Augustus Jossey Long, one of those Georgia Catholics to know whom is to like and esteem, was born in Macon, August 30, 1872. And he has lived in Macon ever since. If there is any one thing of which he is proud of as his Catholicity, it is that he is a resident of Macon, and, in turn, Macon is mighty proud of him.
He started school at St. Joseph's Parochial, but the death of his father in 1884 took him out of the fifth grade and put him to work with a grocery house where he remained until 1895, getting meanwhile a few more months schooling with
Father Quinlan at night school. He next became city salesman with the wholesale grocery firm of Cox & Chappell, remaining with them until 1905, when he purchased the business of A.W. Turner, forming a corporation operating under the style of the A.J. Long Cigar and Tobacco Company. Martin Callaghan as treasurer, and James J. Daly as secretary. And the fact that the three are still together in the same business speaks volumes. Today, the firm is the A.J. Long Cigar and Grocery Company, the added word explaining the addition to the business, which was a success from the start. The first year the volume was a little over a hundred thousand, while last year it was over a million.
Mr. Long has held but one polital office, serving as county commissioner from 1908 to 1912, where he signalized himself as a friend of progress by being on three occasions the only commissioner to vote to give the county board of education the appropriation believed by it to be necessary. However, Mr. Long has always taken an active interest in politics, believing that it is the duty of the good citizen to keep watch upon civic matters.
One of the signal achievements of the subject of this sketch was the organization of the Bibb County Good Roads Association, which started the agitation against the convict lease system and which eventually resulted in the convicts being put to work on the roads of the State. Mr. Long was one of the chief speakers before the legislature that passed this legislation.
Mr. Long was president of the Macon Chamber of Commerce in 1917, and was then bitterly assailed by the most pronounced anti-Catholic in Georgia. He was also chairman of the annexation committee in 1910 whose work brought within the city limits almost enough people to outcount Augusta in that year.
The new terminal station at Macon was made possible by the work of the transportation committee of the Chamber of Commerce of which Mr. Long was chairman and active leader. In this capacity he helped to secure additional trains and revised rates and other transportation advantages for Macon,
appearomg several times before congressional committees as the city's representative.
In a Catholic way few Maconites have had greater responsibilities than Mr. Long. He was the first president of the Catholic Laymen's Association and materially
assisted in starting it along the path that led to its world-wide success. He has been prefect of the Young Men's Sodality, president and also secretary of the A.O.H, secretary of the C.K. of A., Grand Knight of the K. of C. In fact, he has worked long and zealously to advance Catholic interests.
In 1898 he married Miss Katie Scheich, of Milwaukee, and ten children, of whom nine are living, has bless the union.
From, "The Bulletin of the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia", 01 Dec 1920, Page 15.
He started school at St. Joseph's Parochial, but the death of his father in 1884 took him out of the fifth grade and put him to work with a grocery house where he remained until 1895, getting meanwhile a few more months schooling with
Father Quinlan at night school. He next became city salesman with the wholesale grocery firm of Cox & Chappell, remaining with them until 1905, when he purchased the business of A.W. Turner, forming a corporation operating under the style of the A.J. Long Cigar and Tobacco Company. Martin Callaghan as treasurer, and James J. Daly as secretary. And the fact that the three are still together in the same business speaks volumes. Today, the firm is the A.J. Long Cigar and Grocery Company, the added word explaining the addition to the business, which was a success from the start. The first year the volume was a little over a hundred thousand, while last year it was over a million.
Mr. Long has held but one polital office, serving as county commissioner from 1908 to 1912, where he signalized himself as a friend of progress by being on three occasions the only commissioner to vote to give the county board of education the appropriation believed by it to be necessary. However, Mr. Long has always taken an active interest in politics, believing that it is the duty of the good citizen to keep watch upon civic matters.
One of the signal achievements of the subject of this sketch was the organization of the Bibb County Good Roads Association, which started the agitation against the convict lease system and which eventually resulted in the convicts being put to work on the roads of the State. Mr. Long was one of the chief speakers before the legislature that passed this legislation.
Mr. Long was president of the Macon Chamber of Commerce in 1917, and was then bitterly assailed by the most pronounced anti-Catholic in Georgia. He was also chairman of the annexation committee in 1910 whose work brought within the city limits almost enough people to outcount Augusta in that year.
The new terminal station at Macon was made possible by the work of the transportation committee of the Chamber of Commerce of which Mr. Long was chairman and active leader. In this capacity he helped to secure additional trains and revised rates and other transportation advantages for Macon,
appearomg several times before congressional committees as the city's representative.
In a Catholic way few Maconites have had greater responsibilities than Mr. Long. He was the first president of the Catholic Laymen's Association and materially
assisted in starting it along the path that led to its world-wide success. He has been prefect of the Young Men's Sodality, president and also secretary of the A.O.H, secretary of the C.K. of A., Grand Knight of the K. of C. In fact, he has worked long and zealously to advance Catholic interests.
In 1898 he married Miss Katie Scheich, of Milwaukee, and ten children, of whom nine are living, has bless the union.
From, "The Bulletin of the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia", 01 Dec 1920, Page 15.
Augustus Jossey Long, one of those Georgia Catholics to know whom is to like and esteem, was born in Macon, August 30, 1872. And he has lived in Macon ever since. If there is any one thing of which he is proud of as his Catholicity, it is that he is a resident of Macon, and, in turn, Macon is mighty proud of him.
He started school at St. Joseph's Parochial, but the death of his father in 1884 took him out of the fifth grade and put him to work with a grocery house where he remained until 1895, getting meanwhile a few more months schooling with
Father Quinlan at night school. He next became city salesman with the wholesale grocery firm of Cox & Chappell, remaining with them until 1905, when he purchased the business of A.W. Turner, forming a corporation operating under the style of the A.J. Long Cigar and Tobacco Company. Martin Callaghan as treasurer, and James J. Daly as secretary. And the fact that the three are still together in the same business speaks volumes. Today, the firm is the A.J. Long Cigar and Grocery Company, the added word explaining the addition to the business, which was a success from the start. The first year the volume was a little over a hundred thousand, while last year it was over a million.
Mr. Long has held but one polital office, serving as county commissioner from 1908 to 1912, where he signalized himself as a friend of progress by being on three occasions the only commissioner to vote to give the county board of education the appropriation believed by it to be necessary. However, Mr. Long has always taken an active interest in politics, believing that it is the duty of the good citizen to keep watch upon civic matters.
One of the signal achievements of the subject of this sketch was the organization of the Bibb County Good Roads Association, which started the agitation against the convict lease system and which eventually resulted in the convicts being put to work on the roads of the State. Mr. Long was one of the chief speakers before the legislature that passed this legislation.
Mr. Long was president of the Macon Chamber of Commerce in 1917, and was then bitterly assailed by the most pronounced anti-Catholic in Georgia. He was also chairman of the annexation committee in 1910 whose work brought within the city limits almost enough people to outcount Augusta in that year.
The new terminal station at Macon was made possible by the work of the transportation committee of the Chamber of Commerce of which Mr. Long was chairman and active leader. In this capacity he helped to secure additional trains and revised rates and other transportation advantages for Macon,
appearomg several times before congressional committees as the city's representative.
In a Catholic way few Maconites have had greater responsibilities than Mr. Long. He was the first president of the Catholic Laymen's Association and materially
assisted in starting it along the path that led to its world-wide success. He has been prefect of the Young Men's Sodality, president and also secretary of the A.O.H, secretary of the C.K. of A., Grand Knight of the K. of C. In fact, he has worked long and zealously to advance Catholic interests.
In 1898 he married Miss Katie Scheich, of Milwaukee, and ten children, of whom nine are living, has bless the union.
From, "The Bulletin of the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia", 01 Dec 1920, Page 15.
He started school at St. Joseph's Parochial, but the death of his father in 1884 took him out of the fifth grade and put him to work with a grocery house where he remained until 1895, getting meanwhile a few more months schooling with
Father Quinlan at night school. He next became city salesman with the wholesale grocery firm of Cox & Chappell, remaining with them until 1905, when he purchased the business of A.W. Turner, forming a corporation operating under the style of the A.J. Long Cigar and Tobacco Company. Martin Callaghan as treasurer, and James J. Daly as secretary. And the fact that the three are still together in the same business speaks volumes. Today, the firm is the A.J. Long Cigar and Grocery Company, the added word explaining the addition to the business, which was a success from the start. The first year the volume was a little over a hundred thousand, while last year it was over a million.
Mr. Long has held but one polital office, serving as county commissioner from 1908 to 1912, where he signalized himself as a friend of progress by being on three occasions the only commissioner to vote to give the county board of education the appropriation believed by it to be necessary. However, Mr. Long has always taken an active interest in politics, believing that it is the duty of the good citizen to keep watch upon civic matters.
One of the signal achievements of the subject of this sketch was the organization of the Bibb County Good Roads Association, which started the agitation against the convict lease system and which eventually resulted in the convicts being put to work on the roads of the State. Mr. Long was one of the chief speakers before the legislature that passed this legislation.
Mr. Long was president of the Macon Chamber of Commerce in 1917, and was then bitterly assailed by the most pronounced anti-Catholic in Georgia. He was also chairman of the annexation committee in 1910 whose work brought within the city limits almost enough people to outcount Augusta in that year.
The new terminal station at Macon was made possible by the work of the transportation committee of the Chamber of Commerce of which Mr. Long was chairman and active leader. In this capacity he helped to secure additional trains and revised rates and other transportation advantages for Macon,
appearomg several times before congressional committees as the city's representative.
In a Catholic way few Maconites have had greater responsibilities than Mr. Long. He was the first president of the Catholic Laymen's Association and materially
assisted in starting it along the path that led to its world-wide success. He has been prefect of the Young Men's Sodality, president and also secretary of the A.O.H, secretary of the C.K. of A., Grand Knight of the K. of C. In fact, he has worked long and zealously to advance Catholic interests.
In 1898 he married Miss Katie Scheich, of Milwaukee, and ten children, of whom nine are living, has bless the union.
From, "The Bulletin of the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia", 01 Dec 1920, Page 15.
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