A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)
(Georgia and Georgians Hon. Henky Bascom Strange. la the a...)
Georgia and Georgians Hon. Henky Bascom Strange. la the annals of the judiciary of Bulloch County there is found no name that is held in higher honor, esteem and confidence than that of Hon. Henry Bascom Strange, jurist, legist, publiespirited citizen and self-made man, whose rqpord in public and private life a Jike is one on which there is not the slightest stain or blemish. Few men have gained more honestly or completely the admiration of their felloi- citizens, and the honor that has come to him has been gained without animosity. Judge Strange was bom in Ef Qngham County, Georgia, November 13,1863, the family homo being located at Mount Pleasant Landing, on the Savannah Riyer. His father, the Rev. h. h. Strange, was born near Spsrtansburg, South Carolina, and as a boy of twelve years was brought to Georgia, where he spent the rest of bis life, bis mature years as a minister of the Methodist Elpiscopal Conference and as a preacher of wide renown. lie died at tbe age of forty-five years. He was married in Effingham County to Florence Wilson, a native of that county, who is now living at Statesboro, at the age of seventy-two years, and they became the parents of six children, of whom five are still living: Dr. George P., a practicing physician of Effingham County; Henry Bascom; Berry L., a practicing attorney of Houston, Texas; Mrs. Lizzie Graham, of Effingham County; and Mrs. Susie A nn Raekley, who is a resident of Statesboro. Henry Bascom Strange was but twelve years of age when his father died, and at that time he became the sole support of his mother, this naturally precluding the idea of any extensive educational training at that time. However, he had attended the public schools, and when twenty-one years of age began earnestly the study of his chosen profession, and when twenty-two entered the office of J, G. and T). H. Clark, of Tusculum, Georgia, sp
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