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3032 GEORGIA AND GBOEGIANSand, coming to Blakely, secured a position as bookkeeper. This work engagedhis attention until his election to the office of ordinary, June 9, 1915, a position which he has since filled very satisfactorily. Judge Lane is a democratin his political views, but does not let party affiliation interfere with his eonductof his office. He is fraternally identified with the local lodges of theMasons, the Woodmen of the World and the Modern Woodmen of America,in all of which he has numerous friends. With Mrs. Lane, he attends theBaptist Church.Judge Lane was married in Early County, August 9, 1914, to Miss HattieLee George, daughter of L. J. and Ella (Mann) George, well known residentsof Early County. Judge and Mrs. Lane live in their own handsome homeat Blakely.THOMAS T. JAMES. That the elements of success are intrinsic in the individual person has been distinctively shown in the career of Thomas ThayerJames, who gained through his own resources a fine academic and professional education, who proved himself a popular and effective exponent ofthe pedagogic profession, from which he retired to win new and greaterhonors in the legal profession, of which he is a leading representative atLumpkin, the judicial center of Stewart County. He is a man of virilemental and physical powers, is genial, direct and whole-souled and while hehas gained definite precedence as a resourceful and versatile attorney andcounselor at law, his personality has in itself brought to him the fullestmeasure of popularity. As one of the loyal and public-spirited citizens and.representative lawyers of Stewart County he is well entitled to recognitionin this publication.Mr. James was born in Sampson County, North Carolina, on the llth ofJanuary, 1868, and is a scion of an old and honored family of that state.He is a son of Oliver Perry James and Eliza (McArthur) James, both likewise natives of Sampson County, where the father devoted his active life toagricultural pursuits, as one of the representative planters of his nativecounty.He whose name initiates this review early manifested a determined ambition to acquire a liberal education and this ambition was one of appreciativeapplication during the course of his preliminary studies as well as through hishigher academic and professional training. He finally was enabled to enterTrinity College at Trinity, North Carolina, and after removal from Trinityto Durham had the distinction of being a member of the first class to begraduated, that of 1893, in which year he received his degree of Bachelor ofArts. While in college he was an enthusiastic supporter of and participantin its athletic affairs, and as a young man of superior physical powers andmuch alertness, he gained high reputation for his prowess on the football gridiron while at Trinity, as a representative of the team of which institution hetook a prominent part in the first football game played in the City of Atlanta,where Trinity College boys won a decisive victory over the football squad ofAuburn, Alabama. Mr. James still retains much of his athletic power andtakes lively interest in the wholesome outdoor sports.During his senior year at Trinity College, Mr. James gave as much attention as possible to the study of law, under the preceptorship of Hon. AlphonseC. Avery, a justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. After hisgraduation he devoted about eight years to successful work as a teacher, inwhich line of professional endeavor his services were rendered at Riehlandsand Liberty, North Carolina. In the meanwhile he vigorously continued hisstudy of the science of jurisprudence, and in 1896 he established his residenceat Rochelle, Wilcox County, Georgia, where he taught school one year, atthe expiration of which he accepted the position of superintendent of thepublic schools of Lumpkin, Stewart County. After giving four years of