Lloyd Cleveland.

Admitted to the bar in 1881, Lloyd Cleveland has .for nearly thirty-five years found abundant opportunities for a successful professional career at Griffin, and his reputation is second to none among the members of thebar of Spalding Countv.

Born in Griffin July 13, 1861, he is a son of James Rice and Mary H. (Beall) Cleveland. Both parents were born in Georgia, the. father being of English and the mother of Scotch stock. His father was a dentist by profession.

Attending the common schools as a boy and later Mercer University of Macon, Lloyd Cleveland was graduated in July, 1880, and after continuing the study of law privately for a time, was admitted to the bar in 1881. Since then he has beenconstantly engaged in practice, and in addition to a large volume of private business is now serving as division counsel for the Central of Georgia Railroad

Company.

He also represents as attorney the Spalding County Merchants and Planters Bank and the Griffin Banking Company, and is a director in the latter. He is. a member of both the Spalding County and the Georgia Bar associations.

Fraternally Mr. Cleveland is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner. On November 9, 1886, he married Miss Maggie E. Thompson of Greenville, Georgia, and a native of this state.

They are the parents of two sons. Phillip McLauren, the older, is now a young attorney associated with his father in practice. The second son is Alan, who is a student and also a practical young farmer.

BRO CLEVELAND  SERVED AS WORSHIPFUL MASTER

IN 1909