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3054 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSAssociation, is affiliated with the Masonic Order, with the Order of GoodTemplars, and with the Phi Delta Psi College fraternity. He is a democratin politics and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Besideshis work as a physician he is director in the First National Bank of Waynesboro,and has always proven a good business man.In 1886 at Girth, Burke County, Georgia, he married Miss Annie LaurieDavie, of Nashville, Tennessee. Her father, Robert Davie; was killed in theBattle of Charleston, South Carolina, during the Civil war and is buried there.Mrs. Herrington's grandfather was the author of the Davie Arithmeticswhich for a generation or more have been known to school children not onlyin the South but all over the country. Doctor Herrington and wife are theparents of two children-. Ouida May, born in 1896, and now in the sophomoreyear at Agnes Scott College; Lovick Pierce Herrington, Jr., born in 1906 andin the fifth grade of the public schools.ROBERT G. JACKSON, M. D. For many years Doctor Jackson was successfully established in the practice of medicine in Atlanta, but on account offailing health gave up his lucrative practice and for the past sixteen yearshas lived in Brunswick, where he has engaged in a general insurance business,and at this time is enjoying a nice business. He was born near Mansfield,Louisiana, son of Charles Green and Mary A. (Cowley) Jackson. Bothparents were born in Alabama, but moved to Louisiana and were marriedthere. Charles G. Jackson located near Mansfield in 1846 and became a prominent farmer in that parish. He was a member of the Alabama volunteersduring the Mexican war, serving under Gen. Winfield Scott, and soon afterbeing discharged he moved to Louisiana where he lived and died at the advanced age of eighty-four years. He also served throughout the entire Civilwar of the '60s. His wife died at the age of fifty-two years in 1895.The only surviving one of the two children born to his parents, DoctorJackson lived on the plantation of his father in Desoto Parish, andattended the high school at Keachie, Louisiana. Entering the medical department of the university of Louisiana, he graduated therefrom in 1882. Locatingin the section where he was raised he entered into a successful practice ofhis chosen profession, for six years when he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, thenjust beginning to show her future greatness, and remained there until hisfailing health forced him to give up a lucrative and successful practice, andmoved to Brunswick, Georgia, where he has since resided, being successfullyengaged in a general insurance work at this time.Doctor Jackson married twice, and of the first marriage two children wereborn, Mary B., who is married and living in Mississippi, and Bryce II., alsomarried and living at Ruston, Louisiana.CHARLES R. CRISP, son of the late Charles F. Crisp, former speaker of theNational House of Representatives, is a native of Ellaville, Georgia, born in] 870. He was admitted to the Georgia bar and first elected to the Fifty-fourthCongress to serve out his father's unexpired term. From 1900 to 1911 he wasjudge of the City Court of Americus, his home town, and in the latter yearresigned to accept the position of parliamentarian of the Sixty-second Congress under Speaker Clark. In 1912 he was parliamentarian of the Democratic National Convention, and since 1913 has served in the Sixty-third andSixty-fourth congresses.DR. JAMES E. DICKEY, president of Emory College, Oxford, Georgia, isa native of the state, born at Jeffersonville, Twiggs County, May 11, 1864.In 1891 he graduated from that institution with the degree A. B.; D. D. wasconferred upon him in 1903 by the Kentucky Wesleyan University and LL. D.by Emory University in 1915. He joined the North Georgia Conference of