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2790 GEOEGIA AND GEORGIANShe decided to pursue that line he undoubtedly would have met with greatsuccess but he soon discovered that such a course would involve him in undesiredpolitical trouble and he determined to make a specialty of advisoryoffice work and title and probate law. He has developed a large business inthis branch and is a recognized authority on titles.On August 1, 1886, Colonel Kalbfleisch was married to Miss Maggie Tice,who was a daughter of Seyburn Tice, of Augusta, who died of tuberculosis in1890. They had two children, the younger of whom is deceased. The surviving daughter, Ethel, married John W. Pierce, one of the largest plantationowners in the South and they have one son, John W. Pierce, Jr. On January13, 1902, Colonel Kalbfleisch was married to Miss Emma Ivey. A new impulse entered into his life with this marriage and he attributes much to herdevotion and encouragement during his years of struggle.Colonel Kalbfleisch has always been a friend of the laboring man and hasbeen most generous to this class in the way of professional service. For manyyears he has been president of the Federated Trades and president of theCarpenters' Union. He was largely instrumental in bringing about the settlement of the Georgia railroad strike and what one man said was the thoughtof many, "He is really too big for this town.'' He has been shown appreciation in numberless ways. He made the draft for the new Municipal CourtBill which recently was passed by the Legislature. He served as a memberof the city council for one term. At the time of the disastrous flood, in 1898,he took full charge of the city offices, during the mayor's absence and reestablished order out of chaos. "While in the council he was chairman of thefire department and was exceedingly useful in its re-organization and insecuring its equipment and apparatus, is a member of the police commissionand of the city flood commission. He has been tendered many other civicoffices but has accepted few. He was appointed a member of the NationalRiver and Harbor Committee by Governor Hoke Smith and is also a memberof the Southern Commercial Congress.Colonel Kalbfleisch is very popular with lovers of the great nationalgame of baseball in this section. He re-established the Augusta team ofwhich he has been president. The present outlook is that this team stands afine chance of winning the pennant in the South Atlantic League.GARKETT A. GREEN. It is specially gratifying to note the status ofHon. Garnett A. Green as one of the representative members of the bar ofhis native county and to record also that he is serving, in 1915-16, his secondterm as representative of Wilkes County in the State Legislature of Georgia.He is a scion, in both the paternal and maternal lines, of honored and influential pioneer families of Wilkes County, and here he is well upholdirfg theprestige of a name that has been long one of prominence in this section ofthe state. He is engaged in the practice of his profession at Washington,the county seat, and Wilkes County has no citizen who is more loyal andprogressive than this able and popular young lawyer.Mr. Green was born in Wilkes County on the 5th of April, 1885, and isthe only child of Theodoric M. and Metta (Andrews) Green, both of whomlikewise were born and reared in this county. Theodoric M. Green was a sonof John Bland Green and the maiden name of his mother was Leonard, shehaving been a native of Wilkes County, where she passed her entire life.John Bland Green was born in Virginia and was a representative of a family,of English origin, that was founded in the Old Dominion in the colonialperiod of our national history. Upon coming to Georgia he established hishome at Washington, which now thriving and beautiful little city was then amere village. He was a skilled carpenter and became a prominent contractorand builder of Wilkes County, many of the fine old residences still standingin Washington being monuments to his memory, and here being found also