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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3085>years. In March, 1915, he found a broader field of professional endeavorby locating at Buena Vista, the judicial center of Marion County, where hissuccess has been on a parity with his recognized ability and his earnest devotion to Ms humane and exacting vocation. He has won assured place as oneof the representative physicians and surgeons of this part of his native stateand by his close study and research he keeps fully abreast of the advancesmade in both branches of professional work. He is a member of the AmericanMedical Association, the Georgia State Medical Society and the Marion CountyMedical Society, of which last mentioned he is serving as counselor in 1916,his devotion to his profession being such that he subordinates all else to itsdemands, though he permits himself occasional diversion through hunting andfishing trips.Docjx>r 0 'Neal is aligned as a loyal supporter of the principles and policiesof the democratic party, both he and his wife are active members of the Baptist Church, and he is affiliated with the Masonic fr«^ternity, the Knights ofPythias and the Woo'dmen of the World.On the 22d of May, 1912, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor O'Nealto Miss Leila Williams, daughter of Lucius and Martha (Hart) Williams, ofWest Point, Troup County, and the one child of this union is Howard, whowas born on the 27th of April, 1915.EBENEZER J. HART. By character and achievement Judge Hart has lentdignity and distinction to the bench and bar of his native state and he is notonly one- of the leading lawyers of Schley County but is also serving as judgeof the city courts of Ellaville, the judicial center and metropolis of the county.No citizen of this thriving little city has shown more loyalty and public spiritthan Judge Hart, and that this fact has not lacked popular appreciation isshown in his having been called upon to serve three consecutive terms asmayor of Ellaville, his administration having been marked by wise policiesand much progressiveness, with the result that it inured greatly to the wellbeingof the city and its people.Judge Ebenezer Joel Hart was born at Americus, Sumter County, Georgia,on the 14th of April, 1867, and is a son of Dr. Aaron T. and Mary E. (Cottle)Hart, the former a native of Warren County and the latter of Lee County, thisstate. Dr. Aaron T. Hart qualified himself fully for the work of his chosenprofession and gained marked success and prestige as one of the able physicians and surgeons of Western Georgia, his original field of prastice havingbeen in Sumter County, whence he transferred his residence to Schley County,where he devoted the remainder of his long and useful life to the supervisingof his farming interests, which were of somewhat extensive order. Securein the high regard of all who knew him, Doctor Hart was summoned to thelife eternal in 1901, at the age of seventy-fpur years, his devoted wife havingpassed away in 1888, at the age of fifty-four years. Of the four children theeldest was Aeolia S., who became the wife of William J. Ross and who wasa resident of Schley County at the time of her death; Isaac Solomon is oneof the substantial representatives of agricultural enterprise in Schley County;Mary Elizabeth is the wife of George McNeal, of Americus, Sumter County;and Judge Ebenezer J., of this review, was the youngest in order of birth.After completing the curriculum of the public schools of Ellaville JudgeHart prosecuted a course of higher academic study in the Butler Male andFemale College, and in preparation for the profession in which he has achieveddistinctive success he entered the law department of the University of Georgia,at Athens, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1890, withthe degree of Bachelor of Laws and with virtually concomitant admission tothe bar of his native state. Soon after his graduation Judge Hart establishedhimself in practice at Dawson, the judicial center of Terrell County, wherehe built up a substantial and important law business and where he continuedVol. VI—20