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3072 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSconcerning every new discovery in the wide field of medical science. DoctorMichel is unmarried. He finds recreation and social refreshment as a member of the Commercial and Country clubs, Augusta.On April 29,1916, Doctor Michel sailed for France offering his professionalservices to the French army. He was assigned to duty in L 'hopital Auxiliere156 at Lyon and put in charge of 150 beds. He is still in service, with therank of major.NATHANIEL EDWIN HARRIS, the present chief executive of Georgia, whoseterm expires in 1917, was born at Jonesboro, Tennessee, January 21, 1846.In May, 1862, he enlisted in the Confederate army and served until the closeof the war, a portion of the time on the staff of the Army of Northern Virginia. In 1870 he graduated as an A. B. from the University of Georgia andin 1872 began the practice of the law at Sparta, Georgia. The State University conferred the degree of LL. D. upon him in 1910, and Emory Collegelikewise honored him in 1913.Governor Harris moved to Macon in 1873; was corporation counsel of thecity in 1874-82; member of the Georgia House of Representatives in 1882-6and of the Senate in 1894-5; judge of the Superior Court, Macon Circuit, in1912 and has been governor of the state since 1915. He founded the GeorgiaSchool of Technology in 1885 and has since been chairman of its board oftrustees, as well as a trustee of the University of Georgia for the same period.He has also been prominently identified with the Vanderbilt University andthe Wesleyan Female College. He has been president of the Macon Bar Association sincQ 1911, and is the author of various Georgia Reports, the firstvolume of which he issued in 1876.WILLIAM SCHLEY HOWARD, congressman from the Fifth Georgia District,was born in Kirkwood, Georgia, June 29, 1875. Admitted to the bar in 1895,he has since been a lawyer and resident of Decatur, that state. He served asa member of the Georgia House of Representatives and solicitor general previous to becoming judge of the Stone Mountain Circuit and occupied thebench until 1910. In the following year he was elected to Congress for hisfirst term. His present term in the Sixty-fourth Congress will expire in 1917.PAUL ROMARB. From the organization of the Atlanta National Bank in1865 the late Paul Romare was continuously identified with the institutionuntil his death on February 8, 1904. In that period of nearly forty yearshe held every position in the bank from clerk to president, and it was theimportance of that position and the dignity associated with a man of splendidcharacter and rugged achievements that made his passing one to be deploredthroughout the city, although he was at the time full of years and ripe in allthe experiences and accomplishments allowed to one individual career. Hemade his personality count for a great deal in the financial and civil life ofAtlanta, and he left a name that may be properly cherished by all hisdescendants.The best story of his life is found in his own simple, straightforward, andunadorned words which were set down as he uttered them a number of yearsbefore his death, and while he was vice president of the Atlanta National.The readers of his unconventional autobiography will appreciate from hislanguage the substantial character of the prominent banker-citizen who, coming to America a youth without knowledge of a word of the English tongue,eventually made himself one of the strongest factors in the financial affairsof a great Southern city. His story of his career is contained in the followingparagraphs:'' I am a Swede, born on the shores of the Cattegat, in the town of Torckow,Province of Skane, Sweden, November 20, 1828. I was the youngest of five