Men of Mark in Georgia: A Complete and Elaborate History of the State from Its Settlement to the Present Time, Chiefly Told in Biographies and Autobiographies of the Most Eminent Men of Each Period of Georgia's Progress and Development, Volume 4William J. Northen A. B. Caldwell, 1908 - Georgia |
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... ability and a political leader of prominence . The ancestors of Miss Mary Brent Hoke were among the early settlers of North Carolina and Virginia . The family has pro- duced several lawyers of distinction , one of whom was the first ...
... ability and a political leader of prominence . The ancestors of Miss Mary Brent Hoke were among the early settlers of North Carolina and Virginia . The family has pro- duced several lawyers of distinction , one of whom was the first ...
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... ability , skill as a parliamentarian and a knowledge of legislative procedure that subsequently gave him immediate prestige when he entered the United States Senate . Several times , in the face of the most powerful adverse political ...
... ability , skill as a parliamentarian and a knowledge of legislative procedure that subsequently gave him immediate prestige when he entered the United States Senate . Several times , in the face of the most powerful adverse political ...
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... ability that he was employed for nearly half a century to make the astronomical calculations for that work , second only to his Bible in the farmer's affections —Grier's Almanac . The opportunity thus afforded young Ash- more was a ...
... ability that he was employed for nearly half a century to make the astronomical calculations for that work , second only to his Bible in the farmer's affections —Grier's Almanac . The opportunity thus afforded young Ash- more was a ...
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... ability as to insure his election as Superintendent of Schools of Chatham county . This occurred 1896 , and since that time he has filled this re- sponsible place with credit to himself and with an ability which has been recognized all ...
... ability as to insure his election as Superintendent of Schools of Chatham county . This occurred 1896 , and since that time he has filled this re- sponsible place with credit to himself and with an ability which has been recognized all ...
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... ability for which he himself has been so noted . On January 16 , 1884 , he married Miss Editha G. Collins , of Harlem , Ga . , whose family moved to this State from Detroit , Michigan . To them one child , a son , was born , but he died ...
... ability for which he himself has been so noted . On January 16 , 1884 , he married Miss Editha G. Collins , of Harlem , Ga . , whose family moved to this State from Detroit , Michigan . To them one child , a son , was born , but he died ...
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Page 7 - Macon, from which date he has actively continued the same both in the State and Federal courts; was frequently a member of State Democratic conventions; was president of the State Democratic convention in 1880, and was delegate from the State at large to the national Democratic convention in Chicago in 1884; in 1868 he was elected Presidential elector (Seymour and Blair) on the Democratic ticket; in 1871 was elected to the Georgia house of representatives, of which body he...
Page 302 - ... was displayed in a certain quaint shrewdness and sarcasm with which his conversation abounded, though rarely taking an offensive form. He could pay compliments as pointed as his sarcasm. Moore has recorded the pleasure he derived from one of Rogers's remarks — " What a lucky fellow you are ! Surely you must have been born with a rose on your lips and a nightingale singing on the top of your bed.
Page 156 - The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page 260 - All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.
Page 80 - He wrote and revised; revised and re-wrote, and again he revised. And, of course, he wrote great opinions. It is impossible to say which was the greatest. The compiler of "Great Decisions by Great Judges...
Page 303 - ... and when he died he was literally loving a nation into peace. Fit and dramatic climax to a glorious mission, that he should have lived to carry the South's last...
Page 326 - NJ , graduating from the latter in 1869; studied law and was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of his profession in Lowville in 1873; in 1885 was elected to the State senate from the district consisting of Lewis, St.
Page 402 - Nashville, was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of law at Clarksville in 1843.
Page 375 - He knew how to say and how to do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way. This was the sum of him ; there was no more.
Page 211 - It is not only by doing the right thing, but by doing the right thing in the right way, and at the right time, that we achieve the great triumphs of life.