Charles Augustus Bickerstaff (1885-1937) was an insurance executive in Atlanta, Georgia from approximately 1910 to 1937. He was born in Selma, Alabama, and married Mabel Hurt in 1911. At one time, he worked for the Atlanta Home Insurance Company with his father-in-law, Atlanta business pioneer Joel Hurt. Mr. Hurt (1850-1926) graduated from the University of Georgia in 1871, and married Annie Bright Woodruff. The couple moved to Atlanta in 1875. Mr. Hurt was an engineer and real estate developer who built several of Atlantas first skyscrapers beginning in 1892 with the Equitable Building. He also established Atlantas street railway system, and developed the Inman Park and Druid Hills neighborhoods.
From the description of Charles Bickerstaff and Joel Hurt Photographs circa 1893-1923 (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 84917053
