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      Stubbs, Thomas Jefferson, born in Gloucester county, Virginia, September 14, 1841, son of Jefferson Washington Stubbs, for many years presiding justice of Gloucester county, and Ann W. C. Baytop, his wife; her grandfather was a captain in the revolutionary army. His early education was obtained in private schools and at William and Mary College, from which he graduated in 1860 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1869 he received the degree of Master of Arts in course. In 1882 the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred upon him by Arkansas College. At the outbreak of the civil war he joined the Confederate army as a member of the Gloucester Artillery, served throughout the war, and was taken prisoner at Petersburg just before the surrender, and was not released until Appomattox. In 1865 he entered the University of Virginia, and studied for one year in the academic department. He was master of the grammar school of William and Mary College in 1868-69. In the latter year he removed to Arkansas, and was for sixteen years professor of mathematics and history in Arkansas College. For two terms he was a member of the Arkansas legislature. In 1888 he returned to Virginia, having been elected professor of mathematics in William and Mary College, a position which he has held ever since. For more than ten years he conducted a summer normal school for the state. He is a Mason, and has been president of the Phi Beta Kappa society, the parent chapter of which is at William and Mary College. He has been commander of the Magruder Camp of Confederate Veterans at Institute, Virginia. On December 22, 1869, Professor Stubbs married Mary Mercer, daughter of Captain J. R. Cosnahan, of the Confederate army. She is a lineal descendant of Gen. Hugh Mercer, who was killed at the battle of Princeton.

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      Dooley, James Henry, born at Richmond, Virginia, January 17, 1841, son of John Dooley and Sarah, his wife. Both John and Sarah Dooley came from their home in Limerick, Ireland, to Alexandria, Virginia, in 1834, whence they came to Richmond. He was first a student in Richmond institutions, at the age of eight years coming under the teaching of Dr. Socrates Maupin, who later was for many years professor and chairman of the faculty of the University of Virginia. His preparation in Richmond enabled him to enter Georgetown University, District of Columbia, at the age of fifteen years, where he won highest honors during each year of his college course, in 1861 taking his A. B. with the first honors of his class. The same year he enlisted as a private in the regiment of which his father was major, the First Virginia, and at the battle of Institute, May 5, 1862, was wounded and made a prisoner. Until his exchange in the following August he was confined at the Rip Raps in Hampton Roads, and soon afterward passed the difficult examinations of the Confederate government for service in the ordnance department, being appointed lieutenant of ordnance and assigned to duty under Gen. J. L. Kemper. At the close of the war he began the practice of law and was very successful. From 1871 to 1877 he was a member of the Virginia house of assembly, holding place upon some of the most important committees of that body. He retired from practice in 1898 to devote his entire time to the administration of the vast business interests he had acquired. In 1881 and 1882 he was a director of the Richmond & Danville Railroad, at the same time holding like office in the Richmond & West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company, and during the year 1886 he served as vice-president of the first named road. He has long served as president of the Richmond and St. Paul Land, Navigation, and Improvement Company. He was president of the North Birmingham Street Railway Company in 1888, also of the North Birmingham Land Company, and in the following year was one of the organizers of the Seaboard air Line Railway Company. In 1900, 1901 and 1902 he was chairman of the executive committee of this last named company, and he has long been president of the West End Home building Fund Company and of the Henrico Building Fund Company. From 1898 to 1904 he was first vice-president of the Richmond Trust and Safe Deposit Company, and is a director of the Merchants National Bank, of Richmond. Mr. Dooley married, September 11, 1869, Sallie May, of the well known May family of that name.

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      Orr, James Wesley, born in Lee Tennessee, Virginia, July 19, 1841, son of David Orr, who was a progressive agriculturist of Lee county, Virginia, and Rhoda Orr, his wife. The pioneer ancestor of the line of the Orr family herein recorded was Alexander Orr, who emigrated from Ireland, accompanied by a brother and sister, they locating in the state of Pennsylvania. James W. Orr was raised to manhood on his father's farm, and obtained his education at the local schools and the Jonesville Academy; he also obtained a knowlede of law by a course of study in the usual text books of a law course. At the beginning of the war between the states, he entered the service of the Confederate army as private, and was promoted to first lieutenant; although he lost an arm at the battle of Sharpsburg, he remained at his post until the close of hostilities and peace was declared. He then returned to his home, and in the same year (1865) was elected sheriff of the county, which office he filled for three years, and later was elected clerk of the circuit and county courts and so served for ten and a half years, after which he was made judge of the county court of Lee county, by the general assembly of Virginia, and served as such for eight years. In 1901 he was elected a member of the constitutional convention and served throughout its sessions, and he was also chosen as chairman of the Democratic county committee of Lee county, in which capacity he served for eight years, Judge Orr married, November 9, 1865, Patty Vermilliam. They were the parents of six children.

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      McBryde, John McLaren, born at Abbeville, South Carolina, January 1, 1841, a son of John McBryde and his wife, Susan McLaren. He attended classical schools and studied at South Carolina College, Columbia, South Carolina. The two LeContes, later eminent scientists, were among his instructors at this institution. He then entered the University of Virginia, at which he was a student when the quartermaster broke out. He served in the Confederate army, but an attack of typhoid fever obliged him to resign, and accept a position in the Confederate treasury department, where he soon became the head of an important division of the war tax bureau. After the war he engaged in farming and turned his attention to scientific studies, giving especial attention to agricultural chemistry and botany, and making extensive collections of plants indigenous to the Piedmont section of the state. He was appointed professor of agriculture and botany at the University of Tennessee in the fall of 1879, and there so strengthened the department of agriculture, that agriculture and botany became most important features of South Carolina College, a chair in it was offered Professor McBryde, which he accepted, and he was unanimously elected president of the college at the first meeting of the board, 1883. The college prospered greatly during the next four years, and early in 1887 the presidency of the University of Tennessee was tendered him, but this offer was declined. The legislature of South Carolina increased the appropriation for the college in the winter of 1887-88, ordered that it should be turned into a university, and at the same time made it the State Agricultural and Mechanical College and Experimental Station. A social and political storm some time later again reduced the status of the institution to that of a small college, and the position of president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Virginia, at Blacksburg, being offered him, he accepted the offer, and his services there won wide commendation, and resulted in offers from a number of institutions, the highest honor thus coming to him being his unsolicited election to the presidency of the University, which he declined. the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred upon him by the University of Virginia of Tennessee in 1887, and that of Doctor of Laws by the Southern Presbyterian University in 1883. President Cleveland tendered him the office of assistant secretary of agriculture for the United States, in 1893, but he declined; he is ex-officio member of the Virginia Board of Agriculture, and his agricultural reports and papers on agricultural subjects are of great value in scientific circles. He retired from his active duties at the college (now called the Virginia Polytechnic Institute) at the end of the session of 1906-07. Dr. McBryde married, November 18, 1863, Cora, daughter of Dr. James Bolton, of Richmond, Virginia.

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      Wilson, William Lyne, born in Jefferson county, Virginia, May 3, 1843, son of Benjamin and Mary (Lyne) Wilson; educated at Charlestown Academy, and was graduated from Columbian College, D. C., in 1860, and subsequently studied in the United States. He served in the Confederate army as a private in the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry. After the war he was professor of Latin in Columbian College, from 1865 to 1871, but resigned his position on the overthrow of the lawyers' test oath in West Virginia, and for eleven years practiced law at Charlestown. He was a delegate in 1880 to the national Democratic convention in Cincinnati, and the same year was an elector-at=large for the state on the Hancock ticket; chosen president of the West Virginia University, and entered upon the office, September 4, 1882, but resigned it the following year, having been chosen a Democratic member of the forty-eighth congress; he served in that and each successive congress until the fifty-fourth, when he was defeated; he was chairman of the committee on ways and means of the fifty-third congress, and carried through the house of representatives the measure repealing the purchasing clause of the Sherman law, and also the tariff bill which bears his name; Columbian University conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. in 1883, and he received the same honor from Hampden-Sidney College in Virginia, the University of Mississippi, Tulane University, Central College of Missouri, and the West Virginia University; in 1890 he was offered the presidency of the University of Missouri, but did not accept it; he served six years as one of the regents of the Smithsonian Institution; was permanent president of the Democratic national convention at Chicago, 1892; his name was frequently mentioned as United States senator from his state, and he was frequently urged to accept the speakership of the house of representatives; in 1895 was made postmaster-general in President Cleveland's cabinet, and on the expiration of his term was elected president of Washington and Lee University; died at Lexington, Virginia, October 17, 1900.

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      Miller, Polk, born in Prince Edward county, Virginia, August 2, 1844, a son of Giles A. Miller and his wife, Jane Anthony Webster, the former for some terms a member of the state legislature. He was educated in private schools, and in 1863 enlisted as a private in the Richmond Howitzers, and served till the end of the war. After the war he kept a drug store, and finally became the manager and chief proprietor of two large concerns of that nature. Possessing a fine voice, and fondness for the banjo, he gave a number of private amateur entertainments illustrating plantation life. These were so enthusiastically received, that in the course of time they were elaborated into "Old Times Down South," a collection of songs and stories depicting negroes and their masters before the war. Mr. Miller has delivered these semi-lectures more than twenty-five hundred times, appearing in almost all the states of the Union. Mr. Miller married, November 29, 1871, Maude Lee Withers.

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      Dunlop, James Nathaniel, born in Richmond, Virginia, August 24, 1844, son of James and Ann Dent (McCrae) Dunlop, his ancestry being Scotch-Irish; attended schools of David Turner and Dr. Gessner Harrison, as also the military school of the University of Virginia and became a member of Powhatan Troop, was with the Confederate army at the surrender at Appomattox; studied law at the University of Virginia, and began to practice in 1867; elected to legislature from Richmond in 1883, was re-elected in 1885, leading the Democratic ticket by a handsome majority. He was a fine orator and in 1885 electrified the convention that nominated Fitzhugh Lee. On March 2, 1876, he married Elizabeth Lewis Carrington; children: Maria Louise, became the wife of Hampton D. Ewing, of New York; Ann Dent, Elizabeth Lewis, James Nathaniel, and William Carrington. He died June 28, 1888.

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      Ezekiel, Moses Jacob, was born at Richmond, Virginia, October 28, 1844, and is of Hebrew parentage. At an early age he manifested his talent by painting panoramas. He entered the Virginia Military Institute, at Lexington, in 1861, and was graduated from that institution in 1866, after serving in the Confederate army, 1864-65. For a time he then assisted his father in the latter's dry goods store, but a portion of each day was devoted to the study of are, and at this time some notable paintings left his brush, among them "The Prisoner's Wife." He soon gave his attention more especially to sculpture, and produced "Cain, or the Offering Rejected," an ideal bust that showed great dramatic talent. He studied anatomy in the Medical College of Virginia, removed to Cincinnati in 1868, and in 1869 went to Berlin, Germany. In 1872 he modeled the colossal bust of Washington, now in Cincinnati, which gained him admission to the Society of Artists of Berlin. In 1873 he won the Michael Beer prize, which had never before been awarded to a foreigner. In 1874, the Jewish secret order of Sons of the Covenant, commissioned him to execute a group entitled "Religious Liberty," for the Centennial Exhibition. This was unveiled in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, November 30, 1876, and now stands in front of Horticultural Hall. He was afterward commissioned to execute statues for the outside niches of the Corcoran Art Gallery, at Washington, D. C. Since 1886 his subjects have been mainly ideal. Among his works are busts of Liszt and Cardinal Hohenlohe; a statuette of "Industry," 1868; reliefs of Schiller and Goethe, 1870; bas-relief portraits of Farragut, 1872, and Robert E. Lee, 1873; "Pan and Amor," a bas-relief, 1875, "Fountain of Neptune," Netturno, Italy, 1884; a bronze medallion of William W. Corcoran for his gallery in Washington, 1886; and a group entitled "Art and Nature," in Frankfort, Germany, 1887. He received the Cavalier's cross of merit for art and science, with a diploma from the grand duke of Saxe-Meiningen, in 1887.

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      Tuttle, Albert Henry, born at Cuyahoga Falls, Summit county, Ohio, November 19, 1844, son of Henry Blakeslee Tuttle and Emeline Reed, his wife. His father was a successful merchant of Cuyahoga Falls, from whence he removed to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1852. He was a pupil in the Cleveland High school, the Cleveland Institute, and the State College of Pennsylvania, from which last he graduated B. S. and M. S., and later pursued post-graduate studies at Harvard University from 1870 to 1872 and at Johns Hopkins University in 1882-83. He was a teacher of natural science in the State Normal School at Plattsville, Wisconsin, from 1868 to 1870; for the following two years was an instructor in microscopy in Harvard College; then became professor of zoology and geology in the State College of Pennsylvania; was called to the chair of zoology and comparative anatomy in the Ohio State University, served from 1873 to 1888, when he was elected professor of biology in the University of Virginia. He has been a frequent contributor to scientific journals, and is the author of an "Introduction to the Study of Bacteria," (1895), and "Elements of Histology" (1898). He enlisted as a private in the Eighth Battery of the Ohio National Guard, U. S. A., for three months' service during the war between the states. Prof. Tuttle married in Paris, France, August 7, 1873, Kate Austin Seeley; three children.

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      Humphreys, Milton, Wylie born in Greenbriar county, Virginia (now West Virginia), September 15, 1844, son of Dr. Andrew C. Humphreys and Mary McQuain Hefner, his wife, who was of German descent. Dr. Humphreys was also a justice of the peace, and a lieutenant-colonel in the militia. Samuel Humphreys was the first member of this family to come to America, from his native land, Ireland, and he first settled in Pennsylvania prior to the revolution, and thence removed to Greenbriar county. The maternal American ancestor was Jacob Hefner, who came prior to the revolutionary struggle, and was killed while in the continental army. Prof. Humphreys studied in private schools, and entered Washington College, but the civil war broke out and he enlisted, was corporal of artillery and served four years. At the close of the war he resumed his studies at Washington College, and was graduated Master of Arts in 1869, becoming a tutor in Latin, and later assistant professor of ancient languages. He then continued his studies at the universities of Berlin and Leipsic, the last mentioned conferring the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Elected professor of Greek at the Vanderbilt University in 1875; professor of ancient languages in the University of Texas in 1883; and professor of Greek at the University of Virginia in 1887. The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by Vanderbilt University in 1883; was made editor-general for North America of the "Revue des Revues," of Paris, France, about the same time; subsequently chosen to prepare the paper of Greek for the World's Congress of Science and Arts at St. Louis; he was vice-president of the American Philological Association from 1880 to 1882, and elected annual president in the last named year. In the first years of his research work, Prof. Humphreys published a work upon Greek meters; he has written many articles which have been published in philological journals here and abroad; he published an edition of the "Clouds," of Aristophanes in 1885; and of the "Antigone," of Sophocles in 1891. Prof. Humphreys married, May 3, 1887, Louise F. Garland, daughter of Dr. Landon C. Garland, late chancellor of Vanderbilt University.

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      Jones, Maryus, born in Gloucester county, Virginia, July 8, 1844, son of Catesby Jones and Mary Ann Brooke Pollard, his wife, and descended from Capt. Roger Jones, who, coming to Virginia with Lord Culpeper, was captain of a sloop of war for the suppression of piracy and unlawful trading in Virginia waters. He was the youngest child of his father by the second marriage and acquired his early education in the country school sin the vicinity of his home, was then prepared for college at Newington Academy, after which he matriculated at Randolph-Macon College, but left this institution in 1861 at the outbreak of the civil war. He enlisted in Company D, Twenty-fourth Regiment, Virginia Cavalry, and was actively engaged in a number of battles, a notable one being the charge at Samaria Church, June 24, 1864, where the entrenchments of the enemy were carried by assault; another well known engagement was the battle at Darbytown Heights, July 27, 1864; he had the misfortune to be captured by the enemy, and was not set at liberty until the close of the war, but was advanced to the rank of sergeant while still a prisoner. After the war he attended lectures at the University of Virginia and in 1868 commenced teaching school, and while following this occupation for four years studied law. He was admitted to the Gloucester county bar in 1872, and at once established himself in the practice of his profession, was elected commonwealth's attorney of the county in 1879, and was the incumbent of this office, by repeated re-elections for a period of sixteen years. He removed to Newport News in 1899, and became mayor of that city. Mr. Jones married, December 10, 1873, Mary Armistead Catlett, and they have had four children.

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      Stubbs, William Carter, son of Jefferson Washington Stubbs, was born in Gloucester county, Virginia, December 7, 1846, was schooled by private tutors and studied at William and Mary College in 1860. The war suspended the college exercises and Mr. Stubbs graduated at Randolph-Macon College. Served throughout the war afterwards in a company called "The Partisan Rangers," commanded by Capt. Thomas C. Clopton, which afterwards became Company D of the Twenty-fourth Virginia Cavalry. After the war studied at the University of Virginia, and in 1869 was professor in East Alabama College and in 1872 was made professor of chemistry in the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College. In 1878 was made state chemist of Alabama. In 1885 was called to Louisiana to take charge of a sugar experiment station; was elected by the Louisiana legislature, state chemist, and in 1887 became director of the north Louisiana experiment station at Calhoun, Louisiana. In 1892 was authorized to conduct a geological survey of the state, and was given charge of the Audubon Sugar School. Has published many reports and pamphlets upon agricultural topics and the manufacture of sugar. In 1900 was commissioned by Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, to visit the Hawaiian Islands and make report, which was done. He has represented Louisiana as commissioner at many expositions. He married, in 1878, Elizabeth Saunders Blair, daughter of Henry Dickinson and Mary Louisa Blair, of Mobile, Alabama. Mrs. Stubbs, aided by her grandfather, Col. James E. Saunders, published "Early Settlers of Alabama and Notes and Genealogies."

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      Robertson, Alexander Farish, was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, February 15, 1853, a son of William A. Robertson, a country gentleman, and his wife, Sarah Tunstall Farish; and a descendant of William Robertson, a native of Scotland, who settled on a farm in Culpeper in 1784. John Tunstall, a maternal great-great-grandfather of Mr. Robertson, was a member of the committee of safety in 1775.
      Alexander Farish Robertson obtained his preparatory education in private schools in Culpeper county, then matriculated at the University of Virginia, from which he was graduated Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Law. Between the close of the civil war and his entrance into the university, he assisted in all the labors incidental to the cultivation of the homestead farm, a training which endowed him with a robust constitution. He established himself in the practice of the legal profession in Staunton, Virginia, in 1876, and for a time took a rather active part in political affairs, but then devoted his entire time to his profession, making a specialty of chancery and fiduciary practice. The Democratic party has always had his political support, although he was a "Gold Democrat," in 1898. Mr. Robertson married, May 4, 1882, Margaret Briscoe Stuart, daughter of the Hon. A. H. H. Stuart, and cousin of General J. E. B. Stuart, the dashing cavalry officer of the Confederacy.

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      Bullitt, Joshua Fry, was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, July 24, 1856, a son of Joshua Fry Bullitt, Sr., and his wife, Elizabeth Roland Smith, eldest daughter of Dr. George W. Smith, a leading physician in Louisville. Joshua Fry Bullitt, Sr., a distinguished member of the bar of Louisville, served as a member of the Louisville city council, of the legislature of Kentucky, as city attorney of Louisville, as associate judge and chief justice of the supreme court of Kentucky, and was reviser and editor of the "Codes of Practice," and "General Statutes." The Bullitt family was founded in this country by Benjamin Bullitt, a Huguenot, who fled from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and settled at Port Tobacco, Maryland. For a time the family was resident in Virginia, whiter the son of Benjamin Bullett had removed, and from there to Kentucky. He was a student at the Rugby Grammar School for a year, was the winner of a scholarship in Washington and Lee University, and matriculated at this University in the fall of 1876. He studied there two years, being a leader during this period in the literary and athletic societies, and winning other honors. After teaching for one year at Rugby, he commenced the study of law in a private class presided over by his father and ex-Attorney-General James Speed, and he also attended the lectures of Prof. Minor at the University of Virginia during the summers of 1879 and 1883. In 1880 he became associated in the practice of law with his father in Louisville, and seven years later he associated himself with Henry C. McDowell, of Lexington, Kentucky, went to Mineral City, now Big Stone Gap, and there they practiced successfully until they dissolved partnership in 1894. The following year Mr. Bullitt formed a partnership with J. L. Kelly, having offices at Big Stone Gap, and at Bristol, Virginia. While their practice is a general one, it is chiefly connected with corporation work, and the firm of Bullitt & Kelly is a well known one. In 1885 and 1886 he served as a member of the Kentucky legislature, and was a candidate for congress in Virginia in 1896, but withdrew because of his dissatisfaction with the Chicago platform. He was first lieutenant and then captain of the Crescent Hill Guards (Cavalry), this later becoming Company E, of the Louisville Legion. He and his partner, Mr. McDowell, organized the "Police Guard," of Big Stone Gap, about forty of the best men of the town joining this body. Mr. Bullitt was elected captain, and Big Stone Gap became a model town of the west. This body is still in existence, and is mentioned in the dedication of "Blue-Grass and Rhododendron," by John Fox, Jr. who says: "To Joshua Bullitt, Henry Clay McDowell, Horace fox, the first three captains of the Guard." One of the stories in this book, "Civilizing the Cumberland," contains an account of the "Police Guard" and its captain. Mr. Bullitt is the author of: "Panics and their Causes," "New Woman," *Trusts and Labor Unions," and "Objections to the Torrens System." His address is Big Stone Gap, Wise county, Virginia.
      Mr. Bullitt married, in 1885, Mrs. Maggie Talbott Churchill, only daughter of Jeremiah J. Talbott, of Jefferson county, Kentucky.

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      Mears, Otho Frederick, born near Keller, Accomac county, Virginia, June 4, 1862, son of Benjamin W. Mears and Emma S. Mapp, his wife, is a descendant of a family, whose ancestors settled on the Eastern Shore at an early date. He studied at Onancock Academy, and at Randolph-Macon College, where he pursued his studies for two years. Upon his return to the Eastern Shore, he taught school for five years. He next studied law under John B. Minor and James H. Gilmore at the University of Virginia, from which he was graduated June 30, 1886. After his admission to the bar, he located for active practice in Accomac, and shortly afterward formed a business connection with Thomas C. Walston, and then removed to Eastville, where the partners conducted a successful business until the death of Mr. Walston, which occurred in December, 1887, since which time Mr. Mears has devoted his entire time to his private practice, to the duties pertaining to the office of commonwealth's attorney, to which he was elected twice. Mr. Mears married, November 19, 1890, Florence R. Holland, daughter of N. L. Holland. His address is Eastville, Virginia.

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      Summers, Lewis Preston, was born four and a half miles west of Abingdon, Washington county, Virginia, November 2, 1868, a son of John Calhoun Summers and Nannie Montgomery Preston, his wife, who was a daughter of John F. Preston, of Locust Glen, Washington county, Virginia, and a sister of the later Dr. Robert J. Preston, superintendent of the Western State Hospital for a number of years. The immigrant ancestor of Mr. Summers in the paternal lien was George Summers, of Flemish origin, who settled in Frederick county, afterward Shenandoah county, near Tom's Brook, in 1766.
      His early education was acquired at the public schools of his native county and at the Wytheville Male Academy, his spare time being devoted to the performance of the various sorts of labors incident to the cultivation of a farm. He commenced the study of law in the summer school conducted by Prof. John B. Minor, at the University of Virginia, during the years 1890-91, and continued the regular course at this university, 1892-93, bing graduated in the last mentioned year with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was a student at the Tulane University of Louisiana, 1894-95, and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1895. While engaged in his legal studies, he was also otherwise occupied in order to render himself self supporting, the first of his positions being that of railway postal clerk on the route between Lynchburg, Virginia, and Bristol, Tennessee. He served as postmaster of Abingdon from March 1, 1890, to March 1, 1894. During the next ten years he was a member of the Republican district committee, of the ninth congressional district of from January 1, 1904, to May 1, 1905, he was commonwealth's attorney for Washington county, resigning this office in order to accept that of collector of internal revenue. In April, 1904, he had been elected chairman of the Republican district committee of his district, and resigned this at the same time and for the same reasons. As an author Mr. Summers has earned considerable praise; his "History of Southwest Virginia from 1746 to 1786, and of Washington County, 1777 to 1870," published in 1903, is considered a valuable contribution to the local history of his section. He resides at Abingdon, Washington county, Virginia. Mr. Summers married, February 24, 1897, Annie Katherine Barbee, daughter of M. A. Barbee, of Giles county, Virginia.

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      Sands, Alexander H. G., was born in 1828, son of Thomas Sands, of Williamsburg. In 1838 he entered the grammar school of William and Mary College, under Professor Dabney Brown, and continued four years. At the age of ten years he began the study of Latin, and when he left the school he had read through the ordinary course, had made some proficiency in Greek, and had a limited knowledge of French. He made a distinguished record as a lawyer, and was a law writer of note. He was author of Sands' "Suit in Equity," "Recreation of a Southern Barrister," and some miscellaneous writings. He left an incomplete "History of Virginia." Hew died in Richmond, in 1887.

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      Fristoe, Edward T., born in Rappahannock county, Virginia, December 16, 1830. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1849, was then a teacher for three years, and in 1855 graduated from the University of Virginia. While an undergraduate, he was called to the chair of mathematics in Columbian University, Washington City, where he served until 1860, when he accepted the professorship of mathematics and astronomy in the University of Missouri. In 1862 he entered the Confederate army, as captain and assistant adjutant-general, later being promoted to colonel of cavalry, under Gen. Sterling Price. After the war he was professor of chemistry in Columbian University; in 1871 took similar position in the National Medical College; in 1874 was dean of the Corcoran Scientific School in the Columbian University, Washington, D. C.; and was later professor of chemistry in the National College of Pharmacy in the same city. In 1868 he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from William Jewell College.