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SKETCH OF PROF. O. M. CONE

    Prof. O. M. Cone, who for so many years taught in the schools of
Milledgeville, moved to this city from Linton, Hancock County, in 1872.

    He at once organized a private school, using the Academy buildings located
in the southwest section of the grounds now appropriated to the use of the
Georgia State College for Women. Those two buildings, designated respectively as
"The Male Academy," and the "Female Academy," had always been used by individual
teachers who were willing to assume the entire responsibility of the School, as
there was no Board of Trustees to finance it in any way.

    Prof. Cone's school flourished, but in 1875 he was persuaded to become the
assistant of his brother-in-law, Prof. Ivy W. Duggan, who was teaching in
Sandersville.

    In the fall of that year, Prof. Cone taught at Norcross, Ga. The next year
he decided to return to Milledgeville and reorganize his own private school—
which soon grew to such proportions that he was obliged to secure help. Mr.
George D. Case, became his first assistant. Miss Mary E. Herty, Mrs. Geo. T.
Goetchius and others, at different times, assisted him with the girls.

    He continued teaching this school until 1879, when the Georgia Military
College was established in Milledgeville, at first as a branch of the University
of Georgia. Prof. Cone was elected to fill the chair of Latin, but the next year
was appointed to the chair of Mathematics, which position he filled until a few
months before his death. He was a fine mathematician and knew how to impart his
knowledge to others. Many boys and girls, throughout the State, received thier
training in mathematics from him. So interested was he in the thoroughness and
advancement of his pupils, that any of them, at any time, felt free to come to
him for individual help, even in his own home, in the evenings, or at regular
periods during vacation. When pay was offered, his reply was: "The only pay I
want is for you to make a success of your work and your life."

    Prof. Cone, for a number of years, was President of the Board of Education,
of Baldwin County. He served as County Surveyor for a long term of years.

    He was a Deacon in the First Baptist Church and took an active interest in
its life and progress.

    In 1877, he married Miss Mamie Carr, of this city, who died in 1883, leaving
one daughter, Mrs. Kyle T. Alfriend, now of Forsyth, Georgia.

    In 1886, he married Miss Nettie Whitaker, daughter of Mr .Samuel E.
Whitaker, of this county. By this marriage, there were three children—Mrs. John
A. Sibley, Atlanta, Ga., Mr. Malcolm S. Cone, now of Rome, Ga., and Miss Clara
Lee Cone of Atlanta, Ga.

    In the fall of 1917, he resigned from his position at G. M. C. because of
failing health. His death occurred March 28, 1918.



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Part V

HISTORY of BALDWIN COUNTY GEORGIA

BY MRS. ANNA MARIA GREEN COOK

ILLUSTRATED

ANDERSON. S. C.
Keys-Hearn Printing Co.
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