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George W. Long was born November 19, 1856, in Perquimans County, N. C, the son of Samuel and Margaret A. (Reed) Long, also natives of North Carolina. The father was a graduate of Brown University, Rhode Island, and a man of high social position, and especially wealthy, before the ravages of war reached him. He died December 24, 1884, at the age of sixty years, and at the home of our subject. The mother was a classical graduate of the “Buckingham Female Collegiate Institution” of Virginia, and was a Christian woman of rare social qualities. She was a daughter of George W. and Sarah Reed, and was born January 9, 1839, and died July 25, 1859. James and Martha Long were the parents of Samuel, who was born October 8, 1831, and died December 24, 1884. Our subject, the second of three children, was educated, chiefly, by his father’s instruction, but two years was a student at the Friend’s school, at Belvidere, N. C. He went to New Market, Tenn., when of age, in the fall of 1878, where he became an assistant teacher in the Lost Creek High School, a Quaker institution, for two years, when he then became a clerk. November 12, 1879, he married Sudie E., daughter of John C. and Lucinda Matthews. Samuel M., their eldest, a precocious child, unfortunately died when four years old. Bertha, Edgar and Earl are still living. He and his wife’s father then formed the firm of Mathews & Long, merchants, at a small village, two miles west of New Market. Two years later, he came to New Market, bought a place, and began merchandising, and has enlarged his store and stock, and erected a fine modern-built hotel at a cost of over $5,000. He also does a livery business, and owns a large farm, about the edge of New Market; all this success that followed a small beginning. He is a Democrat, and was elected justice in a Republican district. He is postmaster at New Market, and is a highly esteemed Christian man, of broad sympathies and interests in public affairs.