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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3231known for-his abilities as a pleader before court and jury, he is likewise considered one of the closest students of law in Carroll County. He has formedsome important connections, and is attorney for the Georgia Railway & PowerCompany, attorney for the First National Bank of Carrollton, and attorneyfor the Mandeville Mills of Carrollton. He has also served as city attorney.Mr. Newell is a deacon in the Presbyterian Church, an active democrat,has taken the principal degrees in ,Masonry and is affiliated with the MysticShrine, and also belongs -to the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order ofOdd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.On October 28, 1908, at Carrollton, Mr. Newell married Miss Camilla MaudMandeville, a daughter of Leroy Clifton and Emily Caroline (Richardson-)Mandeville. Her father is one of the leading business men and financiers ofCarroll County, organized and is president of the First National Bank ofCarrollton, the oldest and strongest institution of the kind in the county, andis also president and incorporator of the Mandeville Cotton & Oil Mills.Mr. and Mrs. Newell have two children, both of whom were born in Carrollton.Marian was born September 28, 1909, and Richardson was born November 29,1910.mWAKKEN AKIN CANDIJGR. During those decades that have peculiarlymarked the movement of the new South in Georgia one of the families thathave conferred greatest distinction of service upon the state is that of Candler.This service has covered several fields. "Warren A. Candler since 1898 hasbeen a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. His brother, Asa G.,is probably Atlanta's foremost capitalist and business builder. John S.Candler, another brother, has long been distinguished as a lawyer and man ofaffairs, and is a former member of the Georgia Supreme Court. There wereseveral others of the name whose lives were not without significance in thisstate.Bishop Candler was born in Carroll County, Georgia, August 23, 1857, ason of Samuel Charles and Martha Beall Candler. The original Candlerscame from England and settled near Lynchburg, Virginia. Bishop'Candler'sgrandfather, William Candler, was a colonel in the Revolutionary war, whilehis maternal grandfather, William Beall, was a general in the Indian wars.Samuel C. Candler at one time represented his home county in the State Legislature and was a state senator.In a home characterised by industry, honesty, intelligence and piety,Bishop Candler spent his early youth. His father was a merchant and planterand was able to give his children more than the average advantages. As a boyBishop Candler's natural vigor and health were developed by the work andsports incident to life on a Georgia farm. He was early distinguished for hisintellectual inclinations. Afte^ the country schools he prepared for collegeat Villa Rica, and in January, 1873, entered the sophomore class of EmoryCollege, where he was graduated A. B. in 1875. That institution gave him thedegree Doctor of Divinity in 1888 and in 1897 gave him the scholastic distinction of LL. D. In college he was a leading spirit in all its activities andespecially noted for his diligent habits of study, his power to turn off workwith thoroughness and rapidity, his prodigious memory and his originality ofthought. It was while still in college that he determined to turn aside fromother inviting lines of activity to become an itinerant Methodist preacher.Immediately after graduation he entered the North Georgia Conference ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church South, and took charge of. the church inSparta, the home of Bishop George F. Pierce. An attachment sprung upbetween the young preacher, then eighteen years of age, and the venerablebishop, which continued with increasing strength until the death of BishopPierce. As an itinerant Mr. Candler served on circuits, stations and as presiding elder until 1886. His appointment as presiding elder came before he