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Lyon G. Tyler

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      Robert Alonzo Brock. To enumerate the activities of Mr. would require a volume, so long continued and valuable has been his public service. No historian of the future, writing of Richmond or Virginia, but will be indebted to him for painstaking, well-preserved search. He is passionately devoted to everything that bears upon the antiquity of the state, and no man of his day has done more to promote their investigation and study. Eleven volumes of the reports of the Virginia Historical Society bear his name as secretary of that society, as secretary of the Southern Historical Society his work has been valuable, and as historian and register of the Virginia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, he has rendered a service that will never be forgotten. As business man, antiquarian, historian and genealogist, his whole career has been connected with the city of Richmond, although since 1881 he has surrendered all other interests to devote himself to study and research among the records and antiquities of Virginia. He is a member of seventy of the learned societies of the United States and Europe, his reputation far overreaching state bounds. When Junin Winson was preparing his now standard reference work, "Narrative and Critical History of America," Mr. Brock was selected to write the chapters on Virginia. A notable feature of his work was his connection with the "Richmond Standard" as associate editor, 1879 to 1882.
      Robert Alonzo Brock was born in Richmond, Virginia, March 9, 1839, son of Robert King Brock, born 1801, and Elizabeth Mildred (Ragland) Brock, both of Hanover county, Virginia, paternal grandson of John Phillips Brock, maternal grandson of Fendall Ragland. The Raglands descend from John and Anne (Beaufort) Ragland, who came from Glamorganshire, Wales, in 1720, and settled in what is now Hanover county, Virginia, then a part of New Kent county. Robert King Brock was a prosperous merchant of Richmond, a man of noble and upright character, whose influence over his son was most beneficial. His wife was also a woman of strong character, and in the training of her son developed those traits that have been prominent in securing him recognition as the highest authority of Virginia antiquities, early history and family pedigrees.
      As a boy, Robert A. Brock was passionately fond of reading, and early developed a love of antiquities. At the age of thirteen he left school, entering the employ of uncles engaged heavily in the lumber business, using his wages in the purchase of books of various kinds. He later engaged in business for himself, but when war broke out between the states he enlisted in the First Company, Twenty-first Regiment Virginia Infantry, serving actively one year, being connected with Winder Hospital during the remainder of the cruel struggle. He returned to mercantile life after the war, engaging in the lumber business from 1865 to 1881 with considerable success. In 1875 he was elected corresponding secretary of the Virginia Historical Society, and in 1881 retired from business to devote himself entirely to study and research. In 1887 he was elected secretary of the Southern Historical Society, which position he yet retains. From 1879 to 1883 he was associate editor of the "Richmond Standard." He retired from the secretarial position he held in the Virginia Historical Society in 1893, but the eleven volumes of the reports of that society that he prepared will forever link his name with the society and perpetuated his fame among students of Virginia history. His work as secretary of the Southern Historical Society has been equally valuable, twenty-two volumes of its reports, and many of the otherwise unpublished details of the great civil war have been preserved by him in the society records. A wonderful, valuable collection of newspaper cuttings, relating to the war, has been preserved by Mr., by pasting them on substantial paper and binding in book form. The writings of Mr. Brock are many, chiefly historical and genealogical. The card index of the Virginia State Library devotes twenty-three cards to the enumeration of his books and pamphlets, while the "Richmond Standard" was enriched by his many contributions during his three years' associate editorship. His library is the envy and delight of historians and students of history, the term "book miser" having been applied to Mr. Brock by a witty friend. He has material, about ready, for a history of Virginia, and should such a history be issued in his thorough painstaking style, it will be of incalculable value. As historian and register of the Virginia Society, Sons of the American Princeton College, since its inception in 1880, he is now its secretary. His honorary membership in the William and Mary chapter of the famous Phi Beta Kappa Society was conferred in partial recognition of his abilities and invaluable service to his city and state. His membership in about seventy learned societies of the United States, Canada and Europe have been many of them conferred in recognition of his high standing. He is also a member of the Masonic order and is past worshipful master of his lodge.
      Mr. Brock married (first) April 29, 1869, in Richmond, Sallie Kidd Haw, born in Hanover county, Virginia, July 13, 1835, of English descent, died February 6, 1887, leaving two children: Elizabeth Carrington and Ann Beaufort. He married (second) Lucy Ann Peters, born in Richmond, December 15, 1855, daughter of Walter S. Peters, a merchant of Richmond, and his wife, Victoria (Jackson) Peters. Child by second marriage: Robert Alonzo (2), now a law student at Richmond College. The family home is No. 517 West Marshall street, Richmond.

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      William de Leftwich-Dodge, a native of Virginia, is descended from one of the oldest American families which located first in New England. This name has been traced to a remove period in England, and has been very widely distributed throughout the United States, beginning with the earliest settlement of the New England colonies. It has been distinguished in law and letters, in divinity, in war, in politics and in every leading activity of the human family, and is still identified with the progress of events in New England and other states. It has turned out from Harvard nineteen graduates, from Yale a dozen, from Dartmouth ten, from the University of Vermont ten, from Columbia College eight, Union College six, Andover Theological Seminary five, Bowdoin College five, University of Wisconsin five, Brown University three, Colby University three, Williams College two, and Middlebury College one. the records of the College of Heraldry in England show that a coat-of-arms was granted to Peter Dodge of Stockworth, county of Chester, in 1306, and later a patent to John Dodge, of Rotham, in the county of Kent, in 1546. It is declared that he was descended from Peter Dodge, of Stockworth. The name is found frequently in various sections of England, and in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries there were Dodges of honorable character sand connection in the counties of Cheshire, Kent, Norfolk and Down. On May 11, 1629, there sailed from the harbor of Yarmouth, England, the "Talbot," a vessel of three hundred tons, and the "Lion's Whelp," a neat and nimble ship of one hundred and twenty tons, and they arrived at Salem, Massachusetts, on the June 29 following. This marks the arrival of the first of the name of Dodge in America.
      described as "a fisherman formerly of new Foundland," was one of the fifteen heads of families who settled Block Island, politically described as the town of New Shoreham in the state of Rhode Island. He sailed from Taunton, Massachusetts, with the others in April, 1661, and received a grant of three acres of land, southeast of the harbor on Block Island. It is apparent that his occupation was that of a fisherman after his arrival there. as these small grants were made for the purpose of encouraging fisheries. He must have been a native of North England, as it is found that his sons came from that region near the river Tweed in 1667, and settled on Block Island, where they were made freemen, July 2, 1670. Tristram Dodge was made a freeman of the colony, May 4, 1664, and was a sergeant of the local militia in 1676. He was dead in 1720, at which time the records show his estate as intestate.
      William Dodge, fourth son of Tristram Dodge, was made a freeman in 7, 1670, in New Shoreham. He married Sarah, daughter of Peter and Mary George. Their son, Samuel Dodge, born September 9, 1691, settled about 1718 at Cow Neck, in the town of Hempstead, on Long Island. His will proved March 25, 1761, names his wife Elizabeth and several sons and daughters. The second son, Jeremiah Dodge, was born in May, 1716, and engaged in business in New York City. In 1745 a prayer meeting was held in his house, which resulted in the organization of the First Baptist Church in New York City. In 1753 this body occupied a rigging loft on William street, and purchased a lot on John street in 1760, on which a church was subsequently erected. Jeremiah Dodge married, October 6, 1737, Margaret Vanderbilt daughter of John and Margaret Vanderbilt, and descended from Aert Van Der Bilt, who lived in Utrecht, Holland. Jan Aertson (that is son of Aert) Van Der Bilt, came to America and was residing in New York as early as 1650. After 1663 he removed to Flatbush, and about thirty years later to Bergen, New Jersey, where he died February 2, 1705.
      John Dodge, eldest child of Jeremiah and Margaret (Vanderbilt) Dodge, was born February 22, 1739, probably in New York, and died April 13, 1816. He was a clergyman of the Baptist church located at Pleasant Valley, Dutchess county, New York. He married (third) October 13, 1777, Keziah Newcomb, born November 7, 1758, died February 1, 1814. By his three wives he had sixteen children, all but four being children of the third wife.
      The ninth of these, Cyrenus Newcomb Dodge, was born August 13, 1794, and died February 14, 1863. He married, January 1, 1817, Margaret Dodge, born October 23, 1787, died February 23, 1863, senior daughter of jeremiah (2) and Sarah (Frost) Dodge, and granddaughter of Jeremiah (1) Dodge, above mentioned. He was among the first founders of the First Baptist Church in New York. children of Cyrenus Newcomb Dodge: Sarah J., born October, 1817, married Charles B.Knudsen; Margaret, died two weeks old Margaret E., born March 25, 1822, married Joseph F. Florentine; William M., mentioned below.
      William Miner Dodge, youngest child of Cyrenus Newcomb Dodge, was born September 22, 1824, in New York city, and lived a long and useful life. While successfully engaged in business, he was fond of art and poetry, and during his school days exhibited considerable artistic talent. Of indomitable energy and optimistic nature, he compelled success with every undertaking, and was very kindly and thoughtful of others. from early life, until his death, he was a member of the Baptist church. In the early part of his life he was a ship owner of Lynchburg, Virginia, and from 1870 to 1880, resided in Chicago, engaged in the insurance business. In 1881 he removed to Brooklyn, New York, and died June 2, 1904, at Bryn Mawr Park, Yonkers, New York. He was often wont to quote poetry, and the following was one of his favorite stanzas:

      In youth's early morning; in manhood's firm pride;
      Let this be our motto, our footsteps to guide,
      In storm or in sunshine, whatever assail,
      We'll onward and conquer, and never say fail.

      William De Leftwich-Dodge was born March 9, 1867, in Liberty, Bedford county, Virginia, and inherited from his mother a rich artistic talent. In youth he attended the public schools of Chicago and Brooklyn, and also of Munich, Bavaria. He was also a student at the Brothers school in Paris, France. He began to receive lessons in the rudiments of art from his mother at the age of fifteen years. In 1881 he accompanied her, with the other children, to Munich, where she engaged in the study of art, and became a portrait painter of that place. He became a student in the Colasrissi School of Drawing from Life in Paris under Prof. Raphael Collin; after a rigid examination he passed number one among five hundred applicants for admission to the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, under Gèroeme. When but seventeen years of age, he painted "The death of Minnehaha," which received a gold medal at an American exhibition in 1889, and second and third prizes, and one first prize at Ecole des Beaux Arts. This painting was first sold for three thousand dollars and subsequently for five thousand dollars. It inspired a German composer to write a symphony on the death of Minnehaha. In 1889 he received third medal at the Paris Exhibition, and exhibited paintings in the Paris Salon in that and the following year. He also gave exhibitions in American art galleries in 1890. Few American artists have been awarded as many prizes at foreign exhibition as Mr. Dodge. His famous picture "David and Goliah" painted in Paris, was burned at the Old Guard Armory in New York. He painted the famous panorama of the great Chicago fire, which was exhibited for many years in that city. In 1892 he again went abroad to continue his studies in Paris. In 1897 his picture "Ambition" was exhibited there, and in 1901 he gave a series of exhibitions of his work in New York City, Chicago and St. Louis. Since that time he has been industriously at work in his studio in New York City, and has just completed a commission from the Panama Pacific International Exposition. He received the Chicago World's Fair medal in 1893. In that year he painted the dome of the Administration Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, and has since executed mural paintings, among which may be named the Northwest Corner Pavilion of the Library of Congress, which includes the painting "Ambition," above named; ceilings in private apartments of the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria in 1895; ceilings in the country home of Pierre Lorillard, Esq., 1899; frieze and entrances, Caf‚ Martin, New York, 1901; entrance, lunettes and curtain, Majestic Theatre, Boston; Keith's Theatre, 1902; frieze 180 by six feet in the lobby of King Edward Hotel, Toronto, Empire Theatre, New York, 1903; four paintings in lobby of Hotel Astor, New York, 1904; one hundred and thirty feet of frieze in Hotel Devon, New York; Union Exchange Bank, New York, all gilding and color scheme of ground floor and mural painting, 1905; ceilings in residence of Webb Horton, Middletown, New York; twelve mural paintings in the steamship "City of Cleveland"; east wall of caf‚ Hotel Algonquin, New York; mural paintings in Court House, Syracuse, New York; all mosaic designs for main lobby, Hall of Records, New York; four ceilings in auditorium, Hotel Annex, Chicago, 1906; Academy of Music, Brooklyn, all interior decorations, ten mural paintings, 1908; twelve large paintings in Caf‚ de L'Opere, New York, 1910; interior decorations, Winter Garden, New York; three mural paintings and color scheme, Folies Bergere, New York; Lowe's Theatre, New York; twenty-two mural paintings, steamship "City of Detroit"; fifteen mural paintings for steamship "Bee and See," of Detroit; eight panels for the residence of Prof. Michael Pupin, at Norfolk, Connecticut; eight panels in steamships for Holland & Harmsworth, on the Delaware river. Mr. Dodge is a member of the Players Club and Fencers Club and the Virginians of New York City.
      He married, March 31, 1897, Fanny Pryor, daughter of Hon. Roger A. Pryor, of Virginia and New York, judge of the Supreme Court of New York, and his wife, Sarah Agnes Rice. The latter is the author of "History of Jamestown, Virginia," and other works, illustrated by Mr. Dodge. Mrs. Dodge was born December 24, 1868, at Petersburg, Virginia, and is the mother of two children: Roger Pryor, born January 21, 1898, in Paris, and Sarah Pryor, July 12, 1901, in New York City.

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      Tench Francis Tilghman, "At a court holden for ye county of Kent," March 25, 1676, Mrs. Mary Tilghman, executrix of Richard Tilghman, obtained judgment against a debtor of her late husband.
      Dr. Richard and Mary Tilghman, previously mentioned, came to America in the year 1600 and settled at the Hermitage on Chester river, in Talbot, now Queen Anne county, Maryland. It is said that Dr. Richard Tilghman was one of the petitioners to have justice done upon Charles I. of England. Certain it is that one Richard Tilghman signed the petition and as Dr. Richard Tilghman had been a surgeon in the British navy and was at that period a parliamentarian, the signature in question was in all likelihood his. He was a descendant of Richard Tilghman, of Holloway Court, parish of Snodland, Kent, England, through his son Thomas, his son William (died August 27, 1541), his son Richard (died 1518), his son William (died 1594), his son Oswald, who was born October 4, 1579, died 1628, the father of Dr. Richard Tilghman, who came with his wife in 1661 in the ship "Elizabeth and Mary" to settle upon the tract of land on Chester river, granted him by Lord Baltimore in a patent dated January 17, 1659.
      Dr. Richard Tilghman, son of Oswald Tilghman, of London, England, was born September 3, 1626, died at the Hermitage, Queen Anne county, Maryland, January 7, 1675. He married Marie Foxley in England, who survived him more than twenty years. Three of his children, Samuel, Maria and William, were born in England, and two at the Hermitage, Deborah and Richard.
      Richard Tilghman (2), youngest son of Dr. Richard (1) and Marie (Foxley) Tilghman, was born February 23, 1672. He was one of the Lord Proprietors' Council, a zealous member of the established church, and when the second Chester church was built in 1697, he advanced the money for its erection, "the vestry engaging to reimburse him the necessary expenses." He married, in 1700, Anna Maria, third daughter of Colonel Philemon Lloyd, a member of the Maryland legislature, 1701 and 1702, a descendant of Edward Lloyd, a gentleman of conspicuous ability, commander of Anne Arundel county, commissioned by Govern or Stone, July 30, 1650, and for many years privy councillor of Maryland.

      James Tilghman, eighth child of Richard (2) and Anna Maria (Lloyd) Tilghman, was born at the Hermitage, December 6, 1716, died August 24, 1793. He studied law, practiced at Annapolis, moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, about 1760, and there was attorney to the lord proprietor, a member of Penn's council and secretary of the Proprietary Land Office of Pennsylvania. He retained the position of secretary until the revolution and reduced the work of the land office to a regular equitable system. He was chosen common councilman of Philadelphia, October 3, 1764, and qualified as a member of the provincial council, January 29, 1767. He was a loyalist, but liberal in his views condemning many of the acts of parliament but remaining loyal to the King. He was placed under parole when the British approached Philadelphia, and on August 31, 1777, was granted permission to visit his family in Maryland, and return within a month. Before that time expired the British had occupied Philadelphia, so he remained in Chesterton and on March 16, 1778, he was discharged from parole. He died August 24, 1793. He married September 30, 1743, Anne Francis, who died December 18, 1771, daughter of Tench Francis, of "Fausley," Talbot county, Maryland, clerk of the county court, 1726-34, attorney-general of Pennsylvania, 1741-55, recorder of Philadelphia, 1750-55, son of Rev. John Francis, D. D., dean of Lismore and uncle of Sir Philip Francis, K. C. B., reputed author of the "Junius Letters." Her mother Elizabeth, daughter of Foster Turbutt, of Maryland, married Tench Francis, December 29, 1724.
      Colonel Tench Tilghman, eldest of the ten children of "Councillor" James and Anne (Francis) Tilghman, was born at "Fausley," the maternal home in Talbot county, Maryland, December 25, 1744. He prepared under the direction of his grandfather, Tench Francis, and was graduated at the College of Philadelphia, in 1761. He engaged in mercantile business in Philadelphia with an uncle, Tench (2) Francis, and had acquired a comfortable competence prior to the outbreak of the revolution. He at once closed up his business, and as captain of a volunteer company joined the army of Washington. He served throughout the war and participated in many battles. In August, 1775, he was secretary to the congressional commission to treat with the northern Indian. In 1776 he was attached to the "Flying Camp," and in August of that year became aide-de-camp to General Washington, serving as such for five years, mostly without pay, enjoying the friendship and confidence of his commander-in-chief. On May 30, 1781, he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel to rank from April 1, 1777. He continued with Washington until Yorktown and was the messenger sent with news of the surrender to Congress at Philadelphia. He arrived in Philadelphia at midnight, October 23, 1781, sought out the house of Mr. McKean, president of Congress, and awakened him, uttered words which, echoed by a watchman, brought the people from their beds to rejoice at the glad tidings. Congress on October 29, following, voted Colonel Tilghman a horse and caparisons and a sword. After the army disbanded he located in Baltimore and resumed commercial life, having as partner Robert Morris, of Philadelphia. He died April 18, 1786, and was eulogized by his friend and commander, Colonel Washington, as leaving "as fair a reputation as ever belonged to a human character." He married, June 9, 1783, his cousin, Anna Maria Tilghman, born July 17, 1755, died January 13, 1855, daughter of Matthew Tilghman, a member of the Continental Congress, and his wife, Anna (Lloyd) Tilghman. Children: Ann Margaretta, see forward; Elizabeth Tench, married Nicholas Goldsborough.
      Ann Margaretta Tilghman, eldest daughter of Colonel Tench and Anna Maria (Tilghman) Tilghman, died prior to 1835. She married Tench Tilghman, of Hope, born April 18, 1782, died April 16, 1827, son of Colonel Peregrine Tilghman and his wife, Deborah, daughter of Colonel Robert Lloyd, of Hope, the latter a descendant of Captain Philemon Lloyd, the former a descendant of Richard and Anna Maria (Lloyd) Tilghman, of the Hermitage.
      General Tench Tilghman, son of Tench and Ann Margaretta (Tilghman) Tilghman, was born March 25, 1810, died in Baltimore, in December, 1874. He was a graduate of West Point county Military Academy, class of 1832, served in the Black Hawk war and resigned from the army, November 30, 1833, afterwards becoming major general of Maryland militia. He was commissioner of public works, Maryland, 1841-1851, United States Consul at Mayagues, Porto Rico, 1849-1850, collector of customs at Oxford, Maryland, 1857-1860, and was also president of the Maryland and Delaware Railroad. In 1861, when war broke out between the states, he cast his fortunes with the south and enlisted in the confederate army, serving with honor. He married (first) in November, 1832, Henrietta Maria, daughter of John Leeds Kerr, United States Senator from Maryland, and his first wife, Sarah Hollyday Kerr, daughter of Samuel Chamberlaine. He married (second) May 1, 1851, Anna Maria, daughter of Robert Lloyd and Henrietta Maria (Forman) Tilghman. Children, all by first marriage: Tench Francis, of further mention; William Arthur, died in 1853; John Leeds, born September 30, 1837, died aged twenty-seven years, a gallant and efficient officer of the Confederacy; Oswald, deceased, a lawyer of Easton, Maryland, married Martina Martin; Anna Maria, died young; Ella Sophia; Henrietta Kerr, married John Richard Burroughs; Rosalie, married Thomas Shreve; Ann Margaretta; Sarah Chamberlain.

      Tench Francis Tilghman, eldest son of General Tench Tilghman and Henrietta Maria (Kerr) Tilghman, born September 25, 1833, died in 1868. He was a civil engineer by profession, but his career as an engineer was hardly begun ere it was interrupted by four years' service in the Confederate army and his death soon after the close of the war. When Richmond was evacuated he was in command of the personal escort of President Davis. He married (first) Anna, daughter of Dr. C. C. Cox. He married (second) Elizabeth Barron camp, of Norfolk, Virginia, daughter of George Washington and Elizabeth Barron (Armistead) Camp, the latter a descendant of Captain James Barron, of the United States navy, who died April 21, 1851. Children of second marriage: Fannie Barron; Tench Francis, of further mention.
      Tench Francis Tilghman, of Norfolk, Virginia, the fifth of his direct line to bear the name "Tench," was born in Norfolk, June 1, 1868, son of Tench Francis Tilghman and his second wife, Elizabeth Barron (Camp) Tilghman. He was educated in the public schools and Norfolk Academy. He spent his first year after graduation in the employ of Burruss, Son & Company, bankers of Norfolk, and in 1883 entered the service of the Citizens' Bank of Norfolk and is now completing his thirty-first year with that well known financial institution. He began as messenger boy and has passed through every grade of promotion to his present position, vice-president and cashier. He has won his way upward through merit and is a man highly regarded in financial circles. He is a member of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, an Independent in politics and finds relaxation from business cares at the Country Club, of which he is a member.
      Mr. Tilghman married, at the Norfolk Naval Yard, April 29, 1903, Florence, daughter of Robert Wiley Milligan, of the United States navy. Robert W. Milligan was made third assistant engineer, August 3, 1863, second assistant engineer, July 25, 1866, past assistant engineer, March 25, 1874, chief engineer, May 16, 1892, and on March 3, 1899, his rand was changed to commander. He was chief engineer of the battleship "Oregon," when that ship made her memorable run from the Pacific to the West Indies during the Spanish war in 1898. Commander Milligan married Sarah A. Dubois. Child of Tench Francis and Florence (Milligan) Tilghman: Tench Francis (6), born in Norfolk, March 17, 1904.

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      Edward Carrington Stanard Taliaferro, M. D., The Taliaferro family early settled in Virginia, where they were land and slave owners. The will of Charles Taliaferro of St. Mary's parish, Caroline county, Virginia, dated March 2, 1734, gives to wife Mary, three hundred acres of the tact on which they lived, with seven slaves, household goods and live stock. To granddaughters he also bequeathed lands and slaves. Richard Taliaferro was an early settler of Gloucester county, where his daughter Martha married, in 1711, Thomas Turner, the first of this line in Virginia. Taliaferros served with distinction in the revolution and the family have ever been prominent in Virginia, and eminent in the professions. Edward C. S. Taliaferro was born in Gloucester, Virginia, December 17, 1874, son of General William Booth and Sally (Lyons) Taliaferro.
      General William Booth Taliaferro, was born in Belleville, Gloucester county, Virginia, December 28, 1822, son of Warner T. and Fanny (Booth) Taliaferro, and a descendant of Robert Taliaferro, gent., first of the name in Virginia, in 1655, who married a daughter of Rev. Charles Grymes.
      William Booth Taliaferro was liberally educated, being a student at Harvard University, then at the college of William and Mary, from which he was graduated in 1841. He studied law, but was soon drawn to a military career. On April 9, 1847, he was appointee captain in the Eleventh Regiment United States Infantry, for service during the Mexican war. On August 12, same year, he was promoted to major and assigned to the Ninth Infantry. On August 26, 1848, he was mustered out of service, the war being over, and resumed the practice of his profession, in which he was successfully engaged until again drawn to military life. In May, 1861, within a few days after the beginning of the war between the states, he was commissioned colonel in the provisional army of Virginia, and was placed in command of the troops at Gloucester Point, Virginia. He took part in the battle of Carrick's Ford, Virginia, July 13, 1861. On March 4, 1862, he was promoted to brigadier-general, and served in the army of northern Virginia until March, 1863, when he was placed in command of the district of Savannah, Georgia. He was among the most active of the defenders of Charleston and its dependencies, commanding the first division, first military district, during the siege; commanding the garrison of Morris Island in July, 1863, and the garrison on James Island in the following month. In February, 1864, he commanded a division in Florida; the seventh military district of South Carolina in May, 1864, and the entire district of South Carolina, December, 1864. He was promoted to major-general, January 1, 1865, and comanded a division until peace was restored.
      After this brilliant military career, General Taliaferro resumed his law practice. He was active in political and educational affairs and wielded a potent influence throughout the state. He was an efficient member of the state assembly and a presidential elector, elected to both positions as a Democrat. In 1892 he was chosen judge of Gloucester county, and until h is death displayed signal ability as a jurist. He was president of Fairview Normal School, and also a member of the board of directors of the Virginia Military Institute. In 1876-1877 he was grandmaster of the Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Virginia. General Taliaferro died in Belleville, Virginia, February 27, 1898.
      General Taliaferro married, in 1856, Sally Lyons, of Richmond, Virginia, born in 1825, died in 1899. Children: Leah Sedden; Judge James Lyons, of Gloucester, Virginia; Warner Throgmorton Langbon, professor in Agricultural College, College Park, Maryland, married Emily Johnson; George Withe Booth; Fannie, died aged twelve years; Mary Heningham Lyons, married Harry Osborne Sanders; William Churchill Lyons, married Mabel Scleter, and has children: Mary S. and William L.; Edward C. S., of whom further.
      Dr. Edward C. S. Taliaferro was early educated and prepared for college under private tutors. He then entered the historic William and Mary College, whence he was graduated with the class of 1895. Having chosen medicine as his profession he entered the Medical College of Virginia, receiving his degree M. D. with the class of 1898. After serving a term as interne at St. Vincent's Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia, he engaged in private practice until 1902, after which he went abroad and spent a year in Vienna, taking post-graduate courses in surgery. He then returned to Norfolk and resumed practice, but prefers surgery and so far as possible makes that line of practice a specialty. He is chief of the Medical Clinic of St. Vincent's Hospital; was for four years assistant health commissioner of the city of Norfolk; president of the Norfolk County Medical Society; member of the American Medical Association, and formerly belonged to many of the social clubs of the city. His skill as a surgeon is fully recognized and his large practice in both medicine and surgery fully occupies his time to the exclusion of other interests. He is very popular and a warm friend of the children, who in turn are his devoted friends. He is prominent in the Masonic Order, belonging to Lodge, Chapter, Council, Commandery and Shrine, and is an Elk. In religious faith he is an Episcopalian and has served as vestryman of St. Paul's Church. In politics he is a Democrat.
      Dr. Taliaferro married, November 10, 1908, Alice Serpell, daughter of Goldsborough and Georgianna (Clark) Serpell, of Maryland. Children: Georgianna, born August 24, 1909; William Booth (2), born December 2, 1910; Alice Serpell, born February 5, 1912.

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      David Tucker Brooke. Descendant of a line whose members, while gaining honored prominence in all walks of life upon which they entered, were conspicuously brilliant at the bar and upon the bench, David Tucker Brooke, in the forty years of his legal career, worthily upheld the reputation attained for the family by his forbears, and as an attorney and jurist displayed the force and power that made his ancestors the legal lights of their day.
      The Brooke family is one of those families of the English gentry who early came to the Virginia colony, impelled, not by religious persecution, but by that mingled desire for adventure and for more land that has been an English characteristic since the days of the Vikings. Bearing patents of land from the crown they were free to choose where they would locate, and adventure was plentiful with the Powhatan confederacy, dominant for two or three generations after the death of Powhatan himself. The old motto of the commonwealth, En, dat Virginia quintum, "Lo, Virginia gives a fifth dominion," fitly expresses the patriotic loyalty to the old home and pride in the new that characterized these colonists.
      (I) William Brooke, the immigrant, came to the New World in 1621, settling in the Virginia colony, then under the control of the London Company. the journey was made in the "Temperance." He selected for his plantation a region on the Rappahannock river since known as Essex county, Virginia.
      (II) Robert Brooke, probably the son of William Brooke, was born in Essex county, Virginia, 1652, and probably died on the Brooke estate. He served as clerk of Essex county. He married Catherine Booth, and they were the parents of a son, Robert, of whom further.
      (III) Robert (2) Brooke, son of Robert (1) Brooke, was one of that famous company called the "Knights of the Golden Horshoe," who, led by the celebrated and chivalric Governor Alexander Spotswood started in 1716 from Williamsburg to cross the Blue Ridge mountains, then the furthest frontiers of the English civilization on the continent. An account of this expedition belongs to general history, but the small golden horseshoes given by Governor Spotswood to members of the party in commemoration, with their appropriate motto Sic juvat transcendere montes, are still cherished by the descendants of the knights of the famous adventure. Robert Brooke married and among his children was a son Richard, of whom further.
      (IV) Richard Brooke, youngest son of Robert (2) Brooke, moved up the Rappahannock river to Smithfield, on the same side of the river. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Francis Taliaferro, of Spottsylvania, West Virginia. Among his children was John Taliaferro, of whom further, and his twin brother, Francis Taliaferro. Three of the sons of Richard Brooke served in the revolutionary army and one son in the United States navy under the celebrated Paul Jones.
      (V) John Taliaferro Brooke, son of Richard Brooke, was born August 27, 1763, at Smithfield, an old family estate on the Rappahannock river four miles before Fredericksburg, and died on his estate, Millvale, in Stafford county, West Virginia, in 1822, aged fifty-nine years. He studied for the legal profession and practiced it for a time in Fredericksburg, but later retired to his plantation, where he spent the remainder of his days. For many years he sat on the bench of the county, serving also for many years as justice of the peace. He served as first lieutenant of artillery in the revolutionary war, at the age of eighteen, and in recognition of his gallant conduct at the battle of Eutaw was promoted to brigade major of the park of artillery by Charles Harrison, who commanded it, and was invited by him to live with him "in the same marquee to the end of the war." He married Anne Mercer, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Cary) Selden, of Salvington, Stafford county, Virginia. They were the parents of five children, three of whom attained adult age, namely: Samuel Selden, married Angelina Edrington; Francis John, killed on Christmas Day, 1837, at the battle of Okeechobee, Florida, in the Seminole Indian war; Henry Laurens, of whom further. The family were members of the Episcopal church, Mr. Brooke being a vestryman of the parish.
      (VI) Henry Laurens Brooke, son of John Taliaferro Brooke, was born at Millvale, in Stafford county, Virginia, July 16, 1808, died in Charles Town, West Virginia, in 1874, at Rion Hall, the home of his son-in-law, Judge Daniel B. Lucas. He was educated by private tutors until he was seventeen years old, when he went to private schools in Richmond. He took up the study of law and practiced in Richmond until after the civil war, when he removed to Baltimore, Maryland, where he practiced for a few years, after which he removed to Charles Town, West Virginia, where his death occurred. He was an advocate learned in the law, fearless in the championship of the right, and gained honor and distinction through capable service in public office. He was for many years commonwealth attorney for Richmond, and was the incumbent of several civil positions under the confederate states government. He was an old line Whig in political faith, and a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church. He married Virginia, daughter of Judge Henry St. George and Ann Evelina (Hunter) Tucker. She died in Richmond, Virginia, in the fall of 1863, aged forty-seven years. She was a member of the Presbyterian church. Children: 1. Evelina Tucker, born July 20, 1838; married Judge Daniel B. Lucas, for many years a judge in West Virginia courts. 2. Anne Selden, born June 10, 1840; married, December 5, 1867, James Fairfax McLaughlin, died 1904. 3. Virginia Dandridge, born June 3, 1842, died 1845. 4. St. George Tucker, born July 22, 1844; married, August 15, 1882, Mary Harrison, daughter of Thomas A. and Anne (Washington) Brown, of Charles Town, West Virginia. 5. John Taliaferro, born June 9, 1846, died July 20, 1846. 6. Francis John, born December 24, 1847; married, November 25, 1880, Elizabeth Gay Bentley, who died August 11, 1903. 7. Virginia Tucker, born July 26, 1850, died July 1, 1865. 8. David Tucker, of whom further. 9. Elizabeth Dallas, born February 6, 1854. 10. Henry Laurens, born October 3, 1856; married Mrs. Mary Johnson. 11. Laura Beverly, born April 21, 1860; married Everett Wade Bedinger.
      (VII) David Tucker Brooke, son of Henry Laurens Brooke, was born in Richmond, Virginia, April 28, 1852. After studying for a time under private instruction he matriculated at the University of Virginia, pursuing a classical course during the terms of 1870 and 1871. In 1873 he removed to Norfolk, Virginia, where he became a school teacher, at the same time studying law under the preceptorship of Tazewell Taylor, and in the following year was admitted to the bar. Until 1880 he retained his pedagogical position, resigning then to devote himself entirely to his practice, with such remarkably good effect that four years later he was elected judge of the corporation court of Norfolk. For eleven years he presided over the proceedings of this court, issuing opinions in numerous cases of importance, each impressive because of their decisive quality and the profound knowledge of the law they indicated. In 1895 he resigned this office to resume his private practice. This extended to all the state and federal courts of his district, and he likewise tried cases in North Carolina. In the constitutional convention of 1901 and 1902 Mr. Brooke's services were placed at the disposal of the state, and in the weighty deliberations of that assemblage he took active part. He was a member of the bar associations of Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia, and was likewise a member of a Greek letter fraternity to which he was elected while a student at college. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the Norfolk Academy. The time that Mr. Brooke could secure from his professional duties was spent in his home, for in his family he found a delight and pleasure unrivalled by the attractions of club or social life. His political allegiance was accorded the Democratic party. He was a member of the second Presbyterian Church. David Tucker Brook died March 28, 1915, at his home, No. 514 Warren Crescent, and the interment took place in Forest Law Cemetery.
      Mr. Brooke married, April 7, 1880, Lucy B., daughter of Ignatius and Jane (Drummond) Higgins, of Norfolk, Virginia. Children: 1. Lucy Drummond, born in 1881; became the wife of William Hubert Witt; children: David Tucker and William A. 2. Eloise Minor, born in 1882. 3. Henry Laurens, born in 1884; graduate of law department of University of Virginia, class of 1907, now practicing with is father, firm of Brooke & Brooke. 4. May Walton, born in 1886. 5. Lena Randolph, born in 1888. 6. Marguerita Custis, born in 1896.