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The modern inhabitants of this village speak with constant appreciation and esteem of the resident manager, whom they look upon as a real fixture in the community. Mr. MacEnroe has in fact grown up with Ware Shoals. He is a northerner by birth and training. He was born in Ireland, was educated in the Phillipsburg High School, took a commercial course in Wood's Business College at Easton, Penn- sylvania, and afterwards pursued correspondence . studies in the textile industry. The train of ex- pericnce and events which finally brought him to South Carolina began when he became a stenog- rapher for John S. Riegel of Riegelville, New Jersey, president of the Warren Manufacturing Company, paper manufacturers. When this company removed its office from Riegelville to New York City Mr. MacEnroe went along.
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In the meantime the Riegels had extended their interests to South Carolina and had become owners of the Ware Shoals power plant and had begun the development of the present industry. In 1905 they sent Mr. MacEnroe as one of the managing force in the Ware Shoals Manufacturing Company. At that time the company had completed only one small mill and a few tenant houses. The railroad had not been built and Ware Shoals was still remote and the sur- rounding country was occupied only by a small agri- cultural population. With every phase of subsequent development Mr. MacEnroe has been closely identi- fied. By successive promotions likewise he has risen through various grades of responsibility until he is now resident manager and assistant treasurer of the two large cotton mills and other industries. He is
proud of what his co-workers, employers and asso- ciates have achieved here. Ware Shoals today is growing and improving, is teeming with cheerful industrial life and is the type of commitmity that might well be considered an indication of the modern industrial era of South Carolina.
In May, 1919, Mr. MacEnroe was honored by Governor Cooper as member of the Greenwood County Highway Commission. This commission is entrusted with the building and expenditure of a large sum of money for good roads in Greenwood County. During the war Mr. MacEnroe was local chairman for the various loan campaigns and other auxiliary war work and rendered very valuable services in that capacity.
WILLIAM C. BULLARD. As a result of his long training and experience, and some exceptional per- sonal qualifications, William C. Bullard is regarded as one of the foremost traffic experts in South Carolina. He spent many years in railroad traffic work, and is now traffic manager of the Merchants' Fertilizer & Phosphate Company, the Charleston Import and Forwarding Company, Ashmead F. Pringle, Incorporated, and the Charleston Shipping Company.
Mr. Bullard was born near Fayetteville in Cum- berland County, North Carolina, in 1887, a son of C. C. and Canolia (Williams) Bullard. Both fam- ilies have long been represented in Cumberland County. Wilham C. Bullard received his early edu- cation in the vicinity of Fayetteville and as a boy began railroading. He laid the foundation of his profession as a traffic expert in the traffic depart- ment of the general offices of the Atlantic Coast Line at Richmond. During the twelve years he served that company he was at Richmond, Savan- nah and Charleston, having. been a resident of the latter city since 1911.
Early in 1916 Mr. Bullard took charge of the traffic department of the W. Gordon McCabe in- terests, including the McCabe Fertilizer Company, the McCabe Chemical Company and the W. Gordon McCabe & Company, cotton exporters. In order to broaden his service he joined the Carolina Company in November, 1919, as traffic manager.
He took an active part in the organization of the Charleston Shipping Company, of which he is now assistant general manager, and where he is per- forming the most significant service in re-establish- ing Charleston's place among the great American seaports. No one has entered more enthusiastically into that general broad plan than Mr. Bullard. He has studied the problems of seagoing transporta- tion through Charleston from every angle. Re- cently he analyzed conditions for the benefit of Charleston business men and showed how Charles- ton for years had suffered a disadvantage result- ing from the normal and customary habits of traf- fic seeking outlet through New York and as a result of prejudices and inequitable freight rates estab- lished and maintained by the great railroad cor- porations. It remained for the tremendous trans- portation congestion brought about by the war to demonstrate the inadequacy of New York and other northern ports. In the course of his address Mr. Bullard said: "Recognizing this fact the Gov-
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ernment after taking over the railroads began to develop other ports, including Charleston, where millions were expended in building terminals the cqual of any in the world. With the commodious terminals now open to commercial use, the export rates in effect since December 1, 1919, and with steamship service to ports of the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, South America and the West Indies already established by the Carolina Com- pany, and the South Atlantic Maritime Corpora- tion, there is no reason why we should not rank with the great ports of the world in the near future." As an expert traffic man Mr. Bullard has always been accustomed to dealing with cold facts and figures, and his statement is therefore regarded as a significant promise of a new chap- ter in the history of the Port of Charleston.
Mr. Bullard is a member of the Presbyterian Church, the Charleston Chamber of Commerce, and is affiliated with Landmark Lodge of Masons. Ile married Miss Margaret Williams, of Wade, Cum- berland County, North Carolina.
WALTER PEYRE PORCHER, M. D. For at least a century the name Porcher has been associated with some of the highest attainments in science as well as general scholarship, and has been dignified by the services of three generations of capable and eminent physicians.
Dr. Walter P. Forcher, who was born at Charles- ton, February 25, 1858, was both the son and grand- son of physicians. His parents were Francis Peyre and Virginia (Leighi) Porcher. His father was a physician, author and botanist, was at one time a vice president of the American Medical Association, president of the South Carolina Medical Association, a Fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, His scientifie work has also made his name nationally and internationally known.
Dr. Walter P. Porcher grew up on a plantation at Berkeley, South Carolina. The war had only re- cently closed and the South was in the grip of the poverty and discouragement of the reconstruction period. Except at home, therefore, Walter P. Porcher had a meager opportunity to improve his natural talents. He first attended a boarding school in Abbeville, South Carolina, and then the Carolina Military Institute at Charlotte, North Carolina, where his ambition to study was first stimulated. In 1876 he entered Union College at Schenectady, New York, entering on a scholarship. While he gave due time to his classical studies, he diligently employed every opportunity to prepare himself for entrance to a medical college. After two years he entered the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, and was graduated in 1881 with first honors. In some in- teresting reminiscences Doctor Porcher tells his ex- periences as a medical student. At first, he said, his mind was apparently unable to comprehend the language and literature of medical instruction, and for months he drifted in a maze of bewilderment, but finally he adopted the expedient of writing down notes of the lectures, and subsequently studying them again and again. By rigid practice he eventually ac- quired not only a familiarity with the formal language but much to his surprise also with its sub-
stance and meaning. In the final examinations lie tied with two other students for first honors, and then for the first time the faculty of the college con- ferred upon the three first honor men gold medals instead of silver tokens which had previously been the rule. On his record in medical college Doctor Porcher was appointed house physician to the Roper Hospital at Charleston and in 1882 chosen by the city council as clerk to the city registrar, and in 1883 appointed city physician in charge of one of the dis- pensaries. ( For three years he labored at the official salary among the sick poor of the city.) Finally as a result largely of political prejudice, the dispensary was abolished, and Doctor Porcher has always looked upon that turn in his affairs as one of great good fortune, since he immediately began preparing for a special field as a nose and throat specialist. He took post-graduate studies in New York, and afterwards went abroad, and through personal friendship with artists and by letters of introduction to prominent men in the profession, enjoyed the fullest opportuni- ties of the great art centers of Europe as well as the advantages of the medical centers of Vienna and other continental citics. On returning home le an- nounced that his practice would be limited to discases of the throat, nose and ear, and in a short time his schedule was completely filled and his reputation was spreading far beyond the boundaries of his home city and even his home state. Doctor Porcher, for a quarter of a century, has been one of the eminent mien in his especial field in the South. In 1802 he was complimented with a fellowship in the American Laryngological Association, the membership of which is limited to seventy-five Americans. In 1900 he was elected president of the South Carolina Medical Association, and presided at its semi-centennial cele- bration. In 1903 he was elected vice president of the American Laryngological Association.
The profession generally came to look upon Doctor Porcher as a man of rare skill and ability in handling complicated cases in his special field. His own modest estimate was that in many cases he had been attended by good fortune, since from his broad knowledge he recognized the thousands of clements that influence a case for good or bad, and knew many times the greatest human skill is powerless to control all the factors in the struggle for life against death. Before local and other medical associations he made many reports of particular cases, delivered numerous formal addresses, and physicians and sur- geons knew him as the author of important chapters in certain standard treatises.
While Doctor Porcher did not marry until he was nearly forty years of age. his domestic life was one of great happiness. September 27, 1897, he married Miss Mary Long Porcher, a distant rela- tive, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, and a young woman whose many brilliant menta! oualities were balanced by those of heart and un- derstanding. Six children were born to them be- fore their marriage companionship was closed by Mrs. Porcher's death in 1912. Doctor Porcher's own health became impaired during the last two years of his life and he died on Sunday evening. November 2, 1919.
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