AM AMERICAN FORTUNE.
Mr Asa (I. Candler, who recently took the entire issue of Georgia’s State bomliy, amounting to .£700,000, in competition with outside bidders", is rated as the wealthiest man in Georgia. Tie hits had an interesting career, having begun life as a druggi(it s apprentice at' Carte rviH’o in .1870. Throe years later he moved to Atlanta, where lie was a clerk in a drug .store, of which he became an owner some years later. The business continued until disposed of by sale in 18S2. Since that period his fortune has grown enormously, and at present he is a bank president, bead of an investment company, president of the With ain Cotton Mills, director in many corporations, and owner of a seventeen-story building in Atlanta. He is also president of the board of trustees and chairman of the finance committee of Emory College, to which he has been a large contributor.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3982, 15 July 1915, Page 3
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153AM AMERICAN FORTUNE. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3982, 15 July 1915, Page 3
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