Few men in the history of Georgia have come down to the present in
hearsay and folklore as profusely and as controversially as has
James Monroe Smith, who became a millionaire farmer around the turn
of the twentieth century. He was born near Washington, Georgia, in
1839 and died on his plantation a few miles from Athens in 1915.
Smith's plantation "Smithonia" was measured in terms of square
miles. He developed an empire of farming and allied interests,
among which was a railroad to connect his plantation with other
rail lines. He served terms in the state legislature in both the
house and the senate, and in 1906 ran unsuccessfully for
governor.
The colorful career of Smith, a bachelor, did not end with his
death but was kept alive in numerous claims and counter-claims in
the settling of his estate. E. Merton Coulter seeks to separate
fact from fiction in his account of Smith's varied activities and
the final dissolution of his wealth.
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