University of Virginia Library

LEXINGTON.

JOHN H. FREEMAN. M. D.

Physician of Lexington, Virginia, was born in Culpeper county, Virginia,
on November 16, 1816. He was educated at the University of
Virginia, and graduated in medicine in 1836. In October of that year
he commenced practice at Luray, Page county, Virginia, in 1855 removed
to Washington, D. C., and practiced in that city until 1859, in
which year he came to Lexington, where he has been in practice ever
since. During his residence in Page county, Dr. Freeman held the
office of magistrate four years, from 1866 to 1870 he was U. S. Assessor
of Internal Revenue, was then appointed postmaster at Lexington,
which office he held until July 1, 1882.

The father of Dr. Freeman was William Freeman, born in Culpeper
county, in 1776, served in the war of 1812, died in 1848, his
father John Freeman, of Culpeper, who was born in England and came
to the Colony of Virginia about 1710. Dr. Freeman's mother was
born in Culpeper county in 1797, and died in 1867, Mary, daughter
of John and Mary Lampkin, her father serving in the war of 1812, with
distinction, with rank of captain. His wife, whom he married at Luray
on October 9, 1837, and who was born there, is Mary A., daughter of
Charles H. Flinn and Margaret A. Lauck, his wife. Her father, born in
Culpeper county in 1796, died in Luray in 1873; her mother was born
in Winchester; her mother's father, who served in the Revolutionary
war, died in 1820.

Dr. Freeman is a Mason and an Oddfellow. Himself and wife are
members of the Episcopal church at Lexington. Their children were
six, born in the order named. Margaret, now deceased, Mary, lives in
Lexington, Virginia, deceased, Charles W., lives in Kansas City, Missouri;
Ada C., deceased; Robert Eldon, now a resident of Danville, Virginia.

HON. WILLIAM A. GLASGOW

Was born at Green Forrest, Rockbridge county, Virginia, on February
9, 1825. He was educated in the schools of his native county, at J. H.
Paxton's high school, and at Washington College; then studied law
with Judge Lucas P. Thompson, of Staunton, Virginia. He settled at
Fincastle, Virginia, where he was in practice of law, partner of Judge F. T.
Anderson; in December, 1887, he removed to Lexington, Virginia,
where he is now living and engaged in practice. Since 1865 he has been
one of the trustees of Washington College and Washington and Lee
University; was a member of the Virginia Senate two terms, 1881-4.

Robert Glasgow, father of William A., was born at Green Forrest,
where he lived until his death in 1862, his wife, mother of
William A., being Catherine T. Anderson, who died in 187-.
The father of Robert Glasgow was Arthur Glasgow, who came
from the province of Ulster, Ireland, to Virginia about 176-, was
a Revolutionary soldier, and soon after that war intermarried with
Rebekah, a daughter of John McNutt, and the widow of Lieut. John
McCorkle, who fell at battle of Cowpens. John McNutt, also from
Ulster, was among the first British settlers on the right bank of North
River, seven miles below Lexington, where he died about 1803. Mr.
Glasgow's mother was the eldest daughter of Col. William Anderson,
of Botetourt county, who entered the Continental army at the age of
sixteen years, was in battles of Cowpens and Guilford, and who, in the
war of 1812, commanded a regiment at Norfolk. He was for fifty
years surveyor of Botetourt county, was a member of the Virginia Assembly,
was a Justice under the old constitution, the eldest but one in
commission at his death, in 1839; was commissioner appointed by the
State for James River improvements, and of the connection of the Eastern
and Western waters by the Covington and Ohio turnpike, leading
from Covington, Virginia, via Lewisburg, Charlestown, to Guyandotte.
The ancestors of Mr. Glasgow were of the Presbyterian faith, in which
church relation he continues.

The first wife of Mr. Glasgow, whom he married June 16, 1847, was
Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Chrisman Spears, farmer of Rockingham
county, Justice of the county, who died in 1856. Her mother was
Margaret, daughter of John Chrisman, of the same county, and sister
of George H. Chrisman, a well-known business man of the same county.
Mrs. Elizabeth Spears Glasgow died in February, 1862, aged thirty-five
years, leaving issue. Margaret, now the wife of Dr. W. D. Armstrong,
of Salem, Virginia. Frank Thomas, Dr. Robert, Elizabeth
Spears.

Secondly Mr. Glasgow married Grace Ellen, eldest daughter of Col.

Thomas Shanks, of Botetourt county, and their children are three sons:
William Anderson, Joseph Anderson, Samuel McPheeters. Mrs. Grace
Ellen Glasgow was at her marriage the widow of Dr. William Moncure
Woodson. Her mother was the daughter of Col. John Thomas, of
"Maryland Tract," Frederic county, Maryland, and his wife, Ellen
McGill, daughter of Bishop McGill, of Maryland, of the Episcopal
church. Mrs. Glasgow was reared in that faith, but is now a member
with her husband of the Presbyterian church.

THOS. MIDDLETON SEMMES,

Born at Port Royal, Caroline county, Virginia, on September 4, 1840,
is now a resident of Lexington, Virginia, professor in the Virginia Military
Institute. He was educated at Richmond College, and at the Virginia
Military Institute, graduating from the last named on July 4,
1860, and receiving appointment as assistant professor in same the following
day. During the war he was adjutant of the 3d Arkansas
Infantry, C. S. A., then ordnance officer, staff of Gen. H. R. Jackson.
After the war, returning to the Institute with which he is still connected,
he was instructor in French until 1867, since then has held
his present position, professor of Modern Languages and Rhetoric.
Himself and wife are members of the Episcopal church. He married in
Lexington on November 16, 1863, Louisa G. Brockenbrough, who was
born in Lexington. The issue of the union is five children: Bernard B.,
Mary B., Elise V., Louisa R., Thomas M.

The father of Mr. Semmes was Thomas Semmes, lawyer, of Alexandria,
Virginia, who died in 1842, and he the son of Dr. Thomas
Semmes, also of Alexandria. His mother, born in King George county,
Virginia, on September 22, 1815, living now with him, is Eliza F.,
daughter of William and Sarah B. Bernard, of King George county.
His wife is a daughter of Judge John W. Brockenbrough, Federal Judge
of Western District of Virginia, born December 23, 1805, died February
20, 1877, his parents Judge William B. Brockenbrough, president
of Court of Appeals of Virginia, and Judith White, of Hanover county,
his wife. Her mother, living now with Mr. and Mrs. Semmes is Mary
C., daughter of Capt. John Bowyer, of Rockbridge county, Virginia, who
married Elizabeth Hubard, of Williamsburg, Virginia. She was born
in Rockbridge county on March 13, 1807.

HON. JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER.

The father of the subject of this sketch was the Virginian, Henry St.
George Tucker, president of the Court of Appeals of Virginia from 1831

to 1841, born at Matoax, near Petersburg, Virginia, on December 29,
1780, died in Winchester, Virginia, August 28, 1848, whose parents
were St. George Tucker (author of "Tucker's Blackstone") and Frances
Bland, first married to John Randolph, of Bizarre, and mother of
"John Randolph of Roanoke." The mother of Hon. John Randolph
Tucker was Ann Evelina Hunter, born in Martinsburg, Virginia, September
20, 1789, died in Winchester, February 1, 1855.

Mr. Tucker was born at Winchester on December 24, 1823, and he
married at Middleburg, Loudoun county, Virgina, on October 5, 1848,
Laura Holmes Powell. The record of their children is: Mrs. Evy H. Shields,
died in 1887; Nannie H. McGuire, now of Winchester, born September,
26th, 1850; Virginia B. Carmichael, of Lexington, born December 9th,
1851; Henry St. George, now of Staunton, born April 5, 1853, whose
record appears elsewhere in this work; Gertrude T. Logan, of Virginia,
born April 18, 1856; Laura R. Pendleton, of Lexington, born October
13, 1860. Mrs. Tucker is a daughter of Colonel Humphrey B. Powell, of
Loudoun county, Virginia, and Ann R. H. Boyd, his wife, and she was
born at Middleburg on October 5, 1827. Her father died on April 6,
1859; her mother is still living, now eighty-two years of age.

John Randolph Tucker received his early education at private and
public schools, then attended Richmond Academy. From 1839 to
1844 he was a student at the University of Virginia; in January, 1845,
was called to the Bar; from that date until 1847, lived and practiced in
Richmond; then in Winchester until 1857. From June, 1857, to April,
1865, he was attorney-general of Virginia, elected three times, and
removed at the last-named date, at the "reconstruction era." From
1865 to 1869 he practiced law in Loudoun county; then in Baltimore,
Maryland, one year. He was then elected professor of Equity and Public
Law in Washington and Lee University, which position he filled until
elected to the 44th Congress. He remained a member of the House of
Representatives six full terms, where he rendered distinguished service
to Nation and State, then, declining re-election, returned to the practice
of law in Washington, D. C. He was recalled to the Washington and
Lee University by his election to the professorship of Equity and Commercial
Law, International and Constitutional Law, upon the duties of
which position he entered in the present year, 1889.