Dr. Harrold specialized in surgery and cancer research. He cared for numerous poverty-stricken patients, knowing they could never pay for his services. He served in the medical corps during World War I. A great admirer of Native American culture, Harrold was one of three men instrumental in working through the Smithsonian Institute to establish the Ocmulgee Indian Mounds as a national park. A scholarly amateur horticulturist, Harrold initiated through the Kiwanis Club to plant rare species of Japanese magnolias on Mulberry Street. Mrs. Harrold was a suffragette who worked for passage of the 19th Amendment. In 1920, in the first election after the U.S. ratified the women’s voting rights amendment, Mrs. Harrold was the first woman elected to Macon/s City Council, running on a platform of economy and cleanliness, “the hallmarks of the housewife.” She served as a councilwoman under five mayors.
(Honeysuckle, lot 3, row A24)
Dr. Charles Cotton Harrold
(1878-1948)
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Helen Sophia Shaw Harrold
(1879-1960)
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