Ware COUNTY  GA  Bio  John C. Humphreys

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INDUSTRIAL EDITION OF THE WAYCROSS EVENING HERALD
                   Waycross, Ware County, Georgia
                             June, 1907
                       JOHN CONYERS HUMPHREYS
     John Conyers Humphreys, the Senior member of the firm Humphreys
& Williamson, (the oldest established dry goods and millinery
emporium in Waycross), was born in Screven County, Georgia.  His
parents were named Curtis and Mary Ann (nee Best).
     His father was a farmer; was interested in educational affairs;
was a member of the Secession Convention; member of the legislature
from Screven; ordinary of that county; county surveyor and was civil
engineer.  Both parents were members of the Baptist Church.
     His early life and schooling was spent in Screven County and for
a time he worked with his father on the farm; he has been in the
mercantile life many years and he has been located in the same
business, on the same site, for thirteen years.
     Mr. Humphreys is a Pythian Knight and is Deacon and Treasurer of
the Baptist Church; was a member of the city council five or six
years, and is now a member of the city Board of Education and takes a
great interest in education along all lines.



(Submitted by Barbara Walker Winge,  barbarawinge@yahoo.com)


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