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2882 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSthe Georgia Legislature, and soon afterward moved to Gumming, ForsythCounty.In 1843 he located in Cobb County, which he represented in the GeorgiaLegislature. In 1855 he was appointed Supreme Court reporter, which position he held until the coming on of the Civil war. He organized a companyand joined Col. Charles A. McDaniel's Forty-first Georgia Regiment. Hewas in the field as a captain of that organization when he was unanimouslyelected to represent the Sixth District of Georgia in the Confederate Congress.After the war he resumed practice at Marietta, and was for many yearsjudge of the Blue Ridge Circuit. In 1888, during the presidential campaign,he was elector at large on the Cleveland and Hendricks ticket. In connectionwith Judge Irwin, Judge Lester spent much time in the revision of the Codeof Georgia. During the period of Reconstruction many important statematters transpired, among them the bureau of immigration was established.Judge Lester was appointed commissioner of the home department.In 1890 Judge Lester was elected attorney general of the State of Georgia,but before taking his oath of office he suffered a stroke of paralysis, whichbrought on his death in 1893.SCOTT WILSON, M. D. In the medical and educational fields ofSavannah, and elsewhere in Georgia, there is no better known man than Dr.Walter Scott Wilson. Early in life as an educator and later as a physicianand surgeon, he has been very active and successful, and his influence hasbeen truly beneficial in both lines for many years. A native of Georgia hewas born in Effingham County, Eebruary 24, 1858. His parents were StephenAlfred, and Tabitha Edwards Wilson, both native Georgians.Stephen A. Wilson, whose death occurred in 1897, at the age of sixty-eightyears was a successful planter prior to the war between the states, in which hetook an honorable part. He entered the Confederate service and was electedcaptain of Company I, Forty-seventh Georgia 'Volunteers, and with gallantryled his command on many battle fields. At the Battle of Lost Mountain hewas severely wounded. His devoted comrades saved his life by quickly carrying him to the rear, but for many months he was confined to the hospital. Assoon as sufficiently recovered he returned to military life and continued inthe army until hostilities ceased.. After his return to Effingham County, Stephen A. Wilson embarked inan extensive agricultural and mercantile business and continued is that lineuntil his death. His marriage had taken place in Effingham County and hissubsequent home was there. His wife, a lady of beautiful character, whosememory is tenderly preserved by her children, died in 1914, at the age ofseventy-eight years. Of the family, Walter Scott was the first born. Theother survivors are : Horace Emmet, a prominent lawyer of Savannah, Mrs.Frances Katherine Ryals of New York City, Frank Cheatham, a dental surgeon, at Savannah, and Mrs. Mary Murchison, wife of Oscar L. Williams ofEffingham County.Dr. Walter Scott Wilson, had private tutors until he was sixteen years ofage when he entered school at Poughkeepsie, New York, where he remainedtwo years. In 1877 he entered the North Georgia Agricultural and MilitaryCollege at Dahlonega graduating in 1880, first honor with the degree of A. B.,later receiving the degree of M. A. from the University of Georgia. Heaccepted the chair of mathematics at the North Georgia Agricultural and Military College at Dahlonega, Georgia, in 1882 which place he filled until 1892.He did graduate work at The Johns Hopkins University 1892-1894; at theUniversity of Chicago 1896-1897. He returned to The Johns Hopkins University and entered the medical department in 1900, and received the degreeof M. D. in 1904. In this year he located in Savannah, and began the practice of his profession.,