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3288 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSmotoring and finds in golf his favorite muscular recreation. He is president of the Newnan Golf Club. Of fraternal societies, lie is connected withthe Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Be and his wife are eminentamong the Methodists of the city and state, Mrs. Jones being an importantofficer of the Missionary Society as well as being otherwise active, and herhusband serving the church as a steward and as a member of the NorthGeorgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church Society.As the Thompson family is so closely associated with the affairs of GarlandJones and his wife, Lucile Thompson Jones, it is consistent that we shouldhere note the main details of tbe interesting achievements and high standingof Mrs. Jones' father, Berryman T. Thompson. In the metropolis of thestate his birth occurred, on February 18, 1853, his parents, James C. andLncinda G. (Shumate) Thompson, residents of Atlanta, but natives of De KalbCounty, Georgia. Berryman Thompson received a collegiate education, beinga graduate of the University of Georgia, from which he received the degreeof Bachelor of Arts. He became interested in law and gave twenty years oflus life to the study and practice of that profession. He became a resident ofNewnan. In 1877 he married Miss Susan J. Longino, the daughter of aCampbell County (Georgia) family. Two children were born to the Thompsons. Charles L., the only son, died at the age of twenty-one. The onlydaughter, Lucile, is Mrs. Garland M. Jones, to whom this sketch has frequently referred. Mr. Thompson's enterprise and ability have made noslight impression on the City of Xewnan and the surrounding vicinity. liewas one of the orgnnixcrs of the Newnan Banking Company, organized in1894, with a capital of $55,000, which has been increased by its earnings toits present capital of $125,000, its surplus and undivided profits now being$100,000. He was also one of the organizers and is the president of theMclntoah Cotton Mills, a company manufacturing cotton yams. This factoryemploys about 300 persons, giving support to approximately fourtimes that number. When organized, these mills had a local capital of$187,000, in 1906, and since that time has invested about ^00,000. Mr.Thompson, is. moreover, engaged quite extensively in the production of cottonand corn. He is the owner of several fine farms and is, indeed, interestedin every productive phase of human endeavor. lie has the reputation ofbeing a leader in all movements tending to the beat development of his cityand county. He and his son-in-law are typical Southern gentlemen with thetwentieth century spirit, progressive, genial and generous.H. Goss, M. D. Dependent in his youth upon his own resourcesin making possible the realization of his high ambition to prepare himselffor the profession which he has signally dignified and honored by his character and services, Dr. lslia,m Hamilton Goss is recognized as a man of specially fine professional attainments and as one of the really distinguishedphysicians and surgeons of his native state, where lie is engaged in the activepractice of his profession in the City of Athens and controls a business whichin its scope and importance affords the best attestation of his skill in and hisassiduous devotion to the humane work of his chosen vocation.Doctor Goss was born in Banks County, Georgia, on the 28th of April, 1853,and is a son of Rev. William Rayburn Goss and Elizabeth Ann (Mitehell)Goss, the former of whom was born in Elbert County, this state, and thelatter in Jackson County. The father of the doctor was nn able and honoredclergyman of the Baptist. Church and labored with all consecrated zeal anddevotion in his high calling until he was summoned to his reward, his deathhaving occurred in 1887, in Commerce, Jackson Comity, which had long beenhis place of residence. Ee was sixty-seven years of age at the time of hisdemise and was a member of a family that has given in previous generationsmany earnest representatives to the Christian ministry in the State ofGeorgia. His cherished and devoted wife, whose life was a veritable beat!-