Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....Charlton, Walter Glasco 1851 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   WALTER GLASCO CHARLTON, youngest son of Robert M. and Margaret Charlton, was
born in Savannah, Georgia, on June 5, 1851. He attended school in Savannah, and
in Hancock county, Georgia, and Baltimore county, Maryland, under Richard
Malcolm Johnston. In 1869 he matriculated at the University of Virginia, and
came to the bar of the eastern circuit on January 22, 1873. In that year he
became associated with Albert R. Lamar in the office of solicitor-general. In
1877 he was appointed reporter of the circuit; and in 1880 was elected
solicitor-general. On February 11, 1908, he was appointed judge of the eastern
judicial circuit and elected to that office during that year. In 1912, he was
again elected. On February 11, 1874, he married Mary Walton, daughter of Richard
Malcolm Johnston. He has filled several political positions, among them chairman
of the Democratic party in Chatham for several years. His people have been
Democrats literally from the day the party was formed. He is the author of
several essays on epochs in Georgia history, and has delivered numerous speeches
on occasions of historic celebrations. He has occasionally indulged in verse.
His ancestors on both sides are identified with the history of Georgia and the
United States. The Maryland Charltons held Mason and Dixon's line against
Pennsylvania for many years. His great-grandfather Charlton volunteered in the
Revolutionary forces in 1775, and his great-grandfather, John Shick, who
afterward became a prosperous and prominent man, fought at the siege of
Savannah, having his right arm shot off by a cannon ball from the British. Judge
Charlton is at present president of the Georgia Society of the Cincinnati and of
the Georgia Society of the Revolution.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913


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