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His brother Albert Newton Richardson has always been associated with him in farming and business. They started life with very limited means at the close of the war. Today they own and operate a plantation of over 1,000 acres, constituting one of the best and most productive estates in Anderson County. Albert Newton Richardson was born March 26, 1847, and was therefore extremely young when he went into the Confederate ariny. He has never married, his home being with his brother. Their association has been profitable in business affairs and has been one of true fraternity in all their re- lations. The brothers are members of the Baptist Church, are democrats, and though they have never sought the honors of politics they are widely known and esteemed in their native county.
MARCUS LEE CARLISLE, D. D. The South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church has had some of its most distinguished and able ministers from the Carlisle family. Doctor Carlisle of Anderson had a brother who was in the ministry for many years, and is a son of the late Rev. John Mason Car- lisle.
The founder of the Carlisle family in this coun- try was John Carlisle, a native of Ireland, who came in early youth to South Carolina and in this state married Susan Mason. He was a farmer and after his marriage settled in Fairfield County and subsequently removed to Chester County.
Rev. John Mason Carlisle was the only son of John and Susan Carlisle and was born in Fairfield County October 20, 1827. He grew up on a farm, attended district schools and the Cokesbury Con- ference School, and at the age of eighteen was enrolled as a member of the South Carolina Con- ference of the Methodist Church. He had all the qualities that justify a true call to the ministry. He
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is remembered for his power as a preacher, and his native eloquence was improved by constant asso- ciation with good literature and contact with men. lle was devoted to his work, and after serving his church and his people for half a century he was retired and superannuated and died at Spartanburg in July, 1905. During the war he had served as a chaplain in the army of Virginia. His two sons who followed the same profession were John E. and Marcus Lee. The former was also a member of the South Carolina Conference and at the time of his death, April 10, 1918, had been superannuated.
Elizabeth Catherine Sharpe, mother of Marcus L. Carlisle, was born at Pendleton, South Carolina, a daughter of Elam and Elizabeth (Miller) Sharpe. Hler father was a native of North Carolina, but spent the greater part of his life at Pendleton, South Carolina, where he was a building contractor.
Rev. Marcus L. Carlisle when a small boy re- moved with his parents to Spartanburg, where his father was pastor of the Methodist Church. Doe- tor Carlisle has always considered Spartanburg as his home. In 1883 he was awarded, after taking the full course of instruction, the degree A. B. from Wofford College, then spent four years as a teacher and in 1886 began his duties as a min- ister of the gospel. The thirty years of his active ministry can be briefly chronicled as follows : The first year on the Cowpens Circuit; Walhalla Circuit until 1890; at Camden to 1894; Chester to 1896; Central Church at Spartanburg to 1900; Washington Street Church at Columbia to 1904; Bethel Church at Charleston to 1906; Marion to 1907; presiding elder of the Spartanburg District until 1911; pastor at Greenville to 1915; presiding elder of the Greenville district to 1916, when he resigned to become pastor of St. John's Methodist Church at Anderson. Doctor Carlisle has had many happy and congenial associations with the different communities where he has lived and has enjoyed best his work as a pastor. The position of pre- siding elder did not appeal to him, though twice he accepted the appointment as a matter of duty. In 1901 his alma mater, Wofford College, conferred upon him the degree D. D.
February 17, 1887, he married Miss Anne Mar- garet Rast, of Calhoun County, South Carolina, daughter of Capt. George D. Rast. To their mar- riage were born three children, the first dying in infancy. The second child, Charles Heber Car- lisle, was a graduate of Wofford College, a civil engineer by profession, and died in Florida in 1918 at the age of twenty-eight. The only living child is Aiken Rast Carlisle, who was born in 1894, a graduate of Wofford College and is a young archi- tect at Spartanburg.
ASHLEY C. TOBIAS was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on August 10, 1855, the son of Augustus L. and Sophie St. Amand Tobias. He began his busi- Des career in 1874 with the wholesale grocery house of C. Wulbern & Company, and to which in 1887 Mr. Tobias was admitted into partnership. At the time of his death, on the 8th of December, 1919, he was a senior member of this firm.
Throughout his life Mr. Tobias had been identified with the growth of Charleston and had striven for its upbuilding. He was at one time chairman of the
Sanitary and Drainage Commission of Charleston Comity, a member of the City Hospital Commission, a member of the Harbor Commission, president of the Merchants' Exchange and one of the original members of the old Chamber of Commerce under the presidency of the late Samuel T. Tupper. He was for some years president of the Royal Bag and Yarn Manufacturing Company, succeeding the late George W. Wagner, who founded it. In 1876 Mr. Tobias, as a member of the Washington Light In- fantry, went to Boston with that organization and took part in the Independence celebration, this com- pany being the first southern company to go North after the war between the sections. Mr. Tobias re- tained his membership in the Washington Light In- fantry until his death.
In July, 1885, be married Miss Ella Theresa O'Neill, and she with two sons, Ashley C. Tobias, Jr., of Columbia, and Vernon Tobias, survives him.
At the time of his death Mr. Tobias, in addition to his connection with C. Wulbern & Company, was president of the Wulbern Fertilizer Company, vice president of the Consumers Coal Company, vice president of the Accommodation Wharf & Ware- house Company, vice president of the T. P. Smith MeIver Company and associated in other business enterprises.
For the first time in the recollection of the oldest merchants of the city during the hour of his funeral all of the stores on East Bay were closed as a tribute of respect to his memory. He enjoyed the esteem of a wide circle of friends throughout South Caro- lina, who knew him as a man of gentle but marked personality, good judgment and absolute adherence to that which was right.
Mr. Tobias attended St. Phillips Episcopal Church in Charleston.
WILLIAM AIKEN COOLEY has devoted thirty years of his active career to farming in Belton Township of Anderson County. He represents the third generation of an old and prominent family in that section of the state.
He was born in Anderson County January 22, 1860, son of William M. and Mary Enutral (Pepper) Cooley, and grandson of John and Anna (Gam- brell) Cooley. His grandfather John Cooley with his brother Hiram came from their native State of Virginia to Anderson County, John locating near where his grandson William A. now resides. In that locality he built what is now one of the oldest occupied residences of Anderson County. It is the present home of Mr. Enoch Poore. In that old home William M. Cooley was born and reared. At the time of the war between the states he left his wife and farm to enlist in the Confederate army and was a brave and faithful soldier until the close of hostilities. From farming lie acquired the means by which he made provision for his family. He built the farm home which is now occupied by his son William A. He lived to be seventy-six, was a master Mason and a Baptist. His wife who bore him nine children died at the age of fifty-six.
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twenty he married Anna Mary French, daughter of George French of Greenville County. Mrs. Cooley died May 17, 1919, after a happy married career of over thirty years. She was the mother of the following children: William Clarence of Greenville; Mary who is married and lives at Goldsboro, North Carolina ; French, who is married and is associated with his father on the home farm; and Kitty who with her husband resides at Bates- burg.
The first five years after his marriage Mr. Cooley farmed in Greenville County, and since then has been occupied with the management of the old home- stead in Anderson County. He is a Baptist and a member of the Woodmen of the World.
THOMAS MARION KING for forty years was a practical hard working farmer in Anderson County, and the record of his career should he cherished because of the many fine traits of citizenship and manhood he exemplified.
He was born in Anderson County April 1, 1854, a son of Thomas and Eliza Jane (Fant) King. His parents were natives of Anderson County, his father a son. of Peter King and his mother a daughter of Jesse Fant. The great-grandfather Robert King was one of the carly settlers of Anderson County, and the family has been prominent there for several generations. Thomas King who died in 1871 at the age of forty-eight spent his life as a farmer and school teacher.
Thomas Marion King was one of seven children. He acquired a country school education, lived on the home farm, and from the age of seventeen to twenty-four was diligently engaged in assisting his widowed mother to handle the farm property. In 1878 Mr. King married Alice Elizabeth Jolly, a daughter of Albert and Mary (Bolt) Jolly of Ander- son County.
Immediately after his marriage Mr. King went to live on the farm which he had bought a short time before. He went in debt for the greater part of the purchase price, and by diligent application and good judgment paid for the property, improved it, and made it one of the model farms of the county. For the last twenty years of his life he also operated a country store near his residence. In 1897 he built a fine country home which stands as a monument to his thrift and energy. Mr. King died April 1, 1916. having been a sufferer for six years from paralysis. He and his wife many years ago joined the Hopewell Baptist Church and all their children are members of the same church. He was a Master Mason.
He is survived by Mrs. King, who still occupies the old homestead, and seven children. The oldest child is Corinne, wife of C. Ducworth: Thomas died at the age of eighteen years; Joseph Crayton is a farmer of Anderson County; Mae is the wife of Clinton L. Watkins; Carl Jolly made a splendid record as a soldier in the recent war. He entered the service July 23, 1918, at Camp Jackson, was sent overseas 'September 30, 1918, and was a private in the Eightieth Artillery of the Forty-First Divi- sion. After spending seven months in France he received his honorable discharge May 20, 1919. The
two younger children of Mr. and Mrs. King are Broadus Bolt and Ralph Franklin.
BENJAMIN BROWN GOSSETT, who held the rank of captain in the National Army during the great war and who was educated at the United States Naval Academy, has played and is playing an active and in- fluential role in business and civic affairs at Anderson and is one of the industrial leaders and executives of the state.
He was born at Williamston, South Carolina, August 18, 1884, the oldest of the five children of James P. and Sallie (Brown) Gossett. His parents are also natives of South Carolina and live at Williamston. The father was born in Spartan- burg County and the mother in Abbeville County. On both sides they represent old and prominent families of the state, resident here since colonial times. Both the Browns and the Gossetts were also represented by soldiers in the Revolutionary war.
Benjamin Brown Gossett grew up in Williams- ton and finished his education at Clemson College. From there he was appointed a cadet in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, and after serv- ing as a midshipman in the United States Navy, he was appointed a lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps, which commission he resigned in 1907 to engage in the cotton mill business in his native state. Captain Gossett has the distinction of having served in three branches of the military establishment, the Navy, the Marines and the Army. For several years he was captain in the South Caro- lina National Guard, and organized and commanded the first machine gun company in the state. In Sep- tember, 1918, he left his business and private affairs to serve his country, and during the last two months of the war was a captain in the United States Army. He received his honorable discharge and has since resumed active connections with. business affairs at Anderson. Captain Gossett is a native Southerner, a young man of exalted patriotism and has many of the ideals of the old South in citizen- ship and business.
Captain Gossett is president and treasurer of the Riverside Manufacturing Company and the Toxaway cotton mills at Anderson; of the Pendle- ton cotton mills at Pendleton, is vice president and assistant treasurer of the Brogon cotton mills at Anderson; vice president of the Williamston cot- ton mills at Williamston; vice president of the National Bank of Anderson; and a director of the Piedmont and Northern Railroad, of a bank at Williamston and of the Baltimore Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Captain Gossett is a consistent democrat and served as a delegate to the National Convention in 1912 when Woodrow Wilson was first nominated for President. He was appointed by President Wil- son and served as United States Fnel Adminis- trator for South Carolina until he resigned to enter the army. In 1918 he was a member of the Board of Visitors of Clemson College, his alma mater. Captain Gossett is a Knight Templar, Mason and Shriner and an Elk.
December 6, 1906, he married Miss Katherine Clayton of Annapolis, Maryland. They have three
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children, James P. named for his grandfather, Katherine and Philip.
RICHARD ISADORE ELROD has spent his life in Ander- son County, a farmer from early youth to the pres- ent time, and by his industrious life has set a good example of citizenship and of manhood.
He was born January 11, 1857, a son of Elijah Walker and Elizabeth ( Meares) Elrod. This is one of the old and prominent families of Anderson County, established here from Virginia in colonial times. Elijah Walker Elrod was born in Anderson County, son of Adam and Sarah Owen (Moore) Elrod. Elijah was a brother of the late Richard Toliver Elrod. Elijah lost his life while a Confeder- ate soldier at Richmond, Virginia. His wife was a native of Greenville County, a daughter of William and Rebecca (Terry) Meares. Their four children were Richard Isadore, Estelle and Isabelle, twins, and Lou.
Richard Isadore Elrod grew up on the farm where he lives today, and his early life was passed during the troublous conditions of war and recon- struction. In 1878 he married Miss Laura Johnson, a daughter of Benjamin Johnson, who was killed in the war between the states. Her mother bore the maiden name of Eliza Briggs. Mrs. Elrod was born in Laurens County. Thirteen children have been born to the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Elrod. Three died in childhood and the family circle today consists of ten besides the father and mother. These ten children are: Leota, Roy, Frank, Carroll, Paul, Bertha, Mary, Robert, Trueman and Jennie. Robert was in the army nine months, spending the time at Camp Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. Elrod are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Fraternally he is a member of the Woodmen of the World.
LAFAYETTE GAMEWELL ELROD, whose long career as a farmer in Brushy Creek Township of Anderson County has conferred additional honor upon a most honored family name, was born in that town- ship December 31, 1850.
He is the oldest son of the late Richard Toliver and Susanna Maria (Elrod) Elrod. His paternal grandfather was Adam Elrod and his maternal grandfather Elias Elrod, and their fathers were second cousins. Adam Elrod married Sarah Owen Moore while Elias Elrod married Mary Howard Douthit. Richard Toliver Elrod was born in Brushy Creek Township June 30, 1824, and died October 7. 1900. His wife was born in the same locality January 2, 1820, and died February 2, 1905. Rich- ard T. Elrod was a Confederate soldier, and a farmer. He was a member of the Masonic Order and he and his wife were Methodists. Their five children were Lafayette G., Elias Nathaniel, Adam Butler, William Capers and Mary.
The boyhood of Lafayette G. Elrod passed quiet- ly on the home farm, with attendance in the common schools and work enough to stimulate his ambition. Farming has always been his occupation, and he has been one of the public spirited and progressive citizens of his locality.
In 1878 he married Miss Maria Estelle Elrod, member of still another branch of this old and prominent family of Anderson County. Her parents
were Elijah Walker and Elizabeth ( Meares) Elrod, her father being a son of Adam and Sarah Owen ( Moore) Elrod. Elijah Walker Elrod died while a Confederate soldier. Mrs. Elrod's mother was born in Greenville County, a daughter of William and Rebecca (Terry) Meares. Eleven children have grown up in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elrod. . The family are members of the Methodist Church.
COL. JAMES COSGROVE, the father of drainage in South Carolina, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, August 26, 1861. He was educated in the Cathedral Parochial School, and finished first in the class of 1860 at Charleston High School He en- tered the firm of Cosgrove Wholesale Mineral Wat- ers, of which his father was president, in 1881. In the year 1886 he engaged in the real estate and fire insurance business in Charleston.
In 1898 he revolutionized land values in Charles- ton County by establishing the Sanitary Drainage Commission of Charleston County. "Cosgrove Ave- nue," leading from the State Road to the Navy Yard, is a little tribute of the county to his work for re- claiming land.
He was elected to four terms to the State House of Representatives, where he served with tireless head and heart the interests of his constituency.
He was the founder of the Catholic Library Asso- ciation, which began its beneficial existence on De- cember 4, 1895. Mr. Cosgrove was elected intendant or mayor of Sullivan's Island for two terms and left a record for financial and executive interest and ability.
He was married January 29, 1885, to Matilda G. Forsythe, only daughter of W. C. Forsythe, whole- sale dry goods merchant. Colonel Cosgrove died at Johns Hopkins Hospital March 25, 1911. There is a movement on foot to erect a monument to his memory to commemorate his great work as chairman of the drainage commission.
JOHN ALEXANDER CHASE, present postmaster of the City of Florence, is a successful business man and for years has planned and worked for the best welfare of his community, and he stands out con- spicuous among the citizenship as an exponent of progress and improvement.
He was born at Florence February 22, 1868, son of John Pate and Maria F. (Brunson) Chase. His grandfather was Peter Brunson. John P. Chase was an accountant. Jolin A. Chase is a member of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina and is de- scended from one of the carly families of that stock.
He was educated in public schools and South Carolina College, and after completing his education engaged in general merchandise in Florence. For twenty years he conducted a large business. In 1911 he was appointed postmaster, receiving the appoint- ment from President Taft. For his second term he was confirmed in office by President Wilson. Mr. Chase probably did his greatest work for the local welfare while a member of the first Board of Public Works, on which he served for twelve years. During that time the waterworks and many other local improvements were installed.
November 11, 1900, Mr. Chase married Miss Nancy MeMacken, of Raleigh, North Carolina. They
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have two children, John Alexander, Jr., and Dorothy Temple. John A. at the age of sixteen enrolled as a student in South Carolina's famous military school at Charleston, The Citadel.
Mr. Chase is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Florence. Among other interests he owns considerable farming land.
JAMES NEWTON SLOAN MCCONNELL, whose home address is Rural Route No. 1 out of Anderson, is owner of one of the fine farms in that county and has achieved his success after beginning life as a farm hand and finally as a renter on the place which he now owns.
He was born in Anderson County August 30, 1861, and was an infant when his father lost his life after one of the great battles of the war be- tween the states. He is a son of James D, and Susan (King) McConnell. His father was born in Anderson County, a son of S. Frank and Cynthia (Dobbins) McConnell. Grandfather MeConnell was also born and reared in Anderson County, son of a Scotchman. Susan King was born in Anderson County, where her father was an carly settler. James D. McConnell was wounded in the battle of Seven Pines, and as a result of these wounds died in 1862. His wife survived him only three years. passing away in July, 1865. She was the mother of three sons, Thomas E. and George F., twins, and James N. S.
James N. S. McConnell was four years old when his mother died and he grew up on the farm of his grandfather McConnell. He had limited edu- cational advantages. At the age of twenty-one he left his grandfather's home and for several years hired out his services to other farmers. In 1888 he rented his present farm and later in the same ycar negotiated for its purchase, going in debt for a large part. By thrifty management he has made the soil and its products pay for the land, and in 1897 he built his present handsome residence, which is now only one of many good buildings. He fol- lows the most improved methods of agriculture. His farm comprises 230 acres.
In 1893 Mr. McConnell married Frances Cornelia (Ducworth) MeConnell. By her first husband she has a daughter Nannie, wife of Jesse Dobbins of Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. McConnell have two chil- dren, Harold Sloan and Marie. The son is a grad- uate of Clemson College and the daughter of Win- throp Normal School, and is now assistant county demonstration agent in Anderson County. Harold Sloan McConnell found his scientific training of value to the Government during the war, and was a bacteriologist in the Medical Department with the Expeditionary Forces in France. Mr. McConnell is a Presbyterian, while Mrs. McConnell is a Bap- tist, and her children are of the same faith.
WILLIAM HERBERT PRICE, M. D While he estab- lished himself in the general practice of his profes- sion at Charleston in 1913. Doctor Price for nearly two years gave his professional services to the American army, both on the Mexican border and during the war with Germany and on his return to Charleston, though reengaged in private practice, has been working out the plan of his ambition to found
and develop a high class laboratory, one that will supply a general need to the profession and to the public. Dr. Price is a scientific investigator, and in the course of his experience has become deeply inter- ested in the development of serums, vaccines and antitoxins as a means of combating disease. Many eminent men regard the future of medical science as closely bound up with and dependent upon this comparatively new field of discovery and investiga- tion, and it is Dr. Price's ambition to perform credit- able work in that line of his profession.
Dr. Price was born in 1883. His birthplace is a plantation five miles east of Florence, in one of the rapidly growing sections of Florence County. This plantation is owned by his father, Evan I'rice, who has lived there for many years and has as a result of development work undertaken by him attained a position of wealth and prominence in that agricul- tural section. Evan Price was born in Marion County, and married Harriet Coleman.
Dr. Price received a thorough academic and mili- tary training, spending two years as a student at The Citadel in Charleston and a similar period as a cadet in the West Point Military Academy. He abandoned the idea of a military career to prepare himself for medicine, and graduated in 1910 from the Medical College of the State of South Carolina at Charleston. The following three years, for the purpose of gaining actual practice, he associated him- self with one of the old and well known physicians of Charleston, and then set up in practice for him- sulf.
Dr. Price volunteered as a private soldier in the Charleston Light Dragoons, Troop A of the South Carolina Cavairy, National Guard, in June, 1916, for service on the Mexican border. He was with that organization on the Rio Grande from June, 1910, until the following March, when the troops were demobilized.
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