Clarke County GaArchives Biographies.....Morris, Sylvanus unknown - living in 1923
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Author: H. J. Rowe

SYLVANUS MORRIS

   Graduated from the University of Georgia with the degree of Master of Arts in
1874; taught a school for boys in Athens for two years being associated for the
first year with Prof. W. W. Lumpkin; graduated from the Law Department of the
University of Georgia in 1877; was partner, in the practice, with Emory Speer
for two years; was appointed Solicitor of the City Court first by Governor
Alfred H. Colquitt in 1881, and at the expiration of his term was re-appointed
by Governor Alexander H. Stephens; was made Special Attorney for the Richmond
and Danville (now Southern Railroad) in 1888; married Annie Laurie Lewis, of the
Scotch and Virginia families of those names in 1890; was elected Dean of the Law
Department of the University of Georgia in 1900; the degree of Doctor of Laws
was conferred by the University in 1913. He is a member of the Kappa Alpha
Fraternity, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, has held offices of vestryman and of
warden of Emmanuel Church, is a member of the Georgia State Bar Association, and
the American Bar Association.


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From:

HISTORY OF ATHENS and CLARKE COUNTY
1923

H. J. ROWE, Publisher

THE McGREGOR CO., PRINTERS, ATHENS, GA.




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