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3120 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSschools and afterwards took a course in the Richmond Medical College, wherehe graduated M. D. in 1873. His first practice as a physician was done inPulaski County, but after a year, in 1874, he moved to Dooly County andestablished his home at Vienna.During the war he enlisted in Company E of the Sixth Georgia Regimentunder General Colquitt, and was in many of the stirring battles and campaigns of the war, principally in Virginia, North and South Carolina andGeorgia. He was never wounded, and was mustered out at the close of thewarḢe has also played his part in public affairs, and was elected a member ofthe State Legislature in 1876, and was again elected in 1882 and in 1905. Heis an active democrat, a member of the Masonic Order, and belongs to theDooly County Medical Society.In October, 1862, he married Miss Sarah V. McAfee who died September14, 1867. In 1868 Doctor Mobley married Miss S. J. Cone, a daughter ofJudge W. B. Cone. Mrs. Mobley died September 5, 1905.Dr. H. M. Mobley, only son of Dr. Louis "W. Mobley is a skillful and highclass physician and surgeon and is also in practice at Vienna. He graduatedfrom the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons and has carried highideals as well as proficiency into his professional work. He has been twicemarried and has six children, as follows: Sarah V., Lucile and George Owenby his first wife, and Carrie, Louis and Toombs, by his second wife.K. R. LEWIS. "When the bankers of Dooly County are under considerationone of the first names to be mentioned is that of K. R. Lewis, now vice president of the Vienna Banking Company. Mr. Lewis' success has been theresult of hard work and persistency, and he entered the present institutionwith which he is officially identified in a minor capacity and has masteredone detail after another until he reached his present executive post, and he isalso recognized as one of the leading and most influential citizens of thelocality.Born in Dooly County May 31, 1876, he was the youngest of twelve children born to S. P. and Cynthia (Baker) Lewis. His parents were born inJones County, Georgia, grew up and married in this state. His father wasa successful Dooly County farmer and died in that county in December, 1915,at the age of eighty-four. He was also a veteran of the war between the statesand had served as an officer in the Confederate army, having been with thearmy through all its campaigns in the entire war period. The mother is alsodeceased.As a boy K. R. Lewis attended the public schools at Vienna and completeda business course at Macon. He had already made up his mind to become abanker, and his first occupation on leaving school was as messenger for theVienna Banking Company. He rose from one position to another, filling successively the post of bookkeeper and cashier, and for the past seven yearshas been vice president.He was also honored by one term as mayor of Vienna, an office he filledwith admirable efficiency during 1906-07. In politics he is a democrat. Besides his place as a banker he is interested in farm development and agriculture and has done much to promote intensive farming and the raising of livestock. He is a member of several of the social clubs at Vienna.In January, 1900, at Vienna, he married Miss Gussie Lennard. Theirfour children are, Miss Ruth, born in Vienna in 1900 and now in the highschool; Ellean, born in 1904, and also a school girl; Louise, born in 1909;and K. R. Lewis, Jr., born February 14, 1915.W. S. REBSE is one of the men closely identified in a practical way withthe cotton seed oil industry of Georgia, and nearly all his business experience