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3100 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSRogers, residing at Mountain City, Georgia; and Logan, Jessie, "Walter andMrs. Bessie Giles, all of whom reside in Rabun County.Through boyhood Mr. Rogers, who is now secretary and treasurer of theClayton Board of Education, attended the public schools here, after* whichhe assisted his father and in the course of time embarked in farming forhimself, continuing to be actively engaged until 1913, when he was electedcounty clerk of Rabun County, since which time his attention has been largelygiven to the duties of his office. He retains the management of his farm,however, one of the best in this section of the state. Mainly through his own,efforts has Mr. Rogers become a man of ample fortune and that he has alsowon the confidence and regard of his fellow citizens is shown by his electionto an important public office. He has always given his political support tothe democratic party.In 1900 Mr. Rogers was united in marriage with Miss Eva Mozeley, adaughter of William Madison Mozely, of a well known old family of thecounty. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers have four children: Alma, Annie, Brandonand Maude, the youngest having been born at Clayton, February 1, 1915.Mr. Rogers and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.Fraternally he belongs to the Masonic Blue Lodge and Chapter and also tothe Odd Fellows and the Red Men.WILLIAM TRUSLOW NEWMAN, who has served as United States districtjudge for the northern district of Georgia since August, 1886, is a native ofKnoxville, Tennessee. He was born in that city June 23, 1843. When seventeen years of age he entered the Confederate cavalry service, Second Tennessee, and in 1862 was promoted to a lieutenancy. In the following year he waswounded and captured in one of the Kentucky campaigns, was exchangedand in July, 1864, was again wounded in an engagement near Jonesboro,Georgia. That injury resulted in the loss of his right arm. At the close ofthe war he located at Atlanta, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1866and from 1871 to 1883 was city attorney of Atlanta. Three years afterwardhe was appointed United States district judge, and has occupied that benchever since.FRANK PARK, who has represented the Second Georgia District sinceNovember, 1913, is a native of Tuskegee, Alabama, and was bornMarch 3, 1864. Most of his systematic education was obtained in his nativetown, his earlier manhood being devoted to teaching and railroad surveying.He was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1891, practiced in Atlanta three yearsand in 1896 located in Worth County, Georgia. He served for ten years asthe chairman of the democratic county committee, and from 1908 until hiselection to the Sixty-third Congress, was judge of the Albany Circuit. HisGeorgia residence is Sylvester.WILLIAM HAYES POPE, who has been one of the prominent men of NewMexico since he commenced the practice of the law at Santa Fe in 1890, hasbeen United States district judge in that state since 1912. A native of SouthCarolina, born in Beaufort, June 14, 1870, he was educated in the Universityof Georgia, which conferred upon him the degrees of A. M. and LL. B. Forabout a year previous to his admission to the bar, in 1890, he also served asadjunct professor of ancient languages in the university, but since that periodhis career has been identified with the legal, civil and judicial affairs of NewMexico, with the possible exception of his service, in 1895, as commissionerto the Atlanta Cotton Exposition.JOHN A. BLOUNT. In Burke County, Georgia, the name which initiatesthis paragraph stands for all that is loyal, steadfast and worthy in the various