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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3003schools, and when he graduated in 1889 from the Georgia Military Collegeat Milledgeville Ite took the first honors of his class and during his senior yearwas captain of a cadet corps. On returning to Atlanta he became identifiedwith the R. 0. Campbell Coal Company, and with the death of his brothersucceeded to the presidency of the corporation. The R. 0. Campbell CoalCompany is the largest of its kind in the Southeast, engaged both in thewholesale and retail trade in coal and building materials. It owns and operates extensive coal mining interests and handles nearly 1,000,000 tons of coalannually. The general offices of the company are located in the Trust Company of. Georgia Building, Atlanta.The N. P. Pratt Laboratory, of which Mr. Campbell is also president, isa large Atlanta corporation engaged in the manufacture of carbonic acid gas,epsom. salts and other drugs and .chemicals. In addition Mr. Campbell isvice president of the Campbell Coal Mining Company; vice president of theWestbourne Coal Company; treasurer of the Redfeather Coal Company; treasurer of the High Cliff Coal Company; treasurer of the Blue Diamond CoalCompany; president of the Redfeather Sales Company; vice president ofthe Starbourne Coal Company; and director of the Atlantic Steel Company.In all his multifarious duties he has shown a grasp of business affairsthat has been a valuable asset to all the concerns with which he is connected,and has made his name prominent in business and commercial circles beyondthe limits of his home state. Mr. Campbell is a member of the Atlanta RotaryClub, is a Knight Templar Mason, and an elder and clerk of session of theCentral Presbyterian Church. He has served on the jury commission of Fulton County for fifteen years past. When he began service on that commission he was the youngest member who had ever served on it.April 19, 1904, Mr. Campbell married Miss Laura Graflin Berry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Berry of Rome, Georgia. They are the parents ofone child. Virginia^ Orme Campbell, aged nine years.CLIFFORD GBUBBS. During the past twenty years one of the leading educators and moulders of public opinion in Worth County has been the WorthCounty Local, the editor and publisher of which is Clifford Grubbs. WhenMr. Grubbs took over the ownership of this sheet it had but little standingin the community, having been mismanaged by its former owners, but fromthe time of his arrival at Sylvester the paper began to nourish and develop.It is now one of the best advertising mediums to be found in the county,because of its large circulation, and in the development of the community isdaily playing its part. In addition to being the directing head of this paper,Mr. Grubbs is connected with a number of other enterprises and is a citizenwho has always helped his city grow.Clifford Grubbs was born in Marion County, Georgia, April 20, 1868, andis a son of Charles E. and Eunice I. (King) Grubbs, natives of WebsterCounty, Georgia. His father was a lad of sixteen years when the war betweenthe states broke out, and as he could not secure parental consent to enlist heran away from home and managed to gain admission into a Georgia infantryregiment, with which he served during the latter part of the war. At theclose of that struggle he returned to his home and resumed his studies, on thecompletion of which he turned his attention to educational work, a field inwhich he continued to labor during the remaining years of his life. At various times he had schools in Marion, Webster, Randolph and Terrell counties,and was known as one of this section's most popular and efficient educators.He died in 1913, at the age of sixty-eight years. While he was not a man whocourted public attention, he was always known as a citizen who did his fullshare in assisting good movements, of any character, and those who knewhim held him in the highest esteem for his many sterling qualities of mindand heart. Mrs. Grubbs, who was a lady of education and talents, died in