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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3045PROP. EUGENE C. BKANSON was for nearly fifteen ye"ars a leading educatorof Georgia, but since 1914 has been identified with the university of his nativestate, North Carolina. He was born in 1861 at Morehead City, receiving hisA. M. from Trinity College, North Carolina, and A. M. from Peabody NormalCollege, Nashville, Tennessee. Before coming to Georgia as superintendentof the Athens schools, he had been principal of the high school at Raleigh,and superintendent of the schools at "Wilson, North Carolina. Subsequentlyhe became professor of pedagogy at the Georgia Normal and Industrial School;was president in 1900-12, and in 1912-14 head of the department of ruraleconomics and sociology, and in the latter year was called to assume chargeof a similar department in the University of North Carolina. lie is theauthor of many text books on teaching, and has written much for currentliterature.JUDSON C. CLEMENTS. For ten years a member of Congress from theSeventh Georgia District and a member of the United States Interstate Commerce Commission for the past fourteen years, Judson C. Clements is a nativeof Georgia, born in Walker County, February 12, 1846. He served during thelast two years of the Civil war as a Confederate private and first lieutenant,graduated from the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1868, and practiced for several years thereafter at La Fayette, Georgia. From 1872 to 1877 he served in both houses of the State Legislature andfrom 1881 to 1891, inclusive, was a member of Congress. In March, 1892, hewas appointed a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission and is still inactive service.G. LLOYD PREACHER. Genuine talent, united with industry and perseverance, never fails to conquer success, in no matter what line of activityit may be exerted. A notable example of this may be found in the career ofG. Lloyd Preacher, the leading architect in Augusta and one of the foremostmen in his profession in the Southern states. Mr. Preacher was born inFairfax, South Carolina, May 11, 1882, the son of Rev. John F. and Elizabeth (Augley) Preacher. His parents were both natives of the PalmettoState, the father being a prominent Baptist minister, now retired, who devotedall the active years of his life to the church, serving as pastor in Fairfax,Hampton and Colleton, South Carolina.G. Lloyd Preacher, who was the youngest of his parents' nine children,acquired a respectable literary education, graduating from the high schoolat Fairfax. He then entered Clemson College, where he applied himself tothe study of engineering and architecture, being graduated Bachelor of Science in the class of 1904. On June 15th of the same year Mr. Preacher madehis appearance in Augusta, coming here to take the position -of manager inthe engineering department of the Lombard Iron Works. This position heretained for five years, resigning in 1909 to engage in architectural and engineering business. His success in this line has been remarkable and unusualand may be attributed to a natural adaptation to this pursuit and to thethorough training he received fti it in his student days. His work is of thehighest class and so artistic as to have attracted wide spread attention, notonly in this state but beyond its limits. Among the most notable specimensof his talent may be mentioned the following buildings, to some of which weappend the cost: In Augusta, Georgia, the Empire Life Office Building,$550,000.00; Chronicle Office Building, $300,000.00; University hospitals,$500,000.00; Mt. St. Joseph's schools, $330,000.00; Medical College Building,$50,000.00; Plaza Hotel, $110,000.00; Masonic Temple Building, $100,000.00;Shirley Apartment Building, $60,000.00; Fire Department Headquarters,$30,000.00; No. 6 Engine House, $15,000.00 Houghton Grammar School, $60,-000.00; Modjeska Theater Building, $40,000.00; Real Estate Development