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GEOKGIA AND GEORGIANS . 3139ney Eskridge, who was for many years an Atlanta wholesale merchant, butis now retired. Doctor Eskridge graduated from the University of NorthCarolina in 1902 arid in 1904 graduated from the Southern College ofPharmacy at Atlanta. He soon turned his attention from pharmacy to medicine and in 1907 graduated from the International Medical Missionary College, then located at Atlanta, but now at Chicago. From 1904 to 1907, whilepursuing the study of medicine, he was an apothecary in the Grady Hospitalat Atlanta. During 1907-08 he was house surgeon at the Presbyterian Hospital in Atlanta, and in 1908 took 'his degree from the Georgia College ofEclectic Medicine and Surgery at Atlanta.In 1908-09 Doctor Eskridge was assistant to tlj£ professor in physiologyin the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons. During 1909-10 he tooka special course at Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore. He held thechair of professor of bacteriology and pathology in the Southeastern DentalCollege in 1913, and in 4911 was appointed a delegate to the InternationalTuberculosis Congress at Rome, Italy.At the present time Doctor Eskridge is chief surgeon of the StandardInsurance Company, consulting surgeon of the Pacific Mutual InsuranceCompany, division surgeon for the Seaboard Airline Railway, and is vicepresident of the Railway Surgeons Association of the Atlantic Seaboard,is visiting surgeon to the Atlanta Hospital, the Fair Haven Infirmary,assistant visiting surgeon to Grady Hospital, and is state medical director ofthe Modern Woodmen of America, and professor of Medical Jurisprudencein the Atlanta Law School; He has been actively engaged also in the privatepractice of medicine and surgery since 1907.In Masonry Doctor Eskridge has attained the thirty-second degree ofScottish Rite, is a member of the Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and is alsoaffiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His church is theBaptist, and his name is found among the active members of the AtlantaChamber of Commerce. On September 2, 1914, he married Miss ArthenePause of Atlanta.JAMES DAVIDSON. It is not unusual to find, in any community, that theleading and most representative and influential citizens are those who havehad a training in law and frequently are among the foremost members of thelocal bar. This is found to be true at Greensboro, Georgia, where James Davidsonis not only an able attorney and solicitor of the city court, but is also prominent in business life and is president of the Greensbor'o National Bank.James Davidson belongs to one of the old and respected families of GreeneCounty, Georgia, where he was born May 24, 1874. His parents, James andElla (Teller) Davidson, were born also in Greene County. The mother survives, being now in her sixty-second year. The father, the late Col. JamesDavidson, was well known in business circles for a number of years as a merchant and farmer. During the entire period of the war between the states,he served in the Confederate army and with distinction and was colonel of hisregiment. His death occurred in 1880, at the age of forty-five years. Of hisfour children but two survive, James and Mrs. Pearl Reynolds, the latter beinga resident of Chattanooga, Tennessee.Jarnes Davidson was mainly educated in the schools of Woodville, Georgia,and after a short interval he entered upon the study of law in the office ofJudge John Hart, where he so closely and ambitiously applied himself that hepassed his examinations and was admitted to the bar in 1892. He choseGreensboro as his home and field of practice and has been identified with itsinterests ever since. His advancement in his profession has been proof of hislegal ability and his connection with a large amount of important litigationhas shown him not only capable but honest and faithful to his clients and honorable to his opponents. Mr. Davidson, as president of the Greensboro Na-