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2902 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSFRANK E. CADL.AWAY. While one of the most prominent figures in theAtlanta bar during the last twenty years, and master in chancery to the Federal Court, a great number of people associate the name of Frank E. Callawaymost familiarly with the domain of clean athletics in his capacity as presidentof the Atlanta Baseball Association.Born at West Point, Georgia, April 9, 1870, he is a son of S. P. and Ellen(Patillo) Callaway, the former a native of La Grange and the latter of HarrisCounty, Georgia. Mr. Callaway was fortunate in a heritage of good qualitiesfrom both sides of his family, was reared in a home of ideals and abidinginfluences for good, and was also fortunate in his choice of his career. Afterattending the public schools and graduating from the University of Georgiawith the class of 1890, he took up the study of law and began practice notlong after he attained his majority. An experience which brought him intothe higher domain of public life, where he has ever since been an influentialfigure, was his service as private secretary to Governor W. Y. Atkinson from1894 to 1898. In that time he showed his practical ability as a political organizer, and exercises a strong influence in the ranks of the democratic partyin Georgia. The appointment as private secretary also brought him toAtlanta, and that city has since been his home and he enjoys a splendid privatepractice in addition to his duties as master in chancery. His offices are in theThird National Bank Building.While in college Mr. Callaway excelled as a baseball player, and that interest has been one that has remained with him in his mature career. It was hisenthusiastic support of local baseball that brought him the presidency of theAtlanta Baseball Association. He has a keen knowledge of the sport, andhas been exceedingly successful in building up and maintaining the AtlantaClub. He has done much to foster this national pastime, and is regarded asone of the ablest baseball executives in the southeastern states. He is alsoidentified by membership with the Capital City Club, the Piedmont DrivingClub, the Atlanta Athletic and Brookhaven Country clubs. Mr. Callawayand family reside at 46 East Fourteenth Street. He was married in November, 1896, to Miss Helen Spencer of Columbus, Georgia. Their children arenamed Spencer and Helen.HON. JUDSON BEACH GEIGEB. The dean of the Montgomery County bar,ex-judge of the' city courts of Mount Vernon and a leader of the Oconee Circuit, Hon. Judson Beach Geiger has written his name in strong and legiblecharacters upon the legal history of this part of the state. During morethan a quarter of a century of practice at Mount Vernon his star of successhas been a constantly ascending one, his talents having responded fully to hisdeveloping faculties, ambitions and opportunities, while his gifts for usefulness have been stable and many-sided, having contributed materially to thewelfare of the community in which he has chosen to make his home.Judge Geiger was born in Tattnall County, Georgia, March 20, 1864, amember of a family that was founded in America about six generations backby an emigrant from Germany, and a son of Rev. Washington Leonard andKatherine C. (Tillman) Geiger. His grandfather, Jeremiah Geiger, was anative of North Carolina, who was married in South Carolina and later cameto Effingham County, Georgia, where he became a prominent planter andslaveholder and passed the remaining years of his life. Washington L. Geigerwas one of five children and was born in Effingham County, where he received his early education. He was prepared for the ministry of the Baptistfaith in Forsyth County, and became one of the best-beloved ministers inSouthern Georgia, having charges at Dublin and other cities for many years.In addition to his ministerial work, he was greatly interested in the cause ofeducation, the interests of which he forwarded in every possible way, andwas the founder of the Excelsior High School, at Excelsior, Bullock County.