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3290 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSthirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, besides being amember of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine andthe Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, His deep laid political convictions make him an uncompromising advocate of the cause of the democratic party. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.On the 28th day of July, 1878, Doctor Goss wedded Miss Martha Everlcla.Montgomery of Fort Lainar, this state, she having been a daughter of the lateCaptain Montgomery, who served with marked distinction as a captain inthe Confederate army during the war between the states. Mrs. Goss passedaway on the 14th Jay of March, 1899.Doctor Goss's daughter, Agnus Clifton, is a graduate of Lucy Cobb Institute and the Carnegie Library School of Atlanta, Georgia, being now thelibrarian of the State Normal School at Athens, Georgia ; and his son, RalphMontgomery Goss, followed in his father's footsteps and became a physician.practicing medicine and surgery in the City of Athens. In 1901 he graduated at the University of Georgia with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, andin the George Washington University, Washington City, he was graduatedin 1906 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. After his graduation heserved four years as a member of the staff of physicians of Mount SinaiHospital in the City of New York, where he gained most valuable clinicalexperience, and since 1910, he has been practicing medicine and surgery.In 1903, Doctor Goss was married to his present wife, who was MissVirginia Campbell Anderson of Clarkesville, Tennessee, the marriage takingplace on January 27th at Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisiana.Mrs. Goss, on her father's side, is a descendant of the distinguished Nelsonand Cary families of Virginia, and on her mother's side, of the Oteys ofVirginia and Tennessee. Bishop James Hervey Otey, the first bishop of theEpiscopal Church of Tennessee and founder of the University of the Southat Sewanee, was the brother of her grandfather.HOWARD PARKiKSOX. Representing the first class ability andskill of his profession and enjoying a large general practice, Doctor Parkinsonis one of the young physicians and surgeons of Marietta who lias quicklytaken front rank in their profession. He began practice with an excellentequipment and the test of real practice found him qualified for this importantservice among the social professions. He is also regarded as one of Marietta'spublic spirited citizens, and represents the best stock of the South, whichthrough different generations has been identified with the agricultural, business and professional activities of Georgia and South Carolina."William Howard Parkinson was bom in Cherokee County, Georgia, August 21, 1878, a son of William Howard and Lulu (Dean) Parkinson. Bothhis parents were natives of Gherokee County, and the Parkinson and Deanfamilies have been represented in Georgia and South Carolina for a numberof generations. Rev. Thomas Parkinson, the great-grandfather of DoctorParkinson, was born in South Carolina and for many years was active inthe ministry of the Baptist Church in that state and also in Cobb County,Georgia. He married a Miss McConnell. The grandfather was also ThomasParkinson, a planter, slave owner and sawmill operator, born in Cass County,and for many years one of its foremost citizens. He married Mary Putnam,'who died in 1901 at Marietta at the age of seventy-nine. Her father, WorthPutnam, was for many years a planter and before the war a slave owner,and lived to the great age of ninety-sis years. The Parkinsons through allthe generations have been identified with the Baptist Church.William Howard Parkinson, Sr., father of the doctor, was bom at Acworth,