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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS . 2895Shriner, belongs to the college fraternities Delta Tau -Delta and Psi DeltaKappa, 'and to the Waycross Progress Club.November 14, 1911,. at Nashville, Tennessee, he married Miss IsabellaCrittenden. Her fatheras now deceased and her mother is Mary E. Crittenden. Mr. and Mrs. Bunn have one child, Miss Mary Elizabeth Bunn, bornat Waycross in 1912.DAVID W. LEWIS, legislator, educator and patriot, was born in HaneockCounty,. October 24, 1815. In 1837 he was graduated from Franklin College,served as private secretary to Governor George R. Gilmer, and in 1843 wasadmitted to the bar. For ten years, commencing with 1845, he representedHancock County in the Legislature, and during that period became one of thefounders of the Georgia State Agricultural Society. Of that institution hewas a charter member, secretary for many years and its third president.In 1855 he was appointed trustee of the University of Georgia, whichplace he held consecutively for thirty years. In 1861 he was elected torepresent Georgia from the Fifth District in the First Confederate Congress.His last great work was his presidency of the North Georgia AgriculturalCollege. He was its first president, from 1873 until the date of his death,December 28, 1885. A monument on the college campus was dedicated tohis memory in 1891.JOHN MclNTOSH KELL. In all its history Georgia has D'jver produced amore devoted patriot or a finer character than Capt. John Mclntosh Kell,a distinguished naval officer of the United States and Confederate governments, and adjutant-general of the State of Georgia. He was born in Darienon January 26, 1823, and in September, 1841, was commissioned a midshipman in the United States navy. Of the succeeding twenty years, seventeenwere passed in active service in every part of the world. In the war withMexico he saw service on the California coast; he participated in the expedition to Paraguay and was a member of Commodore Perry's staff in the historic expedition to Japan.The outbreak of the war between the states found him a junior lieutenant,stationed at Pensacola. He immediately resigned and threw in his lot withthe Confederacy. His naval service under the Confederacy, from June, 1861,to June, 1864, was as executive officer under the famous Admiral RaphaelSemmes. His identification, during that period, with the famous Confederateraiders, Sumter and Alabama, is a romantic chapter in naval warfare. As iswell known, the latter was finally destroyed off the coast of Cherbourg,France, June 19, 1864, by the Federal protected warship, the Kearsarge.Captain Kell made his way back to the Confederate capital through theblockade by way of England, reaching home after an absence of three yearsand four months, to find his promotion to full captain, dated from the fightwith the Hatteras, and given for gallantry, awaiting him, and was placed incommand of the Richmond, an ironclad, on the James River. He was at hishome, Sunnyside, on sick leave when the Confederacy collapsed, and there hequietly remained for many years.In November, 1886, Governor Gordon tendered to Captain Kell the appointment of adjutant-general of the state, a position about to become vacantby the retirement of a disabled incumbent. He accepted the appointment,entered upon the discharge of the duties January 1,1887, found it a congenialwork, and spent the remaining years of his life in that position.HON. WILLIAM CLINTON HODGES. On the roster of Southeastern Georgia'sable jurists is found the name of Judge William Clinton Hodges, who hasattained distinctive preferment in the legal profession. The reason for hisadvancement is not far to seek. In the vocation of law success depends