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iGEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 2957In 1904 he accepted a position as teacher in the technological department ofthe Boys' High School at Atlanta, and from that time to the present hasbeen identified with this work, in 1906 becoming the head of the department.-In 1909, when, the technological department was divorced from the Boys'High School and converted into an independent branch, the present titlewas assumed, the Technological High School. The remarkable developmentof this school as a most helpful agent in the field of industrial science, hasbeen very largely due to the ability and perseverance of Professor, Culver,and due credit is given him by the citizens of Atlanta., Through his energetic methods the school has been well advertised and that its aim andobjects are appreciated may be to some extent judged by the enrollmentof the full quota of 700 boys for instruction for the school year of 1915-16.The necessary equipment for a school of this kind entails a large expenditureof school money, but the admirable results that have accrued from affording toyouths a systematic knowledge of the industrial arts are full justification forany expenditure. In retaining Professor Culver as the head of such aschool, the people of Atlanta have shown much wisdom.On December 29, 1908, Professor Culver was united in marriage withMiss Leontine Day, who is a daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Cornelia(Chisholm) Day, all being natives and residents of Atlanta. The Dayfamily belongs to the pioneer period at Atlanta. For many years the grandfather of Mrs. Culver, Samuel Ward Day, was a well known business manof this city, and there may be among the older residents those who rememberhim as the owner of the fish market that was located on the corner ofWhitehall and Wall streets, once a busy business center.To Professor and Mrs. Culver one son has been born, Milton TaylorCulver, born April 16, 1910. 'They are active members of the MethodistEpiscopal Church.Professor Culver is identified with numerous educational bodies, belongsto the National Educational Association, and is president of the AtlantaTeachers' Association. Fraternally he is a Mason and a Knight of Pythias.Of Revolutionary ancestry, he is a thorough American in his aims and ideals,and is a type of the wholesome young manhood that exemplifies the highestand best in good citizenship.HON. CLIFFORD MITCHEL.L WALKER. The election in 1914 of CliffordMitchell Walker to the high office of attorney general of the State ofGeorgia, made manifest the encouraging fact that the people are wideawake to their interests and that they demand not only ability in a candidate, but also the wholesome virtues which sustain; character and givepromise of conscientious performance of public duty. Born of parentsin comfortable although not affluent circumstances, he was early taughtthe value of self-reliance and has never ceased cherishing the democraticideals which endear him to those who associate with him in everyday lifeand which attract the interest and consideration of the great body of hisfellow citizens in county and state.Clifford Mitchell Walker was born July 4, 1877, at Monroe, Georgia,and is a son of Billington Sanders and Alice (Mitchell) Walker. Hisfather, a lawyer, banker and manufacturer, but never a politician, is yetan honored resident of Monroe, where he was born April 6, 1852. He isa son of Hon. Dickerson H. Walker, once an attorney of great prominenceand a capable and successful business man as well, who, in his early practice was appointed solicitor general for the Western Circuit, and laterwas made judge of the County Court. AVhen the war between the statescame on, Judge Walker raised a company in Walton County for the Confederate service, of which he was made captain, and after his company wasmustered in he was promoted, becoming lieutenant-colonel of the regiment.Vol. VI 12