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J. W. RUCKER, Esq. 



Of the present firm of Maddox & Rucker, Atlanta, Ga., is my old California chum. 

 Forty years ago he was a poor young man, a clerk for U. L. Wright, on Whitehall street. 

 We left Atlanta together, went by my father's home at old Pendleton, S. C, from thence 

 via Charleston, S. C, New York, Havana, Panama, Acapulco, San Francisco, Sacramento, 

 and into the gold mining region, where we soon got strapped and had to separate and hire 

 out to work for a living, and met again in Atlanta, Ga., after many years. 



Rucker, by great diligence and unswerving rectitude, has accumulated a handsome 

 fortune, is well known in Georgia, and liked by everybody. 



