Download or read book A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint) written by Lucian Lamar Knight and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians, Vol. 5 Marshall Wellborn Dunn was educated in country schools, which he attended until reaching the age of sixteen, at which time he left school In order to assist his father in the management of the plantation, of which he later took entire charge, residing on it until 1909. He then organized a partner ship with W. T. Parish, under the style of Dunn Parish, and founded a general mercantile and supply house, which is now one of the leading busi ness concerns in Thomson, the enterprise having been successful. Mr. Dunn has long taken a strong interest in educational matters, and his fellow citizens, knowing him to be a good man to entrust with school matters, in 1899 elected him a member of the board of education. After serving efficiently for several years, in 1904 he was elected as county school superintendent, which position he still retains. He took a leading part in the erection of the fine new high school, completed in 1911, and which cost $20, 000. In putting through this project to its final consummation, he had to work hard to overcome the strong opposition against it on the part of many citizens who objected to the city's incurring so great an expense, but persuasion and argument finally prevailed, and it would now be hard to find anyone who does not take a pride in this magnificent and commodious building, or who would wish to go back to the old condition of things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.