Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography

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Henry Delaware Flood, Congressman. For more than a quarter of a century Congressman Flood has been in the public service of his state and as commonwealth attorney, state representative, state senator and United States Congressman, has rendered service of value not only to his own state, but to the nation. To the cluster of stars designating the states of the Union, he was instrumental in adding two representing New Mexico and Arizona, he bing author of the bill giving them statehood.
Henry Delaware Flood was born in Appomattox county, Virginia, September 2, 1865, son of J. W. and Ella W. Flood. After preparatory courses in Appomattox and Virginia schools he entered Washington and Lee University, and went from thence to the University of Virginia, being graduated Bachelor of Laws in the class of 1886, and was admitted to the Virginia bar, September 15, of the same year. He commenced practice in Appomattox, and in 1887 was elected to represent his county in the lower house of the legislature. He served with distinction during his first term, and in 1889 was rewarded by his constituents with reëlection. In 1891 he was elected state senator for four years, and in the same year was elected commonwealth attorney for Appomattox county. In 1892 he was presidential elector on the Cleveland-Stevenson ticket; in 1895 he was reëlected state senator and also commonwealth attorney; in 1896 he was the unsuccessful nominee of his party for Congress; in 1899 he was again elected state senator and commonwealth attorney, his terms expiring in 1903, but he resigned these positions and took his seat in Congress in 1901. Mr. Flood was the author of a bill passed in the Virginia legislature in 1900, providing for the submitting to the people of the state the question of holding a constitutional convention. He also succeeded in having this made a party issue with the Democratic party at its convention in Norfolk in 1900, and the people of the state voted to call a constitutional convention of which, in 1901-1902, he was a member. His services in this office were of inestimable value, his legally trained mind offering solutions to many problems that confronted the framers of a new constitution.
In 1900 Mr. Flood was the successful candidate of his party for Congress from the Tenth Virginia Congressional District, taking his seat in the Fifty-seventh Congress on March 4, 1901. He has been successively elected to succeed himself, his congressional career covering the Fifty-seventh to the Sixty-third Congress inclusive. This record of continuous service, extending over nearly thirty years, is one rarely equalled in length or value of service by a man of Mr. Flood's age. During ten years of this period he was serving both as state senator and as commonwealth attorney of his native county.
Since beginning his public career, when but little over legal age, Mr. Flood has suffered but one defeat at the polls, being the unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1896. His endorsement by his home county has ever been abundant and emphatic, he is an honored son, and with the people who have known him longest his standing is the best. The Tenth Virginia Congressional District has no dearth of able men, nor is the Democratic party without ambitions, capable men, but so valuable have been Mr. Flood's services, and so worthily has he represented the district, that his return each term has been almost a foregone conclusion. He serves on important committees, being chairman of the committee on foreign affairs, has the prestige of length of service and familiarity with legislative procedure, and possesses the friendship, respect and confidence of the party leaders. He is a member of the board of visitors of the University of Virginia and belongs to many associations, clubs and societies, political, fraternal, professional and social.
Congressman Flood married, April 18, 1914, Anna V. Portner, of Manassas, Virginia.

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Lee Pretlow Holland. Long resident in Nansemond county, Virginia, the family of Holland has in that time occupied honorable position in that locality. That the family is an old one is proven by the fact that Gabriel and Richard Holland arrived at Berkeley, Virginia, February 8, 1621, on the ship, "Supply," with fifty others, leaving England, October 5, 1620. Gabriel Holland was one of thirty-one signers to the answer of the general assembly in Virginia to the Declaration of the State of the Colony in 1624, and also was one of the signers for the incorporation of Henrico county and the incorporation of college plantations. In 1748 Henry Holland was a vestryman of Suffolk parish, Nansemond county, Virginia.
Edward Everett Holland, son of Zachariah Everett and Ann S. (Petlow) Holland, grandson of Zachariah Holland, and great-grandson of Job Holland, was born in Nansemond county, Virginia, February 26, 1861. His advanced education was obtained in the University of Richmond and the University of Virginia, in which latter institution he prepared for the practice of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1882, and at once began practice at Suffolk, Virginia, where he has since been a legal practitioner. He was elected mayor of Suffolk in 1885, and served in 1887, in which year he became commonwealth attorney for Nansemond county, an office he held until 1908, when he was elected to the Virginia state senate, holding his seat in that body until 1911 and relinquishing it to take his place in the national House of Representatives. He has sat in the Sixty-third Congresses and has served as a member of the committees on post offices, post roads, census, elections and territories. Mr. Holland was from 1883 to 1885 chairman of the Democratic County Executive Committee, and has also held membership on the Democratic State Executive Committee. Since 1892 he has been president of the Farmers' Bank of Nansemond county, at Suffolk. He is a trustee of Elon (North Carolina) College, and belongs to the Masonic order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His college fraternity is the Beta Theta Pi. He married, November 26, 1884, Sarah Otelia Lee, born in Nansemond county, Virginia, in 1860, died in 1897, daughter of Patrick Henry and Joanna (Rawles) Lee. Their children were: Lee Pretlow, of whom further; Elizabeth Otelia, educated in Hollins College, Roanoke, Virginia.
Lee Pretlow Holland, son of Edward Everett and Sarah Otelia (Lee) Holland, was born in Nansemond county, Virginia, September 2, 1885. After attending the public schools he became a student in Elon College (North Carolina), where he remained for three years. He completed his general education in Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Virginia, matriculating in 1903 and receiving his A. B. degree in 1906. The following year he was admitted to the practice of law in Nansemond county, Virginia, and since then he has been associated with his father in legal pursuits. While a student at Washington and Lee University, Mr. Holland was elected to membership in the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity and the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. His political sympathies are Democratic, and he belongs to the Christian church.

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Frank Harrell Redwood, M. D. The earliest record found of a Redwood is that of Abraham Redwood, who was born in Bristol, England, in 1665. He was a seafaring man and captain of a ship trading between London and the West Indies. In 1687 he married, on the island of Antigua, Mehetable Langford, through whom he came into possession of a valuable sugar plantation, Cassada Garden, with a large number of slaves. He had ten children, an in 1715, after the death of his wife, he moved with them to Salem, Massachusetts, seventeen years later moving to Newport Rhode Island. He married (second) Mrs. Patience (Howland) Phillips, who bore him four daughters and a son. The Redwoods of Rhode Island, New York, Philadelphia, and Virginia, descend from Abraham (2) Redwood, a son of his first wife, and from William Redwood, son of his second wife.
Abraham (2) Redwood was a wealthy Quaker with a town house and a country seat evidencing the wealth and taste of the owner. His country seat, "Redwood Farm," he bought for six thousand five hundred pounds from Daniel Coggeshall in 1744. This farm was first settled in 1639 by John Coggeshall, of Newport, one of the first settlers of Rhode Island. His botanical garden was stocked with curious foreign and valuable domestic plants, which were free to his friends' enjoyment. He founded "Redwood Library" in Newport in 1747, ordering books to the amount of five hundred pounds from London as soon as the building was completed to receive them. It was the Redwood Library that rendered reading fashionable in Rhode Island during that early period and sowed the seeds of the sciences that made the inhabitants of Newport, if not a more learned, a better read and a more ambitious people than those of any town in the colony. The reverend and learned Dr. Ezra Stiles was the librarian for nearly thirty years, and often declared that he owed his literary taste to the Redwood Library, the gift of Newport of Abraham Redwood. Abraham and Martha (Coggeshall) Redwood had six children, including a son, Abraham (3), and Jonas Langford, whose son, Jonas Langford (2) Redwood, married a Miss Holman, of Virginia, and had a son, Holman, who married Martha Christian, of Middlesex county, Virginia. Their son, William Holman Redwood, was born in New Kent county, Virginia.
William Redwood, son of Abraham (1) Redwood and his second wife, Patience (Howland-Phillips) Redwood, was twice married and had male and female issue. One of his daughters, Hannah, married Charles Wharton, of Philadelphia.
Dr. Frank Harrell Redwood, of Richmond, Virginia, descends from the settler, Abraham Redwood, through a New York branch of the family. He is a son of William Dayton Redwood, born in New York City on Bleecker street, in 1849, and now resides in Suffolk, Virginia, retired. He married Betty Harrell, born on the Harrell homestead near Suffolk, Virginia, in 1859, now living in Suffolk with her husband. Their two children are Frank Harrell, of whom further, and Langford William, a resident of Portsmouth, Virginia, engaged in the automobile business in Norfolk, married Irene Diggs, a native of Mathews county, Virginia.
Dr. Frank Harrell Redwood, son of William Dayton and Betty (Harrell) Redwood, was born in Suffolk, Virginia, March 22, 1890, and after attending the schools of his native place became a student in the Woodberry Forrest Preparatory School. Upon the completion of his studies in this latter institution he entered the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, receiving his M. D. at the end of his course in 1913. For a time he was in the Memorial Hospital, of Richmond, subsequently pursuing post-graduate work in New York and Boston, then returning to Richmond, and in September, 1914, establishing in general practice. His office is at No. 2114 Hanover avenue, and although he is as yet but fairly started upon his professional career the future is bright for he is an able master of his calling and ranked high as a student. Dr. Redwood is a communicant of the Second Presbyterian Church. Dr. Redwood is a member of the Richmond Academy of Medicine, American Medical Association, and Medical Association of Virginia.
Dr. Redwood married, in Richmond, June 15, 1911, Grace Madeline Gilman, born in Richmond, daughter of William James and Dorothy (Denzler) Gilman, her parents natives of Richmond, her father a contractor and real estate dealer of this city. Dr. and Mrs. Redwood are the parents of one son, William Gilman, born June 13, 1913.

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Norman R. Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton's successful career in the field of journalism, and in connection with business interests which he found time from his journalistic duties to promote and develop, paved the way to his selection by President Woodrow Wilson for appointment to one of the most desirable of a group of positions which the president had in his gift in the Old Dominion at the time of the distribution of the Federal patronage in that state in the spring of 1915 — the position of Collector of United States Customs for Virginia — a statewide appointment of exceptional importance in its relation to the general government.
The standing to which Mr. Hamilton, though a young man, has attained in the esteem of his fellow citizens, both as to character and business efficiency, was reflected in the wide extent of unqualified endorsement he received for the place to which he aspired in the Federal service, his recommendations for the position of — Collector of Customs — being regarded, by those who knew of their number and quality, as among the very best that were ever presented to the appointing power at Washington.
Mr. Hamilton was born in Portsmouth, in the tidewater section of Virginia, November 13, 1877, and was educated in the public schools of his native city, graduating with distinction therefrom. He then entered the newspaper world, and it is a notable fact of his career that he was connected with the same paper, "The Norfolk Public Ledger" (later "The Ledger-Dispatch") for eighteen years, covering the entire period from the time he left school till he was appointed to the customs service; meanwhile representing at Norfolk other Virginia and out-of-state newspapers, as well as the Associated Press.
In entering the newspaper world directly from the public schools of Portsmouth, he followed in the footsteps of his father, who years before had gone into journalism from the public schools of that city, and who made an honorable record in that field of endeavor, having (in 1914) been connected with the press of Norfolk and Portsmouth during a period of nearly half a century — both father and son being on the staff of the same paper. "The Public Ledger and Ledger-Dispatch," during the entire time of the son's connection therewith.
In 1913, at the age of thirty-six, Mr. Hamilton was a member of the electoral college of his state, being one of the twelve who cast the vote of Virginia for Wilson and Marshall, having been chosen in 1912 a presidential elector for the Second Congressional District. He is (in 1914) a director of the Norfolk Bank of Savings and Trusts and also a director of the Mutual Building of Norfolk.
When a boy he was an attaché of the United States House of Representatives at Washington, and when he came to manhood he was for a number of years secretary of the school board of his home city.
He married, October 10, 1901, Adelaide Etheredge, daughter of Edward Cowlin Etheredge and Rosanna Coles Hanby of Portsmouth, Virginia, Mrs. Hamilton being a direct descendant of Leah Custis, whoso brother married Martha Dandridge, afterwards Martha Washington. Mr. Hamilton has two sons, Norman Etheredge and Richard Douglass.
Mr. Hamilton is the son of Richard Dabney Hamilton, of Portsmouth, Virginia, who served that city in various civic capacities, as a member of the city council, board of health and school board — and who was one of Portsmouth's representatives in the politically epoch-making "Lynchburg" convention, the work of which resulted in the restoration of the Democratic party to power in Virginia.
Mr. Hamilton's mother was Ella L. Rond, second daughter of Charles A. and Mary Elizabeth Rond, of, Virginia.
He is descended from men who saw honorable military or naval service under the American flag in the revolutionary, Indian and Mexican wars, and under the Confederate flag in the American civil war. He is a great-grandson of one of the sturdy sons of Virginia of the early part of the nineteenth century — Richard Carr, of Chesterfield county — and is also a great-grandson of Rev. William Hamilton, one of the heroic pioneers of Methodism, the literature of which church tells of his faithful and valuable service, and of the hardships he endured in helping to establish that religious faith in Ireland.
Mr. Hamilton has played an important part in the recent international complications, and to what good effect may be judged from the following extract from his home city newspaper:

The Washington, D. C. Times, which was represented here by special staff men during the Prinz Eitel and Kronprinz Willhelm "stories," had the following to say in its local columns concerning the successful handling of these delicate international problems by Collector of Customs Norman R. Hamilton.
When the tide of war drove the German commerce destroyer, Prinz Eitel Friedrich, into the safety of Newport News harbor and made her the pivot about which spun a perplexing international situation, the man upon whose shoulders fell the responsibility of representing the United States government, was a young collector of customs who had not yet served a year in office.
Today this same young collector of customs, Norman R. Hamilton, is known, at least by name from one end of the country to the other, not only because he controlled the difficult problem which the presence of the Eitel within the territorial waters of the United States presented, but also because he is the only man in the service of the Federal government possessed of the experience.
And, peculiarly enough, when the second of the sea-raiders, the Kronprinz Wilhelm, was seeking sanctuary from the ravages of beri beri and the starvation threat of short rations, she, like her companion, now interned, made straight for Newport News, where Norman R. Hamilton, with the experience he had gained in handling the case of the Eitel, stood ready to take over the supervision of her stay in these waters. * * *
The chief attributes which apparently have contributed most to the young collector's success in handling two difficult international situations, even though he lacked the schooling of a diplomat, are his ready smile, his ability to keep an absolutely tight mouth, and the fact that, although of abstemious habits, he is known among his friends to be a "good mixer."
When the avalanche of metropolitan newspaper men poured into Newport News upon the arrival of the Eitel the collector had a hearty grip and greeting for every one. Being a former newspaper man he put himself out to make the news-gathering task an easy one, yet as soon as his negotiations with the German commander over the PRinz Eitel's stay in American waters were definitely begun, Norman Hamilton, though keeping his ready smile, "clapped hatches" on his speech.
Not even the confidential clerks in his office knew exactly what was going on, and when the State Department had decided upon the time which would be permitted the German raider for refitting, Hamilton dispensed with the services of a stenographer and sat himself down to a machine himself typing his communication to the Eitel's commander, which he delivered in person, so that until the official announcement of the internment of the Eitel was announced in Washington, no whisper of the time allotted her, had escaped.
Mr. Hamilton took his path of office as collector of the port of Norfolk and Newport News on April 16, 1914, having acquired a special fitness for his duties through his familiarity with the shipping of that section, during his long years as a newspaper man.

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Rev. Samuel Need Hurst, teacher, lawyer, preacher, author and publisher, of Pulaski, Virginia, is a descendant of an ole Virginia family of English ancestry. The family name is English, or Saxon, meaning a grove, wood, thicket, or vineyard, or a person living in such a locality, and is used as a prefix or affix to many English name. The Hurst are of one of the most ancient and numerous families of England, and have borne coats-of-arms.
The original home of the Hurst family in America was in Shenandoah county, Virginia, whence Absalom Hurst, with his family, removed to Little Reed Island creek and New river, in what is now Pulaski county, during the early settlement of Southwest Virginia. His son John was father of Thomas Hurst, who lived at what is now known as Rich Hill, Pulaski county, Thomas Hurst married Jemima Breeding, sister to William Breeding, the father of William W. Breeding, later living east of Allisonia, and then near the present home of Ingram Hurst, where he died; his unmarked grave is in the pine thicket on Spencer Breeding Hill, near Bethel Church. His children, all now deceased, were: Allen, of whom further; Wesley, William, Calvin, Matilda Nester, Elizabeth, wife of Nimrod Whittaker; Rhoda, wife of James Stone; Nancy, wife of James Crowell.
Allen Hurst, son of Thomas and Jemima (Breeding) Hurst, was born March 2, 1825, at Rich Hill, Pulaski county, Virginia. He married, July 20, 1851, Nancy Cook, born in 1831, near the "old Paper Mill," Pulaski county, and who was of full German or Dutch descent. Besides two sisters — Elizabeth Deaver, and Mary Kersey (wife of Rev. James Kersey), she had three brothers — Alexander, Henry and George, who manifested a roving disposition; teaching on the way as a means of income, they traveled over the United States, and wandered to Australia and other foreign countries, losing themselves to their home people. Immediately after his marriage, Allen Hurst, with ax on shoulder, and with his young and industrious wife, went out into the virgin forest at the foot of Max mountain (a spur of the Blue Ridge(, in Hiawassee district, Pulaski county, and, felling the trees, soon had a comfortable hewn log house. they began life without a penny to buy a foot of land, but soon owned their home, and, clearing the mountain slope and foothills to the brink of New river to the north, finally owned about one hundred and fifty acres of land, on of the largest and best farms in that section, with a splendid seven-rom weatherboarded house, and ample barns, granaries and outbuildings. In religious faith Allen Hurst was a most uncompromising and zealous Primitive or Old School Baptist, and his wife late in life united with the same church. He is in a large measure responsible for the existence of Bethel Church, on "Spencer Breeding Hill," not far away. But few times did he ever go outside his native county, and then only to buy cattle or market wool, and perhaps a trip "to Lynchburg town, to take his tobacco down;" and his wife was never outside the bounds of her native county. In 1861 Allen Hurst went to war. He and his brother Calvin belonged to Company B, Forty-fifth Virginia Regiment, under Colonel Brown, Lieutenant-Colonel Harmon, Adjutant Burns, and were in the Piedmont fight. They were captured June 5, 1864, and imprisoned at Camp Morton, near Indianapolis; Calvin was exchanged in March, 1865, and went to Richmond; Allen was held prisoner until after the surrender. With Allen in the army, his wife Nancy, true to the heroism displayed in her girlhood, though now the mother of five little children (the eldest only nine years old) and the prospective mother of another, she at once assumed personal management of the farm, following the plow, turning the sod for the coming crop, which she was to cultivate with her own hands. She would take her nursing babe to the field and place it on a pallet or quilt while she went the rounds of the field. Thus she not only provided for her six children during the war, but maintained the farm in good shape. All her life long she displayed the same energy and activity, ans was known throughout the community for these traits and for her mother-wit and sterling character. Allen Hurst knew nothing but straightforward honesty, and his word was as good as his bond, anywhere in the Richmond. He died January 7, 1904, his wife having died April 15, 1899, and they were buried in the Hurst burying ground, on the farm.
Children: Mary Jane, born August 4, 1852, wife of Leander Southern; Matilda, born October 23, 1853, died July 1, 1894, wife of Uriah Houston Southern; Reason Vinceton, or "Dump," born September 15, 1855; Charity, born November 11, 1857, died in girlhood; Allen Princeton, or "Print," born January 31, 1860; Nancy Emeline, or "Nannie," born April 21, 1862, wife of Homer B. Mitchell; James Calvin, or "Jace," born September 12, 1864; Samuel Need, or :Sam,: born February 16, 1867; Gracie Truman, or "Grace," born April 24, 1868, wife of James E. Lindsey; Ida Lillian, born June 1, 1871, died October 10, 1886; Benjamin Caudill, or "Caudill," born May 21, 1875; William Wysor, or "Wysor," born September 4, 1876. Of the sons, "Dump" owns and lives on a portion of the home lace, while "Wysor" owns the remainder and occupies the family residence. "Print" is a traveling salesman for the Cosby She Company, of Lynchburg, Virginia, for which he traveled as salesman some fifteen years. They, and also "Nannie" and "Grace," live in Pulaski, each owning a splendid home, "Caudill's" being one of the handsomest in the town. "Jace" studied medicine and graduated, winning a gold medal, in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Maryland, and in the practice of his profession and other business in connection, he has amassed quite a considerable fortune. He is also a Primitive or Old School Baptist preacher, and pastor oft heir church at Roanoke, Virginia, where he lives and practices his profession.
Rev. Samuel Need Hurst, son of Allen and Nancy (Cook) Hurst, was born February 16, 1867, in Pulaski county, Virginia, and was reared on the home farm, in the lap of the foothills of Max mountain, in Hiawassee district. His early opportunity for education was very limited; the "old field schools" in that rural section were poor indeed. It took him some two or three years to learn his alphabet; the letters, for convenience, being pasted on a shingle with a handle to it. He was some fourteen years old before he began to learn and to be fired with a spirit for education. He went to school in winter, and worked on the farm the remainder of the year. But often he burned the midnight lamp in his eager desire for knowledge. Finally his thirst for education became so great, he besought his parents (who were illiterate) with tears, to allow him to go off to college. His determination and tears finally own, and with the little money he had saved from selling nuts and other articles gathered from the farm, supplemented by advancements from his father out of his future patrimony, he attended Snowville Academy in 1883-84, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute (then Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College) in 1884-85, where he worked at intervals on the college farm, setting posts and shucking corn. He then stood a competitive examination in Virginia and won a Peabody scholarship (which paid him $400 cash), in the University of Nashville, where he attended in 1885-87, graduating with the degree of L. I. (Licentiate of Instruction). Having studied law privately on the farm, he rounded out his legal education by taking Professor John B. Minor's summer course in the University of Virginia in 1888. Later in life, after practicing law and writing and publishing law books for twenty years, in 1909 he went to Louisville, Kentucky, with his family, and took the pastors' course in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, graduating there in Old Testament, New Testament, systematic theology, homiletics and elocution.
When eighteen, Rev. Mr. Hurst passed an examination for a teacher's certificate, the superintendent writing across the top "Best examination in the county for 1885." After graduating from college he taught school, first as principal of Snowville Academy, 1887-88, and in the latter year was elected to a chair of higher mathematics and English literature in Glendale Male and Female College, Terrell, Texas. later he taught as professor of higher mathematics in Wytheville Male Academy, Virginia; a school at Dexter, Tennessee, near Memphis; and then a normal school of teachers in Martin county, Kentucky.
Studying privately and finishing his legal education as above stated, Rev. Mr. Hurst was admitted to the bar, April 24, 1889, and with but thirty dollars of his patrimony left; went out into the world to measure swords with the stern realities of life. He entered the law office of the late General James A. Walker, of wytheville, Virginia, teaching in the male academy in the afternoons to pay his board. He practiced law and wrote and published law books until 1909, when he forsook the law for the ministry.
Soon after going to the bar, Rev. Mr. Hurst discovered the necessity for a magistrate's guide, and so commenced writing his "Guide and Manual," which took him two years to complete. Much of his work was done with his own pen, and now he uses only stenographic help, all editorial work he does himself. the following is a list of the law books written by him, the same being in general use by the bench and bar in the two Virginias: "Hurst's Guide and Manual," two editions, 600 pp., for magistrates, attorneys, etc.; "Hurst's Annotated Virginia Digest," nine volumes, 900 pp. each, compressing one hundred volumes into nine; "Hurst's Complete Index to Virginia Reports," 1438 pp.; "Hurst's Virginia and West Virginia Criminal Digest," 1013 pp.; "Hurst's Annotated Pocket Code of Virginia Law," 1050 pp.; and he has now in preparation another work which will appear in 1916. Besides his law works, numbering sixteen volumes, averaging about 800 pages each, and aggregating over 13,000 pages, he also complied a "Biographical Mirror of all Supreme Court Judges of Virginia" from the first organization of the court in 1779 down to 1895; and "Sixteen Golden Rules for the Guidance of Courts," together with a historical review of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and a "History of Law Reporting in the state," etc., prefixed as an introduction to the first volume of his "Digest." He has also, upon request, contributed an article on "Lincoln from the Standpoint of a Southern Lawyer," for a book not yet published. His first book, "Guide and Manual," was dedicated to Professor John B. Minor; the :Digest: set was dedicated to Judge Edward C. Burks; while his "Criminal Digest" was inscribed to Professor Charles A. Graves.
As to his "Guide and Manual," his maiden effort, his county paper (The "News-Review") in its issue of November 23, 1894, had this to say:
"At a rare young age in life, Mr. Hurst became the author of a law book in general circulation throughout the State, and thus became the first law writer of Southwest Virginia, and added his name to the honorable list of Virginia authors, the whole list, from the first organization of Virginia as a State down to the present time, being only about one dozen, as follows: Tucker, Lomax, Henning, Robinson, Stephen, Davis, Matthews, mayo, Daniel, Barton, Minor, Burks and Hurst. Pulaski county has just cause to be proud of the distinction he has thus, so early in life, won for himself and the county of his nativity, and should hope, with him, for greater usefulness and distinction still."
As to this work, Hon. John Randolph Tucker and Professor Charles A. Graves, of the law faculty of Washington and Lee University, said: "Mr. Hurst exhibits throughout a competent knowledge of his subject, thorough research, and great clearness and accuracy in his statements of legal propositions. Nothing, it seems has escaped his scrutiny." Senator John W. Daniel said: "Carefully compiled, exceedingly useful, and a book of great value." Judge Fauntleroy, of the Supreme Court of Virginia, said: "You have achieved a great and valuable work, and conferred a boon upon the State." Governor P. W. McKinney: "Your work is well arranged for investigation, rich with information, and a reliable authority. It should be in the hands of every good business man and attorney in the State." Attorney General R. Taylor Scott: "A monument to your industry, care and legal attainments." The "Guide and Manual" was also examined by a committee of thirty-seven lawyers of the house and senate and unanimously recommended for use by the magistrates and officials of the commonwealth. His subsequent works were equally well received, being recommended by the Supreme Court and the bench and bar of the state.
Owning his own plant, Rev. Mr. Hurst printed and published his own books, reading all the proof himself. In recent years he contracts the printing of his works. He personally conducted the sales by circular advertising, and kept his own accounts of receipts and disbursements. For a time he also owned and conducted a newspaper in his native county.
In June, 1889, Rev. Mr. Hurst united with the Primitive or Old School Baptist church at Bethel, in the neighborhood of his birth, his parents and most of his relatives being of that faith. Moving to Luray, Virginia, in 1901, he was in 1903 ordained to the full work of the gospel ministry, Elders T. S. Dalton, John R. Dailey and Reuben Strickler composing the presbytery. He continued practicing law, writing law books and preaching until May 1, 1909, when he withdrew from the Primitives, assigning his reasons in writing. On June 9, 1909, he and his wife united with the First Baptist Church of Roanoke, Virginia, Dr. T. Clagett Skinner, pastor. On June 23rd his church called for a presbytery to ordain him, the same being composed of the pastors of the Baptist churches at Roanoke, Vinton and Salem, and two lay members from each church./the presbytery met June 25th and after a thorough examination as to moral, spiritual and educational qualifications, unanimously recommended his ordination. On June 20th, in the First Church, he was in due form ordained to the full work of the Gospel ministry, Rev. William F. Powell, of Calvary Church, preaching the ordination sermon; Rev. P. H. Chelf, of Belmont Church, delivering the charge; and Dr. T. Clagett Skinner, of the First Church, presenting the Bible and making the ordination prayer. At the conclusion of the ordination ceremonies, and as the first act of his new ministerial life, he administered the ordination of baptism to his wife and companion in the ministry. thence he went to the Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville, Kentucky; completing his theological course there, he accepted a call from Salem Church, near Pembroke, Kentucky, which he served for one year. He then accepted a call of the Baptist State Board of Virginia to be their missionary pastor at Galax and Fries, where he served one year. Resigning his field there, Mr. Hurst again returned to the law; and, to whet his appetite, he revised and published a third edition of his "Pocket Code." He then compiled and published his "Index and Directory of Virginia Law." And his is now busily engaged in the preparation of another Virginia law book to appear in 1916.
On February 18, 1890, Rev. Mr. Hurst was married to Anna Louise Evans, of Monroe, Louisiana, a great-granddaughter of Alexander Pope, poet laureate of England. Of this union there was only one child, Virginia L., who was born August 13, 1892, and is now teaching in Joplin, Missouri. She studied the violin in Berlin, Germany, under the celebrated Kubelik. Losing his wife, July 23, 1893, Mr. Hurst married, March 6, 1895, Ida May Hopson, of Inez, Kentucky, a daughter of lawyer Jasper Wingfield Hopson, whose mother was a Newberry and a near relative of the Newberrys of Virginia, one being of "Big Four" reputation in the Virginia legislature. Her mother, Nancy Delena Hopson, was formerly Miss Ward, whose mother was a Clay, a relative of the Clays of Kentucky, and a direct descendant of the illustrious Henry Clay, of Colonial fame. Mr. and Mrs. Hurst have eight children: Erskine, born July 12, 1897; Elsie and Ressie, twins, born January 31, 1899; Aubrey, born August 13, 1901; Evangeline, born June 15, 1903; Vivian, born June 15, 1905; Evelyn, born August 26, 1907; and Samuel Need, Jr., born February 8, 1912.

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James Henry Culpepper, M. D. The Culpepper plantation on Deep Creek, Virginia, a large and valuable property, descended from Zachariah Culpepper to his son Henry Edward, born May 23, 1827, died December 17, 1896, who cultivated it all of his life. The family has been long seated in this region and among its members have been not a few who have held places of distinction and honor in the commonwealth. In this line, that of Dr. James Henry Culpepper, of Norfolk, Virginia, medicine has been a favorite calling, his father Dr. Vernon Grant Culpepper, and his uncle, Dr. Charles L. Culpepper, both physicians of merit and reputation. Dr. James Henry Culpepper, representative of his line in the present day, holds place among the popular, well-liked, and successful physicians of Norfolk, and is associated in practice with Dr. Southgate Leigh and Dr. Harry Harrison.
Henry Edward Culpepper married, June 27, 1850, Martha Helen Grant, born June 27, 1831, died December 16, 1886. Children: 1. Richard C., born August 23, 1851; married Annie Creekmore, and has a son, Charles, who married Florence Cox and is the father of Elizabeth and Howard. 2. Henry Edward, born January 5, 1854, died in 1902; married Dora Pearson, and has Harry; William, married Mamie Movell and has a son Henry; Maggie, married Henry Buff and has a son Ellsworth; and Garland. 3. Claude, married Mattie Skeeter and has Claude Jr.; Helen, married T. O. Bain and is the mother of Thomas A., Gertrude, Marjorie, Helen, Robert, and Richard; Henry Lee; Ethel, married Theodore Herbner.4. Vernon Grant, of whom further. 5. Charles L., M. D., born August 23, 1862, died December 27, 1906; married Mary Harwood and had one daughter, Ottoline, married William L. Miller. 6. Martha Helen, born June 2, 1866; married, January 21, 1891, Robert Edward Lee Dougan, born September 27, 1864, and has Marguerite, born June 2, 1892, and Robert Edward Lee Jr., born January 7, 1900. 7. Ruth, born March 19, 1870, died February 22, 1904; married S. T. Veal. 8. Nettie, born September 25, 1874; married William Thompson, and has Emma Helen and James Warren.
Dr. Vernon Grant Culpepper, son of Henry Edward and Martha Helen (Grant) Culpepper, was born September 25, 1856, died October 12, 1905. He attended L. P. Slater's private school after a course in the public schools, and then entered the University of Virginia, from which he was graduated M. D. in the class of 1875. The two years after his graduation he passed in the Charity, of New York, and after one and one-half years of hospital work in Portsmouth, Virginia, he began general practice, continuing actively until his death. Dr. Vernon Grant Culpepper was a member of the City, County, and State Medical societies, and served on the State Board of Health of Virginia. In politics he was a staunch Democrat, fraternally associated with the Masonic order, belonging to Acca Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Knights of Pythias. His religious denomination was the Methodist Episcopal. Dr. Culpepper was a gentleman noted for his devotion to principle in professional or private life, and, ever walking honorably and uprightly through life, left upon those with whom he associated the imprint of a man just and good.
Dr. Culpepper married, in 1880, Etta Franklin Borum, daughter of James T. Borum and his wife, Susan C. (Stokes) Borum. Children: Dr. James Henry, of whom further; Etta Vernon, who married Dr. Stanley Hoke Graves, a medical practitioner of Norfolk, son of Thomas Edward and Louisa (Brockman) Graves.
Dr. James Henry Culpepper, son of Dr. Vernon Grant and Etta Franklin (Borum) Culpepper, was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, December 17, 1882. Prior to entrance at the Norfolk Academy he pursued preparatory studies in Professor Slater's private school. After leaving the academy he matriculated at the University of Virginia, and after two years of academic study changed his course to the medical department, where he remained for one year. He then entered the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1905 was graduated from that university M. D. For one year after his graduation Dr. Culpepper was interne at the Sarah Leigh Hospital, in Norfolk, and for six months was connected with the Philadelphia General Hospital. On January 1, 1907, Dr. Culpepper formed an association with Dr. Stanley H. Graves and Dr. Southgate Leigh as Leigh, Graves & Culpepper, and after the retirement of Dr. Graves from the firm in 1910 the practice of the firm was continued as Leigh & Culpepper. The following year Dr. Harry Harrison became associated and the three are now associated as Leigh, Culpepper & Harrison, a connection most agreeable and congenial to those most intimately concerned, the association a professional relationship valuable from many standpoints. Dr. Culpepper is now associate surgeon of the Sarah Leigh Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia, a private hospital conducted by Drs. Leigh, Culpepper & Harrison. He is a member of the County, Seaboard, State, Tri-State, and American Medical Associations, and in every respect is representative of the best in the medical profession in Norfolk. His fraternal order is the Masonic, and in this society he is a member of Khedive Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
Dr. James Henry Culpepper married, November 1, 1909, Otey Prince Minor, born August 14, 1887, daughter of George Austin Minor and his wife, Rebecca Pope (Prince) Minor. Dr. and Mrs. Culpepper are the parents of one sone, James Henry Jr.

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John Summerfield Jenkins. Bearing the name of his honored father, who fell in defence of the Confederate cause on the battlefield of Gettysburg, John Summerfield Jenkins, of Norfolk, Virginia, has been engaged in cotton dealing in that city for more than thirty years, and for the past two years as an independent broker.
Governor John Jenkins, the ancestor of the line herein recorded, emigrated to America from England, bought land and settled in Warwick Square in Nansemond county, Virginia, and was among its inhabitants in 1624. He returned to England and there married, returning to this country about the middle of the seventeenth century. He was in his day one of the most prominent men in New York City, which state he served as governor the second time, from 1680 to 1681, and died December 17, 1681, while in office. His wife, Johannah Jenkins, bore him a number of children, among whom were: Johanna, Elizabeth, Henry, of whom further, Thomas, John. His widow returned to England and on April 13, 1682, married Thomas Harvey, Esq., the private secretary of her late husband, Governor Jenkins. Mr. Harvey and his wife, after their marriage, returned to Perquimans Precinct, North Carolina. Mrs. Harvey died in Perquimans county, North Carolina, March 27, 1688.
(II) Dr. Henry Jenkins, son of Governor John and Johannah Jenkins, was born in Berkley Precinct (now Perquimans county), North Carolina, about the middle of the seventeenth century,. He lived in that precinct until about 1697, when he moved to Nansemond county, Virginia, and settled not far from the dividing line between the province of Virginia and North Carolina. The old records of Perquimans county between 1680 and 1697 show that he often had business in the county. During the days of the early settlers it was necessary to have marks for their stock and to have them recorded in court. At a court held in Perquimans county, April 4, 1690, Tymothy Cleare recorded his mark, also recorded Henry Jenkins' mark, Mr. Cleare probably being the agent or overseer of Mr. Jenkins plantation., The name of the wife of Henry Jenkins is not on record, but he was survived by sons: Edward, Charles, of whom further, and John.
(III) Charles Jenkins, son of Dr. Henry Jenkins, was born in Nansemond county, Virginia, in the early part of the eighteenth century. After his marriage he moved to the adjoining county of Chowan, North Carolina, where he settled. In 1743, at a meeting of the council at Eden ton, he proved seven rights to take out patents for land in Bertie county. After that he settled in that part of Bertie county now known as Hertford county, near the line of the new county of Northampton, which had about two years prior thereto been created out of the northern part of Bertie county. He married Elizabeth Winborne, of Nansemond county, Virginia, daughter of Major Henry Winborne, who came to North Carolina as a very young man in 1742 from Nansemond county, Virginia, was the son of John Winborne, of the Upper Parish of Nansemond, Virginia, and was a vestryman of the Established Church of England in that parish from 1744 to 1760, and was selected as one of the church wardens in 1748. He voted, in 1746, for the rebuilding of the church in Suffolk, Virginia, which was completed in 1748. Mr. Jenkins died in Hertford county about 1773, and his wife died about 1765. His will was dated September 26, 1772, and probated November 25, 1773. He bequeathed all his negro slaves to his children and grandchildren. Children: Henry, Charles, of whom further, Elizabeth, Winborne, William.
(IV) Charles (2) Jenkins, son of Charles (1) and Elizabeth (Winborne) Jenkins, lived and married in Hertford county, North Carolina. On account of the destruction of the records of Hertford county in August, 1830, and again in 1862, it is impossible to learn of his marriage, but he left sons: Charles, Winborne, of whom further, John and possibly others.
(V) Winborne Jenkins, son of Charles (2) Jenkins, married (first) Anne Walters, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Walters, of Gates county, New York City. Children: Isaac H., John Cole, Wiley Winborne, Jethro A., of whom further. Winborne Jenkins married (second) Nancy Lewis, daughter of Luton and Priscilla (Cross) Lewis. The will of Winborne Jenkins was dated January 17, 1813, and probated at May court, 1815.
(VI) Jethro A. Jenkins, son of Winborne and Anne (Walters) Jenkins, was a merchant in Portsmouth, Virginia. He married (first) Margaret Benthall; (second) Jeanette Cox; (third) Eliza O'Donnelly Walker. By his second marriage he had several daughters, who died without issue, and a son, John Summerfield, of whom further.
(VII) John Summerfield son of Jethro A., and Jeanette (Cox) Jenkins, was born October 25, 1832. He was educated in the University of Virginia, whence he was graduated in the class of 1856, at once beginning the practice of law in Portsmouth, Virginia. The beginning of the civil war called him from his profession to enlistment in the Fourteenth Regiment of Virginia Infantry, which formed a part of Armistead's brigade, General Pickett's division. He was raised to the rank of adjutant, and fell in the battle of Gettysburg, his final sacrifice being made after two years of loyal service. He was thirty-one years of age at the time of his death. He married, in 1859, Alice Parmelia Hargroves, daughter of Willis W. and Margaret Ann (Denby) Hargroves, of Nansemond county, Virginia, her father a soldier of the war of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins had two sons: Willis Asbury, born in September, 1861, married, in 1892, Mattie L. Dews, and has one daughter, Margaret, and three sons, Earl Herndon, Julius Winborne; John Summerfield, of whom further.
(VIII) John Summerfield (2) Jenkins, son of John Summerfield (1) and Alice Parmelia (Hargroves) Jenkins, was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, in July, 1862. After attending Captain Phillip's Portsmouth Military Academy, he entered the Virginia Military Institute, class of 1881. In 1882 he became associated with Kader Biggs & Company, cotton merchants, and with this firm learned the details of cotton dealing. In 1884 he entered the firm of Beaton & Borne, and in 1912 established the firm of John S. Jenkins & Company. The Planters Manufacturing Company was established in 1893, and since then he has served t his corporation as secretary and treasurer, also secretary and treasurer of the Dixie Manufacturing Company, and director of the Citizens' Bank. Mr. Jenkins married, in 1891, Mary McKenzie Judkins, daughter of Rev. William E. and Esther (McKenzie) Judkins, of Alexandria, Virginia. Children: 1. John Summerfield (3), born in 1895, a graduate of high school and now a student at the University of Virginia. 2. Esther Levens, born in 1898; studied under private tutors, now attending the Baldwin School at Bryn Mawr, near Philadelphia. 3. William McKenzie, born in 1900; a student in Norfolk Academy.