Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....LASSETTER, J. R. 
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Author: S. EMMETT LUCAS, JR., 
J R LASSETTER, general superintendent of the Hutcheson Manufacturing
Company, Banning, Ga., son of William and Parthenia (Brown) Lassetter,
was born in Carroll county. His grandfather, Benjamin Lassetter, came 
from Virginia to Georgia in 1828, and went to Milledgeville and bought the 
fractions of land in Carroll county on which he settled and began clearing for 
a farm that year. He was a soldier in the last war with Great Britain. His 
father, a farmer, was born in Carroll county, and was a member of the cavalry 
company commanded by Capt. Shuford three years during the 
late "unpleasantness." Mr. Lassetter received a good common-school education. 
His father died when he was young-, but being of the stuff that men are made 
of, he has persistently struggled toward the front, where, before many years, 
he will be. As soon as qualified he began teaching, and after following it a 
few years engaged in merchandising. Having the misfortune to be burned out, he 
went back to the old farm, which he bought-on credit; and after much privation 
and hard-struggling--he paid for and began to lay up money. In 1891 he went to 
work for the Hutcheson Manufacturing Company, and in 1893 bought an interest 
in it. He has since been made general superintendent-a well-earned and 
deserved compliment to his pluck and energy and his superior general 
capabilities. He is a thoroughgoing young man, recognized as promising to 
become one of the most influential of his generation in the county. Little is 
known in Georgia of this Hutcheson Manufacturing company; on a small scale it 
is but a sample of many, in other localities in Georgia, of like topography 
and surroundings, and demonstrates the grand manufacturing possibilities of 
the state. . Mr. Lassetter richly deserves the confidence he has secured, and 
the success he has attained. With the position he holds in the company, the 
natural manufacturing advantages of the mills' site, the possibilities of 
greater development and expansion, and the advantages of the experience and 
instruction of the company's president, Arthur Hutcheson, this rising young 
manufacturer has before him a brilliant future.


Additional Comments:
From the book "Memoirs of Georgia", Historical and Biographical Sketches, 
published in 1896.

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