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which distributed funds and goods among the needy citizens. May gave freely of his own money to help the needy, actions that were remembered in the years ahead when he ran for re-election. He served five 1-year terms during the period of 1861-66 and was well respected by government officials throughout the state and citizens of
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183:, where he was apprenticed to be a wheelwright with Hubert & Roll. While working at this trade he eventually became a partner in the business, and in 1852 started his own carriage manufacturing business, named R. H. May & Co.; which soon became a leading manufacture of carriages, buggies and farm wagons throughout the south.
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Again in 1879, the citizens of
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ordered May to burn the large amounts of cotton stored in the warehouses throughout
Augusta to prevent it from falling into the Union Army's hands. In an open letter to all cotton owners in the city, May asked that they move their cotton from the city limits, because this would prevent a risk of the
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As Robert May's business and family grew, May became active in community affairs. He was a member of the
Augusta City Council for several terms before being elected to the mayor's office in 1861. In 1862, on his suggestion, the city council organized and sponsored the Augusta Purveying Association,
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Robert H. May died on
February 7, 1903 in Augusta, Georgia at the age of 80 and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Augusta. The park across from Magnolia Cemetery he now rest, bears his name.
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Augusta; and the cotton was never destroyed, thus saving many of the pre-war buildings.
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