Wylie, Lollie Belle

Laura Isabelle "Lollie Belle" Moore Wylie (1858-1923) was born in Alabama to Thomas Polk Moore (1833-1859) and Augusta Ellis Moore (1836?-1907?). In 1865 the Moore family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where they remained. In 1877 Lollie Belle married Hart Wylie (1855-1962) and had two daughters, Augusta "Gussie" Louisa (1879-1954) and Hart (1885-1962). Lollie Belle was a journalist, author, poet, and musician. After the death of her husband, she took a job as society editor at the Atlanta journal thus becoming the first woman to have a paid position on a daily newspaper in the South. She later edited two small periodicals titled The butterfly and Society. She wrote numerous poems and short stories, and composed the music for the state song of Georgia. Her published books of poetry were Legend of the Cherokee Rose (1887) and The Arcade (1916).

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was an "American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist who acquired international fame for his travel narratives, especially The Innocents Abroad (1869), Roughing It (1872), and Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his adventure stories of boyhood, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). A gifted raconteur, distinctive humorist, and irascible moralist, he transcended the apparent limitations of his origins to become a popular public figure and one of America's best and most beloved writers." -- "Twain, Mark" from Encyclopaedia Britannica, http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9073929 (Accessed May 27, 2009)

Richard Harding Davis was the "U.S. author of romantic novels and short stories and the best known reporter of his generation." -- "Davis, Richard Harding." Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Academic ed. http://search.eb.com/ (Retrieved May 27, 2010)

"Edwards, Harry Stillwell (23 Apr. 1855-22 Oct. 1938), author, was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of James Carson Edwards, a minor poet, and Elizabeth Griffing Hunt. At fifteen Edwards went to Washington, D.C., as a clerk in the Treasury Department, but after three years he became homesick and returned to Macon where, after his graduation from Mercer University in 1881, he practiced law briefly before entering upon a long journalistic career, beginning as social editor of the Macon Telegraph. He became associate editor and joint owner of the Telegraph in 1881, the same year that he married Mary Roxie Lane of Sparta, Georgia. From 1887 to 1888, he held an editorial position with the Macon Evening News and the Sunday Times. During and after his editorial career he held a variety of political posts, including Macon postmaster, from 1900 to 1913, and delegate-at-large to the 1904 Republican National Convention, where he seconded the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919). As federal court referee for Georgia he certified the credentials of party delegates and representatives for seven years during the Roosevelt administration. In 1920 he ran as an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate; later, in 1925, he was instrumental in securing the issue of the Stone Mountain Memorial half-dollar... In 1919 Edwards published what is generally considered his masterpiece, Eneas Africanus." -- "Harry Stillwell Edwards." American National Biography Online. http://search.eb.com/ (Retrieved May 27, 2010)

"Joel Chandler Harris gained national prominence for his numerous volumes of Uncle Remus folktales. Harris's long-standing legacy as a "progressive conservative" New South journalist, folklorist, fiction writer, and children's author continues to influence our society today." - "Joel Chandler Harris." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved August 1, 2008)

Jack London was an "American novelist and short-story writer whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. He is one of the most extensively translated of American authors."--"London, Jack." Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. 19 Feb. 2008 .

Orth H. Stein and Henry Wellington Wack were writers.

"A mid-nineteenth-century politician, Howell Cobb served as congressman (1843-51; 1855-57), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1849-51), governor of Georgia (1851-53), and secretary of the treasury (1857-60). Following Georgia's secession from the Union in 1861, he served as president of the Provisional Confederate Congress (1861-62) and a major general of the Confederate army." - "Howell Cobb." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved July 25, 2008)

"Thomas R. R. Cobb was one of antebellum Georgia's foremost legal authorities and most outspoken advocates of slavery and of secession from the Union. He fought for the Confederacy as a brigadier general and was killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862. ... In 1854 his sister, Laura Cobb Rutherford, appealed for a female high school in Athens. Cobb responded by raising money and organizing a group of trustees to form the Athens Female High School. The school opened in January 1859 and was soon renamed the Lucy Cobb Institute in honor of Cobb's eldest daughter, who died of fever at age thirteen in 1858. Cobb was also instrumental in reorganizing and expanding the University of Georgia. In 1859 he established the Lumpkin Law School with the aid of his father-in-law, Joseph Henry Lumpkin, a state supreme court justice for whom the school was named." - "Thomas R. R. Cobb." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved July 31, 2008)

Samuel P. Thurmond was commissioned as a solicitor-general of the Georgia Western Circuit on November 10, 1855. He died in 1887.