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3058 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSture, and he further keeps in touch with the inarch of progress by maintainingactive affiliation with the American Medical Association, the Georgia StateMedical Society and the Dougherty County Medical Society, of which last,he was president in 1913. He is affiliated with the local lodge and chapterof York Rite Masonry. While engaged in practice at Dublin he served aspresident of the Laurens County Medical Society, besides which he was forone term a member of the village council. In his native state the doctor servedas surgeon for the staff of the brigadier-general of the Alabama NationalGuard, with the rank of major, and he is at the present time fiast lieutenantof the medical corps of the Second Regiment of the Georgia National Guard.His is unswerving allegiance to the democratic party, and he is emphatically,liberal and progressive in his civic attitude. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.June 24, 1896, recorded the marriage of Doctor Stanley to Miss ElizabethHollingsworth, daughter of Charles and Mary Hollingsworth, highly esteemedcitizens of Augusta, Georgia, and both now deceased. Doctor and Mrs. Stanleyhave two daughters, Elizabeth, who was born at Augusta, this state, in 1901,and Mary, who was born at Dublin, Laurens County, in 1904.W. BKANNEN. A recent addition to the legal fraternity ofSwainsboro, Dentley W. Brannen has already displayed the possession ofresource and talent that bid fair to gain him an honored and distinguishedplace at the Emanuel County bar. He was born in Bulloch County, Georgia,February 14, 1890, near the Town of Statesboro, and is a son of James I.and Julia Rebecca (Olliff) Brannen.The Brannen family traces its ancestry to three brothers, William andHugh Brannen and another whose name is forgotten, who emigrated toAmerica from Ireland in 1765. In 1800 William and Hugh Brannen came toGeorgia, while the third brother went to Mississippi and was lost sight of.William Brannen was the great-great-great-grandfather of Dentley W.Brannen. His first settlement was in North Carolina, from whence he cameto Screven County, Georgia, later moved to Bulloch County and had a largefamily, and like all of the name became a prominent and wealthy planterand large slave holder. William Brannen, the grandfather of Dentley W.,was born in Bulloch County, where he became a leader in politics and publiclife, and served in various official capacities, being county treasurer for someyears. He had nine children, of whom the second in order of birth wasJames I. Bulloch, who was born in 1860, in Bulloch County, where he receiveda common school education. In young manhood he was engaged in merchandising, but subsequently turned his attention to agricultural affairs andat present is one of the substantial citizens and prosperous farmers of hiscounty. He is an active member of the Baptist Church, as is also his wife.She is the daughter of Franklin Olliff, the granddaughter of Joseph Olliff,and the great-granddaughter of Joseph Olliff, a native of North Carolinaand the founder of the family in Georgia, where those bearing the name havebeen prominent planters and substantial citizens in other walks of life.Franklin Olliff served as a soldier of the Confederacy during the Civil war.Mrs. Brannen was born in Bulloch County, in 1860, and has been the motherof eight children, namely. Lula, who is the wife of Carlos Carson, a farmerof Bulloch County; Rayford, who is engaged in farming in that county;Dentley W., of this review ; Susie, who is the wife of Henry Shurling, a farmerof that county ; Alena, the wife of Martin Howard, also carrying on agricultural operations in Bulloch County ; Annie, who is the wife of Hoyt Tyson, afarmer of that community; and Julia and Dudley, who reside at the homeof their parents.Dentley W. Brannen received his early education in the public schools ofBulloch County, following which he took a course of one year in the normal