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He began the active work of his life as tutor in Greek at Columbian university, in September, 1884, a position offering an excellent opening in the line of his chosen profession. From earliest childhood his father and mother spared no pains to stir his ambition. Home and school influence and the influence of private study were very strong upon his intellectual development. The writings of the idealistic philosophers-Greek, French and German-greatly influenced his mind in the formative period of its development, a development which was wisely directed by the companionship of President Welling and Professor O. T. Mason, of the Columbian university. For fifteen years he held profes-
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sorships in Columbian university, at Washington, District of Columbia, resigning in 1899 to accept the presidency of Lime- stone college, Gaffney, South Carolina, which position he now holds.
Doctor Lodge has written "A Study in Corneille," published in 1891, which has been highly commended by competent critics, both French, English and American. He has also written a number of occasional essays and reviews, and is now employed upon a "History of French Philosophy," which he hopes soon to publish. As a public speaker he has won considerable distinction. He is a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and the Cosmos club of Washington, District of Columbia. In religion he is a Baptist, and in politics a Democrat. Biographical notices of Doctor Lodge have appeared in White's "Cyclopedia of Amer- ican Biography," volume II; in Herringshaw's "Nineteenth Cen- tury Biography," and in the various editions of "Who's Who in America."
His address is Gaffney, Cherokee county, South Carolina.
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BENJAMIN LUCIOUS LOWERY
L OWERY, BENJAMIN LUCIOUS, lumber merchant, and until recently president of the Citizens bank at Seneca, was born near Fairplay village, Oconee county, South Carolina, May 4, 1844. His father, Andrew Jackson Lowery, was a farmer and a man of upright character, who had many friends in his community. His mother was Catherine Lowery. He is a direct descendant of the Harrisons and Gordons, who came to Virginia from Ireland about 1700.
Mr. Lowery was brought up on a farm. Owing to the limited means of his father, his only school training was obtained at odd times in a little country school. Although he had slight opportunity for the study of books, his natural ambition enabled him to gather much information from his associates. In 1867 he started farming for himself in Oconee county. He had but one horse and no help. After several years' hard work he came to the conclusion that farming on so small a scale did not pay. In 1875 he started a small lumber mill. Following the example of others who were successful, he went to work at this new under- taking with a determination that was bound to bring results. His business grew steadily, so that today the former owner of the little mill in Oconee county is head of a large lumber plant in Ellisville, Mississippi, president of the Farmers and Merchants bank in the same city, and has only recently sold out his interest in the Citizens bank of Seneca, of which he was also the president. As advice to young men how to be equally successful in life, he says: "If possible, take up your chosen profession with a deter- mination to succeed. Above all, be honest, sober and truthful."
During the four years War between the States Mr. Lowery fought as a private in the Confederate ranks. His favorite amusement is driving.
On May 4, 1871, he was married to Miss S. C. Hunnicutt. They have one child living in 1907.
His address is Seneca, Oconee county, South Carolina.
WILLIAM ERNEST LUCAS
L UCAS, WILLIAM ERNEST, cotton manufacturer, of Laurens, South Carolina, was born in Hartsville, Dar- lington county, South Carolina, November 16, 1863.
He comes of distinguished ancestry, among his forebears being such men as Benjamin Simons, who came from France and settled in Charleston in 1685, and Jonathan Lucas, who came from England in 1785 and also settled in Charleston. Jonathan Lucas was the inventor of rice mills, and his son, Jonathan Lucas, Jr., was noted for improvements upon this invention. Benjamin Simons, third, his great great-grandfather, was a member of the Jacksonboro legislature, and his father, Benjamin Simons Lucas, Jr., is a physician and surgeon of considerable reputation, and a man of marked intelligence, as well as urbanity of manner. His mother, who was Miss Ellen S. King, was a woman of refinement and true piety whose influence upon her son's life and upon his mental and spiritual development has lasted him through life.
Mr. Lucas was a typical country boy, of strong and healthy frame, which received added vigor from outdoor living and work on his father's farm, in which he engaged for about two years during his youth. His education was received at ordinary country schools and at Wofford college.
His first entrance into business life was as a clerk in Harts- ville, South Carolina, in the early eighties. In 1890 he became president of the Morgan Iron Works at Spartanburg, South Caro- lina, and in 1895 he organized the Laurens Cotton mills. In 1900 he was elected president of the Darlington Manufacturing com- pany, and in 1903 he organized the Watts mills, of Laurens, of which corporation he is president. His success as a manufacturer has brought him into prominence throughout his state and has also been the means of his acquisition of considerable wealth.
He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and in political affairs is identified with the Democratic party. His principal forms of relaxation are riding and driving, his fondness for horses and for outdoor life being a heritage from his boyhood days on the farm. December 18, 1890, he married Miss Cora Cox.
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They have had three children, two of whom are living in 1907. As a substantial type of the level-headed, enterprising busi- ness man, Mr. Lucas is among the foremost citizens of South Carolina, whose staple industry of cotton manufacturing he is doing no little to promote.
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E. PRESSLY MCCLINTOCK
M cCLINTOCK, REVEREND E. PRESSLY, D. D., for more than a third of a century pastor of the Thompson Street Associate Reformed church, and a prominent figure in the history of Newberry, South Carolina, was born in Laurens county, South Carolina, on June 11, 1845. His ancestors were of the group of Protestant Irish immigrants, McClintocks, Laws, Aikans, and Martins, who came from the town of Bally- mena, County Antrim, Ireland, to Fairfield county, South Caro- lina, many of them as merchants, planters and professional men becoming prominent in the history of the communities where they settled and of the state. David Martin, his mother's father, was a member of that company of Colonel Winn's regiment, South Carolina, Continental troops, of which his brother, Edward Mar- tin, was captain in the Revolutionary war.
His father, John McClintock, was a farmer, characterized, says his son, by religious-mindedness and a thirst for knowledge, and by those Scotch-Irish qualities of character which made him the successful owner of a hundred African slaves. By his mother, Mrs. Mary (Martin) McClintock, his life was strongly influenced for good, and he was early inclined to the life-work to which he has devoted himself.
His boyhood was passed in the life of a typical plantation, where the patriarchal form of American slavery was to be seen in its least objectionable form. A hundred slaves lived and worked under the kindly supervision of a humane Christian master. The negroes who were willing to be taught to read were instructed by the white children of the family, especially on the Sabbath. Like the other children of his family, he was "subjected to no labor, but was served by the slaves belonging to his parents, and was himself required to be a faithful school-boy." Every encourage- ment and all assistance possible were given him in attaining a liberal education. After preparation at a classical school in the country near his home, he entered Erskine college, at Due West, where so much of his after life was to be spent; and was gradu- ated A. B. in 1861.
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The outbreak of the War between the States interrupted his studies; and with the other eager and spirited young men of his state he enlisted, serving two years and six months in Company G, Second South Carolina cavalry, in Wade Hampton's original legion in the Army of Northern Virginia.
After the war his early conviction that the church of which he was a member needed for its ministry men thoroughly trained by a college course, the desire to be useful to his fellow-men in such a ministry of the Word became definite. He took a course of theological study at Erskine Theological seminary, and was graduated B. D. in 1869.
For six months he preached in Mississippi. In 1871 he was installed as pastor of the Thompson Street church at Newberry- a place which he has filled most acceptably for thirty-five years. At the same time he was placed in charge of the church at King's Creek, in the same county; and for eight years he ministered to both these congregations. Since 1879 his time and efforts have been given entirely to the church and community of Newberry, and to those lines of church work for and with his denomination which this prominent pastorate and his own personality have devolved upon him.
On May 17, 1870, he married Elizabeth J. Young, daughter of Prof. J. N. Young, LL. D., of Erskine college and Euphemia (Strong) Young. Of their five children, two are now (1907) living.
To his choice of a life-work Doctor McClintock feels that he was first and most strongly impelled by the ideals and the life of an intelligent and pious home. The work of the ministry has seemed to him to be most interesting and rich in its rewards to one who cares for the highest values. "I have served the church at Newberry continuously and have found the field and its work sufficient to demand and employ all my powers and all my time," he writes; and he recounts as his public services "only those which grew out of the office of pastor in an energetic college town." How far-reaching is the influence of such a pastor upon the lives of those young people who, trained by a liberal course of study, are to be leaders of thought and life in their generation, those alone can estimate who remember how great is their own debt to the preachers who inspired them in their student years.
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He was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity in college. He is by conviction and by party relations a Democrat. The college of which he is an alumnus he has served in many ways, during the thirty-six years of his postorate, in the college town where he was graduated.
Since 1900 he has been chairman of the board of trustees of Erskine college. In 1903 Newberry college conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.
Doctor McClintock has rendered an important service to his state and to the entire South by advocating strongly and most effectively the higher education for women. Not only in public addresses and sermons has he favored advanced courses of study for women, but by example, in the thorough education which he gave to his own daughters, he has done much toward that pro- nounced change in ideals of the possible and the desirable in women's education which has been wrought in the Southern states and throughout our land since 1865. One of his daughters, Euphemia Mcclintock, is president of the College for Women, at Columbia, South Carolina. Another daughter, Mary Law McClintock, is lady principal of the Mount Ida school, Newton, Massachusetts.
To young men who intend to enter the ministry Doctor McClintock offers this advice, based on an experience of nearly two-score years in preaching in a college town: "Study the per- sonality of Jesus Christ. Imitate Him. Preach the duties of good citizenship, holding to the doctrine that civil government is an ordinance of God."
And for all the young people of his state he writes: "I have always cherished a conviction that the youth of my time and my section inherited as splendid traditions and as high sentiments as the youth of any other period and section; and that loyalty to inheritance is of material help in the development of one's own powers in one's own day."
CHARLES EDGAR McDONALD
M cDONALD, CHARLES EDGAR, since 1892 pastor of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church at Winnsboro, South Carolina, in 1895 moderator of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian synod of the South, for eight years editor of the "Associate Reformed Presbyterian Quarterly" for Sunday schools, and for fifteen years associate editor of the "Associate Reformed Presbyterian," was born in Richburg, Chester county, South Carolina, November 23, 1859. The "blood of the Scotch Covenanters" is in his veins, through the ancestors of his mother and his father.
His father, Reverend Laughlin McDonald, was an able and eloquent preacher, whose example and influence must have been a great stimulus to the son. His mother, Mrs. Malissa Lucinda (Stinson) McDonald, did much to inspire the ideals and form the character of her son. Her father's ancestors came from Ireland before the Revolutionary period, and settled on Rocky creek, Chester county, South Carolina, and they were by descent a blend of Scotch Covenanters and Irish Protestants. His father's earliest American ancestors came directly from Scotland, descendants of Covenanters, and settled in Georgia. Daniel Green Stinson, his mother's father, was a local historian of some repute who pre- pared sketches of twenty of the "Women of the Revolution" for the work so entitled, by Mrs. Ellet. He also assisted Doctor Lyman C. Draper in the preparation of his volume, "The Battle of Kings Mountain."
Born in the country, he passed his boyhood on a farm, robust in health, strong in physique. He had regular duties in "doing chores" on the farm; and for two years he acted as "a hand" in farm work.
But the way to a liberal education was made easy for him. His father's property was sufficient to provide a good education for all the children. Prepared for college at New Hope academy, he entered Erskine college, and was graduated A. B. with the class of 1877 when but eighteen years old. Two years of healthful work on the farm followed. But he felt himself unquestionably
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called to the work of the Christian ministry, and he soon began his especial studies for that work.
In 1880 he entered Erskine Theological seminary, where he studied theology for two years, and was graduated in 1881. Ordained to the ministry, he began the active work of the pasto- rate in charge of the Steele Creek Associate Reformed Pres- byterian church, in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, in October, 1882. Here he continued to serve as pastor and preacher for ten years, until he was called, in April, 1892, to the pastorate at Winnsboro, South Carolina, which he has filled in a manner most acceptable to his church and to the community in which he has lived for the last fourteen years.
As editor of the "Sunday School Quarterly," and as associate editor of the "Associate Reformed Presbyterian," he has served well and with scholarly and practical efficiency that branch of the Church of Christ with which he is denominationally connected. The cordial appreciation of his fellow-ministers and their confi- dence in him was shown by his choice as moderator of the Associate Reformed synod of the South, which met at Due West, South Carolina, in 1895.
Mr. McDonald was married to Margaret Harris, daughter of Robert H. Harris, of York county, on December 23, 1886. She died on June 15, 1903. Of their five children, three are living in 1907.
Since 1884 he has been a member of the South Carolina Historical society. In political relations he is a Democrat. He has identified himself with all the prohibition movements in his state for the last thirty years, opposing the liquor evil with pen and voice, attending conventions and conferences, and awakening the public conscience on this important question of practical morality. His interest in sound family life and civic healthful- ness, so alarmingly attacked by the curse of "drink," has made the advocacy of temperance, in his estimation, one of the foremost of Christian duties.
He served as chairman of the executive committee in the interest of prohibition for Fairfield county, conducting the cam- paign of 1892.
He has filled but two pastorates during the twenty-five years of his active ministry; and in each of these his people have been led, under his administrations, to build a new church and to build
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or acquire a manse. At Steele Creek a fine church was erected in 1883 and a manse in 1887. At Winnsboro a large and com- modious manse, of colonial architecture, was purchased in 1894, and a beautiful modern church was erected in 1903. In this new church building was celebrated the Centennial of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian synod of the South, in November, 1903.
As a minister of the Gospel who believes that the life his state needs is found in the life of Christ freely imparted to those who will receive Him, he gives this brief advice to the young people of South Carolina who wish to succeed in life: "True success is to be found only in 'living the old-time religion.'"
JAMES HASELDEN MANNING
M ANNING, JAMES HASELDEN, planter, banker, for six years a member of the State Phosphate commis- sion, was born in the country near Little Rock, Marion county, South Carolina, on the 16th of April, 1857. His father, Thomas J. Manning, descended from a family who had moved from Virginia to South Carolina during the progress of the Revolutionary war, was a planter, who served as a major of militia during the War between the States, and was killed by deserters in 1864. He was impetuous, energetic, and, in the conduct of his business as a planter, remarkably successful. His wife, Mrs. Annie Maria (Haselden) Manning, devoted herself to the rearing and training of her children; and would have sent her son James to college had he not refused to go because he felt himself needed at home after his father's death.
Born upon a farm and passing his boyhood in the country, he grew up with excellent health, strong and vigorous in his physical development, and exceptionally fond of the care of stock and of all forms of outdoor work. He attended the country schools near his home for a part of each year until he was fifteen. In that year, 1872, he took entire charge of his father's estate near Dillon, South Carolina, declining to continue study because he felt that he ought to act as the head of the family.
Assuming thus early the responsibilities and the duties of manhood, it is natural that he should have found his associates among men older than himself; and in speaking of the influences which have affected his life for good, he lays especial stress upon this fact. He says: "I have always associated with men who were my seniors, and I have profited by doing so."
By his studious attention to the duties of an intelligent planter, and by his success in the management of his father's estate, Mr. Manning won the confidence and esteem of his fellow- citizens. While planting has been the chief business of his life, he has been interested in the Bank of Latta, and in 1904 he served for a time as president of that bank. He is also a director of the Bank of Marion, at Marion, South Carolina; and he continues to be a director of the Bank of Latta. As a member of the
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Phosphate commission for six years, he became officially identified with the study and the administration of the mineral deposits of South Carolina. In 1890 Governor Richardson appointed him a delegate to the Interstate Farmers' convention, which met at Montgomery, Alabama. In 1898 Governor Ellerbe appointed him a representative of South Carolina to attend the Farmers' con- vention at Galveston, Texas.
On December 25, 1877, Mr. Manning married Miss Florence Ellerbe, daughter of Captain W. S. Ellerbe, of South Carolina. They have had eleven children, seven of whom are living in 1907.
In his political relations Mr. Manning writes himself down as "Democratic and anti-Tillmanite." He is a member of the Methodist Church, South. He has always been fond of out-of- door exercise of all forms; and he finds relaxation and enjoyment in travel.
To the young people of South Carolina he writes: "If a young man wishes to succeed he should live within his income, practice economy and industry, and learn to make money before he spends it."
OSCAR BAKER MARTIN
M ARTIN, OSCAR BAKER, state superintendent of education, was born in Central, Pickens county, South Carolina, November 8, 1870. He is the son of T. C. Martin and Hattie Baker Martin. His father was a farmer, and at one time county commissioner for Pickens county, and chair- man of the school board. He is a man of energy, honesty and good judgment. His ancestors were Welsh-Irish and Scotch-Irish -sturdy yeomanry who had an ardent love of home and country. They came first to Virginia and later to upper South Carolina.
Brought up as a country lad on his father's farm, Oscar Baker Martin was a sturdy youth, fond of hunting, fishing and all outdoor sports, and full of curiosity and ambition. While yet a mere boy he was deeply interested in public events and read the newspapers with avidity. In one summer he read the thirty- seven plays of Shakespeare, and before he had left school he had read the Bible through several times. After attending the public and high schools, he entered the North Georgia Agricultural college, where he remained for one year. Later he took a course at Furman university, where in 1892 he was graduated with the degree of A. B. He has also attended summer schools at Glens Falls and Chautauqua, New York. He began teaching in Pickens county when he was sixteen years of age, and during the greater part of his college course he earned his own livelihood in this manner. After graduation he adopted teaching as a profession and became instructor in the Donalds high school, in Abbeville county. One year later he was appointed to the principalship of the Pendleton street graded school, in Greenville, and two years afterward he was promoted to the high school department in the same city. He held this position for seven years, until 1903, when he assumed his present duties as state superintendent of education.
Professor Martin was for three years a deacon in the Baptist church, is a member of the Kappa Alpha college fraternity, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Woodmen of the World. In politics he is a Democrat. Gardening, hunting and fishing are his favorite forms of amusement. Speaking of
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the impulses which have brought him success in life, he says: "My first impulse was to please my parents, and my next was to accomplish the greatest amount of service with whatever talents had been given me. My failures have been the occasions of greater resolutions. I am a great believer in the power of pur- pose. Training of the will is the greatest education. Many fail from lack of perseverance in a good work."
In 1897 Professor Martin was married to Dora Cook, daugh- ter of A. and Eliza Cook, of Laurens county.
His address is Columbia, South Carolina.
ALEXANDER JAMES MATHESON
M ATHESON, ALEXANDER JAMES, banker, financier, business administrator, was born on "Attadale" estate, Marlboro county, South Carolina, July 11, 1848, the son of Donald and Christiana Macleod Matheson.
His father was a lawyer and small planter, a scholarly man of high Christian character, and an elder in the Presbyterian church. He was born in Loch Carron, Scotland, and came to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1825. His brother, Sir James Matheson, of Stornoway Castle, the proprietor of the Island of Lewis, and another brother, Sir Alexander Matheson, of Ross Castle, were raised to the peerage of Scotland in recognition of their efforts to relieve the poor and distressed. Sir Kinneth Matheson, a cousin of Alexander J., of Duncrogie Castle, also rose to a place of prominence in his native country.
On the maternal side, Mr. Matheson's ancestors, the Mac- Leods, were also Scotch, and descended from the well-known family in Scotch annals resident for many generations at Dun- vegan Castle, Skye. His grandfather Macleod settled at Wil- mington, North Carolina, in 1775.
The childhood and youth of Alexander J. Matheson were spent on a small farm amid wholesome surroundings. He was early inured to the routine of farm work, and received a limited education in the common schools. In 1869 he worked on a farm in Marion county, South Carolina, for exceedingly small wages, saved his money, and in the following year began a small mer- cantile business. His first efforts at merchandising were not successful, and in 1872 he returned to farming. By persistent endeavor and hard work he acquired a modest capital and reengaged in the mercantile business, this time with much greater assurance of success. In 1879 he removed to Blenheim, South Carolina, and continued planting and merchandising on a larger scale. In 1895 he began a wholesale grocery business in Ben- nettsville, in the same state, which rapidly developed, and at the same time he invested largely in real estate.
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