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3036 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSraising in his part of the state, W. H. Lasseter has been a factor in affairsof Dooly County since early youth.He was born on a farm in Pulaski County, Georgia, July 16, 1875, a sonof Isaac S. and Martha (Ham) Lasseter. His father was born in TwiggsCounty and his mother in Dooly County, while the paternal grandfather wasa native of South Carolina. Isaac S. Lasseter, who died in Dooly County,in 1912, served throughout the war between the states as a private in theEighteenth Georgia Infantry, and after the war he became successfullyidentified with farming and with the timber business and except in 1875 wasa resident of Dooly County. The mother is still living at the age of sixty-fouryears.The third in a family of eleven children, Wade H. Lasseter gi ew up on hisfather's farm near Vienna, and at the age of twenty-two he entered EmoryCollege, where he was graduated in 1901. He had the gift of oratory fromearly youth, and his inclinations and abilities showed that he was best fittedfor the law. After two years as a teacher he entered Mercer University atMacon, Georgia, where he was graduated in the law department in 1904.Since then he has been in active practice at Vienna, and in June, 1911, waselected judge of the City Court, an office he held until the court was abolishedin 1913. Judge Lasseter is also known as proprietor of a farm and establishment for the breeding and raising of Duroc-Jersey swine and shorthorn beefcattle and has succeeded in introducing some of the purest blood in thoselines into his district of Georgia.He is a democrat, was nominated for the Legislature in 1916, is chairmanof the local board of education, a member of the County Bar Association, andfraternally is a Royal Arch Mason and also affiliated with the Knights ofPythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the IndependentOrder of Odd Fellows. On November 1, 1903, in Dooly County he marriedMiss Eva Penny, daughter of Judge Z. T. Penny. They are the parents oftwo children: Bill, born at Vienna in 1905 and attending school; and Mollie,born in 1910., HERBERT A. PEACOCK. The very discipline that fits a man for the legalprofession has also a concomitant influence in making him specially eligiblefor the directing and formulating of governmental policies and for participation effectively in public affairs in general. That the ability of Hon. HerbertA. Peacock along this line has not lacked for popular appreciation has beensignificantly shown alike in his successful work and well won prestige in hisprofession and by his having been called upon to serve in the Legislature ofhis native commonwealth. He is one of the leading lawyers of the youngergeneration in Southwestern Georgia, is engaged in the practice of his profession at Albany, the metropolis and judicial center of Dougherty County,where he is senior member of the firm of Peacock & Gardner, which maintainslaw offices not only at Albany but also at Camilla, with control of a speciallylarge and important law business.Mr. Peacock was born at Smithville, Lee County, Georgia, on the 28th ofSeptember, 1879, and is a son of Dr. Lucious A. and Oriska (Batts) Peacock,both of whom likewise were born and reared in this state. The parents ofDoctor Peacock came from North Carolina to Georgia in an early day andestablished their home in Macon County, where the doctor was born and reared.He carefully prepared himself for the medical profession, of which he continued an honored and able representative in Lee County for the longperiod, of forty years and up to within a short time of his death, whichoccurred in February, 1899. Doctor Peacock was one of the gallant sons ofGeorgia who represented this state as a soldier of the Confederacy during theentire period of the Civil war. He was twice wounded, took part in manyengagements and during a portion of his period of service he was identified