Dekalb County GaArchives Biographies.....Candler, Charles March 17, 1858 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Debra Wilson jdrwilson@mindspring.com November 15, 2008, 8:28 pm Author: Bernard Suttler Chalres Murphey Candler was born in Decatur, Georgia, on 3/17/1858, sp\on of Honorable Milton A. Candler, Sr., and Eliza C. (Murphey) Candler. He is a grat- great-grandson of Col. William Candler, the Revolutionary soldier, who was the progenitor of this famous Georgia family. His father, Milton A. Candler, for 30 years senior member of the leading law firm of Candler and Thomson, and for an equal period one of the prominent figures in Georgia life, having served in the Confederate Army and in many public capacities, was himself a most notable man. His maternal grandfather, the Honorable CHarles Murphey, served in Congress from the Atlanta districtduring the administration of President Pierce. After attending preparatory schools, Murphey Candler entered the University of Georgia and was graduated in 1877. In his sophomore , junior, and senior years he was champion debater and speaker for his classes in those years. He adopted the law as a profession, and was admitted to the Bar in Atlanta in 1879. Mr. Candler is recognized as a man of the first order of ability and a strong lawyer; but his best work outside of public life has been done as a cotton goods manufacturer, he being at the head of a factory near Decatur, which is a most successful concern. In 1882 he married Miss Mary Scott, a daughter of Col. George W. Scott, of Decatur, a leading manufacturing capitalist and founder of Agnes Scott College. There are 5 children of this marriage: Laura E., George Scott, Rebekah, Milton A., and Charles Murphy Candler, Jr. Additional Comments: Source: Men of Mark in Georgia: A Complete and Elaborate History of the State from Its Settlement to the Present Time, Chiefly Told in Biographies and Autobiographies of the Most Eminent Men of Each Period of Georgia's Progress and Development By William J. Northen, John Temple Graves Published by A. B. Caldwell, 1912 Item notes: v. 6 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/dekalb/bios/candler970gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb