WILLIAM ALEXANDER LITTLE
Was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 16, 1819, and received
his academic education at Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, graduating
in the class of 1840. He studied law in the office of Arthur A.
Willard of Fredericksburg, Virginia, who removed to Richmond, and in the
law class of John Taylor Lomax, of Fredericksburg. He was admitted to
the Bar in April, 1842, and commenced pratice at once at Fredericksburg,
in which he has continued ever since. During the years of the war
he was Recorder of the corporation of Fredericksburg, and not in field
service. He was attorney for the Commonwealth of King George
county, Virginia, for some three years after the war.
Mr. Little's father was John P. Little, born in Jefferson county, Virginia,
died in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in September, 1830, aged forty-five
years, a son of William Little, who came from the North of Ireland,
was of Scotch-Irish extraction, and settled near Winchester, Virginia,
where he lived and died. The mother of Mr. Little was Arabella
J., daughter of Dr. Archibald Alexander, who was a surgeon in the Virginia
troops in the Revolutionary war; she died in Fredericksburg
in 1878, in her seventy-eighth year. His wife is Louisa, daughter of
William Henry Fitzhugh, of Stafford county, Virginia. He died in Fredericksburg,
Virginia, in 1860. On her father's side she is connected with
the families of General Washington and Gen. Robert E. Lee. Her
mother was Eliza Churchill, of Virginia, a descendant of the Churchill
family of England, of which the Duke of Marlborough is the head.
Mr. and Mrs. Little were married in Falmouth, Virginia, on the 31st of
October, 1850, and have three daughters and one son: Mary Churchill,
Louisa Fitzhugh, now Mrs. E. D. Price, of Richmond, William A., Jr.,
an attorney-at-law, and Nannie E. Mr. Little is a member of the Presbyterian
church of Fredericksburg, and his wife is a member of
the Episcopal church.
