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.
