Background
Callaway, Cason Jewell was born on November 6, 1894 in Louisiana Grange, Georgia, United States. Son of Fuller Earle and Ida Jane (Cason) Callaway.
Callaway, Cason Jewell was born on November 6, 1894 in Louisiana Grange, Georgia, United States. Son of Fuller Earle and Ida Jane (Cason) Callaway.
Educated Bingham School, Ashville, North Carolina, University of Virginia: m. Virginia Hollis Hand. April 3, 1920.
President and chairman board Callaway Mills, LaGrange, Georgia, 1920-1938. Retired to devote time to find and demonstrate additional profitable cash crops for the South. Director United States Steel Corporation, Chemical Bank New York Trust Company, Trust Company of Georgia, Shell Oil Corporation Trustee Nutrition Foundation, National Foundation Infantile Paralysis, Georgia Warm Springs Foundation.
Chairman of the board, life trustee Ida Cason Callaway Foundation.
Past Chairman of the Board regents University System of Georgia.
Served Lieutenant (junior grade), United States Naval Reserve, 1917-1919. Member Georgia Cotton Manufacturers Association (past president), American Cotton Manufacturers Association (past president).
Children: Virginia Hand (Mistress Clifford Petersen), Cason J., Junior.