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companies jointly handled all the electrical equip- ment of Camps Sevier and Wadsworth, and stic- cessfully filled all the exacting requirements of this government work. Huntington & Guerry specialize in placing electrical installations in textile and other industrial plants, and some of the industries where their work is represented are the Erlanger Mills at Lexington, North Carolina, the Republic Cotton Mills No. 2 at Great Falls, South Carolina, the P. H. Hanes Knitting Company at Winston-Salem, the Hawthorne Spinning Mills at Clover, South Carolina, the Wiscassett & Efird Mills of the Can- non Group at Albemarle, North Carolina; changing over to electrical drive many mills previously driven by steam power, including those of the Chiquola Manufacturing Company, at Honea Path, South Carolina, The American Spinning Company at Green- ville, The Baldwin Mills at Chester, South Carolina, the Durham Hosiery Mills, at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the Efird Manufacturing Company at Al- bemarle. More recent contracts were in the Paco- let Manufacturing Company at New Holland, Georgia, and the Gainesville Cotton Mills at Gaines- ville, Georgia. He also installed the electric equip- ment for the first Southern Textile Exposition and had the contract for the lighting and power equipment for the handsome new and permanent home of the exposition.
Early in 1919 the Gower-Mason Company and Huntington & Guerry concentrated their offices and shops at a well chosen location in Greenville, and their combined resources give promise of the event- ual establishment of an immense and modern electri- cal industry.
Mr. Huntington is a member of the American In- stitute of Electrical Engineers and for a number of years has been largely interested in the work and program of the National Society for Vocational Education. He is a member of the South Carolina Automobile Association, and active in business and social circles at Greenville, being affiliated with the Masonic Order, the Mystic Shrine, the Rotary Club, the Poinsett Club and the San Souci Country Club.
AUSTIN STACKHOUSE MANNING, whose working interests for a number of years have identified him prominently with banking in South Carolina, is president of the Liberty National Bank of South Carolina at Columbia.
He was born at Little Rock, South Carolina. July 21, 1872, a son of Houston and Martha Rebecca (Stackhouse) Manning. His first paternal ancestor came to South Carolina from Virginia about 1780. His maternal grandfather, Col. E. T. Stackhouse, was a distinguished character in South Carolina, serving as commander of the Eighth South Carolina Regiment at the time of the surrender in 1865, and later was a member of the Fifty-First Congress and died in Washington while representing his home district.
Austin S. Manning attended the South Carolina Military Academy at Charleston, graduating in 1892. He has always been interested in military affairs and held the rank of first lieutenant in the National Guard of the state and served as lieutenant colonel on the staff of Governor William H. Ellerbe.
During 1892-93 he taught school, was a practical
farmer from that time until 1900, and since 1900 has given all his best energies and enthusiasm to banking. He was assistant cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Bank from 1900 to 1903, was cashier of the Bank of Latta from 1903 to 1905, during 1905-05 was vice president and cashier of the Plant- ers National Bank of Bennettsville, was cashier of the Bank of Latta from 1906 to 1912, and from 1912 to 1919 cashier of the People's National Bank of Columbia. In January, 1919, was elected president of the Liberty National Bank of South Carolina at Columbia, same being a consolidation of the Union National Bank of Columbia and the People's Nation- al Bank of Columbia. He has held the office of di- rector in all the above hanks.
Mr. Manning had the honor as serving as a mem- ber of the first board of commissioners for Dillon County, being appointed by the State Legislature. He has been actively interested with the civic and social life of his county at all times and since coming to Columbia, has served on the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. and the Chamber of Commerce and various other institutions. He is a democrat, a past chancellor of the Knights of Pyth- ias, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Junior Order of United American Me- chanics and a Methodist in church affiliation. At Latta, April 30, 1902, he married Annie Mabel Allen, a daughter of Joseph and Marion Almira ( Bethea) Allen. Her mother was a daughter of John R. Bethea, a prominent planter of Dillon County. Mr. and Mrs. Manning have one daughter, Dorothy Mon- roe, born in 1903 and a student in the high school.
EDWIN G. QUATTLEBAUM is one of the veteran members of the dental profession in South Carolina, having practiced continuously at Columbia for nearly thirty years.
He comes of a family of professional men and was born in Fairfield County March 5, 1864, a son of Dr. Joseph and Lucy A. ( Merritt) Quattlebaum. He is of German and Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Doctor Quattlebaum graduated from the Univer- sity of South Carolina, then South Carolina College, with the A. B. degree in 1886 and afterward entered the Philadelphia Dental College, where he took his degree in 1891. He at once located at Columbia and has enjoyed a large practice.
Doctor Quattlebaum has always taken great inter- est in the progress of his profession, being an active member in both state and national dental societies. He has served as president of the South Carolina State Dental Association.
September 2, 1896, Doctor Quattlebaum married May Tindal, daughter of James E. Tindal of Clar- endon County and secretary of state from 1800 to 1894. They have five children, two sons and three daughters. Doctor Quattlebaum is greatly interested in Christian work and is an active member of the Baptist Church.
LUTHER ALLEN RISFR, M. D. So far as known Doctor Riser of Columbia, director of county health work, under the state hoard of health, is the only physician in South Carolina who has been formally awarded the degree Doctor of Public Health. It is a title well justified by his service and his devoted
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work for several years has done much to distinguish the title.
Doctor Riser was appointed in 1911 to carry on public health work under the state board of health. As director of county health work he has perfected intensive organization in six counties, Orangeburg, Greenwood, Darlington, Sumter, Lee and Calhoun. These are the counties that have taken advantage of the act providing for rural sanitation and have ap- propriated funds to carry out that work under the direction of the state board. A recent report of the work shows some striking and significant results. Some of the counties named are surrounded by other counties where rural sanitation has not yet been officially organized. Practically similar condi- tions prevail in these counties side by side, yet in those where Doctor Riser has been able to project the influence of his organization to educate the people in matters of disease prevention, the deaths from such highly prevalent diseases as typhoid fever have shown a decrease, while in adjoining un- organized counties the same disease has taken a heavy toll of deaths. Besides a local organization of sanitary engineers and inspectors Doctor Riser also depends upon such modern methods of prop- aganda as lectures, distribution of health literature, organization of clubs, house to house visiting and inspection. With all that may be said in favor of . other forms of employing state monies, probably nothing results in the direct benefit of lives saved and made more wholesome than the work of the county health department in the rural district.
Doctor Riser was born at Liberty Hall in New- berry County in 1882, son of Luther P. W. and Se- rena ( Moore) Riser, and a grandson of William Riser, who for many years was a planter at Liberty Hall. The Risers are of German Lutheran ancestry, and the family was transplanted to South Carolina prior to the Revolutionary war. Serena Moore's ancestors came at a remote date from Scotland and some of them also from Wales.
Doctor Riser spent his early life in a country dis- trict, was reared on a plantation, and in 1900 grad- uated from Newberry College. He studied medicine in the University of Maryland, taking his Mf. D. degree in 1908. For one year he was in general practice at Newberry, for two years at Leesville and then entered the public health department of the state. Doctor Riser in 1915 took the new course in public health at Tulane University in New Orleans, was a member of the first class to receive the de- gree doctor of public health at Tulane. During 1918-19 Doctor Riser was also on the force of in- structors of Clemson College agricultural teachers, this being supplementary to his official work.
During the war with Germany he volunteered in the Officers Reserve Corps at Camp Greenleaf and was given the rank of captain. He was assigned to duty as instructor in the School of Epidemiology at Camp Greenleaf. Doctor Riser is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He was married November 20, 1919, to Miss Nancy Wall of Alabama.
WHITNER K. LIVINGSTON is president of Livingston & Company, wholesale grocers at Greenville. Two brothers comprise this firm, both are live and ener-
getic business men of substantial assets and have achieved a great deal of good will for their growing and prospering concern, a name standing for every- thing that is genuine and substantial in the com- mercial world.
Mr. Livingston, the president of the company, was born at Seneca in Oconee County, South Caro- lina, forty odd years ago. He is a son of Col. J. W. and Clara ( Kilpatrick) Livingston, both of whom are now deceased and who represented old and prominent families of Oconee County and upper South Carolina. Colonel Livingston, who was born at Abbeville Court House, served with distinction as an officer in the Confederate army, being one of the commanders of the First South Carolina Regi- ment, and was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg. The war over he settled on a plantation in Oconce County, and later removed to Seneca where he en- gaged in business. He was a man of prominence and influence in local and state affairs, and repre- sented his county in the General Assembly both in the House and the State Senate.
Clara Kilpatrick, who was born at the interesting old community of Pendleton, the county seat of Pendleton District, was a sister of the late Col. Whit- ner Kilpatrick, who likewise made a brilliant record as a Confederate officer. Colonel and Mrs. Livings- ton are survived by five children: Mrs. John C. Cary of Greenville; J. K. Livingston, of Savannah, .Georgia; Mrs. Frank F. Martin, of Greenville; Whitner K. and Mrs. Clara Thompson.
Whitner K. Livingston received his carly educa- tion in the schools of Seneca and attended Clemson College. He has had a busy career of some twenty years. For a time he was manager of the Lockhart Mills Store at Lockhart, and then returned to Seneca and engaged in the jobbing business. He has been located at Greenville since August, 1917, and at that time founded the firm of Livingston & Company, of which he is president, his other associate being his brother, J. K. Livingston of Savannah, who is en- gaged in the cotton business in that city.
Mr. Livingston is a member of various clubs and organizations, is a deacon in the First Presbyterian Church at Greenville, a special post of honor since this is one of the largest and most influential churches in the state. Mr. Livingston married Miss Willie Cherry. Their three children are Mary E., Whither K., Jr., and William Cherry.
CHARLES P. ROBINSON has figured conspicuously in the lumber circles of South Carolina over a quar- ter of a century. He is vice president and manager and founder of the Southern Wholesale Lumber Company with manufacturing plant and headquar- ters at Columbia.
Mr. Robinson was born in Tyler County, West Virginia, April 24, 1867. He had a public school edu- cation and in early life went into the lumber woods and acquired a practical knowledge of the lumber business from the cutting of the trees through the operation of saw mills to the general distribution of the product. He has been a resident of South Carolina since 1895, and for several years operated mills in different sections of the state. He organ- ized in 1917 the Southern Wholesale Lumber Com- pany, of which he is vice president and general inan-
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ager. This company manufactures large quantities of South Carolina lumber and also deals in lumber products brought from many sources.
Mr. Robinson in private life is well known as a temperance worker, is active in the First Presby- terian Church and one of the teachers in the Sun- day school. August 18, 1891, he married Eddie S. Smithson of Virginia.
ROBERT H. WELCH was born and reared on a plan- tation in Newberry County and for over twenty years has enjoyed a reputation as one of the most skillful and brainy lawyers of the state. He has solved many knotty problems in litigation of public interests and for the past two years has held a post of vital interest to the agricultural population of the Southeastern United States as registrar and gen- eral counsel for the Federal Land Bank at Colum- bia.
He was born in Newberry County in 1874, a son of James A. and Rebecca (Suher) Welch. He fin- ished his literary education in Clemson College and read law under Col. George Johnstone at Newberry, one of the state's inost distinguished lawyers. Ad- mitted to the bar in 1897 he remained with Colonel Johnstone in practice until 1904, since which date his home has been at Columbia. He has served one term in the Legislature from Richland County. He was engaged in general practice until 1917, when upon establishment of the Federal Land Bank for the Third District embracing the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida he was appointed registrar and general counsel.
In the extensive general practice which Mr. Welch has handled in the last twenty years, the cases of most interest to the general public were doubtless those involving the services in connection with the organization of new counties in South Carolina. In an old commonwealth such as South Carolina the organization of a new county presents many tech- nical and legal problems not present in new and sparsely settled states. Mr. Welch is probably the leading legal authority on such matters in South Carolina and was legal adviser and general counsel for the citizens who brought about the organization of the counties of Calhoun, Dillon, Jasper, MeCor- mick and Allendale. The organization of Allendale County was completed only in 1919. A multitude of fine legal points, eventually reviewed by the State Supreme Court, was involved in the process of organizing these counties. Mr. Welch brought to bear on these questions the resources of a thoroughly trained lawyer-and in each case was successful. Be- sides the technical legal procedures there were politi- cal and other interests involved that frequently re- quired the skill and ingenuity of a diplomat.
Mr. Welch married for his first wife Miss Mabel Day. She was survived by four children, Dorothy, Margaret, William and Jane. Mr. Welch's present wife before her marriage was Miss Nettie Heath.
WILLIAM NEWTON COX and his good wife at the time of their marriage had determination, ambition, a frugal disposition and unlimited energy as prac- tically their only capital. With such qualities a sat- isfying degree of success seems almost inevitable.
Mr. Cox is today one of the wealthy farmers and large land owners of Anderson County.
Ile was born in Belton Township of the same county December 21, 1853. Several generations ago his ancestors came to South Carolina from Virginia. His great-grandfather was John Cox, a native of South Carolina, while the grandfather, Thomas Cox, was born in Anderson County. His parents were Math- ew Gambrell and Susan Elizabeth (Cox) Cox. Though of the same family name they were not related. The father was born in Anderson County, and the mother was a daughter of Esquire Joe Cox. Mathew G. Cox served in the Confederate army four years, has spent a long and industrious life as a farmer and is still living past the age of eighty-six. He and his wife had nine children to reach mature years.
William Newton Cox grew up on a farm and worked with his father to the age of thirty, when he married Miss Ella Mitchell and they at once settled down to farming and by good and frugal manage- ment paid for their first purchase of land. Mrs. Cox is a daughter of Marion E. Mitchell of Ander- son County where she was born. Mr. and Mrs. Cox have acquired successive tracts of land until they now own nearly 1,000 acres of good agricul- tural soil. Ilis country home in Broadway Township is regarded as one of the most modern and beautiful residences of the county. It was built in 1912.
Mr. and Mrs. Cox have eight children: James Robert, Arrie Elizabeth, Luta, Vera, Vivian, Wil- liam Ernest, Marie and Fred Newton. The son William Ernest served fourteen months in the United States navy. For eleven months he was on board ship and made eight overseas trips while the Amer- ican forces were being transported to France.
HOWARD BOBO CARLISLE. In a period of sixty odd years probably no name has gathered about itself more meritorious distinctions in the law and citizen- ship at Spartanburg than Carlisle. The present well known lawyer and banker of that city, Howard Bobo Carlisle, has continued the professional in- terests which were so long shared between him and his father the late Capt. John Wilson Carlisle.
Captain Carlisle, who died in May, 1914, was born in Fairfield District, South Carolina in 1827, a son of William Carlisle, who came from the north of Ireland to South Carolina in 1819, just a century ago. This is a branch of a distinguished family whose original seat was Carlisle, England, and later were transplanted to Scotland.
John Wilson Carlisle was graduated from The South Carolina College at Columbia in the late '40S, and while teaching school in Lancaster County studied law. In 1855 upon the founding of Wofford College he moved to Spartanburg, and occupied .a secure and high place in his profession there for over half a century.
He was a Confederate soldier and officer from the beginning to the end of the great struggle, and as a captain in the Thirteenth South Carolina In- fantry, McGowan's Brigade. Hill's Division, Jack- son's Corps, left a record that is second to none for bravery and fidelity. He was in practically all the great hattles of the Army of Northern Virginia. On resuming practice, he was looked upon as one of
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the strong men who could be depended upon to counsel and lead his sorely tried fellow citizens in the times of distress occasioned by reconstruction. The democrats chose him a member of the Legisla- ture in 1867, but the dominant negro-military regime did not permit him to take his seat. He was a mem- ber of the Constitutional Convention which was also nullified by the carpet-baggers. He lent what aid he could to restore the government of the state to white men, and this having been accomplished he was elected and served as a member of the Legislature of 1879-80. He was a trustee of Wofford College and a prominent layman of the Methodist Church.
In 1855 he married Miss Louisa Bobo, who died in 1906, after they had celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Her father Simpson Bobo of Spartan- burg was also a distinguished lawyer of his genera- tion and representative of a family that settled in Spartanburg County as carly as 1770.
Howard B. Carlisle was born at Spartanburg January 23, 1867, and therefore escaped any con- scious memories of the war and reconstruction. Entering Wofford College in 1881, he graduated in June, 1885, taking first honors and medals during his course. For one ycar he studied law with Wof- ford & Jennings, and in the fall of 1886 entered the law department of Vanderbilt University, which awarded him the degree LL. B. in the spring of 1887, while his scholarship record won him the Founders Medal. As he was still short of the years of majority, he spent that intervening time teaching in high school and working in his father's office. Governor Richardson appointed him trial justice, and at the end of six months he was made the first master for Spartanburg County, a position he held four years. He then entered the law firm of Carlisle & Hydrick, which after the withdrawal of Judge Hydrick became Carlisle & Carlisle, remaining unchanged until the death of the senior member.
For some years this firm were county attorneys and still represents in its clientage the First National Bank and many other institutions of the county. In addition to handling his law practice, Mr. Car- lisle was the organizer and is president of three suc- cessful banking institutions-the Planters Savings Bank at Greer, the Bank of Landrum, at Landrum, and the Bank of Chesnee, and is a director of the First National Bank of Spartanburg.
To the state at large Mr. Carlisle is doubtless best known for the effective work he did in the Legisla- ture. In 1906 he defeated an influential rival for the State Senate by a large majority, and during a continued service for eleven years became one of the most influential and useful members of the Upper House. He was chairman of the important judiciary committee from the second year of his term until his retirement. Only a brief summary of his record is possible. He was active in the formation of the banking department and the insurance department of the state; was author of the first marriage license law in South Carolina; introduced the bill prohibit- ing race track gambling and racing; and for years was the recognized head of the prohibition forces in the General Assembly. He gave legislative support . to Governor Ansel's determined fight to abolish the old dispensary system, and later he introduced the
state-wide prohibition measure which eventually be- came a law. lle was also author of the Juvenile Court bill of South Carolina, and was identified with much other legislation of state-wide interest. He was a champion of compulsory education on first entering the Senate, and when he could rally few to help advance that cause.
While not now in official life, Mr. Carlisle neglects no opportunity to render public service, especially through such effective mediums as the Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce. He was chairman of the Red Cros war drives in his county and chairman of the civilian relief committee of the Red Cross, and those who know how well these affairs were handled give Mr. Carlisle much of the credit for results.
March 16, 1892, Mr. Carlisle married Miss Georgia F. Adam of Spartanburg. They have five children, and two of them were in the active service during the war.
CASWELL O. HOBBS. While there are mercantile enterprises involving greater capital and greater space requirements and other details than are rep- resented in the firm of Hohbs-Henderson Company at Greenville, there is no business that reflects a greater degree of individual enterprise on the part of one man, and a more striking illustration of rapid rise upon the tide of opportunity and diligence to success.
Caswell O. Hobbs in 1898, when only sixteen years old, was unnoticed by. his contemporaries, working quietly and effectively as clerk in a store at Green- ville. He has carved for himself in subsequent years a splendid career as a merchant.
He was born at Columbus County, North Carolina, near Wilmington in 1884 and had nothing but his character and his youthful energies when he came to Greenville. At the age of nineteen after three years of experience as a clerk he went into business for himself. In 1903 he established the Hobbs-Hen- derson Company, their first store being in the build- ing which later was occupied by the Fourth National Bank on Main Street. Subsequently the business was moved two doors north to its present location. In March, 1919, Mr. Hobbs bought the building, to- gether with additional adjoining floor space, and improvements are now under way, at a contemplated cost of $50,000, to make the store facilities adequate for the tremendous business which has been built up and which now presents one of the best depart- ment stores in Upper South Carolina. With the completion of these improvements the store at Greenville will have approximately 45,000 square feet of floor space.
Mr. Hobbs was the founder and is the president and treasurer of the Hobbs-Henderson Company and owns practically all of its stock. Besides the main store at Greenville the company has a chain of stores operated under the same name located at Simpson- ville, Williamston, Central and Ennorce. This com- pany handles a large amount of the merchandise business of the Piedmont section. Mr. Hobbs is also financially interested in the men's shop and in the Johnson Company store in Greenville, is a direc- tor of the Citizens Trust Company, and is one of the active progressive citizens who are making Green-
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