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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 tendcred 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.
ONATHAN H. JACOCKS, who has been a prominent resident of Norfolk County, Virginia, for many years, inakes 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, ISS2, 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 W. 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 harshness 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- cke 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 & Roancke Railroad Company made him its Portsmouth agent. In April, 1888, he was appointed general freiglit 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 infaney. Mr. Maupin recently completed a fine, new home at No. 42 Court street, in Ports- mouth.
TON. 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 eom- 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 mortaily wounded at Yellow Tavern May II. 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 sketchi, 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 i Charlotte, Columbus & Augusta, and other railroads. He was born in Essex County, Vir- ginia, November IS, IS12, 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 sem- 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.
J 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 IS 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 months, 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.
Mr. Holland is one of the most influential citizens of Tanner's Creek, and is always in -. terested in the advancement of the community. He is a member of the Methodist Church.
A E. KRISE, whose residence in Nor- folk dates back over a period of but 10 years, easily takes rank among the leading financiers of the city. He is president of the City National Bank of Norfolk. 'one of the safest and most sub- stantial banking institutions in this section.
The City National Bank was established in 1892. with a capital stock of $200,000, and was safely piloted through the financial sea, which was ruffled by depression in business, bank failures and panics, in 1893. Careful and capable management has characterized this in-
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stitution from its inception, and the state of its' finances is excellent. It has paid in divi- dends $78,000, and placed to the account of surplus, $50,000, and to undivided profits. $25.529.95. The officers of the bank are, A. E. Krise, president ; Captain John L. Roper. vice-president ; B. W. Leigh, cashier : and F. A. Porter, assistant cashier. Its directory incluides many of the most prominent business men of the city, as follows; John L. Roper ; Barton Myers; R. A. Dodson; C. W. Fentress ; Floyd Hughes; S. L. Foster; S. Q. Collins; W. T. Simcoe; W. H. Minor; John Sheridan; D. F. Donovan; A. E. Krise; and B. W. Leigh. The City National Bank is a Uirited States deposi- tary; City depositary and United States Court depositary. Its principal correspondents are the Chemical National Bank of New York, the Independent National Bank of Philadelphia, and the Drovers' & Mechanics' National Bank of Baltimore. The bank occupies its own building on Main street, which is most complete in its arrangements for carrying on this line of business. The safes are probably the largest of their kind in the city, weighing 16,000 pounds. They are of special construction, consisting of four distinct safes within a safe, each having its individual safe lining. and so divided that each is independent of the other. There are also four large valuts for the deposit of silverware and other valuables.
LAWRENCE GRONER, an attor- ney-at-law, of Norfolk, Virginia, has been unqualifiedly successful in the practice of his profession, and has es- tablished a reputation for himself as a lawyer throughout the State. He was the Re- publican nominee for attorney general of Vir- ginia in 1901, and added greatly to the strength of the party ticket. He comes of a distin- guished family of Virginia, being a son of Gen- eral Virginius Despeaux Groner, whose sketch appears on another page of this book, and a
grandson of the late Judge John A. Campbell, formerly one of the justices of the United States Supreme Court.
. Mr. Groner was born in Norfolk, Septem- ber 6, 1872, and received his early education in old Hanover Academy. He then attended Washington and Lee University for three ses- sions, after which he spent two years in the city of Chicago in an important position in the World's Fair of 1893. Returning from Chica- go, in 1893, he entered the University of Vir- ginia and completed the course in law. He has since been engaged in practice in Norfolk, and in his clientage are many prominent residents and business firms, both of his own and other cities.
Although Mr. Groner has always taken a deep interest in politics and in the success of the Republican party, he has never accepted the nomination for any office except in the line of his profession. During various campaigns he has "stumped" the State and is exceedingly popular with all classes. He is possessed of ability as an orator, never failing to impress his hearers by his earnest and convincing manner.
On April 11, 1898, Mr. Groner was united in marriage with Anne Reed Vaughan. a daugliter of Col. John N. Vaughan, of Nor- folk.
h ON. F. M. WHITEHURST, a native of Princess Anne County, Virginia. descended from Richard Whitehurst, one of its first settlers, was born De- cember 1, 1835.
He was educated in the schools of the coun- ty and the city of Norfolk, and was taking the law course at the University of Virginia when the war between the States broke out. Upon the secession of Virginia, he immediately en- tered the service by enlisting in Company F, 6th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, and serving as private. then as first lieutenant, commanding a company until the springing of the mine around Petersburg. The last year of the war he spent in prison.
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Since the war he has pursued his profes- sion, except for six years, when he was judge of the court of his native county. At present. and since 1884 he has been the senior member of the firm of Whitehurst & Hughes, of Nor- folk, Virginia.
EN. - VIRGINIUS DESPEAUX GRONER, one of Norfolk's most distinguished citizens and business men, served with high honors throughout the Confederate War. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia, September 7. 1836, and is a son of George Groner.
George Groner was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1827, landing in New York City. He shortly afterward came to Norfolk, Virginia, where he spent the re- mainder of his life engaged in mercantile pur- suits. He married Eliza Newell, who came of a prominent old family of Virginia. Her brother served as a member of Capt. Arthur Emmerson's company of light artillery, in the repulse of the British at Craney Island, during the War of 1812. Her grandfather, Captain Robert Newell, commanded a privateer in the Continental service during the Revolutionary War.
General Groner was reared in Norfolk and educated at the Norfolk Military Academy, from which he graduated with honor in 1853. He was admitted to the bar, but soon after went to Texas with the intention of purchasing a ranch, bearing letters to Gov. Samuel Hous- ton, by whom he was received with courtesy, and was induced to abandon his project. He was appointed by the Governor to Colonel Bay- lor's command of Texas Rangers. He served as such for a period of five months and then, after the election of President Lincoln, started on his return to Virginia. He visited Jackson, Mississippi, and was commissioned by Gov- ernor Pettus to go to New York and su- pervise the shipment of rifles to Mississippi from Springfield, Massachusetts. After per-
forming this service he returned to Norfolk to prepare for the coming conflict. He received several communications from Gov- ernor Pickens, of South Carolina, and then engaged in organizing a regiment of vol- teers for the purpose of aiding in taking Fortress Monroe. For advice in regard to this enterprise he visited Governor Letcher dur- ing the session of the Virginia Convention. ac- companied by Adjutant-General Richardson. and bearing a letter from ex-Governor Wise. Governor Letcher proposed to submit their views to the convention, but fearing that such a course would furnish information to the Fed- eral authorities, he declined to pursue the en- terprise. He again went to Jackson, Missis- sippi, and reported to Governor Pettus. He then visited President Davis, and was com- missioned. the commission being confirmed by the Provisional Congress, as assistant adju- tant-general, with the rank of captain in the regular army. He was assigned to duty at Montgomery, under L. Polk Walker, the first Secretary of War. Among his first duties was the arrest and imprisonment of Captain Wor- den, U. S. Navy, who had been permitted to visit the defenses at Pensacola, on promising to give no information, and to report to the Confederate authorities on his return, but in- stead had attempted to proceed directly to Washington. Captain Groner had the distinc- tion of transmitting the telegram from the Sec- retary of War to General Beauregard, ordering the opening of the attack on Fort Sumter. Up- on the removal of the seat of the Confederate government to Richmond, Captain Groner was assigned to duty in the War Department as as- sitant adjutant general, and discharged im- portant duties in connection with the organi- zation of troops. In the fall of 1862. he en- tered active service in command of a North Carolina regiment of cavalry, being stationed on the Blackwater River, in Virginia, where he had several skirmishes with the 11th Regi- ment, Pennsylvania Cavalry. During his first Maryland campaign he commanded the 61st Regiment, Virginia Infantry, with headquar-
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ters at Warrenton. Virginia. Upon the return of the army to Culpeper Court House he held Warrenton, in command of his own regiment, a regiment of Mississippi infantry, and two : batteries, until the advance of MeClellan com- pelled his withdrawal, when in obedience to orders he moved to the Rappahannock, oppo- site Falmouth. Here he observed the advance of the Federal Army. Informing General Lee of the situation. he was ordered to hold the ford if he could, and if not. to rejoin the army on the line of the North Anna. The Rappahan- nock was very high, and consequently the Northern Army was greatly delayed. Lee con- centrated his forces at Fredericksburg and held that line many months. two of the great battles of the war being fought there. Colonel Gron- er's regiment became a part of Mahone's Bri- gade, and upon the promotion of the latter to be a major-general, Colonel Groner, on many occasions, commanded the brigade. After the final surrender at Appomattox Court House, he rode to Richmond and was the recipient of kind attention from Generals Ord and Patrick. At Norfolk, however, the general in command treated the Confederate officers with such in- dignity that Colonel Groner reported his con- duct to General Grant, who promptly retired the offender from command. At this time be- gan his friendship for Grant, which continued with unabated warmth until the latter's death.
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