Agnes Scott College - Silhouette Yearbook (Decatur, GA)

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- o since devoted his attention to his personal affairs and to continuous but un- ostentatious efforts in behalf of the material, educational and moral uplift of Atlanta, the State and the South. Mr. Inman has long had the deepest interest in educational affairs. For years he was a leading member of the Board of Education of Atlanta and had a large share in the establishment of the public school system of that city, prob- ably unexcelled in the South. He was one of the prime movers and most active workers in securing the location in Atlanta of the Georgia School of Technology, for years a member of its Board of Trustees, and one of its most generous supporters. He became a member of the Board of Trustees of Agues Scott College in 1898 and at once took the deepest interest in its development and upbuilding. Upon the death of Gol. Scott in 1903, he was unanimously elected Chairman of the Board, and except when absent from the State has not missed a single ses- sion of the Board, or a commencement occasion of the College. His gifts to the College during the past seven or eight years have aggregated nearly $7.1,000. 00. In 1900-07, Mr. Iuinan was Chairman of an influential Busin ess .Men ' s As- sociation for the promotion of the educational interest of the State, and to this work gave unstintedly of his time and energies, aiding largely in the inaugura- tion and conduct of an enthusiastic campaign for a more efficient public edu- cation system, which soon created a state-wide sentiment, finally resulting in a half million dollars increase in the annual State appropriation for common schools, large building and maintenance sums for the several State colleges, and the reorganization of and new buildings for the State College of Agriculture, and eleven State District Agricultural High Schools, to the establishment of which citizens of the State also donated nearly a million dollars in money and properties. Mr. Inman ' s crowning effort and highest achievement for education has just ended in his successful leadership of the Agnes Scott campaign for an endowment and extension fund of $350,000.00. In this great movement there Avere s cores of tireless and devoted co-workers, the value of whose labors is un- measured, but to Mr. Inman each cheerfully awards the praise of unexampled leadership and consecrated effort. For many years Mr. Inman has been a ruling Elder of the First Bres- byterian Church of Atlanta, and since its removal to Atlanta a member of the Assembly ' s Committee on Home Missions. =5

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Samuel Martin Inman THE names of two great and good men arc inseparably connected with the foundation, growth and success of Agnes Scotl College, viz.: Geokgk W. Scott and Samuel M. Ixmax. Founded by Col. Scott, and loved and supported by him until his death, ii found immediately thereafter in Mr. Inman a friend, counsellor and supporter no less generous, wise and devoted. Under God ' s blessing, to these two more than all else, it owes its existence, its development and its present recognized standing among educational insti- tutions. Mr. Inman was horn of Presbyterian parentage, in Dandridge, Jefferson County, Tennessee, on February 19, 1843. His tirsi school attendance was ai the old log-cabin schoolhouse in his native town, which, now known as Maury Academy, only recently celebrated its 100th birth year. Siibsequently gradu- ating at Maryville College, he later entered Princeton University. During his Sophomore year there, the War between the States having begun, in response to his country ' s call he left the University, returned home, ai d at is years of age enlisted in the Confederate service, in which he remained to the end of the war, first as a member of the 1st Tennessee Regiment of Cavalry, and later, on the Staff of General W. Y. C. Hume, with the rank of Lieutenant. Immediately after the war — conditions in eastern Tennessee being pecul- iarly chaotic — upon leaving home he decided to try his fortune in Georgia, going first to Augusta, and after a short residence there, removing early in lS6 i to Atlanta, where he has since continuously resided. During his residence here of nearly a half century, he has consistently exemplified in public and private life those high civic and Christian virtues, which have won from his fellow citizens the title of Atlanta ' s first citizen. Soon after settling in Atlanta he engaged in the cotton business, establish- ing the firm of S. AI. Inman Co., which, with the Branch office in Houston, Texas, prior to its dissolution and Mr. Iuman ' s retirement from active busi- ness, became probably the largest dealers in the United States in spot cotton. During all of his active business life, Mr. Inman was one of the most important factors in the material upbuilding of Atlanta and the South, and his name was prominent in nearly every public and industrial undertaking in At- lanta. After a wonderfully successfufbusiness career and the accumulation of a comfortable fortune, be retired from active business several years ago and has

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Mr. Imnan has never sought or held political office, although he was widely and prominently mentioned as a suitable successor to United States Senator Colquitt, upon his death several years ago. Pie is a member of a family distinguished fur achievement. Their for- tunes have not been built upon the ruins of others, but they have each been builders. Samuel M., John 11., and Hugh T., sons of a successful father, Shadrach W. Inman, are names synonymous with honorable dealing, enviable success and commendable public spirit. Agnes Scott College loves Air. S. M. Inman for what he has done for it and its ideals, but far more for the man that lie is and the v ' uines he exem- plifies, and hence the affectionate dedication of this volume to this friend of all good causes, and hers. 2