Laurens-Bulloch-Washington County GaArchives Biographies.....Stanley, Vivian L. 1860 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 1046-1047

   DOCTOR ALGERINE T. SUMMERLIN holds an important position in Dublin, Georgia,
not only in a professional way, but as an able business man, well known for his
good management and his common sense. He is a dentist of high order of ability
and is an honor to the profession that is now beginning to assume so much
importance in the eyes of the public, and for which science has done so much in
the last decade or so. As an extensive landed proprietor, Doctor Summerlin has
the responsibility of the many people, men, women and children who live on his
plantations, for the relationship between master and servant in this section of
the country is still more or less a paternal one. It is in this relation that
Doctor Summerlin has proved himself a man of more than average ability, and in
thinking for others he has developed those traits of character that have so
endeared him to the community.

   Doctor Summerlin was born in Bulloch county, Georgia, near the town of
Statesboro, in 1860. His father was James Summerlin and his mother was Eliza
(Lanier) Summerlin, both of whom were natives of Bulloch county. The
great-great-grandfather of Doctor Summerlin on the paternal side was a native of
North Carolina, and came to Georgia when Bulloch county was more or less of a
wilderness. The family has therefore been in this county since pioneer days and
has become thoroughly identified with the interests of this section. James
Bulloch was a farmer, but his peaceful life on the old plantation was
interrupted by the call to arms and the outbreak of the Civil war. He enlisted
in a Georgia regiment and served with a division of the army that caught
deserters and punished renegades and carried on a kind of guerrilla warfare. His
career was brought to a sudden termination by his death at the hands of
bushwhackers in Coffer county and here he was buried.

   The youth of Doctor Summerlin was spent on his father's plantation where he
grew up, the eldest of a large family. Both his father and his mother were twice
married. His father had four children by a previous marriage and three by his
marriage with the doctor's mother, Eliza Lanier. After the death of James
Summerlin, his widow married G. Green and became the mother of six children.
Doctor Summerlin was the eldest of his mother's children. His sister Alice is
now the wife of H. B. Kennedy, a successful farmer of Bulloch county, and his
brother Willie A., is his partner in the dental practice in Dublin. Doctor
Summerlin received his education in the schools near his home, and for his
professional training entered the Baltimore Dental College, from which he was
graduated in 1886. He at once began the practice of dentistry in Bulloch county,
and the following year came to Dublin, where he has since resided, and where he
has been so successful.

   The confidence which his friends and neighbors and fellow townsmen repose in
him has been shown by the fact that they have twice elected him mayor of Dublin.
He proved an able executive, but with this exception, could never be induced to
enter the political arena. Fraternally, he is a member of the Royal Arcanum. His
wife is a member of the Christian church, but he believes in the creed of no
especial denomination. His lauded estates comprise about one thousand acres and
of this large area five hundred acres are under cultivation.

  Doctor Summerlin was married on the 10th of April, 1900, to Callie Prince, the
daughter of Mrs. A. M. Prince, of Washington county. They have become the
parents of three children, as follows: Carolyn was born in July, 1903, A. T.,
Junior, whose birth occurred in July, 1906, and George, who was born on the 8th
of May, 1909.


Additional Comments:
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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