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2798 - GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSpublic library of Washington and is affiliated with the time-honored Masonicfraternity.In September, 1876, was solemnized the marriage of Judge Colley toMiss Kate Toombs, daughter of Gabriel Toombs, of "Washington, whosestately old homestead at Washington is the present abiding place of Judgeand Mrs. Colley. Judge and Mrs. Colley have four children. Misses Marianand Kathleen, both of whom remain at the parental home, were graduated inthe Lucy Cobb Institute and they are popular figures in the representativesocial activities of their native city. Archibald Toombs Colley was graduated in the United States Military Academy, at West Point, and is nowserving as lieutenant of his company in a regiment of the United States Armystation in the Philippine Islands. He wedded Miss Madaline Burgess andthey have one child, Catherine. Carroll Dempsey Colley, the youngest of thechildren, was afforded the. advantages of the University of Georgia, thereafter studied law under the preceptorship of his father and of Judge WilliamWynn, and he was admitted to the bar in 1910. He is now associated inpractice with his father and is one of the representative and popular youngermembers of the bar of Wilkes County. He married Miss Mida Wootten, ofWashington, and they have one son, Frank H., who was born in April, 1915j,and who was named in honor of his paternal grandfather.SAMUEL ALEXANDER, M. D. Medical examiner and a member of the staffof surgeons connected with the Atlantic Coast Line Hospital at Waycross,Dr. Samuel Alexander was born at Creswell, North Carolina, February 10,1891, being the second in a family of five children born to M. M. and Sarah E.(Woodley) Alexander. His parents were both born in North Carolina, andhis father was a merchant at Creswell until his death in 1905 at the age offifty-two. The mother is still living at the age of forty-two. The other fourchildren are Mrs. Mary Spruill, Miss Sarah, M. M. and W. A. Alexander, allof them living at Creswell.Doctor Alexander attended public school at Creswell, Trinity School andthe Trinity Park High School at Durham, continued his' studies in theUniversity of North Carolina for a year or so, and in 1913 graduated Doctorof Medicine from the University of Maryland at Baltimore. He gainedvaluable experience in the Woman's Hospital of Baltimore and in the JamesWalker Memorial Hospital at Wilmington, North Carolina, before acceptinghis present position with the Railway Hospital at Waycross. He has beenengaged in his present duties since February, 1914.He is a member of the County, State and Eleventh District Medical Societies and the American Medical Association. He also belongs to the collegefraternity Kappa Psi and the Theta Nu Epsilon. In politics he is ademocrat. ,HEBEB J. MORTON, M. D. A physician and surgeon whose excellent attainments and definite skill have combined with a specially gracious personalityto gain to him secure place as one of the representative members of his profession in Burke County, Georgia, Doctor Morton is engaged in the practiceof his profession at Waynesboro, the judicial- center of the county, where hehas a substantial and important clientage and is also definitely popular as acultured, progressive and public-spirited citizen.Dr. Heber Jones Morton takes merited satisfaction in adverting to thehistoric Old Dominion State as the place of his nativity and to the fact thathe is a scion of an old and honored family of that commonwealth. He wasborn at Keysville, Charlotte County, Virginia, on the 23d of August; 1884,and is a son of Jacob William Morton and Annie (Jones) Morton. The doctorwas named in honor of his mother's brother, Dr. Heber Jones, who was a distinguished representative of the medical profession and who won special