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Nathan Crawford Barnett (c.1801-1890) —
also known as Nathan C. Barnett —
of Georgia.
Born in Columbia
County, Ga., about 1801.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives; elected 1836; secretary
of state of Georgia, 1843-49, 1851-53, 1861-68, 1873-90.
English
and Scottish ancestry.
In 1864, as Union troops approached Georgia's then capital of
Milledgeville, he hid and protected the Great Seal of Georgia
underneath his house.
Died February
4, 1890 (age about 89
years).
Interment at Memory
Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.
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Relatives: Son
of William Barnett and Anna (Crawford) Barnett; married to Margaret
J. Morton; married 1841 to Mary
Ann Cooper; nephew of William
Harris Crawford. |
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Hugh Buchanan (1823-1890) —
of Newnan, Coweta
County, Ga.
Born in Argyllshire, Scotland,
September
15, 1823.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state senate, 1855-57; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Georgia, 1856,
1868;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Georgia; served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; superior court judge in
Georgia, 1872-80; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1877; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 4th District, 1881-85.
Scottish ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Newnan, Coweta
County, Ga., June 11,
1890 (age 66 years, 269
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Newnan, Ga.
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William de Bruyn=Kops (1860-1957) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., November
4, 1860.
Cotton
exporter;
Consul
for Netherlands in Savannah,
Ga., 1888-1903.
Dutch,
English,
and Scottish ancestry.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., August
8, 1957 (age 96 years, 277
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove North Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Melvyn Douglas (1901-1981) —
also known as Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., April 5,
1901.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1940;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Actor,
producer,
director
of many motion
pictures; worked in radio, television,
and Broadway.
Jewish
and Scottish ancestry. Member, Screen
Actors Guild; Americans
for Democratic Action; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died, of pneumonia
and cardiac
complications, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
4, 1981 (age 80 years, 121
days).
Cremated.
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Alexander Galloway Harkness (1849-1919) —
also known as Alexander Harkness —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Georgia, June, 1849.
Vice-Consul
for Great Britain in Savannah,
Ga., 1898-1919.
Scottish ancestry.
Died, from chronic
myocarditis, in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., July 13,
1919 (age 70 years, 0
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove North Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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John Houstoun (1744-1796) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Waynesboro, Burke
County, Ga., August
31, 1744.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1775; Governor of
Georgia, 1778, 1784-85; defeated, 1787; mayor
of Savannah, Ga., 1790-91; superior court judge in Georgia, 1792.
Scottish ancestry.
Died near Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., July 20,
1796 (age 51 years, 324
days).
Interment at Bonaventure
Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Robert Manson (1865-1926) —
of Darien, McIntosh
County, Ga.
Born in Scotland,
January
4, 1865.
Timber
export
business; Vice-Consul
for Sweden & Norway in Darien,
Ga., 1891-1903; Vice-Consul
for Great Britain in Darien,
Ga., 1898-1907.
Scottish ancestry.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Darien, McIntosh
County, Ga., August
2, 1926 (age 61 years, 210
days).
Interment at St.
Andrew's Cemetery, Darien, Ga.
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David Brydie Mitchell (1760-1837) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.; Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga.
Born in Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland,
October
22, 1760.
Georgia
state attorney general, 1795; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1796; mayor
of Savannah, Ga., 1801-02; U.S.
Attorney for Georgia, 1802-04; Governor of
Georgia, 1809-13, 1815-17; U.S. Indian Agent to the Creek Nation,
1817-21; resigned
from this position following charges
that he was smuggling
African
slaves into the country.
Scottish ancestry.
Died in Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., April
22, 1837 (age 76 years, 182
days).
Interment at Memory
Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.
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John Pattillo Ridley (b. 1955) —
also known as John Ridley —
of Decatur, DeKalb
County, Ga.
Born in Crawford Long Emory University Hospital,
Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., February
25, 1955.
Democrat. Special assistant, U.S. Congress, 1974-78; legislative
attaché, Georgia General Assembly, 1978-80; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1980,
1988
(alternate); candidate for Georgia
state house of representatives 56th District, 1980; vice-chair,
DeKalb County Democratic Party, 1980-84; city commissioner, Decatur,
Ga., 1998-2002.
Presbyterian.
Scottish and English
ancestry.
Still living as of 2003.
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Relatives: Son
of Harry William Ridley, Jr. and Francis Jo Pattillo Ridley; married
2000 to
Susan Elaine Hart Ridley. |
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