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3024 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSthe war and captain of his company at the inception of the war. His regimentwas a part of the command of General Bragg and with it he participated in .many engagements, including a number of the important battles marking theprogress of the great struggle between the states of the South and the North.In a conflict near Chickamauga he was wounded, but he soon resumed hiaplace with his regiment and continued in service until the close of the war.Judge Pottle passed the closing period of his life at Macon, Bibb County, anddied in 1886, in Micanopy, Florida, at the age of sixty-three years, his widowbeing called to eternal rest in 1888, at the age of forty years. Of their children*the eldest is Joseph E., who is a representative member of the bar of Milledgeville,Baldwin County, and who recently resigned as solicitor general for theOcmulgee circuit; Mina P. is the wife of A. H. Hodges, of Bulloch County;and Judge J. R., immediate subject of this review, is the youngest of thechildren.To the public schools of Warrenton, Judge Pottle is indebted for his preliminary educational discipline, which was supplemented by a course of studyin the college at Milledgeville, in which he was graduated when but sixteenyears of age. For the ensuing four years he was a successful teacher in thepublic schools, and in the meanwhile he gave close attention also to the studyof law. He soon fortified himself in the learning of the law and in 1896proved himself eligible for and was admitted to the bar of his native state.He was favored in being then appointed a law clerk for the Georgia SupremeCourt, of which position he continued the incumbent nine years, during whichhe had exceptional opportunities for furthering his knowledge of the scienceof jurisprudence, the incidental discipline being of most valuable order.In 1905 Judge Pottle engaged in the independent practice of his professionat Blakely, Early County, where he developed a large law business and wherehe continued his residence until 1912. In 1912 he was appointed judge ofthe Court of Appeals of Early County, and at the ensuing general electionhe was duly elected to this office. He continued Kis effective service on thebench for a period of two years, at the expiration of which he resigned thepost and removed to the City of Albany, Dougherty County, where he hassince continued in active general practice and where he has precedence asone of the leading members of the bar of the Albany judicial circuit. The judgeis an active and appreciative member of the Georgia State Bar Association, theAmerican Bar Association, and the Dougherty County Bar Association. JudgePottle gives the stanchest of allegiance to the democratic party and has givenyeoman service in the furtherance of its cause. He is affiliated with theMasonic fraternity, including the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of theMystic Shrine, and ig identified also with the Knights of Pythias andthe Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a 1 valued member of theCountry Club at Albany and both he and his wife are earnest members ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church, South.In the City of Macon, Georgia, on the 19th of April, 1915, was solemnizedthe marriage of Judge Pottle to Miss Nell Johnston, daughter of Dr. H. L.Johnston, of Palmetto, Campbell County, and she is a popular factor in therepresentative social activities of the City of Albany. By a former marriageJudge Pottle has two children Roland, who was born in Burke County, in1893, and who attended Emory College; and Virginia, who was born in theCity of Atlanta, and who is now attending St. Mary's College at Raleigh,North Carolina.L. L. FORD. Through distinctive ability and ambitious and resolute purpose it has been given to Mr. Ford to gain precedence as one of the representative younger members of the bar of his native state and he is establishedin the successful practice of his profession at Albany, the judicial center ofDougherty County. "With characteristic diligence and circumspection, he