. Atlanta and its builders, a comprehensive history of the Gate city of the South. ud talking, energeticman, who kept everything moving about him. His hotel was welllocated and well patronized. There was a bar in the receptionroom, and it was well patronized also. He was quite a favoritewith leading public men, and they always stopped with him. Hiswife was a famous housekeeper, whose well-kept flower gardenand whose luxuriant Maderia vines added to the attractiveness ofhis hostelry. James Loyd was a man of very opposite character. He wasone of the greatest, kindest and easiest men I ever knew.
. Atlanta and its builders, a comprehensive history of the Gate city of the South. ud talking, energeticman, who kept everything moving about him. His hotel was welllocated and well patronized. There was a bar in the receptionroom, and it was well patronized also. He was quite a favoritewith leading public men, and they always stopped with him. Hiswife was a famous housekeeper, whose well-kept flower gardenand whose luxuriant Maderia vines added to the attractiveness ofhis hostelry. James Loyd was a man of very opposite character. He wasone of the greatest, kindest and easiest men I ever knew. Hishotel was a free and easy place, and was always well furnishedwith guests. There was a great deal of transient patronage, andthe hotels were sources of large revenues. Among the merchants, Jonathan Norcross, a sharp, angu-lar, shrewd, intelligent Yankee, was the leader. He. came out toGeorgia to set up a horse mill in Atlanta, and bought the propertywhich is now owned by his son on the corner of Peachtree andMarietta streets. When he came to Atlanta, the Irish famine was 76. Jonathan Norcross One of Atlantas earliest pioneers who cameto the city in 1844 when the population num-bered less than 3,000 and served as mayorbefore the war and lived to the advancedage of ninety-one and saw the populationreach 125,000. 78 Atlanta And Its Builders at its height and great quantities of Indian corn were bought forshipment to Ireland. He was a large dealer, and thousands ofwagon loads were dumped into his warehouse, where the cornwas shelled and sacked and shipped. He had a genuine countrystore and kept everything a plain farmer needed and boughteverything he had to sell. He was a decided temperance man,and although the larger number of merchants sold whiskey, oldJonathan never touched it. He was a kind-hearted, good-natured, eccentric man. He ran for mayor in the first race andwas defeated, and his election was not secured until about mayor was Moses W. Formwalt, a tin manufac
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