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2928 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSwas born in Wilkinson County, a daughter of Archibald McCallum, and shedied when the doctor was a child of four years. The doctor was the fourth ofthe five children, all sons, of Alexander and Addie (McCallum) Dawson, andthe father ultimately contracted a second marriage, by his union with MaggieHorn, who likewise is deceased. Of the five children of the first union John E.and James are deceased, and the three who survive are Doctor Dawson of thissketch; Homer, who is a resident of Atlanta and who holds the position oflocomotive engineer on the Western and Atlantic Railroad; and McCallum,who is a retired bookkeeper and a resident of Poplar Springs, Dekalb County.Of the children of the second marriage three are living, Cornelia, who is thewife of Samuel II. Hape, of Hapeville, Fulton County; Miss Leanna, whomaintains her home in Atlanta; and Anna Belle, who is the wife of Robert P.Malier, of Andersonville, this state.Dr. Dawson was a lad of about ten years at the time of the family removalfrom Wilkiiison County to Atlanta, and in this city he has maintained hishome during the long intervening years. Here he was afforded the advantages of an excellent private school, in which he completed his academic education, and on the 4th of March, 1891, he was graduated in the Southern Medical College in Atlanta, from which admirable institution he received hisdegree of Doctor of Medicine. He has since given his close attention to thegeneral practice of medicine and surgery and has at all times kept abreastwith the advances made along professional lines, an effective post-graduatecourse having been completed by him in the New York Polyclinic, in 1896,and careful study being given to the best standard and periodical literatureof his profession. Definite technical and material success has attended theefforts of Doctor Dawson, who controls a substantial and important practice,and his prosperity has been augmented, his good judgment manifested throughhis investment in Atlanta real estate, besides which he is the owne'r of a wellimproved farm near Silver Lake, Dekalb County, this property being situatedtwelve miles distant from Atlanta. To this country estate he has given thename of Silver Springs, owing to its having fine springs of the purest crystalwater. The doctor takes great interest in this rural estate and his intentionis to develop the same into a model demesne which shall ultimately constitutehis permanent home. The springs on the place give a water of fine medicinaland remedial qualities, and the purity and sparkle of the water make it idealfor table use, so that there is all of opportunity for the doctor to develop aprofitable enterprise in the bottling and sale of the product.Dr. Dawson is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, is a stanch democratin his political proclivities and his religious faith is that of the BaptistChurch. lie is identified with the Fulton County Medical Society, the Georgia State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He hasthus far permitted his name to be continuously enrolled upon the list of eligible bachelors in the capital city of his native state. .JOHN BROADUS NORMAN. Although one of the younger members of thelegal profession in Ben Hill Countj^, J. Broadus Norman has alreadyattained an established position in its ranks, his years seeming no bar to hisability. In fact there is so much more demanded of the law graduate of thepresent than in years past that the young legist enters upon his work wellequipped to meet its arduous and responsible duties, and in his short periodof practice Mr. Norman has won the confidence of the public and the patronage of a large and representative clientele.Mr. Norman was born in Warren County, Georgia, October 29, 1891, andis a son of Jesse Mercer and Ella (Hawes) Norman. The Norman family isa large and prominent one of Wilkes and Warren counties, Georgia, but originated in Virginia, from whence came the grandparents of Mr. Norman,William B. and Sarah (Jackson) Norman. The grandfather, a large planter