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In Mr. Oswald's record there is much that is con- mendable and his career forcibly illustrates what a life of energy can accomplish when plans are wisely laid and actions are governed by right principles, noble aims and high ideals.
He is a member of the Huguenot Society of Charleston, South Carolina; a Son of the Con -. federacy and an elder in the James Island Presby- terian Church. He is second lieutenant in Troop B, First Regiment Cavalry.
JOHN R. CALLAHAN, whose name has been suc- cessfully identified with the business affairs of Honea Path for over thirty years, is the son of a Confederate soldier who laid down his life for the
Southern cause, and his individual career reflects additional honor upon a very worthy and estimable family.
He was born in Abbeville County August 10, 1858, a son of Sherod Washington and Mary Jane (Lati- mer ) Callahan. His father was born in Abbeville County June 3, 1831, was married in 1854, and was a teacher in country schools when the war broke out. In January, 1861, he volunteered his services to the defense of the state, enlisting for twelve months in Company B of the Seventh South Carolina Regi- ment. He was called to duty in April, 1861, as or- derly sergeant, and followed the fortunes of the regiment in various campaigns. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1862. At the battle of Gettysburg in the first three days of July he was wounded close to the spine, and after lingering a week or so died July 18, 1863, at Phillipsburg, New Jersey, while a prisoner of war. He was buried near New York City. He was a deacon in the Little River Baptist Church. His wife and three children survived : Le- ona, now the' wife of E. F. Young, of Blair, Okla- homa; John K .; and Nannie E., wife of John L. Bagwell, of Princeton, South Carolina.
The mother of these children was born in Abbe- ville County and died about 1883. Her father, Stephen Latimer, was a native of Abbeville County and John R. Callahan grew up on his farm and in his home and cherishes a grateful memory of the unselfish and noble nature of his grandfather. He acquired only a common school education, and as his grandfather was in ill health he practically took the management of the farm when only a boy. When he was nineteen his grandfather died, and he continued to work and operate the farm for two years longer. Ile then leit home and became clerk in a store at Honea Path. About 1881 he engaged in business for himself as a general merchant, and at the same time has been one of the principal local cotton buyers. His limited capital by prudent man- agement has been greatly expanded, and he is one of the very substantial men of the community of Honea Path. He served as mayor of the town for several years, but has had no political ambitions. He is a democrat, a Knight of Pythias and a deacon in the Baptist Church. In 1884 he married Miss Macie McGee, daughter of William P. McGee of Abbeville County.
GEORGE MCFARLANE MOOD, M. D. For all the crowding attention bestowed upon war and world polities in recent years, increasing attention is directed to such vital community causes as public health and sanitation. Some very notable work has been accomplished in the City of Charleston in this field by Dr. Mood, the city bacteriologist.
For years Dr. Mood has been a close student of modern development and public health and hygiene, especially as related to cities. His personal efforts and leadership have accomplished many genuine benefits for his native city. He is chairman of the committee on health and sanitation in the Charleston Chamber of Commerce. An interesting example of his original methods in the administration of his duties as city bacteriologist was furnished in the appointment and organization of a committee of three hundred, including many of the prominent men of Charleston, who personally assumed the duty and responsibility of making a health and sanitation sur-
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vey of Charleston. Each member of the committee was assigned a certain duty or district. The survey was not only extensive but surprisingly complete and thorough, and an enormous amount of data way submitted. After these facts were analyzed and classified by Dr. Mood they became a powerful ac- cessory instrument in his renewed campaigns for improved health and sanitary conditions. By this and similar means Dr. Mood has created an en- lightened public interest, by no means confined to the thoughtful few, hut consciously or uncon- sciously exercising a power for good throughout the entire city. There has been an especially gratifying decrease in typhoid fever, a disease whose progress is closely related to the community and individual standards of sanitation. .
George McFarlane Mood was born at Charleston in 1880, son of William George and Mary King ( Mood) Mood. His parents were second cousins. This family was established in Charleston in 178;, just after the Revolutionary war, and four of its members were American patriots in that struggle. Peter Mood, born in Oxford, Pennsylvania, in 1776, was the founder of the family in Charleston, while another branch remained in Pennsylvania. The mother of William George Mood was a Miss Darby and the mother of Mary King Mood was a King. The Darby and King families were originally Eng- lish. The Darby family has been in Charleston for several generations. The King family is a Georg a family. The maternal grandfather of Doctor Mood was Dr. James R. Mood, a Charleston physician. There have been other physicians in the genealogy, though a larger number of them was represented in the ministry of the Methodist Church. One of these was Rev. Francis Asbury Mood, who went to Texas and became 'one of the founders of Southwestern University of Georgetown.
George McFarlane Mood was educated in public and private schools in Charleston, in the College of Charleston, and is a graduate with the class of 1901 from the Medical College of the State of South Carolina in his native city. Early in his career he found his enthusiasm directed along the lines of bacteriology and public health work. In the Med- ical College of the State of South Carolina he holds the combined chair of bacteriology and hygiene, with the rank of Professor of Bacteriology and Hy- giene, and between his duties at the college and that of bacteriologist his time is thoroughly taken up. He is a member of the Charleston County, State and American Medical associations.
Dr. Mood married Miss Catharine Ravenel Jervey. of Charleston. Their two children are Catharine Ravenel and George McFarlane, Jr.
William George Mood, father of G. McFarlane Mood, M. D., together with other members of the family, served in the Confederate ranks, the former entering at the outbreak with the Charleston Rifle- men, and was later transferred to the quartermas- ter's department with the rank of captain.
G. McFarlane Mood, M. D., served as medical member of Local Board No. 2, City of Charleston, during the war with Germany.
MILTON SOULE CONNOR. The training and study necessary to fit a man for the legal profession is so rigid and exhaustive that naturally his. faculties are
sharpened and his abilities developed so that he is capable of assuming and discharging responsibili- ties of different callings and to take an active part in public affairs. The profession opens up many avenues to usefulness and power, and many of the leading men, especially of the South, seck expres- sion through it. One of the men who has found in this profession his hfe work and who has at- tained prominence in its practice is Milton Soule Connor, of Saint George, He was born in Orange- burg County, South Carolina, December 19, 1870, a son of Rev. I. O. A. Connor, a native of Orange- burg County and a minister of the Methodist Eurs- copal Church, South. At the time of his death he was a local preacher, but at one time was a mem- ber of the South Carolina Conference. The founder of the Connor family in the United States was John Connor, a native of Ireland, who located in Orange- burg County, South Carolina, where his son David L. Connor was born. The latter was the grand- father of Milton S. Connor, and spent his life in farming. The mother of Milton S. Connor bore the maiden name of Susan Dawkins; and she was born in Union County, South Carolina, a dangliter of James and Susan Dawkins, the father a soldier in the Confederate army and both natives of South Thomas Daw- Carolina and of English descent. kins, a brother of Mrs. Connor, was a lieutenant in the Confederate army and lost his life in the serv- ice. Mrs. Connor's great-grandfather was killed by the Tories during the Revolutionary war, while pro- tecting a wheat and flour mill at Whig Hill, South Carolina. Rev. I. O. A. Connor and his wife had ten children, of whom Milton S. Connor was the ninth.
Growing up in his native county, Milton S. Con- nor attended its schools and studied law, being admitted to the bar of South Carolina in 1807. Two years later he came to Saint George, and has been engaged here in the active practice of his profession for twenty years, during that period being connected with some very important cases and winning a repu- tation for careful preparation and skillful handling of them. Fraternally he belongs to the Masons and Woodmen of the World.
On July 4. 1899, Mr. Connor was married to Norma Inabinet, a daughter of David and Ann In- abinet, and they have two children, Esme and Stuart. A strong democrat, Mr. Connor is chair- man of the County Central Committee of his party. As president of the Business Men's League of Saint George he takes an active part in boosting his community and is one of the most representative men of the county.
JOSEPH MCQUILLAN MOORER. The name of Joseph MI. Moorer, of Walterboro, is closely identified with the present-day history of Colleton County, for, though only now in the early prime of life, he has become an important factor in professional and political life. The splendid success which has come to him is directly traceable to the salient points in his character.
Joseph M. Moorer was born in St. George, South Carolina, on July 29, 1884, and is the youngest of eleven children born to P. L. and Martha H. (Mur- ray) Moorer. P. L. Moorer served as a surgeon in the Confederate States Army and after the war
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was for many years a prominent physician and mer- chant at St. George, South Carolina. He was the son of Jacob Jenkins Moorer, also of Orangeburg County. The Moorer family is of Swiss origin, and the first members of the family came to America in the days of the colonies. The subject's mother was a native of Dorchester County, this state, though at the time of her birth it was still a part of Colleton County. She was the daughter of Dr. William Mur- ray, of the same place, whose father, also named William, was a native of South Carolina. The Mur- ray family traces its line back to Scottish origin.
Joseph M. Moorer secured the foundation of his education in the public schools, and then became a student in the well known South Carolina Military . Academy (The Citadel), at Charleston, South Caro- lina, where he was graduated in 1906, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. After graduation he taught school for two years, then took up the study of law, and in 1909 was admitted to the bar. In the same year he located at Walterboro and became a member of the law firm of Padgett, Lemacks & Moorer. In 1914 the firm name became Padgett & Moorer, and is so known at this time. As a lawyer Mr. Moorer has fully met the expectations of those who pre- dicted his success and today he enjoys a large and influential clientele. He is a member of the South Carolina Bar Association and also of the American Bar Association. He has taken a prominent part in local public affairs and has served as one of the aldermen of the town. His support is unreservedly given to every measure promising to be of material or ethical benefit to the community and he stands for the highest and best things in life. During the World war he served as chairman of the local board for Colleton County under the Selective Service Act. He has been actively interested in military affairs and for a number of years served as commanding officer of Company K, Third South Carolina Infantry, National Guard.
Politically Mr. Moorer is a stanch supporter of the democratic party and for a number of years has represented his county on the State Democratic Ex- ecutive Committee. Fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Knights of Pythias and the Elks, while his religious affilia- tion is with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
In 1913 Mr. Moorer was united in marriage with Allie Grey Buchanan, of Tazewell, Virginia, and they have a daughter, Nancy. Mr. Moorer is of a high type of professional man and none more than he deserves a fitting recognition among the men whose genius and abilities have achieved results that are most enviable and commendable.
WILLIAM THOMAS AYCOCK, who has practiced law at Columbia over twenty years and has achieved a front rank in the South Carolina bar, is a native of North Carolina, and a member of the noted Ay- cock family of that state.
He is descended from William Aycock, who came to North Carolina in 1753 from England. One of his descendants a few years ago was governor of North Carolina. William Thomas Aycock was born at Rockingham in Richmond County, North Carolina, February 24. 1868. His father, James Henry Aycock, a native of Wayne County, that state, married Hen- rietta Leonora Brogdon, a native of Clarendon
County, South Carolina. In 1879 the family moved to Wedgefield, South Carolina, where James Henry Aycock engaged in planting up to the time of his death in 1895.
Wilham T. Aycock attended primary schools at Rockingham, North Carolina, and Wedgefield, South Carolina, and from 1882 to 1886 was a student of the famous Bingham Military School at Mebane, North Carolina. He completed his course as a cadet captain there in 1886. In the fall of the same year he entered South Carolina College, graduating A. B. 1889, and was valedictorian of the Euphradian Liter- ary Society. He also became affiliated with the Phi Delta Theta fraternity at the University.
For several years Mr. Aycock was engaged in business, and then entered the Law School of Colum- bia University at New York City, graduating LL. B. in 1896. He has been practicing law at Columbia since that year, and in 1900 formed a partnership with Francis H. Weston, the firm of Weston & Aycock enjoying some of the most successful asso- ciations in the South Carolina bar.
Mr. Aycock is a democrat of liberal and progres- sive views but has cultivated politics only as a very incidental affiliation with his profession. He was elected and served as a member of the House of Representatives in the General Assembly in 1904. In IgII he sat at Columbia as a special circuit judge. Since 1015 he has been a member of the Board of School Trustees of the City of Columbia, and in 1918 was a director of the Columbia Chamber of Com- merce. He is also chairman of the Richland County Democratic Executive Committee.
Mr. Aycock became solicitor of the Palmetto Na- tional Bank of Columbia at the time of its organ- ization, and has served in that capacity and also as a director. He is a member of the firm James Aycock & Sons, planters and merchants at Wedgefield, South Carolina. Fraternally he is affiliated with Richland Lodge of Masons, and Capital Lodge, Knights of Pythias.
February 27, 1906, Mr. Aycock married Mary Mac- Donald Stewart, a native of Nashville, Tennessee, and daughter of Archibald Robertson and Harriet ( Mitchell) Stewart. Her mother was a native of Fayetteville, North Carolina. Her father was born at Blair Athol, Scotland, and is one of the Stewarts of Tulloch. Mr. and Mrs. Aycock have three chil- dren : Margaret, William Thomas, Jr., and Mary Stewart.
WALLER HUNN NARDIN, M. D. Six decades have passed since the late Dr. W. H. Nardin, Sr., began the practice of medicine at Anderson. Altogether three generations of this family have supplied cap- able men to the State of South Carolina.
The family was founded here by David F. Nar- din, who was a native of France and at the age of eighteen came to America, settling in the Ohio Val- ley. He subsequently prepared himself for the medi- cal profession, studying with the Eclectic School, then known as the Botanic School, which adminis- tered only medicines obtained from herbs or of vegetable origin. David F. Nardin came to South Carolina and practiced his profession at Charles- ton until his death during the yellow fever epidemic of 1839. During that epidemic his family refugeed to Pendleton, South Carolina.
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Waller Hunn Nardin was born at Charleston October 24, 1837, and not long after the death of his father his widowed mother married Daniel Brown, a highly respected citizen of Anderson, where the boy grew up and where he made his home the rest of his life. He acquired a good lit- erary training under Professor, later Judge Murray, and in 1860 graduated in medicine from New York University. Hle at once took up active practice at Anderson, and when the war broke out he was de- tailed to attend smallpox case's then prevailing in northwestern South Carolina, and afterward went to the coast in the vicinity of Charleston and became an assistant surgeon in the Confederate army. Eventually he was assigned to duty under Gen. Joe Johnston, and served until the close of the war. With the exception of the war period he practiced at Anderson from 1860 continuously until his death on May 30, 1908, a period of over forty-five years.
He was a Southerner by birth and training and no less in ideals and conceptions. He was a democrat and had the honor of being the first mayor of the incorporated City of Anderson. He was also elected president of the South Carolina Medical Society, served on the state board of health and the state board of medical examiners, and his reputation as a physician and surgeon was state wide.
In 1860 he married Miss Lucie Hammond, of Dal- ton, Georgia. She survived him ten years, passing away in 1918. They were the parents of five daugh- ters and three sons, one of the sons being Dr. W. HI. Nardin of Anderson.
WALLER H. NARDIN, M. D., began the practice of medicine at Anderson ten years before the death of his honored father, the late Dr. W. H. Nardin, Sr., has in later years confined his attention exclusively to his specialty in treating the ear, eye, nose and throat, and is one of the ablest men in that field in the State of South Carolina.
He was born at Anderson January 1, 1876. The career of his honored father is sketched elsewhere. He was educated in the Patrick Military Institute at Anderson and in 1897 graduated in medicine from the New York University and at once began his professional career at Anderson. He continued general practice until 1908, since which year he has specialized exclusively. In preparation for his spe- cialty he did post-graduate work in 1901 and 1906 at the Post-Graduate School of Medicine in New York City and at Chicago in 1908. He is a member of the Anderson County and South Carolina State Medical societies, the Southern Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the American L. O. & R. Society, made up of his fellow specialists, and the Association of Southern Railway Surgeons.
Doctor Nardin is a public spirited citizen and has found time to serve in the office of alderman. He is a democrat, a Royal Arch Mason and Knight of Pythias and has filled all the offices of these frater- nities. His church faith is that of the Methodist. In 1905 he married Miss Minnie Freeman. They are the parents of three sons.
J. Ross HANAHAN has for a number of years been a prominent leader in the financial and busi- ness life of Charleston, where he is president of the Planters Fertilizer & Phosphate Company and active in several other leading corporations.
He was born at Summerville, South Carolina, July 5, 1869. His father was Joseph S. Hanahan and his grandfather, John Hanahan, both natives of Edisto Island, their ancestors, all Protestants, having come to this state from the north of Ireland. Joseph S. Hanahan married Martha Frances Gail- lard. She was born in Berkeley County, daughter of Dr. Theodore Gaillard, a native of the same county and a granddaughter of Theodore S. Gail- lard, conspicuous as one of the representatives of South Carolina in the United States Senate and representing an old and prominent French Huguenot family.
J. Ross Hanahan was second in a family of five children. He was educated in the Charleston gram- mar and high schools, graduated from South Caro- lina College in 1890, and for thirty years has been a hard working business man. He is president of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce, and besides the Planters Fertilizer and Phosphate Company he is president and treasurer of the Keystone Lime Company, the Standard P. C. Company, and Caro- lina Portland Cement Company. He is a member of the Charleston Yacht Club, and a member of the Masonic Order. He married in 1896 Maria Gray- son Ogier. They have three children, J. Ross, Jr., William O. and Maria G.
JAMES CAMPBELL COIT of Cheraw, who was a major in the Confederate army and whose services link him conspicuously with South Carolina agricul- ture and public affairs, was born in Marlboro County, South Carolina, October 4, 1832.
He was a son of David Gardiner and Maria (Campbell) Coit, the father being a direct descendant of John Coit who came to this country in 1640, settling at Gloucester, Massachusetts, and in 1650 removing to New London, Connecticut, being by occupation a shipbuilder, the first shipwright in New London ; and the mother being a daughter of Capt. Robert Campbell, Scotchman, an officer in the British Navy, but who subsequently settled in South Caro- lina. David Gardiner Coit, having graduated from Yale in the class of 1819, prepared himself for the practice of law, but afterwards abandoned this pro- fession and, leaving his home in New London moved to the South, where he turned his attention to agri- culture, being at the time of his death in 1836 a large and successful planter in South Carolina.
James Campbell Coit was left an orphan when fourteen years of age. He was sent to Harts Acad- emy in Farmington, Connecticut, later spending three years at the South Carolina College, and in 1854 was graduated from Princeton, New Jersey. He then entered the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York, and completed the course of civil engineering in that school, graduating in 1858, with first honor and as valedictorian of his class. Re- turning to his home in South Carolina he was en- gaged as a civil engineer until the outbreak of the war between the states when he offered his services to the Confederate cause and was made a captain in the artillery service. Much of his fighting was done in Virginia, under General Lee. As major of artillery he was in command of a hattalion on the Petersburg lines, one of his batteries having been blown up by the explosion of the Federals' mine known as "The Crater." He also served on the
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Blackwater, near Richmond, the Chickalominy, and other noted fields. He was made lieutenant-colonel of artillery before the close of the war, and remained in the service during the whole four years. His war record is clean, showing that he was always to be found at his post, with mind as well as heart de- voted to his duty.
After the close of the war he returned to his home near Cheraw and took up agriculture. In 1867 he was sent to the Legislature of the state and served there for eleven years. During those recon- struction times, so trying to the South and so fraught with possibilities of disaster, when there was need of men who could think clearly, who could judge truly, and whose courage could be relied upon, the records show that he met the test well, and that his counsels were of real value to his state and to his country. He was a member of the famous "Wallace Honse" of this period. During the session of 1876- 77, a Bond Commission was appointed by the Legis- lature, its duties being to investigate the bonded indebtedness of the state and to examine all vouchers and records upon which bonds had been issued. Mr. Coit was a member of this commission and rendered distinguished aid in its work. In 1878 he was made commissioner of claims, his duty being to adjudi- cate all outstanding claims against the state other than bonds. All claims were passed upon by him and from his decision no appeal could be taken. In 1880 he was made comptroller general of the state. After leaving this office hie declined all political pre- ferment. He was offered the nomination for lieu- tenant governor of the state, but refused the nomina- tion, choosing rather to remain on his plantation near Cheraw. His interest in and zeal for the wel- fare of the farmer was unfailing, and as the first president of the Farmers' Alliance Exchange of South Carolina he contributed in no small way to the development of the agricultural interests of the state.
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