Georgia and Georgians - the Digital Library of Georgia

GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3157became the successful candidate of his party. Sheriff Fountain has the recordof never having been defeated in an election. In his official capacity he hasaccomplished some of the most difficult of detective work. He is the kind ofofficer who has always been depended upon to take hold of any especiallyknotty business with determination, vim and energy ; and one of the principalreasons "of his continuous advancement and present standing is the physicalcare which he has taken of himself. "While he is known as a brave and fearlessofficer, he is a man of inild temperament, kindly in manner and decidedlyapproachable. Fraternally, Sheriff Fountain is affiliated with the local lodgeof the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. With his family he holds membership in the Primitive Baptist Church. While his official headquarters andcity residence are located at Fitzgerald, his farming interests are located inBen Hill County,,, where he is the owner of a handsome property, devoted togeneral farming and stock raising. He runs twelve plows, uses the mostmodern methods in his work, has good improvements of all kinds, and hasmade his farm more valuable by the erection of substantial buildings.Sheriff Fountain was fi.rst,married in 1887, in Wilcox County, to Miss MaryBrady, a native of Jasper County, Florida, who died in Irwin County, Georgia, in 1893. To this union there were-born three children: Charles Lee, bornin Wilcox County ; Henry, born in Irwin County ; and Mattie, who is thewife of M. M. Barnes, a farmer of Ben Hill County. Sheriff Fountain wasagain married March 14, 1894, when united with Miss Rebecca J. Walker, ofIrwin County, daughter of Samuel Walker. Two children have been born tothis union, one of whom died in infancy, and one daughter, Bessie, whosurvives. 'ARCHIBALD THOMPSON MAC!NTYEE was born in Twiggs County, Georgia,October 27, 1822.' He was admitted to the bar March 9, 1843, at Dublin,Georgia, and settled in Thomasville, where he practiced law until the dayof his death, January 1, 1900. He was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives as a Whig in 1849, where he gained much publicity on accountof his unique position as* regards the resolution calling for a secession convention. He was a Unionist until secession, when he became a colonel in theConfederate service. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of1865. In 1870 he was nominated for Congress by the democrats from theFirst District, which then extended from Savannah to Alabama. He was veryreluctant in accepting the nomination, and often said he would never havedone so had it not been for the necessity of defeating the republicans. Assoon as the democrats became dominant, he retired from politics. ColonelMaclntyre was a member of the board of trustees of the University of Georgiafor a generation or more.COL. IRAJF. SAGE, long identified with the railroad development of Georgia,was born in Middletown, Connecticut, April 4, 1848. In his early youth heshowed a genius for mathematics and after graduating from college chosethe, profession of civil engineering. He had the good fortune to fall underthe tutelage of John A. Roebling, the builder of the Niagara suspensionbridge, and at the age of seventeen he had advanced to the remarkable position (for his age) of the chief engineer of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. In 1868 he moved to Georgia and first became identified withthe initial construction of the Richmond Danville Air Line, of which hebecame the chief engineer in the following year. Later he became generalsuperintendent of the line,' and before reaching the age of thirty years wasmade the general manager of the Georgia Pacific Railway. Retiring fromsalaried employment in 1890, he built the belt line around Atlanta and theFlorida Central and Peninsula Railroad from Jacksonville to Savannah.During the last twelve years of his life he was engaged in various privatebusiness operations. He died in Atlanta, November 14, 1908.