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. II, Part 94

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Publication date: 1859
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga., The Southern historicl association
Number of Pages: 1166

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until 1889, when, desiring a wider field for the exercise of his talents, he removed to Columbus, Ga., and has since resided there. In November, 1886, Mr. Worrill was elected by the state legislature solicitor-general of the Chattahoochee circuit to fill the unexpired term of Hon. Thomas W. Grimes, who had resigned on being elected a member of congress. Mr. Worrill served as solicitor-general more than three years and in 1889 he was chosen as one of the representatives for the county of Muscogee in the state legislature. He served as a legislator for the full term of two years, and in 1891 he was elected city attorney of Columbus and has been continuously re-elected each succeeding year since. In 1884 Mr. Worrill was united in the bonds of holy wedlock to Miss Emma B. Biggers, a most estimable lady of Harris county, Ga., daughter of J. J. W. Biggers, a prominent citizen of that county. Mr. Worrill is a master Mason and affiliates with the Methodist Epis- copal church, south.

ALEXANDER C. YOUNG, youngest son of William H. and Ellen A. (Beall) Young, was born in Somerville, Morgan Co., Ala., Nov. 22, 1850. William H. Young was born in the city of New York, Jan. 22, 1807. His father, James Young, was of Scotch extraction, and was a native of New Jersey. In early life he moved to New York and engaged in cabinet-making. He married Christina Ridabeck, a native of New York, whose father emigrated from Germany at an early period. William H. Young had good educational advantages and came to Georgia in the spring of 1824, engaging as a clerk for Ira Peck of Marion, Twiggs Co. In 1825 an older brother, Edward B. Young, came from New York and also settled in the town of Marion, forming a partnership with William H. Young, which continued about nine years, and was attended by a fair degree of success. The business was disposed of in 1835, his brother removing to Eufaula, Ala., where he successfully organized the Eufaula National bank, was clected its first president and held that position at the time of his death, in 1881, at the ripe age of seventy-eight years. When the partnership of the Young brothers was dissolved in the town of Marion, William H. Young returned to New York, engaging as salesman and collector for a large jobbing house. In 1839 he returned south, located at Apalachicola, Fla., forming a partnership with Dr. Henry Lockhart in the commission business, which continued ten years and was eminently successful. William H. Young then continued the business about five years longer in his own name, at the end of that time having accumulated suf- ficient capital to carry out his desire to embark in the cotton manufacturing busi- ness he moved to Columbus, Ga., in 1855. At that time the citizens of Columbus were organizing a bank, and they elected him as the first president of that insti- tution, which position he continued to occupy for some years during the civil war, when he resigned, as his manufacturing business required all his attention. At the close of the war, and after Gen. Lee's surrender the Federal troops occu- pied the city of Columbus and wantonly burned all the factories and all the cotton in that city, the loss to the Eagle company being about $1,000,000. The share- holders met and appointed William H. Young to sell the property and to close the business. This he did and returned to the stockholders twice the amount of their investment out of the wrecked property. A new company was organized and purchased at public outcry the property, obtained a charter, William H. Young becoming a shareholder, and named the corporation the Eagle & Phoenix Manu- facturing company. These mills are, at the present time, undoubtedly the largest in the south and give employment to 2,000 operatives. Thus the dream and object of the life of William H. Young was attained, and he peacefully passed to his reward, at his home in Bellwood, near Columbus, on May 8, 1894. Mr. Young was a citizen such as every city nceds and is proud to claim. He worked for his

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own interest and the interest of those associated with him; but in so doing he never lost sight of the city's good, and wherever he could he was always ready to put in a claim and a stroke for Columbus. He watched the city's growth with pride, and as it kept pace with the ever constant and upward and onward move- ment of his great manufacturing establishment, he felt a keen sense of pleasure and gratification. His public and business career was marked by a strict integ- rity, and his home life was characterized by a pure and loving devotion to his noble helpmate, children and friends. Ellen Augusta (Beall) Young was a native of Warren county, Ga., a daughter of Robert Augustus Beall. Her family was notably prominent and of very high character. Her father was appointed by the governor as commissioner to supervise the drawing of the land lottery, when Georgia distributed to its citizens the public lands of the state by that method. The family consisted of three sons and six daughters. The sons are all dead. Rob- ert Augustus Beall attained high rank as a lawyer and had a large and lucrative practice which extended over the larger part of Georgia. He died in Macon, Ga. Mrs. Young was next to the youngest of the six sisters and died in her seventy-eighth year. Of her sons, all save one saw service in the Confederate army, viz .: Alfred I. (deceased); William H., Jr., who was killed at the battle of Marietta, Ga .; George B .; Richard T., and James E. Alfred I. was a captain and George B. was a lieutenant in the same Georgia regiment. Alexander C. Young was brought up in Columbus, Ga., where he received his primary education and was graduated at the university of Georgia in 1870. He then went to New York city and clerked one year for his brother, a cotton merchant, then returned to Columbus, Ga., and entering the employ of the Eagle & Phoenix Manufacturing company remained with that corporation about twenty years, and during the last year was secretary and treasurer. In 1892, together with C. L. Perkins and J. W. Boyd, he incorporated the W. H. Young company-manufacturers of jeans, cottonades, worsted goods. Mr. Perkins is president of this company, Mr. Boyd is superintendent, and Mr. Young is treasurer. The capital stock of the com- pany is $30,000 and it does a business of $100,000 annually. Mr. Young is a con- sistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church south, and is a member of the board of trustees of St. Paul's church of Columbus. He is unmarried at present.

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J. C. ANDERSON, physician and surgeon, Starrsville, Newton Co., Ga., son of Newton and Eunice (Askew) Anderson, was born in South Carolina in 1838. His paternal grandparents, Thomas and Anna (White) Anderson, were natives of Virginia, whence, early in life, they migrated to South Carolina. After remaining there a few years he came to Georgia in the old-time primitive ox-cart and settled in the woods in Newton county, where Oxford now stands, and cleared a farm. He was a soldier in the last war with Great Britain and became a promi- nent and influential citizen of Newton county, which he represented in the gen- eral assembly. Mr. Anderson's father was born in South Carolina, where he received a good education, and came to Newton county in 1837. After teaching school five years he was elected sheriff of the county and was continuously re- elected and held the office at the time of his death. In 1863 he raised a regiment of cavalry, of which he was commissioned colonel, performed gallant service in

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many hard-fought battles, and was neither captured nor wounded. His mother was a daughter of Dr. Stephen Askew, a native of South Carolina. Dr. Anderson was raised on the farm, and after receiving a good primary and preparatory education studied medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Willis Westmoreland, Atlanta, after which he attended lectures at the Atlanta Medical college, from which he was graduated in March, 1860, and immediately afterward located and commenced the practice of medicine at Starrsville. In 1861 he enlisted in Com- pany H, Third Georgia regiment, and was made surgeon of his company, and afterward was made surgeon of the Third Georgia hospital at Richmond; but when his company was ordered to the front he insisted on going with it, and did so. With his command he was in the following, among other important battles: South Mills, Malvern Hill, seven days' fight around Richmond, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Harper's Ferry, etc. He was slightly wounded at Sharpsburg, and again more seriously at Gettysburg. He refused to go to the hospital, and remained with his company. He finally accepted a sixty days' furlough and came home, but he rejoined his company at Jonesville before his furlough expired. He was with liis command in every fight in which it took a part, excepting when he was at home. His regiment never gave up a position, and was never ordered to take a position but what it took it and kept it, and was known in the army as the "fighting regiment"-a distinction gallantly earned and as gallantly maintained. Entering at once upon the practice of his profession after the war he has established a large and remunerative prac- tice and reputation for skill, as demonstrated by his success. He ranks high in the profession and is regarded by the people with the affection of which the faithful physician is so richly deserving. Dr. Anderson was married in 1863 to Miss Amanda C .- Georgia born-daughter of Archibald S. and Mary (Quilly) Belcher. His wife's grandparents, William and Jemima (Smith) Belcher, were natives of Virginia, who came to Georgia in ox-carts about 1800, settled in what is now Jas- per county, and cleared a farm in the woods. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. His wife's father was born in Georgia in 1812; during the civil war was a member of the state militia first, and afterward under the command of Capt. Newton An- derson. To Dr. and Mrs. Anderson five children have been born, three of whom survive: Newton, practicing physician; Tommie L., wife of E. O. Lee, and Anna Gordon. He is a master Mason, and Mrs. Anderson is a member of the Good Templars. Himself and wife are working and useful members of the Methodist church.

J. S. BUTLER, farmer, Winton, Newton Co., Ga., son of Robert J. and Sarah (Boyd) Butler, was born in Virginia in 1835. His parents were natives of Virginia and lived and died in the state. He was a farmer, a soldier in the revolutionary army -- for which he received a land grant, which he held in Virginia -- and was a member of the old-school Presbyterian church. Mr. Butler was raised in Virginia, where he received only a limited education; he, however, was proficient, enough to teach school one year. He was raised a farmer and has been content to follow that calling all his life. In 1861 he enlisted in Company C, Washington artillery, and with the exception of fifteen days, remained in the army until the surrender. He was never wounded nor captured. In 1867 he came to Georgia and settled on the farm in Newton county where he now lives. Besides attending to the cultivation of his farm he owns and operates a ginnery and a saw-mill. He is a man of energy and enterprise, of sterling character and inflexible integrity, and is one of the many solid, substantial citizens of Newton county. Mr. Butler was married in 1871 to Miss Jane-born and raised in Newton county

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-- daughter of Alexander and Parmelia (Harding) Pharr. Himself and wife are active and prominent members of the Methodist church.

REV. MORGAN CALLAWAY, D. D., vice-president and professor of English, Emory college, Oxford, Ga., son of Jesse and Mary (Wootten) Callaway, was born in Wilkes county, Ga., in 1831. His paternal grandparents, Joseph and Mary (Morgan) Callaway, were native Virginians, who migrated to Georgia about 1790 and settled in Wilkes county. He was a soldier in the patriot army during the revolutionary war. Prof. Callaway's father was born in Wilkes county, was a planter, a volunteer soldier in the last war with Great Britain, and held the rank of sergeant. Prof. Callaway received a good primary and preparatory education at the academy, Washington, Wilkes Co., and then entered the univer- sity of Georgia, from which he was graduated in 1849. After his graduation he attended the celebrated Gould law school, Augusta, was admitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice, also supervised his farming interests. Abandoning the practice of law, he accepted a professorship in Andrew Female college, Cuthbert, Randolph Co., Ga., where he remained until 1862. That year he enlisted in Company B, Butts' battalion of artillery, but later was transferred to Capt. Reed's battery, with which he remained until the end. He was a participant in very many of the important battles of the war, and was shot down twice -- first at Gordonville and again at Cold Harbor. He entered the service as a private, but became first lieutenant of the first battery, and then captain of the second, and was present when Gen. Lee surrendered at Appomattox. Since the war his time has been wholly occupied in preaching and teaching. His first pastoral work was at Washington, Ga., his old home, where he was stationed four years, and after that he was for two years president of the female college at La Grange, Ga. In 1870 he was elected professor of Latin in Emory college, and has been connected with that institution ever since, with the exception of two years given to the Paine institute, Augusta, Ga .- the honor and credit for the organization of which justly belong to him. He held the Latin professorship only for four years, since which he has taught English, and is now, in addition, vice-president of the college. In 1865 he was elected a delegate to the constitutional convention, in which he took an absorbing interest, and was one of the most useful and influential of its members. His has been a life of unceasing activity and well-directed usefulness, the luster of whose record is undimmed by a shadow, and whose motives have no taint of selfishness. He ranks among the most prominent ministers of the denomina- tion he honors, and was given the degree of D. D. by Emory college. Prof. Callaway has been twice married. He was first married in 1850, to Miss Eliza, daughter of Fielding and Mary (Wootten) Hinton. Seven children were born to them, only two survive: Maude lived to become the wife of the Rev. James M. Lovett; and Morgan, having won the doctorate of philosophy at Johns Hopkins university, is now professor of English in the university of Texas. The mother, a very pious and exemplary member of the Methodist church, died in 1867. In 1868 he contracted a second marriage with Miss Georgia, daughter of Dr. Fielding and Frances (Wingfield) Ficklen, by whom he has had one child, who, however, is dead. Mrs. Callaway has for years been the corresponding secretary of the Woman's Missionary society of the North Georgia conference. Dr. Calla- way is the author of several works: Our Mother Tongue, Woman and Art, and various sermons and magazine articles.

W A. CANDLER, D. D., eleventh president of Emory college, is the seventh son of Samuel C. and Martha Beall Candler, and was born in Carroll county, Ga., Aug. 23, 1857. His grandfather was Daniel Candler, who was the

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youngest son of Col. William Candler, of revolutionary fame. This Col. William Candler was at the siege of Augusta and with Gen. Sumter in his Carolina campaign of 1780. The eldest child of Col. Candler was Mary Candler, who became the wife of Capt. Ignatius Few, and the mother of Dr. Ignatius Few, the first president of Emory college. Warren Akin Candler, the subject of this sketch, was graduated at Emory college with the highest honors of his class in July, 1875, one month before he was eighteen years of age. In December, 1875, he was admitted, on trial, to the North Georgia conference of the Methodist Episcopal church south, at its session held in Griffin, Ga. From his graduation until he applied for membership in the conference (July to December, 1875), he supplied the pulpit of the Methodist church in Sparta, Ga. In 1876 he was appointed as junior preacher on the Newton circuit, with Rev. A. W. Rowland as his senior. In 1877 he served the Watkinsville circuit with Rev. W. W. Oslin as his senior. In the years 1878, 1879 and 1880, he was pastor of the Merritts Avenue church, Atlanta. In 1881 he was presiding elder for the Dahlonega district, having been appointed to the office of a presiding elder at an earlier age than any other man in the history of his church. In 1882 he was again stationed at Sparta. In 1883-84-85 and a part of 1886 he was the pastor of St. John's church, Augusta, Ga. In July, 1886, the college of bishops appointed him associate editor of the "Christian Advocate," at Nashville, Tenn., the official organ of the Methodist Episcopal church south. There he remained until June, 1888, when he was elected president of Emory college, where he has served since. He received the degree of doctor of divinity from his alma mater at the age of thirty-one.

HON. ROBERT U. HARDEMAN. No man in Georgia is better known than Hon. Robert U. Hardeman, the state treasurer. He is the healthy embodiment of fine sense and good humor, and during his period of service he has made, perhaps, the best record of any treasurer who has ever had charge of the state's money. The subject of this sketch was born in Macon, Bibb Co., Ga., on Nov. 22, 1838. His father, Thomas Hardeman, was born in Oglethorpe county, near Lex- ington, in 1800. Moving to Macon he engaged in the commission business, and continued to follow the pursuit of merchandising until his death in 1865. The grandfather of Mr. Hardeman, whose name was John Hardeman, was born in Pennsylvania, but after reaching mature manhood came south with his two broth- ers, one locating in Tennessee, one in Georgia, and one in Texas. The boyhood of Mr. Hardeman was spent amid the cultured surroundings of the beautiful city of Macon. He attended the private schools of that city, chiefly the one taught by Gen. James Armstrong, of West Point, and Marvin M. Mason. His father being a man of liberal means felt it to be his duty to give his children a thorough education, and for this reason Robert, as soon as he was sufficiently advanced, was sent to Emory college, Oxford, Ga. He was graduated from this institution with the degrees of A. B. and A. M. in 1859. Among his classmates were Rev. Atticus G. Haygood, bishop of the southern Methodist church; Dr. I. S. Hopkins, formerly president of Emory college, and ex-president of the Technological school, and Col. McArnold, of the Sixth Georgia regiment of infantry, who was killed at Petersburg. Immediately after leaving college Mr. Hardeman was united in marriage to Miss Eugenia Morrelle, the daughter of George W. Morrelle, a successful ante-bellum merchant of Covington, Ga. He went into his father-in-law's store as a partner in the business and continued in this enterprise until the war broke out, and he entered the Confederate army in May, 1861. He enlisted in the Second Georgia battalion and went out as a private in the Floyd rifles, organized in Macon in 1845. This company was known as Company C of the battalion. After a gallant service of twelve months he re-enlisted in the Forty-fifth Georgia regiment, commanded

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by his brother, Col. Thomas Hardeman. He served as a private under this com- mand for one year, after which he was made assistant quartermaster. At the time of the surrender he was acting as adjutant of his regiment. After the war he returned to Covington, but remained for only a short while. He then went to Macon, where he became bookkeeper for Hardeman & Sparks, cotton factors, remaining with them until 1876, when he was employed as bookkeeper in the office of Comptroller W. L. Goldsmith until 1884. He then entered the race for state treasurer and was elected for a term of two years. He has held that position ever since in the full confidence of the people of Georgia. The popularity of Mr. Hardeman with all classes in the state is explained by his genial and attractive social qualities and by his rugged honesty. He is known from Dade to Chatham as "Uncle Bob," and he seems to enjoy this familiar distinction. Mr. Hardeman is the president of the Southern Home Loan and Building association. His home since 1877 has been at Oxford, Ga., about forty miles from Atlanta, on the Georgia railroad. He is fond of his home and makes the trip back and forth daily. Mr. Hardeman has five living children, three sons and two daughters. His friends all over Georgia unite in the wish that his robust health may long continue and that Georgia for many years to come will reap the benefit of his patriotic and jealous guardianship of the people's money.

HAYES. Of all the early settlers of that portion of the state now known as Newton county, few came earlier, and none are now more influential or more highly esteemed than the Hayes family. Its advent precedes the organization of the county nearly a score of years, and the members of the family have been important factors in promoting its development and growth. The paternal grand- parents of the subjects of the following sketches were George and Sarah (Graham) Hayes. He was born in Virginia, whence when a young man he migrated to South Carolina. About 1805 he came to Georgia and settled in what is now New- ton county. He was a soldier in the last war with Great Britain, taught in the public schools, and was a justice of the peace many years.

ROBERT L. HAYES was born in South Carolina and came to Georgia and cleared land between the Two Bear creeks a year or two prior to the removal of the family. He was the first actual settler; there were, however, many squat- ters. He dug the first well ever dug, and rived the first boards ever rived in the county. He married Miss Sarah Penn, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Bur- dine) Penn, native South Carolinians. He was raised a farmer and followed farm- ing all his life.

JAMES L. HAYES, farmer, Hayston, Newton Co., Ga., son of Robert L. and Sarah (Penn) Hayes, was born in Newton county in 1839. He was raised on the farm and received such education as was obtainable at the "old-field" schools of his boyhood days. In 1862 he enlisted in Company B, Capt. Simms, Fifty-third Geor- gia regiment, Col. Doyal. With his command, he participated in the seven-days' fight around Richmond, and the Maryland campaign, including the battle of Sharpsburg. Being taken sick, he was laid off, but by the time his command reached Staunton he rejoined it. A wound received at Chancellorsville rendered him ineffective for soldier-service, and he was sent home. But about seven months afterward he returned to the army and was appointed wagon-master, under Maj. Thompson, in the quartermaster's department. In a short time he rejoined the army, but being again adjudged unfit for field duty, was re-appointed wagon- master, and was in North Carolina at the time of the surrender. Very few men, in any sphere of life-civil or military-professional or political-ever more per-

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sistently endeavored to do what they conscientiously felt it to be their duty to do than Mr. Hayes tried to do during the war, according to the above recital. He came back from the war without a dollar, but by close attention to his farming interests and judicious investment, he has become the owner of a 600-acre farm, and on it a good home and substantial improvements, possessing, along with these, the esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens. Mr. Hayes was married in 1859 to Miss Margaret L .- born in Newton county-daughter of John and Jane (Weldon) Cowan, of old Georgia families. They have only one child-P. B. Mr. Hayes is a master Mason, and himself and wife are members of the Presbyterian church.

GEORGE F. HAYES, tanner and farmer, Hayston, Newton Co., Ga., son of Robert L. and Sarah (Penn) Hayes, was born in Newton county in 1829. All the education he received was that obtained at the "old-field" school during the leisure intervals in farm work. He was raised a farmer, but after reaching manhood he engaged in tanning, in which he has continued in connection with his farm. In 1862 he enlisted in Company F, Capt. J. M. Simmers, Forty-second Georgia regi- ment, Col. Henderson, and gallantly served through the war. After the surrender he resumed work in his tannery and has prospered. He, too, lives on a part of the land first settled upon by his grandfather, and shares with his brothers the popularity and esteem which is the reward of probity of character and good citizen- ship. Mr. Hayes was married in 1857 to Miss E. F. Marks, daughter of Robert and Nancy P. (Bolton) Marks, formerly of Warren county, Ga., of which the family was among the early settlers. Eight children have been born to them: Jeanette, Chloe, Floyd, Emma, Fannie, Joe, Queen, and Maggie. Mrs. Hayes is a devoted and useful member of the Baptist church.

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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. II, Part 94

Author: Publication date: 1859 Publisher: Atlanta, Ga., The Southern historicl association Number of Pages: 1166

Author:
Publication date: 1859
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga., The Southern historicl association
Number of Pages: 1166