Chattahoochee-Muscogee-Wilkes County GaArchives Biographies.....Howard, C. N. (Jr.), Hubert B. And G. H. unknown - unknown
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Author: N. K. Rogers
Dr. C. N. Howard, Jr., Hubert B. and Judge G. H. Howard

    Dr. Charles Nelson Howard, Jr., son of Dr. Charles H. Howard Sr., and his
wife Mrs. Emaline Wooldridge Howard, is a grandson of two of Chattahoochee's
original settlers, Nimrod N. Howard and Wm. 0. Wooldridge and a great grandson
of William House who came from Wilkes to Muscogee County.

    On Feb. 5, 1896, Dr. Howard married Cora Angelina, daughter of Jas. P. and
Vann Osteen Brooks, whose ancestors also were among the earliest settlers in
this section of Georgia.

    Dr. Howard graduated from the Cusseta High School in 1886, the Medical
Department, University of Georgia, 1888 and Polyclinic of New York in 1891. He
began the practice of medicine in Cusseta:; but practiced in Columbus from 1909
to 1920 when he returned to Cusseta. Since then he has not only practiced his
profession, but has been active in the civic and politcal affairs of the county.
He has been mayor of Cusseta two terms; is a newspaper contributor and has
represented this county in the legislature for half a dozen terms. He is now
senator-elect from the 24th district. In all his speeches and writings, loyalty
to the traditions of his people and advocacy of any  legislation favorable to
the inhabitants of the country- counties, one of which is his own, is evident.
He was a leader in the legislation looking to the equalzation of funds that
proper educational facilities may be maintained for all the children of the state.

    Dr. Howard is not only one of Chattahoochee's most illustrious sons, but one
of the state's mental giants. His heritage of intellectual vigor from both the
Howard and Wooldridge families has been enriched through years of cultivation
and now his grasp of any subject shows the marked ability of a deep thinker.
And, like all deep thinkers, he not only understands the fundamental principles
of legislation, but the reason for the application of those principles.

    He has carried forward the family record for legislators in a manner worthy
of any of his distinguished kinsmen and ancestors noted for their brilliance of
intellect.

    Dr. Chas. N. and Mrs. Emma (Wooldridge) Howard had three sons; a sketch of
the life of the oldest preceding this; the youngest Hubert B. Howard was
ordinary of this county when his death occurred February 14, 1929. Of these
three brothers gifted in the art of public speaking, Hubert was considered the
finest orator. But the other brother Judge G. H. Howard of Atlanta, who has had
the unusual distinction of being judge in two circuits of Georgia, having first
become judge of the Chattahoochee circuit which includes his home county, is the
most widely known. He is a Spanish-American war veteran having been a private in
Company A, First Georgia Volunteers which also enrolled several others from
here—among them Frank, Charlie and Crawford Davis and Wade H. Shipp, all of whom
with Judge Howard are descendants of Absolom Wooldridge whose family was among
the pioneers of this section of Georgia.

    Judge Howard who was educated at the Cusseta High and the Law Department of
Mercer University, practiced law in Sandersville, Columbus and Atlanta; also
codefied the laws of Sandersville and Columbus. He is a Baptist, Democrat,
Mason, Odd Fellow, Red Man, and K. of P. His hobby, horticulture, indicates a
taste inherited from ancestors who were great land owners.

    He married May Belle King of Cusseta June 8, 1899: their children are Eva
(Mrs. T. W. Hill—who has three sons) Ross H. m. Mary Strayhorn; Gus Hill Jr. m.
Addie Myra Chandler, (one dau. Beverly DeVon), Edwin (dec'd), Charles,
Catherine, May Belle and William D.


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From:

HISTORY OF CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY, GEORGIA
By N. K. Rogers

Dedicated to

KASIHITA CHAPTER U. D. C.

and all worthy descendants of the County's first settlers.

Copyright 1933

by N. K. ROGERS

PRINTED   BY
COLUMBUS  OFFICE  SUPPLY CO. COLUMBUS, GA.

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