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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

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