Chatham-Monroe County GaArchives Biographies.....Myrick, Shelby 1878 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   SHELBY MYRICK has been engaged in the practice of the law in Savannah since
1897 and is recognized as one of the notable young lawyers of the city. His
practice has grown as he has demonstrated his ability to handle with skill the
intricate problems of jurisprudence and he possesses a distinctively
representative clientage which has connected him with some of the most important
litigation heard in the courts of this section. Also, for six years he held the
office of city recorder.

   Mr. Myrick was born at Forsyth, Monroe county, Georgia, on the 16th day of
July, 1878, the son of Bascom and Mary Louise (Scudder) Myrick. His father was
born in historic Liberty county in the town of Flemington and died in Americus,
Georgia, August 8, 1895. He was one of the most prominent and successful
newspaper men of the state and for several years previous to his decease he was
the editor and publisher of the Americus Times-Recorder. The mother was born at
Shelbyville, Tennessee, and. is still living, making her home with the subject
in Savannah.

   The paternal grandfather of Shelby Myriek was Rev. Daniel J. Myrick, a widely
known Methodist minister of the earlier years, who occupied some of the most
prominent pulpits of the state in that denomination. He was born in Upson
county, Georgia, and about the beginning of his ministerial career in Liberty
county he was married to Miss Mary Adeline Andrews, a member of one of the old
families of that county. Rev. Myrick's mother, who was Elizabeth A. (Candler)
Myrick, was the daughter of Col. William Candler, of Richmond county, Georgia,
who was a member of a committee from that county appointed by virtue of an act
of the Georgia legislature in September, 1777, "For the expulsion of internal
enemies from this state." He was also colonel of a regiment known as "The
Regiment of Refugees of Richmond county," which served in the "War of the
Revolution. Colonel Candler's regiment was at the field of Savannah and at the
battles of Fish Dam Ford, Blackstock Farm and King's Mountain. Mr. Myrick, on
his mother's side, is a great-great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Scudder, who was
born in New Jersey in 1733 and was colonel of New Jersey Militia in the
Revolutionary war. Colonel Scudder was killed in a skirmish at Shrewsbury,
October 16, 1781.

   Mr. Myrick received the greater part of his education in the University of
Georgia and graduated from the academic department in the class of 1896. In the
following year he graduated from the law department. He came from college to
Savannah and began the practice of his profession in this city, which has
continued with uninterrupted success, Mr. Myrick being on all sides recognized
as one of the able attorneys of this bar. In 1901 he became city recorder of
Savannah and held this office until 1907, with credit to himself and honor and
profit to the people.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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