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and upon a displacement of 10,000 tons he succeeded in evolving a type of vessels which can successfully cope with any of England's great 14,000 ton battle ships, and which evoked favorable comment from the most eminent experts all over the world.
REV. GEORGE H. NORTON.
Very few of the ancient families of Vir- ginia have held higher places in the esteem of their fellow-citizens than the Nortons. A brief record of the pedigree, antiquity and career of its members for the past two centuries will probably be more satisfactory to the readers of this work than any fulsome laudation that can be bestowed upon them.
John Norton of London, England, about 1690, married the daughter of Henry Hatley, and sister of John Hatley. From this John Hatley were descended many of the Freres and Ordes, including John Hookham Frere, Sir Bartle Frere, and Sir John Orde. To the above John Norton were born one son, John, and two daughters. This John Norton's son, John Norton, married at Yorktown, Va., Jan- uary 2, 1744, Courtenay Walker. At the same time and place Courtenay Walker's sister, Lucy, was married to John Baylor, from whom are descended many of the Baylor family. To John Norton and Courtenay, his wife, were born, beside four children that died in infancy, four sons and one daughter, viz: John Hatley, born September 4, 1745; George Flower- dewe, born May 20, 1751; Henry, born February 18, 1754; Frances, born Decem- ber 5, 1759, and Daniel, born January 25, 1765; of these sons one, Henry, died single.
Sarah, daughter of Robert Carter Nicho- las, treasurer of the colony of Virginia, the issue being two daughters, Courtenay and Nancy, and one son, George Hatley Norton, born May 20, 1787. The elder of these daughters, Courtenay, married Warner Lewis of Gloucester county; the younger, Nancy, married William Armi- stead of Prince William county. The descendants of Courtenay (Norton) Lewis are numerous under the names of Marshall, Carter, Tyler, Tayloe, Selden, Brooke, Taylor, etc. Sarah Norton died May, 1787, in giving birth to her son, George Hatley. John Hatley Norton mar- ried a second wife, Catherine Bush, daugh- ter of Philip Bush of Winchester. From this second marriage were born two children that died in infancy, and one son, viz: the late Dr. Daniel Norborne Norton of Richmond; Dr. D. N. Norton's two sons, John Hatley and George Fisher, were gallant officers in the Confederate service. Three grandchildren only of Dr. Norton survive, viz .: Daniel Norborne Norton, late of Washington, D. C .; his sister, Nancy, married to Dr. G. A. Rawson, of Helena, Montana, and Florence Norton, daughter of Dr. Norton's son Norborne, who is married to D. F. Bacot, of Green- ville, S. C. Dr. D. N. Norton cultivated and improved a wild grape, which has become celebrated as " Norton's Virginia seedling."
George Flowerdewe Norton, son of John and Courtenay, married a Thurston of Frederick county, Va. Their descend- ants, under the names of Chilton, Har- rison, Dameron, Brown, etc., are chiefly in the southwestern states. One of them is Professor James A. Harrison, of Wash- ington and Lee university.
John Hatley Norton, eldest son of John and Courtenay, was married at Williams- Daniel Norton, youngest son of John burg, Va., Sunday, January 26, 1772, to and Courtenay Norton, married his cousin
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Tucker, niece of John Tucker, of Barba- lancy July 20, 1845, and priest by the same does; issue: one daughter, Courtenay' August 24, 1846. He was assistant minis- who married George Newton, of Norfolk, ter of St. Luke's, Rochester, N. Y., in many of whose descendants live in that city. 1845; removed to Frankfort, Ky., and be- came rector of Ascension church, Frank- Frances Norton, daughter of John and Courtenay, married her cousin, John Bay- lor, of Caroline county, Virginia. Their descendants, under the names of Baylor, Fox, Clayton, Upshaw, Olivier, and Sut- ton, are numerous. fort, December, 1846. In 1870 he became associate rector of Christ church, Louis- ville, where he remained the rest of his life. He was a member of the standing committee and often a deputy to the general convention, etc. His publications are numerous, amounting in all to nearly circulated. He received the degree of
George Hatley Norton, eldest son of John Hatley and Sarah Nicholas, his wife, forty volumes, some of which are widely studied for the ministry under Dr. Wil- mer, of St. Paul's church, Alexandria, and D. D. from Hobart in 1862, and also from was the first person admitted a candidate other colleges. He married Mary Louise Sutton, of Lexington, Ky. His widow and only child, a daughter, Juliet May Norton, reside in Washington, D. C. for orders by Bishop Moore in 1814. De- ciding to labor as a missionary in the then new country of western New York, he removed to that state; was ordained by Bishop Hobart deacon in 1817, and priest in 1818, and until health failed he was
George Hatley Norton, second son of George Hatley, and grandson of John Hatley, was born in Ontario county, N. Y., active in planting and nursing what have May 7, 1824, entered Hobart college in since become flourishing churches. 1838, but was not graduated. He studied law in Fauquier county, Va., in 1840-3; Reared in luxury, he gave up all to serve Christ and the church - weary rides on entered the Theological seminary of Vir- horseback through heat and cold, serv- ginia, graduated, and was ordained ices in log cabins and barns - these were deacon by Bishop Meade in July, 1846, and priest by the same on May, 1848. He was rector of St. James church, Warren- familiar to him. Mr. Norton read the serv- ice beautifully, and there were few bet- ter preachers in his day; nevertheless he ton, Va., from 1846 to 1858; rector of often declined high and paying positions. Trinity church, Columbus, Ohio, from He married Maria Gault, daughter of 1858 to 1859; rector of St. Paul's church, Robert Gault. There were born to them Alexandria, from 1859 to the present date three sons, John Nicholas, George Hat- of writing, July, 1891. He received the ley, Charles, and one daughter. Charles, degree of D. D. from William and Mary a successful lawyer, died single. The college in 1868. Dr. Norton, was a dele- daughter also never married. John Nich- gate to the general council of his church olas, the eldest son, was born in Waterloo, in the Confederate States in 1862-5; N. Y., in 1820, and died in Louisville, Ky., deputy to the general convention, 1868-86, January 18, 1881. He was graduated and has been a member of the standing from Hobart college in 1842, and at the committee and trustee of the seminary General Theological seminary, in 1845; since 1865. He was elected professor of he was ordained deacon by Bishop De- systematic divinity in the Theological 54
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seminary in 1874, and president of as second-lieutenant of the university Kenyon college in 1876, but declined both volunteers, commanded by Capt. James posts. He was chaplain for a time of P. Crane, which went to West Virginia Seventeenth Virginia infantry of the and joined Gen. H. A. Wise's legion. Confederate army.
Dr. Norton married, June 1, 1854, Ann Burwell Marshall, daughter of James Keith Marshall, of Leeds, Fauquier county, and granddaughter of Chief Jus- tice Marshall. They have three sons and four daughters, viz .: James Keith Mar- shall, Thomas Marshall, George Hatley, Claudia Hamilton, Maria Gault, Nannie Burwell, and Courtenay Frere. The eld- est son, J. K. M. Norton, is a lawyer and judge of the corporation court of Alex- andria. The second, T. M. Norton, M. D., practices his profession in Washington, D. C. The third, G. H. Norton, a lawyer, is settled in Washington, D. C. The eldest daughter, Claudia Hamilton, is married to J. K. Mason, D. D., rector of St. James church, Richmond, Va.
Of the numerous posterity, now living, of John and Courtenay Norton, married as above, January 2, 1774, none bear the name of Norton save Rev. Dr. George Hatley Norton, rector of St. Paul's church, Alexandria, Va., his children, his niece, Juliet May Norton, of Washington, D. C., and Daniel Norburne Norton, a young man, unmarried, the grandson of the late paign. At Gen. Early's request, Mr. Old Dr. D. N. Norton, of Richmond, Va.
WILLIAM WHITEHURST OLD
was born at Princess Anne C. H., Va., November 17, 1840, and was educated at Norfolk academy, Albemarle Military institute at Charlottesville; Bloomfield academy, and at the university of Virgina, graduating from the latter in- stitution July 4, 1861, with the degree of master of arts. On the day of his gradu- ation he entered the Confederate army
Lieutenant Old served in that legion in the Second regiment, commanded by Col. Henningsen (who was with Gen. Walker, in Nicaraugua) until December, 1861, when the company was disbanded by order of the secretary of war. Mr. Old then re-enlisted, became attached to the Fourteenth Virginia regiment and served therein as a private until the battle of Seven Pines, where he was wounded. While in the hospital he received a cap- tain's commission and was ordered to battery number nine, commanded by Col. James Howard, joining that com- mand in September, 1862. In May, 1863, he was ordered to Fredericksburg on the staff of Gen Edward Johnson, and in December, 1863, was made one of Gen. Johnson's aids upon his personal staff, in which capacity he served until that general was captured in May, 1864. Mr. Old then served on the staff of Gen. Richard S. Ewell, when he was in the command of the second army corps, until June 12, 1864. Gen. Ewell was then re- tired and Gen. Early placed in command and ordered to prosecute his valley cam- joined his personal staff and served there- on until August 12, 1864, when, upon the exchange of Gen. Johnson, Mr. Old again joined his personal staff, and with him was ordered to join Gen. Hood's army, then operating in Georgia. He served in that army during Hood's cam- paign in Georgia and Alabama until October 31, 1864, when at Florence, Ala., he received a wound from which he did not recover until after the close of the war. Mr. Old took active part in
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the following battles: Sewell's Moun- |Mr. Old's grandfather. He was born in tain, Seven Pines, Winchester, Gettys-
Princess Anne county in 1790, was a farm- burg, Bristow Station, the Wilderness, er, and September 8, 1812, married Spottsylvania Court House, and in the Elizabeth Whitehead. He died in 1837. The ancestor of the old family was Ed- battles around Richmond up to the battle of Cold Harbor; at Lynchburg, Kernston, ward Ould, who was born in England Monocacy, Washington, Winchester (sec- early in the seventeenth century and ond battle in 1864), and in Gen. Hood's came to America while yet a young man, skirmishes from Georgia to Florence, Ala. about the year 1650, and was married
After the war, Mr. Old taught school in about 1660 to Mary Tooley. Mr. Old's Halifax county, Va., from September, maternal grandfather, William White- hurst, was presiding magistrate in Prin- cess Anne county for many years. His father, Daniel Whitehurst, was one of the county commissioners of Princess Anne. 1865, to June, 1866, and then engaged in farming until February, 1868. In the lat- ter year he located in Norfolk and began the practice of the law, having been ad- mitted to the bar October 9, 1866; and he has continued actively in practice in that WILLIAM T. OPPENHIMER. city to this time. In 1869 and 1870 he
Another prominent and skillful physi- served as commonwealth attorney in Prin- cian, of Richmond, Va., is Dr. William T. cess Anne county by appointment. Mr. Oppenhimer, who was born in Fluvanna Old was married June 23, 1870, to Alice, county, Va., March 7,. 1861, and who, daughter of Edward H. Herbert, of though among the younger members of Princess Anne county, and they have six his profession and though only now thirty children: Herbert, William W., Jr., Anne, years of age, has gained rank along with Edward Henry Herbert, Margaret Nash, the skillful and active practitioners of the and Ellen Alice Old. Mr. Old's father state. His parents were Abraham and Sarah Oppenhimer, the former having been of German nativity, while the latter was of Virginia birth. was Jonathan Whitehead Old, born in Princess Anne county in 1816. He fol- lowed farming in his native county nearly all his life, and in 1840 was married to Dr. Oppenhimer received his scholastic education in the schools of his county, and the Richmond college, and at Washington and Lee university. Completing a course in the latter institution, in 1778, he Ann Elizabeth Whitehurst, daughter of Col. William Whitehurst, and Amy Lov- itt, his wife. They have had ten child- ren, nine of whom grew to maturity, namely: William W., of Norfolk; entered the Medical college of Virginia, Kedar H., died in 1886, aged forty-four whence he was graduated in 1881, and in 1882, graduated from the university of New York; then afterward studied and com- pleted a course under private instruction, and entering the Bellevue hospital of New York city, remained there until 1884, and in January, 1885, located in Richmond, where he has since continued in an active and increasing practice, tak- years; Alice, wife of Kedar W. Old, of Norfolk; Ellen E., wife of R. C. Barclay, of Portsmouth; Jonathan W., of Norfolk; Young, of Norfolk county; Thomas, of Norfolk; Fredrica, wife of P. N. Codd, of Portsmouth, and Charles Old, of Norfolk county. Mr. Old's father died in Febru- ary, 1876. Kedar Old was the name of
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ing appropriate rank among the leading mained about three years. He afterward physicians of that city. In 1886, he was elected to the professorship of minor surgery in the Medical college of Vir- ginia, which professorship he has since held, and in which he has won the distinc- tion of being a thorough and competent surgeon, and an instructor of unusual ability. In 1888, he became president of the board of health of Richmond, and in this capacity he has rendered much and able professional skill, his efforts proving effectual in guarding the health of the city, and in protecting it from epidemics. Dr. Oppenhimer is active as a member of the academy of Medicine and Surgery of Richmond, and of the Virginia Medical society. Not only does he enjoy a re- spected position in the esteem and confi- dence of the members of his profession, but likewise holds a high social standing; and coming to the profession of medicine well equipped with a thorough knowledge of the science and practice, and being possessed of fine natural gifts, he soon at- tained to prominence, and it is anticipated that he will take rank among the most eminent of his confreres. To know him and to communicate with him is to be benefited, and leads one to esteem and respect him as a man of talent and culture. Miss Sarah Sergeant Mayo, of Richmond, became his wife in 1889, and thus was con- summated for him another happy relation- ship in life. He is the father of one son, William T. Oppenhimer, Jr.
HUGH NELSON PAGE,
went to Memphis, Tenn., and was there engaged as a clerk for about four years. In 1873 he returned to Norfolk and en- gaged in the Marine bank as bookkeeper, and a year afterward was made acting cashier, a position which he still holds. Mr. Page was married in 1878 to Miss Sallie, daughter of Dr. Thomas Newton, of Norfolk. Dr. Newton died at Burketts- ville, Penn., in 1863, from wounds received while in the Confederate service. Mr. and Mrs. Page have had two children born to them: Hugh Nelson, Jr., and Thomas Nelson Page. Mr. Page's father, Hugh Page, was born in Caroline county, Va., in September, 1788. He entered the United States navy in 1811, and was in that serv- ice until the beginning of the war with Great Britain, at which time he was hold- ing the rank of post-captain on the retired list. The state of Virginia commissioned him as captain, but being too advanced in age for service he remained in Norfolk until that place was evacuated. He then went to Oxford, N. C., where he resided until 1865, when he returned to Norfolk and died there, June 3, 1871. He was a midshipman of the schooner "Tigress" with Commodore Perry during the war of 1812, and served on the "Tigress" in the battle of Lake Erie and showed great gallantry in that historic engagement. He was sent with the news of Perry's victory to Gen. Harrison, and took with him the prisoners captured in that battle. In the fight on Lake Erie he received a severe wound in one of his hands. The Virginia legislature voted him a resolution of thanks, as did also the congress of the United States, and the latter body pre- sented him a sword. He also took part in the Mexican war. In 1834 he took
of Norfolk, Va., was born in Portsmouth, in that state, July 17, 1852. He was edu- cated at Oxford, N. C., at Horner's school. He left school in 1866 and removed to Norfolk, there engaging as a clerk in Nel- son & Walke's book store, where he re- Gen. Henry Wise, United States minister
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to Brazil, to his point of destination, visitor to the college of William and being captain of the "Levant." When Mary. By occupation he was a planter. the Mexican war broke out he was He served as a member of the colonial ordered to Monterey and was there council prior to and in 1776; he was mar- when that ancient city was taken by the ried to Jane, daughter of William Bird of American forces. He was promoted in Weslow, Va., in 1741, and had a family of fifteen children. He died in 1780. His father-in-law, Col. Bird, was a very dis- tinguished man of his time and died in 1744. Mr. Page's great-great-grandfather was Mann Page, born in Rosa, Glouces- ter county, in 1691. He was educated at Eton college, England, and was a mem- ber of the king's council both of George I and George II - in the first from 1713 to 1727 and in the second from 1727 to 1760. He inherited a vast landed estate and built the Rosewell house, the family mansion in Gloucester county, at that time the first mansion in the county. He was married first in 1712 to Judith Wormley, daughter of Hon. Ralph Wormley, secretary of the colony of Virginia. His wife died in 1716 at the age of twenty-two, and in 1718 he married Judith, daughter of Hon. Robert King Carter of Corrotoman, Lancaster county, Va., and by her he had six chil- dren. His grandson, John Page, was at one time governor of Virginia. The great-great-grandfather died January 17, 1730. The great-great-great-grandfather, Matthew Page, was born at Williamsburg, Va., in 1659, and afterward removed to Rosewell, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a member of the queen's council under Queen Anne, and was one of the members of the first board of trustees of William and Mary college, the original manuscript of the college charter being now preserved at the college of Heraldry in London, with his name attached thereto, bearing date 1849 to commander, and given command of the flag ship "Savannah" of the Pacific squadron. In 1855 he was retired. He was married in November, 1838, to Miss Imogene, daughter of Guy Wheeter of Nansemond county, Va. Shedied without issue in 1847, and on the 13th of July, 1848, he married Elizabeth P., daughter of Holt Wilson of Portsmouth. The issue of this union has been five children, whose respective names are Hugh Nel- son of Norfolk; Holt Wilson of Norfolk; Carter Bruce of Portsmouth; Edward John Rutter of Portsmouth, and Mary Betty, deceased April 25, 1879. The christian name of Mr. Page's grandfather was John, born at North End, Glouces- ter (now Mathews) county, Va., in 1743. He was educated at William and Mary college, and was one of the original mem- bers of the Phi Beta Kappa society, organ- ized there in 1776. He removed to Caroline county, Va., about the year 1764, where he spent the rest of his life. His occupation was that of a planter. He was a very prominent man in his county, own- ing considerable tracts of land in Caro- line. In 1764 he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Lewis Burwell of Kings Mill, York county. By her he had fifteen chil- dren. His wife lost her life at the burn- ing of the Richmond theater December 26, 1811. He died in 1789 at his home in Caroline county. John Page was also the name of the great-grandfather of Hugh Nelson Page. He was born at North End, Mathews county, in 1720. He was edu- cated to be loyal to the crown and was a February 8, 1692. He married May, only
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child of John Mann of Timber Neck, Gloucester county, in 1689, and died Jan- uary 9, 1703, leaving one child surviving him. The great-great-great-great-grand- father of Mr. Page was Col. John Page, born in Sudbury, Middlesex county, England, in 1627 and came to America in 1650, settling in Virginia. He was a member of the king's council and donated the ground on which the Episcopal church of Williamsburg was erected and still stands. He married Alice Luckin of England in 1656. He died in 1691 and his remains were buried in the church- yard at Williamsburg, his tomb-stone bearing the family coat of arms and also that of his wife. The great-great-great- great - great - grandfather was named Thomas Page, gentleman; he was born in Lexington, Middlesex county, England, in 1597. His father was Richard Page, who was born at Wormley, England, in 1556 and died in 1642. His father was John Page, born in the parish of Harron, Middlesex county, England. His father was Henry Page, born in the parish of Harron about the year 1500.
JAMES PARRISH, M. D.
The Parrish family is long resident in Virginia, but in America originated in North Carolina, Bartlett Parrish, a native of Chowan county, that state, having come to Portsmouth as a soldier in 1814, and having here made his permanent resi- dence. After marrying Elizabeth Craw- ley he reared a family, became an honored and useful citizen, and died in 1823. James Reed Parrish, son of Bartlett Parrish, was born in Portsmouth, Va., in 1815, and was reared to the profession of the law. In 1849 he went to Helena, Ark., became probate judge of his dis- trict, an office he filled with credit to him- infantry, as a private, having no special
|self for several years, and afterward enjoyed a lucrative practice (private) un- til his death in 1859. His marriage took place, in 1838, to Sarah Ferguson, daugh- ter of Robert Ferguson, a native of Lon- donderry, Ireland, but a resident of Norfolk county, Va. To this union was born one child only-James, whose name heads this brief notice, and who was born in Portsmouth, September 30, 1839. The mother, Sarah (Ferguson) Parrish, died in 1840, and James Reed Parrish took for his second wife, in 1847, Eliza Jane Pend- leton, a highly accomplished lady of Portsmouth, who died in 1889 after hav- ing borne three children, of whom only one survives, to wit: Elizabeth, wife of Virginius W. Nash.
Dr. James Parrish received his primary education in schools of his native city and his medical education was acquired at the medical department of the uni- versity of Virginia, as well as at that of the city of New York, he having grad- uated from the latter in 1859, a year later than his graduation from the Virginia university. When the late Civil war broke broke out he was on the medical staff of the Bellevue hospital, New York city, as well as on the surgical staff of the Brook- lyn (N. Y.) hospital, his superior accom- plishments in his profession having been fully recognized by the faculty of both these famous institutions. But the doc- tor's soul was fired with patriotism for the cause of his beloved Virginia, and when the clarion of war pealed forth its threat- ening and warning notes he relinquished his cherished occupation and hurried back to Portsmouth to aid his native state in the maintenance of what he thought to be her rights. June 1, 1861, he entered company K, Ninth Virginia
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desire for rank, but simply seeking to per- | moved to Henrico county, where the form his duty in defense of the rights of father died in the following year, leaving Virginia and the south. But he was not a widow and four children in very mod- destined to long remain a humble pri- erate circumstances. A large measure of vate, for on the 21st of November, 1891, he responsibility thus devolved upon Rich- was appointed surgeon to the Forty-first Virginia infantry, with which he served with great credit to himself until the bat- tle of Sharpsburg, when he was trans-
ard A., while yet a mere boy, and for lack of time as well as means he was de- barred the advantages of an early educa- tional training. But availing himself of ferred to the Thirteenth Virginia cavalry, such meager facilities as the " old field " in which he served until the close of the schools afforded him from time to time, scene at Appomattox. On his return to he acquired what rudimentary knowlege Portsmouth the doctor resumed private was necessary as a basis for self-improve- practice, and met with the success that re- ment; and subsequently, by dint of hard sulted from his long experience in the work, private study and close economy, war as well as from his earlier hospital he was enabled to enter Richmond col- experience. Neither was he here doomed lege, where he studied one session. Leav- to private practice. He was made a ing this institution he returned to the member of the board of health and of farm and worked there until the year the quarantine board, as well as of the 1847, when he began the study of medi- state board of medical examiners. He cine at the Richmond Medical college. has also served as delegate from the Vir- While attending lectures here, he also ginia State Medical society (of which he read in the office of Dr. A. G. Wortham, is a member) to the National Medical an eminent physician and of high family association, and filled other positions of connection. Having graduated, he im- equal professional responsibility and mediately engaged in the practice of his honor. The doctor is now a director in profession at Manakin, in Goochland the Merchants and Farmers' bank of county, Va. The field of labor thus se- Portsmouth, but he is more attached by lected was already well supplied with able nature to science than he is to finances.
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