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burg in 1850, and was three years engaged in the dry goods business, then went into the tobacco business, in which he still continues. He was magistrate of Lynchburg eight years. member of the council two years; trustee of the Miller Female Orphan Asylum since 1878; and is now vice-president of the First National Bank of Lynchburg.
In Lynchburg, December 14, 1852, Rev. C. R. Vaughn officiating, he married Mrs. S. M., daughter of Jesse Hare Selden, who died in Lynch- burg, in 1881, aged 57 years. The record of their children is: James M., jr., married Mazie F., daughter of Hon. Thomas S. Bocock, of Lynchburg; Claudine, now the wife of Judge Wingfield Griffin, of Salem, Virginia; Ernestine, now the wife of C. S. Hutter. Esq., of Lynchburg: Jesse II., died in 1881, at the age of 20 years.
W. N. BROWN
Is the son of James J. and Jane L. (Martin) Brown, both now deceased. and the grandson of Anderson Brown, born and reared in Albemarle county. W. N. Brown is also a native of that county. He removed from Albemarle to Campbell county, settling in Lynchburg on the Ist of September, 1886, and engaging in the wholesale fancy grocery busi- ness, at 618 Main street. Later he removed to 214-216 Ninth street. admitting his brother, R. J. Brown, to an interest in the business, which they still carry on at that place. Mr. Brown has two daughters, Laura H. and Ethel A.
ANDREW WILKIE BUTLER
Was born in Richmond, Virginia, August 25, 1858. His parents are still residents of Richmond, JJohn M. and Mahala A. Butler. Both are Virginians by birth, his mother born in Richmond, the daughter of William Tyree, who also was born in Virginia. The first wife of Mr. Butler was Bessie Lee Hart, who died June 23, 1886. They had two children, a son Basil Gordon, now living with his father in Lynchburg, and a second son, Wilkie Herbert, born March 1, 1886, died May 31st following. In Lynchburg, May 18, 1887, Mr. Butler married Anna W. G. Shumaker, who was born in Pittsylvania county. Virginia. Her parents were of this State, her father serving in the Confederate States Army during the late war.
Mr. Butler completed his education by a course of five years in a Richmond school. In 1872 he was salesman for G. G. Thompson, gro- cer, Richmond: 1876, salesman for Geo. Gary, wholesale stationer. Richmond; 1877, book-keeper for R. B. Lyne, real estate agent, Rich- mond. In 1882 he went into business for himself, firm of A. W. Butler & Co., merchandise brokerage, Richmond. He held the office of notary
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public in Richmond four years. He removed to Lynchburg January 1, 1884, and has since been engaged in business at the corner of Seventh and Main streets, A. W. Butler, Merchandise Broker and Com- mission Merchant.
JOIIN ROBERT CLARK
Was born in Campbell county, in June, 1849. At Richmond, Vir- ginia, December 11, 1883, he married Bessie Pendleton Scott, of Rich- mond, Rev. Moses D. Hoge uniting them. They have one son. J. Robin Clark. Mr. and Mrs. Clark are of Virginia families. His father. Christopher Clark, was born in Campbell county in 1805, the son of Paulett Clark, who was also born in Campbell county. The mother of Mr. Clark was Elmira A., daughter of John Williams, both born in Campbell county. James P. Scott, father of Mrs. Clark, was born in Amherst county, Virginia. Her mother was Jennie, daughter of Rev. Kirkpatrick.
John R. Clark was deputy sheriff of Campbell county from 1866 to 1872. He then engaged in the tobacco commission business in Lynch- burg, firm of Clark & Collins, which business has been continued suc- cessfully up to the present date. In 1884 he was made a director in the First National Bank of Lynchburg; in 1886 was elected a director on the Lynchburg & Durham Railroad; in 1887 was made president of the " Virginian Publishing Company," which office he resigned the same year; was again elected to the office in 1888, but declined to serve. He was also in 1886 elected a member of the City Council of Lynchburg.
JAMES M. CLELAND
Was born in Glasgow, Scotland, March 16, 1848, the son of James and Jeanette (Murdock ) Cleland. In 1851, James Cleland, the father, made his home in Richmond, Virginia, engaging in the plumbing busi- ness. In 1854 he removed to Lynchburg, continuing in the same busi- ness. The establishment he founded is now doing the largest business of any firm in that line in Lynchburg, having its own foundry and machine shops. Mr. Cleland associated with himself in the business his two sons, James M. and Ed. A., and since 1883 they have had exclusive control of the business, under the firm name of James Cleland & Sons. The father is no longer living; his widow still resides in Lynchburg. In January, 1872, in Alabama, James M. Cleland married Henrietta Len- non, who was born in Manchester, England. They have two daugh- ters, Christena and Nettie, and three sons, Harry, William and Lennon.
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MAJOR ADAM CLEMENT,
Son of Adam and Nancy ( Alexander) Clement, was born in Campbell county, Virginia, in January, 1826. He entered the Confederate States Army in April, 1861, captain in the 11th Virginia Infantry. In 1862 he was promoted major of the regiment, with which he served until disabled for field duty. He was first wounded at battle of Seven Pines ; again in battle of Hagerstown, Maryland, where he received a severe gunshot wound in the head. Relieved then from active service, he was assigned to duty in the enrolling department, where he served until elected sheriff. This was in 1863, and he continued to serve as sheriff until the close of the war. In 1869 he was again elected sheriff, and he has served in that office continuously ever since, and is the present incum- bent. Major Clement has been twice married, his first wife, whom he wedded in 1846, Martha L. Cocke, born in Campbell county in October, 1828. He married secondly, May 31. 1888, Miss Annie M. Coke.
WILLIAM J. COLLINS
Was born in Campbell county, Virginia, on July 23, 1834. His parents were Virginians, his father, George F. Collins, born in Culpeper county, and his mother, whose maiden name was Eleanor Bishop, also born in Culpeper county. Both died in Appomattox county. the father in 1864, at the age of 58 years, and the mother on August 21, 1887. aged eighty-three years. The wife of Mr. Collins was born in Campbell county, Nannie P., daughter of Christopher and Elmira 1. ( Williams) Clark, both born in Campbell county. Her father died in Lynchburg in 1876, her mother's home is still in Lynchburg. Mr. and Mrs. Collins were married in Campbell county on November 21. 1866. They have two children, C. Clark and Lena B.
Mr. Collins was in service in the Confederate States Army through the late civil war, enlisting in June, 1861, sergeant Company A, 44th Virginia Infantry. He was taken prisoner at Sailors Creek, April 6. 1865, and held at Point Lookout, Maryland, two months, then released on parole. Battles: Rich Mountain, Greenbrier River, those around Richmond, Sailors Creek, and many others. His brother, E. F. Collins, served in the same company, and has the same war record. In 1872, William J. Collins went into the tobacco commission business in the firm of Clark & Collins; afterward the style of firm was Clark, Collins & Clark; at present the firm is again Clark & Collins. Mr. Collins has been two years deputy sheriff of Campbell county.
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EDWARD A. CRAIGHILL, M. D.
Was born at Charlestown, Jefferson county, (now) West Virginia, on November 2, 1840. His father was William Nathaniel Craighill, born January 26, 1808, died September 6, 1887 : his mother, Sally E. Brown. born August 16, 1811, died September 28, 1887; both born in Jefferson county. Dr. Craighill's ancestors came to Virginia from Scotland and England, in the 17th and 18th centuries. Robert Rutherford, who served Virginia in the Continental and later the United States Congress, was his great grandfather. The wife of Dr. Craighill. is Mattie, daughter of Joseph V. and Mary E. (Bullock) Hobson, formerly of Powhatan county, Virginia, now of Richmond. Her father, who is a physician, was born in Powhatan county November 11, 1811, her mother was born May 10, 1817. She was born in Powhatan county, April 27, 1855, and became the wife of Dr. Craighill at Richmond, Rev. James B. Craighill uniting them, on April 14, 1874.
Dr. Craighill entered the Confederate States Army at the outbreak of the war, in the 2d Virginia Infantry, Jackson's (Stonewall) Brigade. He was with this regiment in the field until, October 18, 1861, he was commissioned assistant surgeon. From that time till the close of the war he devoted his life and service to the care of the wounded and disabled Southern soldiers, serving at Manassas, Gordonsville, Lynchburg, and in the field. After some years practice of his profession, he with J. W. Faulkner established the well-known firm of Faulkner & Craighill, druggists, and is now sole proprietor. Dr. Craighill is also identified with many of the public interests of Lynchburg: Director of the First National bank; director of the Virginian Publishing Company ; mem- ber of the executive committee of the Lynchburg Industrial Society; president of the Virginia Pharmaceutical Society.
ROBERT TEMPLEMAN CRAIGHILL.
Some mention of the ancestry of the subject of this sketch has been made in that preceding, with the record of his brother, Dr. Craighill. The pater- nal line may be more definitely traced, as follows : William Craighill, great, great grandfather of Robert Templeman, was born in England, came to Virginia in colonial days, and settled in Westmoreland county. Nathaniel, his son, was born in Westmoreland county, accompanied the early settlers beyond the Blue Ridge, and made his home in Jefferson county, where his son, William Price Craighill, was born. William Nathaniel, son of William Price, and father of Robert Templeman, was born in Jefferson county, Jannary 26, 1808, and died at Charlestown, that county, September 6, 1887. Robert Templeman was born in
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Charlestown, April 25, 1843, and was married at Lynchburg, October 11, 1865, Rev. Wm. H. Kinekle officiating. The bride was M. Edley, daughter of Dr. Joseph V. Hobson, of Richmond, Virginia, and Sarah Norvell, now deceased. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Craighill are seven living, one deceased : Carrie T., born September 7, 1866, married now and living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; William N., born December 23, 1868, died October 10, 1870; Robert Edley, born July 24, 1871; Edward A., December 29, 1873; Joseph H .; Sarah Norvell; Mattie Holliday; Samuel Preston; the younger children still at home.
Mr. Craighill studied law in early life, and was for eighteen years a successful practitioner in Lynchburg. During the war he was a member of the 12th Virginia Cavalry. At the Yorktown centennial he served, with rank of colonel, on the staff of the Governor of Virginia. He has ever declined active participation in political affairs, but is devoted to every cause that tends to advance the welfare of community and State. In literature he is known as the author of the " Virginia Peer- age." Heis well advanced in " the mystic rite," 32d degree Mason, Knight Templar, and deputy grand master of the order in the State. He is a trustee of the Lynchburg Female Orphan Asylum, and of the Virginia Theological Seminary, and many years a vestryman. In 1885 he became one of the proprietors of the Lynchburg Fertilizer Co., and wholesale dealer in leaf tobaccos, the firm now having an enormous business, extending from New York to Alabama.
JOHN WILLIAM DILLARD, M. D.
Is of a family carly seated in Virginia, his ancestry thus traced : Among the settlers in the Colony of Virginia in the early part of the eighteenth century were three brothers named Dillard. One of these, James, served with distinction in the Revolutionary war, with rank of captain. Colonel William Dillard, son of James, was born in Amherst county, Virginia, in 1797, and was a number of years a member of the House of Delegates. In 1823 he married Sarah Christian, who died in 1877, and he died at the age of 83 years. His son, John J. Dillard, was born in Amherst county on October 4, 1824, and is now a farmer re- siding in Lynchburg. The wife of JJohn J. Dillard is also of a collateral branch of the same family, Elizabeth II., daughter of Col. James S. and Narcissa Dillard, nee Turner. Mrs. Dillard was born in Bedford county, December 7, 1824.
Their son, the subject of this sketch, John William, was born in Amherst county, August 12, 1852. After the usual preliminary educa- tion he entered the medical department of the University of Virginia. whence he graduated July 1, 1875. In the following year he attended
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lectures and clinics in Philadelphia and New York City, and the private medical school of Prof. Alfred Loomis, of New York. Returning to Amherst county, he engaged in the practice of medicine eighteen months; was then, on account of delicate health, two years physician to the Bedford Alum and Iron Springs, then came to Lynchburg, where he has now a large practice. Office and residence 801 Church street. Dr. Dillard is a member of the American Medical Association, and of the Virginia Medical Society, and a contributor to medical journals. devoting himself to the practice and the advance of his chosen profession. In Appomattox county, Virginia, February 5, 1880, Rev. T. M. Carson officiating, he married Enna, daughter of Dr. Peter and Fannie A. White, nep Ruffner. She was born in Putnam county. (now) West Vir- ginia, August 18, 1858. Her father is no longer living. Dr. and Mrs. Dillard have two children, a son and daughter.
GEN. WYATT M. ELLIOTT
Was born in Campbell county, Virginia, on February 25, 1823, the son of Thomas Elliott, who was born in Campbell county, and died at age of 80 years, and Elizabeth ( Bondurant) Elliott, died at age of about 32 years. In Appomattox county, Virginia. September 7, 1847. he married Marcia P. Moseley, who was born in Campbell county, and who died on the 22d of August, 1885. She was the daughter of Thomas and Jane (Bondurant ) Moseley, both now deceased. The children of this union were six, of whom three are living: Horace B., Ella V. and William Arthur. The deceased children were named : Emma, Wyatt M. and Ida.
When Gen. Elliott was eight years of age, he removed to Buckingham county, Virginia, and there pursued his education under the kind auspices and patronage of his maternal uncle, Thomas M. Bondurant. At the age of sixteen years. he went to the Virginia Military Insti- tute at Lexington, where he entered as cadet, at the organization of the institute, on the 11th of November, 1839, and was captain of the first company. He graduated in July, 1842. returned to Bucking- ham county, and taught school two years, as the State law then required. During that time he read law under Col. W. P. Bock for six months. In 1846 he removed to Richmond, and became associated in the publication of the Richmond Whig, and continued that relation until 1866. Meantime the subject of this sketch was chosen captain of the " Richmond Grays," which he commanded from 1847 till the close of the first year of the late war. While commanding the Richmond Grays he was ordered with his company to attend as guard at the exe- rution of John Brown, and was present in that capacity at Harper's
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Ferry on this momentous occasion. During the period of the war, he maintained his nominal relation to the Richmond Whig, but after the first year of the war resigned his commission as captain of the Grays, and obtained permission from the Confederate Government to recruit and organize a battalion of six companies, which he did. He was com- inissioned to command the same as lieutenant-colonel, the command known as the 15th Virginia Battalion of Infantry. He continued with this command in the field, attached to Gen. Ewell's troops, until captured at Sailors Creek April 6, 1865. He was carried a prisoner of war to Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie. On the way to Johnson's Island he happened to be confined in the Old Capitol Prison at Wash- ington City on the night that President Lincoln was assassinated, and narrowly escaped with his fellow prisoners from being mobbed on account of the excitement then prevailing in the city. He was hekl at Johnson's Island until liberated by President Johnson, about July 1, 1865.
General Elliott then returned to Richmond, resumed the publication of the Whig, and continued the same until December, 1866, when he removed with his family to Appomattox county. There he pursued the occupation of a farmer for a period of years. In 1871-2 and 1872-3, he represented Appomattox county in the House of Delegates, and in 1875 was chosen State Senator, from district composed of counties of Appo- mattox, Buckingham and Fluvanna, and contimed to represent his people as Senator for eight consecutive years. In 1884 he was appointed clerk of the United States circuit and district courts at Lynchburg, which position he still holds.
JOHN W. FAULKNER.
The paternal grandfather of John W. Faulkner was of English birth, and came to America, about the time of the revolution, as sailing mas- ter of a British man-of-war. His sympathies being with the struggling colonists, he espoused their canse, and joined them and was in service till the close of the war, after which he settled in Maryland. In that State, at Easton, J. H. Faulkner was born, the father of John W. His mother's people were Germans, settled in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, in colonial times. He was born at Winchester, Virginia, in March, 1843, and was married at Lynchburg, in 1866. His wife is Rosa, daughter of John Quincy Adams, of Lynchburg, and grand- daughter of William L. Saunders, an old-time and influential citizen of Lynchburg. Mr. and Mrs. Faulkner have six children : William Saun- ders, Julia F., John A., Mary E., Rosa and Hamilton.
Mr. Faulkner was one of the captors of John Brown at Harpers Ferry
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in 1859, volunteering for the service from Winchester. He was in the medical department of the Confederate States Army from 1862 till the close of the war, assigned to Jackson's Army of the Valley, serving through all its campaigns, stationed at Charlottsville, Lynchburg, Cul- peper, Staunton, Gordonsville, etc. He left Richmond on the morning of the evacuation, and joined Mosby's command at Upperville, and was paroled with this command at Millwood, Clark county, Virginia. Since the war, Mr. Faulkner has been engaged in the drug business.
SENATOR EDWARD J. FOLKES,
Representing 20th district composed of the County of Campbell and City of Lynchburg, was born in Charles City county, Virginia, July 17, 1820. He was the son of Rev. Edward Folkes, of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, who was born in Charles City county, and died in 1834, aged 47 years. The mother of Senator Folkes, whose maiden name was Sarah L. Crew, died in Richmond, aged 75 years. At the age of nineteen years, he came to Lynchburg, and engaged in the furniture business with Alanson Winston, whose daughter. Sarah A., he married in October, 1842. In 1857 he assumed the charge of the business, in which he continued until 1884. During the civil war he served the Con- federate States as acting quartermaster of transportations. Mrs. Folkes was born in Lynchburg, in September, 1824. Her father, who was born in Connecticut, and served in the war of 1812, died in Lynch- burg, aged 64 years. Her mother, Frances B. Talbot of Campbell county, died in Lynchburg, aged 90 years.
The record of the children of Senator and Mrs. Folkes is: Edward A., served in the 19th Virginia Battalion, Heavy Artillery, C. S. A., from 1862 to the close of the war, died. November 18, 1874, aged 30 years; William (., served in the Confederate States Army, in Beauregard Bat- tery; lost leg at Malvern Hill: was graduated in law at the Virginia University; in 1866 removed to Memphis, Tennessee, and in 1886 was elected judge of the court of appeals of Tennessee; married Mary Wright, of that State. Alanson Winston, brother of Mrs. Folkes, was in the Confederate States army, and died in service, of sunstroke. Sena- tor Folkes was elected to his present seat in the Virginia Senate in November, 1887.
JAMES A. FORD.
Mr. Ford is the son of Culvin and Olivia W. Ford, long honored resi- dents of Campbell county. His father died on July 31, 1887, and his mother on November 25, 1887. He was born in Campbell county, on December 27, 1833, and was married in Lynchburg, on November 1, 1870.
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His wife is Ella H., danghter of Sylvester and Elizabeth (Woodson) Pence, her father now deceased, her mother now living in Lynchburg. Mrs. Ford was born in Halifax county, Virginia, in 1844. Mr. and Mrs. Ford have two daughters, Rosa T., born in 1880; Dora, born in 1884.
Mr. Ford entered the Confederate States Army in January, 1862, in Major DeLaniel's Heavy Artillery, stationed at Richmond, with which he served one year. In 1864 he again entered service, in Company H, 1st Virginia Infantry. Pickett's Division, with which he served until captured at Five Forks, April, 1865. He was held at Point Lookout until paroled June 15, 1865. Among his battles are Drury's Bluffs, Hatcher's Run, and Five Forks. His brother William A. served through the war. James A. Ford is engaged in the tobacco business, as manu- facturer.
MAJOR JOHN H. FLOOD.
The subject of this sketch is of English descent, both his paternal and maternal grandfather coming from England to Virginia at an early date. He was born in Buckingham county, Virginia, on May 15, 1830. He was educated for the law, but, on account of defective sight, never engaged in the practice of same, and has been dealing in tobacco in Lynchburg since 1860. He was for many years a member of the city council; for sixteen years president of the board of directors of the Lynchburg Female Orphan Asylum, and is still serving.
HON. JAMES FRANKLIN
Was born in Pittsylvania connty, Virginia, on March 1, 1815, the son of Edward and Elizabeth (Cook) Franklin. His father died in 1860, and his mother has been many years dead. He married in Bedford county, Virginia, October 6, 1840, Rev. Kennedy uniting him in wed- lock with Emma S. Leftwich. She was born in Bedford county, March 30, 1820, the daughter of Rev. William and Sally Leftwich. Benjamin Franklin, grandfather of James, settled in Prince Edward county, Vir- ginia, in colonial days.
James Franklin left the parental home when but sixteen years of age. since when his honorable and busy life has been devoted to commercial and banking pursuits, and public affairs. He was several years deputy sheriff of Pittsylvania county. Removed, in 1848, to Lynchburg; was engaged there in a mercantile business until the beginning of the war. During the period of the war traded in general produce. At its close opened the first bank in Lynchburg, firm of Miller & Franklin, which firm carried on a profitable banking business for seventeen years. Mr.
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Miller dying then, Mr. Franklin closed out the business, and entered into the National Exchange Bank, of which he was elected president. which position he filled to the best interests of the bank until he retired to private life which he did against the protest of the officers and de- positors of the bank. He is a very large landowner, both of Lynchburg property, and farm lands of Campbell county, and a citizen held in warmest esteem by all. He has been a member of the city council, many years trustee of the public schools; in 1873-4 represented Campbell county in the House of Delegates.
JOHN WALLINGFORD GOODWIN
Was born in South Berwick, Maine, on April 17, 1825. In Mobile, Ala- bama, in 1863, the Rector of Christ Church officiating, he married Georgia Smith, of Mobile. Their children are three daughters, Virginia. Georgia, and Ella Elizabeth, and one son: Sidney Wallingford. Mr. Goodwin entered the Confederate States Army as first sergeant of the Mobile Rifles, which became Company K, 3d Alabama regiment. With this he was in active service, under Gens. Jones M. Withers, Braxton Bragg, and Joseph E. Johnston. until transferred to the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, under Col. R. L. Owen. From that time to the close of the war he served the Confederate States government as super- intendent of this road. He remained with the same road under Goneral Mahone, until 1871 : was then in Texas on railroad work until 1883. then in Tennessee on the F., T. & Va. R. R., until in 1887 he returned to Virginia, on the N. & W. R. R. He is now serving as chief civil engineer on the Lynchburg & Durham R. R.
MAX GUGGENHEIMER.
The subject of this sketch was born in Bavaria, Germany, on May 19, 1842, the son of Sigmund and Clara Guggenheimer. His father died in 1844, aged 36 years. On June 13, 1888, his mother completed the 73d year of her life. The Virginia branch of the Guggenheimer family set- tled in this State in 1838. Max Guggenheimer landed in New York City in August, 1856. He came at once to Lynchburg, arriving August 20th. His purpose in coming to America was to study thoroughly here the English language, and his intention then was to return to Germany in a year or two. He at once entered Mr. Reed's private school, which he attended about eighteen months, keeping books for his brother-in-law during this time, evenings. Leaving school then he became clerk and bookkeeper for his brother-in-law, who was carrying on a dry goods business in Lynchburg, and so continued until the war began.
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