History of Norfolk County, Virginia : and representative citizens, 1637-1900, Part 83

Author: Stewart, William H. (William Henry), 1838-1912
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Chicago : Biographical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1054

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The Nation's guests, the Nation's joy And dear to every girl and boy; Whose name we never shall forget, The great and gentle LaFayette.

Mrs. Nash lived to reach the advanced age of 90 years. She died September 12, 1898, having had comparatively no sickness or ail- ments until a few days prior to her death.

Charles R. Nash received his scholastic training in the schools of Portsmouth, under C. T. Phillips, now clerk of the court. He was first engaged for six years as clerk for a wholesale commission house at Norfolk, and then, in 1878, he embarked in the ice business. He has an ice office and store-house, located on Queen street, and another building of the same size on the opposite side of the street. He established the coal branch of his business in 1894; it occupies a building facing on Crawford street. He has room for about 1,600 tons of coal. runs three teams, and employs a number of people. He enjoys a high class of trade, and is highly thought of by his fellow citizens. Mr. Nash has been identified with numerous other enterprises. He is vice-presi- dent and a director of the Portsmouth Gas Company, and a director of the People's Bank. in the establishment of which he was one of

the prime movers. He is a member of the City Council, and since 1885 has been a jus- tice of the peace. He married Rebecca F. Marshall, of Fauquier County, Virginia. great- granddaughter of Chief Justice . Marshall. Four daughters were born to bless this union, namely: Rebecca Coke, who was born in 1880; Nancy Collins; Florence Hibbett; and Mary Byrd Marshall. Religiously Mr. Nash is a member of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, of which he was a vestryman for about 10 years.

€ LMER F. WHEELER, who is cap- tain of the steamer "Ocean View," and a resident of Norfolk, Norfolk County, Virginia, was born in that city in 1872. He is a son of Charles and Elizabeth Wheeler, the former being a native of New York, and the latter a native of Georgetown, D. C.

Charles Wheeler was a boatman, and dur- ing the war, a blockade runner. He was a member of the Home Guards of Norfolk. His death occurred just two months before his son, Elmer F., was born. His wife died at the age of 67 years. They were members of the Cath- olic Church. Eight children were born to them, of whom they reared five, as follows : Joseph, who died at the age of 35 years ; Will- iam J., who is a printer, with W. T. Barron & Company of Norfolk; Charles, who is a tinner of Atlantic City Ward, Norfolk; Mary, who married Capt. J. L. Cherry of the tug "Helen," of Philadelphia, and is now living in Atlantic City Ward, Norfolk; and Elmer F., whose name leads these lines.

Elmer F. Wheeler attended private schools and St. John's Academy, at Norfolk. After leaving school. he followed steamboating, for two years and was then an apprentice in the Norfolk Landmark office, for two years. He then returned to steamboating. as captain of the "Major," and was later captain of the tug "Willard." He was made mate of the "Ocean

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View," and later was appointed captain of that vessel, a position he has continued to fill with much efficiency for the past four years.

Captain Wheeler was married, in 1898, to Maggie C. Lanigan, a daughter of T. P. and Margaret Lanigan, born in Norfolk in 1875. They have one child, Elmer F., who was born in December, 1899. Captain Wheeler and his wife are members of St. Mary's Roman Catlı- olic Church. The Captain is a member of the Masters and Pilots of Steam Vessels Associa- tion, Progressive Harbor. No. 9. He is also a member of the Emerald Beneficial Association and the Knights of Columbus.

ILLIAM W. HARRIS is superin- tendent of the Gilmerton mills of the John L. Roper Lumber Com- pany. He was born January 10, 1861, and is a son of W. B. Harris, who was born in Virginia. His father married Jennie Henderson, who was born in North Carolina, and the subject hereof was the only issue of this union.

After receiving his mental training in the public schools, Mr. Harris engaged in the mill- ing business, in which he first worked for Tilley Brothers. He was then in the employ of the Johnson Lumber Company for a period of 12 years, as mill-man ... He became identified with the John L. Roper Lumber Company in 1896. was superintendent of the Gilmerton plant, and has since occupied that position. He is a man of good business ability and is capable in the management of his affairs. He occupies a high place in the esteem of his employers, as well as of the men under his charge.

In 1882, Mr. Harris was united in marriage with Martha Bernard, a daughter of Dr. R. S. Bernard, a prominent resident of Berkley, Vir- ginia, and they have five children, as follows : Bernard: Henderson : Raymond: Martha ; and Catherine. Politically, the subject of this

sketch is a Democrat. He is a member of the Masonic order. Religiously, he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

APT. JAMES W. MCCARRICK, a prominent citizen of Norfolk, and general Southern agent for the Clyde Steamship Company, was born in Norfolk June 22, 1843.

His father. Patrick McCarrick, who came to America from Ireland when a boy, had a notable record in the service of the Confeder- ate States. His active business career after the war was spent in the service of the Old Do- minion Steamship Company, in command of several of its vessels. During the war he first served as master in the North Carolina Navy. and was later commissioned a lieutenant in the Confederate States navy. He commanded the steamer "Sea Bird." the flag-ship of Com- modore Lynch, when that vessel was sunk at Elizabeth City. North Carolina, and with the entire crew was captured by Admiral Rowan. U. S. Navy. After being exchanged. he was detailed as one of the officers of the Canadian Expedition for the relief of prisoners at John- son's Island, and upon the failure of that en- terprise through betrayal he ran the blockade with the celebrated Capt. John Wilkinson. He also commanded the steamer "Winslow" when she rescued the crew of the French corvette "Prony." for which he was officially thanked by the French government. The "Winslow" was lost in making this rescue.

Capt. James W. MeCarrick, whose name heads this sketch, was educated at Mount St. Mary's College and at Georgetown College. leaving the latter institution early in 1861 to enlist with the Norfolk Juniors. of the 12th Virginia Regiment, commanded by Gen. Will- iam Mahone. He was one of the 25 volunteers from that company that manned one of the

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guns which repelled the attack of the Federal steamer "Monticello," upon the Confederate batteries at Sewell's Point. Soon after this, he received an appointment as master's mate in the North Carolina Navy, and was assigned to the steamer "Winslow" at Hatteras Inlet. He participated in the capture of merchant ves- sels along the coast of North Carolina. After being transferred to the Confederate Navy, his first action was upon the "Sea Bird," under Commodore Lynch, in cutting out a Federal schooner from under the guns of the Federal fleet in Hampton Roads, and successfully bringing her into Norfolk, although pursued by four Federal gunboats. He participated in the action at Roanoke Island, where a few im- provised gunboats held Burnside's fleet in check all day. Later, in the engagement at Elizabeth City, he was wounded and captured on the sinking steamer "Sea Bird," by Captain Flusser, of the Federal fleet. Being paroled under the "Wool cartel," he returned to Nor- folk, and from the Naval Hospital witnessed the "Virginia" going down the river to attack the "Cumberland" and "Congress," attended by a number of small gunboats. Upon one of these was his friend, Midshipman Charles K. Mallory, whom Captain McCarrick hailed and begged that he bring back a Federal officer for whom he might be exchanged. It happened that Midshipman Mallory was one of the offi- cers detailed to remove the prisoners from the "Congress," and he did bring back an officer in safety, for whom McCarrick was exchanged. He was then promoted to be master and as- signed to the navy yard at Selma, Alabama. Subsequently he was attached to the iron-clad "Tuscaloosa," in Mobile Bay. From there he was sent by Admiral Buchanan to Jackson, Mississippi, to receive some guns that had been captured by Gen. Wirt Adams on the Big Black River. After returning from this expe- dition, he was sent with orders from the Sec- retary of War to select men for the Mobile fleet from the commands of Generals Loring

and Pope at Demopolis, Alabama. During the naval operations in Mobile Bay he was on the steamer "Baltic," in charge of the forward di- vision and was subsequently ordered to the flag-ship "Tennessee," but being taken sick was sent on shore to the hospital, just in time to escape the capture of the "Tennessee" by Farragut. After his recovery he served upon the gunboat "Macon," guarding the ferries of the Savannah River against Sherman's ad- vance. In his service he participated in sev- eral encounters with troops and light batteries. He was afterward detailed to command a bat- tery at Shell Bluff, where he remained until the close of the war.

After the close of the war he became agent for the Atlantic Coast Mail Steamship Com- pany at Portsmouth, and continued as the Portsmouth agent after the company was ab- sorbed by what is now the Old Dominion Steamship Company, and until he was tendered and accepted a position as general claim agent of the Seaboard Air Line, Atlantic Coast Line and Piedmont Air Line, with headquarters in Portsmouth. This Captain McCarrick re- signed in 1875 to accept the general Southern agency of the Clyde Steamship Company, a po- sition he has retained up to the present time. His portrait accompanies this sketch, being pre- sented on a page in proximity to this.

J ONATHAN H. JACOCKS, who has been a prominent resident of Norfolk County, Virginia, for many years, makes his home in Berkley. He was born at Nag's Head, North Carolina, August 7, 1841, and is a son of Jonathan Hill and Grizzelle Pointer (Copeland) Jacocks, na- tives of the old Tar-Heel State.

Jonathan H. Jacocks, Sr., was a farmer of North Carolina and took an active interest in all that pertained to the welfare of his State and country. In those early days, he was a

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Whig and represented his county in the State Legislature several terms. He was a very prominent man and was also called upon to serve as a member of the Constitutional Con- vention. He was known as General Jacocks, by reason of his rank in the State militia. He was very active in the work of the Episcopal Church, and although it was about 18 miles distant, he was a regular attendant. He and his wife became parents of six children, of whom two survive, namely: Jonathan H. and Grizzelle Emily, wife of E. A. Lee, who resides in North Carolina.

Jonathan H. Jacocks, the subject of this biography, was a pupil in academy at Eliza- beth City, and in various other schools. He at- tended the Horner School at Oxford, and finished his educational training in the Uni- versity of Virginia. After leaving the Uni- versity he returned home and enlisted in the Confederate service. He was taken prisoner at Roanoke Island, and after an incarceration of two weeks was paroled. He was in the service for a period of three and a half years, and served with gallantry and honor. At the close of the war, he engaged in farming in North Carolina and so continued until January, 1882, when he removed to Berkley, Virginia, where he has since resided. He was first engaged in the real-estate business, and then was in the commission business in Norfolk for two years. since which time he has engaged in his pres- ent line. He has served as councilman in Berk- ley for over five years, having resigned that office in 1901. He is now a member of the Board of Harbor Commissioners, in which capacity he has rendered excellent service. He owns two small farms, but rents both. He is a stockholder and director in the Merchants' & Planters' Bank of Berkley, a trustee in the Berkley Permanent Building & Loan Associa- tion, and a director and trustee of the Chesa- peake Building & Loan Association.

In 1871. Mr. Jacocks was joined in mar- riage with Mary Kate Harrell, a native of Gates County. North Carolina, and a daughter

of Samuel R. and Elizabeth Harrell. They are parents of seven children, four of whom are liv- ing, namely: Grizzelle: Henry M .: Jonathan W. ; and Estelle A. Henry M. graduated from college in 1900 at Blacksburg, and took a post- graduate course in mechanical engineering and mining in the same institution. He is now with the Mathieson Alkali Works, at Saltville, Vir- ginia. Jonathan W. graduated from the col- lege at Blacksburg in 1900, and took a post- graduate course in chemistry. He is now with the Woodstock Iron Works at Anniston, Ala- bama. Mr. Jacocks is a member of the Epis- copal Church, whilst his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Fra- ternally, the former is a member of Lee Lodge No. 48. K. of P., in which he is master of the exchequer.

AMES FOLEY MAUPIN. general for- warding agent at Norfolk of the At- lantic Coast Line, was born in Ports- mouth, Virginia, March 23, 1849, and is a son of William Gabriel and Anna (Foley) Maupin. He is descended from an old Huguenot family of the same name.

The earliest ancestor in this country was Gabriel Maupin, a Huguenot, who, because of persecution in France, came to this country in the ship "Nassau." accompanied by his wife and three children, and located in the Maniken Settlement near Williamsburg, Virginia. The name Gabriel has been transmitted from father to son through six generations, and is now borne by a son of the subject hereof, who is 12 years of age. The great-grandfather of James F. Maupin, Gabriel Maupin, was in command of the Powder Horn at Williamsburg during the Revolutionary War, and subsequently re- ceived a grant of 4.000 acres of land in Ken- tucky. The grandfather, Dr. George Washing- ton Maupin, was a surgeon in the United States Army and for many years was stationed at Fortress Monroe. He was married at Ports- mouth to Ann Moffatt, of Portsmouth, her

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father having come to this country from Eng- land. They reared three children, namely: Ann Eliza, who married Dr. Edward M. Watts, father of Judge Legh R. Watts, of Portsmouth; William Gabriel ; and Dr. George W. O. Maupin, deceased, father of Dr. George WV. O. Maupin, of Portsmouth.

William Gabriel Maupin was born and lived in Portsmouth, where he was engaged in busi- ness pursuits, and was for several consecutive terms city treasurer, a member of the City Council, a magistrate and member of the police board. Being physically unfit for military duty, he did not take an active part in the Con- federate War, but on account of his strong Southern sympathies and his efforts to assist the families of those in the field, he was impris- oned and treated with especial harshiness by Gen. B. F. Butler: Mr. Maupin for many years conducted an ice business at Nos. 213-215 Queen street. This business was established by Mr. Watts in 1832, and is probably the pioneer concern in handling Northern ice in Tidewater Virginia, the ice having previously been gathered in thin sheets and sold by meas- ure to consumers. Mr. Maupin purchased the business in 1870, after it had passed through several hands, and it is now conducted by his son, George W., who in 1895, added to it the coal business. William Gabriel Maupin died January 10. 1892. The family residence at No. 608 Court street was built by him soon after his marriage. He was married before the war to Ann Foley of Petersburg, who is still living at the age of 76 years. Ten chil- dren were born to them, namely: Nannie M., of Portsmouth; William G., who is assistant cashier of the Merchants' & Farmers' Bank, of Portsmouth: James F .; Dr. Edward Griffith, of New York City; Samuel Dawson, who is assistant cashier of the Bank of Portsmouth : Mattie ; Alliene : Ruth : George W. ; and Mary, who died when young. Religiously, Mr. Mau- pin was an Episcopalian, although the mem- -bers of the family are in the main Catholics.

James Foley Maupin pursued his studies

in the private schools of Norfolk and Ports- mouth, his father having planned for him a collegiate course, and possibly a profession, but the stringency in finances after the close of the war prevented this, and James was early forced to enter the world of labor. With a view toward entering upon a commercial life, he gave his services, free, to a wholesale gro- cery firm in Norfolk, paying his own ferriage between the two cities. In August, 1867, he accepted a clerkship with the Seaboard & Roan- oke Railroad Company at Portsmouth, and steadily advanced until he attained the posi- tion of chief clerk in his department. Sep- tember 13, 1875, he was appointed Portsmouth agent of the Seaboard Air Line. On Novem- ber 26, 1885, the executive committees of the Seaboard Air Line and of the Atlantic Coast Line appointed him as forwarding agent at Portsmouth,-the Seaboard & Roanoke Rail- road being the trunk line between Portsmouth Virginia, and Weldon, North Carolina, for each of these companies,-at the same time, the Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad Company made him its Portsmouth agent. In April, 1888, he was appointed general freight agent of the Western Branch Railroad, operating in the truck section of Norfolk and Nansemond counties. In March, 1890, the Western Branch Railroad having been extended to Tarboro, North Carolina, where it connected with the Atlantic Coast Line and having changed its name to the Norfolk & Carolina Railroad, Mr. Maupin severed his connection with the Sea- board Air Line and the Atlantic Coast Line and accepted the general forwarding agency, at Norfolk, of the Norfolk & Carolina Rail- road. This he did in the belief that it had a great future and was destined to become the Virginia deep-water terminus of the Atantic Coast Line. In April, 1892, he accepted the Norfolk agency of the Norfolk & Washington, D. C., Steamboat Company, which he retained until August, 1893, when, the increasing busi- ness of the Norfolk & Carolina Railroad re- quiring all of the space of its Norfolk ter-

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minals, the steamboat company had to seek other quarters and Mr. Maupin resigned the agency. The Atlantic Coast Line absorbed the Norfolk & Carolina Railroad, and in con- junction with the different steamboat lines run- ning into Norfolk from the Eastern cities, in October, 1896, elected him general forwarding agent at Norfolk. In this capacity he handled the immense traffic passing through Pinner's Point (Virginia) terminals, the Atlantic Coast Line from Pinner's Point covering about 2,500 miles of railroad in Virginia, the Caro- linas, Georgia and Florida. Mr. Maupin is a member of the local Freight Agents' Associa- tion, which has a membership in the National Freight Agents' Association.

In 1888. Mr. Maupin married Edmonia Fitzhugh Tomlin, a direct descendant of Carter Braxton, a signer of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. She is an ardent member of Fort Nelson Chapter, D. A. R., of Portsmouth, and is a Colonial Dame of Virginia. Two chil- dren were born of this union, namely: Will- iam Gabriel: and Lucy Lindley, who died in infancy. Mr. Maupin recently completed a fine, new home at No. 42 Court street, in Ports- mouth.

ON. THEODORE S. GARNETT, of the firm of Garnett & Garnett, attor- neys of Norfolk, Virginia, was born in the city of Richmond, Virginia. October 28, 1844. His primary edu- cation was received in the Episcopal High School at Alexandria, Virginia, and his col- legiate course was taken at the Unversity of Virginia. At the very beginning of the Con- federate War he joined the company of Han- over Artillery that was under the command of Capt. William Nelson. . He was soon trans- ferred to the Navy Department of the Con- federacy, but later resigned to enlist in the Es- sex troop of cavalry, Company F, of the 9th Virginia Regiment. He served in this com- mand as a private soldier, but was detailed for

duty at division headquarters from May, 1863, until January 27, 1864, when he was appointed aide-de-camp on the staff of Maj .- Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, commanding the cavalry corps in the Army of Northern Virginia. He was with that general when the latter was mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern May 11, 1864, and aided in carrying him from the field. He at- tended the dying commander until his death the next day, and was present at his funeral at Hollywood May 13, 1864. After this he was commissioned Ist lieutenant and attached to the staff of Gen. W. H. F. Lee. He served in that capacity until March. 1865, when he was commissioned captain and assistant adjutant- general of the cavalry brigade of Gen. Will- iam P. Roberts, holding that rank at Appomat- tox. Captain Garnett participated in many serious engagements during his military career and had three horses shot under him.

After the war he returned to the University of Virginia. He graduated with the class of 1867, from the law department. His subse- quent progress in the profession was rapid : in three years he was elected judge of Nansemond County. Although re-elected he resigned the judgeship and moved to Norfolk, where he has since been successfully engaged in the pursuit of his profession.

Judge Garnett is a member of the board of trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Theo- logical Seminary and of the board of directors of the Norfolk Academy. He is a past com- mander of Pickett-Buchanan Camp. Confeder- ate Veterans, and is commander of the Vir- ginia Division. United Confederate Veterans.

Theodore S. Garnett. Sr., father of the sub- ject of this sketch, was a prominent civil engi- neer. and during his active career was con- nected with the construction of severel import- ant Southern railways. He was chief engineer and superintendent of the North Carolina, the Charlotte, Columbus & Augusta, and other railroads. He was born in Essex County, Vir- ginia, November 18, 1812, and died May 28.

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1885. He was a son of James Mercer Garnett, who was born in Essex County, Virginia, June 8, 1770, and died in May, 1843.

James Mercer Garnett was the founder and first president of the United States Agricul- tural Society and a noted author on allied top- ics. For 12 years he maintained a female semi- inary in his own house, and actively sought to introduce improved methods of education. He served several years in the Virginia Legisla- ture, and was twice elected to Congress, where he was a friend of his colleague, John Ran- dolph, of Roanoke, and engaged in controversy with Matthew Carey, the Protectionist. In 1829 he was a member of the Virginia Con- stitutional Convention.

The founder of the American branch of the Garnett family was John Garnett, who came from England in 1674, and located in Glou- cester, Virginia.

A portrait of Judge Garnett accompanies this sketch, being presented on a foregoing page.

CGG OHN HOLLAND, JR., is one of the many successful truck farmers of Nor- folk County, Virginia. He was born at Lambert's Point, February 28, 1844, and is a son of John and Sarah .(Abdell) Holland.

John Holland was born in 1810, and died at the age of 67 years. He was a ship-owner, and also engaged extensively in the oyster busi- ness. His wife was born on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and to them were born seven chil- dren, namely: Margaret Ann, deceased, who married James H. Sammons ; John, Jr., the sub- ject of this sketch; Amanda H .; Edward; Eliza J., who married J. F. Coleman, a farmer, living on Princess Anne Turnpike in Norfolk County; Sarah, who married A. J. Backus, a farmer of Sewell's Point; and Martha Vir- ginia, whose first husband was Edward Lam- bert, deceased. She later married Thomas Harmon of Lambert's Point.

John Holland, Jr., whose name opens this sketch, received his mental training in the pub- lic schools at Lambert's Point. In 1862, he en- listed in a battalion of heavy artillery, being at that time but, 18 years old. He remained in that battalion for three years, when he was transferred to Company I, the 38th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, Stewart's Brigade, Pickett's Division. He was captured six days before Lee's surrender, and was confined at Newport News in full view of his home. After two monthis, he was discharged. He received slight wounds at Bermuda Hundred, but never lost a day's service. Since the close of the war, he has been engaged in truck farming, in which he has met with much success. He is a thrifty farmer, and has a thorough knowledge of the tilling of the soil.

Mr. Holland married Elizabeth Ashby, a daughter of Robert Ashby, and a sister of the following: Mary, deceased; Susan; Sarah, who married W. W. Bell ; Martha, the wife of T. H. Frost ; Emma F., the wife of J. T. Phil- pott, who is engaged in the furniture business in Norfolk; and William, who met his death in the Confederate War.

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History of Norfolk County, Virginia : and representative citizens, 1637-1900, Part 83

Author: Stewart, William H. (William Henry), 1838-1912 Publication date: 1902 Publisher: Chicago : Biographical Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 1054

Author: Stewart, William H. (William Henry), 1838-1912
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Chicago : Biographical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1054