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August 9, 1899, recorded the marriage of Captain Stevens to Miss Virginia W. Bailey, daughter of Constantine and Mary (LaRoche) Bailey, and of this union have been born five children: William Yates, Jr., and Daniel Augustus, twins; Mary La- Roche, Constantine Bailey, and Virginia. William Yates, Jr., died in childhood. Daniel Augustus is taking a course in engineering at the North Carolina State College in West Raleigh. Miss Mary LaRoche Stevens was graduated in Confederate College at Charleston as a member of the class of 1920. The attractive family home on Yonges Island is a center of generous and gracious hospitality.
JOHN J. FURLONG, owner of a first class printing establishment at No. 420 King Street, is represent- ing his ward in the City Council for the second time, and is recognized as one of the substantial men of Charleston. He was born at Charleston, February 7, 1871, a son of John J. and Margaret ( Beatty) Furlong, natives of Belfast and Werford, Ireland, who were brought to Charleston when young, and were later married in this city. They became the parents of six children, of whom John J. Furlong is the youngest son.
Growing up at Charleston, John J. Furlong, Jr., attended the public schools until he was thirteen years of age, at which time he began learning the printing trade with Edward Perry & Company, and remained with that concern until 1896, when he started in business for himself in a very small way. His capital was limited and he had but one press, but he knew his trade thoroughly, and the work he turned out was of so excellent a character that he soon built up a patronage which warranted his enlarging his equipment, and later moving to his present premises, where he carries on a general printing and book binding business. Employment is given to twenty people, and the plant is modern in every respect. Mr. Furlong has been in the printing business for twenty-three years, and is accorded a stable place in this industry by his com- petitors.
In 1899 Mr. Furlong was united in marriage with Miss Julia Murphy, and their children are as fol- lows: Margaret, John J., Jr., Catherine, James P. and Leo. The family all belong to St. Patrick's Catholic Church.
For three terms Mr. Furlong has been a member of the City Council, and is one of the strong men of that body, although he is essentially a business
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man, with a diversity of interests to claim his at- tention in addition to his printing enterprise. He is intensely human and enjoys a widespread popu- larity in his ward. Generous to a marked degree, he has done much in a substantial way toward the condition of those in indigent circumstances, and is a ready helper in all movements which tend to improve Charleston as a city. He belongs to the Hibernian Society, Knights of Columhus, Wood- men of the World, Fraternal Union of Americans and Camp Sumter, Sons of Confederate Veterans.
HON. GEORGE K. LANEY began the practice of law in Chesterfield in 1896. His professional career was well under way when he was called to represent the people in the General Assembly of the state. As a member of the House and of the Senate he has been on duty almost constantly for seventeen years. His legislative experience has given him a singularly in- fluential position in state affairs.
To his present position Senator Laney has come from a youth of average circumstances 'and fre- quently in struggle with the handicaps that beset an ambitious young man determined to gain an edu- cation and attain usefulness and honor among his fellow inen. He was born February 10, 1872, and was reared on a farm four miles north of Cheraw, son of Jolin Laney, a native of Lancaster County, and a grandson of Titus, also a native of South Carolina and of French ancestry. Both his father and grandfather were farmers by occupation, and his father went all through the war as a Confederate soldier and lived to the age of seventy-four. The mother of Senator Laney was Cynthia Plyler, who was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. George K. Laney is the seventh in a family of twelve children, eleven of whom reached mature age.
He was educated in the common school known as the Godfrey School, also the Cheraw graded school, and in 1890 entered South Carolina College at Co- lumbia taking his A. B. degree in 1894 and gradu- ating from the law course in 1896. He was twenty- four years of age, when admitted to the bar and when he began practice at Chesterfield. In the meantime he had practiced much self denial and had learned many of the lessons of industry. Be- tween school times he took his place in the fields on his father's farm. While in college he taught several terms, and a large share of his expenses were defrayed by his own carnings.
Mr. Laney was chosen a member of the House of Representatives in 1902 and in 1903 began his long and continuous legislative career. He was four years in the House, and used every influence in his power to procure adequate appropriations for public education. The educational welfare of the state has been his one particular hobby. In 1906 he was elected a member of the State Senate, and his serv- ice has been continuous in that body since January, 1007. He is now in his fourth consecutive term. In his first campaigns he had some opposition but none since, and as a member of the Legislature has always been able to count upon the generous and consistent support of the "folks back home." During all these years he has served as a member of the committee on education, has also been active in the judiciary, banking and insurance committees, and at
one time was chairman of the committee on educa- tion. He is now chairman of the important senate judiciary committee. He has been a valuable mem- ber of the board of trustees of the University of South Carolina and of Winthrop College, and was chairman of the military affairs committee and a member of the board of visitors at The Citadel, and also a member of the board of trustees of Clemson College.
Senator Laney has attended various democratic conventions. In 1916 he was a delegate to the Na- tional Convention at St. Louis where Mr. Wilson was renominated. During the World war he put his time and personal resources at the service of the Government, serving as county chairman of the Liberty Loan drives, worked in behalf of the Red Cross and the Young Men's Christian Association, and steadfastly upheld the patriotic forces in his community and state.
In 1900 Mr. Laney married Sarah Louise Tiller, daughter of H. D. Tiller of Chesterfield. Her Inother was M. Elizabeth Chapman, member of the prominent family of that name that made the first settlement in the Chesterfield community. Senator Laney is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and is an active Methodist. He is vice president of the Peoples Bank of Chesterfield, and in addition to his law practice has considerable farming interests under his supervision.
W. W. SHACKELFORD. A long and active career in business affairs has netted W. W. Shackelford the success which satisfies a man of ambition, and also that high degree of esteem and respect which is the best reward of a worthy life in an important community.
Mr. Shackelford, who has been a resident of Charleston the greater part of his life, was born in Georgetown, South Carolina, April 27, 1858. The Shackelfords, of English descent, were colonial residents of Virginia. Mr. Shackelford's great- great-grandfather, John Shackelford, was one of sixteen sons. At the beginning of the Revolutionary war his father was called upon to help in raising volunteers for the Continental Army. He replied that he would furnish as many men as would re- spond to the call of his horn. Promptly he picked up his horn, blew a blast, and in a few ininutes his sixteen stalwart sons appeared and announced themselves ready for duty and danger. All these sons enlisted in Virginia, and it is doubtful if any single family furnished more soldiers to the cause of independence than the Shackelfords. While John Shackelford was born in Virginia and represented that state in the Continental Army, he afterward came to South Carolina, settling at Georgetown, where his son Anthony B. was born. W. W. Shack- elford's father was W. W. Shackelford, Sr., also of Georgetown and a cotton factor. W. W. Shackel- ford, Sr., married Hess Brown Ford, a native of Georgetown, daughter of Stephen Ford, of the same community, and granddaughter of Stephen Charles Ford, who was also born at Georgetown of English ancestry.
Mr. W. W. Shackelford of Charleston was the third in a family of seven children, six of whom
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reached mature years. He acquired his early edu- cation in Charleston and was a classmate of Mr. Yates Snowden. At the age of sixteen he was earning his own living as clerk in a rice broker- age business. He followed that line until 1882, when he went with the Charleston Bagging Manu- facturing Company, later became manager of the firm, and was actively engaged in the business for about thirty years. Failing health eventually com- pelled him to resign, but after living retired for about three years he took up business as a broker in stocks, bonds and real estate, and has a flourish- ing business of that character.
Mr. Shackelford is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and for several years was treasurer of St. Phillip's Church. In 1887 he married Susan M. Barksdale, a daughter of Dr. Randolph Barks- dale of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Shackelford have six sons. Randolph and Willis, both of whom were in the Government service during the war; Stephen Ford, who was a lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Infantry with the Eighty-First Division in France; Macfarland, a student in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Cary P., attending the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee; and James Murdoch, also a student.
THOMAS DLANE DARLINGTON. A member of the prominent Darlington family of Allendale, Thomas Deane Darlington has for a number of years been a Charleston business man, but for the past nine or ten years the scope of his business interests has been bounded by the fertilizer industry. Mr. Darling- ton is an official of the largest manufacturers of commercial fertilizers in America, the American Agricultural Chemical Company, and is manager of the business at the Charleston headquarters.
Mr. Darlington was born at Allendale, South Caro- lina, in 1867, and is a son of Col. W. R. and Lucy (Allen) Darlington. The story of his father's life and family is told on other pages of this publication.
After finishing his education in Porter's Military School at Charleston, Thomas Deane Darlington had his first important experience in the world of busi- ness as traveling salesman for a grocery firm at Savannah. He was on the road almost constantly for a period of fourteen years.
When he quit handling groceries he came to Charleston, and became traveling salesman for the Coe-Mortimer Company, commercial fertilizers. When that company was absorbed in 1911 by the American Agricultural Chemical Company, Mr. Dar- lington was retained as manager of the business at Charleston, and is now a director in the parent com- pany of New York. He is also manager of the com- pany's offices at Savannah. Besides having charge of the Ashepoo fertilizer plant at Charleston, owned by the corporation, he is general sales manager in charge of the traveling salesmen and branch offices in North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
The managing officials of the American Agricul- tural Chemical Company are exceedingly busy men with little time for participation in other affairs. For that reason and also probably as a matter of in- dividual choice Mr. Darlington has never participated in politics, though out of his regard and esteem for D. C. Heyward he took an active part in the cam-
paign and election of that gentleman as governor, and subsequently served as a member of Governor Heyward's staff with the rank of colonel.
Though a member of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce and other organizations in the city and an enthusiastic promoter of its best interests. Mr. Darlington has his home at Laurens, where he and his family thoroughly enjoy the cultured atmosphere of that fine upper Carolina town. Mr. Darlington married Miss Lyde Irby, of Laurens, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William C. Irby. They have two daughters, Lucy Vance and Claudia Irby Darlington. Mr. Darlington is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner.
MAJ. AUGUSTUS HARDY SILCOX. An active war record, including service on the Mexican border and as major of a Motor Transport Section in France, has given Major Silcox deserved prominence as a military man, though until the necessary absence entailed by his service during the late war his in- terest in military affairs worked hand in hand and was rather incidental to his long continued busi- ness experience at Charleston, where for thirty years he has been a man of increasing influence and success in the cotton business.
Major Silcox was born at Charleston in 1870. His parents, Daniel S. and Carrie Olivia (Spear) Silcox, are deceased. His father was also a native of Charleston and a son of Daniel Hardy Silcox. The family is of English origin and bears a highly honorable name in this statc.
Major Silcox was educated in the public schools of Charleston and in New York City, where the family lived for five years during his youth. At the age of sixteen he became a clerk in the office of his uncle, the late Ferdinand Augustus Silcox, a prominent cotton factor and merchant of Charles- ton. While there he was made a cotton grader, and when his uncle died Major Silcox and his brother H. W. Silcox established the cotton busi- ness of Silcox & Company, in 1897. For a number of years this has been one of the leading cotton firms of Charleston. Besides his position as a cot- ton factor Major Silcox and his brother have ex- tensive interests elsewhere, especially in the land, timber and mercantile business. They own the Padgett Land and Mercantile Company in Colleton County, and also the Silcox Mercantile Company in Harleyville in Dorchester County. A popular and progressive citizen, Major Silcox in many ways has exerted his influence in behalf of the modern growth and development of this historic city.
The military experience of Major Silcox is a matter of more than thirty years. In 1889 he be- came a private in Company A, the Sumter Guards. of the old South Carolina National Guard. Merited promotions took him through the various grades to the rank of major. A specially coveted honor was his promotion to captain of the Sumter Guards, one of the oldest and most famous military organi- zations of the South and one that has been dis- tinguished in every war. He was major of one of the oldest battalions in the United States, comprising the Washington Light Infantry, 1807, the German Fusileers, 1775, the Sumter Guards, 1832, and the Irish Volunteers, all unbroken records, and held
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that rank when these organizations were mobilized by the Federal Government on the Mexican border. 'That was a seven months' campaign in 1916-17. Early in 1917, after war was declared against Ger- many, Major Silcox went with his command to Camp Jackson and from there to Camp Sevier. He was the oldest officer in South Carolina in com- mand of troops, both in years and time of service. In May, 1918, he sailed from Montreal in command of the organization for overseas duty. The organi- zation in the meantime had been changed from the old South Carolina Second Regiment to the Motor Transportation Service of the National Army, and went overseas with the Eighty-Ninth Division. In France Major Silcox had command with the rank of major of the motor section of the One Hundred and Fifth Ammunition Train. His first location in France was Camp Coetquidon. Thence he took his train of ammunition trucks across France to the Toul sector on the firing line. From there he was sent back to Vals-les-Bain, and put in command of the Ardeche leave area. His duties required his presence there until he left France. Major Silcox on his return landed at Boston April 17, 1919, and was granted honorable discharge April 23, 1919. Then after an absence of more than two years he resumed his active business relations in Charleston.
Major Silcox married Miss Bessie Inness Brown. Their family of six children are: Augustus Hardy, Jr., Daniel Henry, Clarence Inness, Thomas Irving, and Sally Inness and Betty Monroe, twins.
WILLIAM MCLEOD FRAMPTON. While the growing of field crops and animal husbandry has been an increasing interest with William McLeod Frampton from early youth, his range of service to his com- munity of Charleston County and the state has taken on a broader scope than that of an individual farmer and planter usually does. Inspired by the worthy ambition to see South Carolina take its nor- mal place as a leader in agriculture, he has found time in the midst of his busy duties to act as an adviser and leader in every campaign to stimulate diversified production, introduction of new and ap- proved methods, and has worked particularly in behalf of those measures, commended by every agri- cultural expert, for safeguarding the welfare of the farmer against the threatened ruin by the boll- weevil and the recurring fluctuations of markets and other conditions which hitherto have made South Carolina agriculture an uncertain proposition.
Mr. Frampton, who now occupies the responsible office of agricultural officer of the Citizens Bank of Charleston, and is secretary of the Charleston Branch of the South Carolina Cotton Association, was born on the McLeod plantation on James Island in 1876, son of James and Annie (McLeod) Framp- son. His mother is of Scotch ancestry, her grand- father having come to South Carolina from Inver- ness, Scotland. The paternal grandfather, John E. Frampton, was born in Beaufort County of English ancestry, was a Beaufort planter, and was prominent in South Carolina history as one of the signers of the Ordinance of Secession in December, 1860. Mr. James Frampton is now a retired planter in Charleston.
William McLeod Frampton was educated in pri-
vate schools in Charleston, and as a young man began handling the old plantation on James Island. He has always been a student of agricultural con- ditions, and has sought every opportunity to put himself in line with most advanced agricultural thought. He attended Clemson College, taking spe- cial courses in agricultural and animal husbandry. Through his practical experience he has become one of the best known authorities in the low country on farming and stock breeding.
Mr. Frampton was selected as the first county demonstration agent for Charleston County, an office he filled five years. For about two years he was agricultural secretary of the Charleston Cham- ber of Commerce. Early in 1918 he accepted a flattering offer to become an official of the Citizens Bank in the capacity of agricultural secretary. This is by no means a nominal office, and is in fact an opportunity of broad and original service to every customer and interest served by the Citizens Bank, one of the most progressive financial institutions in the South. Through the administration of its president, Mr. C. R. I. Brown, and through Mr. Frampton's department the bank is lending every aid and encouragement possible to farmers of Charleston County, supplying literature and per- sonal information and frequently financial credit in helping farmers and planters to establish herds of thoroughbred cattle and hogs and engage in diversified agriculture. Mr. Frampton was a pio- neer in the matter of establishing boys' corn clubs and boys' pig clubs. The cumulative results of his good work carried on through a period of years would be difficult to calculate. He is deeply inter- ested in every effort to speed up production in agri- culture, to introduce better lines of cattle and hogs, partly in answer to the world cry for relief front food shortage, but more particularly to place South Carolina agriculture on the sound foundation of enduring prosperity.
Before the advent of boll-weevil Mr. Frampton was a large Sea Island cotton planter, having for years made a special study of it. This industry has been handed down from father to son for genera- tions and has always been looked on as an honor to be a Sea Island cotton planter. After the com- ing of the boll-weevil he turned his attention to truck growing for northern markets, producing large quantities of Irish potatoes, beans, cucumbers and cabbages. These spring crops were followed by corn and hay to feed the mules which were used to produce the crop. Two and three crops per acre are frequently grown. There are no finer lands in the United States than are to be found on the South Carolina Coast, and those who have availed them- selves of the opportunity have grown rich.
Mr. Frampton has a large herd of Duroc Jersey hogs and Holstein cattle. He not only preaches the good things of agriculture, but he practices strictly what he advocates. His home is across the Ashley River from the boulevard on the west shore of the river, some twenty minutes by auto from Charleston.
Mr. Frampton has the honor of being the secre- tary and treasurer of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina, the oldest society of its kind in the United States. It was founded in 1785 at Charles-
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ton, and a list of its membership during the past century would include the most progressive men in agricultural affairs in the low country. Mr. Frampton is also secretary of the South Carolina Development Board, and, as noted above, is secre- tary of the Charleston County Branch of the State Cotton Association. Since 1905 Mr. Frampton has served as a deacon of the Second Presbyterian Church of Charleston. He is a member of the American Legion.
He married Miss Isabelle Addison, whose father, Dr. C. B. Addison, of Barnwell, had charge of the Confederate Hospital at Adams Run during the War of Secession. To their marriage were born four children : G. Creighton, Isabelle Patterson, William McLeod and Julia Aldrich.
JOIIN SKOTTOWE WANNAMAKER, president of the American Cotton Association, was born near St. Matthews (then Louisville), South Carolina, on Sep- tember 25, 1869. He was named John after his pa- ternal grandfather, John J. Wannamaker, a wealthy cotton planter, and Skottowe after his maternal uncle, Skottowe Bellinger, who, as color bearer of his com- pany, fell at the age of sixteen years with a bullet through his forehead at the second battle of Manas- sas. He had been a volunteer in the Confederate army. The unusual name Skottowe ( pronounced Skótto), is an old historic name in the Bellinger family.
On both sides of his family Mr. Wannamaker is descended from staunch old American stock. Through his father's mother he is a lineal descend- ant of John Adam Treutlen, the first governor of Georgia and a famous Revolutionary patriot in the American cause. The Wannamakers were among the pioneer settlers in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, and the family has long played a con- spicuous and honorable part in county and state his- tory. They have figured on the right side in all the wars of this country, and during peace times they have been leaders in causes to promote the welfare of their fellow men. In thought they have been progressive, and they have always been devoted to education.
Mr. Wannamaker's father was the well known, highly respected and admired, and universally be- loved Capt. Francis Marion Wannamaker, who served his state and the South as a volunteer soldier throughout the Civil war, and who on returning home as a captain served his people in their distress with equally great devotion and unselfishness through the dark days of Reconstruction. He loved liberty passionately and, patriot that he was, he was ever ready to pledge his life and fortune that his fellow men might have this blessing. A leader in the fight that finally rescued the state from the disgrace of "carpetbag" rule, he sat in the Legislature that began the new order.
On his mother's side Mr. Wannamaker is a de- scendant of the well known South Carolina families, Bellinger and Salley. His maternal grandfather was that famous and beloved Lucius Bellinger, affection- ately called all over South Carolina "The Old War Horse," one of those now extinct unique and pictur- esque servants of God who drove and rode hundreds
of miles weekly in order that unshepherded com- munities might hear the Gospel preached. Well-to- do himself, he became a local Methodist preacher and preached the Gospel without pay until the end of his life. Few men have had so nearly a perfect mother as did Mr. Wannamaker. Remarkably gifted by nature, brought up in a cultured home of noble traditions, and educated according to the best ideals of her day, she lived a long and useful life of loving service, developed in her mature years a saintly character, and was regarded by all who knew her as a model mother. With unfailing courage and con- fidence she remained behind on the plantation with her little children alone with the negroes when her young husband went forth in anticipation of the call of his state. Beloved by all the slaves, for whom she tenderly cared, she ruled them by the magic of gentleness and kindness. They worshiped her then. and until her death they and their descendants looked upon her as their patron saint. Many of the grand- children of these faithful slaves and one 'or two of the few remaining old colored people who had known her as their mistress were mourners at her funeral. Mr. Wannamaker has never forgotten the devotion and loyalty of these negroes to his mother and he has in his heart a warm place for the colored man, whom he befriends and encourages at all times. He has made it possible for many a good negro to begin a career of usefulness and success. The descendants of his father's slaves regard him as their friend, adviser, and-financial helper.
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