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3082 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSson: Arthur "William, Jr. Mrs, Jordan is a lady of many accomplishments, agraduate of Maryville (Tennessee) College and was a post-graduate studentat Lucy Cobb Institute, Athens. For three years prior to her marriage shetaught elocution and music in the Ocilla High School. She has taken anactive part in the work of the Baptist Church and Missionary Society, and isa general favorite in social circles of Swainsboro.WILLIAM A. DEANE, M. D. Assurance of fine attributes of character anddistinctive technical ability are given assured voucher when a man attains tosuch definite professional prestige and unqualified popular esteem as are manifest in the case of Doctor Drane, who is known and honored as one of theleading physicians and surgeons of Marion County, where he maintains hisresidence and professional headquarters at Buena Vista, the county seat,and where he controls a large and representative practice. Further interestattaches to his career by reason of the fact that he is a native of MarionCounty and a scion of one of the old and sterling families of Georgia. Hispaternal grandfather, Hiram A. Drane was born in Talbot County, this state,where his parents were pioneers and where he himself became a prominentplanter and slaveholder, a true exponent of the fine old patriarchal regimethat antedated the Civil war. Warren Bryan, the maternal grandfather ofDoctor Drane, was a native of Screven County, Georgia, and he likewise heldprecedence as a substantial planter and slaveholder prior to the war whichbrought devastation and sorrow to the fair Southland.Dr. William Arthur Drane was born in Marion County on the 27th ofOctober, 1860, and is a son of William M. and Margaret (Bryan) Drane, theformer of whom was born in Talbot County and the latter in Screven County.William M. Drane became a successful representative of agricultural enterprise in Marion County and served with much of mental power and consecrated devotion as a minister of the Presbyterian Church, but he was calledfrom the stage of life's mortal endeavors in the very prime of his noblemanhood, his death having occurred in 1871 and his age at the time havingbeen forty-one years. He was a stalwart advocate of the principles of thedemocratic party, was known for his broad intellectual ken and high ideals,and he commanded the inviolable esteem and confidence of his fellow men.His widow survived him by more than two score years and passed the graciousevening of her long and gentle life at Buena Vista, where she was summonedto eternal rest in August, 1915, at the venerable age of eighty-two years. Shewas a devoted member of and leader in the Methodist Episcopal Church,South, at Buena Vista, and her constant kindliness and sympathy, as combined with her distinctive culture and many social graces, gained to her theveneration of those who came within the sphere of her influence. Of the fourchildren the eldest is Minnie, who is the wife of 0. C. Bullock, of Columbus,Georgia; Dr. William A., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Henry,who was graduated in Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tennessee, becamea prominent and influential member of the Texas bar and was engaged inthe practice of his profession at Brownwood, Brown County, that state, atthe time of his death, in 1905; and Margaret, the youngest of the children, isthe wife of Edward D. Hornaday, of Bueua Vista.Dr. William A. Drane was reared in a home of signal culture and refinement and in addition to this fortuitous influence he was afforded the advantages of the public schools of his native county. In consonance with his ambitious purpose and well formulated plans he finally entered the medical department of the University of Georgia, and in this department, at Augusta, hewas graduated as a member of the class of 1886 and with the degree ofDoctor of Medicine. During the long intervening period of thirty years hehas been engaged in the successful practice of his profession at Buena Vista,conscientious, sincere and self-abnegating in his efforts to alleviate human suf-