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   C. C. CURRY. A man of distinctive energy and much force of character, C. C.
Curry, of Vidalia, head of the law firm of Curry & Williams, possesses a natural
aptitude for the work of his profession, being industrious, earnest and
persistent in the advocacy of his client's cause, while his record gives
evidence of his wide legal knowledge and his broad reasoning powers have won him
success in his labors. A native of Washington county, Georgia, he was born May
7, 1871, near Curry's old mill site, in the vicinity of Warthen Station. His
father. A. G. Curry, served in the Confederate army during the Civil war,
enlisting in a company of Georgia Volunteer Infantry, and for awhile being a
prisoner-of-war.

   Leaving the old home farm at the age of twenty-one years, C. C. Curry began
work for himself as a bridge constructor on a railroad in Florida, for three
years standing guard over a gang of convict laborers in Dutton. During that
period he attended school for the first time, and by night study progressed from
the primer to the third reader. Going then to Hague, Florida, he found himself
so far behind in his studies that he became somewhat discouraged, and returned
to the convict camp, where he remained a year. Having while there made good use
of his every leisure moment, Mr. Curry entered the Normal institute at Jasper.
Florida. A year later the professors of that school established the Georgia
Normal College and Business Institute, and Mr. Curry became one of its first
pupils. For three years he paid his way through that institution by janitor
service, and the succeeding two years by tutoring. Going then to Valparaiso,
Indiana, he entered the Law department of the Northern Indiana Normal school,
and by working as a waiter in a restaurant, and selling books, he maintained
himself until his graduation, with the class of 1901, with a good record for
scholarship.

   Returning to Georgia, Mr. Curry began the practice of his profession at
Abbeville, and as a lawyer has been eminently successful. He is. now located at
Vidalia. being senior member of the firm of Curry & Williams, attorneys, and has
here built up a substantial and remunerative patronage. A man of pleasing
address and personality, with a gift for oratory, Mr. Curry has won quite a
reputation as a platform dialect entertainer, lecturer, elocutionist, humorist
and musician, in the latter capacity being an expert banjo player. Fraternally
he is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons.

   Mr. Curry married, at Abbeville, Georgia, Mattie Doster, a daughter of A. J.
and Caroline Doster, and into their home four sons have made their advent,
namely: Clifton, born in 1902; Olin Wimberly, born in 1904; A. J. (Jack), born
in 1906; and Joe Brown, born in 1908.


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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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