Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography

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Addams Stratton McAllister, E. E., Ph. D. Mr. McAllister is descended from some of the oldest and best American families, his paternal line coming originally from Scotland. The first of the name now known was Hugh McAllister, who came of Scotch parentage, and emigrated from Ireland to America about 1730, settling in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. His wife was a Miss Harbison, and they had children: Mary, Nancy, Jane, Eleanor, John, Hugh, Elizabeth, and William. All the sons settled in North America. The second, Major Hugh McAllister, was born in 1736 in Pennsylvania, and enlisted in the French and Indian war at the age of twenty-two year. He was in Captain Forbes' company under George in 1755 in the expedition to Fort Duquesne. He married Sarah Nelson, of Lancaster county, who came in infancy from northern Ireland with her parents, both of whom died on shipboard. They settled on a small farm in Sherman's Valley, Pennsylvania, which he sold about 1761, and removed to Lost Creek Valley, in the same state. He served in Pontiac's war in 1763, and was successively sergeant, lieutenant and captain in the army of the revolution. He was commissioned major of the Seventh Battalion of Militia in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, May 1, 1783. He was hospitable, religious, public-spirited and progressive. He died September 22, 1810, surviving his wife more than eight years. She died July 7, 1802. By will his homestead was bequeathed to his fourth son, William McAllister, mentioned below.
Judge William McAllister, as he was known, was born in August, 1775. He was paymaster of the Eighty-third Pennsylvania Regiment in the war of 1812 and on March 4, 1842, was appointed one of the two associate judges of Juniata county. He was a man of fine appearance, was energetic, hospitable and uncompromising, and for forty years was a trustee of Lost Creek Presbyterian Church. He died December 21, 1847. He married, November 2, 1802, Sarah Thompson, born 1783, daughter of William and Jane (Mitchell) Thompson. William Thompson, born 1754, died 1813, participated in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown during the revolution. He was a son of John Thompson, a Scotch covenanter who came from Ireland to Chester county, Pennsylvania, about 1730.

Thompson McAllister, son of Judge William McAllister, was born August 30, 1811, on the old homestead in Lost Creek Valley, and settled near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, his farm being known as "Spring Dale." He was a member of the Pennsylvania legislature in 1848, and in December, 1849, removed to Covington, Alleghany county, Virginia, where he had purchased a tract of two thousand, two hundred acres, the larger portion of which is still held by the river from Covington he built, in 1856-1857, his homestead, known as "Rose Dale." He was closely associated with his brother Robert in business enterprises, a well as in military service, and as partners under the style of T. McAllister & Company, they built section eighteen between the Lewis and Alleghany tunnels on what is now the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, seventeen miles west of Covington, Thompson McAllister having charge of the work. At that time Robert was living in New Jersey, and at the opening of the civil war he tendered his military services to the state, while Thompson was loyal to Virginia. In March, 1861, the latter raised, and largely at his own expense, equipped the first volunteer company for the impending war in that part of Virginia, and was made its captain. this became Company A of the Twenty-seventh Virginia Infantry of the original Stonewall brigade. Captain McAllister was the oldest member of the company, and his son William the youngest. In the second charge at the battle of Manassas he led his broken regiment and contributed largely to the confederate victory of that day. His brother Robert, then a colonel, afterwards general, commanded the First New Jersey in the same battle. On account of business interests, and also through an attack of camp fever (furlough having been denied), Captain McAllister resigned August, 1861. In the fall of the same year he was placed in command of all the home guards and reserves in the Alleghany section, continuing this service until the close of the war. For nearly twenty years he was a ruling elder in the Covington Presbyterian Church. He died at "Rose Dale," March 13, 1871. He married, February 14, 1839, Lydia Miller Addams, of Millerstown, Pennsylvania, descended from an old and conspicuous family of that state. The records of William Penn's colony show that on December 22, 1681, he deeded five hundred acres to Robert Adams of Ledwell, Oxfordshire, England. The will of Robert Adams, made July 27, 1717, refers to his brother Walter Adams. The latter was the ancestor of Mrs. Thompson McAllister. Walter Adams lived in Oxford township, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, and his son, Richard, of Providence township, same county, married Elsie Withers, at Christ Church, Philadelphia, December 22, 1726. Their son, William Addams, founded Adamstown, Pennsylvania, near the site of Adamstown. He was accustomed to spell his name with two d's, and this has been adhered to by his descendants. Early in life he settled in Berks county, Pennsylvania, and subsequently moved to Reading, same state, where he was a merchant. From 1777 to 1800 he was a county commissioner of Berks county; was a member of the state legislature in 1804-1805, and captain of the Fourth Company of Associators in the Ninth Battalion, commanded by Colonel John Huber. With this company he went to New Jersey in August, 1776, and remained with Washington's army until early in 1777. He died at Reading, April 11, 1809. He married at New Holland, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1776, the widow of his brother William, Barbara (Ruth) Addams, born January 8, 1741, died in Reading, October 5, 1832, daughter of Peter Ruth. Abraham Addams, youngest of the six sons of Isaac Addams, was born March 12, 1786, in Adamstown, and was a merchant in Reading as a young man. About 1811 he removed to Perry county, Pennsylvania, and purchased the land on which Millerstown is built. He was prominent in religious, business and social matters of the town and county, and was thrice married. His first wife, Lydia, was the second daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Feather) Miller. She was the mother of Lydia Miller Addams, who became the wife of Thompson McAllister, as previously noted.
Abraham Addams McAllister, son of Thompson and Lydia Miller (Addams) McAllister, was born August 25, 1841, at "Rose Dale." He received a fair education, but the civil war prevented his completing a college course. He continued to reside at "Rose Dale." When his father entered the military service he was placed in charge of affairs at home. After his father's return to take care of his business, which had been badly broken up by dishonest employees, the son entered the military service, serving from 1862 to 1865 in Bryan's Battery, Thirteenth Battalion Virginia Artillery, in which he was successively gunner and sergeant. He participated in much fighting, and was within sight of the national capitol for about two days. The only engagement of his battery in which he did not participate was that of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864, when he was home on sick leave. Following the war ensued a condition of great distress and business depression through Virginia, and both Sergeant McAllister and his father were active in assisting the needy and in improving the roads and other conditions about them. Soon after the war Mr. McAllister became a magistrate, and served until 1866, when the civil government was replaced by military rule. This lasted for about two years, and during this time Mr. McAllister resided at Malden. In May, 1866, he returned to "Rose Dale" and soon after occupied "White Hall," which was constructed for him by Mr. McAllister's father. In the spring of 1866, he pursued a business course at Bryant and Stratton's College in Cincinnati, and soon after took charge of the business affairs of the estate of his father. When the latter died in 1871, Sergeant McAllister was made manager of the estate by his father's will, and thus continued for five years, paying off war debts of more than twenty thousand dollars. By the division of the estate, A. A. McAllister came into possession of a tract including the present paper mill, the Rose Dale tract, and lands lying on both sides of the creek. In 1884 he rented the mill property in partnership with John W. Bell, and for six years they operated it, after which it was sold. In 1891 they purchased the mill from the new owners, and in 1909 the property passed into the hands of a corporation known as the Covington Roller Mills. In 1876 Mr. McAllister became a merchant in Covington, with a partner, and continued to be interested in it until 1902. In the meantime he had purchased an estate and another of forty-one acres, on which the greater part of East Covington has been built. He also made extensive purchases of farming lands, and operated about six hundred acres east of and near Covington. His total holdings amounted to 2,282 acres, about the same as his father's holdings when he located in Virginia. He platted an addition to Covington, on which were built attractive homes. He was instrumental in securing paper and pulp mills, the largest industry at Covington, and one of the largest mills of the kind in the south. He sold the land for the mills and accompanying buildings at a very low figure, in order to secure the location of the industry here, and his public spirit has been rewarded by the appreciation of his own property, as well as that of his neighbors. He has also been instrumental in securing other industries for Covington, and will long be remembered as one of the chief benefactors of the town. He assisted in the organization of the Covington National Bank, of which he was vice-president from 1900 until he was made president in 1908, continuing thus to 1912.
He married, May 10, 1865, Julia Ellen Stratton, who was born in Malden, Kanawha county, Virginia, daughter of Joseph Dickinson and Mary Ann (Buster) Stratton. The Stratton ancestry has been traced to England through Edward (1) Stratton, of Bermuda Hundred, whose son Edward (2) Stratton, married Martha, daughter of Thomas Shippey. Their son, Edward (3) Stratton, married Ann, daughter of Henry Batte, and they were the parents of Thomas Stratton, who married Elizabeth Elam. Their son, Henry Stratton, was lieutenant in the naval service during the revolution, and married Sarah Hampton. They were the parents of Archibald Stratton, who married Edna Dickinson, and were the parents of Joseph Dickinson Stratton, who married October 30, 1832, Mary Ann Buster. Their daughter, Julia Ellen, graduated with honor at the Virginia Female Institute at Staunton, Virginia, in 1875, being especially distinguished in vocal and instrumental music. She won a medal in 1855 for scholarship and deportment, and for music in 1856.
Addams Stratton McAllister, son of Abraham Addams and Julia Ellen (Stratton) McAllister, was born February 24, 1875, at Covington, Virginia. He received his preliminary education in the public schools of that town. In 1894 he entered the Pennsylvania State College, from which he received the degree B. S. in 1898, and subsequently that of E. E. During his college course he spent one summer in the shops of the Covington Machine Company, where he gained practical experience, and also spent two summers with a civil engineering corps doing local railway and other surveying. From July, 1898, to August, 1899, he was engaged with the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company at Windbar, Pennsylvania, where he obtained practical experience in operating electric locomotives, and the following year was spent in the factory of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company at East Pittsburgh, where he gained further knowledge relating to manufacturing details of direct-current and alternating-current machinery. He took a post-graduate course in electric engineering at Cornell University, and received a degree of M. M. E. in 1901. In 1905 the degree of Ph. D. was conferred upon him by Cornell. From 1901 to 1904 he was successively assistant and instructor in physics and applied electricity at Cornell, and in 1904 was acting assistant professor of electrical engineering there. From 1905 to 1912 he was associate editor of the "Electrical World," an engineering journal, of which he is now editor-in-chief. Since 1909 Dr. McAllister has been professorial lecturer on electrical engineering at the Pennsylvania State College. He was the first to expound and formulate the application of the law of conservation in illumination calculations (1911). To him is due the credit for the development of simplified circle diagrams of single-phase and polyphase induction motors and synchronous motors and the absorption-of-light method of calculating illumination. He has been granted patents for alternating-current machinery under dates of 1903, 1904, 1906 and 1907. Dr. McAllister has lectured on subjects pertaining to his special line of work before the Cornell Electrical Society, the New York Electrical Society, the Columbia University Electrical Society, the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute Electrical Engineering Society, the Franklin Institute, and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author of "Alternating-Current Motors" (1906), used as a text-book in many of the leading engineering schools, and of chapters on "Transformers" and "Motors" in the "Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers." He has been a voluminous contributor on engineering subjects to the technical press, embracing about one hundred original articles, the most important being: "Complete Commercial Test of Polyphase Induction Motors Using One Wattmeter and One Voltmeter" (1902); "Excitation of Asynchronous Generators by Means of Static Condensance" (1903; "Asynchronous Generators" (1903); "A Convenient and Economical Electrical Method for Determining Mechanical torque" (1904); "Simple Circular Current Locus of the Induction "Motor" (1906); "The Exciting Current of Induction Motor" (1906); "Simple Circle Diagram of the Single-phase Induction Motor" (1906); "Magnetic Field in the Single-phase Induction Motor" (1906); "Circular Current Loci of the Synchronous Motor" (1907); "Absorption of Light Method of Calculating Illumination" (1908); "Bearing of Reflection on Illumination" (1910); "Graphical Solution of Problems Involving Plane Surface Lighting Sources" (1910), and "The Law of Conservation as Applied to Illumination Calculations" (1911). Dr. McAllister is naturally associated with numerous scientific organizations including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Electro-chemical Society, the National Electric Light Association, the New York Electrical Society, of which he has been vice-president; the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, and the Illuminating Engineering Society, for which he has served as a director. He is also identified with numerous social organizations which include the Pennsylvania State College Association of New York of which he was president in 1911; the New York Southern Society; the Virginians of New York the Virginia Historical Society; the Cornell University Club, and the Engineers Club, State College; the Cornell Chapter of the Sigma Xi honor society, the Pennsylvania State College Chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi honor fraternity, and honor member of the Pennsylvania State Chapter of the Epsilon Kappa Nu electrical fraternity.

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Edward Virginius Valentine. No stranger of note leaves Richmond without a visit to Valentine's Studio and in glancing through the sculptor's register one sees such names as Matthew Arnold, James Barron Hope, Edwin Booth, Joe Jefferson, Sol Smith Russell, Joaquin Miller, the Marquis of Lorne, Charlotte Cushman, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Marion Sims and a host of others. The building stands on Leigh street, whose spacious homes, in their green settings, were planned when the possibility of crowding was remote.
An antique brass knocker on the door of the front building suggests it as the artist's reception room, and having gained a ready admittance, the stranger stands face to face with a man whose youthful figure and fresh complexion refute the imputation made by his whitened locks, while his finely carved poetic face marks him as the denizen of an ideal world, rather than of the commercial one around us. In manner, this genius of the chisel, who has cut his name so deep into the history of his native land that it will last as long as its annals endure, is son natural as to disappoint the inexperienced, who fail to recognize in simplicity the attribute of merit, and so modest is he that it is only here a little and there a little that one gleams some knowledge of his life and work.
Much of his modeling is done in the front studio, the other being reserved for his larger work, and both, with the rooms above the first, are storehouses of the most interesting and valuable objects. Each has its own story, making a tour through them, with their owner as a guide, a delightful experience. A collection of books in hogskin bindings, which have withstood the wear of more than two hundred years, would charm the bibliomaniac, as would volumes of illuminations done by the Florentine monks, and bound sheets of Pompeiian colors, whose richness and delicacy of Cinque Cento furniture of quaint design and elaborate carving, its secret drawers exciting and baffling the imagination, is another notable feature, as is a copy of De La Roche's "Hemicycle," presented by the family of John R. Thompson after his death, and a steel engraving of Ary Scheffer's portrait of Lafayette, a duplicate of which is owned by Mr. Beverly Kennon of Washington. Here, too, are casts from the antique, curios from Egypt, old tapestries, statuettes by Flamingo, figures from Pompeii, with treasures from the galleries of Florence and Rome. A long row of death masks, including that of Napoleon, Frederick the Great, Voltaire, Henry IV. of France, Charles XII., Queen Louise and other immortal mortals, extend a ghastly welcome from an upper shelf, and everywhere one encounters in clay or marble such celebrities as Humbolt, Edwin Booth, Mary Anderson and the like, with Lee, Jackson, Davis, John C. Breckinridge, and all the rest of the southern heroes of the civil war. A clay copy of the Apollo Belvidere, for which Mr. Valentine received a silver medal, has a special interest as his second attempt at modeling. It was made from a bust from the Vatican which stood in the back parlor of his father's home, and was the terror of his childhood, making him "shy" as he passed it in the dark on his way to the dining room. His first experiment was a bust portrait of a negro boy, for which his subject stood in the back yard. "It was cold," the sculptor says, laughing as he recalls the scene, "and I can see at this moment the funny expression on that darkey's face." His portrayal of the negro is indeed unequalled, and in "Uncle Henry," the family coachman, who drove his parents to the ball given in Richmond in 1824 to Lafayette, the antebellum Virginia darkey will live when the last representative of the fast vanishing type, and those familiar with it, have crumbled to dust.
Valentine's statues, as of Jefferson, in the beautiful hotel of that name in Richmond; of Jackson, Wickham, John C. Breckinridge, Henry Timrod and others adorn the pubic buildings and squares in various cities, while his bust portraits are scattered everywhere. The "Blind Girl," one of the most exquisite creations was conceived while hearing an inmate of the blind asylum in Staunton sing the hymn:

For thee, My God, the living God,
My thirsty soul doth pine;
Oh, when shall I behold thy face,
Thou majesty divine?

The graceful form seems spiritualized by the ethereal tenant. The lovely hands are clasped in yearning aspiration, the lips parted as if in singing, while the upturned face is irradiated as if a heavenly vision, hidden from the material eye, were indeed vouchsafed to those sightless orbs. This figure with the classic group "Andromache and Astyanax," which Mr. Valentine considers his masterpiece, and which was the center of attraction in the Virginia House of the Columbia Exposition, is still in his possession. The last was suggested by the parting of Hector and his wife, when the hero enjoins her to "busy herself with the household, leaving war to men." The spindle the emblem of womanly industry, lying idle across her lap, shows how vainly she has striven to obey this behest, while the eyes, full of direful foreboding, looking into space. With the intuition of childhood Astyanax divines the sorrow in his mother's heart, and leaning upon her knee, with a smile dimpling his upturned face, endeavors with baby wiles to woo her back to happiness. Every accessory of the group is from the antique, showing the most careful study, while the classic face of Andromache is that of the beautiful bride of the sculptor's youth.
The work which gained for him the widest recognition, however, is the recumbent figure of Lee in the mausoleum attached to the chapel of Washington and Lee University, for which he received fifteen thousand dollars. Faultless in detail, it is so impressive as a whole, that none can be insensible to its effect. It is as if the man himself were imprisoned in the stone — the living soul breathed into it by the creative power of genius. Thousands who visit the historic spot stand in awed silence by the marble couch upon which the hero has "lain down to pleasant dreams," and turning away, tread softly and speak in whispers lest they should awaken him.
Like all who strive for immortality, Mr. Valentine works slowly. He is his own most severe critic and spares neither labor nor expense in the execution of his ideas. Often when assured by others that a piece of work is perfect, he goes on touching and retouching with the simple rejoinder: "You see, I know how it ought to look." (From "Valentine's Work with the Chisel," Gilberta S. Whittle, in Baltimore American).
Edward Virginius Valentine was born in Richmond, Virginia, November 12, 1838, youngest son of Mann Satterwhite (q. v.) and Elizabeth (Mosby) Valentine. the world in which he was born was replete with beautiful objects whose silent influence molded him into a form to be fixed by after experience. He was well educated in the schools of Alexander Martin, Socrates Mauphin, Volger and Patton, and William D. Stuart, also having the advantages of private tutors. Association with his brother, Mann Valentine, whose chemical discovery gave him world-wide renown, awakened his interest in anatomy, which resulted in his attending a course of lectures on anatomy at the Medical College in Richmond. He gained his first desire to draw and model in 1853, when as a boy of fifteen years he attended the World's Fair in the Crystal Palace in New York. There the group "Amazon Attacked by a Tiger" by Kiss, so impressed him that he at once began the study of drawing and modeling. Although he obtained the best instruction his own city afforded him, he went to Paris in 1859 to avail himself of the better opportunities that art centre afforded. There he learned to draw from the nude under Couture, and later under Jouffroy. In Florence he took lessons from Boniauti, and later in Berlin was a pupil of Kiss, whose creations inspired him to devote himself to art. Kiss was averse to taking pupils, but yielded to the young man's persuasions. The great artist died suddenly while young Valentine was with him, and in recognition of the friendship existing between master and pupil, the widow presented him with many valuable art treasures, including the tools used by Kiss, and offered him the free use of the master's former atelier.
Mr. Valentine remained in Europe studying under noted teachers and visiting the great art centres of Italy until the close of the war between the states. He was tempted by offers from New York but he refused all offers, and in 1865 opened a studio in Richmond, his native city. Here he has ever continued his work from the very first attracting favorable attention, and finally gaining him a secure place as one of the great sculptures of his day. His first American work was a succession of busts of the noted Confederate generals, Stuart, Mosby, Maury, Jackson, Albert Sidney Johnston, and many men of eminence in the professions. His most famous work, the "Recumbent Statue of Lee" was unveiled at Lexington, Virginia, June 28, 1883. The figure of marble, life size, represents General Lee lying in his uniform as if asleep, on his narrow soldier's bed. One hand is on his bosom, the other lying by his side, rests upon his sword. The whole expression of the statue is that of tranquil and absolute repose — the repose of physical power unshaken though dormant, of manly dignity most graceful when at rest — of noble faculties alive and sovereign though still. Other prominent works, not yet mentioned, are, the ideal figures, "Judas" and "Grief," "The Nation's Ward;" "The Samaritan Woman," "The Penitent Thief," and the statue of General Wickham in Monroe Park, Richmond. He has also completed a statue of General Hugh Mercer of the revolution, for the United States government, for which twenty-five thousand dollars was appropriated; a bronze statue of Jefferson Davis, and a symbolic figure of the "South," for the Jefferson Davis Monument Association; a statue of General Robert E. Lee, ordered by the Virginia legislature for Statuary Hall in the capitol of West Virginia; a statue of John James Audubon for the city of New Orleans, and many others.
Mr. Valentine's talents are not all of the brush or chisel. He is an excellent writer, a great lover of history and poetry, and an interesting speaker. He has kept a diary since 1857 to date, without the omission of a single day. This diary, so interesting and valuable, is being prepared for publication. He has received recognition from many literary societies by election to honorary membership, and is also a member of art unions and societies, both in the United States and Europe. He is an honorary member of Robert E. Lee Camp, United Confederate Veterans; president of the board of trustees of Valentine Museum, in Richmond, founded by the will of his honored brother; vice-president of the advisory board of the Society for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities; member of the advisory board of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society; president of the William and Mary Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa. He is an Episcopalian in religious faith, and in politics a Democrat.
Now in his seventy-sixth year, Mr. Valentine has not laid aside his active work, but is still the creator of the beautiful in art. He is a man of charming personality, known and loved by all Richmond. He is wholly free from all affectation or assumption, simple and natural in his conversation, and apparently unconscious of his own greatness. To young men he gives this word: "Have faith in your work and work with faith in God."
Mr. Valentine married (first) in 1872, Alice Churchill Robinson, of the King and Queen county family of that name. It was of her death, in 1883, that Paul Hamilton Hayne wrote the beautiful poem entitled, "His Lost Andromache." In 1892 Mr. Valentine married (second) Mrs. Mayo, of Richmond, formerly Miss Catherine Friend, of Petersburg, Virginia. In his home on Sixth street, as in his studio, there is everything to stimulate the art impulse; rare pictures, curio specimens of empire furniture, delicate foreign china of antique design, and the like. A portrait of special interest is that of his father, Mann S. Valentine, painted in the uniform of a lieutenant of the Public Guard, Virginia and South Carolina being the only states which maintained such a military body. Another portrait is of the sculptor's cousin, Mrs. Allan, the beautiful Richmond woman, who adopted Edgar Allan Poe, and whose name will go down in history with his.
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Edmund Brice Addison. Although a resident of Richmond, Virginia, since 1861, and for half a century a leading business man of that city, Mr. Addison is not a native born son, but descends from distinguished Maryland families, Addison, Dulany, Smith and others.
(I) He is a grandson of the eminent and greatly beloved Rev. Walter Dulany Addison, who in 1893 was ordained a minister of the Protestant Episcopal church at Easton, Maryland, by the Right Rev. Thomas J. Claggett. Rev. Walter D. Addison, as is learned from a most interesting book, "One Hundred Years Ago," written by his granddaughter, Elizabeth Hesselius Murray, and published in 1895, was a descendant of Colonel John Addison, who came to this country from England in the year 1667. Colonel John Addison was a brother of Rev. Launcelot Addison, Dean of Litchfield, father of the noted Joseph Addison. He was also a brother of Rev. Anthony Addison, B. D., rector of Abington and chaplain to the Duke of Marlborough. He died in 1719, and is buried under the altar of the church he served. Rev. Launcelot Addison is buried in the Cathedral of Litchfield, where over the door is to be seen the Addison arms. In common with his family in England, Colonel John Addison was a Whig in politics, and his signature is found on an address of congratulation to King William. He was a Privy Councillor of the "intruding government introduced by the Protestant Revolution." "In 1692 he was a member of his Majesties Council and presiding judge of Charles county." He also distinguished himself in the encounters of the colonists with the Indians, and was commissioned colonel of the "Military Establishment of the Colony." He was the leading commissioner in establishing St. John's parish, Maryland, and in building Broad Creek Church, of which his great-grandson, Rev. Walter D. Addison, was later rector. He was a large subscriber and one of the trustees of King William's School, at that time about to be made a free school. He married the widow of Thomas Dent, she was a daughter of Rev. William Atkinson, the first clergyman of the church of England to come to the province of Maryland and the owner of twelve thousand acres of land. returning to England on business, Colonel Addison died in that country, intestate, leaving considerable wealth there besides "a very large landed estate in this country."
(II) Colonel Thomas Addison, only son of Colonel John Addison, greatly increased and improved the estate left by his father, and became influential in church and colony. He was colonel of militia, Privy Councillor, 1721 to 1727, and visitor to the Free Schools. He married (first) Elizabeth Tasker, who bore him daughters, Rebecca and Eleanor. He married (second) Eleanor, daughter of Colonel Walter Smith, who bor him a daughter and four sons, who were educated at Lowther, England, under the direction of Mr. Wilkinson, one of the first scholars of his day.
(III) John Addison, son of Colonel Thomas Addison and his second wife, Eleanor (Smith) Addison, inherited the greater part of his father's Maryland estate. He married Susannah Wilkinson and had sons, Thomas and John, and daughters, Ann, married a Mr. Carr, and Eleanor, married Rev. Jonathan Boucher.
(IV) Thomas (2) Addison, eldest son of John and Susannah (Wilkinson) Addison, married Rebecca Dulany, daughter of Walter and Mary (Grafton) Dulany, of Annapolis, Maryland, and granddaughter of Daniel Dulany, a prominent man of early Maryland. Daniel Dulany was a student of Trinity College, Dublin, when a quarrel with his step-mother induced his father to withdraw his allowance. He left college, and being without funds indentured himself to the captain of a vessel loading for Maryland. On his arrival he was transferred to Colonel George Plater, attorney-general of the Providence, who paid the captain for his passage, and finding him an educated gentleman he made the runaway his clerk. Later Daniel Dulany studied law under Colonel Plater, and in 1710 was admitted to the provincial bar, and in 1716 went to London, where he was a student of law at Gray's Inn. On his return to Maryland he married a daughter of Governor Plater, and after her death married a daughter of Colonel Walter Smith and sister of Eleanor, wife of Colonel Thomas Addison. For nearly forty years Daniel Dulany held high position in Maryland government and in the affections of the people. He was successively alderman, councilman and recorder of the city of Annapolis, attorney-general, judge of the admiralty, commissary-general, receiver-general and councillor of the province, holding the latter office under Governor's Bladen, Ogle and Sharpe. For several years he was leader of the "Country" party in the Maryland house of assembly. He died in 1753 and was buried with his second wife in an Annapolis cemetery, where their tombs may yet be seen. In 1728 he caused to be built a mansion in Annapolis, that in 1808 was sold with seven acres of ground to the government by Major Walter Dulany. The old mansion stood until 1883, when it was torn down by Captain Ramsay, superintendent of the Naval Academy, to make room for a more modern residence for the commandant. Congress resented the action and refused to vote means to erect the new building. After Captain Ramsay passed, the building was erected as nearly as possible on the same plan as the "old Dulany house" and with the old brick. This old mansion, with its beautiful gardens extending to the water edge, was Walter Dulany's home and later his son-in-law, Thomas Addison, made it his home and there Rev. Walter Dulany Addison, son of Thomas and Rebecca (Dulany) Addison, was born. The family name, originally deLaune, later became Delany, and there is in the family a letter from Dean Patrick Delany asking Daniel why he changed his name to Dulany. Perhaps the circumstances under which Daniel left his Irish home furnish the reason.
(V) Rev. Walter Dulany Addison, eldest son of Thomas (2) and Rebecca (Dulany) Addison, was born in Annapolis, Maryland, January 1, 1769, at the old Dulany mansion, the home of his maternal grandparents, Walter and Mary (Grafton) Dulany, the latter a daughter of Richard Grafton. Thomas Addison died in 1775, his father-in-law preceding him to the grave in 1773. Thomas Addison left his estate in a prosperous condition and made provision in his will that his sons should be sent to England to be educated. His widow remained at Oxon Hill, the family home, and in August, 1784, Walter D. and his two brothers sailed for London, entering a classical school in Greenwich, where they remained until 1787, then spent about six months in Dr. Barrows school, Walter D., returning to Maryland in the summer of 1789. He pursued theological study, and in June, 1793, removed his residence to Oxon Hill, which he owned. On May 26, 1793, he was ordained "unto the Holy Order of Deacons" by Bishop Thomas John Claggett, the first bishop consecrated in America and this his first ordination. The young clergyman was first placed in charge of Queen Anne's parish, Prince George's county, continuing there until 1801, then returned to Oxon Hill, where for some years he continued to preach at different churches, more especially at St. John's "Broad Creek." About this time he purchased the Hart Park estate and moved his residence there. In 1800 he moved to Annapolis. Later he became rector of Piscataway or Broad Creek parish, containing three churches, where he continued until 1809, and from that year until 1821 he was rector of St. John's, Georgetown.
He was esteemed and beloved by his people and greatly revered for his unaffected piety. In 1817 his eyesight began to fail and he sent in his resignation, but it was not accepted. In 1821 he resigned and took charge of Rock Creek and Addison's Chapel, but in 1823 returned to St. John's, remaining until 1827. In 1824 his eye trouble returned and he was threatened with blindness. In the following six years blindness, bereavement and poverty overtook him. His large property he had given away and lost, his slaves he freed and to every mans needs he had given liberally. Oxon Hill had been sold, as had Hyde Park, and with David he could say "All Thy waves and Thy storms have gone over me." But his later years, although spent in darkness, were beautiful years, and he was tenderly cherished in the homes of his children. He died January 31, 1848, on Sunday morning, and according to his wish he was buried at Oxon Hill, the family burial ground being retained when the estate was sold.
Rev. Walter D. Addison married, in June 1792, Elizabeth Hesselius, daughter of John and Mary (Young) Hesselius, of "Primrose Hill," the family home, two miles from Annapolis, the latter named having been left a widow with four daughters at the age of twenty-two years, and married (second) John Hesselius, an artist of some distinction. She was the daughter of Richard Young, who died in 1784, and left her, his only child, the estate known as "Primrose Hill." Rev. Walter D. Addison and his wife were the parents of several sons and one daughter; the sons were men of high character and learning, who ever cherished the fondest memories of their honored parents and of the old Oxon Hill home.
(VI) Dr. Edmund Brice Addison, eldest son of Rev. Walter Dulany and Elizabeth (Hesselius) Addison, was born at Oxon Hill, near Annapolis, Maryland, in 1794, died in Washington, D. C., in 1878. He was finely educated in the classics, possessed a highly developed literary mind, and had he desired to confine himself to the practice of medicine closely he would have been one of the great men of his profession. He was a graduate M. D. and practiced in Maryland, but he preferred the quiet of his country home in Baltimore county, Maryland, and the pleasures his well-stocked library gave him. After the death of his wife he moved to Alexandria, where he lived in deepest seclusion, devoting himself entirely to his children, who adored him. He possessed a keen sense of humor, which, joined to his highly-cultivated mind and retentive memory, rendered him a charming companion He wrote considerable, including an unpublished volume of "Recollections," written for his children, and many verses. In his latter years he lost his sight, which to a man of his scholarly attainments was a crushing blow, but no one ever heard a murmur of complaint over his affliction. In a letter written to a friend just before his death, he said: "From childhood to youth, from manhood to old age, I have been continually blessed in every phase of my life." In some verses composed after his affliction he says:

Father of light, though 'reft of outward sense.
Thou givest me faith and hope, sweet recompense;
Through the dark valley which must soon be trod,
These lights divine will lead me home to God.

Dr. Edmond B. Addison married Eliza D. Bowie, born in Maryland, where she died in the prime of her womanhood, aged thirty-eight years, in 1846. Six of her ten children are living: Walter Dulany, of California; Edmund Brice, Jr., of further mention; Catherine, of Washington, D. C.; Charles G., of Prince George's county, Maryland; Thomas D. of Fairfax county, Virginia.
(VII) Edmund Brice (2) Addison, third son of Dr. Edmund Brice (1) and Eliza D. (Bowie) Addison, was born in Prince George's county, Maryland, May 25, 1834. He was educated in Alexandria, Virginia, and Washington, D. C., and under the teaching of his scholarly, honored father. He began business life as a commission merchant in Alexandria, Virginia. In 1861 he located in Richmond, Virginia, where during the entire war period he was attached to the arsenal, in the employ of the Confederate government. After the war he entered mercantile business in Richmond, became junior of the firm of Allison & Addison, and in 1895 became associated with the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company, of which corporation he is first vice-president. He has led an active business life, has been associated with many Richmond enterprises of the past and present, and stands high in the commercial world. He was one of the trustees of the old Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia, is now vice-president of the Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Company, director of the National State and City Bank, director of the Virginia Trust Company, and has other interests of scarcely less importance, in addition to his holdings in the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the south. He adheres to the religious faith of his distinguished forbears, and is a communicant of St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, of Richmond.
Edmund Brice Addison Jr. married, October 21, 1859, in Alexandria, Virginia, Emily Crockford, born in New Jersey, of English parentage, daughter of John and Ellen Crockford, who came to New Jersey from England when young, John Crockford, a civil engineer. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Addison: Nellie, widow of Robert G. Rennolds; John A., of Ashland, Virginia; Walter Edmund, of Lynchburg, Virginia, James A., connected with the Richmond Savings Bank; Eliza, married John H. Lyons, of Richmond, Virginia; William Meade, cashier of the First National Bank of Richmond; Emily, married David Gray Langhorne; Edmund Brice (3), died aged one year.