Ware County GaArchives Biographies.....Bagley, James B. 1866 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   JAMES B. BAGLEY, M. D. Noteworthy for his keen intelligence, professional
knowledge and skill, James A. Bagley, M. D., is meeting with excellent success
as a physician, since locating at Waycross having acquired an excellent
patronage. A native of Georgia, he was born, January 16, 1866, in Ware county,
which was likewise the birthplace of his father, Berrien Bagley.

   His paternal grandfather, Ransom Bagley, was a Virginian born and bred. As a
young man he removed to North Carolina, being accompanied by two of his
brothers, one of whom settled in Raleigh, that state, while the other brother
located in Alabama. He, himself, came to Georgia, and having purchased land in
Ware county carried on general farming with the help of slaves for a number of
years, but subsequently removed to Florida, where he spent the remainder of his
life.

   Born in Ware county in 1815, Berrien Bagley was reared to agricultural
pursuits, and when ready to begin life for himself bought land lying within
three miles of the parental estate, and continued life as a farmer. There were
no railways in the state when he was young, and he was forced to haul the
surplus productions of his farm with teams to Savannah, a distance of one
hundred miles, but ere his death there was a railroad within six miles of his
home. Honest, industrious, and a good manager, he was very successful in his
calling, acquiring a competency. On the farm which he improved he spent his last
days, passing away in January, 1908, at the venerable age of eighty-three years.
He married Eliza Thompson, a daughter of Rev. Henry Thompson, for many years a
Methodist Episcopal preacher in Ware county. She passed to the higher life, aged
eighty years. Of the twelve children born into their home, ten grew to years of
maturity, namely: Mary J., Rachel, Julia, John W., Amanda, James B., Roan H.,
Thomas Berrien, Francis, and Ella.

   Brought up on the home farm, James B. Bagley attended school as opportunity
offered, in the meantime becoming intimately acquainted with farm work of all
kinds. When he was eighteen years old his father gave him one hundred acres of
land, and he began his career as an independent farmer. Having been trained to
habits of industry and thrift, and well drilled in the art and science of
agriculture, he succeeded from the start, and continued a tiller of the soil
until 1892. Desirous then of gratifying a long cherished ambition, Mr. Bagley
began the study of medicine in the Atlanta Medical School, from which he was
graduated with the class of 1894. Immediately beginning the practice of his
profession at Millwood, Ware county, Dr. Bagley continued there fifteen years,
meeting with unquestioned success. Locating at Waycross in 1909, he has here
built up a large and remunerative patronage, the people roundabout having great
confidence in his skill and ability.

   Dr. Bagley married, when a youth of eighteen summers, Miss Lucinda Meeks, who
was born in the northern part of Clinch county, Georgia, eight miles from
Pearson, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Meeks. Four children have been born
to the Doctor and Mrs. Bagley, namely: William Francis, now, in 1913, studying
medicine; James Wesley; Daniel English; and Loney. The Doctor and his two older
sons are engaged in agricultural pursuits, conducting a stock and poultry farm
near Beach. The Doctor and his wife are consistent members of the Primitive
Baptist church, and their two older sons are affiliated by membership with the
Methodist Episcopal church.



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From:

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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