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Milledgeville Businesses in 1890


Population 6,000.  Mayor - Peter J. Cline

Colleges:
State Industrial School for Girls
Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural School established Jan. 19, 1880

Businesses:
Milledgeville Brick Works, J. W. McMillan proprietor

Milledgeville Oil (cotton seed) & Fertilizer Company, organized May 1889. Captain W. T. Conn, president
W. S. Brooks, manager. Directors: W. T. Conn, W. S. Brooks, J. W. McMillan, J. C. Whitaker, D.W. Brown, George C. Smith, H. D. Allen, C. R. Harper.

Electric Light Company

State Lunatic Asylum
1500 patients, 200-300 attendants

Milledgeville Banking Company Organized October 1884 G. T. Wiedenman, president, B. T. Bethune, cashier
Board of Directors: W. T. Conn, T. O. Powell, T. L. McComb, Samuel Evans, D. B. Sanford and G. T. Widenman

Peter Cline Dry Goods

Milledgeville Hotel F. P. Mapp, proprietor

W. T. Conn & Co. - wholesale grocers

John M. Clarke Drug Store - George D. Case - druggist

T. L. McComb - wholesale and retail dealer. also president of Ice factory

Joseph Miller - jeweler

Joseph Staley - stoves, hardware, tinware, glassware & agricultural implements. Also vice president and director of dummy line, director in building and loan associations

Adolph Joseph, dry goods, notions, boots, shoes

J. A. Horne, wholesale commission merchant - grain and provisions.

Fred Haug, dealer in shoes, hats, trunks and leather and repair shop

W. & J. Caraker - furniture dealers

J. F. Wilson - hardware

A. F. Skinner - general merchandise

Jewell & McComb - dealers in fancy and family grocers

M. & J. R. Hines - dealers in general supplies, wagons, buggies, etc.

T. E. White - grocers

Warren Edwards - bottling works, soda and ginger ale.

J. C. Whitaker - store in country 12 miles from town. Also director in oil mill and electric light company

Captain C. H. Andrews  - insurance, merchandise broker, clerk of the board of trade

Sol Barrett - built the dummy line railway

Professional
Robert Whitfield - attorney, State Senator

Rufus W. Roberts - attorney, chairman of finance committee, secretary and director of Milledgeville Ice works and director in electric light company and Baldwin county building and loan association

Joseph E. Pottle attorney and judge

J. T. Allen, attorney and judge

Captain J. D. Howard - attorney

Dr. Clark - dentist

Dr. McReynolds - dentist
 

The Press
The Recorder and Chronicle
 
 

Source: Atlanta Constitution March 3, 1890