Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography

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John Farmer Winn, M. D. The Winn family, represented in the present generation by Dr. John Farmer Winn, a successful medical practitioner of Richmond, Virginia, is of Welsh origin, and the excellent characteristics of that race have been transmitted in large degree to the descendants, who have been active and prominent in the different vocations in which they engaged.
The ancestry his traced to various families of prominence and renown, the Cole family bearing a coat-of-arms. One line is traced to Adam Cary, who married Amy, daughter of Sir William Trewett. His son, Sir John Carye was chief baron of the exchequer in the time of Henry IV. His son, William Cary, born 1500, was lord mayor of Bristol. His son, Richard Cary, born 1525, married Anne ———. His son, William Cary, married Ann Taylor. His daughter, Anne, married William Bassett, son of Captain William and Bridget (Cary) Bassett; Captain William Bassett was son of Colonel William and Joanna (Burwell) Bassett; Joanna (Burwell) Bassett was the daughter of Hon. Lewis and Abigail (Smith) Burwell, granddaughter of Major Lewis and Lucy (Higginson) Burwell, great-granddaughter of Edward and Dorothy (Bedell) Burwell, and great-great-granddaughter of Edward Burwell and William Bedell, the latter named being a descendant of John Bedell, born 1485. Elizabeth Bassett, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Churchill) Bassett, married Benjamin Harrison, and of this union was President William Henry Harrison. Abigail (Smith) Burwell was a daughter of Anthony and Martha (Bacon) Smith, the latter named a daughter of Hon. Nathaniel and Anne (Bassett) Bacon, granddaughter of Rev. James Bacon, and great-grandfather Sir James Bacon. The Burwell family is one of the ancient families of the counties of Bedford and Northampton, England. Lewis Burwell served as president of the council of Virginia, and his daughter, Elizabeth, married William Nelson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Another line of ancestry is traced through Humphrie Cole. Through his son, William Cole. Through his son, Colonel William Cole, who married Martha Lear, daughter of Colonel John Lear. Through his son, William Cole, who married Mary Roscow, the latter named a daughter of William and Lucy (Bassett) Roscow, the latter named a daughter of Colonel William and Joanna (Burwell) Bassett, above mentioned. William Roscow was a son of William and Mary (Wilson) Roscow, the latter named a daughter of Colonel John Wilson. Through his son, Captain James Cole, who married Mary Wills, and their daughter, Mary Cole, married George Barclay, mentioned below. the Cole pedigree is quite prominent, and at one period of Virginia history the family from which Mary Cole is descended was in control of the state.
(I) Major Thomas Winn, great-grandfather of Dr. John F. Winn, was born in Hanover county, Virginia, December 27, 1753. He served as private and corporeal during the revolutionary war, enlisting September 27, 1777, for a period of three years, becoming a member of the Ninth Virginia Regiment, under command of Colonel Gibson. He was a resident of Lowfield, Fluvanna county, Virginia, and held a commission as lieutenant, captain and major of militia under Governors Benjamin Harrison, Patrick Henry, Beverly Randolph, Henry Lee.
(II) Captain John Winn, grandfather of Dr. John F. Winn, was born April 25, 1789, died September 18, 1844. He served as ensign in the militia service at Camp Carter during the war of 1812, and later was commissioned captain of a company of riflemen by Governor Wilson C. Nicholas. Form any years he was a member of the house of delegates from Fluvanna county, Virginia, was sheriff of that county, and presiding justice under the old county court system. In 1824, when General Lafayette visited Virginia, Captain Winn was commander of the escort that went from Fluvanna to meet him. He married Lucy Barclay Wills, daughter of Dr. John and Lucy Martin (Barclay) wills. Dr. John Wills was a descendant of an English ancestry, and his wife of a Scotch-Irish ancestry. Mrs. Wills was a daughter of George and Mary (Cole) Barclay, and granddaughter of Patrick Barclay, a Scotch merchant, who married, in 1742, Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel John and Martha (Burwell) Martin, the former named a merchant of Dublin, Ireland.
(III) Dr. Philip James Winn, father of Dr. John F. Winn, was born in July, 1820, died June 19, 1887. He was a graduate in medicine from the University of Virginia, and was actively engaged in the practice of his profession at Winnsville, Fluvanna county, Virginia. He possessed a large amount of skill and ability, which he displayed in the performance of his chosen work, and he was noted for faithfulness in duty and love of truth and right. He was a member of the First Cadet Corps of the Virginia Military Institute. He married Sarah Elizabeth Rebecca Ballow, of Cumberland county, Virginia.
(IV) Dr. John Farmer Winn was born at Winnsville, Fluvanna county, Virginia, September 13, 1852. His early education was obtained under private teaching, after which he entered Fluvanna Institute, then conducted by James A. Mundy. From the age of thirteen until seventeen he assisted with the work of the farm, meanwhile attending school, and upon the completion of his studies he taught in the public schools, continuing along that line for three years. In 1873 he entered the University of Virginia, taking part of the medical course in connection with the academic course. He was graduated in 1875 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, began the practice of his profession in Fluvanna county, Virginia, and later pursued post-graduate courses in obstetrics in Philadelphia and New York City institutions. In 1893 Dr. Winn located in Richmond, Virginia, and has continued in practice there up to the present time (1914), and acknowledged authority on obstetrics. In the same year he was elected lecturer on clinical and operative obstetrics by the board of trustees of the University College of Medicine, and later he became obstetrician at Virginia Hospital, obstetrician-in-charge of obstetric clinics in the University College of Medicine, and still later professor of obstetrics in the latter institution. Under the consolidation of the latter school with the medical college of Virginia in 1913, he was chosen professor of obstetrics and head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology in the (New) Medical College of Virginia. He is also obstetrician to the Memorial and Virginia hospitals, and for twenty-five years served as corresponding secretary of the Medical Society of Virginia.
Dr. Winn founded, owned and edited the "Richmond Journal of Practice," continuing as owner and editor for twenty-five years. He is the author of many articles upon obstetrical subjects that attracted marked attention both at home and abroad. Among these may be named: "Treatment of Eclampsia," "Prophylactic Care of the Breasts," "Technique of Forceps Delivery" and "Surgical Intervention." This latter word, "intervention" as suggested by Dr. Winn instead of the misnomer, "interference," with the result that "Surgical Interference" is now seldom observed in current medical literature. A more recent article, and a valuable contribution of medical literature is his "Report of One Thousand Cases in Students Out-door Service, &c." This report, containing the notable record of but five deaths and not one of these from preventable infection, attracted wide attention, as these cases were all located among a poor class of patients, surrounded by unsanitary conditions. this report was published in the "Journal of the American Medical Association" for September 3, 1903. Dr. Winn has a large practice, the years having brought him experience, knowledge and skill, which have added to a fame already well established. He is a member of the Richmond Academy of Medicine and Surgery, Medical Society of Virginia, late fellow of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and a member of the Phi Chi fraternity (Medical) and the Westmoreland Club. He is a member of All Saints Episcopal Church, and a Democrat in politics.
Dr. Winn married, September 2, 1897, Willie Rosalie Yeamans, of Hanover county, Virginia, great-granddaughter of Anne Lewis, daughter of Joseph Zachary Lewis, of Spottsylvania county, Virginia, and a descendant of John Lewis, the "Honest Lawyer," of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Children: John Farmer Jr., Rosalie Lewis, deceased; William Warfield.

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Rev. Frank Talbot McFaden, D. D. Since the organization of the First Presbyterian Church of Richmond, June 18, 1812, seven ministers, regularly ordained and installed, have served the congregation as pastors. As a matter of historical interest and value the following names and facts are given. The first was John Holt Rice, under whom the first congregation of fourteen members was organized the first church building erected between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth streets. In 1816 the "Pine Apple" Church was erected between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets, but later was sold to the Protestant Episcopal congregation. Dr. Rice served the congregation eleven years, during which time there were two hundred and sixty-three members received. The second pastor, Rev. William Jessup Armstrong, was installed October 13, 1824, and served for ten years, three hundred and sixty-none members having been received into the church. During this period, about 1830, the third house of worship was erected on the north side of Franklin, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. In July, 1834, the church called its third pastor, Rev. William Swan Plumer, who served the church twelve years, receiving three hundred and sixty-nine members, but left the congregation with but three hundred members, the controversy between the Old and New School parties disrupting the church. On November 28, 1847, Dr. Thomas Vernon Moore was installed the fourth pastor, his term of service exceeding all others and extending over a period of twenty-one years. During his pastorate, in 1851, the fourth church edifice was built, at the corner of Tenth and Capitol streets, a larger and more handsome structure than any of the others and the home of the congregation until April 17, 1884. The site is now covered by the present city hall, and arrangement being made with the city by which the building was taken down and rebuilt without any change in plan on the lot on which it now stands on the corner of Madison and Grace streets. In 1859, under Dr. Moore, an organ was first placed in the church, and during the intervening years this instrument has led the music of the congregation and still occupies its place in the church, though a larger one has recently been installed in the pulpit end of the building. The first organist was Professor N. Bowditch Clapp, who continued as such until his death in 1893. During Dr. Moore's ministry six hundred and nineteen new members were added to the church, the membership at the close of his pastorate numbering three hundred and eighty-nine. The fifth pastor, Rev. Thomas Lewis Preston, D. D., was installed May 15, 1869, his ministry continuing over fourteen years. In this time three hundred and sixty five communicants were added to the church roll, but by death, removal, and the organization of other congregations the total membership at the time of his resignation from the pastorate was three hundred and fifty-nine. The sixth pastor, Rev. Robert Pollock Kerr, was installed February 3, 1884. Early in his pastorate the work of moving the church from Capitol street to its present location was begun. The last Sunday service was held in the old church April 17, and a farewell prayer meeting Tuesday, April 19, 1884. During the rebuilding period Grace Street and the Second Presbyterian churches, Broad Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and Monumental Protestant Episcopal Church were generously offered for the use of the churchless congregation. Dr. Kerr's pastorate was the second longest in the history of the church, lasting a little over nineteen years, ending May 25, 1903. Few pastors ever gained the love and admiration of their people or the high esteem of others to a greater extent than did Dr. Kerr while in Richmond. His departure was greatly regretted by all who knew him, and their numbers were legion, for his labors were not confined to his own church. He was always active in every general movement for the spiritual or moral uplift of the city, and was probably the best known minister in Richmond. Throughout his nineteen years service four hundred and twenty-five names were added to the church roll. The seventh pastor, Rev. Frank Talbot McFaden, was installed December 20, 1903, and is yet the pastor in charge, holding the love and affection of his people to a degree unsurpassed by any of his predecessors.
Rev. Frank Talbot McFaden was born in Salisbury, Maryland, February 5, 1864, son of Rev. Joseph Alexander McFaden and grandson of Daniel Miller McFaden, the latter born in Londonderry, Ireland. Daniel M. McFaden came to the United States, settled in Philadelphia, and there was in the employ of the United States as inspector. He married Elizabeth Hill, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and later moved to the state of Georgia, locating at the city that was then the state capital, Milledgeville. The mother of Daniel M. McFaden was Mary (Montgomery) McFaden, also of Londonderry, Ireland.
Rev. Joseph Alexander McFaden was born in Milledgeville, Georgia, in 1824, and died in 1884 at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, a minister of the Methodist Protestant church. He married Mary Duke, of Harper's Ferry, daughter of John Duke, born in Jefferson county, Virginia, a large landowner and planter, holding large estates in both Jefferson and Loudoun counties. John Duke served as sergeant in the Fifth Regiment of Virginia Militia in the defence of Baltimore during the second war with Great Britain, and after his marriage to Lucy Talbot King, of Maryland, settled at Harper's Ferry, where he was officially connected with the United States Arsenal. Children of Rev. Joseph A. and Mary (Duke) McFaden: John Duke, born in 1851, died in 1914; Mary, now residing in Cumberland, Maryland, unmarried; George Henry, born in 1857, now living in Richmond; Lucy Shirley, born in 1859, died in 1902, married Daniel H. Nichols; Frank Talbot of whom further mention; Irene Dashiel, married Wilmer Benjamin and resides in Cumberland, Maryland; Lily, died aged two years.
Rev. Frank Talbot McFaden, youngest son of Rev. Joseph Alexander and Mary (Duke) McFaden, although born in Salisbury, Maryland, was brought by his parents to Harper's Ferry, Virginia, when eighteen months old, that historic town his mother's birthplace and the scene of his father's ministerial labors. Frank Talbot attended public school until eighteen years of age, then entered Hampden-Sidney College, whence he was graduated, class of 1866. He chose the holy calling of his honored father entered Union Theological Seminary, whence he was graduated in 1889. He was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian church by Abingdon Presbytery, and in 1889 accepted his first pastorate in Marion, Smith county, Virginia, where he remained seven years. On December 5, 1895, he was installed pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Lynchburg, Virginia, serving that congregation with great usefulness and acceptability for eight years. He then accepted a call from the First Presbyterian Church of Richmond, beginning his pastorate there December 3, 1903. While faithful and true to all the tenets of the Calvinistic faith, Dr. McFaden is less the doctrinal theologian than the whole-souled, sympathetic, broad-minded earnest preacher of the pure gospel of his Master. Rare tact, sound judgment, and a warm, genial manner are his distinguishing traits as a man, while as a pulpit and platform orator and expounder of religious truth he has gained an enviable reputation. In church councils his influence is potent, and in 1914 he was the choice of his brethren to serve as moderator over the annual assembly of the Synod of Virginia. He cherishes warm feeling and deep interest toward Hampden-Sidney College, his Alma Mater, serving her cause as secretary and member of the board of trustees. He also serves his theological Alma Mater, Union Theological Seminary, as trustee, and as member of the finance and executive committees of the board. As a pastor he is greatly beloved, his genial manner, deep sympathy, and unfailing consideration for the rights of others endearing him to all who come under his influence. His church is active and aggressive in its work for righteousness and under his capable leadership is growing in membership and power.
Dr. McFaden is also prominent in the Masonic order, belonging to lodge, chapter and commandery. He holds high rank in the order and in 1909 was grand eminent commander of the Virginia Grand Commandery of Knights Templar. He is deeply interested in fraternal work and also holds membership in the Knights of Pythias and the Royal Arcanum, having been supreme grand regent of the latter order. He is held in high regard by his fraternal brethren, who vie with his brethren of the church in manifestations of esteem, love and respect. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him in 1903 by Washington and Lee University.
Dr. McFaden married, April 10, 1890, Mary Minge Friend, born in Petersburg, Virginia, daughter of Charles and Mary (Atkinson) Friend, both deceased, the latter connected with the prominent Harrison family of Virginia. Charles Friend was a soldier of the Confederacy and the owner of "White Hill," a large estate near Petersburg. Children: Mary, married Lawrence C. Caldwell, of Richmond, Virginia; Natalie, a senior at Byrn Mawr College; Frances, a student at Miss Elliott's school in Richmond; Frank Talbot Jr., a student at McGuire's School, Richmond.

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Thomas Whitehead Murrell, M. D. Dr. Murrell descends along both maternal and paternal lines from distinguished early Virginia families, a paternal ancestor being Bishop Richard Channing Moore, a maternal ancestor Colonel Samuel Meredith, whose wife was Jane Henry, sister of Patrick Henry, the eloquent, patriotic Virginian of revolutionary days. Colonel Meredith was an officer of the Colonial army and rendered valuable service.
Dr. Thomas Whitehead Murrell was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, October 2, 1880, son of John D. Murrell and paternal grandson of John William Murrell, born in 1823, died in 1891, and his wife, Mary Ann Hart, born in 1825, died in 1888. John D. Murrell was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, March 24, 1854, and is now a resident of Richmond, Virginia, a journalist. He married Mildred Whitehead, born in Amherst county, Virginia, March 16, 1858, daughter of Thomas Whitehead, born in 1825, died in 1901 and his wife, Martha Henry Garland, born in 1832, died in 1903.
Dr. Murrell obtained his preparatory education in the graded and high schools of Richmond, as well as his professional training, received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University College of Medicine with the class of 1900-1901, then went abroad and, after post-graduate courses in London, England, returned to Richmond, where he has since been in active practice. Dr. Murrell is devoted to his profession, it being his personal preference over all others when considering a career. He is a member of the American Medical Association, South Side Virginia Medical Society, Tri-State Medical Association, Southern Medical Association, Richmond Academy of Medicine and Surgery. He has contributed valuable articles that have appeared in the medical journals on various subjects, particularly on venereal disease and dermatology. His paper on syphilis in the American negro attracting wide attention.
He is a member of the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias, his college fraternity, Phi Pi Sigma, his clubs the Westmoreland and Commonwealth of Richmond. He is a communicant of the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics is a Democrat. Dr. Murrell married, March 15, 1907, Gertrude, daughter of G. Harvey and Mary (Pollard) Clarke.

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Preston Belvin. One of Richmond's native sons, and one who was born prior to war times is the subject of this sketch, Preston Belvin.
The name of Belvin has long been prominent in manufacturing circles of the south, and particularly prominent here in the city of Richmond because of the fact that John Allen Belvin, father of Preston Belvin, was for many years the head and brains of the largest furniture and lumber company in the state of Virginia. John Allan Belvin was born in Gloucester county, Virginia, died in Richmond, July, 1880, at a very advanced age. He was a son of John Aaron Belvin, who was born in Gloucester county, Virginia, and lived to a very advanced age. He was considered a very rich man for the times, and when past middle age married the beautiful Miss Dobson, of England. By this union there were three children, all of whom, however, are now dead. John A. Belvin was a manufacturer in Richmond all his business life and was the first president of the Mechanics Institute. He was an intelligent, forceful man, and always lent a willing hand to all movements of a public-spirited nature. He was quite old at the breaking out of the civil war, but nevertheless joined the Confederate army, serving in the Home Guards, and giving active service whenever called on to do so. He married Margaret Ann Durham, of Richmond, daughter of John Durham, also of Richmond, who was a well known manufacturer here all his life, and her mother was Mary Till, a great-granddaughter of General Anthony Wayne. Mary Till was born in Augusta county, Virginia. John Allen Belvin had twelve children, of whom six are now living as follows: Minnie, Rose, Winchester Durham, Charles Edward, Preston, William Wayne.
After receiving a thorough preliminary and collegiate education, Preston Belvin associated himself in business with his father. He therein secured the requisite training which has since been so essential in the conduct of the business. Upon the death of his father in August, 1880, Preston Belvin assumed entire control of the business, and successfully conducted the same until 1893, when a fire destroyed the entire plant. At that time the factory was located at the present site of the freight depot of the Seaboard Air Line Railway. For a short period thereafter, Mr. Belvin discontinued as a manufacturer, took up the study of law and entered into the publishing of "The Legal Journal," which he sold out two years later, and immediately identified himself as a partner with large publishing houses of New York City, issuing an extensive line of school books. this in turn he sold out and established the present company in 1896. This is the old and well-known concern formerly located at Ninth and Main streets. Another fire totally destroyed this plant in December, 1912, and the present commodious building was erected this past year at the corner of Marshal and Hermitage streets, and is the largest building devoted to the manufacture of school furniture and supplies in the United States. Over one hundred employees are herein given employment.
Preston Belvin was peculiarly fortunate in securing a thorough schooling in his young boyhood. He attended preliminarily both the Squires School, Strauthers and Norwood, completing courses in these, and then entered Richmond College. He subsequently completed a course at King College at Bristol, Virginia, and finally at Poughkeepsie, New York. He is known among his associates as a hard worker, and a man with an active brain, and that the result of his thinking has been beneficial, especially in a commercial way is attested to by the fact that his well known inventions, the Old Dominion Patent Heat and Ventilating System is in use all over the civilized world, as is also the Virgo Plate Blackboard, manufactured of wood pulp. He and his corporation own many other valuable patents and trademarks.
Mr. Belvin has found time to prove his citizenship and patriotism; politically he was the founder and president of the Powhatan Club, which was undoubtedly the basic influence causing the state of Virginia to become solidly Democratic. He was a member of the board of aldermen, representing Madison ward for many years and has always been active in state, county and city politics.
Mr. Belvin is a member of the Richmond Blue Lodge, No. 10, Free and Accepted Masons; Lafayette Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Richmond Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason of Dalcho Consistory, No. 1, Richmond; founded Acca Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, in 1886, and was its first grand potentate; also an honorary life member of the Imperial council of the Mystic Shrine; past exalted ruler and past district deputy grand exalted ruler of Richmond Lodge, No. 45.
Preston Belvin is president of the Virginia State Automobile Association. He is a member of both the Country Club and the Hermitage Club; of the Chamber of Commerce, of the Rotary Club, of the Business Men's Club, of the Richmond Advertiser's Club, and in fact many other similar organizations, and has a general interest from a public-spirited standpoint with the growth and development of Richmond and the state of Virginia. He is well known over the country as a solid man and one to be counted upon, a Good Roads man. He is at the head of the Good Roads Club here, and is the Virginia director of the Quebec and Miami Highway, running from Quebec to Miami, Florida, two thousand five hundred miles in extent, but recently completed and the longest in the world. Mr. Belvin is a director and stockholder in many important enterprises here. Politically, he has always been known as a staunch Democrat, and religiously a liberal supporter of the First Baptist Church.
On December 5, 1875, in the city of Richmond, Mr. Belvin married Eliza Richard Glazebrook, a native of Richmond, whose parents, Richard and Mary Eliza (Hope) Glazebrook, are both deceased. Richard Glazebrook was born in Hanover county, Virginia, and served all through the late war in the Confederate army. For many years he was one of the best known wholesale grocerymen of the state, and the firm of Glazebrook & Thomas, wholesale grocers, was a leading concern of its kind in Richmond. Mary Eliza (Hope) Glazebrook was a native of Louisa county. Mr. Belvin has three children, all married, and with interesting families of their own. The first child, Margaret May, is now the wife of Charles Kruse, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The second child, John Allan, devotes his time to his father's business, and is the general sales manager thereof; married Lucile Dederick, of Jonesboro, Tennessee, a daughter of Captain Dederick, and granddaughter of Judge Dederick, who was president of the supreme court of appeals of Tennessee for sixteen years. Lucile is the great-granddaughter of Governor Shelby, of Kentucky; they have two children, girls: Virginia and Marjorie. Preston Jr., the third child, is also associated with his father in the capacity of superintendent; he married Theressa wainman, who was born in Asheville, North Carolina, a daughter of Captain Charles Wainman, of the King's Body Guard, Royal Huzzars, England. Her mother was Dorothy Leslie (Balwaine) Wainman, also born in England, and her father, Baron Balwaine, is now living in Scotland at a very advanced age; Preston Jr. has two children, Dorothy Hilda and Preston Belvin (III). Both sides of the Belvin family are entitled to membership in the Colonial Dames and Daughters of the Revolution. Mr. Belvin's wife and his daughter Margaret May, are members of both these organizations.

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Stuart N. Michaus, M. D. Embracing the profession to which his honored father has devoted his life, Dr. Stuart N. Michaux has since May, 1904, been a practicing physician in the city of Richmond, Virginia, a lecturer and professor of gynecology at the Medical College of Virginia. He is a son of Dr. Jacob M. Michaux, and a grandson of William Walthall Michaux, the latter a planter and plantation owner prior to the war, in Powhatan county, Virginia. He died in 1881, aged about seventy years. His wife, Virginia (Bernard) Michaux, survived him until 1904, dying at the age of eighty-six years.
Dr. Jacob M. Michaux was born in Beaumont, Powhatan county, Virginia, and for five years was a leading physician of Powhatan county. He then located in Richmond, Virginia, where he continued the practice of his profession. He married Willie Henry Johnson, born in 1861.
Dr. Stuart N. Michaux, son of Dr. Jacob M. and Willie Henry (Johnson) Michaux, was born at Beaumont, Powhatan county, Virginia, July 13, 1878. He was instructed in private schools in his earlier years, then attended Madison School, Richmond High School, McCabe's University School, finishing his classical education at the University of Virginia. Deciding upon the profession of medicine, he prepared at the University College of Medicine (Richmond), whence he was graduated M. D., class of 1903. For one year thereafter he served as acting assistant surgeon in the Public Health and Marine Hospital, at Detroit, Michigan, later, in May, 1904, locating in Richmond, Virginia, where he continues in successful and honorable practice. In 1906 he was lecturer on gynecology at the University College of Medicine; 1909-12 professor of clinical gynecology; now associate professor of gynecology, Medical College of Virginia. Dr. Michaux is modern and progressive in his methods and teachings, enjoying a high reputation as representative of the younger medical practitioners and professors. He is a fellow of the Richmond Academy of Medicine; fellow of the Medical Society of Virginia; fellow of the Tri-State Medical Society; fellow of the American Medical Association; fellow of the Southern Medical Association; fellow of the Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North America; member of Beta Theta Phi, University of Virginia; Pi Mu Medical College of Virginia; Westmoreland Club, the Richmond German Club. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, the latter church also claiming the allegiance of his family.
Dr. Michaux married Martha Garland Whitehead, of Amherst, Virginia, daughter of Colonel Thomas Whitehead, who died in 1901. Colonel Whitehead was a lawyer, represented the sixth Virginia district in the Forty-second Congress. He married Martha Henry Garland, of Amherst, Virginia, daughter of Samuel Meredith Garland.

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Hon. Howard Randolph Bayne, lawyer and author, has been a member of the New York bar since 1882 and is a well-known and successful lawyer at that bar. He takes an active and intelligent interest in general affairs and exerts an extensive influence in local affairs in his home borough, Staten Island. He was born at Winchester, Virginia, May 11, 1851, son of Charles and Mary Ellen (Ashby) Bayne, and grandson of Richard and Susan (Pope) Bayne. Several lines of ancestry will be mentioned in succeeding paragraphs, showing the descent of the subject of this sketch from the families of Thornton, Stuart, Dabney, Savage, Menefee, Wade, Strother, Ashby, Pope, and other old and honorable Virginia families.
Richard Bayne, son of Mathew Bayne, of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, was born September 13, 1789, and died November 3, 1829. He married Susan, daughter of Lawrence and Penelope Pope and a descendant of Humphrey Pope. Humphrey Pope was living in Rappahannock county, Virginia, in 1656, and in 1659 obtained from Thomas Pope a deed for one hundred and fifty acres near the Cliffs, Westmoreland county. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Hawkins, and died in 1695. Their eldest son, Lawrence, married Jemima, relict of John Spence and daughter of Thomas Waddy, of Northumberland, and his will was recorded in 1723. He lived in Washington parish. John, third son of Lawrence Pope, married Sarah, daughter of Christopher Mothershead. Lawrence (2), second son of John and Sarah Pope, was three times married: (first) to Jane, daughter of Humphrey Quisenberry, (second) to Frances Carter, and (third) to Penelope Vigar, relict of Jacob Vigar and daughter of Nicholas Quisenberry. His daughter Susan, born November 30, 1794, married Richard Bayne, and their children were: Lawrence, William, George H., Charles, Washington and Patterson.
Charles Bayne was born near Baynesville, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1818, and died October 18th, 1885. He engaged in the tobacco business in Baltimore, Maryland, but when the civil war began he found it hazardous to continue his residence there because his sympathies were with the south. He and his family became one of the bands of refugees in Virginia who traveled from place to place in order to keep within the southern lines. About 1863 they took up their residence in Richmond, remaining there until 1870. He married Mary Ellen, daughter of Thomson and Anne Stuart (Menefee) Ashby. Thomas Ashby, supposed to be the first of the name in Virginia arrived in 1635. Thomas Ashby, believed to be the son or grandson of the immigrant, about 1700 located in what is now Fauquier county. He died in 1752. Robert, son of Captain Thomas Ashby born about 1710, died 1792, his wife having died before him. He spent his entire life on a farm near Delaplane and had a large family. His son Benjamin settled on land along the Shenandoah river which was given him by his father. It was Benjamin who served as second lieutenant in the Eighth Virginia Regimental Continental line, in 1777, was promoted to first lieutenant March 13, 1779, and March 18, 1779, was lieutenant of Third Virginia. His son, Captain John Ashby, born April 1, 1740, died March 4, 1815, served in the Third Virginia, Continental Line, from 1775-1777; was severely wounded at the battle of Brandywine in 1777, then retired from active service, but was continued as supernumerary on continental establishment. It was his uncle, Captain Jack Ashby, who founded what was known as Ashby's Fort, on Patterson Creek, and in Washington's correspondence with Governor Dinwiddie was frequently mentioned. Captain Jack Ashby, the nephew, married Mary Turner, of Maryland, who was born in 1750 and died in 1826. Thomson, son of Captain John Ashby, married Ann Stuart Menefee, granddaughter of Joseph Strother. Thomson Ashby was born in Culpeper county and served in the war of 1812. William Strother, founder of the family in Virginia, was living along the Rappahannock river, where he owned land. His wife was named Dorothy. Their son, William Strother, born before 1655, at his father's estate, now in King George county, became sheriff of the county. He married Margaret, daughter of Francis and Alice (Savage) Thornton. Francis Thornton was an ancestor of George Washington, a son of the first William Thornton, of Gloucester county, and Alice Savage was a daughter of Captain Anthony Savage, justice and high sheriff of Gloucester county. William (2) son of William and Margaret Strother, born about 1700, in 1727 purchased an estate on the river opposite Fredericksburg, which his widow sold to Augustine, father of George Washington, in 1738. He married Margaret Watts. Francis Strother, second son of William and Margaret Strother, married Susannah Dabney, of the Hanover family of that name, and their son was John Strother, born in Hanover county, died in April, 1795. The latter married Mary Willis Wade and shortly afterwards removed to Wadefield, Culpeper county. He was captain in the Culpeper militia in 1756, and saw active service in the French and Indian war. His son, Joseph Strother, married Ann Stewart, daughter of Robert and Mary Stuart. A daughter of this union, Mary Wade Strother, married William Menefee and is spoken of as a great beauty. Colonel William Menefee was born in 1762 and died in 1841, son of John and Mildred (Johnston) Menefee. Ann Stuart, daughter of William and Mary Wade (Strother) Menefee, married Thomson Ashby, of Fauquier, as above mentioned. Thomson Ashby, born March 31, 1785, was lieutenant in the Fifth Virginia Regiment, Captain Benjamin Cole's company from Culpeper, in the war of 1812, and died July 14, 1850. Mary Ellen, youngest daughter of Thomson and Anne Stuart (Menefee) Ashby, married Charles Bayne, and they had five children: Nannie Thomson, born in 1849, died in 1896, wife of Dr. David Branch; Howard Randolph Bayne, mentioned further; Estelle St. Pierre, wife of Fletcher Platt Jones, born 1853, died 1902; Frances Scott, born 1856, died 1893, and Hunter Ashby, born 1860, died 1887. Mrs. Charles Bayne was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, June 14, 1826, and died October 2, 1869.
In early boyhood Howard R. Bayne studied under private tutors and he prepared for college in Squire's School in Richmond. He graduated from Richmond college in 1872, with the degree of M. A. and from the same institution received the degree of B. L. in 1879, having taken the summer law course under Professor John B. Minor at the University of Virginia in 1878. He taught in the University School in Richmond two years after his graduation and for three years was principal of Pampatike Academy at the home of Colonel Thomas H. Carter in King William county, Virginia. In 1879 he was admitted to the Richmond bar and soon afterwards formed a partnership with James Alston Cabell, under the firm name of Bayne & Cabell, which continued until July, 1882, when Mr. Bayne left Richmond and took up his residence in New York City. At that time he was admitted to the New York bar, before which he has practiced continuously ever since. He resided in the city from 1882 until 1890, when he removed to his present home in New Brighton.
Mr. Bayne has taken a high place in legal circles and has taken a prominent part in promoting better social and civic conditions. In 1892 he was one of the opponents of the "Snap Convention" which tried to put aside Grover Cleveland's interests and make David B. Hill presidential candidate. The result of this movement was a revolution in the Democratic party in the state of New York and Mr. Bayne was a member of what became known as the "Anti-Snap" convention, as a delegate, and was a member of the state committee and sent as one of the contesting delegates to the Chicago convention where Cleveland was finally chosen as candidate.
Mr. Bayne has written numerous articles which have gained him honor in the literary field. In 1879 he accompanied Dr. Peyton H. Hoge on a tramp of over eight hundred miles through Virginia and during this trip wrote letters to the Richmond "Dispatch," under the assumed name of "Ego and Alter," which were later published in book form and commanded favorable comment. He is the author of several monographs, among them "The Year 1619 in the Colony of Virginia," "A Rebellion in the Colony of Virginia," "The Settlement of Jamestown," "The Application of the Monroe Doctrine" and was editor of Converse's Indexes "Virginia and West Virginia Law." Numerous articles by him have appeared at different times in the "Railroad Gazette," and several have been published by the Society of Colonial Wars. He belongs to the Greek letter society, Beta Theta Phi, the Colonnade Club of the University of Virginia, Richmond county Country Club, New York City and State Bar associations, Society of Cincinnati, Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, Virginia Historical Society, the Virginians of New York of which he has twice been elected governor, New York Southern Society, Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences (of which he has been president continuously since 1905), Reform Club of New York City, of which he is a trustee, and Fort Orange Club, of Albany.
In 1905 Mr. Bayne was appointed by Governor Higgins, of New York, a member of the Probation Commission of the state, and in 1909 Governor Hughes appointed him a member of the New York State Employers' Liability Commission. In 1908 he was elected to the state senate from the twenty-third district, comprising the counties of Richmond and Rockland, and was re-elected in 1910, but in 1912 declined renomination. In 1911-1912 he served as chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the senate and in the former year was appointed by the president of the senate chairman of the Senate Committee to investigate in city and county of Albany. He also served as member of senate committees on villages, agriculture, internal affairs of towns and counties, privileges and elections; forest, fish and game; commerce and navigation, and codes.
On April 27, 1886, Mr. Bayne married, in Richmond, Virginia, Lizzie S., daughter of Dr. Samuel Preston Moore, born in Texas, March 17, 1852. Dr. Moore was surgeon-general of the Confederate States of America, having previously been surgeon in the regular United States army, from which he resigned when his native state, South Carolina, seceded from the Union. He married Mary Augusta Brown, daughter of Major Jacob Brown, United States army, who was killed in the Mexican war when the troops under his command were attacked at Fort Brown, now Brownsville, Texas, named in his honor. Two sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bayne: Samuel Preston Moore, born at Richmond, October 7, 1887, died April 12, 1888, and Lloyd Moore Bayne, born at New Brighton, August 17, 1892; also one daughter Mary Ashby Moore, born September 18, 1889 The family attends Christ's Protestant Episcopal Church, at New Brighton, in which Mr. Bayne is a vestryman.

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Charles Augustus Mercer, D. D. S. At this time ex-president of the Virginia State Dental Association and just rounding out forty years of professional activity in the city of Richmond, Dr. Charles Augustus Mercer stands preëminent in dental circles in the city and state. Maker of a worthy record as a dental practitioner, his connection with other of Richmond's interests are many, and fraternally and socially he is well known and favored. Dr. Mercer's birthplace is Richmond, and numberless ties bind him to this city, which has given him high recognition as a leader in his profession.
Dr. Charles Augustus Mercer, son of Isaac J. and Josephine Virginia (Arselle) Mercer, was born in Richmond, Virginia, June 14, 1853, and after a general education pursued professional studies in the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, whence he was graduated in the class of 1874. He at once began professional work in the city of Richmond, and for the past thirty years has had steadily increased during those years is ample evidence of the public confidence in his skill an ability, while the honors that have come to him in professional organizations and from his professional brethren have shown the esteem in which he is held in those circles. Dr. Mercer is ex-president of the Virginia State Dental Association and the National Dental Association, and has represented Virginia in several conventions of international importance. From 1886 to 1889 he was secretary of the Virginia State Board of Dental Examiners, a board inaugurated in 1886, and six years afterward was elected to another full term in this body but declined to serve. Dr. Mercer's fraternal orders are the Knights of Pythias, the Royal Arcanum, the Columbian Woodmen of the World, and the Masonic, in all of which he holds important official position. He is a communicant of the Second Baptist Church, of Richmond.
He married, in Richmond, in 1878, Nannie Robertson, born in Richmond, daughter of Jefferson S. Robertson. Mrs. Mercer died May 13, 1913, the mother of seven children: Dr. C. Wilbur; E. Garnett, a civil engineer of Richmond; Caroline, married Joseph C. Briston, engaged in the insurance business in Richmond; Isaac John, an optician of Petersburg, Virginia; Edwin Dunn, a lumber dealer of Chicago, Illinois; Morton, connected with the Merchants' National Bank, of Richmond; Cabell Tabb, a dental student at the Medical College of Virginia, class of 1914. Dr. married (second) January 7, 1915, Eithel W. Davenport, of King William county, Virginia, daughter of E. M. and Lelia Marshall (McKenzie) Davenport.