A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . est nowstands? Danl. R. Mitchell was known as the father of the Rome bar? A Confederate signal station was operated on Eighth avenue during the Fed-eral occupation of Rome in 1864? n. ^K^ bachelors of Poverty Hall some 25 years ago bought a tract of land onMt. Alto with the idea of building a lodge? Judge John H. Lumpkin died on the veranda of the Choice House (later theCentral Hotel), July 10, 1860, while conversing with political friends?Howard
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . est nowstands? Danl. R. Mitchell was known as the father of the Rome bar? A Confederate signal station was operated on Eighth avenue during the Fed-eral occupation of Rome in 1864? n. ^K^ bachelors of Poverty Hall some 25 years ago bought a tract of land onMt. Alto with the idea of building a lodge? Judge John H. Lumpkin died on the veranda of the Choice House (later theCentral Hotel), July 10, 1860, while conversing with political friends?Howard Tinsley is in the consular service at Montevideo, Uruguay? A locomotive of the Rome Railroad, called the Wm. R. Smith, was usedApril 12, 1862, in the pursuit past Kingston after Andrews Wild Raiders on theGeneral? The Nobles tested Confederate cannon by shooting them into a bluff across theEtowah River during the Civil War? A steamer steamed up Broad street to Third avenue in the flood, March31, 1886? Dr. George Magruder Battey, of the Augustus N. Verdery place, RiverbankFarm, had one of the finest poultry establishments in the United States?. /y^i/Ty^^€^^ 492 A History of Rome and Floyd County Rev. Luther R. Gwaltney first suggested to Col. Alfred Shorter the establish-ment of Shorter College? Capt. Francis Marion Coulter built a dozen steamboats at Rome? Telamon Cruger Smith-Cuyler shook hands with Grover Cleveland and KingEdward VII of England? Sproull Fouche filled the post of American vice-consul at Bucharest, Rou-mania? Rome and Georgia doctors held indignation meetings and threatened to lynchDr. Robert Battey for performing the Battey operation, Aug. 27, 1872? Alsothat Dr. Battey defended himself so ably at a meeting in the State Capitol, At-lanta, that Henry W. Grady referred to him as the Cicero of the Georgia MedicalProfession? Dr. Battey was a civil engineer, then pharmacist, and had six chil-dren before he practised medicine? In his youth he clerked in a dry good
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