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GEORGIA AND GEOKGIANS 3033specially effective service in this responsible position he resigned the same,for the purpose of engaging in the active practice of law, his admission tothe bar having taken place in 1902. At Lumpkin he soon made his influencefelt as an able trial lawyer and well fortified counselor, and in addition togaining a substantial private law business he was appointed, in 1910, to theoffice of solicitor of the city courts, an office of which he continued the incumbent until it was abolished in 1912. His law practice is now one of substantial and important order and marks him as one of the leaders at the barof Stewart County. He has never abated his interest in educational mattersand is now president of the Board of Education at Lumpkin. He is a memberof the directorate of the Bank of Lumpkin, for which he is attorney also, andnear his home city he owns and operates a well improved and valuable plantation of 400 acres.The political allegiance of Mr. James is given to the democratic party andhe is an ardent and effective advocate of its principles ^and policies, though hehas considered his profession worthy of his undivided* fealty and has had noambition for the activities of the political arena. He is affiliated with theMasonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias, his religious faith is that ofthe Universalist Church, and his wife and children hold membership in theMethodist Episcopal Church, South.The 10th of August, 1897, recorded the marriage of Mr. James to MissFleta Strickland, who was born and reared in Cumberland County, NorthCarolina, and who is a daughter of Edgar L. and Mary (Geddie) Strickland,her mother having died at Steadman, Sampson County, North Carolina, andher father having later settled in Wileox County, Georgia, where he engagedin turpentine operations and where he continued his residence until his death.Mr. and Mrs. James have three children, all of whom were born at Lumpkinand all of whom remain at the parental home, their names and respectivedates of birth being here indicated: Mary Marvin, April 17,. 1899; ThomasThayer, Jr., June 13, 1904; and Edgar Perry, October 14, 1906.L. W. HODGES, M. D. Of the medical men who have lent stability anddignity to professional affairs in the new County of Barrow, none is betterknown than Dr. L. W. Hodges, who for eighteen years has been engaged inpractice at Winder. During this time he has not only built up a large andimportant professional business, but has attained high standing among hisfellow practitioners, as attested by the positions of honor he has been calledupon to fill.Doctor "Hodges was born June 2, 1876, in Oconee County, Georgia, andis a son of Thomas and Amanda (Cogvon) Hodges, the former a native ofGeorgia and the latter of Alabama. Mrs. Hodges was brought to Georgiaby her parents when she was a child, the family settling in Clarke County,where she met and married Mr. Hodges. During his younger years Mr.Hodges was engaged in farming in Clarke County, and subsequently movedto Oeonee County, where he was living when the Civil war broke out. Heenlisted from that county for service in the Confederate army, and for atime was stationed at the armory located at Athens, but later was sent to thefront, and toward the close of the war participated in the battle of Butlerville,Georgia. He escaped wounds and was never captured by the enemy,and his military record was a very honorable one. On his return from thearmy he again took up farming in Oconee County, where he lived for someyears, but later removed to Winder, where, in connection with agriculturalpursuits, he embarked in mercantile lines. His death occurred at Winder in1887, when he was sixty years of age, Mrs. Hodges surviving until May 10,1908, when she passed away aged seventy-four years. There were twelvechildren in the family, of whom L. W. was the youngest.L. W. Hodges attended the graded and high schools of Winder, being