Henry Lumpkin Wilson

He served in the Confederate army and was made chief surgeon of the conscript department of Georgia.

[1] in 1883 he was an incorporator of the Fulton County Street Railroad which brought horsecar service to Ponce de Leon Springs.

[2] The line would later become the Nine-Mile Circle electric streetcar which would make accessible and thus enable the development of what is today Virginia-Highland and adjacent neighborhoods.

Indeed, in 1914, Wilson sold 65 acres which would be subdivided into Boulevard Park, one of the original subdivisions of today's Virginia Highland.

[1] Wilson was described as a "stubby blond man of medium height with a brusque manner and a quick keen glance".