Clarke County GaArchives Biographies.....Cornett, Walter G. 1887 - living in 1923
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WALTER G. CORNETT

   Son of Bartlett Pinckney and Josephine Winter Cornett. Born in Atlanta, Ga.,
September 24, 1887. Received his common school education at private schools in
Atlanta and graduated in the law class of 1911 at the University of Georgia. Mr.
Cornett came to Athens in. February, 1909, as a Deputy Clerk of the U. S.
District Court. On July 1, of that year he was appointed U. S. Commissioner by
Judge Wm. T. Newman for the Northern District of Georgia, at Athens. He was the
youngest man ever appointed to this position.

   In 1918 he was appointed an instructor in the Law School at the University
and in 1921 he was promoted to full professorship in the Law School.

   On December 2, 1907, he married Miss Ola Goza Ford, of Norcross, Georgia, and
they have four children.

   He is affiliated with all the Masonic bodies in Athens.



Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF ATHENS and CLARKE COUNTY
1923

H. J. ROWE, Publisher

THE McGREGOR CO., PRINTERS, ATHENS, GA.




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