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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 2835less' no relation outside of- family ties is so close as that of physician andpatient and no memory can possibly be so short as to fail to recall the valueplaced on the doctor's healing presence, in times of sore distress. With allthe medical training possible to be secured every man could not be a realphysician, there are other qualifications essential. The medical profession atSavannah has many times been mentioned as a body of learned and sinceremen and even the younger members are winning reputation because of theirability in all directions. A successful medical practitioner belonging to theyounger generation is Dr. Everctte Iseman.Everette Iseman was born March 22, 1885, at Spartansburg, South Carolina. His parents are Simon and Helen (Levi) Iseman. During the warbetween the states, the paternal grandfather of Doctor Iseman, as well as hismaternal grandfather, Moses Levi, served as soldiers in the Confederatearmy and the latter was imprisoned at one time at Richmond, Virginia.Simon Iseman, father of Doctor Iseman, was born at Marion, South Carolina, and has been a prosperous business man in his native state for manyyears, first in the wholesale dry goods line and now in the wholesale groceryline at Manning. He married at Manning, Ellen Levi, born there in 1860, andthey have had five children: Jacob, Everette, Clarence, Lucille and Alline.Everette Iseman attended the public schools at Spartansburg duringboyhood, later those of Manning, secured his B. S. degree at, Charleston andin 1909 was graduated with his medical degree from the University of Maryland, having experience in the Hebrew Hospital and taking a post-graduatecourse of one year at Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore. In October,1911, Doctor Iseman came to Savannah, where he made property investmentsand has built up a large and lucrative practice. He keeps fully abreast withthe times, having membership with the Georgia State and the Southern Medical societies and the American Medical Association, and is a member of themedical staff of St. Joseph's Hospital at Savannah.On November 18, 1914, at Savannah, Doctor Iseman was united in marriage with Miss Albion Doris Smith, who is a daughter of Henry and CeliaSmith, a family of affluence and importance in this city. Doctor Iseman wasreared in the Hebrew faith. Politically he is a democrat. Upon his patientshe urges the delights and benefits of out-door life, much to their advantage.He belongs to the Harmony Club at Savannah.JEFFERSON R. ROACH. One of the younger members of the Statesborolegal fraternity, Jefferson R. Roach is thoroughly representative of the classof men who have won their way to position and professional success. Although engaged in practice only since the fall of 1912, he has already established himself firmly as a lawyer of breadth, soundness and learning, and atthe present time is the democratic nominee for the office of solicitor of theCity Court. Mr. Roach was born at Savannah, Georgia, October 14, 1889,and is a son of William B. and Emma S. (Proctor) Roach.Charles A. Roach, the grandfather of Jefferson R. Roach, was born inNorth Carolina, and at the outbreak of the Civil war joined the army of theConfederacy, subsequently saw much service, acted for a time as a hospitalsteward, and finally was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the volunteercavalry, which he held when the war closed. He subsequently moved to SouthCarolina and later to Bullock County, Georgia, and here followed farminguntil his death. William B. Roach was born at Columbia, South Carolina,and was ten years of age when taken by his father to Bulloch County, Georgia.He was reared as a farmer, but in young manhood went to Savannah, wherehe became a member of the police department. After several years in thatcapacity he returned to farming, and continued to be engaged therein untilhis death in Bulloch County at the age of fifty-one years. Mrs. Roach,a member of an old and prominent family of Bulloch County, still survives