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3118 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANScourageous men who after the misfortunes of the war assumed the bimiciisof responsibility connected with the task of rehabilitating the former iuslitutions and activities and proceeding with an ever greater development andexpansion of Atlanta and the South.Into this great work have entered many great characters, all deservingof the memory of history. One of them whose services have been continuousfor fifty years is Lyman A. Redwine, vice president of the Dougherty-Little-Redwine Company. The phenomenal development of Atlanta is reflected inhis own success and prosperity. He has been in business in Atlanta since1867, and his name is one of those most closely identified with the upbuildingof the wholesale trade of that city.His first experience in the wholesale dry goods business was gained whena young man, and many would say that his success is due to the fact that therehas been no wavering or deviation from the line which he thus chose in hisearly life. He worked from the bottom up, and had experience in practicallyevery department of the dry goods house. For several years he was a juniorpartner, then a full partner, and for many years was the active buyer forthe splendid house in whose title his name forms a part.He has always been allied politically with the democratic party. He is amember and on the official board of the First Methodist Church, and alsoa member of the Chamber of Commerce and Gate City Lodge, No. 2, Freeand Accepted Masons.At Atlanta on June 15, 1876, he was married to Angle A. Gullatt, and toher he ascribes much of whatever success he has made. Mrs. Redwine's fatherJames E. Gullatt, was a manufacturer of iron products at Atlanta, and wasalso a prominent figure in public affairs, serving as a city councilman andas a member of the Georgia Legislature from Fulton County.!iT. J. McARTHUR, M. D. In 1910 the medical fraternity of Georgia in theGeorgia Medical Association honored by election to the presidency one of theablest physicians and surgeons of Southern Georgia, Dr. Thomas J. McArthurof Cordele. Doctor McArthur is also vice president of the Georgia SurgeonsClub, is a councilor of the Third District Medical Society, a member of theCrisp County Society, and of the Southern and the American Medical associations. His very high standing in the profession is due to a thorough devotion to his calling and splendid natural endowment.He was born in Wilkinson County, Georgia, April 30, 1868, a son of Johnand Winifred (Rivers) McArthur. His parents were also natives of Wilkinson County, where his father was a planter and farmer until 1903, whenhe retired and moved to Cordele, where he died at the age of eighty-sevenyears. During the war between the states he was for two years in activeservice in the Confederate army, and refused promotion from his rank aslieutenant to captain of the company. After the war he was made collectorof Wilkinson County, and was always active in public affairs. The motherdied at Cordele in February, 1915, aged seventy-nine. There were elevenchildren, among whom Doctor McArthur was sixth in order of birth. ' Of theeight sons and three daughters, two sons and one daughter are now deceased.The others are: Charles A. McArthur of Cordele; J. J. McArthur of Gordon;James F. McArthur of Atlanta; Dr. A. L. McArthur, who is postmaster ofCordele; Louis R. McArthur who lives at Lowndes County, Georgia; Mrs. J.W. Robinson, of Dover, and Mrs. W. T. Robinson of Dover.Doctor McArthur attended country schools and the Gordon High School,and for four years was a teacher, a vocation which gave him most of the meanshe used to attend the Southern Medical College at Atlanta, where he was graduated M. D. in 1894. Doctor MeArthur has accepted every opportunity tobroaden his knowledge and experience and has associated with all the prominent men of the profession in Georgia. In 1911 he attended for post-graduate