Fulton County, Georgia The University of Georgia Alumni. February 03, 1901, Constitution Atlanta, page 11 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Mollie Story Table of Contents page: Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/fulton.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ALUMNI OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA WHAT UNIVERSITY HAS DONE FOR STATE By Walter B. Hill, Chancellor of the University of Georgia As the venerable grandmother, on her golden wedding day, rejoices to *** over, with loving tenderness, the names of her children and their descendants. "Seeing on every side Her form and features multiplied," so, in the centeniel year of her history, the University of Georgia, in her capacity of Alma Mater of the noble sons whom she has contributed to the state, rejoices to call over the bead-roll of their honored names. They are here answer to the question: "What has the university done for the state?" The only embarrassment in dealing with this list of the alumni is the plenitude of riches. Many who are entitled to *mention must be omitted, simply because all cannot be mentioned. It is an invi**ious and unpleasant task to be forced, under such circumstances, to make selections; but the bearers of the omitted names are alumni whose breadth of mind will enable them to sympathize with the embarrassing predicament of one who is forced into a situation where wisdom is impossible - the necessity of choosing among equals. The place of honor in this enumeration belongs to the clergy, on the score of their greater usefulness. One hundred and forty-one have been ministers of the gospel. Of METHODISM: Dr. Alfred T. MANN Bishop George F. PIERCE Dr. John D. HAMMOND Rev. Archelas H. MITCHELL, Alabama Dr. William D. ANDERSON Rev. Albert M. WILLIAMS Dr. Walter R. BRANHAM Dr. Andrew J. LAMAR, Alabama Among the BAPTISTS: Dr. Samuel BOYKIN Dr. Gustavus A. NUNNALLY Dr. William WILLIAMS Dr. Robert J. WILLINGHAM Dr. Shaler G. HILLYER Dr. Nathaniel M. CRAWFORD Among PRESBYTERIANS: Dr. Henry F. HOYT, Georgia Dr. William S. BEAN, South Carolina Dr. R. Q. MALLARD, Louisiana Dr. Benjamin M. PALMER, Louisiana Dr. Edward P. PALMER, Texas Dr. George SUMMEY, Tennessee Dr. Thomas A. HOYT, Pennsylvania Among the EPISCOPALIANS: Rev. W. B. WALKER Rev. C. M. BECKWITH, Texas Bishop Thomas F. SCOTT, Oregon Bishop Edwin G. WEED, Florida (Wood?) One hundred and eighteen have been judges, including among jurists on the Supreme bench: Iverson L. HARRIS John A. CAMPBELL, U. S. S. C. Eugenius A. NISBET Joseph Henry LUMPKIN, C. J. Linton STEPHENS James JACKSON, C. J. Samuel HALL Alexander M. SPEER Robert P. TRIPPE W. W. MONTGOMERY Ebenezer STARNES Of the present six members of the supreme court of Georgia, four are alumni: Samuel LUMPKIN Andrew J. COBB William A. LITTLE William H. FISH In statesmanship, the following have achieved national reputations: Howell COBB Alexander H. STEPHENS Benjamin H. HILL Herschel V. JOHNSON James H. BLOUNT Augustus O. BACON One hundred and eighty-three were officers in the Confederate States Army, including along with the immortal name of John B. GORDON, the following Generals: Francis S. BARTOW General T. R. R. COBB Henry L. BENNING Edward D. TRACY William PHILLIPS Robert J. HENDERSON Lucius J. GARTELL Albert C. GARLINGTON Thirty-three officers of the United States Army and Navy, including, Albon C. HODGSON Thomas M. BRUMBY Robert L. BERNER Alexander R. LAWTON Forty-seven were members of congress. Of the representatives now in congress, the following are alumni: Charles L. BARTLETT William H. FLEMING William M. HOWARD William G. BRANTLEY The president of the senate of Georgia is an alumni, Hon. Clark HOWELL, as also the speaker of the house of representatives, Hon. John D. LITTLE, and the secretary of state, Hon. Phillip COOK. Six alumni have served in the United States senate: Pope BARROW William C. DAWSON John B. GORDON Robert TOOMBS Benjamin H. HILL Augustus O. BACON In finance we count such names as: W. D. GRANT John J. GRESHAM John T. GRANT Ferdinand PHILIZY John S. BAXTER Steven THOMAS In civil engineering and railroad management: O. L. CLOUD James M. EDWARDS Julian R. LAND Samuel SPENCER Ralph PETERS Charles H. PHINIZY George G. HULL Edward THOMAS It will be seen from the above names that the "learned professions" have by no means monopolized the time and talents of our alumni. Lord ROSEBURY has recently pointed out that the silent campaigns of commerce are at least as decisive of the fate of nations as the noisy operations of the battlefield. Those who have succeeded in the world of business illustrate their indebtedness to their alma mater for the organizing capacity that makes such success possible. Typical men of such capacity, among scores that might be named, are -- Among managers of large corporate enterprises: Joel HURT William W. THOMAS H. C. ANSLEY Charles A. COLLIER B. A. DENMARK W. M. JACKSON J. H. JACKSON Among merchants: E. R. HODGSON Joseph M. HODGON Henry J. LAMAR Asbury HODGSON M. G. MICHAEL Wilmer L. MOORE Edgeworth BIRD Among bankers: S. L. HAYS E. B. YOUNG T. D. HUFF B. F. THOMPSON E. W. LANE James WHITE C. J. HOOD R. F. MADDOX Jacob PHINIZY Among manufacturers: Alex C. YOUNG Thomas C. NISBET Stewart Phinizy Thomas P. VINCENT A. D. SCOFIELD W. P. HUGULEY William H. YOUNG B. Saunders WALKER Among successful business men in other lines: Bragg B. COMER Judson L. HAND Frank J. SPAIN Frank R. CLARK Gwin H. NIXON Billups PHINIZY John R. YOUNG William A. HEATH W. A. WILKINS G. N. WILSON R. R. LANIER John C. WHITNER C. E. HARMON L. L. McCLESKY Lamar LYNDON This list might be indefinitely expanded. Eminent in science: Joseph LeCONTE John LeCONTE William L. JONES Charles H. HERTY In education: G. T. ORR James P. WADDELL G. H. WALKER Shelton P. SANFORD A. W. VANHOOSE William D. WILLIAMS James F. PARK Morgan P. CALLOWAY L. M. LANDRUM John N. WADDELL Lawton B. EVANS Gustavus A. NUNNALLY W. F. SLATON Lester C. SLADS/Slade? Jere POUND William P. SANFORD The relation between Georgia's three institutions of higher learning has represented the spirit of comity in the interchanges in their faculties. The university has contributed to Mercer three presidents: Dr. Nathaniel M. CRAWFORD Dr. Gustavus A. NUNNALLY Dr. P. D. POLLOCK, who was an alumnus of the University Law school; to its faculty, two professors of theology: Rev. William WILLIAMS, D.D., and Rev. Shaler D. HILLYER, D.D. to its law faculty: Hon. Emory SPEER Judge John P. ROSS Hon. C. A. TURNER to its academis faculty, Professor Shelton P. SANFORD, who for so long filled the chair of mathematics. In return, Mercer has furnished to the faculty of the university its most distinguished teacher of belles lettres, Richard Malcolm JOHNSTON, and to the university's chair of the ancient languages, William G. WOODFIN. Mercer university has also furnished to the board of trustees of the university three governors who, ex-officio, served upon upon its board of trustees, Hon. Henry D. McDANIEL, Hon. William J.? NORTHEN and Hon. Allen D. CANDLER. The first named is now the chairman of the university's board of trustees. To Emory college the university furnished, as one of its early presidents, Bishop George F. PIERCE, and to its faculty its distinguished teacher of belles lettres, Rev. Morgan P. CALLOWAY, D.D. From its alumni have come into service of the university, in its branch colleges, President Joseph S. STEWART, of Dahlonega; Dr. Isaac F. HOPKINS, and W. H. FERGUSON, and Charles LANE, in the Technological school, and Dr. J. B. HUNNICUTT, in the university chair of agriculture. Hon. Gustavus J. ORR, formerly state school commissioner, was a matriculate of the university, but a graduate of Emory. Hon. H. T. LEWIS, one of the university's board of trustees, is an alumnus of Emory college. E. D. HUGUENIN? the treasurer of the board of trustees of Mercer university, is a matriculate of the university of Georgia. The university has furnished to Georgia and her sister states of the south forty-seven college presidents, and forty-six college professors, exclusive of forty-two who have gone into its own faculty. In medicine: Paul F. EVE Crawford W. LONG Charles D. MEIGS Charles W. WEST William F. HOYT William H. DOUGHTY DeSaussure FORD Hunter P. COOPER Richard D. MOORE In successful and progressive agriculture, together with political distinction: Gabriel TOOMBS David E. BLOUNT C. S. GUYTON Merriwether HILL J. D. WADDELL William A. BROUGHTON R. J. BACON Dudley M. HUGHES Judson L. HAND W. P. McWHORTER F. J. FREDERICK James D. FREDERICK A. F. POPE D. H. FITZGERALD At the bar: William Hope HULL Charles DOUGHERTY B. A. THORNTON Nathaniel J. HAMMOND Abna JOHNSON Joseph GANAHI (Ganahl?) Luther J. GLENN Thomas R. R. COBB A. Pratt ADAMS John C. RUTHERFORD Henry JACKSON Charles W. DuBOSE Walter S. CHISHOLM Among those distinguised as lawyers, all names of the living must needs be omitted, in order to avoid an undue expansion of the list. In journalism: Clark HOWELL P. W. ALEXANDER E. Y. CLARKE Evan P. HOWELL H. H. JONES H. H. CABANISS J. Fred LEWIS Anderson W. REESE Alfred C. NEWELL Walter G. COOPER Henry W. GRADY John Temple GRAVES W. A. HEMPHILL Lucian L. KNIGHT Pleasant A. STOVALL Remsen CRAWFORD In literature: Henry TIMROD Francis R. GOULDING Charles H. SMITH Joseph LeCONTE On all this bead-roll of worthies, no name is more entitled to gratitude than "Bill ARP," who during the terrors of the "Refugee" period, the desolations of war and the unspeakable indignitite of reconstruction continued to demonstrate the great theorem of "the Livableness of Life." If, however, juvenile sufferage was permitted, the headship in honor would be given to the author of "The Young Marooners." A seperate paragraph must be reserved for that many- sided man of genius, J. L. M. CURRY. He might have been ranked among soldiers, publicists, educators or authors. He must be included among them all. Not all of our alumni have remained in the service of Georgia. Among those who have achieved eminence in other states may be instanced P. H. MELL, educator Fred T. MYERS W. A. BLOUNT John E. HARTRIDGE Reuben O. REYNOLDS John C. AVERY, eminent lawyers of that state; E. L. ANTHONY, M.C., Texas Judge Samuel F. WILSON, of Tennessee Isaac F. DORICH (Dortch?), of North Carolina James S. COTHRAN, South Carolina John Gill SHORTER, governor of Alabama, Sampson W. HARRIS, M.C., Alabama William H. SIMS, Lieutenant governors of Mississippi William L. HARRIS, judge supreme court, Mississippi William B. LAMAR, attorney general of Florida; Charles H. DuPONT, judge supreme court, Florida A still wider range of activity is shown in the fact that several are now officers in the Phillippines. Many others have served as consuls in all parts of the world. John B. PINNEY was governor of Liberia. Dr. Thomas L. McBRIDE, missionary to China Ernest A. GARLINGTON, commanded an expedition to the Artic seas. Once more it must be repeated that these names are typical, not exhaustive. Many more have I written in the manuscript of this article, but the reasonable limits of this article require me to cut them out. Like Dryden's Don Sebastian, "I submit, but with a swelling heart." From her alumni the university has called sixty-six to serve on her board of trustees. Among them are some of her most eminent sons whose heavy burdens of official care might have served to excuse them from her service, had they not been more loyal. They are such men as: Asbury HULL Augustin S. CLAYTON Emory SPEER William T. MITCHELL Hunius HILLYER James S. HAMILTON Richard D. MOORE Benjamin C. YANCEY John SCREVEN William Y. ATKINSON Roger L. GAMBLE Ferdinand PHINIZY Thaddeus G. HOLT Robert C. HUMBER William H. FELTON Joel Abbott BILLUPS Benjamin P. HOLLIS Joseph B. CUMMING The following alumni are now members of the board of trustees: Peter COBB Augustus O. BACON Howell COBB Henry PERSONS William H. FISH George T. BARNES Bryon B. BOWER Peter W. MELDRIM David B. HAMILTON Nathaniel E. HARRIS George F. GOBER Brantley A. DENMARK Clark HOWELL Augustua L. HULL For the sake of completeness, the remaining members of the board are here named: H. D. McDANIEL, president Allen D. CHANDLER, governor Henry G. TURNER William E. SIMMONS Fleming G. duBIGNON Nathaniel L. HUTCHINS Hal T. LEWIS