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2814 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSfortunes were at low ebb, its circulation being merely nominal and itsstanding equivocal hi the matter of usefulness. By his energy and effectiveadministration he developed the Cultivator into one- of the leading agricultural journals of the country and upon his death left the property andbusiness as a fine heritage to his sons, who have successfully carried forwardthe enterprise and made the publication a progressive force in the furtherance of the varied interests of which it is the exponent. Rev. William L. C.Hunnicutt, a brother of the Rev. James B. Hunnicutt, is one of the representative clergymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is a residentof the State of Mississippi and has achieved high reputation not only as apulpit orator but also as a teacher and writer. The mother of Rev. James B.Hunnicutt was an aunt of the late Governor Atkinson of Georgia.The early educational advantages of George F. Hunnicutt were thoseafforded in the schools of his native county, including the high school atSenoia, and thereafter he completed a course in the University of Georgia,in which he .was graduated as a member of the class of 1883 and fromwhich he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, his having also been thefurther privilege of being reared in a home of distinctive culture and refinement. After leaving the university, with inherent predilection he identifiedhimself with agricultural pursuits, to the discipline of which he had beenreared, and for twenty years he successfully operated a dairy and truck farmnear Athens, Clarke County, the seat of the University of Georgia. In 1904he was called to Atlanta to assume the editorial supervision of the SouthernCultivator, with which he has since continued to be identified in this capacityand which he has brought up to a specially high standard. Prior1 to hisassumption of his present position Mr. Hunnicutt had been a frequent andvalued contributor to the columns of the Southern Cultivator, and in addition to his services as editor of this excellent paper he is the author of twopublished volumes, "Southern Crops" and "David Dickson's and JimSmith's Farming," which are among the most popular and useful bookspublished for the benefit of Southern farmers.In politics Mr. Hunnicutt is unfaltering in his allegiance to -the democratic party, but he has had no ambition for public office, though he servedefficiently as a member of the Clarke County Board of Education, a positionof which he was the incumbent for ten years. He is a prominent andinfluential member of the Farmers' Union of Georgia, and both he and hiswife are earnest communicants of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.Mr. Hunnieutt first wedded Miss Mary Barnard, daughter of Rev. HenryR. Barnard, of Athens, this state, and after her death was solemnized hismarriage to Miss Mary "Wilson Middlemas, daughter of Andrew 0. Middlemas,of Barnesville, Pike County. Of the five children of Mr. Hunnicuttthree are living James Barnard, William. Lytleton and Dorothy May.WALTER R. MCDONALD. No more highly respected or more thoroughlytrusted lawyer is a member of the Augusta bar than Walter Raleigh McDonald. He is a young man, has overcome many handicaps in preparing himselffor his profession, and has the thorough integrity which is the foundation forall success in life. He is a Georgian by birth and is an alumnus of the StateUniversity.His parents, Alexander McDonald and Adelaine (Chambers) McDonald,are residents and natives of Richmond County, Georgia. Alexander McDonaldis a successful farmer and a representative citizen of his county, deeply andconstantly interested in educational affairs as well as civic matters, and atdifferent, times the incumbent of local political offices. He and Mrs. McDonald are among the members,and supporters of the Baptist Church of theirlocality. *It was on the 18th day of January, 1892, that the youngest of their seven