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الاقتمسمه
Wast. Frampton.
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the graduating class. The words "Noblesse oblige" are inscribed on the cup.
Doctor Frampton is a member of the American Medical Association and other medical societies, be- longs to St. Andrews Society, the South Carolina Society, Kiwanis Club, member of the adjunct fac- ulty Medical College, State of South Carolina, is a member of the American Legion, surgeon for the Southern Railway Company, and is a Mason, Moose and a Woodman of the World.
Doctor Frampton is interested in biographical work, especially medical biography, and has written a book on medical biography of the physicians of Charleston, including local medical history.
LANE MULLALLY, M. D. Former President of
Association of Surgeons of Southern Railway
Company.
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen :-
To borrow an expression from one of the literary giants, "it is chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy" that I address this Convention. Sweet in that not being unremindful of the honor. conferred upon me in the privilege of addressing you and for which I am deeply appreciative. Bitter because of the occasion having arisen for me to speak on the subject.
Perhaps it would not be amiss to express to the Convention a word on the subject of Medical Biography. Great is the human interest felt in biography. What are the dramas that people crowd to see but so much acted biography? Man, himself, is, of all things in the world, the most interesting to man. Whatever relates to human life-its experi- ences, its joys, its sufferings and its achievements,- has attractions for him beyond all else. It would indeed be difficult to over-estimate the influence which the lives of the great and good have exercised upon the elevation of human character. We-never feel personally interested in masses of men but we feel and sympathize with the individual actors, whose biographies afford the finest and most real touches. and with all great historical dramas. Though the richest romance lies enclosed in actual human life, and though biography, because it deseribes beings who have actually felt the joys and sorrows, experi- ences, difficulties and triumphs of real life, is capable of being made more attractive than the most perfeet fiction ever written, it is remarkable that so few men of genius have been attracted to the composition of works of this kind. Great works of fiction abound but great biographies are few in number. Many in- deed are the lives worthy of record that have re- mained unwritten. So the thought that I want to convey to you is in the nature of an appeal to keep this idea in mind so that in the coming years we will take a more decided interest in medical biography and demand that worthy records of the lives of our great colleagues be perpetuated and their great ex- amples become the common heritage of our race. And their great deeds and thoughts will be be the most glorious legacies to mankind.
"My thoughts are with the dead; with them 1 live in long past years ; Their virtues love, their faults condemn; Partake their hopes and fears; And from their lessons seek and find Instruction with a noble mind."
To give you anything like a true conception of the life of Dr. Lane Mullally is indeed a great task, as I feel my immense unfitness for a work of this kind, but as he was so close to me and such a dear friend I feel it my duty to keep bright, as long as I can, his memory in the minds of those who knew him, for the study of his life will feed us with inspira- tion. It is one thing to know a man and recognize his splendid attributes of mind and character, but it is quite another thing to have the ability to make others see as you yourself have seen.
Of the salient facts of his career let me give you a brief resume. * * * His parentage is interest- ing. His father was a Presbyterian Minister born in Tipperary, Ireland. His mother was born in Tur- key. the daughter of a missionary. *
* * Lane Mullally was born in Pendleton, South Carolina, fifty- four years ago. Here he was raised on a plantation as a country lad, and in this beautiful country he spent his happy childhood days. But being the son of a minister, who had calls to various parishes in several states, he remained only a few years in one place. He began his collegiate work at Washington and Lee University, completing his course at the University of South Carolina, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Fulfilling the desire that had been in his mind for many years, he entered the Medical College of South Carolina, where in 1890 he graduated with distinction. He accepted an in- terneship in the Roper Hospital in addition to being a licensed pharmacist. Taking advantage of the op- portunity given him he packed the treasury of his mind with vast knowledge, and having now had suffi- cient experience he accepted the position of city physician, commencing his medical career in Charles- ton, South Carolina. His Alma Mater appreciating his ability, secured his services as demonstrator of anatomy, which position he held for many years. He was then elected Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Children, teaching in these branches with his usual untiring zeal and ability until a few years ago, when the college was re-organized and made a state institution. At this time Doctor Mul- lally was elected Vice-Dean and Professor of Obstetrics. It was shortly after this that his failing health prevented him from taking an active part in his chosen work. Thus forced to retire, he was again honored by the college by being elected to Emeritus Professor.
For five years he served on the board of commis- sioners of Roper Hospital, and as chairman his judi- cious management rendered this period of his serv- ice most profitable to the hospital. Though his time. for other pursuits, was limited because of his immense practice, he found time to instill a new interest into fraternal orders by virtue of his ad- mired personality and wit. He was Chancellor Com- mander of Carolina Lodge Knights of Pythias and Master of Washington Lodge Free Masonry.
To him his appointment as surgeon for the South-
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ern Railway Company was always a bright spot in his medical career. And he was justly proud of the honor conferred upon him when at the first conven- tion of the Association of Surgeons of the Southern Railway System that he attended lie was elected president. His heart was in the work and the speaker recalls often the joy and extreme delight which would come to him when he spoke of this work. He was fond of the employes and they in turn admired and respected him. He was a cosmo- politan of the broadest scope, spending many mo- ments with them, even the poorest laborers, but still so ordering his familiarity that it never raised them to a contempt but entertained, at the same time, a respect and love of him. I will mention a few of the other distinctions that he enjoyed. Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Fellow of the South- ern and Gynecological Association, Fellow of the American Medical Association and President of the Medical Society of South Carolina. His favorite field . of medicine was obstetrics, in which Doctor Mullally was a master. He understood its theory and practice. As a lecturer he was an artist, and the students who had the privilege of listening 10 his wealth of language will never forget him. There were no confining limits to his thought as it wan- dered freely through space, and from his mind there poured forth a Niagara of lessons to be learned. Several years ago he read a paper on Cæsarean Sec- tion before the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association, recommending this radical procedure in pueperal eclampsia. Being, as it was, a radical procedure, the paper brought forth considerable discussion, however, subsequently proving that he was ahead of the times.
Thus we see in the field of medicine Doctor Mull- ally was a man of great gifts and transcendent force of thought and energy; yet this phase of him was not near so great as that of his personality and genial worth as a friend. He possessed a radiant personality, his magnetism was irresistible, and it was impossible to know him, to come in con- tact with him, without falling under the inspiration of his thought and purpose. You were drawn to him, and, as it were, became a co-partner with him the moment you crossed into the circle of his per- sonality. The friendship you bore for him differed from that you held for all others. There was in it a subtle quality that made it more than friendship, which elevated it to the pedestal of love. Those that knew him did not like him, they loved him. He was the type of man to whom you would go when the heart is harrowed with sorrow and the mind aflame with doubt. No skeleton in the closet was so ghastly as to make you not willing to uncover it in the fullest confidence. He possessed the ability to smooth away all difficulties but at the same time never burdening you with his own. One rare quality that he pos- sessed was the certainty of his unreserved sympathy, for this "is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others." He was a spendthrift in sympathy; for the current of his thought flowed ever outward, ever towards others, ever towards places where burdens might be lightened or sorrow assuaged, and where tears of grief might be dried by words and acts of kindness and sympathy. He was the apostle of sun- shine and checrfulness. There was no smallness in
him, never unjust to his enemies and to stoop to bitterness, mischief or malice was foreign to his nature. He was brave, strong and genuine, noble and true. His whole character radiated good fel- lowship, for he loved his fellow man. He possessed those characteristics and instincts which prompted him to do the gentlemanly thing instantly and under every, and all circumstances. In personal appearance Doctor Mullally was handsome, with a broad fore- head and large, clear brown eyes, in which were mirrored the kindness and sympathy of his big soul. Physically he was a large man, but there was a snap and grace about him, at once attractive and indica- tive of great moral and mental force. The external grace of his character was his manners, which con- tributed largely in making his surroundings agree- able and pleasant. This external attribute was the plenipotentiary of his inner nature.
"Manners are not idle, but the fruit Of noble nature and loyal mind."
He possessed an unusually keen sense of humor which will always remain vivid in our memory, and even when it became evident to himself and others that his malady was incurable, there was but one outcome, his sense of humor did not lose its lustre, he continued to brighten the lives of those around him. Being wonderfully self-controlled. he remained considerate of others and in his last illness he bore all his terrible suffering patiently, cheerfully, heroic- ally-with more thought for his loved ones than for himself. There is no greater courage than this.
When death had relieved him of his suffering sur- rounded by a host of sorrowing friends we laid him away in beautiful Magnolia Cemetery. Over his last resting place no great mausoleum may he erected but in the hearts of his friends he built for himself a monument of love which can vanish only with the last heart beat of the last one of them all.
This paper was read before the Association of Surgeons Southern Railway System, June 2, 1920, Washington, D. C.
JOHN THOMAS STEVENS' sphere of influence has been an extensive one in the business affairs of the little Town of Kershaw, where he has been closely associated with the vital interests of the community for the past twenty-two years.
Mr. Stevens was born in Lancaster County, South Carolina, December 1. 1869, a son of James H. W. and Anna Cureton Stevens He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and in - Tune, 1913, was married to Miss Edna Sitgreaves, of Laurens, South Carolina. As a boy he attended the public schools in Lancaster, but tiring of books at an early age he went to work. He first worked as a clerk in offices and stores, but at the age of twenty-two went into the lumber business for himself. By hard work and perseverance he made a success of this, and after a few years moved to the Town of Kershaw, where he became connected with the Kershaw Mer- cantile and Banking Company, of which he soon became president. He was one of the organizers of the Bank of Kershaw and was vice president for two years, since when he has been president.
The medium through which Mr. Stevens is best known, not only in his native state but in others, is
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that of the cotton seed industry as he has been very closely associated with it for the past fifteen years. He organized and has since been president of the Kershaw Oil Mill of Kershaw, South Carolina, the Lancaster Cotton Oil Company of Lancaster, South Carolina, and the Marion Cotton Oil Company of Marion, South Carolina. During the term of 1913- 1914 he was president of the South Carolina Cotton Seed Crushers Association, of which he is an active member.
Mr. Stevens organized and is now serving as pres- ident of the Catawba Fertilizer Company of Lan- caster, South Carolina, the Merchants and Farmers Bank of Bethune, South Carolina, and the Haile Gold Mining Corporation of Kershaw, South Caro- lina. He is also president of the Kershaw Tele- phone Company, and vice president of the Lancaster and Chester Railway.
He has always been active in local affairs, having served as a county commissioner for Lancaster County for the best part of the last ten years. During the late war lie was a member of the State Council of Defense. Outside of the business inter- ests of Mr. Stevens he is a successful farmer, own- ing considerable lands in both Lancaster and Ker- shaw counties.
COL. JOSEPH NEWTON BROWN, who was colonel of the Fourteenth Regiment of South Carolina Volun- teers in the Confederate Army, is one of the few surviving Confederate officers who commanded South Carolina troops in the great war between the states. Colonel Brown's life and services have meant much to his home city of Anderson, where he has been greatly esteemed not only for his military rec- ord, but as a lawyer, business man and banker for half a century.
Ile was born two miles east of Anderson Decem- ber 16, 1832, son of Samuel and Helena T. (Van- diver) Brown. His paternal grandfather, John Brown, was a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and of English descent. Samuel Brown was a merchant and planter and gave all his life to his business and pri- vate affairs. Helena T. Vandiver was a descendant of Jacob Vander Weer, a Dutch settler of New York in 1650. He was in the Dutch army which captured from the Swedes Fort Christina, now Wilmington, Delaware, in 1655. Colonel Brown's maternal great- grandfather, Edward Vandiver, was a Revolutionary soldier, fought in the battle of Eutaw Springs, and had six sons who were Baptist ministers, one of them being Rev. Sanford Vandiver, the father of Helena T. Vandiver.
Joseph Newton Brown when two years old ac- companied his parents on their removal to Town- ville, and he lived there until he established his home at Laurens in 1855. His people were quite well to do, and he grew up free from financial care and pursued the sports and vocations of the healthy country lad. He attended the old field schools, had some experience as clerk in his father's store, and continued his education in the private schools con- ducted by Wesley Leverett at Anderson and later the Classical School of Wesley Leverett and Man- ning Belcher at Williamston. On removing to Laurens in 1855 Colonel Brown entered mercantile life and soon afterward took up the study of law
with Col. James H. Irby. He was admitted to the bar in 1857, and then became a partner of Colonel Irby under the name Irby & Brown. This partner- ship was dissolved by the death of Colonel Irby in 1860. Colonel Brown then practiced with R. P. Todd, but early in 1861 both partners left their professional business to join the Confederacy in the service of their state.
January II, 1861, Colonel Brown joined Company D, the Abbeville company, Gregg's six months' regi- ment on Sullivan's Island. On March 5th he went to Morris Island and was in a detail in a battery at Light House Inlet during the bombardment and sur- render of Fort Sumter. Mr. Brown was elected captain upon the organization of Company E of the Fourteenth Regiment, and commanded the company at Port Royal Ferry January 1, 1862, the first battle in which the regiment was under fire. The Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth regiments, comprising Gregg's Brigade, were on the coast until April, 1862, when they were ordered to Virginia. There the First Regiment and Orr's Rifles were added to the brigade, which after General Gregg's death was known as McGowan's Brigade, Jackson's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. Colonel Brown com- manded his company at Gaines' Mill June 27, 1862, and was severely wounded in the left arm. At the second battle of Manassas he was again wounded. February 20, 1863, he was commissioned lieutenant- colonel of the Fourteenth Regiment. He com- manded the regiment at Chancellorsville and Gettys- burg, and for his services at the battle of Gettysburg was promoted to colonel, his commission being de- layed, however, until September 17, 1863. The record of the Fourteenth Regiment and incidentally that of Colonel Brown is one of brilliant perform- ance in practically every campaign undertaken by General Lee and General Jackson's forces and in every important battle in the Army of Northern Virginia. Colonel Brown commanded the brigade at times. By a desperate assault the brigade took the Bloody Angle at Spottsylvania Courthouse. Of the early part of the battle Major-General Wilcox's official report stated : "Among the wounded was its chivalric commander, Brig .- Gen. McGowan, and the further command of the brigade devolved upon Colonel Joseph N. Brown, 14th S. C. Regiment. *
* * The brigade held the position without sup- port or relief till four o'clock next morning,"-seven- teen hours' continuous fighting without rest, food, or water, under terrible flank fires and against fresh relays of Federal troops. The Federals reported : "Trees over a foot and a half in diameter were cut in two by musketry. We not only shot down an army, but also a forest. * * * Probably the most desperate engagement in modern warfare."
Colonel Brown was captured at the fall of Peters- burg, and held as a prisoner of war on Johnson's . Island until July, 1865.
After the war Colonel Brown removed to Ander- son and in October, 1865. formed a partnership with T. P. Reed. From 1874 to 18SI he conducted a very large and successful practice alone, there, until 1888, was associated with J. L. Tribble and William S. Brown. Since 1888 he has been practically retired from his profession, taking. however, some impor- tant cases until past his eightieth year. In 1872 he
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took an active part in organizing the State Savings and Insurance Bank; of Anderson, and was also one of the organizers of the National Bank of Anderson in 1873. He was president of the latter institution until it liquidated its affairs in 1892, when it ranked eighth in the United States in the value of stock per share.
Colonel Brown was a member of the Lower House of the Legislature in 1886-87 and drew up the hill for refunding the state debt. He has been a prominent member of the Baptist Church and has served as deacon of the congregation at Anderson for over forty years. In all the state there is no finer example of the true and courageous soldier and the dignified veteran of the great war between the states. Colonel Brown has been successful, whether measured by his accumulations or his services, and has dispensed his good fortune liberally. His name in Anderson has been synonymous with public spirit and generosity. His generosity is especially associated with the Anderson Public Library. This library is housed in one of the most adequate library buildings in the state, and the building in its present form is largely due to the liberality of Colonel Brown, who when Mr. Carnegie refused to increase his allowance to provide for an adequate building, made a gift of $10,000 to the Library Association, which induced Mr. Carnegie to enlarge his gift, thus making it pos- sible to build a larger and better building. Half of Colonel Brown's gift has been used as an endowment fund.
Colonel Brown married Miss Lizzie Louisa Bruce February 28, 1866. She was a daughter of Thomas and Nancy Bruce of Anderson County. Colonel and Mrs. Brown celebrated their golden wedding anni- versary in 1916, and she lived until the following January. Colonel Brown has one daughter, Varina D. Brown.
WALTER PRINGLE. While the name of Pringle has been an honored one in Charleston for nearly two centuries, the proper credit for the notable business achievement of Walter Pringle is only in part due his substantial ancestry, and much more to his in- dustry, ambition and long years of sustained effort.
Walter Pringle is a Charleston wholesale dry goods merchant, head of the firm Pringle Brothers, which in January, 1920, celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary.
· Mr. Pringle had already earned his right to a place among successful business men when he helped found the house of Pringle Brothers in 1895. He had entered the dry goods jobbing business at Charleston in 1877, then a boy of sixteen, and re- cently he told some of his friends the story of how he had done a great deal of hard work the first year at a salary of ten dollars a month, while the second year his stipend was sixteen dollars a month, and in the third year increased to twenty-five dollars. Even then he regarded his employment not in the light of the salary but as an opportunity to learn and master a business, and while in the present era initial salaries have been enormously increased Mr. Pringle advises young men that the road to business success and achievement is practically the same as when he began his career.
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Mr. Pringle was born in Charleston in 1861, son
of Robert and Clara ( Ashmead) Pringle. His . mother was a daughter of Rev. William Ashmead, a native of Philadelphia, who for about six months filled the pulpit as minister of the Flints Presbyte- rian Church. Ashmead Place or Street was in later years given his name.
Did space permit, several pages might be properly devoted to the history of the Pringle family in Charleston. The family was founded in that city in 1735 by Robert Pringle, an attorney and a native of Scotland. His two sons were Dr. Robert and Julius Pringle. Walter Pringle is a descendant of Dr. Robert Pringle. Julius Pringle became a law- yer and served as attorney general in the cabinet of George Washington. Dr. Robert Pringle mar- ried Miss Garden, a daughter of Commissary Gar- den of the old Episcopal parish of St. Philip's.
One of the famous landmarks of Charleston is the noted Pringle house on King Street. It was built by Miles Brewton, an Englishman, who sub- sequently lost his life at sea while on a journey to England. The wife of Miles Brewton was a sister of Julius Pringle. This house was built before the Revolution and the Pringles occupied it as their family residence for a long number of years.
Walter Pringle was educated in the Bennett School at Charleston, and left school to go to work in a dry goods jobbing business in 1877. In 1895 he founded Pringle Brothers, wholesale dry goods and notions, and is president of that company, the other executive officers being Ernest H. Pringle. vice president, Walter Pringle, Jr., vice president, George P. Huard, general manager, F. deL. Kirk, treasurer, and George T. Radcliffe, secretary. In twenty-five years this business bas had a steady growth until the volume of its trade in 1919 ex- ceeded a million dollars. The firm is represented by eight traveling men covering all the territory of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
Mr. Pringle is also interested in other lines, be- ing president of the Charleston Drug Manufacturing Company, the Dawhoo Fertilizer Company and vice president of the Combahee Fertilizer Company. He married Miss Agnes Ewing Buist, daughter of Dr. J. Somers Buist, of Charleston. They have an interesting family of eight children, named Agnes Buist, Walter, Jr., Clara Ashmead, Margaret John- ston, Somers, Elizabeth Garden, Minnie and Mary Johnston.
ROBERT THOMPSON JAYNES. For considerably more than a third of a century Robert Thompson Jaynes has been engaged in the practice of law at Walhalla. In that time he has achieved a high standing in the South Carolina bar and has made his profession not a mere occupation but actually his "life work," and through it has rendered the service to his fellows demanded of his talents and abilities.
A native of South Carolina, he was born on a farm near Richland, Oconee County, February 14, 1862, son of Waddy Thompson and Dellah S. (Rust) Jaynes. The parents were both born in 1833. his father in Oconee County and his mother in Franklin County, daughter of Joseph Rust. The name Javnes, of English origin, was originally . spelled Janes, the "y" being inserted to distinguish it
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