University of Virginia Library

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.