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North Carolina, and filled many important pastorates, including that of Spartanburg. He was a graduate of Wofford College. Outside the routine of minis- try he did his greatest work as a foremost apostle of temperance. He was one of the pioneers in the work of the Good Templars, served for several years as chief grand templar, and represented that body in the gatherings of the international commandery in Canada and England.
Augustus M. Chreitzberg graduated from Wofford College at Spartanburg with the class of 1895. In the same year he went to work as bookkeeper in a jewelry store, but from 1897 to 1899 was an in- structor in Wofford Fitting School. In February, 1899, he entered the First National Bank as book- keeper, was promoted to cashier in 1907, to vice president in 1909, and in March, 1914, became presi- dent. He naturally takes a great deal of satisfac- tion in having been able to guide the institution through the critical years covering the period of the great war.
Mr. Chreitzherg is also president of the Mechanics Building and Loan Association, which has built more than three thousand homes in Spartanburg. From 1913 to 1918 inclusive he was chairman of the civil service commission under Spartanburg's commission form of government. Mr. Chreitzberg is president of the board of stewards of Bethel Methodist Episco- pal Church, South, at Spartanburg, the leading church of this denomination in South Carolina. He is also serving as a member of the board of trustees of Wofford College and Converse College. He is a member of the Chi Psi college fraternity. the Rotary Club, and is a democrat in politics. Mr. Chreitzherg married Miss Cema Sitton of Autun, South Carolina. They have two children, Cema Sitton and Leila Eugenia.
RUTLEDGE LYLES OSBORNE, comptroller-general of South Carolina, is the youngest man ever to hold a state office in South Carolina, and as he was only twenty-three when he entered upon his present du- ties it is possible that he is the youngest state official in any state of the Union Youth has been no bar to achievement and big responsibilities in war and in industry, but as a rule the honors and dignities of public office have waited upon more mature men than Mr. Osborne. He is regarded as one of the most capable as well as one of the most brilliant men in the state.
He was born at Anderson, South Carolina, March 18, 1895, son of Rutledge Lyles and Lonisa (Gil- liard) Osborne. His father died in February. 1902. He received his early education at Anderson. attend- ing the graded and high schools there for nine years.' He spent three years in Wofford College at Spartan- burg and took his last year in the University of South Carolina at Columbia, where he graduated A. B. in June, 1916. While in college and university he was captain of the foothall. hasehall and hasket- hall teams, and prominent in other student activities.
Immediately after graduation on June 20, 1916, he enlisted in Machine Gun Company, First Regi- ment of South Carolina Infantry. National Guard. He was on duty along the Mexican border during that summer and fall. He was annointed sergeant in July, promoted to first sergeant in August, and
was mustered out in December, 1916. Since his military record has been introduced, it is pertinent to add that when the United States entered the war with Germany Mr. Osborne was one of the first to offer his services. During 1917-18 he was refused enlistment in the United States army and navy seven times, and by the Canadian army once, and three times the local exemption board denied his applica- tion, the reason being physical disability. It is probably true that he tried harder and more often to enlist than any other man in the state.
On December 6, 1916, Mr. Osborne was appointed audit clerk to the comptroller general by the late Carlton W. Sawyer. He was given a promotion in this office in January, 1917, and again in January, 1918, and was made chief clerk April 1. 1918. On August 28, 1918, Governor Richard 1. Manning ap- pointed him comptroller general for an unexpired term. Then on September 24, 1918, his name as a candidate for this office went before the people of the state and he was elected, defeating two oppon- ents and leading his ticket in forty-three out of forty-five counties. His term as comptroller gen- eral expires in January, 1920.
Mr. Osborne is and has been one of the heartiest supporters of the Wilson administration, and is one of the men who most thoroughly appreciates the aims and idcals of the President. Mr. Osborne is a member of the Episcopal Church, belongs to the old Metropolitan Club of Columbia and still holds membership in the Columbia Club. He is a Mason, also an Elk and in March, 1917, was initiated into the Shrine, being at that time the youngest Shriner in the South.
J. FRANK EPPES is a Greenville lawyer. He is a successful one, and though he has been in practice ten years it is a distinction of real importance that no outside honors, such as those of political office or executive position in business, attach to his name. He has devoted himself strictly to his profession, and is enjoying the satisfactions and rewards of the real lawyer.
Mr. Eppes was born at Princeton, in Laurens County, in 1881, a son of James Hardy and Emma (Davenport) Eppes. A number of generations ago the Eppes family lived in Wales. For more than a century they have been in South Carolina, since Mr. Eppes' great-grandfather, William Eppes, came from the vicinity of Petersburg, Virginia, where his an- cestors had lived for several generations, to New- berry County, South Carolina, in 1815. William Eppes was accompanied on his migration by his brother Daniel Eppes. They had married sisters, the Misses Hardy. James M. Eppes, grandfather of the Greenville lawyer, moved to Laurens County and was a teacher in the old Female Academy at Laurens. He married Mary Ann Sullivan and settled in Sullivan Township, near Princeton in Laurens County, where members of the Eppes family still live. James Hardy Eppes was born in that locality and is now retired and living with his son in Green- ville. The Davenports are an old and prominent family of the lower section of Greenville County.
J. Frank Eppes attended the private school of Prof. W. P. Culherston at Princeton, and was grad- uated with the A. B. degree from Erskine College
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at Due West in 1904. He received his legal educa- tion in the University of South Carolina, graduating LL. B. in the class of 1909, and represented his class in the law exercises, being class orator. He at once located at Greenville.
Mr. Eppes married Miss Vena Adams of Virginia. Their three children are Robert Hardy, Martha Cary and James Albert. Mr. Eppes is a ruling elder in the Associate Reformed Prebyterian Church at Greenville, is chairman of its finance committee, and as such had the chief responsibilities in connection with the building of the beautiful new church, com- pleted in the spring of 1919.
JAMES NELSON FRIERSON, a member of the Column- bia bar for the past ten years, is professor of law in the University of South Carolina and is a member of the prominent law firm of Barron, Mckay, Frier- son & McCants.
Born February 6, 1874, at Stateburg, Sumter County, Mr. Frierson is of Scotch-Irish ancestry and member of one of the oldest families in the state. The founder of the American branch of the Frier- son family was William Frierson, who came from the north of Ireland and settled in the Williamsburg district of South Carolina between 1730 and 1734. Mr. Frierson is a son of James Julian and Elizabeth (Nelson) Frierson, both of Stateburg. His par- ents were in fairly well-to-do circumstances, and were people who believed in thorough educational training for their children.
J. Nelson Frierson had all the opportunities of a liberal education. He first attended country schools in his neighborhood, and in 1893 graduated from the Porter Military Academy at Charleston. He took his advanced education in the North, at- tending Hobart College at Geneva, New York, where he graduated B. L. in 1896. He studied law in Columbia University, New York City, and was granted his LL. B. degree in 1899. In June of the latter year he was admitted to practice in New York City and first located at Buffalo, New York, where for nearly ten years he enjoyed a profitable prac- tice. While there he taught law in the University of Buffalo Law School. In the fall. of 1908, Mr. Frierson returned to his native state, being admitted to the bar in that year, and has been in practice at Columbia since 1909. On returning to South Caro- lina he was made professor of law in the University and has been a member of the law faculty ever since. Mr. Frierson is a scholar and lawyer and has allowed no outside interests to interfere with his chosen profession, although he is intensely in- terested in the social problems of the day. He is a democrat, but has never held a public office. While in Buffalo he was a member of the University Club and belongs to the Kosmos Club of Columbia. He is a member of several college societies. Kappa Alpha, Northern, Hobart 1893. Phi Beta Kappa, Hobart 1897, and Phi Delta Phi of Columbia 1808. Mr. Frierson has served as a vestryman in Trinity Epis- copal Church of Columbia, as a delegate to Diocesan Council and alternate delegate to the General Con- vention and is secretary of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of South Carolina.
February 19, 1901, at Charleston, he married Louise Dwight Mazyck, daughter of Henry Chas-
taigner and Alice (Tilton) Mazyck of Charleston. The Mazycks are descendants of French Huguenots of that name who settled in South Carolina in 1686. Mr. and Mrs. Frierson have one child, Louise Mazyck Frierson, born in May, 1903.
ROBERT MILLER JONES, secretary and treasurer of the Gulf and Atlantic Insurance Company of Colum- bia, had a well diversified business career and ex- perience, and is well known over his native state.
He was born at Abbeville October 3, 1878, son of Adolphus William and Celia ( Miller) Jones. He received a high school education and also attended Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. His first regular business experience was eight years with the Southern Cotton Oil Company, following which for four years he was manager of a mercantile house. Mr. Jones came to Columbia in 1910, and for a time was connected with the Southern Audit Company. Since 1911 he has been secretary and treasurer of the Gulf and Atlantic Insurance Company, one of the leading organiza- tions of its kind in the South.
Mr. Jones had some military experience during the Spanish-American war. He enlisted May 3. 1898, in Company A of the First Volunteer Regi- ment Volunteer Infantry in South Carolina, and was mustered out November 11, ISO8. He is a mem- ber of the Masonic order, Y. M. C. A., and is a Methodist.
February 2, 1918, he married Georgia Mason of McCall, South Carolina, daughter of William Isaac and Nancy (Gibson) Mason.
HON. WILLIAM FRANCIS STEVENSON, now in his second term as representative of the Fifth South Carolina District in Congress, is a resident of Che- raw, Chesterfield County, has been a member of the bar of that county over thirty years, and his many honors and services as a legislator have been an accompaniment of a very busy profession and high- est achievement in the law.
He was born at what is now Loray in Iredell County, North Carolina, November 23, 1861, a son of William Sydney and Eliza (McFarland) Steven- son. In his home town of Cheraw Mr. Stevenson is an elder in the Presbyterian Church. In religion and in many other qualities he inherits a long line of tradition. His first American ancestor of the Stevenson family, William Stevenson, great-great- grandfather of the Congressman was born in Com- ty Antrim, Ireland, and in 1762 took a colony of settlers from Pennsylvania where he had settled in 1748 to what is now the site of the City of States- ville, county seat of Iredell County, North Caro- lina. He obtained a grant of land from the king of England, and the Stevensons were the first settlers there. The Stevenson home is located three miles west of Statesville. From this William Stevenson are descended a number of branches of the family, including many men who have achieved distinction in history. William Stevenson, the second great- grandfather of William F., was in the Revolutionary war and fought in the battle of Guilford Court House. One of the descendants of William Steven- son the first, a great-grandson was the late Adlai
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E. Stevenson of Illinois, who was vice president with Cleveland.
William Francis Stevenson grew up on his father's farm, and had the advantages not only of the local schools, but instruction of his father, who was a teacher as well as a farmer. At the age of seventeen he began attending a high school taught by his brother-in-law Henry T. Burke at Taylorsville, North Carolina. When not in school Mr. Stevenson worked regularly on the home farm to the age of nineteen. After his high school course he taught until February, 1882, when he entered Davidson College at Davidson, North Carolina, and was grad- uated in June, 1885, with the A. B. degree. From the following fall until May, 1887, he taught school in Cheraw and also read law under Gen. W. L. T. Prince and R. T. Caston. Being admitted to the bar in May, 1887, he opened an office at Chesterfield, the cont ty seat of the county of that name, but in March, 1892, returned to Cheraw. He is a mem- ber of the firm Stevenson & Prince at Cheraw, and the firm Stevenson, Stevenson & Prince at Bennetts- ville. His reputation as a lawyer brings him a large general practice and participation in cases of un- usual importance in all the state courts, the Federal Circuit courts and the United States Supreme Court. He achieved special distinction as general counsel for the state dispensary commission, directing an association with the attorney general the litigation involved in the winding up of the state dispensary, a case that concerned the sovereignty of South Caro- lina and $1,000,000 value. It was finally brought to the Supreme Court of the United States and re- sulted in a complete victory for the state.
For years Mr. Stevenson has been one of the most influential leaders in the democratic party of South Carolina. He served as a member of the democratic executive committee of Chesterfield from ISS8 to 1914, when he voluntarily declined re-election. He was chairman of the committee from 1896 to 1902. In 1901 he became a member of the state executive committee and still represents Chester- field County on that committee. In 1895-96 he was mayor of Cheraw. His long service as a legislator began with his election to the South Carolina House of Representative in 1896. He was a member of that body until 1003, being speaker the last two years. He finally declined the honor of re-election, but in 1910 was again chosen to the general assembly in the regular and special session from 1911 to 1914. In 1916 Mr. Stevenson was elected to represent the Fifth South Carolina District in the Sixty-Fifth Congress, and therefore had the distinction of being one of the able members of Congress during the period of the World war. In 1918 he was renom- inated and re-elected without opposition to the Sixty-Sixth -Congress. He is a member of the committee on banking and currency and the com- miittee on expenditures in the Interior Department.
In November, 1888, Mr. Stevenson married Mary Elizabeth Prince, daughter of Gen. W. L. T. Prince, his former preceptor in the study of law and first partner in the practice.
LELAND O. MAULDIN, M. D. There are several branches of the Mauldin family in South Carolina and many of the name have achieved prominence and
distinction in varied fields of effort. The branch of the family now under consideration has had its seat for many years in Pickens County. Milton Mauldin was one of the pioneers of that section. His son Joab Mauldin was born in Pickens County and served throughout the war between the States in the Con- federate ranks, being in Butler's South Carolina Cav- alry during many of the Virginia campaigns. Ile married Deborah Reed Hollingsworth. This worthy couple is honored in the conspicious characters and achievements of several sons. One of them is Judge T. J. Mauldin of Pickens, one of the Circuit Judges of South Carolina. Another is Mr. I. M. Mauldin, a well known banker at Columbia. Still another is Brig. Gen. F. G. Mauldin, who was born in Pickens . County in 1864, graduated from West Point Acad- emy in 1890, and during his long and active service in the regular army has had many promotions, serv- ing as a captain of artillery under General Shafter in the Cuban campaign of 1898, was for four years an instructor at West Point, and on August 5, 1917, com- missioned brigadier general of the National army and assigned as commander of the Fifty-Ninth Field Artillery Brigade.
Among these distinguished brothers, Dr. Leland O. Mauldin has attained wide and deserved recogni- tion as a physician and surgeon and as a specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat.
Doctor Mauldin has been a resident of Greenville since 1905. Ife is a distant relative of the late Governor W. L. Mauldin of Greenville.
He was born at Pickens in Pickens County in 187S, was educated in the common schools and in 1900, graduated from Clemson College. He took his medical degree in the Medical College of South Carolina at Charleston in 1903, and in the same year began general practice at Pickens. Later he did post- graduate work in London in ophthalmology, laryn- gology and otology, and has gradually concentrated all his efforts and practice on diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He is a man of the highest standing and character both in his profession and as a citizen.
Doctor Mauldin served as chairman of the medical advisory board of the First District of South Caro- lina during the Great war, and patriotically gave his time and services to the arduous duties of that office. He is a member of the County, State, Tri- State, Southern and American associations and the American College of Surgeons and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Doctor Mauldin is a Presbyterian and a Royal Arch Mason and Knight of Pythias. He married Miss Carrie Floyd of Woodruff, South Carolina. Their two daughters are May and Ossie.
JOIN WAITES THOMAS, son of John Peyre Thom- as, Jr., dean of the law school of the University of South Carolina, has been a successful member of the Columbia bar for over fifteen years.
He was born at Charlotte, North Carolina, Decem- ber 27, 1870. son of John Peyre and Mary Sumter (Waites) Thomas. He acquired his early educa- tion in public and private schools, attended the Uni- versity of South Carolina, The Citadel Military Academy at Charleston, and graduated in law from the State University in 1902. Since then he has
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carried the hurdens of a large general practice at Columbia, but has specialized particularly in real estate and probate law. He is senior member of the law firm of Thomas & Lumpkin.
Mr. Thomas is a member of the Columbia Club, Ridgewood Country Club, South Carolina Club, the Huguenot Society of South Carolina, is a mem- ber of the Chi Psi college fraternity and Knights of l'ythias, and the Episcopal Church.
October 3, 1916, he married Pollie Shannonhouse of Charlotte, North Carolina. They have one son, John W., Jr., and a daughter, Mamic.
DOUGLAS MCKAY. Both as a student and prac- ticing lawyer Douglas Mckay has enjoyed the honor of very influential connections with leading and prominent members of the South Carolina bar, and his own work and achievement during the past ten years have lent much strength to the firm of Barron, Mckay, Frierson & McCants, of which he is the second member.
Mr. Mckay was born at Columbia January 15, 1886, a son of Douglas and Rachel Buchanan MIc- Master Mckay. These names all indicate the Scotch ancestry from which he is descended. His paternal grandparents John St. Clair and Jean ( Mack) Mc- Kay came to America in the '50s of the last century from Caithness, Scotland. The Mckay, St. Clair and Ross families from whom he is descended have long been well established in Scotland. Thic ma- ternal grandparents Fitz William McMaster and Mary Jane Mache McMaster represent families still older in American citizenship. The ancestors of Fitz William McMaster came to this country before the Revolutionary war and settled in Fairfield County. The parents of Mary Jane Machie, James and Cath- erine (McGregor) Mache came to Columbia from Newcastle-on-Tyne about 1830.
Douglas McKay acquired his early training in the public and private schools in Columbia, and graduated A. B. from the University of South Caro- lina in 1906. He finished his junior year in the law school of the University of South Carolina and for 21/2 years was secretary and student under Judge Charles A. Woods. then associate justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, and now United States circuit judge. Mr. Mckay was admitted to the bar in 1908 and began practice at Columbia in 1910. For a short while he was in the office of D. W. Robinson in Columbia, and then became connected with the firm of Barron, Moore & Barron. He was made a partner in 1911, the title becoming Barron, Moore, Barron & Mckay, and subsequently the membership changed to correspond with the present firm title. This is a large and highly organized legal partnership, having an extensive and varied general practice. Mr. Mckay handles much of the corpora- tion work of the firm and is also an advocate in state and federal courts.
He is a director and second vice president of the Lower Main Street Bank, is a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity, a democrat in politics and was formerly connected with the Columbia Club, Ridge- wood Club, South Carolina Club, but now confines his active membership to the Kosmos and Shakes- peare Clubs, both literary organizations.
April 15, 1914, in the Trinity Episcopal Church at
Columbia Mr. Mckay married Anne Lowndes Walk- er, daughter of Julius HJ. and Margaret ( Lowndes) Walker. They have one son, Douglas Mckay, Jr .. born August 12, 1917, and a daughter, Anne Lowndes, born September 11, 1910. Mrs. McKay, through her father is descended from the Walkers, DuBon, DeRosset families of Eastern North Carolina, and through her paternal grandmother from the Sim- kins family of Edgefield and closely connected with the Jeter, Pickens and Butler families of that dis- trict. On the maternal side through the Lowndes family she is directly descended from Gen. Thomas Pinckney, William Lowndes and Gen. William Washington. Through her maternal grandmother she is connected with the Frosts, Horrys and other well identified low country families.
CLINTON TOMPKINS GRAYDON was born at Abhe- ville, South Carolina, April 23, 1890, and received his early education in the public schools of his native town. He attended St. Mary's College at Belmont, North Carolina. He graduated LL. B. from the Uni- versity of South Carolina in 1913. He was admitted to practice in South Carolina in 1912 and in North Carolina in 1913. He is now engaged in general practice of law at Columbia, South Carolina.
ROGER S. HUNTINGTON, a resident of Greenville since 1915, has had a thorough training and cx- perience as an electrical and mechanical engineer, was for several years in the employ of the General Electric Company, and is now head of the firm of Huntington & Guerry, Incorporated, electrical con- tractors, who have built up a large clientage in this and other states, particularly in installing electrical equipment for industrial plants.
Mr. Huntington who was born at White Plains, New York, in 1884, a son of Backus Wilbur and Helen (Seavey) Huntington, received his technical training in Pratt Institute at Brooklyn and in Coop- er Union in New York, and then entered the work of the General Electric Company at Schenectady. New York. He regarded that employment as part of his education, and he was therefore in different departments and had the benefit of inspiration of work under the great Steinmetz. Eventually the General Electric Company sent him South, his head- quarters being at Atlanta, and in 1913 he set up for himself in the electrical contracting business in that city. From there he came to Greenville in 1913 and in 1916 became associated with Mr. Dupont Guerry in the incorporation Huntington & Guerry, Electrical Contractors.
These young men have already established a re- markable record for achievement, particularly in connection with the building up and development of the great textile industry of the South. For their industrial electrical installations they have adopted the name "Trouble-proof" and they have been will- ing to place their reputation and all their technical experience behind every contract. Recently Hunt- ington & Guerry, Incorporated, bought an interest in the Gower-McBee Electric Company, of Green- ville, changing the name to the Gower-Mason Elec- tric Company, and these two electrical concerns are now affiliated, both being electrical contractors, but each specializing in a particular field. The two
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