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*Mrs. H. H. Tift-1906-1937 Mrs. J. C. Parker-Feb. 1937-May 1937 (unexpired term) Mrs. N. Peterson-1937-1939
Mrs. J. J. Clyatt-1939-1941
Mrs. G. O. Wheless-1941-1944
Mrs. J. J. Clyatt-1944-1945
Mrs. W. H. Underwood-1945-1947
Mrs. I. C. Touchstone, Sr .- 1947 --
The club has furnished the following State Federation Officers : Corresponding Secretary-Mrs. G. O. Wheless 1944-1946 State Treasurer-Mrs. G. O. Wheless 1946- Director for Life, Georgia Federation Women's Clubs-Mrs. N. Peterson --* Mrs. H. H. Tift
The club has had a unique history in that it had the same president for thirty-one years. It was due to her wonderful executive ability, and lovely, sweet, Christian character that Mrs. H. H. Tift was able to hold the love and respect of the women so long.
ROTARY CLUB OF TIFTON
The Rotary Club of Tifton received its chapter April 9, 1937. The club began with the following twenty-six charter members: E. P. Bowen, Jr., J. L. Bowen, L. E. Bowen, J. L. Brooks, C. R. Choate, Cecil Clark, J. J. Clyatt, Frank H. Corry, W. Bruce Donaldson, Jr., Geo. P. Donaldson, P. D. Fulwood, James A. Harvey, John G. Herring, E. U. Holder, Joseph Kent, S. B. Lassiter, J. C. McNeese, I. W. Myers, Carl S. Pitt- man, Ralph Puckett, Albert Rowe, R. D. Smith, J. S. Taylor, Wheeler Willis, S. H. Starr, A. E. Danielson.
Officers for the year 1937-38: S. B. Lassiter, president; L. E. Bowen. vice-president; W. Bruce Donaldson, Jr., secretary and treasurer ; Ralph Puckett, sergeant-at-arms.
The club organization was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Macon, Georgia, with the assistance of L. E. Bowen, Sr., of Tifton. This club has the distinction of being the only one ever organized over a telephone. Mr. Bowen selected a list of twenty-six business men, contacted each one by telephone and enlisted them as members. This procedure was conclusive evidence of the reputation of Rotary and of the desirability of membership.
*Deceased.
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The Tifton Club has been always interested in the community and has rendered effective service in all community projects.
At the end of ten years the Tifton Club still has twenty-one active members of the original charter members. Three charter members are dead. I. W. Myers, J. G. Herring, and S. H. Starr; two have moved from Tifton : James Harvey and Cecil Clark.
1937-1938 S. B. Lassiter, President; W. Bruce Donaldson, Jr., Secre- tary and Treasurer.
1938-1939 L. E. Bowen, President; W. Bruce Donaldson, Jr., Secre- tary and Treasurer.
1939-1940 Rev. F. O. Mixon, President ; W. Bruce Donaldson, Jr., Sec- retary and Treasurer.
1940-1941 J. S. Taylor, President; W. Bruce Donaldson, Jr., Secretary and Treasurer
1941-1942 J. L. Bowen, President; W. Bruce Donaldson, Jr., Secretary and Treasurer.
1942-1943 C. C. Perry, President; W. G. Windham, Secretary and Treasurer.
1943-1944 Dr. W. T. Smith, President; Henry D. Collier, Secretary and Treasurer.
1944-1945 Ralph Puckett, President; Henry D. Collier, Secretary and Treasurer.
1945-1946 Geo. P. Donaldson, President; Henry D. Collier, Secretary and Treasurer.
1946-1947 W. Bruce Donaldson, Jr., President; Henry D. Collier, Sec- retary and Treasurer.
1947-1948 Rev. D. M. Sanders, President; Henry D. Collins, Secretary and Treasurer.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE FOUNDING AND HISTORY OF TIFT COUNTY POST NUMBER 21 THE AMERICAN LEGION by Major Steve Mitchell
Tift County, Georgia,' since its creation by Act of the Georgia General Assembly August 17, 1905, has progressively grown, as well as its towns and City of Tifton, and City of Omega, and many civic and welfare groups have largely contributed to its astounding growth, and perhaps no one of them has contributed more to such progressive growth and civic pride than Tift County Post Number 21, and its Legion Auxiliary, since its founding about September 1, 1919.
Immediately after Congressional founding of The American Legion,
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and The Department of Georgia, and at a time when most of the World War I veterans had returned to their homes, as few as fifteen honorably discharged veterans could petition for a charter. Following named vet- erans appeared as charter members, namely: MI. Earl Phillips, Steve F. Mitchell, Roy Thrasher, N. Russell Overstreet, J. Albert Pope, Harry Kulbersh, Robert S. Herring, Benjamin K. Hardison, J. Ferrell Jolley, Reid Corry, Jeff Parker, Dr. Willie H. Hendricks, H. G. Short, J. G. Whigham, C. A. Harrell, Charles Y. Workman, Dr. Wm. T. Smith, Osmont V. Barkuloo, S. T. Kidder, Jr., W. B. Bennet, Ethridge Gay, Gerald N. Herring, Henry C. Overstreet, Francis N. Goggins, Roy E. Lytle, Cornelius R. Ryder, S. F. Overstreet, Jr., M. C. Owen, Alfred J. Goggins and W. L. Royal. The post by its number was the 21st post to be established in Georgia, meeting at Chamber of Commerce rooms, until later establishing its meeting room in Hall Building, which later became Woodman Hall, until its commodious home was erected on Moore high- way, near home of Mr. P. D. Fulwood. Steve F. Mitchell was elected first Commander of the Post and Roy Thrasher, as Adjutant on 9 Sept. 1919, and later upon legal authority the post was properly chartered by order of Tift County Superior Court. Space forbids the naming of the many able Commanders and Adjutants to follow, though it must be men- tioned that it was during the very able leadership of Post Commander M. L. Webb, and his staff that the present Legion Home was erected in 1937.
Only a few months after its founding, the Post felt the need of an Auxiliary, and by no mean efforts has contributed more to its growth and respect, charter members being: Mrs. W. H. Hendricks, Miss Margaret Hendricks, Miss Louise Hendricks, Mrs. W. B. Bennet, Miss Clara Bell Duff, Miss Carrie Fulwood, Mrs. Emerson Mitchell, Mrs. J. C. Har- graves, Mrs. D. D. Dixon, Mrs. W. Roy Lytle, Mrs. A. J. Whitehurst, Mrs. J. C. Algee, Mrs. Robert Herring, Mrs. Wm. T. Smith, Mrs. Harry Kulbersh, Miss Louise Algee, Mrs. John S. Waters, Mrs. G. N. Her- ring, Mrs. J. L. Herring, Miss Billie Hendricks, Mrs. Frank NeSmith, Mrs. Steve F. Mitchell, Mrs. T. A. Mitchell, Mrs. D. D. McCaskill, MIrs. J. P. Short II, Mrs. M. C. Owen, Mrs. Frank Goggins, Mrs. Jack Barkuloo, Mrs. Hattie Gibbs and Miss Leila Hargrett, and the Auxiliary has had a fine record, as proved by one of its members later becoming State President, namely, Mrs. D. D. Dixon, after she had moved to Thomasville. Ga.
Forever faithful to the principles set forth in its preamble,-"For God and Country," etc., the Post and its auxiliary have worked as a team, and its leavening influence has always been felt in any worthy move for the bet- terment of the Veterans position, and certainly for Tift County, and Geor- gia. Its home has become a meeting ground for most every worthy cause, and for recreation for both Youth and Age, and now. as in the words of
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Col. John McCrea in his beautiful poem, "Flanders Field" we are ready to, and have already drawn to our membership, World War Veterans II from Saipan to Remergen, and to them and their Auxiliary we throw the torch of the Four Freedoms.
CHAPTER XX WHO'S WHO IN TIFT COUNTY
There are many Tift County people who deserve a place in the Who's Who of the county, but we could include only a few. The following names were selected by popular vote and two committees of Tifton citizens :
S. J. Akers L. S. Alfriend
G. O. Bailey, Jr. (See Education chapter for sketch )
L. E. Bowen, Sr.
Elias Branch (See Pioneer chapter )
W. P. Bryan
Annie Bell Clark ( See Education chapter )
Ethel Clements
Josie Clyatt (Mrs. Jim Clyatt)
Nathan Coarsey Peggy Herring Coleman
George P. Donaldson
Judge R. Eve (See Pioneer chapter )
Paul Dearing Fulwood Sr. (See Agriculture chapter )
Ruth Vickers Fulwood (MIrs. P. D. Fulwood, Sr.) (See Agriculture chapter )
Mrs. J. J. Golden Leola Judson Greene (See Pioneer chapter )
Mrs. W. S. Harman
Dr. W. H. Hendricks (See Pioneer chapter) Joseph Kent George Harris King Harry Kulbresh Arthur Moore (See Small-Town chapter )
Susie T. Moore (See Pioneer chapter )
R. C. Patrick (Sketch unavailable)
Mrs. John A. Peterson, Sr. Mrs. Nicholas Peterson (See Education chapter )
T. E. Phillips, Sr. ( See Pioneer chapter ) Dr. Franklin Pickett Mrs. J. W. Poole D. C. Rainey
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Mrs. W. T. Smith
Mrs. Dan Sutton (See Education chapter )
John Y. Sutton
Amos Tift (See Pioneer chapter )
E. L. Webb
Ida Belle Williams (See Education chapter )
J. L. Williams ( See chapter Wire Grass Journalism).
LINTON STEPHENS ALFRIEND, JR.
Linton Stephens Alfriend, Jr., son of Linton Stephens and Nancy Gil- bert Alfriend, was born on March 2, 1881, in Albany, Georgia. He at- tended school in Albany and in 1889 during vacation began work with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. In 1901 he came to Tifton to work with the railroad ; later he worked in other places, but returned to Tifton in 1911 as freight agent, in which capacity he has served efficiently and faith- fully. When offered a promotion to Jacksonville, he said, "I'd rather be a policeman in Tifton than mayor of Jacksonville."
He is a member of the Tifton Baptist Church, has served on Board of Directors of Atlantic Coast Line Y.M.C.A. fifteen years, on Board of Directors of Tifton Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Tif- ton Rotary Club.
He married Josephine Meara. Their children are Rosalie (Mrs. R. B. Bevan) and Nannette (Mrs. R. L. Hargrett). His second wife was Mabel Day Meara.
During the flood of 1925 when transportation was difficult, Alfriend rendered valuable service by borrowing extra locomotives from Waycross and by putting nineteen hundred sacks of rock on the Alapaha River bridge.
He is a direct descendant of Pocahontas. His ancestor, Dr. Shadrach Alfriend, married Elizabeth Woodlief, seventh in line from Pocahontas.
SAMUEL JASPER AKERS
Samuel Jasper Akers was born in Carroll County, Georgia, on February 24, 1886. His father and his grandfather were Baptist preachers and he was ordained to the full work of the ministry in February of 1920 by the Terrell Missionary Baptist Church. During the past twenty-seven years he has served as pastor of thirteen Baptist churches in Georgia and Florida.
On April 21, 1907, he married Miss Dora Elizabeth Bradley of Bre- men, Georgia. They have five children, four sons and one daughter.
For fifteen years he taught school, mostly in Turner County, Georgia. He moved to Tift County in 1931, and he has been serving as pastor of
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the Eldorado Baptist Church since 1929. He is at present engaged in full- time pastoral work. He is also editor of the Baptist Anchor, a paper devot- ed to the interests of Baptist churches in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.
LENNON ELIAS BOWEN
Lennon Elias Bowen, Sr., son of Enoch and Elizabeth Turner Bowen, was born and reared in Tifton. Young Bowen graduated from the Tifton High School in 1907, and received his A.B. degree from Mercer Univer- sity in 1912. For several years he was his father's associate in the automobile business.
Mr. Bowen was Tift County representative in Georgia Legislature in 1919-1922. He was a member of the Tifton City Council and later of the city commission, 1916-1920. He was president of the Rotary Club and of the Chamber of Commerce. During his service of fifteen years on the Tifton Board of Education Mr. Bowen fostered the progress of the schools.
He is president of the Bank of Tifton, secretary-treasurer and general manager of Tifton Cotton Mills, president of Georgia Baptist Founda- tion, president of Baptist Men's Bible Class, president of Boy Scouts of America, and a member of the Tifton Recreation Board. He is a Mason, Knight Templar, a Shriner, and a member of the Tifton Baptist Church.
He married Margaret Austin Bailey. They have two sons, Calhoun and Lennon, Jr.
WILLIAM PERDUE BRYAN
William Perdue Bryan, son of William Robert and Salina Sanders Bryan, was born in Pike County, Alabama on August 3, 1892. William Perdue attended schools in Pike before coming with his parents in 1909 to Tift County ; here he studied at the A. and M. School.
When twenty-one, Mr. Bryan went to Calhoun County, Georgia, as manager of some farms. In 1915 he married Elizabeth Mansfield. Their children are Grace and William. Mr. Bryan returned to Tift County in 1918 and settled on Fair View Farm. In 1928 he was one of the youngest persons in the United States to receive the honor of being selected Master Farmer. The University of Georgia presented him a certificate of merit; the Progressive Farmer, a medal.
He is a member of and elder in the Presbyterian Church.
In 1934 Mr. Bryan was appointed supervisor for the Farm Security Administration project in Irwin County, later changed to Farmers' Home Administration. He is the only person in the United States to supervise one of these projects continuously until completion. Mr. Bryan is still
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with this project, one of the biggest of its kind in Georgia, and his work has high government rating.
Mr. Bryan helped to organize the Sowega Melon Growers at Adel and Irwinville Cooperative Association.
ETHEL CLEMENTS
Ethel Clements, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Clements, was born ยท on a farm at Brighton, Tift County, July 25, 1911. When three months old she had polio, which seemed to leave her a hopeless cripple. Finally, however, she learned to walk on her knees and for thirty-five years could not change her mode of walking.
Her family taught her for a while at home and she attended Harding School as many days as possible until she finished grammar school. With a brilliant mind, however, she educated herself beyond the seventh grade. Her versatility is attested by her drawing, painting, cooking, understand- ing poety, and reading in public. She organized a class in speech and read at secular and religious meetings.
Ethel has believed always in being self-supporting. At one time she owned a herd of cows. She stood on her knees, spaded the ground, and planted flowers to sell. For the past few years she has earned money by designing and making a distinctive type of doll, which she has sold in all parts of the country. These dolls attracted the attention of the counselor of Vocation Rehabilitation to her. He arranged for her to see an ortho- pedic surgeon and enter a hospital. After an operation she now can walk with the help of braces and a cane.
Her indomitable courage has directed her progress despite handicaps. From every standpoint Ethel is an excellent citizen.
MIRS. JOSEPH JAMES CLYATT
Mrs. Joseph James Clyatt (Miss Josie Golden) daughter of Joseph Jackson Golden and Mary McLeod Golden, was born October 1, 1898. Josie Golden married Joseph James Clyatt, June 30, 1925. They have one daughter, Betty Jean Clyatt.
Miss Golden graduated at the Tifton High School and received her B.M. in organ and piano at Shorter College in 1919. She had special work in organ at Institute of Applied Music and Wurlitzer Organ Company, New York City.
Mrs. Clyatt was president of Georgia Federation of Music Clubs 1930- 1934; honorary first vice-president and director for life, Georgia Federa-
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tion of Music Clubs; director of National Federation of Music Clubs, 1933-1937; trustee Shorter College, 1939-1941 ; president of Shorter Col- lege Alumnae Association; president of Tifton Music Club, 1937-1939 ; president Twentieth Century Library Club, 1939-1941 and 1944-1945 ; state chairman of music, Georgia Federation of Women's clubs, 1940- 1942, second vice-president, Second District Federation of Women's Clubs.
Her biography is in "Who's Who in the South and Southwest" and "American Women."
She was sponsor for the Junior Woman's Club 1940-1942 and will be sponsor through 1947.
Mrs. Clyatt has been organist for years at the Tifton Baptist Church, where she is a member.
NATHAN COARSEY
Nathan Coarsey, son of W. H. Coarsey and Ardelia M. Turner Coar- sey, was born on June 13, 1888, one mile from Brookfield and lived in this town all his life. Mr. Nathan Coarsey married the first time Mary Vicey Cox; their three children are N. L. Jr., Jack and Wiley, all now of Brookfield. Their daughter, Myrtle, died in 1915.
In 1919 Mr. Coarsey married Nora Lee Partin, of Berrien County : their children are Raleigh, Grace, Audrey, Austin, Dorothy, Mrs. J. T. Tyson, and Mrs. Marvin Goodman ; the last two are from Brookfield.
Mr. Coarsey served as member of the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue for Tift County from 1923 to 1943. He was elected chair- man of the county commissioners in August 1927, and served until 1943, with the exception of two years. During these years of his service Mr. Coar- sey established a good record. According to the Tifton Gazette, he was noted for the standard of roads, bridges, public works of the county, and the many improvements to county property. During his administration the County Hospital was erected, and the Tifton airbase and the Tift County curb market established.
PEGGY HERRING COLEMAN
Peggy Herring Coleman, daughter of Editor John Lewis Herring and Martha Susan Greene Herring, was born in Tifton, Georgia, April 30, 1910. She was third honor graduate in class of 1927 at Tifton High School. Peggy won Second District ready writers medal and Lincoln Me- morial national essay medal. She graduated from the business department of Georgia State College for Men in Tifton. Peggy was president of the N.L.N., a high school club, for three years.
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In 1927 she began work with the Tifton Gazette. She is associate editor, sports editor, feature editor, roving reporter, and columnist for "Romain' Round" for the Gazette. Peggy is a member of American Legion Auxiliary, Woman's Club, Charter member of Pilot Club, and a member of First Methodist Church. She was state publicity director of Georgia Department American Auxiliary, publicity director of American Red Cross, reporter for Lions and Kiwanis Clubs, district air-raid warden for Civilian Defense during the late war and secretary-treasurer of Tift County Farm Bureau for four years.
Peggy is correspondent for United Press Association, Associated Press, Atlanta Constitution, and the Macon Telegraph. She has written spark- ling feature stories for these papers and for the Atlanta Journal Magazine.
On October 31, 1936 Peggy married Amiel Walsey Coleman.
GEORGE PETER DONALDSON
George Peter Donaldson, son of Leona Mercer and Robert Franklin Donaldson, was born on October 21, 1893 in Statesboro, Georgia. He graduated from Statesboro High School, Gordon Military College, the University of Georgia with a B.S. degree in 1916, and from Ohio State University with a M.S. degree in 1933.
In 1918 he married Holly Twitty, of Pelham, Georgia. They have two sons, Major George B. Donaldson, Jr., veteran of Pacific campaign of World War II, and William Twitty, veteran of United States Navy of World War II.
While in Statesboro, Mr. Donaldson was a member of the Cowart- Donaldson firm, deacon in the Baptist Church, secretary-treasurer, and president of the Chamber of Commerce. He served two terms as repre- sentative from Bulloch County in the Georgia Legislature.
A veteran teacher, Donaldson has taught in several Georgia high schools, at the Georgia Military College, South Georgia Teachers' College, and Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.
Since his first connection with Abraham Baldwin College in 1933 Donaldson has fostered the interest of 4-H clubs, Future Farmers of America and Future Home Makers of America. He is probably the only person in the United States whom all three groups have honored with life membership.
He is a member of the Tifton Baptist Church, Tift County Chamber of Commerce, and member and former president of Tifton Rotary Club.
For several years Mr. Donaldson has been dean at Abraham Baldwin, but this year he accepted the position of president.
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MRS. JOSEPH JACKSON GOLDEN
Mrs. Joseph Jackson Golden (Mary McLeod), daughter of Daniel Washington Golden and Katherine Parker McLeod, was born in North Carolina, but in early childhood moved to Sumner, Georgia. On January 1, 1896, Mary McLeod moved to Tifton, and on August II, 1897 mar- ried Joseph Jackson Golden. They have one daughter, Josie Golden Clyatt.
Mrs. Golden was chairman of the fine arts committee of Twentieth Century Library Club from 1916 to 1947, director of choir of Tifton First Baptist Church from 1920 to 1946, president of the Music Club . from 1921 to 1922. She is a charter member of the Tifton Music Club and a member of the Tifton Baptist Church.
HARRIET GOODMAN HARMAN
Harriet Goodman Harman, musician and church woman, daughter of Dr. Charles Goodman and Henrietta Ann Goodman, was born in Somer- ton, Nansemond County, Virginia, February 5, 1875. The Goodmans moved in 1890 to Tifton. After her public school work, Miss Goodman entered Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia, where she studied piano, voice, and literary subjects. After leaving Wesleyan, she taught music in the Tifton schools.
In 1901 she married George S. Evans. To this union was born a daugh- ter, Harriet Goodman Evans. After Mr. Evans' death Mrs. Evans re- turned to Tifton, and in 1908 married Willard Inther Harman. To this marriage was born three sons, Charles, Eugene, and Allen. The first two are dead.
Mrs. Harman since childhood has served her church, the Methodist. She has been assistant director of and soloist in the choir, organist and teacher in Sunday School, and president of Missionary society.
Mrs. Harman has held offices in the Twentieth Century Library Club, of which she is a charter member. She is a member of the Tifton Music Club, the U.D.C., the W.C.T.U., and the Tifton Wesleyan Club.
JOSEPH KENT, SR.
Joseph Kent, Sr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kent, was born March 3, 1881, at Staffordshire, England.
At the age of thirteen months he, with his parents, sailed for America and later landed in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, where he spent his boy- hood.
When fourteen years old Kent came with his parents to a farm three
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miles from Tifton. Four years later he and his father began the warehouse business. Afterwards this father and son operated a furniture store for twenty-five years.
After retiring from the furniture business, Mr Kent successfully de- voted much of his time to civic affairs in Tifton. He was president of the Board of Trade for two consecutive years and postmaster from 1929 to 1935. While postmaster he sold shares and formed the Tifton Building and Loan Association. It later changed to the Tifton Federal Savings and Loan Association, of which Kent is secretary and treasurer. He helped organize and became president of the Farmer's Bank of Tifton.
Mr. Joseph Kent, Sr., married Ellsberry White Dana. They have five children : Alice Elizabeth Kent Hodges, Joseph Kent, Jr., Edward Dana Kent, Ellsberry White Kent, and Doris Mae Kent Blanton.
Probably his greatest contribution to his country was his untiring efforts and accomplishments as chairman of the Bond Drive in Tift County and in the entire Second District.
GEORGE HARRIS KING
George Harris King, son of William Peter King and Mary Harris King, was born on November 14, 1900, in West Plains, Missouri. He graduated from Griffin High School in 1916, received his B.S.A. at the University of Georgia in 1924 and his M.S. at the University of Georgia in 1932, and did graduate work at Cornell University in 1932-1933.
Mr. King taught in Marion County at Brantley School, in the agricul- ture department in Barrow County, was master-teacher of vocational agriculture in 1929, and was teacher trainer in College of Agriculture, Uni- versity of Georgia. He was professor of farm management and dean of instruction at Abraham Baldwin College in 1933-1934 and president of Baldwin College in 1934-1947. He retired in 1947 to devote all his time to the Georgia Coastal Experiment Station, where he has been director since 1942.
In 1923 Mr. King married Marguerite Benson; they have two daugh- ters, Betty E. and Margaret. Dorothy died several years ago.
Mr. King is a member of the Lions Club, Masons, and Tifton Meth- odist Church.
HARRY KULBERSH
Harry Kulbersh was born in Poland in 1889. When a young, inexperi- enced lad of sixteen years, he traveled to the United States to make his
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home. In September, 1908 Mr. Kulbersh left Atlanta to live in Tifton and to start his present dry goods business on a "shoe-string."
Mr. Kulbersh is definitely a self-made man: his educational advantages were few, and his struggle for success, long and difficult.
During World War I "Mr. Harry," as the most of Tift Countians call him, served in the United States Army. After returning from overseas, he married in 1920 Irene Jolton of New York City. Both Kulbersh and his wife have contributed to everythnig that would better Tift County.
Mr. Kulbersh is charitable; during his life in Tifton he has never re- fused financial or other material donations to a social, civic, or religious cause. His interest in all affairs of Tifton is vital. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Masons, the Fitzgerald Hebrew Congrega- tion, and a charter member of the American Legion.
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