Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography

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John Benjamin Pinder. On paternal lines Mr. Pinder is of early Georgia ancestry, and on the maternal side is a direct descendant of John Adam Treutlen, governor of Georgia, one of the foremost revolutionists of that state. He was a member of the first provincial Congress of Geogia, which met in Savannah, July 4, 1775, and the prominence of his activity in the cause of independence may be measured from the fact that he was described as a "rebel governor" by act of the royal government in 1780. He was elected governor of Georgia, May 8, 1777, over Button Gwinnett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, by a large majority. The circumstances of his death are not known, but the belief is that he was murdered by Tories at Orangeburg, South Carolina.
(I) John Benjamin Pinder's paternal revolutionary ancestor is Joseph William Pinder, a cotton planter, who fought in the colonial army, a patriot strong and true.
(II) Joseph William (2) Pinder, son of Joseph William (1) Pinder, was born on Wilmington Island, near Savannah, Georgia, in the Savannah river, in 1833, died in 1903. His early life was passed in the place of his birth, and he was there educated. In young manhood he became identified with the service of the Georgia Central Railroad, and rose to high position in the road. In such great favor was he held by the officials thereof that at the outbreak of the war in 1861, when he announced his intention of leaving for the front, the president of the road attempted to dissuade him, arguing that his services were of such great value to the road that he could best serve the Confederate government by remaining at his post and directing the use of the campany's property for government purposes. Mr. Pinder, however, was not to be turned from his original purpose, and he enlisted in the Savannah Volunteer Guards, serving throughout the four years' struggle. For the ten years prior to his death, which occurred in Richmond, he was a farmer and dairyman of Henrico county, owning and cultivating land just outside of the limits of the city of Richmond. He married, about 1867, Adelaide, born in Powhatan county, Virginia, daughter of Peter and Susan (Spears) Ellett, his first wife a Miss Turner, of Savannah, Georgia, who bore him one daughter, Susie, married a Mr. Harris. Children of Joseph William (2) and Adelaide (Ellett) Pinder: Hattie E., married W. R. Allen; Joseph William Jr., deceased; Octavia, married L. F. Hudson; Annie, married Oscar High; John Benjamin, of whom further; Walter Spears; Bena T., married Coleman Johnson; Catherine Belle, married Robert L. Rand.
(III) John Benjamin Pinder, son of Joseph William (2) and Adelaide (Ellett) Pinder, was born in Goochland county, Virginia, August 7, 1873. When he was one year old his parents moved from the home at Cedar Point to Powhatan county, and here he first attended public school at the age of fourteen years going with his parents to Henrico county. Although his active business career began in Richmond when he was sixteen years of age, his studies were not completed until afterward, when he finished a business course in a Richmond commercial college. His first connection was with hardware dealing, an in this he has since remained, in 1901 establishing the Virginia-Carolina Hardware Company, becoming its executive head. Mr. Pinder is president of the company at the present time, W. S. Pinder, vice-president, H. G. Ellett, secretary and treasurer, and J. S. Ellett, Jr., assistant secretary and treasurer. The salesrooms and warehouse of the concern are in Richmond, and the Virginia-Carolina Hardware Company holds prominent place among the largest enterprises in its line in the state. Mr. Pinder is also president of the Richmond Buggy Manufacturing Company, and is on the directorate of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce. He is a progressive, energetic business man, head of two of Richmond's thriving businesses, and takes more than a passive interest in securing to the city the industrial and commercial importance it has long held. His political party is the Democratic, and although never the candidate of his party for public office he is active in its councils. His fraternal society is the Masonic order, his clubs the Rotary, Westmoreland, Country, and Business Men's, and he is a communicant of the Presbyterian church.
Mr. Pinder married, at Louisa Court House, Virginia, June 28, 1906, Helen Hasting, born in Louisa county, Virginia. August 29, 1878, daughter of Colonel William A. Winston, and his wife, Lucy (Payne) Winston, born in Goochland county, now residing in Louisa county, Virginia. Col. William A. Winston served during the four years of the war between the states; was wounded and confined in a Northern prison. He died in 1908, aged seventy years. Mr. and Mrs. Pinder are the parents of: John Benjamin Jr., born September 10, 1908; Lucy Payne, born January 25, 1912.

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Judge William Bruce Martin. In succeeding generations of the family of Martin, numbering men who have held prominent and important position in all walks of life, no single figure stands out in honorable relief more plainly than does that of General James Green Martin, father of Judge William Bruce Martin, of Norfolk, Virginia, a present day representative of his family. A graduate of West Point, General Martin, then a second lieutenant, won fame and promotion in the war with Mexico, sacrificing an arm in the struggle, and afterward, under the flag of the Confederate States of America, added to his reputation as a brave soldier and gallant officer, rising to the rank of brigadier-general. His record places him among the heroes of the war between the states, and constitutes a chapter in the history of the line of Martin that brings to the name distinction and honor. His son, Judge William Bruce Martin, judge of the Norfolk court of law and chancery, has won for the family name eminence in legal circles, and in peace has performed works useful and enduring, with the fidelity and zeal that won for his father front rank among the military leaders of the Confederacy.
Despite the fact that Judge William Bruce Martin is a native of Delaware and that his father, General James Green Martin, owned North Carolina as his birthplace, the family is one of Virginia, and in this state Dr. William Martin, grandfather of Judge William Bruce Martin, was born. Dr. William Marton, who was a son of James Green Martin and Susanna (Bruce) Martin, of Virginia, was a member of the medical profession, but had also numerous business and public interests, so that his activity in his profession was somewhat curtailed by his other responsibilities. He moved from Virginia to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, where he practiced medicine, owned a plantation and supervised its cultivation, was a well known shipbuilder, represented his district in the state legislature, and was a general officer of the state troops of North Carolina, in which state he passed his mature years. Dr. William Martin married Sophia Daugé, and had issue: Charles F., James Green, of whom further, William F., Robert Bruce, Susan, Margaret and Sophia.
General James Green Martin, son of Dr. William and Sophia (Daugé) Martin, was born at Elizabeth City, Pasquotank county, North Carolina, February 14, 1819, and died in 1878. His career was a story of service under two flags, to both of which he yielded earnest and sincere devotion. After preliminary study at St. Mary's School, in Raleigh, North Carolina, he became a student at West Point, entering that institution in July, 1836, many of his friends and classmates of that time his allies of one war, his enemies of the next. Graduating in July, 1840, General Martin was commissioned a second lieutenant in the First Regiment of Artillery, and after garrison duty and for a short time in the field on the Canadian frontier, during the controversy with England concerning the Maine and New Brunswick boundaries, reported with his battery, Taylor's, to General Taylor, at Brownsville, Texas, for duty on the Rio Grande, war being declared with Mexico, May 12, 1846. From this time until the battle of Cherubusco, August 20, 1847, he was in active service. In this encounter his right arm was severed by a grape-shot while his battery was hotly engaged with the enemy, which was strongly entrenched behind stone walls, pierced for musketry and artillery, but despite the shock, he formally gave Jackson command of the battery and road unassisted from the field. He was breveted major after this battle, his commission reading "For Gallant and Meritorious Conduct at the Battles of Contreras and Cherubusco." While this exhibition of fortitude and pluck won the admiration of his men, it was during the three days' assault on Monterey, September 21, 22 and 23, 1846, that General Martin, then a second lieutenant, gained his highest place in the affections of his men. At this assault he was in command of the battery, "Stonewall" Jackson second in command, and distinguished himself by fighting his guns through to the Plaza, clearing the houses of the enemy's riflemen as he went and arriving before the infantrymen advancing up converging streets. The pride of the artillery branch of the service over this achievement was so great that General Martin was ever after known in his old regiment as the "Man of Monterey."
After his discharge from the hospital in the city of Mexico after the close of the war. General Martin was transferred to the staff, appointed assistant quartermaster, and was stationed first in the east and later in the west, located at Fort Riley in the territory of Kansas when the political situation became so strained that the secession of the southern states from the Union began. When the news of the decision of North Carolina arrived at distant Fort Riley, General Martin, by training and conviction a believer in "State's Rights," forwarded his resignation from the army of the United States to Washington, and started upon his long journey to Raleigh to offer his sword to his native state and his services to the cause his sword upheld. The severance of old ties was no easy task, and bitter was the furling of the well loved flag, but conscience, obeying her insistent master, duty, offered soothing balm in the realization of a righteous decision.
Upon his arrival in Raleigh, General Martin immediately called upon Governor Ellis and tendered his services in any capacity in which he could serve the state. He was given his late rank in the United States army, that of major, and was appointed adjutant-general of the force of ten thousand volunteers known as the "State Troops of North Carolina," then mobilizing at the capital under act of the legislature of May 10. In this office he devoted himself to the arming, equipping, drilling, and disciplining of this body of men until he took charge of all the troops of the state by commission from the governor, under act of the legislature of September 20, empowering the governor to appoint "an adjutant and inspector general with the rank of major general, who shall be general-in-chief of all the forces of North Carolina." The rapidity with which preparation followed preparation under General Martin's all-seeing eye and tireless direction revealed the practical, prudent, wise, and forceful commander, who marshaled his forces with unerring accuracy and placed into use all of the state's resources. Everything in the state was at his disposal, men, money, property, for he was "charged with the defense of the state," and to that end endowed with authority almost boundless. That a full realization of the numberless pressing duties bearing upon his shoulders may be gained is the following incomplete list of the action he directed: The militia laws were changed; horses for the mounted arms and transport service were bought in Kentucky and hurried in droves through the mountains; saddles and harness material were secured by special agents in New Orleans and rushed to Raleigh; powder works and arsenals for the manufacture and remodeling of arms were established; camps of military instruction set up; skilled armorers were secured to produce sabres, bayonets, and small swords; shoe and clothing factories were located at several points in the state; quartermaster, commissary, and ordinance stores were collected from all section; pieces for the artillery provided; the coasts defended, notwithstanding the fact that the Confederacy had undertaken that; the militia called out, drilled, disciplined, and, as equipped, mustered into the Confederate service and sent to the front in Virginia, until North Carolina finally furnished to the armies of the Confederacy more troops than any other state and more fighting men in proportion to her population than any other nation ever furnished in any war. To this wonderful effect General Martin labored before he took the field. He also, with the consent of Governor Vance, instituted the system of blockade running, shipping cotton to Europe and getting in return clothing and arms for his troops.
In the spring of 1862 Burnside captured Newbern and was threatening an advance from that base. On May 15, General Martin received a letter from General Lee enclosing a commission as brigadier-general in the Confederate army, asking its acceptance and that he would take command of eastern North Carolina "in this emergency." This General Martin did, taking command of a brigade that he had mustered into the service from North Carolina, and Burnside was successfully checked. After this, although constantly in touch with and the adviser of the state government, he returned but once to his duties as adjutant-general remaining in the field until the close of the war. In the command of his brigade his West Point and soldier training came to the surface, and he drilled his troops hard and incessantly, despite their dissatisfaction at the rigorous discipline he enforced. Without their knowledge, and decidedly against their will, he was transforming the crudest of raw material into one of the most dependable brigades in the Confederate army, a brigade whose reputation for bravery and soldier conduct under fire became known to all the army leaders.
The great efficiency and rapid movements of his brigade won favorable notice at Bermuda Hundred, May 17, 1864, and on May 20, at the hard fought battle of Howlitz its quick and exact obedience did much to win the day. In this engagement, while charging the enemy under heavy fire, General Martin, perceiving the Sixty-sixth, the color regiment, pressing forward too eagerly and so disturbing the brigade alignment, sent an aide to Colonel Moore directing him to "dress the brigade on the colors." This order the colonel, seizing the colors in his own hand, proceeded immediately to execute, and the brigade, in as perfect alignment as though on parade, swept on and carried the enemy's position. The general's gallantry had been so conspicuous during the day, and the success of his promptly given and faultlessly executed orders so complete, that in the evening the men, the scales fallen from their eyes and shamed by their earlier murmurings against his strict rule, relieved their feelings in a manner most unusual. Rejoicing in their steadiness under fire and the result of the fight and glorying in their commander, they stormed headquarters and with ringing cheers carried him about the camp on their shoulders, a tribute to the general which was a shock to his soldierly dignity, but which afforded him much inward gratification. A line officer, writing at the close of the war of t his period, said: "And from this time on the general was greatly beloved, the men having unbounded confidence in his military skill and admiration for his personal bravery, illustrated on every field of battle where they followed him." That this confidence and regard was mutual was proven a few days later, when General Lee, to hod a strategic angle at Cold Harbor, offered to replace his brigade with veteran troops, General Martin replying: "Say to General Lee, with my compliments, that my men are soldiers, and that he has no brigade in his army that will hold this place any longer than they will."
The complete history of General Martin's career in the war of 1861-65 fills many pages in the chronicles of that conflict, and the greater fullness in which it is depicted, the greater the appreciation of his services to the Confederacy becomes. Through him North Carolina bore such a noble part in the struggle, and it is General Lee who once said of General James Green Martin, "General Martin is one to whom North Carolina owes a debt she will never pay." His name will ever live as one of the most loyal of patriots, bravest of soldiers, and ablest of leaders.
At the close of the war General Martin studied law and was engaged in its practice until his death, thirteen years after the re-establishment of peace. He became a lawyer soundly based in his profession and upright in its practice, and in civil life was progressive and modern in ideas and ideals. The welfare of his church, the Protestant Episcopal, was always his great concern, and he was a useful member of Trinity parish, and its missions at Asheville and other places in the locality. He was also a familiar figure in the diocesan and general conventions of the church. A feature of his Christian activity that gives perhaps a truer insight into the nature of the man than all that has gone before is the work he accomplished through the establishment of missions at the frontier posts in which he was quartered when in the Old Army, many of which have grown into churches with outlying missions.
His life was eventful in the extreme, and into its fifty-nine confining years he crowded accomplishment of almost unbelievable magnitude and diversity. He followed duty constantly and faithfully, and in its pursuit found only honor, the regard of his fellows, and, it must be, the approval of his Master.
General James Green Martin married (first) at Newport, Rhode Island, July 12, 1844, Mary Anne Murry Read, a great-granddaughter of George Read, a signer of the Declaration of Independence from Delaware, and of General William Thompson, a brigadier-general in the revolutionary army; (second) February 8, 1858, Hetty King, a sister of General Rufus King, United States army, a fellow student of General Martin at West Point, eldest daughter of Charles King, president of Columbia College, New York, and granddaughter of Rufus King, first American minister to the court of St. James. Children of General James Green Martin, all of his first marriage: William Bruce, of whom further; Annie Hollingswood; Marianne Read and James Green (2).
Judge William Bruce Martin, on of General James Green Martin and is first wife, Mary Anne Murry Read, was born in New Castle, Delaware, September 18, 1846. he attended the Virginia Military Institute while that excellent institution was open during the civil war, and although a member of the cadet corps that fought with such distinction in the battle of New Market, failed of participation in that battle because he was confined by illness to the hospital. He, however, served with the corps until the close of the war being a lieutenant in Company D, at the time of the evacuation of Richmond, where the cadets were among the last troops withdrawn from the trenches. After the war he worked on a farm, clerked in a store, taught school and read law in the office of Judge Bailey in Asheville, North Carolina. He became a licensed lawyer in North Carolina in 1867, and in the summer of 1868 establishing himself in legal practice in Norfolk, Virginia, where he has since remained, having at different times been a member of the law firms of Duffield & Martin, and Starke & Martin, the latter a connection lasting until his elevation to the bench. This honor came in 1895, when the court of law and chancery was established in Norfolk for the relief of the corporation court, which previous to that time had heard all civil and criminal cases. Judge Martin was recommended by the bar of Norfolk to the legislature for election to the judgeship of this court by the decisive vote of fifty-six to twenty-eight, and has been continuously re=elected by the legislature since that date, having now completed his twentieth year upon the Norfolk bench. He was last year elected by the legislature for another term of eight years beginning February 1, 1915. Through his conspicuous ability Judge Martin has gained the public confidence and the respect and admiration of the members of the legal fraternity who plead before him. He is a jurist, exact, fearless and impartial, and his decisions bear the stamp of integrity, honor, and deep regard for right and justice. His court does an immense business, and it is but natural that some appeals should be taken, but his average of affirmances is one in which he may take pride. To him has been fittingly applied the compliment originally paid a celebrated English jurist: "When the judicial ermine descended upon him it touched nothing less pure than itself." In the long term that he has held his seat upon the bench he has remained in the highest estimation of those wh first found his worth as a lawyer, and the court over which he presides fulfills the worthy aim of its founding, for he is energetic and tireless in the performance of duty.
Judge Martin was for three terms city attorney of Norfolk, an office filled by popular vote, and also served Norfolk as a member of the city council, in which body his strong influence was happily felt. To the legal profession at large he is best known as the author of an index-digest of Virginia decisions, a work that, upon its publication, gained the unanimous and hearty approval of lawyers throughout the state and the sincere praise of all in a position to appreciate its value.
Judge Martin, like his father, is actively interested in church work. He was one of the founders of St. Luke's Church, Norfolk, and is a member of the vestry and the board of trustees of St. Andrew's Church, Richmond, of which he also was a founder. He has thrice represented the diocese of southern Virginia in the general convention, and is also treasurer of the Diocesan Missionary Society of that diocese.
Judge William Bruce Martin married, June 25, 1878, Elizabeth Marchant Starke, daughter of General L. D. Starke, of Norfolk, Virginia. They have five children living: Elizabeth Starke, James Green, Lida Starke, Marianne Read and George Read; William Bruce and Lucien Starke, died in infancy.
James Green Martin, son of William Bruce, married Henrietta Victoria Niemeyer, of Portsmouth, Virginia, and they have had four children: William Bruce, now deceased; James Green; Henrietta Calvert; Margaret Marchant. These are Judge Martin's only grandchildren.

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Cecil Edward Martin, M. D. This branch of the Martin family is of North Carolina, that state having been the place of birth of Dr. Cecil Edward Martin, of North Emporia, Virginia. From North Carolina this line gave to the American army in the war of the revolution Jonathan Martin, who attained the wonderful age of one hundred and four years, while in the later war between the states, Harrison Martin, grandfather of Dr. Cecil Edward Martin, was a soldier in a regiment of cavalry recruited in North Carolina.
(I) Harrison Martin was born in Northampton county, North Carolina, and served throughout the entire four years of the civil war, returning to his home after the surrender at Appomattox Court House. He married Rebecca Johnson, among his sons being Henry Edward, of whom further.
(II) Henry Edward Martin, son of Harrison and Rebecca (Johnson) Martin, was born in Northampton county, North Carolina, in 1853, and there resides to the present time. His calling is that of farmer. He married Martha Jane Gardner, born in Northampton county, North Carolina, daughter of Jesse D. and Martha Jane Gardner. Among the sons of Jesse D. and Martha Jane Gardner are John R., Henry and William R. Gardner. Children of Henry Edward and Martha Jane (Gardner) Martin: Cecil Edward, of whom further; Verona, born in 1881; Lucy Freeman, born in Northampton county, North Carolina, in 1883, married Jacob Oldham; Jesse H., born in Northampton county, North Carolina, September 4, 1885, died December 6, 1913, a farmer, married Winnie Parker.
(III) Dr. Cecil Edward Martin, son of Henry Edward and Martha Jane (Gardner) Martin, was born in Northampton county, North Carolina, September 14, 1879, and was there educated in the public schools, graduating from high school in 1903. He afterward entered Wake Forest College, near Raleigh, North Carolina, taking a two years' course. In 1907 he became a student in the Virginia University College of Medicine at Richmond, North Carolina, and received his M. D. in 1909, in which year he passed the examinations of the Virginia Medical Board and was licensed to practice his profession in the state. He is now a practitioner of North Emporia, Virginia, where he has been cordially received by his professional brethren and is held in high public esteem, attending the needs of a generous and lucrative practice.
Dr. Martin is a member of the American Medical Society, and the South Side Medical Association, being vice-president of the last-named organization. In 1912 he read a paper before the South Side Medical Association,his topic being "Catching Cold," his dissertation instructive aznd thoroughly conprehensive. Dr. Martin is local register of vital statistics of the Bellfield district of Virginia. He is a charter member of North Carolina Lodge, No. 524, Free and Acctpted Masons, and is past senor warden of that lodge. He took his degrees in American George Lodge, No. 17, of Murfreesboro, North Carolina, in 1900; member of Lodge No. 292, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Emporia; was a charter member of Rich Square Lodge, Northampton county, North Carolina; member of Woodmen of the World; and Meherin Camp, No. 59, Royal Arcanum, of Petersburg. Dr. Martin is a strong Democratic sympathizer, and is a communicant of the Baptist church.
Dr. Martin married Catherine E. Skikes, born in Northampton county, North Carolina, September 1, 1880, daughter of John A. and Nannie (Carter) Skikes, the ceremony being solemnized May 12, 1904. They are the parents of: Virginia C., born in Richmond, Virginia, May 24, 1909; Mary Lou, born in Northampton county, North Carolina, January 27, 1911; Catherine Louise, born in Northampton county, North Carolina, August 17, 1912.
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Benjamin Oliver James. There were several emigrant ancestors by the name of James, who founded families in America during the colonial times. At the close of the revolutionary war there were some twenty-five or more heads of families of that name in Virginia, who were scattered in a number of counties of that state. A family tradition handed down in this particular branch of the James family is to the effect that the antecedent of this family settled in Charles River county near the James river early in the seventeenth century; and in Hotten's lists of emigrants from the port of London to be transported to Virginia there appears the following names, to wit: In a list dated January 22, 1632, William James; in a list dated January 2, 1834, Thomas James; in a list dated May 15, 1635, William James; in a list dated August 21, 1635, Lewis James, and Ursula James; and in list dated October 13, 1635, Roger James. It is probable that the emigrant ancestor of the Charles City county, Virginia, family of James, was some one in the above mentioned lists; but as to which one there is no extant lineage record to show.
Also Levi James, an emigrant, had descendants who settled in Loudoun county, Virginia, and scattered from there to various other places. He was born about 1715 in Pembrokeshire, Wales; married there, in 1740, Mary James, whose family was known as the "Little James," while her husband's family was known as the "Big James," and emigrated to America in 1745. He arrived at the port of Wilmington, Delaware, and settled in, probably, Chester county, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1757. They had a son, Joseph James, born 1745, during the ocean voyage of his parents to America; he served in the war of the revolution; died in 1786, at Bacon Ford, Virginia, leaving surviving issue in Loudoun county, Virginia. Another James family was of Westmoreland county, Virginia, prior to the separation from the mother country, whose descendants have not been followed.
Martin James was born June 21, 1789, in Goochland county, Virginia. He was a schoolmaster, a farmer and a merchant, and one of the justices of the county for some years; also served a brief time in the war of 1812, probably in the state militia. He married Emmaline Duvall, daughter of Claiborne and Mary (Falconer) Duvall, March 18, 1834, in Spottsylvania county, Virginia. She was born July 26, 1813, in Spottsylvania county, Virginia, and was descended from Huguenot ancestors. Her mother was Mary Falconer, of Orange county, Virginia; and her father, Claiborne Duvall, was born in Maryland, and was a farmer in Spottsylvania county, Virginia.
Benjamin Oliver James, son of Martin and Emmaline (Duvall) James, was born June 4, 1852, at Elton, Goochland county, Virginia. He received elementary instruction in the local schools of his native county, and then attended the Hampden-Sidney College of Prince Edward county, Virginia, where he received an academic education. Later he studied law at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, in 1873-74. Soon afterward he began the practice of law at Goochland Court House, Virginia, and about 1882 was elected commonwealth attorney for Goochland county, Virginia. He served two successive terms being re-elected; afterward he was elected a member of the house of delegates for the session 1891-92, and served on the committee of courts and judiciary, Federal relations, and of the Chesapeake and its tributaries. He continued to practice law in Goochland county until he was appointed by the governor to fill an unexpired term of secretary of the commonwealth, in September, 1909. At the state elections held in November, 1909, he was elected secretary of the state for the ensuing term, and has served four years in that office. He was a candidate for re-election to the same office in 1913, and was elected at the November elections of that year. Mr. James has always been a stanch Democrat and has for years been identified in local and state politics; is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church; a member of Done Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and past master of the lodge, past exalted ruler of Richmond Lodge, No. 45, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Also he is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi college fraternity of Lexington, Virginia, and a member of the Westmoreland Club, of Richmond, Virginia.
Mr. James married Mary Evelyn Kean, daughter of Dr. Otho W. and Jane Smith (Arthur) Kean, December 22, 1910, at Richmond, Virginia. She was born at Buchanon, Goochland county, Virginia; was descended from the Arthur family of Botetourt county, Virginia, and her father, Dr. Otho W. Kean, was a prominent physician in the town of Buchanon; also supreintendent of Goochland county public schools for many years. There are no children of the above mentioned marriage.

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Hugh B. Mahood, M. D. Locating in North Emporia, Virginia, in the year 1900, in graduate M. D. and registered pharmacist, Dr. Mahood has established a lucrative medical practice and an honorable name wherever known. His father, William H. B. Mahood, was born in Petersburg, Virginia, where he died in 1872. He was an enlisted soldier of the Confederacy, serving four years, but during the greater part of the time was engaged in the secret service of the Confederate government. He was slightly wounded at the battle of the Seven Pines but escaped serious injury although often engaged in perilous service. His brother, Alexander B. Mahood, a banker of Petersburg, was the financial agent for the Confederate government in that city. After the war William H. B. Mahood engaged in mercantile business in Petersburg until his death. He married Mary L., daughter of Robert C. and Matilda (Worrell) Barnes. Her brothers, Benjamin Lewis and Robert McKengree Barnes, served in the Confederate army, the former an officer on the staff of General Roger A. Pryor. Children: 1. William A., born in 1860, now railroad and express agent and postmaster at Pleasant Shade, Virginia; he married Emily Pope and has a son Benjamin W., and one daughter. 2. Mary. 3. Hugh H., of further mention.
Dr. Hugh B. Mahood, son of William H. B. and Mary L. (Barnes) Mahood, was born in Petersburg, Virginia, July 28, 1870. He was educated in public and private schools of that city, and in 1896 entered the Medical College of Virginia, whence he was graduated M. D., class of "99." He served as interne in the Protestant Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia, and in 1900 located in Emporia, Greenville county, Virginia, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. Prior to entering medical college, he was for a time a drug clerk in Petersburg and studied pharmacy. He passed the Virginia State Board of Pharmacy and secured a registered druggist license. He then entered the navy as an apothecary, where he remained for three years, and after leaving the navy he matriculated in the medical department of the Medical College of Virginia, and graduated in the class of 1899 with the degree of M. D. He is local surgeon for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and stands high in the regard of his professional brethren. Dr. Mahood devoted three years to the service of his state in the National Guard, enlisting as a private, was promoted surgeon with the rank of lieutenant, but his increasing practice compelled him to resign. He is a member of the Virginia Medical Society and of the Pi Mu Greek letter fraternity of his college. He is a member of "Widow's Son" Lodge, No. 152, Free and Accepted Masons, of Emporia. He is an attendant of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Dr. Mahood married, at Richmond, Virginia, June 9, 1903, Clara de Greffenreidt Boswell, born in Lunenburg county, Virginia, November 30, 1884, daughter of William Boswell.

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Junius Waverly Pulley. As a young member of the Southampton county bar, Mr. Pulley is winning his way to a good practice in Courtland, where he located after receiving his degree and being admitted to the bar in 1913. He is a native of Southampton county, his parents coming there from Isle of Wight county, Virginia. He is a grandson of Richard Henry Pulley, of Isle of Wight county, Virginia, and son of Frank Pierce Pulley, a farmer of Southampton county, born in Isle of Wight county in 1851. Frank Pierce Pulley married Cora Fanny Stephenson, daughter of Levi Stephenson, who served four years in the Confederate army in a Virginia regiment. Children: Lloyd C., born in 1882, married (first) Daisy Edwards, married (second) Rose Bradshaw; John Levi, born in 1886, married Mary Holmes; Junius Waverly, of further mention; Frank Pierce, born in 1894; Richard Henry, born in 1896; Douglass Holden, born in 1899; Thomas, born in 1901.
Junius Waverly Pulley, third son of Frank Pierce and Cora Fanny (Stephenson) Pulley, was born in Southampton county, Virginia, March 16, 1890. His early life was spent at the home farm and in attendance at the public schools at Ivor. He was a student at Virginia Military Institute, going thence to Richmond College, and after one year there entering the law department of Washington and Lee University in 1910, where in 1913, he was graduated with the degree of LL. B. He was admitted to the Virginia bar in the same year and located in Courtland, where he began the practice of his profession. Although beset with all the difficulties that confront the young aspirant for legal advancement, Mr. Pulley has succeeded beyond his expectations and has secured honorable standing in his profession. He is a member of the Southampton County Bar Association, a Democrat in politics, a member of the Baptist church, teacher in the Sunday school, member of the Woodman of the World, and is held in high esteem professionally and socially. His college fraternity and society is the Phi Gamma Delta and Grayham Lee, both of Washington and Lee University.

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Elisha Leavenworth McGill, M. D., of Petersburg, has been established in that city for eleven years, and has acquired in that time a prominent standing in the profession, and well-merited success as a practitioner. He bears in his veins the Scotch blood which has been instrumental in settling and developing large sections of the south. His grandfather, John McGill, was a native of Scotland, who came to America and settled at Port Perry, Canada.
(II) John (2) McGill, son of John (1) McGill, was born about 1821, in Canada, and when a young man removed to Virginia and located in Petersburg before the civil war. For many years he was a member of the firm of Watson & McGill, tobacco manufacturers, and is now living, retired, in Petersburg, at the age of eighty-three years. He married Helen Elizabeth Leavenworth, born June 11, 1836, in North Carolina, and died June 26, 1913, in Petersburg, a descendant of a very old American family. Thomas Leavenworth, a native of England, came to America after 1664, and resided in Woodbury, Connecticut, where he died August 3, 1863. He was survived for some years by his wife Grace, who was the mother of two sons, Thomas and John, and a daughter, whose name is not preserved. Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) and Grace Leavenworth, born 1673, probably in Woodbury, died August 4, 1754, in the parish of Ripton, then a part of Stratford, now the town of Huntington, Fairfield county, Connecticut. He was a physician, a man of much energy and strong character, and accumulated considerable wealth for his time. He resided in Woodbury until 1695, at which time he purchased land in Stratford, and resided there until 1721, when he settled in Ripton parish of the same town. He was received in full communion at the Stratford church in 1698, and with his wife and several of his children was among the founders of the Ripton church. He married, about 1698, in Stratford, Mary, daughter of David and Grace Jenkins, born there in 1680, died in June, 1768, in Ripton. Their sixth son, Mark Leavenworth, was born about 1711, and died August 20, 1797, in Waterbury, Connecticut. He graduated at Yale in 1737, was licensed to preach in the following year, and settled at Waterbury, where he was an influential member of the community, an able preacher, and highly esteemed. He preached the annual election sermon before the assembly at Hartford in 1772. In 1760 he was appointed chaplain of the second Connecticut Regiment of Militia, was re-appointed the following year, and accompanied the regiment in an expedition to Canada. He married (first) February 6, 1740, Ruth, daughter of Rev. Jeremiah Peck, the first minister at Waterbury. His second wife was Sarah Hall. His eldest son, Colonel Jesse Leavenworth, born November 22, 1741, in Waterbury, died December 12, 1824, at Sacket's Harbor, New York. He graduated at Yale College and settled at Danville, Vermont, about 1784, residing them many years. He married (first) July 1, 1761, Catherine, widow of Culpeper Frisby, and daughter of John Conkling, of Suffolk county, New York. He married (second) Eunice Sperry. Dr. Frederick Leavenworth, son of Colonel Jesse and Catherine (Conkling-Frisby) Leavenworth, was born September 4, 1766, in Waterbury, where he engaged in the practice of medicine, and also in manufacturing, and died May 17, 1840. He married May 19, 1796, Fanny, daughter of Abner and Lydia (Bunnell) Johnson, of Waterbury, born February 28,,1766, died May 14, 1852. Abner Johnson Leavenworth, second son of Dr. Frederick and Fanny (Johnson) Leavenworth, was born July 12, 1803, in Waterbury, and died February 12, 1869, in Petersburg, Virginia. He graduated at Amherst College in 1825, studied theology at Andover Seminary, and was licensed to preach, April 22, 1828. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational church at Bristol, Connecticut, December 16, 1829, and continued two years in that charge, when he removed to Charlotte, North Carolina, and became pastor of the Presbyterian church there. He also established a young ladies' school, of which he was principal, and was very active in ecclesiastical affairs in the state. By lectures, newspaper articles and the distributions of tracts, he endeavored to stimulate the interest of the people of that state in public education. In 1838 he removed to Warrinton, Virginia, where he established a school. One year later he went to Petersburg to take charge of the new High Street Church, leaving his school at Warrinton in charge of his wife. For four years he was pastor of the High Street Church, and also established a school at Petersburg, which attained a very great success, previous to the civil war. That struggle interfered with the school, but it was resumed, and again took high place among the educational institutions of the state. Mr. leavenworth was engaged here, as in North Carolina, in educational work, and at the time of his death was corresponding secretary of the Virginia Educational Association, in whose organization he was an active participator. He married, June 6, 14, 1831, Elizabeth Manning Peabody, of Salem, Massachusetts, born March 30, 1809, died June 25, 1841, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Manning) Peabody. She was of great assistance to him in his school work, and left an impress upon educational matters of the state. Children: Frederick P., born June 13, 1833, was a railroad engineer, and resided at Shreveport, Louisiana; Helen Elizabeth, above mentioned as the wife of John (2) McGill; Abner Augustus and Mary Frances, died in infancy. The children of John (2) McGill were: John and Frederick, died during the civil war; Helen Leslie, wife of Alexander Hamilton, of Petersburg; Fanny Page, Mrs. F. R. Lassiter, died January 1, 1906; William L., of Petersburg, married Otelia Mahone; Dora Stuart, wife of Thomas B. Scott, of Richmond; Mary Peabody, Mrs. Thomas A. Johnson, of Rochester, New York; Elisha Leavenworth, of further mention; Grace Leavenworth, wife of Iredell Jones, of Columbia, South Carolina.
(III) Dr. Elisha Leavenworth McGill, son of John (2) and Helen Elizabeth (Leavenworth) McGill, was born May 12, 1875, in Petersburg, and was educated in the celebrated McCabe's School of that city, and the Virginia Military Institute, from which he graduated in 1897. Following this he entered the medical department of Columbia University, New York, from which he was graduated in 1901. After a valuable experience in the City Hospital on Blackwell's Island, New York, he was for some time associated with the Children's Hospital on Randolph Island. In 1904 he established a practice in his native city, where he has gained success and popularity. His standing in the profession is indicated by his membership in numerous medical associations, including the Petersburg Medical Faculty, the oldest medical association in Virginia, the Southern Medical Association, and the American Medical Association. He is also a member of the Kappa Alpha college fraternity. He attends the Presbyterian church of Petersburg.
Dr. McGill married, September 2, 1907, at Berryville, Virginia, Helen McGill Page, a native of that place, daughter of Robert Powell and Martha (Hardee) Page. Robert Powell Page was throughout his life a physician at Berryville, was a member of Mahone's brigade during the civil war, and died July, 1914, at the age of seventy-six years. His wife died in January of the same year. Dr. and Mrs. McGill have a daughter, Evelyn Page, born October 7, 1911.