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Dr. Hinchman married, in Richmond, May 30, 1881, Bishop O'Connell officiating, Mary E. Doherty, born in that city, Febru- ary 29, 1852, daughter of John A. Doherty, born in Ireland, well known in Richmond for many years as the "Prince of Tailors," personally acquainted with President Davis, General Lee and others noted in his day. He married Hannah L. Marrah, also born in Ireland. Children of Dr. John Henry Hinchman : John Doherty, Erina Inez, Harry Barton, a graduate (1914) of the Medical College of Virginia; Jeb Stuart, graduate of Rockhill College, A. B .; Ernest Francis, a student at Rock Hill Col- lege. Dr. Hinchman's home and offices are at No. 415 North Twenty-fifth street, Rich- mond.
Milton E. Marcuse. Born, educated and trained in business in Richmond, Mr. Mar- cuse can easily substantiate his claim to the title of a "native son," and as such has brought nothing but credit to his native city. He is of German ancestry, his grand- father, Abraham Marcuse, having been born in Berlin, Germany, where he married Jean- ette Myers. The family is of Hebrew origin and conform to the forms, ceremonies and customs of the Jewish faith.
Milton E. Marcuse was born in Richmond,
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Virginia, August 27, 1869, son of Jonas and Rosalie Marcuse. Jonas Marcuse, who was born January 1, 1832, was a merchant. He served in the Confederate army as a pri- vate. He married, March 5, 1863, Rosalie Mitteldorfer, born March 7, 1846, died Oc- tober 22, 1912, daughter of Moses and Fan- nie Mitteldorfer. Children: Alexander J., born August 23, 1864; Sadie, born March 5. 1866, married Myer Kirsh; Isaac J., born November 16, 1867: Milton E., of whom further ; Moses M., born August 25, 1874.
Milton E. Marcuse was 'educated in the public schools of Richmond, and is a grad- uate of the high school, class of 1886. He began his business career in 1886 as a worker in the employ of Myers Brothers & Company, tobacconists ; then in 1888 became associated with C. H. Hasker, in the manu- facture of tags and labels for tobacco. In 1890 the Hasker & Marcuse Manufacturing Company was formed, which was later sold to the American Can Company. In 1903 Mr. Marcuse became interested in the Bed- ford Pulp & Paper Company, and is now the vice-president and treasurer. He has had a very successful business career and is held in high regard by his associates. He is a director of the Merchants National Bank of Richmond and has other important inter- ests. From 1901 to March, 1910, when he resigned, he was president of the board of directors of the Virginia Penitentiary. Mr. Marcuse is a prominent member of the Masonic order, belonging to both the York and Scottish Rites. He is a past master of Fraternal Lodge, No. 53, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; past high priest of Temple Chapter, No. 32, Royal Arch Masons ; a thirty-second degree Mason of Dalebo Consistory, No. 1, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and a noble of Acca Temple. Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a past president of Richmond Lodge, Inde- pendent Order of Bnai Brith. His clubs are the Jefferson and the Business Men's, of Richmond. Mr. Marcuse married, October 24. 1894. Rosa, daughter of Jacob and Han- nah May, of Richmond.
Julian Thomas Wright. One of the best known surgeon-dentists of Richmond, Vir- ginia, is Julian Thomas Wright, D. D. S., whose conscientious attention to the duties of his profession has resulted in a large and constantly increasing patronage. The name
of Wright is an old one. Several centuries ago when men, in order to distinguish them- selves more readily, took surnames, many assumed the name of the art or craft at which they worked. "Wright" originally denoted a workman, an artificer, a maker, and was a designation usually applied to those who wrought in wood, as "Smith" was applied to those who worked in metal. It is highly probable that almost every person bearing the name of Wright as his original surname is descended from an English an- cestor who was an artificer. As the name could have been, and was, assumed by any artificer who chose to do so, it follows that there may be numerous families whose ori- gin is not identical. Hence in this country there are several lines of this name not of the same descent. The name appears early in the colonial records, and has been borne by many distinguished citizens in colonial and recent times.
John Thomas Wright, father of Dr. Wright, was born in Culpeper county, Vir- ginia, in 1827, and died in 1912 .. He was a miller all his life, owning and operating three mills, in Albemarle, Fauquier and Cul- peper counties, and was very successful in his operations. He was the only man in his section of the country who was declared exempt from service in the Confederate army by General Robert E. Lee, as his ser- vices in the production of flour and other food supplies to the public were of inesti- mable value during the period of the War with the States. He was a very wealthy man prior to the war, but lost all his wealth during that struggle. He married Margaret Randolph Irving, born in Virginia, in 1839, died July 4, 1906. Children: Henry I., a miller, of Wythe county, Virginia ; Mollie L., deceased; Edwin P., deceased ; Josie F., widow of T. P. Tuckwiler, lives with Dr. Wright ; John L., a miller, in Bluefield, West Virginia : Charles O., in association with his brother, John L., has one of the largest mills in the United States, at Bluefield, West Virginia : Julian Thomas, whose name heads this sketch; William D., also of Bluefield, West Virginia; Maggie R., deceased.
Julian Thomas Wright, D. D. S., was born at Hydraulic, Albemarle county, Vir- ginia, May 22, 1867. He was an infant when the family removed to Fredericksburg, and was six years of age when his father built the Bridgewater Family Flour Mills. From
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there they removed to Richmond in 1873, and there the father constructed the Hexall and Crenshaw Mills, and also conducted a large department store on Broad street. The family lived six years in Petersburg, after which they returned to Richmond. Dr. Wright, after a thorough preparatory edu- cation, took a course in the University of Maryland, and then became a student at the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1888. He at once established him- self in the practice of his profession in Richmond, and has been actively identified with it since that time. He is a man of progressive ideas, and has remained a con- stant student, holding it a matter of vital necessity to keep in constant touch with all improvements made in his profession. For a number of years he has been a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Dr. Wright married (first) in Richmond, June 28, 1904. Rose Griggs, who died the following year. He married (second) No- vember 3, 1906, in Washington, District of Columbia, Daisy Mountjoy, born in Stafford county, Virginia, where her parents are still living. James B. Mountjoy, her father, is a farmer, and was born in Kansas. He mar- ried Mary K. Evans, born in Stafford county, Virginia.
Abram Cecil Wright, D. D. S. The course by which this branch of the family of Wright has arrived at Virginia residence almost completes a gigantic triangle upon the map of the United States, a figure be- ginning in New York, extending westward to Iowa, southeastward to Florida, and then northward to Virginia, the present home and scene of the professional practice of Dr. Abram Cecil Wright, D. D. S.
Dr. Wright is a son of George Henry Wright, a native of New York state, born in Troy, November 3, 1829. George Henry Wright was a son of Allen M. and Abigail (Valentine) Wright, and in young man- hood became a sailor and pilot, many of his voyages being made on the Great Lakes. In 1859 he settled in Wisconsin, and one year later made his home in Des Moines, Iowa, remaining in that state until 1887 and gaining business success and public promi- nence. He controlled a profitable agency for agricultural implements, his business field a splendid one, and in 1868 became
internal revenue assessor of a county in Iowa, and two years later, in 1870, elected to the lower house of the Iowa legislature. In 1887 the family home was changed to Orlando, Florida. George Henry Wright was a man of marked ability, courage and strength of character, and during a long lifetime held the unswerving respect and kindly regard of his associates. He mar- ried, October 24, 1854, Sarah Smith, of Pen- field, New York, and had issue: Lillie Elizabeth, married (first) George Robinson, deceased, and survives him, a resident of Orlando, Florida; married (second) P. F. Laubach; Charles H., deceased; George Walton, deceased; Sarah Antoinette, de- ceased; Frederick B., a resident of Titus- ville, Florida; Nellie Maud, unmarried, re- sides in Atlanta, Georgia ; Dr. Abram Cecil, of whom further.
Dr. Abram Cecil Wright, son of George Henry and Sarah (Smith) Wright, was born in Sioux city, Iowa, October 14, 1879, and when eight years of age accompanied his parents to Orlando, Florida, where he lived until he was twenty years of age. As a youth he attended the public schools of that place, in 1899 coming to Richmond, Vir- ginia, in that city entering the Virginia School of Dentistry. Graduated as a Doc- tor of Dental Surgery in 1904, he began active practice in Surry county, Virginia, four years afterward returning to Richmond, where he has since practiced. For the past four years his office has been located at No. 2705 East Broad street, and a rapidly growing clientele has made his profession demand his entire time. Expert workman- ship and high professional standing explain the popularity he has attained in Richmond, and he is favorably regarded in all dental circles. Dr. Wright is a member of lodge and chapter in the Masonic order, and is otherwise active in fraternal societies as a member of the Modern Woodmen of the World and of the Knights of Pythias. His church is St. John's Protestant Episcopal.
Dr. Wright married, at Claremont, Vir- ginia, January 1, 1907, Mary E. S., born in Vienna, Wisconsin, daughter of Martin and Mary S. L. Kendall, both of her parents deceased. Dr. and Mrs. Wright are the parents of one son, William Walton, born July 24, 1908.
Obie L. Roach. The old Roach home-
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stead in Rockingham county, North Caro- lina, was the birthplace of several gener- ations of the family including Obie L. Roach and his father, John Alexander Roach, the latter born there in 1837, located in Reedsville, North Carolina, in 1879, and there died July 12, 1912. He served in the Confederate army, was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, taken prisoner and confined for eight months at Elmira, New York. He returned to the army after being released and continued in the service until the war ended. He was engaged in the tobacco business all his active life and un- til his death in Reedsville aged seventy-five years. He married Rhoda E. McMichael, born in Guilford county, Virginia, who is yet residing in Reedsville, celebrating her seventy-fourth birthday, June 16, 1914. Children : William M., a wholesale marble and granite dealer of Greensborough, North Carolina ; Lulu, deceased, married J. W. Hopkins ; Minnie, married Dr. J. W. Hester, of Reedsville, whom she survives ; Roberta, married W. D. Rowe, of Greensboro, Vir- ginia ; John Alexander, a D. D. S., prac- ticing in Madison, North Carolina; Eliza- beth, died in infancy ; a son, died in infancy ; Obie Lewis, of further mention.
Obie Lewis Roach was born on the old Roach homestead in Rockingham county, North Carolina, October 16, 1878. He was educated in the Reedsville schools, his boy- hood home, and there lived until eighteen vears of age when he came to Virginia, locating in Danville, where he was asso- ciated with his brother-in-law, W. D. Rowe, marble and granite monumental dealer for a term of four years. He then became a traveling salesman with a line of paints and oils in Georgia and Florida territorv. He then returned to Danville and purchased an interest in the Star Laundry Company. of which he is treasurer and manager. He has been very successful, the Star Laundry ranking as one of the largest and best equip- ped laundries of the South, having about fifty agencies located in Virginia, North and South Carolina. The equipment is of the most modern type, the plant having been destroyed by fire in October, 1910, and re- placed with a new and completely modern equipment, opening for business March 15, 1911. Mr. Roach is a director of the Dan- ville Book and Stationery Company and interested in other Danville enterprises. He
is a member of Mount Vernon Methodist Episcopal Church, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Tuscarora and the Merriewold Country Club.
He married. January 8. 1902, at Greens- borough, Virginia, Myrtle Mary Cook, born in Guilford county, Virginia, now deceased. leaving a daughter, Mary Myrtle, born No- vember 12, 1906. Mr. Roach married (sec- ond) June 10, 1914, Myrtle J. Betts, of Richmond, Virginia.
Edd Riddick. The grandfather of Edd Riddick, of Norfolk, Virginia, William Rid- dick, was the revolutionary ancestor of the line, his home in Nansemond county, Vir- ginia. William Riddick was owner of a large plantation, operated by many slaves, and was a man of prominent position in the county, giving liberally of his means, as of his services, to the colonial government dur- ing the struggle for freedom. He married and had three sons, John, James, of whom further, and Edwin, the first the father of Rev. William H. Riddick, who was a well- known minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, the last the founder of a family in Georgia, whither he moved after his mar- riage.
James Riddick, son of William Riddick, was born in Nansemond county, Virginia. in 1816, and died in 1883. As a student in the public and private schools of this locality he obtained an excellent education, and passed his life on his father's planta- tion, in young manhood beginning its man- agement. He cultivated several hundred acres of land, using slave labor entirely, and prospered in his agricultural operations. For the four years of the Civil war he was connected with the commissary department of the Confederate States army, volunteer- ing his services when it became apparent that war was inevitable. With his brother, John, James Riddick bore the cost of erect- ion of the Methodist Episcopal church near Cypress Chapel, in the vicinity of his home, and was afterward a member of the board of stewards of the church. He was a Demo- crat in politics, a citizen of public spirit and a member of the community whose life ex- emplified honor, unselfishness and brother- hood. He married Mary Ann, daughter of Lazarus Parker, of Nansemond county, Virginia, and had issue: I. Ida. 2. Emna,
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married A. Milteer, and had Walter R., mar- ried and has three children ; Gertie, married Kenneth Brinkley ; Harry D., married Vir- ginia Greenwood; William. 3. Edd, of whom further. 4. Milton, married Eunice Linn.
Edd Riddick, son of James and Mary Ann (Parker) Riddick, was born in Nansemond county, Virginia, September 19, 1873. When his studies in the public schools were com- pleted he obtained a position with the Sea- board Air Line as clerk under General Baker. He remained with this road for sev- eral years, being advanced through several grades of service, then resigning and ac- cepting a position with the Norfolk & West- ern Railroad, with which road he was iden- tified until 1895. From the beginning of his association with the Norfolk & Western until 1895 he had received promotion to posts of increased responsibility, and in that year he came to Norfolk, Virginia, and with James Iredell Jenkins formed the Jenkins Paint and Oil Company. The original offi- cers of this concern, which remain the same to this time, were Mr. Jenkins, president and treasurer, and Mr. Riddick secretary. The labors of Mr. Jenkins have been ably seconded by Mr. Riddick, and they have worked in perfect harmony in raising the business to its present high plane. Paints, oils and putty are the products of the fac- tory, which is in Norfolk, the maintenance of a jobbing force an important part of the company's activity, and the plant is con- tinually running at capacity to supply the demands for their manufactures. Mr. Rid- dick is a member of the Chamber of Com- merce, a Democrat in politics, and a ves- tryman of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church. He fraternizes with the Knights of Pythias and the Masonic order, belong- ing in the latter to Ruth Lodge, No. 89, Free and Accepted Masons, Norfolk Chap- ter, Royal Arch Masons, Grice Command- ery, No. 16, Knights Templar, and Khedive Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Riddick finds in his home life the most agreeable relaxation from the cares of the day, and is there usual- ly found when free from the duties of busi- ness. He is strict in his observance of the requirements of citizenship, of which he has a high conception, and is closely identified with the best in civil life.
Mr. Riddick married, November 21, 1900,
Nellie, daughter of Willoughby and Sarah Frances (Portlock) Butt, of Norfolk county, Virginia.
Robert E. Glover. Three generations of Glovers have been connected with the navy yard at Portsmouth, as first class machin- ists, under the United States and Confed- erate states government, and when the for- tunes of war determined its abandonment by the Confederates, George W. Glover, of the second generation, was one of the de- tail to spike the guns left behind and to fire the yard. With the return of peace and the creation of a greater naval station and navy yard, the Glovers returned to the yard and from youth until 1909, Robert E. Glover, present city sergeant of Portsmouth, was there employed as machinist and draughts -. man.
William Glover, grandfather of Robert E. Glover, was born in Maryland and there learned the machinists' trade. Later he came to Virginia, locating in Portsmouth and entering the employ of the United States government as master mechanic at the navy yard. He was an expert worker in government employ until retired by years.
William Glover was succeeded by his son, George W. Glover, born in Maryland, 1835, died January 12, 1888. He attended public schools and when old enough became a machinist's apprentice. After serving the required years he continued as journeyman and was also employed at the United States navy yards in Portsmouth. He was an ex- pert mechanic and continued in the employ of the government until the yard fell into the hands of the Confederates. He then transferred his allegiance to the new owners and was there at his trade until the evacu- ation of Norfolk and the partial destruction of the navy yard. After the war he returned to Portsmouth and again entered govern- tent employ at the navy yard until his re- tirement several years prior to his death in 1888. He was a deacon of the Baptist church, faithful to his obligations, a good citizen and highly respected. He was a de- voted husband and father, his hours "off duty" being spent in the home, the training and well being of his children his greatest concern. In political faith he was a Demo- crat. He married, in 1861, Annie Elizabeth Wittery, born in 1841, died January 12,
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1888, daughter of John M. Wittery, of Glas- gow, Scotland, and his wife, Annie Eliza- beth (Goodall) Wittery, of Leeds, York- shire, England. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Wittery : William H., Josiah, Charles J., Annie Elizabeth, wife of George W. Glover. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Glover: Bessie Elizabeth, died aged one year; Alice, died aged three years; Robert E., of further men- tion: John Wesley, married Elizabeth -, children : George W. and Matthew H .; Annie Elizabeth, married Fletcher O. Cain, children : Marion, Lewis and John R .; Adelaide Ella, married W. H. Shackleford, children : Hazel, Leigh R. Watts, Kenneth and Delmar ; George W. (2), married Mary Henley. children : Claire, George W. (3) and Edward.
Robert E. Glover, eldest son of George WV. and Annie Elizabeth (Wittery) Glover, was born in Portsmouth, August 29, 1864. He attended public schools of Portsmouth, obtained a good English education, then fol- lowing in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, learned the machinists' trade. This occupation he followed for twelve years, becoming an expert steel worker, em- ployed at the navy yard and elsewhere and aiding in the construction of many of the vessels of the United States navy, including the battleship Texas. He later took courses in marine architecture and was employed as a draughtsman until 1909. In that year he was elected city sergeant of Portsmouth, an important office, and after serving a term of four years was reelected in 1913 for a similar term. For the past thirty years Mr. Glover has been connected with the public service of his native city, his service begin- ning in 1884 as a member of the school board. Since that year he has been con- tinuously a member of the board and identi- fied with the upbuilding of the public school system of Portsmouth. He also served as police commissioner, was for five years an alderman of the city, and for ten years a member of council. His public spirit and interest in all that concerns the common good has been constantly displayed and Portsmouth has profited from his experi- enced service. He is a steward of the Portsmouth Methodist Episcopal Church, interested and active in church work. a member of Seaboard Lodge, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, the Improved Order of Red Men, and the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. In political faith he is a Democrat.
Mr. Glover married, September 26, 1886, Margaret Rebecca Walker, born in 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Glover have an adopted son, Charles Edward Thomas, born in 1892, whom they adopted in infancy and have given the love and care of true parents and in return have received the love and devo- tion of a true son. He was educated in the public schools of Portsmouth, Randolph- Macon Academy (Bedford City), graduated class of 1911, and at the University of Vir- ginia, medical department, whence he was graduated Doctor of Medicine. He then pursued a course of summer study at St. Luke's Hospital, New York City.
Leslie Duncan Kline. In 1763 Jacob Kline came to Virginia from Pennsylvania, a married man. He located at Vaucluse and purchased land on which he built a house, the site being now occupied by a brick house, in which a descendant, S. B. Kline, lives. Jacob Kline lived in this house for nineteen years, then built a larger house on the bank of West Run about forty feet from the first one. This second house built in 1782 was one story of limestone and two stories of logs, weather boarded and plas- tered. The brick house built on the site of the first house was erected in 1820 for Dan- iel Kline, son of Jacob. The contractors were Henry Mitchell and Isaac Cockerell and the bricks were burned on the farm; one of the kilns was in the "brick yard" field and another in the meadow below the "shoot" along the race near W. S. Kline's garden, the bricks for the latter residence being burned also on the farm. "Kline's Mill," which stood on the race, was built in 1794 by Jacob Kline, whose son Anthony, born July 12, 1777, did a great deal of the work and made most of the machinery in it. Jacob Kline was a member of the Lutheran church, and is buried in the Lutheran ceme- tery at Stephens City, Virginia. Anthony Kline, his son and great-grandfather of Les- lie D. Kline, of Stephens City, died in 1859, leaving a son, A. M. Kline.
Snowden Bedell Kline, son of A. M. Kline, was born on the farm near Middle- ton, Virginia, August 23, 1838, and is now a resident of Vaucluse, Virginia. He served during the war, 1861-65, as a private of Clark's battery and was engaged in many
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hard battles of the war, including first and second Manassas (Bull Run), Winchester and Gettysburg. General Lee said of Clark's battery that it used more ammunition than any other battery in the Confederate army. Mr. Kline married Generva, daughter of Watson Carr Peery, who resided near Stras- burg, Virginia. Watson Carr Peery married a Miss Shambaugh.
Leslie Duncan Kline, son of Snowden Be- dell and Generva (Peery) Kline, was born at Vaucluse, Virginia, October 22, 1871. He obtained a good preparatory education in private schools in Frederick county and in Captain James W. Larrick's private acad- emy in Middleton, Virginia. He prepared for a professional life at Virginia Poly- technic Institute, which he entered in 1891 and from whence he was graduated Bach- elor of Science, class of 1895. He then pre- pared for the profession of the law, in the law department of the University of Vir- ginia, where he was a student 1901-03. He never practiced, however, but as soon as his college term was ended he located at Ste- phens City, Virginia, and engaged in scien- tific farming and stock raising. He has ad- vanced to the very front rank in the agri- cultural world of Virginia and is a leader in the modern methods of operating a farm. He formerly served on the board of directors of the Virginia State Farmers' Institute and is president of the Central Frederick Farm- ers' Club of Stephens City, both active and valuable farmers' organizations. Mr. Kline makes a specialty of Duroc-Jersey Swine, is a member of the American Duroc-Jersey Swine Breeders' Association and secretary and treasurer of the Virginia Duroc-Jersey Swine Breeders' Association. He is also a noted poultry fancier, specializing in barred Plymouth Rocks and mammoth bronze tur- keys. His kennels of Scotch collie dogs are also noted ones and in all these branches he has won high reputation as a successful breeder and is an authority undisputed. He contributes largely to the literature devoted to farm and field, his articles attracting wide- spread attention. He is a fine type of the educated, energetic farmer, bringing to his aid all that science and investigation has learned concerning modern farming and stock raising. But farming does not en- tirely absorb his energy or interest. From 1908 to 1912 he was a member of the board
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