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GEORGE EAKIN NAFF.

Was born at Jonesboro, Tennessee, July 3d, 1829. Educated at Emory and
Henry College. Won the Robertson prize medal in 1847, in his junior year,

George E. Naff.

having John Goode, Wm. E. Peters, Everett, Clayton,
Ridgeway, et als., for competitors. Studied and practised
law until 1855, when he took charge of a female
college at Athens, Alabama. Was elected to the presidency
of Soule Female College, Murfreesboro, Tennessee,
in 1858, which position he held until 1862,
when he died of erysipelas. In 1850 he married Margaret
Elizabeth Hope, of this county. Was appointed
and served as Commonwealth's Attorney for this
county in 1855, upon the death of Samuel Logan.