Encyclopedia of Virginia biography, Volume V, Part 5

Author: Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935, ed. cn
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 848

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Dr. Zeno Leonidas Weaver, son of Rob- ert Henry and Mary Etta (Jarrell) Weaver, was born in Hood, Madison county, Vir- ginia. He obtained his early and academic training in the public schools of Hood, and Warbert Academy, Wolftown, Virginia. Deciding upon the medical profession he entered the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, Virginia, whence he was gradu- ated Doctor of Medicine, May 10, 1900. Later he pursued special post-graduate study at Bellevue Hospital and College of New York City. After service as interne at Bellevue Hospital, he located at Middle- town, Virginia, in general practice, continu- ing until, October, 1911, when he moved to Elkton, Virginia, where he is well estab- lished and successful. Until 1911 he was surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Middletown ; is a member of the Virginia Medical Society ; Rockingham County Med- ical Society, and recognized in the profes- sion as a learned, skillful, honorable physi- cian and surgeon. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, lodge and

chapter of the Masonic order, the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, Junior Order of American Mechanics, Modern Woodmen, and in political faith is a Demo- crat.

Dr. Weaver married, December 24, 1900, Adelaide Claudia Stephens, born at Stan- nardsville, Green county, Virginia, daugh- ter of Dr. James and Anna Betty (Durett) Stephens. Children: Mary Stephens, born at Sterling, Virginia, and Dorothy Durett, born in Middletown, Virginia.

Walter Henderson Robertson. Founded in America by John Robertson, of "Athol Hall," Scotland, this line of the Robertson family owns an honorable record in its Vir- ginia home, the pages of the history of the church, the rolls of battle of war, and the legal lists of the state finding the name in responsible and worthy position. The son of the American ancestor, of whose blood the present earl of Athol is, was William H. Robertson, of Amelia county, Virginia, who gave three sons to the Confederate cause in the war between the states, Gen- eral Beverly H. Robertson, who resigned his commission in the army of the United States to take up arms in defence of the Southern cause; Dr. William Robertson, a surgeon, and Rev. Walter Henderson Rob- ertson, of whom further. William H. Rob- ertson married a daughter of Philemon Har- combe, a soldier in the Continental army during the war of the revolution, one of whose sons was at one time a professor in the University of Virginia.

Rev. Walter Henderson Robertson, son of William H. Robertson, was born in Ame- lia county, Virginia, in 1841, died in 1903. He was educated in the University of Vir- ginia, and after his graduation first gratified an inclination toward the law, later enter- ing the ministry of the Presbyterian church. He was for two years a soldier in the Fay- ette Artillery, after which he served on the staff of General Perlegrew. During the first day's fighting at Gettysburg he was severely wounded in the leg, his injury swelling the number of casualties of that bloody conflict. He was for a time a resident of Gloucester county, Virginia, afterward moving to War- renton, Fauquier county, Virginia. where he died. He married Georgia Ripley, born in 1853, living at the present date (1914), daughter of Thomas R. and Laura (O'Con-

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nor ) Ripley, and had children : Mary Eppes, born in Gloucester county, Virginia, August 24. 1883; Walter Henderson, of whom fur- ther; Thomas Ripley, born in Warrenton, Virginia, September 19, 1887, associated with the Virginia-Carolina Company, at At- lanta, Georgia ; Lily Brooke, born February 4. 1892.

Walter Henderson Robertson, son of Rev. Walter Henderson and Georgia (Ripley) Robertson, was born in Warrenton, Faut- quier county, Virginia, December 5, 1885. After obtaining a preparatory education in the public schools of Warrenton, and at Pentop's Academy, at Charlottesville, Vir- ginia, he entered the law department of the University of Virginia, whence he was grad- uated Bachelor of Arts in 1908, being ad- mitted to the bar of his native state in the same year. After his graduation he taught school in Columbia, South Carolina, and at Savannah, Georgia, afterward entering the practice of his profession at Atlanta, Georgia, where he was located from 1909 until 1911, his practice extending to the fed- eral and supreme courts of the state. At the present time he is attorney for the Southern railroad, and among the positions of importance in his profession that he has held are those of commissioner in chancery and assistant commissioner of courts of Fauquier county. He is recorder of the town of Warrenton, a member of the Georgia Bar Association, the Fauquier Club. and the Warrenton Country Club. He is a Democrat in political belief, and a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Robert- son's early activities in his profession may well be regarded as true indications of future usefulness in that field, for he has not only mastered the intricacies of the law but has acquired therefor a liking and in its pur- suit a pleasure that are necessary for the achievement of the best ends in any calling. He married, October 15, 1913, Gertrude 11. Williamson, born at Warrenton, Virginia. March 5, 1887. daughter of William B. and Mary (Shepperd ) Williamson.

William Wamach Chaffin, M. D. David Pierce, maternal great-grandfather of Dr. Chaffin, came to Wythe county, Virginia, from Pennsylvania, and made pig iron at his "Poplar Camp" furnace as early as 1779. He also erected one of the earliest forges in the country about the year 1800, on Crip-

ple Creek, near Ivanhoe, and was one of the successful iron masters of that early day. His daughter married William W. Chaffin, of North Carolina, grandfather of Dr. Wil- ham W. Chaffin, who for the past two dec- ades has been a successful practicing phy- sician of Pulaski county, Virginia.

Dr. Chaffin is a son of Alexander Chaffin, born in Huntsville, North Carolina, Decem- ber 29. 1818. died January 2. 1890. . \lex- ander Chaffin was a farmer in early life. but became a successful manufacturer and for many years was president of a zinc lead manufacturing company. He married Sarah A. Painter, born at Cripple Creek, Wythe county, Virginia, June 19. 1832, died Octo- ber 21, 1910, daughter of Isaac and Evalina ( Bell) Painter. Her brother, Captain Sid- ney Painter, led his company in battle through all the years of the civil war until 1864. then was severely wounded in the leg, the Confederate army thus losing one of its bravest captains. Another brother, James Painter, served in the army until the sur- render, as did a third brother, Charles P. Painter, also Dr. T. L. Painter, who was a fifer during the war.

Dr. William Wamach Chaffin, son of Alexander and Sarah A. ( Painter ) Chaffin. was born at "Poplar Camp." Wythe county, Virginia, the seat of his great-grandfather's early furnace, May 5. 1868. He was taught under an able governess at his home, in his early life, later attending private schools, where he studied until he entered Washing- ton and Lee University. September 13. 1887, and there pursued the academic course for two years, choosing the profession of a phy- sician. He then entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, whence he was graduated Doctor of Medicine. class of "03." lle served for a time as interne at Jefferson Medical College Hospital and Gouverneur Hospital. New York, then located in Pulaski county, Virginia, where for twenty-two years he has been continu- ously and successfully engaged in the gen- eral practice of his profession.

He is a member of the state board of med- ical examiners, appointed first in 1911, re- appointed in 1914. is a member of the state board of health and Pulaski county board of health, member of Pulaski city council and is one of the active, progressive. valu- able men of his day. He is a member of the County and State Medical societies, and

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a valuable contributor to the literature of his profession.

Dr. Chaffin is prominent in the Masonic order and held high in the esteem of his brethren. He belongs to Pythagoras Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Pulaski Chap- ter, No. 239, Royal Arch Masons; Lynn Commandery, No. 9, Knights Templar, of which he is an eminent commander ; Acca Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and holds all the degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite up to and including the thirty-second. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Knights of Pythias, and in politics a Demo- crat.

Dr. Chaffin married, June 21, 1893, Mary Clare Carroll McGill, born in Abington, Virginia, March 23, 1870, daughter of James and Mary Belle (Pierce) McGill. Child : Anne Belle, born at Hickory Cove, Wythe county, Virginia, August 27, 1894.

Charles Britton Swan. After a metropoli- tan experience in the greatest of all Amer- ican mercantile establishments, beginning at the foot of the ladder and rising to re- sponsible position, Mr. Swan in 1909 located in Alexandria, Virginia, where as the lead- ing general merchant of the city he carried into practice the lessons in successful mer- chandising learned in earlier days and added to by his own experience. "Swan Brothers," the leading department store in Alexandria, was founded by Charles B. and William E. Swan in 1900, and has grown from a small beginning to a business most creditable to the founders. The brothers are grandsons of Alexander Swan, a soldier of the Con- federacy, and sons of William Duvall Swan, born in Culpeper county, Virginia, who served three years in the Confederate States army in Pickett's division, was wounded slightly, captured once and confined in a Federal prison at Elmira, New York. He was a merchant for many years and is now living retired. He married Annie Lee, daughter of John R. Reader, and has the following children: Harry E., Charles B., Catherine, William E., Hampton H., Am- brose R., John Thomas, Virginia and Mar- tha.

Charles B. Swan was born in Waynes- boro, Virginia, July 22, 1871. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Washington,

D. C. Early in life he became a worker in the mercantile world, beginning as a wagon boy with Woodward & Lothrop, the well- known department store merchants of Washington, and by a series of promotions became an assistant buyer. With an am- bition to become himself a merchant, Mr. Swan, after thoroughly absorbing the knowl- edge to be gained in the Washington store, went to New York City where as a clerk in the great John Wanamaker establish- ment he was graduated a finished salesman. With his experience as the most valuable part of his capital Mr. Swan returned to Virginia, located in Alexandria, where he formed a partnership with his brother, Wil- liam E. Swan. They purchased the busi- ness of John R. Chapman in Alexandria, re- modeled and enlarged it, and in 1909 opened a department store under the firm name of "Swan Brothers." The success of the store has been most gratifying to the proprietors and proves the soundness of the principles upon which it was founded. Charles B. Swan is a member of the board of directors of the Retail Merchants' Association, direc- tor of the Alexandria Building and Loan As- sociation, and is interested in many Alexan- dria business, fraternal and social activities. He is a member of the Masonic order and as worshipful master of Alexandria-Washing- ton Lodge, No. 22, Free and Accepted Masons, of Alexandria, was the escort of President Taft to decorate the grave of General Washington at Mount Vernon on Washington's Birthday, February 22, 1914. General Washington was a member of this lodge, named in his honor, and in the lodge room many mementos of his connection are preserved. Mr. Swan is a companion of Mount Vernon Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and of the Lodge of Perfection (14 degrees) Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. He is also a member of Alexandria Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Mr. Swan married, October 3, 1900. at New Haven, Connecticut, Carrie Estelle Hartman, born in New Haven, Connecticut, daughter of Gottlieb Hartman, of that city.

Hunter H. McGuire, M. D. One is en- tirely safe from contradiction in making the statement that there is no name in Vir- ginia whose connection with any profession or calling reflects greater credit upon the name than does that of McGuire with medi-

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cal and surgical work in that state. Of the many bearing the name who have fol- lowed medical and surgical pursuits none have failed to attain honorable position, and if inclination led to specialized study, as in the case of Dr. Hunter H. McGuire, of this record, then reputation and fame awaited him along that pathway. He whose name Dr. McGuire bears, his uncle, Dr. Hunter McGuire, was one of the most noted sur- geons of the south, and, his services having been accepted by the army of the Conted- eracy. he was in personal attendance at the side of General "Stonewall" Jackson.

The American ancestor of the Virginia line was Edward McGuire, son of Constan- tine and Julia (McEllengot) McGuire, and grandson of James and Cecelia McNamara (Reigh) McGuire, residents of Artford, county Kerry, Ireland. Edward McGuire, in 1751, was journeying to join the staff of General McGuire in Austria, and, landing at Lisbon, Portugal, he was stricken with yellow fever. After his recovery he returned to Ireland, disposed of his patrimonial es- tates, invested the proceeds in wines, trav- eled with his cargo to America, and sold the wines in Philadelphia. Soon afterward he came to Alexandria, Virginia, in 1753 mak- ing his home in Winchester, where he built a hotel on the present site of the Taylor Hotel, although he never supervised its management, making its erection solely an investinent. He was a gentleman of com- prehensive education and had studied widely, always conversing with his friend, Bishop Carroll, of Maryland, in the Latin tongue. He was the donor of the ground upon which was erected the old Roman Catholic church, and subscribed generously to the fund for its construction. His death occurred in 1806, when he was eighty-six years of age. Hle was twice married, first to a Miss Wheeler, of Prince George county, Maryland, second to Millicent Do- bee, and by his first marriage was the father of three sons, by his second, of one son and two daughters.

The third son of the first marriage of Edward McGuire was Edward (2) Mc- Guire, who was at one time proprietor of the MeGuire Hotel, in Winchester, Virginia. He married Betsey Holmes, and died in 1828, his wife dying in the same year. They were the parents of seven children.

Dr. Hugh Holmes McGuire, son of Ed-

ward (2) and Betsey (Holmes) McGuire, was born November 6, 1801, died August 9. 1875. He obtained his general education in the Winchester Academy, his profes- sional education in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, whence he was graduated M. D., beginning the prac- tice of his profession in 1822. lle passed nearly his entire life in Winchester and be- came a distinguished surgeon, his fame and skill with the knife spreading throughout the state. He was the founder of the Win- chester Medical College, there filling the chair of surgery, as he was engaged until the civil war, when the college buildings were destroyed by Federal troops. At this time Dr. McGuire, although no longer a young man, obeyed his patriotic impulses and accepted a commission as surgeon in the Confederate army, being placed in charge of the hospitals at Greenwood and Lexington, where his wide surgical experi- ence made his services of the highest value. He married Ann Eliza, daughter of William Moss, of Fairfax county, Virginia, and had nine children. Among these were: Dr. Hunter, one of the most famous of southern surgeons, was medical director of the Shen- andoah Valley district and of the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia of the Confederate States; Edward : Hugh Holmes, captain of Company .E, Eleventh Regiment Virginia Cavalry. Confederate States army, was wounded at the battle of High Bridge, Virginia, April 5, 1865. dying from his wound three days later: William P., of whom further.

Dr. William P. McGuire, son of Dr. Hugh Holmes and Ann Eliza (Moss) McGuire. was born July 19, 1845. He was educated in Winchester and Greenwood academies. as a youth of eighteen years enlisting in the Confederate army and serving to the close of the war, being for nine months held a prisoner at Point Lookout. Maryland. After the close of the conflict he resumed his stud- ies and was graduated from the Medical College of the University of Virginia in 1867. then making Winchester the scene of his practice, where he ably upheld the worthy reputation of the family in medical circles. He married Ann Powell. daughter of John Randolph Tucker, and had children : Randolph Tucker : Hunter 11 .. of whom fur- ther : Laura Holmes: Leila Moss, married Willis 11. Hyde, of New York ; Evy Tucker.

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married Lieutenant Abney Payne, an officer in the United States artillery coast service ; Willie Logan.

Dr. Hunter H. McGuire, son of Dr. Wil- liam P. and Ann Powell (Tucker) McGuire, was born in Winchester, Frederick county, Virginia, March 30, 1875. His classical education was obtained in private institu- tions in the city of his birth, and he pursued his professional studies in the University College of Medicine, in Richmond, Virginia, whence he was graduated M. D. in 1897, then pursued post-graduate courses in Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland, where he made a special study of the eye, ear, and throat; in the Philadel- phia Polyclinic College, pursuing the same course ; and in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. While studying in New York City he also attended clinics in various hos- pitals, and through assiduous study gained a knowledge of these subjects that has never failed him and that has placed him among the leading opthalmologists and laryngologists of Virginia. He has been president of the Winchester Memorial Hos- pital since its establishment in 1904. his choice for this position a tribute to his professional standing, and is eye and ear surgeon of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Numerous articles and treatises in medical journals have appeared over Dr. McGuire's signature, among them "Modern Methods in Refraction Work." "Ulceration of Cornea and its Treatment," and "Management of Cases of Ophthalmia Nuratorum." He holds membership in the Virginia Medical So- ciety, the Southern Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the Amer- ican Academy of Optholmology and Oto- Laryngology, the Association of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Surgeons, the alumni associations of his colleges, and the Pi Mu fraternity. His club is the Fairfax, of Winchester, Virginia, of which he is vice- president, and he belongs to the Protestant Episcopal church. His political allegiance is with the Democratic party.

The third in direct line of his family to identify himself with the medical profes- sion in Frederick county, Virginia, Dr. Mc- Guire has added modern lustre to the family record in medicine and surgery, and in the light of twentieth century science has delved deep into subjects that were almost unknown to those who preceded him. In

him are preserved not only the profession of his fathers, but the sturdy traits of char- acter, the lofty principles, and the keen hu- man sympathy that led them in lives of Christian manhood.

Dr. McGuire married, in June, 1904, Char- lotte, daughter of Edwin Claybrook, born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, May 8, 1877, her mother a daughter of Bishop New- ton. They are the parents of : William P. (2), born in Winchester, Virginia, March 29, 1908; Judith Brayton, born November 30, 1909; Ann Tucker, born January 29, 1913.

Herbert Farrar Hutcheson. The family name of Hutcheson appears on the records of past centuries in various forms-Hutche- son. Hutchison, Hutchason, Hutchinson, Hutcherson. In modern days these have practically settled down to two forms-Hut- cheson and Hutchinson. Broadly speaking Hutcheson is Scotch and Hutchinson is English. The Hutcheson coat-of-arms is thus described by Burke, the British author- ity: "Argent three darts pileways, barbs in base, azure ; on a chief of the last a boar's head couped or. Crest : An arm in armour, throwing a dart, all proper. Motto: Sur- sım.'

William Hutcheson and Captain Robert Hutcheson, believed to be the emigrant an- cestors of the line herein recorded, came to Virginia in the thirties of the seventeenth century. In 1632 William Hutcheson rep- resented Worrosqueake in the house of bur- gesses, and from 1641 to 1647 Captain Rob- ert Hutcheson represented James City in the house of burgesses. Robert Hutcheson seems at first to have confined himself to the extreme eastern section of the state, but later both he and William gradually worked their way up toward the Northern Neck. Both of them, through life, kept on good terms with the strenuous old governor, Sir William Berkeley who, whatever his hatred to his enemies, was always loyal to his friends. The following are extracts from the Land Office of Virginia : On October 7, 1638, Sir William Berkeley granted two hundred acres of land to Captain Robert Hutcheson situated in James City county. On October 16, 1640, Sir William Berkeley granted four hundred and seventy-five acres of land to Captain Robert Hutcheson in James City county. On May 20, 1642, John

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Harvey, knight &c., granted to Lieutenant Robert Hutcheson fifty acres of land in James City county. On November 2, 1642, Sir William Berkeley granted to Captain Robert Hutcheson four hundred and seven- ty-five acres of land in James City county on the Chickahominy river. On December 4, 1643, Sir William Berkeley granted or leased two hundred acres of land in James City county to Captain Robert Hutcheson. Party of the second part to pay a yearly rental of eight barrels of merchantable In- dian corn to be delivered at the state house. Sir William Berkeley, governor, granted to William Hatcher and William Hutcheson five hundred acres of land in Lancaster county for transportation of ten persons to the colony. On March 18, 1662, William Berkeley, knight &c., granted to William Court and Robert Hutcheson six hundred and sixty acres of land in Westmoreland county, Virginia. On October 31, 1664, granted three hundred aeres in Lancaster county to William Hutcheson for the trans- portation of six persons to the colony. On October 9, 1667, Robert Hutcheson acquired twelve hundred and fifty acres of land in Aecomack county for the transportation of twenty-five persons into the colony, and he also acquired twelve hundred and fifty acres of land in Accomack county adjoining the above and situated on Hutcheson's creek, this being acquired on April 1. 1678.

The later generations of this family ap- pcar to have concentrated in Caroline and Spottsylvania, and on the records of that section are the names of a large number of Hutchesons in a great variety of transac- tions, wills, deeds and leases. The family was represented in Caroline county in the early years of the eighteenth century. Some members of it were certainly in Spottsyl- vania as early as 1736, for in that year William Hutcheson was a witness to the deed of Roderick Price. Among the names appearing on the records between the years 1730 and 1788, in these counties, are: Ar- chibald, Charles, David, Elizabeth, George, Hannah, James, John. John Jr., Margaret, Martha. Mary, Peggy, Phoebe, Robert. Robert Beverley, Ruth, Thomas, William, William Jr., Peter. They were well rep- resented in all the Colonial wars. Thomas Hutcheson, of Caroline county, was a sol- dier in the French and Indian war from 1758 to 1760. William Hutcheson was in

an Amelia county company at the same time. David Hutcheson was in Captain Posey's company, and appears later to have settled in Charlotte county. Robert Hutche- son was a sergeant in Captain Claiton's company. which was credited to Botetourt county ; this company served at the reduc- tion of Fort Pitt in 1758. William Hutche- son was in Captain Preston's company of rangers. John Hutcheson was in an Au- gusta battalion. Jeremiah Hutcheson was a corporal and Benjamin Hutcheson a pri- vate in Fairfax troop of cavalry in 1756. William Hutcheson appears as an active participant in the Indian war, in 1774, which is known in history as Dunmore's war. In the revolutionary struggle, ten soldiers are credited to the Hutchesons : James, of Pow- hatan : John, of Amelia ; William, of Spott- sylvania ; and Charles, John, Joseph, Reu- ben, Thomas, Walter and William, whose counties are not given.

Peter, John, Charles and Richard Hutche- son, brothers. settled in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, between the years 1766 and 1772. Peter Hutcheson came from Caroline county in the fall of 1766; John Hutcheson, who married Elizabeth Chiles, of Caroline county, came from Hanover county in the fall of 1766; Charles Hutche- son purchased a tract of land in Mecklen- burg county on Layton's creek. in 1706, but remained in Caroline county until 1768, when he moved to Louisa county and re- sided there until 1772, then removed to his estate on Layton's creek where he spent the remainder of his years, dying in 1807. Ile was the oldest person in his community at the time of his death. At the time he settled in Mecklenburg county he also owned a traet of land on the Dan river in llalifax and one on Ilorse Pen creek in Charlotte county. He married a Miss Col- her, who bore him three sons: Collier. the progenitor of the present Hutcheson family of Charlotte county, Virginia: John, who never married ; Joseph, of whom further

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Encyclopedia of Virginia biography, Volume V, Part 5

Author: Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935, ed. cn Publication date: 1915 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 848

Author: Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935, ed. cn
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 848