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 132

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


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by his professional engagements. Mr. Payne was united in marriage in 1885 to Miss Helen F. Hill, the daughter of Mr. W. Rhode Hill, one of the most successful business men of Atlanta. They have three bright and promising children, two girls and one boy: Helen H., Laura H., and John Carroll. The family group is an interesting one and Mr. Payne has much in his home life to make him contented and happy. Mr. Payne is fond of good reading and possesses a con- siderable amount of literary culture, in addition to a wide range of general informa- tion. He keeps himself thoroughly posted on current topics and is a close observer both of men and events. He is a member of several social organizations and has a host of warm personal friends. The inherent manliness and culture of the Virginia gentleman are distinctly portrayed in the character of Mr. Payne. Polite, chivalrous, dignified and obliging, he embodies in his charming manners the knightly traditions of the old dominion. Mr. Payne is a member of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, and is loyal in his adherence to the Catholic faith.


MR. JOHN CALVIN PECK was born at Sharon, Litchfield Co., Conn., Aug. 25, 1830. He passed his early years on a New England farm, attending a common country school two terms (of four months each) during the year. When nine years old his manual services became indispensable, and consequently he could spend only one term, in school, but even with these slight advantages developed into an excellent speller and mathematician. Later he entered the Watertown academy to pursue the higher branches of science and literature, and won the first prize in each class of this college. In the spring of 1850, receiving an offer to go to Catskill, N. Y., as a carpenter, having acquired great proficiency in this occupation, he removed his residence and remained there three years, with remarkable success. May 4, 1853, while still in New York, he married Frances Josephine Hoyt, daughter of Starr Hoyt, of Huron county, Ohio, and imme- diately thereafter removed to Stamford, Conn. He was there employed as foreman and contractor, but having developed an asthmatic trouble, determined to move south. The first town to which he came was Atlanta, then small and almost unknown. But obtaining no work, continued on to Knoxville, Tenn., where no better opportunity offered, so he returned in the spring of 1857 to Connecticut. The asthmatic affliction again became a source of deep annoyance, and in January, 1858, he migrated south a second time, locating in Atlanta. Mr. Peck readily found employment with a Mr. Boutell, rose rapidly in this gentleman's esteem, and was soon placed in a responsible, lucrative position. He directed the con- struction of some of the most important buildings in Atlanta, and displayed a skill that recommended him as the leader of his trade. This has been his home since that year. His wife and two children joined him on April 1, 1858. In 1859 he associated himself with A. H. Brown and Edwin Priest, under the firm name of Brown. Priest & Peck, and erected on Decatur street the second of Atlanta's planing mills. At the end of the year the interest of Brown was purchased by the other partners, and in the summer of 1860 Mr. Priest sold out his share to John T. Bowman. The political condition of the country was unsettled and boisterous. Mr. Bowman volunteered in the Confederate army, and Mr. Peck, at Gov. Brown's request, began the manufacture of pikes to aid the secessionists. Soon after a reward was offered for twenty-five rifles made after a certain mould, of given length and calibre. Having never had any experience of this kind, yet believing that he could accomplish the task satisfactorily, he set to work and in a short time had completed the desired number. But money had depreciated, and the sum offered by the Confederate government would not defray the expense. There- fore he sold them to the Roswell factory. They were afterward captured by Gen.


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Sherman, and two are now in the museum at Washington, and were on exhibi- tion at the Atlanta exposition in 1895. Mr. Peck was employed as superintendent of wood work in the Atlanta arsenal a few months, but finally his health, fail- ing, went to Thomasville, Ga., and from here worked his way through the lines to Minnesota. Recovering strength and vitality he returned to Atlanta in August, 1865. In connection with Mr. Schofield, Mr. Peck rebuilt his planing mill and conducted this until 1873, when it was substituted by a finer and more complete plant, the firm being J. C. Peck & Co. It was sold in 1875 to Wm. Markham. Mr. Peck converted the mill into the present Markham house Nov. 16, 1875. In 1866 he erected the old capitol building, and four years later the old Kimball house, at a cost of $643,000. He was superintendent of construction of the Inter- national Cotton Exposition, and a member of the executive committee. He was an original promoter and stockholder in the Atlanta cotton factory. At the Pied- mont exposition Mr. Peck held the same office, creditably and well, and had the contract for the wood work of the custom house. He was an organizer of the Fulton county spinning mills. In religious belief Mr. Peck is a Unitarian, and belongs to the royal arch Masons. He has had six children, those who survive are: Frank H., of Atlanta, who married Reba G. Pierce; Cora B., the wife of E. M. Williams, and Lily L., wife of A. P. Davis, of Atlanta. Those who died were George S., Charles C., and Arthur J. The latter died in 1886, leaving two children, John C. and Arthur J.


HENRY CABANISS PEEPLES, junior member of the prominent law firm of Harrison & Peeples, was born in Athens, Clarke Co., Ga., the seat of Georgia's university, Oct. 1, 1856, and a few months afterward was taken by his parents to Forsyth, Ga., and at the age of nine years to Griffin, Ga., where he resided until he was fifteen years of age, attending school and imbibing the elementary branches of learning that make the foundation of a successful professional career. He came with his parents to Atlanta in 1871, and in 1873 entered Mercer university at Macon, Ga., and was graduated in two years with the degree of A. B., sharing with Rev. E. A. Keese the first honor in his class. He returned to Atlanta and began reading law with his father, the late illustrious Cincinnatus Peeples, judge of the Atlanta circuit, who died suddenly while at work in his office, in 1877. This sad termination, when in the midst of his labors, was characteristic of his life. His devotion to duty in everything was untiring and earnest to the end. Henry Peeples was admitted to the bar in October, 1876, and went to Forsyth, Ga., and formed a partnership with his uncle, Thomas B. Cabaniss, late member of con- gress from that district. This partnership continued until his father died. He then returned to Atlanta, practiced alone for four years, and later became associated with his present partner, Col. Z. D. Harrison, clerk of the supreme court of Georgia. Mr. Peeples was assistant clerk of the state supreme court from 1881 to 1887, and was at that time appointed to the reportership to fill the unexpired term of J. H. Lumpkin, now judge of the superior court of the Atlanta circuit. He was re-elected by the supreme court in January, 1893, for a succeeding term of six years. Mr. Peeples was married in December, 1885, to Lillie D., daughter of Gen. W. S. Walker, of Atlanta, Ga. They have a happy household of four children, two sons and two daughters. He attends and leans toward the Baptist church, though he is neither a member of the church nor of any secret order, except his college fraternity, the S. A. E. Mr. Peeples' father was born in Edge- field district, South Carolina, in 1816, and when a child came to Georgia with his parents and located in the upper part of Hall county. In 1856 he was elected to the state senate from Clarke county. Ga,, and served one term as mayor of


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.Athens, Ga. His record as a soldier is stainless, and in the battles around Atlanta in July, 1864, he was on the staff of Gen. Gustavus W. Smith. Mr. Peeples' mother was Eliza Cabaniss, daughter of Elbridge Gerry Cabaniss, a native of Virginia, and of French descent. He was an ardent whig before the war, and a strong advocate of Henry Clay. Mr. Peeples' grandfather was a lawyer by profession, and at one time judge of the Flint circuit. Mr. Peeples inherits the principles that led his ancestors into eminence and renown. They were eloquent, kind, and generous. He inherits the virtues that not only promote his business relations, but recommend him as an invaluable friend.


JOHN T. PENDLETON, a practitioner of the Atlanta bar, was born in Hopkins- ville, Christian Co., Ky., March 24, 1845. After his earlier years were past and his mind instructed in the simpler branches of literature and science, he became a student in Bethel college, Russellville, Ky., and there remained until the outbreak of the civil war interrupted his senior year, and the Confederacy summoned him to service. In May, 1861, he enlisted in Company A of the First Kentucky cavalry as a private, and until captured in the battle of Missionary ridge, continued in this station. In the enumerated engagements Mr. Pendleton took active part and established a reputation for valor and prowess: Murfreesboro, Tenn .; Perryville, Ky .; Shiloh, Chickamauga and Missionary ridge. He was with Forrest in the memorable raids, after the battle of Chickamauga, and in West Virginia, including the fight at Trenton. He supported Bragg in 1862, and was with Wheeler bringing up Bragg's retreat in eastern Kentucky after the battle of Perryville. In this campaign he was captured by bushwhackers, but escaped, and by forced marches night and day, reached Knoxville, Tenn. He received but one injury during the war. In the battle of Perryville a canister ball inflicted a painful wound, from which he suffered severely. After his release from prison Mr. Pendleton returned to his home in Hopkinsville, Ky., where he was occupied about two years in wind- ing up the estate of his father, who died in the army. Having accomplished this task he entered Washington and Lee university in 1868, studied law for nine months and was graduated in the spring of 1869, delivering the valedictory to his class, and received a diploma signed by Gen. R. E. Lee. The latter has been sacredly pre- served. In April, 1870, he moved to Atlanta and was admitted to the bar during the same month. Mr. Pendleton was elected auditor and recorder of the city of Atlanta in 1874, for the term of four years. He also served five years as assistant city attorney from 1883 to 1888. In 1889 Mr. Pendleton represented the Central Railroad & Banking company of Georgia, and the Atlanta & West Point railroad in Fulton county, under Calhoun, King & Spalding, general counsel. In 1891-92 he represented as division counsel the Richmond & Danville railroad. Mr. Pendle- ton was associated with Hon. Hoke Smith until the latter's appointment as secretary of the interior. Mr. Pendleton affiliates with the Second Baptist church; for ten years has held the office of deacon, and lately was superintendent of the Sunday school and Bible class teacher. He is a member of the Barnes lodge I. O. O. F., No. 55, and the Empire encampment, I. O. O. F. He married Ella J., daughter of Walter Bowie, of Westmoreland, Va., in 1870. They have two children: Kate, and Mary B., wife of E. C. Stewart, of the firm of Stewart, Cole & Callaway, Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Pendleton possesses a pure, moral character, and is deeply learned in the varied divisions of his profession. His father was William Henry Pendleton, a native of Christian county, Ky., born in 1825. He was a merchant in Hopkins- ville, Ky., and when the war first began was made commissary of the First Ken- tucky cavalry, and died in harness during 1862. His wife was Isabel Major, of Christian county. They had three children, the surviving ones being John T. and


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McCallum Dawson, of Atlanta. The mother passed away on May 21, 1891. Mr. Pendleton's grandfather was Rev. John Pendleton, a Baptist minister of Spottsyl- vania county, Va., married there, and about 1812 emigrated to Christian county, Ky. His great grandfather was a native of Virginia, the son of Henry Pendleton, who served in the revolutionary war. (Vol. I, 4th series of American Archives, pub- lished by order of congress.)


EDWARD CONYNGHAM PETERS, capitalist, Atlanta, Ga., son of Richard and Mary J. (Thompson) Peters, was born in Atlanta, Oct. 23, 1856. Mr. Pe- ters received his primary education in the city of his birth and then went to Penn Lucy institute, near Baltimore, Md. When nineteen years of age he was appointed on the United States coast survey, and was assigned to duty in Texas. Returning to Atlanta in 1876 he was appointed cashier's clerk of the Atlanta Street Railroad company, of which a short time afterward he was made superintendent. In 1889 he was elected president of the company, which office he retained until the system was sold to the Thomson-Houston syndicate. In 1890 Mr. Peters was made president of the Peters Land company, which was organized in 1890. He is also president of the Atlanta Savings bank, a director in the American Trust & Bank- ing company, the Southern Loan & Banking company, the Exposition Cotton Mills company, the Cotton States and International Exposition company, and a member of the general council of the city of Atlanta. Mr. Peters early practical training and his subsequent extensive and varied business and financial experience makes him a much sought and valuable accession to any undertaking requiring enterprise and superior financial and executive ability, especially if the best and highest interests of Atlanta and her advancement are involved.


JOSIAH SEAMANS PETERSON, journalist, Atlanta, Ga., only child of John P. and Rebecca B. (Seamans) Peterson, was born in Providence, R. I., May 15, 1820. His father was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1790, and left there a sailor boy at the age of fourteen, and followed the sea all his life. He was in the employ of Brown & Ives, New England ship owners, and died of cholera, about 1832, leaving the son with not a relative of the paternal family on this side of the ocean. On his mother's side, Mr. Peterson is of Welsh Puritanic lineage, and her father and grand-uncles were soldiers in the patriot army during the revolution. At the age of thirteen Mr. Peterson began to earn his living, entering a grocery store as clerk and bookkeeper. His schooling was consequently meagre, though about this time his grandfather proposed to send him to Brown university, but knowing his grandfather was dependent on his earnings at his trade he declined, an action showing a trait of character that is found in his whole life. In the fall of 1836 young Peterson went to Savannah, Ga., and thence to Augusta, where he arrived on Christmas eve. He obtained a temporary position with George H. Metcalf, and later obtained a situation with a wholesale grocery house, which failed during the panic of the summer of 1837. One of the partners went to Athens, Ga., taking Mr. Peterson with him and opened a fancy grocery store, which also closed the next August, leaving the seventeen-year-old youth a thou- sand miles from home, unknown and a stranger among strangers. For the next three years he was employed by Mays & Clayton, a leading dry goods firm. Mr. Mays' wife was a sister of the wife of Hon. Charles Dougherty, and while here he was a member of Mr. Mays' family and was treated as a son. In 1841 he was associated with the "Chronicle and Sentinel" as traveling agent, and the following year found him a clerk at Lexington, Ga., during which time J. H. Lumpkin and William McKinley urged him to read law and Drs. Sims and Hanson urged him I-57


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to read medicine. Having conscientious scruples as to law, he began the study of medicine under Dr. R. D. Moore; but later relinquished his purpose to accept a position as bookkeeper of the Scull Shoals factory, where he remained until the same was burned down in 1845. Under his direction the factory was conducted during these years with a handsome profit, a marked contrast with its operation of a few previous years. In 1846, by special request of the editor of the "Chronicle and Sentinel," he wrote a series of articles on cotton manufacturing which attracted the attention of Col. H. H. Cummings and largely influenced the establishment of the great manufacturing interests whose benefits to Augusta are incalcuable. Mr. Peterson embarked in business for himself in Athens in 1850 as a partner in a book store under the firm name of Chase & Peterson. During this time he was instrumental in organizing the first loan and building association formed in the state and was its treasurer. He was a member and secretary of an association, of which Dr. Alonzo Church of Franklin college was president, organized to support a free school. He was also a leader in the Sons of Temperance; an organizer of the lodge of Knights of Jericho and held the office of grand chief of the state lodge for ten years. Again Mr. Peterson was strenuously urged to study law, Hon. Cincinnatus Peeples, afterward judge of Fulton circuit, present- ing him with an excellent opportunity; but the offer was declined. The book business having been a failure Mr. Peterson was employed as an agent of the Lawrenceville Manufacturing company of Gwinnett county, until August, 1857, when he came to Atlanta as associate editor of the "National American," a newspaper owned by Col. C. R. Hanleiter. While here he, unexpectedly to himself, developed great strength and versatility as a political writer. His early training as a business man and bookkeeper fitted him particularly for the commercial department of the paper and as statistical writer, and along these lines he made a very enviable reputation, which he still holds. As associate editor he advocated the public school system for Atlanta, the Georgia Air Line railroad, and Georgia Western railroad, cotton manufacturing in Atlanta and direct trade for the south. In 1861 he organized the Commonwealth Publishing company, which published a twenty-four column paper, of which he was editor, reporter, business manager and sometimes carrier. The paper achieved considerable success, considering the conditions existing at that time and grew into influence and standing. He sold the paper in 1863. In 1866 he accepted service on the "Daily New Era," in which paper he pressed the organization of the chamber of commerce and was its first secretary. He was secretary of the executive committee of the representatives of the thirty-three southern railways, who gave a two-cent a mile prospecting rate over their lines in 1869. Mr. Peterson prepared an elaborate pamphlet demon- strating the necessity and prospective and financial value of the Brunswick & Albany railway and the Cartersville & Van Wert railway. In 1871 he was the author of a review exhaustively presenting statistics and arguments in support of the construction of the Bainbridge, Cuthbert & Columbus and the Columbus & Atlanta Air Line railway, with extensions almost due north to Cincinnati. From 1875 to 1889 he was engaged in various publications, preparing sundry pamphlets and doing correspondence, nearly all of which Georgia and Atlanta were the paramount themes. In 1889, as assistant secretary of the Manufacturers' associa- tion, he prepared a pamphlet of nearly 100 pages, entitled, Atlanta, the Coming Metropolis of the South, which represented incontrovertible facts on which an unanswerable argument is based in support of the proposition: Although this is his last work of importance he has not been idle and is now well equipped and stands ready for more effective work in Atlanta, in the advocacy of advanced and improved traveling facilities; of the multiplication of manufacturing industries and


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the development of Georgia's resources. Charged years ago with being "wild and visionary" when advocating railway construction over what seemed to others to be impossible routes, and particularly for his forecast for Atlanta, whose growth her envious rivals quoted as "niush-room," he has lived to see every railroad he advocated to be a prosperous reality and to see Atlanta a queen of growth and prosperity far beyond everything he ever claimed. Unselfish and generous to a fault, as the world goes, it has ever been a greater pleasure to him to aid and promote the interests of friends and the community in which he lives than his own. Busy in helping the interests of others he neglected his own. His charac- teristics are those which make him invaluable to others, while perhaps almost valueless to himself. He is probably one of the few men who might be bought for his own price and sold at profit. It is safe to say that few citizens of Georgia, even those in public life, are more extensively or accurately informed as to the general history of the state, its prominent citizens, past and present, than Mr. Peterson; and it is even safer to say that none has a 'greater conception than he of the extent, variety and value of these resources, and the possibilities of the state under favorable legislation as a great manufacturing commonwealth; as a conductor and controller of commerce, within and without her borders; as to intellectual and religious advancement in every field and along all lines of human endeavor. Mr. Peterson was married June 6, 1844, to Miss Matilda Truly Manley, who died Oct. 16, 1882. Nine children were the fruit of this union, of whom five survive: Seamans Manley, locomotive engineer; Rebecca Matilda, widow of Robert S. Jackson; Mary Ann, unmarried, living in Spalding county; Albon Chase. mechanic; Virginia Lee, wife of Clinton Gunby, Tampa, Fla. He was married to his second wife, Catherine Anna, daughter of Col. C. R. Hanleiter, April 25, 1889. Before the war Mr. Peterson was an old line Henry Clay whig, an uncom- promising anti-secessionist, consequently a stanch republican on all lines of national policy, a dyed-in-the-wool protectionist. He is a royal arch Mason, and working Methodist. He has been three score and two years in active business life and cannot recall as many as thirty days that he has been kept from labor by sickness.


THOMAS S. POWELL, a public benefactor, whose life has been devoted to his fellow-men, and one whose faithful services are destined to survive him in the grateful appreciation of the people of this state, is Dr. Thomas S. Powell, the president of the Southern medical college. As the executive head of this famous institution Dr. Powell has equipped hundreds of young physicians for the practice of their profession, besides devoting a large part of his own time to alleviating the ills of suffering humanity. His name has become a household word in every part of the country, and no man is more highly honored for his professional attainments, or more sincerely beloved for his true nobility of character. Dr. Powell has always occupied a high seat in the confidence and esteem of his medical brethren, and this is due to the fact that he has not only been a skillful practitioner, but that in spite of the seductions of a large and growing patronage, he has never bartered his principles for gain or overlooked for a single instant the moral ethics of the profession. Dr. Thomas S. Powell is a native of Virginia, and was born in Brunswick county in that state. His parents were both of Welsh descent, and illustrated the hardy characteristics of that splendid stock. After completing his primary studies he commenced his collegiate education at Oakland academy, in Brunswick county, under the able direction of Prof. J. P. Adkinson. He subse- quently attended the Lawrenceville Male institute, then in charge of the celebrated Prof. Brown, of William and Mary college, graduating, in due course of time, with the highest honors of that institution. Coming to Georgia at an early age,


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and shortly after beginning the practice of the medical profession, Dr. Powell has been identified with the practice in this state for more than forty years. He has been a member of the State Medical association since 1856, and has also, for a number of years, been a member of the National association. Making Atlanta his home, Dr. Powell has always been a loyal and public-spirited citizen of that community. The genius of enterprise has been one of his distinguishing charac- teristics, and his mind has been constantly active in devising new plans and methods for promoting the welfare of his profession. In 1870 he founded the "Southern Medical Journal," one of the best edited and most influential magazines of this section of the country. The scientific productions that have come from the pen of Dr. Powell have been widely copied and extensively read by the mem- bers of the profession, beyond the immediate circulation of the journal. For sev- eral years Dr. Powell occupied a professorship in the Atlanta Medical college, and was recognized as one of the ablest preceptors in the faculty of that institution. His connection with the college terminated in 1866. Immediately his friends suggested to him the advisability of starting a new college, urging upon him as a reason that Atlanta was sufficiently well known as a medical center to warrant the establishment of such an institution, and that every state in the south would contribute to its support. The idea grew upon Dr. Powell as he revolved it in his mind, but he preferred to move slowly in the matter, rather than suffer the con- sequences of any hasty action that he might take. Finally in connection with Dr. Robert C. Word and Dr. W. T. Goldsmith, he decided to establish the college, and after a brave effort in subduing unexpected and almost overwhelming difficul- ties, the following board of trustees were selected: T. S. Powell, M. D., R. C. Word, M. D., W. T. Goldsmith, M. D., Hon. A. H. Stephens, Judge S. B. Hoyt, G. T. Dodd, C. M. Irwin, D. W. Lewis, A. F. Hurt, Rev. A. J. Battle, Rev. H. C. Hornady, Geo. M. McDowell, D. D., W. W. McAfee, and J. J. Toon. A charter was subsequently obtained and the first meeting of the board of trustees was held J. b. 21, 1879. At this meeting Dr. Powell was elected president, Col. J. J. Toon vice-president, and Dr. R. C. Word secretary. A building committee was appoint- ed, consisting of Dr. T. S. Powell, Judge S. B. Hoyt, G. T. Dodd, W. W. McAfee, and Dr. W. T. Goldsmith, whose duty it was to select a lot and secure bids for the erection of a college building. A lot was purchased on Porter street, in the rear of the present Equitable building, and the erection of the building commenced as soon as the funds could be raised by Dr. Powell. For this purpose a stock company was organized. On June 25, 1879, the following faculty was elected: A. S. Payne, M. D., professor of theory and practice of medicine; William Raw- lings, M. D., professor of the principles and practice of surgery; T. S. Powell, M. D., professor of obstetrics and diseases of women, and lecturer on medical ethics; R. C. Word, M. D., professor of physiology, and lecturer on medical litera- ture; G. M. McDowell, M. D., professor of materia medica and therapeutics: professor of chemistry (to be filled); William Perrin Nicolson, M. D., professor of general and pathological anatomy; W. T. Goldsmith, M. D., professor of dis- eases of children, and lecturer on clinical gynecology; H. F. Scott, M. D., profes- sor of medical and surgical diseases of the eye and throat; G. G. Crawford, M. D .. professor of operative and clinical surgery; Lindsay Johnson, M. D., demonstrator of anatomy. Auxiliary professors: J. F. Alexander, M. D., auxiliary professor of practice of medicine, and lecturer on clinical medicine; W. G. Owen, M. D., auxiliary professor of physiology, and lecturer on diseases of the nervous system: G. G. Roy, M. D., auxiliary professor of materia medica, and lecturer on toxi- cology and medical jurisprudence; H. B. Lee, M. D., auxiliary professor of obstetrics and diseases of women; J. C. Olmsted, M. D., lecturer on the genito-




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