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2862 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSof the Presbyterian Church, to which her husband belongs. Actively interestedin the prosperity and development of the city of his adoption, Mr. Milner holdshimself ready at any time to cheerfully correspond with those seeking anadvantageous place of settlement.JAMES FRANCIS ALDINE CHAMBERS. To attain a high place among his fellows in a large community, where every man with ambition is striving toreach the top, is no easy task and can be accomplished only through the possession of the most virile qualities, especially those of energy and perseverance,backed by ability, courage and moral worth. The possession of these qualities by the subject of this memoir, James Francis Aldine Chambers, commonly known as Aldine Chambers, is sufficiently indicated by his presentposition as a successful lawyer and one of the leading citizens of Atlanta,where for a number of years he has taken a prominent and useful part in public affairs. Mr. Chambers was born in Clayton County, Georgia, March 8,1876, the son of John "W. Chambers, a planter and also a native of ClaytonCounty, who is now a resident of Atlanta, but retired from active businesslife. The family was founded in Clayton County by Joseph A. Chambers,the great-grandfather of Aldine, who went to that locality from South Carolina, and who was a planter and local minister of the Methodist denomination.His son James A., who was also a planter, and a justice of the peace in ClaytonCounty, where he was born, served in the Confederate army as a memberof the Fifty-third Georgia Infantry. He married Mary Ann Dorman, a nativeof Fayette County, Georgia, and daughter of Rev. Alfred Dorman, an itinerentMethodist minister.John W. Chambers, the date of whose nativity was February 26, 1855,chose for his wife lola Celestia Womack, who was born in Newton County,Georgia, August 25, 1856, being the daughter of Francis Womack by hissecond wife, Amanda Thompson. Their marriage took place December 17,1874, and resulted in the birth of six sons and four daughters, all of whomare now living, as is also their mother. These ten children are as follows:James Francis Aldine, who was the first born; Lulu Bell, now Mrs. ThomasH. Bryant; William Evans, purchasing agent for the City of Atlanta;Vinney Leal, now Mrs. Charles Wayne Smith; Milton Lester, who is the publisher of a newspaper at Winters, Texas; Mary Amanda, who first marriedRev. Charles Carson Elliott, a Methodist minister,, and after his death WilliamW. Fincher, a druggist of Canton, Georgia; John Rimbert, of Wichita Falls,Texas, who is in the service of the M. K. & T. Railway; Hewitt Womack, alawyer of Atlanta; Sadie Lee who married A. C. Burdette, and Walter Absalom, who is unmarried and resides with his parents.Aldine Chambers was reared on farms in Clayton and Fayette counties,Georgia, and in his youth attended the Jonesboro Academy in ClaytonCounty. In 1895 he removed with his parents to Fulton County, the familylocating on a farm in the western portion of the county. Here they remainedabout five years, coming in 1900 to Atlanta. At the age of twenty-one, whilestill residing on the farm, Aldine Chambers had begun the study of law, hispreceptor being Judge James K. Hines of Atlanta, His legal studies wereinterrupted in 1898 by the breaking out of the Spanish-American war and heserved one year as a member of Battery A, Georgia Artillery. The batterygot no further, however, than Chickamauga Park Mobilization damp. In1899 Mr. Chambers resumed his law studies under Judge Hines and Col.Walter R. Daley, the latter being now Mr. Chambers' legal associate. He wasadmitted to the bar December 29, 1899, since which time he has practiced hisprofession very successfully as a member of the firm of Daley and Chambers,their present offices being located in the Grant Building, Atlanta. His practice, which is a lucrative one, is of a general nature, including both civil andcriminal law. For six years he was attorney for the sheriff of Fulton County