WARE COUNTY GA Biography Hon. Warren Lott File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Barbara Winge barbarawinge@yahoo.com http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/ware/bios/lott.txt Hon. Warren Lott, Ordinary Hon. Warren Lott, Ordinary of Ware County, City Treasurer of Waycross, Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Ware County, vice-President of the Bank of Waycross; member of the Insurance firm of Lott & Peabody, member of the Board of Education of the City of Waycross, member of the insurance firm of Lott, Lott, Fain & Co., one of the Proprietors of Lott & Jones Livery, member of the Board of directors of the South Atlantic Car and Manufacturing Company; trustee of the Ware County Agricultural school; elder in the Presbyterian Church; Mason, Pythian Knight, part owner in the Lott-Hitch building, and owner of the Lott business property on Plant Avenue, is a man whom every one in Waycross can and does unite in; a leader of men and advisor of the people, and the staunchest, most conservative, yet broad minded man with executive ability in Ware County. If Judge Lott advocates your cause, your cause goes; if he doesn't you may as well quit. He is the hub of Waycross, around which the spokes are fitted. Hon. Warren Lott was born in Ware County, eight or nine miles north of Waresboro, on the place where Mr. G. H. Roberts now lives, October 20, 1853. His education was received at the schools in Waycross and at Valdosta. After he left school he merchandised here for a time with his brother J. A. Lott. In 1877 he was elected Clerk of the Superior Court of Ware County, and was re-elected again in 1879; and in 1881 and in 1882; was elected to the Legislature on the whiskey issue and helped to pass the bill to put whiskey out of the County. He is proud of this fact. Mr. Lott is a strong temperance advocate. The committees he served on while he was a member of the general assembly were Temperance Penitentiaary, Auditory and one or two others. On his return home in 1885 he was elected Ordinary and has been successively re-elected ever since, holding that position now; he has been City Treasurer since 1890 and retains that position; is Chairman of the County Democratic Executive Committee and has been for twelve years, with the exception of two; was an Alderman in 1887; he was Vice-President of the first bank extablished in Waycross, which was in 1889- South Georgia, which was afterwards changed to the First National- and remained with that institution until October, 1894, when he was elected cashier of the Bank of Waycross; remained in that capacity for four or five years and was then elected Vice-President, his present position; is a member of the firm of Lott & Peabody, insurance; has been a member of the Board of Education for about ten years, member of the furniture house of Lott, Fain & Co., one of the proprietors of the Lott & Jones Livery; one of the directors of the South Atlanic Car & Mfg. Co., one of the trustees of the Eleventh Congressional District for the Agricultural school, by appointment of Governor Terrell for this county; also Past Chancellor of the Pythian Knighthood; a Past Master of Masonry and Treasurer of the Masonic Chapter and a Shriner; and has been an elder in the Presbyterian Church for the past fifteen or twenty years. Judge Lott owns a pretty home corner of Plant Avenue and Butler Street is a part owner of the Lott-Hitch building; ownes the block where the Grace-Brandley and R. B. Paramore stores are and some unimproved desirable residence property. Warren Lott maried Miss Hattie Josephine, daughter of Dr. B. F. and Sarah F. Williams. The children are Warren Lott, Jr. at West Point; Edith at Agnes Scott College, at Decatur; Clyde in the graduating class at the High School and Arthur and John Henry, who are also attending the Waycross Graded High School. Ref: INDUSTRIAL EDITION OF THE WAYCROSS EVENING HERALD, Waycross, Georgia, June 1907, p. 58. ======================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for FREE access. ==============