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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3093they are still engaged. They employ about 125 hands, the annual payrollamounting to $40,0.00.00. So large a concern is a valuable acquisition to theCity of Thomson, and its management necessarily entails an amount of headworkthat would be beyond the powers of the average individual. ThatMr. Borders has successfully handled all difficulties speaks well for his naturalability as also for the value of the special training he has had.In politics he is a democrat, and is fraternally associated with the Masons,a member of Alee Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the MysticShrine, the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and the Woodmen of theWorld. A member of the Baptist Church, he takes an active part in its workand has been a Sunday school teacher for several years. On December 22,1910, he married Miss Ruby Minor, daughter of Elliott P. Minor, a leadingplanter of Conyers,' Georgia, where the marriage ceremony was performed.One child has been born to them, Lucelia, on March 16, 1912. Mrs. Bordersis active in church and club work and she and her husband are among thewell known and popular residents of Thomson.GEORGE GUNBY JORDAN, who was born at Sparta, Georgia, June 19, 1846,for many years has been a leading promoter of the railroad, financial andindustrial interests of his state. As a youth he served in the Confederatearmy during the last two years of the war, and for twenty years after heldvarious executive positions, gradually increasing in importance, with mercantile and manufacturing establishments, of Columbus, Georgia, and finallyas cashier of the Eagle & Phenix Savings Bank for a period of eleven years.In 1886 he was elected president of the Georgia Midland Construction Company, and later became general manager of the Georgia Midland & GulfRailway and organizer of the Columbus Southern Railroad. He has beenpresident of the Third National since 1888 and president of the ColumbusSavings Bank since 1889. He is also president of the Eagle & Phenix Millsand the Jordan Company, and is a director in numerous corporations controlled both by home and outside capital. In 1882 he served as a member ofthe staff of Governor Alexander H. Stephens, and has held such other honoraryand active positions as: Railroad commissioner of Georgia, 1894-1901; president of the Georgia Immigration Association, 1904; member of the Commission for Industrial Peace, by appointment of President Roosevelt, 1907; chairman of Western & Atlantic Commission, 1913, and member of the NationalCivic Federation and National Society for the Promotion of IndustrialEducation. 'REV. WILLIAM W. LANDRUM, D. D., a well known Baptist clergyman, andfor a number of years pastor of the Broadway Church, Louisville, Kentucky,is a native of Maqon, Georgia, born January 18, 1853. He is a graduate ofMercer and Brown universities and of the Southern Baptist TheologicalSeminary, his degree of D. D. having been conferred by Washington andLee. He has had charge of churches at Shreveport, Augusta (1876-82), Richmond, and the First Baptist Church of Atlanta the last named before helocated at Louisville. He has been very prominent in the educational andmissionary work of his church in the South, as well as in military matters.Doctor Landrum has serVed as captain and chaplain of the First Regimentof Cavalry, Georgia National Guards, and as brigadier-general of the Kentucky Division of the United Boys' Brigades of America.GORDON LEE. The member of Congress from the Seventh Georgia District,Gordon Lee, is a resident of Chickamauga, where he is engaged in farmingand manufacturing. He was born near Ringgold, that state, May 29, 1859,graduated from Emory College in 1880, and first entered public life in 1894,when he was elected to a term in the State House of Representatives. He