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Mcdaniel, Edward Davies

physician, educator, was born July 7, 1822, in Chester, S. C. In 1887 he became professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the medical college of Alabama at Mobile. He was chosen president of the Alabama State Medical society in 1876. MCDANIEL, HENRY DICKERSON, soldier, state senator, governor, was born Sept. 4, 1837, in Walton county, Ga., where he still resides and practices law. A portion of his youth was spent in Atlanta. In 1856 he graduated from Mercer university, and soon after began the practice of law. In 1861 he was distinguished as being the youngest member of the secession convention of Georgia, in which body he opposed disunion, but finally voted for and signed the ordinance of secession. He went to the front as a lieutenant in the eleventh Georgia infantry; was promoted major of his regiment in 1862, and was terribly wounded near Hagerstown in the retreat from Gettysburg. In 1865 he was a deregate to the constitutional convention; in 1872 was chosen a representative to the state legislature; and in 1874 was made state senator, serving as such with marked ability for eight years, when he positively declined any further re-election. He was elected governor in 1883; and received the re-election to a second term without opposition. At the termination of his second term he retired, being ineligible by law to a third term. He has an extensive law practice at Monroe, Ga.; is a director of the Georgia Railroad and Banking company, and of the High Shoals Cotton Manufacturing company, and various other business enterprises.