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JAMES S. GREEVER.

General James S. Greever was born September 9th,
1837, and died December 30th, 1895. He was educated
at Emory and Henry College, and was an
honor graduate in the year 1859. The degree of
Master of Arts was conferred upon him in 1867 by the same institution.
When war was declared he entered the Confederate service as captain of
Company A, in the Forty-eighth Virginia Infantry. In 1869 he was elected
to the Senate from Smyth and Washington counties. He was reëlected at
the expiration of his first term, serving through the administrations of
Walker and Kemper. During this period he married an only daughter of
Mr. Richard Woolfork Scott, of Prince Edward county, Virginia, and left
one child, Miss Virginia Holmes Greever, who, with her mother, survives
him. General Greever was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of
Emory and Henry College in 1875, which place he held until his death. He
also served on the Board of Directors of the Southwest Virginia Hospital,
at Marion. He filled other responsible positions, being for years agent for
the large and valuable property known as the "Douglas Lands." When he

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died he was president of the Bank of Glade Spring, and
it was largely through his influence that this bank
commenced operations. He died at his home, "Westview,"
a fine estate lying along the banks of the Holston
river, near Chilhowie, Virginia, where his wife
and daughter still reside.