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Joseph Hutcheson married (first) Re- becca Neblett, of Lunenburg county. Vir- ginia, and (second) Mary Valentine, of Richmond, Virginia. By the first marriage there were three sons and five daughters : the sons were: 1. James N., died in Mis- sissippi territory in 1833, having never mar- ried. 2. Charles Sterling, who represented Mecklenburg county in the house of dele-
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gates in the late forties and early fifties, and was presiding justice of the county for many years under the old court system; he was also one of the trustees for Randolph-Macon College before it was moved from Boydton to Ashland; he was the father of Captain John William Hutcheson, who was a grad- uate of the University of Virginia, and was practicing law in Anderson, Texas, upon the outbreak of the civil war; he raised a com- pany at his own expense, marched to Vir- ginia, participated in the great battles of the early part of the war, and was killed at the first battle of Cold Harbor; and Captain Joseph Chappell Hutcheson, also a graduate of the same university, entered the Confed- erate army as a private in Company C, Twenty-first Virginia Regiment, served in the valley under "Stonewall" Jackson, and by his courage and fidelity gained promo- tion, and when the army was surrendered by General Lee at Appomattox was captain of Company E. Fourteenth Virginia Regi- ment ; he moved to Texas, began the prac- tice of law in Grimes county, thence moving to Houston; in 1874 he was a member of the Texas legislature, in 1880 chairman of the State Democratic Convention, in 1890 member of the fifty-third and fifty-fourth United States Congresses, declined re-elec- tion to a third term and then settled down as the head of one of the leading law firms of the state; he is an able lawyer and man of high character, combining the ability to think deeply with readiness of speech. 3. Joseph Collier, of whom further. By the second marriage Joseph Hutcheson had one son, John Valentine, who enlisted in the Boydton cavalry as a private and was killed in battle early in the war, and three daugh- ters.
Joseph Collier Hutcheson, born April 11, 1816, died December 14, 1890. He was a prominent man in the county, being one of the largest landowners, and a farmer. He never held any office except that of justice of the peace. In 1855 he was nominated by his party for the house of delegates, but was defeated at the general election. He married Ann Goode Farrar, who bore him seven children: I. James Nathaniel, the first Democrat to be elected to office in Mecklenburg county after the reconstruc- tion period, having been elected to the house of delegates in 1889; he also served in the state senate from the twenty-fifth district,
being elected in 1901 ; he served as chairman of the County Democratic Committee for several terms. 2. Lulu Rebecca (Smaw). 3. Charles Samuel, served twenty years as a member of the board of supervisors of the county and as chairman of the board for the past ten years. 4. Sterling Neblett, a promi- nent merchant and farmer of the county ; served for twenty-three years as postmaster of Baskerville. 5. Joseph Emmett. 6. Her- bert Farrar, of whom further. 7. Conway Goode.
The coat-of-arms of the Farrar family is as follows: "Argent, on a bend sable, three horse-shoes of the field. Crest : Horse-shoe sable between two wings argent. Motto: Ferre va ferme." The earliest known an- cestor of the family was Nicholas Farrar, an eminent Londoner, born 1546, died 1620; lie was a member of the Virginia company ; he married Mary Wodenoth, of Cheshire, and among their children was William, through whom the line is carried. William Farrar, a barrister-at-law, came to Virginia, where he was a member of council from 1627 to 1633, and served as justice for Charles City and Henrico county. He died there on or about the year 1637, leaving two sons, Wil- ham and John, the line being carried through William, who patented two thou- sand acres of land in Henrico county, situ- ated in a neck of land some twelve or fifteen miles below Richmond, and came to be known as Farrar's Island. He was suc- ceeded by his son, William, as the head of the family, and the grants of land to the original patentee and his successors, be- tween 1637 and 1722, aggregated some thir- ty-five hundred acres in Henrico county. The Mecklenburg family was founded by George Farrar, son of William Farrar, who moved to Lunenburg county before Meck- lenburg county was cut off from it, and died there in 1772. The next in line of descent was John, son of George Farrar, and he was succeeded by his son, Samuel Farrar, who was succeeded by his son, Samuel Farrar II., who married Lucy Hudson, a sister of Dr. John R. Hudson, a noted surgeon and iron manufacturer of Nashville, Tennessee, and a daughter of Charles and Nancy (Goode) Hudson, of Bedford county, Vir- ginia. Mr. and Mrs. Farrar were the par- ents of ten children, among who were: Ann Goode, aforementioned as the wife of Joseph C. Hutcheson ; Samuel Goode, served
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as high sheriff of Mecklenburg county for a number of years and was afterwards county treasurer ; Richard P., served as commis- sioner of the revenue for several terms ; Joseph D. and James T., who were soldiers in the civil war.
Herbert Farrar Hutcheson, son of Joseph Collier and Ann Goode ( Farrar ) Hutcheson, was born in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, March 20, 1869. He was educated in the public schools of his native county, a pri- vate school conducted by Dr. W. J. Carter, and Emory and Henry College, attending the latter institution during the years 1887- 88. He is largely interested in agriculture, being the owner of a large Roanoke river plantation and several farms. He has spent a very large part of his life in the public service. He was elected county magistrate in 1891, being then but twenty-two years of age, and held that office and county sur- veyor until he was elected county clerk in 1905 ; was also elected delegate to the Demo- cratic State Convention from Mecklenburg county in 1891 and has never missed that honor from that date until the present ; was a member of the house of delegates for the regular terms of 1899, 1900 and the short session of 1901 ; since 1905 has held his present position of county clerk; is now (1915) in his third term as chairman of the Democratic County Committee, and in his second term as a member of the Democratic State Central Committee. He is well known among the leaders of his party in the state and is influential in party councils, and in his own county is a recognized leader, true to the best traditions and principles of his party. He is not self seeking, but labors at all times and in all things for the best interests of his state and county. In fra- ternal circles he is affiliated with the Masonic Blue Lodge at Boydton, of which he is an honored past master, and the Hali- fax Royal Arch Chapter at South Boston, Virginia.
Mr. Hutcheson married, October 25, 1893, Mary Hutcheson Young, born in Mecklen- burg county, Virginia, September 30, 1872, daughter of John Wesley and Alice Neblett (Love) Young, granddaughter of Adelle Francis ( Hutcheson) Love, daughter of Charles Sterling Hutcheson, brother of Joseph Collier Hutcheson, aforementioned, and a descendant of the distinguished Young family, one of the oldest and most
prominent families of Southside Virginia. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Hutcheson, all born in Mecklenburg county, Virginia: I. Charles Sterling, born July 23, 1894; now a student at William and Mary College. 2. John Young, born July 7, 1896. 3. Herbert Farrar Jr., born January 17, 1899. 4. Na- thaniel Goode, born August 2, 1901. 5. William Chiles, born November 20, 1903. 6 Joseph Collier, born July 23, 1906. 7. Mildred Alice, born August 4, 1908. 8. James Love, born May 25, 1912.
Mr. Hutcheson's high personal standing is shown by the official positions which he has held and is still holding. He is pos- sessed of the qualities of personal magne- tism, a high degree of courtesy and kind- liness of spirit. His people have been serv- ing Virginia for ten generations, and he is doing his duty, in his day, to the Old Do- minion with the same fidelity which has characterized the preceding generations.
Roger Aylor Bickers. The Bickers of Virginia spring from a Scotch ancestor, Nicholas Bickers, who came from Scotland, settling first in Orange county, but later moving to Louisa county, Virginia. He was the founder of a numerous family, now found in different counties of Virginia and in other states.
Roger Aylor Bickers is a son of Dr. Wil- liam Andrew Bickers and grandson of James and Catherine (Crump) Bickers. Dr. William Andrew Bickers was born in Cul- peper county, Virginia, in 1836, died in 1905. He prepared for the practice of medi- cine at the University of Virginia, receiving his degree of M. D., class of 1859. During the war period, 1861-65, he served as as- sistant surgeon in the Confederate army, being attached to General Longstreet's divi- sion, also serving under the command of "Stonewall" Jackson. After the close of the war he resumed private practice, locating in Madison county, Virginia, later in Cul- peper county, where he practiced with suc- cess for many years. He was a skillful phy- sician, a high-minded Christian gentleman, possessing the qualities that endeared him to those whom he treated professionally. and to those who knew him as friend. neigh- bor and citizen. Dr. Bickers married Ann Elizabeth Aylor, born in Madison county. Virginia. in 1848, died 1910, daughter of James Parker Aylor; nine children were
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born to Mr. and Mrs. Bickers as follows: James P .; Mary D., deceased ; Catherine C., deceased ; Roger A., of whom further ; Wil- liam A .; Weir M., deceased; Lillian R .; Annie E .; John N.
A brother of Dr. Bickers, John Travers Bickers, also served in the Confederate army, he is now deceased; he was a Vir- ginia farmer. He married a widow, Martha Hill ( Duncan) Shotwell, and had a son, Travers Duncan Bickers.
Roger Aylor Bickers, son of Dr. William Andrew and Ann Elizabeth (Aylor) Bick- ers. was born in Madison county, Virginia, September 25, 1878. His preparatory edu- cation was obtained in public and private schools, special collegiate preparation being made at Locust Dale Academy. He did not at once enter college, but until 1906 was engaged in farming. In the fall of 1906 he entered the law school of the University of Virginia, and he was admitted to practice at the Virginia bar in 1908. He at once began the practice of his profession, locat- ing first at Charlottesville, Virginia, but in 1909 moving to Culpeper, Virginia, where he is well established and successfully con- ducting a general law practice in all state and Federal courts of the district, and is held in high esteem as one of the rising young men of the Virginia bar. In politics he is an independent Democrat, broad- minded and liberal, in both political and re- ligions thought. He is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to Fairfax Lodge, No. 43, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His clubs are the Catalpa of Culpeper and the Colonnade of Charlottesville, Virginia. He married, May 24, 1911, Mary Wilkins Coons, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. daughter of Frank A. and Martha Jane (Erskine) Coons.
Maryan Buford Lewis, D. D. S. A native born son of Culpeper county, Virginia, Dr. Lewis bears a name honored in Virginia since early colonial days. He is a son of William Wallace Lewis, born September 2, 1842, a farmer of Culpeper county. He mar- ried Mary Elizabeth Jeffers, born in Cul- peper county, daughter of Enoch Jeffers. Children : Enoch J .: Nannie Walker, mar- ried G. R. Calvin : William Russell, now liv- ing in Missouri; Henry Francis; Herbert
Wallace; Maryan Buford, and Elizabeth Wilson Lewis.
Maryan Buford Lewis was born in Cul- peper county, Virginia, January 1, 1884. He prepared in the public schools, entering William and Mary College in 1901 and con- tinuing his studies there for one year. He then entered the dental department of the University College of Medicine, at Rich- mond, whence he was graduated D. D. S., class of 1905. After obtaining his degree, Dr. Lewis opened offices for the practice of dentistry in Charlottesville, Virginia, but after two years there decided to return to his native county. In 1907 he opened per- fectly appointed modern dental offices in Culpeper, where he is now well established in the practice of his profession. His methods of treating and preserving the teeth are in accord with the best modern thought, while his perfection of worknian- ship in remedying nature's defects has brought him generous patronage. He is a member of the Virginia State Dental Asso- ciation, and is thoroughly supplied with the best modern aids to successful dentistry. In politcal faith Dr. Lewis is a Democrat, and in religions faith a Baptist.
Dr. Lewis married, June 1, 1911, Maude Parr, of Brandy Station, Culpeper county, Virginia, a daughter of William J. and Florence (Wager) Parr. Child, Frances Elizabeth, born in Culpeper, October 25, 1912.
Gardner Lloyd Boothe. Professional, political and legal activity of unusual extent have characterized Gardner Lloyd Boothe, one of the leading attorneys of Alexandria and president of the First National Bank of that city. Nor do those circles compass his interests, for he is socially prominent and popular, and for twenty years has been in- timately connected with Christ Protestant Episcopal Church. He is a son of William Jeremiah Boothe, born in Alexandria, Vir- ginia, in 1817, died in 1894, who was super- intendent of the American Coal Company, of New York. William Jeremiah Boothe had a sister, Helen, who married George K. Gluyas, of Philadelphia, and accompanied her husband to California in 1849. They had a son, Edward, who fought in the Con- federate army in the civil war. William Jeremiah Boothe married Mary Grace,
Jadna Bath,
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daughter of John Leadbeater, and had two sons, Gardner Lloyd, of whom further ; and William J., born in Alexandria, Virginia, June 13, 1870, married Lucy Lyon, daugh- ter of Cassius Lee, Jr., and has two chil- dren, Gardner Lloyd (2), and Elizabeth Lee. William J. Boothe is a bond broker.
Gardner Lloyd Boothe, son of William Jeremiah and Mary Grace ( Leadbeater) Boothe, was born in Alexandria, Virginia, June 1. 1872. He obtained his early educa- tional training in private institutions in his native city, entering the law office of Judge J. K. M. Norton as a student. In 1892 he matriculated at the University of Virginia, whence he was graduated B. L. in the class of 1893, being admitted to the state bar of Virginia in the fall of that year. Opening an office in Alexandria he at once began the practice of his profession, favorable success attending his efforts almost from the start, and in 1897 he was made city attorney, his choice for this position predicated upon the excellent record he had made thus far in his professional life. In matters political he is a strong Democratic sympathizer and as the candidate of this party was elected to a seat in common council, having in 1902 been made a member of the State Demo- cratic Committee. This latter position he holds to the present time and has always been a conspicuous figure in the works of that committee, influential in its deliber- ations, practical in submitting plans of pro- cedure for the strengthening of the party prestige. In 1909 he became president of the First National Bank of Alexandria. a strong institution, enjoying universal con- fidence and vigorous prosperity, one deserv- ing of the leadership of such a man as Mr. Boothe, whose upright integrity and high sense of personal honor admirably qualifies him for just such an office. He holds mem- bership in Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, and for the past twenty years has been a vestryman of the same. He is a member of the University Club of Wash- ington, District of Columbia, the Washing- ton Country Club and Westmoreland Club, of Richmond, Virginia. It would indeed be difficult to find a branch of activity required by good citizenship in which Mr. Boothe has not played some part and his willing- ness for service of any kind, whether it be for the church, for his city, or for his party.
has gained him an enviable reputation among his friends and acquaintances.
He married, February 7. 1906, Eleanor Harrison Carr, born at Petersburg, Virginia, February 19, 1884, daughter of Joseph and Frances ( Harrison ) Carr, and has children : 1. Armistead Lloyd, born at Alexandria, Virginia. September 25, 1907. 2. Gardner Lloyd, Jr., born at Alexandria, November 15. 1912.
Hosea McCall Duncan, M. D. Of Scotch ancestry and Pennsylvania birth. Dr. Dun- can, although recently located in Strasburg, Virginia, has been a practitioner of medicine and surgery in the state of Virginia for many years, located at Manassas.
Dr. Duncan is a son of John Duncan, born in Edinburg, Scotland, in 1824, died in west- ern l'ennsylvania in 1884. He came to the United States when young and became one of the noted and successful coal land pro- moters of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. During his latter years he lived a retired life. He married Isabel Campbell, also of Scotch parentage, born at Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1825, died in 1901, daughter of William and Sarah E. ( Paul) Campbell. He left two sons and two daughters, Robert G., born in 1844. now a retired farmer of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania ; Hosea McCall, of further mention : Elizabeth, mar- ried L. S. Rhoads; Flora, married D. C. Rumbaugh.
Dr. Hosea MeCall Duncan, second son of John and Isabel (Campbell) Duncan, was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, October 26, 1864. His preparatory educa- tion was obtained in the public schools of Westmoreland and Allegheny counties. Pennsylvania, after which he spent two years, 1882-84, at Mount Union College. Alliance, Ohio. In 1884 he began his medi- cal education in Eclectic Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio, and after a three years' course was graduated M. D., class of 1887. He pursued post-graduate courses at West- ern Pennsylvania Medical College, now the University of Pittsburg, for two years and received from that college an additional M. D. degree. For a time he was interne at the college hospital, then he began practice at Mount Pleasant. Westmoreland county. Pennsylvania, where he was successfully engaged for ten years. He then located in
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Manassas, Virginia, there establishing a hospital and sanitarium, which he con- ducted for two and a half years. He then entered the service of the Southern Railroad Company as investigator, continuing with that company nine years, investigating fraudulent and genuine cases of injury all over the territory in which the Southern operated. In 1914 he located in Strasburg, Virginia, where he established a hospital and sanitarium, of which he is head physi- cian and surgeon.
Dr. Duncan is a member of Manassas Lodge, No. 182, Free and Accepted Masons ; Plains Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Plains, Virginia ; charter member and past noble grand of Manassas Lodge, Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows, and in both re- ligion and politics independent in thought and action. While located in Mount Pleas- ant, Pennsylvania, Dr. Duncan qualified as a pharmacist, passed the examinations re- quired by the state board of pharmacy, and , in connection with his medical practice con- ducted a drug store.
Dr. Duncan married, in June, 1901, Mary Frances Garner, born in Wheeling, West Virginia, daughter of William and Annie (Kline) Garner.
Henceford Noel Garner. Comparatively a newcomer to the legal ranks of the city of Alexandria, Virginia, the qualities that gained Henceford Noel Garner admission to the bar of Virginia assure him a successful continuance in that profession, a result the prophecy of which is justified by the favor he has gained during the five years that he has been in practice in that city. He is a son of John Wyatt Garner, born in Stafford county, Virginia, August 28, 1850, whose father, John Garner, was a native of the same county. John Garner, grandfather of Henceford Noel Garner, married Sally Con- yers, tradition stating that the American an- cestor of the Conyers family accompanied Captain John Smith to America. John Wyatt Garner is engaged in the insurance business in Alexandria, Virginia, and through his service in Hart's Battery, Wade Hampton's Legion, of South Carolina troops, holds membership in the R. E. Camp, Confederate Veterans of the civil war. He was twice wounded in action, neither time seriously, and since returning from the front has been engaged in business. He married
Marion Frances Alexander Jones, born in Stafford county, Virginia, December 12, 1857, and among their children is Henceford Noel, of whom further.
Henceford Noel Garner, son of John Wyatt and Marion Frances Alexander (Jones) Garner, was born in Charlestown, West Virginia, October 24, 1882. He pur- sued his youthful studies in the public schools of Lynchburg, Virginia, his instruc- tion including a high school course, after which he enrolled in and graduated from Woods Commercial College, of Washing- ton, District of Columbia. He then became a clerk and student in the office of Judge Norton, an attorney of Alexandria, continu- ing so until his first legal practice in 1909, at the same time, from 1904 to 1907, taking a legal course in the George Washington University, whence he was graduated LL. B. in the latter year. On February 1, 1909, he opened an office in Alexandria, where he has since been engaged in active practice, and at the present time has a generous clientele among the best class of the city's residents. Mr. Garner's lodges are the local organization of the Improved Order of Red Men, Potomac Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Masonic order, in which he belongs to Andrew Jackson Lodge, No. 120, Free and Accepted Masons, Mount Vernon Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, Old Dominion Commandery, Knights Templar, also holding the thirty- second degree in Scottish Rite Masonry. He is a member of and for four years has been commander of M. D. Corse Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and holds the first lieutenant's rank in Company G, First Regi- ment Virginia National Guard. He affiliates with the Democratic party, and is a mem- ber of the Presbyterian church.
Wilbur Boswell Payne, M. D. Bath county, Virginia, and Warm Spring Valley in that county has long been the family seat of the Paynes. The original settler there was Lewis (1) Payne, born January 31, 1731, who located in Warm Spring Valley on a tract of land granted by the govern- ment to his wife, Nancy (Davis) Payne, whose brother received a similar grant for revolutionary war service. Lewis Payne was a son of Daniel Payne, who was also a revolutionary soldier, and was killed at the battle of Cowpens, South Carolina. Among
N.B. Payne.
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the children of Lewis Payne were two sons: Lewis, of whom further. and Dr. George Harrison, born at the old Payne homestead, November 4, 1799; he graduated with honors from Jefferson Medical College in 1828; his practice covered the whole of the then sparsely inhabited country from the formation of the James river in Botetourt county through almost the whole of Alle- gheny county, and was resident physician of the White Sulphur Springs during the period when the place was under the management of the Coldwells. He died at his home, Edge Hill, about two miles south of Covington, Virginia, February 2, 1852.
Lewis (2) Payne, son of Lewis (1) and Nancy (Davis) Payne, was born in Bath county, Virginia, 1775. Hle married and had a son, Lewis (3) Payne, born October 21, 1803. He married Louisa Peck and had sons : 1. James Preston, born June 23, 1840, graduated in medicine in 1868; practiced in Covington until about 1877, when he moved to Newport, Virginia, where he practiced until his death; he was a private, serving in the "Alleghany Roughs" from Bath county, a company that had as drill master the present ex-Senator Daniels, of Virginia. 2. Lewis (4), of further mention. 3. George, who served in the Confederate army from Bull Run to Appomattox. 4. Charles, a cavalryman of "Stonewall' Jackson's bri- gade. 5. William, also a private of a Bath county regiment of the Confederate army ; commanded by Foxhall Dangerfield.
Lewis (4) Payne, son of Lewis (3) Payne and Louisa (Peek) Payne, was born in Bath county, Virginia, March 6, 1842. Ile served in Dangerfield's cavalry regiment of the Confederate army, recruited in Bath county, Virginia, and twice received wounds in battle. He married Eugenie St. Clair Bos- well. Children. 1. Wilbur Boswell, of whom further. 2. Lulu Lee, born in Cov- ington, Virginia, in 1868, died in 1886. 3. Ira Jerome, born in Alleghany county, Vir- ginia, in October, 1869; he married Lena Alley, and is now a resident of Roanoke, Virginia ; children : Catherine, Jerome and Alonzo. 4. Forest Eugene, born in Cov- ington, Virginia, in 1876; married Hattie Ford and has a daughter, Sally llenry Payne. 5. Lewis (5), born in Covington, in 1881 ; married Lela Schuder and has chil- dren : James and Clara Payne.
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