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THOMAS E. WINN, second son of Richard D. and Charlotte (Mitchell) Winn, and a progressive, prosperous farmer, was born near Athens, Ga., in 1839. He was brought up on the farm and received a good education. In 1861 he enlisted in Company F, Capt. Mattox, Twenty-fourth Georgia regiment, Col. Robert McMillan. He was elected first lieutenant of his company, and served as such one year, when he was promoted to the captaincy. One year afterward he was made major, and after serving six months he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel, in which capacity he efficiently served to the close of the war. Of the many important battles in which he participated with conspicuous gallantry may be mentioned: Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spottsyl- vania court-house, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, etc. His valuable services and prompt and faithful discharge of every duty were duly acknowledged by his superior officers, while his solicitous care for the men under his command secured for him their respect and affection. Col. Winn had studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1861. After the war he resumed the practice. and in 1866 was elected county solicitor, serving two years. In 1868 he retired from the practice and engaged in farming, making a specialty of grape culture. Col. Winn served fourteen years as county school commissioner and then resigned. In 1890 he was elected to congress from the Ninth congressional district, and served one term. Col. Winn is a progressive farmer and has been a successful one, and is also fully alive to the advancement and development of the varied natural resources of his native county. He is very popular, and is classed among the best and most sub- stantial of the county's citizens. Col. Winn was married Dec. 13, 1865, to Miss Irene, daughter of Dr. C. M. Park, of Greene county, and to them four children have been born: Marv, Evie, Richard L., and Alice. He is a very prominent master Mason.
HABERSHAM COUNTY.
C HARLES LARKIN BASS, lawyer, Clarkesville, Habersham Co., Ga., son of Dr. Charles H. and Mattie (Greene) Bass. was born near Milledgeville, Baldwin Co., Ga., April 30, 1869. His great-grandfather on his father's side was Wm. Rabun, once governor of Georgia, and for whom Rabun county was named. William Rabun was born in Halifax county, N. C., April 8, 1771, and came to Geor- gia in 1785 with his father, Matthew Rabun, who settled in Wilkes county, and a
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vear later moved thence to Hancock county. Though but indifferently educated, he possessed mental endowments and a personality that brought him into popular favor, and he was elected repeatedly to both the lower and upper house of the general assembly. He was president of the senate when Gov. Mitchell resigned in March, 1817, and was acting governor from that time until November, when he was elected governor, and afterward, by the people, for a full term, during which he had a spicy correspondence with Gen. Jackson. He died on his plantation in Hancock county while governor, Oct. 24, 1819, and his message was delivered to the general assembly by the president of the senate, Matthew Talbot, who suc- ceeded him. Dr. Larkin Bass, an eminent physician, who married Miss Mary, a daughter of Gov. Rabun, was the grandfather of Charles Larkin Bass. His father, Dr. Charles H. Bass, was a son of Dr. Larkin and Mary (Rabun) Bass, and was born in Hancock county. In 1858 he married Miss Mattie, daughter of Thomas F. Greene, of Milledgeville. Dr. Bass ranked very high as a member of the medical profession, as a gentleman of scholarly attainments and varied informa- tion. He was assistant physician of the state lunatic asylum soon after his gradua- tion from the Medical college of Georgia, until his death, which occurred in 1872. His widow is still living, and makes her home with her son in Clarksville. Of nine children born to this union five survive: Addie, Mary Rabun, Mattie, Julia and Charles L. Mr. Bass' maternal great-grandfather was William Montgomery Greene, an Irish patriot, who, on account of his participation in the rebellion of 1798, was compelled to seek refuge in the United States. He was a friend of Thomas Addis and Robert Emmett, and assisted in the capture of the latter's remains from the keeper of the Killmainham jail, and their subsequent interment. He was a cousin of the celebrated Lord Edward Fitzgerald, for whom he named his son, Dr. Thomas Fitzgerald Greene, Mr. Bass' grandfather. Dr. Greene was superintendent of the state lunatic asylum for a period of thirty-six years, a state- ment of which fact is evidence enough as to his capability and fidelity. Dr. Greene married Miss Adeline, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hawkins) Crowder, a granddaughter of Col. John Hawkins, who served with distinction in the revolution- ary war under the immediate command of Washington. Mr. Bass received his early education in Milledgeville, but finished it in the Atlanta high school in 1884. The following year the family removed to Clarksville, where they made their permanent home. Deciding to embrace the legal profession he commenced reading law, and in 1890 was admitted to the bar at Habersham superior court, Hon. C. J. Well- born, judge presiding. Entering at once upon the practice, and giving his enthu- siastic and undivided attention to his profession, he has already secured an extensive practice and a wealthy and influential clientage in the northeastern circuit. His practice is general and covers every branch of the profession, and his record is that of a well-read lawyer, a prudent counselor and polished advocate. His style before a jury is that of easy and affable character, which invariably marks the suc- cessful nisi prius lawyer and wins verdicts. He has a large clientage in whose confidence his professional and private character is safe and permanently secure. Politically, Mr. Bass is a strong and active and consistent democrat. In 1890 he as chairman of the county committee, and later president of the democratic club of Habersham county, rendering invaluable service in the campaign of 1892. That year he was elected a member of the state gubernatorial convention, and gave his enthusiastic support to the state ticket. Mr. Bass is a young man of marked ability, accomplished and polished manners, for whom the future would seem to have much in store. Reasonably and honorably ambitious to attain to distinction, his many friends in his section of the state will doubtless see to it that his abilities are recognized and his services rewarded.
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GEORGE PHILLIPS ERWIN, lawyer, Clarkesville, Habersham Co., Ga., son of William S. and Ruth (Clark) Erwin, was born in Clarkesville, Nov. 9, 1870. His paternal grandfather, Alexander Erwin, was born in North Carolina and reared a farmer, which he made a life pursuit. In 1834 he migrated to Georgia, and settled in Habersham county, where he died in 1877. He married Miss Catharine Wales, a native of Connecticut, but who at the time was a resident of Wilkes county, Ga. She died in 1883. Mr. Erwin's father was born in Clarkesville, Jan. 27, 1839. At the age of twenty-one he was elected ordinary of Habersham county, but resigned at the end of two years and enlisted in the state troops. During the last two years of the war he was in active and arduous service-was in command of an infantry com- pany, and participated in the numerous battles and skirmishes incident to the defense of Atlanta. After the war he was again elected ordinary, and served a full term. He also engaged in merchandising, and did a very large and profitable business. In 1868 he was elected to represent Habersham county in the general assembly, was re-elected in 1870, and in 1872 was elected senator from the Thirty- first senatorial district. In the meantime he studied law, and in 1877 was admitted to the bar, and thenceforward practiced his profession in Clarkesville until he died in 1893. During this period he served five years as solicitor-general of the north- eastern circuit. Mr. Erwin was a man of great versatility of talent and of marked general ability-eminently successful in everything he undertook. Hon. A. S. Erwin, Athens, Ga., ex-judge of the western circuit, is a brother of the above. Mr. Erwin's mother was a daughter of Sevier and Elizabeth Clark, of Hall county, Ga., was married to Mr. Erwin Nov. 27, 1867, and is the mother of six children: Joseph A., George P., the subject of this sketch, William S., Frank S., Henry C., and Pope B. Mr. Erwin was reared and educated in Clarkesville, and when eighteen years of age entered the employ of the Plant system of railways, and remained with them until 1893-five years-as cashier in the local freight department. Having decided to enter the legal profession he commenced the study of law in July, 1893, under J. J. Bowden, an eminent member of the Clarkesville bar, and was admitted Jan. 17, 1894, in Gainsville, Judge C. J. Wellborn presiding. Locating in Clarkesville, his old home, he secured at once a good practice, and has attracted to himself al- ready a large and influential and remunerative clientage. Genial and affable, pos- sessing intellectual endowments of a high order, and winning social characteristics, he is sure of professional success, and, should he seek it, political advancement. Mr. Erwin was happily married Sept. 24, 1891, to Miss Eva G., daughter of Capt. T. J. Fuller, of Pierce county, Ga. Mr. Erwin's mother is still living at her home in Clarkesville. The immediate ancestors of Mr. Erwin are found in the following genealogical sketch: Alexander Gavin Erwin wedded Nancy Magahee, and born to them was Alexander; Alexander married Catherine Wales, and to them William S. was born; William S. married Ruth Clark, parents of George P. Erwin. Ruth Clark was a daughter of Sevier and Elizabeth (Ingram) Clark; Sevier was a son of William and Ruth Clark; Elizabeth Ingrani was a daughter of William and Elizabeth Ingram; Catherine Wales was 'a daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Miles) Wales.
WILLIAM W. KOLLOCK, civil engineer and farmer, Clarkesville, Habersham Co., Ga., son of George J. and Susan M. (Johnston) Kollock, was born in Savannah, Ga., in 1845. On his father's side he is of Huguenot ancestry. His grandfather, Dr. Lemuel Kollock, a gentleman of sterling character and superior ability, came to Savannah when a young man, and very soon became the leading physician of the city. He was the originator of the dry culture system of agricul- ture around the city, which was subsequently pressed to completion by Dr. War- ing. Dr. Kollock married Miss Maria Campbell, daughter of Macartan Campbell,
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of Augusta, Ga., and Miss Sarah Fenwick, of the family of Fenwicks of Staunton, Northumberland, England, who were descendants of the Fenwicks of Fenwick town, a family of wide and powerful influence in the days of the ancient Saxon kings. Three children were the fruit of this marriage: P. M., a physician of emin- ence in Savannah; Mrs. Neufville, wife of Rev. E. Neufville, Savannah, and George J., father of the subject of this sketch. George J. Kollock was born in Savannah about 1809, where he received his primary education. He then read law under the distinguished Joseph R. Ingersoll, completing his studies about 1832. Returning to Savannah, and being admitted to the bar, he became associated with Mr. John Millen, attained to eminence in his profession, and secured a wealthy clientage and lucrative practice. He purchased a fine and extensive estate near Clarkesville, where with his family he spent the summer months. Mr. Kollock's mother was a daughter of James Johnston, and was born in Savannah about 1816. Her father was a descendant of the Earl of Annandale and of Annie Houstoun, granddaughter of Sir Patrick Houstoun, one of the first settlers of Georgia, from Linlithgow, Scot- land, of a family prominent in that shire since the year 1160, when their ancestor, Hugo de Pegainin, of Normandy, obtained grants of land from Malcolm IV. of Scotland. Of the children which blessed this union five survive: William W., the subject of this sketch; J. F., Savannah; Mrs. W. E. Epps; Miss A. H. Kollock, and Mrs. M. C. Kollock, Savannah. Mr. Kollock died on the estate near Clarkes- ville in February, 1894, aged eighty-four years. His widow is still alive and is living on the estate. Dr. P. M. Kollock for his first wife married a sister of his brother's (G. J.) wife. She having died, he married for his second wife his first cousin, a daughter of E. F. Campbell, Augusta, Ga., and the descendants of the two brothers and sister live in Savannah and in Habersham county. Mr. Kollock, our subject, was reared and received his early education in Savannah. He enlisted and actually served more than two years in the Confederate service as a member of the Seventh Georgia cavalry. After the war he entered the university of Georgia, Athens, grad- uating from the school of civil engineering in 1867. For many years he occupied the Habersham county property as a summer home, but in 1876 he determined to make it his permanent home, and devote his attention exclusively to agricultural interests. A gentleman of culture and refinement, and possessed of a magnificent estate, he enjoys life to the full and dispenses old-time Georgia hospitality to friends and guests.
MULLER DUKE LAMAR, journalist, Clarkesville, Habersham Co., Ga., son of P. F. and Julia (Duke) Lamar, was born in Jackson county, Ga., June 18, 1871. His great-grandfather on his father's side was born in England, emigrated to America before the revolutionary war, settled in Virginia, and was a soldier in the patriot army. His grandfather, Philip Lamar, was born in Virginia. Mr. Lamar's father was a cousin of the lately deceased distinguished statesman and jurist, L. Q. C. Lamar, ex-United States senator and associate justice of the United States supreme court, and was born in Gwinnett county, Ga., Sept. 5, 1818. For many years of his life he officiated as a minister of the Church of Christ, and died in Gainesville, Ga., in 1878. He married Miss Julia, daughter of William Duke, Jackson county, by whom he had two children: Louie, who died in infancy; and Muller Duke, the subject of this sketch. Mr. Duke was a native Georgian, and was one of the wealthiest and most substantial and influential citizens in Jackson county. He represented the county several terms in the general assembly, and served as a private in the late war in the Eighteenth Georgia regiment. He married Miss Lizzie Venable-and himself and wife died in Jackson county in 1886. Mr. Lamar was raised in Jackson county, where he received his early schooling, but finished his education at the excellent high school at Norcross, Gwinnett Co.,
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Gas Having determined to make journalism his life-pursuit, as a preliminary step (he entered the office of the "Jackson Herald," so as to gain a practical knowledge of the art of printing, and the general conduct of a paper. After remaining there during 1888-89 he went to Athens, Ga., and in 1890 was connected with the "Athens Banner." Then he went to Eastman, Dodge Co., Ga., and in 1892-93 was engaged on the "Times-Journal" there. Front Eastman he went to Florida, and from September, 1893, to February, 1894, he conducted a paper at Lakeland, in that state. In July, 1894, Mr. Lamar became the proprietor and editor of the "Advertiser," published at Clarkesville. The "Advertiser" was ably edited and carefully conducted, and under Mr. Lamar's management became a bright and newsy family paper, and influential party organ. It is the official organ of Haber- sham county, and a faithful exponent of democratic principles, and is widely cir- cnlated in northeast Georgia. It is rapidly gaining in popularity and circulation, and as a consequence, in influence. Mr. Lamar has developed marked ability and aptitude for his profession.
JOHN MARTIN MULLENIX, farmer, Clarkcsville, Habersham Co., Ga., son of Abraham M. and Lenny (Butler) Mullenix, was born in Pendleton dis- trict, S. C., Sept. 12, 1828. His father was a native of South Carolina, and a mechanic, came to Georgia about 1829 and settled in Franklin county, where he engaged in the boot and shoe business, and died Sept. 8, 1849. Mr. Mullenix's mother was born in Newberry district, S. C., was the mother of ten children -five boys and five girls-and died in Habersham county in 1882. Mr. Mullenix was raised and educated in Franklin county, to which his father moved from South Carolina soon after his birth. He was raised a farmer, and farming has been his life-pursuit. About March, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, Fifty-second Georgia regiment, Col. Phillips, and with his command served under Gen. Bragg in the Kentucky campaign, doing some hard fighting at Louisville and Lexington, and at Franklin, Tenn. The command was engaged in many skirmishes, and cap- tured a large number of prisoners. The command entered Cumberland Gap, but was later ordered to Vicksburg, took a conspicuous part in the battle of Baker's Creek, and at Horse Shoe Bend, where blood flowed like water. The command remained through the protracted siege of Vicksburg, rendering efficient service; and after its capture, July, 1863, he was paroled and returned home. He was exchanged in time to rejoin his command and take part in the bloody battle near New Hope church. With his command he was an active participant in the battle at Resaca, and the bloody and obstinately contested battles between there and Atlanta, as well as those attending the defense of that city-including the memorable battle of July 21 and 22, 1864. After Atlanta fell, his command went with Gen. Hood via Florence, Ala., which was captured, fighting all the way. through Tennessee to Nashville. He bore a part in the disastrous battle of Franklin; after which the command returned through Alabama, Georgia and Carolina, and joined Gen. Johnston at Salisbury, N. C. He participated in the battle at Kingston, where 1,200 Union soldiers were captured, and enjoyed the honor-as he esteems it-of bearing a part in the last battle of the unfortunate conflict, at Bentonville, N. C. After the war he returned to Habersham county, where he had settled in 1852, and where, since, he has prosperously engaged in farming. Mr. Mullenix was married Feb. 8, 1849, to Miss Catharine, daughter of Horace Bell of Franklin county-a union blessed with thirteen children, of whom twelve are living: Clarissa, Mary Jane, William M., John M., Andrew Jackson, James, Wesley, Pinckney. Thomas, Mrs. Lizzie Odell, Louisa, and Josephine.
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JOHN W. OWENS, lawyer, Toccoa, Habersham Co., Ga., son of Joshua and Drucilla (Watson) Owens, was born in Anderson district, S. C., Feb. 3, 1843. Capt. Owen's father was born in South Carolina in 1818, where he lived until 1848, when he moved to Georgia, and settled in Franklin (now Banks) county. He was public-spirited, substantial and popular, and served many years as a jus- tice of the inferior court. He died in Banks county in 1888, aged seventy years; his widow is still living, and makes her home at Harmony Grove, Jackson Co., Ga. Of the children born to them eight are living: John W., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Amanda Gober; Mrs. Nannie McCoy; Mrs. Marie Ritchie; Mrs. Almira Staples; Mrs. Laura Watson; and brothers E. D., and C. H. Capt. Owens came with his family to what is now Banks county when five years old, where he was reared, and during his boyhood educated. He finished his literary studies at Jonesboro, Ga., and then taught at Hilliard Male institute, at Forsyth, Ga. In 1861, at the age of eighteen years he enlisted as a private in the famous Banks county guards, which became Company A, Second Georgia regiment, Gen. Robert Toombs' brigade, Longstreet's corps, Army of Northern Virginia. The regiment was organized at Brunswick, and ordered to Richmond. The regiment was reorganized soon afterward when he was commissioned first lieutenant, and not long after as captain. With his command he participated in the following hard-fought and bloody, as well as many less important, battles: First, at York- town-Dam No. I-after which the command moved to Richmond, thence to Gordonsville, Va., and went into winter quarters. His command participated in the battles of Second Manassas, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, Brandy Station, seven days' fight around Richmond, Orange Court House, two days' fight at Gettysburg-where he was wounded, Spottsylvania Court House, Wilderness, Fredericksburg, Drury's Bluff and Fort Harrison. He also fought throughout the siege of Petersburg, and followed Gen. Longstreet to Chickamauga, where he was seriously wounded and sent to the hospital; later he was furloughed and came home. He afterward rejoined his command, Longstreet's corps, at Morris- town, east Tennessee, and after four years of active, arduous service was present at the surrender at Appomattox Court House. Capt. Owens' record shows that of the many battles and skirmishes in which his regiment was engaged he missed but two. Returning from the war he engaged about eighteen months in merchan- dising, and then in farming. Three years later he was elected clerk of the superior court and served two years. Having in the meantime studied law, he was admitted to the bar in White county, in 1874, and shortly afterward located in Toccoa, where he has gained honorable distinction in his profession, and built up a good practice in the eastern and western circuits. He has filled the office of solicitor of Habersham county court two years, and has also served several years as mayor of Toccoa. He is regarded as an able lawyer, a sound and safe counselor, and being enterprising, progressive and public-spirited, has the confidence of the people, and enjoys a popularity accorded to but few. It is altogether probable his fellow-citizens will demand his services in a higher and broader field. Capt. Owens was married in 1869 to Miss Lucy M., daughter of Dr. Benjamin Smith of Lumpkin county, Ga .; a union blessed with three children: Alice, Charles and Nannie, of whom the first named is the only survivor. In April, 1876, Mrs. Owens died, and in March, 1880, Capt. Owens married Miss Mary Eliza, daughter of Flavius Ward of Habersham county, who has borne him five children: Mamie, Willard, De Witt, Annie and Laurens.
MICAJAH TILMAN PERKINS, lawyer, Clarkesville, Habersham Co., Ga., son of John and Rachel (Martin) Perkins, was born in Banks county, Ga., May 22, 1866. His grandfather, Logan Perkins, was a native of Buncombe county, N. C.,
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was one of the earliest settlers of Habersham county, and died in Banks county in 1872. Mr. Perkins' father was born in Habersham county, as a farmer, and himself and wife are still living near Mount Airy. Ten children are the fruit of their marriage: John L., Micajah Tilman, the subject of this sketch; Harvey S., Mrs. Emma F. Braselton, Texas; Bynum, Serena, Vance, Bleckley, Lulu and Absalom. Mr. Perkins was reared on the farm, attended in early boyhood the near-by schools, and finished his literary education at Sibley institute at Mount Airy, near to which his parents moved in 1874. Soon after leaving this institution, in the fall of 1887, when only twenty-one years old, he was elected sheriff of Habersham county, and is believed to have been the youngest person ever elected to that important and responsible office in this state. From that time onward his career and success have been remarkable, and offered an inspiring example and illustration of what our republican institutions can do for those of laudable ambition, possessing push and energy, combined with strict integrity. He served his term of two years with credit to himself and the entire satisfaction of his appreciative constituency. Having determincd in the meantime to adopt the legal profession, he had been studying, and in 1890 was admitted to the bar. He at once entered upon the practice at Clarkesville, and has been successful beyond his most sanguine expectations-his clientage extending over the northeastern circuit, and increasing in extent and value every year. In 1890 his admiring constituency elected him to the mayoralty of Clarkesville, where he performed valuable service to the city, and in 1892 he was commissioned notary public, and ex-officio justice of the peace-an appointment he still holds. That same year the populist party invaded Habersham county, and the democratic friends of the youthful subject of this sketch presented him as their candidate to check the rising tide, and bear their banner to victory. He was triumphantly elected to represent Habersham county in the general assembly, and was placed and served on the following committees: Judiciary, privileges and elections and pensions, and had the honor of being appointed on the special committee sent to the world's fair. So faithfully and zealously did he represent and serve his constituency that in 1894 he was renominated by his party, and was re-elected. His career so far has been as brilliant as it has been brief-he seems already to have become a favorite with the people-and the promise of his future seems indeed to be of the brightest. Affable and attractive, of agreeable manners, of plain but dignified bearing, and possessing social qualities which are winning and lead to success, professional and political distinction assuredly await him. After leaving the session of the legislature of 1894, he went immediately to the Lumpkin law school of Athens, Ga., and graduated from that institution in 1895.
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