LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR

LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR, b. 1794 in Warren Co., Ga. He grew to manhood in Putnam Co., Ga., studied law in Milledgeville, Ga. and was admitted to the Bar in 1818. In 1819 he m. Sarah Bird, the dau. of a prominent physician. In 1830 he was elevated to the bench as the youngest Judge in the State of Georgia. He was the son of John Lamar who was b. 1766 in Crawford Co., Ga., d. Putnam Co. Ga. in 1833 who married his cousin, Rebecca Lamar, the dau. of Thomas Lamar. John Lamar established his home on the Little River near Eatonton, Ga. and became known as "Little Silver John." John Lamar was the eldest son of John Lamar II, b. 1740, Capt. of the Ga. Militia, Third Regt., during the Revolutionary War. Issue:

LUCIOUS Q. C. LAMAR, JR. b. 9/1/1825, famous Statesman and Jurist, Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. After attending law school, he practised law with Absalom H. Chappel in Macon. He was elected to the Legislature in 1853, settled on his plantation in Lafayette, Mississippi, later become Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Cleveland. In 1887, he was appointed the same Pesident as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Lucius 7/20/1846 Virginia Longstreet, the dau. of Judge Augustus R. Longstreet, President of Emory College. The couple first met at Emory College, but later removed to Oxford, Mississippi.

HENRY J. LAMAR

HENRY J. LAMAR was b. 3/31/1825 on the plantation of his father, Benjamin B. Lamar, in Bibb Co., Ga. Apparently his father died before 1850 as Henry and his siblings were found on the 1850 Bibb County Census with Mrs. E. B. Lamar (born 1804 in Georgia). The siblings were: F. A. Lamar (female) born 1826, J. E. Lamar (male), born 1829, and Thomas B., born 1832. Henry attended the University of Georgia in 1841, and after the Civil War, was in merchandising in Macon, later expanding his operations in Atlanta with drug stores. He was President of Lamar-Rankin Drug Co. of Atlanta. In 1890, he became President of the Union Savings Bank of Macon. He in 1850 Valeria B. Jones, the dau. of Wiley E. Jones. Henry and his father, Benjamin, were trustees of the Washington Academy, chartered 11/26/1826.