Sumter-Chattahoochee-Crisp County GaArchives Biographies.....Shipp, John Edgar D. 1858 - living in 1933
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Author: N. K. Rogers
J. E. D. SHIPP

    John Edgar Shipp, lawyer and writer of Americus, Ga., was born October 4,
1858 in Chattahoochee County.

    His college preparatory work was done at Gordon Institute, Barnesville, Ga.,
after which he entered the Alabmaa Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, where he was
graduated with distinction in 1879 receiving his A. 13. degree, he was a member
of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

    In 1880 he was principal of the Cusseta school, lie was afterward admitted
to the bar and opened a law office in Cusseta. In 1883 and '84 he represented
Chattahoochee County in the state legislature.

    He went to Americus to live in 1886 where he became vice president of the
Bank of Americus and a director of the S. A. M. R. R. (a railroad which
afterward became a part of S. A. L.)

    He founded the town of Cordele, Ga., in 1889. He remained there four years
promoting many industrial enterprises.

    In 1893 he returned to Americus and resumed his law practice.

    He is the author of "Giant Days or the Life and Times of William H.
Crawford," (1908). He has also written numerous historical and educational
articles for newspapers and magazines.

    He has been president of the Sumter County Board of Education since 1920. In
1930 he was appointed county historian and is now compiling the History of
Sumter County.

    His first wife was Freddie Brooks whom he married in 1880. She was the
daughter of Dr. Terrell Brooks and wife Nancy Matthews of Hamilton, Ga. She died
1918. In 1926 he married Katherine Kerr, daughter of George Kerr and wife, Mary
Elizabeth Watlington Kerr of King and Queen Court House, Virgina.

    Children of J. E. D. Shipp and Freddie Brooks Shipp are-Ethel m. Roy
Sheffield Bell; Dr. Terrell Brooks; Edgar m. Sarah Cannon; Freddie m. Lucius
Lamar McCleskey; H. B. m. Florence Walters.


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From:

HISTORY OF CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY, GEORGIA
By N. K. Rogers

Dedicated to

KASIHITA CHAPTER U. D. C.

and all worthy descendants of the County's first settlers.

Copyright 1933

by N. K. ROGERS

PRINTED   BY
COLUMBUS  OFFICE  SUPPLY CO. COLUMBUS, GA.

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