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3314 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSCounty. His family has long been distinguished in Georgia. His fatherwas a prominent lawyer of his time and was the first solicitor-general of theOconee Judicial Circuit. His great-grandfather, Thomas McCall, was thefirst surveyor-general of Georgia, while his great-great uncle, Hugh McCall.wrote the first historical account of Georgia.Mr. Stanley was educated in the public schools of his home city, andearly entered newspaper work. He is one of the proprietors, of the DublinCourier-Herald, one of the leading weeklies and small dailies of the state.He has taken part as a member of the Georgia Weekly Press Association,of which1 he was formerly a president, and is now its corresponding secretary, and for a number of years has been a factor in the home affaire ofDublin. For seven years he was a member of the Board of Education andfor three years its president. He was instrumental in securing the moneyfrom Andrew Carnegie for a public library for Dublin and was for a numberof years a member of the municipal library board. As a member of theDublin Board of Trade he was especially active and created its catchy slogan,"The only city in Georgia 'Dublin' all the time." In military affairs heserved as first lieutenant and captain in the Georgia National Guard andas lieutenant-colonel and aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor W. Y. Atkinson.In the Knights of Pythias order he is a past grand chanceller of theGrand Lodge of Georgia, held the position of lieutenant and captain in themilitary branch of that order and is now colonel and assistant quartermastergeneralof the Georgia Brigade. Politically, he is a democrat.December 31, 1890, Mr. Stanley married Miss Ethel Stubbs, daughter ofthe late Col. John Madison and Ella Tucker Stubbs. Colonel Stabbs wasa lawyer of marked ability and was the chief promoter of the Macon, Dublin& Savannah Railroad,, of which he was general counsel for a number ofyears. Dr. Nathan Tucker, Mrs. Stanley's maternal grandfather, was oneof the most distinguished physicians of his time in Middle Georgia, and wasthe medical adviser of the late Governor George M. Troup.To Mr. and Mrs. Stanley were born four children, Lytton MeCall, MaudeStubbs, Harry McCall and John Madison, the latter now deceased. Mr.Stanley has offices in the State Capitol at Atlanta, resides in Decatur, thoughhis permanent address is Dublin.VIVIAN LEE STANLEY. It is only the unusual citizen who can occupysuch a distinguished position and exercise such influence in a community asVivian Lee Stanley in Dublin and Laurens County. What is teue of Mr.Stanley, who is now serving as postmaster of Dublin, has been true of theStanley family since the very earliest settlement of Laurens County. Whileclosely identified with social and civic affairs, the Stanleys have been notedfor their independence of thought and action ever since the beginning ofsettlement here. In the early days when the Stanleys were among the firstfamilies of Laurens County along with such others as the Guytons, the Troups.the Tuckers, the Blackshears, and the Fordhams, it was customary and conventional according to the standards of the time for all such prominentfamilies to have wine cellars in their homes. The Stanleys were a notableexception, and they stood for prohibition and temperance at a time whensuch ideas had hardly gained root in the public conscience.It was at Dublin in Laurens County that Vivian Lee Stanley was bornJanuary 6, 1870. His parents were Capt. Rollin A. and Martha R. (Lowther)Stanley. Both parents were born in Laurens County. Captain Rollinwas a son of Ira and Janet Harris (McCall) Stanley. Janet Harris McCallwas one of the Southern belles of her time, and at a banquet given in honorof General LaFayette, during his visit to the United States and while he wasentertained at Savannah, she was a .guest. Her father, Thomas McCall, wasthe first surveyor-general of Georgia, and was a well known figure in early