LUMPKIN CO., GA - BIOGRAPHIES - James L. Wimberly

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Source: Brief Biographies of the Members of the Constitutional 
Convention. July 11, 1877.  Atlanta, Georgia: The Constitutional 
Publishing Co., 1877, p. 87.  

[Family History Center Microfilm US/CAN #1,688,881]

James L. Wimberly, Twelfth District

     Mr. Wimberly was born in Twiggs county in 1821.  When he was 
about two years old, his parents removed to Monroe county, Ga. 
where they remained until the latter part of 1833, when they removed
to Stewart county, and there resided until their respective deaths. 
They were natives of North Carolina.  His father, previous to his 
marriage, was an itenerant minister of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church; was located after marriage, on account ill-health, and 
became a successful preacher.  The son's education was altogether 
academical, and obtained in Monroe and Stewart counties.  He was 
admitted to the bar in Lumpkin, in 1844, and has ever since been 
engaged in the practice of the law.  He has resided in Lumpkin 
continuously since March, 1848.

     He married Miss Helen A. Guyton of Laurens county, Georgia, in 
1857.  She died March 29, 1876.

     Mr. Wimberly was the first Ordinary elected for Stewart county 
(in 1852), and held the office for four consecutive terms-sixteen 
years.  He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1865.  
In politics, he was a Whig.  He was opposed to secession, at least 
at the time and in the manner it was effected.  When the war closed,
he was among the foremost to build up the almost ruined interests of
the vanquished States, especially those of Georgia.  When a 
Convention, in 1867, was ordered he tried to prevail upon the 
citizens of his section to send their best men to it.  Mr. Wimberly 
will prove an able, prudent and conservative member of the 
Convention.