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3216 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSto Georgia was admitted to the bar and opened his office in Dahlonega, wherehe remained in successful practice until 1907. Since the latter year he haslooked after his large business as a lawyer at Gainesville.Colonel Charters during his residence at Dahlonega held the office of mayorduring 1886, also served with credit in the Georgia Legislature for two terms,in 1892-93, and again in 1896-97. On January 1, 1899, he took up his dutiesas solicitor general for the Northeastern Circuit, and spent twelve years, orthree terms, in the efficient administration of the duties connected with thatoffice.Colonel Charters is a member of the Georgia State Bar Association, is adirector in the Gainesville National Bank, is a Lodge and Chapter Mason andalso affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His church is the Baptist. On June 3, 1886,at Dahlonega. Georgia, he married Miss Belle Price, daughter of Hon. W. P.Price. Her father was one of the best known Georgians of his time, servedboth in the State Legislature and as a member of Congress, and has especialdistinction as the founder of the North Georgia Agricultural College. Of thethree children born to their union, one, Cornelia, is now deceased. GeorgePrice Charters, who was born in Dahlonega, graduated from the University.of Virginia in 1909, was admitted-to the Georgia bar in 1910, and is nowassociated with his father in the general practice of law at Gainesville. MissIsabelle Charters, also a native of Dahlonega, is a graduate of Brenau Collegeat Gainesville and is the wife of S. 0. Smith, of Gainesville.SAMUEL ELBEKT, who was born in South Carolina in 1740, was captain ofa company of royal British grenadiers when the Revolutionary war commenced, but at once joined the home cause and became a member of theCouncil of Safety from Savannah. He was a delegate to the Provincial Congress of 1775, was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of a battalion of Georgiatroops and was active in all the clashes between the British and Continentalforces which centered around Savannah. In the retreat of the Americanforces up the Savannah he was taken prisoner and held until after the fall ofCharleston. He then went North and was identified with Washington andLa Fayette at Yorktown and other points. In the Continental army hereached the rank of brevet brigadier-general and Georgia conferred upon himthe grade of major-general. At the close of the war he resumed his commercial pursuits at Savannah, served a term as governor, commencing 1785, andat the time of his death in November, 1788, was sheriff of Chatham County.HUGH McCALL, who has been designated Georgia's first historian, wasof a South Carolina family, members of which early settled in the CalhounDistrict. His father was an active officer in the War of the Revolution androse to the rank of colonel. Hugh was born in 1765 and for many years wasconnected with the United States army. By 1812 he had been promoted tothe rank of brevet major and was mustered out of the service in 1815. In1818 he became military storekeeper at Savannah and served in the samecapacity at Charleston, South Carolina. From 1806 to 1823 he was the jailerof Savannah and it was during that period that he wrote his two volumes ofthe "History of Georgia." The .first was published in 1811 and the secondin 1816. It is not considered a finished work, although much of the materialis valuable. After a lingering illness and years of physical suffering, MajorMcCall died at Savannah June 10, 1824.HENRY PARKER. The above mentioned, second president of the colonyof Georgia, was of English birth and as early as 1734 held the honorable officeof bailiff in Savannah. In 1741 he became assistant to the president of Savannah County, and years afterward became president of the entire Georgia