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2842 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSFor two years Mr. Connor served as city attorney of Griffin. In 1912 hewas elected a member of the State Legislature, and his present term expiresin 1916. He is a member of the Spalding County Bar Association, is seniorwarden of the Masonic Lodge and also affiliates with the Independent Orderof Odd Fellows.On August 6, 1910, he married Helen Osman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They have a daughter Rosa. Mr. Connor outside of his profession isintei'ested in local industries at Griffin, but his principal hobby is the raisingof registered cattle, hogs and chickens, and he has a .well equipped place nearGriffin to carry out that diversion. He made a record during the war withSpain, enlisting in Company of the Third Georgia Regiment, and was withthe volunteer armies until June, 1898. He was mustered out as sergeant ofhis company. For some time Mr. Connor also filled the office of county clerk.HON. ROBERT L. COLDING. Though not yet thirty years of age, Robert L.Colding has made his mark in business and public affairs in Savannah, wherehe has spent practically all his life.He was born in September, 1886, a son of S. M. and Laura P. (Sibley)Colding. His father during the war was captain of a Confederate companyand afterwards served as a staff officer, and took part in many battles. Afterthe war he was engaged iii the cotton business at Savannah, where he becamewell known, and died in 1886 at the age of fifty-seven. During the yellowfever epidemic he served as secretary of the Council Board of Health and astreasurer of the city. Mr. Colding's mother was a member of the well knownSibley family of Georgia, and she died in 19Cfe at the age of sixty-eight.Robert L. Colding is one of a family of four children. His brother, H. S.Colding, is a practicing dentist at Savannah and his sisters, Florence andCarrie, still live in Savannah. Robert L. Colding attended the public schoolsand the Savannah Military Academy, and after completing his educationspent three'years in the laundry business, was then clerk in a bank, and forthree years was deputy city clerk. While in the latter office he took up thestudy of law and pursued it with characteristic vigor, and was admitted tothe bar in 1897. Since then he has been in a steadily growing practice, andis one of Savannah's strongest attorneys.He has served as a member of the city council, as vice chairman, and aschairman of the fire committee, and has spent five years as county attorney.He is a member of the Georgia State Bar Association. Mr. Colding takes aprominent part in fraternal affairs, particularly in Masonry. He has servedas grand master of the Grand Lodge of Georgia, as grand high priest of theGrand Chapter, also as one of the chief officers in the Grand Council ofGeorgia, has held official rank in the Knights Templar organization, and hasattained the thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite and is one of the officersin the Mystic Shrine. He is past exalted ruler of Lodge No. 183 of theBenevolent and Protective Order of Elks and has served as president of theState Association of Elks; he is past noble grand of Oglethorpe Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a member of the local lodge of Knights^ ofPythias, and of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.In 1894 he married Miss Annie E. Mclntire, daughter of Edward Mc-Intire. His father was for a number of years comptroller of the Central ofGeorgia Railway and died at Savannah in 1898. Mr. Colding's only child,Edward Mclntire Colding, died in infancy.ANTONIO JOHNSON WARING, M. D. Few young men bring to any profession better natural talent and a more thorough training than Dr. Antonio-Johnson Waring has brought to his work as a physician and surgeon.Although in practice only a few years Doctor Waring is recognized as oneof Savannah's ablest and most successful physicians and surgeons.