JUDGE WILLIAM HODGES MANN.
John Mann, born in Chesterfield county, Virginia, died in August,
1843, and Mary Hunter Bowers, still living, are the parents of the subject
of this sketch. He was born at Williamsburg, Virginia, on July
31, 1843, and the first five or six years of his school life he attended
school in Williamsburg. Afterward he attended school in Brownsburg,
Virginia, then studied law without any assistance and obtained license
to practice. He entered the Confederate States Army in June, 1861, a
private in Company E, 12th regiment Virginia Volunteers, the regiment
serving in Mahone's division. In 1863 he was taken prisoner and
escaped, and in the same year he was discharged to take charge of the
clerk's office in Nottoway, as deputy clerk. In 1864 he was elected clerk
of the circuit court of Dinwiddie county, in 1865 was Commonwealth
attorney in Nottoway county; in 1872 was elected judge of same
county, which office he is still ably filling. His father was clerk of James
City county for a number of years, with office at Williamsburg. The
first wife of Judge Mann was Sallie Fitzgerald, who died on November
2, 1882. He married secondly at Petersburg, Etta, daughter of Hon.
Alexander and Anna (Wilson) Donnan, of Petersburg. They have one
son, Stuart Donnan. Residence, Nottoway C. H.
