MARION COUNTY, GA - BIOS C. Horace McCall

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Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., page 489-490
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895


MARION COUNTY

C. Horace McCall, merchant-banker, Buena Vista, Marion Co.,
Ga., son of Charles H. and Lucinda (Thorp) McCall, was born in
Marion county, Ga., in 1857.  His paternal grandfather McCall
was born in Scotland, emigrated to this country when quite
young, settled in one of the Carolinas, served as a soldier in
the patriot army during the revolutionary war, and afterward
migrated to Georgia and settled in Screven county.  He owned
many slaves and had a large plantation.  Mr. McCall’s father
was born and reared in Screven county, and was a large slave
and land owner, farmer and merchant, was a justice of the
inferior court many years, and also represented the county in
the house and in the senate of the general assembly.  He moved
from Screven to Marion county in 1844, and lived there the
remainder of his days.  In early life he was an ardent, active
member of the Missionary Baptist church, in which he was
ordained a preacher after he was eighty years of age.  Mr.
McCall’s maternal grandfather was Jeremiah Allen Thorp.  He was
a farmer, and one of the early settlers in Twiggs county, in
which he closed his life.  Mr. McCall was reared on the farm
and after receiving a good common school education, took a
thorough course at the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Business college.
For the last seven years he has been engaged in a general
merchandise business; and in 1888 he organized the Buena Vista
Loan and Savings bank, of which he has recently been elected
president.  In addition to the above he organized the Buena
Vista Improvement company for the encouragement of
manufacturing and general improvement purposes.  Besides being
an active worker in all these laudable progressive enterprises,
he is interested in and manages large farming interests.  These
large and extensive plans promotive of progress and prosperity
evince great mental and physical activity, and their success
evidences unusual public spirit and financial sagacity and
ability.  Mr. McCall was married in 1882 to Miss Willie Miller,
born in Buena Vista in 1864, daughter of Maj. E.W. and Sallie
(Jones) Miller.  He was for many years a practicing attorney,
was a major in the army during the late war, and has several
times represented the county in the general assembly.  One
child, Helen, as blessed this union.  Mrs. McCall is a member
of the Baptist church.