WELLBOON, Marshall Johnson, lawyer, born in Putnam county, Georgia, 29 May, 1808; died in Columbus, Georgia, 16 October, 1874. After passing through the junior year in the University of Georgia, he studied law and was admitted to the bar at nineteen years of age by special act of the legislature. At twenty-one he was elected to the legislature of Georgia, and in 1842 he became judge of the superior court of the Chattahoochee circuit. Subsequently, after a prolonged trip in Europe, he served one term in congress in 1849-'51, having been chosen as a Democrat. In 1858 he began to think seriously on religious subjects, and in 1864 was ordained to the Baptist ministry at Columbus, Georgia From that time until his death he was pastor of various churches, serving them without compensation. In the earlier part of his life he was a brilliant, accomplished, and successful man of the world, and in his later years, by the consent of all who knew him, a man of truly apostolic devoutness and zeal.