Memoirs of Georgia; containing historical accounts of the state's civil, military, industrial and professional interests, and personal sketches of many of its people. Vol. I, Part 108

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Publication date: 1859
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga., The Southern historicl association
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GEORGE AUGUSTUS CABANISS. In the western limits of Forsyth, the county seat of Monroe county, Ga., stands an old ante-bellum house of the better class, erected in 1842 by Judge Elbridge Guerry Cabaniss. This old build-

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ing, considered a very fine one fifty years ago, is still a comfortable dwelling, and, as it properly should be, is yet in the Cabaniss family, being owned and occupied by the Hon. Thomas B. Cabaniss, ex-representative of the Sixth district in con- gress. It is surrounded by a magnificent grove of ancient oaks, ten acres in extent, which may well be considered historic ground, for many of the most memorable debates ever heard in Georgia occurred in the shade of these old trees. Here, in 1848, Walter T. Colquitt and Herschell V. Johnson, champions of democ- racy, and Robert Toombs and Alexander Stephens, upholding the standard of the whigs, moved the assembled hosts by their eloquence; and here, in later days, the matchless tongues of B. H. Hill, John B. Gordon and others thrilled the lis- tening crowds. Within one hundred yards of where the old Cabaniss homestead now stands was born on Dec. 12, 1832, Mr. George Augustus Cabaniss, the sub- ject of this short sketch. He was brought up and educated in Monroe county, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1855, and practiced in Monroe county until April, 1861, when as first lieutenant Quitman guards, Company K, First Georgia regiment, he enlisted and served twelve months. He was in the famous retreat from Laurel Hill, in which Gen. Garnett was killed. On the expiration of his twelve months' term he was assigned to post duty with the rank of first lieu- tenant in the enrolling service. On Dec. 16, 1856, five years before the civil war began, Mr. G. A. Cabaniss married Miss Juliet Mckay, of Monroe county, a lady who must have been very beautiful in her younger days, judging from her appearance now; and certainly her refined manner and kindly disposition have endeared her to all so fortunate as to be numbered among her friends. This happy union has been blessed with three children: Edward H., a prominent and rising lawyer of Birmingham, Ala .; Daniel M., cashier of a large national building and loan association; and Miss Juliet, a very bright and attractive young lady, now at the Lucy Cobb institute, Athens, Ga. After the war, Mr. Cabaniss returned to Forsyth, and engaged first in mercantile, then in the cotton warehouse business. He remained in Forsyth until 1885, when he was appointed to the revenue service, with headquarters in Macon, Ga., where he remained until 1889. In the fall of 1889, Mr. Cabaniss removed with his family to Atlanta, Ga., and was immediately thereafter appointed acting secretary of a national building and loan association, "The Southern Home," just then organized. Not long after the organization of the foregoing institution, Mr. Cabaniss was elected a director in the same; and subsequently its general manager, which highly responsible position he still occu- pies. By his close attention to business, and conscientious discharge of the weighty duties devolving upon him, Mr. Cabaniss has contributed very much to the wonderful growth and extraordinary success of this association, which now has assets amounting to over $1,250,000, and local branches throughout the southern states. In 1882, Mr. Cabaniss was appointed trustee of the state lunatic asylum by Gov. Colquitt, and has been one of the trustees ever since, except two years, when pressing engagements prevented him serving. He is now president of the board and has been since 1889. Mr. Cabaniss is a Knight Templar Mason, and a prominent member of the Baptist church. Mr. Cabaniss is a large man, not only in body, but also in the possession of the greater and nobler qualities of heart and soul, which go to make up the full stature of a man. Of hasty temper, quick to resent an injury, he is equally ready to forgive and forget a wrong, or to make the "amende honorable" when convinced that he has done injustice to another. Generous to a fault, no one in distress ever appealed to him for sympathy or aid in vain. Mr. Cabaniss loves his family, his friends, and good living, which he has always had. Genuine, unstinted southern hospitality is always found at his home, a handsome new house at Copenhill, one of the prettiest suburbs of I-47

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Atlanta; and here may a kind Providence bless him with health, happiness and many years.

JUDGE WILLIAM LOWNDES CALHOUN was born in Decatur, Ga., Nov. 21, 1837, where he lived until fifteen years of age, attending school and then came to Atlanta in company with his parents. Here he continued his studies and completed his primary education. At the age of sixteen years he entered the law office of his father, and after three years' application was admitted to the bar. He immediately formed a partnership with his father, which lasted until the death of the latter in 1875. Judge Calhoun practiced alone from 1875 to January, 1881. In March, 1862, he took up arms in defense of the south, enlisting in Company K, Forty-second Georgia volunteers, and received the appointment of first lieuten- ant, but was soon after advanced to the captaincy when the regiment was perma- nently organized. He held this rank throughout the four years' conflict. His bravery in battle was unquestioned and rewarded by substantial recognition since the "days of '65." 'He was at Cumberland Gap; in the struggles around Vicks- burg, lasting for six months, and forty-seven days in the trenches there; at Baker's creek and the bridge across Big Black river; in the skirmishes on the memorable retreat from Dalton to Resaca, including heavy onsets, in which Judge Calhoun commanded four companies, and the battle of Rocky Face, and at Resaca, where he fought two days continuously and was severely wounded. When the surrender occurred he was en route to Greensboro, N. C., having partially recovered, and with the intention of rejoining his command. As soon as his injuries permitted a long journey, he returned to Atlanta, and resumed the prac- tice of law. In 1872 he was elected to represent Fulton county in the state legisla- ture, and served during the sessions of 1873-74, and 1875-76, being re-elected after the expiration of the first term. In the first session he was appointed on the following committees: General judiciary, corporations and finance; in the second he retained the former appointments. In 1878 he was elected mayor of Atlanta, serving two years. When he went into office there existed a floating debt of $600,000, on which a high rate of interest was being paid. He funded this at 6 per cent. during his administration, and also improved the sanitary and street paving systems. From 1889 until 1894 he was president of the Confederate Veter - ans' association of Fulton county. When elected the membership numbered only twelve or fifteen, but when he retired it has increased to 700, and greater interest was manifested in the organization. Judge Calhoun is a master Mason, an Odd Fellow, and was made lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth Georgia battalion in 1890, resigning after a service of three years. In September, 1857, he was united in marriage to Mary J. Oliver, a native of South Carolina. To this union have been given six children: James M., of Ennis, Tex .; Emma C., wife of S. N. Connally, of Atlanta; Mamie Lowndes; William Dabney; Lowndes, an attorney of Atlanta; and Nettie A. One of his brothers, James T., served throughout the war as a private in his command. His father was James M. Calhoun, a native of Calhoun settlement, Abbeville district, S. C., who moved to Georgia about 1835, locating in Decatur, where he read law and was admitted to the bar. In 1852 he came to Atlanta, resumed practice, and died in 1875. In the Creek war of 1836 he com- manded a cavalry company, and subsequently served in both branches of the legis- lature, and was mayor of Atlanta in 1862-3-4 and 5. Judge Calhoun's mother was Emma Eliza Dabney, daughter of Anderson W. Dabney, a native of Virginia, and a resident of Georgia. They were blessed with six children. Judge Calhoun was elected ordinary of Fulton county in 1881, and has been re-elected, without oppo- sition, ever since. We might say his career is without a flaw. He is highly respected as a citizen, a lawyer and an honorable gentleman.

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MILTON A. CANDLER. One of the leading members of the Georgia bar, and a man who has frequently been honored by the people of the state is Hon. Milton A. Candler. Mr. Candler is a native of Campbell county, where he was born Jan. II, 1837, but his boyhood days were spent in the neighboring county of Carroll. Here the subject of this sketch received his primary educa- tion, and remained until reaching the years of mature manhood. In 1852 he became a student at Franklin college, now the state university, graduating with the degree of A. B., in 1854. Being an excellent debater and fond of intellectual employment, having received a great stimulus from his literary course at the university, and especially his debating society, the young student resolved to enter the legal profession. Accordingly, soon after graduation, he began the study of law in the office of Warren Aikin, at Cassville, Ga. He was subsequently admitted to the bar in Pickens county in 1856, launching out into the practice of law at Cassville. In 1857 he located at Decatur, Ga., a small-town about six miles from Atlanta, on the Georgia railroad. Here he remained in the peaceable en- joyment of a large and lucrative practice until the spring of 1863, when the martial spirit prevailed over the demands of his profession and he entered the Confederate army as captain of Company A, Tenth Georgia state guard. He remained in the service until the spring of 1864. Mr. Candler, by reason of his strong inherent love of politics, has frequently been forced into the political forum, and numerous honors, in the gift of the democratic party, have rewarded his aspira- tions. During the years of 1861-62-63 he occupied a seat in the state legislature at Milledgeville. He was also a member of the convention that met at the state capital in the fall of 1865. From 1868 to 1872 he occupied a seat in the state senate. Two years later he was elected to the forty-fourth congress as a repre- sentative from the fifth congressional district. He served on several important committees, notably the committee on private land claims and elections. Mr. Cand- ler was recognized as one of the ablest speakers on the floor of congress. In 1876 he was re-elected to the forty-fifth congress, and his record in that body was equally as brilliant and patriotic. Returning home from Washington at the close of his second term, Mr. Candler devoted himself exclusively to the practice of his profession. He had located his office in Atlanta in 1867, though he still continued to reside in Decatur. Many important cases were voluntarily brought to Mr. Candler on his resumption of the active practice, and his reputation as an advocate daily increased with the repeated announcements of his victories in the courts. Mr. Candler has few equals at the Georgia bar to-day, and his eloquence is still as fervid and impassioned as when his boyish face first appeared on the stump in Georgia. In 1893, though not a candidate, Mr. Candler was chosen to represent his home county (De Kalb) in the state legislature. Mr. Candler has never connected himself with any secret organization, but is an in- fluential member, and for several years has been a leading elder in the Decatur Presbyterian church. In 1857 Mr. Candler was married to Miss Eliza C. Mur- phy, the daughter of the late Hon. Charles Murphy, of Decatur, an ante-bellum congressman, and a delegate to the secession convention, who died on the day that body convened. Mr. Candler has five living children: Charles M., who has been a member of the state legislature, and is now connected with the George W. Scott Manufacturing company in Georgia; Samuel C., who now resides in Cali- fornia as special agent of the United States land service; Florence, wife of C. A. Cowles, of Decatur; Claude and Ruth, unmarried. The father of Mr. Candler, who was a native Georgian, served for several terms in the state legislature before and after the war. His name was Samuel C. Candler, and during the greater part of his life he devoted himself to mercantile pursuits and farming. He was

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a man of superior intelligence, who carefully observed the times, and believed in giving his children a good education as far as his means could afford. He was- a man of commanding influence in his community and his death-which occurred in 1873 at the age of sixty-four years-was deeply deplored.

COL. JOHN SLAUGHTER CANDLER, of Atlanta, Ga., ranking colonel of the Georgia state troops, and the solicitor-general of the Stone mountain circuit, was born in Carroll county, Ga., Oct. 22, 1861, being the youngest child of Samuel Charles and Martha B. (Beall) Candler. Hon. Samuel Charles Candler was born in Columbia county, Ga., on Dec. 6, 1809. His father was Daniel Candler, who- married Sarah Slaughter, by whom he was the father of seven children, viz .: William. Love, Elizabeth Anthony, John Kingston, Frances Mary, Samuel Charles, Daniel Gill, and Ezekiel Slaughter. Daniel Candler, paternal grandfather of John Slaughter Candler, was the youngest of William Candler's children. He was only ten years old when his father, William Candler, died. Of the early history of William Candler, family tradition gives but little information. There are, however, scraps of recorded history, scattered here and there, which taken together and interpreted, the one in the light of the others, enable us to arrive with reasonable accuracy at a correct conclusion as to his origin and ancestry. There is now in the possession of the Candler family a manuscript, written sixty years ago in his family Bible by Rev. Ignatius A. Few, D. D., LL. D. (the first president of Emory college, at Oxford, Ga.), which manuscript may be relied on for correctness as far as it goes, for its author, Dr. Few, was born a hundred years ago; lived, in point of time,. near to his grandfather; was a man of profound learning and piety; and came fully up to Cicero's definition of a good historian, "a man too brave to tell a lie and brave enough to tell the truth." The manuscript says: "William Candler was. probably born in Ireland; his parents certainly were. He held the rank of colonel in the American army during the war of the revolution, and died and was buried in Columbia county, Ga., in 1879, four miles east of Mount Carmel." Lyman C. Draper, LL. D., secretary of the State Historical society of Wisconsin, says: "Maj .. William Candler, who, with Capts. Carr and Johnson, commanded the small party of Georgians at the battle of Kings mountain, was born of English parents in Dublin, Ireland, in 1738, and was brought to North Carolina when a mere child .. He married, in 1761, Elizabeth Anthony, and the next year migrated to Georgia. In 1771 he was a deputy surveyor. During the war he served under Col. Clarke, was in the attack on Augusta, at Kings mountain and Blackstocks, and rose to the. rank of colonel He was a member of the legislature in 1784-5; was appointed a judge, and died at his seat in Columbia county, in 1789, at the age of fifty-one- years, leaving several children, his oldest son, Henry, having served in the army with him." These two accounts from sources so far apart in point of time and distance agree substantially as to the main facts. Col. William Candler was, as- Draper says, in the siege of Augusta, and in all the other affairs in upper Georgia, and those in which Sumter was engaged in his campaign in South Carolina, in 1780. With the return of peace and the establishment of the independence of the colonies, the Candlers returned to their devastated homes in Columbia county, on Little river. William Candler and William and Benjamin Few were named in the- act of the royal legislature of Georgia, in 1780, proscribing certain prominent rebels. in that colony who were especially obnoxious to the crown, and disqualifying them from holding office, from sitting on juries, and even from testifying as witnesses in the courts; but this octracism continued for only a short time. The patriots soon recovered possession of the state, and these ostracised rebels, in their turn, passeď laws confiscating the property of those who had mustered under the flag of the-

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enemies of their country, and making the name of tory so odious that to-day, after the lapse of more than a hundred years, is a stench in the nostrils of the great- grandchildren of the heroes of Savannah, Augusta, Kings mountain, Cowpens, and the numerous other less noted fields on which they shed their blood in defense of their homes and firesides. William Candler was a member of the first general assembly of Georgia that met in that state under the constitution after the close of the war of the revolution. Subsequently he became a judge of the highest court then known to the judiciary of that state, and died at his seat in Columbia county, Ga., in 1789. He married, in 1760, Elizabeth Anthony, whose grandfather was a Genoese Italian and her mother a Clark. She was the eldest of a numerous family, and one of her nephews was governor of Kentucky. William Candler and his wife, Elizabeth Anthony, had children: Mary, Henry, Falby, William, Charles, Elizabeth, John Kingston, Amelia, Joseph, Mark Anthony and Daniel. We will now proceed to speak more at length of Daniel, the youngest of the children of William Candler, as he was the progenitor of most of the Candlers who still live in Georgia, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas. He was born in Columbia county, Ga., in 1779. Samuel Slaughter came with his brother, Reuben, from Virginia to Georgia, prior to the war of the revolution, and Daniel Candler was married to his daughter, Sarah Slaughter. Samuel Slaughter was a very successful planter of Baldwin county, Ga., and both he and his brother were ardent patriots and both served in the armies of the colonies during the war of the revolution. Both reared large families, and their descendants are to be found scattered all over the south, especially in Georgia. Daniel Candler died in Columbia county, Ga., in Septem- ber, 1816. Cut off at that period of life before which few men ever accomplisli much, his life was devoid of special incident. He and his wife, Sarah Slaughter, had seven children, viz .: William Love Candler, born in Milledgeville, Ga., Sept. I, 1801. He married Martha Moore in Upson county, Ga., about 1824. He died and was buried in Bienville parish, Louisiana, in 1868. He had eight children. Elizabeth Anthony Candler, born on March 30, 1803. She was twice married, first to Owen H. Myrick, by whom she bore a son, and after his death to Corley, by whom she had five children. She died in Bienville parish, Louisiana, Dec. 20, 1872. All of her children in life reside in Louisiana except the Rev. Daniel G. Myrick, who has been for many years a leading Methodist minister. John King- ston Candler was born in Columbia county, Ga., in 1804. He married Caroline Smith in Baldwin county, Ga., in his twenty-second year. He reared a numerous family, and all, if alive, are thought to be in Louisiana. He is a substantial farmer, unostentatious and unambitious. He still lives in Bienville parish, La., and is ninety-one years old. Frances Emily Candler was born in Columbia county, Ga., in 1806. She was married in her eighteenth year to Wilson Simpson, a native of Tennessee, by whom she was the mother of ten children, some of whom reside in western Texas and others in Louisiana. She died near the Brazos river, in western Texas, about 1856. Hon. Samuel Charles Candler, father of the distinguished gentleman whose name heads this sketch, was born in Columbia county, Ga., on Dec. 6, 1809. At the age of twenty-four he married Martha B. Beall, a daughter of Noble B. Beall, of Cherokee county, Ga., a niece of Gen. William Beall, for a long time prominent in the history of Western Georgia. Samuel Charles Candler represented at different times two different counties in the Georgia legislature; first, Cherokee, in 1835, and afterward, for several terms, Carroll, in which he spent most of his life. He was also, for two terms, a member of the state senate. In his earlier life he was a merchant, and, later, devoted much of his time to politics. He was a member of the convention which met at Charleston, S. C., was an ardent supporter of Douglas, and, together with Absalom H. Chappell, of Muscogee;

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Hiram Warner, of Meriwether, and James L. Seward, of Thomas, was burned in effigy at Macon, Ga., by the supporters of Breckinridge and the other presidential candidates for having refused to withdraw from that convention. He was also very prominent in Masonic circles, and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church south. He served as a soldier in the war with the Seminole Indians in Florida in 1836. He died on Nov. 13, 1873, but his widow is still living and resides in Atlanta. He left eleven children, of whom we shall speak more particularly hereafter. Daniel Gill Candler was born in Columbia county, Ga., Feb. 22, 1812, and married Oct. 8, 1833, to Nancy Caroline Matthews, of western Georgia. He was a lawyer and at one time a judge, served in two Indian wars, in the army of the United States, and was the captain commanding the famous Banks county guards, one of the companies of the Second regiment that left Georgia in the army of the Confederate states. He was thrice elected mayor of Gainesville, Ga., and died in that city Oct. 17, 1887. He left twelve children, the eldest being Hon. Allen Daniel Candler, who was a colonel in the army of the Confederate state, for five years a representative in the Georgia legislature, for two years a senator in the same state, for eight years a member of the United States congress, and is now serving his second term as secretary of state for the state of Georgia. Ezekiel Slaughter Candler, youngest of the children of Col. William Candler and his wife, Sarah Slaughter, was born in Columbia county, Ga., Aug. 5, 1815, married Miss Jane Williams, a native of Tennessee, in Coweta county, Ga., Aug. 19, 1839, and died in Atlanta, Ga., January 12, 1869. He was sheriff of Carroll county, Ga., when a very young man, subsequently represented that county in the Georgia legis- lature, and, in 1851, was elected comptroller-general of Georgia, holding that important office twelve years. He left seven children, who, if in life, reside in Georgia. The foregoing are the lineal descendants of Daniel, the youngest son of Col. William Candler, of the American revolution of 1776 The de- scendants of his brothers are not so numerous. They live in the counties of Columbia, Talbot and Muscogee, in Georgia, and in the state of Alabama; some of them probably live in other states. Having thus traced the history of William Candler, of Richmond county, Ga., and his descendants from his first appearance, in 1771, as a land surveyor under the royal government, we will now proceed to speak more particularly of the descendants of Samuel Charles and Martha B. (Beall) Candler, of whom there were eleven, viz: The Hon. Milton A. Candler, born Jan. II, 1837. He is a lawyer and lives in Decatur, De Kalb Co., Ga .; has represented his county several times in the state house of representatives, his district in two constitutional conventions and once in the state senate, and his district in the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses of the United States. He married Eliza, daughter of the Hon. Charles Murphy, at one time a member of congress from Georgia. They have several children, most of whom are living, and the eldest of whom, the Hon. Charles Murphy Candler, was a member of the legislature of Georgia during the session of 1889-90; Ezekiel S. Candler, a lawyer and Baptist minister, of Mississippi; he married Miss Julia Bevel, of Hamilton county, Fla. They have several children, of whom the eldest, E. S. Candler, Jr., is a prominent lawyer of Iuka, Miss .; Julia Florence, wife of J. Watt Harris, of Cartersville, Bartow Co., Ga .; Noble Daniel, who was much afflicted from youth and died since the death of his father; Sarah Justana, married J. J. Willard, deceased, of De Kalb county, Ga .; she has several children, the eldest of whom. Samuel, is in business in Atlanta, Ga .; William Beall Candler, of Carrollton, Car- roll Co., Ga .; he is a merchant, and married a daughter of Dr. Slaughter, of that county, by whom he has several children; Elizabeth Frances, who married H. H. Dobbs; she has several children; Asa Griggs Candler, a very prominent druggist

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of Atlanta, Ga .; he married Miss Howard, daughter of his former partner in business, by whom he has several children; he is now president of the Georgia Sunday-school association, and is exceedingly prominent in the lay service of the Methodist Episcopal church, south; Samuel Charles Candler, a merchant of Car- rollton, Carroll Co., Ga .; he married a Miss Bevel of the state of Florida; the Rev. Warren Akin Candler, D. D., of Oxford, Ga., of whom a sketch appears elsewhere in these Memoirs; he is. president of Emory college, of which his second cousin, Rev. Ignatius A. Few, LL. D., was the first president more than half a century ago; he was a doctor of divinity at less than thirty years of age, and is probably the youngest man in the service of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, who has ever been prominently mentioned in connection with the highest office in the gift of that denomination, that of a bishop; Col. John Slaughter Candler, whose name heads this article, is the ranking colonel of the Georgia state troops; he resided in Carroll county until thirteen years of age, receiving his earlier education in the rural schools of that county and at Cartersville, Ga., under the tutorage of his sister, Mrs. Florence Harris. November, 1876, he entered the boys' high school, at Atlanta, Ga., and was graduated therefrom in June of the following year; attended Emory college, at Oxford, Ga., for three years and was graduated from that institution, with the degree of bachelor of arts, in 1880. For two years next after his graduation, he taught school in the county of De Kalb, studied law while not engaged in his school duties and was admitted to the practice at Decatur, Ga., but removed soon thereafter to Atlanta, Ga., and has since pursued his profession at that city. In 1883 he was admitted to practice in the state supreme court, and in 1892 he was admitted to the United States supreme court. On Nov. 26, 1887, Mr. Candler was appointed by Gov. John B. Gordon solicitor-general of the Stone Mountain circuit, to fill an unexpired term, and in November, 1888, he was elected by the state legislature to the same position for the full term of four years, and in November, 1892, re-elected, without opposition, by the same body. His recognition by the state's executive dates back, however, to 1882, when he was appointed lieutenant-colonel and aide-de-camp on the staff of Gov. Alexander H. Stephens, holding that rank under Govs. Boynton and McDaniel until the office of judge-advocate general was created by act of the legislature. He was then appointed to that important post by Gov. Henry D. McDaniel, re-appointed to that place by Gov. John B. Gordon, and again held it four years under the administration of Gov. William J. Northen, resigning in 1893 to accept the command of the Fifth regiment of infantry, Georgia Volunteers, of which regiment he is colonel at the present time. In December, 1894, Col. Candler was appointed on the commission organized for the purpose of codifying the military laws of Georgia, and is chairman of that commission. Probably no officer of the state's militia has devoted as much valuable time to the thorough organization and equipment of the militia as has Col. Candler. He has ever been a champion of the establishment of an annual encampment of the state forces, for the two-fold purpose of perfecting those forces in the battalion and regimental drills and for the mutual companionship in arms arising from such annual association. He has frequently appeared before the finance committee of the state legislature in advocacy of an appropriation to defray the expenses of such encampments, and it is to his efforts, probably, that several measures looking to those annual appro- priations have been carried through the legislature. Col. Candler is prominent in politics, being elected a member of the state democratic executive committee from the fifth congressional district in 1884, and upon the assembling of that body, was made secretary of the committee; and is now a member of that committee from the fifth congressional district. He has acted at various times as chairman of

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Memoirs of Georgia; containing historical accounts of the state's civil, military, industrial and professional interests, and personal sketches of many of its people. Vol. I, Part 108

Author: Publication date: 1859 Publisher: Atlanta, Ga., The Southern historicl association Number of Pages: 1294

Author:
Publication date: 1859
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga., The Southern historicl association
Number of Pages: 1294