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2834 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSing. The father has been a merchant during his entire active business life,but now, in his seventieth year is practically retired. During the war betweenthe states he served in the Confederate army with noted valor and returnedto his home when peace eanie.Eugene Ragland attended the public schools of Dancyville iu boyhood andcompleted the high school course under the late Prof. Thomas W. Crowder,an educator of note at that time. Under his preceptorship young Raglandadvanced so rapidly in his classes that he was ready to enter the University ofTennessee at Knoxville at the age of eighteen years, and from this institutionhe was graduated in 1891 as a Bachelor of Science and on account of hisscholarship was awarded the university fellowship in mathematics, this honorcarrying with it the opportunity to remain at the university and continuehis studies as a post-graduate for four years, during which time he devoted. himself to English, Latin, German and psychology. Additionally during thistime spent at Knoxville he served as general secretary of the University ofTennessee branch of the Young Men's Christian Association, and still further, held the chair of mathematics in the university. As may be judged,his time was fully and profitably employed.In the fall of 1895 Professor Ragland came to Atlanta as assistant to Prof.Charles M. Neel, who, at that time, conducted the Georgia Military Institutein Moreland Park, which then was a suburb of Atlanta. Far two years hesustained that relation with Professor Neel and then accompanied himto Griffin, Georgia. Professor Neel became superintendent of the GriffinHigh School and Professor Ragland continued his assistant until 3899, whenhe accepted the tender of the position of teacher of science in the Boys' HighSchool at Atlanta. In this position he has found congenial work and environment and that his scholarly services have been considered efficient andsatisfactory, his long tenure of office seems to prove. Thoroughly qualifiedfor this branch of teaching he is at his best when so engaged and the proficiencyof his pupils when brought to a test, speaks well for the instructor, who notonly directs their enlarging intelligence in the right direction, but inspiresthem with his own enthusiasm. Professor Ragland is identified with variouseducational organizations, including the Atlanta Teachers' Association.On November 9, 1898, Professor Ragland was united in marriage atAtlanta, with Miss Anne Clyde Ellis, who is a daughter of Rev. Henry J.and Susie (Smith) Ellis, both surviving and aged about seventy years. Rev.Henry J. Ellis, who is now chaplain of the Georgia House of Representatives,served as a minister of the North Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church for more than forty years, but is now superannuated on accountof failing eyesight. He is highly honored in Methodist circles at Atlanta,having served as pastor of many of the churches and having built both theWalker Street and the Inman Park churches. Seven sons have been bornto Professor and Mrs. Ragland, three of whom died in infancy, the four survivors being: Eugene, Jr., Myron Ellis, Frederick Barham and HenryJossey, all of whom have been carefully reared in the Methodist faith.Professor Ragland cannot be included in that class of intellectual menusually credited with being somewhat impractical in business, for he not onlyis a large property owner here but has had much of it improved with highclass apartment buildings under his own supervision and has other profitableinvestments.EVEEETTE ISEMAN, M. D. Justly does mankind entertain a feeling ofregard for the members of that profession whose teachings urge and trainingprepares for the alleviating of the woes of humanity, as often mental asphysical. No doubt many earnest and faithful physicians have had reasonto doubt this attitude when their best services have been seemingly taken forgranted and accepted without remembrance of financial obligation, neverthe-