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(III) Robert Cryer Osborne, eldest child of Edmund Harrison and Sarah (Cabaniss) Osborne, was born September, 1839, in Petersburg, where he lived all his life, and died June 30, 1903. He was an expert judge of tobacco, and engaged in the manufacture of various forms of tobacco throughout his active life. During the civil war he served as assistant quartermaster of Mahone's bri- gade, and was once made a prisoner of war. He was active in promoting the welfare and progress of his native city, and served as a member of the city council. He married Lucy F. Dunn, born 1841, in Petersburg, daughter of John Dunn, who came from Londonderry, Ireland, and settled in Peters- burg, when a young man, where he was many years a commission merchant, and
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died in 1841. His wife was Mary Page (Bragg) Dunn, and of their six children two are now living, namely : John Dunn, and Mrs. Robert C. Osborne, above mentioned. Of her five children, one, Edmund Harrison, died at the age of seven years. The living are : Sarah C., unmarried, residing in Peters- burg; Page Bragg, of Richmond; Marie, wife of George Bryan, an attorney of Rich- mond; Joseph Dunn, of further mention be- low : Mary M., wife of Samuel S. Bryan, of Titusville, Pennsylvania, president of the Union Hardware Company.
(IV) Dr. Joseph Dunn Osborne, son of Robert Cryer and Lucy F. ( Dunn ) Osborne, was born February 12, 1873, in Petersburg, and there attended the noted McCabe's School. He was afterward a student at Hampden-Sidney College, and entered the University of Virginia, from which he was graduated in 1895 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For one year following this he was an interne in the New York City Hos- pital on Blackwell's Island, and thereafter spent one year in study in Europe. In 1899 he began practice in Petersburg, and is now located on West Tabb street, with a large and growing practice. Dr. Osborne is a member of the Beta Theta Pi college fra- ternity, of the Petersburg Medical Faculty, the State Medical Association, and the American Medical Association, which fact testifies to his standing among his contem- poraries. He is a member of the Presby- terian church, gives little attention to polit- ical affairs, and devotes his talents and energy to the development of his powers as a healer, and in keeping abreast with the progress of medical advancement.
George Washington Lewis. This family name "Louis" in France, "Lewis" in Eng- land, is one of the oldest of English names and one of the most numerous and distin- guished in American history. The family came to Virginia at an early date in the per- son of General Robert Lewis, about which so much has been asserted and denied that the very mention of his name invites criti- cism. General Robert Lewis had a son, born in Brecon, Wales, about 1640, who is known as the "first" John Lewis. He mar- ried Isabella Warner, and built "Warner Hall" on the Severn river, in Gloucester county, Virginia.
The "second" John Lewis, son of John Lewis, and grandson of General Robert
Lewis, was born 1669, died 1725. He mar- ried his first cousin, Elizabeth Warner, whose tombstone states that she was the loving mother of fourteen children. This John Lewis was a member of the council and is referred to as "Councilor" John Lewis.
John Lewis, born 1694, the third of the name in direct line was the eldest son of "Councilor" John Lewis and Elizabeth ( Warner) Lewis. He inherited "Warner Hall" and the historic Bell farm, both en- tailed estates. This is not a matter of rec- ord, but is inferential and such proof as fur- nished by church registers. The records of Gloucester county were totally destroyed by fire and not even his will can be found. He married Frances Fielding, and left male issue.
Colonel Fielding Lewis, second son of John (3) and Frances ( Fielding) Lewis, was born 1725. He was a member of the house of burgesses. He had passed the age for military service during the revolution, but was engaged during that period in manufacturing arms for the patriot's use. His home was "Kenmore," Fredericksburg, Virginia. He married (first) in 1746, Cath- erine, daughter of John and Catherine ( Whiting) Washington, a first cousin of President George Washington. He mar- ried (second) 1750, Betty, sister of Presi- dent Washington, daughter of Augustine and Mary ( Ball) Washington. She bore him eleven children, including a son Law- rence.
Lawrence Lewis, son of Colonel Fielding Lewis and his second wife, Betty ( Washing- ton ) Lewis, was born April 4, 1767. He was aide to General Morgan in 1794 and was on intimate terms with his uncle, President Washington. He married, February 22, 1799, Eleanor Park Custis, granddaughter of Mrs. Martha (Dandridge) Custis, later wife of President Washington and beloved by all Americans as "Martha Washington."
Lorenzo Lewis, son of Lawrence and Eleanor Park (Custis) Lewis, was born No- vember, 1803, died August, 1847. He mar- ried, in 1826, Esther Maria, daughter of John R. Coxe, of Philadelphia, and left issue.
George Washington Lewis, son of Lo- renzo and Esther Maria ( Coxe) Lewis, mar- ried Emily C., daughter of the Hon. Rev- erdy Johnson, the famous Southern states- man ; children: Reverdy Johnson, of Clarke county, Virginia ; Charles Conrad, of Clarke county, Virginia ; William Travis, common-
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wealth attorney of Clarke county, Virginia ; Robert Edward Lee, a broker of New York City ; Lorenzo, of further mention ; Esther, married Samuel McCormick; Emily, mar- ried Colonel E. A. Stevens; Louise T., de- ceased ; Ella J., married J. M. White ; Maude L., married Fenton P. Whiting.
Lorenzo (2) Lewis, son of George Wash- ington and Emily C. (Johnson) Lewis, was born in Clarke county, Virginia, in 1856, died 1887, a farmer. He married Rose Ellzey, born in Clarke county, Virginia, in 1856, daughter of Colonel Francis M. McCormick. Her brother, Dr. Cyrus McCormick, was General J. E. B. Stuart's orderly, and was at his side when he received his fatal wound at the "Yellow Tavern," in battle with Sheri- dan's troops.
George Washington (2) Lewis, only child of Lorenzo (2) and Rose Ellzey (McCor- mick) Lewis, was born in Clarke county, Virginia. July 22, 1886. He attended private and public schools in Clarke county, prepared for college at Episcopal high school, at Alex- andria, Virginia, then entered the law de- partment of the University of Virginia, whence he was graduated Bachelor of Laws, class of 1909. He was admitted to the Vir- ginia bar the same year and began practice in Alexandria, where he is well established, specializing in the law of corporations and real estate. He is a member and secretary of the Bar Association of the Sixteenth Ju- dicial Circuit, Virginia, and is highly re- garded among the younger members of the Virginia bar. Mr. Lewis is a member of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church ; president of the Young Men's Club con- nected with that parish; member of the Greek letter society, Phi Kappa Psi, and in political faith is a Democrat.
Bartholomew Cephas Bristow. Over thirty years ago Mr. Bristow came to Richmond, Virginia, aged twenty-five years, a Glouces- ter county farmer's son, but having had eight years experience as a merchant at Gloucester Court House. During these years he has risen from a small merchant to the head of a large wholesale grocery busi- ness and is rated one of the progressive suc- cessful men of Richmond.
He is a son of William David Bristow, born in Middlesex county, Virginia, fol- lowed farming all his short life of thirty- seven years, and died in a Federal prison
in Baltimore, where he contracted pneu- monia. He joined the Confederate army at the beginning of the war leaving his farm in Gloucester county to the care of others. He married Mary Frances Pierce, born in Gloucester county, Virginia, where she died December 1, 1873, aged forty-two years. Children : Thomas Franklin, deceased ; Wil- liam D .; Richard Cox, of Bartow Heights, Virginia; John Edward, of Roanoke, Vir- ginia ; Richard Carter, of Farmerville, Vir- ginia ; Mary Elizabeth, widow of N. C. Tre- villian, of Gloucester county ; Bartholomew Cephas, of previous and further mention."
Bartholomew Cephas Bristow was born at the home farm in Gloucester county, Vir- ginia, April 29, 1858. His early life was spent in acquiring a public school education and in farm labor. At age of fifteen he be- gan learning the carriage builder's trade with John Archibald in Saluda, the capital
of Middlesex county, completing a tour year apprenticeship. He had an ambition and desire to become a merchant, and abandon- ing his trade he opened a small store at Gloucester Court House, whence he pros- pered. He determined on a wider field of action and selling his store at the Court House he came, on June 20, 1883, to Rich- mond. Eight months later he established his present business, beginning in a small way. As the years passed he has extended his business until he now has arrived at a commanding position in the wholesale gro- cery trade. Mr. Bristow has acquired other interests in Richmond, notably in the Main Street National Bank, is a member of the Union Station Methodist Episcopal Church, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in politics supports the best man regardless of party.
Mr. Bristow married (first) Clara Belle Soles, who died November 21, 1882, leaving a daughter, Clara Belle, now the wife of James M. Nuttall, of Gloucester county, Virginia. He married (second) Kate Dunn, daughter of Charles and Lucy L. (Kerr) Dunn, of King and Queen county, Virginia, the former deceased, the latter now residing with her daughter, Mrs. Bristow, in Rich- mond. Children : Charles Stover, born April 18, 1894, now associated with his father in business; Fidelia Marian, June 30, 1897; Kathleen Kerr, March 1, 1899; Lillian, Feb- ruary 28, 1901 : Byron Cephas, September 2, 1905 ; Ann Elizabeth, August 22, 1910.
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Manly Littleton Garrison, M. D. The Garrisons came to America from North Ger- many, the first settlers in Virginia being Dandridge Washington and William Gar- rison, brothers. On the maternal side, Dr. Garrison descends from Rev. Thomas Little- ton, a disciple of John Wesley and an emi- nent minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, of English birth.
Dr. Garrison is a son of William B. Garri- son, a farmer, born in New Jersey, in 1788, died in Warren county, Virginia, in 1874. He married Nancy, daughter of Rev. Thomas Littleton, and was the father of eight children, as follows: Mary, Louisa, Thomas M., Katura, Mary, Manly L., de- ceased in infancy, and two others who died in childhood. The Littletons were of dis- tinguished ancestry, Lord Hathaway being a connection and the Coke and Littleton families are closely allied.
Thomas M. Garrison, son of William B. Garrison, was the first man to volunteer from Warren county, for service in the Con- federate army. He was badly wounded in battle, but survived his injury.
Dr. Manly Littleton Garrison, son of Wil- liam B. and Nancy (Littleton) Garrison, was born in Frederick county, now Warren county, Virginia, March 16, 1835. His pre- paratory and academic education was ob- tained in private schools and Cedarville Academy and Front Royal Academy ; his professional education was begun in Jeffer- son Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1859. A feature of the conflict even then being waged between North and South was the demand made through the Southern press that all Southern students in Northern col- leges return home and finish their education in Southern institutions. There were many such students in the classical and profes- sional institutions of learning, and on De- cember 29, 1859, they hired a hall and in mass meeting three hundred and seventy- five men resolved to return to their homes, among them Dr. Manly Littleton Garrison. They chartered a train which carried them to Richmond, where they were received with a great deal of enthusiasm, great crowds welcomed them, the governor of the state publicly addressed them, and a banquet was given in their honor, which all attended. Dr. Garrison at once continued his medical studies at the Virginia Medical College, re- ceiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1860. Prior to beginning the study of medi-
cine, Dr. Garrison was clerk in a drug store at . Moorefield, Virginia (now West Vir- ginia ), and received his first medical instruc- tion from Dr. Williams, of Moorefield. After obtaining his degree he began practice at Woodstock, Virginia, but in 1861 abandoned his practice, went to Front Royal and en- listed in the Confederate army as a private in a Front Royal company. He was not allowed, however, to serve in the ranks as surgeons and physicians were then of more urgent need. He was appointed contract surgeon by Stonewall Jackson, and in hos- pital and field he ministered to the sick, wounded and dying soldiers until the long war was ended. A part of his service was in a military hospital at Winchester, and during one of the valley fights his horse was shot from under him.
When the war ended Dr. Garrison found his entire cash capital to be a single gold dollar, which he had carried in a belt around his body through the entire war, the gift of his sister Mary. With this as his sole resource he began life anew, aided by the kindness of Captain Finley, who assisted him in establishing an office for the practice of his profession at New Hope, Virginia. His new hopes for success did not material- ize at New Hope, and after seven months of trials and discouragement he gave up and located in Front Royal. There his fortunes began to mend and little by little prosperity came. He grew in medical and surgical skill as his field of operation widened, and finally he won professional fame and sub- stantial reward. He is yet in practice, but has surrendered the heavier cares of his pro- fession to the younger men, though he re- tains his office, and ministers to the sick in many families whose members have never had another physician. There are few bet- ter known or more highly respected men in Virginia than Dr. Manly L. Garrison. He has ever been solicitous for the public health of his community, and a leader in sanitary precaution and observance, taking a keener delight in preventing than in healing dis- ease. He has written many valuable articles for the medical journals and formerly held membership in the American and Virginia State Medical associations. He is a Demo- crat in politics, and while in the army, in 1863, was the candidate of his home district for the Virginia legislature. He did not accept the nomination, feeling his duty lay in the field with the army. He is a member
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of the Methodist Episcopal church, a faith brought into the family by his grandfather, Rev. Thomas Littleton, a co-worker and friend of John Wesley, the founder of Meth- odism.
Dr. Garrison married, in 1873, Catherine Burgess, born in Front Royal, in 1852, daughter of Colonel E. B. and Mary (Shu- mate) Jacobs. The only child of Dr. Gar- rison, Nancy Littleton, was born in Front Royal in 1877, and married (first) Francis Blackwell, who died, leaving a son, Francis Garrison Blackwell. She married (second) Manly Simpson, of Clarke county, Virginia, and has a daughter, Nancy Burgess Simp- son.
A niece of Mrs. Garrison, Mrs. Arthur P. Davis, is a noted mathematician and gained wide reputation through her corrections of French mathematical and astronomical work. She is the wife of the distinguished civil engineer, Arthur P. Davis, who accom- panied President Taft on his trip to the Panama Canal. was later sent to Europe by the United States government on profes- sional duty, and still later to China to de- vise a system to irrigate the lands and pre- vent the flooding of certain districts in that country.
James Lewis Tredway. The law, and the higher branches of public service to which those eminent in that profession are fre- quently called, have been graced in the state of Virginia by Tredways, father and son, who have held membership in the law-mak- ing bodies of state and nation and have otherwise held prominent position in Vir- ginia. He with whom this record opens, Moses Tredway, was a planter of Prince Edward county, the owner of wide estates, whose death occurred during the course of the civil war, aged eighty-seven years. He married and had several children, among them William M., of whom further.
William M. Tredway, son of Moses Tred- way, was born at Hampden-Sidney, Prince Edward county, Virginia, in 1809, died in 1891. He was educated for the legal pro- fession and made that his life work, during his long and active life being nearly con- tinuously in offices of trust and importance. For a number of years he was common- wealth attorney of Pittsylvania county, and was a delegate to the conventions of 1849 and 1861, also holding a place upon the bench of the circuit court. The sterling
value of his service caused his election to Congress, and here, as in other office, he was guided in his every action by a strong, un- failing sense of the right and a determina- tion to see just ends obtained. On the bench, never was judge more fair and im- partial in verdict, never were the arts of oratory and emotional utterances more quickly disregarded in sifting the chaff of the inconsequential from the grain of the essential. He married Nancy J., daughter of Williamson Millner, and had children : James Lewis, of whom further; Pattie B., married Fletcher B. Watson, superintend- ent of Pittsylvania county schools ; Moses H., deceased, a merchant of Chatham ; Mary M., deceased, married a Mr. Lovelace, a mer- chant of Chatham, Virginia ; Nannie E., de- ceased, married James W. Whitehead, for the past forty years a merchant of Chatham ; Sallie, deceased, married John. B. Coleman, for many years a merchant of Chatham, cashier of the Planters' Savings Bank; Wil- liam M., Jr., deceased, a lawyer, captain of a company in General Pickett's division, wounded at the battle of Gettysburg ; Rob- ert H., deceased, an attorney of Chatham ; Thomas B., entered the Confederate army from the Virginia Military Institute at the age of sixteen years and was killed at the battle of Gettysburg. Williamson Millner, father of Nancy J. Millner, was a native of Pittsylvania county, there owned a planta- tion, and died aged eighty-seven years, the father of a large family.
James Lewis Tredway, son of William M. and Nancy J. (Millner) Tredway, was born at Danville, Pittsylvania county, Vir- ginia, April 11, 1853, and when a child of two years was taken by his parents to Chat- ham, where he studied under private tute- lage and in the common schools of the local- ity. Attracted by the law, he took a four years' course at Hampden-Sidney College, whence he was graduated in 1874, after which he continued study under the pre- ceptorship of his father. William M. Tred- wav, at that time judge of the fourth judicial circuit. He later entered the office of his brother, William M., Jr., a practi- tioner of Chatham, and was admitted to the bar in 1876, immediately establishing in practice at Chatham. A generous practice encouraged his early legal career, a prac- tice which constantly increased in dimen- sions, and in 1893 he was the successful candidate of his district for the state senate.
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being a member of that body until 1897. While holding his seat in the senate Mr. Tredway was appointed by Governor Fer- rell judge of the court of Pittsylvania county, an appointment which was subse- quently confirmed for a term of six years by the legislature. His occupancy of this position was marked by the exhibition of the many superior qualities that character- ized his father's incumbency of a like office, and he bore the dignity of the judgeship with the assurance born of strength in knowledge and ability to fulfill an allotted task, confidence that had come to him through long experience in his profession and in the solving of perplexing legal diffi- culties. At the present time Mr. Tredway holds membership in a board to which he was appointed by Governor Mckinney, the Western State Hospital board, and for a number of years he has been president of the general board of state hospitals. Since his appointment to that first named board. he has made the subject of hospitals the ob- ject of special and extended study, and has well prepared himself to speak authorita- tively and to act with knowledge in all mat- ters relating to the hospitals of the state, Virginia's institutions of that nature being of the finest. Mr. Tredway is financially interested in several of the industrial enter- prises of Pittsylvania county, and in bank- ing circles is known as the president of the Planters' Savings Bank, of which he was an organizer in 1897. He is a member of the session of the Presbyterian church, having belonged to that organization for many years. The above recital amply proves Mr. Tredway's title to the appellation of good citizen, a description freely applied but which in its true use denotes the possession of qualities of service and willingness to serve that determine the strength and char- acter of a community.
Mr. Tredway married, in Chatham, Octo- ber 18. 1876, Almeda, born in Pittsylvania county. Virginia, daughter of Jesse and Ruth (Hunt) Hargrave, her father a retired capitalist. having for fifty years been a mer- chant and manufacturer of tobacco, now one of the wealthiest of the county's mnen. Her mother died in 1866. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Tredway : Ruth H., born July 15. 1877. married Joseph Whitehead, an attorney of Chatham and formerly a member of the Virginia state senate; Jessie H .. married James C. Purnell. Jr., a banker of Winona,
Mississippi : Almeda, unmarried, lives at home: Eva, married Rhesa H. Purnell, a banker of Winona, Mississippi.
James Garnett King. Three generations of this branch of the King family have been residents of Fredericksburg, the first to set- tle being William King, born in Prince Wil- liam county, Virginia, who was the keeper of a famous inn in Fredericksburg until his death in 1874. He had children : John Fred, vet surviving, a resident of Philadelphia ; Elizabeth, deceased, married John Carrell ; William Isaac, of further mention ; Thomas S., deceased.
William Isaac King, son of William King, was born in Fredericksburg. Virginia, in 1846, died July 19, 1895. He was a general merchant of the city many years until his death, served in the Thirtieth Regiment Vir- ginia Volunteer Confederate Southern army all through the war, and was for years a member of the city council. He married Mary Catherine Wooddy, born in Essex county, Virginia, in 1873. who bore him five children, one of whom died in infancy, and Albert, died at age of twenty years. The living (1914) are: Florence, residing in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, unmarried ; Grace Wilmer, married Russell A. Davis. of Urbana, Virginia ; and James Garnett, of further mention. Catherine Wooddy was a daughter of James Wooddy, born in Acco- mac county, Virginia. He was a sea cap- tain and one of the famous blockade runners of the Confederacy. He was finally cap- tured in one of his daring attempts and con- fined in a Federal prison until the war was over. He married Irene Andrews, of Essex county, Virginia, and had issue : Lulu, mar- ried Frank Daley, of Washington, D. C .: Mary Catherine, married William Isaac King, of previous mention : Alice. married Daniel K. Stansbury. of Alexandria : Irene. deceased. wife of Neville Greenaway. of Alexandria : Marian, married Roland C. Loockerman, of Baltimore, Maryland ; James E., of Accomac countv. Virginia.
Tames Garnett King, youngest son of William Isaac and Mary Catherine (Wood- dv) King. was born in Fredericksburg. Vir- ginia. Tune 27, 1876. He was educated at private schools and Richmond College, Rich- mond. Virginia, but after obtaining his class- ical education entered the dental department of the University of Maryland at Baltimore. whence he was graduated Doctor of Dental
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Surgery, class of 1899. The same year he opened offices in Fredericksburg, where he yet remains firmly established in a profitable business, having the largest dental business in the city. Dr. King has also acquired im- portant business interests and is connected with several of the leading enterprises of his town. He is a director of the Farmers' and Merchants' State Bank, secretary and treas- urer of the Fredericksburg Shoe Company, secretary of the Business Men's Association, chairman of the Confederate pension board since 1912, and has been a member of the city council and is an ex-city commissioner. He is a member of the Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Benev- olent and Protective Order of Elks, Im- proved Order of Red Men. Junior Order of United American Mechanics, Patriotic Order Sons of America, and Sons of Con- federate Veterans. He is a Democrat in politics, a member of the Baptist church and treasurer of the Sunday school.
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