ROBERT W. BIGHAM, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, author of "Vinnie Leal's Trip to the Golden Shore,"  "Joe, a Boy in teh War Times,"  "California Gold Field Scenes,"  "Wine and Blood" (a temperance story)
Source: The Standard History of Georgia & Georgians - Vol. III - By Lucian Lamar Knight - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago : New York - Publ. 1917 - Page 1748

EUGENIA BIGHAM, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, author of "Vinnie Leal's Trip to the Golden Shore,"  "Joe, a Boy in the War Times,"  "California Gold Field Scenes,"  "Wine and Blood" (a temperance story).
Source: The Standard History of Georgia & Georgians - Vol. III - By Lucian Lamar Knight - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago : New York - Publ. 1917 - Page 1748

MADGE ALFORD BIGHAM, also daughter of the above, author of short stories.
Source: The Standard History of Georgia & Georgians - Vol. III - By Lucian Lamar Knight - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago : New York - Publ. 1917 - Page 1748

LOGAN E. BLECKLEY, jurist and author; born July 3, 1827, in Rabun County, Georgia, died ................. in ..................  By diligent application and study at the village academy he was ready at eleven years of age to begin writing in the office of his father, a farmer, who lived one mile from Clayton, the county site, and was clerk of three courts, the Superior, Inferior, and Ordinary.  He was admitted to the bar in 1846 when not quite nineteen years of age.  He opened an office in Atlanta in March, 1852, and in the summer of 1875 was appointed associates justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, from which he resigned in 1880 on account of failing health.  Although Judge Bleckley had not in his youth the best educational advantages, he became a man of such learning the culture that Chancellor Walter B. Hill, of the State University, declared that Judge Bleckley was "one of the few men Georgia who could hold his own in a discussion of German Metaphysics."  Judge Bleckley wrote a unique autobiography entitled "A Letter to Posterity," and also occasional verses which deservedly rank him among Georgia poets.
Source: The Standard History of Georgia & Georgians - Vol. III - By Lucian Lamar Knight - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago : New York - Publ. 1917 - Page 1748

JOSEPH MACKEY BROWN, statesman and author; born in Canton, Cherokee County, Georgia, Dec. 28, 1851.  Immediately after the close of the war between the states the family moved to Atlanta.  He was educated in the schools of Atlanta and was graduated in 1872 from Oglethorpe University, at that time located in Atlanta, with first honor in his class.  He was admitted to the bar in Canton in 1873, but trouble with his eyes caused him to abandon his life plans and go into general business.  In his long connection with railroads, he became an expert in that business and served for a time on the Railroad Commission of Georgia, of which state he has been twice governor.  Ex-Governor Brown is a man of broad culture and is author of "Mountain Campaigns in Georgia," a work which received the endorsement of the two opposing commanders.  His "Astyanax," an epic romance of Ilion, Atlantic and Amarraca, is a work of great interest and worthy of careful study.
Source: The Standard History of Georgia & Georgians - Vol. III - By Lucian Lamar Knight - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago : New York - Publ. 1917 - Page 1749

MRS. MARY E. BRYAN, journalist and author.  She edited for many years the Sunny South, and amid all her journalistic labors found time to write and publis through the Appletons two dramatic novels, "Manche" and "Wild Work," the last a romance of the days of "reconstruction," founded on fact and depicting some striking phases of that turbulent period.

Source: The Standard History of Georgia & Georgians - Vol. III - By Lucian Lamar Knight - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago : New York - Publ. 1917 - Page 1749