Georgia and Georgians - the Digital Library of Georgia

GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3121has been along that line. He is now one of the executive officers of the greatplant situated at Vierhia.He was born at Madison, Georgia, March 31, 1882, a son of Isaac "W. andElizabeth (Burney) Reese.. The parents were also natives of Georgia, andhis father was for a number of years an auctioneer and still later a farmer inMorgan County where he died in 1889 at the age of fifty. He was a Confederate soldier and endured many privations and sufferings in the war. He'enlisted in Company E of the Third Georgia Regiment and served as a noncommissioned officer from 1861 to 1865. At the battle of Chancellorsville hewas wounded but afterwards returned to the service, and was finally captured and was imprisoned on Johnson Island in Lake Erie, where he remaineduntil exchanged. The mother died at Madison, Georgia, October 8, 1915,aged seventy-one. W. S. Reese is the youngest of their six children. Twoothers are still living, George S. of Rome, Georgia; and Burney C. of Madison.W. S. Reese had his early schooling at Madison and began his practicalcareer as clerk in a drug store. That was his work for three years, afterwhich he became cashier for the Madison Oil Company, and for eight yearshe was associated with that firm and gained a constantly growing experiencein the cotton seed oil industry in all its practical phases. Afterwards the'Empire Cotton Oil Company acquired fte Madison plant and a great manyother oil companies throughout the state, and Mr. Reese remained with this. larger corporation and came as assistant manager to the large Vienna plantof the company in 1915.In politics he is a democrat, and is a Royal Arch Mason and a member ofthe Knights of Pythias. On June 23, 1908, he married Miss Mamie Stanley.Their two children are Stanley Augusta, born in 1909, at Madison; andElizabeth Burney, born January 5, 1912, also at Madison.PLEASANT ALEXANDER STOVALL. Previous to his appointment as ministerto Switzerland in 1913, Pleasant A. Stovall was actively engaged in the newspaper field of Georgia for more than twenty-eight years. He was born inAugusta July 10, 1857, graduated from the University of Georgia in 1875 andin the following year became associate editor of the Augusta Chronicle. Heheld that position until 1879 and in 1891 assumed the editorship of the Savannah Press. In June, 1913, when he was appointed minister to Switzerland,he relinquished the editorship of the Press, although he remained its proprietor and still controls its policy. He had already served several terms in theGeorgia House of Representatives, covering 1902-06 and 1912-13. He alsotook quite an interest in military matters, and was lieutenant colonel on thestaffsof Governor Worthen and Governor Atkinson.PARISH C. TATE, who was the member of Congress from the Ninth Georgia;District for twelve years and is a resident of Atlanta, is a native of the state,,born at Jasper, Pickens County, November 20, 1856. He was admitted to thebarin 1880 and practiced in his native place until 1905. He served as a member of the General Assembly in 1882-85 and was a member of Congress from1894 to 1905, these years covering the session from the Fifty-third to theFifty-eighth, inclusive. In 1905, when he was appointed United States attorney for the Northern District of Georgia he moved, officially, to Atlanta..He served thus until 1913.SAMUEL JOEL TRIBBLE, of Athens, has represented the Eighth District in-Congress since 1911, or from the Sixty-second to the Sixty-fourth congresses,inclusive. He was born in Franklin County, Georgia, in 1868, and in 1891graduated from the law department of the University of Georgia. He commenced practice at Athens, which has since been his home. For nine yearsprevious to his election to Congress he served either as solicitor of theAthens City Court, or as solicitor general of the Western Circuit.