Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-02-22
IN DEEDS
HISTORICAL
GEORGIA LEADS
Facts are Compiled By Miss
Rutherford
Showing the Many achievements Of
GeOFgiaRS---HeF Sons The Leaders
in Many Things HiStOFiCal---PapeF
a Very Interesting One.

talented women, will read with interest
the following facts in Georgia history
from her facile pen.
This valuable lot of epitomized his
tory was read by Miss Rutherford at
recent meeting of the U. D. C. chapter
in Athens.
Here are some of the things recount
ed by Miss Rutherford:
Georgia was first to rule rum from
the colony.
First to rule slavery from the col
ony.
First in the United States to estab-
lish an orphans asylum-Ebenezer.
First in America to trail the Span
ish flag in the dust
First to invent an Indian alphabet
First to teach the Bible to the Alb
origines.
First to send a schooner against the
British in the American revolution
First to send powder used in the
revolutionary war vessel captured off
the Georgia coast and sent to Bunker
Hill.
First vessel to carry guns for the
revolutionary war was Georgia yes
sci.
First to legislate against the slave
trade
First to establish a state university
Athens, in 1885.
First to have a Sunday school-Joh
Wesley, a year before the birth Of
Robert Raikes, to whom the credit is
usually accorded.
First hymn book in the United
States-Charles Wesley Q737)
First to have a passenger railway
Augusta to Charleston.
First to apply steam to navigation
William Longstreet on the Savannah
river in 1890.
First to send a steamer across the
ocean-The Savannah.
First to suggest the cotton gin
Mrs. Hillhouse, of Augusta.
First to suggest the brush used in
the cotton gin-Mrs. Nathaniel Greene,
at Savannah.
First in the world to have a woman's
foreign missionary society-at Athens
in 1919.
First to charter a woman's college
Wesleyan at Macon.
First woman in the world to receive
diploma-Mrs. Catherin Brewer.
First to bestow degrees upon women
First to have a sewing machine.
First to codify the English law.
First to pass the married woman's
act" the right to manage her own
property
First to discover ether enaesthesia-
DIR. Crawford w. Long, of Athens and
Jefferson.
First to send troops to the Confed-
crate service-the Oglethorpe Light
infantry, of Savannah
First general to fall on either side in
the war between the states"-Francis
Barlow.
First to have an ironclad steamboat
with ram-Charles Austin.
First to celebrate Memorial Day.
First to suggest the confaderates
crosses Of honor"-Mrs. A. S. Erwin,
of Athens.
First to bestow these crosses Of
honor on veterans.
First to suggest the United Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy.
First to suggest the u. d. C. badge.
First to tunnel under the Hudson
river-William McAdoo.
First to cup trees for turpentine-
Professor Charles Herty.
First to take the American flag at
Manilla-Tom Brumby.
First to diversity crops-drst prize
at st. Louis exposition.
First to suggest the cotton picker.
The best peaches in the world-the
Elbertas, 100000 trees.
Finest sea island cotton in the world.
The most sublime waterfall in the
south-Tallulah
The largest block of marble quarried
in the United States-at the capitol
building at st. Paul, MINI.
The greatest mountain of granite in
the world-Stone mountain.
Savannah, the lowest percentage of
illiteracy to its population of any city
in the world.
Athens, the city with the lowest
death rate of any registered area.
An acre of land that produced three
bales of cotton.
An acre of land which produced
1O2 Is bushels of corn-raised by
12-year-old boy.
A Georgia-raised hog weighed $50
pounds; it's head weighed So pounds.
In the Spanish-American war more
troops went from Georgia than from
any other state in proportion to the
There are no 'possums like Georgia
'possums,
No other state had Sidney Lanier.
No other state had an Uncle Re-
mus"
No historian is better known than