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3170 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSpresent time. He still continues his warehouse business, but has branchedout also into other lines, being a dealer in fertilizer, a director of the CitizensBank of Cochran and the owner of a valuable and well-cultivated farmingproperty. In the working out of his career, Judge Wynne has displayedintelligence, foresight and judgment. He has realized, that personal standingis an invaluable asset in business, and has therefore conducted Ms everytransaction in a manner that has left no doubt as to his strict integrity andprobity. He has found time from his many business responsibilities to giveto his community, and as a friend of education is serving as treasurer of theCochran Public School and as a member of the board of school trustees.When the County of Bleckley was first organized, Mr. Wynne was chosenas a member of the first board of county commissioners, and in 1913 waselected ordinary, a position which he holds at the present time, and in whichhe has established a record for faithful, dignified and conscientious servicethat may well serve as an example to the incumbents of the office who comeafter him. Fraternally, Judge Wynne is identified with the IndependentOrder of Odd Fellows and the Masons, and is secretary of the latter lodge,and a member of the Mystic Shrine. With his family he belongs to theBaptist Church, and here his abilities and energies also find an outlet, hebeing at this time deacon of the church and superintendent of the CochranBaptist Sunday School. Every good and progressive movement promoted atCochran finds in Judge Wynne a generous, active and capable supporter.Judge Wynne was married in 1885 to Miss Nancy M. Manning, daughterof Mrs. Lucy Manning, and to this union there have been born the followingchildren: Linton, born in 1889, and now engaged in business at Cochran;Mrs. U. H. Patrick, born in 1887, a graduate of Cox College; Grady, bornin 1893, and now the incumbent of a clerical position at Atlanta; Milletus,born in 1895, who is attending a business college.BOBBIE WYNNE. Since 1912 the incumbent of the office of clerk of theSuperior and County courts of Dodge County has been Robert Wynne, whois probably better known to his many friends and well-wishers as "Bob"Wynne. While he has been in public life for only three years, he alreadywields a distinct influence in civic and county matters, his capable dischargeof the duties, of his office having placed him favorably before the people as aman of strength of character, forceful personality and great capacity for ableservice.Mr. Wynne was born at Jacksonville, Telfair County, Georgia, January 31,1874, and is a son of J. D. and Emily (Alien) Wynne. His father, a nativeof Georgia, resided in Pulaski County until the outbreak of the Civil war,when he enlisted in a Georgia volunteer infantry company, which was attachedto Coley's Brigade, and served as orderly of his company. After a braveand honorable service he returned to civil life, taking up his residence atJacksonville, where he spent the remaining years of his life. He was engagedboth in farming and merchandising, having a large and valuable agriculturalproperty and developing a good business establishment, and was well andfavorably known in his community, being elected treasurer of Telfair Countya number of years and serving also in other offices within the gift of hisfellow-townsmen. He died in 1907, at the age of seventy-eight years. Mrs.Wynne was born in Cherokee County, Georgia, was there reared and educated,and still survives her husband, residing in Telfair County at the age ofseventy-nine years. There were eleven children in the family, Robert beingthe tenth in order of birth.Robert Wynne, as a boy, attended the public schools of Cochran, Georgia,, but received only ordinary educational advantages and was still a youth whenhe started upon his career. For a short time he gained business experience asa clerk in a country store, then entering the sawmill business, in which he