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. GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 2819Savannah, and served in the United States Senate about the time GroverCleveland was President of the United States. He removed to Savannah in1891 and at the time of his death in 1902 was serving as judge of the SuperiorV" Court; He passed aw?y at the age of sixty-four. During the war he held therank of captain and was also brevet major on the staff of Gen. Howell Cobb.His wife was a native of Athens,.Georgia, and daughter of Lieut-Col. LewisStevenson Craig of the United States Army. She died in 1880 at the age ofthirtv^wo. Thcif five children. were Pope, James, Elizabeth, David andCraig.Dr. Craig Barrow was reared in Athens, attended the public school there,and in 1896 graduated Bachelor of Arts from the University of Georgia.Por his professional preparation he entered the University of Maryland atBaltimore, where he was graduated in 1900, and for twelve months aftergraduation pursued his studies abroad, particularly at the University of Breslau,Germany, He has made somewhat of a specialty in surgery and diseasesof children.Beginning practice at Savannah in the fall of 1902, he has since remainedin that city, and is now medical director and superintendent of the GeorgiaInfirmary and head physician of children's department of the Telfair Hospital and is surgeon for the Seaboard Railroad and Merchants & MinersTransportation Company. He is a member of the Chatham County and StateMedical societies, the Southern Medical Association, and the American Medical Association. He is active in the work of the Young Men's ChristianAssociation, is a democrat in politics, and for several years held the office ofalderman up to 1913.In January, 1906, Doctor Barrow married Miss Elfrida De Renne. Theyare the parents of three children: Craig Barrow, Jr., born in October, 1906;Elfrida Harrow, born in October, 1909; and Muriel, born December 23, 1913.These children were all born in Savannah and the oldest is now attendingschool.HKNRY MORBELL ATKINSON. As one of the leading citizens of Atlanta, ofGeorgia and of the South, and a man who is identified with most of theimportant enterprises of his state, Henry Morrell Atkinson stands prominently in the public eye. His career has been varied, and includes a picturesque period of pioneering in the West. Since turning his attention tobusiness, twenty-nine years ago, he has successfully launched more than oneconcern and has been a factor in the development of the South and of theState of Georgia in particular. He is best known, probably, as a bankerand in connection with transportation, and his street and electric light andpower interests are large anvl valuable. Mr. Atkinson was born November13, 1862, at Brookline, Massachusetts, his parents being George and Elizabeth(Staigg) Atkinson. On both sides of the family he is descended from earlycolonial settlers, and his paternal ancestors were natives of Lancashire,England, who came to America and settled at Boston in 1635.The early education of Henry M. Atkinson was received in the privateschools of Boston, and he then entered Harvard University and graduatedfrom that institution in 1884 with the degree of Bachelor of Art. Afterleaving college he went to the West and spent the years of 1884 and 1885 onseveral Western ranches, returning to Boston at the end of the latter year.In September, 1886, at the instance of the late Samuel M. Inman, Mr.Atkinson came to Atlanta, Georgia, and entered the employ of the firm ofS. M. Inman & Co. in the capacity of cotton sampler and buyer.Shortly after coming to Atlanta, Mr. Atkinson became interested in theHome Loan & Banking Company, of which concern he was made vice president in 1889. In 1891 he and his associates organized the Soxithern Banking& Trust Company. This enterprise, under his management as president, dida successful loan and banking business. Subsequently the Southern Banking