Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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RENOWNED BARRISTER CAROLINA GRADUATES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the third generation of his family to graduate from the South Carolina College. He has distinguished himself as a lawyer, orator, and financier. He has been a member of the legislature since 1892, is commander of the Sons of Veterans, and was a member of the ways and means committee of the house. He has been president of the Farmers and Mechanics Bank and of the Palmetto National Bank. He made the address of welcome to the Sons of Veterans at the general reunion in Charleston, and also delivered on ora tion at the unveiling of the monument to the unknown Confederate dead in the cemetery at Columbia. Robert Macfarlan, born in Cheraw County -in 1861, graduated at the South Carolina College in 1883. He married a daughter of Dr. E. S. i5 HON. R. I. MANNING. Joynes, of the University. He prac ticed law in Marion and later in Dar lington. He is a member of the board of trustees of the University. Gustavus Pinckney was born at Charleston in 1873, and matriculated at the South Carolina College in 1888, and graduated in 1891. He was a member of the Clariosophic Society and of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. He is the author of a Life of John C. Calhoun. He is now practicing law in Charleston. Attorney-General Uriah Xerxes Gunter hails from Lexington County, and was born in 1P7o. He graduated in 1892, and went to Aiken to practice law. He was associated there with Hon. 0. C. Jordan and with Hon. John Gary Evans, who, when elected gov ernor. appointed Mr. Gunter his pri vate secretary. Afterwards he moved to Spartanburg and took up the work of his profession there. In '898, he was made assistant attorney-general under Attorney-General Barber, and later uinder General G. D. Bellinger. In 1896, he was commissioned major on the staff of Brigadier-General Stop pelbein. He also held the position of judge advocate general on the staff of Governor McSweeney. Colonel Tom C. Hamer, born in Marlboro County in i868, graduated in 1891. He then went into partner ship with Judge C. P. Townsend at Bennettsville. He has been bill clerk of the house of representatives, and was clerk of the house from 1899 to 1909. He was lieutenant-colonel on Governor McSweeney's staff. He is also interested in farming. WV. L. Bass is a native of Willias-. burg County, and graduated at the South Carolina College in 1884. He has practiced 'law since then in Lake City, S. C. He has been distinguished as a legislator and is now the senator from Williamsburg. He has been a member of many committees, and is closely connected with the Audubon Society. - He was a member of the Euphradian Society. W. Gordon Belser, born in Sumter County, graduated at the University in 1900. He was a member of the Euphradian Society while in College, and is the only mian from the Univer sity who has won the first place in the Southern Oratorical Association. He is a member of the firm of Melton and Belser, practicing law- in Columbia. [EDITOR's NOT-We are indebted to Garlington's "Men of the Time" for many of the facts and dates used.] ENDOWMENT FUND AIDING STUDENTS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.) upon their personal notes, without in terest as long as they are in college, and at a low rate after their gradua tion. More than $100 is never loaned to.any one man in one year, and dur ing the five years since its practical operation was begun in 1904 more than ioo students have been aided in this way to obtain an education when otherwise it would have been impossi ble for them to do so. Some of these are now beginning to >ay back their D. R. COKER. loans, and about twenty men now in College are deriving benefit from the fund. As to the good that has been clone, we cannot estimate its benefit. But as the fund is continually growing and the loans madec are taken as an obliga tion of honor and alwvays repaid, there will be nu.merous citizens in South Carolina ini the iO ure wvho owve their education and perha'l~ .heir chances in life to the unselfish philanthropy of the alumni of the University of South Carolina. Write a yell!I The faculty have decided to meet twice a month instead of once a week as heretofore. Mr. W. P. Mills, M. A., 'o7, took honor moderations at Oxford on his recent examinations. Write a yell I ENGINEER GRADUATES IN FRONT RANK (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.) now undoubtedly the leading architect of Southwest Virginia. J. B. McBryde, son of the president of the University so well loved and remembered, graduated in the same class with both the degree of A. B. and C. E. He was first instructor at the University of Tennessee, but has been for some years professor of chemistry at the V. P. I., Blacksburg, Va. Chas. C. Wilson, of the same class as A. B . of the class 1888 C. E., and the class of i9oo A. M., is thus thrice . an alumnus. He was first assistant engineer of the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad and subse quently engineer in charge of location, Carolina Southern Railway. He after wards located at Roanoke, Va., as a member of the firm of Wilson & Hug gins, architects and engineers. In 1896 .8 MR. LEWIS W. PIARKER. he moved to Columbia and became city engineer, which position he held until 1899. Since that time lie has been in general practice, first as member of the firm of Wilson & Edwards, then alone, and now as a member of the firm of Wilson, Sompayrac & Urqu hart. Mr. 'Wilson's work is well known here andl he has recently been elected architect of the University with the idea of his developing plans for the future growth. His first work along this line is the beautiful building re cently erected. His work is seen all over the State, and he has worked in at least six or seven other States. He is a member of the Aicrican Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Institute of Architects. HIe completed his studies in Europe. G. E. Shand gradluated in 1887 and then spent one year at Cornell Uni versity. He went into general practice as architect and engineer in Columbia, first as a member of the firm of W. 13. Smith Whaley & Co., and afterwards of the firm of Shand &,LaFaye. Mr. Shandl built all the mills in Co lumbia save one, the mills at Union, Warrenville, Camden, Orangeburg, and at other places in the State, also mills in Atlanta, Birmingham, and one ini New England. IHe designed build ipgs of four of the banks in Columbia. 4r. Shand, too, is a member of the Society of Civil 'Engineers. J. H. McClure graduated in 1887. IHe was successively assistant engin eer, resident engineer and division en g{neer on the South Bound Railroad and the Seaboardi Air TLine ailroam. He afterwards went into railroad en gineering and mining engineering in Texas, and the Southwest, and held important positions. He is now chief engineer with the Richmond and Ches apeake Railroad Co. W. A. Edwards graduated in 1888. He at first engaged in manufactures. Afterwards he went to Roanoke, Va., and went into architecture with C. C. Wilson. He came to Columbia and practiced in the firm of Wilson & Ed wards. In 1902 lie established the firm of Edwards & Walter, which firm is still in existence. The firm is now located in Atlanta, Ga. This firm has done a great deal of work in the State and in six other States. They have recently been elected architects for higher educational board of Florida, and in that capacity have in charge the designing and develop ing the State University, the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute, and the College for Women. The Taylor school of this city and the Model school and dormitories at Winthrop is their work. A. T. Harden graduated in 1980. He was employed first as an engineer on a North Carolina railroad, where his work, coming under the observation of Chauncey M. Depew, the latter of fered him a place on the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, where he has risen so rapidly that he is now assistant general manager with offices in New York City. E. H. Anderson graduated in 1890. He entered the works of the General Electric Works at Schenectady as a student and at once attracted the at tention of the management. He has recently reached the position of chief H1ON. E. M. RUCKER. designer in their railroad department. He has done some notably original work in the designing of electric loco motives used in the New York ter minals on the New York and Hudson River Railroad. A. F. McKissick graduated in 1890. He graduated at the head of his class. He became professor of electrical en gineering at the Alabama Polytech nical School. He left this work to be come engineering expcrt for several mills in this State and was afterwards p)residenlt and treasurer of the Gren dell Mills at Greenwood, S. C., and the Ninety-Six Mills. There are many othiers: Sompay rac, Cothran,- J. M. and D. R. Coit, A. C. Haskell, Jr., Gooding, &c., whom I should like to tell about, but I have reache.d the limit of the space allotted me. May these careers prove an inspi ration to the Carolnamn.