Encyclopedia of Virginia biography, Volume V, Part 66

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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William Camp, born in Norfolk, Virginia, was educated in Norfolk Academy, Clifton Preparatory School and Virginia Military Institute. He began business life as book-

keeper in a Norfolk bank, was deputy col- lector of customs for eleven years, engaged for several years in the grocery business, then retired to a farm near Norfolk, where he devoted himself to the raising of fine stock. Later he purchased another farm and there he resides amid beautiful surround- ings. He is a member of the Virginia Club. Mr. Camp married, October 25, 1895, Blanche L., daughter of Herbert L. Smith, of Norfolk, and granddaughter of Dr. Arthur Richardson and Jane Elizabeth (Herbert) Smith (q. v.). Child, Ellen Castleman, born July 9, 1900.

George Gardner Hobson. On paternal and maternal lines, Mr. Hobson is of early Virginia ancestry. He is a paternal grand- son of Maurice Langhorne Hobson, and a maternal grandson of General Walter Gard- ner Lane and his wife, Mary Louisa (Bark- well) Lane, of Mathews county, Virginia. Walter Gardner Lane was a farmer and mer- chant, and held the rank of general of state militia.

Charles Lewis Hobson, father of George Gardner Hobson, was a tobacco planter and snuff manufacturer, being one of the earliest manufacturers of snuff in Richmond. He served two years in the Confederate army, and was a man highly regarded for manly uprightness of character. He married Mary Louisa, daughter of General Walter Gard- ner Lane, of Mathews county.

George Gardner Hobson was born in Richmond, Virginia, and was educated in the public schools. He began business life with the Merchants' and Miners' Transpor- tation Company, running on one of that com- pany's steamers out of Norfolk. Later he entered the employ of the Norfolk & West- ern Railroad Company, as assistant agent, continuing in that capacity until 1905, when he was appointed general agent of the com- pany, and continues in that responsible position at the present time (1914). Mr. Hobson is a member of the Country, Vir- ginia. Beach, German, and Boat clubs of Norfolk, and is a communicant of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church. He married, September 23, 1884. Kate Hanaford Baker, daughter of Richard Henry (2) Baker, granddaughter of Judge Richard Henry (I) Baker, and descendant of Henry Baker, who came from England in 1632. Child, Lelia Baker Hobson, born June 16, 1885, married,

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in November, 1908, Vaughn Veazey Wood- ward, of the United States navy, and has a son, Vaughn Hobson Woodward, born Au- gust 8, 1910.

Crawford S. Rogers. Second of his line to bear this name, his grandfather, from whom he received it, still active in the city of Norfolk, Crawford S. Rogers holds posi- tion in the business life of Berkley as sec- retary of Garrett & Company. His grand- father, Crawford S. Rogers, was born in Norfolk, Virginia, January 6, 1837, son of William and Charlotte (Merdon) Rogers, and was educated in the Norfolk Academy. After leaving school he entered mercantile life as a dry goods merchant, closing his store in 1862 to enlist in the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues, serving until injured by a fall in 1865, when he returned to his home. After his recovery he formed a business partnership with Albert Nash, dissolving this to re-engage in dry goods dealing. His present position is superintendent of the Magnolia Cemetery. Mr. Rogers is a mem- ber of the official board of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in its organization has filled the office of treasurer, and is a member of the Masonic order, Nehemiah Shaw and Pickett Buchanan Camps, Con- federate Veterans. He married Mary Eliza- beth, born March 11, 1837, daughter of Wil- liam and Julia (Foster) Diggs, her mother a daughter of Isaac and Mary (Miller) Foster. Isaac and Mary (Miller) Foster were the parents of : Julia, of previous men- tion, married William Diggs; Baldwin; John ; Seth ; Isaac, Jr. ; Elizabeth ; and Shep- herd. William Diggs, a native of Mathews county, Virginia, was a ship carpenter in calling, pursuing this occupation in Balti- more and Norfolk. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and frater- nizes with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Crawford S. and Mary Elizabeth (Diggs) Rogers had one son, Joseph Stan- ley, born in 1859, died in 1912. Joseph Stanley Rogers married, in 1883, Addie A. Moore, and had issue: Mary, born in 1884, married H. F. Hudson; Crawford S., of whom further; Julia, born in 1887; Henry, born in 1890; Marguerite, born in 1893, mar- ried, in 1913, Henry B. Barton; Virginia Louise, born in 1906.

Crawford S. Rogers, son of Joseph Stan- ley and Addie A. (Moore) Rogers, was born

in Norfolk, Virginia, September 27, 1885. After attending the schools of Berkley, Vir- ginia, became connected with the Southern Railroad. He remained in this employ until 1907, when he was engaged in a clerical capacity by Garrett & Company, a wine manufacturing concern of Berkley. In June, 1913, Mr. Rogers was elevated to the office of secretary of Garrett & Company, his pro- motion a recognition of the qualities of capacity and capability shown in his former position, and is now associated with that company as secretary. He is a member of the board of stewards of the Methodist Epis- copal church, and holds membership in the Masonic order, belonging to Berkley Lodge, No. 167, Free and Accepted Masons; Ionic Chapter, No. 46, Royal Arch Masons ; Grice Commandery, Knights Templar, and Khe- dive Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

Mr. Rogers married. March 22, 1910, Co- lumbia Taylor Bott, and has one daughter, Franc, born August 30, 191I.

Bailey Tabb. Bailey Tabb, eldest son of George Tabb and Anne ( Eliason) Tabb, his second wife, was born December 6, 1798, in Berkley county, Virginia (now West Vir- ginia). He was educated in the private schools of the time. He married Sarah Anne Campbell, eldest daughter of Dougal and Sarah Lyle Campbell, of Gerardstown, Berkley county, Virginia. He was a farmer and lived near Martinsburg, Berkley county, until past middle age, when he moved with his sons to the western part of the state, to what is now Grant county, West Virginia. At the close of the war between the states, he bought a farm near Romney, Hampshire county, West Virginia, where he lived until after the death of his wife in 1874. The latter years of his life were spent in the home of his son, Dougal C. Tabb, at "Mt. Alto," Mineral county, West Virginia, where he died on his ninetieth birthday. December 6, 1888. His family consisted of five sons. Elliott Creighton, George Brown, Dougal Campbell, Robert Peyton, and Har- lan Page, and one daughter, Mary Wilkin- son Tabb.

Elliott Creighton Tabb, eldest son of Bailey and Sarah Anne (Campbell) Tabb, was born in Berkley county, Virginia, December 23, 1825. He attended the usual private schools in the country and later the Martins-

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burg school. He was a farmer and stock- man, a mason, and attended the Presbyte- rian church. In politics he was a Whig, as was his father before him, until the Whig party went out of existence, when they be- came Democrats. He married Emily Miller Campbell, youngest daughter of James Lyle and Rebecca Burns Campbell, of Berkley county, Virginia, January 19, 1856. A few years later he moved to Allegheny (now Gar- rett) county, Maryland, where he owned and operated a stock farm. Later he was en- gaged in merchandising and the lumber business. In the fall of 1872 he returned to the Shenandoah Valley and settled in Jeffer- son county, West Virginia, on a farm five miles west of Charles Town, where he spent the remaining years of his life. He died February 1, 1904. The death of his widow occurred in 1908, and both are buried at Charles Town, Jefferson county, West Vir- ginia. His family consisted of four sons, Lyle Campbell, Charles Holmes, Benjamin Parker, and James Elliott. The daughters are: Mary Frances, Sarah Creighton, Re- becca Burns, and Margaret Virginia. Lyle Campbell married Jennie E. Delawder, of Oakland, Garrett county, Maryland, Octo- ber 24, 1889, and lives in Elizabeth City county, Virginia. Charles Holmes married Lillie Reynolds, of Jefferson county, West Virginia, December 30, 1893. She died in 1909, leaving two children, Charles Creigh- ton, and Mary Emily. James Elliott mar- ried Anna Lea Carter of Riverton, Virginia, November 27, 1912, and has one son, George Elliott. He with his brother, Benjamin Parker Tabb, own and operate the home farm near Charles Town, West Virginia.

Thomas A. Wilkinson. For sixteen years connected with the postoffice force at Nor- folk, Mr. Wilkinson has advanced in that period from clerk to assistant postmaster, his appointment to the latter office dating July 1, 1911. No department of the gov- ernment comes in such close contact with all the people as does the postal department and nowhere is incompetence or neglect of even the smallest duty more quickly de- tected or more promptly reported. Hence continuation in the service argues efficient service and promotion means a great deal more than an increase in salary. A review of the career of Mr. Wilkinson reveals the fact that each duty assumed has been faith-

fully performed and that his record has been such that by successive steps he has reach- ed the highest position in the Norfolk post- office that can be obtained through merit alone, the office of postmaster everywhere still being conferred as a reward for party service.

Thomas A. Wilkinson is a son of Edwin Wilkinson, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, February 20, 1842, died July 12, 1908, whose career in this country was an eventful one. While still a youth he came to the United States and on the voyage across the Atlantic formed the acquaintance of the young lady who in later years became his wife. He set- tled in Pennsylvania and in 1862, enlisted in a Pennsylvania regiment of the Union army, serving until the battle of Gettysburg, in which he was desperately wounded. During the long months that intervened before he could again assume his place as a worker in any field, he improved the time by self study and careful reading, supplying in this man- ner some of the deficiencies of his early edu- cation. After his return to health he located in Bristol, Pennsylvania, entering the em- ploy of Grundy Brothers, carpet manufac- turers. Later he moved to West Point, King William county, Virginia, there re- siding until his death. He was a member of the Masonic order, a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church, and in politics a Republican. He was a man of strong character, determined and energetic, his Scotch ancestors having bequeathed him all the attributes of that race, whose sterling qualities partake of the nature of the rocks and mountains of their native land.

Edwin Wilkinson married at Philadel- phia, July 4, 1864, Jane Dyson, born in Eng- land, July 17, 1843. Children: Mary Han- nah, married Charles Barham, and resides in Nashville, Tennessee; Edwin (2), mar- ried Lydia Virginia Billups, and resides in Cairo, Georgia ; Elizabeth, married Charles W. Westbury, of Washington, D. C., an official of the Southern Railway; Thomas A., of further mention ; Walter V., married Estelle Wallace, and resides at Haddon Heights, New Jersey ; Joseph Wright, mar- ried Eva Weems, and resides at West Point, Virginia; Alice Gertrude, married Fred I. Roberts, and resides in Savannah, Georgia ; Herbert Foster, married Hannah Long, and resides in Roanoke, Virginia.

Thomas A. Wilkinson was born in West

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Point, King William county, Virginia. He obtained his early education in the public schools, then during the years 1889-91 pur- sued an academic course at William and Mary College, completing his years of study with a course at Pickett's Business College, in Philadelphia. He then returned to West Point and there was engaged as clerk in a mercantile house until 1896. In the latter year he located in Norfolk, Virginia, where for two years he engaged in business as a life insurance agent. In 1898 he entered the government postal service as clerk in the Norfolk postoffice. His first promotion was to the money order department and in 1910 he was advanced to the position of superin- tendent of that division. On July 1, 1911, he was appointed assistant postmaster, a position he has most efficiently and satis- factorily filled. Mr. Wilkinson is a director in the Old Dominion Life Insurance Com- pany, of Norfolk, Virginia ; a member of the Methodist Episcopal church ; a Republican in politics and a member of the Royal Arca- num. Mr. Wilkinson married, in Norfolk, Grace A. Moore. Children : Dorothy Bayn- ham; Theodoric Lenyear ; Thomas A. (2).

Edward E. Palen. One of the oldest of New York Holland families, founded in the colony about 1640, the Palen family has since that time been numerous and promi- nent in the Empire state. Leather tanning and dressing were the occupations of the family in the early days of their settlement, and they have continued in that line to the present time. Green county, New York, is a locality selected by many of the name as their home, and in time they gave their name to the village of Palenville.

Ezekiel Palen, grandfather of Edward E. Palen, of Norfolk, Virginia, assistant gen- eral manager of the Old Dominion Steam- ship Company, was a tanner and farmer of Greene county, New York, a man of con- siderable wealth and wide influence in the community. His trade descended to his son, Peter, in the manner in which the elder Palen had received it.

Peter Palen, son of Ezekial Palen, was born in Greene county, New York, in 1842, the eldest son of his father, and after com- pleting the usual course of study in the public schools was trained by his father and became a tanner. He was nineteen years of age when war broke out between the North

and South, and in 1861 enlisted as second lieutenant in a company of the One Hun- dred and Forty-third Regiment, New York Infantry Volunteers, being promoted to the rank of captain, and finally breveted major of United States Volunteers. He was severely wounded on several occasions, but each time rejoined his regiment upon re- covery, serving until the final surrender. After returning to his home and resuming work at his trade he began the study of law, several of those who began study at the same time afterward becoming prominent in their profession, and after his admission to the bar he established in general practice in Monticello, New York. Mr. Palen attained influential position in his profession, and was a leader in public affairs, holding many local offices, among them justice of the peace, member of the school board, and member of the board of trustees. After his retirement he moved to Orlando, Florida, where, the possessor of a comfortable for- tune, he is passing the closing years of his life in quiet enjoyment of the semi-tropical beauties of his home. He is a Democrat in political choice, and is a member of the Pres- byterian church. Peter Palen married Rachel J. Young, and has issue: Edward E., of whom further; Frederick P., married Lina Mayo, and has a son, Frederick P., Jr., born in 1914; Jeannette H., married Sidney L. Wood, and has a son, John, born in 1904; Lewis S .; Mary E., died in 1904, married Guy B. Steven.

Edward E. Palen, son of Peter and Rachel J. (Young) Palen, was born in New York state, in 1869, and there was educated in the public schools, finishing his studies in a business college. His entrance into the business world was in newspaper work in New York City, and he continued in jour- nalistic work as a member of the reportorial staff of the "Milwaukee Sentinel" of Mil- waukee, Wisconsin, remaining with the lat- ter paper for one year. On November 16, 1889, Mr. Palen accepted a position as clerk in the employ of the Old Dominion Steam- ship Company at Norfolk, where he has re- sided during this time except for a period of between eight and nine years when he was located at the general offices of the com- Dany in New York City. In the twenty- five years that have elapsed since Mr. Palen's association with this company was formed he has followed a course that has led con-

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stantly upward and that has taken him through the offices of chief clerk, claim agent, secretary and treasurer, secretary and auditor, to the important and responsible post of assistant general manager, to which he was appointed in 1912. His qualifications for his high office could not be improved upon, for through service in many depart- ments of the company's wide organization he has gained an insight, thorough and practical, into all of its workings, knowledge that has since stood him in good stead. His part in the direction of the vast coastwise trade of the Old Dominion Company re- quires the exercise of sound judgment, sure foresight, and quick decision, for an error in high position can rarely be rectified, and to these exactions Mr. Palen has conformed in a manner eminently able. In business, as in private life, he is known for his un- failing courtesy and evenness of temper, and no crisis of business or press of affairs can separate him from his considerate manner and command of his emotions. Mr. Palen is a member of the Norfolk Board of Trade and of the Chamber of Commerce, in the latter organization holding position upon several important committees. He is a direc- tor of the Seaboard National Bank, Virginia Navigation Company, and Central Young Men's Christian Association of Norfolk. His clubs are the Borough, Virginia, Country and Chesapeake, and in the Masonic order he was a member of Owens Lodge, No. 164, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he was past master ; Norfolk Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Grice Commandery, Knights Tem- plar, and Acca Temple, of Richmond, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

He married Lucy G. Stone, daughter of Robert Turnbull Stone, of Petersburg, Vir- ginia, in 1895.

Mrs. Katharine Hutchinson Flood. Daugh- ter of a clergyman of the Presbyterian church, granddaughter of an officer of the English army, wife of an officer of the Con- federacy, Mrs. Flood's life was begun under the peaceful conditions of the peace of the gospel ; she has tasted the full horrors of war and its attendant suffering. In her own life she has striven to heal, soothe and com- fort, and now a second time widowed, and walking amidst the lengthening shadows, rejoices that peace is the heritage of her children and that the cruelest of all wars

and that among brethren is now about a dim memory. Her daughter, Jennie Kirk- patrick (Hobson) Scott, whose father was killed in battle, is a member and president of the Memorial Society of Gordonsville, Virginia, a society that has erected a memo- rial building for the Confederate dead, yet on each recurring Memorial day lays its tribute of beautiful flowers upon the graves of the Confederate and Federal alike. The mother has the pleasure of knowing that it was largely through the efforts of her daugh- ter that funds were collected and sufficient bonds sold to erect this building, that while it honors the dead, stands also as a beacon light of good will and a reunited country.

Katharine Hutchinson Flood is a grand- daughter of Thomas and Mary (Hutchin- son) Kirkpatrick and a daughter of Rev. John Kirkpatrick, born in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, in 1794, died in February, 1842, a minister of the Presby- terian church, first pastor of the Manchester, Virginia, church, and pastor of Cumberland Presbyterian church. Mr. Kirkpatrick, learning from a Scotchman, Mr. Brainard, how to teach deaf mutes to speak, had a school of these unfortunates in Manchester, Virginia, succeeding with all but two in a class of seventeen. This was about 1818, long before such a feat was thought possi- ble by educators in this country. He was offered a flattering salary to go to France to teach deaf mutes, but declined, preferring to devote his time in the Master's vineyard. He married Jane M. Browne Jellis, daughter of Captain Thomas Jellis, born in Kent county, England. He was an officer in the English army, and while on furlough in 1816 came to Cartersville, Cumberland county, Virginia. He was so well pleased with Vir- ginia that he remained, and ever afterward made Virginia his home; he had married in Ireland Anastasia Deane. He died in 1823, aged fifty-one years, his wife surviving him but one week. Mrs. Flood's brother, Major Thomas Jellis Kirkpatrick, born July 31, 1829, was a captain of the Amherst artillery, Jackson's corps, Ewell's division of the Con- federate army, later promoted to major, serving until the final surrender, receiving but a slight wound in the hand, although often and hotly engaged. A half-brother of Mrs. Flood, Rev. John Mason Kirkpatrick, born in 1822, served for eight months as chaplain in the Confederate army, and was

George William Hobson

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pastor of the Presbyterian church at Dan- ville, Virginia, and at the time of his death was pastor of Powhatan church, Virginia.

Mrs. Flood was born in Cumberland coun- ty, Virginia, October 4. 1837. Her early life spent in the quiet of home, school and church, and was devoted to the acquirement of an education and in good works. She married (first) September 21, 1858, George William Hobson, born in Cumberland coun- ty, Virginia, April 22, 1832, son of Morris Langhorne and Ann ( Deane) Hobson. Lieu- tenant George William Hobson enlisted in the "Richmond Howitzers," a famous Vir- ginia battery of the Confederate army, later served in Pendleton's battalion, Amherst artillery, in the company commanded by his brother-in-law, Captain Thomas Jellis Kirk- patrick. He attained the rank of lieutenant, bore well a soldier's part and died a soldier's death at the battle of Frederick City, July 9. 1864. He left two children, Jennie Kirk- patrick, born May 7, 1860, and Christiana Jellis, born October 4, 1863, died aged nine- teen months. Jennie Kirkpatrick Hobson married Dr. John Walter Scott, of Gordons- ville, Virginia, born August 19, 1855, a grad- uate of the University of Virginia and Bal- timore Medical College, now a successful physician and surgeon and contributor of valuable articles in the medical journals; children: Katharine Kirkpatrick, George Hobson, John Walter (2), Marcia Pleasants and Deane Jellis, twins. In June, 1876, Mrs. Katharine Hutchinson (Kirkpatrick) Hob- son married Major John Henry Flood, of Lynchburg, Virginia, born May 15, 1830, died June 13, 1899. Mrs. Flood is a resident of Gordonsville, Virginia, a member of the Presbyterian church, a lady greatly loved and respected by all who know her.

Henry Armistead Bullock, M. D. Well on his way to the second anniversary of his establishment in professional practice in Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Henry Armistead Bullock is indebted to this city for his pro- fessional education and training, obtained in the University College of Medicine, the Sheltering Arms Hospital, and the City Hos- pital. Since July, 1913, Dr. Bullock has been an active practitioner of Richmond, his professional standing excellent, his practice firmly founded.

Dr. Henry Armistead Bullock is a son of John Bullock, and a grandson of William

Cobb Bullock, his grandfather a native of Vance county, North Carolina. William Cobb Bullock was a farmer all of his life, and during the war between the states served in the Home Guard, physical disabil- ity preventing his enlistment in the regular Confederate army. He married Fannie Dan- iel, and had four children, one of whom died in childhood. The others: Nannie, married John B. Watkins, of Henderson, North Car- olina ; Sue, married Joseph Powell, deceased, of Brattleboro, North Carolina; and John, of whom further.

John Bullock, son of William Cobb and Fannie (Daniel) Bullock, was born in Bul- lock, Granville county, North Carolina, June 22, 1855, the place of his birth named in honor of a great-uncle, James Bullock. The farm upon which he was born was the scene of his future life, and there he resides at the present time. He married Panthea Susan Boyd, born in Townsville, Vance county, North Carolina, April 7, 1861, daughter of William H. Boyd, deceased, and his wife, Sarah (Daniel) Boyd, living in 1914, in Townsville, North Carolina, aged eighty years. Children of John and Panthea Susan (Boyd) Bullock: Sallie Virginia, born De- cember 21, 1885, lives unmarried at home ; William C., born October 17, 1888, engaged in lumber dealing at Roxboro, North Caro- lina ; Dr. Henry Armistead, of whom fur- ther ; Richard Austin, born March 9, 1893; John W. (Jack), born September 1, 1895 ; Annie Boyd, born June 10, 1898; George Blair, born September 12. 1901.

Dr. Henry Armistead Bullock, third child and second son of John and Panthea Susan (Boyd) Bullock, was born on the homestead in Granville county, North Carolina, Feb- ruary 2, 1891. Prior to entrance of the Uni- versity College of Medicine at Richmond, he completed a course in the Warrenton high school, Warren county, North Caro- lina, and was graduated from the former in- stitution Doctor of Medicine in the class of 1912. For one and one-half years he per- formed the duties of interne, for six months in the Sheltering Arms Hospital and one year in the City Hospital. In July, 1913, he established in general practice, and has since successfully continued. Dr. Bullock is a member of the Virginia State, the Southern, and the American Medical associations, and fraternally is associated with the Masonic order, holding the thirty-second degree, An-

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Encyclopedia of Virginia biography, Volume V, Part 66

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