The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27
H. F'lemlng, Charles L. Rartlett. Wnilam

seutatlNes, Hon. John ID. Little; and the
Secretary of State, Hon. Phillip Cook.
SIX alumni have served in the United
States Senate: William C. Dawson Rob-
ert Toombs, Benjamin H. Hill, John b.
| Gordon, Augustus o. Bacon, Pope Bar
row
In finance We count such names as john
J. Gresham. Ferdinand Phinizy. John T.
| Grant, John S. Baxter, Stevens Thomas
! w. d. Grant
In civil engineering and railroad man.
| agement, Samuel Spencer, James NJ. Ed
wards, Charles II. Phinizy, George G..
! Hull, Ralph Peters, Julian r. Lane, Ed
ward j. Thomas.
1t will be seen from the above names
| that the learned professions" have by no
means monopoized the time and talents
! of our alumni. Lord Rosebery has re-
Gently pointed out that the silent cam
| paigns of commerce are at least as de-
cisive of the fate of nations as the noisy
| operations of the battlefield. Those who
| have succeeded in the world of business
| illustrate their Indebtedness to their alma
| mater for the organizing capacity that
| makes such success possible. Typica
men of such capacity, among scores that
! might be named are
Among managers of large corporate
! enterprises: Joel Hurt, H. c. Ansley. Will
| liam W. Thomas, Charles A. Collier;
among merchants E. r. Hodgson, Edge
worth Bird Joseph H. Hodgon, Asbury
Hodgson, Henry j., Lamar, NJ. G. HIGH
ael; among bankers: S. L. Hays, E. B.
Young, T. d. Huff, B. f. Thompson, d.
! r. Grower, r. f. Maddox. James White.
Jacob Phinizy; among manufacturers:
| Thomas c. Nisbet, b. Saunders Walker,
Thomas p. Vincent, Stewart Phinizy, W.
| P. Huguley, A. D. Scofield; among sue
cessful business men in other lines, Bragg
| B. Conner Judson l.. Hand, Frank J..
Spain, Frank R. Clark, Gwin H. Nixon,
| Bilups Phinizy, William A. Teath, w. A.
wilkins, G. N. Wilson, r. r. Lanier, c..
E. Harmon. This number might be great
! ly increased by adding names from the
Savannah list.
Eminent in Science-Joseph LeConte,
William L. Jones, John LeConte, Charles
! H. Herty.
In Education-James P. Waddell, Shell
ton P. Sanford, Williams Rutherford,
William D. Williams, Morgan P. Gallo
way. James f. Park, John N. Waddell,
L2wton B. Evans.
The alumni of the university have been
leaders in promoting the cause of educa-
ton in Georgia. The Branch College at
Dahlonega has had for it's presidents, Day.
! id B. Lewis, William S. Basinger, and
j. w. Waddell. The state owes mainly 20
| n. E. Harris, the School of Technology.
to w. Y. Atkinson, the Girls Normal ana
Industrial College; to P. w Meldrim, the
! Industrial College for Coored Youths;
Lawton B. Evans was the first president
OF the State Normal School; G. II. Glenn,
state school commissioner, is an alumnus.
The university has furnished to Georgia
and her sister states of the South forty
seven (4O college presidents, and eighty
! eight (S0 college professors, of who, for
! ty-two (42) have gone into it's own faculty
and forty-six 46) into faculties elsewhere.
She furnished to Mercer three of it's pres
dents, and to Emory College its pres-
dents, George f. Pierce and Prof. Morgan
Galloway.
In Medcine-Charles D. Meigs, Paul F.
Eve, Richard d. Moore, Crawford w.
| Long, Charles w. West, Wi liam F. Holt,
DeSaussure Ford William H. Doughty.
In successful and rr~ gressive egricul-
ture, together with p lit cal distinction:
Gabriel Toombs, vii m A. Broughton,
Merriwether Hill, Dudley M. Huges, Jud-
son L. Hand, w. p. McWhorter, D. B.
Fitzgerald, James d. Frederick.
AT the Bar-Thomas r. r. Cobb, Ma
thaniel ]. Hammond, Charles Dougherty.
John C. Rutherford, Joseph Ganahl, Luz
Their j. Glenn, Henry Jackson, William
Hope Hull, Walter S. Chisolm, A. Pratt
Adams.
Among those distinguished as lawyers,
all names of the living must needs be
omitted, in order 10 avoid an undue ex-
pansion of the list.
In journalism: p. W. Alexander, Evan
p. Howell, H. H. Cabaniss, H. H. Jones.
Clark Howell, Anders w. Reese, Waite
G. Cooper, Alfred c. Newell, Pleasant a.
Stovall, Henry w. Grady, John Temple
Graves. W. A. Hemphill, Lucian L
knight, Remsen Crawford, j. Fred Lewis.
f. r. Ryals.
In Literature: Henry Timrod Francis
r. Goulding, Charles H. Smith, Joseph Lee
Conte
On all this bead-roll Of worthless, no
name is more entitled to gratitude than
"Bill Arp who during the terrors of the
Refugee" period the d. solations of war
and the unspeakabe indign ties of recon
struction continued to demonstrate the
great theorem of 1.-THE livableness of life. !"
If. however, Juvenile suffrage was per-
mitted, the headship in honor would be
given to the author of THE Young Ma
rooneTs."
A separate paragraph must be reserved
for that many-sided man of genius, j. L.
NJ. Curry. He might have been ranked
among soldiers, pubicists, educators or
authors. He must be included among
them all.
Not all of our alumni have remained in
the service of Georgia. Among those VINO
have achieved eminence in other states
may be instanced: John GIL Shorter, Gov
ernor of Alabama, Sampson w. Harris,
NJ c. Alabama, r. H. Nell, educator;
Reuben o. Reynolds and William H.
Sims, lieutenant governors of Mississippi,
and William l.. Harris, judge Supreme
Court, Mississippi. VIM. B. Lamar, at
torney general of Florida, Charles ii. Du-
Pont, Judge Supreme Court, Florida;
Fred T. Myers, w. A. Blount, John E.
Hartridge, and John C. Avery, eminent
lawyers of that state; Judge Samuel F.
Wilson of Tennessee; Isaac F. Dortch, of
North Carolina; E. L. Anthony. NJ. G.
Texas; James S. Cothran, South Carolina.
A still wider range Of activity is shown
in the fact that seven are now officers in
the Philippines. Many others have served
as consuls in all parts of the world. John
B. Pinney was Governor of Liberia, DR..
Thomas L. Mcbride, missionary to China
and Ernest A. Darlington commanded an
expedition to the Arctic seas.
Once more 1t must be repeated that
these names are typical, not exhaustive
Many more have written in the manu-
script of this article but the reasona BILE
limits Of this article require me to cut
them out Like Drydens Don Sebastian.
Il submit, but with a swelling heart"
From her alumni the university has
called sixty-six (66) to serve on her Board
of Trust Among them are some of her
most eminent sons whose heavy burdens