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With the reorganization of the state following
the war the new constitution provided for the election of the governor by the people instead of his appointment by the Legislature. Colonel Orr was therefore the first popularly elected gov- ernor of South Carolina. He entered upon his duties November 20, 1865, and served two years and nine months. It was a period of comparative calm and good order and good feeling as com- pared with the orgy of violence which followed it under the reconstruction regime. Eventually he was removed and his place filled by a north- ern appointee. Inevitably a man of his temper and strong convictions of right and expediency would arouse enemies both among his natural supporters and the opposition, but the judgment of modern times gives him a high place among the statesmen of that most critical era. Two months after the close of his term as governor, and while he was absent from the state, he was elected judge of the Eighth Circuit of South Carolina, and his conduct of that office also was a conspicuous exception to the prevalent features of the carpet bag rule. He resigned his place as judge in 1872 to become minister to Russia, an appointment tendered him by President Grant. The change from the mild climate of South Caro- lina to the rigors of St. Petersburg proved too severe for his constitution. He died suddenly from congestion of the lungs May 5, 1873. the only member of his family with him at the time being his eldest son. His remains were brought back home and interred at Anderson.
ciated with his preceptor Doctor Nardin. His abilities and experience made him esteemed as a consulting practitioner, and Governor Richardson appointed him a member of the first Board of Medical Examiners for the state. He also served
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as president of the Anderson County Medical Society and vice president of the State Medical Society, and was surgeon. for the Charleston and Western Carolina and the Blue Ridge Railroad Companies.
While in active practice and more particularly after retiring from his profession he gave evi- dence of his marked qualifications as a business man. Ile entered the drug business at Anderson in 1883, was prominent in connection with the first building and loan association at Anderson, and after the death of his brother Col. James L. Orr in 1905 he succeeded him in the presidency of the Orr Cotton Mill at Anderson. He held that position at the time of his death, and he had also been vice president of the Farmers and Mer- chants Bank at Anderson, and president and treasurer of the old Anderson Light and Power Company. He was one of the original trustees of the Anderson graded schools, and served many years as a vestryman of the Episcopal Church.
In 1875 Doctor Orr married Miss Charlotte Alethea Allen. Mrs. Orr, who still survives her honored husband, is the mother of four children : Harry A., Mary Orr, Samuel M., Jr., and Lydia. Both sons have achieved distinction as electrical engineers. Mrs. Orr is a granddaughter of Dr. Charles Louis Gaillard, formerly of Charleston. of French Huguenot origin, while her paternal grandfather was Banister Allen of Abbeville County and of English ancestry.
HARRY A. ORR is an electrical engineer, has been one of the hard working members of his profession for over twenty years, and most of the time has been in charge of the Anderson plant of the South- ern Public Utilities Company.
Mr. Orr, who is a son of the late Dr. Samuel M. Orr, a distinguished figure in the life of South Caro- lina, whose carcer is sketched elsewhere, was born at Anderson December 15, 1876, He was educated in the public schools and took his electrical engineer- ing course in the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn. He finished his training there in 1896 and had an extensive practical experience in the New England States and elsewhere, including Atlanta, Georgia, most of the time being an employe of the General Electric Company. Those in a position to know regard Mr. Orr as one of the most capable electrical engineers in the state. He was formerly with the old Anderson Light, Water & Power Com- pany until it was taken over by the Southern Public Utilities Company, and is now local manager of that corporation at Anderson.
Mr. Orr is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner. In 1890 he married Miss Florence Chapin of Pitts- field, Massachusetts. They are the parents of three children.
ASHLEY COWAN TOBIAS, JR., began the practice of law in his native city of Charleston, but since 1912 has been a resident of Columbia, and in both cities has been prominent in public and civic affairs.
He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, June 20, 1886, a son of Ashley C. and Ella Theresa (O'Neill) Tobias. His father was a successful merchant of Charleston and the family was one of
prominence in that city. He was educated in the Charleston High School, and later becoming a student in the College of Charleston, graduated therefrom with the degree of A. B. Deciding upon the law as his chosen profession, he completed the course in the University of South Carolina, grad- uating with the degree of LL. B., in 1907. For the following five years he was engaged in general prac- tice in Charleston and in 1912 located in Columbia where he has since made his home. Soon after coming to the capital city he entered into a part- nership with Joseph L. Nettles, which association has since continued under the name of Nettles & Tobias.
In addition to his professional practice Mr. Tobias has been an active participant in political and busi- ness affairs. During his residence in Charleston, he was chosen to represent that district in the General Assembly, and served four years as a mem- ber of the State Legislature. Mr. Tobias is num- bered among the progressive members of the demo- cratic party, and is now serving as secretary of the State Democratic Executive Committee. He is also a member of the managing committee of Ridgewood Club, and a member of the Executive Committee of the South Carolina Club, and holds membership in the Cotillion Club, a noted social organization of Columbia. Mr. Tobias is attorney for the Bank of Columbia, in which institution he is also a direc- tor and vice-president.
June 4, 1912, he married Miss Ethel Mimnaugh, of Columbia, and they have a son, Ashley Cowan III, born March 18, 1915.
WILLIAM W. SULLIVAN. A business institution that distributes goods over the State of South Caro- lina and a part of Georgia, and which has been built up by the energies and enterprise largely of one family, is the Sullivan Hardware Company, of An- derson, South Carolina, wholesale and retail deal- ers in hardware, mill supplies and agricultural im- plements. This is in every way the largest estab- lishment of its kind in the state.
The business was established in 1884 by J. M. and H. K. Sullivan, they operating at that time under the name of Sullivan Brothers. N. B. Sulli- van and C. S. Sullivan later became identified as partners with the concern. W. W. Sullivan pur- chased the interest of his brother, J. M. Sullivan, upon the retirement of J. M. Sullivan from active business.
. The present company was incorporated in 1907, and while the Sullivan family owns the controlling interest. a part of the stock is owned by a few faith- ful employes. N. B. Sullivan was the first president of the company, C. S. Sullivan succeeded as presi- dent upon the death of N. B. Sullivan in 1914, and upon the death of C. S. Sullivan in 1916, W. W. Sullivan became president.
William W. Sullivan was born in Anderson, South Carolina, on February 18, 1875, a son of Capt. Nim- rod K. and Emily K. (Mattison) Sullivan, his par- ents being natives of South Carolina. His father earned distinction and was a captain in the Confed- erate army. The son was reared and educated in Anderson at the Patrick Military Institute of that place, later attending the Alabama Polytechnic Insti-
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tute at Auburn, Alabama. Returning from Auburn he found his business opportunities in work with the Sullivan Hardware Company, and his abilities are reflected in the fact that during the past five years the company has made some of its most important advances and progress.
Mr. Sullivan is also president of the Sullivan Markley Hardware Company, Greenville, South Carolina, and is head of the partnership of the Sulli- van Hardware Company at Belton, South Carolina. He is director of two of the largest banks of Ander- son and a director of one of the banks of Green- ville. He has always taken an active interest in the civic affairs of Anderson.
In June, 1897. Mr. Sullivan married Miss Annie A. Patrick, a daughter of the late John B. Patrick, a prominent Southern educator and founder of the Patrick Military Institute at Anderson, an institu- tion in which many of the prominent men of the state acquired their education.
The modern home of Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan now stands on the grounds formerly occupied by the old Patrick Military Institute. Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan have eight children.
JOHN OLIN SANDERS. Probably every citizen of Anderson County knows John Olin Sanders in his capacity as sheriff of the county, but his career is interesting on other accounts as well. In his youth he had a hard struggle with adversity and from an early age has done more than pull his own weight, providing for others as well as for himself.
He was born in Fairfield County, South Carolina, June 11, 1876, a son of Calvin and Elizabeth (Mann) Sanders, who were also natives of Fairfield County. His grandfather, Alexander Sanders, was a native of Virginia and came to South Carolina in early manhood. Calvin Sanders died when not fifty years of age. The widowed mother, at the age of eighty, is still living with her son, John O.
The latter was born in a log cabin on his mother's farm, and when he was ten years old he and his widowed mother went to Spartanburg, where for a short time he lived with an aunt. At the age of fif- teen he became his mother's only support and cour- ageously and industriously faced and solved the difficult problems of carning an existence. He worked at various employments and when seven- teen years of age removed to Anderson and during the next seven years worked in a meat market. He then went on the Anderson police force, was county detective three years, was deputy sheriff six years, and on February 1, 1919, was appointed sheriff of the county by Governor Cooper.
Sheriff Sanders is a democrat in politics and a Methodist. In 1896 he married Miss Mamie Cannon. She died in 1911, the mother of three sons. In 1912 Mr. Sanders married Linnie Perry, and they have a son and daughter.
DILLARD CLARENCE BROWN. Though his first es- say as a merchant at Anderson was with a capital of $250, Dillard Clarence Brown is today distin- guished as president and executive head of the Anderson Hardware Company, one of the largest establishments of its kind in the state, and in the course of thirty years has been identified with prac-
tically every progressive movement in the upbuilding of his home city and community.
Mr. Brown was born on a farm in Anderson County, April 11, 1800, son of John and Amanda (McCown) Brown, also natives of the same county. His first American ancestor was George Brown, a native of England, who came to America in young manhood and located as a pioneer in what is now Anderson County. Not long afterward that vicinity was visited by a tremendous storm. Going out and looking over the devastated area George Brown found hidden in a fallen tree top a little girl too young to tell her own name. Investigation disclosed that she belonged to a family passing through the country in a covered wagon, the other members of the family having lost their lives in the tempest. George Brown made provisions for the little girl, whom he named, appropriately, Sallie Hurricane. After she had attained maturity she became his wife, and their son Elijah was the paternal grandfather of Dillard Clarence Brown. John Brown, the latter's father, was a Confederate soldier, and after the war returned to a farm in Anderson County and reared his family. He died when about sixty-five years of age, and his wife at the age of seventy- three.
Dillard Clarence Brown spent his early life on the farm and acquired there in addition to the rudimentary instruction of the local schools, lessons of toil, industry and perseverance, all of which have been signally manifest in his business career. He also attended Professor Holbrook's National Nor- mal School at Lebanon, Ohio, in 1889-90, and in the fall of the latter year returned to Anderson County and taught a six months' term of school. He then formed a partnership with his brother, J. Dexter Brown, under the name of D. C. Brown & Brother. Each brother put in a capital of $250, and opened a stock of groceries at what is now known as Webb's Corner in Anderson. The date of their opening was July 7, 1891. The brothers had the proper qualifi- cations as merchants, made many friends, and their business prospered as a result of their energetic and honest dealings. After three years they began adding other lines of stock, until they were doing a general merchandise business. For twelve years they were associated, and in 1903, D. C. Brown sold his interest to his brother, retaining only the fer- tilizer department.
He then organized the Brown Hardware Com- pany, which in 1906 was merged into the Anderson Hardware Company. The capital stock in the latter firm was increased from $25,000 to $50,000, with Mr. Brown owner of the majority stock. The growth and prosperity of the business has been made chiefly under his direction as president of the corporation. It is both a retail and wholesale house, and is shel- tered in a main two-story building, 60 feet wide and 200 hundred feet deep, with the Blue Ridge Railroad at the rear for convenient shipping facilities. There are four other adjoining storerooms required to house the stock.
Mr. Brown since achieving independence in busi- ness affairs has used his means and influence con- structively in many ways and has built a number of business structures in Anderson. He has also given generously to the cause of church, education, and
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other worthy interests, and Anderson College rec- ognizes him as one of its most liberal helpful con- tributors. He is a member and deacon of the First Baptist Church of Anderson. In 1889 he married Miss Anna Clinkscale of Anderson County. Their family consists of three sons and three daughters ..
CLAUD N. SAPP is former assistant attorney gen- cral of South Carolina, and since resigning that office has been busied with a general practice at Columbia. He is one of the prominent men in state politics.
Mr. Sapp was born in Lancaster County, South Carolina, in 1886, a son of D. F. and Mittie (Fulp) Sapp. The Sapps are an old family of North Caro- lina. His grandfather, Randall H. Sapp, removed from Guilford County that state to South Carolina abont 1859, locating in Burford Township in the northeast corner of Lancaster County, not far from the state line. It was in this locality that Claud N. Sapp was born, and there his father also lived. The locality is within five miles of the birthplace of Andrew Jackson.
Claud N. Sapp grew up on a farm, but acquired a liberal education and in 1907 graduated from Wof- ford College at Spartanburg. He was graduated in law from the University of South Carolina in 1911. He at once began practice at Lancaster and made his early reputation there. He was elected in 1912 from Lancaster County to the Legislature, serving in the sessions of 1913 and 1914. Ide was also city and county attorney of Lancaster County. On April 1, 1915, his abilities were called to the state capital as assistant attorney general, and he filled that office until January 21, 1919. He has been admitted to the State Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Sapp married Miss Mary Davis and has one son, Cland N., Jr.
JAMES MADISON LONG is a representative of a family that settled at the very beginning of things iu Brushy Creck Township in Anderson County. His individual career has been consistent with the sturdy qualities and virtues of a long line of an- cestors.
Mr. Long was born June 25, 1858, being a son of Ezekiel and Anna Matilda (McMurray) Long, a grandson of Ezekiel and Bettie (Hewey) Long, and a great-grandson of William Long. William Long was of Irish origin, and settled in Brushy Creek Township as one of the earliest white residents. Ezekiel Long, Sr., was born in Brushy Creek Town- ship, as was also Ezekiel, Jr. The latter was both a farmer and a Baptist minister, served in the Con- federate army, and had two brothers, Col. James and Maj. John Long, who achieved distinction as officers. Rev. Ezekiel Long died at the age of fifty- two. His wife was born in Anderson County, a daughter of William McMurray and of Irish line- age. She lived to be eighty-three years of age and was the mother of three sons, James M., John T., and William M., and three daughters, Elizabeth, Sallie and Ella.
James Madison Long grew up on the farm. He acquired a common school education and was twen- ty-two years of age when his father died. He re-
tained at home looking after the farm for his mother until he was twenty-nine. He then spent a year in Texas, and on returning from that state resumed his place on the old homestead. Farming has been his occupation through all these years, though for ten years he sold locally fertilizers for the F. S. Royster Company and other concerns. Mr. Long built his present large and beautiful farm resi- dence in 1907. He owns extensive farm interests and has been a very successful business man.
For four years he served as a county commissioner of Anderson County. He is a democrat and with his wife is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Long were married in 1890. Her maiden name was Annie Manldin, daughter of the late Ben- jamin F. Mauldin. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Long died in childhood.
- complete and adequate farm homes in Anderson County, and for many years has capably managed the resources of the soil and along with material success has accumulated a great fund of community esteemn.
LAWRENCE RILEY TUCKER owns one of the most
He was born in that county October 10, 1861, a son of Ilarrison and Mary Ann (Watson) Tucker. His great-grandfather was a native of Ireland and an early settler in Laurens County, South Carolina. His grandfather, David Dejonnette Tucker, was born in Anderson County. Harrison Tucker was born in Georgia in 1821, served as a soldier in the Confeder- ate army, was a farmer by occupation and died in 1902, at the age of eighty-one. His wife was born in Anderson County in 1823, a daughter of David Mf. Watson, a native of the same county and grand- daughter of Jonathan Watson, who was a native of Virginia and served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Mary Ann Watson Tucker died at the age of eight-four. She and her husband were active members of the Baptist Church. Their six children were: Indiana Matilda, who married Dr. N. J. Newell; David Dejonnette, of Williamston; Wil- liam H .; Lawrence R .; John Baylis; and Corinne Malissa Jackson, who married R. D. Bates.
Lawrence K. Tucker grew up on his father's farm and lived there until 1891. In that year he married Miss Naomi Lorena Martin, a daughter of Benja- min Crockett, and Cornelia (Breazeale) Martin. Her father was a native of Anderson County, a son of William Martin, a native of Virginia, who came to South Carolina and settled in Anderson County in early days. Mrs. Theker was born in Anderson County, September 24, 1864. Mr. and Mrs. Tneker have two children: Faustina and Furman Leffell. The daughter graduated in 1912 from Lander Col- lege. The son distinguished himself as an American soldier and officer in the late war. He was born February 23, 1894, and graduated in 1915 from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. He was in the em- ploy of the People's Bank of Anderson until August, 1917. On the 27th of that month he entered the Second Officers Training Camp at Fort Oglethorpe. and three months later, November 27th, was com- missioned a first lieutenant. He was assigned to duty with the Sixty-fourth Infantry. Seventh Divi- sion of the Regular United States Army. He was in training at El Paso, Texas, and on June 15, 1918,
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the division was assembled for overseas. He set sail August 13, 1918, and spent one month in the Puvenelle sector in France, and was then trans- ferred to the Sixty-fourth Infantry, Seventh Divi- sion Headquarters as Division laison officer. That work he performed until November 11, 1918, the date of the signing of the armistice, after which he was returned to the Sixty-fourth Infantry as a line officer. He spent nearly a year in France, returning to the United States June 9, 1919.
CARODINE SANFORD HALL. One of the best known citizens of Brushy Creek Township in Anderson County is Carodine Sanford Hall, who for over a quarter of a century has been identified with farm- ing and part of the time with merchandising in that community.
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He was born in Anderson County September 15, 1865, youngest of the nine children of William San- ford and Malinda ( Massey) Hall. His father was a native of Anderson County and a son of Joseph and Hulda (Davis) Hall. Joseph Hall was born in Virginia and on coming to South Carolina settled in Newberry County, afterward moving to Ander- son County, where he was a farmer. The Halls are of Scotch descent. Joseph Hall spent his last years in the southern part of Anderson County. Malinda Massey was born in Anderson County, a daughter of Silas Massey. William S. Hall served in the Confederate army, was a farmer and a sur- veyor by profession. He ran many of the lines and boundaries marking the present property divisions in Anderson County.
Carodine Sanford Hall lived at home until after he was twenty-one years of age. He attended the old field school and got a practical knowledge of farming from his father. At the age of twenty he married Miss Sallie Rogers, of Pickens County, daughter of Milton Rogers. The following two years he lived at home and in 1890 bought his pres- ent place in Brushy Creek Township. He has de- veloped a well improved farin of 190 acres, and erected one of the best residences in that locality. Since 1911 he has also conducted a country store near his home. In August, 1919, Mr. Hall bought the farm known as Chestnut Springs, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The place contains 105 acres.
Mr. and Mrs. Hall have no children of their own. They reared an orphan, Mattie Fleming, who married Roy Watkins and died at the age of twenty-four. Mr. and Mrs. Hall are members of the Baptist Church.
ALVA M. LUMPKIN is a prominent Columbia at- torney, who inherits many of the brilliant abilities that have distinguished his family in Georgia for more than a century.
Mr. Lumpkin was born at Milledgeville, Georgia, November 13, 1886, a son of William Wallace and Annie Caroline Lumpkin, the former of Oglethorpe County and the latter of Angusta, Georgia. One of the most distinguished members of the family was J. H. Lumpkin, who was the first chief justice of Georgia in 1845. Others were Wilson Lumpkin, governor and United States senator from 1830 to 1837; Samuel Lumpkin, a justice of the Supreme
Court of Georgia, who died in 1903; and J. H. Lump- kin, also a justice of the Supreme Court, who died in 1916.
Alva M. Lumpkin graduated from the University of South Carolina Law Department in 1908, and . since then during ten years has been busily engaged in building up a reputation as a successful attorney at Columbia. He is a member of the law firm, Thomas & Lumpkin. Mr. Lumpkin was a member of the General Assembly from 1912 to 1915, and during 1919 acted as assistant attorney general of the state. Ile is a member of the American Bar Association, and member Executive Committee South Carolina Bar Association, 1918-1920.
He is a director of the Commercial Bank of Columbia, the Standard Building and Loan Asso- ciation, and the Equitable Building and Loan Com- pany of Columbia. He is a democrat, a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon college fraternity, prov- ince archon of this fraternity for Gamma Province, is past grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, a member of Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, a Knight Templar, Mason and Odd Fellow, and a member of the Columbia and Ridgewood Country clubs at Columbia. His church home is the Epis- copal.
November 14, 1912, at Columbia he married Mary Sumter Thomas, daughter of Col. John P. Thomas, Jr., of Columbia. They have two children.
JAMES ROBERT THOMPSON is a son of a Confeder- ate soldier who was lost to his family during the war, and from an early boyhood and manhood of rather humble and difficult circumstances has achieved real success in the farming community of his native county.
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