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3018 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSJAMES A. DIXON. The professions of the law from their present standingand relation to society have a marked and unquestionable influence on themoral, civil and political affairs of the world. For this reason the reputablelawyer is always found among the foremost citizens of a community andthrough his activities aiding its growth and development in many ways.Among this class, one to be found at Millen, in JenMns County, is James A.Dixon. Mr. Dixon has been engaged in practice at Millen since 1904, andduring this time has advanced to a high position in his calling, his exaltedprofessional standing being evidenced by his incumbency at this time of theoffice of president of the Jenkins County Bar Association.Mr. Dixon was born in Emanuel County, Georgia, July 20, 1879, on thehomestead plantation, and is a descendant of a well known and highly honored family of Eastern Georgia. His father, A. H. Dixon, was born in GlasscockCounty, Georgia, in 1857, and as a young man moved to Emanuel County,where he engaged in farming and planting and where he still makes his homeat the age of fifty-eight years. There he was married to Miss Sarah Durden,a native of Emanuel County, who survives at the age of fifty-five years, andthey became the parents of ten children, of whom James A. is the eldest. Thefather is a man of industry and perseverance, who has made his- own way inthe world and attained independence and substantial position. While hehas not sought public preferment at the hands of his fellow-citizens, he hasheld an honorable place in the community* and has been an encouraging andhelpful factor'in progressive and beneficial movements.James A. Dixon laid the foundation for his education in the Young-HarrisSchool, of North Georgia, and after his graduation therefrom pursued anacademic course at the University of Tennessee and was duly graduated withthe class of 1901. He then began his legal studies under the preceptorshipand in the office of Colonel Sapp, a well known legist of Swainsboro, Georgia,and in 1903 was admitted to practice. During one year he remained atSwainsboro, and in 1904 came to Millen, where he has since carried on a general practice in all the courts. Industry, guided by intelligence and sustainedby unwavering firmness of purpose, has been Mr. Dixon's guiding star. Apractice which covers such broad lines as does his requires an intuitive spiritof comprehension, an innate sagacity, and power of persuasion, and all thesehe possesses in generous degree, together with the ability to place facts in apoint of view favorable to his client without recourse to misrepresentation.In 1905 Mr. Dixon was elected by his fellow-citizens to the position of solicitor of the city courts of Millen, and continued to capably and energeticallydischarge the duties of that position until 1911. Likewise he served the cityas a member of the board of alderman for three years, and in every movementfor progress and advancement has contributed freely of his abilities, timeand means. He belongs to> the Jenkins County Bar Association, where hisfellow-members hold him in high esteem, and in 1914 was elected to the presidency of this body, still retaining that position. He also belongs to the GeorgiaState Bar Association, and fraternally his connections include membership inthe Masons, in which he has attained his master's degree, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Dixon has always given his unswerving support to democratic candidates and policies. With his family he belongs to theBaptist Church.In June, 1904, Mr. Dixon was married to Miss Mary Brown, daughter ofCapt. and Mrs. F. C. Brown, of Swainsboro, where the ceremony was performed. Mrs. Dixon died in March, 1911, leaving two children: Mary Louise,born in 1905, at Swainsboro, who is now attending the Millen public school;and James Austin, born in November, 1910, at Millen.GEN. DUNCAN L. CLINCH, who for the last thirty years of his life was acitizen of Georgia, was born at Ard-Lamont, Edgecombe County, North