Appling-Telfair-Butts County GaArchives Biographies.....Gilmore, Doolly Dewitt 1886 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 977-978

   DOOLLY DEWITT GILMORE. Even in an age which recognizes young men and places
responsibilities upon them which in the past have been laid only upon the
shoulders of those of more mature years, and in a part of the country noted for
its young men of ability and sound judgment, we seldom find one who in so short
a time has attained the prominence in financial circles that has come to Doolly
Dewitt Gilmore, cashier of the Citizens Banking Company of Baxley, Georgia, one
of the soundest institutions of Appling county. That the trust placed in his
hands is well merited has been proved by the universal confidence in which he is
held by the citizens of the community in which he has discharged his duties.
Born March 11, 1886, in McRae, Telfair county, Georgia, he is a son of James H.
and Mary Elizabeth Gilmore, natives of Butts county, the latter of whom died
when he was an infant.

   James H. Gilmore, a prominent planter, merchant and lumberman, served the
Confederacy in a regiment of Georgia volunteers during the War between the
States. He had the following children: Jesse M., who is thirty-seven years of
age; Henry Cephas, who died at the age of thirty-two years; James Ernest, who is
twenty-nine years old; Doolly Dewitt; Annie, the wife of Dr. Dan Morrison of
Waycross, Georgia; Sarah Etta, living at Baxley and caring for her dead
brother's children; and Edna Belle, the wife of Robert L. White, a prominent
merchant of Live Oak, Florida.

   Doolly D. Gilmore was seven years of age when he was taken by his father to a
farm near Lumber City, on the Ocmulgee river, where he resided for eight years,
obtaining his education in the public schools. He then returned to McRae for one
year, where he was employed as a clerk in a dry goods store, and spent a like
period in the dry goods establishment of his brother in Baxley. Subsequently he
became engaged in railroad clerical work at Macon for the Southern and Central
Railroads, but after three years went to Live Oak, Florida, and for a short time
acted as a bookkeeper in a furniture and jewelry store. During the year that
followed he was bookkeeper for the International Harvester Company, at Atlanta,
and then returned to Baxley and entered the Citizens Banking Company as
assistant cashier, serving in that capacity from November, 1906, until January,
1907, when he was elected cashier, a position which he has held to the present
time.

   The Citizens Banking Company, an institution with an authorized capital of
$50,000, is now installed in a new reinforced concrete and steel building,
erected in 1912, where it has large, modern and elegant quarters, including
brick vaults and safety deposit department. It has been in operation for five
years, during which time it has paid yearly dividends, and has accumulated a
surplus of $9,000. The deposits have grown rapidly and now amount to more than
$100,000, and the bank is the state depository for Appling county. Mr. Gilmore
is a young man of fine character and excellent abilities, and takes a great
interest in everything that tends toward the welfare of his adopted community.
He belongs to the blue lodge, chapter, commandery and Shriner degrees of Masonry
and is also connected with the Knights of Pythias. He and Mrs. Gilmore are
consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church South, in which he is at
present serving as steward.

   In December, 1908, Mr. Gilmore was married to Miss Madena Griner, who was
born at Attopulgas, Decatur county, Georgia, daughter of the Rev. J. B. Griner
of the Methodist Episcopal church South. They have had one daughter, Dorothy,
who was born December 4, 1910.



Additional Comments:
From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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