The story of Georgia and the Georgia people, 1732 to 1860 . and named Mon-roe after the then president. It soon became a prominentup-country town and the center of quite a coterie of promi-nent men. Walter T. Colquitt, then a young lawyer, settled in thislittle village and made his first reputation as a brilliant law-yer in the courts of4:his new country. Judge James Jackson, so famous for the purity of his lifeand his ability as a jurist, and Judge Junius Hillyer, a prom-inent lawyer and a member of Congress, were amono- itscitizens. Governor Henry D. McDaniel, famous as being one ofthe best
The story of Georgia and the Georgia people, 1732 to 1860 . and named Mon-roe after the then president. It soon became a prominentup-country town and the center of quite a coterie of promi-nent men. Walter T. Colquitt, then a young lawyer, settled in thislittle village and made his first reputation as a brilliant law-yer in the courts of4:his new country. Judge James Jackson, so famous for the purity of his lifeand his ability as a jurist, and Judge Junius Hillyer, a prom-inent lawyer and a member of Congress, were amono- itscitizens. Governor Henry D. McDaniel, famous as being one ofthe best governors Georgia has ever had, began his profes-sional life in Monroe, and after his term was over returnedthere to spend his last years. Monroe was long a secluded country village with smalltrade and a small population, but since it has been reached 328 The Story of Georgia [Chap. VII. by the railway has become quite a thrifty town, with a finecourt-house, a good graded school and some prosperouscotton mills. Social Circle, on the Georgia railway, is a. Walton County Court-house. sprightly and enterprising village; and Logansville, in thenorthwestern part of the county, is a village of considerabletrade. Bethlehem is a small hamlet north of educational advantages of the county for many years 1813-1820.] AND THE Georgia People. 329 were quite poor, but they are better now than they everwere. The people who came into Walton were mainly Metho-dists and Baptists, and the Walton circuit of the Methodistpreacher was a very large and important one in the earlydays of the countys settlement. In 1827 there was a greatrevival in Monroe, at which Walter Colquitt, a young law-yer, was converted; and a number of years afterward, in thesame village, young James Jackson, afterward judge of thesuperior court and member of Congress, and finally chiefjustice of the State, was converted and became a laypreacher. The Baptists were among the first Christian workers inthe county, and pe
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