This is the list of mayors of Atlanta — former mayors of the city of Atlanta. ... January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasnt had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. ... January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
His aggressive, no-nonsense writing style and promotion of railroad development in Atlanta brought him to the attention of Evan P. Howell and W. Hemphill, major stockholders of the Atlanta Constitution.
Howell offered Grady one-fourth ownership of the newspaper for the price of $20,000, along with the position of managing editor.
Grady became the group's leader and dominant political force, helping to arrange the legislature's election of a fellow Ring member, Joseph E. Brown, to the U.S. Senate in 1880.
When a deadly yellow fever epidemic hit Savannah in August 1876, the Harris family, which now included two children, moved to higher ground in Atlanta to wait out the epidemic.
In September 1876 Atlanta Constitution editor EvanHowell and his outspoken new associate editor Henry W. Grady hired the young journalist whose paragraphs they had already been reprinting.
Harris quickly discovered that Atlanta had become not only the fastest-growing city in the Southeast but also the very center of what Grady, a decade later, famously described as the New South.
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