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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 2797*Judge Colley is a native of Georgia and is a scion of a family that wasfounded in this commonwealth of the Union more than a century and aquarter ago.At La Grange, Troup County, Georgia, Judge frank H. Colley was bornon the 27th .of June, 1848, and he is a son of Henry F. and Isabella M.(Harris) Colley, both of whom were born and reared in Wilkes County, thisstate, the original representatives of the Colley family in Georgia havingcome to this state from Virginia in 1782.' Francis Colley, grandfather ofhim whose name initiates this review, was for many years a planter and influential citizen of Wilkes County, and with the same line of industrial enterprise the maternal grandfather, Archibald Harris, was actively identifiedafter his removal from Virginia to Georgia. The paternal great-grandfatherof Judge Colley was a patriot soldier in the war of the Revolution, and thesubject of this sketch has in his possession 1