Stephens-Rabun County GaArchives Biographies.....Ramey, Col. N.R.C. September 29, 1876 - 
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Source: The Toccoa Record, Toccoa, Stephens County, Georgia
Author: Unknown

The Toccoa Record, 5 Nov 1908, p. 1.  

Biographical Sketches


Col. N.R.C. Ramey.  When Stephens county’s educational history has been 
written and proper credit given[,] the pioneers who figured so prominently in 
the movement, the name of our own Commissioner, Col. N.R.C. Ramey, will rank 
high among the famous in such a roll of honor.

In the good old county of Rabun, on Tiger Creek, Col. Ramey was born September 
29, 1876.  Living amid those historic mountains he was early imbued with that 
ambitious spirit so characteristic of many mountain boys, and in early life 
set his face toward the future with confidence in his ability and the reward 
the future held out to him.

Col. Ramey is the grandson of Major H.W. Cannon, who for nearly fifty years 
was the foremost citizen of Rabun.  He represented the county almost 
continuously during that time as a member of the legislature and the senate.

After attending the common school Col. Ramey finished his education at 
Cornelia Normal School and the American Institute of Phrenology of New York.  
He took a course in law during the 1905-1906 terms at Mercer University, 
receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws upon his graduation; and was admitted 
to practice law in all the courts, both State and Federal, in June, 1906.

There is probably not a man in the entire State who understands the needs of 
the rural schools more fully than does Col. Ramey.  After graduating at 
Cornelia he taught for eight years in every section in Georgia, closing his 
career as a teacher by serving the people of Clayton, Ga., as principal.  
After his varied experiences in the school room he studied law, very soon 
afterwards selecting and adopting Toccoa as his home town.

His peculiar fitness as an educator was known in Toccoa in advance of his 
coming.  There was an opening in Stephens at that time for a man like Col. 
Ramey, to fill the office of County School Commissioner.  Just a month from 
the date of his arrival in Toccoa he was selected to fill this honorable 
position, a compliment most worthily bestowed.  For two years he served the 
educational interests of Stephens in a highly satisfactory manner.  He has 
especially proven himself a friend to the country boys and girls who are 
ambitious to secure an education.

Col. Ramey is a strong believer in the county system of taxation as against 
the present system of district taxation.  Failing to accomplish a change, 
through an election held last summer, he now proposes, and will soon take 
steps to re-district the county.  When accomplished, this work will give the 
boys and girls of the county a more equal opportunity than they have 
heretofore enjoyed.  The schools will be larger and more centralized.  New and 
more commodious school houses will be erected, the long-felt need of a more 
systematic grading may then be supplied.

Col. Ramey has a hold on the hearts of Stephens county folk, and it is to him 
they look for a revolutionizing, and thorough re-organization of the school 
systems of the county.

[Photo from newspaper article.]

Transcribed by June Coker McNew, January 2011.  


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