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2924 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSwith the active details of this enterprise but gives his entire time and attention to the practice of his profession. He is a member of the American MedicalAssociation, the Georgia State Medical Association, the First CongressionalDistrict Medical. Society and the Burke County Medical Society. He hasserved as county physician since 1913 and in this capacity has done much toconserve public health and to institute needed sanitary improvements. He isa director of the Waynesboro Savings Bank, of which he was one of theorganizers and incorporators, and is also a member of the directorate of theBank of Waynesboro.The basic principles for which the democratic party has ever stood sponsor, received the stanch support of .Doctor Macaulay, and he has giveneffective service in behalf of the party cause, though he has had no predilectionfor political office. In the York Rite of the time-honored Masonic fraternity he has received the chivalric degrees and is affiliated with the Waynesboro Commandery of Knight Templars, besides being identified also with theadjunct Masonic organization, the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of theMystic Shrine. He holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church,South, and his enthusiasm in connection with outdoor sports is indicated byhis membership in the Georgia Field Trial Association, the ranks of whichinclude many of the leading Georgia devotees of hunting and other sportsafield and afloat. The doctor is unmarried.On the 21st of September, 1916, Doctor Macaulay married ElizabethMcMastee, a daughter of Hugh Rudson and Rosa (Moore) McMastee. Thefather, who is now deceased, was a physician.D. J. HENDERSON, JE. Though not yet thirty-five years of age, D. J. Henderson,Jr., is one of the best known bankers in Irwin County and one of theyoungest bank presidents in Southern Georgia. He is president of the Citizens Bank of Ocilla.Banking has really been his entire career, since he gained his first practicalexperience in business affairs as a boy clerk in a bank at Ocilla. The CitizensBank of Ocilla was organized in 1906 and its first officers were William Hcnderson,president; J. A. Pruett, vice president; and D. J. Henderson, Jr.,cashier.Mr. Henderson was born in Irwin County, Georgia, September 1, 1881,the oldest of three children born to R. L. and Margaret (Young) Henderson.His parents were also natives of Irwin County and both are still living at theage of fifty-five. His father has been a practical farmer for many years.As a boy D. J. Henderson, Jr., attended the local schools of Ocilla, andon leaving school entered the Bank of Ocilla as a minor clerk. He was withthat institution from 1899 to 1906, when the Bank of Ocilla was absorbed inthe new organization, of the Citizens Bank, and he was elected cashier of thenew institution. In 1912 he was further promoted from the cashiership to thevice presidency, and since 1915 he has been president. The Citizens Bank hasa capital stock of $52,000 with surplus of $5,000.Mr. Henderson is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, is a democrat inpolitics and a member of the Baptist Church. On June 28, 1905, he marriedMiss Nellie Dorminey of Fitzgerald, daughter of A. S. Dorminey, who residesin Ben Hill County. To their marriage have been born two children: William Bailey and Martha Eleanor, the former born in 1910 and the latter in1913, both in Ocilla.HON. DAVID EDWARD GRIFFIN. It has been customary to speak of menwho have raised themselves to honorable stations in life without the aid of