By: William J. Northern, Pub. 1910, reprinted 2023, 514 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-112-8. This 7-volume set of books is a cover-to-cover set of biographical sketches of men from Georgia. The second volume contains the biographies of nearly a hundred fifty sturdy men, who, from 1800 till the War between the States, raised Georgia from a condition of struggling poverty to a position of great material wealth and prosperity. No other single publication contains so much biographical material relating to the early men of Georgia during this time period. Surnames: Abbott, Adams, Andrew, Alford, Anthony, Appling, Banks, Barrett, Barnett, Beman, Berrien, Bibb, Black, Blackshear, Bryan, Bulloch, Butts, Campbell, Candler, Carey, Chappel, Charlton (2), Church, Clayton, Clarke, Clinch, Cobb (2), Coffee, Colquitt, Cone, Cooper, Cook, Couper, Crawford (4), Cuthbert (2), Dabney, Dawson, Dent, Dooly, Dougherty, Durham, Early, Echols, Elliott (2), Few, Forsyth, Fort, Foster (3), Gamble, Gilmer, Glascock, Gould (2), Gordon, Goulding, Grantland, Grieve, Habersham, Hall, Haralson, Harris (2), Hart, Hawkins, Haynes, Hillyer, Hull, Iverson, Jack, Jackson (2), Johnson, Jones (4), King, Lamar, Long (2), Longstreet, Love, Lumpkin (3), Mead, Means, Meigs, Mercer, Meriwether (3), Mitchell, Millen, Miller, Milton, Murray, McDonald, McIntosh (2), Owen, Owens, Pierce, Prince, Rabun, Ray, Reid, Sanders, Sanford, Schley, Screven, Shorter, Sherwood, Smelt, Spalding, Stiles, Stocks, Talbot, Taliaferro, Talmage, Tait, Telfair, Terrell, Thomas, Thompson, Towns, Troup, Twiggs, Upson, Waddell, Waldhauer, Walker, Ward, Ware, Warren, Wayne, White, Wilcox, Wilde, and Williamson.