Irwin-Coffee-Gwinnett County GaArchives Biographies.....Newbern, Philip 1880 - living in 1913
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    PHILIP NEWBERN, now serving his second term as mayor of the city of Ocilla,
Georgia, is a native of the state, his birth occurring in Broxton, Coffee
county, on October 2, 1880. He is the son of Lawrence and Elizabeth (Douglas)
Newbern, both natives of Coffee county. The mother was a daughter of Robert
Douglas, and the town of Douglas, in Coffee county, was named for that
gentleman. The early education of Philip Newbern was received in the public
schools of Broxton, and when he had completed the curriculum of the high school
of that place he entered the state normal at Athens in the autumn of 1899. Later
he attended the Southern Normal Institute of Douglas and was graduated from that
institution in 1902, after which he was engaged as a teacher in the school for a
term of two years. In June, 1904, he resigned and became a candidate for
election to the office of clerk of the superior court, but was defeated. He then
taught school for one season in 1905 and in the autumn of that year entered
Mercer Law School at Macon, Georgia, from which school he was graduated in June,
1906, and immediately thereafter admitted to the bar. He located in Broxton
where he began the practice of his profession, remaining there until 1907,
moving in that year to Ocilla, where he has since continued to live, and where
he has conducted an ever growing practice, winning a prominence in his
profession and as mayor of the city, holding the esteem of all who come within
his influence.

   On June 28, 1903, Mr. Newbern was united in marriage with Abbie Meeks, the
daughter of Malcolm Meeks. One child was born of their union, a daughter named
Ineva, born August 23, 1906. Mr. Newbern married a second time, Mrs. Margaret
Brooker becoming his wife, a daughter of T. J. Tanner of McDonald, Coffee
county, Georgia. They have one daughter, Varnelle, born on February 7, 1909.

   Mr. Newbern is one of a family of ten, all living, as follows: Aleph, wife of
H. V. Johnson of Broxton, a printer by trade, now engaged as a traveling
salesman. J. Wesley, a minister, located in Washington, D. C. Laura, the wife of
J. H. Long of Lake Charles, Louisiana. Bessie, the wife of Henry Parks,
Inverness, Florida, where he is engaged as an engineer. J. L., a teacher in the
schools of Brooklet, Georgia. D. F., living in Florida, where he is employed at
the Phosphate mines. Maybel, Emma and Cloyce, at home with the mother.

   In addition to his other interests, Mr. Newbern is occupied to some extent in
farming, and is quite a successful man in that as well as in his legal work. He
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Both he and his wife are of Irish
parentage.


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From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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