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3092 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSPolk County and the location of the county seat at Cedartown, he moved tothat place, and that was the family home for many years.Doctor Borders was a clerk in the House of Representatives at Milledgevillein 1851 .when Polk County was formed from Paulding County, as aresult of which subdivision the county seat of Van "Wert was moved intoPolk County. In 1852 Doctor Borders was elected ordinary of Polk County,and held that office for twenty years. In the meantime, during the warbetween the states, he served as captain of Company D in Mercer's Regiment,and was with the army in Virginia until failing health gave him an honorabledischarge. During Reconstruction days the office of ordinary was held inanother man's name, though Doctor Borders was the real official and did allthe work. After his political disabilities were removed, the office again cameto him in his own name. He was a sterling democrat, and for many yearstook much interest in Masonry and for a long time held a seat in the GrandLodge. For fully half a century he was an active worker in the MethodistEpiscopal Church, and during a large part of that time was a steward.On January 28, 1840, Dr. A. S. Borders was married in Jackson Countyto Elizabeth Camp, youngest daughter of Hosea and Elizabeth (Gordon)Camp, of Gwinnett County. She belonged to a rather remarkable familyShe was the youngest of twelve children, five sons and seven daughters. Allthese children lived to ripe old age, and were all present at the funeral oftheir father. Doctor Borders and wife were the parents of the followingchildren: Augustin M., who married Sallie Jordan; Martha J., who marriedJ. A. Willingham; Emma C., who married R. W. Everett, to whom specialreference is made on other pages; Olivia A., who married J. A. Wynne;Glenn S.Glenn S. Borders, son of Dr. Stephen A. and father of E. Darden Borders,was born in 1858 at Cedartown in Polk County. For many years he followedthe business of agriculture and lumbering, and from 1888 to 1900 lived inTalledega County, Alabama, where his interests as a-lumber man requiredhis presence. Returning to the old home place at Cedartown, known as theHightower Falls plantation, he resumed the life of a planter in which he isstill engaged. Glenn S. Borders is a member of the Methodist Church and isaffiliated with the Masonic Order. He married Miss Fannie Hightower, whowas also born at Cedartown in Polk County. The Hightower Falls plantationwas originally the home of her great-great-grandfather, E. Dorsey Hightower,and has continuously been in the possession of members of the Hightowerfamily for nearly a century. Mrs. Borders is a member of the Baptist Churchand her sons took the same faith. Of the children of Glenn S. and FannieBorders one died in infancy, Thomas Hightower died at the age of nineteen,and the two still living are E. Darden and Charles R., the latter now engagedin the machinery business at Cedartown.E. Darden Borders, who was born at the home of his parents in Cedartown,January 10, 1883, after graduating from the high school of his birthplacetook a business course at Atlanta. He began industrial life as bookkeeper forJohn B. Daniels, of Atlanta, remaining there two years. He then resignedto accept a place as cashier for the Milstead Manufacturing Company atConyers, Georgia, being thus occupied for three years. At the end of thattime he was promoted to his present position, as manager of the large cottonfactory at Thomson, beginning his duties June 1, 1909. He has since madean excellent record and has won the confidence of his employers in a highdegree.The J. E. Smith Cotton Manufacturing Company of Thomson was organized in 1900 with a capital of $50,000.00 which was later increased to$200,000.00, one half paid in. For several years from the beginning thecompany was engaged in the manufacture of cotton yarns, but they laterconverted the plant into one for manufacturing cotton cloth, in which business