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Dr. Wilbur Boswell Payne, of Covington, Virginia, was born in Warm Spring Valley, Bath county, Virginia, December 17, 1867, eldest son of Lewis (4) and Eugenie St. Clair ( Boswell) Payne. He obtained his early and preparatory education in the grammar and high schools, and was var- iously employed until 1890, when he carried into execution a long formed plan, by enter- ing the medical department of the Univer- sity of Virginia, where he pursued a regular course of medieal study until 1893, when he was graduated M. D. He then pursued a post-graduate course at Tulane Univer- sity, New Orleans, Louisiana (medical de- partment), receiving the same degree from that institution. He was also interne and student at Charity Hospital, New Orleans, one of the largest hospitals in the world, for a time, and passed the State Medical Board. in 1892, leading this class. He re- turned to Virginia, loeating and beginning practice in Covington, the capital of Alle- ghany county. Ile began practice there in 1894 and is now one of the well established and highly regarded physicians of the town.
Dr. Payne is a member of the American Medical Association, in which he holds the office of local censor, Virginia State, South- ein Medical, Augusta County and Alle- ghany County Medical societies, and also a member of the Chesapeake & Ohio Surgi- cal Association. For six years he was a member of the legislative committee of the state society. It was largely through the efforts of that committee that the physi- eian's license tax in Virginia was abolished by the legislature repealing the law under which it was collected. At the organiza- tion of the Alleghany County Board of Health in 1902, Dr. Payne was appointed a member and has been its efficient secretary from that date. Ile is the local surgeon of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, and local examiner for a number of life insurance companies. lle is deeply interested in the work of the medical societies, keeps close touch with their proceedings, has contri- buted several papers read before them and published in the medical journals. lle is a director of the Citizens' National Bank, also second vice-president and director of the Alleghany Milling Company, and was one of the founders and directors of the Home for Homeless Boys at Grace Mission. He
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is a member and vestryman of the Pro- testant Episcopal church, holding the latter office since 1899; belongs to the Masonic order, is an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pyth- ias and in political faith a Democrat.
Dr. Payne married, December 14, 1894, Amelia Metcalf Choppin, born in New Or- leans, Louisiana, in September, 1873, daugh- ter of Arthur Choppin, and niece of Dr. Samuel G. Choppin, a leading surgeon of the South. Child, Wilbur Boswell (2), born in Covington, Virginia, April 5, 1901.
George Blagdon Stone. Of the three generations of this line of Stones who have known American residence two have been associated with the legal profession, George Blagdon and his father, William James Stone. William James Stone was a son of William James (1) and Elizabeth Jane (Lenthall) Stone, his father born in Eng- land, in which land the parents of his mother were also born, she a native of the United States. William James (1) Stone came to the United States in 1810, settling first in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His calling was that of engraver. He pro- ceeded to Washington, District of Colum- bia, there making a facsimile of the Decla- ration of Independence in steel, a piece of work generally conceded to be a master- piece in that line. He performed numerous other commissions for the government, among them the engraving of maps, and was well-known as an engraver of accurate skill and unusual talent.
William James (2) Stone, son of William James (I) and Elizabeth Jane (Lenthall) Stone, was born in 1824, died in 1866. He was educated in Princeton College, and choosing to follow his career in the law he established in practice at Washington, Dis- trict of Columbia, there residing until his early death, aged forty-two years. He mar- ried Mary Frances, only child of Thomas and Lucy (Watkins) Green, her father of Culpeper, Virginia, her mother of Rich- mond, Virginia. Two of the sons of Thomas Green (by a second marriage), Thomas Ritchie and Bernard Peyton Green, were soldiers in the Confederate army during the war of 1861-1865. Both members of the famous "Black Horse Cavalry," the latter also serving as a private courier on the staff of General Jackson. Children of William James (2) and Mary Frances
(Green) Stone : I. Thomas Green, born September 10, 1850, deceased ; was a farmer ; married Elizabeth Putnam, deceased, and had children : Thomas Green, Jr., and Isa- bella Green. 2. George Blagdon, of further mention. 3. William L., deceased. 4. Lucy Lyons, deceased. 5. Elizabeth Jane, de- ceased. 6. Mary Lyons, deceased ; married Hobert Hutton, of Maryland, also deceased, and has one son, William Stone. 7. Roberta King, married Dr. A. H. Witmer, deceased; she resides in Washington, District of Co- lumbia, the mother of one son, George Stone Witmer. 8. Bessie P., who also lives in Washington, D. C.
George Blagdon Stone, son of William James (2) and Mary Frances (Green) Stone, was born in the District of Columbia, November 16, 1852. After studying under private instruction in his native place he journeyed abroad, continuing his education in Switzerland and France. Returning to the United States he was for two years a student in St. John's College, at Annapolis, Maryland, and completing his academic pursuits he became a student at law in the office of William Mattingly, who had pre- pared for the practice of law in the office of William James Stone. In 1874 he was admitted to the bar of the District of Co- lumbia, conducting a general practice for several years. He is a member of the Order of Runnymede, of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, and of the Protestant Episcopal church. Mr. Stone is the owner of an at- tractive house in Warrenton, and also has a beautifully situated farm in Fauquier county, in the cultivation of which he takes a deep interest, driving out each morning, except in winter, to personally superintend its cultivation.
He married Minerva Winston, born in Fauquier county, Virginia, daughter of John Daniel and Lucy G. (Blackwell) Payne, the ceremony being solemnized Feb- 1uary 16, 1875. John Daniel Payne was a member of the "Black Horse Cavalry," and was captain of a company recruited in Prince William county. Virginia. John Daniel Payne was a son of Colonel Wil- liam Winter Payne, born in Fauquier county, Virginia, a member of Congress from Alabama, who married Minerva Win- ston, daughter of Governor Winston, of Alabama. Children of George Blagdon and Minerva Winston (Payne) Stone: I. John
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Payne, born in Prince William county, Vir- ginia, engaged in drug-dealing. 2. Lucy Lyons, born in Fauquier county, Virginia. 3 Robert King, born in Fauquier county, Virginia, a civil engineer. 4. Isabella Green, born in Fauquier county, Virginia, married George Stone Witmer. 5. Mary Frances, born in Fanquier county, Virginia, married D. Harcourt Lees. 6. Ann Gordon, born in Fauquier county, Virginia, resides at home.
James Iredell Jenkins. Edward Jenkins, grandfather of James Iredell Jenkins, was a son of William Jenkins, who fought in the battle of North Point, war of 1812. He passed his entire life engaged in mercantile pursuits in Baltimore, Maryland, there mar- rying a Miss Elder. Edward Courtney Jenkins, son of Edward Jenkins, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1840, died in Richmond, Virginia, in 1890. He was edit- cated under private tutors in the city of his birth, and afterward completed an academic course in Loyola College, soon after his graduation enlisting in the Confederate States army. He was actively engaged throughout the four years of the war's con- tinuance, and at its close went to Richmond, Virginia, where he immediately engaged in mercantile pursuits and followed this line until his retirement in 1883. His good works were not only done through organized so- cieties but when in his daily course he found need and want he personally came to the relief of those in misfortune, all of his kindly acts performed sincerely, quietly and with- out ostentation. In his private life his tastes ran much to literature and the drama, and he was the close friend of many of the most noted actors who graced the American stage, among them Joseph Jefferson, Law- renee Barrett and Edwin Booth. The fact that Mr. Jenkins was an amateur actor of no mean ability struck a common note be- tween them, and Mr. Jenkin's son, James Iredell Jenkins, is in possession of many personal letters exchanged between these talented gentleman and his father. Edward Courtney Jenkins was a devout member of the Roman Catholic church. Ile married. November 8, 1865, Frances Lenox, born in 1843. daughter of James Iredell and Mary B. (Blount) Tredwell. The Tredwell fam- ily is one of the oldest and most honored of North Carolina, James Iredell Tredwell having been a classmate of Sammel F. B.
Morse, inventor of the electric telegraph, at Princeton College. Children of Edward Courtney and Frances Lenox (Tredwell) Jenkins: James Iredell, of whom further : William Allen, born in 1875, married Mrs. Clara Beckley : Annabelle, born in 1877. died in 1913, married William R. Martin, of Norfolk; Frances Lenox, born in 1883.
James Iredell Jenkins, son of Edward Courtney and Frances Lenox (Tredwell) Jenkins, was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1866. He was educated at McGuire's school, and after the completion of his stud- ies he was until 1893 employed at clerical work, in that vear moving to Norfolk, Vir- ginia, and there continuing in the same line until 1896, in which year Mr. Jenkins com- pleted plans and arrangements for the es- tablishment of the Jenkins Paint and Oil Company, which in that year came into ex- istence with Mr. Jenkins as president and treasurer and Edd Riddick as secretary. This business still continues (1914). Mr. Jenkins is a member of the Norfolk Cham- ber of Commerce, Ruth Lodge, No. 89. Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Virginia Club, Borough Club, Pewter Platter Club, and Country Club. He is a lover and patron of music.
Mr. Jenkins married, April 12. 1898, Mary Louise, daughter of R. A. and Margaret K. (Cooke) Dobie, of Norfolk. Virginia, and is the father of Mary Louisa, born in 1905, and Iredell, born in 1909.
Samuel Broders Moore, M. D. The pater- nal ancestors of Dr. Moore came to Vir- ginia from Waterford, Ireland, settling in Londoun county. The name is a frequent and honored one in Virginia, many of the family serving in the revolution, war of 1812, war with Mexico and in the war be- tween the states. The professions have at- tracted many of the family, Dr. Samuel B. Moore, of Alexandria, Virginia, being a worthy present day representative. Ile is a son of William Gill Moore, and a grandson of Samuel L. Moore, both farmers of Lou- doun county. Virginia.
William Gill Moore, son of Samuel L. and Sally ( Lewis) Moore, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1824. died 1910. He was a farmer of Loudoun county all his life but during the war 1861-1865 served in the Confederate army, was wounded at the first battle of Manassas, a sword thrust piercing
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his foot and eight bullets passing through his clothing, his escape from death being a miracle of good luck. He was a member of the Black Horse Cavalry and later served on the staff of General J. E. B. Stuart, as despatch bearer. He married Rebecca Broders, born in 1833, of Welsh ancestry, who yet survives him. Children: Dr. Samuel Broders, of further mention; John Hewitson, born in Fairfax county, Vir- ginia, in 1874, now a farmer, married Mattie Pickett, a cousin of the famous General Pickett, of the Confederate army, children : Rebecca and Mildred.
Dr. Samuel Broders Moore, son of Wil- liam Gill and Rebecca (Broders) Moore, was born at Okonoko, West Virginia, July 4, 1872. He was educated in the public school and St. John's Academy, entering Georgetown University in 1893. He took the full medical course and was there grad- uated M. D., class of 1897. He served one year as interne at Washington Hospital, then located in Alexandria where he is well established in lucrative medical and surgi- cal practice. Since 1904 he has been a mem- ber of the medical staff of Alexandria Hos- pital and is surgeon in the Reserve Corps of the United States army, holding the rank of first lieutenant. For eight years he has served as coroner. He is a member of the Clinical Congress of Surgeons of America, the Virginia State Medical Society, the Fairfax County Medical Society, the Alex- andria City Medical Society, the Medical Society of Northern Virginia and District of Columbia, the Tri-State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, tak- ing active interest in all and keeping in close touch with the most modern medical or surgical discovery and treatment. He has specialized in surgery to a large extent and is the author of many articles published in various journals devoted to medicine and surgery. Among those that have attracted special attention are his articles on "Gun- shot Wounds," "Extra Uterine in Preg- nancy," "Mucous Gollitis," "Eclampsia" "School Hygiene," "Gastric Ulcer," "Source of Impurities in Milk," "Surgical Compli- cations in Pneumonia," and on various other topics. His opinions as set forth in these articles are those of the thoroughly in- formed investigator and practitioner based on actual practice and not the wild theo- ries of a visionary. He is highly regarded
by his brethren of the profession and has the perfect confidence of a large clientele. He is a Democrat in politics, broad-minded in his religious views as he is in all ques- tions affecting the personal rights of him- self and others. He is a prominent member of the Masonic order belonging to Alex- andria-Washington Lodge, No. 22, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Old Dominion Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Old Domin- ion Commandery, Knights Templar, Acca Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and is a thirty-second degree Mason of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. He also belongs to the Be- nevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Im- proved Order of Red Men, and the Batchel- der Club.
Dr. Moore married, in 1901, Ruth Julia, daughter of John and Fannie (Gwynn) Thomas, of Fairfax Court House ; children : Inez Gwynn, born at Accotink, Fairfax county, Virginia ; Margaret, born in Alex- andria, Virginia. Mrs. Ruth Julia Moore is a granddaughter of Judge Thomas, of Fair- fax Court House, at one time lieutenant- governor of Virginia.
J. T. Wampler. Since 1898 Mr. Wampler has been editor and proprietor of the Cul- peper "Enterprise," a weekly journal estab- lished in 1891, and devoted to the interests of Culpeper and Culpeper county. James Thomas Wampler is a son of Major John Morris Wampler, a gallant officer of the Confederacy, who was killed in the battle at Battery Wagner in 1863, his only son then being a lad of ten years. Major Wampler was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1830. He became a skillful civil engineer, and prior to the war was located in Washington, D. C. When war was declared between the states he sided with the South, promptly tendering his services as an engineer. He was appointed chief engineer with the rank of major, and served with distinction until his death. He was in charge of the defenses in Charleston harbor, erecting the batteries on Morris Island and elsewhere, and per- forming valuable engineering service as the needs of the Confederate army required. His sword, with other relics of the war, form the decorations of the council chamber at Charleston, South Carolina. Major Wampler married Kate Cummings, born at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, daughter of James
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Cummings, of a prominent New York fam- ily. She yet survives her husband, resid- ing in Montgomery county, Maryland. Children : James Thomas, of further men- tion ; Kate ; Annie, and Julia Morrill Wamp- ler.
James Thomas Wampler, the only son, was born in Washington, D. C., March 17, 1853. Ile was educated in the public schools. his course of instruction covering high school study in the city of Baltimore. He embraced the art of photography, attaining proficiency as photographic artist, and con- ducting studios in Baltimore, Maryland, Charlottesville, Virginia, and Petersburg, Virginia. lle continued his artistic work until 1898, then purchased the Culpeper "Enterprise" and has since that date de- voted himself to the publication of the "Enterprise" and to the management of a job printing office in Culpeper. He is a member of "Widows Son" Lodge, No. 60, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Char- lottesville. Virginia ; is a Democrat in poli- tics, and a member of the Protestant Epis- copal church. He has made the "Enterprise" a popular medium of local intercourse and placed it among the leading papers of the state. He is strong editorially, as well as an interesting, entertaining paragrapher and writer, his strength as a newspaper man being evidenced by the success of his paper.
Mr. Wampler married, October 16, 1883, Bessie, danghter of Thomas Wells, of Pe- tersburg. Virginia. Children: 1. Thomas Morris, born in Petersburg, Virginia, Octo- ber 1, 1884; educated in public schools, Roanoke College, and the law school of the University of Virginia : receiving his degree L.L. B. from the latter institution with the class of 1905; formerly assistant United States district attorney at Washington, D. C., a practicing attorney of Washington, D). C .; married Florence Bealmear, of Balti- more, Maryland, and has a daughter, Ade- laide. 2. Nelson, born in Charlottesville. Virginia, February 21, 1886: educated in the public schools and Roanoke College ; now engaged with his father in the publication ot the "Enterprise" at Culpeper.
Thomas Aubrey Fisher. In the election of Thomas Aubrey Fisher to the office of chief executive of the city of Alexandria there was voiced the sentiment of the citi-
zens approving the fidelity and ability that had marked his reign as police commis- sioner and expressing confidence in his ca- pacity for exercising over the different de- partments of the city government the same tempered executive power and competent direction that had redounded to Alexan- dria's benefit from one branch of the muni- cipal service. As his devotion to the inter- ests of his city has been so entire, so like- wise has been that of his family to their country and to a cause to which they pledged their support, his father, Isaiah Fisher, and an uncle, Amos T. Fisher, both fighting in the United States army in the war with Mexico. Isaiah Fisher also served under General Price in the civil war, for a time being stationed at Lynchburg. Virginia, and served in the quartermaster's department, spending the remaining time in the Army of the West. At the close of the war he was for twenty years in the United States postal service. The maternal grand- father of Thomas Aubrey Fisher, John T. Stevenson, was likewise a soldier in the Confederate army in the war between the states. Amos T. Fisher, brother of Isaiah Fisher, both sons of Samuel Fisher, was at the outbreak of the civil war connected with the United States postal department, en- gaged in the service between Mount Ver- non and Washington, District of Columbia.
Isaiah Fisher, father of Thomas A. Fisher, was born in Occoquan, Prince Wil- liam county, Virginia, in 1828, died in 1891. lle married Sally Ann Stevenson, born in Kentticky. October 1, 1842, died in April. 1911, daughter of John T. Stevenson, and cousin of Adlai E. Stevenson, vice-president of the United States. Their children : John 11., a resident of Alexandria. Virginia : Ed- ward S., of Savannah, Missouri, married a Miss Sanders: Charles L., a captain in the United States army, stationed at Fort Han- cock, New Jersey : Samuel P., a corporation attorney of Alexandria : Katherine, married William A. Smith, an employee of the Southern Railroad at Charlotte, North Carolina: Thomas Aubrey, of whom fur- ther.
Thomas Aubrey Fisher, son of Isaiah and Sally Aun (Stevenson) Fisher, was born in Alexandria, Virginia, May 24, 1870. He there attended the public schools, first enter- ing the grocery business, gaining experi- ence in both the retail and wholesale trade
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of this line. He was a traveling salesman in the employ of a wholesale grocery con- cern when the war with Spain broke out and resigned his position to enter the United States service, becoming a member of Com- pany F, Third Regiment Virginia Volun- teer Infantry. Detached service fell to his lot and he passed his term of enlistment recruiting in Virginia, under Captain R. E. Freeman, being mustered out of the service at the declaration of peace with the rank of corporal. He became police commissioner of Alexandria soon after the close of the war and for eleven years carefully guarded the peace and welfare of that place, his term oi office being so striking an example of the influence that the personality of one man can wield that he became the Democratic candidate for mayor in 1912. The election of June 11 returned him victor by a gener- ous plurality, and on September I, of the same year, he took up the reins of office. Through his long term in municipal office he is able to view the problem of directing the city government from three standards, that of private citizen, of the office-holder, and of the chief executive, and while he has ever been willing to sacrifice diplomacy to authority if the necessity for the good of the city should arise, his tenure of office has thus far been marked by harmonious tranquility and universal satisfaction. He has gained for Alexandria measures of which it was in dire need and has cast his weight of influence so wisely and with such good effect that the worthy legislation that he has supported has rarely failed of suc- cess. Mr. Fisher holds the thirty-second degree in the Masonic order and has held all the offices in Andrew Jackson Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Alexandria, be- lenging to Old Dominion Commandery, Knights Templar, of Alexandria, and Acca Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Richmond, Virginia, his other fraternity being the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of the local lodge of which he was treasurer.
Mr. Fisher married, October 18, 1899, Elizabeth Leftwich, a cousin, born in Brooklyn, New York, November 2, 1866, daughter of John H. Fisher.
Henry Lewis Burwell, M. D. Dr. Bur- well, of Chase City, Mecklenburg county, Virginia, traces to illustrious Virginia an-
cestors, who were potent factors in the up- building of a state, serving in high official positions in the government and in the armies that subdued the Indians and wrested the empire from England.
He traces lineally from Colonel Lewis Burwell, of Stoneland (three miles from Chase City), who commanded a regiment in the revolution, and was a grandson of Alexander Spottswood, of Virginia, who is recognized in history as one of Virginia's wisest governors, a man who combined many noble qualities with a fine executive ability. He it was who pressed the passage of an act for improving the staple of tobacco and making tobacco notes the medium of circulation. He rebuilt William and Mary College and secured a grant of one thousand pounds for the college in 1718. Under his wise leadership, Virginia, alone, of all the colonies, had no public debt, no banks, no bills of credit and no paper money. Many and great were the benefits he sought to bestow upon the home of his adoption, but he fell into disfavor with the clergy, who effected his removal as governor in 1722. Possessing a tract of forty-five thousand acres in Spottsylvania county (named in his honor), he retired there and engaged in iron manufacture. In 1730 he was appointed deputy postmaster general for the American colonies and held that office until 1739, one of his official acts being the appointment of Benjamin Franklin as postmaster, at Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania. He married, in 1724, Anne Butler, daughter of Richard Brayane, of England, who survived him and married (second) Rev. John Thompson. Governor Spottswood died at Annapolis, Maryland, June 7, 1740, on the eve of embarking in command of the four battalions raised in the colonies to assist England in the attack on Carthagena. He was buried at "Temple Farm," his country seat near Yorktown. It was in the mansion at "Temple Farm" that in later years Lord Cornwallis and General George Washington met and signed the "Articles of Capitulation," which secured to the American colonies their independence. Anne Catherine, one of the governor's daughters, married Bernard Moore, their daughter married Charles Carter, of Shir- ley county, and was the grandmother of General Robert E. Lee. Colonel Lewis Bur- well, grandson of Governor Spottswood and great-grandfather of Dr. Henry Lewis Bur-
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