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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3119work the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, spent a part of the year1913 in the New York Post-Graduate School, was at New Orleans in 1914in Tulane University, and for a part of the year 1915 was at Johns HopkinsUniversity in Baltimore. ^His first practice was done at Unadilla, Georgia, where he remained from1894 to 1903, since which latter year he has been established at Cordele. In1906 Doctor McArthur founded and has since been president of the medicalstaff of the Cordele Sanitarium, *which has had a v*ry prosperous growth andis now one of the leading hospitals in Southern Georgia.He is a deacon in the Primitive Baptist Church and in politics is a democrat. In September, 1895, at Unadilla he married Mrs. Fannie (Henderson)Horn, widow of Samuel Horn. They are the parents of four children: Mary,born in 1896, at Unadilla and a graduate of Braun College at Athens withthe class of 1915; Charles Eugene, born in 1902 at Unadila and attendingschool; Thomas Alton, born in 1905 at Cordele; and Marvin Chester, born in1908. iBENJAMIN BOCHARD. Prom the position of a humble grocer clerk Benjamin Bochard during his career in Georgia has become the leading wholesalegrocer in the southern section of the state, and is now at the head of one ofthe largest and most flourishing enterprises of the kind at Brunswick.He was born at Macon, Georgia, November 30, 1866, a son of Abrahamand Amelia (Fendig) Bochard. His father was born in Prussia and his motherin Bavaria, Germany, and the former came to America when a young boyand a short time before the war located in Macon, Georgia. During the warhe served in the Home Guard of "Wheeler's Brigade. In 1867 he moved foBrunswick and was engaged in the retail grocery business there until his deathat the age of seventy-three. The mother was married in Indiana and diedin Brunswick when about sixty-four years of age.The youngest in a large family of eight children, Benjamin Bochardacquired his early education in the public schools of Brunswick, and as a boy.learned the grocery business under his father. Later for a period of fiveyears he was in the insurance business, but in 1895 he established the Bochardproduce business and wholesale grocery. He started with a modest capital,but his tireless energy has brought the concern to large proportions and it isnow incorporated and carries the best stock of general grocery supplies inthis section of Georgia. Mr. Bochard is president, Alfred Fendig is vicepresident, and the secretary and cashier is S. H. H. Herndon.Mr. Bochard is a democrat, is a Master Mason and is affiliated with theBenevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the I. 0. B. B.On April 16, 1902, at Greenwood, Mississippi, he married Miss MarieReiman, daughter of Herman Reiman and wife of Greenwood. To their marriage have been born two children, both of whom are now in school, and bothwere born at Brunswick. Tillie R., the daughter, was born in 1904, and Herman A., was born in 1909.Louis W. MOBLBY, M. D. One of the oldest physicians in active practicein Dooly County is Dr. Louis W. Mobley, who is a veteran of the Confederatewar and has been in active practice at Vienna for more than forty years.He was born in Crocker County, Georgia, near Macon, March 4, 1842, ason of M. H. and Margaret (Owen) Mobley, his father a native of SouthCarolina and his mother of Georgia. Grandfather H. A. Mobley emigrated toGeorgia and located in Croeker County, settling on a tract of land on the eastside of the Okmulgee River. M. H. Mobley, his son, subsequently became awell known planter in that locality and died in 1892 at the age of eighty-one.His wife passed away in 1893 at the age of seventy-one.The oldest of three children, Doctor Mobley as a boy attended the country