Encyclopedia of Virginia biography, Volume V, Part 95

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 E. Rouse. William E. Rouse, the principal undertaker of Newport News,

is a grandson of Mordecai Booth · Rouse, who was a prosperous planter in King and Queen county, Virginia, and lost his life through his kindness to an enemy. During the Civil war he found a Union soldier ill with fever in his field, and took him to his home and nursed him. In this way he con- tracted the fever and himself died before the beneficiary of his kindness. Mr. Rouse was a faithful member of the Baptist church, and politically a Democrat. He married Marie Rowe, of Essex county, Virginia, and they had children: Martha, William G., John, Booth, Cornelia and Emma.

William G. Rouse, eldest son of Mordecai Booth and Marie (Rowe) Rouse, was born 1833, in King and Queen county, Virginia, and died March 3, 1905. He attended a business college at Elliotts, and afterwards settled at Smithfield. Virginia, where he engaged in the manufacture of furniture, and also conducted an undertaking busi- ness. At the outbreak of the war between the states he enlisted in the Smithfield Com- pany and served throughout the war. After this he resumed his business at Smithfield. in which he continued until advancing years led him to retire. He was a Methodist in religious belief, a member of the Masonic fraternity, and in politics, like most of his contemporaries, a Democrat. He married Martha, daughter of David Archer, of Nansemond county, Virginia. They had children: 1. Eva, married John Noel. 2. Ruth, married C. F. Nelms, and had chil- dren: Ruth, wife of Coles Hutchins; Wil- liam Gaston, Frank, Claude Jordon, and Preston. 3. William Elmore, of further mention. 4. Sallie, married Elvin Hutchins, of Portsmouth, Virginia, and was the mother of Mary and Elvin, Jr. 5. Mattie, became the wife of William Joyner, and the mother of William Rouse and Elizabeth Joyner.

William Elmore Rouse, only son of Wil- liam G. and Martha (Archer) Rouse, was born July 26, 1868, in Smithfield, where he received his education in the public schools, and was afterward, for a period of five years, associated with his father in business. He located at Newport News, February 5, 1888, and established an undertaking business, and in 1905 engaged in the manufacture of undertaking supplies, which has grown to a large extent. He is a member of Bermond Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons,

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ci the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Order of Owls, and Junior Order of United American Me- chanics. For many years he has been an official of the Methodist church, and he is ever ready to further any movement calcu- lated to promote the general welfare. He married, November 21, 1894, Edna Sue Hud- gins, daughter of Albert and Sadie (Crock- ett) Hudgins, of York county, Virginia. They have one daughter. Dorothy.

Daniel Kerfoot Bayne. Daniel Kerfoot Payne, senior member of the firm of Wil- liam Bayne & Company, of New York City, which was founded by his father and which has been in existence for seventy-five years, is descended from several old Virginia fami- lies. He was born at Alexandria, Virginia. January 16, 1849, son of William and Delia Strother (Kerfoot) Bayne, and grandson of Richard Bayne, whose ancestors are de- scribed elsewhere in this work.

Richard Bayne was born September 13, 1789, lived near Baynesville, Westmoreland county, Virginia, and died November 3, 1829, at twelve o'clock. On September 14, 1813, he married Susan, daughter of Law- rence and Penelope Pope, who was born No- vember 30, 1794. Lawrence Pope died July 21, 1810, in the seventieth year of his age, and his widow died March 12, 1826. He was a descendant of Humphrey Pope, the first of the name to settle in Virginia, and who was living in Rappahannock (now Richmond) county in 1656, and in 1659 ob- tained a deed from Thomas Pope for one hundred and fifty acres of land in Clifts, Westmoreland county. He married Eliza- beth, daughter of Richard Hawkins, and died in 1695. Their eldest son,. Lawrence Pope, marricd Jemima, relict of John Spence, and daughter of Thomas Waddy, of Northumberland. His will was recorded March 2, 1723, and he lived in Washington parish, Westmoreland county. His third son, John Pope, married his cousin Sarah, daughter of Christopher Mothershead, and the second son of this union was Lawrence, who was born in 1740 and died July 31, 1810. He was three times married: (first) Jane, daughter of Humphrey Quisenberry, (sec- ond) Frances Carter, and (third) Penelope Vigar, relict of Jacob Vigar, and daughter of Nicholas Quisenberry. By the last mar- riage he had a daughter Susan, born No-

vember 30, 1794, married Richard Bayne, as above mentioned. Richard and Susan (Pope) Bayne had children as follows: Lawrence, William, George H., Charles, Washington, Patteson.

William Bayne, second son of Richard Bayne, was born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, October 12, 1816, and died at the age of eighty-two years. He was a mer- chant and coffee and sugar jobber and im- porter in Baltimore, Maryland, and founded the firm of Bayne, Miller & Company, which subsequently became known as William Bayne & Company, and which is still oper- ating under the latter name in New York City. He married (first) Delia Strother, daughter of Daniel S. and Maria (Carr) Kerfoot, and (second) her sister, Amanda Carr. By his first marriage he had seven and by his second marriage six children. Those who survived to maturity were: Richard, who married Sue Wilkins; Daniel K., of this sketch; Marietta W., married H. J. Davison, of New York; Maria K .; Wil- liam, married Sallie Smith ; Lawrence Pope, married Maude D. Denny ; all by his first marriage, besides a daughter, Emma, who died in infancy. By his second marriage : Virginia L .; C. Ernest, married Katherine (Mitchell) Johnson; E. Norman, married Bertha D. Lockwood; Charlotte, married Gardner Corning; Helen, married Clarence B. Davison, of New York ; and Walter L.

Daniel K. Bayne attended the public schools of Baltimore and later studied under private tutors and in private schools there, receiving an excellent education. He was ten years of age when his parents located in Baltimore and in early manhood was asso- ciated with the firm of Bayne, Miller & Company, which his father founded, and was succeeded by the firm of William Bayne & Company. In 1876 he withdrew from the firm and came to New York, engaging in wholesale molasses business, and later in wholesale and importing business, making a specialty of coffee, under the firm name of Simmons & Bayne, which firm went out of business. In 1887 he withdrew from active business and spent a year traveling abroad. Upon his return he again became a partner in the old firm of William Bayne & Com- pany, remaining until his death, January 24. 1915. He was a member of the board of directors of the Beet Sugar Company. also on the executive committee. In 1892 he

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became president of the Trenton Pottery Company, of Trenton, New Jersey, of which he was an organizer, holding this office six- teen years and then resigning. He was in- tcrested in. this company up to the time of his death, and was a member of the board of directors, and also member of the executive committee. He was interested in the im- portation and sale of coffee from early man- hood and was well informed on every phase of the business. He inherited good business sense from his father and gained wide ex- perience from observation and travel, in con- nection with his financial interests. He always handled large interests in a financial sense and looked upon production, manu- facture and distribution of wares from a capitalist's standpoint.

Mr. Bayne took great interest in the part taken by his ancestors in the development of Virginia and was well informed on the history of his native state and its relation to the country at large. He was a member of the Southern Society of New York, the Vir- ginian Society of New York, and of the Maryland Society of New York City. He also belonged to The Union Club of New York City, of which he was governor, and of the Metropolitan Club of that city. He was of distinguished lineage, being descend- ed from the famous Loudon and Clarke and other old Virginia families, and others equally well known. Pope's Peake was pamed for the Pope family, who lived in the same neighborhood as the ancestors of George Washington. Mr. Bayne made an honorable name and place for himself and he had just cause to be proud of the record for probity and good business principles which his father left him.

D. K. Bayne died January 24, 1915.

Lewis Nixon. Lewis Nixon, prominent as manufacturer, politician, publicist and naval officer, was born at Leesburg, Virginia, April 7, 1861. His father was Colonel Joei Lewis Nixon, a member of the well known Nixon family of Virginia and Maryland. His mother was Mary Jane (Turner) Nixon, born in Fall county, Virginia, in 1823, the daughter of George and Mary Payne (Beatty) Turner. There were several Nixon and Nickson families among the colonial settlers and their descendants in America, that had no connection with each other be- yond the community of name. The name it-

self is derived from the personal name Nico- las, and is in some cases an anglicized form of MacNicail, which is also derived from the personal name Nicolas in its Gaelic form. Families of the name have been distin- guished in Europe, and many had the right tc coats armorial. The family to which Mr. Lewis Nixon belongs has had its seat mostly in Maryland and Virginia, where they took up large tracts of land, and has been con- spicuous in the histories of both.

Mr. Nixon was educated at Leesburg Academy, and the United States Naval Academy, graduating number one in his class. After his graduation he was sent by the United States navy department to Greenwich, England, where he became a student in the Royal Naval College. He graduated as midshipman in 1882 and was transferred from the "line" of navy to the construction corps in 1884. He designed the battleships Oregon, Massachusetts and Indiana, in 1890, then resigned from the liavy to become superintending constructor in Cramp's Shipyard, Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania. He started on his own account with the Crescent Shipyards at Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1895, and built a hundred vessels in six years for all departments of the government of the United States as well as for foreign governments. Among the vessels constructed by him are conspicu- ously mentioned the submarine torpedo boat Holland, the Monitor, Florida, the torpedo boat O'Brien, and the cruiser Chattanooga. Mr. Nixon has built eleven men-of-war for the United States navy, sixteen vessels for the Russian navy, two vessels for the Mex- ican navy, five vessels for Cuba, and four for Santo Domingo. Mr. Nixon has built every known type of vessel for the United States and other countries. He built the Gregory, the first motor boat to cross the ocean, and he also built the first seven sub- marine boats for the United States navy. He is a director of the Standard Motor Con- struction Company. He established the International Smokeless Powder Company at Parlin, New Jersey, in 1898, and is sole owner of the Nixon Nitration Works. By appointment of Mayor Van Wyck, of New York City, in 1897, he was made presi- dent of the East River bridge commission. Mr. Nixon came into national prominence as politician and statesman when he was elected as the leader of Tammany Hall in

les. Wingfield.

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1902, succeeding Richard Croker. In 1902 and 1903 he was chairman of the Demo- ratic congressional finance commission. He represented New York as commissioner at he St. Louis World's Fair, by appointment of Governor Odell. By appointment of President Roosevelt he acted as a member the board of visitors at the United States Naval Academy in 1903, and he was also lelegate to the national Democratic conven- ions of Kansas City, St. Louis, Denver and Baltimore, as well as being chairman of the New York state convention at Buffalo in 906. Mr. Nixon was a delegate to the ourth Pan-American conference by appoint- nent of President Taft. This conference vas held at Buenos Aires, Argentine. Later le was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary on special mission o represent the United States at the Chilian entenary. Mr. Nixon is personally ac- uainted with many distinguished people n both sides of the Atlantic. He was re- eived in special audience by Pope Pius the `enth, and has also been presented in the ame way to the Tsar of Russia and the King of England. Among the clubs and ocieties to which Mr. Nixon belong are he Union, Brook, National Democratic, Lawyers, Seneca, Coney Island Jockey, New York Yacht, Richmond County, Auto- mobile Club of America, Automobile Club f Staten Island, Rittenhouse ( Philadelphia) Metropolitan, Army and Navy ( Washing- on), and a number of others. Mr. Nixon very fond of traveling in summer on his ne yacht Loudoun, named after his native ounty in Virginia. He had two brothers, George H., who fought in Mosby's regi- tent, and William Westwood, who shared any of the tastes of their distinguished rother.

He married, January 29, 1891, Sally Lewis Vood, daughter of General L. B. and Mar- aret (Robertson) Wood, General Wood aving been born in Virginia, and his wife orn in Scotland. Mrs. (Wood) Nixon was orn at St. Augustine, Florida, in 1863, a irect descendant of General Andrew Lewis, f Virginia, and of Colonel James Wood, le founder of Winchester. Mrs. Nixon as been received by Pope Pius X. and King Edward VII. in special audiences. There as been one child of the union, Stanhope Vood, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pril 1, 1894. Stanhope W. was appointed

secretary to his father on his South Amer- ican mission. Mr. Nixon has a home at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, and another at 22 East Fifty-third street, New York City. Ilis business address is New Bruns- wick, New Jersey.

Cary Doran Wingfield. Cary Doran Wing- field, of Richmond, Virginia, passed away at his home in that city, March 24, 1914, in his sixtieth year. He was among the active business men of Richmond, and his demise was regretted by a large number of people in business, social and financial circles. He was born December 20, 1854, in Warren, Virginia. His baptismal name was derived from one of the early Virginia families, de- scended from Henry Cary, Baron Hunsdon, of England. Miles Cary, of Devonshire, England, was born in 1620, and came to Vir- ginia before 1646, settling in Warwick coun- ty. He married there Anne, daughter of Thomas Taylor, one of the pioneer settlers, and by gift or otherwise acquired an estate called "Magpie Swamp," which was for- merly the property of Thomas Taylor. He also held real estate in England. His son, Miles (2) Cary, married Mary. daughter of Colonel William Wilson, of Hampton, Vir- ginia, and had a son, Colonel William Wil- son Cary. The latter had a wife Sarah, who survived him, and died in 1783. She is thought to have been a member of the ex- tinct but interesting family of Pate, of Glou- cester. It is known that Colonel Cary owned property in Gloucester, which was formerly the home of Major Thomas Pate. Colonel William Wilson Cary and his wife Sarah were the parents of Colonel Wil- liam Wilson Cary, of "Culeys" and "Cary's Brook." He married Sarah, daughter of Hon. John Blair, president of the council. Their daughter, Ann Cary, married Colonel Robert Carter Nicholas, and they were the parents of Captain Lewis Valentine Nich- olas. of "Alta Vista," Green Mountain, Al- bemarle county, Virginia. Captain Lewis Valentine Nicholas married Frances Harris, and had a daughter. Cary Anne Nicholas. She became the wife of Rev. Charles Wing- field, of Hanover and Albemarle, and they were the parents of Dr. Charles Lewis Wing- field, a physician, who practiced for many years at Warren, Virginia, where he died in 1912. at the ripe age of eighty-four years. He was very widely esteemed, both as a

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citizen and as a physician. He married, in 1852, Virginia, daughter of Hon. Ralph Wingfield, of Hanover, and they were the parents of Cary Doran Wingfield, the sub- ject of this sketch.

As a boy, Cary Doran Wingfield went to Richmond and obtained a position with the old tobacco firm of Allen & Ginter, with whom he continued many years, being em- ployed during the last seventeen years of the time as a traveling salesman. During this period he traveled throughout the Southern states, and gained a wide acquaint- ance. Later he engaged in business on his own account in Ironton, Ohio, whence he returned to Richmond, in 1889. At that time natural ice was a valuable commodity, and was retailing for one and one-half dol- lars per hundred pounds. Mr. Wingfield set to work and soon organized the Crystal Ice Company, which engaged in the manu- facture of artificial ice, of which he became secretary and treasurer and general man- ager. He continued to conduct its affairs until the time of his death, and proved him- self a most capable business man, at the same time gaining by his upright methods and pleasant manners the friendship of his patrons. He was long prominent in the ice manufacturers associations, and filled offi- cial positions on the Southern Ice Exchange and in the Eastern Ice Association. During the years 1905-06 he was president of the Southern Ice Exchange, and from 1898 until his death was a member of its executive committee. In 1912 he was elected a mem- ber of the Eastern Ice Association, and was also a member of the advisory board of the lce Manufacturers Exchange. Of genial and sociable nature, with broad sympathies and liberal mind, he was welcomed in busi- ness and social circles, and held in the high- cst regard by all who were privileged to know him. He was very fond of sports, was a member of the Commonwealth and Coun- try clubs, secretary and treasurer of the Richmond Shooting Club, and president of the Tacoma Duck Club. The "Ice and Re- frigeration Journal" of April, 1914, said of him :

His many friends will learn with deep sorrow of his death, Tuesday, March 24, at his home, after a brief illness. He was in his sixtieth year, but ap- peared much younger, and retained the vigor and activity of a man in his prime.

Mr. Wingfield married, in Richmond, De cember 19, 1889, Georgia, daughter of John L. Grubbs, by whom he is survived, with their two children : Eleanor and Cary Dora Wingfield, both of whom are unmarried.

Claudius C. Phillips. Claudius C. Phil lips, one of the leading merchants of Nev York City, was born November 27, 1865, a Chuckatuck, Virginia. Mr. Phillips is de scended from stock that is connected with the Garland and Underwood families of Vir ginia and that settled in Virginia after period spent in New England.

It is not clear from which branch of the Phillips stock in Europe this well known family of Phillips belongs. The name i common to a great many countries il Europe and in its original meaning has the signification of "the son of Philip." The name is prevalent in England and Wales It is also a very prominent name in Ireland and Scotland, where it is an anglicized forn of MacPhilipin, being derived from an an cestor, Philipin, fourth son of Sir Edmond Albanach, who is number twenty-one on the pedigree of the Bourkes or De Burgos o Connaught, who trace their descent through Uilliam Mor de Burc, who married Isabel natural daughter of Richard I., King o England, widow of Llewellyn, Prince o Wales, and was settled at Castleconnel ir 1199, being descended through Charlemagne tc Pepin Le Vieux, Duke of Anstrasia.

Not one whit less illustrious is the Amer. ican genealogy of the family, for the grand father of Mr. Claudius C. Phillips, Johr Phillips, of Virginia, was the brother of the father of Wendell Phillips, of Massachu- sctts, the silver tongued orator of America both emigrating to New England about the same time. The family is of old colonial stock, John Phillips, grandfather of Mr. Claudius C. Phillips, being the son of Wil- liam Phillips, who was born in 1737, died in 1772, having married Margaret Wendell. The father of William was John Phillips born in 1701, died in 1768, having married Mary Buttolph. The father of John was Samuel Phillips, of Salem, Massachusetts, and his grandparents were the Rev. Sam- uel Phillips, born in 1625, died in 1696, and Sarah (Appleton) Phillips. The father of the Rev. Samuel Phillips, and immigrant ancestor of the whole Phillips family, was

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George Phillips, who arrived with his wife and two children at Salem. Massachusetts . Bay Colony, about 1630. George Phillips settled at Watertown, and was first minis- ter of the town. He had thirty acres of land granted to him and built a house which was burnt before the close of the year. Tradition says that his next house is still standing, "opposite the ancient burial ground, back from the road." He was ad- mitted a freeman, May 18, 1631, the earliest date of any such admission. He died in 1644, and left a large estate for the time, five hundred and fifty pounds, two shillings and nine pence.

The father of Mr. Claudius C. Phillips was James Jasper Phillips, who was born at Chuckatuck, Virginia, in 1832, and died in 1907. He was a farmer by occupation mainly, but was also professor in a Virginia military institute, having been in his young manhood a school teacher. He served in the Confederate army during the Civil war until the surrender of Appomattox. He was colonel of the Ninth Virginia Regiment (the "Bloody Ninth"), and during the war be- longed to Pickett's division at the battle of Gettysburg. Jane Jasper Phillips married Lou Emma, born at Westmoreland county, Virginia, daughter of John and (Crewdson) Betts.

Claudius C. Phillips was educated at pri- vate schools and at the Norfolk Academy, Virginia. He spent three years at Bethel Military Academy, Warrenton, Virginia, and took special courses in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. He came to New York City with the idea of accepting a position as chemist in the New York City health department. How- ever, at the request of his father, he entered the old established commission business of his father, a fruit and produce commission business, which had been founded in 1867. Mr. Phillips subsequently became sole pro- prietor, and the business was incorporated in 1912, when he became its first president and treasurer. He is also president of a pork packing abbatoir, and is an oyster planter and farmer in Virginia. Mr. Phil- lips is a Democrat in politics, and along with family is affiliated with the Protestant Epis- copal church. He is brevetted captain of engineers, commissioned under both gov- ernors, Fitzhugh Lee, and William E. Cam- eron, of Virginia, of Company A at Bethel

Military Academy. He is a member of the Southern Society of New York City, The Virginians of New York City, the New York Athletic Club, Merchants' Association of New York City, National League, Commis- sion Fruit and Produce Association of New York City, Virginia Club of Norfolk, Vir- ginia, and Order of Elks.

He married Jane Hicks, born December 25, 1873, at Faison, North Carolina, daugh- ter of Captain Louis T. Hicks. There has been one child of the marriage, Louise, born in New York City, April 10, 1897, now a student at Sweet Brier College, Sweet Brier, Virginia.

Ernest Kinzer Speiden. Ernest Kinzer Speiden, a leading business man of New York City, is descended from Scotch ances- tors. His great-grandfather. Robert Speiden, a native of Scotland, born 1770, came to America, and located in Washington, D. C., where he met Ann Williams, who was born in! 1773, in Melrose, Scotland, and they were married in Washington, March 2, 1797. She died there June 5, 1849, having survived her husband many years. Robert Speiden was a soldier in the War of 1812, and died in 1814, in Spottsylvania county, Virginia, while in the service. His son, William Speiden, born December 25, 1797, in Wash- ington, died December 18, 1861, in that city, and was buried in the Congressional Ceme- tery. Ile served in the United States navy with Commodore Perry. He married, Octo- ber 7, 1828. Marian Coote, born March 9, 1810, in England, died in Alexandria, Vir- ginia, October 28, 1866, daughter of Clement Tubbs Coote and Mary Cole. his wife, of Cambridgeshire, England. They had chil- dren : Marian Eliza, William Clement, Clement Coote, William, Edgar, Mariana, Theodore, Ada, Rosana. The second son, Clement Coote Speiden, was born May 17, 1833. in Washington, and died in Marshall, Virginia, August 8, 1898. He was a physi- cian, and spent his life in the practice of the healing art. Religiously a Methodist. and politically a Democrat, he was esteemed as a good citizen, as well as a successful physician. He married. April 19, 1859. Ellen Douglass Norris, born July 22, 1834. in Fau- quier county, Virginia, died January II, 1911, in Marshall, Virginia. They had chil- dren: Margaret W., born April 30, 1860; George Norris, October 8, 1861. William

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Encyclopedia of Virginia biography, Volume V, Part 95

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