HON. JONATHAN NORCROSS, 



Born in Charleston, Maine, his firs, ad.en.nre was in Cuba, where he engaged ,„ .he 

 „aclnne business; ne« in Nor.h Carolina, as a schooUeacher; .ro,n .hence .o Angns^^a, 

 Ga., in, he same avocaion; .hence ,0 Mar.hasville, wi.h ahorse saw n,,m nex., es.b 

 Usheda..henowtamonsold Norcross Corner as a n,ercha„. (where 1 well remember In, 

 shingle adver.isemen.hnng on., for exchange in country produce). 



Elected Mayor of A.lan.a in .S50, Mr. Jonathan Norcross maybe cons.dered bo.e 

 all o.hers, as a fa.her .0 Atlanta, as a father to the great A,r Line Railroad, and the athe 

 o, the S.:.e Railroad Commission. The Pioneer of Atlanta, and as the l.vtng h„. between 

 its present and the past-, has lived in Atlanta from its beginning, audits fnend .n every 

 great enterprise. An honest republican, loved and honored even by his pol.t.ea foes^ 

 have Itnowm him for forty years, and remember l,im in those olden days as one of the best 

 patrons of the telegraph business. 



