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3264 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSwho was born in Tennessee, a daughter of Dr. Sidney P. and Julia Ann(Hunter) Smith, who were also natives of Tennessee. After the Civil warthe Smith family removed to Rome, where Doctor Smith was known as amerchant, and was also a steamboat owner. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs.Dean have been born ten children, two of whom died in infancy, and briefmention of the others is as follows: Julia Frances Dean is the wife of DavidGordon Anderson of Athens, Georgia; Sidney Smith Dean is in the electricalsupply business at Rome; Joel Dean lives at Asherton, Texas, .and marriedLula Richardson of that place; Henry Ewing Dean married Nellie Stewartof Atlanta; Miss Marion Dean lives at home in Rome; Jane Adams Dean isthe wife of George "W. Miller of Rome, and has one child, Agnes Miller; MissCobbie May Dean and Lee Ella Dean are both at home.ANDREW EZEKIEL CALHOUN. For seventeen years Judge Calhoun hasserved steadily on the Atlanta criminal court bench. In that time he haswon distinction as a judge, and has conferred honor and benefit on his office.Judge Calhoun represents the best quality of the judiciary, and in his officialconduct has set some high standards in the dispensation of impartial, exactand scrupulous justice. He has given all the energy of his nature to hisprofession, which represents to him all the dignity associated with the law.Andrew Ezekiel Calhoun is the only living son of the late Dr. AndrewB. Calhoun, who for so many years adorned the profession of medicine inNorthwestern Georgia, and a sketch of whose life and*services will be foundin preceding paragraphs. Judge Calhoun was born at Newnan, the old homestead of his father, in Coweta County, Georgia, May 9, 1851. The fine oldcolonial home at Newnan provided the stimulating environment for his earlychildhood and youth. Judge Calhoun was graduated from the University ofGeorgia as a member of the class of 1872. He took up the study of law underthe preceptorship of Judge Hugh Buchanan of Newnan, and was admitted tothe bar in 1874. Thus his membership in the Georgia bar covers a periodof more than four decades, and he has been an associate of all the eminentGeorgia lawyers and public men of the last quarter century. He served asthe first solicitor of the county court of Coweta County, but after two yearsin that office impaired health made it' necessary for him to retire from theactive work of his profession, and for several years he sought health andstrength in the activities of the time. Judge Calhoun removed to Atlanta in1885, and resuming practice soon rose to a leading rank in the Atlanta bar.The municipal council of the city elected him city recorder, and he filled thatoffice nine years. In 1898 Gov. A. D. Candler appointed him, withoutsolicitation on his part, to fill out the unexpired term of Judge John Berry on ,the bench of the criminal court of Atlanta. In 1900 he was regularly electedto that office for the four year term, and by successive re-elections each fouryears has sat on the bench of the criminal court and the second division of thecity court to the present time.Judge Calhoun is a member of the Chi Phi fraternity of the University ofGeorgia, is a member of the Masonic order, and with his wife belongs to thePresbyterian Church. June 26, 1896, he married Miss Carobel Heidt, daughter of Rev. John W. Heidt of Atlanta, a clergyman of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch, South. Judge and Mrs. Calhoun have four sons: Abner "W., John H.,Andrew B. and James V."W. D. MEADOW, judge of the Circuit Court of Elbert County, was born inMadison County, Georgia, March 22 ; 1852, and is a son of Berry J. andElizabeth K. ("Williford) Meadow, natives of this state. His father, who wasan extensive owner of plantations and slaves, died in Madison County in 1852.Judge Meadow was graduated from the University of Georgia in 1881 withthe degree of B. A., receiving his law degree in the following year and at once