Butts County GaArchives News.....J. R. Carmichael December 1894
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Middle Ga. Argus – December 1894
With the great trunk line, the Southern railway came the subject of the sketch 
to Jackson.  He was born and grew up among our people, and no man is better 
known.  He had little or no capital to begin with, but he made himself felt in 
the business world at once, and those who knew him predicted his success from 
the start.  The northeast corner of the square had a barren, neglected 
appearance, and Mr. Carmichael fell in with a few dilapidated looking shops.  
The cut above shows how that corner looks today, with perhaps the best house in 
town standing there as a monument to his business qualifications

J. R. Carmichael’s carriage factory is worth more to Jackson than perhaps any 
individual enterprise in this thriving little city.   He has a gentlemanly set 
of men employed in the manufacture of buggies, wagons, and all kinds of 
agricultural implements, to whom he pays large salaries each week, to be spent 
among our merchants, and if there is any one thing our people would hate to see 
discontinued worse than another it would be the carriage factory, unless it was 
its genial proprietor.  Mr. Carmichael has served his country well and at the 
same time built for himself a neat little fortune.  The carriage factory, as 
well as its owner, is one of the fixtures of our town, and Mr. Carmichael being 
native-born makes our people prouder of him than they could feel it was 
otherwise.  While Butts County is ever glad to welcome gently manly strangers 
and give them a _________________to settle among us, they will excuse our 
pardonable pride in or own.  

Mr. Carmichael knows no such world as fail.  He is administrator of his father-
in-law, Mr. B. C. Kinard’s estate, and sold the land of the estate at twenty 
dollars per acre, when on the same day other lands just as good did not bring 
five dollars per acre.  Such achievements as this is one of the characteristics 
of the man.  Others had been hammering away at his new vocation inn a composed 
way for years, but he took hold with that will which grows stronger instead of 
weakening at obstacles, applied business methods and carved enviable reputation 
as well as fortune out of chaos and an unsettled state of affairs he found.  
Mr. Carmichael is no speculator, and our young men would do well to emulate his 
example, for while success is not attained in a day, the elements of success is 
to be found in every day’s transaction, and every day of his business life has 
been a successful day.




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