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LUCIAN LAMAR KNIGHT, LLD., FRS.

    Lucian Lamar Knight, the author of "STONE MOUNTAIN," is not unknown to the
world of letters. He is Georgia's State Historian. In recognition of his work,
in the Department ,of History, he1 has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society
of Arts of England, and is known, therefore, on both sides of the water. Only a
very few Americans can boast an "F. R. S." It is of interest to note that he
received this unique honor, in 1919, exactly one month after this same
distinction was conferred on the Prince of Wales. The University of Georgia has
made him an LL. D., while his master's degree has come from Princeton. He is
also a Phi Beta Kappa.

    Dr. Knight is the founder of Georgia's Department of Archives; and, besides
a Standard History of the State, in six handsome volumes, he has written
"Reminiscences of Famous Georgians," "Georgia's Land-marks, Memorials and
Legends," and "Memorials of Dixie-land." Though his time has been chiefly given
to the serious demands of history, he has now and then paid court to the muses,
and especially in the vein of satire, has been signally successful.

    In some of the biographical details of Dr. Knight's life, there is a
suggestion of Stevenson. His first work was written on an island, in the Pacific
ocean. At Avalon, a fisherman's village, on Catalina Island, 27 miles off the
coast of Southern California, he wrote the two volumes which compose the
"Reminiscenses." It was during a period of enforced exile, due to ill health.

    Journalism was his first love. For ten years, he was on the staff of the
Atlanta Constitution, a paper made famous by his kinsman, the late Henry W.
Grady, distinguished as the South's great orator and peace-maker. Here he was
associated with Joel Chandler Harris, in the writing of editorials; and when Dr.
Knight's first work came from the press, it carried an introduction from the pen
of the beloved "Uncle Remus."

    Identification with the South has furnished a further equipment for the
author's task. His first ancestor of the Knight name was settled at Jamestown,
as early as 1624. Besides his father, he had three uncles in the Confederate
army; and of the five commanding officers who are to represent Georgia, in
effigy, on the mountain, three are his kinsmen—Cobb, Benning, and Young. On his
mother's side, he is also a Lamar; on his father's a Walton—both historic
Southern families.

    Dr. Knight was born in Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 9, 1868. His father, Capt. George
W. Knight, who served in both Mexican. and Civil Wars, was a man of ripe
scholarship. His mother was Clara Daniel Knight, distinguished as an educator.
He was trained for his life's work in the public schools of Atlanta, at the
State University, and at Princeton. For two years, he sat under Mr. Wilson,
afterwards President of the United States.

    While an undergraduate at Athens, he won the debater's medal, received a
speaker's place at commencement, on three merits—class-stand, composition, and
declamation— pronounced a eulogy on Chancellor Mell, edited the college annual,
and, on graduating was class orator and valedictorian. As a public speaker, Dr.
Knight is constantly in demand. He is widely traveled, having several times
crossed the ocean. The author's wife is a grand-niece of Gov. Matthew Talbot, of
Georgia, and a kinswoman of Gen. Wm. H. T. Walker, who, in defense of Georgia's
capitol, fell almost within the shadow of Stone Mountain, on July 22, 1864.




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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.
-1925—


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