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William Duncan Judkins, the well-known merchant and broker of New York, was born at Woodbury. Fairfax county, Vir- ginia, in December, 1856. His father was Rev. William Elliott Judkins, born April
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10, 1829, in Southampton county, Virginia, son of Jarratt Wallace and Content ( White- head) Judkins, and his mother was Mary Gray (Ball) Judkins, daughter of William Waring and Dorothy (McCabe) Ball. Rev. William Elliott Judkins is a Methodist clergyman and Doctor of Divinity, and is prominent as a preacher in Virginia and the South, having been a graduate of Ran- dolph-Macon College, of which he has been for many years a trustee. William Waring Ball had eight sons: Mottrom McCabe, Summerfield, John Henry, William Waring. Lewin Turberville, Charles Tebbs, Alfred Clifton and Isaac Lauck. Six of these were soldiers in the Confederate army, namely : Summerfield, John H., Mottrom Mc., Wil- liam W., Lewin T. and Charles T. The first two were killed in battle. He had a daugh- ter. Martha Corbin Turberville, who mar- ried her cousin, William Selwyn Ball, with no issue.
The first ancestor of the well-known Ball family of Virginia was Colonel William Ball, who was born circa 1615, died Novem- ber, 1680, at "Millenbeck," Lancaster coun- ty, Virginia. He came with his family in 1650, and settled at the north of the Coro- tonian river in Lancaster county, Virginia. One of his sons was Joseph, later known as Colonel Joseph Ball. He was born January 2 1641, died in Lancaster county, Virginia, September 30, 1694. In 1687 he was ap- pointed to lay off a boundary between Lan- caster and Northumberland counties, Vir- ginia. He was a justice of the peace in 1680 and burgess in 1685. He married three times, and by his third marriage circa 1675, with Margaret, daughter of Rawleigh Down- man, had Joseph, later Captain Joseph Ball, of "Coan," Northumberland county, Vir- ginia, who was born 1680, died in Septem- ber, 1721. He married Mary, daughter of Colonel Nicholas Spencer, and they were the parents of Mary Ball, mother of General George Washington. Their eldest son was Colonel Spencer Ball, of Northumberland county, Virginia, who was born circa 1700- 05, died February II. 1777. He was cap- tain, justice and member of the Northum- berland county court from 1735 to 1757; in- spector of tobacco in 1737; vestryman of St. Stephen's parish in 1738: qualified as lieu- tenant-colonel in 1753; burgess from 1755 to 1758; member of the Westmoreland Asso- ciation, February 27, 1766, and one of the
signers of the association of 1770. He mar- ried a lady of the name of Mottrom. Their eldest son was Spencer Mottrom Ball, of "Coan," Northumberland county, Virginia, who died in November or December, 1786. He was a vestryman of St. Stephen's par- ish, and one of the signers of the Westmore- land Association Address of 1766. He mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Waring, of Goldsbarry, Essex county, Virginia, jus- tice of Essex county, Virginia, from 1740 to 1760, and son of Colonel Thomas Waring. Their second son was Mottrom Waring Ball, M. D., born at "Coan," March 21, 1767, married Martha Corbin Turberville, born at Hickory Hill, Westmoreland county, No- vember 4. 1778, died March 26, 1865, daugh- ter of Major John and Martha (Corbin) Turberville, of Westmoreland county, Vir- ginia. Mottrom Ball was educated at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, at the first of which he graduated with the de- gree of M. D. He began the practice of medicine in Northumberland county in 1800. In 1814 his property was destroyed by the British and he located in Fairfax county, Virginia. He died at Woodbury, Fairfax county, Virginia, August 23, 1842. His youngest son, William Waring Ball, was born March 21, 1812, and married, May 6, 1834, Dorothy H., born May, 1816, died at "Elmwood," Fairfax county, Virginia, Octo- ber 12, 1889, daughter of Dr. McCabe, of Leesburg, Virginia. His eldest daughter was Mary Gray. born February 12, 1835, died August 3, 1858, married, November 15, 1855, the Rev. William Elliott Judkins, father of William Duncan Judkins. Other children of this marriage are: 1. Mary Mc- Kenzie Judkins, born at Farmville, Vir- ginia, November 12, 1865; married John Summerfield Jenkins, of Norfolk, Virginia, whose father was killed in battle at Ceme- tery Ridge, Gettysburg, during the Civil war; they have three children: John, Jr., Esther Leavens and William Mckenzie Jenkins. 2. Lewis Mckenzie Judkins, born at Petersburg, Virginia, November 20, 1869 ; he was the "Father" of the playground movement in Richmond. 3. Esther McKen- zie, born at Lynchburg, Virginia, June 16, 1872 ; married the Rev. Samuel Roger Tyler, of Richmond, Virginia; their children are: Esther, Samuel Roger, Jr., John Sanford.
William Duncan Judkins was educated in private schools in Virginia, and later attend-
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cd Randolph-Macon College for two years, leaving college to take up the serious busi- ness of life when he was twenty years old. Starting in the year 1876, he was in the hardware business for a period of five years at Lynchburg, Virginia, going from there to Baltimore, Maryland, for a further period of four years. Mr. Judkins came to New York City in 1885 and was in business in that city from 1885 to 1890. Then he went to Danville, Virginia, where he became en- gaged in the manufacture of tobacco, re- maining so engaged for a period of eight years ending in 1898. He returned to New York in that year, and was in business there again from 1898 to 1903. The five years that followed he spent in Europe. In the year 1908 Mr. Judkins returned from abroad to New York City and engaged in the in- vestment securities business, continuing to the present time, and having offices at No. 74 Broadway. Mr. Judkins is a member of the New York, Athletic Club, "The Vir- ginians" of New York and the Southern Society. In politics he is an independent Democrat, and in religion a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. Judkins married, December 9, 1886, Kate Lee, born at Danville, Virginia, Sep- tember 22, 1863, daughter of Christopher G. Holland. Children: I. Rebecca Addison, born December 14, 1889, died December 15, 1889. 2. Holland Ball, born June 4, 1891, in Danville; educated in private schools at Danville, at Woodberry Forest School, Vir- ginia, and at Lausanne, Switzerland. 3. Dorothy Ball, born October 28, 1893; edu- cated at Randolph-Macon Institute, Dan- ville, Virginia; Hollins College, Virginia; and at Lausanne, Switzerland. 4. William Waring, born December 5, 1895, died June 9. 1897. 5. Katherine Lee, born in Danville, Virginia, September 17, 1897; educated at private schools at Pelham Manor, New York, at Lausanne, Switzerland, Randolph- Macon Institute, Danville, Virginia, and at Hollins College, Virginia.
Nathaniel Thomas Ennett, M. D. A North Carolinian by birth, Dr. Ennett, profession- ally educated in Richmond, Virginia, has made that city his home since 1899. He de- scends from old colonial families, his mother being a descendant of Richard Borden, who came from England to New England in 1636, settling in Rhode Island. The Ennetts are
an early family of Onslow county, North Carolina, Dr. Ennett, of Richmond, being a great-grandson of William Ennett, a planter, and a grandson of Nathaniel Thomas Ennett.
Nathaniel Thomas Ennett was born at Colden Place, North Carolina, April 22, 1816, and died May 12, 1844. He married Elizabeth Wilder, born December 18, 1817, died January 3. 1839, leaving an only child, George Noble Ennett.
George Noble Ennett, M. D., was born at Golden Place, Onslow county, North Caro- lina, December 20, 1838, and died August 4, 1897, at Cedar Point, North Carolina. He was educated under private teachers, ac- quiring his professional education in the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, obtaining his degree of M. D. in 1859, being then just twenty- one years of age. He spent the year follow- ing in Bellevue Hospital, New York City, also receiving a diploma from that famous institution. He then returned to North Carolina, beginning practice at Snead's Ferry, Onslow county, in that state. When war broke out between the states, he enter- ed the Confederate army as surgeon, con- tinuing as such in active service for two or three years, when poor health compelled his return home. He was a Democrat in poli- tics, serving for many years as county super- intendent of health, Carteret county, North Carolina. He married Lucretia Ann Bor- den, February 26, 1868. She was born at Cedar Point, Carteret county, North Caro- lina, August 20, 1848, and is now residing at the old plantation homestead at Cedar Point with her son, Lee Borden Ennett. She is a daughter of Colonel Barclay DuLaney and Margaret (Chadwick) Borden, and a descendant of Richard Borden, of Rhode Island, 1636. Children of Dr. George Noble and Lucretia Ann (Borden) Ennett : George Noble (2), born July 12, 1869; William F., born February 25. 1871, died October 13, 1890; Lee Borden, born November 13, 1873; Julia J., born December 14, 1875; Nathaniel Thomas, born January 5, 1877, of whom fur- ther; Margaret Ann, born February 18, 1880; Elizabeth Wilder, born August 7, 1883, died at Cedar Point, January 24, 19II ; Andrew DuLaney, born October 9, 1888; Barclay Lucretia, born April 17, 1890, died July 26, 1890.
Nathaniel Thomas Ennett, fifth child of
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Dr. George Noble and Lucretia Ann (Bor- den) Ennett, was born at Cedar Point, North Carolina, January 5, 1877. Until ten years of age he was taught privately at home, later attended a private school, and then entered the High School at Beaufort, North Carolina, where he spent several years in earnest study and was graduated in 1895. The following year he spent at the plantation, developing a strong body, grati- fying his love for hunting and horseback riding, and further developing his intel- lectual powers. For the next several years he taught in the public schools of his state. In 1903 he began the study of medicine at the Medical College of Virginia and was graduated in 1907. In 1907 and 1908 he was on the house staff of the Memorial Hospital of Richmond. He began private practice in Richmond soon after completing his hos- pital service in 1908 and so continues. He formerly lectured on Diseases of Children in the Medical College of Virginia and has given a great deal of time to the study of feeble-minded children. In 1911 Dr. Ennett was elected medical director of the Rich- mond public schools, and has there wrought important progress in this new phase of public health work. He has also made a special study of tuberculosis, having writ- ten much on the subject. Dr. Ennett has done much post-graduate work and has spent a great deal of time in the best hos- pitals in this country. For a number of years he was editor in chief of "The Cere- brum." a magazine published by the Pi Mu Medical Fraternity and was general secre- tary of the same fraternity. At present (1915) he occupies the highest office in the gift of the Pi Mu Fraternity, that of senior councillor. He is a Democrat in politics, a member of the Methodist church since 1898. He is a member of the following medical societies : American Medical Association, Virginia Medical Society, Richmond Acad- emy of Medicine and Surgery, Tri-State Medical Society, Southern Medical Asso- ciation, Association for the Study and Pre- vention of Tuberculosis, and International Association for the Study of School Hy- giene. Dr. Ennett is prominent in the social and professional life of Richmond and is a member of the Westmoreland Club and the Country Club of Virginia.
Dr. Ennett was married in Richmond, Oc- tober 6, 1909, to Amy Conyers Tutwiler,
Rev. J. Calvin Stewart officiating. Mrs. En- nett is the fourth child of Colonel Thomas Harrison and Caroline (Sloan) Tutwiler, who had other children. Thomas Harrison (2), Eleanor Sloan, Martin, Caroline and John Cooke Tutwiler.
George Anderson Revercomb. The long life of the line of Revercomb in Virginia has been characterized by the participation of its members in public affairs and their in- cumbency of high position in county and state. Through service as commonwealth attorney of Alleghany county, Virginia, and as state senator, George Anderson Rever- comb, now a legal practitioner of Coving- ton, Virginia, bears out the family trait, his devoted and capable discharge of his duties in these positions adding honor to the name. Bath county has been the family home since the settlement in that locality of George Revercomb, grandfather of George Ander- son Revercomb, who came from the Shenan- doalı Valley, Rockingham county, the place of his birth. All of his seven sons served in the Confederate States army during the war between the states: Hiram Griffith ; George B., a member of the Bath County Cavalry, wounded in the battle of the Wilderness; John, a member of the Bath County Cav- alry, was wounded in the service ; Archie, a member of the Bath County Cavalry, met his death in the battle of the Wilderness ; Charles F., a member of the Bath County Cavalry, wounded in action; Henry Harri- son, a soldier in Chew's battery of Stuart's artillery ; and William Hubbard, of whom further.
William Hubbard Revercomb, son of George Revercomb, was born in Bath coun- ty, Virginia, May 4, 1823, died August 9, 1900. A follower of agriculture all of his life, prior to the war between the states, he held the rank of colonel in Virginia militia, at the beginning of the war becoming a member of Stuart's command and serving until the final surrender. For many years he filled the office of high sheriff of Bath county, and for three terms held a seat in the Virginia legislature, a capable and effi- cient executive, a wise and useful lawmaker. He married Susan Pollinia, daughter of Major John and Esther (Wilson) Boller, born in Bath county, Virginia, in 1822, died in October, 1901, her father a major in Vir- ginia militia. Her grandfather was Captain
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Dr. George Noble and Lucretia Ann (Bor- den) Ennett, was born at Cedar Point, North Carolina, January 5, 1877. Until ten years of age he was taught privately at home, later attended a private school, and then entered the High School at Beaufort, North Carolina, where he spent several years in earnest study and was graduated in 1895. The following year he spent at the plantation, developing a strong body, grati- fying his love for hunting and horseback riding, and further developing his intel- lectual powers. For the next several years he taught in the public schools of his state. In 1903 he began the study of medicine at the Medical College of Virginia and was graduated in 1907. In 1907 and 1908 he was on the house staff of the Memorial Hospital of Richmond. He began private practice in Richmond soon after completing his hos- pital service in 1908 and so continues. He formerly lectured on Diseases of Children in the Medical College of Virginia and has given a great deal of time to the study of fceble-minded children. In 1911 Dr. Ennett was elected medical director of the Rich- mond public schools, and has there wrought important progress in this new phase of public health work. He has also made a special study of tuberculosis, having writ- ten much on the subject. Dr. Ennett has done much post-graduate work and has spent a great deal of time in the best hos- pitals in this country. For a number of years he was editor in chief of "The Cere- brum," a magazine published by the Pi Mu Medical Fraternity and was general secre- tary of the same fraternity. At present (1915) he occupies the highest office in the gift of the Pi Mu Fraternity, that of senior councillor. He is a Democrat in politics, a member of the Methodist church since 1898. He is a member of the following medical societies : American Medical Association, Virginia Medical Society, Richmond Acad- emy of Medicine and Surgery, Tri-State Medical Society, Southern Medical Asso- ciation, Association for the Study and Pre- vention of Tuberculosis, and International Association for the Study of School Hy- giene. Dr. Ennett is prominent in the social and professional life of Richmond and is a member of the Westmoreland Club and the Country Club of Virginia.
Dr. Ennett was married in Richmond, Oc- tober 6, 1909, to Amy Conyers Tutwiler,
Rev. J. Calvin Stewart officiating. Mrs. En- nett is the fourth child of Colonel Thomas Harrison and Caroline (Sloan) Tutwiler, who had other children. Thomas Harrison (2), Eleanor Sloan, Martin, Caroline and John Cooke Tutwiler.
George Anderson Revercomb. The long life of the line of Revercomb in Virginia has been characterized by the participation of its members in public affairs and their in- cumbency of high position in county and state. Through service as commonwealth attorney of Alleghany county, Virginia, and as state senator, George Anderson Rever- comb, now a legal practitioner of Coving- ton, Virginia, bears out the family trait, his devoted and capable discharge of his duties in these positions adding honor to the name. Bath county has been the family home since the settlement in that locality of George Revercomb, grandfather of George Ander- son Revercomb, who came from the Shenan- doah Valley, Rockingham county, the place of his birth. All of his seven sons served in the Confederate States army during the war between the states: Hiram Griffith ; George B., a member of the Bath County Cavalry, wounded in the battle of the Wilderness; John, a member of the Bath County Cav- alry, was wounded in the service; Archie, a member of the Bath County Cavalry, met his death in the battle of the Wilderness ; Charles F., a member of the Bath County Cavalry, wounded in action ; Henry Harri- son, a soldier in Chew's battery of Stuart's artillery ; and William Hubbard, of whom further.
William Hubbard Revercomb, son of George Revercomb, was born in Bath coun- ty, Virginia, May 4, 1823, died August 9, 1900. A follower of agriculture all of his life, prior to the war between the states, he held the rank of colonel in Virginia militia, at the beginning of the war becoming a member of Stuart's command and serving until the final surrender. For many years he filled the office of high sheriff of Bath county, and for three terms hield a seat in the Virginia legislature, a capable and effi- cient executive, a wise and useful lawmaker. He married Susan Pollinia, daughter of Major John and Esther (Wilson) Boller, born in Bath county, Virginia, in 1822, died in October, 1901, her father a major in Vir- ginia militia. Her grandfather was Captain
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John Boller, who was sworn into the Con- tinental service on April 8, 1779, in com- mand of Botetourt county troops, and there is also a record, dated 1792, of the commis- sion of John Boller as colonel of militia, in Bath county.
George Anderson Revercomb, son of Wil- liam Hubbard and Susan Pollinia (Boller) Revercomb, was born in Bath county, Vir- ginia, October 18, 1858. His education, be- gun in the public schools of his native coun- ty, was continued in the Augusta Military Academy, from which institution he went to the University of Virginia, where he was a student from 1883 to 1885, inclusive, gradu- ating in the latter year LL. B. In the year of his graduation he was admitted to the Virginia bar, but began active work in his profession in Webster county, Ohio, where he remained for one year, then returned to his native county. From 1886 until 1890 he was engaged in professional activity in Bath and Highland counties, in 1890 moving to Covington, the capital of Alleghany county, Virginia, and there continuing in practice. Covington is still the scene of his legal work. and after a connection with this place of a quarter of a century his professional pres- tige is great and his practice large and flour- ishing. Elected commonwealth attorney of Alleghany county in 1895, so ably did he represent the county in legal proceedings that at the close of his four years' term he was returned to the office for a like time, his second term interrupted when half com- pleted by his election to the upper house of the Virginia legislature. He took his seat in the Virginia senate in 1901, and was a member thercof for four years. During this time he was a member of the committee of enrolled bills and general laws, and he was frequently heard from the floor of the senate chamber advocating measures he considered urgent and necessary. After the recodifica- tion of the laws of Virginia Mr. Revercomb applied himself energetically to securing much-needed reforms in the laws govern- ing elections throughout the state, and sup- ported strongly all legislation designed to meet this end.
Since returning to private life Mr. Rever- comb has given his general practice all of his time and attention, his one official connec- tion being as attorney for the Citizens' Na- tional Bank, of which he is also a director. He is a member of the Virginia and Ameri-
can Bar Associations, and belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He is a communicant of the Presbyterian church. His party sym- pathies are strongly Republican, and he was recently the candidate of his party for the attorney-generalship of Virginia. Of his legal capacity and ability his past achieve- ments are the best enconium, and during a professional career of varied aspects he has remained true to a high ideal and has con- stantly championed right and justice.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Cap- tain Samuel F. Chapman, born in Fairfax county, Virginia, in 1873, the ceremony be- ing solemnized in October, 1894. Mrs. Rev- ercomb is a member of the Alleghany Chap- ter, Daughters of the Confederacy, and be- longs to the Baptist church. Her member- ship in the former organization she owes to the service in the Confederate States army of her father, who belonged to Colonel Mos- by's command. Captain Samuel F. Chap- man is now a minister of the Baptist church. He married a Miss Elgin, of Fairfax county, Virginia. Children of George Anderson and Elizabeth (Chapman) Revercomb: Wil- liam Chapman, born July 20, 1895 ; George Anderson, Jr., born August 11, 1896; Elgin Boller, born in December, 1898, deceased ; Horace Austin, born January 31, 1900; Ed- mund Gaines, born July 25, 1902 ; Paul Hus- ton, born April 25, 1904; Elizabeth F., born March 7, 1908. All of the above children were born in Covington, Alleghany county, Virginia.
Walter W. Rangeley, M. D. A native of Stuart, the capital of Patrick county, Vir- ginia, Dr. Rangeley has, since 1895, been a practicing physician of Christiansburg, the capital of Montgomery county, Virginia, that town noted as the seat of Montgomery Female College and for its iron and other industries. Dr. Rangeley is a son of James Henry Rangeley, born in Stuart, Virginia, in 1844, who is now the owner and manager of a large fruit farm, his orchard said to be the largest in Patrick county, a noted fruit growing section. Mr. Rangeley is a Con- federate veteran, having served four years in the war between the states. He was at one time captured by the Union forces and con- fined in Fort Delaware. After the war he returned to Patrick county, where he has taken front rank among the fruit farmers of
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that county. He is a member of the Patrick Camp, United Veterans, and is highly re- garded as a citizen. He married Alice Vie, born at Stuart, Virginia, in 1849, daughter of James Vie, of Henry county, Virginia.
James Henry Rangeley is a son of James Henry Rangeley, who came to Virginia from the State of Maine, settling in Patrick county. The Rangeley Lakes, a chain of lakes lying in the western part of Maine, in Franklin and Oxford counties, covering an area of eighty square miles and lying at an altitude of twelve to fifteen hundred feet, are named in honor of a Rangeley, who settled early in that section, coming from Liverpool, England. Another son of James Henry is Joseph Rangeley, who served in the Con- federate army.
Dr. Walter W. Rangeley, of Christians- burg, son of James Henry and Alice (Vie) Rangeley, of Stuart, Virginia, was born in Stuart, Patrick county, Virginia, July 8, 1868. He obtained his earlier education in the public schools of Stuart, then entered Shenandoah Academy, at Winchester, Vir- ginia, where he was a student for three . years. He then was a cadet at Oxford Mili- tary and Naval Aacdemy for one year, enter- ing in 1885. He spent the next five years variously employed, finally having decided upon medicine as his profession, he entered, in 1891, the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, at Baltimore, continuing and com- pleting a thorough course and receiving the degree of M. D., class of 1895. In the same year he located in Christiansburg, Montgom- ery county, Virginia, where he has since been continuously engaged in the general practice of his profession. Dr. Rangeley was selected by the Governor of Virginia to serve upon the Montgomery county board of health, and after serving for ten years, was reappointed and is yet a member of the board, rendering efficient service in that im- portant department of county government. He was chosen by the people as coroner of Montgomery county, an office he yet holds.
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