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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 2969teaching in North Carwiina, he came to Georgia as the principal of the publichigh school of Athens, %nd after one year he resigned his position to becomesuperintendent of the public schools of Dawson. In 1893 he became presidentof Union Female! Cgllege at Eufaula, Alabama, and after five years acceptedthe presidency or Shorter College, at Rome, Georgia, which position he filledfrom 1898 to 19,10. During the twelve years of his administration Shorterrose from the rank of a small college of rather local influence to that ofone of the few really important institutions for the higher education of womenin the South. In January, 1910, he bought an interest in Brenau College,Gainesville,- Georgia,, under the agreement that at the end of the scholasticyear he would become joint president with the former owner of Brenau, Dr.H. J. Pearce. That institution has since been brought to a high standardas a college for the higher education of women.J. HAMILTON LEWIS, United States senator from Illinois since 1913, andwidely known as a lawyer, democrat and public man, is a Virginian by birth,but he moved to Augusta, Georgia, before taking courses at Houghton Collegeand the University of Virginia. He studied law 'in Savannah and was admitted to the bar in 1884. In 1886 he located at Seattle, Washington, wherehe became very prominent as a democrat, went to Congress and in 1900 wasindorsed by the Pacific Coast delegates to the national convention for the vicepresidency. He became a resident of Chicago in 1903, and his subsequentprominence has been in connection with the politics and public affairs ofIllinois.CARL B. WELCH, M. D. Realizing that in an age of specialization themost satisfying success is being attained by those who devote themselvesto a particular field rather than to a general participation in the activitiesof their calling, Dr. Carl B. Welch, of Tifton, is rapidly gaining a placeof prominence as a specialist in the treatment and cure of diseases of theeye, ear, nose and throat. We are very far removed in more than time fromthe state of things when the practitioner of medicine was regarded largelyas a bombastic quack, and it is now becoming a generally accepted ideathat many diseases, particularly those of the eye, ear, nose and throat, demandthe expert knowledge of the man who has given his study and labors unreservedly to this field of medical practice. Of this class Doctor Welch isbecoming a leading representative.Doctor Welch was born September 28, 1885, in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, and is a son of Dr.' J. M. and M. M. (Wood) Welch. He comes naturallyfay his predilection for the medical profession, his father having been forthirty years one of the best known physicians and surgeons of TallapoosaCounty, Alabama, where he still resides, in active practice, at the age ofsixty-one years. He has long been recognized as an influential member ofhis community and a leader in movements which have contributed to thepublic welfare and health. Mrs. Welch (his mother) like her husband,is a native of Alabama, and is now fifty-two years. Both are highly regardedin their community as people of culture and refinement whose home is thescene of many social events. They are the parents of three children, namely:Dr. E. B., practicing dentistry in Lafayette, Alabama; Dr. Carl B., andL. L., a resident of Roanoke, Alabama.Carl B. Welch attended the public schools of his native county, andearly in life showed an interest in matters pertaining to medicine. Laterhe attended the Roanoke Normal College, from which he was duly graduatedin 1901, and then entered upon his medical studies at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Atlanta. Graduated from that institution with hisdiploma in 1906, he began practice at Albertville, Alabama, where heremained for something more than six years, in 1913 changing his field of