Grant, John T
railroad builder, statę senator, was born Dec. 13, 1813, near Grantville, Ga. After graduating in 1833 from the state unistate university, he became a railroad builder in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. In 1856 he was elected state senator from Walton county; became colonel on the staff of Governor Howeli Cobb; and built the handsomest residence in Atlanta, Ga. He was a lover of art, music and literature; and was both a composer and performer on flute and violin. He died Jan. 18, 1887, in Atlanta, Ga. His only son, Captain W. D. Grant, succeeded his father in carrying on his various enterprises.