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EMINENT VIRGINIANS.

Signers of the Declaration of Independence.

GEORGE WYTHE.

"The honor of his own, and the model of future times," was the
eulogy pronounced upon George Wythe at his death, by Thomas Jefferson,
who in youth had been his pupil at law, and in later years his
coadjutor in Congress, and a warm personal friend.

George Wythe was born in 1726, in Elizabeth City county, Colony
of Virginia. His father was a Virginia gentleman of the old school,
amiable, courteous, a lover of his family, a good manager of his large
estate, but with more fondness for outdoor life than for his study, and
a better acquaintance with the denizens of field and forest than with
his classics. From his mother, George Wythe inherited his intellectual
tastes and mental vigor. She was a woman of great strength of
mind, and was possessed of singular learning for her day, among her
accomplishments reckoning a thorough knowledge of Latin.

Under the tuition of his mother, George Wythe attained an excellent
education, pursuing with her the study of grammar, rhetoric and
logic, mathematics, natural and moral philosophy, civil law, Latin and
Greek. Of the latter tongue Mrs. Wythe had no knowledge, but she
assisted her son in his acquisition of it by reading an English version
of the works which he studied, and so testing the accuracy of his
translations.

This devoted mother died before her son attained the years
of manhood, and his father dying about the same time, George
Wythe entered upon the possession of a large fortune. For some
time he abandoned study, and led a life of dissipation. He was
thirty years of age when he shook off youthful follies, and entered
upon the life of honor and usefulness which has perpetuated
his name. Thenceforth, for fifty years, it was his privilege

to pursue, with unremitting ardor, all the noble purposes of life, but
at its close he looked back upon the wasted years of his young manhood
with deep regret.

Under the instructions of Mr. John Lewis, a noted practitioner in the
Virginia courts, George Wythe read law and fitted himself for practice.
His success in his chosen profession was equal to his desert. As a pleader
at the bar his extensive learning, fine elocution, and logical style of argument,
made him irresistible. But his distinguishing characteristic was
his rigid justice. The dignity of his profession was never prostituted to
the support of an unjust cause. In this rule he was so inflexible that if
he entertained doubts of his client's rights, he required of him an oath as to
the truth of his statements before he undertook his cause, and if deception
were in any manner practiced upon him, he would return the fee and
abandon the case. Such a stand as this early called attention to Mr.
Wythe's fitness for administering justice in important causes, and ultimately
led to his appointment as chancellor of Virginia, the important duties of
which position he discharged with the most exact justice until the day of
his death.

Early in life Mr. Wythe was elected to represent Elizabeth City county
in the House of Burgesses, a position he filled for many years. November
14, 1764, he was appointed a member of a committee of the House to
prepare a petition to the king, a memorial to the House of Lords, and a
remonstrance to the House of Commons, on the "Stamp Act," then a
measure before Parliament.

The paper was drawn by Mr. Wythe, but its language was so vigorous
and his utterances so abounding in plain truths that must give offense to
his majesty, that the draft was considered treasonable by his hesitating
colleagues, and was materially modified before the report was accepted.

The "Stamp Act" was passed, and the news was received in the
House of Burgesses of Virginia, as an intimation on the part of king and
Parliament that the rights of the colonists were to be deliberately disregarded.
Before the session of 1765 closed, in May, Patrick Henry
offered resolutions of defiance that received the cordial support of Mr.
Wythe, and, after a stormy debate and some alterations, were carried,
although so close was the contest that the fifth, and strongest resolution,
only passed by a single vote, and the following day, during Henry's absence
from the convention, this resolution was expunged from the journal. The
repeal of the "Stamp Act," and other conciliatory measures on the part
of England, now left a few years of quiet legislation, during which Mr.
Wythe attended to his professional duties. But his stand was taken upon
the justness of the demands of the colonies, and when events tended
toward independence, he early favored the movement, and exerted his
influence among his colleagues in that direction. In these efforts he had
the assistance of Thomas Jefferson; and the two, who had been preceptor

and pupil, now stood friends and counselors, noble examples of self-sacrificing
patriots, in the very front of danger.

In 1775, Wythe joined a corps of volunteers, believing a resort to arms
the only hope of the colonists. But his services as a statesman were of more
importance, and he left the army in August, 1775, to attend the Continental
Congress as one of the delegates of Virginia. He held this position until
after the Declaration of Independence had become a matter of record, with
his name as one of its fifty-six attesting witnesses.

November 5, 1776, he was one of a committee of five appointed by the
State Legislature to revise the laws of Virginia. Of this committee two
members, George Mason and Thomas Ludwell Lee, were prevented from
serving, and the remaining three, Wythe, Jefferson and Edmond Pendleton,
worked so industriously and so ably that on the 18th of June, 1779,
they reported to the General Assembly one hundred and twenty-six bills.

In 1777, Mr. Wythe was chosen speaker of the House of Burgesses. In
the same year he was appointed one of the three judges of the high court
of chancery of Virginia, and on a change in the form of the court was constituted
sole chancellor.

In December, 1786, he was one of the committee who prepared the constitution
of the United States, and in 1787 was a member of the Virginia
convention which ratified the constitution on behalf of that State. He
was subsequently twice a member of the electoral college of Virginia.

His political record now closes, unless to it is added his indirect influence
exerted through the distinguished pupils whom he trained for the bar and
for public life. Some of the most noted sons of Virginia at the bar
and in the Senate were his pupils, and in the list we find one chief justice
and two presidents of the United States.

The death of George Wythe is the saddest record of these pages.
Already past his eightieth year, and with his days still filled with useful
and benevolent deeds, he died the victim of poison, administered, it seems
but too evident, by the hand of one who was a near kindred, and who
should have been bound to him by the ties of gratitude for daily kindnesses
and tokens of love.

In the midst of the lingering hours of agony produced by the slow action
of his death potion, Wythe thought of others and not of himself. As long
as he retained his senses, he gave his mind to the study of the cases pending
in his court, and his last regret was that his fatal illness would cause
delay and added expense to those who had appeared before him.

Mr. Wythe had been twice married, but had no living children, and at
his death his estate passed to the children of a sister, his last act of justice
being to add, upon his deathbed, a codicil to his will which revoked all
benefits which would have accrued to the nephew who had hastened his
death.

He expired on the morning of the 8th of June, 1806.

Like many great minds who cannot accept of a formulated creed, Mr.
Wythe was considered an infidel by his cotemporaries. The student of
to-day will, however, more willingly believe of such a life that, in the
words of Jefferson, "while neither troubling nor perhaps trusting any one
with his religious creed, he left to the world the conclusion that that religion
must be good which could produce a life of such exemplary virtue."

RICHARD HENRY LEE,

Who was born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, January 20, 1732, was
descended from a family eminent in public life and of high social standing
in that colony. The grandfather whose name he bore, was Richard Lee,
a member of the King's council, and his father, Thomas Lee, was for a
number of years president of that council. His maternal grandfather,
who was a son of Governor Ludington, of North Carolina, was also a
member of that body of statesmen.

Richard Henry Lee was sent to England, and attended school at Wakefield,
in Yorkshire. At the age of nineteen, he returned to his native
colony, and having ample means and no desire to pursue a professional
life, he gave himself up to his love of books, for a number of years pursuing
with ardor the study of ethics and the philosophy of history.

In 1754, he was rudely awakened from his student's dreams by the
encroachments of Indians upon the border counties of Virginia, and the
appeal of the frontier settlers to be protected from their atrocities. In his
twenty-third year he was called on by the Westmoreland Volunteers to
place himself at their head and lead them to protect the living and avenge
the dead. Reporting with his troops to General Braddock, at Alexandria,
Virginia, that vain-glorious general, who was to pay with his life for his
ignorance, decided that "the British troops could quell a handful of
savages without the help of the provincials," and the young volunteers,
with their young leader, were sent home.

In 1757, Mr. Lee was appointed justice of the peace for Westmoreland
county, and in the same year was elected to serve that county as its representative
in the House of Burgesses.

The first few years of service in that body rendered by Richard Henry
Lee, who was yet to be styled "the Cicero of America," have left little
record of his action, save that he was too diffident to take the prominent
position his merits warranted. Before the contest between the colonists
and the royal government was begun, Mr. Lee's most prominent act in the
House of Burgesses was the discovering and bringing to light and
punishment of defalcations on the part of the treasurer of the colony.

The holder of this important trust was a Mr. Robinson, a leader of the
aristocratic party in the House, and a man so surrounded by powerful
family associations, that even those best convinced of his guilt, and upon
whom should have rested the duty of his punishment, shrank from the task

as being one impossible of fulfillment, and which would only bring odium
and defeat upon any one who attempted it.

Richard Henry Lee, regardless of such base motives for inaction, entered
upon this task, nor desisted from its prosecution until his object was
attained and the colony secured from heavy loss and pecuniary embarrassment.
When the evidence necessary had been secured and Lee rose, in
the presence of the man accused and of his collegues who were to be his
judges, the candor of Lee's countenance, which was stamped with sorrow
at the painful necessity of his words, and the persuasive eloquence
accompanied with scathing denunciations with which he spoke, absolutely
silenced those who expected by sophistry to turn aside the evidence, and
by sarcasm and intimidation to silence the truth.

When the British ministry entered upon the system of taxation of the
colonies without their consent, Lee was one of the first to see whither the
action would tend. Writing to a friend in London, May 31, 1764, he
said: "Possibly this step, though intended to oppress and keep us low,
in order to secure our dependence, may be subversive of this end. Poverty
and oppression, among those whose minds are filled with ideas of British
liberty, may introduce a virtuous industry with a train of generous and
manly sentiments, which, when in future they become supported by numbers,
may produce a fatal resentment of parental care converted into
tyrannical usurpation."

Mr. Lee, in 1764, was one of the committee who prepared the remonstrance
of Virginia presented to the king and parliament, and in 1765
he supported the famous resolutions of Patrick Henry. Both the remonstrance
and the resolutions are more fully spoken of elsewhere in the
volume. [See sketch of Wythe and of Harrison.]

Liberty-loving Virginia found a fit representative in Richard Henry
Lee in the dark years which followed. Under his lead men of all parties
and of all social grades united in opposition to the "Stamp Act," binding
themselves to each other, to God, and to their country to resist its action.
In Westmoreland county, a resolution was framed by Lee, and written in
his hand as follows:

"As the stamp act does absolutely direct the property of the people to
be taken from them without their consent, expressed by their representatives,
and as in many cases it deprives the British-American subject of his
right to be tried by jury, we do determine, at every hazard, and paying no
regard to death, to exert every faculty to prevent the execution of the
stamp act in every instance, within this colony."

The repeal of the "Stamp Act" did not for a moment blind Mr. Lee as
to the future troubles awaiting the colonies, and for his clear understanding
of the position and intention of Parliament at all steps of the struggle
that ensued, he was largely indebted to his brother, Dr. Arthur Lee, who
was then in London, and with whom he was in constant correspondence.

THE HOUDON STATUE OF WASHINGTON.

These remarkable sons of Virginia must have been brothers in thought and
mind, as well as of blood, so closely were their feelings allied. At one time
Dr. Lee wrote: "Let me remind you that no confidence is to be reposed
in the justice or mercy of Britain, and that American liberty must be
entirely of American fabric."

Through all the intermediate steps between the resistance to the "Stamp
Act" and the meeting of the first Continental Congress, in 1774, Richard
Henry Lee was conspicuous for his talent, his energy, his courage and his
patriotism. When the royal displeasure dissolved the House of Burgesses,
the representative men of Virginia met in private houses and continued
to formulate their defiance to oppression, and the sanction of the people was
the only authority they had, or desired to have.

August 1, 1774, the first Assembly of Virginia was convened at the
call of the people. By this Assembly Lee was deputed, with Washington
and Henry, to represent Virginia in the Congress of Colonies at Philadelphia.

This body met in that city, September 5, 1774, and when in its first
session a sense of the responsibility of the situation fell upon the representatives
so that "a silence, awful and protracted, prevailed," it was a voice
from Virginia that broke the spell. Patrick Henry spoke first, followed
by Lee. The sweetness of Lee's voice and the harmony of his language
soothed, subdued and yet strengthened the souls of his associates, while with
eloquence which none could rival or resist he showed that there was now
but one hope for their country and that was in the vigor of her resistance.

Serving now on many important committees, and largely engaging in
the spirited colonial correspondence which filled those years, Richard
Henry Lee continued to represent Westmoreland county in the Assembly,
and the Assembly in the Continental Congress until in the Congress of
1776, on the 7th of June, he offered the memorable resolution, from which
the Declaration of Independence was formulated, that "These united
colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States."

This motion Mr. Lee introduced in words of ringing eloquence. In
concluding, he said: "Why, then, sir, do we longer delay? Why still
deliberate? Let this happy day give birth to an American republic. Let
us arise not to devastate and to conquer, but to re-establish the reign of
peace and of law. The eyes of Europe are fixed upon us. * * * If
we are not this day wanting in our duty, the names of the American
legislators of 1776 will be placed by posterity at the side of Theseus,
Lycurgus, and Romulus, of the three Williams of Nassau, and of all those
whose memory has been, and will be, dear to virtuous men and good
citizens."

Three days later, while Lee's motion was still under discussion, he
received news of the serious illness of his wife, and hastened to her side,
leaving others to carry out the work he had so well begun.

The absence of Mr. Lee from Congress continued until August, 1776,

when he again took his seat, appended his signature to the Declaration,
and resumed his arduous committee work. In this work he also continued
through the session of 1777, taking a prominent part in preparing a plan
of treaties with foreign nations.

During this time he was the mark of British malignity; his person
constantly in danger if he returned to his home; that home itself broken in
upon by British troops ostensibly seeking to effect his capture, and his
sons, then at school at St. Bedes, subjected to the insolence of the royalists, one
of whom assured these boys that he hoped to live to see their father's head
on Tower Hill. Yet the "ingratitude of republics," even at such a time,
fell upon Lee, many friends of the new government loudly proclaiming
him a "tory."

His first act on returning home was to demand of the Assembly an
investigation of his conduct as its representative, and that body not only
exonerated him from blame, but through the venerable George Wythe
passed him a vote of thanks for his able services, freely rendered.

In 1778-79, Mr. Lee was again a representative in Congress, although
his failing health forced him often to be absent from its sessions.

During the latter year the British troops were turning their attention
more largely to the Southern States, and were harassing the coast of
Virginia with predatory incursions, and Mr. Lee, as lieutenant of the
county, was appointed to the command of the Westmoreland militia. In
the field his energy, activity and good judgment were as conspicuous as in
the councils of the nation, and the protection he afforded Westmoreland
county is conveyed in the complaint of the commander of the British
troops in that vicinity: "We cannot set foot in Westmoreland without
having the militia immediately upon us."

November 1, 1784, Mr. Lee again resumed his seat in Congress, and on
the 30th of November was unanimously chosen to fill the presidential
chair, then the highest office in the nation. When his term of service
expired, he sought the repose of private life, which he enjoyed until, on
the adoption of the Federal Constitution, he consented to serve his
beloved Virginia once more in a public capacity, and took his seat as her
first Senator under the new Constitution. This important position he
filled until 1792, departing then to his home honored with a vote of
thanks for his services, passed unanimously by the Senate and House of
Delegates of Virginia, October 22, 1792.

In his home life Richard Henry Lee abounded in those courtesies and
graces which mark the gentleman. His hospitable mansion was open to
all; the poor and the afflicted frequented it for help and consolation; the
young for instruction, and all ages and classes for happiness. His large
family of children, the offspring of two marriages, were happy in his love
and grew to noble womanhood and manhood under his instructions.

He died June 19, 1794, in his 64th year, at Chantilly, Westmoreland
county, Virginia.

[The life of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United
States, and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence in
behalf of Virginia, will be found on another page.]

BENJAMIN HARRISON.

The name of Harrison has been prominent in the annals of American
history, since in 1640, the first Harrison settled in the county of Surrey,
province of Virginia. At the present day, one of that name and race
occupies an honorable position among our legislators.

It seems fitting, therefore, that one of the name should be a Signer of
the Declaration, and this honor was reserved for Benjamin Harrison, born
in Berkeley, Charles City county, Virginia, about 1740. He was the
oldest son of Benjamin Harrison, born also at the family mansion in
Berkeley, and himself a son of a Benjamin Harrison, who was the oldest
born in his father's family. It seems to have been the custom of the
family that the first born male representative in each generation should
have the name of Benjamin, as we trace it back through several generations
where the oldest son was always so named.

The representative of the name of whom we write, was the grandson, on
his mother's side, of Mr. Carter, King's surveyor-general in his day; so
that we see he was a fitting representative of the Virginian families in whose
interest he voted for the independence of the colony.

He entered public life in 1764, becoming a member of the House of
Burgesses of Virginia, where his abilities, family prominence and social
gifts soon made him a leader. He had before this proved his executive
ability by managing the family estates from the death of his father, while
he was yet a student in William and Mary College, so that their value was
greatly increased.

The representatives of the British ministry, pursuing their usual course
toward a colonist who seemed of prominence and likely to lead the people,
endeavored to purchase his influence in the interest of England, by soliciting
him to become a member of the governor's executive council, the
highest office open to one born in the colonies, the governor being always
a native of Great Britain. Benjamin Harrison, closely noting the course
of events, and sympathizing with the position of the colonists, refused to
bind himself to work against their interests, or even to remain neutral, and
declined the honor.

November 14, 1764, he was one of the members of the House appointed
to prepare an address to the King, a memorial to the House of Lords, and
a remonstrance to the House of Commons against the Stamp Act.

During the next ten years he was constantly a member of the House of
Burgesses, and was one of those illustrious Virginians, among whom were
Randolph, Wythe, Jefferson and Lee, who fought, step by step, in the
interest of their colony, against the accumulating encroachments of the
tyrannical representatives of the British crown.

In August, 1774, Benjamin Harrison was one of seven delegates
appointed to represent Virginia in the Congress of Delegates, called to
meet in Philadelphia, to discuss the mutual interests of the colonies, and on
September 5, 1774, he took his seat in the First Continental Congress,
convened in Carpenter's Hall in that city, where he had the pleasure of
seeing a Virginian occupy the first presidential chair in that body.

March 20, 1775, the second Virginia convention assembled in Richmond,
of which convention Benjamin Harrison was a member. Before
the convention adjourned, they elected delegates to the second General
Congress, and Mr. Harrison was among those returned, and in May, 1775,
he again repaired to Philadelphia, to take his seat in the second Congress.

Here, in a house he had taken with his coadjutors, George Washington
and Peyton Randolph, he entertained his friends with true Southern hospitality
and prodigality, often exceeding his means.

During this Congress, Randolph, then presiding officer, was recalled to
Virginia, by public duties there, and Hancock, of Massachusetts, was
unanimously elected president in his stead. While he was hesitating as to
his ability to fill the position as his predecessor had done, Harrison caught
him in his athletic arms and forcibly seated him in the presidential chair,
crying aloud: "We will show Mother Britian how little we care for her,
by making a Massachusetts man our president, whom she has excluded
from pardon by a public proclamation."

June 24, 1775, Mr. Harrison was made chairman of the board of war.
August 1, Congress adjourned, and on the 11th of August, the Virginia
convention a third time returned Mr. Harrison as their representative, and
on September 13 he took his seat.

In that month he was one of a committee of three sent to consult with
Washington, the commander-in-chief of the army, and with the governors
of several colonies, regarding the interests of the Continental army.
November 29 he was made chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
and three days later was sent to help the people of Maryland to raise some
naval force with which to meet Lord Dunmore who, driven from Virginia,
had gathered a band of desperadoes and renegades, and was laying waste
the coast of the Chesapeake.

During the troubled days for the Continental Congress with which the
year 1776 opened, Benjamin Harrison was busy in the interests of the
colonists. January 17, he brought in a report regulating the recruiting
service; on the 24th he was placed on a committee to establish a general
war department; on the 26th he was one of three sent to New York to
arrange with Lee a plan for its defense; and immediately upon his return

he was named on a committee for arranging military departments in the
Middle and Southern colonies. March 6, he became chairman of the
Committee of Marines. In May he was chairman of the committee on the
Canada expedition; May 25, was appointed chairman of a committee of
fourteen whose arduous duty it was to arrange a plan for the coming campaign.

Through the first days of that stormy year Benjamin Harrison was ever
at his post, working indefatigably for the interests of the people, until
August 11, when his term of service expired and he returned to Virginia,
having first had the pleasure of affixing his signature, as one of Virginia's
representatives, to the Declaration of Independence, and the honor of
presiding over the Committee of the Whole who discussed the question
through its most momentous days, June 8-12, 1776.

During the remainder of 1776, Benjamin Harrison was one of the eight
counselors of State, whose duty it was to guide the political affairs of
Virginia. In the fall of 1776, Thomas Jefferson resigned his seat in the
senate, and Mr. Harrison, on the 10th of October, was chosen to fill out
his term, and took his seat November 5, having been absent from Congress
less than three months. By resolution of Congress he was immediately
restored to his former place on all standing committees.

Through the dark days of the terrible winter of 1776-7, he was always
active and hopeful in the interests of the colonies, and on May 22, 1777,
by joint ballot of both houses, Virginia returned him first of her delegates
to Congress, and for the fourth time he took his seat in that body, and, as
before, was actively engaged on committees, and presiding over the deliberations
of the house.

Toward the close of 1777, Benjamin Harrison permanently retired
from Congress, leaving behind him the character of one who was ardent,
honorable, prudent and persevering in the interests of those who entrusted
their rights in his keeping.

Again in Virginia, he was immediately returned by his county to the
House of Burgesses, and elected speaker of that body, which office he held
uninterruptedly until 1782. During this time he was chief magistrate in
his county, and commander of the militia, bearing the title of "colonel,"
by which title he is generally spoken of in the records of his State.

In 1782, Benjamin Harrison was elected governor of Virginia, on the
resignation of Thomas Nelson, and through the arduous duties of the trying
times which accompanied the close of the Revolution, filled the executive
chair with wisdom and to the best interests of the people.

After being twice re-elected governor, Mr. Harrison became ineligible
by the provisions of the constitution, and in 1785 returned to private life.
In 1790, against his wishes, he was again brought forward as a candidate
for the executive chair, and was defeated by two or three votes.

In the spring of 1791, Mr. Harrison was attacked by a severe fit of the

gout, from which, however, he partially rallied. In April, 1791, he was
unanimously elected to the legislature, and in the evening following the
announcement of his success, he entertained his friends at a dinner party,
receiving their congratulations, and assurances that he was to be the next
governor of Virginia.

During the night following, a dangerous return of his illness seized him,
and his death speedily followed.

The wife of Benjamin Harrison was Elizabeth, a daughter of Colonel
William Bassett, of Eltham, New Kent county, Virginia, and a daughter
of the sister of Martha Washington. She was a very beautiful woman,
remembered as being as good as she was beautiful, and survived her husband
only one year. They had many children, of whom three sons and
four daughters lived to mature years. Their third son, William Henry
Harrison, was ninth President of the United States.

THOMAS NELSON, JR.,

Was the eldest son of William Nelson, an English gentlemen who settled
at York, province of Virginia, in the early part of the eighteenth century,
and engaged for a time in a mercantile business. Acquiring a fortune, he
invested it in large landed estates, and gradually withdrew from commercial
pursuits. In the interval between the administrations of Lord Botetourt
and Lord Dunmore, William Nelson filled the office of governor of Virginia.
After retiring from this office he presided over the supreme court
of the province, and was regarded as the ablest judge of his time. He died
a few years before the Revolution, leaving five sons.

Thomas Nelson, jr., "the worthy son of such an honored sire," was born
at York, December 26, 1738. In the summer of 1753 he was sent to England
to receive a collegiate education, and after attending private school
was entered at Trinity College. Here he distinguished himself by honorable
conduct and good scholarship until his return to America, in the winter
of 1761.

In August, 1762, he was joined in wedlock with Lucy, daughter of
Philip Grymes, of Middlesex county, Virginia. They established themselves
at York in such a home as their abundant means justified, and lived
in a style of great elegance and hospitality.

Thomas Nelson's public record begins in 1774, when we find him a member
for York of that House of Burgesses which the wrath of Lord Dunmore
dissolved, on account of their resolutions censuring the Boston port bill.
Mr. Nelson was one of the eighty-nine delegates who assembled themselves
the next day at a friendly tavern, and formed the celebrated association
which resolved at all hazards to defend their rights and maintain their liberties.

Mr. Nelson was elected from his county a member of the first Virginia
Convention, which met at Williamsburg, August 1, 1774. In March,

1775, he was again a representative to the Virginia convention, and was
prominent in the debate of that session on the advisibility of a military
force, Mr. Nelson asserting that such a force was necessary to the interests
of the colonists and so putting his vote upon record.

The third Virginia convention assembled at Richmond, Virginia, July
17, 1776, and again Thomas Nelson, jr., was the representative of York.
The work of raising colonial troops was now being actively pursued, and
Mr. Nelson was made colonel of the second regiment raised, the command
of the first regiment having been given Patrick Henry.

August 11, 1775, Virginia appointed among her delegates to the Continental
Congress in Philadelphia Colonel Nelson, and he, believing the post
of danger and of duty was there, resigned his military command, repaired
to Philadelphia, and took his seat in Congress September 13, 1775. Here
he was one of the first to advocate an absolute separation from Great Britain.
Writing to a friend February 13, 1776, Colonel Nelson said: "Independence,
confederation, and foreign alliances are as formidable to some
of the Congress (I fear a majority) as an apparition to a weak, enervated
woman. Would you think we have still some among us who expect honorable
proposals from the administration! By heavens, I am an infidel in politics,
for I do not believe, were you to bid a thousand pounds per scruple
for honour at the court of Britain, that you would get as many as would
amount to an ounce. If terms should be proposed, they will savour so much
of despotism that America cannot accept them. * * * What think
you of the right reverend fathers in God, the bishops? One of them refused
to ordain a young gentleman who went from this country, because he
was a rebellious American; so that, unless we submit to parliamentary oppression,
we shall not have the gospel of Christ preached among us."

Through the opening of the session of 1776, Colonel Nelson maintained
this advanced position on the question of independence, and in that spirit
signed his name to the Declaration. During the remainder of that term,
and the beginning of the term of 1777, he served on many important
committees, and took part in all measures that advanced the general welfare
of the new States.

A severe indisposition seized him while in his seat in Congress, May 2,
1777, and a recurring trouble of the head warned him for a time to cease
his labors, and he returned home, leaving his term to be filled by another.

In August, 1777, the British fleet appeared off the coast of Virginia
again, and again Colonel Nelson was called to the field. He was appointed
by the governor brigadier-general and commander of the forces of the
commonwealth of Virginia, and at once entered upon the discharge of
all the important duties of that command, while refusing to take from the
impoverished nation any remuneration therefor.

In the October following, General Nelson, as a member of the State legislature,
had another opportunity to show his sense of the honorable in

money matters. An act was introduced and passed by the assembly for
the sequestration of British property. Such an act could, and would, of
course, be construed so that all debts owed those who were known to be
loyal to England would be considered outlawed. General Nelson vehemently
opposed the passage of the bill, and in closing a speech supporting
his position, said: "I hope the bill will be rejected; but whatever its fate,
by God, I will pay my debts like an honest man." The breach of order
into which his feelings had betrayed him was overlooked, but the bill
became a law.

General Nelson continued in active service with the army until his
health was restored, when, on the 18th of February, 1779, he took his
seat in the State Assembly. Again the same illness attacked him, and,
yielding to the expostulations of his physician, and the entreaties of his
friends, he returned to his home for rest. But in the following month he
again took the field.

During the gloomy days of financial depression and disastrous defeats
that followed, no man's influence in Virginia was more widely felt or more
generously given to the American cause than that of General Nelson.

In the spring of 1781, he was elected governor of the Commonwealth,
but after performing the arduous duties of that office until the November
following, constant and increasing illness forced him to resign.

Retiring now permanently from public and political life, Mr. Nelson
passed his time alternately between his two estates, one called Offly, situated
on the left bank of South Anna river, in Hanover county, and
the other in York county. Surrounded by friends and relatives, he now
passed several years in comparative quiet, though with always failing
health.

Death ended his sufferings Sunday, January 4, 1789.

FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT LEE.

The fourth son of Thomas and Hannah (Ludwell) Lee, was born October
14, 1734, in Westmoreland county, province of Virginia, and was
named Francis Lightfoot Lee. He received his education at home under
the tuition of a Scotch clergyman named Craig, and having at his command
a valuable library collected by his father, afterward the property of
the oldest son of the family, Philip.

About the time he reached manhood his three older brothers, Philip,
Thomas and Richard Henry, returned from abroad, where they had been
educated, and in their society he attained that polish and refinement of
manner which was in after life one of his distinguishing characteristics.

In 1765, Francis Lightfoot Lee took his seat in the House of Burgesses,
as member from Loudoun county, in which county he was possessed of a
considerable estate. He continued a member of the House for Loudoun
county until 1772. In that year he married Rebecca, second daughter of

CARTER BRAXTON,

Signer of the Declaration of Independence.
(Never before published or engraved.)

From a miniature in the possession of his family.

Colonel John Tayloe, of Richmond county, and took up his residence in
that county. In the same year he was returned to the House of Burgesses
for Richmond county.

August 15, 1775, the convention of Virginia elected him to a seat in the
Continental Congress, which position he filled so as to receive three successive
re-elections: June 20, 1776; May 22, 1777; May 29, 1778.

His work in Congress, faithfully performed, was not of the brilliant
character of his elder brother's work, as he was no orator. But when
future generations remember the name of Richard Henry Lee, as that of
the gallant Virginian whose voice was first raised in advocacy of our independence,
it will not be forgotten that among the devoted sons of that State
who supported his position was one, his brother in blood, and his colleague in
principle, Francis Lightfoot Lee.

In the spring of 1779, Mr. Lee retired from Congress, and was immediately
elected to the Senate of Virginia under the new constitution of that
State. He did not long remain in public life, however, all his inclinations
being toward home life and rural occupations, and the state of the
country no longer demanding from him the sacrifice of his private tastes.

Reading, farming, and the entertainment of friends and neighbors filled
his remaining days with quiet happiness, until his death, which occurred
in April, 1797. His beloved wife died within a few days of his own
demise, and they left no children.

CARTER BRAXTON,

Seventh signer of the Declaration of Independence in behalf of the province
of Virginia, was born at Newington, King and Queen county, Virginia,
September 10, 1736. His father was George Braxton, a wealthy
planter, and a member of the House of Burgesses. His mother was
Mary, daughter of Robert Carter, who was a member of the King's council,
and in 1726, its president.

Carter Braxton received a liberal education at William and Mary College,
and upon leaving college entered at once upon the possession a large
property, having lost both his parents, his mother when he was seven days
old, and his father during his school days.

At the early age of nineteen he married Judith, daughter of Christopher
Robinson, of Middlesex county. She was possessed of uncommon beauty
as well as a large fortune, and they enjoyed two years of wedded happiness
when the lady died, in giving birth to a second daughter, December
30, 1757.

Soon after his wife's death Mr. Braxton visited England, returning in
1760. May 15, 1761, he married Elizabeth Corbin, eldest daughter of
Richard Corbin, of King and Queen county, receiver-general of customs
for the colony of Virginia. The offspring of this marriage were sixteen,

six of whom died in infancy. Mrs. Braxton survived her husband, dying
in 1814.

It is believed, but cannot be absolutely ascertained, that Carter Braxton
was a member of the House of Burgesses as early as 1761. It is certain
he took an active part in the eventful session of 1765, supporting
the celebrated resolutions of Patrick Henry. He was also a member of
the House in 1769, which was dissolved by Lord Botetourt.

But this dissolution of the House did not change the material of
which it was composed. The indignant people returned the same members,
without one change, and Mr. Braxton, among the rest, was present
at the opening of the session of November, 1769. He continued a member
of the House until the dissolution of the assembly of 1771. Accepting
then the office of high sheriff of his county (then King William), he
was ineligible to act as representative.

The first Virginia convention was assembled at Williamsburg, August 1,
1774, and to this convention Mr. Braxton was elected by King William
county. The convention met again March 20, 1775.

The last and most important meeting of the House of Burgesses was
convened by Lord Dunmore, June 1, 1775. Mr. Braxton was an active
member of this house, serving on three of the regular and on several of
the special committees. This assembly, however, was in session only fifteen
days. They had met on the 1st of June, and on the night between the
7th and 8th, the governor, Lord Dunmore, fled from his palace to the
"Fowey." No entreaties or assurances on the part of the House could
induce his return, and as they very properly refused to convene on board
his frigate, it was impossible to transact further business. On the 15th
the session was adjourned until October, but it was never re-assembled.

The Convention of Virginia, however, again assembled July 17, 1775,
and continued in session until August 26th. It met again in December,
1775, and on the 15th of that month appointed Carter Braxton to succeed
Peyton Randolph, lately deceased, in the national council. He repaired
to Philadelphia, and continued in his seat until the Declaration of Independence
had received his signature.

In 1776 Mr. Braxton was elected to the House of Delegates of Virginia,
and in that House he served during the sessions of 1877, '79, '80, '81, '83 and
'85. In the last year he was one of the supporters of the act for establishing
religious freedom in Virginia, an act penned and proposed by
Jefferson and advocated by Madison.

In January, 1786, Mr. Braxton was appointed a member of the council
of State, and continued to act with that body until March 30, 1791.
In 1793, he was again appointed to the executive council, and taking up
the duties of the office May 31, 1794, he continued to perform them until
his death, meeting for the last time with the council October 6, 1797, only
four days before his death.

The last years of his life were distressed by great pecuniary embarrassments.
Of the large fortunes in his possession when he was
twenty-one, nothing remained. His personal property had passed
into the hands of the sheriff; part of his vast estates had been sold
from time to time, the remainder, with his slaves and household
goods, was heavily mortgaged.

Presidents of the United States.

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

First President of the United States, was born February 22, 1732,
and died on the 14th of December, 1799, in his 68th year.

The first of the name of Washington to settle in America were two
brothers, John and Lawrence, who emigrated from England to Virginia
in 1657, and purchased land in Westmoreland county, between
the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers. John Washington married
Anne Page of Westmoreland county, became an extensive planter
and a magistrate and member of the House of Burgesses. As Colonel
Washington he led the Virginia militia against the Seneca Indians, and
the grateful people whom he defended named in his honor that district
of Westmoreland county which still bears the name of Washington.

Augustine Washington, grandson of John, was born in 1694 on the
family estate which he in time inherited. He was twice married, his
second wife being Mary, daughter of Colonel Ball, of Virginia, and
their first child, George Washington, born in Westmoreland county.

Not long after the birth of this son Augustine Washington removed
to a family estate in Stafford county, and here the childhood of George
was passed, and he received what instructions could be gathered from
the limited acquirements in reading, writing and arithmetic of one
Hobby, who was one of his father's tenants, and combined the duties
of parish sexton with the swaying of the birch in the little field school
house on the estate.

But in the home circle young Washington had good example and
good instruction in all that constitutes gentle breeding, and from his
ninth year he had the intimate companionship of his eldest half brother,
Lawrence, who had been, as was the custom with the eldest son
of a colonial gentleman, educated in England. There was a difference
of fourteen years in the age of the half brothers, but a warm affection
between them, and George naturally looked upon his cultivated senior
as a pattern after which he should model his own mind and manners.

The death of Augustine Washington in 1743 left the children of his
second marriage to the guardianship of their mother. She was equal to

the trust—prompt to decide and to act, controlled by common sense and by
conscience, she governed her family with a firm hand, and held their love
while exacting their obedience. Through his entire life Washington
acknowledged with love and gratitude how much of what he was he owed
to his mother. He preserved with tender care a manual of instruction
from which she was accustomed to read to her fatherless little ones, and
this manual may now be seen in the archives of Mount Vernon.

When about twelve years of age, Washington went to pass some time
with his brother Lawrence, at Mount Vernon, and to avail himself of better
school facilities, but his education was confined to plain English
branches of study. In the autumn of 1747, he took a final leave of school,
having a good knowledge of mathematics and of surveying, which he put
to practical use.

In March, 1748, he was sent by Lord Fairfax to survey some wild lands
in what was then the western borders of settlement, a difficult task, which he
completed in a month's time. He then received the appointment of public
surveyor, which office he held three years.

For some years the French and English governments had been disputing
the ownership of the North American continent, and each, by diplomacy,
endeavoring to secure the alliance of the Indian tribes. October
30, 1753, George Washington, not yet twenty-two years of age, was sent
by Governor Dinwiddie, of Virginia, on the important embassy of securing
terms of friendship with the Indian sachems along the Ohio, and to
expostulate with the French commander at Venango for his aggressions on
the territory of His Britannic Majesty. The ability with which Washington
executed his difficult mission, which he accomplished so that he was
able to report, January 16, 1754, may be considered the foundation of his
future eminence. From this date he was the rising hope of Virginia.

French and English alike now began preparations for war, and in Virginia
three hundred militia was raised, and Washington made second in
command, with rank of lieutenant-colonel. On the 2d of April he took
the field at the head of only two companies of men, about 150 in all. For
five years following he was in the royal service, and in several battles was
in command. During the engagement known as "Braddock's Defeat,"
he received four bullet-holes through his coat, and two horses were shot
under him. The interest of the Virginians in the French and Indian
war ended with the expulsion of the French from the Ohio Valley, and
Washington resigned his command.

January 17, 1759, he married Mrs. Martha Custis, and having inherited
Mount Vernon at the death of his loved brother, Lawrence, July 26,
1752, they made their home on that estate.

Early in the year of his marriage Washington repaired to Williamsburg
to take the seat in the House of Burgesses to which he had been
elected. By a unanimous vote the house had agreed to greet his installation
with a testimonial of their gratitude for his military exertions in

behalf of Virginia. This was conveyed to him in a graceful speech from
Mr. Robinson, speaker of the House. Washington rose to reply, blushed,
stammered, trembled—and was dumb. "Sit down, Mr. Washington,"
said the Speaker, "your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses
a force of any language I possess."

During the next sixteen years Washington's time was occupied with his
property interests and in attendance on the sessions of the House of Burgesses,
of which he continued a member. His residence was at Mount
Vernon, and his growing reputation drew about him there many distinguished
guests, whom he entertained with true Virginian hospitality.

His own home life was exceedingly simple. He was an early riser,
often leaving his room before daybreak of a winter's morning. He breakfasted
at seven in summer, and eight in winter, his breakfast usually consisting
of two small cups of tea and three or four "hoecakes." Immediately
after breakfast he mounted his horse and made a personal inspection
of the work on his estate. At two he dined, eating heartily, and
drinking small beer or cider, followed by two glasses of old Madeira. He
took tea, of which he was very fond, early in the evening, and retired for
the night at nine o'clock.

The troubles between the colonists and Great Britain engaged the attention
of the House of Burgesses during the last years of Washington's
attendance on that body, and he was a member of that House which was
dissolved by the royal governor for sympathizing with the colonists of
Massachusetts in regard to the "Boston Port Bill."

He was a delegate from Virginia to the first Continental Congress, in
1774, and continued in his seat until in June, 1775, at the request of his
colleagues he resigned to assume command of the Continental army. July
3, 1775, General Washington took up his headquarters at Cambridge,
Massachusetts, welcomed with unbounded enthusiasm by his troops. The
thoughts of a Cæsar, the ambition of an Alexander, might be supposed to
have swelled his heart that day. But at its close, he wrote to his friend
and neighbor, George William Fairfax, then in England:

"Unhappy it is to reflect that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a
brother's breast, and that the once happy and peaceful plains of America
are to be either drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative!
But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?"

The eight years of the Revolutionary War now ensued, during which
time Washington was constantly at the post of duty assigned him; now
commanding the battle on the fields of Trenton, of Princeton and of Brandywine;
now quelling the factious spirit of subordinate officers who thought
themselves able to command because they could not obey, and anon
encouraging with kind words and little acts of self-sacrifice the drooping
spirits and failing hopes of his sorely-tried army; now appealing to Congress
for munitions of war for bread for his soldiers, and for soldiers to

recruit his thinning ranks, and anon, kneeling in the snowy darkness
of the winter's night at Valley Forge, and appealing to the God of
battles and of right; now rebuking Lee on the field of Monmouth; and
now seated on his white charger at the head of his victorious troops at
Yorktown, receiving from the representative of Cornwallis the sword whose
surrender betokened the downfall of the British cause in America.

April 19, 1783, eight years from the battle of Lexington, cessation of
hostilities between the two armies was proclaimed, and on the 3d of September
following a definite treaty of peace, as between two equal nations,
was concluded and signed in Paris, by the representatives of Great Britain
and of the United States of America. In October, 1783, Congress disbanded
the troops enlisted for the war, and Washington put forth his farewell
address to the army.

December 4, 1783, in the public room of a tavern at the corner of Broadway
and Pearl streets, New York City, Washington, "with a heart full of
love and gratitude," to quote his words, took leave of the officers who had
served under him. Each in turn grasped his hands in farewell, while tears
fell upon their cheeks, and upon the forehead of each of his companions
in arms he left a kiss of farewell.

At noon on the 23d of December, he entered the legislative hall at
Annapolis, and resigned to Congress the authority with which he had
been commissioned eight years before. Accompanied by his wife he at
once set out for their loved Mount Vernon, which they reached on
Christmas Eve, 1783.

Washington now participated little in public affairs except to attend as
delegate the Philadelphia convention in May, 1787, which framed the Federal
Constitution. He was unanimously chosen to preside over this convention,
which duty fulfilled, he returned to Mount Vernon, and to private
life.

A few months before the disbanding of the army the "Society of the
Cincinnati" was formed, and Washington was made its President-General,
an office which he held until his death. The objects of the association
were to promote cordial friendship among the soldiers of the Revolutionary
army, and to extend aid to such members of the society as might
need it. To perpetuate the association it was provided in the constitution
that the eldest male descendant of a member should be entitled to wear
the "Order" and enjoy the privileges of the society. The "Order," or
badge, consists of a gold eagle suspended upon a ribbon, on the breast of
which is a medallion, with a device representing Cincinnatus receiving
the Roman Senators.

History repeated itself upon the day when, on the 14th of March, 1789,
Charles Thompson, Secretary of Congress, waited on Washington to
inform him that he was chosen under the new Constitution as the first
President of the United States. The soldier-farmer-statesman was found
making the daily tour of his fields.

Accepting the office, Washington made immediate preparations for his
journey to the seat of government. His first duty was to his mother.
Toward evening of the day on which he accepted the highest dignity of
the nation, he rode from Mount Vernon to Fredericksburg, and knelt
beside the chair of her to whom he owed the qualities which made him
worthy of the honor bestowed upon him.

It was a touching interview, and, as both felt, their last meeting on
earth, for the venerable lady was now past eighty years of age, and suffering
from an incurable disease. She gave him a mother's blessing, and sent
him to fullfil the high destinies to which Heaven had called him. Before
his return to Virginia her death occurred, in August, 1789.

April 6, Washington left Mount Vernon for New York, accompanied, as
far as Alexandria, by a cavalcade of his neighbors and friends. At every
step of his journey he was greeted with demonstrations of reverence and
love. At Georgetown he was received with honors; at Baltimore he was
feasted; near Philadelphia he rode under a triumphal arch of laurel, and
little Angelica Peall, concealed among the foliage, placed upon his head
a civic crown of laurel, while from the assembled multitude went up a
shout of: "Long live George Washington! long live the Father of his
Country." When he crossed the Delaware at Trenton, scene of his victories
and defeats in his struggle with Cornwallis, he passed under an arch,
supported by thirteen pillars, which had been erected by the women of
New Jersey and bore the words: "The defender of the mothers will be
the protector of the daughters." At Elizabethtown, he was met by a committee
from the two houses of Congress, and by a deputation of civil and
military officers. They had in waiting a magnificent barge manned by
thirteen pilots in white uniforms. In this the president-elect was conveyed
to New York, where every display had been made in honor of his coming.

April 30, 1789, the inauguration took place, the chancellor of New York
State, Robert R. Livingston administering the oath. The bible used was
then and is now the property of the St. John Lodge of Free Masons of
New York City. When the ceremony was ended, President Washington
proceeded at once to the Senate Chamber and pronounced a most impressive
inaugural address, and the new government was ready to enter upon
its duties.

In the fall of 1792, he was elected to a second term as President of the
United States, and served four years longer. Then, declining another
re-election, he took leave of the people in a farewell address, issued to the
country September 17, 1796. In this address he appealed to the people
as the sovereign power in a Republican form of government, to preserve
the Union as the only hope for the continuance of their liberties and the
national prosperity.

His career as President had been a most honorable one, calmly pursued
amid trying difficulties, and though often obstructed by the hostile criticisms
of that factious spirit which is yet the curse of American politics.

Under his administrations the government had been put in
motion, its financial, domestic and foreign policies established, and
its strength maintained and augmented.

The remaining years of Washington's life were passed on his estate
at Mount Vernon. Here, in 1798, he was found at the time of
threatened war between the United States and France, when Adams
appointed him commander-in-chief of the American armies, and the
commission was borne to Mount Vernon by the secretary of war in
person. Washington was in the fields, superintending his grain harvest,
and thither Secretary McHenry repaired. Washington read his
commission, and, without hesitation, answered: "The President may
command me without reserve." Happily the storm-cloud passed
over, and his patriotism did not again call him from Mount Vernon.

December 12, 1799, Washington was exposed to a storm of sleet,
and took a cold which, on the following day, merged into something
like an attack of membranous croup. All that love and skill could
do to save him was powerless, and death ensued between ten and
eleven o'clock on the night of the 14th.

Fitted for all the uses of life, this great man was ready for death.
To his friend and physician, Dr. Craik, he said: "I die hard, but I
am not afraid to go." And his last words were: " 'Tis well."

THOMAS JEFFERSON,

Third President of the United States, was born April 2, 1742, and
died July 4, 1826, at the age of 84 years.

Virginia, glorious in the annals of American history as the birthplace
of a Washington, a Patrick Henry, a Monroe and the Lees, was
also the place of birth of Thomas Jefferson, the framer of the Declaration
of Independence and the Third President of the United States.

He was born at Shadwell, Albemarle county, son of Colonel Peter
Jefferson, a well-known gentleman of means in the province of Virginia,
and Jane (Randolph) Jefferson, daughter of Isham Randolph,
of Goochland county. He received his collegiate education at William
and Mary College, read law with the celebrated George Wythe, afterward
chancellor of the State of Virginia, and began practice in 1767.

In 1769 he became a member of the House of Burgesses, where he
served the interests of the colonists until, March 27, 1775, he was
chosen one of Virginia's representatives in the Continental Congress.
In 1774, he published his defense of the colonists, entitled, "Summary
View of the Rights of British America," wherein he boldly
set forth such doctrines that Lord Dunmore, then governor of
the province, threatened him with a prosecution for high treason.
June 1, 1775, Lord Dunmore presented to the legislature of
Virginia certain resolutions of the British parliament, to which

Jefferson, as chairman of the committee appointed for that purpose, made
response in one of the ablest State papers on record.

Wednesday, June 21, 1775, Thomas Jefferson took his seat in the Continental
Congress, where he soon became conspicuous, both for his talent
and the ardor with which it was devoted to the cause of liberty. He
served during the remainder of that year, and through the following year,
acting on many important committees, and on the 9th of June, 1776, he
was appointed chairman of that committee to whom was delegated the important
duty of preparing a draft of a Declaration of Independence. When
he appended his signature to that document, as amended and accepted, the
moment was to him the greatest and the gravest of his life.

After serving actively in Congress during the summer of 1776, Mr. Jefferson
returned home, and during the remaining years of the Revolutionary
war devoted himself mainly to the service of his own State. June 1,
1779, he was elected governor of Virginia, and as chief magistrate of that
Commonwealth his patriotism and statesmanship made him an invaluable
aid to the harassed and overburdened commander of the Continental
army, then seeing its darkest days. He remained in constant correspondence
with Washington, and gave a soldier's cheerful obedience to any suggestions
and requests that General made concerning Virginia. His term
of office expired June 2, 1780, but as a private citizen he continued to
serve the State until peace was declared.

Near the close of 1782, he was appointed minister plenipotentiary to join
the representatives of the United States already in Europe, but the treaty
of Paris, in 1783, rendered his services unnecessary, and he remained in
America.

June 6, 1783, he was again chosen delegate to Congress, and took his
seat on the 4th of November following. March 30, 1784, he was chosen
to preside in Congress, and was chairman of that committee which performed
the important work of revising and getting in proper working
order the treasury department. May 7, 1784, he was appointed to join
John Adams and Benjamin Franklin in Paris, and negotiate treaties of
commerce for the United States with foreign nations. Accompanied by
his oldest daughter, he set sail in July and joined his colleagues in the following
month.

March 10, 1785, Mr. Jefferson was unanimously chosen by Congress to
succeed Dr. Franklin as minister to the court at Versailles, and, re-appointed
in October, 1787, he remained in France until October, 1789,
in that time successfully conducting many important and intricate negotiations
in the interest of the United States.

Immediately upon his return to America, Thomas Jefferson was
appointed by President Washington Secretary of State, and he conducted
this department of the new and untried government past many perils and
by many momentous and statesmanlike decisions through the four years of

Washington's first administration, resigning the office December 31, 179.

Three years of private life ensued, and then again Mr. Jefferson found
himself in the political arena, this time as the leader of one of the two
political parties into which the American voters had become divided. By
the party then calling themselves Republicans, Mr. Jefferson was nominated
for President, and the Federal party nominated John Adams of Massachusetts
as his opponent. The vote was counted in the presence of both
houses of Congress in February, 1797, and Mr. Adams receiving the
majority was declared President, Mr. Jefferson, as was then the law, becoming
vice-president.

March 4, 1797, he took the oath of office, and as presiding officer in the
Senate, delivered before that body a speech which is yet a model of
dignity, modesty and statesmanship. Much of the four succeeding years,
Mr. Jefferson spent in tranquillity at his country home, Monticello. He had
married New Year's Day, 1772, Martha, daughter of John Wayles, a distinguished
lawyer of Charles City county, Virginia, and their union had been
blessed with two beautiful daughters. The death of the wife and mother
occurred about ten years subsequent to her marriage, and toward his two
children Mr. Jefferson always manifested a mother's tenderness combined
with a father's care.

When the time for another presidential election approached, Mr. Jefferson
was again the candidate of his party, his opponent being Aaron Burr of
New York. The vote was a tie, and the election devolved upon the
House of Representatives. After thirty-five ineffectual ballots, a member
from Maryland, authorized by Mr. Burr, withdrew that gentleman's name,
and on the thirty-sixth ballot Mr. Jefferson was elected president, Colonel
Burr becoming vice-president.

March 4, 1801, President Jefferson delivered his inaugural address
in the presence of both Houses of Congress, in which, among many wise
utterances, were the following words, which embody the only safe principles
for the American government:

"Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion,
religious or political; peace, commerce and honest friendship with all
nations, entangling alliances with none."

In December, 1801, President Jefferson established the custom of sending
a President's annual message to the houses of Congress. Before that
time the president had in person made the communication, to which the
Speaker, in behalf of Congress, had at once replied in a formal address.

Re-elected to the presidency, Jefferson served two terms, his second term
of office expiring March 4, 1809. The record of his administration's is a
matter of the history of the country.

At the age of sixty-six, Thomas Jefferson retired to private life at Monticello,
nor did he again engage in public affairs. Here he passed fifteen
tranquil years, surrounded by friends and admirers, and in the happy consciousness

of the growing and assured prosperity of the country he loved.

His last public utterances were embodied in a letter addressed June 24,
1826, to a committee who desired his attendance at the coming anniversary
of Independence Day. The letter is marked by that statesmanship which
characterized all his words to the people. Among its utterances was the
following:

"All eyes are opened, or are opening to the rights of man. The general
spread of the lights of science has already laid open to every view the
palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles
on their backs, nor a favoured few, booted and spurred, ready to ride them
legitimately, `by the grace of God!' "

Two days after this letter was written, an indisposition under which Mr.
Jefferson was labouring assumed a more serious form, and his death was
anticipated. But he rallied on the 2d of July, and, on ascertaining the
date, eagerly expressed a wish that he might live to see the dawn of the
fiftieth anniversary of Independence. His wish was granted. He lived
until one o'clock of the afternoon of July 4, 1826, passing then from this
world to another with the tranquillity with which the philosopher's life is
ended.

JAMES MADISON,

Fourth President of the United States, was born March 16, 1751, and
died June 28, 1836, in his 85th year.

He was born at King George, King George county, Virginia, his
father an opulent planter of that province. The oldest of seven children,
he received the best education the times afforded. He was
prepared for college under the instructions of a private tutor, Rev.
Thomas Martin, and entered Princeton, from which university he
was graduated in 1771, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

The movement toward American Independence was thus well begun
when he stepped into the arena of public life. In 1775 he was a member
of the committee of safety of Orange county, and in 1776 represented that
county in the Virginia Convention. In 1777 the House of Delegates
elected him to the executive council of Virginia, and of that body he continued
a leading member until the close of 1779.

In 1779 he was chosen to represent Virginia in the Continental Congress,
where he took his seat March 20, 1780. He remained in Congress nearly
four years, or until the first Monday of November, 1783. He was thus a
member of that body during the last years of the Revolutionary war, and
a part of the first year following the peace. During this time he had an
opportunity to observe the inefficiency of the confederated form of government,
and was active in all the remedial measures that were proposed in
Congress.

In 1784, Mr. Madison was elected to the State Legislature of Virginia,
and by annual re-elections continued a member of that body until
November, 1786, when, having become re-eligible as a candidate for
Congress, he was returned to the national legislature, and resumed official
position there February 12, 1787.

During his membership in the State legislature he became the champion
of religious liberty. In 1784 Thomas Jefferson had introduced in the
Virginia legislature a "Bill for the Establishment of Religious Freedom."
At that time all colonists were taxed for the support of the Church of
England and its clergy, although many were indifferent to that form of
worship, and others were earnestly opposed to it on the ground of
conscientious scruples. The bill failed to pass that year, and in 1785, Mr.
Jefferson being absent from the State legislature, James Madison took up
the bill, and urged and achieved its passage, against strong opposition.

In the same and the following year, as chairman of the judiciary committee,
he presided over and assisted in the revision of the statutes of
Virginia.

May 9, 1787, the committee which prepared the Federal Constitution
was convened at Philadelphia, and James Madison was a delegate from
Virginia. Four months of anxious deliberation and steady labor enabled
this committee to report, on the 17th of September, the articles which,
when amended and adopted, became the Constitution of the United
States.

In 1789, Madison was elected to the first House of Representatives
under the new Constitution. He served until the close of Washington's
administration, and then retired to private life.

In 1794, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Todd, nee Dolly Payne,
widow of a distinguished lawyer of Philadelphia. The lady was a Virginian
by birth, a member of the Payne family, and a sister of the wife of
George S. Washington. Her marriage with James Madison was consummated
in what is now Jefferson county, West Virginia, at a substantial
stone mansion which is still standing in an excellent state of preservation.
This house has many historical associations, having been built in 1752 by
Samuel Washington, eldest full brother of George Washington, who
occasionally visited here. Here, too, Louis Phillippe was entertained
during his visit to America, and in the sitting-room where Madison and
Mrs. Todd were married, is a mantle presented to the family by General
La Fayette.

During Jefferson's administrations, 1801-9, Madison was his most intimate
adviser outside of his cabinet, and the friendship between the two
men continued throughout Madison's administration, where the direction
of the statesmanship of Jefferson could be often seen.

March 4, 1809, James Madison assumed the duties of President of the
United States, to which office he had been elected by a majority of 122
out of 175 electoral votes.

Madison's administration continued through eight years, its most important
event being the war of 1812. During this war the British obtained
possession of Washington, August 24, 1814, and plundered and destroyed
with fire a large portion of the city. Mrs. Madison, then presiding at the
White House, was obliged to seek safety in flight. Her carriage stood at
the door, and her friends were urging her immediate departure, when she
returned to her drawing-room and cut from its frame a full-length picture
of Washington. "Save it, or destroy it," she commanded the gentlemen
who were in attendance upon her; "but do not let it fall into the hands of
the British!" Then she entered the carriage which conveyed her, with
other ladies, to a place of refuge beyond the Potomac. The treasure she
took from the White House in her own hands, and held concealed in her
wrappings as she was driven away, was the precious parchment upon
which was engrossed the Declaration of Independence, with its fifty-two
signatures.

March 4, 1817, Madison's long and useful connection with national
affairs terminated, and he retired to his farm of Montpelier in Virginia,
where his life was peacefully ended. Nineteen years of private life preceded
his death, and the time was largely devoted by him to the production
of the voluminous writings which he left to posterity.

From his earliest years he had been a hard student, with tenacious
memory; he led a life of spotless virtue upon which the breath of calumny
never rested; his bearing was both modest and dignified; his speech
always clear and concise; his public career distinguished by honesty and
singleness of purpose.

Some time after his death Congress purchased from his widow, for
$30,000, all his MSS., and a portion of them have been published under
the title, "The Madison Papers."

Mrs. Madison survived her husband some years, dying in Washington,
July 12, 1849, and they left no children.

JAMES MONROE,

Fifth President of the United States, was born April 28, 1758, and died
July 4, 1831, in his 74th year.

His birth was in Westmoreland county, Virginia, and he was a lineal
descendant of one of the first patentees of that province. His father was
Spruce Monroe, a well-known and wealthy planter of Westmoreland
county.

At the time Independence was declared, James Monroe was a student
in William and Mary College. Without finishing his course there he entered
the army as a cadet. His military career, though brief, was glorious.

He gave his young manhood to his country's service in the hour of
her adversity; he joined her standard when others were deserting it; he repaired
to Washington's headquarters when the army had dwindled to the
verge of dissolution, and Great Britian was pouring her native troops and
foreign mercenaries by thousands upon our coasts; he was one of the
heroes who followed Washington in his perilous mid-winter journey across
the Delaware; he fought at Harlem, at White Plains, and at Trenton,
and was wounded in the last named engagement.

He was promoted for gallantry on the field, and returned to the army
to serve as aide-de-camp to Lord Sterling, through the campaign of 177778,
taking part in the engagements of Brandywine, Germantown and
Monmouth.

After this campaign Monroe left the army, and engaged in the study of
law, with Thomas Jefferson. In 1781 he served as a volunteer with the
Virginia forces, when that State was invaded by the armies of Cornwallis
and Arnold, and at the request of the governor of Virginia he visited the
more Southern States, 1780, to collect military information.

In 1782 he was elected a member of the Virginia legislature, and by
the legislature appointed a member of the executive council. June 9,
1783, he was elected to the House of Representatives, where he took his
seat on the 13th of December following. He continued a member of this
body until the close of the session of 1786.

In the last named year he married a daughter of Lawrence Kortright,
of New York City, and took up his residence in Frederickburg, Spottsylvania
county, Virginia. He was elected to a seat in the Virginia legislature,
and served three years.

In 1790 he was chosen United States Senator, and served until 1794.
He was then appointed to succeed Gouveneur Morris as minister at the
French Court. The appointment was made upon the recommendation of
President Washington and one of the first acts of President Adams was to
recall Monroe.

During Monroe's ministry in France, his views upon the question of the
neutrality of the United States in the war between England and France,
then the paramount subject of consideration in America, were not in
harmony with the administration, and his course of action was severely
censured, and his national popularity for a time decreased.

Virginia, however, stood by the son of her soil. His own county,
immediately upon his arrival home, returned him to the State legislature,
and the votes of the people transferred him thence to the gubernatorial
chair. As governor he served three years (1799-1802), the term limited
by the State constitution.

In 1802 he visited France, appointed by Jefferson as envoy extraordinary
to act with Mr. Livingstone at the court of Napoleon. He
assisted in the negotiations for the purchase of Louisiana, and then joined

Mr. Pinckney in Spain, to assist in the settlement of some boundary questions.
In 1807 he went from Spain to England, to protest against the
impressment of American seamen, and with Mr. Pinckney to negotiate
a treaty with Great Britain. Five years had now been given by Mr.
Monroe to public duties abroad, and finding no success attending his efforts
to ratify a treaty with Great Britain, he returned to America, reaching
home in the closing month of 1807.

At the next State election he was again called to the chief magistracy
of the Commonwealth of Virginia, which office he filled until, in 1811,
he was called to a seat as Secretary of State, in the cabinet of President
Madison. This office he held until the close of President Madison's second
term, with the exception of about six months, the last months of the
second war with Great Britain, when he discharged the more arduous
duties of Secretary of the War Department.

On the retirement of President Madison, in 1817, James Monroe was
chosen fifth President of the United States, and in 1821, was re-elected
without opposition. His opponent in the canvass of 1816 was Rufus
King, of New York, who received only 34 electoral votes, Mr.
Monroe receiving 183. Only one vote was cast against him at his second
election, one of the New Hampshire electors voting for John Quincy
Adams. Monroe's electoral vote was 228.

The distinguishing act of President Monroe's administration, at least
that in which posterity is most interested, was the assertion of what has
since become known as "The Monroe Doctrine." It was first formulated
by President Monroe in his annual message to Congress in 1824.

"The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in
which the rights of the United States are involved, that the American
continents, by the free and independent condition which they have
assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for
future colonization by any European powers."

In popular language, and in the widest sense of the words, this may be
interpreted as: "America for Americans," including, of course, all who
choose to become American citizens.

During his administrations Monroe encouraged the army, increased the
navy, protected commerce, and infused vigor and efficiency in every
department of the public service. March 4, 1825, he retired to his residence
of Oak Hill, in Loudoun county, Virginia.

In the winter of 1829-30, he presided over a convention called to revise
the constitution of Virginia, but an increasing indisposition necessitated
his withdrawal from the convention before its labors were ended, and he
never again participated in public affairs. In the summer of 1830 his
beloved wife died, and he was unable to bear the solitude of the home her
presence had so many years brightened. He removed to New York City,
making his home with his son-in-law, Samuel L. Gouveneur, where the
few remaining months of his life were passed.

Mr. Monroe had been a poor financier in personal matters. Although
he had inherited considerable property, and his wife had
brought him as much more, and although he had received $350,000
for public services, in his last days pecuniary embarassments were
added to his bodily infirmities, and his old age was harassed by debt.
In 1858 the remains of ex-President Monroe were removed, with great
pomp, from New York to Richmond, Virginia, and on July 5th were
re-interred in Hollywood cemetery.

The members of President Monroe's cabinet were: Secretary of
State, John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, 1817-1825; Secretary
of the Treasury, Wm. H. Crawford, of Georgia, 1817-1825; Secretary
of War, Geo. Graham, ad interim; John C. Calhoun, of South
Carolina, December, 1817, to March, 1825. (President Monroe tendered
this position to Isaac Shelby, governor of Kentucky, who did
not qualify, and in December, 1817, declined the office on account of
advanced age.) Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin W. Crowninshield,
of Massachusetts, March, 1817, to November, 1818; Smith Thompson,
of New York, November, 1818, to December, 1823; Samuel L. Southard,
of New Jersey, December, 1823, to March, 1825. Attorney General,
Richard Rush, of Pennsylvania, March to November, 1817;
William Wirt, of Virginia, November, 1817, to March, 1825. The
office of Postmaster General for these eight years was filled by Return
Jonathan Meigs, March, 1817, to June, 1823, then by John McLean,
of Ohio, until March, 1825.

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,

Ninth President of the United States, was born February 9, 1773,
and died April 4, 1841, in his 69th year.

On the banks of the James river, in Charles City county, Virginia,
lies the beautiful estate called Berkeley, for several generations the
home of the Harrisons. Here was born Benjamin Harrison, signer
of the Declaration of Independence, and his third son was William
Henry Harrison.

He received his scholastic education at Hampden-Sidney College,
and then began the study of medicine in Philadelphia. But about
that time an army was gathering to be sent against the Indians of the
Northwest, and young Harrison displayed an inclination toward military
life. At the age of nineteen he received from President Washington
an ensign's commission, and joined the army, under General
St. Clair. In 1792 he was promoted to a lieutenancy, and in 1794 he
fought under "Mad Anthony" Wayne, whose aid-de-camp he became.

In 1795, Harrison was commissioned captain and placed in command
at Fort Washington, now the site of Cincinnati. Here he was joined in
marriage with a daughter of John Cleves Symmes, a pioneer in that

locality, who first laid out the tract of country on which Cincinnati now
stands. Harrison's wife survived him more than twenty years, dying at
their home in North Bend, Ohio, February 26, 1864.

In 1797, Harrison was appointed secretary of the Northwestern Territory,
and resigned his military commission. Two years later, he was
elected the first delegate to Congress from the territory. General St. Clair
was then governor of the territory, which included the present States of
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan.

In 1801 the Northwestern Territory was divided, Indiana was erected
into a separate territorial government, embracing what is now the States of
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, and William Henry Harrison
was appointed first governor of the new territory.

By consecutive re-appointments Harrison was continued chief magistrate
of Indiana until 1813. During this time he also held the official position
of commissioner of Indian affairs, and concluded thirteen important treaties
with the different Northwestern tribes. His knowledge of the Indian
character and the respect with which he was regarded by them on account
of his fighting qualities, enabled him to conduct these treaties greatly to
the advantage of the government.

Before the expiration of his last two years' service as governor, Harrison
had again distinguished himself by his military skill, and was again
embarked upon a military career. Among his other achievements was the
successful resistance of his troop of 800 men against a night attack of the
followers of Tecumseh, led on and incited by his brother, the Prophet.
This was the engagement on the night of the 6th and morning of the 7th
of November, 1811, made famous in subsequent history and song as the
"Battle of Tippecanoe."

As early as the spring of 1810 the hostile preparations of the Indians
of the Northwest, under direction of Tecumseh and his brother, induced
Governor Harrison to call them to account. In August they met the governor
in council at Vincennes, where the appearance of 700 disciplined
troop of militia somewhat abated the ardor of the brothers for an immediate
conflict. In the following year, however, Tecumseh succeeded in
forming a league of the Choctaws, Chickasaws and Creeks against the
whites, and Harrison, using the discretionary power vested in him, gathered
a force from his own territory and from Kentucky, at Vincennes,
and late in September, 1811, marched up the Wabash valley toward the
town of the Prophet, near the junction of Tippecanoe creek and the
Wabash river. On the way he built a fort near the site of the present
city of Terre Haute, which was called Fort Harrison.

In the beginning of November, the governor and his troops encamped
on what became the battle-field of Tippecanoe. Tecumseh had gone south
to arouse the Indians of Florida, and the Prophet rashly undertook to give
battle to Harrison, believing the camp could be surprised and an easy and

bloody victory given his deluded followers. The result made Harrison
the popular hero of Tippecanoe.

Early in 1812, Harrison was brevetted major-general in the Kentucky
militia, and later in the same year, in September, was appointed brigadier
general of the regular United States army, with command of the Northwestern
division. In 1813, he received commission as major-general of
the regular army.

His services in the war with Great Britain were continued until 1814,
during which time the battle of the Thames, and other victories in the
lake country, were added to his laurels. In consequence of a misunderstanding
with Armstrong, secretary of war in 1814, General Harrison resigned
his commission, and retired to his farm at North Bend.

He, however, served the government as Indian commissioner in negotiating
the treaties of peace, and in 1816, resumed public life as member
of Congress, from the Cincinnati district. After serving in the House
three years, he was chosen, in 1819, to the State Senate of Ohio, and
served in that position five years.

In 1824 he became a member of the United States Senate from Ohio,
and was given the chairmanship of the military commission. In 1828
John Quincy Adams appointed him minister to Colombia, South America,
but Jackson recalled him during the first year of his administration.

For the twelve succeeding years General Harrison lived in private life,
his only public functions in that time being the discharge of the
duties of clerk of the court of Hamilton county, Ohio. In 1836 the
Whig party made him their candidate for the chief magistracy, and he
received 73 electoral votes. Van Buren, the Democratic candidate, and
the protege of the retiring president, Jackson, was elected; but the financial
depression which accompanied his administration rendered it unpopular,
and gave the Whigs an opportunity to gain the next election.

December 4, 1839, General Harrison received the nomination from the
Whig party, and the canvass which followed was the most remarkable one
that had been witnessed in American politics to that date. It was the
"log cabin and hard cider" campaign; the "Tippecanoe and Tyler too"
campaign. The press and politicians who rallied about Van Buren
brought forward as a slur against Harrison that he lived in a log cabin and
drank nothing but hard cider. The friends of Harrison caught up the
implied reproach and made it their rallying cry. Their political meetings
were held in halls on whose walls were inscribed the words, "log
cabin and hard cider," their processions were headed by banners bearing
the inscription, and accompanied by miniature log cabins borne in teams
or on the shoulders of Harrison supporters.

A wave of popular enthusiasm swept the country, landing William
Henry Harrison in the White House, March 4, 1841, with 234 electoral
votes, and stranding Martin Van Buren at Kinderhook, he having
received only 60 electoral votes.

The new president, a man of slender constitution and now almost three
score and ten years of age, entered upon his presidential duties after this
exciting campaign, only to fall a victim to an illness which in eight days
from its first appearance culminated in his death just one month from the
day on which he took the oath of office.

JOHN TYLER,

Tenth President of the United States, was born March 29, 1790, and died
January 17, 1862, in his 72d year.

He was born in Charles City county, Virginia, the second son of John
Tyler, a patriot of the Revolution, and governor of Virginia, 1808-11.
John Tyler, sr., was also made a judge of admiralty for Virginia, and was
holding that office at the time of his death, in 1813. His wife, the mother
of the subject of this sketch, was Mary, only child of Robert Armstead,
whose ancestors emigrated to Virginia from Hesse-Darmstadt, in early
colonial days.

John Tyler received a collegiate and legal training, being graduated
from William and Mary College in 1807, and admitted to the bar in 1809.
He was never in active practice of his profession, entering public life in
1811, when he was elected to the State legislature.

He served five years in the legislature, or until his election, in 1816, to
fill a vacancy in Congress. To this position he was twice re-elected. In
the House he was a member of what was becoming known as the Southern
party. He voted in favor of the resolutions of censure on Jackson's conduct
in the Seminole war; and his negative vote is recorded against internal
improvements; against United States banks; against a protective
policy; and he strongly opposed and voted against any restriction on the
extension of slavery into the territories. In 1819 he resigned, on account
of ill health.

1823-5, he was a leading member of the Virginia legislature, and in
December, 1825, was chosen governor of that Commonwealth, serving two
terms of one year each.

In March, 1831, Tyler was chosen to succeed John Randolph of Roanoke,
as United States Senator, and in 1833 he was re-appointed. During
his term in the Senate he was one of the most active members of that body.
His vote was almost invariably recorded against any act favored by Adams
and his cabinet. As in the House, he now set himself against internal
improvements, and a protective tariff. He voted against the tariff bill of
1828, and during the debate on Clay's tariff resolutions, session of 1831-32,
Tyler spoke three days on the question. He opposed direct protection,
and argued for a tariff for revenue, with incidental protection to home industry.

In 1832, he was in sympathy with the nullification movement of South
Carolina, and spoke against the "force bill." The bill passed the Senate
with only one negative vote recorded. Calhoun and others of its opponents
retired from the chamber when the motion was to be put, and only
John Tyler voted against it. He also voted for Clay's "compromise bill,"
by which the trouble was adjusted.

Receiving from his constituents a request that a vote of his should be
expunged from the records, Tyler resigned and returned to Virginia
before the expiration of his second term of service in the Senate. He
removed to Williamsburg, James City county, and became affiliated in
politics with the Southern Whig movement. From this party he received
the nomination for vice-president in 1836, and for that office the electoral
vote was given him in the States of Maryland, Georgia, South Carolina
and Tennessee.

In 1838, the James county Whigs elected him to the State legislature,
where he served until he received the nomination for vice-president in
1839. The Whig delegates convened at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
December 4, 1839, and Tyler was present as a member of the convention
from Virginia. They nominated Harrison and Tyler, and these candidates
were elected in the following year, entering upon their respective
offices March 4, 1841.

On the death of President Harrison, one month later, John Tyler became
his constitutional successor. He was called to Washington from his home
in Williamsburg, by Harrison's cabinet, on the 4th of April (the day on
which the president died), and he reached the national capital at four
o'clock on the morning of the 6th. At noon the ministers called upon him
in a body, and Judge Cranch administered to him the oath of office. To
the supporters of the administration gathered about him, Tyler said:
"You have only exchanged one Whig for another."

His course as chief executive of the nation was not in consonance with
this assurance. Before a year had elapsed he had lost the confidence of
the Whig party, principally by his veto of the bank bill, which was strictly
a Whig measure. When the bill had been amended so as, it was thought,
to meet his approval, and had been again vetoed, his entire cabinet (the
one chosen by Harrison) resigned, with the exception of Daniel Webster,
Secretary of State, who was then engaged in important negotiations with
England, and who resigned as soon as those negotiations were completed.
During the three remaining years of his administration, Tyler was three
times compelled to form a new cabinet.

In May, 1844, a Whig convention assembled at Baltimore, Maryland,
nominated Tyler for the presidency, and the nomination was accepted.
But the convention was not a voice of the people, being composed principally
of office holders under Tyler, and the president, finding that his
defeat at the polls was certain, withdrew his acceptance of the nomination,
and at the end of his four years retired to private life.

Mr. Tyler's administration had been a stormy one, as the many
cabinet changes sufficiently indicate. Sincere in his attachment to
the Whig party, he was no sooner surrounded by its leaders, than he
saw that the policy they would have dictated was one not for the
country's interests. However painful his position was made by that
knowledge, however much his consequent actions, necessarily antagonistic
to party ends, were condemned, he was faithful to his own
more statesmanlike views. In less than twenty years his course was
justified. In less than twenty years the party he had endeavored to
hold in check had become, under another name, a party bent upon
plunging the country into civil war.

In February, 1861, he presided over the Peace Congress which was
convened in Washington, pursuant to a call from the Legislature of
Virginia, but he had no hope of good results from its deliberations.
In a public speech in Richmond, Virginia, the day following that on
which the Congress closed its session, he stated that the South had
nothing to hope, but in separation. Acting upon his convictions, Mr.
Tyler renounced his allegiance to the government, and entered upon
active labors in behalf of the Southern Confederacy. He was one of
the committee who, in April, 1861, transferred to the service of the
Confederate government, the military forces of Virginia, and when
the seat of that government was established at Richmond, Virginia,
he was a member of its Congress. In that capacity he was serving
when his death occurred.

ZACHARY TAYLOR,

Twelfth President of the United States, was born November 24, 1784,
and died July 9, 1850, aged 66 years.

His birth was in Orange county, Virginia, and he was a son of Colonel
Richard and Sarah (Strothers) Taylor, both parents of eminent
Virginia families. The Virginian Taylors were allied to the oldest
and most distinguished families in that State—the Madisons, the
Lees, the Pendletons, the Barbours, the Conways, the Gaineses, the
Hunts, the Taliaferros.

But the character of our twelfth President seems to have been
largely determined by the rude border life in which his childhood
and youth were passed. Battling with the hardships and dangers
of frontier life, rather than Virginia cultivation, stamped the character
of him who was to be known as "Old Rough and Ready."

In 1785, Colonel Taylor settled with his little family in Kentucky, in
what is now Jefferson county, two miles from the Ohio river, and five
miles from the present site of Louisville. Here young Zachary grew to

manhood, his earlier years spent in the acquisition of such book knowledge
as could be obtained; and his time, when he had grown old enough and
strong enough, given to the actual labors of the farm, where he worked
with his father until he was nearly twenty-four years old.

His book learning was confined to a knowledge of reading, writing,
spelling, and plain arithmetic, but during his boyhood's days he also
acquired a love for military life from the many border skirmishes with the
Indians of which he was a spectator, or in which he participated. His
instructor in the arts of warfare was one Whetsel, a noted border character,
who taught young Taylor how to load and "fire running." The latter
accomplishment Taylor never availed himself of.

May 3, 1808, Zachary Taylor received a commission as first lieutenant
in the 7th United States Infantry, and his regiment marched under Harrison
in his expedition against the Indians of the Northwest. Taylor was
now in active service until the close of the second war with England. In
the beginning of the year 1812, President Madison commissioned him captain,
and he was placed in command of Fort Harrison, on the Wabash.

Here he achieved the first of those brilliant victories which in after
years formulated the axiom, "Taylor never surrenders," on which his soldiers
enthusiastically relied. On the night of September 4, 1812, a band
of 400 Indians fell upon the fort, expecting to surprise it and massacre its
garrison. They succeeded, in the first onslaught, in firing the block-house,
in which the garrison's stock of whisky was stored, and it burned with uncontrollable
fury. Captain Taylor, then only twenty-eight years of age,
found himself shut up in a burning fort, with 400 savages outside its
walls, and only fifty men at his command, twenty-six of them sick with
malarial fever, and unfitted for duty. He calmed the women and children,
encouraged the men, directed the control of the flames, held the fort
and defeated the enemy. For this victory he was brevetted major by
President Madison.

In 1816, Major Taylor was ordered to Green Bay, and remained in command
of that post for two years. Then returning to Kentucky he passed
one year with his family, and was then ordered to New Orleans. In 1822
he superintended the erection of Fort Jesup; in 1824 was in the recruiting
service, then ordered to Washington, and thence to the South
again. He had been made lieutenant-colonel in 1819, and in 1832 was
promoted to the rank of colonel. The contest known as the "Black
Hawk War" opened in 1832, and Colonel Taylor commanded the expedition
which resulted in the defeat and capture of Black Hawk. His military
decision was shown in this campaign by his control of his own troops,
as much as by his action against the enemy. The pursuit of Black
Hawk's band had brought the troops to Rock River, the northwestern
boundary of Illinois. Here the militia, called out (as they claimed) to
defend their State, considered their services ended. The orders of Taylor
were to continue the pursuit with his "full army."

The militia held a sort of town meeting, at which Taylor was present.
Deceived by his quiet manner, the leaders of the movement for disbanding
grew insolent, and the spirit of mutiny was augmented by their inflammatory
speeches. When Taylor had listened to several of these gentlemen,
his own speech was ready: "Gentlemen, the word has been passed
on to me from Washington to follow Black Hawk, and to take you with
me as soldiers. I mean to do both. There are the flat boats drawn up on
the shore, and here are Uncle Sam's men drawn up behind you on the
prairie." The militia did not disband that day.

After the Black Hawk war, Colonel Taylor was in command at Fort Crawford,
Prairie du Chien, where he remained until, in 1836, his services were
required in Florida in the Seminole war. In Florida he won the battle of
Okee-chobee, January, 1838, and was promoted to brigadier-general. In
April, 1838, he was appointed to the command of the Florida troops, and
continued in that responsible position until he was relieved in April, 1840,
at his own request.

He was at once appointed to the command of the army of the southwest,
which comprehended the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas
and Louisiana, with headquarters at Fort Jesup, in the latter State.

The annexation of Texas, in 1845, and the consequent war with Mexico,
next called General Taylor into active service. He was ordered to the
frontier of Texas, and made his headquarters on the Rio Grande del Norte.

The war which followed terminated in success to the American arms and
independence for Texas, and recorded the name of General Taylor as victor
at Palo Alto, Reseca de la Palma, Monterey and Beuna Vista.

The battle of Beuna Vista was the last in which General Taylor engaged.
He returned to his home, now in his 63d year, to find that a portion
of the people desired to reward his services by making him the chief
magistrate of the nation. His own views upon accepting the honor tendered
him were expressed in a letter written before he left the seat of war.
He desired to be "elected by the general voice of the people, without
regard to their political differences." His want of knowledge of party
politics is explained, however, in the same letter. He says: "I have
never yet exercised the privilege of voting." The soldier had been too
busy all his life fighting for all America, to interest himself in any sectional
or party question.

He was nominated by the Whig convention at Baltimore, June 7, 1848,
and elected in the November following. His opponent was Lewis Cass,
of Michigan, and the electoral vote stood: Taylor, 163; Cass, 127.

The inaugural ceremonies were observed March 5, 1849, the 4th of
March that year falling upon Sunday. His administration of affairs extended
over very little more than a year, and was principally occupied in
long debates over the adjustment of the questions connected with the new
territory of the United States.

July 4, 1850, President Taylor attended some national demonstrations
in honor of the day, in his usual health and spirits. In the evening,
while overheated, he partook freely of fruits and iced water and
milk. Within an hour he was seized with cramps which took the form
of violent cholera morbus, and after lingering in terrible pain until the
end, death supervened at 1 p. m., July 9th.

Taylor married in 1810, and the wife of forty years knelt at his
death-bed with their weeping children about her, and his last unintelligible
word was an effort to speak to her once more. Of the four children
born of their union, three survived him and were present at his
death-bed, his only son, Colonel Taylor, and two daughters. One of
his sons-in-law was Jefferson Davis, who had served under him in
Mexico, and later became the president of the Confederate States. The
death of President Taylor was widely mourned; the people, who held
him second only to Washington, mourned a popular hero; the army
mourned "Old Rough and Ready." The loss to the Nation was the
loss of a sincere patriot and an honest man. A man of application as
well as of military genius, he has left an enduring record.

GOVERNOR FITZHUGH LEE.

If there be aught of assurance of, and incitation to, worthy exemplification
in a heritage of lineal record of honor and dutiful action, then
might confidence have been held in the career of Fitzhugh Lee, in whom
is united the blood of patriots, whose names and deeds are indissolubly
and imperishably connected with the history of our Union and
of Virginia.

Fitzhugh Lee (or Fitz Lee, as he was familiarly styled in the army,
and is still popularly known, and as he subscribed himself until recently),
son of Commodore Sydney Smith Lee (a brother of General
Robert E. Lee), late of the Confederate States navy, and formerly of
the United States navy, was born at "Clermont," the seat of his grandfather,
General John Mason, in Fairfax County, Va., November 19,
1835. His mother, Anne Mason, was the granddaughter of George
Mason, of "Gunston Hall," the author of the Virginia Bill of Rights.
She was the sister of Hon. James Murray Mason, of Mason and Slidell
fame. The family name of Fitzhugh has been held in cherished recognition
in Virginia for two centuries.

Fitzhugh Lee was appointed a cadet at large to West Point Military
Academy, July 1, 1852, and was graduated July 1, 1856, and appointed
brevet second lieutenant of United States cavalry. Among his
class graduates were Generals Samuel S. Carroll, W. P. Sanders, J. W.

Forsyth, George D. Bayard, Herman Biggs, Francis M. Vinton, Orlando
M. Poe, Miles D. McAllister and John K. Mozart, of the Federal
Army, and Generals Wm. H. ("Mudwall") Jackson and L. L. Lomax,
of the Confederate army. His first service was in the cavalry school at
Carlisle, Pa., where he remained until January 1, 1858, when, at his own
request, he was assigned to duty with his regiment, the Second Cavalry,
on frontier service; was at Forts Inge and Mason, and Camp Radminezbec,
Texas, scouting against the Indians; on May 13, 1859, in a combat
in Nescatunga Valley, Texas, with the Comanches, was shot through
the lungs with an arrow and his life despaired of; later, at Camps
Cooper and Colorado, Texas, near the last of which was engaged in a
hand to hand combat with the Comanche Indians; in November, 1860,
was detached from his regiment and ordered to report to West Point as
instructor of cavalry, a complimentary detail. Under his tuition there
were several who were subsequently famous as cavalry officers—Generals
Kilpatrick and Custer being among them; promoted first lieutenant
of cavalry March 31, 1861; resigned his commission May 31, 1861, and
offered his services to his native state.

His first service in the Confederate States army was in the Adjutant-General's
department, under General Beauregard at Manassas, and in the
battle of July 21, 1861, he served on the staff of General Ewell. In September
following he was, upon the recommendation of General Joseph E.
Johnston (then in command of the army) and General J. E. B. Stuart,
commanding its cavalry, made lieutenant-colonel of the First Virginia
Cavalry (Stuart's old regiment), and at the reorganization of that
command in April, 1862, near Yorktown, he was elected colonel. On
the retreat from Yorktown, Lee's regiment was given the duty of
watching York river, and it was he who first gave information of the
flanking movement of Franklin, and of his locating at Barhamsville.
Lee personally reconnoitered so close to the enemy that he was enabled
to give not only the number but the names of their gunboats and
transports. In the succeeding operations around Richmond, Lee was
with the command of General Stuart, and participated in all of the
enterprises of that officer.

About the middle of June, 1862, Stuart executed his famous raid
around the army of McClellan as it lay in front of Richmond, and Lee,
with his regiment, was selected to accompany him, sharing with one
other regiment and a battalion the hazards of that feat, which "blazed
the way for Jackson's subsequent flank movement." After the battles
around Richmond more cavalry was brought from southern states and
formed into a second brigade under General Wade Hampton, and
Stuart was promoted to the rank of major-general and assigned to the
command of the division, Lee being promoted to brigadier-general and

to the command of Stuart's old brigade, composed of the 1st, 3d, 4th,
5th and 9th regiments of Virginia cavalry, with a battery of horse artillery
under Captain James Bunthed. In the latter part of 1863 the cavalry
of the Army of Northern Virginia was divided into two divisions of
three brigades each, and Hampton and Lee promoted to command them,
the two being under Stuart as senior major-general. The skill and courage
evinced by Fitz Lee occasioned the repeated mention of his name in
the exact reports of the commander-in-chief of the Army of Northern Virginia,
made it familiar to the public, and the latter, in May, 1863, soon
after the battle of Chancellorsville, in a letter, thus warmly commended
him: "Your admirable conduct, devotion to the cause of your country,
and devotion to duty, fill me with pleasure. I hope you will soon see
her efforts for independence crowned with success, and long live to
enjoy the affection and gratitude of your country." Again, he wrote:
"Your division has always had a high reputation. It must not lose
it."

In the disastrous battle of Winchester Fitz Lee was conspicuous in
his gallantry, exposing himself in every part of the field. Three horses
were shot under him, one his beautiful mare, Nelly Gray, a favorite of
the command, and at last he was brought to ground by a minie-ball
which pierced his thigh. He was kept from duty by this wound for
several months. In the spring of 1865 he was summoned to Richmond,
and, by order of the commanding general, placed in command of the
cavalry corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. He was one of the
three corps commanders (the others being Gordon and Longstreet)
who, with General Robert E. Lee, composed the council of war just
before the surrender at Appomatox C. H., April 9, 1865. The cavalry,
having cut their way through the enemy's lines, to save their horses,
before the surrender, General Fitz Lee, thus without a command,
remained to share with his loved commander and relative the cares
and trials of the bitter closing act of a resplendent drama.

The war over, he turned his attention as earnestly to a peaceful
vocation as he had been devoted in arms, and is said to have literally
put "his hands to the plough." He first farmed at "Richland," in
Stafford county, and later near Alexandria, Va. Accepting the
result of the war, General Lee endeavored by genial influence to aid as
far as in him lay the fraternization of the late contending sections, and
in his utterances and engaging presence, it is claimed, has accomplished
much in the cause of conciliation. His address at the Bunker Hill
Centennial was widely commended. At the Yorktown Centennial in
1881 he was a conspicuous figure. At the inauguration of President
Cleveland he commanded the Virginia Brigade, and received a continuous
and enthusiastic recognition. In several visits north and the west

since, he has been welcomed with the utmost cordiality. On November 3,
1885, he was elected Governor of Virginia over the republican nominee,
John Sargeant Wise, by a majority of about sixteen thousand, and
took his seat January 1, 1886. The administration of Governor Lee,
which has comprehended a serious wrangle by the English bondholders
over the state debt, has been conservative and generally
judicious. Governor Lee was urged as an available candidate for the
nomination of Vice-President by the late National Democratic Convention.
Governor Lee has a bright blue eye, and is of genial presence.
Rather below medium stature, and originally of slight physique, he
has developed into a figure, Napoleonic in bulk. He is happily married,
and has an engaging household. He married Miss Ellen Bernard,
daughter of George Fowle, Esq., of Alexandria, Va., and has five children:
Ellen Fowle, Fitzhugh, George Dashiell, Nannie Fitzhugh and
Virginia, the last named after the state, having been born in the
gubernatorial mansion.

R. A. BROCK.

Robert Alonzo Brock, eldest son and child of Robert King and Elizabeth
Mildred (Ragland) Brock, was born in Richmond, Va., March 9,
1839.

His parents were both natives of Hanover County, Va., and his ancestors
were among the early settlers of the colony, although in him
is intermingled the blood of several nationalities. His father, long a
respected merchant of Richmond, was the son of John Philip and
Elizabeth (daughter of Alexander King) Brock, and his mother the
daughter of Fendall and Sarah (Nelson) Ragland, the granddaughter
of Pettus and Elizabeth (daughter of John Davis, from Wales) Ragland,
and great-granddaughter of John and Anne (Beaufort) Ragland,
from Glamorganshire, Wales. The latter, with sons and
daughters, settled in that portion of New Kent which was subsequently
Hanover county, about 1720, and patented several thousand
acres of land, which descended to his children.

R. A. Brock, although possessed of antiquarian tastes from childhood,
was bred to mercantile pursuits, and, following the conclusion of
the late war between the states, was so engaged until August, 1881,
when he disposed of his interests to give more attention to the Virginia
Historical Society, of which he has been corresponding secretary
and librarian since February, 1875.

He has been a frequent contributor to the press and magazines since
boyhood; was one of the editors of the Richmond Standard, a select

family paper, with departments of science, history, genealogy, etc.,
from 1879 to 1882; has edited seven volumes of the new series of the
"Virginia Historical Collections," published by the Virginia Historical
Society, and one volume of the "Papers" of the Southern Historical
Society (of which he has been the secretary since July, 1887), and
other historical, antiquarian and genealogical works, besides contributions
to standard works, and preparing various statistical and historical
papers for the United States Government, and his native state
and city. The labors of Mr. Brock have met gratifying recognition in
accorded membership in many learned bodies in the United States,
Canada and Europe—about two-score in number. Solicitous to aid,
as far as his ability has admitted, in the general advancement of intelligence,
he has cheerfully met inquiry until his extended correspondence,
although a great pleasure, has become an onerous tax upon his
time.

He married, April 29, 1869, Sallie Kidd, daughter of Richardson
Tyree and Margaret Mills (Watt, said to be of the family of the celebrated
James Watt) Haw, of Hanover county. She died February 6,
1887, leaving two daughters, Elizabeth Carrington and Anne Beaufort,
who compose their father's household. In the late deplorable war
between the states of our Union Mr. Brock served in defense of his
section, entering the service of the Confederate States with "F" company,
a select body from Richmond, which shared the fortunes of the
Army of Northern Virginia, to the surrender at Appomattox C. H.,
April 9, 1865, and whose ranks furnished it many officers from the
grade of subaltern to that of general.

A few survivors are banded together as "F" Company Association,
of which Mr. Brock is the secretary and historiographer. He is also a
member of several secret and benevolent orders, among them that of
the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. His lodge, Richmond Lodge, No.
10 (of which he is historiographer), is the oldest in the city, having
been chartered December 29, 1780. Its membership has comprised
some of the most illustrious of Virginia and of the Union.

Quiet and retiring by nature, and simple in his habits, Mr. Brock,
occupied with his pursuits, has never sought political station, but his
efforts, as in him reasonably lay, have always been earnest in what his
judgment deemed best for the sustenance of the interests of Virginia
and the weal of the nation. He is of robust physique, and six feet in
stature.

MAJOR WILLIAM T. SUTHERLIN.

The Sutherlin family have long been among the honored residents of
Pittsylvania county. George S. Sutherlin, now deceased, the father of
Major Sutherlin, was born near Danville, Virginia. His mother, Polly
S. Norman, was born in Henry county, Virginia. He was born on his
father's estate, near Danville, on April 7, 1822. At Greensboro, North
Carolina, October 18, 1849, he married Jane E. Patrick, who was born
in North Carolina, Sept. 11, 1829. Two daughters were born to them,
Janie Lindsay and Martha Ella. Both are now deceased, the latter
dying in infancy. Mrs. Sutherlin is the daughter of William and
Martha W. (Dict) Patrick, formerly of North Carolina, now deceased.
Janie Lindsay, their eldest daughter, grew up into a beautiful and accomplished
woman, whose lovely character endeared her to all who
knew her. She was born January 24, 1851, and died in Danville, Virginia,
August 24, 1876, and a beautiful monument marks the spot in
Greenwood cemetery, where she is buried. She was the mother of three
children, two died in infancy, and one, Janie Sutherlin Smith, whose
home has been with her grandparents in Danville since the death of her
mother, is now a school-girl, and promises to make an accomplished
and useful woman. November 22, 1871, she married Col. Francis L.
Smith, of Alexandria, Virginia, a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute.
He went with the corps of cadets into the late war, and
received in his first battle a severe wound in the neck. Besides filling
other important positions, he has been a member of the State Senate,
and is now one of the leading lawyers in the State.

Major Sutherlin's earliest education was received in a home school,
after which he went to the male academy in Danville three years, then
to the private school of Joseph Godfrey, in Franklin county, Virginia.
Until twenty-one years of age he remained on his father's estate, then
he entered into trade as a dealer in tobacco. From 1846 to the opening
of the war, he was a manufacturer of tobacco in Danville, and one
of the most successful managers of business of that day. He was
mayor of Danville from 1855 to 1861, and was a delegate to the Virginia
Convention which adopted the Ordinance of Secession. He at
once entered the Confederate States Army, but, owing to impaired
health, was unable for field duty, and received appointment as commandant
of the post at Danville. Later he was also made chief quartermaster
for the said post, and he served till near the close of the war,
when his increasing ill health necessitated his giving up all official
duties. The winter after the close of the war he went to Cuba for his
health, and was greatly improved, when he returned to Danville where
he has ever since been engaged in agricultural pursuits, and the development

of his State and section, living at his beautiful home, which
is accounted the most pleasant residence location in Danville, if not in
the State.

Major Sutherlin was elected early in the war a member of the Board
of Public Works. He served two years in the legislature since the war.
Was a prominent director in the Richmond & Danville Railroad for
near fifteen years. He has built two railroads, the Milton & Sutherlin
and the Danville & New River, and it is generally conceded that neither
would have been built but for his energy and ability. He has been
prominent in building up most of the enterprises in Danville for the
past forty years, and contributed liberally of his time and means to
secure them. It was mainly through his sagacity and efforts that
Roman Eagle Lodge of Masons now owns its large and elegant building,
and is one of the wealthiest lodges in the State. It was through
him that the first agricultural society and fair was held in the South
after the war, in Danville, which was successfully kept up for several
years. When the Virginia State Agricultural Society was reorganized
after the war, he was unanimously elected its president and held the
office for two years, and it was chiefly through his untiring efforts that
the Society was placed upon a basis of success.

He secured a charter and established the Danville Bank, and its capital
at the breaking out of the war was three hundred thousand dollars.
He was a very large stockholder and the only president the bank ever
had. It was chiefly through his efforts that the Border Grange Bank at
Danville was established, and he was its first president.

He has been a liberal contributor to the establishment and maintenance
of his church (Methodist) in all her enterprises. He is a trustee of
Randolph-Macon College, and has contributed liberally to its support.
He was a large contributor to the college for young ladies in Danville,
and was the first President of the Board of Directors. His
generous liberality has been continuous all through life, never
withholding his support from any worthy enterprise either in church
or State.

He has often been prominently spoken of for Governor of the State,
and member of Congress from his district, but belonging to that class
of politicians who think the office should seek the man, and not the
man the office, he has been content to serve his party, and not push his
own claims for office.

Major Sutherlin is a clear and forcible writer, and has written many
valuable and interesting papers which have found a large circulation
through the press of the country. As a public speaker he is forcible,
practical and strong, especially in debate, generally getting the best of
his opponent. As an enterprising, practical business man, there is no

one in Virginia who stands higher in the estimation of the people generally
throughout the State than Major Sutherlin.

GEN. V. D. GRONER.

General Groner was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on September 7, 1836.
He married, in New Orleans, Louisiana, in April, 1866, Katherine
Campbell, who was born in Mobile, Alabama, and who was a daughter
of Justice John A. Campbell, formerly a Judge of the United States
Supreme Court, and who, during the Confederacy, was associated with
Vice-President A. H. Stephens, and Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, Senator from
Virginia, as commissioners to meet President Lincoln and Secretary of
State Seward, at Hampton Roads, just before the close of the war.
Their children are three sons: John A. C., Duncan Lawrence and Robert
Newell.

At the age of eighteen the subject of this sketch, who had previously
graduated at the Norfolk Military Academy, organized a military
company, known as the "Independent Greys," and in the succeeding
year he was made lieutenant-colonel of a regiment of Virginia militia,
at Norfolk. After studying law one year, he entered into a business
life, and was two years agent for an express company, then for a time
in the employ of the New York & Virginia Steamship Co. In 1859 he
went to Texas, where he was the guest of Gen. Sam Houston. There
he tendered his services to Baylor's Texan Rangers, and assisted in
subduing the Comanche Indians, and other hostile tribes.

On the election of Lincoln, he left Texas with the intention of returning
to Virginia, but at the request of Governor Pettus of Mississippi
he went to New York, and performed the delicate and valuable service
of purchasing and shipping arms for Mississippi. This accomplished
he returned to Virginia, and perfected a secret organization for the
capture of Fortress Monroe, which would have been successfully accomplished
but for the interference of Governor Letcher. He then returned
to Mississippi, and was tendered commission as adjutant-general of
Mississippi by Governor Pettus, which commission he declined. Going
to Montgomery he was commissioned and appointed captain and
assistant-adjutant general of the regular Confederate States Army, and
assigned to duty at the seat of government, the fifth military appointment
made by the new government. He remained in this service at
Montgomery and in Richmond until after the first battle around the
latter city, when he was directed to take charge of the archives of the
government, which he removed by canal, in the direction of Lynchburg.

During this trip the James River overflowed, and when its waters
receded the canal banks were washed out. Knowing the importance of

this feeder for supplying troops at Richmond, General Groner appealed
for aid to the farmers, and by the labor they furnished, had the canal
thoroughly repaired in twenty-four hours, a work for which he was
warmly commended by the President of the Canal to President Jefferson
Davis.

While the second battle around Richmond was being fought, he
reported on the field to General R. E. Lee, with whom he remained until
after Malvern Hill battle. As a part of his service in the Adjutant
Department, he had charge of the Organization Bureau, and the entire
Confederate Army, so far, had been organized through his office.
Desirous of more active service, he was now assigned to the 59th North
Carolina Cavalry, with headquarters at Franklin, Virginia, and with
this regiment he was engaged in the fighting around Suffolk. At the
time the Army of Northern Virginia was in Maryland, he was made
colonel of the 61st Virginia Infantry, and took charge of the same at
Warrenton, Virginia, defending the bridges both at Warrenton and at
Rappahannock Station.

When Lee's Army moved back from Maryland into Virginia, General
Groner was ordered to Fredericksburg, his command then consisting of
his own regiment, the Norfolk Blues Battery, and a Mississippi Battery,
to which, after he reached Fredericksburg, a portion of Ball's Regiment
of Virginia Cavalry and a Battalion of Mississippians were added.
Arriving in Fredericksburg, he took possession at Falmouth Ford, just
as Burnside's Army reached the opposite shore. He at once engaged
in an artillery duel, so defending the fort until Lee's Army reached
Fredericksburg, two days later.

Shortly after, his regiment was assigned to Mahone's Brigade, with
which he took part in all the subsequent gallant fighting of the Army
of Northern Virginia, except when absent some two months with severe
wounds received at Spotsylvania Court House. While yet on crutches,
he rejoined the army around Petersburg, and engaged in battles there
when he had to be assisted to mount his horse, his wound preventing
the use of his limb. In a number of battles he commanded the brigade.
He surrendered at Appomattox Court House.

After the war was ended he returned for a short time to his home in
Norfolk, then went to New York City, where he and Gen. Joe Davis
(nephew of President Davis) were together some months. He then for
a time accepted the management of a steamship line running between
Virginia and New York, then was a short time general agent at Norfolk
for the Norfolk & Petersburg R. R., and was then appointed general
agent of the Merchants' & Miners' Transportation Co., a position he
has ably filled ever since.

During reconstruction periods, General Groner was a zealous conservative,

and he was largely instrumental in the election of Hon. Gilbert C.
Walker to the Governorship, and received from him tender of commission
as State adjutant-general, and also the tender of post of private
secretary, both of which he declined. He was once candidate for
Governor of Virginia, and has been several times endorsed by his city
for United States Senator. He was president of both branches of the
Norfolk City Council from the re-organization of the city government,
after the war, to about 1880. During his administration, the bonds of
the city appreciated from 47 to 107, and he was instrumental in saving
the city a large amount of interest, for which, as well as for other acts
in the interest of the city, he was, and still is, held in high esteem.

General Groner gives little attention to politics, being immersed in
business, holding the following positions, at once onerous and honorable:
President of the National Compress Association; President of the
Steamship Line run by this Association between Norfolk and Liverpool;
General Agent of the Merchants' & Miners' Transportation Company,
running steamers to Boston and Providence; General Manager of the
Washington Lines, running daily boats between Washington City and
Norfolk; and actively engaged in many other enterprises. Norfolk as
a shipping port is greatly indebted to him.

HON. ALEXANDER DONNAN.

Alexander Donnan was born in Galloway Shire, Scotland, on May 21,
1818, the son of David and Mary (Stewart) Donnan. The same year
his parents came to America and made their home in Petersburg, Virginia.
Both were born in Galloway Shire, Scotland.

Alexander went to school in Petersburg to Young D. Perkins; to the
Public School then taught by Minton Thrift; then to Jonathan Smith;
then to the University of Virginia, session of 1839-40. He
studied law under David May, brother of Judge John Fitzhugh
May, and in May, 1840, commenced practice, which he has followed
continuously since that date. He is senior member of
the firm of Donnan & Hamilton. During the late war, being
a member of the City Council, he performed local duty at
Petersburg. He was in 1859 elected to represent the city in
the House of Delegates of Virginia, but resigned shortly afterward;
has been a member of the Council for several years; is
now and has been for several years the Vice President of the Petersburg
Savings and Insurance Co., the President of the Matoaco Cotton
Manufactory, and a Director in other local companies in Petersburg.

At Williamsburg, Virginia, December 4, 1850, he married Anna E.,
daughter of Daniel Willson, of Amelia County, Virginia. Their children

are nine: Mary Stewart, Allen Edloe, Alexander, William Willson, Harris
Tinker, Etta Edloe, Lena May, Richard Thomas, and David May, all
living but the first and the two last named. Mary Stewart married
Alexander Hamilton. She died in 1877, leaving a son now living.
Etta Edloe married Judge William Hodges Mann, of Nottaway County.
Allen Edloe married Edith, daughter of Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D.D.,
of Brooklyn, New York.

CAMPBELL COUNTY.

R. H. T. ADAMS,

Son of Isaac and Susan (Duval) Adams, both now deceased, was born
at Lynchburg, on November 6, 1839. He married, on September 10,
1868, Rev. C. C. Bitting officiating, Sue L. Scott, born in Halifax
county, Virginia, daughter of Charles and Sarah (Adams) Scott. The
children of this union are eight, Annie S., R. H. T. jr., Charles S., P. H.,
James D., Sue, Lizzie D., and James Duval.

Mr. Adams entered the Confederate States Army on April 19, 1861,
in a company of Home Guards, which later became Company G, of the
11th Virginia Infantry. With this he took part in first Manassas battle,
and was in constant service about twelve months, or until, in 1862,
he received commission as captain in the Signal Service, and reported
to Gen. A. P. Hill, assigned to duty on his staff. He reported to Gen.
Hill at Cold Harbor, served with him until his death at Petersburg,
and remained with the Third Army Corps till the close of the war,
taking part in every one of its engagements, and surrendering with it
at Appomattox C. H. Captain Adams was in service four years, lacking
nine days, and during that time never lost a day's duty on account
of sickness; weight on entering service 110 pounds, on leaving service
160 pounds. He had three horses shot under him, was himself several
times struck, but never seriously wounded. Two reminiscences of his
service are of much interest, and are as follows: At the capture of
Harper's Ferry he was assigned to a pass on Loudoun Heights, in the
Signal Service, and this being an intermediate station, Gen. Jackson's
order of attack was sent over its line to Maryland Heights. This order
covered nearly one page of legal cap paper, and from the time it was
begun at Jackson's headquarters till it was completed at the Maryland
Heights end of the line only five minutes elapsed. Gen. Jackson
warmly complimented the Signal Service for this efficiency. The distance

to have delivered the order by courier would have been twenty
miles, causing dangerous delay. From Harper's Ferry Capt. Adams
went to Sharpsburg, where with the Third Corps he went into immediate
action, the Corps going in on the Confederate right, which had just
been turned by Burnside, and hurling him back with great loss. Capt.
Adams had one brother in the service.

After the close of the war, the first business in which Capt. Adams engaged
was coal and lumber and coal mining in the Alleghany mountains.
He followed this till 1875, and then entered on his present
business at Lynchburg, leaf tobacco and strips, for export. He has
been a member of the city council for two years, and is at present vice-president
of the Lynchburg Tobacco Association.

BENJAMIN BLACKFORD, M. D.,

Is a grandson of Benjamin Blackford who came to Page county, Virginia,
from Carlisle, Pa., in the opening year (1801) of the present century.
He was born in Luray, Page county, in 1834, the son of Dr.
Thomas T. Blackford. The mother (Caroline Steenbergen) of Dr. Benjamin
Blackford was born at Mt. Airy, Shenandoah county, Virginia,
and is now 88 years of age. Dr. Blackford's wife is Emily, daughter of
Robert and Annie (Ogle) Neilson, her father of Baltimore, her mother
of Bellair, Maryland. She was born in Baltimore, in 1841, and they
were married there by Rev. T. N. Dudley (now bishop of Kentucky) of
Christ (Episcopal) Church, in January, 1871. Their children are six
sons: Thomas Atkinson, Benjamin O., Robert Neilson, Charles M., W.
Arthur and G. Tayloe.

Dr. Blackford entered the military service of Virginia forces April 23,
1861 (transferred to the Confederate States Service in July, 1861), and
left Richmond as surgeon of Col. (afterwards Gen.) Garland's command,
for Manassas Junction. In May, 1861, he was appointed
surgeon of the 11th Virginia Infantry, when Garland's command was
formed into a regiment. In June, 1861, under orders from Gen. Beauregard,
he established the general hospital at Culpeper C. H. In
August, 1861, he was ordered to establish the general hospital at
Front Royal, where he remained surgeon in charge till March, 1862.
When Gen. Johnston's army was falling back from Manassas he was
on duty at Gordonsville, while the army was moving from Manassas to
the peninsula. In May, 1862, he was ordered to increase the hospital
accommodations in South Side Virginia, at Farmville, Danville, Lynchburg
and Liberty, and on reporting at completion of this work, was
ordered to transfer his hospital stores, etc., from Front Royal to Liberty,
establishing general hospital there. Established a large general

hospital at Liberty, and remained in charge of same till close of war.
In the retreat of army from Manassas saved all of his hospital supplies
—furniture, medicines, etc.—by sending them down the valley from
Strasburg to Staunton. His brother, Capt. W. H. Blackford, now
president of the Maryland Life Insurance Co., Baltimore, was in service
through the war in Company G, 11th Virginia Regiment, C. S. A.

Dr. Blackford has devoted many years to the practice of his profession.
He is the present president of the State Medical Society, of Virginia,
and member of Board of Overseers of the Poor of the city of
Lynchburg; also almshouse physician.

CHARLES MINOR BLACKFORD

Was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on October 17, 1833, the son
of William M. Blackford, who later removed to Lynchburg. His
mother was Mary Berkeley Minor, daughter of Gen. John Minor of
Fredericksburg, who married Lucy Landon Carter. For the first two
years of the late war C. M. Blackford was captain of Company B, 2d
Virginia Cavalry, the remaining years he was on staff of Gen. Longstreet,
as judge advocate of his corps. On February 19, 1856, he was
married in Albemarle county, Virginia, to Susan Leigh Colston, who
was born in Richmond, January 9, 1835. She is the daughter of Thos.
Marshall Colston, of Fauquier county, Virginia, and his wife, nee
Eliza Jaqueline Fisher of Richmond. The record of the children of Mr.
and Mrs. Blackford is: Nannie Colston, born April 20, 1857, married
Samuel T. Withers, died February 6, 1884; Charles Minor, born September
20, 1865, now a physician in practice; R. Colston, born June
25, 1870.

Mr. Blackford graduated in law, at the University of Virginia, and is
now in full practice as a member of the law firm of Kirkpatrick &
Blackford at Lynchburg. He is also president of the People's National
Bank of Lynchburg, the largest bank in that City and one of the most
solvent and successful in the State. Mr. Blackford has also for many
years been a director in the Virginia Midland Railway and has been
identified with all railroad development on that line, which is now a
part of the Richmond & Danville Railroad system. He is counsel for
the Midland Division of that system.

JAMES M. BOOKER

Is of a family early seated in Cumberland county, Virginia, where his
grandfather, William Booker, was born and died. He is the son of
Richard A. and Eliza (Davis) Booker, both now deceased, and was born
in Cumberland county on February 3, 1830. He removed to Lynchburg

in 1850, and was three years engaged in the dry goods business,
then went into the tobacco business, in which he still continues. He
was magistrate of Lynchburg eight years, member of the council two
years: trustee of the Miller Female Orphan Asylum since 1878; and is
now vice-president of the First National Bank of Lynchburg.

In Lynchburg, December 14, 1852, Rev. C. R. Vaughn officiating, he
married Mrs. S. M., daughter of Jesse Hare Selden, who died in Lynchburg,
in 1881, aged 57 years. The record of their children is: James
M., jr., married Mazie F., daughter of Hon. Thomas S. Bocock, of
Lynchburg; Claudine, now the wife of Judge Wingfield Griffin, of Salem,
Virginia; Ernestine, now the wife of C. S. Hutter, Esq., of Lynchburg;
Jesse H., died in 1881, at the age of 20 years.

W. N. BROWN

Is the son of James J. and Jane L. (Martin) Brown, both now deceased,
and the grandson of Anderson Brown, born and reared in Albemarle
county. W. N. Brown is also a native of that county. He removed
from Albemarle to Campbell county, settling in Lynchburg on the 1st
of September, 1886, and engaging in the wholesale fancy grocery business,
at 618 Main street. Later he removed to 214-216 Ninth street,
admitting his brother, R. J. Brown, to an interest in the business, which
they still carry on at that place. Mr. Brown has two daughters, Laura
H. and Ethel A.

ANDREW WILKIE BUTLER

Was born in Richmond, Virginia, August 25, 1858. His parents are
still residents of Richmond, John M. and Mahala A. Butler. Both are
Virginians by birth, his mother born in Richmond, the daughter of
William Tyree, who also was born in Virginia. The first wife of Mr.
Butler was Bessie Lee Hart, who died June 23, 1886. They had two
children, a son Basil Gordon, now living with his father in Lynchburg,
and a second son, Wilkie Herbert, born March 1, 1886, died May 31st
following. In Lynchburg, May 18, 1887, Mr. Butler married Anna W.
G. Shumaker, who was born in Pittsylvania county, Virginia. Her
parents were of this State, her father serving in the Confederate States
Army during the late war.

Mr. Butler completed his education by a course of five years in a
Richmond school. In 1872 he was salesman for G. G. Thompson, grocer,
Richmond; 1876, salesman for Geo. Gary, wholesale stationer,
Richmond; 1877, book-keeper for R. B. Lyne, real estate agent, Richmond.
In 1882 he went into business for himself, firm of A. W. Butler
& Co., merchandise brokerage, Richmond. He held the office of notary

public in Richmond four years. He removed to Lynchburg January
1, 1884, and has since been engaged in business at the corner of
Seventh and Main streets, A. W. Butler, Merchandise Broker and Commission
Merchant.

JOHN ROBERT CLARK

Was born in Campbell county, in June, 1849. At Richmond, Virginia,
December 11, 1883, he married Bessie Pendleton Scott, of Richmond,
Rev. Moses D. Hoge uniting them. They have one son, J.
Robin Clark. Mr. and Mrs. Clark are of Virginia families. His father,
Christopher Clark, was born in Campbell county in 1805, the son of
Paulett Clark, who was also born in Campbell county. The mother
of Mr. Clark was Elmira A., daughter of John Williams, both born in
Campbell county. James P. Scott, father of Mrs. Clark, was born in
Amherst county, Virginia. Her mother was Jennie, daughter of Rev.
Kirkpatrick.

John R. Clark was deputy sheriff of Campbell county from 1866 to
1872. He then engaged in the tobacco commission business in Lynchburg,
firm of Clark & Collins, which business has been continued successfully
up to the present date. In 1884 he was made a director in
the First National Bank of Lynchburg, in 1886 was elected a director
on the Lynchburg & Durham Railroad; in 1887 was made president of
the "Virginian Publishing Company," which office he resigned the same
year; was again elected to the office in 1888, but declined to serve. He
was also in 1886 elected a member of the City Council of Lynchburg.

JAMES M. CLELAND

Was born in Glasgow, Scotland, March 16, 1848, the son of James
and Jeanette (Murdock) Cleland. In 1851, James Cleland, the father,
made his home in Richmond, Virginia, engaging in the plumbing business.
In 1854 he removed to Lynchburg, continuing in the same business.
The establishment he founded is now doing the largest business
of any firm in that line in Lynchburg, having its own foundry and
machine shops. Mr. Cleland associated with himself in the business his
two sons, James M. and Ed. A., and since 1883 they have had exclusive
control of the business, under the firm name of James Cleland & Sons.
The father is no longer living; his widow still resides in Lynchburg. In
January, 1872, in Alabama, James M. Cleland married Henrietta Lennon,
who was born in Manchester, England. They have two daughters,
Christena and Nettie, and three sons, Harry, William and
Lennon.

MAJOR ADAM CLEMENT,

Son of Adam and Nancy (Alexander) Clement, was born in Campbell
county, Virginia, in January, 1826. He entered the Confederate States
Army in April, 1861, captain in the 11th Virginia Infantry. In 1862
he was promoted major of the regiment, with which he served until
disabled for field duty. He was first wounded at battle of Seven Pines;
again in battle of Hagerstown, Maryland, where he received a severe
gunshot wound in the head. Relieved then from active service, he was
assigned to duty in the enrolling department, where he served until elected
sheriff. This was in 1863, and he continued to serve as sheriff until the
close of the war. In 1869 he was again elected sheriff, and he has
served in that office continuously ever since, and is the present incumbent.
Major Clement has been twice married, his first wife, whom he
wedded in 1846, Martha L. Cocke, born in Campbell county in October,
1828. He married secondly, May 31, 1888, Miss Annie M. Coke.

WILLIAM J. COLLINS

Was born in Campbell county, Virginia, on July 23, 1834. His
parents were Virginians, his father, George F. Collins, born in Culpeper
county, and his mother, whose maiden name was Eleanor Bishop, also
born in Culpeper county. Both died in Appomattox county, the father
in 1864, at the age of 58 years, and the mother on August 21, 1887,
aged eighty-three years. The wife of Mr. Collins was born in Campbell
county, Nannie P., daughter of Christopher and Elmira A. (Williams)
Clark, both born in Campbell county. Her father died in Lynchburg in
1876, her mother's home is still in Lynchburg. Mr. and Mrs. Collins
were married in Campbell county on November 21, 1866. They have
two children, C. Clark and Lena B.

Mr. Collins was in service in the Confederate States Army through
the late civil war, enlisting in June, 1861, sergeant Company A, 44th
Virginia Infantry. He was taken prisoner at Sailors Creek, April 6,
1865, and held at Point Lookout, Maryland, two months, then released
on parole. Battles: Rich Mountain, Greenbrier River, those around
Richmond, Sailors Creek, and many others. His brother, E. F. Collins,
served in the same company, and has the same war record. In 1872,
William J. Collins went into the tobacco commission business in the
firm of Clark & Collins; afterward the style of firm was Clark, Collins &
Clark; at present the firm is again Clark & Collins. Mr. Collins has
been two years deputy sheriff of Campbell county.

EDWARD A. CRAIGHILL, M. D.

Was born at Charlestown, Jefferson county, (now) West Virginia, on
November 2, 1840. His father was William Nathaniel Craighill, born
January 26, 1808, died September 6, 1887; his mother, Sally E. Brown,
born August 16, 1811, died September 28, 1887; both born in Jefferson
county. Dr. Craighill's ancestors came to Virginia from Scotland and
England, in the 17th and 18th centuries. Robert Rutherford, who
served Virginia in the Continental and later the United States Congress,
was his great grandfather. The wife of Dr. Craighill, is Mattie, daughter
of Joseph V. and Mary E. (Bullock) Hobson, formerly of Powhatan
county, Virginia, now of Richmond. Her father, who is a physician,
was born in Powhatan county November 11, 1811, her mother was
born May 10, 1817. She was born in Powhatan county, April 27,
1855, and became the wife of Dr. Craighill at Richmond, Rev. James
B. Craighill uniting them, on April 14, 1874.

Dr. Craighill entered the Confederate States Army at the outbreak of
the war, in the 2d Virginia Infantry, Jackson's (Stonewall) Brigade.
He was with this regiment in the field until, October 18, 1861, he was
commissioned assistant surgeon. From that time till the close of the war
he devoted his life and service to the care of the wounded and disabled
Southern soldiers, serving at Manassas, Cordonsville, Lynchburg, and
in the field. After some years practice of his profession, he with J. W.
Faulkner established the well-known firm of Faulkner & Craighill,
druggists, and is now sole proprietor. Dr. Craighill is also identified
with many of the public interests of Lynchburg: Director of the First
National bank; director of the Virginian Publishing Company; member
of the executive committee of the Lynchburg Industrial Society;
president of the Virginia Pharmaceutical Society.

ROBERT TEMPLEMAN CRAIGHILL.

Some mention of the ancestry of the subject of this sketch has been made
in that preceding, with the record of his brother, Dr. Craighill. The paternal
line may be more definitely traced, as follows: William Craighill, great,
great grandfather of Robert Templeman, was born in England, came
to Virginia in colonial days, and settled in Westmoreland county.
Nathaniel, his son, was born in Westmoreland county, accompanied the
early settlers beyond the Blue Ridge, and made his home in Jefferson
county, where his son, William Price Craighill, was born. William
Nathaniel, son of William Price, and father of Robert Templeman, was
born in Jefferson county, January 26, 1808, and died at Charlestown,
that county, September 6, 1887. Robert Templeman was born in

Charlestown, April 25, 1843, and was married at Lynchburg, October
11, 1865, Rev. Wm. H. Kinckle officiating. The bride was M. Edley,
daughter of Dr. Joseph V. Hobson, of Richmond, Virginia, and Sarah
Norvell, now deceased. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Craighill are seven
living, one deceased: Carrie T., born September 7, 1866, married now
and living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; William N., born December
23, 1868, died October 10, 1870; Robert Edley, born July 24, 1871;
Edward A., December 29, 1873; Joseph H.; Sarah Norvell; Mattie
Holliday; Samuel Preston; the younger children still at home.

Mr. Craighill studied law in early life, and was for eighteen years a
successful practitioner in Lynchburg. During the war he was a member
of the 12th Virginia Cavalry. At the Yorktown centennial he served,
with rank of colonel, on the staff of the Governor of Virginia. He has
ever declined active participation in political affairs, but is devoted to
every cause that tends to advance the welfare of community and
State. In literature he is known as the author of the "Virginia Peerage."
He is well advanced in "the mystic rite," 32d degree Mason, Knight
Templar, and deputy grand master of the order in the State. He is a
trustee of the Lynchburg Female Orphan Asylum, and of the Virginia
Theological Seminary, and many years a vestryman. In 1885 he became
one of the proprietors of the Lynchburg Fertilizer Co., and wholesale
dealer in leaf tobaccos, the firm now having an enormous business,
extending from New York to Alabama.

JOHN WILLIAM DILLARD, M. D.

Is of a family early seated in Virginia, his ancestry thus traced:
Among the settlers in the Colony of Virginia in the early part of the
eighteenth century were three brothers named Dillard. One of these,
James, served with distinction in the Revolutionary war, with rank of
captain. Colonel William Dillard, son of James, was born in Amherst
county, Virginia, in 1797, and was a number of years a member of the
House of Delegates. In 1823 he married Sarah Christian, who died in
1877, and he died at the age of 83 years. His son, John J. Dillard, was
born in Amherst county on October 4, 1824, and is now a farmer residing
in Lynchburg. The wife of John J. Dillard is also of a collateral
branch of the same family, Elizabeth H., daughter of Col. James S. and
Narcissa Dillard, nee Turner. Mrs. Dillard was born in Bedford county,
December 7, 1824.

Their son, the subject of this sketch, John William, was born in
Amherst county, August 12, 1852. After the usual preliminary education
he entered the medical department of the University of Virginia,
whence he graduated July 1, 1875. In the following year he attended

lectures and clinics in Philadelphia and New York City, and the private
medical school of Prof. Alfred Loomis, of New York. Returning to
Amherst county, he engaged in the practice of medicine eighteen
months; was then, on account of delicate health, two years physician
to the Bedford Alum and Iron Springs, then came to Lynchburg, where
he has now a large practice. Office and residence 801 Church street.
Dr. Dillard is a member of the American Medical Association, and of
the Virginia Medical Society, and a contributor to medical journals,
devoting himself to the practice and the advance of his chosen profession.
In Appomattox county, Virginia, February 5, 1880, Rev. T. M. Carson
officiating, he married Emma, daughter of Dr. Peter and Fannie A.
White, nee Ruffner. She was born in Putnam county, (now) West Virginia,
August 18, 1858. Her father is no longer living. Dr. and Mrs.
Dillard have two children, a son and daughter.

GEN. WYATT M. ELLIOTT

Was born in Campbell county, Virginia, on February 25, 1823, the
son of Thomas Elliott, who was born in Campbell county, and died at
age of 80 years, and Elizabeth (Bondurant) Elliott, died at age of
about 32 years. In Appomattox county, Virginia, September 7, 1847,
he married Marcia P. Moseley, who was born in Campbell county, and
who died on the 22d of August, 1885 She was the daughter of Thomas
and Jane (Bondurant) Moseley, both now deceased. The children of
this union were six, of whom three are living: Horace B., Ella V.
and William Arthur. The deceased children were named: Emma, Wyatt
M. and Ida.

When Gen. Elliott was eight years of age, he removed to Buckingham
county, Virginia, and there pursued his education under the kind
auspices and patronage of his maternal uncle, Thomas M. Bondurant.
At the age of sixteen years, he went to the Virginia Military Institute
at Lexington, where he entered as cadet, at the organization of
the institute, on the 11th of November, 1839, and was captain of the
first company. He graduated in July, 1842, returned to Buckingham
county, and taught school two years, as the State law then
required. During that time he read law under Col. W. P. Bock for six
months. In 1846 he removed to Richmond, and became associated in
the publication of the Richmond Whig, and continued that relation
until 1866. Meantime the subject of this sketch was chosen captain of
the "Richmond Grays," which he commanded from 1847 till the close
of the first year of the late war. While commanding the Richmond
Grays he was ordered with his company to attend as guard at the execution
of John Brown, and was present in that capacity at Harper's

Ferry on this momentous occasion. During the period of the war, he
maintained his nominal relation to the Richmond Whig, but after the
first year of the war resigned his commission as captain of the Grays,
and obtained permission from the Confederate Government to recruit
and organize a battalion of six companies, which he did. He was commissioned
to command the same as lieutenant-colonel, the command
known as the 15th Virginia Battalion of Infantry. He continued
with this command in the field, attached to Gen. Ewell's troops, until
captured at Sailors Creek April 6, 1865. He was carried a prisoner of
war to Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie. On the way to Johnson's
Island he happened to be confined in the Old Capitol Prison at Washington
City on the night that President Lincoln was assassinated, and
narrowly escaped with his fellow prisoners from being mobbed on
account of the excitement then prevailing in the city. He was held at
Johnson's Island until liberated by President Johnson, about July 1,
1865.

General Elliott then returned to Richmond, resumed the publication
of the Whig, and continued the same until December, 1866, when he
removed with his family to Appomattox county. There he pursued the
occupation of a farmer for a period of years. In 1871-2 and 1872-3, he
represented Appomattox county in the House of Delegates, and in 1875
was chosen State Senator, from district composed of counties of Appomattox,
Buckingham and Fluvanna, and continued to represent his
people as Senator for eight consecutive years. In 1884 he was
appointed clerk of the United States circuit and district courts at
Lynchburg, which position he still holds.

JOHN W. FAULKNER.

The paternal grandfather of John W. Faulkner was of English birth,
and came to America, about the time of the revolution, as sailing master
of a British man-of-war. His sympathies being with the struggling
colonists, he espoused their cause, and joined them and was in service
till the close of the war, after which he settled in Maryland. In that
State, at Easton, J. H. Faulkner was born, the father of John W. His
mother's people were Germans, settled in the Shenandoah Valley,
Virginia, in colonial times. He was born at Winchester, Virginia, in
March, 1843, and was married at Lynchburg, in 1866. His wife is
Rosa, daughter of John Quincy Adams, of Lynchburg, and granddaughter
of William L. Saunders, an old-time and influential citizen of
Lynchburg. Mr. and Mrs. Faulkner have six children: William Saunders,
Julia F., John A., Mary E., Rosa and Hamilton.

Mr. Faulkner was one of the captors of John Brown at Harpers Ferry

in 1859, volunteering for the service from Winchester. He was in the
medical department of the Confederate States Army from 1862 till the
close of the war, assigned to Jackson's Army of the Valley, serving
through all its campaigns, stationed at Charlottsville, Lynchburg, Culpeper,
Staunton, Gordonsville, etc. He left Richmond on the morning of
the evacuation, and joined Mosby's command at Upperville, and was
paroled with this command at Millwood, Clark county, Virginia. Since
the war, Mr. Faulkner has been engaged in the drug business.

SENATOR EDWARD J. FOLKES,

Representing 20th district composed of the County of Campbell and
City of Lynchburg, was born in Charles City county, Virginia, July 17,
1820. He was the son of Rev. Edward Folkes, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, who was born in Charles City county, and died in 1834,
aged 47 years. The mother of Senator Folkes, whose maiden name
was Sarah L. Crew, died in Richmond, aged 75 years. At the age of
nineteen years, he came to Lynchburg, and engaged in the furniture
business with Alanson Winston, whose daughter, Sarah A., he married
in October, 1842. In 1857 he assumed the charge of the business, in
which he continued until 1884. During the civil war he served the Confederate
States as acting quartermaster of transportations. Mrs.
Folkes was born in Lynchburg, in September, 1824. Her father, who
was born in Connecticut, and served in the war of 1812, died in Lynchburg,
aged 64 years. Her mother, Frances B. Talbot of Campbell
county, died in Lynchburg, aged 90 years.

The record of the children of Senator and Mrs. Folkes is: Edward
A., served in the 19th Virginia Battalion, Heavy Artillery, C. S. A., from
1862 to the close of the war, died November 18, 1874, aged 30 years;
William C., served in the Confederate States Army, in Beauregard Battery;
lost leg at Malvern Hill; was graduated in law at the Virginia
University; in 1866 removed to Memphis, Tennessee, and in 1886 was
elected judge of the court of appeals of Tennessee; married Mary
Wright, of that State. Alanson Winston, brother of Mrs. Folkes, was
in the Confederate States army, and died in service, of sunstroke Senator
Folkes was elected to his present seat in the Virginia Senate in
November, 1887.

JAMES A. FORD

Mr. Ford is the son of Culvin and Olivia W. Ford, long honored residents
of Campbell county. His father died on July 31, 1887, and his
mother on November 25, 1887. He was born in Campbell county, on
December 27, 1833, and was married in Lynchburg, on November 1, 1870.

His wife is Ella H., daughter of Sylvester and Elizabeth (Woodson)
Pence, her father now deceased, her mother now living in Lynchburg.
Mrs. Ford was born in Halifax county, Virginia, in 1844. Mr. and
Mrs. Ford have two daughters, Rosa T., born in 1880; Dora, born in
1884.

Mr. Ford entered the Confederate States Army in January, 1862, in
Major DeLaniel's Heavy Artillery, stationed at Richmond, with which
he served one year. In 1864 he again entered service, in Company H,
1st Virginia Infantry, Pickett's Division, with which he served until
captured at Five Forks, April, 1865. He was held at Point Lookout
until paroled June 15, 1865. Among his battles are Drury's Bluffs,
Hatcher's Run, and Five Forks. His brother William A. served through
the war. James A. Ford is engaged in the tobacco business, as manufacturer.

MAJOR JOHN H. FLOOD

The subject of this sketch is of English descent, both his paternal
and maternal grandfather coming from England to Virginia at an early
date. He was born in Buckingham county, Virginia, on May 15, 1830.
He was educated for the law, but, on account of defective sight, never
engaged in the practice of same, and has been dealing in tobacco in
Lynchburg since 1860. He was for many years a member of the city
council; for sixteen years president of the board of directors of the
Lynchburg Female Orphan Asylum, and is still serving.

HON. JAMES FRANKLIN

Was born in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, on March 1, 1815, the son
of Edward and Elizabeth (Cook) Franklin. His father died in 1860,
and his mother has been many years dead. He married in Bedford
county, Virginia, October 6, 1840, Rev. Kennedy uniting him in wedlock
with Emma S. Leftwich. She was born in Bedford county, March
30, 1820, the daughter of Rev. William and Sally Leftwich. Benjamin
Franklin, grandfather of James, settled in Prince Edward county, Virginia,
in colonial days.

James Franklin left the parental home when but sixteen years of age,
since when his honorable and busy life has been devoted to commercial
and banking pursuits, and public affairs. He was several years deputy
sheriff of Pittsylvania county. Removed, in 1848, to Lynchburg; was
engaged there in a mercantile business until the beginning of the war.
During the period of the war traded in general produce. At its close
opened the first bank in Lynchburg, firm of Miller & Franklin, which
firm carried on a profitable banking business for seventeen years. Mr.

Miller dying then, Mr. Franklin closed out the business, and entered
into the National Exchange Bank, of which he was elected president,
which position he filled to the best interests of the bank until he retired
to private life which he did against the protest of the officers and depositors
of the bank. He is a very large landowner, both of Lynchburg
property, and farm lands of Campbell county, and a citizen held in
warmest esteem by all. He has been a member of the city council, many
years trustee of the public schools, in 1873-4 represented Campbell
county in the House of Delegates.

JOHN WALLINGFORD GOODWIN

Was born in South Berwick, Maine, on April 17, 1825. In Mobile, Alabama,
in 1863, the Rector of Christ Church officiating, he married
Georgia Smith, of Mobile. Their children are three daughters, Virginia,
Georgia, and Ella Elizabeth, and one son: Sidney Wallingford. Mr.
Goodwin entered the Confederate States Army as first sergeant of the
Mobile Rifles, which became Company K, 3d Alabama regiment. With
this he was in active service, under Gens. Jones M. Withers, Braxton
Bragg, and Joseph E. Johnston, until transferred to the Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad, under Col. R. L. Owen. From that time to the
close of the war he served the Confederate States government as superintendent
of this road. He remained with the same road under General
Mahone, until 1871, was then in Texas on railroad work until 1883,
then in Tennessee on the F., T. & Va. R. R., until in 1887 he returned
to Virginia, on the N. & W. R. R. He is now serving as chief civil
engineer on the Lynchburg & Durham R. R.

MAX GUGGENHEIMER

The subject of this sketch was born in Bavaria, Germany, on May 19,
1842, the son of Sigmund and Clara Guggenheimer. His father died in
1844, aged 36 years. On June 13, 1888, his mother completed the 73d
year of her life. The Virginia branch of the Guggenheimer family settled
in this State in 1838. Max Guggenheimer landed in New York
City in August, 1856. He came at once to Lynchburg, arriving August
20th. His purpose in coming to America was to study thoroughly
here the English language, and his intention then was to return to
Germany in a year or two. He at once entered Mr. Reed's private
school, which he attended about eighteen months, keeping books for his
brother-in-law during this time, evenings. Leaving school then he
became clerk and bookkeeper for his brother-in-law, who was carrying
on a dry goods business in Lynchburg, and so continued until the war
began.

He then, at age of nineteen years, went into service in the Lynchburg
Home Guards, April 23, 1861, and was with this company until
discharged in the fall of 1862, on account of disability. He went to
Chattanooga, whence he returned in 1863, since which time he has remained
in Lynchburg. Immediately after the close of the war, he
entered into partnership with his brother-in-law, Nathaniel Guggenheimer,
in a dry goods business established by the latter in 1842. The
brother-in-law being unfitted by sickness to transact business, Max became
its head, and Nathaniel dying on January 16, 1866, Max has
also been the head of the family since that date, the family consisting
of the widow of Nathaniel and her five children.

The business of which he is the head has been one of vast proportions
and constant increase since that date. The largest amount of sales of
the old firm was $40,000 in 1860; to-day it is known as the largest
wholesale house in the State. When the retail trade had reached a
business of $200,000 it was given up that the attention of the firm
might be given entirely to its growing wholesale trade, Mr. Guggenheimer
understanding, as far back as 1868, that Lynchburg was geographically
located to do a good and healthy distributing trade. In
1870 wholesale boots and shoes was added to the dry goods department.
In 1876, on account of the great extent of the dry goods
business, Mr. Guggenheimer retired from the shoe business, and with
special capital, started, in conjunction with two gentlemen from Baltimore,
the first exclusive wholesale shoe house in the city. He retired
from this firm in July, 1887, and in June, 1888, opened the second exclusive
wholesale shoe house. He had a younger brother who was a
short time in service during the late war, in a Lynchburg battery, and
Maurice Guggenheimer, his cousin, served through the war in the 2d
Virginia Artillery, dying in March, 1885. The wife of Mr. Guggenheimer,
Bertha V., daughter of M. Rosenbaum, was born in Richmond, Virginia,
in December, 1857. They were married by a Jewish Rabbi of
Baltimore, and have one daughter, Cecile Isabelle, born October 23,
1877. The father of Mrs. Guggenheimer was born in Wurtburg,
Bavaria, Germany, her mother in Richmond, Virginia. Mr. Guggenheimer
was a member of the city council in 1879 and 1880, chairman
of its finance committee; resigned in February, 1881. He has been
president of the opera company; president of the Jewish Congregation;
director of the Lynchburg National Bank.

JAMES MADISON IRWIN.

James Carson Irwin, born in Campbell county, Virginia, October
17, 1820, in 1840 married Sarah E. Hoffman, who was born in Campbell
county, in 1822. He died on March 24, 1888, leaving a widow

and eight children, five boys and three girls. The subject of this
sketch, one of these sons, was born in Lynchburg, on October 17,
1844. In Nelson county, Virginia, September 14, 1887, Rev. B. M.
Wailes officiating, he married Ida Clay Ewers. Fannie Carson Irwin,
their daughter, was born on August 1, 1888. Mrs. Irwin was born in
Nelson county, January 2, 1855, the daughter of John Stanford
Ewers and Fannie E. Fortune, his wife, to whom he was married in
Nelson county in 1845, by Rev. B. M. Wailes, Presbyterian clergyman.
Mr. Irwin is chief of police of the city of Lynchburg, which
position he has held for the last six years. During the war he was in
service in Morgan's Cavalry of Kentucky.

F. D. JOHNSON,

Head of the "Southern Jewelry House," has been a resident of Lynchburg
since 1881. He founded his business in Culpeper, Virginia, in
1854, and continued in business there until his removal, in 1881, to
Lynchburg. In 1882 he admitted to partnership his son, J. B. Johnson.
A long record of more than thirty years strictly honorable
business dealings, combined with unsurpassed excellence in goods
manufactured and dealt in, has given the present firm a reputation
and a business that is no unimportant factor in the reputation of
Lynchburg as a commercial center of the South. The wholesale,
retail and manufacturing departments of the house are filled with
orders representing every State of the South as well as Virginia;
and as far as Massachusetts on the north, Colorado and
Mexico to the west and southwest, the well tested goods of this firm
command a market, which competitors in other localities are not able
to draw away from Lynchburg. The firm supplies all the colleges of
the South with medals, badges, etc., and makes a specialty of engraving
monograms, and other designs, catalogues of which are furnished
on application. Other specialties of the firm are diamonds, watches,
clocks, silver and plated ware, spectacles and eye-glasses, gold and
silver-headed canes and umbrellas. All designs are manufactured
under careful supervision on the premises and warranted to be as
represented. The "F. D. Johnson Watch" has a well deserved reputation
as one of the best time-keepers in the country. Headquarters
of firm: 802 Main street, Lynchburg.

GEORGE M. JONES.

The subject of this sketch is of English descent, his ancestors settling
in Page county, Virginia, in colonial days. His father was Wharton
Jones, son of George and Margaret Jones, and his mother was Nancy,

daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Wood. He was born in Page county
May 24, 1824. In 1844 he removed to Bedford county, where he was
for several years engaged in a mercantile business at Pecksville and at
Liberty. On September 14, 1848, Rev. John W. Howard officiating, he
married Miss Mary F. Watts, who was born in Bedford county, December
30, 1830. In 1854 he removed to Salisbury, North Carolina,
and engaged there in the hardware business with good success until the
war. Returning to Bedford county early in 1861, he lived on his
estate there during the war, serving some time in the Confederate
States Army. In the fall of 1865 he removed to Lynchburg, which has
since been his home. He engaged in the hardware business, which he
carried on with good success until he retired from business in August,
1887. He is now president of the National Exchange Bank, and of
the Lynchburg Cotton Mills now (1888) about to be erected.

ROBERT GARLICK HILL KEAN.

The paternal ancestry of Mr. Kean is thus traced. About 1790,
David Kean, of County Armagh, Ireland, came to Virginia, and settled
in Monroe county. With him came his son, Andrew Kean, who became
a physician of Louisa county, and whose son, John Vaughn Kean, married
Caroline M. Hill. They were the parents of the subject of this sketch,
who was born in Caroline county, Virginia, October 7, 1828. His first
wife was Jane Nicholas, daughter of Col. T. Jefferson Randolph, of
Edge Hill, Albemarle county, Virginia, born November 3, 1831, died
August 28, 1868. The children of this marriage were: Lancelot Minor,
born January 11, 1856, now practicing law at Sioux City, Iowa; Pattie
Cary, born April 11, 1858, now the wife of J. S. Morris, of Campbell
county, Jefferson Randolph, born June 28, 1860, now surgeon, U. S. A.,
and Robert G. H. At the residence of Col. Nicholas Long, near Weldon,
North Carolina, Rev. Mr. Norwood officiating, Mr. Kean married, on
January 14, 1874, Adelaide Navarro de M. Prescott. She was born in St.
Landry parish, Louisiana, November 5, 1844, the daughter of William
Marshall Prescott, who was born in South Carolina, and who married
Evelina, daughter of Judge Moore, of Louisiana. The children of Mr.
Kean's second marriage are four, born. Evelina Moore, June 28, 1875;
William Marshall Prescott, July 6, 1876, Caroline H., September 1,
1877, Otho Vaughn, April 5, 1881.

Mr. Kean entered the Confederate States Army as a private of Company
G, 11th Virginia regiment, on April 23, 1861. In February, 1862,
he was commissioned captain, and appointed A. A. G. assigned to Gen.
G. W. Randolph's brigade. On April 1, 1862, he was ordered to Richmond,
and commissioned by President Davis as chief of the Bureau of

War, which position he filled until the close of the war. He was graduated
in law from the University of Virginia in 1853, and holds the
degrees of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Law from that University.
From the time of his graduation to the present he has been in practice,
in Lynchburg, except for the years given to military duty.

WILLIAM KING, JR.

Member of the Lynchburg firm of Leftwich, King & Co., leaf tobacco
dealers, was born in Lynchburg, on November 11, 1861. The lineage
of Mr. King's family is thus traced: He is the son of William King
and his wife Annie L. King, who was a daughter of Augustine
and Elizabeth (Clark) Leftwich, and the grandson of William and
Sarah Beekem King, both now deceased. James King, great-grandfather
of William, jr., came from Ireland, and settled at an early date
in Washington county, Virginia. In the late war the father of Mr.
King was in service, as were six of his uncles, viz.: L. Clark Leftwich;
Alex. T. Leftwich; Aug. Leftwich, jr., killed; James King, killed; Cum.
King, killed; and A. Hamilton Leftwich. William King, sr., entered
service in April, 1861, lieutenant of Latham's battery. He was promoted
captain of artillery, and so served till the close of the war. He
then engaged for three years in a commission business; later was
fifteen years teller in the People's National Bank of Lynchburg, and
in 1884 engaged in the leaf tobacco business. He died on the 20th of
May, 1885. His widow survives him, living in Lynchburg. William
King, jr., received a classical education, and began his business life in
January, 1880, as manufacturer of tobacco. After following this for
three years he engaged in his present business.

JOHN H. KINNIER

Was born in Lynchburg, on February 17, 1840, and was married on
June 4, 1872, Rev. R. McIlvain, D. D., officiating clergyman. He is the
son of James and Jane Kinnier, and his wife is Josephine, daughter of
Isham and Ann Percy, of Roanoke county, Virginia. Their children
are two daughters, Mary Elizabeth and Josephine Percy, and they have
buried one son, John Percy. Mr. Kinnier entered the Confederate States
Army in the Spring of 1862, in battery commanded by Capt. Thos. J.
Kirkpatrick. He was engaged in all its movements until shot through
the body at Cold Harbor, June 4, 1864, the wound so severe as to incapacitate
him from further service. In 1865 he established the business
in which he is still engaged, dealer in coal, wood, ice and baled forage
at 1200-1220 Jefferson street, Lynchburg.

RICHARD T. LACY

Was born in Lynchburg, September 23, 1842, the son of Moses and
Ann Lynch (Tyree) Lacy, still of Lynchburg. Moses Lacy was born
in Halifax county, Virginia, February 10, 1808. His wife was born in
Lynchburg, May 9, 1816, her father coming from New Kent county,
Virginia, where he was born. Mr. Lacy married Alberta Ferguson, who
died on the 8th of December, 1878, leaving him five children, Alean C.,
Robert W., Pattie, R. Albert, H. Otey. On December 13, 1880, Virginia
Lee Morriss, of Lynchburg, became his wife, and they have one
daughter, Mary G. In December, 1860, Mr. Lacy was enrolled for
military service in the State of Alabama. He formally entered the
Confederate States Army in May, 1861, in Company A, 1st Alabama
Cavalry, and participated in all the engagements of his regiment from
Shiloh to Chickamauga battle, the regiment assigned to the Army of
the Tennessee; in 1862 was detailed on staff of Gen. Jos. Wheeler. He
was captured in Chickamauga battle, and held a prisoner at Johnson's
Island, Ohio, until after the close of the war; released June 30, 1865.
He had two brothers in service: R. W. Lacy, who served through the
war in the 2d Virginia Cavalry, died in Texas in 1878; and M. P. Lacy,
served in Mosby's command, died in Lynchburg in August, 1880. Mr.
Lacy has been city collector of Lynchburg since July 1, 1887.

DANIEL LANGHORNE, M. D.

Was born in Cumberland county, Virginia, July 25, 1825, the son of
Maurice and Elizabeth (Allen) Langhorne, both now deceased, who made
their home in Lynchburg when Daniel was two years old. The Langhorne
family is of English origin, and Dr. Langhorne is a lineal descendant
of William Langhorne, first earl of Greensboro. In Montgomery
county, Virginia, February 15, 1853, Rev. J. D. Mitchell officiating, he
married Virginia P. Kent. The bride was born in Montgomery county,
August 13, 1833, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Buford) Kent, now
deceased. One son was born to Dr. and Mrs. Langhorne, December 22,
1853, Maurice Kent, and who died on the 10th of April, 1864.

Dr. Langhorne entered the Confederate States Army in April, 1861,
rank of lieutenant-colonel. He served as post commander and mustering
officer at Lynchburg until July, 1861, then took the field assigned
to the 42d Virginia Infantry. With that regiment he served in the Valley
Mt. and Sewell Mt. campaign under Gen. R. E. Lee; was in the Bath
and Romney expedition, and in the Shenandoah valley campaign under
Gen. Jackson. In May, 1862, having been superseded in his command he
returned to Lynchburg where he performed local military duty till the

close of the war. He was graduated in medicine at the Philadelphia
(Pa.) University in 1848, and after two years practice in Philadelphia,
settled in practice in Lynchburg. He has held position as resident physician
at Warm Springs, Virginia, Healing Springs, Virginia, Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. (See Col. Maurice Langhorne's
record.)

COL. MAURICE'S LANGHORNE

Was born in Cumberland county, Virginia, on March 27, 1823. He is
the son of Col. Maurice Langhorne, who was born in Warwick county,
Virginia, served in the war of 1812 as lieutenant of the "Cumberland
Troop Cavalry," and died in February, 1865, at the age of 78 years.
The mother of Col. Maurice S. was Elizabeth Allen, born in Prince
Edward county, Virginia, died in 1840, at about the age of 50 years
Colonel Langhorne entered the Confederate States Army, April 23,
1861, Company A, 11th Virginia regiment, rank of captain. He was
the first to tender to the Confederate Government the service of an
armed company of Virginia troops. On the 17th day of April, 1861,
this company was detailed by Gen. Longstreet, with nine others (making
regimental strength) to hold Munson's Hill, which had been captured
from the Federals the day before, and Captain Langhorne was appointed
by General Longstreet to command of the detail, which, as he then
ranked only as captain, occasioned some surprise. The event justified
the appointment, the detail under Captain Langhorne, with two guns
under Captain Rosser (afterwards Gen. Rosser), repelling three charges
in which the enemy made desperate effort to recapture the ground, and
holding it until the battle was over. About this time Captain Langhorne
was promoted lieutenant-major of his regiment, after
battle of Seven Pines received commission as lieutenant-colonel and
afterwards colonel of same, but received in that battle a severe gunshot
wound in left leg which incapacitated him for field service. He was
assigned in the same year (1863) to Lynchburg as post commander,
but retired in the latter part of the same year. Then took charge of
and organized for the reserves under General Kemper. Later was put
in command of a brigade of reserves and convalescents, and sent with
them to confront Stoneman and check his advance at the time Stoneman
made the raid into Virginia and burned the salt works. In February,
1865, Colonel Langhorne was detailed to the secret service, a
service made up of three colonels whose duties were to consider plans
of action against the enemy. He was so serving at the close of the
war. Since that time he has been engaged principally in handling
tobacco in many forms. His brother William was in service one year
of the war, first sergeant in the 2d Virginia Cavalry. Daniel A. Langhorne,

another brother, now a practicing physician, was one year in
service, lieutenant-colonel of the 42d Virginia regiment.

JUDGE CHARLES P. LATHAM

Was born in Washington, D. C., August 19, 1844, the son of Woodville
and Sarah M. (Bowen) Latham. His father, born in Culpeper
county, Virginia, died at Lynchburg in 1881. His mother, the daughter
of Dr. P. B. Bowen of Culpeper county, resides in Lynchburg. Charles
P. left Washington with his father's family in 1861, moving to Culpeper
county, Virginia. He entered the Confederate States Army at the age
of eighteen years, in 1863, joining Company H, 4th Virginia Cavalry.
He was wounded at Raccoon Ford, when Meade fell back to Bristoe
Station. In December, 1863, he was captured, and remained a prisoner
at Point Lookout seven months. He was exchanged by special request
of Judge Ould, the Confederate Commissioner, rejoined his command,
and served till close of war. He had two brothers in service, one a
private in company with himself. The other entered the army as captain
of artillery, but was detailed for service in the ordnance department,
was subsequently sent to Lynchburg to establish powder mills,
but the evacuation of Richmond occurring, the work was abandoned.

After the close of the war, Judge Latham taught school a year or two,
was also agent for the Adams express company. He then moved to
Danville to accept position as clerk of the United States courts there,
so serving from 1870 to 1878. He has been engaged in the practice of
law, and is now judge of corporation court for Lynchburg, appointed
by the legislature in 1882, for term beginning on January 1, 1883. The
first wife of Judge Latham was Kate R. Miller, and they had one daughter,
Kate M., now living with her aunt, in Washington, D. C. He married
secondly Mary E., daughter of F. W. and Harriet Edwards, of
Floyd county, Virginia. They were married in Floyd county, February
21, 1883, and have one daughter, Ella O. A second daughter, Mary E.,
is deceased.

JAMES I. LEE

Mr. Lee was born in Tennessee on November 16, 1836, but has been a
resident of Virginia since childhood. He entered the Confederate States
Army in May, 1861, in Company F, 2d Virginia Cavalry, and from the
ranks was promoted corporal, then sergeant, then lieutenant. He
served till the close of the war, participating in more than forty engagements,
among them the battles of first and second Manassas, Sharpsburg,
Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor (where he had a horse
shot under him), Raccoon Ford, Brandy Station, Spotsylvania C. H.,

Five Forks. In 1870, he married Nannie B. Anthony, of Lynchburg,
descended from a family early settled in Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Lee
have two daughters: Alice A. and Mary G., and two sons: James I.,
jr., and Garnett O. Mr. Lee carries on an extensive wholesale grocery
business in Lynchburg.

CAPT. LEONARD F. LUCADO

Was born in Buckingham county, Virginia, on the 28th of August,
1832. The Lucado family has been settled in Virginia for three generations,
and the father of Leonard F., Edwin Lucado, was a soldier of
the war of 1812, a member of a Virginia regiment. The mother of
Capt. Lucado was Lucy Fredwell. His parents are now deceased.
December 23, 1860, Rev. G. W. Langhorne officiating, he married Belle
V. Pettigrew, who was born in Botetourt county, Virginia, on March
14, 1846. The children of Capt. Lucado are two sons, Garland F. and
Albert W., the former now taking the military course at the Virginia
Military Institute, Lexington. Capt. Lucado entered the Confederate
States Army on April 24, 1861, in Company G, 11th Virginia Infantry.
He was commissioned captain of commissary department in the field,
August 8, 1861, and a little later assigned to Gen. Longstreet's brigade
head-quarters as regimental commissary. While so assigned he was at
the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Fraziers Farm (where he was
wounded), second Manassas, Boonsboro, Sharpsburg, Antietam,
Gettysburg, Drainsville, Cold Harbor. After June 12, 1864, he was
with Gen. Early, and at all the battles in which his troops engaged
until after Cedar Creek battle, among them Hanover Junction, where
Capt. Lucado was again wounded. He surrendered at Appomattox
C. H., having been in constant service through the war, and one of the
original Home Guards. His brother William F. served in the 2d Virginia
Cavalry, from 1863 to the close of the war. Capt. Lucado is
engaged in the wholesale grocery business, which he has followed for a
number of years. He has been two years a member of the Lynchburg
city council.

TAZEWELL M. McCORKLE.

On the paternal side Mr. McCorkle is of Scotch descent, his father's
father coming to Virginia in colonial days from Scotland. His mother's
grandfather, Jno. O'Donald, settled in Virginia with his family at
Cartersville about 1787; he was present at the execution of the traitor
Arnold. Samuel McCorkle, father of Tazewell M., was many years an
honored resident of Lynchburg, where he was engaged in business for
over forty years, the firms of McCorkle and McDaniel controlling the
business of this section many years. He was president of the Merchants'

Bank of Lynchburg, and was for a long time a member of the
Board of the James River and Kanawha Canal Company. He died in
August, 1866. His wife, mother of Tazewell M., was Sarah B. Perry.
She is still living in Lynchburg, now 80 years of age. To this honored
couple it was given to furnish five sons for the service of Virginia in
the War between the States. Alexander R., Samuel M., Calvin, William
O., and Tazewell M. The latter entered the service at Hampden-Sidney
College, in May, 1861, rank of third lieutenant. He was taken
prisoner at Rich Mountain battle, July, 1861, and paroled three days
later, at Beverly. He was not exchanged until eighteen months
later, when he again took the field, serving in the First Rockbridge
Artillery until the close of the war. The Wilderness, Cold Harbor,
Spotsylvania C. H. and Tillman's Farm were among the heaviest of
the battles in which he took part.

Mr. McCorkle was educated for the ministry, graduating from the
Union Theological Seminary of Prince Edward county, Virginia.
After preaching for eighteen months he withdrew from the ministry on
account of failing health. Later he engaged in mercantile pursuits,
and he is now the senior member of the firm of T. M. McCorkle & Co.,
wholesale and retail groceries. On November 13, 1861, at Farmville,
Virginia, Rev. Nelson Head, of the M. E. Church (South) officiating, he
married Susanna M. Dunnington, who was born in Farmville, on
November 30, 1842.

CHARLES M. MAYS

Was born in Lexington, Virginia, on the 18th of October, 1852. He
is the son of John O. and E. S. Mays, his father now deceased, his mother
living in Lynchburg, and the grandson of C. M. Mays, also a Virginian.
His wife is Ella M., daughter of L. E. and S. A. Coffey, honored residents
of Lynchburg. She was born in Lynchburg, in 1865, and they were
married there in 1886. They have two children, W. E. and Holly V.
For nineteen years Mr. Mays has been in the employ of the N. & W.
R. R. and he is now the foreman of their shops at Lynchburg.

R. L. MILLER.

Mr. Miller was educated at Washington College, Lexington, Virginia.
He is in business as one of the firm of Miller & Hawkins, this being one
of the largest tobacco firms in Lynchburg, with an immense foreign
business. In December, 1887, their shipments amounted to over
$50,000. Mr. Miller has been appointed one of the commissioners to
represent Virginia in the coming World's Exhibition held in Australia,
an appointment in every way fitting, and one that will creditably sustain

the dignity of Virginia and of the Nation. Speaking of this appointment,
the Lynchburg Advance says: "He is a gentleman of keen observation,
and practical foresight, and we do not believe a more fitting
representative to Australia could have been chosen." James Miller,
brother of R. L., entered the Confederate States Army in Company H,
1st Virginia regiment, and served until killed in battle of Hatcher's
Run. James V. Knight, maternal grandfather of Mr. Miller, came
from Ireland to Virginia in 1812.

EDWIN S. MOORMAN

Was born in Campbell county, on September 4, 1840, the son of T. B.
and Fannie E. Moorman. He entered the Virginia Military Institute in
1863, and took the field with the Cadets in 1864, and in battle of New
Market received a grapeshot wound in left arm, sealing in his blood his
love of the South, before he was nineteen years of age. He left the
institute when the Cadets were disbanded at Richmond, at the close of
the war. In May, 1868, Rev. Jos. Spriggs officiating, he married
Lucinda Moorman, born in Campbell county. They have three children:
Carleton G., Bolen C., and Fannie G., and have lost one son, Edward S.
Mr. Moorman was United States revenue collector two years; justice of
the peace six years, and in May, 1887, was elected treasurer of Campbell
county, in which office he is still serving.

MAJOR MARCELLUS N. MOORMAN.

The subject of this sketch was born and wedded in Campbell county,
which has always been his home. March 13, 1835, is the date of his
birth, and on January 20, 1863, Rev. S. T. Moorman united him in
marriage with Ellen, daughter of John C. and Catharine (Leftridge)
Moorman. The record of their children is: Marcellus N., jr., born
November 1, 1864; Etta H., born March 24, 1866, died October 26,
1867; J. Pelham, born June 11, 1868; Annie C., born February 19,
1875, died May 9, 1876; L. Leftwich, born April 21, 1873. In April,
1861, Mr. Moorman entered the Confederate States Army, in the Beauregard
Rifles, but in a short time was commissioned captain of Moorman's
battery of six guns. After a year's service he was transferred to
the Stuart Horse Artillery. In 1863 he was promoted major of artillery.
Except when disabled by wounds he was in constant service in
the field till the close of the war, participating in over sixty engagements,
among which were the battles of Malvern Hill, Gettysburg,
Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. He was wounded in the right
foot, and again (at Spotsylvania C. H.) in the right shoulder. Paroled
at Appomattox C. H. In battle of Chancellorsville, Major Moorman

was riding beside General Jackson, (who was his teacher in former
years) when that loved leader received the fatal shot, and as the General
fell Major Moorman took charge of "Old Sorrel," which later he
turned over to Gen. Stuart. The last words of General Jackson were
addressed to Major Moorman. E. H. Moorman, brother of Marcellus
N., was in the artillery service, C. S. A., through the war. Major Moorman
is engaged in the tobacco commission business.

GEN. THOMAS T. MUNFORD

Was born in the city of Richmond, Virginia, in 1831, the son of Col.
George Wythe Munford, who for twenty-five years was Secretary of the
Commonwealth of Virginia. In November, 1853, he married Elizabeth
Henrietta, daughter of Col. George P. Tayloe of Roanoke county, Virginia.
She died in December, 1863. In 1866 he married Emma Tayloe,
who was born at her father's seat, Mount Airy, Richmond county, Virginia.
This marriage was solemnized in Washington City, by Rev.
Charles Mumegerode. Thomas T. Munford entered the Virginia Military
Institute in July, 1849, and was graduated thence in July, 1859. For
a time he was clerk for Ing. G. Mason, president of the I. R. & K.
Railroad company. He then settled down as farmer and planter, and
was so engaged until the war broke out. At the close of the war he
resumed the same occupations, which he still follows.

He entered the Confederate States Army with commission of lieutenant-colonel
in the 30th Virginia Mounted Infantry. At the reorganization
of the regiment into the 2d Virginia Cavalry he was commissioned
its colonel. Later he was promoted brigadier general, rank to date
from Wickham's resignation. In second Manassas battle he received
two slight sabre cut wounds; was wounded by spent ball at Turkey
Ridge. Served through the war, and was in command of Fitz Lee's
division at Appomattox. At the head of his command cut through the
enemy's lines, and his forces disbanded at Lynchburg, April 9, 1865,
where the regiment with which he entered service first formed to go the
front. General Munford has served two terms as president of the Board
of Visitors of the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington.

JUDGE A. W. NOWLIN.

Although many years an honored resident of Virginia, Judge Nowlin
was born in the State of Missouri (in 1841), and has lived for a time in
Texas. He is of English descent, his grandfather coming to America
before the Revolutionary war, in which he was a soldier of the Continental
army, and also serving in the war of 1812, with rank of major.

Judge Nowlin entered the Confederate States Army on April 23, 1861, in
Company G, (Old Home Guard of Lynchburg), 11th Virginia Infantry.
He was with his regiment in the fights of July 18 and 21, 1861, and in
the battle of Williamsburg, May 5, 1862, where he was badly wounded
and captured. He was taken a prisoner to Washington, D. C., and
confined in the "Old Capitol Building," about six months. Was
exchanged among the first prisoners, but never again able for field duty
on account of wound. He was on local military duty from that time to
the close of the war, and took part in the defense of Lynchburg when
it was attacked by Hunter. In 1867 he graduated in law, and began
practice. In 1872 removed to Texas, where he remained twelve years.
He was appointed district judge of the Denton district, Texas, by Gov.
Roberts of Texas; served a number of years and resigned; served two
years as city attorney of Dallas; returned to Virginia in 1883, and is
now attorney for the Lynchburg & Durham Railroad. In Campbell
county he married Lutu M. Nowlin, of Virginia, Rev. Jos. Spriggs
uniting them, and they have three children: Percy V., Elmo P., and
Viva M.

COL. KIRKWOOD OTEY

Was born in Lynchburg, October 19, 1829; was graduated at the Virginia
Military Institute in July, 1849; enlisted in the same year in the
Virginia Volunteer Militia, serving until April 23, 1861, when he was
mustered into service at Richmond as First Lieutenant of Company G,
11th regiment, C. S. A. He served through the war, rising to the
command of the regiment, and was twice severely wounded: first, in
the last day's fighting at Gettysburg, in the famous charge of Pickett's
Division; again at Drurys Bluff, May 16, 1864, the latter wound permanently
disabling him from active service in the field. After the close
of the war he assisted in the reorganization of the Lynchburg Home
Guards, the company with which he entered service in the war becoming
Company E, 3d Virginia Regiment. With this he has ever since been
connected, and is now captain, constituting altogether, except two
brief intervals, an almost uninterrupted military service of forty-three
years. He is present commander of Camp Samuel Garland, Confederate
Veterans, of Lynchburg. Col. Otey is serving as auditor of the city
of Lynchburg at the present time. He married, February 19, 1862, Lucy
Dabney Norvell, daughter of Fayette H. and Mary C. (Roane) Norvell,
born at Trenton, Tennessee, January 14, 1845. They have three children
living: John M., born February 5, 1866; Norvell, born November
17, 1872; Kirkwood, jr., born March 3, 1884. Their first-born was a
daughter, Mina Gaston, born February 23, 1863, died August 12, 1879.

The paternal grandfather of Col. Otey was Major Isaac Otey, of

Bedford county, Virginia, who ably represented that tier of counties of
which Bedford is one, in the Senate of Virginia for thirty years. The
family of Col. Otey was of essentially military stock, adding well-earned
laurels for the name in the late war. Of seven brothers and the only
brother-in-law in the family, all entered the Confederate States Army at
its first call for troops, and served through the war, or were killed or
died in the service. An extract from a Lynchburg paper published in
the Spring of 1861, the article entitled "A Military Family," shows this
and is worthy of perpetuation here. It reads:

The family of the late Capt. John M. Otey of Lynchburg are all in
active service, as follows: Dexter Otey, first lieutenant of a cavalry
company, Lynchburg; Van. R. Otey, member of the same company;
John Stewart Walker (son-in-law), captain of the Virginia Life
Guards, at Yorktown; Kirk Otey, captain of a Lynchburg company at
Manassas Junction; Hays Otey, first lieutenant in provisional army at
Norfolk; Gaston Otey, first lieutenant in provisional army at Yorktown;
John M. Otey, second lieutenant in provisional army under Col.
Cocke at Manassas; Peter J. Otey, second lieutenant provisional army
at Sewells Point, fired the first gun in response to the salutations of
Lincoln's vessels. All of these gentlemen, we believe, have the advantage
of a military education, one served in Mexico, and four were at
Harpers Ferry and Charlestown. We may mention the fact that twenty
years ago, Captain John M. Otey, father of the seven above named,
and father-in-law of the other, at a time of profound peace, and when
there was an absence of all military spirit, expressed the opinion
that the boy who made himself the best soldier would be likely to find
the most ready and useful employment before he had passed the maturity
of manhood. He confirmed it by graduating five of them at the
Virginia Military Institute, and tho' deprived by death of the pleasure
and gratification 'twould have given him, his widow lived to see every
one of them in the active military service of her beloved Southern
country, not even detailing one of them to remain at home as her
"Safe-Guard."

The further service in the field of Col. Kirkwood Otey has just been
given; that of Major Peter J. Otey is in the sketch following this. Of the
others the record is: Dexter, lieutenant in the Wise troop, died in 1863;
Van. R., lieutenant Company B, 2d Virginia Cavalry, rendered unfit
for field service by sickness contracted in army, made provost marshal
at Lynchburg, and died in 1864; Gaston, captain of the Otey
Battery, wounded and died in Lynchburg in 1863; W. H. (Hays), adjutant
of the 56th Virginia regiment, subsequently captain of ordnance;
Col. John M., on staff duty, assigned to Gen. Beauregard's staff at
Manassas in 1861, served with him until after battle of Shiloh, subsequently

with Gens. Bragg and Joseph E. Johnston in their western
campaigns, returned to Gen. Beauregard at Charleston, and surrendered
at Greensboro, N. C., in 1865, and paroled by Gen. Sherman. Major John
Stewart Walker (Col. Otey's brother-in-law) raised and chiefly out of
his private means armed and equipped, the Virginia Life Guards of
Richmond, was promoted major of the 15th Virginia Infantry, and
was in command of his regiment when killed in battle of Malvern Hill.
The devoted mother of this family, Mrs. Lucy W. Otey, rendered service
not less to be commemorated. She established, organized, and managed
the Ladies' Confederate Hospital at Lynchburg (which was independent
of the Confederate States Medical Department there), reporting
direct to the Surgeon General's office, Richmond, Virginia. It was well
known throughout the Confederacy through those who had been
inmates thereof, and was in great measure maintained by those officers
and soldiers who had experienced the kind attention, care and nursing
of the officers and ladies of the hospital.

John M. Otey, father of Col. Kirkwood Otey, was born Dec. 2,
1792, in Bedford County, Virginia, and died in Lynchburg, Feb. 3,
1859. He removed to Lynchburg at an early age, and was successively
the Book-keeper, Teller and Cashier of the Bank of Virginia at that
place, holding the latter position at his death. Was for 21 years a
member of the City Council and for 18 years its president. His wife,
Mrs. Lucy Wilhelmina Otey, daughter of Capt. William Norvell, was
born Feb. 28, 1801, and died in May, 1866, in Richmond, Virginia.

COL. PETER J. OTEY,

One of the sons of the distinguished family whose military and family
record has just been given, was born in Lynchburg. At Wytheville, Virginia,
Father Walters officiating, he married Mallie, daughter of Benj.
Rush Floyd, and granddaughter of the first Gov. John Floyd. Mrs.
Otey's mother was Nannie S. Mathews, granddaughter of Gen. Smyth,
member of Congress from Virginia. The record of the children of Col.
and Mrs. Otey is: Mary, born March 4, 1866, now Mrs. Mitchell, living
in Lynchburg; Nannie, born January 18, 1869, now Mrs. Miller, living
in Lynchburg; Floyd, born June 7, 1872, and Nathalie F., born March
8, 1876, living at home; Peter J. jr., born July 21, 1879, died February
7, 1882; Charles Heald, born May 15, 1884, died same day.
Col. Otey entered the Confederate States Army as lieutenant, April 19,
1861. On May 19 following, his was the hand that fired the first gun
at Sewells Point, Virginia, the first gun fired after the declaration of
war, and the first blood shed after the declaration was in the two hours
engagement following, when the "Monticello," under command of

Commodore Eagle, was repulsed. He served as adjutant in battles of
Carnifax Ferry, Fayette C. H., Charleston, Montgomery Ferry, and Cotton
Hill, all under Floyd and Loring; was assistant adjutant general
battle of Fort Donelson; was major of 30th Virginia battalion, and
commanded one wing of same in charge of Breckenridge on Siegel at
New Market. There Col. Otey was wounded, having right arm shattered.
Later was transferred to Early's command, participating in
campaign of the Valley, succeeding Lieut. Col. Clark (who was disabled) in
command of 30th Va. Battalion; commanded brigade in battle of
Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864; commanded battalion in battle of
Waynesboro, March 2, 1865, and was there captured; held in Fort
Delaware until released May 31, 1865. Col. Otey has held a number of
municipal and political offices; was thirteen years the active executive
officer of the Lynchburg National Bank, and is now president of the
Lynchburg & Durham Railroad.

CAPT. JOHN MEEM PAYNE

Was born in Lynchburg on November 11, 1840, and was educated at
the University of Virginia. From April 17, 1861, to May 4, 1865, he
was in the military service of the Confederate States, entering service as
first lieutenant of Company "C," Irish Battalion, Second Brigade,
Jackson's Division. With this command he was in active service, taking
part in all its engagements until after the battle of Fredericksburg.
He was then appointed a captain in the Ordnance Corps C. S. A., and
stationed first at Wilmington, then at Greensboro, North Carolina,
where he was surrendered with Genl. Johnston's army.

At "Walnut Grove" in Montgomery county, Virginia, on December 2,
1863, he married Elizabeth Allen Langhorne, who was born at "Edge
Hill," Montgomery county, on December 20, 1842. Their children are
six: Archer Langhorne, Robert Spotswood, John Meem, jr., Margaret
Kent and Eliza M. Payne. The genealogy of the families of Capt. Payne
and his wife is thus traced: Capt. Payne is the son of Dr. Robert Spotswood
Payne of Lynchburg, who was the son of Alexander S. Payne and his wife
Charlotte, daughter of Archibald Bryce, who came to Virginia from
Scotland. The wife of Archibald Bryce was Mary, daughter of William
Mitchell, whose wife was Agatha, daughter of Josiah Payne, who came
to Goochland county from England and was the ancestor of Mrs. President
Madison. Alexander S. Payne, grandfather of Capt. Payne, was
the son of Archer Payne, who married Martha Dandridge, a cousin of
Mrs. Genl. Washington, and was the daughter of Nathaniel West Dandridge,
who married Dorothia Spotswood, daughter of Governor
Alexander Spotswood (see Vol. 1, page 39). The father of Nathaniel

West Dandridge was Capt. William Dandridge, who married Unity West,
a descendant of Lord De La Ware. Archer Payne, great grandfather
of Capt. Payne, was the son of John Payne of "White Hall," Goochland
county, who was the eldest son of the above mentioned Josiah
Payne, who was the son of Sir William Payne of Bedfordshire, England.

The mother of Capt. Payne was Frances A. R., daughter of John G.
Meem of Lynchburg, whose parents were Gilbert and Frances (Simvall)
Meem. Her mother was Eliza C., daughter of Andrew Russell, who was
the son of Andrew Russell, whose wife was Margaret Christian,
daughter Col. William Christian and Molly Campbell, an aunt of Genl.
William Campbell of Kings Mountain. The wife of Andrew Russell
first named was Anna, daughter of Edward and Mary (Robinson) McDonald,
and was an aunt of Governor David Campbell (see Vol. 1, page
177).

Elizabeth Allen (Langhorne) Payne is the daughter of John Archer
Langhorne of Montgomery county, who was the son of Col. Maurice
Langhorne, jr., who married Elizabeth Allen of Prince Edward county.
The parents of Col. Maurice Langhorne, jr., were both of the Langhorne
family, the wife bearing the same name before marriage. John Archer
Langhorne married Margaret, daughter of Capt. Jacob Kent of Montgomery
county, who was the son of Joseph and Margaret (McGavock)
Kent of Wythe county. Capt. Jacob Kent's wife was Mary, the daughter
of Abraham and Mildred (Blackburn) Buford, and was a niece of
Capt. Thomas Buford, who was killed at the battle of Point Pleasant
(see Vol. 1, page 323).

MOSBY H. PAYNE

Was born in Campbell county, Virginia, May 10, 1848, the son of
Philip M. Payne, now deceased, and Mary E. (Mitchell) Payne, now a
resident of Albemarle county, Virginia. He married in Lynchburg on
New Year's Day, 1878, Mary A. Morris, who was born in Richmond,
Virginia. They have an only child, a son named Samuel G. Mrs.
Payne is the daughter of Charles and Pauline B. (Garland) Morris,
her mother now living in Lynchburg; her father deceased. In the late
civil war, Mr. Payne's family was represented in the Confederate States
Army by three brothers: Charles R., Samuel G. and John A.; Charles
R. died in the service. Mr. Payne is in business in Lynchburg as
tobacco commission merchant, head of the firm of Mosby H. Payne &
Co., proprietors of Pace's Tobacco Warehouse, Main, Twelfth and
Church streets. He is recognized not only as one of the best and most
progressive tobacco merchants, but as a public spirited citizen and
capitalist. He is a member of the Electoral Board of the State, and of
the Board of Police Commissioners of Lynchburg; a prominent

Knights Templar, and his social standing is as assured as his position
in the commercial world.

HOWELL ALLISON ROBINSON

Was born in Lynchburg, on July 19, 1857, the son of James Alexander
Robinson, and his wife, nee Mary Virginia Love. The mother of
Mr. Robinson, is still a resident of Lynchburg. His father, who was
born in New London, Bedford county, Virginia, died in Lynchburg in
1883. During the war between the States he served as provost
marshal. Nannie Josephine, wife of Mr. Robinson, was born in
Chesterfield county, Virginia, the daughter of Edwin J. and Mollie
Madder Gresham. Her mother died in Petersburg, Virginia; her
father, born in Chesterfield county, Virginia, now lives in Washington,
D. C. She became the wife of Mr. Robinson on the 19th of December,
1882, and they have one son, James Edwin. Mr. Robinson is a wholesale
dealer in confectionery, tobacco and cigars; headquarters No. 609
Main St.

EDMUND SCHAEFER

Was born in Bremen, Germany, December 5, 1851. He is the son of
Johann Wilhelm Schaefer, also born in Bremen, who died March, 1880,
and Sophie (Brandes) Schaefer, born in Leipzig, Germany, died in
August, 1874. The first wife of Edmund Schaefer was Mary Walker of
Richmond, whom he married October 28, 1880, and who died on the
9th of March, 1882. He married secondly, at Baltimore, Maryland,
Eugenia E. Martin, born in Baltimore. They were united in wedlock
on October 29, 1884, by Rev. Dr. Leeds. They have three sons, born:
Edmund, August 16, 1885; Charles Martin, February 10, 1887; Frederick
August, March 13, 1888. Mr. Schaefer was raised in Bremen, and
entered the tobacco business there in April, 1867. On October 21,
1871, he left Bremen, coming to America, and making his home first in
New York City, then in Baltimore. He first came to Lynchburg in
October, 1872, where he spent portions of his time each year during
the tobacco season. He settled permanently in Lynchburg May 1, 1877,
going into partnership with John D. Holt, forming the firm of Holt,
Schaefer & Co. Since 1882 he has been identified with many other
interests, among them: President of the Virginia Nail & Iron Works
Co. since January, 1885; president of the Lone Jack Cigarette Co. since
July, 1886; president of the Lynchburg Ice & Refrigerator Co. since
March, 1885; and is on the Board of Directors of other companies.

GEN. JOHN HOLMES SMITH.

The subject of this sketch was born in Lynchburg, on August 12,
1838, son of William T. and Susan (Leftwich) Smith. William Todd,
the great grandfather of Gen. Smith, came to the colony in 1750, from
Scotland. In Richmond, Virginia, February 27, 1878, Gen. Smith
married Norvell, daughter of Dr. Joseph V. and Mary E. (Bullock)
Hobson, now of Richmond, formerly of Powhatan county, Virginia.
She was born in Powhatan county, August 26, 1856. From the opening
to the close of the late civil war, Gen. Smith was in active and
honorable service in the Confederate States Army. He entered service
on April 23, 1861, in the Home Guard company of Lynchburg, which
at once took the field as Company G, of the 11th Virginia regiment.
His rank then was third corporal, and he received rapid promotion
through all the non-commissioned grades until, in January, 1862, he
was promoted junior second lieutenant; one year from entering service,
on April 23, 1862, he was commissioned first lieutenant; in May, 1862,
promoted captain. For the greater portion of the last eighteen months
service he was in command of the 11th in the field. He was wounded
in the left arm at Seven Pines, from the effects of which he has never
recovered. Again wounded at Gettysburg, gunshot in right leg, received
during that brilliant fighting in the last day of the battle which has
rendered immortal the name of Pickett's Division; was captured with
the regiment at Sailors Creek, April 5, 1865; held three weeks in the
Old Capitol Prison, Washington; six weeks on Johnsons Island, Lake
Erie, then paroled. In 1867 he reorganized his old company, which
has ever since been a part of the State troops. He was made a general
of the State Militia soon after, and retains the rank. Gen. Smith is
engaged in business in Lynchburg as tobacco manufacturer.

WILLIAM OTWAY SMITH

Was born in Gordonsville, Virginia, August 15, 1861. His father was
Benjamin Thomas Smith, born in Culpeper, Virginia, entered Confederate
States Army in the Cavalry service, was wounded, and died of
effects of wound at Gordonsville, in 1862. William Smith, brother of
Benj. Thomas, was also in the Confederate States Army, and was
killed in battle. The mother of Mr. Smith, whose maiden name was
Bettie Amanda Blanks, removed to Lynchburg during the war, and
died in November, 1876. In Lynchburg, July 11, 1883, Rev. T. M.
Carson officiating, Wm. Otway Smith married Flora Lee, daughter of
Philip Thornton Withers and Flora Virginia Withers, still residents of
Lynchburg. She was born in Lynchburg, October 25, 1862, and their
children were born here: Wm. Otway, jr., on July 7, 1884; Benj.

Thornton, December 4, 1886. Mr. Smith attended the Lynchburg
schools about six years. In 1879 he clerked for W. D. Smyth, tobacco
jobber. In 1882, went into the same business for himself, and is still
so engaged, a member of the firm of Smith, Stuart & Co.

WILLIAM B. SNEAD

Was born in Staunton, Virginia, September 1, 1836, the son of Elisha
L. and Susan A. (Thomas) Snead. His father, now deceased, was born
in Albemarle county, Virginia. When he was four years of age his
parents made their home in Lynchburg, and he attended the schools
here for a number of years. At the age of fifteen years he left school to
learn the carpenter's trade under his father, who was a contractor and
builder. Except for the time he was in military service he remained
with his father, and when the latter died in Lynchburg, in 1869, he
continued in the business, and is now head of the firm of W. B. Snead
& Co., doing a large and lucrative business as contractors and builders.
He entered the Confederate States Army April 23, 1861, in Company
G, 11th Virginia Infantry. After participation in battles of 1st
Manassas and Seven Pines, he was on special detail in the secret service,
till forced by disability to leave the army, in July, 1862. On
February 21, 1862, Rev. H. P. Mitchell officiating, he married
Susanna A. Bailey. She was born in Richmond, Virginia, the
daughter of James Bailey, born in Maryland, died in Lynchburg, and
Ann (Ophold) Bailey, born in Pennsylvania. The children of Mr. and
Mrs. Snead are six: Carrie A., W. W., John T., Henry C., Aurelia H.
and Edward Carl. All live in Lynchburg except Carrie A., who is now
the wife of E. M. Graham, of Omaha, Nebraska.

CAPT. CHARLES W. STATHAM

Was born May 19, 1819, in that part of Campbell county, Virginia, now
included in Appomattox county; was married in Lynchburg, December
18, 1845, Rev. E. H. Crumpston officiating; he married Maria
V. Ferguson, who was born in Lynchburg, October 16, 1825. The
record of their children is: Charles W., deceased; Thomas R., married;
Beaumont, deceased; Elizabeth, married; William, lives in Appomattox
county; Mary, lives in Lynchburg; Clifford, deceased; Lelia, deceased;
Gertrude, deceased. Capt. Statham was magistrate of Lynchburg
two terms; member of school board four years; trustee of the Miller Female
Orphan Asylum now and for a number of years; ten years director of
the Norfolk & Western Railroad; now director of the First National
Bank of Lynchburg. He made his home in Lynchburg in 1833, and
has lived here continuously since then, and is now one of the oldest

business men of the city. For nine years he filled the editorial chair of
the Virginian, and was a dealer and shipper of tobacco for forty years.

In 1861 he, with Charles J. Raine, raised and equipped an artillery
company for the Confederate States Army. He went into service with
the company, with the rank of First Lieutenant; was wounded and captured
in Rich Mt. battle, July 11, 1861, and held on field and at Beverly
two weeks, then paroled. All the prisoners there taken were
exchanged under a general cartel in August, 1862, and Captain Statham
rejoined his command on September 14, 1862. With his company
he assisted in the capture of Miles and his forces at Harper's Ferry, and
in two days thereafter was in Sharpsburg battle, under the immediate
direction of Gen. Jackson, through Major Brockenbrough. Later he
took part in battles of Hamilton's Crossing, Fredericksburg, Mine Run
and many others, commanding his company at Mine Run. On account
of disability he retired from active service in 1864, and was appointed
by Gen. Kemper colonel in charge of local forces of Lynchburg, serving
in that position till the close of the war, and surrendered the city to
the Federal forces. His father, Richmond Statham, was born in what
is now Nelson county, Virginia, and died in Campbell county in September,
1839, at the age of 72 years. His mother, whose maiden name
was Rhoda Hill, was born in Prince Edward county, Virginia, and died
in Campbell county, in July, 1839, aged 52 years.

WILLIAM A. STROTHER.

The subject of this sketch was born in Richmond, Virginia, on
November 15, 1832, but has long been a resident of Lynchburg,
engaged in business in that city since 1855. His first marriage was
with Sallie Mitchell of Bedford county, Virginia, who died leaving him
two sons, William M. and Robert. He married secondly at Lynchburg,
on February 26, 1862, Jennie L. Langhorne, and they have one
son, Sidney. Mr. Strother is now the only survivor of four brothers
who gave their service to the Confederate States during the late war.
He entered service in April, 1861, second lieutenant of Company E,
11th Virginia Infantry, and was obliged to resign, on account of
sickness, in the following winter; was later made captain of a
company of reserves, so serving till the close of the war. His
brother Sidney, sergeant in Cranshaw's battery, was killed in battle of
Gaines Mills. Robert Q., another brother, served through the war in
same battery; since deceased. Fourth of these brothers was John M.,
who served as treasurer, C. S. A., rank of captain. When Richmond
was evacuated he held all the funds of the Confederate States in his
keeping; died since the war. William A. Strother has been a bank

director since 1861, in the First National Bank of Lynchburg and the
National Exchange Bank. He is a trustee of the Lynchburg Female
Orphan Asylum, and for five years has been Eminent Commander of
the DeMolay Commandery, Knights Templar. He is head of the firm
of W. A. Strother & Son, proprietors of the "Strother Silver Medal
Cologne," and they are extensively engaged in the manufacture of perfumeries,
having a market in thirteen States.

ALEXANDER THURMAN

Was born in Lynchburg, July 22, 1845, the son of Samuel B. Thurman,
now one of the oldest citizens of Lynchburg, and the grandson of Richard
Thurman, one of the early settlers of Campbell county. His
mother, whose maiden name was Martha Cox, is now deceased. The
wife of Mr. Thurman, is Mary A., daughter of John F. and Annie
E. Sanderson, born in Goochland county, Virginia. Her father is now
deceased, her mother living in New Kent county, Virginia. Their marriage
was solemnized by Rev. S. Hepbron, November 9th, 1887, at the
old Colonial Church of St. Peters, New Kent county. Mr. Thurman
entered the Confederate States Army when in his 18th year, in January,
1864, serving from that time to the close of the war in Company B, 2d
Virginia Cavalry, and taking part in battles of the Wilderness, Winchester,
Cedar Run, Trevellian Station, and the many engagements
around Richmond and Petersburg. His father was also in the Confederate
States Army, and his two brothers, Powhatan and Samuel. In
1874 Alexander Thurman was appointed lumber inspector of Lynchburg.
In April, 1883, he was made chief of the fire department of
Lynchburg, and is still filling that position.

SAMUEL TYREE

Has been for more than half a century an honored resident of Lynchburg,
for more than thirty years one of the city aldermen. He was born in
Lynchburg, January 17, 1823, and was married on February 9, 1843,
when Bishop Thos. Atkinson joined him in wedlock with Marian F. C.
Henry, who was born in Campbell county, January 24, 1823. To
trace the family line of Mr. and Mrs. Tyree is to connect them with
names identified with the most honorable pages of the history of
Virginia. He is the son of Richard Tyree, born in New Kent county,
Virginia, and Mildred, daughter of Achilles Douglass, of Campbell
county. Both died at the age of 73 years, and are buried in Lynchburg.
The Tyree and the Douglass families were early seated in Virginia;
both of the Quaker faith. The father of Mrs. Samuel Tyree was

A. S. Henry, son of Patrick Henry, and her mother was Paulina J.,
daughter of Dr. Geo. Cabell. Her mother was buried in Campbell
county, and her father lies in the burial ground of the old residence of
Patrick Henry, in Charlotte county. Her ancestry is further traced in
preceding pages of "Eminent Virginians," by R. A. Brock. Mr. Tyree
is now filling the office of notary public.

WILLIAM T. WALKER, M. D.

Was born in Prince Edward county, Virginia, August 22, 1825. He
married S. Josephine Sampson, who died in 1870, leaving him three
daughters, and four sons: Lelia, Frank, Richard S., Josephine S., Mary
S., William T. and John. On May 25, 1875, Rev. Wm. Norwood officiating
clergyman, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Frances Bayly
formerly Frances Holladay, born in Spotsylvania county, Virginia.
They have one daughter, Gulielma. Dr. Walker is of Virginia descent,
his father, William T. Walker, born in Amelia county, served in
Revolutionary war with rank of captain; died in September, 1833.
The mother of Dr. Walker was Mary, daughter of John Dupuy, and
descendant of Bartholomew Dupuy, a Huguenot refugee, who settled in
Manakintown, Virginia colony, in 1699. She was born in Prince Edward
county, and died in February, 1861. Dr. Walker holds the degree of
A. M. from Hampden-Sidney college; of M. D. from the Jefferson Medical
college. He began practice in Prince Edward county in 1849. In 1852
removed to Goochland county, and was thirty years in practice there.
In 1882 settled in Lynchburg, where he still remains. He is a member of
the Lynchburg city council. He entered service in the Confederate States
Army on June 29, 1861, as surgeon at City Almshouse hospital, Richmond.
After several months service there, he was appointed surgeon
in charge of the hospital at Huguenot Spring, a hospital having 700
capacity, and remained there until the close of the war.

GEORGE P. WATKINS

Son of William and Mary (Wharton) Watkins, and grandson of Thomas
Watkins, was born in Halifax county, Virginia, March 10th, 1852.
His father was born in Virginia, where the family has been long seated,
and his mother was born in the State of Maine. His wife is Jimmie
Lelia, daughter of Col. James W. and Mary Elizabeth (Jones) Watts,
whose family record appears in this volume. She was born in Bedford
county, Virginia, and they were married by Dr. W. E. Edwards, at the
Court Street M. E. Church, Lynchburg, December 22, 1880. Their children
are Florence, Lucile, Lelia. Robert W. Watkins, brother of George

P. served in the late war. His mother died in 1857, when he was five
years old, and his father died in 1864, when he was twelve years old.
After that he attended boarding school for two years, then entered on
a business life in 1868 as clerk in a retail store in Halifax county, Virginia.
In 1871 he went to Richmond as traveling salesman for the
wholesale notion house of Yancey & Franklin; in 1875 went to Baltimore,
traveling for a wholesale house. On July 1, 1878, became a
partner in the wholesale boot and shoe firm of Witt & Watkins, in
which he still continues at 808 Main street (see record of Geo. D. Witt).
Mr. Watkins is also a director in the National Exchange Bank of
Lynchburg, and has been since its organization.

COL. JAMES W. WATTS,

Son of Richard D. and Isabella E. (Newell) Watts, was born in Bedford
county, Virginia, on April 19, 1833. On February 22, 1854, Rev. D.
P. Wills officiating, he married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of F. E. and
Sarah (Spears) Jones, of Appomattox county. Their children are
named: Hubert B., Jimmie L., Thomas Ashby and Maude. They have
buried one son, Oscar. Col. Watts entered the Confederate States
Army May 11, 1861, in Company A, 2d Virginia Cavalry, rank of first
lieutenant. In September, 1861, he was promoted captain; in March,
1862, received commission of lieutenant-colonel, same regiment. He
received eight sabre cuts in battle of second Manassas; was again
wounded at Opequan, December 27, 1862; and again at Aldie, June
1863 where a gunshot wound in right fore-arm permanently disabled
him for active field service. He served subsequently, and until the close
of the war, as post commander, at Liberty, Bedford county. Col.
Watts, who has now retired from business life, was for some time a
partner in the well-known firm of Jones, Watts Bros. & Co.

JAMES T. WILLIAMS,

Born in Lynchburg, on April 28, 1829, is the son of Jehu and Susan
S. (Thompkins) Williams, long honored residents of Lynchburg, where
the father was many years engaged in the jewelry trade and in his
day the oldest business man of the town. He died in 1859, and his
wife died in 1843. On December 17, 1850, James T. Williams married
Martha J. Row, and their children were nine. Of these four are now
deceased, Susan S., Annie E., Bryant, and James T., jr. The living
children are: Jehu R., Mary J., Martha I., Amanda W. and S. Duncan.
Mr. Williams married secondly Mary E. Hanvey, Rev. Thomas H.
Early joining them in wedlock on July 20, 1887. Her father and

brother were in the Confederate States Army during the late war, as
was the brother of the first Mrs. Williams, Geo. W. Row. In 1848 Mr.
Williams began business in Lynchburg as a merchant. In 1851 he
removed to Richmond, where he was in business until 1867, and then
returned to Lynchburg. He established a wholesale grocery business,
in which he later associated with himself his eldest living son, and in
January, 1883, the gentlemen who now with himself and son form the
present house of James T. Williams, Son & Co., and carry on an extensive
business extending throughout the State. Mr. Williams has been
a member of the city council, a justice of the peace and chairman of the
board of Fire Commissioners, which originated the present Efficient
Department.

CAPT. JEHU WILLIAMS.

The subject of this sketch was born in Lynchburg, on June 24, 1836.
He is the son of Jehu and Susan (Thompkins) Williams whose record
appears in the sketch preceding this one. He entered the Confederate
State Army in May, 1861, rank of Captain, and assigned to the commissary
department, with headquarters at Lynchburg. After serving
six months at this point, he was sent to Manassas Junction, which remained
his headquarters five months, after which he returned to
Lynchburg, and later served at Petersburg Landing. He resigned in
1862. In 1864 he entered service again in Company G, 11th Virginia
regiment, with which he was actively engaged until made a prisoner
at Five Forks, April 1, 1865. He was held at Point Lookout three
months, then paroled. First Manassas, Dinwiddie C. H., Five Forks,
were among the battles in which he participated. Captain Williams is
carrying on a coal, wood, ice and grocery business in Lynchburg.

SAMUEL GRIFFIN WINGFIELD

Is the son of the late Hon. Gustavus A. Wingfield, formerly judge of
the 6th Judicial District of Virginia, and who died on February 18,
1888, and the grandson of Lewis Wingfield, long an honored resident
of Bedford county. His mother, who died in April, 1855, was Charlotte,
daughter of Samuel Griffin, also of Bedford county, for whom
the subject of this sketch was named. He was born in Bedford
county. In Lynchburg, October 17, 1887, Rev. J. J. McGurk officiating,
he married Sallie Lewis, daughter of John D. Alexander, and
granddaughter of John Alexander. Her mother was Mary A.,
daughter of Samuel Pannill. As these names indicate, Mrs. Wingfield
is of families identified with the history of Campbell county. At the
the time of the war between the States Mr. Wingfield was in attendance

at the Virginia Military Institute, and he was one of the corps of
cadets who figured so heroically in the battle of New Market. Mr.
Wingfield was an attorney at law, practicing in Lynchburg; but at
present is clerk of the corporation and circuit courts, having been
elected to that office at the spring election held in May, 1888. He has
filled the office of Mayor of Lynchburg for one term of two years,
beginning July 1, 1880.

J. H. C. WINSTON

Was born in Halifax county, Virginia, April 18, 1829. He is of Welsh
descent, the Winston family settling in Bristol, Connecticut, where his
grandfather died. His father, Roma Winston, was born in Connecticut,
in 1800, removed to Virginia, and died in 1834. His mother, whose
maiden name was Saloma Heckman, died in 1875. On October 16,
1855, Rev. Wm. H. Kinckle officiating, J. H. C. Winston married Martha
J., daughter of A. Winston, and sister of the wife of Senator E. J.
Folkes. She was born in Lynchburg, February 29, 1832. They have
nine children, all living in Lynchburg, Edgar R., Sallie F., John A.,
Eunice D., William F., Irene M., Joseph H., Paulina C., Kate E. and
have buried three children: Effie, born July 4, 1856, died October 23,
1859; Annie T., born in 1860, died in 1862; Mamie, born in 1878,
died in 1884. Mr. Winston entered the Confederate States Army in
March, 1862, Company D, 19th Battery, Virginia Heavy Artillery, rank
of Second Lieutenant, and was promoted First Lieutenant in July,
1862. He was in service till close of war, and took part in a number
of skirmishes but no regular battles, the battery attached to Custis
Lee's division at close of war. Mr. Winston came to Lynchburg in
1852, and was in the employ of A. Winston, furniture business until
1858, when he went into the same business with J. L. Winston. From
1859 until he went into the army was in business for himself, and in
1865 resumed the business. In 1868 removed to Snowville, Pulaski
county, Virginia. In 1872 returned to Lynchburg, and again took up
the furniture business, which he has continued to date. The firm,
manufacturers and dealers in furniture at 620 and 622 Main street, is
now J. H. C. Winston, Son & McGehee, the second son, John A., having
entered into partnership in 1884, and Mr. McGehee in 1887.

GEORGE D. WITT

Son of David and Elizabeth J. Witt, was born in Nelson county, Virginia,
May 22, 1848. He entered the Fleetwood Academy at about ten
years of age, and received an English education at the different schools
of his native county. An earnest desire to complete his education

prompted him, about this time, to write to Gen. R. E. Lee at the Washington
and Lee University, relative to admittance to that institution.
Though circumstances forced him to forego that plan, he still treasures
with warm appreciation the kind words of encouragement he received
in reply, in a letter in General Lee's own hand. In 1866 he accepted the
offer of a position in a counting house in Lynchburg, which position
he held until in 1869 he accepted an offer to go to Baltimore, where he
remained in the wholesale shoe trade until 1878. On November 5,
1873, he was married by Rev. Dr. Leeds of Grace Episcopal Church,
Baltimore, to Ida E. King. The bride was the daughter of John King,
of Baltimore, and granddaughter of William King of County Armagh,
Ireland, who came to this country and made his home in Annapolis,
Maryland, removing thence to Georgetown, D. C. The mother of Mrs.
Witt, now deceased, was Amanda M., daughter of Geo. Sterret Ridgely
Morgan, of Georgetown. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Witt, September
28, 1874, Clarence Morton, who lived but two years. In 1878
Mr. Witt returned to Lynchburg, and in July entered into a partnership
with George P. Watkins, forming the house of Witt & Watkins,
the pioneer wholesale boot and shoe house of Lynchburg.

His father David, son of David Witt, sr. and Jane (Fitzpatrick) was
born in Nelson county, still a resident there, went into the artillery service,
Confederate States Army, in 1861, serving first in Capt. Lamkin's
company stationed at Charleston, South Carolina, and was in several
engagements there; later in Capt. Henry Rives' company, taking part
in many engagements around Richmond. The mother of Mr. Witt was
born in Nelson county, where she still resides. Brought up by Christian
parents, she has ever exemplified in her life an humble Christian character,
and has endeavored thus to sow the seed of virtue in rearing her
own children, and with her husband will leave their children an inheritance
of moral worth, more to be desired than refined gold. She was
the daughter of George Jones, who was born May 14, 1791, and died
May 25, 1883, and the granddaughter of Capt. Charles G. Jones, who
served faithfully seven years under Gen. Washington in the Revolutionary
war. George Jones married Sally Pendleton, born in Amherst
county, the daughter of Richard Pendleton, who settled in Amherst
from Culpeper county, and whose forefathers came from Scotland to
Eastern Virginia. Sallie Pendleton's mother, who was Miss Mary Tinsley,
was proud to boast of wearing a wedding gown spun from silk with
her own hands. The father of Capt. Jones was Hezekiah Jones, who
came from Spotsylvania county, and whose ancestors were of that
sturdy Welch stock that ever guarded with jealous hand the principles
of honesty and integrity that characterized their race.

STEPHEN THOMAS WOOD,

Son of Samuel G. and Amanda (Gish) Wood, of Roanoke county, was
born in that county on April 24, 1847. He is the grandson of Rev.
Stephen Wood, who was a distinguished citizen of Franklin county,
Virginia, where he served for many years in the offices of magistrate
and high sheriff. Although only eighteen years of age when the war
between the States was ended, the subject of this sketch had then seen
one year's service, in Griffin's battery, Hardaney's battalion, 2d corps,
Army of Northern Virginia. His parents still live in Roanoke county,
his father now 70 years of age, his mother aged 63 years. In 1873 he came
to Lynchburg, and was first engaged as book-keeper for a grocery firm.
For the past twelve years he has been connected with the People's
National Bank, for which he is teller. In Lynchburg, November 20,
1878, Rev. A. C. Bledsoe officiating, he married Emma, daughter of
Robert and Mariah L. (Thurman) Mays. She was born in Lynchburg,
March 8, 1853. Her father died on October 19, 1884, aged 69 years; her
mother is still living in Lynchburg at the age of 70 years. The record
of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Wood is: Stephen Hervey, born October
28, 1879; Mariah Louisa, born February 7, 1881, died March 8th
following; Robert Gilbert, born September 30, 1882; Alice Latham,
born September 10, 1886.

PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY.

EUGENE S. ARNETT

Was born at Brooklyn, Halifax county, Virginia, on January 30,
1847. He is the son of W. W. Arnett, a Virginian by birth, now a
resident of Saline county, Missouri, and Martha A. Strickland, now
deceased. He had an elder brother in the Confederate States Army,
W. W. Arnett., jr. The first wife of Mr. Arnett was Sallie A. Hatchett,
who died on July 25, 1880, leaving him one son, Willie P., born
December 14, 1872. He married secondly Miss M. H. Dixon, of Pittsylvania
county, their marriage solemnized December 6, 1881. Their
children are two sons: Eugene W. and Alvah H. Mr. Arnett received
a common school education in his native county, and came to Danville
where he began business at the age of 22 years, in 1869, as leaf
tobacco dealer. From 1876 to 1886 he was connected with the firms
of Arnett & Wemple, and Arnett, Wemple & Ellyson. On January 1,

1886, the firm as last named was dissolved, and Mr. Arnett entered
into his present copartnership relation, in the firm of Arnett, Snellings
& Co., proprietors of the Martha Washington Tobacco Works, High
street, Danville. The facilities of the firm, and their volume of business,
are second to no similar house in the United States. For the
past five years Mr. Arnett has been a member of the city council of
Danville.

CHARLES A. BALLOU.

As the name indicates, the subject of this sketch is a descendant of
one of the Huguenot families who escaped from religious persecution in
France by emigration to America, and founded a line in Virginia. His
father, also named Charles A. Ballou, was born in Cumberland county,
Virginia, and his mother, Rebecca A. Medley, was born in Halifax
county, this State. Both are now deceased, the father's death occurring
in 1865, in his 73d year. The subject of this sketch was born in Halifax
county, December 4, 1833. He has been twice married and has six
children living. His first marriage was solemnized at McMinnville,
Tennessee, where on February 2, 1859, Mary G. Tate of Roanoke
county, Virginia, became his wife. She died in 1866, leaving him two
daughters, Kate P. and Mary G. He married secondly Annie P. Talley
of Clarksville, Virginia, who died in January, 1885. Their children
were: Natilie, Charles A., jr., James E. and N. Talley, and two daughters
now dead, Sallie T. and Alice R.

James E. Ballou, brother of Charles A., serving in the Confederate
States Army, was killed at Balls Bluff. Charles A. was in service, 18645,
in the quartermaster's department. His early school years were
passed in Halifax county, and his education completed at the Washington
and Lee University. In 1856 he accepted position as civil engineer
on the M. C. & T. R. R., and except for the time he was in military
service he followed this profession on various railroads until he made
his home in Danville, in 1873. Since that time he has been city civil
engineer, and is still serving in that capacity. He has also ably filled
other city offices: Superintendent of water works, superintendent of
electric lights, superintendent of gas works, etc.

LANDON CARTER BERKELEY, JR.

Was born at "Auburn," in the county of Westmoreland, Virginia.
His father is Landon C. Berkeley, born in Hanover county, Virginia,
November, 1818, represented the counties of Westmoreland and Richmond
in the Virginia legislature some years, served as lieutenant in the
15th Virginia Infantry, C. S. A., now living in Hanover county. Lewis

Berkeley, of "MonTont," Hanover county, was the grandfather of
Landon Carter. His mother was Miss Sarah A. Campbell, born at
"Kirnon," Westmoreland county, June 24, 1820, died at "MonTont,"
November 21, 1885. She was the daughter of John Campbell, a son of
Rev. Archibald Campbell, of Scotland. At Fork Church, Hanover
county, Virginia, September 8, 1880, Rev. R. R. Claiborne officiating,
Landon Carter Berkeley, jr., wedded Annie Poe Harrison, who was born
at "Dewberry," Hanover county, September 9th, 1856. They have two
children, Harrison Campbell and Annie Churchill. Mrs. Berkeley is the
daughter of John Poe Harrison, who held commissions of captain and
colonel in the Confederate States Army, and died in service in the fall of
1861. Her mother, Nanny, daughter of Rev. John Cook of "Dewberry,"
Hanover county, lives now in Danville.

After completing his school course, the subject of this sketch was four
years a teacher in the Episcopal High School, near Alexandria, Virginia.
He studied law privately, and in the summer law school of the University
of Virginia in 1874, and commenced the practice of law at Danville,
in 1876, where he has resided and continued in practice ever since.
John L. Berkeley, a soldier of the late war and a member of the
hanover Artillery, brother of Mr. Berkeley, was wounded in battle of
Cold Harbor, gunshot wound in right hip, June 3d, 1864. He is now
principal of the Danville white free school.

EDWIN E. BOULDIN,

Son of James W. Bouldin, of Charlotte county, Virginia, and Almeria
(Read) Bouldin, was born in Charlotte county, on March 31, 1838.
Both parents are now deceased. The father will be remembered as
having served several terms in Congress, representative from the
Charlotte District. The mother was the daughter of Rev. Clement R.
Read. After pursuing the academic course of study in the University
of Virginia, Edwin E. studied law under George W. Read, Esq., 18578,
then went to Texas, and practiced at Goliad from 1859 till the
opening of the war. Hastening back to Virginia, to offer his services
to his native State, he entered the Confederate Army in April, 1861,
in Company B, 14th Virginia Cavalry, known as the "Charlotte Cavalry."
In September, 1861, he was commissioned first lieutenant of
this company, and in the spring of 1862 elected captain of same. He
was slightly wounded in battle of Gettysburg, on which immortal field
he commanded his regiment, and was soon after very seriously
wounded at the crossing of the Potomac, near Hagerstown. He was
captured in battle of Moorfield, 1864, and held at Camp Chase,
Ohio, eight months. Exchanged in 1865, he rejoined his regiment,

which he commanded from Five Forks until its surrender at Farmville,
Virginia. Since the war, he has lived in Danville, where he is still
engaged in the practice of his profession, as attorney and counselor
at law. At Charlotte, Virginia, on February 9, 1871, he married
Lucy L. Edmunds of Charlotte, and their children are seven: James W.,
Bessie E., Joseph N., Almeria K., Lucy L., Fannie H. and Hattie.

COL. GEORGE C. CABELL.

The illustrious Cabell family was among the earliest seated in the
colony of Virginia, and the name has ever maintained its rank among
the first families of the Commonwealth. The descent of the subject of
this sketch is thus traced: William Cabell settled in Buckingham
county, where he was succeeded by his son Joseph, and he by Joseph
who was the father of Benjamin W. S. Cabell, father of George C.
Benjamin W. S. Cabell, born in Buckingham county, died in Danville
in March, 1862, was an officer of the war of 1812, and afterwards
attained the rank of major general of State troops. He served from
fifteen to twenty years in the Senate and House of Delegates of Virginia,
and was a member of the famous Convention of Virginia of 1829-30.
The mother of Colonel Cabell, Sallie E. Dosewell of Nottoway county,
Virginia, died in Danville, in August, 1874.

In Brunswick county, Virginia, October 25, 1860, Colonel Cabell
married Mary H. Baird of that county, Rev. Geo. Wm. White officiating
clergyman. Their children are: Sallie D., now Mrs. L. H. Lewis; Annie
A., now Mrs. G. S. Wooding; Benjamin W. S.; George C. jr., and
Powhatan A. Mrs. Cabell is the daughter of Henry R. Baird, who was
reared in Person county, North Carolina, and died a resident of Brunswick
county, Virginia, in April, 1887. Her mother, Ann P. Atkinson,
born in Halifax county, Virginia, died in Danville, in 1862.

George C. Cabell was born in Danville, January 25, 1837, and has
lived in or near Danville all his life, living now within fifty yards of the
spot where he was born. His academic education was received in Danville,
after which he took the law course in the University of Virginia.
He commenced practice in Danville in 1858, and was attorney for the
Commonwealth for the town of Danville four years; representative in
Congress twelve years. His rank was won by gallant service in the
Confederate States Army. He went into the war on April 27, 1861,
and served till its close, receiving successive promotions from private
to captain, major, colonel. He had five brothers, all in service, and
commissioned officers, captains, colonels and one major-general. Two
of these gave their life to the cause: Col. Jos. R. Cabell, killed at Drurys
Bluff; Lieut. Benj. E. Cabell, died in service. Colonel Cabell is still
engaged in practice in Danville.

JOHN R. CABELL, M. D.

The name of Cabell is one of frequent mention in the pages of Virginia
and Virginians, many of the name having been closely associated with
the history of the Commonwealth. The subject of this sketch was born
in Danville, and is the son of Benjamin W. S. Cabell, who was born in
Buckingham county, Virginia, and who died in 1862, aged 69 years.
Dr. Cabell's mother was Sarah E. Dosewell, born in Nottoway county,
Virginia, died in 1874. In early youth Dr. Cabell attended the schools
in Danville, after which he took the course of the Virginia Military
Institute, whence he was graduated in 1845. He taught school in
Pittsylvania county two years, then studied medicine under Dr. W. G.
Craighead of Danville and completed his studies for practice of medicine
at the Virginia University, where he graduated with honors. He was
in practice for about thirty years at Callands, Pittsylvania county, but
in 1886 returned to Danville, and went into the tobacco warehouse
business, under the firm name and style of Cabell & Coleman, proprietors
of the Cabell Warehouse, dealers in leaf tobacco. He entered the
Confederate States Army in April, 1861, and served with rank of captain,
Company B, 38th Virginia Infantry, until January, 1863, when
he resigned. In 1849, he married Martha C. Wilson of Pittsylvania
county, who died in 1858. Secondly he married Catherine F. Witcher.
He has four children: Lilly, W. C., N. W. and Mary.

JOHN W. CARTER

Was born in Halifax county, Virginia, on March 25, 1851, and was
educated in the schools of that county, beginning his business life in
1873. He is the son of Captain Jeduthan Carter, born in Pittsylvania
county sixty-seven years ago, and who commanded Company F, of the
38th Virginia Infantry, C. S. A., during the late war. His mother,
whose maiden name was Ann Hubbard, died on June 8, 1874. His
wife was Maggie A., daughter of Frank and Annie E. (Watson) Redd,
of Prince Edward county, Virginia. They were married in Danville,
December 3, 1879, and have now three sons: Warner P., J. Epps, and
John W., jr. In 1873 Mr. Carter clerked for W. P. Robinson, of Danville;
from 1874 to 1878 was with John F. Rison & Co., Danville; then
went into business with W. P. Hodnet, style of firm Hodnet & Carter;
from 1880 to 1885 was in business alone, and in the last-named year
organized the first wholesale grocery house in Danville, which he still
continues, under the firm style of John W. Carter & Co., wholesale
grocers, and jobbers of manufactured tobacco and cigars, 304 Main
street. Mr. Carter is also connected with S. P. Wimbish & Co., brokers
and commission merchants.

CHARLES H. CONRAD

Was born at Barboursville, Orange county, Virginia, on September 22,
1849. His parents were Virginians. J. M. Conrad, his father, born in
Rockingham county, died August 23, 1881, at age of sixty-six
years. His mother, whose maiden name was Sarah C. Sneed, was born
in Albemarle county, and died January 9, 1877, aged fifty-two years.
William Conrad, his brother, was four years in service, Otey's Battery,
C. S. A. The subject of this sketch, although then but a lad, had also
his war experience. He was taken a prisoner, at age of fourteen
years, at Chester Station, Virginia, on May 9, 1864, by Gen. Benj. F.
Butler, and after a thorough march through that general's army was
held by him three months at Fortress Monroe, then regularly
exchanged as a prisoner of war. Mr. Conrad in reviewing this experience
says that General Butler was particularly kind to him, supplying
his every want, and offering to adopt and educate him, if he would
consent. An occasional correspondence between the two was kept up,
after the war, and they met at the Democratic National Convention,
held in Chicago in 1884, where there was a mutual recognition and
conversation concerning their war experiences.

Mr. Conrad received a common school education in the city of Richmond.
At the age of twenty-one years he began business in Danville,
as a leaf tobacco dealer, in which he still continues, senior member of
the firm of Chas. H. Conrad & Co. In December, 1886, he bought Mr.
A. Y. Stokes' interest in the banking business of W. S. Patton, Sons &
Co., which he still holds, the business still conducted under the same
firm name. At Danville, November 8, 1876, Rev. G. W. Dame officiating,
he married Mary Parker Holland, daughter of John W. Holland,
now of Danville, born in Franklin county, Virginia. Her mother, who
was Mary L. Rosser, born in Culpeper county, Virginia, died February
18, 1887. Louise, born August 11, 1877, died July 16, 1878, was the
first of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad. They have four
daughters: Lucile, Lizzie, Grace and Myrtle, and one son, Holland.
Mr. Conrad is one of the councilmen of the city of Danville at the present
time.

JOHN HAMILTON COSBY,

Son of C. M. and Ann (Mattox) Cosby, was born in Danville, on July 14,
1849. His father died in 1861, his mother in 1864. At Danville, Virginia,
January 19, 1887, he married Mary Smith Wilson, and on
December 17, 1888, their son, John Hamilton, jr., was born. At the age
of eighteen years, Mr. Cosby embarked in the tobacco trade in his native
place. For seven years following he held responsible positions in two

of the principal factories of the city. In 1875 he commenced business
for himself, entering into partnership with F. X. Burton, style of firm
Burton & Cosby. This partnership was dissolved in 1880, when Mr.
Cosby took into partnership with himself his brother Charles M., the
style of the firm being J. H. Cosby & Bro. They at once erected a
large factory, fitted up with all modern appliances, and in which they
now employ an average of two hundred hands. Their plug, twist and
coil tobaccos sell readily in all the principal markets of the country,
and their attention to business and efficient management of the same
promise them an ever increasing trade.

CHISWELL DABNEY.

The paternal ancestry of Mr. Dabney is thus traced: He is the son of
Rev. John Blair Dabney, for many years attorney-at-law and commonwealth
attorney for Campbell county, Virginia, born in Hanover
county, Virginia, in 1794, died in Campbell county, at Vancluse, April
23, 1868, who was a son of Judge John Dabney, who was born in Hanover
county, and died at Vancluse in 1816, at age of forty-six years.
Judge Dabney was a son of George Dabney, of Hanover county, born in
that county in 1740, died there in 1824. George Dabney was a son of
Col. William Dabney, who was born in 1714, and died just before the
American revolution of 1776. The founder of the family in Virginia
was Cornelius Dabney, who emigrated from England to Virginia soon
after the establishment of the colony. The mother of Chiswell Dabney,
whose maiden name was Elizabeth Lewis Towles, was born on Christmas
Day, 1801, and lived to be nearly eighty-three years of age. Her father
was Major Oliver Towles, son of Colonel Oliver Towles, a lieutenant-colonel
of Continental infantry in the Revolutionary war. Her mother
was Agatha Lewis, daughter of William Lewis, who commanded a
company in the Virginia Contingent at Braddock's defeat, and who
was a brother of General Andrew Lewis, who commanded at Point
Pleasant.

Chiswell Dabney was born in Campbell county, at Vancluse, on July
25, 1844, and was married at Beaver Dam, Hanover county, Virginia,
April 3, 1873, by the Rev. W. A. Alrich of the Episcopal Church, to
Lucy D. Fontaine, who was born at Beaver Dam, on May 29, 1845.
Their children are six in number, viz: John C., born July 11, 1874;
Chiswell, jr., July 15, 1876; Louisa D., August 20, 1879; Lucy Fontaine,
October 31, 1881; Edmund F., February 28, 1884; Elizabeth
Towles, February 4, 1887. Mrs. Dabney is lineally descended from
Jacques de la Fontaine, an officer in the artillery of Francis I. of
France. He was born in 1500, and became a Huguenot. Her father was

Colonel Edmund Fontaine of Hanover, for many years president of the
Virginia Central Railroad, and his descent from Jacques de la Fontaine
is preserved in book form in the family from 1500 until now. Her
mother was Louisa Shackelford, of a family honorably identified with
Virginia's annals. Her parents are no longer living.

Mr. Dabney was in the Confederate States Army from October, 1861,
till the close of the war. He was commissioned first lieutenant and A.
D. C. to General J. E. B. Stuart, on December 20, 1861, and held that
position until, in the fall of 1863 when he was promoted captain of cavalry
and A. A. and I. G. and assigned to duty by the secretary of war
with Gordon's North Carolina Cavalry Brigade, afterwards Barrington's
brigade; and served with it until April, 1865. His brother, John
Dabney, was a private in the 28th regiment of Virginia Infantry, and
another brother, Charles E., was first lieutenant of cavalry, in the company
which entered service from Pittsylvania county. Chiswell Dabney
is an attorney-at-law, has been justice of the peace since 1885, and commissioner
in chancery of the circuit court of Pittsylvania county since
1871, and is still worthily filling these offices.

MELFORD EUGENE DOUGLASS, M. D.

Dr. Douglass, as the name sufficiently indicates, is by the paternal
line of Scotch descent. His mother's ancestors came to America from
Ireland. He was born at Liberty, Maine, on August 15, 1847, a son
of Samuel A. and Mary A. (Hamilton) Douglass, now living in Hudson,
Massachusetts. His father was born in Belfast, Maine, May 21, 1824,
and his mother was born at Albion, Maine, May 21, 1823. His paternal
grandfather and great grandfather, both born in Maine, were killed
at the same time by a fall from the roof of a barn, the one at the age of
seventy-six years, the other fifty-one years of age. This great grandfather
was the son of Robert Douglass, of Scotland, who, for taking up
the cause of King Charles, had his property confiscated and was banished
from the country. The mother of Dr. Douglass was the daughter
of Cyrus Hamilton, who was born in New Hampshire, and who, with two
sons, was drowned. Her father's father was Patrick Hamilton, who
came to New England from Ireland.

Dr. Douglass attended the common schools of Liberty, Maine, and
later taught school and pursued other avocations until September,
1878, when he entered the Medical School at Cleveland, Ohio. After a
year's course there, he went to the Homeopathic Medical College, at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, whence he was graduated second in his
class, on March 10, 1880. The day following his graduation he arrived
in Danville, where he has ever since been in practice with good success.

Since October, 1886, he has been State Medical Examiner; he is vice-president
of the Hahnemann Medical Society of Virginia, is a Mason,
Odd Fellow, and Chief Templar of the Lodge of Good Templars. Dr.
Douglass married Ora Harriman, of Montville, Maine, daughter of
Riley and Nancy (French) Harriman. Her father died in 1869, aged
fifty-seven; her mother died in 1872, aged forty-six years. This marriage
was solemnized at Liberty, Maine, by Rev. Ebenezer Knowlton,
on September 30, 1871. Dr. and Mrs. Douglass have one son, Frank
E. A daughter, born May 22, 1884, named Ethel May, died March
20, 1886.

RICHARD LOUIS DIBRELL

Was born in Richmond, Virginia, on September 19, 1855. He is the
son of R. H. and Mary Lee (Jones) Dibrell, still honored residents of
Richmond. His father was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and his
mother was born at New Store, Buckingham county, Virginia. At
Boonville, Missouri, June 17, 1884 he married Ida Nelson, the marriage
ceremony performed by Rev. William M. Rush, D.D., the step-father of
the bride, since deceased. She was born in Boonville, the daughter of
Dr. George W. and Pauline Nelson, her father a Virginian, born in
Culpeper county. Her mother's home is still in Boonville. Mr. and
Mrs. Dibrell have one son, whom they have named Louis Nelson. Mr.
Dibrell is associated in business with an elder brother, Alfonso Dibrell,
under the firm name and style of Dibrell Brothers, leaf tobacco brokers.
They established themselves in business in Danville in 1873, bringing
to the business practical knowledge, their father having been for many
years one of the most active promoters of the Virginia tobacco
interests. They have a large, well conducted and profitable business
in this, their main house, are also partners in the firm of Dibrell Bros.
& Co., Durham, North Carolina, and represent many manufacturers
and exporters.

COL. HUGHES DILLARD.

The father of Hughes Dillard was Gen. John Dillard, of Henry
county, Virginia. His mother was Matilda Hughes. Both are now
deceased. His paternal grandfather was Col. John Dillard of Revolutionary
fame, who was wounded in the battle of Guilford Court-House,
and who was a son, or a grandson, of James Dillard, who came from
England to the colony of Virginia at a very early date, and located
first in the tide-water country. The tradition preserved in the family
assigns to this James Dillard the profession of barrister. He or one
of his sons located lands in Nelson, Albemarle and Amherst counties,
upon grant from George III. Several of his sons served with distinction

in the Continental Army, war of the Revolution, and all were
wounded.

Hughes Dillard was born in Henry county, Virginia, on March 17,
1817. In that county, December 17, 1840, he married Martha A.
Dillard, who was born in Rockingham county, North Carolina, in
1822. Her father was Col. Peter H. Dillard, of Henry county, Virginia,
and a brother of Gen. John Dillard. Her mother was a daughter of
the late Major John Rudd, who was a Revolutionary soldier. The
record of the children of Hughes Dillard is: i. John L. Dillard, in the
late war in service with the Lexington cadets, followed the profession
of law, was prosecuting attorney for Henry county, and elected judge
of Henry county court at age of twenty-three years; died in Florida,
at age of 27 years. ii. Peter H. Dillard, attorney-at-law, now prosecuting
attorney for the Commonwealth, Franklin county, Virginia.
iii. Bettie, now the wife of Daniel Arrington, of Danville, Virginia. iv.
Mattie H., now the wife of William W. Chamberlain, of Norfolk, Virginia.
v. Patty R., now the wife of William Penn, of Botetourt
county, Virginia. vi. Lucie D., now the wife of I. F. Wingfield, of
Bedford county, Virginia. vii. Hughes Dillard, jr., attorney-at-law,
Chatham. Mr. Dillard lost several near relatives in the late war, some
of whom were killed; others died in service. For many years he followed
the profession of law, and will ever be remembered as one of the
prominent men of his day. He was for a time a member of the legislature
of Virginia, and was also an elector on the Pierce-Butler and
Buchanan-Breckenridge tickets.

PETER W. FERRELL.

The subject of this sketch was born May 31, 1832, in Halifax county,
Virginia, where his father and mother were born, and where they
were honored residents through life. His father, Bird L. Ferrell, born
in 1798, died in 1871. His mother, Ann D. Reeves, born in 1797, died
in 1872. His brother, Edwin R., who was a soldier in the Confederate
States Army, died in 1885. Peter W. attended schools in Halifax county,
and finished his studies at Richmond College. In 1856 and 1857 he
taught school in Halifax county; in 1858 removed to Danville, and
began business as a tobacco manufacturer, firm of Sutherlin & Ferrell.
In 1865 this firm dissolved, and Mr. Ferrell continued business alone,
as a leaf tobacco dealer, until 1878 when he entered into a partnership
business again, firm of Ferrell & Flinn. In the fall of 1885 he again
began business for himself, leaf tobacco broker, place of business corner
of Craghead and Loyal streets. For eight years, 1871-9, Mr. Ferrell
was president of the Danville Tobacco Association. In Danville, March

24, 1862, Rev. C. C. Chaplin officiating, he married Lucy C. Neal, of
Danville. They have three children: Lena M., Thomas N. and Rosa A.,
and have buried two daughters: Nannie R. and Loula F. Mrs. Ferrell
is the daughter of Thomas D. and Louisa F. (Carter) Neal. Her father,
born in Pittsylvania county, died in 1884, aged seventy-two years; her
mother, born in Halifax county, is now living in Richmond, Virginia.

THOMAS BENTON FITZGERALD.

Thomas Benton, son of A. B. and Theodosia (Lipscomb) Fitzgerald,
was born in Halifax county, Virginia, on April 23, 1840. His father
was born in Pittsylvania county, and died in March, 1882, aged
seventy-four years. His mother died on April 14, 1846, aged thirty-two
years. At Swansonville, Pittsylvania county, February 12, 1867,
Mr. Fitzgerald married Martha J., daughter of B. J. and Lucy J.
(Anderson) Hall, of Pittsylvania county. Her father died in 1879,
aged fifty-six years; her mother died in 1886. The children of Mr. and
Mrs. Fitzgerald were born in the order named: Theo. L., Thomas J.,
Harry R., Lizzie A., Lucy Lee (deceased), Fannie, Katie, Alfred B.,
Archie P. (deceased), Emma L. (deceased). Mr. Fitzgerald entered the
Confederate States Army in April, 1861, and served in Company A,
38th Virginia Infantry. In 1865 he made his home in Danville, where
he has since resided, and began business as contractor and builder, in
which he continued until 1887. He has been president of the Riverside
Cotton Mills at Danville since they went into operation, June 1, 1882,
and is still a large owner in the same. Under his efficient management,
this enterprise has proved a financial success and the goods produced
are now shipped to all important points in the United States. Mr.
Fitzgerald has served as town councilman.

FRANK B. GRAVELY.

The subject of this sketch is a native of Henry county, Virginia, born
April 29, 1840. His parents were born in the same county, Lewis
Gravely, born 1794, died 1884, and Martha (Dyer) Gravely, born 1800,
died 1878. At Martinsville, Henry county, April 6, 1866, he married
Sallie H., daughter of Overton R. and Sallie C. (Martin) Dillard, both
now deceased. She was born in Henry county, April 9, 1845, and died
at her husband's home in Danville on December 3, 1883. The children
of Mr. Gravely are six: Sallie M., Martha D., Frank, Annie D., James
B. and Lewis O. He has buried one son and one daughter, both of
whom died in infancy. Mr. Gravely entered the Confederate States
Army in April, 1861, serving in the "Danville Greys," which became

Company B, 18th Virginia regiment. He participated in the battle of
first Manassas, and was in the battle of Gaines Mills, June 27, 1862, where
he received a severe gunshot wound through the left hip, disabling him
for field service. As soon as able for light duty thereafter he was made
enrolling officer, and so served till close of the war. After that he
clerked for a time for Wm. Robinson, Danville, and in 1872 went into
business for himself in which he has since continued. The present name
and style of firm is: Frank B. Gravely & Co., dealers in groceries, hay,
fertilizers, etc., 223 Main street, Danville. Mr. Gravely was ten years,
1872-1882, a member of the city council, and for the past four years
he has been chairman of trustees of the public schools of Danville.

CAPT. PEYTON B. GRAVELY

Eldest son of Willis Gravely, sr., formerly of Henry county, Virginia,
now deceased, was born in that county on May 15, 1835. His father
died in August, 1886, aged eighty-six years. His mother, whose
maiden name was Ann M. Barrow, died in December, 1886, aged
seventy-four years. He married at Danville, October 24, 1871, Mary
F., daughter of Alexander Walters, formerly of Pittsylvania county,
now deceased. They had five children: Kate W., Peyton, James G.,
Nannie D. and Mary V. Captain Peyton entered service for the late
war on April 9, 1861, sergeant in the Danville Artillery. At the reorganization
of the company, in December, 1862, he was elected captain,
the company becoming Company F, 42d Virginia Infantry, C. S. A.
He served through the entire war, under General "Stonewall" Jackson,
till that loved leader fell, and under the generals who succeeded him until
the surrender at Appomattox C. H. He was four times wounded in
service: At Greenbriar River in 1861; at Fishers Hill; at Gettysburg,
and at the Wilderness, the last-named a severe wound through the
right shoulder. His home had been in Henry county until he took the
field, and he had been magistrate at Leatherwood, Henry county,
before the war. Returning there, he engaged in the tobacco business,
in which his father had wide reputation as manufacturer of the original
"Gravely" brand, which he established in 1831. He continued in
business there until 1870, when he removed to Danville, where he has
since continued the same business, under the firm name and style of
"P. B. Gravely & Co." The tobacco used by this firm is the Henry
County flue cured, and their brands command a wide market, the
"Peyton Gravely," "Honey Dew," "J. G. Gravely Fine pounds," and
"Kate Gravely Fine 9 inch" being some of their leading brands.

COL. GEORGE K. GRIGGS.

Wesley Griggs, father of George K., was born in Henry county,
Virginia, in 1808, and is still an honored resident of the county, living
near Dyers Store. His wife, mother of George K., was Susan W. King,
born in Henry county in 1824, died at their home in 1879. The subject
of this sketch was born in Henry county, September 12, 1839. At
Cascade, Pittsylvania county, Virginia, in April, 1861, he married
Sallie B. Boyd, and their children are: W. E., Albert B., J. Henry, A.
W., Anna B., Ernest L. and Lizzie, all living now in Danville. The
parents of Mrs. Griggs were Virginians, born in Halifax county, died in
Pittsylvania county, near Cascade. Her father, H. A. Boyd, was born in
1807, and died in 1886; her mother, Amanda Hannings, born in 1808,
died in 1888.

Colonel Griggs attended school in Henry county in youth, and the
Virginia Military Institute, in 1857-8. He entered the Confederate
States Army in 1861, on the organization of the 38th Virginia Infantry
regiment, commissioned captain of Company K, that regiment. Except
when incapacitated by wounds, he was in continuous service till the
close of the war, promoted successively major, lieutenant-colonel,
colonel. From May, 1864, he was in command of the regiment, and at
the surrender, Appomattox C. H., was in command of the brigade. He
was twice severely wounded, at Gettysburg and at Drurys Bluff, and
took part in many battles, including Seven Pines. Since making his
residence in Pittsylvania county, Colonel Griggs has held a number of
county and township offices. In 1878 he removed to Danville, and
engaged in the warehouse business. In 1881 he was appointed secretary
and treasurer of the Danville & New River Railroad Company, and
in 1885 was made secretary, treasurer and superintendent of the
company, offices he is still ably filling.

JAMES P. HARRISON

Is of descent from families frequently mentioned in preceding pages of
Virginia and Virginians, as associated with great events in the history
of the colony and the commonwealth of Virginia. He was born at "The
Wigwam." Amelia county, Virginia, on October 29, 1852. His father,
William Henry Harrison, born at "The Oaks," Amelia county. May
10, 1810, died December 23, 1881, was the founder of the Amelia
Academy, the first University School of Virginia. Edmund Harrison,
of "The Oaks," father of Wm. Henry, was the son of Nathaniel
Harrison, who was born at Berkeley, Charles City county. Benjamin
Harrison of Berkeley, who married Anne, eldest daughter of "King"

Carter, was the paternal great, great grandfather of the subject of this
sketch.

James P. was educated by his father until 1868, and then attended
the Richmond College for one session. In 1870 he entered the University
of Virginia, and in 1874 took the degree of Master of Arts from
that renowned institution. After teaching school for two sessions he
returned to the University, and in 1876-7 took the law course. He
began the practice of law in Danville on September 1st, 1877, in which
he still continues, a member of the firm of Berkeley & Harrison. On
February 13, 1879, at the University of Virginia, Rev. Dr. L. T.
Hanckel officiating, Mr. Harrison married Mary Jane, daughter of
Prof. John Staige Davis, and granddaughter of Prof. John A. G. Davis,
both of the University. Her mother was Lucy Landon Blackford.
Mrs. Harrison died, leaving her husband one daughter, Lucy Landon
Harrison, and one son, Donald Skipwirth Harrison. In the war
between the States Mr. Harrison's immediate family was represented by
Prof. Edmund Harrison of Richmond College and John Hartwell Harrison
of "The Wigwam," Amelia county.

JOHN R. HUTCHINGS

Was born in Pittsylvania county, May 14, 1854, the son of Dr. John
M. Hutchings, who was born in this county, and was an honored resident
of Virginia through life, dying April 5, 1887, aged sixty-two years.
Dr. Hutchings served in the late war as surgeon in Virginia Infantry,
C. S. A. The mother of Mr. Hutchings was Celestia A. Carter, who died
in 1856, aged twenty-two years. In Danville, May 5, 1880, Mr. Hutchings
married Sue R. Doe, born in Danville, and they have two daughters:
Lucy A. and Sue D. Mrs. Hutchings is the daughter of Thomas B. and
Sarah A. (Ross) Doe. Her mother died on September 8, 1881. Her
father, who was born in New Hampshire, died September 8, 1883. He
was a brother of Judge Charles Doe, of the United States Supreme
Court.

In early youth, John R. Hutchings attended school at Chatham, Virginia,
after which he took the academic course at Blacksburg, Virginia.
He began his business career as clerk for Lee & Laytor, merchants of
Lynchburg, with whom he remained three years, then was with Capt.
William T. Clark of Danville one year. From 1876 to 1882 he was
with the firm of Hutchings, Thomas & Co., warehouse business, Danville;
1882-3 was in warehouse business at Durham, North Carolina,
then returned to Danville. With his father, he established the firm of
John M. Hutchings & Son, which was continued until the father's death,
in 1887. The firm is now John R. Hutchings & Co., proprietors of the

"Star Warehouse," for the sale of leaf tobacco. Mr. Hutchings was
captain of the Danville Greys, 1886-7, but resigned after a year's service.

JAMES RUFUS JOPLING

Was born in Bedford county, Virginia, on November 19, 1845. He is
descended from families early settled in Virginia, the son of William W.
Jopling, born October 27, 1815, still living, son of James Jopling,
whose parents came to Virginia from England in colonial days. In
1841 William W. Jopling married Julia Ann, the daughter of Rufus
Thomas, whose parents came to Virginia from Scotland. She was born
in 1821, and died August 3, 1856. The subject of this sketch was
raised on his father's estate, where he was born, north of Liberty, Bedford
county, and educated in the country schools of the neighborhood.
On November 10, 1863, nine days before attaining his eighteenth birthday,
he entered the Confederate States Army, joining Capt. R. B. Claytor's
company, B, 10th Battalion artillery, then stationed on Marion
Hill, at Battery No. 2, Richmond defences. During the winter of 1863-4
the command saw no active service in the field, but was detailed to
guard Federal prisoners at Belle Isle, Libby, and Barracks No. 2 in
Richmond. The next spring was assigned to the ordnance department
of the battalion, and so served till the close of the war.

After the war Mr. Jopling remained on the home farm until November
1, 1866, when he was appointed deputy sheriff under Col. John G.
Casey, sheriff of Bedford county, in which capacity he served until
September, 1868, when he resigned, and entered the wholesale and
retail hardware house of Jones, Watts & Co., Lynchburg. He remained
clerking for them until June, 1871, when a copartnership was formed
with them under the style of Jones, Watts & Jopling, opening a hardware
house at Salem, Virginia, Mr. Jopling managing partner. During
his residence in Salem, Mr. Jopling served one term in the city council.
In September, 1874, he moved to Danville, where he has since resided.
In October, 1879, he bought out the interest of Messrs. Jones, Watts
& Co., and has since continued the wholesale and retail hardware business
in his own name. He is vice-president of the largest bank in Danville,
the Merchants, is trustee and steward in the Mount Vernon M. E.
Church of Danville, the present church edifice largely the result of his
contributions and individual efforts, is a director in the Danville
Methodist College, is a director in the Danville Street Car Company,
with which he has been connected from its incorporation.

On October 4, 1871, in Lynchburg, Rev. W. E. Edwards officiating,
he married Mollie, daughter of Samuel and Margaret Phelps of Lynchburg.
Mrs. Jopling was born in Nelson county, Virginia, on November

24, 1849. Her father died in Lynchburg, where her mother still resides.
Mr. and Mrs. Jopling have one daughter, Mary Julia.

NATHANIEL W. LUMPKIN,

Son of Henry H. Lumpkin, born in Georgia, now deceased, was born
in Pittsylvania county, April 5, 1852. His mother, now living with
him, was born in Pittsylvania county, her maiden name Isabella G.
Wilson. Henry H. Lumpkin, elder brother of Nathaniel, was in the
Confederate States service with John Morgan, and was made a prisoner
on that general's daring invasion of Northern States, and held
eight months at Camp Chase and Johnson's Island. At Staunton,
Virginia, September 30, 1873, N. W. Lumpkin married Alice Hawkins,
who was born in Alabama, and their children are three sons and two
daughters: George H., Nathaniel W., jr., Allen S., Bessie V. and Alice
A., Mrs. Lumpkin is the daughter of Richard Hawkins, now deceased,
and Elizabeth (Black) Hawkins, now living at Staunton. Mr. Lumpkin
is the proprietor of the Lumpkin's Transfer Line Livery Stable, at
the corner of Patton and Lynn streets, Danville, a business which, from
its founding on a very small scale in 1879, has grown to cover practically
the entire transfer and livery business of Danville.

NATHANIEL HARDIN MASSIE

In tracing the ancestry of present residents of Danville it is pleasant
to come upon names as familiar to the Virginian, as the name of the
loved Commonwealth itself. Nathaniel Hardin Massie was born at
Charlottsville, Virginia, October 9, 1861. He is a son of N. H. Massie,
lawyer and banker, eldest son of Nathaniel Massie of Albemarle
county, born on the border of Albemarle and Nelson counties, in
November, 1824, many years an honored resident of Charlottsville,
and died there in October, 1880. His first ancestor in this country was
Thomas Massie, who, in 1690, at the age of six years, came over with
his father from Chester, England, where one branch of the family still
resides. Thos Massie died in 1790, at the advanced age of 106
years.

N. H. Massie was in the Confederate States service for a time, on the
staff of General Beauregard, but was retired on account of defective
eyesight. At the outbreak of the war, Nathaniel Massie had seven
grown sons and two sons-in-law, who entered service. Both the latter
were killed in service. One son, John L. Massie, captain in Rockbridge
Battery, was killed on the field of battle, the rest, except the eldest,
were disabled by wounds and exposure, and all but three died either
during the war, or soon after, from diseases contracted in service.

The mother of Mr. Massie was Eliza Kinloch Nelson, daughter of
Thomas Nelson of Clarke county, Virginia, a lineal descendant of
Thomas Nelson, jr., signer of the Declaration of Independence on behalf of
Virginia, of whom a sketch is given elsewhere in this volume. She was
also lineally descended from Gov. Spotswood (see Volume 1, Virginia
and Virginians).

Mr. Massie went to school from 1873 to 1875 to Major H. W. Jones,
now of Hanover Academy, from 1875 to 1880 attended the Charlottsville
high school, from 1880 to 1883 the University of Virginia,
taught school from 1883 to 1885 at Brookville Academy, Maryland,
came to Danville September 28, 1885, and entered on the practice of
law, in which he still continues.

J. T. MILLER,

Son of John V. and Mary (Epps) Miller, was born in Farmville, Prince
Edward county, Virginia, on September 22, 1839. His father, who
was born near Richmond, Virginia, died April 27, 1876, aged sixty-four
years. His mother still resides in Farmville. In June, 1861, he entered
the Confederate States Army, as a private of Company E, 38th Virginia
Infantry. In July, 1862, he was promoted second lieutenant. He was
in every battle of his regiment except Seven Pines, and ending with
Gettysburg. In that battle, when Pickett's Division was making its
immortal charge up the heights, he fell, wounded through the right leg.
He was made prisoner, and held for nine months, at Gettysburg, Baltimore,
Fort McHenry and Point Lookout, and from effects of wound
suffered amputation of leg.

After the war Mr. Miller was engaged in the saddlery and harness
business in Farmville for eleven years. In 1876 he removed to Danville
and engaged in business for other parties until 1885, in that year entered
into the partnership in which he still continues, name and style of
firm, New & Miller, buggies, wagons, harness, etc., wholesale and retail.
The wife of Mr. Miller, whom he married at Farmville, March 22, 1867,
is Pattie D. Holt, of Charlotte county, Virginia. Their children are
Lula A., John V., Henry M. (deceased), Mary L. and Mattie B. Mrs.
Miller is the daughter of Peter F. Holt, who died in November, 1877.
Her mother, whose maiden name was Martha D. Wilborn, is also now
deceased.

COL. JAMES M. NEAL.

In Colonel Neal is represented the fifth generation of his family in Danville,
all honorably identified with the best interests of the city. He
was born in Danville, January 3, 1845, son of Thomas D. Neal, who
was born in Pittsylvania county, October, 1812, was many years an

active business man of Danville, founding the present warehouse system
there in 1858, and who died in Richmond, on June 21, 1884. The
mother of Colonel Neal, born in Halifax county, Virginia, in 1821,
living now in Richmond, is L. F., daughter of Col. Samuel Carter of
Halifax county. A lad sixteen years of age at the outbreak of the civil
war, Colonel Neal responded to the call of Virginia, entering service in
Company B, 18th Virginia regiment. He was detailed on the staff of
General Pickett, where he served with fidelity till the close of the war,
sharing in all the immortal service of that gallant division. At the
close of the war he went to New York City and entered a large tobacco
establishment there, where he remained until his marriage.

He married in Danville, November 1, 1866, Rev. D. G. W. Dame officiating,
Rose P. Allen of Danville, daughter of Orin N. and Susan (Freeman)
Allen. Her father, born in New York in 1812, died June 20,
1875; her mother, born in Culpeper county, Virginia, is now living in
Danville. Colonel and Mrs. Neal have one son, Orin Allen, and have
buried a daughter, Percy Stokes, died at age of four years six months.

Making his home after marriage in Danville, Colonel Neal embarked
in business there as a tobacco leaf dealer, one of the first to ship leaf
tobacco from Danville in consignments. Since 1869 he has been proprietor
of the Planters Warehouse founded by him. The warehouse
building now occupied by him, 72×256 feet, he erected in 1869 to
accommodate his extended business. His best energies have ever been at
the service of his native city. The Odd Fellows Hall, on Main street,
stands as a monument to his enterprise, its erection having been secured
by his influence while he was Master of Bethesda Lodge, I. O. O. F. He
was an active worker in the movement which resulted in the building of
the new Episcopal church building in Danville, one of the finest church
edifices in Virginia. In 1886 he assisted in forming the organization
from which has resulted the Danville Academy of Music, costing
$30,000, and of this organization he is still the efficient chairman, the
building remaining under its control. He was active, in 1887, in
securing the improved water works sewerage, and other improvements,
and it was he who made the first move toward holding in Danville the
tobacco fair which was in its success so creditable to the city. He is
president of the Chamber of Commerce, and holds other public offices
of trust. Colonel Neal is yet in the prime of life, an energetic business
man, a public spirited citizen, a true Virginian.

WILLIAM NELSON, M. D.

The youngest son of Philip and Jane (Crease) Nelson, and great grandson
of General Thomas Nelson, was born at Mont Air, Hanover county,
Virginia, October 4th, 1854. He graduated at the Virginia Agricultural

and Mechanical College, 1876, and the three subsequent years
served as assistant teacher at the Episcopal High School, near Alexandria.
He was a student of medicine at the University of Virginia, the
session of 1880-1, and in 1882 graduated in the Medical department of
the University of Maryland, Baltimore. After leaving that institution,
he located in Danville, Virginia, where he is actively engaged in the
practice of his profession.

W. W. NEW,

Born in Henrico county, Virginia, near Richmond, is the son of R. P.
and Mary A. (Wilde) New, who were born in the same county, and
were honored residents there through life. His father died February,
22, 1852, aged forty-three years, and his mother died in Richmond,
October 8, 1862. Mr. New's school-days were passed in Richmond, and
from school life he passed to the employment of the C. S. Government,
serving in the department of Henrico, at Richmond, from October 8,
1861, to April 11, 1865. He had two brothers in service, F. A. and C.
R. New, the latter killed in battle of Seven Pines, May 31, 1862. From
1865 to 1871, Mr. New clerked for L. Levy, Richmond, grocery and
commission business. In July, 1871, he removed to Danville, and in
September following went into business on his own account, dealing
in junk. Later he handled sewing machines, then wagons, carriages,
buggies and harness, also livery. He is now doing the largest carriage,
buggy, wagon and harness business in this section of the
country, a member of the firm of New & Miller, carrying on both wholesale
and retail trade.

In Caswell county, North Carolina, November 12, 1873, Mr. New
married Lucie Gunn, of that county, the daughter of James Gunn, who
still lives in Caswell county, and Fannie (Henderson) Gunn, who died
in July, 1886. Mr. and Mrs. New have lost two children, Maggie, died
June 19, 1885, aged sixteen months, and Charley, died July, 1886, at
age of fifty days. They have one daughter, M. Fannie; and one son,
Robert, born May 19, 1887. Mr. New has always taken a warm interest
in the affairs of Danville since making that his home, and is one of
its most respected citizens. He is now serving as alderman, elected for
a two years' term from July 1, 1888. He has been for many years a
trustee of the Danville (Methodist) College for young ladies; is a
member of the Order of Odd Fellows, and a Knight of Honor.

JOHN R. PACE

Was born in Henry county, Virginia, the son of Greenville T. Pace,
who was born in that county, November 1, 1810, and who died on September
20, 1878. The mother of John R., Nancy W. Hughes, was also

born in Henry county, and died there, in 1844, at age of thirty-seven
years. In 1860, in Bedford county, he married Sallie A., daughter
of Leven B. Hagerman, who died in 1841, and Charlotte C. Michell,
who died May 30, 1888, aged eighty-five years. The children of Mr.
and Mrs. Pace are six. William G., Lizzie, James R., Mary, Sallie
and Lottie.

In his youth, Mr. Pace attended the schools of Henry county. He
commenced the tobacco business in Danville in 1851, in his father's
factory. In 1857 he was admitted in the business with his father under
the style of G. T. Pace & Son. During the war he served the Confederate
States in the quartermaster's department. After the close of the
war he began business again, in the manufacture of tobacco, under the
firm name of John R. Pace & Co., later on the firm name was changed
to Pace, Talbott & Co. Some five years ago, he retired from manufacturing
and went into the leaf tobacco business in his own name. In
1886 he commenced business as a special partner with his eldest son,
William G. Pace, and P. B. Gravely, in the manufacture of plug tobacco,
under the firm name of P. B. Gravely & Co., which business is still so
conducted, the firm manufacturing the old original and far-famed
"Peyton Gravely" brand tobacco, that was established in the year
1831. Mr. Pace was a number of years a member of the city council of
Danville, and is at this time president of the Citizens Bank of Danville.

JOHN H. PATTESON

Was born in Buckingham county, Virginia, on January 16, 1847. He
attended the schools of his native county, and closed his academic
studies with attendance for two sessions at Trinity College, North
Carolina. In November, 1864, he entered the Confederate States
Army, 37th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, in which he served until the
close of the war. After the war he studied law with Capt. Camm
Patteson, of Buckingham county, and in November, 1869, he entered
into practice in that county. In 1870, he removed to Lynchburg,
Virginia, where he practiced law until 1873. In November, 1873, he
joined the Virginia Methodist Conference, and was licensed to preach,
which calling he followed for ten years. Since 1884 he has been practicing
law at Danville, office in Riverside Block. He is also the
treasurer of city of North Danville.

Mr. Patteson's parents were born in Buckingham county. Robert
Patteson, his father, died August 3, 1864, aged sixty-five years, and
his mother, who was Margaret P. Hocker, died in September, 1870,
aged sixty-nine years. The first wife of Mr. Patteson was Georgietta
B. Kinnear, who died June 24, 1873, leaving him one son, Andrew K.,

now of Danville. Secondly he married Fannie Shepherd, of Cambridge,
Maryland. Their marriage was solemnized in her native town, on
January 28, 1880, and they have two children, Pearl and Paul.

ESTON RANDOLPH.

The name of "Randolph" is one every true Virginian hears with
pride, remembering the many of the name who have added to the glory
of Virginia. Both on the paternal and the maternal side Eston Randolph
is of this family. He is the son of Major Beverley Randolph, of
"The Moorings," Clarke county, Virginia, and was born at his father's
seat, on December 7, 1857. His father's father was William F.
Randolph, a prominent lawyer of Virginia, and who was a grandson of
Thomas Mann Randolph, governor of Virginia in 1819-1822, whose
family and public record are given in Volume I of Virginia and Virginians.
In the late war, Major Randolph served on the staff of Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston. His son Beverley, jr., brother of Eston, was killed at the
age of sixteen years, three days after enlistment, at Greenwood Depot,
Albemarle county, Virginia. The mother of Eston Randolph, Mary
Conway Randolph, is the daughter of Philip Gymes Randolph, at one
time acting secretary of war. Major Randolph and his wife still reside
on his estate, "The Moorings."

Eston attended private school in Clarke county, then William and
Mary College, Williamsburg. In 1876 he left college, and accepted an
appointment in the United States Signal service, in which he remained
three years. Later he studied law at the University of Virginia, and
was admitted to the bar in 1883. In December of that year he came to
Danville, where he has since been in practice, a member of the law firm
of Randolph & Randolph. He has filled a number of local offices with
credit, and is present superintendent of public schools for the city of
Danville.

WILSON NICHOLAS RUFFIN

Was born at Edge Hill, Albemarle county, Virginia, on March 19,
1848. He is the son of Col. Frank G. Ruffin, who was born in Mississippi,
and is now a resident of Virginia, second Auditor of the State.
During the war, Colonel Ruffin was in the commissary department of
the Confederate States Army, rank as given. He had two sons in active
service, J. R. Ruffin, private in Rockbridge Battery, and W. Roane
Ruffin, lieutenant in Chamberlayne's battery. The subject of this
sketch was also in service for a time, although only seventeen years of
age at close of war. The mother of W. Nicholas was Caryanne Nicholas
Ruffin. She died in 1857. His wife is Mary Winston, daughter of Dr.

John Brockenborough Harvie, formerly of Powhatan county, Virginia,
now deceased. Her mother, still living, was Miss Mary E. Blair. As
the family names indicate, Mr. and Mrs. Ruffin are connected with many
of the eminent Virginian families whose names and services for Virginia
are given elsewhere in these records.

Mrs. Ruffin was born at Fighting Creek, Powhatan county, Virginia,
June 13, 1848, and became the wife of Mr. Ruffin at the place of her
birth, April 20, 1875, Rev. P. F. Berkeley uniting them. Their children
are five. John Harvie, Ellen Harvie, Wilson Nicholas, jr., Lewis Rutherfoord
and Cary Randolph.

Mr. Ruffin went to school in 1861-2 to Wm. H. Harrison, at "The
Wigwam," Amelia county, in 1862-3 to Rev. Wm. A Campbell, of Powhatan
county, in 1863-4 to the University of Virginia. After the war
he farmed in Albemarle county until 1870, and in that year went to the
western end of the Chesapeake & Ohio R. R., with Randolph & Co., contractors,
who built that portion of the road between Hawk's Nest and
the Kanawha Falls, except one mile. In 1873 he engaged in business in
Richmond, and in 1879 came to Danville, where he engaged in his present
business, real estate, fire and life insurance.

THOMAS R. SCLATER

Was born in Elizabeth City county, Virginia, on March 16, 1845, the
son of William S. Sclater, who was born in York county, Virginia, and
who died in 1866, aged fifty-two years. The mother of Thomas R.,
also a Virginian, Ann Lee her maiden name, was born in Norfolk, and
died in 1874, aged sixty-two years. He married in Pittsylvania
county, at Cascade, November 27, 1879, Blanche Venable of Pittsylvania
county. She was born in this county August 5, 1859, and is now
deceased. Her father was A. K. Venable, still of Pittsylvania county;
her mother, Sarah (Sclater) Venable, died in 1876, aged sixty years.

Thomas R. Sclater attended school in Hampton until in 1858 he began
business as assistant postmaster and drug clerk for Massenburg &
Cary, of Hampton. He was then only thirteen years of age, and
remained with them until he entered the army, one of Virginia's youngest
sons in the field, serving from 1861 till the close of the war, in
Company A, 32d Virginia Infantry, C. S. A., and taking part in battles
of Seven Pines, Savage's Station, Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg,
Cold Harbor, Five Forks, Sailors' Creek and many others.
After the war he went to Baltimore, Maryland, where he was clerk for
N. H. Jennings three years, from 1870 to 1874 was drug clerk for
Hunt, Rankin & Lamar; came to Danville in 1874, was four years
clerk for P. R. Jones, druggist, then went into business for himself, in
which he still continues, at 312 Main street.

WILLIAM B. SHEPHERD.

The subject of this sketch was born in Chatham, Pittsylvania county,
on August 22, 1857. At Clarksville, Virginia, November 9, 1882, the
bride's father officiating, he married Mary H. Whaley. She was born in
Clarksville, Mecklenburg county, Virginia, on August 22, 1858, the
daughter of Rev. F. N. Whaley and Bettie (Hughes) Whaley. Her parents
are Virginians, her father born in Fairfax county, September 7, 1819,
and her mother in Cumberland county, April 16, 1823. Mr. and Mrs.
Shepherd have two children: Fred. W., born January 26, 1884; Bessie
G., born January 31, 1886. Mr. Shepherd is the present incumbent of
the county court clerkship, Pittsylvania county, which position he has
ably filled since 1879, residence, Chatham.

THOMAS L. SYDNOR, D. D. S.,

Son of Rev. Thos. W. Sydnor, D. D., is a native of Virginia, born in
Nottoway county, on April 12, 1849. He was educated at the Richmond
College, and then entered the Baltimore Dental College, whence
he was graduated with honors in 1874. From 1874 to 1879 he
practiced his profession in Salem, Virginia, and since that time has been
in practice in Danville, his present place of residence. Fourteen years
of practice and an entire devotion to his profession have given him a
well deserved reputation in his business. Dr. Sydnor had two brothers
in the Confederate States Army: Edward G., killed at Sharpsburg,
Maryland, September 17, 1862, and R. Walton, captain of Nottoway
Company last year of the war, at the age of seventeen years.

THOMAS J. TALBOTT.

The subject of this sketch was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on
October 17, 1833. He is a son of Thomas Talbott, born in Baltimore,
died in 1844, aged thirty-seven years, and Sarah (Munn) Talbott, who
died in 1883, at the age of sixty-seven years. His parents removed
from Baltimore to Richmond, Virginia, when he was eighteen months
old, and he was reared in the latter city, attending its schools. At the
age of fourteen years he was apprenticed with the firm of Talbott &
Brother. In 1852 he went on the Wilmington & Manchester Railroad,
as locomotive engineer, and a year later on the Richmond & Danville
road, with which he remained until 1857, when he commenced business
for himself, manufacturer of tobacco, in Richmond.

In 1860 he came to Danville, which has since been his home, and his
practical business training, combined with warm interest in the development
of his adopted home, has made him a factor in the subsequent
development of the city, which has, from a population of 3,000 at the

time of his settlement grown to a population of 13,000, with a business
second to that of no city of the State. During the war Mr. Talbott was
captain of a company, having in his charge the Piedmont Railroad
Machine Shop. His brother, Samuel G., served in the Confederate
States Army. After the war Mr. Talbott resumed his business as
tobacco manufacturer, and he is now a member of the firm of Pace,
Talbott & Co., proprietors of the Star Tobacco Factory, No. 3. He is
now, and has been for the past eight years, president of the Tobacco
Board of Trade, of Danville. In politics Mr. Talbott is a Democrat.
He is a member of the City Council, and has been for a number of years,
and as member has been able to advance in many ways the best interests
of the city. He was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention
which nominated General Hancock at Cincinnati, in 1880.

At Danville, April 24, 1860, he married Mary M. Pace, who was born
in Henry county, Virginia, the daughter of Greenville T. and Nancy
(Hughes) Pace. Her parents are no longer living; her father died in
1878. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Talbott are six living, three
deceased. Carrie P., Nannie H., Sarah G., Greenville P., Lucy H.,
Thomas S., Frank, Mary P., and Watts. Carrie P., the first-born, died
in March, 1866, aged five years, Sarah G., deceased, was the third of
their children.

BENJAMIN B. TEMPLE, M. D.,

Physician and Surgeon, now of Danville, was born in Middlesex county
Virginia, on March 22, 1839. He is a son of Benjamin Temple, who
was born in Chesterfield county, Virginia, and died in 1873, aged seventy-three
years, and Lucy L. Robinson, born in Middlesex county, Virginia,
died in 1884, aged seventy-eight years. It is worthy of record
that this couple gave to the Confederate States government the service
of seven sons in the field, their record briefly stated as follows Benjamin
B. entered service in 1861, private in the 2d Virginia Howitzers,
later two years in the 9th Virginia Cavalry, he was wounded at Hagerstown,
Maryland, was four months a scout with Frank Stringfellow.
Major R. H., another son, served in the engineer's corps, C. W. was
wounded and captured in battle of second Manassas, and held until
exchanged at Washington, D. C.; John T. (now deceased), was a lieutenant
in the 30th Virginia Infantry, William S., sergeant in Pegram's
battery, was seven times wounded, and served till the surrender at
Appomattox; Bernard M., also in Pegram's battery, was wounded at
second Manassas, and captured at Richmond in 1865, Ludwell R.
(now deceased), served in the 9th Virginia Cavalry.

Dr. Temple was graduated in medical course from a school in Richmond,
Virginia, after which he studied in Paris, France. After the war

he practiced in Middlesex county, Virginia, two years; in 1867 went to
St. Charles, Missouri, as surgeon for the Baltimore Bridge Company,
and remained with them until, in 1871, he returned to Virginia. In
1872 he went to Reidsville, North Carolina, and in 1874 returned again
to his native State and settled in Danville, where he has since been in
practice. He has been serving as health officer of Danville, for the past
two years. While in New Orleans, Louisiana, September 5, 1866, he
married Mary E. Glidden, and they have one son, George G. Mrs.
Temple was born in New Orleans, the daughter of George Glidden, who
was born in the State of Maine, and has been many years a resident of
New Orleans. Her mother, whose maiden name was Mary E. Clark,
died in 1850, aged twenty-three years.

HALIFAX COUNTY.

SAMUEL L. ADAMS.

The subject of this sketch was born in Halifax county, Virginia,
on October 31, 1863, and his home has always been in the county.
His father, John R. Adams, was born in Powhatan county, Virginia,
was in the Confederate States Army during the late war, and died on
May 28, 1887, aged sixty-four years. His mother, whose maiden
name was Mary A. Stanford, died on July 4, 1874, aged forty-eight
years. On January 12, 1887, he married S. Alice Mitchell, and their
son, John R., was born on January 17, 1888. Mrs. Adams was born
in Halifax county, and her parents are still residents of this county,
Capt. John A. Mitchell and Mary F. (Pringle) Mitchell.

Among the paternal ancestors of Mr. Adams may be named the
Adamses of Boston, and the Tuckers of Virginia, who figured conspicuously
in colonial days. His mother's people, the Stanfords of
North Carolina, were also public men of national reputation, his
great grandfather, Richard Stanford, being elected to the United
States Congress in 1796, and was elected continuously for twenty years
He died in 1816 during the session of Congress, and his remains were
interred in the Congressional Cemetery, and a tall marble shaft at
present marks the spot. Gen. Stephen Moore, of Revolutionary fame,
of the same State, was Mr. Adam's mother's great grandfather. The
ancestral coat-of-arms of Mr. Adam's family bears the inscription of
"Prima" as will be seen on next page.

Mrs. Adam's ancestors were the Jeffersons, Baskervilles and many
others of the old Virginian families, of like reputation.

Mr. Adams is engaged in the insurance business and his address at
present is South Boston, Virginia.

JUDGE EDWARD W. ARMISTEAD

Was born in Halifax county, Virginia, in May, 1855. His father is William
H. Armistead, now of Halifax county, born in Petersburg, Virginia.
His mother, who was Miss Sarah Henry before marriage, is the granddaughter
of Patrick Henry. The early education of Judge Armistead
was received at Hampden-Sidney College. In 1876 he entered the Washington
and Lee University, and was graduated from the Law Course
there in 1878. Several years afterward he entered into practice in South
Boston, in which he has continued to the present date. He also holds
at the present time the office of notary public. From 1881 to 1885 he
was judge of Halifax county court.

HENRY EASLEY

Is the son of Henry Easley, M. D., who was born in Halifax county, Virginia,
was many years an esteemed physician of the county, and is now
deceased. His mother, Mrs. Ann R. L. Easley, is still living in this county.
He was born in Halifax county, December 15, 1847, and went to school
in the county, at Cluster Springs and at Halifax C. H. At the age of
seventeen years, 1864, he entered the Confederate States Army, Pogue's
Battalion of Light Artillery, with which he served till the surrender at
Appomattox C. H. He had two older brothers in service, Thomas and
Andrew, the latter severely wounded in the head.

In Halifax county, October 15, 1873, Henry Easley married Nannie P.
Owen. Their living children are: Irvie Owen, Annie Rebecca, Mamie,
Henry Owen, and Thomas Owen. They have buried one son, William
Preston, did May 29, 1887. Mrs. Easley was born in Halifax county,
the daughter of Thomas E. Owen, who was born in this county, and
is now sw ad. Her mother, now deceased, was Mary B. Baxley, born
in Half county.

After the war Mr. Easley engaged in mercantile business at Black
Walnut and at South Boston for about ten years. He then, with some
others, formed the Planters and Merchants Bank, of South Boston, with
which he has ever since been connected, and of which he is now cashier.
He served as magistrate at Black Walnut twelve months during his
residence there.

JOHN WATKINS EASLEY

Was born in Halifax county, on October 22, 1849, the son of Dr. Henry
and Ann L. R. Easley. (See preceding sketch for further family record.)
He has been twice married, his first wife Sallie Irvin Owen, who died
August 2, 1881, leaving him one daughter, Nannie Preston. He married
secondly, January 15, 1885, Jennie C. Owen, and they have two
children, John W. and Lizzie O. Mr. Easley was educated in the schools
of Halifax county, and entered on a business life at the age of eighteen
years, in the mercantile house of J. S. Easley, Halifax C. H. Two years
later he moved to South Boston, where he has since continued in the
same business, adding to it an extensive tobacco business. He is a
director in the Planters and Merchants Bank, of South Boston, a
member of the city council, and city treasurer.

MAJOR HENRY A. EDMONDSON

Is descended from families seated in Halifax county in the eighteenth
century. He was born in this county, on October 20, 1833, the son of
Richard Edmondson, who was born in this county, and who died in
November, 1857, aged 74 years. His mother, Miss Susan Howell Chastain,
daughter of Rene Chastain, a descendant of the Huguenots, is still
living at Halifax C. H. His wife was born in Halifax county, Sallie A.,
daughter of Nathaniel H. Poindexter, and they were married at Halifax
C. H., on May 21, 1857. Their children were born in the order named:
Mary J., Susan H., Francis W., Anna H., Robert H., Rosa L., Lula H.,
Lizzie A., Willie L., Sallie A., Frank, Mary, Susan, Anna and Rosa are
married; one son, Henry A., died in August, 1865, aged seven years.
Mrs. Edmondson's father was born in Halifax county, and died in 1859,
aged fifty-one years. Her mother, who was Miss Mary Johnson before
marriage, died in 1883, aged seventy-two years.

Mr. Edmondson received his education in the schools of Halifax
county. From 1852 to 1857 he clerked for Estes & Avery, general
store. In April, 1861, he entered the Confederate States Army, in
Company A. Montague's Battalion, and served till the close of the war,
twice slightly wounded. He was promoted first lieutenant; later was
commissioned major of the 53d Virginia Infantry, a regiment of

Pickett's division. Among the battles in which he took part were:
Bethel, Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, second Manassas, Fredericksburg,
Gettysburg, those around Petersburg, Sailors Creek, Five Forks.

After the war, Major Edmondson returned to Halifax county, where
he engaged in farming until, in 1869, he was elected high sheriff of the
county, which office he filled until 1887. He has also dealt extensively
in tobacco since 1872, is owner of the Edmondson Warehouse and
interested in the Flag Warehouse, both at South Boston; is also a
partner in the general store of Edmondson & Shepherd, South Boston.

ALEXANDER R. GREEN

Was born at Halifax C. H., on December 8, 1841, the son of Thomas
Jefferson Green, who was born in Halifax county, and who died on July
20, 1871, aged seventy-four years. His mother was Frances Keeling
Burton, born in Granville county, North Carolina, died May 20, 1866,
aged sixty-five years. At Halifax C. H., October 31, 1871, he married
Lizzie R. Wauhop, and their children are four, born: Sallie R., May 29,
1873; Thomas J., May 4, 1876; Fannie B., January 5, 1879 (died June
6th following); Lizzie A., June 3, 1887. Mrs. Green was born at Memphis,
Tennessee, the daughter of William and Sarah F. (Ragland)
Wauhop. Her father died at Memphis in 1848; her mother died on
October 3, 1874, aged fifty-four years.

Mr. Green was raised at Halifax C. H., attending school there, and
completing his education in 1859. He was one of five brothers who
served through the late war in the Confederate States Army. His service
was in Company A, 53d Virginia Infantry, Armistead's Brigade,
Pickett's Division. In Pickett's grand charge at Gettysburg, he was
shot through the right breast, by a minie-ball, and was disabled by the
wound for nine months, returning then to his regiment and serving till
the close of the war. He took part in battles of: Bethel, Seven Pines,
Fredericksburg, Suffolk, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Drurys Bluff, Howlett
Farm, Five Forks, Fort Harrison and Sailors Creek. His brother,
Robert B., was wounded in service. The other brothers in service
were: Thomas J., Nathaniel T. and William L. After the war Mr.
Green clerked in store at Halifax C. H. until August, 1871, when he
was appointed commissioner in chancery for county and circuit courts,
which office he has continued to hold up to date. On July 1, 1879, he
was elected treasurer of the county, and is still serving, having been
elected for three consecutive terms of four years each.

THOMAS R. JORDAN.

Thomas R., son of John and Susan R. (Chambers) Jordan, was born
in Halifax county. His parents were also natives of this county and
residents of same through life. His father died in 1871, his mother died
in 1887. His wife is Mary E., daughter of M. H. and A. M. Young. She
was born at Marengo, Alabama. Their marriage was solemnized on
New Years Day, 1876, by Rev. J. B. Shearer, and their children are two
daughters, Nora and Lizzie, and four sons, Hamet, Hurt, Hugo and
Herman. The father of Mrs. Jordan was killed by a runaway slave in
1863. Her mother is living now in Halifax county, Virginia. Thomas
R. Jordan served through the late war in the Confederate States Army,
three years in Company C, 3d Virginia Cavalry, one year in Poage's
Artillery Battalion. He was taken prisoner in the advance on Gettysburg,
and held a time in Washington, at the Old Capitol. On July 1,
1879, he was elected clerk of the Halifax county court, and he is still
filling that office.

WALTER L. MOON.

Henry Moon, born in Charlotte county, Virginia, now deceased, and
Jemima Bailey, also now deceased, were the parents of Walter L. Moon,
who was born in Halifax county, Virginia, on January 3, 1843. He has
been twice married, Mary H. Russell, of Halifax county, becoming his
wife in March, 1865, and dying in 1868, leaving him two children, Helen
V. and H. R. He married secondly in 1872, Eliza C. Carrington, and
their children are: Elizabeth, Walter, Annie, Mollie and Edward. In
April, 1861, Mr. Moon entered the Confederate States Army, in Company
A, 53d Virginia Infantry, private, promoted sergeant. In the second
year of the war he went to the Virginia Military Institute, where
he remained until early in 1864, when he again entered service in Company
G, 6th Virginia Cavalry. In the battle of the Wilderness, May,
1864, he received a shell wound, taking off his right arm, just below the
elbow. He was three weeks in Chimborazo hospital, Richmond, then
returned home. He engaged in farming for several years after the close
of the war, then was three years in the tobacco warehouse business at
South Boston until, in July, 1887, he was elected high sheriff of Halifax
county. In this office he is still serving.

JOSEPH STEBBINS

Was born June 14, 1850, in Petersburg, Virginia. He married July 24,
1872, Willie S. Fourqureau, of Halifax county, Virginia, the daughter
of Reuben D. and Mary B. Fourqureau. Their children are Joseph,

born November 5, 1874, and Laura May, born September 16, 1878.
When he was about a year old, Mr. Stebbins' parents removed to Richmond,
Virginia, where his boyhood was spent until he was fourteen
years of age. His first school was that of Miss Virginia Danforth. In
1859 he spent a session at the school at residence of Col. Thomas
Taylor in Goochland county, Virginia, later attended the classical
school of R. H. L. Tighe, in Richmond. As the war progressed, the
schools were broken up, and he had to go to work. He began as errand
boy in a store, and in 1864 came to Halifax county to take a position
in a country store at Black Walnut. In 1871 he was admitted to an
interest in the business, in 1872 removed to Turbeville, same county,
continuing the mercantile business, and in 1876 came to South Boston,
where he is now a member of the firm of Stebbins & Lawson, dealers in
general merchandise.

On his father's side, Mr. Stebbins is descended from an old Massachusetts
family, his lineage thus traced. Joseph Stebbins, born 1594,
sailed in the bark "Francis," from Ipswich, England, in 1634, with
wife and four children, one of the first settlers of Northampton, Massachusetts;
died December 14, 1671. i. John Stebbins, son of Rowland,
born 1626, married May 14, 1646, Mrs. Mary Munden; married
secondly, November 17, 1657, Abigail Bartlett, of Northampton; died
March 9, 1679. ii. John, son of John, born January 28, 1647, one of
the early settlers of Deerfield, Massachusetts, soldier under Captain
Lothrop, and the only man known to have come out unharmed from
the Bloody Brook massacre; had house burned and entire family
captured by Indians, February 29, 1704, married Dorothy Alexander,
of Boston; died December 19, 1724. iii. John, son of John ii., born
1685, married about 1714, Mary —, who died August 30, 1733,
married secondly August 25, 1735, Hannah Allen, captured by Indians
and redeemed 1704; died September 7, 1760. i. Joseph, son of John
iii., born October 20, 1718, selectman and in other town offices;
married Mary Stratton, of Northfield, who died July 7, 1797; he died
May 30, 1797. ii. Joseph, son of Joseph, born October 15, 1749,
second lieutenant in the company of minute men who marched on the
Lexington alarm, commissioned lieutenant in Capt. Hugh Maxwell's
company, May 26, 1775, was acting captain in Colonel Prescott's
regiment, at battle of Bunker Hill, commission as captain signed by
John Hancock, president of Continental Congress, July 5, 1775, served
through Revolutionary war, rising to rank of lieutenant-colonel,
married January 25, 1774, Lucy Frary, died December 15, 1816. iii.
Joseph, son of Joseph ii., born February 25, 1782, married December
3, 1805, Laura Hawks, who died November 26, 1825; he died August
18, 1827. iv. Joseph, son of Joseph iii., born May 12, 1811, removed

in 1837 to Petersburg, Virginia, married there, September 4, 1844,
Mary Elizabeth Grundy, about 1851 removed to Richmond. They
had six children, two of whom died in infancy. The remaining four
were named, Laura, Joseph (subject of this sketch), Henry and Arthur,
all of whom, except Joseph, who was then absent from home, together
with the parents, perished when their home was consumed by fire, on
February 21, 1865.

On his mother's side, Mr. Stebbins is descended from George Grundy
of Shipley Hall, Derbyshire, England, where he was born about 173-,
came to colonial Virginia, settling in Norfolk, married, about 176-,
Miss Sarah Lane, a noted belle of Edenton, North Carolina. His son
George, born in Norfolk, April 4, 1790, removed to Petersburg, there
married in July, 1815, Caroline Smith, one of the original members of
the "Petersburg Volunteers," a company commanded by Captain
McRae in the war of 1812, the heroic band that gave to Petersburg the
name of the "Cockade City," died at Petersburg, July 14, 1826. His
daughter, Mary Elizabeth, born in Petersburg, December 6, 1824,
married Joseph Stebbins, father of subject of this sketch, September 4,
1844, perished with him as above recorded.

EDGAR HOPSON VAUGHAN,

Born at Paineville, Amelia county, Virginia, May 6, 1843, is the son of
Edwin A. Vaughan and Mary A. P. Haskins, both born in Amelia
county, honored residents there through life, and now deceased. His
mother died in 1872, his father in 1879. At Black Walnut, Virginia,
December 11, 1867, Rev. J. B. Shearer officiating clergyman, he married
Almira Traver. Their children are: Mary E., J. Edgar, Florence H.,
Herbert E., Ida T., and Blanche H. Mrs. Vaughan was born at New
Haven, Connecticut, and is the daughter of James and Mary A. (Chamberlam)
Traver, now of South Boston, Halifax county, Virginia.

Mr. Vaughan was educated at Prideville Academy and Edgewood
Seminary, Amelia county. He entered the Confederate Army as a private
in Company G, 6th Virginia Cavalry, in August, 1861, and was
promoted sergeant, and was in all the principal battles in Jackson's
Valley campaign, and also Brandy Station, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor,
Five Forks and Appomattox. After the war he was engaged in a mercantile
business at South Boston, until elected, July 1, 1879, clerk of
Halifax county court, which office he is still ably filling.

PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY.

ROBERT BLAIR BERKELEY

Was born in Prince Edward county, Virginia, on October 13, 1842, the
son of Peyton Randolph Berkeley and Frances Ann Banister Little. As
the family names indicate, he is connected with many of the families
who have been honorably identified with the annals of Virginia, and is,
indeed, a lineal descendant from Sir William Berkeley (see Volume 1 of
this work). His father, born in Richmond, Virginia, in September,
1804, died in May, 1870. His mother, born in Clarke county, Virginia,
died in September, 1843. During the late war, his father, his elder
brother and himself, constituting the entire family, were in service. The
father was captain of Company K, 3d Virginia Cavalry (Stuart's), and
the subject of this sketch was sergeant in the same company. The
brother, W. R. Berkeley, was lieutenant-colonel of the 21st Virginia
Infantry.

In Prince Edward county, June 12, 1867, Rev. R. L. Dabney, D. D.,
officiating clergyman, Robert Blair Berkeley married Pattie Maria
Price. Their daughter, Fannie Little, born July 27, 1868, died August
30, 1869. Mrs. Berkeley was born in Prince Edward county, as was
her father, Charles Allen Price. Her mother, who was Miss Fannie Priscilla
Wilson, was born in Cumberland County, Virginia. Mr. Berkeley
has been twice married, his first wife, Alice M. Scott, whom he wedded on
April 29, 1863, and who lived but a few months. He was educated at
Hampden-Sidney College; was graduated in law at the University of
Virginia in June, 1871, was in practice in Richmond, 1872-7, then removed
to Farmville, and since that date has been in practice in Prince
Edward and adjoining counties. In May, 1887, he was elected Commonwealth
attorney for Prince Edward county for the term of four years,
and is still serving.

CAPT. Z. A. BLANTON

Was born in Cumberland county, Virginia, on August 1, 1833. He is
the son of Elisha Blanton, who was born in Cumberland county, and
who died in February, 1853, aged fifty-three years. His mother was
Elizabeth A. Sanders, died in 1875, aged seventy-seven years. His wife
is Ida F., daughter of W. T. Rice, of Farmville, who married Mary V.
Williams. Mrs. Blanton was born in Farmville, and they were married
there, on December 9, 1868. Their children are one daughter, Lizzie S.,
and two sons, William B. and Samuel E. In April, 1861, Mr. Blanton
entered the Confederate States Army, sergeant Company F, 18th Virginia
Infantry. He received promotion to first lieutenant, then captain,

and was in command of his company when severely wounded and
captured in the third day's fighting at Gettysburg. He was held a
prisoner at Baltimore one month, then ten months at Johnson's
Island, in Lake Erie. After exchange he was placed on the retired list
and did local duty at Farmville a time, then was appointed clerk in the
Farmer's Bank, at Farmville. In this position he was serving when
the war ended, and at the time of Lee's surrender he took charge of the
bank funds, escaped with them, and kept them safely until he was
enabled, in due time, to restore them to the bank again. While in
active service he took part in battles of: First Manassas, Williamsburg,
Seven Pines, Gaines Mills, Malvern Hill, Frazier's Farm, the seven
days fighting around Richmond, Petersburg, Gettysburg, and others.
Both before and since the war, Mr. Blanton has been extensively
engaged in a tobacco business, in which he still continues. He also
carried on a mercantile business for six years after the war.

COL. JOHN PATERSON FITZGERALD.

The subject of this sketch was born at Nottoway C. H., Virginia, on
May 15, 1837, the son of George and Catherine (Campbell) Fitzgerald.
His father died in 1863, and his mother died in 1839. Both were born
in Nottoway county, and were of families honorably identified with its
annals. Francis Fitzgerald, father of George, and for fifty years clerk
of Nottoway county, was the son of Captain William Fitzgerald, who
served with that rank in the Revolutionary war, and took part in the
battle of Guilford C. H. Catherine, mother of Colonel Fitzgerald, was
the daughter of Dr. A. A. Campbell, who was a surgeon in the war of
1812, and who represented Nottoway county many years in the legislature
and senate of Virginia. The wife of Colonel Fitzgerald, whom he
married in Prince Edward county, December 23, 1863, Rev. R. L. Dabney,
D. D., uniting them, is also of eminent Virginian families. She was
born in Prince Edward county, Florida Frances, daughter of William
Cabell Flourney. Her father, born in 1812, died in 1861, was the
grandson of William Cabell of Nelson county. Her mother is Martha
M. Venable, born in 1816, living now at Farmville.

Colonel Fitzgerald was educated at Hampden-Sidney college, and
was graduated there in June, 1857, studied law at the University of
Virginia, 1857-8, and was licensed to practice law on July 30, 1858.
He located in Prince Edward county in October, 1858, and was in
practice there when war was inaugurated. He entered service as
first lieutenant of Company I, 23d Virginia Infantry; was promoted
captain July 25, 1861; major, June 10, 1863; lieutenant-colonel, same
regiment, November 27, 1863. His service was from May, 1861, to the
surrender, and under Gens. Garnett and H. R. Jackson in Northwest

Virginia, "Stonewall" Jackson in the Valley. He was wounded at
Sharpsburg, and captured at Spottsylvania C. H. Taken a prisoner
to Fort Delaware, he was one of the fifty field officers sent thence to
Charleston, South Carolina, in 1864, to be put under fire of the Confederate
guns; was exchanged at Charleston.

After the war, Colonel Fitzgerald resumed his practice in Prince
Edward county. Since October, 1885, he has been treasurer of the
Union Theological Seminary at Farmville and of Hampden-Sidney
college. He takes great interest in secret societies; is a Mason, Knight
of Honor, and Royal Arcanum. In 1883-4 was representative of Virginia
Grand Lodge K. of H. to Supreme Lodge; and since then has been
a member of the committee of Appeals and Grievances of the Supreme
Lodge, and chairman of committee for the last three years.

HON. PHILIP W. MCKINNEY

Was born in Buckingham county, Va., on March 17, 1832. His
parents were Virginians, Charles McKinney, born in Charlotte county,
died in August, 1862, and Martha Guarrant, also now deceased. On
May 12, 1856, he married Nannie Christian, who died, leaving him one
son, Robert C. He married secondly, at Farmville, Virginia, December
23, 1884, Annie Lyle, and they have one child, Frankie Irving. The
early school days of Mr. McKinney were passed in Buckingham county,
followed by the course at Hampden-Sidney college, whence he was graduated
with honors. He pursued his law studies at Washington and
Lee University, and then entered on the practice of law in Prince
Edward and adjoining counties.

In April, 1861, he entered the Confederate States Army, captain of
Company K, 4th Virginia Cavalry, and was with that regiment in all
its gallant service until incapacitated for the field by wound received in
1863 at Brandy Station. After that he performed local duty at Danville
for a year. In 1864 he was relieved from military duty by Col.
George C. Cabell, and took his seat as a member of the General Assembly
of Virginia, to which position he had been elected from Buckingham
county in 1858, and where he served till the close of the war.

Since that time he has been one of the most eminent members of the
Bar in Virginia, with his home at Farmville, his practice mainly in
Prince Edward county. He has filled the office of prosecuting attorney
several terms, has been three times Presidential elector on the Democratic
ticket for the Fourth District, was elector at large in 1884; in
1881 was the Democratic nominee for attorney-general, and in 1885
was a candidate for nomination for Governor of Virginia, receiving,
among the several candidates, the next highest vote to that by which
Governor Lee was nominated.

JOHN W. NASH, M. D.,

Is the son of Judge John W. Nash of Powhatan county, Virginia, who
died in 1860. His mother, also now deceased, was Elizabeth Hatcher.
Dr. Nash was born in Amelia county, Virginia, on August 29, 1826.
His early school days were passed in Powhatan county, after which he
attended the Boonville Academy, Missouri. He then took the medical
course of Jefferson College, whence he was graduated in the spring of
1848. He practiced at Cumberland C. H., then at Cartersville, Virginia,
and in 1874 came to Farmville, where he has been in practice ever
since. At Richmond, Virginia, on May 20, 1852, he married Lydia,
daughter of Francis and Sarah (Cowles) Smith, formerly of Richmond,
both now deceased. The record of the children of Dr. and Mrs. Nash is:
William, now deceased; Frank, now a surgeon, U. S. N.; John, now
deceased, Sarah E., now the wife of Dr. Irving of Farmville.

HENRY C. PAULETT

Was born in Appomattox county, Virginia, on March 9, 1849, the son
of Richard S. Paulett, who was born in Prince Edward county, and is
living now in Farmville. His mother, who was Harriet P. Clark, died
on May 14, 1884. At Manson, North Carolina, December 23, 1873, he
married Emily F. Twitty, of Warren county, North Carolina. Their
children are three daughters, one son, Essie D., Hattie W., May T. and
R. Landon. Mrs. Paulett is the daughter of Thomas T. and Evylin
(Fitts) Twitty, both born in Warren county, North Carolina, and now
deceased. Her father died on April 4, 1888. Mr. Paulett was too
young for regular field service during the late war, but served on local
duty, having one brother, S. W. Paulett, in regular service. He attended
Southside Institute and other schools at Farmville until about 1863.
From that time until 1869, with slight intervals, was merchandising at
Farmville. In 1869 went to Randolph-Macon College and was graduated
in several of the schools of that institution. In 1873 he entered
the Virginia Conference, and in 1878 located in Farmville, where he
has ever since been engaged in the business of commission merchant,
which he still continues.

SAMUEL W. PAULETT,

Son of R. S. and H. P. (Clark) Paulett, was born at Farmville, on
October 24, 1846. His school days were spent at Farmville, and in the
Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York. He entered the
Confederate States Army in July, 1861, in Company F, 18th Virginia
Infantry, regimental marker. He was three times wounded in service,

at Second Bull Run, in Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, and at Sailors
Creek, April 6, 1865. He was taken prisoner at Gettysburg, also, and
was held six months, at Fort Delaware and at Point Lookout. From the
latter prison he escaped, and rejoined his regiment, serving with it until
the close of the war. Among the battles in which he took part are:
Williamsburg, the seven days fighting around Richmond, second Bull
Run, Boonsboro, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chester Station (May
16th), Hamilton Crossing, second Gaines Mills, Chester again (June
16th), Hatchers Run, Sailors Creek.

After the war, Mr. Paulett went into the tobacco business, in which he
continued six years, was then four years engaged in merchandising, then
returned to the tobacco business having an insurance business connected
with it, in which he still continues. He is connected with his father in
the tobacco business, junior member of the firm of R. S. Paulett &Son.
He was elected captain of the Farmville Guards, April 23, 1880, and has
been in command of the company, except for a short time, ever since.
For seven years he has been one of the councilmen of Farmville, and he is
also chief of the fire department. Mr. Paulett has been twice married,
his first wife Augusta E. Wiltse, who died December 1, 1875, leaving
him one son, Samuel W., jr. He married secondly, on August 10, 1879,
Jennie B. Gray, of Prince Edward county. They have three sons, Lewis,
Vernon and Gordon, and have buried one, their first-born, Percy C.

JUDGE ASA D. WATKINS.

The Watkins family, of French-English descent, was founded in Virginia
by Thomas Watkins, of Chickahominy, one of two brothers who
came to America in colonial days, one settling in Virginia, the other in
Alabama. From Thomas Watkins descended Frank Watkins, of Prince
Edward county, long clerk of its courts, great grandfather of Asa D.
His grandfather was Captain H. E. Watkins, of Prince Edward county,
who commanded its troops in the war of 1812. His father was the late
Judge F. N. Watkins, born in Prince Edward county, judge of its courts
for fourteen years, member of the legislature for Prince Edward and
Appomattox counties, sessions of 1866-7-8-9-70, died at age of
seventy-three years. The mother of Asa D., still living in Farmville,
was Martha A. Scott before marriage.

Asa D. was born in Prince Edward county, on June 5, 1856. His
earliest studies were received at home, then he attended school in Farmville
a time, then was sent to Hampden-Sidney college. He studied
law with his father and attended law lectures at the University of Virginia,
under Professor Minor. In 1883 he began practice in Prince
Edward and adjoining counties. Since February, 1886, he has been

judge of county court. In October, 1885, he was made secretary and
treasurer of the State Female Normal School of Virginia, located at
Farmville, which offices he still worthily fills.

Judge Watkins married at Farmville, September 2, 1886, Nannie E.
Forbes, of Buckingham county, Virginia. Their son, Willie F., was
born on June 17, 1887. Mrs. Watkins is the daughter of W. W. Forbes,
who was born in Buckingham county, still an honored resident there,
now seventy-four years of age. Her mother, who was Amonette Cobb,
died at the age of twenty-five years.

NOTTOWAY COUNTY.

GEORGE CAMPBELL,

Who made Virginia the home of his adoption in 1855, is a native of
Scotland, born July 4, 1836, the son of Benjamin and Anne (McDonald)
Campbell. His father died in 1858, aged forty-eight years, his mother's
home is in Edinburg, Scotland. His first marriage was with Jane
Cameron, who died in August, 1870. Their children were Alexander,
William, George P., Thomas D., Jane M., Annie E. George died in
1864, aged four years. In New York, August 28, 1873, Mr. Campbell
married Rosalie Higginbotham, of Virginia. They have two sons,
Edward and Robert W. H., and have buried one son, Douglas, died in
1879, aged three years.

Mr. Campbell came from Scotland to the United States in March,
1855, and at Petersburg, Virginia, engaged in a hardware business,
which he carried on until the war. From the close of the war until
1882 he was in the tobacco business. In 1882 he entered on his
present business, manufacturer of sumac and bark. He is probably the
largest dealer in the United States in this business, making heavy
shipments to Europe every year, and being a thorough business man,
understanding how to handle his immense trade. He has much the
largest mill in Virginia at Burkeville, where he resides, and also has
mills at Richmond and Alexandria, Virginia.

HON. WILLIAM EMBRE GAINES.

The subject of this sketch is a Virginian, born in Charlotte county on
August 30, 1844. He is the second son of C. J. Gaines, Esq., who was
born, lived and died in Charlotte county. But few men lived a more

useful and honored life than did the senior Mr. Gaines, for thirty-three
consecutive years he held the position of magistrate; died on the 16th
day of March, 1885, in the sixty-ninth year of his age.

At Smithfield, Isle of Wight county, Virginia, on October 10, 1866,
the subject of this sketch married Miss Loulie J. Langhorne, the
daughter of the Rev. Maurice J. Langhorne. This most estimable lady
died at her husband's residence at Burkeville, Virginia, on October 2,
1885, in the forty-first year of her age, leaving four children: Loulie L.,
Bassie D., Willie E. and Melissa V.

In his boyhood Mr. Gaines attended the schools of his native county;
in 1861 commenced an academic course in the county of Halifax, Virginia.
Hostilities commencing between the States at this period, he
enlisted in April, 1861, a member of the Charlotte Rifles, 18th Virginia
Regiment, afterwards a part of the famous Pickett's Division of the
Confederate States Army. He was engaged in nearly all of the battles
fought by the Army of Northern Virginia, commencing with the first
battle of Manassas; receiving promotion to adjutant of Manly's Battalion
of field Artillery; surrendering with the C. S. Army in May, 1865.
Immediately after the close of war Mr. Gaines engaged in mercantile
pursuits and has been successful in the business of dealer in leaf tobacco
in which business he is now engaged.

Mr. Gaines owns a beautiful home in the town of Burkeville, Nottoway
county, Virginia. He has served his people four years as mayor, and
is now president of the only bank in his town; was elected a member of
the Virginia Senate in 1883; in 1885 was the nominee of his party for
president of that body; was elected in 1886 by a majority of 8475 to a
seat in the 50th Congress of the United States, in which body he now
represents the 4th district of Virginia.

HERMAN JACKSON,

Born at Nottoway C. H., on August 28, 1847, is the son of B. B. Jackson,
born in Amelia county, Virginia, died in August, 1876, aged
sixty-seven years, and Louisa (Dyson) Jackson, born in Nottoway
county, died in 1867. The Jackson family of which he is the
representative was founded in America by three brothers who came
from England to the Virginia colony at an early day. Lyndhurst
Jackson, elder brother of Herman, was a soldier of the 3d Va. Cav.
under Fitz Hugh Lee in the late war, serving from the beginning until
captured the day before the surrender. He was taken a prisoner to
Point Lookout, and died there, from the effects of measles. Herman
Jackson has always lived in the county of his birth, receiving the usual
education of the schools of the county, and also attending the Nottoway

Academy. His home was with his father until the death of the latter.
He married, at Nottoway C. H., September 1, 1880, Lizzie Massenburg
Dillard, of Sussex county, Virginia. They have one son, Herman
Massenburg, and one daughter, Lizzie Dillard. Mrs. Jackson's father
was R. F. Dillard, born in Sussex county, Virginia, died in 1876. Her
mother, whose maiden name was Martha Virginia Massenburg, is now
living in Nottoway county. Since June 2, 1879, Herman Jackson has
been filling the office of clerk of courts of Nottoway county.
Residence: Nottoway C. H.

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.

JOHN M. MORTON,

Son of Charles A. Morton, was born at Charlotte C. H., Virginia, on
March 3, 1846. His father was born in Farmville, Virginia, and lives
now near Farmville. His mother, Paulina L. Morton, died on September
7, 1883, aged sixty-three years. At Wilson C. H., North Carolina,
February 21, 1868, he married Emma, daughter of Henry T. and Sarah
F. (Laube) Pairo. Her father, born in Washington, D. C., living now
in Baltimore, Maryland, was a resident of Richmond, Virginia, at the
time of her birth. Her mother died on July 5, 1872, aged sixty years.
Mr. and Mrs. Morton have six children living, two deceased. The firstborn

were twin daughters, Emma P. and Lena C. Lena died on June 6,
1872. A son, Thomas E., died on November 3, 1882. The other
children are Robert L., Josie K., John M., jr., Sadie A., and Helen P.
Mr. Morton attended school in Farmville, Virginia, and the Virginia
Military Institute, Lexington, where he graduated. At the age of
eighteen years, in March, 1864, he entered the Confederate States Army,
in Martin's Battery, in which he served until the surrender at Appomattox
C. H.

He studied law under Prof. Stephen O. Southall, and has been in practice
in Prince Edward and Nottoway counties. He was mayor of
Burkeville 1881-3, was elected Commonwealth attorney in May, 1883,
and again in 1887, and is still serving. Residence, Burkeville.

CHARLES EVERETT WILSON.

The Wilson family were early seated in Nottoway county, Charles
Wilson, great grandfather of Charles Everett, having been among the
earliest settlers in this section of Virginia. His son John Wilson, born
in Nottoway county, was the father of Charles R. Wilson, also born in
this county, and now living here aged sixty-eight years, the father of
Charles Everett, who was born at Wellville, on March 11, 1853. The
wife of Charles R. Wilson was Annie L. Jones, who died in 1858.
Charles Everett Wilson married, at Petoskey, Michigan, on January 24,
1884, Mary Helen Rice, who was born in Lewis county, New York. She
is the daughter of B. Blair Rice and Isabella Livingston Rice, formerly of
New York, now living at Petoskey, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson
have one son, Richard Blair, born December 20, 1885.

Mr. Wilson attended school near Wellville for five years, and lived
with his father until twenty years of age, when he went into the service
of Norfolk & Western Railroad Company, as station agent. In this
service he continued for six years, or until 1879. In 1877 he opened a
mercantile business at Nottoway, which he successfully conducted until
1887. He was elected treasurer of Nottoway county in 1883, and
re-elected in 1887, and is still serving. He is a stock-holder and director
in the Burkeville Savings Bank. In 1883 was postmaster at Nottoway,
which position he resigned to accept the county treasuryship.
Residence, Nottoway C. H.

DINWIDDIE COUNTY.

R. T. ARRINGTON.

Dr. John Arrington, born in North Carolina in 1800, died in April,
1878, and Martha, his wife, nee Westray, born in North Carolina in
1805, died in January, 1847, were the parents of the subject of this

sketch. He was born in North Carolina, January 3, 1833, and was
married at Warrenton, that State, Bettie J. Plummer becoming his
wife on November 2, 1853. She was born in North Carolina, the
daughter of Dr. Henry L. Plummer, who was born in that State on
January 1, 1798, and died in February, 1864. Her mother was Sallie
Falkner, born in North Carolina, died in 1845, aged forty years. Mr.
and Mrs. Arrington have buried five children: Sallie F., John, Henry
L., Austin P. and Alfred W. Their living children are named. Martha
S., William P., Richard T., jr., Kemp P., Samuel W., Herbert, Ivy L.

Mr. Arrington's earliest schooling was received in Franklin county,
North Carolina, and he was graduated at the University of North
Carolina, in 1853. He then engaged in mercantile pursuits which he
followed until 1862. In February, 1864, he entered Company E, 1st
North Carolina Cavalry, C. S. A. He received promotion to quarter-master
sergeant, and served till the close of the war. After the war he
resumed business in Warrenton, North Carolina, but in July, 1867,
removed to Petersburg, where he has since been a member of the firm
of John Arrington & Sons, grocers and commission merchants;
specialties; cotton, tobacco, and peanuts. The Richmond House of
this firm is well and favorably known. Arringtons & Scott.

WILLIAM E. BEASLEY

Was born in Petersburg on June 4, 1842. He went to school at the
Petersburg institute, and in 1859 engaged with his father in the tobacco
business. He entered the Confederate Army in April, 1861, lieutenant
Company D, 12th Virginia Infantry. In 1862 he resigned and later
again enlisted, this time in the cavalry service, Company B, 13th Virginia
regiment. After the war he went to Louisville, Kentucky, and
was in the tobacco business there for a year, then returned to Petersburg,
where he has continued in the same business to the present time.

His father, William H. Beasley, was born in Petersburg, and died in
July, 1874, aged sixty-three years. His mother, whose maiden name
was Ann J. Bragg, is still living in Petersburg. His wife, whom he married
March 25, 1864, is Mary J. Hill, born in Dinwiddie county, the
daughter of Green Hill, who died in 1865, aged sixty years. Her mother,
also now deceased, was Mary Eldredge, a descendant of Pocahontas
Mr. and Mrs. Beasley have three sons. Edwin H., Percy and Hill, and
one daughter, Mary E.

JUDGE DAVID MEADE BERNARD.

Judge Bernard was born in Petersburg, on May 11, 1840. His
parents, both now deceased, were Virginians, his father, David Meade
Bernard, born in King George county, and his mother, Sallie A. Feild,

born in Brunswick county. His marriage was solemnized in Brunswick
county, on December 21, 1870, by Revs. J. H. Morrison and O. A.
Glazebrook, and his wife is Lutie B., daughter of Dr. Edward A. Morrison.
She was born in Brunswick county, August 2, 1854. Dr. Morrison,
her father, was born in Lunenberg county, Virginia, and is now
deceased. Her mother, whose maiden name was Lucia B. Hackley, has
been dead some years. The children of Judge and Mrs. Bernard are:
Lutie M., Sallie F., Mary M., Willie M. (deceased), David M. and Richard
F.

Judge Bernard went to school in Petersburg until 1857, and then was
sent to Hampden-Sidney College, where he was graduated in 1860. He
entered the Confederate States Army in May, 1851, private in Company
E, 12th Virginia Infantry, was transferred to 10th Virginia Cavalry in
1864, and served through the war, was wounded on March 31, 1865,
near Dinwiddie C. H., and captured at Richmond, at the time of the
evacuation. After the war he returned to his home in Orange, studied
law, and was admitted to the bar in Brunswick county in May, 1866.
He practiced in that and adjoining counties until 1881, when he
removed to Petersburg, where he was in practice until January, 1886,
when he entered upon the duties of Judge of the Hustings Court of
Petersburg, which position he is still filling.

GEORGE S. BERNARD.

The subject of this sketch was born August 27, 1837, in the county
of Culpeper, Virginia, his father being David M. Bernard, for many
years the clerk of the corporation court of Petersburg, and his mother
Elizabeth M. Bernard, a daughter of Wm. Ashby of Culpeper county.
The families of both parents are of English origin and have resided in
Virginia for many generations.

In 1855 Mr. Bernard entered the University of Virginia, and was a
student there for two years. Leaving college in 1857, he taught school
in the county of Essex, Virginia, for nine months. In 1859 he was
admitted to the Bar in the city of Petersburg. Upon the braking out
of the late war he entered the military service and served as a member
of the 12th Virginia Infantry, C. S. A. At the battle of Crampton Gap,
Maryland, September 14, 1862, he was severely wounded and captured,
and at the battle of Hatcher's Run, February 6, 1865, he was slightly
wounded.

For several months immediately after the close of the war, Mr.
Bernard was connected with the Petersburg Daily Express as a reporter.
This position, however, in December, 1865, he gave up and devoted
himself exclusively to his profession, which he has since actively pursued.

During the last few years he has worthily filled several positions of
public trust. Between 1870 and 1879 he was for several years a member
of the city school board of Petersburg. From 1877 to 1879 he was one
of the delegates representing the city of Petersburg in the legislature.
Whilst a member of the General Assembly he took a prominent part in
its proceedings, originating and successfully carrying through several
important acts of legislation, among them the law requiring insurance
companies to print the restrictive provisions in their policies in large
type. For his services in this matter he was complimented by a caricature
in an insurance journal, no mean tribute to the merits of the law, which,
though popular with the policy holders, was at that time very
objectionable to the insurance companies.

During the last ten years Mr. Bernard has frequently written for the
press. In 1885 he published a pamphlet entitled "Civil Service Reform
vs. The Spoils System," which has been widely read and very favorably
received.

In June, 1870, the subject of this sketch married Fanny Rutherfoord,
a daughter of the late Sam'l J. Rutherfoord, of Richmond, Virginia, and
a niece of Gov. John Rutherfoord, a sketch of whom is given in the first
volume of this work. The issue of their marriage are five children:
Fanny R., Kate E., Janet M., Ella A., and George S.

GENERAL STITH BOLLING

Was born in Lunenburg county, Virginia, on February 28, 1835, the
son of John Stith Bolling and Mary T. Bolling, nee Irby. His mother
died in 1877, and his father died June 15, 1888, aged eighty years. On
May 9, 1860, General Bolling married Cornelia Scott Forrest, who was
born in Nottoway county, Virginia. Their children are four. Mary
E., Cornelia I., Jesse S. and Stith F. The subject of this sketch attended
the Laurel Hill school, Lunenburg county, and took an academic
course, Mt. Lebanon Academy. He farmed until 1858, then engaged in
merchandising in Richmond till the opening of the war. He entered the
Confederate Army in April, 1861, Company G, 9th Virginia Cavalry,
and was promoted first sergeant, lieutenant, captain. In 1863 he was
appointed acting assistant adjutant general, staff of Gen. W. H. F. Lee.
Although six times wounded he served till the close of the war. His
wounds were received. First, near Culpeper C. H.; second, near Green
House; third, at Morton's Ford, fourth, at Guinea Station; fifth, near
Petersburg; sixth, at Gaines Mills.

He returned to Lunenburg county after the war and farmed until
1869, in which year he was elected to the Virginia legislature from
Lunenburg county. He was re-elected in 1872 and served until 1874.

Governor Kemper then appointed him tobacco inspector for Virginia,
in which position he served until 1880. He was then appointed postmaster
at Petersburg and filled that office a little over four years. He
is now connected with the Oaks Warehouse Co., tobacco, Petersburg
General Bolling has also served as president of the Lunatic asylum
board, and president of the board of education, Petersburg.

THOMAS JAY BURGESS.

Thomas Burgess, a member of an old and highly respectable family
in England, came to this country in 1640, locating in Rhode Island.
He was principally noted for benevolence and charity, richly earning
the title of "Goodman" Burgess. Among his earliest descendants may
be mentioned George Burgess, D. D., Bishop of Maine, and the famous
Tristam Burgess, the "Eagle Eye" of Rhode Island, one of America's
greatest orators, the opponent of Randolph in many a contest in the
Halls of Congress and one whose name will ever stand high on the
tablet of fame in his native State. A portion of the family moved to
Connecticut, where, in 1800, William Burgess was born. At six years
of age, he moved with his parents to Central New York, locating in Herkimer
county, where he grew to manhood, marrying in his nineteenth
year Lois Harding, members of whose family had already moved to
Kentucky; and in time connecting their name indissolubly with the history
of that State. They raised a large family, seven sons living to
manhood. In 1852, he with his wife and sons Lewis and Rush moved
to Virginia, where he became interested in building the plank road from
Petersburg to Boydton, purchasing from Mrs. Goodwyn a large
plantation on Hatcher's Run, and erecting thereon large grist and saw
mills, his sons Clark and John moving down shortly after their completion
and uniting with him in business. These mills together with all
other buildings were totally destroyed during the war, and the
land torn up and rendered almost valueless by forts, breastworks,
etc., for it was here that the "Battle of Hatcher's Run," or "Burgess'
Mill," was fought. At the close of the war his son Clark rebuilt the
place and restored it to its former usefulness. Here they spent nearly
all the remaining years of their long lives; they now rest with their
sons, David, William, John and Lewis (who was killed in battle), in old
Blanford Cemetery.

Clark Burgess was born in Herkimer county, New York, June 1, 1827;
in his twenty-third year was married to Gertrude A. Walker, of the
same county. He engaged in agriculture for a brief period, sold out,
and moving to Richfield Springs, opened a general merchandise store,
having business in Virginia at the same time. The war coming on, he

remained at Richfield Springs and Herkimer until the close, when he
discontinued business at the North, and moved his family to Virginia,
where he rebuilt the old place on Hatcher's Run, and still lives enjoying
the confidence and esteem of all who know him.

Thomas Jay Burgess, son of Clark Burgess, and his wife, Emily A.,
was born in Herkimer county, New York, August 12, 1854. His early
childhood was spent at the North and in Virginia, where after the war
he removed with his parents, living with them until his twenty-fourth
year, on the old place at Hatcher's Run. Becoming tired of country life
he determined to study dentistry. Commencing with Dr. Sherman,
near Petersburg, but remaining only a short time with him, he then
went to Fredericksburg, Virginia, as a student of Dr. Jas. F. Thompson;
from there, after a short time spent at home, he went to Saginaw City,
Michigan, and engaged work in the office of Dr. W. P. Morgan. During
his stay in Michigan, he took one year's course at the Dental School of
the University, and the next year graduated at the Philadelphia Dental
College. He commenced practice in Petersburg, Virginia, May 1, 1882,
and has been very successful, enjoying a large and lucrative practice.
He was married on the 4th of January, 1888, to Mary Stuart Moore,
daughter of the late Dr. Jno. R. Moore, of Ringwood, North Carolina,
Rev. Matthew H. Moore, a brother of the bride, officiating.

GEORGE CAMERON.

The subject of this sketch, a resident of Petersburg since 1855, was
born in Scotland, the son of Alexander Cameron, who was born in
Scotland and died there in 1839, and the grandson of Alexander
Cameron, also of Scotland. He attended school both in Scotland and
in Petersburg, coming to the United States first in 1840, returning to
Scotland in 1850, and coming back to the United States again in 1855,
when he settled in Petersburg permanently. He went at once into the
manufacture of tobacco there, with the late David Dunlop, with whom
he remained until, in 1858, he with his brother William went into the
same business on their own account, and have continued ever since.
Mr. Cameron went into the Confederate States Army as a British
subject, and did duty almost continuously around Petersburg. He was
made prisoner June 9, 1864, and sent to Point Lookout, thence to
Elmira, New York; was held until paroled in November, 1864, returning
home then, and never exchanged, remained in Petersburg during
the evacuation of that place by General Lee. The firm of Wm. Cameron
& Bro. manufacture tobacco exclusively for export, shipping to
Australia, India and England, employing about 600 hands, and
manufacturing about 2,000,000 pounds per annum.

Mr. Cameron has been twice married, his first wife, Helen Elizabeth
Dunn, who died on November 7, 1884, leaving issue: Alexander, Ella,
George, William and Helen. He married second wife, Delia Pegram, at
Richmond, Virginia, July 19, 1886.

F. EUGENE DAVIS

Is a native of Surry county, Virginia, born January 25, 1835, the son
of Thomas and Hannah Davis, both now deceased. His father, born
in Surry county, died in 1839, aged thirty-nine years. His mother died
in 1858, aged fifty-one years. At Petersburg, September 7, 1858, he
married Emily Roper, of Petersburg, and they have nine children:
Roper, H. C., jr., Emily A., F. Eugene, jr., Thomas M., Marie L., Robert
W., Lena B. and Franklin. Mrs. Davis is the daughter of Leroy Roper,
who died in 1885, aged seventy-six years. Her mother was Emily
Bartlett, died in 1883, aged sixty-seven years.

Mr. Davis went to school in Surry county, finishing with an academic
course. In 1853 he removed to Petersburg and clerked for a jobbing
house four years. In 1857 he began business for himself, under the firm
style of Davis, Derring & Co., wholesale grocers. The following year
the firm changed to Davis, Roper & Co., and since 1884 the firm has
been, as now is, Davis & Co. During the war Mr. Davis performed local
duty with the Petersburg troops. He was two years a member of the
city council, and declined re-election. During his membership of the
council he was chairman of the relief committee for assisting soldiers'
families, and one of the surrenderers of the city to General Grant, after
the Confederate forces had vacated.

HON. RICHARD BEALE DAVIS

Was born in Norfolk county, Virginia, on February 5, 1845, the son of
Williams T. Davis, who was born in Gloucester county, Virginia,
February 6, 1817, and died July 17, 1888. His mother, born in Westmoreland
county, Virginia, in 1815, died January 21, 1851, was
Elizabeth T. C. Beale. His wife, born in Lynchburg, Virginia, is Nannie
W., daughter of Charles H. Hall who was born in North Carolina, and
died in August, 1872. Her mother was Annie S. Duffey, born in
Alexandria, Virginia, now living in Petersburg. Richard B., first-born
of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Davis, died in 1877. Their remaining
children are: Nannie H., Charles H., Robert B. and John W.

At the age of seventeen years, in May, 1862, Mr. Davis entered the
Confederate States Army, Company E, 12th Virginia Infantry, with
which he served until the close at Appomattox. He was slightly

wounded in the battle of Seven Pines, and again wounded at Petersburg
(battle of the Crater). Returning home he resumed his studies, and
took the academic course in the University of Virginia, then studied
law in the same university, and was graduated in June, 1870. He
settled in Petersburg, and has since been engaged in practice in that
city and adjoining counties. He was a member of Virginia legislature
from Petersburg in 1875-77.

COL. EVERARD MEADE FEILD,

Born in Greenville county, Virginia, July 18, 1831, is the son of Theophilus
A. Feild, who was born in Brunswick county, Virginia, and died
in 1857, and Jane Wyatt, also now deceased. Theophilus A. Feild was
a son of Dr. Richard Feild, also of Brunswick county. At Washington,
D. C., May 17, 1852, Rev. Horace Stringfellow officiating, Everard M.
Feild married Maria Louisa Fox. She was the daughter of S. Moylan
Fox, now deceased, and Louisa Linton, and was born in Johnstown,
Pennsylvania, September 15, 1836. Mrs. Feild died at her husband's
residence in Petersburg, on August 3, 1884. Their children were eleven,
born in the order named: Fannie B., Edward W. (died January, 1857),
Jessie V., Louisa L., Everard M., Theophilus A., Hubbard M., Mary C.
and Lizzie F., twins, Henry B., Moylan C.

Colonel Feild went to school in Greenville county, Sussex county, and
at Petersburg. He left school at the age of sixteen years, and went
into the wholesale grocery business, in which he continued until his
marriage. He then went to Greenville county, where he farmed until
the war. He entered the Confederate States Army as captain of Company
F, 12th Virginia Infantry, which regiment was assigned to Mahone's
brigade. In 1862 he was made major of the regiment; in 1863
was promoted lieutenant colonel, and at battle of the Crater, 1864,
was promoted colonel. He was slightly wounded in second battle of
the Wilderness, while in command of Mahone's brigade sharpshooters,
and severely wounded at Spottsylvania C. H., May 12, 1864. He
served till the close of the war, and was in battles of Seven Pines,
Sharpsburg, and second Wilderness; commanded regiment in battles of
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsvile, Gettysburg, Culpeper C. H., Spottsylvania
C. H., Mine Run and several others.

After the close of the war Colonel Feild returned to Greenville county,
where he farmed until 1870, when he came to Petersburg as express
agent for the A. M. & Ohio R. R., with which company he remained until,
in 1885, he accepted his present position, deputy collector of United
States Internal Revenue; service at Petersburg.

COL. WILLIAM M. FEILD

Is a son of Dr. John A. Feild, who was born in Brunswick county, Virginia,
was long an honored resident of that county, and is now
deceased. His mother, whose maiden name was Mary H. Bolling, died
on Christmas day, 1861. He was born in Brunswick county, on May
15, 1837. At the outbreak of the war between the States, he entered
the Confederate States Army, and received a commission, in April, 1861,
as second lieutenant of Company I, 3d Virginia Cavalry. He received
subsequent promotion to captain, then to lieutenant-colonel,
and served till the close of the war, wounded at Halls Shop, Virginia,
and again at Five Forks.

At Petersburg, October 24, 1877, Colonel Feild married Mary H. Hargrave,
and they have three children, John C., Mary P. and William M.,
jr., Mrs. Feild was born in Dinwiddie county, the daughter of Col.
Charles Hargrave, now deceased. Her mother, whose maiden name was
Mary Hillsman, is living at Greenville, Kentucky. Colonel Feild is proprietor
of a tobacco warehouse, and has been treasurer of Dinwiddie
county for seventeen years, ever since the office was created.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON,

Whose home has been in Petersburg since he was six years of age, was
born at Williamsboro, Granville county, North Carolina, on March 18,
1851. He is the son of Robert A. Hamilton, who was born in Granville
county, North Carolina, and is living now in Petersburg, and whose
father was Patrick Hamilton, born in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Patrick
Hamilton married after coming to America, a Miss Baskervill, of
Mecklenburg county, Virginia, settled in Granville county, North Carolina,
and died there at the age of sixty-five years. The mother of
Alexander, who died in 1864, at age of thirty-six years, was Sarah
Caroline, daughter of Nathaniel Alexander, of Mecklenburg county,
Virginia, who married a Miss Alexander, his cousin. Robert P. Hamilton,
brother of Alexander, was a lieutenant in the Confederate States
Army, at age of seventeen years, and was captured at Farmville, on
the retreat to Appomattox C. H.

The first wife of Alexander Hamilton was Mary Stewart Donnan, who
died leaving issue one son, Alexander Donnan Hamilton. Secondly,
Mr. Hamilton married Kate McGehee Venable, who died leaving him
one daughter, Bettie Venable Hamilton. At Petersburg he married
Helen Leslie McGill, of that city, and they have two daughters Helen
McGill and Sarah Alexander Hamilton.

Robert A. Hamilton, sr., came to Petersburg in 1857, and Alexander
attended schools there until October, 1864. He then attended the

"Belmont School" of Ralph Graves in Granville, North Carolina, for
three years, then the school of W. Gordon McCabe in Petersburg one
year. In September, 1868, he went to the Virginia Military Institute,
and was graduated there in July, 1871. He was then appointed assistant
professor of that Institute, of Latin and Tactics, and so served
until July, 1873. He also, during the years 1872-3, took the law
course at Washington and Lee University, under Hon. J. Randolph
Tucker and Judge John W. Brockenborough, and was graduated with
the degree of Bachelor of Law in July, 1873. He then practiced law
eight months in Richmond, Virginia, since then has been in practice in
Petersburg, in which he still continues.

BENJAMIN HARRISON,

Born at Mt. Airy, Prince George county, Virginia, October 5, 1826, is
a son of Dr. Nathaniel Harrison, who was a son of Benjamin Harrison,
of Puddle Dock, Prince George county, Virginia. The last named was
born at Mt. Airy, October 12, 1795, and died at Puddle Dock, in February,
1845. The maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch
was George Minge, of Charles City, Virginia, born in Wales. His wife is
Jane B., daughter of James and Ann (Ritchie) Smith, both born in Scotland.
She was born in Petersburg, and there became the wife of Mr. Harrison,
Rev. John Miller uniting them, on May 25, 1869. Their children
are three: Annie C., Benjamin, jr., and James N.

Mr. Harrison went to school in Sussex county, Virginia, until 1840;
then moved to Cabin Point, and lived there a year, then to Prince
George county, and from there, early in 1842, to Petersburg, which has
since been his home. Until 1850, he was connected with the post-office
department, and was engaged in mercantile pursuits from 1850 till the
war. After the war was cashier of the Citizens Bank until December,
1887, and since that time has been engaged in the insurance business,
office 106 Sycamore street. He entered the Confederate States Army on
April 19, 1861, private in Company C, 12th Virginia Infantry, and was
promoted to quartermaster's sergeant; then made commissary of the
regiment, with the rank of captain.

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.

There was one "Master John Harrison" who was a colonial governor
of Virginia, in the year sixteen hundred and twenty-three (1623)
(Smith's History of Virginia) elected by the Colonists to the place of
the governor sent out, who died during the year. The families of
Berkely and Brandon are descended from him.

Benjamin Harrison (Hon.) of Surry county, born in Southwark Parish,
in that county, in the year sixteen hundred and forty-five (1645)
and who died 1713. His tombstone is at Cabin Point Chapel, and
his will recorded at Surry C. H. He is called "Hon. Benjamin Harrison,
Esq.," on his tombstone. Benjamin had three sons and one daughter.
Benjamin the eldest settled at Berkely, in the county of Charles City,
and married Elizabeth, daughter of Lewis Burwell, of Gloucester county,
by whom he had one son, Benjamin, and one daughter, Elizabeth. He
died at the age of thirty-seven in the year 1710. His tombstone and
that of his wife may be seen at Westover burying ground.

Benjamin married Anne, daughter of Robert Carter, of Carotoman,
commonly called "King Carter." He and two of his daughters were
killed at Berkely by lightning.

Benjamin, his eldest son, was one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence. Of the remaining sons, Nathaniel settled in Prince
George county, Henry in Surry; Robert in Charles City. Charles was a
general of Cavalry in the Revolutionary war; Carter in Cumberland
county, at Clifton; Benjamin the signer, married Miss Bassitt, and by
her had three (3) sons Benjamin, Carter Bassit, and William Henry, a
general of 1812, and afterwards President of the United States. The
daughters married, David Copeland, John Minge, Dr. Richmon, and
the fourth twice, first Peyton Randolph, and second, Captain Singleton.

Benjamin Jr's Son Nathaniel, settled at Wakefield, in Surry county.
Nathaniel, of Wakefield, Surry county, married Wilmuth Munford, and
by her had one son, whose name was Benjamin Munford, his mother
and father died before he was seven years of age, when Wm. Allen was
appointed his guardian.

Benjamin Munford Harrison was born in New Kent county, at the
residence of his maternal grandmother, November 17, 1788, and married
Agnes Atkinson. of Mayfield, who died without issue; his second
marriage was to Dolly Pleasants Gray Briggs Carter Nicholas, of Norborne,
in the county of Dinwiddie, Virginia. Dolly (Benjamin Munford's
wife), was a daughter of Robert Carter Nicholas, of Norborne,
Dinwiddie county, and granddaughter of Col. John Nicholas, who married
Dolly. Pleasants Briggs, daughter of Gray Briggs, of "Comans
Well," Surry county. Benjamin Munford, by Dolly P. Nicholas, had
two sons and two daughters, to wit: Nathaniel Cole, John Nicholas,
Agnes Atkinson, and Ann Eliza Carter.

Nathaniel Cole Harrison, was born at "Cat-tails," Amelia county,
Virginia, in the year 1820, March 28th, and died September 28, 1887,
at Petersburg, Virginia. He married Elizabeth Leigh Drinkard, by
whom he had one son and two daughters, to wit: William Henry, Mary
Heth. and Wilmuth Munford Harrison.

William Henry Harrison, was born at Petersburg, Virginia, December
30, 1843, and attended school in Petersburg. He entered the Confederate
States Army when a little over eighteen years of age, in March,
1862, in Company A, 12th Virginia Regiment. He was captured
October 27, 1864, at Burgess' Mill, and held at Point Lookout until
March 8, 1865. Among the battles in which he took part, are—Seven
Pines, Fraziers Farm, Falling Creek, Drewrys Bluff, Fredericksburg,
Second Manassas, Crampton Gap (Antietam), Cold Harbor, Spottsylvania,
Petersburg, Crater, Reem's Station, Farmville; and surrendered
at Appomattox Court House. From 1872 to 1880 he was Commissioner
of Revenue for Petersburg. He is now engaged in business in Petersburg
as dealer in carriages, buggies, wagons, and manufacturer of
harness, saddles, etc. In this city, October 27, 1875, he married Rosa
West, of Richmond, Virginia; she is the daughter of George Montgomery
West, who was born at Concord, New Hampshire, and who
died in 1860. Her mother, Evlyn Quarles, was born in Richmond,
Virginia, died in 1858. John West Harrison, first-born of the children
of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison, is no longer living. Their remaining children
are: Ann Elizabeth Harrison (Elise), William Henry Harrison, jr.,
George West Harrison, Nathaniel Cole Harrison, jr., and Helen West
Harrison.

EDGAR A. HARTLEY

Was born in Sussex county, Virginia, on October 29, 1849. He attended
the schools of his native county, remaining with his parents until
1866. He then clerked in J. B. Jarratt's general store for six years,
and in 1872 went to Halifax, North Carolina, and kept books four years
for R. P. Spiers. In 1876 he began business for himself, carrying on a
general store at Comans Well, Sussex county, Virginia, two years, then
removing, in 1878, to Petersburg, and opening up business as grocer
and commission merchant, with R. B. Hartley, the firm style and name
being E. A. Hartley & Bro. Mr. Hartley owns two stores in Sussex
county, one at Stony Creek and one at Jarratts, and another store in
Greenville county, at Belfield.

His father, William J. Hartley, died in August, 1863, aged forty-five
years, and his mother is Martha E. (Gary) Hartley, living still in Sussex
county. In Petersburg, May 10, 1876, he married S. L., daughter
of T. L. Johnson, who died in 1875, and Mary A. Bishop, who died in
1879. Irving J., Mary L., Letae and Florrie are the children of Mr.
and Mrs. Hartley.

SAMUEL J. HURT,

Born in Nottoway county, Virginia, in 1820, is a son of Merewether
Hurt, who was born in Lunenburg county, was a resident of Virginia
through life, and is now deceased. His mother, whose maiden name was
Amy Ann Morgan, has been some years dead. In Brunswick county, Virginia,
in 1865, he married Julia E. Stith, and their children are two sons,
Pelham and Samuel J., jr., Mrs. Hurt was born in Brunswick county,
in 1839, the daughter of Needham Washington Stith, now deceased.
The subject of this sketch went to school in early days in his native
county, then was two years in the dry goods business with L. L.
Parsons, of Petersburg, when about sixteen years old. Subsequently
he returned to school, in Dinwiddie county, attended Jefferson Academy,
and prepared himself for the practice of medicine. Abandoning that
idea, he returned to Petersburg and entered into the grocery and
commission business, in which he continued until the civil war.

He entered the Confederate service in 1861, with the Petersburg
Cavalry, volunteers to the State service, and was made company
quartermaster, the company going to Norfolk. Soon after he was
detached, and made post quartermaster at Suffolk, where he remained
until the evacuation; was then transferred to the commissary department
and served in same till the close of the war. He then returned to
Petersburg having, as may be recorded of many whose sketches appear
in these pages, sacrificed everything but life and honor to the cause,
and began life again, building up a business from the foundation,
resuming the same line he was engaged in before the war—groceries
and commission.

THOMAS J. JARRATT.

Nicholas Jarratt and his wife Mary, nee Brown, are the parents of
Thomas J. Jarratt, and he was born in Sussex county, Virginia, on
December 16, 1817. His first wife was Adaline R. May, who died leaving
him four children. Martha E., died in 1858, George T., Walter J.
and Gertrude M. Secondly he married, at Portsmouth, Virginia, on
January 6, 1876, Emily E. Drummond. For many years Mr. Jarratt
has been counted one of the substantial citizens of Petersburg, where
he was engaged, before the war, and to the present time, in business as
commission merchant, name and style of firm at this time being,
T. J. Jarratt & Son. He performed duty with the Petersburg local
troops during the war. For several years he was a member of the city
council of Petersburg, and he was six years, 1882-8 mayor of the city.

R. F. JARVIS,

Son of W. H. and Martha J. Jarvis, was born in Petersburg, on July
10, 1847. He attended the public schools of Petersburg, and was still
at his studies when war was inaugurated. While still a boy he went
with his father to Norfolk, his father being then captain of Company
D, 12th Virginia regiment. Later W. H. Jarvis was made major of the
3d battalion, Virginia Reserve Forces, and R. F. entered service April
5, 1863, as captain of Company G, that battalion, not then sixteen
years of age. He was captured at the evacuation of Petersburg, and
held till paroled at Point Lookout. Major Jarvis was also captured,
above Petersburg, about the same time. The latter, born in Dinwiddie
county, died on November 27, 1877. The mother of R. F. Jarvis, born
in Dinwiddie county, died June 10, 1887, aged seventy-three years. His
wife is Mary Virginia Jarvis, born in Dinwiddie county. They were married
by Rev. T. T. Eaton, June 7, 1876, and have one daughter, Virgie
L., born March 7, 1877.

CARY W. JONES,

Son of William W. Jones, sr., was born in Richmond, Virginia, on
September 23, 1852. His father, born in Gloucester county, Virginia,
died in the fall of 1860. His mother, Ann E., a daughter of Gen'l R.
E. Dabney, was born in Caroline county, Virginia, and is now a resident
in Richmond. His wife, born in Petersburg, is Annie F., daughter of
William H. Tappey, whose family record appears on another page of
this book. They were married at Petersburg, November 12, 1884.
Their son, Cary W., jr., was born September 11, 1885, and died on
June 16, 1886, and they have one daughter, Lucy Dabney.

Mr. Jones went to school in Richmond, then to the academy at
Princeton, Kentucky, and later took a course in a business college in
Baltimore, Maryland. During the war he was for a time clerk in the
Winder Confederate hospital, Richmond. In 1869 he went to Norfolk,
Virginia, where for a time he was engaged in the wholesale clothing
business. In 1874 he was connected with the Norfolk Virginian, in
1878 with the Baltimore American. In 1881 he wrote and published
the work entitled "Norfolk as a Business Center," a work of considerable
note, and which gave much satisfaction, running through five
editions. In October, 1885, he made his home in Petersburg, becoming
senior member of the firm of Jones, Bain & Co., which was succeeded by
the firm of Cary W. Jones & Co., manufacturers of high grade fertilizers,
which business he is still successfully conducting. Mr. Jones is a member
of the city council of Petersburg. His family connections by

blood go back to the families of Sir Francis West and Lord De La Ware.
His brother is now holding a farm in King William county which was a
part of the family grant.

FREEMAN W. JONES

Was born in Brunswick county, Virginia, on August 7, 1846. He is a
son of Francis Fitzgerald Jones, who was born in Nottoway county,
Virginia, and who died in Brunswick county, in August, 1865. His
mother died in that county, also, in 1856. She was Sally Green
Thweatt, born in Dinwiddie county. At Lawrenceville, Brunswick
county, October 23, 1872, Revs. J. H. Morrison and O. A. Glazebrook
officiating clergymen, Freeman W. Jones married Harriett Randolph
Morrison, who was born in Lawrenceville. Their children are seven:
Lucia Hackley, Carrie Morrison, Freeman W., jr., Meade Bernard,
Harriett R., Fanny Stewart, Sally Thweatt. Mrs. Jones is the daughter
of Dr. E. A. Morrison, and his wife Lucia Hackley, formerly of Lawrenceville,
both now deceased.

Mr. Jones attended the common schools of his native county for six
years only. He entered the Confederate States Army at the age of
seventeen years, in April, 1864, Company E, 56th Virginia Infantry, a
regiment serving in Hunton's brigade, Pickett's division. He was
wounded near Petersburg, August 24, 1864, was captured March 31,
1865, and held at Point Lookout until June 14, 1865. He farmed for
some three years after the war. At the age of twenty-three years he
was elected sheriff of Brunswick county and in that capacity he served
nine years, by subsequent re-elections. Then he resigned this office, to
accept a position tendered as inspector of tobacco, Center Warehouse,
Petersburg, where he has remained ever since. He is the present city
sergeant of Petersburg, elected in May, 1888.

FRANCIS RIVES LASSITER.

The subject of this sketch was born in Petersburg, on February 18,
1866. He was educated at the University school in Petersburg, and
went to the University of Virginia, where, after graduating in several
classical schools, he studied law under Prof John B. Minor, graduating
in 1886, with degree of Bachelor of Law. He then went to live in Boston,
Massachusetts, where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and
practiced until his return to Petersburg in the spring of 1888, when he
was elected city attorney and has been in practice since.

His father is D. W. Lassiter, M. D., who was born in Northampton
county, North Carolina, the son of William Lassiter, who was also the
son of William Lassiter, descended from a Huguenot family who settled

at the mouth of the Roanoke river in the early part of the 18th century.
The Lassiter family have intermarried with the families of Daniel and
Parker, of North Carolina.

The mother of Francis Rives Lassiter was Anna Rives Lassiter, nee
Heath, daughter of Hartwell P. Heath and Eliza Cureton Rives, his wife.
The Heaths are descended from Robert Heath, who was attorney-general
under Charles I and patentee of the Carolinas, prior to the grant to the
Lords Proprietors. The family lived in Surry and Prince George counties,
and members of it served in the Revolutionary and Mexican wars.

The Rives people belong to the main branch of the Virginia Rives
family, of which the Albemarle Rives family is an offshoot. The most
distinguished of recent years have been Francis Everod Rives, great
uncle of the subject of this sketch, who was a member of Congress and
twice a member of the Virginia legislature, and mayor of Petersburg;
and Timothy Rives, of Prince George county, who was called "the war
horse of the Democracy," and who, though opposed to the late war,
suffered severely from the Union forces.

DR. H. G. LEIGH

Was born in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, on March 12, 1833. He is
the son of Rev. H. G. Leigh, D. D., who was born in North Carolina,
and who died in 1853, aged fifty-eight years. His mother, whose
maiden name was Mary J. Crump, died in 1881, aged seventy-three
years. His wife, whom he married at Northampton, North Carolina,
on June 30, 1859, is Martha A., daughter of Col. John M. Moody, who
married Martha W. Wright. Colonel Moody died in 1880, aged seventy
years, and his widow died in 1885, aged sixty-nine years. Dr. and
Mrs. Leigh have four children: Mary E., John Hamilton Patterson,
Martha W. and H. G., jr.

Dr. Leigh received his collegiate education at Randolph-Macon College,
whence he was graduated in 1851, with degree of Master of Arts.
He held the chair of assistant professor in this college until 1854. In
1855 he was graduated in medicine at the New York Medical College;
in 1854-5 studied medicine at the University of Virginia, was also,
1856-7 assistant physician at Randalls Island Hospital.

He had settled in practice in Petersburg when the war was inaugurated,
and tendered his services to the Confederate government,
remaining in service through the war. He was first surgeon of a
Louisiana Regiment, then of other regiments, and in 1864-5 was
surgeon-in-charge general hospital, Raleigh, North Carolina, rank of
major. At the close of the war he returned to Petersburg, where he
has been in practice ever since. He is a member of the American

Medical Association and of the State Medical Society of Virginia. He
holds the office of medical examiner for the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, of New York, and other Insurance Companies, and has been
coroner of Petersburg since 1870, still serving.

WILLIAM ROBERTSON MCKENNEY.

The subject of this sketch has always lived in Petersburg, where he
was born on December 2, 1851. His father was Robert Armstrong
McKenney, born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, served in late
war as member of the Home Guards, battalion commanded by Colonel
F. H. Archer, participated in the famous fight at Rives farm (near
Petersburg), June 9, 1864, died May 5, 1885, aged sixty-seven years.
His mother was Virginia Bland, daughter of William Robertson, who
married Anne Spotswood, a great granddaughter of Gov. Alexander
Spotswood (see Volume I, Virginia and Virginians). December 2, 1878,
at Georgetown, D. C., William R. McKenney married Clara J. Pickrell,
who was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Their children are three:
Anne Pickrell, William Robertson and Virginia Spotswood. Mrs.
McKenney is the daughter of Addison Pickrell, who was born in
Georgetown, D. C., and died in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her mother
was Justine Lockett, born in New Orleans.

Mr. McKenney prepared for the University of Virginia at the University
school of W. Gorden McCabe, Petersburg, and entered the University
in October, 1871. He was graduated from several of the academic
schools, and entered the law school under teaching of Professors
John B. Minor and Stephen O. Southall, in October, 1875. From this
school he was graduated in June, 1876, with degree of Bachelor of Law.
In August, 1876, he began practice in Petersburg in which he has continued
ever since. He is now president of the city council of Petersburg;
was the presidential elector on the Democratic ticket, for the 4th Congressional
District, election of 1888.

BERNARD MANN.

John Mann, Esq., attorney-at-law of Petersburg, married C. F. Bernard,
and the subject of this sketch is their son, born in Petersburg,
December 5, 1861. He went to school in Petersburg for two years to
Miss Virginia Friend, then to W. Gordon McCabe's University school for
six years, then for three years attended the University of Virginia, remaining
in the academic department during that time. He then filled
the position of teacher two years in Prof. McCabe's school, after which
he returned to the University and took the law course for one session.

Since that time he has been settled in practice at Petersburg, his practice
extending into adjoining counties. He married at Petersburg on
February 24, 1886, Rev. Dr. R. C. Hains joining him in wedlock with
Elizabeth Weldon Claiborne, of Petersburg. Their little daughter bears
the mother's name, Elizabeth W. C. Mrs. Mann is the daughter of Dr.
John Herbert Claiborne, of Petersburg. Her mother, who was Sarah
Joseph Alston before marriage, is now deceased. The father of Mr. Mann
served in the Confederate States Army during the late war.

CAPT. LOUIS L. MARKS.

Louis L., son of Grandison F. Marks, was born in Petersburg on May
13, 1837. His father, born in Prince George county, Virginia, October
24, 1809, died on October 13, 1887, aged seventy-two years. His
mother, who was Sarah T. Bevill, born in Amelia county, Virginia, died
in 1838. His wife is Bettie A Southall, of Amelia county, and they
were married in that county, on May 23, 1860, Rev. R.E.G. Adams uniting
them. Her parents were born in Amelia county, William D. Southall
and Sarah Clay. Captain Marks entered the Confederate States Army
in April, 1861, adjutant of the 12th Virginia regiment. Later he was
promoted captain and commanded Company C, same regiment, which
he was leading when wounded at Second Manassas. He was afterwards
appointed captain in the quartermaster's department, and served until
the surrender of Johnston's army at Greensboro, North Carolina. He
is a well-known merchant of Petersburg, a member of the Board of
Education, Sunday School superintendent and president of the Young
Men's Christian Association of Petersburg, at the present time.

SAMUEL H. MARKS.

The subject of this sketch was born in Prince George county, Virginia,
on March 6, 1808. Since he was twenty years of age, he has been engaged
in business in Petersburg, one of its most honored citizens. His
father, Samuel Marks, died in 1810, and his mother, whose maiden
name was Martha Birchett, has been many years dead. In August,
1829, he married Sallie G. Rives, who died in 1856, aged forty-seven
years. Their children were: William A., died in January, 1888, Samuel
G., died at age of nineteen years; Virginia R., Frank E. and Spencer
G. These two youngest sons served through the late war, in the
Confederate States Army. Mr. Marks married secondly, at Richmond,
Virginia, February 3, 1853, Charlotte W. Skinner, who was born in
Hampton, Virginia.

In 1823 Mr. Marks came to Petersburg to live with Mr. Peter Martin,
the leading confectioner at that time in the city, and remained with him

until 1828, when he commenced business for himself as confectioner and
fruiterer. He has followed the same almost continuously ever since,
having now the largest wholesale business of the kind in the State.

J. EDWARD MOYLER,

Son of John Quarles Moyler and Mary Thomas Vaughan, was born in
Sussex county, Virginia, on August 26, 1841. His earliest education,
until 1855, was received in the country schools of Sussex county. In
1855-6 he attended the preparatory school of Col. Wm. S. Kemper, at
Gordonsville, Virginia, in 1857-8 the preparatory school at Greenwood
Depot, Albemarle county, kept by Rev. Wm. Dinwiddie. In 1859 read
medicine under Dr. Wm. Briggs, of Sussex county, and attended the
medical course, University of Virginia, sessions of 1860-1.

Immediately on the secession of Virginia, the service of the company
of which he was a member, Capt. Jas T. Tosh, of the University commanding,
was tendered the Governor, and accepted, and the company
ordered to Harpers Ferry, but after ten days there ordered back to the
University. Just before the close of this session Mr. Moyler left the
University, and enrolled in the Sussex cavalry, which company was
assigned as Company E, 13th Virginia Cavalry. He remained with this
company until November, 1862, at which time it was stationed at
Brandy Station, and then was detailed and ordered to Richmond, as
resident student in the Medical College hospital. He attended the lectures
for remainder of session, and those of the next session, and was
graduated from this college in March, 1864. After passing examination
before the Board of Examiners was commissioned as assistant surgeon,
Confederate States Navy, and assigned to duty aboard the "Virginia,"
flag-ship of the James River squadron, Capt. R. B. Pegram commanding.
He remained in this service, and when Richmond was evacuated
the squadron endeavored to join Gen. Johnston, and had reached
Greensboro, North Carolina, where it surrendered.

Dr. Moyler returned to his native county, and practiced medicine
there until 1872, when he came to Petersburg, and engaged in his present
occupation, as insurance and real estate agent. His mother died in 1845,
aged forty-eight years, and his father died on May 17, 1848, aged fifty-two
years. In Sussex county, December 20, 1866, Rev. J. A. Duncan, D. D.,
officiating clergyman, he married Mutie A. Owen, who was born in
Sussex county. She is the daughter of John Owen, now deceased, and
Mary E. Tatum, now living in Sussex county. The children of Dr. and
Mrs. Moyler, all living in Petersburg, are six: J. Edward, Owen,
John, Mary V., Mutie A., Harry Lee.

HON. JAMES M. MULLEN

Was born in Pasquotank county, North Carolina, on September 10,
1845. His parents now reside at Halifax, North Carolina, James Whedbee
Mullen, born March 19, 1809, in Pasquotank county, and Susan W.
Clary, born in Perquimans county, North Carolina. His paternal grandparents
were Joseph and Ann (Sutton) Mullen, of Pasquotank county,
and his mother is the daughter of John Clary, of Perquimans county,
who married Jane Pointer, of the same county. At Petersburg, Virginia,
October 13, 1875, Bishop Duncan officiating clergyman, James
M. Mullen married Evelyn A. Grigg. Their children are: James, Thomas
Wilson, Grizzell, Clary Sutton, living, and Maud and Cornelia, now
deceased. Mrs. Mullen was born in Petersburg, the daughter of Wesley
Grigg, who was born in Dinwiddie county, and who died in February,
1867. Her mother was Augustina P. Wells, born in Petersburg, died
in May, 1882, aged fifty-nine years.

Mr. Mullen was educated in Perquimans county, North Carolina, attending
the Hertford Male Academy, then studying law under Hon. Thomas
G. Skinner, of Hertford. He came to the Bar in January, 1869, commenced
practice in Halifax county, North Carolina, in March, 1869,
where he remained until July, 1886, when he moved to Petersburg, which
has been his home since that date. He still retains, however, his practice
in Halifax and Northampton counties, North Carolina, and practices
in the courts of Petersburg and adjoining counties.

He entered the Confederate States Army in February, 1862, and was
enrolled in Martin's Battery, Boggs' Battalion (Va.) Light Artillery. In
October, 1863, he was transferred from Martin's (Va.) Battery to
Webb's (N. C.) Battery, same (Boggs') Battalion, where he served until
the battery was disbanded, latter part of April, 1865, near Raleigh,
North Carolina.

In 1866 he was appointed register of deeds for Perquimans county,
North Carolina, and held the office a little over two years. At the general
election, November, 1884, he was elected to the State Senate for
North Carolina from Halifax county, and served one term, beginning
January, 1885. At the municipal election for Petersburg, Virginia, held
May 24, 1888, he was elected commonwealth attorney for said city, term
beginning July 1, 1888, ending June 30, 1890.

CAPTAIN JOHN R. PATTERSON

Was born in Lunenburg county, Virginia, on July 12, 1834. He is the
son of William Patterson, born in Ireland, died in 1837, aged fifty-one
years, and Ann Atkinson, born in 1798, died 1883. In Petersburg,
April 9, 1867, he married Betty M., daughter of Edmund H. and Sara

(Cabaniss) Osborne, both now deceased. She was born in Petersburg,
April 30, 1841, and died on July 4th, 1872. Their children are:
Edmund H., born April 9, 1868; Betty O., born June 20, 1872; Ann,
died June 23, 1872.

Captain Patterson went to various country schools in Lunenburg
county, and completed his academic studies at Frederick, Maryland,
entering on a mercantile business previous to the war. He entered
the military service of the State of Virginia on April 19, 1861, sergeant
Co. E, 12th Virginia Infantry; was promoted lieutenantin 1861, captain
in 1864. He was wounded at Crampton Gap, Maryland, September 14,
1862, gun shot in right leg; was in battles of Seven Pines, Malvern Hill,
Crampton Gap the Wilderness, Spotsylvania C. H., second Cold Harbor,
and many others, and surrendered at Appomattox C. H. He returned
to Petersburg after the war, and resumed the grocery business, in which
he continued until appointed postmaster, August 24, 1886, which office
he is still (1888) acceptably filling.

JOSEPH J. PERCIVALL

Was born in Brunswick county, Virginia, on September 8, 1843, the
son of Hugh L. Percivall, who also was born in Brunswick county, and
who was the son of Joseph Percivall, a native of Scotland. The
mother of Joseph J. was born in Brunswick county, her maiden name
Nancy C. Rawlings. In April, 1861, Mr. Percivall entered the Confederate
States Army, and was over two years in the infantry service before
he attained his majority. In September, 1863, he entered Company I,
3d Virginia Cavalry, with which he served till the close of the war. He
married at Charlottesville, Virginia, November 21, 1871, Amanda O.
Beasley, who was born in Prince George county, Virginia. Her parents
are Virginians, Richard R. Beasley, born in Lunenberg county, and
Martha E. Jones, born in Brunswick county. Mr. and Mrs. Percivall
have lost three children: Ella N., died aged nine months; Minnie, died
aged five years; Bessie B., died aged two years. Their remaining children,
born in the order named, are: Annie B., Kate M., Hugh L., Richard
R., Amanda O., and Joseph. Mr. Percivall has been a resident for
some years of Petersburg, and is engaged in the tobacco warehouse
business.

NATHAN BROOKS PRICHARD.

The subject of this sketch was born in Petersburg, on the 29th day
of February, 1848. He is a son of William Irwin Prichard, who was
born in Greenville county, Virginia, and who died on April 30, 1883,
aged seventy-seven years. His mother is Mary Margaret Prichard, nee

Hammett, living in Petersburg. At Suffolk, Virginia, September 27,
1870, Rev. S. V. Easter officiating, Nathan Brooks Prichard and
Marion Blunt Riddick were wedded. They have three children living,
Marion McDonald, William Blunt, Nathan Riddick, and have buried
one daughter, Mary Claiborne. The father of Mrs. Prichard was the
Hon. Washington L. Riddick, who died in New Orleans, Louisiana, in
1872, aged forty-seven years. He was a Senator in the Virginia legislature
at the time of his death, and had been ably serving there for some
years previously. Her mother, whose maiden name was Frances
Marion Blunt, is now living at Charlotte, North Carolina, aged sixty-three
years.

Mr. Prichard went to school in Petersburg, until he entered the army,
at the age of 16 years, May 5, 1864. His first service was in the local
Petersburg troops, but in January, 1865, he volunteered for field
service, and was in S. Taylor Mortin's battery of artillery, Army of
Northern Virginia, from that time till the surrender at Appomattox C.
H. He was wounded in the desperate affair at Rives farm, near Petersburg,
June 9, 1864. After the war, he returned to Petersburg,
and in November, 1865, went to clerking for J. C. Riddle, then
owner of the Basin Mills, Petersburg. In January following he was
elected to a clerkship in office of the agency of the cotton mills, under David
Callender. This position he resigned in 1870 to accept clerkship with
Davis, Roper & Co., Petersburg, with which firm he remained until 1874.
In the latter year he went into business for himself, and for fifteen years
he has continued a partner in the firm of Allen & Prichard, wholesale
grocers. Since March, 1886, he has been a member of the building committee
of the Virginia Normal School building, he is vice-president of
the Chamber of Commerce of Petersburg, trustee of the Building Loan
Association, and vestryman of the St. Paul Church.

Robert W. Prichard, brother of Nathan B., was born in Petersburg,
on November 20, 1856. He attended the schools of Petersburg until
1872, when he began clerking for J. R. Cary, crockery business; in 1874,
went to clerking for J. B. Robertson, grocery, in 1879 went into the
grocery business for himself, and in 1887 changed to his present business,
housefurnishing store, as manager of the firm of Prichard & Co.
He was married in Petersburg, November 23, 1881, and has three
children: Robert W., jr., Herbert B. and Mattie B. His wife is Mattie
C., daughter of the late Governor Thomas and Isabella Bragg of North
Carolina, both now deceased. Mr. Prichard had four elder brothers in
the service, C. S. A., during the late war: William B., Chas. E., severely
wounded; John H. and Nathan B., slightly wounded. He is a vestryman
in Grace P. E. Church.

POWHATAN M. STEWARD,

Born in Petersburg, on October 31, 1842, received his education in the
schools of Petersburg. He entered the Confederate States military
service in October, 1861, Company E, 41st Virginia Infantry, private,
promoted sergeant. He was captured at Seven Pines, and held two
months at Fort Delaware. After exchange he rejoined his company,
and in 1863 he enlisted again, in Sturdivant's Light Artillery. He was
detached to the quartermaster's department at Petersburg, where he
served as harness maker till the close of the war. He then engaged in
his present business, dealer in carriages and buggies, manufacturer of
saddles, harness, etc. He is the son of William E. Steward, born in
Petersburg, died in 1859, aged forty-nine years, and Jane T. Steward,
nee Rosser, also now deceased. He married Laura E. Steward, daughter
of Jas. M. B. Steward, and they have four children: Nellie L., Annie M.,
Powhatan M., jr., and Florence G.

MAJOR ROBERT M. SULLY,

Born in Petersburg, Virginia, in 1837, is the son of Robert M. Sully,
the Virginian artist, who died in 1855. His mother, Isabella Sully, nee
Thompson, is living now in Richmond. Garland Thompson, her father,
died in Richmond about 1836. Major Sully's wife, whom he married at
Lynchburg, Virginia, November 17, 1868, was Elizabeth A. Williams,
born in Lynchburg. They have one daughter, Miss Lulia L.
Major Sully was educated in Connecticut. In 1857 he entered the service
of the Orange & Alexandria R. R. In 1861 he entered the Confederate
army, as a private in Company A, 17th Virginia regiment. He
was promoted into the engineering corps, C. S. A., rank of first lieutenant
of engineers, and served until surrendered at Greensboro, North
Carolina.

After the war Major Sully was in the service of the Midland R. R., as
civil engineer. In 1873 he left that company, and was with the Richmond
& Danville R. R. until 1876, when he came to the Petersburg
R. R., as general freight agent. In 1879 he was made general superintendent
of this road, which office he held until 1881, since which time
he has been superintendent of the R. & P. and Petersburg roads.

WILLIAM H. TAPPEY

Is of German birth and parentage, but many years a resident of Virginia.
He was born near Bremen, Germany, November 7, 1819, the
son of Frank and Henrietta Tappey, both now deceased. He came to
the United States, to Richmond, Virginia, in July, 1836, and worked in

the Shocoe Foundry four years, removing to Petersburg in 1840. At
Petersburg he began business in the Iron Works, and until the war was
most of the time senior member of the firm of Tappey & Lumsden. He
enlisted in Capt. Fisher's Cavalry Company, C. S. A., and was detailed
to furnish army equipments. He was captain of the detailed forces,
and when Grant took the Petersburg breastworks, was fighting at the
front, at the time Mr. Lumsden and others were made prisoners. At
the close of the war he resumed business, under the firm name and style
of Tappey, Lumsden & Co., later firm was Tappey & Steel, and now
(1888), it is Tappey & Delaney. Mr. Tappey has been forty-six years
engaged in business on the same spot, and gives fair promise of many
years more business activity. The firm are manufacturers of stationary,
portable and hoisting engines, tram road engines and car irons,
pumps, presses, mills and mill gearing, elevators, and iron and brass
castings, etc.

In Richmond, Virginia, November, 1840, Rev. A. D. Pollock, D.D.,
officiating, William H. Tappey married Lucy B. Seal, of Caroline county,
Virginia, the daughter of James and Judith Seal, both Virginians,
and both now deceased. The issue of this marriage is four daughters:
Emma E., Mary V., Annie F. and Lucie P. and one son, F. I., now
deceased.

CAPTAIN JAMES T. TOSH

Was born in Roanoke county, Virginia, May 16, 1838. He was graduated
from the Virginia Military Institute in June, 1860, and attended
the sessions of 1860-1 at the University of Virginia. He entered the
Confederate service as captain commanding the "Sons of Liberty," a
volunteer company composed of students, and thoroughly trained
before leaving the University. In this capacity, and as aide de camp to
Gen. R. E. Colston, he served until the close of the struggle. He married
Ida Ragland, eldest daughter of R. Ragland, of Petersburg, January 5,
1864, and at the close of hostilities settled in that city as a tobacco
manufacturer.

W. LAFAYETTE WATKINS.

The families from which Mr. Watkins is descended were Huguenots and
in 1700 settled at Manakin Town, Virginia. He was born in Richmond,
Virginia, on January 10, 1824, the son of Stephen D. Watkins, who was
born in Halifax county, Virginia, January 27, 1778, and who died on
July 13, 1862. Thomas Watkins, father of Stephen D., was born on
November 15, 1748, and died July 28, 1816. He married Magdaline
Dupuy, daughter of Jno. Bartholomew Dupuy (Huguenot). The
mother of W. Lafayette, was Sarah H., daughter of Peter Dupuy. She

was born January 20, 1800, and died on August 14, 1864. Her father
was born July 1, 1760, and died August 29, 1826. Her mother was
Margaret Martin, born November 6, 1768, died July 18, 1852.

Mr. Watkins received a collegiate education at William and Mary
College, whence he was graduated on July 4, 1843. He studied law
under Judge Thomas S. Gholson, of Petersburg, and received license to
practice in 1846. Since that time he has followed the profession of law
continuously, practicing in Dinwiddie and adjoining counties and
Court of Appeals. He has been two terms city attorney for Petersburg,
and six years a member of the city council. His first wife was Maria S.
Hall, born at Fredericksburg, Virginia, June 4, 1833, and died September
21, 1864, aged thirty-one years. Their children were seven, of
whom there are living two sons: Thomas G. and John D., and one
daughter, Sally H., now the wife of Dr. M. L. Wood, of Montgomery,
Alabama. Mr. Watkins married secondly, at Petersburg, October 9,
1866, Eliza Stringfellow, daughter of Rev. Horace Stringfellow, she was
born at Washington, D. C., on September 19, 1845.

CHARLES D. WITHERSPOON

Was born at "Evergreen" (the home of his Ruffin ancestors for one
hundred and fifty years), on James river, Prince George county, Virginia.
He spent his early life in Greensboro, Hale county, Alabama,
until August, 1871, when he came to Virginia, and concluded his education
at Williamsburg in the following year. He began business with
Wm. Cameron & Bro., tobacco manufacturers, of Petersburg, Virginia,
in March 1873, and severed his connection with them the following
October by their discontinuing business during the financial panic of
that year. After farming for one year he entered the employ of D. B.
Tennant & Co., tobacco manufacturers, of Petersburg, in February,
1875, and he has continued with them, and their successor, Mr. David
Dunlop, in the capacity of book-keeper, to the present time.

Mr. Witherspoon is a son of Wm. Alfred Witherspoon (a hardware
merchant of Mobile, Alabama, who died in his thirty-second year) and
Tariffa Cocke. He is grandson of Dr. John R. Witherspoon, of Hale
county, Alabama, who married Sophia, daughter of Gen. Joseph Graham,
of Lincoln county, North Carolina, and Isabella Davidson of the
same county. He is great grandson of Robert Witherspoon and Isabella
Heatly; great, great grandson of James Witherspoon and Elizabeth
McQuoid; great, great, great grandson of John Witherspoon, of
Paisley (near Glasgow) Scotland, who settled in Williamsbug, South
Carolina, in December, 1734.

On his mother's side Mr. Witherspoon is grandson of Commodore
Henry Harrison Cocke, U. S. N., who married Elizabeth, daughter of

George Ruffin, of "Evergreen," and Jane Skipwith. Commodore Cocke
was born at "Montpelier," Surry county, Virginia, May 5, 1794. He
entered the U. S. Navy at the age of fifteen years, and was engaged in
the war of 1812 with Great Britain; was commissioned commodore in
July 1851, the then highest rank in the navy. In April, 1861, on the
secession of Virginia, he retired from the navy, then in his sixty-eighth
year; and was appointed under the Confederate government commander
of the defences of James river, where he erected five forts.

Mr. Witherspoon is a great grandson of Walter Cocke and Ann Carter
Harrison; great, great grandson of John Cocke and Rebecca Starke,
who were married in 1740.

NANSEMOND COUNTY.

JAMES H. BEDELL.

The subject of this sketch, now a resident of Suffolk, Nansemond
county, Virginia, was born in Dutchess county, New York, on August
12, 1836. He is a son of James H. and Alfina A. (Ada) Bedell, both
now deceased, and his wife is Sarah W., daughter of Thomas E. and
Julia Webb, formerly of Brooklyn, New York, now dead. They were
married in Brooklyn on December 31, 1855, and have six living children:
William T., Julia B., James H., Fannie A., Alve A. and Samuel W. They
have lost four children: Richard G., Sarah W., George W. and Harry S.

Mr. Bedell went to school in Brooklyn, New York, then learned the
engravers trade. In 1854 he went into the business of kindling-wood
manufacturer, in which he has been engaged ever since, as follows:
1854-5, in New York City; 1856, Baltimore, 1857, in Washington,
D. C.; later went to Clermont, Virginia, and in business there until he
returned to Baltimore in 1859, remaining there ten years. From 1869
to 1874 at Salisbury, Maryland; in Philadelphia 1874-9, then in Williamsport,
Pennsylvania, until 1886, when he came to Suffolk. Here he
has put up a kindling-wood factory at a cost of $32,000, which he superintends,
at the same time connected with kindling mills in Williamsport,
Pennsylvania.

EDWARD EVERETT HOLLAND

Is a son of Z. E. Holland, of Nansemond county, Virginia, and Ann S.
Holland, nee Pretlow, who died October 21, 1883, aged sixty-four
years. He was born in Nansemond county, on February 27, 1860.
After four years study at Richmond College, he took the law course in

the same college, then at the University of Virginia. He was admitted
to the Bar in 1881, and has been in practice since that time in Nansemond
and adjoining counties. Mr. Holland was mayor of Suffolk, from
July 1, 1885 to July 1, 1887. He is now commonwealth attorney for
Nansemond county, for the term beginning July 1, 1887, ending July 1,
1891.

He married in this county, on November 26, 1884, Sarah Othelia,
daughter of P. H. Lee and Joanna Lee, nee Rawles, of Nansemond
county. They have one son, Lee Pretlow Holland, born September 2,
1885.

ROBERT E. JONES.

Mr. Jones has been a resident of Suffolk since 1884, engaged in business
with a brother there, the firm name and style, Jones & Bro.,
wholesale and retail dealers in coal, ice, hay, grain, and agricultural
lime. He was born in Charlton county, Georgia, March 16, 1864, but
is of a Virginia family.

His father, William Henry Jones, born in Nansemond county, Virginia,
and now again a resident in the county, was in service in the
Confederate States Army during the late war. His mother, whose
maiden name was Emma C. Copeland, died in 1883.

At Tarboro, North Carolina, October 12, 1887, Robert E. Jones
married Sue W., daughter of Frank S. Wilkinson and Annie Wilkinson,
nee Stronach, of Charlton.

JUDGE WILBUR J. KILBY

Was born in Suffolk, Virginia, on April 18, 1850. His early education
was received in the town schools of Suffolk, and in 1867 he entered Randolph-Macon
College, at Boydtown, Virginia, attending one session
there, after which, in 1868, the college was removed to Ashland, Virginia,
where he remained two sessions, graduating in various schools.
He then entered the law school of the University of Virginia, in the fall
of 1870, and spent two sessions there. In August, 1872, he began to
practice law in Suffolk, where he has remained ever since. He was a
member of the law firm of Kilby & Son, and thus privileged to associate
himself at the beginning of his career with his eminent father,
whose name was known and honored throughout Virginia. On the death
of his father he continued to carry on the business of the firm. He has
been a member of the council of Suffolk, and is now ably filling the office
of judge of the county court.

His father, the late Hon. John Richardson Kilby, was born in Hanover
county, Virginia, on December 31, 1819, the son of Turpin Kilby, who
was a son of John Kilby, who was born in Vienna, Dorchester county,

Maryland, and settled in Hanover county in colonial days. The Hon.
John R. Kilby began his business life at the age of fourteen years, as
assistant to the clerk of court, Nansemond county; later was deputy
sheriff of the county. While faithfully discharging the duties of these
positions, he gave his leisure time to the study of law, and in 1845 was
admitted to the Bar. He was soon recognized as one of the leading
members of his profession in Tidewater Virginia, a result due no less to
his high moral worth than to his ability and his unsurpassed command
of legal lore. Among the public offices he filled were: Representative
from Nansemond county to the General Assembly of Virginia, 1851-2-3;
elector for the State; and delegate to various State and National conventions.
He was president of the Commercial Bank of Suffolk some
years, also. In 1843 he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, from which time he devoted his means and his abilities to the
cause of Christianity in every way that presented itself. His charities
were unbounded, and he gave his services in many offices, church steward,
church trustee, trustee of church college, president of society for the
relief of disabled ministers, Sunday-school superintendent, delegate to
General and Annual Conferences. This honorable and useful career
closed with his death in Suffolk, December 5, 1878, at the age of fifty-nine
years. One mourning this loss in his death then wrote: "Let this
epitaph be graven on the granite which shall mark his resting place:
This man served his own generation by the will of God."

The maiden name of Judge Kilby's mother was Martha Jane Louisa
Smith. She was born in the old mansion of her father, Arthur Smith,
corner Main and Second streets, Suffolk, where she lived seventy-one
years, until her death on February 7, 1888. Her father was forty years
postmaster in Suffolk, keeping the office at his residence.

Judge Kilby had two brothers in the Confederate States Army: Leroy
R., entered as private Company B, 16th Virginia Infantry, was promoted
through all grades to captain, and was in command of his regiment at
the surrender at Appomattox C. H.; died in Suffolk, October 12, 1883.
Wallace, the other brother, was a private in the same company, and
served part of the time as courier for General Weisiger; was wounded
once in arm, and once in leg; now a merchant of Suffolk.

The wife of Judge Kilby, whom he married at her father's residence,
near Newton, King and Queen county, Virginia, September 5, 1876, is
Harriet L., daughter of Joseph Brownley, her mother's maiden name,
Mary Catharine Howerton. She was born in King and Queen county,
as were her parents, both now deceased.

The children of Judge and Mrs. Kilby are three: Bradford, John
Richardson and Hilah. They have buried one daughter, Miriam Brownley,
died September 4, 1881, aged two and a half years.

WILLIAM H. PIERCE.

Patrick Pierce, born in Isle of Wight county, Virginia, died in 1884,
and Lucy (Gay) Pierce, died in 1884, were the parents of the subject of
this sketch. He was born in Isle of Wight county, on July 15, 1849.

At the age of seventeen years, in 1866, he began business as a general
merchant, a career that has been highly successful. He is now the
owner of three general stores in Suffolk, and carries on as a separate
business, a general feed store.

In Suffolk, May 14, 1877, Mr. Pierce married Mary E., daughter of
Sylvester Oliver, of Suffolk. Her mother, whose maiden name was
Mary Fluhart, is no longer living.

Mr. and Mrs. Pierce have one child, Olah, born April 23, 1886. Their
first-born was a son, named William H., born April 23, 1879, died
December 15, 1884.

JUDGE PETER B. PRENTIS,

Born in Suffolk, Virginia, on April 5, 1820, and now the oldest male
resident of Suffolk born there, is a son of Joseph Prentis, of Williamsburg,
Virginia, who was a son of Judge Joseph Prentis of the District Court, and
who was Speaker of the House of Burgesses. (See Hickey's Constitution.)
The mother of Judge Prentis was Susan Caroline, daughter of
Col. Robert Moore Riddick, of Jericho, Nansemond county. His father
was many years surveyor for the port of Suffolk, was commonwealth
attorney, and clerk of the circuit and county courts of Nansemond
county from June, 1838, to his death, which occurred on April 30,
1851.

In Isle of Wight county, Virginia, December 23, 1841, Judge Prentis
married Eliza Wrenn, who was born in that county. They have one
daughter, Martha J., born March 21, 1845, who married, September 20,
1864, Capt. Charles H. Causey, now of Suffolk.

Judge Prentis' first teacher was a Mrs. Russell; the second was Joel
Holleman, who afterwards was Speaker of the House of Delegates and
a member of Congress. After studying under several other teachers,
all of Suffolk, he went, in August, 1836, to the "Amelia Academy,"
which was conducted by the late William H. Harrison at "The Oaks"
and later at "The Wigwam," the former residence of Gov. W. B. Giles.
In September, 1838, he entered the University of Virginia, where he
remained until July, 1840. In June, 1841; he was admitted to the
Bar, and practiced in Isle of Wight, Nansemond and Southampton
counties up to March court, 1852.

On the death of his father he was appointed deputy clerk of
courts, Circuit and County, and in April, 1852, he was elected to the

office of clerk for term of six years. He entered on the duties of the
office in July, 1852, and served in same until May, 1871. Having
remained out of office from that time until June, 1873, he was then
appointed Judge of the county court by Governor Walker, and at the
succeeding legislature was elected to the office, which he filled until
July, 1875, when he again entered on the duties of clerk of the court,
having been elected clerk in the May previous. He has held this office
continuously since that time.

In May, 1863, he was made prisoner by Federal troops, and held in
his office three or four days, then sent to Norfolk city jail, thence to
Fortress Monroe, then to Fort Norfolk. From the last he was released
when Longstreet invested Suffolk, having been held, as shown in his
diary which the Yankees had stolen from him, six weeks and one half
hour.

JOHN M. SHEPHERD.

John M., son of James M. and Martha A. (Britt) Shepherd, was born
at Suffolk, Virginia, on November 13, 1843. His father, born in Nansemond
county, died at the age of thirty-five years. His mother is
living in Suffolk, now sixty-three years of age.

John M., was in the Confederate States army from the beginning to
the close of the War between the States, serving in Company A, 16th
Virginia regiment, in Mahone's brigade.

At Smithfield, Virginia, January 9, 1867, he married Carrie Minnie
Hall, born in Isle of Wight county, Virginia. They have two daughters,
Annie M., Carrie J., and two sons, James T., Fred W. Mrs. Shepherd
was the daughter of Thomas W. Hall, who was born in Isle of Wight
county, and died in 1862.

Since February 1, 1873, John M. Shepherd has held positions as
railroad agent for the N. & W. R. R., telegraph operator and express
agent.

NORFOLK COUNTY.

WILLIAM F. ALLEN.

William F., son of William V. and Laura E. Allen, both now deceased,
was born and educated in Norfolk, Virginia. In that city, December 6,
1854, he married Margaret C., daughter of John T. and Margaret E.
Griffin, formerly of Norfolk, both now deceased. The children of Mr.
and Mrs. Allen were born in the order named. William H., Walter F.,
James E., Joseph B., Leonora V., Cornelia J., Walter F., Claudia M.
The two oldest sons are now deceased.

For five years after leaving school Mr. Allen served as a sail maker;
then went into that business for himself, and followed it until 1856.
From 1856 to 1861 he was in the retail grocery business, and since the
last-named year he has been in his present business, wholesale grocer.
He is now the senior wholesale groceryman in the city of Norfolk, head
of the firm of W. F. Allen & Co.

Mr. Allen has served sixteen years as a member of the city council of
Norfolk; as superintendent of the Democratic executive committee, as
captain of the volunteer fire department. He is a member of the
Masonic fraternity and of the I. O. O. F.

HON. RICHARD G. BANKS,

Born at Hampton, Virginia, on September 3, 1840, is a son of Dr. R.
G. Banks, who was born in Essex county, Virginia, and who died in
1870, aged sixty-eight years. His mother, who died in 1845, was,
before marriage, Matilda Dewees, of Baltimore, Maryland. His wife,
whom he married in Goochland county, Virginia, on January 15, 1863,
was Nannie M. Argyle of that county.

Mr. Banks attended the schools of his native town, then took a course
at the Columbian College, and after that taught school one year in
Alabama. He entered the Confederate States Army in 1861, as captain
and quartermaster of the 50th Virginia Infantry, serving in
Floyd's brigade until that general was suspended, after the fall of Fort
Donelson. He was then commissioned major, on the staff of General
Loring, and detached as depot quartermaster at Selma, Alabama, so
serving until near the close of the war. After returning home he
engaged in merchandizing and farming until, in 1879, he was appointed
United States Inspector of Customs at Norfolk, in which capacity he
served ably until 1883. In 1883 he was elected to the Virginia legislature,
but unseated. In February, 1884, he was again elected to the
legislature, and served out the term. He was then made superintendent
of the public schools of Norfolk, serving until the election of Governor
Lee. In 1887 he was elected mayor of the city of Norfolk, an office he is
still (1888) filling.

JAMES E. BARRY.

James E. Barry was born in Savannah, Georgia, on October 14, 1823.
His mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth A. Ahern, died of yellow
fever, in Norfolk in 1824. His father was James Barry, son of John
Barry, who died December 20, 1871, aged ninety-eight years, and whose
father was also named James Barry.

James E. attended school in Norfolk, and in 1855 succeeded his father
in the crockery business in that city, which he carried on until the war.
In April, 1861, he entered the Confederate States Army as first lieutenant
of the Kekill battery, with which he served till the close of the war,
commanding the battery through most of the service. After the
close of the war, he returned to Norfolk, and, having a large estate,
devoted his time to its improvement, which has been his chief occupation
ever since. He has served in the council of the city of Norfolk,
and is also president of the Bank of Commerce, Norfolk, which position
he has filled since 1878.

Mr. Barry married in Norfolk, May 19, 1852, Mary M. Moran, who
was born in County Wexford, Ireland, the daughter of Nicholas and
Margaret (Cheevers) Moran, both now deceased. Their children are
three sons: Thomas Moran, James E., jr., and Robt. Emmett.
Thomas M. married, in 1878, Virginia Lovett, of Norfolk, and they
have four children: J. C. M., Mary R., James E. and F. J. R. Barry.

CEALY BILLUPS

Is descended from one of the three Billups brothers who emigrated from
Wales to the Virginia colony at an early date, and settled in that
section of Mathews county which they called Millford Haven. He is a
son of John E. Billups of Mathews county, whose wife was Mary Ann
Borum and was born in that county, on February 12, 1839.

He married in Norfolk, December 4, 1860, Lizzie A. Summers, of that
city, and the record of their children is: Amanda, now married, living
at Max Meadows, Virginia; George C., living in Norfolk; Eulalie, died
in April, 1879, aged fourteen years; Bessie, died in 1869, aged nine
months; Bessie the second, Cecil and Annie living at home.

Mrs. Billups is a daughter of E. T. Summers, who came to this
country from Scotland with his father, when about one year old, and
who was mayor of Norfolk, 1855, serving one term, and was many
terms a justice of the peace. Her mother was of Scotch-Irish descent.

Mr. Billups was educated in Mathews county. In 1856 he came to
Norfolk, and clerked for the late Seth March until 1858. In that year,
he, with Thomas P. Warren, bought out Mr. March and continued the
business until the war. They were closed after the first year of the war,
until it was ended. In 1865 they resumed business, but a few months
later Mr. Billups withdrew from the firm, and started alone in his
present business, dealer in agricultural implements, iron, steel, etc.

He was in service in the 12th Virginia regiment, C. S. A., in 1861, but
on account of continued ill health was forced to put a substitute in the
field, after the first year. He has been two terms a member of the city

council of Norfolk, and has twice been elected since to the same office,
but declined to serve. He has also declined to accept other offices of
trust and honor tendered by the citizens of Norfolk.

JUDGE GEORGE BLOW,

A resident of Norfolk, Virginia, was born in the county of Sussex, and
was the third son of George Blow and Eliza Waller, daughter of Robert
Hale Waller, of Williamsburg, Virginia.

Judge Blow received his early education at the private school of
George Halson, in the city of Norfolk, and from thence was sent to the
college of "William and Mary," where he graduated, and subsequently
to the University of Virginia, taking the law course under Prof. Davis.

Whilst engaged in the practice of law in San Antonio, a city in the
then Republic of Texas, he was elected a member of Congress for the
county of Bexar, and served through the session of 1840.

In consequence of the condition of the country, growing out of difficulties
with Mexico, preceding annexation, he returned to Virginia in
1841, and resumed the practice of his profession in the city of Norfolk.

In 1860 he was elected a member of the convention called to consider
and define the course of the State in the then existing troubles. He
was elected as a member of the Union party, and pledged to support
all honorable measures for its preservation, save by the means of armed
coercion.

This contingency arose when the proclamation of President Lincoln
called upon Virginia for her quota of troops to enforce the laws and
crush out the rebellion.

Judge Blow, together with many other members of the convention
similarly pledged, considered that an unnecessary and unconstitutional
war was about to be invoked, and that, in a question of arms, the place
of Virginia should be with her southern brethren, and he voted for and
signed the Ordinance of Secession.

In 1861 he joined the army of Virginia as lieutenant-colonel of the
41st regiment, and served as such until its reorganization in 1862.

In 1870 he was elected by the legislature judge of the 1st judicial
circuit of Virginia, in which position he served for two terms, or sixteen
years, and then resumed the practice of his profession.

JUDGE DAVID TUCKER BROOKE.

Judge Brooke was born in the city of Richmond, Virginia, on April
28, 1852. He is a son of Henry Laurence Brooke, who was born in Stafford
county, Virginia, and who died in March, 1873, aged sixty-six
years. His mother was Virginia Tucker Brooke, born in Jefferson

county, died October 7, 1864, aged forty-seven years. His elder brothers,
St. George T. Brooke and Frank J. Brooke, served in the late war,
C. S. A., and the first-named was severely wounded at Haws Shop.

Judge Brooke attended the Loudoun school at Middleburg, Virginia,
Virginius Dabney principal, until 1870, then the University of Virginia,
sessions of 1870 and 1871; taught school in Stafford county,
Jefferson county, and at Norfolk nine years, studied law under the late
Tazewell Taylor in Norfolk, was admitted to the Bar in 1874, and practiced
in Norfolk city until elected to the Bench. He is present judge of
corporation court, Norfolk city, having been elected to fill vacancy
in January, 1884, and re-elected for another term in 1887.

He married in Norfolk, April 7, 1880, Lucy Borland Higgins, of that
city. Their children are named Lucy Drummond, Eloise Minor, Henry
Laurence and Mary Walton. Mrs. Brooke is a daughter of Ignatius
Higgins, who was born in Norfolk, and died there in 1855 of yellow
fever, aged thirty-five years. Her mother, whose maiden name was
Jane Drummond, was born in Norfolk, and died in 1869.

FRANCIS DE CORDY,

Who has been an honored resident of Norfolk since 1835, was born in
New York City, December 20, 1814. His father was Thomas David
De Cordy, his mother Anne Brooks, daughter of Francis Brooks of
Norfolk, Virginia, and Jane Selque of Philadelphia. His ancestors were
Huguenots, religious refugees from France, who came to the colony
of New York in 1685.

In New York City, August, 1837, Francis De Cordy married Mary G.
Schuyler, born in that city, in August, 1819. She was the daughter of
Peter Schuyler, whose father was Peter Schuyler of the renowned
Knickerbocker family. Her mother was Eliza White, daughter of the
Rev. White, a Presbyterian clergyman of New York.

The record of the children of Mr. and Mrs. De Cordy is: Robert C.,
died in infancy, Robert C., 2d, volunteer engineer, United States service,
on flag ship "Philadelphia," died in 1863, Francis, jr., deceased, Victor
C. and Gordon, Frances G. and Rosalie. Gordon married Catharine
Putnam, of Rochester, New York, a daughter of Israel H. Putnam, who
was a grandson of Israel Putnam of Revolutionary fame.

After Mr. De Cordy came to Norfolk in 1835 he engaged in business
as master ship joiner, which occupation he followed until 1864. Since
that date he has been a merchant, dealer in coal, at 11 William street.
He was mayor of the city of Norfolk, 1870-2.

HON. GRIFFIN FAUNTLEROY EDWARDS

The ancestry of the subject of this sketch is thus traced: In early
colonial days Dr. Richard Edwards came from London to Virginia.
His son Thomas married Sarah Ingram. Their son Thomas married
Elizabeth Fauntleroy. Their son Griffin married Priscella Lee. Their
son, LeRoy Griffin Edwards, born in Northumberland county, Virginia,
in 1804, died in Norfolk county, in August, 1866, married Fannie W.,
daughter of John Robins, of Norfolk county, Virginia, whose father was
of Gloucester county. Their son, Griffin Fauntleroy Edwards, was born
at Deep Creek, Norfolk county, Virginia, September 16, 1843.

He went to school in the village of Deep Creek until twelve years of
age, then to the Union Male Academy, at Harrellsville, North Carolina,
for two and a half years, then one year to Mr. C. Morris, at Norfolk. In
January, 1861, he entered Emory and Henry College, in Washington
county, Virginia. In June 1861, the entire body of students withdrew
from the college to enter the army, and he joined Company E, 61st Virginia
regiment; was detailed clerk to Gen. H. B. Davidson, commanding
post at Staunton, Virginia. In November, 1863, he rejoined his regiment,
and was appointed sergeant-major, in the latter part of 1864
was appointed regimental adjutant. Serving with the regiment in
Mahone's division, he received a gunshot wound through right shoulder
near Farmville, Virginia, April 7, 1865. He had two brothers in service,
John Robins Edwards, first lieutenant Company A, 3d Virginia
regiment, Pickett's division, and LeRoy Bushrod Edwards, a private in
the same company. Both served until made prisoners in battle of Five
Forks, April, 1865; they were held prisoners until after the close of the
war.

Returning to his home, Griffin Fauntleroy Edwards qualified as
deputy for his father, who was then the clerk of the county and circuit
courts of Norfolk county. After his father's death in August, 1866, he
was elected to the office (in November, 1866) and served until removed
March 19, 1869, by the military governor of Virginia, for refusal to
take the iron-clad oath. In 1870 Mr. Edwards was appointed commissioner
of accounts for the city of Portsmouth, which office he has ably
filled ever since. In the sessions of 1879-80 and 1880-81 he was a member
of the Virginia legislature. In 1882-3-4-5-6 was superintendent of
the public schools of Portsmouth. While clerk of courts, Mr. Edwards
studied law, and he has been continuously in practice since 1869, except
when public official duties prevented.

He married at Portsmouth, October 6, 1869, Isabel Bilisoly, who
was born in Portsmouth. They have one son, J. Griffin, and have
buried one son, Carl, died May 22, 1879. Mrs. Edwards is the

daughter of Joseph A. Bilisoly, who was a son of Antonio Bilisoly, born
on the Island of Corsica. Her mother is Eliza, daughter of John Benson,
Esq.

CHARLES GRICE ELLIOTT,

A resident and honored citizen of Norfolk since 1867, was born in North
Carolina, at Elizabeth City, March 8, 1840. His father, who died May
20, 1852, at age of thirty-eight years, was Gilbert, son of Peter Elliott,
of North Carolina. His mother is Sarah A. Elliott, nee Grice, still living
at Oxford, North Carolina. His wife, whom he married at Oxford, North
Carolina, in March, 1867, was born in Franklin county, that State, Jeannette
Tunstall Cooper, daughter of James Crawford Cooper, of Oxford,
and Lucy (Williams) Cooper.

Mr. Elliott went to school in Elizabeth City to Rev. E. M. Forbes, a
Protestant Episcopal Church school. At the age of fourteen years he
began clerking in a mercantile store, at the age of seventeen years was
deputy clerk of the county court, and so served until, at age of twenty-one
years, he entered the Confederate States Army. In 1866 he was a
farmer. From 1867 to 1887 was a merchant at Norfolk, member of the
firm of William W. Gwathmay & Co., cotton factors, and at one time
president of the N. & P. Cotton Exchange. Since 1887 he has been connected
with the railroad that is now the Chowan & Southern, as its
treasurer. He has been a member of the Norfolk common council for
twelve years, and president of the same two years, and is now president
of the Board of Harbor Commissioners of Norfolk and Portsmouth.

He volunteered in 1861, for service in the 17th North Carolina regiment,
C. S. A., and was appointed assistant adjutant-general in Martin's
Brigade, Hoke's Division. He was captured at Roanoke Island, paroled
in two weeks, and served until the close of the war.

THOMAS E. ELLIOTT

Was born in Northampton county, Virginia, August 20, 1834. He
is a son of J. T. and Margaret (Downs) Elliott, both now deceased, and
a grandson of Rev. J. T. Elliott. In Norfolk, December, 1858, he married
Mary Eliza Davis, who was born in Norfolk, the daughter of Miles
Davis, who still lives in Norfolk, now eighty-eight years of age. The
children of the union are six: Alice Louisa, Thomas E., jr., Maggie
Virginia, William, Edna and Rebecca.

Mr. Elliott attended school in his native county until he came to Norfolk
at the age of fourteen years. He was two years in the lumber
business, one year in the commission business, then on January 1,
1850, engaged in his present business, hardware, railroad, steamboat

and mill supplies. For three years he was clerk for Allen, Rose & Capp,
then was made their head clerk, purchasing supplies and acting as general
manager of their business. He left this position in 1861 to enter
the Confederate States Army, in the Norfolk Artillery Blues, in which he
saw constant and honorable service until made prisoner at the fall of
Petersburg, April, 1865. In that last struggle at Petersburg, he had
the honor of firing the last five rounds the Blues ever fired, after all the
infantry had left. He was sent as prisoner of war to Point Lookout,
and held there until released after the surrender of Generals Lee and
Johnston. Returning to Norfolk, he engaged again in the business he
still follows, establishing the firm of Taylor, Martin & Co. On the retirement
of Mr. Martin the firm name and style became Taylor, Elliott
& Watters. For about twenty years these two firms in succession
carried on one of the largest hardware businesses in the State of Virginia.
Mr. Elliott is now conducting the business in his own name.

MICHAEL GLENNAN.

The subject of this sketch, owner of the Norfolk Virginian, and at
present postmaster of Norfolk, was born at Maynooth, County Kildare,
Ireland. At Norfolk, November 6, 1879, Rev. Fr. Matthew O'Keefe
solemnized the marriage of Michael Glennan and Mary Elizabeth Kevill,
the bride born in Norfolk. The issue of the union is four children: Edward
Kevill, Mary Belle, Michael and Alma.

Mr. Glennan came to Virginia with his father in childhood, and attended
school in Norfolk, then for a time in Brooklyn, New York. On
returning to Norfolk he was, in 1857, employed as mailing clerk in the
office of the Southern Argus, so serving until the outbreak of the war
After that he served for a time as orderly for Gen. W. P. Taliaferro, who
was then in command of the Virginia forces at Norfolk. He was afterwards
refused enlistment in Virginia troops on account of lameness and
youth. In November, 1861, was connected with the quartermaster's
department, at Wilmington, North Carolina, and in 1862 was attached
to the 36th regiment, North Carolina State Troops, as quartermaster's
sergeant. The regiment was stationed along the defences of the Cape
Fear, with headquarters at Fort Anderson. Later the regiment was
stationed at Fort Fisher, where he served as post quartermaster's sergeant,
and at times as acting quartermaster. As such he participated
in the battles of Fort Fisher, and was captured at the fall of the fort,
January, 1865, and imprisoned at Governor's Island, New York Harbor,
until paroled latter part of March, 1865. Reported at Greensboro,
North Carolina, and was there surrendered with General Johnston's
army, April, 1865.

After the war Mr. Glennan taught school in Portsmouth, Virginia,
until January, 1867, when he became connected with the Norfolk Virginian
as its business manager, and of which he afterwards became
owner. He was for several years a member of the State Democratic
Executive Committee, and chairman of the Democratic party of the
2nd Congressional District. He was one of the delegates at large to
the Democratic National Convention in 1880. In 1875 Mr. Glennan
started in the columns of the Virginian the agitation of a national
celebration of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, and the
erection of the monument in commemoration of the event. The movement
was successful and a magnificent monument now adorns the
historic field of Yorktown. In consideration of his services, Mr. Glennan
was selected by Governor Holliday the commissioner to represent Virginia
at the Centennial celebration. He is now the president of the Irish
Catholic Benevolent Union of the United States, succeeding Hon. A. M.
Keilly, of Richmond, Ex. U. S. Minister to Austria.

GOODRICH HATTON.

The founder of the Hatton family in Virginia was Lewis Hatton, an
English ship-owner, who settled on a large tract of land in Norfolk
county on the north side of the western branch of the Elizabeth river,
now known as "Hatton's Point." He was engaged in privateering
during the war of the Revolution, and died in 1784. Goodrich, subject
of this sketch, is descendant in the fourth degree of lineal consanguinity
from this Lewis Hatton, who was great grandfather of Goodrich's
father, Edward Alexander Hatton, who was born at Portsmouth, June
6, 1830, and married Susan Rebekah Nash, who was born at Portsmouth,
October 26, 1830. Their son Goodrich was born at "Waverly,"
the residence of his grandfather, in Norfolk county, May 8, 1862.

He was educated at the Norfolk Male Academy and at the University
of Virginia, graduating from the last named institution with degree of
Bachelor of Law in the year, 1883. He began practice as attorney and
counsellor at law in Portsmouth in September, 1883, in which he still
continues.

ROBERT MORTON HUGHES.

Robert Morton, son of Judge Robert W. Hughes, was born in Abingdon,
Virginia, on September 10, 1855. He was first educated at William
and Mary College, where he took degree as Bachelor of Arts, in
1873, then went to the University of Virginia, where he took degree of
Master of Arts in 1877, and where, also, he studied law. He is now engaged
in practice in Norfolk City.

At Williamsburg, Virginia, February 19, 1879, he married Mattie L.
Smith, and their children are two sons: Robert Morton, jr., born April
24, 1880, and Sydney Smith, born September 12, 1884. Mrs. Hughes
was born in Williamsburg, the daughter of Sydney Smith of York
county, Virginia, long a resident of Williamsburg, where he held several
offices of trust, and died in October, 1884. Her mother's maiden name
was Virginia Bucktrout.

Robert W. Hughes, father of Robert M., United States District Judge,
was born in Powhatan county, Virginia, on June 4, 1821. The mother
of Robert M. is Eliza M., daughter of Charles C. Johnston, member of
Congress 1831-3, and granddaughter of Judge Peter Johnston, of
Abingdon. She was born July 2, 1825. Her mother was a Preston,
and her paternal grandmother, Judge Johnston's wife, was a Miss
Wood, whose mother was a sister of Patrick Henry.

WILLIAM WALLACE HUNTER.

The founder of this family in Virginia, great grandfather of the subject
of this sketch, was James Hunter, born in Londonderry, Ireland, in
1764, came to America from the Island of St. Christophers in 1783,
died March 8, 1821, was a merchant and member of the firm of Allison
& Hunter. James Hunter and Miss J. Rodgers were married February
28, 1783.

His son William Frayze Hunter, grandfather of William Wallace, was
born February 15, 1787, and died November 15, 1822. William
Frayze Hunter and Henrietta Louise Andre were married July 10, 1810.

William Henry Hunter, son of William Frayze, and father of William
Wallace, was born November 15, 1814, and died March 4, 1882, at
time of his death was Clerk of the Courts of the City of Norfolk, Virginia.
William Henry Hunter and Eliza Frances Wallace were married
May 25, 1837.

William Wallace Hunter was born in Norfolk, on January 24, 1840.
He attended school at the Norfolk Military Academy, and entered the
Confederate Army in April, 1861. He was made prisoner at Roanoke
Island, North Carolina, in February, 1862, and paroled until September,
1862, from which time till the close of the war he was in constant
service in the Army of the Confederate States. After the close of the
war he went to New York, and engaged in the cotton commission business,
member of the firms of Dancy, Hyman & Co., of New York, and
Hymans & Dancy, of Norfolk. From these firms he withdrew in 1878,
since which time he has resided in Norfolk. He has been city treasurer
of Norfolk since July 1, 1885, and is now serving his second term of
three years.

In Norfolk, October 20, 1880, Rev. N. A. Okeson, D. D., united in
marriage William Wallace Hunter and Sophia E. Grandy. The bride
was born in Norfolk, a daughter of C. W. Grandy, who was born July,
1808, and died March 18, 1874, and Ann D. Grandy, nee Dozier, who
died March 15, 1882.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wallace Hunter have one son, Charles Grandy Hunter
and one daughter, Henrietta Louise Hunter. They have buried one
daughter, Kate Wallace Hunter, born January 6, 1883, died March 26,
1884.

WILLIAM M. JONES

Was born in Greensville county, Virginia, on January 21, 1840, the son
of Mordecai Jones, now deceased, who was a son of John Jones, of
Brunswick county, Virginia. The mother of William M., Martha R.
Gregg her maiden name, still lives in Greensville county.

William M. finished his education at Randolph-Macon College, where
he was graduated in 1860. The following year he taught school, then
entered the Confederate States Army in the "Greensville Guards." He
was appointed assistant quartermaster, and so served around Petersburg
until the close of the war. From 1865 to 1871 he taught in the
Wesleyan Female College, and since 1871 has been engaged in his present
business in Norfolk, a member of the firm of Jones, Lee & Co., commission
merchants. Mr. Jones is chairman of the school board of Norfolk,
and treasurer of the board of city water commissioners.

In Nansemond county, Virginia, December 23, 1868, he married Pattie
J., eldest daughter of Capt. Patrick H. Lee and Joanna Rawls, his wife.
Mrs. Jones was born in Nansemond county, where her parents still
reside. Her father served in the late war, captain in the 13th Virginia
Cavalry, C. S. A.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Jones were born in the order named: H.
Lee, now deceased, Willie M., A. Celeste, R. Paul, R. Virginia; Pattie
J., deceased, Pattie J., 2d, deceased, Richard A. and Harry P.

WILLIAM G. MAUPIN,

Was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, on July 11, 1820. He is a son of
George W. Maupin, who died in 1825, and a grandson of Gabriel Maupin,
of France. His mother's maiden name was Ann Moffat; she is no
longer living. His wife, whom he married at Petersburg, Virginia,
December 10, 1844, was born in Petersburg, Anna, daughter of
James and Ann (Dawson) Foley, both now deceased. The children
of Mr. and Mrs. Maupin are nine, born in the order named: William
G., Anna M., James F., Matilda E., Griffith, Samuel D., Aline, Ruth,
George W.

Mr. Maupin attended school in Portsmouth and Norfolk. At the age
of fourteen years he began business in a mercantile establishment, and
followed merchandising for twelve years. After farming for two years,
he returned to a mercantile life, which he has followed ever since. In
1873 he went into his present business, wholesale dealer in Maine ice.
He has worthily filled the public offices of city treasurer, councilman
and justice of the peace.

HON. JOHN NEELY

Is a son of John Neely, whose family was of Scotch-Irish extraction,
settled in Southeastern Pennsylvania at an early date. His mother's
maiden name was Bayly, the family, originally from England, early
seated in Virginia. He was born in Montgomery county, Maryland, on
September 30, 1841. He studied with his father and elder brother, in
Virginia and at St. Joseph, Missouri, until sixteen years of age, then
obtained appointment as naval cadet at Annapolis, but failed to pass
physical examination because of defective eyesight. He then taught
school for a time, reading law meanwhile. He commenced practice in
Accomack county, Virginia, at Accomack C. H., where he remained until
1885, in which year he removed to Norfolk, his present place of residence.
He was several years commonwealth's attorney for Accomack
county, and represented that county two terms in the House of Delegates.

He married at Accomack C. H., December 13, 1866, Mary V. Rayfield,
of Accomack county. They have two daughters, Ethel and Elizabeth.
Mrs. Neely is of a family settled in Virginia many years ago.

GEN. RICHARD L. PAGE

Richard L., son of William B. Page, and grandson of Mann Page, of
Gloucester county, Virginia, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, in
December, 1807. His mother, whose maiden name was Ann Lee, was
also a Virginian, a sister of Gen. Harry Lee (known as "Light Horse
Harry"). His parents have been many years dead. The wife of General
Page was born in Norfolk, Alexina, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth
(Calvert) Taylor, both now deceased. They were married in Norfolk,
November 4, 1841, have three living children, William B., Elizabeth C.,
and Walter T., and have buried three, Ann Lee, Richard L. and Alexina.

General Page was educated first in a school at Berryville, Virginia,
afterwards by private tutors in his family, after which in Alexandria,
Virginia. In 1824 he entered the United States Navy, as midshipman;
was promoted to commander, and served on several vessels. In 1861

he resigned to tender his services to his native State, and when the Virginia
forces were turned over to the Confederate government he was
appointed captain, C. S. N. He was assigned as ordinance officer at the
Norfolk Navy Yard, and built and commanded several forts at mouth
of Nansemond river, commanding also the naval forces at Savannah.
When Norfolk was evacuated by the Confederates he was appointed
commandant at Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1863 he was commissioned
brigadier general, and assigned to command of the outer defences
of Mobile Bay, with headquarters at Fort Morgan. When that fort was
surrendered, August 4, 1864, he was made prisoner and confined at New
Orleans, Fort Lafayette (New York), and Fort Delaware, Pennsylvania.
Released in September, 1865, he returned to Norfolk, where he devoted
himself to farming for six years. He was then appointed superintendent
of the public schools of Norfolk city, which office he filled for nine years.
General Page has now retired from active pursuits, and is living his remaining
years in Norfolk, honored and loved by all its citizens.

HON. WILLIAM H. PETERS

Was born at Portsmouth, Virginia, on May 12, 1816, the son of Henry
Peters, who died in 1825, aged about forty-four years, and Martha
Peters, nee Meredith, who died in 1841. He went to school in Portsmouth,
and at the age of sixteen years entered the United States Navy
Yard at Gosport as clerk, and continued there until May, 1855, filling
the position of commandant's secretary most of the time. In June,
1855, commenced a mercantile business in which he continued until the
secession of Virginia, when he was appointed paymaster in the navy of
Virginia, and ordered to duty at the Gosport Navy Yard, in charge of
the pay department of that establishment.

Continuing there until Virginia joined the Confederacy (when he was
succeeded by a paymaster of the Confederate navy), he was then appointed,
by Governor Letcher, commissioner to report on the public
property taken possession of, in the name of Virginia, in and around
Norfolk, including the United States navy yard at Gosport. This duty
performed, he was appointed Confederate States naval store-keeper, by
President Davis, and took charge of the stores in the Gosport yard.
He continued there until the station was evacuated by the Confederates,
May 10, 1862, when he proceeded with such stores as could be removed,
to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he remained on duty until September,
1863. He was then appointed navy agent, and assigned to
duty in the blockade, with headquarters at Wilmington, North Carolina,
having charge of the steamers of the navy department engaged in
running the blockade, and of the purchase and shipment of cotton, on

government account, from Wilmington and other southern ports. The
duties of this difficult position he discharged until the fall of Wilmington,
and the close of the war.

He then resumed mercantile business at Portsmouth and Norfolk. In
1879 he became president of the Citizens' Bank of Norfolk, a position
he still holds. In Portsmouth, Virginia, May 16, 1838, Mr. Peters
married Mary A. Reed, of that city. The record of their children is
James H., married Susan Sadler, of North Carolina, Carrie V., married
Dr. J. Buxton Williams, of Oxford, North Carolina; William R.,
married Mary Freeman, of Portsmouth, Laura B. (now deceased),
married Dr. Edward M. Watts, Mattie R., married Judge Legh Richmond
Watts, of Portsmouth, Washington and Mary, still living at
home.

CHARLES REID,

Son of George and Betty (Taylor) Reid, both now deceased, was born
in Scotland, in the year 1800. Coming to America when one year old,
his home has been in Norfolk ever since. He is now the oldest merchant
of the city, having been in business continuously for the last sixty-seven
years, during which time his integrity in all business transactions has
won for him the esteem of all who know him. For the past thirty-five
years he has been a member of the Presbyterian church. He has filled
several public offices of honor and trust, among them president of the
common and select councils, councilman, justice of the peace, etc.

Mr. Ried married, in Norfolk county, in 1825, Lucretia Nash, who
was born in Norfolk county, and died in 1868, aged sixty-eight years.
Their children were eight: Susan E., Charles H. (now deceased), Lucretia
N., George C., Harriet C., Rebecca F., Robert S., James T. S. The
living sons were all in service, Confederate States Army, during the late
war.

CHARLES SHARP ESQ.,

A member of the Norfolk Bar; born in 1829, succeeded his father, the
late William W. Sharp; and has practiced continuously since 1851, except
during the term of the War between the States. He married, in
1856, Lucy S., daughter of Hon. Valentine W. Southall, of Albemarle,
and has two children.

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William Willoughby Sharp, father of Charles, practiced law in
Norfolk, from 1821 until 1861, succeeding Governor Tazewell. He was
the son of Colonel William Sharp, who, in the war of 1812-5, commanded
the 9th and 54th Virginia regiments, under Generals Robert B.
Taylor and Wade Hampton.

In 1800, Colonel William Sharp married Mary Willoughby. His first
paternal ancestor in Virginia—James Sharpe—from England, Kent
County, in 1621, and was a member of the colonial House of Burgesses,
as early as 1635.

Captain John Smith, "Father of the Colony," who had served on the
staff of General Lord Willoughby in the Netherlands, brought to Virginia
Thomas Willoughby (then a boy of fourteen years) founder of
the family in the colony. By royal patent this Willoughby acquired
12,000 acres of land, on the Southern Shore of Chesapeake Bay. From
him a number of Norfolk families have sprung, among others the descendants
of General Taylor, who still hold the manor-estate on Willoughby
Bay. In 1767, Henry Willoughby of Virginia became the 17th
Lord Willoughby of Parham, recovering the Barony and manors, in a
contest before the House of Lords. Hon. Willoughby Newton of Westmoreland
was one of this connection.

LUTHER SHELDON,

Son of James and Harriet (Patterson) Sheldon, both now deceased,
was born in Albion, Michigan, on January 4, 1841. He attended
school at the Albion College, and then clerked in drug stores in Albion from
the age of eighteen to twenty-one. For ten years, 1860-70, he carried
on a drug business at Kalimazoo, Michigan, member of the firm of
Johnson & Sheldon. In 1870 he removed to Norfolk, where he
engaged in the business in which he still continues, dealer in building
material of every description.

At Richmond, Virginia, October 12, 1876, he married Jennie S. Baldwin,
who was born at Newark, New Jersey, August 25, 1854, daughter
of Thomas S. Baldwin, now deceased, and Jane M. Baldwin, now a resident
of Richmond. Their children are three living: Jennie Louise,
Thomas Baldwin and Luther, one deceased, Charles Fredk., died September
6, 1878, aged one year twenty-one days.

HON. LEROY HAMILTON SHIELDS

Was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on May 18, 1854, the son of John E.
Shields, Esq., still living in Norfolk, and the grandson of William C.
Shields, formerly of Norfolk. His mother is Mary F., daughter of John
Ridley, also of Norfolk. His wife, whom he married at Alexander, Buncombe
county, North Carolina, December 29, 1885, is Mary Orra Love.
They have one daughter, Frances Elizabeth Taylor Shields, born July
28, 1887. Mrs. Shields was born in Carter county, Tennessee, and is a
daughter of Col. Robert Love, formerly of East Tennessee, now deceased.

Her mother, who was Sarah Alexander of Alexander, on French
Broad, North Carolina, is no longer living.

The subject of this sketch attended school in Norfolk. From 1875 to
1884 he was in business in this city. In 1885 was elected to the lower
house of the State legislature, Democratic member from Norfolk, serving
in sessions of 1885-6. On July 1, 1886, he was elected city collector
for Norfolk city, and is now serving his second term in this office, to
which he was re-elected for two years in 1888.

JUDGE EDWARD SPALDING.

The subject of this sketch was born in Kennebec county, Maine, on
May 29, 1842. His father, living now at Augusta, Maine, at age of
seventy-four years, is Joel Spalding, son of Benjamin Spalding. His
mother, now seventy-five years of age, is Emeline, daughter of Jacob
Spalding.

Edward attended school at the Waterville Academy, Maine. From
1864 to 1869 he was clerk in the United States Treasury Department,
at the same time studying law. He graduated at the Columbia Law
School, Washington, D. C., in 1869, and since that date has resided in
Norfolk, Virginia, where he is extensively engaged in practice. From
January 1, 1880, to December 31, 1885, he was county judge for Norfolk
county.

Judge Spalding married first Angie M. Barr, who died May 25, 1874,
leaving him one daughter, Nettie R. Secondly he married, in Norfolk,
May 15, 1877, Florence K. Blake, who was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts,
and is a daughter of Alfred and Emma C. (Estey) Blake, now
of Norfolk.

HON. LUCIEN DOUGLAS STARKE.

The Starke family have been seated in Virginia for several generations.
Col. Bowling Starke, father of Lucien D., of Hanover county,
Virginia, born in 1790, married Eliza G., daughter of Hon. Anthony
New, who represented the Caroline district in Congress for many years,
and after his removal to Kentucky represented his Congressional district
in that State in Congress for many years. Col. Bowling Starke
and his wife left surviving them the following children: Joseph A.,
Bowling W., John W., Lucien D., Anne E., Alexander W., Julia Isabella
and Lucy A., of whom Joseph A. and Alexander W. are dead.

The father of Col. Bowling Starke was also named Bowling Starke,
and was of Hanover county. His children were named: Richard,
Thomas, William, Bowling, Lucy, Ann, Sarah, Frances, Jane, Eliza,
Susan and Elizabeth—all dead, leaving numerous descendants.

Lucien Douglas Starke was born in Hanover county, Virginia, near
Cold Harbor, February 9, 1826. His first wife was Elizabeth F. Marchant,
born at Indian Town, North Carolina, May, 1831. They were
married at Indian Town, January 8, 1855, by Rev. J. B. Dod, of New
York, and she died at Franklinton, North Carolina, March 18, 1863,
leaving two daughters: Eliza N. and Elizabeth M., the latter now the
wife of W. B. Martin, of Norfolk.

Secondly, Mr. Starke married in Tarboro, North Carolina, January
8, 1868, Talitha L. Pippen, daughter of John Pippen of Edgecomb
county, North Carolina. She died in Norfolk, Virginia, February 18,
1876, leaving four children: Lucien D., Talitha P., Virginia Lee, and
William Wallace Starke.

Mr. Starke was collector of customs for the port of Elizabeth City,
North Carolina, during the administrations of Pierce and Buchanan,
and represented Norfolk City in the House of Delegates, sessions of
1875-6 and 1876-7; again in the session of 1887-8.

As colonel of the 3d regiment North Carolina militia, he was the first
officer assigned to command the forces at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina,
during the erection of fortifications there in 1862. On the organization
of the State Troops of North Carolina he was appointed assistant
commissary of subsistence for the 17th regiment, Martin's Brigade,
Hoke's Division, but during the entire active service of the troops
under General Martin's command he was assigned to duty at general
headquarters as acting inspector general of the brigade, and served in
the trenches and at the front in all the engagements of that brigade.
Among the most important of these were those around Petersburg, the
battle of Bermuda Hundred, where the Confederate forces "bottled
up" Gen. Butler, and the battle of second Cold Harbor. During this
time, Colonel Starke also acted by temporary assignment as adjutant-general
to Gen. J. Johnston Pettigrew. At the end of the war was surrendered,
with the rest of Johnston's army, at Greensboro, North
Carolina, April, 1865.

Col. Starke has resided in Norfolk from 1867 to the present time, and
during that period has pursued his profession as a lawyer.

SAMUEL A. STEVENS,

Son of Samuel S. and Martha (Osgood) Stevens, was born in Ashburnham,
Massachusetts, May 11, 1836. His father, who was a son of Abel
Stevens, of Westford, Massachusetts, died December 1, 1874, aged
sixty-eight years. His mother is living in Baltimore, Maryland, now
aged eighty years. His parents moved from Ashburnham to Baltimore
in 1844, when he was eight years old, and he attended the schools of

the latter city until he was sixteen years of age, then took one year's
course at the Westminster Academy, Massachusetts, after that one
term at the Groten Academy, Groten, Massachusetts. From that time
until 1864 he was in business in Baltimore, then removed to Norfolk,
where, for twenty-four years he was engaged in the furniture business,
several years in his own name, then under the firm name of S. A. Stevens
& Co. He retired from active business on July 1, 1885, the firm
dissolving, and his son, Samuel S. Stevens, succeeding to the
business.

Mr. Stevens married, at Westminster, Massachusetts, June 15, 1857,
Frances S., daughter of Samuel S. and Fanny M. (Ames) Swan, both
now deceased. Mrs. Stevens was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Their
children are three. Samuel S., Fanny V. and Alice L.

The branch of the Stevens family from which the subject of this
sketch is descended settled in the colony of Massachusetts, Middlesex
county, in 1634, in the town of Chelmsford, where they are still represented.
They were prominent in all town affairs, the most of them living
to an advanced age, and a number of the name and family were
honorably prominent in the Revolutionary war. On the father's side,
Mr. Stevens is connected with the Putnam family, his father's mother
having been Betsy Putnam, a near relative of Gen. Israel Putnam, of
Revolutionary fame.

Mr. Stevens has been a member of the (Norfolk) city councils for fifteen
years; was recorder of Norfolk city for two years, and is now
president of the select council. During his service in the city councils
he was an advocate for introduction of aqueduct water into the city,
and was chairman of the com which introduced water into the
city of Norfolk. He also was prominent in inaugurating the present
system of sewerage. He has filled several other prominent positions in
the city, such as member of the school board, etc.

JOHN TANNOR

Born in Petersburg, Virginia, April 8, 1860, is a son of Major N. M.
Tannor, who held that rank in the Confederate States Army, was
many years an honored resident of Petersburg, and died April 8, 1881,
aged fifty-six years. Major Tannor married Miss M. A. Rowlett, who
survives him, living now in Petersburg.

John Tannor went to school to W. Gordon McCabe, Petersburg. He
began business in Petersburg with his father, with whom he remained
two years, was then one year in a broker's office in New York City, then
returned to Petersburg, where he was four years in business, firm of John
Tannor & Co. He then made his home in Norfolk, and was two years

a partner in the firm of Tannor & Co., cotton commission business.
Three years ago he connected himself with the firm of E. H. Coates & Co.,
Norfolk, cotton commission business, with which he still remains.

FREDERICK'S TAYLOR.

The subject of this sketch was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on December
16, 1847. His father, Tazewell Taylor, died October 22, 1875, aged
sixty-six years, was the son of James Taylor, whose father was John
Taylor, merchant of Norfolk, descendant of a Scottish family of Taylors.
His mother, living now in Norfolk, is Anna Robinson Taylor, daughter
of William Dickson. His wife, whom he married in Fauquier county,
Virginia, November 12, 1873, was Bessie P. Taylor, of Fauquier county,
and their children are three sons and one daughter. Tazewell, Brooke,
Southgate, Anna R.

Mr. Taylor was educated in Norfolk and Baltimore up to 1866, when
he entered William and Mary College. After leaving college he went to
the University of Virginia, and in 1870 read law in his father's office,
but has never practiced.

He engaged in mercantile pursuits for a short time, and after his
father's death managed his and other estates. Since 1879 he has been
secretary and treasurer of the Norfolk and Ocean View R. R. In public
life he has been a member of the Council of the City of Norfolk, and president
of both branches of same. In 1873-4-5 he was a member of the
Virginia legislature.

JOHN R. TODD

Was born at Smithfield, Virginia, on April 7, 1835, the son of Mallory
M. Todd, who died in 1854, and Fanny B. Todd, nee Dick, also now
deceased. He married, at Warrenton, Virginia, on September 15, 1875,
Lillie W. Payne, of Warrenton, daughter of Richards Payne, now
deceased, and Alice Payne, still a resident of Warrenton.

Mr. Todd went to school at the Norfolk Academy, and at the age of
seventeen years engaged as drug clerk with M. A. Santos, of Norfolk,
with whom he remained one year. He then went to Richmond, where
he was drug clerk for Alex Duvall three years, then to Montgomery,
Alabama, where he remained until the breaking out of the war.

He entered the Confederate States Army in April, 1861, and served
one year in the commissary department, then was transferred to the
Nitre and Mining Bureau, and sent to Lynchburg, Virginia, where he
took charge of the salt petre refinery, and where he continued till the
close of the war.

Returning then to Norfolk, he took up the drug business again for a
year, after that was clerk on a steamer for eight months, then accepted his
present position, as register of the water works, a position he has now
ably filled for fifteen years.

GEORGE W. TAYLOR

George W., son of W. H. and Cornelia W. (Cowdery) Taylor, was
born in Norfolk, on November 30, 1853. His father died two years
later, in 1855, of yellow fever. During the war between the States he
had four brothers in service in the Confederate States Army. At Elizabeth
City, North Carolina, May 16, 1882, George W. Taylor married
Elizabeth A. Higgins. They have two children M. de Bree and Baynie.
Mrs. Taylor was born in Norfolk, Virginia, daughter of John A. Higgins,
whose wife was Margaret de Bree. Her parents are now deceased.

Mr. Taylor is engaged in business in Norfolk, dealing in coal, ice and
wood. He has served in the city council part of two terms, has taught
three years in the public schools, and is now superintendent of the
public schools, appointed November 21, 1887. He is captain of the
"Lee Rifles," which position he has held since the organization of the
company.

COL HENRY L. TURNER,

Son of William H. and Susan A. (Boush) Turner, both now deceased,
was born in Norfolk, on January 15, 1844. He married in Norfolk,
Lizzie C. Watters, May 4, 1865.

Colonel Turner was educated at Norfolk and at Christiansburg, Virginia.
He went into the Confederate States Army in the first year of the
war, serving as a private in infantry. In 1862 he attended the Virginia
Military Institute for eight months. In 1870-3 he was in the wholesale
boot and shoe business in Norfolk. For four years from 1874 was superintendent
of the Norfolk Street R. R. Co. In 1879-80 was milling, after
that farming. He has held civil or military command under every Governor
since the war, and in 1883 was appointed on the staff of Governor
Cameron. On July 10, 1886, he was appointed ordinance officer, with
rank of first lieutenant of first battery of artillery. He has also served
as quartermaster sergeant of the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues for fifteen
years. Colonel Turner is an A. F. and A. M., past master of Atlanta
Lodge, No. 2.

F. A. WALKE: M. D.

Thomas Walke, who settled in Princess Anne county in colonial days,
was the founder of the family in Virginia from which Dr. Walke is
descended. Jane Randolph, of Curls Neck, was the great grandmother
of Dr. Walke.

He was born in Norfolk, on October 1, 1831. On May 25, 1853, he
married Miss A. M. Boylor, of Norfolk. In 1854 Dr. Walke entered
service in the United States Navy, as surgeon, resigning in 1857.
During the war between the States, he was surgeon of the 46th Virginia
regiment, under Gen. H. A. Wise. Since the war he has been in
practice, and also conducting a drug store in Norfolk. Dr. Walke is a
member of the Masonic order, of the K. H., K. L. H.; Golden Rule, and
other societies.

WILLIAM TALBOT WALKE

Is a son of Richard Walke and Mary D. Walke, nee Talbot, and was
born in Norfolk, Virginia, on January 31, 1838. He was married at
Winton, North Carolina, on August 3, 1858, Sarah R., daughter of
Richard Gary (now deceased), becoming his wife. Their children are:
William Talbot, Richard G., James N., Mary D., Sally W., Isaac T.,
Ethel (deceased), Henry (deceased), and Herbert N.

In early youth Mr. Walke went to school to Paxton Pollard. He took
the collegiate course at William and Mary College, graduating in 1856.
He then entered the wholesale drug business, in which he was engaged
till the outbreak of the war between the States.

He entered the Confederate army in 1861, in Company H, 6th Virginia
Infantry, and after six months service was discharged. In the
spring of 1862 he enlisted again, in Burruss' battalion of cavalry, and
was on detached duty in the commissary department. In 1863 he was
promoted first lieutenant and adjutant of the 39th Battalion Virginia
Cavalry, with which he served until the close of the war.

Returning then to Norfolk, he went into business with W. W. Chamberlaine;
in 1866-67 was farming in North Carolina; then returned to
Norfolk, and was in the book and stationery business about a year. In
1869 went into the general insurance business, in which he has continued
ever since.

JAMES HATTON WATTERS

Was born at Norfolk, Virginia, on July 13, 1840, the son of James
Watters, who died in 1850, and Georgiana Virginia Watters, nee
Martin, also now deceased.

He was married in Norfolk, July 6, 1882, to Margaret S. Garrett
who was born in Norfolk county. She departed this life on December
21, 1887, leaving her husband with three children: Garrett, James
Hatton and Margaret.

Mr. Watters went to school in Norfolk county and city, and begar
business as a clerk at the age of fourteen years in Norfolk. He continued
as a clerk until the war, entering the Confederate States Army

in April, 1861, as a private, and promoted sergeant, in the Norfolk
Light Artillery Blues, and served until the close of war. He was
wounded and made prisoner at Chancellorsville, but released shortly
after. He returned to Norfolk at the close of the war and entered business
for himself as a member of the firm of Taylor, Martin & Co., hardware.
He still continues in the same line of business, partner in the
firm of Watters & Martin, wholesale hardware, 84-6 Water street,
Norfolk.

Mr. Watters has twice been a member of the city council of Norfolk.

JUDGE LEGH RICHMOND WATTS.

Judge Legh R. Watts, son of Dr. Edward M. Watts and Ann Eliza
(Maupin) Watts, was born in the City of Portsmouth, December 12,
1843. His paternal grandfather was Col. Dempsey Watts and his
maternal, Dr. George W. Maupin, surgeon U. S. A. He has continuously
resided in Portsmouth. During the War he served as a private in
the Confederate Army, doing duty principally in North and South Carolina,
he was paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, on the surrender
of Gen Joseph E. Johnston's Army in 1865. Returning home, he resumed
his studies, interrupted by the war, and attended the University
of Virginia, sessions of 1865-6 and 1866-7, graduating in several of
the academic schools at the end of his first session, and taking the
degree of Bachelor of Law at the end of the second.

He at once engaged in the practice of the law, and continued until
1870, when he was elected by the Legislature of Virginia, Judge of
Norfolk County.

In 1880, he resumed, and still continues the active practice of his
profession. The City Council, in 1883, elected him President, and he
still holds that position.

Since November, 1883, he has been President of the Bank of Portsmouth,
the oldest banking institution in the city, and in 1888, he was
nominated by Governor Lee as a Member of the Board of Visitors of
the University of Virginia, and confirmed by the Senate, for the term
of 1888-92.

On November 26, 1868, at Portsmouth, he married Mattie P.,
daughter of William H. and Mary A. (Reed) Peters, of that city, and
the issue of this union is six children.

THOMAS HAMLIN WILLCOX

Was born in Amherst county, Virginia, on October 4, 1859, the son of
Thomas W. Willcox, of Charles City county, and his wife, Martha A. R.
Willcox, nee Claiborne. Thomas W. Willcox was born in Charles City

county, on November 17, 1832, and was in service, C. S. A., during the
late war.

At Norfolk, Virginia, October 14, 1885, Thomas Hamlin Willcox and
Mary Cary Ambler were united in marriage. The bride was a daughter of
Thomas M. Ambler, now of Ashland, Virginia. Her mother, whose
maiden name was Virginia Sharp, is no longer living. Mr. and Mrs.
Willcox have two children, Mary Ambler and Thomas Hamlin.

After the usual preliminary studies, Mr. Willcox entered the Virginia
Agricultural and Mechanical College, Blacksburg, Virginia, whence he
was graduated in August, 1877. In 1880 he took the summer law
course at the University of Virginia, and since 1884 has been practicing
law in Norfolk. Since July 1, 1886, he has been commonwealth attorney
for Norfolk City.

GEORGE R. WILSON

George Wilson married Mary Drew, and their son George R. was born
at Smithfield, Isle of Wight county, Virginia, August 26, 1817. He attended
school in his native town, and also a private school in Amelia
county, Virginia, took the collegiate course at William and Mary
College, and attended the University of Virginia. In 1837 he returned
to his home, his father then engaged in business in Norfolk, and clerked
for his father one year. After that he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where
he was engaged in the pork business, a business he followed in various
other places until the beginning of the war. He then returned to Virginia,
and served through the war in the commissary department at
Richmond. After the war he carried on a family grocery store in Norfolk
until 1872, then was in the ice business, and other mercantile pursuits
until 1884, since which time he has filled the office of justice of the
peace, serving now his second term. From 1877 for four years he was
cashier of the custom house, Norfolk.

Mr. Wilson married in Norfolk, June 7, 1848, Rev. George D. Cummings,
of the Episcopal Church, joining him in wedlock with Claudia
Sharp, born in Norfolk in 1827. She was the daughter of William W.
Sharp, now deceased, and Mary A. L. (Schofield) Sharp. Mr. and Mrs.
Wilson have lost two sons: William Sharp, lost at sea, in transitu to
San Francisco, 1872, and Byrd, an infant, and have two daughters.
Mary Willoughby and Evelyn.

M'DONALD L. WRENN

Aurelius and Martha V. (Holmes) Wrenn, both now deceased, were
the parents of McDonald L. Wrenn, who was born in Norfolk, November
5, 1858. He married in Richmond, Virginia, October 22, 1884, his wife,

born in Richmond, Kate, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Ellyson)
Campbell, of Richmond.

He attended school in Norfolk, from the age of six to fifteen years, and
then went into his father's establishment, carriage business, as bookkeeper,
where he remained six years. In 1880, with his father and R. W.
Whitehurst, he went into business, under the firm name and style of
Wrenn, Whitehurst & Co., having factory, foundry and salesrooms for
the manufacture and sale of plows, presses, planters, and all agricultural
implements, his father still continuing his carriage business separately.
In 1885 became a member of the firm of A. Wrenn & Son, in which business
he still continues, with C. O. Wrenn in partnership, the firm name
remaining A. Wrenn & Son. This business was established in 1852, and
the firm carries on the largest factory in the South, manufacturing carriages,
buggies, road carts, harness and conveyances of every description.

ELIZABETH CITY COUNTY.

JUDGE JOHN BOOKER

Was born at Sherwood, Elizabeth City county, Virginia, April 14,
1849. His father, who died February 11, 1878, aged sixty-two years,
was George Booker, son of Richard Booker, son of George Booker, son
of Richard Booker, of Amelia county, Virginia. The mother of Judge
Booker lives now in Hampton, Ann Messenburg was her maiden name.
He married at Hampton, February 17, 1881, Sue C. Howard, and they
had one son, John, now dead. Mrs. Booker is the daughter of Harry
C. and Diana (Wray) Howard. Her father, born in York county, Virginia,
is of pure English lineage, his family closely descended from that
house of which the Duke of Norfolk is head. Mr. Howard was a graduate
under the famous Archibald Campbell of Bethany.

Before his studies were finished, Judge Booker served in the Confederate
States Army, entering the Signal Service, transferred to Gen. H.
A. Wise's staff as courier, later to Company F, 26th Virginia regiment,
with which he served until the close of the war. He attended school,
first in his native county, then Gordon McCabe's school in Petersburg.
In 1870-71 he was a student in Hampden-Sidney college, and in
1871-2 attended the University of Virginia. In the latter institution
he took the law course, and in 1878 he was admitted to the Bar, and
appointed Commissioner of Accounts and Deputy Sheriff, practicing in
Elizabeth City, York, Warwick and James City counties. On January
20, 1882, he took his seat on the Bench, judge of the county courts of

Elizabeth City and Warwick counties, serving until 1886. In May,
1887, he was elected clerk of the county and circuit courts of Elizabeth
City county, which position he is still filling.

CAPT. BENJAMIN F. HUDGINS,

Born in King William county, Virginia, November 12, 1831, is a son of
Robert Hudgins, who died March 31, 1860, and a grandson of Hon.
Holder Hudgins, many years a member of the Virginia Senate and
Lower House. The mother of Captain Hudgins, who died in 1871, was
Harriet Howard Jones before marriage. He married in Dinwiddie
county, Virginia, November 14, 1855, Rebecca B. Worsham, born in
that county, died February 20, 1885, aged fifty-five years. Their
children were: Edward B., deceased; Maria B., Benj. F. jr., Judith M.,
Worsham K.; Maud, deceased; Astley C. Dr. Henry C. Worsham, formerly
of Dinwiddie county, now deceased, and a son of Capt. Worsham,
was the father of Mrs. Hudgins. Her mother, whose maiden name was
Judith M. Bland, died in 1856.

Captain Hudgins was educated at John B. Cary's academy, Hampton,
and at the Virginia Military Institute, where he graduated in 1852.
For seven years immediately preceding the war, he was farming in
Elizabeth City county. He entered the Confederate States Army in
1861, captain of Company E, 32d Virginia regiment, with which he
served one year; was then aide on staff of Gen. Roger A. Pryor eight
months; staff of Brig-Gen. Beverly Robinson seven months; after that
served in the ranks till the close of the war. He was twice wounded in
service, at Gaines Mills and at Sharpsburg. From 1867 to 1885, Capt.
Hudgins was again engaged in farming, since the latter date has been
in his present business, dealer in coal and wood. He has served as
county supervisor, and seven years as school trustee.

EDGAR E. MONTAGUE.

Col. Edgar B. Montague, son of Lewis B. Montague, of Middlesex
county, Virginia, married Virginia Eubank, of that county. Their son,
Edgar E., was born in Halifax county, Virginia, in December, 1862.
He attended school at the Virginia A. & M. C., was graduated in law at
Cumberland University, Tennessee, June 6, 1886, admitted to the Bar
in the same month at Lebanon, Tennessee, and in the same year settled
in Hampton, where he is still practicing. He is captain in command,
Company D, 4th Virginia regiment, to which office he was elected September
10, 1888.

His father, Colonel Montague, commanded the 32d Virginia regiment
C. S. A., from April, 1861, to the close of the war between the States.
Colonel Montague died February 21, 1885, aged fifty-three years. His
widow survives him, living now in Middlesex county.

JUDGE G. M. PEEK.

The subject of this sketch was born at Hampton, Virginia, December
7, 1839. He is the son of Thomas Peek, who was born in February,
1803, and died in August, 1867. His mother, born in April, 1815, and
died in May, 1878, was Janet Meredith, daughter of Dr. William Hope,
who was a son of George Hope, of England, who settled at Hampton
in 1770. After attending the Hampton Academy, Judge Peek entered
the University of Virginia, which he left in the spring of 1861, to enter
the military service of his State.

In the fall of 1861 he became Assistant Professor of Mathematics
and Commandant of Cadets in Florence Wesleyan University, at Florence,
Alabama. He entered the Confederate States Army in March,
1863, and served as aide to Col. E. A. O'Neal, 26th Alabama Infantry,
commanding Rhode's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. In June,
1863, he was appointed Professor of Mathematics in the Confederate
States Navy, with the rank of Master, afterwards of 1st Lieutenant,
and so served until the close of the war.

After the war he returned to Hampton, taught school for one year,
then entered the law school at the University, where he took the degree
of Bachelor of Law. In September, 1867, he was admitted to the Bar
at Hampton. In the same year he was appointed by the court Commonwealth's
Attorney, to fill an unexpired term. Four years after he
was elected to that office by the people. He was the first county superintendent
of schools for his county and Warwick, under the present
public school system, and held that office until the republican party
gained control of the State in 1881. In December, 1885, he was elected
by the Virginia legislature Judge of Elizabeth City and Warwick counties,
which position he still fills. In 1881 he organized the Bank of
Hampton, of which he is the cashier. Judge Peek is an A. F. and A.
M., Knight of Pythias, a member of the I. O. O. F., and of the
Methodist Church.

In Hampton, at the residence of her mother, March 19, 1872, he
married Sarah K. Holt, who was born at Portsmouth, Virginia.
Their first-born son, John L., is now deceased, and their family consists
of two sons and two daughters, William H., Lavinia C., Janet H.
and George M. Mrs. Peek is the daughter of William Holt and Lavinia

Phillips. William Holt died at Portsmouth in 1856, and Lavinia, his
widow, died at Hampton in 1883.

HENRY C. WHITING,

The founder of the Whiting family in Virginia settled in Gloucester
county in 1609. Kennon Whiting, a lineal descendant, was born in that
county, August 14, 1796, and died in Hampton, Virginia, December 9,
1886. Kennon Whiting married Anne Wythe Mallory, who was born in
Norfolk, Virginia, March 3, 1803, and died in Hampton, June 23, 1876.
The Mallory family came to the colony of Virginia about 1617; settled
in Norfolk and Elizabeth City counties. Henry C., son of Kennon Whiting
and his wife Anne, was born in Hampton, December 24, 1832. At Roseland,
Elizabeth City county, October 29, 1856, he married Mary Simkins,
second daughter of the late Hon. Joseph Segar. The children of the
union were five: Segar, Kate Carlyle, Virginia Fairfax, Livingston Faison
and Mattie Kennon. The latter died April 10, 1882, at the age of
thirteen years. Mrs. H. C. Whiting died on December 10, 1884, in Hampton,
Virginia.

Mr. H. C. Whiting attended school at the Hampton Academy. At the
age of twenty years he engaged in a mercantile business, in Hampton,
which he has followed ever since, except during the years of the war, and
still continues. He is president of the bank of Hampton, and has been
since its organization in January, 1881; served as councilman of Hampton
in 1859, and has been school trustee since 1873.

He entered Confederate States service in April, 1861, as second lieutenant
in the 32d Virginia regiment, C. S. A., was appointed captain, P. A.
C. S., and assigned to staff duty, serving until the close of the war, with
Generals Magruder, McLaws, Whiting and Johnston, and surrendered
with General Jos. E. Johnston's army near Durham, North Carolina,
April 26, 1865.

Many whose names are illustrious in the annals of Virginia were of
the distinguished families from whom Mr. Whiting derives descent.
Among these may be mentioned his great grandfather, Col. Thomas
Whiting, who was president of the board of naval commissioners during
the Revolutionary war; Col. Charles K. Mallory, killed at or near Bethel,
in service in that war; Chancellor George Wythe, whose record appears
elsewhere in this volume, and who was a cousin to Mr. Whiting's mother,
and others.

WARWICK COUNTY.

COL. L. BREMOND.

The subject of this sketch was born at Norfolk, Virginia, January 1,
1827, a son of Dr. Dennis Bremond and Eliza Bremond, nee Johnson,
both now deceased. He married, at Charlotteville, Virginia, November
18, 1852, Martha Sheperd, who was born in Richmond, Virginia, the
daughter of the late Samuel Sheperd, long an honored resident of Richmond,
State printer there.

Colonel Bremond attended school in Norfolk until fifteen years of age,
when he left the Norfolk Academy to begin a business life. He clerked
for W. H. Garnett & Co. for about eighteen months, then for a time
was with Thos. G. Broughton & Co., of the Norfolk Herald. After
that he was in the drug business with John A. Ludlow and Ludlow &
Gomley. He then was with the Virginia Central Railroad, which he left
to accept position with the Covington & Ohio Railroad. In 1861 he
was appointed collector of tax in kind for the Confederate States Government,
so serving till the close of the war. Since that time he has
been in the employ of the Chesapeake & Ohio R. R., with which he still
continues, agent at Newport News.

COLONEL HENRY DE B. CLAY,

Resident of Newport News, and clerk of county and circuit courts, Warwick
county, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 22, 1843. He went to
school in Cincinnati, then to the Mt. Pleasant Military Academy, Sing
Sing, New York, where he was graduated in 1860. On May 14, 1861,
he was appointed captain, 14th U. S. Infantry; in 1866 was transferred
as senior captain 23d U. S. Infantry. He served through the
war between the States in the Army of the Potomac, and was wounded
at battle of the Wilderness. In the fall of 1865 accompanied his regiment
to the Pacific coast, and served in Arizona, California, Oregon
and Washington Territory. He resigned from the army in 1870, and
in 1871 settled at Jamestown, James City county, Virginia. In 1876
he was chief of the Department of Protection, and colonel commanding
Centennial Guard of the International Exhibition held at Philadelphia.
In 1883 he was appointed collector of customs at Newport News, Virginia.
Elected to his present position in 1886, for the term of six
years. Colonel Clay is Past Master Bemond Lodge 241, A. F. & A. M.;

an Odd Fellow, Past Department Commander, Department of Virginia,
Grand Army of the Republic, is a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, also of Society of the Army of the Potomac.

He is a son of Ralph A. Clay, who was born at Newark, New Jersey,
August 7, 1816, and died July 29, 1860; is grandson of Ralph Clay,
of Georgia, whose father was Joseph Clay, paymaster general of
Georgia in the Revolutionary war, coming from England. The mother
of Colonel Clay, was born July 16, 1816, died July 5, 1873; she was
Lucy Ann Gassaway, born in Baltimore, Maryland, daughter of Henry
and Rachel Gassaway, of Maryland, whose parents came from England
and Wales. Colonel Clay has been twice married, his first wife Hattie
Fields, of New York City, whom he wedded in 1871, who bore him two
children, a son, Ralph, born in New York April 5, 1872, and a daughter,
Ethel, who was born in New York October 2d, 1873. He married again
in 1887, Miss F. A. Eager, of Montgomery, New York.

ENOCH CLAYTON,

Son of Joseph and Mary (Smith) Clayton, both now deceased, was
born in the State of New Jersey, on March 4, 1832. He married in that
State, January 16, 1858, Hannah A. Scull, born in New Jersey, and
their children are two daughters, Mary M. and Susanna B. Mrs. Clayton's
parents were Abel Scull, now deceased, and Annie W. (Idell) Scull,
now living in Philadelphia.

Mr. Clayton went to school in his native State until ten years of age,
when he went to sea. He served in all positions on board a vessel, and
at the age of twenty-one years was made Captain of the schooner
"Wicsicken." His last service at sea was as captain of the schooner
"J. V. Clayton." His business has always been connected with shipping
interests. He came to Richmond, Virginia, in September, 1870, to
Newport News in May, 1882. He has followed the occupation of stevedore
for many years, in the employ of the C. & O. R. R. at Newport
News. Since July 1, 1887, he has been sheriff of Warwick county, and
is still serving.

DR. A. C. JONES,

Was born April 9, 1857, in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia. His
wife's maiden name was Annie New, and she was born in Lexington,
Missouri. They were married at Hampton, Virginia, December 22,
1885, and have one son, A. C. Jones, jr., born February 2, 1887.

Dr. Jones started to school at the age of nine years, to a teacher
named John C. King, having been previously pretty well prepared at
home by an older sister. After going to King one session he went to

the Grammar and Matty school, preparatory department of William
and Mary College, where he continued until the age of fifteen years and
a few months, when he entered William and Mary College, where he continued
studying until the College Commencement of 1875. He then left
that college with many regrets, as in one year more he would have
taken his degree. But, his father having died when he was only fifteen
years old, and his estate having been consumed by security debts for
other people, he was forced by that stern necessity which knows no law
and shows no leniency to any, to hasten to that calling by which he
hoped to make an honest and comfortable living.

In the fall of 1875 he commenced a regular course of medicine at the
Virginia Medical College, at Richmond, which he attended three sessions.
At the close of the second session he took the degree of Ph. G.,
and at close of third session, full degree of Doctor of Medicine. Immediately
in March, 1878, he began the practice of his profession at his
home in Williamsburg. Beginning practice at such an early age, he
would not have chosen to follow his profession in his native place,
where he had been known as a mischievous boy but a few years before,
and naturally was still so remembered, but it was there his aged and
infirm mother was living, there her life had been spent, what little property
remained to her was there, and Dr. Jones was the only son left to
look after her and his younger sister, the other children having married.

Under these circumstances he remained in Williamsburg until his
mother's death. In January, 1884, he removed to Newport News; in
the following year served in the Government Quarantine at Biloxi, Mississippi,
and at Cape Charles, Virginia. In the fall of the same year he
left this service, and returned to Newport News, to resume practice. In
that same fall the Democratic party succeeded in regaining the control
of the State, and in the following spring Dr. Jones was appointed Quarantine
officer of the port of Newport News, which position he has held
ever since. Residence, Newport News.

THEODORE LIVEZEY,

Superintendent of the Old Dominion Land Company, at Newport News,
Virginia, was born at Lumberville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He
is a son of Allen and Mary A. (Gordon) Livezey, now of Yardley, Pennsylvania,
and a grandson of Robert Livezey, formerly of Pennsylvania.
His paternal ancestor, Jonathan Livezey, came from England and
settled in Pennsylvania in 1682. His maternal ancestor, James Paxson,
of Bycot House, Oxfordshire, England, settled in Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, in 1682. He married at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

November 15, 1865, a union blessed with three sons: Harry C., now
residing in New York city; Walter B., living at Newport News; Herbert
S., now in Yardley, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Livezey's school days were passed in his native town. At the
age of fifteen years he went into a retail drug store in the city of Philadelphia.
He entered the United States Army on his twenty-second
birth-day, August 20, 1862, and received honorable discharge from
service in April, 1865. He was a building contractor from that time
until 1877; then had charge of a lumber and coal yard for Alex. B.
Green, Greensburg, New Jersey, until March, 1881, at which time he
received appointment as superintendent of construction for the Old
Dominion Land Company, which position he held until appointed, in
1885, to the office he now holds for this company. Mr. Livezey is a
member of the Society of Friends.

EDWIN PHILLIPS.

The Phillips family have long been seated in Virginia. Joseph Phillips,
of Hampton, was the father of Joseph Phillips, the last named Joseph
Phillips, a soldier of the Confederate States Army, colonel commanding
the 3d Texas Cavalry, killed in service at Donaldsville, Louisiana. Col.
Joseph Phillips married Mary T. Morrow, who survives him, now living
at Hampton, and their son Edwin was born in Hampton, in 1860.

Edwin Phillips attended school at Morrison, Warwick county, and at
Hampton. He began business in Hampton as clerk for D. G. Morrow,
with whom he remained for six years, then clerked for S. C. Bickford, of
Hampton, fifteen months. Removing to Newport News, he began business
for himself, in 1886, as merchant, in which he still continues. He
is also post-master at Newport News.

GEORGE B. WEST,

Born at Newport News, January 10, 1839, was educated at the Hampton
Academy, and in the University of Virginia. During the war between
the States he served in the quartermaster's department, C. S. A.,
stationed at Richmond. Returning to Newport News at the close of
the war, he engaged in farming and merchandising, following the latter
occupation continuously, and carrying on a stove store at the present
time.

He is a son of Parker West, who died December, 1871, and a grandson
of Benjamin West, whose father was an English gentleman settling
in Virginia. The mother of Mr. West, whose maiden name was Mary
Bell, and who was of Scotch extraction, died in February, 1865.

JAMES CITY COUNTY.

CARY PEYTON ARMISTEAD,

Born in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1857, is a son of Robert H. Armistead,
who was born in Elizabeth City county, Virginia, near Hampton,
April 12, 1804, and died near Williamsburg, October 22, 1888. The
mother of Cary Peyton, born near Jamestown, now many years dead,
was Julia S. Travis before marriage. His wife is Eudora Esther,
daughter of D. R. and Mary E. A. (Tinsley) Jones, of Hanover County,
Virginia, where she was born. They were married in Williamsburg, in
August, 1888.

Mr. Armistead attended school in Williamsburg, first to his aunt,
Mrs. Southall, second to Dr. Griffin, third the Grammar and Matty
school; then took the collegiate course at William and Mary College,
where he graduated in June, 1876. He taught in the Grammar and
Matty school for a time, then studied law at the University of Virginia.
Admitted to the Bar he was in practice a short time, until he gave that
up to accept his present office, May 4, 1884, as steward and treasurer
of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum. He has been a notary public for the
last eight years; is a member of the M. E. Church, South.

Mr. Armistead had two brothers in the Confederate States Army,
Robert T., served through the war and was twice wounded; Wm. Champion,
died soon after entering service.

ARCHIE BROOKS,

Storekeeper for the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, at Williamsburg, was
born at Williamsburg, in 1856. His father, Archie Brooks, born in
Williamsburg, served in the late war, C. S. A., died in March, 1888, aged
fifty-six years. His mother, whose maiden name was Margerette L.
Mahone, still lives in Williamsburg. He was married in Williamsburg,
August 23, 1881, his wife, born in James City county, Virginia, being
Lucy R., daughter of Parke and Martha J. (Menley) Jones, residents of
that county. They have four children: Beulah, Edna Lorene, Archie
and Lucy R.

Mr. Brooks attended school in Williamsburg, after that was a student
at William and Mary College three years. He has held his present position
since 1884.

JOHN CLOPTON: M. D.

John, son of William Edmund Clopton, and grandson of Hon. John
Clopton, of New Kent county, Virginia, was born in Richmond, Virginia,
January 6, 1835. His mother's maiden name was Mary A.
Aperson. He married, at James City, Virginia, July 6, 1875, Willie S.
Piggott, who was born at James City, and is a daughter of Fielding
and Eliza H. Piggott. Their children are five, born in the order named:
John Fielding, William Edmund, Martha A., Mary E., George Izard.

Dr. Clopton attended school in Stewart county, Tennessee, and New
Kent, Virginia. He graduated in medicine at the Virginia Medical
College on March 9, 1857, and practiced until the beginning of the war
in Caroline county, Virginia, New Kent and Richmond. In 1861 he entered
service, Company F., Richmond volunteers, and was soon after
appointed assistant surgeon, 1st Texas Infantry. Later he was assigned
as surgeon to the 16th Georgia regiment. After the battle of
Chickamauga he was appointed medical purveyor of Longstreet's
Corps, so serving until after the battle of the Wilderness. Then he was
appointed post purveyor at Petersburg, Virginia, then purveyor of
North Carolina until the close of the war. Returning to Richmond, he
engaged in practice there until, in 1868, he was appointed, by the Federal
Government, assistant physician at the Eastern Lunatic Asylum,
Williamsburg. He filled that position until the election of Governor
Cameron, after which he practiced in Charles City county, until 1884,
then returned to the Asylum, resuming the duties of Assistant Physician,
in which he still continues. Dr. Clopton is a member of the Masonic
fraternity.

WOODIE C. CONSTABLE,

Born in Norfolk, Virginia, is a son of Andrew T. Constable, now deceased,
and a grandson of Jacob Constable. His mother, who is of the
Armistead family, is now living in Williamsburg. His wife, whom he
married in Norfolk, on January 8, 1888, is Rosa P., daughter of John
R. and Fannie C. Powell, now of Norfolk. She was born in Bertie
county, North Carolina. Mr. Powell was in service in the Confederate
States Army, rank of lieutenant, and was wounded and made prisoner,
and held at Governors Island, New York Harbor.

Mr. Constable attended school at the Hampton Military Academy,
then took a collegiate course at the William and Mary College. After
finishing his education he engaged for a time in farming, then in mercantile
pursuits. He has a commission business now in Williamsburg,
and is superintendent of the public schools of that city. He has also

served in the city council, and filled the office of justice of the peace.
He is a member of the Heptosophs society; of the Knights of the
Golden Rule; and a Good Templar.

L. TYLER DAVIS

Is a son of Allen Davis, who died in 1863, and Mary (Mahone) Davis,
who died in 1843. He was born in Williamsburg, on March 22, 1837,
and has been twice married. His first wife, who died May 9, 1873, aged
twenty-one years, was Celia E. Perrin, and their children were two:
Martin P., now deceased; Genevra P. In Williamsburg, in January,
1876, Mr. Davis married Virginia R. Russell, who was born in Bath,
Maine, and they have four children: Allen R., Ruth T., Ray M. and
John R.

Mr. Davis went to school in Williamsburg for ten years, then began a
mercantile business in that city, which he followed until 1859. In that
year he went to Richmond, and there engaged in a wholesale grocery business,
which he continued until the war. After the war he returned to
Williamsburg, and again entered into business there, in which he still
continues. He is now president of the school board of Williamsburg.

LEONARD HENLEY: M. D.

Dr. Henley was born in Williamsburg, April 11, 1821, and has always
lived in that city. He was educated at William and Mary College, and
graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1847. After
that he practiced in Blockley Hospital for seven years, then came to
Williamsburg where he has been in practice ever since, except when in
military service. He entered the Confederate States army in 1861,
sergeant in the 32d Virginia regiment, and in the same year was appointed
assistant surgeon, serving after that most of the time in hospital
at Petersburg, Virginia. In 1865 he was appointed superintendent of
the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, where he remained until the Federals took
possession. In 1887 he was appointed assistant physician at the Asylum
and is so serving now.

He is a son of Leonard Henley, who was born in James City county,
Virginia, and died in 1831, aged forty-two years, and Harriet T. (Coke)
Henley, also now deceased. The paternal grandfather of Dr. Henley
was also named Leonard, and his great grandfather bore the same name.
The latter came from England to Virginia. The wife of Dr. Henley is
Rebecca, daughter of Henry Harrison, Commodore United States Navy,
and Elizabeth (Ruffin) Cocke, both now deceased. She was born in Prince
George county, Virginia, and they were married in that county on

November 29, 1855. They have one daughter, Elizabeth R., and one
son, Leonard. Dr. Henley is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

Dr. Leonard Henley is a direct descendant of the old and honored
family of Cokes, of Trusley, Derbyshire, England, which estate is now
in their possession. The family history goes back to 1343. Among the
representatives of this family were Lord Chesterfield; Lord Palmerston,
Premier; Lord Melbourne, Premier; Lord Cowper, late of Ireland.

H. T. JONES

Was born in James City county, Virginia, on April 10, 1842. He
attended a private school in Williamsburg, and then took a collegiate
course at William and Mary College. On his nineteenth birthday, April
10, 1861, he entered military service, in a company which later became
Company C, 32d Virginia Infantry. He was promoted sergeant in 1862,
second lieutenant in 1863, and served until the surrender at Appomattox,
taking part in battles of Seven Pines, the seven days fighting
around Richmond, Harpers Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Cold
Harbor, Howlett Line, Sailor's Creek and others. Returning home he
engaged in farming until 1872, then established himself in his present
business, druggist. He has held public office as member of the city
council, justice of the peace and school trustee. The parents of Mr.
Jones were H. T. Jones, sr., who was born in James City county, in
1814, and died May 12, 1872, and Mary A. H. Jones, died in January,
1881. The father was a son of Allan Jones, of York county, Virginia,
whose father was Daniel Jones, of James City county, Virginia.

The subject of this sketch married in Williamsburg, June 10, 1867,
Mary Southall, of Williamsburg. Their children are two sons, Marion
Ambler and Hugh W. Mrs. Jones is the daughter of Albert G. Southall,
who died August, 1862. Her mother, whose maiden name was Virginia
F. Travis, died in August, 1880. Her family are of English descent,
early settlers in Tidewater Virginia.

LEVEN W. LANE

Was born in Matthews county, Virginia, January 6, 1839, and was
educated in his native county. He is a son of John H. Lane, who was
born in Matthews county, and died in 1884, and Nancy (Ransome)
Lane, who died in 1843. His wife is Mattie S., daughter of William L.
Spencer, now deceased, and Martha G. (Richardson) Spencer. She was
born in James City county, Virginia, and they were married in that
county, on July 26, 1860. Their children were born in the order named:
L. W., Martha L., Carrie D., Cora, Mary G., Susie (now deceased),

Mattie (now deceased), Oscar, Henry G. (now deceased), Spencer,
Walter G.

Mr. Lane has been a farmer and merchant all his life, and is still engaged
in those avocations. He has served as county treasurer and as
sheriff. He entered the Confederate States Army at the beginning of
the war, and served until its close. Entering service as a private in
Company H, 5th Virginia Cavalry, he was promoted second lieutenant,
then captain of that company; was wounded at Kelleys Ford, again
at Cedar Creek; was made prisoner at Hanover C. H., but paroled
same day.

JOHN LEYBOURNE MERCER.

Hugh Mercer, of Scotland, came to America in colonial days. He entered
the Continental army in the war for Independence, received rank
of general, and was killed in that war, battle of Princeton, New Jersey.
His son, Colonel Hugh Mercer, was the father of John C. Mercer, who
was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and died in March, 1884, aged
seventy-two years. John C. Mercer married Mary Waller, who survives
him, living now in North Carolina. Their son, John Leybourne Mercer,
was born in Williamsburg, Virginia, August 2, 1849. He went to
school to various teachers in Williamsburg about five years, then attended
William and Mary College two sessions. After that clerked in
mercantile establishments until 1868, when he was appointed to his
present position, which he has held ever since, except for two years from
March, 1882 to March, 1884. He is clerk and steward of the Eastern
Lunatic Asylum, Williamsburg.

He married at Williamsburg, March 31, 1875, Jean Sinclair Bright.
They have two daughters, Jean C., Mary W., and one son, T. Hugh
Mercer. Mrs. Mercer was born in Williamsburg, and is a daughter of
Samuel F. and Elizabeth Bright. Her father died in 1868, her mother
in 1872.

Mr. Mercer had two brothers in the Confederate States army, Thomas
Hugh Mercer, first lieutenant in artillery, severely wounded at Seven
Pines, and C. W. Mercer, a private in Col. Mosby's command, captured
and held prisoner at Fort Delaware fourteen months.

Mr. Mercer is a member of Williamsburg Lodge, No. 6, A. F. & A. M.

JAMES DUNLAP MONCURE: M. D.,

Present superintendent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, Williamsburg,
was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1842. After attending the Abbott
school, in Fauquier county, Virginia, he was sent abroad, and studied at
Bernhardts Austallt, Meiningen, Germany; College Rollin, Paris, France;
the Heidelberg University, Germany, where he began his medical studies.

Returning to Virginia, he entered the Virginia Military Institute, where
he was at the breaking out of the war between the States. He served
through the war, first in the corps of cadets, as drill master at Camp
Lee; then in the field in a Virginia cavalry regiment. Resuming his
medical studies, he attended the University of Virginia and the University
of Maryland, graduating from the latter. He practiced medicine in
Baltimore; in Fauquier county, Virginia; in Richmond; in Huntington;
again in Richmond. A profound student of the great profession to
which he devotes his life, Dr. Moncure has made a special study of mental
and nervous diseases. He has filled the chair of adjunct professor at
the Medical College of Virginia; he founded, in 1876, the "Pinel Hospital,"
near Richmond, and was its first superintendent; in 1884 was elected
to his present position, which he has filled continuously since that time.
He has received from the College de France degree of Bachelier es Lettres
et es Science; is a member of the Medico-Legal Society, and chairman
of its Committee on Naturalization for Virginia.

At St. Pauls (Episcopal) Church, Richmond, Virginia, October 11,
1871, Dr. Moncure married Annie Patterson McCaw, of Richmond.
Their living children are three: Gabriella Brooke, James Dunlap,
William Anderson Patterson, and they have buried three: Richard
Cary Ambler, died in 1873, aged ten days; Delia Ann, died in 1876,
aged eight months; James Dunlap, died in 1878, aged a few hours.

The genealogy of Dr. Moncure's family in America is thus traced:
Gerard Fowlke (or Ffolk) of Gunston Hall, England, settled near Port
Tobacco, Maryland, in 1680. His daughter Frances married Dr. Gustavus
Brown, and their daughter Frances married, in 1738, Rev. John
Moncure. The latter came to America, in 1710, as a physician, later
became a minister of the Episcopal Church. The name Moncure was
originally Moncoeur, changed in Scotland to Moncur and Monkur, later
in America to Moncure. William, son of Rev. John Moncure and wife,
married Sarah Elizabeth Henry. Their son, Henry Wood Moncure, was
born in Richmond, and died in 1866, aged sixty-six years. He married
Katharine Cary Ambler, and Dr. James Dunlap Moncure is their son.

Annie Patterson, wife of Dr. Moncure, is a daughter of Dr. James
Brown McCaw and his wife, Delia Ann, nee Patterson. Dr. McCaw is a
son of Dr. William McCaw, who was a son of Dr. James Drew McCaw,
whose father was Surgeon McCaw, of Lord Dunmore's staff.

CAPT. CHARLES B. TREVILIAN.

John Trevilian, a Huguenot refugee from France, came to the colony
of Virginia and founded the family in the Old Commonwealth. His son
John was the father of Col. John M. Trevilian, who was born in Goochland
county, Virginia, and who died in 1873, aged seventy-three years.

Colonel Trevilian married Mary C. Argyle, who died in 1878, aged
seventy years. Capt. Charles B. Trevilian is their son, and was born in
Goochland county, September 15, 1838.

He received his education in Hampden-Sidney College and in the
University of Virginia. He entered the Confederate States army in
1861, Company F, 4th Virginia Cavalry, and was promoted captain of
the company. At Gettysburg he was wounded and made prisoner, and
was held twenty-two months on Johnsons Island, Lake Erie. After
release he rejoined his command, and was again wounded, at High
Bridge, in the retreat to Appomattox. Captain Trevilian held the
office of collector of revenue in New Kent county, Virginia, one year,
and for the last two years has filled the position he is now holding in
the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, Williamsburg, that of supervisor.

He married in Rockbridge county, Virginia, March 1, 1865, Mary S.
Houston, who was born in that county, the daughter of Dr. David S.
Houston, who died in 1864, and Nancy (Dix) Houston, who died in
1887. Nannie H., eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. Trevilian, is now deceased;
their living children are three: Mary R., Blanche E. and
Gardner H.

LYON GARDINER TYLER,

Was born at his father's residence, "Sherwood Forest," in Charles City
county, Virginia, in August, 1853. He is a son of President John Tyler,
by his second marriage, with Julia Gardiner of Gardiners Island,
New York. The founder of the Tyler family in Virginia was Henry
Tyler, who came from England and settled at Middle Plantation in
1653. Further records of this eminent family will be found on many
of the preceding pages of Virginia and Virginians, more especially in
Volume 1, pp. 103-108.

The wife of Lyon Gardiner Tyler, whom he married in Pulaski county,
Virginia, November 14, 1878, was born in Charlottsville, Virginia,
Annie, daughter of Col. St. George Tucker, son of Judge St.
George Tucker, whose father was Judge St. George Tucker, who came
from Island of Bermuda to Virginia. Her mother is Lizzie, daughter
of Thomas W. Gilmer, former Secretary of the Navy, whose wife was
Anne Baker. Mr. and Mrs. Tyler have three children: Julia Gardiner,
Lizzie Gilmer and John.

Mr. Tyler finished his education at the University of Virginia, which
he entered in February, 1870, graduating in July, 1875, with Degrees
of Bachelor and Master of Arts. During his University career he was
twice elected orator of the Jefferson Society, and obtained a scholarship
as best editor of the University magazine. The year following his
graduation he studied law with John B. Minor, Esq. In January,

1877, he was elected Professor of Belles Lettres in William and Mary
College, which position he ably filled until, in November, 1878, he went
to Memphis, Tennessee, where he was head of a high school for four
years. In September, 1882, he returned to Virginia, settled in Richmond,
practiced law, and took an active interest in politics. In 1885
he ran for the House of Delegates, one of seven candidates, but was
not elected. In 1887 he was again nominated for Representative and
was elected. In the House of Delegates he rendered distinguished service
to Virginia, successfully championing the labor bureau, child labor,
and William and Mary College bills, all of which he argued were necessary
for the education of the people and the best interests of the State.
Mr. Tyler is the author of "The Letters and Times of the Tylers,"
spoken of on page 107 of this work, a work not only of value as a
biography of his grandfather, Governor Tyler, and his father, the
President, but also as an authentic and interesting history of events
from 1776 to 1861. On August, 22, 1888, Mr. Tyler received merited
recognition as a scholar, a literateur, and a Virginian, in his election to
the position he now fills, as President of William and Mary College.

REV. LYMAN BROWN WHARTON.

In colonial days William Wharton came from England to Virginia,
settling in Culpeper County. His son John settled in Albemarle county,
Virginia, and had a son also named John, who was the father of John
Austin Wharton, who was born in Bedford county, and who died June
20, 1888, aged eighty-five years. John Austin Wharton married Isabella
Brown, who survives him, living now in Liberty, Virginia. Their
son is the subject of this sketch, Lyman Brown Wharton, born in
Liberty, Virginia.

After the usual preliminary education, he entered the University of
Virginia, which he attended sessions of two years, and graduated in the
schools of ancient and modern languages. He took orders in the Protestant
Episcopal Church and had charge of Cornwell Parish, Charlotte
county, Virginia, until he became chaplain of the 59th Virginia Infantry,
C. S. A., with which he remained until its surrender at Appomattox.
He then took charge of a church in Abingdon, Virginia; in 1870 became
professor of Greek and German, at William and Mary College, where he
remained until 1881, becoming then associate principal of Norwood
High School, Nelson county, Virginia. Subsequently he was professor
of languages in Hanover Academy, Virginia, and in Bellevue High
School, Bedford county, Virginia. In 1886 he was professor of Ancient
Languages in the Maryland Military and Naval Academy, Oxford,
Maryland. In 1888 he returned to Williamsburg and became professor

of languages in college of William and Mary, which position
he still fills.

Mr. Wharton married in Richmond, Virginia, December 27, 1877,
Martha Paulina Taylor. She was born in Henrico county, near Richmond,
and is the daughter of the late Henry Porterfield Taylor and
Cornelia Taylor, nee Storrs. Her mother still lives in Richmond; her
father died there, November 19, 1887, aged seventy years. He was a
son of Col. Edmund Taylor, who served in the war of 1812, and at a
later period was the first captain of the old military organization in
Richmond, the "Richmond Blues." The father of Colonel Taylor was
Edmund Taylor, Esq., of Taylorsville, Hanover county, Virginia.

Mr. Wharton had one brother in service in the late war, John, a cadet
at the Virginia Military Institute, who participated in the service of the
cadets in the field, including that in Newmarket battle.

WASHINGTON COUNTY.

DR. CHRISTOPHER ALDERSON.

Dr. Alderson was born on the 15th of December, 1816, near Union,
Monroe county, (then) Virginia. He was a son of Davis Alderson, who
was born near Alderson, Monroe county, and came to Washington
county in 1823, and a grandson of Thomas Alderson, who was born in
Greenbrier county. His mother was also of a Virginia family, Miss
Catherine Thrasher, of Botetourt county.

At Lebanon, Russell county, Virginia, in 1841, Dr. Alderson married
Mary P. Gibson, the Rev. Samuel Gibson uniting them. The record of
their children is: Joseph, now a physician at Meadow View, Virginia;
Franklin M., killed on the Gettysburg campaign; Charles W., a farmer;
Henry C., an attorney-at-law of Tazewell C. H., Virginia; Mary C., now
Mrs. Buchanan; Martha A., now Mrs. Preston. The four sons were
all soldiers of Virginia in the late war, entering service at the respective
ages of fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and eighteen years. One gave his life
to the cause; three were with Lee at the surrender.

Mrs. Alderson was born at Copper Creek, Russell county, on March
19, 1821, the daughter of William Gibson, Esq., whose father was Rev.
Samuel Gibson, of the M. E. Church. Her mother was a daughter of
George Peery, a prominent citizen of Tazewell county.

Dr. Alderson has been a successful practitioner of medicine for forty-eight
years, nineteen years in Russell county, twenty-nine years in
Washington county. He has had ten medical students, all of whom
have become successful practitioners, some distinguished in their chosen
profession.

CAPT. GEORGE W. ALDERSON

Is a son of Davis Alderson and Catharine Alderson, nee Thrasher, whose
family line is given in the record preceding this. He was born near
Union, Monroe county, (then) Virginia, January 7, 1820. Captain
Alderson has been twice married, and the father of nineteen children.
His first marriage was with Lydia, daughter of Rev. Andrew Patterson,
Baptist clergyman of Washington county, whose wife was Elizabeth
Cole, from Smyth county. Lydia Patterson was born December 17,
1824, became the wife of Captain Alderson, December 24, 1840, and
died on April 1, 1866. Secondly, Captain Alderson married Mary,
daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth Reed, of Washington county, and
widow of John Ketron. This marriage was solemnized July 7, 1868, at
the home and birthplace of Mrs. Alderson, near Abingdon. The Reed
family are among the oldest in Washington county, Hugh Reed the son
of John Reed.

The children of Captain Alderson's first marriage are: Elizabeth K.,
now Mrs. S. P. Edmondson, of Friendship, Virginia, Davis, twice
wounded at Cedar Run, near Culpeper C. H., died of wounds at Flint
Hill, Virginia, September 17, 1864; two infants, died unnamed, Andrew,
who was also a soldier in the Confederate army at age of fourteen years,
and in battle of Saltville, now living in Texas, Ann E., now Mrs. T. J.
Tilson, of Hunt county, Texas, Thomas R., now a merchant at Campbell,
Hunt county, Texas. Virginia C., now Mrs. Henry Swift, of Hunt
county, Texas, Miriam M., now Mrs. John Minich, of Wood county,
Texas, George, deceased, Lydia J., now Mrs. John Roberts, of Washington
county, William K. H., now in Hunt county, Texas, Christopher
Dayton, now of Washington Territory. The children of the second
marriage are: Mary A., Davis, deceased, Maggie, John J., Martha
and George.

Captain Alderson filled the office of magistrate two years in Washington
county. He was some time captain of militia previous to the
war, and captain and commissary of subsistance at Abingdon during
the entire four years of that war. He had eight nephews in active service,
two of whom were killed, one falling on the Gettysburg campaign, the
other in battle at Winchester, fall of 1864. Captain Alderson resides on
the farm he cultivates, near Moab.

JOHN A. P. BAKER: M. D.

The subject of this sketch was born near Abingdon, March 4, 1841,
his family, both on paternal and maternal side, having been residents
of the county of Washington from its first settlement. His father was
John Baker, who lived four miles west of Abingdon, and his father's
father was Isaac Baker, also a farmer of the county. His mother was
Susannah, daughter of Abram Hortenstine, of Washington county.
His wife was born at Pleasant Hill, Smyth county, November 16, 1845,
and they were married near Abingdon, October 25, 1867. She is Sue
C., daughter of Hon. Joseph W. Davis and his wife Lucy, nee Armstrong.
Her father's residence was six miles north of Abingdon. He served in
the Virginia legislature a number of terms, both branches, Senate and
Lower House.

Nine children were born to Dr. and Mrs. Baker: Joseph H., Lucy S.,
Betsy, Charles A., Alexander D. (now deceased), Mary M., (deceased),
Pancost, John, Henry Hortenstine.

Dr. Baker volunteered his services to Virginia at the opening of the
war between the States, and served as assistant surgeon of the 1st Virginia
Cavalry through that war, taking part in all the engagements of
Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry. He had two brothers in service, Joseph H.,
killed at Spotsylvania C. H., and Isaac, wounded and lost arm at Vicksburg.

Dr. Baker is settled in practice in Abingdon.

REV. GEORGE R. BARR: D. D.

The subject of this sketch is the oldest son of Dr. William Barr, who
was born in Greenbrier county, (then) Virginia, and raised in Halifax
county, Virginia. The father of Dr. Wm. Barr was Isaac Barr, who
was born in Fairfax county, Virginia. When sixteen years of age, he
(Isaac Barr) volunteered as a private in the Revolutionary Army, and
continued in the service of his country till the war closed, and then received
an honorable discharge. He soon thereafter married a Miss
Foster, and removed to Greenbrier county. Dr. William Barr removed
from Halifax county, Virginia, to Stokes county, North Carolina, where
he married Rebecca Ray. The son, George R., was born in that county,
July 25, 1810. In November, 1823, the family made their home in Abingdon,
where Dr. William Barr died in 1858.

Rev. George R. Barr has been twice married, his first wife Sarah,
daughter of Jacob Rodefer, of Shenandoah county, Virginia. She was
born in that county, became the wife of Dr. Barr in Abingdon, October
25, 1831, and died on March 12, 1874. Eight living children are the
issue of this marriage: Mary E. C., Ann Maria, John W., Margaret J.,

William F., David, Lizzie P. and Henry C. John, David and Henry
gallantly represented this honored family in the army of the South,
during the late war. John now resides in Abingdon, David at Smithfield,
Virginia; Henry in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Barr married secondly
in New York, on June 7, 1877, Rev. Mr. Bailey officiating clergyman,
Martha J., daughter of Col. Augustine Sackett, of New York, born in
Canandaigua, that State, June 10, 1830.

The record of the public services of Dr. Barr shows a life devoted to
the service of humanity. He was ordained a minister in the Methodist
Protestant Church in 1842, was several years president of the Virginia
Conference of that church, a number of times representative to the
General Conference and to various conventions of the church. From
September 1, 1841, to February 13, 1873, he was associate editor and
proprietor of the Abingdon Virginian, Charles B. Cole associated with
him as senior editor. He has been twenty-two years consecutively secretary
of Waterman Lodge, No. 219, A. F. & A. M., and for the last
five years secretary of McCabe Lodge, I. O. O. F., No. 56.

GEORGE M. BRIGHT,

Was born in Franklin county, Virginia, on February 20, 1852. He attended
school at Rocky Mount, Virginia, under the instructions of his
uncle, Judge Thomas H. Bernard, and later went to Philadelphia.
From that city he came to Abingdon December 1, 1886, and with his
brother-in-law, Robert M. Brice, established his present business, under
the firm name and style of "The Washington Hardware Co.," the largest
hardware establishment in the county, carrying on a general hardware
business. His father was Samuel G. Bright, who served through the
late war in Early's command, C. S. A., and was a prisoner at Fort
Delaware, the last nine months of the war. Michael Bright, uncle of
George M., was two years in service. Another uncle is Jesse D. Bright,
of Indiana, at one time governor of that State. The Hon. John M.
Bright, distinguished statesman of England, is another uncle of George
M.

MATHEW HAY BUCHANAN

Is a life-long resident of Washington county, where his ancestors settled
more than one hundred years ago, coming from Augusta county, Virginia.
He was born on March 9, 1817, on the family estate, about
twelve miles east of Abingdon, the son of William Buchanan, who was
the son of Mathew Buchanan (whose wife was Miss Elizabeth Edmondson),
who was the son of Andrew Buchanan (who married Joanna Hay).
His mother was Jean, daughter of Benjamin Keys, of this county, who
married Elizabeth Stuart.

At Saltville, October 31, 1851, M. H. Buchanan was married by Rev.
Joseph Haskew to Miss Elizabeth Goode, who was born in this county,
near the old Iron Works, December 1, 1824. The issue of this marriage
is two sons, Robert G., Thomas F., and three daughters, Bettie H.,
Margaret K., Rachel B. Mrs. Buchanan is the daughter of John Goode,
who was a son of William Goode, of Chesterfield county, Virginia. Her
mother was Ann, daughter of Conley Finley of Abingdon, who came to
Virginia from Ireland, about 1797.

Mr. Buchanan was exempted, on account of age, from field service in
the late war, but was an active member of the County Advisory Board.
He had one brother in service in the Reserve Troops, and one who served
in the 37th Virginia Regiment, and was severely wounded. Mr. Buchanan
has always followed farming as an occupation, and has ably
filled the office of sheriff four years, deputy sheriff twelve years.

JAMES H. BUTT.

The subject of this sketch, a farmer four miles north of Abingdon on
the Lebanon pike, was born on the 16th of October, 1828, in Franklin
county, Virginia. On the 29th of September, 1853, near Abingdon, he
was united in marriage to Mary E. G. Price, who was born in Abingdon,
on October 24, 1834. They have two daughters, Sarah Jane, now Mrs.
Wm. S. Fleenor, and Emma A. C.

Previous to the late war, Mr. Butt was a captain in the State militia;
and being subject to military duty was, in 1863, by order of the War
Department, Confederate States government, detailed to manufacture
hats for the army, at Rice Spring, Virginia, and so continued until the
close of the war. He had three brothers in the Confederate army, John
W., Henry C. and Joseph M., the first two with Gen. J. E. B. Stuart,
the last-named serving in the Virginia Reserves. John W. was accidentally
killed in 1864, in Russell county, Virginia, by being thrown
from his horse. In 1867 or '68 Mr. Butt became a member of Abingdon
Lodge, No. 48, A. F. & A. M.; two brothers are also Master Masons.

Mr. Butt is a son of Rignal Butt, late of Berkeley county, Virginia,
whose father was Rignal Butt, late of that county, near Harpers Ferry,
and came of German ancestry. His mother was Sarah, daughter of
Jacob Bondurant, late of Franklin county, Virginia, and of French
descent, thought to have been Huguenots.

Mrs. Mary E. G. Butt is the daughter of Lodwick Price, late of
Abingdon, whose father was Edmond Price, late of Lynchburg, Virginia.
Her mother was Jane C. W., daughter of Patrick and Catharine
Lynch, who were among the earliest settlers of Abingdon; they were of
French extraction.

CAPT. JOHN BYARS,

Born on his father's estate, Brook Hall Farm, Washington county,
August 11, 1811, is a son of Col. William Byars, formerly of Louisa
county, Virginia, who married in Washington county, and settled here.
Colonel Byars' father was a soldier of the Revolutionary war. The
mother of John Byars was Elizabeth, daughter of William Beatty, a
pioneer of Washington county.

His wife, whom he married near Glade Springs, October 22, 1836,
was Jane B. Ryburn, born near Glade Springs Depot, June 6, 1819.
They have one daughter, Elizabeth M., now Mrs. Hall, residing near
them, and have buried one daughter, Sarah A. A., died in 1856. The
father of Mrs. Byars was Beatty Byburn, whose father, Matthew
Ryburn, came from Scotland to Washington county in early days of
the county. Her mother was also a Ryburn, Jane, daughter of William
Ryburn, who settled on the middle fork of the Holston before the
Indians had left the county.

Capt. John Byars has resided on Brook Hall Farm all his life, and
both he and his estimable wife have seen the county pass from the
hands of the Indian to its present state of development and comfort,
having borne their share of those pioneer hardships incident to such a
change. During the years of the war he was too old for military duty,
but had a younger brother, James M., who served from the beginning
to the close of that struggle.

REV. W. C. CARDEN,

Pastor in charge of the M. E. Church (South) at Abingdon, Washington
county, was born at Cleveland, Tennessee. He is a son of Leonard
Carden, of Tennessee, whose father, Robert Carden, was a Virginian,
and settled in Tennessee. His mother is of the old and honored Hale
family of Old Virginia, T. C., daughter of Lewis Hale of Grayson county.

In the Sequatchie Valley, March 5, 1875, Rev. W. C. Carden was united
in marriage with Martha Stewart, who was born in the Sequatchie
Valley, Tennessee. Their children are: Robert A., Leonard A., Frank
and Mary. Mrs. Carden is the daughter of James Stewart, granddaughter
of George Stewart, both of the Sequatchie valley, the founder of the
family coming there from Ireland. Her mother was Mary Kirklin, and
her mother's mother was the first white child born in the Sequatchie
valley.

At the time of the late war, Mr. Carden was a cadet in the Military
Institute at Marietta, Georgia, commanded by Major Capers. He was
called out to the defense of Atlanta, in 1864, and kept in front of Sherman's
army in its advance to the Sea through Georgia. At Savannah,

the troops with which he was fighting crossed the river, and moved to
Augusta, Georgia. He was paroled after General Johnston's surrender.

He has served as grand chaplain of the Knights of Honor of Tennessee,
and passed the Chapter and Council to the 11th degree in Masonry.

JOHN R. CARDWELL.

The subject of this sketch, born at Rutledge, Tennessee, on August
16, 1821, and raised in Knox county, Tennessee, was many years an
honored resident of Abingdon, Washington county, Virginia, and died
there. He was educated at Emory and Henry College, was married at
Abingdon, March 13, 1849, and entered into business there as merchant
tailor, which he followed until his death. Because of ill-health he was
unfit for field service during the late war, but was enrolled for service in
the Reserves. He was made prisoner during the Stoneman raid, but
released.

Daniel Cardwell, of Rutledge, Tennessee, the father of John R., was a
son of Perren Henry Cardwell, and came from England. He lived to the
age of 100 years. Among his illustrious connections in America was
Patrick Henry, who was his cousin. His wife, mother of John R., was
a Miss Abbot, of Massachusetts. John R. Cardwell wedded Mary Isabella
Lewark, who was born in Abingdon, December 16, 1826, where,
except for about two years, she has always resided. Their children
were: Martha L., David Wingfield, Joseph Wayland, John H., William
King (deceased), Mary Isabella, Laura Virginia (deceased), and Genio.

Mrs. Cardwell had one brother in the Confederate service through the
late war. She is a daughter of Joseph Lewark, who was born in Greensboro,
North Carolina, served in the war of 1812, removed to Washington
county. His father was John Lewark, who removed to Indiana
about 1841. The mother of Mrs. Cardwell was Jemima, daughter of
Honor Hutton, of Greensboro, North Carolina.

JOHN CARMACK

The founder of the Carmack family in Southwestern Virginia was
John Carmack, who, in colonial days entered between two and three
thousand acres of land in Washington county, Virginia, and Hawkins
county, Tennessee, nearly all of which land remains still in the possession
of his descendants. His son John was a soldier of the Revolutionary
war, and was wounded at Bunker Hill. Pleasant Carmack, son of
the soldier John, learned the trade of cabinet maker, then settled to
farming in Washington county. He married Hannah, daughter of
Captain William Gray, of Washington county. She was born in 1804,
and died in 1866, and for twenty years preceding her death was

afflicted with blindness. Her father was born on the ocean, while his parents
were voyaging to their new home in Virginia. He grew to manhood
in Washington county, where he became an extensive stockman.

John, son of Pleasant Carmack and his wife, Hannah, was born on
his father's estate, on the State line between Washington county, Virginia,
and Sullivan county, Tennessee, on June 13, 1836. He married
near Abingdon, May 4, 1861, Mary Hagy, born in Washington county.
Their children were born in the order named: Pleasant William,
Martin Hagy, John Thomas, Mary Lauretta, Sally Eliza, Samuel Vandellen,
Ada Texanna, Virginia Tennessee, Alexander Watson. The eldest
son now lives in Texas.

Mrs. Carmack is a daughter of Martin Hagy, a farmer living near
Abingdon, whose father, Jacob Hagy, came to Washington county
from Pittsylvania county. Her mother is Sally, daughter of James
Anderson, who came to Washington county from Ireland.

Mr. Carmack was exempt from service in the late war, on account of
physical disability. His farm was subjected to raids by the contending
armies from both sides. His brother William P. was in service
about a year, and a number of their relatives were in the Southern
army, among them a cousin, James Carmack, who was captured, and
died while a prisoner of war in Kentucky.

Mr. Carmack is a farmer and stockman, and is also United States
mail sub-contractor for his district.

JAMES CHIDDIX,

One of the most successful farmers and stockraisers in Southwestern
Virginia, comes of a family where the men have been farmers for several
generations. His grandfather was Eli Chiddix, who came from England
to Virginia, and his father was William Chiddix, of Saltville, who married
Nancy, daughter of James Lowder of Tazewell county, Virginia,
also a farmer, and one of the earliest settled in the county, of Irish
descent. James, subject of this sketch, was born in Tazewell county,
June 23, 1837. During the late war he served one year in the 45th
Virginia regiment, Company G, then until close of war in the 23d battalion,
a part of the Stonewall Brigade. He was a prisoner about
one-half hour, at Fishers Hill. His brother Leander served in a Texas
regiment, C. S. A. Another brother, Eli, was a member of the 29th
Virginia regiment, Pickett's division, and was killed in action May 14,
1864.

Near Saltville, February 28, 1866, James Chiddix married Sarah A.
Meadows, and their children are: Isabelle, William Huston, Eli S.,
John W., Susan V., James (deceased), George W. P., Charles, Pearl

(deceased). Mrs. Chiddix was born near Saltville, the daughter of
William T. Meadows, of Smyth county, who was the son of Joel
Meadows, who raised his family near Emory. Her mother was Miss
Susan MacCready.

Mr. Chiddix has been a zealous worker and able exhortor in the
Methodist Episcopal Church and Sunday-school for thirty years, his
successful work abundantly shown by its fruits, and by the many letters
of approval and encouragement he has received, as well as by the
resolutions and votes of thanks passed by churches, Sunday-schools
and other religious societies he has assisted. His father was a Sunday-school
superintendent for over thirty-five years, and his father-in-law
filled the same position for a like number of years.

JAMES H. CLARK

Was born on the Clark homestead, near Meadow View, where he still
resides, on December 13, 1839. He is a son of John S. Clark, who is a
son of Robert Clark, who was born in Scotland, in 1757, and came to
Washington county in 1817, locating a farm in the woods, which was
cleared under his supervision, and became the fruitful farm James H.
now cultivates.

Near Emory and Henry College, February 17, 1875, James H. Clark
married Sarah E. Horn. Their children are five sons: John, Henry
Marvin, David B., James B. and Chester L., and they have buried one
daughter, the youngest child, Helah F. Mrs. Clark was born near
Emory and Henry College, the daughter of John Horn, now of Glade
Spring, whose father, Henry Horn, came to this county from Wythe
county. Her mother is Mary, daughter of Andrew Fullen, of this county,
near Saltville.

James H. Clark was three years a soldier, from March, 1862, to the
close of the war, Company D, 1st Virginia Cavalry. With this gallant
regiment he faced the enemy in all its many battles during his time of
service, was never wounded nor captured, and with it constantly except
for a short furlough in 1863.

WILLIAM D. CLARK.

Peter Clark, founder of this family in Virginia, came from Scotland
and settled in Washington county, near Glade Spring, at an early day.
Robert Clark, son of Peter, married Catharine, the daughter of William
Dixon, who came from Pennsylvania to Washington county. William
D., son of Robert and Catharine Clark, was born on the family estate,
near Glade Spring, July 9, 1830. This estate, descended to him, he is
still living on.

He married near Glade Spring, January 19, 1850, Caroline, daughter
of Granville Williams, and the issue of the marriage is nine children:
Sallie Kate, Cora B., Robert D., Nannie May, Joseph White, Viola J.,
William Winzell, Jesse Lawrence, Conley Frank. Mrs. Clark was born
in Smyth county, Virginia, where her father's and mother's families
were pioneer settlers. Granville Williams, her father, is a son of Levi
Williams, and her mother is Sallie, daughter of John James, Esq.

Mr. Clark was in service through the late war, the first year in Company
D, 37th Virginia Infantry, the remaining time in the famous 1st
Virginia Cavalry, with which he took part in almost every battle fought
by the renowned Army of Northern Virginia. Of his near and distant
relatives, hardly one able to bear arms was not in the same service.

CHRISTIAN M. COLLEY.

The farm on which Mr. Colley resides, and which he cultivates, three
and one-half miles east of Abingdon, was first settled by his maternal
grandfather, Jacob M. Morell, who came here from Shenandoah county,
Virginia, more than one hundred years ago. His daughter Mary
married Shadrach Colley, who was a son of Thomas Colley, the latter
coming to this country from France, and fighting for the Independence
of America under Washington. The subject of this sketch is the son of
Shadrach and Mary (Morell) Colley, and was born November 12, 1813,
on the farm where he still resides.

Near Abingdon, at the residence of the bride's father he married,
April 7, 1835, Mary, daughter of William McDaniel, born in 1811 on
the place where they were married. Her father came to the county
from Maryland, where he was born. Seven children were born to Mr.
and Mrs. Colley. Letitia, Thomas W., Wm. Lewis, Mary Jane, Elizabeth
Catharine, Lierann, Sarah Susan. The first and last named of
these are now deceased. Thomas and Wm. Lewis were soldiers of
Company D, 1st Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A. Thomas was disabled by
the loss of a foot, in 1863; Lewis served till the close of the war. The
father served nine months with Gen. Floyd as wagon-master in Northwest
Virginia, but his age incapacitated him for field service.

THOMAS W. COLLEY.

The founder of this family in Virginia came to the colony from Wales,
and was the father of Thomas Colley, who was born in Pittsylvania
county, removed to Russell county, and was the father of Shadrach
Colley, whose son, Christian M. Colley, married Mary, daughter of William
McDaniel, who came to Washington county from Maryland. Thomas
W., subject of this sketch, son of Christian M. and Mary Colley, was born

near Abingdon, on November 30, 1837. On Christmas Day, 1872, h
married Ann Eliza Ryan, who was born near Abingdon, June 15, 185
Their children were born in the order named: James Lewis (deceased),
Daniel T., Fitzhugh Lee, Frank T., Mary L., Ella Ryan (deceased), Barbara
C., Sallie H. (deceased), John M. Mrs. Colley is a daughter
James Ryan, of Washington county, son of James Ryan, who came from
Ireland. Her mother was Barbara, daughter of John Morell, of Washington
county. The Morells were of French extraction, and came t
this country previous to 1760.

Mr. Colley entered service in the late war in April, 1861, in the Washington
Mounted Rifles. He was wounded August 12, 1862, in the battle
of Waterloo Bridge, again wounded at Kellys Ford, March 17, 1863
where he was shot through the body, and left on the field for dead,
third time wounded, and permanently disabled, May 28, 1864, nea
Cold Harbor, losing left foot. He cultivates a farm near Abingdon, an
has held public office, deputy sheriff from 1871 to 1875; superitenden
of the poor, 1879 to 1887.

JOHN D. COSBY.

The subject of this sketch was born in Buckingham county, Virginia
on the 8th of November, 1840. He is a son of Rev. Lewis F. Cosby
whose family record is in the sketch following this one. In April, 1861
he joined Company K, 37th Virginia Infantry, C. S. A., and was one o
the first men from Washington county to mount the train that was to
carry the volunteers to the front. In August, 1861, he was disabled by
typhoid fever, at Garretts Ford, on Cheat river, Virginia, at the time
General Garnett was killed. Later he served two years in the 1st Virginia
Cavalry, and was in active service through the war, except when
disabled by sickness. On April 9, 1865, his command was outside of
the lines, and not included in Lee's surrender, the men returning to
their homes.

In 1871 John D. Cosby was elected sheriff of Washington county for
three years, and subsequently was twice re-elected, serving twelve years
as sheriff after having served three years as deputy sheriff. At "Panacella,"
on the 15th of December, 1875, he was united in marriage to
Miss Sue M. Litchfield, by Rev. W. E. Cunningham. She was born on
the 20th of July, 1843, at Abingdon, and is the daughter of George V.
Litchfield, who died in Abingdon on February 5, 1874. Her mother
was Rachel D., daughter of John Mitchell, Esq., of Saltville and Abingdon,
Virginia. One child, Mary Connally Cosby, blesses this union.

"Panacella," the beautiful home of Mr. Cosby, overlooking the town
of Abingdon, was formerly the country seat of old Judge Johnston,

the father of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Beverly R. Johnston, and Gen.
Peter C. Johnston. Near the house is the old family cemetery, where
now repose the bodies of Judge Johnston and his estimable wife, Beverly
R. Johnston and Gen. Peter C. Johnston, the graves tenderly cared
for by their distinguished son and brother, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.

REV. LEWIS F. COSBY: D. D.

Was born in Staunton, Virginia, on the 14th day of January, 1807,
and died in Abingdon, Virginia, on the 6th day of July, 1883. Dr.
Cosby was a prominent minister in the Methodist Protestant church,
and was a man of deep and fervent piety, beloved by all. His parents
were Dabney and Frances D. Cosby, now deceased, whose remains rest
in the cemetery at Raleigh, North Carolina. He was married twice,
first to Miss Jane E. Bekem, of Abingdon, a lady of rare gifts and accomplishments.
By this marriage seven children were born, viz.:
Jane Frances, Virginia Eleanor, Charles Vincent, John Dabney, Lewis
Thomson, Sarah Elizabeth, William H. Cosby. Mrs. Cosby departed
this life June 13, 1853. All of said children have married. Jane
(now deceased), married Edward Zollickoffer, Virginia (now deceased)
married Dr. J. W. Miller, Charles (now deceased) married Mary E.
Hamilton; John, Miss Sue M. Litchfield, Lewis T., Miss Kate S. Mitchell,
Sally E., D. A. C. Webster, W. H., Miss Kate Hayden. Mrs. Zollickoffer
lett surviving her five children, Virginia, two, Charles, three.
Dr. Cosby married secondly Mrs. Elizabeth Montgomery, of Greene
county, Tennessee (a very excellent lady, beloved by all who know her),
who survives him.

Charles V. Cosby at the time of his death was a prominent merchant
of Shreveport, Louisiana. John D. Cosby has been connected with public
affairs in Washington county, having been sheriff of the same.
Lewis T. Cosby was clerk of the circuit court of said county for nearly
seventeen years, and is now a member of the Bar thereof. All of the
male members of the family (except William) participated actively in
the war between the States. Charles V. at the close of the war was a
staff officer in the Trans-Mississippi Department, with rank of major;
John D. and Lewis T. were in the cavalry of the Army of Northern
Virginia.

Among the maternal ancestors of these sons of Rev. Dr. Cosby were:
Lieutenant John Carson, their mother's uncle, who was a soldier in the
Revolutionary war, and Charles S., his brother, who served in the war
of 1812. Charles S. Bekem, a brother of Mrs. Jane E. Cosby, was a
distinguished member of the Bar of Southwest Virginia, and was a
number of times elected to the Legislature, being voted for by both

parties. He departed this life on the 19th of August, 1875, aged seventy-three
years. The Cosbys, on the side of their father, are of Scotch
descent, and on their mother's side Irish.

ROBERT CRAIG,

Farmer and grape-culturist of Washington county, was born near
Tazewell C. H., Virginia, March 22, 1834. In 1861 he entered service,
Company F, 54th Virginia Regiment, C. S. A., and in 1863 was discharged
for disability. He had two brothers in service, James H., twice
wounded, served till Lee's surrender, and Dr. Thomas C., captured, held
a time at Fort Delaware, again in service after exchange until the surrender,
his regiment in the "Stonewall Brigade."

Robert Craig is a son of Dr. Robert M. Craig, of Pulaski county,
Tennessee, a self-made man, who rose to eminence, representing his
county in the State legislature. His father was David Craig of Montgomery
county, Virginia, whose father, Benjamin Craig, died on board
ship while coming to America from Scotland. The mother of Benjamin
Craig was a Gillespie, of Scotland. The mother of Robert Craig was
Elizabeth, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth Law, of Pulaski county, Virginia.
Her mother was the daughter of Michael Cloyd and Elizabeth
Nealy, his wife, the latter a Campbell, her mother killed by Indians,
near Amsterdam, Virginia.

Robert Craig's first wife was Virginia Lee, born in Bedford county,
Virginia, April 2, 1853. They were married January 6, 1870, and she
died March 31, 1874, leaving two children, Lucy Lee and Robert V.
He married secondly, December 13, 1874, Sarah C. Walters, born in
1847, died August 18, 1887. Their children were Robert Thomas,
Elizabeth, Lillie, Sarah; Butler T., deceased; Chrysalis, deceased; David
T. deceased.

Mr. Craig married again, his wife Mary L., the daughter of Thomas E.
Noel of Bedford county, Virginia, son of Cornelius Noel, of that county.
Her mother is Ann S., daughter of William Saunders, who was a quartermaster,
war of 1812, and granddaugher of John Saunders, of New
Kent, Virginia, a Revolutionary soldier.

DR. ROBERT C. CRAIG.

The subject of this sketch was born near Abingdon, Washington
county, January 21, 1819, and his home has always been in this county,
where he has been in practice as physician and surgeon, and has also
given much time to the cultivation of his estate. He was magistrate
of the county under the old constitution for eight years, several years
post-master, first at Craigs Mills, then at Maple Grove. By reason of

civil appointments he was exempt from military duty during the late
war. He is an A. F. and A. M. of Abingdon Lodge, No. 48, and has filled
worthily every office in the lodge except Master. Near Abingdon, April
14, 1841, Dr. Craig married Margaret J. Parrott, born July 23, 1823.
Their children were born in the order named: Amanda P., Margaret
P. (now deceased), Virginia K. (now deceased), James Henry, Mary
Eliza, Sarah Harriet, Robert Claude.

Dr. Craig is a son of James Chambers Craig, who was long cashier of
banks at Nashville and Columbia, and who came from Baltimore, Maryland,
where his father, James Craig, settled on coming from Ireland.
The mother of Dr. Craig was born in Washington county, near Abingdon,
Amanda P., daughter of Captain Robert Craig, formerly of Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, and an officer of the Revolutionary war, whose wife was
Jane Denny.

Dr. Craig's wife is a daughter of Henry Parrott, who came to Washington
county from Botetourt county, Virginia, having learned the
saddler's trade at Fincastle. Her mother was Margaret, daughter of
James Piper, an early settler in Washington county, whose grafting
originated the well-known "Piper Pear."

WARREN CRAWFORD,

Farmer of Washington county, was born in this county, on Smith
creek, June 29, 1841. From June, 1863 till December, 1864, he was
in service in Company I, 22d Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A. He had one
brother-in-law died in service, John A. Vance, in October, 1861. Another
brother-in-law, A. J. Cunningham, lost right arm in battle before
Richmond.

The father of Warren Crawford was Dr. John Crawford, born in
Rockbridge county, Virginia, raised in Washington county, married
Matilda Fleenor in 1834. She is a daughter of Solomon Fleenor, a
veteran of the war of 1812, whose father, Jasper Fleenor, was a pioneer
settler in Washington county.

D. C. CUMMINGS: JR,

Clerk of the county court of Washington county, was born in this
county at Abingdon, on June 23, 1861. He is the son of Col.
David Campbell Cummings, who was clerk of circuit court at
Abingdon, 1866-70, whose father was James Cummings, son
of Rev. Charles Cummings, who came from Scotland to Virginia
at an early day, and took charge of the Presbyterian church,
at Abingdon and other places. The mother of D. C. is Eliza, daughter

of James L. White of Abingdon, and granddaughter of Col. James White,
who came to Washington county about the beginning of the present
century, and amassed a fortune in the mercantile business, and as a
manufacturer of salt. From April, 1882, to July 1, 1887, D. C. Cummings,
jr. was deputy county clerk for Washington county. Since the
last-named date he has been filling his present office, to which he was
elected by the largest majority ever given to a candidate in Washington
county.

ARCHIMEDES DAVIS

Was born in Washington county, Virginia, in 1811, and died on his
estate near Abingdon, on October 22, 1865. He was a son of James
Davis, who was born on Walker Mount, this county, and Nancy, daughter
of Thomas and Lydia Smith, also of Washington county. In Granger
county, Tennessee, February 12, 1840, Archimedes Davis married Mary
Van Hook Fulkerson, who was born near Abingdon, September 24,
1820. The record of their children is: Margaret Nancy, now deceased;
Arabella, now deceased; James K., now of Missouri, Abram F., now of
Illinois; Archimedes, now of Arkansas; Mary Van Hook, residing in
Abingdon; Samuel W., now deceased; Griffith, deceased; Arthur C.,
deceased; Sarah, living now in Kentucky; Lydia Ann, Salina Fulkerson
and Robert Vance. James and Abram were in service in the late war,
Confederate States Army.

Mr. Davis was a lawyer by profession, engaged in practice many years.
He was several years constable. During the war he acted as Receiver
for the District where he lived, resuming practice at the close of the war,
his death ensuing in the same year.

Mrs. Davis is a daughter of Abraham Fulkerson, an honored resident
of Washington county through life, who served in the war of 1812, with
rank of captain, and was a colonel of Virginia militia. He was a son
of James Fulkerson, who came from Pennsylvania to make his home in
Washington county. The mother of Mrs. Davis was Margaret, daughter
of Samuel Vance. Samuel Vance came to Washington county in 1773,
from Frederick county, Virginia. In those early days he had many
bouts with hostile Indians. In 1780 he joined Colonel Campbell's regiment,
Continental army, and took part in the battle of Kings Mountain.
He was a man of scholarly attainments, particularly well informed in
ancient and modern history. He died in the eighty-ninth year of his
age, at his home near Abingdon, where he had lived for sixty-five years.
A brother of Abraham Fulkerson, Jacob, was killed by the Indians, in
1791.

DAVID E. DEBUSK

Merchant of Glade Spring, was born in Washington county, eight
miles south of the Springs, June 12, 1836. His father, Jacob Debusk,
and his grandfather, Elijah Debusk, were both born in Washington
county, and were lifelong residents here, wheelwrights and farmers.
The father of Elijah came to Washington county from Shenandoah
county. The mother of Daniel E. Debusk was a Gentry of Johnson
county, Tennessee, and related to Abraham Lincoln.

Near Glade Spring, October 25, 1866, David E. Debusk married
Harriet Widener, who was born near her husband's birthplace, August
19, 1841. She died at Glade Spring, June 12, 1887, and her remains
were laid to rest in the grounds of the Presbyterian Church, of which
she was a member. She was the daughter of Reuben Widener, whose
father settled in this county shortly after the war of 1776, and came of
old Revolutionary stock, one of the name and family with Washington
at the surrender of Cornwallis.

Mr. Debusk entered the Confederate service on July 25, 1861, Company
H, 37th Virginia regiment. At Kernstown, March 23, 1862, he
was wounded by a musket ball in shoulder; at Chancellorsville he was
wounded by grapeshot and again in same battle by bursting of a shell;
at Gettysburg he received musket ball wounds in arm and leg; and his
service in the field ended at Spotsylvania C. H., May, 1864, where he
was captured, and after that held thirteen months at Fort Delaware.

DR. WILLIAM L. DUNN

Was born near Glade Spring, Washington county, on September 15,
1844. He is a son of Dr. Samuel Dunn, of Glade Spring, now eighty-three
years of age, for sixty-one of these years an honored practitioner
of medicine. The father of Dr. Samuel Dunn was Lieutenant William
Dunn, of Old "Mad Anthony" Wayne's brigade, who came from Ireland
at the age of sixteen years, entered the war of the Revolution with the
battle of Bunker Hill, and fought in every battle of his brigade except
Germantown, up to the surrender at Yorktown. Dr. W. L. Dunn is a
greatgrandson of Major William Edmondson, who was second in command
at the battle of Kings Mountain, and whose wife was a sister of
Gen. Zebulon Montgomery of Revolutionary fame.

With such ancestral blood, it is natural that the subject of this
sketch should have made an honorable record in the late war. Entering
service in 1861, before he was seventeen years of age, he served one
year as a private in the 1st Virginia Cavalry, then one year on medical
staff at Richmond, and from that time to the close of the war as assistant

surgeon 43d Virginia Cavalry, better known in the annals of the
war as Col. John Mosby's Battalion of Partisan Rangers. Dr. Dunn
had one brother in service a year, in Col. Peters regiment. Gen. Wm.
E. Jones, killed at Piedmont, was his brother-in-law.

Near Glade Spring, October 12, 1868, Dr. William L. Dunn married
Fannie Beattie. She is a daughter of Absolom Beattie, who married
Eliza Davis, and was born near Glade Spring. Her father is a son of
Captain William Beattie, who fought at Kings Mountain, and was the
last survivor of that memorable battle.

ADAM DUTTON.

About the close of the last century, Adam Dutton, for whom the subject
of this sketch is named, came from Germany to America, located in
Wythe county, married there, and reared a large family of children.
One of these was a son, George Dutton, who married Sarah, daughter
of Freidrich Copenhaver, also from Germany, and settled in Smyth
county. George Dutton made his home in Smyth county after marriage,
and his son Adam, subject of this sketch, was born in that county, near
Chilhowie, on December 26, 1832. He married in Smyth county, at the
residence and birthplace of his bride, March 18, 1858, Maria E. Robinson,
born in August, 1838. The farm where they now reside was her birthplace,
near Loves Mills, and she was a daughter of John Robinson, who
cleared and improved the farm, and was a son of Geamsey Robinson,
who died at the age of seventy-seven years. The mother of Mrs. Dutton
also died on this homestead, at the age of seventy-seven years. Her
maiden name was Sarah Allen.

Mr. Dutton was in service during the war, from June, 1861, to the
close, in Company D, 4th Virginia Infantry, a regiment in constant and
severe service, in the original "Stonewall" brigade, under General Lee in
the Army of Northern Virginia. He was slightly wounded a number of
times, receiving three of the wounds at Gettysburg. He had two
brothers in service, William R., who died from exposure, in Kentucky,
shortly after the battle of Fort Donelson, and James, severely wounded
in the neck in Chancellorsville battle.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Dutton are seven living, two deceased:
Sarah Jane C., John Franklin (deceased), Mary N. R. F., George Lee,
William, Cordelia, James Rufus, Mertie May (deceased), Charles Claiborne.

WILLIAM W. EDWARDS: ESQ.

Born in Smyth county, Virginia, on the Edwards homestead where he
now resides, September 9, 1836, has always lived in Smyth county,

where he has filled with honor the office of magistrate for sixteen years,
serving before, during and since the war.

He married, near Chilhowie, December 27, 1865, Rachel Maria
Bonham, who was born on the 8th of November, 1839. Mrs. Edwards
is a daughter of Joseph P. Bonham, an early magistrate and high
sheriff of Smyth county, born in that county, the son of Hezekiah
Bonham. Her mother was Mary, daughter of Robert Gollohon, also
of Smyth county.

Mr. Edwards' father was John Edwards, who came to Smyth county
from Stokes county, North Carolina, where he was born, the son of
Isaac Edwards. John Edwards served in the war of 1812, and his
father had seven brothers in the Revolutionary war, who were in the
battle of Guilford C. H., North Carolina. The mother of William W.
was Elizabeth M., daughter of John N. Yanders, who came from Germany
to Pennsylvania, then to Southwestern Virginia, settling first in
Wythe county, then removing to Smyth county.

Many near friends and immediate relatives of Mr. Edwards were in
the army of the South during the late war, among them a brother-in-law
who served in King's Battery.

ABEL J. FLEENOR,

Born at Benham, Washington county, Virginia, September 15, 1847,
is living in his native county, engaged in farming. He married near
Benham, November 28, 1872, at the bride's residence and birthplace,
Mary Louisiana Sproles, who was born February 7, 1855. Their
children are four: Hugh James, Stephen D., Charles Somers and Mattie
Catharine.

Elisha Fleenor, farmer, born and raised in Washington county, is the
father of Abel J. His grandfather, Henry Fleenor, and his great grandfather,
Nicholas Fleenor, were pioneer settlers of the county, coming
from Pennsylvania. His mother is Rhoda C., daughter of George Lore,
who came to Catawba county, North Carolina, from Germany. Mrs.
Fleenor's father is a farmer near Benham, Thomas Sproles, son of
James Sproles, whose father, Samuel Sproles, was an early settler in
Washington county. Her mother was Elizabeth J., daughter of
Charles Mann, who came to this county from Eastern Virginia.

In September, 1864, at the age of seventeen years, Abel J. Fleenor
was conscripted into the Confederate Army, serving until the close of
the war, Company C, 6th Virginia Infantry. He was slightly wounded
by shell, in shoulder, in battle at Saltville, October 2, 1864. His father
served three months in the same company; was captured by Stoneman's
men in February, 1865, but escaped.

COL. J. H. FLEENOR.

Henry Fleenor, of German extraction, was one of the earlier settlers
in Rich Valley, Washington county. His son James was born in Scott
county, and in early manhood served in Virginia militia, rank of captain.
Later he became a minister, in the Lutheran faith, he is still living,
aged now eighty-two years. He married Catharine, daughter of
Anthony Horn, who was a soldier of the war of 1812, an early settler
in Washington county, and who died in 1863, aged eighty-two years.
J. H., son of Rev. James Fleenor and his wife Catharine, was born in
Scott county, Virginia, on the north folk of the Holston river, July
30, 1832.

He married in Scott county, December 2, 1852, Sarah A. Smith, who
was born in Washington county, and raised in Scott county. Their
children are eight living, Martin L., John H., Rachel C., Samuel M.,
Louisa V., Jas., R. E. Lee, Joel H. J. and Sarah A., and three now
deceased. William Jas., Mary Angeline, Simon P. Mrs. Fleenor is a
daughter of Samuel Smith, who was born in Rich Valley, and became
a leading farmer and stockman of Washington county. Her mother
was Rachel Stinson, raised near the Salt Works.

Col. Fleenor's business is farming, which he followed for many years
in Scott county before making his home in Washington county. In
Scott county he also filled various public offices constable nine years;
deputy sheriff two years, township clerk and treasurer one year, magistrate
six years, captain and lieutenant colonel of militia five years. In
Washington county he has been magistrate for five years, also.

He was one of four brothers in the army in the late war, two of whom
gave their life in service. He entered the army in August, 1862, and
was soon commissioned captain of Company D, 7th Virginia battalion,
Col. C. J. Prentiss commanding, and served until the close of the war.
His brother Amos, quartermaster of the 48th Virginia regiment, was
twice wounded in battle, captured April 6, 1865, held at Johnsons
Island, in Lake Erie, returned home in August, 1865. Simon Peter,
another brother, was killed at Frederick City, Maryland, during Lee's
invasion of that State. He also served in the 48th regiment, as did
the fourth brother, William H., who was captured, and died in the
Northern military prison at Elmira, New York, in 1863.

Colonel Fleenor is an A. F. & A. M., member of Lodge No. 174 at
Mendota, and Hon. member of Lodge No. 216, at Cove creek, Scott
county, Virginia. Past Master of both Lodges and member of the
Grand Lodge, also member of K. of H., Goodson Lodge, No. 2909, at
Bristol, Tennessee.

HON. ISAAC C. FOWLER,

Of Abingdon, Virginia, and clerk of the United States Circuit and District
Courts for the Western District of Virginia (at Abingdon), one of
the three proprietors of the Great Natural Bridge and Tunnel in Scott
county, Virginia, and since August, 1868, editor and proprietor of the
Bristol News, Bristol, Virginia and Tennessee, was born at Jeffersonville,
Tazewell county, Virginia, September 2, 1831. During the last
two years of the civil war, he served in the commissary department,
Breckenridge's division. He was five years mayor of Goodson, 1870-5,
was three times elected to the Virginia House of Delegates from Washington
county, in 1875, 1877 and 1881, and was Speaker of the House
during his last term, 1881-1882.

His father was Dr. Thomas Fowler, of Cocke county, Tennessee,
Tazewell county, Virginia and Monroe county, (now) West Virginia.
His grandfather was Dr. Thomas Fowler of Parrottsville, Tennessee
His greatgrandfather was Thomas Fowler of Virginia, South Carolina
and Tennessee, whose father came from England. The mother of Isaac
C. was Priscilla Breckenridge Chapman, daughter of Isaac Chapman of
Giles county, Virginia, who was a son of George Chapman, who came
to Giles county from Culpeper county, Virginia. She was born in Pearisburg,
Virginia, and died in December, 1881.

Isaac C. Fowler was married at Jeffersonville, Virginia, December 4,
1854, Rev. George W. G. Browner officiating clergyman, to Kezia McDonald
Chapman. She was a daughter of William Chapman of Giles
county, who was a son of Issac Chapman, before mentioned, and her
mother was Nancy, daughter of Edward McDonald of Wyoming county,
Virginia, where he removed from Botetourt county, Virginia. The
record of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Fowler is: Thomas C., deceased,
Nannie Belle, now the wife of Stuart F. Lindsey of Harrisonburg, Virginia,
and has one daughter, Dawn Fowler Lindsey; Don William, deceased,
Beirne, deceased, Mary Louise and Cilla Chapman, living.

Mr. Fowler had two brothers in service through the late war. Allen
Fowler, lieutenant of Lowry Battery, Army of Northern Virginia,
severely wounded at Fishers Hill, Elbert Fowler, served in cavalry,
captured at Moorefield, Virginia, September, 1864, imprisoned at Camp
Chase, Ohio, nine months, until, after the surrender. The former is now
a practicing physician of Salt Lake City. The latter was killed at Hinton,
West Virginia, March, 1884, leaving a widow and two sons, Bailey
and Elbert, at Griffin, Georgia.

C. E. FUQUA.

The subject of this sketch, one of the farming residents of Washington
county, was born in Bedford county, Virginia, on July 25, 1835.
He married, at Big Spring, Virginia, June 22, 1858, Lucy Gordon, who
was born near Salem, Roanoke county, Virginia, December 27, 1835.
The record of their children is: Mary F., married Charles B. Stone, of
Abingdon, on January 18, 1881, and died December 4, 1883, Frank
M., died November 11, 1861, aged ten months, Eolia S. and Gordon C.,
living at home.

The father of Mr. Fuqua was Hezekiah Fuqua, of Bedford county,
son of Joseph Fuqua, who was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and
in battles of Brandywine and Cowpens. His mother was Sarah, daughter
of Simon Noel, formerly of Bedford county. A number of the Noel
family served in the war of 1812. The Fuquas were Huguenots, emigrating
from France under religious persecution, settling first in South
Carolina. Mrs. C. E. Fuqua is a daughter of John Gordon, of Roanoke
county, whose father was Isaac Gordon, of Manchester, Virginia. The
Gordons of Virginia trace their ancestral line to a Gordon of Scotland,
made a Peer by King Malcolm for bravery, serving after as a trusted
guard of honor, near the person of the King. One branch of the Gordon
family emigrating from Scotland in colonial days, settled in Manchester,
another branch founded Gordonsville, Virginia. The mother of
Mrs. Fuqua was Eleanor, daughter of John Zircle, of Roanoke county,
the family coming from the Shenandoah valley.

C. E. Fuqua was six months in service in light artillery, C. S. A., in
1862, then discharged for disability, after that served as railroad supervisor.
His brother C. T. Fuqua was killed in battle of Seven Pines,
another brother was killed in the seven days fighting around Richmond,
still another was captured in 1865, and sent North as prisoner of war.

REV. THOMAS E. GARDNER

Was born, reared and married in Washington county, which has always
been his home. His birth occurred near old Glade Spring, on July 7,
1827, and he was married near Seven-mile Ford, May 20, 1856, Rev.
W. P. Bishop officiating clergyman, and Ellen E. Landsdowne his bride.
The children of the union are: Maggie, deceased, William Preston,
deceased, Anna Thomas, Edwin L., Hattie J., now Mrs. Dickerson,
Virginia S., Mary Emma, Thomas E., George M., and Graham Landsdowne.

Mr. Gardner is a son of Jeremiah C. Gardner, who was born at
Geneva, New York, and was the son of George Gardner, who came from

England, settled at Long Island, removed thence to Geneva, and later
to Saltville, Virginia. The mother of Thomas E. was Margaret, daughter
of Major Thomas Edmondson, who served with that rank in the
war of 1812, stationed for a time at Norfolk, Virginia. Major Edmondson's
father and two brothers were in the Continental Army, Revolutionary
war, and in battle of Kings Mountain, North Carolina. Mr.
Gardner's maternal grandmother was a Buchanan, descended from the
Buchanan identified with the first settlements in Washington county.

His wife was born in Marion, Smyth county, Virginia, on Christmas
day, 1835, the daughter of George T. Landsdowne of Pittsylvania
county, Virginia, who is of the noble English family of that name, the
house of which the Earl of Landsdowne is the head. Her mother was
Anna Thomas, whose ancestors came to Virginia from Premboshire,
South Wales.

The subject of this sketch entered the Confederate States service in
1863, in King's Battery of Virginia Artillery, with which he served
till the close of the war. He had two brothers in the same service,
in Texas regiments, and most of his relatives were in service, many
killed, others wounded or otherwise injured. He is engaged in farming,
and is also a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

His homestead is within one mile of Keywood, where Bishop Asbury
held the first M. E. Conference West of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in
May, 1788, the centennial of which event was celebrated May 13, 1888,
at Ma-ha-naim, near the old conference grounds, and near Mr. Gardner's
home.

CAPT. JACOB J. GIESLER.

The Geisler family is, as the name indicates, of German descent, and
the founder of the family in America settled in Pennsylvania. From
that State Adam Geisler, father of Jacob J., went to Sullivan county,
Tennessee, with his father, about 1810. In Tennessee he married Mary
M. Devault, whose father went from Pennsylvania to Tennessee about
1810, also. Jacob J., their son, was born near Piney Flats, Sullivan
county, Tennessee, February 19, 1833. He has been many years a resident
of Washington county, Virginia, engaged in farming and milling,
living at Meadow View. Since 1871 he has held the office of school
trustee. At the residence of the bride's parents, where she was born,
near Morrells Mills, this county, he married, December 10, 1856, Catharine
D. Morrell. Their children are two sons, Jacob M., William H., and
two daughters, Mary R., Nora E.

Mrs. Geisler is a daughter of Jacob Morrell, who was a native of
Augusta county, Virginia, and whose father came from France to Virginia
at an early date. In 1827 Jacob Morrell married Mary A. Droke,

of Sullivan county, Tennessee, bringing her to the Morrell home in
Washington county.

From April, 1862, to April, 1865, Capt. Geisler was in the Confederate
States Army, commanding Company F, 59th Tennessee Infantry. He
was under Pemberton at Vicksburg and Lee at Appomattox, and in
much gallant field service received several ball and sabre wounds. His
twin brother, Henry D., was major of the same regiment, and killed near
Abingdon, December, 1864, while resisting the advance of Stoneman's
cavalry, in their raid on the salt works.

WYNDHAM R. GILMER

Was born at Hansonville, Russell county, Virginia, May 6, 1843, and
is now one of the farming residents of Washington county. He is a
son of the late Hon. Charles H. Gilmer, who represented Russell county
in the Virginia legislature, in 1854, 1859, and 1861. He was a zealous
States Rights man, and supported the Ordinance of Secession,
passed during his last term in the Lower House. He also served a long
time in Russell county as commissioner of revenue and as magistrate.
His father was the Rev. Wm. Gilmer, of the M. E. Church, an extensive
land and slave owner, who at his death freed his slaves, and requested
that none of his children should ever own any. The father of Rev. Wm.
Gilmer came to America from Ireland, settling first in Pennsylvania,
then in Russell county, Virginia. The mother of Wyndham R. Gilmer
was Frances, daughter of George Gose, of Russell county, an early settler
there. Her grandmother was captured by Indians in that county.

The first wife of Wyndham R. Gilmer was Ellen, daughter of T. P.
Clapp, of Abingdon. She was born in 1842, they were married February
25, 1869, and she died March 18, 1873. Two children were born
of this union: Lou W. and Earl H., the latter now deceased.

In Pulaski county, Virginia, December 19, 1877, Mr. Gilmer married
Maggie Cecil, who was born in that county, October 18, 1857. Their
children were born in the order named. Howard C., Bessie May, Maggie
P., Robert C., John Baker, Fred. Garland, the latter now deceased.

T. K. Cecil, of Pulaski county, is the father of Mrs. Gilmer. He is a
son of Rev. John Cecil, of the M. E. Church, Holston conference. Her
mother is Priscilla, daughter of Rev. Richard Buckingham, of the M. E.
Church, Botetourt, in which church three of his sons are ministers, also.

Mr. Gilmer entered the Confederate Army in the fall of 1862, Company
G, 29th Virginia regiment, serving mostly in Virginia, wounded at
Five Forks, April 7, 1865, at that time sergeant-major of the regiment.
A brother, John W., served in the Confederate States Artillery, under
Gen. Joe Johnston, and another brother, Arnold P., was captain in the

Virginia Reserve forces. John W. was accidentally killed while hunting,
near home, in December, 1866.

JOHN G. GOBBLE,

Farmer and carpenter, of Washington county, Virginia, was born in
this county, on November 1, 1818. His father, who now lives with
him, is William Gobble, born in Washington county April 12, 1792, he
was a member of the Light Horse Cavalry, but not called into action,
in the war of 1812. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher
Gobble of Maryland, who served under Washington in the Revolutionary
war, and who was a half-brother of Frederick Gobble, who is
buried on the north fork of the Holston river. The paternal grandmother
of John G. Gobble, Jemima Linder, lived to be 102 years old,
died and was buried at Moccasin Gap. Her mother was a sister of
Isaac Newland, whose wife and children were captured by Indians on
the north fork of the Holston.

At Moccasin Gap, September 16, 1840, John G. Gobble married Sarah
Phelps, who was born there, November 17, 1824. Their children are
ten. Elizabeth, Martha J., M. P., Mary C., William C., Julia A., Robert
I., Sarah C., Eglantine T., George W. Mrs. Gobble is the daughter of
Martin Phelps, of Moccasin Gap, whose father was Samuel Phelps of
Russell county, Virginia. Her mother is Eda, daughter of Henry
Countis of Washington county, formerly of Eastern Virginia.

Mr. Gobble has held public office one term as magistrate, two years
constable. In 1863 he was conscripted, reported, and being over military
age was assigned to the enrolling officer's guard, where he served
eight months, then was discharged.

GARDNER GRANT

Gardner Grant, born in Washington county, near the present site of
Osceola, April 27, 1813, was a son of James Grant, who came to the
county from North Carolina, in 1796, and whose father, also named
James, was the son of the founder of the family in America, who came
from the Highlands of Scotland. The mother of Gardner was Jeanette,
daughter of Archibald McGinnis, who was born in Ireland, married Mary
Scott, in that country, and with her came to America.

In Franklin county, Virginia, October 6, 1836, Gardner Grant married
Mary Holland, who was born in that county, September 24, 1816. Their
children were born in the order named. Peter Holland, Virginia Frances;
James Taliaferro, Sarah Lettie, Lucinda Jeanette (deceased), Mary Ann,
Robert G. Clayadell, Lucy Elizabeth, Mattie (deceased). The parents of

Mrs. Grant were both of Franklin county, Peter D. Holland and Fanny
(Hancock) Holland. She died July 15, 1888, and was buried in Bethel
Cemetery, near her old home.

Through the years that Virginia formed a part of the Confederate
States government, Mr. Grant was postmaster at Osceola. In 1873 he
was appointed to the same office, and is still so serving. His second
son, James Taliaferro, was seventeen months in service, Company H,
37th Virginia Infantry, C. S. A., then in the 6th North Carolina cavalry
till the close of the war. Mr. Grant's nephew was captain of Company
H, 37th Virginia regiment, then in the 1st Virginia cavalry.

JOHN T. GRAY

The Gray family were early seated in Virginia, coming from Ireland.
James Gray, grandfather of John T., was born in Augusta county, and
later removed to Russell county, where his son John was born, the
father of John T. John Gray married Polly, daughter of Jacob and
Nancy Leece, who were of English descent and came from Baltimore to
Russell county. John T. was born in Lee county, Virginia, on January
9, 1838. At Lebanon, Russell county, July 26, 1864, he married Sallie
L. Fickle, born in that county, and their children are seven: Mary
Ellen, Jennie Bell, James Kent, Robert Wm., John T., Sallie L.,
George H.

Mrs. Gray is a daughter of John B. Fickle, of Lebanon, Virginia,
whose father was Isaac Fickle, of Baltimore, Maryland, the family coming
from Germany. Her mother is Mary M., daughter of William and
Mary Fields, of Scott county, Virginia. The Fields family have long
been residents of Virginia, the men of the family fighting in her battles
for three generations. The grandfather of Mrs. Fickle's mother was a
soldier in the Revolutionary war, was wounded at Kings Mountain,
North Carolina, recovered from his wound, and died in Scott county at
the ripe old age of 105 years. Several of the name served in the war
of 1812.

John T. Gray entered the Confederate Army in April, 1861, in Company
C, 37th Virginia Infantry, one of the regiments of the original
"Stonewall Brigade." He was severely wounded in second Manassas
battle, and was captured near Farmville, April 6, 1865, and held until
June 12th following. He had four brothers in active service, two discharged
in 1862, one two years a prisoner, the fourth also several
months a prisoner.

While living in Russell county Mr. Gray was eight years superintendent
of the poor of that county. He is now farming in Washington
county, residence near Abingdon.

ROBERT EMMETT GRAY.

Robert Emmett, son of John Gray of Washington county, was born
six miles south of Abingdon, June 1, 1837. He married, near Abingdon,
March 17, 1863, Mary J. McChesney who was born near Abingdon,
May 2, 1841. Their children are seven. William Fred., Grace, Nellie,
David S., Kate S., Bessie A. and Robert McChesney.

The Gray family were early seated in Washington county, Capt.
William Gray, a pioneer, being the grandfather of the subject of this
sketch. John Gray, his father, was a soldier of the war of 1812, and
also fought at Saltville, in 1864. John Gray married Mary, daughter
of John Craig, of Wythe county, Virginia. Of this union were born six
sons who gave their services to Virginia in the war between the States.
Robert Emmett enlisted in 1861, Company D, 1st Virginia Cavalry,
was slightly wounded at Dumfries, Virginia, captured on the Gettysburg
campaign, near Hagerstown, Maryland. He was sent a prisoner
to Baltimore, Maryland, thence to Point Lookout, from which place he
escaped after having been a prisoner about three months. He took
the field again, and served till the surrender of Lee. His regiment was
under Stuart, Jones, and "Fitz Lee," during service. His brother
William M. was quartermaster under General Floyd, then served in the
21st Virginia regiment until the surrender. Another brother was captain
in the 21st regiment, another lieutenant and quartermaster, still
another quartermaster with Floyd, and the sixth of the brothers was
assistant commissary of the 21st regiment.

Mrs. Gray is a daughter of Hugh A. McChesney, residing on the
Jonesboro road, Washington county. His father, Hugh McChesney,
settled in this county from Ireland. Her mother is Julia, daughter of
Thomas McChesney, whose father came from Ireland.

Mr. Gray is engaged in farming and stockraising, living on his estate
near King Mill.

REV. J. R. HARRISON

Is a son of Joseph Harrison, foreman of the Iron Works of Franklin
county, Virginia, and his wife, Lucy, daughter of Peter Kennett, a pioneer
of Floyd county, Virginia. The Harrison and Kennett families
were both of Irish extraction. The subject of this sketch was born in
Franklin county, Virginia, on September 21, 1832, and was married
near Roanoke, Virginia, Rev. P. Brown, of Franklin county, uniting
him in wedlock with Sallie E. Lunsford. The issue of this marriage is
five children: Elizabeth D., Lulu M., John Wm. (deceased), James K.
and Charles T. Mrs. Harrison was born May 6, 1832, in Bedford county,
Virginia, and was raised in Roanoke county. Her father was Thomas

Lunsford, of Northumberland county, Virginia, her mother Elizabeth
Nelms, of Bedford county, in which county the Nelms family were early
seated.

A number of the immediate family of Mr. Harrison were in the Confederate
States service, during the late war, including two brothers, a
brother-in-law who died in service of sickness, and three nephews, one
killed in battle of second Manassas, one killed at Gettysburg, and the
third severely wounded in battle before Richmond.

Mr. Harrison is pastor in charge of the Baptist church at Glade
Spring, Washington county, and is the originator and founder of the
justly celebrated Southwest Virginia Institute, of which he is present
financial manager. This Institute is now in prosperous condition, having
a full corps of able directors, facilities for 150 pupils, and property
valued at $20,000. Mr. Harrison is well-known in Virginia, and adjacent
States, as a most successful laborer in revival meetings. More than
twelve thousand persons have made a public profession of faith in Jesus
Christ in meetings conducted by him. A male academy has been foundered
by him at Glade Spring, and is doing a good work for the education
of boys.

L. N. HARWOOD,

Born in Sullivan county, Tennessee, May 18, 1852, was reared in Washington
county, Virginia, where his parents made their home when he
was about nine years of age. He married in this county, at the residence
of the bride, and her birthplace, near Meadow View, on July 15, 1885,
Sallie F. Clark, who was born August 15, 1862. They have two daughters,
Maggie Frances and Clara Victoria.

Mr. Harwood is a son of William L. Harwood, who was born in North
Carolina, married in Lincoln county, that State, to Frances Robinson
of Lincoln county, removed soon after to Sullivan county, Tennessee,
and about 1859 over the line into Washington county, just north of
Bristol, Tennessee. He was in service in the late war, a member of
Company C, 13th battalion Reserve Troops, took part in battle of Saltville,
was captured by the Stoneman raiders, December, 1864, near
Bristol, and held a prisoner at Camp Chase, Ohio, till June 27, 1865.
He died at his home near Bristol. Joseph E. Harwood, elder brother
of L. N., served about three years in Company E, 63d Virginia regiment,
was captured in Georgia, in 1864, and held at Camp Douglas, Illinois,
eight months.

The wife of Mr. Harwood is of families long seated in Washington
county. Her father is Francis S. Clark, son of John B. Clark, and her
mother is Catharine, daughter of Robert White, all of Washington
county. Her father and mother were married in 1857, by Rev.

Dr. Wylie, of Emory and Henry College, and still live near Meadow
View.

Mr. Harwood is one of the most extensive dealers in lumber in Washington
county, residence, Meadow View.

THOMAS T. HAWKINS

Is a farmer and stockman of Washington county. He was born in
Wilkes county, North Carolina, September 22, 1829, where his family
had lived from colonial times. His father was Elisha Hawkins, of Wilkes
county, farmer and blacksmith, and his grandfather was Burton Hawkins,
who served in both the Revolutionary war and the war of 1812,
and who lived to the advanced age of one hundred and five years. The
mother of Thomas T. Hawkins was Isabel, daughter of Thomas Roberts,
of Wilkes county. The Hawkins family came to Virginia in 1844. During
the years of the civil war Mr. Hawkins followed his trade as blacksmith,
and also was engaged in school-teaching. He was thus exempt
from military duty, which he could not for conscientious reasons have
performed, as he was a strong and uncompromising Union man from
first to last. He had one brother in the Confederate army, in the 37th
Virginia regiment, Stonewall brigade, and many other relatives in the
army on both sides.

The first wife of Mr. Hawkins was Jane Combow, born in Russell
county, Virginia, the daughter of Isaiah Combow and his wife, Mary Ann,
nee Campbell. Isaiah Combow was a wagon-maker, a son of Samuel
Combow of Revolutionary fame, and a school-teacher by profession.
This marriage of Mr. Hawkins was solemnized near Lebanon, Virginia,
January 29, 1851, and the children of the union were: Maria E., George
W., Lafayette I., Thos. Jefferson, Charles Monroe Jasper Newton; and
Mary Jane, who died August 3, 1873.

Mr. Hawkins married secondly, Rachel, daughter of Henry Campbell,
farmer of Russell county, Virginia, whose father was Richard Campbell,
who came from Ireland, and was a soldier of the Revolutionary war.
Her mother was Cynthia, daughter of Samuel Elliott, a Kentuckian,
who settled in Russell county, Virginia, about 1809. The children of
Mr. Hawkins' second marriage are: Laura Virginia, Abraham Lincoln
and Ulysses Grant, twins, Henry Wilson, Victoria Isabella, Thomas
Edward, Margaret Ann, Joseph M. and Nancy Elizabeth.

JAS. CALVIN HAYTER,

Was born November 11, 1849, on the family estate where he still resides,
two miles east of Abingdon. He is a son of James E. Hayter, whose
father, James C. Hayter, was born in Washington county at an early
date. In colonial days the Hayter family, of Scotch-Irish descent, settled

in the Clinch Mountains, founding Hayters Gap, where the first
fort was erected for the protections of colonists from Indians. The family
records go back to 1754, when Israel Hayter was born. The mother
of Jas. Calvin Hayter was Louisa Bowen Thompson, of Tazewell
county, Virginia, a direct descendant of Lord Baltimore.

His wife was also born in Tazewell county, near Liberty Hill, Mary
Madison Ward, daughter of Dr. E. B. Ward, her grandfather of Irish
descent, one of the first settlers in Tazewell county, founding settlement
known as Ward's Cove. Her mother was a Miss Miller of Giles county,
Virginia, in which county the Miller family were early seated, and are
still honored. They were married by Rev. J. H. Alexander, in Smyth
county, Virginia, November 15, 1882, and have now four children
Eddie Blair, Lillie Grace, James Madison, and Louisa Bane.

The father of Mr. Hayter entered the Confederate States Army in 1863,
serving till close of war, his last service in Lynch's battery. He was
taken prisoner near Wytheville, and held a short time. Benton and
Samuel Thompson, maternal uncles of Mr. Hayter, were also in service.

REV. WILLIAM WARD HICKS,

Pastor in charge of the M. E. Church, South, in the East Abingdon
district, was born in Washington county, May 11, 1849. He married
in Tazewell county, Virginia, October 3, 1872, Mary A. Bane, who was
born in that county, October 10, 1850. The issue of this union is
seven children, born in the order named: Charles E., N. E. May, Maud,
William Bane, Marguerite A., Spiller, Ellen Stuart.

The father of William Ward Hicks is Rev. William Hicks, son of
William Hicks from Maryland, whose father came from England. His
mother is Elizabeth M., daughter of William Ward of Wythe county,
Virginia, whose father came from Ireland. William Ward, of Wythe
county, married a Miss Young of Tennessee.

Rev. William Hicks, pastor in the M. E. Church, South, was a prominent
member of the Holston conference, and several times a member of
the general conference. He was the Hayward county delegate to the
North Carolina convention at Raleigh that passed the ordinance of
secession, and during the war was chaplain of the 6th North Carolina
Infantry. Before the war he was editor of the Herald of Truth, subsequently
edited the Holston Advocate, in Virginia, also served as
superintendent of public schools in Bland county, Virginia.

The wife of Rev. William Ward Hicks is a daughter of William R.
Bane, Esq. of Tazewell county, whose father, Howard Bane, came from
Giles county to Tazewell county, the family of Scotch extraction. Her
mother was Nancy, daughter of Howard Haven, of Tazewell county.

MAJOR JOEL W. HORTENSTINE.

About the year 1778 Jacob Hortenstine came from Germany to
America, making his home first in Pennsylvania, and coming from that
State to Virginia, settling in Washington county. Here his son John
Hortenstine grew to manhood and married, his wife being Margaret,
daughter of James Wilson, of Washington county, whose wife was
Phebe Dryden, who had a brother killed at Kings Mt. battle. Joel W.,
son of John Hortenstine, and subject of this sketch, was born on the
old family homestead where he now lives. February 7, 1841. Before
the war he was lieutenant in the Virginia militia, and since the war has
held rank of major in the same organization. In March, 1862, he
went into service in Jeffries battery, which was in the campaigns of the
Confederate Army of the Tennessee, under Humphrey Marshall, Bragg,
Joe, Johnston, Hood, and others, and with which he remained until
the close of the war. He had one brother killed at Sharpsburg, during
Lee's invasion of Maryland, four cousins killed in service, one at Chancellorsville,
one at Spotsylvania C. H., one at Chickamauga, one in the
West.

Since the war Major Hortenstine has been fifteen years notary public,
and fifteen years surveyor, which office he is still filling. He married at
Maple Grove, Washington county, September 26, 1867, Mary V.
Campbell, born in this county, and they have ten children: Edwin C.,
Annie, Susan B., Margaret S., John, Bernard Todd, Henry R., James
W., Jacob L., Raleigh.

Mrs. Hortenstine is the daughter of James L. F. Campbell, an influential
farmer of Washington county, living near Abingdon, commissioner
of revenue and sheriff of the county. Her mother is Rosannah,
daughter of Abram McConnell, of this county.

GEORGE W. HUBBLE M. D.

Previous to the Revolutionary war, Joel Hubble, who was a son of
John Hubble a native of Scotland, came from New York to Southwestern
Virginia, and settled in Smyth county. His son John Hubble was
born at Chilhowie, raised in Smyth county, and married in this county,
his wife being Sarah L., daughter of Martin Jones, of Loves Mills.
Their son, George W., was born after they made their home in Missouri,
at Dayton, that State, April 24, 1844, but has now returned to the
home of his fathers, and is settled in practice in Chilhowie.

The maternal ancestors of Dr. Hubble moved to the west in early
times, and were men of note there. His grandfather, Martin Jones,
became a member of the Illinois legislature and served with honor a
number of years. William Jones, brother of Martin, was governor of

Illinois. Another brother was editor of a paper in St. Louis. A brother
of Martin Jones, John Jones, was a Baptist clergyman in Smyth and
Washington counties, Virginia, and died in 1834.

Martin Jones was born at Loves Mills, and was a son of John Jones,
an early settler there, who came from Wales.

The paternal grandmother of Dr. Hubble was Elizabeth, daughter
of Curtis Johnson, of Smyth county, and a first cousin to Gen. Joseph
E. Johnston.

In 1861, at the age of seventeen years, Dr. Hubble enlisted in Company
I, 3d Middle Tennessee Infantry, C. S. A., Governor Brown's regiment.
He was captured at Fort Donelson, and held at Camp Douglas,
Illinois, seven months. After participation in the battles of Chickasaw
Bayou, Spring Dale, Raymond, and siege of Jackson, he was wounded
and disabled in battle of Chickamauga. In 1864 he served as deputy
postmaster at Seven-Mile Ford. From 1880 to 1884 he filled the office
of supervisor.

Dr. Hubble's wife, whom he married July 16, 1872, at her birth place
and father's residence near Seven-Mile Ford, is Mary Amanda F., daughter
of William Leonard, Esq.

STEPHEN ALONZO JACKSON

About 1762 Edward and John Jackson, brothers, left England for
America. They lived for a few years near New Castle, Delaware, but
having been with a scouting party to the little Kanawha, in Virginia,
and being deeply impressed with the fertility of the soil and the abundance
of game there, they concluded to remove to that region with their
families. Consequently they came to Virginia just prior to the revolution,
the families expecting to settle as neighbors. But upon arriving
at the "Old Field," in Hampshire (now Hardy) county, Elizabeth Cummings,
the wife of John Jackson, was for stopping there, and did stop,
her superior size being a sufficient reason with her much smaller husband.
She endeavored to pursuade Edward, and his wife Martha, to
remain there with their families, but Edward asserted his right to decide
for himself and those with him, and decided he was going on to Harrison
county, unless scalped in the attempt, and went on, settling about four
miles west of Clarksburg, where some of his descendants live to this day.

John Jackson, after a short residence near the present site of Moorefield,
moved his family to the Buckhannon river, in what is now Upshur
county, West Virginia, and only about a day's journey from where his
brother Edward had settled.

Both Edward and John Jackson served in the Revolutionary war,
and each had three sons in service, distinguished for bravery. One of
these was Capt. Stephen Jackson, wounded in battle of Yorktown. The

renowned and still lamented Confederate general, "Stonewall" Jackson,
third cousin to Stephen Alonzo, was of this stock, inheriting the gentleness
of his great grandfather, John, and the fire and bravery in time of
danger of his great grandfather's brother, Edward.

The line of descent of Stephen Alonzo Jackson from this Edward Jackson
is thus traced. Edward Jackson was the father of Captain Stephen
Jackson, who was born July 31, 1764, and married, February 14, 1787,
Elizabeth Pomeroy. Their son, Col. Stephen Pomeroy Jackson, was
born in January, 1789. He married Hannah Bailey (born November
7, 1793, died February 25, 1854), daughter of Minter and Nancy (Norris)
Bailey. Their son, Hon. Minter Jackson, was born September 20,
1824, and was twice married. His first wife was Mary K. Fell, born
August 28, 1830, died March 4, 1856. They had one son, Stephen
Alonzo, subject of this sketch, born September 22, 1851, in Glenville,
Gilmer county, (then) Virginia; and one daughter, Mary Scott, now
Mrs. Dunn, born September 25, 1855. The Hon. Minter Jackson married
secondly, August 10, 1864, Isabella Holt Beattie, a grand daughter
of Gen. John Beattie, who was a Comissary general under Gen. Washington
in the Revolutionary war. By this marriage were born two children:
Walter Beattie and Hannah Belle.

Minter Jackson espousing the cause of the South in the late war,
refugeed to Virginia with his parents and children, Stephen A. being
then about ten years old. The father, uncles and a host of the cousins
of Stephen A. were Confederate soldiers, while many of his maternal
relatives were in the Northern army.

At Brook Hall, Washington county, September 5, 1876, Rev. J. O.
Sullivan officiating, Stephen A. Jackson married Mary Cloyd Earnest,
who was born near Glade Spring, August 7, 1852. They have two children:
Earnest Alonzo, born August 13, 1877; Minter, jr., born December
25, 1880.

Mrs. Jackson is a daughter of Col. J. Henry Earnest and Amanda J.
Earnest, nee Byars. Her maternal grandmother was Elizabeth, daughter
of William Beattie, whose father was the Gen. John Beattie before
mentioned.

Mr. Jackson is a 32d-degree Mason and a Knight Templar, and past
W. G. M. of the Kappa-Sigma Fraternity.

MARSHALL M. JONES,

Born in Nelson county, Virginia, November 19, 1831, is a son of Coleman
Jones, of that county, formerly of Bedford county, Virginia, where his
father, Owen Jones, settled, coming from London, England. The mother
of Marshall M. was Sophia, daughter of Elijah Mays, of Nelson county,

Virginia, but formerly of King and Queen county, Virginia. Elijah
Mays and two of his sons were in service in the war of 1812. By reason
of disability Mr. Jones was exempt from military service during the late
war. He had five brothers in service, one of whom, Elijah C., was killed
in first battle at Manassas.

The first wife of Mr. Jones was Mary J., daughter of James L. Bradley,
of Washington county. She was born March 12, 1835, near Abingdon,
they were married December 22, 1854, and she died July 18, 1880. They
had three sons, James C. and Edward C., now deceased, and Charles I.,
now of Abingdon. Near Abingdon, October 5, 1882, Mr. Jones married
Ella J. Stevens, who was born at Oneida, New York, September 24, 1860.
She is a daughter of Amos W. Stevens, who came from New York to
Washington county in 1871, and is living near Abingdon. Zadock
Stevens, formerly of Oneida, was his father. Her mother, Betsy, daughter
of John Shaver, of Columbia county, New York, died near Abingdon,
April 1, 1887, aged seventy-two years.

Mr. Jones is a farmer, with residence near Abingdon.

JAMES KELLY

Was born February 2, 1824, on the old family homestead, where he
still resides, near Emory, Washington county. He is a son of James
and Nancy Kelly, his father the son of Ezekiel Kelly, who came from
Ireland and settled in Virginia near Harpers Ferry. His mother was
Nancy, daughter of Jonas Smith, who came to Washington county at
an early date, and settled near Emory.

In this county, November 15, 1854, Rev. George R. Barr, D. D., officiating
clergymen, he married Mahala Helton, and their children were born
in the order named: Alice M., Melinda F., James N., Milton F., Jefferson
D., Thomas C., William H., Jonas S. The two eldest, Alice and Melinda,
are now deceased; James is superintendent of a large and prosperous
school near Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Kelly was born in Floyd county,
Virginia, July 1, 1829, the daughter of Reuben Helton and Nancy Helton,
nee Burnette, who were raised in Floyd county, and later were residents
of Washington county.

Mr. Kelly ably filled the responsible office of magistrate for about
eight years, before and during the war. He had a number of near relatives
in active service during the war, among them a cousin, John H.
Smith, killed in battle at Saltville.

JAMES E. KELLY

About 1770 John Kelly came from Pennsylvania to the then wilds of
Washington county, where he founded the family that has since been
honorably identified with the growth of the county. He was a soldier
of the Continental army, Revolutionary war, and fought at Kings
Mountain. His son Andrew E. Kelly, married Joanna, daughter of
Major John Edmondson, another of the pioneers of the county, and
their son, James E., subject of this sketch, was born February 23, 1811,
at their home in the southeast part of this county. Near Osceola, September
29, 1836, he married Margaret Buchanan, who was there born
July 28, 1814. Her father, William Buchanan, Esq., was many years
high sheriff of Washington county, many years magistrate and overseer
of the poor. He was a son of Matthew Buchanan, and he married
Jane, daughter of Benjamin Keys, of this county.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Kelly are: William B., Andrew,
Elizabeth C. (deceased), Amanda L., Hay (deceased), John Walter and
Sally. The two eldest sons served through the late war in Company F,
37th Virginia regiment. Andrew, orderly sergeant of his company,
was wounded at Kernstown. William B., who was made sergeant-major
of the regiment, was twice wounded in the right arm, in the same
battle. Except when wounded, these brothers took part in every movement
of the 37th, and at the surrender Andrew was the only able-bodied
man left of the original eighty-five of the company, and was in command
of the fragment of the shattered regiment there, and as such
signed all papers relating to the surrender except the paroles.

James E. Kelly has always been engaged in the cultivation of his farm
in Washington county. He filled the office of deputy sheriff two years,
and of overseer of the poor six years.

WM. BUCHANAN KELLY

In colonial days, John Kelly, of Irish descent, came from Pennsylvania
to Washington county. His son Andrew was a farmer of Washington
county. James E. Kelly, son of Andrew, married Margaret,
daughter of William Buchanan, her mother Jean Keys, whose ancestors
came to America in the Mayflower. The subject of this sketch is a son
of James E. Kelly and his wife, Margaret, and was born January 18,
1838, near Kellys Chapel, Washington county.

He married in this county, near Abingdon, February 14, 1867, at
the residence of the bride's father, and her place of birth, Julia E.
Lowry. Their children are: Elizabeth Lowry, Margaret Buchanan,
Lowry Graham, Grace Bailie, James Montgomery, Julia Isabella, Robert
Wm. Also two infants died unnamed. Mrs. Kelly is a daughter of

John M. Lowry, who was a son, of Robert Edmondson Lowry, of Washington
county. Her mother was Elizabeth, daughter of William
Graham, who was a son of John Graham of Washington county, and
who married Isabella Buchanan.

Wm. B. Kelly entered the Confederate army in June, 1861, Company
F., 37th Virginia regiment, and was wounded at Kernstown, March 23,
1862, while sergeant-major of his regiment. When able for duty he
was transferred to the quartermaster's department, where he served
until made prisoner at Sailors Creek, April 5, 1865. He was held at
Point Lookout until July following. He had one brother in service,
wounded at Kernstown also, and surrendered at Appomattox, where,
as orderly sergeant, he was in command of his regiment. A cousin of
Mr. Kelly died while a prisoner at Fort Delaware. Mr. Kelly is engaged
in farming, and also in the nursery business.

MAJOR HENRY F. KENDRICK,

Born at Honakerville, Russell county, Virginia, on January 7, 1832, is
the son of George H. Kendrick, of Scott county, Virginia, whose father
was George Kendrick, of Russell county, a soldier of the war of 1812,
in which he held commission as captain. The Kendrick family are of
Irish descent, settlers at an early date in Russell county. The wife of
Henry F., whom he married at Glade Spring, Virginia, October 27, 1870,
is Mary E. Price, born near Glade Spring, on June 30, 1843. Their
children are five: George H., Grace Price, Margaret E., Ella Virginia
and Price. Mrs. Kendrick is the daughter of John W. Price, of Russell
county, one of the noted men of that county in his day. She has two
brothers who are ministers in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Her mother was Miss Mary Miller, of Smyth county, Virginia, of one of
the oldest Virginia families.

Major Kendrick derives his title from service in the war between the
States, when he was major of the 22d Virginia Cavalry, from August,
1862, to the close of the war. He was in constant field service from the
time the regiment took the field until the battle of Monocacy, Maryland,
July 9, 1864. In that battle he was wounded and made prisoner, and
was not exchanged until March, 1865. His brother J. T. Kendrick
served in the same regiment. Another brother, L. H. Kendrick, was in
the Federal army, in a Kentucky or Ohio regiment, and visited him
while he was held a prisoner of war. George H. Kendrick, Major Kendrick's
father, represented Scott county in the Virginia legislature many
years. He was in the capitol building when it fell, in 1869.

Major Kendrick is now engaged in a mercantile business at Meadow
View, where he has his home.

REV. JOHN RUTLEDGE KING

Four brothers named King emigrated from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania,
to what is now Washington county, Virginia, and Sullivan
county, Tennessee, in the earliest days of its settlement, or, about the
year 1762. One of these was David King, grandfather of the subject of
this sketch. David married a daughter of John Sharp, who is supposed
to have been the first settler of what is now Sullivan county,
Tennessee, and his son, John Sharp King, was the father of Rev. John
Rutledge King. John Sharp King served in the war of 1812, at the age
of seventeen years. He was at Mobile at the time of the battle of
New Orleans, and, with a squad of soldiers, captured some British
troops.

Rev. John Rutledge King was born in Roanoke county, Virginia,
April 13, 1817. His ancestors on his mother's side were the Rutledges
and Vanlears, of Roanoke, Virginia. He was educated for the ministry
at Maryville Theological Seminary, Blount county, Tennessee. In 1843
he entered the ministry of the New School Presbyterian Church. The
schools united in 1865, forming the Presbyterian Church, South. He
has been engaged in the work of the ministry constantly since 1843, in
Virginia and Tennessee.

Mr. King's first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of John Thomas, an
early settler of Sullivan county, Tennessee. She was born in that
county, May 21, 1811; they were married there, January 2, 1844, by
the Rev. James King, living then where Bristol, Tennessee, now stands.
She died August 23, 1876, leaving three children. Sarah S., now Mrs.
Delaney, of Washington county, Virginia, John T. and Dr. James M.
King, of Bristol John entered the Confederate States Army when
only sixteen years of age, and is now a farmer in Sullivan county,
Tennessee.

The second marriage of Rev. J. R. King was solemnized at Kingsport,
Tennessee, by Rev. M. C. Willoughby, May 7, 1878, Maria C. Vance
becoming his wife. She is a daughter of Dr. James Vance, of Kingsport.
Her mother was a Sevier, a near relative to General Sevier of "King's
Mountain" battle fame.

JOHN G. KREGER

Was born on his father's estate in Washington county, Virginia, twelve
miles west of Abingdon. He is the son of Isaac Kreger, who was born
in Wythe county, Virginia, and was a tanner, which occupation he followed
in Abingdon and other parts of Washington county from his
coming to the county, about 1824, to 1853, in which year he removed
to Tennessee, later to Arkansas. At Rock Springs, Washington county,

Virginia, September 29, 1859, John G. Kreger married Mary E. Bradley,
who was born in Mississippi in 1836. The issue of this marriage
was nine children, of whom one, Nannie P., is now deceased. The living
children all make their home in Washington county, the sons among
the most active and progressive of the citizens of Abingdon. These
eight children are named. Reuben B., John M., Laurie B., Rosa Lee,
Mary E., Margaret R. G., Sarah T. and George G. Mrs. Kreger's
parents were Virginians, Reuben L. Bradley and Evelyn Gay, married
in Washington county in 1835, and removing to Mississippi, where the
father died in 1836. Some years after, Mrs. Bradley became the wife of
Col. Thomas M. Preston, and she died in December, 1884. From July,
1858, to July, 1865, Mr. Kreger was clerk of the county court, Washington
county. In July, 1887, he was elected clerk of the circuit court,
which position he is still ably filling.

MOSES H. LATHAM.

In the pioneer days of Washington county there settled in that county
Moses Latham, who came from Pennsylvania, the family being of
Scotch-Irish descent, that hardy stock nursed in the Presbyterian faith
James E. Latham, son of Moses, married in Washington county, Elizabeth,
daughter of Hugh McChesney, who settled in this county from Ireland.
Their son Moses H. was born at Halls Bottom, Washington
county, November 27, 1828. Near Abingdon, March 22, 1852, he married
Ellen James, who was born November 11, 1831, at the place where
her marriage was solemnized. The record of the children of the marriage
is: James W., living now in Dennison county, Texas, Daniel C., now
deceased; Laura L., now the wife of Samuel Latham, of Washington
county; four daughters now deceased, Margaret J., Fannie V., Sarah
E. and Rhoda C., Robert Emmett, living at home; Hugh Anna, at home;
Mary B., deceased, Abbie, deceased, Minnie Trigg, at home. Mrs.
Latham is the daughter of Elisha James, now of Sullivan county, Tennessee,
a son of Walter James, an early settler in Washington county
from England. Her mother is Sarah, daughter of William Gray, who
came to Washington county from Pennsylvania.

Mr. Latham is a farmer and stock raiser. He was in service in the
late war, Company D, 1st Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., and was severely
wounded twice at Waynesboro, Virginia, in arm and neck, September,
1864. His brother L. W. served through the war in the same company
and regiment. He had three cousins killed in service, two serving from
Virginia, one from Missouri. Another cousin, Dr. McChesney, was severely
wounded.

C. T. LESTER,

Farmer and stockman of Washington county, Virginia, was born in
Smyth county, Virginia, April 25, 1845. On May 1, 1861, he entered
service, Confederate Army, in Company B, 4th Tennessee Infantry, He
was three times wounded, twice with sabre, once by gunshot, first
wound at Shiloh, second at Stone River, third at Woodbury, Tennessee.
He was captured in April, 1863, and held at Camp Chase, Ohio, till
the following August. Exchanged at City Point, he rejoined his regiment,
with which he served until surrendered with Johnston's army.
His relatives were all Unionists, many of them in the Federal army.
His father, John Lester, of Smyth county, was a Union soldier from
East Tennessee. The grandfather of C. T. Lester, was also named John
Lester, and was of Smyth county. His mother was Sally Dickerson,
born in North Carolina. He has been twice married, his first wife
Emma, daughter of Samuel D. and Sallie (Dingmore) King, of
Sullivan county, Tennessee. Samuel D. King, a son of Harvey King,
served in the Confederate States army. Emma King was born August
15, 1846, they were married September 10, 1867, in Sullivan county,
and she died January 26, 1873. He married secondly, in Sullivan
county, Tennessee, Clarie E. King, sister of Emma, born in that county,
August 15, 1856. Their children are eight: Susan E., Eliza Virginia,
James S., Stephen H., William G., Thomas G., Charles Frank, Lizzie
Ray.

GEORGE V. LITCHFIELD

Is a son of George V. and Rachel Litchfield, who settled in Washington
county about 1815, and reared a family of eight children. His mother
was the daughter of John Mitchell, who married a daughter of William
King, the elder, who discovered and developed the great salt works of
Washington and Smyth counties. The subject of this sketch was born
in Abingdon, on January 20, 1837, and was married in Wythe county,
Virginia, November 20, 1867, Rev. W. G. E. Cunningham there joining
him in wedlock with Elizabeth P. Pierce. The wife of Mr. Litchfield,
born in Pulaski county, Virginia, is a daughter of James N. and Nancy
Pierce. Her mother is of a family distinguished in the civil and military
annals of Virginia, being the sister of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, and a
daughter of Judge Archibald Stuart, who married Elizabeth Pannill
Mr. and Mrs. Litchfield have five children: Annie S., Lizzie P., Mary,
George Victor and Belle, and have buried three Rachel B., James P.,
Flora S.

Mr. Litchfield served through the late war, an officer in Company D,
1st Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., from April, 1861, to April, 1865. He was
wounded in engagement at Slaterville, and a second time at Waterloo

Bridge by a sharpshooter, through the hand. He had two brothers in
service, one of whom is now deceased. In 1879 Mr. Litchfield was
mayor of Abingdon. He is a resident of that town, engaged in farming
and as a manufacturer.

JAMES C. LOVE.

Near Loves Mills, Washington county, June 1, 1824, the subject of
this sketch was born, and his home has always been in the county, his
occupation farming. He is a son of Leonidas Love, who came to this
county from Wythe county, the son of William Love of that county,
formerly a resident of Eastern Virginia. The mother of James C., Freelove
Cole, is a daughter of James Cole, of Smyth county, whose father,
also named James Cole, was one of the first white children born in that
county.

In Rye. Valley, February 10, 1846, James C. Love married Cedelia
James, who was born in Rye Valley, Smyth county, in 1826. Her parents
were both born and raised in the Valley, and honored residents there
through life, John James and Nancy, daughter of John Smith. Mr. and
Mrs. Love have four children living: Perlina, John J., Josephine V. and
Mollie, and have buried six. America, Nannie, William, two babes died
unnamed, and Susan C.

In May, 1862, Mr. Love was detailed by the Confederate authorities
in the manufacture of nitre at Loves Mills. He was enrolled in the
Reserve troops through the years of the war, and took part in both
battles at Saltville. He was at Christiansburg at the time of the surrender,
and there discharged. He had one brother and one brother-in-law
in the Reserve troops, both in battles at Saltville, and one brother-in-law
in the field, killed in the second year of the war; another brother,
J. R. Love, was in the 48th Virginia regiment, served from the organization
of the regiment to close of war, was slightly wounded (which still
affects him), was captured in 1864, and held a prisoner until close of
the war; another brother, Oscar, lives now in Tennessee, another
brother, William, went into service from Arkansas, and has not been
heard from since.

WILLIAM L. M'CHESNEY

Was born in Washington county, Virginia, near the Tennessee line, June
15, 1843. He is now a farmer of this county, living near the place of
his birth. He enlisted before his nineteenth birthday, in the spring of
1862, Company A, 63d Virginia regiment, and was commissioned second
lieutenant. He received a slight shell wound in arm, and was captured
in battle of Missionary Ridge, November, 1863. Sent as prisoner of
war to Johnsons Island, in Lake Erie, he was held there until after close

of war, till June, 1865. He had one brother in service, in the 1st Virginia
Cavalry, who was badly wounded in left hand near Warrenton,
Virginia, and who also came near being hung as a spy, after entering
the Yankee lines with a flag of truce, by proper authority.

The father of Mr. McChesney was Hugh A. McChesney of Washington
county, whose father was Hugh M. McChesney who came to the county
from Ireland with his little family about the year 1800. Mr. McChesney's
mother was Julia A., daughter of Thomas McChesney, who was
born in this county, and was sheriff of Washington county in early
times. His wife, whom he married in Washington county, December 12,
1873, was born in this county, May 1, 1856, Fannie J., daughter of
Joseph W. Rhea, a son of William Rhea, whose father came to Washington
county from Ireland when a boy. The mother of Mrs. McChesney
is Elizabeth P. C., daughter of Dr. F. W. Ivry, who came from Eastern
Virginia to Washington county, and married a Miss Preston. Mr. and
Mrs. McChesney have three children. Samuel Rhea, Joseph Hugh,
Mary Julia.

ROBERT T. M'QUOWN D. D. S.

Isaac McQuown, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born
in Scotland, in 1772, and came to Pennsylvania in early childhood. In
1790 he removed to Washington county, Virginia. He was twice married.
In 1795 Ann Orr became his wife, and they had seven children.
John Ryburg, Ellen, Ann, Arthur Orr, Jane Branson, Elizabeth,
Rebecca. He married secondly, on August 21, 1817, Mrs. Margaret
Hope, and they had one son, Isaac A., born August 30, 1819. This
son Isaac, father of Robert T., was educated at the Abingdon Male Academy,
and taught school and farmed, many years. He was in the Confederate
States army in 1863, and in 1864 was elected county surveyor,
which office he so ably filled that he was retained in it until his
death, which occurred on February 9, 1887.

Isaac A. McQuown was twice married. His first wife was Nancy K.
Berry, whom he married December 23, 1841, and they had eight children
Sarah Virginia, Columbus, David Nathaniel, James Ferdinand
(in service last year of the war), Mary Margaret, Isaac Walter,
William Parker, and Robert T. Isaac A. McQuown married secondly,
January 28, 1879, Kate McGinniss, who survives him.

Mrs. Margaret McQuown, the grandmother of Robert T., was born
in Northern Virginia, February 25, 1776. His mother was born in
Washington county in 1817, the daughter of one of its honored residents,
Robert Berry.

Robert T. McQuown was born near Osceola, Washington county,
October 13, 1860. He received his academical education at Liberty

Hall Academy, then attended the University of Maryland, where he
graduated with degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1885. In the
same year he located in Abingdon, where he is engaged in practice.

JOHN HENRY MARTIN

Is a son of Thomas Martin, who came from Ireland to Virginia, settling
in Bedford county, serving in the war of 1812. Thomas Martin married
Elizabeth Swain, whose father served in the Revolutionary war, and
settled in Bedford county some time in 1800. The subject of this sketch
was born in Bedford county, near Fancy Grove, May 12, 1824. His
first wife was Nancy Eliza Hagy, whom he married June 25, 1857.
They resided in Bristol, Tennessee, until her death, which occurred
March 20, 1860. The issue of this marriage was one daughter. Secondly
Mr. Martin married, in Washington county, Virginia, Melinda Lewis,
their marriage solemnized on January 30, 1868. She is the daughter
of John Lewis, born in Louisa county, Virginia, who married Sallie
Lynch. The Lewis and Lynch families were from Ireland, and early
settlers in Washington county.

Many of the Martin family and their near relatives were in military
service, under the Confederate government. Four of Mr. Martin's
brothers were in the army, two died in service, another was severely
wounded. His own service was first as a government employee and contractor,
but in 1863 he took the field, a member of Company K,
64th Virginia Mounted Infantry, with which he served till the close of
the war. He is now engaged in farming, residing at Meadow View.

C. E. METCALFE,

Dealer in general merchandise at Wallace Switch, Washington county,
was born near Abingdon, March 27, 1864. He is a son of Rev. S. P.
Metcalfe, clergyman of the Christian Baptist Church in Washington
county, who was born in McMinn county, Tennessee, in May, 1834. The
father of Rev. S. P. Metcalfe was Charles Metcalfe, who was a soldier of
the war of 1812, and during the late war was proprietor of the cotton
mills near Athens, Tennessee, which were burned out twice during the
war. Gen. Thomas Metcalfe of Kentucky is a brother of Charles Metcalfe.

The mother of C. E. Metcalfe was Miss M. H. Mongle, daughter of
Abram Mongle, of Mongles Springs, Virginia, many years sheriff of
Washington county. His father was Jacob Mongle, one of the eminent
pioneers of Southwestern Virginia, proprietor of Mongles Springs, and
a veteran of the war of 1812.

FELIX G. MILLER

Was born near Saltville, Virginia, on September 23, 1843. He is a son
of Humberson Miller, of Washington county, and a grandson of Hon.
Joseph Miller, member of the Legislature about 1840. The mother of
Felix G. is Catharine E., daughter of Henry Stavely, of Smyth county,
who formerly kept the hotel twelve miles east of Marion. Humberson
Miller, who is a farmer, was captain in the Virginia militia before the
war. He had two sons in the army. Felix G., who volunteered in 1862,
at Abingdon, and served till the close of the war in the 29th Virginia
regiment, in Picketts division, Army of Northern Virginia. The other
son served in a Texas regiment, was twice wounded in battle, then
made prisoner and held for a time at Camp Chase, Ohio.

Near Abingdon, January 17, 1867, Felix G. Miller married Lizzie P.
Dennison, born near Abingdon, daughter of Robert P. Dennison, her
mother Mary, daughter of John Gray, of Washington county. Her
father's father was Andrew Dennison, who came from Ireland to Southwest
Virginia at the time the Prestons came. Alice J., first-born of the
children of Mr. and Mrs. Miller, is now deceased, and they have buried
their two youngest, Grover C. and Ethel May. Their living children
are three sons. Robert H., Alexander B., Peter E. Mr. Miller is a
farmer and lumberman.

WILLIAM H. MILLER,

Is a son of Hon. Joseph Miller, of Washington county, former representative
of the county in the legislature, and for many years senior magistrate
of the county, one of its eminent citizens, who died in 1845. His
mother was Catharine, daughter of Abram Fuller, of Russell county,
Virginia. He was born in the east part of Washington county, March
14, 1830. His marriage was solemnized at Bristol, Tennessee, June 8,
1859. He married Melissa, daughter of John Burke, of Elk Garden,
Russell county, and his wife Margaret Burke, nee Dyre. The children of
Mr. and Mrs. Miller were born in the order named: Maggie A., Robert
L., John E., Elbert S., William Pitt, Mary C., Joseph J., George I.

Mr. Miller has held public office, as school commissioner and tax
assessor in Tennessee, and constable of Washington county. He enlisted
in April, 1861, Company F, 37th Virginia Regiment, C. S. A., and
was in active service until captured at Spottsylvania C. H., May 12,
1864. From that time until June 1, 1865, he was held prisoner of war
at Fort Delaware. He had one brother in service in King's battery,
one nephew died in service, and a number of cousins died or were killed
in service. Farming is Mr. Miller's occupation.

ISAAC BAKER MOORE

Is a son of Thomas Moore, a prosperous farmer of Washington county,
whose father was Martin Moore, also a farmer of this county, his father
Richard Moore, who built the first mill in Washington county. Lettie
Lutitia, daughter of Nicholas Fleenor, of Washington county, was the
mother of Isaac B. He was born on the family homestead on the head
waters of Beaver Creek, near Walker Mt. May 14, 1852. At Bristol,
Tennessee, December 14, 1880, he married Cynthia M. Haley, who was
born in Pulaski county, Virginia, December 24, 1855, the daughter of
John T. Haley of that county, her mother a Miss Welton. Mr. Moore
is engaged in farming, his land lying in Washington county.

MARION M. MORRISS

The family line of Mr. Morriss, Virginians through several generations,
is thus traced. Isaac Morriss, of Fairfax county, Virginia, married
Ann Thompson, of Amelia county, this State. Their son, William
A. Morriss of Pittsylvania county, married Winifred Quesenbury. A
son born to them, named William L., living also in Pittsylvania county,
married Ann Earp, and Marion M. Morriss is their son. He was
born in Pittsylvania county, on March 4, 1843.

Before he was nineteen years of age he had entered the Southern army,
and he served from February, 1862, to the close of the war as orderly
sergeant of the Ringgold Battery. Since the war his home has been in
Washington county, where he has been identified with the best interests
of the county. For ten years he was a magistrate of the county. He
has been, from its beginning, intimately connected with the Southwest
Virginia Institute, and chairman of its board of trustees since organization.
He carries on an estate, and is also a merchant of Glade
Spring.

Mr. Morriss has been twice married. His first wife, who died February
17, 1882, was Elizabeth A., daughter of James W. McSpadden of
this county. Their children are: William S., Walker M., Nina B., John
T., Benham, Mary (deceased), Dabney, Judson and Marion M. Secondly
Mr. Morriss married Evie Hunter, of Appomattox county, Virginia,
and their only son bears the name of her family, Hunter. She is of
well-known Virginia families, Benjamin and Sarah Hunter, nee Williams,
of Appomattox county her parents, and her paternal grandfather Benjamin
Hunter who married Sarah Arrington, of Campbell county,
Virginia.

EZRA S. NEFF

Is the third of the fourteen children of Jacob Neff and his wife Mary
Neff, nee Copenhaver, and was born near Abingdon, July 17, 1849. His
father, born in Wythe county, but raised in Smyth county, is a son of
Peter Neff, of Smyth county. His mother is a daughter of Christly
Copenhaver, of Smyth county, where he settled from Pennsylvania.
Jacob Neff served, during the war, in Capt. John Barr's artillery company,
stationed at Richmond, and was there at the time of the evacuation.
He had one son, Andrew M., in active service, Company F, 37th
Virginia regiment, which he entered at the age of sixteen years; twice
slightly wounded.

In Smyth county, Virginia, February 21, 1883, Ezra S. Neff married
Ellen Virginia Umbarger, who was born in that county, near Holston
Mills. They have two children, Mary Pauline and William Newton, and
have buried three sons: Joseph Andrew L., George Arthur, and Jacob
Anson. Mrs. Neff's father, Lafayette Umbarger of Smyth county, a
soldier of the late war, is a son of George Umbarger, who came to Smyth
from Wythe county. Her mother is Paulina, daughter of John Scott,
of Rye Valley, Smyth county.

Ezra S. Neff is a merchant at St. Clair Bottom. He was five or six
years postmaster, St. Clairs P. O., and registrar of the St. Clair district
for three years.

FRANCIS PRESTON.

The distinguished lineage of the Preston family has been referred to
many times in previous pages of this work. The subject of the present
sketch traces his connection with the family through his father, who was
Col. John Preston of Walnut Grove, and his mother, who was Margaret
B., daughter of Col. William Preston of Montgomery county, Virginia.
Francis Preston was born at the family homestead at Walnut Grove,
March 26, 1822. At Waverly, Loudon county, Virginia, he married Virginia
Moffett, who was born at Waverly, the daughter of Robert Moffett,
of Loudon county, her mother a daughter of William Mead, of that
county. Of this marriage four sons were born: Francis E. and William
A., now deceased; Robert M., now an officer in the People's National
Bank at Leesburg, Virginia; John C., now a practicing physician at
Dade City, Florida.

Francis Preston married secondly Martha Powell Fulton, and there
were two children of this marriage, Charles Fulton (deceased) and Mary
Taylor. Mrs. Preston is the daughter of Rev. Creed Fulton, an eminent
divine of the Holston conference, the principal founder of Emory and

Henry College in Washington county, Master Mason. Her mother is
Mary, daughter of Major James Taylor, grandniece of Gen. Wm. Campbell[1]
of Kings Mountain fame.

HENRY PRESTON,

Farmer and stockman, was born November 20, 1828, on the old homestead
farm known as "Walnut Grove Farm," Washington county. He
was married at Redlands, Albemarle county, Virginia, to Anne C. Carter,
September 7, 1852. She was born near Charlottesville, Virginia,
April 19, 1833. They have ten children: Mary Coles, Margaret B.,
Ellen B., Elizabeth M., Anne Cary, Henry, jr., Jane C., Isuetta R., Eugene
F. and Thomas Percy.

Mr. Preston had three brothers in service in the late war: Col. Thos.
W. Preston, of Memphis, Tennessee, killed at Shiloh; Walter E., served
unharmed through the war: and Col. Jas. T. Preston, who commanded
the reserve forces in both battles at Saltville. He is a son of the late
Col. John Preston of Walnut Grove farm, who served with rank of
lieutenant-colonel in the war of 1812, and was a long time colonel of
militia, several years chief magistrate in Washington county, a man of
wealth, influence and scholarly attainments. He was a graduate of
Dickerson College, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and of the law school of
William and Mary College at Williamsburg. He married in 1800, Margaret
B. Preston, a distant relative, of Montgomery county, Virginia.
She was the youngest daughter of Col. William Preston, and the sister
of Gov. Jas. P. Preston, of Virginia, of Gen. Francis Preston, and of
Col. John Preston, long state treasurer of Virginia. Col. John Preston,
father of Henry, was a son of Col. Robert Preston, who settled the Walnut
Grove farm, and was surveyor in Washington county over fifty
years, a man of sterling worth and invincible integrity. He came to
this country from Ireland in early manhood, and by industry, energy
and ability accumulated great wealth.

Anne C., wife of Henry Preston, was raised at Charlottesville, the
daughter of Capt. John C. Carter, of Albemarle county, who was a lineal
descendant of Robert Carter, whose history is given in Volume I of
this work. Her mother was Ellen Bankhead, related to Gen. Bankhead,
formerly of the U. S. Army, and the great grand-daughter of Thomas
Jefferson.

THOMAS M. PRESTON.

Thomas M., son of Colonel Thomas M. Preston, was born in Washington
county, on the family estate where his father was born, near
Rock Spring Church, October 27, 1847 the date of his birth. He is a
grandson of Samuel Preston, who was born in this county, four miles
east of Bristol. His mother, formerly Miss Evaline Gray, of an old
Scotch-Irish family, was raised in Washington county. Near Cedarville,
this county, at the home of her father, Mr. Preston married, October
21, 1874, Mattie A., daughter of Dr. Christ. C. Alderson. She was born
at Lebanon, Russell county, Virginia, her father coming from Russell
county in the first year of the war, and settling on Eleven-Mile creek.
In 1863 he moved to his present place of residence, Walnut Grove. He
is the son of Davis Alderson, who came to Washington county in 1823.
Mrs. Preston's mother was Mary Gibson before marriage, of the Russell
county family of Gibsons.

Mr. Preston entered the Confederate service one month before reaching
the age of seventeen, in September, 1864, Company D, 1st Virginia
Cavalry, with which he served till the close of the war. An elder brother,
R. B. Preston, served three years in the same company. A half-brother,
John M. Preston, was four years in the field, quartermaster of the 37th
Virginia regiment, and many other relatives and friends were in service
through the war.

Mr. Preston is a farmer, his beautiful home standing on the west bank
of Eleven-Mile creek, near its confluence with the middle fork of the
Holston river, one of the finest sites in Washington county.

HON. MESHACK S. RATCLIFF,

A farmer of Washington county, was born in Tazewell county, Virginia,
March 20, 1834. He was married in that county, June 5, 1850,
to Lucinda Ratcliff of Tazewell county. The fruit of the union is twelve
children: Shadrack W., John R., Lydia Jane (now deceased), Mary
Elizabeth, James Muncy, George W., Maggie Z. (deceased), Augustus
Floyd, Eliza R., Sylvester, Vadney V., Louisa M. Richard Ratcliff of
Tazewell county, son of Richard Ratcliff of Montgomery county, was
the father of Meshack S. His mother is Lydia, daughter of John Ratcliff

of Jackson county, Missouri, in which county he died. Lucinda,
wife of Mr. Ratcliff, is a daughter of Shadrack Ratcliff, of Tazewell
county, whose father, John Ratcliff, died in Jackson county, Missouri.
Her mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Brooks Matnet, of Tazewell
county.

Mr. Ratcliff was a resident of Buchanan county previous to his coming
to Washington county, and has worthily filled a number of public
offices. He represented Buchanan and Wise counties in the Virginia
legislature; was two years postmaster in Buchanan county, and two
years commissioner of revenue in that county. In 1861 he went into
service, captain Company G, 10th Kentucky Cavalry, and so served
through the war. His brother Abednego served in the same company;
his brother John S. was captain Company I, same regiment, was captured
in 1863, at Cynthiana, Kentucky, and held at Johnsons Island,
Lake Erie, till June 27, 1865. Four brothers of Mrs. Ratcliff were in
service, one, John M., lieutenant Company G, 10th Kentucky Cavalry,
wounded and captured at Cynthiana, Kentucky, in 1863, held at Johnsons
Island till June, 1865, the other three served in Derrick's battalion
of Virginia Infantry. Five cousins bearing the name of Ratcliff were
in service, two of them in the 10th Kentucky Cavalry; two commanding
companies, rank of captain.

HARVEY M. RECTOR

Was born near Chilhowie, Sulphur Springs, Smyth county, Virginia,
May 4, 1830, and is still a resident of that county, engaged in farming,
near Seven-Mile Ford. He married near Chilhowie, July 13, 1854, Lockey
S. Walker, who was born near Chilhowie, and the issue of their union
was eleven children, all but one of whom are living. Lewis Walton,
Unity Bell, Thomas Brown, Susan Elizabeth (deceased), Fannie Virginia,
Margaret Catharine, James Harvey, Narcissus Aker, Mary Alexander,
John B. Floyd and Charles Preston.

Mr. Rector was exempted from military service at the beginning of the
late war, as manager of the salt works at Saltville, where he remained
until after the first battle there. He was then enrolled in King's Battery,
stationed for three months at Richmond, then at Saltville a time, then
ordered east again, and at Christiansburg at the close of the war, disbanding
there. He had one brother in service, who died of camp fever
after return home. He is a son of Moses Rector of Smyth county, many
years a class leader of the Methodist Episcopal church, whose father
was Benjamin Rector, who came from Fauquier county, Virginia, to
Grayson county. The mother of Harvey M. is Susan, daughter of William
Humphrey, who came from Fluvanna county, Virginia, to Smyth
county in middle life.

Mrs. Rector is the daughter of Daniel Walker, of Wythe and Smyth
counties, who was a soldier of the war of 1812. Her mother was Unity
Bates Bell, daughter of James Bell of Wythe county, superintendent
of the Saltville works, and of the Wythe county lead mines.

DAVID B. REED

Some time previous to 1790 John Reed of Scotch-Irish descent, came
from Pennsylvania to Washington county. His son Arthur was born
in Pennsylvania, and married Lucretia, daughter of Benjamin Kees, of
Washington county, Virginia. Their son David B. was born near Lodi,
this county, September 13, 1827. December 26, 1850, at the home and
birthplace of the bride, he married Margaret B. Edmondson, born January
20, 1824, near Osceola, this county. She was a daughter of Col.
James Edmondson, of this county, who served in the war 1812 with
rank of captain, and who was a son of Captain Robert Edmondson, who
commanded a company in Colonel Campbell's regiment during the Revolutionary
war, and fought at Kings Mountain. Her mother was Jane
Buchanan, daughter of Matthew Buck, who was a son of Andy Buck,
who came to this county in early times. The children of Mr. and Mrs.
Reed are four, born: James E., September 22, 1851; Lucretia K., May
27, 1853; Elizabeth I. V., April 4, 1858; Arthur Wm., August 1, 1866.

On August 1, 1862, Mr. Reed entered Company E, 30th battalion
Virginia Infantry, and served with that battalion in the armies commanded
by Early, Longstreet and Breckinridge, through Virginia and
East Tennessee, and a short time in Maryland. He was made prisoner
at Waynesboro, Virginia, March 2, 1865, and was held at Fort
Delaware until June 20, 1865. He had one brother in service as quartermaster,
with rank of captain, with General Floyd about eighteen
months, was then discharged for disability, and died in 1866. Farming
is Mr. Reed's occupation, his estate that on which his mother was
born.

CAPT. E. D. RICKETTS

The greatgrandfather of Capt. Ricketts was Dillard Ricketts, who
came from Scotland in colonial days, and settled at Flint Hill, Culpeper
county, Virginia, where he married, and had issue three sons. The
eldest, George, settled in Hamilton county, Ohio, where he reared a large
family, and left numerous descendants. The second son remained on
the homestead in Culpeper county, and his descendants have held
worthily many enviable positions in public life. The third son, Zachariah,
emigrated to Marion county, Kentucky, as a Methodist Episcopal
minister, where he married and had three sons, the youngest, D. C.

Ricketts, the father of the subject of this sketch, who was born at Bradfordsville,
Marion county, Kentucky, May 22, 1834. His mother was
Sallie, daughter of Abel Weatherford, of Bradfordsville. Abel Weatherford
was of Scotch descent, and his father and mother lived to extreme
old age, the mother dying in June, 1849, aged 103 years, and the father
dying the next day, aged 104 years, buried in the grave with his wife.
He had been a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and wore his uniform
with a just pride, up to the day of his death.

Captain Ricketts has been three times married. His first wife was
Missouri Forman, born in Nelson county, Kentucky, in 1838, whom he
married at Louisville, Kentucky, May 25, 1852, and who died leaving
issue one daughter, Mary Frances. Secondly he married, in Jefferson
county, Kentucky, November 1, 1851, Lizzie Stivers, born in that
county, February 6, 1844, who died March 9, 1866, having been the
mother of four children: William M., now superintendent of public
schools at Abingdon; James B., now deceased, a babe died unnamed;
and John E., killed in a railroad accident at Indianapolis, Indiana, in
February, 1885. The third marriage of Capt. Ricketts was solemnized
near Abingdon, Virginia, when Eliza D. Galliher became his wife.

Captain Ricketts represented Jefferson county, Kentucky in the Kentucky
State legislature which passed the ordinance of secession at
Russellville, but was also in military service through the war. He volunteered
in April, 1861, and received commission of captain from President
Davis, recruited nearly 300 men in Louisville, and took the field
as captain of Company B, 6th Kentucky (Confederate) Infantry. His
field service ended with Shiloh battle, where he was shot through both
legs, after which he served as brigade quartermaster until in 1863, then
commanded the 6th Regular Battalion, C. S. A., till the close of the
war. Since that time he has been a contractor on railroads, and a
lumber merchant and shipper. For the last few years he has been settled
on his farm in Washington county, near Abingdon.

Capt. R. B. Ricketts, a distinguished soldier, and late Democratic
candidate for lieutenant-governor of Pennsylvania, is his cousin.

HON. JOHN ROBERTS.

In the days of the early settlement of Washington county, Richard
Roberts came to the county from North Carolina. His son Henry
Roberts grew to manhood, and became one of the most influential citizens
of the county, a captain in the militia, and many years a magistrate.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Basil Warren, of Washington county,
her mother a Miss Clark, whose father, Peter Clark, settled near Emory
previous to 1800, coming from Scotland. John, son of Henry Roberts

and his wife Elizabeth, was born five miles north of Abingdon, on
December 9, 1834. Coming of a family whose representatives served in
the Revolutionary war and the war of 1812, he was early interested in
military matters, and previous to the late war was several years captain
in the militia service. He entered the Confederate States service in
April, 1862, lieutenant in Company I, 48th Virginia regiment, and took
part in all its engagements to Chancellorsville, including battles of McDowell,
Winchester, Cross Keys, Port Republic, the seven days fighting
around Richmond, Cedar Run, second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg.
At Chancellorsville he lost left leg above knee. He had one
brother, David, killed in battle of Gettysburg, while serving under Gen.
Ewell, near Culps Hill. Another brother, Henry B., was in service before
eighteen years of age, commissioned captain in the Reserve Troops,
engaged in battle of Saltville.

Captain Roberts is a farmer and miller. He has been a notary public
for the last eight years, and is the present representative from Washington
county in the legislature.

His first wife was Margaret, daughter of John Chapman of Washington
county, whose wife was Mary, daughter of Stephen and Margaret Lyon,
also of this county. The issue of this union was one son, John Henry
Roberts. Secondly Captain Roberts married Susan, daughter of William
Rhea of Washington county, her mother a Miss Carmick. She died without
issue. Near Abingdon, in October, 1882, he married Mary H. Balzell,
who was born in this county, the daughter of David Balzell, whose
father, Lawrence Balzell, came to Washington county from France.
Her mother's maiden name was Sallie Hanby.

JAMES A. ROBINSON

Was born near Old Glade Spring, Washington county, December 9,
1839. His father, Owen Robinson, of Wythe county, was a son of Benjamin
Robinson, formerly of Wythe county, later of Missouri. His mother
was Caroline Wyatt, born in North Carolina, raised in Washington
county, Virginia. He has been twice married, his first wife
Sallie, daughter of Thomas Sadler, formerly of Brunswick county, Virginia.
They were married in Russell county, Virginia, December 19, 1867,
and she died near Emory and Henry College, May 12, 1875, having
been the mother of four children, Tillie M., Cora Lee, Seldon R. (now deceased)
and James S. Secondly Mr. Robinson married in Lee county,
Virginia, July 8, 1877, Ellen C. Miller, born near Montgomery, Virginia.
They have one son Benjamin F. Mrs. Robinson is the daughter of John
Miller, of Washington county, whose father, also named John Miller,
came from Pennsylvania, and was of German descent. Her mother is

Mary, daughter of Peter Minick, now of Washington county, who came
from Pennsylvania.

Mr. Robinson entered the army in April, 1861, Company B, 37th Virginia
Infantry. He was severely wounded inbattle at Kernstown, Virginia,
March, 1862, was captured at Spotsylvania C. H. May, 1864, and
held at Fort Delaware thirteen months, till the close of the war. His
regiment was a part of the famous "Stonewall Brigade," and he took
part in every movement of that brigade except when wounded or a
prisoner. Farming is Mr. Robinson's occupation.

WYNDHAM B. ROBERTSON.

Wyndham B. Robertson, youngest son of Hon. Wyndham Robertson,
governor of Virginia, 1836, married Florence Henderson in Lynchburg,
in 1871.

The following interesting pedigree of the descent of Rev. James Henderson,
grandfather of Mrs. Robertson, is furnished by Mr. Alexander
Brown, of Nelson, a relative of the family, to whom it was sent by
Michael-John Shaw-Stewart, after it had been verified by the late R. R.
Stodart, Lyon clerk in Edinburg.

Archibald Fleming, merchant in Glasgow, Scotland, married Elizabeth
Lennox. Their son, William Fleming, burgess of Glasgow and
clerk of the commissariat, married, and died September, 1636. His
son, Sir Archibald Fleming of Ferme Park and Catgill, advocate commissary
of Glasgow and Rector of the University, was created a baronet
in 1661, he married in 1637 Agnes, daughter and heir of David Gibson,
notary and burgess of Glasgow, died January, 1662. His son, Sir
William Fleming, second baronet, also commissary, married Margaret,
daughter of Archibald Stewart, of Scotland; he died in February, 1707.
His son, Sir Archibald Fleming, third baronet, married in 1692, Elizabeth,
eldest daughter of Sir George Hamilton, baronet of Binny; died
April 14, 1714, leaving issue two sons, and ten daughters. One of
these daughters married Lord Elphinstone's eldest son, but died without
issue, another married Mr. Maschet; a third married a Mr. Henderson,
and their son is Rev. James Henderson, who came to Virginia,
the grandfather of Mrs. Robertson. Margaret, wife of the first Sir
William Fleming, was the daughter of Archibald Stewart, who was the
second son of Sir Archibald Stewart, Knight, of Blackhall (by his first
wife, Margaret, daughter of Bryce Blair). Sir Archibald descended
from Robert III of Scotland, and was ancestor of the present Sir
Michael-Robert Shaw-Stewart, baronet of Greenock and Blackhall, M.
P. for Renfrewshire, etc. Rev. James Henderson was long an honored
professor at William and Mary College, his first wife Miss Blair, his

second, Mrs. Hosbourger, nee Peter. The living children of Wyndham
B. Robertson and wife are four: Eliza Holcombe, Wyndham Bolling,
Mary Smith, and Walter Henderson, and they have buried three, William,
Chas. Edward and John Rolfe. It will be seen these children are,
on the maternal side, of descent from Robert III of Scotland, on their
father's side they descend from King Duncan; while, as an eminent
writer has said, "We must not forget the royal blood of the Princess
Pocahontas." (See pp. 171-5, Volume I, Virginia and Virginians, for
the records of Mr. Robertson's family.)

J. ALEX. RODEFER,

Born at Abingdon, on December 10, 1839, is a son of William Rodefer,
of Abingdon, formerly of Shenandoah and Botetourt counties, Virginia,
who was a contractor and carpenter from 1827 to the opening of the
war, and was post quartermaster at Abingdon during the war. The
mother of J. Alex was Ara, daughter of John Butt, Esq., of Berkeley
county, (then) Virginia.

Before the war J. Alex. Rodefer was captain of militia and deputy
postmaster. In the spring of 1861 he joined Company D, 1st Virginia
Cavalry, with which he served until transferred to Company B, 37th
infantry regiment, from which he was discharged in 1863. After that
served as chief clerk in the conscription office of his district. He is a
carpenter and farmer by occupation, is an A. F. & A. M., Abingdon
Lodge, No. 48, past master and member of the Grand Lodge.

At Lynchburg, Virginia, October 12, 1864, he married Anna Lee
Johnson, who was born in Hanover county, Virginia, March 10, 1845.
Their children were born in the order named: Lula F., William E.,
Francis R., John W., T. Preston, Sallie F., Robert W. Mrs. Rodefer is
a daughter of William H. Johnson, of Hanover county and of Lynchburg,
her mother Louisa A., daughter of William Taylor of Caroline
county, Virginia.

FRANCIS SMITH,

Born in County Monahan, Ireland, on September 30, 1815, is a son of
Andrew Smith, who came from Ireland to Virginia about 1816, settled
in Fluvanna county, removed in 1832 to Botetourt county, and died
there aged sixty-nine years. His mother was Phebe, daughter of John
McEntire, Esq., of County Monahan, born in Ireland, came to Virginia
with her husband. Francis Smith married at Holston Springs, Scott
county, Virginia, September 20, 1842, Eliza B. Grim, who was born at
Abingdon, September 9, 1824. Ten children were born to them. Susan,
Wm. Andrew, Charles H., David, D. F., Emma, Milton H., Mary C.,

Robt. E. Lee, Paul N. Wm. Andrew was killed by accident while at
home during the late war. David, Emma and Milton are now deceased.

The wife of Mr. Smith is of the Grim and Nulton families, both of
German extraction, and long settled in Virginia. Her father was William
Grim, of Abingdon, formerly of Winchester, where most of the Grim
family reside, and who served under Gen. Harrison in the war of 1812,
and was present at Detroit at Hull's surrender. Her mother was Susan
Nulton of Winchester.

Mr. Smith is a farmer, contractor and builder of Abingdon. He was
assistant commissary of subsistance with Captain Alderson at Abingdon
during the war, and the last two years of the war was a member of the
advisory board.

COL. JOHN C. SUMMERS,

Is commonwealth attorney for Washington county, and a resident of
Abingdon. He is a son of Col. Andrew Summers who married Olivia W.
Hawkins, of Gallia county, Ohio. Col. John C. Summers, born in 1841
west of the Blue Ridge, in what is now West Virginia, was a refugee from
that section when that State was created. At Abingdon, in 1867, Rev.
James McChain officiating, he married Nannie M., daughter of John F.
Preston of Abingdon. Their children are ten: John F. Preston, Lewis
P., Olivia Wirt, Robert James, Jennie Pinckney, Nannie May, Sallie
Morgan (or Fannie Rhea), Sunshine Andrew, Von Moltke and John C.

At the outbreak of the war between the States, John C. Summers entered
service in the provisional army of Virginia, captain of Company
A, 3d regiment, Wise's Legion, the regiment later becoming the 60th
Virginia Infantry, C. S. A. He was with his command, in constant and
active service, receiving successive promotions, major, lieutenant-colonel,
and colonel, until captured in the second battle of Winchester. From
that time till the close of the war he was held prisoner at Camp Chase,
Ohio.

JACOB O. SUSONG

Was born on October 16, 1863, in that part of Washington county,
Virginia, lying near Bristol, Tennessee, where he has made his home
ever since, and is now farming. M. S. Susong, now of Bristol, Tennessee,
a successful farmer, is his father, and his grandfather was Jacob
Susong, formerly of Rockbridge county, Virginia, who came to Washington
county many years ago. The father of this Jacob Susong was
the founder of the family in Virginia, Andy Susong, who came to America
from France, settling first in Pennsylvania, and removing thence to
Virginia. The mother of Jacob O. is Mary Ellen, daughter of James
Buchanan, of Washington county, who married a Miss Ryburn of
Glade Spring.

WILLIAM C. TADLOCK,

Now one of the farming residents of Washington county, Virginia, his
home near Abingdon, is a native of Tennessee, born in Green county,
that State, October 7, 1827. His parents were Sevier and Mary Tadlock,
the former the son of Lewis Tadlock who came from England to
Tucaho, Virginia, in colonial days, and the latter a daughter of John
Blair of Washington county, Tennessee, the Blair family also of English
extraction.

The first wife of William C. Tadlock was born in East Tennessee, July
23, 1826, Emily S., daughter of Samuel Miller, of Washington county,
Tennessee, who married Mary Hornbarger, of the same county. She
became the wife of Mr. Tadlock at Jonesboro, Tennessee, April 11, 1850,
and departed this life on April 2, 1864, having been the mother of seven
children. Of these two are now deceased, Mary E. and Samuel A. The
living children are: James W., Sevier N., Laura A., William A., John
B. February 22, 1866, Mr. Tadlock married Catharine E., daughter of
Henry and Catharine Snavely, of Smyth county, Virginia, and widow
of Umberson Miller.

Mr. Tadlock entered the Confederate States army in August, 1862, in
the 61st East Tennessee regiment. In June, 1863, he was transferred
to the 5th East Tennessee Cavalry. The following October he was made
prisoner, but paroled in a short time, and discharged for disability in
March, 1864. He had two brothers in service, one an enrolling officer,
the other in the Reserves.

ROBERT L. TALBERT

The subject of this sketch was born in Smyth county, Virginia, in
1860, and is now a resident of Washington county, engaged in farming.
He was married at Saltville, December 15, 1887, the Rev. Tyler
Frazier joining him in wedlock with Corinna Bailey. The bride was
born at Montrealla, Washington county, and is of the Bailey and
White families, early seated in Washington county. Her father was
James A. Bailey, whose father came to Washington county from New
York, his father coming to America from England. The mother of Mrs.
Talbert was Harriet, daughter of Joseph White of Saltville. During
the war between the States Mrs. Talbert had four brothers in the Confederate
States service, three of whom gave their life for the Lost Cause:
William, died of sickness in service, Walter, killed in the Gettysburg
campaign, Thomas, killed in Washington county, March 15, 1864.
Oscar, the surviving brother, served through the war, and now resides
in Dunklin county, Missouri.

LORENZO TANNER.

The subject of this sketch is a native of New York State, but has
been many years a resident of Washington county, Virginia, owning
and cultivating a fine estate in the vicinity of Abingdon. He was born
in Oneida county, New York, July 2, 1840, the son of Lorenzo Tanner,
of that county, the family of Scotch-Irish extraction. His mother was
Melissa, daughter of William Dunbar, of Oneida county, her mother a
daughter of Baron Steuben, of New York. The wife of Mr. Tanner was
born in Oneida county, New York, August 8, 1844, Fidelia, daughter of
Philander Munney, whose father was Joseph Munney, of Oneida county.
Her mother was Louisa, daughter of Robert Burk, of Oneida county,
who married Polly Carlisle, the latter, still living in Erie county, New
York, now over ninety years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Tanner were married
at Rome, New York, December 9, 1859, and have now ten children
Emma J., Louisa A., Robert B., Clara E., Frederick L., Jennie A.,
George P., Grace E., Pearl and Eula M.

VINT. H. THOMAS

Was born at Holstein Mills, Smyth county, Virginia, on February 9,
1840, a son of John Thomas and Elizabeth S. Thomas, nee Morgan.
John Thomas, of Scotch descent, great grandfather of Vint. H., had two
sons, Abijah and Thomas. The former married Martha McReynolds, of
Irish descent, and was the father of John Thomas, who was born and
raised in Smyth county, Virginia, and removed to Tazewell county when
Vint. H. was four years old, lived at Burks Garden, and died on February
29, 1864. The maternal great great grandfather of Vint H. Thomas
was Haynes Morgan, who with an only sister was brought from Wales
to America when both were children. Their parents died soon after and
their uncle raised them. Gen. Daniel Morgan of Revolutionary fame
is believed to have been of this family. A son of this Haynes Morgan
served in the French and Indian wars, also in the Revolutionary war,
where he received the title of colonel, married Mary Thompson, sister
of Col. Billy Thompson—the Thompsons a Virginia family. Haynes
Morgan, son of—Morgan and his wife Mary, was born at Williamsburg,
Virginia, in the time of the Revolution; was raised in Pittsylvania
county, married a Miss Shelton, daughter of Vinton Shelton of Virginia,
her mother a Robertson, who lived near Richmond, Virginia. Haynes
Morgan moved to Roanoke county, North Carolina, in 1818, and raised
his family there; he was a successful farmer. His daughter, Elizabeth
Shelton, mother of Vint. H. Thomas, was born in 1811; is living now
in Tazewell county, Virginia.

At the commencement of the civil war, Vint. H. Thomas had six
brothers and one sister. Four of these brothers: Haynes M., Abijah
M., William M. and John L. went into the Confederate service in 1861,
as did Vint H. and the sister's husband, Capt. F. W. Kelly. The three
oldest brothers in the order named died in service. The father and the
sister died during the war. John L. was made prisoner and held in
Fort Delaware until July after the surrender. Samuel M., next to the
youngest of these brothers, joined the army as soon as old enough, and
was at the surrender at Appomattox C. H. The youngest, D. T., was
not old enough to enter service when the war ended. Vint H. was first
lieutenant Company C, 50th Virginia regiment. In 1863 he was forced
to resign on account of disability, and he was at home in Tazewell
county, badly broken down, at the time of the surrender. He is now a
farmer and stockraiser of Washington county, near Saltville.

THE TRIGG FAMILY.

The Trigg family of Virginia are descendants of Abraham Trigg (who
was the progenitor of the family in America), who emigrated from Cornwall,
England, very early in the 18th century—about 1710. Of his five
sons Abram, the eldest, was colonel of a regiment in the Revolutionary
army, and representative in Congress, 1797-1809. The second son,
Stephen, went to Kentucky as a member of the court of land commissioners,
in 1779. He, also, was colonel of a regiment, Revolutionary
war, and was killed in the battle of Blue Licks, while bravely leading his
men to a charge. His name is on the Frankfort monument, and Trigg
county, Kentucky, is named in his honor. John, third son of Abraham,
was a major in the Revolutionary army, an officer of artillery, was
present at the surrender of Cornwallis, and represented Virginia in the
5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Congresses of the United States. William, fourth
son, from whom the Virginia branch of the family descended, was also
a man of prominence and ability, as was the fifth son, Daniel. Tradition
tells us that the old generation of Triggs were "Cultivated people
of remarkably fine personal appearance, and endowed with social qualities
far above the average."

William, fourth son of Abraham, married Mary Johns, and their son
Daniel, through whom this branch of the family continues, was born
August 14, 1749. His first wife was Anne Smith, born February 20,
1755, and the record of their children is: Guy Smith, married Fanny
Jackson; John Johns, married Elsie King; Daniel; Mary; married
William King; Ann Smith; William, married Rachel Findlay; Stephen;
Abram, married Mary Mitchell; Elizabeth, married Calvin Morgan;
James, married Anne King; Joseph and Rhoda, twins, Joseph marrying
Elizabeth Findlay, Rhoda marrying Edward Campbell.

William, sixth of these children, and fourth son, removed in early
manhood from what is now known as Montgomery county, Virginia, to
Abingdon, Washington county. His removal, and that of the other
sons and daughters of Daniel Trigg and his first wife, Anne Smith, was
brought about by the marriage of the eldest daughter, Mary, to William
King, proprietor of the Kings Salt Works, this sister having filled
a mother's place to the younger children when they were deprived of
that parent.

William married (1806) Rachel Findlay, a niece of Mr. King, and
died August 4, 1813, leaving four sons; William King Trigg, Daniel
Trigg, Connally Findlay Trigg, Lilburn Henderson Trigg.

William King Trigg, the eldest of these sons, married Miss Susan
Hickman of Kentucky. He removed to Missouri (near Lexington) in
his early married life. His descendants, two sons, Frank Smith Trigg
and William King Trigg, survive him; his daughter intermarried with
the LeSeur and Sheilds families; his eldest son Daniel, who was killed
in the Confederate Army, also married a Miss Anna Sheilds and leaves
descendants.

Daniel, second son, born September 7, 1808, studied medicine, was
graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and became a physician
of prominence. He married Anna Munford Thompkins, March
14, 1838, the greatgranddaughter of Col. Wm. Byrd, of Westover
(see Volume I, Virginia and Virginians), and daughter of Alexander
Thompkins, of Lynchburg. Dr. Daniel Trigg departed this life February
2, 1853, leaving five children, as follows: Nannie Byrd, who married
James C. Greenway, of Abingdon, William King Trigg, who
entered the Confederate States Army, 11th Virginia regiment, and
died in Richmond, Virginia, July 21, 1862, of wounds received at battle
of Fraziers Farm, in the seven days fight before Richmond.

Daniel Trigg, who married Louisa Bowen Johnston, daughter of Hon.
J. W. Johnston; Connally Findlay Trigg, who married Pocahontas
Robertson, daughter of Hon. Wyndham Robertson; Thomas Preston
Trigg, who married Bettie Wilson White, daughter of Wm. Y. C. White.

Hon. Connally F. Trigg, third son of William Trigg, married Mary
Trigg Campbell, daughter of Edward Campbell of Halls Bottom. (See
vol. 1, of Virginia and Virginians.) He removed to Tennessee, was,
until his death and for many years previous, a prominent and respected
Judge of United States District Court, an able and impartial jurist, beloved
by all who knew him. He died in 1879; his descendants reside in
Texas.

Lilburn Henderson Trigg, the fourth son of William, married Barbara
Colquohoun. He was a lawyer, graduate of the University of Virginia.
He died in 1854. Two children survive him, Mrs. E. D. Myers, of
Richmond, and William Robertson Trigg, of Richmond.

ABRAM BYRD TRIGG

Was the eighth child of Daniel Trigg, and his first wife Anne Smith, the
record of the family found in the pages immediately preceding this. He
was born October 12, 1788, and his first wife was Margaret Findlay,
their children Guy F., Elizabeth F. and Mary Anne. He married secondly
Mary Mitchell, June 18, 1818, and their children were: Joseph E. C.,
now living, married Rachel Branch, who died July 22, 1888; John D. M.,
who died aged thirty-six years; Frances S., living; Rachel L., died aged
forty-three years; Sallie M., living; Windham R., living, married Nanme
Hurst, Abram Byrd, jr., married Sue P. White; Anna D., living;
Thomas K., living; married M. E. Jackson; James, died aged sixteen
years. Of these the four surviving sons were all in the Confederate service;
two receiving wounds, both belonging to the old original "Stonewall"
Division, surrendered at Appomattox.

Abram Byrd, jr., lost his life by remaining in the city of Greenville,
Mississippi, (of which he was the honored and beloved mayor), during
the fatal yellow fever epidemic of 1878. Though entreated to leave the
city, he remained to die for what he believed to be his duty to the home
of his adoption and to the unfortunate citizens whom it was in his
power thus to serve. He left one child, Mary Byrd.

Hon. Wyndham R. Trigg is Chancellor of the 4th District of Mississippi,
an able and prominent lawyer and popular judge. His children
are; Ellen G., Sue, Pelham, Byrd C., Mary Hurst and Thomas K.

The children of Joseph E. C. Trigg were three: Lilburn, married Sallie
Thompson, died July 24, 1888, leaving four children, P. Branch, died
November 12, 1881; and Abram Byrd, living.

HON. DANIEL TRIGG,

Born in Abingdon, March 12, 1843, is a son of Daniel Trigg, son of
William, son of Daniel (born August 14, 1749), son of William, son of
Abraham, who came about 1710 from Cornwall, England, to the colony
of Virginia, settling in Bedford county. His mother was Anna Munford
Tompkins, daughter of Alexander Tompkins, whose wife was Elizabeth,
daughter of Otway Byrd. Further record of the progenitors of the
Trigg family has already been given. The wife of Hon. Daniel Trigg,
whom he married at Abingdon, January 9, 1872, is Louisa Bowen

Johnston, born in Tazewell county, Virginia, January 17, 1846. Their
children are: Nannie Greenway, John W. Johnston, Daniel. Miriam
Hartford, Evelyn Byrd, George Benjamin and Anna Munford, all living
at home; and two deceased: Nicketti Floyd and Louisa Smith.

Mrs. Trigg is descended from families honorably identified with the
annals of Virginia. Her father is John Warfield Johnston, ex. Senator
United States from Virginia, son of Dr. John Warfield Johnston,
who was a son of Judge Peter Johnston. Her mother was Nicketti
Floyd, daughter of Gov. John Floyd, of Virginia.

The Hon. Daniel Trigg was acting midshipman, U. S. Naval Academy,
from 1858 to 1861. He resigned upon the secession of Virginia, and
entered the Virginia Provisional Navy, from which he was transferred
to the Confederate States Navy. In this he gave continuous and honorable
service, receiving rank of lieutenant, until captured in April, 1865.
He was held first in the Old Capitol Prison, at Washington, then at
Johnsons Island, Lake Erie, whence he was released after the close of
the war. Soon after he went to Chili, then at war with Spain, in the
service of that country, and was offered, but declined, a commission in
the Chilian Navy. Was present at the bombardment of Calao by the
Spanish fleet in the spring of 1866. He was a member of the Virginia
Legislature, sessions of 1883-4, and in 1880 was a member of
the National Democratic Convention nominating General Hancock. He
is now engaged in practice, as attorney-at-law, in Abingdon.

JUDGE GEORGE W. WARD JR.,

Is a son of George W. Ward, who was born in Culpeper county, Virginia,
and is living now at Winchester, Virginia. His mother, born in
Clarke county, Virginia, was Julia A., daughter of Oliver Funsten and
Margaret, his wife, who were natives of Ireland. She died in Winchester,
in January, 1884. Judge Ward was born near Winchester, July
31, 1847. He was a cadet of the Virginia Military Institute, 1864-5,
and took part in the battle of New Market, then was in the Confederate
Service to close of war.

He is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and of the University
of Virginia. After leaving the latter, he studied law at the
Winchester Law School (formerly Judge Tucker's), and practiced law
in Winchester, Virginia, and Springfield, Missouri. In 1874 moved to
Abingdon, Virginia, and there entered upon practice of law and as editor
of the Abingdon Virginian; afterwards started the South West Examiner.
In the canvass of 1883-4, was elected with Capt. Page McCarthy
by Executive Committee of the Democratic party of Virginia,
editor of its Campaign organ, The Democratic Campaign, published at

Lynchburg, Virginia. He was twice appointed a visitor of the Virginia
Military Institute. In 1880 he was elected county judge of Washington
county, but resigned in 1881. He was commonwealth's attorney of
the county, 1884-7, and in April, 1887, he resigned having been reelected
to the office he is still filling, judge of the county.

He was married at Knoxville, Tennessee, by Rev. Thomas W. Humes,
D. D., President of University of Tennessee, December 10, 1878, and
his wife is L. A. C. Preston, born in New York City. They have two
children: George and Rosalie Garnett. Mrs. Ward is the daughter of
Walter Preston, who married A. Garnett Peyton, and died in 1867.
Her mother, who was the daughter of William M. Peyton, of Roanoke,
Virginia, is now living in New York City.

JOHN W. WINGFIELD

Was born at Woodland, Albemarle county, Virginia, on June 28, 1831,
now a resident of Saltville, engaged in business there as book-keeper. At
Lynchburg, Virginia, Rev. John L. Pritchard officiating clergyman, he
married, December 21, 1855, Custine Cary Nelson, who was born at "Glen
Cary," Campbell county, Virginia, September 24, 1830. The record of
the children of their union is: Edgar Cary, born October 4, 1856, resides
now at Birmingham, Alabama, Mary Page, born March 26, 1858,
lives at Saltville, John Lawrence, born January 10, 1861, lives now at
Staunton; Charles Waller, born December 22, 1862, died October 16,
1863, Walter, born November 7, 1864, died November 1, 1865.

The genealogy of the families of Mr. and Mrs. Wingfield show them to
be the descendants of families of renown, the names of Wingfield, Nicholas,
Cary, and Nelson eminent in the annals of Virginia. Charles
Wingfield, father of John W., was born in Hanover county, Virginia, and
died in 1864, at Woodland, Albemarle county. He was a son of Thomas
Wingfield, who was born in Hanover county, and died there, and Ann
Wingfield, nee Davis, born in Hanover county, in 1754, died in that
county in 1831. The mother of John M. was Cary Ann Nicholas, born
at "Alta Vista," Albemarle county, Virginia, died in 1835 at Woodland.
She was a daughter of Valentine Nicholas, who was born in Albemarle
county, and died at "Oakland," that county, in 1834. Her mother
was a Miss Harris, born in Albemarle county in 1756, died at "Alta
Vista," that county, in 1820.

The maternal grandfather of Mr. Wingfield, Valentine Nicholas, was a
brother of Wilson Cary Nicholas, governor of Virginia, 1815-6 (see Volume
I, of this work). Valentine Nicholas was one of the wealthiest
proprietors in Albemarle county at one time, his estate valued at $1,500,000,
and his home, "Alta Vista," a palatial residence. He unfortunately

endorsed, to an unlimited extent, for a younger brother, who
was a reckless speculator in Kentucky, and the endorsements culminated
in his financial ruin, his magnificent estate and all his earthly possessions
being sold at vendue, even down to his gold snuff-box, presented
to him by an English friend. This sudden and complete ruin
wrecked the mind of his young wife, who died a maniac. Being yet in
the prime of life, of iron constitution, possessed of his integrity and a
man of ability, he rallied from this disaster, and accumulated a handsome
estate, and at his death left his children in comfortable circumstances.

The wife of John M. Wingfield is a daughter of Peter C. Nelson, born
in Hanover county, February 2, 1794, died in that county in 1852. He
was a son of Peter Nelson, who was born and died in Hanover county,
and who was an Episcopalian clergyman in early life, later a Baptist
minister. The wife of Peter Nelson was Ann Lawrence, born and died
in Hanover county. Mrs. Wingfield's mother was Sallie Cary, born in
Norfolk county, Virginia, November 6, 1806, died in Lynchburg,
November 11, 1848. Sally Cary was a daughter of Miles Cary, born in
Norfolk county, March 8, 1773, died in Lynchburg in 1850. His wife
was Elizabeth King, born in Norfolk county in 1778, died in Lynchburg
in 1855. Captain Miles Cary, maternal grandfather of Mrs. Wingfield,
was the eldest descendant of the Cary who came with two brothers to
the colony of Virginia from England. He had at his death the "Court
of Arms," of England, which is still in the possession of his descendants.
It is said there are many millions of dollars in the vaults of the Bank of
England belonging to the Cary family.

The earliest seated in Virginia of the Wingfield family was Edward M.
Wingfield, first President of the Council of Virginia (see pp. 8 and 14, of
Volume I). Of many other illustrious names connected with this family,
or of it, may be mentioned J. Richard Wingfield, cousin to John W.,
former senator to the Virginia legislature, now consul to Costa Rica,
residence at San Jose. Judge Gustavus Wingfield, of the circuit court of
Franklin county; Bishop Wingfield, of the Episcopal church, Virginia;
and Henry Clay, the orator and statesman of Kentucky. Of the same
family as the last-named was Henry Clay, of "The Slashes," Hanover
county, who was first cousin to Mr. Wingfield's father.

The so-called "Winfield" Scott, general U. S. A., was a Wingfield by
maternal descent. From some foolish freak or foolish pride he petitioned
the Legislature to permit him to drop the "g" from the name
his mother had given him, she being a Miss Wingfield, which request
was granted, he thus becoming "Winfield" Scott.

M. L. WITHERS: M. D.

Dr. Withers was born in Washington county, Virginia on January
30, 1850. He was educated at the University of Virginia, and took
his diploma in medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at
Baltimore, Maryland, since which time he has been settled in practice
in his native county, in and around Wallace Switch. He married here,
November 20, 1878, Annie S. Teeter, who was born at Mountain Field,
Washington county. They have two children: Mary Brandon and
Edwin Teeter.

Dr. Wither's father was M. W. Withers, Esq., who was connected with
Salmon Miles of Philadelphia, in the interest of the works of Martin
Luther. His mother was Mary A., daughter of John Bayliss, of Washington
county, Tennessee, and his mother's mother was Mary Hawkins,
of Hawkins county, Tennessee. In the late war three half-brothers of
Dr. Withers were in the Southern army: Salmon Withers, in a Virginia
regiment; James J. Williams, first lieutenant under Gen. Mosby, captured
on the Gettysburg campaign, and exchanged; and Thomas J.
Williams, serving in the Stonewall brigade, captured on Gettysburg
campaign, exchanged, serving for a time with Gen. John Morgan, then
with Gen. Joe Johnston until his surrender.

Mrs. Withers is a daughter of Dr. Edwin C. Teeters, who was a graduate
of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, served as surgeon in
the late war, and whose father was Jacob Teeter of Mt. Prospect, Virginia.
Her mother was Frances, daughter of Rev. J. Houston Wallace,
of Virginia and Tennessee, and whose mother was Esther Houston,
youngest child of John Houston who came to this country at the age
of nine years with his father from Ireland, in 1785. Of the same family
is Rev. Samuel Houston of Virginia, and Gen. Sam. Houston, of Texas.
The Speeces, Letchers and Earlys are also connected with this family.

SALMON M. WITHERS.

Michael Wilson Withers, father of Salmon M., was born in Gaston
county, North Carolina, in 1812, married in Washington county, Virginia,
in February, 1842, Ann Catherine Teeter (born 1817, died
1845), and died in this county, May 11, 1863. Salmon M. was born
in Washington county, January 30, 1843. Near Lexington, Rockbridge
county, Virginia, October 15, 1878, he married Lillias Payne
Smith, who was born at Leesburg, Virginia, September 17, 1850.
The children of this union were born: Nannie Payne, September 19,
1879; Robert Spotswood, July 18, 1881; Fannie Teeter, January
29, 1883; Henry Wilson, September 10, 1884; Alfred Miles, October

24, 1886. Rev. Henry R. Smith, father of Mrs. Withers, was born in
Otsego county, New York, and married Nannie B. Payne, near Lynchburg,
Virginia, May 3d, 1849.

Mr. Withers is treasurer of Washington county, to which office he
was elected in May, 1887. His occupation is farming; his residence,
Abingdon.

RUSH FLOYD YOUNG: M. D.

Dr. Young was born on his father's estate, at Mouth of Wilson,
Grayson county, Virginia, on May 4, 1855. He is a son of Col. Wiley
G. Young, and a grandson of William Young, whose father was Timothy
Young, a pioneer settler of Grayson county, coming from Eastern
Virginia. His mother is Elizabeth, daughter of Shadrach Greer,
of Grayson county, whose father, Moses Greer, came to that county
from Pittsylvania county. The father of Dr. Young was lieutenant-colonel
of Virginia militia before the war, and in the Confederate service,
1862-5, in the 8th Virginia Cavalry. Shadrach, elder brother of
Dr. Young, in service in the 53d Virginia regiment, died on Floyd's
retreat from Kanawha Falls. An uncle, Jonathan B. Young, 8th
Virginia Cavalry, was killed in Carter county, Tennessee, in 1864,
and most of the male relatives of Dr. Young, of military age, were
in service.

The wife of Dr. Young is Florence Beattie, daughter of Josiah B.
Cole. She was born on the Cole homestead, in Washington county,
and they were married there, June 5, 1884. The issue of the union
is three children: Neil, Agnes Josephine, and Fannie. Mrs. Young's
father was killed in the service of the South, in the late war, battle
of Morristown, Tennessee. He was a son of James Cole, of Smyth
county, the purchaser of the St. Clair Bottoms. Her mother is Sally,
daughter of Joseph Brown of Smyth county, whose father came from
Germany.

After the usual preliminary education, Dr. Young entered the University
of Virginia, and completed his medical studies in the University
of New York. He has now an extensive practice in and around
Loves Mills.

CITY OF RICHMOND

THOMAS LEE ALFRIEND,

Was born in Richmond, Virginia, February 19, 1843, and was educated
in that city. From 1859 to 1861 he clerked with Ludlam & Watson
and Shields & Sommerville. From 1861 to 1865 was in the Confederate
States army, private for two years, orderly sergeant the remaining two
years, was captured April 6, 1865, and sent to Point Lookout, and
held there until June 22, 1865. The next day he returned to Richmond,
and there he went into the insurance office of Thomas M. Alfriend &
Son as a clerk, the firm consisting of his father and elder brother (E. M.
Alfriend). In June, 1866, he became a member of this firm, and so remained
until, in October, 1879, he started his present business of insurance
agent in his own name.

Thomas M. Alfriend, father of Thomas Lee, was born in Petersburg,
Virginia, November 10, 1811, and died in Richmond, December 11,
1885. He was a son of Colin Alfriend, of Petersburg. The mother of
Thomas Lee was Mary Jane Eger, born in County Althone, Ireland,
died November 8, 1852, in Richmond.

In Richmond, July 2, 1868, Thomas Lee Alfriend married Eliza
Sanger Manson, who was born in Granville county, North Carolina.
They have four children: Mary B., Otis M., Sallie S. and Anna Lee,
and have buried one son, Thomas Manson, died July 28, 1870, aged
eleven months. Mr. and Mrs. Alfriend and their oldest child are members
of All Saints (Episcopal) Church, Richmond.

GENERAL EDGAR ALLAN.

The subject of this sketch was born in Birmingham, England, February
26, 1842. He attended parochial school in Birmingham in childhood,
but at the age of ten years went into the printing business. He
served five years as a compositor, attending night school. From fifteen
to nineteen years of age he traveled in the printing and wholesale paper
business. In 1863 he came to America, and at Detroit enlisted in Company
M, 7th Michigan Cavalry, Federal army, as private. During most
of his service he was on special detail, as clerk on courtmartial, or at
General Merritt's headquarters. He was wounded at Shepherdstown,
August 24, 1864, but served till the close of the war.

Making his home in Virginia, he studied law in Prince Edward county,
and was admitted to the Bar in December, 1867, beginning practice in

Prince Edward and adjoining counties. He was a member of the Constitutional
Convention of 1867-8, from Prince Edward and Appomattox
counties; was elected Commonwealth Attorney for Prince Edward in
1870, and continuously up to 1882, when he resigned on removing to
Richmond; was State senator from Prince Edward, Cumberland and
Amelia counties, 1873-77; was delegate-at-large to Republican National
Convention at Chicago in 1868, and voted for General Grant; was
Presidential Elector-at-Large in 1876. Since 1869 General Allan has
been connected with the Grand Army of the Republic, in 1885-6 was
commander of Phil. Kearney Post of Richmond; in 1886, at San Francisco,
was elected National Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief and presided
as Commander-in-Chief at the Centennial celebration of the adoption
of the American Constitution, in Philadelphia, in 1887. Since 1882 he
has been doing a large practice in the City of Richmond. He is an active
member of the Grace Street Baptist Church.

In Prince Edward county, Virginia, February 6, 1867, General Allan
married Mary Edna Land. The children of the union are four: Edith
Edna, married F. H. Crump of Richmond, Virginia, now resides in
Washington, D. C., Lola Land, Lottie Lillian, and Edgar, jr. Mrs.
Allan was born in Casey county, Kentucky, the daughter of William
and Elizabeth (Morton) Land. Her parents were born in Buckingham
county, Virginia, and both died in Kentucky in 1852.

CHAS. J. ANDERSON.

The subject of this sketch was born in Richmond, on August 12, 1848.
His father, son of John and Elenor Anderson, was born in Baltimore,
in 1823, and has lived in Richmond since his fifteenth year. His mother
was born in Baltimore, daughter of John and Eleanor Horne, granddaughter
of Lydia Jordan Jefferies and Col. Joseph Jefferies, of Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, who served through the war for American Independence:
great granddaughter of Richard Jefferies, who was one of three
brothers who left England to settle in the New World in the latter part
of the 17th century, and settled in Pennsylvania, the other two coming
to live in Virginia.

Charles J. Anderson, entered the Virginia Military Institute in March,
1864; served with the battalion of cadets in May, under Gen. John C.
Breckenridge, in the battle of New Market, and with the corps of cadets
and local defence troops till the evacuation of Richmond. He returned
to the Institute in 1866, graduating in 1869; since 1870 has been in
business in Richmond; in 1873 was a State commissioner to the Universal
Exposition in Vienna.

In 1871 he raised a company for the First Regiment, Virginia Volunteers,
and has served the regiment as an officer in all grades, from first

lieutenant to colonel, resigning the latter to take command of the First
Brigade, to which he was elected to succeed General Fitzhugh Lee.

General Anderson is a member of various Masonic bodies, among
others being a Knight Templar and a member of the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite.

GEN. RUFUS A. AYERS,

Attorney-General of the State of Virginia, was born in Bedford county,
Virginia, May 20, 1849. He was educated in the Goodson Academy,
Bristol, Virginia, until the age of twelve, when the war began, and the
school was closed. Although under age, he ran away from home and entered
the army, and remained for some months in the scouting service
in East Tennessee. After the war he engaged for a time in agricultural
pursuits, and in merchandising in Eastern Kentucky, beginning business
at Estillville, Virginia, at the age of nineteen. He studied law in
the office of H. S. Kane, Esq., Estillville, and was admitted to the Bar
in June, 1872, practicing in Southwest Virginia up to his election as
Attorney-General, at the November election, 1885.

In May, 1875, he was elected commonwealth attorney for Scott
county, serving from July 1, 1875 to July 1, 1879; was reading clerk
of the House of Delegates, sessions of 1875-6, 1876-7, 1877-8, and
1878-9; was appointed by President Hayes supervisor of census for the
5th district of Virginia, in 1880, under the act which required such appointments
to be made without reference to politics, Dr. R. G. Cabell
being appointed at the same time. General Ayers has been very active
in furthering the building of the South Atlantic and Ohio railroad, and
other kindred business enterprises in Southwest Virginia. During his
term as Attorney-General, he was imprisoned for contempt, in refusing
to respect an injunction granted by Judge Bond, of the Circuit Court of
the United States, and was discharged by the Supreme Court of the
United States on writ of habeas corpus, the trial of which excited the
attention of citizens in every State in the Union, because of its bearing
upon the rights of the State, and is reported in the 123d United States
Supreme Court reports. The General Assembly adopted a joint resolution
directing the Governor to transmit to General Ayers the thanks of
the people of Virginia for going to jail in defense of the State.

M. J. Ayers, father of General Ayers, born in Bedford county,
died May 10, 1857, aged forty-two years, was a son of Elijah Ayers, of
Bedford county, who was a son of John Ayers. Mrs. Susan L. Ayers,
the General's mother, was a Wingfield of Bedford county; she is now living
in Bristol, Tennessee, aged seventy-four years. The wife of General
Ayers, born in Scott county, Virginia, to whom he was married in Estillville,
June 8, 1870, is Victoria L., daughter of Henry A. Morrison. Her

mother, whose maiden name was Kane, died in 1866. Her father, living
now in Estillville, was born in Sullivan county, Tennessee, a son of
George Morrison, of that county, who was a son of Peter Morrison,
who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and took part in the battle
of Kings Mountain. General and Mrs. Ayers have three children, Kate
L., and Harry J. and James B, and have buried two: Maggie L., died
July 14, 1887, aged twelve years; Rufus W. J., died in 1883, aged five
months. General Ayers is a Mason.

J. BELL BIGGER,

Born in the city of Richmond, March 3, 1829, was educated in that
city. In 1852 he was appointed clerk to Capt. Thomas Crabbe of the
U. S. war steamer San Jacinto, and sailed in her on her first trip to the
Mediterranean; was afterwards clerk to Commodore Morgan of the U.
S. war flag-ship Independence, and returned on her from Gibralter. In
1855 he was elected clerk of the committees of finance and of claims,
of the House of Delegates, and continued in that service until 1865.
In 1860 was appointed by Governor Wise special messenger to obtain
election returns from Gilmer county; was secretary of the Southern
Rights Association prior to the war; was elected clerk of the auditing
board of Virginia, which Board audited and settled all war expenses
of Virginia prior to her joining the Confederacy; was commissioned
lieutenant in the Letcher Battery, but, owing to physical disability,
was unable for field service. In 1865, on December 4th, he was
elected clerk of the House of Delegates, and served until 1879, with
two interruptions caused by his being twice removed by military authorities.
In December, 1883, was again elected to this office, and is
the present incumbent, clerk of the House of Delegates and keeper of
the Rolls of Virginia.

Mr. Bigger also served as secretary of the Virginia Electoral college
in 1880, and again in 1884, and was the messenger to carry the vote
for Hancock and English and Cleveland and Hendricks respectively to
Washington.

Thomas B. Bigger, his father, was born in Prince Edward county,
Virginia, February 22, 1795. In 1812 he enlisted in Capt. Richard McRae's
company, known as the "Petersburg Volunteers." This company
marched from Richmond city to Detroit, Michigan, and was at the
siege of Fort Meigs, where Private Bigger was cut off from his command
by Indians, and escaped with his life with great difficulty. He
declined promotion, but shared all the fortunes of the company, which
Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison specially commended in general orders, for
"their conduct on the field and example in the camp." Thomas B.

Bigger was later captain of the "Richmond Light Infantry Blues," and
afterwards colonel of a military organization. In 1844 he was appointed
postmaster of the city of Richmond by President Polk, and
continued in that office more than eighteen years. In 1863 he was
elected and served as a member of the House of Delegates from Richmond
city. After the war, until 1880, he was clerk in the office of the
Auditor of Public Accounts. He died on May 5, 1880. His wife,
mother of J. Bell, was Elizabeth Meredith Russell, born in New Kent
county, Virginia, in 1807, died in Richmond in 1875.

In Essex county, Virginia, August 16, 1853, J. Bell Bigger married
Annie B. Muse, who was born in that county. Her parents were born
in Westmoreland county, Virginia, Samuel Muse and Elizabeth Y.
(Banks) Muse, her father served in the war of 1812 with rank of major.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Bigger number twelve, born in the order
named: Lizzie M. (deceased); Lucy A., Peggie S., Carrie R., Thos. H.,
John B. and Mary A. twins, Elvira M. (deceased), Samuel W., Hunter
McGuire, Sallie M.

CHARLES EDWARD BOLLING.

The subject of this sketch was born at Bolling Island, Goochland
county, Virginia, on May 4, 1852. He was educated at Taylors Creek
Academy, Hanover county, Virginia, by Prof. Charles Morris, M. A.,
and at the University of Virginia. At the age of seventeen, he went into
mining engineering, and in 1871 was engaged as a civil engineer on the
Chesapeake & Ohio R. R., remaining with this road until 1873, employed
most of the time as an assistant engineer in the construction of
the Church Hill tunnel, Richmond. In February, 1873, he was appointed
assistant engineer to the city engineer of Richmond, and in that
position he remained until, in July, 1885, he was elected to the office
he is now filling, superintendent of the Richmond city water works.

In December, 1877, Mr. Bolling married Imogen Warwick of Richmond.
He is a son of Thomas Bolling, who was born at Bolling Hall,
Goochland county, February 5, 1807, living now in Richmond. Thomas
Bolling was son of William Bolling, of Bolling Hall and Mary Randolph
of Curls Neck, Virginia. Wm. Bolling was son of Thomas Bolling and
Bettie Gay of Cobbs, Virginia.

THE BOSHER FAMILY.

The first Bosher of whom anything is known was Leonard Bosher, a
Baptist minister of London, England, who wrote the first treatise on
"Liberty of Conscience," in 1614. Very little is known of him beyond
what is in his treatise. The first Bosher of whom anything is known

by the present generation was Charles Bosher, who came to this country
from England as a teacher in the old Wormley family, between 1730
and 1740, and settled in King William county, Virginia. He married
a Miss Edwards, from whom descended Charles Bosher, who left six
children, viz.: William, who left no children; Lemuel, left John C.,
Thomas, left children; Frances, married a Mr. Abrams; Mary, married
a Mr. Walker; and Gideon.

Gideon was the pioneer of the stage lines through Virginia and the
Carolinas. His first wife was a Miss Hannah Whitlock, and by her
eight children were born, viz.: (1) John, married a Miss Bridges; was
a builder, and was contractor for the old City Hall, Bosher's Dam (up
on James river), the old Shockoe Warehouse, and other public buildings,
and was also prominent in the city government. His wife was
burned in the old theatre in 1811, the site of the present Monumental
Episcopal church; he left one daughter, who married Ellis Brown. (2)
Frances Ann, married William Wingo. (3) Charles, carriage manufacturer
(1806), left no children. (4) Thomas, one daughter, Eliza D.,
who married George W. Pemberton. (5) Gideon, jr., one daughter who
married Wm. Burke. (6) George, married Miss Ellett. (7) William,
builder, whose work is still a monument to him in some of the oldest
houses in Richmond, married Gabriella Lipscombe, of King William
county, Virginia; left children, eight, namely: i. William P., a builder;
ii. Martha A., married W. W. Dabney; iii. Mary J., married Charles H.
Smoot; iv. Margaret R., not married; v. George L., married Miss Hardewicke,
of Georgia; vi. Ella H., married John D. Scott, of Caroline
county, Virginia; vii. Charles M., married Mary H. Bosher; viii. Thomas
J., married Fannie A. Jones. (8) James, married Ann H. Hopkins, of New
Kent county, Virginia; succeeded Charles Bosher in 1814 in the carriage
business now carried on by R. H. Bosher's Sons, and was also founder
of the Richmond Fire Association, and its president; also director in
the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac R. R. Co., his children were:
i. John H., married (1) Emily E. Dill; (2) Mary A. Ball. ii. Georgiana
H., married George H. Tompkins; iii. Ann Abigail, married Lewis D.
Crenshaw; iv. James G., married Mary B. Dabney; v. Charles H., married
Mary C. Ingram; vi. Hannah W., married John Petty of Norfolk,
Virginia; vii. Mary F., married Daniel Ratcliffe.

Gideon Bosher married the second time a Mrs. Fox, who was a Miss
Drewry of King William county; homestead was Brandywine. Widow
Fox had four children by her first husband, Drewry, Mary, Sarah Ann
and John Fox. The result of the union of Gideon Bosher with Widow
Fox was five children: Robert H., Sophia, who married Wm. H. Davis,
of Richmond, Virginia; Elizabeth, married Cornelius Dabney, of New
Kent county, Virginia; Isabella, died in infancy; Emily, born after

her father's death, married Dr. Chas. H. Judson of Greenville, South
Carolina.

Robert H. Bosher, only son of the second marriage of Gideon Bosher,
married Elizabeth B., daughter of Johnson C. and Patsy Lipscombe
Eubank, and by this union were eight children, viz.: James, died in
infancy, Robert S., married Mattie Cox of Richmond; Edw. J., married
Laura M. Starke of Richmond; Lucy H., married Chas. F. Janney of
Columbia, South Carolina; Sophie J., not married; Wm. J., not married;
Charles G., married Kate L. Langley of Norfolk, Virginia; Dr.
Lewis C., not married.

R. H. Bosher moved to Richmond from King William county in 1830,
and served an apprenticeship in the carriage factory of his half-brother,
James Bosher. In 1843 he became a partner in the business. In 1852
he assumed entire control of it, his brother retiring, and he carried on
the business successfully until his death, on November 21, 1885. He
was prominent in the business community, a consistent member of the
First Baptist church, and deacon in the same for many years; for more
than twenty years superintendent of the Sabbath-school. After his
death his sons, Edw. J. and Charles G. Bosher succeeded to the business
under the firm name of R. H. Bosher's Sons. This is the oldest
business of the kind in the Southern States, having been established
in 1814.

Edw. J. Bosher was educated in Richmond, and left school to enter
the Confederate States army in the Richmond Howitzers, with which he
served until the surrender at Appomattox. Returning to Richmond he
went into his father's establishment. At Richmond, December 24, 1868,
he married Laura M., daughter of Thomas J. and Sarah Hutchinson
Starke. They have two children, J. S. and E. W. Bosher.

Charles G. Bosher, was born in Richmond, July 5, 1857, was educated
at the Richmond High School, and went into his father's establishment
in 1873. On October 12, 1887, he married Kate L., daughter of
Charles H. and Portia Deming Langley, of Norfolk, Virginia.

DR. LEWIS C. BOSHER

Was born in the city of Richmond, February 17, 1860. He attended
Richmond College, and graduated from the Medical College of Virginia
in 1883. He at once commenced practice, in which he has continued to
date, in Richmond. Since August, 1888, he has been Professor of Anatomy,
Medical College of Virginia; has been deputy coroner of Richmond
for the last two years; and is surgeon, with rank of major, staff of 1st
Artillery Battalion, Virginia Troops. His parents were Robert H. and
Elizabeth B. Bosher, the family record given in the sketch preceding this.

THOS. SEDDON BRUCE,

President of the Vulcan Iron Company of Richmond, Virginia, was
born in Albemarle county, Virginia, on July 23, 1849. He is a son of
Charles and Sally Bruce, now living in Charlotte county, Virginia. His
father was born in Halifax county, this State, the son of James Bruce;
his mother is a daughter of Thomas Seddon of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
His wife is Mary A., daughter of Gen. Joseph B. Anderson, of
Richmond, in which city she was born. Her father is a Virginian, by
birth and descent, born in Botetourt county. Her mother, whose
maiden name was S. E. Archer, died in 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce were
married in Richmond, on April 7, 1875, and have five children, born in
the order named: Sallie A., Charles, jr., Joseph R. A., Seddon, Kathleen
A.

Until Mr. Bruce was sixteen years of age, he was educated at his
home in Charlotte county. At that age he attended school at Greenwood,
Albemarle county, then the University of Virginia, completing
his studies abroad, at the University of Berlin, Prussia. He came to
Richmond in 1873, and engaged in the wholesale grocery business. In
1878 he went into the iron business in the works of which he is now
president. Philip Alexander Bruce, his brother, has been associated
with him for two years, and is secretary and treasurer of the company.

DR. JOHN LEE BUCHANAN.

John Lee Buchanan was born in Smyth county, Virginia, June 19,
1831, the son of Patrick C. Buchanan and his wife Margaret A., nee
Graham. Patrick C. Buchanan, born in Smyth county in October, 1799,
died April, 1872, was a son of John Buchanan, of Scotch descent. His
widow survives him, living still in Smyth county. She was born in
Wythe county, Virginia, in March, 1808, the daughter of Samuel and
Rachel (Graham) Graham.

John Lee Buchanan was educated at Emory and Henry College,
graduating in 1856. Until 1878 he was one of the faculty of that college,
except for the years of the war when he served the Confederate
States in the mining department. In 1878-9 he was professor of Latin
at the Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; in 1879 was elected
president of Emory and Henry College, and afterward of the Virginia
Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1880. Subsequently he was
joint principal of the Martha Washington College, Virginia, until December,
1886, at which date he was elected to his present position, Superintendent
of Public Instruction, for the term of four years. He is a member
of the M. E. Church (South), and of the Masonic fraternity.

In Washington county, Virginia, August 4, 1859, Dr. Buchanan
married Frances E. Wiley, born in that county. Their children were born
in the order named: Lillian W., died in October, 1863; Willie P.; Maggie
L., married Charles M. Yeates, of the U. S. geological survey;
Lizzie H., Horace Graham, Raymond W., John Lee, jr., Grace P., Frank
E. Mrs. Buchanan is a daughter of Dr. E. E. Wiley, who was born in Boston,
Massachusetts, in October, 1814, and has been a citizen of Washington
county, Virginia, for the past fifty years, during the larger part
of this period connected with Emory and Henry College as professor
and president, and still connected with that institution. He was a son
of Rev. Ephraim Wiley, of the Methodist church. Her mother, now deceased,
was Elizabeth Hammond, born in Middletown, Connecticut, in
1814.

HON. RICHARD HENRY CARDWELL.

The subject of this sketch was born at Madison, North Carolina, on
August 1, 1846. He was educated in Rockingham county, that State,
beginning at Madison Academy, then in the Beulah Male Institute,
which he quitted to enter the Army of the Confederacy, as a member of
the North Carolina Junior Reserves. This was in March, 1864, and in
May following he took a transfer to the Army of Northern Virginia,
serving in Virginia until the close of the war. Returning to Rockingham
county, North Carolina, Mr. Cardwell engaged in agricultural pursuits,
and in the tobacco trade until 1869. In that year he moved to
Hanover county, Virginia, and read law in the office of Winn & Haw, in
the city of Richmond. He was admitted to the Bar in the spring of
1874, opened an office in Richmond, and has been engaged in practice
there ever since, with residence at Hanover C. H. In 1884 he was
elected by the Legislature, and commissioned, judge of the county court
of Hanover county, but declined to qualify. He has been a member of
the House of Delegates of Virginia from Hanover county since 1881,
and is the present Speaker of that body. In 1884 he was Elector on the
Democratic ticket.

The father of Mr. Cardwell was Richard P. Cardwell, died October 3d,
1846, aged about thirty-five years, a son of Richard Cardwell, of Rockingham
county, North Carolina. His wife, mother of Richard H., was
Elizabeth M., daughter of Nickolas Dalton, of Rockingham county,
North Carolina. She died in 1864, aged fifty-three years. In that
county, in February, 1865, Richard H. Cardwell married Kate Howard,
who was born in Richmond, Virginia. C. Howard, their first-born child,
died at the age of ten years. They have six children, born in the order
named: William D., Lucy Crump, Lizzie Dalton, Charles P., Katie, Julia.
Mrs. Cardwell is a daughter of Edward C. Howard, who was born in the

city of Richmond, and was city clerk of Richmond from the creation of
the office in 1866 until his death in 1886. Mr. and Mrs. Cardwell are
members of the Presbyterian church at Ashland, Virginia, and he is a
Ruling Elder in the church. He is also a member of the Masonic fraterity;
of the American Legion of Honor; of the Royal Arcanum, and
of the Knights of Honor.

COLONEL JOHN B. CARY.

Colonel Cary was born in Hampton, Virginia, in 1819, a son of Col.
Gill A. Cary, of Hampton, who was born March 18, 1783, and died
in March, 1843; son of John Cary of Back River, Elizabeth City county,
Virginia, born 1745, died 1795; son of Miles Cary, "The Elder," owner
of "Peartree Hall," Warwick county, Virginia, who died in 1766; son
of Miles Cary who died in 1724, who was a grandson of Miles Cary,
"The Emigrant," who came to Virginia from Bristol, England, in 1640,
and died in Warwick county, Virginia, 1667. His mother was Sarah E.
S., daughter of Major James Baytop, of Gloucester county, Virginia
born September 18, 1789, died in April, 1879. He was educated at
Hampton Academy, and at William and Mary College, graduating
from that time honored institution July 4, 1839. For five years he
taught school, then was seventeen years principal of Hampton Academy,
which was disbanded April, 1861, on the secession of the State of Virginia.

He entered the Confederate States' service as Major of Virginia Volunteers;
was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel after the fight at Bethel,
and assigned to the 32nd Virginia Regiment was subsequently appointed
Assistant Adjutant and Inspector-General at the request of Gen. John
B. Magruder, and assigned to duty on his staff, serving through the
Peninsular Campaign, and the Seven Days' Fights around Richmond.
After Gen. Magruder's transfer to the Trans-Mississippi Department,
Col. Cary was transferred to the Paymaster's Department, in which he
served until the close of the war, on duty in Richmond.

After the evacuation of Richmond, and the surrender at Appomatox
C. H., he returned to Richmond, and was paroled April 24, 1865. He
farmed for one year: then in February, 1866, was elected General Agent
of the Virginia Penitentiary. He went into business also, as general
commission merchant, with the late W. A. Armistead, of the firm of
Armistead, Rice Cary & Co., later Armistead & Cary.

Colonel Cary was removed from his official position by the Commander
of Military District No. 1, December 24, 1868. In January, 1869,
he entered the Insurance business as General Agent of the Piedmont
Life Insurance Co. after a few months, he went to New York, as a member
of the firm of Morriss & Cary, but soon accepted an appointment

as General Agent of the Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Co.,
serving as such nearly two years. He was then for several years associated
with Gen. Harry Heth, as General Agent and Manager of the
Virginia Department of the Life Association of America, of which he
subsequently became sole manager, resigning this position at the close
of 1887. In January, 1878, he was appointed General Agent for Virginia
of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Milwaukee;
and in 1883, with his son (T. A. Cary,) under the firm name of John B.
Cary & Son, was appointed to the position they still hold as General
Agents of this Company for Virginia and North Carolina.

Colonel Cary served as Treasurer and Superintendent of the Democratic
City Committee, of Richmond, Virginia, for about six years, to
July, 1886, when he was appointed Superintendent of Schools for the
City of Richmond, which position he resigned in February, 1889. Himself
and family are members of the Seventh Street Christian Church,
Richmond.

At Seaford, Matthews county, Virginia, in January, 1844, he married
Columbia H. Hudgins, of that county. The record of their children is:
Gilliena, unmarried; John B., jr., died in August, 1861, aged thirteen
years, Lizzie E., married Wm. T. Daniel, of Richmond, Elfie M., married
John L. White, of Caroline county, Virginia, Sallie Campbell, married
Louis P. Knowles, of Pensacola, Florida; T. Archibald, married Maria
B. Abert, of Columbus, Mississippi.

JOHN KERR CHILDREY

The Childrey family was founded in Virginia in the eighteenth century.
William Childrey, of Henrico county, was the father of John Childrey,
who was the father of Stephen Childrey. Stephen Childrey, born in Henrico
county, died at age of seventy-three years, married Susan,
daughter of George Fletcher. She is now dead. Their son, John Kerr,
was born in the city of Richmond in 1832. In this city, in 1857, he
married Kate Tinsley Lyon, daughter of Allen M. Lyon, formerly of
Richmond, now deceased, and Amoret (Tinsley) Lyon. The children of
this marriage are eight: Kate Lewis, Maggie Carroll, Allen Lyon, Wm.
Irvin, Amoret, John K., Charles M., Indie Lyon.

John Kerr Childrey went to school in Henrico county, and at the Virginia
Mechanics Institute, Richmond. In 1849 he went into the tobacco
business. Through the years of the civil war he was a member of the
Governor's Mounted Guard, and served in the naval department, C. S.
A. At the close of the war he returned to the tobacco business, in which
he was engaged until 1888. In that year he was elected treasurer of the
City of Richmond, the duties of which office he is still ably discharging.

Mr. Childrey is a member of the Baptist church, and his wife is a member
of the Methodist church.

ARTHUR B. CLARKE,

President of the Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works Company, of Richmond,
was born in that city, on December 29, 1854. In that city,
November 17, 1885, he married Lelia T. Berry, who was born in Richmond.
They have one daughter, Teresa Louise. The father of Mr.
Clarke is Augustus B. Clarke, of Richmond, born in 1818, the son of
John Salle Clarke, who was an officer of the Revolutionary army, and
descendent from French Huguenot ancestors who settled in Virginia in
colonial days. His mother, born in Henrico county in 1824, is Emma
Bullington Clarke, the daughter of Jesse F. Keesee, sheriff of Henrico
county before the war, since collector of State taxes for the city of
Richmond. The wife of Mr. Clarke is a daughter of David H. and
Martha A. (Hill) Berry, now of Richmond. Her mother was born in
Richmond, her father in Chesterfield county, Virginia. He has been
living in Richmond for fifty years, and has been superintendent of the
Gallego flour mills for over forty years.

Arthur B. Clarke was educated in Richmond, at the school of Thos.
H. Norwood in the old St. John Churchyard, and the University school
of John M. Strother. He was clerk in a coal office in 1869, and since
1872 has been with the company of which he is now president. Himself
and wife are members of the First Baptist church, Richmond.

CAPT. JOHN ARCHER COKE.

The founder of the Coke family in Virginia was John Coke who came
from Derbyshire, England, in 1724, and settled in Williamsburg, where
the family has ever since had worthy representation (See copy of "Coke
History," Virginia State Library.) The subject of the present sketch
was born in Williamsburg, July 14, 1842, a son of John Coke, who was
born in Williamsburg in 1797, and died in April, 1865, and who was a
son of John Coke, who was a son of the founder of the family. The
mother of John Archer Coke, was Eliza Hankins, born in James City
county, about the year 1800, died about 1868, a daughter of Archer
Hankins, presiding justice of James City county for many years.

John Archer Coke was educated at William and Mary College, where
he studied law, and was graduated in Academic department in 1860.
In April, 1861, he entered the Confederate States Army, a lieutenant in
the "Lee Artillery." At the reorganization of the battery in 1862, he
was elected captain of the same, was wounded slightly in "Dahlgren's
Raid" around Richmond; served with the Army of Northern Virginia

until about 1864, then was assigned to duty in Richmond until the
close of the war.

In September, 1865, he commenced the practice of law in Richmond,
and has continued in that profession since that time. He married, in
Mecklenburg county, Virginia, April 17, 1867, Emma Overbey, of that
county. They have two children, Elise and John Archer, and have
buried two: Robert P. and Emma Sacheverall Mrs. Coke is a daughter
of Robert Y. Overbey, who was born in Mecklenburg county in 1796,
and died in 1872. Her mother was Mary Pool, born in the same county
in 1800, died in 1886.

GEN. JOHN R. COOKE

Was born a soldier, at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, the son of Gen. P.
St. George Cooke, U. S. A. His first instruction in books was given by
a soldier of the 1st Dragoons, U. S. A., at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
He took a course of study in the Missouri University, at Columbia;
attended the school taught by Benjamin Hallowell, at Alexandria, Virginia,
later was a student in the Lawrence Scientific School connected
with Harvard University, Cambridge. He was educated for the profession
of civil engineer, and for a year after the completion of his studies
followed that profession. Then, in 1855, he was appointed second
lieutenant in the 8th U. S. Infantry, and served in Texas, New Mexico
and Arizona. He came from Arizona to Missouri on leave of absence in
1861, and when the war broke out resigned from the United States
Army and came to Virginia.

He entered the Confederate States army as first lieutenant and was
ordered to report to General Holmes at Fredericksburg, on whose staff
he served until after battle of First Manassas. In August, 1861, he
raised a battery of artillery in Fredericksburg. In February, 1862,
was promoted major of artillery, and sent with General Holmes as his
chief of artillery into the Department of North Carolina. In April,
1862, at the reorganization of the army he was elected colonel of the
27th North Carolina Infantry regiment. He was ordered with his regiment
into Virginia, and reached the field in time to be present in battle
of Seven Pines. The regiment was assigned to Ripley's brigade, Army
of Northern Virginia. In November, 1862, after Sharpsburg battle, he
was promoted brigadier-general, with which rank he served until the
surrender at Appomattox. General Cooke was slightly wounded at
Sharpsburg, severely at Fredericksburg (December 13, 1862), at Bristoe
(leg broken), and at near Spotsylvania C. H., in the Wilderness campaign
of 1864. The wound at Fredericksburg was received while General
Cooke, in command of Cooke's North Carolina Brigade in the
"sunken road" at the foot of "Marye's Heights" was holding the

"Stonewall," together with Cobb's brigade, the two brigades fighting
mingled together.

From the field at Appomattox General Cooke went to Charlottsville,
Virginia, where his wife was boarding, and in the fall of 1865 came to
Richmond, where he has since resided. He was for a time clerk in the
house of French & Crenshaw, then in various employments until, in
1876, he engaged on his own account in merchandising. He was prominent
in the founding of the Soldiers Home, at Richmond, and has been
one of its active and efficient managers, is at present President Board
of Directors of the Virginia Penitentiary.

His father, Gen. Phillip St. George Cooke, was born in Frederick county,
Virginia, son of Dr. Cooke, and married Rachel Hertzog. He is now on
the retired list, U. S. A., and they reside in Detroit, Michigan. The wife
of Gen. John R. Cooke, whom he married in Richmond, in January,
1864, is Nannie G., daughter of Dr. Wm. F. Patton, of Norfolk, Virginia,
formerly surgeon U. S. Navy. Her mother was a Miss Sheppard,
of Orange county, Virginia. General and Mrs. Cooke have eight children,
born in the order named: John R., jr., Farlie P., Ellen M., P. St.
George, Rachel, Hallie S., Nannie G., and Stuart.

JOHN B. CRENSHAW.

In early colonial days there came to Virginia from Wales, four brothers
named Crenshaw. One of these was David Crenshaw, father of John
Crenshaw, of Hanover county, Virginia, who was the father of Nathaniel
C. Crenshaw, who served in the war of 1812, and was a minister, and
who was the father of John B., subject of this sketch. John B. Crenshaw
was born in Henrico county. Virginia, on May 2, 1820. He was reared
in the Quaker faith, and has been a minister of the Quaker church for
the past forty years. He was educated in Richmond, and at Haverford
College, near Philadelphia. Until after the war he followed farming.
He has served as city engineer and as representative from Henrico county
in the Virginia Legislature. Since 1876 he has been in the sewing
machine business.

Mr. Crenshaw has been twice married. His first wife was Rachel Hoge,
whom he married in September, 1844, and who died in November, 1858,
leaving him five children: Nathaniel B., Deborah A., Margaret E., James
H. and Eliza C. Secondly, in Philadelphia, June 5, 1860, he married
Judith A. Willetts, and their children are two daughters, Isabella and
Sarah W.

J. D. CRUMP,

Wholesale dealer in boots and shoes in Richmond city, was born in
that city, on August 23, 1848. In Richmond, November 1, 1875, he
married Nannie Armistead, also born in Richmond. The issue of the
union was three children, born in the order named: Armistead C., Wilbur
P. and Lora.

WILLIAM H. CULLINGWORTH

Was born in the city of Richmond, on October 23, 1836, a son of William
Cullingworth, who was a son of John Cullingworth of England,
and born in that country. At the age of fourteen years William Cullingworth
emigrated to this country. In 1832 he married Mary E.
Whitlock, who was born in Hanover county, Virginia, near Pole Green,
and is now living in Richmond at the age of eighty-three years. William
Cullingworth was a dealer in live-stock. He died in 1862, aged
fifty-eight years.

William H. finished his education by three years attendance, 1851-4,
at Franklin Minor's Ridgeway Institute, Albemarle county. He was
two years in the tobacco house of Wm. Anderson, jr., Richmond, then
in the same business with Jas. H. Grant until the beginning of the war.
He entered the army in Company G, 1st Virginia regiment, with which
he served until the close of the war. Returning to Richmond he remained
out of any regular business until he entered the tobacco manufactory
of S. W. Venable at Petersburg, Virginia. He remained with
him one year, then returned to Richmond, entering the house of Cullingworth
& Ellison, with whom he remained ten years. On May 13,
1885, he was appointed postmaster of the City of Richmond, the appointment
confirmed June 18th.

Mr. Cullingworth is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Royal Arch Chapter,
Knights Templar and the Schrine; a member of the Knights of
Honor, and of the Westmoreland Club, of Richmond.

HON. JAMES H. DOOLEY.

The subject of this sketch was born in the city of Richmond, on January
17, 1841: He attended school in Richmond, then entered Georgetown
College, D. C., where he was graduated on July 1, 1860. At the beginning
of the war he entered as a private the regiment of which his father
was major, the 1st Virginia Infantry, and served with it until wounded
and captured at Williamsburg. He was taken to Rip Raps and held
there three months. Exchanged at Varina in August, 1862, and disabled
for field service by his wound (in the right wrist) he was appointed

lieutenant of ordinance, in the Reserve Corps at Richmond, and so
served until the close of the war.

Immediately after, he engaged in the practice of law. In the fall of
1871 he was elected to the Legislature, where he served six successive
years, declining a re-election. In 1886 he was elected second vice-president
of the Richmond & Danville R. R. Co., and given charge of the law
department one year. He continues to practice in Richmond. At Staunton,
Virginia, September 11, 1869, he married Sallie May, who was
born in Lunenberg county, Virginia.

Major John Dooley, father of James H., was Major of the 1st Virginia
regiment, C.S.A., for one year, and was afterwards elected Captain of the
Ambulance Corps until the close of the war. John, brother of James,
was Captain of Company C, that regiment, until wounded and taken
prisoner at Gettysburg. He was held at Johnson's Island, Lake Erie,
from that time till the close of the war. Major John Dooley was born
in Limerick, Ireland, the son of John Dooley, Esq. He married Sarah
Dooley, who survives him, living now in Richmond. His death occurred
in that city in February, 1868, in his fifty-eighth year.

ANDREW LEWIS ELLETT.

Andrew Lewis, son of James B. Ellett, of King William county, Virginia,
was born in that county, July 19, 1822. His father, born in
King William county, died in August, 1856, aged sixty-eight years, was
a son of Pleasant D. Ellett, of King William county. His mother, now
deceased, was Sallie, daughter of George Drewry, Esq. At St. Paul's
church, Richmond, November 25, 1851, Andrew L. Ellett married Nannie
T. Tazewell, and their children are: Ida, now the wife of Frank D.
Stegar, of Richmond, Nannie T., now the wife of Cannon H. Fleming,
of Goochland county, Virginia, Tazewell and Andrew L., jr. Mrs. Ellett
was born in Richmond, and is a daughter of Dr. William Tazewell, now
deceased, and his wife, Mary P. who was a Bolling, descendant of the
Virginia Bolling family founded by Robert Bolling, who married first
a descendant of Pocahontas, and secondly Mary Steeth.

Mr. Ellett attended school in his native county until nineteen years of
age. On January 1, 1842, he began business as clerk for J. M. & W.
Willis, grocers, with whom he remained eighteen months, was next with
John N. Gordon, grocer, fifteen months, then, until 1848, with London,
Willingham & Drewry, wholesale dry goods. He then went into
the same business for himself, a member of the firm of Willingham &
Ellett, in which he continued until 1865. From 1865 to 1871 he was
conducting a general commission business, then until 1884 in the dry
goods business again. In 1885 he was appointed to the office he is now
filling, collector of internal revenue in Richmond.

HON. JAMES TAYLOR ELLYSON.

James Taylor, son of Henry K. Ellyson, was born in the city of Richmond,
on May 20, 1847. His mother was Elizabeth P., daughter of
Luther Barnes, born in Philadelphia, March 5, 1814, died July 27,
1886. The Ellysons have been residents of Virginia for several generations.
Henry K. Ellyson, born in Richmond, July 31, 1823, was a
son of Onan Ellyson, who was a son of William Ellyson. At Howardsville,
Albemarle county, Virginia, December 2, 1869, Jas Taylor Ellyson
married Lora E. Hotchkiss, who was born at Hales Eddy, Broome
county, New York. They have one daughter, Nannie Moore, born
January 6, 1871. Mrs. Ellyson is the daughter of Nelson H. Hotchkiss,
who was born in Broome county, New York, December 3, 1819, and
Harriet (Russell) Hotchkiss. Her mother died in July, 1883.

Mr. Ellyson attended school at Mrs. Mallory's in 1855-'56-'57, at L.
S. Squires' in 58-'59-'60; at David Turner's in '61-'62, and was for a few
months a student at Hampden-Sidney College, which he left to enter the
Confederate States army, serving as a private in the Second Company
of Richmond Howitzers, until he surrendered with the company at Appomattox.
After the war he attended the Richmond College, then entered
the University of Virginia, where he graduated in a number of schools,
sessions of 1867-'68 and 1868-'69. After leaving the University he was
for a few months with the Richmond Dispatch, and in the fall of 1869
entered the book and stationery business with Henry Taylor of Baltimore,
Maryland, under the firm name of Ellyson & Taylor. He continued
in this business until 1879, when he became connected with the
Religious Herald, of which he is now secretary and treasurer.

In 1878 he was elected a member of the Common Council of Richmond
from Monroe Ward, and was successively re-elected in 1880, 1882, and
1884. During his term of office he was chairman of the Finance Committee,
president of the Board of Public Interests, and twice elected
president of the Council, in July, 1882, and in July, 1884. In 1885 he
was elected to represent the city of Richmond and County of Henrico in
the State Senate. On May 24, 1888, he was elected Mayor of Richmond
for the two years beginning July 1, 1888. Since April, 1884, he has
been a member and president of the City School Board.

Since February, 1871, Mr. Ellyson and his wife have been members of
the Second Baptist church, of Richmond. In 1878 he was elected deacon.
In 1874 he was elected corresponding secretary of the Education Board
of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, in 1875-'76 was president
of the Young Men's Christian Association of this city.

JUDGE H. W. FLOURNOY.

Judge Flournoy was born in Halifax county, Virginia, in 1846. He
is a son of Thomas S. Flournoy, born in Prince Edward county, Virginia,
December 14, 1811, died in Halifax county, March, 1883, and a
grandson of John James Flournoy, born in Prince Edward county in
1780. At Clarksville, Mecklenburg county, Virginia, June 8, 1871, he
married Rosa Buena, daughter of Henry Wood, Esq., of that county.
They have an only son, H. W. Flournoy, jr. Mrs. Flournoy's father,
born in Amelia county, Virginia, in 1812, practiced law many years
in Mecklenburg and adjoining counties, and died in Clarksville in 1882.

Judge Flournoy attended school at the Samuel Davis Institute, Halifax
county; T. T. Bouldin's, Charlotte county; John H. Powell's, Halifax
county, and the Pike Powers school at Mt. Laurel, Halifax county. In
January, 1862, not then sixteen years of age, he entered the Confederate
States army. He served as a private in Company G, 6th Virginia
Cavalry, until wounded at Tom's Brook, Virginia, October 8, 1864.
In November following he was enrolled in the Third Company, Richmond
Howitzers, with which he remained until the surrender at Appomattox.
In September, 1867, Judge Flournoy began the practice of
law, in Danville, Virginia. He was elected Judge of the Corporation
Court of Danville in June, 1870, and re-elected in 1876. Resigning this
office on January 1, 1878, he resumed practice in Halifax county. In
1881 he settled in Washington county, in 1883 was elected to the office
he is now ably filling, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia, reelected
in 1885, and again in 1887.

GEN. BIRKETT D. FRY.

Birkett D. Fry was born in Kanawha county, (then) Virginia, on
June 24, 1822. His father was Thornton Fry, son of Henry Fry, who
was a son of Col. Joshua Fry (born in England) of colonial fame. He
was educated at Washington College, Pennsylvania, at the Virginia
Military Institute, and at West Point, and entered the U. S. army in
1847, as a first lieutenant, U. S. Voltigeurs and Foot Riflemen. Served
under General Scott, and took part in battles of Contreras, Cherubusco,
Molina del Rey, Chapultepec, and City of Mexico. After the close of the
war returned to Fort McHenry, Maryland, where the regiment was disbanded.
In the spring of 1849, Lieutenant Fry went with a party of
young gentlemen across the plains to California, where he remained until
1856. He then went to Nicaragua and, as Colonel and General, took
part in the revolution going on there. He was in command at Granada,
and defeated the army of Guatamala. After the failure to establish
the liberal party in power he returned to San Francisco, in 1858,

remaining there until the autumn of 1859. Coming then to Alabama, settled
at Tallassee, and engaged in cotton manufacturing until the outbreak
of the civil war.

In the summer of 1861 he was appointed colonel of the 13th Alabama
Infantry regiment, and reporting at once with the regiment at
Richmond, was ordered to Yorktown, serving there until the evacuation.
Colonel Fry was wounded at battle of Seven Pines (May 31,
1862). After an absence of six weeks he returned to command of his
regiment, and remained with it until severely wounded in battle of
Sharpsburg, by which wound he was disabled about four months. Resuming
command of his regiment, he was again wounded at Chancellorsville,
but did not leave his regiment, commanding that or the
brigade until Gettysburg battle. In the last charge of that battle, on
July 3d, while commanding the right brigade of Heath's Division (the
directing brigade in the famous charge), he was wounded in the right
shoulder, shot through the thigh, and made prisoner. He lay on the
field six days, and then was taken to the hospital at Fort McHenry.
The following October was sent to the Federal prison at Johnsons
Island, Lake Erie. In March, 1864, he was specially exchanged and
returned to Richmond. Ordered to Drewrys Bluff to take Barton's
brigade, he commanded it in the battle where Beauregard drove back
Butler's army. Soon after, ordered to join General Lee in Spottsylvania,
was by him assigned to command of two brigades (Archer's
and Walker's) with some other troops, and commanded this force in
the second battle of Cold Harbor, holding the left of the Confederate
line. A few days later, Colonel Fry was promoted brigadier-general,
and soon thereafter he was ordered to Augusta, Georgia, to command a
district embracing part of South Carolina and part of Georgia, which
service he rendered until the close of the war.

After the close of the war, General Fry went to Havana, Cuba, and
remained there three years. In 1868 he returned to Alabama, and resumed
his old business of cotton manufacturing at Tallassee, in which
he continued until 1876. Then after spending some time in Florida he
resided in Montgomery, Alabama, where his wife died. He married, in
San Francisco, California, July 14, 1853, Martha A. Micou, born in
Augusta, Georgia. She died April 8, 1878, aged forty-five years.

In 1881 General Fry came to reside in Richmond, Virginia, engaging
in cotton manufacturing. Since September, 1886, he has been president
of the Marshall Manufacturing Company, of Richmond.

MAJOR WM. R. GAINES.

Major Gaines, registrar of Land Office for the City of Richmond, was
born in Charlotte county, Virginia, on April 8, 1833. He finished his
studies at Hampden-Sidney College, and was engaged in farming from
1856 to the beginning of the war. He entered the Confederate States
army as a private in Company B, 14th Virginia Cavalry; was promoted
first lieutenant, the regiment in Jenkin's brigade, and then McCausland's,
after the burning of Chambersburg; was wounded at Moorefield,
Virginia, August 7, 1863, losing left leg, later was made prisoner
by Sheridan's forces, and held five weeks, then left by this army when it
moved, as one who was about to die, but recovered sufficiently to return
home.

He was engaged in farming again until 1877, he was a member of the
Virginia legislature, session of 1873-74. In 1877 he went into a mercantile
business in Charlotte county, four years later returned to farming;
was one year clerk for the State Railroad commissioners; sergeant-at-arms
of the House of Delegates from that time until elected to his
present position. He has also been supervisor of Charlotte county for
the past twenty years.

Col. Robert F. Gaines, father of Major Gaines, born in Charlotte
county, Virginia, died in November, 1873, aged seventy-four years, was
a son of Major Wm. Gaines of Charlotte county, whose father was
Richard Gaines of Virginia. The mother of Major Wm. R. Gaines was
Susan W., daughter of Henry Edmunds, Esq., of Halifax county, Virginia.
She died in 1875, aged sixty-five years.

EDWARD C. GARRISON,

High Constable in and for the City of Richmond, is now serving his
third term of two years each in this office. For one term he was elected
to the office without opposition, a record without parallel in the history
of the office. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia, November 21, 1845,
the son of Edward C. Garrison, who was born in Accomack county, Virginia,
and Camilla (Powell) Garrison, born in Isle of Wight county,
Virginia. His paternal ancestors were among the first settlers in Accomack,
coming from England.

Mr. Garrison has been twice married, his first wife Margelia R., eldest
daughter of Capt. Thomas S. Alvis of Briarfield, Bibb county, Alabama.
This marriage was solemnized at the home of the bride in Briarfield,
July 19, 1870, and she lived only a short time after. Secondly Mr.
Garrison married, at Richmond, April 30, 1874, Eudora C., daughter
of Richard Walden, of King and Queen county, Virginia. She was born
in that county, where her ancestors settled in the early part of the

present century. Mr. and Mrs. Garrison have six children, born in the
order named: Margelia E., Merritt W., Edward J., Nellie S., Richard
R., Eudor C.

Not twenty years of age when the civil war was ended, Mr. Garrison
was in service during that war, a member of A company, Naval Battalion.
He is a member of the Masonic fraternity; of the Red Men;
Junior Order of Mechanics; Knights of Honor; Royal Goodfellows;
and is a machinist by trade. Himself and wife are members of the
Leigh Street Baptist Church.

CHARLES W. GODDIN.

The name of Goddin appears among those of the earliest settlers of
Richmond city, the grandfather of Mr. Goddin being a resident here as
early as 1805 or 1810. This was John Goddin, who was for many
years high Constable of the City of Richmond. His son, father of
Charles W., was Wellington Goddin, who married Eliza P., daughter of
Frederick Winston of Hanover county, Virginia. Wellington Goddin
served as deputy under his father some years, and in 1848 or
1850 went into the real estate business. He was born in Richmond,
and died December 9, 1887, aged seventy-three years.

Charles W. was born in Richmond, October 29, 1853, and attended
private schools in the city until fitted for college. At the age of sixteen
years he left Richmond College, and served as deputy clerk of the county
court of Alexander county, Illinois, at Cairo, for two years. He was
then, and until 1873, cashier of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain R. R.,
at Belmont, Missouri, then returned to Richmond. He was for a time
deputy clerk of the chancery court of the city of Richmond, resigning;
was two or three years deputy collector of city taxes, resigning, then
three or four years assistant commissioner of revenue for the city of
Richmond until April 19, 1888, when he was elected clerk of the
chancery court of the city, on the duties of which office he entered July
1, 1888. Mr. Goddin is a member of St. Johns Lodge, No. 36, A. F. &
A. M.; of Napoleon Council, Legion of Honor; of Munford Lodge, Order
of Tonti; and a member of Moore Memorial Episcopal Church of Richmond,
as is his wife. He married in Richmond, July 11, 1876, Susie T.
Crutchfield, born in this city. Their children are Claudia B., Aylett W.,
Eliza W., George T., N. Stuart, Jennie C. Mrs. Goddin is a daughter
of George K. Crutchfield, who served several years as a member of the
Common Council, of Richmond, and two years, 1878-80, as a member
of the Virginia legislature. Her mother was Susan Terrill Trueheart,
who married a Mr. Waller, and surviving him married secondly Geo. K.
Crutchfield, about the year 1850. She is a daughter of Colonel Trueheart,
of "Liberty Hall," Hanover county, Virginia.

ALEXANDER BARCLAY GUIGON.

Mr. Guigon, subject of this sketch, was born at the Richmond House,
in the city of Richmond, on August 13th, 1858. After the usual preliminary
school attendance he entered the University of Virginia, where
he was a student during two summers and the session of 1879-80. He
was then admitted to the Bar in Richmond, and has been in the practice
of the law in that city ever since. At St. James Church, Richmond,
February 10, 1887, he married Kate Empie Sheppard, of that city, and
they have one son, bearing the father's name, Alexander B.

Mr. Guigon's father, Alexander Barclay Guigon, 1st, now deceased,
late Judge of the Hustings Court, city of Richmond, was a son of
August Guigon, of Richmond, born in France. The mother of the subject
of this sketch was Sarah Bates Guigon, nee Allen, now deceased, a
daughter of the late James Allen, of Richmond, formerly of Massachusetts.
Mr. Guigon's wife is a daughter of the late James Sheppard, who
was a son of Dr. Joseph Sheppard, of Henrico county. Her mother is
Kate, daughter of Dr. Adam Empie, formerly pastor of St. James'
church, Richmond.

In addition to his general practice, Mr. Guigon has for several years
been prominently identified with the State Debt litigation as assistant
counsel for the Bondholders, and as such has been actively engaged
in resisting, in the courts, the State's effort to repudiate or re-adjust
her obligations.

JOHN CAMPBELL HAGAN,

Born in the City of Richmond, December 25, 1857, was educated in the
Richmond schools and at Georgetown College, D. C. After leaving college
he studied law for sixteen months with his uncle, P. H. Hagan, Esq.,
of Scott county, Virginia, then returned to Richmond and entered the
office of the Richmond & Petersburg Railroad. He remained there
eighteen months, then accepted a position with the Chesapeake & Ohio
road at Charlottesville, Virginia, for about the same period, then began
business as manufacturers agent for a firm of shoe manufacturers of
Boston, Massachusetts, and since that time has represented various
manufacturers of that locality throughout the South.

John Hagan, jr., father of John Campbell, was born in County Tyrone,
Ireland, February 2, 1826, a son of John Hagan and Ellen Campbell,
his wife, of the same place. He settled in Virginia October 17,
1849, served through the war between the States in the Confederate
States army, and died on October 17, 1874. The mother of John
Campbell Hagan, born in Richmond, Virginia, April 6, 1828, is Mary
Catharine, daughter of Florence Downey and Mary C. Lynel, his wife.

In Richmond, September 14, 1887, Mr. Hagan married Alice May
Nipe, who was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She is a daughter of
James Wm. Nipe, who was born in Berkeley county, (now) West Virginia,
March 10, 1829, a son of George Nipe and Mary Culp, his wife,
and died in Baltimore, March 11, 1871. Her mother, born in Lynchburg,
Virginia, August 4, 1841, is Emma J., daughter of Wm. Addison
Bennett of Hanover county, Virginia, and Eliza J. Morton, his wife, of
Lynchburg.

ASHER W. HARMAN: JR.

On September 6, 1850, at Staunton, Virginia, the subject of this
sketch was born, a son of Col. M. G. Harman, and a grandson of Lewis
Harman, of Augusta county, Virginia. His mother's family were also
honored residents of that county, she being Caroline V., daughter of L.
L. Stevenson, Esq., of Staunton. Colonel Harman died in December,
1874, aged fifty-eight years, his widow survives him, living in Augusta
county. At Lexington, Virginia, December 11, 1872, Asher W. Harman,
jr., married Eugenia M. Cameron. The bride was born in Rockbridge
county, July 19, 1851, the daughter of Col. Andrew W. Cameron,
of Rockbridge county, born in Bath county, and now deceased. Her
mother was Ellen Hyde of Rockbridge county. The children of Mr. and
Mrs. Harman are: Nellie H., Michael G., George C., Carrie, Eugenia,
Alex. H., Warwick C., Mattie and A. W.

Mr. Harman was educated at the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington,
which he entered September 6, 1868, graduating July 4, 1872.
From July, 1872 until December, 1885, he was engaged in farming,
mail contracting and railroad contracting. On January 1, 1885, he
was elected to the office he is now ably filling, Treasurer of the State of
Virginia.

MEADE HASKINS: ESQ.

Born in Chesterfield county, Virginia, May 20, 1852, was graduated
from Hampden-Sidney college, Virginia, in June, 1871, with degree of
Bachelor of Arts, and from the University of Virginia, with degree of
Bachelor of Law, in July, 1873. He came to Richmond in September,
1873, and began practice, in which he has continued ever since. He is
a member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the order of X. O.

The father of Mr. Haskins is Dr. Richard E. Haskins, who was born
at what was then known as "The Grove," Brunswick county, Virginia,
a son of Dr. Creed Haskins, who represented Brunswick county in
the Virginia legislature many years. The founder of the family in Virginia
was Edward Haskins, who came from England, and settled on
the James River, near Richmond, about 1689. Dr. Creed Haskins married

Anne Field Meade, who was born at "The Grove," Brunswick
county, and was a sister of Hon. Richard Kidder Meade, who represented
the Petersburg district in the U. S. Congress, and afterwards
was U. S. minister at Brazil, South America.

The mother of Meade Haskins, born at "Mantua," Chesterfield
county, is Louise Edith, daughter of Hon. Richard Noble Thweatt, a
lawyer of Prince George county, Virginia, and Mary Thweatt, nee
Eppes, her mother born at "Eppington," Chesterfield county, a niece of
Thomas Jefferson, of "Monticello," and a descendant of Francis Eppes
of England. Mr. Haskins had two brothers in the Confederate States
army, Thomas C. and Carter Haskins, the latter now a physician.

PHILIP HAXALL,

President of the Grain and Cotton Exchange of Richmond, Virginia,
since July 1, 1881, and President of the Haxall-Crenshaw Company of
Richmond since July 1, 1880, was born in the city of Richmond, on January
1, 1840. He married in Richmond, April 14, 1874, Mary Jenifer
Triplett, of that city. He is a son of Richard Barton Haxall, born in
Petersburg, Virginia, and Octavia Robinson, his wife, born in Richmond.
Richard Barton Haxall, born in 1805, died in 1881, was a son of Philip
Haxall, who was born in England (youngest son of William and Catharine
Newton Haxall), came to Virginia, in 1786, settled at Petersburg,
married Clara Walker, of Dinwiddie county, in 1801, moved to Richmond
in 1808, founded the "Haxall Mills" in 1809, and died in 1831.

The wife of Mr. Haxall is a daughter of Wm. S. Triplett, born at Richmond,
president of the "Old Dominion Nail Works." Her mother is
Nannie, daughter of Hon. Daniel Jenifer, of Maryland, minister to Austria,
administration of James K. Polk.

Mr. Haxall was in service through the late war, C. S. A., first as private
in 4th Virginia Cavalry; then as volunteer aide to Gen. J. R.
Anderson; then as cavalry drill master; then adjutant of Robertson's
brigade; then adjutant "Fitz Lee's" division. He is a member of the
college fraternity of Beta Theta Pi.

CAPT. CHARLES D. HILL,

Born in Leaksville, North Carolina, October 20, 1837, has been a resident
of Virginia since 1866. He is a son of William R. Hill, a retired
banker now eighty-four years old, living near Maxton, North Carolina,
born in Raleigh county, that State, the son of Green Hill, whose father
was Rev. Wm. Hill, born in England, and a chaplain in the Revolutionary
war. The mother of Captain Hill is Sarah A. Hill, nee Simmons,
of Petersburg, Virginia. His wife is Harriet R., daughter of

Charles B. and Ann (Hackley) Williams, born near Richmond, her
parents Virginians. Captain Hill was married in Richmond, May 2,
1861, and has one daughter, Fannie W.

After attending school in boyhood in Milton, North Carolina, he
clerked in a store in that State six years. Coming to Richmond in
April, 1857, he was book-keeper for Williams & Carrington, tobacco
commission merchants, for two years. Returning then to Milton, he
went into business as a partner in the firm of Smith & Hill, general
merchandise. He entered the Confederate States army in April, 1861,
private in Company C, 13th North Carolina Infantry. He was appointed
regimental quartermaster, and so served until in 1864 he was made
paymaster of Wilcox's division, Hill's Army Corps, with which he served
till the close of the war. He then went to New York, and was in the
employ of Henry M. Morris, southern general produce merchant, until
the spring of 1866, when he made his home in Richmond.

He went into business here a member of the firm of Hill & Poteet,
tobacco commission merchants. Mr. Poteet dying, Mr. Bentley became
his partner, and later Charles R. Skinker of New York was taken into
the firm, the firm style remaining, for six years, Hill, Bentley & Skinker.
Mr. Bentley then retired and the firm of Hill & Skinker continued the
business three years. Then Charles Watkins of Milton, North Carolina,
was admitted, the firm becoming Hill, Skinker & Watkins. In
May, 1882, this firm dissolved, and since then Mr. Hill has conducted
the business alone, under the name of Charles D. Hill & Co., tobacco,
grain, general commission merchants. All the business with which he
has been connected since 1866, has been conducted in the warehouse on
Fourteenth street, between Main and Cary, and at the central warehouse,
Nos. 1412-1416 Cary street.

MAJOR JAMES C. HILL.

The family of which Major Hill is a worthy representative is of English
descent, early seated in Virginia. Turner Hill, of Charles City county,
was his paternal grandfather. His father, John T. Hill, born in Charles
City county, died in 1858, aged fifty-seven years, married Tabitha,
daughter of Captain Joseph Christian, of Revolutionary fame. Of this
union was born the subject of this sketch, in Charles City county, May
29, 1833. He was educated in the schools of New Kent county, Virginia,
and at the age of eighteen years came to Richmond, where he clerked
for eight years. Removing then to Albemarle county, Virginia, he
was engaged in merchandising until the beginning of the war.

In May, 1861, he was enrolled a private in Company E, 45th Virginia
Infantry, C. S. A. In March, 1864, was promoted major in the same

regiment. He was wounded in the right arm before Petersburg, losing
the arm, June 17, 1864. After the war he resumed business in Albemarle
county, and most of the time since has been engaged in the transportation
business. From 1869 to 1873, he was a member of the Virginia
House of Delegates, and he was eight years sergeant-at-arms of
the House. In April, 1887, he was appointed railroad commissioner
for the State of Virginia, and is still so serving. Major Hill is a Master
Mason.

He has been twice married, Harriet N. Ragland, who died on April 27,
1863, his first wife, and their children three, Allan C., Nannie M.,
James C., jr. In Charles City county, Virginia, on May 3, 1866, he married
Mary E. Lamb, of that county. They have four children: Susan
L., Ann E., Frank Terry and Emory.

WM. HENRY JONES,

Proprietor of Jones' Leaf Tobacco Warehouse, Richmond, Virginia,
was born in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, August 23, 1842. He was
educated in private schools in his native county, and began business in
1865 as a dry goods merchant. A year later he went into the grocery
business, afterwards farming. One year of the latter occupation having
proven sufficient, he then took an interest in the Roanoke Tobacco
Works, at Danville, Virginia, established in 1865, by Marshal Geo. P.
Kane of Baltimore. After a time he bought the establishment, and
conducted it for some years, then sold it and embarked in the leaf tobacco
business at Danville. He moved to Richmond on January 1, 1877,
and established his present business.

The father and mother of Mr. Jones are both living, aged seventy-three
and seventy-one respectively, having eleven children, six girls and
five boys, all living, the youngest now thirty years old. His father,
Decatur Jones, born in Henry county, Virginia, January 29, 1816, was
a son of Thomas Jones of Henry county, son of Dr. Benjamin Jones
who settled in that county from Culpeper county, Virginia, and was a
son of Joshua Jones of Wales.

Joshua Jones came from Wales and settled on the present site of the
City Baltimore, Maryland, then a wild forest. Jones' Falls took its
name from him. Later in life he removed to Culpeper county, Virginia,
where Dr. Benjamin Jones was born. The latter settled in Henry county,
where he was a physician and surgeon of much local renown. He represented
his county for several terms in the State Legislature, at one
election receiving every man's vote in the county but one. He married
Elizabeth Reamy, of a Huguenot family which settled in South Carolina,
and who lived to the age of one hundred and one years, two

months and twenty-two days. They had six sons and two daughters:
Thomas, Sandfford and Reamey were planters and lived in Henry county.
The other three were surgeons, two of whom settled at Lancaster,
South Carolina, Churchill and Bartlett. A daughter of the latter, married
Dr. I. Marion Sims, of New York. Churchill married a daughter of
General Davie, at one time minister to France. The father of Governor
John Morehead, of North Carolina, was Dr. Benjamin Jones' first cousin,
and Gen'l Sam Houston was his great nephew. The other son, Dr.
George Jones, settled in Rockingham county, North Carolina, and
married a Miss Dunlap, of South Carolina. The eldest son Thomas,
grand father of the subject of this sketch, married Elizabeth D. Lyell, of
Brunswick county, Virginia, whose mother was Anne Stuart, of Scotland,
and a direct descendant of that great family.

The mother of Wm. Henry Jones, born in Pittsylvania county in
1818, is Nancy, daughter of John Keen and Nancy Witcher, her mother
sister of Vincent Witcher of Pittsylvania county. Mr. and Mrs. Decatur
Jones now reside at "Bachelors Hall," Pittsylvania county.

In Pittsylvania county, December 6, 1863, Wm. Henry Jones married
Elizabeth Frances Keen. They have one daughter, May. Mrs. Jones
was born in Pittsylvania county, a daughter of Elisha F. Keen, and a
granddaughter of John Keen, both of that county. Her father, born
June 25, 1825, died in 1868. Her mother, Mary Ann Keen, nee Perkins,
died in 1886, aged fifty-five years.

DR. R. A. LEWIS,

Born in Spotsylvania county, Virginia, April 4, 1824, was a son of
John Lewis, born in that county, son of Zachary Lewis, jr., of Virginia,
who was a captain and colonel in the Continental Army during the
Revolution, and who was a son of Zachary Lewis, sr., of Virginia, son
of Robert Lewis of England, son of Jean Lewis, a French Huguenot,
emigre to England. The mother of Dr. Lewis was Jean W., daughter
of Travers and Frances Daniel. His parents are no longer living. He
was educated at Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, and
was graduated there in medicine on March 4, 1847. He practiced in
Williamstown and in Franklin county, Kentucky, until 1852, then
came to Richmond, Virginia, where he has been continuously in practice
ever since, except when interrupted by the war.

He entered the Confederate States Army in July, 1861, as assistant
surgeon of the 21st Virginia Infantry, and was made surgeon of the
21st Virginia regiment, then of the 3d Georgia regiment. Later he
took charge of the Winder hospital, at Richmond, then organized and
superintended the Stuart hospital, at Richmond, until the close of the

war. He is a member of the Second Presbyterian church at Richmond;
also a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners.

In Richmond, Virginia, November, 1851, Dr. Lewis married Margaretta
Gillian Mitchell, and their children were three sons: John M.,
Waller M., Richmond. Mrs. Lewis was born in Stafford county, Virginia,
where her father, James Mitchell settled from Scotland, and she
died in November, 1879, aged fifty years.

DR. JAMES B. M'CAW.

Dr. McCaw was born in the city of Richmond, on July 12, 1823. He
finished his education at the University of New York, graduating in
1844, and immediately began practice of medicine, in choosing which
profession he followed the tradition of his family, his father, grandfather
and great grandfather all having been physicians. The last-named
came to Virginia with Lord Dunmore in 1771. In addition to his regular
practice Dr. McCaw has been professor in the Medical College of Virginia;
editor of the Virginia Medical Journal; and during the war was
chief surgeon of the Chimborazo hospital, treating 76,000 patients in
the four years.

In Richmond, May 20, 1845, he married Delia Patteson, born in Richmond,
daughter of Dr. Wm. A. Patteson of Richmond, and they had
nine children. Dr. McCaw and his wife are members of St. Paul Church,
Richmond; he is one of the Vestrymen.

HUNTER HOLMES M'GUIRE: M. D.

Was born in Winchester, Virginia, on October 11, 1835. At Staunton,
Virginia, he married Mary Stuart, and they have nine children, three
sons and six daughters, born in the order named: Stuart, Hugh, Mary,
Fannie, Annie, Hunter, Augusta, Gettie, Margaret.

The family line of Dr. McGuire is thus traced: Edward McGuire, his
great grandfather, left Ordfest, County Kerry, Ireland, in 1756, with a
kinsman (first cousin), General M. McGuire. (See Smollett's History of
England, pp. 643, 792, 855.) He finally settled in Winchester, Virginia,
and died in 1806. His son Edward McGuire, born and died in Winchester,
married Elizabeth Holmes. Of this marriage was born, in
Winchester, in 1801, Dr. Hugh Holmes McGuire, who married Ann
Eliza, daughter of William Moss and Gertrude Holmes. On the maternal
side Dr. Hugh Holmes McGuire and his wife were of the same descent,
and they were first cousins. He died in 1875, and his widow in 1878.
These were the parents of the subject of this sketch.

Hunter Holmes, of the maternal line of Dr. McGuire, and after whom
he is named, was killed at Mackinaw in 1814; a sword was voted and

given to his nearest relatives by Virginia, for his gallant conduct in this
battle. Judge Hugh Holmes of Winchester, and David Holmes, governor
of Mississippi and U. S. senator, brothers of Hunter Holmes, were
descendants of Col. Joseph Holmes, of Bally-Kelly, County of Londonderry,
Ireland—see coat of arms of Col. Joseph Holmes, in "Book of
Heraldry."

The wife of Dr. McGuire is the daughter of Hon. Alexander Hugh
Holmes Stuart of Staunton, and Frances Stuart, nee Baldwin. She was
born in Staunton in 1844.

The service of Dr. McGuire and his immediate relatives in the late war
was as follows: He entered the Confederate army as a private in Company
F, 2d Virginia regiment; in 1861 was made "Medical Director of
the "Army of the Shenandoah," later "Brigade Surgeon Stonewall
Brigade;" then "Medical Director Stonewall Jackson's Army of the
Valley," later "Medical Director 2d Corps, Army of Northern Virginia;"
serving successively under Jackson, Ewell, Early and Gordon. His
father served as surgeon from 1861 to 1865. Hugh Holmes McGuire,
jr., his brother, was captain of cavalry, Rosser's brigade; wounded at
Amelia Springs, died of wounds a few days later. Another brother, Dr.
W. P. McGuire, was a private in the Stuart Horse Artillery; served
till close of war; was wounded, captured, and held a prisoner at Point
Lookout many months; living now in Winchester. Edward McGuire,
another brother, was a lieutenant in the Confederate States Navy.

The following are the titles that have been conferred on Dr. Hunter
Holmes McGuire, and the offices he has held: M. D. 1855, Winchester
Medical College, Winchester: M. D. 1859, Virginia Medical College,
Richmond, LL. D. 1887, University of North Carolina; LL. D. 1888,
Jefferson Medical College, Pennsylvania; Associate Fellow, College of
Physicians, Philadelphia, 1887, Hon. Fellow, Virginia Medical Society;
Hon. Fellow, North Carolina Medical Society; Hon. Fellow D. Haynes
Agnew Surgical Society, Philadelphia; professor of Anatomy, Winchester
(Virginia) Medical College, 1855-58, professor of Surgery, Virginia
Medical College, 1865-78; emeritus professor Surgery, 1880;
president Richmond Academy of Medicine, 1869; president Virginia
Medical Society, 1880; president Association of Medical Officers of Confederate
States Army and Navy, 1875; president American Surgical
Association, 1886; president Southern Surgical and Gynecological
Association, 1889. vice-president American Medical Association, 1881;
vice-president International Medical Congress (Philadelphia) 1876,
Surgeon St. Luke's Hospital, Richmond, from 1883, still serving in
this position.

MASSIE

Massie Cheshire. The family of Massie, settled at Coddington county,
Cheshire, in consequence of the marriage of Hugh Massie with Agnes,
daughter and heiress of Nicholas Bold, and his son William by the said
Agnes purchased with other manors that of Coddington in the reign of
Henry, VI. This William married Alice, daughter and heiress of Adam
Woton, of Edgerly, and the family subsequently intermarried with that
of Grosvenor, of Eaton. The celebrated General Massie so distinguished
during the Civil Wars, was the son of John Massie, of Coddington, by
Anne Grosvenor, of Eaton. The present representative is the Rev.
Richard Massie, of Coddington. Arms —Quarterly gu. and or — in the
1st & 4th quarters three fleurs de-lis ar, for difference a Canton ar.
Crest — A demi-pegasus with wings displayed quarterly or and gu.
Massie Quarterly az and ar. on the 1st and 4th a millet, Or. Crest — A
horned Owl ppr. Massie Ar a pile, quarterly gu and or in the field
quarter a lion pass off the field. Crest — Between two trees a lion salient
ar.—[Encyclopædia of Heraldry of England, Scotland and Ireland,
by John Burke.]

The first representatives of the family in America were Major Thomas
Massie and William, his brother, who settled in New Kent county, in
the Colony of Virginia. Thence Major Thomas Massie moved to Frederick
county, and afterwards settled in Nelson county, where he owned
large estates on Tye river and about the head waters of Rockfish
river. For his services in the War of the Revolution he received a grant
from the Government of valuable lands in Scioto Valley, Ohio, near the
present city of Chillicothe. He married Sally Cocke, and spent the remaining
years of his life in retirement at his seat, known as "Level
Green," in Nelson county. The issue of this marriage were three sons:
Thomas, William and Henry.

Dr. Thomas Massie, the eldest son, married [1] Lucy Waller, by whom
he had two sons, [i] Waller, [ii] Patrick, and two daughters, one of
whom married — Boyd, and the other of whom married Wm. O.
Goode. His second wife was [2] Sally Cabell; by whom he had one son,
Paul. Waller Massie, eldest son of Dr. Thos Massie, married Mary
James of Chillicothe, Ohio, by whom he had issue [1] Gertrude Waller
Massie, [2] Thomas Massie, recently deceased without issue. Patrick
Massie, second son of Dr. Thomas Massie, married Susan Withers, by
whom he had issue. [1] Robert, [2] Patrick C., [3] Thomas, [4] Thornton,
[5] Withers, [6] —, [7] Susan.

William Massie, second son of Major Thomas Massie, was married —
times. His eldest son was Col. Thos. J. Massie, of Nelson, lately
deceased without issue. His daughter, Florence, married [1] —

Tustall, son of Whitmell P. Tunstall, [2] Judge Jno. D. Horsley,
of Nelson.

Henry Massie, of Falling Springs Valley, Alleghany county, Virginia,
third son of Major Thomas Massie, married [1] Susan Preston Lewis,
October 22nd, 1810, daughter of John Lewis of the Sweet Springs, and
Mary Preston, daughter of Capt. William Preston of Smithfield, Montgomery
county, [2] Elizabeth Daggs, May 18th, 1826, the daughter of
Hezekiah and Margaret. The issue of said Henry Massie by his first
wife, Susan Preston Lewis, were: [1] Sarah Cocke, who married Rev.
Franck Stanley and died without issue on March 30, 1879. [2] Mary
Preston, born September 26, 1813, married John Hampden Pleasants,
December 15, 1829, and died April 18, 1837, leaving issue. [i] James
Pleasants, [ii] Ann Eliza, who married Douglas H. Gordon, [iii] Mary
Lewis, who died in infancy. [3] Henry Massie, Jr. [4] Eugenia S.,
born February 19, 1819, married Samuel Gatewood, and died October,
1884, leaving issue. [5] Thomas Eugene Massie. [6] Susan Lewis,
who died in infancy. Said Henry Massie died in January, 1841; and
Susan Preston, his wife, died November 22, 1825, in the thirty-third
year of her age. Said Henry Massie had by his second wife, Elizabeth,
one son, Hezekiah, now living in Falling Spring Valley on his paternal
estate.

Henry Massie, jr., oldest son of Henry Massie and Susan Preston Lewis,
was born July 4, 1816, married Susan Elizabeth Smith, March 23,
1841, daughter of Thos. B. Smith of Savannah, Georgia, and Caroline
Sophia Rebecca Thomson, his wife, who was the daughter of William
Russell Thomson, of Charleston, South Carolina, who was the son of
Col. Wm. R. Thomson, born 1729, died 1796, who was the son of William
Thomson (of the family of James Thomson, the English poet),
and the founder of the family in America. The issue of said Henry
Massie, jr., and his wife Susan, who was born February 5th, 1822, and
died November 25th, 1887, were: [1] Henry Lewis Massie, born May 12,
1842, died October 5, 1887, unmarried. [2] Caroline Thomson, born
December 16, 1845, and married November 8, 1865, to James Pleasants.
[3] Lulie, born June 15, 1849, died May 7, 1878. [4] Thomas Smith
Massie, born August 15, 1850, died Sept. 17, 1863. [5] William Russell
Massie, born February 24, 1852, now living in Richmond, Virginia.
[6] Susan Elizabeth, born February 2, 1855, died January 10, 1869. [7]
Charles Philip Massie, born November 15, 1857, died October 31, 1863.
[8] Eugene Carter Massie, born May 27, 1861, now practising law in
Richmond, Virginia.

Dr. Thomas Eugene Massie, second son of Henry Massie and Susan
Preston Lewis, was born April 22, 1822, married in 1858 Mary James
Massie, the widow of Waller Massie, and died in 1863, leaving issue:

[1] Frank Aubrey Massie, now practising law in Charlottesville, Virginia.
[2] Eugenia Massie, who married Oscar Underwood of Kentucky,
now living in Birmingham, Alabama. [3] Juanita Massie.

JOHN F. MAYER.

The subject of this sketch was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on March 6,
1840. He is a son of Gotleib Mayer, who was born in Wurtenburg,
Germany, was brought to Pennsylvania when about twelve months old,
and to Norfolk, Virginia, at the age of twelve years. On December 10,
1838, Gotleib Mayer married at Norfolk, Louisa Jane Henry, who was
born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and died at Norfolk, August 26,
1866. His death occurred in Richmond City, on October 19, 1875.

John F. was educated at the Military Academy, Norfolk, and began
business as clerk with his father, jewelry business, 1852-54; in 1854 was
clerk to R. S. Bernard, druggist; 1859-61 with the Adams Express Company.
He entered the Confederate service first in the "Norfolk Juniors,"
and was discharged on account of government business. He volunteered
a second time in the Signal Corps, and was again discharged.
From that time until the close of the war he was in service in the adjutant
and inspector-general's office, Richmond, under Major Ed. A. Palfrey.
In September, 1865, he entered the service of the Old Dominion Steamship
Company, and is still in their employ.

Frances A., first wife of Mr. Mayer, whom he married April 15, 1862,
died in Richmond, May 3, 1884. They had seven children: William G.,
Mary Love (deceased), John H., Thomas W., Frank P., George N. and
Rosa C. In Richmond he married, secondly, Kate M. Sinton, and twin
children were born to them, one dead at birth, the other, Fred. S., dying
January 29, 1889.

Mr. and Mrs. Mayer are members of the old St. Johns Episcopal
church. He is also a Mason, both of the York and Scottish Rites, and
Inspector-General in Virginia for the A. & A. S. R., Southern Jurisdiction
of the United States.

J. JUDSON MONTAGUE,

Was born in Norfolk county, Virginia, on September 4, 1838, the son of
William V. Montague, and Mary Barrack, his wife. William V. Montague
was born in Middlesex county, Virginia, the son of William and
Mary Montague, and died in 1865, aged sixty-eight years. His wife
was a daughter of William and Eliza Barrack of Middlesex county, and
died in 1840, aged thirty-six years. At Norfolk, Virginia, November 26,
1867, J. Judson Montague married Kate S. Warren, who was born in
Northampton county, Virginia, the daughter of Thomas P. Warren,

now of Norfolk. Her mother, whose maiden name was Eliza Henderson,
died in 1884, aged sixty years. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Montague
are two living, Kate and Carroll H., and four deceased, Maude, Warren,
Percy and Roy.

Mr. Montague received an academic education in Norfolk, then studied
architecture and applied mechanics in Eastern Pennsylvania. He served
through the civil war, a private in Company B, 19th Virginia Artillery,
was captured near Richmond, April 3, 1865, and held at Richmond
until paroled April 15, 1865. He returned to Richmond in June, 1865,
and went into business with Tanner & Ehbets one year, bought them
out in 1867, and has continued the business to the present day, manufacturer
of sash, doors, etc. and dealer in lumber. For ten years he has
been president of the Meherin Lumber Company, is vice-president of the
Richmond Locomotive and Machine Works, president pro tem. of the
Planters National Bank; vice-president of the Mechanics Institute;
president of the North Birmingham Building Association.

MEREDITH FOX MONTAGUE.

The name and family of Montague was prominent and distinguished
in Normandy as early as 1024, as is evidenced by the mountains, castles,
fortresses, and towns bearing their name.

Drogo de Montague was born in 1040, and became the trusted companion,
follower, and intimate friend of Robert, Earl of Moriton, the
favorite brother of William, Duke of Normandy, accompanying his
expedition against England. After the conquest, William rewarded
him with large grants of land, thus establishing the family in England.
Drogo de Montague bore the kite shaped shield of the Norman invaders;
its color is cerulian blue, and upon it is the full length Griffin segreant
(rampant with wings spread), and painted a bright golden hue. This
was the original Montague coat of arms in England.

The subject of this sketch is descended from Peter Montague of that
family, who came from Boveney, Parish of Burnham, Buckinghamshire,
England, in 1621. He settled in Virginia, and entered lands in the
counties of New Norfolk, Nansemond, Middlesex and Essex. Peter Montague
became rich, a large land holder, and a man of prominence in the
colony. He was a member of the Assembly (House of Burgesses) 16511658
from Lancaster county, Virginia.

He left two sons, William and Peter Montague who lived on their
handsome estates in Middlesex, known as "Montague Island," two
hundred years ago. From them are descended a countless progeny,
generally independent planters, remarkable for their amiability of disposition,
high sense of honor, strict integrity, and generous hospitality,

and it may be added, as a distinguished member of the family was wont
to say, "also for their strict virtue and personal beauty of the females."
These general characteristics are still preserved in the family to a considerable
extent.

Meredith Fox, son of John H. and Melinda Montague, was born in
Richmond City, on August 3, 1856. He was educated in Richmond,
and at the Episcopal High School, near Alexandria, Virginia. At the
age of eighteen years he entered business, and has continued in mercantile
life ever since, now Secretary of Virginia Paper Company, of which
his father is President. He married in Richmond, on January 3, 1884,
Miss Emily Triplett, of Richmond, and their children are four. Nannie
Jenifer Triplett, William Triplett, Meredith, and Linda Meredith.

John H. Montague, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in
Buckingham county, Virginia, living now in Richmond, son of Henry
B. Montague of Richmond, who was son of Henry, who was son of
Robert Montague. The mother of Mr. Montague is Melinda, daughter
of Dr. Meredith Fox, of "Green Springs," Louisa county, Virginia, who
was a son of John Fox.

THOMAS HILL MONTAGUE

Is a member of the law firm of Slater & Montague, of Richmond City.
He was born at Glenanburn, Gloucester county, Virginia, on December
29, 1866, in early life attended schools in Gloucester, Mathews and
Middlesex counties, Virginia, later attended a preparatory school in
Albemarle county, and in 1887 took the law course at the University
of Virginia. He was admitted to the Bar on January 18, 1888, has
been practicing in Richmond since that date, and in partnership with E.
Beverly Slater since October 1, 1888. He is a member of the Second
Baptist church of Richmond, and is secretary of the Richmond Light
Infantry Blues Association.

His father, Thomas Ball Montague, jr., born in Gloucester county,
Virginia, now deceased, was a son of Capt. Thomas Ball Montague, sr.,
who died in Essex county, Virginia, a son of William Montague of Essex
county, who was a son of John Montague, who was a son of Peter Montague,
who came to Virginia from England, and settled in Lancaster
county, on the 22d day of August, 1634. His grave may now be seen
in Lancaster county, where he died at an advanced age.

The mother of Thomas Hill Montague, now living in Richmond, is
Josephine Tabitha, nee Hill, her father a resident of New Kent county,
his maternal grandmother was Tabitha Christian, his maternal great
grandmother, Elizabeth Graves.

WILLIAM W. MOSES,

Appointed superintendent of the Virginia Penitentiary in December,
1885, and still holding that position, was born in Cumberland county,
Virginia, on April 11, 1836. He attended a private school in Appomattox
county, and then began farming which he has followed to date.
He settled in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, married in that county, on
January 7, 1866, was six years a justice of the peace in that county,
and four years member of the district school board. He entered the
Confederate States army as a private in Company K, 14th Tennessee
Infantry; was wounded at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862; was
taken prisoner at Gettysburg, and held at Fort Delaware twenty-two
months, then paroled.

Joseph M. Moses, father of William W., son of Peter Moses, of England,
was born in Appomattox county, and died in 1879, aged sixty-five
years. The mother of William W., Paulina J. Martin, born in
Prince Edward county, died July 10, 1858. His wife, born in Pittsylvania
county, is Fannie W., daughter of Jeremiah W. Graves, who
died in 1882, and Catharine (Baxley) Graves, also now deceased. Mr.
and Mrs. Moses have three children, Wm. W., jr., Graves M., Kate O.,
and have buried two, Dula W., died July, 1873, aged one year; Joseph
M., died February, 1878, aged ten months. Mr. Moses and wife are
members of the Second Baptist Church of Richmond.

MAJOR BENJ. H. NASH

Was born in Powhatan county, Virginia, on April 7, 1835, and was
educated at the Wigwam Academy, Amelia county, Virginia, and at the
University of Virginia. At the age of twenty years, in 1855, he began the
practice of law in Powhatan county, and in the same year settled in
Manchester, Virginia. In the fall of 1860 he was elected to the Virginia
Senate, to fill unexpired term, and was three times elected senator in
the then eighth senatorial district, composed of the counties of Chesterfield,
Powhatan and Cumberland.

He was in field service during the war between the States, captain
Company B, 41st Virginia Infantry, in Mahone's brigade, Anderson's
division, Army of Northern Virginia; was appointed A. A. G. of Mahone's
brigade. He took part in the battle of the Wilderness, and all the
battles of the campaign of 1864, including the Crater and
other engagements. In January 1865, he resigned from the
army to resume his seat in the Senate. He left Richmond, with
other members of the Virginia legislature, on the night of April
2d, 1865, and returned to the city on May 16th. Since that
time he has been engaged in the practice of the law in Richmond, Virginia.

During the years 1886-87 he was commonwealth attorney for
the county of Chesterfield, by appointment of the county court of that
county, although he resided in the city of Richmond, which office he
held until the general election for county officers of that county. Not
being eligible to the office by election, he was not a candidate. Major
Nash is a Mason, member of Temple Lodge, No. 9, Richmond.

His father was Judge John W. Nash, born in Fauquier county, Virginia,
in 1794, died in Powhatan county in 1859. Judge Nash was a
member of the Virginia Senate sixteen years, and president of the same
when that body elected its president. He was made Judge of the second
judicial circuit in 1848, was assigned a member of the special court of
appeals when that court was in existence, and was the Judge of the
second judicial circuit at the time of his death. He was a son of Travis
Nash of Fauquier county, Virginia, and Eleanor W. Nash, nee White.
The Nash family is of English extraction.

The mother of Major Nash, who died in 1835, was Elizabeth, daughter
of Benjamin Hatcher, who was the first president of the Farmers Bank
of Virginia at Richmond.

In Petersburg, Virginia, January 27, 1869, Major Nash married Miss
Mattie M. Freeman, daughter of E. A. and Martha S. Freeman. Her
mother was a daughter of Robert Bolling of Petersburg, Virginia,
and a lineal descendant of the original Robert Bolling, who first married
the descendant of the Indian Princess Pocahontas, and secondly married
Martha Steeth, from whom Mrs. Nash's ancestors are descended.

HARRY B. OWEN,

Was born in Manchester, Virginia, on February 14, 1854, the son of
Benjamin P. and Mary S. Owen, still residents of Manchester. His
mother was a daughter of H. B. Walker, now deceased. His father
was born in Mathews county, Virginia. His wife, whom he married in
Manchester, October 31, 1881, was born in Dinwiddie county, Virginia,
Lucia Brodnax. Their children were born in the order named: Cornelia,
Mary Walker, Lucia Brodnax, Margaret. The second daughter
died July 19, 1885.

Mr. Owen was educated in Richmond, and began business in 1868,
clerk with E. T. Pilkinton, tobacco manufacturer. In 1870-71 he
managed a tobacco factory for Webb & Roulhac, at Hillsboro, North
Carolina; bought tobacco on his own account at Hillsboro and Durham
in 1871-72, and in 1872 kept books for Conrad & Shelburn, Richmond.
In 1873 he kept books for F. W. Peckrell & Co.; in 1875 went to live
with B. P. Owen his father, and staid with the firm of B. P. Owen & Co.,
and with their successors, until the formation of the firm of H. B.

Owen & Co., of which J. B. Moore was partner. In March, 1880, Mr.
Owen connected himself with W. J. Whitehurst, forming the firm of
which he is still a member, Whitehurst & Owen, manufacturers of sash,
doors, etc., with factory on 12th street, between Canal and Byrd, and
in January, 1883, removed to new factory, corner Byrd and 10th
streets.

Mr. Owen is a Mason; P. M. in Manchester Lodge, No. 14; P. H. P.
Manchester Chapter No. 48; Cap.-Gen'l in Richmond Commandery No.
2, Lecturer for District No. 2.

DR. RICHARD A. PATTERSON.

The subject of this sketch was born in Caroline county, Virginia, on
March 15, 1826. His collegiate education was received at Richmond
College, and he was graduated in medicine at the Richmond Medical
College. Until 1850 he practiced in Goochland county, then came to
Richmond and engaged in the manufacture of tobacco until the war.
In 1864-5 he was surgeon of the 56th Virginia Infantry, C. S. A. From
the close of the war until 1869 he was farming in Henrico county, and
since that year has been engaged again in the tobacco business, the firm
known first as R. A. Patterson & Co., and changed to the R. A. Patterson
Tobacco Co., a stock concern. Dr. Patterson was four years director
of the Virginia Penitentiary, has been supervisor of Henrico county
for the last six years; has been president of the Richmond Tobacco
Exchange since July, 1888; and is a member of the Virginia Exposition
Executive committee of Richmond.

Thomas Patterson, born in King William county, died in 1834, was
the father of Dr. Patterson, and his mother, who died in 1878, was
Susan G., daughter of James and Elizabeth (Andrews) Thomas, of
Caroline county. The first wife of Dr. Patterson was Margaret L.
Courtney, born in King and Queen county, Virginia, whom he married
near Richmond, May 13, 1851, and who died in 1866. Their children
were born in the order named: R. Fuller, Archer W., James T. and
Malvern C. Secondly, in November, 1868, Dr. Patterson married Bettie
A DuVal, born near Richmond. They were married at Madison, Florida,
and have two children: Elizabeth G. and Warren P.

JAMES WEST PEGRAM

Is a son of Robert Baker Pegram, now of Norfolk, Virginia, born in
Dinwiddie county, Virginia, December 10th, 1810. Robert B. Pegram
married Lucy Cargill, now deceased, who was born in Sussex county,
Virginia, daughter of Hon. Jno Cargill, of "Invermay." Their son
Jas W. was born in Sussex county, Virginia, February 11th, 1843; in

February, 1860, was appointed to the U. S. Naval Academy; entered
the Confederate States Navy in 1861, and served in the same until the
close of the war. In 1867 he married Eliza Waller Blacknall, daughter
of Doctor George Blacknall, formerly of the United States Navy, now deceased,
and Emma Blacknall, nee Blow, daughter of George Blow, Esq.,
deceased, of Tower Hill, Sussex county, Virginia.

Mr. and Mrs. Pegram have two sons, George Blacknall and Robert
Baker, and three daughters, Lucy C., Emma and Eliza Waller.

Mr. Pegram holds the office of Secretary of "The Life Insurance Company
of Virginia."

WILLIAM L. ROYALL: ESQ

Rev. John J. Royall, born in Lynchburg, Virginia, married Anna K.,
daughter of George Keith and Jane Taylor. Mrs. Royall died in 1886,
and Mr. Royall in 1858. They were the parents of the subject of this
sketch, who was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, on November 15,
1844. Sir John Falstaff said: "If I know what the inside of a church
is made of I am a pepper-corn," which Mr. Royall quotes, speaking of
his never having seen the inside of a school-house. His early education
was imparted by his grandmother, who was a sister of Chief Justice
Marshall, and by his mother.

In March, 1862, then little more than seventeen years of age, he enlisted
as a private soldier, taking part in all the great battles of the
Army of Northern Virginia until wounded and made prisoner in March,
1864, remaining a prisoner from that time until the close of the war.
After the war he read law under Wm. Green in Richmond, was duly admitted
to the Bar, and has ever since been practicing law in Richmond,
except from 1880 to 1884 during which time he resided in and practiced
law in New York City. In Richmond, January 5, 1887, he married
Judith Page Aylett, and they have one child, Page Aylett Royall. Mr.
Royall's wife was born in Richmond, the daughter of Patrick Henry
Aylett, who died in 1869. Her mother was also of an eminent Virginian
family; her maiden name Emily Rutherfoord.

DR. CHARLES M. SHIELDS.

Matthew Shields, of Gloucester county, Virginia, was the father of
James W. Shields, who was born in that county, removed to Richmond,
and now resides there with his wife, Caroline E., daughter of Charles
Beck of Berlin. Their son, subject of this sketch, was born in Richmond,
January 1, 1856. He was educated at Roanoke and Richmond Colleges,
and graduated in medicine at the Medical College of Virginia in March,
1879. After having served a year in hospitals, he began practice in the

city of Richmond. He is lecturer on diseases of the eye, ear and throat
at the Medical College of Virginia, and now confines his practice to treatment
of these diseases.

At Lexington, Missouri, November 3, 1881, Dr. Shields married Maggie
Anderson, daughter of John D. New, now of Portsmouth, Virginia.
Their children are three daughters and one son, born in the order named;
Maggie, Lina, Hattie, Charles W. Dr. Shields is ex-president of the Richmond
Academy of Medicine; a member of the Episcopal Church; and of
the Masonic fraternity.

JOHN GIFFORD SKELTON: M. D.,

Of Richmond, Virginia, son of Ennion W. Skelton, of Powhatan county,
Virginia, and Catharine W. Skelton, nee Gifford, was born in Powhatan
county, on April 29, 1815. He received his literary and classical education
at private schools and in the University of Virginia; was a student
of medicine in the office of Prof. George B. Wood, of Philadelphia,
and in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating
thence with degree of M. D., in April, 1838. Until 1866 he was
located and engaged in general practice of medicine in Powhatan county,
then removed to Richmond.

Dr. Skelton is a member of the Virginia State Medical Society, of the
Richmond Academy of Medicine; and of the Richmond Medical and Surgical
Society. He has for several years associated with the Richmond
Medical College, in its summer sessions, and lectured on physiology, and
on obstetrics and diseases of women and children.

The father of Dr. Skelton, Dr. Ennion W. Skelton, was born in Princeton,
New Jersey, September 12, 1779, lived at Genito, Powhatan county,
Virginia, after 1802, practiced medicine until his death, on November 4,
1836. He was a son of Josiah Skelton, of Princeton, who came to Powhatan
county and there died in 1821, aged eighty years, and who was a
son of John Skelton, Esq., who resided near Princeton during the reign
of George III., of England. Catharine W. Gifford, mother of Dr. J. G.
Skelton, was born in Princeton also, on March 2, 1780, married Dr. E.
W. Skelton in 1803, and resided in Powhatan county, Virginia, until
her death, January 16, 1869. In 1841, Dr. John Gifford Skelton married
Charlotte F., daughter of Peyton Randolph, Esq., of Richmond;
she died in 1843. In 1846 he married Marianne O., daughter of B. L.
Meade, Esq., of Richmond; she died in 1869.

W. DELLIE SUTHERLAND,

Was born in the city of Richmond, on June 11, 1855. He married in
that city, January 16, 1878, Mary E. Hardgrove, who was born in
Richmond. Their children were born in the order named. Martha
Leigh, Wm. Henry, Mary B. and Ruth Adalaide. Martha died at the
age of nine and a half months; Wm. Henry died in his third year. Mr.
Sutherland is a son of Wm. H. Sutherland, who was born in King William
county, Virginia, and a grandson of James Sutherland, who came
from Scotland to Virginia. His mother, whose maiden name was
Martha J. Ladd, lives now in Richmond. His father died in October,
1886, aged fifty-six years. Mrs. Sutherland is a daughter of Wm. H.
Hardgrove, deceased, and S. E. Hardgrove, of Richmond.

Mr. Sutherland was educated in Richmond, and started in business
life as clerk for his father in the livery business, in 1869. In 1878 he
went into business with his father and his brother as partners, livery
and undertaking. Since 1884 he has been conducting his present business,
the Lafayette Stables, and Parcel and Baggage Express. Mr.
Sutherland is a member of St. Johns Lodge, No. 36, A. F. & A. M.;
himself and wife are members of the Second Baptist Church, Richmond.

LUCIEN BROOKING TATUM,

Born in Virginia in 1846, was educated in Richmond, Virginia, and served
in the Confederate States Army as a private in the Second Company,
Richmond Howitzers; was captured at battle of Sailors Creek, Virginia,
April 6, 1865, and imprisoned at Newport News until June 20th following,
then released on parole. He returned to Richmond, and soon became
agent for the James River Steamboat Company. In 1878 he organized
the Virginia Steamboat Company and was elected its vice-president, which
is his present position.

His father, Henry Augustus Tatum, M. D., born at "Woodlawn Hill"
on the Appomattox river, Chesterfield county, Virginia, practiced medicine
in Richmond forty years, and was surgeon in charge of Clopton
Hospital on Franklin Street, at time of death, died in Richmond
city, 1862. He was a son of Henry Tatum and Dorathea Claiborne, his
wife, of Chesterfield county; said Dorathea Claiborne was the daughter
of Daniel Claiborne and Mary Maury, his wife; who was the daughter
of Matthew Maury and Mary Ann Fontaine, and the sister of Rev.
James Maury of Huguenot fame.

The mother of Lucien Brooking Tatum, Amelia Sherwin Tatum, was
born at "Bellevue," on Falling Creek, Chesterfield county, Virginia, in
1804, and died in Richmond in 1865. She was a daughter of Col. Thomas

Vivion Brooking, and Mary Massie Sherwin, his wife, of Chesterfield
county, Virginia.

In 1882 Lucien Brooking Tatum married Mary Selden, daughter of
Richard Herbert Tatum, M. D., who was born at "Longwood," on the
Appomattox, in Chesterfield county; a son of Henry Walker Tatum,
and Mary Goode, of that county. Her mother, now living, is Lily, the
daughter of Charles Selden, late Judge of Powhatan county, Virginia,
and Sarah Skelton, a sister of Dr. John G. Skelton of Richmond. Charles
Selden was a grandson of Rev. Miles Selden, colonial pastor of St.
Johns church, Richmond; commonly known as "Parson Selden" (see
his records in Volume 1).

Mr. Tatum and wife are members of St. James P. E. Church, Richmond;
and Mr. Tatum is a director in several of the banking and other
business institutions of Richmond city.

ROBERT LEE TRAYLOR

Was born at Midway Mills, Nelson county, Virginia, on September 23,
1864. His father's family had been for several generations seated in
Amelia county, Virginia, his father being Albert W. Traylor, born in
Amelia county, May 5th, 1822, son of Tincheon P. Traylor of Amelia
county, son of Mial Traylor of that county. Albert W. Traylor, now
a resident of Richmond, served in the late war in Terry's brigade, C. S. A.,
Co. E, 21st Virginia Regiment; was captured before Petersburg, March
15, 1865, and held at Point Lookout eighty-four days. The mother of
Robert Lee Traylor, born in Chesterfield county, Virginia, May 3rd,
1828, died May 6, 1888, was Mary E., daughter of Richard Adams, of
Chesterfield county. His wife, whom he married at Memphis, Tennessee,
November 16, 1887, was Annie Gavin, of Memphis, and they have now
one son, Robert Gavin Traylor, born September 11th, 1888.

Mr. Traylor was educated at Richmond College. In 1881 he entered
railway service as rodman on engineer corps, Richmond & Alleghany R.
R. He has since served in various positions with the Georgia Pacific
Railway Company, at Atlanta, Georgia, and Birmingham, Alabama;
the Memphis, Birmingham & Atlantic R. R. Co.; and the Tennessee Midland
Railway Company, at Memphis, Tennessee, and is now secretary
and a director for the last-named company, headquarters at Richmond.

DR. JOHN N. UPSHUR

Was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on February 14, 1848, and received his
first education at the Norfolk Military Academy and the Virginia Military
Institute. He served in C company, Cadet Corps, in the battle of
New Market, May 15, 1864, and was severely wounded in the right leg

After the war he studied medicine at the University of Virginia and the
Virginia Medical College, graduating from the last-named school March
5, 1868. He commenced practice in Richmond, on April 1, 1869, after
having been resident physician at Howard's Grove hospital, near the
city, for the year succeeding graduation, and has been in practice continuously
ever since. In June, 1884, he was elected professor of Materia
Medica and Therapeutics in the Medical College of Virginia. Dr.
Upshur is a member of the Blue Lodge, A. F. & A. M.

His father was Dr. George L. Upshur, late of Norfolk, born in Northampton
county, Virginia, died September 19, 1855, aged thirty-three
years. Dr. George L. Upshur was a son of John Evans Nottingham, of
Northampton county, and had his name changed by act of legislature
to his mother's maiden name, to prevent extinction of the Upshur name.
The mother of Dr. John N. is Sarah Andrews, daughter of Dr. J. G.
Parker, of Northampton county, still living in that county.

Dr. Upshur has been twice married, his first wife Lucy T., daughter of
Bishop F. M. Whittle. She died August 7, 1876, at age of twenty-seven
years, leaving him one son, Francis. He married secondly, in Richmond,
December 11, 1879, Elizabeth S. Peterkin, born in Baltimore.
They have three children, William P., Elizabeth N., Alfred P. Dr. and
Mrs. Upshur are members of the St. James P. E. Church, of Richmond.
Mrs. Upshur is a daughter of Wm. S. Peterkin, of Baltimore. Her mother
died on January 23, 1879.

CHARLES WATKINS.

Charles, son of Samuel Watkins, and his wife Elizabeth, formerly of
Halifax county, Virginia, was born in Milton, North Carolina, on July
24, 1847. The Watkins family were residents of Virginia for several
generations. Thomas Watkins, grandfather of Charles, was a justice
of the peace of Halifax county, and by virtue of being the senior justice
of the county was high sheriff. The father of Charles, Samuel Watkins,
was born in Halifax county in 1800, and died in 1868. His mother
was Elizabeth F., daughter of Thomas Stamps, of Halifax county,
whose wife was also of that county, Elizabeth Ragland. Mrs. Elizabeth
F. Watkins, born in 1813, is now living at Milton, North Carolina.
The wife of Charles Watkins, whom he married June 1, 1876, in her
native city, Baltimore, Maryland, is Virginia R., daughter of Gustavus
and Rebecca G. (Kettlewell) Ober. Her mother is living in Baltimore;
her father, son of Robert Ober of Maryland, was born in Montgomery
county, that State, and died in January, 1881, aged sixty-one years
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Watkins have two daughters, Rebecca G. and
Elizabeth F., and one son, Charles, jr.

Mr. Watkins was educated at Milton and Hillsboro, North Carolina.
In September, 1865, he went into business with his father and brother
in Milton, firm of Samuel Watkins & Sons, merchants. In 1870 he
went into the leaf tobacco business with his brother in Milton; in 1875
opened a dry goods house with his nephew at Henderson, under firm
name of S. & C. Watkins, and in the following year added leaf tobacco
to the business. Moved to Richmond in January, 1878, and became a
partner in the house of Hill, Skenker & Watkins, general commission
merchants, in May, 1882, purchased his partners' interest, and now
continues the same business under the name of Charles Watkins & Co.
He is still full partner in the business at Milton, now carried on under
the firm name and style of M. W. & C. Watkins, and in the business at
Henderson, the firm of S. & C. Watkins. He was President of the
Richmond Tobacco Trade from October, 1886 to October, 1888.

During the last two years of the civil war, Mr. Watkins served as a
cadet at the Hillsboro (N. C.) Military Academy, and was with that
body called into State military service in February, 1865, by the governor.

DR. ARMISTEAD L. WELLFORD

Was born in the city of Richmond, Virginia, on July 8, 1857. He was
a scholar at the University school, Richmond, 1872-76; student at the
University of Virginia, academic course, 1876-77, and 1877-78; student
of medicine at the Virginia Medical College, 1878-79, 1879-80, graduating
March 2d, 1880; studied medicine at the University of City of
New York, 1880-81, 1881-82, graduating March, 1882. He has been a
practitioner of medicine in Richmond city since 1882; was Adjunct
Professor of Anatomy Prosector, Virginia Medical College, 1883-85;
Adjunct Professor of Diseases of Women and Children, 1885-89; Professor
of Obstetrics, summer school, 1884 and 1885.

The father of Dr. Wellford was Dr. Armistead N. Wellford, born in
Fredericksburg, Virginia, died in July, 1884, aged fifty-two years. His
paternal grandparents were Dr. Beverley R. Wellford and Mary Alexander,
his wife. Dr. Robert Wellford, of England, who married a Miss
Yates, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, was his paternal great grandfather.
His mother was Elizabeth Landon Carter, born at "Sabine Hall,"
Richmond county, Virginia, died in August, 1858, aged twenty-eight
years. His maternal grandparents were Robert W. Carter, Esq., and
Elizabeth Tayloe, his wife, and his great grandfather was Landon Carter,
Esq. Dr. A. L. Wellford is a member of the First Presbyterian church
of Richmond.

JUDGE BEVERLEY R. WELLFORD: JR.

The subject of this sketch was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on
May 10, 1828. He was educated in Fredericksburg until he went to
college in Princeton in 1845. In 1847 he was graduated in the centennial
class of College of New Jersey. He studied law in Fredericksburg
under Hon. John Tayloe Lomax, and came to the Bar in September,
1849. He lived in Fredericksburg, practicing in the courts of adjoining
counties until December, 1854, when he removed to Richmond City,
where he has lived ever since and practiced law, with the interruption
of the war. He was elected in March, 1870, by the Legislature of Virginia,
Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Virginia; was re-elected
for additional term in 1875, and again re-elected in 1886, for the term
ending January 1, 1895.

Judge Wellford's father was Dr. Beverley R. Wellford, born in Fredericksburg,
Virginia, July 29, 1797, died in Richmond, December 24,
1870 (son of Dr. Robert Wellford and his wife Catharine, nee Yates, of
Fredericksburg), he was Professor of Materia Medica in Medical College
of Virginia from October, 1854, till about two years before his death,
was President of the National Medical Association in 1852. The
mother of Judge Wellford was Mary, youngest child of William Alexander
and Sarah Casson, his wife, of Snowden, Stafford county, Virginia.
She was born at Snowden, in October, 1803, was married in Fredericksburg
in February, 1824, and died in Richmond, in January, 1869, leaving
five sons and one daughter, viz:

i. Dr. John Spotswood Wellford, now living in Richmond, professor
in Medical College of Virginia; married Emmeline M. Tabb, formerly of
Gloucester county, Virginia. ii. Dr. Armistead N. Wellford, married
Elizabeth Landon Carter, daughter of Col. Robert W. Carter of "Sabine
Hall," Richmond county, Virginia; both now dead, left three sons. (1.
Robert Carter Wellford, now of "Sabine Hall," Richmond county, Virginia,
married Elizabeth, daughter of the late Wm. M. Harrison of
Richmond city. 2. Beverley Randolph Wellford, now practicing law in
Richmond, married Jane, daughter of Gen. James McDonald, adjutant
general of Virginia. 3. Armistead Landon Wellford, now practicing
medicine in Richmond.) iii. Beverley Randolph Wellford, jr., married
Susan S., daughter of the late Warner Throckmorton Taliaferro
and Leah Seddon, his wife, of Gloucester county, Virginia. iv.
Philip A. Wellford, now living in Richmond, married Miss Belle
Street, now dead. v. Charles Edward Wellford, now living in Richmond,
unmarried. vi. Mary Alexander, married James M. Marshall,
Esq., of Priestley, Fauquier county, Virginia, where she is now
living.

Dr. Beverley R. Wellford was twice married, his first wife being Betty
Burwell Page, daughter of Robert C. Page and Sally Nelson, his wife, of
King William county, and the issue of the union one daughter, now Mrs.
Sally Page Atkinson, wife of Rev. Joseph M. Atkinson, D. D., pastor
of the Second Presbyterian Church of Raleigh, North Carolina.

The father of Judge Wellford's wife was a son of Dr. William Taliaferro
and Mary Throckmorton, his wife, of Gloucester county, Virginia, born
in that county in 1802, died there in 1878; was a member of the Senate
of Virginia, 1865-67. Her mother was a daughter of Thomas Seddon
and his wife Susan Pierson, nee Alexander, born in Falmouth, Virginia,
in 1810, now living; elder sister of the late James A. Seddon, Confederate
States Secretary of War.

Judge Wellford's wife was born in Gloucester county, Virginia, and
they were married in that county, March 3, 1858. Of their eight children
only three are living, Fanny B., Edwin Taliaferro, Susan S. The
remaining five died in infancy Roberta C., Warner T., Mary Beverley,
Philip Alex. Taliaferro, John Spotswood.

DR. JOHN S. WELLFORD.

Dr. Robert Wellford, of England, and surgeon in the English
army during the Revolutionary war, settled in Virginia at its close at
Fredericksburg. He married Catharine Yates, of Fredericksburg. Their
son, Dr. Beverley R. Wellford, born in Fredericksburg, in June, 1797,
died in 1870, married Mary, daughter of William Alexander, of Stafford
county, Virginia. She was born in that county in 1802, and died in
1869. Of their union was born the subject of this sketch, in Fredericksburg,
January 4, 1825. He was educated at Fredericksburg, studied
medicine with his father, graduated in medicine at the University of
Pennsylvania in 1846, and from that time to 1860 practiced in Fredericksburg.
In 1860 he went to Europe, and attended hospitals there for
a year, returning to Virginia at the outbreak of the war. In 1861 he
entered service as brigade surgeon, Armistead's brigade, C. S. A., later
was assigned as division surgeon to Jackson's Hospital, Richmond, and
remained there until six weeks after the surrender, one of the last physicians
in army hospital service. Since that time he has been engaged continuously
in practice in Richmond. In 1868 he was elected professor in
the Medical College of Virginia, and has served continuously in that
position ever since. He has been four years city alderman; member of
the city council two years.

In Richmond, April 8, 1858, Dr. John S. Wellford and Emmeline Tabb
were united in marriage. Mrs. Wellford was born in Gloucester county,
Virginia, the daughter of Philip E. Tabb, Esq., formerly of that county,

now deceased. Dr. Wellford and his wife are members of the Presbyterian
Church of Richmond. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity.

ISAIAH H. WHITE. M. D.

Dr. White was born in Accomack county, Virginia, on July 24, 1838.
He attended school at Onancock, that county, then, in 1854-55, a
school at Alexandria, Virginia; William and Mary College, 1855-58,
the Medical College of Virginia, 1859-61, graduating with degree of
Doctor of Medicine in 1861. He entered the Confederate States army
in April, 1862, as assistant surgeon, assigned to duty at Chimborazo
hospital; in July 1862, was promoted surgeon, and assigned to duty
with the 14th Louisiana Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia; in February,
1864, was assigned as surgeon in charge of military prison at
Andersonville, and in the summer of 1864 was made chief surgeon of all
military prisons east of the Mississippi, so serving until the close of the
war. Settling in Richmond, at the close of the war, and entering into
practice there, Dr. White was, in the fall of 1865, chosen demonstrator
of anatomy at the Medical College of Virginia, which position he filled
ten years. In 1868 he assumed charge of the infirmary of the college,
which he conducted as a private hospital for three years. In March,
1886, he was appointed acting assistant surgeon, U. S. Marine Hospital
service, a position he still holds. He is a member of the Southern
Surgical and Gynecologiel Association, and of the Richmond Academy
of Medicine; an ex-president of the last-named society.

Dr. White's father was Samuel C. White, born in Accomack county
in 1799, died in February, 1888. His mother, Mary E., daughter of
Mitchell Chandler, of Accomack county, died in August, 1881, in her
seventy-fifth year. His wife, whom he married in Richmond, April 11,
1871, is Caroline W., daughter of Daniel Kern of Germany, deceased.
She was born in New York State.

COL. THOMAS WHITEHEAD.

Colonel Whitehead was born in Nelson county, Virginia, December 27,
1825. He went to school in Lovingston, at Lynchburg and at New
Glasgow. At the age of nineteen, he went into his father's mercantile
and tobacco establishment, and also served as deputy sheriff under his
father two and a half years. He was then in business one year in New Glasgow,
merchandise and tobacco, after that studied law at Amherst C. H.,
with Robert M. Brown. Admitted to the Bar in March, 1849, he formed
a partnership with his former teacher, and the two practiced together
until 1855. From 1855 until the beginning of the war, Colonel Whitehead

practiced individually, was a Master Commissioner in Chancery,
and was also engaged in farming. In April, 1861, he made up the company
known as the "Amherst Rangers," of which he was elected first
lieutenant, and which was assigned in service as Company E, 2d Virginia
Cavalry. In 1862 he was elected captain, and after having been twice
wounded was promoted major of the same regiment. His first wound
was received at Stevensburg, in the left knee, from a ricochetting cannon
ball; the second, gunshot in the left arm, at Trevilian Depot, disabled
him for active service, and from that time till the close of the war he
was, by order of General Lee, detailed on a Military Board.

Since the close of the war Colonel Whitehead has been engaged in
farming, in merchandising, in the practice of law, in journalism, and in
public life. In 1865 he was elected to the Virginia legislature by the
district composed of Amherst, Nelson and Buckingham counties. This
legislature never assembled, the election having been set aside by military
authority. In 1866 he was elected commonwealth attorney for
Amherst county, but removed by military orders. Re-elected to this
office in 1869 he served until, in 1872, he was elected to the Forty-Third
Congress from the Sixth Congressional District. At this time he was
editing and publishing the Amherst Enterprise. In June, 1876, he became
editor of the Lynchburg Daily News; in 1880 established and
edited the Lynchburg Daily Advance; in 1885 established Whitehead's
Democrat, a weekly, at Lynchburg, which paper he removed in 1887 to
Amherst C. H. and discontinued in December, 1888. In December, 1887,
he was elected commissioner of agriculture for the State of Virginia,
and is still serving.

Colonel Whitehead is a member of the M. E. church (South), which he
joined in 1854. He is a Mason, into which Order he was admitted in
1848; in 1849 he joined the Sons of Temperance; in 1885 the Good
Templars. His father was John Whitehead, born in Amherst county in
1787, died in Lynchburg in 1856, a son of Burcher Whitehead who married
Nancy Camden, and who was a son of John Whitehead, born in
New Kent county, removed to Amherst county before the Revolution.
The mother of Colonel Whitehead was Anna, daughter of Dennis
Mahony, born in Philadelphia, brought to Virginia in childhood. His
first wife, who died in January, 1853, aged twenty years, was Mary K.
Irving. At Amherst C. H., June 14, 1854, he married Martha Henry
Garland of Amherst county. Their children were born in the order
named: John, Millie P., Thos., jr., David G., Mary I., Irving P., Mattie
G., Essie, Nellie G., Robert C.

CHARLES EVANS WINGO,

Born, reared and educated in the county of Amelia, Virginia, came to
Richmond in 1859, and engaged in business as clerk in the wholesale
grocery house of Eggleston & Fitzgerald; then doing a large business
on 14th street. He remained with this firm one year, when he was
offered a situation with Samuel M. Price & Co., a large retail dry goods
house, doing business on Main street, as entry clerk and cashier, which
he accepted. In 1861, as soon as the news of the battle of Bull Run
reached Richmond, he surrendered his situation, and enlisted as a private
in the First Company of Richmond Howitzers, Col. John C. Shields
commanding, stationed at Centreville, Virginia. He remained with
this company until severely wounded in the battle of Sharpsburg, September
17, 1862, his wounds disabling him for further field service.
He was placed on the retired list of the C. S. army, but was later assigned
to duty as enrolling officer of the county of Amelia. He joined
General Lee's army on the retreat, and surrendered with it at Appomattox.
He has an only brother who was in service, and also surrendered
at Appomattox.

After the close of the war, Mr. Wingo returned to Richmond, and engaged
in the mercantile business, first with John C. Miller & Co., dry
goods, afterwards with Gardner & Carlton, boots and shoes. In 1870
he founded the business in which he is senior partner, the firm of Wingo,
Ellett & Crump, wholesale boot and shoes.

Mr. Wingo is a son of William A. Wingo, who was born in Amelia
county in 1818, and died in 1846, and who was a son of Allen Wingo,
of the same county. His mother, born in Amelia county in 1820, and
still living, is Sarah Jane, daughter of John and Mary A. Johnson, nee
Wooldridge, both of Amelia county. On December 17, 1878, he married
Sallie Belle Knight, who is a daughter of Col. William Carter
Knight, and a granddaughter of John Howell Knight, of Nottoway
county, Virginia. Her mother is Mrs. Cleverena T. Knight of Richmond,
Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Wingo are members of the First Baptist church
of Richmond. Their children are four, Janie Belle, Charles E., William
Wythe and John Trevilian.

PHILIP P. WINSTON

Was born in Hanover county, Virginia, May 20, 1828, the son of Henry
and Jane (Doswell) Winston, of that county, both now deceased. His
father died a few months before Philip's birth, in 1827, aged fifty-five
years. Until he was seventeen years of age the subject of this sketch
attended school in his native county. He then clerked for eighteen
months in that county, since which time his home has been in Richmond.

He was two years deputy sheriff under Richard Adams, of Richmond,
when, under the provisions of the old constitution, the senior magistrate
was the sheriff, and he has been connected with the sheriff's office since
1847 continuously except for a few years and during the war. He is now
deputy sheriff. His second son, Lewis P., has been high sheriff of Richmond,
Virginia, since February, 1884.

In 1862 Philip P. Winston entered the Confederate States army,
Company B, 15th Virginia Infantry, private. He was wounded and
made prisoner at Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 17, 1862, held on
the battlefield three weeks, then exchanged. Returning to Richmond
he was appointed clerk in the comptroller's office, C. S. A., and so served
until the close of the war, returning then to the sheriff's office as deputy
under John W. Wright.

In Hanover county, Virginia, May 14, 1857, he married Maria Louisa
McGee, born in that county, the daughter of Edward and Marietta
(Lipscombe) McGee, both now deceased. The fruit of this union is six
children, born in the order named: Edward H., Lewis P., Wesley M.,
Mary W., Lizzie W. and John G.

JUDGE SAMUEL B. WITT.

The subject of this sketch was born in Prince Edward county, Virginia,
on September 6, 1850. After the usual academic training he entered
Richmond College, where in 1873 he was graduated in law under
Mr. Wm. Green and Judge Holyburton. In 1874 he began practice in
Richmond, in which he was continuously engaged until he took his seat
on the Bench. In 1879 he was elected member of the Virginia legislature
from the city of Richmond; in 1880 was appointed commonwealth
attorney for the city, to serve out the unexpired term of Geo. D. Wise,
and he was re-elected to that position at each ensuing election until
elected Judge of the Hustings Court of Richmond, on the duties of
which office he entered January 1, 1889. Judge Witt is a member of
the Commandery of St. Andrew, K. T.; of Temple Lodge, No. 9, A. F.
& A. M.; Richmond Lodge, Elks; Stonewall Grove, Druids.

At Marshall, Fauquier county, Virginia, November 12, 1884, he married
Mariana, daughter of Thomas R. Foster, of that place. Her
mother, Mary (Smith) Foster, is now deceased. Judge Witt is a son of
Daniel Witt, who was a son of David Witt, and was born in Bedford
county, Virginia, 1801, died in Prince Edward county, 1870. His
mother is Mary Ellen, daughter of Edward Garlick, of King William
county, Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Witt have two daughters, Mary Brent
and Ellen Carkie Witt.

STAUNTON

HON. JOHN HOWE PEYTON

Of Staunton, Virginia, was born in Stafford county, Virginia, in 1778,
and died in Augusta county in 1847. He was descended from the ancient
English family of Peytons of Isleham, County Cambridge, England,
was graduated A. M. at Princeton, New Jersey, in 1797, after a brilliant
university career, competing for the highest honors with Richard
Rush of Philadelphia and Chas Fenton Mercer of Virginia, studied law
under Judge Bushrod Washington of the U. S. Supreme Court, was admitted
to the Bar in 1799, establishing at once a reputation as a lawyer,
debater and orator. In 1806 he was elected a delegate to the General
Assembly of Virginia, from Stafford, and was regarded in the
House as a parliamentary leader and orator of the first order. He was
author of the celebrated report and resolutions on the subject of a tribunal
for settling disputes between the States and Federal judiciary,
adopted by the legislature of Virginia in 1810. He removed from Stafford
to Augusta county in 1809, and was appointed attorney for the
commonwealth in the circuit, the most lucrative and important office
in the state at that time, which office he held until he resigned in 1845,
acquiring in the thirty-six years the reputation of being the ablest
criminal lawyer and public prosecutor Virginia ever had. In 1812 he was
commissioned major, and served in the army under Gen. Robert Porterfield
until 1815, his minor children receiving a pension for his services
in the war. On the return of peace he resumed the law practice, and
was appointed deputy U. S. district attorney for Western Virginia.
Though greatly engrossed by professional duties he found time to contribute
to reviews papers rich in lessons of truth, wisdom and faith, on
literary, social and political topics, and to maintain a correspondence
with Jefferson, whose counselor he was, with Chief Justice Marshall,
who also, in his business affairs, availed himself of Mr. Peyton's legal
abilities, with Presidents Monroe and Madison, with Gov. Thos. M. Randolph,
Wm. C. Rives, and others of eminence. In 1836 he was elected
to the Senate of Virginia, re-elected in 1840, occupying in that body a
position of commanding influence, and giving a general support to the
Whig party. In 1840 he was appointed by President Harrison a visitor

to West Point. He resigned his seat in the Senate in 1845 on account
of ill health.

In his biographical sketch of Mr. Peyton, Major John T. L. Preston
speaks of him as a complete lawyer, a man knowing every part of his
profession, and who had met in contest the strongest men in each department
of his profession, and had made himself a champion in all.

As a speaker his language, Prof. Preston says, was "forcible, pure
and idiomatic;" "his mind no Sybil's cave whence came forth wind-driven
leaves inscribed with mighty thoughts disposed by chance, but a
spacious castle, from whose wide-open portals issued men-at-arms
orderly arrayed." Prof. Preston continues that while Mr. Peyton was
"thoroughly furnished in every part of his profession, in one department
his qualifications were peculiar and unsurpassed—he was the best commonwealth
attorney in the State. He was the lawyer of the commonwealth,
which he treated as a client, laboring for her with the same
zeal, industry and fidelity that he manifested in behalf of any other client.
The oft-quoted merciful maxim of the common law, "better that ninety
and nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man suffer,"
he interpreted as a caution to respect the rights of the innocent, and
not as an injunction to clear the guilty, and he labored to reduce
the percentage of rogues unwhipt of justice as low as possible. With a
clearness and force rarely equalled, would he point out the necessity of
punishing the guilty in order that the innocent might be safe, thus exhibiting
the absolute consistency of strict justice with true mercy. So
simply and earnestly would he do this, that he not only bound the consciences
of a jury, but also made them feel that they were individually
interested in the faithful execution of the laws. Here his clear perception
of the moral principles upon which rests the penal code and his
fondness for recurring to general principles stood him in great stead. It
was delightful to hear him expatiate upon the theme, for upon no other
was he more truly eloquent."

In the great discussion in the U. S. Senate between Daniel Webster
and Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina, Mr. Webster referred to and
quoted from the preamble and resolutions presented to the Virginia
legislature in 1810 by Mr. Peyton, and said they were so conclusive
of the questions involved in that controversy that they would not admit
of further discussion. Mr. Peyton was inflexible in his integrity,
or, as Hon. Daniel Sheffey expressed the idea: "was not only a great,
but a good man." B. Watkins Leigh, referring to him said he was
"the greatest lawyer west of the Blue Ridge." Judge Henry St. Geo.
Tucker said: "I regard Mr. Peyton as one of the most profound and
learned of lawyers."

Mr. Peyton married first Susan, a daughter of Wm. S. Madison,

nephew of Bishop Madison of Virginia and of Gov. George Madison of
Kentucky. She died, leaving him one son, Col. Wm. Madison Peyton,
of Roanoke county, Virginia.

(Wm. Madison Peyton, born in 1803, died 1868, was educated at Yale
College; was a member of the legislature of Virginia; was tendered, on
recommendation of Hon. Wm. C. Rives, by President Jackson, the position
of secretary of the Legation, Paris, in 1829, which he declined;
married, in 1826, Sally, daughter of Judge Allen Taylor, and left a
large family. He was a man of extensive acquirements, of genius, with
charming manners, a brilliant speaker and conversationalist.)

Secondly Mr. Peyton married Ann Montgomery Lewis, a daughter of
Major John Lewis of the Revolutionary army, who owned and lived at
the Sweet Springs, Monroe county, (now) West Virginia, whose wife
was a daughter of Col. Wm. Preston of Smithfield, Montgomery county,
Virginia, and a cousin of Hon. Wm. C. Preston of South Carolina, Gov.
James McDowell of Virginia, Gen. P. B. Porter of New York, Gen. John
C. Breckinridge, vice-president of the United States, and many other
eminent Southern men. By this marriage Mr. Peyton left a large
family.

The only son of the second marriage, John Lewis Peyton, author of
(1) "The American Crisis, or Pages from the Note-Book of a Confederate
Foreign State Agent," published in London; (2) "Over the Alleghanies
and Across the Prairies, or Personal Recollections of the Far West;" (3)
"A History of Augusta County, Virginia;" (4) "Rambling Reminiscences
of a Residence Abroad," and many other popular works highly
esteemed by men of letters, and favorably reviewed in the periodicals of
this country and Europe. While in England Col. J. L. Peyton was
elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London and a
member of the "Society of Americanists" of Luxembourg, Prussia. He
is also a corresponding member of the Virginia and the Wisconsin Historical
societies, and of other learned bodies. From the University of
Virginia he received the degree of Bachelor of Law in 1845. In 1855
President Pierce tendered him the position of United States district attorney
for Utah, which he declined. When not abroad, he has spent his
life principally on his fertile and beautiful estate of "Steephill," by
Staunton, Virginia, serving under the old constitution as a justice of
the peace, as a bank director, and as a member of the Board of Visitors
of the Virginia Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution at Staunton. He has
always taken a warm interest in public improvements, in the advancement
of education, and in the general promotion of all good and worthy
objects. John Esten Cook, reviewing in the Southern Review of Baltimore,
Colonel Peyton's "American Crisis," says of his sketches of the
public men at the head of the Confederacy: "He has the art to make

them more interesting than any other author of the time." In England
Colonel Peyton was a general favorite in society, and Hepworth Dixon,
editor of the Athenæum, and author of "New America," said. "He was
the ablest of the able men sent to Europe to represent the Southern
cause," and that his return to America was "the subject of general
regret, especially to persons of literature and science."

Colonel Peyton married Henrietta Clark, a daughter of Col. John C.
Washington, of Kinston, North Carolina, a descendant of the illustrious
Washington family of Virginia, by his wife Mary Bond, sprung
from one of the Mayflower "Pilgrim Fathers." Mrs. Peyton is a niece of
the late Gov. Wm. A. Graham of North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy,
U. S. Senator, etc., and a relative of the Haywards, Branches, Cobbs,
Bryans, Clarks, Blounts, and other distinguished Southern families
Colonel and Mrs. Peyton have issue one son, Lawrence Washington
Howe Peyton.

John Howe Peyton's seven daughters married as follows: (1) Susan
Madison, married Col. John B. Baldwin, a distinguished lawyer, and
member of the C. S. Congress, (2) Mary Preston, married R. A. Gray,
(3) Lucy Garnett, married Judge John N. Hendren (4) Elizabeth
Trent, married Hon. Wm. B. Telfair of Ohio, (5) Margaret Lynn, married
Capt. George M. Cochran, jr., of Staunton, (6) Virginia Frances,
married Col. Joseph F. Kent of Wythe county, (7) Cornelia, married
Dr. Thos. Brown, and after his death, Wm. H. Greene of Augusta.

HON. JOHN LEWIS PEYTON,

Of Steephill, by Staunton, Virginia, lawyer, litterateur, and author,
was born in Staunton in 1824, and is a son of the eminent lawyer, John
Howe Peyton, by his second wife Ann Montgomery, a daughter of
Major John Lewis of the Sweet Springs, West Virginia, a distinguished
officer of the Revolutionary army, son of Col. William Lewis, a colonial
military officer, and one of the survivors of Braddock's bloody defeat,
a nephew of Gen. Andrew Lewis, the hero of Point Pleasant, and a
grandson of Col. John Lewis, the Huguenot founder of Augusta county
Major Lewis married Mary, a daughter of Col. William Preston of
Smithfield, Virginia, and thus J. L. Peyton is the kinsman of William
Campbell Preston of South Carolina, Gov. James McDowell of Virginia,
William Ballard Preston, Gen. John C. Breckenridge, vice-president of the
United States, Gov. B. Gratz Brown of Missouri, Francis P. Blair, Gen.
T. T. Crittenden, Senators Randall, Lee Gibson of Louisiana, and John
E. Kenna of West Virginia, and of many other distinguished men of the
South. He was graduated B. L., University of Virginia, in 1845, in
1852 sent by Daniel Webster, secretary of state, to England, France

and Austria; returned in 1853 and resided two years in Chicago; major
of 1st Chicago regiment of uniformed volunteers, and lieutenant-colonel
commanding 18th battalion, N. G., contributed to the Chicago Democratic
press, associate editor of Danenhower's Literary Budget and
writer for Hunt's Merchant's Magazine of New York, and Appleton's
New American Cyclopedia. He published in 1854 "Pacific Railway
Communications and the Trade of China," and "A Statistical View of
the State of Illinois," etc., which had an extended circulation, and which
the Editor of DeBow's Review said "were invaluable contributions to
the literature of the Times." [See 16 & 17 vol. of DeBow's Review.]
Owing to his high rank at the Chicago bar, was tendered by President
Pierce, the office of U. S. District Attorney for Utah, which he declined
from ill health, returned to Virginia, and was elected Magistrate, Bank
Director, etc., and was appointed by the Governor of Virginia a member
of the Board of Visitors of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution
at Staunton, writing the report of the Board to the Legislature for
the year following. In 1855 married Henrietta, daughter of Colonel
John C. Washington, of Lenoir County, North Carolina, of the illustrious
Washington family of Virginia, whose wife was a daughter of
Southey Bond Esq., of Raleigh, a descendent of one of the Mayflower's
Pilgrim Fathers, and has one son, Lawrence W. H. Peyton. Mrs. Peyton
is a niece of the late Gov. William A. Graham, of North Carolina,
U. S. Senator, Sec'y of the Navy, etc., and is connected with the Haywards,
Branches, Blounts, Bryans, Swains, Clarks, Saunders and other
distinguished North Carolina and Southern families.

In 1861, while Col. J. L. Peyton was engaged in raising and drilling
a force for the Confederate States Army, he was appointed agent of the
State of North Carolina in Europe, broke the blockade at Charleston,
South Carolina, in the Confederate States' Man-of-War, "Nashville,"
Capt. R. B. Pegram commanding, and reached the Bermuda Islands,
where he was received and entertained with distinguished consideration
by Gov. Harry St. George Ord, and the public authorities and the inhabitants
generally, sailed for the Azores, the "Nashville" capturing and burning
en route the U. S. packet ship, "Harvy Birch," reached Southampton,
England, November 21st, 1861, where the officers and crew,
80 in number, of the "Harvy Birch" had their irons knocked off and were
liberated. Sojourned in Europe until 1876, was entertained at the palace
of the Tuilleries by Napoleon III, and made the acquaintance and
acquired the friendship of Lamartine, Arago, Dupin, Victor Hugo, of
Lords Palmerston, Ashburton, Russell, and the leading statesmen,
scholars, and public men of England, France and Italy; was received
in the Vatican by Cardinal Antonelli, and made the acquaintance of
Cardinals Baremeo, Wiseman and other dignitaries of the Church of

Rome; elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London,
and of the society of Americanists, of Luxembourg, Prussia; is a corresponding
member of the Virginia Historical Society, the Wisconsin
State Historical Society and other learned bodies.

Col. Peyton has been a voluminous writer and is author of "The
American Crisis, or Pages from the Note Book of a State Agent during
the Civil War in America," 2 vols., London, 1866. "Over the Alleghanies
and Across the Prairies—Personal Recollections of the Far
West," London, 1867. "A History of Augusta Co., Virginia," Staunton,
1882. "Rambling Reminiscences of a Residence Abroad," Staunton,
1888, and other able and popular works. He edited, with an introduction,
"The Glasse of Time," reprinted in 1887 in New York, from
the London edition of 1620.

Col. Peyton's books published in England were most favorably received
by the British public, and flatteringly reviewed by the leading
literary magazines and journals. Hepworth Dixon, author of "New
America," etc., and editor of "The Athenæum," of London, said that Col.
Peyton had sketched the public men of the civil war in "sharp and biting
acid, and that he was the ablest of the able men sent by the South
to represent her cause in Europe." Bezer Blundell, F. R. S., remarks,
in a pamphlet review of 46 pages of Col. Peyton's works, "He is a
scholar and a gentleman, who, in his exile has not now to learn what
Bœthius discovered more than 1300 years ago, that `the sense of misfortune
may be dignified by the labor of thought.' " . . . "He will, we
persuade ourselves, take in good part our exhortation to emulate the
historical renown of his fellow-countrymen, Bancroft and Motley, or
the late Wm. H. Prescott . . . To the annals of Col. Peyton's
native Virginia, he has contributed valuable materials, but since her
entire history, at least on a scale adequate to her political importance,
has yet to be written, we would commend to his consideration the old
classic admonition spartam nactus es, hanc exorna." John Esten
Cook, in the Southern Review says: "He is a liberal minded traveler,
cosmopolitan in taste, with a quick eye for the characteristic, the
humorous and the picturesque. His style is direct, lucid, unassuming,
and at all times full of simplicity and ease. He observes keenly and
narrates incidents and adventures as he describes character, with the
art of a raconteur, and succeeds in riveting the attention." "That these
works (The American Crisis, and Over the Alleghanies) possess unusual
merits, we feel safe in asserting. One merit, it is not in our eyes a slight
one, is that Col. Peyton everywhere writes like a gentleman. The age
we live in has carried its `fast' and `slap dash' propensities into literature.
Repose, simplicity and that charming unreserve which characterizes
the well-bred gentleman, writing for persons of culture and

intelligence, is his. His descriptions and comments possess great directness
and picturesqueness, mingled with a natural and agreeable humor,
and render his volumes extremely agreeable reading. . . . The works
would prove highly successful, we think, if republished in America."
Mr. Cook writes again: "I have been recently re-reading your excellent
`American Crisis,' and think it your most attractive work. You should
employ your leisure, I think, in adding to these life-like sketches, which,
I think, you have the art to make more interesting than any other
author of the time."

During his long residence in England Col. Peyton was cheered by the
respectful consideration and friendly esteem extended to him by all
classes, particularly persons of literature and science, and his departure
for America was regretted as a general loss to society. Victor
Hugo testified his esteem and friendship by presenting him a copy of
his likeness, suitably inscribed in his own hand writing, which is preserved
at Steephill as a precious souvenir of the immortal poet.

Our author's works, published in America since his return, have been
received with general favor. Literary men, north and south, commending
them as models of their kind, as says Professor Schele de Vere, of
the University of Virginia; and says Professor Richardson, of Dartmouth
College: "Had I possessed the volume in time, I would have
used parts of its investigation in my vol. 1st of American Literature."
Broad, comprehensive, and Catholic in his political views and sentiments,
he does not indulge in State prejudices, or sectional antipathies,
and once remarked to the writer in speaking of the worth of nations,
that "Justice requires that while their follies and vices are remembered,
their virtues should not be forgotten. Individuals and nations
are equally stung with a sense of wrong when their crimes are acrimoniously
recapitulated, and their great and good actions are all forgotten.
This fatal forgetfulness is the origin of that rancor which has
so long desolated the Earth. It distracts private families, confounds
public principles and turns even patriotism into poison. Let those
who have the smallest love for the happiness of mankind, beware how
they indulge this pernicious propensity. He who in every man wishes
to meet a brother will very rarely encounter an enemy."

Col. Peyton "is," says a writer in one of our journals, giving an
account of a visit to his lovely country home, "an old-fashioned man
in the simplicity of his manners and habits, enjoys a joke, goes to the fairs
with the young folks, and is not ashamed to be seen, as he was recently,
surrounded by a troupe of friends, old and young, at a circus. He
makes it a rule to go a fishing at least once a summer with all his household.
He thinks nothing vulgar but what is mean, and he thinks nothing
mean that contributes to health and cheerfulness. Hs is, in a word,

a contented man, whom no good fortune can pamper or corrupt, no
adversity sour, and no fashion change."

Professor C. R. Richardson, on p. 426, of the 2nd vol. of his able and
valuable history of American Literature, gives an extract from a letter
of Col. Peyton, which not only testfies to his own liberal and national
sentiments as to sectionalism in Literature, but to those of the present
generation of Southerners Prof. R. says: "An able, unquestionable and
admirably concise and strong expression of the true Southern attitude
toward American literature, is made by a very competent authority, in
a personal letter to me, from which I am permitted to quote. Col. J.
Lewis Peyton, of Steephill-by-Staunton, Virginia, is peculiarly qualified
to speak on this subject, by descent, by remarkably extended family
connections with the great men of the South, by important services
to the Confederate States, when their representative in England, and by
his own relation to literary work. He writes: `In the South, as with
you, nobody now thinks of the birth place of an American writer, we
only wish to know what he has turned a sheet of white paper into,
with pen and ink, and I hardly think any but a man of diseased mind
and imagination, like Poe, would ever have uttered such sentiments as
he did as to Edward Coate Pinkney. The enlightened men of this region,
as of yours, know no north or South in literature—only one grand
Republic of letters, in which every man standeth according to the Soundness
of his heart and the strength of his understanding.' "

It will interest the public to learn that Col. Peyton is now engaged in
the composition of a work entitled: "A History of Virginia from the
Retrocession of Alexandria to the Reconstruction of the Union."
The Staunton Spectator says of this forthcoming work that "it will
cover the whole period of the Civil War and the causes which led up to
it, and that the great erudition of the author, his laborious habits and
vast research, together with his literary abilities, will make it one of the
most valuable and important books ever published in the State." The
Valley Virginian says: "Concentrating his brilliant powers on this work,
it cannot be doubted that it will be worthy of the subject and the fame
acquired by the author in his previous works. The public will await
the book with impatience. The calm, dispassionate, philosophical
character of Col. Peyton's mind, his uncommon industry and painstaking
research, his varied knowledge and graphic style, will, in our
opinion, enable him to produce an elegant and faithful history, such as
Virginia may well be proud of."

The two original settlers in the Colony of Virginia, John and Robert
Peyton, were both of the Ancient Isleham Peyton stock, which sprung
from Reginald de Malet, a nephew of William de Malet, one of the great
Barons who accompanied William Ist to the Conquest of England, and

was his mace bearer at the battle of Hastings. From him sprung Sir
Robert Peyton de Ufford or Orford, who was summoned to Parliament
as a Baron, 1308, and was so distinguished in the wars of Edward II
and III, that he was granted the town and Castle of Orford or Ufford,
in the county of Suffolk, and also for the personal danger he incurred
in arresting Mortimer and some of his adherents in the Castle of Nottingham,
a further grant of large landed possessions. In eleventh
of Edward III, he was created Earl of Suffolk, and was sent on an embassy
to treat for peace with David Bruce, King of Scotland. In the
same year he was with the Earl of Derby at the battle of Cajent. In
12th Edward III he served in Flanders and Brittany. Five years later,
he was with the Black Prince in France and at the battle of Poictiers,
and gained the highest Military renown by his skill as a leader and his
personal courage. He was one of the Founders of the order of the
garter. He died in 1369, and among other bequests leaves to his son
William, 2nd Earl of Suffolk "the sword, wherewith the King girt him
when he created him Earl; as also his bed, with the Eagle entire, and
his summer vestment powdered with Leopards." (See Froissart vol. I,
ch. 237.)

A long line of Peytons sprung from this source namely, 1st, the Peyton's
of Isleham, the Peyton's of Knowlton, the Peyton's of Doddington,
among whom there were many men conspicuous for their talents and
virtues—one of whom was the eminent lawyer Robert Peyton, Lord
Chief Justice of Ireland time of Henry III. Sir John Peyton M. P.,
time of Edward I. Gen. Sir Robert Peyton, time of Henry VIII. Sir
Edward Peyton, author of the History of the Reign of James I. and
other works. Thomas Peyton, of Lincolns Inn, author of "The Glasse
of Time," published 1620, and which is by many regarded as the original
of Paradise Lost. Gen. Sir John Peyton, Governor of Ross Castle.
Gen. Sir John Peyton, Governor of Jersey and author of a code of
Norman-Jersey laws. Gen. Sir Henry Peyton, Governor of Galway,
time of Queen Anne. Sir Henry Peyton, member of the London Co.
for the settlement of Va. Sir Sewster Peyton, a Cabinet Minister
in the reign of Queen Anne, and others too numerous to mention. The
family is, in 1889, represented in England by Sir Algernon Peyton,
Baronet of Doddington, late of the 11th Hussars, born 1855, whose
brother, Revd. Thomas Thornhill Peyton M. A., who married a daughter
of Sir William Styles, of Wateringburg Place, Kent. is Rector of
Isleham, a benefice which has been in the Peyton family over 400 years.
The parish church was begun to be rebuilt 17th year of Edward IV.
(A. D. 1479) and is in 1889 in perfect preservation. In the Chancel
and the Peyton Chapel many members of the family are interred,

over whose remains fine monuments have been erected—one of these
bears this quaint inscription:

John Peyton settled in Westmoreland County, Virginia in 1664, and
Robert Peyton in Gloucester County in 1660, and through the
researches of Dr. Robert A. Brock, the accomplished Secretary of the
Virginia Historical Society we are enabled to give the following extracts
from the Land registry office, at Richmond, Virginia, showing the
early date at which several members of the family possessed themselves
of Virginian lands, viz,

Henry Peyton, of Acquia, Westmoreland County, took up in that
county 400 acres of land, Nov. 1st 1657.

Col. Valentine Peyton, of Nominy, County Westmoreland, took
up in that county 1600 acres July 20th 1662.

Major Robert Peyton, took up in New Kent County, April 23rd 1681,
1000 acres.

Thomas Peyton, of Gloucester entered June 16th, 1758, 150 acres.

The prominent members of the American family not heretofore
mentioned have been Yelverton Peyton, Lieut U. S. A. 1794; Garnett
Peyton, Capt. U. S. A. 1799, a son of John R. Peyton, of Stony Hill,
Stafford County, Virginia who was styled in Virginia, "the first gentleman
of his day." Francis Peyton M. D. Surgeon U. S. A. 1799; Robert
Peyton Capt. U. S. A. 1812. James R. Peyton Capt. U. S. A. 1813,
Col. Harry Peyton, of Revolutionary fame and the ancestor of Col.
John B. Baldwin, Mrs. A. H. H. Stuart, Mrs. James M. Ranson, Mrs.
R. T. W. Duke and others, John S. Peyton Capt. U. S. A. 1813; Bernard
Peyton, Capt. U. S. A. 1813, adjutant General of Virginia and
in 1840-44 Post-Master at Richmond, Va. Richard H. Peyton, Capt.
U. S. A. 1839 who died the same year in Florida, a distinguished
Graduate of West Point, Balie Peyton M. C. 1835-1837, appointed
Sec'y of War 1841, but declined, Colonel of 5th Louisiana regiment in

the Mexican war, and aid de camp to Gen. Worth and voted a
sword of honor by the State of Louisiana, in 1848-52 Minister Plenipotentiary
to Chili and later U. S. Attorney for California. He was a
splendid soldier, an eloquent speaker and was called the "Silver tongued
orator." Col. John Peyton Commisary-General of the Revolutionary
army elected by the Legislature of Va. 1779; Jos. H. Peyton M. C.
for Tennessee, Samuel O. Peyton M. C. for Kentucky. Judge E. G.
Peyton Chief Justice of Mississippi, an eminent lawyer, Col. Charles L.
Peyton, Greenbrier Co., W. Va. a son of Craven Peyton, of Monteagle,
Albermarle Co. Va., by his wife Jane Jefferson, dau. of Randolph Lewis,
whose mother was a sister of President Jefferson, Robert Ludwell Yates
Peyton, a Missouri State Senator and Senator for Missouri in the Confederate
Congress, a colonel in the C. S. A. and a man of such remarkable
talents and such rare oratorical powers that he was styled the
"Patrick Henry of the West." He graduated B. L. of Va. 1843 and
died in 1862, from disease contracted in the field, at the siege of Vicksburg,
Mississippi. Col. Charles S. Peyton, of W. Va., who lost
his arm at the battle of Manassas, but as soon as his wound was healed
reassumed his old command, and participated in nearly all the battles
of the eastern theatre of the war—leading his regiment (the 19th Virginia),
in the celebrated charge of Pickett's brigade at Gettysburg and
when every field officer was killed or shot down, took command and led
the remnant of that heroic force, with Lee's retreating army, to Virginia.
He is a noble specimen of humanity, a man sans peur et sans
reproche.

Col. William Madison Peyton, long the representative of Roanoke
and Botetourt in the General Assembly of Virginia, the only son by
the first marriage of Hon. John Howe Peyton, a man endowed
with great vigor and vivacity of intellect, purity of heart and sweetness
of disposition. His master passions were freedom of thought and
love of country. It is the opinion of those who knew him best, and
the high and commanding influence he exerted in his day, that but
for his continued ill-health, which largely destroyed his physical and
mental energies, he would have played a great part in the affairs of his
country. Disease caused him to spend his time in study, when he could
study, at his country seat in Roanoke, a quiet only occasionally
interrupted by the part he was compelled by the importunities of his
friends and neighbors to take in public affairs as a magistrate, a director
in public companies and a delegate to the Legislature. Oftener
than once has it been remarked of him that he was a fine illustration
of the truth of the remark that the "world knows nothing of its greatest
men."

The Peytons are extensively connected with the leading families of

the State, such as the Brokenboroughs, Baldwins, Bernards, Conways,
Carters, Clarks, Fitzhughs, Greens, Garnetts, Harvies, Harrisons, Jeffersons,
Lewis', Masons, Munfords, Madisons, Moncures, Prestons,
Randolphs, Stuarts, Scotts of Fauquier, Skipwiths, Tuckers, Washingtons,
Woodvilles and Wallaces, and of that vast ramification of
families traced out by the late Orlando Brown in his Memoranda of
the Preston family.

ALLEN CAPERTON BRAXTON.

The family line of the subject of this sketch is thus traced: George
Braxton, Gentleman, came from England to the Colony of Virginia, and
"Chericoke," an estate in King William county, which has ever since
been in the possession of his lineal descendants, was granted him.
He was the father of Carter Braxton, signer of the Declaration of Independence
(see Volume I of this work). Carter Braxton had a son
named George, who was the father of Dr. Corbin Braxton, all of
"Chericoke." Dr. Tomlin Braxton, son of Corbin, was born at "Chericoke"
and still resides there. He married Mary Caperton, daughter of
the late Hon. Allen Caperton, of Monroe county, West Virginia, who
was a member of the U. S. Senate when he died, about 1876. She was
born at Union, Monroe county, about 1838, and is still living. Allen
Caperton was the son of Hugh Caperton, of Monroe county, who was
the son of Adam Caperton, a Huguenot refugee.

Allen Caperton Braxton, son of Dr. Tomlin Braxton and his wife,
Mary, was born in Union, Monroe county, on February 6, 1862. He
received his academic education at Pampatike Academy, King William
county, Virginia, read law at the University of Virginia, in the summer
course of Professor Minor. was admitted to the Bar in the fall
of 1883, and has been practicing in Staunton ever since. In the spring
of 1886 he was elected commonwealth's attorney and city attorney for
the city of Staunton re-elected in 1889, and is still serving, is an Oddfellow
and a Mason.

CAPT. JAMES BUMGARDNER

Was born at Fayette, Howard county, Missouri, on February 18,
1835, his paternal ancestry of Virginia descent. He is a son of Lewis
Bumgardner, who was born in Augusta county in 1806, is still living,
and whose father was Jacob Bumgardner, of Augusta county, a son of
Christian Bumgardner, of Shenandoah county, Virginia, who served in
the Indian wars prior to the Revolution, and in the Revolutionary war.
Captain Bumgardner's mother was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and

died at the age of fifty-nine years. She was Hetty Ann, daughter of Daniel
Halstead, of Lexington, Kentucky, and of Carlisle, Illinois, whose
father was living in New Jersey at the time of the Revolutionary war,
and was captured on the retreat of the American Army from Long
Island, and died with a number of others a prisoner of war while held
in prison in the Old North Church in New York City.

At the birthplace and residence of the bride, Bethel Church, Augusta
county, Virginia, Captain Bumgardner married Mary Mildred, daughter
of James Bumgardner. Their six children were born in the order named.
Minnie M., James Lewis, Rudolph, Augusta, Eugenia and Nellie C.
Mrs. Bumgardner's father was born in Augusta county, a son of the
Jacob Bumgardner before mentioned, in 1801, and is still living at
Bethel Church. Her mother, still living, was born in Rockbridge
county, Virginia, Malinda, daughter of Capt. Alexander McCorkle,
whose father served in the Revolutionary war until he was wounded at
battle of Guilford Court House, of which wounds he died. Captain
Bumgardner was educated at the University of Virginia, taught school
in Spottsylvania county, Virginia, 1853-4, at Madison C. H., Virginia,
1854-5, and 1855-6, was admitted to the Bar in 1859, and practiced
in Staunton until the beginning of the war. He entered the Confederate
service as adjutant of the 5th Virginia Infantry, Stonewall Brigade,
with which he served until the reorganization of the army in May, 1862.
He then enlisted as a private in Company A, 52nd Virginia Infantry,
was elected lieutenant of that company May 6, 1862, promoted captain
Company F, same regiment, in September, 1862, after that commanded
his company in all its movements until captured at Winchester,
Virginia, on September 19, 1864. From that time until the close
of the war he was held prisoner at Fort Delaware. After the close of
the war he resumed practice in Staunton. He was in partnership with-H.
W. Sheffy from the time of his admission to the Bar until that gentleman's
death, on April 4, 1889. He was elected attorney for the
commonwealth in August, 1865, and filled the office by re-elections
until 1883.

WILLIAM A. BURNETT

Was born in Nelson county, Virginia, on December 2, 1837, a son of
Reuben Tucker Burnett, who was born in Nelson county on July 31,
1797, and is living now with him in Staunton, and a grandson of Richmond
Burnett. His mother was Eliza Corbin, daughter of Charles W.
Purvis, she was born in Nelson county, and died on December 24, 1882,
aged eighty-three years. His wife, whom he married on November 12,
1862, and who was born in Staunton, November 10, 1845, is Catharine
J., daughter of Samuel M. Woodward and his wife Mary C., daughter

of Peter Hanger. Her mother died at the age of sixty-eight years, her
father, who was born in Augusta county, and was many years steward
of the Western Lunatic Asylum at Staunton, died at the age of seventy-nine
years. The children of William A. Burnett and wife were born
in the order named. Mary Briscoe, Effie P. Miller, Janet, Florence,
William E. (died in 1874, aged eleven months, eleven days), Anna,
(now deceased), Harry, Aubrey, Bessie, Pattie and Catherine.

Mr. Burnett was educated at Newmarket, Fairfield and Staunton,
Virginia. He entered the clerk's office, county court of Augusta
county, about 1854, at the age of seventeen years, where he has continued
ever since, and is now clerk of the court. During the civil war
he discharged the duties of clerk for Gen. John J. Imboden, then the
incumbent of the office, with the exception of a brief interval when he
was in the army, though never regularly enrolled. Mr. Burnett is a
member of the order of Knights of Honor, and himself and wife are
members of the Episcopal church.

ARMISTEAD CHURCHILL GORDON,

Born near old Bentivoglio, in Albemarle county, Virginia, on December
20, 1855, is now a resident of Staunton, a member of the law firm
of White & Gordon. He is a son of George L. Gordon, who was born
in Albemarle county, and was killed at Malvern Hill, on July 2d, 1862,
aged thirty-two years, and a grandson of Gen. Wm. F. Gordon of Albemarle,
who was at one time a member of Congress from the Albemarle
district, and was the author and originator of the United States
Sub-Treasury Department. This Gen. Wm. F. Gordon was a grandson
of Col. James Gordon of Lancaster, a Scotch-Irishman of County Down,
Ireland, who was the founder of the family in this country, and who
married a daughter of Col. Nathaniel Harrison, a prominent member
in colonial days of the James-River Harrison family, so frequently
mentioned in these annals of Eminent Virginians. The mother of
Armistead Churchill Gordon was Mary Long Daniel, of Halifax, North
Carolina, daughter of Judge Joseph J. Daniel, of the Supreme Court of
North Carolina. She died in February, 1876. His wife, whom he married
at Staunton, Virginia, on October 17, 1883, and who was born in
Staunton, November 5th, 1860, is Maria Breckinridge, daughter of
Nathaniel Pendleton Catlett, and Betty Breckinridge, his wife, of
Staunton.

Mr. Gordon was educated at the private school of Major Horace W.
Jones in Charlottesville, and at the University of Virginia. He took
the summer law course at the University of Virginia, and came to
the Bar in 1879. After having taught school in Charlottesville for five

years he settled in Staunton, where he has been practicing continuously
since 1879; in partnership with Meade F. White since 1882. From
July 1, 1884, to July 1, 1886, he was Mayor of Staunton. During
1888 he was President of the Staunton Chamber of Commerce. Mr.
Gordon is a member of the I. O. O. F., himself and wife are members of
Trinity Episcopal church, Staunton. He is the author of a number of
short stories, sketches and poems, published from time to time in The
Century Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's Magazine, and
other periodicals, and in 1888 published from the press of Charles
Scribner's Sons, New York, in conjunction with Thomas Nelson Page, a
volume of dialect poems entitled "Befo' de War."

HON. CHARLES GRATTAN,

Judge of the Hustings court of Augusta county, was born in Rockingham
county, Virginia, on the 8th of December, 1833. He was educated
at home, at Ridgeway (Albemarle county), and at the University of
Virginia. After leaving the University he was engaged in farming, in
Rockingham county, until elected to the House of Delegates, in 1859.
He erved two terms in the legislature, being elected for the second
term in 1861, while at Harpers Ferry. During the war he served in
connection with the quartermaster's department until the meeting of
the legislature, acting on the march from Winchester to Manassas as
Q. M. commissary and ordnance officer for "Stonewall" Jackson in the
absence of those officers. Later he stood the ordnance examination,
and was assigned to Cabell's battalion of artillery, then to charge of
field park of the Second Corps, then to charge of ordnance, Cavalry
Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, on the staff of Gens. J. E. B. Stuart
and Wade Hampton. After the war he farmed in Augusta county, until
he came to the Bar at Staunton in 1871, then continued practice
until, in 1887, he was elected to the office he is now ably filling. He
has been superintendent of the schools of Augusta county, for six years,
and in 1888 was appointed, by the Board of Agriculture, Commissioner
of Immigration for the State of Virginia.

Judge Grattan is a son of Major Robert Grattan, who was born in
Rockingham county on March 1, 1800, and died in 1856, and whose
father was the Major Robert Grattan who commanded a troop of
Horse in the whisky insurrection. The last-named Major Robert
Grattan, also of Rockingham county, was a son of John Grattan of
he same county, who came from the North of Ireland early in the
Eighteenth century. The mother of Judge Grattan, born in Albemarle
county, died in Harrisonburg, Virginia, about 1868, aged fifty-nine
years, was Martha D., daughter of Peter Minor, Esq., of Albemarle

county. His wife, whom he married in Augusta county on January 6;
1864, was born in this county, Elizabeth Crawford Finley. Her father
was Samuel B. Finley, born in Augusta county, died in this county,
about 1874, a son of Samuel Finley of the same county. Her mother
was born in Greenbrier county, (then). Virginia, and is now about
seventy years of age, Sarah A., daughter of Col Samuel McClung of
Greenbrier who married Elizabeth Crawford of Augusta county. The
children of Judge Grattan and wife are six daughters, Mary, Virginia,
Sarah, Martha McClung, Elizabeth Christian, Minnie Watson, and they
have buried one daughter, Louisa Noland.

HON. ALEXANDER B. LIGHTNER,

Owns and cultivates an estate in Augusta county, where he was born
on the 15th of February, 1826. He attended the old field schools of
Augusta county until fourteen years old, then went to Greenville, this
county, where he learned the tailor's trade, which he followed until
about twenty-five years old. He was then for a short time in a mercantile
business, until elected constable under the new constitution of
Virginia. He served as constable ten years, about 1858 was made
deputy sheriff, so served until 1868, then engaged in farming until
elected to the Virginia legislature in 1872. He served two terms in the
legislature, then was elected high sheriff of Augusta county, which office
he filled until October, 1885, when he was again elected to the Virginia
legislature, where he served one term, since then engaged in farming
his estate.

Mr. Lightner is of German descent, his grandfather, Adam Lightner
coming to Pennsylvania from Germany. His father was born in Pennsylvania,
Samuel Lightner, served in the war of 1812, and died about
1855, aged sixty-seven years. His mother was Elizabeth Sensabaugh
of Augusta county, Virginia. In 1844 he married Sarah A. Gardner,
of Augusta county, who died in 1846, leaving him one son, William T.
He married secondly in Augusta county, in 1849, Sarah E. Wayland,
born in Augusta county, Virginia. Their children are five. Charles
A., George S., Florence B., Virginia E., and James S.

WILLIAM PATRICK

Was born on the Patrick homestead, in Augusta county, Virginia, near
Waynesboro. He was educated at Washington and Lee University,
studied law there, sessions of 1872-3, and began the practice on the
4th day of September, 1873, at Staunton, in which he has continued
ever since. He served as commissioner in chancery of the Circuit Court

of Augusta county about ten years, is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
In Staunton, on February 14, 1883, he married Annie Montgomery
Hendren, who survived the marriage only about a year, leaving
one child, Annie H.

Mr. Patrick's father, also named William Patrick, was born on the
Patrick homestead, near Waynesboro, on December 2, 1822, and he
died on September 6, 1862, of wounds received at the second battle of
Manassas. He was major of the 17th battalion of Virginia Cavalry,
mentioned with deserved praise in the reports of both Stuart and Jackson,
as published in McCleland's book. Major Patrick was a son of
Charles Patrick, who was a son of John Patrick, who was a son of
Robert Patrick by his wife Rachel Campbell, he coming from Pennsylvania,
and settling in Augusta county about 1744, on the estate where
this line of his descendents were born, and which still remains in the
family. The founder of the Patrick family in America came from County
Tyrone, Ireland. The mother of the subject of this sketch was born
in. Waynesboro, Hester C., daughter of Hon. Nathaniel Massie,
and his wife Mary Woods, she is living on the Patrick homestead.
The Hon. Nathaniel Massie was one of the Justices of the Quorum for
a number of years, and for several years represented Augusta county
in the legislature.

The wife of the subject of this sketch is a daughter of Judge John N.
Hendren of Staunton, Judge of the county court of Augusta, son of
Rev. John Hendren, D. D., a Presbyterian minister, of note as a theologian
and teacher of Augusta county. Her mother is Lucy G., daughter
of the Hon. John Howe Peyton, of Staunton, whose record is given
on another page of this work.

THOMAS W. SHELTON, M. D.

Peter Shelton of Louisa county, Virginia, was the father of Henry
Shelton of Orange county, Virginia, who was the father of Thomas L.
Shelton. Thomas L. Shelton was born in Orange county, Virginia,
served in the war of 1812 with rank of lieutenant, and died in 1859,
aged eighty years. He married Susan, daughter of James Ballard
of Albemarle county, Virginia, who survived him, dying in 1865, aged
eighty-one years. Their son Thomas W., subject of this sketch, was
born in Albemarle county, on February 15, 1820. After attendance at
a classical school in Waynesboro, he went to the University of Virginia,
where he was graduated in 1841, then to the Jefferson Medical College,
graduating there in 1842. In the same year he located in Waynesboro,
where he practiced for two years; removing then to Barterbrook,
he remained in practice there thirty-four years. Thence he removed to

Staunton, where he has been continuously in practice to the present
time (1889).

The first wife of Dr. Shelton was Mary R. Wilson, whom he married
on April 13, 1842, and who died in September, 1848. He married
secondly, on January 10, 1851, Mary VanLear, who died in August,
1856. In 1861, in Augusta county, he married Sarah F. Lipscomb,
who was born in Madison county, Virginia. Her father, William C.
Lipscomb, born in Stafford county, Virginia, died in 1860. Her
mother, who was Frances Booten, born in Madison county, died in
1887, aged seventy-seven years. Dr. and Mrs. Shelton are members of
the Baptist church at Staunton. Their children were born in the order
named: W. C., Annie C., Ella R., Fannie B., Thomas L., R. Withers,
Helena, youngest child, died on the 3d of February, 1889.

THOMAS R. N. SPECK,

Sheriff of Augusta county, Virginia, was born at Fishersville, this
county, on December 17, 1850. He was educated in the old field
schools of Augusta county, clerked in a store for several years, then began
public life as deputy treasurer, and from that time has been in office.
He was ten years deputy treasurer until, in 1885, he was appointed
sheriff of the county to fill the unexpired term of A. B. Lightner. In
1887 he was elected to the office, and is still ably discharging its duties.
He is a grandson of John W. Speck of Berkeley county, (then) Virginia,
and a son of Jacob Speck who was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia,
served through the late war as a volunteer, C. S. A., and died in
1886, aged sixty-five years. The mother of Thomas R. N. is Margaret,
daughter of John Doom of Augusta county, in which county she was
born and still is living.

At Baltimore, Maryland, Thomas R. N. Speck married Mary W. Condon,
who was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia. They were married
on April 18, 1888, and have now one daughter, Rachel Margaret.
Mrs. Speck is a daughter of David Condon, who was born in Ireland,
came to Virginia, and married Rached Crawford, of Augusta county.

JUDGE JOHN W. STOUT,

Born at New Hope, Augusta county, Virginia, on April 23, 1851, is a
son of Jas. M. and Sallie Stout. His father, born in Albemarle county,
Virginia, for a number of years a merchant and general business man
in New Hope, died in February, 1882, aged seventy-eight years: he was
a son of Isaiah Stout of Albemarle county, who died in 1860, aged
about ninety-three years. His wife, mother of John W., was born in

Rockingham county, Virginia, in 1810, and died in March, 1883; she
was a daughter of William Rice of Rockingham county. The wife of
Judge Stout, whom he married in Staunton, on February 26, 1884,
was Kate Rodes Nelson, born in Augusta county. Her father is
William J. Nelson, now a resident of Florence, Alabama, a son of
Franklin Nelson of Augusta county, and of the Nelson family eminent
in the annals of Virginia. Her mother was Sallie, daughter of Gen.
David Rodes of Lynchburg, Virginia, and sister of Major Gen. R. E.
Rodes, C. S. A.

Judge Stout attended the old field schools in and near New Hope until
1866; in 1866-7 the Mountain View High School at the "old stone
church," Augusta county, 1867-8 the high school in Harrisonburg,
1868-9 the classical school at Goshen, Rockbridge county, taught by
Prof. H. N. B. Wood and others; in 1869-70 part of session at
Aspen Hill Academy, in Louisa county; 1870-71 half session at University
of Virginia; 1872-3 the University of Virginia, in academic and
engineering courses, 1874-5, University of Virginia, law course. In
November, 1875, he was called to the Bar in Staunton, and has been in
practice there ever since. He has filled the office of commissioner in
chancery for the circuit court of Augusta county, and for the Hustings
court of Staunton. In August, 1884, he was elected County Judge of
Augusta county, to fill an unexpired term, and was re-elected to this
office, for the term beginning January 1, 1886, still serving. Judge
Stout is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

PHILIP BRAND SUBLETT.

The founder of the Sublett family in Virginia was the great grandfather
of the subject of the present sketch, Peter Sublett, a Huguenot
refugee, who emigrated in 1700. His son Peter was born in 1730 at
Monokin Town, a Huguenot settlement in Powhatan county, Virginia,
twenty miles above Richmond, on the James River and the original
grant still in the possession of a branch of the family. This second Peter
Sublett was the father of three sons, Peter, William and Thomas Smith
Sublett. Thomas Smith Sublett, born at Monokin in 1787, married
Sarah Lackland, who was born in Buckingham county, Virginia, in
1814, and died in 1837, leaving him four sons, Philip Branch, who was
born at Monokin, August 4, 1830, William, James and David. She
was the daughter of Zaddock Lackland of Buckingham county, and
she had four brothers, John, James, Samuel and Dennis. Samuel was
a prominent citizen of Charlestown, Jefferson county, (now) West Virginia,
and the father of Col. Frank Lackland, who distinguished himself
in the command of a regiment, C. S. A., in the first Manassas battle,

he was a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. David,
youngest brother of Philip B. Sublett, was in service through the war,
(Col. D. L. Sublett), was on the staff of Gen. John B. Hood, and carried
him from the field at Chickamauga when he lost a leg there succeeded
to the command of Colonel Bickham (who was killed), and at the close
of the war was chief of ordnance, Army of the Southwest. Col. D. L.
Sublett was also educated at the Virginia Military Institute, and was
one of the corps of engineers who examined and surveyed the abandoned
Confederate fortifications around Richmond, under command of General
Micheals, Chief Engineer, U. S. A., after close of the war, he is now
a prominent civil engineer of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Philip Branch Sublett attended school in Powhatan county. In 1860
he went into business as a commission merchant, on Shokoe Slip, Richmond,
firm of Sublett & Smith, succeeded by Powell & Sublett, dissolved
by the death of Mr. Powell, who was killed in battle of Cedar
Mountain. Mr. Sublett then enlisted, in 1862, in the 3d Virginia
Cavalry, Prince Edward Troops, one year later was detailed in the
ordnance department, and so served till the close of the war. He then
established at Richmond the commission house of P. B. & P. A. Sublett,
(now Sublett & Cary). The firm of P. B. & P. A. Sublett at Richmond
was dissolved in 1878. A firm of the same name and style had been
established at Staunton in 1867, and this firm is now continued under
the firm name and style of P. B. Sublett & Son, the subject of this
sketch the head of the firm.

He married, on February 29, 1860, at the birthplace and residence of
the bride, "Millwood," Prince Edward county, Virginia, Ida Caroline
Scott, and their children are four sons living: Sumter Branch, in business
with the father, Edward Scott, attorney-at-law; Wm. Thomas
and Frank Lackland, coal dealers, one son, Charles Haskins, died in
infancy, in 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Sublett are members of Trinity Episcopal
church, Staunton. Mr. P. B. Sublett is a member of the present Vestry.
Her father is Branch O. Scott, son of Col. Edward Scott of Prince Edward
county, whose father, Charles Scott, was one of the founders of
Farmville. Her mother was Mary J., daughter of Col. Thos. J. Scott,
of Prince Edward county, who served in the war of 1812: she died in 1882.

HON. HENRY ST. GEO. TUCKER,

Born in Winchester, Virginia, April 5th, 1853, is a son of Hon. John
Randolph Tucker, who was born in Winchester, on December 24, 1823,
and his wife, Laura Holmes Powell, of Middleburg, Loudoun county,
Virginia, who was a daughter of Col. Humphrey B. Powell, who was a
lawyer, and for a number of years a member of the Virginia legislature.

John Randolph Tucker was attorney general of Virginia from 1857 to
1865, Professor of law in Washington and Lee University, from 1870
to 1875, member of Congress from Virginia 1875 to 1887, and again
elected professor of law in Washington and Lee University in June,
1889. His father was Hon. Henry St. Geo. Tucker of Winchester, member
of Congress two terms; president of the Court of Appeals of Virginia
for twelve years, professor of law at the University of Virginia
four years, and died in August, 1848.

The subject of this sketch was educated at the Washington and Lee
University, and commenced the practice of law in Staunton in 1876.
On the 6th of November, 1888, he was elected to Congress from the
10th district of Virginia. At Lexington, Virginia, on the 25th of
October, 1877, he married Henrietta Preston Johnston, a granddaughter
of the lamented Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, C. S. A., and a daughter
of Col. Wm. Preston Johnston, who was on the staff of President
Jefferson Davis during the Confederate war, and was professor of History
and Literature at the Washington and Lee University for a number
of years after the war, and is now president of the Tulane University
at New Orleans, Louisiana. Her mother, whose maiden name was
Duncan, was the daughter of John Duncan, a distinguished lawyer of
New Orleans.

Mr. and Mrs. Tucker have two sons and one daughter: John Randolph—now
nine years old; Rosa Johnston, eight years old; Albert
Sidney Johnston, born November 12, 1885, and they have buried one
son, their second child, Preston Johnston, who died July 2, 1879.
Mr. Tucker is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Staunton;
his wife is a member of the Episcopal church.

HON. JOSEPH ADDISON WADDELL,

Born in Staunton, Virginia, on March 19, 1823, is a son of Dr. Addison
Waddell and Catherine Waddell, nee Boys. His father, a son of
Rev. James Waddell, D. D., known as the "Blind Preacher of Virginia,"
was born near Gordonsville in 1785, studied medicine in Philadelphia,
settled in Staunton in 1809, and died in 1855. His mother, born in
Staunton in 1790, died in 1846, was a daughter of John Boys, and a
granddaughter of Commodore Nathan Boys, commander in the Pennsylvania
navy during the Revolutionary war. His wife, whom he married
at Staunton on February 17, 1853, and who was born at Lexington,
Virginia, was Virginia, daughter of Capt. Henry McClung, who commanded
an artillery company from Rockbridge in the war of 1812.
Her mother was Elizabeth Alexander, of the Rockbridge family of that
name.

Joseph Addison Waddell received his education at Staunton Academy,
Washington College (Lexington), and the University of Virginia. He
studied law with Judge L. P. Thompson of Staunton, and was called to
the Bar in 1844, and practiced in Staunton until November, 1848.
For the next twelve years he was editor of the Staunton Spectator. In
1860, he retired from that position, and was appointed commissioner in
chancery for the circuit court for Augusta county. During the war
1861-5 he was in the service of the Confederate States, in the quartermaster's
department. In the fall of 1865 he was elected by the people
of Augusta county a member of the House of Delegates, and served in
the Legislature two years. He was a delegate from Augusta county in
the convention that framed the present State constitution, and later
was elected State senator, serving two years. He was next appointed clerk
of the Supreme Court of Appeals, at Staunton, which office he filled
until removed by the Readjuster (or Republican) party. Since then he
has been employed as commissioner of the county and circuit courts of
Augusta county. Mr. Waddell is author of the admirable work entitled
"Annals of Augusta County." He is a member of the First Presbyterian
church, Staunton.

MEADE FITZHUGH WHITE, ESQ.,

A lawyer of Staunton, was born at Warrenton, Fauquier county, Virginia,
on April 24, 1847. He was educated at the Warrenton Academy,
at Mossy Creek Academy (Augusta county), and at the University of
Virginia, and was called to the Bar at Staunton on November 1, 1870.
He has followed the profession of law, residing at Staunton, ever since,
practicing in Virginia and West Virginia, has been commonwealth's attorney
for Staunton one term, and for Augusta county two terms;
president of the Board of Visitors for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution
two terms, is an Odd Fellow, Knight of Honor, and member of
the Royal Arcanum. Only eighteen years of age when the war between
the States was ended, he had served in that war, a member of Company
H, 4th Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A. (Black Horse Troop).

Hamden Aubrey White, father of Meade Fitzhugh, was born at Sudley
Mills, Prince William county, Virginia, on December 31, 1812, was a
magistrate and commissioner in chancery, and died at Charlottesville,
Virginia, on April 25, 1888, his father was John White of Millfield
Mills, Fauquier county. His wife, mother of Meade Fitzhugh, was
Caroline Battaille Fitzhugh (died at Warrenton, October 15, 1852), a
daughter of Richard Fitzhugh and Susan Meade of Oak Hill, Fairfax
county, Virginia.

At Staunton, March 23, 1873, Meade Fitzhugh White married Elvira

Callaghan Donaghe, who was born at Fincastle, Botetourt county,
Virginia. Their children are one daughter and six sons. Caroline
Briscoe, William Wood, Hamden Aubrey, George Moffet Cochran,
Edward Henry Fitzhugh, John Warwick Daniel and Thomas Leonidas
Riseur. Mrs. White is a daughter of Wm. Wood Donaghe, Jr.,
who died on April 23, 1873, and who was a son of Wm. Wood Donaghe,
Sr., and Mary Briscoe Baldwin, sister of Briscoe G. Baldwin and
aunt of John B. Baldwin, of Virginia.

LEXINGTON.

JOHN H. FREEMAN. M. D.

Physician of Lexington, Virginia, was born in Culpeper county, Virginia,
on November 16, 1816. He was educated at the University of
Virginia, and graduated in medicine in 1836. In October of that year
he commenced practice at Luray, Page county, Virginia, in 1855 removed
to Washington, D. C., and practiced in that city until 1859, in
which year he came to Lexington, where he has been in practice ever
since. During his residence in Page county, Dr. Freeman held the
office of magistrate four years, from 1866 to 1870 he was U. S. Assessor
of Internal Revenue, was then appointed postmaster at Lexington,
which office he held until July 1, 1882.

The father of Dr. Freeman was William Freeman, born in Culpeper
county, in 1776, served in the war of 1812, died in 1848, his
father John Freeman, of Culpeper, who was born in England and came
to the Colony of Virginia about 1710. Dr. Freeman's mother was
born in Culpeper county in 1797, and died in 1867, Mary, daughter
of John and Mary Lampkin, her father serving in the war of 1812, with
distinction, with rank of captain. His wife, whom he married at Luray
on October 9, 1837, and who was born there, is Mary A., daughter of
Charles H. Flinn and Margaret A. Lauck, his wife. Her father, born in
Culpeper county in 1796, died in Luray in 1873; her mother was born
in Winchester; her mother's father, who served in the Revolutionary
war, died in 1820.

Dr. Freeman is a Mason and an Oddfellow. Himself and wife are
members of the Episcopal church at Lexington. Their children were
six, born in the order named. Margaret, now deceased, Mary, lives in
Lexington, Virginia, deceased, Charles W., lives in Kansas City, Missouri;
Ada C., deceased; Robert Eldon, now a resident of Danville, Virginia.

HON. WILLIAM A. GLASGOW

Was born at Green Forrest, Rockbridge county, Virginia, on February
9, 1825. He was educated in the schools of his native county, at J. H.
Paxton's high school, and at Washington College; then studied law
with Judge Lucas P. Thompson, of Staunton, Virginia. He settled at
Fincastle, Virginia, where he was in practice of law, partner of Judge F. T.
Anderson; in December, 1887, he removed to Lexington, Virginia,
where he is now living and engaged in practice. Since 1865 he has been
one of the trustees of Washington College and Washington and Lee
University; was a member of the Virginia Senate two terms, 1881-4.

Robert Glasgow, father of William A., was born at Green Forrest,
where he lived until his death in 1862, his wife, mother of
William A., being Catherine T. Anderson, who died in 187-.
The father of Robert Glasgow was Arthur Glasgow, who came
from the province of Ulster, Ireland, to Virginia about 176-, was
a Revolutionary soldier, and soon after that war intermarried with
Rebekah, a daughter of John McNutt, and the widow of Lieut. John
McCorkle, who fell at battle of Cowpens. John McNutt, also from
Ulster, was among the first British settlers on the right bank of North
River, seven miles below Lexington, where he died about 1803. Mr.
Glasgow's mother was the eldest daughter of Col. William Anderson,
of Botetourt county, who entered the Continental army at the age of
sixteen years, was in battles of Cowpens and Guilford, and who, in the
war of 1812, commanded a regiment at Norfolk. He was for fifty
years surveyor of Botetourt county, was a member of the Virginia Assembly,
was a Justice under the old constitution, the eldest but one in
commission at his death, in 1839; was commissioner appointed by the
State for James River improvements, and of the connection of the Eastern
and Western waters by the Covington and Ohio turnpike, leading
from Covington, Virginia, via Lewisburg, Charlestown, to Guyandotte.
The ancestors of Mr. Glasgow were of the Presbyterian faith, in which
church relation he continues.

The first wife of Mr. Glasgow, whom he married June 16, 1847, was
Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Chrisman Spears, farmer of Rockingham
county, Justice of the county, who died in 1856. Her mother was
Margaret, daughter of John Chrisman, of the same county, and sister
of George H. Chrisman, a well-known business man of the same county.
Mrs. Elizabeth Spears Glasgow died in February, 1862, aged thirty-five
years, leaving issue. Margaret, now the wife of Dr. W. D. Armstrong,
of Salem, Virginia. Frank Thomas, Dr. Robert, Elizabeth
Spears.

Secondly Mr. Glasgow married Grace Ellen, eldest daughter of Col.

Thomas Shanks, of Botetourt county, and their children are three sons:
William Anderson, Joseph Anderson, Samuel McPheeters. Mrs. Grace
Ellen Glasgow was at her marriage the widow of Dr. William Moncure
Woodson. Her mother was the daughter of Col. John Thomas, of
"Maryland Tract," Frederic county, Maryland, and his wife, Ellen
McGill, daughter of Bishop McGill, of Maryland, of the Episcopal
church. Mrs. Glasgow was reared in that faith, but is now a member
with her husband of the Presbyterian church.

THOS. MIDDLETON SEMMES,

Born at Port Royal, Caroline county, Virginia, on September 4, 1840,
is now a resident of Lexington, Virginia, professor in the Virginia Military
Institute. He was educated at Richmond College, and at the Virginia
Military Institute, graduating from the last named on July 4,
1860, and receiving appointment as assistant professor in same the following
day. During the war he was adjutant of the 3d Arkansas
Infantry, C. S. A., then ordnance officer, staff of Gen. H. R. Jackson.
After the war, returning to the Institute with which he is still connected,
he was instructor in French until 1867, since then has held
his present position, professor of Modern Languages and Rhetoric.
Himself and wife are members of the Episcopal church. He married in
Lexington on November 16, 1863, Louisa G. Brockenbrough, who was
born in Lexington. The issue of the union is five children: Bernard B.,
Mary B., Elise V., Louisa R., Thomas M.

The father of Mr. Semmes was Thomas Semmes, lawyer, of Alexandria,
Virginia, who died in 1842, and he the son of Dr. Thomas
Semmes, also of Alexandria. His mother, born in King George county,
Virginia, on September 22, 1815, living now with him, is Eliza F.,
daughter of William and Sarah B. Bernard, of King George county.
His wife is a daughter of Judge John W. Brockenbrough, Federal Judge
of Western District of Virginia, born December 23, 1805, died February
20, 1877, his parents Judge William B. Brockenbrough, president
of Court of Appeals of Virginia, and Judith White, of Hanover county,
his wife. Her mother, living now with Mr. and Mrs. Semmes is Mary
C., daughter of Capt. John Bowyer, of Rockbridge county, Virginia, who
married Elizabeth Hubard, of Williamsburg, Virginia. She was born
in Rockbridge county on March 13, 1807.

HON. JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER.

The father of the subject of this sketch was the Virginian, Henry St.
George Tucker, president of the Court of Appeals of Virginia from 1831

to 1841, born at Matoax, near Petersburg, Virginia, on December 29,
1780, died in Winchester, Virginia, August 28, 1848, whose parents
were St. George Tucker (author of "Tucker's Blackstone") and Frances
Bland, first married to John Randolph, of Bizarre, and mother of
"John Randolph of Roanoke." The mother of Hon. John Randolph
Tucker was Ann Evelina Hunter, born in Martinsburg, Virginia, September
20, 1789, died in Winchester, February 1, 1855.

Mr. Tucker was born at Winchester on December 24, 1823, and he
married at Middleburg, Loudoun county, Virgina, on October 5, 1848,
Laura Holmes Powell. The record of their children is: Mrs. Evy H. Shields,
died in 1887; Nannie H. McGuire, now of Winchester, born September,
26th, 1850; Virginia B. Carmichael, of Lexington, born December 9th,
1851; Henry St. George, now of Staunton, born April 5, 1853, whose
record appears elsewhere in this work; Gertrude T. Logan, of Virginia,
born April 18, 1856; Laura R. Pendleton, of Lexington, born October
13, 1860. Mrs. Tucker is a daughter of Colonel Humphrey B. Powell, of
Loudoun county, Virginia, and Ann R. H. Boyd, his wife, and she was
born at Middleburg on October 5, 1827. Her father died on April 6,
1859; her mother is still living, now eighty-two years of age.

John Randolph Tucker received his early education at private and
public schools, then attended Richmond Academy. From 1839 to
1844 he was a student at the University of Virginia; in January, 1845,
was called to the Bar; from that date until 1847, lived and practiced in
Richmond; then in Winchester until 1857. From June, 1857, to April,
1865, he was attorney-general of Virginia, elected three times, and
removed at the last-named date, at the "reconstruction era." From
1865 to 1869 he practiced law in Loudoun county; then in Baltimore,
Maryland, one year. He was then elected professor of Equity and Public
Law in Washington and Lee University, which position he filled until
elected to the 44th Congress. He remained a member of the House of
Representatives six full terms, where he rendered distinguished service
to Nation and State, then, declining re-election, returned to the practice
of law in Washington, D. C. He was recalled to the Washington and
Lee University by his election to the professorship of Equity and Commercial
Law, International and Constitutional Law, upon the duties of
which position he entered in the present year, 1889.

FREDERICKSBURG.

ROBERT WALKER ADAMS.

Solomon Adams, born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1790, came to Virginia
in 1810, served in the war of 1812, and died in Fredericksburg,
Virginia, in August, 1862. He married Frances Fernaghaugle, who was
born in Fredericksburg about the year 1800, and died in September,
1860. These were the parents of Robert Walker Adams, who was born
in Fredericksburg on the 31st of May, 1824. He has been twice married,
his first wife Ann Newby Williams, born in Fredericksburg, March,
1825, died in March, 1857. Two children of this marriage survive:
Anna T., now Mrs. Foster, and Samuel A., both of Fredericksburg, and
two daughters are deceased, Margaret F., died in infancy, and Camilla,
died aged about five years. Secondly Mr. Adams married, at Fredericksburg,
in June, 1859, Ann Thoroughgood Morriss of Fredericksburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Adams are members of the M. E. church (South) at Fredericksburg.

After a brief attendance at the schools of Fredericksburg the subject
of this sketch began his business life, in June, 1837, then only thirteen
years of age, as store boy in the commission house of Samuel Phillips &
Son, remaining with that firm as clerk and book-keeper until the death
of the senior partner in May, 1854. In June, 1855, he formed a co-partnership
with the junior member of the former firm, under the name and
style of A. K. Phillips & Co., which continued until June, 1859, when
Mr. Phillips retired. Mr. Seth B. French took his place, the firm becoming
Adams & French, and continuing the business of the former firms
until 1862. The war then brought this business to a close, as it ended
many another prosperous enterprise, and from 1862 to 1865 Mr.
Adams was engaged in the Commissary Department of the Confederate
States, serving as clerk in the office of the Commissary-General, in
Richmond, nearly three years, promoted to captain in 1863, and closing
his military career by surrendering at Lynchburg, Virginia, in April,
1865.

In May, 1865, Mr. Adams returned to Fredericksburg, and in July of
the same year again commenced the commission business, forming a
partnership with Mr. A. K. Phillips, under the firm name of A. K.
Phillips & Co., which firm still continues. In May, 1870, Mr. Adams
was elected to the office of city treasurer and is still serving, having
been re-elected at each subsequent election.

ROBERT B. BERREY,

Born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on August 5, 1837, is a son of John
J. Berrey and Mary W. Berrey, nee Lucas. His paternal grandparents
were Abner and Lucy Berrey, of Madison county, Virginia; his maternal
grandparents Fielding and Elizabeth Lucas, of Fredericksburg. His
father, born in Madison county, was for forty years a prominent merchant,
and is now retired from business, living in Fredericksburg, at the
age of seventy-seven years; his mother is still living, aged now eighty-one
years. His wife, whom he married at Fredericksburg, Virginia, September
15, 1875, is Mary G. Berrey, born in Fredericksburg. Their son,
Robert McBryde Berrey, was born on the 9th of May, 1879. A second
son, named Charles Waite Berrey, died in July, 1877, aged one month.

Mr. Berrey was educated in the schools and academies of Fredericksburg,
and began business as deputy sheriff at the age of twenty years.
He resigned this position to enter the Confederate army, and served
four years as private and non-commissioned officer in the 30th regiment
Virginia Infantry. He returned home after the surrender and clerked
in a book and stationery store until 1871, when he began merchandizing
on his own account. He was elected a magistrate in 1871, and
in 1872 was elected mayor of Fredericksburg, serving as such until
July 1, 1874, having declined a re-election for the purpose of engaging
in the newspaper business, as owner and editor of the Independent, in
which business he continued for several years until compelled by ill health
to retire. He was appointed United States Commissioner for the Eastern
district of Virginia, and special commissioner of the United States
Claims Commission, and so served several years. In 1882 he was
selected by the City Council of Fredericksburg to codify the corporation
ordinances and prepare for publication a historical sketch of the city; in
1884 he received an appointment as clerk in the office of the Auditor of
Public Accounts, at Richmond, which position was relinquished after
two years service to accept a clerkship in the Virginia State Senate.
This position, after several months service, was resigned, and he
received appointment as clerk of the circuit and corporation courts of
Fredericksburg, to fill the unexpired term of Col. R. S. Chew,
deceased. In May, 1888, he was elected without opposition to this
office for the full term of six years. Mr. Berrey is past master of Fredericksburg
Lodge No. 4, A. F. & A. M., and District Deputy Grand Master
of District No. 22; also past Grand of Myrtle Lodge, No. 50, I. O. O.
F., and Lieutenant-commander of Maury Camp, No. 2, Confederate
Veterans.

JUDGE JOHN T. GOOLUCK

Is a son of Peter Gooluck, who was born in Sligo, Ireland, came to
Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1820, and passed the remainder of his days
in this city, dying in 1868, was mayor of Fredericksburg eight years.
His wife, who survives him, aged now seventy-four years, is Jane V.,
daughter of Charles Tackell, she was born in Stafford county, Virginia,
in 1814. Their son, John T., subject of this sketch, was born in Fredericksburg,
September 10, 1843, and was educated at Fredericksburg and
at the Valley Law School. He was a private soldier in the Fredericksburg
Artillery, C. S. A., serving until the surrender, receiving a gunshot
wound in the left leg before Richmond in 1864. He was graduated
from the Valley Law School in 1870, and in the following year was
admitted to the Bar and began practice in Fredericksburg, in which he
has been engaged ever since. In 1872 he was elected judge of the Corporation
court, of Fredericksburg, and was re-elected, serving two terms.
In 1887, was elected Attorney for the Commonwealth of Fredericksburg
and is still serving. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, Lodge
No. 4, and of the I. O. O. F., and is commander of Maury Camp, Confederate
Veterans. Himself and wife are members of the St. George
Episcopal church of Fredericksburg.

He married at Fredericksburg on June 6th, 1872, Fannie Bernard
White, born in Fredericksburg. Their children are four sons. Charles
O'Conor, John T., Jr., Chester Bernard and Robert Emmett. Mrs.
Gooluck is a daughter of the late Chester B. White, Captain U. S.
A., who died in California in 1869. Her mother, whose maiden name
was Fannie Howe, is a granddaughter of George Mason, of Gunston
Hall.

WILLIAM ALEXANDER LITTLE

Was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 16, 1819, and received
his academic education at Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, graduating
in the class of 1840. He studied law in the office of Arthur A.
Willard of Fredericksburg, Virginia, who removed to Richmond, and in the
law class of John Taylor Lomax, of Fredericksburg. He was admitted to
the Bar in April, 1842, and commenced pratice at once at Fredericksburg,
in which he has continued ever since. During the years of the war
he was Recorder of the corporation of Fredericksburg, and not in field
service. He was attorney for the Commonwealth of King George
county, Virginia, for some three years after the war.

Mr. Little's father was John P. Little, born in Jefferson county, Virginia,
died in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in September, 1830, aged forty-five
years, a son of William Little, who came from the North of Ireland,

was of Scotch-Irish extraction, and settled near Winchester, Virginia,
where he lived and died. The mother of Mr. Little was Arabella
J., daughter of Dr. Archibald Alexander, who was a surgeon in the Virginia
troops in the Revolutionary war; she died in Fredericksburg
in 1878, in her seventy-eighth year. His wife is Louisa, daughter of
William Henry Fitzhugh, of Stafford county, Virginia. He died in Fredericksburg,
Virginia, in 1860. On her father's side she is connected with
the families of General Washington and Gen. Robert E. Lee. Her
mother was Eliza Churchill, of Virginia, a descendant of the Churchill
family of England, of which the Duke of Marlborough is the head.

Mr. and Mrs. Little were married in Falmouth, Virginia, on the 31st of
October, 1850, and have three daughters and one son: Mary Churchill,
Louisa Fitzhugh, now Mrs. E. D. Price, of Richmond, William A., Jr.,
an attorney-at-law, and Nannie E. Mr. Little is a member of the Presbyterian
church of Fredericksburg, and his wife is a member of
the Episcopal church.

HON. A. P. ROWE,

Mayor of Fredericksburg, was born in Spottsylvania county, Virginia,
on November 17, 1817. In that county on June 2, 1845, he married
Almedia F. Gayle, who was born in Caroline county, Virginia, April 25,
1828. Their six children were born in the order named: G. Thomson
(now deceased), Maurice B., Ida G. (now married), Josiah P., A. P., Jr.,
and Alvin T.

Mr. Rowe was educated in Fredericksburg. In the year 1837 he commenced-business
with his father, a butcher and farmer at Fredericksburg,
which business was continued until 1848, when he went into the
same business for himself, and continued in the same until about 1873,
when the business was transferred to his sons, M. B. and J. P. During
the war he served in the quartermaster's department, C. S. A., collecting
cattle, etc., for the government, and estimating the same and forwarding
them to the chief of the department at Richmond. Was elected to
the Legislature in 1881 by a large majority of town and county, and
declined the renomination. Until July 1, 1888 he superintended the
farming operations and assisted in the outside business of his sons, and
on the last-named date entered on the duties of his present office as
mayor of the city. Himself and wife and their entire family are members
of the Baptist church, of Fredericksburg.

JUDGE A. WELLINGTON WALLACE

Was born in the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia. He was educated at
Fredericksburg, and at the preparatory school of Mr. William Dinwiddie,
in Albemarle county, Virginia, studied law at the University of Virginia
during part of the session of 1861, and was licensed to practice at
Fredericksburg in May, 1866. During the war he served as a private
in the 30th Virginia regiment, and after the surrender of the Army of
Northern Virginia at Appomattox C. H., he returned to Fredericksburg
where he has ever since resided, engaged in the practice of law. He was
elected to and served in the Legislature of Virginia, for the sessions of
1886-7, was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention which
met at Cincinnati in 1880; was elected Judge of the Corporation Court
of Fredericksburg by the legislature of Virginia in January, 1888, and
is now executing the duties of that office.

Judge Wallace's father was Dr. John H. Wallace, who was born in
Stafford county, Virginia, in 1795, at "Liberty Hall," the seat of his
father, John Wallace. The latter died in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in
1873. He was mayor of the city of Fredericksburg, and for many years
previous to the war was president of the Farmers Bank of Virginia at-Fredericksburg.
The mother of Judge Wallace was Mary Nicholas
Gordon, daughter of Samuel Gordon, born at Falmouth, Stafford
county, Virginia, in 1805, died at Fredericksburg in 1877. His wife,
whom he married at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 30, 1883, is
Victoria, daughter of Capt. Charles K. Stevens, of Philadelphia, born
there, died in 1874, and his wife Susan, who was born in 1829 and died
in 1879.

Judge Wallace and his wife are members of St. George Episcopal
church, Fredericksburg, of which he is a vestryman.

MANCHESTER.

HILARY E. DUVAL,

Born in Goochland county, Virginia, on May 9, 1850, received his early
education in the country schools of Chesterfield county, then attended
Randolph-Macon college at Ashland, Virginia, two terms. Entering on
a business life in Chesterfield county, Virginia he was engaged in merchandizing
about three years, in farming about two years, from July,
1875, to September, 1877, he was deputy clerk of the Chesterfield
county court; was deputy clerk of Hustings court, at Manchester, September,

1877, to December 22, 1878, and from the last-named date to
the present time has been clerk of the said Hustings court.

Mr. DuVal is a son of the late Stephen O. DuVal, who was born in
Goochland county, a son of Stephen DuVal of Chesterfield county, and
died in April, 1872. His mother is Annie Eliza, daughter of William M.
and Cicily F. Anderson, born in Goochland county in January, 1830,
living now in Manchester. His wife, whom he married at Manchester
on November 1, 1881, was born in that city, Mattie B., daughter of
Patrick H. and Isabella B. Gary, residents of Manchester still. The
children of Mr. and Mrs. DuVal are: Walter E., now six years old, Annie
Belle, aged four, George E., aged two.

CAPT. HENRY FITZGERALD,

A grandson of Hugh and Mary Fitzgerald, of Ireland, and a son of
Henry Fitzgerald, who died in 1871, aged sixty-seven, was born in
Glasgow, Scotland, and came to America in childhood. He was educated
in Baltimore county, Maryland, then went to Baltimore city and
there learned the pattern-making trade. In 1853, he came to Richmond,
Virginia, and in a few months removed to Manchester, where he
was engaged with Robert Baird as a millwright about one year, then
was in the employ of the Danville R. R. Company until the opening of
the war. On May 9, 1861, he entered Confederate service as first lieutenant
of Company I, 6th Virginia Infantry, with which company he
was one year in service. In the Spring of 1863, he was commissioned
captain of Company D, 1st Battalion Virginia Infantry, and detailed
to take charge of the stocking department of the Confederate States
Carbine Works, at Richmond. In the Spring of 1864, by order of the
Confederate government, he removed the works to Tallahassee, Alabama,
where he remained in charge of the works until the close of the
war. He walked to Montgomery, and surrendered to Gen. "Baldy"
Smith, who was in charge of that city, on May 25, 1865. Returning to
Manchester he worked in the shops of the Danville R. R. one month,
then for two years conducted business for himself, as carpenter, from
that time until 1874 was in the employ of Robert Baird's heirs, was in
1874 elected sergeant of the city of Manchester, and by subsequent
elections has filled the office ever since, serving his sixth term at the
present time.

The first wife of Mr. Fitzgerald was named Catherine, and their
children were four, namely: Catherine, Alexander H., Francis H. and
Amelia W., the latter now deceased. His second wife, whom he married
at Manchester, was Eliza J. Anderson, born in Chesterfield county, Virginia.
They have three children living, Mary J., Ruth C. and Russell
E., and have buried one, the second daughter, Gracie Eva.

PROF. FRANK P. BRENT

Was born in Nelson county, Virginia, Oct. 14, 1852, a son of James
H. and Mildred W., daughter of Colonel Jonah Pierce, a veteran of
the war of 1812. Her mother was Sallie Cheatwood, of Amherst
county. Both parents are living and in good health. His father is
of English descent, his ancestors settling in the Northern Neck of
Virginia in the 17th century. Prof. Brent married Mattie Buxton
Porter, daughter of John L. Porter of Portsmouth, who was the
designer and constructor of the famous Confederate Ram "Merrimac,"
he being at that time chief constructor of the Confederate navy, holding
a similar position in the U. S. Navy before the war. He is the
son of Joseph Porter and Frances (Pritchard) Porter. Mrs. Brent's
mother is Susan B., daughter of James and Sarah (Lockhart) Buxton,
of Nansemond county. Mr. and Mrs. Brent have four children born
in the order named. Frank Pierce, Mildred B., John P., and James
H., jr. Prof. Brent was educated at Cluster Springs High school,
Halifax county, Norwood High school, and University of Virginia,
graduating from the latter in 1874, and since that time has been engaged
in editorial and literary work, and teaching in different schools
and colleges until the present time. He is now principal of Onancock
Academy, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and has succeeded in
building up a flourishing school. He is a contributor to several of the
leading newspapers and magazines of this country, and is a public
speaker of high repute. He is a member of several beneficiary orders
and is now Master of Chesapeake Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons. His postoffice address is Onancock, Va.

JULIUS D. BELOTE

Is a native of Virginia, born in Accomack county, May 5, 1838, a son
of Louis and Mollie (Mears) Belote of this county. He was united in
marriage to Edna B. Martin, Nov. 6, 1881, and they have been blessed
with ten children, born in the order named. Anna D., Julius J.,
Mollie E., Bertha L., Lola M., Minnie, Gracie V., Carl. C., Harvey
C. and Lena, twins. Mr. Belote is, now, and has been for nine years,
engaged in the mercantile business and previously was carrying on a
farm. He attended the schools in his native county and received a
fair education that fitted him to pursue a successful business. He is
now the postmaster at Savageville, and for some time he was a school
trustee. Mrs. Belote's parents are John S. and Anna (Bryan) Martin,
of Accomack county. Mr. Belote's post office address is Savageville,
Va.

ROBERT L. BARRET, M. D.

Was born in Louisa county, this state, Jan. 6, 1834, a son of the late
Thomas J. Barret, who is a son of Charles and Nancy M. (Johnston)

Barret of this county, His father was born in this county July 4,
1809, and died Aug. 28, 1889. His mother was Lucy Anne, a daughter
of Rev. William and Rhoda (Yancey) Crawford, a well known and
highly respected Virginia family. Her father was a minister in the
Episcopal church and a man of great intelligence and influence. Dr.
Barret married Rosabelle Hunter in 1863, who only survived one
year. In May, 1879, he was united to Annie V. Keene, of Vicksburg,
Miss. Dr. Barret has practiced medicine in Louisa county from
the time he graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1854, and
served as assistant surgeon in the Confederate service. He received
his education at the Old Field schools and at University of Virginia,
and in medicine at the above college. He is a member of the Virginia
State Medical Society, and of Day Lodge F. A. and A. M. of
Louisa county. He and his wife are both members of the church.
His postoffice address is Louisa, Va.

GEORGE E. BRYAN

Is a native Virginian, born in York county, January 10, 1854, a son
of George W. and Lizzie (Moore) Bryan; both parents are deceased.
His father died March 24, 1881, aged 75 years; his mother deceased
since 1856. She was a daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Bailey)
Moore. Mr. Bryan was united in marriage to Irardeen E., a daughter
of Humphrey K. and Lucy (Williams) Harwood of New Kent county.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan have been blessed with two children, Indiana V.,
and Lizzie M. Mr. Bryan received his education in York county, and
has been engaged in farming since leaving school. In 1887, he filled
the position of deputy treasurer, and in 1890, was appointed revenue
commmissioner in York county, and is also one of the school trustees.
His postoffice address is Halstead Point.

THOMAS J. CHEATHAM, M. D.

Was born in Chesterfield county, Va., February 24, 1828, a son of
Thomas and Elizabeth (Bruce) Cheatham. His father served as sheriff
of Chesterfield county for several years. He died in November, 1827.
Dr. Cheatham was educated at Old Field school and the university of
Virginia; he studied medicine at Richmond College, graduating from
there in March, 1850, practiced five years in Isle of Wight county
and since then has been in constant practice in Chesterfield county.
He is an active member of the order A. F. and A. M., and belongs to
the Farmers' Alliance. He keeps a fine pack of hounds and is one of the
most noted fox hunters in the state. He was united in marriage to
Mary F. Gregory, of Chesterfield county, born April 22, 1830, and
the union has been blessed with ten children, four of whom are deceased.
Their births occurred in the order named: Thomas N., living;
Emma, deceased; James B., deceased; Lucy W., deceased;

Mary E., living; Willie L., deceased; Stonewall J., living; Ida G.,
living; Archer M., living, and Drewry I., living. Dr. Cheatham's
postoffice address is: Chesterfield, Va.

MARCUS A. COGBILL

Was born in Chesterfield county, Virginia, July 18, 1842, a son of
Christopher B. and Mary F. (Morgan) Cogbill. His father was born
in 1794 and died in 1852, his mother deceased in Oct. 1848. His wife,
whom he married January 15, 1880, was Miss Emma V., daughter of
James and Susan M. (Pinkleton) Perdue. Mrs. Cogbill's birth place
is Manchester, this state. Mr. Cogbill served in the Confederate army
during the late war, enlisting in April, 1861, in Co. D, 14th Va. Inf.,
commissioned first lieutenant in 1864, and took part in many hard
fought battles, receiving three wounds while in service; he was twice
wounded at Gettysburg, and again at Drewry's Bluff. Since the close
of the war he has held several responsible positions, that of commander
of revenue in 1871-72; deputy clerk of court 1872-73; clerk of court
since that time to the present. He is a member of the Knights of
Honor, and of the Farmers' Alliance. With his family he attends the
Methodist church; his postoffice address is Chesterfield.

COL. RICHARD T. W. DUKE

Was born and reared in Albemarle county, a son of Richard Duke
(died in 1849) who was a son of Cleviers Duke, of Hanover county.
Col. Duke's mother was Maria B. Walker, a daughter of Thomas, of
Albemarle, and Margaret (Hoops) Walker, of Philadelphia, Pa. His
mother died in 1852. His paternal grandfather was one of the earliest
pioneers of Kentucky and served as commissary during the Braddock
war. He was the guardian of Thomas Jefferson during his minority,
and was one of the commissioners that fixed the boundary line
between North Carolina and Virginia. His wife was a Miss Thornton,
cousin of George Washington. Col. Duke was educated at private
schools, then graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in
1845, studied law at the University of Virginia and was admitted to
the bar in 1850, and has been practicing in his profession in Albemarle
and adjoining counties since that time, also in Virginia Supreme
Court and United States court of Lynchburg; he has also been Commonwealth's
attorney for Albemarle county. He was a member one
session of the 41st congress and of the full term of the 42d and served
as a representative in the state legislature in 1879-80. He entered
the Confederate army in May, 1861, as captain of Co. B, 19th Virginia
Infantry, was commissioned colonel of the 46th Infantry in June,
1862, and remained in that command until February, 1864. In May
following he took command of a battallion of Virginia Reserves, remaining

with that command until the close of the war. From April
12, 1865, to July 25, of that year, he was a prisoner at Johnson's
Island. Col. Duke married Elizabeth S. Eskridge of Staunton, in
this state, on the 25th of July, 1846, and they have two children living
and one dead: W. R., R. T. W. jr., and Mary W., deceased. Col.
Duke is a member of the Virginia and Southern Historical Society;
and is regarded in his profession as one of the legal lights of his state.
His postoffice address is Charlottesville, Virginia.

LAWRENCE E. FLANNAGAN.

The subject of this sketch was born Oct. 11, 1864, in Charlottesville,
Va., received his education at the University of Virginia from
which he graduated July 2, 1884, taking his degree of M. D. regular
allopathic school; he practiced in Albemarle county for five years
serving one year as Demonstrator of Anatomy, Pro Tem., at the University
of Virginia. His father, R. K. Flannagan, born in 1830 and
still in the enjoyment of good health, is the son of James W., of Fluvanna
county, Va. His mother, S. J. Pitman, is the daughter of
Lawrence Pitman and Jane A. Almond. Dr. Flannagan who is as
yet (1891) unmarried, enjoys a large and steadily increasing patronage
in his native Charlottesville; his ability as a physician backed by
energetic devotion to his calling places him in the front ranks of the
successful practitioners of to-day.

OSWALD B. FINNEY, M. D.

Was born in Accomack county, Virginia, July 2, 1819, a son of John
and Margaret (Boman) Finney. His father came from England and
settled in Virginia at an early date. His mother was a daughter of
Colonel David Boman of the English army. Dr. Finney was educated
at Oldfields school and Margaret Academy, afterward graduating at
Washington, Pa., then taking a course at William and Mary College
and graduated in Medicine from the University of Virginia and the
University of Pennsylvania, beginning the practice of medicine in his
native county in 1843 and continuing in active practice up to the present
time. He entered the Confederate service in 1862 as surgeon and
served until the close of the war; served in the House of Delegates
both before and since the war, also as state senator, and has been a
member of the state board of medical examiners since its organization.
Col. Lewis C. H. Finney, brother of Dr. Finney, was a graduate of
law, practicing in Accomack county until his demise in 1884 at the age
of 63 years. He was a member of the Virginia Legislature a number
of years and of the state constitutional convention in 1850. Dr. Finney
is a member of the Episcopal church.

JUDGE JOHN W. GILLET

Was born at Accomack, C. H., Va., on the 26th of October, 1823.
His parents were William and Henrietta (Selby) Gillet, of Accomack
county, and grandson of Ayers and Peggy (Douglas) Gillet; his grandmother
being a daughter of George Douglas, a prominent lawyer of
Accomack before the Revolution. At the time of her marriage with
his grandfather she was the widow of John Wise, grandfather of the
late governor, Henry A. Wise. John Wise, father of the governor,
and his father were half brothers. His grandfather, Ayers Gillet,
was of French extraction, and first settled in the Province of Maryland,
afterward removing to Accomack. Judge Gillet was educated
in the private schools of his native county, and afterward tutor in
in a private family in 1841. In 1842 he entered the office of
clerk of county and circuit courts as deputy, the late Thomas R.
Joynes being the incumbent of the offices; he was elected clerk of
Accomack county in 1850, holding the office until 1862, when he was
displaced by the Federal military. He began the practice of law in
1864, in partnership with Judge Benj. T. Gunter; was elected clerk of
county and circuit courts of Accomack in 1865, remaining in office
until November, 1869, when he was ordered to vacate by military
commander of District No. 1, for having participated in the recent
rebellion, so called; resumed practice with Judge Gunter until 1884
when he retired. He is now Judge of the County Court of Accomack.
He was commissioned a captain in the Virginia volunteer militia in
the late war, but was not in active service on account of the civil
office he was holding.

FRANK GILMER

Is a native Virginian, his ancestry settling in Virginia before the Revolutionary
war. His father, Geo. C. Gilmer, who died in September, 1884,
was a son of George Gilmer of Albemarle, and he was a son of Dr.
George Gilmer of the same county, who served as a lieutenant in the
war for Independence in 1776, his father coming from Scotland in 1672
and settling in Williamsburg, Virginia, from whom has sprung the
Virginia Gilmers. Mr. Gilmer's mother was Mildred W. Duke, a daughter
of Richard Duke, father of R. W. Duke. On the 17th of March,
1886, Mr. Gilmer was united in marriage to Decca S. Haskell, daughter
of Judge A. C. Haskell of Columbia, South Carolina, and there is
one son by the union, George. Her mother's maiden name was Rebecca
Singleton. Mr. Gilmer received his education at Hamden City,
Richmond College, and University of Virginia, studied law under John
B. Minor and Stephen O. Southall, and was admitted to the bar in
1884, and entered upon the practice of law in Albemarle county; has
been Commonwealth's attorney for the city of Charlottsville since
December, 1888, and is also a notary public. He held a clerkship in

the postoffice for about fifteen months, and with this exception has
been in constant practice in his profession. His birth occurred in this
county, January 29, 1857; postoffice address, Charlottsville, Virginia.

JOHN DRUMMOND GRANT

Is a native of Virginia, born at "Hill's Farm," Accomack county,
Jan. 8, 1847, a son of Rev. Edward S. and Tabitha Jane (Drummond)
Grant. His father was a son of Captain John Grant and Agnes
(Snead) Grant, of this county, and his mother a daughter of Colonel
John P. Drummond and Ann Conquest (Warner) Drummond; said
Col. Drummond represented Accomack county in the Virginia House
of Delegates for 19 consecutive years. Both parents were of Scotch
ancestry. Mr. Grant married Susan Elizabeth Coard in this county,
Dec. 8, 1875, and there have been five children born of the union:
Nola N., Tabitha N., John Drummond, jr., Ava C., deceased, Oct.
11, 1881, at the age of eight months, and Susan T. Mrs. Grant is a
daughter of John W. and Nancy Byrd (Chandler) Coard of Accomack
county. Her father was a son of William R. Coard and Elizabeth
(Rew) Coard, and her mother was a daughter of Captain Mitchell
Chandler and Susan (Byrd) Chandler. Both parents were of English
extraction. Mr. Grant was educated in his native county at the
public and private schools, and for several years of his early manhood
he was a mechanic and teacher in the public schools; eight years Commissioner
of Revenue for District No. 2, Accomack county; from 1883
to 1887 was auditing clerk in office of Auditor of Public Accounts,
Richmond, Va., and from July 1, 1887, to the present, has been clerk
of circuit court of Accomack county. He is a member of the A. F.
and A. M., Knights of Honor, I. O. G. T., Fraternal Mystic Circle,
and Farmers Alliance. Himself and wife are members of the Methodist
Protestant church.

CHARLES L. HARMANSON, M. D.,

Was born in Accomack county, Va., Jan. 5, 1858. His father is Dr.
John L. Harmanson of Pungoteague, Va.; his paternal grandfather
was John H. Harmanson, of Northampton county, Va., and his great-grandfather
was William Harmanson of the same county. His mother
was Anne C. Arbuckle of Assanaman, Accomack Co., Va. Her
maternal grandfather was Geo. W. Arbuckle of this county, and her
great-grandfather, Edward Arbuckle, was also of Accomack. Dr. C.
L. Harmanson was educated at the Universities of Virginia and
Pennsylvania, graduating from the latter school in 1881, with the
degree of M. D. He settled in Onancock, Va., where he is practicing
his profession. In April, 1885, he married Anne Hay Battaile of
Blenheim, Accomack Co., Va., whose father is Henry Battaile of
Caroline Co., Va. The Battailes were of French Huguenot ancestry

and settled in Caroline county, at an early date. Dr. and Mrs. Harmanson
have two children, Mary B. and Margaret S. Himself and
family are Episcopalions.

WILLIAM T. JONES

A native of Charlottsville, Va., was born Oct. 27, 1839, and was educated
in same place. He was Town Collector for Charlottsville from 1876 to
1888, and filled the office of City Treasurer from July, 1888, up to date;
he served in the Confederate State's Army, Co. A., 19th Va. Inf. and
was severely wounded in the head at the battle of Williamsburg, May
5, 1862, was taken prisoner the day after, and detained at Williamsburg
one week, from which place he was removed to the hospital at Washington,
where he remained six weeks; he was afterwards taken to the
old Capitol Prison where he remained ten days, from whence he was
transferred to Ft. Delaware remaining there one month; was exchanged
Aug. 5, 1862; his wound becoming very troublesome he was soon afterwards
discharged from the service. Mr. Jones was married to Matilda
McComas, January 1, 1872, in Baltimore, who was born Oct. 29, 1849,
and died Aug. 9, 1890. Of a family of six children, James V., first
born and now deceased, leaves the family circle reduced to five. Justine
Lucile, Daisy, Ethel and Wm. T., Jr., all born in the order named and
still living. His father, Turner Jones, of Louisa Co., Va., who died in
1864, was the son of David J. of Wales; his mother, Sarah D. Garner,
who passed away in 1884, was the daughter of Wm. and Mary Garner.
Mr. Jones falling from a scaffold in 1876, broke both legs necessitating
the amputation of his left leg below the knee. He is acting treasurer
of John Bowie Strange Camp C. V. and of which he has been a member
since 1889; he belongs to the order of Masons and is a member of the
Missionary Baptist Church, Charlottesville,

HON. JOHN D. MOON

Was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, July 20, 1849; he is a son
of Robert Barclay Moon, and Mary Barclay (Massie) Moon, a daughter
of Nathaniel and Susan (Wood) Massie. Mr. Moon was educated
at Washington and Lee university and admitted to the bar in 1870,
and began the practice of his chosen profession in his native county.
He represented his county in the legislature in the sessions of 1881,
1882-83-84, and is now chairman of the board of Supervisors. He has
been Master of Widows and Sons Lodge, No. 60, at Charlottesville,
and past Master of Scottsville Lodge No. 45. He was married in
Albemarle county, March 20, 1878, to Marion B., a daughter of Major
William S. Dabney. Her mother's maiden name was Susan FitzHugh
Gordon, and she is now living in Albemarle county. She came
from England in 1829. Major Dabney is now deceased. Mr. and
Mrs. Moon have six children born in the order named: Mary L.,

Jane Belle, Basil G., Esther C., Agnes, and John B., jr. Hon. John
B. Moon's postoffice address is Charlottesville.

J. C. MCKENNIE

Was born at Charlottesville, Virginia, Dec. 22, 1849, and has always
lived in this county. He is at present engaged in the real estate and
insurance business in Charlottesville. His parents were the late
Marcellus McKennie, with whom he was associated in the book and
stationery business until the death of his father which occurred in
October, 1890, and his mother whose maiden name was Mary Cummings,
is yet living. His father was a son of Clement McKennie of
Fauquier county, Virginia, and he was a son of Dr. Matthew McKennie
of that county, whose father, Rev. Mathew. McKennie, came
originally from Scotland, settled in Welmington, Del., and founded
the McKennie family of this country. C. P. McKennie's wife, Hetty
Rodes McKennie, was a daughter of Mathew Rodes of Albemarle
county, Va. Mr. McKennie married Mary Jane Clough Bainbridge,
of Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 15th of April, 1875, and five children bless
their union, born in the order named: Charles B., Mary E., Maude
L., Robert C., and Marie M. Mr. McKennie has been engaged in the
real estate and insurance business here since 1881. His postoffice
address is Charlottesville.

EDWARD MAY MAGRUDER, M. D.,

Is a native of Virginia, born at Charlottesville, Nov. 27, 1858, a son
of Benjamin H. and Anne E. (Norris) Magruder. His father, who
died April, 1885, was a son of John B. Magruder of Maryland. Dr,
Magruder received his education at private schools, and at the University
of Virginia, where he graduated in the department of medicine
in June, 1884. He practiced for a short time in Orange county, but
returned to Aldemarle county and settled in Charlottesville, and has
been in continuous practice there ever since. He is one of the progressive
men in his calling and is eminently successful in his chosen
profession. He is a member of the Virginia State Medical Society
and takes an active interest in the advancement of scientific medicine.
His postoffice address is Charlottesville, Va.

CAPT. LLOYD W. MEARS

Was born in Accomack county, Virginia, Sept. 7, 1849, a son of
Arthur and Margaret L. (Williams) Mears; both parents are now
deceased. Captain Mears was educated in the schools of his native
county, and at the age of 17 years he started out in business for himself,
first embarking in the oyster and freight business, continuing in
that trade up to nine years ago, when he engaged in farming and

merchandise, under the firm name of James and Mears, near Savageville.
He was captain of several different vessels during his seafaring
life. He belongs to the order of A. F. and A. M., and is a highly
esteemed and useful citizen. Captain Mears was married to Mary E.
James in Accomack county, on Nov. 27, 1879, and they have had
born to them two children: Beulah J., and Harry T. His postoffice
address is Savageville, Va.

LEVIN FLOYD NOCK

Was born in Accomack county, Virginia, Dec. 20, 1853, and has practiced
law in this and adjoining counties since 1879. The degree of A.
M. was conferred upon him by Richmond College in July, 1876; that
of Bachelor of Law from the University of Virginia in July, 1879, and
admitted to the bar in October following. His father was born in
this county and died here Feb. 27, 1889, at the age of 62 years. He
was the son of Levin W. Nock, son of John Nock of the same county,
and of English extraction. His mother, Sarah C., is the daughter of
Rev. Mathew Floyd, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church.
He married Ellen J., daughter of John Brittingham of Accomack
county. Her mother, Esther Brittingham, is a daughter of William
Marshall, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Nock have two children, Miriam
D. and Sarah E. Himself and wife are members of the Southern
Methodist church. His postoffice address is Accomack C. H., Va.

ROBERT W. NELSON, M. D.

Is a native Virginian of illustrious descent, his great grandfather, Gen.
Thomas Nelson, having served in the Revolutionary war and was one
of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Dr. Nelson was
born in Albemarle county June 27, 1822, and is a son of Judge Hugh
Nelson, of Yorktown, Va., who died in Albemarle county in 1836, a
son of the Gen. Nelson alluded to above as connected with our nation's
history. He was educated first by private tutors, then attended the
high school near Alexandria, and then studied medicine at the University
of Virginia and Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, graduating
from the Jefferson College in 1846, and since that time has been
in constant practice, twenty years in Powhatan county before the war,
and since then has practiced in Albemarle county. He belongs to
the Virginia State Medical Society and is a member of the A. F. and
A. M. Dr. Nelson was married in Hanover county, this state, July
26, 1844, to Virginia L. Nelson, of that county, and their union has
been blessed with eight children, three of whom are now deceased,
Dr. H. T. Nelson, Susan P., Robert, William, and Eliza K.; Nancy,
Caroline and Ida are deceased. Dr. Nelson and his wife are members
of the Protestant Episcopal church and have reared their family in
that faith. For further history of the Nelsons of Virginia see general

history in this work. Dr. Nelson's postoffice address is Charlottesville.

MONTCALM OLDHAM, JR.

Is a son of Montcalm and Maria Ann Oldham of Northampton county,
Va., and was born February 15, 1848. He was married at Accomack,
C. H., February 19, 1874, and there are three children by the union,
Robert Harmanson, Edith, and Ruth. He received his rudimentary
education in the schools of his native county, afterward attending
private schools taught by graduates of the University of Virginia and
William and Mary College. After leaving school he entered the
office of John W. Gillet, Esq., as deputy clerk of circuit and county
courts of Accomack county, Va., continuing until March, 1869, when
William H. B. Custis succeeded Mr. Gillet in office, and he was retained
until July, 1875, when he was elected clerk of circuit court.
After elected to office he retained his position as deputy of the county
court also. In May, 1887, he was elected clerk of Accomack county
for a term of six years and is the present incumbent of that office.
For 25 years he has been in public office as deputy and clerk, filling
both positions at once. He is a member of the Masonic Order,
Knights of Honor, and the Fraternal Mystic Circle of Columbus, O.
He worships in the Episcopal church, while his wife is a Presbyterian.
His father died in July, 1889, aged 73 years. He was a son of Leroy
and Jane Oldham, coming from England and settling in Virginia.
His mother died in 1874 at the age of 56 years. Her parents were
John H. and Catherine Harmanson, of Northampton county, Va.

GEORGE PERKINS

Was born in Cumberland county, Va., December 7, 1846, and is a son
of Captain William A. Perkins, of Richmond, who served as captain
of Company G, 3d Va., Cavalry, during the late war; he was also
judge of Cumberland and Powhatan counties for one term. He was
born in Richmond in 1817 and died in Cumberland county in 1889.
He was the son of George Perkins, of Richmond, whose father and
ancestors came from England in colonial times. Mr. Perkins' mother
was Ann I. Henderson, daughter of Robert and Louise Henderson, of
Cumberland county. Her father was a physician and came from
Sligo, Ireland, in early life and settled in Cumberland county. Mr.
Perkins received his education at the University of Virginia, graduating
at that school of learning in 1869 and was admitted to the bar in
September of the same year. He practiced his profession one year in
Cumberland county when he removed to Charlottesville and practiced
in partnership with Judge E. R. Watson until the death of the latter
in September, 1887. Since the death of his partner he has practiced
alone in the counties of Albemarle and those adjoining, also in the

Supreme court of appeals of Virginia. He served as a private during
the late war in the 3d Va. Cavalry, enlisting in November, 1864, and
serving until the close of the war. Mr. Perkins was united in marriage
to Lizzie Norris Watson, of Charlottesville, a daughter of Egbert
R. and Mary (Kelly Norris) Watson. Her father was born in Albemarle
county, Va., in 1810, and died there in September, 1887. He
practiced law until 1867, when he was made judge of the 7th judicial
circuit of Virginia; he left the bench some years later and returned
to the bar in which he continued until his demise. Mrs. Perkins'
mother was a daughter of Opie Norris, of Charlottesville. She died
in 1850. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins have three children living and one
deceased Haidie W., Nannie H., George jr., deceased, and William
Allen. Mr. Perkins' postoffice address is Charlottesville, Va.

JESSE J. PORTER

Was born in Louisa county, this state, August 26, 1836, a son of James
D. Porter who died in January, 1879, aged 76 years, and Catherine
Porter who died in 1883, aged 77 years. His father was a son of
James Porter of this county, and his mother a daughter of Jesse and
Mary Harris. His wife, whom he married in Hanover county, Dec.
6, 1860, was a daughter of William W. Mallory, who was born and
died in that county. Their union has been blessed with six children,
born in the order named: Birdie, Philip B., Mamie G., Mattie W.,
Harry, and Jemmie. Mr. Porter was educated at Oldfield school; leaving
that institution of learning in '54 he entered the office of the county
clark as an assistant. In May, 1861, he enlisted as corporal in Company
D, 13th Va. Inf. and rose to a lieutenancy in the same company,
was wounded at the Wilderness, and again returned to his command
and was captured at Winchester, September 19, 1864, held at Fort
Delaware until first of June, 1865. He became a candidate for office
of clerk of county and circuit court but declared ineligible on
account of holding a commissioned office. The matter was adjusted
by another man heading the ticket, who was elected, and the subject
of this sketch and Mr. Parsons appointed deputies; he was elected to
the office twice since then; in 1875 elected for a term of six years, and
again in 1881 and 1887, and is still the incumbent of the office. Mr.
Porter's postoffice address is Louisa, Virginia.

HON. ROBERT J. POULSON.

The subject of this sketch was born in Accomack county, Va., January
8, 1806, and was a son of James and Elizabeth (James) Poulson,
of this county. He departed this life August 31, 1862. He was
educated at Carlisle, Pa., graduating in the law department at Winchester,
Va. He was elected to the House of Delegates in 1835, afterward
serving several sessions in the state senate; clerk of circuit court

by appointment in 1848, afterward under the new Virginia constitution
elected without opposition in 1852. He was united in marriage
to Katherine P. W. Custis, July 24, 1833, a daughter of John Custis
who died Nov. 4, 1848, son of John Custis, of Accomack, who was
descended of John Custis of Arlington. Her mother was Tabitha
Gillet, of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Poulson had a family of eight
sons and daughters, three of whom are now deceased. Their births
occurred in the order named: Katherine W. (deceased), married Corbin
D. Fletcher, who died in the Confederate service, serving in the
capacity of surgeon; Bettie T., Mary D., James, Sarah C., Charlotte
C., John C. (deceased), and Robert J. (deceased).

UPSHUR B. QUINBY

Was born in Washington, D. C., August 20, 1841, only child of Aaron
B. and Elizabeth Anne Upshur, his wife, who was the daughter of
Littleton D. Teackle and Elizabeth, his wife; who was a daughter of
Abel Upshur, of Accomack county, who was an uncle of Judge Abel P.
Upshur, of Virginia. He is a lineal descendant of Arthur Upshur,
of Essex, and Mary, his wife, of Warwickshire, who emigrated from
England to Virginia about 1640. His father was Aaron Balderston
Quinby, a son of Aaron, a son of Isaiah, born April 11, 1716, son of
Josiah Quinby, son of John, son of William who emigrated from England
and settled on Long Island about 1640, and founded the American
family of his name. Mr. Quinby was united in married to Georgie
G. Richardson on the 23d of November, 1864, and they now have a
family of seven children, born in the order named: Margaret Upshur,
Thomas B., Elizabeth W., L. T. Teackle, Georgie R., Jessie M., and
Henrietta C. Mr. Quinby was educated at York, Pa., studying law
at the University of Virginia, and has been in continuous practice in
this county since 1864 and in the court of appeals; commissioner in
Chancery and commissioner of accounts of Accomack county from
1870 to 1880. Mrs. Quinby is a daughter of Thomas S. Richardson,
of Accomack county. Mr. Quinby's postoffice address is Onancock,
Virginia.

EDGAR W. ROBERTSON, M. D.

Is a native of Maryland, born in Summerset county, October 2, 1845,
a son of William and Mary D. (Waples) Robertson. His father who
deceased in 1853, was a son of Dr. Thomas Robertson, of Maryland.
His mother was a daughter of Captain Samuel Waples who served in
the Revolutionary war; she died October 2, 1862, aged 34 years. Dr.
Robertson's first wife was Susan H. Fisher, who died October 19,
1879, aged 33 years, leaving two children, Frederick W. and Sue F.
Edgar; an older child is deceased. On October 12, 1882, Dr. Robertson
was united in marriage to Belle B. Britton, whose native state is

New Jersey. There are two children by this union, Thomas and John
William. Dr. Robertson is practicing his chosen profession in this
county (Accomack, Va.) and has a large clientele. His postoffice address
is Onancock, Va., in which town (and near it) he has lived
the greater part of his life.

W. G. ROGERS, M. D.

Dr. W. Rogers, now a resident and practitioner of medicine in the
city of Charlottesville, Va., was born in Albemarle county, Feb. 26,
1822. His father, Dr. James B. Rogers, for many years a practitioner
in the same county, died in Dec., 1863. His father, Parnassus Rogers,
had sixteen children, five of whom were doctors. He was for many
years a member of Albemarle court and High Sheriff under the old
constitution of Virginia. His father was Giles Rogers, an uncle of
George Rogers Clarke, who was associated in the exploration of the
great western wilderness with Meriwether Lewis and afterwards appointed
Governor of Louisiana by Mr. Jefferson. Meriwether Lewis
was the son of Robert Lewis of Belvoir, Albemarle county, Va., the
father of Nicholas Lewis who married Mary Walker, daughter of Dr.
Walker of Castle Hill, Albemarle county, Va., the great grandfather
and great-grandmother of Dr. W. G. Rogers and of Mrs. Dr. Alfred
C. Wood, now of Kentucky. His grandmother was Mildred Wood,
daughter of Nickolas and Mary Lewis, of The Farm, near Charlottesville,
Va. His mother was Margaret Wood, daughter of Mildred and
David Wood. Giles Roger's family intermarried with the Byrds of
Westover, Va. Dr. W. G. Rogers was educated in the Oldfield schools
of Albemarle, the most of which were classical and at the University
of Virginia where he graduated in Medicine in 1844. In Sept., 1849,
he married Marion S. Wood, daughter of Benjamin and Jane Wood,
formerly Anderson, a niece of Meriwether Lewis. There have been
seven children born of this marriage. Their births occurred in the
order named: Jennie A., William B., Maggie Lewis, Marion Rogers,
all deceased. Those who survive are Ella Walker, who married James
R. Wood and now resides in Kentucky; Benjamin Wood and William
Lewis who live in Charlottesville, Va. Dr. Rogers was appointed to
practice his profession during the war between the states, and is a
member of the Charlottesville Medical Society and the Virginia State
Medical Society and is actively interested in everything pertaining to
the advance of the profession, to which the greater part of his life has
been devoted. His postoffice address is Charlottesville, Va.

WILSON C. N. RANDOLPH, M. D.

Is a native Virginian, born in Albemarle county, October 25, 1834,
and is a physician and surgeon of many years' experience, having
served through the late war as surgeon in the Confederate army, and

since the close of the war has been in continuous practice in Charlottesville,
and is Rector of the University of Virginia from which
place he graduated in Medicine in June, 1855. Dr. Randolph's father
was Thomas J. Randolph, who died, October 1875, a son of Thomas
M. Randolph, of Edge Hill, Va. His mother was Jane H., a daughter
of Wilson C. and Margaret (Smith) Nicholas, of Maryland. Dr.
Randolph is descended of Thomas Mann Randolph of Tucker
Hoe, this state, one of the oldest and most respected families
of Virginia. He married Nannie Holliday, of Louisa county, this
state, November 11, 1868, by whom he has four children: Virginia,
now Mrs. George A. Shackleford, of Charlottesville; Wilson K. R.,
married to Margaret Hager, of Lancaster, Pa.; Mary B. and Julia.
Mrs. Randolph is now deceased.

FRANK A. SLOCOMB

Was born in Accomack county, Va., September 4, 1848, a son of
William C. and Susan (Aydelott) Slocomb. His father died in 1870,
aged 64 years. His mother is yet living. Mr. Slocomb is one of the
most prominent business men of Onancock, having been bred to the
merchandise business almost, starting in the enterprise at the age of
13 years. Since 1878 he has been head of the firm of Slocomb & Ames,
the largest dealers in dry goods, notions and clothing in Accomack
county. He is a member of the Order of A. F. and A. M., also a
member of the Southern Methodist church and has been superintendent
of the Sunday-school for the past fifteen years. He received
his education at the excellent schools in his native county, fitting himself
for a business career that has been crowned with unusual success.
His postoffice address is Onancock.

HON. THOMAS M. SCOTT

Was born in Northampton county, Va., January 13, 1836, and is a
son of John T. Scott, of Northampton county, born in 1817, and died
at Waterford, Va., his residence since May 20, 1886. His father was
married four times, the first wife, Mary A. (Nottingham) Scott, was
the mother of the subject of this sketch. She was a daughter of
Thomas and Mary (Biggs) Nottingham, of English descent, from
Richard and Elizabeth Nottingham who came from England to Northampton
about 1632, settling upon a tract of land granted by charter
from the Sovereign of England. Mr. Scott was educated at Richmond
and Columbian College, taking a literary degree from the latter place.
His health failing him he accepted the sheriffalty of Northampton
county and he performed the duties of said office 18 months. In 1859
he entered the law department of the University of Virginia which he
left in March, 1860, to enter the Confederate army, serving in the
ranks (19th Virginia Battallion) and in the commissary department.

In 1862 he was elected to the legislature and served two sessions,
1863—64. After the close of the war he began the practice of law in
the courts of the eastern shore of Virginia and continued in the same
for 20 years; established the "Eastern Shore Herald" published at
Eastville, and edited the same, four years. In 1891 he removed to
Onancock and retired from the practice of law and became a member
of Richmond Randolph Lodge No. 19, A. F. and A. M. in 1861, in the
city of Richmond. The lady who became his wife was Henriettta I.,
a daughter of Nathaniel P. Fitchett, of Northampton county, and
Sallie (Jacob) Fitchett, of English descent. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have
had nine children, two of whom are deceased. Their births occurred
in the order named. Marianna (deceased), Marion J., John T., Sarah
J., Ella F. (deceased), Ella G., Eliza G., Stanley and Tucker M. Mr.
Scott's postoffice address is Onancock, Accomack county, Va.

T. SANFORD SPADY

Was born at Northampton, Sept. 19, 1853, and is a son of Dr. Thomas
F. Spady, who died in 1875 at the age of 58 years. He was a son of
Thomas S. Spady who served as an officer in the war of 1812, and
died in 1842 aged 56 years, and he a son of Southey Spady, who was
also in that war, and deceased in 1844 aged 88 years. His forefathers
were of Irish extraction and were among the first settlers of Northampton
county. Mr. Spady's mother was Maria Jarvis, a daughter of
Captain William Jarvis, and granddaughter of John Robins of
Northampton county, who was a descendant of Obedience Robins,
who came to this country from Huntingtonshire, England, in 1621,
and settled in this county, and was the first J. P. of Northampton
county. The subject of this sketch graduated at the Virginia Military
Institute in the class of 1872; he was appointed county surveyor in
1874, and held the office until Sept. 10, 1890, when he was appointed
clerk of the county and circuit courts, and is the present incumbent
of that office. His postoffice address is Eastville, Va.

JUDGE FREDERICK WILMER SIMS.

The subject of this sketch was born in Louisa county, this state, July
23, 1862, a son of Dr. F. H. Sims, who died in that county, in 1883.
His mother was M. L. Kimbrough, a daughter of Captain Charles Y.
and Mary (Pottie) Kimbrough, both deceased. He married Lucy
Winston, a daughter of William A. Winston of Louisa county. Mrs.
Sims was born in Louisa county March 14, 1862, and they were married
in that county in September, 1888. They have one daughter,
Lucy Winston. Judge Sims has practiced law in Louisa and adjoining
counties since 1885, and was elected Judge of Louisa county in
1890; has held the position of Master Commissioner in Chancery of
Louisa Circuit Court since 1886. He was educated at the Louisa

schools, and at the University of Virginia; was admitted to the bar in
1885, and has been in active practice since. Mrs. Sims' mother was
also a Virginian, a daughter of Captain Payne and his wife, M. A.
(Mosby) Payne. For many generations their ancestry have been
Virginians. The P. O. address is Louisa, Va.

PROF. WILLIAM M. THORNTON

Is a native Virginian, born in Cumberland county, Oct. 29, 1851, a
son of Col. John T. Thornton, who was born in 1824, and who served
in the late war as lieutenant colonel, and acting colonel of the 3rd Va.
cavalry, and was killed at the battle of Sharpsburg, in 1862. He was
a member of the convention of 1861. His grandfather, William Mynn
Thornton, resided at Oak Hill, Va. His mother, Martha Jane (Riddle)
Thornton, was born in 1829, a daughter of James Riddle, a merchant
of Petersburg, formerly of Belfast, Ireland. She now resides at
H. S. College, Va. Her mother's maiden name was Mary Morton.
Prof. Thornton married E. Rosalie Harrison, a daughter of Prof.
Gessner Harrison, of the University of Virginia. Her mother, Eliza
Lewis Carter, is a daughter of Hon. Geo. Tucker, member of Congress
from this state, and formerly professor of Moral Philosophy and Political
Economy in the University of Virginia. Prof. Thornton and his
wife have six children, born in the order named: John T., E. Carter,
Rosalie, Janet, William M., and C. Edward. Prof. Thornton was
prepared for college by Augustus Osborn, A. M., at his school in
Farmville; he entered the University of Virginia in October, 1868,
following his graduation from H. S. College in June, studied there two
sessions, then began his career as an educator and since then has filled
the chair of Mathematics in several different schools and colleges in
his native state and North Carolina; was made a full professor in
1883, and chairman of the Faculty of University of Virginia in 1888.
He is a member of the Presbyterian church, and his wife an Episcopalian.
His P. O. address is Charlottesville, Va.

LT. COL. CHARLES S. VENABLE

Was born in Prince Edward county, Va., April 19, 1827, and is of
Revolutionary stock, his grandfather, Samuel W. Venable, serving as
a captain in the war of the Revolution, whose father, Nathaniel Venable,
was son of the colonial settlers. Nathaniel E. Venable, father
of the subject of this sketch, was born in Prince Edward county, and
died in 1857. Mary (Scott) Venable, his mother, was a daughter of
Captain Charles Scott who served under Col. Washington in the Revolutionary
war. He married Margaret C. McDowell, daughter of
Governor James McDowell, Jan. 15, 1856, who died in 1874, and in
July, 1876, he was united in marriage to Mary S. Brown, widow of

Colonel J. Thompson Brown, C. S. A. Col. Venable was educated at
Hampden Sidney College, graduating in 1842, and from the University
of Virginia in sessions of 1845-6 and 1847-8, then taking a course
at Universities of Berlin and Bonn in 1853 and 1854. From 1846 to
1856, he was professor of mathematics at Hampden Sidney College,
excepting a two years furlough abroad. During the year of 1856 he
filled the chair of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry at the University
of Georgia, and from 1857 to 1861, he filled the chair of Mathematics
in the University of South Carolina. Leaving the professor's chair to
enter the army, he enlisted in 1861 as a private in a South Carolina
regiment; was promoted to a lieutenancy in a cavalry command in
April of that year; captain of engineers on duty at New Orleans and
Vicksburg, from April to June, 1862, and was then chosen A. D. C.
to Gen. R. E. Lee; was promoted to Lieut.-Colonel in 1864, and was
with Lee at the surrender at Appomattox. After the war was over
he was elected professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia,
and is still occupying that position. His postoffice address is Charlottesville.

REV. WILLIAM C. WADE

Was born in York county, Va., June 15, 1851, and is a son of Chidley
and Anne C. (Curtis) Wade of York county. He was married Aug.
31, 1886, to Noalice M., daughter of James V. and Emma J. Buckingham,
of Baltimore, Md. Three children have blessed the union,
Herbert V. C., William C., and Lawrence Curtis. Rev. Wade comes
of an old and well known Virginia family, his ancestors being Virginians
for several generations. His father has filled several county
offices of public trust and is at present the clerk of the county, serving
since July, 1887. Rev. Wade united with the Christian church in
1866; attended college at Bethany, W. Va., from September, 1874,
until June, 1876, then took a classical course at Columbia University,
Washington, remaining there until September, 1877; he returned to
Bethany, graduating from there in June, 1879, and entered the ministry
immediately afterward, having been ordained the year previous.
Has preached at various places: first at Warwick, C. H., afterward
establishing the church near there known as the Olivet, then went to
Hanover county and preached for Independence church about nine
months, then returned to York where he engaged in teaching for two
sessions, preaching in the meantime at Grafton church until September,
1862, when he received a call to Harford, Md., and served two
churches, Jerusalem and Avondale. In November, 1884, he commenced
devoting his time to the Jerusalem church, continuing there
until June, 1887, when he went into the county clerks office as deputy,
doing gratuitous work on the Lord's day for weak and struggling
churches. His postoffice address is Yorktown, Va.

HON. F. V. WINSTON

Was born in Louisa county, Va., Oct. 10, 1830, and was educated at
the University of Virginia, from which he graduated in law in June,
1851, was admitted to the bar the following year and began the practice
of his profession in 1854, at Louisa, C. H., and has been in continuous
practice ever since. He entered the C. S. A. in April, 1861,
as first lieutenant of Co. D. 13th Va. Inf.; later was commissioned
captain of the same company and participated in many engagements,
including Bull Run, Port Republic, Cross Keys, Cedar Mountain, 2d
Manassas, Harpers Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville,
and others. In the sessions of 1863-4, he was a member of the
Virginia legislature, and was still occupying that position at the close
of the war. His postoffice address is Louisa, Louisa Co., Va.