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from James or Jones. Mr. Jaynes' grandparents, William and Catherine (Davis) Jaynes, were both natives of South Carolina.
Waddy T. Jaynes served as a Confederate sol- dier in General Wade Hampton's Legion, and lived nearly forty years after the war, passing away in 1903. His wife died in 1899. They were Methodists and highly esteemed people in that community.
Robert Thompson Jaynes, one of a family of three sons and one daughter, grew up on a farm and left it at the age of eighteen. His early educa- tion was acquired in the country schools, and he took his literary work in Adger College, an insti- tution at Walhalla which prepared many successtul men for their careers. He graduated in 1882 and began the study of law in the office of Wells & Orr at Greenville. He was admitted to the bar in 1884 after examination before the Supreme Court. In the fall of the same year he located at Walhalla and in that one community has kept his home and from it has broadened his influence and service as a lawyer all over that district and the state. He was first in practice with the late Col. Robert An- derson Thompson, the last survivor of the signers of the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession. Thompson & Jaynes continued in practice until 1895, and for the next ten years Mr. Jaynes was the senior member of the law firm of Jaynes & Shelor. Since 1905 he has handled his practice as an individual.
April 1, 1887, he succeeded the late W. C. Keith as editor of the Keowee Courier. He held the editorial chair of this old and substantial journal for nineteen years. He retired after selling his inter- est to J. A. Steck, its present editor. Mr. Jaynes has always been an active and consistent democrat, but has left political honors to others, preferring to devote his time and talents to the practice of law and journalismn. Like his parents, he is a member of the Methodist Church.
December 22, 1886, he married Martha Caroline Steck. She was born in Pennsylvania and was reared in Ohio. Her father, the late Rev. Jacob Steck, D. D., was a Lutheran minister and came to South Carolina from Ohio. For a time he was a teacher in Newberry College, later took charge of the Female College at Walhalla, and eventually re- sumed the work of the ministry. He died at Wal- halla about 1900. and his widow is still living in her ninety-seventh year.
EDWARD HERIOT SPARKMAN, of Charleston, eldest son of Dr. James R. Sparkman and Mary Elizabeth Heriot, was born March 5. 1846, at Birdfield planta- tion, Prince Fredericks Parish, Pee Dee, George- town District. He was educated at his country home, at Charleston, at Abbeville, and at the Hills- boro, North Carolina, Military Academy, leaving his studies in January, 1862, to enter the Confederate service, enlisting as a private and for the war, when about sixteen years of age, in Tucker's squadron of cavalry. At that time his father was surgeon of Gen. W. W. Harllee's Legion, then stationed at Georgetown. He was on duty with his command in the state until 1864, when the squadron was ordered to Virginia and incorporated in the Seventh Regi- ment, South Carolina Cavalry, as Company A. Be-
fore Richmond in the spring of 1864. during the great struggle between the armies of Lee and Grant, he saw active and dangerous service, participating in the battles of Riddle's Shop, Charles City Road, Malvern Hill, Deep Bottom and Willis Church. On August 14, 1864, he was captured near Malvern Hill by the Twenty-first Ohio Cavalry, and soon after- ward being sent to Point Lookout he was held at that military prison until April, 1865, when he was released on parole. At the close of hostilities he rejoined his family near Manning, South Carolina, where they had taken refuge.
In November, 1866, he made his residence at Charleston and was fortunate in finding employment with the Peoples National Bank. Accepting the lowest clerical position, he entered that institution at the bottom of the ladder, but by close attention and the determination to make himself useful wherever he could, without waiting to be called, he soon became familiar with every detail in the opera- tion of the bank's business. That his interest in support of the bank's welfare was noted and ap- preciated by his superiors in charge was evidenced by the fact that from time to time as the opportunity offered he was advanced to positions of more im- portance and greater responsibility. In June, 1880, he was made cashier, and served in that capacity until January, 1904, when he was elected vice pres- ident, the position he now holds. The Peoples Na- tional Bank, organized in December, 1865, was the first bank in the state to enter the national banking system, and in point of continuous service Mr. Sparkman is probably the oldest banker in South Carolina.
In 1878 he was married to Eliza Augusta Kirk, daughter of Philip C. Kirk and Sarah MI. Singleton, and they have four children: Edward H., Jr., Henry Berkeley, Mary Augusta and Carl Otto Witte.
As soon as the United States entered the World war all of his sons responded to their country's call and volunteered their services for military duty.
Edward Heriot Sparkman, Jr., the eldest son, was commissioned a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Med- ical Reserve Corps of the navy some time in Sep- tember, 1916, and on February 23, 1917, just prior to the entry of the United States into the World war, was assigned to duty in the Navy Yard, Charleston, South Carolina. He remained there until September 19, 1917, when he was made a lien- tenant, Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve Force, and ordered to duty as senior medical officer aboard the U. S. A. Seattle, flagship of Rear Ad- iniral Albert Gleaves, in command of the cruiser and transport force of the navy. Lieutenant Spark- man served aboard the Seattle until July 10, 1919, making all of the convoy trips except the first, which duty the Seattle performed as ocean escort up to the signing of the armistice in November, 1918. Upon the signing of the armistice the Seattle was assigned to bring back troops from France. In July, 1919. Lieutenant Sparkinan was detached from the Seattle and ordered to the U. S. S. Patricia as med- ical officer. He made only one trip aboard the Patricia and was then ordered home and put on the inactive list. In the early part of 1920 he received notification from the Navy Department of his pro-
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motion to provisional grade of lieutenant-com- mander, dating from September, 1918.
Henry Berkeley Sparkman, second son, served on the Mexican border as a member of Troop A, South Carolina Cavalry, during the time when Pershing led his expedition into Mexico after Villa in 1916- 1917. When the United States entered the World war Mr. Sparkman entered the Second Officers Training Camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in July, 1917, and upon the completion of his training in November, 1917, was commissioned a second lieu- tenant of infantry in the National Army and as- signed to Company H, Three Hundred and Forty- seventh Regiment Infantry, Eighty-seventh Division, at Camp Pike, Arkansas. In June, 1918, he sailed for France, commanding an infantry replacement company, but was upon his arrival in France de- taclied from his division and assigned to duty as a regulating officer in the service of supply, serving at various stations in France during hostilities. Some time after the armistice he went up to Co- blenz, Germany, with the Third Army Corps (Army of Occupation). While there he was made a first lieutenant of ordnance. In June, 1919, he was in- jured in an accident to a motorcycle side car in which he was riding, with the result that he suf- fered a fractured pelvis. He returned to the States in August, 1919, and was ordered to General Hos- pital No. 6 in Atlanta, Georgia, for treatment. He was discharged from the army January 31, 1920.
Carl Otto Witte Sparkman, youngest son, enrolled in the United States Naval Reserve Force in April, 1917, as a quartermaster, first class, and was as- signed to duty aboard the harbor patrol boat Manito in May, 1917. He served aboard the Manito until October 1, 1917, when he was commissioned an en- sign in the U. S. Naval Reserve Force. He was or- dered to the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, in October, 1917, for a course of intensive training, which was completed February 1, 1918, when he was discharged from the U. S. Naval Re- serve Force and commissioned a temporary ensign in the U. S. Navy and ordered to duty aboard the U. S. S. Kansas, a unit of the Fourth Battleship Division, Atlantic fleet. In October, 1918, he was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant, junior grade. In August, 1918, the Kansas was detached from the fleet and ordered into the convoy service as ocean escort, returning from her first trip No- vember 8, 1918, three days before the signing of the armistice. Early in December, 1918, Lieutenant Sparkman was detached from the Kansas and or- dered to the receiving ship, Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York. He returned home December 17, 1918, his resignation from the service having been ac- cepted effective that date.
HON. ELLISON DURANT SMITH began his first term as United States senator for South Carolina in 1909, and since the death of Senator Tillman has been senior senator from the Palmetto State. During the past ten years his name has been identi- fied with some of the most constructive and im- portant legislation enacted by Congress in the most vital and critical period in our national history. Senator Smith is deservedly a national figure, has the broad outlook and intellect of a statesman of
first caliber, and South Carolina takes special pride in his record. His associates in the Senate and his people at home have long known him as a hard working man, one who meets every issue as it comes up squarely and without flinching from duty.
He is now the ranking democratic member of the Committee on Agriculture. He was chairman of this important committee when it formulated and secured the passage after the veto of three presidents of the immigration bill containing the literacy test for restricting immigration to America. As a member of this committee Senator Smith introduced and had passed the first bill enacted by the Congress of the United States for the control of cotton and other exchanges through which the great southern staple is sold. During the World war Senator Smith introduced and had passed a law authorizing the Government to erect nitrate plants for extract- ing nitrogen from the air both for war and agri- cultural purposes. He was also author of a bill appropriating as a revolving fund $10,000,000 to purchase nitrogen from Chile and sell to the farm- ers at cost in order to keep up agricultural produc- tion at the highest pitch during the war period. Under the provisions of this bill large quantities of Chilean nitrate was purchased and sold to farm- ers at cost.
Other epoch making achievements in national ad- ministration originated from the Interstate Com- merce Committee while Mr. Smith was its chairman. As chairman he had in charge and secured the passage of the war measure placing the railroads in the hands of the Government. Later, while he was still chairman of the committee, there was passed the bill putting the wire systems of the country under the control of the Postmaster General.
Though less well known but probably of greater potential significance in American finance is his authorship of the amendment section 13 to the new banking and currency law that recognizes the dif- ference between natural and artificial production in the issuance of credit paper. Under this act six months paper issued by farmers on their forth- coming crop (natural production) is placed on the same basis commercially as ninety-day and shorter term commercial paper that is based on commercial transactions (artificial production). While every rule of reason would seem to justify length of farm production credit on the same plane with credit in commercial transactions, it is a reform which has been resisted for years and the Smith amendment stands out a new epoch in financial history.
Ellison DuRant Smith was born at Lynchburg, Sumter, now Lec County, South Carolina, August 1, 1864, son of Rev. William H. and Mary Isabella (McLeod) Smith. His father prior to the war secession was a hard working minister of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, South, doing a great deal of itinerant and missionary work. By reason of his fail- ing health he later accepted various positions as a local minister in Sumter, Clarendon and Williams- burg counties, and at Florence.
Senator Smith was a student during the freshman year in the University of South Carolina and then entered Wofford College at Spartanburg, where he was graduated A. B. in 1889. He was prepared for college in Stewart's School in Charleston.
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Senator Smith has always been a farmer and his close associations with farming interests in the South and his leadership therein constituted the experience which has enabled him to do so much constructive work in behalf of general agriculture while in the Senate. In 1901 he organized the Farmers Protective Association. From 1896 to 1900 he was a member of the State Legislature from Sumter County. Senator Smith was one of the leading figures in the noted Boll Weevil Convention at Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1905, and was instru- mental in converting that convention into a per- manent organization of the Southern Cotton Asso- ciation at New Orleans in the same year. He re- mained as field agent and .general organizer of this association until 1908, and through his work gained national recognition.
Mr. Smith was nominated for United States sen- ator at the primary election in 1908, at that time receiving the largest vote ever given for this office in his state. Toward the close of his first term he was renominated August 25, 1914. His second term expires March 3, 1921.
Senator Smithi married Mattie Moorer of St. George, South Carolina, May 26, 1892. His first wife is deceased. In 1906 he married Annie Brun- son Farley of Spartanburg. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have four children : Anna Brunson, Isabel McLeod, Ellison DuRant, Jr., and Charles Saxon Faxon Smith.
ARTIIUR LOCKE KING, now a member of the Charleston bar, was for many years active in the law and public affairs in Georgetown County, and his judgment and activity as a public man have made him well known over the state.
Mr. King was born in 1881 in St. Paul's Parish in that part of Colleton County originally a portion of Charleston County. His family is a very old one, the Kings having come from England and set- tled in St. Paul's Parish ahout 1790. Mr. King's great-grandfather. James King, was one of the first (if not the very first) planters to use cotton seed as a fertilizer. The grandfather, Maj. Hawkins King. was an extensive planter in St. Paul's Parish and was a man of education and culture and had such reputation for practical wisdom that most of the people in his locality referred many of their prob- lems and difficulties to him for assistance and ad- vice. He was for many years state senator from Colleton County. Major King was twice married, both of his wives being Misses Wilkinson, kins- women of Col. William Wilkinson, a prominent public character of the ante-bellum days.
The parents of the Charleston lawyer were Rich- ard T. and Sarah (Clement) King. The former was also born in St. Paul's Parish and was a student in Princeton College when the War between the States began. He left college to enter the Confed- erate army and served all through the war.
Arthur Locke King had a public school education and served as postmaster at Georgetown for ten years before being admitted to the bar. He was admitted to the bar in 1898, and practiced his pro- fession in Georgetown for several years, also serv- ing as city attorney. In 1914 he was elected a mem- ber of the Legislature from Georgetown County, Vol. III-4
serving in the sessions of 1015-16. He was a mem- ber of the judiciary committee of the House, and in both sessions left his impress upon important leg- islation. He introduced resolutions providing for a biennial session of the General Assembly. This measure did not pass. He was very active in his opposition to the famous insurance' rate bill, and gave unqualified support to the various measures proposed for the benefit of the state's eleemosynary institutions, especially the State Hospital for the Insane, which up to that date had fared very poorly at the hands of the state representatives. His rec- ord in the Legislature shows that he was a stren- uous advocate for the building of good roads. His influence also contributed to the legislation under which the State Board of Correctional Administra- tion was established.
Mr. King removed to Charleston in 1916, and in the spring of 1919 began the practice of law, while at the same time giving considerable effort and thought to work looking toward a more complete agricultural development of Charleston County.
Mr. King married Miss Sue Farrow, of Laurens County, who was a victim to the . influenza epidemic in 1919. Her father, Col. James Farrow, was a prominent Confederate officer, and after the war was elected to Congress, though not allowed to take his seat during the reconstruction regime. He was long a prominent figure in Upper South Carolina. He was married in Virginia to Miss Savage, mem- ber of the prominent family of that name in Vir- ginia. . Colonel Farrow's brother Patillo Farrow was long a prominent character in the public life of South Carolina, and historically is called the father of the State Hospital for the Insane. Mfany other items of history and achievement might be recited in connection with the Farrow family of Laurens County.
Mr. King has six children: Arthur Locke, Jr .. James Farrow, LaBruce Ward, George Savage, S11- san Savage and Eliza L.
J. ARCHIBALD MACE. Only those who come into personal contact with J. Archibald Mace, well known and successful attorney of Hampton, scion of one of the worthy old families of the Pee Dee section of the state, can understand how thoroughly nature and training, habits of thought and action. have enabled him to accomplish his life work thus far and made him a fit representative of the pro- fession to which he belongs. He is a fine type of the sturdy, conscientious, progressive American of today-a man who unites a high order of ability with courage, patriotism, elcan morality and sound common sense, doing thoroughly and well the work that he finds to do and asking praise of no man for the performance of what he conceives to be' his simple duty.
J. Archibald Mace is descended from a long line of sterling ancestors, the family having originated in England, whence some time prior to the Revolu- tionary war they came to America and established themselves in Maryland. Here was born the sub- ject's great-great-grandfather, John Mface, who came to South Carolina during the war for independence, and here the family has remained since that time. From John the line in direct descent was through
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Moses, a native of Marion County, South Carolina, who was the father of John M., a farmer of that locality, who was the father of Moses, who also was born and lived there and who also followed agricul- tural pursuits. The latter married Emma E. Gasque, a native of Marion County and the daughter of A. M. and Mary Gasque, the family name being of French origin, it is supposed. Of the six children born to Moses and Emma Alace the subject of this sketch is the eldest.
J. Archibald Mace received his elementary educa- tion in the Marion public schools, graduating from the high school in 1908. He then entered the Uni- versity of South Carolina, where he was graduated in 1912 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Pur- suing his studies still further in law, he was granted the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1913. On June 12th of the latter year he was admitted to the bar and immediately thereafter he located at Latta, South Carolina, where he entered upon the active practice of his profession. At the outbreak of the World war Mr. Mace entered the military service of the United States and was commissioned second lieu- tenant in the field artillery branch, with which he remained until the close of the conflict, though he did not get orders to go overseas. He then located at Hampton, where he is now living and where he is enjoying his share of the legal practice of the county.
Mr. Mace is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and stands high in the estimation of all who know him. He has always taken an intelligent interest in public affairs wherever he has resided, and has consistently supported all move- ments for the public welfare. After the armistice was signed and his discharge from the army he was chairman of the Victory Loan Committee in Hamp- ton County and in many ways did effective work for the prosecution of the war. As a lawyer he evinces a familiarity with legal principles and a ready percep- tion of facts, together with the ability to apply the one to the other, which have won for him the repu- tation of a safe and sound counselor. In discussions of the principles of law he is noted for clearness of statement and candor ; he seeks faithfully for firm ground and having once found it nothing can drive him from his position. His zeal for a client never leads him to urge an argument which in his judg- ment is not in harmony with the law, and in all the litigation with which he has been connected no one has ever charged him with anything calculated to bring discredit upon him or cast a reflection upon his profession.
CHARLES MCDONALD GIBSON. Among the citizens of South Carolina who have built up a comfortable home and surrounded themselves with large landed and personal property, none has attained a higher degree of success than the subject of this sketch. With few opportunities except what his own efforts were capable of mastering and with many discour- agements to overcome, he has made an exceptional success of life, and now has the gratification of knowing that the community in which he has re- sided has been benefited by his presence and his counsel.
Charles McDonald Gibson, who resides in Charles-
ton, but whose fine plantation is on Yonges Island, was born in Bullock County, Georgia, on December 30, 1860. His father was John E. Gibson, also a na- tive of Bullock County, and his grandfather, also named John E., was a native of England, whence he immigrated to the United States, locating at once inf Georgia. He was well educated and was an expert surveyor, so that there was plenty of work for him to do in the new settlement. It is a matter of rec- ord that he surveyed what is now Bullock County soon after its title had passed from the Indians to the white men. The subject's father was second lieutenant of the Thirty-seventh Georgia Regiment during the Civil war and was killed at the battle of Secessionville in 1862. His widow, whose maiden name had been Rehecca Williams, was born in Bul- lock County, Georgia, and now resides near Ellabell, Georgia, in the ninety-first year of her age. She is the daughter of David Williams, a native of Georgia, though of Welsh descent. To the sub- ject's mother was born eleven children, all of whom grew to maturity and ten of whom are still living. This family has a remarkable record for health and longevity, as is evidenced by the fact that the wor- thy mother has today no less than 250 descendants, among whom are more than thirty great-great- grandchildren.
Charles M. Gibson spent his boyhood days under the parental roof and obtained a limited education in the schools of his native town. Nevertheless, through habits of keen observation and thoughtful reading, Mr. Gibson is today a man of more than ordinary information. His fist employment was as a clerk in a store, but on February 1, 1881, he came to South Carolina and obtained employment at Mar- tin's Point on Wadmalaw Island as clerk for Geraty & Towles, with whom he remained about six years. He then began farming on his own account, having bought a small tract of land on Yonges Island. He was successful from the start and added to his hold- ings from time to time, until at the present time he is the owner of about 600 acres, besides which he controls and operates about 300 additional acres. He has four residences and about twenty tenant houses, and a number of good barns and outhouses. The railroad runs through his land and has estab- lished a loading station here, which makes the ship- ping of produce an easy matter and thus enhances the value of the land. Another valuable and impor- tant feature of the place is the presence of fine never-failing artesian wells. Mr. Gibson owns a splendid home on Smith Street, Charleston, counted among the really fine homes of that beautiful city. In addition to his valuable farm property on the island Mr. Gibson is also a one-third owner of 780 acres of fine and fertile land at Sheldon, South Car- olina. That place is well improved, having a ginning plant and a store, as well as artesian wells. On this place about 150 acres are devoted to cotton and about the same acreage to potatoes. Mr. Gibson owns an interest in a New York commission house and is vice president of A. E. Meyer & Company, of New York, a well-known commission house, so that he has quick access to avenues for the disposal of his products. Mr. Gibson has been prospered in his business affairs, for which he and his good wife arc entitled to all the credit, for they have never had
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