Bulloch County GaArchives Biographies.....Deal, Albert M. 1868 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   HON. ALBERT M. DEAL. To have lived honorably and well, to have employed to
advantage the talents with which he was endowed and to have served his fellow
men with distinction in various capacities has been the record of Hon. Albert M.
Deal, of Statesboro, Bulloch county, Georgia. Although still on the sunny side
of the half-century mark he has fufilled all the duties of citizenship, has
helped to frame the laws for his constituents and assists in their
administration. His abilities have won him substantial recognition and in his
district he is today considered a type of the honorable, dignified Southern
gentleman.

   Statesboro was not the place of nativity of Mr. Deal, although he has spent
the greater portion of his life there. He was born in 1868 in the nearby
community of Stilson, also in Bulloch county. His parents were John and Susan
(McElveen) Deal, the former a native of Bulloch county and now deceased. He was
the son of James Deal, who was born in eastern Tennessee and who came as a boy
with his father. Simon Deal, to Burke county, Georgia.

The Deals are one of the old families of this county.   The
great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch was. John Deal, one of
three brothers who came to America not long before the Revolutionary war and
took possession of a little island in Chesapeake bay, a part of Virginia. They
located on this detached bit of the commonwealth and it is still known as Deal's
island. John Deal subsequently went to North Carolina and thence to eastern
Tennessee.

   Albert M. Deal was reared on the Deal place near Stilson and attended the
local schools. He then took a two years' course in the academic department of
Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia, graduating in the schools
of history and political science. He also studied law in that department of the
same university, graduating in the class of 1896. This was the last class taught
by John Randolph Tucker, who died the following year.

   In 1896 Mr. Deal began the practice of his profession in Statesboro, the
county seat of Bulloch county, and has been so engaged since that time. The bar
of Statesboro is notable for its high standing in the matter of ability and for
maintaining the best ethics of the profession, and among these gentlemen Mr.
Deal achieved and has ever maintained a position of the highest standing.

   His knowledge of law, coupled with no little ability as a public speaker and
a wide acquaintance among the people naturally drew his attention toward public
affairs. He was solicitor for the county court of Bulloch county and later was
chosen as county commissioner, serving several years. For five years, beginning
with 1900, he was a member of the state legislature, representing Bulloch
county. In the general assembly much of his duties was concerned with the
judiciary committee, of which he was a member. He was one of the first to see
the advantage of utilizing the labor of prisoners in making good roads. He had
passed a special act by which Bulloch county was enabled to follow this plan, in
advance of the general legislation on that subject which was later enacted.

   Although his profession is that of the law, Mr. Deal's largest interests are
those of agriculture. Reared on the farm, he has never given up his interest in
or direct connection with the farming industry. Incorporated under the name of
John Deal Company, he and other members of his family own over five thousand
acres of agricultural land near Stilson, on which they carry on extensive
farming, operating principally in cotton.

   In addition to this Mr. Deal's home place, a mile and a half south of
Statesboro, is a fine farm of 154 acres. His residence here is an extensive and
commodious structure of modern type, fitted up with every convenience. It is
regarded as one of the most attractive country seats in Bulloch county. Nearby,
on the east, are the buildings and lands of the first congressional district
agricultural school, credit for the successful establishment of which at
Statesboro was largely due to Mr. Deal's enterprise and public spirit. He headed
the list with a subscription of $1,000 toward a fund for the purchase of three
hundred acres of land to be given in order to assure the location of the school
in this community. This fund grew to something over $100,000, contributed by
citizens of Statesboro and of Bulloch county.

   Mr. Deal holds membership in the Presbyterian church and in his social
relations belongs to the Masonic fraternity and K. of P. He was married in
Stilson to Miss Azalia Mae Strickland, a native of Bulloch county, and they have
five children—Roscoff, Stothard, William J. S., Ruby Ann and Ewell Morgan.



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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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