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- GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS ' 2843He was born in Savannah November 27, 1881, a son of Antonio and AnnieJ. (Waring) DePogorsa. A few years after his birth his father died, and hismother subsequently resumed her maiden name of "Waring. Doctor Waring'sfather was a native of Spain, came to Georgia and located in Savannah whena young man, and was in business there until his death. He married one ofSavannah's most popular young society women, and the Warings are a veryprominent family of the South. Mrs. Waring is still living at the age offifty-eight. Of her two sons the older_ is James J. Waring, now practicingmedicine in Denver, Colorado.Dr. A. J. Waring had all the advantages of schools and a cultured home.He attended private school in Savannah, prepared for college at Morristown,New Jersey, and 'in 1903 graduated from Yale University. He continuedpost-graduate work in Yale during 1903-04, and in the fall of the latter yearentered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the medical department ofColumbia University of New York City, where he was graduated M. D. withthe class of 1908. For two years, from 1908 to 1910, he was an interne in thePresbyterian Hospital in New York City, and then returned to Savannah,where he took up active practice.Doctor Waring is secretary of the Chatham County Medical Society, andis also a member of the State Medical Society and the American MedicalAssociation. In college fraternal circles he is a Psi Epsilon, is a MasterMason, a member of the Savannah Golf Club and the Oglethorpe Club, andis a director and attending physician in the Oglethorpe Sanitarium. Inpolitics he is a democrat and a member of the Episeipal Church.On December 9, 1914, at Savannah he married Sue Cole Winburn. Thisis one of the prominent families of Georgia, and her father is president ofthe Central of Georgia Railway. They have one son, Antonio Johnson Waring, Jr., born in August, 1915.BETG.-GEN. JAMES P. SIMMS, one of the gallant officers contributed byGeorgia to the Confederate army, had no experience in military life prior tothe war. He was a lawyer, practicing his profession in the Town of Covington,Newton County, and on the outbreak of the war was commissioned majorof the Fifty-third Georgia Regiment. He acquitted himself bravely and ablyat Gettysburg, Cedar Creek, Petersburg and other engagements and in December, \1864, was commissioned brigadier-general. A few days before the Appomatroxsurrender his brigade, with the remainder of Elwell's Corps, wassurrendered. After the war he returned to his home and resumed the practice of his profession. He served, in the General Assembly, participatedactively in everything that would contribute to the rebuilding of the state, andwas an honored citizen up to his death in 1888.COL. CHARLES JAMES MUNNEKLYN, Confederate Congressman, and forfifty years a prominent citizen of Southwest Georgia, was a native of SouthCarolina, born in Georgetown on February 14, 1822.He was educated in Emory College, Oxford, Georgia, and studied lawunder the famous Judge A. B. Longstreet, president of that college. Thoughhe studied law and was regularly admitted to the bar, he never entered thepractice. His first public service was as a delegate to the Secession Convention, and he cast his vote with the secessionists and voted for the ordinance.In 1861 was elected to the Confederate Congress and during the war waschiefly engaged in organizing Florida troops and forwarding supplies to theArmy of Northern Virginia. Most of his property was dissipated, but hebravely accepted the situation, and among other public works in the development of which he was a leader, was the building of the Atlanta & Gulf Railroad from Savannah, later known as the Savannah, Florida & Western. In1884 the people of Decatur County, of which for so many years he had been