From collection Member List
EDUCATION: Illges entered The University of Georgia in 1872. He graduated on August 5, 1874 with a degree in Civil Engineering and with distinction in mathematics and applied mathematics. He was a member, treasurer and president of Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta.
CAREER: Brother Illges moved to Austin, Texas by 1878. He was a bookkeeper for L. E. Edwards and later an engineer for the original Sunset Route of the Galveston, Harrisburg, and San Antonio Railroad - later a part of the Southern Pacific Railroad - in Austin and San Antonio, Texas.
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His father was Jacob Paul Illges, who moved from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Columbus, Georgia in 1835. In Columbus, Mr. Illges established a successful grocery business and later became one of the organizers of the Swift Spinning Mills (textiles), which later became a part of Fieldcrest Mills. J. P. Illges and his brother, Abraham, were instrumental in the founding of many of Columbus, Georgia’s major industrial enterprises, including, as mentioned before, the Swift Spinning Mills, and also the Columbus Electric and Electric, Columbus Ice Company, Georgia Midland and Gulf Railroad, Golden Foundry Mill, Lummus Cotton Gin Company, the Muscogee Manufacturing Company and others.
John Paul Illges’ brother, Abraham, married Mary Lou Barnett, 28 years younger than he. Miss Barnett was a daughter of John Nathaniel Barnett and Lucy Anne Pitts. A sister of Mary Lou Barnett, Julia Adelle Barnett, married Kappa Deuteron Brother William Anderson Redd.
CAREER: Brother Illges moved to Austin, Texas by 1878. He was a bookkeeper for L. E. Edwards and later an engineer for the original Sunset Route of the Galveston, Harrisburg, and San Antonio Railroad - later a part of the Southern Pacific Railroad - in Austin and San Antonio, Texas.
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His father was Jacob Paul Illges, who moved from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Columbus, Georgia in 1835. In Columbus, Mr. Illges established a successful grocery business and later became one of the organizers of the Swift Spinning Mills (textiles), which later became a part of Fieldcrest Mills. J. P. Illges and his brother, Abraham, were instrumental in the founding of many of Columbus, Georgia’s major industrial enterprises, including, as mentioned before, the Swift Spinning Mills, and also the Columbus Electric and Electric, Columbus Ice Company, Georgia Midland and Gulf Railroad, Golden Foundry Mill, Lummus Cotton Gin Company, the Muscogee Manufacturing Company and others.
John Paul Illges’ brother, Abraham, married Mary Lou Barnett, 28 years younger than he. Miss Barnett was a daughter of John Nathaniel Barnett and Lucy Anne Pitts. A sister of Mary Lou Barnett, Julia Adelle Barnett, married Kappa Deuteron Brother William Anderson Redd.
