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3234 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSJohn Garland of Virginia and John Bacon of Virginia. John Garland was theemigrant and the Bacon family is the same as that of which Bacon the Rebel,who fought Governor Berkeley of Virginia, is a member. Mathew Hobson wasthe Revolutionary patriot at whose home the Council of Safety held theirmeetings in Augusta, and his daughter, Agnes Hobson, swam the SavannahRiver to carry important papers to the American troops. This Revolutionarysoldier, Thomas Carr, had two sons-in-law who won some recognition in Georgia, one being the first president of Emory College, Ignatius A. Few, and theother, Col. Nicholas Ware, being for many years a member of the UnitedStates Senate from Georgia. Ware County, Georgia, is named for him. In1824 United States Congress granted to Col. Thomas Carr's heirs 5,000acres of land in Alabama for services rendered by the committee, AndrewJackson, John Donaldson and Thomas Carr, in settling the boundary disputesbetween the State of Georgia and the State of Tennessee.Robert Lee Avary was liberally educated, attending the Decatur Academyand Neel 's Military Academy, where Charles M. Neel and Lyman Hall awardedhim the first honor scholarship to Emory College. He graduated from EmoryCollege with the degree of A. B. and took a two-year law course at the AtlantaLaw School. He graduated in 1890 with the degree of LL. B. at the Universityof Georgia.Mr. Avary has been identified with the Atla.nta bar since 1890, and hisoffices are in the Atlanta National Bank Building. His standing as a lawyeris one of ability, and he has been identified with the handling of a share ofthe litigation tried in the courts of the city and state. Outside of the lawhis name has its widest, appreciation as an orator. He distinguished himselfin college days for his eloquence and keen ability in debate, and that hasbeen a striking factor in his subsequent career. His interests and avocationsare not, confined to one sphere, and he is a stiident of a wide range of subjects and his services have been in demand as a public speaker on scientific,literary and patriotic occasions.Mr. Avary has taken a prominent part in the Emory College AlumniAssociation, in 1905 was made vice president and trustee and is now president of the association. In 1908-10 he was president of the Alumni Chapterof the Kappa Alpha Greek Letter Society. He has been secretary since 1897of the Board of Stewards of the First Methodist Episcopal Church South,and is now president of the Atlanta Stewards' Association. He is trustee ofthe First, Methodist Episcopal Church South of Atlanta.His home is at 18 Howard Street. On December 19, 1900, he. marriedMiss Janie Stephens, daughter of Col. John Alexander Stephens and MaryEmma (Sirnpson) Stephens. Their two children are named Robert LeeAvary, Jr., and Stephens Archer Avary.HON. H. A. HASKINS. The personal influence and financial stability ofHon. H. A. Haskins are the result of patient application to farming, prudentinvestment and conscientious discharge of life's responsibilities. After a lifeof probity and industry, in October, 1913, he was elected to the office of ordinary of Pulaski County, a position in which he has displayed marked judicialcapacity and high ideals of public service. Judge Haskins was born in PulaskiCounty, Georgia, December 9, 1848, and is a son of Ottowa and Elizabeth(Burkholt) Haskins. His father, a native of North Carolina, came to PulaskiCounty as a child, was here educated, reared and married, reared a family,and passed his active life in farming operations, in which he was engaged upto the time of his death, in 1857. Mrs. Haskins survived her husband for someyears, passing away in 1870, and both were buried in Pulaski County. Theywere the parents of four children, of whom two now survive, and JudgeHaskins was the third in order of birth.H. A. Haskins was given the benefits of a country school education in