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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3099names and places of residence is given: E. H., W. B., and Benjamin F. stillreside in Morgan County; T. M. is a student in the law department of MercerUniversity; 0. W. resides with his parents; Mrs. Robert H. Bryant is a resident of Greene County; Mrs. S. A. Torbert maintains her home at Greensboro,the judicial center of that county.In the public schools of his native county Doctor Wood acquired his preliminary education, which was supplemented by higher academic studies inthe City of Augusta. In preparation for the work of his chosen professionhe entered the medical department of the University of Georgia, in which hewas graduated in 1907, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. His initialservice in his profession was in the capacity of interne in one of the leadinghospitals of Atlanta, and in 1908-9 he took an effective post-graduate coursein the medical school of the celebrated Johns Hopkins University, in the Cityof Baltimore, Maryland.On the 8th of May, 1908, Doctor.Wood established his residence in Washington, where he has since continued in successful general practice and wherehe has built up a substantial and representative practice, his popularity withhis confreres being clearly indicated by the fact that in 1915 he is servingas secretary and treasurer of the Wilkes County Medical Society. He isidentified also with the Eighth District Medical Society, the Georgia StateMedical Society, and the American Medical Association.The Doctor pays unfaltering allegiance to the democratic party, has servedthree terms as prelate of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and isaffiliated also with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order ofOdd Fellows.Doctor Wood defrayed through his own exertions the expenses of hisprofessional education and in his practice he has shown the same spirit ofself-reliance and the same fine quality of ambition, two attributes that haveconserved his large success in the work of his responsible profession. Hecontinued to be practically concerned with the great basic industry of agriculture, as he is associated with one of his brothers in the ownership of awell improved landed estate of 240 acres, in Wilkes County. The Doctor'sname is still found engrossed on the register of eligible young bachelors inWilkes County.CHARLES A. ROGERS. Undoubtedly the diversified knowledge, the prudence, the practical judgment and the persistent industry whereby menbecome successful agriculturists, are the same desirable and even necessaryqualities for thorough understanding and satisfactory performance of theduties of many public offices. Technical details may soon be learned, butthese are only a small part of the measure of usefulness expected in a responsible public official. A long and successful contest with the soil, throughchanging seasons and under both favorable and unfavorable conditions, wellprepare a man for the proper consideration of other problems and for theexercise of the steady and faithful attention which these are liable to demand.Thus a wise choice was made when Charles A. Rogers, county clerk of RabunCounty, was called from his agricultural activities, in which he had beensuccessfully engaged for many years, to assume the duties of his presentposition, in which his efficiency has been amply proven.Charles A. Rogers was born in Rabun County, Georgia, September 8,1879, and is a son of Clennie and* Mollie (Hummicut) Rogers, the latter ofwhom was born in Georgia in 1857 and still resides in Rabun County. Thefather of Charles A. Rogers was born in Tennessee and in boyhood accompanied his parents to Rabun County, Georgia, where he was reared, educatedand married. He engaged in agricultural pursuits and continued the sameuntil his death, when aged fifty-four years. Of his family of six children,Charles A. was the second born, the others being: Catherine, Mrs. Monte