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3046 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSCompany's Theater Building, $75,000.00, and quite a number of modern business buildings for varied interest in Augusta. In Aiken, South Carolina, thereare two fine, specimens of Mr. Preacher's handiwork, the Aiken TheatreBuilding, costing $30,000.00, and the Aiken Hotel, at Saluda, South Carolina,the Able Bank and Office Building, $40,000.00; at Lexington, South Carolina,the Home National Bank Building, $20,000.00; at Hampton, in the samestate, the Guardian Building; at Harlem, Georgia and Fort Valley, Georgia,Masonic buildings; at Vidalia, Georgia, the Union Passenger Station; publiccounty buildings at Barnwell, South Carolina and at Thomson, Washington,Newnan and Lincolnton, Georgia, and school buildings at Fort Valley, Marshallville,Guyton and Waynesboro, Georgia, atid Hampton, Estill, Varnville,Lexington, McCormack, Ehrhardt,. Ellenton, Blackville, Aiken, Mountville,Dunbarton, Johnston, and Ridge Springs, South Carolina. Mr. Preacherspecializes in design for public and business buildings, theaters and apartments. Mr. Preacher's own well appointed offices are in full keeping withthe high class of the work in general. As a good citizen Mr. Preacher takesa lively interest in the welfare and advancement of his adopted city and isalways ready to answer any letters from prospective settlers in regard to localconditions. He is a member of the Rotary Club and of the Masonic-Order,being a "shriner" of Alee Temple of Savannah and Augusta. Religiously heis affiliated with the Baptist Church. His chief diversion is automobiling andgolfȮn July 2, 1905, Mr. Preacher was united in marriage in Augusta withMiss Fannie A, McDaniel, a daughter of Preston and Margaret (May) Mc-Daniel. Mrs. Preacher's father is deceased. Her father was during his activecareer a prominent railroad official of the Southern Railroad. The householdof Mr. and Mrs. Preacher has been enlarged and their union sanctified by thebirth of three children : G. Lloyd, Jr., Mary Frances and Jack. Their motheris active in church and social circles but finds her chief pleasure in the management of her ideal home. In politics Mr. Preacher is a democrat. He maywell rank among the most successful of the self-made men of this state.WILLIAM S. COBURN. A goodly number of the representative members ofthe bar of the metropolis and capital city of Georgia can claim Georgia asthe place of their 'nativity and are dignifying and honoring both the stateand their profession by their characters and services. Such a one is WilliamSprigman Coburn, who is engaged in the successful practice of law in Atlanta,and controls an important and diversified legal business of broad scope. Mr.Coburn is a scion of an old and honored family of Georgia, and while holdingwith appreciation to the fine old traditions of the South, he is essentially democratic in his attitude, a staunch advocate of the cause of the so-called commonpeople, direct and sincere in all of the relations of life and loyal and progressive as a citizen.Mr. Coburn was born in the City of Savannah, Georgia, on the 23d ofMarch, 1870, and is a son of Moses D. and Emma (Sprigman) Coburn. MosesD. Coburn likewise was a native of the fine old City of Savannah, as was alsohis father, Moses Coburn, who was born in the year 1800 and died in 1881,he having been known for his high musical talent and his entire active lifehaving been devoted to the teaching of music. Moses Coburn served as asoldier in the Mexican war and also in the Seminole Indian war, and his sonMoses D. was a valiant soldier of the Confederacy in the Civil war, to the closeof which he faithfully served and in which he rose to the rank of captain.For many years Captain Coburn was prominently concerned with railroad interests in the South, through his long continued service as auditor of theplant system of railways, his residence and headquarters having been inSavannah, where, in the later period of his long and useful life, he held theposition of marine clerk in the United States custom house. In that city he