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3238 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSfall of Savannah, did good service in surprising and routing various British,detachments. In 1781 he had attained the rank of major-general and wasone of General Greene's trusted commanders. He was also prominent innegotiating treaties with the Creek Indians by which the state obtained somuch new territory. General Twiggs passed away about the close of theeighteenth century.LOGAN EDWIN BLECKLEY was born in Rabun County, Georgia, on July 3,1827, and in 1846 was admitted to the bar. To accumulate a small workingcapital he obtained a clerical position with the State Railroad of Atlanta andsubsequently secured the appointment of secretary to the governor. In 1851he opened an office for practice in Atlanta; served as reporter of the SupremeCourt in 1864-67; in 1875 was appointed one of the judges of the StateSupreme Court and served as chief justice of that body in 1887-94. Whetheras a practitioner or a judge he stood in the front ranks. Judge Bleckley diedat Clarkesville, Georgia, on March 6, 1907.ALLEN DANIEL CANDLER, governor of Georgia from 1898 to 1902, was bornin Auraria, Lumpkin County, that state, on November 4, 1834. He was graduated from Mercer University in 1859, and taught at Jonesboro until 1861,when he joined a Georgia company of the Confederacy. Before the war wasover he was colonel of the Fourth Georgia Reserves. At the conclusion ofhostilities he resumed teaching at Jonesboro and in 1866 was elected mayorof the town. In 1870 he located at Gainesville and became a leading contractor and railroad builder. He was elected mayor of Gainesville in 1872;served in the Georgia House of Representatives in 1872-77 and in the Senatein 1879-80. In 1882 he was elected to Congress and'served four successiveterms; was appointed secretary of state for Georgia in 1894, elected a secondtime by the people and served in that office until his resignation in 1898 tobecome a candidate for governor. He was elected in that year and reelectedin 1900. Soon after the expiration of his second term as governor he was commissioned by the state to compile the Colonial, Revolutionary and Confederate Records of Georgia, and was for several years president of the SouthernMutual Life Insurance Association. He died October 26, 1910. Three yearslater, June 3, 1913, a handsome monument was unveiled to his memory inAlta Vista Cemetery at Gainesville, Georgia. The shaft was erected in themain by public officials of the state, who had been appointed to office byGovernor Candler while holding the office of chief-executive of the State ofGeorgia. /On this occasion, Judge Hamilton MeWhorter, of Athens, made an addresspresenting the monument to the family, to the City of Gainesville, and tothe State of Georgia. Judge John S. Candler, of Atlanta, accepted the monument on behalf of the family, and Mayor Robertson on behalf of Gainesville,while Lucian Lamar Knight, compiler of records, also delivered an addresson this occasion, accepting the monument on behalf of the State of Georgia.In 1915, a new county was created in Georgia, to which was given the nameCandler in honor of the distinguished subject of this sketch. GovernorCandler's last public service to the state was perhaps his best, rendered inthe office of compiler of state records. It consisted in the preservation ofmany documents of priceless value to the State of Georgia. He became compiler of records upon retiring from the office of governor, and to the close ofhis life, he devoted himself without stint to the great labor of compilingGeorgia's records as noted.EDGAE E. POMEBOY. In the prime and vigor of an intellectual manhood,Col. Edgar E. Pomeroy, junior member of the law firm of Moore & Pomeroy,is claimed as one of the representative citizens of Atlanta. Since boyhood he