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STAUNTON

HON. JOHN HOWE PEYTON

Of Staunton, Virginia, was born in Stafford county, Virginia, in 1778,
and died in Augusta county in 1847. He was descended from the ancient
English family of Peytons of Isleham, County Cambridge, England,
was graduated A. M. at Princeton, New Jersey, in 1797, after a brilliant
university career, competing for the highest honors with Richard
Rush of Philadelphia and Chas Fenton Mercer of Virginia, studied law
under Judge Bushrod Washington of the U. S. Supreme Court, was admitted
to the Bar in 1799, establishing at once a reputation as a lawyer,
debater and orator. In 1806 he was elected a delegate to the General
Assembly of Virginia, from Stafford, and was regarded in the
House as a parliamentary leader and orator of the first order. He was
author of the celebrated report and resolutions on the subject of a tribunal
for settling disputes between the States and Federal judiciary,
adopted by the legislature of Virginia in 1810. He removed from Stafford
to Augusta county in 1809, and was appointed attorney for the
commonwealth in the circuit, the most lucrative and important office
in the state at that time, which office he held until he resigned in 1845,
acquiring in the thirty-six years the reputation of being the ablest
criminal lawyer and public prosecutor Virginia ever had. In 1812 he was
commissioned major, and served in the army under Gen. Robert Porterfield
until 1815, his minor children receiving a pension for his services
in the war. On the return of peace he resumed the law practice, and
was appointed deputy U. S. district attorney for Western Virginia.
Though greatly engrossed by professional duties he found time to contribute
to reviews papers rich in lessons of truth, wisdom and faith, on
literary, social and political topics, and to maintain a correspondence
with Jefferson, whose counselor he was, with Chief Justice Marshall,
who also, in his business affairs, availed himself of Mr. Peyton's legal
abilities, with Presidents Monroe and Madison, with Gov. Thos. M. Randolph,
Wm. C. Rives, and others of eminence. In 1836 he was elected
to the Senate of Virginia, re-elected in 1840, occupying in that body a
position of commanding influence, and giving a general support to the
Whig party. In 1840 he was appointed by President Harrison a visitor

to West Point. He resigned his seat in the Senate in 1845 on account
of ill health.

In his biographical sketch of Mr. Peyton, Major John T. L. Preston
speaks of him as a complete lawyer, a man knowing every part of his
profession, and who had met in contest the strongest men in each department
of his profession, and had made himself a champion in all.

As a speaker his language, Prof. Preston says, was "forcible, pure
and idiomatic;" "his mind no Sybil's cave whence came forth wind-driven
leaves inscribed with mighty thoughts disposed by chance, but a
spacious castle, from whose wide-open portals issued men-at-arms
orderly arrayed." Prof. Preston continues that while Mr. Peyton was
"thoroughly furnished in every part of his profession, in one department
his qualifications were peculiar and unsurpassed—he was the best commonwealth
attorney in the State. He was the lawyer of the commonwealth,
which he treated as a client, laboring for her with the same
zeal, industry and fidelity that he manifested in behalf of any other client.
The oft-quoted merciful maxim of the common law, "better that ninety
and nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man suffer,"
he interpreted as a caution to respect the rights of the innocent, and
not as an injunction to clear the guilty, and he labored to reduce
the percentage of rogues unwhipt of justice as low as possible. With a
clearness and force rarely equalled, would he point out the necessity of
punishing the guilty in order that the innocent might be safe, thus exhibiting
the absolute consistency of strict justice with true mercy. So
simply and earnestly would he do this, that he not only bound the consciences
of a jury, but also made them feel that they were individually
interested in the faithful execution of the laws. Here his clear perception
of the moral principles upon which rests the penal code and his
fondness for recurring to general principles stood him in great stead. It
was delightful to hear him expatiate upon the theme, for upon no other
was he more truly eloquent."

In the great discussion in the U. S. Senate between Daniel Webster
and Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina, Mr. Webster referred to and
quoted from the preamble and resolutions presented to the Virginia
legislature in 1810 by Mr. Peyton, and said they were so conclusive
of the questions involved in that controversy that they would not admit
of further discussion. Mr. Peyton was inflexible in his integrity,
or, as Hon. Daniel Sheffey expressed the idea: "was not only a great,
but a good man." B. Watkins Leigh, referring to him said he was
"the greatest lawyer west of the Blue Ridge." Judge Henry St. Geo.
Tucker said: "I regard Mr. Peyton as one of the most profound and
learned of lawyers."

Mr. Peyton married first Susan, a daughter of Wm. S. Madison,

nephew of Bishop Madison of Virginia and of Gov. George Madison of
Kentucky. She died, leaving him one son, Col. Wm. Madison Peyton,
of Roanoke county, Virginia.

(Wm. Madison Peyton, born in 1803, died 1868, was educated at Yale
College; was a member of the legislature of Virginia; was tendered, on
recommendation of Hon. Wm. C. Rives, by President Jackson, the position
of secretary of the Legation, Paris, in 1829, which he declined;
married, in 1826, Sally, daughter of Judge Allen Taylor, and left a
large family. He was a man of extensive acquirements, of genius, with
charming manners, a brilliant speaker and conversationalist.)

Secondly Mr. Peyton married Ann Montgomery Lewis, a daughter of
Major John Lewis of the Revolutionary army, who owned and lived at
the Sweet Springs, Monroe county, (now) West Virginia, whose wife
was a daughter of Col. Wm. Preston of Smithfield, Montgomery county,
Virginia, and a cousin of Hon. Wm. C. Preston of South Carolina, Gov.
James McDowell of Virginia, Gen. P. B. Porter of New York, Gen. John
C. Breckinridge, vice-president of the United States, and many other
eminent Southern men. By this marriage Mr. Peyton left a large
family.

The only son of the second marriage, John Lewis Peyton, author of
(1) "The American Crisis, or Pages from the Note-Book of a Confederate
Foreign State Agent," published in London; (2) "Over the Alleghanies
and Across the Prairies, or Personal Recollections of the Far West;" (3)
"A History of Augusta County, Virginia;" (4) "Rambling Reminiscences
of a Residence Abroad," and many other popular works highly
esteemed by men of letters, and favorably reviewed in the periodicals of
this country and Europe. While in England Col. J. L. Peyton was
elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London and a
member of the "Society of Americanists" of Luxembourg, Prussia. He
is also a corresponding member of the Virginia and the Wisconsin Historical
societies, and of other learned bodies. From the University of
Virginia he received the degree of Bachelor of Law in 1845. In 1855
President Pierce tendered him the position of United States district attorney
for Utah, which he declined. When not abroad, he has spent his
life principally on his fertile and beautiful estate of "Steephill," by
Staunton, Virginia, serving under the old constitution as a justice of
the peace, as a bank director, and as a member of the Board of Visitors
of the Virginia Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution at Staunton. He has
always taken a warm interest in public improvements, in the advancement
of education, and in the general promotion of all good and worthy
objects. John Esten Cook, reviewing in the Southern Review of Baltimore,
Colonel Peyton's "American Crisis," says of his sketches of the
public men at the head of the Confederacy: "He has the art to make

them more interesting than any other author of the time." In England
Colonel Peyton was a general favorite in society, and Hepworth Dixon,
editor of the Athenæum, and author of "New America," said. "He was
the ablest of the able men sent to Europe to represent the Southern
cause," and that his return to America was "the subject of general
regret, especially to persons of literature and science."

Colonel Peyton married Henrietta Clark, a daughter of Col. John C.
Washington, of Kinston, North Carolina, a descendant of the illustrious
Washington family of Virginia, by his wife Mary Bond, sprung
from one of the Mayflower "Pilgrim Fathers." Mrs. Peyton is a niece of
the late Gov. Wm. A. Graham of North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy,
U. S. Senator, etc., and a relative of the Haywards, Branches, Cobbs,
Bryans, Clarks, Blounts, and other distinguished Southern families
Colonel and Mrs. Peyton have issue one son, Lawrence Washington
Howe Peyton.

John Howe Peyton's seven daughters married as follows: (1) Susan
Madison, married Col. John B. Baldwin, a distinguished lawyer, and
member of the C. S. Congress, (2) Mary Preston, married R. A. Gray,
(3) Lucy Garnett, married Judge John N. Hendren (4) Elizabeth
Trent, married Hon. Wm. B. Telfair of Ohio, (5) Margaret Lynn, married
Capt. George M. Cochran, jr., of Staunton, (6) Virginia Frances,
married Col. Joseph F. Kent of Wythe county, (7) Cornelia, married
Dr. Thos. Brown, and after his death, Wm. H. Greene of Augusta.

HON. JOHN LEWIS PEYTON,

Of Steephill, by Staunton, Virginia, lawyer, litterateur, and author,
was born in Staunton in 1824, and is a son of the eminent lawyer, John
Howe Peyton, by his second wife Ann Montgomery, a daughter of
Major John Lewis of the Sweet Springs, West Virginia, a distinguished
officer of the Revolutionary army, son of Col. William Lewis, a colonial
military officer, and one of the survivors of Braddock's bloody defeat,
a nephew of Gen. Andrew Lewis, the hero of Point Pleasant, and a
grandson of Col. John Lewis, the Huguenot founder of Augusta county
Major Lewis married Mary, a daughter of Col. William Preston of
Smithfield, Virginia, and thus J. L. Peyton is the kinsman of William
Campbell Preston of South Carolina, Gov. James McDowell of Virginia,
William Ballard Preston, Gen. John C. Breckenridge, vice-president of the
United States, Gov. B. Gratz Brown of Missouri, Francis P. Blair, Gen.
T. T. Crittenden, Senators Randall, Lee Gibson of Louisiana, and John
E. Kenna of West Virginia, and of many other distinguished men of the
South. He was graduated B. L., University of Virginia, in 1845, in
1852 sent by Daniel Webster, secretary of state, to England, France

and Austria; returned in 1853 and resided two years in Chicago; major
of 1st Chicago regiment of uniformed volunteers, and lieutenant-colonel
commanding 18th battalion, N. G., contributed to the Chicago Democratic
press, associate editor of Danenhower's Literary Budget and
writer for Hunt's Merchant's Magazine of New York, and Appleton's
New American Cyclopedia. He published in 1854 "Pacific Railway
Communications and the Trade of China," and "A Statistical View of
the State of Illinois," etc., which had an extended circulation, and which
the Editor of DeBow's Review said "were invaluable contributions to
the literature of the Times." [See 16 & 17 vol. of DeBow's Review.]
Owing to his high rank at the Chicago bar, was tendered by President
Pierce, the office of U. S. District Attorney for Utah, which he declined
from ill health, returned to Virginia, and was elected Magistrate, Bank
Director, etc., and was appointed by the Governor of Virginia a member
of the Board of Visitors of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution
at Staunton, writing the report of the Board to the Legislature for
the year following. In 1855 married Henrietta, daughter of Colonel
John C. Washington, of Lenoir County, North Carolina, of the illustrious
Washington family of Virginia, whose wife was a daughter of
Southey Bond Esq., of Raleigh, a descendent of one of the Mayflower's
Pilgrim Fathers, and has one son, Lawrence W. H. Peyton. Mrs. Peyton
is a niece of the late Gov. William A. Graham, of North Carolina,
U. S. Senator, Sec'y of the Navy, etc., and is connected with the Haywards,
Branches, Blounts, Bryans, Swains, Clarks, Saunders and other
distinguished North Carolina and Southern families.

In 1861, while Col. J. L. Peyton was engaged in raising and drilling
a force for the Confederate States Army, he was appointed agent of the
State of North Carolina in Europe, broke the blockade at Charleston,
South Carolina, in the Confederate States' Man-of-War, "Nashville,"
Capt. R. B. Pegram commanding, and reached the Bermuda Islands,
where he was received and entertained with distinguished consideration
by Gov. Harry St. George Ord, and the public authorities and the inhabitants
generally, sailed for the Azores, the "Nashville" capturing and burning
en route the U. S. packet ship, "Harvy Birch," reached Southampton,
England, November 21st, 1861, where the officers and crew,
80 in number, of the "Harvy Birch" had their irons knocked off and were
liberated. Sojourned in Europe until 1876, was entertained at the palace
of the Tuilleries by Napoleon III, and made the acquaintance and
acquired the friendship of Lamartine, Arago, Dupin, Victor Hugo, of
Lords Palmerston, Ashburton, Russell, and the leading statesmen,
scholars, and public men of England, France and Italy; was received
in the Vatican by Cardinal Antonelli, and made the acquaintance of
Cardinals Baremeo, Wiseman and other dignitaries of the Church of

Rome; elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London,
and of the society of Americanists, of Luxembourg, Prussia; is a corresponding
member of the Virginia Historical Society, the Wisconsin
State Historical Society and other learned bodies.

Col. Peyton has been a voluminous writer and is author of "The
American Crisis, or Pages from the Note Book of a State Agent during
the Civil War in America," 2 vols., London, 1866. "Over the Alleghanies
and Across the Prairies—Personal Recollections of the Far
West," London, 1867. "A History of Augusta Co., Virginia," Staunton,
1882. "Rambling Reminiscences of a Residence Abroad," Staunton,
1888, and other able and popular works. He edited, with an introduction,
"The Glasse of Time," reprinted in 1887 in New York, from
the London edition of 1620.

Col. Peyton's books published in England were most favorably received
by the British public, and flatteringly reviewed by the leading
literary magazines and journals. Hepworth Dixon, author of "New
America," etc., and editor of "The Athenæum," of London, said that Col.
Peyton had sketched the public men of the civil war in "sharp and biting
acid, and that he was the ablest of the able men sent by the South
to represent her cause in Europe." Bezer Blundell, F. R. S., remarks,
in a pamphlet review of 46 pages of Col. Peyton's works, "He is a
scholar and a gentleman, who, in his exile has not now to learn what
Bœthius discovered more than 1300 years ago, that `the sense of misfortune
may be dignified by the labor of thought.' " . . . "He will, we
persuade ourselves, take in good part our exhortation to emulate the
historical renown of his fellow-countrymen, Bancroft and Motley, or
the late Wm. H. Prescott . . . To the annals of Col. Peyton's
native Virginia, he has contributed valuable materials, but since her
entire history, at least on a scale adequate to her political importance,
has yet to be written, we would commend to his consideration the old
classic admonition spartam nactus es, hanc exorna." John Esten
Cook, in the Southern Review says: "He is a liberal minded traveler,
cosmopolitan in taste, with a quick eye for the characteristic, the
humorous and the picturesque. His style is direct, lucid, unassuming,
and at all times full of simplicity and ease. He observes keenly and
narrates incidents and adventures as he describes character, with the
art of a raconteur, and succeeds in riveting the attention." "That these
works (The American Crisis, and Over the Alleghanies) possess unusual
merits, we feel safe in asserting. One merit, it is not in our eyes a slight
one, is that Col. Peyton everywhere writes like a gentleman. The age
we live in has carried its `fast' and `slap dash' propensities into literature.
Repose, simplicity and that charming unreserve which characterizes
the well-bred gentleman, writing for persons of culture and

intelligence, is his. His descriptions and comments possess great directness
and picturesqueness, mingled with a natural and agreeable humor,
and render his volumes extremely agreeable reading. . . . The works
would prove highly successful, we think, if republished in America."
Mr. Cook writes again: "I have been recently re-reading your excellent
`American Crisis,' and think it your most attractive work. You should
employ your leisure, I think, in adding to these life-like sketches, which,
I think, you have the art to make more interesting than any other
author of the time."

During his long residence in England Col. Peyton was cheered by the
respectful consideration and friendly esteem extended to him by all
classes, particularly persons of literature and science, and his departure
for America was regretted as a general loss to society. Victor
Hugo testified his esteem and friendship by presenting him a copy of
his likeness, suitably inscribed in his own hand writing, which is preserved
at Steephill as a precious souvenir of the immortal poet.

Our author's works, published in America since his return, have been
received with general favor. Literary men, north and south, commending
them as models of their kind, as says Professor Schele de Vere, of
the University of Virginia; and says Professor Richardson, of Dartmouth
College: "Had I possessed the volume in time, I would have
used parts of its investigation in my vol. 1st of American Literature."
Broad, comprehensive, and Catholic in his political views and sentiments,
he does not indulge in State prejudices, or sectional antipathies,
and once remarked to the writer in speaking of the worth of nations,
that "Justice requires that while their follies and vices are remembered,
their virtues should not be forgotten. Individuals and nations
are equally stung with a sense of wrong when their crimes are acrimoniously
recapitulated, and their great and good actions are all forgotten.
This fatal forgetfulness is the origin of that rancor which has
so long desolated the Earth. It distracts private families, confounds
public principles and turns even patriotism into poison. Let those
who have the smallest love for the happiness of mankind, beware how
they indulge this pernicious propensity. He who in every man wishes
to meet a brother will very rarely encounter an enemy."

Col. Peyton "is," says a writer in one of our journals, giving an
account of a visit to his lovely country home, "an old-fashioned man
in the simplicity of his manners and habits, enjoys a joke, goes to the fairs
with the young folks, and is not ashamed to be seen, as he was recently,
surrounded by a troupe of friends, old and young, at a circus. He
makes it a rule to go a fishing at least once a summer with all his household.
He thinks nothing vulgar but what is mean, and he thinks nothing
mean that contributes to health and cheerfulness. Hs is, in a word,

a contented man, whom no good fortune can pamper or corrupt, no
adversity sour, and no fashion change."

Professor C. R. Richardson, on p. 426, of the 2nd vol. of his able and
valuable history of American Literature, gives an extract from a letter
of Col. Peyton, which not only testfies to his own liberal and national
sentiments as to sectionalism in Literature, but to those of the present
generation of Southerners Prof. R. says: "An able, unquestionable and
admirably concise and strong expression of the true Southern attitude
toward American literature, is made by a very competent authority, in
a personal letter to me, from which I am permitted to quote. Col. J.
Lewis Peyton, of Steephill-by-Staunton, Virginia, is peculiarly qualified
to speak on this subject, by descent, by remarkably extended family
connections with the great men of the South, by important services
to the Confederate States, when their representative in England, and by
his own relation to literary work. He writes: `In the South, as with
you, nobody now thinks of the birth place of an American writer, we
only wish to know what he has turned a sheet of white paper into,
with pen and ink, and I hardly think any but a man of diseased mind
and imagination, like Poe, would ever have uttered such sentiments as
he did as to Edward Coate Pinkney. The enlightened men of this region,
as of yours, know no north or South in literature—only one grand
Republic of letters, in which every man standeth according to the Soundness
of his heart and the strength of his understanding.' "

It will interest the public to learn that Col. Peyton is now engaged in
the composition of a work entitled: "A History of Virginia from the
Retrocession of Alexandria to the Reconstruction of the Union."
The Staunton Spectator says of this forthcoming work that "it will
cover the whole period of the Civil War and the causes which led up to
it, and that the great erudition of the author, his laborious habits and
vast research, together with his literary abilities, will make it one of the
most valuable and important books ever published in the State." The
Valley Virginian says: "Concentrating his brilliant powers on this work,
it cannot be doubted that it will be worthy of the subject and the fame
acquired by the author in his previous works. The public will await
the book with impatience. The calm, dispassionate, philosophical
character of Col. Peyton's mind, his uncommon industry and painstaking
research, his varied knowledge and graphic style, will, in our
opinion, enable him to produce an elegant and faithful history, such as
Virginia may well be proud of."

The two original settlers in the Colony of Virginia, John and Robert
Peyton, were both of the Ancient Isleham Peyton stock, which sprung
from Reginald de Malet, a nephew of William de Malet, one of the great
Barons who accompanied William Ist to the Conquest of England, and

was his mace bearer at the battle of Hastings. From him sprung Sir
Robert Peyton de Ufford or Orford, who was summoned to Parliament
as a Baron, 1308, and was so distinguished in the wars of Edward II
and III, that he was granted the town and Castle of Orford or Ufford,
in the county of Suffolk, and also for the personal danger he incurred
in arresting Mortimer and some of his adherents in the Castle of Nottingham,
a further grant of large landed possessions. In eleventh
of Edward III, he was created Earl of Suffolk, and was sent on an embassy
to treat for peace with David Bruce, King of Scotland. In the
same year he was with the Earl of Derby at the battle of Cajent. In
12th Edward III he served in Flanders and Brittany. Five years later,
he was with the Black Prince in France and at the battle of Poictiers,
and gained the highest Military renown by his skill as a leader and his
personal courage. He was one of the Founders of the order of the
garter. He died in 1369, and among other bequests leaves to his son
William, 2nd Earl of Suffolk "the sword, wherewith the King girt him
when he created him Earl; as also his bed, with the Eagle entire, and
his summer vestment powdered with Leopards." (See Froissart vol. I,
ch. 237.)

A long line of Peytons sprung from this source namely, 1st, the Peyton's
of Isleham, the Peyton's of Knowlton, the Peyton's of Doddington,
among whom there were many men conspicuous for their talents and
virtues—one of whom was the eminent lawyer Robert Peyton, Lord
Chief Justice of Ireland time of Henry III. Sir John Peyton M. P.,
time of Edward I. Gen. Sir Robert Peyton, time of Henry VIII. Sir
Edward Peyton, author of the History of the Reign of James I. and
other works. Thomas Peyton, of Lincolns Inn, author of "The Glasse
of Time," published 1620, and which is by many regarded as the original
of Paradise Lost. Gen. Sir John Peyton, Governor of Ross Castle.
Gen. Sir John Peyton, Governor of Jersey and author of a code of
Norman-Jersey laws. Gen. Sir Henry Peyton, Governor of Galway,
time of Queen Anne. Sir Henry Peyton, member of the London Co.
for the settlement of Va. Sir Sewster Peyton, a Cabinet Minister
in the reign of Queen Anne, and others too numerous to mention. The
family is, in 1889, represented in England by Sir Algernon Peyton,
Baronet of Doddington, late of the 11th Hussars, born 1855, whose
brother, Revd. Thomas Thornhill Peyton M. A., who married a daughter
of Sir William Styles, of Wateringburg Place, Kent. is Rector of
Isleham, a benefice which has been in the Peyton family over 400 years.
The parish church was begun to be rebuilt 17th year of Edward IV.
(A. D. 1479) and is in 1889 in perfect preservation. In the Chancel
and the Peyton Chapel many members of the family are interred,

over whose remains fine monuments have been erected—one of these
bears this quaint inscription:

John Peyton settled in Westmoreland County, Virginia in 1664, and
Robert Peyton in Gloucester County in 1660, and through the
researches of Dr. Robert A. Brock, the accomplished Secretary of the
Virginia Historical Society we are enabled to give the following extracts
from the Land registry office, at Richmond, Virginia, showing the
early date at which several members of the family possessed themselves
of Virginian lands, viz,

Henry Peyton, of Acquia, Westmoreland County, took up in that
county 400 acres of land, Nov. 1st 1657.

Col. Valentine Peyton, of Nominy, County Westmoreland, took
up in that county 1600 acres July 20th 1662.

Major Robert Peyton, took up in New Kent County, April 23rd 1681,
1000 acres.

Thomas Peyton, of Gloucester entered June 16th, 1758, 150 acres.

The prominent members of the American family not heretofore
mentioned have been Yelverton Peyton, Lieut U. S. A. 1794; Garnett
Peyton, Capt. U. S. A. 1799, a son of John R. Peyton, of Stony Hill,
Stafford County, Virginia who was styled in Virginia, "the first gentleman
of his day." Francis Peyton M. D. Surgeon U. S. A. 1799; Robert
Peyton Capt. U. S. A. 1812. James R. Peyton Capt. U. S. A. 1813,
Col. Harry Peyton, of Revolutionary fame and the ancestor of Col.
John B. Baldwin, Mrs. A. H. H. Stuart, Mrs. James M. Ranson, Mrs.
R. T. W. Duke and others, John S. Peyton Capt. U. S. A. 1813; Bernard
Peyton, Capt. U. S. A. 1813, adjutant General of Virginia and
in 1840-44 Post-Master at Richmond, Va. Richard H. Peyton, Capt.
U. S. A. 1839 who died the same year in Florida, a distinguished
Graduate of West Point, Balie Peyton M. C. 1835-1837, appointed
Sec'y of War 1841, but declined, Colonel of 5th Louisiana regiment in

the Mexican war, and aid de camp to Gen. Worth and voted a
sword of honor by the State of Louisiana, in 1848-52 Minister Plenipotentiary
to Chili and later U. S. Attorney for California. He was a
splendid soldier, an eloquent speaker and was called the "Silver tongued
orator." Col. John Peyton Commisary-General of the Revolutionary
army elected by the Legislature of Va. 1779; Jos. H. Peyton M. C.
for Tennessee, Samuel O. Peyton M. C. for Kentucky. Judge E. G.
Peyton Chief Justice of Mississippi, an eminent lawyer, Col. Charles L.
Peyton, Greenbrier Co., W. Va. a son of Craven Peyton, of Monteagle,
Albermarle Co. Va., by his wife Jane Jefferson, dau. of Randolph Lewis,
whose mother was a sister of President Jefferson, Robert Ludwell Yates
Peyton, a Missouri State Senator and Senator for Missouri in the Confederate
Congress, a colonel in the C. S. A. and a man of such remarkable
talents and such rare oratorical powers that he was styled the
"Patrick Henry of the West." He graduated B. L. of Va. 1843 and
died in 1862, from disease contracted in the field, at the siege of Vicksburg,
Mississippi. Col. Charles S. Peyton, of W. Va., who lost
his arm at the battle of Manassas, but as soon as his wound was healed
reassumed his old command, and participated in nearly all the battles
of the eastern theatre of the war—leading his regiment (the 19th Virginia),
in the celebrated charge of Pickett's brigade at Gettysburg and
when every field officer was killed or shot down, took command and led
the remnant of that heroic force, with Lee's retreating army, to Virginia.
He is a noble specimen of humanity, a man sans peur et sans
reproche.

Col. William Madison Peyton, long the representative of Roanoke
and Botetourt in the General Assembly of Virginia, the only son by
the first marriage of Hon. John Howe Peyton, a man endowed
with great vigor and vivacity of intellect, purity of heart and sweetness
of disposition. His master passions were freedom of thought and
love of country. It is the opinion of those who knew him best, and
the high and commanding influence he exerted in his day, that but
for his continued ill-health, which largely destroyed his physical and
mental energies, he would have played a great part in the affairs of his
country. Disease caused him to spend his time in study, when he could
study, at his country seat in Roanoke, a quiet only occasionally
interrupted by the part he was compelled by the importunities of his
friends and neighbors to take in public affairs as a magistrate, a director
in public companies and a delegate to the Legislature. Oftener
than once has it been remarked of him that he was a fine illustration
of the truth of the remark that the "world knows nothing of its greatest
men."

The Peytons are extensively connected with the leading families of

the State, such as the Brokenboroughs, Baldwins, Bernards, Conways,
Carters, Clarks, Fitzhughs, Greens, Garnetts, Harvies, Harrisons, Jeffersons,
Lewis', Masons, Munfords, Madisons, Moncures, Prestons,
Randolphs, Stuarts, Scotts of Fauquier, Skipwiths, Tuckers, Washingtons,
Woodvilles and Wallaces, and of that vast ramification of
families traced out by the late Orlando Brown in his Memoranda of
the Preston family.

ALLEN CAPERTON BRAXTON.

The family line of the subject of this sketch is thus traced: George
Braxton, Gentleman, came from England to the Colony of Virginia, and
"Chericoke," an estate in King William county, which has ever since
been in the possession of his lineal descendants, was granted him.
He was the father of Carter Braxton, signer of the Declaration of Independence
(see Volume I of this work). Carter Braxton had a son
named George, who was the father of Dr. Corbin Braxton, all of
"Chericoke." Dr. Tomlin Braxton, son of Corbin, was born at "Chericoke"
and still resides there. He married Mary Caperton, daughter of
the late Hon. Allen Caperton, of Monroe county, West Virginia, who
was a member of the U. S. Senate when he died, about 1876. She was
born at Union, Monroe county, about 1838, and is still living. Allen
Caperton was the son of Hugh Caperton, of Monroe county, who was
the son of Adam Caperton, a Huguenot refugee.

Allen Caperton Braxton, son of Dr. Tomlin Braxton and his wife,
Mary, was born in Union, Monroe county, on February 6, 1862. He
received his academic education at Pampatike Academy, King William
county, Virginia, read law at the University of Virginia, in the summer
course of Professor Minor. was admitted to the Bar in the fall
of 1883, and has been practicing in Staunton ever since. In the spring
of 1886 he was elected commonwealth's attorney and city attorney for
the city of Staunton re-elected in 1889, and is still serving, is an Oddfellow
and a Mason.

CAPT. JAMES BUMGARDNER

Was born at Fayette, Howard county, Missouri, on February 18,
1835, his paternal ancestry of Virginia descent. He is a son of Lewis
Bumgardner, who was born in Augusta county in 1806, is still living,
and whose father was Jacob Bumgardner, of Augusta county, a son of
Christian Bumgardner, of Shenandoah county, Virginia, who served in
the Indian wars prior to the Revolution, and in the Revolutionary war.
Captain Bumgardner's mother was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and

died at the age of fifty-nine years. She was Hetty Ann, daughter of Daniel
Halstead, of Lexington, Kentucky, and of Carlisle, Illinois, whose
father was living in New Jersey at the time of the Revolutionary war,
and was captured on the retreat of the American Army from Long
Island, and died with a number of others a prisoner of war while held
in prison in the Old North Church in New York City.

At the birthplace and residence of the bride, Bethel Church, Augusta
county, Virginia, Captain Bumgardner married Mary Mildred, daughter
of James Bumgardner. Their six children were born in the order named.
Minnie M., James Lewis, Rudolph, Augusta, Eugenia and Nellie C.
Mrs. Bumgardner's father was born in Augusta county, a son of the
Jacob Bumgardner before mentioned, in 1801, and is still living at
Bethel Church. Her mother, still living, was born in Rockbridge
county, Virginia, Malinda, daughter of Capt. Alexander McCorkle,
whose father served in the Revolutionary war until he was wounded at
battle of Guilford Court House, of which wounds he died. Captain
Bumgardner was educated at the University of Virginia, taught school
in Spottsylvania county, Virginia, 1853-4, at Madison C. H., Virginia,
1854-5, and 1855-6, was admitted to the Bar in 1859, and practiced
in Staunton until the beginning of the war. He entered the Confederate
service as adjutant of the 5th Virginia Infantry, Stonewall Brigade,
with which he served until the reorganization of the army in May, 1862.
He then enlisted as a private in Company A, 52nd Virginia Infantry,
was elected lieutenant of that company May 6, 1862, promoted captain
Company F, same regiment, in September, 1862, after that commanded
his company in all its movements until captured at Winchester,
Virginia, on September 19, 1864. From that time until the close
of the war he was held prisoner at Fort Delaware. After the close of
the war he resumed practice in Staunton. He was in partnership with-H.
W. Sheffy from the time of his admission to the Bar until that gentleman's
death, on April 4, 1889. He was elected attorney for the
commonwealth in August, 1865, and filled the office by re-elections
until 1883.

WILLIAM A. BURNETT

Was born in Nelson county, Virginia, on December 2, 1837, a son of
Reuben Tucker Burnett, who was born in Nelson county on July 31,
1797, and is living now with him in Staunton, and a grandson of Richmond
Burnett. His mother was Eliza Corbin, daughter of Charles W.
Purvis, she was born in Nelson county, and died on December 24, 1882,
aged eighty-three years. His wife, whom he married on November 12,
1862, and who was born in Staunton, November 10, 1845, is Catharine
J., daughter of Samuel M. Woodward and his wife Mary C., daughter

of Peter Hanger. Her mother died at the age of sixty-eight years, her
father, who was born in Augusta county, and was many years steward
of the Western Lunatic Asylum at Staunton, died at the age of seventy-nine
years. The children of William A. Burnett and wife were born
in the order named. Mary Briscoe, Effie P. Miller, Janet, Florence,
William E. (died in 1874, aged eleven months, eleven days), Anna,
(now deceased), Harry, Aubrey, Bessie, Pattie and Catherine.

Mr. Burnett was educated at Newmarket, Fairfield and Staunton,
Virginia. He entered the clerk's office, county court of Augusta
county, about 1854, at the age of seventeen years, where he has continued
ever since, and is now clerk of the court. During the civil war
he discharged the duties of clerk for Gen. John J. Imboden, then the
incumbent of the office, with the exception of a brief interval when he
was in the army, though never regularly enrolled. Mr. Burnett is a
member of the order of Knights of Honor, and himself and wife are
members of the Episcopal church.

ARMISTEAD CHURCHILL GORDON,

Born near old Bentivoglio, in Albemarle county, Virginia, on December
20, 1855, is now a resident of Staunton, a member of the law firm
of White & Gordon. He is a son of George L. Gordon, who was born
in Albemarle county, and was killed at Malvern Hill, on July 2d, 1862,
aged thirty-two years, and a grandson of Gen. Wm. F. Gordon of Albemarle,
who was at one time a member of Congress from the Albemarle
district, and was the author and originator of the United States
Sub-Treasury Department. This Gen. Wm. F. Gordon was a grandson
of Col. James Gordon of Lancaster, a Scotch-Irishman of County Down,
Ireland, who was the founder of the family in this country, and who
married a daughter of Col. Nathaniel Harrison, a prominent member
in colonial days of the James-River Harrison family, so frequently
mentioned in these annals of Eminent Virginians. The mother of
Armistead Churchill Gordon was Mary Long Daniel, of Halifax, North
Carolina, daughter of Judge Joseph J. Daniel, of the Supreme Court of
North Carolina. She died in February, 1876. His wife, whom he married
at Staunton, Virginia, on October 17, 1883, and who was born in
Staunton, November 5th, 1860, is Maria Breckinridge, daughter of
Nathaniel Pendleton Catlett, and Betty Breckinridge, his wife, of
Staunton.

Mr. Gordon was educated at the private school of Major Horace W.
Jones in Charlottesville, and at the University of Virginia. He took
the summer law course at the University of Virginia, and came to
the Bar in 1879. After having taught school in Charlottesville for five

years he settled in Staunton, where he has been practicing continuously
since 1879; in partnership with Meade F. White since 1882. From
July 1, 1884, to July 1, 1886, he was Mayor of Staunton. During
1888 he was President of the Staunton Chamber of Commerce. Mr.
Gordon is a member of the I. O. O. F., himself and wife are members of
Trinity Episcopal church, Staunton. He is the author of a number of
short stories, sketches and poems, published from time to time in The
Century Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's Magazine, and
other periodicals, and in 1888 published from the press of Charles
Scribner's Sons, New York, in conjunction with Thomas Nelson Page, a
volume of dialect poems entitled "Befo' de War."

HON. CHARLES GRATTAN,

Judge of the Hustings court of Augusta county, was born in Rockingham
county, Virginia, on the 8th of December, 1833. He was educated
at home, at Ridgeway (Albemarle county), and at the University of
Virginia. After leaving the University he was engaged in farming, in
Rockingham county, until elected to the House of Delegates, in 1859.
He erved two terms in the legislature, being elected for the second
term in 1861, while at Harpers Ferry. During the war he served in
connection with the quartermaster's department until the meeting of
the legislature, acting on the march from Winchester to Manassas as
Q. M. commissary and ordnance officer for "Stonewall" Jackson in the
absence of those officers. Later he stood the ordnance examination,
and was assigned to Cabell's battalion of artillery, then to charge of
field park of the Second Corps, then to charge of ordnance, Cavalry
Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, on the staff of Gens. J. E. B. Stuart
and Wade Hampton. After the war he farmed in Augusta county, until
he came to the Bar at Staunton in 1871, then continued practice
until, in 1887, he was elected to the office he is now ably filling. He
has been superintendent of the schools of Augusta county, for six years,
and in 1888 was appointed, by the Board of Agriculture, Commissioner
of Immigration for the State of Virginia.

Judge Grattan is a son of Major Robert Grattan, who was born in
Rockingham county on March 1, 1800, and died in 1856, and whose
father was the Major Robert Grattan who commanded a troop of
Horse in the whisky insurrection. The last-named Major Robert
Grattan, also of Rockingham county, was a son of John Grattan of
he same county, who came from the North of Ireland early in the
Eighteenth century. The mother of Judge Grattan, born in Albemarle
county, died in Harrisonburg, Virginia, about 1868, aged fifty-nine
years, was Martha D., daughter of Peter Minor, Esq., of Albemarle

county. His wife, whom he married in Augusta county on January 6;
1864, was born in this county, Elizabeth Crawford Finley. Her father
was Samuel B. Finley, born in Augusta county, died in this county,
about 1874, a son of Samuel Finley of the same county. Her mother
was born in Greenbrier county, (then). Virginia, and is now about
seventy years of age, Sarah A., daughter of Col Samuel McClung of
Greenbrier who married Elizabeth Crawford of Augusta county. The
children of Judge Grattan and wife are six daughters, Mary, Virginia,
Sarah, Martha McClung, Elizabeth Christian, Minnie Watson, and they
have buried one daughter, Louisa Noland.

HON. ALEXANDER B. LIGHTNER,

Owns and cultivates an estate in Augusta county, where he was born
on the 15th of February, 1826. He attended the old field schools of
Augusta county until fourteen years old, then went to Greenville, this
county, where he learned the tailor's trade, which he followed until
about twenty-five years old. He was then for a short time in a mercantile
business, until elected constable under the new constitution of
Virginia. He served as constable ten years, about 1858 was made
deputy sheriff, so served until 1868, then engaged in farming until
elected to the Virginia legislature in 1872. He served two terms in the
legislature, then was elected high sheriff of Augusta county, which office
he filled until October, 1885, when he was again elected to the Virginia
legislature, where he served one term, since then engaged in farming
his estate.

Mr. Lightner is of German descent, his grandfather, Adam Lightner
coming to Pennsylvania from Germany. His father was born in Pennsylvania,
Samuel Lightner, served in the war of 1812, and died about
1855, aged sixty-seven years. His mother was Elizabeth Sensabaugh
of Augusta county, Virginia. In 1844 he married Sarah A. Gardner,
of Augusta county, who died in 1846, leaving him one son, William T.
He married secondly in Augusta county, in 1849, Sarah E. Wayland,
born in Augusta county, Virginia. Their children are five. Charles
A., George S., Florence B., Virginia E., and James S.

WILLIAM PATRICK

Was born on the Patrick homestead, in Augusta county, Virginia, near
Waynesboro. He was educated at Washington and Lee University,
studied law there, sessions of 1872-3, and began the practice on the
4th day of September, 1873, at Staunton, in which he has continued
ever since. He served as commissioner in chancery of the Circuit Court

of Augusta county about ten years, is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
In Staunton, on February 14, 1883, he married Annie Montgomery
Hendren, who survived the marriage only about a year, leaving
one child, Annie H.

Mr. Patrick's father, also named William Patrick, was born on the
Patrick homestead, near Waynesboro, on December 2, 1822, and he
died on September 6, 1862, of wounds received at the second battle of
Manassas. He was major of the 17th battalion of Virginia Cavalry,
mentioned with deserved praise in the reports of both Stuart and Jackson,
as published in McCleland's book. Major Patrick was a son of
Charles Patrick, who was a son of John Patrick, who was a son of
Robert Patrick by his wife Rachel Campbell, he coming from Pennsylvania,
and settling in Augusta county about 1744, on the estate where
this line of his descendents were born, and which still remains in the
family. The founder of the Patrick family in America came from County
Tyrone, Ireland. The mother of the subject of this sketch was born
in. Waynesboro, Hester C., daughter of Hon. Nathaniel Massie,
and his wife Mary Woods, she is living on the Patrick homestead.
The Hon. Nathaniel Massie was one of the Justices of the Quorum for
a number of years, and for several years represented Augusta county
in the legislature.

The wife of the subject of this sketch is a daughter of Judge John N.
Hendren of Staunton, Judge of the county court of Augusta, son of
Rev. John Hendren, D. D., a Presbyterian minister, of note as a theologian
and teacher of Augusta county. Her mother is Lucy G., daughter
of the Hon. John Howe Peyton, of Staunton, whose record is given
on another page of this work.

THOMAS W. SHELTON, M. D.

Peter Shelton of Louisa county, Virginia, was the father of Henry
Shelton of Orange county, Virginia, who was the father of Thomas L.
Shelton. Thomas L. Shelton was born in Orange county, Virginia,
served in the war of 1812 with rank of lieutenant, and died in 1859,
aged eighty years. He married Susan, daughter of James Ballard
of Albemarle county, Virginia, who survived him, dying in 1865, aged
eighty-one years. Their son Thomas W., subject of this sketch, was
born in Albemarle county, on February 15, 1820. After attendance at
a classical school in Waynesboro, he went to the University of Virginia,
where he was graduated in 1841, then to the Jefferson Medical College,
graduating there in 1842. In the same year he located in Waynesboro,
where he practiced for two years; removing then to Barterbrook,
he remained in practice there thirty-four years. Thence he removed to

Staunton, where he has been continuously in practice to the present
time (1889).

The first wife of Dr. Shelton was Mary R. Wilson, whom he married
on April 13, 1842, and who died in September, 1848. He married
secondly, on January 10, 1851, Mary VanLear, who died in August,
1856. In 1861, in Augusta county, he married Sarah F. Lipscomb,
who was born in Madison county, Virginia. Her father, William C.
Lipscomb, born in Stafford county, Virginia, died in 1860. Her
mother, who was Frances Booten, born in Madison county, died in
1887, aged seventy-seven years. Dr. and Mrs. Shelton are members of
the Baptist church at Staunton. Their children were born in the order
named: W. C., Annie C., Ella R., Fannie B., Thomas L., R. Withers,
Helena, youngest child, died on the 3d of February, 1889.

THOMAS R. N. SPECK,

Sheriff of Augusta county, Virginia, was born at Fishersville, this
county, on December 17, 1850. He was educated in the old field
schools of Augusta county, clerked in a store for several years, then began
public life as deputy treasurer, and from that time has been in office.
He was ten years deputy treasurer until, in 1885, he was appointed
sheriff of the county to fill the unexpired term of A. B. Lightner. In
1887 he was elected to the office, and is still ably discharging its duties.
He is a grandson of John W. Speck of Berkeley county, (then) Virginia,
and a son of Jacob Speck who was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia,
served through the late war as a volunteer, C. S. A., and died in
1886, aged sixty-five years. The mother of Thomas R. N. is Margaret,
daughter of John Doom of Augusta county, in which county she was
born and still is living.

At Baltimore, Maryland, Thomas R. N. Speck married Mary W. Condon,
who was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia. They were married
on April 18, 1888, and have now one daughter, Rachel Margaret.
Mrs. Speck is a daughter of David Condon, who was born in Ireland,
came to Virginia, and married Rached Crawford, of Augusta county.

JUDGE JOHN W. STOUT,

Born at New Hope, Augusta county, Virginia, on April 23, 1851, is a
son of Jas. M. and Sallie Stout. His father, born in Albemarle county,
Virginia, for a number of years a merchant and general business man
in New Hope, died in February, 1882, aged seventy-eight years: he was
a son of Isaiah Stout of Albemarle county, who died in 1860, aged
about ninety-three years. His wife, mother of John W., was born in

Rockingham county, Virginia, in 1810, and died in March, 1883; she
was a daughter of William Rice of Rockingham county. The wife of
Judge Stout, whom he married in Staunton, on February 26, 1884,
was Kate Rodes Nelson, born in Augusta county. Her father is
William J. Nelson, now a resident of Florence, Alabama, a son of
Franklin Nelson of Augusta county, and of the Nelson family eminent
in the annals of Virginia. Her mother was Sallie, daughter of Gen.
David Rodes of Lynchburg, Virginia, and sister of Major Gen. R. E.
Rodes, C. S. A.

Judge Stout attended the old field schools in and near New Hope until
1866; in 1866-7 the Mountain View High School at the "old stone
church," Augusta county, 1867-8 the high school in Harrisonburg,
1868-9 the classical school at Goshen, Rockbridge county, taught by
Prof. H. N. B. Wood and others; in 1869-70 part of session at
Aspen Hill Academy, in Louisa county; 1870-71 half session at University
of Virginia; 1872-3 the University of Virginia, in academic and
engineering courses, 1874-5, University of Virginia, law course. In
November, 1875, he was called to the Bar in Staunton, and has been in
practice there ever since. He has filled the office of commissioner in
chancery for the circuit court of Augusta county, and for the Hustings
court of Staunton. In August, 1884, he was elected County Judge of
Augusta county, to fill an unexpired term, and was re-elected to this
office, for the term beginning January 1, 1886, still serving. Judge
Stout is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

PHILIP BRAND SUBLETT.

The founder of the Sublett family in Virginia was the great grandfather
of the subject of the present sketch, Peter Sublett, a Huguenot
refugee, who emigrated in 1700. His son Peter was born in 1730 at
Monokin Town, a Huguenot settlement in Powhatan county, Virginia,
twenty miles above Richmond, on the James River and the original
grant still in the possession of a branch of the family. This second Peter
Sublett was the father of three sons, Peter, William and Thomas Smith
Sublett. Thomas Smith Sublett, born at Monokin in 1787, married
Sarah Lackland, who was born in Buckingham county, Virginia, in
1814, and died in 1837, leaving him four sons, Philip Branch, who was
born at Monokin, August 4, 1830, William, James and David. She
was the daughter of Zaddock Lackland of Buckingham county, and
she had four brothers, John, James, Samuel and Dennis. Samuel was
a prominent citizen of Charlestown, Jefferson county, (now) West Virginia,
and the father of Col. Frank Lackland, who distinguished himself
in the command of a regiment, C. S. A., in the first Manassas battle,

he was a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. David,
youngest brother of Philip B. Sublett, was in service through the war,
(Col. D. L. Sublett), was on the staff of Gen. John B. Hood, and carried
him from the field at Chickamauga when he lost a leg there succeeded
to the command of Colonel Bickham (who was killed), and at the close
of the war was chief of ordnance, Army of the Southwest. Col. D. L.
Sublett was also educated at the Virginia Military Institute, and was
one of the corps of engineers who examined and surveyed the abandoned
Confederate fortifications around Richmond, under command of General
Micheals, Chief Engineer, U. S. A., after close of the war, he is now
a prominent civil engineer of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Philip Branch Sublett attended school in Powhatan county. In 1860
he went into business as a commission merchant, on Shokoe Slip, Richmond,
firm of Sublett & Smith, succeeded by Powell & Sublett, dissolved
by the death of Mr. Powell, who was killed in battle of Cedar
Mountain. Mr. Sublett then enlisted, in 1862, in the 3d Virginia
Cavalry, Prince Edward Troops, one year later was detailed in the
ordnance department, and so served till the close of the war. He then
established at Richmond the commission house of P. B. & P. A. Sublett,
(now Sublett & Cary). The firm of P. B. & P. A. Sublett at Richmond
was dissolved in 1878. A firm of the same name and style had been
established at Staunton in 1867, and this firm is now continued under
the firm name and style of P. B. Sublett & Son, the subject of this
sketch the head of the firm.

He married, on February 29, 1860, at the birthplace and residence of
the bride, "Millwood," Prince Edward county, Virginia, Ida Caroline
Scott, and their children are four sons living: Sumter Branch, in business
with the father, Edward Scott, attorney-at-law; Wm. Thomas
and Frank Lackland, coal dealers, one son, Charles Haskins, died in
infancy, in 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Sublett are members of Trinity Episcopal
church, Staunton. Mr. P. B. Sublett is a member of the present Vestry.
Her father is Branch O. Scott, son of Col. Edward Scott of Prince Edward
county, whose father, Charles Scott, was one of the founders of
Farmville. Her mother was Mary J., daughter of Col. Thos. J. Scott,
of Prince Edward county, who served in the war of 1812: she died in 1882.

HON. HENRY ST. GEO. TUCKER,

Born in Winchester, Virginia, April 5th, 1853, is a son of Hon. John
Randolph Tucker, who was born in Winchester, on December 24, 1823,
and his wife, Laura Holmes Powell, of Middleburg, Loudoun county,
Virginia, who was a daughter of Col. Humphrey B. Powell, who was a
lawyer, and for a number of years a member of the Virginia legislature.

John Randolph Tucker was attorney general of Virginia from 1857 to
1865, Professor of law in Washington and Lee University, from 1870
to 1875, member of Congress from Virginia 1875 to 1887, and again
elected professor of law in Washington and Lee University in June,
1889. His father was Hon. Henry St. Geo. Tucker of Winchester, member
of Congress two terms; president of the Court of Appeals of Virginia
for twelve years, professor of law at the University of Virginia
four years, and died in August, 1848.

The subject of this sketch was educated at the Washington and Lee
University, and commenced the practice of law in Staunton in 1876.
On the 6th of November, 1888, he was elected to Congress from the
10th district of Virginia. At Lexington, Virginia, on the 25th of
October, 1877, he married Henrietta Preston Johnston, a granddaughter
of the lamented Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, C. S. A., and a daughter
of Col. Wm. Preston Johnston, who was on the staff of President
Jefferson Davis during the Confederate war, and was professor of History
and Literature at the Washington and Lee University for a number
of years after the war, and is now president of the Tulane University
at New Orleans, Louisiana. Her mother, whose maiden name was
Duncan, was the daughter of John Duncan, a distinguished lawyer of
New Orleans.

Mr. and Mrs. Tucker have two sons and one daughter: John Randolph—now
nine years old; Rosa Johnston, eight years old; Albert
Sidney Johnston, born November 12, 1885, and they have buried one
son, their second child, Preston Johnston, who died July 2, 1879.
Mr. Tucker is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Staunton;
his wife is a member of the Episcopal church.

HON. JOSEPH ADDISON WADDELL,

Born in Staunton, Virginia, on March 19, 1823, is a son of Dr. Addison
Waddell and Catherine Waddell, nee Boys. His father, a son of
Rev. James Waddell, D. D., known as the "Blind Preacher of Virginia,"
was born near Gordonsville in 1785, studied medicine in Philadelphia,
settled in Staunton in 1809, and died in 1855. His mother, born in
Staunton in 1790, died in 1846, was a daughter of John Boys, and a
granddaughter of Commodore Nathan Boys, commander in the Pennsylvania
navy during the Revolutionary war. His wife, whom he married
at Staunton on February 17, 1853, and who was born at Lexington,
Virginia, was Virginia, daughter of Capt. Henry McClung, who commanded
an artillery company from Rockbridge in the war of 1812.
Her mother was Elizabeth Alexander, of the Rockbridge family of that
name.

Joseph Addison Waddell received his education at Staunton Academy,
Washington College (Lexington), and the University of Virginia. He
studied law with Judge L. P. Thompson of Staunton, and was called to
the Bar in 1844, and practiced in Staunton until November, 1848.
For the next twelve years he was editor of the Staunton Spectator. In
1860, he retired from that position, and was appointed commissioner in
chancery for the circuit court for Augusta county. During the war
1861-5 he was in the service of the Confederate States, in the quartermaster's
department. In the fall of 1865 he was elected by the people
of Augusta county a member of the House of Delegates, and served in
the Legislature two years. He was a delegate from Augusta county in
the convention that framed the present State constitution, and later
was elected State senator, serving two years. He was next appointed clerk
of the Supreme Court of Appeals, at Staunton, which office he filled
until removed by the Readjuster (or Republican) party. Since then he
has been employed as commissioner of the county and circuit courts of
Augusta county. Mr. Waddell is author of the admirable work entitled
"Annals of Augusta County." He is a member of the First Presbyterian
church, Staunton.

MEADE FITZHUGH WHITE, ESQ.,

A lawyer of Staunton, was born at Warrenton, Fauquier county, Virginia,
on April 24, 1847. He was educated at the Warrenton Academy,
at Mossy Creek Academy (Augusta county), and at the University of
Virginia, and was called to the Bar at Staunton on November 1, 1870.
He has followed the profession of law, residing at Staunton, ever since,
practicing in Virginia and West Virginia, has been commonwealth's attorney
for Staunton one term, and for Augusta county two terms;
president of the Board of Visitors for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution
two terms, is an Odd Fellow, Knight of Honor, and member of
the Royal Arcanum. Only eighteen years of age when the war between
the States was ended, he had served in that war, a member of Company
H, 4th Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A. (Black Horse Troop).

Hamden Aubrey White, father of Meade Fitzhugh, was born at Sudley
Mills, Prince William county, Virginia, on December 31, 1812, was a
magistrate and commissioner in chancery, and died at Charlottesville,
Virginia, on April 25, 1888, his father was John White of Millfield
Mills, Fauquier county. His wife, mother of Meade Fitzhugh, was
Caroline Battaille Fitzhugh (died at Warrenton, October 15, 1852), a
daughter of Richard Fitzhugh and Susan Meade of Oak Hill, Fairfax
county, Virginia.

At Staunton, March 23, 1873, Meade Fitzhugh White married Elvira

Callaghan Donaghe, who was born at Fincastle, Botetourt county,
Virginia. Their children are one daughter and six sons. Caroline
Briscoe, William Wood, Hamden Aubrey, George Moffet Cochran,
Edward Henry Fitzhugh, John Warwick Daniel and Thomas Leonidas
Riseur. Mrs. White is a daughter of Wm. Wood Donaghe, Jr.,
who died on April 23, 1873, and who was a son of Wm. Wood Donaghe,
Sr., and Mary Briscoe Baldwin, sister of Briscoe G. Baldwin and
aunt of John B. Baldwin, of Virginia.