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   DR. CHARLES HYATT RICHARDSON, practicing physician in Montezuma, and well
known to the medical profession as well as the laity in this county, has been a
resident of this region all his life. He followed in the footsteps of a worthy
father, and in his capacity has carried on the good work that he laid down in
1886. Doctor Richardson has taken a notably important place in the communal life
of Montezuma, and has given service in more than his medical capacity. As mayor
of the city for three years and as alderman for seven years, much good has
accrued to his community as a result of his whole-souled and honest services in
those offices, and he occupied a sure place in the esteem and confidence of the
people of his town and the surrounding region.

   Born on March 3, 1859, Charles Hyatt Richardson is the son of Dr. Charles
Hyatt Richardson and his wife, Margaret (Settles) Richardson. Doctor Richardson
was born in 1829 in Sumter county, South Carolina, and came from that place in
1855, locating at Fort Valley, Georgia, later engaged in practice in Byron. He
died in 1886, after many years of faithful service hi his medical capacity, and
his name and fame is being carried on in the activities of his son, the subject
of this review. The mother was born in Sumter county, South Carolina, also, and
is still living at the age of eighty-six and makes her home in Byron, Georgia.

   Doctor Richardson received his early education in the common schools of Byron
and was later graduated from Mercer University with an A. B. degree, in 1878. He
later entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Maryland, and
was graduated in 1883, taking a post-graduate course in 1900 at the New York
Post Graduate College. Following his graduation from Baltimore, he established
himself in practice in Montezuma, where he has since carried on an active
practice, and where he has gained reputation as a medical man of splendid ability.

   His public service has been of a most praiseworthy nature, and it was during
his administration as mayor, in which office he served three years, that Doctor
Richardson brought about the establishment of the Carnegie library fund. Doctor
Richardson was made chairman of the building committee and handled the fund thus
donated. The building was erected at a cost of $10,000 and the library has about
$5,000 worth of books. While he was alderman in 1889 the steel bridge spanning
the Flint river was built by the city at a cost of $10,000, and the same has
been a big source of growth to the city in that it has made possible easy access
to the city from towns on the other side of the river, as a result of which
trade has been on the continuous increase since that time. He was mayor of
Montezuma while the A. & B. R. R. was in course of construction through the
town, and upon its completion a banquet was held at Atlanta, at which Doctor
Richardson, as mayor of Montezuma, was one of the principal speakers.

   Doctor Richardson has always been held in high esteem by his brother
physicians throughout the state, which is evidenced by the fact that he was
elected vice-president of the State Medical Association in 1911. In 1912 he was
elected president of the Third District Medical Association. This association
will convene at Fort Valley, Georgia, on the third Wednesday in June under his
presidency.

   Recognizing his ability in pulmonary diseases, he was appointed by the
president of its session in Augusta, Georgia, in 1912 (while he himself did not
attend the meeting), as chairman of the committee on tuberculosis to write a
series of articles on the great white plague.

   In 1909 Doctor Richardson was appointed by Governor Smith was a member of the
board of trustees of the state tuberculosis sanitarium to be established. At the
first meeting of this board Doctor Richardson was appointed one of the five
members of the executive committee whose duties were to select a location, build
the sanitarium, and start it in operation. The terms of office of this board
expired in January, 1913, and Doctor Richardson and three others were the only
ones of the old board reappointed by Governor Brown, with twenty new members.
Again Doctor Richardson was appointed one of the five members on the executive
committee to control this sanitarium.

   In 1889 the Central of Georgia Railroad decided to employ railroad surgeons
on its road. Doctor Richardson was one of the first to be appointed as local
surgeon for Montezuma and he has the honor of retaining this position to this
day, twenty-four years of continuous service. Only two or three still hold the
office now that were originally appointed.

   In the spring of 1912, the political year in Georgia, it became Macon
county's time to name the senator from the thirteenth district. The progressive
element of the Democratic party in that county prevailed upon Doctor Richardson
to enter the race. His opponent had represented the county twice in the house
and was a gentleman of large and influential family connections. Doctor
Richardson was elected in this race, carrying five precincts out of the seven
precincts in the county. He will enter the Georgia senate as a progressive
Democrat of the Woodrow Wilson type.

   In addition to his many other interests, Doctor Richardson is deeply
concerned in farming and on his eight hundred acres under cultivation, twenty
plows are pressed into service in the preparatory seasons. He has twelve hundred
acres in all, and his agricultural operations furnish employment to twenty
families. He is a director in the First National Bank, owns a prosperous drug
store in Montezuma, as well as other business property, and is a stockholder in
a well known fertilizer company of the city.

   In 1879 Doctor Richardson married Alice Cullen, the daughter of Dr. A. C.
Cullen, of Sandersville, Georgia, a practicing physician of that place. Three
children have been born to them: Dr. Charles Hyatt Richardson, III, a practicing
physician of Macon, Georgia; Carrie, the wife of George W. Chastain, of
Montezuma; and Augusta Cullen, who will graduate from Emory College in June,
1913. Doctor Richardson has one brother, C. C. Richardson, an attorney of Byron,
who served as a member of the state legislature from his county for three terms,
and a sister, who married Dr. C. Warren of Byron, Georgia, and who died in 1891.


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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