which followed the war as well as to the establishment of schools and the rebuilding of churches. He became President of the Conservative Democratic Club of Lumpkin county, and in 1868 was nominated and elected to the State Legislature. He was chosen Speaker, pro tem., and acted as chairman of the Democratic caucus of both houses. He gave much time to the bill establishing the public school system as required by the new Constitution. He was responsible for the two provisions "that the Bible shall not be excluded from the public schools of the State" and "that children of the white and colored races shall not be taught together in any sub-district." He was a member of the committee to investigate the official conduct of Governor Bullock, and also furnished much evidence to the committee which investigated the affairs of the W. and A. R. R.

While serving his county in the Legislature, he was nominated by the Democrats of the Sixth district and elected to the Fortyfirst Congress. He was re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, and was placed on the Committee on Printing, where he sug gested many reforms in the public printing. One of these in regard to indexes to the Congressional Globe meant a saving of $70,000. The change was ordered, but the publishers, Blair and Rives declined to perform the work, the Globe ceased to exist, and the Congressional Record has since been issued by the Government. Through his influence the United States mint building at Dahlonega, erected at the cost of $70,000, was donated to Georgia for a college. The North Georgia Agricultural College was organized, and for more than a third of a century Mr. Price has been President of the Board of Trustees, and in that time has not missed an annual commencement. The institution has no better friend. He has redeemed his promise to Congress that if the building were given for the benefit of the boys and girls of Georgia, he would devote the balance of his life to an effort to remove the dark lines of illiterary from his native State.

While in Congress Mr. Price worked for peace and harmony between the sections, and was consulted by President Grant about Southern matters on several occasions. When dying at Mount Gregor, the President sent his warmest love and friendship to his Georgia friend. During his last term Mr. Price made but two speeches. The first was on the Ku Klux Bill, and dealt with the unjust charges against the Southern people. The latter speech, made on February 13, 1873, was on water transportation, and was extensively read in the North. It was intended to open the way for discussing the Atlantic and Great Western Canal, for the surveying of which Mr. Price procured an appropriation of $50,000. He also discussed the Panama Canal, which, after a lapse of more than thirty years has become assured.

For several years he was a member and President of the Lumpkin county Board of Education, during which time he personally superintended the building of about thirty new school houses for both the whites and blacks. He has frequently represented his county in the Legislature where he framed and had enacted most of the mining laws now on the statute books. He was President, pro tem, of the Senate, in 1872. He has been Mayor of Dahlonega for a number of years, and was a leader in the establishment of the graded school system of that city.

He has already passed the age of three score and ten and has been a useful man in his day and generation.

G. R. GLENN.

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William Charles Adamson.

ILLIAM CHARLES ADAMSON, of Carrollton, was born at Bowdon, August 13, 1854. His earliest known. ancestor in America, Basil Adamson, a follower of William Penn, emigrated from London to Pennsylvania in 1691 or '92. He removed from Pennsylvania to Montgomery county, Maryland, and married Nancy Spiers, who bore him five eons and three daughters. One son, Greenbery Adamson, moved to Washington, Ga. His grandson, John Whitfield Adamson, married Mary Ann McDaniel. After a short residence in Clayton county, they removed to Carroll county, where their son, the subject of this sketch, was born.

The elder Adamson was both merchant and farmer, so the son was reared partly in the village and partly in the country. Guided by a father whose honesty, industry, and good judgment were reinforced by a mother, whose sweet influence gave direction to the intellectual and spiritual life of her son, young Adamson learned many practical lessons as he went on errands, or drove a team or worked about home, or field or store.

He received his preparatory training in the schools of his native village. Entering Bowdon College, he was graduated from that institution at the age of twenty, with the degree of A.B., and later received the honorary degree of A.M.

He yielded to his father's desire that he should become a lawyer, and, after reading law under Hon. Sampson W. Harris, was admitted to the bar in October, 1876, and has since resided in Carrollton. He built up a large practice in the Circuit, Supreme, and Federal Courts. He always frankly advised against litigation, except when he believed his client had a good cause.

From 1885 to '89 he was Judge of the City Court of Carrollton, and City Attorney for a number of years. He was a Pres

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