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3262 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSthe State Society of the Cincinnati and for thirty years was a trustee ofFranklin College, which conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctorof Laws.In December, 1855, at Milledgeville, Judge Berrien performed his last actof political usefulness. Infirm in health and having passed his three scoreyears and ten, he displayed that tireless public spirit which had characterizedhis whole life, when, as chairman of the American Party Convention, hepresided over their deliberations. His death occurred after his return home,a few days thereafter. Shortly afterwards the Legislature named one ofour South Georgia counties in his honor, emphasizing the popular wish thatthe memory of the man who had contributed so much to the glory of thecommonwealth should be permanently embalmed in the affections of thepeople.WILLIAM W. BIBB was born in Amelia County, Virginia, on October 2,1781, his father, who was of an old colonial family, having been prominentboth in the civic and revolutionary affairs of Virginia. After receiving athorough academic education William W. Bibb was admitted to William andMary College, Virginia, where he remained two years and then repaired to themedical department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in 1801, with the degree of M. D., and began practice at the Village ofPetersburg, Elbert County.In 1803, being then but twenty-two years of age, Doctor Bibb was electedto the Georgia House of Representatives, and served two terms. Thence hewas promoted to the Senate, and while serving his first term in that position, in 1807, was advanced to the lower house of Congress to fill a vacancyoccasioned by the resignation of Thomas Spalding, taking his seat as a member of the Ninth Congress, on January 26, 1807. He was re-elected to theTenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses, and in 1813, when William H.Crawford resigned, being succeeded by William B. Bulloch as a temporaryappointee, he was elected by the State Legislature to fill' out the unexpiredterm of Senator Crawford,' and took his seat in the Senate on December 8,1813. He served through the Thirteenth and into the Fourteenth Congress,when owing to the indignation aroused through the country by the act increasing the salaries of congressmen, he resigned in 1816. He had been a,confidential friend and adviser of Madison, and the President offered himthe appointment of governor of Alabama Territory. This position DoctorBibb accepted, and served as its first and only territorial governor. The statewas admitted to the Union under his administration, and he was elected bythe people the first governor and inducted into office in November, 1819. Inthe summer of 1820, during a violent thunder storm, his horse threw himand he received injuries from which he died on the 10th of July, 1820, in thefortieth year of his age. He was succeeded in the office of governor by hisbrother, Thomas Bibb, who was the second governor of the state. GovernorBibb thus belonged both to Georgia and Alabama, and his name has beencommemorated in each state by 1 being given to a county.HON. LINTON ADAMS DEAN. Measured in the extent and importance ofits practice one of the foremost law firms at Rome is that of Dean & Dean,the senior member of which is Linton A. Dean, and the junior member hisbrother Joseph Edward Dean. The senior member has been active in hisprofession nearly forty years, and has long enjoyed a reputation for thoroughlearning, varied and broad experience in the law and in affairs, and a man ofsuch integrity of character as lends value to his leadership ,and influence inthe community.Linton Adams Dean was born in Chattooga County, Georgia, January24, 1855, and represents the best of Southern ancestry. His parents were