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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3083fering and distress and instant in serving those who called upon him for suchministration and from whom.he could expect no monetary compensation. Inthis respect he has shown his high sense of'personal and professional stewardship, as has he also in his application to the study that has kept him in touchwith the best in modern systems of medicine and surgery. No citizen hasmore secure place in popular esteem and by his character and services he hasdignified and honored the profession of his choice. The doctor has servedfor many years as a member of the board of education of Buena Vista andfor a protracted period has held also the position of health officer of his homevillage, his influence always being given in the furtherance of those thingsthat make for the general wellbeing of the community. He is a member ofthe Georgia State Medical Society and is one of the most influential and valuedmembers of the Marionj County Medical Society. His political allegiance isgiven unreservedly to the democratic party, he and his wife hold membershipin the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and he is affiliated with the Masonicfraternity, the. Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World.On the 27th of October, 1880, was solemnized the marriage of DoctorDrane to Miss Elizabeth Butt, who likewise was born and reared in MarionCounty and who is a daughter of the late Hon. Edgar M. and Mary (Matthis)Butt, both natives of Georgia and representatives of old and influential families of this state. Judge Edgar M. Butt long held precedence as one of theleading lawyers and jurists of Marion County, and served many years on thebench of the Columbus Circuit, both he and his wife having been residentsof Buena Vista at the time of their death. The marriage of Doctor and Mrs.Drain was celebrated on the twentieth anniversary of his birth, and their homelife has been one ideal in all of its relations, while theirs has been the satisfaction of rearing their children to lives of usefulness and honor. Prof.Edgar Drane, the eldest of their children, was graduated in the Universityof Georgia and at the age of twenty years ^initiated his career as a teacherin the public schools of his native state. In the pedagogic profession his service has been marked by distinctive success and since 1912 his service has beengiven in the capacity of superintendent of schools, a preferment which heholds at Buena Vista at the time of this writing, in 1916. Mary Lou, thesecond of the children, is the wife of Edward R. Jordan, of Ellaville, SchleyCounty. Minnie is the wife of Cecil Burt and they maintain their home atColumbus, this state. Margaret is the wife of Frank W. Lowe, a prominentmerchant of Buena Vista. Dr. Arthur Hall Drane is following in the professional footsteps of his father, with whom he is associated in practice atBuena Vista, he having been graduated in the medical department of theUniversity of Georgia as a member of the class of 1915. Elizabeth, the youngest of the children, is the wife of Lovic G. McMichel, a progressive and representative agriculturist of Marion County.WILLIAM MAKCELLUS HOWARD, lawyer and judge, of Augusta, was a member of the National House of Representatives in the Fifty-fifth and Sixty-firstcongresses, inclusive (1897-1911). He is a native of Louisiana, born in Berwick City, December 6, 1857. Graduating from the University of Georgia in1877, he was admitted to the bar in 1880, and entered practice at Lexington,Georgia. From 1884 to 1896 he was solicitor general of the Northern JudicialCircuit, and in the following year commenced his congressional career. Since1910 he has also been a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for InternationalPeace, and in 1911-13 served as a member of the Tariff Board.CHARLES WILLIAM HUBNER, assistant librarian of the Carnegie Library,at Atlanta since 1896, is a native of Maryland, born in Baltimore January16, 1835. Previous to the war, in which he served as a Confederate soldier,he lived several years in Germany. He has written much for the press and