
elers Protective Association.
Harrison P. Griffith, Jr., president and secre
tary of the Poole-Griffith Company, a wholesale
grocery house that was organized October I, 1916,
in the raidst of and in spite of war conditions has
rapidly grown and extended its connectibns untU
it is one of the leading jobbing houses of upper
South Carolina and covers the field for many
years around Gaffney. An index of its rapid growth
is found in the fact that during the first year
the business practically doubled every month. Aside
from the extent of the organization and the Volurae
of its sales, the firm is noteworthy because of the
youth, character and enterprise of the men at its
head. The constituent partners are Claude B.
Poole and Harrison P. Griffith, Jr., both of whom
were hardly old enough to vote when they estab
lished themselves as independent business raen and
corapetitors in the wholesale grocery field. After
the business had gotten fairly under way and had
been a constant illustration of the kindliness and
rison P. Griffith, Jr., was called to military duty
and spent seven months with the ai'my in the Four
teenth Company of the Fourth Training Battalion
stationed at Camp Jackson.
Mr. Griffith was born at Darlington, South Caro
lina, in 1895, and is grandson and namesake of
the venerable and venerated Professor Harrison
Patillo Griffith, whose life for half a century has
been a constant illustration of the kindliness and
service that a single character raay radiate in a
coraraunity. Professor Griffith who is stUl living at
Gaffney was born in the upper part of Lawrence
County, South Carolina, February 25, 1837, a son of
Stephen and Mary CWoodruff) Griffith. He was
educated in the coramon schools and Furraan Uni
versity at GreenviUe, and in April, 1861, volunteered
in the Confederate service, going out as lieutenant in
the Fourteenth South Carolina Infantry, McGowan's
Brigade. He was proraoted to captain on the field
and commanded his company in a nuraber of great
battles. He was wounded at the battle of Gettys
burg and again desperately wounded at the battle

of the WUderness vvhere he was shot through both
feet and was in the hospital for six months. He
was with the 'fighting forces of the Confederacy
until May 6, 1865. In 1872 he moved from Law
rence to Spartanburg County, settling on a farm
' three miles south of Woodruff. He also put up
a store and merchandised there. His long memory,
however, is based not on his business record but
on his career as an educator. Though well qual
ified for the work he had no intention of taking
up the teaching profession. Local citizens had
established a high school at Woodruff and finally
induced Mr. Griffith to take charge. He buUt up
a nice school under adverse circumstances, and
served as its principal for eight years. In 1881 he
was offered and accepted the presidency of Lime
stone College at Gaffney. This historic school
for girls had been declining for several years, and
needed just such a vigorous character as Pro
fessor Griffith to restore it to usefulness. Captain
Griffith with characteristic patience and quiet deter
raination made the school greater than. ever, and
is generally credited with having made Liraestone
College an institution in which all South Caro
linians take pride. It is now rated as one of the
successful schools of the South with a generous
endo-wment to insure its future. Captain Griffith
reraained as president for fifteen years and since
then though retired continues to do a smaU amount
of teaching each session and holds something like
an emeritus relation with the school.
The parents of Harrison P. Griffith, Jr., were
Dr. S. H. and Lulu (Twitty) Griffith, His mother
is still living. Doctor Griffith, who died at Gaff
ney in 1913, was a native of Lawrence County and
died when his service and talents were coming into
their appreciation and deserved usefulness. He
was a graduate of the raedical department of the
University of Baltiraore and began practice at Dar
lington, raoving frora there to Gaffney, where he
was a prorainent leader in his profession.
Mr. H. P. Griffith, Jr., was educated in Wofford
College, and on leaving coUege in 1913 engaged
in business at Gaffney. He is a member of the
Elks fraternity and had the distinction of being
the youngest exalted ruler the order ever had.
John Thomas Darwin, M. D. In 1919 Doctor
Darwin rounded out thirty years of consecutive
work as a physician and surgeon. His has been
a busy career and several communities have bene
fited by his presence as a capable, kindly and con
scientious doctor. For the past thirteen years Doc
tor Darwin has made his home at Gaffney, the
county seat of Cherokee County.
He is a raember of one of the old and prominent
famUies of York County where he was born in 1865,
a son of Robert Russell and Mattie (Whitesides)
Darwin. He is of English ancestry, and the original
stock ill England was the sarae from which the
eminent scientist, Charles Darwin, descended. Doc
tor Darwin's great-great-grandfather carae from
England and settled in Virginia, -and afterwards
moved to South Carolina and located in the old
Salem Church community in what is now Broad
River Township in York County. John B. Darwin,
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Virginia, and went from York County into the Con
tinental army to serve in the Revolutionary war.
Through his mature years and as a matter of
taste and inclination. Doctor Darwin has cultivated
those interests which make the man of genuine
learning and broad culture. He was liberally edu
cated in his youth, attending Kings Mountain MUi
tary School under Captain Bell, is a graduate of
South . Carolina College, and in 1899 received his
degree from the medical department of the Uni
versity of Maryland. He began practice at Blacks-
burg, then in York, now Cherokee, County, and
in 1904 moved to his present home at Gaffney.
He has a large general practice as a physician and
surgeon, both in the city and surrounding country.
Doctor Darwin is president of the Cherokee County
Medical Society, and is also a member of the State
and American Medical associations. He is a Knight
Templar Mason and a member of Omar Temple of
the Mystic Shrine at Charleston.
By his first wife, who was Miss Mary Fleetwood,
Doctor Darwin has four children : Dr. Robert
Fleetwood Darwin, Lurline, Lucile and Frances.
Doctor Darwin after the death of his first wife
married Louise Meredith Sarratt of Gaffney. They
have three children named Jack, Richard and Dan.
His son. Dr. Robert Fleetwood Darwin, is a grad
uate of Wofford College at the age of seventeen
and also a graduate of the dental department of
the University of Maryland and is now successfully
practicing at Dillon, South Carolina.
Capt. Joseph E. Hart, who was one of five
brothers from South Carolina who served in va
rious branches of the Araerican army in the war
with Germany, is a lawyer by profession, and a
well known and successful cotton merchant at York.
He was born at York in 1888, a son of George
W. S. and EUen A. (Hackett) Hart. His father,
a native of Charleston, has lived in York since
1874, and for many years has been prominent as
a lawyer and citizen in that section of the state.
Ellen A. Hackett comes of a weU known York
County family.
Capt. Joseph E. Hart was reared and received
his early education in his native city, graduated
from the University of South Carolina with the
class of 1908, and took up the study of law in the
office of his father. He was admitted to the bar
in 1910, and conducted a successful business in his
profession four years. He gave up the law to enter
commercial lines, and was in a successful cotton
business at York when the war came on.
He was a member of the National Guard of South
Carolina for some years having been commissioned
a second lieutenant in 1911. He was promoted to
captain in June of the same year, and was assigned
to service as supply officer of the One Hundred and
Eighteenth Infantry. On account of physical dis
ability he was relieved of overseas duty and when
the One Hundred and Eighteenth went to France
he was assigned as supply officer of the Base Hos
pital at Camp Sevier, Greenville. He was one of
the hard working men attached to that camp and
was on duty untU receiving his discharge in April,
1919. He then returned to York and entered the
wholesale grocery business.

-One of his brothers who achieved special distinc
tion, in the war is Rev. Oliver J. Hart, forraerly
assistant rector of St. Michael's Church in Charles
ton, a post which he resigned to go to France with
the soldiers as chaplain. A brief paragraph that
appeared in the spring of 1919 tells the story in
brief : "Chaplain Oliver J. Hart of South Caro
lina has been cited for gallantry in action. . On
one occasion, seeing a neighboring regiraent under
heavy fire and the chaplain in difficulty minis
tering to so many wounded and dying. Captain Hart
begged his coramanding officer to be allowed to
assist, and served bravely under fire."
Captain Hart married Miss Marie Moore of York.
They have four chUdren : Joseph E., Jr., Walter
Moore, Marie and Ann.
Jack Reynolds Watson. It is but a step frora
the successful management of large business in
terests to becoming the repository of public funds.
A long step, admittedly, but one which has been
made frequently to the betterment of the aspirant
and the people at large. In business life, an indi
vidual raust necessarily show his hand, must expose
his ability, the strength of his personality, and the
stand he takes on the fundamental principles gov
erning society. Should he, at sorae future time,
desire to step into public life, he must rely on his
business record to give him support. ' He may be
credited with the requisite knowledge and expe
rience, but unless the foot-prints he has left behind
him are clear and clean and in unshaken places, he
cannot inspire confidence. If, however, he leaves
behind him a series of imprints all leading unerr
ingly in the right direction, he has established a
foundation for his public life, and the step from
business affairs to a representative position in the
governraent is successfully accoraplished. Of the
men who have taken such a step in South Carolina,
one whose long and clean business record had much
to do with his choice for his present office, is Jack
Reynolds Watson, treasurer of Dillon County.
Mr. Watson was born at Chester, South Carolina,
October 7, 1878, a son of George G. and Mary E.
(Lynn) Watson, the former a native of the state of
New York and the latter of York County, South
Carolina. They reared a family of six chUdren, all
of whora grew to raaturity : Ella, the wife of H. C.
Race, of Amsterdam, Georgia; Jack Reynolds, of
this notice; Madeline, the wife of Dr. C. Whitting-
ton, of Valdosta, Georgia; James Leslie, whose
death occurred in 1918 ; Bertie, the wife of H. H.
Ford, of WUraington, North Carolina; and Nettie,
the wife of W. T. Culpepper, of Atlanta, Georgia.
Jack Reynolds Watson was reared at Darlington,
where he attended the public schools, and later
went to the old St. John's Acaderay, frora which he
was graduated in 1898. At that tirae he engaged
in the hardware business as bookkeeper and assist
ant raanager of an establishment at Darlington,
where he reraained until igoi. Mr. Watson then
carae to Dillon, where he attached hiraself to the
firra of J. W. DUlon & Son, and when this business
was incorporated, sorae tirae later, as the J. W.
Dillon & Son Company, he became secretary and
manager thereof, which positions he held until ap
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interest in the corporation. During the long period
that he had been identified with business affairs at
Dillon, Mr. Watson had irapressed hiraself upon
the community as a man of the highest abUity and
sterling integrity, and at the sarae tirae as one who
was conscientious in his desire to see his adopted
locality make strides in progress and advancement.
Accordingly, his name was brought forward in 1916
as a prospective candidate for the county treasurer-
ship of Dillon County, an office to which he was
appointed October i6tli of that year. In 1919 he was
again appointed for the four coraing years, by Gov
ernor Cooper. With such a personal record behind
hira, the present years of Mr. Watson's life are justly
yielding the great satisfaction that has sprung frora
the sowings of his younger days. The seeds of duty
and of high aspirations which he planted early in
his life, and which he exhaustively cultivated with
thrift and industry, and nurtured direct frora his
conscience, have already given their fruits to the
harvest and the proceeds now furnish him with
satisfaction that is priceless. His record in office
is that of a thoroughly capable official, earnest in
his efforts to preserve and further the public wel
fare and jealous in conserving the financial interests
of the county of his adoption. He has large farm
ing interests in Dillon County, the operations on
which he personally supervises.
In 1903 Air. Watson was united in marriage with
Miss Maxine McLaurin, daughter of Duncan and
Georgia (McCormick) McLaurin, and to this union
there have been born two children : Jack and Max
ine. Mr. and Mrs. Watson are consistent merabers
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Thomas Kindred Vassy. While one of the
younger lawyers of the South Carolina bar, Thoraas
Kindred Vassy's early experiences, training and
connections give hira an interesting and prorainent
place in the profession. He is junior member of
the law firra Dobson & Vassy at Gaffney.
He was bom on a farra near Cowpens, then in
Spartanburg, now Cherokee County, son of D. L.
and Terriza (Watkins) Vassy. He had a farm
environment during his boyhood, attended district
schools, later the Gaffney High School, and took
his literary and law courses in Wofford CoUege
and the University of South Carolina. He gradu
ated in the literary course in 1910 and before
actively taking up the study of law was principal
of the Anderson High School. He returned to the
University for his law course, also studied at Gaff
ney in the offices of Otts & Dobson, and was ad
mitted to the bar in May, 1913. Soon afterward
he formed a partnership with Air. Dobson and the
firra has enjoyed a liberal share of the legal busi
ness arising in their district and town,
Mr. Vassy during the war was chairman of the
Legal Advisory Board for Cherokee County, was
a speaker in the Red Cross campaigns, and in the
spring of 1919 was a leader in the Salvation Array
drive. However, his raost interesting personal expe
rience, and one that brought hira in closer touch
with the realities of the war than fell to the lot
of most Americans, carae during the two raonths
in the fall of 1918 preceding the signing of the
armistice. During that time Mr. Vassy was an

attache of the State Department at Washington and
was assigned the responsible task of decoding and
incoding diplomatic messages -between the Amer
ican Government and its foreign representatives and
other governments.
Mr. Vassy is a member of the First Baptist
Church and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias
and other fraternities. In February, 1918, he mar
ried Miss Eula Lee Hudson of Denmark, South
Carolina. William Stuart Hall. During the last twenty
years WUliara Stuart Hall has had a busy career
at Gaffney, as an educator, lawyer, and raan of many
civic interests. For a year or so he allowed many
of his personal interests to be slighted in order
that he raight give his time and influence to pro
moting war raeasures in his horae locality.
Mr. Hall, who is a raeraber of the law firm of
Butler & Hall, was born near Great Falls in Ches
ter County October 24, 1869, a son of W. S. and
Evelyn (Holraes) Hall. He is of Scotch and Eng
lish ancestry. His great-great-grandfather, John
Hall, came from Virginia to the Fairfield district
of South Carolina just before the Revolutionary
war. At his death he was laid to rest near Mount
Olivet Presbyterian Church. The paternal grand
father of the Gaffney lawyer was Daniel HaU, who
married a McCullough, daughter of Thomas Mc
Cullough. Daniel McCullough, great-uncle of W. S.
HaU, owned the Great Falls power site and buih
and operated a small yarn mUI there, one of the
earliest industries of its kind in Upper South
Carolina. W. S. Hall, Sr., left Wofford College in 1861 in
his junior year to enter the Confederate army.
He was with the troops that went out frora Dar
lington County and served throughout the war.
His wife, Evelyn Holraes, was a daughter of Dr
William Fletcher Holmes of Newberry County.
W. S. HaU through his mother is a great-nephew
of Maj. J. W. Holraes, one of the prominent char
acters in the history of the Barnwell district. The
Holmes family is of Scottish origin.
Mr. Hall received his early education and train
ing from his father and mother, both of whom
represented fine culture and raany enviable qualities
of mmd and heart. His raother was a graduate of
the old Spartanburg Feraale College. Later he
attended Mount Zion Collegiate Institute at Winns
boro and from there entered Wofford College, where
he was graduated with the A. B. degree in 1891 and
the degree Master of Arts in 1895. For about ten
years Mr. Hall spent raost of his tirae as a teacher
and school administrator. He taught in the public
schools of Chester, Fairfield and Marlboro coun
ties. In i8g7 he went to Gaffney as assistant prin
cipal of the Gaffney Male and Feraale Serainary.
He was the leader in the carapaign for establishing
a system of graded schools in Gaffney, and in i8g8
\vas elected the first superintendent. In the mean
time he had used all his opportunities to study law,
and in 1899 began practice with the firm Duncan
& launders, a connection that continued until 1902.
Uuring part of that time he also served as pro
fessor of mathematics in Limestone CoUege, hold
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all his attention to the law. He was a member of
the firm of Hall & WiUis untU 1905, and in 1908 be
came associated in partnership with T. B. Butler.
This firm handles a large civil practice and repre
sents many of the important business interests cen
tered at Gaffney.
Mr. Hall has also served as a meraber of the
County Board of Education, and in igo8 was elected
member of the Lower House of the General As
sembly and in jgio chosen to the Senate for a
period of four years. During the war he was a
raember of the Legal Advisory Board for Chero
kee County and was a speaker in all the Liberty
Loan, Red Cross and Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation campaigns. In May, 1919, he was busily
engaged in the Centenary drive of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South. Mr. Hall was a presi
dential elector frora South Carolina in 1916.
He married Miss Anna Caldwell of Chester
County, daughter of James McCalla and Janie
Steele (Brice) Caldwell of Chester. They are the
parents of five chUdren : William D'Orraand, James
Caldwell, Anna Brice, Robert EUiott and Joseph
Holmes. William D. is cashier of the Bank of
Chesnee, South Carolina.
Norman A. Harrison. Since his admission to
the bar in 1916, Mr. Harrison has been achieving
success and distinction as a lawyer at Gaffney. He
represents sorae of the old and prorainent farailies
of upper South Carolina, but his ovyn career does
not need to be justified by ancestry, though he takes
appropriate pride in his family tree.
He is of the famous Harrison family of Vir
ginia, from which was also descended the Wil
liam Henry Harrison family of Ohio and Indiana.
His great-grandfather, John Harrison, with his
brother, James, and other members of the faraily,
came from Virginia and identified himself with
the early settlement of Greenville County. The old
family seat is Fairview Township in the lower part
of Greenville County. Norraan Harrison's grand
father was the late Dr. WiUiara A. Harrison of
Fairview Township.
Williara C. Harrison, father of the Gaffney law
yer, was born in the Fairview community, and in
the late seventies moved to Reidville in Spartan
burg County, where he is still living in high esteem,
being a planter and having held the office of magis
trate for raany years. He raarried Emma L. "Wal-
drop, who was born near Piedmont in Greenville
County, and is related to the well known Dial
family of Laurens County.
Norman A. Harrison, who was born at Reid
vUle in Spartanburg County, in 1887, has a sister.
Miss Maggie Harrison, and three brothers who
have also won considerable distinction — Alaj. Wil
liam Sloan Harrison of the United States Marines ;
Lloyd B. Harrison, a graduate of the acaderaic
and law departments of the University of South
Carolina, now serving as a lieutenant with the
American array of occupation in Germany; and
John R. Harrison, a student of ' medicine at St.
Louis. Norman A. Harrison was educated in the public
schools of Reidville, in the Presbyterian College
at Clinton, after which he taught school three years.

and for six years was a civil service employe in
the Spartanburg postoffice. While he depended
upon this work for a living, he gave every spare
moment for four years to the study of law in the
office of J. C. Otts, solicitor of the seventh judicial
circuit, and when he was admitted to the bar in
May, 1916, Mr. Otts invited him to a partnership.
Since then Mr. Harrison has had charge of the Gaff
ney office of Mr. Otts, and for a young lawyer has
handled with conspicuous success a large amount
of legal business.
Mr. Harrison married Miss Nora Willinghara of
Belton. Their two children are WUliara C. and
Norraan A., Jr.
John Robert Anderson, Though still in the
prirae of his years and strength John Robert Ander
son is one of the oldest railway men of South Caro
lina, a veteran in experience, and for a quarter
of a century has been the capable superintendent
of the Blue Ridge Railroad and a resident of Ander
son. He was born in Oconee County, South Carolina,
March 31, 1873. When he was seven years old
his parents, Richard W. and Augusta (Wilson)
Anderson, the forraer a native of AbbeviUe and
the latter of Anderson County, moved to the lat
ter county and finally settled at Belton, where John
Robert Anderson secured raost of his education.
Mr. Anderson is an interesting exaraple of the
man who finds his work at an extremely early age
and never deviates from one' line. At the age of
twelve he was working as an office boy in the
freight department at Belton. In 1886, a year later
he was transferred to the transportation depart
ment of the old Richmond and DanviUe RaUroad.
In 1889 at the age of sixteen he was made a con
ductor, and on Deceraber 15, 1894, he was given
the responsibUities of superintendent of the Blue
Ridge Railroad with offices at Anderson. He has
been the trusted and capable official in charge of
this railroad since that tirae, and has raade his office
the mediura of an iraportant and unreraitting service
to the entire community served by this line of steel.
Mr. Anderson is a Knight Teraplar Mason and
Shriner, a raeraber of the Anderson Charaber of
Coramerce and the Rotary Club and the Methodist
Church In 1900 he married Miss Caroline Thomp
son Keith, a daughter of Col. William C. Keith of
Walhalla. Albert W. Kirby was the founder of the Kirby
Seed Company at Gaffney. Starting in 1912, as a
one-man concern, the business has steadily grown
untU for several years it has justified its clairas as
the largest mail order field seed house in the
South. Mr. Kirby whUe a boy on his father's farm in
what is now Cherokee County, learned to appre
ciate the value of good seeds and probably looked
into the question of seed germination and virility
more than raost boys of his age. His birth occurred
thirty odd years ago in what was then Spartan
burg, now Cherokee, County. He was a son of
Lafayette and Lucretia (Clary) Kirby, both of whom
were born in Spartanburg County. Mr. Kirby grew
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tion through his Own efforts. On leaving the farm
at the age of twenty-one he had several years of
experience in the hardware and general raercan
tUe business.
In 1912 he engaged in business in a sraall buUd
ing on Liraestone Street in Gaffney as a seed raer
chant. He put into practice the ideas of several
years of thought, and frora the first has carried
on his business as a maU order house. He em
ploys no traveling salesraen, but relies upon thou
sands of price lists sent out broadcast by raail
over raost of the Southern States. For three and
a half years he was alone, part of the tirae with
only one assistant, and on January i, 1916, incor
porated the Kirby Seed Company. His chief asso
ciate is Mrs. Effie B. Kirby, his wife. Mr. Kirby
is owner in company 'with his wife of a large ware
house, and has all the facUities for storing, han
dling and distributing field seeds. This company
has been the pioneer in raaking a home raarket
for field seeds in South Carolina and other parts
of the South, and has successfully competed with
the northern seed houses which forraerly had prac
tically a raonopoly in this field. The corapany does
a business over all the southern states shipping
carloads of seed as far west as Texas. The busi
ness is both wholesale and retail, and it has meant
a great deal to Cherokee County through facilities
for serving the local farraers and planters, not
only with high grade seed, but offering an oppor
tunity for farraers to produce seeds theraselves for
distribution through this corapany.
Mr. Kirby is a raember of the Knights of Pythias
and also a raember of the Rotary Club. He is a
Baptist. He married Miss Effie Bird and they have
two children named Lafayette and Alberta.
' John Steele Brice of York is one of the strong
and able lawyers of his section of the state, has
been in active practice thirty years, and has also
played a prorainent part in local and state politics.
He was born in Chester County in 1861, son of
Robert W. and Anna (Steele) Brice. His father
was a native of Fairfield County. The first raera
bers of the Brice faraily, of Scotch-Irish ancestry,
on coming from Pennsylvania settled in Fairfield
shortly after the Revolutionary war.
The birthplace of John Steele Brice was in the
eastern part of Chester County, and he spent his
early life there on a farm. He completed his lit
erary education at Erskine College, graduating in
1883, and read law in the office of the late Maj.
James F. Hart of York. Admitted to the bar in
1889, he at once entered upon his chosen work, and
an abundant clientage has responded to his sound
abilities and dUigent and faithful care of all inter
ests entrusted to his charge.
Mr. Brice was a presidential elector on the Cleve
land ticket in 1892, and for fifteen years was chair
man of the Democratic County Executive Coramit
tee. He was a delegate from York County to the
Constitutional Convention of 1895. In 1890 he was
elected a member of the State Senate for four
years, and re-elected in 1894, entering the Senate both
times without opposition. • For several years he has
also been attorney for the county commissioners
of York County. Mr. Brice is a member of the
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.

He married Miss Claude Modre. Theirs four chil-i
dren are John Steele, Jr., Robert WUson, Adolphus
Moore and Ashbel G. While a member of the.
State Senate, Mr. Brice succeeded m having a law
enacted, afterwards known as the Brice Bill,
which gave the people of any county in South
Carolina the right to vote out the dispensaries. lo
cated in that county, and, under this Brice Bill, .,
the South Carolina State Dispensary that hereto
fore had been invincible was driven forever out of
South Carolina.
Lee Davis Lodge, Ph. D, In 1899, after fifteen
years of congenial and useful service as an instruc
tor and professor in Columbian, now George Wash
ington, University, at Washington, D. C, Doctor
Lodge came to the presidency of Limestone Col
lege for Women at Gaffney, South Carolina. Under
his administration Limestone College has again
measured up to the fame it enjoyed years ago. as
an institution for higher learning and the training
of young woraen. The past twenty years has been
a severe -test to the sraaller colleges of the country,
which have had to corapete with the treraendous
resources behind the great state and privately en
dowed universities of the land. The prestige enjoyed
today by Limestone College is therefore in the high
est degree a tribute to the able raanageraent and
scholarship of its president.
Doctor Lodge was born' in Montgomery County,
Maryland, November 24, 1865, son of Rev. James
L. and Alice Virginia (Warfield) Lodge. He re
ceived his A. M. degree from Columbian University
at Washington in 1885. During his senior year
he was tutor of Greek and after his graduation
he remained as adjunct professor of Latin from 1885
to 1887, was professor of French from 1887 to 1896,
head of the PhUosophy Department from 1890 to
1897, and head of the Departraent of Political
Science from 1894 to 1899. In the meantirae Co-
lurabian University had given hira in 1892 his degree.
Doctor of Philosophy.
The year Doctor Lodge came to Liraestone Col
lege a large new building was erected on the beau
tiful carapus, and the work of the school has been
in raany ways given added efficiency during his ad
ministration. In igoo he established the 'Winnie
Davis School of History as a department of the
college. Liraestone College was established in 1845,
and for many years was under the management of
Dr. Thomas Curtis and afterwards by his son,
Dr. WUliara Curtis. The school closed during the
war. Prior to the war Limestone College was re
garded as a school of unexcelled privUeges and ad
vantages for the young women of wealthy fami
lies not only in upper South Carolina but from many
other states. After the war there ensued a period
of decline and many vicissitudes and disasters, but
eventually the college was revived and was car
ried on for many years by Capt. Harrison P. Griffith.
Doctor Lodge in addition to his many adminis
trative duties at Limestone College accepted as a
patriotic duty numerous calls for service during the
late war. He was a raeraber of the State CouncU
of Defense,' chairman of the Cherokee County Coun
cil of Defense, chairman of all the Liberty Bond:
carapaigns in the county, chairraan of the Red Cross
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paigns for Syrian and Armenian Relief. He was a
favorite speaker not only in his own county but
throughout the state. Doctor Lodge is now county
chairman of the South Carolina Memorial Commis
sion, which has in charge the duty of erecting a
memorial to the South Carolina soldiers of the
World war. He is also a charter meraber of the
League to Enforce Peace and is a strong supporter
of the League of Nations. Doctor Lodge is a raera
ber of the Cosraos Club of Washington, and of the
^'Societe Acaderaique d'Histoire Internationale," of
Paris, and of the Rotary Club of Gaffney. He is
author of "A Study in CorneUle" published in 1891,
and of many reviews, essays and other articles the
product of his studies in varied fields of literature.
On September i, 1887, Doctor Lodge raarried Lelia
Ella White of Rockville, Maryland. She died April
2,y, 1895. In 1897 he raarried Mary Louise Mc-
•Clamray of Wilraington, North Carolina.
Robert M. Mixson. As president of the South
Carolina Cotton Association, Colonel Mixson of WU-
liston is distinctively a mafi of the new era in South
Carolina southern agriculture. However, while his
vision, his purposes and his activities are concen
trated on the present and the future Colonel Mix-
son has an interesting task, and by personal
experience he knows the heavy burden and handicaps
borne by the southern farmer during the last half
century. He was born on a farra near Barnwell, Septera
ber 14, 185^, son of John H. and Martha (Boylston)
Mixson, also of Barnwell County, and moved to Wil-
liston in 1868. He attended school at Barnwell and
at Williston, but his friends and associates know hira
as a man of education in the best sense, with a wide
range of knowledge gained by private study and
reading carried on from boyhood to the present and
by intimate conduct with men of affairs. He was
only twelve years of age when he began following
the plow on his father's farm and at the age of
twenty was farming on his own account. Colonel
Mixson is a man of sturdy mold, direct and forcible,
and does his work without pretence. It is indicative
of his character that he prefers to be known as a
farmer rather than as a planter or business man.
Early in his career Colonel Mixson realized the
limitations by which southern agriculture was beset.
While for himself he was able to extricate hiraself
from many of those hardships, his public spirit has
kept him constantly planning and working to amelio
rate the conditions of the southern farraer, and for
many years he has been a real leader in the forces
looking to liberation. In 1903 he attended the first
cotton convention in the state, and since then has
been identified with every movement to secure bet
ter prices for cotton and the general improvement of
farm and rural life. In 1904 he was one of the
southern farmers who led the attack on the commis
sioner of agriculture at Washington, charging that
speculators on the New York Exchange were being
furnished vvith advance information as to reports
covering the condition and probable yield issued by
the Department. Investigation substantiated his
charge. In 1019 Colonel.'Mixson was elefcted'a mem
ber of the Central Comrriiftee of the South Carolina
Cotton Association and also became a member of the

coraraittee to organize the Araerican Cotton Associa
tion. He was a meraber of the World Cotton Con
ference held in New Orleans and assisted in, organ
izing Florida, Texas, Louisiana and Alabaraa. Then
in November, 1919, he was elected president of the
South Carolina Cotton Association. At that time
Mr. B. Harris, coraraissioner of agriculture for South
Carolina, said of hira: "The first tirae I ever raet
Mr. Mixson was at the convention in 1903. I remem
ber well the stand he took in defending the rights
of the farmers and conderaning the alignment against
them. * * * His services were sought by farm
ers in the states of Texas, Arkansas, Alabama and
Louisiana, and he rendered valuable service in or
ganizing the association in those states. I always
found hira with his fighting clothes on, when.it was
necessary for him to defend the rights of a farmer
and he was not afraid to do it. I feel assured that
under his leadership and with the co-operation of
his associates on the General Coraraittee, the Amer
ican Cotton Association of South Carolina is in
good hands and is bound to win in all undertake
ings." In order to do his best for the great cause in which
his heart is enlisted. Colonel Mixson has established
his office at Columbia. The Araerican Cotton Assp-
ciation and its state affiliations constitute one of the
raost proraising raovements in American agricultural
history. To no sraall degree its success has been due
to the fact that it is not altogether a farmers' or
ganization, but also includes bankers, merchants,
financiers and all others interested in the cotton in
dustry, even including, as Colonel Mixson is. now
trying to do, the women, at least to the extent of
securing their moraLsupport..
Colonel Mixson was a raember of the Legislature
representing Barnwell County in the sessions of
1913-14. At the age of twenty-five he married Miss
Sarah D. Loud of Georgia, and their daughter is
now the widow of A. E. Owens, and the mother of
two daughters and one son.
D. C. Ross has spent his life in and around Gaff
ney, since leaving college has been active in busi
ness affairs, and has had many years of successful
experience as a banker. Mr. Ross was formerly
president of the First National Bank of Gaffney
and retired from that institution to organize the
Araerican State Bank, which opened its doors May
I, 1919, with a capital stock of $60,000, and in a
few weeks the deposits had passed the $100,000
raark. The Board of Directors is coraposed of
strong local business men, and under the leader
ship of Colonel Ross the institution is destined to
take its place among the strong financial enter
prises of Upper South Carolina.
Colonel Ross as he is always coraplimentarily
known by his friends, was born near the present
town of Gaffney in what is now Cherokee but was
formerly a part of Spartanburg County, a son of
S. S. and Hardenia (Lipscomb) Ross. His paternal
grandfather was D. B. Ross and his raaternal grand
father, Robert Lipscorab.
He acquired his early education at Gaffney and
spent some time in the University of South Caro
lina. Frora early manhood he has been in business,
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ful. He represents the thorough character of the
alert, enterprising and public spirited business man.
He acquired his early banking experience with
the private bank of Carroll & Stacy at Gaffney, was
first cashier of the First National Bank, and on
the death of Fred Stacy became its president, an
office he fiUed for fifteen years untU retiring to
organize the Araerican State Bank. The Araerican
State Bank has one of the handsoraest bank build
ings in Upper South Carolina.
Colonel Ross is a stockholder and director in
several cotton raills, and as a banker and citizen
has always concerned himself with the best inter
ests of his locality. He is also extensively inter
ested in farraing, owning several fine farras in the
vicinity of Gaffney. Colonel Ross is unraarried.
Gov. Wade Speer. Meraber of one of the old and
historic faraUies of Abbeville District, Gov. Wade
Speer after his admission to the bar moved to one
of the rich and rapidly growing sections of the state,
Cherokee County, and has enjoyed leadership in the
Gaffney bar for nearly twenty years.
Mr. Speer has an interesting account of his fara
ily ancestry, contained in the copv of a letter written
by his grandfather, Williara Speer, under date of
December 9, 1869. Presenting as it does the record
of one of the oldest famUies of AbbevUle, the es
sential parts of this letter raay be appropriately
quoted. Williara Speer, father of the writer and great
grandfather of the Gaffney lawyer, was born in
County Antrira, Ireland, in 1747, and his mother
died at his birth. She was a daughter of Williara
Houston, who took and reared the infant child.
When about twenty-five years of age WUliara Speer
carae to Araerica, landing at Christian Bridge, Dela
ware River, Septeraber 3, 1772. In 1774 he moved
to Charleston, South Carolina, and remained in that
city untU after Sir Peter Parker's attack on Charles
ton June 28, 1776. He then raoved to the Long
Cane settleraent in Abbeville District and lived in
the faraily of General Pickens for three years ex
cept when in service. He was in the Cavalry Com
pany of Capt. Hugh McCall, and after the fall of
Charleston and the overrunning of South Carolina
by the British he and others went to North Caro
lina until the beginning of General Green's cam
paign. Prior to that he had participated in the
campaign under General Williamson in an expedi
tion against the Cherokees. He was also under
Colonel Pickens who had coraraand of the Block
House at the Cherokee Ford on the Savannah River
in Abbeville District, holding that section of the
country against the Tories under Colonel Boyd.
WUliara Speer was in the battle between the whigs
and tories at Little Creek in Wilkes County, Georgia,
and after that affair Pickens sent Williara Speer
on an express to Whitehall, South Carolina, and
later he joined Pickens at Fort Charlotte, and was
at the siege of Ninety-Six and with the South Caro
lina forces when Augusta surrendered to General
Pickens and Colonel Lee. He was also under Colo
nel Pickens in the second expedition against the
Cherokee Indians, when that tribe was forced to
sue for peace.
After the siege of Augusta and the ending of the

war soon afterwards, WiUiam Speer returned to
Long Cane and began merchandising near where
Abbeville Court House now stands. In 1784 he
raarried a widow, Mrs. Eleanor Norris, whose
maiden name was Little. In 1785 he moved to
Cherokee Ford on Savannah River and spent the
rest of his active life as a merchant. WUliam
Speer had four chUdren : John, born November 5,
1784, and drowned in Rocky River April 20, 1866;
William ; Alexander, born August 23, 1790, and died
at LaGrange, Georgia, April 26, 1856; and Mar
garet, born December i, 1792, became the wife of
Joseph Rucker and died at RuckervUle, Georgia,
September 26, 1864. The mother of these chUdren
died October 26, 1795, at the age of forty-six, and
William Speer raarried for h»s second wife Mrs.
Martha McBride, but had no children by that union.
WUliara Speer, the Revolutionary soldier, lived on
his Cherokee plantation until his death on April
17, 1830. He gave his children the best educational
advantages afforded in that tirae, was a Presby
terian, and rarely ever owed any man.
Williara Speer, grandfather of Gov. Wade Speer,
was born May 9, 1788, and lived past eighty-four
years of age. On Deceraber i, 181 1, he raarried
Miss Mary S. Gill, and reared eight children, some
of whora reraained permanently in old AbbevUle
County. One of thera was Dr. Andrew J. Speer, who spent
all his active career as a practicing physician. Dur
ing the war he was a surgeon in the Confederate
array. He was graduated from the Medical School
of the University of Georgia at Augusta in 1858.
Dr. Andrew J. Speer raarried Sophia Verdell and
both are now deceased.
Gov. Wade Speer, son of these parents, was born
at Lowndesville in Abbeville County in 1876. He
was educated in local schools, studied law with the
firra of Bonhara & Watkins at Anderson, and was
adraitted to the bar in 1900. The following year
he located at Gaffney, county seat of Cherokee
County, and for several years has been able prac
tically to choose his own practice as a lawyer. He
is a Methodist and a member of the Masons and
Woodraen of the World.
He raarried Miss Medora Scott of Gaffney,
daughter of the late B. F. Scott, a native of Charles
ton. They have two children. Governor Wade, Jr.,
and Robert Lee.
Junius N. Lipscomb is the active business head
and to a large extent creator of the J. N. Lipscomb
enterprises at Gaffney. In the absence of other
business these enterprises alone would go a long
way toward justifying the commercial prominence
of Gaffney. The various plants and grounds take
up about six acres, represent a large investment,
furnish employment to a force of men the year
around, and raore iraportant still are the raeans of
converting an imraense supply of local products into
rnerchantable commodities. The most prorainent of
this group of industries is the Victor , Cotton Oil
Company, which established the first oil mUl in
Cherokee County. It was established in 1899, and
IS now the principal medium through which the cot
ton .seed grown on nuraerous plantations is con
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products. The oil miU has gradually been sur
rounded by other industries, including a roller flour
and corn mUl in igoi, an ice plant in 1908, a ferti
lizer plant in 1909, and several cotton gins.
For many years the narae Lipscomb has been
synonymous with sound business methods and en
terprise in this section of Upper South Carolina.
In many other states the Lipscombs have been noted
as a strong race of raen, producing prorainent char
acters, and the name is historic in Virginia, South
Carolina, Mississippi and Texas. The founder of
the Araerican faraily was Joel Lipscorab, who came
from Hampshire, Ehgland, and settled at Spottsyl
vania, Virginia, in 1689. Prior to the Revolutionary
war Williara Lipscomb carae frora Virginia and set
tled on Thicketty Creek in what is now Cherokee
County, South Carolina, about seven railes south
west of the present city of Gaffney. In that vicinity
Junius N. Lipscomb was born, at old Moultrie
Postoffice in 1867, a son of Nathan and Mary (Wil
kins) Lipscorab. Nathan Lipscomb was a son of
Edward Lipscomb, a grandson of John Lipscomb
and a great-grandson of the Williara Lipscorab
above noted.
Nathan Lipscorab was for raany years a wealthy
and prorainent planter and merchant. He served
four years in the Confederate army and died in
October, 1918, at the age of seventy-six. He was
associated with his son in the founding of the Vic
tor Cotton Oil mUl twenty years ago, was president
of the corapany, and Junius N. Lipscorab is now
president, treasurer and raanager of the business.
Junius N. Lipscomb was educated in the public
schools, in Professor McArthur's Academy and the
Patrick Military School in Greenville. Up to the
age of seventeen he worked on his father's farra,
then was clerk in his father's store, and was in
business as a merchant for hiraself untU he entered
the cotton oU business in 1899. One of the solidest
business raen of the coraraunity, he is likewise one of
its most public spirited citizens and generously sup
ports and co-operates with his friends and his cora
raunity's welfare.
He was one of the first raerabers of the Gaffney
Board of Public Works and has served twelve years
continuously. He is a raeraber of the Masonic Or
der and of the Baptist Church. In 1890 he married
Miss Sallie Foster of Carapton. They have two
daughters, June Nesbitt and Florence Foster Lips
comb. G. W. Burns, president of the Burns Motor Com
pany at Colurnbia, is not only an automobUe sales
man and distributor but a thoroughly technical man
in the autoraobile industry. His experience began
a number of years ago, and he has been the Stude-
baker representative in different parts of the coun
try and a resident of Columbia since 1917.
Mr. Burns was born on a farra in McLean Coun
ty, Illinois, some thirty years ago, son of J. J. and
Laura Jane (Watts) Burns, both deceased. His
father was also a native of McLean County, and a
wealthy farmer in the famous Illinois corn belt.
His father as a pioneer settler had acquired land
in that part of the Prairie State when it was very
cheap. A part of G. W. Burns' inheritance frora
his father's estate was a fine quarter section farra, a

part of the old homestead. This property he still
owns. G. W. Burns was educated in the public schools,
and in the Bradley Polytechnic Institute at Peoria.
While growing up on the farm he became familiar
with every phase of its manageraent, though agri
culture has not been his chosen career. About the
tirae the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend
began manufacturing automobiles on an extensive
scale, he -vvent to work in the company's offices in
Chicago, afterward was in their Detroit office, and
subsequently represented the corporation in Ten
nessee and at, Atlanta, Georgia. His technical edu
cation, supplemented by practical experience in the
automobile industry, made him a first-class raan in
automotive engineering and practice, and as such
he has always held a place of honor with the Stude
baker concern.
Mr. Burns came to Colurabia in 1917 and at first
hired only desk roora while interesting buyers in
the Studebaker car. After a short time he moved
to 910-912 Main Street, and in July, 1919, found
more adequate quarters for his increasing business
at the corner of Main and Calhoun streets. His
establishment now occupies a lot 417 by 156 feet, and
early in 1920 an additional second story was cora
pleted. Since coming to Columbia he has realized
his arabition for a coraplete automobile plantj He
has the equipment, raachinery and expert service
capable of building a car outright. Sorae of the
noteworthy features of his service are a welding
departraent, vulcanizing departraent, upholstering
department, painting and trimraing plant, and also
an adrairable cleaning and repair department. These
various facilities have had much to do with the
prosperous growth of his business and the great
popularity of the Studebaker products in and around
Columbia. Mr. Burns is one of the active rnembers of the
Columbia Automotive Trades Association and also
the state organization. He has made hiraself a
part of the public spirited citizenship of Columbia.
Recently he corapleted a beautiful horae in Wales
Garden, the exclusive residential section of Co
lurabia. Mr. Burns is a thirty-second degree Scot
tish Rite Mason and Shriner, also a raeraber of the
Ridgewood and the Columbia Kiwanis clubs. He
married Ruth Roberts, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Their children are Margaret, Dorothy and George
W., Jr.
William Wilks Thomas is serving his sixth
consecutive term as sheriff of Cherokee County.
He was first elected in 1898, the year following the
organization of the county. While the length of
his service almost constitutes a record for that of
fice in the state, the more iraportant fact is the ad
mirable efficiency which has characterized his work
and has justified every mark of approbation and
support giv«j him by his fellow citizens of Chero
kee. Mr. Thomas was born at Santuc in Union County,
South Carolina, in 1866, a son of D. A. and Mary
A. (WUks) Thomas. When he was a child his
parents raoVed to Liraestone Springs and he spent
his boyhood within the present corporate limits of
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School and then for several years, 'yvas eraployed in
civil engineering with the old C. C. & C. Railway.
He began as rodraan and eventually was in charge
of construction in Southwest Virginia. After re
turning to Gaffney he was a member of the police
force and at the time of his first election as sheriff
in 1898 he was clerk and bookkeeper for the mer
chant and factory owner J. N. Lipscomb. Mr.
Thomas was re-elected for his sixth term in 1918
and evidently he is one of few county _ officers of
whom it might be said that he is holding office by
practically unaniraous consent.
Mr. Thoraas is a member of the Masonic Order
and Knights of Pythias. He married Miss Mollie
Robbs of Cherokee County.
William Hamilton Welch is a North Carolina
raan by birth and early training, and carae to Kings-
tree, South Carolina, about seven years ago to give
his services to the Kingstree Insurance, Real Estate
& Loan Corapany, of which he is now sole owner.
This is a business of extensive proportions, and
Mr. Welch has been responsible for the splendid
service it represents in the general fields of real
estate and insurance.
He was born in North Carolina February 10, 1886,
a son of Edward Clingman, a farraer, and Nora
Priscilla (Wiggins) Welch. His people were raera
bers of the Missionary Baptist Church and while
he attended the public schools he was also a student
of schools maintained by his church: He graduated
Bachelor of Science from Guilford College, North
Carolina, in igii. The following two years he was
principal of the Lewisville High School in his na
tive state, and in December, 1913, came to Kings-
tree as manager of the Kingstree Insurance, Real
Estate & Loan Corapany. Later he bought stock and
becarae sole owner.
Mr. Welch is also secretary of the Williamsburg
County Fair Association, and for the sessions 1919-
20 served as a meraber of the South Carolina Leg
islature. He is affiliated with the Friends Church
at Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
September 18, 1912, he married Elizabeth Wins
low of Belvidere, North Carolina. Their three chU
dren are William H., Jr., Mary Elizabeth and Robert
Winslow. James Baruch Hughey, M. D. A prominent
physician of Gaffney where he located in 1917, Doc
tor Hughey was for over thirty years a busy prac
titioner and a citizen of raany useful activities in
Greenwood County.
He was born in Newberry County October 25,
1861, a son of Joseph L. and Sallie F. (Duncan)'
Hughey. The Hughey faraily is of English origin.
Joseph L. Hughey was born in that part of Abbe
vUle County, now Greenwood County, and was a
Confederate soldier frora 1861 to 1865. Sallie F
Duncan was a daughter of Baruch JDuncan who
came from Scotland and settled in Nevvberry County
about three miles from the present town of Whit
mire. He was an old time planter and a very suc
cessful business man. Duncan Creek and Duncan
Creek Baptist Church were naraed for hira
Doctor Hughey attended common schools until
his twelfth year and after that had; some good in

struction in the Greenwood High School, preparing
for Furman University, in which institution he eom^
pleted his literary education. He attended the
Charleston Medical CoUege, later the Medical Col
lege of the State of South Carolina, and in 1883
graduated frora. the Medical Departraent of the
University of Maryland. With this liberal training
and equipraent Doctor Hughey located in Green
wood, and for thirty years was busied with the cares
and responsibUities of a large practice and many
duties as a citizen. Much of his professional work
was in that poorly compensated field of public
health. For raany years he 'w'as chairraan of. the
Greenwood Board of Health, and was a member Of
the Board of Trustees of the Public Schools and
finally a meraber of the Light and Water Commis
sion of Greenwood.
Doctor Hughey located at Gaffney December
I, 1917, and in a short time his talents attracted a
large and busy practice. He is a raember of the
County, State and American Medical Association
and is a Knights Teraplar Mason.
Doctor Hughey raarried for his first wife Lucia
Tarrant. He has six chUdren by that raarriage:
Robert D., Florence, Annie L., wife of R. F. Curiy,
Lucia T., wife of W. C. Harrison, Mary H., and
Joseph W. For his second wife Doctor Hughey
raarried Miss Bessie Yarborough of Fairfield
County. Their three children are naraed Evelyn
Y.,- James B. and John Perry.
Rev. Thomas Joseph Hegarty. While the hlst<?lv
of St. Peter's Catholic Parish at Columbia runs back
nearly 100 years, the era of its greatest growth aild
developraent falls within that period in which
Father Hegarty has been pastor and the spiritual
guide and director of the parish's work and des
tiny. It is said that Colurabia's first Catholic settlers
were some laborers on the canal who came»ab6ut
1821. The first church edifice was completed about
1824, and at that time dedicated to Saint Peter.
There was little if any increase or growth during
the next quarter of a century. One of the longest
and more important early pastorates was that of
Rev. J. J. O'Connell, beginning in 1848 and cover
ing a period of twenty-three years. For a number
of years he had the missionary direction of a large
area included in the upper part of the state and
also North Carolina, Father O'Connell organized
and established in 1851 St. Mary's College, one
ot the oldest institutions of higher education in
^outh Carolina. The Academy of the Immaculate
Conception for the education of young women was
opened in 1852 Father O'Connell rebuilt and greatly
enlarged the church in 1857, but in the five years
tollowing the war the congregation greatly dimin
ished in numbers. Father O'ConneU was succeeded
by Key. James FuUerton in 1872, and he had to
perl^orm a task of real reconstruction, reviving the
Catholic institutions which had been made pros
trate by the war. The new convent for the Ursii-
Ime Nuns was buUt under his pastorate
,.ii /rt,^""^'*"" '"^signed in 1895, and on May
24th of the same year was succeeded by Rev. Thoinas
L tiJ^^^^^- Father Hegarty was born in Ireland,
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son of James and, Hannah (O'Gara) Hegarty. His
father was a farmer, and he attended the National
schools of Ireland to the age of fourteen, then
studied privately under a priest, and finished his
general education in 1887. In that year he came to
.-America and entered St. Mary's Serainary at Balti
more, where he was graduated in 1892. He was
ordained a priest by Bishop Northrop at St. John
the Baptist at Charleston, and remained one year
at Charleston at the Cathedral. Then for two years
he was pastor at Beaufort, South Carolina, and
from there came to the scene of his long and useful
labors at St. Peter's in Columbia.
He found the affairs of St. Peter's parish in
great need of a resourceful and enthusiastic leader.
The congregation had grown very slowly, and to
add to his burdens he had the care and superin
tendence of a large number of outlying missions.
Within a few years the old church building gave
unmistakable signs of decay, and the buUding of
a new and greater St. Peter's is one of the accora
plishments of which Father Hegarty may well be
proud. The handsome Gothic structure was begun
in March, 1906, and was completed and dedicated
January 17, 1909. His church, one of the largest
and handsomest in the .state, was corapleted at a
cost of over $60,000. A parochial residence was
begun soon afterward and corapleted in 1912, and
several churches have also been built in the out
lying missions. During his pastorate the Knights
of Columbus established their first Council at Co
lumbia in 1903, and other auxiliary societies have
been organized and have prospered and increased
the power and usefulness of St. Peter's. A new
parochial school building begun in December, 1918,
was completed and occupied in October, 1919. This
structure, erected at a cost of more than $50,000, is
one of the raost complete of the kind in the South.
It is equipped with swimming pool and shower baths,
contains commodious club rooras, and has one of
the finest auditoriums in the city.
Beaufort Watts Ball, only son of John and
Narcissa (Watts) Ball, was born November 16,
1830, on his father's farm near the Saluda River in
Cross HUl Township, Laurens County. His great
grandfather, William Ball, carae to South Carolina
from Virginia, as did his maternal ancestors,
W^attses and Pollards, settling in the former Ninety-
Six district out of which Laurens County was
carved. When Beaufort Watts Ball was four years old
his father died and he was brought up under the
care of his uncle, Beaufort Taylor Watts, a grad
uate of the South Carolina College in the class of
1812, who was a number of years in the American
diplomatic service and subsequently secretary to
various governors of the state. After Beaufort
Ball had attended country and vUlage schools in
Laurens, his uncle placed him in Erskine College
in 1847, then after two years brought him to Col
umbia where he studied a year in a preparatory
school,' after which he entered the junior class of
the South Carolina College and was graduated in
1851 with the degree of A. B. In May, 1854, he
was admitted to the bar and practiced in Laurens
until the breaking out of the Confederate war, when

he entered the \Vatson's Guards,, a corapany of the
Hampton Legion, as a private. and 'as such fought
in the first battle of Manassasi ' 'W^eri 'the' captain
of his company, M. W. Gary, wa's promoted to be
colonel in 1862, he appointed Private BaU regimental
adjutant and when Colonel Gary became brigadier
general in 1864, Adjutant Ball became assistant ad
jutant general with the rank of captain and so
served untU he surrendered with General Lee's army
at Appomattox. He was once slightly wounded
and was once captured, remaining prisoner but a
few rainutes, escaping from his captors. Before
the war he served as a lieutenant colonel on the
staff of Governor John L. Manning and as a colonel
of a mUitia regiraent in Laurens, and throughout
his life he was usually called "Colonel." He vvas
chosen as the commandant of the first association
of Confederate veterans in Laurens, was then cora
raandant of the first carap of United Confederate
Veterans in the county and finally was elected to
the headship of the county organization when ohe
was forraed.
Returning frora the war in 1865, he resumed the
practice of law in Laurens, was elected a raeraber
of the state constitutional convention that year, was
then elected a meraber of the lower house of the:
General Asserably and in 1870 was independent 6f
the town. He wrote the editorials of the Laurens
ville Herald a year or two during the reconstruc
tion period, vigorously opposihg compromise with
or concession to the republican party then in con
trol and constantly denouncing its corruption. In
1876 he was chosen county chairraan by the derao
crats of Laurens and was the same year elected
prosecuting attorney of the Seventh Judicial Circuit.
He was twice an unsuccessful candidate for Con
gress in conventions, having however important sup
port, incltiding the solid support of his county. In
1852 he became a Mason and in 1878 was grand
master of the state. When past fifty he joined the:
Presbyterian Church but later, with the members
of his family, joined the Episcopal Church and was
senior warden of the Episcopal Church in Laurens
until his death.
From 1894 until his death March) 1902, he edited
The Laurens Advertiser, then owned by his son,
William Watts Ball, but continued in the active
practice of law.
November, 1867, he married his second cousin,
Eliza Watts, daughter of William Dendy Watts,
of Laurens County, who is living with their daugh
ter, Sara Ball (Mrs. M. L.) Copeland in Laurens.
As a lawyer Colonel Ball was resourceful and
aggressive. He was an effective speaker, was widely
informed, was a constant reader of English classics
and was a man of raore than ordinary literary taste
and cultivation.
William Watts Ball, son of Beaufort Watts
Ball and Eliza Watts Ball, was born December 9,
1868, near the Village of LaurenSj in Laurens
County. He attended private schools and the "male
acaderay" in Laurens, at thirteen entered the pre
paratory school of Adger College, Walhalla, en
tered the freshraan class of- the South Carolina
College (now University) ait Columbia in 1^3,
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taught school at Johnston, South Carolina, the fall
of that year, and re-entered the university the next
fall as a post graduate student, teaching in the public
schools of Columbia at the same tirae. He then
completed the course in law prescribed by the
State Supreme Court, under his father's direction,
and in 1890, after adraission to the bar in May, at
tended the suraraer law school of the University
of Virginia. That summer he purchased The Ad
vertiser, a weekly newspaper of Laurens, expect
ing to give its conduct attention secondary to the
practice of law but, taking active charge of it in
September, i8go, soon discovered that it required
most of his tirae and energy. He became corre^
spondent for daily newspapers, reported legislative
proceedings in Colurabia two sessions and, in i8g4,
was editor of an afternoon newspaper. The
Journal, in Colurabia, working at the sarae time
as a newspaper correspondent. In i8g5 he was
appointed editor of The Evening Post, in Charles
ton; edited The Daily News, Greenville, 1897 to
June, 1898; was a reporter of the Philadelphia
Press in the fall of 1898, and then returned to the
practice of law in Laurens, in which he was engaged
until September, 1900, when he accepted the post
of editor of The Times-Union, Jacksonville, Flor
ida. This he resigned in March, 1902, having re
turned to Laurens on account of the fatal illness
of his father. Two years he conducted The Adver
tiser, doing other newspaper work however, especially
for The State, Colurabia, of which he becarae news
editor in March, 1905. Six raonths later he accepted
the place of assistant editor of The News and
Courier, Charleston. In June, 1909, he returned
to The State as managing editor ; in August, 1913,
upon the appointment of the editor, Williara E.
Gonzales, as American minister to Cuba, Mr. Ball
was placed in editorial direction of the newspaper
and is now serving as its editor.
Mr. Ball is a democrat. In 1896 he was a dele
gate to the "Gold Democratic" convention that
nominated Palmer and Buckner for President and
vice president, but has never been a candidate for
office and his political activities, whUe constant the
last thirty years, have been strictly journalistic.
He has published addresses and paraphlets on his
torical and political subjects. In igig the Univer
sity of South Carolina conferred on hira the hon
orary degree of Doctor of Laws.
Mr. Ball is a member of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. He is a Mason and in college was a
raember of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. In
1897 he married Fay Witte, daughter of the late
Charles O. Witte, of Charleston. They have four
daughters and a son. His address is Colurabia,
South Carolina, care of The State.
Edwin James Sherwood, a leading meraber of
the Conway bar, was also a newspaper man in his
earlier experience. He was born at Little Rock in
Dillon County May 14, 1882, a son of Thoraas Cade
and Laura (LeGette) Sherwood. His father was a
farmer and a country district was his early environ
ment, where he attended public schools and formed
his first iraportant resolutions for life service. In
1903 he received his A. B. degree frora Wake Forest
College in North Carolina, attended a business col

lege at Colurabia, South Carolina, and also studied
law. In 1904 he came to Conway and entered the
newspaper business by purchasing the Field and
was its editor and owner. After selling his inter
ests he entered the law department of the Univer
sity of South Carolina and was admitted to the bar
Deceraber 6, 1912. In the meantime he was elected
a raember of the Legislature in that year and served
one term of two years. He has enjoyed a steadily
increasing practice as a lawyer at Conway since
igi2. He has served in the city councU and as a
meraber of the County Board of Education. Frater
nally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias.
Noveraber 26, igo6, Mr. Sherwood married Miss
Bessie Burroughs. They have two chUdren, Adalyn
Burroughs and Sara Best.
Arthur K. Sanders, who in a business way has
been content with the quiet but rather prosperous
circumstances of a South Carolina farmer, is widely
known for his public activities, and for a number
of years has been superintendent of the South Caro
lina Penitentiary. He is a raan well qualified for any
public responsibility, knows men and affairs, and
has the confidence of all factions.
His home is at Hagood, Surater County, where
he was born July 3, i860, son of Thomas Osborne
and Cornelia (Hicks) Sanders. His paternal ances
tor, Williara Sanders, came from England and set
tled in South Carolina as early as 1738. Arthur K.
Sanders was the son of a prosperous planter and
business man, and while he learned work diligently
and systeraatically he was not spurred on by pov
erty but by inward ambition. He attended local
schools and in February, 1874, entered the Carolina
Military Institute at Charlotte, North Carolina,
where he was graduated in i87g. He has always
been a lover of books and of good literature, and
in the raidst of a busy career has kept about him
an atmosphere of culture and idealism. He has been
a practical farmer since 1882.
His coraraunity early showed their confidence in
his judgment and ability by electing him in 1888
a member of the House of Representatives and re
electing him in i8go. He was allied with the
"straight-out" faction in the Legislature. By re
fusing to vote against Wade Hampton for the
United States Senate he lost his seat in 1890. He
was again elected in 1894 and in 1896. In 1899 the
Legislature chose him a member of the board of
directors of the State Penitentiary, and after two
years he was re-elected and made chairman of the
board, and for nearly twenty years has had the
chief responsibilities in connection with the admin
istration of the state's prison. In 1899 Governor
Ellerbe appointed him a delegate to the National
Prison Congress which met at Hartford, Connecti-
•^nt. In 1898 he was assigned the responsibility by
the State Legislature of examining books, accounts
and other affairs of the State Dispensary.
Air Sanders is a member of the Masons, Elks,
Knights of Pythias and Woodmen of the World.
December 16, 1885, he married Miss Eva J. Mc
Leod, daughter of Henry G. McLeod, of Sumter
County To their marriage were born five children,
four of whom grew to maturity. Harriet H. mar
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ter County, Cornelia H. is now Mrs. Andrew L.
Jackson, and resides, at Sumter.
The eldest son, Lieut. Frank Butler Sanders, is
numbered among those who gave their lives in honor
of their country and his remains lie buried on the
battle-field in France. Frank Butler Sanders was
born at Hagood, Sumter County, South Carolina,
April 26, 1888. In 1904 he entered the University
of South Carolina, and after completing his sopho
more year there, becarae a student in the South
Carolina Medical College at Charleston, and was
one of the honor graduates of the class of 1910.
He was the youngest member of the class of forty-
nine students, and through his proficiency won ap
pointment to a position in Roper Hospital, where he
remained a year. He practiced his profession at
Sumter, and for a limited period in "Virginia, later
returning to South Carolina and locating in Ches
terfield. When the United States entered the war
agajnst Gerraany he was araong the first to volun
teer his services, and after serving at various re
cruiting stations throughout the state, was trans
ferred to the training carap at Fort Oglethorpe,
Georgia, where he was coraraissioned a first lieu
tenant in the Medical Service United States arrny.
He was assigned to duty at Carap Lee in Virginia,
and in May, 1917, went with his coraraand to over
seas service in France, with the Three Hundred and
Twentieth Infantry, Eighty-first Division, American
Expeditionary Forces. During the morning of July
24, 1918, while in the discharge of his duties as
medical officer of the battalion, he went into the
front line trench, and was instantly killed by an
exploding shell. The following day, with full mUi
tary honors, his body was laid to final rest in the
mUitary cemetery at Bellacourt, France.
The younger son, Henry McLeod Sanders, was
born at Hagood, April 2, 1897, and died in the early
prime of manhood, October 26, 1918.
Mrs. Eva J. (McLeod) Sanders died January 7,
1899, and AprU 7, 1917, Mr. Sanders married Ida
E. Moore, of Goldsboro, North Carolina.
Julian Ovando Norton, known more famUiarly
as Van Norton, is a lawyer at Conway, and brought
to his professional work a wide araount of expe
rience gained in other fields and the learning and
devotion which insures success in that great pro
fession. Mr. Norton was born in Fair Bluff, North Caro
lina, August 23, 1871, and eight months later his
parents. Dr. Evan and Ella (Powell) Norton re
moved to Conway. Dr. Evan Norton was only sev
enteen years of age when he enlisted in the Con
federate service. He was a physician ; taught school
before going to raedical college; organized the first
public schools of Conway, and was one of the best
known citizens of Horry County. He was superin
tendent of the Sunday school for over forty years
and left one of the largest libraries in the county.
His death occurred in July, 1914.
Van Norton was educated at Conway, graduated
in 1896 frora Wofford College, and for one year em
ployed his time in teaching. He was private secre
tary to Congressman James Norton, while the latter
represented the Sixth South Carolina District in
Congress. He was also in the Government serv

ice for several years and in 1910 was admitted to
the bar and began general practice. Since Septera
ber, 191S, Mr. Norton has been senior member of
the firm Norton & Baker. He is also one of the
owners and editor of The Field at Conway.
Col. Tucker J. Cunningham. While his active
business years have been spent on his plantation
near Chester, Colonel Cunningham has extended his
influence and efforts to raany enterprises and raove
ments beyond the borders of his home coraraunity.
He is regarded one of the strong and substantial
raen of the state, whose aid and counsel are essen
tial to the success of enterprises undertaken as a
raeans of proraoting the benefits of the coraraon
wealth at large.
Colonel Cunninghara was bom at Liberty Hill
in Kershaw County, South Carolina, in 1850, a son
of W. C. and Rebecca (Jones) Cunninghara. The
old Cunningham plantation at Liberty Hill has many
historic associations and has been the home of the
Cunninghams for several generations. His great
grandfather was born in the north of Ireland of
Scotch parents and coming to this country settled
in Kershaw County. Grandfather Arthur Cunning
ham lived on the old plantation, as did also W. C.
Cunningham, who before the war owned many
slaves and was a raan of prorainence in public
affairs. The Cunningham plantation was in the
pathway of General Sherman's destructive raid at
the close of the war. One of Sherman's officers
and staff raade his -headquarters at the Cunningham
residence for several days and when they left the
Federal troops carried along everything that was
portable and destroyed many of the permanent fix
tures of the farra and home.
Tucker J. Cunningham grew up on this old
homestead. Since then he has lived in Chester on
a fine plantation a raile west of the city on the
West End Road. He has long been a deep student
of agriculture, and has turned his own experience
to the benefit of the state at large. He helped
reorganize the State Agricultural Society and has
been one of its officials ever since, and for many
years has taken an active part in the State Fair
at Columbia. He served with the rank of colonel
on the staff of Governor Ellerbe, and for ten years
was chairman of the Board of Directors of the
State Penitentiary, was state phosphate inspector
two years, and was district supervisor of the census
in 1900. He is regarded as one of the men who have
helped build up Chester and the surrounding com
munity. He was a raeraber from Chester County
of the memorable State Constitutional Convention
of 1895-96, and was postmaster at Chester while
B. R. TUlman was in the United States Senate.
Colonel Cunninghara raarried Miss Emraa Mobley.
They have a daughter, Rebecca, born in igog.
The following is a tribute paid to Colonel Cun
ningham by a friend :
To my friend :
In the dark days of South Carolina when the
state needed real raen and the iron heel of the
governraent pressed down hard upon us, there was
a young raen who was born at old Liberty HiU
who carae to Chester a leader araong men, who
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ton. Ablest lieutenant in this campaign, who gave
without stint, his means, his time, and his able
leadership. He has ever been true to his state
and in every crisis that ever came he has always
stood for the right as he saw it, and followed the
dictates of his conscience without any regard for
his own personal interests. — A Friend.
John Jacob Thode has successfully practiced
raedicine at Walhalla in Oconee County forty years.
He has been an efficient worker in his profession,
and has accuraulated many interests that identify
hira prorainently with that community.
He was born at WalhaUa May 27, 1857, and vvas
reared and educated in his native town; acquiring
a good English education in Newberry College when
that institution was located at WalhaUa. He studied
raedicine in the South Carolina Medical College at
Charleston, and in 1879 was licensed to practice.'
The scene of his labors from that date to the pres
ent has been his native town. He is a meraber in
good standing of the County and State Medical
societies and of the Araerican Medical Association.
Doctor Thode is a son of Lieut. Henning Peter
and Catherine Dora (Stelling) Thode, both of
whora were borh in the kingdom of Hanover, Ger
many. The father carae to the United States in
1845, and for several years was a raerchant at
Charleston, In 1850 he raoved to Walhalla. He
was prorainently identified with the Wagerner Ger
raan Colony that settled at Walhalla, being an
official member of the colony, secretary and later
its president. In 1861 he enlisted in the Confeder
ate army, and was in service untU he was sent
home wounded, and he died in 1863, when about
forty-eight years of age. His widow survived him
many years, passing away in 1896, at the age of
seventy-six. Both were merabers of the Lutheran
Church. One of their five chUdren died in child
hood, the others being: Ide Heinrich, now de
ceased ; and Adaline, both born at Charleston ; and
John Jacob and Lizette, who were born in 'WalhaUa.
Doctor Thode married Mattie Missouri Sraith in
1882. She died less than a year later. In 1886
he raarried Miss Eulalia Garvin, daughter of the
late Capt. Frederick N. and Marietta (Boggs) Gar
vin. Both the Garvin and Boggs faraUies have lived
in South Carolina for several generations, and many
of the name have been prorainent in business, pro
fessional, social and political life. Mrs. Thode's
mother was born and reared in old Pickens County,
and is now past seventy-eight years of age. Capt.
Frederick L. Garvin was born near Liberty, Pickens
County, and lived there many years as a farmer
and real estate dealer. He died in 1897, at the age
of sixty-three: He was a graduate of South Caro
lina's mUitary school. The Citadel, at Charleston,
and entered the Confederate army in 1861, was
proraoted to captain, and with that rank served
faithfully until the close of the war. His ances
try included his father, Frederick N. Garvin, and
his grandfather, Thoraas Garvin, who was born at
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1745, married Eliza
beth McCullough, and came to South Carolina in
1792, settling on Garvin's Creek in Anderson County
She died there and was buried in the old Stone
Church Cemetery. The Garvins are of Scotch
lineage, and are Presbyterians. Thomas Garvin

and wife had sons naraed Thomas, Green and Fred
erick N. and daughters, Elizabeth, Cordelia and
MatUda. The three children of Doctor and Mrs. Thode
are : Henning Frederick, a graduate pharmacist and
licensed physician practicing at Walhalla; Doretta
Eulalia, a graduate of Chicora College and a tal
ented artist; and Johanna Elizabeth, at home with
her parents.
Doctor Thode has never held political office. He
has always taken a live interest in politics as a
democrat. Aside from the practice of his profession
he has for many years owned farm lands, and has
been directly interested in farming, paying special
attention to the raising of horses, mules, hogs and
other stock.
Hon. Thomas Carey Duncan, a present mem
ber of the State Senate, built in 1893 the first cot
ton mill in Union County, having organized the
Union Cotton Mills Company. He thus became the
pioneer of an industry which, expanding in later
years, has made Union County one of the leading
textile manufacturing sections of the state. That
was only one of many promotions and large enter
prises with which he has been actively identified for
a period of a quarter of a century. Well informed
people give him the credit for being the greatest
individual factor in the upbuilding of the City of
Union; which he found a country town and has
stimulated every avenue of industry, comraerce and
beneficial form of civic life. He is a man of dis
tinction in the state as well as in his home city.
Senator Duncan is the only son of the late Bishop
William Wallace Duncan. That distinguished
scholar and leader in the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, was born at Boydston, Virginia, December
20, 1839. Boydston at the time of his birth was the
seat of Randolph-Macon College. He was a son of
Professor David and Alice (Piemont) Duncan. David
Duncan was a Scotchman, was born at MovUle, near
Belfast, Ireland, and carae to America after a pe
riod of service in the British navy. In 1854 he
located at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South
Carolina, and was the first professor of Greek in
that institution. Bishop Duncan was educated at
Randolph-Macon College until 1854, and in 1858
graduated from Wofford College. He received the
Doctor of Divinity degree from Emory College and
Central College of Missouri in 1882, and Trinity
College bestowed upon him the LL. D. degree in
1900. He joined the Virginia Conference in 1859,
and held sessions until 1875 except during the CivU
war, when he was chaplain of a regiment of Con
federate troops. From 1875 to 1886 he was pro
fessor of intellectual and moral philosophy in Wof
ford College. In 1881 he was a delegate to the
Ecumenical Conference at London, and in 1886 was
elected bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South serving in that exalted office until his death
in 1908. Bishop Duncan married, March 19, 1861,
Medora Rice, of Union County, South Carolina.
Her father, B, H. Rice, also a native of Union
County, was a prorainent planter, and during a
brief residence in Panola County, Mississippi, his
daughter Dora was born.
Thomas Carey Duncan was born in Bogansville
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miles from the town of Union, July 5, 1862. He
graduated from Wofford College as Greek Medalist
in 1881, and though he has always taken delight in
the realm of humanitarian studies and proper pride
in his accomplished father and grandfather, his own
field has been practical business. He was engaged
in the mercantUe business at Union from 1881 to
1893, when he turned his attention to the cotton
industry. After making a success of the Union
Cotton Mills Company he organized and built the
Buffalo Cotton Mills at Buffalo in Union County;
in 189s built Union Cotton Mill No. 2, and operated
all three mills until 1905. At the same time he also
helped build the Seneca Cotton Mill at Seneca, and
was its operator; was one of the builders of the
Orangeburg Cotton Mills at Orangeburg, the first
mill in that city, and was active in its management ;
was one of the builders and operated the De Kalb
Cotton Mill at Camden. He retired from his ac
tive connection with the textile industry in 1905,
after having been one of its dominant factors for
several years.
For the past fifteen years Senator Duncan has
devoted his never flagging energies to the building
up of farms and general business enterprises. He
owns and operates three fine plantations in Union
County, including his old home place. He is given
credit for being the father of Union's modern pros
perity and wealth. At the time his first cotton
mill was established in 1893 Union had about 1,500
population, mostly negroes. Since then he has been
behind every prominent enterprise with his capital,
his influence and his remarkable energy. He pro
moted and built the electric light and water works
plants, and was water and light commissioner of
Union for twelve years. He is a large owner of
both business and residence property. Ohe of his
latest enterprises, inaugurated in April, 1919, is the
Union Ice and Cold Storage Corapany, with a cap
ital stock of $50,000, of which he is president and
practically the owner.
For the greater part of his life he has therefore
been in touch with raatters of public raoraent, and
has also served in a nuraber of offices of trust and
responsibility. He was mayor of Union from 1910
to 1913. He was first in the Legislature as a member
of the House of Representatives in 1892-93. He was
elected state senator in 1916, and served in the ses
sions of 1917-18-19. His leadership in the Senate
has been in connection with the movement for good
roads and compulsory education. The corapulsory
education law, which marked a new phase in South
Carolina's progress as a state, and which passed the
Senate in the 1919 session, bears an amendment
made by Senator Duncan. Governor TiUman upon
his first election as governor made Mr. Duncan a
colonel on his staff, and he is generally known as
.Colonel Duncan. He is a Knight Templar Mason
and Shriner, being a member of Oasis Temple, at
Charlotte, and is active in the Methodist Episcopal
Church. In 1885 he married Miss Fannie A. Merriman, of
Greenwood. Their three children are Dora, wife of
J. T. Fitten, of Atlanta; Louisa, wife of D, M.
Eaves, of Union; and Miss Fannie Duncan.
Eddings Thomas Hughes, junior member of the
prominent law firm of MuUins & Hughes at Marion,

began practice about fifteen years ago, after com
pleting his law course in the University of South
Carolina. He was born at Orangeburg October 12, 1879,
a son of J. Miles and Margaret Selina (Mack)
Hughes. He spent his early life on his father's
plantation, had a rural training, an education in
country schools, and in June, 1901, graduated from
Clerason CoUege. In preparation for the law he
spent two years in Columbian, now George Washing
ton, University, at Washington, D. C, and finished
his' law course in his horae state university in 1905.
After being adraitted to the bar he carae to Marion
and formed his present partnership with Henry
Mullins. He has been busily engaged in much
important litigation. He is a member of the Legis
lature from 1919-20 and is a former alderman and
raayor pro tera of Marion. For six years he was
a trustee of Clemson College. Mr. Hughes is active
in the Presbyterian Church.
July 20, 1910, he married Mary Edna Carmichel
of Marion. They have one son, Eddings Thoraas,
Jr., born July 4, 1914.
James Walter Wingate, a prorainent George
town lawyer and mayor of the city, qualified for
his professional work about twelve years ago and
since then has earned a large clientage and much
appreciation for his abilities and sound citizenship.
Mr. Wingate was born near' BennettsvUle, South
Carolina, January 2, 1886, a son of a raerchant and
farraer, Reuben Wesley Wingate, and his wife,
Delia A. (Townsend) 'Wingate. Educated in pub
lic schools, he took a business course in the Oak
Ridge Business Institute, and while studying law in
private offices earned his living and paid his way
by stenographic employment. He was admitted to
the bar in 1908 and since then has engaged in gen
eral practice at Georgetown. He is also mayor
of the city, having assumed this office on Janu
ary 28, 1920, and solicitor for the Farmers and
Merchants Bank and is secretary and director of
the Charaber of Coramerce.
Mr. Wingate is a past master of his Masonic
Lodge. Deceraber 23, 1908, he married Myrtle J.
Young. They have one daughter, Mable Virginia,
John ,Otis Green was graduated frora the Law
School of the University of South Carolina in
1915 and at once began practice in Lake City, where
his engageraents as a lawyer have been of increas
ing iraportance and where his good citizenship has
entitled him to the respect and esteera of the en
tire community.
Mr, Green was born at Lake City, January 11,
i8go. His parents are John A. and Amarantha
E. (McCutchen) Green. His father for a number
of years has been a general raerchant and cot
ton ginner. The son was educated in public schools,
in the Carlisle Fitting School and Wofford Col
lege, and then took up his law studies in the state
university. Septeraber 20, igi7, he married Clyda May Cald
well of Lake City, They have one daughter, Mary
Elizabeth. James J. Vernon. One of the outstanding char
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to change of residence, so that probably in the
raajority of American faraUies every generation has
broken away from horae ties and made itself a
new home. Therefore it is a rare interest that
attaches to a faraily living in one horae continu
ously frora generation to generation, and in the
case of the "Vernon family of Spartanburg County,
for i68 years. The roora in the old Vernon horae
stead near Wellford where Jaraes J. Vernon was
born in 1853, is still a useful part of the habitation
which his faraily uses today.
This interesting faraily was established on the
old horaestead in Spartanburg County by Alex
ander Vernon, who settled there in 1750. He came
from Scotland, his native country, and located ten
mUes west of the present city of Spartanburg.
His descendants in direct line, including Jaraes
J., have therefore had an uninterrupted tenancy for
over 168 years. Alexander Vernon was a fine type
of the Scotch Presbyterian, stern and sturdy, and
the ancestor of raany splendid raen and women.
Locating in a wUderness inhabited only by In
dians and a raere handful of white settlers, he
set about at once raaking a home, providing for
the education of his children and establishing a
sanctuary for worship. He was one of the founders
of historic Nazareth Church, one of the oldest
Presbyterian churches in upper South Carolina.
Besides James J. Vernon, his grandfather Jaraes
Vernon and his father. Dr. Jaraes J. Vernon, were
all born and reared at the original Vernon home
stead. Dr. James J. Vernon was a graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and
practiced his profession untU his death in 1864.
His raother was a daughter of Judge Jaraes Jordan
of Spartanburg, one of the distinguished men of
his day, a prominent lawyer and judge, and a mem
ber of the General Assembly. Dr. James J. Vernon
married Ann L. Oeland, who was of Danish
ancestry. This interesting Vernon home is in Beech Spring
Township of Spartanburg County, ten mUes west
of Spartanburg and about a mile east of Wellford,
the local postoffice. James J. Vernon has lived
there all his life. He attended the coraraon schools
of the county and spent two years at Wofford Col
lege, quitting before completing his education. He
has followed the vocation of cotton planter and
general farraer and served as county coraraissioner
for six years prior to 1909 to 1914 and also served
as county supervisor from 1914 to 1916. A few
years ago when the Knights of Honor were a lead
ing organization, Mr. Vernon served two years
as grand dictator for South Carolina. He is an
elder in the Wellford Presbyterian Church. The
maiden name of his wife was Miss Elizabeth Toccoa
Hammond. Thomas Mattison McNeill. Outside of agri
culture cotton manufacture is the largest single in
dustry in South Carolina, and has naturally af
forded the greatest opportunity to aspiring and am
bitious young men. There are some notable careers
in the cotton industry of South Carolina, and one
of them is that of Thomas M. McNeill, superin
tendent of the Monarch Mills at Union.
He was born in AbbevUle County, South Caro

lina, in 1881, son of Andrew and Mary (Walker)
McNeUl. His grandfather was a native of County
Antrim, Ireland, of Scotch parentage, and came to
Abbeville County early in the nineteenth, century.
Andrew McNeill, a native of Abbeville County,
died in igo7. In i8gS the McNeill family removed
frora Abbeville to Piedmont, Greenville County.
Thomas M. McNeiU was then fourteen years of
age, and up to that tirae his experience had been
that of a plain country boy. Before reaching his
fifteenth year he went to work in the Piedraont cot
ton mill. The president of that mill was Colonel
Orr. He was eraployed as a sweeper, had a very
raeager pay envelope and beyond the diligence with
which he perforraed his work attracted no special
attention. In 1902, at the age of twenty-one, seek
ing larger experience in a raore modern mill, he
found his opportunity as an ordinary mill hand in
the Williamston MUls at WUliamston. Here he
received his first substantial promotion, being ad
vanced to section hand in the card room. Later he
spent six years in Chiquola Mill at Honea Path, and
while there was raade second hand of carding. After
three years as second hand he became overseer of
carding of the Greer Manufacturing Company at
Greer, and was called in the same capacity to a
larger mill, the Monaghan, at Greenville.
Six months later the Victor-Monaghan Corapany
promoted hira to superintendent of the Ottaray MiU
at Union, work that brought hira to Union in
Noveraber, 1913. Mr. McNeill left the Ottaray
Mill in August, 1915, to become superintendent of
the Olympia Mills at Columbia, but in 1917 returned
to Union, and is now superintendent of one of the
leading mills of the state, the Monarch MUls. The
Monarch MUls raanufacture wide print cloths and
operate 78,528 spindles.
As superintendent of the Monarch. MiUs Mr. Mc
Neill obviously is a man of importance in the tex
tile industry of the South. From the brief outline
just given it is clear that he has missed few experi
ences in the progress from sweeper in a smaU mUl
to operating head of all the functions of a great
industry. His promotions have been the result of
hard work, close study and intelligent application.
He is a raember of the Southern "Textile Associa
tion, and at its annual convention at GreenviUe in
May, igig, he was elected a member of the Board
of Governors.
During the war with Germany Mr. McNeiU was
chairman of the Monarch MUls community of aU
the Liberty Loan, Red Cross and other war auxil
iary drives. Each time he carried the coraraunity
' over the top." He has given time for much other
coraraunity welfare and is a lay leader and Sunday
School superintendent of the Monarch MUls Metho
dist Church.
In igo2 Mr. McNeill raarried Miss Eraily Merritt,
of Brushy Creek Township, Anderson County.
iheir four children are: Thoraas Ansel, Andrew
Merritt, Eraily Adelaide and Margaret Evelyn.
John McSween, banker, forraer raerchant, who
has been in past years an extensive farm owner
i-c ^T"^'""^' ^^^ to an exceptional degree exem
plified the thrifty virtues, business ability and other
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He. was born in the highlands of Scotland Decem
ber I, 1847, son of John and Katherine (McKinzie)
McSween. His father was a scotch school teacher.
The son had rather limited opportunities in school
in Scotland. At the age of fourteen he was work
ing as clerk in a store, his wages being 5 shillings
per week for the first year. He sought a new horae
and new opportunities in Araerica at the age of
twenty years. He had to borrow money to cora
plete his journey from his sister. That money he
afterwards gladly repaid. He worked for his uncle's
store, turpentine still and saw mill for five years.
He has been a resident of Timmonsville since 1873,
and probably no other citizen has done more to build
up and promote the commercial, religious and other
institutions of that town than Mr. McSween. More
than forty-five years ago he opened a general mer
chandise stock and from time to tirae expanded
his business until he was head of what araounted
to an immense department store enterprise. Three
raen who had been associated with him as employes
for many years succeeded to the ownership of the
business in 1919. Mr. McSween forraerly had many
other property interests, but has sold them all ex
cept his farras and his interests as a banker. He
had several farras, one of 1,100 acres near Tim
monsville. He recently sold all his farms.
He organized the Bank of Timmonsville in 1891,
and has been its only president. The original capi
tal was $25,000, and it is now one of the sound
and substantial financial institutions of the state,
with a capital of $100,000, surplus of $15,000 and
in 1919, deposits reached over $500,000.
Mr. McSween was one of the board which
wound up the affairs of the old dispensary system
of South Carolina. He served as a councilman and
mayor of TimmonsvUle in early days. One interest
has been continuous with hira throughout life, and
that is his merabership in the Presbyterian Church.
He joined the church at Florence, but when he carae
to Tiramonsville there was only one other Pres
byterian in the community.. At the present time
this congregation has more than seventy merabers,
and Mr. McSween has steadily supported the organ
ization by his personal leadership and means and
contributed a larger araount than any other mera
ber to the erection of the church edifice. He is an
elder of the church.
In 1888 Mr. McSween raarried Katherine Keith
of TiraraonsvUle. Mr. and Mrs. McSween have
two children. John, the older, resigned his post as
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at DiUon to
enter the army with the rank of first lieutenant
and chaplain, was mustered out in March, 1919,
and is now at Rowland, North Carolina; Catherine,
the daughter, is the wife of Dr. Ralph Foster of
Timmonsville, who served with the rank of first
lieutenant in the Medical Corps.
William Minott Gaillard, M. D. His busy
career as a physician and surgeon. Doctor GaiUard
has pursued in Georgetown County for twenty years.
He was born March 19, 1872, in Eutaw, Charles
ton, now Orangeburg County, son of Etsell and
Margaret C, (Sinkler) Gaillard, His father was
a planter and member of an old and prominent
faraily of that section of the state. Doctor GaiUard
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attended the grammar and high schools of Charles
ton, and as a youth assisted in the management of
the plantation. In 1896 he entered the Medical
College of the State of South Carolina, graduated
in 1899, the following year reraained as an interne
in Roper Hospital and was also connected with the
Riverside Infirraary at Charleston. He began his
private practice in Georgetown County in 1900 and
since 1905 his home has been in the City of George
town. He is a raember of the Board of Health,
and during the war was chairraan of the George
town Exeraption Board. He is a member of the
County, State, Southern and Araerican Medical
Association, belongs to the Chi Zeta Phi college
fraternity, and is a Mason and Woodraan of the
World. John Eldred Swearingen. Six consecutive tiraes
the people of South Carolina have affirmed their
appreciation of and their cordial support of the
work and aims of the state superintendent of edu
cation, John Eldred Swearingen. Mr. Swearingen
is a big figure in Southern education, has done a
big raan's work, and it would be discourtesy to refer
to the handicap of blindness which he has suffered
since early boyhood except as a raeans of better
appreciation and understanding of what he has
achieved for himself and for the people of his
beloved state.
He was born on his father's farm in the old
Horn's Creek neighborhood near Trenton, Edge
field County, January 9, 1875, second son of John
Cloud and Anna (TiUman) Swearingen. His father
was a farmer. Confederate soldier, and was captain
of a corapany of "Red Shirts" in 1876.
As a boy John E. Swearingen had all the inter
ests and pursuits of the raost vigorous and enthusi
astic American boy. Riding, swimraing:, hunting,
fishing and other active sports were his favorite
amusements. Along with his educational work he
has for a quarter of a century been interested in
farming. As a boy he became skUlful in handling
livestock. With the money earned on his first patch
he bought a Duroc-Jersey gilt and introduced that
breed of swine in his section.
He attended the old field district school of his
neighborhood, but the short term and the crowded
classroom afforded little opportunity for training.
This deficiency was raade up by the interest and
energy of his consecrated, self-sacrificing, intel
lectual raother, a woraan of strong natural gifts
and raany-sided talents, who had been a teacher
and was a lover of rausic, flowers and paintings.
Both parents in fact made many sacrifices to edu
cate their children. The raother gave herself with
out reserve to the duties and pleasures of her house
hold and faraily. The father, too, gave to his
children's education the few idle hours he could
spare frora the engrossing work of the farra.
From his father Mr. Swearingen inherited the
arabition to become a soldier. Under the instruc
tion of his mother he was preparing for adraission
to West Point Military Acaderay when an unlucky
accident destroyed his sight. He had persuaded an
indulgent father to give hira a horse, a dog and
a gun. Many tiraes he had been cautioned to use
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January 13th, just four days after his thirteenth
birthday, the accidental discharge of his gun while
out hunting destroyed the sight of both eyes. Lo-v-
ing attention and every resource of medical skUl
proved without avail to restore his sight. However,
as a result of his father's kindness he continued his'
education, spending one year in the Georgia Acad
eray for the Blind at Macon, and then entering the
South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind at
Cedar Springs, Spartanburg County. Here he
studied dUigently frora 1889 to 1893. In order to
please his raother he gave rauch time to. music, es- .
pecially rausical history, harmony, theory and com- '
position. After leaving Cedar Springs in 1893 he
lived at horae two years, studying with his raother
and preparing for college. In 1895 he entered
South Carolina CoUege, now the University of South
Carolina, and took the full four years' course,
graduating with the highest distinction and the
degree A. B. in 1899. His scholarship at the uni
versity was of the broadest character, excelling in
languages, history, political science, psychology,
raathematics and education. In his class annual he
was voted the raost influential man in the college
by the student body. Later he attended regularly
the State Suraraer- School for Teachers.
Frora October, i89g, to June, igo8, Mr. Swear
ingen was a teacher in the South Carolina School
for the Deaf and the Blind at Cedar Springs. He
was norainated state superintendent of education
in the deraocratic priraary of igo8, and elected over
two corapetitors. He was re-elected in 1910, 1912,
1914 a'nd 1916 without opposition, and in 1918
was nominated and re-elected a sixth tirae after
a vigorous campaign.
Obviously it would be impossible to give an ade
quate review of his administration during the past
twelve years. The guiding principle of that adrain
istration has been his effort to bring equal oppor
tunities to every chUd. In raany ways successfuUy
he has striven to democratize the educational sys
tera of the state and place its advantages particu
larly before the coramon people.
Briefly stated, some of the outstanding facts of
his administration are as follows : The firm estab
lishraent of the principle of state aid to the schools
on the basis of local taxation; a standard of public
school architecture ; the standardizing of rural
schools on the basis of teaching qorps, enrollment
and term ; introduction of industrial and vocational
education ; application through the local option law
of the principle of corapulsory school attendance ;
the establishment and development of night schools
for the removal of illiteracy ; a professional stand
ard with a better salary for the county superin
tendent of education ; and the co-ordination and en
couragement of every educational activity.
With the help of the Peabody Board, Mr. Swear
ingen secured the , funds to pay the salary of a
state supervisor of elementary rural schools in igio.
The appointraent provoked unfavorable criticism
and his enemies charged that he could not per
form the duties of the state superintendent's office
and had therefore solicited and secured assistance.
With characteristic frankness Mr. Swearingen re
plied that he had appointed one man to aid him
in the rural schools and would be glad to appoint

three more if he could get the raoney to pay them.
Later he appointed a state supervisor of negro
schools in order that the large mass of negroes
of the state's population might be given better edu
cational opportunities. The political results did
not weigh in the balance with the social, moral .
and intellectual benefits the appointment brought
not only to the negroes but to the entire state.
He has worked for a state school tax, an ade
quate corapulsory law, a rainiraum terra of seven
raonths, a better standard for teachers, an efficient
program of health, a revised school code, kinder
gartens, co-ordination of the state institutions of
higher learning and agricultural and industrial
training, although many of these reforms have not
yet been realized. Sorae of them may be delayed
until the state can adopt a new and modern con
stitution. I , -,-, .
Mr. Swearingen is ex-officio trustee of the Uni
versity of South Carolina, trustee of Winthrop
Normal and Industrial College, trustee of the Med
ical CoUege of the State of South Carolina, mem
ber of the Board of Visitors of The Citadel, the
railitary college of South Carolina, raember and
secretary of the State Board of Education, member
of the Board of Comraissioners of South Carolina
School for the Deaf and the Blind, member of the
National Education Association and of the South
Carolina State Teachers' Association. He is a direc
tor of the South Eastern Life Insurance Company.
Mr. Swearingen is a democrat and is affiliated with
Myrtle Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and the Junior
Order of 'United American Mechanics. He is a
raember of the Presbyterian Church.
Probably the outstanding qualities of his char
acter have been courage and high moral purpose.
Perhaps his very blindness has enabled him to rea
lize and despise the shams and the veneer of life.
Naturally he possesses decided convictions, is out
spoken in the expression of opinion, and his blunt
ness and frankness have soraetiraes provoked more
opposition than they deserve. As a youth he learned
to work against difficulties, toward the attainment
of worthy ends, and that quality has enabled him
to continue patiently and enthusiastically in behalf
of a broader and better educational program for
the state.
June 2g, 1916, at Greenville, South Carolina, Mr.
Swearingen married Miss Mary Hough, daughter
of C. N. and Martha (Chappell) Hough. Mrs.
Swearingen is a graduate of the regular normal
course at Winthrop, and taught in sorae of the
best schools of South Carolina and also the state
of Montana, Her father was a distinguished phy
sician and her raother a raember of one of the
most historic families of the state, Mr. and Mrs.
Swearingen have one son, John Eldred, Jr., born
September 7, 1918.
Edmund N. Joyner, Jr., is president of the South
ern States Supply Company at Columbia. This is
an organization of young men actuated by the high
ideals of modern business efficiency, and the record
the corapany has made is one of the most striking
instances of business success in the Southeastern
states. The company was organized in 1910. Mr. Joyner

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from the first has been an official, for several years
his title being secretary and treasurer. As executive
in fact, he was given the title corresponding to his
duties in 1919, when he became president. 'When
Mr. Joyner joined the organization its annual
volume of business was about $60,000. At the end
of ten years the gross sales aggregated nearly
$1,000,000 a year. While Columbia is the main
office, branch offices are maintained at Greenville,
Atlanta, Jacksonville and Asheville, North Carolina.
A traveling sales force is raaintained of fifteen loyal,
enthusiastic and efficient salesmen, and to thera, of
course, is partly due the growing volume of the
business. The company enjoys the highest standing
in the commercial world, and has been a raeans of
distinctive service in the territory covered by it in
both Carolinas, Georgia and Florida.
The Southern States Supply Company does busi
ness, as jobbers and manufacturers' agents, repre
senting some of the highest class manufacturers in
the country of plumbing, heating and machinery
supplies. At first the company handled only plumb
ing equipment, but its scope has greatly broadened
and it is now- an organization aiming to serve the
increasing demands of the Southern public with all
the modern conveniences of the home. Besides the
direct services of its salesmen the corapany has done
a great deal of splendid publicity work in educating
the. home owners of the South not only as to the
desirability of modern home conveniences, but as to
the easiest solution of the technical problems in
volved and the best equipment fitted to individual
conditions. As a result of the phenomenal pros
perity of the Southern planter and farmer, a large
share of the business done by the Southern States
Supply Company is in supplying farm homes, not
only with the ordinary plumbing, bathroom and sani
tary fixtures, but complete water systems and sew
age disposal systems, pumping plants, hot water
heaters, kitchen equipment, electric light and power
plants, and more recently has developed a large
business for the Isko refrigeration systera for home
use, this being one of the latest practical products of
scientific invention, furnishing refrigeration in the
home without the use of ice.
Mr. Joyner was born at Hickory, North Carolina,
in 1879, son of Rev. E. N. and Mary (Winfield)
Joyner, of North Carolina. His father is a weU
known minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church
and for many years has . been a resident of South
Carolina. Edmund N. Joyner, Jr., acquired his
education in the public schools of Colurabia, the
University of South Carolina, University of the
South at Sewanee, Tennessee, and the University of
North Carolina. He left college to take up a busi
ness career at Colurabia, and has been one of the
leading spirits in the organization of which he is
the executive head.
Mr. Joyner is a meraber of the Trinity Episcopal
Church, the Columbia Club, Ridgewood Country
Club, also the Capital City Club of Atlanta, and is
a Knight of Pythias. He raarried Miss Julia Tift,
of Albany, Georgia. Their two sons are Edmund
N., 3rd, and Nelson Tift.
Herman Decatur Beckman, M, D,, graduated
from the Medical CoUege of the State of South

Carolina in i89g, and immediately there ensued his
practical work in a profession that has given hira
splendid opportunities for service. During the
greater part of the twenty years he has practiced
at Georgetown where he is one of the raost promi
nent physicians.
Doctor Beckman was born in Charleston County
August 30, 1876, son of William Peter and Sarah
Prudence (Munn) Beckman, His father was a
merchant. Doctor Beckman attended public school
at Charleston, also the Colonel A. C. Davis Mili
tary School, and there took up his preparation for
his profession. For three years he practiced at
McClellandville and since 1902 has been engaged
in a general practice at Georgetown. He is serv
ing as county physician and .is a meraber of the
County and State Medical societies. In religion he
is a meraber of the Episcopal Church.
, Septeraber 16, igo6. Doctor Beckraan married
Margaret Evelyn Skinner of Georgetown. They
have one son, Herman Decatur, Jr., born November
5, 1910.
F. Asbury Coward, M. D., is director of the
Diagnostic Laboratory of the State Board of Health,
and served with the rank of captain in the United
States Medical Reserve Corps. He is a man of
achievement in his profession, though not so widely
known as his erainent father. Colonel Coward, whose
narae is spoken with deep appreciation and grati
tude by hundreds of forraer students of The Citadel
at Charleston, which he served for raany years as
commandant. Colonel Coward, who is now living retired at
Orangeburg, was born in old Charleston district in
183s, and graduated from The Citadel in the fall
of 1854. In January, 1855, with his class mate,
Micah Jenkins, later General Jenkins, he established
the King's Mountain Military School at Yorkville.
This institution was the raeans of training many
young men during the next five or six years and
was continued by the founders until the beginning
of the war. In June, i860. Colonel Coward becarae
aide de camp on the staff of Gen. D. R. Jones, and
served in that capacity at Blackburn's Ford and
in the First Battle of Manassas. He was then com
missioned assistant adjutant-general with the rank
of captain and regularly assigned to the staff of
General Jones, with whora he served during the
carapaigns of 1862 in the battles of Goldie's Mill,
Savage Station, Malvern HUl, Second Manassas,
Boonsboro Gap and Sharpsburg. At Sharpsburg
he vifas severely bruised and narrowly escaped death
frora the explosion of a shell. After the battle
of Sharpsburg he accepted the position of colonel
of the Fifth South Carolina Regiraent, his commis
sion dating from August, 1862. As colonel of this
regiment he was in the Battle of Fredericksburg,
the campaign on the Blackwater and- about Suffolk,
Longstreet's campaign in Georgia and Tennessee,
including the battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Val
ley or 'Wauhatchie, Campbell's Station, Lenoir Sta
tion, Knoxville, Bean's Station ahd Strawberry
Plains. He was again in Virginia in 1864, was
wounded in the left arra at the Wilderness, and
was in the trenches at Petersburg and north
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the picket line before Petersburg frora Appomat
tox Creek to Gordon's right on the night of the
evacuation of Petersburg, and on the retreat was
engaged in battle at FarmvUle and Apporaattox.
With the close of the war Colonel Coward re
opened his raUitary school at Yorkville in January,
1866, and in spite of the general poverty of the
state he was able to raaintain its usefulness and
prestige and conducted it alone for twenty years,
Frora 1882 to 1886 he was also state superintend
ent of instruction. Colonel Coward in 1890 entered
upon his duties as superintendent of the faraous
Citadel at Charleston, and he only retired from
that office in igio, after having given more than
half a century of his life either to active military
duty or as a military instructor.
Dr. F. Asbury Coward was born at Yorkville,
South Carolina, in 1877. In 1897 he graduated from
"The Citadel at Charleston, and while there bec^ime
familiar with the discipline of military life. In
1900 he graduated frora the Medical College of
South Carolina at Charleston, and spent one year
in a hospital at Charleston and six raonths as city
physician. In 1902 he began practice at Columbia
and was engaged in general practice until the sura
mer of 1905. He then went to Bolivia, South Amer
ica, as surgeon for W. R. Grace & Company of New
York, railroad builders. After returning to Co
lumbia in 1907, and after a period of post-graduate
work, he resuraed practice, but in 1909 was appointed
director of the Laboratory of the State Board of
Health. He was a laboratory specialist, and as
director has raade this departraent of the state
board one of unexcelled service.
Early in the war with Gerraany Doctor Coward
entered the Medical Corps as first lieutenant. He
spent some time at the Rockefeller Institute in New
"Vork, and the Johns Hopkins Institute at Baltiraore,
doing special work in pathology. On going over
seas he was promoted to the rank of captain. He
was at first in the laboratory of an American Red
Cross Hospital near Paris, and afterwards served
in a number of hospitals in the war zone, and
finally was sent to Coblenz with the American
Army of Occupation. He returned to America
and was mustered out in Carap Dix, and in July,
1919, resumed his work with the State Laboratory
at Columbia.
Hugh Wilson Eraser, for raany years a success
ful banker of Georgetown, is a civil engineer by
profession and was active in railroad construction
work before he took up banking. He was born
at Georgetown June 30, 1872, a son of Sarauel S.
and Sarah (Wilson) Fraser. As a boy he attended
the Winyah Academy and in 1891 graduated frora
South Carolina's great military school. The Citadel,
at Charleston. He specialized in civil engineering
and followed that work for thirteen years largely
in railroad construction. In 1904 he became one
of the organizers and has been vice president and
cashier of the Peoples Bank of Georgetown.
Mr. Fraser is a meraber of the Masonic Order
and for fourteen years he has been secretary and
treasurer of Prince George Winyah Episcopal
Church. April 18, igoo, he raarried Katherine Park-
hUl, of Monticello, Florida. Their four children

are Katherine ParkhiU, Hugh WUson, Jr., Lilly
Ellison and Richard ParkhiU,
Francis Marion Robertson. While raany in
terests have crowded into the life of Mr. Robert
son in recent years, his chief work and one that
has engaged his attention frora early youth to
the present is insurance. He is one of the oldest
insurance men of Charleston.
Mr. Robertson was born in SummervUle, South
Carolina, October 27, 1864. His father, Henry
C. Robertson, was a native of Charleston and at
the time of his death in September, 1892, was
manager of the Newberry Cotton MUls. The
grandfather was Dr. Francis Marion Robertson,
a native of Abbeville, and a physician who prac
ticed SteadUy for nearly half a century. He died
at the age of eighty-six. The great-grandfather
was William Robertson, a native of Virginia,
where three Robertson brothers had located on
coraing frora Scotland in colonial tiraes. The
raother of Francis M. Robertson was Mary E.
Mikell, a native of South Carolina and daughter
of Isaac Jenkins Mikell, an extensive planter on
Edisto Island. Through the Mikell faraily Mr.
Robertson is related to the faraous character
Landgrave Smith. Francis Marion Robertson was
the oldest of five children.
He was educated in Charleston, and graduated
with the first class after the reorganization of The
Citadel in 1886. On leaving that famous school
he was for a time connected with a Government
engineering party in making -a survey of the
Savannah River. In November, 1887, he became
clerk in an insurance office and on January 5, 1888,
entered business for hiraself. In 1892 he became
a member of the firm Ravenel, Johnson & Robert
son, but since 1912 has been sole owner of this
business. His business offices have been in the
same buUding for twenty-seven years.
Mr. Robertson is a past president of the
Charleston Board of Fire Underwriters, is also a
director in the Carolina Savings Bank, is presi
dent of the Charleston Country Club, is a trustee
and secretary of the Board of the WiUiam Euston
Home, and was an alderman from the Second
Ward during the administration of Mayor Hyde,
and was re-elected for a second term of four
years. May 7, 1890, he married Minnie Rodgers, a
daughter of Frances Silas Rodgers, of Charles
ton. They have four children: Minnie R., wife
of Major Alexander B. Mikell; Frances, wife of
Lieut. Eugene B. Smith, of GreenvUle; Marion and
Edgar Rodgers.
Henry Lee Buck. A list of the business enter
prises m which Henry Lee Buck has an official
participation at Conway represents in an iraportant
degree the solid and substantial commercial inter
ests of the city as a whole.
He was born at Bucksport in Horry County No-
Tr^^/o ,A' J,^72' a son of Henry Lee and Georgia
V. (Bell) Buck. The Buck faraily is an old and
prorainent one in this section of South Carolina.
His father was a luraber manufacturer for many
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instruction at home, also in the public schools of
Conway ,and Marion, in Furraan University at
GreenvUle, and as a young raan spent three years
in husiness with his father. For six years he was
clerk and bookkeeper and department manager of
the general store business. He became president
of the -First National Bank of Conway and when
that institution was consolidated with the Bank
of Horry he remained with the larger institution
as vice president.
Mr.. Buck is president of the Farm Impleraent
Company, a director of the Burroughs-Collins Com
pany, a director of the Conway National Bank, the
Conway Savings Bank, is owner of several busi
ness houses on Main Street, and is engaged in
the automobUe business.
He served three years as mayor of Conway and
is also a former member of the councU. He
was elected in 1912 and again in 1916 a meraber
of the State Senate, and was a raeraber of the Sen
ate Finance Coramittee. Mr. Buck is affiliated with
the Masonic Order and is a member of the Board
of Stewards of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
October 18, igo3, he raarried Genie McLeod of Ben
nettsvUle. Their two children are Henry Lee, Jr.,
and Eugenia.
Henry H. Woodward for twenty years has en
joyed a place of peculiar influence and esteera in
his native county of Horry. He is a lawyer, has
been a meraber of the Legislature, is owner and
editor of one of the chief newspapers in that sec
tion of the state, and has found raany opportunities
to do good for hiraself and others.
In 1915 he buUt the handsome and modern three-
story brick hotel. Hotel Grace, at Conway. He
has also developed the town by building sorae twen
ty-five cottages and homes. As a newspaper man
he bought the Horry Herald in 1899. At that time
this paper had less than 600 subscribers, while
now its certified subscription list nurabers 2,500.
Mr. Woodward has acquired most of his educa
tion through his own efforts and while teaching
and engaged in various self-supporting activities.
He was born in Horry County, June 3, 1874, a son
of William D. and Pauline Elizabeth Woodward.
His father was a farmer and the Woodward an
cestors settled in Virginia in colonial times. Mr.
Woodward had only a common school education
as a boy, worked on farms, began teaching at the age
of eighteen, took up the study of law while en
gaged in school work, and during 1897-98 was a resi
dent student of law in the state university. He
was chosen as one of the four to deliver the
orations at the graduating exercises. He began
practice at Conway in July, 1898, and the follow
ing year became owner of the Horry Herald. In
1898 he was also elected a member of the Legis
lature and held that office two terras. He is
affiliated with the Masonic Order, the Woodraen of
the 'World, is a democrat and a~ member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South. June 25, 1901,
he married Miss Grace Dusenbury. They are the
parents of five children.
James Higgins McIntosh, M. D. Araong the
medical fraternity of the southeastern states there
is probably not a better known narae than that of

Dr. James Higgins Mcintosh of Columbia. His
fine scholarship, his unusual abUity, his ripe and
mature experience, gained through an active career
of over thirty years has brought him many of the
best honors of his jprofession, and his service has
been in proportion to his years.
Doctor Mcintosh is descended frora John Mcin
tosh, a native of Scotland, who on coming to Amer
ica located in the Welsh Neck settlement on the
Pee Dee River in what is now Darlington County,
South Carolina, in 1750. The Mclntoshes have been
a race of strong men and women, and many of them
have intermarried with the Scotch families of South
Carolina. Doctor Mcintosh's grandfather, James
H. Mcintosh, married Martha -Gregg, a sister of
Bishop Gregg, one of South Carolina's most dis
tinguished citizens.
James Higgins Mcintosh was born in Newberry,
South Carolina, October 3, 1866, son of Dr. James
and Frances Caldwell (Higgins) Mcintosh. His
father was born at Society HUl in Darlington
County in 1838, was graduated frora the Medical
College of South Carolina, at Charleston in the
class of 1861. Thus his early training fitted him
for service in the great cause in which his com
monwealth was then engaged. Iramediately after
graduation he volunteered in Company F of ^he
Eighth Regiment, South Carolina State Troops,
and was made assistant surgeon of the regiraent,
and on November I, 1861, in Virginia, was appointed
a surgeon in the regular Confederate Army. He
served continuously in what was known as the
Midway Hospital at CharlottesvUle, Virginia, until
February, 1865. He was then detaUed to establish a
teraporary hospital at Newberry, South Carolina.
This was raaintained until the war closed in April,
1865, and he then determined to make Newberry
his permanent home. For many years he practiced
in that city and also served as president of the
Newberry Savings Bank. A special honor paid
him was election as president of the South Caro
lina Medical Society for the year 1876-77. He
was also a trustee of Furman University. Dr.
James Mcintosh married Frances Caldwell Higgins
in 1862. His life was one of profound good works
and he died on February 26, 1919, and was buried
on the following day, his eighty-first birthday.
Jaraes Higgins Mcintosh was given every advan
tage of a liberal education. He attended the New
berry Acaderay, graduated A. B. in 1884 from
Newberry CoUege, spent two years, 1884-86, in the
special study of cheraistry, physiology and psy
chology at the Johns Hopkins University at Balti
raore, and in 1888 graduated with his weU eamed
degree. Doctor of Medicine, from the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of New York' City. He
then practiced for ten years in his native town and
since April, igoo, his home and professional head
quarters have been in Columbia. In the capital
city he has devoted much of his tirae to the best
interests of raedical organizations and the broader
scope of his profession, though always burdened
with the responsibilities of a large practice. Doctor
Mcintosh is chief of the medical staff of the Bap
tist Hospital at Colurabia. During the World war
he gave about three-fourths of his time to the
important and exacting duties of medical meraljer
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at Colurabia under the selective service law. This
work for eighteen raonths he placed ahead of all
his other professional and business obligations.
Doctor Mcintosh has been honored by the- office
of president by the Columbia Medical Society, the
Seventh District Medical Association, the South
Carolina State Medical Association, the Associa
tion of Surgeons of the Atlantic Coast Line Rail-
, way, and the Tri-State Medical Association of
North and South Carolina and Virginia.
Noveraber 2, i8g2. Doctor Mcintosh raarried Miss
Frances Nance Baxter of Newberry. They have
seven children, Jaraes Mcintosh, Baxter Mcintosh,
Frances, Martha, Dorothy, Walter and Nancy Mc
Intosh, The son, Baxter, served as a lieutenant
in the Coast Artillery during the World war.
Jesse Bryant Roddey. Though one of the
younger business raen of Columbia, the career of
Jesse Bryant Roddey, president of the Consolidated
Auto Company, has been one of most substantial
success. Now head of one of the best and largest
concerns of its kind in the state, Mr. Roddey started
out without influential friends or capital.
He was born in 1883, at Fort Lawn, Chester
County, son of William Plott and Martha (Mc-
WartersJ Roddey. His mother is deceased.' His
father was bom at what was known as Roddeytown,
a community named for his grandfather, one of the
first settlers there. Roddeytown is about four miles
from Fort Lawn. Grandfather Roddey was a wheel
wright by trade. William Plott Roddey was trained
in the same occupation but greatly enlarged upon
it. At Fort Lawn he established himself in business
as a wagon maker, and developed a profitable enter
prise. Later he gave his tirae exclusively to iarm-
ing, and since the death of his wife has lived re
tired and is now a resident of Lancaster, raaking
his home with a son there. Williara P. Roddey
joined the Confederate array when only fifteen
years of age.
Jesse Bryant Roddey was born and reared on his
father's plantation and acquired his education in
the schools of Fort Lawn and a business college
in Colurabia. At the age of eighteen he came to
the latter city and for a few years was eraployed
by the Gregory-Conder Mule Corapany. Part of
that tirae his salary was only $35 a month. Even
then he had an eye to the future, and by systematic
saving and close study of opportunity was able to
go into the autoraobile business on his own re
sponsibUity in igio. He started with a very raodest
establishment on Main Street, later raoving to 1316
Surater Street, and since. May, igi8, has been in
a large buUding at the corner of Lady and Sumter
streets. The home of the Roddey Motor Corapany
was erected especially by Mr. Roddey for the busi
ness, and is raodern and coraplete in every detail.
The Roddey Motor Company is general agent for
the Buick cars. This business, with its ground and
buUdings, together with Mr. Roddey's other valu
able property interests in Columbia, comprise a
substantial achieveraent for a man still only in the
prime of his manhood. He has made hiraself an
iraportant factor in the autoraobile industry of the
state, is a member of the Columbia Autoraotive
Trades Association, and of the South Carolina

Automotive Trades Association, while in the Na
tional Automobile Dealers Association he is state
vice president for South Carolina. Mr. Roddey is
a raember of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce,
an Elk, an Eagle, and a member of the Board of
Stewards of the Washington Street Methodist
Church. His best partner in business has been Mrs.
Roddey, whose enthusiastic whole-hearted co-opera
tion and good judgment haye been an unfailing
resource to him ever since their marriage. She was
forraerly Miss Sallie Wiles, member of the weU
known family of that narae of Orangeburg and
Aiken counties. Mr. and Mrs. Roddey have three
interesting children : Martha lone, Jesse Bryant, Jr.,
and Sara Catharine.
Edward Wilson DuRant is chairraan of the
Board of Fisheries of South Carolina, and is also
a prominent professional man of Georgetown, where
he has practiced as a dental surgeon for the past ten
years. He was born in Williamsburg County August 31,
1882, a son of John W. and Mary Elizabeth (Snow
den) DuRant. His father was a merchant and
farraer. Doctor DuRant graduated in 1908 with fhe
degree D. D. S. frora the Atlanta Dental College, and
at once engaged in practice at Georgetown. He has
been three times appointed to the office of chairman
of the Board of Fisheries. He is a meraber of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Noveraber 7, 1911, he married Elizabeth Katherine
Doyle of Georgetown, but a native of Michigan.
They have two sons, Edward Wilson, Jr., and Fran
cis HiU.
Robert Bethea Scarborough. Former represen
tative of the Sixth District in Congress, also ex-
lieutenant governor of South Carolina, Robert
Bethea Scarborough is readily distinguished in that
group of raen who have served and directed the
public affairs of South Carolina during the past
generation, and his leadership in affairs has by no
means detracted frora the value and prestige of his
work as a lawyer. Mr. Scarborough has been a
member of the Conway bar for thirty-five years.
He was born at Chesterfield in Chesterfield County
October 20, 1861, son of Rev. Lewis and Ann
(Bethea) Scarborough and of English ancestry on
both sides. His great-grandfather Scarborough
came to Virginia from England about 1740, and in
the maternal line he is descended frora John Bethea
who also located in Virginia in the last decade of
the seventeenth century. Mr. Scarborough's father
spent raany years of his life in the service of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Robert B. Scarborough grew up on a farm and
finished his education in MuUins Academy. He has
always been a great reader and student of raen and
of affairs, and as a young raan taught school at
Mullins and at Little River. Through varied expe
riences he kept his mind steadily fixed upon the
profession of law, studied for it privately, and be
gan practice at Conway in June, 1884. He has rep
resented raany of the chief business interests cen
tered at Conway, including the Wilmington, Chad-
bourne & Conway Railway, the Conway, Coast &
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and other companies. He was attomey for Horry
County from 1885 to 1893. He has been chairraan
of the Board of Public Works at Conway, was
elected state senator in 1896, and in 1899 became
lieutenant governor upon the death of Governor
EUerby. In 1900 he was chosen to represent the
Sixth District in Congress, and by re-election served
untU March 4, 1905. Mr. Scarborough is a meraber
of the Methodist Church, a Knight of Pythias and
a member of the Pee Dee Historical Association.
December 15, 1881, he married Mary J. Jones. Four
children were born to them, two sons reaching ma
ture years.
Isaac McGivery Carraway. While his early busi
ness training was acquired as clerk in a general
store, Mr. Carraway has raade good use of his time
and opportunities, and today is one of the most sub
stantial business men of Georgetown.
He was born in Georgetown County August 13,
1881, a son of John G. and Mariah Jane (Thomp
son) Carraway. His father for many years was en
gaged in the turpentine industry. Isaac Carraway
had a public school education, also attended a busi
ness college, and from a clerkship in a general store
earned promotion to general manager. In 1905 he
moved to the City of Georgetown and for eight
years connected with the real estate and insurance
business. In 1913 Mr. Carraway becarae one of the
organizers of the Farraers and Merchants Bank, and
has held the post of cashier of that prosperous in
stitution ever since. He is a member of the Masonic
Order and of Prince George Winyah Episcopal
Church. November 25, igog, he married Miss Mable
Helen Young of Bay City, Michigan. They have
one daughter. Myrtle Helen.
John Walter Doar was bom at Georgetown,
South Carolina, Septeraber 11, 1870, and at the age
of fourteen was employed in a newspaper office at
Georgetown and thus began the experience and the
training which in later years brought him raany
responsible posts as a journalist with the larger
city papers of his native state. He also was at dif
ferent tiraes connected with papers in Augusta and
Savannah, Georgia, at New Orleans and New York
City. Twenty years ago he was a member of the
staff of the Columbia Daily Register, and was editor
and proprietor of the Georgetown Outlook for a
number of years.
Mr. Doar spent his early life on a plantation in
Georgetown County. He is a son of John W. and
Emma C. Doar, and his first American ancestors
were David Doar who carae from Germany and
Peter DuBois who came from France. A great
deal of practical work was combined with the early
school days of John Walter Doar.
Mr. Doar was elected a raeraber of the Legis
lature in 1902 and served by re-election until 1912.
He -has been one of the prominent members of the
democratic party in Georgetown County, has served
as a member of the Fish and Oyster Commission of
the state, was for a number of years an officer of
the First Cavalry, South Carolina National Guard,
and in 1912 he was elected county superintendent of
education by the Board of Education, and has held
that office continuously to the present time, being

elected by the people without opposition two terms.
He is also owner and president of the Andrews
Home Corapany at Andrews in Georgetown County,
and vice president of the Planters and Mechanics
Bank of Georgetown.
Mr. Doar served in 1910-11 as grand chancellor
of the Knights of Pythias for South Carolina and
is also affiliated with the Masonic Order, Inde
pendent Order of Odd FeUows and Elks. He is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. April
16, 1901, he raarried Elizabeth S. Black. Three chil
dren were born to their raarriage, two of whom are
living. William Ervin Sparkman, M. D. Few families
of South Carolina have contributed more prorainent
and efficient workers to the medical profession than
the Sparkmans. Dr. WUliam E. Sparkman, whose
career of twenty-six years as a physician and
surgeon has identified hira with Georgetown, is the
son and grandson of South Carolina medical men,
and two of his own sons have earned reputations
in the sarae vocation.
Dr. WUliara E. Sparkman was born at Planters-
ville, Georgetown County, June 11, 1857. Doctor
Sparkman studied in one of the best boys' schools
of the time. Holy Coramunion Institute of Charles
ton, now Porter's Military Acaderay and graduated
in 1892 frora the University of Maryland. For
raany years he has been in practice at Georgetown.
He resigned in 1910 as chairman of the City Board
of Health. Doctor Sparkman was appointed acting
marine surgeon for Georgetown in the Government
Public Health service, and also at the quarantine
station. Though past the age limit he volunteered
his services to the Government during the World
war, and was appointed to the Volunteer Medical
Reserve Corps. He is a member of the South Caro
lina Medical Association, and at one time was com
mander of the local camp of the Sons of Confedi
erate Veterans.
In 1881 Doctor Sparkraan raarried Hattie McGil-
very Buck, daughter of W. L. Buck of Horry.
Their son. Dr. WUliara Buck Sparkraan, was the
first honor raan of the University of South Caro
lina and was with the Hospital Departraent of the
National Guard forces when mobilized by the Gov
ernment for service on the Mexican border, and
was second officer in charge of the Field Hospital
No. I in South Carolina, now located at Green
ville. He enlisted during the World war but was
not assigned to duty. The second son. Dr. James
Ritchie Sparkman, joined Base Hospital No. 92
and was afterwards transferred to Base Hospital
No. 65 at Brest, France, and is now at Spartan
burg practicing surgery exclusively.
Capers Gamewell Barr, who during nearly two
years was in the United States navy whUe the war
with Germany was in progress, is a Georgetown
lawyer and recognized as a young raan of splen
did qualifications for his profession.
He was born at Columbia, South Carolina, Feb
ruary 12, 1891, a son of Capers G. and Caledonia
M. (Black) Barr. His father was a business broker.
Tlie son was educated in the public schools of
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in the University of South Carolina, and took his
law course in the University of Virginia. Since
his admission to the bar he has been engaged in a
general practice at Georgetown except for the period
of the war. He served as a raeraber of the Leg
islature in igi2-i3, being on^ of the youngest raem
bers of the body.
AprU 6, igi7, he volunteered in the United States
navy, was coraraissioned an ensign, and from July
30, 1917, until December 23, 1918, was on the staff
of Vice Adrairal H. B. Wilson as judge advocate
at Brest, France. He was relieved frora active
duty February 3, igig, and then returned to George
town to resume private practice.
November 9, igii, he married Ruth R. Brinkley
of Georgetown. They have two sons. Capers G.,
Jr., and William Augustus.
Lewie A. Griffith, M. D. Though now retired
frora active practice Doctor Griffith for twenty years
was one of the ablest physicians and surgeons of
Colurabia and one of the founders of the Colurabia
Hospital. As a youthful surgeon he was with the
American Army of Occupation in the Philippines for
nearly a year. Doctor Griffith is a forraer raayor
of Columbia and one of the leading business men
and citizens.
His father is Col. David Jefferson Griffith, who
for many years, until he retired in 1918, was super
intendent of the South Carolina Penitentiary. Colo
nel Griffith was born in Newberry County December
31, 1844, of English and Scotch-Irish ancestry, a
son of Allen and Sarah (Banks) Griffith. His people
were araong the early settlers of Lexington and
Newberry counties. Colonel Griffith was educated
in Lexington County, and at the outbreak of the
war between the states went into the Confederate
array and served as captain in Corapany C, First
South Carolina Regiment. He was in the battles
of Chickamauga, Knoxville, Bean Station, the 'WU
derness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Gettys
burg. A sword consigned to him by a dying Federal
officer from the Gettysburg field Colonel Griffith
some years ago presented to the local chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy. After the surrender
of Johnston's array at Greensboro, Colonel Griffith
returned horae and resuraed civU life as a farraer.
While devoted to the manageraent of his farm, he
was frequently called to positions of honor and
trust. He represented Lexington County several
tiraes in the State Senate, and in 1897 was voted by
the readers of the Colurabia State as the most pop
ular legislator. He succeeded W. A. Neal as super
intendent of the penitentiary, and was several times
re-elected to that office. July 27, 1865, Colonel Grif
fith raarried Sarah A. Lewie, daughter of Sarauel
Lewie of Lexington.
Dr. Lewie A. Griffith was born May i, 1866, while
his parents lived in Lexington County. .He acquired
a good education, and graduated with the class of
1887 frora the Kentucky School of Medicine at
LouisvUle, .\t the outbreak of the Spanish-Amer
ican war he volunteered in the Medical Corps, and
was made assistant surgeon of the Second South
Carolina Regiment, Later in i89g he was appointed
assistant surgeon, with the rank of 1st lieutenant in
the Forty-second United States Volunteers for serv

ice in the Philippines, He went to those islands in
December, and remained on duty for about a year,
seeing much of the fighting during the insurrection
in the PhUippines.
After his return from the Far East Doctor Grif
fith located at Columbia and engaged in the active
practice of his profession, which he continued nearly
twenty years. In 1918 he gave up his professional
practice in order to give his entire time to his grow
ing business, the Union Station Drug Company, on
South Main Street, opposite the Union Station, a
business that has been under his ownership for
several years. It is one of the most successful and
profitable retaU stores in Columbia.
Doctor Griffith is a forraer president of the Colum
bia Medical Society. As one of the founders of
the Colurabia Hospital he served on the executive
committee, and was also president of the Board of
Health of Columbia. In 1914 he was electe<^ mayor
of Colurabia, being head of the commission govern
ment of the city for four years, until 1918. Thus
to his professional career he has added the distinc
tions of success in business and efficiency as a
public official.
Doctor Griffith married MiSs Ruth B. MuUer, of
Sandy Run, Lexington County. They have three
sons and one daughter : Dr. L. M. Griffith, David
J., Lewie Allen and Mary Antoinette. The daughter
is a graduate of the Columbia High School and
of Colurabia College.
Both the older sons were in the service of their
Governraent during the World war. Dr. L. M. Grif
fith, a graduate of the University of South Carolina
and of Johns Hopkins University, during the war
had charge of the eye, ear, nose and throat work
at the Araerican Hospital at Brest, France, holding
the rank of captain in the Medical Corps.
David J. Griffith is at present in the motor truck
transport service of the United States Array at
Camp Lee, Virginia. He volunteered at the very
outbreak of the war with Gerraany, becoming a
member of Motor Truck Company 5, First Corps,
Artillery Park. He was with that organization
in France but later was transferred to a machine
gun company of the Three Hundred and Eighth
Infantry, Seventy-seventh Division. As a machine
gun fighter he was in the battles of the great
offensive beginning in July, 1918, and ultiraately
served on all five of the American battle fronts.
For conspicuous bravery and gallantry in the Ar
gonne Forest he was awarded the Croix de Guerre.
r^l'i |,''atemal circles Doctor Griffith is an Elk, an
Odd hello w, and past worthy president in the Order.
of Eagles.
John L. Marshall, M. D. Doctor MarshaU has
been one of the leading men in his profession at
Creenwood since igi5. He has built up a large
practice in general raedicine and surgery, and the
esteera in which he is held by his fellow practition
ers IS evidenced by the fact that in 1918 he was
elected for a term of one year as president of the
(jreenwood County Medical Society.
He gave rauch of his professional tirae to the
deniands made upon him and other raerabers of his
profession by the war. In August, 1918, he volun
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at Camp Greenleaf. He was slated to go to France
in December, but the moveraent of troops in that
direction was cancelled by the armistice of No
vember. Doctor Marshall is a member of the Coun
ty, State, Southern and American Medical associa
tions. He was born at Georgetown, South Carolina, in
1881, a son of Robert and Eliza (Moore) Mar
shaU. His raother died in June, 1914, and his
father is now living at Andrews in Georgetown
County. Doctor Marshall's grandfather, Alexan
der Marshall, was prorainent as a stock raiser and
planter in Georgetown County, where the doctor's
great-grandfather located iramediately after cora
ing to this country from England.
Doctor Marshall was educated in the local schools
at Georgetown and graduated in 1913 from the
Medical College of the State of South Carolina at
Charleston. The year before he engaged in practice
at Greenwood he spent as interne at Roper Hos
pital at Charleston. Doctor Marshall built a beau
tiful new home in Greenwood in 1919. He raar
ried Miss Lalla May Dial, of Laurens, daughter
of Dr. W. H. Dial of that city and a niece of United
States Senator N. B. Dial.
Lloyd B. Harrison, of the Greenwood bar, is one
of the young men of distinctively modern type in
South Carolina. He came to the bar while great
world issues were being decided, had hardly had
time to test his learning acquired in law school in
actual practice when he felt it his duty to join the
American forces in the war with Gerraany, and he
was one of South Carolina's young officers who had
actual and thrilling experience on the fighting front
during the campaign of 1918.
Mr. Harrison was born near Duncan in Spartan
burg County in 1889, a son of W. C. and Emma
Louise (Waldrep) Harrison. His father, stUl liv
ing on the Harrison farm near Duncan, was born
there, a son of the late Dr. W. A. Harrison. Doctor
Harrison was a native of lower Greenville County,
near Fairview Church, and raeraber of a pioneer
famUy of that county. Doctor Harrison was one
of the first presidents of the Fairview Live Stock
Fair. He reraoved about 1850 to Spartanburg
County and settled at Reidville, where he practiced
the remainder of his life.
Lloyd B. Harrison graduated from the Acaderaic
Departraent of the University of South Carolina
in 1915. Altogether he spent six years in the classic
atraosphere of the university, corapleting his law-
course there in 1917. During the latter part of his
course in law he was called upon by the people of
his horae county to represent them in the Lower
House of the State Legislature, and served dur
ing the session of 1917. After completing his law
course he located in Spartanburg and began prac
tice. He enlisted in Company B, South Carolina Engi
neers in May, 1917, and later entered the second
training camp for the Officers Reserve Corps at
Fort Oglethorpe, and in Noveraber of that year
was commissioned second lieutenant. He had the
good fortune to be assigned to the Thirty-ninth
Infantry, Fourth Division, in the regular army.
With that division he went overseas to France in
May, 1918, and participated in four major opera

tions on four major fronts. He was in the counter
offensive at Chateau Thierry in July, the Marne
offensive in the first part of August, the St. Mihiel
offensive, which was the first big drive exclusively
American, and then, beginning Septeraber 26th, in
several phases of the great Meuse-Argonne bat
tles. During the Meuse-Argonne carapaign and
while in view of Mont Faucon, Lieutenant Harri
son was wounded. He was promoted to first lieu
tenant in Septeraber, 1918. He was with the Expedi
tionary Forces overseas for more than a year, re
turning to Araerica in July, 1919. He was honor
ably discharged the 15th of August and on Sep
teraber I, 1919, located at Greenwood to resurae
the practice of his profession. He is a raeraber
of the firm Jones & Harrison, his partner being
Mr. Demos Jones.
Mr. Harrison is a member of the Presbyterian
Church and is affiliated with the Masons and Wood
men of the World. He married Mary LucUe Stoney
of Allendale.
Albert Sidney Hartzog is the very progressive
mayor of the progressive little City of Greenwood,
and in raany other relationships his narae has been
identified with the upbuilding and developraent of
that community for over fifteen years.
He was born in Bamberg County, South Caro
lina, September 9, 1875, a son of Samuel J. and
Mary Elizabeth (Owens) Hartzog. His father was
a merchant and the son had a good home and
good influences and a good education in prepara-^
tion for his business career. He attended public
schools and Clerason College. For four years he
was deputy county clerk.
Mr. Hartzog engaged in the insurance and real
estate business at Greenwood in igo2. He has
prosecuted his affairs to the advantage of hiraself
and the entire community. He is president of the
Farmers & Merchants Bank, is a director in the
Grendel, Greenwood and Ninety-Six cotton raills.
For two years he was a raember of the town coun
cil and since igi5 has been mayor of the City of
Greenwood. His adrainistration has been perhaps
chiefly notable for the expenditure of $300,000 in
paving and other essential city iraproveraents. Mr.
Hartzog was president of the Fair Association two
years, is a meraber of the Finance Coraraittee of the
Baptist Church, and is chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the Carnegie Library.
December i, 1908, he married Mattie Abney, of
Greenwood. Charles Ramsey Calhoun, who was appointed
postmaster of Greenwood in July, 1919, is raera
ber of the erainent Calhoun faraily of South Caro
lina and is a grandson of the founder of Green
wood. Mr. Calhoun was born at Greenwood, then m
AbbevUle, now Greenwood, County, in 1872, son of
Charles M. and Eraily (Nelson) Calhoun.
The first settler of the Town of Greenwood was
his grandfather. Dr. Ephraira Calhoun, who be
came and remained its most distinguished citizen
for many years. He was a hard working physi
cian, and made his profession a medium of benefi
cent service to the entire community. Those who
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the finest examples of the Calhoun race. Doctor
Calhoun was a first cousin of the great South
Carolina statesman John C. Calhoun. Their grand
father, Jaraes Calhoun, brought his faraily frora
Ireland in 1733, lived in Pennsylvania and in West
ern Virginia, and in 1756 established his home in
the Calhoun settlement in South Carolina, where
later he and other members of the family lost their
lives as victims of an Indian massacre.
Charles M. Calhoun was born at Greenwood in
1836 and is now the city's oldest citizen. He was
a Confederate soldier, and served four years under
General Butler and General Hampton.
Charles Ramsey Calhoun, whose mother is now
deceased, has spent his life in Greenwood, attended
the public schools there and graduated from Wof
ford College in 1893. For twelve years he was
in the postoffice at Greenwood and for ten years
was assistant postraaster. He won his appointment
for the postmastership by competitive exaraination
in 1918. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church,
is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the
Woodmen of the World, and his useful work and
character well entitle him to the honor and respon
sibilities of the office he now holds.
Mr. Calhoun married Miss Maggie Wolfe, of
Orangeburg. They have two daughters, Margaret
and Elliott.
William Marion Scott is a South Carolinian
educator, and has been teaching and in admin
istrative school work for fifteen years.
He graduated from The Citadel, South Caro
lina's great military school at Charleston in 1905,
and while there held the rank of first lieutenant.
At the beginning of the war with Germany he at
once applied to Governor Manning to make his
previous experience useful to the state and Gov
ernment. He was elected captain of one of the
twelve companies of Horae Guards and subsequently
was raade major of the First Battalion, corapris
ing four Horae Guard corapanies.
Major Scott was born in Surater County, Decera
ber 4, 1884, a son of Williara Heathley and Mary
B. (English) Scott. He grew up on his father's
farm, attended the comraon schools of his native
county, and after graduating from The Citadel in
1905 spent one year as a teacher in Clarkton Insti
tute at Clarkton, North Carolina, for two years
was principal of the schools at Hopkins, South
Carolina, for five years was principal of the Boys
High School at Sumter and in 1913 was made
superintendent of the BishopviUe graded schools.
He has under his supervision a staff of seven
teen white and colored teachers, and the enroll
ment in the white and colored schools of Bishop
ville IS 750. He is a meraber of the State and
County Teachers Association and is superintendent
Z- J*"^ .,P''«bytenan Church Sunday School at
iSishopyUle. He also has sorae interests in farming
October 31 1914, he married Miss Dorothy Owetfs
of Clinton, South Carolina, They have two chU
dren, Dorothy Owens and Mary,
Joseph A Marshall. For nearly a quarter of
a century Doctor Marshall practiced raedicine at
Greenwood, His life interests for over forty years

have been identified with that community. Since
retiring frora his protession he has given his
business attention to the management of exten
sive farming areas, and is also one of the most
widely known public citizens of Greenwood County.
He participated in the movement for the organiza
tion of the county, served as hrst county treasurer,
and is also a former mayor of Greenwood.
He was born in Abbeville County in 1856, son
of Joseph and Anne (Brooks) Marshall. His
mother was a cousin of Senator Preston Brooks,
one of South Carolina's most distinguished men.
This branch of the Marshall faraily is descended
from James Marshall, who was born at Pembroke,
England, in 1652. Sorae of his descendants moved
to the North of Ireland. The grandfather of Doc
tor MarshaU, George Marshall, was a native of
the North of Ireland and married Mary Carson.
He and his brothers became the progenitors of a
large nuraber of Marshalls who have hgured prom
inently in the history of Abbeville County. George
Marsnall and two of his brothers came to Araerica
about 1800 and located in Abbeville County. Jo
seph Marshall was also a native of AbbevUle
County. Doctor Marshall graduated from Furman Uni
versity in 1874. Two years later, in 1876, he com
pleted his course in the medical school of the Uni
versity of Georgia at Augusta. Returning to Ab
beville County, he began practice at Greenwood,
and for tvventy-four years he was ready at a mo
ment's notice to answer any call for his services
either in town or over a large outlying country
territory. He had a busy and successful profes
sional career. For six years he lived in Florida,
Greenwood County was organized in 1897 and soon
afterward Doctor Marshall was elected county
treasurer and filled that office consecutively for
fourteen years. After retiring from that position
he served as mayor of Greenwood two years Doc
tor Marshall in 1918 reraoved from the city to his
suburban home 21.^ miles northeast of Greenwood.
He has a fine large residence and every raodern con
venience located on a farra of fifty-five acres
Doctor Marshall married Emraa Calhoun Logan
a daughter of Dr, John H. .ind Eliza (Calhoun)
Logan. Her father, a native of AbbevUle County
was long distinguished both in his profession as a
physician and as an educator and author. He was
educated in South Carolina College, in the Medi
cal CoUege of South Carolina at Charleston, and
tor many years was engaged in active practice.
Later he served as president of the Talladega Fe
male College in Alabama, and was also professor
When' AH '¦'; '\,°\^- Og'ethorpe College at Atlanta.
When Atlanta Medical College was founded he was
ni hl/i-f '" 'a J""^' institution, and spent the rest
fnrm.H • i" ^'\^"'^ °"^ ^"^'^ which he per-
^7:?. ' , fi/'d of authorship was the writing
lina^ ^,h?Zf-^^''F^^^' ^°""t^y °f South Caro
ra"re' wrrk'oflistory''^' "°" ^ ""^ ^'^'-"^ ^"^
of^Dr Fn?" °l ^",', Marshall was a daughter
the-firU HtieT ^A f^'^°""' .^°=*°^ Calhoun was
wooH Lj " ^""^ ^°'?"^" °^ the Town of Green-
¦wood, and was a cousin of the noted South Caro
lma statesman John C. Calhoun. Doctor and Mrs.

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Marshall have five children : Prof. John Logan
Marshall, of Clemson College, George Marshall,
Annie Brooks, Dr. Stanraore Pickens Marshall and
Mott Calhoun Marshall.
WniLAM Rogers Scarborough has had a con
structive part in the business and civic life of
Bishopville a number of years. He has made his
own career strictly speaking, becoming dependent
upoh his own exertions when a boy and learning
business and getting his opportunities at the same
time that he was paying his way.
He was born at Bishopville February IS, 1876,
a son of Henry Gilbert and Maria (Rogers) Scar
borough. His father was a farmer and merchant.
The son was educated in public schools and also
had a business college course. His first position
was clerk in a local grocery store. He spent two
years at Spartanburg as an accountant and clerk,
arid on returning to Bishopville was for three
years an accountant with a local cotton business.
He then succeeded to that business. Since 1901
he has been a banker, becoming in that year one
of the organizers and first cashier of the Bank
of Bishopville, and has been the only cashier of
the institution. Since July, 1916, this has been the
Bishopville National Bank. Mr. Scarborough is
also a director of the Ice and Drainage Tile Com
pany, is secretary and treasurer of the Bishop
ville Investment Company, was one of the organ-
izers, was the first secretary for two years, and is
director of the Lee County Fair Association. He
also served as mayor of Bishopville four years and
for a sirailar length of time was a raeraber of the
council. Mr. Scarborough as a business man of prorai
nence was naturally a worker in behalf of the
Governraent during the recent war. He was local
chairraan for the first, second, third and fourth
Liberty Loan drives, also for the Victory Loan of
1919, and was chairraan of the first Red Cross
campaign. He is a steward and former treasurer
of the First Methodist Episcopal Church and was
treasurer of its building committee. Mr. Scar
borough is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite
Mason and Shriner and a member of the Knights
of Pythias.
He married Miss Rosa Mood of Suraraerton,
South Carolina, daughter of Rev. William W. Mood.
They were married January 9, 1901, and have had
three children. The son, 'William Rogers, Jr., died
at the age of sixteen. The two living children are
Claud Mood and Hattie Mood.
James Norton. While it has been his ambition
always to engage in the substantial and essential ac
tivities of life and neglect the spectacular, James
Norton of Marion has in the course of his long
career garnered raany honors that elevate him to
a high position araong the leading men of his native
state. Mr. Norton was born on a farm near Mullins,
October 8, 1843. He has never been away from
the scenes of his birth except whUe in the army
and in public service in Columbia seven years and
four years in Washington. He is descended from

James Norton, who came from England as a co
lonial settler in Massachusetts, and finally his de
scendants located at Georgetown, South Carolina.
Mr. Norton is a son of John and Pennsylvania
(Lewis) Norton. His mother was of Irish, Welsh
and Dutch ancestry, descended from the noted
Lewis family of Virginia. Jaraes Norton has al
ways recognized a deep debt to the influence of
his mother. On her advice he turned frora the
study of law, which was his early arabition, and
it was she who gave him the spirit to labor and
make a success in his native state after he had
returned from the war.
He received a good farm training and the ad
vantages of the comraon schools untU 1861. When
a httle past seventeen years of age he enlisted as
a private in the Confederate army. He was in
the war untU he was wounded by a shot passing
from the upper part of the left shoulder downward
through the right lung, the ball coming out through
the arm. He was then laid up from August to
March and in March rejoined his coramand. He
was captured at Petersburg and held prisoner at
Point Lookout until paroled after three months
in prison.
After the war Mr. Norton entered private schools
and an academy. He spent two years at school
and two years teaching. He prepared for college,
but did not complete the course at college because
of his physical condition caused by his wounds in
service. He has always been a student, but his
chief education has corae from his own experience
and his habit of constant reading. He taught school
at Mullins. His career has been largely planting
and merchandising, though he is essentially an agri
culturist and as such has on many occasions used
his wide experience and influence to benefit the
agriculture of his native state.
From the tasks and responsibUities of farm life
he has been called to many posts of public duty.
He served as school commissioner for Marion
County in 1870-72; was in the State Legislature in
1886-87, 1890-91, and again in 1907-08. He was as
sistant comptroller general in 1890-94, was comp
troller general frora 1894 to 1897, and in 1806 was
elected to represent the Sixth South Carolina Dis
trict in Congress, as one of the few who served as
privates and were elected to Congress. He served
two terms, until 1901, being in Congress when the
Spanish-American war was fought and the Philip
pines made the United States a nation of colonial
possessions. The most persistent of all his interests outside
of business and family has been his active mera
bership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
for over sixty years. He is one of the widely
known laymen of the church, has been a steward of
his home church since 1867, and attended annual
conferences half a dozen times.
He has always been active in Sunday School work
and organized the Inter-Denorainational Sunday
School work in old Marion County. He is affiliated
with the Masonic order.
May 18, 1870, he married Rachel Cochrane Sel
lers. Of their two children one reached mature
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Hon. James Haselden Manning. The narae of
the Hon. James Haselden Manning has been for
raany years intimately associated with the history
of Dillon County, particularly in connection with
its planting interests, but also in matters of public
iraport. His activities along planting lines have
been so well directed and his raanageraent of affairs
so masterly handled that he is rated among the
most able men of his day and locality and has earned
the confidence and gratitude of raen of high stand
ing with whora he has been associated. However,
business has not taken his attention to the exclu
sion of other matters, and during the eight years
that he served in the State Senate of South Caro
lina, as the first senator from Dillon County, his
legislative abUity was evidenced in his labors for
the welfare of his constituents, his county and
his state.
Senator Manning was born in what is now Dil
lon County, then a part of Marion County, South
Carolina, April i6, 1857, a son of Thoraas J. and
Annie M. (Haselden) Manning. The Manning fara
ily of this line was founded in America by John
Manning, the great-great-grandfather of Jaraes H.,
who emigrated from Europe about 1760 and first
settled in Virginia, from whence his son, also naraed
John Manning, carae to South Carolina and became
largely interested in planting in Marion County
during the period of the Revolutionary war. There
was born Mealy Manning, the grandfather of
Jaraes H., who, following in his father's footsteps,
also engaged in planting and becarae one of the
successful and wealthy raen of his locality, being
the owner of some 7,000 acres of highly cultivated,
fertile and valuable land in Marion and Marlboro
counties. Thomas J. Manning was born in Marion
County and early adopted the family vocation of
planting, in which he was successfully engaged at
the outbreak of the War between the States, He
did not go into active service at the front, but
becarae a raember of the Horae Guards, in which
he rose to the rank of raajor, and it was whUe
serving in this capacity, in the work of rounding
up deserters, that he raet his death, in 1864. He
raarried Annie M. Haselden, daughter of Maj.
Jaraes C. Haselden, who was born in Marion County,
of English antecedents. To this union there were
born three sons and three daughters: Jaraes H. ;
Mrs. Doctor David, of Dillon; Lawrence A., of
Little Rock; Mrs. E. B. Berry, and Mrs. T.' W.
Barry, of Latta.
Jaraes H. Manning was but seven years of age
when his father died, and his educational training
was confined to attendance at the public schools
of Little Rock, where he pursued his studies until
he reached fifteen years. At that age, as the eldest
of his widowed mother's children, he took charge
of the horae place, and conducted it successfully
and profitably until his raother's death, when the
estaite was divided. Mr. Manning continued to be
located at Little Rock until 1905, in which year
he raoved to his present horae, Latta, where he
had erected a beautiful, raodern, brick horae, one
of the finest in the county. He has continued' with
his activities as a planter, and owns about 2,100
acres in Dillon County and 5,000 acres in Marion
County. In 1904 he was one of the organizers of

the Bank of Latta, of which he was president untU
1906, when he disposed of his interests. In 1909
he was elected the first state senator frora Dillon
County, and during the next eight years served in
that capacity, being elected without opposition. His
work in that body characterized him as a raan of
the highest ability and was a factor in the pass
ing of rauch beneficial legislation.
Mr. Manning was married Deceraber 5, 1877, to
Miss Frances Ellerbe, daughter of Capt. 'W. S.
Ellerbe, and to this union there have been born
six sons and one daughter : Thoraas Lahome,
Jaraes Douglas, Lawrence Albert, Robert Hamer,
Huston, Gertrude and Howard. Senator Man
ning is a prominent Mason and has nuraerous friends
in that order as he has also m public and busi
ness circles throughout the state.
William H. Gibson, Jr. Frora raill boy to su
perintendent of one of the best raills in the state,
the career of Williara H. Gibson, Jr., is an inspir
ing instance of success gained by hard work, de
terraination and ambition. While he was a humble
workman he was studying in night school and pre
paring himself to make use of opportunity when
it should come.
He was born in York County, South Carolina, in
1884, and has attained his present prorainence at
the age of thirty-five. His parents were R. F.
and Mattie L. CWhisnant) Gibson, and his grand
father was Harold Gibson, a native of York County,
who spent his last years near Gaffney in Cherokee
County. Mr. Gibson adds the title junior to his
narae to distinguish hira from his uncle, 'W. H.
Gibson, superintendent of the Brazos Vailey Cot
ton Mills at West Texas.
Until the age of twelve he lived on a farm. When
he sought employraent in a cotton mill there were
no humbler duties to assign him than those of
sweeper. He was sweeper boy in the raUI of the
Gaffney Manufacturing Corapany, and reraained
there until the age of eighteen, in the raeantirae
had been promoted to loom fixer. At the age of
twenty he went to the Monaghan Mill at Green
vUle. While there he was promoted to overseer,
and spent seven years with the Monaghan. All that
time, five nights a week, after a hard working day,
he was studying in the Monaghan Night School, '
and IS indebted to that school for the aU around
education he possesses.
After that he had a variety of experiences and
positions; overseer of the Alice MiU at Easlev;
overseer of weaving with the Capital City Mills at
Cohimbia; overseer of weaving in the Social Cir
cle Cotton Mills at Social Circle, Georgia; in 1914
becarae superintendent for the Fairmont Manufac-
tiirmg Company at Fairraont in Spartanburg
County; and m 1917 received his last and most
important promotion, beinsr made superintendent of
the Union plant of the Union-Buffalo Mills Com
pany at Union. This is one of the best raiUs of
the Union-Buffalo MiUs Company, one of the lar.g-
est cotton manufacturing corporations in the South,
employmg a capital of over $6,000,000, The Union
plant has nearly go.ooo spindles, and in every de
partment of the plant the operatives look upon
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nical skUl and entitled to complete confidence and
trust. During the war Mr. Gibson was chairman of the
Union MUl coraraunity in the Liberty Loan, Red
Cross and other war campaigns, and under his lead
ership the Union MUls each time exceeded their
quota. He is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr.
Gibson raarried Miss Lulu Davis, of Gaffney, and
their two children are Dewey A. and Helen Lucile
Gibson. Hugh McCutchen. The career of Hugh Mc
Cutchen represents a lifetime of energy devoted
to farraing and planting, the agricultural welfare
of WUliarasburg County, and also to extensive in
terests as a banker and in public affairs.
Mr. McCutchen was born at Indiantown, WU
liamsburg County, December ii, 1859, son of Colonel
Jaraes and Mary Jane (Gilland) McCutchen. His
father was a planter, before the war was an ex
tensive slave owner, and had a spirited part in
the activities of the county for many years. Hugh
McCutchen as a boy had only such advantages as
were afforded by subscription school maintained in
his coraraunity, at that time suffering frora the
poverty of the reconstruction era. Later he at
tended Davidson College of North Carolina two
years, and following that gave his best energies
to his. farra for fifteen years.
Since 1901 Mr. McCutchen has been the agent
at Kingstree for the well known cotton firm of
Alexander Sprunt & Son of WUmington, North
Carolina. He also organized and has since been
president of the Wee-Nee Bank, is president of
the Williamsburg Livestock Corapany, is president
of the Farraers Supply Corapany, president of the
Canal Ginnery Corapany, and of the Fidelity Devel
opraent Corapany, a corporation for the handling
of lands. Thus most of his interests are a direct
asset to the agricultural prosperity of this section.
Mr. McCutchen is the individual owner of 2,300
acres, having 700 acres in cultivation.
He is a present raeraber of the State Senate,
being elected in 1918, and is an elder in the Presby-
.terian Church at Indiantown. Deceraber 16, 1886,
he married Miss Louisa Dobbin of Clinton, North
Carolina, daughter of James Cochran and Anna
(Holmes) Dobbin. There were two children by
this marriage both dying in infancy. Mr. Mc
Cutchen is a raember of the Masonic Order of
Indiantown Lodge.
Francis Stuart Hanckel, one of the extensive
cotton brokers of Charleston, is also a man of af
fairs in public matters, and is held in the hi.ghest
esteem by his associates and competitors as a man
of ability and unblemished integrity. He was born
at Charleston, Septeraber 25, 1850. a son of John
Hanckel, and grandson of Rev. Christian Hanckel,
D. D., a native of Charleston and rector of St.
Paul's Episcopal Church of Charleston for fifty
years. John Hanckel spent his entire life at Charles
ton, which was his native citv. Here he was raar
ried to Susan Henrietta Wagner, also born at
Charleston, a sister of Theodore D. Wagner, one
of the leading merchants of Charleston, who at
tained to national repute during the war between

the states. Of the si.xteen children born to John
Hanckel and his wife, Francis Stuart Hanckel is
the only survivor.
Growing up in Charleston, Mr. Hanckel attended
its schools and college, and has been engaged in
his present line of business since 1882. During
the twenty years he has been in business for him
self Mr. Hanckel has formed such connections as
to make his dealings of sorae moraent, and he has
firraly established hiraself as a broker of conse
quence. In 1886 Mr. Hanckel was united in marriage with
Annie Charlotte MUes, a daughter of Charles Rich
ardson Miles, ex-attorney general of South Caro
lina, and a lawyer of note. Mr. and Mrs. Hanckel
had three children, naraely: Charlotte Miles, Rich
ardson MUes and Francis Stuart. The two sons
served in the World war, and the elder raade the
suprerae sacrifice, offering up his young life on
the altar of patriotism, as a member of the National
Naval Volunteers, United States Navy on foreign
service, and is buried at Gibraltar. The younger
son saw service in France as a member of the
Veterinary Corps of the Thirtieth Division.
In addition to his cotton brokerage business, Mr.
Hanckel has other iraportant interests at Charles
ton and is treasurer of the Maybank Fertilizer
Company. He is a Mason, Shriner and a Knight
of Pythias, and a member of the Junior Order of
American Mechanics, and of the St. Andrew's So
ciety, and also of the Young Men's Christian As
sociation. An Episcopalian by inheritance and con
viction, Mr. Hanckel belongs to the Holy Cora
munion Church of Charleston. He belongs to the
Charleston Chamber of Coramerce, and is an ex-
president of the Cotton Exchange of Charleston.
For twelve years he represented the Eighth Ward
in the City Council, and was mayor pro tem twice,
and chairman of the committee on streets for- eight
years. Having spent his life at Charleston, Mr.
Hanckel's interests are centered in this city and
he has always sought to aid in bringing about any
changes deemed advisable, and to exert himself
to maintain the enviable prestige of his community.
Both as a public official and business man Mr.
Hanckel has proven his worth, and his standing
is not based alone on his material good fortune,
but also on his personal character and his earnest
efforts in behalf of the moral uplift of his kind.
It is such men as Mr. Hanckel who give solidity
and permanence to a section, and through precept
and example influence others to become desirable
citizens. Clarence Edgerton Owens, M. D. Within the
nine or ten years since he completed his course in
raedicine Doctor Owens compressed an enormous
amount of work, study and practical experience,
and for a raan of his years has gained a place of
enviable distinction in his profession.
Doctor Owens, who is practicing in the City of
Columbia, was bom at Congaree, in Richland
County, April 18, 1887. The Owens family is of
Welsh origin. Its first ancestor in South Caro
lina located in Barnwell County, Doctor Owens
had at least one prominent physician ancestor, his
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a Confederate surgeon in the war between the
states. After the war he raoved to Louisiana and
continued his work as a physician in that state the
rest of his life.
Dr. Clarence Edgerton Owens is a son of E. S.
and Elizabeth (Sraith) Owens. His mother, now
deceased, was of English descent. Her first Araeri
can ancestor came direct frora England prior to
the Revolutionary war and settled on land granted
by the King of England at Congaree in Richland
County. E. S. Owens is a prominent planter at
St. Matthews in Calhoun County, though born in
Barnwell County and living for a number of years
in Congaree and Richland counties.
Doctor Owens attended the Riehland County
High School, spent two years, 1903-04, specializing
in chemistry and biology in the University of South
Carolina, and took his medical course in the Medi
cal Colle.ge of South Carolina at Charleston. He
graduated with the class of 1910, and since then
has taken a nuraber of post graduate courses in
general raedicine and surgery in New York, Phila
delphia and Baltiraore, He began practice at Co
lurabia, and in that city has met with the most
gratifying success. Through his ambition and hard
work he has built up a large and busy practice in
general medicine and surgery. During the war pe
riod of nearly two years he did surgery under con
tract with the war departraent at Carap Jackson.
Doctor Owens is a raeraber of the Colurabia Hos
pital Association and owns and operates the Co
lumbia Hospital. He is a raember of the faculty
of the Baptist Hospital and twice a week delivers
lectures before a class of nurses on medicine and
contagious diseases. He is a meraber of the County,
State and American Medical associations and the
Clinical Congress of Surgeons. He belongs to the
Baptist Church and is affiliated with the Masons
and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Doctor Owens married Miss Clara-Ellen Forbes,
of Montgoraery, Alabaraa. To their raarriage were
born two chUdren : Clarence Edgerton, Jr., who
died at the age of eighteen months; and Clara
Ellen. William Rufus Barringer. While he studied
law as a young raen and was adraitted to prac
tice, William Rufus Barringer has not figured in
the work of the courtroom, at least to the knowl
edge of his friends and associates at Florence.
He has been primarily a business raan, and as head
or otherwise officially identified with a number of
leading business concerns at Florence his career
has been one of prominence and usefulness.
He was born at Cheraw, South Carolina, March
4. 1866, second son and third child of eight chil
dren of Williara Rufus and Fannie Isabelle (Lau
rence) Barringer. This is a large faraily connec
tion, and the upbuUding of the eastern part of
South Carolina has heen thoroughly irapressed by
the -activities of the Barringer family through va
rious generations. From his father, a successful
raerchant, Williara R. Barringer inherited natural
business ability and has combined that with a sound
intellectual, taste and habits of study that have
enabled him to master every problem to which
he- has applied himself. He was educated in public

schools, a business college, and in the intervals of
other work studied law and was admitted to the bar
in i88g. 'With a bent along financial and business
lines, he never seriously considered the law as a
profession, and has become best known as a banker
and director of large financial and industrial affairs.
He is now president of the Palmetto Bank and
Trust Company of Florence and a director or stock
holder in a raajority of the other banks and enter
prises of the city. He organized and was the
first president of the Pee Dee Brick and Tile Com
pany, the Florence Gas Company, and the Florence
Daily Times, the only daily newspaper in the city.
He is now president of the E. M. Matthews Com
pany wholesale drug company and is president of
the Florence Hotel Company, being the leading
hotel of Eastern Carolina.
He has used his business talents for the benefit
of many institutions and raoveraents. He was the
first raayor of the City of Florence, under the
coraraission forra of governraent, and discharged
the duties of that office with distinction to the city
and with credit to his friends for four years. He
was frequently urged while in that office to become
a candidate for Congress, but has no aspirations
for a public office that would take him away from
his native city, where he considers his first duties
to lie. In all public affairs he has been in the front
line, and his leadership has been a practical inspir
ation to all associated with him. He was chair
raan of the first Red Cross drive in Florence County
during the World war and gave his energetic aid
to the prosecution of other auxiliary war move
ments. He was one of the trustees of the South
Carolina Industrial School located at Florence and
gave it the benefit of his business ability while it
was being established and was also for four years
chairman of the city schools,' during which tinie
several of the best schools were erected. There
has hardly been a single successful enterprise in his
section of the state with which his name has not
been associated during the past thirty years. He
is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
February 10, i8g7, he married Miss Mary Mclver
Scott, only daughter of the late John S. Scott of.
Florence County. They have one son, Laurence
Scott, and a daughter. Flora Mclver.
Asbury Coke Summers as coraraissioner of agri
culture, coramerce and industries for South Caro
lina, has many admirable qualifications for that po
sition, an office directly and vitally linked with the
agricultural welfare of this great state.
Mr. Summers was born at Springfield in Orange
burg County, February 21, 1885. a" son of John A.
and Florence E. Summers. In his individual career
Asbury C. Summers, though still a youncr man, is
m a sense carrying on the work and influence of
his father, who was one of the first scientific farm
ers in South Carolina, He served as a first as
sistant to Dr, Seman A. Knapp in farra demon
stration work for this state.
Ashury C. Sumfners attended the graded schools
of Springfield, received his Bachelor of Science
degree frora Clemson Colleere, took snecial work
m the University of South Carolina, and spent two
years at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana,

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where from 1908 to 1910 he was assistant state
chemist of Indiana. He then returned to his home
state and was state chemist for South Carolina
from 1910 to 1917, and in the latter year was also
assistant professor of chemistry at the University
of South Carolina. Since 1917 he has been cora
raissioner of agriculture, coraraerce and industries.
Mr. Suraraers had sorae military training while
at Clerason, serving as corporal, sergeant and first
lieutenant in the College Cadets. He is a director
of the Liberty National Bank of Columbia, is a
Mason, a member of the Rotary Club of Colurabia,
and through his professional work is affiliated with
the American Chemical Society, the Cotton States
Advisory Marketing Board, the Nationa.1 Drainage
Congress, and is vice president of the ,Southern
Commercial Congress. He is a steward of the
Shandon Methodist Church at Columbia.
June 26, 1912, Mr. Suraraers married Zella Scar
borough, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Scar
borough of Darlington, South Carolina. Her father
when sixteen years of age joined Company A of
the Fourteenth Regiraent of South Carolina in the
war between the states. He was twice severely
wounded and was captured and was in a hospital
at Washington until after Lee's surrender. ' On re
ceiving his discharge he walked all the way from
Washington to Darlington.
William M. Severance. While for several years
Mr. Severance has enjoyed prominent relations
with city banking, raerchandising and other busi
ness enterprises, he was at one tirae not so many
years ago known as the youngest telegraph oper
ator in the state. He had mastered the technique
of hfindling the telegraph key at the age of four
teen, and at that tirae was given responsibilities
usually conferred upon young men much more
mature in point of age.
Mr. Severance was born at Lake City, January
2, i8gi, son of Paul Elisha and EmUy Elizabeth
(McKenzie) Severance. His father for many years
was a general raerchant and engaged in the Naval
Stores business at Lake City. The son had a public
school education, but long before his public school
work was corapleted was doing something to earn
his own living. In the intervals of his schooling
he clerked in a baker shop one year. WhUe em
ployed as a raessenger at the railway station he
learned telegraphy, and for seven years he followed
that occupation, eventually being made assistant
agent of the Atlantic Coast Line at Lake City.
In January, igii, Mr. Severance becarae assist
ant cashier of the Bank of Lake City, and since
February, 19I5, has been cashier of that institution.
He is also president of the Lake City Realty Cora
pany, is president of the Farraers Hardware Cora
pany, is president of the Double Action FertUizer
Distributor Company, and is also an official in
the Building and Loan Association.
While these items show that his career has been
a very busy one, Mr. Severance at the sarae tirae
has been one of the most progressive, public spirited
and hard working raen in behalf of public improve
ments and progress in his horae city. He served
two terras as a member of the council and one term
as mayor pro tem, being the only member of the

old council re-elected. WhUe in the council and
out of it he has given all his influence to public
improvements, and deserves much credit for the
installation of the present city waterworks. He
is chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias,
a member of the Masonic Order, and is on the
building coraraittee of the Baptist Church of Lake
City. Noveraber 30, 1916, he niarried Miss Lillian
Scarboro of Georgia.
Walter T. Love, who is in the real estate, bond
and investraent business, with offices in the Palraetto
Building at Colurabia, South Carolina, was born in
the capital city December 30, 1886.
Mr. Love acquired his education in the public
schools and the University of South Carolina, and
acquired his early business training as an official of
the Columbia Charaber of Coramerce.
During the World war Mr. Love was local chair
raan of the First Liberty Loan. He served as cor
poral in the Third Pioneer Infantry, and for eleven
months was overseas with the Expeditionary Forces
in France. Since being discharged he has taken up
his former business, and is also a director in the
Palmetto National Bank and the Liberty National
Bank. Is a meraber of the First Presbyterian
Church and is unmarried.
Tyrone C. Sturkie has been a leading lawyer
of Lexington for twenty years. He was born in
that town February 7, 1878, son of C. R. Sturkie.
Mr. Sturkie was educated in the comraon schools,
in Orangeburg College, and read law with Judge
J. F. Izler of Orangeburg. He was adraitted to
the bar in the spring of 1899.
J. Henry Stuhr. Through a period of half a
century the narae of Stuhr has been synonyraous
with the undertaking business at Charleston. J.
Henry Stuhr is the active head of a business es--
tablished by his father, and he has been its raan
aging head for twenty years.
J. Henry Stuhr was born at Charleston Decem
ber 31, 1871. His father, Henry D. Stuhr, was a
native of Germany, and came to Araerica and lo
cated at Charleston in 1865. Six raonths after he
arrived he took out his first papers of American
citizenship. A skilled cabinet maker by trade, he
soon engaged in the undertaking business and ren
dered a faithful and rauch appreciated service in
that line until his death in 1899. On the sarae ves
sel that brought him to Araerica another passenger
was Meta Tierborn, also a native of Gerraany.
They were strangers to each other during the voy
age but becarae acquainted soon afterward and were
raarried in Charleston. She is still living at the age
of seventy-one, They becarae the parents of three
children. J. Henry, G. August, who died in his
fortieth year, and John A., associated with his
brother in the undertaking business.
J. Henry Stuhr acquired his early education in
the public schools at Charleston, attended the Ben
nett & Craft schools, and reraained at home work
ing with his father until he was about twenty years
of age. He then had some experience as an under
taker and erabalraer at Jacksonville, Florida, spent
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whUe there took a course of embalraing. Alto
gether he was away from Charleston about nine
years, returning on account of the death of his
father and assuming active management of the busi
ness. He has kept the business in line with the
fine traditions set by his father, and at the same
time has been progressive and has equipped his
establishment with every facility used by modern
undertakers. In 1904 Mr. Stuhr married Catherine Viohl, of
Charleston. Her father was a veteran of the Civil
war and was also from Germany. Mr. and Mrs.
Stuhr have four children; Adele, J. Henry, Jr.,
Gertrude and Christine. All were born in Charles
ton. The family are merabers of the Lutheran
Church. Mr. Stuhr is affiliated with the Elks, with the
Masons and Mystic Shrine, the Knights of Pythias
and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, He is
a well known public-spirited citizen, a member of
the Chamber of Commerce, for several years was
a member of the board of trustees of the Young
Men's Christian Association, and is a member of
the N-ational Funeral Directors Association.
William Henry Whitehead, present mayor of
Lake City, is distinguished for his versatile gifts
and attainments, and has done commendable work
in three professions, the law, the ministry and
education. Mr. Whitehead was born in Sumter County,
South Carolina, February 13, 1878, son of William
Henry Whitehead, who for raany years was a
farmer and in the Naval Stores business, and Hen
rietta (Hicks) Whitehead, Mr. Whitehead grew
up and received raost of his education in North
Carolina, attending the public schools of Wingate,
and graduated A. B. from Wake Forest University
in 1904. He also studied law at Wake Forest and
•was admitted to the bar in June, 1914. From 1904
for several years Mr. Whitehead alternated between
teaching school and preaching as an ordained min
ister of the Baptist Church. He is still active in
the ministry. Since 191 1 his home has been at Lake
City, where he continued preaching and teaching.
He was honored by election as a raember of the
House of Representatives from Florence County,
serving during the session of 1913-14. He is also
a former alderman of Lake City and in December,
1918, was chosen mayor.
May ig, igo3, he married Miss Maud Lorena Ellis
of Wake Forest, North Carolina. Their three chil
dren are Edgar Henry, Bruce Davis and Verdessa
Thor. Theo. J. Simons has been a business man of
Charleston for raany years, chiefly engaged in the
fertilizer business.
He is a meraber of an old and noted faraily and
was born at Charleston, June 27, 1864, son of Keat
ing Lewis Siraons, a native of the same city and
grandson of Sedgwick Simons, also a native of
Charleston. The Simons family came from France
as representatives of French Huguenot slock, and
one of his ancestors was an intimate friend of Gen.

Francis Marion of the Revolution. The mother of
Theo. J. Simons was Melanie Taveau, a native of
-Charleston and daughter of Augustus Louis Tav
eau, who was born in Southern France, near the
City of Havre de Grace. Theo. J. Simons is the
youngest of nine children, all of whom reached
mature years and six of whom are still living.
He was educated in Charleston schools and at
the age of fifteen becarae clerk to a cotton factor.
Later he was cashier of the Bank of Barnwell, and
left that position to return to Charleston and en
gage in the brokerage business. Mr. Simons is now
raanager of the Maybank Fertilizer Company, man
ufacturers and distributors of fertilizer, and they
carry on an extensive business all over South Caro
lina and adjoining states. The industry is one that
employs about 175 people.
Mr. Siraons married in 1887 Mary Leige Webb,
daughter of Capt. Benjamin C. Webb, of Charles
ton, where she was born and educated. Captain
Webb comes from the old family of that name who
have resided in Colleton County since colonial days.
He was captain of the Palmetto Guard in the Cfvil
war. Mr. and Mrs. Siraons have five children,
Theo. Jervys, Jr., Mary Leige, Ruth Harleston,
Keating Lewis and Benjamin Webb. Mr. Simons
is a Knight Teraplar Mason and Shriner, a meraber
of the Charleston Country Club, St. George Society
and the New England Society.
L. M. Copleston is one of Charleston's energetic
young business raen, president of the W. S. Copies-
ton Company, dyers and dry cleaners. This is one
of the oldest organizations of its kind in Charleston,
and for nearly forty years has maintained a reputa
tion entitling them to be known as master dyer? and
dry cleaners.
The founder of the business was William S. Co
pleston, father of L. M. Copleston. W. S. Copleston
was a native of England, and learned his trade in
one of the finest and most progressive concerns of
its kind. Mills & Company at London. In 1881 he
established the present business at Charleston, and
for many years the headquarters were on Society
Street, where a branch of the present company is
still raaintained. Quite recently the new and raod
ern plant of W. S. Copleston & Company was com
pleted, a two-story, brick and concrete fireproof
building, with 12,000 feet of floor space and
equipped with every mechanical and technical
process for the work of dyeing and dry cleaning
and also with every device known to modern science
tor safeguarding against fire.
The company is incorporated for $30,000, and be
sides LM. Copleston. as president the other officers
are G. M. Moisson, treasurer, and George T. Tres-
cott, secretary.
L. M. Copleston was born at Charleston in 1890,
was educated in the local public schools, and was
only a young raan when his father died. At the
age of seventeen he practically took charge of the
business, has grown up in it, so to speak, and is
directly responsible for the great advances- made
during the past ten years, including the new and
modern plant.

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Wilbur E. Burnett was a raan whose fine at
tributes of character and whose splendid ability well
qualified him for leadership in community affairs,
and there has been no citizen who has wielded
greater or more benignant influence in connection
with the advanceraent of the City of Spartanburg,
judicial center of the South Carolina County of the
sarae name. His achievement was the direct ex
pression of a strong, noble, and talented personality,
and this history justly enters tribute to his memory,
now that he has passed forward to "that undiscov
ered country from whose bourne no traveler re
turns." Wilbur Emory Burnett was born at French Broad,
now known as Alexander, a station of the Southern
RaUroad, eight miles west of Ashe-ville. North Car
olina, and the date of his nativity was September
29, 1854. He was a son of Rev. Jackson Sraith and
Eliza (Alexander) Burnett, whose marriage was
solemnized at French Broad, a little hamlet which
later was named in honor of the Alexander family
of which Mrs. Burnett was a representative. Rev.
Jackson Smith Burnett came from '.^ennessee to
North Carolina and was a clergyman of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church. He becarae the first Meth
odist rainister at AshevUle, North Carolina, was later
engaged in raercantile business, but eventually re
sumed his service in the ministry. About the time
of the close of the war between the states he raoved
with his faraily to Hendersonville, North Carolina,
but shortly afterward in 1865, he came with his fam- •
ily to Spartanburg, South Carolina, where he passed
the remainder of his life. Mrs. Eliza (Alexander)
Burnett, who died when her son Wilbur E. was a
boy, was a daughter of Col. James Mitchell Alex
ander who was a son of James and Rhoda (Cun
ninghara) Alexander. James Alexander was a son
of John and Rachel (Davidson) Alexander, the
latter a daughter of John Davidson. Rhoda
(Cunningham) was a daughter of Humphrey Cun
ningham. Col. James Alexander raarried Miss
Nancy Foster, a daughter of Thoraas and Orra
(Sams) Foster, the latter of whom was a daughter
of Edmund and Nancy (Young) Sams. Thoraas
Foster was a son of WUliam and Elizabeth (Heath)
Foster. John Alexander and his son Jaraes were
raembers of the first 'corapany of white raen to set
tle in the present western part of North Carolina.
The Alexanders are a branch of the Scotch Mc
Donalds and are descendents of King Robert
(Bruce) I of Scotland. Thus the family lineage
traces also to William the Conqueror, Alfred the
Great, Cerdic, Charlemange, etc.
Rev. Jackson Smith Burnett becarae the father
of five children: Alice, Charles, WUey B., Wilbur
B. and Edward — to whom he gave the best possible
educational advantages. At HendersonvUle, North
Carolina, Wilbur E. Burnett recei-ved elementary
instructions under the direction of a talented woman,
who later became Mrs. Massey and who eventually
became the executive head of a girl's school at
Spartanburg, South Carolina. Mr. Burnett next re
ceived training in the preparatory school or depart
ment of Wofford College, in the academic depart
ment of which he was matriculated in 1872. He was
graduated with honors, as a meraber of the class
of 1876, and received the degree of Bachelor of
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Arts. As a student he showed a raind of unusual
clearness and strength; was prorapt, reliable and
efficient in meeting his college duties; by a fine
courtesy won the confidence and respect of both
his . instructors and his fellow students ; and in
various college activities displayed the promise of
that leadership that afterward contributed largely to
the many-sided development of that city in which he
chose to make his home.
There was no lost motion with Mr. Burnett be
tween college days and the real business of life.
He immediately accepted the position of collection,
or outdoor clerk in the First National Bank of Spar
tanburg, then a modest institution but six years old.
To the bank he brought an unflagging energy, an un
failing courtesy, an undivided loyalty, and an intelli
gence 'singularly clear and certain in its processes
and judgments. These qualities necessarily raeant
advancement and step by step, Mr. Burnett became
book-keeper, assistant cashier, and cashier, while
finally, in 1902— twenty-six years after his first con
nection with the bank, he was elected president, and
at the same tirae president of the Fidelity Loan &
Trust Company. In the next twelve years, under Mr.
Burnett's progressive and wise adrainistration, this
bank not only related itself vitally and broadly to
the whole commercial development of the City of
Spartanburg, but also became one of the most cora
raanding financial institutions in the state.
While his first loyalty was to the bank, in the
management of the affairs of which he displayed
both a comprehensive understanding of the larger
aspects of the banking business and a definite grasp
of even its sraallest details, Mr. Burnett gave his
extraordinary qualities of leadership unstintedly to
the establishraent of other important coraraercial
and industrial enterprises. It was he who developed
the Mechanics Building & Loan Association, the
oldest of the buUding and loan associations in the
•City of Spartanburg. As far back as 1890 he had
the prophetic industrial foresight to sense the future
significance of the cotton-raill industry for this par
ticular section, and was one of the organizers and
the first president of the Spartan Mills Corapany.
Later he was a leading proraoter of the Town of
Chesnee and the first president of the great mill
of that place.
But, banker, capitalist, proraoter of large indus
trial enterprises out of which the coraraercial prog
ress of the city developed, Mr. Burnett was very
rauch raore than this. His insight was deep enough
and his intelligence broad enough to take in the
whole life of the city, and he understood that there
were other forces that had to be cared for and
directed if the progress of the city should be what
it ought to be. He was therefore characterized by
an abiding sense of public service, which found
practical expression in a variety of ways. It was
he who first felt the need of co-operative community
effort in the form of a Charaber of Commerce, and,
as its first president, helped to lay the foundations
of one of the city's most serviceable organizations.
He was willing also to serve as a meraber of the
city council, with no other motive than to help
advance the interests of the community. At a tirae,
moreover, when railitary service was needed, he ac
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But the raost noteworthy expression of Captain
Burnett's sense of public service is probably found
in his relations to Wofford College, his alraa raater,
and to Converse College for Woraen, in the estab
lishraent of which, in 1890, he was one of the
leading spirits. For many years he was president
of the Alumni Association of Wofford, and from
1900, a member of the CoUege Board of Trustees
and its secretary. He was a meraber also, of the
Converse Board of Trustees frora the beginning of
the history of this college. To the service of both
of these institutions he brought an understanding
interest, an enthusiasra that never failed and a prac
tical support that raade him the leader m every
movement that looked to their advancement, finan
cial and otherwise. The result is that his thought
and efforts are a part of the life of these two
growing institutions. Without him, they could not
have been what they are and what they are going
to be. ......
With a life-history of coraraanding achieveraent
which this record barely suggests, it is easy to un
derstand that when Mr. Burnett passed away, on
the evening of February 20, 1914, the whole cora
raunity felt that it was losing one of the city's real
builders — a raan whose personality had wrought
itself successfully into almost every enterprise upon
which the city's industrial life depended as weU as
into those institutions that give to Spartanburg its
peculiar intellectual and moral tone. In their efforts
to measure the nature and extent of his service, by
spoken word, in the newspaper press, by formal
resolutions, the entire citizenship of the coraraunity
paid tribute to his leadership and bore testimony to
his extraordinary achievement in many lines of en
deavor. All knew that the history of rauch that
the City of Spartanburg has become could not be
written without including the life-history of WUbur
Eraory Burnett.
In the beginning of his splendid career as a man
of initiative and constructive genius, Mr. Burnett
married Miss Gertrude Du Pre, daughter of Dr.
¦Warren Du Pre, an honored member of the faculty
of his alma mater, Wofford College. Of this mar
riage he left three sons and four daughters — ^W.
Du Pre Burnett, Jackson S. Burnett, Wilbur Eraory
Burnett, ,Mrs. 'WUliara C. Cleveland, Mrs. Wilbur
C. Cooke, Miss Helen Burnett, and Miss Carrie
Burnett. Since the death of her honored husband,
Mrs. Burnett has retained her horae at Spartanburg
in the representative social life of which she has
long been a gracious and popular figure. — Written
by H.N.Snyder, A.M., Lit. D., LL.D., president of
Wofford College.
Rt. Rev. Ellison Capers, D. D. A man of exalted
character and achievement. Bishop Capers becarae
one of the distinguished prelates of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the South and was the seventh
bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina. He was
known as "the soldier bishop," and with utraost con
sistency has it been written that "He was one of
the raost erainent figures in the South, and hundreds
of South Carolinians are proud to claira hira as
their source of inspiration, whether as teacher,
soldier, or Episcopal bishop of South Carolina."
Ellison Capers was born in Charleston, South

Carolina, on the 14th of Octobr, 1837, and was a
scion of an influential family whose name has been
closely and worthily identified with the history of
South Carolina since 1694. His grandfather was
Captain William Capers, one of "Marion's Men"
in the war of the Revolution — "though an officer,
StiU a man; either way an honor.". The father of
Bishop Capers was an eloquent divine of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church and one of its first bishops
in the South. So it happened long ago that this
family became distinguished on the battlefield and
in the pulpit.
"Coraing events cast their shadows before," but
little did the parents of Bishop Capers know of
what the future -had in store for the child who first
saw the light of day in that beautiful city by the
sea, a city enclosing, among its quaint old build
ings, facts and traditions and meraories dear to re-
raembrance. At the age of nine years Ellison Capers
becarae a pupil of Doctor Brumby, head master of a
then celebrated school that has honorable record in
the history of educational work in South Carolina.
In January, 1854, young Capers was nominated
for a cadetship at the Arsenal, at that time the
training school for the state's historic academy
known as The Citadel. During the transforraa
tion scene between Arsenal and Citadel life, he en
dured rauch, and following the old rule of Rugby,
Eaton and West Point, he never "peached" when
passing through the ordeal that awaits the young
recruit. Cadet Ellison Capers was graduated at The Cita
del as a raeraber of the class of 1857 and became
assistant professor of mathematics and belles lettres
in that institution. At this tirae also was soleranized
his marriage to Miss Charlotte Rebecca Palmer, of
St. Johns, Berkeley County, South Carolina. His
native state was about entering that struggle for
independence which, for a period of four years
was to deluge the soil of the South with thp best
blood of its people. Lieutenant Capers, of The
Citadel, at the age of twenty-three years, was elected
raajor of the First Regiraent of Rifles. Well, and
raost faithfully, under Beauregard's command, he
rendered service in and around Charleston, and
then, having been promoted lieutenant colonel, he
entered into more active service for the Confederate
states. The carapaign on Jaraes Island was opened
by Lieutenant Colonel Capers. In this engagement
Colonel Capers led the attack, and for his courage
and skilful manageraent was commended in general
orders, "for distinguished gallantry." At the battle
of Secessionville his action again caused him to be
mentioned in general orders and in the affair at
Clark's House he again received simUar recognition.
"and always for gallantry," says Brigadier General
N. G. Evans. .On the 4th of AprU, 1862, as lieu
tenant colonel, he went with the Twenty-Fourth
Regiment to engage in the carapaign at James Island.
He commanded this regiment at the battle of Jack-
.son, Mississippi, where he was wounded. At Frank
lin, Tennessee, he was again wounded, as he was
later at the battle of Chickamauga. On March i,
1865, upon the recommendation of General Johnston
and General Hardee, he was commissioned briga
dier general, at the age of twenty-eight years.
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eral Capers was compelled to use crutches, as the
result of the wounds he received in battle. Before
the war he had been studying law, in spare raoments,
and had completed the course. In one of the battles
in which he took part there came to him a great
raoment, that was destined to change his career in
future. It appeared inevitable to him, in one of the
great battles, that his command would be annihi
lated. He appealed to his Maker in earnest prayer,
and gave a vow to God to devote his life forever to
His service if He would extricate his men from this
massacre. This was the battle of Chickamauga.
In 1866 General Capers was elected secretary of
state of South Carolina. After serving his state
in this capacity, during a political crisis, he resigned
to redeem his secret pledge" and applied himself
for Holy Orders.
In an issue of the Edgefield (South Carolina)
Chronicle a layraan has written as follows : "Bishop
Capers is perhaps the most widely known and
most universally beloved raan in South Carolina.
We do. not mean to say that his being bishop over
the Episcopal Church in South Carolina makes him
thus, although as high and broad a Christian as
Bishop Capers is more than apt to be generally ap
preciated and honored. It is the Bishop's noble
record in the Confederate war, joined to his almost
perfect personal character, that causes him to be
known and be loved on all sides. When the Bishop
comes here or goes there or yonder, it is not Epis
copal, Methodist, Baptist or Presbyterian — but is
'Bishop Capers is here I' or 'General Capers is here I'
or 'Brave old Ellison Capers is here !' And every
body wants to see him and shake his hand — old
people, because they know and love him, and young
people because they honor and love the traditions ;
because they would greet a hero of faithful history."
General Butler and General Capers were warm
friends; indeed their early acquaintance and friend
ship soon ripened into a love that lasted throughout
the life of the dead soldier and bishop. Close com
rades in peace and war, none knew better or had a
higher admiration for the lamented dead than his
friend and comrade in arms, ex-Congressman Gen.
M. C. Butler, who this morning paid the following
beautiful tribute to his life-long friend: "Edgefield,
April 26. — Special :
"The death of Bishop Capers leaves but three of
the thirty-three general officers in the Confederate
armies from this state, Stephen D. Lee, T. M. Logan
and myself.
"I do not mean to disparage the high qualities of
my two surviving friends and comrades, and trust
they will not so regard it, when I say, in my opinion.
Capers was a better man than either of us. In his
sphere of action there was no raore valiant, accom
plished soldier in either army. When he was fight
ing for his convictions as a citizen of a constitu
tional republic. As a young solder in that fight he
flashed his sword with courage and honor under the
starry cross, and when that banner was furled he
enlisted under the cross of Christ, and took his
orders from the Prince of Peace.
"We all know how he devoted the best years of
his life in conscientiously, bravely, faithfuUy carry
ing out those orders of his Supreme Commander.
No higher encomium can be awarded him than to

say he was a good citizen, m what is supposed to
be a free republic, measuring up to the fuU height
of^^his responsibUities as such.
''He was a chivalric gentleman, endowed by nature
and eraployed in his daily life, with a grace, a pa-
'^-r^ ^ considerate firmness that few raen possess. '
Ihe last tirae I met him we were passengers in
the same carriage, going in that imposing procession
t? the unveUing of the Harapton monument, in
Columbia. It was my fortune to be selected to de
liver the principal address. Bishop Capers was ap
pointed to open the proceedings with prayer. We
all recall the fervor, eloquence, grace and sincerity
of his delivery.
"The world can ill afford to spare such men, but
like all mortals he had to go, and although not
present at the final sumraons, I venture the opinion
he met the 'grim spectre' as fearlessly and bravely
as he had met every danger and responsibility
during his natural life.
"He was 'not afraid to die — why should .he have
been? He had discharged every duty to his God
and his country, and I believe as firraly as I believe
in ray own existence that when his purified spirit
left its raortal habitation, it took its flight straight
way to realms of everlasting peace, there to enjoy
coraraunion with Bishop Lieut.-Gen. Leonidas Polk,
of Tennessee, the Reverend Brigadier General Pen
dleton, of Virginia, soldiers of the world and of
the cross, and other exalted spirits and patriots who
had preceded him. He leaves surviving one dis
tinguished comrade in each sphere — the Rev. Gen.
Cleraent A. Evans, of Atlanta, who exemplified in
his life the best type of soldier and American citi-
zep. May he be spared raany years to continue his
high ideals as an exaraple to those who corae after
hira." In 1867 Ellison Capers becarae a priest of the
Protestant Episcopal Church. For twenty years he
served as rector of Christ Church, GreenvUle, South
Carolina. A beautiful raeraorial window, costing
more than $10,000, is now one of the visible testi
monials to the love and reverence in which his narae
is kept in Christ Church. For one year he was at
St. Paul's Church, Selraa, Alabaraa. This church,
incidental to his consecration as bishop, sent to him
the episcopal ring, with a letter full of appreciation.
July 20, 1893, he was consecrated bishop of the
South Carolina Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. As he had been six years rector of Trinity
Church, Colurabia, the consecration services there
took place. "Out of his old faith he brought with
hira all he had found in it that was holy and pure
and of good report — not its intolerance, but its zeal,
its self-devotion, its heavenly aspirations, its human
sympathies. "Thou hast the nobler virtues of thy race.
Without the failings that attend those virtues ;
Thou canst be strong, and yet not tyrannous.
Canst righteous be and not intolerant."
When Ellison Capers died, April 22, 1908, there
passed from earth one of the gentlest, sweetest
spirits that has ever mingled with the lives of men.
Endowed with great physical strength, and with a
mind singularly alert, versatile and powerful, he had
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a counselor, guide and staff to the humblest, and
to the highest; a soldier in war, a soldier in peace,
he was ever erect, resourceful, conquering, yet mak
ing all who carae under his powerful spell to feel
that God at times vouchsafes to man the essence of
, divinity. In his life, as in his death, he was known
as "the best loved raan in South Carolina," and the
knowledge that he deserved this crown of praise is
the heritage of his church and his state. ^
Following if an extract from an editorial that ap
peared in the Charleston News and Courier under
date of April 23; igo8:
"The bells that yesterday sent out from St.
Michael's historic tower the tidings of the death of
Bishop Capers have never sounded the knell of one
more beloved, admired and respected. They have
announced the decease of presidents, and gov
ernors and bishops and rectors and others of dis
tinction in state and nation, for si-x score years and
more, but for no raan of thera all has their rever
berating message worked more universal and sincere
sorrow. His has been a place unique in his native
comraonwealth. He touched its life at raany points.
As citizen, as soldier, as educator, as public official,
as bishop, he has met the expectations and justified
the confidence of his people, who delighted to do
hira honor as they followed his progress with syra
pathetic adrairation and growing appreciation, bid
ding hira to one high place after another until at the
last, as leader of his church's host in South Caro
lina, they crowned his career of honorable service
with the Aiost exalted testiraonial of trust and love
in their power to offer. For fifteen years as bishop
¦ — more truly servant of all than ever before — he so
bore himself in his high office as to have won the
adrairation of his peers, the good will of his fellow
Christians of every narae, and the devotion of his
clergy and people, the respect of all sorts and con
ditions of men. In Colonel John Thomas' history
of the South Carolina MUitary Academy much of
interest is said of 'the most distinguished graduate' :
'Strong alike with clergy and laity, the mantle of
larger responsibilities than he has yet borne may,
in God's providence, await him in the future. That
his mind is strong enough, his soul sweet enough
and his shoulders broad enough for heavy church
burdens — this would seem attested by his character
and career. So many times, on account of his grace
ful oratory, has he been called upon to address his
fellow citizens, especially upon Confederate occa
sions that he raight fitly be considered as having
earned the title of Orator Laureate of the Con
federacy.' "
After the death of Bishop Capers there came to
his family raany letters from different parts of the
United States. As a separate booklet these letters
would reveal the impressions of varied lives of men
and women in every condition of life — letters from
Bishop Weed, of Florida; Bishop Gailor, of Ten
nessee; Bishop Nelson, of Atlanta, Georgia; Bishop
Cheshire, of North Carolina; Bishop Bratton, of
Mississippi, and many other letters of deep feeling.
An extract from the letter of the late Bishop Potter
of New York City shows the attitude of the
Northern bishop to the Southern friend. A silver
service now in possession of the Capers faraily was

presented to Bishop Capers by Bishop Potter, Octo
ber 14, 19O4, as a birthday remembrance for friend
ship's sake. Bishop Potter writes : "It casts a
sombre' light upon the church, not alone in South
Carolina but also throughout the United States, to
learn, as we have done in New York of late, of the
death of our dear friend Bishop Capers. He be
came endeared to some of us for the first time in
connection with the General Conventiqn of igoi,
which sat, as it will be reraerabered, in San Fran
cisco, and the undersigned was privileged then to
enjoy his society, as his guest in the house whicli
dear friends in San Francisco had placed at his dis
posal. No one under that roof at that tirae will
ever forget those happy days, nor the sweet and
gracious influence of that rare personality which in
carnated in the late Bishop of South Carolina. It
is not given to all men to be enriched by various
contacts and services. They select .thera with
courage and discharge thera with fidelity; but are
often wont to be hardened by the variety of respon
sibilities and of services which have come to them.
But in Bishop Capers' case it was impossible to
believe that he had ever touched life at any point
without drawing frora it soraething which raade his
own character — and in the episcopate his high min
istry — of greater beauty, dignity, self-sacrifice and
gracious comprehension. Those of us who are
Northern men and women felt this perhaps most
keenly in connection with his- relation to that wider
life which is the life of the republic, as distinguished
frora the life of the faraily, or the church, or even ¦
the state. Bishop Capers was a born statesman.
He had a genius for seeing the other side of things
- — the political probleras, the raoral eraergencies and
other ecclesiastical tasks than his own — and in the
house of bishops illustrated a breadth of vision, a
fine serenity of teraper and a most gracious and
winning spirit, which endeared him to all who knew
hira. The writer of these lines can not venture to
trust himself to speak of what Bishop Capers came
to be to him in their personal relations. But the
beautiful quality in his speech, in his every act, in
relations with all sorts and conditions of raen, which
made one sensible at once that he was truly human
in his sympathies and divine in his standards, will
always live as a gracious and benignant inspiration.
The diocese of South Carolina raust needs mourn,
and the whole church mourns with it." Such was
the estiraate of the late Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter,
bishop of New York.
At the tirae of Bishop Capers' death he was sur
vived by his wife and seven children, five sons and
two daughters— Francis Fasseaux, John Gendron,
William Theodotus, Ellison, Walter Branham, May
(Mrs. Charles B. Satterlee), and Lottie (Mrs. Wil
liara H. Johnson). Of the sons it should be re
corded that Rev. Walter B. is president of Columbia
Institute, in the State of Tennessee, and author of
a life of his father, issued under the title of, 'The
Soldier-Bishop," Hon. John G. Capers, a distin
guished lawyer in the City of Washington, D. C,
is the subject of an individual sketch on other pages
of this work. Perhaps the mantle of Bishop Capers'
great goodness has fallen upon his third son, the
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bishop of the diocese of West Texas, his home
being at io6 West French Place, San Antonio, that
state. He is eloquent and beloved, and is fuU of
natural patriotism. His addresses delivered over
the State of Texas influenced vast numbers of
young men to enlist for service in the World war.
The State of Texas sent him a testimonial of ap
preciation of his character and service.
The late Rev. Charles S. Vidder wrote as follows
concerning his friend, under the title "EUison
Capers" :
"The Bayard of the tented field.
Where knightly deed was done ;
The Sydney of the stainless shield.
And princely heart in love revealed
When the red field was won.
His falchion sheathed a shepherd then.
His knightly deeds are sure;
Alike to rich and poor.
The good Sir Galahad of men.
Whose strength was as the strength of ten.
Because his heart was pure.
He sleeps a paladin at rest.
In Heaven's eternal peace;
His life on others' lives imprest;
His name, his words, his raeraory blest.
By tongues that will not cease."
George Hall Moffett was admitted to the bar
and began practice as a lawyer at Charleston in
1892. His earnestness, well rounded abUity, and
diligence has brought him a high place at the bar,
where for a number of years he has associated with
the leaders in the front rank.
He was born at Charleston October 27, 1867. His
grandfather came from Scotland and settled in
Charleston in 1810. His father married Elizabeth
Henry Siraonton, whose people were colonial set
tlers, first in Pennsylvania and later in South Caro
lina, prior to the American Revolution. The father
of the Charleston lawyer, George Hall Moffett, en
tered the Confederate army as a private, was pro
raoted and became adjutant general of Hagood's
Brigade, Twenty-fifth South Carolina Volunteers.
After the war he was a prorainent Charleston mer
chant. -
George H. Moffett was prepared for college in
the graramar and high schools of Charleston, also
studied in the College of Charleston, and in 1889
received his Bachelor of Arts degree from South
Carolina University. After graduating he taught
one year in the country and one year in Charleston.
In the meantime he was diligently studying law.
His career as a lawyer has been punctuated by
various public honors. He served as a member of
the Legislature in the sessions of igoi and 1902 and
in 1903 was chosen corporation counsel for Charles
ton and held that office several years. Mr. Moffett
is now chairman of the Board of Public School
Commissioners for the City of Charleston. He is
a democrat, a meraber of the Presbyterian Church,
a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon college fra
ternity, a Knight of Pythias and is a Knight Tera
plar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Ma^on
and Shriner.
He married Miss Mary E. Conner, eldest daughter
of Gen. Jaraes Conner, of Charleston.

Capt. William Adger Moffett, who was com
mandant of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station
during the World war, is a native South Carolinian
and a brother of the Charleston lawj-er, George Hall
Moffett. Captain Moffett was born at Charleston,
October 31, 1869, son of George H. and Elizabeth
(Siraonton) Moffett.
Educated in the Charleston public schools, he
was appointed to the United States Naval Acaderay
at Annapolis in 1886, graduated in 1890, and was
promoted through the various grades— ensign,
lieutenant junior grade, lieutenant, lieutenant-com
mander, commander— to captain on August 29, 1916.
He served under Admiral Dewey on board the
Charleston at the capture of ManUa in 1898. He
commanded the Chester at Vera Cruz and at Tam-
pico, Mexico, when the deraand was raade for the
salute of the American flag in 1914, and personally
delivered the demand for the salute to General
Saragossa of the Mexican forces. He coraraanded
the Chester at the taking of Vera Cruz on AprU
21-22, 1914, and was awarded the Congressional
Aledal of Honor for distinguished conduct in that
action, Septeraber 14, 1914, he was appointed commandant
of the United States Naval Training Station at
Great Lakes, Illinois, and was commandant of the
Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Naval Districts until
December, igi8. During that time this station was
developed from one with a capacity of 350 men to
one of 50,000 inhabitants, and became known as the
"world's largest naval training station," and fur
nished over 100,000 men to the fleets during the
World v,'ar. The service he rendered at Great
Lakes was a splendid achievement, and one that
has been properly appreciated by the navy authori
ties and by the great civilian ' population in the
Middle West as well. Since leaving the Great Lakes
station Captain Moffett has been in command of the
super-dreadnaught Mississippi with the Pacific fleet.
Captain Moffett is a Presbyterian, and is a raera
ber of the Chevy Chase Club of Chevy Chase, Mary
land, the University Club of New York, New York
Yacht Club, South Shore Country Club of Chicago,
Onwentsia Club of Chicago, Array and Navy Club
of Washington, and Navy Mutual Aid Society, July
26, igo2, at Fowley, England, he raarried Miss Jean
nette Beverley Whitton of Virginia. Their six chil
dren are Janet Whitton, born at Germantown, South
Carolina ; George Hall, born at Washington ; William
Adger, Jr„ born in San Francisco ;, IMareuerite Eliza
beth, born at Washington, and Charles Siraonton and
Anna Beverlev, both of thera born while their father
was at Great Lakes, Illinois.
Henry Augustine Molony. Though his youth
was beset by handicaps that prevented hira from
getting a liberal education, Henry Augustine Mo-
lony, after once getting into the fair field of the
arena of life, raade progress sufficient to outdistance
any of his early conteraporaries and has long been
knowji as one of the most successful, aggressive
business leaders and citizens of Charleston.
He was born at Charleston, January 2g, 1858.
His father, John Molony, came frora County Clare,
Ireland, to Charleston in 1845. Frora 1850 he was
in the merchandise business at the corner of Church
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in i860, and not being insured entailed a total loss.
He then took his family of seven children to Sum
ter, and remained there until the evacuation of
Charleston, when he returned to that city. He died
at the age of fifty-eight. He married after coming
to Charleston Mary Bourchier, also a native of Ire
land, who had come to South Carolina with a
brother and sister. She died at the age of seventy-
two. Of their seven children all grew to raature
years, but only three are now living : Ellen, widow
of Laurens Cavanaugh, who was a raeraber of the
Dixie Rangers in the Confederate Army and one
of the few to survive the battling ordeal of that
organization in Virginia, and Jaraes T., who is con
nected with the Atlantic Coast Line Railway.
Henry Augustine Molony spent his boyhood days
in Charleston, and his last attendance at public
school was the old St. PhiUip Street School. He
was not yet fifteen when he began to raake his own
living. For a time he worked for monthly wages in
the wood and lumber business, being eraployed by
Patrick Brady about two years. He then became
deputy sheriff under Alonzo White. His next post
was bookkeeper for P. Moran, a work he performed
faithfully four years.
July I, 1886, Mr. Molony engaged in the hay,
grain, fertUizer and coraraission business with Mr.
Patrick Carter. Their corabined capital was only
$1,800. The work of these two resourceful and
vigorous young raen was rauch raore iraportant in
proraoting the business than capital. It grew, ex
panded and prospered and in ' igi3 the Molony-
Carter Company was incorporated with a capital of
$200,000 and surplus of $SO,ooo. It is one of the
largest grain firms in the South, and handles a large
part of the grain and other agricultural products of
North and South Carolina. They are manufacturers
of mixed fertilizers, having an annual output from
their factory, foot of Laurence Street, of about 25,-
000 tons : also importers of fertilizer materials.
Mr. Molony is -also president of the J. R. Stokes
Lumber Corapany, capitalized at $50,000, is presi
dent of the St. George Land & Investraent Cora
pany. has for twenty-eight years been a director of
the First National Bank and several vears a director
of the Charleston Consolidated Light & Power
Corapany. As a young raan he did a yeoman's part in the
democratic party and followed the fortunes of that
organization for raany years. He was an alternate
delegate in the National Convention which norainated
Cleveland in 1884. He was also deeply interested in
the election of D. C. Heyward as governor and
served on his staff. Mr. Molony is a Grand Knight
of the Knights of Columbus, and one of the prom
inent Catholic laymen of the state. For many years
he has been an official in St. John's Cathedral.
At St. Louis, Missouri, in 1886. he raarried Annie
Hennegan, who was born at TiraraonsviUe South
Carolina. She died in 1892, the mother of three
children H. A., Jr.. J. W., and Annie B. In igoo
Mr Molony married Miss Ria Cahill. At her death
in December, igio, she was survived by seven chU
dren: Clair, Louise, Marcia, Elizabeth, Adel, Blanch
and Rita.
The Molony residence at 112 Rutledge Avenue
was bought some fifteen years ago by Mr. Molony.

It was one of the old houses of the city, but he has
remodeled it, and made it a modern residence.
William H. Johnson, M. D. Marked with dis
tinction has been the professional career and service
of Dr. William Henry Johnson, who has long
maintained secure vantage-ground as one of the
representative physicians and surgeons of the South.
He has been engaged in practice in the City of
Charleston for many years, has been a raember of
many institutional boards, has been prorainent and
influential in the educational work of his profession,
and during the World war he gave a large part of
his tirae to active service in France.
Doctor Johnson was born at Charleston, on the
30th of March, 1871, and is a son of William and
Mary Holmes (Mellichamp) Johnson. On the pa
ternal side he is of English ancestry and on the
maternal side is of French-Huguenot lineage. It is
to be recorded that in the raaternal line likewise is
to be found a strain of consanguineous English
origin. Thus it is that Doctor Johnson is a de
scendant of each of two brothers, William and John
Johnson, who were sons of John and Jane (Hay
wood) Johnson, the original American ancestors of
this family having eraigrated from London, England,
in 1660 and having immigrated to New York City
with a Dutch colony. 'William Johnson married
Miss Sarah Nightingale, of Charleston, South Caro
lina, and their ninth child, James Slidel Johnson,
raarried Miss Eleanor Sophia Reid, the eldest of
their nine children having been William Johnson,
father of Dr. William H. Johnson of this review.
Mary Holmes Mellichamp's ancestry goes back to
John Johnson, the other of the two brothers raen
tioned above, and also to Col. Jonathan Fowler, of
colonial days. It is recorded that John Johnson
mortgaged his property on Broadway, New York,
just north of historic old Trinity Church, to raise a
corapany of which he became captain and which did
splendid service in the battle of White Plains, in the
War of the Revolution. The youngest of his eight
chUdren was Sarah Johnson, who became the wife of
Oliver Cromwell — probably a descendant of Oliver
Cromwell of English history. Sarah CromweU, a
daughter of Oliver and Sarah (Johnson) Cromwell
became the wife of Rev. Stiles Mellicharap and
raother of Mary Holmes Johnson, nee Mellichamp.
Dr. WUliam H. Johnson spent his boyhood days
in Charleston, and from 1875 to 1881 he here at
tended a private school conducted by Miss Eliza
McCrady Johnson. For two years thereafter he
was a student in the school of Mrs. Ellen Tooraer.
His instructors were Professors CaldweU, A. Fin
ger and B. R. Stuart. During 1883-4 his teachers
were L. M. Coleraan and C. W. Kent. Frora 1884
to 1888 he was a student under Walter D. McKenny,
In the autumn of 1888 he entered the University of
South Carolina, in which he corapleted a three years'
elective scientific course, and finally he was matric
ulated in the medical department of the University
of Virginia, in which historic old institution he was
graduated as a raember of the class of 1893 and with
the well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. He
thereafter received valuable hospital experience in the
Mothers and Babies' Hospital in New York City;
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lief," a branch of the New York Hospital ; and also
pursued a special course in the Carnegie laboratory
of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, He was
abroad, studying and attending clinics in Europe,
in 1895, and again in 1898. He pursued also a
course in electro-therapeutics in the New York
Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital, in 1900.
During a period of long, active and successful
practice in the City of Charleston, Doctor Johnson
has rendered many professional services in addi
tion to his general practice. He taught histology
and diseases of chUdren and orthopaedic surgery
in the Charleston Medical School. He was con
nected with Shirras Dispensary, and for four years
was city dispensary physician. He was a lecturer
at the University of the South, in Sewanee, in the
sumraer of 1900 and 1901 on six different subjects.
He also taught gynecology at the Charleston Poly
clinic, taught Roentgenology at the South Carolina
Medical College, and he is now (1920) professor
of a course on fractures, dislocations and ortho
paedics, at the South Carolina State Medical Col
lege. Doctor Johnson holds membership in the
South Carolina State Medical Association, the 'Amer
ican Medical Association, and other representative
professional organizations. He is affiliated with the
Phi Kappa Psi college fraternity, and is a member
of the St. Cecelia Society and various social organi
zations. He has served as surgeon for the Caro
lina Rifles, medical referee at the Charleston navy
yard, physician to United States prisoners, and as
United States pension exarainer. He was for six
teen years a meraber of the vestry of Grace Church,
Protestant Episcopal, in Charleston.
On the 5th of May, 1898, was soleranized the
marriage of Doctor Johnson to Miss Lottie Palraer
Capers, daughter of Rr. Rev. Ellison Capers, D. D.,
and Charlotte (Palraer) Capers, a raeraorial trib
ute to her honored and distinguished father, the
seventh bishop of the South Carolina Diocese of
the Protestant Episcopal Church, being entered on
other pages of this publication. Her raother, Char
lotte R. (Palmer) Capers, was a descendant, in
the seventh generation, of Sir Nathaniel Johnson,
a colonial governor of South Carolina. She was
descended also frora a royal governor of South
Carolina — Thomas Broughton.
Doctor and Mrs. Johnson have four chUdren —
Jaraes Reid, Lottie P. Capers, Ellison Capers and
Mary Elizabeth. Doctor Johnson and his son, James
Reid Johnson, Jr., offered, in April, 191 7, their
services in the World war. The son, at the age of
seventeen years, applied for a post as arabulance
driver and also for service in the aviation corps,
but Doctor Johnson persuaded hira to go either to
West Point or Annapolis, as he thought the war
would continue at least six years longer and he
wished the son to be properly educated. The result
was that the son chose and entered the navy.
Doctor Johnson was on active service in the
United States Army for nineteen months, a year
of which was spent in France. Upon entering the
service he was first ordered for a special course
at the Massachusetts General Hospital, in the City
of Boston ; at Harvard University for anantomy ;
at Carap Greenleaf, Chickamauga Park, Tennessee,
for mUitary training; at Rockefeller Institute for

Medical Research in New York City for the Car-
rol-Dakin course; Carap Jackson Base Hospital No.
60, for training and a tryout in base-hospital work;
then to Camp Crane, AUentown, Pennsylvania, to
join Base Hospital No. 68. July 8, 1918, he saUed,
on the Leviathan, for France. He attended some
of the wounded from Chateau Thiefry, Ballou
Wood, the Argonne, St. Mihiel, etc., and at one
tirae, without other physicians, and even without
nurses or orderlies, he had charge of 774 sick and
wounded, who were in his care whUe at Mars sur
AUier, with Base Hospital No. 68. After the sign
ing of the historic arraistice Doctor Johnson was sent
to Savenay, with Base Hospital No. 119. He was
several tiraes recommended for promotion. His
officer's record book contains the following: "June
10, 1919. This officer has been acting as chief of
orthopaedic service at this hospital for about six
months. His work has been very satisfactory. I
recommended him for promotion." (Signed: L. O.
Tarleton, Lt. Col. M. C. C. O., B. H. No. 119, Save
nay, France.) "June 10, 1919. This officer has
been most faithful and devoted to duty. He is
especially well qualified in fracture work and has
the ability to get results. It has been a pleasure to
have had him on the orthopaedic staff, and I know
of no one who deserved the rank of major more
than he does. It is to be regretted that he was
not promoted." (Signed: C. B. Francisco, Lt. Col.,
M. C, Consulting Orthopaedic Surgeon, Base Sec-
tior^ No. I, Savenay, France.)
John Gates Stabler, one of the foremost of the
prorainent merabers of the Calhoun County Bar,
shares his reputation as an able and conscientious
lawyer with a number of years of successful educa
tional work.
Mr. Stabler was born in Orangeburg County,
October 3, 1871, a son of William D. and Johanna
Zeigler Stabler. He was the youngest son of a
family of four boys and three girls. His brothers,
WUliara E. M., George W. and Jacob S. Stabler,
married and elected to live near the old homestead.
His mother died in 1891 and his father in 1903.
Upon the death of his father his three sisters.
Misses Annie, Rosa and Eraraa, becarae his especial
care. He says that whatever success he has so far
achieved in life, he attributes it in a large measure
to their devotion and encouragement. In the death
of his sister Rosa, in 1918, he suffered one of the
deepest griefs of his life.
Mr. Stabler coraes of good Gerraan stock on his
father's side, and of one of the old Scotch-Irish
families of his mother's. His forebears carae to
this country in the 17th century and settled in
middle South Carolina. As pioneers they took an
active nart in the development of their coraraunity
life. They were araong those who planted thera
selves in the wUds of America seeking personal and
political liberty, found it, and afterwards fought to
raaintain it. Members of both sides of the family
fought in the Revolution and the war between the
states, many of them dying on the battlefield.
Mr. Stabler's father was a farraer and the boy
grew up in a rural atmosphere, working in the fields
and roaming the woods and meadows. As a result
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father, along with others, lost raost of his property;
but the son, in spite of conditions which prevailed
in the South in those days, determined to educate
himself. He attended the rural schools, such as
they were then, and early in life qualified as a
teacher and spent nine years in that vocation, teach
ing in the Orangeburg County Schools. He entered
Wofford College, graduating with the class of 1905,
taking his A. B. degree in three years. , In his
senior year at Wofford he taught Latin in the Wof
ford Fitting School, and the following year taught
at the Carlisle Fitting School. He then entered
the senior class of the law department of the Uni
versity of South Carolina, taking his LL. B. degree
in one year, in igo8. Since that year he has been
located at St. Matthews, where he has been building
up a good general practice as an attorney. Among
other activities he is now attorney for three banks
in Calhoun County and for the Southern Cotton
Oil Company.
On June 20, 1912, he was united in marriage to
Miss Hallie Murray of St. Matthews, the youngest
daughter of Maj. Whitemarsh Seabrook Murray,
a man of proud Scotch ancestry and a brave Con
federate soldier, and Mrs. Amanda Amaker Murray,
a gentlewoman of the old regime. Mrs. Stabler
comes of distinguished -Revolutionary and Confed
erate linjjage on both sides. Her maternal great-
great-grandfather was John Adam Treutlen, a
patriot of the Revolution, who became the first
governor of Georgia in 1777. She was born in
Houston County, Georgia, while her parents were
temporarily there looking after inherited estates.
They returned soon after to St, Matthews and
Mrs, Stabler, save for accident of birth, is a loyal
daughter of South Carolina, She was educated
principally at home, and after graduation was for
several years in business, prior to her marriage.
She was a most faithful and efficient worker in the
late war in the Red Cross drives and similar activi
ties. . She is devoted to her husband and his work,
and inspires him to successful endeavor in what
ever he undertakes.
During the late war Mr. Stabler was unfailingly
active, subordinating private interests to public duty.
He served the entire tirae as a member of the State
Council of Defense, was chairman of the Legal Ad
visory Board of his county and devoted much time
and effort to. aU the war drives and every branch
of war activity.
Early in life he joined the Methodist Church and
at present is a steward in the St, Paul's Church at
St.. Matthews, For a number of years he has been
active in Sunday school work.
As a right-thinking American, Mr. Stabler is
vitally interested in good government and clean
politics. Shortly after locating at St. Matthews he
was. elected its mayor, but for reasons satisfactory
to himself refused to serve. For a number of years
he has been chairman of the Calhoun County
Democracy and a member of the State Democratic
Executive Committee. His work in politics is
characteristic of the raan, clean and efficient and
always for the good of party and state. This year,
1920, he was elected state senator from Calhoun
County without opposition. His friends predict for
him a successful career.

His home has not been blessed with children, but
the home-life is beautiful and attractive.
Wilmot T. Riley, Jr., is the youngest bank presi
dent in South Carolina, and also the youngest raayor
of one of the most progressive towns in the state,
Allendale. Mr. Riley was born at Allendale in 1888, son of
Wilmot T. and Julia (Williams) Riley. His raother
is now deceased. His father was born in the sec
tion of Barnwell County now included in the new
County of Allendale, and for raany years has been
an influential and wealthy citizen of that community.
W. T. Riley, Sr., is engaged in farming. Old
South Carolina faraily with early settlers of Orange
burg County and afterwards in the Barnwell Dis
trict. Revolutionary stock of Irish descent. Mrs.
Julia (Williams) RUey's father, Angus RUey, was
the richest man in the county but he volunteered as
a private in the Confederate Army and fought
throughout the war in General Lee's forces. He was
at the Appomattox surrender but died shortly after
the war from tuberculosis contracted during that
struggle. His family was of English descent. .
Wilmot Riley, Jr., finished his education in The
Citadel at Charleston. On leaving school he entered
the bank at Allendale and in 1917 organized the
First National Bank of that city. He is its active
president and the institution has enjoyed a notable
growth though founded in the midst of war times.
It has. a capital stock of $50,000, and surplus of
profits of $15,000. Mr. RUey was very active in the
movement for the creation of Allendale County and
deems it a special honor to be elected mayor of the
county seat. He is secretary of the County Board
of Comraissioners, having been appointed by Gov
ernor R. A. Cooper at the time he signed the act
creating the County of Allendale.
Mr. RUey, Jr., has many property and business in
terests in and around Allendale. He married Miss
Catherine Allen, a daughter of George Pierce and
Hannah F. (Patterson) AUen of Allendale. They
have two children : Wilmot T. Ill and Pierce Allen
Riley! .
Subject has one sister and two brothers: Emily,
wife of Robert Kennedy, a Williston, South Caro
lina, merchant ; J. M., clerk of the Allendale County
Court, who married Miss Flora Tobin of Allendale, a
daughter of I. L. Tobin. Subject's youngest brother,
Angus W., wUl be graduated from The Citadel in
the class of 1920.
Alan Johnstone, Jr., until the beginning of the
World war was a prominent lawyer of Columbia,
a forraer raember of the Legislature, and his narae
and efforts becarae especially identified with the
cause of education in his native state. Mr. John
stone went into public service for the Governraent
f.arly in the war, and at the beginning of 1920 estab
lished his home at Baltimore to take up an' impor
tant new line of social service as executive secre
tary of the Maryland Social Hygienic Society.
Mr. Johnstone represents one of the prominent
families of Newberry County. Several of the narae
have been raen of distinction in that county and
over the state. Alan Johnstone, Jr., was born at
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(Kennerly) Johnstone, His father is a planter and
is president of the Board of Trustees of Clemson
CoUege. The grandfather. Judge Job Johnstone,
earned a high place in South Carolina history as
one of the justices of the State Supreme Court
prior to the war between the states.
Alan Johnstone, Jr., graduated frora the graded
schools of Newberry in 1906, from Newberry Col
lege in 1910, and was both an academic and law
student at the University of South Carolina for
two years, receiving his degrees LL. B. and A. M.
in 1912. The following year he took a post-grad
uate course in law at the Harvard Law School and
in August, igi3, opened his law office at Columbia.
In igi4 he was elected a member of the Legis
lature from Richland County. He was one of the
younger members of the sessions of igi5 and 1916,
but nevertheless impressed his influence upon the
legislative record. He introduced and had passed
the bill under which the county school system of
Richland County was reorganized, resulting in a
plan of reorganization that has been followed very
largely by other counties in the state. He also
advocated a general corapulsory education law, legis
lation enacted at a later session. His stand for
medical inspection of pupils in the public schools is
another fact that indicates the distinct trend of his
thought and action toward the larger phases of pub
lic welfare.
In the fall of 1917 Mr. Johnstone left his law
practice at Columbia and accepted appointment as
representative of the Law Enforceraent Division
of the Coraraission on Training Carap Activities
under both the war and navy departments. His
duties required his presence first at Atlanta and
later at Washington. On resigning that post in
March, igig, he was for eight months at Richraond,
Virginia, in charge of an important phase of the
War Loan work of the Federal Reserve Bank of
that city. Then in December, 1919, he removed to
Baltimore to become executive secretary of the
Maryland Social Hygiene Society.
This society has as its executive officers a num
ber of distinguished citizens of Baltimore, includ
ing Dr. Hugh H. Young, of Johns Hopkins Hos
pital, Charles Bonaparte, formerly United States
attorney general, and one of its most active spirits
is Dr. George 'Walker, a distinguished South Caro
linian whose great work with the venereal section
in the Araerican Army abroad has earned him last
ing fame. The Maryland Society is a fusion of all
the other unofficial organizations in Maryland which
have been combating venereal diseases and its causa
tive vices. The organization is a new one, and is
designed to give continued vitality to the practices
and experinece which developed from the World
war. An official announceraent of the society con
tains the following: "The great contribution that
our war experience made in social hygiene methods
was that during the war all the forces that had
been fighting these conditions accepted and responded
to a common leadership. A new effectiveness was
developed from a corabination of forces. The
Maryland Social Hygiene Society has been organ
ized to apply these raethods in tiraes of peace."
The program is to work through legislation, law
enforcement, protective measures, by promoting

recreation and physical exercise which were so im
portant a factor in combating vice in the army, by
education and publicity, and by arousing the medical
profession in general to a syrapathetic and active
interest in the prograra. Maryland, representing as
it does, all the types of Araericans is an ideal field
in which to develop a program in social hygiene
the significance of which will be nationwide.
Mr. Johnstone married Miss Lallah Rook Sim
raons, of Newberry, October 28, 1914. On July 20,
1920, there was born to them a daughter, Lalla
Rook Johnstone.
John T. Wise, of Orangeburg, is known as "the
father of optometry" in South Carolina. An optom
etrist and optician by profession, the work he has
followed for a nuraber of years, and a science and
art in which he has been intensely interested not only
in his own behalf but for the general advancement
of its practice, he becarae the chief leader in the
raoveraent which resulted in the establishment of
the South Carolina State Board of Examiners of
Opticians and Optometrists under "An act to regu
late the practice of Opticians and Optometrists"
which was passed by the General Assembly in the
session of 1917. Very appropriately under the pro
visions of this act Governor Manning appointed
Doctor Wise a meraber of the board, at the organ
ization of which he was elected secretary for
the fourth terra, an office he has filled with admir
able efficiency to the present time. The work and in
fluence of this board has been of the greatest benefit
and protection to the public in preventing^ raany of
the obvious frauds which have been impo'sed upon
people by raen assuming the title and professing the
skUl of optician or optometrist. South Carolina is
now one of a number of states which have enacted
similar enlightened legislation.
John T. Wise was born in Richmond County,
Georgia, in 1868, a son of Chesley S. and Mary E.
(King) Wise, descendants from one of the early
'Virginia famUies. He was educated in the public
schools of Augusta, Georgia, and as a youth took up
a business career. His home was in Augusta until
1907, and for eighteen years he was associated with
William Scheigert & Company, jewelers, opticians
and optometrists. By long study and experience,
both theoretical and practical, Mr. 'Wise became orie
of the most expert and efficient opticians and optom
etrists. He established hiraself in business at
Orangeburg in 1907. He is owner of a general
jewelry and merchandise store, and. one of its lead
ing departments is devoted to optical goods. Mr.
¦Wise is a manufacturing optician and has every
modern device and equipment for grinding lenses
and the various mechanical aids to perfecting the in
struments of artificial eyesight. Almost his entire
time is devoted to the profession of optometry. For
several years he has worked for and exerted his
influence constantly in behalf of a general educa
tional carapaign by which the public raay be en
lightened and protected in the buying and use of eye
glasses. Mr. Wise was president of the South Carolina
Optical Association for three years and is no-w chair
raan of the executive coraraittee. He is a raember
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the Junior Order of American Mechanics ; and a
Knight Teraplar and a raeraber of the Oraar Teraple
of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston. Meraber of
South Carolina Optical Association and Araerican
Optoraetric Association. Also a raeraber of the
Associated Optoraetrists of Araerica.
Mr. John T. Wise was married on April 26, 1899,
to Mary E. Maul of Richmond, Georgia, a daughter
of George and Mary E. (Walker) Maul and Mrs.
Maul's grandfather took an active part in the Rev
olutionary struggle. Mr. and Mrs. Wise have three
children: George Chesley, John B. and Mary
Eraraerline. George Chesley Wise was born May
26, 1900, and in June, 1918, left his studies at The
Citadel in Charleston to enter the training carap at
Plattsburg, New York. On Septeraber i6th he was
commissioned a second lieutenant, U. S. A., then
detailed railitary instructor in Boston University,
serving in that capacity until discharged frora the
array December 21, 1918. At Plattsburg he was
declared to be one of the youngest, if not the young
est lieutenant in the Regular Army and received the
highest coramendations from his superior officers.
He resuraed his studies at The Citadel on January I,
1919. Capt. Joseph Stanyarne Stevens. The narae
of Capt. Joseph Stanyarne Stevens, of Yonges
Island, does not need to be introduced to the readers
of this work, for it has been intertwined with the
history of this locality for nearly a half century.
The splendid success which has corae to hira is di
rectly traceable to the salient points in his character.
With a raind capable of planning he combined a will
strong enough to execute his well-formed purposes,
and his great energy, keen discrimination and per
severance have resulted in the accumulation of a
handsome property. He carries to successful com
pletion whatever he undertakes and his business
raethods have ever been in strict conformity with
the most advanced business ethics, so that he has
ever enjoyed the confidence and esteera of all who
know hira.
Joseph S. Stevens is a native son of the state now
honored by his citizenship, having been born at
Colurabia, on Noveraber i, 1863. His father, Daniel
A. Stevens, a native of Johns Island, served in the
war between the states with the rank of first lieu
tenant. On the conclusion of that struggle, in 1865,
he returned to Johns Island. He later was in
Charleston for a tirae, but his last days were spent
on Edisto Island. The subject's grandfather. Dr.
William Stevens, practiced raedicine on Johns Island
for raany years. His father, also named WiUiam,
was a surgeon in the Araerican army during the
Revolutionary war, but was captured, taken to
England and iraprisoned in the Tower of London
for nine raonths. After his release he returned to
South Carolina, where he spent his reraaining days.
The subject's raother, Agnes Isabel Yates, was a
native of Charleston and the daughter of Rev. WU
liara B.. Yates, who was a sea chaplain practically
all of his raature years, giving himself to the service
and welfare of the saUors. During aU this period
his horae was in Charleston. The Yates faraily is
of Welsh origin. Of the five children born to Daniel

A. and Agnes Stevens, Joseph S., the iramediate
subject of this review, is the first born,
Mr. Stevens grew to maturity under the parental
roof and received his education in the public schools
of Charleston. At the age of twenty years he started
out on his own account, his first venture being as
the operator of a gin house. Soon afterward, how
ever, he and his brother, William Yates Stevens, buUt
a small stearaer, which they run between Edisto
Island and Charleston. They sold that boat in about
three raonths, but by that time the subject had dis
covered that there was a proraising future for local
coastwise boating and for inter-island coraraunica
tion, and accordingly laid plans for future operations
along that line. In i8g2 he went to Lake Michigan,
but a year later returned to Edisto Island. In 1895
he took the contract for carrying the raail from
Yonges Island to Edisto Island. He later broadened
the scope of his operations and took the contract for
handling the freight for all the sea islands contiguous
to the South Carolina coast and connecting with the
Charleston & Savannah Railroad. In 1913 Mr. Stev
ens organized the Line Company, with a capital stock
of $10,000, of which he was elected president, a posi
tion which he stUl holds. The corapany is equipped
for doing a general passenger, freight and towing
business throughout the island waters of South
Carolina and has been very successful in its opera
tions. Mr. Stevens is also interested in other enterprises,
araong which is a plantation of 500 acres on Wad-
raalaw Island, and one of 900 acres in the Toogoodoo
section, both of which have proven good investraents.
He also keeps a large stock of automobUe accessories
and has other interests in various lines in the locality
of his residence.
On July 9, looi, Mr. Stevens was married to Mary
Mellichamp .lohnson, the daughter of WUliam John
son, of Charleston, She was bom in Charleston, and
was educated in the public schools there and in pri
vate schools, completing her studies at St. Marys
CoUege, at Raleigh. To Captain and Mrs. Stevens
have been born three children. Stanyarne Yates, Wil
liam Johnson and Mary Mellichamp.
Fraternally, Captain Stevens is a raeraber of Cal
houn Lodge No. 23, Knights of Pythias, at Charles
ton, and the Masters and PUots Association of
America. Scrupulously honest in all the relations
of life, patient, hospitable and charitable, he holds
a warm place in the hearts of all who have been
associated with him,
Hon James Graham Padgett. Descended from
honored ancestry and himself numbered araong the
leading citizens of his section of the state, the sub
ject of this sketch js entitled to specific recognition
m a work of this character. The family name has
long been connected with the development and
progress of South Carolina and the record of the
taraily IS one that reflects credit upon the state. It
IS a well-attested raaxim that the greatness of a
country lies not in the raachinery of government
nor even in its institutions, but rather in the sterling
qualities of the individual citizen, in his capacity for
high and unselfish effort and his devotion to the
public welfare. In those particulars, those who have

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borne the above name have conferred honor and
dignity upon their county and state.
James Graham Padgett wa's born near Smoaks
Cross Roads, Colleton County, South Carolina, on
March lo, 1869, and is the fourth child in the order
of birth of the seven children born to Hansford
Duncan and Mary Isabella (Goodwin) Padgett.
Hansford D. Padgett was a native of the sarae
locality, and successfully foUowed farraing pursuits
until recent years. He has for many years been
numbered among the leading citizens of his county
and for the unusual period of twenty-five years he
served as clerk of the circuit court and for eight
years was a member of the State Legislature.
Though eighty years of age, he is still in the enjoy
ment of good health and is remarkably active for an
octogenarian. He is now residing at Walterboro. He was a
non-coramissioned officer in the Confederate Army,
serving throughout the struggle and escaping with
out injury. He served under Hampton and Butler
and took part during the period of reconstruction.
His father, who also was born in Colleton County,
was a planter. The faraily, which came to this
country from England, was of mixed English and
Irish stock. The subject's mother, who bore the
maiden name of Mary I. Goodwin, was a daughter
of Jaraes Goodwin, who also was a native of South
Carolina, though of Irish extraction.
Jaraes G. Padgett received his elementary educa
tion in the public schools and then was a student in
The Citadel Military College, at Charleston, where
he was graduated in 1892, with the degree of Bache
lor of Arts. He then applied himself to the study
of law and in 1895 was admitted to the bar. During
the two following years he engaged in teaching
school and then located in Walterboro and entered
upon the active practice of his profession. His
abilities as a lawyer were quickly recognized and
for a number of years he has been nurabered araong
the leaders of the bar in this county. A sound and
logical reasoner, a forceful speaker and an unusually
successful pleader, he has been connected with much
of the most important litigation which has been tried
in the local courts and the courts of neighboring
counties. Mr. Padgett has been prorainently identified with
political affairs of this community and is now serv
ing his second term as state senator. He was presi
dential elector on the deraocratic ticket in 1912 and
chairman of the electoral board from this state. He
is a member of the school board of trustees of the
Town of Walterboro and is also a raeraber of the
board of trustees of The Citadel Military College,
being the author of a bill presented to the Legisla
ture in 1919 providing for the building of a "greater
Citadel." This bUl carried an appropriation of $300,-
000, together with the proceeds of the old Citadel
site. At the next session of the Legislature, in 1920,
he introduced another bUl asking for an appropria
tion of $600,000 additional, which was passed unani
mously iDy the Senate and had practically no opposi
tion in the House, The raeasure is considered one of
the most important pieces of legislation ever intro
duced into the General Asserably of South Carolina.
Senator Padgett carried it through as the author of
the bill and stood sponsor for it and pUoted it through
both houses with practical unanimity. The Greater

Citadel now being erected on the historic Ashley, in
the City of Charleston, will forever attest Colonel
Padgett's loyalty to his state and love for his alma
mater. In 1897 Mr. Padgett was married to Ethel M.
Moorer, the daughter of Dr. P. L. and Martha
Moorer. Fraternally, Mr. Padgett is a raember of
the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and the
Knights of Pythias. He has been essentially a raan
araong men, moving as one who comraands respect
by innate force as well as by superior abUity, and
because of his sterling qualities of character and his
high professional standing, he coraraands the confi
dence and regard of all classes.
Mr. Padgett was elected a delegate to and
attended the Democratic National Convention
which met at San Francisco, California, June 27,
ig20. He was appointed colonel by Governor Hey-
wood on his staff, serving throughout Governor Hey-
wood's terra.
Thomas Porcher Stoney of Charleston, South
Carolina, is present solicitor for the Ninth Judicial
District, being the youngest solicitor in South Caro
lina. He is an able lawyer, and has raade rapid
progress in his profession since he was adraitted to .
the bar, less than ten years ago.
Mr. Stoney was born at Back River plantation, iri
Berkeley County, in the oldest house of the state, the
forraer horae of Landgrave Thomas Sraith, the
first provincial governor of South Carolina, said
place having been in the iraraediate possession of his
father's people for several generations. His birth
occurred there Deceraber 16, 1889, and his entire
boyhood was spent in the country on a rice planta
tion on the Cooper River, where stock raising was
also engaged in. His parents are Samuel Porcher
and Eliza (Croft) Stoney. His great-great-grand
father, John Stoney, was a native of the north of
Ireland (his family having moved there from York
shire, England, in 1682). On coraing to this country
he settled in South Carolina, where Mr. Stoney's
great-grandfather, also John Stoney, was born in 1780.
His grandfather was Peter Gaillard Stoney, and his
grandraother Anna M. Porcher. Mr. Stoney's
mother was a daughter of Dr. Randell Croft, of
Greenville, South Carolina, and Charlotte M. Jenkins
of St. Helena, South Carolina, the former of Eng
lish and French ancestry and the latter of English
and Welsh descent. Samuel Porcher Stoney and
wife had seven children. Dr. Randell Croft Stoney
was kUled in a trolley car accident in San Fran
cisco, California, October i, 1906; Anna Porcher
died in infancy; Charlotte M. resides in Charleston,
South Carolina ; S. Porcher is a planter at Ladson,
South Carolina; Laurence O'Hear died May 21,
igo6; Thoraas Porcher is the next in age, and San
ford Barker resides at Dillon, South Carolina, being
connected with the Southem Cotton Oil Company.
Thomas P. Stoney received his primary advan
tages from governesses and in the country schools
of Berkeley County : graduated from Porter Mili
tary Academy at Charleston in 1907. afterward
spending two years in the University of the South,
at Suwanee. Tennessee, and in 1911 took his law de
gree from the University of South Carolina. He also
attended Columbia University, New York, where he
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admitted to the bar June 7, igii, and spent eighteen
months in the office of J. P. Kennedy Bryan. He
then embarked in a general practice for himself, and
for a time was associated in the firm of Stoney &
Cordes. Mr. Stoney was elected solicitor of the
Ninth Judicial Circuit on Septeraber I3, 1916, and
offering for re-election in 1920, is unopposed for
noraination for said office.
October 7, 1915, he raarried his cousin, Beverly
Means Du Bose, daughter of Dr. Theodore Marion
and Beverly (Means) Du Bose of Colurabia, South
Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Stoney have two children,
Randell Croft and Theodore Du Bose.
Mr. Stoney has been a working raeraber of the
democratic party all of his life He is affiliated
with the A. T. O. fraternity, the Masonic order, the
Knights of Pythias, the Loyal Order of Moose and a
few social clubs. While in "prep" schoo'l and col
lege he took a great interest in all forms of athletics
and closed his college days on the varsity football
and track teams. He has carried with him in life
this love of all forms of clean athletics and is con
vinced that the best work is accomplished when one
is physically as well as mentally fit.
James Swinton Whaley, one of the leading plant
ers of his section, is successfully engaged in oper
ating his large property on Little Edisto Island,
where his family has been located for several
generations, and where he was born on August 22,
1861. His father, Ephraim Mikell Whaley, was also
born on this island, February 2, 1829, and spent his
entire life on it, dying there when seventy-one years
of age, A graduate of Princeton and Harvard uni
versities, he was an attorney of note, became promi
nent in public affairs, and served on the staff of
Governor Means. The paternal grandfather of
James S. Whaley, Edward Whaley, was born on
Johns Island, but moved to Little Edisto Island fol
lowing his raarriage to Miss Abigail Baynard, where
his chUdren were born and reared. The father of
Edward Whaley, Thoraas Whaley, was another mem
ber of the family to be born on Edisto Island. The
founder of the Whaley family in South. Carolina is
Edward Whaley, who was one of the judges of
Charles I, King of England, and at the Revolution he
was compelled to leave and he settled on the eastern
shore of Virginia, where he is buried. His son
John came to Charleston via the Isle of Jamaica
and founded the South Carolina family. The ma
ternal grandfather, William G. Baynard, was also
a resident of Edisto Island, where Abigail Baynard
was born. The Baynard family of this locality
trace back to the Baynards of Baynard Castle,
England. Ephraim M. Whaley and his wife had
sixteen children, but only four reached maturity,
naraely: Dr. E. Mikell Whaley, of Columbia,
South Carolina; Gertrude Bailey; Eva Whaley,
wife of Charles W. Seabrook, and James Swinton.
The eldest of the four living children of his par
ents, James S. Whaley, attended Porter Military
Academy of Charleston, and then the University of
the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, from which he
was graduated. An accident changed his plans, and
he returned to the plantation and worked for his
father during the subsequent three years, in the
meanwhile buying a. property, and assuraing its raan
ageraent at the expiration of this period. On it he

erected a residence and lived in it for sixteen years.
When his father died he bought the horaestead and
now controls all of the Island of Little Edisto, own
ing about one-half of it. To aid him in conducting
this property he gives eraployment to two white
families and forty-five colored famUies. Mr. Whaley
is also in the mercantUe and stock raising industries
and operates in cotton as a factor. For about twenty
years he has been a trustee of the school district, and
for a number of years has been trustee of the Uni
versity of the South, representing the diocese of
South Carolina and for three years has been a mem
ber of the board of regents of this institution. A
devout Episcopalian he has been lay reader during
the past fifteen years for Trinity Church parish,
Edisto Island, and has represented the parish for
many years as a delegate to the various conventions
of the church and the division as delegate to the
Provincial Synod. He is a meraber of the South
Carolina State Board of Equalization, was a delegate
to the Cotton Congress held at Montgoraery, Ala
baraa, and was engaged in an advisory capacity as an
expert with relation to the growing of sea island
cotton. After the devastating storm of 1893 Mr.
Whaley was appointed by Governor B. R. Tillman,
chairman of the Relief Committee. Mr. Whaley was
appointed by the governor to represent the state at
the Waterways Congress held at New Orleans, Louis
iana. A meraber of the Chamber of Comraerce, he
belongs to its agricultural coramittee, and he is also
a member of the Agricultural Society, the oldest
organization of its kind in the United States. He is
a member of the e.xecutive coraraittee of the Agricul
tural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina, and
is a life raember of the same.
On December 6, 1882, Mr. Whaley was married to
Sarah Anna Seabrook, a daughter of William and
Martha S. Seabrook, and thev had three children,
namely: Judge M. Seabrook Whaley, judge of Rich
land County, South Carolina, residing at Columbia,
a graduate of the Universitv of the South, and the
law school of the Universitv of South Carolina;
Sarah Ann, who is the second in order of birth ; and
Harry Hugh Baynard, who is a student of the Uni
versity of the South. Mrs. Whaley died on January
5, 191.S, after an exemplary life as a wife and mother,
and she is deeply mourned by her family and cora
raunity On July 29, ig20, he married Miss Annie H.
Dyer, daughter of Professor Dyer of New Orieans.
Charles A. Douglas. WhUe for a quarter of a
century one of the distinguished members of the bar
ot the City of Washington, and a well known
authority on mternational law, Charles A. Douglas
-^von his first cases and his earlv fame in his profes
sion m his native State of South Carolina, and has
always been deeply attached to the coramonwealth
which bore him and where his family has been
known for several generations.
• ¦'^f' ¦'-'ouglas was born on his father's plantation
in the Albion section of Fairfield County, South
Carolina, January 31, 1862, son of John S. and Mar
garet (Boyce) Douglas. It was his great grand-
lather who settled the family in South Carolina
atter coraing from Scotland. Mr. Douglas' father
and grandfather were both natives of Fairfield
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graduation from Erskine' CoUege at Due West in
1880. 'The following two years he attended the
Coluriibian, now the George Washington University
at Washington, graduating with the LL. B. degree
in 1882 and following that with further law studies
in Georgetown University. Admitted to the South
Carolina bar in 1883, he practiced at Winnsboro and
in 1890 raoved to Columbia, and was a meraber of
the capital city bar until 1895. He won success
in the law and in politics in his native state, served
several tiraes as a member of the Legislature, repre
senting Fairfield County, and in the presidential
election of 1888 was president of the South Carolina
delegation in the Electoral College arid as such cast
the vote of the state for Grover Cleveland.
Removing to Washington in 1895, Mr. Douglas
was until 1915 a professor in the law department
of Georgetown University. The special subjects
assigned him were Eleraentary Law, Law of Torts,
and Negotiable Instruraents. During that period
he collaborated with Senator John W. Daniel of
Virginia in writing the work "Eleraents of Nego
tiable Instruraents," a students' text book which
for a nuraber of years has been used in Georgetown
University and other law schools. Mr. Douglas
himself revised and has issued the fifth edition of
the work entitled "Daniel on Negotiable Instru
raents." Few Araerican lawyers could claira a practice dis
tinguished by participation in raore notable cases
and with greater importance of interests represented.
Mr. Douglas is remembered as attorney for the
defense in the famous Bonine murder trial at 'Wash
ington. He also represented the defendants in the
Machen postoffice fraud cases during the Roosevelt
administration. These are only two outstanding
cases that attracted nation-wide attention, but many
others have involved important legal and financial
interests. At the comraenceraent of the revolution in Mexico
in 191 3, Mr. Douglas was employed as the Araerican
counsel of the successful Revolutionary party. He
personally conducted the negotiations that culrai-
nated in the recognition of President Carranza by
the United States. Governraent and during President
Carranza's terra as President Mr. Douglas has been
American counsel for the Mexican Government.
For a nuraber of years he has been counsel for the
Nicaraguan Governraent in the United States, and
as such negotiated and took part in securing the
ratification of the Senate of the treaty for the pur
chase by the United States of the Nicaraguan Canal
route. As these facts indicate, Mr. Douglas has for years
given rauch of his tirae to international law. His
practice of this branch of his profession brings him
in close relationship with Congress, especially the
Foreign Relations Coraraittee of the Senate. In his
general practice he is counsel for the Continental
Trust Corapany of Washington and represents a
number of other financial and coraraercial corpora
tions. He is a raeraber of the University Club, City
Club, Press Club, Washington Country Club, Law
yers Club of New York City, University Club and
American Club of Mexico City.
Mr. Douglas has other ties with his native state
by raarriage. His wife was Miss Augusta Aiken,

daughter of Dr. WiUiara E. Aiken of Winnsboro,
South Carolina, a niece of Cong.essraan D. Wyatt
Aiken and a kinsman of the Governor Aiken family.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas have four children: Charles
Siraonton, Alexander Talley, Margaret Boyce Adair
and Miss Patsy Aiken Douglas.
Philip Henry Gad.sden has been an active mem
ber of the Charleston bar since 1889, but his abilities
have been most conspicuously displayed in the man
agement and developraent of a number of well known
state utility corporations, especially the Charleston
Consolidated Railway and Lighting Company, of
which he is president.
He was born at Charleston, October 4, 1867, mem
ber of one of the most conspicuous families of the
old South State. One of his ancestors was Thoraas
Gadsden, at one time a lieutenant in the Royal Navy
and collector of the Port of Charleston in 1722.
Christopher Gadsden has been called the father of
independence frora British rule in South Carolina.
He was bo.rn at Charleston in 1724 and was elected
a delegate to the Congress of the Colonies called in
1774 and was elected to the first Congress in 1776.
At the tirae of the surrender of Charleston to the
British he was lieutenant governor. He was also a
raember to the convention which ratified the Federal
Constitution and fraraed the State Constitution of
1790. The Charleston lawyer and business man is a son
of Christopher and Florida Gadsden, his father hav
ing been a civil engineer by profession and at one
tirae was second vice president of the Atlantic Coast
Line RaUway. Philip Henry Gadsden was educated
in the Holy Coraraunion Church Institute, later the
Porter Military Acaderay, was graduated A. B. in
1888 frora South Carolina College, and studied law
in that school, being adraitted to the bar in 1889.
He was at first a clerk and afterwards a partner of
T. M. Mordecai, the firra being Mordecai & Gadsden.
Mr. Gadsden was elected vice president of the
Charleston Consolidated Railway, Gas & Electric
Corapany in 1899. He was raade president of the
Roanoke Navigation & Water Power Corapany of
Weldon, North Carolina, in October, 1903, and in
February, 1905, becarae vice president of the Charles
ton Light & Water Company. He served as a raera
ber of the Legislature frora 1893 to 1898. He was
elected vice president of the Charaber of Coraraerce
in 1907 and in the same year was appointed by the
mayor of Charleston to go to Germany to represent
his horae city on matters of iraraigration.
Mr. Gadsden is a Mason, a past chancellor of the
Knights of Pythias, a deraocrat and a meraber of the
Epi^opal Church. In 1895 he raarried Miss Sallie
PUzer Inglesby, who died July 22, 1900.
Susan Pringle Frost, one of several sisters who
have been distinguished by their efforts as educa
tors and business women in Charleston, is a- daugh
ter of Francis le Jau Frost, who gained distinction
as a Confederate soldier, and a granddaughter of
Judge Edward Frost, one of the finest characters
in the public leadership of South Carolina during
the first half of the nineteenth century.
Judge Edward Frost was born at Charleston in
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ister. Judge Frost was educated at Yale College,
was admitted to the bar in 1823, and in 1832 re
signed his post as United States district attorney.
He was many tiraes a representative of Charleston
ih the State Legislature. In 1843 he was elected to
the bench, but resigned that life office in 1853 and
soon becarae president of the Blue Ridge Railway
Corapany, He was a raeraber of the Constitutional
Convention of 1865 and was one of the delegates
frora South Carolina sent to Washington to inter
view President Johnson on the establishraent of a
Provisional Governraent. He died July 21, 1868.
Francis le Jau Frost was born June i, 1837, at
Charleston, and was educated for raedicine. Dur
ing the war he was body and staff servant to
General Hill and later to General Longstreet. Fol
lowing the war he took up planting, and was one
of the organizers of the fertilizer business in South
Carolina, and for eighteen years was head of a
large industry of that kind in Charleston.
Miss Frost's mother was Rebecca Brewton Prin
gle, who was born at the old Pringle home in
Charieston, daughter of WUliam BuU and Mary
Motte (Alston) Pringle. She was educated in pri
vate schools.
To Francis and Rebecca Frost were born five
chUdren, the oldest now deceased. Mary Pringle
was born March IS, 1871 ; Susan, January 21, 1873;
Francis le Jau, March 27, 1875, now a priest of
the Episcopal Church at Staten Island, New York;
and Rebecca Motte Frost, born August 12, 1877.
All were educated in private schools, attending the
institution of the Misses Sass of Charleston. Mary
and Susan were afterward graduated frora St.
Mary's at Raleigh, North Carolina, and Rebecca is
a graduate of St. Mary's at New York. Mary and
Rebecca for the last twenty years have conducted
a private school, priraary and preparatory, at 4
Logan Street, Charleston.
Miss Susan Frost began her business career as
a Federal Court reporter in May, 1902, and gained
a wide acquaintance with public and business affairs
through that experience. Later she resigned and
opened a real estate office and has developed a
large and iraportant clientage. She is also a leader
in the suffrage raovement of South Carolina and a
raeraber of the national woraan's party, being chair
raan of the Charleston division and a raember of
the National Advisory Council.
James Adger Smyth. Hardly a name could be
found carrying with it greater real distinction in
business, civic affairs and dignified character than
that of the veteran Charleston merchant, James
Adger Srayth, who died April 25, 1920. He was, one
of a notable group of raen and woraen comprising
the Smyth and Adger families.
His birth occurred at Charleston, June 8, 1837, a
son of Rev. Thomas and Margaret MiUigan (Adger)
Smyth. Rev. Thoraas Srayth, a native of Belfast,
Ireland; and Scotch ancestry, educated in theology
at Belfast and at London, carae to Araerica in 1830
to finish his theological education in Princeton Serai
nary, and in 1831 carae to the pulpit of the Second
Presbyterian Church in Charleston and for forty-
two years served that church as pastor, that being
his first and only pastorate. In the raidst of his busy
work as a pastor he produced raany theological

works, sorae of thera used as text books in semina
ries. He died in 1873.
. Of the Adger family much is said on other pages
of this publication. It was founded by James Adger
who came from Belfast, Ireland, and the Smyths
were also from the north of Ireland. However, the
Adgers were of remote French ancestry. James
Adger, who came to Charleston in 1799, served as a
lieutenant in the War of 1812. He raarried a daugh
ter of Maj. Robert Ellison, an officer in the Con
tinental array who was iraprisoned in the old post-
office building at Charleston by the British. A
younger brother of the late Jaraes Adger Smyth is
Ellison Adger Smyth, long prominent as a South
Carolina manufacturer and business man.
Jaraes Adger Smyth was educated in Doctor Mil
ler's Preparatory School, in the Charleston High
School and the noted Charleston institution where so
many men of that generation acquired their early
training, the Professor Sachtleben School. He was
a first honor graduate in 1858 from the College of
Charleston. For several years he was eraployed as a
clerk in the J. E. Adger & Corapany business, but at
the end of the year became a member of the firm and
was closely identified with the mercantile life of
Charleston for over half a century. In April, 1862,
he volunteered in Company A of the Twenty-fifth
South Carolina Infantry and was in active service
untU he was paroled in North Carolina in 1865. He
then resuraed business with the firra of J. E. Adger
& Corapany until 1873 when he forraed the copartner
ship of Srayth & Adger as cotton coraraission mer
chants. For five years he was president of the
Charleston Cotton Exchange, served as president of
the Travelers Protective Association, as president of
the Chamber of Coraraerce, for fifteen years was an
alderraan of the city, and frora 1895 to igo3 was
raayor of Charleston. He was always prorainent in
state and municipal politics. In 1876 he was one of
the state democratic executive coraraittee of seven
that conducted the carapaign resulting in the election
of Gen. Wade Harapton as governor, and raarking
the end of reconstruction rule. After two terras as
raayor he was urged to be a candidate for a third
terra in 1902,. but ill health corapelled hira to with
draw. As mayor his adrainistration was marked by
a wonderful development in the prosperity of
Charleston and the complete restoration of the con
fidence of the people in the future of the city. Dur
ing his eight years as raayor the old time horse cars
were abolished and the electric street raUway system
installed, but the crowning achievement was the suc
cessful corapletion of the work undertaken by the
United States Engineer Department increasing the
depth of water in the Charleston Harbor frora 18
to 34 feet, thus raaking a channel of only seven miles
from the wharves to the Atlantic Ocean. One institu
tion with which his name will always be associated
was the location of the navy yard at Charleston.
The late Senator Tillman said: "Every well in
forraed raan knows that he had raore to do with it
than any other one man living or dead." On retiring
as mayor in 1903 his political and public life carae to
an end, though as president of the Charaber of Com-
rnerce from which he resigned in 1910, he continued
his interest and worked for the building up of the
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He was one of the distinguished Masons of the
South and for three years was grand master of the
State Grand Lodge of Masons, representative of the
Grand Lodge of England and for two years high
priest of the Grand Chapter, and at the time of his
death in 1920 was the oldest past grand master in
South Carolina. The earliest and strongest influence
of his life was that of an ideal Christian horae. He
had been an elder of his church in Charleston since
1868 and for thirty years was president of the Church
Corporation. He was also a member of the Cora
mercial Club, Country Club, St. Georges Society, St.
Andrews Society, St. Cecelias Society and other so
cial organizations. Mr. Smyth was practically re
tired from the responsibilities of business from 1903,
and much of that time he spent in travel in Europe,
spending the winter of 1906-07 in Egypt.
As a man of great prominence there were naturally
many tributes paid his life and character after his
death. One of these was a resolution included in
the records of the city council as a meraorial. From
this resolution are quoted the following sentences :
"He served his state and city faithfully in times of
trying need and whenever the call of duty summoned
hira none was more eager to answer the summons.
As a member of the state and county democratic
executive comraittees in 1876, as alderraan from 1877
to 1891, as mayor from 1895 to 1903, whether in peace
or in war he was ever ready to respond to the call
of duty and he has left a bright and shining ex
ample to those who follow him. The records show
that to him more than to any other, Charleston is
indebted for the na-vy yard, as his zeal, his continu
ous efforts, his unflagging interest, overcame, every
obstacle and surmounted every difficulty. His tact,
his courteous manner, his facility of speech are re
membered when as mayor of Charleston it was in
cumbent upon him to receive officially the many dele
gations that visited ¦ our exposition in 1901-02. In
heriting the qualifications of a great merchant from
his grandfather, he soon won prominence and dis
tinction in the commercial world, and became presi
dent of the Chamber of Comraerce and also of the
Charleston Cotton Exchange where his best efforts
were directed to the upbuUding of the city and for
the general welfare of the community."
March 14, i860, he married Annie R. Briggs, who
died in 1901. On November 17, 1903, he married
Ella Calvert Carapbell of Washington, District of
Colurabia. Ellison Adger Srayth, son of the Charleston mer
chant, was born in Clarendon County, South Caro
lina, October 26, 1863, is a graduate of Princeton
University, of the law department of Colurnbia
CoUege and the University of Virginia and is a wide
ly known scientist, his particular field being biology.
Since 1891 he has been professor of biology in the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and is a scientific
author and member of many learned societies.
Robert Beverly Sloan has followed the same
profession as his father, the law, and has been
engaged in an important general practice at Colura
bia for the past fifteen years.
He was born at Columbia April 27, 1883, a son
of John Triraraier and Jane Taylor (Beveriey)
Sloan. His father held rank araong the leading

raembers of the bar of the state for many years.
The son spent five years in the Virginia Poly
technic Institute, and took his law work in the
University of Virginia. He was admitted to the
bar in 1904, and at once returned to Colurabia and
began general practice. He is attomey for a num
ber of corporations, and was vice president of the
Peoples National Bank, now the Guaranty Na
tional Bank of South Carolina, of which latter insti
tution he is one of the counsel and a meraber of
the Finance Coramittee.
Mr. Sloan has always been interested in politics
and public affairs. For years he served as chairman
of the deraocratic party in Richland County, and
for four years was assistant clerk of the State
Senate and was United States Commissioner for
eleven years.. He enjoys the outdoor sports of fish
ing and golf, and is a meraber of the Ridgewood
Club. May 22, 1909, he married Meriam Earle
Watrous, of Ponto Gorda, British Honduras.
Capt. James S. Cothran. The Cothran faraily
has furnished many distinguished members to the
law, public life and business in Upper South Caro
lina. The late Capt. Jaraes S. Cothran, who at the
tirae of his death was a resident of Greenville, was
a Confederate soldier and officer, a lawyer, legislator
and congressman, and for many years a circuit
judge. ? Captain Cothran was born in Abbeville County,
August 8, 1830, a grandson of Samuel Cothran, a
native of South Carolina. Wade S. Cothran, father
of Captain Cothran, was a native of Newberry
County, but in 1850 moved to Rome, Georgia, and was
long prorainent as a banker and railroad president in
that city. He died in 1877. Wade S. Cothran mar
ried Elizabeth SprouU, daughter of Jaraes and Re
becca (CaldweU) SprouU. Rebecca Caldwell was a
cousin of John C. Calhoun, their grandfather William
Caldwell being one of three brothers who came from
the north of Ireland and after a brief residence in
Pennsylvania settled in the Piedmont section of
South Carolina. The Calhoun and Caldwell families
have so much historic distinction in the Carolinas and
Georgia as to scarcely need reference. Elizabeth
Cothran's father, grandfather of Captain Cothran,
was a soldier of the Revolution.
James S. Cothran graduated frora Georgia Uni
versity in 1852. Soon afterward he retumed to
Abbeville in his native state, and began the study
of law with Thoraas C. Perrin, for raany years a
distinguished lawyer of the state and at one time
president of the GreenvUle and Columbia RaUroad.
Captain Cothran was admitted to the bar in 1853.
Two years later in 1855 he married Emma C. Perrin,
daughter of his preceptor.
Captain Cothran entered the Confederate array in
July, 1861, as orderly sergeant of Company B, under
Capt. James M. Perrin, in Orr's Regiment of Rifles.
Upon the proraotion of Captain Perrin to colonel of
the regiraent. Sergeant Cothran becarae captain. He
and his regiraent were part of the Army of Northern
Virginia, and his own record was largely that of the
splendid record of achievement made by his regi
ment He was wounded in the second battle of
Manassas, August 29, 1862, his right leg being broken.
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wrist. At Jericho Ford, May, 1864, he received a
face wound. Despite these wounds, he reraained in
the service and surrendered at Appomattox.
The war over, broken in health and fortune but
not in spirit. Captain Cothran resumed law practice
at AbbeviUe as a partner of Thoraas C. Perrin.
Frora that time untU his death he was always able
to coraraand a large and profitable law practice. In
1876, the year that raarked the restoration of state
governraent to white raen, he was county democratic
chairman and an effective aid in the candidacy of
General Hampton for governor, and on the sarae
ticket was elected solicitor of the Eighth Judicial
Circuit. He was re-elected to that office in 1880 but
resigned the following year to accept the appointment
frora Governor Hagood to fill a vacancy in the judge
ship of the circuit. The Legislature re-elected hira
judge in 1881 and again in 1885, He was on the
bench until December, 1886, when he resigned on
account of his election to Congress, Captain Cothran
spent two terms in Congress and during part of the
time was meraber of the Coraraittee on Foreign Af
fairs. In January, 1890, he becarae division counsel
for the Richraond & DanviUe Railroad, now the
Southern Railway, and raost of his work as a lawyer
in later years comprised the responsibilities of this
position. He remained division counsel untU his
death, December 5, 1897.
Of the four sons of the late Captain Cothran,
Thomas Perrin Cothran is the oldest of the faraily.
He was educated at the University of Virginia and
subsequently attended the law school of this institu
tion. He has gained a place of high distinction
araong the lawyers of his native state and now holds
a responsible position in the legal department of the
Southern Railway at Greenville. Several times he
has represented that county in the Legislature and
was speaker of the House in the sessions of 1918 and
igi9-20. Wade Sarauel Cothran, the second son, was born
at AbbevUle in 1859, attended school there, after
wards taking a business course at the Eastraan Busi
ness College. He is now engaged in farraing at
Abbeville. Jaraes SprouU Cothran, third son of the late Judge
and Capt. J. S. Cothran, has been a business man of
Charlotte, North Carolina, for many years and is
widely known all over the South as an authority on
textUe raachinery. He was born at AbbeviUe, South
Carolina, in 1869, attended school at AbbeviUe, ac
quired his college training in South Carolina College,
now the University of South Carolina, graduating
with the Bachelor of Science degree with the class
of i8go. He took an engineering course in Cornell
University and received the degree of Mechanical
Engineer with the class of 1893.
For more than a quarter of a century he has been
in the raachinery business, especially as applied to
the textile industry and since 1898, his home has
been in Charlotte, the central city and distributing
point for the great textile plants of the South.
Mr. Cothran is a meraber of the Southern Manu
facturers Club, the Charlotte Country Club, the
Rotary Club, Charaber of Commerce, and the Second
Presbyterian Church, He married Miss Sally
Jenkins McAden. Her father was the late Dr, John
H. McAden, raeraber of one of the oldest and raost

prorainent faraUies of Charlotte and North Carolina.
Mr. and Mrs, Cothran have two children : Sally
McAden and Eraraa Perrin.
William Coulter Cothran, the fourth son, was born
at AbbeviUe in 1872 and attended the public schools
there. He completed his education at the University
of South Carolina, read law in his father's office and
was admitted to the bar in 1897. He is now engaged
in the practice of law at Greenville, and is the junior
member of the firm of Cothran, Dean & Cothran.
He has also served as special judge upon the recom
mendation of the chief justice of the Supreme Court
of the state.
Charles D. Drayton has earned distinction as
a lawyer where distinction in that profession is
most difficult to achieve, in the City of Washing
ton, whose bar is represented by some of the great
est legal minds.
Mr. Drayton who has practiced law at Wash
ington for fifteen years is a South Carolinian by
birth and early training, and a meraber of one of
the state's historic farailies.
The Draytons for generations have had their
horae at Charleston, the faraily estate being the
famous Magnolia Gardens a few railes above
Charleston. These gardens are stUI in the posses
sion of the present generation of Draytons. One
of the most distinguished of the faraily was Gover
nor John Drayton, who served twice as .governor of
South Carolina, his first terra frora 1800 to 1802
and his second from 1808 to 1810. It was during
the adrainistration of Governor Drayton that the
University of South Carolina, under the old narae
of South Carolina College, was founded. Another
prorainent raeraber of the faraily was WUliam
Henry Drayton, who was the first chief justice
of the State of South Carolina.
Charles D. Drayton was born at Aiken, South
Carolina, in 1883, son of Charles E, and Jessie
(Mackey) Drayton, His father was born at
Charleston, a son of Alfred Rose Drayton.
Charles D. Drayton studied law in the National
Law School at Washington. In igo6 he was ad
mitted to practice in the Suprerae Court of the
United States and since that year has been suc
cessfully engaged in the practice of his profession
in that city, representing raany iraportant interests.
Mr. Dravton depended upon his own efforts to ac
quire his higher and professional education, and
on his merits has won his place and standing as a
lawyer. He married Miss Irma B. Eliason of
Chestertown, Maryland.
Daniel S. Murph. A native of South Carolina,
a product of some of its best schools, an educated
lawyer, Daniel S. Murph by practical experience
and early training achieved the standpoint of the
practical cotton grower, and with all his official
responsibilities still regards himself as a cotton
farmer in South Carolina.
Mr. Murph for the past seven vears has been
in Washington most of the time, where he is now
in charge of the Division of Cotton Marketing,
Bureau of Markets, Department of Agriculture.
He was born near St. Matthews in what is now
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December 31, 1879, son of Daniel J. W. and Eu
phrasia Ann (Wolfe) Murph. He grew up on a
cotton farm, attended local schools, graduated A. B.
from Wofford College at Spartanburg in 1902 and
spent the following year in Trinity College at Dur
ham, North Carolina. From this institution he holds
the degree Master of Arts granted in 1903. After
coraing to Washington Mr. Murph took up the
study of law in Georgetown University and re
ceived his LL. B. degree in 1916.
Four years following his Trinity CoUege course he
was a teacher in the Trinity Park School at Dur
ham, North Carolina. For several years he was
county superintendent of education in Calhoun
County, South Carolina, and carried on his farraing
operations there at the same tirae. He was also the
first president of the Farmers Bank and Trust Cora
pany, of St. Matthews, of which institution he is stiU
a director. Mr. Murph came to Washington in 1913 as clerk
of the Coraraittee on Agriculture, of which former
Congressraan A. F. Lever of South Carolina was
chairman. He remained as clerk until 1916, and
early in 1917 came with the Bureau of Markets, a
branch of the Department of Agriculture. Soon
afterward he was placed at the head of the Division
of Cotton Marketing.
The Bureau of Markets, one of the raodern fea
tures of the Government's activities for the wel
fare of its citizens, was first provided for by Con
gress in the general appropriation for the Depart
ment of Agriculture in 1913. In the Bureau of
Markets an important division is that of cotton
marketing, which Mr. Murph has charge of, and
which is of particular benefit to the cotton planters
and farmers of the southern states. Its functions
have a wide scope. It has in charge the adminis
tration, of the United States Cotton Futures Act,
regulating the operations of cotton exchanges. It
also carries on a vigilant investigational work cov
ering the state of the cotton market, and issues
regular bulletins to cotton farmers and others in
terested in the trade, giving them information as
to actual sales and market conditions. Many valu
able suggestions for improving the condition of the
cotton industry have been emanated from the Di
vision of Cotton Marketing. The division further
more keeps in personal touch with growers in the
cotton states, there being an organization of as
sistants in each of these states, and rauch deraon
stration work in cotton classing is carried on under
the auspices of the division. Through this division
within the past few years the Governraent has
established and developed cotton grading standards.
Another iraportant work now well under way is
conducting spinning tests of different grades and
varieties of cotton, the results of these tests being
made available to cotton growers and spinners. Mr.
Murph also acts in advisory capacity in the ad
rainistration of the United States Warehouse Act,
under which cotton warehouses can be licensed and
bonded by the Government to receive and store
cotton under uniform regulations all over the South.
Mr. Murph is widely known as an exponent of
uniform classification of cotton and as expert on
all phases of production and marketing of the great
staple. With a long practical experience as a cot-
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ton grower, and with his exceptional qualifications
in other lines, Mr. Murph is the right man for a
highly important place. He is well known through
out the South, since the duties of his office require
extensive travel, and he has personally addressed
many asserablages of cotton raen.
Esten C. Taylor, raeraber of one of the old
and prorainent families of GreenviUe County, has
achieved distinction and success in his profession
as a lawyer in New York City, where he has raade
his horae for the past twelve years.
Mr. Taylor, who earned his first honors in the
law at Spartanburg, was born at Arlington in
Greenville County Septeraber 30, 1879, son of Wil
liam P. and Alice C. (Turner) Taylor. For nearly
a century and a half the Taylor family have been
residents of upper South Carolina, and the various
generations have produced raen of worth and use
fulness in their coraraunity. The faraily was estab
lished in upper South Carolina by Thoraas Taylor,
great-grandfather of the New York lawyer. He
came to this state from Virginia, where the Taylors
had lived for several generations. It was about the
close of the Revolutionary war that he went into
Greenville County, settling about eight raUes east of
Greenville. In this coraraunity is the Town of
Taylor, named for the faraily. The grandfather of
Esten C. Taylor was Washington Taylor.
William P. Taylor was interested in the old Cedar
Hill cotton mill at Arlington and in that coraraunity
his son Esten C. spent his boyhood. He acquired
a liberal education preparatory to his professional
career, attending Furraan LTniversity at GreenvUle,
and studied law in the University of Virginia at
CharlottesvUle. Mr. Taylor was admitted to the bar
in New York City in 1905. However, he returned
to his native state to practice at Spartanburg for
two years, and since then New York has been his
home and the scene of his professional work. Mr.
Taylor since 1908 has been connected with the legal
departraent of the Fidelity and Casualty Company,
one of the raost powerful financial corporations of
the country. He is now assistant attorney for the
corapany. Mr. Taylor is a member of the New York
Southern Society, The National Democratic Club,
and is affiliated with the Masonic Order.
Edward McCrady. In the nuraber of "The South
Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine" for
January, 1904, appeared the following appreciative
sketch of Edward McCrady, to whose historical
writings the editors of this work are so much in
debted :
Edward McCrady, President of the South Caro
lina Historical Society, died at his residence, No. 7
Water Street, in the City of Charleston, on Sunday
morning, November i, 1903. He was born in Charles
ton, April 8, 1833, and was the second son of Hon,
Edward McCrady (1802-1892) and Louisa Rebecca
Lane, his wife ; received his preparatory training at
the school of Samuel Burns in Charleston and was
graduated frora the College in Charleston in 1853;
studied law in his father's office, was adraitted to
the bar in Columbia in May, 1855, and immediately
entered upon the practice of law with his father.
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1854, ¦was elected raajor of the Rifle Battalion (Char
leston), South Carolina railitia. The next year he
wrote several articles on the necessity of militia re
form, which led to his appointment on a coraraission,
created under a resolution of the General Assembly
of South Carolina in i85g, to examine the raUitia
systera of the State. In i860, he resigned his cora
raission as raajor of the Rifle Battalion and accepted
the captaincy of a company of guards. His active
service in the State raUitary establishraent began with
the taking of Castle Pinckney (Charleston Harbor),
December 27, i860, and ended with the surrender of
Fort Surater (Charleston Harbor), AprU 13, 1861.
He entered the service of the Confederate States,
June 27, 1861, as captain of the Irish Volunteers, of
Charleston, — the first company to volunteer "for the
war" — and was ordered to Virginia in July, 1861, and
in August, following, joined the First (Gregg's)
Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers ; was proraoted
raajor, December 14, 1861, and lieutenant-colonel,
June 27, 1862. When the great battles around Rich
raond began, soon after. Col, McCrady was in Rich
raond, sick in bed, he deterrained to join his
coraraand in the field and so expressed hiraself to
his physician, who positively refused to give his per
mission, assuring hira that he could be of no use in
the lines and predicting death as the penalty of the
atterapt. Nevertheless, although too weak to ride on
horseback, he hired a carriage and had hiraself driven
to the lines, joining his brigade just as the battle of
Cold Harbor began, and reported to Gen. Gregg
for duty. As he was unable to walk Gen. Gregg
ordered hira to serve on his staff, so that he raight
remain mounted. In this manner he shared the
fortunes of his brigade during the action, rendering
valuable services, but fainting three tiraes upon the
field, but after the battle he was taken back to his
sick bed, in Richraond, to linger for weeks with
typhoid fever. On July 30, 1862, although scarcely
recovered and still very feeble, he rejoined his regi
raent and commanded it at the battle of Cedar Run,
August gth., and at Second Manassas, August 28th.,
29th., and 30th., being severely wounded in the head
on the last day. Narrowly escaping death from this
wound, he missed the Maryland campaign, rejoining
his brigade during the affair at Snicker's Gap, Octo
ber 30th., after its return frora Virginia. He was
present for duty at the battle of Fredericksburg,
December 13, 1862, and rendered good service in
assisting in the repulse of the Federal attack on
Gregg's brigade, in which Gen. Gregg was killed.
On January 27, 1863, at camp, on Morse's Neck, he
was seriously injured by a falling tree, and rendered
unfit for further action in field duty. Rejoining his
comraand several tiraes only to find hiraself physically
disabled and unfit for duty, he saw the last actual
engagement at Mine Run, December, 1863, and in
March, 1864, was transferred to the command of
the carap of instruction at Madison, Florida, where
he served until AprU, 1865, when on his way to re
join the Array of Northern Virginia, he heard of
Lee's surrender. He surrendered himself on May
5th., following. In October, 1865, he resumed the
practice of law, in copartnership with his father, in
Charieston. In 1867, he organized the Survivors'
Association of Charleston, and in 1869 succeeded
Col. P. C. Gaillard in the presidency. He was also

chairman of the Executive Coraraittee of the State
association in 1869, and as such commenced the work
of recovering and collecting historical materials of
the war. In 1870 he made a report to the raeeting
of the Survivors' Association at Colurabia which
forras the basis of all the inforraation we now have
of the troops of this State in Confederate service.
In 1880, Col. McCrady was elected to the House
of Representatives of South Carolina frora Charles
ton County and was reelected in 1882, 1884, 1886,
1888. In 1882, he introduced and carried through
the Legislature an Act to establish a Confederate
War Records bureau in the office of Adjutant and
Inspector General for South Carolina and to this
he presented all of the great nuraber of records
which he had collected. He also took an active part
in the passing and perfecting of the railroad laws
of the State, the stock law, the "bill to prevent
duelling," and introduced the resolution endorsing
civil service reforra. He was chairraan of the Com-
raittee on Privileges and Elections and a meraber of
the Judiciary and Railroad coraraittees.
In 1882, he was appointed a raajor-general of
South Carolina railitia, and had rauch to do with
bringing the militia of the coast region up to a high
state of efficiency. He took part professionally in all
the political trials of the period, resulting frora the
Reconstruction oppression, and raised the question
as to the test oath to jurors, arguing that as "Re
beUion" was a crirae in the eyes of the law, no one
could be asked on his voir dire, after having been
brought into court by subpoena, whether he had been
guilty of rebellion — a point which was subsequently
sustained by the Supreme Court of the United States.
He took an active part in the defense of the stock
holders of the banks broken by the war, and made,
before the Supreme Court of the United States, an
arguraent which is said to have gained the case for
the stockholders. His services in these cases, and
his arguraents in the McKeegan and Davie will cases,
with others, placed him in the front rank of the bar
of the State.
The political campaign of 1876, which resulted in
the election of Gen. Wade Hampton as Governor
and the complete transfer of the State to the hands
of the white people of the State,— a campaign in
which Col. McCrady rendered valuable services— did
not alter the relative numerical strengths of the two
races in the State. The negroes were still vastly
in the majority, and their return to power, with all
that their government of the State implied, could
only be prevented under the then existing election
laws by the constant use of questionable and de
moralizing methods at the polls. A choice between
traud and violence was all that was left to the most
conscientious white man, and the constant recurrence
ot struggles to be decided by such means was er-
dangering the political virtue of the purest and best
men in the State. Besides, it was only a question of
tune, wheii such methods would involve the State
with the General Government, and result in the loss
ot all the ground gained in 1876. Realizing this situa
tion Loi. McCrady instituted a fight to reraedy the
evil. In i87g, he published a paraphlet on "The
Kegistration of Electors," and this he followed in
1880 by his address before Erskine College, at Due
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of Our Political System" and in 1881 by his essay
on "The Necessity of Raising the Standard of Citi
zenship, and the Right of the General Assembly to
impose qualifications upon Electors," which was
widely distributed throughout the State. Having
thus prepared the public mind for the change, he
submitted to the .committee appointed on this sub
ject by the General Asserably in 1881, a draft of the
"Eight Box Ballot Law." After a long and bitterly
contested fight in the Legislature the bill was passed
and became a law. This was the first attempt at
ballot reform in this section. It was the first step
toward an educational qualification for voters, and
the wisdom of Gen. McCrady has been fully sus
tained by the fact that since the passage of his bUl
almost every Southern State has raade education a
constitutional requirement for voting, thus legally
and properly disfranchising a great majority of the
negroes of the Southern States.
Soon after the reorganization of the South Caro
lina Historical Society, in 1875, Col. McCrady was
elected a member thereof. On August 6, 1883, he
read before the Society a paper on "Education in
South Carolina Prior to and during the Revolution,"
in which he conclusively proved that John Bach
McMaster had shown gross ignorance of the subject
when he stated in his History of the People of the
United States, that in South Carolina "prior to 1730,
no such thing as a grararaar school existed. Be
tween 1731 and 1776 there were five. D.uring the
Revolution there were none." At the annual meet
ing. May 19, 1886, Gen. McCrady was elected a
Curator of the Society; was reelected in 1887 and
1888 and in 1889 was elected Second Vice-President.
In 1895, he succeeded Mr. J. J. Pringle Smith as
First 'Vice-President and on January 7, 1899, was
elected President, succeeding Rev. Charles Cotes-
worth Pinckney, D. D., LL.D., deceased.
In 1897, The MacMillan Company, of New York,
published the first of a series of four volumes on
the history of South Carolina, which proved to be
the greatest achievement of Gen. McCrady's life.
They were : The History of South Carolina under
the Proprietary Government, 1670-1719 (1897); The
History of South Carolina under the Royal Govern
ment, j'719-1776 ( 1899) ; The History of South Caro
lina in the Revolution, i775;i78o (1901) ; and The
History of South Carolina in the Revolution, 1780-
17S3 (1902).
On February 24, 1863, Col. McCrady was married,
at Chester, S. C, to Mary Fraser Davie, daughter
of Major Allen J. Davie, an officer of the War of
1812, and granddaughter of Major WUIiarn R. Davie,
a famous leader of North Carolina raUitia in the
Revolution and subsequently a general in the United
States Array, Minister to France, and Governor of
North Carolina, who survives hira. They had no
children. At a called meeting of the Managing Board of the
South Carolina Historical Society, held at the roora
of the Society, on Wednesday afternoon, January
13th, at 5 o'clock, the following prearable and reso
lutions were unaniraously adopted :
"Whereas, since the last regular meeting of this
Society the death of its late President, Edward Mc
Crady, LL.D., D. C. L., has occurred, and raarked
one of the greatest personal losses it has ever suf
fered. He was the fourth in succession of our

Presidents; had been a raeraber of the Society for
raany years, and its President for five years.
Distinguished in the practice of Law, in legislative
and military service above raany of his contem
poraries, he applied himself, at. the close of a long
and useful life, to the writing and publishing of
"The History of South Carolina." This work, in
four voluraes, covers raore than one hundred years,
frora the settlement of the Carolinas to the end of
the Revolutionary War. Only one who has loved his
native State, as he did, could have felt the long
neglect of her history, by her own people, the slurs
and slanders of alien authors, the richness and glory
of her abundant and extraordinary records. Only
one fitted by education, patient and determined labor,
by trained discrimination in evidence and judgraent,
could have carried through the painstaking exaraina
tion into original authorities, that enabled hira to
coraplete a work of such imperishable value.
Others may give, as they have already given, un
stinted praise to the author of this history; the
people of South Carolina, and other States, raay
unite in their encoraiums; but the merabers of this
Historical Society feel it to be their peculiar privilege
to record their deepest obligation to the author, and
their sorrow at his recent decease.
May such an exaraple as he has left us bear fruit
abundantly in the coming years ! May the raen and
woraen of our tirae and their children -after them
learn that it is not enough to be South Carolinians,
or even to cherish their honored genealogies, but
that their distinction should oblige them to do, as
well as to be, to achieve, if they can, something for
the State as worthy of reraembrance as the great
work of our late President and rauch lamented
friend. Therefore, by this raeeting of the Managing Board
of the South Carolina Historical Society, duly con
vened, be it
Resolved : That the above Tribute to the raeraory
and worthiness of their late President be spread upon
the Minutes, and that a blank page therein be in
scribed to his honor.
Resolved : That a copy of this Tribute and these
Resolutions be prepared by the Secretary and sent
to the Widow of the deceased, with assurance of
the Society's deep feeling for her in her bereavement
and affliction.
James Herbert Brannon has been one of the
progressive teachers and workers in educational
affairs in South Carolina for sixteen years, and has
successively qualified for some of the more advanced
positions and responsibilities in state education.
He was born near Inraan, Spartanburg County,
February 25, 1883, son of James Albert and Hattie
Brannon. After making the best use of local ad
vantages in school he entered Furman University,
frora which he received his A. B. degree in 1903.
In 1908 Furraan University conferred upon hira the
degree Master of Arts. Since leaving coUege he has
had practically no other interests beyond teaching,
and has taught in every class of public schools in the
state. Frora January, igii to July i, 1915, he served
as County Superintendent of Education of Spartan
burg County. On July 23, 1917, he was made state
agent for negro schools, and in that capacity has
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Brannon is a deraocrat and a raember of the Baptist
Church. Charles Mills Galloway. Of former South
Carolinians now residents of the City of Wash
ington, few have raore completely earned national
distinction than Charles Mills Galloway, who for
six years was United States CivU Service Com
missioner, and resigned to take up the practice of
law in Washington.
Mr. Galloway, whose home for raany years was
in the City of Colurabia, was bora in Pender County,
North Carolina, August 15, 1875, son of Charles Mils
and Ellen (Register) Galloway. He corapleted his
education in South Carolina, receiving his law degree
frora the University of South Carolina in 1907.
Like many brilliant men in public affairs Mr. Gallo
way first carae in touch with raen and politics
through journalisra. Frora 1904 to igog he was
news editor of The State of Colurabia. He first
went to Washington in 1909 as secretary to Senator
E. D. Smith and in addition to his secretarial duties
was also clerk of the Senate Committees on Immi
gration and Transportation Routes to the Seaboard.
He rapidly gained recognition because of his com
prehensive knowledge and versatile administrative
faculties, and it was a reward of raerit when Presi
dent Wilson appointed hira a civil service cora
raissioner, the duties of which office he began on
June 20, 1913. This coraraission, consisting of three
merabers, has been in existence since 1883, when it
was organized under the Civil Service Act "to
regulate and improve the CivU Service of the United
States." The growth of the Federal Civil Service
has been one of the significant features of the Gov
ernraent during the past thirty years. The jurisdic
tion of the coraraission was at first very limited,
but the powers were greatly extended and iraproved
under President Cleveland's first adrainistration, and
during the years that Mr. Galloway was a raeraber
of the coraraission there were raore than half a
million officers and employees in the executive Civil
Service. From many sources the comraent upon Mr. Gallo
way's official work has been unusually unaniraous
in comraending his efficiency, his wisdora and dis
cretion, and it is possible to assert that no other
commissioner has done more to raake the CivU
Service what the originators of the Act and its
most ardent friends proposed that it should be.
Mr. Gallowav was also one of the very popular
officials of Washington. When he resigned as civil
service commissioner September 7, 1010, he re
ceived the unprecedented compliment of being pre
sented with a beautiful gold watch and chain by
the members of the various staffs and employees of
the Civil Service Coraraission,
Mr. Galloway has since . established hiraself in
the general practice of law at Washington, and
devotes special attention to raatters pending before
all Governraent departraents. He has been adraitted
to practice in the United States Court of Clairas,
the District Court of Appeals and the United States
Court of Appeals.
Mr. Galloway is a raeraber of the South Carolina
Bar Association, is a Sigraa Alpha EpsUon, and a
meraber of the University and National Press clubs
of Washington, He is a meraber of the Episcopal

Church. October 23, 1903, he married Lyda Mc
Nulty of Columbia.
Capt, Quincy B. Newman. A South Carolinian
by birth and early training. Captain Newman since
the age of twenty-four has been in the Government
service and in December, 1919, was appointed by
President Wilson as engineer in chief of the United
States Coast Guard, Captain Newman is a veteran
of the old Revenue Cutter Service, which a few
years ago was combined with the Life Saving serv
ice under the name Coast Guard. It is an integral
part of the navy in tirae of war, but in tirae of
peace is under the direction of the secretary of the
treasury. As engineer in chief of the Coast Guard, Cap
tain Newraan has charge of the construction and
repair of all raotive power plants and other ma
chinery of the Coast Guard both afloat and ashore.
He is a raeraber of the Society of Naval Archi
tects and Marine Engineers, of the American So
ciety of Naval Engineers, and is on the technical
coraraittee of the Araerican Bureau of Shipping.
Captain Newraan was born in Chesterfield County,
South Carolina, in 1877, son of Burrel.S. and Mary
(Myers) Newraan. The Newraan family was estab
lished in South Carolina before the Revolutionary
war. The family for several generations was closely
identified with the history of the old Cheraw Dis
trict, and Captain Newman's father, grandfather and
great-grandfather were all born in Chesterfield
County. Quincy B, Newman is a graduate of the Engineer
ing Departraent of Clerason College, receiving his
Bachelor of Science degree in 1901. Soon afterward
he entered the Revenue Cutter Service, and is now
one of its veterans, having received promotion
through the various ranks to that of captain, corre
sponding to that of colonel in the army. AU his
service has been in the Engineering Division.
Captain Newman's official headquarters are in the
Coast Guard Building on Fourteenth and E streets
in the City of Washington, Captain Newman mar
ried Miss Carrie Lauretta Davis of Thomasville,
Alabama. Benjamin Brown Kirkland is head of two large
business houses of Columbia vitally connected with
and perforraing an iraportant service to the entire
state. One is the B. B. Kirkland Seed Company
and the other is The Kirkland Distributing Cora
pany. Mr. Kirkland was born in Barnwell County, April
17, 1870, a son of Col. B. B. and Margaret A. (Dun
bar) Kirkland. His father was for many years a
successful planter. Benjamin Brown Kirkland was
educated in the public schools and at an early age
entered upon his business career. He clerked in -a
general store for fifteen years and for eight years
was merchandise broker at Columbia. He estab
lished The Kirkland Distributing Company in igo8
and IS the chief owner of this corporation. The
business is that of wholesale distributing of flour,
feed, gram, produce, and the corapany raanufactures
a line of special flours, particularly self-rising flours,
the use of which is by no means confined to the
State of South Carolina. The business is housed in
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and Lincoln streets. This corapany began business
in 1900 and was incorporated in 1908. Mr. Kirkland
is also owner of the B. B. Kirkland Seed Company,
handling feed, agricultural and garden seeds, sup
plies for poultry and livestock breeders and raisers.
He is also a director in the Carolina National Bank
and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Mr. Kirkland built the handsorae Kirkland Apart
ments, comprising six modern apartments on Pen
dleton Street. He is a deacon in the First Christian
Church of Columbia. He has ever taken an active
and lively interest in public and coraraunity affairs;
is a member of Columbia Chamber of Commerce,
also the Rotary Club. While a resident of Eauclair
he served as alderman, also as mayor, and was
chairman of the board of trustees at the time of the
construction of the handsome school building at
Eauclair. July 25, 1895, he married Evelyn Ella Ceruti of
Nassau, West Indies. They have seven children,
Evelyn E., Benjamin Brown, Catherine, Elizabeth,
Elsie, Wilbur and Martha Ann.
George Rogers Rea-ves. While he has been a
meraber of the Legislature several tiraes and is a
former mayor of Mullins, Mr. Reaves' main inter
ests have been anchored in the soil as a leading
agriculturist of Marion County.
He was bom at Mullins in that county September
3, 1863, a son of George Washington and Emma
(Rogers) Reaves. His father was also a planter of
Marion County. Educated in the public schools,
with a commercial course in Kentucky University,
George R. Reaves began his career as clerk in a
general store and for a number of years was man
ager for W. H. Daniel at Mullins, and since the
incorporation of the W. H. Daniel Supply Com
pany has been secretary-treasurer and is now secre
tary. Mr. Reaves owns a farm of 600 acres and
employs twenty plows and is one of the leading
producers of cotton and other diversified crops.
Mr Reaves was the first president of the Bank of
Mullins, and served in that office for several years.
He is now a director of the Bank of Mullins. He
has served several terms as councilman and is an
ex-mayor of Mullins and was for two terms in the
Legislature, being elected in 1904 and 1906. He is
a member of the Baptist Church. _, . , ,
February 15, 1893, he married Kate Darnel of
Mullins. They have eight children : George Henry,
a graduate of Clemson CoUege, who served as
second lieutenant in the Seventh Division with the
American Expeditionary Forces ; Mary D., a grad
uate of Coker College with the class of igi8;
Lucile, a student of Coker College; James Clar
ence, Inez, Katherine, Marion and Dorothy May.
Mat Edward N. Chisolm, Jr, For upvvards of
twenty years Major Chisolm had a- satisfactory
routine of life at Colurabia where he was engaged
L the practice of his profession of engineering and
"^-^QarfJf'trSfafaC^^^^^^ rf'nnll Guard he at once responded to the caU
ciZy, served' eSht months on the firing line in

France, and since the war has been retained as a
part of the regular establishment of the United
States Army Engineers, with duties at Washington.
Major Chisolm was born in Charleston in 1878,
grandson of Robert Chisolm and son of Edward N.
and Felicia (Robinson) Chisolm. He comes of an
old and well known family of Orangeburg County.
Major Chisolm was educated in private schools
at Charleston, and graduated in 1897 from the Porter
MUitary Academy. 'While in school he had special
ized in engineering arid did his first practical work
in the profession iri the City of Colurabia in 1898,
and soon becarae recognized as a man of the highest
qualifications in his technical profession.
The official record of Major Chisolra's service with
the military establishment of his native state com
prises four enlistments and a total service of seven
years twenty-one days. He first enlisted in the Beau
fort Volunteer Artillery, South Carolina Volunteer
Transports, November 9, 1897, serving to September
I, 1899. He enlisted in Company K 2nd South Caro
lina National Guard Infantry Septeraber I, 1899,
and served to May 15, 1902. His third enlistraent
was in Corapany C Second Infantry South Carolina
National Guard, serving frora May 15, igo2, to AprU
14, ig04. October 2, 1905, he enlisted and served to
July 14, 1906, in Corapany C Second Infantry.
With the interest and training thus acquired he
was one of the first to volunteer frora Columbia
and entered the First Officers Training Carap at
Fort Oglethorpe May 8, 1917. He was coraraissioned
captain of engineers in July and being assigned to
duty at the Araerican University in Washington,
District of Colurabia, arrived in that city in August.
Here he was attached to the Second United States
Engineers, Regulars. In Septeraber he was sent to
France as adjutant of the Second Battalion of En
gineers, and completed the course for officers in the
First Corps school at Gondrecourt. In November,
igi7, he was put in comraand of D Corapany, Sec
ond Engineers, Second Division; was brevet major
of the Second Battalion in June and July, 1918, dur
ing the Chateau Thierry and Soissons carapaigns.
For eight months he was engaged in the line of
advance, and his record includes four major engage
raents : With the French engageraents at Verdun,
the second battle of the Marne, the battle of Aisne-
Marne including Chateau Thierry, and the battle of
Soissons. June I, 1918, near Belleau Wood (Chateau
Thierry) he was wounded in the knee by shrapnel at
Hill 204, and was gassed at BeUeau Wood June 12th.
While the wounds were severe they did not disable
hira and he kept on in service.
The colors of the regiment with which Major
Chisolm served were decorated three times and was
awarded the following citation:
CABLEGRAM
Nuraber 463
On August 31st the French Minister of war, ac
corded to the 2d U. S. Engineers the Fourragere
with the Croix de Guerre colors. The necessary
instructions regarding the matter being given to
General CoUardet. Mott.
One interesting tribute to the Second American En
gineering Regiment is contained in the following
extract from an order signed by the French Com
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unexpectedly in the offensive of July i8, 1918, in the
middle of the night on a terrain which was unknown
and very difficult, displayed during two days, without
allowing themselves to stop by fatigue and the diffi
culties of obtaining food and water, a remarkable
ardor and tenacity, driving back the eneray 11 kra.,
capturing 2,700 prisoners, 12 cannon and several
hundred raachine guns."
A personal tribute to Major Chisoira is contained
in a raemorandum from Col. W. A. Mitchell, com
manding the Second Engineers, dated July 23, 1919 :
"Captain Chisoira has served under my comraand
frora July 4, igi8, to date. He has coraraanded the
Second Battalion during this time, which includes
the battle of Soissons. His work has been very
satisfactory. I regret to lose him, but I have been
ordered to return my best captain to the United
States for proraotion to grade of Major, and I have
chosen Captain Chisoira to fill these requireraents."
Of the sarae date is the following raeraorandura
by Col. Cary H. Brown, lieutenant colonel of the
Second Engineers : "Captain Chisoira has served di
rectly under my comraand since September, igi7,
with the exception of about a month and a half in
November-December, igi7. He has been in com
mand of Company D for the past eight months, and
for the raonth last passed has acted as battalion
commander, with entire satisfaction. He is an able
officer, has taken hold of his duties with unceasing
efficiency frora raonth to raonth. I would be pleased
to have Captain Chisolm under ray coraraand at any
tirae." These orders having taken him from the fighting
front. Major Chisolm returned from France, reach
ing Hoboken August 13, igi8, and soon afterwards
was proraoted to raajor of Engineers and assigned
to duty as executive officer of the Fifth Engineer
Regiraent at Carap Huraphrey, Virginia. He re
mained in coraraand of that regiment until the sign
ing of the armistice, and January 20, igig, was
ordered to Washington, and has since been engaged
in his duties as chief of Materiel Section, Statistics
Branch, General Staff, with office in the State War
and Navy Building.
Major Chisolm married Miss Annie Weston of
Columbia, a daughter of the late Dr. Wm. Weston,
Sr., of that city. They have one daughter, Felicia
N. Chisoira.
James Baruch Hughey, M, D. A prorainent
physician of Gaffney where he located in 1917, Doc
tor Hughey was for over thirty years a busy prac
titioner and a citizen of many useful activities in
Greenwood County,
He was born in Newberry County October 25,
1861, a son of Joseph L, and Sallie F, (Duncan)
Hughey. The Hughey family is of English origin.
Joseph L. Hughey was born in that part of Abbe
ville County, now Greenwood County, and was a
Confederate soldier frora 1861 to 1865. Sallie F.
Duncan was a daughter of Baruch Duncan who
came from Scotland and settled in Newberry County
about three railes frora the present town of 'Whit
mire. He was an old tirae planter and a very suc
cessful business man. Duncan Creek and Duncan
Creek Baptist Church were named for hira.
Doctor Hughey attended comraon schools until
his twelfth year and after that had some good in

struction in the Greenwood High School, preparing
for Furman University, in which institution he com
pleted his literary education. He attended the
Charleston Medical College, later the Medical Col
lege of the State of South Carolina, and in 1883
graduated from the Medical Department of the
University of Maryland. With this liberal training
and equipraent Doctor Hughey located in Green
wood, and for thirty years was busied with the cares
and responsibUities of a large practice and many
duties as a citizen. Much of his professional work
was in that poorly compensated field of public
health. For many years he was chairraan of the
Greenwood Board of Health, and was a raember of
the Board of Trustees of the Public Schools and
finally a meraber of the Light and Water Commis
sion of Greenwood.
Doctor Hughey located at Gaffney December
I, 1917, and in a short time his talents attracted a
large and busy practice. He is a member of the
County, State and American Medical Association
and is a Knights Templar Mason.
Doctor Hughey raarried for his first wife Lucia
Tarrant. He has six children by that marriage:
Robert D., Florence, Annie L., wife of R. F. Curry,
Lucia T., wife of W. C. Harrison, Mary H., and
Joseph W. For his second wife Doctor Hughey
raarried Miss Bessie Yarborough of Fairfield
County. Their three children are naraed Evelyn
Y., Jaraes B. and John Perry.
William Mellard Connor, a native of Charleston,
a graduate of Wofford College and for a brief period
engaged in the practice of law at Spartanburg, has
given eighteen years to the Federal Governraent both
in the Civil and Military departraents, and is now
lieutenant colonel in the judge advocate general's
department at Washington.
Colonel Connor was born at Charleston August 31,
1878, son of William M. and Olivia (Moorer) Con
nor. His father joined the Confederate army at the
age of sixteen, serving during the last two years
of the war. He was in Company F Second South
Carolina Heavy Artillery. For about a year he was
on Jaraes Island in the defense of Charleston Harbor,
and later went to North Carolina and joined Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston's array, with which he was sur
rendered at Greensboro at the close of. the war.
Colonel Connor was reared in Charleston, at
tended the local schools there, and graduated from
Wofford College with the class of 1897. He was a
special student in the law school of the University
of Virginia, finishing with the class of igoo, and
practiced for about one year in Spartanburg.
His first position in the Federal service was in
the Philippine Islands in the Governraent's teaching
departraent. He went to the Philippines in igo2.
After a year as a teacher he was appointed by Gen.
Leonard Wood as assistant attorney for Moro Prov
ince. He becarae one of the prorainent American
awyers and officials of the Philippines. In 1908
he was made attorney for the Moro Province, and
e-x-officio member of the Legislative CouncU thereof,
in which capacity he served throughout the adrainis
tration of Gen. John J. Pershing as provincial gov
ernor and in 1914 was appointed city attorney for
Manila and a few raonths later judge of the Eigh
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In December, 1917, after America entered the war
with Germany he terminated his service on the
bench to accept a call to active duty in the mili
tary service as judge advocate. Officers Reserve
Corps. He was made department judge advocate for
the Philippine department, serving in that capacity
until November, 1918, when he was transferred to
\Vashington. His rank at that time was major.
Since then he has been on duty at the headquarters
of Judge Advocate General Crowder in the City of
\\'ashingto.n, and in April, igig, was promoted to the
rank of lieutenant colonel. Colonel Connor is a
member of the General Board of Review, Adminis
trative Law Division in the judge advocate gen
eral's department.
His record and his responsibilities are best de
scribed in the official language of his chief. General
Crowder : "Lieutenant-Colonel Connor was ap
pointed Major, Judge Advocate, Officers' Reserve
Corps, November 28, 1917, and ordered to report for
duty to the Commanding General, PhUippine De
partment, where he remained until November 9,
1918, when he was relieved frora that assignment
and directed to report to the Judge Advocate General
for duty. He has been on duty in this office since
December 30, 1918, at first in the MUitary Justice
Division and subsequently as a meraber of the Board
of Review, Adrainistrative Law Division, where he
is now on duty. On AprU 23, 1919, he was proraoted
to the grade of Lieutenant-Colonel, Judge Advocate.
"The functions of the Board of Review, upon
which Lieutenant-Colonel Connor is now serving are
araong the most important in this Departraent. This
Board pass:s upon all opinions and decisions of this
office prepared by other sections of the Adminis
trative Law Division, and coordinates, revises and
finally approves all of the opinions and decisions of
this office not connected with the administration of
military justice.
"The work performed by the raerabers of this
Board is raost exacting and requires a wide knowl
edge of all fields of civil law with particular applica
tion to the administration of War Departraent busi
ness. The raany ramifications into which the emer-
, , gency legislation has broadened this field render the
work of this Board not only difficult and responsible
but very exacting. Many of the questions presented
to the Board for final deterraination are novel ones
and its decisions in many cases have a most far-
reaching effect in matters of great importance."
Colonel Connor is a raember of the Kappa Alpha
college fraternity. He married Miss Katharine Pey
ton of Mississippi. Her father. Chancellor Peyton,
was a prorainent jurist of that state. Her grand
father was the late Chief Justice Peyton of Missis
sippi. Colonel and Mrs. Connor have a son, WUliam
Mellard Connor, III.
Rt. Rev. Mgr. P. L. Duffy, V. G., LL. D., Litt. D.
It is not alone the people of the diocese of Charles
ton who appreciated the scholarly character and
services of Doctor Duffy. His wisdom and learning
and the ripe fruits of his experience were assets
to the culture of the state as a vvhole.
Doctor Duffy, who was vicar general of the
Catholic diocese of Charleston, spent raost of his
life in that city, raaking his preliminary studies in
the public and private schools of Charleston. From

there he entered Mount St. Mary's CoUege at
Emraitsburg, Maryland, graduating with the first
honors of his class and the Bachelor of Arts degree
in 1875, On corapleting his course in theology he
was accorded the degree A. M. in 1879, received
the degree LL. D. in 1894, and the honorary degree
Litt. D, was bestowed upon hira in 1908 upon the
occasion of the delivery of the Centennial Ode at
the Centenary of that institution. Cardinal Gib
bons, who conferred the degree, pronounced this ode
a masterpiece. In igo8 Doctor Duffy published a volurae of
poeras, "A Wreath of Ilex Leaves," which was ac
corded generous and deserved praise by the press.
He lectured before the College of Charleston on
"The Ideal in Literature and Art," and also before
the South Carolina Military Acaderay and else
where. He was a contributor to the Catholic En
cyclopedia, the Library of Southern Literature, and
other publications. At the request of the Daughters
of the Confederacy he composed and read the ode
on Memorial Day and on several occasions delivered
raeraorial addresses.
Through all the years since his graduation, raore
than forty in nuraber. Doctor Duffy was a very busy
clergyraan, devoting hiraself to the interests of his
parish, especiaUy to his schools and general educa
tional work. He was appointed vicar general of
the diocese of Charleston in igii and was raade
a prelate of the Papal Court with the title of Mon-
signor by Pope Benedict in 1917.
The Rt. Rev. Mgr. P. L. Duffy, V. G., was born
March 25, 1851, at Waterford, Ireland, and died
July 22, 1919, at Charleston, South Carolina.
Niels Christensen. A raerchant, editor, and for
' twenty years a successful business man of Beaufort,
Mr. Christensen is most widely known for his splen
did public services as a raeraber of the State Senate
frora Beaufort.
He was born at Beaufort in 1876 and secured a
thorough education in private and public schools.
In i8g5 he becarae associated with his father and
brother, F. H. Christensen, in the hardware, lumber
and building supply business. Since 1901 he has also
owned and edited the Beaufort Gazette.
He was elected state senator frora Beaufort
County in 1905 and is now rounding out his fifteenth
consecutive year in the State Senate. He has had a
notable part in the progressive legislation and ira
proveraent in raany fiscal affairs of the state. Soon
after entering the Senate he introduced a bill for
an investigation of the coast fisheries, and as a re
sult of that report a State Board of Fisheries was
created. Also during the first session Senator Chris
tensen becarae a raeraber of the Dispensary In
vestigating Coraraission, which disclosed to the public
a condition of corruption which had potent results
in ultimately abolishing the dispensary systera. He
invited Messrs. Carey and Cothran and other mera
bers of the House and Senate in the fall of igo7
to the Columbia Conference which he called to or
ganize the legislative contest that overthrew the
State Dispensary by the passage of the Carey-Coth-
ran Act. As a result of the work of the Second
Dispensary Investigating Coraraission, of which Sen
ator Christensen was chairraan and which sat during
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to the state and the directors of the dispensary re
moved frora office.
Senator Christensen was also chairraan of the
coraraission which investigated conditions of the
State Hospital for the Insane. In this work he was
closely associated with the Hon. Wade C. Harrison
of Greenwood. Each of them gave up practically an
entire year to the work. They raade an exhaustive
illustrated report which included coraparison with
conditions in other sirailar institutions, and as a re
sult of the revelations made by the commission
better provision has been raade for the state's un
fortunate. Senator Christensen was a raember of the Senate
Printing Investigating Commission in 1915, and
served as chairman of the Joint Coraraittee on Print
ing created at the igi6 session, upon the recoraraen-
dation of the investigating coraraission. This cora
raittee has saved the state over $15,000 annually in
its printing expenditures.
Important constructive raeasures bearing the narae
of Senator Christensen are the acts creating the
State Board of Charities and Corrections, the Tax
Coraraission, the Boys' Reformatory at Florence, the
Home for Feeble .Minded, Girls' Reformatory and
the Budget Coraraission. Since the extra session of
igi4 Senator Christensen has served as chairman of
the Senate Finance Coraraittee, a chairraanship which
carries with it ex-officio membership on the Sink
ing Fund Coraraission, the Canal Coraraission and
the Budget Coraraission. It was in igig that raem
bership on the State Budget Commission was added
to the responsibUities of this chairmanship.
Just before the beginning of the World war Sena
tor Christensen enlisted in the naval service, and
was attached to the headquarters of the Sixth Naval
District at Charleston as aid for information and
assistant ship routing officer under Admiral Beattie.
He won proraotion frora ensign to lieutenant (j. g.)
and was on duty until relieved February i, igig,
though still retaining his commission in the Naval
Reserve force.
Upon the organization early in 1919 of what is
now known as the South Carolina Development
Board he was elected its president, in which capacity
he has served up to the present tirae. It is an asso
ciation of the leading citizens of the state for the
advancement of the economics and social life iri the
state. After a year of preliminary activities it so
irapressed the state that a carapaign for general and
popular support . was inaugurated and enlisted the
active co-operation of prorainent men in every
county, headed by Governor Cooper, Ex-Governor
Manning and Ex-Governor Haywood. The organi
zation proraises to be an important factor in state
development. On Deceraber 3, 1912, at Boston, Massachusetts,
in Kings Chapel, Mr. Christensen raarried Miss
Katherine Wales Stratton, a native of Boston and
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Stratton. Mr.
Stratton was a raember of the firm of Jones, Mc-
Duffee and Stratton, raerchants of Boston, but has
recently retired. The Strattons are of an old Araeri
can family of Revolutionary stock and English de
scent. Three children : Niels Christensen, Jr., Anne
Wales Christensen and Stratton Christensen.

Thomas Allison Hudgens, M. D. WhUe he was
best known in his community in Anderson County,
as a faithful and hard working physician, the late
Dr. Thomas Allison Hudgens earned a place in the
history of his state as lieutenant colonel of the
Seventh South Carolina Regiraent, a gallant regi
ment in the Confederate Army, as a leader in pol
itics during reconstruction tiraes, and as a citizen
whose life was one of the finest integrity and
irreproachable conduct in all its relations.
He was born at Laurens June 19, 1831, and died
suddenly at his home in Honea Path February 25,
1892. His parents were Colonel John and Kathryn
(Allison) Hudgens. His father, a native of Laurens
County, was a farmer, served as a colonel in the
State MUitia, also a meraber of the State Legis- ,
lature, Ambrose Hudgens, grandfather of Doctor
Hudgens, was a native of Virginia and of Scotch-
Irish lineage and developed one of the early farms
in Laurens County. He raarried a Miss Irby of that
county. Kathryn Allison, mother of Doctor Hud
gens, was born in Laurens County and her father
Robert Allison was a native of Ireland, settling in
Laurens County in early life.
Doctor Hudgens grew up on a farra, was the
oldest of eight children, and had a healthy and
wholesome youth, recreation being judiciously com
bined with study and labor. He finished his literary
education in the University of South Carolina and
in 1858 completed his medical course in the Jeffer
son Medical College in Philadelphia. For one year
he practiced in his native county and then located
at Donalds in Abbeville County. The outbreak of the
war called hira frora his profession into the ranks
of the Seventh South Carolina Regiment as a pri
vate. Upon the reorganization of the regiment he
was raade captain and subsequently was promoted
to lieutenant colonel, and as such continued to
serve the Southern cause until the close of the
war. The war over he located at Honea Path,
and for a quarter of a century was looked upon as
a leader in his profession and also in the general
interests of the community. He owned and super
vised much farming land, and in politics was
chiefly identified with the movement which cul
minated in 1876 in the redemption of the state
from negro rule. Later he served as a member of
the Legislature. He was a Baptist and was a master
of his Masonic Lodge. May 31, 1870, he married
tilla Gaines. She was born in Pickens County but
was reared at Anderson. Mrs. Hudgens is a mem
ber of the Methodist Church and is still living at
o;°"f^wu^;<; ^.^^ ??'^'^^' K«^' Barnett S. and Mar-
oHn. i l'^u'^\ ^='*"" ^^"-^ 1^°^" i" South Car
olina, her father bemg a Methodist minister. Mrs.
Hudgens grew up at Anderson in the home of her
grandmother Whitfield. Dr. and Mrs. Hudgens have
larah'vn'^""^ J.°'^",^"''^°" °f Pelzer^ raarrlld
Sarah, youngest daughter of Capt. E. A. Srayth
MaSareT-"';^ ^Ha died at the age of eleven y?ar.^
Marg-aret is the wife of Rev. F. H. Wardlaw Pres
byterian minister. William Augustus Hudgens
name^'on '^"'""September 26, 1878, is a distinguS
name on the honor roll of South Carolina in the
eer .'nU'"^ ^°' '^' ^°'^'^ ^^'- ^e was a volun
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der one year and soon after his return from the
South entered the array when the United States de
clared war against Germany. He rose to battalion
adjutant With the rank of first lieutenant in the
I I8th Infantry of the Thirtieth Division and he was
killed in action in France on October 8, igi8. Lieu
tenant Hudgens married Lucia Taylor. The next in
the family in age is Thomas Arthur Hudgens, living
at home with his mother. Frank Hampton Hudgens
a grain dealer at NashvUle, Tennessee, married
Miss Virginia Waterfield. Catherine is the wife of
L. L. Wright of Honea Path, superintendent of the
public schools of that city. The youngest child,
Bessie May, married Dr. J. Wallace Payne of Green
wood County, South Carolina.
Henry Toomer Morrison, planter, manufacturer
and prominently identified with the leading enter
prises of McClellanvUle, is a native of the city
where he was born May 17, 1863. His father
Richard T. Morrison was born in Christ Church
Parish, McClellanvUle, and with the exception of
ten years spent aU of his life here. The grandfather,
also Richard T. Morrison, was born in Maryland,
frora which state he migrated to South Carolina, and
located at McClellanvUle. The mother of Henry
Tooraer Morrison was Abigail Toomer, and she also
coraes of an old faraily of Christ Church Parish,
where she and her father, Nathan Tooraer, before
her were born. Nathan Tooraer raarried a raember
of the Van Derhard family, of which one of the
narae was mayor of Charleston, South Carolina,
when Gen. George Washington visited that city.
Prior to his marriage with Miss Toomer, Richard
T. Morrison was married first to a Miss Venning,
and they had three sons and six daug|hters. By
his second marriage he had two sons and four
daughters, of whom Henry T. Morrison is the
eldest. After attending Erskine College, Henry T.
Morrison matriculated at the College of Geneva,
New York, from which he was graduated in 1886
frora its classical course. For the subsequent two
years he was engaged in teaching school in South
Carolina and Georgia, but the confineraent of the
schoolroora told upon hira and he left it for railroad
work. A year at that and two years and a half at
surveying lands brought hira back to McClellanviUe.
Here, in his native place he found abundant opportu
nities to give expression to his abUities and was
engaged in farraing, raerchandising and saw-railling
at different periods. At present he owns about
4,000 acres of valuable tiraber land, and 150 acres of
finely developed farra land. For the past twelve
years he has run the "Star Route" carrying the mail
from McClellanvUle to Mount Pleasant, and it is the
best conducted one in the South. Mr. Morrison
also owns and runs the gasoline boat between
Charleston and McClellanvUle, and this route was
the first one of its kind in the state.
On January 6, i8g2, Mr. Morrison was married to-
Sada Ward McGillevray of Charleston, a daughter
of Alexander C. McGillevray of Charleston. Mr.
and Mrs. Morrison became the parents of the fol
lowing children : AbigaU Tooraer, Caroline, Sada
Ward, Katherine A.. Florence Elizabeth, Henry
"Toomer, Jr., and William M. Fraternally Mr. Mor
rison is a Mason and Knight of Pythias and active
in both orders. A stanch democrat he has been

very active in his party, serving as a meraber of the
township board and as president of the Deraocratic
Llub. He IS also president of the Board of Trade
and IS interested in developing the natural resources
and bringing the advantages of this locality to the
attention of outsiders for he realizes that with the
advent of new and added capital will corae extra
irapetus to the place to which he is bound bv so
many ties.
Anthony Foster McKissick is a graduate me
chanical engineer and during the past thirty years
in his professional work as a teacher and practical
business executive has made a strong impress on the
industrial life of the South.
. Mr. McKissick, whose horae and business activi
ties for raany years have been centered at Green
wood, was born in Union County, June 10, i86g
son of Isaac G, and Sarah (Foster) McKissick. His
father was a lawyer by profession and also served as
clerk of court and in the State Legislature. The
mother was a relative of Capt. Anthony Foster of
the Mexican war and Col. B. B. Foster of the Con
federate States Army.
Anthony Foster McKissick spent his boyhood at
Union, South Carolina, and in June, 1889, graduated
with the degrees Bachelor of Science and Master of
Arts from South Carolina College at Columbia. The
following July he was made superintendent of the
electric lighting plant at Columbia. About a year
later he resigned to becorae professor of electrical
engineering in the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at
Auburn, Alabama. For nearly ten years he gave
most of his time to educational work, resigning frora
the Polytechnic Institute in 1899. In the meantirae
by post-graduate courses at Cornell University he
had received in 1895 the degree Master of Mechanical
Engineering from that institution.
From 1899 to 1902 Mr. McKissick was again in
his native state and employed as' raechanical and
electrical engineer for the Pelzer Manufacturing
Company of Pelzer. In 1902 he became president
and treasurer of the Greendel Cotton Mills at Green
wood, and gave to that industry the benefit of his
thorough technical skUl and fine business energies.
In 1904 he was also elected vice president and treas
urer of the Ninety-Six Cotton Mill at Ninety-Six,
and in igo8 became president. He is a native South
Carolinian who has done much to buUd up and
proraote the great textile industry of the state.
He has served as a raeraber of the water and light
coraraission of Greenwood, is a Baptist, a democrat
in politics, and a Mason and Shriner. 'While in col
lege he played the more rugged sports, and has spent
many of his vacations fishing and hunting. Mr.
McKissick married Miss Margaret Adger Smyth on
Deceraber 17, 1891. To their raarriage were born
six children, of whora only one, Capt. Ellison Smyth
McKissick, survives.
Capt. James Mims Sullivan, one of the raost
distinguished of the surviving officers of the Con
federacy, has spent raost of his long life in Green
ville County, though his business interests have been
distributed in raany southem states.
The Sullivans are an ancient and honorable family
of South Carolina. The great-great-grandfather of
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north of Ireland, he carae to Virginia when a youth,
sorae tirae between 1700 and 1720, locating in the
neighborhood of Jaraestown. He sent back to Ire
land for his sweetheart, paying for her transporta
tion a hogshead of tobacco to the captain, of the
sailing vessel. On her arrival in the colonies they
were married. Owen Sullivan was one of the early
slave owners in the South. Accorapanied by his
retinue of black faraUies he raoved to lower South
Carolina, locating in the Four Holes swarap coun
try in what is now Georgetown County. He had
erected what was said to have been the first sawraill
in Virginia, and was a pioneer in that industry in
South Carolina. He converted large tracts of tim
ber into luraber, and also was greatly prospered as
a planter.
The next generation was represented by Charles
Sullivan, who was born in Georgetown County. He
was in the Revolutionary war, serving with the
Partisan Rangers under Sumter and Marion in
South Carolina. His son, Hewlett Sullivan, was
also a colonial patriot, entering the war when a
raere youth. During their carapaigns against the
Tories and Red Coats, Charles and Hewlett Sulli
van became familiar with the upper parts of the
state and were so attracted by its charms and
natural advantages and its healthfulness that they
determined to move to that section.
Hewlett Sullivan, who was the grandfather of
Captain Sullivan of Greenville, accordingly located
about the close of the Revolution in Dunklin Town
ship, Greenville County, about twenty-one mUes
south of GreenvUle. He became a very successful
business man, interested in many affairs, owning
great tracts of fine land and carrying on extensive
mercantile trade from a nuraber of stores he estab
lished. On his plantation and surrounding lands
he and his descendants lived continuously until
1917, when the last of the Sullivan properties in that
locality were sold. Hewlett Sullivan was the father
of twelve children, and gave each between 1,000
and 1,500 acres of land. He died in 1826. Hewlett
Sullivan married a Miss Dunklin, and Dunklin
Township in GreenvUle County was named for her
father. Her brother, William Dunklin, leaving
South Carolina, went west, at first to Alabaraa and
later became governor of Missouri, and a county
in that gtate is named for him.
One of the children of Hewlett Sullivan was
Dr. Jaraes Madison Sullivan, who was born in
Dunklin Township, at the old plantation, and grad
uated from Jefferson Medical CoUege at Philadel
phia. He spent a long life as a practicing physi
cian. His wife was Sarah Scott Mims.
Their son, James Mims Sullivan, was born on the
old plantation in Dunklin Township in 1843, sev
enty-seven years ago. At the outbreak of the war
between the states he was a cadet in the Arsenal,
the State Military College at Columbia. In Marchi
1861, he returned to Greenville County and joined
the Butlar Guards as a private. This was organ
ized as Corapany B, Second South Carolina In
fantry, coraraanded by Colonel (afterwards General)
Kershaw. He was in Virginia with his regiraent
until after the close of the seven days fighting
around Richraond in 1862. In the raeantirae he was
promoted to lieutenant. With that rank he was

transferred to the Sixth South Carolina Cavalry,
Hampton's Brigade, being assigned to Corapany A.
With this coramand he went to the coast of South
Carolina and was there transferred to Corapany D.
Later this portion of Harapton's Cavalry was re
turned to Virginia and participated in raany of the
historic battles of the war, including Gettysburg.
Promoted to captain of Company D, Captain Sulli
van not only comraanded his corapany but on several
occasions in the loss or absence of his colonel or
major was regiraental coraraander. His war record
shows that he was in sixty-one engagements and
he is one of the few survivors of the great struggle
who were in the war frora the first to the very
last. He was in the first battle of Bull Run, and
was at the battle of BentonvUle, North Carolina,
the last in which Johnston's army was engaged, and
was with those troops when they surrendered near
Durham. At the close of the war Captain Sullivan re
turned to Greenville for a time, later went to
Florida, and for about five years was a resident of
Jackson, Tennessee, and during that tirae served as
raayor of the city. The dorainant interest of his
active life has been raining gold, copper, coal and
other minerals. For several years he carried on
extensive raining projects in Alabaraa, Georgia,
Tennessee and Arkansas and later in South Caro
lina. Through study and practical experience he
has become a widely known mineralogist and geolo
gist and expert engineer on mining properties. His
service and interest have been associated with most
of the gold mining projects in South and North
Carolina, including- the one in McCorraick County,
South Carolina, and at Gold Hill in North Carolina.
He still oijvns the gold raining properties at Gold
Hill. For a long number of years Captain SuUivan
was extensively engaged in business enterprises at
Greenville, and became one of the largest cotton
buyers in the state. He raade and lost several for
tunes, but with his experience and ability has been
aisle to coramand capital and accuraulated a suffi
cient prosperity for his declining years. In his
home city of GreenviUe he has long been esteeraed
a leading and active citizen.
In 1868 Captain Sullivan raarried Miss Mary Vir
ginia Stokes. Her father, John W. Stokes, of
GreenvUle, was a distinguished lawyer, and a pio-
"eer citizen of Greenville County. Captain and
Mrs. Sullivan have lived happUy together for over
half a century. Their five living chUdren are:
Air , ,-^ ^™s a business man of Greenville ; John
Wicklitfe Stokes Sullivan, noted actor and play
wright whose home is in New York ; Jones SuUi
van, a New York business man; Earle Elgin SuUi
van, vvho IS in business in Virginia ; and Mary
Virginia, wife of Rev. George T. Harmon, of
Bennettsville, South Carolina.
Jones Sullivan, a son of Capt, Jaraes M, SuUivan
ot Creenville has a deep and abiding affection for
the state of his ancestors, but has found his chief
business and professional interests in the City of
New York,
He was born in 1882, while his parents were resi
dents of Jackson, Tennessee, and about the time his
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ever, he grew up at GreenvUle, attended the public
' schools, is a graduate of the Greenville High School,
and spent one year at Furman University. He also
studied law at GreenvUle and was admitted to the
bar in 1903. Mr. Sullivan removed to New York
in 1904. For two years, from 1907 to 1909, he -was
in the quartermaster's department of the United
States Government in Cuba. This was during the
period when the American Government was ad
justing the internal troubles of the island, during
which time Secretary of War Taft was sent to
Cuba, and later Governor Magoon. Returning to
New York in 1909, Mr. SuUivan engaged in the
general real estate and insurance business. He mar
ried in New York City Miss Mary V. O'NeiU, and
they have a son, John Wickliffe Stokes Sullivan.
John Wickliffe Stokes Sullivan, who under
the professional name of John Stokes is one of the
raost widely known of Araerican playwrights and
actors, is one of the younger members of the
ancient Sullivan family of South Carolma, bemg a
son of Capt. James Mims Sullivan of GreenviUe.
He is author of a number of successful plays,
chief among which are "The Cat Came Back,"
"Making Good," "Between Trains," "The Baby,"
"The Leap Year Giris," "The Letter frora Horae,"
and "A Regular Business Man." Douglas Fairbanks
starred in "A Regular Business Man."
Mr. Stokes' wife is the famous emotional actress,
Emma Dunn.
James Julien Busch. James Julien Busch,
though a young raan, has gained raany of the raost
substantial honors and successes of his chosen pro
fession, the law. He is junior member of the firm
Brown & Busch at Barnwell, whose reputation has
become widely extended not only through the bar
of South Carolina but to other states as well.
Mr. Busch was born October 2, 1890, at Ellenton,
South Carolina. After the usual preparatory course
he entered the University of South Carolina, ma
joring in literature and graduating in 1910. Fol
lowing that he took the regular course of the law
department, graduating in 1914, and at once moved
to Barnwell and began practice. In January, 1916,,
he forraed his present partnership with Edgar A.
Brown, and in less than four years this has becorae
one of the busiest law offices in the state.
In igi6 Mr. Busch raarried Miss Gladys Brown,
daughter of Charies and Bertha (Vogel) Brown, of
Barnwell. Her parents have been residents of
Barnwell for raany years. The one child bom to
their union is Jaraes Julien Busch, Jr.
The present achievements and the promise of
many larger distinctions that have come to Mr.
Busch fulfill the anticipations derived from his dis
tinguished ancestry. In the paternal line he had a
great-great-uncle. Col. Isaac Busch, who achieved
fame as a Revolutionary soldier. The grandfather,
David Busch, was a man of prorainence in his day
and raarried Clarissa Ashley, whose ancestry on both
sides went back prior to Revolutionary war tiraes.
Mr. Busch's raaternal grandfather was Robert Dun
bar, of old Revolutionary stock, whose wife traced
her' ancestry through Elizabeth Randolph of Vir
ginia to the faraous John Randolph of Roanoke.

The father of the Barnwell lawyer was the ardent
South Carolina soldier and fighting raan, Jaraes H.
Busch, one of the picturesque figures during the
reign of terror in the reconstruction period. He
was one of the leaders of the white raen in the
Ellenton riot. He was greatly feared by the ne
groes, who knew well his dauntless courage and
pbwers of leadership. He was in the thick of the
fighting at Ellenton, and when raore than 2,000
blacks were raassed at the ginnery dam on Upper
Bull's Run, opposed by a raere handful of whites, a
negro courier was sent to Colonel Butler deraanding
James H. Busch, promising if he was given to the
negroes they would at once disburse and retum to
their horaes. Colonel Butler replied "Go to Hell,"
and the fighting was renewed more fiercely and on
that spot James H. Busch was badly wounded, the
leader of the blacks was killed, and the negroes so
demoralized that they began to run in every direc
tion. That was the culrainating event in a long
series of race riot, and at that time the threat of
negro doraination of South Carolina passed away
forever. James H. Busch was one of the few men for whora
the Federal Governraent issued warrants who was
never arrested. He was a splendid officer in the
War between the States, his coraraission as captain
being signed by Wade Hampton. This document
is carefuUy preserved by his son James J. at Barn
well. After the war James H. Busch was honored
by his own coraraunity in election to the Legislature.
Jaraes H. Busch married the widow of Clinton E.
Buckingham, and to their raarriage were born two
sons. Jaraes Julien Busch is a member of the Masonic
order, the Elks and the Woodmen of the World,
is affiliated with the Christian Church, and is the
present raayor pro tera of Barnwell. 'WhUe closely
devoted to his profession he has also acquired some
-valuable interest in land and banks, and is asso
ciated with the group of men who are doing most
for Barnwell's general advanceraent and iraprove
ment. James Sidney Erskine. The Erskine farm east
of Anderson is a place of considerable interest be
cause of its long and continuous occupation by one
faraily. The Erskines came to Anderson County
considerably more than a century ago and the pater
nal acres which James Sidney Erskine now culti
vates were originally developed by his grandfather.
James Sidney Erskine was born on this farm
December I, 1841, son of John and Margaret (Hill-
house) Erskine. His father was bom on the sarae
land, being a son of James end Agnes (Duncan)
Erskine, both of whom were born and reared in
Ireland and came to Araerica between l7go and
1800. They settled in Anderson County and lived
there to the age of fourscore. Among their chil
dren were Williara, Jaraes, Thoraas, Hugh, John,
Polly, Nancy and Mattie.
Margaret Hillhouse, mother of Jaraes Sidney Ers
kine, was born in Anderson County, a daughter of
John and Polly (Montgomery) Hillhouse, who came
to this state from Virginia. John Erskine spent his
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injury at the age of fifty-eight, while his wife lived
to be seventy-hve. Both were members of the Pres
byterian Church. Their three sons to reach mature
years were John N., Williara P. and Jaraes Sidney,
all of whom were Confederate soldiers. William
P. was kUled in the battle of Frazier's Farra in 1862.
John N. after the war becarae a farmer and died at
the age of sixty-three.
James Sidney Erskine was twenty years of age
when pn April 14, 1861, he enlisted in Company J
of the 4th South Carolina Regiment. He was with
that command twelve months and then until the
close' of the war was a raember of the Palmetto
Sharpshooters. He is an honored meraber of the
United Confederate Veterans at Anderson. In 1864
he received a wound from which he has always
suffered more or less, and after the war he walked
on crutches for some time. As soon as he could
lay aside these impediraents to action he went to
work as a section foreraan on the Blue Ridge Rail
road and was eraployed by that road and the C. C.
& A. altogether for twenty-four years. About thirty
years ago Mr. Erskine bought the old parental horae
stead in Anderson County, and has since been
quietly settled down to the profitable vocation of
farming. He has 200 acres in his farm. Mr. Ers
kine is a Presbyterian and a raember of the Masonic
order. He married Miss Annie A. Cobb in 1876. She
was born in Anderson County a daughter of Henry
Cobb. Their children are: Mallie E., wife of J. B.
Campbell ; Margaret F., who is unmarried ; .LUlie
E., wife of J. A. Singleton ; and Bertha L., wife of
Henry Sluyter.
William Bartow Gruber. For over thirty years
Judge Gruber enjoyed a practice of great diversity
and importance as a raeraber of the Walterboro bar,
and shared his special interest with many other calls
to public and business needs. He is still a very
active and influential citizen of Colleton County.
Judge Gruber was born at Maple Cane, Colleton
County, in 1861, son of John W. and Mary E, Gru
ber, His raaternal great-great-grandfather migrated
to this country frora Gerraany and settled in Colle
ton County about 200 years ago and his descendants
have lived in that section of the state ever since,
Williara Bartow Gruber was well educated in the
comraon schools of his horae county and under pri
vate tutors. He was twenty-one years of age when
he was admitted to the bar in 1882, and he practiced
uninterruptedly at Walterboro until he retired in
igi8. Many tiraes he was entrusted with important
cases which brought hira before the Circuit and
Suprerae courts. He was also president of the Col
leton County Bar Association for fifteen or twenty
years, and on four different occasions by special
appointraent served as circuit judge.
From 1881 until 1885, during his early years as a
lawyer, he was editor of the Colleton Press, and
from 1885 until 1890 was publisher of the Southern
Star. He has also been extensively engaged in
agriculture and livestock raising. Frora 1898 to
1902 he represented Colleton County in the State
Senate, having been elected without opposition and
voluntarily retiring frora the Senate at the end of
his second term. During the war Judge Gruber was
a member of the Legal Advisory Board of Colleton
County.

He was a director and vice president of the G.
S. W. & B, RaUway, the first railroad built to
Walterboro, the county seat. This road was con
structed in 1884, and Mr. Gruber had an active part
in organizing the company and carrying out its
plans. In politics he has always been a stanch demo
crat, and in 1890 and i8g2 was a leader of the anti-
Tillman forces in the state. He has been actively
affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, for the past thirty-five years. As a private
citizen rauch of his enthusiasm has been in behalf
of local education. For many years he served as
chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Walter
boro High School.
At Walterboro November 24, 1885, Judge Gruber
raarried Carrie Rebecca Black, daughter of Robert
Black, who for twenty-four years was sheriff of
Colleton County. Judge and Mrs. Gruber have two
chUdren : Marshall, who raarried Vivienne Price,
and Ethel, wife of B. George Price.
William Alexander Barber was elected attorney
general of South Carolina at the age of twenty-five.
He was the youngest official of that rank the state
ever had. His service of four years justified the
brUliant promise of his early attainments. Soon
after retiring from office Mr. Barber raoved to New
York City, where his raany friends in this state
have since followed his career untU he has come
to rank araong the leading lawyers of the metropolis.
Mr. Barber is a native of Chester County, South
Carolina, where he was born Septeraber 10, i86g.
His parents. Captain Osraond and Mary (West
brook) Barber, were also natives of the same
county. He was endowed with a good mind, health
and strength, and his studious proclivities were
given every opportunity, for their perfection. ' He
prepared for college in King's Mountain High
School at King's Mountain, North Carolina, and
in October, 1885, at the -age of sixteen entered the
University of South Carolina at Columbia. By in
tensive study, especially in law, during the suraraer
raonths he was enabled to graduate in 1889 in both
law and acaderaic departraents with the degrees
A. B. and LL. B. At that tirae he was twenty
years of age, and it required a special enabling act
of the Legislature to adrait him to the bar. He
began practice in January, i8go, and his scholar
ship and ability as a public speaker quickly won
hira distinctive honors. In l8g3 he was appointed
assistant attorney general of South Carolina under
Attorney General Buchanan. He was chosen to
succeed Mr. Buchanan in Deceraber, 1894, taking
office immediately. He was reelected in 1896 and
served until January, 1899, when he moved to New
York City.
While in the university Mr. Barber was given
every honor that could be bestowed by the Clario
sophic Society, including the presidency of the
society. He -won the declaiming and debating med
als some years later at the Centennial Anniversary
of the University, representing the society as orator.
On that occasion the university conferred upon him
the honorary degree of LL. D.
In his old home coraraunity of Chester in Sep
tember, 1892, Mr. Barber married Miss Belle Hardin.
Ihey are the parents of three chUdren, William A.,
Jr., Juha and Mary. The daughters are graduates
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The son, a graduate of Princeton University and of
Harvard Law School, during the World war was
an ensign in the navy and served in the raine
barage fleet in the North Sea throughout the con
flict. Soon after his removal to New York Mr. Barber
became a law partner of Henry D. Hotchkiss, now
one of the justices of the State Suprerae Court.
The firra of Hotchkiss and Barber continued for
about twelve years. In igi5 Mr. Barber organized
the present firra of Barber, Watson & Gibboney.
This firra has a distinguished clientage, representing
principally large corporate interests. In addition to
his professional activities Mr. Barber is director of
several financial and business corporations, to which
he gives considerable time. For raany years Mr.
Barber has been interested in raUroads, and until
the railroads were taken over by the Governraent
he was president of the Carolina and Northwestern
RaUroad. Thus business as well as, social and home
ties bind him closely to his native state.
A democrat in politics and an influential figure
in city, state and national politics, Mr. Barber has
never since leaving South Carolina sought nor ac
cepted political office. Many high honors in New
York politics would have been conferred upon him
had his attitude been one of acceptance. Besides
being one of the most prominent of the South
Carolina colony in New York, Mr. Barber for a
nuraber of years has been an active figure in the
New York Southern Society, and greatly appre
ciated the honor of three consecutive years as
president of that society. He retired in March,
1920, at which time he received a tribute of ap
preciation from his fellow merabers that could
only have been one of the most gratifying of the
many honors that have corae to Mr. Barber in the
course of a long and active career.
Mr. Barber has taken an active interest in the
lawyers' organizations in the city. For many years
he has been an active raeraber of the board of di
rectors of the county lawyers' association. He has
also been interested in club life, being a member
of the Metropolitan Club, the Lawyers' Club, the
New York Club, the Bankers' Club, Sleepy Hollow
Country Club and the Englewood Country Club.
He also participates in Masonry, being a . Knight
Teraplar and Shriner and having continued his mera
bership in the Masonic orders in South Carolina.
Ephraim Mikell C-\rroll. A descendant of the
Carroll and MikeU famUies of the Charleston dis
trict, Ephraira Mikell Carroll has spent only his
younger years in his native states
The grandfather of Ephraira Mikell Carroll was
Bartholomew Rivers CarroU, who was closely as
sociated with educational affairs in Charleston for
many years. He was an ardent secessionist and
served as state treasurer gf South Carolina for
twelve years.
Prof. B. R. Carroll married Eliza Adelaide Mikell,
of Edisto Island, sister of Jenkins Mikell and
daughter of Ephraim Mikell. The ancestral home
of the Mikells is Edisto Island, where descendants
of the family still live.
Ephraim Mikell Carroll was born in Beaufort
County, South Carolina, February 28, 1868, and is a

son of Edward and Fannie (Lartigue) CarroU. His
mother was of one of the French Huguenot fam
ilies of the state. His father, Edward Carroll, was
a member of the Washington Li.ght Infantry and
served as lieutenant of that organization during the
war between the states. Later he was a colonel on
the staff of his uncle, Governor Anderson Gordon
McGrath of South Carolina. Aside from his mUitary
service his chief interests have been in scholarship
and education. He was formerly principal of the
Bennett School and is now a supervisor of public
schools at Charleston.
' Ephraim Mikell Carroll attended the Bennett
School at Charleston untU graduating. For three
years he lived in Florida, and since 1889 his horae
has been in New York. For five years he was as
sociated in the business of l^obert Colgate, New
York banker, and for four years with the banking
house of James F. Matthews & Corapany. Mr.
CarroU served for eleven years as treastirer and
general raanager of the National Pyrogranite Cora
pany. In 1908 he established the business which
bears his narae.
WhUe an active business man, Mr. CarroU is no
drudge to commercialism. He is also a keen sports
man. He has done some literary work, chiefly in
the line of studies and discussions of econoraics
and political science. His principal diversions are
travel and golf. He is a raeraber of the Manhattan
Club Mendelssohn Glee Club, Academy of Political
Science of Columbia University in New York City
and the Nyack Arts Club and Rockland Country
Club of Nyack, New York.
Mr Carroll resides at Nyack in Rockland County.
He bore his share of the burdens of war-work in
that section, serving as Federal food adrainistrator
for Rockland County and was also vice president
of the Business Men's National Service League of
New York City, which was organized before the. war
to proraote preparedness. Mr. CarroU is an inde
pendent in politics. , -kt 1
He raarried Miss Lucy Frances Lander, of Nyack,
a daughter of the artist, Benjamin Lander.
FuRNEY Rhem Hemingway. One of the younger
raembers of the South Carolina bar, Mr. Heraing-
way has already established himself securely in the
practice of his profession at Kingstree.
He was born in WiUiarasburg County February
ig, i88g, son of AUard Belin and Mary Louise
(Britton) Hemingway. His father was a farraer
and also a raerchant. The son was educated in
public schools and graduated from the Academic
Department of the University of South Carolina
with the A. B. degree in 1912. FoUowing his grad
uation he taught school three years and. then after a
thorough education in law was admitted to the
bar in 1919 and began practice at Kingstree.
Irvin B. Tiedeman. Tiederaan has been a dis
tinguished narae in the coramercial history of
Charleston for the greater part of a century. The
house of Tiedeman is an old and historic business
concern of the city, and was established by the late
Otto Tiederaan, a native of Charleston, who is 1838
engaged in the wholesale grocery business. That
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man & Sons, Otto Tiederaan died at Charleston in
1916, at the advanced age of ninety-six.
A number of raen were trained for business in
the house of Tiederaan, including several of the sons
of Otto Tiederaan. One of these sons is Irvin B.
Tiedeman, a prorainent business raan of New York
City. Still another son is George W. Tiederaan, who
since 1887 has been a resident of Savannah, a whole
sale grocery merchant, banker and for three terras
raayor of the city at a tirae raarking Savannah's
greatest coraraercial and civic progress. Still an
other son of the late Otto Tiedeman was the late
Christopher G. Tiedeman, who gained distinction as'
a lawyer and was author of several valuable works
on law.
Irvin B. Tiederaan, president of the Southern Cot
ton Mills and Coraraission Corapany, Incorporated,
at New York, was born in Charleston in 1859, son
of Otto and Caroline A. (Corby) Tiederaan. His
mother was also a native of Charleston. He grew
up in his native city and though a boy was able to
appreciate some of the suffering and hardships borne
by Charleston following the ravages of the Civil
war. His education was acquired in the private
school of Doctor Tarrant, a notable educator of his
tirae under whora were educated many of the boys
who later became prominent and successful business
men in Charleston and in other cities. His literary
education was thus well provided for, and Mr. Tiede
raan had from an early age the exact and systeraatic
coraraercial training resulting frora his experience
in his father's establishraent. He finally became a
partner in the business, but in 1887 he withdrew
from the Charleston House and accompanied his
brother George W. to Savannah. Mr. Irvin Tiede
man left Savannah in 1900 and has since been a resi
dent of New York City.
The Southern Cotton Mills and. Commission Cora
pany, Incorporated, of which he is president, con
trols and handles the product of a nuraber of lead
ing cotton mills in the South. Mr. Tiedeman is
therefore one of the prominent men in the textile
industry represented in New York Citv. While his
business is in the city his home is at Mahwah, New
Jersey. He takes a keen interest in civic affairs of
his horae community and is nresident of its school
board. Frora tirae to time Mr. Tiedeman renews
his associations with his horae state and other sec
tions of the South, and is one of the prorainent
merabers of the New York Southern Society. -He
is also a member of the Arkwright Club, New York
Athletic Club, and the Houvenkopf Country Club.
Mr. Tiedeman married Miss Lillie V. Seyraour, of
Hagerstown, New Jersey.
Edward Carroll, Jr., son of Edward and Frances
Julia Lartigue CarroU, born in Charleston, carae to
New York in 1882, where he has since lived. In
1893 he published "Principles and Practice of Fi
nance," and has since then contributed special
articles on finance, the tariff and the Philippines.
In 1899 he accorapanied the Schurraan Coraraission
to the Philippine Islands, acting as chief clerk and
official stenographer of this coraraission.
In 1885 Mr. Carroll was raarried to Elizabeth
Otis Woodruff, eldest daughter of Dr. William H.
Woodruff of Orange County. They have two chil

dren. Miss Antoinette Lartigue Carroll and Capt.
Charles Rivers Carroll, of Nyack, New York.
Captain Carroll volunteered in the great war, join
ing the American Expeditionary Forces in France.
Just before going abroad he was raarried to Miss
Dorothy Pleasants Harrison, of Richraond, Virginia.
They have a son, Charles Rivers Carroll, Jr.
Edward CarroU, Jr., is the , great-grandson of
Charles Rivers Carroll, of Waterford, Ireland, mer
chant, who settled in Charleston about 1803, and the
grandson of Batholomew Rivers Carroll, educator,
historian and writer, of Charleston, and Eliza Ade
laide Mikell, of Edisto Island, South Carolina.
James Rion McKissick, editor of the Piedmont
of GreenvUle and president of the Piedmont Com
pany, has been in the newspaper profession for the
past eleven years.
Mr, McKissick was born at Union, South Carolina,
October 13, 1884. His father, Isaac G. McKissick,
served as a lieutenant-colonel in the Fifth South
Carolina Cavalry of the Confederate Army. He was
one of the leading crirainal lawyers and legislators ot
the state and in 1872 was elected on the deraocratic
ticket to Congress. However, on the ground that
his state had not been properly "reconstructed," the
republican majority unseated hira. Colonel McKis
sick raarried Sally Agnes Foster, daughter of B. B.
and Mary Ann (Perrin) Foster of Abbeville. Her
father was a lieutenant-colonel of the Third South
Carolina Volunteers in the Confederate Army.
James Rion McKissick grew up at Union, attended
the public schools there, a private school at Ashe
ville, North Carolina, also the noted Binghara School
of AshevUle, and received his A. B. degree from
South Carolina College in 1905. During 1905 he was
reporter for the Union (S. C.) Progress and in the
sarae year assistant business raanager of the Union
Tirnes. Leaving South Carolina and going to Vir
ginia, he was reporter on the Richraond Times-Dis
patch during 1909-10, was assistant editor of that
paper in 1910-11, during the editorship of Maj. J. C.
Hemphill, and its chief editorial writer frora 1911 to
1914. In the meantime Mr. McKissick had been a stu
dent in the Harvard Law School and the CoUege of
Charleston, and was admitted to the South Carolina
bar in 1914. He then came to Greenville, and was
engaged in the active practice of law untU 1917.
However, journalism had marked him for its own,
and during 1916-17 he was contributing editor to the
Greenville News, was editor of that paper frora 1917
to 1919, and in the latter year bought the controlling
interest in the GreenvUle Piedraont, the leading after
noon daily paper of Upper South Carolina, He has
been editor and president of the Publishing Corapany
since that date,
Mr. McKissick is a director of the Young Men's
Business League of Greenville, is vice president of
the Alumni Association of the Universitv of South
Carolina, and vice president of the South Carolina
Press A.ssociation. 'He served as code coraraissioner
of .South Carolina frora IQ16 to 1918, and was a
meraber of the staff of Governor Richard I. Man-
"'"?• "O"! 1015 to 1919. He carapaigned in New
York, New Tersey and Massachusetts in 1908 for
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State Deraocratic Executive Coraraittee from Green
ville County.
Mr. McKissick, who is unmarried, has taken inter
est in fraternal affairs. His college fraternities are
Kappa Alpha (Southern), Sigma Upsilon and Tau
Kappa Alpha. He was editor of the Kappa Alpha
Journal from 1916 to 1918. He is also a raeraber
of the Loyal Order of Moose, the Knights of Pythias,
the Euphradian Literary Society of South Carolina
CoUege, Cliosophic Society, College of Charleston,
and honorary meraber of the Adelphian and Philoso-
phian literary societies of Furman University, and
member of the Southern Club of Harvard.
Edward Ladson Fishburne. A man of naturally
sound judgraent and shrewd perception, Edward L.
Fishburne, of Walterboro, has so ordered his career
as to be erainently eligible to representation in a
work of this kind. He has risen through his
strictly moral habits, his attention to his professional
demands and his desire to deal fairly, proraptly and
honestly with his fellow raen, and today his name
stands high in all circles in which he has come into
relationship. Edward Ladson Fishburne has spent his entire
life in Walterboro, having first seen the light of day
here on the 4th day of Noveraber, 1883. He is the
son of WUliara J. and Mary E. (Carn) Fishburne.
His father, who also was born in Walterboro, has
lived here all his life, having devoted himself to
the legal profession during his active years, but is
now retired from active life. His father was Josiah
Fishburne, a native of this place and who traced his
line of descent back to English origin. Mary E.
Carn was a native of Walterboro, and the daughter
of Mereek Carn, who was lieutenant governor of
South Carolina in 1861 and died in office. Of the
five children bom to WUliam J. and Mary E. Fish
burne, the subject of this sketch is the fourth in
order of birth.
Edward L. Fishburne received his education in the
public schools and in the Citadel Military College of
Charleston, where he was graduated in 1904, with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts. During the following
two years he was engaged in teaching school, but in
the meantime he was devoting his spare tirae to the
study of law with the intention of raaking law his
life work. In 1907 he was forraally admitted to the
bar and at once located at Walterboro and entered
upon the active practice. Two years later he moved
to Kingstree, where he entered into a professional
partnership with Leroy Lee, but in 1912 he returned
to Walterboro and has since remained here. He has
demonstrated a thorough and accurate knowledge of
the principles of the law and has been connected
with much of the important litigation in the courts
of Colleton and neighboring counties, earning an
enviable reputation as a safe and reliable counsellor
and a forceful and effective pleader.
In 1912 Mr. Fishburne was united in marriage
with Mary Patterson Gage, the daughter of Judge
George W. Gage, of the Supreme Court. To this
union has been born one son, Lucius Gaston. Per
sonally Mr. Fishburne is genial and approachable
and has a host of warm and loyal friends in this
community where he has spent his entire life.

James Marion Baker. Though for twenty-seven
years a resident of Washington, James Marion Baker
still retains his citizenship in South Carolina and
when his official duties permit he renews old friend
ships and enjoys other associations in his horae com
munity of Lowndesville, Abbeville County, where he
owns a large farm. Owing to alraost uninterrupted
calls upon his time in recent years he has pursued
the novel method of operating this farm "by mail"
and his instructions and advice have brought results
that might make such a plan worthy of further
^adoption. Many states now have an office known as legisla
tive reference librarian. It is a comparatively new
profession, and Mr. Baker might be called the dean
of legislative reference librarians. For twenty years
he perforraed those duties in the United States
Senate. His service as Senate Librarian is worthy of the
higest coramendation, and raerabers of the Senate
and others competent to speak say that his official
work was one continued round of real service, result
ing in daily acts of kindness and helpfulness which
would fill voluraes. He was called upon constantly
to look up and investigate information and sources
of information for senators in the preparation of
their bUls and addresses, and his painstaking care
deserved much of the credit that went to the norainal
authors of iraportant Federal legislation. His serv
ices in that field were considered invaluable.
Mr. Baker was born at Lowndesville in Abbeville
County, August 18, 1861, son of Theophilus and
Mandeline (Latimer) Baker. His father was a
merchant and planter. His mother was the only
daughter of James Marion Latiraer, an extensive
land owner and planter of Abbeville County. Mr.
Latimer buUt the Savannah VaUey Railroad frora
McCormick to Anderson, now part of the Charles
ton & Western Carolina RaUway. He was president
of the road, but died before it was corapleted.
Jaraes Marion Baker was educated in the public
schools of Lowndesville and in Wofford CoUege,
which he attended frora 1878 to 1880. During 1885
he studied law in New York City. From 1888 to
1892 business interests engaged hira at Lowndes
ville and in 1893 he was ajipointed assistant librarian
of the United States Senate, taking his oath of office
August 7th, that year. That was his position for
nineteen years, and he served as the democratic
caucus representative in the Senate Library. Besides
compUing references for legislative work he also
performed a large routine of general library work in
indexing and cataloging. His long service in the
Senate Library raade hira well versed in legislative
history and procedure. The systera he instaUed in
the Senate Library and the precision with which the
detaUs of that systera were carried out still, reraain
in the library and stand as evidence of his industry
and efficiency.
Upon the reorganization of the Senate in 1913,
when the deraocrats secured control of that body,
he was elected secretary of the Senate, AprU 13,
1913, taking the oath of office on that date, suc
ceeding Charles G. Bennett of New York. The
duties of this office he filled for six years untU May
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the republicans, he was succeeded by George A.
Sanderson of Chicago.
Mr. Baker's present duties at Washington are as
deputy coraraissioner of internal revenue, a position
to which he was appointed by the Secretary of the
Treasury on July 19, 1919. Mr. Baker is a meraber of
the University and Washington Country clubs. His
horae is at 3141 Highland Avenue.
January 26, 1888, he raarried Miss Mary Adams, a
daughter of Lawrence A. Adaras of Augusta,
Georgia. They have three sons, Jaraes Marion, Jr.,
Lawrence Adaras and Mac Latiraer Baker. "The
oldest and youngest sons have war records. The
first was a payraaster in the United States Navy
before Araerica entered the war with Germany and
during the war period was assigned to duty as assist
ant supply officer on the great transport Leviathan,
which raade many trips to France with soldiers and
equipment. The second son, Lawrence Adams, is a
lawyer, a graduate of George Washington Law
School. After serving as executor solicitor of the
Internal Revenue Bureau, he resigned to practice law.
The son Mac Latiraer entered the officers training
camp at Camp Meigs, was commissioned second
lieutenant and was in France in the Motor Trans
port Service for two years. He was promoted to a
captaincy and received a citation from General
Pershing. Charles W. Stoll was in the active practice of
law at Kingstree frora 1902, as senior member of
the firm Stoll & Stoll untU 1919, when he retired
frora active practice.
He was born near Kingstree February 4, 1867, son
of Rev. Jaraes C. and Mary L. (McCollough) StoU.
His ancestors were araong the Scotch-Irish settlers
of old WUliamsburg, and are closely related with
many of the historic families in that section of the
state. His father for over forty years was an active
minister of the South Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Church, serving four years as presiding
elder of the Florence District.
Charles W. Stoll as a boy had the liraited ad
vantages of a preacher's son, though he owes rauch
to the cultured atraosphere of the horae, and also
acquired sound habits of industry by the unlimited
opportunities for performing a wide routine of per
sonal services for his parents and others. He lived
in the country until he was fourteen years of age,
attended country schools, and largely by private
study prepared for college. In 1887 he entered
Wofford College, and with sorae assistance frora
his father was graduated A. B. with the class of
1890. He was president of one of the literary so
cieties and in his senior year won the alurani science
raedal. After leaving coUege he taught in the city
schools of Orangeburg, becoraing principal of one of
the graded schools there, also taught in the Kings-
tree Academy, and in the meantime won his Master
of Arts degree frora Wofford College. He gave up
teaching to study law, was admitted to the bar in
igoi, and the following year began practice at
Kingstree with his brother Philip Henry. He has
combined his profession with other useful activities,
both as a banker and farmer. He helped organize
the Bank of WiUiamsburg, and in igo6 became its

president. In igo3 he was elected mayor of Kings-
tree to fill out an unexpired term, and in 1905 was
reelected. He is a democrat, and a member of the
Kappa Alpha college fraternity.
Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Henry Stoll, who
for nearly a year and a half was in active service
in the judge advocate general's department of the
American Army, has been a prorainent lawyer of
Kingstree since igoi.
He was born at Little Rock, South Carolina, No
vember 5, 1874, of English and Scotch-Irish ances
try. His parents were Rev. James C. and Mary
(McCollough) Stoll. The StoUs were a colonial
family in South Carolina, and some of them were
actively associated with old Bethel Church in
Charleston. His father spent forty years in its
active ministry.
Colonel Stoll attended country schools and made
the best of such opportunities as were open to the
son of a hard working but not over rich minister of
the Gospel. He completed his education in Wofford
College in i8g7, and then for four years while teach
ing school was a student of law and was admitted
to the bar in December, 1901. In that year he en
gaged in general practice at Kingstree, and gave all
his time to his private clientage until he was elected
solicitor of the Third Judicial Circuit in 1908. He
filled that office with credit and distinction until 1917,
resigning in that year to enter the army.
September 5, 1917, he was coraraissioned a raajor
in the judge advocate general's department and re
mained in the service untU February 6, 1919. Ten
raonths of that tirae were spent at the northeastern
array headquarters in Boston, and from there he was
transferred to the Twelfth Division at Camp Devens
in Massachusetts. October 10, 1918, he was pro
moted to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and ugon the
demobilization of the Twelfth Division received his
honorable discharge.
Colonel Stoll served as a member of the Legisla
ture in 1905-06. In October, 1919, he was elected to
Congress as a representative from the Sixth South
Carolina Congressional District to fill the vacancy
caused by death of- Congressraan J. W. Ragodale.
In 1920 he was again nominated by the democrats for
Congress. He has various business and civic inter
ests being a director of the Kingstree Dry Goods
Company. He is affiliated with the Masonic Order,
Knights of Pythias, Woodmen of the World and
the Kappa Alpha college fraternity.
November 12, 1907, he married Miss Mary Evelyn
Cunningham, of Indiantown, South Carolina. They
have three children : PhUip Cunninghara, Charles
Victor and MUdred.
Major William S. Lanneau is president of Lan-
neau's Art Store of Charleston, a business widely
known and patronized not only in Charleston, but
over the State of South Carolina.
Major Lanneau was born at Charleston, Noveraber
30, 1869, a son of WUliam S. and Isabella (Calder)
Lanneau. His parents were also natives of Charles
ton. The Lanneaus were one of the original fami
lies of French Huguenots to establish their homes
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and has been president since the business was in
corporated as a stock company. He has a number
of other business mterests and is a director of the
Commercial National Bank.
In 1906, while captain of the old historic Washing
ton Light Infantry, the company bought their pres
ent arrriory, which they opened on the 22nd of Febru
ary, 1907, celebrating the centennial of the command.
In 1908 he was major of the First Battalion of the
Third Infantry of the South Carolina National
Guard, and retired with the rank of major in 1909.
During the time of the World war, he was again
captain of the Washington Light Infantry, Company
A of the First South Carolina Reserve Militia.
Major Lanneau was an alderman of the City of
Charleston under the Hyde administration, 1915-1919.
He was chairman of the committee on water supply
of the city council, and it was while chairman that
the purchase of the present plant was made. He was
then made one of the commissioners on the Board
of Public Works, which had charge of the municipal
water supply.
Major Lanneau is a raeraber and vestryman of
St. Johns Lutheran Church and superintendent of
the Sunday school. He is also a member of the
Masonic Order.
In 1902 Major Lanneau married Miss Mary
Siegling, daughter of Henry and Kate Rutledge
(Patrick) Siegling, of Charleston.
Samuel Mortimer Ward, Jr. Among South
Carolinians who have achieved success and distinc
tion in New York City, one is Samuel Mortimer
Ward, Jr., a prominent patent lawyer who grew up
and acquired his early education in South Carolina.
He is a member of the old and historic Ward family
of Charleston and Georgetown. By parish records,
old wUls, United States Government records and
county archives, it has been possible to substantiate
by authoritative documentary evidence many facts
regarding the Ward lineage in South Carolina for
nearly two centuries. These records and documents
are the basis for the brief sketch of the faraily as
here presented.
It appears from investigations made in London,
and from the family Coat of Arras, that the irarae
diate ancestor of the South Carolina branch of the
family was Sir John Ward of London, of the house
of Dudley & Ward, who had several sons, some ot
whom came to America. This is confirraed by a let
ter written by a raember of the faraily three genera
tions back, in which it is stated that Sir John Ward
of London was the father of Col. John Ward of
Charleston. However, the unquestionably authentic
history of this branch of the faraily begins with the
said Col. John Ward, born in England and who is
recorded as being in South Carolina in 1739 and died
in May, 1783. He was a member of the Assembly
in 1772 and of the Provincial Congress held in Phila
delphia in 1775. His first, wife was buried at St.
Philips Church, Charleston, in 1739. In 1756, at
Charleston, he married for his second wife Love Le
gare, a French Huguenot girl (frora Paris). Their
first two sons, John Peter and WUliam, were officers
of the Continental line of South Carolina, members
of the First Regiment. WiUiara was coraraissioned a
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first lieutenant Deceraber 21, 1779, and John Peter
was also a first lieutenant in the sarae regiment.
The lineage of the present family is carried
through Joshua, a younger son of Col. John and
Love (Legare) Ward. This (Major) Joshua, whose
portrait hangs on the walls of Mr. Ward's horae in
New York, was one of the original indigo planters
of South Carolina and amassed a large fortune.
He was a raeraber of the Society of the Cincinnati of
South Carolina. His old homestead at Waccamaw
is StiU owned by members of the family. His chil
dren were by his second wife, Elizabeth Cook, widow
of Charles Weston. These chUdren were Joshua
John, Maham Cook and Catherine Jones. Catherine
Jones, it should be noted, married Joseph LaBruce,
both of whom were among the maternal ancestors
of S. Mortimer Ward, Jr.
Joshua John Ward, who was born in 1800 and died
in 1853, maintained a city home in Charleston and a
country estate at Brook Green, Waccaraaw. He be
carae the largest rice planter in South Carolina and
greatly increased his father's wealth and estate. He
served in both Houses of the Legislature and was
lieutenant govemor of South Carolina (1850) at the
time that his close friend. Governor Alston, was
governor. Both came from a narrow strip of land
in South Carolina on the coast known as 'Waccamaw
Neck. The men living along this neck and in that
section of the country at that time were among the
richest and most influential in the state, and raain
tained elaborate estates. Lieutenant Governor Ward,
known as Colonel Ward, raarried Joanna Douglas
Hasell on March 14, 1825.
Their sons were Joshua Mayham and Hugher.
The oldest child, Capt. Joshua Ward, was born in
1827 and died in 1867. He was executor and sole
manager of his father's entire estate. He served
as captain of a South Carolina Coast Artillery Bat
tery during the Civil war. His chUdren were by
his first wife, Elizabeth Mortimer, and were Joshua
John, who died in chUdhood ; Florence, who has
never raarried ; Samuel Mortimer, Sr. ; and Joanna,
wife of Harry Manigault (deceased) of Charleston.
Samuel Mortimer, Sr., who represents the fifth
generation of the faraily in South Carolina beginning
with Col. John Ward, though properly his place be
longs in at least the sixth generation, is a resident
of Georgetown. He was born at Brook Green in
AprU, 1858, was educated at Porter Military Acad
emy and Sewanee, and has enjoyed a long and active
career as a rice planter and business man, and a
political leader in that section of the state. Fol
lowing in the footsteps of his grandfather, planting
some of the same plantations and raany others on
the five rivers in Georgetown County, he becarae by
far the largest rice planter in the state. He is a
retired brigadier-general of the South Carolina
National Guard, in which he had been active for
about a quarter of a century.
Sarauel Mortiraer Ward, Sr., in 1880, married
Catherine LaBruce. Her father was John LaBruce
of 'Waccamaw (who married Selina Mortiraer), her
grandfather, Joseph LaBruce (who married Cath
erine Ward), her great-grandfather, John LaBruce
(who married Martha Pawley), and the latter was
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Joseph LaBruce (de Marbouff) — (the iraraigrant) —
was the son of Julien de Marbouff of Bretagne,
France. The ancestor Joseph de Marbouff, with
Jean Lebert and Paul Nicon, came frora Bretagne,
France, to South Carolina, in 1681, and settled on
the Waccaraaw Peninsula near Georgetown, where
his descendants have ever since reraained. The liv
ing chUdren of Sarauel Mortiraer, Sr., and Catherine
LaBruce are : Sarauel Mortimer, Jr., Dr. John La-
Bruce, Catherine LaBruce, Allen Rutledge, Joshua
and Alice LaBruce.
Samuel Mortiraer Ward, Jr., was born at George
town in Deceraber, 1880, representing two famUies of
wealth and social prominence in the state. He is a
graduate of Porter Military Academy at Charles
ton, i8g7, and Clerason College, South Carolina,
igo2 (electric engineer). He took up the study of
law in igo4, graduating from the National Law
School at Washington in igo6, and from George
Washington University in igo8 (Master's degree).
He has been practicing patent law in New York
City since igog. In igo6 he married Etta Elise
Nicholson, a native of England. Their son is Sarauel
Mortiraer Ward III. Mr. Ward is a member of the
Society of the Cincinnati, and his church is Trinity
Episcopal Church of Hewlett, Long Island.
Julian Hazlehurst Walter. A South Carolinian
who went to New York a quarter of a century ago
and has achieved a distinctive place among the busi
ness men of that city, Julian Hazlehurst Walter
represents some of the old famUies of the historic
City of Charleston, but in his individual career relied
almost entirely upon his talents and energies to ad
vance hira in the world.
His paternal grandfather was Wilmot Walter and
his parents were Capt. WUliam Dove and Lois
(Hazlehurst) Walter, also of Charleston. Captain
Walter served with distinction in the Confederate
Army through the war between the states, being
captain of the Charleston Rifleraen. Prior to the
war and afterwards he was a cotton factor at
Charleston, and had extensive relations with the
cotton raarket in the south and elsewhere. He be
carae one of the original raerabers of the New York
Cotton Exchange in 1870. Captain Walter died in
1872. His son, Julian Hazlehurst Walter, was born in
Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1870, but a few days
after he had becorae two years old the family re
turned to the South. Largely due to the early death
of his father he assumed responsibilities in advance
of his years. However, he was well educated, at
tending the Bennett School and the Porter Military
Acaderay at Charleston. He began his experience in
the sarae business in which his father had engaged,
and his first eraployment was in the cotton office of
Seckendorf & Middleton, one of the well-known
old-time cotton firms of Charleston. His abUities
brought him advanceraent frora the ranks, and in
1896, at the age of twenty-six, he arrived at New
York to begin the difficult task of making an inde
pendent business career in that great city with all
its competition. Since 1897 .he has been identified
with the seed business, and is now meraber of the
firm Sturapp & Walter Company, one of the leading

concerns of its kind in New York and one that has
been built up solely on honor and merit. The build
ing of the Sturapp & Walter Company is at 30-32
Barclay Street, five stories high with two base
ments, the entire plant being devoted to the whole
sale and retail seed business.
Mr. Walter has always retained a keen interest in
his native state and particularly his native city, and
is one of the best known merabers of the South
Carolina Colony in the American metropolis. He
raarried Miss Effe May Blanchard, of Newark, New
Jersey, and they have one daughter, Effe May
Waher. John Jacob Wannamaker, successful planter,
minister of the Gospel, signer of the Ordinance of
Secession, a leader of men in his day and genera
tion, was born in Orangeburg District, South Caro
lina, July 29, 1801. His ancestors on his father's
side came from Gerraany, on his mother's side from
Austria-Hungary. He was the son of Jacob Wan
namaker and grandson of Lieut. Jacob 'Wannamaker
of Revolutionary fame.
What education he had in the schools was at the
hands of an old German schoolmaster, and judg
ing by the results he must have raade good use
of his opportunities. He taught school for a while
hiraself, but he held a well earned diploraa from ;he
"people's university," for his lot was cast from be
ginning to end in the "streara of life." Heavy
responsibilities were placed upon his shoulders when
quite a young man. During a visit to Glenn Springs,
South Carolina, in search of health his father died.
He had been twice married and left five little boys,
Jacob, Asbury, Elliott, Marcus and Hayne, and one
little girl, Rachel, to the guardianship of their half-
brother, the subject of this sketch. From 1835 to
1853, when the youngest child became of age, the
children themselves testify that John J. Wannamaker
was a father to them. He looked carefully after
their property, fed and clothed them, insisted upon
sending thera to the best neighborhood schools, fin
ishing thera off at the celebrated school at Cokes
bury, South Carolina, and the South Carolina Col
lege. One of the boys, Marcus, died in 1845, the
others all attained their majority and became val
uable citizens.
When only nineteen he raarried his cousin, Rachel
Treutlen, the granddaughter of Gov. John Treutlen
of Georgia. Inheriting frora his father lands in St.
Matthews Parish and purchasing other lands, he
settled near the site of the present town of St.
Matthews, South Carolina, and began the life of a
planter. To thera were born seven chUdren, only
four of whora attained their majority: Mary Ann,
who was twice raarried, first to Mr. Joel Butler,
and after his death to Mr. W. T. Reeves ; Dr. W. W.
Wannamaker, who married Miss Adella Keitt;
Capt. Francis Marion Wannamaker, who married
Miss Margaret BeUinger; and Emma Catherine,
who raarried Dr. W. L. Pou. His wife dying, John
J. Wannaraaker remained a widower for several
years. The second marriage contract was with
Miss Mary K. Salley of Orangeburg District, and
was soleranized June 19, 1850. . The fruit of this
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eldest John E. Wannamaker, who married Martha
Nelson Duncan of Spartanburg, South Carolina;
George W. Wannaraaker, who married Miss Eliza
beth Bates of Orangeburg County; SaUey J., the
wife of Associate Justice C. A. 'Woods of Marion,
South Carolina; and Annie L., the wife of Prof.
Thomas W. Keitt of Clemson College.
John J. Wannamaker was a large slave holder
and planter of the ante-bellum type. He was very
successful and became a noted agriculturist in his
day, practicing rotation of crops and diversified
operations in which live stock occupied a prominent
place. He was kind and considerate for his slaves,
and scrupulously particular about the cleanliness
and comfort of their quarters. A portion of land
was set apart and planted in cotton each year for
thera. The cotton was worked along with his own
crop. He had this crop picked, ginned and sold,
and at Christmas time distributed the net proceeds
to the heads of the families. On the plantation once
owned by him, now in the possession of his son,
there are negro men and woraen once his slaves.
They have never left the place. They speak kindly
and even affectionately of "de ole boss."
Liberally endowed with a superior order of moral
and intellectual gifts, he corisecrated all his powers
to his church and country. Responding to the call
that suramoned him to his ministerial office, his de
cision was prompt and final. He was ordained a
deacon of the Methodist Episcopal Church South
at the session of the South Carolina Conference
held in the City of Colurabia, A. D. 1838, and two
years later he succeeded to the ordination of elder,
and this constituted him a local preacher, under
the supervision of the annual conference. He made
full proof of his ministry, serving faithfully and
acceptably, congregations at Asbury Chapel, Laurel
Chapel, Prospect and Shady Grove.
And now the year i860 had rolled around, in
South Carolina history as momentous as the year
1776 in the history of the "old thirteen." The
people cyf the Palmetto State were stirred from
center to circumference over the aggressions of our
northern brethren. A great convention of delegates
representing the state was called to meet in Colum
bia on the i8th of December, i860. This convention
was to decide the momentous question, "Should
South Carolina dissolve her relations with the Fed
eral Union?" Mr. Wannamaker had just turned
life's 59th mile post, but yielding to the solicita
tion of personal friends and an influential constitu
ency and actuated by patriotic motives, he con
sented to serve as a delegate in the great convention
of the people of South Carolina held in 1860-61-
62. On December 6, i860, an election was held
for two delegates to represent the people of St.
Matthews Parish. Mr. Wannamaker was elected
on the first ballot. He attended the cpnvention, was
active, vigilant and faithful, as the journal of the
convention wUl show. The Ordinance of Secession
was passed. That decision involved the pouring
out of rich blood and countless treasures, but the
signers of that memorable document stood firm
upon the principles of right and truth and justice
as God gave them to see it. The signers of the
Ordinance of Secession were actuated by the same
sublime courage and exalted patriotism that actuated

the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
On the gth of January, 1861, a shot was fired from
a battery on Morris Island, at the "Star of the
West" and the war was on. Mr. Wannaraaker was
ineligible to go to the front, but he sent two sons
-vyho served throughout the war and contributed
liberally both of raoney and supplies.
He did not live to see the downfall of the Con
federacy, and was spared the horrors of reconstruc
tion. Surrounded by his wife and children, friends
and faithful servants, he passed peacefully away
February 23, 1864. He was not quite sixty-three.
"We live in deeds, not in years ; in thoughts, not in
figures on a dial." Rev. John J. Wannamaker was
five feet ten inches in height, erect, square-shoul
dered, very neat and trim in personal apparel. He
was a strikingly handsorae man, with high forehead,
expressive dark brown eyes, a nose slightly aquiline,
mouth and chin indicative of firraness, but also of
kindness. He was scrupulously careful and exact in
money raatters, but generous and broad in his sym
pathies. He was a man well poised, having a fine
sense of justice and right. In all the relations of
life he was faithful and true.
John Edward Wannamaker. Thirty-five years
ago, speaking to a New England audience, Henry
Grady said : "The new South is enamored of her
new work. Her soul is stirred with the breath
of a new life. The light of a grander day is falling
fair on her face. She is thrilling with the con
sciousness of growing power and prosperity. * * *
We have established thrift in city and country. We
have fallen in love with work. We have restored
corafort to horaes frora which culture and elegance
never departed."
A South Carolinian who fell in love with work
when a boy, whose boyhood strength and diligence
helped to restore comfort to a little home left
fatherless, and who in the generation since Colonel
Grady spoke has, by precept and exaraple, added
substance and perforraance to the orator's vision,
is John Edward Wannamaker of Aeolian Hill
Farm in Calhoun County.
With no long list to his credit of important public
positions at horae or abroad, with no draraatic
achieveraents in coraraerce or politics, the career of
John E. Wannaraaker must be described in the
simple terras of unselfish service and devotion to
work, beginning in his own home and coraraunity
and increasing gradually and through definite in
fluences affecting and shaping the agricultural des
tiny of his horae state. For he has always been
a farraer, and for years and years has practiced
the essentials that are getting so rauch attention
under the guise of twentieth century farming
methods. The story of his life, as pieced together from
many sources, ought to be one affording inspira
tion to every boy in South Carolina and have an
enduring place among the biographies of South
Carolinians whose work has been most significant
during the past half century.
The foundation of a useful life was laid in the
character of his ancestry, some account of which is
contained in the story of his father, Rev. John
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Wannamaker was born at Poplar Springs near
Orangeburg September 12, 1851. He was the eldest
of two sons and two daughters, and had reached
the age of twelve when his father died. Asked to
give sorae inforraation concerning his early home
life and education, Mr. Wannaraaker said: "I was
the mainstay of my raother during the trying and
troubled days of reconstruction then just ahead of
us. She was indeed a mother tender and true,
faithful, brave and courageous, having an unfalter
ing trust in God. Of course she believed in her
children and they in turn believed in her, and were
inspired by her high ideals and her sublime faith.
I tried to 'play the part of a man' then, to do my
best; and ever since, during ray young raanhood
and raaturer life, I have tried to keep the faith,
to requite her soraewhat for all she had done for
rae, until 1904, when after a long and useful life,
in her daughter's home in Marion, South Carolina,
surrounded by all her chUdren, she fell peacefully
on sleep.
'Tn ray day educational opportunities were few
and far between.- Mother taught rae at home — I
entered a small neighborhood school when I -was
nine years old. My first teacher. Miss Eraraa Sire,
was a gifted young woman. She was not only
talented, enthusiastic and deeply in love with her
work, but she was captivating, charming and beau
tiful, having a rosy complexion and large, lustrous,
dark brown eyes. Needless to say I proraptly fell
in love with her and incidentally with ray work,
and so I made a good beginning. (This good
woman and great teacher consecrated her life and
her talents to the cause of education. She subse
quently taught ray own chUdren, winning also their
love. She taught school all her life until, a few
years ago, 'like a ripe shock of wheat,' she was
gathered home).
"Private tutors gave me instruction thereafter,
and finally my uncle. Rev. T. E. Wannamaker,
prepared me for college. I entered the freshman
class of Wofford College in the fall of 1868 and
was graduated from that college in June, 1872, with
the degree of A. B."
He was then twenty-one years of age. In the
meantime the executor of his father's estate had
been his half-brother. Dr. W. W. Wannamaker,
who proraptly turned over to John the active man
agement and control of the property. The affairs
of the estate were administered for a period of nine
teen years, nine years under the direct management
of Doctor Wannamaker and ten years under John
E. Wannaraaker. One of the enduring satisfactions
of Mr. Wannaraaker's life has been the manner in
which he executed this trust in behalf of the younger
merabers of his family.
In 1873 he began his career as a farmer and or
ganized Aeolian Hill Farm, a beautiful plantation
two railes east of the Town of St. Matthews.
Frora the beginning nearly, fifty years ago, when
agriculture, like all other industries, was under a
cloud of depression, Aeolian HUl Farm has been
synonyraous with progress.
On the assuraption that good seed is the founda
tion of good agriculture, Aeolian Hill Farm has
been converted into an iraproved seed farra.
While raany new ideas have been tested out on

his farm, Mr. Wannamaker's interests have broad
ened with the years to include the whole subject
of agricultural betterment for his state. No move
ment has been undertaken in this direction in which
he has not played some role of active influence.
The war and reconstruction exerted a tremendous
influence on his young life. As a man of educa
tion he realized not only the handicaps imposed
upon the southern planter frora without, but also
the fundamental thought inherent in the system of
production itself. Even with cotton as low as 3^
cents a pound the force of tradition would keep
the raajority of planters and a great part of acreage
devoted to the old staple. Something had to be
done to break this crust of custom and that sorae
thing could only be agricultural education in the
broadest sense of the terra, involving experimental
and deraonstration work that would convince and
open the minds of southern farraers to the infiltra
tion of new ideas and new ideals.
One of the few official honors accepted by Mr.
Wannaraaker was that of president of the Farmers
Association of Orangeburg County, a semi-political
body, the primary object of which was to secure the
establishment in the state of an institution of higher
learning devoted to agricultural science.
The story of Mr. Wannamaker's role as one of the
founders and as a trustee of Clemson Agricultural
College has been interestingly told by Dr. W. M.
Riggs, president of the college. The active leader
ship of the moveraent to establish the college in the
state at large devolved upon the late Senator Till-
raan. "The citizens of Orangeburg County, to which
Calhoun County then belonged," writes Doctor
Riggs, "chose Mr. John E. Wannamaker as leader in
the fight for a separate agricultural college. Mr.
Wannamaker wrote, spoke and worked for the col
lege and attended many state and county conven
tions, notable araong which was the state convention
of 1888. In this convention he was chairman of the
Orangeburg delegation, and was one of the leaders
conducting the fight for the establishment of Clem
son College." *
Mr. Thomas G. Clemson died in 1888. In his wiU
he bequeathed to the State of South Carolina his
estate, which included the noted John C. Calhoun
property, for the purpose of founding an agricul
tural college. The Clemson bequest was accepted
by the Legislature in 1889. Continuing in the words
of Doctor Riggs: "When the terms of the Clem
son will were announced Mr. Wannamaker was
surprised to find himself named as one of the seven
life trustees, but gladly accepted the responsibUity
of being one of the pioneers to carry out the
purpose which had so long been dear to his heart.
"Mr. Wannamaker almost from the beginning has
been a raember of the Agricultural Committee and
a meraber of the Fertilizer Board of Control.
During the last few years of Senator TUlman's life
he was virtually chairraan of the Agricultural Com
mittee and since Senator TUlman's death in 1918
has been chairraan of this most important corarait
tee. Not only has he been greatly interested in the
teaching of agriculture, but also in agricultural re
search work. He has been one of the chief advo
cates of branch experiment stations, and the Coast
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siasm and energy. Mr. Wannamaker was practically
in charge of the establishment of this station and
gave unstintingly of his time and energy to its de
velopment. He has been equally interested in the
establishment of the station at Florence.
"As a member of the FertUizer Board of Con
trol Mr. Wannamaker has been indefatigable in his
efforts in behalf of his fellow farraers. Realizing
that they were spending nearly $1,500,000 for ferti
lizers, he has sought diligently to see that they got
value received for every dollar that they paid, and
that South Carolina should not become a dumping
ground for worthless or inferior fertilizers.
"During my twenty-five years' connection with
Clemson College Mr. Wannamaker has been one of
the trustees whom I have known best. I have seen
him tested as to his judgment, his consecration and
his love for Clemson College, and never have I
failed to hear him ring true.
"Clemson College can never repay its debt of
gratitude to this golden hearted citizen, who with
out corapensation has during a quarter of a century
given his time, his thought and his energy without
stint to the development of an institution which is
today a beacon light to the farmers of the state."
The Wannamakers have lived through the various
transition periods and upheavals of the South, and
again and again the family name and character
have stood like rocks in the storra of change and
adversity. John E. Wannamaker, though too young
to bear a part in the war between the states, wore
a red shirt as a symbol of his stand for law and
order during reconstruction, and has always accepted
as a patriotic duty the responsibility of furnishing
counsel and action in solving the peculiar problems
of the modern time which call for an adjustment of
relations between the black and white races quite as
fundamental as were the probleras of fifty years
ago. In seeking an araicable readjustraent between
the two races Mr. Wannaraaker has been exe.rting
his best efforts and influence for a number of years.
In reaching such a solution his lifelong. knowledge
of and experience with Negro labor, his interests
in and syrapathy with these people, his kindliness
and his wisdom, are factors making for a dispas
sionate, wholesome reconciliation, and in his own
community at least have already resulted in a con
tinuation of the traditional good feeling and. hearty
cooperation of the Negroes toward their white erri-
ployers. Incidentally it might be mentioned in this
connection that several of the old slaves born on
the Wanamaker place have never left it.
It is well known that Mr. Wannaraaker played a
prominent part in his county during the World war.
Mr. Reed Smith of the Extension Departraent of
the University of South Carolina, whose position
enables hira to speak with authority on this sub
ject, has written of Mr. Wanaraaker's war services.
Recalling the fact that the South Carolina State
CouncU of Defense, when organized in June, 1917,
realized that the keystone of its successful work lay
in the selection of corapetent, enthusiastic and loyal
county chairmen, and that the State Council selected
Mr. Wannamaker as county chairman for Calhoun
County, Mr. Smith continues: ...
"By precept and example he labored day in and
day out from one end of his county to the other.

His work soon became notable for its uniform
thoroughness and success. Neither he nor the or
ganization he built up was ever called on in vain.
He personally aided and guided to success all the
great moveraents and drives inaugurated by either
the National or the State Council. AU five of the
Liberty Loan drives, including the Victory Loan,
were put over promptly and efficiently, as were the
other great war campaigns. Young Men's Chris
tian Association, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Jewish
Relief, United War Work, War Savings Stamps,
food production and conservation, public health
work, etc. The record of Calhoun County was 100
per cent, and the guiding and inspiring force be
hind it was Mr. J. E. Wannaraaker. It is a rnatter
of coramon knowledge that the State Council re
garded him as a model county chairman. All who
carae in contact with hira were deeply impressed
with his sincerity, earnestness, loyalty, and the
fine, high spirit of unselfishness and service which
underlay his every word and act. South Carolina
is richer for his life."
A fundaraental source of strength in such a char
acter is religion. For his early religious training
Mr. Wannaraaker is indebted to his father and to
his noble raother. He is one of the prorainent lay-
raen of the Methodist Church, and in St. Paul's
Methodist Episcopal Church South at St. Matthews,
to quote the words of a former pastor, "for more
than forty years he has served as steward, Sunday
school superintendent and trustee. He has shown
the sarae efficiency here that has been manifested
in his business. Though he has been a large planter
he has taken tirae during all these years to attend
the quarterly conference of his charge held on week
days. His religious life belongs to the type that
is born of deep and abiding convictions, and which
raakes one faithful to duty 365 days in the year.
His best work has been done in the Sunday school.
If he faUed to meet his school during the raany
years he has been, superintendent it was because he
was providentially hindered. . He is an earnest
worker in the interdenominational Sunday school
cause. 'True religion, good citizenship and patriot
ism are always closely connected. Mr. Wanna
maker has always cultivated the right public spirit.
His ambition turned to public service rather than
to public office." During the Interchurch World
Moveraent it was under Mr. Wannaraaker's direc
tion that the survey of Calhoun County as a fea
ture of the raoveraent was carefully carried out.
The versatUity of Mr. Wannaraaker's gifts and
interests is thus briefly commented upon by one of
his old friends in Calhoun County: "He is a many-
sided man. Successful as a large planter, he is
modest and unassuming. He loves the soil and a
quiet life on the farra is congenial to him. He is
a college bred raan with a raind thoroughly trained
and when the necessity arises he handles a facUe
and interesting pen. A great reader, he owns a
splendid library stocked with the choicest books,
and keeps abreast of the times by reading not only
a large assortment of the best daUy papers but the
choicest magazines of the day. He is an honor to
any county."
As an index to his character it is interesting to
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of credit and open accounts, now so freely used by
many. In his own words : "I believe in paying debts
promptly. 'Pay as you go, or don't go at all.' I am
thankful to say I have always paid a hundred cents
on the dollar. Of course I use the banks for credit,
but I am opposed to the pernicious habit, 'running
accounts,' believing they foster extravagance, cause
raany disputes, and often bankrupt friendly relations
as well as credit,"
The central fact of all his life is the last to be
raentioned— his horae and family. January 31, 1878,
he married Martha Nelson Duncan, daughter of
Maj. David R, Duncan of Spartanburg. The wed
ding ceremony was performed by her uncle. Bishop
W. W. Duncan. Eight children were born to Mr.
and Mrs. 'Wannamaker: Mary Duncan, Da-vid
Duncan, Annie, John Edward, Jr., D'Arcy Pie
mont, Wallace Bruce, Virginia Nelson, and William
Robinson. Two are deceased — ^Annie, who died in
chUdhood, and D'Arcy Piemont, in his young man
hood. Mary, Duncan, John and D'Arcy were grad
uated frora their father's alma mater, Wofford
College. Virginia and Williara are in school. Wal
lace Bruce is a graduate of Clerason College. Early
in the war with Gerraany he enlisted in the navy,
having sorae thrilling experiences on one of the
Araerican destroyers off the coast of Ireland.
Francis Marion Wannamaker, son of John J.
and Rachel Treutlin Wannaraaker, was born near
St. Matthews, South Carolina, August 17, 1835, spent
the greater part of his life in that neighborhood, and
died there October 2, i8go. As a raark of affection,
esteera, and gratitude for his unselfish public service,
citizens asked the privilege of erecting a raodest
monument to hira in the family burying ground. On
it are chiseled the following words :
"The best years of his life he freely gave to
public service, without reward or the hope of reward,
save that which arises from a consciousness of duty
well perforraed."
In the judgment of aU who knew Mr. Wannamaker
this brief epitaph tells the simple truth of his life.
Taken in connection with the sorrow and suffering
of the tirae in which he lived, it also reveals to those
who know, a real tragedy. For while the life story
of the man must, therefore, in itself be interesting
and deserve perpetuation, it gains vastly in interest
and increases greatly in significance for the student
of our cultural history in that it raay be regarded
as typical in a broad sense of the lives and ex
periences of many noble young southerners of his
tirae. BrUliantly endowed by nature, handsome of form
and face, attractive in raanner, lovable in disposition
and distinguished at all times by the raarks of fine
breeding and noble feeling, young Wannamaker was
a welcome raember of student groups and organiza
tions of the universities of South Carolina and Vir
ginia, where he was educated. Inheriting a noble
estate and raany slaves, he felt hiraself compelled to
become a planter, though by nature and education he
would have chosen a profession. Hating slavery as
an unholy and inhuman institution, he could not
liberate his slaves nor advocate the general abolition
of slavery without becoming in the eyes of his fellow-
citizens a traitor.

Loving his country, and loyal to it, a man of peace
living in the bosom of his young family, he suddenly
felt hiraself called by pure patriotisra to volunteer
as a private soldier in defense of his state, even be
fore the first gun was fired on Fort Surater, and he
served without murraur or coraplaint through all
those horrible years of war, winning the rank of
captain before its end. A gentleman by birth and
nature and accustomed by right -as such to the en
joyments of ordered life and society, he found him
self compelled by vastly changed conditions on re
turning to his home to earn a scanty support for his
family in the sweat of his brow against odds which
have seldora faced men. A man of culture and re
finement and a lover of justice as defined by law and
raaintained by organized government set up by an in
telligent society, he was forced, though a returned
soldier who had given his best for his land, to submit
to the stinging humiliation of living under the vicious
regirae of "carpet baggers" and thus corapelled to take
up the difficult task of helping his state throw off
the shackles and re-establish a governraent of in
telligence and justice. In all of this consuraing work,
body and raind worked ceaselessly and the years
passed slowly with the hope of peace and ease ever
deferred. It is only in the lives of such men that the misery
of those years can be clearly visualized and the
tragedy of young southern raanhood of this type be
realized. Easy enough to conderan the South for
seceding and thus bringing on the war; who will be
so lacking in huraan syrapathy and the knowledge of
huraan nature as to brand Captain Wannaraaker and
the many thousands of his kind as traitors to their
country? It required no political shrewdness to
know how most painfully to humiliate South Caro
lina because of her part in the war; who would de
fend now the forcing of this raan and his kind to live
under the so-called "governraent" set up by vicious,
venal, and rapacious politicians from without and
freshly emancipated ignorant slaves, who were easily
debauched and misled by the adventurers from the
North? No depth of morality and no great states
manship are necessary to perceive now the unwisdom
and injustice of sorae of the things done by the South
in its effort to end the nightraare of reconstruction;
who would raaintain that raen of the raind and heart,
the tradition and training, the faith and character of
Captain Wannamaker should have longer borne the
gross injustice fastened upon their communities and
their state by authority of the national government,
which turned a deaf ear to the voice of reason and
prudence? Through all of this Captain Wannaraaker went.
He was a soldier who sought no selfish glory; he
returned to his faraily and his desolated home as a
meraber of a defeated array, but with only charity
and hope in his heart and a sigh of relief that it was
all over. Seldora ever did he speak of the war ex
cept to draw Ulustrations or to do honor to heroism,
unselfishness, and patriotism. With fortune gone he
turned fearlessly to elemental work though he had
formeriy lived in luxury. He became a teacher, then
a carpenter. A leader by nature, he seemed caUed
by Heaven to head the cause of justice and humanity,
and he sacrificed the best years of his life in those
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dignities at the hands of the ''rulers,'' experiencing
arrests and feeling often the hairbreadth nearness of
death as punishment for his deeds in protecting the
oppressed. It came to the point that he had only
rest time for his own use, and this he utilized for
a mastery of the law. It is a crowning tribute to his
intelligence and his indefatigable energy that though
he began the study late and pursued it under such
difficulties, he later rose to fame, not merely as a
passionate and fearless pleader in the cause of justice
before courts and juries, but also as a keen inter
preter of the law and a well versed scholar of it.
At -various tiraes in his life Captain Wannaraaker
could have held political office of high rank; he
chose only such as enabled him to serve best his
fellow men at crucial times. For example, he be
came trial justice (magistrate), at a time when this
officer of the law was if honest and fearless a true
shelter in the time of storm for the oppressed whites
and misguided negroes of his state. He was also a
member of the Legislature that marked the end of
carpetbag rule in South Carolina, and he did rauch
to show the new road of progress.
Generous to a fault, a man of unduUed noble im
pulses, a loyal supporter at any cost of friends,
Captain Wannaraaker throughout his life did really
serve men and causes without thought of personal
gain. Though a brilliant and successful lawyer whose
services were in great demand he left at his death
only a small estate. He lives, however, in the
memory of thousands, both white and black, as an
example of an honorable, sincere, fearless, incor
ruptible man who loved justice and hated wrong,
and who would share all he had with a needy man,
whether he be black or white, whether the need be for
money or food or sympathy or legal advice. He was
thus potentially a great man who through circum
stances or fate had his activities circumscribed and
his great possibilities unrealized in a sense just be
cause he lived when he did and as he was really
forced to live.
Captain Wannamaker married early in life Eleanor
Margaret, daughter of that godly rainister of the
Gospel, Lucius Bellinger. The surviving sons and
daughters of this raarriage are Rachel Tr'uetlin, wife
of Harry A. Raysor ; John Skottowe ; Frances
Marion, wife of Thomas H. Dreher, all of St. Mat
thews, South Carolina; William Hane, of Durham,
North Carolina; and Olin Dantzler, of Rome, Italy.
DoLPHUS J. Bolt. Of the men of South Carolina
who have wielded successfully the implements of
construction, who have achieved worthy ends as
promoters of the fundaraental occupation of agricul
ture, and who have lent dignity and integrity to the
discharge of their duties as citizens, none are more
firmly established in the confidence of their fellow-
citizens than is Dolphus J. Bolt, who is carrying on
successful operations on his well-cultivated prop
erty in Anderson County.
Mr. Bolt was born in Anderson County, South
Carolina, October 20, 1869, a son of Abram and
"Mary Matilda (Clark) Bolt. His father was born
in Laurens County, this state. May 12, 1839, and died
in Anderson County, April 29, 1909. He was a son
of Asa and Hannah (Crombie) Bolt, who removed
from Laurens County to Anderson County in 1851,

and Asa Bolt was a son of John and Nancy Bolt,
the former of whom was a native of Virginia, who,
with his parents and two brothers, Abrara and Ed
raund Bolt, carae to South Carolina at an early day
and settled in Laurens County. Asa and Hannah
(Crombie) Bolt were the parents of nine sons and
three daughters : Williara, ToUiver, John H., Thoraas,
Crombie C, Abram, Lewis Martin, Edmund,
Oliver, Elizabeth, Mary Caroline and Theresa Ade
line, All of the sons served with gallantry as sol
diers of the Confederacy during the war between
the North and the South, and Thoraas and Crorabie
C. Bolt raet heroes deaths on the field of battle,
while Lewis Martin and Edraund Bolt died of disease
whUe in the service.
Abrara Bolt, father of Dolphus J., was married
September 9, 1856, to Mary MatUda Clark, who was
born in Anderson County, South Carolina, February
2, 1841, and who still survives her husband. To this
marriage there were born the following children:
Martha Jane, born August 3> 1858, Lawson Abner,
born February 20, 1862; Thomas Lorenzo, bom
January 25, 1867, and raet an accidental death July
5, 1885; and Dolphus J. Abrara Bolfwas a farmer
by vocation, a pursuit which he followed all his life,
and so conducted his affairs that he was held in the
highest esteem by those who carae into contact with
him in business affairs, whUe as a citizen he always
discharged his responsibUities in a raanner -which
left no doubt as to the quality of his public spirit.
Dolphus J. Bolt was reared on the horae farm and
passed his boyhood in much the sarae manner as
other agriculturists' sons of his day. He was reared
in the country schools and throughout his. life has
been surrounded by a rural atmosphere and influence,
as his energies have been applied to the business of
farming, a vocation in which he has -won his -vvay
to success through his close application, untiring
industry and progressive use of modem ideas in his
work. He is appreciated for his many stable and
reliable traits of character, for his unceasing devo
tion to the best interests of the community, and for
the example offered in his Ufe of abUity, perserver-
ance and ultiraate success. In religious faith he
is identified with the Methodist Church, in which
he is a steward, and his fraternal connections, in
clude membership in the Masons, in which he is a
master, and the Woodmen of the World.
Mr. Bolt was raarried in 1892 to Miss Les.sie
Hays, who was born December i, 1874, and died
July 7, igo8, having been the mother of five chUdren.
Mr. Bolt's second marriage occurred in. 191 1, when
he was united with Miss Emmie B. Siramons.
Cleland Singleton Green. The eldest son of
Allen Jones Green and Helen Coles Singleton was
born on the Kensington plantation in lower Richland
County, June 21, 1872.
He received his education in private schools in
Columbia, South Carolina, and at the University of
South Carolina. Upon leaving the University in
1893, he entered the eraploy of the Colurabia MUls
Corapany, Columbia, South Carolina, and there re
ceived his textUe education. In 1900 removed to
Baltiraore and was associated with the Mt. Vernon
Woodberry Cotton Duck Corapany, subsequentlv be
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Company in igo5. Later on he removed to New
York, where he now resides, and became associated
with Parker Wilder & Company, a well known firm
of coramissiori raerchants who handle several large
cotton raill accounts.
Mr. Green is a descendant of some of the best
known and distinguished famUies in South Carolina;
on his paternal side to the Greens, Jones, Prides,
Cadwaladers and Taylors ; on his raaternal side to
the Singletons, Coles, Richardsons, Lowndes and
Rutledges. In igoo he raarried Miss Grace Davis Moore,
second daughter of Dr, and Mrs. Thoraas T. Moore
of Colurabia. They have one son, Thoraas Cleland
Green, born in 1904, and now a student at the Epis
copal High School, Alexandria, Virginia.
Mr. Green now resides in New York, but has lost
none of his affection and interest in his state and
home town, and still considers Colurabia, South Caro
lina, his home.
R. Floyd Clarke has been a New York lawyer
nearly forty years, is a recognized specialist in cor
poration and international law, and his learning and
achievements have given hira a rank among Amer
ica's foremost lawyers.
WhUe raost of his life has been spent elsewhere,
his earliest recollections are associated with the City
of Colurabia, South Carolina, and his ancestry was
one of distinction in the state for raany generations.
Mr. Clarke was born at Colurabia, October 14,
1859, and he has boyhood recollections of the catas
trophe that overwhelraed his native city when Sher
raan's array took possession and engaged in riot and
pillage in March, 1865. His parents were Capt.
Lerauel C. and Caroline B. (Clarkson) Clarke, of
Richland County. His father, a native of Georgia,
was a merchant in Columbia before the War of
i860. Under Gen. A. W. Walker he held the rank
of captain in the Coast Guard along the Carolina
coast, and araong other engageraents was in the battle
of Pocataligo. The raother of Capt. Lemuel Clarke
was Caroline (Heriot)' Clarke. Lerauel C. Clarke
died in 1893.
Mr. Clarke's maternal grandfather was Thomas
Boston Clarkson, who in ante-bellum days was one
of the cotton planters of South Carolina. He owned
four plantations in that part of Richland County
lying between Hopkins and Gadsden stations, and
had about a thousand slaves.
The family residence af the tirae of the burning
of Colurabia by Sherraan's array was on Blanding
Street. Soon after the close of the war the famUy
removed to New York, where they lived about two
years, and in 1867 established their horae at New
Orleans. In that city, as if the war and its afterraath
had not already caused them distress enough, they
went through the great yellow fever epidemic of
1868, several members of the faraUy, including R.
Floyd, being afflicted with the disease. In 1870, when
R. Floyd Clarke was eleven years of age, a perman
ent faraily residence was established in New York.
Mr. Clarke attended the old No. 35 public school in
Sixth .Avenue. Araong other schoolraates upon
whora destiny has fastened raeraorable distinctions
was Charles Evans Hughes. Mr. Clarke acquired
his collegiate education in the College of the City of

New York, graduating with the class of 1880. He
studied for his profession in the Law School of
Colurabia University, graduating LL. B._ cum laude
in 18S2. He also had the honor of winning the first
prize in municipal law, the sum of $250. The sub
ject of his thesis was "Original and Collateral
Proraises in the Law of Guaranty. In 1899 the
CoUege of the City of New York bestowed upon
him the degree Master of Arts. . , , ,
During 1882-83 Mr. Clarke was managing clerk for
the firra of Olcott & Mestre, and was a member of
that firm in 1883-84. From 1885 to 1903 he was
senior member of the firm Clarke & Culver. For
many years his practice has been in corporation and
international law, and as a specialist in these
branches he has been counsel for many large cor
porations. He is admitted to practice in the New
York State Supreme Court, the South Carolina Su
preme Court, and the United States Suprerae Court
and is a meraber of the American Society of Inter
national Law, the American Bar Association, New
York State Bar Association, Association of the Bar
of the City of New York, and besides various con
tributions to law journals he is author of the Science
of Law and Law Making, published in 1898, by Mac-
miUan & Corapany.
While in college he was a Delta Kappa EpsUon
and Phi Beta Kappa, and is a member of the New
York Yacht Club, Yarchmont Yacht Club, Columbia
Yacht Club, Down Town Association, a weU known
lunch club of New York, University Club, Man
hattan Chess Club, Pine Orchard Club, Sachem's
Head Club, and the New York Southern Society.
He is a life member of several of these organiza
tions. Outside of his profession Mr. Clarke is doubtless
most widely known as a yachtsraan. He has owned at
different times three sloops and one schooner, as
well as power boats, and for many years one of his
chief diversions has been cruising on nearby waters.
His country place, "Sea Chanty," on Stony Creek
Harbor, Connecticut, is located in the raidst of very
beautiful scenery and is a favorite stopping place for
his fellow yachtmen. Here he has every comfort and
convenience for yachting, bathing, fishing, and all the
delightful pleasures and recreations of seashore
sumraer life, and the horae is the scene of raany fine
social and recreational functions that are enjoyed
by Mr, Clarke's large circle of friends.

Macbeth Young, No department of the great
national program of the recent war was carried out
with greater efflciency and with more general satis
faction and aroused less criticisra than the execution
of the "Selective Service" law. There was wise
planning and adrainistration at the head, but the
burden of detail and the greatest credit raust rest
upon the "Local Boards," The services of the men
who responded to this call for duty should never be
forgotten as the honors and credits for the war work
are parceled out. It was a duty involving endless
labors, very disagreeable tasks, and probably repre
sented a more severe sacrifice on the time and ener
gies of the board members than any other war serv
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. The above facts deserve mention and to be recalled
in connection with the career of an able lawyer of
Union, Macbeth Young, who served as chairman of
the local board for Union County continuously from
April 27, 1917, to March 31, 1919. The work of that
board was done with an efficiency probably not sur
passed by any other county in the state, and it is the
general consensus that most of the credit belongs
to Chairman Young, who had to assume the burden
of the details as well as the broader administrative
functions of the office.
That was the most recent of many services he has
rendered during his career as a citizen and lawyer.
Mr. Young was born at Laurens, South Carolina,
Confederate States of America, Septeraber 10, 1863, a
son of John Laurens and Jane (Garlington) Young,
both members of prominent South Carolina famUies.
John L. Young, a native of Laurens County, spent
practically his entire life in Union County. He was
a civil engineer by profession and for many years
before the war was promoter of large enterprises.
He is perhaps best remembered for having built the
Spartanburg and Union RaUroad from Alston to
Spartanburg, and served as its president until volun
teering in the Confederate war, where he served as a
lieutenant of the Johnson Rifles. This is Union
County's famous military organization, conspicuous
for service in four wars, the Mexican, Civil, Spanish-
American and the World's war. It is noteworthy
that Macbeth Young volunteered in the Spanish-
American war in 1898 as a member of the Johnson
Rifles, which becarae Corapany E of the First South
Carolina Volunteer Infantry. He volunteered a
private and served as sergeant of this corapany.
John L. Young in every way was a leader in busi
ness, a man of substance and of wide influence in
his county and state. He took a prominent part in
the restoration of South Carolina to white men's
government in 1876. During that period he was
called upon to fill several iraportant offices.
Macbeth Young attended the old Union Academy
and the University of South Carolina, where he. was
graduated in 1883. Studying law, he was admitted
to the Ijar in 1886, and for a few years practiced in
the West, in Kansas and Arkansas. Returning to
Union in 1896, his time has since been taken up
with business affairs and the general practice of. his
profession. He served six years as mayor of Union,
and represented Union County in the State Senate
frora January, igii, untU November i, igi4. For
six years he was deraocratic county chairraan and is
now the Union County member of the Democratic
State Executive Coraraittee. He has traveled both
the York and Scottish Rite routes and is also a
Shriner. Mr. Young raarried Miss Mary Bates Craven, of
Batesville, Arkansas. She is a meraber of the Bates
family for whora BatesvUle was naraed. The Bates
and the Craven faraUies are both of historic interest
in Arkansas and Missouri. Mrs. Young has been an
indefatigable Red Cross worker, is a prominent mera
ber of the United Daughters of the Confederacy,
and belongs to other social and philanthropic move
ments. William Dorrouh Ferguson, M. D. The Fergu
son family has long stood conspicuous in the pro

fessional affairs of Laurens County, where William
Dorrouh Ferguson is an able physician and surgeon,
while his father before him was a lawyer.
Doctor Ferguson was born in Laurens, February
22, 1872, a son of John Williams and Mary Catherine
(Dorrouh) Ferguson, both natives of Newberry
County. His father was born November 16, 1834,
and died May 4, igiS. The grandparents were George
and Mary (Peterson) Ferguson, natives of New
berry County, while the great-grandfather was Ward
Ferguson, a native of Fairfax County, Virginia,
whose people came from Dumfries, Scotland, and
were araong the first faraUies of Fairfax County.
Doctor Ferguson is of Revolutionary stock both
through his father and mother. His parents were
married in December, 1869. His father served as
colonel of the Fourth South Carolina Reserve dur
ing the war between the states. He was a graduate
of Oglethorpe University, studied law under R. P.
Todd of Laurens and practiced his profession for
raany years. At one tirae he had been professor of
Latin in LaurensvUle Feraale College. He served
several tiraes as a raeraber of the State Senate and
was a member of the Board of Trustees of South
Carolina University. He and his wife were Presby
terians. They had four chUdren: WiUiam D. ;
Mary Todd; John WUliams, a cotton miU man in
Georgia; and George Young.
Doctor Ferguson attended the University of South
Carolina from 1887 to 1891, leaving in his senior
year. He was graduated AprU i, 1897, from the
Medical Department of South Carolina College at
Charleston, serving one year as interne in the City
Hospital and two years in New York and PhUadel
phia. He began practice at Laurens, in 1900. He is
a meraber of the raedical societies, is a Royal Arch
Mason, Knight of Pythias, and a Presbyterian. In
Noveraber, igo3, he married Miss Claudia Irby, a
daughter of Dr. W. C. Irby of Laurens.
Rufus David Earle. The finding of a groove in
life in which one's heart and raind are eraphatically
enlisted assures success to nine out of ten of the
toilers of earth. The farm is the largest and raost
beneficent caraping ground for the survey of life's
possibUities, for here the farraer is too busy to dream
other than with his eyes wide open and his senses
alert, the while health is being engendered by
muscular action, regular hours and wholesome diet.
It was among these fortunate and congenial . sur
roundings that Rufus David Earle, now a prominent
and substantial farmer of Fork Township, Ander
son County, deterrained upon his career.
Rufus D. Earle was born in Dallas County, Ar
kansas, December g, i87g, his parents being Rev.
Francis Wilton and EUen Rebecca (Taylor) Earle.
His father was a native of Anderson County, South
Carolina, and a brother of the late Rev. Julius .Earle
of the same county, of whom extended mention is
made elsewhere in this application. Francis Wilton
Earle was a Baptist preacher who also followed suc
cessfully the vocation of farming, and was married
three times, the mother of Rufus D. Earle having
been his second wife. There were no chUdren bom
to his first and third unions who grew to maturity,
but by his second marriage he had five chUdren:
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David and James Benjamin. The raother was a na
tive of Arkansas, and in that state the father died
at the age of fifty years. He was a veteran of the
war between the states, in which he had fought as a
soldier of the Confederacy, and was a man of strong
inteUectuaUty and raarked force of character.
FoUowing the death of his father, Rufus D. Earle
was brought to Anderson County, South Carolina,
at the age of eleven years by his uncle, the Rev.
Julius Earle, in whose horae he remained one year,
the while attending the country schools. He was
then taken into the horae of Nathan Farraer, of Fork
Township, with whom he reraained, learning the
various lessons pertaining to instruction in the art
of farraing, and also corapleting his educational
training in the public schools and at Anderson. His
career was teraporarily interrupted by the outbreak
of the Spanish-American war, when he enlisted in
Corapany C, First Regiment, South Carolina Volun
teer Infantry. Upon receiving his honorable dis
charge he returned to the duties of civil life,, and
frora that tirae to the present has been increasingly
successful in his farraing operations, at this tirae be
ing the owner of a valuable and well cultivated prop
erty in Fork Township. He is accounted as a skilled
and progressive agriculturist, who believes in raodern
customs but still maintains his regard for the old
and practical fundaraental raethods. As a citizen he
is held in high esteera because of his integrity and
public spirit, and his friends and well wishers are
nuraerous. His fraternal connections are with the
Master Masons and the Woodraen of the World.
Mr. Earle married Eulah Lee McAdams, daughter
of Sarauel Thomas McAdams, and they are the par
ents of three chUdren : Emraa Elizabeth, Sarah
Ellen Rebecca and Rufus D., Jr.
Walter Herbert Hunt. The busy professional
career of Walter Herbert Hunt as a lawyer began
at Newberry raore than thirty-five years ago. In a
third of a century he has attained all these honors
and dignities to which an arabitious lawyer aspires,
and his life has been one of signal usefulness and
honor in his native coraraunity.
He was born at Newberry, AprU i6, 1861, son of
Walter Herbert and Susan (McCaughrin) Hunt.
His maternal grandfather was Thomas McCaughrin
of Newberry. His father was a Newberry merchant,
and the first Araerican ancestor was Walter Herbert,
who came from England and settled in New Jersey
in 1742. Mr. Hunt had a happy boyhood, enjoyed
the comforts and influences of a good horae, had
every opportunity to develop the intellectual side
of his nature, and also spent much time in outdoor
sports. He attended the comraon schools, the New
berry Male Academy, and completed his sophomore
year in Newberry College. He left college to take
up the study of law in a private office, and was
adraitted to the bar May 29, 1883. In the years that
followed he rapidly achieved success in his profes
sion, and his narae has been associated with many
iraportant enterprises and moveraents in his horae
town. The firm of Hunt, Hunt & Hunter, of which
he was senior partner, attained the very highest rank
among the law firms of the state. From 1882 to 1888
Mr. Hunt was secretary of the Deraocratic County

Executive Coramittee. He has served as special
judge of the Circuit Court in several counties. He
held the rank of lieutenant colonel on the staff of
Governor Hugh S. Thompson, but never, allowed
his name to be placed on a ticket as a candidate for
office. Much of his practice has been as attorney for
banks, cotton mills and other business corporations.
From youth he has been devoted to the great profes
sion of the law, and while his record is one of
raanifest public spirit in his community, he has never
designedly sought honors outside of his chosen voca
tion. He is a meraber of the Baptist Church and is
affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fel
lows and Knights of Pythias.
February 23, 1887, he married Miss Lucy W.
Baxter, daughter of Jaraes M. Baxter of Newberry.
Hon. Edward Coke Mann. When after nearly
twenty years of consecutive service the veteran Con
gressman A. F. Lever resigned his seat in August,
1919, as representative of the Seventh South Caro
lina District, to take his place as a meraber of the
Farra Loan Board, a special election was required to
give the Seventh District its proper representation,
and in that election, held October 7, 1919, the choice
of the voters fell upon Edward Coke Mann, who at
that tirae was solicitor of the First Circuit. Mr.
Mann, who took his seat in Congress a few weeks
after election, went to Washington possessed, of the
very highest qualifications for his responsibilities.
He is a lawyer by profession, and during his prac
tice at St. Matthews has distinguished himself as a
thinker and debater in public questions.
He was born at Lowndesville, Abbeville County,
Noveraber 21, 1880, son of Rev. Coke D. and Eliza J.
Mann. His father was for raany years an active
member of the South Carolina Methodist Confer
ence, and the itinerant rainistry required his resi
dence in many towns of the state. In these towns
Edward Coke Mann acquired his education, and later
won a scholarship in Berkeley County at The Citadel
at Charleston. He entered this famous military
school in 1897 and graduated in 1901. The year
following he taught school in Clarendon County, and
for another four years was connected with the Amer
ican Tobacco Company. In the meantirae he took up
the study of law and graduated LL. B. from the
University of South Carolina in igo6. While in uni
versity he won the oratorical medal and represented
the University in the State Conference and was state
representative at the Southern Oratorical contest at
Birraingham. The first year he practiced at Darlington as a part
ner with Solicitor J. Monroe Spears, later was a
meraber of the firra McLauchlin, Tatum & Mann at
Bishopville, and upon the creation of Calhoun County
in igo8 established his home and offices at St. Matt
hews. He gave all his tirae to his private clientage
and to building up a sound reputation as an able
lawyer until 1916, when he became a candidate for
solicitor of the First Circuit and was elected. He
raade a splendid record as a prosecuting attorney for
three years before he entered Congress.
Mr. Mann married Miss Mary McEachem, of
Laurinburg, North Carolina, in 1908. Their one
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Harry L, Goss. Though a resident of New York
City since 1905, where he has earned a highly suc
cessful career as a cotton merchant, Harry L. Goss
travels back to South Carolina over the road of
memory almost daily and is also a frequent visitor
to his home state in person.
The Gosses, who originally came from Bristol,
England, to Virginia, have been identified with
Union County in South Carolina since 1790. "The
several generations have given useful and honorable
citizens to that county and state. The New York
cotton merchant is a son of the late Henry L. Goss,
who was a leading planter and banker at Union,
serving as vice president of the old Merchants and
Planters Bank, He married Ida Wallace, who is
StUl living at Union.
Harry L. Goss was born at Union, South Carolina,
in 1878, and spent his early life in the old home com
munity, acquiring a thorough training for business.
He has been a cotton commission raerchant since
going to New York in 1905, and is a member of the
old and well known firm of Sorrells & Company,
cotton commission merchants with offices at 66 Beav
er Street, adjoining the New York Cotton Exchange.
Mr. Goss has a membership in the New York Cotton
Exchange, and is in close touch with the financial
center that dominates the cotton industry of America.
Mr. Goss also retains property and financial inter
ests in his home county. He married Miss Madeline
Wightman, of New York City. Mr. Goss is a mem
ber of the New York Club, the India House, a
prominent business club, takes his golf on the links
of the Ardsley Club, and is a member of the Amateur
Billiard Club, the New York Southern Society, and
the West Side Club.
Wade C. Hughs, forraer county superintendent
of schools of Oconee County, is one of the hard
working young lawyers of Walhalla, and has thor
oughly justified the confidence of his nuraerous
friends by his work in the profession.
He was born at Richland in Oconee County Octo
ber 7, 1878, son of Marshall T. and Annie C. (Fen-
nell) Hughs. This is an old Welsh faraily. His
great-grandfather, Edward Hughs, carae to South
Carolina from Maryland and settled in the vicinity
of Horse Shoe Bend in Oconee County, The
grandfather, Henry R. Hughs, was born in Oconee
County and was killed at the battle of Gaines Mill
while serving in the Confederate Array during the
war between the states, Marshall T. Hughs was
born and reared at Horse Shoe Bend, while his
wife grew up in the vicinity of Ninety Six, South
Carolina. Wade C. Hughes spent his early life on a farra. He
acquired his early education in the country schools
and in 1901 graduated frora South Carolina's famous
military school. The Citadel, at Charleston. He
made a successful record as a teacher, and frora
January, 1908, to July, 191 3, served as superin
tendent of schools in his native county. He grad
uated in law from the University of South Carolina
in 1907, and the same year was admitted to the
bar upon examination before the Suprerae Court.
He has since, in the intervals of his school duties,
carried on his legal work at WalhaUa, and for the
past seven years has given all his time to his pro

fession as a member of the firm of Sheldon and
Hughs, attorneys. He is now serving as United
States coraraissioner, is a democrat, a ruling elder
in the Presbyterian Church, past master of Blue
Ridge Lodge No. 92, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, and also a past chancellor commander of
Walhalla Lodge No. 67, Knights of Pythias.
In 1912 he married Miss Annie Bieraann, grand
daughter of Dietrich Bieraann, who was one of the
founders of the Town of Walhalla.
William Leonidas Bass. Many raen who have
gone through life with physical and raental faculties
unimpaired have never expressed a tithe of the
energy and the achieveraent of useful work that
was part of the record of William Leonidas Bass
of Lake City, who at the age of thirteen was per
manently crippled, and yet made a real narae for
hiraself as an educator, editor and lawyer.
He was born March 10, 1862, in what is now
Marion County, South Carolina. His great-grand
father, Henry Bass, was an Englishman who settled
in Transylvania County, Virginia, before the Revo
lution. Joseph, his son, moved to Marion County,
South Carolina. Thoraas Randolph Bass, father of
the Lake City lawyer, was also born in Marion
County, and followed the vocation of physician and
farraer. He was one of the raost prominent demo
crats in the reconstruction regime, and from 1872
to 1874 represented Marion County in the Legis
lature. He married Mary Anna Carter.
Up to his thirteenth year WUliara L. Bass lived
on a farra, attended coramon schools, and partici
pated in all the robust sports of boyhood. He was
fond of raachinery and enjoyed tasks requiring skill
ful work with the hands and brain. After suffer
ing several years of disease and subsequent illness
he had to train hiraself for a vocation suited to his
condition as a perraanent cripple. In June, 1884, he
finished his course in the South Carolina College in
the Norraal Department, and then read law under
Thoraas M. Gilland of Kingstree, being admitted
after examination before the Suprerae Court in
i88.i. Tn i88g Mr. Bass becarae principal of the
Lake City High School, and in 1896 becarae super
intendent of the graded schools of Blackville. Dur
ing 1897-98 he was editor of the Valdosta (Georgia)
Mercury and in 1899 began his work as a prac
ticing- lawyer at Lake City. Through the law
he satisfied his arabition for a career of usefulness,
though his intellectual interests were always along
the lines of natural science and raechanics. He
contributed as a writer and editor in the course
of his law practice, and fellowship with the great
rainds of the past was a sustaining power in his
own career. His love of outdoors was chiefly sat
isfied in the sport of fishing.
Mr. Bass was a recognized leader of the derao
cratic party in Florence County. He represented
the county in the Legislature frora 1902 to 1906, and
in the latter year was elected senator. He was a
member of the Missionary Baptist Church, was long
active in the work of the Good Templars, was a
vice-chancellor commander of the Knights of
Pythias, and during college days was for two terms
president of the Euphradian Society.
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Lucas. Her father, Edward R. Lucas of Darling
ton, was in charge of the printing of currency at
Columbia for the Confederate States during the
war. Mr. and Mrs. Bass had two living children.
WiUiara L. Bass died in February of 1920.
John Joseph Darlington was born in the year
1792 in London, England, where his father was en
gaged as an officer in the British Custoras Service,
having charge of the Departraent of Indigoes. He
was married in the year 1815 to Elizabeth Barnett,
the only chUd of which marriage, Henry Dixson
Darlington, was born in London, July 24, 1816.
About the year 1827 John Joseph Darlington re
moved to New York City, where he established hira
self in business, first at 82 Broadway and after
wards on South Seventh Street, WiUiarasburgh.
His residence was on South Fourth Street, Williams
burgh. In the year 1852, on his return from a
visit to England, he jumped frora the vessel to the
wharf before the gangplank was out, missed his
footing and was drowned. His wife, Elizabeth,, died
in 1837, shortly after which tirae Henry Dixson
Darlington removed to South Carolina, locating first
at Charleston and afterwards at Edgefield.
Henry Dixson Darlington and Charlotte G. Blease
were raarried June 21, 1840, at Edgefield, South
Carolina, where they lived for some tirae, after
which the faraily residence was fixed at Due West,
South Carolina.
John Thomas Darlington, eldest son of Henry
D. and Charlotte G. Darlington, was born at Edge
field, South Carolina, August 17, 1841, and prior to
his death in Septeraber, 1916, was editor and pro
prietor of the Leaksville Gazette, Leaksville, North
Carolina, He entered the war between the states
first as a meraber of Company B, Fourth South
Carolina Regiraent of Volunteers, afterwards re
organized into the Palmetto Regiment of Sharp
shooters, and participated in nearly all the battles
in Virginia from 1861 to the close of the war in
1865. Henry Manlv Darlington, second son of Henry
Dixson and Charlotte G. Darlington, was born at
Edgefield Deceraber 29, 184^, attended Erskine Col
lege at Due West, but before graduating became
editor and publisher of the Anderson Gazette, the
home organ of Hon. Jaraes L. Orr, then speaker
of the National House of Representatives. He en
tered the Confederate service in April, 1861, engag
ing in the first battle of Manassas, being a meraber
of Company B, Fourth Regiment, South CaroUna
Volunteers, He died October 10, 1861, of typhoid
fever contracted in the service, and was buried in
the Episcopal cemetery at CentrevUle, Virginia.
The only daughter of Henry D. and Charlotte
Darlington, Mary E. Darlington, was born at Due
West, South Carolina, Deceraber 5, 1851, was edu
cated in the Due West Female College and at Shor
ter Feraale College, Rorae, Georgia, engaged in
teaching and for a tirae was professor of Latin
and mathematics at Cooper-Limestone Institute, but
retired frora her vocation in 1889, returning to Due
West until 1895, when she came to Washington and
here engaged in teaching untU 1899, She still lives
at Washington.
Joseph James Darlington, third son of Henry D.

and Charlotte G, Darlington, was born at Due
West, South Carolina, February 10, 1849, 'was grad
uated from Erskine College in 1868 with the degree
of A. B., received the degree of A. M. from
Erskine College in 1872, studied law in the office of
Richard T. Merrick, 'Washington, D. C, was ad
mitted to the bar of the District of Columbia in
187s, was elected professor of contracts, personal
property and bUls and notes in the law department
of Georgetown University in 1881, and received the
degree of LL. D. frora the Georgetown University
in 1887.
He was a resident of Washington from 1872 until
his death June 24, 1920, at the age of seventy-one.
He had been a prorainent attorney of the city for
more than forty-five years, recognized as one of the
leaders of the district bar and a nationally famous
lawyer. His partner was W. C. Sullivan. Mr. Dar
lington was a former director of the Washington
Loan & Trust Company and at the tirae of his
death was director of the Federal National Bank,
president of the Washington City Orphan Asylum
and the Baptist Horae of the District of Columbia
and a trustee of Erskine CoUege. He was a trustee
of the Baptist Theological Serainary at Louisville,
Kentucky. His "Darlington on Personal Property,"
which he wrote in i8gi, has for years been a college
text book. He was a stanch democrat, and noted
for his benefactions to charity. He taught a large
Sunday school class at the Fifth Baptist Church
for many years, was a raeraber of Lafayette Lodge
of Masons, St. Andrew's Society and the Southern
Society. He was also general counsel for the Washington
Railway and Electric Company, serving in that
capacity twenty years, for the Potomac Electric
Power Company, Araerican Ice Corapany, Swartzel,
Rheera & Hensey, Inc., National Savings & Trust
Corapany, Washington Gas Light Corapany, Riggs
National Bank, Federal National Bank and others.
He was a member of the District Bar Association
and the Lawyers' Club and had been general coun
sel for the old Metropolitan Railway Lines. A
tribute paid hira by Chief Justice McCoy of the
District. Supreme Court was : "He was a fine law
yer, fair to the court, and possessed of the abUity
to raake himself thoroughly understood — a very
necessary requisite for a successful practitioner.
We have heard from tirae to tirae of hira as he
has been lying abed awaiting the end. I hope that
all of us will be able when that tirae comes to face
death with the same bravery and the same humUity ¦
and the same absence of fear."
July 21, 1885, he married Elizabeth Rachel Meador,
of Washington. Her father was the late Rev.
Chastain C. Meador of Washington. Mrs. Darling
ton died in i8go, raother of two chUdren, Miss Anne
C. Darlington and Elizabeth, wife of Dr. C. Augus
tus Simpson, both of Washington. The home of
the Darlington faraily is at 1610 Twentieth Street
N. W.
Presley Jefferson Boylston. With the ancestral
occupation of planting in the BlackviUe District,
Presley Jefferson Boylston has been identified for
half a century or 'more and with the management
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citizen responds, and the pleasures of home and
family he has led a life of comparative calm and
tranquillity as corapared with the strenuous inci;
dents of the four years when he wore the uniform
of a Confederate soldier.
Mr. Boylston was a comrade at arms with his
brother, George William Boylston of Blackville, and
he has many interesting memories of the events of
the war. He was born August 20, 1840, near
the Edisto River, seven miles from Blackville, son
of Austin and Mary (Reed) Boylston. The very
patriotic record of his ancestry is set down in the
sketch of his brother. He attended school in what
is now Barnwell County and left school to enlist
with his brother. When the first company faUed
to make its quota, he and his brother joined Com
pany B of the Second Regiment, Heavy Artillery,
under Capt. (afterwards colonel) Tom Lamar, who
was succeeded as captain by Captain Reed, who
later was kUled at the side of the Boylston brothers.
Presley Jefferson Boylston celebrated his twentieth
birthday in carap. He drilled for two months at
Camp Butler and his first exposure to enemy's
fire was at Secessionville.
He has the historic distinction of having fired
the first cannon in that fight. His company suffered
heavy losses, including many killed and wounded.
Presley Boylston carried what was known as the
"friction punch." He says the grapeshot and can
ister used in the Civil war kept the gunners hus
tling all the time, and long-range shooting was often
guesswork. In this first fight, while the enemy
were advancing rapidly and could not be stopped,
he kept on firing at the "blue cloud," though as
fast as gaps were made the ranks closed up and
at last there remained of his company only one sol
dier and Captain Reed, who soon afterward fell
mortally wounded. Just at that critical moment re-
enforcement arrived and checked the apparently
irresistible advance of the enemy.
For a week prior to this attack, says Mr. Boyls
ton, the officers had been making the men sleep
on their arms, and every morning had given a false
alarm to afford them actual experience. The morn
ing of the first fight, about 4 o'clock, when it was
dark and cloudy, Mr. Boylston awakened his brother
George and said the enemy was coming. . Several
of their pickets were surprised and captured, and
not a sound was made in the advance until within
a hundred yards of the Confederate works, when
the boys in gray turned their fire upon them, grape,
canister and musketry, and after that the battle was
general and continuous for hours. The front on
which the attack was made was only 200 yards
wide with swamp on each side. Six cannon were
mounted on the walls and soon all but one gun of
the yankees were disabled.
The Confederates had on the peninsula at Seces
sionville and in the immediate defense of the works
five regiments, comprising about 3,000 men. It was
headquarters of the advance forces on James Island.
This fight is known in history as the battle of
SecessionvUle. All through the war, after the first
fighting, Mr. Boylston was stationed at that point,
while his brother George was sent to Fort John
son. In the first fight it was thought that Presley
Boylston was kUled, and when he later appeared

such was the joy of meeting that the brothers em
braced each other and George Boylston has always
reported that they kissed each other.
On another occasion when he helped to make his
tory, Mr, Boylston fired the first gun from the
masked batteries upon the enemy vessel Isaac P.
Sraith coraing up the river, and aided in the capture
of the vessel with 500 raen and fine cannon and,
best of all, a supply of provisions. Mr. Boylston,
as he looks back, feels that he was under fire alraost
constantly. Once when he was firing from a trench
he noticed the shots of the eneray closer at hand,
and looking around found he was the only man
left in the trench while the eneray were upon him.
He retreated, and the tin pan in which rations were
served and which was hanging on his back, became
the target upon which the eneray concentrated their
fire. He had a narrow escape then and many tiraes
afterwards. Like his brother George, he was one of the thir
teen men who never surrendered and never took
the oath of allegiance. He made the dangerous
journey horae with his brother and eleven com
rades, all of whom were South Carolinians except
five Georgians.
After the daily perils of a soldier's life Mr.
Boylston had to face the tremendous task of as
sisting in rehabilitating a devastated country, gave
what aid he could to the restoration of white rule
in reconstruction tiraes, and otherwise has concen
trated his attention upon his plantation.
December 20, 1868, he married Mrs. Mary (Crum)
Muhler, a daughter of Rev. Lewis Crura and a sister
of his brother George's wife. Their wives were
daughters of a Methodist minister, but Mr. Boylston
for many years has been a Baptist. For nearly
forty-seven years, frora youth to old age, they lived
happily together until the death of Mrs. Boylston
July 19, 1915. To their marriage were born nine
chUdren, and three sons and two daughters still
survive. The daughter, Marie, is unraarried. Mr.
Boylston has nineteen grandchUdren, ten boys and
nine girls. Every one of these grandchildren mar
ried a Boylston, though not related. Mr. Boylston
now lives alone at his beautiful home near Black
ville, though his children and grandchildren are all
near him and around that vUlage. Mr. Boylston is
one of the prominent surviving raerabers of Morrall
Camp of United Confederate Veterans.
William C. Wolfe of Orangeburg has made a
career of genuine distinction. His name stands
high on the roll of successful South Carolina, la-w
yers, and his busy years have also brought him in
touch with raany varied interests, including agri
culture, banking and literature.
He was born at Orangeburg February 2, 1871,
oldest son of Dr. WUliam C. and Julia C. (Rumph)
Wolfe and is of German and Swiss ancestry. His
great-grandfather. Gen. Jacob Rumph, was a Rev
olutionary soldier. His middle narae is Cheva-
lette, and he is related to the Chevalette and Rowe
famUies of the Carolinas. He is a grand-nephew
of Gen. David Flavel Jamison, who was president
of the Secession Convention. He also coraes of a
race of lawyers. One of his ancestors. Judge
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burg after the Revolution, while his maternal grand
father. Col, David Rumph, was a colonel in the
war between the states and a lawyer. Another uncle,
prorainent in the law, was Charles W. Wolfe.
He spent his early Ufe on his father's farra. The
training of the country was beneficial to his deli
cate constitution, though many years of close study
and personal application were necessary to overcome
the handicap of thorough systeraatic raental instruc
tion. He attended a country school, also Sheridan's
High School, and spent a year' at Wofford CoUege,
where, however, he made a brilliant record araong
his classmates. After reaching his majority he con
ducted a farm and stiU owns extensive farrning in
terests and has spent much tirae in directing the
operations of his fields.
He was elected a raeraber of the Legislature, in
1893, that being his chief experience in politics.
While in the Legislature he drafted the resolution
calling for a constitutional convention, and was
active in securing the passage of the Public Cotton
Weighers Act. During that period of his life he
also worked for several daily papers and was one
of the editors of the Cotton Plant. He has kept
up his literary work during the busy years of his
law practice.
He began the study of law at home and without
supervision in 1894, and with such success that he
was readily admitted to practice upon examination
by the Suprerae Court. In a quarter of a century
he has achieved a narae and reputation known far
beyond the boundaries of his horae county. . It is
said that his practice is one of the largest in the
state. He has been conspicuously successful in the
crirainal law, but also handles a large general and
civU practice. Mr. Wolfe has served for several
years as president of the Planters Bank of Orange
burg and is director and attorney for a number of
other banks, and an executive official in a number
of raercantile and raanufacturing enterprises in
Orangeburg. Mr. Wolfe raarried Miss Alma Sawyer in 1893
and to her he credits much of his success in life.
They were the parents of ten chUdren. Mr. Wolfe
is a Methodist.
Walter Hazard of Georgetown has practiced
law thirty-eight years, has been an editor, public
speaker, public official and is one of the state's ablest
citizens. Mr. Hazard was bom at Georgetown Deceraber 25,
i8':9, son of Benjarain I. and Sarah Freeborn (In-
gell) Hazard. In the paternal line he is descended
frora Due de Charante of Norraandy, who accorapa
nied Williara the. Conqueror to England. The faraily
name in England was variously spelled as Hassard,
Hasard, Hassart, Hazard. Three brothers settled in
this country during the seventeenth century, two in
Rhode Island and one in the South. Walter Hazard
is a descendant of the Rhode Island branch, which
has included a nuraber of prorainent men and
women. One kinsraan was Oliver Hazard Perry,
the great naval hero of the War of 1812. Another
relative of the faraily was Senator Matthew C.
Butler of South Carolina. Another was Rowland
Hazard, the celebrated woolen raanufacturer, who
founded the raills at Peacedale, Rhode Island. Na

thaniel P. Willis of Pennsylvania, the distinguishedi
critic, was a collateral kinsman.
Benjarain I. Hazard, father of the Georgetown-
lawyer, was bom at Newport, Rhode Island, but
located at Georgetown, South Carolina, in 1849, and
almost until the time of his death in 1898 was a-
successful merchant in the city. He had 'an excep
tional degree of business sagacity, and his wonder
ful energy brought him a notable station among-.
South Carolina's successful business men. His wife,
Sarah Ingell, was born at Taunton, Massachusetts,
and she is remembered for her evenness of dis
position, kindness of heart, and the benevolences she-
bestowed on all those about her. Her father, Capt.
Jonathan Ingell, died of wounds received in the
battle of Weldon Railroad in North Carolina during-
the Civil war.
Walter Hazard grew up at Georgetown, was lib
erally educated, graduating in the classical course
frora Princeton College in 1877, prepared for his
profession in a lawyer's office at Georgetown, was
adraitted to the bar in 1881, and frora that date to
the present, except one year while recuperating his
health frora overwork, has practiced continuously
at Georgetown. In 1882 he founded the Georgetown
Enquirer, a weekly paper, and was its editor until
i88g, when he sold it to the proprietor of the George
town Times. In addition to an extensive general
practice he has represented the Bank of George
town as attorney since 1883. At one tirae he was
a private in the old Georgetown Rifle Guards, a-
corapany which as Company A, Tenth South Caro
lina Regiraent, distinguished itself in the Confeder
ate Array. Mr. Hazard was elected and served as
a member of the South Carolina House of Repre
sentatives from 1882 to 1884, 1888 to 1890, and was
senator frora 1892 until 1893, when he resigned on
account of ill health. For some six or eight years
frora 1885 to i8g3 he was a raember of the Board'
of Trustees of the Winyah Indigo School District,
being secretary of the Board, and was president of
the famous Winyah Indigo Society, an educational'
institution, in 1892-93, and again since 1913 to date.
Mr. Hazard is a lawyer whose studies and inter
ests have brought hira a wide range of knowledge,.
including an acquaintance with general and classi
cal literature. He has been a student of civU and'
political developraent, has done a great deal of polit
ical work and until a few years ago was a raember
of the County and State Conventions as a delegate
and worker. His name has several times been
raentioned for Judge of the Circuit Court and for
Congress, but he has never been a candidate. He
is an ardent supporter of President WUson and his
policies, including the League of Nations covenant,
and is a stanch adrairer of the character and states
manship of the President, whom he regards as the
saving genius who has guided America through the
period of war and industrial unrest wherein a
President less sympathetic and less democratic would
have precipitated a coraplete crisis.
Mr. Hazard was chosen as the orator of the day
at South Carolina Day at the Jamestown Exposi
tion on June 27, 1907, delivering the address at tht
auditorium. He was, until it ceased to exist, a.
member of the Palmetto Club, a social organization
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President Cleveland upon his visit to South Caro
lina during the last year of his term. Mr. Hazard
is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
was four times elected deputy to the General Con
vention, and for many years a delegate to the dio
cesan councils.
October 17, 1882, at Georgetown, Mr. Hazard
married Jessie Minnie Tamplet. On November 25,
1897, he married her sister, Florence Adele Tam
plet, who died August 31, 1920. Both wives are
descendants of a Huguenot family that settled in
lower South Carolina in the early history of the
state. Mr. Hazard has had four chUdren. Both
sons died in infancy. Walter Rowland, born in 1884,
and Walter, born in 1900. The two daughters, both
unmarried, are Paula Elizabeth and Minnie Tamplet
Hazard. Capt. William Y. Stevens is a representative of
one of the old and honored families of Charleston
County, South Carolina, and, like other members
of the family, he has been long and prominently
identified with nayigation interests. He is now vice-
president of the Stevens Line Company, engaged in
a general passenger, freight and towing business
throughout the coast-island waters of South Caro
lina, with residence at Rockville and business head
quarters at Yonges Island in Charleston County.
Of the iraportance and operations of this corapany
more specific data may be found on other pages, in
the sketch of the career of Capt. Joseph S. Stevens,
an elder brother of him whose name introdi^ces
this review.
Capt. WUliam Yates Stevens was born at Legare-
ville, Johns Island, Charleston County, on the gth
of August, 1871, and is a son of Daniel Augustus
Stevens and Agnes Isabel (Yates) Stevens, the
former of whom was born on Johns Island and the
latter in the City of Charleston, she being a daugh
ter of Rev. WiUiam B. Yates, who gave many years
of devoted service as a sea chaplain and who raain
tained his home at Charleston untU his death, the
lineage of the Yates faraily tracing back to Welsh
origin. Daniel Augustus Stevens was reared and educated
in the maritirae district of Charleston, and was one
of the gallant young southern sons who went, forth
in defense of the Confederacy when the Civil war
was precipitated on the nation. He served with the
rank of first lieutenant in a South Carolina regi
ment, and after the close of the war, in 1865, re
turned to his native island. Later he resided for a
time in the City of Charleston, and he and his wife
passed the closing years of their lives on Edisto
Island. He was a son of Dr. WiUiam Stevens, who
for many years was established in the practice of
medicine on Johns Island. Doctor Stevens was a
son and namesake of Dr. William Stevens, Sr.,
who served as a surgeon with the patriot forces in
the War of the Revolution and who was captured
by the British. He was taken to England, where
for nine months he was held a prisoner in the his
toric Tower of London. After his release he re
turned to South Carolina, where he passed the re
mainder of his life.
Daniel Augustus Stevens died about the year
190S, and his widow still maintains her home on

Edisto Island. Of their six chUdren one died in
early childhood ; Captain Joseph S., eldest of the
nuraber, is individually raentioned oil other pages of
this work; Jennie, now deceased, was the wife of
CecU 'Wescott, of Edisto Island; WiUiam Y. is the
immediate subject of this sketch; Daniel Augustus,
Jr., is a resident of White Point, South, Carolina,
and Mary Gertrude is the wife of William Bailey,
of Edisto Island.
To the schools of Edisto Island WUliam Yates
Stevens is indebted for his early education, and he
was only fifteen years old when he initiated his
service in connection with navigation interests. He
worked on various boats sailing from South Caro
lina ports, later was connected with navigation on
the Great Lakes, but for the past twenty years he
has been associated with his elder brother, Capt.
Joseph S. Stevens, in successful and independent
enterprise incidental to navigation interests about
Charleston, where he is now vice-president of the
Stevens Line Corapany. The Stevens Line operates
three stearaboats of modern type and also two
motor boats. One of their steamers operates in -
connection with the Atlantic Coast Line RaUroad,
and a substantial and prosperous passenger and
freighting business is controlled by the corporation.
The company is at the present tirae giving attention
to the development and iraprovement of Folly Beach,
which is destined to be one of the most attractive
resorts in the raetropolitan district of Charleston.
Captain Stevens is a popular and appreciative
raember of the Sea Island Yacht Club, of which he
is serving as comraodore at the tirae of this writing,
in 1920. He holds merabership in the PUots' Asso
ciation of Charleston — Palmetto Harbor No. 74,
and is affiliated with the Jacksonboro Lodge of
Free and Accepted Masons. He is well known in
the maritirae and business circles of Charleston
and in a generic sense it may consistently be said
that his circle of friends is coincident with that of
his acquaintances.
August 9, 1899, recorded the marriage of Captain
Stevens to Miss Virginia W. Bailey, daughter of
Constantine and Mary (LaRoche) Bailey, and . ot
this union have been born five children: William
"5^ates, Jr., and Daniel Augustus, twins ; Mary La-
Roche, Constantine Bailey and Virginia. William
Yates, Jr., died in chUdhood. Daniel Augustus is
taking a course in engineering at the North Caro
lina State CoUege in West Raleigh. Miss Mary
LaRoche Stevens was graduated in Confederate
CoUege at Charleston as a meraber of the class of
1920. The attractive family home at Rockville is a
center of generous and gracious hospitality.
Richard M. Pollitzer, M. D., is a Charleston
physician whose work and attainraents have brought
him favorable prominence as a specialist in chil
dren's diseases, a field to which his practice is now
limited. He was born in Charleston October 15, 1883, son
of Gustav M. and Clara (Guinzburg) PoUitzer. His
father was a native of New York City and his
mother of Baltiraore. Gustav M. Pollitzer, who
died in igog, was the son of a well known early day
citizen of Beaufort, South Carolina. His own par
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was influential and public spirited, and for many
years served as coraraissioner of the City Hospital
and meraber of the board of health and was a
school coraraissioner. In business he was a cotton
merchant. The mother of Doctor Pollitzer, Clara
Guinzburg, is a graduate of the Normal College, of
New York City and a daughter of Aaron Guinz
burg, rabbi and scholar, who was elected to the
chair of Seraitic ' languages in Harvard University.
Both the paternal and raaternal sides of Doctor
PoUitzer's faraily have furnished a number of well
known professors, editors and musicians to the pro
fessions. One that raay be raentioned here is his
paternal uncle. Dr. Sigraund PoUitzer of New. York
City, who has a national and international distinc
tion as a dermatologist.
Richard M. PoUitzer's mother and three sisters
are stiU living. His sister, Anita L. Pollitzer, is
nationally known for her prominence in the woman
suffrage moveraent, and by profession as an artist,
being one of the faculty of the University of Vir
ginia. Carrie T., who is a kindergarten teacher of
• ability, having had wide experience and post grad
uate instruction at several universities. Another
sister, Mabel, is a graduate of Columbia University
and teacher of biology at the Memrainger High and
Norraal School of Charleston.
Doctor Pollitzer attended the grararaar and high
school of Charleston and the College of Charleston,
and in igo8 graduated frora the Medical College of
the State of South Carolina. He served as interne
at the Roper Hospital one year, took a suraraer
course at Colurabia University in New York, and
for several years gave from a month to six weeks'
attendance at the Post Graduate Medical School of
New York and the Graduate School of Medicine
at Harvard University. He was a resident of Bos
ton for a year and a half during 1916-17, and while
there graduated frora the Children's Hospital and
served as interne in the contagious department of
the Boston City Hospital for four raonths.
Doctor Pollitzer has been in active practice about
ten years, and since 1917 has liraited his work ex
clusively 'to the care and the treatraent of the dis
eases of infants and chUdren. He was elected in
June, 1920, professor of the diseases of chUdren in
the Medical College of the State of South Carolina
and is pediatrician to the Roper Hospital and visiting
physician to the King's Daughters Nursery. He is
also vice president of the South Carolina Tubercu
losis Association, vice president of the Associated
Charities of Charleston, is a raember of the County
and State. Medical Societies and the American Medi
cal Association. He is a member of the Alumni of
the Children's Hospital of Boston. Doctor Pollitzer
has done what he could to advance the efficiency of
his profession and has contributed a nuraber of
scientific papers, chiefly on diseases of children, to
the transactions and programs of the State Medical
Association and the Southern Medical Association.
Doctor Pollitzer is a raeraber of the Charleston
Social Workers Club, of the Medico-Chirurgical
Club, the South Carolina Society, and is a raeraber
of the National Econoraic League and the South
Carolina Land Developraent Association. These in
dicate in sorae measure the breadth of his interests.
He has always endeavored to keep in touch with

important national and international problems, and
though his opinions are formed largely through
what he reads and hears, yet he tries to think inde
pendently and act upon his own convictions. Nor
mally he is a deraocrat in political affiliations.
Deceraber 30, 1919, at Foreston, South Carolina,
Doctor Pollitzer raarried Miss Cora L. Sprott. Her
father, W. T. P. Sprott, has served as a member of
the State Legislature and is a farmer and stock
raiser in the Foreston coraraunity. Mrs. Pollitzer
is descended through her raother from Tiege Cantey,
who settled in Charleston in 1672.
William Mathews Lawton. While for many
years he has been a resident of New York City, en
gaged in a successful publishing business, William
Mathews Lawton was the first meraber of the Law-
ton faraily in perhaps two hundred years to leave
perraanently old Christ Church Parish in Charleston,
where the Lawtons have been known and influential
people for many generations.
Mr. Lawton himself was born at Mount Pleasant
in Christ Church Parish in Charleston County in
i860, son of Winborn and Anne (Maybank) Law-
ton. Both the Lawton and Maybank families origi
nated in Cheshire, England, and the American an
cestors of both came to Charleston about 1650.
Williara M. Lawton is in the seventh generation of
the Lawton faraily of Charleston. His father was
a prorainent and wealthy cotton raerchant of
Charleston, and besides the home place at Mount
Pleasant owned and operated before the war a large
plantation, worked by slave labor, in Beaufort
County. The horae on this plantation, the crops and
everything of value, were burned, destroyed or stolen
by Sherman's raiders. Just before the advance of
this invading army the family refugeed to Green
ville in upper Carolina.
William Mathews Lawton has only fragmentary
recollections of the experiences of the family in war
times. Not long afterward his parents sent him
abroad to England to get his education. On the
Mersey River he enlisted for training in the English
Merchant Marine on board the Conway, a training
ship of the English navy. He attained the rank of
midshipman in the merchant marine. In 1877 he
was awarded the Dufferin prize, a very fine sextant,
"for proficiency in practical seamanship." This
award was raade rauch to the surprise, and no doubt
the envy of the English boys, who were not accus
toraed to seeing such honors bestowed upon an
Araerican. Mr. Lawton has always retained and
cherished the sextant. During the war with Ger
raany, there being a great scarcity of navigation and
other instruments, he loaned it to the United States
Navy and after doing full service it was. retumed to
hira. Mr. Lawton had an interesting experience and
much travel during the several years he was with
the British Merchant Marine. On leaving the sea
he located at Baltimore, engaging in the dry goods
business and has been a resident of New York since
1883- Mr. Lawton is a member of the firm Clifford
& Lavvton, publishers of a number of leading trade
""^A^f ^i"J'' ""'^^ ^^"^^^ ^t 373 Fourth Avenue.
.At ditierent times he has renewed his associations
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Southerner. She was Miss Mary Creecy of Elizabeth
City, North Carolina, descended from one of the
original French Huguenot settlers of Roanoke. Island.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawton have two chUdren, Winborn
and Mary Lawton Walker.
James William Thomson, whose career has been
one of exceptional dignity and important service, has
for over twenty years been professor of education
and ethics in the Winthrop Normal and Industrial
College at Rock HUl. He was educated for the law,
a profession which his talents would undoubtedly
have adorned, but found a higher incentive, though
less remunerative one, in the field of education.
Mr. Thomson was born at Abbeville, South Caro
lina, July 28, 1863. His father, Thomas Thomson,
was born in Scotland, was brought to America about
1820, and lived in Abbeville District of South Caro
lina. He studied law, practiced in the Abbeville
District, was a member of the State Legislature for
more than twenty-five years, and was in the conven
tion adopting the Ordinance of Secession. Soon
afterward he entered the army, rose to the rank of
colonel in the Confederate service, and after the war
resumed practice and in 1877 was elected Circuit
Judge of the Eighth Circuit. The wife of Judge
Thomson was Margaret Gomilion.
James William Thomson was educated in private
schools in Abbeville, graduated with the A. B. degree
from Erskine College in 1881, and in 1919 was
awarded the honorary LL. D. degree by that institu
tion. He studied law in the office of Maj. Armi
stead Burt, and was qualified for practice in 1884.
His legal career was of brief duration. Being asked
as an accoraraodation to coach a few young students
preparing for college, he becarae so fascinated with
the work that he turned to teaching as a regular
employraent. For six years he conducted the Abbe
ville High School and for another six years was
superintendent of the Rock Hill city schools.
It was his special ability as an educator and or
ganizer that led, to his selection by Winthrop College,
the State College for Women, as professor of edu
cation and ethics. That post he has held continu
ously since 1898. Doctor Thomson is widely known
over the state as an authority on actual educational
conditions, and is an expert on state geography and
local history. WhUe he has never been in politics
and has never held an elective office, his career con
stitutes a broad public service. He served in Abbe
ville County and later in York County as a meraber
of the County Board 'of Education. He is an old
line democrat and has been an elder in the Presby
terian Church since i8g4.
December 8, 1885, at AbbevUle Doctor Thomson
married Sarah Amanda Perrin, daughter of James
Wardlaw Perrin and connected with one of the old
est of the up-country families in South Carolina.
The grandfather and three uncles of Mrs. Thomson
were members of the Secession Convention. Mrs.
Thomson is survived by five children : Mary Living
ston, wife of Samuel Reid Spencer; James William;
Emma Cothran, wife of John Lacy McLean ; Ward-
law Perrin who married Elizabeth Alexander ; and
Margaret. Lawrence Legare Hardin, one of the youngest
bank presidents of South Carolina, has neverthe-
Vol. IV— 20

less had a long experience both in banking and man
ufacturing, beginning when he was a smaU boy.
He was born at Batesburg in Lexington County,
South Carolina, AprU 24, 1878, son of Dr. Edward
King and Ida (Clinkscales) Hardin. His father,
a native of Chester County, South Carolina, was for
raany years an active physician.
. Lawrence L. Hardin had a public school educa
tion and at the age of fourteen found eraployraent
in the bank at Batesburg, remaining there three
years and gaining much valuable experience. He
afterward attended Wofford College at Spartan
burg, graduating in 1900. For several years he lived
in North Carolina, was connected with a cotton
manufacturing concern at Gastonia and for three
years was cashier of the Planters Bank at Rocky
Mount, North Carolina. He then resumed cotton
manufacturing at Gastonia, where he was a resident
for another five years.
Returning to his native state in 1912 Mr. Hardin
became cashier of the Bank of Colurabia and since
Septeraber, 1916, has been president and directing
head of this institution. He is also president of the
Perpetual BuUding & Loan Association.
Mr. Hardin is a past president of the Colurabia
Rotary Club, is a raember of the Ridgewood Club,
and is a Chi Phi college fraternity man. He served
as a member of the board of trustees of Colurabia
College and is active in Y. M. C. A. work. He has
also been active as chairraan of the board of
stewards of the Washington Street Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, and superintendent. of the
Sunday School.
August 25, 1904, Mr. Hardin raarried Miss Ad-
dria Chreitzberg, daughter of Rev. HiUiard F. and
Mr. and Mrs. Hardin have three children : Lawrence
Legare, Jr., born October 9, igo6; Addria Aston,
Addria (Kirby) Chreitzberg. Her father was a
rainister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
born April ig, igii; and HUliard Francis, born De
ceraber 12, 1917,
Ellison Adger Smyth, a member of the distin
guished Srayth and Adger families of Charleston,
has for many years been a prorainent figure in the
industrial affairs of upper South Carolina, with horae
at GreenviUe. He is one of South Carolina's fore
raost cotton raanufacturers, and has enjoyed a place
of authority in cotton manufacturing circles for
many years.
He was born at Charleston October 26, 1847. His
father was Rev. Thoraas Srayth, D. D., a native of
Belfast, Ireland, who for over forty years was the
honored and, beloved pastor of the Second Presby
terian Church at Charleston. His njother, Margaret
M. Adger, was born in Charleston, where her father,
Jaraes Adger, was long prorainent as a banker and
merchant. Ellison Adger Smyth completed his education in
the South Carolina Military Academy at Charleston
with the class of 1865. In the meantirae in Novera
ber, 1864, a youth of seventeen, he was called to the
colors with the 44th South Carolina Regiment, and
this service as a Home Guard and as a cadet of the
military academy corapleted his raUitary record.
During the carapaign of 1876, when South Carolina
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headed by Governor Wade Harapton, he was captain
of the 'Washington Artillery Rifle Club, at Charles
ton, South Carolina, with the only battery of artillery
in South Carolina, and -was continually on active duty
during those exciting tiraes.
After the war Mr. Srayth engaged in the whole
sale hardware business at Charleston, but in 1881
organized and built the Pelzer Cotton MUls, at Pel
zer, South Carolina. For forty years this has been
one of the largest groups of cotton raills in the state.
Mr. Smyth is president and treasurer of the Pelzer
Manufacturing Corapany, is president of the Belton
Mills, the Bank of Belton, the Belton Savings & Trust
Corapany, the Chicora Bank, and is a director in
sorae thirty other corporations. He is a forraer
president of the Anderson Phosphate and Oil Cora
pany, the Toxaway Mills, the Riverside Manufac
turing Company, the Ninety-Six Cotton Mills, the
Grendel Mills, the GreenvUle News Company, and
is a past president of the Araerican Cotton Manufac
turing Association and the Cotton Manufacturers'
Association of South Carolina.
A distinctive honor was conferred upon hira in
l8g8 when President McKinley appointed hira as the
only deraocrat on the United States Industrial Cora
raission, and he had a part in corapUing the volumi
nous records of that coraraission published by the
United States Governraent. Mr. Smyth has always
affiliated with the democratic party in South Caro
lina, but as a raanufacturer believes in protection for
Araerican industries. He is a raeraber of the Poin
sett Club of Greenville, the Manufacturers' Club of
Charldtte, North Carolina, the New York Club and
India House in New York City. His church horae
is the Fourth Presbyterian Church at Greenville,
February 17, i86g, at Charleston, Mr. Srayth raar
ried Julia GarabrUI, daughter of Launcelot GarabrUl
of Baltimore, where her faraily were long prorainent
in social and financial circles, Mr. and Mrs. Srayth
have five children : Margaret Adger, wife of A. F.
McKissick of GreenviUe; Jaraes Adger who raarried
Mary C. Hutchinson of SummervUle, South Caro
lina; Annie Pierce, wife of Lewis D. Blake of Bel
ton; Sarah Annie who was married to John A.
Hudgens of Pelzer; and Jane Adger, unraarried.
Thomas Franklin McDow, one of the leading
lawyers of the up-country, was born at Liberty Hill,
Kershaw County, South Carolina, Deceraber 27,
1863, On his father's side he was of Scotch descent,
his grandfather, Thomas McDow, having eraigrated
frora Scotland about 1760. His father. Dr. Thoraas
F. McDow, was one of the raost prominent and suc
cessful physicians in the state. His mother, Isabella
Cunninghara, belonged to a wealthy -and cultured
family gf Irish descent, her raaternal grandfather
being the first senator frora Lancaster County. Mr.
McDow's parents were araong the largest land and
slave holders of Lancaster, and were noted for their
hospitality. He was educated at Bingham School at Mebane,
North Carolina, under that distinguished educator.
Col. Robert Bingham, who has reraained his lifelong
friend. After leaving Binghara, he attended the South
Carolina College, now the University of South Caro
lina. He was adraitted to the bar in 1885, and soon

formed a partnership for the practice of his profes
sion with Ernest Moore, now the circuit judge of
the Sixth Circuit. In 1888 he removed to "^ork and
forraed a partnership with Col. W. B. WUson and
'W. B. WUson, Jr., under the firm name of WUson,
'Wilson & McDow. This partnership continued until
1892, when he removed to York. For more than
twenty years he has been on one side or the other
of nearly every important caee tried at the York bar.
Mr. McDow is engaged in general practice and is re
garded as one of the ablest trial lawyers, both in the
civil and criminal side of the court, in the state.
He has twice served as special judge, by appoint
raent of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, and
his service as a special judge was such as to win
the highest commendation and praise.
He has been actively identified with the best in
terests of his town, county and state. He has
served two terms in the Legislature, introduced the
bUI providing for one of the dormitories at Winthrop
College, and was the author of the bill submitting
the issuing of bonds to build the magnificent court
house erected at York.
He has been a lifelong democrat and stands high
in the councils of his party in the state. He was
county chairman of the Conservative Faction in
York County in 1892, and has been prominently
identified with that faction in the state which bitterly
opposed both Tillman and Blease. He has long been
an advocate of woman suffrage, and favored giving
the ballot to the women of South Carolina in both
the County and State Conventions long before the
passage of the Anthony Araendment.
Mr. McDow is chairman of the Board of Trustees
of the York Graded schools, and has given his best
efforts to the promotion of education in York. When
the United States declared war he was appointed
Governraent appeal agent, and was selected as one
of the staff of speakers of the southern division of
the Red Cross, and raade numbers of speeches in
different parts of the state for the Red Cross, the
United War Work, Jewish Relief Work, etc.
In 1893 he was happily married to Miss Mary
Simons Clarkson, of Charlotte, North Carolina. Of
the chUdren born to thera Thoraas F. McDow, Jr.,
died at the age of seven on Noveraber 22, 1908, and
Margaret Clarkson McDow is a student at Agnes
Scott College at Decatur, Georgia, and Clarkson
McDow is at Hastoc School, Spartanburg, South
Carolina. In igi2, when Mr. McDow was a candidate for
the State Senate, the Colurabia State, the leading
daily paper of the State of South Carolina, had this
to say of him :
"A raan of uncoraraon ability, an intense lover of
his State and his people, bold, incorruptible, and
eloquent, a legislator constant in his attention to
duty, not only does York County suffer, but the
whole State is the loser, if he be not returned. In a
total of about 4,300 votes, he apparently only lacks
16 votes of the nomination, and for the good of
South Carolina we hope that a careful count wiU
show that he has in fact been elected."
Mr. McDow is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega
fraternity, a Knight Templar, and an officer in the
Presbyterian Church.

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John S. Wilson. Admitted to the bar in 1880,
John S. Wilson of Manning has given more than
three-fourths of his professional career to public
service and continuously for thirteen years has oc
cupied the bench as judge of the Third Judicial Cir
cuit. He was elected January 23, 1907, over Repre
sentative T. B. Fraser of Sumter.
Judge WUson is of Scotch-Irish stock and both his
great-grandfathers were Revolutionary soldiers. His
grandfather. Col. David Wilson, of WiUiamsburg
County, represented that section of the state for
several years in the State Senate. His maternal
grandfather, Samuel J. Snowden, of Indiantown, was
a cultured and able gentleman. Judge Wilson's
father, Samuel Itley Wilson, a college graduate,
served as a Confederate soldier, leaving his young
wife to answer the call to the front. He died in
1867, leaving his widow, Mrs. Mary J. (Snowden)
Wilson, and five chUdren. The oldest of these chil
dren was John S., then eleven years of age.
John S. Wilson was born October 21, 1856, at
Indiantown on the border line between Georgetown
and Williarasburg counties. His birthplace was in a
coraraunity noted for its ideals of education, culture
and refinement. He acquired his initial schooling
in the Indiantown Academy and also at Manning,
where he lived with a relative. Later he attended
the academy of Rev. Robert Latham, who subse
quently was head of Erskine College. Though pre
pared for college he was obliged to interrupt his
educational progress by returning to the farm. Nat
urally he was one of the honest, wide-awake boys
trained with the "red shirt" clubs in 1876-78, and
helped overthrow the corrupt negro and carpet bag
rule of that period.
After remaining on the farm a year Mr. Wilson
returned to Manning, read law with Joseph F.
Rhame, and was admitted to the bar before the State
Supreme Court in 1880 and began the practice of his
profession at the place named. After forming a
partnership with his preceptor and Col. B. Pressley
Barron and successfully practicing he served as trial
justice at Manning for several years, then resigned
and practiced alone until 1888, when he was elected
solicitor. So successful was his record as a prosecut
ing officer that he was never opposed as a candidate
for that position. He raet some of the best and most
aggressive lawyers in the state and invariably held
thera to their best efforts. A sketch of Judge Wilson
published in The State at the tirae he was elevated
to the bench says : "He has won in many cases
celebrated in the annals of the Court, notable among
which raay be mentioned the Brownfield appeal from
Georgetown, which was an attack before the Supreme
Court of the United States on our jury law, the
plea being made that they violated the constitution
in that they discriminated in effect against negroes
on the juries." This Mr. Wilson won after a raost
dogged fight. In civil work he has had raany notable
cases, representing some of the largest, industries
and most prominent men in Eastern Carolina, and he
has appeared from time to tirae before the Supreme
Court in hard legal battles."
Previous to Judge WUson's election to the circuit
bench he had been in partnership with Charlton Du
Rant and S. Oliver O'Brien at Manning. As a pri
vate practitioner, a solicitor and a judge, he has been

considered both substantial and magnetic, possessing
traits which both inspire confidence and admiration,
His peculiar personal force was shown some years
ago when he was called to his old home in Indian-
town by the murder of an uncle in a store at that
place. The outraged citizens were deterrained to,
lynch the perpetrator of the crime (a negro) but
Mr. WUson stood for law and order. He took the
negro whose hands were red with the blood of his
kinsman and rescued him from the raob, to be tried
according to the laws of South Carolina as "raade
and provided" for such cases.
Judge Wilson raarried early in life Miss Elizabeth
Ingrara, daughter of Dr. John I. Ingram of Claren
don. Six daughters and two sons were born to their

Francis Oliver Bates. The affairs of the Roper
Hospital at Charleston are in the very capable hands
of Francis Oliver Bates, one of the experienced
young business men of the city, who has gained a
knowledge of men and affairs through practical con
tact with them. He was born at Huger, Berkeley
County, South Carolina, November 8, 1886, a son of
William and Carolina A. (Cox) Bates, and grand
son of Williara John Bates, also born in South
Carolina of English descent. Both parents of
Francis O. Bates were born in Berkeley County, and
his mother is of Scotfh descent. He was the third
child of his parents, a twin -brother of his dying in
infancy. Growing up in his native county, he attended its
grammar schools, and then gained the training in
the fundamentals of business life at the Stokes
Business College of Charleston. Following his
graduation from this institution Mr. Bates became
bookkeeper for a sash, door and blind factory, leav
ing it to occupy the sarae position with a wholesale
rice house. He was then raade bookkeeper of Roper
Hospital on April I, 191 1, succeeding to the superin
tendeney on July I, igi2. The hospital is conducted
on business principles, and the efficiency of the serv
ice is largely due to Mr. Bates' excellent raanage
raent and raethods.
In igi5 Mr. Bates was raarried to Mabel L. Lotz,
and they have one daughter, Caroline. Well known
in Masonry, Mr. Bates is a Scotish Rite and Shriner
Mason, and he also belongs to the Woodraen of the
World. The Methodist Episcopal Church South, of
Charleston, holds his raerabership. Both he and Mrs.
Bates are very well known, and are the center of a
delightful congenial social circle.
Moses Hill Mobley. This is a faraily name that
can confidently be spoken as one synonyraous with
the best traditions of South Carolina through a pe
riod of nearly two centuries. As the record in full
is one that raight easily fill a volume by itself, only
the barest mention can be made of sorae of the out
standing characters in the honorable ancestry to
which the present county treasurer of Richland
County is heir.
The Mobley narae and familv in South Carolina
is descended from Sir Edward Moberly, Baronet,
of England. It was introduced to Araerica by Wil
liara Mobley, a native of England. He was. reared
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at the age of eighteen carae to Araerica in corapany
with Williara Penn, the founder of the Quaker Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania. After a brief resi
dence in Pennsylvania he located at Point Tobacco,
Maryland. He married a Quakeress, Phoebe Love-
joy. ' One of the sons of WiUiam Mobley was Edward
Mobley, who carae to South Carolina about 1758
and located in what is the extrerae northern part
of Fairfield County, adjoining the Chester County
line, not far frora the present Town of Blackstock.
He raarried Susarina DeRuel. and among their
twelve children was Samuel Mobley. Sarauel Mo
bley married Mary Wagner, whose father, Hans '
Wagner, had accompanied the Mobleys from Mary
land to South Carolina.
On their plantation the Mobleys built the historic
Mobley Meeting House, which stood for a long
number of years. It was built to serve the needs
of the Episcopal people in that coraraunity, but was
offered for the use of the Friends, Baptists and
other denorainations. It stood on a beautiful erai
nence near the raain Chester Road. An encounter
with the Tories during the Revolution at that point
is known in history as the Battle of Mobley's Meet
ing House. When the Revolutionary war came
on the Mobleys at first took no part, saying frankly
they had no quarrel with the mother country. They
were converted to ardent patriots by the depreda
tions of the Tories under Tarleton and other British
leaders, and frora that tirae there were no raore
ardent defenders of the horae soil than the Mobleys.
Recently an investigation has been raade in the rec
ords of the Historical Coraraission of South Caro
lina, revealing the fact that eleven of the Mobley
narae, including Edward Mobley and his son Sara
uel raentioned above, respectively the great-great
grandfather and great-grandfather of Moses Hill
Mobley, were soldiers for Araerican independence.
Other naraes in that list were Capt. Cleraent Mobley,
Capt. Thomas Mobley, Capt. Eleazer Mobley and
the famous courier John Mobley.
Moses Hill Mobley was born in the Mobley cora
raunity in the extrerae upper part of Fairfield
County in i860, son of Edward P. and Marion R.
(Mobley) Mobley. His grandfather also bore the
narae Edward P. His raother was the daughter of
John Mobley, and thus through both his father and
raother Moses H. Mobley is descended frora the
original Edward Mobley.
Edward P. Mobley, his father, was educated at
Mount Olivet and Mount Zion schools, and during
the war between the states was a faithful soldier
of the Confederacy, serving with Corapany H, Sec
ond South Carolina Cavalry, Butler's Cavalry, in
Harapton's Legion. He was a man of the finest
character, and while there are many erainent naraes
connected with the period of reconstruction days
no one was raore corapletely devoted to the raove
raent for restoration of civil law and popular gov
ernraent than Edward P. Mobley. Late in -life he
raoved to Colurabia and died in that city.
Moses HUl Mobley was reared in the old Mobley
homestead, and lived there until he carae to Co
lumbia in i8g6. He attended the Mount Zion School
and afterward the Bryant and Stratton Business
College. In Septeraber, igi8, he received the regu
lar deraocratic noraination for county treasurer of

Richland County and was elected and began his
official duties on July i, 1919. He is making a
splendid record for thoroughness and efficiency, and
is a most popular figure in public affairs in Co
lumbia and his home county. He is both a Scottish
Rite and a York Rite Mason, a member of Rich
land Lodge, No. 39, Columbia Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, and is a past coraraander of Colurabia
Commandery, No. 2, Knights Teraplar. His faraily
are active raerabers of the Baptist Church.
Mr. Mobley raarried Miss Emma A. McCrory.
They are the parents of six chUdren. James M.
married Miss Carrie Lyles, of Fairfield County.
William M., assistant county treasurer under his
father, married Miss Gussie Lyles, of Fairfield
County. Maj. M. R. Mobley married Miss Annie
Lee MacNeill, of Florence, South Carolina. He
volunteered at the beginning of the war with Ger
many not long after his graduation in medicine from
the Medical CoUege of South Carolina, and is now
in the regular army stationed at Walter Reed Hos
pital in Washington. He served eighteen months in
Europe. The oldest daughter, Nannie Lee, is the
wife of Professor W. B. Compton, a graduate of
Wofford College and a well-known teacher. Mary
H. is the wife of Captain Jesse T. Reese of Co
lumbia. Queenie is the wife of Dr. Frank Cran-
ford of Inverness, Florida, a graduate of Davidson
College, North Carolina, and also of the Charlotte,
North Carolina, Medical College. He volunteered
and served in the Medical Corps of the United
States Army.
Wh^liam McCrorey Mobley. who is a son of
Moses HUl Mobley, to whom special reference is
made on other pages, has performed a coraraendable
share of public service both to the state and his
horae county of Richland.
He was born at Gladdens Grove, Fairfield County,
January 29, 1886, was educated in public schools,
attended Mount Zion College at Winnsboro, and as
a young raan learned telegraphy. He was eraployed
as a telegraph operator several years and was ad
vanced to the responsibilities of train dispatcher
for the Southern Railway at Colurabia.
Mr. Mobley left the raUroad service to become
manager of State Warehouse No. 2 at Columbia,
holding that position under the comraissioners Col
onel J. L. McLaurin and Colonel W. G. Sraith.
Since July i, 1919, he has been assistant county
treasurer of Richland County. Mr. Mobley is one
of the influential young leaders in South Carolina
deraocracy. He is affiliated with Richland Lodge
No, 39, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Col
urabia Chapter No. 5, Royal Arch Masons, Colum
bia Commandery No. 2, Knight Templar, and Omar
Teraple of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston. He is
affiliated with the Baptist Church.
At Columbia November 22, 1905, he raarried Gus
sie Mary Lyles, of Fairfield County. Her people
were one of the first faraUies to settle in Fairfield
County. To their raarriage has been born one son,
Moses Hill Mobley, Jr.
Judge Ernest Gary, the subject of our sketch, was
not only a circuit judge but frequently presided as
an associate justice when a raeraber of the Suprerae
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court en banc, when the circuit judges were called by
the chief justice to the assistance of the Suprerae
Court under the peculiar provisions of the South
Carolina Constitution — hence there are unusual op
portunities for portraying his judicial qualifications.
Judges may be divided into two classes : in one
class are those who adhere to the theory, that it is
the duty of the judge to follow precedent, although
the decisions upon which they rely, may not be
founded upon reason and justice, or even when the
reason for the precedent no longer exists. Judge
Gary cannot be thus classified. Perhaps he himself
could not have used language more accurately ex
pressing his views, as to the qualifications of a judge,
than the words of the distinguished jurist. Col. R. W.
Boyd, in venturing the following suggestions to a
forraer pupil, who had been elected a raember of the
Supreme Court and is now, 1920, its Chief Justice :
"That part of jurisprudence, untouched by the raod
ern statute law, the Court of last resort, is expected
to make and keep pure, wholesome and perfect, and
in complete adaptation to the multiforra changes in
huraan life and its surroundings. Bow with rever
ence to wise precedent, but keep your eyes open to the
discovery of vicious precedent. Know all cases, but
try thera by the eternal principles of right and jus
tice, to which hold fast, as far as perraitted. Con
strue with broad common sense, and, catching the
modern spirit, strive to rid the laws of unnecessary
technicalities. Be broad minded and progressive,
keeping in touch with the advance of huraan thought ;
and never forget that the Court was established by
the people, not for the ingenious working out of
curious results, but to do justice between raan and
man." Although a precedent raay not have been forraally
overruled, it should not be followed when it has
ceased to reflect the customs, traditions, and the
spirit of progress arising out of new conditions.
The great judge is progressively sympathetic with
the public needs, but not submissive to the popular
demands. The law is not an exact but a progressive science ;
its purpose is practical, and not for metaphysical
subleties ; nor will it consent to regard as right and
just, that which every sound heart feels to be wrong.
It has been said that poets and musicians are born ;
so are judges. The heart of the judge should be
sensitive to wrong, and should feel the justice of the
case, while the mind must be trained, to search for
the reasons, that prompt the heart to reach its deci
sion. A judge should possess the elements of a states
man, and should understand the character and habits
of the people who inspired the precedents of the past,
in order to determine their present applicability.
Mansfield and Marshall did not becorae great judicial
magistrates, by devoting their energies exclusively to
the niceties of the law, but by pursuing, also, those
studies that qualified them as statesmen.
Mr. Justice Holmes in Ulustrating this modern
spirit in his book, entitled, "The Common Law,"
says: "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been
experience. The felt necessities of the times, the
prevalent moral and political theories intuitions of
public policy, avowed or unconscious— eVen the preju

dices which Judges share with their fellow-men,
have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism,
in determining the rules by which men should be
governed. The law embodies the story of a nation's
development, through many centuries. * * * In
order to know what it is, we must know what it
has been, and what it tends to becorae. We must
alternately consult history and existing theories of
legislation. * * * The substance of the law at
any given tirae pretty nearly corresponds, so far as
it goes, with what is then understood to be con
venient. * * * The very considerations which
Judges raost rarely mention, and always with an
apology, are the secret root from which the law
draws all the juices of life. I mean, of course, con
siderations of what is expedient for the coraraunity
concerned. Every iraportant principle which is de
veloped by litigation, is, in fact, and at bottora, the
result of raore or less definitely understood views of
public policy,— raost generally, to be sure, under our
practices and traditions, the unconscious result of in
stinctive preferences, and inarticulate convictions,
but none the less traceable to views of public policy
in the last analysis."
Professor Simon Greenleaf thus stated to his law
students, the necessity for a knowledge of the law,
from the personal and historic side: "Judges and
lawyers, like other classes of men, becorae interested
in the absorbing topics of the day, and subjected to
their raagnetic influences ; and sorae passages in the
history of the tiraes, or sorae glimpses of their teraper
and fashion, raay be seen in the most dispassionate
legal judgments. The raanner of the decision, the
reasons on which it is professedly founded, and even
the decision itself, raay receive some coloring and
impress, from the position of the Judges, and their
political principles, their habits of life, their physical
temperament, their intellectual, moral and religious
character. Thus we should hardly be expected to
find any gratuitous presuraption, in favor of inno
cence, or any leanings in raitiori sensu, in the blood
thirsty and infamous, Jeffries ; nor could we while
reading and considering their legal opinions, forget
either the low-breeding of Saunders, the ardent
teraperaraent of Butler, the dissolute habits, ferocity
and profaneness of Thurlow, or the intellectual great
ness and integrity of Hobert, the subliraated piety
and enlightened conscience of Hale, the originality
and genius of Holt, the elegant raanners and varied
learning of Mansfield, or the conservative principles,
the lofty tone of morals and vast comprehension of
Marshall." The facts mentioned in the beautiful tributes to
Judge Gary, by the raerabers of the Supreme Court
and some of the raost distinguished jurists of South
Carolina, during the memorial cereraonies in his
honor, leave no doubt that he possessed all the essen
tial qualifications of a great judge; nor is it sur
prising that one of thera — the Honorable C. J. Ram-
age, his life-long friend, should have uttered these
words :
"As a Circuit Judge, he never had a superior in
our State. The name of Ernest Gary will go down
in our judicial history, written in letters of gold.
He easily ranks with O'Neall, of sainted memory, of
strong raoral purpose and wonderful coramon sense r
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exquisite judicial fibre, of wonderful grasp of all the
detailed complications of a case, both as to law and
fact ; with the magnificent Wallace ; with the wonder
ful Hudson, who had Coke's ability as a lawyer and
Bacon's wisdom and terse conciseness of speech.
"Judge Gary had a power of striking at the heart
and core of a legal difficulty — a knack of dispelling
the fog bank that usually settles over a case, by the
electric power of his genius ; he could in an instant
refer to some decided case exactly in point. He
'could call up spirits from the vasty deep' of the law.
He saw clearly the underlying principles, the ele
mental fires that are at work in the determination of
every difficult case.
"He had a head for the law — an unerring instinct
for the pivotal point in a case, and a sound judgment
in applying his great intellect to the facts.
"'Where ordinary minds could only grope he saw
as by a flash of lightning that shineth frora the east
even unto the west. To these gifts were joined a
passionate love of justice, a courage equal to de
claring the law under all circumstances, and know
ing no master but the law."
When the distinguished J. B. Kershaw, then judge
of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, was being urged to
allow his narae to be placed before the Legislature
for re-election. Judge Gary's friends were desirous
of placing hira in noraination as the successor of
Judge Kershaw, but he stated that he could not enter
the race against Judge Kershaw, and, if elected he
would not accept the office. Afterward Judge Ker
shaw decided that his health would not permit hira
to hold the office for another terra, and Judge Gary
was elected as his successor. The first court he held
was at Camden, the horae of Judge Kershaw. When
Judge Kershaw was about to conclude his judicial
career, and, after appropriate resolutions had been
offered, and touching reraarks raade by the bar, as
to the able raanner in which he had discharged the
duties of his high office, he introduced Judge Gary
to the bar as his friend, and bespoke for hira the
sarae kind and courteous treatraent, that had been
manifested during his term of office.
Judge Gary was one of the strong raen of his
time, not only as a lawyer and judge, but as a great
hearted friend and sterling citizen, whose career
was characterized by the simplicity and perfection of
his life. Indeed, he was a child of Nature ; and as
soon as the coi#t was adjourned, he would fly to the
fields with his dog and gun, or to the streams with his
fishing rod and tackle. He was also fond of social
life, and this caused him to be honored in an un
usual manner, whUe on the bench, by being twice
elected president of the South Carolina Club, which
has an exceedingly interesting history. It was re
garded as a state institution, and its object has been
described as two-fold: (i) To give a brilliant en
tertainment every year, during the holding of the
State Agricultural Fair in order that the ladies and
gentlemen from all parts of the state might have the
opportunity of becoraing acquainted, and (2) To
separate socially, those who were aligned with the
dorainant political party, which was then composed
of aliens, carpet-baggers, a low element of the native
whites, and negroes. No official of the state govern
ment at that tirae was eligible to raerabership, or
could be invited as a guest of the club. It was in

tended that those who ignored the traditions of the
state, should suffer the penalty of social ostracism.
Dancing was, of course, a feature of the yearly meet
ings, but it was rather incidental than the sole object
of the club.
It is a reraarkable fact, that so many judges were
officers of the club. They were as follows : William
T. Gary, circuit judge, first president; Y. J. Pope,
chief justice, president; R. C. Watts, associate justice,
president; W. C. Benet, circuit judge, president;
Ernest Gary, circuit judge, president; Eugene B.
Gary, chief justice, vice president.
Ernest Gary was born at Cokesbury, South Caro
lina, on the 29th of January, 1857. He was the sec
ond child of Dr. F. F. Gary and Mary Caroline
(Blackburn) Gary. His ancestors, both on his
mother's and father's side, took an active part in be
half of American independence, and their conspicu
ous deeds of bravery are commemorated in history
and raarble. Other facts connected with his ancestry,
are set forth in the sketches of Chief Justice Gary
and Judge Frank B. Gary, who are his brothers.
Ernest Gary attended the Cokesbury Conference
School and was trained by Judge W. C. Benet, who
had no superior in the state as an educator. He
studied law with his uncle, William T. Gary, who
was afterwards a circuit judge in the State of Geor
gia. Later he became a partner of another uncle.
Gen. M. W. Gary, at Edgefield — a partnership which
continued untU the death of General Gary in 1881.
He was then associated with Hon. N. G. Evans until
1892. Judge Gary was elected a raeraber of the Legis
lature in 1886; he was re-elected in 1888, and again
in i8go; during the last term he was chairraan of
the judiciary coramittee. In i8g2 he was a presi
dential elector at large, on the democratic ticket. He
was chosen by a large majority, in 1892, a circuit
judge, and was unanimously re-elected in 1897, 1901,
igo5, igog and 1913.
On the 15th of November, 1905, he married Miss
Eliza Rhett, daughter of Col. Jno. T. Rhett of Co
lumbia, South Carolina.
Judge Gary died on the 30th of June, igi4, sur
vived by his mother, his wife, his two brothers and
his only sister, Marie, who was the wife of Mr.
Jaraes M. Eason of Charleston, South Carolina.
With the bench and bar of the last quarter of a
century, his life is a sacred raeraory, and an inspira
tion to the finest ideals of professional and personal
conduct. South Carolina Light, Power & Railways Com
pany. While the public is generally faraUiar with
the many wonders of applied electricity, less is said
and known of the sources of the current and the
many remarkable inventions and iraproveraents by
which it has become possible to bring electricity
into vital touch with everyday doraestic and in
dustrial life. Less than thirty years ago it was
considered an experiment to carry the electric cur
rent more than a few miles beyond the source of
generation. Many of the problems of transmission
have been solved, and in the highland country of
South Carolina can be found some of the most
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A nuraber of these are comprised under the
ownership of the corporation known as the South
Carolina Light, Power & Railways Corapany, which
develop over twelve thousand horse power at the
plant on the Gaston Shoals of Broad River and
distributes it for domestic lighting, industrial power
and transportation purposes to Spartanburg and to
a dozen or more outlying villages, cotton factories
and other raills.
This corporation is the result of a consolidation
of the Spartanburg Railway, Gas & Electric Com
pany and the Electric Manufacturing & Power Com
pany, incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts
in 1912. The Railway Gas & Electric Corapany
dates from 1901, while the Electric Manufacturing
& Power Company was established in 1908. The
present corporation does all the electric light, power,
gas and street railway business of Spartanburg and
supplies electric light and power for manufactur
ing, coraraercial and doraestic and municipal uses
in Gaffney, Cowpens, Blacksburg, Pacolet, Clifton
and Converse, serving many of the great cotton
raills in and near these towns. The corapany owns
the great hydro-electric plant at Gaston Shoals,
where the waters of Broad River are obstructed
by dams, one of which is over seven hundred feet
long, and passing through turbines are made to
develop about twelve thousand horse power. The
company also owns the street railway and gas
plants at Spartanburg, operating over t-wenty railes
of urban and interurban railway, while the gas
plant has the manufacturing capacity of 250,000 cuoic
feet of gas daily. An auxiliary steara plant was
built in Spartanburg in 1913, with a capacity for
generating about five thousand horse power.
The business and work of this corporation is
typical of a new and raodern era in the Piedmont
District of South Carolina, and the prosperity of
half a dozen cities or towns is a direct reflection
of the introduction of this modem source of power,
not to speak of the raany coraforts and conveniences
that accorapany the application of the electric cur
rent to doraestic uses.
The vice president and general raanager of the
Light, Power and RaUways Corapany is one of the
prorainent electric engineers of the country, and
during the past twenty years has probably done
as much as any other individual in behalf of Spartan
burg and the surrounding industrial district. Mr.
F. H. Knox was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
was educated in the University of Pittsburgh as an
electrical and civU engineer, and acquired his prac
tical experience in the plant of the Westinghouse
Company at Pittsburgh, entering the service of
that corporation in 1889. , ^, ,
He carae to South Carolina and located at Charles
ton in 1897 as engineer and assistant manager for
the Charieston Street RaUway Corapany. His home
has been in Spartanburg since 1899. He was man
ager for the Spartanburg Railway, Gas and Electric
Company and since the consolidation of that with
the Electric Manufacturing and Power Company
has been vice president and general manager of the
larger corporation. , • t> •.
Mr Knox is now president of the Columbia Rail
way, Gas and Electric Company and the Parr Shoals

Power Company, Colurabia, South Carolina, having
been elected to this position in January, 1920.
Mrs. Florence Jacobs Bailey. Two faraily naraes
closely identified with the business, religious and
civic affairs of Clinton for a long period of years
have been Jacobs and BaUey. The late Rev. WU
liara P. Jacobs was for forty-three years pastor
of the Presbyterian Church at Clinton.
The record of his Araerican ancestry began with
the arrival of John Chew and wife from England
on the good ship Charitie in 1622. They settled
in Hogg Island, Virginia, living first at Jamestown
and afterwards represented Hogg Island as a Bur
gess from 1623 to 1629 and was Burgess frora York
County from 1634 to 1652. He was born about 1590
and died in 1660, his wife having passed away in
1651. His children representing the second generation
of the family in Araerica were Samuel who mar
ried Anne Ayers, and was born in 1625 and died
in 1677 ; Joseph, who continues the line to the Jacobs
family, Nathaniel, Williara, Benjamin, John, -Caleb,
Sarah and Anne. The son Joseph married Mrs.
Elizabeth Houslap Battie, daughter of Henry Hous-
lap. The third generation was represented by their
son Joseph Chew, Jr., of St. George County, Mary
land. Their son John Chew represented the fourth
generation, and the fifth generation was also repre
sented by John Chew, who lived at Alexandria, Vir-
gina. John Chew raarried September 17, 1777, Mar
garet Reeder or Ready.
Elizabeth Chew, daughter of John and Margaret,
representing the fifth generation, was born June
II, 1778, and in I7gg becarae the wife of Pressly
Jacobs. Their son Ferdinand Jacobs was born Au
gust 10, 1808, and raarried Elizabeth Redbrook.
Rev. William Plumer Jacobs, D. D., LL. D., was
a son of Ferdinand and Elizabeth Jacobs, and was
born March 15, 1842, at Yorkville, South Carolina.
On his graduation frora Charleston College he en
tered the Theological Serainary at Colurabia. He
was one of the few raen in his tirae who under
stood the art of phonography, and his services were
in great demand as a reporter. He had the distinc
tion of reporting the convention in Charleston when
South Carolina seceded frora the Union. However,
his great service was rendered during the raany
years of his pastorate of the Presbyterian Church
at Clinton. He was not only an able rainister and
church builder, but participated actively in every
thing for the advanceraent of his tirae. He founded
the Presbyterian College of South Carolina and also
the Thornwell Orphanage and was president of the
orphanage at the tirae of his death on Septeraber
10, 1917.
Rev. Mr. Jacobs married Mary Jane Dillard,
daughter of Dr. James H. and Margaret Dillard.
Her ancestors on both sides were Scotch-Irish stock,
coming from County Antrim, Ireland. Her grand
father was Maj. James Dillard of the Revolutionary
war. Mrs. Florence Jacobs BaUey represents the ninth
generation frora the original John Chew of Eng
land, and was born AprU 11, 1866. She was reared
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.of the Presbyterian College of South Carolina. She
has always taken a very prominent part in the
affairs of the Presbyterian Church, was for several
terrns president of the Ladies' Aid and Missionary
Society, and in the Daughters of the American Rev
olution has served as regent, secretary and treasurer,
is a meraber of the United Daughters of the Con
federacy and a worker in the Civic League.
Septeraber 12, 1888, Miss Jacobs becarae the wife
of Williara James Bailey of Clinton, son of Mercer
S. and Rosanna Bailey. Mr. Bailey in 1886 founded
the M. S. BaUey & Sons, bankers, the first bank in
Laurens County, and the name has been prorainently
associated with the financial and industrial affairs
of the county for a long period of years. WUliara
J. BaUey is also secretary and treasurer of the
Clinton Cotton Mills.
The only son of Mr. and Mrs. Bailey was Williara
Cyrus BaUey, born August 6, 1889. He was edu
cated in Davidson College of North Carolina and
then entered business with his father, becoming
cashier of M. S. Bailey & Sons, Bankers. He was
only thirty years of age when death called hira on
February 8, 1920. He raarried Marion Fleraing of
Augusta, Georgia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Fleming. Col. Holmes Buck Springs, whose distinguished
record as an officer in the American Expeditionary
Forces in France and Belgium is fresh in the minds
of South Carolinians, was a leading business man
of Georgetown for a nuraber of years, and recently
moved to GreenvUle, South Carolina.
He was born at Bucksville, in Horry County, South '
Carolina, August 14, i87g, son of Albert Adams and
Alice (Buck) Springs. His father carried on an
etxensive business operating tug boats, steamships
and other vessels at his native town of Southport,
North Carolina, and Georgetown, South Carolina.
For a number of years he was also a rice planter
and was at all times vitally interested in all matters
pertaining to his city, county and state. He died at
Georgetown, South Carolina, October 3, igi3.
Colonel Springs' mother, Alice Buck, was born at
Bucksville, South Carolina, December 3, 1854, and
died at her summer horae on Pawley's Island, August
20, i8go. Her brief life was distinguished by the
beauty of her raotherhood and her devotion to church,
to home and to all forras of charity. She was a
descendant of the eighth generation of the Woburn
Buck faraily of Massachusetts. Many libraries con
tain a copy of the Buck genealogy giving the history
of this faraily in its various generations. The original
ancestor, William Buck, was born in England and
came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635. The
father of Alice Buck was Henry Buck, who was
born at Bucksport, Maine, in 1800, and came to
South Carolina in 1838. He was a prominent busi
ness raan and at one tirae represented Horry County
in the State Senate. Though a slave owner, he be
lieved strongly in the integrity of the Union. He
died in 1870.
Colonel Springs was educated in the Winyah High
School at Georgetown, in The Citadel at Charleston,
where he acquired the training that served as the
basis of his military career, and finished his educa
tion at the Spartanburg Business College. From

1898 to 1904, inclusive, he was connected with the
Bank of Georgetown and in igo4 organized the real
estate and insurance firm of Springs & Siau Com
pany, Incorporated. He was actively connected with
that corapany, as its president, until igi8 when he
sold his interests before going to France. In 1913
he organized the Farmers and Merchants Bank, of
Georgetown, of which he is president and director.
He helped to organize four building and loan asso
ciations. He is president and director of the Serial
BuUding and Loan Association, vice president and
director of the Palraetto Building and Loan Associa
tion, president and director of the Winyah Masonic
Temple Association, secretary and director of the City
Extension Realty Company and director of the Caro
lina Grocery Corapany. He is also interested in the
Bank of Georgetown, a director of the Waccamaw
Transportation Company, is interested in the Peoples
National Bank of Charleston and other interests
throughout the state. Colonel Springs served as
secretary and treasurer of the Georgetown Chamber
of Coraraerce for eleven years, and for three years
was its president. He has been secretary and "treas
urer of the Carolina Rivers and Harbors Congress
and is at present a trustee of the University of South
Carolina. Fraternally Colonel Springs is affiliated with
Winyah Lodge No. 40, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, of which he was senior warden for eleven
years ; with Winyah Chapter No. 45, Royal Arch
Masons, of which he was treasurer for nine years;
with Winyah Council No. 24, Royal and Select Ma
sons; South Carolina Commandery No. I, Knights
Teraplar ; Oraar Teraple of the Mystic Shrine ; with
Lodge No, 900 of the Elks. He is also a raember of
the Country Club, Cotillion Club and Prince George
Winyah Church, Protestant Episcopal.
Frora the records on file in the state archives, it
appears that Colonel Springs has been identified with
the state and national railitary organizations con
tinuously, for a total period of twenty years, nine
raonths, twenty-seven days. His service to the state
began July i, 1898, when he enlisted as a private
in the South Carolina organized railitia, serving until
May 31, 1900. From June i, 1900, untU October 3,
1903, he was second lieutenant of Company I, Second
South Carolina Infantry; October 4, ig03, to AprU I,
ig04, first lieutenant Company F, Third Infantry;
April 2, 1904, to Deceraber 12, 1905, first lieutenant
and battalion adjutant. Third Infantry; December
S- ^?°r^'^ '° J""^ ^9, 1909, captain. Company F,
I bird Infantry; June 30, 1909, to February 21, 1910,
raajor. Second Battalion, Third Infantry; February
22 igio, to April 3, 1915, lieutenant-colonel. Third
Infantry; April 4, 1915, to May 6, 1915, lieutenant-
colonel. Second Infantry (the National Guard having
been reorganized) ; May 7, 1915, to August 4, 1917,
colonel. Second Infantry. He coraraanded this regi
raent in the Mexican Border service from August 14
igi6, to March 19, 1917. His service with the Fed
eral Arraies began June 25, 1917, and untU Septeraber
14 ot the same year, he commanded the Second South
Carolina Infantry. From September 14, 1917, to
April 24, 1919, he served as colonel, infantry, assigned
to statt duty, as coraraander of trains, acting division
quartermaster and acting general of the Thirtieth
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to know that by division order he officially held all
three of these staff positions at one time during the
preparation for the Battle of Bellicourt and Nauroy,
France, September 29, 1918, when the division broke
through the Hindenburg Line.
Quotations from two official letters may best
describe Colonel Springs' service in the great war.
The first from Colonel John K. Herr, chief of staff
of the Thirtieth Division: "Since I first joined this
division last June until the present time I have been
intimately associated with you on the staff and fully
conversant with the highly efficient raanner in which
you have performed your duties as commander of
trains, as acting division quartermaster and as acting
G-1 of this division. You have been called upon
to undertake many other duties in this division which
required prompt action and good judgment. You
have at all times delivered the goods. 'Your untiring
energy, cheerful good nature, and pleasing person
ality have been great assets to this division, and you
may feel well satisfied in having performed highly
important duties entailing the supply and feeding of
a fighting division through days of battle and under
most trying circumstances, without a single failure'."
Even more interesting is a letter from Gen. Sarauel
L. Faison, of the Thirtieth Division, written to
Colonel Springs May 7, 1919, at the time of the
demobilization of the division. In one paragraph
General Faison writes : "I take very great pleasure.
Colonel Springs, in recording officially that you have
been on duty with this division in various capacities
during the entire time of its existence and that you
have performed every duty assigned you with credit
to yourself and to the entire satisfaction of your
superior officers. As commander of trains, acting
chief quartermaster, acting G-1, and finally in cora
mand of troops on the United States Naval Trans
port 'Madawaska,' every duty has been approached
by you with cool confidence and executed with
marked success; in fact our successes in France
have been due in no sraall raeasure to your inde
fatigable energy and marked business ability. Your
unfailing courtesy and intelligent industry have been
the keynote of your success and I congratulate you
not only upon the gratifying success attending your
efforts, but also even more are you to be envied for
the deep affection felt by officers and men alike of
the Thirtieth Division who have had the good for
tune to be closely associated with you in your various
activities. I know that I am voicing the opinion of
all who know you."
Colonel Springs was instrumental in the organiza
tion of the "Old Hickory Association, Thirtieth Divi
sion, A. E. F.," at Le Mans, France, and was elected
its first president at the reunion of the division at
Greenville, South Carolina, September 29 and 30,
1919. Colonel Springs in September, 1919, moved to
Greenville. Though one of the most prosperous
cities of the South, Greenville welcomed his coming
as a distinct addition to the civic and business per
sonnel of the coraraunity. One of the Greenville
papers editorially made note of the event in the fol
lowing words : "The coraing of Col. Holraes B.
Springs of Georgetown to this city, where he is to
make his home, is very gratifying news to the people
of Greenville, where Colonel Springs became so well

and favorably known during his stay at Camp Sevier.
It is also but another indication of the appreciation
of this city's future by trained and successful busi
ness men, who have their eyes upon GreenviUe, as
a possible future home. Colonel Springs brings with
him to Greenville a business experience which will
add greatly to the assets of the city in this respect,
and also he brings with hira quite a record of achieve
raent in his old horae town of Georgetown, where he
has always been identified with the financial, busi
ness and coraraercial activities of that delightful
coraraunity." On raoving to Greenville, he became
a meraber of the firra of Parrish, Gower & Springs,
real estate, stocks and bonds.
On October 22, 1919, Colonel Springs raarried Miss
Louise Wilson, of Oaks, Georgetown County, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. David Itly Wilson and a niece
of Judge John S. WUson.
Walker Gill Wylie, M. D. Having rounded
out a period of fifty years of service to the cora
raunity, there is every appropriateness in celebrating
the fame of Dr. 'Walter GUI Wylie during his life
and in fact any time for a score of years past his
associates and friends have lost no opportunity to
show how much he was appreciated.
One of the notable occasions at the University of
South Carolina was an address delivered by Doctor
Wylie on February 23, 1912. In introducing the
speaker a raember of the faculty said: "The Uni
versity boasts a large number of very distinguished
sons. One unfortunate fact in connection with raany
of those distinguished raen is that they have at
tained distinction after leaving the State of South
Carolina. Fortunately the distinguished South Caro
linian who is to address us tonight, while he has
attained his erainence in a larger field, has not con
fined his energies to that field but has done much for
his native State ; and we are proud to honor hira
and to welcorae him back to South Carolina.'' In
the words of another speaker : "Dr. Wylie be
longs to a reraarkable group of raen that saw fit
to leave the South and seek their farae and fortune
in the North; raen like T. Gaillard Thoraas, John
A. Wyeth and our own J. Marion Siras. He really
needs no introduction because the raen and woraen,
the sons and daughters of this State of ours who
have received their health, their life and their hap
piness through the raediura of his skill constitute
a raore enduring monument than granite or marble
and a more eloquent testimonial than could be given
by any words of mine."
The character that Doctor Wylie has exeraplified
in a long professional career was in sorae degree
raolded and influenced by a long line of sturdy Caro
lina ancestors. His great-great-grandfather, a Scotch
Covenanter, settled on Rocky Creek near Great Falls
in Chester County, South Carolina, and with his
two sons, Williara and Jaraes Wylie, fought against
the Tories and British under General Marion dur
ing the Revolutionary war. Doctor Wylie's grand
father and father were both born and reared on
Rocky Creek, and five generations of the faraily
have been familiar with Great Falls and vicinity.
The grandfather, Peter Kelso Wylie, was for forty
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At Chester Walker GUI Wylie was born Sep
tember 2, 1848, son of Alexander Pearson and Juliet
Agnes (GUI) Wylie. For neariy half a century his
father was a leading physician and surgeon of
Chester, and whUe his reputation perhaps never
extended beyond his horae community, his life was
none the less one of great beneficence.
At the age of sixteen Doctor Wylie entered the
Confederate service as a lieutenant and during the
winter of 1864-65 commanded a company of boys
in active service under Hardee and Johnson in front
of Sherman's array as it passed through South
Carolina. In spite of the general dissolution of
resources and institutions as a result of the war
Doctor Wylie raade continued progress in his studies,
and when he graduated frora the State University
in 1868 he had raastered all the scientific subjects
taught including civil engineering. In the same
year he entered the Bellevue Medical College in New
York City, receiving his M, D. degree in 1871. In
the fall of 1870 by competitive exaraination he be
carae surgical interne in Bellevue Hospital, serving
eight raonths, and in 1872 again by corapetitive ex
araination, entered upon a service of eighteen raonths
as surgical interne in the Woraan's Hospital of the
State of New York.
Doctor Wylie went abroad in 1872 to raake a study of
hospital construction and nursing systeras, especially
the system raade faraous by Florence Nightingale.
On his return to this country and on his reports as
a basis the first training school for nurses in the
United States was established in connection with
Bellevue Hospital in 1873.
At that tirae Doctor Wylie also began private practice
in New York, and enjoyed a steadily growing fame
as a skillful and successful operator in abdominal
surgery. Doctor Wylie attributes his success as a
surgeon to his practical mechanical training, applying
the laws of raechanics and physics to his practical
work as a surgeon. He was a constructive pioneer
in raodern surgery, and undoubtedly one of the
world's foremost in his generation.
Doctor Wylie in 1882 was appointed visiting gyne
cologist to Bellevue Hospital, serving twenty-five con
secutive years in that position and after that as con
sulting surgeon. In 1882 he became professor of
gynecology in the New York Polyclinic School of
Medicine for Post-Graduates, and assisted in found
ing that institution. After lecturing on gynecology
and abdorninal surgery for twenty years he retired
with the title of emeritus professor.
One of the tokens of regard from his home state
which Doctor Wylie has always deeply appreciated was
the award made to hira in igio by the University of
South Carolina of the McMaster gold medal, which
was to be given to the alumnus who had done the
most for humanity. In 1876 the Boylston prize of
Harvard University was awarded hira for the best
essay on hospital organization, "Hospitals, their Or
ganization and Construction," published in 1876, a
treatise that set the standard for hospital construc
tion in use raany years. Medical journals and pub
lished proceedings of. medical and scientific organiza
tions have been enriched by articles contributed by
Doctor Wylie for over forty years. A list of many
of his more iraportant articles was published in the
Medical World about ten years ago.

While the great work of his life was centered in
gynecology and abdominal surgery. Doctor Wylie has
devoted his later and more leisurely years to eugenics,
and out of his long study and experience he has done
much to illuminate this comparatively modern science
involving the proper mating of husband and. wife,
the proper bringing into the world of their children,
and the care and upbringing of children. As a youth
under the teaching and guidance of his mother,
Doctor Wylie schooled himself never to deviate from
the moral law, and after a lifetime of rich and varied
experience he is convinced that the moral law is
as fixed a principle of science as is gravitation itself.
While a great surgeon and eminent scientist. Doctor
'Wylie has seldom lost an opportunity to emphasize
the influence of the mother as the fundamental fact
in moulding the character of the child.
In the introduction of Doctor Wylie before the
audience at the University of South Carolina refer
ence was raade to his distinctive contributions to his
native state. Were his name as a surgeon not so
well established and widespread Doctor Wylie would
enjoy no, small degree of erainence as an engineer.
He studied civil engineering, as has been noted, at
South Carolina College. His teacher was Prof.
Joe Le Conte. By subsequent study he becarae
a raaster of civil engineering and matheraatics, and
in later years applied this knowledge to consuraraat-
ing the greatest hydro-electric power projects in the
South, including the power plants and works of the
Southern Power Corapany at various points on the
Catawba River in South and North Carolina. The
enterprises built by Doctor Wylie forraed the nucleus
of the Southern Power Company, of which Mr. J. B.
Duke of New York is now president, succeeding
Doctor Wylie who acted as president of the corpora
tion for several years. Doctor Wylie not only built
these plants but supplied all the money for initial
expenditures. He first becarae interested in hydro-electric power
developraent in the South in 1896, when in associa
tion with his brother. Dr. R. H. 'Wylie, he built the
plant of the Anderson Water, Light & Power Com
pany at Portraan Shoals, ten mUes from Anderson,
supplying water, electric lights and electric power
for industrial purposes to the City of Anderson and
surrounding country.
However, the real beginning of hydro-electric de
velopment of the Carolinas came in 1902 when Doc
tor Wylie began the construction of the plant of the
Catawba Power Company at India Rock on the
Catawba River eight raUes frora Rock Hill. The
works were completed and placed in operation in
1904. Doctor Wylie located this project, fipanced
it with his own and his brother's money, worked out
all the engineering problems and the accomplish
ment has been one that demands the respect and
admiration of electrical engineers everywhere.
His next project was the great hydro-electric plant
at Great Falls, where the conjunction of tbe Catawba
and Fishing Creek forms a fork of land. This is a
historic spot. Here the British Colonel Tarlton in
the Revolution shot down in cold blood the American
soldiers who had been surrendered to him. The
spot has a sentimental interest to Doctor 'Wylie. It
was the home of his ancestors, and he had been
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Great Falls project embraced the building of three
dams, all of which were completed in due time, fur
nishing over a hundred thousand horse-power for the
cotton mUls at Great Falls.
June 13, 1877, Doctor Wylie married Fanny Damon
of Northarapton, Massachusetts. The two daughters
born to their marriage were Juliet A. and LucUla D.,
the latter now deceased. "The three sons, all stUl
living, are Sims GUI, Edward A. GiU and W. GUI
Wylie, Jr.
Robert Hawthorne Wylie, M. D. The achieve
ments of Dr. Robert H. Wylie rank hira as a worthy
associate of his distinguished brother. Dr. W. Gill
Wylie, and both of them, though they spent their
early lives in South Carolina have had their horae
and professional interests in New York for many
years. Robert Hawthorne Wylie was born at Chester
in 1863, son of Dr. Alexander P. Wylie. He ac
quired his early education in Chester Academy and
came to New York when a youth. He afterwards
attended Yale College, graduating in 1883, and
studied medicine in the University of the City of
New York, graduating with the class of 1885. He
has been associated with Bellevue Hospital prac
tically ever since his graduation. For eighteen
raonths he was an interne, was in the dispensary,
then as assistant visiting surgeon and gynecologist,
and later as regular visiting gynecologist. Like his
brother his work is gynecology and diseases of
women. He served several years as professor of
gynecology in the New York Polyclinic and is now
professor emeritus.
Though their professional fame belongs in New
York C^ity, Dr. Robert Wylie has been actively asso
ciated with his brother in financial and developraent
enterprises in their horae state of South Carolina.
Doctor Robert carae to Sputh Carolina and acquired
¦ the site and other properties for the first of the
great hydro-electric power industries in the state,
the Anderson Light and Power Corapany in Ander
son County.
Dr. Robert H. Wylie is a raember of the New
York Acaderay of Medicine, the New York State
and Araerican Medical associations, the American
Gynecological Association, and many other profes
sional and scientific organizations. He is also a
member of the University Club. He raarried Miss
Belle Mulford. Their six chUdren are LucUla A.,
Robert Hawthorne, Jr., Kathryn, Araos Kelso, Belle
and Virginia Winifred.
Benjamin Franklin Perry. Probably the life of
no one man would better repay the careful study of
the impartial historian than that of Benjamin Frank
lin Perry of Greenville, who was Provisional Gover
nor of South Carolina following the CivU war. He
was the outstanding exponent of Union sentiment
in South Carolina untU the ratification of the Or
dinance of Secession. He fought steadfastly and
courageously against overwhelming popular opinion,
and it is for this reason chiefly that his career has a
historical value not found in the men who voiced
the popular clamor of the time, and were thoroughly
conventional in their attitude and leadership.
Benjamin Franklin Perry was born November 20,

180S, in what is now Oconee County, then part of
Pendleton District. He and Comraodore Oliver
Perry were of common ancestry, springing from the
sarae stock. His father was a native of Massachu
setts and fought in the Continental Army during
the Revolution. Governor Perry's mother was a
daughter of John Foster of Virginia who served as
a lieutenant in the regular American Array. The
father of Governor Perry raoved South to Charleston
in 1784 and raet and raarried his wife at GreenvUle,
and subsequently engaged in farraing at Oconee.
B. F. Perry worked on his father's farm, attended
school untU he was sixteen, and then continued his
education at Asheville, North Carolina. In language
he made astonishing progress by his great capacity
for labor and his retentive meraory, and it is said
he learned the Latin grammar in one week. At Ashe
ville and when only sixteen he wrote and published
an article advocating the claims of Mr. Calhoun for
the presidency. Mr. Calhoun at that time was op
posed to state rights.
Greenville was a sraall backwoods village when in
1824 B. F. Perry began the study of law in the office
of Judge Earle. He was the Fourth of July orator
at Greenville at the age of nineteen. Finishing his
law studies under Col. James Gregg of Columbia,
he was admitted to the bar in 1827, and at once
began practice at Greenville in the western circuit.
He first becarae conspicuous in politics in 1832,
appearing as a leader in the fight for the preserva
tion of the Union. This fight he continued to wage
for twenty-eight years, against the overwhelming
sentiment of the state. He becarae the editor of the
Mountaineer, raaking it the recognized organ of the
Union party of the state. Iraraense raajorities of the
people were against hira, led by alraost all the talent,
learning, social and political power, with John C.
Calhoun, the ideal of the state, at their head, pro
mulgating his theories of nullification and finding
almost unanimous endorseraent. He was a delegate
to the Union Convention at Colurabia in 1832, and
represented his county, being elected at the head of
the ticket in the general convention of the people of
the state called in the fall of the sarae year.
In 1834, at the age of twenty-nine, he was the
Union norainee for Congress in his district against
Warren R. Davis, and was defeated by a raajority
of sixty in a total vote of 7,000. The con-
gressraan-elect dying before he could take his
seat. Governor Perry again becarae candidate of his
party against General Thorapson, but was disabled
by an accident early in the canvass. He was elected
to the State Legislature without opposition in 1836.
There he raaintained and was the leading exponent
of the principles he had always held. He opposed
the agitation of the slavery question, and was a warra
and conspicuous advocate of the Louisville and Cin
cinnati Railroad. He was re-elected in 1838, and as
chairraan of the Coraraittee on Clairas becarae noted
for his ceaseless guardianship of the state's interest
and economy in state finance. EspeciaUy did he seek
iraportant reforras calculated to give the people
themselves a broader share in government. All
prisoners were then confined in county jails, the
governor and presidential electors were chosen by
the Legislature, and through this parish system the
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sentation in the Senate. These were sorae of the
objects against which he directed his chief energies
while in the Legislature, again and again accepting
defeat, but always retaining the confidence and sup
port of his constituency.
He was elected to the State Senate in 1844. While
in the Senate he voted alone against the resolution
ordering the expulsion from the state of Mr. Hoar,
who was sent here by the State of Massachusetts.
Governor Perry, spoke energetically against the
resolution and had his solitary vote recorded on the
negative side, declaring that hostUe majorities had
no terrors for hira, while he was conscientiously per
forraing his duty. In another contest for Congress
he was defeated by Governor Orr. Mr. Perry was
chosen by the Legislature an elector at large for
South Carolina to vote for Cass for President. In
those years he proved a powerful influence in behalf
of the successful building of the GreenvUle and
Colurabia Railroad.
In 1850 the secession and disunion feeling rose so
high that it was said South Carolina was practicaUy
a unit in its readiness to break up the government
and forra a new Confederacy. Governor Perry boldly
proclaimed his opposition to secession and disunion
as destructive of liberty and the very institutions. of
the South for the preservation -of which the Union
was to be dissolved. At that time he deterrained to
establish a Union paper at GreenvUle, after every
other paper in the state had gone over to secession.
To personal friends and advisers who sought to dis
suade him he made the raeraorable reply : "I wUI
go on with the paper if it sinks ray fortune and
sacrifices ray life." No one living out of the state
can adequately appreciate the terrific excitement of
the people at this dangerous crisis. The crowning
glory of Governor Perry's life is the more than
Roman courage with which he took this position.
It was a post requiring not merely physical but moral
courage of the highest order. He boldly assuraed
the editorial department of the paper and the difficult
and dangerous path before him he trod with courage,
patriotism, wisdom and high courtesy, such as to win
the respect and admiration of even his opponents.
Again he was elected to the Legislature, he and
two colleagues from Greenville County being the
only Union raen in the body. While in the house
he delivered a great speech in defense of the Union,
and declared that he intended to have the speech
printed and published and handed down as a legacy
to his country and his chUdren — a proraise he faith
fully kept. It was the first check the secession
movement received in this state at that time. He
was a meraber of the State Convention in 1851, and
as meraber of the coraraittee of twenty-one appointed
to prepare business he submitted an able rainority
report dissenting from the resolutions of Judge
Cheves which defended the right of secession but
declined to use it at that time.
Governor Perry was one of the delegates frora
this state in i860 to the famous Charleston Conven
tion of the democratic party. He refused to with
draw with the other delegates frora the state and
voted steadily for R. M. T. Hunter of Virginia as
the candidate of the party for President. The gal
leries hissed hira every tirae he arose to vote, and
when he rose to speak the hissing becarae so loud

and continuous that he could with difficulty proceed.
The chairraan, Mr. Cushing, threatened to clear the
galleries, but the man who had faced and defied
angry multitudes and put his life and property in
jeopardy a score of times was not the one to be
frightened by such demonstrations. "Let them re
main, Mr. Chairman," he said in the deep, strong
tones and deliberate manner always characteristic
of him, "I would like thera to hear what I have to
say." And they did hear him whUe he spoke with
all his power for the unity of the great democratic
party, and declared that on its success depended the
life of the Union. As is well reraerabered, his urg
ing was of no avaU. The party split and nominated
two candidates, and Abraham Lincoln was elected.
"Then in i860 an election was ordered for a con
vention of the people to declare the Union dissolved.
Governor Perry fought secession then, predicted the
war and defeat of the South, and went down flying
his colors to the last and raising his voice for the
Union, Greenville County was carried along in the
rush and at that time Governor Perry, a Union can
didate for the convention, was defeated for the
first tirae in his own county for thirty years. After
the adoption of the secession ordinance he yielded
to the wUI of the majority. "You are all going to
the devil and I will go with you," was his good-
humored announceraent of his purpose. Frora that
time he was unswerving in his loyalty to the con
federacy. Being fifty-six years old he could not
enter active service, but his eldest son was sent to
the front, and Governor Perry supported the Gov
ernment with voice, service and purse. During the
war he served as member of the Legislature, Con
federate commissioner, district attorney and district
judge. He shared with his people in the misfortunes of
the war and stood by them with conspicuous firmness
and boldness in the dark hours after the war.
Without the solicitation of hiraself or his friends he
was chosen by President Johnson the provisional
governor^ of the state. The appointraent was re
ceived with universal satisfaction. His early record
as a Union raan was such as to insure hira the good
will of the North, and he already possessed the fuU
confidence of the people of his own state. He was
well fitted in every way to guide the state, and his
adrainistration of six raonths was in every way
notable. He ignored all party clairas and alliances,
and appointed to fill the offices those persons who
had occupied them at the close of the war, obtained
an order abolishing the military tribunals that had
been trying civil and criminal cases so far as white
people were concerned, and restored the confidence
of the people by refusing to levy or collect taxes,
and using the pardoning power liberally. Under his
governraent the first election after the war was held,
resulting in the choice of the Hon. J. L. Orr. In
the meantirae he had eraployed all his influence with
the Federal adrainistration, particularly with the
President and Secretary Seward, and through them
secured sorae raitigation of the rigors of military
rule. There was also a degree of personal triumph
to Governor Perry when he 'saw the Legislature
while he was provisional governor carry out many
of the reforms he had urged years before, including-
the abolition of the Parish system, the right of

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electing governor and presidential electors by the
people, the establishment of a penitentiary, the
amalgamation of the courts of law and equity and
the complete separation of the state from all' con
nection with banks.
At the expiration of his service as governor, he
returned to GreenvUle, but he continued his active
interest in public affairs, and his efforts to improve
the condition of his state and people. He was elected
to the United States Senate, but, like the other
Southern senators was denied the seat. His faithful
and heroic stand for the Union, made at far greater
sacrifice and against worse odds and more danger
than any man then on the floor of the Senate had
endured, was forgot or disregarded. Men who had
been disunionists whUe he was facing furious mobs
and enduring banishment from honors and alraost
frora friendships, and holding his faith in and love
for the Union solitary in a crowd of angered op
ponents, voted to shut hira out of the Senate charaber
because he refused to desert his people in the
huraUiation and desolation he foresaw coraing on
them. He was a bitter opponent of the reconstruction
measures and wrote and spoke strongly to prove that
the people would be better under an indefinite military
rule than under negro and carpet-bag government —
a conclusion which all the white people had reached
by 1876 when their campaign cry was "Hampton or
a railitary govemor."
He was a delegate to the Philadelphia Convention
of 1867 and in 1868 represented the state in the
National Convention, nominating Seymour and Blair
As if eager to atone for the injustices of the past
and to express their confidence and affection and
their appreciation of the vindication of his wisdora
brought by time and events, the people of his state
continued to heap honors on him. In the Fourth
Congressional District Convention of September,
1872, he was unaniraously nominated for Congress
and he accepted the responsibUity as leader of the
forlorn hope. Imraediately after the election in
which he was defeated he published an address to
the voters urging them to oppose the radical govern
ment and to continue to fight it, denouncing the cor
ruption of the party in power, and not forgetting
to upbraid the white people for the apathy and
tiraidity they were showing. His - last prorainent
public service was in 1876, when at the age of
seventy-one he went as one of the South Carolina
delegation to the St. Louis Convention by which
Tilden and Hendricks were norainated.
In the words of his best biographer, A. B. Wil
liams, soraetirae editor of the GreenvUle News,
"Governor Perry's political career is that most known
and interesting to the public, but through long years
it was a succession of apparent failures. In the
practice of his profession in which he was matched
against single antagonists and not against a legion
of politicians and orators and angry multitudes of
people, he was uniformly successful. He took a
high place at the bar early in life and retained it
to the end, winning honor and money. His practice
was always marked by conscientious devotion to his
cause, careful study and strong, logical handling.
He was always a dignified and courteous lawyer.

giving others all the respect they merited and rigidly
exacting like treatment, conforming his conduct to
the highest standards of professional ethics. He
was employed by General Thompson in 1851 to
assist in the defense of Doctor Gardiner, indicted
in the District of Colurabia for perjury in presenting
false claims against the Mexican Government. It
was a famous case of the time and offered fees then
considered imraense. But Governor Perry, after
spending several weeks investigating the case, became
convinced of Gardiner's guUt and promptly returned
home. When he became convinced that the judiciary
of this state was -corrupt he retired alraost entirely
from active practice and sought the retirement of
his farm 'Sans Souci' near Greenville City where
he lived until his death.
"Governor Perry during his life had raany friends
and raany eneraies. He was not an effusive man and
made little display of his friendships, but they were
valuable and enduring. He was a 'plain, blunt man,'
and when he disliked or distrusted, made no secret
of it. Stubborn in his opinions, he was always will
ing to concede honesty to his opponents, and to give
courtesy while it was appreciated and reciprocated.
His fighting was all done fairly and openly. Of
scrupulous integrity and with unspotted purity of
character, he hated rascality or meanness or any
thing he took for it with an unrelenting hatred, and
was always ready to lead warfare against it. He
did not often win friends ; he commanded thera by
the force of his character and his unswerving loyalty.
"Governor Perry was a raan of pure life, siraple
tastes and temperate habits. The last years of his
life were spent at his place in the country, where
he had built one of the handsomest residences in
the state. There he had one of the most coraplete
libraries in the country, covering the whole range
of literature, and he devoted himself to making new
literary acquaintances and renewing old ones. He
was an eager buyer and reader of new books, and a
prolific writer for the press, although he rarely ap
peared in print during the last years of his life
except when his interest was especiaUy aroused in
sorae raatter of local or general raoraent. At one
tirae he prepared and published in newspapers a
series of historical sketches of this section of the
state, and rerainiscences of the raany distinguished
men he had known and been associated with. Sorae
of these were compiled and printed in book forra
by Dr. Hext M, Perry, preceded by a brief biography
of the Governor, making a volume of much interest.
Governor Perry left- doubtless material for many
other volumes of historical interest, including news
paper files, unpublished sketches and raeraoirs, a
carefuUy kept diary of his life, and many of his
speeches and raore iraportant published articles,"
While not a meraber he was a supporter of the
Christ Episcopal Church, and his conduct conforraed
to the teachings of Christianity in which he was a
sincere and earnest believer. In 1837 at Charleston,
Governor Perry raarried Miss Elizabeth F. McCall,
daughter of Hext McCall and a niece of Robert Y.
Hayne. They had seven children. Mrs. Fanny
Perry Beattie of Surater is a surviving daughter.

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