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WALTER PRICE, of Prairie Point, was born August 25, 1854, at Brooksville, Noxubee County, Miss., the son o Edward Mobley Price and wife, Sarah (Taliaferro) Price. His paternal ancestors came from South Carolina; maternal from Virginia; his mother's grandfather, Benjamin Taila · ferro, was a Captain in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Price obtained his early education in the common schools; the principal school that he attended was at Brooksville, which was then conducted by a veteran of the Confederate Army- Captain T. J. Stokes; owing to impoverishment caused by the war his parents could not aid him in gaining a collegiate education. His occupation has always been that of a farmer, and he has lived all of his life in Noxubee County. He was elected a member of the County Board of Super- visors in 1892, and to the State Senate in 1896, and re-elected November 5, 1907. He is a Democrat; has been a member of the County Executive Committee; was a delegate to the National Convention at Chicago which first nominated Bryan. He is a member of the M. E. Church, South, and has held the office of Recording Steward, also-Superintendent of Sunday-school for twenty years; is an Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias. Senator Price was married July 7, 1880, to Bettie Caroline Dixon, daughter of Judge Thomas Holliday Dixon and Margaret Ann (Koger) Dixon. His wife's grand- father, Major Joseph Koger, served in the War of 1812, and later was for a number of years in the Mississippi Senate, retiring in 1856 at the age of seventy-two. Mr. and Mrs. Price have two children: Mary Rhoda Price, at home, and Edward Thomas Price, instructor in Polytechnic College. Forth Worth, Texas.
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SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT. Leake and Neshoba Counties.
ROBERT LEE BRELAND, of Philadelphia, was born November 25, 1870, near Union, Neshoba County, Miss., and is the son of Oliver Franklin Breland and wife, Minerva (Odom) Breland. His paternal ancestors came to America from Scotland and settled in South Carolina; maternal ancestors came from England. His great-grandfather Bre- land was a soldier of the Revolution under Marion; maternal great-grandfather was also a soldier of the Revolution. The father of the subject of this sketch was a Baptist min- ister and served four years as a Confederate soldier. Mr. Breland attended the primary schools of Neshoba County and the high schools at Dixon, Miss .; was a teacher in the Neshoba County schools from 1893 to 1900; elected County Superintendent of Education of Neshoba County 1899; elected to the House of Representatives November 3, 1903 Mr. Breland is a Democrat; member of the Baptist Church deacon; Mason, Odd Fellow and Woodman of the World: was married November 1, 1894, to Rosa Lee Johnson, daugh- - ter of Cornelius Johnson and wife, Matilda (Tullos) Johnson, of Dixon, Miss. Senator and Mrs. Breland have two chil- dren: Clyde Lamont and Hazel Lee. In the House of 1904- 1908 Mr. Breland was a member of the following committees: Liquor Traffic, Manufactures and Census and Apportion- ment.
EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT. Madison County.
ELISHA BRYAN HARRELL, of Canton, was born April 27, 1868, near Old Vaiden, in Carroll County, Miss. He is the son of George B. Harrell and wife, Mary Eliza (Cross) Harrell. His ancestors on both sides were Missis- sippians; paternal grandfather lived at Hernando, mater- nal at Vaiden; his father served through the Civil War in the First Mississippi Cavalry. Mr. Harrell obtained his early education in rural schools; attended Water Valley High School under J. R. Preston for three years; entered Millsaps College and took his degree as Bachelor of Laws in 1900. He began practicing law at Madison Station in 1901; removed to Canton in 1904; served as Deputy Chancery Clerk for one year, then resumed the practice of law in that town; was elected Clerk of the city of Canton in 1906, and State Senator in 1907. He is a Democrat, a Presbyterian and a Knight of Pythias. He was married May 29, 1896, near Madison Station to Sallie Catherine Ray, daughter of William Anderson Ray and wife, Martha E. (Glass) Ray. His wife's father was a Methodist preacher and a farmer, well known in Madison and Neshoba Counties.
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NINETEENTH DISTRICT. Yazoo County.
WASHINGTON DORSEY GIBBS, of Yazoo City, Miss., son of Quesney Dibrell Gibbs and wife, Sarah Dorsey Gibbs, was born August 6, 1839, at Breckenridge Hall, Yazoo County, Miss. His paternal ancestors were English and immigrated to Virginia before the Revolutionary War; maternal came to America about the time that Lord Balti- more made his first settlement in Maryland, from which place they moved to Kentucky. Quesney Dibrell Gibbs was a lawyer of Nashville, Tenn., and moved to Manches- ter (now Yazoo City) in 1837; was a member of the Missis- sippi Legislature in 1862, and in that year raised a company of which he was elected Captain, and served in the Thirtieth Mississippi Regiment, Walthall's Brigade, C. S. A. He was stricken with camp fever in 1862 and was sent home, where he died a short time after. He was the son of George W. Gibbs and wife, Lee Ann (Dibrell) of Nashville, Tenn. George W. Gibbs' father was a soldier in the Revolution, and his wife's father, Charles Dibrell, was an officer in "Light Horse" Harry Lee's Brigade. Washington Dorsey Gibbs received his primary education in Yazoo County, after which he entered West Tennessee College at Jackson, Tenn., and later the University of Nashville. He was a student of the University of Virginia in 1856, 1857, 1858; was graduated in law from the Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1859. After graduation he did not practice law, but devoted himself to agricultural pursuits and to politics. In March, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Wirt Adams' regiment of cavalry, and while on a scout in December, 1863, was cap- tured and imprisoned at Camp Morton, where he remained until February, 1865. During his imprisonment he was made a Sergeant of his company. He was a member of the State Senate from 1878 to 1882: member of House of Rep- resentatives 1886-88, and Presidential Elector in 1876 and 1888. In 1860 he supported the Bell and Everett ticket, but since the Civil War has been a member of the Demo- cratic party. In 1875 he took an active part in.the over- throw of Carpetbag rule in Mississippi. He was endorsed for Congress by his county in 1875, 1886, 1890, 1896. He was elected to the State Senate from Yazoo County Novem- ber 5, 1907. Senator Gibbs is a member of the Methodist Church, and is a Mason. He was married January 11, 1860, to Louisa Johnson, daughter of John Johnson and wife, Loraine (Higginbotham) Johnson, of Yazoo County. Mrs. Gibbs' ancestors came from South Carolina during territorial days; she died in 1879. Senator Gibbs has five children: Lula (Gibbs) Kirk, Quesney Dibrell, Washington Dorsey, Lee and John Johnson.
TWENTIETH DISTRICT. Sharkey and Issaquena Counties.
HAZLEWOOD POWER FARISH, of Mayersville, was born September 14, 1880, at that place, the son of Robert Davis Farish and wife, Caroline Harrison (Power) Farish. His father was a soldier in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; in civil life was a practicing physician in Issa-
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quena County; was County Health Officer for years; also for several years was Chairman of the County Democratic Executive Committee. Mr. Farish attended the public schools of Issaquena County, and later was a student at Jefferson Military College at Washington Miss. He entered the Law School of the University of Mississippi and was graduated therefrom in 1899, with degree of LL.B .; since that date he has followed the active practice of law in his town and county. He served as Lieutenant of the First Regiment Mississippi National Guard in 1897; has been attorney for the Board of Supervisors of Issaquena County for the past five years; was member of the State Legislature during the session of 1906 and elected Senator from the Twentieth District in 1907. Mr. Farish is a Democrat, and was Secretary of the County Executive Committee for sev- eral years; is a member of the Episcopal Church and of the Knights of Pythias, having served as Chancellor Commander of his Lodge. He was married at New Orleans, La., Novem- ber 14, 1906, to Mildred Henrietta Lillard. His wife died June 9, 1907.
TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT. Holmes County.
SAMUEL NEELY SAMPLE, of Ebenezer, was born August 22, 1856, near Franklin, in Holmes County, Miss. and is the son of Samuel Sample and wife, Harriet (Paulling) Sample. His father was a physician and planter of Holmes County; died July 5, 1858, in the fiftieth year of his age. Mr. Sample attended the primary schools of Holmes County in an irregular way until he was fourteen years of age, when he was given a position as clerk in a store; has been engaged in the mecrantile business since that time, also planting: member of Board of Supervisors of Holmes County 1892- 1896; Alderman of Ebenezer for twelve years; elected to the House of Representatives from Holmes County November 3, 1903. Mr. Sample is a Democrat; Chairman of County Committee for years; member of Presbyterian Church, . elder; Mason, Knight of Pythias and Woodman of the World; married February 25, 1902, at Yazoo City, Miss., to Mary Read Eggleston, daughter of Edmund Trent Eggleston and wife, Mary (Read) Eggleston. Mrs. Sample's ancestors came to Mississippi from Kentucky and Virginia. Senator and Mrs. Sample have three children: Samuel Edmund Walter Payne and Eugene Carter. In the House of 1904- 1908 Mr. Sample was a member of the following commit- tees: Ways and Means, Levees, Registration and Election, Investigating State Offices, and is the author of the Anti- Lobbying resolution, which was adopted by the House early in the session of 1906. He is also the author of what is known as the "Sample Labor Contract Law," as well as the sections of the Code of 1906 placing a $500 tax on peddlers selling medicine and merchandise on credit, where security was taken. He was elected to the Senate from the Twenty- first District (Holmes County) November 5, 1907. Senator Sample is Chairman of the Finance Committee and member of the Temperance and other important committees.
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Wiley Sanders
J. Lem Seawright.
TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT.
WILEY SANDERS, of Kosciusko, was born July 26, 1852, in Jefferson County, Ala., and is the son of Absolom Sanders and wife, Anna (Dickinson) Sanders. His paternal ancestors were from North Carolina; maternal from Georgia ; both coming originally from England. William Sanders, grandfather of subject of this sketch, was a soldier of the Revolution; subject's father served in war against Seminole Indians. Mr. Sanders attended the schools of Attala County under the instruction of James Dennis and R. V. Wall; occupation, editor and farmer; elected a member of the House of Representatives from Attala County in 1884; elected State Senator from Attala County (Twenty-second District) in 1899; re-elected November 3, 1903, and Novem- ber 5, 1907. Mr. Sanders is a Democrat, member of the Baptist Church, Knights of Pythias; was married April 27, 1884, to Fannie J. Stokes, daughter of Richard Stokes and wife, Rebecca, of Grenada County, Miss. Senator and Mrs. Sanders have seven children: Harold B., Stokes L., Fannie Z., Marcie B., Paul H., Roger W. and Ethel. In the Senate of 1904-1908 Mr. Sanders was a member of the following Committees: Agriculture, Commerce and Manufactures, Education and Penitentiary and Prisons, Revision Code of 1906; was instrumental in the final passage of the uniform textbook bill in 1904.
TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT. Oktibbeha and Choctaw Counties.
J. LEM SEAWRIGHT, of Ackerman, was born October 31, 1871, in Attala County, Miss., the son of Robert M. and wife, Mary (Townsend) Seawright. His father was a native of Mississippi, his mother of Alabama; the former served in the Confederate Army, a soldier of the Thirty-fifth Missis- sippi Infantry; at the time of his death in 1893, he was Treas- urer of Choctaw County. Mr. Seawright attended the common schools of Choctaw County, also taking a course at French Camp Academy, where he graduated in 1890. During the same year he took up his residence in Ackerman and began newspaper work. In time he became editor and publisher of the Ackerman Plaindcaler. While carrying on his edi- torial labors he took up the study of law and decided to adopt a legal career. In 1902 he passed his examination and was admitted to the bar, after which he leased his newspaper and entered into a professional partnership with S. R. Hughston in Ackerman. Mr. Seawright has held a number of civil offices; in 1893 he was appointed County Treasurer to fill the unexpired term of his father, serving two years in that office, and he served for four years as Alderman, in which post, by virtue of his office, he was Town Treasurer; also for six years he was Trustee of Acker- man graded schools. In 1900 he was elected to the State Senate from the Twenty-third District, and was elected a second time November 6, 1907. Senator Seawright is a Democrat, has been Secretary of the County Executive Com- mittee for four years, and has also served as Secretary of the Congressional Committee. In 1904 he was chosen
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Presidential Elector from the Fourth Congressional District, · and was selected to carry the returns to Washington. He is a member of the M. E. Church and is affiliated with the Ma- sons, Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows and Woodmen of the World. He was married February 15, 1903, to Mallie Hunt, daughter of William T. and Fannie (Neal) Hunt, of Acker- man. Mr. and Mrs. Seawright have two children: Mildred and J. Lem, Jr.
TWENTY-FOURTH DISTRICT. Clay and Webster Counties.
FREDERICK GEORGE BARRY, of West Point, Miss., son of John Barry and Maria (Gannon) Barry, was born at Woodbury, Tenn., January 12, 1845. His father was 'a native of Dublin, Ireland, the son of John and Francis Barry, who belonged to a prominent Episcopal family of that city. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and held positions of trust in the banks of Dublin and Ennis, Ireland. He married Maria Gannon, the daughter of a well-to-do Catholic, and came to the United Statesabout 1844, arriving first in New York City, and soon after settling at Woodbury, Tenn., where he engaged in school teaching and merchandising, after failing to get title and possession of government lands, which he had purchased in New York. In 1852 he removed to Nashville, Tenn., and was promi- nent in the business and social circles of that place. He died in that city February 12, 1858, a devoted Mason, whose funeral obsequies were attended with distinguished Masonic honors in that city. Frederick George Barry was left an orphan in early youth, and received few educational advan- tages. At the age of thirteen he came to Mississippi and secured employment in a store. While assisting in the Circuit Clerk's office at Aberdeen he studied law, and about 1869 was licensed to practice, having stood his examination in open court before Judge J. M. Acker, William F. Dowd and R. O. Reynolds, who commended him in very flattering terms. He was City Clerk of Aberdeen for a term of two years; city Tax Collector for unexpired term of nine months, and City Attorney of West Point for a number of years. He is a Democrat; was Elector at large from Mississippi on the Hancock ticket; served in the Confederate Army in Company E, Eighth Regiment Confederate Cavalry, through- out the war, and was elected to the State Senate in 1875, in which capacity he seryed four years, and in 1878 introduced and pushed to its passage the first bill in the South (except Georgia) regulating railroads. In 1884 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives; was re-elected in 1886, after which, with no opposition, he voluntarily retired for the purpose of resuming his law practice. On November 5, 1907, he was elected to the Mississippi State Senate, the nomination having been unanimously tendered him at the preceding primary. Mr. Barry was married to Martha George, daughter of Lindsey and Elizabeth (Bibb) George, of Aberdeen, Miss., May 21, 1871. Mrs. Barry, on the maternal side, was descended from the Bibb family of
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Alabama. She died a few years after her marriage, leaving one child, Martha Amanda, who became the wife of Dr. L. G. Nisbet, of Aberdeen. By a later marriage Mr. Barry has one child, Jennie.
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Lee McMillan.
TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT. Lowndes County.
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MALCOLM ARGYLE FRANKLIN, of Columbus, was born December 1, 1862, at Columbus, Miss., and is the son of Sidney Smith Franklin and wife, Ann Eliza (Campbell) Franklin. His paternal ancestors came to Mississippi from New York, maternal from Tennessee. Mr. Franklin attended the primary schools of Columbus; engaged in merchandising and planting; elected to the House of Representatives from Lowndes County in 1895, and re-elected in 1899; elected to the State Senate from the Twenty-fifth District November 3, 1903. Senator Franklin is a Democrat; member of the Baptist Church; Mason. He is unmarried. During his service in the Legislature he has served on some of its most important committees, and has always been a steadfast advo- cate of liberal appropriations to the educational institutions of the State. He has been instrumental in securing ample State aid for the State Industrial Institute and College for young women, located at Columbus. In the Senate of 1904- 1908 Mr. Franklin was a member of the following commit- tees: Finance, Banks and Banking, Penitentiary and Prisons, Insurance, Joint Committee Universities and Colleges. He was re-elected to the Senate from Lowndes County Novem- ber 5, 1907, and at the expiration of his present term will have had a continuous legislative service of sixteen years.
TWENTY-SIXTH DISTRICT. Carroll and Montgomery Counties.
LEE McMILLAN, of Carrollton, was born April 29, 1847. at that place, the son of Smith McMillan and wife, Obedience Annette (Hall) McMillan. His maternal ancestors were Scotch-Irish and emigrated first to Pennsylvania, thence to Virginia, later part of the family went to the Carolinas; his maternal ancestors came from England to Georgia. The maternal grandmother of the subject of this sketch was one of the Runnells family, originally from Virginia; her father sat in Mississippi's first Constitutional Convention; her brother was Governor H. G. Runnells, of Mississippi, and Governor H. R. Runnells of Texas was her cousin. Lyman Hall, a maternal ancestor, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence from Georgia. Mr. McMillan attended the rural schools of his vicinity and the Middleton High School; enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1862 at the age of fifteen in the Twenty-eighth Mississippi Cavalry, serving until the surrender in April, 1865. After the war he entered the University of Mississippi, but did not graduate. In 1869 he began the life of a cotton planter, which he con- tinued many years. He was a member of the Board of Education of his county from the enactment of the school law until 1894. In that year he went to Washington and
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took the office of file clerk in the House of Representa- tives, serving until January 1, 1896; from that' date till March, 1897, was a clerk of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission; then was transferred to the office of Secretary of the United States Senate, where he served until April, 1900, and then returned home. Since the law was enacted cre- ating County Pension Boards he has been President of the Board of Pension Commissioners of Carroll County. Was elected to the State Senate November 5, 1907. Mr. Mc- Millan is a Democrat; was a member of his County Execu- tive Committee during the upheaval of 1875, and many years since. He is a Presbyterian and an elder in his Church; has been a Mason since 1871. He was married January 6, 1869, near Carrollton to Mattie Buchanan, daughter of Thomas Edmondson Buchanan and wife, Sarah Ann (Edmondson) Buchanan. His wife's family was from Georgia. Senator and Mrs. McMillan have one living child, Joseph Lewis Mc- Millan, of Valley Hill, Mississippi.
TWENTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT. Leflore and Tallahatchie Counties.
ROBERT VAN BUREN POLLARD, of Greenwood, was born November 13, 1871, at Erin, Houston County, Tenn., the son of James Joseph Pollard and wife, Sarah Elizabeth (Turner) Pollard. His ancestors on both sides were descendants of early Virginian settlers; his mother's grandfather served in the Revolutionary War and in the War of 1812; his father was a soldier in the Fiftieth Ten- nessee Infantry during the Civil War, and in 1875 was a member of the Tennessee Legislature. Mr. Pollard attended the public schools of his county, then entered the Edgewood Normal School, where he took the degree of B. S .; was at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., for three sessions; next studied for a time at the Jennings Business College, Nashville, Tenn .; then entered the National Normal Uni- versity, Lebanon, Ohio, where he took the A. B. degree. He studied law in the office of Messrs. Rush and Gardner, Greenwood, Miss .; passed the Supreme Court examination, and began the practice of law at that place December I, 1898, in which he has since been steadily engaged. He is a Democrat, a member of the M. E. Church, South, and one of the Board of Stewards; also is a Master Mason of his lodge. He was married September 3, 1903, at Columbus, to Bettie Freear Young, daughter of John Davis Young and Alice Baskerville Young, of that city. His wife's paternal ances- tors came to Mississippi from Tennessee and those on her mother's side from Virginia. Senator and Mrs. Pollard have two children: Robert Van Buren, Jr., and John Davis.
TWENTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT. Yalobusha and Grenada Counties.
FRANCIS HIGDON HARPER, of Grenada County, Miss., son of Thomas Walter Harper and wife, Mary ('Tyner) Harper, was born in Carroll County, Miss., June 6, 1872. His father was a native of Tennessee, and was the son of Higdon Robinson Harper and Sarah (Pierce) Harper.
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He came to Carroll County, Miss., with his parents when a child and continued to make his home in the State through life. He was a soldier in the Confederate Army; belonged to the Grenada Rifles, Company G, Fifteenth Mis- sissippi Regiment, and participated in all the battles that engaged Johnston's army. He surrendered at Greensboro, N. C., April 26, 1865, holding the rank of Sergeant. His wife was the daughter of Walter Pierce, of Halifax County, N. C. Francis Higdon Harper received his early education at Ebenezer, Carroll County, Miss. He attended the Missis- sippi Normal College at Houston, Miss., 1895-97, after which he became a teacher in the public schools of the State. He has been a member of the Grenada County Board of Exam- iners for teachers since 1904. At the outbreak of the Span- ish-American War he volunteered and came to Jackson for enlistment, but failed to pass the examination. He was elected to the State Senate November 5, 1907, from the Twenty-eighth District. Senator Harper is unmarried.
TWENTY-NINTH DISTRICT. Washington and Sunflower Counties.
JOHN LAWRENCE HEBRON, JR., of Greenville, was born July 6, 1864, at Vicksburg, Miss., and is the son of John Lawrence Hebron and Ellen (Ellington) Hebron. The father of the subject of this sketch was a physician, and a surgeon in the Confederate Army; member of House of Representatives in 1876; lessee of State Penitentiary, 1877- 1878; paternal ancestors came from Virginia. Mr. Hebron attended Mississippi College in 1877, 1878, 1879; entered the University of Mississippi in 1881; continued there six years; received department diplomas, Freshman medal won in 1883; Phi Sigma Anniversarian in 1884; was graduated from Law School in 1887 with LL.B. degree; County Attorney of Wash- ington County, 1896-1900; elected State Senator Novem- ber 3, 1903. Mr. Hebron is a Democrat; served on County and District Executive Committees; member of Presbyterian Church and Knights of Pythias, Delta Psi; married July 6, 1893, at Senatobia, Miss., to Lula Dean, daughter of John M. and Martha (Crawford) Dean. Senator and Mrs. Hebron have three children: Corinne, Dean and Cora. In the Senate of 1904-1908 Mr. Hebron was a member of the following committees: Printing, Railroads and Franchises, Military, Levees, Temperance. He is now a member of the Board of Trustees of the State University, and President of the Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners, and was re-elected to the Senate from the Twenty-ninth District November 5. 1907. Senator Hebron is President pro tem of the Senate and a member of some of its most important committees.
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