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      Trevilian, John Guerrant, born in Goochland, county Virginia, April 1, 1840, son of Col. John Mayo Trevilian and Mary Argyle, his wife. His paternal ancestry is English, and has been connected with Virginia from the early part of the seventeenth century down to the present time. Dr. Trevilian pursued his early education under private tutors, and then entered Hampden-Sidney College, after which he completed his literary course in the University of Virginia, where he was a student in 1858-59. He prepared for his chosen profession in the Medical College of Virginia, and graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1861. The civil war was then in progress, and immediately following his graduation he was commissioned assistant surgeon in the Confederate hospital service in Richmond, where he remained for twelve months. He was then commissioned surgeon-in-charge of the hospitals at Warrenton and Winchester, Virginia, and afterward was chief surgeon in Gen. Lewis Armistead's brigade of Pickett's division, Army of Northern Virginia, remaining with that command in all of the engagements until the death of the intrepid leader at Gettysburg. Dr. Trevilian then remained with his successor until the close of the war, and was paroled at Appomattox Court House by Gen. Grant. Following his military service, Dr. Trevilian took up his abode in Richmond, where he engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery, and was surgeon to the Richmond (Virginia)_ City Hospital. He belonged to the Virginia State Medical Association, Richmond Academy of Medicine, and the America Medical Association. He wrote various articles for the medical press. In politics he was a Democrat. He married, June 6, 1866, Virginia C. Parrish, of Richmond, Virginia.

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      Newton, John Brockenbrough, born February 7, 1840, son of Willoughby Newton, legislator and congressman, and Mary Stevenson, his wife, daughter of Judge William Brockenbrough, of the Virginia supreme court of appeals. He was a physician, and during the civil war was surgeon of the Fortieth Virginia Infantry Regiment, and later, with the rank of major, was in charge Confederate hospitals. In 1871 he entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, and on May 16, 1894, was consecrated bishop coadjutor of the diocese of Virginia. He married Reberta, daughter of Joseph A. and Mary Ann Page Williamson.

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      Page, Richard Channing Moore, born in Albemarle county, Virginia, January 2, 1841, son of Dr. Mann Page, of that county, and his wife, Jane Frances, eldest child of Hon. Francis Walker. As a boy he went to school at Hanover Academy, taught by Lewis Minor Coleman, and was a student in the University of Virginia when the war began. He enlisted as a private in the Rockbridge Artillery of which the Rev. William N. Pendleton was captain. Upon the reorganization of the army he was elected captain of a battery formed in Hanover county, over the head of his old teacher, Capt. Coleman. He was promoted to major, and his command was well known as one of the best artillery commands in the Confederate service. He was wounded in battle and captured but made his escape. After the war he returned to the University of Virginia, and graduated in 1868 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He entered the New York University Medical school and was at various times on the staff of the Bellevue Hospital and the Women's Hospital of that city. He was assistant professor in the New York Polyclinic, and in 1889 was elected professor of general medicine, a position which he held at the time of his death. He had been first vice-president of the New York Medical Academy, and was offered the chair of the practice of medicine in the University of Virginia, but declined it. He wrote much for the medical journals, and his work on the "Practice of Medicine" is most highly regarded and is a text-book in many medical colleges and universities. He married Mary Fitch Winslow, of Westport, Connecticut.

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      Peterkin, George W., born in Washington county, Maryland, March 21, 1841, son of Rev. Joshua Peterkin and Elizabeth Hanson, his wife. He was educated at the Episcopal High School of Virginia. He served in the Confederate army, and rose from the ranks to a first lieutenancy. He graduated at the Theological Seminary of Virginia in 1888. He was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal ministry; was assistant to his father at St. James Church, Richmond, 1868-69; rector of St. Stephens Culpeper, 1869-73; and of Memorial Church, Baltimore, Maryland, 1873-78. He was made the first bishop of West Virginia in 1878, and in 1893 was given charge of the Protestant Episcopal mission in Brazil. He edited "Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia and West Virginia" in 1902. He married Constance Gardner, daughter of Cassius F. Lee, of Alexandria, Virginia.

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      Robinson, Conway, born at Richmond, Virginia, September 15, 1805, son of John Robinson and Agnes Conway Moncure, his wife. he was liberally educated, and gave his life to the law and to literary work, in which he displayed marked ability. He wrote and published, in 1826 and 1841, "Forms Adapted to the Practice in Virginia;" and from 1832 to 1839, "The Practice in the Courts of Law and Equity in Virginia." In 1842-44 he was reporter of the supreme court of appeals and general court of Virginia, and he published two volumes of reports. In 1848 he prepared for the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society "An Account of Discoveries in the West until 1519, and of Voyages to and along the Atlantic Coast of North America from 1520 to 1573." In 1849, he and John M. Patton prepared and published "The Code of Virginia, with the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States, and the Declaration of Rights and Constitution of Virginia," a volume of 1898 pages. In 1850 he published his "Views of the /constitution of Virginia." During the years 1854-74 he published his greatest work, "The Practice in Courts of Justice in England and the United States," in seven volumes. In 1882 he published the first volume of his "History of the High Court of Chancery and other Institutions of England," 1215 pages. He married, in 1836, Mary Susan Selden, daughter of Hon. Benjamin Watkins Leigh and Susan Colston, his wife. He died January 30, 1884.

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      Bell, Peter Hansborough, born in Culpeper, Virginia, May 18, 1812, son of Col. James M. Bell and Amelia Hansborough, his wife. He was educated in Virginia and Maryland. He went to Texas, and fought under Houston, and took part in the Mexican war as colonel of volunteers, under Gen. Taylor. In 1849 he was elected governor of Texas, was re-elected, and resigned to enter congress, in which he served two terms. He removed to North Carolina, and in the civil war was colonel of a regiment from that state, in the Confederate service. In 1891 the Texas legislature voted him a tract of land and a liberal pension in recognition of his services to the state during its war for independence. A number of his relics of war service in Texas and Mexico are preserved in the state capitol at Austin, Texas. He died April 20, 1898.

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      Lee, James Kendall, born at Richmond, Virginia, July 31, 1829, eldest son of Hancock Lee and Mary Henderson, his first wife. His early education was at private schools, and he afterwards graduated at Princeton College with the B. A. degree. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and had only fairly entered upon practice when the civil war broke out. He had the administration of the paternal estate, his father having died November 5, 1860. On the succession of Virginia, he tendered his services to Gov. John Letcher, who on April 16, 1861, appointed him captain in the First Virginia Regiment, and for which he had recruited a company for war service. On July 18 of the same year, only three months after he had entered the service, he fell with a severe wound, in gallantly leading his men in the first battle of Manassas, or Bull Run, and died on August 2 following. His untimely death was made the subject of sorrowful resolutions by the members of the Richmond bar. He was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church of Richmond, a teacher in its Sunday school, and an officer of the Young Men's Christian Association. He was unmarried.

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      Wise, Henry Alexander, Jr., born at "Onancock," Accomac county, Virginia, in August, 1834, son of Gen. and Gov. Henry Alexander Wise and Anne Eliza Jennings, his wife. He was a student for a year at the Virginia Military Institute, then entered William and Mary College, under the teachings of Bishop Johns. He next entered the Theological Seminary Alexandria, Virginia, and graduated in 1858, being ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church the same year. In 1859 he was ordained priest at St. James Church, Richmond. He entered upon ministerial work as assistant to Rev. Joshua Peterkin, D. D., and occasionally officiated at Hebron Church, Goochland county. He was soon called to the Church of Our Saviour, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was serving at the outbreak of the civil war. While he refrained from discussing political questions, his southern sympathies were known to his parishioners, and in deference to them, and in consonance with his own feelings, he preferred to return to his home in Virginia. He was assistant rector of St. James Church, Halifax county, 1864-66; rector at Harrisburg, in 1866; and of Christ Church, Baltimore, Maryland, from 1867 until his death, at Richmond, February 10, 1869.

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      Conway, Richard Moncure, born at Falmouth, Stafford county, Virginia, December 9, 1840, son of Walker Peyton Conway and Margaret Eleanor Daniel, his wife, daughter of Dr. John Moncure Daniel, U. S. A., and Margaret Stone, his wife. He was educated at the Fredericksburg Academy. In May, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Col. T. T. Clay's Fifth Texas Infantry Regiment; in 1862-63 served in Terry's Texas Rangers, and then in Capt. Maddox's Texas cavalry company until he was paroled, August 27, 1865; a part of his service was as drill master at Galveston, Texas. After the war, he engaged in farming and stock raising at "Conway Farm," Spottsylvania county, Virginia. He was a man of much natural enthusiasm, and deeply interested in politics. In 1887 he was appointed by President Cleveland to the United States consulship at Port Hope, Canada, and had just returned to his post after a brief visit to his home in Virginia, where he was suddenly stricken, and died, January 11, 1888. He married Katharine Littlepage Holladay, daughter of Harry Addison Holladay.

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      Bolen, David Winton, born at Fancy Gap, Carroll county, Virginia, August 17, 1850, son of William B. Bolen and Rebecca Morris, his wife. His great-grandfather, Benjamin Bohlen, a Baptist preacher, was of German descent, though born in this country. For a time the family lived in Pennsylvania, but about 1778 moved to North Carolina. William B. Bolen moved to Virginia, entered the Confederate service, and was killed in 1862. David W. Bolen assisted in the support of his mother, working in the fields as a farm hand until he was twenty years old. His school life extended in all to but thirteen months, and he was in large measure self-educated. He made good use of his evenings, and acquired a broad knowledge of the standard works in history and biography. His reading included Campbell's "Lives of the Chief Justices and Lord Chancellors," and when an opportunity came to him to study law with a practicing attorney, it decided his adoption of this profession. He was admitted to the bar in 1875, and soon attained success in his chosen profession. He was elected judge of the county court in 1879. He served in the sessions of 1883, 1885 and 1889 in the Virginia house of delegates. On March 1, 1890 he was made judge of the fifteenth circuit, but resigned in 1892. Judge Bolen has contributed short sketches and poems to the press, and lately has compiled his sketches into a history of Southwestern Virginia. In politics a Democrat, Mr. Bolen represented Carroll county in the constitutional convention of 1901-02, and was presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1904. He married, February 21, 1877, Nannie Early.

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      Stebbins, Joseph, born at Petersburg, Virginia, June 14, 1850, son of Joseph Stebbins, a merchant, and Mary Elizabeth Grundy, his wife, daughter of George Grundy, a soldier of the war of 1812. His education ended when he was thirteen years of age, by the death of his father, and the next year he became a salesman in a store at Black Walnut, Virginia. When fifteen years old, he had neither parents, sisters nor brothers. He engaged in mercantile business at South Boston, Virginia. Upon the organization of the Bank of South Boston, he became a director, and subsequently president; and later president of the firm of Stebbins, Lawson & Spraggins, a wholesale dry goods house. For some years he served as a member of the town council, and in 1901 he was elected to the constitutional convention from Halifax county, and in that body served on the committees on permanent organization, on county government, on finance, taxation and corporations. He married July 24, 1872, Willie S. Fourqurean.

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      Ballagh, James Curtis, born in Brownsburg, Virginia, son of Rev. James Ballagh and Margaret Tate, his wife. He was a student at Washington and Lee University, and later at the University of Virginia, which he was obliged to leave on account of impaired health. After several years absence in Europe, he returned, and entered John Hopkins University, from which he graduated A. B. (extra ordinem), in 1894, and the next year he received the degree of Ph. D. from the same institution, and in 1906 the LL. D. degree from the University of Virginia of Alabama. In 1891 he became connected with Tulane University as assistant professor of biology. In 1895 he became assistant instructor and associate in history in Johns Hopkins University; associate professor of American history, 1905-11, and professor of same from the latter year to the present time. He is the author of "White Servitude in the Colony of Virginia" (1895); a "History of Slavery in Virginia" (1905); also of numerous articles, principally on American history and slavery; and was the writer of "Southern Economic History" in "The South in the Building of a Nation." He married Josephine Jackson, of Baltimore.

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      Fairfax, Henry, born at Alexandria, Virginia, May 4, 1850, son of Col. John W. Fairfax and Mary Jane Rogers, his wife, is a descendant of Thomas Fairfax, who, upon coming to America from his English home in 1667, settled in Calvert county, Maryland. This locality was the family home until 1791, when the branch of which Henry Fairfax is a member came to Virginia. Col. John W. Fairfax was in the Confederate States army for the four years of the Civil war, was a member of the staff of Gen. James Longstreet, served as inspector-general with the rank of colonel, and was present at the Appomattox surrender. His wife was a daughter of Col. Hamilton Rogers, who won his military title through militia service prior to the war between the states. Col. Fairfax in 1852 became owner of the famous "Oak Hill" estate in Loudoun county, long the residence of James Monroe. Henry Fairfax attended a private school in Loudoun county, and while his father was absent in the army, worked on the home farm. He entered the Virginia Military Institute in 1867, and graduated in 1871. After leaving the Institute he was chainman with an engineering corps in Pennsylvania, after which he was employed in the eastern states, the west, and the middle west. In 1879 he accepted railroad contracts in Tennessee, soon afterward moving his headquarters to Roanoke, Virginia, and until 1887 was active in his profession in Virginia and West Virginia, executing contracts, among others, for the Norfolk & Western Railroad, the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad Company and other roads in the south and middle west. His first public service was as a member of the finance committee of the council of Roanoke City, Virginia. In 1890 he was elected to the Virginia state senate as the successor of Hon. Henry Heaton, who represented Fauquier and Loudoun counties. He served for eleven years as state senator. As chairman of the senate committee finance, he won much distinction. Loudoun county chose him as its representative in the constitutional convention of 1901-02, in which he was a member of the committee on taxation and finance. His colleagues on this committee, appreciating his superior talents, deferred greatly to his judgment, and at the time of the convention's adjournment he occupied the chairmanship of the committee. Mr. Fairfax was subsequently appointed to the state corporation commission, of which he was a member until his resignation in October, 1905, and his retirement from public life. He conducts a stock farm at his estate, "Oak Hill," in Loudoun county. His stock is of the highest grade and bear a wide reputation. In his manners and bearing Mr. Fairfax displays unaffected courtliness and dignity. He married, June 4, 1896, Eugenia Baskerville Tennant, of Richmond, Virginia, and has issue.

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      Zimmer, William Louis, born July 7, 1852, in Atlanta, Georgia, son of Rev. William I. Zimmer, of Swiss ancestry, and Julia Ellis Nimmo, his wife. Rev. William I. Zimmer prepared for the law, but later graduated from the Theological Seminary of Virginia, and was ordained a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal church, became the first rector of St. Philip's parish (now the Cathedral parish) of Atlanta, Georgia. His son, William Louis Zimmer, entered the University High School near Alexandria, then took a course in engineering, but at the age of eighteen years took a bank clerkship in Petersburg, Virginia. He became assistant cashier, held that position for several years, then resigned to engage in business as senior member of Zimmer & Company, which firm he organized in 1885 for the manufacture and exportation of tobacco, and in 1902 was incorporated with Mr. Zimmer as president. He was a director of the Petersburg Saving and Insurance Company, served as councilman, chairman of the board of police commissioners, member of the school board, trustee of the Bishop Payne Divinity School, and trustee of the Southern Female College. He was a vestryman of Grace Church, Episcopal, and for twenty years was treasurer of the parish, also representing his church in diocesan councils, and in 1901 was deputy to the general convention in San Francisco. He served several terms as director of the Young Men's Christian Association, of which he was one of the organizers. His other societies, and clubs are the Virginia Historical Society, the National Geographic Society, and the Riverside Country Club. He married, November 4, 1874, Julia Nimmo Howland, of Portsmouth, Virginia.

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      Bowles, William Anderson, born in Louisa county, Virginia, February 26, 1850, son of Augustus Knight Bowles and Elizabeth Blaydes Anderson, his wife. He had ancestors who earned distinction in the colonies — Maj. James Goodwin, who settled in York county, Virginia, in 1648, and was a member of the house of burgesses in 1658; John Ellis, who was at Varina, then the county seat of Henrico county, in 1683; and John Ellis, third of this name, who was vestryman of St. John's Church in Richmond, and who received a grant for five hundred acres of land from Gov. Alexander Spotswood. Mr. Bowles attended the schools of his native county, and was graduated from the University of Virginia in the class of 1873. He settled in the valley of Virginia, and there opened a Peabody graded school at New Hope, Augusta county, taught for five sessions, when he was elected principal of the high school at Staunton, which he filled until he became superintendent of the Staunton public schools two years later. After three years in this office he was offered the principalship of Leigh school in Richmond high school. In 1896 the Virginia Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind was reorganized, and he accepted the superintendency, which he is holding at the present time. He served as a member of the first state board of education under the Virginia constitution of 1902. Mr. Bowles married, May 13, 1884, Mrs. Martha Hope Jones, of Louisa county, Virginia.

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      McGuire, Francis H., born June 4, 1850, in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, son of the Rev. Francis McGuire and Mary Willing Harrison, his wife, through whom he was connected with the distinguished family of that name. He was educated in private schools, and at Randolph-Macon College. After leaving college he taught school several years, and entered the University of Virginia in 1871. In 1874 he began the practice of his profession in the city of Richmond, having for two terms taken the summer law course at the University of Virginia. Coming to Richmond without assistance, by his industry and good character he soon established the reputation of being an upright and honorable lawyer. He was one of the charter members of the Richmond Bar Association, and chairman of the executive committee. He was a student, not only of jurisprudence, but also of general literature. He married Miss Nolting, and left one daughter. He died October 30, 1894.

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      Burks, Martin Parks, LL. D., born at Liberty, now Bedford City, Bedford county, Virginia, January 23, 1851, son of Judge Edward Calohill Burks (q. v.). He commenced his education in the district schools in the vicinity of his home, then matriculated at Washington College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1870 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. At that time Gen. Robert E. Lee was president of this institution, which is now known as Washington and Lee University. He studied law at the University of Virginia, under the preceptorship of the well known legal instructor, John B. Minor; received the degree of Bachelor of Law in 1872, and on January 1, 1873, he engaged in the active practice as his father's partner. From that time until 1900 he practiced at Liberty, in Bedford county. He has held the position of reporter of the court of appeals since 1895, and in 1900 he was called upon to become professor of law in Washington and Lee University, and has been the capable incumbent of this office since that time. The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by Roanoke College, in appreciation of his reputation at the bar, and also in recognition of the value of a law book published by Mr. Burks in 1893, entitled "Property Rights of Married Women in Virginia." Mr. Burks married, December 31, 1874, Roberta Gamble Bell, and they have had two children.

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      Dunnington, Frencis Perry, born in Baltimore, Maryland, March 3, 1851, son of William Augustus Dunnington and Sarah Brice Keener, his wife. He was educated in the private schools of Baltimore, and at sixteen years old entered the University of Virginia, being graduated therefrom in 1872 with the degree of Civil Engineer and Bachelor of Science, and in 1873 with the degree of Mining Engineer. Immediately after his graduation he was elected adjunct professor in analytical and agricultural chemistry, a position which he filled with so much satisfaction that in 1884 he was elected full professor. In 1880 he was made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 1885 was secretary of one of the sections of that association. He is a member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the British Chemical Society. He has contributed much towards the advancement of science, to which he has devoted his life, and is an occasional contributor to the "American Chemical Journal," and other magazines of science. He has published a series of "Notes of Work by Students of Practical Chemistry in the Laboratory of the University of Virginia." In August, 1878, he married Marion Sterling Beale, of Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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      Cowardin, Charles O'Brien, born at Richmond, Virginia, October 23, 1851, died July 5, 1900, son of James Andrew Cowardin and Anna Maria Purcell, his wife. The first of the name to come to Virginia was Abraham Cowardin, from Cheshire, England, who settled in 1671 in Kent county, Maryland. Another ancestor, Jeremiah Strother, has a son William, whose life was spent in Stafford county, Virginia. James Andrew Cowardin founded the "Richmond Dispatch" and was well known in the field of journalism, and he served as a member of the Virginia house of delegates in 1853. He was the owner of a fine country home near Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, but subsequently purchased a farm on Grove road near Richmond, where he lived until the close of the war. Charles O'Brien Cowardin attended Weed's school in Richmond, and graduated in 1872 at Georgetown College, Washington, D. C., and a few years later received the degree of Master of Arts. He became a journalist under his father, and on the latter's death was made president of the Richmond Dispatch Company. He was a musician of much natural talent and acquired skill. For a long time he had charge of the choir of St. Peter's Cathedral in Richmond, was a leading spirit in the organization of the Mozart Association, and other musical corporations. He also acted in the capacity of director to a number of amateur opera companies. While a student in college in 1873, he was senor captain of the Georgetown College Cadets; and on account of his knowledge of military matters, he served successively as chief of staff for Govs. Lee, O'Ferrall, McKinney and Tyler. When Adjutant-Gen. Nalle took charge of a Virginia regiment during the Spanish-American war, Gen. Tyler solicited Col. Cowardin to accept the temporary appointment of acting adjutant-general of the state, which he retained until the return of Gen. Nalle. He was president and vice-president of the Westmoreland Club. Col. cowardin married (first) Kate Spotswood Evans, who died February 19, 1886, daughter of Col. Thomas J. Evans. He married (second) Anna Moale, daughter of Henry and Margaretta Moale, of Baltimore, Maryland.

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      Beckwith, Charles Minnegerode, born in Prince George county, June 3, 1851, son of Thomas Beckwith and Agnes Ruffin, his wife. He graduated at the University of Georgia in 1873, studied at the Berkeley Divinity School (S. T. D., 1903), and received the degree of D. D. from the University of the South. He was assistant professor of mathematics in the University of the South, 1874-76, and master of its grammar school, 1867-79. He was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal church, and held charged in Atlanta, Georgia; Houston and Galveston, Texas. He was consecrated bishop of Alabama in 1902. He published "The Trinity Course of Church Instruction;" "The Teacher's Companion to the Trinity Course," besides numerous sermons and addresses. He married Mary Belle Cameron, of Galveston, Texas.

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      Hamilton, Alexander, was born at Williamsborough, Vance county, at that time Granville county, North Carolina, March 18, 1851, a son of Robert Alston Hamilton, and his wife, Sarah Caroline Alexander; and a grandson of Patrick Hamilton, born at Burnside, Lanarkshire, Scotland, who came to America about 1800 accompanied by several of his brothers. Patrick Hamilton was a prosperous country merchant and planter, and the owner of an extensive estate. He married Mary, daughter of George Baskerville, of Mecklenburg, Virginia, a descendant of John Baskerville, who settled in Virginia about 1670, and was clerk of York county. Moses Alexander was his earliest American ancestor in the maternal line. He was sheriff of Mecklenburg county, and a Tory during the revolution. Nathaniel Alexander, grandfather of Alexander Hamilton, was an officer in the United States navy, serving with Commander Perry about 1812-14; later he was a planter, and served as a member of the Virginia senate. His brother, Mark Alexander, served as a member of congress from what is now the Fourth Virginia district from about 1815 to 1830, and was a member of the constitutionol convention of Virginia of 1829-30. Robert Alston Hamilton was a planter and country merchant in his earlier active career, and subsequently a merchant in Petersburg, Virginia. For some years between 1850 and 1860 he was president of the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad Company. His education had been acquired at Hampden-Sidney College and the University of North Carolina, and then resided in Petersburg, Virginia. He became a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute in 1868 and graduated in the class of 1871. While discharging the duties of assistant professor of Latin and tactics at the Virginia Military Institute in 1872-73, he studied law at Washington and Lee University, under Judge John W. Brockenbrough and the Hon. John Randolph Tucker, and graduated in June 7, 1873. He practiced law in Richmond, Virginia, one year, and then settled in Petersburg. He became president of a large bank in Petersburg, and counsel for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, and numerous other companies. He became president of the board of visitors of the Central Lunatic Asylum, now the Central State Hospital, and served three years. In 1901-02 he served as a member of the Virginia constitutional convention from Petersburg. At one time he was president of the Virginia State Bar Association.

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      Painter, Franklin Verzelius Newton, born at North River Valley, Hampshire county, Virginia, April 12, 1852, son of Israel Painter and Juliana Wilson, his wife. He attended public schools of Preston county, West Virginia, then entering Roanoke College, at Salem, Virginia. He took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1874 with the first honors, with the additional distinction of being awarded the medal in metaphysics. From Roanoke College he went to the Lutheran Theological Seminary, also located at Salem, graduating in 1878, and then passed several months in European travel and study. While he was a student at the Theological Seminary, Roanoke College in 1877 conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts, and in 1895, when he was in the midst of his life work, Pennsylvania College honored him with a D. D. Ordained into the Lutheran ministry in 1878, he was at the same time elected professor of literature and modern languages in Roanoke College, and for twenty-eight years was a member of the faculty, resigning in 1906 to devote his energies unreservedly to literature. His published works include: "A History of Education" (1886); "Luther on Education" (1889-90); "History of Christian Worship" (1891), in collaboration with Professor J. W. Richard; "Introduction to American Literature" (1897); "History of English Literature" (1900); "Lyrical Vignettes" (1900); "The Reformation Dawn" (1901); "The Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism" (1903); "Poets of the South" (1904); "Great Pedagogical Essays" (1905), and others of later date. Dr. Painter married, August 9, 1875, Laura Trimble Shickel, and has children.