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2938 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSenced in municipal affairs as a former alderman. Mr. Jones is now justifying the confidence of his fellow citizens in his very able administration oflocal affairs.For twenty years he has practiced law with exceptional success in CrispCounty and through practically all this time has been associated with Sen.D. A. Ji. Crum, under the firm name of Cruin & Jones.Born on his father's plantation near Mountville, Troup County, Georgia,September 20, 1870, James Gordon Jones is a son of James F. and Aaraminta(Seay) Jones. His father spent all his active career as a farmer and planterand has been well and widely known in Troup County. During the war hewas major in a regiment of Georgia infantry. His wife was born in MeriwetherCounty, Georgia. Their eight children were: William M., who formany years has been an extensive farmer in Texas and California; JamesGordon; and E. A. Jones, a lawyer at La Grange in Troup County; Mrs. J. W.Darden and Mrs. C. J. Daniel, of Hogansville, Troup County; and three deceased children were Mrs. F. P. Ayers, Hugh M. and Julia.Reared on his father's plantation, James Gordon Jones after leaving theHogansville High School went out to California, where he lived for fouryears, and on his return to Georgia completed his law studies and M'as admitted to the bar at La Grange May 8, 1895. On April 6, 1908, he was admittedto practice in the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Jones began hisactive career as a lawyer at Cordele in July, 1896, and at once formed a partnership with Mr. Cram. This firm during fifteen years of successful practice has enjoyed a splendid business, and has largely specialized in corporation law. The firm has served as division counsel for the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad Company, as district counsel for the Georgia Southwestern & Gulf Railroad Company, and also for the Southern Bell Telephone& Telegraph Company.On April 7, 1897, Mr. Jones married Miss Annie Lou Paul of Eastman,Dodge County, Georgia. Her parents were W. E. and Fannie (Childs) Paul.Their children are: Vannie, born June 12, 1899, and died October 28, 1902;Gordon, born April 7, 1903; Susie Pearl, born August 7, 1905; and Edwin L.,born January 7, 1907.LTJCIUS LAMAR WOODWARD was not yet twenty-one years of agewhen he was admitted to practice, and the qualities of independentthought, vigorous intellectual application, and a keen and ready withave served him well during his professional work covering almost twentyyears. He has spent these years profitably and honorably in his' home townof Vienna, where he is regarded as one of the foremost lawyers in this circuit.He was born in Dooly County, Georgia, May 5, 1879, a son of John Hartwelland Nancy Barmelia (McCormick) Woodward. His father, the venerableJudge John Hartwell Woodward, who was born January 7, 1831, and is nowat the venerable age of eighty-six, has had many distinctions in the course ofhis long life. Born in South Carolina, he came to Dooly County when only aboy. His parents were Stephen and Jane (Barnett) Woodward, who abouta year after the birth of their son moved to Alabama, and five years later cameto Georgia, locating about seven miles south of Macon in Bibb County. In 1863they moved to Dooly County, and Judge Woodward has had his home therenow for more than fifty years. He accepted the generosity of Capt. RobertA. Smith and began reading law in the latter's office, and was admitted to thebar in January, 1873. He did not engage in practice for some time, and themention of that brings up an old and almost forgotten prejudice, but onewhich not a great many years ago still prevailed. Many believed that agentleman might not engage in the practice of law or kindred professions andcontinue to hold his rank as gentleman. The good sense of Judge Woodwardcame to his rescue, and he applied himself to the practice of his profession,