Background
Mccrary, John Alva was born on November 9, 1871 in Warnerville, Georgia, United States. Son of John Matthew and Mary E. (Boyd) McC.
Mccrary, John Alva was born on November 9, 1871 in Warnerville, Georgia, United States. Son of John Matthew and Mary E. (Boyd) McC.
Educated Georgia School of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.
Boyd (deceased). Began with Farmers & Merchants Bank, Senoia, Georgia, 1892. Cashier Farmers & Merchants Bank, Tennille, 1894-1901. Cashier Vice-President First National Bank, Barnesville, 1901-1911.
Vice-president and treasurer J.B. McCrary Company, dealers in bonds, also engineering and constitution municipal improvements, Atlanta, since 1911.
Organized and supervised banks in Tennille, Harrison, Talbotton, Barnesville and Senoia. Member board directors Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta, Georgia., since 1914.
Member Methodist Church. Mason (32 degree, Shriner), Old.
Married Dollie Rogers, 1898. Married second, Florrie J. Bennett, 1912. Children: Mary Louisa (Mistress Robert Davis), Dorothy (deceased).