...e until the summer of 1868 as a student in the Edinburgh university. Since then his occupation has been that of a cotton planter in his native county. He held the position of private secretary to Governor Tillman from 1890 to 1894, and in the latter year was elected secretary of state, an office in which his honorable career is familiar to the people. In 1869 he was married, in Laurens county, to Louisa R.,...