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Thomas Woodward, son by the second wife of Thomas the Regulator, served as a youth in the American army, married Mary Howard and settled in Elbert county, Georgia. There were three children from this union-two sons and one daughter. The elder son was General Thomas S. Woodward, who became a brigadier-general of volunteers in the United States service against the Indians; the younger son died early, and the daugh- ter became the wife of General James C. Watson, who resided during the latter years of his life at Columbus, Georgia.
General Thomas S. Woodward (called by the Creek Indians Chula-Tarla-emathla) is spoken of by General Jackson in a letter
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to J. J. Hooper, of Montgomery, Alabama, of date September 30, 1819, as "a brave, intrepid and gallant soldier." He was present at the Nachetouche congress that in some mysterious way is supposed to have had some influence over the Texan desire for independence from Mexico. Doubtless Houston and Woodward both represented President Jackson and his policies there. The biography of Houston and his visits to Jackson would seem to lend color to this view; and Jackson's well-known regard for Houston caused more than one attack on his administration. Woodward's position in the army probably kept him from engag- ing in that struggle.
There were many descendants of John Woodward, of which possibly the best known in South Carolina was Major Thomas W. Woodward, deceased, for many years a senator from Fairfield county, and a brave officer of the Sixth South Carolina regiment, Confederate army. The most prominent descendants of William Woodward (son of the Regulator) were Joseph A. Woodward, for five consecutive terms a member of the congress of the United States; Colonel John J. Woodward, of the Tenth regiment, Ala- bama troops, Confederate States army, killed at Gaines Mill; and Colonel Edward Woodward, of the Confederate army.
Judge Buchanan's father was devoted to his profession, was a loyal friend, of good heart and high character, but quick in temper and stern in manner. He was well equipped for his life's work, and had a great fund of information, general and special.
Although his personal fortune was swept away by the ravages of the War between the States, yet he gave his children the best educational advantages that the condition of the times afforded. Osmund was sent to Mount Zion Military institute in his native town, and when the school was changed to Mount Zion college he continued his studies and received a good classical education. He read widely in history, biography, and English literature, and showed an early predilection for the law. His father had intended that his son should adopt his own profession, and, indeed, started him in that direction, but soon saw that it would be better to allow him to follow his natural bent. He accord- ingly entered the law office of the late Colonel James H. Rion, and was admitted to the bar in 1880 before the supreme court of
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the state. He rose rapidly in his profession, and took, at the same time, a deep interest in public and political affairs.
He served in the state legislature from Fairfield county. In 1892-94 he was assistant attorney-general of the state. He was twice elected attorney-general, and before the expiration of his last term, December 4, 1894, he was elected a circuit judge of the courts of the state for the term commencing December 8, 1894, and was reelected at the end of a four years' term, serving in all from 1894 to 1902. After his retirement from the bench he resumed the practice of law, as a member of the law firm of Buchanan & Hanahan, located at Winnsboro, South Carolina. He is the author of Buchanan's "Annotated Code of Civil Pro- cedure of South Carolina," first published in 1888. In politics he is a Democrat; in religion a Presbyterian. He holds mem- bership in the various Masonic bodies. He was probably the youngest grand master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows on record in the state.
The career of Judge Buchanan in the law and in the public service of his state has been eminently in keeping with the record of both branches of his ancestry in that respect. A man of ample legal learning, an attractive personality, patriotic instincts, human purposes, and a deep sense of personal responsibility, he has always met his duties as they were imposed upon him, and by so doing he has created for himself an enduring place in the affections and respect of his fellows.
On January 2, 1889, he married Sophie Ann Tillman, daugh- ter of Honorable George D. Tillman, of Edgefield county, South Carolina. Seven children have been born to this union, four of whom are now living.
After the above sketch was in type Judge Buchanan died at Augusta, Georgia, on March 17, 1908. His death resulted from a bullet wound received on the previous day while he was a passenger on a railroad train near Wards, South Carolina.
JOHN SOMERS BUIST
B UIST, JOHN SOMERS, physician and surgeon, from 1861-65 surgeon and major in the Confederate army, and for many years professor of clinical medicine and surgery, and later of the principles and science of surgery in the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, at Charleston, was born November 26, 1839, a native of the city in which he still resides. His father, George Buist, served as alderman of Charleston, commissioner of schools, commissioner of the orphan house, and judge of probate,-a citizen of Charleston who is still well remembered for his firmness and Christian character. His mother was Mary Edwards (Jones) Buist. She was of Welsh descent, her earliest known ancestor in America being Thomas Jones, who came to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1765; while through Mary Edwards Legare she received a strain of Huguenot French blood. The Reverend George Buist, D. D., who came from Scot- land to Charleston in 1789, bringing with him and maintaining throughout his life a reputation for exceptionally wide and deep learning, is one of his ancestors.
His boyhood was passed in Charleston, and was varied by frequent and prolonged residence in the country for parts of the year. The circumstances of his family were such as to relieve him from any manual labor in his boyhood; nor was he required to depend upon his own exertions for the means to secure an education. He was graduated from the College of Charleston in 1859, with the degree of A. B .; and two years later, in March, 1861, he received the degree of M. D. from the Medical College of the State of South Carolina. The College of Charleston also conferred upon him the degree of M. A., in March, 1869.
Upon the outbreak of the War between the States he at once entered the service of the Confederacy as surgeon, and he con- tinued to serve until the close of the war in 1865. He was then made city physician of Charleston. As surgeon of the Roper hospital, and as surgeon in the Marine hospital of the United States, he won a reputation which led to his filling for years the position of adjunct professor of materia medica and adjunct professor of clinical medicine and surgery in the Medical college
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at Charleston, and later that of professor of the principles and science of surgery in the Medical college. He has also served his city for years as a member of the board of health. He is commissioner of the Roper hospital. He has been throughout his professional life an occasional contributor of papers to medical journals and to the proceedings of the medical associations of which he is a member or a correspondent.
His favorite lines of reading throughout his life have been history and natural science. For the last fourteen years he has been a member of St. Michael's Episcopal church, with which he is prominently identified. He ranks as strongest in his life the influence of his early home; he places second the ideals and discipline and the general influence of his school life; private study, "the choice of honest Christian companions," and intimate contact with men who are engaged in the active duties of life, he counts as the other forces which have had the strongest influence upon him, and in the order in which he names them. Dr. Buist is a Mason and has attained the highest degree in masonry-the thirty-third. He is inspector-general of the Honorary Supreme council, Southern jurisdiction, United States of America.
In his political opinions he is identified with the Democratic party. He adds: "I voted for McKinley. I could not logically support Bryan with his 'sixteen to one.' "
In February, 1867, Doctor Buist married Margaret Sinclair Johnston, daughter of Archibald Simpson Johnston and Mary Bolton (Lamb) Johnston, of Charleston. Of their eight children, six are now (1908) living.
By profession a student of the conditions of physical health and of the means of preserving health to the well and restoring the sick to health, Doctor Buist says of the forms of exercise and modes of relaxation which he has enjoyed and found most helpful : "All forms of manual exercise, when I was young. My relaxation now I find in my books." A practicing physician for nearly half a century, and a teacher of young men for a large part of that time, Doctor Buist's words of advice to his young fellow-citizens of South Carolina deserve careful consideration. He writes: "Cultivate Christian character, with all that that implies, and it will lead you to proper methods and habits, giving you sound ideals of American life through which you will attain success."
His address is Charleston, South Carolina.
WILBUR EMORY BURNETT
B URNETT, WILBUR EMORY, banker, was born Sep- tember 29, 1854, at Alexander, Buncombe county, North Carolina. He is the son of Jackson S. Burnett and Mary Eliza (Alexander) Burnett. Through John Alexander and James Mitchell Alexander he traces his ancestry to Alexander, Earl of Stirling, and Donald, Lord of the Isles; and this strain of sturdy Scotch blood has made itself manifest all through his life. Jackson S. Burnett was a minister of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, South, who gradually won his way from a country parish to a village and then a city charge. Although Wilbur Burnett's mother died when he was yet young, the home atmo- sphere, under the gentle, modest influence of the father, has remained a power throughout his life, developing a strong sense of duty, while the intellectual life of both home and school early manifested itself in a taste for reading, especially the biographies of great men. These in turn fostered an intense desire to be independent and to accomplish something in life.
When it came to the decision as to what his life-work should be, under his father's influence he selected a business career, for which an education at Wofford college and Oakland academy, in Georgia, had laid a firm foundation. He was graduated from Wofford college in 1876. He at once commenced work as a bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Spartanburg, South Carolina. His cash capital amounted to two dollars, and he had not a relative or a moneyed friend in the state-a fact which is probably the basis of his belief that "in the beginning of any young man's career, money is not an essential factor; sturdy manhood is not developed through the medium of money."
From bookkeeper he was promoted to be assistant cashier, cashier, and president, of the bank where he started. Contact with men broadened his interests as well as his views, and he became identified with a number of financial and commercial enterprises, as treasurer and then as president of the Fidelity Loan and Trust company, of Spartanburg; president of the Spartanburg chamber of commerce, and of the Spartanburg Clearing House association; president of the Electric Manufac-
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turing and Power company, of Spartanburg; vice-president of the Mechanics Building and Loan association; director of the Spartan mills.
Apart from these distinctively business relations, his interest in education is manifest, in that he is president of the Wofford college alumni, and trustee of Wofford and Converse colleges; director of the Wofford College lyceum and the Converse Choral society, and president of the local Chi Psi alumni association. He has also identified himself with public interests in many ways, as captain of the Spartan Rifles of the state militia, as member and director of the Spartan City club, a member of the Masonic order and of the Democratic party. As is natural, his attention has been turned to the agricultural problem, and here he has found his recreation, life having been too strenuous to admit of physical culture apart from the business of life.
He was married, October 9, 1883, to Miss Gertrude H. DuPré, and has had nine children, of whom seven are now living.
In regard to the policy which should be followed by the state, Mr. Burnett gives the following features as those which have long appealed to him as founded in common sense: "A broader and more pronounced sentiment for education, that factor in all individual and state progress without which there can be no substantial development, either economic or political. Every influence which would foster or expand this great interest should be put in operation by the state. The construction of public highways with proper grades and macadam is an exceedingly important question, and the legislator who by some wise enact- ment can inaugurate a successful system of road-building would not only erect for himself a lasting monument, but would be to his fellow-countrymen a permanent benefactor.
The address of Mr. Burnett is Spartanburg, South Carolina.
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FRANKLIN A. BURROUGHS
B URROUGHS, FRANKLIN A., merchant, of Conway, Horry county, South Carolina, was born on April 16, 1872, in the town where he still resides. His father, Franklin Goram Burroughs, was a man of marked character. Enlisting in the Tenth South Carolina regiment, he fought through the War between the States until he was captured a few months before its close. Throughout the war he sent one-half of his pay back to Horry county, his adopted home, to be given to the women and children of the Confederacy. After the war, finding that he had lost all his property, he went to work as a day laborer to get another start; and, paying off all the debts of the business in which he had been a partner, he established anew the business which afterwards became the Burroughs & Collins Company. He built and operated the first steam cotton gin ever established in Horry county. He built and endowed the Burroughs school at Conway, South Carolina. He built the first steamboat ever built in Conway. With Mr. Collins he established the Bank of Conway, the first bank in the county. Having great faith in the future of the South, he invested largely in real estate when it had practically no market value; and time demonstrated his wisdom in this purchase. With the large business which he built up, his son is prominently identified.
Franklin Augustus Burroughs as a boy was not strong. With the regular tasks in all kinds of farm work given him by his father to be performed after school hours, his health improved until in young manhood it became excellent. His youthful interest was in horses, guns and boats. And he says: "Beside the two hours which were devoted to my education in manual labor, I was later trained in managing laborers in different kinds of work; I was trained to work from my childhood, and was never allowed to loaf in the streets; this training has contributed largely to any success I may have achieved in the different lines of work I have undertaken." He studied at the Burroughs school at Conway and at the Bingham school at Asheville, North Caro- lina ; and in 1893 he began his business career as a clerk in the office of a steamship company. From the death of his father,
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in 1897, the responsibility of maintaining the many and various business interests which the father had developed devolved upon the son. In 1895 he became vice-president of the Burroughs & Collins Company, a large real estate and naval stores business; and in 1897 he became secretary and treasurer of the company, as well as vice-president of a steamship line. From 1898 to 1905 he was president of the Conway Coast and Western Railroad company, which road he had organized and built. He sold his interest in this railroad in July, 1905. As president of the Horry Tobacco Warehouse company he established the tobacco industry in the county. He is president of the Woodstock company, which he organized, and is manager of the Waccamaw line of steamers, and has been prominent in various other important enterprises.
While Mr. Burroughs does not take an active part in politics, he is a Democrat by conviction. He is a member of the com- mission of public works, a trustee of the Burroughs school, has been alderman of Conway, and has been active in the movement to encourage immigration to South Carolina.
On January 16, 1896, he married Miss Iola Buck. They have three children living in 1908. Mr. Burroughs is affiliated with the Methodist church. He finds his favorite exercise and recreation in horseback riding.
Mr. Burroughs belongs to that class of public-spirited men of business whose energy in conducting their own affairs con- tributes greatly to the general welfare of the community in which they dwell.
His address is Conway, Horry county, South Carolina.
CHARLES ELFORD BURTS
B URTS, CHARLES ELFORD, since 1904 pastor of the Baptist church at Edgefield, South Carolina, was born near Donalds, in Abbeville county, South Carolina, December 5, 1867. There are few popular proverbs which have been more frequently proved false by facts than the proverb which speaks in derogatory terms of the "sons of ministers." Like a very large proportion of the useful ministers of the Gospel in our country, Mr. Burts is the son of a minister, the Reverend R. W. Burts. His father's family traces its descent from Frederic Burtz, who emigrated from Germany and settled in Newberry county, South Carolina. Through his mother, Mrs. Amanda (Latimer) Burts, he is descended from an English family who settled at Orry, Maryland.
His boyhood was passed in the country. He had vigorous health and was an active and robust boy, fond of out-of-door sports, and spending much of his time in the woods in hunting. But he was also trained to regular daily tasks of manual labor, working upon a farm until he was eighteen years of age, except the few months each spring and summer which he spent in a country school. He attended the high school at Honea Path in 1889, and entering Furman university, he was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1893. He says: "My father had a large family of eleven children and was of limited means. At eighteen I left the farm to prepare myself for college; and I paid my entire expenses by my own personal efforts in teaching and in other ways."
From 1895 to 1898 he studied at the Southern Baptist Theo- logical seminary, and was graduated in 1898 with the degree of Master of Theology. Before taking this seminary course he had been principal of the Sally high school at Sally, South Carolina, and while he was teaching he had begun to preach regularly. He was determined in his choice of a life profession by deep conviction of duty; and he recalls with gratitude the fact that one of his instructors, Dr. C. H. Judson, of Furman university, was the first to speak to him directly and persuasively as to the work of preaching the Gospel. He feels that his early home
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surroundings, and the devout life of his father (a preacher of the Gospel) and of his mother, were upon the whole the most potent factors in fixing the ideals of his life and in determining him in those aims and purposes which made the choice of the profession of minister of the Gospel inevitable.
After his graduation from the seminary at Louisville he was pastor at Gallatin, Tennessee, for two years. For the next four years, from 1900 to 1904, he was pastor of the Baptist church at Blackville, South Carolina. In the last named year he was chosen pastor of the Baptist church at Edgefield, South Carolina, where he has served his people acceptably, and the interests of the community with much of public spirit, for the last four years. In 1906 Furman university conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
He is a member of the state mission board of the Baptist denomination. He is also a member of the board of ministerial education of that church.
In his political relations he is identified with the Democratic party.
On June 28, 1905, he was married to Miss Sadie Watson, daughter of W. G. and Amanda Watson, of Anderson, South Carolina.
His address is Edgefield, South Carolina.
HOWARD BOBO CARLISLE
C ARLISLE, HOWARD BOBO, lawyer and state senator, was born January 23, 1867, in Spartanburg, Spartanburg county, South Carolina. His father, John W. Carlisle, lawyer, member of state legislature, and captain in Confederate army, was a man of undaunted courage, much literary talent and a prominent worker in his church. His mother, Louisa (Bobo) Carlisle, a refined, good and true woman, was a marked influence in his life. His blood is Scotch-English; one of his ancestors, Anthony Foster, came to South Carolina prior to the War of the Revolution.
Reared in the city of his birth, his primary and preparatory education was received at private schools. He entered Wofford college, from which he was graduated A. B. with honor in 1885. Like his father and his grandfather, he chose the profession of law, and was matriculated as a law student at Vanderbilt univer- sity, where he again won honors, taking the founder's medal for best standing in law, though the youngest member of the class. He was graduated B. L. in 1887.
At once admitted to the bar when just of age, in 1888, he was appointed magistrate in Spartanburg. He was first master in equity for Spartanburg county, serving for four years. He then formed a partnership with his father and Judge Hydrick, and practiced with them until the partnership was dissolved by the elevation of Mr. Hydrick to the bench; since then the firm has been Carlisle & Carlisle.
Since November, 1905, he has been a state senator, first elected by a majority of more than two thousand, over an expe- rienced politician, to fill the unexpired term of Judge Hydrick, his former partner, who resigned to go upon the bench. In the senate he has been active and prominent in reform legislation. He was in charge of the bill providing for the creation of a state board of pardons; he was conspicuous in the attacks on the state dispensary, and in his advocacy of the law which established a state reform school.
He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and has been steward of his church since 1894, frequently delegate
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to annual conferences, and since 1900 treasurer of the conference funds.
In politics he is, and has always been, a Democrat. Hunting was long his most enjoyable recreation, but he now finds his relaxation in home life, to which he is devoted.
On March 16, 1892, he was married to George F. Adam, daughter of Robert M. and Sophonia L. Adam, of Augusta, Georgia ; five children-three boys and two girls-have been born to them, all of whom are now (1908) living.
His address is Spartanburg, Spartanburg county, South Carolina.
SAMUEL JACKSON CARTLEDGE
C ARTLEDGE, SAMUEL JACKSON, preacher of the Presbyterian Church, South, and pastor of Purity Pres- byterian church, Chester, South Carolina, was born at Bold Spring, Franklin county, Georgia, May 9, 1864. He is the son of a minister of the Gospel, Rev. Groves H. Cartledge, who was "a successful teacher, an able theologian, a most acceptable preacher, a man of inflexible integrity, and a valiant champion of the right." His mother, Mrs. Annie (Lane) Cartledge, was a thoroughly educated woman of devout Christian character, whose influence upon the entire moral and spiritual life of her son has been marked and always for good. His earliest known ancestor in America was Joseph Cartledge, who came from Wales in 1700 and settled in Virginia.
The early life of Samuel Cartledge was passed in the country. Brought up on a farm, as a boy he learned how to do regular farm-hand work, and before he was seventeen he was doing the work of a man. By the circumstances of his family, he was thrown largely on his own resources. He often had to suspend his studies in order to work for a time on a farm, in a sawmill, or as a teacher in the school room, to procure the money to enable him to continue his studies ..
He took courses of study at the Martin institute, Jefferson, Georgia, and at the N. G. A. C. (the University of Georgia), at Dahlonega, Georgia. Later he pursued courses of theological study at Princeton Theological seminary and at Columbia Theo- logical seminary, for four years, from 1885 to 1889. On May 31, 1889, he was ordained a minister of the Gospel. He chose this profession, he says, "in obedience to what I believed to be a divine call. From childhood I wanted to preach the Gospel. My parents gave me to the ministry in infancy." Not only in the early love for his chosen profession, awakened while he was still a child in a Christian home, but in all other respects he feels that he owes "more to the influence of a cultured Christian home than to all the other influences in life."
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