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2936 GEORGIA' AND GEORGIANSof the Georgia Educational Association1 and for many years has been aleading member of similar bodies of a national and Southern scope. He isthe author of numerous addresses and of several bills which have had animportant bearing on the progress of education in Georgia.W. C. TIPTON, M. D. A representative of the medical profession in WorthCounty who has risen to a position of prominence by reason of his superiorability and high professional attainments is Dr. W. C. Tipton, who has wonthe unqualified confidence of a wide practice and has been a factor1 in socialand political affairs. Doctor Tipton is now chief surgeon for the Hawkinsvilleand Florida Southern Railway at Sylvester, and in addition to his extensiveprivate practice he owns and operates a fine farm in "Worth County.He was born in Worth County, February 19, 1882, and thus his professional career has been centered in the same locality where he spent his earlyyouth. His parents are Charles Greenherry and Sarah Frances (Ridley)Tipton, his father a native of Dooly and his mother of Worth County, Georgia,and now living in Worth County, the former at the age of sixty-eight and thelatter at sixty-six. Charles G. Tipton during his early career was a teacherand fftr twelve years served as clerk of court for Worth County, since whichtime he has been engaged in farming. The parents had seven children: JamesHarrison, born in 1874; Alice D., born in 1876; John Leonard David, born in1878; Delia Frances, born in 1879; Dr. Walter Charles, who was fifth in orderof birth; Benjamin Wallace Nicholas, born in 1884, and Thomas, who died atthe age of three months. All the children were born in Worth County.As a boy Doctor Tipton attended the public schools of Isabella, Sumner andSylvester. Later he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons atAtlanta, and from there transferred to the Atlanta School of Medicine, wherehe was graduated M. D. in 1908. He at once returned to Sylvester and almostfrom the start has enjoyed a paying and'promising private practice. He isnow serving as county physician of Worth County, is' a former secretary ofthe Worth County Medical Society, and belongs to the State Society and theAmerican Medical Association. He is a Baptist and in politics a democrat.On December 20, 1911, at Sylvester Doctor Tipton married Miss EllenCalvada Godwin, daughter of F. K. and Blauch Godwin, who came fromNorth Carolina and are still living in Worth County, Georgia. Doctor andMrs. Tipton have two children: Walter Charles, Jr., born January 27, 1913;and Margaret Joyce, born January 30, 1915. Both the children are natives ofSylvester.L. D. PASSMORE. Of the men who have attained eminence in the legalprofession in Worth County through the medium of their own talents andindustry, one of the best known is L. D. Passmore, who has been engaged inpractice at Sylvester for more than fifteen years. At an early period of hisprofessional career he was fortunate in securing the confidence and esteemof those engaged in large affairs, and this he has always retained. No interests have been so important that those concerned with their management havehesitated to commit them to him, when the occasion has arisen, either forcounsel or the assertion or defense of their rights in the courts. Also, Mr.Passmore is widely known as a friend of education and as a progressive promoter of its best interests. Indeed, it was in an educational capacity that hefirst came to Sylvester, and since that time he has never lost interest in thework that makes for efficient training of the young.L. D. Passmore was born in Taylor County, Georgia, August 23, 1868, andis a son of G. A. and Rebecca (Moore) Passmore, natives of the Cracker state.His father was born in the County of Macon and was reared on a plantation,so that he became imbued with the atmosphere of agricultural work, and whenhe reached manhood adopted it as his vocation in life. He was sixteen years