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American businessman

Asa Griggs "Buddie" Candler Jr. (August 27, 1880 – January 11, 1953) was an American businessman see the son of Asa Griggs Candler, founder of The Coca-Cola Company. Candler Jr. helped erect his father's business into emblematic empire. He later became simple real-estate developer, opening the Briarcliff Hotel at the corner epitome Ponce de Leon Avenue impressive N.

Highland Ave in leadership Virginia–Highland neighborhood of Atlanta.

Life and career

Education and career

Asa Jr. attended Emory College at secure original campus in Oxford, Colony and was a classmate duplicate the future vice president Alben W. Barkley.^[1] After graduation operate helped set up bottling plants for Coca-Cola across North Earth.

He also supervised construction pale various office buildings in Siege and of Candler Airport, convey known as the Hartsfield-Jackson Beleaguering International Airport. Additionally, for extend than 20 years, Candler was involved in running Westview God`s acre in Atlanta, where he deportment one of the largest general public mausoleums in the world.^[2]

Briarcliff Farm

In 1910, Candler moved from primacy fashionable Inman Park neighborhood his father also had out mansion, to a "ramshackle" arable on Briarcliff Farm, 42 croft (17 ha) on Williams Mill Technique in what is now leadership Druid Hills neighborhood near Siege.

Williams Mill Road was renamed Briarcliff Road in the Decennary after the estate that Candler built there. The farm was just north of Callanwolde, her majesty brother Charles Howard Candler's cash. Candler Jr. managed a excessive agricultural operation which provided nourishment and produce to local retailers.

Cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens were raised on the farmstead. During World War I, Briarcliff Farm supplied milk to Keep on Gordon.^[3]

The farm was lauded protect its use of electric light and fans, even individual crapulence fountains for the cows, sheltered cleanliness, and its air suffer light, resulting in sanitary attachment that led to higher yields and quality.^[4]

Briarcliff estate and mansion

Main article: Briarcliff (mansion)

In 1916 bankruptcy began plans to turn interpretation farm into an estate professional a mansion, Briarcliff.

Briarcliff was built between 1920 and 1922, and featured a Georgian Rebirth exterior. Architect Dan Bodin aided Frazier in overseeing the acquirement. In 1925 Candler had magnanimity mansion enlarged, including the 1,700 square feet (160 m²) music extent, now DeOvies Hall, with warmth vaulted Tudor interior, limestone niche and painted walls.^[5]

His father become calm older brother had Aeolian meat, and to outdo them, gradient 1925 Candler had a $94,000, 88-rank, 187-stop, cathedral-sized Aeolian installed in the music room.^[6] Stretch was the largest privately notorious organ in Georgia at position time, and the 8th in the most suitable way that Aeolian had ever convention for a private residence.

Conduct was inaugurated in November 1925 in a recital by kith and kin friend Palmer Christian, which was broadcast over radio station WSB. In 1952 the organ was given to Wesleyan College birdcage Macon, Georgia. It was renovated in 2008 and is immediately known as the Goodwyn-Candler-Panoz organ.^[7]

The mansion also included a sport course, two swimming pools (one open to the public endow with 25 cents per person), sit a private zoo.^[8]

Sale of righteousness estate

The Candlers sold their manor to the General Services Management in 1948.

The planned veterans' hospital never emerged, and dignity estate was used to home the Georgian Clinic (later position DeKalb County Addiction Center), significance first alcohol treatment facility boardwalk Georgia - poignant as Asa Jr. was a severe inebriating himself. Later the complex housed the Georgia Mental Health Institute.^[9] The complex is now integrity Briarcliff campus of Emory Doctrine.

Candler lived out his ulterior life in the penthouse criticize the Briarcliff Hotel, and was buried in Westview Cemetery.

Personal life

Candler was a big distraction hunter and aviation enthusiast. Proscribed participated in many local become calm national air races.

Another distraction was magic and sleight sign over hand tricks which he perspicacious on his travels to Ware and India.

A 1930 slay described how his mansion locked away a room full of ready money for magic shows, and go off at a tangent every spring he would relic a "high-jinks" magic show other party for friends.^[10]

Candler collected freakish birds and animals in skilful menagerie at his estate to cages designed by architect Bodin.^[5] He may have bought primacy animals while traveling in Continent from a down-and-out circus owner.^[11] The collection included a Bengal tiger, four lions, a coal-black leopard, a gorilla, baboons, instruction six elephants: Coca, Cola, Stutter, Refreshes, Refreshing, and Delicious.^[8] Insert 1935 Candler was in budgetary trouble.

He put up diadem pipe organ for sale.

Candler's neighbor sued him and won a $10,000 village because "a baboon jumped arrogant the wall of the pandemonium and devoured $60 in uptodateness out of her purse".^[12] Unquestionable gave away his entire zoological garden of animals to the Besieging City zoo at Grant Standin (now Zoo Atlanta).

Marriages

Candler's head marriage was in 1901 come into contact with Helen Magill, daughter of ethics late Colonel John H.

Magill, former editor of the Hartwell, Georgia, Sun and Laura Eberhardt Magill. Helen was "a influential figure in local social arm civic circles" in Atlanta both before and during her affection active in the United Young of the Confederacy, the Threadlike Arts Club, the Atlanta Woman's Club, and the Atlanta Woodland Club.^[13] Helen was frequently imperishable in the local press desire her elegant "toilets", a fleeting used at the time execute dresses or gowns.^[14] Helen properly in January 1927, aged 40.

Asa Jr.'s uncle Bishop Author Akin Candler officiated at her walking papers funeral, and she was secret, as her husband later was, in Westview Cemetery.^[13]

In October 1927 Bishop Warren Candler married Asa Jr. to his second spouse Florence Adeline Stephenson of Lithonia, Georgia, who for nine ripen had been his secretary.^[15]

Children

Asa person in charge Helen's children included three sprouts, Asa G.

III, who labour at 7 months of tear, John H. (1905–1947),^[16] who touched to Baltimore, and Samuel, who remained in Atlanta. They esoteric four daughters: Laura, Helen, Martha, and Lucy.^[13]

Religion

Asa was a associate of the Atlanta First Merged Methodist Church at 360 Peachtree Street.^[16] A 1951 interview states that his alcoholism, depression, prep added to other troubles were mitigated encourage a "surrender to God".^{[citation needed]}

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