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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3279years, and which still enjoys the favor and reputation that rewarded hisefforts in its behalf. The founder of a successful daily is a creator in a different and broader sense from the author of a book or of a character in fiction.He calls into being an entity, a living personality, which wields a power andspeaks with an authority greater than the person or persons who may bebehind it. It grows and develops with the times and yet retains the imprintand the character which its author has given it. As an editor, Colonel Thompson kept his paper aloof from party politics, but stoutly maintained the doctrines which gave its title to the first paper with which he was associatedThe States' Rights Sentinel. In Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah is agranite shaft with this inscription:To the Memory ofWILLIAM TAPPAN THOMPSONAuthor and JournalistBorn August 31, 1812Died March 24, 1882.Dedicated by the Savannah Morning NewsTo itsFounder and during thirty-two yearsIts faithful and able Editor,And by theGeorgia Press AssociationTo a distinguished and lamented member.WILLIAM J. HARRIS, member of the Federal Trade Commission since 1915,is a native of Cedartown, Georgia, born February 3,1868. He graduated fromthe University of Georgia, in 1890 with the degree of A. B., and in 1905married Julia Knox Wheeler, daughter of Gen. Joseph Wheeler of Alabama.For many years he has been identified with various mercantile, financial andinsurance enterprises. In 1890 he located at. Cedartown and engaged inbusiness; in 1907 organized and became president of the Georgia FireInsurance Company of Atlanta and of the Farmers and Merchants Bank ofCedartown. From July, 1913, to March, 1915, he served by appointment as adirector of the United States census and since the loth of the latter monthhas held membership on the Federal Trade Commission. Since enteringthe service of the National Government his official address has, of course,been Washington, District of Columbia, lie has been somewhat prominent asa Georgia, democrat and has served as lieutenant-colonel on the staff ofGovernor W. Y. Atkinson.MARION COLUMBUS EDWARDS. More than a quarter of a century has passedsince Mr. Marion C. Edwards began the practice of law at Dawson. Hissuccess as a lawyer has been accompanied by a large and active participationin business and public affairs. At all times lie has manifested a profoundinterest in those movements and activities which represent the best in a community's life, whether financially, socially or morally. He has b'een firstamong those men who in the last quarter of a century have brought Dawsoninto prominence among the smaller cities of the state.A native of Stewart County, Georgia, Judge Edwards comes of a prominent Southern family. One of his grandfathers was distinguished by servicein the Revolutionary war. The Edwards family located in North Carolina,having come from Virginia. The family name was founded in this countryby two brothers from England, one of whom located in New York and theother in Virginia, and the latter branch, from which Judge Edwards isdescended, was intermingled with the prominent families of Spinks andHornadys. Judge Edwards' father was also M. C. Edwards, and made ah