History of Lincoln County Georgia United States of America

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Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, representative, was born in Lincoln county, Ga., June 5, 1825; son of Col. William and Susan (Winn) Curry; and grandson of Thomas and ?? (Walker) Curry, and of Richard F. and Prudence (Lamar) Winn. His father was a planter, merchant and member of the Georgia legislature, and his mother was a granddaughter of one of the founders of Winnsboro, S.C., who were gallant soldiers in the war of the Revolution. His ancestry was of mingled. Scotch, English, Welsh and French. In 1837, his father removed his family to Talladega county, Ala. Jabez was graduated from the University of Georgia in 1843, and from Harvard law school in 1845. In 1846 he volunteered in the Mexican war and having been disabled by illness he returned to Alabama in the following year. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1847-48, 1852-53, and 1855-56. In 1856 he was a presidential elector on the Buchanan ticket. He was a representative in the 35th and 86th congresses, 1857-61, and a representative in the provisional and in the 1st Confederate congresses. In 1864 he entered the Confederate army as aid on the staff of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, and afterward, until the surrender, was lieutenant-colonel of cavalry, serving in the commands of Generals Wheeler and Forrest. In 1865 he entered the Baptist ministry, declining, however, to become pastor of any church. He was president of Howard college, Alabama, 1866-68, and in 1868 his connection began with Richmond college, where, at different times, he was professor of English, philosophy, and constitutional and international law, and president of the beard of trustees, 1868-81. In February, 1881, he succeeded Dr. Barnas Sears as general agent of the Peabody education fund. In 1885 he was appointed by President Cleveland U.S. minister to Spain, where he negotiated a modus vivendi in reference to Cuban commerce, secured the acknowledgment of a heavy claim which had been pending for years, was engaged in the preliminary international steps for the quadri-centennial celebration of the discovery of America, and was actively instrumental, by procuring transcripts of documents from the archives, in aiding the historical and literary labors of his countrymen, Henry C. Lea, John Mason Brown, Alexander Brown, Francis Wharton and John Gilmary Shea. Resigning his diplomatic post in 1888, he resumed his duties as general agent of the Peabody education fund, and was made an honorary trustee of the board. In May, 1891, he was elected a member of the board of trustees of the John F. Slater fund, and was made chairman of the educational committee and general manager of the fund. His annual reports of the Peabody and John F. Slater funds and his various addresses before institutions, associations, colleges and legislatures, were published and contain a full record of educational progress at the south, and an able discussion of educational questions during the period of his official service. He served as moderator and as president of various Baptist conventions and associations. He received the degree of A.M. from the University of Georgia in 1843; that of D.D. from the University of Rochester in 1872: and that of LL. D. from Mercer university in 1867, and from the University of Georgia in 1886. He published Establishment and Disestablishment, or Progress of Soul Liberty in America; Constitutional Government in Spain (1889); William Ewart Gladstone, a Study (1891); The Southern States of the American Union Considered in Their Relations to the Constitution of the United States and to the Resulting Union (1894); and the History of the Peabody Education Fund (1897). He died in Asheville, N.C., Feb. 12, 1903.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

John Murray Dooly, jurist, was born in Lincoln county, Ga., about 1772; son of Col. John Dooly, a Revolutionary hero, murdered by the Tories in 1780, of which deed the son was a witness. Dooly county, Ga., was named for this patriot. The family originally came from Ireland and settled in North Carolina. John M. Dooly was instructed in the law by Judge Matthews of Washington, Ga., and in the primitive courts of the circuit. He was made solicitor of the western circuit, Sept. 2, 1802, and in 1816 judge of the circuit. On Nov. 8, 1822, he was transferred to the northern circuit and was elected to the same circuit by the legislature, Nov. 12, 1825. He was several times an unsuccessful candidate for United States senator. He died May 26, 1827.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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