Biography: George Jabez Leftwich of Monroe County, Mississippi Source: Rowland, Dunbar. The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, 1908. Nashville, Tenn.: Press of the Brandon Printing Company, 1908. Page 1023 Submitted for inclusion in the USGenweb Project Archives by Lori Thornton . ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ************************************************************************ THIRTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT. Monroe, Lee and Itawamba Counties. GEORGE JABEZ LEFTWICH, of Aberdeen, was born September 18, 1859, at Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Virginia, the son of Jabez Leftwich and Mary (Switzer) Leftwich. His paternal ancestors came from Cheshire, England, and settled in Eastern Virginia when that commonwealth was a colony; later they made their home in Bedford County, Va., whence they became scattered. Col. Jabez Leftwich, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was an officer under his brother, General Joel Leftwich, in the War of 812; he was subsequently a member of Congress from Virginia, and in 1825 emigrated to Huntsville, Ala.; his wife was Martha Jane Early, a cousin of General Jubal A. Early. Mr. Leftwich attended in youth the free schools of Virginia, and the high school at Fincastle, Va. He entered the National Normal University of Lebanon, Ohio, to prepare himself for teaching, graduated there in 1882 with degree of A. B.; attended law lectures at the University of Virginia and at Cornell University, but did not complete a course in either institution. He was principal of the township high school at Grayville, Ill., one year, and of the high school at Carthage, Miss., five years; then, in 1888, began the practice of law at Aberdeen. He was one of the firm of Gilleylen and Leftwich for fifteen years; this firm name is now Leftwich and Tubb. He is a Democrat; was Commissioner of Elections for his county for several years; is a member of the M. E. Church, South, and was a lay delegate to the General Conference of the Church at Baltimore in 1898, and that at Birmingham in 1906. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and the Order of Elks, also of the Mississippi Historical Society; frequently prepares papers for that society and writes for periodicals and magazines. Mr. Leftwich has been prominently identified with the prohibition movement in his county; was also active in the movement for a primary election and the overthrow of the plan of candidate election by party conventions. Was elected to the State Senate November 5, 1907. He was married near Princeton, Ky., December 27, 1887, to Elgenia Groom, daughter of William G. Groom and wife, Martha A. Groom. His wife's family were descended from Virginian pioneer planters. Senator and Mrs. Leftwich have six children: Mary Marguerite, Katie Elgenia, George Jabez, Jr., Bessie Louise, William Groom and Frank Switzer.