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2912 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSthe highest court of this religious denomination, at Wiimsboro, South Carolina, in November, 1903, Mr. Reid had the distinction of being chosen moderator of the synod, to preside at its next meeting, in 1904, at Elsberry, Missouri, and he was one of the youngest clergymen ever accorded this high position by the denomination of which he is a leading representative.In June, 1911, upon the invitation of the faculty and graduating class ofErskiue Theological Seminary Mr. Reid delivered the commencement sermonat that institution. He has served, as a member of the board of trustees ofErskine College and also of that of Erskine Theological Seminary and formany years he has been a member of the board of trustees of the DunlapOrphanage, at Atok'a, Tennessee, which is maintained under the auspices ofthe Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.After a pastorate of twelve years in the City of Louisville, Kentucky, Mr.Reid assumed his present charge as pastor of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, on the 12th of September, 1910. Within theintervening period his effective pastoral and executive administration hasresulted in increasing the membership of the church by fully 65 per cent andall departments of its work are vigorous and prosperous. Mr. Reid is anable pulpit orator, but every phase of the church activity is touched by hisearnest and effective influence, his effort ever being to make "all things worktogether for good ".and to further the work of the Divine Master in whosevineyard he serves.In addition to his regular pastoral services Mr. Reid has given some timeeach year to the conducting of special evangelistic meetings, in which fieldhe has given valued assistance to various pastors in Virginia, North andSouth Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indianaand Missouri. During the entire period of his fruitful ministry Mr. Reid hasgiven special attention to work in behalf of the children, not alone throughthe medium of the Sunday school but also through special sermons and special organizations in the affairs of which they can take an active part.Rev, S. W. Reid was married to Miss Sarah Moriat Martin at Newberry,South Carolina, June 16, 1915. Mrs. Reid was born of godly parents, JamesNewton Martin and Sarah Blair Martin. Mr. Martin was for many years aruling elder in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of Newberry,South Carolina. At the time of his death he was president of the NationalBank of Newberry and president of the Newberry Cotton Mill. He wasregarded the first citizen of the county.JOHN R. JORDAN, M. D. Scrupulous and effective preliminary training,careful research and investigation of an original order, close' study of thebest in the literature of his. profession, and a high sense of personal stewardship and responsibility have given to Dr. John Rudolph Jordan secure prestige as one of the able and resourceful physicians and surgeons of his nativestate, and he is engaged in the successful practice of his profession at Ellaville,the judicial center of Schley County, where he controls a speciallylarge and representative practice. Through original research and experimentation he has devised a most effective treatment of the disease known aspellagra and has done much to bring about its amelioration in the South, hisministrations in this one line having brought to him high reputation anddrawn to him patients from far outside of his normal field of practice.Doctor Jordan was born in Sumter County, Georgia, on the 10th ofNovember, 1879, and is a son of Sidney J. and Georgia (Battle) Jordan, bothlikewise natives of Sumter County, whence they removed to Ellaville, SchleyCounty, in 1914, owing to the belief that conditions in Sumter County wereinimical to the physical health of the father of Doctor Jordan. Sidney J.Jordan was born in the year 1850 and is a son of William B. Jordan, whowas a successful planter in Sumter County and who served four years as a