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Fry, George Thomson

lawyer, orator, legislator, was born March 12, 1843, in Mossy Creek, Tenn. He received his education at the Halston college of New Market, Tenn. During 1861-65 he was a confederate soldier; and was in all the principal battles; and was desperately wounded and disabled for field service at the battle of Jonesboro, Ga. He was first lieutenant in company C, thirty-seventh regiment, Tennessee volunteers, C. S. A.; was promoted in 1862 to captain of company H, of the same regiment; and in 1863 was made colonel of the seventh confederate regiment. In 1866 he was admitted to the bar and practiced in Atlanta, Ga. During 1876-78 he represented Fulton county in the Georgia legislature.

In 1890 he moved to Chattanooga, Tenn.

He has distinguished himself as an able advocate in both civil and criminal law; is a democratic orator of renown; and celebrated as a writer on the Science of National Finance, and Political Economy.