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JOHN H. FULTON.
Born in Augusta county. Educated at Hampden-Sidney College. Studied law under Judge Baldwin, of Staunton. Located in Abingdon. Admitted
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to the bar. Elected to the House of Delegates from Washington county 1823-1824. Represented the Washington district in the Senate of Virginia 1829-1831. Was elected to the Twenty-third Congress as a Whig, receiving 2,621 votes, against 1,257 for Wm. Byars, Democrat, serving from Decem- ber 2d, 1833, to March 3d, 1835. Was a candidate for reëlection when he died, in January, 1836, his opponent in this election being George W. Hop- kins. His remains were interred in the Sinking Spring Cemetery, Abing- don, Va., and his grave is at this day marked by a large iron slab, upon which is the following inscription :
" Tread not upon his ashes, For he was the poor man's friend."
Notwithstanding this inscription, a path through the cemetery passes al- most directly over this grave.
GEORGE W. HOPKINS.
George W. Hopkins was born in Goochland county, Virginia, February 22d, 1804. Received a public school education. Taught school in Smyth county. Studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Lebanon, Virginia. Was a member of the State House of Representatives 1833-1834. Was elected a representative from Virginia in the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, defeating John H. Fulton. Was reëlected to the Twenty-fifth Con- gress, receiving 1,475 majority over John N. Humes, Whig. Was reëlected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, re- ceiving 2,821 votes, against 2,308 votes for George, Whig. Was reelected to the Twenty-seventh Congress. Was reëlected to the Twenty-eighth Congress, receiving about 1,000 majority over Fulton, Whig. Was reëlected George W. Hopkins. to the Twenty-ninth Congress, serving from December 7th, 1835, to March 3d, 1847. Was charge d'affaires to Portugal March 3d, 1847, to October 18, 1849. Was again a member of the State House of Representatives in 1849. Was a judge of the Circuit Court. Was again elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, receiving 5,318 votes, against 5,249 votes for Martin, American, serving from December 7th, 1857, to March 3d, 1859. Was again elected a member of the State House of Rep- resentatives, and died March 2, 1861. Was elected a member of the Con- stitutional Convention 1850, but in the fall of that year resigned and was elected Speaker of the House of Delegates of Virginia.
ANDREW S. FULTON.
Born in Augusta county September, 1800. Educated at Hampden-Sidney College. Studied law in the office of Judge Baldwin, in Staunton, Virginia. Located in Abingdon, Virginia, in 1825. Removed to Wytheville in 1828. Represented Wythe county one term in the Legislature. Was several times Commonwealth's Attorney of Wythe. Elected to the Thirtieth Congress as
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a Whig. receiving 2,084, against 2,078 votes for MeMullen, Democrat, and serving from December 6th, 1847, to March 3d, 1849, and in the year 1852 was elected judge of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of Virginia, and held this position for seventeen years. He died in November, 1884.
FAYETTE MCMULLEN.
Was born in Scott county, Virginia. Received an academic education. Was a stage driver by pro- fession. Was elected to the Senate of Virginia from the Washington district in the year 1838, and served till the year 1849. Was elected as a repre- sentative of Virginia in the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat, receiving 4,421 votes, against 2,155 Andrew S. Fulton. votes for George, Whig. Was reelected to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses, having no opposition. Was reelected to the Thirty-fourth Congress, receiving 7,383 votes, against 3,982 votes for Connally F. Trigg, American, serving from December 3d, 1849, to March 3d, 1857. Was appointed by President Buchanan Governor of Washington Ter- ritory, serving 1857-1861. Was elected a representa- tive in the Second Confederate Congress from Vir- ginia, serving from February 22d, 1864, to the over- throw of the Confederacy. Was many times a candi- date for Congress subsequently to the war, and died in the year 1881, having been killed on the railroad near Marion, Virginia.
ELBERT S. MARTIN.
Fayette Mc Mullen.
Born in Indiana. Removed to Lee county, and was reared in Jonesville. Educated at Emory and Henry College; married Martha Dickenson in 1852. Was a merchant by profession. Was elected to the Thirty- sixth Congress as an American, receiving 6,382 votes, against 5,579 votes for Ben Rush Floyd, Democrat, serving from December 5th, 1859, to March 3d, 1861. Was elected captain of the first company that left Jonesville for the Confederate service, and remained in the service until the surrender. Emigrated to Texas in 1870, and died in the city of Dallas on Sep- Elbert S. Martin tember 3d, 1876. His daughter, Mrs. Dr. M. L. Stal- lard, now lives at Norton, Va.
WALTER PRESTON.
Son of John M. Preston. Born in Abingdon, Virginia. Educated for the bar. He became distinguished in his profession as a lawyer and an orator.
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Candidate for Attorney-General of Virginia previously to the war between the States. Was elected to the Confederate Congress in November, 1861, defeating Fayette McMullen. Died shortly after the war.
JAMES KING GIBSON.
Son of John and Amelia C. Gibson. Born in Abingdon February 18th, 1812. Received a common school education, and was brought up in a store. Went to Limestone county, Alabama, in 1833, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. Returned to Virginia, and was deputy sheriff of Washington county in 1834, and again in 1835. Was a merchant in Abingdon from 1835 to 1840. Was postmaster at Abingdon (a distribu- ting office) from 1838 to 1849, by the appoint- ments of Presidents Van Buren, Tyler and Polk. Was appointed teller and clerk 'in the branch of the Exchange Bank of Virginia at Abingdon in 1849; also notary public, and held all these offices until after the war, when he became a farmer, and was elected a representative from Virginia in the Forty-first Congress as a Democrat, receiving James King Gibson. 14,508 votes, against 5,966 votes for Smith, Radi- cal, serving from January 28th, 1870, to March 3d, 1871. Died March 30th, 1879.
WILLIAM TERRY.
William Terry was born in Amherst county, Virginia, August 14th, 1824. Received a classical education, graduating at the University of Virginia in 1848. Taught school. Studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Wytheville in September, 1851. Was for some eighteen months one of the editors and proprietors of the Telegraph. Was in the military service of Virginia in the "John Brown raid" in 1859. Entered the Confederate army in April, 1861, as lieutenant in the Fourth Virginia Infantry, "Stonewall Brigade." Served during the war, and by successive promotions attained the rank of brigadier-general March 20th, 1864. Was elected a representative from Virginia in the Forty-second Congress as a Conservative, receiving 10,398 votes, William Terry against 4,384 votes for F. McMullen, Independent Democrat, and 3,922 votes for R. W. Hughes, Republican, serving from March 4th, 1871, to March 3d, 1873. Was again elected to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Conservative, receiving 8,052 votes, against 1,821 votes for G. W. Henderlite, Republican, and 6,760 votes for F. McMullen, Independent, serving from December 6th, 1875, to March 3d, 1877. He was accidentally drowned in Wohlford's Ford, Reed Creek, two miles south of Wytheville, when returning from Grayson County Court, the 5th of September, 1888.
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REES T. BOWEN.
Was born at Maiden Spring, Tazewell county, Virginia, January 10th, 1809. Received an academical education at home and at the Abingdon Academy. Was a farmer and grazier. Married Maria Louisa Peery, Janu- ary 13, 1835. Was appointed brigadier-general of Virginia militia by Goy- ernor Wise. Represented Tazewell county in the Legislature of Virginia in 1863-1864. Was elected to the Forty-third Congress as a Conservative, re- ceiving 10,352 votes, against 5,304 votes for R. W. Hughes, serving from December 1st, 1873, to March 3d, 1875. Died August 29th, 1879. Was a dirret lineal descendant of Lieutenant Rees Bowen. who was killed at the battle of King's Mountain.
A. L. PRIDEMORE.
Was born in Scott county, Virginia, June 27th, 1837. Was brought up on a farm. By his own exer- Rees T. Bowen. tions, alternately teaching and going to school, he at- tained a fair English education. In August, 1861, he raised a company of volunteer infantry, and served as its captain until 1862, when he was promoted to major of the Twenty-first Battalion of Virginia In- fantry. Was again promoted in December, 1862, to lieu- tenant-colonel of infantry, and in October, 1863, colo- nel of cavalry, and commanded the Sixty-fourth Vir- ginia Cavalry until the close of the war. Was elected a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in March, 1865, but the close of the war prevented him from taking his seat. Commenced the study of law in 1865. Was admitted to the bar and practised at Jones- ville. Was a member of the Virginia State Senate 1871- A. L. Pridemore. 1875, and was elected a representative from Virginia in the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiv- ing 15,127 votes, against 4,791 votes for George T. Egbert, Republican, serving from March 3d, 1877, to 1879. Died at his home, in Jonesville, Lee county, May 17th, 1900.
JAMES BUCHANAN RICHMOND.
Was born in Turkey Cove, Lee county, Virginia, on the 27th day February, 1847. Received a limited education at Emory and Henry College. Practised law in the circuit and county courts of Lee, Scott James B. Richmond. and Wise counties, Virginia, and in the Court of Appeals at Wytheville, Virginia. Held the office of orderly sergeant and captain of Company "A." Fiftieth Virginia Infantry, during the first year
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of the war, in the command of General John B. Floyd, of Virginia. Was afterwards major of the Sixty-fourth Virginia Regiment for a time. Was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, Sixty-fourth Virginia Regiment, some time before the close of the war, and was elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 5,120 votes, against 4,829 votes for Fayette McMullen, Independent; 4,640 votes for Samuel W. Newberry, Independent, and 613 votes for Camp, Republican. Was a member of the House of Delegates from Scott county in 1873. Judge of the County Court of Scott county for six years, beginning in the year 1885. Advocated sound money in his candidacy for Congress in the year 1877. Was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1901-1902. Now actively practicing law at Gate City, Virginia.
COLONEL ABRAM FULKERSON.
Colonel Fulkerson was born on the 13th day of May, 1834, four miles north of Bristol, in Washington county, Col.Abram Fulkerson Virginia. His father was Abram Fulkerson, a captain in the war of 1812, and his mother was Margaret Vance. He graduated at the Virginia Military Institute in 1857. Taught school at Palmyra, Virginia, and at Rogersville, Tennessee, and was at the latter place when the civil war began. He raised a company in Hawkins county, Tennessee, and joined the Ninth Tennessee Regiment at Knoxville, and was elected major of the regiment. Was severely wounded at the battle of Shiloh. He assisted in organizing the Sixty-third Tennessee Regiment, and was commissioned colonel on the 12th day of February, 1864, and was again wounded at the battle of Chickamauga. In 1866 he began the practice of law, and rapidly rose to the front ranks. He was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1871-1873; to the Senate of Virginia in 1877-1879. Was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Re- adjuster, receiving 8,096 votes, against 7,621 votes for C. F. Trigg, Funder; 3,640 votes for G. G. Goodell, Republican, and 500 votes for Fayette Mc- Mullen, Independent. He died on December 17th, 1902, at his home, in Bristol, Virginia.
HENRY BOWEN.
Son of Rees T. Bowen. Was born at Maiden Spring, Tazewell county, Virginia, December 26th, 1841. Received a collegiate education. Entered the Confederate army in 1861; served continuously most of the time as captain of cavalry in Payne's Henry Bowen. Brigade, Lee's Division, Army of Northern Virginia, until December 21st, 1864, when he was captured in a night attack by Sheridan's cavalry at Lacy Springs, Virginia. When released from Fort Delaware, Delaware, June 19th, 1865, returned to Virginia and engaged in farming and grazing. In
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1869 was elected to the Virginia Legislature, and reflected in IsTl. In 1882 was elected to Congress as a Readjuster, and was elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Republican, receiving 13,497 votes, against 9,927 votes for R. R. Henry, Democrat.
CONNALLY F. TRIGG.
Was born at Abingdon September 18th, 1547. Is a lawyer. Was elected Commonwealth's Attorney for Washington county in 1872. which position he held until he resigned in 1884. Was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13,844 votes, against 12,650 votes for D. F. Bailey, Republi- can.
JOHN ALEXANDER BUCHANAN.
Was born October 7th, 1843. Was a private in the Stonewall Brigade, Confederate army. Was taken prisoner at Gettysburg July 3d, 1863, and remained in prison until February, 1865. Graduated from Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, June, Connally F. Trigg. 1870. Studied law at the University of Virginia, 1870-1871. Was a member of the House of Delegates of Virginia from 1885 until 1887. Was elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat, receiving 16,520 votes, against 16,042 votes for Henry Bowen, Repub- lican. Was reëlected to the Fifty-second Congress by an overwhelming majority ; declined a renomination, and was soon thereafter elected judge of the Court ci Appeals of Virginia, which position he now occupies.
JAMES W. MARSHALL.
Mr. Marshall was born in Augusta county, Vir- ginia, March 31st, 1844. Served as a private soldier for four years in Confederate army commanded by John A. Buchanan. General R. E. Lee. Attended Roanoke College part of two sessions, and graduated from same in 1870. Studied law and was admitted to the bar. Was elected Commonwealth's Attorney for Craig county in 1870: served until 1875. Elected to Virginia Senate in 1875, and served four years. Elected a member of the General Assembly of Virginia in 1882-1883. Elected Commonwealth's Attorney for Craig county in 1884. and served until Isss. Was a presidential elector on the Cleveland and Thurman ticket in ISSS. Elected to the Virginia Senate in 1891 for a term of four years, and was elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat. receiving 18.431 votes. against 12,699 votes for H. C. Wood. Republican ; 1.709 votes for George W. Cowan. People's party, and 135 votes scattering. Elected a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention 1901-1992. Now practising law at Newcastle, Craig county, Virginia.
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JAMES ALEXANDER WALKER.
Was born in Augusta county, Virginia, August 27th, 1832. Was edu- cated at the Virginia Military Institute. Studied law at the University of Virginia during the sessions of 1854 and 1855. Began the practice of law in Pulaski county, Virginia, in 1856, and followed the practice of his profes- sion until his death, which occurred on October 20th, 1901. Entered the Confederate army in April, 1861, as captain of the Pulaski Guards, afterwards Com- pany C, Fourth Virginia Infantry, Stonewall Brigade. Was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and assigned to the Thirteenth Virginia Infantry (A. P. Hill, colonel) in July, 1861. Promoted to colonel of the Thirteenth Virginia Infantry in March, 1862, and May, 1863, was promoted to brigadier-general and assigned to com- mand of the "Stonewall Brigade." Commanded Early's old division at the surrender at Appomattox. James A. Walker. Was severely wounded at Spotsylvania Courthouse May 12th, 1864. Elected Commonwealth's Attorney for Pulaski county in 1860. Represented Pulaski county in the House of Delegates of Virginia in 1871-1872. Was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia in 1877. Removed to Wytheville, where he practiced his profes- sion. Was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican, defeating Judge H. S. K. Morrison, of Scott county, Democrat, by about 1,000 ma- jority, and was reëlected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, receiving 16,077 votes, against 14,900 votes for S. W. Williams, Democrat.
WILLIAM FRANCIS RHEA.
Was born in Washington county, Virginia, forty-seven years ago. Worked on a farm and attended oldfield School until sixteen years of age. Attended college about three years, then studied law and was admitted to the bar. Soon afterwards was elected judge of the County Court of Washington county. Served four years, and was then elected to the State Senate. Served four years, and was then elected judge of the City Court of Bristol. In 1895 resigned the city judgeship and resumed the practice of law. Was unanimously nominated by the Democratic party and elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, and was reëlected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 20,163 votes, to 18,412 for James A. Walker, Republican.
CAMPBELL SLEMP.
Was born in Lee county, Virginia, December 2d. 1839. . Until 1880 was allied with the Democratic Campbell Slemp. party. Was reared on a farm, and has been a farmer most of his life, being also engaged in the live-stock business and in trading in coal and timber
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lands. Was a student at Emory and Henry College, Virginia, but did not graduate, owing to the death of his father. Served in the Confederate army as captain and lieutenant-colonel in the Twenty-first Virginia Bat. talion, and as colonel of the Sixty-fourth Regiment, which was both infantry and cavalry. Was elected to the House of Delegates in 1879 and ISSI; was defeated by forty votes in 1883. Ran for Lieutenant Governor with Wm. Mahone in 1889. Was elector on the Harrison ticket in 1888, and on the MeKinley ticket in 1896. Was married in 1864 to Miss Nannie B. Cawood. of Owlsey county, Kentucky. Was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress, re- ceiving 13,694 votes, to 13,476 for Wm. F. Rhea, Democrat.
UNITED STATES SENATOR.
JOHN WARFIELD JOHNSTON.
The subject of this sketch was born at "Panicello," one-quarter of a mile east of Abingdon, at the home of his grandfather, Judge Peter Johnston, in the year 1818. He was the son of Dr. John W. Johnston and Louisa Bowen Johnston. He was educated at the Abingdon Academy, University of South Carolina, and the University of Virginia. He mar- ried Miss Narcissa Floyd, daughter of Governor John Floyd and sister of Governor John B. Floyd. He was licensed to practice law and admitted to the bar in 1840, and began the practice of his profession at Tazewell Courthouse. He served as Commonwealth's Attorney for the county of Tazewell, was elected a member of the State Senate from the Tazewell dis- trict, and in the year 1859 removed to Abingdon, and after some years established himself at "Eggleston," the name of his country seat, four miles east of Abing- John W. Johnston. don (now the county poorhouse). In the year 1869 he became judge of the Circuit Court, which position he held a little more than ten months, when he resigned to take his seat in the Senate of the United States. He was three times elected by the General Assembly of Virginia a Senator in the Congress of the United States from Virginia, serving from 1870-1883. He died in Richmond in 1890. and his remains were interred in the Catholic Cemetery at Wytheville. He was survived by his wife and the following children: Dr. Geo. Ben Johnston. of Richmond ; Joseph B. Johnston, of Richmond : Mrs. Louisa Bowen Trigg. wife of Daniel Trigg, of Abingdon : Mrs. Sallie JJ. Lee, wife of Captain Henry C. Lee; Mrs. Lavalette MeMullen, wife of John F. McMullen, of Elliott City, Maryland, and Misses Letitia Floyd Johnston and Coralie Henry Johnston.
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GOVERNORS OF VIRGINIA.
WYNDHAM ROBERTSON.
The subject of this sketch was the son of William Robertson and Chris- tina Williams, his wife, and was born on the 26th of January, 1803, in the city of Richmond. He attended private schools in his native city, and cont- pleted his education at William and Mary College in the year 1821. Studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1824. Was elected a member of the Council of the State in 1833, and on the 31st of March, 1836, became the senior member of the Council, and as such Lieutenant-Governor of the State, and upon the resignation of Governor Tazewell, in the same year, he became Governor of Virginia. Gov- ernor Robertson was a Whig in politics, and the Legislature being Democratic, he was succeeded as Governor of Virginia in 1837 by David Campbell, of Abingdon. Upon the expiration of the term of his office, in March, 1837, he retired to the country home of his wife, "Mary's Meadows," near to and south of Abingdon (his wife was Mary Trigg Smith, daughter of Captain Francis Smith, of Washington county), where he lived until 1858, when he returned to Rich- Wyndham Robertson .mond, and in 1860 was elected a member of the House of Delegates of Virginia from Richmond city. He was opposed to Virginia's seceding from the Union, and did all he could to prevent the war between the States, but after the proclamation of Lincoln calling for troops from Virginia, he was from that time forth zealously active in all measures for the defence of his State. After the war he re- moved to Abingdon, where he died, on the 11th day of February, 1888, and his remains were interred at Cobbs, Chesterfield county. He was a man of excellent manners and of considerable ability. He was survived by his wife and the following children: Frank S. Robertson, Wyndham Robertson, Mrs. James L. White, Mrs. Connally F. Trigg and Mrs. W. W. Blackford.
DAVID CAMPBELL.
The subject of this sketch was the eldest son of John Campbell and Eliza- beth McDonald, his wife, of Hall's Bottom, Washington county, Virginia, and was born on the 2d of August, 1779, at Royal Oak (now in Smyth county ), and was about eight years of age when his father removed to Hall's Bottom. There he grew up, receiving such education as the frontier settle- ments could provide. In the year 1794, in his fifteenth year, he was ap- pointed an ensign in Captain John Davis' company of militia. In 1799 he was commissioned a captain of a company of light infantry assigned to the Seventieth Regiment of Militia, and in the fall of the same year he married his cousin, Mary Hamilton. He studied law, and was licensed, but never
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practised his profession. In 1802 he was appointed deputy clerk of the County Court of Washington county, and chiefly discharged the duties of the office to the year 1812. On the 6th of July, 1512, he was commissioned a major in the Twelfth Regiment of Infantry, United States army, and marched with the forces to the lakes of Canada, where he served under Generals Alexander Smyth and Van Rensselaer. On the 12th of March, 1813, he was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Thirtieth Regiment, where he served until the year 1814. when he resigned his commission. Upon his return home he entered the service of Virginia as aide de camp to Gov- ernor Barbour, and gave valuable assistance in organizing the large military forces called into the service in the summer of 1814. In the year 1815 he was elected by the General Assembly as general of the Third Brigade of the Virginia Militia. On the 25th of January, 1815. he was appointed colonel of the Third Virginia Cavalry, and was afterwards transferred to the Fifth Regiment of Cavalry. Upon his return to Abingdon, he entered the clerk's office, where he remained until 1820, when he was elected a member of the State Senate from the Abingdon district for the term of four years. In 1824 he was elected clerk of the County Court of Washington county, which position he occupied until he took his seat as Governor of Virginia, on the 31st of March, 1837. Governor Campbell, at the time of his election, was a Jackson Democrat, but while Gover- nor, and during the administration of President Van Buren, the sub-treasury scheme and the standing army David Campbell. bill, as they were commonly called, were made party measures, and being opposed to them, he warmly supported General Harri- son in the presidential campaign of 1840, and ever after acted with the Whig party. Governor Campbell, in his first message to the General Assem- bly, proposed the establishment of the common school system, of which he was one of the earliest advocates. Upon his retirement from the position of Governor of the Commonwealth, he was commissioned a justice of the peace for Washington county, and was diligent in the discharge of his duties as such until the year 1852. when he retired to private life, after having spent nearly one-half a century in the publie service. In person Governor Campbell was about five feet eleven inches in height, spare and erect in carriage, with dark hair and eyes and intellectual countenance and pleasing manners. He died at "Mont Calm," his home, now the home of Colonel Cummings, on March 19th, 1859, without issue. and his remains were interred in Sinking Spring Cemetery, Abingdon, Virginia.
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