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3022 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSintendent of the Sunday school, and for many years was a teacher in thelatter.Judge Krauss was married in 1892 to Miss Sallie McDonald of Reidsville,Georgia, who died without issue August 5, 1893. The judge was again married to Miss Janie Lane Harwell, of Jonesboro, Georgia, daughter of Rev. T.S. Harwell, a prominent Methodist pastor and member of the North GeorgiaConference. She died at Brunswick, Georgia, December 5, 1896, leaving threechildren.- Dorothy Lane, a graduate of Wesleyan College; Willard Webster,who is attending school; and Daniel Lee, also a student. On August 16, 1898,Judge Krauss was married the third time when he united with Mrs. MinnieLee (Harwell) Parker, a sister of his second wife. She is an active memberof the Daughters of the American Revolution and a leading worker in themovements of the Methodist Church and missionary societies.CRANSTON WILIJAMS. One of the progressive young men of Georgia whohas shown both inherent and individual predilection for and facility in thenewspaper business and who is adept in all departments pertaining to the '' artpreservative of all arts," is Cranston Williams, who is the able and populareditor and general manager of the Americus Times-Recorder, a representativedaily paper published at Americus, the judicial center of Sumter County.As a newspaper man Mr. Williams has done a large amount of work-that hashad important bearing in furthering the interests of his native state, and hetakes just pride in reverting to the fact that he was born and reared inGeorgia, where he stands as a scion of old and honored families of this favoredcommonwealth of the fair Southland.Mr. Williams was born in the City of Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia,on the 28th of July, 1895, and is a son of James Cranston Williams andMamie (Gullatt) Williams, both likewise natives of Georgia, and the lattera granddaughter of the late Col. Cornelius H. Haniieter, a well known journalist and historian of Georgia and for many years prominent and influentialin connection with newspaper enterprise in the City of Atlanta. James C.Williams has devoted the greater part of his active life to journalism and isone of its prominent exponents in Georgia, where he is also an influentialfigure in political and general civic life. He is now editor of the GreensboroHerald-Journal, at Greensboro, Greene County, and has won marked prestige in journalistic circles in his native state. As a prominent representativeof the democratic party he was a presidential elector from Georgia in theelection of 1912, and thus had a part in marking the triumph of PresidentWilson, the nation's present chief executive. As elector he represented theEighth Congressional District of the state.Cranston Williams gained his rudimentary education in the public schoolsat Washington, Wilkes County, and later continued his studies in the publicschools of Crawfordsville and Greensboro, in which latter city he was graduated in the high school as a member of the class of 1911. In the autumn ofthe same year he entered Emory College, at Oxford, in which institution hecontinued his studies through the autumn term of 1915, when the impairedhealth of his father caused him to withdraw, shortly before the time ofgraduation.When a lad of but six years Mr. Williams gained his novitiate into themysteries of the printing business, as he entered his father's newspaper officeand began to familiarize himself with "the case" and other intricacies of thebusiness. He served a most thorough apprenticeship as a printer and pressman and learned all other mechanical details of the printing business, andprior to entering college he had given effective service in handling business,advertising and circulation details of his father's paper, besides contributingto its editorial and news subject-matter. He has served many Southernpapers as a special writer, and in 1915, after having held a position in the