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3136 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSvaluable one. Finally after eight years, Doctor De Lamar felt himself readyto enter a broader and more prolific field, and in 1914 came to Douglas, wherehe was almost at once recognized as a practitioner of superior ability, andwhere his practice has since grown to large proportions. In addition to attending to the duties of this large personal clientele, he is a member of the staff ofthe Douglas Hospital. In a profession where advancement depends uponindividual merit and skill, Doctor De Lamar has won a very enviable positionand in his practice shows a comprehensive and thorough understanding of theprinciples of medical science and adaptability for the needs of- sufferinghumanity. His work has received the endorsement of public opinion and heis therefore accorded a liberal patronage. In keeping abreast of the advancements made in his calling, Doctor De Lamar has allied himself with some ofthe leading medical organizations, including the American Medical Association, the Georgia State Medical Society, the Coffee County Medical Societyand the Eleventh District Medical Society. While residing at Hamilton hewas honored by election to the office of secretary of the Harris County MedicalSociety. In 1916 Doctor De Lamar took post-graduate work in the hospitalsof New York City. He is a Mason and a member of his college fraternity,while his religious connection is with the Methodist Episcopal Church, inwhich he is steward.Doctor De Lamar was married September 26,1906, at West Point, Georgia,to Miss Jessie L. Mallory, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Mallory, of WestPoint, members of old and prominent families. To this union there havebeen born four children: Sarah Marion, who died March 8, 1907, ten daysafter birth; Edna Rebecca, born at Hamilton, April 30, 1909; Martha L., bornJune 28, 1913, at Hamilton; and Ledra Illes, born July 19, 1915, at Douglas.R. 0. BAKKSDALE. The president- of the Citizens National Bank of Washington has earned by his own efforts the confidence and esteem which are paidhim by a host of people in Wilkes County. He has an unassailable reputationfor integrity as well as financial ability, and for a number of years has beenone of the leading citizens in that section of the state.Though nearly all his life has been spent in Georgia he was born in MonroeCounty, Tennessee, May 3, 1860, a son of B. F. and Ann E. (Oliver) Barksdale,the former a native of Lincoln County, Georgia, and the latter of AndersonCounty, Tennessee. B. F. Barksdale in young manhood moved to Tennessee, was married there, but in 1863 returned to Georgia and settled inWilkes County, where during the rest of his life he conducted a farm. In1863 he enlisted in the Georgia Militia and took part in some of the concludingcampaigns of the war. His death occurred at the age of sixty-nine in 1901 inWilkes County. His wife passed away in 1910 in the same county at the ageof seventy-four.The second in a large family of eight children, R. 0. Barksdale attendedschool in Wilkes County, but was still quite young when he entered upon anextensive apprenticeship in business affairs. For a time he was bookkeeperin a store at Washington, and then became local agent at Washington for theGeorgia Railroad Company. His associations with that road continued forfourteen years, following which he was in the warehouse and cotton businessup to 1907, when he sold out. In 1907 he took an active part in organizingthe Citizens National Bank at Washington, with a capital stock of $50,000, andhas since been its president. This almost from the beginning has been-a prosperous institution, and has always been conducted on safe and conservativelines.Mr. Barksdale served three terms in the State Legislature from 1905 to1910 inclusive, and is now a member of the city council of Washington. Heis a democrat, and a Royal Arch Mason.On January 11, 1887, he married Miss Kate Foreman, daughter of R. F.