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      Glazebrook, Otis Allan, born at Richmond, Virginia, October 13, 1845. His father went to Richmond, Virginia, when a mere lad, and entering into business, became a useful and influential citizen. He was a student at Randolph-Macon College when Virginia seceded from the Union, and was at once sent to the Virginia Military Institute, to be educated as an officer in the regular Confederate army. He had large war experience, serving under Lee, Jackson and other great Confederate leaders. at the battle of New Market he was complimented for distinguishing gallantry on the field. He was at Appomattox, and after the war he returned to Lexington, graduating from the Virginia Military Institute the following year with the first honors of his class. He first inclined to law; but upon the death of his father, he matriculated in the middle class of the Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia, in September, 1867, and was graduated two years after, being ordained to the priesthood at the early age of twenty-three. His first parish was in South Side, Virginia, where in addition to his regular work, he organized gratuitously one of the first colored congregations in Virginia after the war to which he ministered, in addition to his regular parish, for six years. He was called to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1875, and built the Church of the Holy Trinity. While there he was made chaplain of the famous Fifth Maryland Regiment, and was complimented for his cool bravery in the labor troubles of 1877. In 1878 he was called to the rectorship of Christ Church, Macon, Georgia, and became the dean of that convocation. Being severely injured in a railroad accident he was compelled to resign his charge, and spent months in Europe. Upon his return he was elected to the chaplaincy of the University of Virginia, where his work was eminently successful. In 1885 he was called to St. John's Church, Elizabeth, New Jersey, the largest and most influential parish in New Jersey. He was the founder of a leading southern college Greek letter society, the Alpha Tau Omega, and was editor of the magazine of that fraternity for years. The degrees of Doctor of Divinity and Master of Arts were conferred upon him, and the diocese of New Jersey sent him as a delegate to two general conventions of the Presbyterian Episcopal church. He married, in 1866, Virginia Calvert Key, the second daughter of Francis H. Smith, superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute from its founding.

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      Richardson, David Clarke, born June 6, 1845, son of Turner Richardson, a successful farmer, and Margaret Ann Robertson, his wife. The family is among the old and highly respected families of Virginia, settling in New Kent county at an early date. David C. Richardson assisted his father on the farm during his early years, and from 1855 until 1862 attended the best schools of Richmond, whiter his father removed in 1855. he served as a private in the war between the states from March 12, 1862, until the surrender of Gen. Lee, and received a wound at the second battle of Manassas. During the period of his enlistment, he continued his studies, in leisure moments, also for a short period after the war, and in 1867 entered the office of Johnson & Guigon to study law, and remained until July, 1870, when he became clerk to the police justice of Richmond, serving in that capacity for ten years, in the meantime continuing his law studies and attending the law lectures of Professors Maury and Neeson, at Richmond College, during the session of 1873-74, and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Law. He was elected police justice of Richmond at the expiration of his term as clerk, filled that office for eight years, during which time he became familiar with the criminal law of the state, and then declined a reëlection, although strongly urged to accept. From 1888 to 1896 he was engaged in the practice of his profession, and was then elected commonwealth's attorney of the city of Richmond, but at the expiration of his term of ten years declined reëlection, and again resumed the practice of law. On June 8, 1908, he was elected mayor of the city of Richmond, and in 1912 was made judge of the hustings court. Judge Richardson married (first) December 4, 1874, Alice A. Fellows; married (second) 10, 1892, Florence b. Hechler.

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      Davis, Richard Beale, born in Norfolk county, Virginia, February 5, 1845, son of William T. Davis, a teacher, of Gloucester county, and Elizabeth Taylor Corbin, daughter of Major Robert Beale, of the war of 1812. He was educated at Randolph-Macon College. He served for three years in Company E, Twelfth Virginia Regiment. He was wounded by a shell at Seven Pines, and in the battle of the Crater was shot in the right arm. He served in the battles of Chancellorsville, second Manassas, Gettysburg and Petersburg. From 1866 to 1879 he was a student at the University of Virginia, with the exception of one year when he taught school, where he took the law course. He entered upon law practice in Petersburg in January, 1871. He served as city attorney for one term; and in 1875 was elected to the house of delegates as a Democrat. He was a member of the board of trustees of Randolph-Macon College. He married Annie Warwick Hall.

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      McGuire, William Province, born at Winchester, Virginia, February 19, 1845, a don of Dr. Hugh Holmes McGuire, and his wife, Ann Eliza McGuire. The McGuire family was founded in this country by Edward McGuire, a native of Fermanagh, Ireland, who came to this country in 1754, settling at Winchester, Frederick county, Virginia, where his descendants have taken high rank in the medical profession for three successive generations. Dr. Hugh Holmes McGuire established him self in the practice of the medical profession at Winchester in 1822, became the president of a medical school which he put into successful operation in 1847, was one of the noted physicians and surgeons of his day, and practiced until 1861. Two of his uncles were David Holmes and Judge Holmes, and one of his sons was Dr. Hunter McGuire, of Richmond, and another, the subject of this sketch, Dr. William Province McGuire commenced his education in the schools of his native town, attended the Winchester Academy, at Winchester, and the Greenwood Academy, in Albemarle county, Virginia, after which he commenced a course of study at the Medical College of Virginia, this being interrupted by the civil war, and he was graduated in the class of 1867 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He at once established himself in medical practice in Winchester, with which city he has been uninterruptedly identified. He was one of the surgeons of the Winchester Memorial Hospital; had served as vice-president of the Medical Society of Virginia several times, and as president of this organization, 1893-94; and was vice-mayor of the city of Winchester two terms. He gave his political support to the Democratic party, attends the Episcopal church. Dr. McGuire married, June 17, 1871, Nannie H., a daughter of Hon. John Randolph Tucker.

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      Hamilton, John William, born at Weston, West Virginia, March 18, 1845; graduated at Mount Union College, Ohio, in 1865, and at Boston University in 1871; entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in 1871 founded the "People's Church" in Boston. He is the author of "Memorial of Jesse Lee" (1875); "Lives of the Methodist Bishops" (1883), and "People's Church Pulpit" (1884).

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      Longley, Seldon, born at Emory and Henry College, Washington county, Virginia, February 7, 1846, a son of Edmund Longley, and his wife, Mary Hammond, a granddaughter of William Hammond, who emigrated to this country from England; and a great-great-grandson of Edmund Longley, who came from England in 1750, and settled in West Waterville, Maine. Edmund Longley, the father, was for a long period of time a professor at Emory and Henry College; was postmaster at Emory, Virginia; a member of the board of trustees of Martha Washington College; and was nominated as a representative of his district in congress in 1867. The civil war interrupted his studies at college, and at seventeen years of age he enlisted as a private in the Confederate army. Assigned to Captain J. K. Rambo's company of Border Rangers, and later served in Company F, Twenty-first Regiment Virginia Cavalry. Was appointed orderly sergeant, and finally captain of his company. Returning to his studies he was awarded the Robertson prize for oratory at Emory and Henry College in June, 1866. Graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1868, and in 1869 Master of Arts. He studied law at the University of Virginia, 1869-70, and was "Final Orator." He practiced law, and in 1873 was a Democratic member of the house of delegates fro m Washington county. Since that time he has served as delegate to various state conventions. He had removed to Pulaski county in 1892, and after a short residence there, was appointed by Governor Charles T. O'Ferrall, judge of the county court, this being confirmed by the general assembly, in 1897, for the regular term of six years. Mr. Longley married, December 24, 1873, Leona Howard Jordan, a daughter of Colonel W. J. Jordan, of Pulaski county.

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      White, William Henry, born in Norfolk county, Virginia, April 16, 1847, son of Colonel William White, and Henrietta Kemp Turner, his wife. His ancestors belonged to the old colonial stock who settled in Virginia during the early period of its history, from England and Wales. His grandfather, William White, served with distinction in the war of 1812, as did his father in the Confederate army as colonel of the Fourteenth Regiment Virginia Infantry, in Pickett's division. Young White was educated in private schools in Norfolk county, and of Richmond, Virginia; Randolph-Macon College; and the Virginia Military Institute, where he was a member of the cadet battalion that distinguished itself at the battle of Newmarket. He then entered the University of Virginia as a law student, and after leaving that institution, began the practice of his profession in Portsmouth, Virginia, having received his license the day after he was twenty-one years old. The next year he became commonwealth's attorney of Norfolk county, and in 1870 opened an office in Norfolk, Virginia. Shortly thereafter he was elected commonwealth's attorney for the city of Norfolk, and served as such several times. In 1873 he was a member of the firm of White & Garnett, his partner being Judge Theodore S. Garnett, a partnership which continued for more than twenty years. In 1900 Mr. White was appointed United States district attorney for the eastern district of Virginia. He is now president of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad. He is a member of the Norfolk and Portsmouth Barr associations, the Virginia State Bar Association, the Virginia Club, the Norfolk Country Club, the Richmond Club at Willoughby Beach, and is a non-resident member of the Lotus Club of New York City. He is a Democrat in politics. On November 4, 1869, he married Lucy Landon Carter Minor. His second wife was Emma Gray, whom he married on March 10, 1880.

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      Harrison, Constance Cary (Mrs. Burton Harrison), born in Fairfax county, Virginia, April 25, 1846, daughter of Archibald Cary and Monimia Fairfax, his wife. Her home was destroyed during the civil war, and after its close she visited Europe in company with her mother. After returning home she married Burton Harrison, of Virginia, a lawyer, who was one time secretary to President Davis. They removed in 1876 to New York, and there Mrs. Harrison began her literary work with "A Little Centennial Lady," a magazine article which attracted much attention. Her *Anglo-maniacs," which appeared anonymously in "The Century" magazine, gave her instant standing as a finished novelist. Her other principal works are: "Flower-de-Hundred," "Sweet Bells Out of Time," "Crow's Nest," "A Daughter of the South," "A Bachelor Maid," "An Errant Wooing," "A Merry Maid of Arcady," "A Son of the Old Dominion." She has also produced several plays, mostly adaptions from the French.

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      Morehead, John Alfred, born at Dublin, Pulaski county, Virginia, son of James William Morehead and Barbara Katherine Yonce, his wife. His father, a farmer, was prominent in educational matters in Wythe county, Virginia, and Dr. Morehead descends paternally from Scotch forbears, maternally of German ancestry and a nephew of Dr. William B. Yonce, for many years professor of Greek and Latin in Roanoke College. He attended private schools in the county of his birth. He graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree at Roanoke College in 1889, then entered the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Mount Airy, Pennsylvania. He was graduated from this institution in 1892, in the same year being ordained into the Evangelical Lutheran ministry, and also in that year receiving assignment to his first charge, Burke's Garden, Virginia. For two years he filled this pastorate, then became pastor of the First English Lutheran Church of Richmond, where he remained until 1898. In 1898 Dr. Morehead was elected president of the Southern Lutheran Theological Seminary, at Charleston, South Carolina, also being elected to the chair of systematic theology, a connection that endured until 1903, although during the scholastic year of 1901-02 he pursued courses at the universities of Berlin and Leipsic. In 1903 Dr. Morehead accepted the presidency of Roanoke College, where his diligent labors have met with splendid results. it was this institution that in 1893 honored him with the degree of Master of Arts and in 1902 with that of Doctor of Divinity. He married, October 6, 1892, Eleanor Virginia Fisher and has issue.

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      Faulkner, Charles James, born in Martinsburg, then Virginia, now West Virginia, September 21, 1847. His grandfather Major James Faulkner, was born in the North of Ireland, became a resident of the new world, espoused the cause of his adopted country in the war of 1812, and was commander of the Virginia forces at the battle of Craney Island, in 1813. He died soon after the close of the war. His wife was Mary Mackey, a daughter of Captain Andrew Mackey, who was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. John Boyd, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Faulkner, was born in Scotland, and on coming to America settled first in Pennsylvania, but moved to Berkeley county, Virginia, about 1742. Elisha Boyd, father of Mary Boyd Faulkner, was a soldier of the war of 1812, and for a number of years served as a general of state militia of Virginia. He built one of the old homesteads of the state known as "Boydville," in the vicinity of Martinsburg, which Mr. Faulkner now occupies. Senator Faulkner was a student in private schools of Ellicott City, Maryland, in Paris, France, and Germany and Switzerland, during the time his father was minister to France. Returning to his native country, he entered the Virginia, and in 1867 matriculated in the University of Virginia, from which he graduated with the class of 1869. While in the institute, he participated in the battle of Newmarket. Subsequently he was on the staff of General John C. Breckenridge, in the Confederate army, and afterwards on the staff of General Henry A. Wise, surrendering with him at Appomattox. Immediately following his graduation from the University of Virginia, he entered upon the practice of law, and has since been connected with the bar as a practitioner or judge. In 1880 he was elected to the bench of the thirteenth circuit of West Virginia, composed of the counties of Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan. He is now engaged in general practice, but largely represents corporate interests, and is counsel for a number of railroads, banking and trust companies. He belongs to the West Virginia State Bar Association and to the District of Columbia Bar Association. A leader of the Democracy in West Virginia, Mr. Faulkner was elected United States senator in 1887 for a term of six years, and in January, 1893, was reëlected. He was chairman of the Democratic national congressional committee in 1894 and 1976. In 1898 he was appointed a member of the Anglo- American Joint High Commission to settle the differences existing in Canada between Great Britain and the United States. Socially he is connected with the Masonic fraternity, is a past grand master, and also holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Metropolitan Club of Washington, and the American Geographical Society of New York. He was married, November 6, 1869, to Sallie Winn, of Charlottesville, Virginia, who died March 31, 1890. On January 3, 1893, Senator Faulkner married Virginia Fairfax Whiting, of Hampton, Virginia.

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      Anderson, Charles Jefferies, born at Richmond, Virginia, August 12, 1848, son of the late George W. Anderson, for many years a merchant of Richmond, and Margaret L. Anderson, his wife. He is of English descent, his great-grandfather having been Col. Joseph Jefferies, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who served with bravery in the revolutionary war. He became a student at the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, served as a member of the Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets in 1864-65, in the Confederate States army, and graduated in the class of 1869. The following year he became a member of the firm of George W. Anderson & Sons, in Richmond. He was actively connected with the Virginia Volunteers from 1871 to 1893, holding the rank of captain in 1871, becoming successively, major, lieutenant-colonel, of the First Virginia Regiment, brigadier-general of the First Brigade, in which office he succeeded Gen. Fitzhugh Lee in 1885, serving until 1893, when he was appointed adjutant-general of Virginia, and held this office for a period of five years. he was commissioner from the state of Virginia to the Vienna Exposition in 1873. Gov. Swanson appointed him adjutant-general of the state of Virginia in February, 1906. He served as a member of the city council of Richmond in 1902; represented his city in the house of delegates of Virginia, in 1903-04; and in 2906 was sent to the state senate. he holds official position in the Richmond Male Orphan Society, the R. E. Lee Camp Soldiers' Home, the board of directors of the Virginia Military Institute, and a number of other prominent organizations.

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      Wharton, Henry Marvin, born in Culpeper county, Virginia, September 11, 1848, son of Malcolm Hart Wharton and Susan Roberts Colvin, his wife. He was educated at Roanoke College, the University of Virginia, and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He served in the Confederate army, and at the close of the war accompanied Gen. Sterling Price to Mexico. He returned the next year (1866), and practiced law in Lynchburg until 1873, in which year he was ordained a Baptist minister. He held pastorates at Luray, Virginia, in 1886 founded the Brantley Memorial Church, the largest in the last named city, of which he became pastor. He resigned his pastorate in 1899, and was an evangelistic preacher and lecturer until 1909, when he resumed charge of Brantley Church. He founded "The Evangel," a religious paper, in 1884, and was its editor until 1898; and also funded the "Whosoever Farm," and orphanage. He was author of "Pulpit, Pew and Platform," "Picnic in Palestine," "Home Religion," "War Songs of the Confederacy," and a novel "White Blood." He married Lucy Kimball Pollard, of Baltimore.

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      Atkinson, William Mayo, born October 14, 1848, son of William May Atkinson and Bettie J. White, his wife. Among his earliest ancestors in Virginia were Dr. Robert White, who settled in Frederick county in 1735; Roger Atkinson, who settled in Dinwiddie county in 1750; and William Mayo, who came to vin 1723, and settled near Richmond, Virginia. Robert White, his great-grandfather, was an officer in the revolution, a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and judge of the general court of Virginia. Rev. William Mayo Atkinson, his father, was a Presbyterian minister, and agent for the American Bible Society. William Mayo Atkinson was brought up in Winchester, Frederick county He attended an academy in Winchester, and took the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Hampden-Sidney College. He took the law course at the University of Virginia under John B. Minor, and graduated in 1873. He soon after began a leading lawyer. He was, in turn, commonwealth's attorney of the city of Winchester, member of the city court of Winchester, a member of the Winchester council, and mayor of the city; director of the Union Bank of Winchester, and secretary and treasurer of the Winchester & Potomac Railroad Company. He was a member of the chapter of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity of Hampden-Sidney College, and the University of Virginia; also a member of the Union Literary Society at Hampden-Sidney, and at the time of his graduation received the best speaker's medal from that society. In politics, Judge Atkinson is a Democrat, and in religion a Presbyterian. On July 20, 1884, Judge Atkinson married Mrs. C. C. Trenholm, and they have had one child, W. M. Atkinson.

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      Harrison, James Albert, born at Pass Christian, Mississippi, August 21, 1848, son of Jilson Payne Harrison, and Sidney Ann Powell Norton, his wife. In the paternal line he is descended from the Harrison of Virginia, who furnished signers, presidents and soldiers, and on the maternal side from Rev. Charles Mynn Thruston, of revolutionary fame. He attended the public schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, and then entered the University of Virginia, where he spent the sessions of 1866-67 and 1867-68; and in 1869 studied in the University of Bonn, Germany. On his return he was made a professor of Latin and modern languages in the Baltimore Military Academy. In 1876 he was elected professor of Latin and modern languages in Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. In 1895 the United States called him to the chair of English and romance languages, and by a subdivision of the work of languages, he has been professor of Teutonic philology. In 1883 he delivered at Johns Hopkins University a course of ten lectures on Anglo-Saxon poetry. He published in 1874, "A Group of Poets and their Haunts;" 1877, "Greek Vignettes;" 1879, "Spain in Profile;" "French Syntax;" "History of Spain;" "Story of Greece;" "Autrefois" (collection of Creole tales.) In 1883 he edited the major Anglo-Saxon poems, with the cooperation of scholars in various colleges and universities. The volume with which his name is especially connected was "Beowulf," in which he had Professor Sharp, of Tulane, as collaborator; Anglo-Saxon dictionary, in which he had Professor W. N. Baskerville, of Vanderbilt, as collaborator; his Anglo-Saxon reader, in which Professor Baskerville and Professor J. L. Hall, of William and Mary, were joint editors with him; all have extended his usefulness and his fame in the department of early English He was associate editor of the "Virginia edition," of Poe's works, published in 1902. A later work, published in 1906, in G. P. Putnam's Sons "Heroes of the Nation" series, is his "Life of Washington." Professor Harrison was made an L. H. D. of Columbia University; LL. D. of Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, of Tulane University, New Orleans, and of Washington. He was a member of Maryland Phi Beta Kappa chapter. In 1904 he was a delegate to the International Congress at St. Louis. On September 1, 1885, he married Lizzie Stuart, daughter of Hon. John Letcher, war governor of Virginia.

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      Kenna, John Edward, born in Vacoulin, (West) Virginia, April 10, 1848. He removed with his mother to Missouri, and received a limited education. He entered the Confederate army as a private, served chiefly in Missouri, was wounded in 1864, and surrendered at Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1865. He attended St. Vincent's College at Wheeling, studied law at Charleston, West Virginia, and was admitted to the bar; was prosecuting attorney for Kanawha county, 1872-77; and in 1875 was elected by the bar, under statutory provision, to hold the circuit courts of Lincoln and Wayne counties. He was elected to congress as a Democrat, serving from October, 1877, until March, 1883, and had been re-elected when he was chosen a United States senator to succeed Henry G. Davis. he was re-elected, and served until his death, in Washington City, January 11, 1893.

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      Ayers, Rufus Adolphus, born May 20, 1849, son of M. J. Ayers and Susan Lewis Wingfield, his wife. He is a descendant of John Ayers, who came to this country from England in boyhood resided in North Carolina. He married and removed to Bedford county, Virginia, and became a well known minister of the Methodist church. On the maternal side, Mr. Ayers is descended from John Lewis, a native of Donegal, Ireland, who settled on Lewis' Creek, Augusta county, in 1732, being the first settler in that county. He attended the Goodson Academy at Bristol, Virginia, until it was closed by the war in 1861, and he afterwards gave every moment that could be spared from his daily toil to reading, histories and biographies being his favorite studies. His first position was as clerk in a retail store, and he retained this until April, 1864, at which time he enlisted in the Confederate army, serving for six months in an independent command, and until the close of the war in the field quartermaster's department for East Tennessee. At the close of the war, he was salesman and merchant for a period of seven years and 1873 was admitted to the bar of Virginia as a lawyer, having commenced his legal studies during the summer following the war. He was elected attorney for the commonwealth of Scott county, serving 1875-79, and in this period was clerk of the committee on finance and reading clerk of the house of delegates. The "Scott County Banner," published at the court house at this time, was his property, and he was its editor. He drew up the charter for the railroad between Bristol and Big Stone Gap, Virginia, in 1876, and the following year organized the company which commenced its construction. In 1881 he was one of the most active workers in the organization of the Virginia Coal and Iron Company, and has been the counsel and a member of the board of directors ever since. He organized the Bank of Gates City in 1889; the Interstate Finance & Trust Company, and the Wise County Bank in 1901 and 1902; the Virginia Tanning & Extract Company in 1897; the Stone Gap Colliery Company, and Wise County Terminal Company in 1902; the Tazewell Coal and Land Corporation, and the Seaboard Coal Company in 1904; and he organized a number of companies of lesser importance, in which he is still an official. He was also active in the construction of the railroad from Norton to Glamorgan, and the Big Creek branch of the Norfolk & Western Railway. In 1880 he was supervisor of the census for the fifth district of Virginia, under appointment from President Hayes, who was required by act of congress to ignore politics in making appointments. He served as attorney-general of Virginia from 1886 to 1890; was a member of the state central and executive committees of the Democratic party from 1883 to 1895; and in 1901 and 1902 represented Wise, Dickinson and Buchanan counties in the convention called to revise the constitution of the state. His residence is Big Stone Gap, Wise county, Virginia. Mr. Ayers married, June 8, 1870, Victoria Louisa Morrison.

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      McCormick, Marshall, born in Clarke county, Virginia, June 29, 1849, son of Province McCormick and Margaretta Holmes Moss, his wife; and grandson of William McCormick, who emigrated to this country from Ireland. His father was a successful lawyer, and commonwealth's attorney of Clarke county from 1840 to 1866. Marshall McCormick spent the early years of his life on his father's farm, and his preliminary education was obtained in private schools of Clarke county, and supplemented by attendance at the University of Virginia, from which institution he graduated in Latin, Greek and moral philosophy; and the Virginia Military Institute, which he attended for one session. He began the study of law in a private law office in Winchester, Virginia, in 1870, was admitted to the bar the following year, and located for practice in Berryville, Virginia. In addition to his private practice, he has served for many years as counsel to the Norfolk & Western Railroad Company. He has served as a member of the board of visitors of the Western State Hospital and of the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind; of the board of visitors of the University of Virginia for eight years, and for a period of four years was chairman of the finance committee of that board. He served as mayor of Berryville for six years; commonwealth's attorney of Clarke county for almost nine years; was state senator from 1883 to 1887; where his most conspicuous public service was rendered in framing the Anderson-McCormick bill, which was intended to put a stop to bribery, fraud and intimidation at elections, and, in some respects, it was the progenitor of the election law now in force in Virginia. He was a member of the Democratic national convention of 1884, which nominated Grover Cleveland, and also of the St. Louis convention of 1904, which nominated Judge Parker. Mr. McCormick married, June 12, 1872, Rosalie Allen Taylor, daughter of Lawrence B. Taylor, a well known lawyer of Alexandria, Virginia.