Jackson-Oglethorpe County GaArchives Biographies.....Hardman, William Benjamin Johnson November 22, 1822 - August 21, 1904
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Author: from History of Baptist Denominations in Georgia, 1881, p 251

History of Baptist Denominations In Georgia, 1881, p 251

W B J Hardman 

Rev. W B J Hardman was born November 22d, 1822, in Oglethorpe county, 
Georgia.  His parents were Elbert and Lottie Hardman, the latter having been 
Miss Barrett. He resided in Oglethorpe county until 1850, when he moved to 
Jackson county, residing all the while on a farm, and receiving such an 
education as the ordinary schools of the country afforded.  He professed 
religion in 1846, but was not baptized until 1848, when he joined Cloud's 
Creek church.  He was ordained to the sacred work of the ministry in November, 
1874, since which time he has served the Harmony Grove and Beaver Dam churches 
in Jackson county, and Grove Level church in Banks county.   Since 1875, he 
has also preached for Cabin Creek church. 

Previous to his ordination he was a deacon and acted as clerk for his church, 
besides filling the position of Sunday school superintendent for fifteen 
years. 

Mr. Hardman is a regular medical practitioner.  After studying medicine under 
Dr. Willingham, in Oglethorpe county, during 1847 and 1848, he attended 
lectures at Augusta, in 1848 and 1849, and took a course at Jefferson Medical 
College, Philadelphia.  Since his graduation in the spring of 1850, he has 
been following the profession in Jackson county, and has secured an extensive 
practice.  He is considered a thoroughly informed and skilful physician; but 
has always sought to minister to the souls as well as the bodies of his 
patients. He has accumulated a handsome estate, and lives in very comfortable 
circumstances, devoting a portion of each day to the study of the Scriptures; 
is a director of the Northeastern Railroad, and a large shareholder in its 
stock; and has presided with dignity and acceptability over the Sarepta 
Association as Moderator, for several years in succession.  In 1851, Mr. 
Hardman married Miss E. E. Colquitt, who has made him a devoted wife.  He has 
ten children living, to all of whom he has given a liberal education, and five 
of whom are professed Christians.  In height, he is five feet ten inches, 
weighs 150 pounds, has gray eyes and a dark eomplexion.  His black hair and 
beard are fast becoming gray, a result of the busy, thoughtful llife he leads, 
full of care and responsibility.  Highly respected in his community, he has 
been a laborious and useful man.  Though for the most part eschewing politics, 
he was nominated for the Legislature by his friends in 1866.  He, however, 
declined the nomination, illustrating by his career the truth, often 
overlooked but worth of perpetual remembrance, that "a private station" may 
be "the post of honor." 





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