Ignatius Elgin Shumate (December 1834, in Loudoun County, Virginia[1] - September 9, 1907, in Dalton, Georgia)[2] was a teacher, colonel in the Confederate Army, and lawyer.
Biography[]
Ignatius E. Shumate graduated in 1858 with distinction from Emory and Henry College, later received a master's degree from the same school, and then served on the faculty.[1]
After the American Civil War began, he moved to Dalton, Georgia, where his wife had family. Dalton became an important post with an army supply depot,[1] and Shumate became a "clerk and assistant in the subsistence department" under General Joseph E. Johnston.[3]
After the end of the war, Shumate practiced law[1][3] and was elected to the Georgia House in 1868 as a Democrat.[1][4] His work in the House was respected enough that one writer called him "perhaps its most brilliant member".[5] Cherokee Circuit Court adjourned early on the day of his memorial service, and the court accepted a report on the service.[2]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Allen Daniel Candler and Clement Anselm Evans, ed (1906). Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. III. Atlanta: State historical association. pp. 284–287. https://books.google.com/books?id=BJ0SAAAAYAAJ&q=ignatius+elgin+shumate&pg=PA284.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Maddox, Sam P., R. J. McCamy, C. D. McCutcheon, W. C. Martin, and Geo. G. Glenn (April 9, 1908). "Memorial Services Well Attended: large crowd paid tribute to the late Col. I. E. Shumate". The Dalton Citizen. Dalton, Georgia. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ngnewspapers/id:ngc1908-0118.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Col. I. E. Shumate". 1908. p. 285. https://books.google.com/books?id=851HAQAAMAAJ&q=col.+i.e.+shumate&pg=PA285.
- ↑ Avery, Isaac Wheeler (1881). The History of the State of Georgia from 1850 to 1881: Embracing the Three Important Epochs: the Decade Before the War of 1861-5; the War; the Period of Reconstruction. Georgia: Brown & Derby. p. 397. https://archive.org/details/historyofstateof01aver.
- ↑ Knight, Lucian Lamar (1917). A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians. 2. Lewis publishing Company. p. 839. ISBN 9785876667304. https://books.google.com/books?id=CmETAAAAYAAJ&q=i.e.+shumate&pg=PA839.
External links[]
- "Col. I. E. Shumate Passes Away". The Dalton Citizen. Dalton, Georgia: The A. Y. Showalter Co.. September 12, 1907. p. 4. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ngnewspapers/id:ngc1907-0280.
- Ignatius Elgin Shumate at Find a Grave
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