Mississippi College - Tribesman Yearbook (Clinton, MS)

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Honorable C. L. Lomax H ONORABLE C. L. LOMAX was born in Yazoo County, Miss., on December 5, 1869. His father and mother were Elder Alex A. and Mrs. M. A. Lomax. In 1869 he entered Mississippi College and remained there two years. He had to quit school to teach for two years and at the close of that time he entered Georgetown College, graduating from there in 1895 with the B. A. degree. Next he entered the Law Department of the University of Mississippi and graduated in 1897. In the same year he located in Greenwood for the practice of Law, where he has been living ever since. He was elected trustee of Missis- sippi College in 1905, succeeding his father who had been a trustee for a number of years. In October, 1904, he was married to Miss Annie May Dubard of Grenada, Miss. He was elected chairman of the Democratic State Executive Committee in June, 1904, for a term of four years, and was unanimously reelected chairman of said committee in June, 1908, for another term of four years. The firm of which he is a member is Lomax Tyson of Greenwood, Miss. 24

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Reverend John Lewis Low J OHN LEWIS LOW was born in Lafayette County, Miss., in 1862. While a boy he worked here on the farm, but having a talent and taste for the mechanic trade he left the farm at twenty years of age and followed his trade for nine years. At the end of that time, realizing his need of a good and thorough education, he entered Mississippi College which he attended for seven successive years, graduating with a B. L. degree in 1898. During the last five years of his college course he preached every Sunday, thus doing his college work and also attending to his duties as a preacher. For three years he was pastor of the Baptist Church at Utica, then for three years at Laurel. In I 9°5 he moved to Water Valley, where he was pastor for two years. He now resides at Ellisville, where he is pastor of the Baptist Church. He has also the pastorate at Seminary. He was married in 1887 to Miss Julia Sharp, of Natchez, one of the wisest things that he ever did. 23 BBSS

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Doctor A. L. Morris ■TVOCTOR A. L. MORRIS of Gulfport, Miss., was born in 1858. His father was Reverend Doctor T. E. Morris. Doctor Morris was graduated irom Mississippi College in 1881 in the same class with the present president of the College. He completed his Medical Course in Nashville in 1883. For over twenty years he was a prominent physician and business man at Lena, Miss. He always exerted large influence in matters of citizenship, religion and education. In 1885 he was married to Miss Annie Chambers. Doctor Morris has always been a liberal giver to all good causes and an active advocate of all that is right and progressive. He is in the prime of life and his friends hope that many years of usefulness still await him. He is now a prominent druggist and physician at Gulfport. 25