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3140 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANStional Bank, has also won confidence and esteem and is known to be as able afinancier as lie is competent in the law.On December 20, 1910, Mr. Davidson was united in marriage with MissAnna Belle Sandford, who is a daughter of B. T. Sandford, one of the leadingcitizens of Greensboro. Mr. and Mrs. Davidson have two children: James,the bearer of his father's and grandfather's honorable name, was born in 1912;and Deercourt, who was born in 1914, both at Greensboro.Mr. Davidson is a member of the Greene County and the Georgia StateBar associations and he belongs also to the Knights of Pythias. In his political views he has always been a democrat. He is a man of substantial character, sturdy and self reliant as becomes one who has mainly made his ownway in the world, generous and charitable when occasion calls for benevolence, and a shining example of that dependable class of citizens withoutwhich no community can prosper.MILES "W. LEWIS. Despite the large number of young men who choose thelaw as a career, this profession is like other avenues of endeavor, in that thereis always room and opportunity for those well qualified by natural abilityand education if accompanied by enterprise and sustained effort. In the lawno royal road leads to success, but, on the other hand, perhaps no calling opensso many doors to advancement in additional lines. Sordid business now requires sound legal advice and representation, and politics and public stationdemand services that can only be given through the experienced knowledgeand trained facilities that belong to the able lawyer. Among the prosperingyoung lawyers of Greene County, Georgia, is Miles W. Lewis, who occupies aprominent place on the Greensboro bar.Miles W. Lewis was born in Greene County, Georgia, September 10, 1881,and is a son of Edward T. and Harriet (Poulain) Lewis. Of their three children, Miles W. was the first born. The mother was born in Floyd County,Louisiana, but was educated and married in Georgia and still resides in thisstate. The father of Mr. Lewis was born at Oxford, Georgia, graduated intoarmy life when a schoolboy of sixteen years and served all through the latterpart of the war between the states. After the war he returned to his studiesand was graduated from Emory College, later became a lawyer of prominenceand was elevated to the supreme bench. Judge Lewis died in Greene Countyin 1903.Miles W. Lewis attended the public schools of Greensboro through boyhood and at the early age of sixteen years was creditably graduated from thehigh school and subsequently became a student, in 1902, in the academic department of the University of Georgia. From early youth he had enjoyedadvantages of an educational nature under his father and already had a fairknowledge of the principles of law when he entered the law department ofColumbia University, where he was graduated in 1905. He entered into practice at Greensboro, making his home here with his widowed mother, and hassucceeded in building up an excellent practice.Mr. Lewis is affiliated with the democratic party and is recognized as anable organizer and sensible advisor. He retains his membership in the collegeGreek fraternities in which he was a welcome comrade during student days.His manner impresses a stranger very favorably and to his large circle ofpersonal friends he is so cordial and sincere that they are justified in theirconfidence and esteem.WALLACE FRASER MILLS. One of the representative members of the Liberty County legal fraternity, Wallace Fraser Mills has within the period ofthree short years won a substantial reputation through earnest, honest labor,and his standing at the bar is a merited tribute to ability of a superior order.It is all the more satisfying, in that it has been attained through his own