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General George Trotter, a hero of the battle of the Thames.
Colonel David Vance, after his Revolutionary service, one of the commissioners to establish the North Carolina-Tennessee boundary of 1799.
Joel P. Walker, veteran of the Seminole war, Santa Fe trader, member of the first constitutional convention of California and head in 1841 of the first emigrant party of men, women and children to cross the Rocky mountains to the Pacific coast.
Captain Joseph R. Walker, one of the most fa- mous mountaineers, guide to Fremont, the "Path- finder," and conductor of Bonneville's expedition to California in the early '30s-the first to take
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wagons across the Rockies-in honor of whom Walker lake, Walker river and Walker pass are named.
Captain James Walkup, settler in 1755 and leader in the Waxhaws, North Carolina, and who after- wards with Governor William Richardson Davic fought the battle of Walkup's (Wacub's) planta- tion.
Joseph Walkup, early California cattleman, poli- tician and lieutenant governor of California, said to have refused an election to the United States Senate.
Captain William A. ("Big Foot") Wallace, who was a member of the Mier expedition to Mexico, went through the "lottery of death," led the expe- dition's remnants to Texas and was Comanche and Mexican fighting associate of Colonel "Jack" Hays.
Wallen, Scaggs, Cox and Blevins, who were a hunting party in Carter's valley, Tennessee, in 1760-61.
Colonel William Ward, founder of Urbana, Ohio.
Captain Jacob Warrick, acting major and killed at Tippecanoe, in honor of whom Warrick county, Indiana, is named.
Colonel Samuel Weir, of Tennessee, of whom it has been incorrectly published that he wrote the constitution of the State of Franklin.
Lewis Wetzel, Indian fighter on the Ohio, who died on the Brazos, in honor of whom Wetzel coun- ty, West Virginia, is named.
Colonel William Whitley, commander of the Nick- ajack expedition to Tennessee in 1794, one of a number of those credited with killing Tecumseh, and himself killed in leading the "forlorn hope" at
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the Thames, in honor of whom Whitley county, In- diana, and Whitley county, Kentucky, are named.
The Reverend John Poage Williamson, mission- ary to the Dakota Indians.
General John Wilson, United States Indian agent in 1849 at Salt Lake, and who advised the consoli- dation of the State of Deseret, California, and the territory acquired from Mexico into one state- possibly another dream of western empire.
James Woods, of Nashville, first successfully to produce iron on a large scale in the Southwest.
Both General George Rogers Clark, the "Han- nibal of the West," and Colonel William Clark, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, had relatives in Augusta county, whom they visited, but their resi- dence in Virginia is associated with another Vir- ginia county, Albemarle, adjoining Augusta county.
PROFESSIONALISTS
Among professionalists, because numerous of the most distinguished lawyers have been mentioned above and the genealogies of university presidents are casily accessible, these are not included.
Among surgeons and physicians tliere are :
Dr. Samuel Brown, first inoculator (with Dr. David Ramsey) of smallpox.
Dr. Joseph R. Buchanan, a founder of the eclectic school and medical author.
Dr. Henry Massie Bullitt, medical author and who held chairs in five medical schools, one of which, Louisville Medical College, he founded.
Dr. Alexander Dunlap, vice president of the American Medical Association, and who shares honors with Dr. Ephraim McDowell, first ovariotom- ist in the modern world, Dr. Dunlap having been
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the second, and independent of and knowing nothing of Dr. McDowell's ovariotomy, having performed it in scores of successful operations.
Dr. Lewis McFarland Gaines, neurologist, of Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Samuel C. Gleaves, medical director, C. S. A., ready writer and president of the Medical Society of Virginia.
Dr. George Ben Johnston, president of the Ameri- can Surgical Association.
Dr. James M. Laird, a leading physician of west- ern Virginia.
Dr. Charles McCreary, first to remove the collar bone-in 1813.
Dr. Ephraim McDowell, first ovariotomist in the modern world.
Dr. Lewis S. McMurtry, president of the American Medical Association.
Dr. William Marcellus McPheeters, medical editor.
Dr. Joseph McD. Mathews, president of the Ameri- can Medical Association.
Dr. John W. Monette, first to control yellow fever by quarantine-in New Orleans in 1841-pioneer scientist of the Mississippi valley and who stated hypothetically many of the Darwinian principles thirty-five years before Darwin arrived at them by the inductive process.
Dr. Edward E. Montgomery, president of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gyne- cologists.
Dr. Eugene Lindsay Opie, pathologist of the Rock- feller Institute.
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Dr. William Owen, who reset the entire shaft of the tibia, preserving the periosteum, as early as 1816.
Dr. Robert J. Preston, alienist and president of the American Medico-Psychological Association.
Major Andrew Taylor Still, founder of osteopathy.
Dr. Francis T. Stribling, prime mover in the organ- ization of the Association of Medical Superinten- dents of Institutions for the Insane.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the United States Bureau of Chemistry.
Dr. Hugh H. Young, president of the American As- sociation of Genito-Urinary Surgeons.
Among contemporary authors, writers and pub- licists and those of greater prominence in recent de- cades, all these being chosen arbitrarily, are :*
Ednah Robinson Aiken.
Archer Anderson.
Joseph Reid Anderson, Jr.
Marian Polk Angelotti.
Robert A. Armstrong.
Thomas Jackson Arnold.
John P. Arthur.
George W. Atkinson (supra).
Joseph Glover Baldwin.
J. W. Bashford (supra). Robert Bennett Bean. Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont. James Gillespie Birney. William Birney (supra). George A. Blackburn.
*Sketches of practically all these contemporaries now living are in "Who's Who in America."
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Andrew Alexander Blair. Francis P. Blair. Franeis P. Blair, Jr. (supra). Alexander Lee Bondurant. Virginia Frazer Boyle. John C. Branner. Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge. Joseph M. Brown (supra). Oswald Eugene Brown. Alice Vivian Brownlee. William G. Brownlow (supra). Nettie Houston Bringhurst. Charles Neville Buck. M. B. Buford. James Branch Cabell. Joshua W. Caldwell. William A. Carruthers. Charles Catlett. William Estabrook Chancellor. Dwight Laneelot Clarke. Arthur St. Clair Colyar (supra). O. W. Coursey. Charles L. Coyner. John Grant Crabbe. Hardin Craig. Ingi .. m Crockett. Samuel MeChord Crothers. Charles W. Dabney. Olive Tilford Dargan. Maria Thompson Daviess. E. L. Dohoney. Fanny Casseday Duncan. Lucille Eaves.
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John B. Ellis.
William Eastin English (supra). William H. English (supra). Harry Fishburne Estill. Fayette Clay Ewing. Finis Ewing. Quincy Ewing. Claude N. Feamster. John Finley. George Burnam Foster.
Jessie Benton Fremont. Preston Gibson. Ellen Glasgow. Albert Gleaves (supra).
Albert V. Goodpasture.
John Ridley Goodpasture.
John Temple Graves.
Charles Wilson Greene.
Hiram Hadley. James A. Hadley (supra). John P. Hale. Will N. Harben. Samuel Hodge.
Moses Drury Hoge.
Peyton Harrison Hoge. Addison Hogue. Elijah Embree Hoss.
George Maxwell Howe.
Robert M. Hughes. Walter Hullihen. Mary Gay Humphreys. Milton Wylie Humphreys. Anne Bachman Hyde.
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Adam Rankin Johnson (supra). Mary Johnston. William Preston Johnston. Willis M. Kemper.
Eleanor Talbot Kinkead.
Elizabeth Shelby Kinkead. John Holladay Latane. Samuel Allan Lattemore.
Mary Lewis. John Leyburn. Louisa Preston Looney. Cleland Boyd McAfee. Joseph Ernest McAfee. Addams S. McAllister. Joseph T. McAllister. Mary Greenway Mcclellan. Medill McCormick (supra). James Edward McCulloch. Ben Frederick Mccutcheon.
John T. Mccutcheon.
Robert Barr Mccutcheon.
Robert McNutt McElroy. John Berry McFerrin. Lanier McKee. Joseph W. McSpadden. William H. Marquess. Nelly Nichol Marshall.
Lannie Haynes Martin.
Paul Matthews. Maud L. Merrimon. Benjamin C. Moomaw. Edward A. Moore. Thomas A. Morris.
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Mrs. Jennie C. Morton.
Ehrman Syme Nadal.
Cleophas Cisney O'Harra. Sallie M. O'Malley.
Stuart Olivier. John Shelton Patton.
John G. Paxton.
William M. Paxton.
William David Penee.
John Robertson Pepper.
John Lewis Peyton.
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt.
Hannah' Daviess Pittman.
Alexander White Pitzer.
Melville Davisson Post.
Frank J. Priee.
Samuel Woodson Price (supra).
William T. Price.
John Rankin.
Junius Benjamin Reimensnyder.
Violo Roseboro.
Andrew S. Rowan (supra).
Edwin Milton Royle.
Henry Ruffner.
W. H. Ruffner.
Ripley Dunlap Saunders.
T. J. J. See. William A. Shanklin.
Luther Short.
Charles Alphonso Smith. Egbert Watson Smith. Henry Louis Smith. Mary Stuart Smith.
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William Russell Smith (supra). Almon E. Spencer. John Robert Sitlington Sterrett. Givens Brown Strickler.
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A. P. Summers. George Braxton Taylor. Oliver Taylor.
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). John J. Tygart.
James Isaac Vance.
Joseph Anderson Vance.
Sue Landon Adams Vaughn.
Clara Peck Vawter.
Francis P. Venable.
Charles Edward Waddell. Joseph A. Waddell.
William English Walling
Ellen Hardin Walworth.
Benjamin B. Warfield.
Ethelbert Dudley Warfield.
Henry Watterson.
George Armstrong Wauchope (name changed, idem sonens, from Walkup to its original form, Wauchope).
Emma Siggins White. Henry Alexander White. Edwin Wiley. Harvey W. Wiley (supra).
John Poage Williamson (supra). Alpheus Waters Wilson. Woodrow Wilson (supra). Hugh D. Wise. Mrs. Wilson Woodrow.
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Katherine Pearson Woods.
Thomas Lee Woolwine. Bennett H. Young. Bert E. Young.
John Quincy Adams Ward, the American sculptor.
Among capitalists and leaders of industry, besides scores of others, are the Alexanders of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, Oliver Beirne, wealthiest southern capitalist of his period, the Gays of St. Louis and Louisiana, greatest sugar magnates of the South at one time, the McCormicks of the Harvester trust, and James A. Moffett, acting head of the Standard Oil Company.
SOME WIVES
Eminent Americans who have married women who lived in Augusta county prior to 1776 or who ascend - in some line or lines to someone once resident in the county, the maiden name of such wife being parenthetical after that of her husband, are named. No special effort has been made to assemble these wives of Augusta county origin who have married men of distinction, this list having been hurriedly collected from my papers :
PRESIDENTS
Abraham Lincoln (Todd).
Samuel Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (Allen) .*
*The repeated statements, once published, that Miss Mary Webb, who married President Rutherford B. Hayes, is a descendant of the Pack family, of Augusta county, are erro- neous. Her only possible line of descent from Augusta county would be through her Ware ancestry, of which noth- ing is known by some of her relatives.
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VICE PRESIDENT
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John Caldwell Calhoun (Colhoun).
JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Howell E. Jackson (Hardin).
Stanley Matthews (Black).
CABINET OFFICERS
Edward Bates, Secretary of War, Attorney Gen- eral (Coalter).)
John Caldwell Calhoun, Secretary of State, Secre- tary of War (supra).
John B. Floyd, Secretary of War (Preston).
Felix Grundy, Attorney General (Rodgers).
Albert Sidney Johnston, Secretary of War of the Republic of Texas (Preston).
William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury (Wilson).
Peter B. Porter, Secretary of War (Breckinridge).
Alexander H. H. Stuart, Secretary of the Interior (Baldwin).
William Wirt, Attorney General (Gamble).
DIPLOMATISTS
John E. Bacon, Minister to Uruguay and Para- guay (Pickens).
Washington Barrow, Minister to Portugal (Shelby).
Baron Gauldree Boilleau, Minister of France to Peru (Benton).
Neil S. Brown, Minister to Russia (Trimble).
Thomas G. Clemson, Minister to Belguim (Cal- houn).
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Tilghiman A. Howard, Minister to Mexico (Max- well).
Robert P. Letcher, Minister to Mexico (Robert- son).
Thomas P. Moore, Minister to Colombia (McAfee).
Baron E. de Nagell, Minister of The Netherlands to China (Calhoun).
Alphonse Pageot, Minister of France to the United States (Lewis).
James C. Pickett, Minister to Ecuador, Minister to Peru (Desha).
James D. Porter, Minister to Chile (Dunlap).
William Preston, Minister to Spain, Minister of the Confederate States to Mexico (Wickliffe).
Bellamy Storer, Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Minister to Belgium, Minister to Spain (Longworth).
Francis Thomas, Minister to Peru (McDowell).
Harvey McGee Watterson, Minister to the Argen- tine Republic (Black).
John B. Weller, Minister to Mexico (Taylor).
GENERAL OFFICERS OF ARMIES
Francis C. Armstrong, C. S. A. (Walker).
James Franklin Bell (Buford).
Judson W. Bishop (Axtell).
Francis P. Blair, Jr. (Alexander).
John S. Bowen, C. S. A. (Kennerly).
Jeremiah T. Boyle (Anderson). John Buford (Duke).
Henry B. Carrington (Sullivant).
Thomas J. Churchill, C. S. A. (Sevier).
Henry Martyn Cist (Morris).
Francis M. Cockrell, C. S. A. (Ewing).
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Raleigh E. Colston, C. S. A. (Bowyer).
Cyrus Ballou Comstock (Blair). Frank M. Coxe (McGavock). John Echols, C. S. A. (Caperton). John B. Floyd, C. S. A. (supra). Nathan B. Forrest, C. S. A. (Montgomery).
John C. Fremont (Benton). E. A. Garlington (Buford). George W. Getty (Stevenson).
Charles A. Gilchrist (Walker).
Wade Hampton, C. S. A. (Preston).
Benjamin Hardin Helm, C. S. A. (Todd). Walter Howe (Dunn). John D. Imboden, C. S. A. (McCue).
Alfred E. Jackson, C. S. A. (Taylor). James S. Jackson (Buford). William H. Jackson, C. S. A. (Harding).
George D. Johnston, C. S. A. (Barnett).
Albert Sidney Johnston, C. S. A., U. S. A., Com- mander-in-Chief of the Texan Army (supra).
William E. Jones, C. S. A. (Dunn).
Stephen Watts Kearny (Radford).
William J. Landram (Walker).
Andrew Lewis, Continental Army (Givens).
John A. McClernand (Dunlap).
The 9th Duke of Marlborough, Sir Charles Richard John Spencer, K. G., P. C., British Army (Vander- bilt).
Gideon J. Pillow, C. S. A., U. S. A. (Martin). Peter B. Porter (supra). Thomas Posey (Matthews).
William Preston, C. S. A. (supra).
Sterling Price, C. S. A., U. S. V. (Head).
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Charles Maule Ramsey, British Army (Garrison). Benjamin P. Runkle (McMicken). William Russell (Adams). John Sevier (Sherrill). Charles M. Shelley, C. S. A. (McConnell).
Green Clay Smith (Duke).
John Dunlap Stevenson (Letcher).
Alexander M. Stout (Singleton).
Gates P. Thruston (Hamilton).
James A. Walker, C. S. A. (Poage).
Frederick King Ward (Dunn).
Gabriel C. Wharton, C. S. A. (Radford).
Samuel Marmaduke Whitside (McGavock).
John S. Williams, C. S. A. (Harrison).
James A. Williamson (Gregory).
REAR ADMIRALS
Warner B. Bayley (Williamson). Albert Kautz (Hemphill). S. P. Lce (Blair).
NATIONAL SENATORS
Thomas H. Benton, Missouri (McDowell). Joseph C. S. Blackburn, Kentucky (Graham). William O. Bradley, Kentucky (Duncan). William James Bryan, Florida (Allan). John Caldwell Calhoun, South Carolina (supra). Johnson N. Camden, Kentucky (Hart). Alexander Campbell, Ohio (Dunlap). Francis M. Cockrell, Missouri (supra). Alexander Dixon, Kentucky (Bullitt). John C. Fremont, California (supra). Felix Grundy, Tennessee (supra). Wade Hampton, South Carolina (supra).
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Martin D. Hardin, Kentucky (Logan). William Harper, South Carolina (Gamble). Frank Hereford, West Virginia (Caperton). Howell E. Jackson, Tennessee (supra). Spencer Jarnagin, Tennessee (Kinder). John W. Johnston, Virginia (Floyd). John F. Lewis, Virginia (Sheffey).
William Logan, Kentucky (Wallace).
Stanley Matthews, Ohio (supra).
Andrew Moore, Virginia (Reid).
Lee Slater Overman, North Carolina (Merrimon).
Isaac S. Pennybacker, Virginia (Dyer). Thomas Posey, Louisiana (supra).
William C. Preston, South Carolina (Coalter).
Samuel Price, West Virginia (Stuart). John Knight Shields, Tennessee (Fulkerson).
Robert L. Taylor, Tennessee (St. John).
Joseph Rogers Underwood, Kentucky (Trotter).
George Graham Vest, Missouri, Confederate States Senator from Missouri (Sneed).
John B. Weller, California (supra).
Hugh Lawson White, Tennessee (Carrick).
John S. Williams, Kentucky (supra).
GOVERNORS
Lilburn W. Boggs, Missouri (Boone).
William O. Bradley, Kentucky (supra).
Thomas E. Bramlette, Kentucky (Graham). Neil S. Brown, Tennessee (supra). William H. Cabell, Virginia (Gamble). David Campbell, Virginia (Campbell). Stephen F. Chadwick, Oregon (Smith). Thomas J. Churchill, Arkansas (supra).
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William Clark, Missouri Territory (Kennerly).
Rufus W. Cobb, Alabama (McClung). John I. Cox, Tennessee (Butler). George L. Curry, Oregon Territory (Boone). Joseph Desha, Kentucky (Bledsoe). James Philip Eagle, Arkansas (Oldham). John Floyd, Virginia (Preston).
John B. Floyd, Virginia (supra).
John C. Fremont, Arizona Territory (supra).
Hamilton R. Gamble, Missouri (Coalter).
George R. Gilmer, Georgia (Grattan).
Wade Hampton, South Carolina (supra).
D. W. Jones, Arkansas (Hadley). John Letcher, Virginia (Holt).
Robert P. Letcher, Kentucky (supra).
James McDowell, Virginia (Preston).
Fayette McMullen, Washington Territory (Woods).
George Madison, Kentucky (Smith).
Albert S. Marks, Tennessee (Davis).
George Matthews, Georgia (Cunningham, Paul). A. P. Morehouse, Missouri (McFadin). Patrick Noble, South Carolina (Bonneau). Emmett O'Neall, Alabama (Kirkman). L. E. Parsons, Alabama (Chrisman). James D. Porter, Tennessee (supra). Thomas Posey, Indiana Territory (supra). Samuel Ralston, Indiana (Craven). James Brown Ray, Indiana (Gay). Archibald Roan, Tennessee (Campbell). John Sevier, Tennessee, State of Franklin (supra). Green Clay Smith, Montana Territory (supra). Robert L. Taylor, Tennessee (supra).
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Francis Thomas, Maryland (supra). Allen Trimble, Ohio (McDowell). J. Hoge Tyler, Virginia (Hammet). John B. Weller, California (supra). Frank White, North Dakota (Hadley). San Francisco, May 15, 1917.
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