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Doctor Memminger received the gold medal of honor, and a diploma of honor from the Academie Parisienne Francaise des Iwoens, for an account of original research on the use of fluoride of calcium; and, at the request of the American Medical association, he prepared a paper on the use, by himself, of sodium chloride in Bright's disease. He was appointed by the governor as one of the commission in the famous trial of Lavelle for wife
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murder. Lavelle, it will be recalled, was convicted by the jury, but was afterwards adjudged of unsound mind and placed in the state penitentiary. In this case Doctor Memminger wrote the report of the minority of the commission. He is the origi- nator of an important food for invalids, which has been highly recommended by distinguished members of the medical profes- sion. He is also the originator of a tablet manufactured by Parke, Davis & Company, under the name of "Salt and Iron Tablets for Anæmia." He is now occupied in experimenting with a new compound for the cure of anæmia and neurasthenia.
Doctor Memminger was for years a member of several of the social clubs, including the St. Cecilia society, the Cotillion club of Charleston, and the Charleston club, and he is now a member of the new Commercial club of Charleston. Although a Democrat, he has never been in politics; he has, however, been examined as an expert before committees of the state senate and house of representatives of South Carolina, and before the United States Naval committee at Washington.
Doctor Memminger has never been married. For the advancement of social well-being, his advice is: "Train the con- sciences of men and women in the highest manner, and then there will be less need for so-called laws, which can always be evaded."
His winter address is 34 Montague street, Charleston, South Carolina; his summer address, Richmond Hill, Flat Rock, North Carolina.
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MARION MOISE
M OISE, MARION, was born on Sullivan's Island, Charleston county, South Carolina, June 14, 1855. He is the son of Edwin Warren Moise and Esther Lyon, his wife. The father, a prominent lawyer, held the position of adjutant and inspector general of South Carolina for the period 1876-1880. He is of Jewish descent. Abraham Moise, a native of Alsace (one of the old German provinces ceded to France in 1648), emigrated to the West Indies and married the daughter of a prominent Jewish family of the Island of Saint Eustatius. Upon the memorable insurrection of the slaves in 1791 he fled to Charleston, South Carolina. His son, Abraham Moise, born in 1799, married Caroline, granddaughter of Meyer Moses, and these were the grandparents of the subject of this sketch.
Marion Moise grew up a healthy and active youth, with a special taste for hunting and fishing and but little love for study or reading. His early years were passed in the town of Sumter, and the circumstances of his father being prosperous, the son had no tasks or special duties assigned him as a boy, and he preferred to be amused. His mother, however, was an excellent wife and parent and exercised a signal influence for good in his intellectual and moral life. His special lines of reading were the Bible and Shakespeare, and later the legal writers, Blackstone and Kent. His preparatory studies were in the schools of Sumter. He subsequently attended the Virginia Military institute at Lex- ington, Virginia, and finally was a student for a few months in 1872 of South Carolina college. Deciding upon the profession of law, he laid the foundation for his career as a clerk in the law office of his father, in Sumter, South Carolina, and the sterling character and well-earned success of the parent were potent in stimulating the son to exertion, not only toward efficiency in his profession, but in other lines of activity. Commencing the prac- tice of law, he married, November 7, 1877, Isabel DeLeon, whose family name has been distinguished in literature and the arts. They have had seven children born to them, of whom five are now (1907) living.
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Mr. Moise has filled usefully many positions of trust and honor. He served as state senator of South Carolina from 1886 to 1890, and also as intendant of the town of Sumter, for two terms, without remuneration of any kind. He became president of the Sumter Cotton mills after the enterprise had been adjudged a failure, and by his energetic management its success was assured. He has served as vice-president of the Bank of Sumter for the past fifteen years, and is further prominent in financial circles, being a director of the Sumter Savings bank, and in many other business institutions. He has also served as a member of the board of school trustees for the Sumter graded schools for the past thirteen years. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, of the Knights and Ladies of Honor, of the Masonic fraternity, of the Euphradian society, and of a number of other organiza- tions. He has been constantly identified with the Democratic party, using his best efforts for the interests and prosperity of his state and country. He is a zealous member of the Jewish Congregation Sinai. His relaxation in mature years has con- tinued from boyhood in hunting and fishing.
His precepts for success in life for ambitious youth are to "adhere to the simple life of our ancestors; to subdue all desire for indulgence beyond one's pecuniary resources, as the trend is toward habits of extravagance; to act uprightly in every relation and responsibility of life without ostentation or pretence; to be a true man in all things and to concentrate all one's energies unflaggingly upon whatever work or duty is undertaken, but, lest one fall by the wayside, some short periods of relaxation should be taken as often as may seem requisite to the maintenance of health. Be ever pure in thought, sincere in utterance, and urbane in manner to all, in whatever sphere, exalted or humble."
His address is 17 Warren street, Sumter, Sumter county, South Carolina.
WILLIAM JOSEPH MONTGOMERY
M ONTGOMERY, WILLIAM JOSEPH, twice mayor of Marion, president of the Merchants and Farmers bank, and president of the Marion Business league, was born in Marion county, South Carolina, May 20, 1851. He is the son of Calvin Montgomery, a farmer, who died while his son was a child, and of Desda Anderson Montgomery. The family are descendants of a Scotchman who came to this country in 1735 and settled near the line of Virginia and North Carolina. Until he was eighteen years of age, William J. Montgomery lived on a farm, where as a healthy and robust young man fond of books and sports of field and stream, he divided his time between school and manual labor on the farm. Like many of America's leading men, he worked his way through both school and college. After attending several preparatory schools, he took a literary course in Wofford college, where in 1875 he was graduated with the degree of A. B. In his college work and in after life he has been a great reader, especially of the lives of the great men of this and other countries. It was his mother's wish and his own desire that he become a member of the legal profession. In 1875 he became town clerk of Marion, and while in this position he devoted all his spare time to the study of law. In 1877 he was admitted to the bar by the circuit court of South Carolina, and immediately commenced practice. He has been successful as an attorney and also as a banker and a public man.
He was president of the Merchants and Farmers bank from its organization until it liquidated to form the Farmers and Merchants bank, of which he is also president. In 1882 he was elected a member of the house of representatives of South Caro- lina, and again in 1899. He was a member of the Constitutional convention in 1895, and was twice elected mayor of Marion. He is president of the State Bankers association and of the Marion Business league. He attends the Southern Methodist church. In politics he is a Democrat of the Grover Cleveland school. Hunting and fishing are his favorite forms of amusement. In advising young men how to succeed in life, he says: "Strict
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integrity, industry, economy, sobriety, will bring success in any line of achievement."
On December 13, 1877, Mr. Montgomery was married to Annie Stackhouse, daughter of Colonel E. T. Stackhouse, of Marion county, who at the time of his death was a member of congress. Of their six children, five are now (1907) living.
His address is Marion, Marion county, South Carolina.
JULIUS ANDREW MOOD
M OOD, JULIUS ANDREW, A. B., M. D., physician and surgeon, is of German descent-that thrifty element which has contributed so largely to the industrial peopling of the United States.
His emigrant ancestor, Peter Mood, from Wurtemburg, Ger- many, settled in 1751 in Pennsylvania, the primary destination of a majority of the emigrants from Germany, Holland and Switzerland, whence they spread to Maryland, the Valley of Virginia, North and South Carolina, and thence permeated the Southern and Western states.
In religion they were chiefly of the Lutheran church, and by vocation farmers. Depending more upon themselves than upon others, they were important factors in the building of this great nation, and were especially prominent in the development of its mechanical and mining interests.
The son of the emigrant, Peter Mood, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Oxford, Pennsylvania, in May, 1766. In 1798 he removed to Charleston, South Caro- lina, where he followed the craft of silversmith and jeweler, in which vocation he was succeeded by his son in the establishment on King street, so well known. The last, in religion, was of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which two of his sons attained prominence by their good works. Reverend Francis Asbury Mood, D. D., who, being thrown upon his own resources at the age of fourteen years, taught a school for colored youth to acquire means for his college course. He graduated from Charleston college in 1850, and joined the South Carolina conference the same year. He served with acceptance on circuits, in stations as presiding elder, and in missionary work among the colored population; was appointed chaplain in the Confederate States army, and assigned to duty in the hospitals in Charleston during the War between the States.
Afterward, having made a tour in Europe, he entered on the presidency of Soule university, at Chapel Hill, Texas. Subse- quently, on its consolidation with several Methodist colleges into the Southern university, he was elected regent of the university
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in 1873. His brother, Reverend Henry McFarlane Mood, remov- ing to Lenoir, North Carolina, was president of Davenport Female college there 1859-62, and of Columbia Female college 1862-65. His characteristics were zeal and unostentatious devo- tion to the service of the Lord, and a uniform consistency in every requirement of the daily walks of life.
Julius Andrew Mood, the son of Reverend Henry McFarlane and Laura Clementine Mood, was born in Lincolnton, Lincoln county, North Carolina (where his father was then stationed), April 22, 1854. His health was delicate in childhood and youth, and his father, like the majority of the ministers of the Methodist church, was always in moderate circumstances.
The son was furnished with no pocket money for personal indulgences, and had none save what he earned himself. His tastes were, fortunately, for reading, with a decided bias for natural history, and he became familiar, while a mere child, with the names and growth of plants and trees, and with the habits of animals and birds. His desire for an education was controlling, and, with the determination to earn the means requisite thereto, he entered the printing establishment of Derry, Cook & Perry, in Charleston, South Carolina, at the early age of twelve years, and continued a type-setter until he had earned enough to pay his expenses at college for a year.
He was prepared for college by ex-Judge W. C. Benet, at Cokesbury academy, and was graduated from Wofford college in 1875, with the degree of A. B. His preference was for the medical profession, and he entered the Medical College of South Carolina, from which he was graduated M. D. in 1879. He subsequently took a post-graduate course in the Medical College of New York, 1895-97. While in active and successful practice of his profession he established, in 1895, at Sumter, South Caro- lina, a private hospital for surgical work, in which successful operations on patients from every part of the state have been per- formed. Nor are these services of Dr. Mood less to be regarded than the performance of other duties to which he felt himself impelled. He served as a warden of the town of Sumter; was its first mayor when it was chartered as a city; president of the board of health; chairman of the board of school commissioners, and also served as surgeon, with the rank of major, in the First
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South Carolina regiment of infantry in the Spanish-American war.
Doctor Mood has been twice married: first, on January 13, 1876, to Alma Archer, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, who died March 22, 1882. He married again, March 12, 1883. His second wife survives. He has living five children, four by the first marriage and one by the last. Doctor Mood is a Democrat and a consistent states rights man. Of a distinguished Methodist family, he naturally clings to membership in that church. He is a member of two fraternal bodies, the Elks and the A. F. & A. Masons, and has served as master of Claremont lodge, No. 64, Sumter, South Carolina.
He seeks relaxation in quail shooting, being a keen sports- man, and finds riding in an automobile helpful to him in his active duties of life.
His address is 24 South Washington street, Sumter, Sumter county, South Carolina.
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JAMES WASHINGTON MOORE
M OORE, JAMES WASHINGTON, of Hampton, South Carolina, attorney and counsellor for several railroads, for twenty-five years legal adviser and counsel for the county of Hampton, ex-member of the house of representatives of South Carolina, and for sixteen consecutive years, 1878 to 1894, state senator, representing Hampton county, was born February 25, 1837, in Coosawhatchie, Beaufort county, South Carolina. His father, John Moore, was a merchant of marked integrity of character, good judgment, a high sense of justice, yet of genial and kindly nature, who held the appointment of postmaster, but declined all elective offices. His mother, whose maiden name was Sabrina Woodbury Beard, he speaks of as "a woman of the finest attributes, both mentally and morally; whose character and example had a most important effect in forming her son's ideals and habits of life."
His family has been distinguished in our colonial history; and nothing proves more conclusively our common American life, North and South, than does the tracing of the career of descend- ants of immigrants of sterling character, as their children, dividing, settled, some in the North and some in the South, becoming colonial patriots in Massachusetts and in South Caro- lina, their descendants coming to be leaders of their respective states in lines of development which differed widely, but in which these kinspeople, South and North, held to the same lofty ideals of duty which had animated their common ancestors.
The earliest known ancestor of Mr. Moore in America was a son of that John Moore of Clan McDonald, who was killed in the infamous Glencoe massacre. His children escaped-first to Ireland, and then in 1718 came to Londonderry, New Hampshire, removing in 1751 to Peterboro, New Hampshire. Of their descendants, and ancestors or kinsmen of J. W. Moore, were Samuel Moore, representative in the fifth Provincial congress in 1775, whose son, Samuel Moore, Jr., fought at Lexington; John Moore, who was also engaged in the battle of Lexington; Colonel Andrew Todd, of colonial days; and Honorable Levi Woodbury,
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secretary of the United States treasury and justice of the United States supreme court.
Mr. Moore's early life was passed in the villages of Coosaw- hatchie and Gillisonville, which were successively the county- seats of Beaufort county. While he was a strong, robust boy, and very fond of field sports and athletics, he was still keenly interested in studying and reading instructive books. He had no tasks involving manual labor; his time was passed in attending school, and field sports.
While his parents directed his studies and reading at home, he attended the Beaufort District academy at Gillisonville for his preparatory work for college; and in 1856 he was graduated with the degree of A. B. from the University of Georgia, receiv- ing in 1859 the degree of A. M. from the same university.
Admitted to the bar, he began the practice of the law at Gillisonville in January, 1859. His life has been spent in the practice of his profession and in the service of his state and county as a legislator, except the four years of the War between the States.
In 1861 he enlisted in the Hampton legion as first ser- geant of the Beaufort District troop. In 1862 he was elected second lieutenant of Company C, and the same day was appointed adjutant of the cavalry of the legion, afterwards known as the Second South Carolina cavalry. He took part in all the impor- tant engagements in which the legion had a share, and at Brandy Station he received a severe wound, by which he was disabled for two months; but he returned to the regiment and remained with it until the close of the war.
On May 13, 1868, he was married to Cornelia Elizabeth Tillinghast, daughter of Honorable R. L. Tillinghast, a lawyer of repute, and state senator. They have had three children, and two of them, daughters, are living in 1907.
In his professional work, Mr. Moore rapidly won clients. He was counsel for Hampton county for twenty-five years. He has long been the local counsel for the Southern railway, for the Seaboard Air Line Railway company, and for the Charleston and Western Carolina Railway company.
He has always been a loyal member of the Democratic party. In 1876 he conducted the campaign in Beaufort county as chair- man, and was very influential in the creation of Hampton county.
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He was chairman of the State Democratic committee in the cam- paigns of 1886 and 1888. He was a delegate to the National Democratic convention, in Chicago, when Cleveland was first nominated for the presidency.
The people of his town and county have often honored him by election to offices, where they wished his services for the commonwealth. He has served as commissioner of the poor, as commissioner of public buildings, as magistrate, and in 1866, immediately after the war, as member of the South Carolina house of representatives. In 1878 he was elected state senator to represent Hampton county; and, reelected three times, he served for sixteen years consecutively until 1894. In 1900 he was again elected to the senate to fill out the unexpired term of a senator who died in 1900.
Senator Moore has also served as brigadier-general and later as major-general of the state militia, and as chairman of the military committee of the senate; he also was a state delegate to the Yorktown centennial. He is a Knight of Honor, and has been grand dictator of that order. His church relations are with the Presbyterian Church, South.
He has always felt, and has often said, that the early influ- ences of his home have contributed more than any and all other causes to such success in life as he may have won. "The feeling of obligation and desire to strive for the truly best to be obtained, there ingrafted, has accompanied me through life."
For the young he writes: "I can only give my one rule in life: Be faithful, honest and truthful in the discharge of all duties. Work steadily for what you are trying to achieve, and expect nothing without laboring for it."
His address is Hampton, Hampton county, South Carolina.
WILLIAM DOYLE MORGAN
M ORGAN, WILLIAM DOYLE, financier, banker, presi- dent of the Bank of Georgetown, South Carolina, was born in New York city on February 5, 1853, son of John and Mary Morgan. His parents were natives of Ireland, met and were married in New York city, and shortly thereafter went South and settled in Georgetown, South Carolina.
At the time of their advent in Georgetown the subject of this sketch was an infant two or three months of age, and subse- quently three daughters were born to them, making a family of four children. When the War between the States broke out he was only eight years old, and the continuance of that conflict prevented his receiving the advantages of a liberal education. This deprivation of educational opportunities was in part offset by attending private schools for short periods and by private instruction at home under his father, who was a highly educated man, was physically exempt from active war duties on account of lameness, and was peculiarly gifted in the art of imparting what he knew.
The father's property interests were swept away by the war. At its close he renewed his efforts to again establish himself in merchandising, but before he had opportunity to accumulate anything he died, in 1866, leaving a widow and four dependent children, one an infant. These circumstances suddenly placed a heavy burden of responsibility on the subject of this sketch, and compelled him to take up the real battle of life at an unusually early age and with very inadequate preparation save that of good health and a stout heart. His mother filled his young life with high ideals and abundant encouragement. He read and studied in his spare moments and at night, and applied his working hours to the task of supporting the home and family. His efforts inspired confidence, and in the course of time this confidence served as an important capital.
Through persistent effort, and a natural fondness for the subject, he learned accounting, and, in 1869, obtained a position in a drug store to take charge of the books, where he incidentally learned something about the drug business. The druggist being
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postmaster at that time, he also performed the duties of assistant postmaster. For more than two decades thereafter he occupied responsible positions as bookkeeper and accountant for the largest business houses of Georgetown, and in April, 1891, was elected president of the Bank of Georgetown. This position he has filled with signal ability from that time until the present (1907), and has also been an active figure in a number of other financial, municipal and public enterprises. He was chief of the fire department of Georgetown for several years; mayor of the city for fifteen years consecutively ; president of several local building and loan associations; and director in various business and other organizations. He took an active part in securing the charter and promoting the Georgetown and Lanes railroad-the first rail- road to be built to Georgetown-and took great interest and devoted much time and energy to securing appropriations for the construction of jetties at Georgetown and otherwise improving its harbor and waterways. In 1903 he was unanimously elected treasurer of the League of American Municipalities, serving three consecutive terms without opposition and resigning at the meeting of 1906 at Chicago. In recognition of his services as mayor, and his efforts for the improvement of Georgetown harbor, the citizens of the city, in May, 1905, presented him with an elaborate and handsome punch bowl.
At the annual meeting of the South Carolina Bankers association, held at the Isle of Palms, near Charleston, South Carolina, in 1907, Mr. Morgan was elected president of the asso- ciation. He is a member of the Palmetto club, and, as its first president, received President Cleveland during the visit of the chief magistrate to Georgetown, in 1894. He is also a member of the Winyah Indigo society, and the Elks, and president of the Georgetown chamber of commerce. In politics he is a consistent Democrat, and in religion he is a member of the Roman Catholic church.
Whatever honors have come to Mr. Morgan have come unsought, and have been the result of a well-founded confidence in his integrity and ability. The foundation of this confidence he affectionately attributes, in large measure, to his mother's advice and inspiration, supplemented by contact, when a very young man, with the elderly representative men of his city. "I would suggest," he replied, in answer to a question on true success in
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life, "to all young men that they cultivate high ideals of life and conduct; to value character and honor above dollars and cents to avoid bad company and bad habits. Never make light odf. serious things. Respect your elders and court their friendship Seek their advice, for their experience will be valuable. Honom your father and mother. Lead honest, temperate, pure lives, ancd you will have the confidence and respect of your fellow-citizens and business associates. Do your full duty at all times." Thisis concise and wise homily, it is needless to add, has been the proven philosophy of a life full of good works and conscientious endeavor.
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