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  1. Thomas Henry NORTHEN: Birth: 1863 in Hancock County, Georgia. Death: 23 MAR 1904

  2. Annabelle Annie Belle NORTHEN: Birth: 1867 in Georgia.


Notes
a. Note:   N432 William graduated from Mercer at the age of eighteen and soon earned a position as an instructor at the prestigious Mt Zion Academy in Hancock County, where the renowned Carlisle Beman was headmaster. Northen subsequently became assistant principal and, when Beman's health failed, rose to headmaster. While struggling to establish himself as a teacher, Northen boarded at the home of the wealthy and influential Thomas Neel. Billington Sanders Walker studied at Mt Zion Academy under Mr Northen. In addition to serving as governor of Georgia, Northen served as a two-term member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1877-81), and was elected to the Georgia Senate in 1884. During his tenure as governor, from 1890 to 1894, William J. Northen limited the workday for railroad employees to thirteen hours and granted the Georgia Railroad Commission power to regulate telegraph companies. He advanced agricultural inspection and education, and pursued progressive legislation by advocating prohibition, an improved educational system, and reforms in the prison system. He also pushed hard for the passage of antilynching legislation, but it was not to be achieved in his lifetime. In addition, William J. Northen contributed to the documented history of Georgia by compiling a 7-volume collection of biographical essays, published between 1907 and 1912 as Men of Mark in Georgia. In 1911 he replaced Allen D. Candler as the compiler of state records, and contributed to the ongoing publication of the Colonial Records of Georgia series.


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