Muscogee County GaArchives Biographies.....Morgan McMichael 1866 - Unknown
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Author: Memoirs of Ga., Vol. II, 1895

Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga.
Published by the Atlanta Historical Society in 1895
Page 622


Morgan McMichael, deceased, Attorney-at-Law, of Columbus, Ga., was born in 
Schley County, Ga., in 1866, and was the eldest son of Dr. J.R. McMichael and 
Ellen A. (Stephens) McMichael.  His boyhood days were spent on his father’s 
farm, entering the Buena Vista, Ga., high school in his fifteenth year.  After 
completing the course at that institution he attended the select school of 
Prof. Mathes, at Americus, Ga., and later was graduated from the Southern 
Business University, Atlanta.  He read law the following year under the 
tutorage of Judge M. Butt, Buena Vista, and was admitted to practice at the 
October term of Marion Superior Court (1887), Judge (Ex-Governor) James M. 
Smith presiding.  So creditable was his examination that he was highly 
complimented by the members of the local bar.  He practiced law successfully 
for three years at Buena Vista, removing to the city of Columbus in December, 
1890, where he at once came to the front as one of the leading attorneys of 
that city as the junior member of the firm of Wimbish, Worrill & McMichael.  
He was an active and valuable member of the Georgia Bar Association, served as 
a member of the City Council of Columbus, and as Chairman of the Finance 
Committee in that body, and devoted much study and labor to the preparation of 
a tax ordinance which has proved the most satisfactory ordinance the city of 
Columbus ever had.  In 1894 Mr. McMichael was chosen as one of the 
representatives from Muscogee County to the State Legislature, representing 
his constituency faithfully and honorably.  He was a very zealous democrat and 
took a keen interest in all public matters.  He was possessed of good 
judgment, steadfast convictions and was a lucid and forcible speaker.  Mr. 
McMichael was happily married to Miss Minnie Shepherd, a beautiful and 
accomplished lady, who by his sudden death has suffered a crushing and 
irreparable bereavement.




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