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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3183and successful planter and was also prominently identified with the lumberbusiness in Terrell County. He was born in North. Carolina, and the Pacefamily was founded in Virginia in the early colonial era of our nationalhistory. The mother was born in Stewart County, Georgia, where her fatherwas a citizen of substantial fortune and much influence.The public schools of Dawson, Terrell County, were the medium throughwhich Stephen Pace acquired his preliminary education. He continued hisstudies until graduating from high school with the class of 1908. Later hetook the course of the Georgia School of Technology in Atlanta, and finallyentered the law department of the University of Georgia, where he appliedhimself with characteristic diligence and made an excellent record as astudent. He was graduated with the class of 1914. Having attained oneobject of his ambition, the degree Bachelor of Laws, he entered the officesof Hon. James A. Hixoii, of Americus, with whom he continued to be associated in practice until he formed a law partnership with Thomas O. Marshall,in the firm of Marshall & Pace. During its brief existence this firm gaineda splendid reputation at the bar of the Southwestern Judicial Circuit.Mr. Pace is a loyal supporter of the cause of the democratic party. Heis a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, of Americus, one ofthe board of missions of the church, and is affiliated with the Sigma Nucollege fraternity, the Masons, and the "Woodmen of the World. He is apopular factor in the professional, business and social circles of his adoptedcity, and his friends are unanimous in predicting for him a great future.MAUEICE A. CAMEEON. One of the youngest men to occupy distinctiveoffice in county affairs in Georgia is Maurice A. Cameron, now clerk of theSuperior Courts of Telfair County at McRae, the county seat. In his twentyfirstyear, Mr. Camerou went into his present office several years ago as successor to his father, the late J. W. Cameron, who for many years had beenclerk of the Superior Courts of Telfair.This is one of the prominent ola families of this section of Georgia.Maurice A. Cameron was born in Telfair County, March 6, 1892, a son ofJ. W. and Mary (Paschell) Cameron. His father was born in Telfair Countyand his mother in Washington County in 1861, and she is now living atMcRae. The grandfather was Andrew J. Cameron, a prominent and wellto-doplanter. During the war he was active and influential on the Confederate side and had charge of the Confederate gun works at Milledgeville.J. W. Cameron was reared- in Telfair County, attended the old field schools,took up planting as his principal business, but became actively identified withcounty polities and for fifteen years served continuously as clerk of theSuperior Court. He was a member of the Methodist Church, and a man whosename stood for the highest respectability and influence in his locality. Heand his wife became the parents of eleven children, some of whom died young.The living, all of them in Telfair County, are: W. J., E. D., Max, Joe, Mrs.W. W. Simmons and Mrs. M. A. Burch, Misses Lillie and Josie, and Maurice A.Maurice A., who was the sixth in point of age, attended the public schoolsat McRae anfl the military academy at Atlanta. When still in his teens hebecame employed by his father as deputy clerk and during the three yearsspent in that capacity he familiarized himself with all the details of the officeand was equipped to a degree better than any other man in the county tobecome his father's successor at the latter's death in 1912. He was at thattime urged to accept the candidacy for clerk, and owing to his high individualstanding and the esteem in which his father had been held he was elected bya handsome majority. He was re-elected, and is now serving his second term.He is active in the democratic party, is affiliated with the Masonic order, theIndependent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World, andis also a working member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Cameron is