The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . n statistical association. WADLEY, Moses, lumber manufacturer andrailroad contractor, was born at Brentwood, N. H.,Apr. 39, 1833. Mr. Wadley came of the best andoldest Puritan stoc
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . n statistical association. WADLEY, Moses, lumber manufacturer andrailroad contractor, was born at Brentwood, N. H.,Apr. 39, 1833. Mr. Wadley came of the best andoldest Puritan stock of NewEngland, and exemplified thefinest qualities of that strongand brainful blood. His pa-rents were Capt. Dole and Sarah(Colcord) Wadley, of whose sixchildren the four hearty, firm-willed, stately sons came to Geor-gia from 1833 to 1838, and haveleft their impress upon that greatstate. Tlie family dwelling, theirbirthplace, is a typical New Eng-land home. Mr. Wadley settledin Georgia in 1838, a youth ofsixteen. He went into the lum-ber business in middle Georgia,along the Central railroad fromSavannah to Macon, and was apioneer in improving sawmillmethods, originating on a largescale the sawing of the bridgetimber in the state. He married Mary Clark, agifted and intellectual lady in Worcester, Mass., inAugust, 1860, and went to Louisiana, where he wasengaged for two years in fulfilling large bridge con-. .jZ,^^ OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 173 tracts on the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texasrailroad, the latter part of the time acting as his owncivil engineer. He returned to Georgia in 1862, andgave his entire attention to the lumber moved his home to the sand hills near Augusta,m the fall of 1881. Mr. Wadley was a large-brainedman ot broad conceptions, unerring judgment of men?^ r, j^d^® transactions, and sagacious businessnaethods. Sensitive, domestic, modest, pure hearted,of rigid integrity, alive to responsibility, charitableand sympathetic, eager to help the eflo
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