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3320 GEORGIA AND GEORGIAN'Swho is a daughter of John A. and Mellie (Robinson) Kelly, now residents ofMontieello.Mr. Baynes has never abated his interest in the fundamental industriesof agriculture and stock-growing and through his active association with thesame is doing much to further the advancement of their standards in his nativestate. He owns and operates a finely improved farm in Jasper County, andin addition to raising cotton and corn he is giving special attention to theraising of thoroughbred Durham cattle and to the development of an excellentdairy herd of this fine breed.BYHON ROSCOE COLLINS, solicitor of the City Court of Blakely and memberof the prominent law firm of that city, Glessner & Collins, is one of the youngermembers of the Georgia bar, and attained success in the profession largely asa result of his own strenuous exertions to educate himself.He was born in Early County, Georgia, July 15, 1881, a son of Eugene S.and Emma T. Collins. He is of Scotch-Irish lineage, lie received his earlytraining in the common schools and at the agc'of fifteen qualified and taughthis first term. After that he made teaching his regular vocation, when not astudent in college, until 1906. In 1902 he graduated A. B. from Mercer University, and subsequeiitly took up the study of law, being admitted to the barin J906.From March, 1908, until August, 1912, he served as county superintendentof schools for Early County. He was then elected to his present office assolicitor of the City Court of Blakely and has performed his official duties inthat capacity since October, 1912, his term expiring January 1, 1921.Mr. Collins is an active democrat, and for the past six years has beensuperintendent of the Baptist Sunday School at Blakely. At .Colquitt,Georgia, June 14, 1911, he married Miss Alice Fudge, daughter of Mr. F. E.Fudge, Sr. They have one child, Martha Minis, three years of age.GEOKGE H. NOBLE, M. D. The achievements of a number of distinguishednames in American medicine and surgery have added no little fame to the cityof Atlanta. In the field of surgery unquestionably one of the first in Americais Dr. George H. Noble. His is a name which is mentioned as an authorityin any gathering of the greatest and best representatives in American surgery.A native of Atlanta, he was born February 25,1860, a son of James Noble.His father, who was born in England, was for many years prominent in business and social circles in Atlanta, and later a large iron manufacturer atAnniston, Alabama, and was one of the founders of that city.'His youthful years Doctor Noble spent at Rome and Atlanta, in whichcities he attended the public schools. In 1879, at the age of nineteen he beganthe study of medicine with the late Dr. V. H. Taliaferro, who in his time hadfew peers among Southern physicians. Doctor Noble was graduated M. D.in 1881 from the Atlanta Medical College, and after a few months of association with Doctor Taliaferro in active practice went north to take special workin the Bellevne Hospital Medical College and the Woman's Hospital at NewYork City. "While in New York he followed closely the work of some of themost eminent physicians and surgeons of .that city. He attended clinics atMount Sinai College and the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, and was underthe personal instruction of such men as Sims, Emmet, Fordyce, Barker andothers. It was by such training that his own splendid natural gifts werevitalized. Since his return to Atlanta, Doctor Noble's reputation has beenspread abroad beyond the limits of his home city, over the state, over America,and even into foreign lands. Those who have attended his clinics and followedhis work know him as a close student, an indefatigable worker, and a man ofcalm and placid temperament and with an almost marvelous co-operationbetween his mind and his hand.