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University Beporter.
7
HOW JUDGE B BECAME DISTINGUISHED. -
It is often said that some men are born to be successful in
life; that th ir whole life is fated, and it matters not what
course they may prescribe for themselves their success is always
assured. If examples were all that were needed to establish the
proof of this, the assertion might be easily verified. But if the
fatalist idea be passed by, it is not impossible to believe that
while the innate qualities of any man necessarily contribute in
a measure to the upbuilding of his character, at the same time
it must be admitted that the ambition which a man has and the
determination with which he seeks to read that towards which
his ambition tends are also functions that are of great import
ance in the development of his character. These last two
seemed to have been peculiar characteristics in J udge George
B .
As told to me by one who has known him from his youth, his
history is briefly as follows:
His early days, like those of most great men, were uot spent
in any unusual way, and his career was not such as to suggest
anything great. His father though a most respectable gentle
man had not had the best educational advantages, and probably
never had heard of cubes and squares, and the like. Living
back, as he was, when the advancement of this country was far
from its present state, he is represented as being happy with
out being wise, and was as content on his little farm as he would
have been in the White House. His plantation was in South
west Georgia, and all of his worldly possessions were included
in about three hundred acres of land, only one-half of which
was in cultivation.
This was where the career of young George was begun, and
had probably had six years experience with the plow before he
learned the alphabet. While he did not object to work, he had
begun to manifest a desire to learn something from books.
After much begging he finally prevailed on his father to send
him to school. The nearest school was Hampton Academy,
which was one of those old country high schools so common in
this State at that time which contributed so largely to the edu
cation of our ancestors. This school was about four miles from
