Mississippi College - Tribesman Yearbook (Clinton, MS)

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Reverend S. G. Cooper I T WAS in Hinds County, Miss., on July 13, 1853, that Reverend S.G. Cooper was born. Until manhood he worked on the farm. Being conveited at the age of seventeen he received the impression to preach, hut fought it foi some time. In 1881, however, he was licensed to preach. Seeing his need of an education he entered Mississippi College in 1882, paying his own way through school. While attending College he preached to country churches. On December 25, 1883, he was married to Miss Annie Jones of Osyka, Miss. From 1884 to 1890 he was pastor at Beaulah Church, Brownsville, Miss. During 1886 he was also pastor at Edwards Depot. He closed his work there at the end of the year and became pastor at Utica. He was next called to 1 upelo. There he did excellent service, having, in addition to his I upelo Church, country churches most of the time. From I upelo he went to Canton. The church there has more than doubled and the saloon power been broken and driven from the county before the State law. 16

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Ernest Lott Carter E RNEST LOTT CARTER, of Meridian, was born in Mobile, Ala., in 1870, - to which city his father, Thomas C. Carter, a native Mississippian and a descendant of an old family of Misisssippi, had removed at the close of the Civil War. On the maternal side Mr. Carter is a member of a highly-respected Alabama family. In his fourteenth year his home was changed to Meridian, where he has since resided. In his fifteenth year he entered the service of a local banking institution. Except for a session spent in 1887 -’88 at the University of Mississippi he was continuously connected with this bank, and for a number of years as one of its officers, until late in 1903, when he removed temporarily to Laurel to become managing officer of a hank at that point. In 1905 he became connected with a cotton exporting house at Meridian. In this line of business he is now engaged, in association with a brother. He is a member of the First Baptist Church, Meridian, and is unmarried. He became a member of the Board of Trustees of Mississippi College several years ago and has been deeply interested from that time in the wel- fare and upbuilding of this Institution. 5

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M R. Z. D. DAVIS, the subject of this sketch admits that he first saw the light of day in Copiah County on the 14th day of December, 1852, on his father’s farm about eighteen miles west of Brookhaven, Miss. He worked industriously on the farm, attending school during the winter until sixteen years of age, when he went to Brookhaven and accepted a clerkship with Major R. W. Millsaps, who was then engaged in the mercantile business. Mr. Davis served in the capacity of clerk and bookkeeper until 1881, when he succeeded Major Millsaps in business under the firm name of Sherman Davis. In 1887 the firm opened „ p. . a private bank which met with remarkable Z. D. Davis r success, and a few years later upon the death of Mr. Sherman he succeeded to the entire management of both the mercantile and banking business I he firm continued in existence until 1900, when Mr. Davis was elected active vice-president of the Capital National Bank and took up his residence in Jackson, Miss. In 1903 ' upon the retirement of Major R. W. Millsaps as president of the Capital National Bank, he was unanimously elected president and has occupied that position since. He still retains his extensive business interests at Brookhaven and is president of the Brookhaven Bank and Trust Company, which succeeded to the banking business of his old firm. Mr. Davis is also a stockholder and director in quite a number of the leading banks of Mississippi. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Mississippi College and a member of the investment committee for the endowment fund of the College. l 7 MMK