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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3145methods and every facility that will increase the efficiency of his work. Inthe summer he does post graduate work in some of the larger hospitals andschools of the country and has equipped the sanatorium with X-ray andother modern conveniences.And well might he rank with the ablest of his profession if there be anythingin heredity and environment. His father, Richard Thompson, andgrandfather, Adclison Edwin Thompson, were both doctors as well as severalmaternal and paternal uncles.Dr. Richard Edwin Thompson graduated from the Charleston MedicalCollege of South Carolina. While studying there the Civil war broke outand he enlisted, served two years and was taken prisoner. When the war wasover he returned and finished the course, and after practicing in and aroundAuderson, he married Louise Groves from Abbeville County. Her fatherwas a close friend of John C. Calhoun who often spent the night with them.They still live at their country -home near Anderson. William Calhoun wasthe seventh child.On December 26, 1912, Dr. William Thompson married Mary Hicks ofDublin, Georgia, daughter of Thomas B. and Margaret (Rowe) Hicks, bothfrom prominent families of that section. She is a most accomplished pianistand.tea'chcr having studied at *some of the leading colleges and eastern conservatories. She contributes her share in making the sanatorium a success,as she lived there for a year and herself managed the household department.She took special delight in making it as pleasant as possible for the patients.It is interesting to note that Mrs. Thompson's people were medicallyinclined, the two best known being her grandfather Dr. Henry Hicks ofJohnson County and his brother the late Dr. Charles Hicks of LaurensCounty, who was the first president of the State Medical Association and oneof the brainiest and most able doctors Georgia has ever produced.Dr. William Thompson is a member of the County and State Medicalsocieties and the American Medical Association. He is a director in the Southern Exchange Bank of Dublin. While he is a member of the PresbyterianChurch, his wife belongs to the Christian Church.Two children have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Thompson William Calhoun Thompson, Jr., born September 26, 1913, and Margaret Hicks Thompson, born June 24, 1916.R. C. NORMAN. Familiarly known as Colonel Norman, he whose nameinitiates this paragraph has won secure place as one of the successful, popularand representative members of the bar of his native city and county and isengaged in active general practice at Washington, the judicial center ofWilkes County. He was born in this city on the 23d of September, 1875, andis a son of Rev. R. R. and Mary (Gleason) Norman, the former of whom wasborn in Wilkes County and the latter in Oglethorpe County representativesof sterling old Georgia families. The father of the subject of this review wasreared to manhood in Wilkes County, received excellent academic and professional education and for fifteen years was one of the leading members of thebar of Wilkes County. He then became a clergyman, and as a minister hecontinued his earnest and devoted labors until the time of his death, whichoccurred in March, 1915, at which time he was sixty-two years of age. Hiswidow still resides at Washington, her sixty-first birthday anniversary havingoccurred in 1915, and the honored husband and father is survived by fivechildren, of whom the eldest is Colonel Norman of this sketch.Colonel Norman acquired his early education in the public schools of hisnative city, where he was graduated in the high school as a member of theclass of 1892. Thereafter he pursued with characteristic zeal and laudableambition the study of law in the office and under the effective preceptorshipof Judge William Wynns, of Washington, and in 1899 he proved himself