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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.