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He then, at age of nineteen years, went into service in the Lynch- burg Home Guards, April 23, 1861, and was with this company until discharged in the fall of 1862, en account of disability. He went to Chattanooga, whence he returned in 1863, since which time he has re- mained in Lynchburg. Immediately after the close of the war. he entered into partnership with his brother-in-law, Nathaniel Guggen- heimer, in a dry goods business established by the latter in 1842. The brother-in-law being unfitted by sickness to transact business. Max be- came its head, and Nathaniel dying on Jannary 16, 1866, Max has also been the head of the family since that date, the family consisting of the widow of Nathaniel and her five children.
The business of which he is the head has been one of vast proportions and constant increase since that date. The largest amount of sales of the old firm was $40,000 in 1860; to-day it is known as the largest wholesale house in the State. When the retail trade had reached a business of $200,000 it was given up that the attention of the firm might be given entirely to its growing wholesale trade, Mr. Guggen- heimer understanding, as far back as 1868, that Lynchburg was geo- graphically located to do a good and healthy distributing trade. In 1870 wholesale boots and shoes was added to the dry goods depart- ment. In 1876, on account of the great extent of the dry goods business, Mr. Guggenheimer retired from the shoe business, and with special capital, started, in conjunction with two gentlemen from Balti- more, the first exclusive wholesale shoe house in the city. He retired from this firm in July, 1887, and in June. 1888, opened the second ex- clusive wholesale shoo house. He had a younger brother who was a short time in service during the late war. in a Lynchburg battery. and Maurice Guggenheimer, his cousin, served through the war in the 2d Virginia Artillery, dying in March, 1885. The wife of Mr. Guggenheimer, Bertha V., daughter of M. Rosenbaum, was born in Richmond, Vir- ginia, in December, 1857. They were married by a Jewish Rabbi of Baltimore, and have one daughter, Cecile Isabelle, born October 23, 1877. The father of Mrs. Guggenheimer was born in Wartburg, Bavaria, Germany, her mother in Richmond, Virginia. Mr. Guggen- heimer was a member of the city council in 1879 and 1880, chairman of its finance committee: resigned in February, 1881. He has been president of the opera company; president of the Jewish Congregation ; director of the Lynchburg National Bank.
JAMES MADISON IRWIN.
James Carson Irwin, born in Campbell county, Virginia, October 17, 1820, in 1840 married Sarah E. Hoffman, who was born in Camp- bell county, in 1822. He died on March 24, 1888, leaving a widow
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and eight children, five boys and three girls. The subject of this sketch, one of these sons, was born in Lynchburg, on. October 17, 1844. In Nelson county, Virginia, September 14, 1887, Rev. B. M. Wailes officiating, he married Ida Clay Ewers. Fannie Carson Irwin, their daughter, was born on August 1, 1888. Mrs. Irwin was born in Nelson county, January 2, 1855, the daughter of John Stanford Ewers and Fannie E. Fortune, his wife, to whom he was married in Nelson county in 1845, by Rev. B. M. Wailes, Presbyterian clergy- man. Mr. Irwin is chief of police of the city of Lynchburg, which position he has held for the last six years. During the war he was in service in Morgan's Cavalry of Kentucky.
F. D. JOHNSON,
Head of the "Southern Jewelry House," has been a resident of Lynch- burg since 1881. He founded his business in Culpeper, Virginia, in 1854, and continued in business there until his removal, in 1881, to Lynchburg. In 1882 he admitted to partnership his son, J. B. John- son. A long record of more than thirty years strictly honorable business dealings, combined with unsurpassed excellence in goods manufactured and dealt in. has given the present firm a reputation and a business that is no unimportant factor in the reputation of Lynchburg as a commercial center of the South. The wholesale, retail and manufacturing departments of the house are filled with orders representing every State of the South as well as Vir- ginia; and as far as Massachusetts on the north, Colorado and Mexico to the west and southwest, the well tested goods of this firm command a market, which competitors in other localities are not able to draw away from Lynchburg. The firm supplies all the colleges of the South with medals, badges, etc., and makes a specialty of engrav- ing monograms, and other designs, catalogues of which are furnished on application. Other specialties of the firm are diamonds, watches, clocks, silver and plated ware, spectacles and eye-glasses, gold and silver-headed canes and umbrellas. All designs are manufactured under careful supervision on the premises and warranted to be as represented. The " F. D. Johnson Watch" has a well deserved repu- tation as one of the best time-keepers in the country. Headquarters of firm: 802 Main street, Lynchburg.
GEORGE M. JONES.
The subject of this sketch is of English descent, his ancestors settling in Page county, Virginia, in colonial days. His father was Wharton Jones, son of George and Margaret Jones, and his mother was Nancy,
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daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Wood. He was born in Page county May 24, 1824. In 1844 he removed to Bedford county, where he was for several years engaged in a mercantile business at Pecksville and at Liberty. On September 14, 1848, Rev. JJohn W. Howard officiating, he married Miss Mary F. Watts, who was born in Bedford county, Decem- ber 30, 1830. In 1854 he removed to Salisbury, North Carolina, and engaged there in the hardware business with good success until the war. Returning to Bedford county early in 1861, he lived on his estate there during the war, serving some time in the Confederate States Army. In the fall of 1865 he removed to Lynchburg, which has since been his home. He engaged in the hardware business, which he carried on with good success until he retired from business in August, 1887. He is now president of the National Exchange Bank, and of the Lynchburg Cotton Mills now (1888) about to be erected.
ROBERT GARLICK HILL KEAN.
The paternal ancestry of Mr. Kean is thus traced: About 1790, David Kean, of County Armagh, Ireland, came to Virginia, and settled in Monroe county. With him came his son, Andrew Kean, who became a physician of Louisa county,and whose son, John Vaughn Kean, married Caroline M. Hill. They were the parents of the subject of this sketch. who was born in Caroline county, Virginia, October 7, 1828. His first wife was Jane Nicholas, daughter of Col. T. Jefferson Randolph, of Edge Hill, Albemarle county, Virginia, born November 3, 1831, died August 28, 1868. The children of this marriage were: Lancelot Minor, born January 11, 1856, now practicing law at Sioux City, lowa; Pat- tie Cary, born April 11, 1858, now the wife of JJ. S. Morris, of Campbell county ; JJefferson Randolph, born June 28, 1860, now surgeon, U. S. A .; and Robert G. H. At the residence of Col. Nicholas Long, near Weldon, North Carolina, Rev. Mr. Norwood officiating, Mr. Kean married, on January 14, 1874, Adelaide Navarro de M. Prescott. She was born in St. Landry parish, Louisiana, November 5, 1844, the daughter of William Marshall Prescott, who was born in South Carolina, and who married Evelina, daughter of Judge Moore, of Louisiana. The children of Mr. Kean's second marriage are four, born : Evelina Moore, Jime 28, 1875 ; William Marshall Prescott, July 6, 1876; Caroline H., September 1. 1877; Otho Vangh, April 5, 1881.
Mr. Kean entered the Confederate States Army as a private of Com- pany G, 11th Virginia regiment, on April 23, 1861. In February, 1862. he was commissioned captain, and appointed A. A. G. assigned to Gen. G. W. Randolph's brigade. On April 1, 1862, he was ordered to Rich- mond, and commissioned by President Davis as chief of the Bureau of
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War, which position he filled until the close of the war. He was gradu- ated in law from the University of Virginia in 1853, and holds the degrees of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Law from that University. From the time of his graduation to the present he has been in practice, in Lynchburg, except for the years given to military duty.
WILLIAM KING, JR.
Member of the Lynchburg firm of Leftwich, King & Co., leaf tobacco dealers, was born in Lynchburg, on November 11, 1861. The lineage of Mr. King's family is thus traced: He is the son of William King and his wife Annie L. King, who was a daughter of Augustine and Elizabeth (Clark) Leftwich, and the grandson of William and Sarah Beekem King, both now deceased. James King, great-grand- father of William, jr., came from Ireland, and settled at an early date in Washington county, Virginia. In the late war the father of Mr. King was in service, as were six of his uncles, viz .: L. Clark Leftwich ; Alex. T. Leftwich; Aug. Leftwich, jr., killed ; James King, killed : Cum. King, killed ; and A. Hamilton Leftwich. William King, sr., entered service in April, 1861, lieutenant of Latham's battery. He was pro- moted captain of artillery, and so served till the close of the war. He then engaged for three years in a commission business; later was fifteen years teller in the People's National Bank of Lynchburg, and in 1884 engaged in the leaf tobacco business. He died on the 20th of May, 1885. His widow survives him, living in Lynchburg. William King, jr., received a classical education, and began his business life in January, 1880, as manufacturer of tobacco. After following this for three years he engaged in his present business.
JOHN H. KINNIER
Was born in Lynchburg, on February 17, 1840, and was married on June 4, 1872, Rev. R. Mellvain, D. D., officiating clergyman. He is the son of James and Jane Kinnier, and his wife is Josephine, daughter of Isham and Ann Perey, of Roanoke county. Virginia. Their children are two daughters, Mary Elizabeth and Josephine Perey, and they have buried one son, John Perey. Mr. Kinnier entered the Confederate States Army in the Spring of 1862, in battery commanded by Capt. Thos. J. Kirkpatrick. He was engaged in all its movements until shot through the body at Cold Harbor, June 4, 1864, the wound so severe as to inca- pacitate him from further service. In 1865 he established the business in which he is still engaged, dealer in coal, wood, ice and baled forage at 1200 -- 1220 Jefferson street, Lynchburg.
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RICHARD T. LACY
Was born in Lynchburg, September 23, 1842, the son of Moses and Ann Lynch (Tyree) Lacy, still of Lynchburg. Moses Lacy was born in Halifax county, Virginia, February 10, 1808. His wife was born in Lynchburg, May 9, 1816, her father coming from New Kent county, Virginia, where he was born. Mr. Lacy married Alberta Ferguson, who died on the 8th of December, 1878, leaving him five children, Alean (., Robert W., Pattie, R. Albert, H. Otey. On December 13, 1880, Vir- ginia Lee Morriss, of Lynchburg, became his wife, and they have one daughter, Mary G. In December, 1860. Mr. Lacy was enrolled for military service in the State of Alabama. He formally entered the Confederate States Army in May, 1861, in Company A, 1st Alabama Cavalry, and participated in all the engagements of his regiment from Shiloh to Chickamauga battle, the regiment assigned to the Army of the Tennessee; in 1862 was detailed on staff of Gen. Jos. Wheeler. He was captured in Chickamauga battle, and held a prisoner at JJohnson's Island, Ohio, until after the close of the war: released June 30, 1865. He had two brothers in service: R. W. Lacy, who served through the war in the 2d Virginia Cavalry, died in Texas in 1878: and M. P. Lacy, served in Mosby's command, died in Lynchburg in August, 1880. Mr. Lacy has been city collector of Lynchburg since July 1, 1887.
DANIEL LANGHORNE, M. D.
Was born in Cumberland county, Virginia, July 25, 1825, the son of Maurice and Elizabeth ( Allen ) Langhorne, both now deceased, who made their home in Lynchburg when Daniel was two years old. The Lang- horne family is of English origin, and Dr. Langhorne is a lineal descend- ant of William Langhorne, first earl of Greensboro. In Montgomery county, Virginia, February 15, 1853, Rev. J. D. Mitchell officiating, he married Virginia P. Kent. The bride was born in Montgomery county, August 13, 1833, daughter of JJacob and Mary ( Buford) Kent, now deceased. One son was born to Dr.and Mrs. Langhorne, December 22. 1853, Maurice Kent, and who died on the 10th of April, 1864.
Dr. Langhorne entered the Confederate States Army in April, 1861, rank of lieutenant-colonel. He served as post commander and muster- ing officer at Lynchburg until July, 1861, then took the field assigned to the 42d Virginia Infantry. With that regiment heserved in the Val- ley Mt. and Sewell Mt. campaign under Gen. R. E. Lee; was in the Bath and Romney expedition, and in the Shenandoah valley campaign under Gen. Jackson. In May, 1862, having been superseded in hiscommand he returned to' Lynchburg where he performed local military duty till the
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close of the war. He was graduated in medicine at the Philadelphia (Pa.) University in 1848, and after two years practice in Philadelphia. settled in practice in Lynchburg. He has held position as resident phy- sician at Warm Springs, Virginia; Healing Springs, Virginia; Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs. West Virginia. (See Col. Maurice Langhorne's record.)
COL. MAURICE S. LANGHORNE
Was born in Cumberland county, Virginia, on March 27, 1823. He is the son of Col. Maurice Langhorne, who was born in Warwick county, Virginia, served in the war of 1812 as lieutenant of the " Cumberland Troop Cavalry;" and died in February, 1865, at the age of 78 years. The mother of Col. Maurice S. was Elizabeth Allen, born in Prince Edward county, Virginia, died in 1840, at about the age of 50 years. Colonel Langhorne entered the Confederate States Army, April 23, 1861, Company A, 11th Virginia regiment, rank of captain. He was the first to tender to the Confederate Government the service of an armed company of Virginia troops. On the 17th day of April, 1861, this company was detailed by Gen. Longstreet, with nine others (mak- ing regimental strength) to hold Munson's Hill, which had been captured from the Federals the day before, and Captain Langhorne was appointed by General Longstreet to command of the detail, which, as he then ranked only as captain, occasioned some surprise. The event justified the appointment, the detail under Captain Langhorne, with two guns under Captain Rosser (afterwards Gen. Rosser), repelling three charges in which the enemy made desperate effort to recapture the ground, and holding it until the battle was over. About this time Captain Lang- horne was promoted lieutenant-major of his regiment; after battle of Seven Pines received commission as lieutenant-colonel and afterwards colonel of same, but received in that battle a severe gun- shot wound in left leg which incapacitated him for field service. Hewas assigned in the same year (1863) to Lynchburg as post commander, but retired in the latter part of the same year. Then took charge of and organized for the reserves under General Kemper. Later was put in command of a brigade of reserves and convalescents, and sent with them to confront Stoneman and check his advance at the time Stone- man made the raid into Virginia and burned the salt works. In Feb- ruary, 1865, Colonel Langhorne was detailed to the secret service, a service made up of three colonels whose duties were to consider plans of action against the enemy. He was so serving at the close of the war. Since that time he has been engaged principally in handling tobacco in many forms. His brother William was in service one year of the war, first sergeant in the 2d Virginia Cavalry. Daniel A. Lang-
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horne, another brother, now a practicing physician, was one year in service, lieutenant-colonel of the 42d Virginia regiment.
JUDGE CHARLES P. LATHAM
Was born in Washington, D. C., August 19, 1844, the son of Wood- ville and Sarah M. . (Bowen) Latham. His father, born in Culpeper county, Virginia, died at Lynchburg in 1881. Hismother, the daughter of Dr. P. B. Bowen of Culpeper county, resides in Lynchburg. Charles P. left Washington with his father's family in 1861, moving to Culpeper county, Virginia. He entered the Confederate States Army at the age of eighteen years, in 1863, joining Company H, 4th Virginia Cavalry. He was wounded at Raccoon Ford, when Meade fell back to Bristoe Station. In December, 1863, he was captured, and remained a prisoner at Point Lookout seven months. He wasexchanged by special request of Judge Ould, the Confederate Commissioner, rejoined his command. and served till close of war. He had two brothers in service, one a private in company with himself. The other entered the army as cap- tain of artillery, but was detailed for service in the ordnance depart- ment; was subsequently sent to Lynchburg to establish powder mills. but the evacuation of Richmond occurring, the work was abandoned.
After the close of the war, Judge Latham taught school a year or two; was also agent for the Adams express company. He then moved to Danville to accept position as clerk of the United States courts there, so serving from 1870 to 1878. He has been engaged in the practice of law, and is now judge of corporation court for Lynchburg, appointed by the legislature in 1882, for term beginning on January 1, 1883. The first wife of Judge Latham was Kate R. Miller, and they had one daugh- ter, Kate M., now living with her aunt, in Washington, D. C. He mar- ried secondly Mary E., daughter of F. W. and Harriet Edwards, of Floyd county, Virginia. They were married in Floyd county, February 21, 1883, and have one daughter, Ella O. A second daughter, Mary E., is deceased.
JAMES I. LEE.
Mr. Lee was born in Tennessee on November 16, 1836, but has been a resident of Virginia since childhood. He entered the Confederate States Army in May, 1861, in Company F', 2d Virginia Cavalry, and from the ranks was promoted corporal, then sergeant, then lieutenant. Ile served till the close of the war, participating in more than forty engage- ments, among them the battles of first and second Manassas, Sharps- burg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg. Cold Harbor ( where he had a horse shot under him), Raccoon Ford, Brandy Station, Spotsylvania C. II.,
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Five Forks. In 1870, he married Nannie B. Anthony, of Lynchburg, descended from a family early settled in Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Lee have two daughters: Alice A. and Mary G., and two sons: James I., jr., and Garnett O. Mr. Lee carries on an extensive wholesale grocery business in Lynchburg.
CAPT. LEONARD F. LUCADO
Was born in Buckingham county, Virginia, on the 28th of August, 1832. The Lucado family has been settled in Virginia for three gener- ations, and the father of Leonard F., Edwin Lucado, was a soldier of the war of 1812, a member of a Virginia regiment. The mother of Capt. Lucado was Lucy Fredwell. His parents are now deceased. December 23, 1860, Rev. G. W. Langhorne officiating, he married Belle V. Pettigrew, who was born in Botetourt county, Virginia, on March 14, 1846. The children of Capt. Lucado are two sons, Garland F. and Albert W., the former now taking the military course at the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington. Capt. Lueado entered the Confederate States Army on April 24, 1861, in Company G, 11th Virginia Infantry. He was commissioned captain of commissary department in the field, August 8, 1861, and a little later assigned to Gen. Longstreet's brigade head-quarters as regimental commissary. While so assigned he was at the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Fraziers Farm ( where he was wounded), second Manassas, Boonsboro, Sharpsburg, Antietam, Gettysburg, Drainsville, Cold Harbor. After June 12, 1864, he was with Gen. Early, and at all the battles in which his troops engaged until after Cedar Creek battle, among them Hanover Junction, where Capt. Lucado was again wounded. He surrendered at Appomattox C. H., having been in constant service through the war, and one of the original Home Guards. His brother William F. served in the 2d Vir- ginia Cavalry, from 1863 to the close of the war. Capt. Lucado is engaged in the wholesale grocery business, which he has followed for a number of years. He has been two years a member of the Lynchburg city council.
TAZEWELL M. MCCORKLE.
On the paternal side Mr. McCorkle is of Scotch descent, his father's father coming to Virginia in colonial days from Scotland. His moth- er's grandfather, JJno. O'Donald, settled in Virginia with his family at Cartersville about 1787 ; he was present at the execution of the traitor Arnold. Samuel Mccorkle, father of Tazewell M., was many years an honored resident of Lynchburg, where he was engaged in business for over forty years, the firms of Mccorkle and MeDaniel controlling the business of this section many years. He was president of the Mer-
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chants' Bank of Lynchburg, and was for a long time a member of the Board of the James River and Kanawha Canal Company. He died in August, 1866. His wife, mother of Tazewell M., was Sarah B. Perry. She is still living in Lynchburg, now 80 years of age. To this honored couple it was given to furnish five sons for the service of Virginia in the War between the States: Alexander R., Samuel M., Calvin, Wil- liam O., and Tazewell M. The latter entered the service at Hampden- Sidney College, in May, 1861, rank of third lieutenant. He was taken prisoner at Rich Mountain battle, July, 1861, and paroled three days later, at Beverly. He was not exchanged until eighteen months later, when he again took the field, serving in the First Rockbridge Artillery until the close of the war. The Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Spotsylvania C. H. and Tillman's Farm were among the heaviest of the battles in which he took part.
Mr. McCorkle was educated for the ministry, graduating from the Union Theological Seminary of Prince Edward county, Virginia. After preaching for eighteen months he withdrew from the ministry on account of failing health. Later he engaged in mercantile pursuits, and he is now the senior member of the firm of T. M. McCorkle & Co., wholesale and retail groceries. On November 13, 1861, at Farmville, Virginia, Rev. Nelson Head, of the M. E. Church (South) officiating, he married Susanna M. Dunnington, who was born in Farmville, on November 30, 1842.
CHARLES M. MAYS
Was born in Lexington, Virginia, on the 18th of October, 1852. He is the son of John O. and E. S. Mays, his father now deceased, his mother living in Lynchburg, and the grandson of C. M. Mays, also a Virginian. His wife is Ella M., daughter of L. E. and S. A. Coffey, honored residents of Lynchburg. She was born in Lynchburg, in 1865, and they were married there in 1886. They have two children, W. E. and Holly V. For nineteen years Mr. Mays has been in the employ of the N. & W. R. R. and he is now the foreman of their shops at Lynchburg.
R. L. MILLER.
Mr. Miller was educated at Washington College, Lexington, Virginia. He is in business as one of the firm of Miller & Hawkins, this being one of the largest tobacco firms in Lynchburg, with an immense foreign business. In December, 1887, their shipments amounted to over $50,000. Mr. Miller has been appointed one of the commissioners to represent Virginia in the coming World's Exhibition held in Australia, an appointment in every way fitting, and one that will creditably sustain
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the dignity of Virginia and of the Nation. Speaking of this appoint- ment, the Lynchburg Advance says: " He is a gentleman of keen obser- vation, and practical foresight, and we do not believe a more fitting representative to Australia could have been chosen." James Miller. brother of R. L., entered the Confederate States Army in Company H. 1st Virginia regiment, and served until killed in battle of Hatcher's Run. James V. Knight, maternal grandfather of Mr. Miller, came from Ireland to Virginia in 1812.
EDWIN S. MOORMAN
Was born in Campbell county, on September 4, 1840, the son of T. B. and Fannie E. Moorman. He entered the Virginia Military Institute in 1863, and took the field with the Cadets in 1864, and in battle of New Market received a grapeshot wound in left arm, sealing in his blood his love of the South, before he was nineteen years of age. He left the institute when the Cadets were disbanded at Richmond, at the close of the war. In May, 1868, Rev. Jos. Spriggs officiating, he married Lucinda Moorman, born in Campbell county. They have three children : Carleton G., Bolen C., and Fannie G., and have lost one son, Edward S. Mr. Moorman was United States revenue collector two years; justice of the peace six years, and in May, 1887, was elected treasurer of Campbell county, in which office he is still serving.
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