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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 2845this department may not be assimilated except after years of earnest study,, research, training and experience, and then only by those who have talentand. abilities beyond the ordinary. He is a valued member of the GlynnCounty Bar Association and the Georgia State Bar Association. A democratin politics, he was chairman of the Democratic County Executive Committeefor twelve years, but was forced to give up his connection therewith because- of pressure of legal work. However, he still takes an interest in politicalaffairs. He served bo.th as city and county attorney, and is now a memberof the board of county commissioners. Mr. Twitty has always been one of theforemost factors, in the promotion of movements calculated to be of benefit tohis community, whether civic, educational, charitable or religious. He is amember of the board of hospital trustees, is secretary of the Glynn CountyGood Roads Association and is active in the work of the First Baptist Churchof Brunswick, having been the superintendent of the Sunday school for thepast twenty years. He was for several years president of the BrunswickBoard of Trade, but this was another position which he was forced to sacrificebecause of his rapidly growing professional duties, which caused his resignation in June, 1914. Fraternally Mr. Twitty was a Chi Phi, Eta Chapter, Universityof Georgia, and is a Mason, being a member of Atlanta Lodge ofMaster Masons, Brunswick, Georgia.JOHN D. CAKSWELD. A well known business man of Savannah, at thehead of one of the largest general insurance agencies in this section of Georgia,John D. Carswell has a record of twenty-five years' business experience.He was born in Burke County, Georgia, February 28, 1868, a son ofJohn D. and Linda R,- (Royal) Carswell, both of whom were nativeGeorgians. His father was a planter, served as a private soldier in the Confederate army during ,the war, and died at the age of twenty-six in 1868,before his son John, who was the second of the children, was born. Themother-died in March, 1896, at the age of forty-eight.Joiin D. Carswell attended country schools, the public schools of Waynesboroand in 1886 graduated as Bachelor of Arts from the University ofGeorgia. He thus started life with the foundation of a liberal education.On leaving school he was employed for several years as clerk in the offices ofthe Central of Georgia Railway, and then entered the insurance field. Hispresent business is successor to the W. H. Daniel Company, long well knownin insurance circles in the state.Mr. Carswell is a director of the Chatham Bank & Trust Company, theSavannah Cotton Exchange, and the Savannah Board of Trade. He is amember of one of the college fraternities, of the Oglethorpe Yacht Club ofSavannah and in politics a democrat. He is also interested in military affairsand served with a Savannah company on Major Williams' staff.1HON. JAMES H. EVANS. In all that represents the highest civic idealsand personal rectitude and steadfastness, Hon. James Hezekiah Evans ofSylvania is one of the foremost citizens of Screven County, where his influence has been given to the furtherance of those things which conserve themoral, educational and material wellbeing of a community. The fullestmeasure of popular confidence and esteem has been conferred on him. Hehas served as representative of Screven County in the Georgia Legislature' since 1911, and has been active and efficient in promoting wise legislationfor the benefit of his home county and the state at large. Also he has proveda prominent factor in business and industrial enterprises, including banking,and a special tribute to him in the history of his native state is a matter ofpropriety.He was born in Screven County, Georgia, August 3, 1847. His parents,John Ruel Evans and Elizabeth (Lucas) Evans, were also natives of ScrevenVol. VI »-5