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2816 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSthis city and Mr. Golucke owns other valuable city property and farming landin the adjacent country. Politically he is a democrat and none of his politicalfriends have ever found him disloyal. With his family he attends the Presbyterian Church.JULIAN MOSES BURNETT. Now the proprietor of one of the leading wholesale grocery houses of Glynu County, Julian Moses Burnett is one of the menwhom the world terms self-made, or, commencing life empty-handed, he hasconquered the obstacles in the path of sxiceess and has not only secured forhimself a large and profitable commercial enterprise and a substantial positicfnin the business world, but by his' efforts has materially advanced the interests of his home and business community of Brunswick.Mr. Burnett was born on a farm in Glynn County, Georgia, September 4,1863, and is a son of Julian Moses and Julia King (Taylor) Burnett, alsonatives of this county. His paternal grandfather was John Burnett, whomarried Margaret Moore, and both were born in Georgia, The great-grandfather of Mr. Burnett, Moses Burnett, was a leading planter of his day, whoseproperty included the present site of the thriving and industrious City ofBrunswick, where his great-grandson is now an important factor in businesslife. Silas Taylor, the maternal grandfather of Julian M. Burnett, was anative of Maryland and was the founder of the Taylor family in GlynnCounty. A' farmer by vocation, he followed the life of the husbandmanthroughout his career, and died on his home farm in 1870. The militaryrecord of the Burnett family has been a long and honorable one, from thetime that John Burnett, great-grandfather of Julian M., fought as a soldier inthe Continental army, being captain of a company of volunteers in the strugglefor American independence. Moses Burnett took an active part in the fightswith the Indians in and around his home community, and finally received adangerous wound. He was taken to the hospital at Savannah, but the redman's aim had been accurate and he died shortly afterward.The father of Julian M. Burnett of this review grew up in Glynn Countyand was content to follow the peaceful pursuits of farming and planting, butit was decreed that he should be a victim of war. During the struggle of the'60s between the forces of the North and the South, he was taken away fromhis home by a party of Federal soldiers and incarcerated in a prison at Washington, D. C., where he was kept confined until exchanged near the close of thewar. The hardships through which he had passed undermined his constitution, and while endeavoring to reach his home, he died in South Carolina, agedbut thirty-six years. Mrs. Burnett survived him for a long period, finally passing away in Glynn County, December 7, 1915, at the ripe old age of seventy-Time years. She was well known throughout this locality because of her manykindly qualities of mind and heart, and at her death left many sorrowingfriends.Julian M. Burnett was still an infant when his father died, and as a resulthis educational advantages were not numerous nor of especially good quality,being confined to attendance at the poor country schools then conducted inGlynn County. When he was nineteen years of age he listed to the knock of opportunity, and, leaving home with his savings, went to New York City, wherein 1882 he secured a clerkship. He found conditions hard, his country trainingnot having fitted him for the life of the city, but perseveringly set about tofamiliarize himself with the customs and usages of business, and in the meantime, to further prepare himself, managed to attend a business college for oneshort term. After two years in New York City, Mr. Burnett took up a proposition offered by the Yates-Shattuck Company, of Boston, Massachusetts, whichthe majority of young men would have hesitated in accepting. This companysent him as its representative to West Africa, and for thirteen years he remained in that then strange and unknown land, being principally at SierraLeone and the Gold Coast. From a minor clerkship he rose, step by step, to the