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3176 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSCandler, county attorney for Pulaski County. For six years he filled thatoffice with such marked efficiency that he was reappointed, by GovernorTerrill, but resigned in order to give all his attention to his rapidly growingimportant private practice. Afterward, for eight years, he served as cityattorney of Hawkinsville. He has always been an indefatigable worker andthrough ability and industry has won an enviable professional reputation.At Hawkinsville, in 1904, Colonel Boyer was united in marriage withMiss Lena Lovejoy, who is a daughter of Hon. P. H. and Henrietta (McKinzie)Lovejoy. The father of Mrs. Boyer was mayor of Hawkinsville for ten. continuous years, finally declining to serve longer. Mr. and Mrs. Boyer havethree children, two sons and one daughter: M. H., born in 1905; Henrietta,born in 1907; and Lovejoy, born in 1911, all at Hawkinsville.In politics Colonel Boyer has always been a consistent democrat and is animportant factor in party councils. In 1911 he was a delegate from theTwelfth Congressional District to the Baltimore Democratic Convention in theinterest of Congressman Underwood. He is a member of the City Bar'Association, and fraternally he is identified with the Masons (Royal Arch), theElks and the Woodmen of the World. With a wholesome American man'slove of outdoor sports, Mr. Boyer may frequently be found enjoying both asspectator and participant healthful recreation of this kind.THOMAS 0. MARSHALL-, engaged in the successful practice of law at Americus,county seat of Sumter County, has gained and maintained secure vantageground at the bar of the Southwestern Circuit of Georgia. He controls alarge and important practice, has appeared in connection with a number ofnoteworthy cases in the courts of. this section of the state, and has provedan effective exponent of his chosen profession both as an advocate andcounselor.Born at Cedartown, Polk County, Georgia, April 8, 1889, Thomas OliverMarshall is a son of Stephen F. and Mattie (Waddell) Marshall. Bothparents still reside at Cedartown, and both were born and reared in PolkCounty, where their respective families were founded in an early day.Stephen F. Marshall is one of the leading agriculturists and real estatedealers of that county, is a resolute progressive citizen who has exercisedmuch influence in connection with civic and industrial affairs in his nativecounty, and is known and honored for his sterling character and his civicloyalty and public spirit. Active as a citizen at Cedartown, he is also aleading member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, while his wifeholds membership in the Presbyterian Church, both having held to thereligious faith in which they were reared.In the public schools of his native town Thomas 0. Marshall continued hisstudies until he had completed the curriculum of the high school, where hewas graduated in 1906. His higher academic training was gained in EmoryCollege at Oxford, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1909with the degree Bachelor of Arts. In 1911 Mr. Marshall was graduated fromthe law department of the University of Georgia, with the degree LL. B.At the same time he was admitted to the bar of his native state, and beganpractice at Quitman, the county seat of Brooks County. There he was juniormember of the law firm of Turner & Marshall. So well did he acquit himself in the early stages of his practice that after eight months he sought abroader field, and thus removed to Americus, Sumter County, where he hasmaintained his residence and professional headquarters since the spring of1912. He conducted an individual practice until October, 1915, when heformed a partnership with Stephen Pace, an equally ambitious and vigorousyoung lawyer. They handled their substantial law business together until thepartnership was dissolved when Mr. Pace enlisted in the National Guard in1916. Since then Mr. Marshall has again been in practice alone.