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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 2811lias been one of the main factors in Ms advancement. His first experience wasas clerk in the Brunswick Wholesale Grocery Company, a firm no longer inexistence. He began in 1898, and put into his work every bit of energy he possessed. Along- with energy have gone a sterling honesty that has broughthim the respect of his associates and his customers. After iy2 years hetransferred his services to the Lott Lewis Company at the same city, and remained with that firm until 1904. In six years he accumulated not only experience but as a result of thrift and self denial had a small amount of capitaland his ability commanded him sufficient credit to start in business on his ownaccoxint. In October of that year he established the V. C. Bourne & Co. wholesa]eproduce company. From the start, though on a very modest scale, itproved* a successful undertaking. He has steadily directed its management,and his confidence has been more than justified. His company now has asplendid trade covering all Southern Georgia, and several salesmen representit on the road. .Mr. Bourne gives his personal management to the local business, and particularly the retail trade, and has surrounded himself with astaff of competent employes.This successful young merchant was born in Effingham County, Georgia,August 26, 1877, a son of William H. and Julia Naomi (Backley) Bourne.His father was born in Virginia, but when nine years of age was brought byhis parents to Georgia. He subsequently became identified with the lumberand timber business in this state. During the war at the age of sixteen hienlisted with the Oglethorpe Light Infantry, and fought with gallantry andvalor until he was taken prisoner at the battle of Pulaski, and was carriednorth to New York State and held a prisoner until the surrender. He diedat Savannah, Georgia, in July, 1913, at the age of sixty-nine. He was buriedwith military honors by his old comrades of the Southern army'. His wife, alady of refinement and culture, and a native of Georgia, died in April, 1906,at the age of sixty-four.Of the .five children that survive, Vernon C. Bourne is the fourth in age.As a boy he attended the Chatham Academy at Savannah, and later took abusiness course in the Savannah Business College. At the conclusion of thatcourse he started to work his way upward in mercantile affairs, with whatsuccess has already been described. In politics he is a democrat, but hasnever sought any public honors. He is affiliated with the Woodmen of theWorld, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of Pythias and is amember of the Presbyterian Church, a deacon and treasurer in the FirstChurch of Brunswick.At Brunswick on October 15, 1903, Mr. Bourne married Edna EdgbertNash, whose parents, Warren N. and Susan Caroline (Wilcox) Nash, wereborn in Montgomery' and Coffee counties, Georgia. Mr. and Mrs. Bournebecame the parents of three children: Miss Lois, born in December, 1904, andattending the public schools of Brunswick; Sybil, born in March, 1907, andalso attending school; and Mildred, born in 1909, who died at the age of twoyears.*JAMES M. HULL, M. D. Of all vocations and professions none is moregenerous in its labors and its gifts than is medicine. No career requires longeror more severely thorough preparation; none demands in practice more absolute and steady devotion to difficult and delicate tasks; none is ever pursuedwith a finer disregard of worldly emoluments than is a conscientious physician's characteristic activity. Among the esteemed exponents of this profession in Augusta, Georgia, the name of Dr. James M. Hull stands significantlyhigh.A fine old Southern family is that represented by Doctor Hull. His grandfather, Asbury Hull, was a patrician of early ante-bellum days, an extensiveproprietor of broad lands and many black servitors. His material prosperity