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3148 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSGibbs formed a law partnership with William David Tivraer, another younglegist of ability and energy, and this combination has already proved a formidable one in a number of hard-fought and well-won cases in the WayneCounty courts.Politically a democrat, Mr. Gibbs has taken an active part in the activitiesof his party since his twenty-first year, when he was chairman of the countydemocratic executive committee and directed the county forces during a successful campaign. His fraternal connection is with the Woodmen of theWorld, in which order he has numerous friends, as he has also in public andprofessional circles. While he has devoted himself whole-heartedly to his professional and official duties, he is also interested in agriculture and finds relaxation from his tiring legal labors in the cultivation of his valuable farm inWayne County.WILLIAM DAVID TUKNER. Although comparatively a late comer into thelegal world of Wayne County, William David Turner, junior member of thefirm of Gibbs & Turner, has already achieved prominence and popularitythrough the possession of a quick grasp of salient points, untiring energy andconsiderable oratorical gifts, all of which are valuable qualifications for professional success. At Jesup, where his legal labors have been prosecuted, hehas built up an excellent reputation.Mr. Turner was born at Ballground, Cherokee County, Georgia, July 12,1890, and is a son of William Henry and Mary (Hobgood) Turner. His fatherwas born in Pickens County, Georgia, and as a young man settled in BartowCounty, where he was for a number of years engaged in blaeksmithing. Hesubsequently moved to Cherokee County, but after a short period spent atBallground, changed his residence to Jesup, where he is now employed as chiefengineer of the city lighting plant. He is one of his community's steady, reliable citizens, a thorough master of his vocation and a man who has attractedto himself many friends. Both he and Mrs. Turner are consistent membersof the Baptist Church.William David Turner was twelve years of age when brought to Jesup,and in 1911 was graduated from the Jesup High School. Following this heentered the University of Georgia, where after two years of literary work heentered the law school, and was duly graduated with his degree of Bachelorof Laws. He at once returned to Jesup, where he formed a partnership withanother rising young attorney, "Willis Benjamin Gibbs, and the firm of Gibbs& Turner is rapidly becoming one of the strong combinations of WayneCounty. Mr. Turner now has a satisfying clientage and an enviable reputation for so young a man, the first attributable to the fact that from his earlyboyhood he has possessed the faculty of making and keeping friends, and thesecond to natural ability, enabling him to quickly grasp his subject, apply thepoints of law applicable to his case, a conviction of manner and a soundness ofjudgment which usually results in a verdict in his favor. He belongs to thevarious organizations of his profession and is a close and careful student, passing the greater part of his time when not engaged on cases in research andinvestigation. While he has had some experience in farming, of recent yearsthe duties of his profession have been too pressing for him to engage in theoccupations of the soil. Like his partner, he is a strong man in the democraticorganization in Wayne County, while his religious connection is with theBaptist Church, in the faith of which he was reared.CHARLES RITTENHOUSE PENDLETON. A well known newspaper writer,Charles R. Pendleton was born on a farm in Effingham County, Georgia, inJune. 1850. After receiving a classical education he entered journalism, andfrom 1896 until his death in 1913 was editor of the Macon Daily Telegraph.Mr. Pendleton served in the Georgia House of Representatives in 1882-83 andwas a delegate to three national conventions, those of 1896, 1904 and 1912.