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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 2979loyally for the success of tie democratic party in the principles of which hehas always believed. In 1898 he had become so well known and popular inGreene County that he was elected to the State Legislature and served honorably and efficiently in that body for four years or two terms. Subsequentlyhe was elected to the highest municipal office at Greensboro, and, as mayor ofthis city administered its affairs with wisdom and economy. In 1910 he wasstill further honored by being elected to the Circuit bench, hisre-election following in 1914. As a judge he has been able, dignified andjust, his decisions have been marked with firm resolution and founded uponsound law and his whole judicial career has demonstrated the wisdom ofplacing upon the bench men of strength, of character, of high ideals and ofincorruptible sense of public duty.Judge Park was married, in 1880, at Greensboro, to Miss Anna M. Poullain, a daughter of the late Junius Poullain, and to this marriage have beenborn five daughters and one son: Noel P., who is a graduate of the University of Georgia, is married and has one child, the other children being HallieB.; Maria Poullain, who is the wife of Henry B. Harris and they have onechild, Anne; Celeste M., who, like her older sister, is a graduate of Lucy CobbCollege, is a teacher in the public schools; Marion McHenry, who is now astudent of the Lucy Cobb College, resides at home; and Katherine B., whodied at Greensboro, when aged twenty years.Judge Park is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is interested in local enterprises and is a director of the Mary-Leilar Cotton Millsat Greensboro. He belongs to the county and state bar associations and findsrecreation with some of the social organizations of city and section. He isone of the progressive citizens of Greene County and has at all times taken agreat interest in developing the agricultural interest of his section. Thepeople of the county have the greatest confidence in him and have honoredhim many times by electing him to many offices of trust and he has alwaysbeen loyal to their interest.A. E. MASSENGALE. Born at' Norwood, the judicial center of WarrenCounty, on the 22d of June, 1873, Mr. Massengale is far from being "without honor save in his own country,'' as indicated by the fact that he is serving as the efficient and popular county clerk of his native county, a preferment that shows the estimate placed upon him as a man and as an executive of excellent qualifications for the position of which he is now the incumbent. He is a son of Theodore E. and Sally (Rush) Massengale, the formerof whom was born in McDuffie County, this state, and the latter in TalbotCounty. The father eventually became a representative merchant and prominent citizen of Norwood, Warren County, where he still maintains his home,his sixty-seventh birthday anniversary having occurred in 1915. The motherof him whose name initiates this article died in 1891, at the age of forty-threeyears. Of the seven children three are now living, of whom A. E. of thissketch is the eldest; Miss Maude Massengale is a popular teacher in the publicschools of Madison, Morgan County; and Mrs. Annie Laurie Cook resides atMaxeys, Oglethorpe County. Another of the children who attained to maturity was Col. L. R. Massengale, who was a prominent member of the bar ofWarrenton, where he met an accidental death in 1911, while attending a ballgame. The father was a youthful and gallant soldier of the Confederacy inthe war between the states. He enlisted when a lad of sixteen years and tookpart in many of the engagements in and about the City of Atlanta, his servicecontinuing until the close of the war. He is not only an honored and appreciative member of the United Confederate Veterans but has further shownhis abiding interest in his old comrades through having been, while a memberof the Georgia Senate, the bill which, as enacted, made provision for theGeorgia homes for Confederate veterans.