 1894 - 1961 (66 years)
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| Name |
Cason Jewell Callaway [1, 2, 3] |
| Suffix |
Sr |
| Birth |
6 Nov 1894 |
La Grange, Troup, Georgia, USA  [1, 2, 3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death Certificate No. |
Certificate number: 07711. [1] |
| Residence |
Harris, Georgia, USA [1] |
| Residence |
1920 |
La Grange, Troup, Georgia, USA [2] |
| Residence |
1930 |
La Grange, Troup, Georgia, USA [3] |
| Death |
12 Apr 1961 |
Harris, Georgia, USA [1] |
| Burial |
Callaway Family Mausoleum, Hamilton, Harris, Georgia, USA [4] |
| Person ID |
I9304 |
tng Genealogy |
| Father |
Fuller Earle Callaway, Sr, b. 15 Jul 1870, La Grange, Troup, Georgia, USA d. 12 Feb 1928, La Grange, Troup, Georgia, USA (Age 57 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Ida Jane Cason, b. 16 Jul 1872, Jewell, Warren, Georgia, USA d. 10 Apr 1936, La Grange, Troup, Georgia, USA (Age 63 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
28 Apr 1891 |
La Grange, Troup, Georgia, USA |
| Family ID |
F3525 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Virginia Hollis Hand, b. 21 Feb 1900, Pelham, Mitchell, Georgia, USA d. 11 Feb 1995, Hamilton, Harris, Georgia, USA (Age 94 years) |
| Marriage |
3 Apr 1920 |
Pelham, Mitchell, Georgia, USA |
| Children |
| + | 1. Virginia Hand Callaway, b. 1921, Georgia, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 2. Cason Jewell Callaway, Jr, b. 17 Jul 1924, LaGrange, Troup, Georgia, USA d. 20 Mar 2011, Hamilton, Harris, Georgia, USA (Age 86 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 3. Howard Hollis Callaway, b. 2 Apr 1927, La Grange, Troup, Georgia, USA d. 15 Mar 2014, Columbus, Muscogee, Georgia, USA (Age 86 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F3526 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 6 Nov 1894 - La Grange, Troup, Georgia, USA |
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 | Residence - - Harris, Georgia, USA |
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| Residence - 1920 - La Grange, Troup, Georgia, USA |
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 | Marriage - 3 Apr 1920 - Pelham, Mitchell, Georgia, USA |
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| Residence - 1930 - La Grange, Troup, Georgia, USA |
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| Death - 12 Apr 1961 - Harris, Georgia, USA |
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| Notes |
- Cason Jewell Callaway (November 6, 1894 - April 12, 1961)
Cason Jewell Callaway, co-founder of Callaway Gardens, was born in LaGrange, Georgia, the son of Fuller Earle and Ida Cason Callaway. Cason's father was a self-made success in the business world, and by the year of Cason's birth in 1894, Fuller Callaway had built a strong retail business in LaGrange and was just a few years short of running his first mill.
By the way people treated him, Cason quickly learned that he was the son of an important man. However, his father told him not to get "puffed up." His social standing only meant he would have to work twice as hard as anyone else. Fuller did not like the idea that his success would keep Cason from knowing the adversity that builds character.
For twelve years, Cason was the only child (his brother Fuller Jr. was born in 1907). Cason's mother, Ida Cason Callaway, treated her sons gently and provided a balance to their father's toughness.
Cason Jewell Callaway
Like his father, Cason Callaway (1894-1961) spent years as a textile manufacturer, a businessman, and a state agricultural leader. He achieved his greatest success in developing Callaway Gardens after retiring from Callaway Mills. A native of LaGrange, Cason attended Bingham Military School in Asheville, North Carolina, and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville before getting a degree from the Eastman School of Business in Poughkeepsie, New York. After finishing school, he returned to Troup County to work in the mills. He developed Valley Waste Mills into a commercial success by refining recycling operations.
During World War I (1917-18), Cason joined the U.S. Navy and worked in the Navy Supply Corps' Bureau of Supplies and Accounts at Navy Headquarters in Washington, D.C. After Cason returned to LaGrange, his father stepped away from active mill management, and Cason began managing the mills. He married Virginia Hollis Hand of Pelham, and the couple had three children, Cason Jr., Howard Hollis, and Virginia.
Convinced in the 1920s that the national economy was heading for rough times, Fuller advised his two sons to choose one business arena and sell off their other holdings. The brothers sold most of their businesses and created a new corporation, Callaway Mills, which oversaw mill management. One key to Cason's success in mill management proved to be salesmanship, a trait he shared with his father. Cason established relations with General Motors, entered the rug and tire-cord business, and hired managers and salesmen to market mill products. Thanks to careful stewardship and to profits made from selling the other businesses, Callaway Mills survived the Great Depression without closing any plants, while management kept at least one member of every mill family fully employed.
In 1934 and 1935 Callaway Mills suffered two employee strikes. Eventually management won out and strikers left the area, but the economic stresses of the decade led Cason to retire. He became chairman of the board of Callaway Enterprises and served until 1937; his brother, Fuller Jr., became president. Cason accepted national positions, served on the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, and was a director for various national companies.
During the 1920s and 1930s, Cason became close friends with Franklin D. Roosevelt, a part-time resident of west Georgia. Roosevelt began visiting Warm Springs in October 1924, while trying to overcome the effects of polio. He and Cason shared a love of the people, a desire to improve the land, and an interest in farming, even though they disagreed on politics. In 1932, the year Roosevelt was elected president of the United States, Cason led fund-raising efforts for Georgia Hall, the new administration building for the Warm Springs Foundation (later the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation). The foundation was funded by Georgians as a tribute to their new president.
Following his retirement from the mills, Cason set up an experimental farming operation of 40,000 acres at his Blue Springs Farms near Hamilton, just south of LaGrange. He worked with the University of Georgia to develop other showplace farms as part of the One Hundred Georgia Better Farms program, which encouraged better farm practices, between 1944 and 1947. The program encouraged using machinery and developing fine production—whether in beef, wool, or fruits and vegetables. The program officially ended in 1950.
In 1947 Cason had a heart attack. His focus shifted from agriculture to the development of what later became Callaway Gardens, situated on former cotton fields that had been stripped of nutrients by intensive farming. The gardens opened in May 1952. After Cason's death, his son Howard, known as "Bo," oversaw operations of the gardens for many years.
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Year: 1920; Census Place: La Grange, Troup, Georgia; Roll T625_281; Page: 18A; Enumeration District: 135; Image: 800.
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Year: 1930; Census Place: La Grange, Troup, Georgia; Roll 389; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 10; Image: 418.0.
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