Stephens-Franklin-Forsyth County GaArchives News.....Biographical Sketches--Mr. J. L. Pendley October 15, 1908
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The Toccoa Record, Toccoa, Stephens County, Georgia October 15, 1908
The Toccoa Record, 15 Oct 1908, p. 1.  

Biographical SketchesA feature of THE RECORD for the next few months will be 
a series of biographical sketches of prominent citizens of Stephens County.  
In most cases a portrait will accompany the sketch.  We inaugurate this 
department this week with biographies of Dr. J. L. Pendley, the well known 
jeweler and optometrist, and Col. W. A. Bailey, Clerk of the Superior Court of 
Stephens County.


Mr. J. L. Pendley.   Mr. J. L. Pendley, the subject of this sketch, was born 
in Forsyth county, Georgia, April 22, 1876.  He received a common school 
education in that county and at the age of 19 completed a course in penmanship 
and drawing.  The next three years of his life were spent in teaching these 
arts to the boys and girls in the surrounding counties.

Mr. Pendley's next work was in a jewelry shop, where he learned watch making 
and repairing.  He then opened a store of his own, and after conducting . . . 
services of a watch maker to conduct his business so he might have an 
opportunity to learn the optical profession.

He took a course in the Northern Illinois College of Ophthalmology and 
Otology, of Chicago.  He received a diploma from that college and one from 
another college in that city.  Next he took a course in the South Bend Optical 
College, South Bend, Ind.

In recent years Mr. Pendley has visited many of the manufacturing plants of 
watches and jewelry in northern and eastern cities, such as the Elgin and 
Hamilton watch plants, and the Keystone Case Factory, of Philadelphia, and 
many other plants of their kind.  On these investigating tours he visited J. 
R. Wood & Sons, the largest diamond cutters in the world.  He spent 
considerable time at these places, posting himself on everything pertaining to 
his line of business, learning many invaluable and practical points from the 
manufacturer's viewpoint.

He can fill any orders for plain wedding rings, 18 carat gold.

He conducted a successful jewelry business in Buford, Ga., for five years.

Two years ago he located in Toccoa.  He has been and is now the proprietor of 
the handsomest and most complete jewelry establishment in this section of the 
State.  Directly after coming here he was appointed watch inspector for the 
Southern Railway.

Upstairs of the Toccoa Banking Co. he has one of the most expensive and well 
equipped optical parlors in the State.

As a side line he conducts a real estate and renting agency, and it will be 
well for prospective purchasers and renters to confer with him before making 
any deals in that line.

Last year Mr. Pendley purchased the property opposite the Episcopal church and 
has remodeled it to a considerable extent.  As it appears today it is one of 
the most beautiful residences in Toccoa.

Mr. Pendey is an ambitious young man, full of energy and vigor.  He believes 
in Toccoa and her future, and is ever ready to join in any movement pertaining 
to the welfare of his home town.

Mr. Pendley is a conscientious advocate of the use of printers' ink as a 
stimulus to business, and attributes a goodly portion of his business success 
to liberal advertising.


[The other biography on this date was of Col. W. A. Bailey.  Photos of both 
men appeared at the top of this article.]


Transcribed by June Coker McNew, January 2011.  




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