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3010 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSCollege in 1829. In 1831, while yet on the bench, he was nominated andelected member of Congress from Georgia and served two terms. All his lifehe was profoundly devoted to the interests of the .University of Georgia, amember of its board of trustees and secretary of the board up to the timeof his death.In the intervals of his leisure Judge Clayton indulged in literature, andunder the name of Wrangham Fitz-Ramble published "The Mysterious Picture," which attracted considerable attention at that time, and also published"The Life of David Crockett, by Himself." Aside from these books he wasthe author of many essays and pamphlets.Judge Clayton was one of the original members of the committee thatsecured the charter for the building of the Georgia Railroad, and was amember of its first directory. While in Congress he was very active and madea notable fight upon the United States Bank, which was at that time aburning issue. In. that matter he established his reputation, not only as anable debater, but as an investigator who went to the bottom of the subjectin hand. He voluntarily retired from Congress in 1835, and again confinedhimself to his practice. In 1838 he had an attack of paralysis, from whichhe only partially recovered, and died on the 21st day of June, 1839, at hishome in Athens, Georgia.HON. FRANK GORDON RABB. High on the roll of Jenkins County's ablejurists and legists is found' the name of Hon. Frank Gordon Rabb, than whom,perhaps, there is no one more highly esteemed. A man of fine legal abilities,he possesses also the judicial temperament and mind, and in the office of ordinary has won the unqualified regard and admiration of the public and hisfellow-members of the Jenkins County bar.Judge Rabb was born in Lowndes County, Alabama, July 7, 1877, and isa son of Daniel James and Emma (Woodruff) Rabb. His father was born inAlabama, in 1828, and in young manhood became a planter, a vocation inwhich he was remarkably successful, owning, before the war, thousands ofacres of rich cotton land and hundreds of slaves. When the war came on, hegave his services unhesitatingly to the cause of the Southland, becoming firstlieutenant of Company D, Second Alabama Artillery. He was engaged incoast defense work chiefly, and was first stationed at Mobile, Alabama, whichcity he defended until its surrender. Later he was at Vicksburg, Mississippi,until that city's fall, and his entire services, covering four years, werecrowded with hard fighting. The ravages of war greatly depleted his fortunes,but he returned to his plantation and builded up a generous success, continuing to be actively engaged as a planter until his retirement, in 1894, whenhe removed to Claxton, and there died in 1909, at the age of eighty-one years.Mrs. Rabb was born in Alabama, was there educated, and married Mr. Rabbin June, 1860. Her death occurred at Swainsboro, Georgia, in 1904, whenshe was sixty-seven years of age. There were nine children in the family, of"whom only three survive:.Mrs. J. W. Daniel, who resides at Claxton, Georgia;Mrs. W. H. Harris, also of Claxton; and Judge Frank C., who was the youngest of the family.Frank Gordon Rabb received his early education through private instruction until he was sixteen years of age, at which time he was sent to theAlabama Polytechnic Institute, at Auburn, Alabama. There he remained untilhis junior year, when, impatient to join the army of world's workers, he leftschool and secured employment with the Tennessee Coal and Iron Railway.Company, at Birmingham, Alabama. He worked for four years as a steelworker for this company, and then came to Emanuel County, Georgia, andtook up his residence at Swainsboro where he began school teaching. Duringhis leisure hours he engaged in the study of law, and after two years went toTulsa, Oklahoma, where he also followed educational work for two years, like-