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JOHN
TEMPLE GRAVES, journalist and orator; born in Willmington
District, Abbeville, South Carolina, Nov. 9, 1857. Moving
with his father to Georgia he was graduated from the State
University in August 1875. He was editor of the Daily
Florida Union and Daily Florida Herald from 1882 to 1887, in
which year he returned to Georgia and became editor-in-chief of
the Atlanta Journal. He became editor of the Tribune, of
Rome, Georgia, in 1888. He had long before been
distinguished as an orator, but his oration in 1889 over his
friend, Henry W. Grady, has become one of the classics of
oratorical literature. Mr. Graves was editor of the
Atlanta News from 1902 to 1906. In the spring of 1906 he
became editor of the Atlanta Georgian and in October of the next
year he was made editor-in-chief of the New York Daily American.
His career as an orator is more fully treated elsewhere.
 Source: The Standard History of
Georgia & Georgians - Vol. III - By Lucian Lamar Knight -
Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company -
Chicago : New York -
Publ. 1917 - Page 1753 |
