Murphy Candler, Chairman, State at Large, Atlanta W ESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD COMMISSIONĬhairman, Public Service Commission, Ex-OfficioĬ. The Western & Atlantic Railroad was the locale of the Great Locomotive Chase of the W&A locomotive, The General, during the Civil War. The Western & Atlantic is the historic railroad line from Atlanta to Chattanooga, TN and is still owned by the State of Georgia. The General Assembly of Georgia, by an act of 1925, directed the Georgia Public Service Commission to compile all data pertaining to the Western and Atlantic railroad and instructed it to employ its consulting engineer, J. Senator Perry T. Knight, of Ray City, was appointed to serve on the Western & Atlantic Railroad Commission in 1925. His career in public administration is described in the Georgia Official and Statistical Register. He was elected to the Georgia Assembly and worked in various elected and appointed positions. In the 1920s Perry Thomas Knight became active in state politics. He also led the fundraising effort to pay for the Doughboy Monument in Nashville, GA. In 1923, Knight prepared a record of the outstanding accounts of the Ray City Supply Company in part to reconcile the estate of Francis Marion Shaw, who had an interest in the business.
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Knight was elected as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from Berrien county 1921-1924, and subsequently served in various elected and appointed governmental positions (see Update on Perry Thomas Knight) ‘The people of this section want an extra session of the general assembly called by the governor, and let them enact a stay law for a fixed period so that no creditor can sue any debtor for any contract or obligation up to the present time until after the stay period, and at the same time enact legislation that would not permit a debtor to dispose of nor transfer his property without the consent of his creditor.’
The landlord got nothing and the tenant had nothing left.’ A one-horse crop sold under distress warrant for rent did not bring enough to pay the officers of the court. ‘Corn has been sold at public outcry this winter for the pitiful sum of 15 cents per bushel’ the letter states, ‘and other produce has sold equally low. Knight wrote an open letter to the members of the Georgia General Assembly proposing a special legislative session to consider the plight of the farmers and to enact legislation to protect them from looming financial disaster. In 1921 things were not going well for farmers in Ray City, GA or elsewhere around the state of Georgia. In 1920 he joined the Baptist Chaplains Club, an organization of military chaplains dedicated to supporting the work of chaplains in the service and to securing legislation relative to the chaplains’ work. By 1925, he had served 4 years as pastor of the Baptist Church of Ray City. Knight was listed among the ordained ministers of the United States in the 1919 American Baptists Yearbook. He was commissioned 1st Lieutenant and Chaplain in the 5th Infantry, 17th Division at Camp Zachary Taylor, KY . He was of medium height, stout, with blue eyes and dark hair. Knight registered for the draft, his draft card being completed by D.A. Knight, of Ray City.”ĭuring World War I, P.T. The introductory sermons was preached by P.T. Woodard, of Adel, and the response was made by C.C. When the Valdosta Baptist Association convened its annual session for 1916, “ The body was welcomed by R.C. Knight became prominent among the Baptist organizations in the region. He had a farm on RFD #2 out of Milltown (now Lakeland), GA and employed Robert Lee Mathis and Charles Anthony Ray to farm it. Knight attended ministerial school in 1909 at Oaklawn Baptist Academy in Milltown, GA (now Lakeland) and served as pastor of Good Hope Baptist church at Naylor, Brushy Creek church near Nashville, Lois church, and Waresboro church near Waycross. He was a Mason and served as lodge master of the Lakeland Lodge 434 F&AM. The capital stock of the new bank is to be $25,000 and the incorporators are J.V. Clements were part of a quartet of investors in the formation of the Bank of Milltown:Īpplication was filed with secretary of State Philip Cook yesterday for a charter for the Bank of Milltown, at Milltown, in Berrien county.
Marriage certificate of Perry Thomas Knight and Ann Dugger, Berrien County, GA
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