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      Armstrong, George Dodd, born in Menham, New Jersey, September 15, 1813. He graduated at Princeton in 1832, was a teacher for over three years, and then entered the Union Theological Seminary in Prince Edward county, Virginia. Two years later he became professor of chemistry and mechanics in Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), Lexington. In 1851 he resigned his professorship and took charge of a church in Norfolk. The degree of S. T. D. was conferred on him by the college of William and Mary in 1854. He contributed from an early age to periodicals, and published "The Christian Doctrine of Slavery" (New York, 1857); "Scriptural Examination of the Doctrine of Baptism," and "The Theology of Christian Experience" (1857); "The Summer of the Pestilence; A History of the Ravages of the Yellow Fever in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1855" (Philadelphia, 1857); "Sacraments of the New Testament" (1880); and "The Books of Nature and Revelation Collated" (1886).

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      Battelle, Gordon, born in Newport, Ohio, November 14, 1814. He graduated at Alleghany College in 1840, and was licensed as a Methodist preacher in 1842. From 1843 to 1851 he was principal of the academy at Clarksburg, Virginia. In 1847 he was ordained deacon, and in 1849 elder, in the Methodist church. As preacher and presiding elder he occupied most of his time from 1851 to 1860, and was a member of the general conferences of 1856 and 1860. His influence in western Virginia was very great, and at the beginning of the civil war he was appointed official visitor to the military camps. He was a member of the convention that met November 24, 1861, and framed the constitution of the new state of West Virginia. To him more largely, probably, than to any other, was due the abolition of slavery in that region. In November, 1861, he was chosen chaplain of the First Virginia Regiment, and so continued till his death in camp, January 7, 1862, of typhoid fever, after a service of but a few weeks.

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      Cain, Richard H., born in Greenbrier county, Virginia, April 12, 1825; removed to Ohio in 1831, and settled in Gallipolis. though his education was limited, he entered the ministry at an early age. In 1860 he entered Wilberforce University, Xenia, Ohio, and in 1865 went south and engaged in the work of reconstruction. In 1867 he was elected to the constitutional convention of South Carolina, and the year following to the senate of that state. He was elected to congress for two terms, serving from 1876 till 1880. In 1880 he was chosen bishop by the general conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and was appointed to supervise its interests in Louisiana and Texas. In the latter state he organized Paul Quinn College at Waco. He was presiding bishop of the first Episcopal district of the African Methodist Episcopal church, embracing the conferences of New York, New Jersey, New England, and Philadelphia. In 1873 the degree of D. D. was conferred on him by Wilberforce University.

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      Burnett, Henry Clay, born in Essex county, Virginia, October 5, 1825. He received a classical education, removed early to Kentucky, where he entered upon the practice of law, and was in 1851-53 clerk of the circuit court of Trigg county. He was elected to congress as a Democrat from 1855 to 1861, but was expelled at the latter session for his open sympathy with the south, on December 3, 1861. He had presided over a Kentucky southern conference held at Russellville on October 29, 1861, and called a sovereignty at Russellville on November 18, of which he also was president, and which passed an ordnance of secession and organized a state government. He was a representative from Kentucky in the provisional Confederate congress, serving from February 19, 1862, till February 18, 1865. After the downfall of the Confederacy he exerted himself to restore the Democratic party to the ascendency in his state. He died near Hopkinton, Kentucky, October 1, 1866.

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      Chambliss, William Parham, born in Bedford county, Virginia, March 20, 1827. After attending a private school in Giles county, Tennessee, he served through the Mexican war as second lieutenant in the First Tennessee Volunteers, from June, 1846, till July, 1847, and afterward as captain of the Third Tennessee Volunteers. From 1850 till 1855 he practised law in Pulaski, Tennessee, and from 1852 till 1855 edited there the "Citizen," a democratic weekly newspaper. He was also a member of the legislature from 1853 till 1854. He entered the federal army as first lieutenant in the Second Cavalry, March 3, 1855, and was engaged in Texas against Indians until March, 1861. He was made captain in the Fifth Cavalry, April 6, 1861, and served through the Manassas and Peninsula campaigns, receiving the brevet of major, May 4, 1862, for gallantry at Hanover Court House, Virginia. At the battle of Gaines' Mills, June 27, 1862, he was wounded in several places, lay four days and four nights on the field of battle, and was then taken to Libby Prison, Richmond. For his conduct at Gaines' Mills he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel on June 28, 1862. The wounds that he received on this occasion nearly caused his death, and partially disabled him for the rest of his life. After his release from Libby prison he underwent treatment in St. Luke's hospital, New York, and then served as instructor of cavalry at the United States military academy from October, 1862, till June, 1864. He was made major in the Fourth Cavalry, March 30, 1864, served as special inspector of cavalry, division of the Mississippi, from August, 1864, till April, 1865, and with his regiment in Texas till November 1, 1867, when he resigned and became president and general manager of the Cobourg Railway and Mining Company, Cobourg, Canada. He published a pamphlet on "General McClellan and the Presidency" (1864). He died February 22, 1887.

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      Chancellor, Charles William, born in Spotsylvania county, Virginia, February 19, 1833; was educated at Georgetown College, D. C., and at the University of Virginia; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1853, and practised in Alexandria, Virginia, till 1861. During the civil war he was medical director on the staff of General Pickett, in the Confederate army. After the war he practised in Memphis, Tennessee, till 1868, when he was elected professor of anatomy in Washington University, Baltimore, Maryland; he was made dean of the faculty in 1869, and transferred to the chair of surgery in 1870; resigned in 1873; was elected secretary of the state board of health in 1876, and president of the state insane asylum in 1877. He published a "Report upon the Condition of the Prisons, Reformatories, and Charitable Institutions of Maryland," made to the governor of the state (Frederick, Maryland, 1875); a treatise on "Mineral Waters and Seaside Resorts" (Baltimore, 1883); and a large number of monographs on medical and sanitary subjects, including "Contagious and Infectious Diseases" (Baltimore, 1878); "Drainage of the Marsh Lands of Maryland" (1884); "A Sanitary Inspection of Elkton, Maryland," (1886); "Heredity" (Philadelphia, 1886); and the "Sewerage of Cities" (Baltimore, 1886). He has also read papers before the American public health association on "The Squalid Dwellings of the Poor" (1884); and "Impure Air and Unhealthy Occupations as Predisposing Causes of Pulmonary Consumption" (1885). Dr. Chancellor was a fellow of the Royal Society of London.

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      Bangs, Francis C., born in Virginia, in October, 1837. His first appearance on the stage was in November, 1852, in the old National Theatre, South Carolina, D. C. He played in New York for the first time, at Laura Keene's theatre, in the spring of 1858; at Wallack's in December of that year, and at the Winter Garden in 1860; after which he retired from the stage until 1865, when he appeared as William Tell at the National Theatre, Washington. He played Old Tom in "After Dark" at Niblo's Garden in November, 1868, and in 1869 appeared as the Duke of Alva in "Patrie* at the Grand Opera House. He took art in the Shakespearian revival at Booth's Theatre in 1875, and afterward played with Charles Thorne in the "Corsican Brothers." In 1884 he appeared in the role of Willie Denver in "The Silver King."

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      Roller, John E., born at Mt. Crawford, Rockingham county, Virginia, October 5, 1844, son of Peter S. Roller, who served as justice of the county court of Rockingham, and whose wife was a descendant of Christian Allebach, an early settler in the Perkiomen Valley, and of John Boneauvent, an early settler of Colebrook Dale. John Peter roller, great-great-grandfather of Gen. Roller, was of Huguenot stock, originally from France, and he located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1752, having been the first of the name in this country. Later he settled in the Valley of the Hawksbill, no win Page county, Virginia, removing from there to the North Fork of the Shenandoah in Rockingham county, where he was the possessor of an extensive estate. All his sons served in the revolutionary army, being attached to the Third Virginia Regiment. In 1861, when about to enter the University of Virginia, the war between the states broke out, and John E. Roller attached himself to Company I, First Virginia Cavalry, and participated in the first battle f Manassas. In the following year he was appointed a cadet in the Virginia Military Institute, from which he graduated July 4, 1863. He was elected lieutenant of Captain Blackford's scouts, and later was appointed lieutenant of engineers in the regular service. Shortly afterward he was ordered to the institute as assistant professor, but in 1863, on his own application, was ordered to Charleston, served under Gen. Beauregard and accompanied him to Virginia in the spring of 1864; was assigned to Hoke's division, fourth Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, as engineer officer, and was promoted two grades for his share in the campaign of 1864 and the defense of Petersburg; he organized Companies G and H, Second Regiment of Engineer Troops, winter of 1864-65, and served in front of Richmond and Petersburg until the evacuation, April 21, 1865. He was paroled at Appomattox. In September, 1865, he opened the old academy at Pleasant Grove, and studied law at the University of Virginia the following year. He practiced law at Harrisonburg, Virginia, making land law his specialty. He met with much success and became the owner of extensive mines and manufacturing plants, mineral and timber lands, and real estate in Virginia and other States. He has met with much success as a lecturer, some of the more popular being addresses as follows: "The German Element in Virginia," "Tersteegen," "The Reflex Power of Missions," "Michael Schlatter," and "Robert E. Lee." He is a member and elder of the Reformed Church in the United States, and in 1887 identified himself with the Republican party. He has taken much interest in history and literature and is a member of many societies. Gen. Roller married (first) June 27, 1878, Margaret Rector Schacklett. He married (second) November 11, 1896, Lucy Brown Cabell, daughter of Patrick Henry Cabell, of the distinguished family of that name.

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      Smith, Francis Lee, born at Alexandria, Virginia, September 6, 1845, son of Francis Lee Smith, a prominent lawyer, and Sarah Gosnell Vowell, his wife. He was a pupil in the schools of Alexandria, and completed his studies at the Virginia Military Institute, and graduated in 1864. During his period of study there he served occasionally in the Confederate army, being seriously wounded twice in the battle of New Market. In 1867, after being admitted to the bar, he began practice in Alexandria. He served as corporation attorney for Alexandria for the years 1871-72, and shortly afterward became attorney for various corporations, including the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He has also served as a member of the board of directors of the Citizen's National Bank of Alexandria, as president of the school board of Alexandria, as a member of the board of visitors of the Virginia Military Institute, as member of the state senate from 1879 to 1883, as member of the board of aldermen of Alexandria Light Infantry appointed in 1878, as major of the Third Regiment Virginia Volunteers commissioned in 1881, and as lieutenant-colonel of the same regiment appointed in 1882. He married, November 20, 1871, Janie L. Sutherlin, of Danville, Virginia.

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      Scott, William Wallace, born in Orange county, Virginia, April 10, 1845, son of Garnett and Sarah Ellen (Nalle) Scott. In ancestral lines he is connected with the Scott, Barbour and Pendleton families of Virginia. He was taught by Lewis Willis, John P. Walters, Thomas C. Nelson, F. B. Davis, R. H. Newman, Charles O. Young and J. S. Newman, all educated at the University of Virginia; and was a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute in 1863. He studied law at the University of Virginia from 1865 until 1867, being graduated in the latter year with the degree of Bachelor of Law. His school work, however, was not entirely consecutive, for during the civil war he put aside his books and joined the Thirteenth Regiment Virginia Infantry, and later served in the Black Horse Cavalry. He practiced law in Lexington, Virginia, from 1867 until 1869, when he became a member of the bar of Orange until 1879. In the meantime he edited the "Charlottesville Chronicle," and in 1873 founded the "Gordonsville Gazette," which he published until 1877. He was secretary of the Democratic state central committee of Virginia from 1883 until 1889; was clerk to the committee on the District of Columbia in the United States House of Representatives from 1885 until 1887; was in the United States internal revenue service, and special agent in connection with the Eleventh Census of the United States. In 1901 he was appointed state librarian of Virginia, which position he resigned in 1903 to become librarian to the Supreme Court of appeals. Mr. Scott is the author of some political articles, and in connection with W. G. Stanard wrote "A History of the Capitol," "The Pubic Square," "The Library and Its Contents." He is also the author of a "History of Orange County." He was married, September 29, 1869, to Claudia Marshall Willis. They have eight children. The family home is in Gordonsville, Virginia.

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      Bryan, Joseph, born at his father's plantation, "Eagle Point," Gloucester county, Virginia, August 13, 1845, son of John Randolph Bryan and Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, his wife; his father was godson and namesake of John Randolph, of Roanoke. His early education was by his mother, and after her death he entered the Episcopal high school near Alexandria, where he remained until the beginning of the civil war. He was only sixteen years old, but was anxious to enter the army. However, he yielded to the wishes of his father and returned home, where he remained until October, 1862, when he entered the academic department of the University of Virginia, where he remained until July, 1863. He was now more anxious than before to join the army, but was disabled by an accident in which he broke his bridle arm, and he took service in the government nitre and mining bureau in Pulaski county. In May, 1864, he procured leave of absence, and joined the Second Company of the Richmond Howitzers, and took part in the battle of Spotsylvania Court House, two weeks later (May 18, 1864). On the expiration of his leave, he returned to bureau duty in Pulaski county, and after a few months, having recovered the use of his arm, he enlisted in Captain Mountjoy's company of Mosby's command. In less than a month he had been wounded twice, and he was sent back to "Carysbrook," where his father was now living, but soon rejoined his father was now living, but soon rejoined his company in the field, and served creditably until the end of the war. Shortly afterwards, he entered the academic department of the University of Virginia, and in 1867 took up the law course, but on account of lack of means was unable to remain for graduation. He kept up his studies, and in 1868 was admitted to the bar, and engaged in practice at Palmyra, Fluvanna county, and in 1870 he removed to Richmond. In that city, so many important financial interests were committed to his care that he was obliged to gradually withdraw from the active labors of his profession. He was actively connected with the Schloss Sheffield Works, the American Locomotive Company, and was a director in the Southern Railway Company, the New York Equitable Life Assurance Association (which latter position he accepted on the personal solicitation of Grover Cleveland, who was then chairman of the committee on reorganization), and he was closely identified with this important corporation. He was deeply interested in the history and antiquities of his native state. The Virginia Historical Society claimed his largest interest. He was for many years its president, and he made it the object of many of his benefactions. It was largely through his interest that Mrs. Stewart, of "Brook Hill," and her daughters, gave to the society the old residence of Gen. Robert E. lee, for its permanent home; and his purpose to provide a fire-proof annex for the safekeeping of its valuable manuscripts was only defeated by his death. He was also deeply interested in the Association for the Preservation of Virginia antiquities, in which he held official position, and one of the last of his many gifts to it was the superb bronze statue of Captain John Smith, erected on Jamestown Island, the joint gift of himself and wife. He was a member of the board of visitors of the University of Virginia, and a trustee of the university endowment fund. He was an Episcopalian in religion — a member of the standing committee of the diocese of Virginia; a delegate, year after year, to the Episcopal Council of Virginia; a delegate from 1866 to the end of his life to the general convention of the church in the United States, and which in 1907 convened in Richmond, largely at his instance; and a trustee of the Episcopal high school. He was a director of the Jamestown Exposition, the chief management of which was twice pressed upon him, and declined. He was sole owner of the "Times-Dispatch" newspaper of Richmond, and its controlling spirit wielded a potent influence for good throughout the state and nation. He married, in 1871, Isabel L. Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, of "Brook Hill." He died at his country seat, "Laburnum," near Richmond, November 20, 1908.

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      Brock, Sarah A., born at Madison Court House, Virginia, in 1845. Her education was acquired at home, under private tutors, and she early developed excellent literary tastes, and capability as a writer. In 1867 she published "Richmond during the War," under the non de plume of "Virginia Madison." Her succeeding works were: "The Southern Amaranth" (1888); "Kenneth my King" (1872); and "Poets and Poetry of America." She married Rev. Richard Putnam, of New York.

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      Dreher, Julius Daniel, born in Lexington county, South Carolina, October 28, 1846, son of John J. Dreher and Martha E. (Counts) Dreher, his wife. he left school to enter the Confederate army, continuing until the surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, under whom he was serving. After four years spent in study and teaching, he entered Roanoke College, from which he was graduated in 1871, and for seven years after was a professor in the institution. In 1878 he was elected president, and was eminently successful in placing the college on a high basis, erecting various buildings, laying the foundations of a substantial endowment, and largely increasing the number of students.

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      Reed, Walter C., born in 1846, Gloucester county, Virginia. He obtained his early education in the schools of that place and Charlottesville, Virginia, from which he entered the University of Virginia in 1866, graduating therefrom with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1868. After leaving the university he entered Bellevue Medical College, New York, from which he was also graduated. He was appointed assistant surgeon in the United States army, following the duties of that position with fidelity. He became famous on account of the scientific discoveries which he made in connection with the work of suppressing yellow fever. the experience which he and his associates made, established one of the most remarkable rediscoveries of modern science — that yellow fever is conveyed by the bite of mosquitoes of certain species. In February, 1901, he read before the Pan-American Medical Congress, at Havana, a paper in which he gave a modest, though exact and scientific history, of the results achieved by himself and his colleagues. On his return to the United States, he was received with enthusiasm by the Johns Hopkins Medical Association and other medical bodies, who realized the soundness of his conclusions, and the importance of his discoveries. Experiments were further conducted in Cuba, with the result that there has been a marked decrease in yellow fever in that island. Among investigators, Dr. Reed stood pre-eminent, both as a man of science and as a disinterested lover of humanity. he died in Washington, D. C., November 23, 1902. A tablet to his memory is in Gloucester Court House, Virginia.

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      Graham, Samuel Cecil, born at "Bluestone," Tazewell county, Virginia, at the home of his maternal grandfather, William Witten, January 1, 1846, son of Robert Craig Graham, merchant and farmer, and Elizabeth Perry Witten, his wife. He is of Scotch descent in the paternal line; his grandfather, Maj. Samuel Graham, was born while his parents were on their way to this country. He was a volunteer captain during the war of 1812, at which time he was in his early forties, and during his service at Norfolk, Virginia, he was appointed to the rank of major. He had been a member of the Virginia legislature from Wythe county, 1806 and 1808, and died in Smyth county, Virginia. He married Rachel, daughter of John Montgomery, and his wife, Nancy Agnes Montgomery. Thomas Witten, great-great-grandfather of Samuel Cecil Graham in the maternal line, came to Virginia in 1771 from the Maryland colony. With him came Samuel W. Cecil. Each of these men had ten children, five of each family intermarrying, and among these was Thomas Witten, great-grandfather of Samuel Cecil Graham, and father of the William Witten mentioned above. Samuel Cecil Graham attended the log cabin schools of the mountains, and at the age of seventeen years he became a private in Company I, Sixteenth Volunteers Cavalry, at that time under the command of his uncle, Lieut.-Col. William I. Graham. He was wounded at "Hanging Rock," June, 1864, near Salem, Virginia; at Monocacy Junction, in July, 1864; and at Moorfield, in Hardy county, West Virginia, in August, 8164, this last injury being a most serious one. At the close of the war he returned to his home, and after preparing for college at the local schools, he entered Emory and Henry College in the fall of 1867, and after two years' attendance read law in the office of Col. Andrew J. May, at Jeffersonville, then the county seat of Tazewell county. He was admitted to the bar in October, 1870, and in the following January established himself in practice at Tazewell. Three years later he was elected judge of the Tazewell county court, filling this office until 1880. He formed a law partnership with Maj. Robert R. Henry in July, 1881, the style of the firm being Henry & Graham, and this is still in existence. Since 1889 he has been a member of the Virginia State Bar Association; was vice-president in 1902, the following year delivering the president's address, entitled "Some Philosophy of the Law and Lawyers," which was published in Volume 16, Reports of the Virginia State Bar Association. "A Criticism of the Profession Reviewed," was the title of a paper read before the same association in 1892, and this was published in Volume 5 of its reports. Judge Graham married (first) October 16, 1872, Anna Elizabeth Spotts, who died September 6, 1895, daughter of Washington Spotts, and his wife, Jane (Kelly) Spotts; he married (second) June 2, 1898, Minnie Cox, of Richmond, Virginia, daughter of Capt. Henry Cox and his wife, Martha.

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      Ellyson, J. Taylor, born in Richmond, Virginia, May 20, 1847, son of Henry K. Ellyson and Elizabeth P. Barnes, his wife. He was trained in the private schools of Richmond, at Columbia College, Richmond College, and entered the University of Virginia in 1867, graduating in a number of schools. He served during the war, and surrendered with his company at Appomattox. Immediately thereafter he resumed his college duties; was an active member of the Jefferson Literary Society of the university, and represented that society as one of the editors of the "University Magazine," in 1868-69; he also was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. After completing his studies at the university, he entered business, and became actively identified with the commercial life of Richmond for more than thirty years. He occupied many public positions, having served as president of the city council, and president of the board of public interests. In 1885 he was selected state senator, and in 1888 resigned to accept the mayoralty of Richmond, which office he held for three terms. He was for fourteen years chairman of the Democratic national committee. He was many times a delegate to the state and national convention of his party, and was a candidate for Democratic nomination for governor in 1897. He was largely interested in Confederate affairs, having been president of the Jefferson Davis Monument Association, president of the Richmond Howitzers Association, and an active member of R. E. Lee and George E. Pickett Camps of Confederate Veterans, and has represented these camps in the general convention of United Confederate Veterans each year since the organization of that convention. Mr. Ellyson has always been interested in the work of education, and he served his city for sixteen years as chairman of the city school board. He is a member and vice-president of the board of trustees of Richmond College, and has been for thirty-one years executive officer of the education board of the Baptist General Association of Virginia. He has been prominent in the affairs of his denominations, having been for three terems president of his state association, and vice-president of the Southern Baptist Convention, besides being a representative on the State Mission Board, the Orphanage Board and the Education Board of the Baptist General Association of Virginia. He has been prominently identified with the social life of Richmond, being a member of the Westmoreland and Commonwealth clubs, of the Society for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, the Confederate Memorial and Literary Society, and many other well known organizations. He is at present lieutenant-governor of Virginia and ex officio president of the senate.

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      McCarthy, Carlton, was born at Richmond, Virginia, August 18, 1847, son of Florence McCarthy and Julia Anne Humes, his wife, the former named a native of Ireland, who settled in Virginia, and was a highly esteemed merchant during his active career, and the latter named a native of Virginia, of Scotch parentage. Carlton McCarthy obtained an excellent education in the academies of his native city, and had almost completed his studies when the war between the state broke out, his father and elder brothers enlisting in defense of the southern cause, and Carlton being too young to enlist. Three years later, after the death of his brother, Capt. McCarthy, of the Richmond Howitzers, Carlton McCarthy enlisted as a private soldier in the same company, and served until the cessation of hostilities. Upon his return to Richmond, he secured employment in a tannery, after which he became successively a bookseller and stationer, secretary of a building and loan association, and city accountant, and during his incumbency of the latter office introduced many reforms, and greatly improved the financial system of the city. He was honored by his fellow citizens by election to the office of mayor of Richmond, in 1904, the duties of which he discharged to the satisfaction of all concerned. He is the author of "Walks about Richmond," written shortly after the war; "Our Distinguished Fellow-Citizen," and "Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia," which has been adopted by the state board of education for use in the public schools of Virginia, and he has also complied and edited several volumes of the "Record of the Howitzers." He is a forceful and able speaker. Mr. McCarthy married, January 5, 1877, Susie Ryall Apperson, of Richmond, Virginia.

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      Bowman, Alpheus Michael, born in Rockingham county, Virginia, January 11, 1847, son of George Bowman and Sarah V. Ziegler, his wife, both of German Lutheran descent. His earliest American ancestor was Joist Hite, who, with his three sons-in-law and their families, settled on Cedar creek, in the Shenandoah Valley, west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Together they owned forty thousand acres of land, which they obtained by purchase from Isaac and John Vanmeter, who had patented this tract in 1730. One of these sons-in-law was George Bowman, who had married Mary Hite and raised a large family. The stone house occupied by him is still standing on the one thousand acre tract which he patented in 1734. He was an active participant in the Indian wars, and died in 1768. Benjamin Bowman, one of his sons, was killed by the Indians, tradition telling us that his scalp was taken by the famous chief Logan himself. Abraham, Joseph and Isaac Bowman, three other sons, were officers in the revolutionary war. Of these, Abraham Bowman was major of the well known Eighth Regiment, organized by Gen. Peter Muhlenburg, and known as the "German Lutheran regiment;" he was in command of this regiment when it made the last charge upon the redoubts at Yorktown. Joseph Bowman, the second mentioned, ranked next to George Rogers Clark in the noted Illinois campaign, the success of which assured to the United States that part of the northwest territory now represented by five fine states; his death occurred in the fort at Vincennes, shortly after its surrender by the British, and it is supposed that he was the only officer who lost his life in actual service during this campaign. Isaac Bowman, the third of the trio, was a lieutenant in the same company as his brother Joseph, and was entrusted with the responsible duty of conveying the English governor Hamilton and a number of other prisoners from Fort Vincennes to Williamsburg, Virginia; he was the direct ancestor of Alpheus Michael Bowman. The early years of Mr. Bowman's life were spend in the country, where he attended the schools near his home, and the New Market Academy. At sixteen years old he became a private in Company H, Twelfth Regiment, Virginia Cavalry, and after two years' service was captured in March, 1865, and held a prisoner in Fort Delaware until June 1, 1865. After the war he engaged in farming and stock raising on an extensive scale in Augusta county, then removed to Saltville, Washington county. His next remove was to Roanoke county, where for many years he was the owner and personal manage of the Bowmont stock farm, and president of the Diamond Orchard Company, the largest concern of its kind east of the Alleghany Mountains and north of Georgia. He was a member of the executive committee of the American Shorthorn Breeders' Association eleven years, was vice-president of the American Berkshire Association, first president of the American Saddle Horse Association, and a live member of the American Jersey Cattle Club. His record in public life was equally notable. In 1883 he was a member of the executive committee of the Democratic state committee twelve years, was chairman of the ninth congressional district committee six years, and chairman of the Roanoke county Democratic committee many years. He was elected to the house of delegates from Roanoke county in 1901, was appointed a member of the finance committee, and secured the appropriation of $50,000 so that Virginia might be adequately represented at the World's Fair at St. Louis. He was re-elected in 1903, and again served on the finance committee; in 1905 he was elected for the third time, and this time was appointed chairman of the finance committee. Mr. Bowman married, February 11, 1869, Mary E. Killian.