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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3107was a most admirable woman of many accomplishments and greatly belovedby all who knew her. She died April, 1915, at the age of eighty-three years.There were four children in the family, namely: Dr. Charles H., a residentof Clearwater, Florida, where he is engaged in the practice of medicine; MissNettie, who makes her home with her father in fiordon County; Mrs. R. C.Connor, a resident of New York City, and Dr.»Iohn W., of this review, who wasthe third child in order of birth.John W. Field was given his early education in the public schools, thisbeing followed by a course at Rhinehart Normal College, where he was graduated from the literary department in 1890. He then prosecuted his medicalstudies at the Georgia Eclectic Medical College, being graduated therefromin 1894, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and at once entered upon thepractice of his chosen calling at Calhoun, Georgia. In 1904 he left this statefoj* the West, and during the next seven years practiced with success at Ardmore,Oklahoma, but in 1911 returned to Georgia and took up his residence atCornelia, where he opened an office and has since continued in the enjoymentof a constantly increasing professional business. His practice is not confinedto any specialty but is broad and general in its lines, .Doctor Field being equallyat home in all branches of his calling. He is local surgeon for the TallulahFalls Railway and house physician for the Continental and Commercial Hotel,belongs to the various organizations of his profession and has continued to bea close and careful student and a deep investigator. His advantages whenhe started upon his career were of a rather modest nature, but he made themost of his opportunities, worked faithfully, applied himself closely to hisstudies, and gradually worked his way to a position of independence andprominence. He is possessed of an excellent reputation among his fellowpractitionersas a physician who has the zeal which recognizes no limitations tohis calling, and the great unrest which projects him into ever-widening channels of research. Doctor Field is a democrat, but not a politician. With themembers of his family, he belongs to the Baptist Church.On December 22,1898, in Gordon County, Georgia, Doctor Field was unitedin marriage with Miss Ida D. Littlefield, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.Landrum Littlefield. To this union there have been born three children:Howard, born in 1899, a graduate of the Cornelia High School; Miss SallyDell, who is thirteen years of age and attending that institution; and John,born in 1907, a student in the graded schools of Cornelia.RT. REV. CLELAND KINLOCH NELSON. On February 24, 1892, Cleland KinlochNelson, who took his first orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church in1875, was consecrated bishop of Georgia, and since that year has been a resident of the City of Atlanta. For fifteen years he administered the Diocese ofGeorgia, comprising the entire state. Upon the division into two dioceses in1907, he selected the Diocese of Atlanta as his field.Bishop Nelson comes of distinguished lineage. He was born near Cobham,Virginia, May 23, 1852, a son of Keating L. S. and Julia A. (Rogers) Nelson.His father was born in Belvoir, Albeinarle County, Virginia, December 4,1819, and his mother at Keswick in the same county January 27, 1825. Thefirst native American representative of the family was Thomas Nelson, a manof prominence and influence in Virginia, who in colonial days reached thehighest office within the gift of the citizens of that dominion. His son Thomas,great-grandfather of Bishop Nelson, was born at Torktown in 1738 and waseducated at Cambridge, England. He was elected a member of the Continental Congress of 1775, became one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and was afterwards appointed brigadier-general and commanderin chief of the forces of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He raised andequipped at his own personal expense a force of 3,000 men for that war. In