USA > Virginia > Virginia and Virginians; eminent Virginians, executives of the colony of Virginia, Vol. II > Part 36
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39
After the evacuation of Richmond, and the surrender at Appomatox C. H., he returned to Richmond, and was paroled April 24, 1865. He farmed for one year : then in February, 1866, was elected General Agent of the Virginia Penitentiary. He went into business also, as general commission merchant, with the late W. A. Armistead, of the firm of Armistead, Rice Cary & Co., later Armistead & Cary.
Colonel Cary was removed from his official position by the Comman- der of Military District No. 1, December 24, 1868. In January, 1869, he entered the Insurance business as General Agent of the Piedmont Life Insurance Co .: after a few months, he went to New York. as a mem- ber of the firm of Morriss & Cary, but soon accepted an appointment
-
775
. VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIANS.
as General Agent of the Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Co., serving as such nearly two years. He was then for several years asso- ciated with Gen. Harry Heth, as General Agent and Manager of the Virginia Department of the Life Association of America, of which he subsequently became sole manager, resigning this position at the close of 1887. In January, 1878, he was appointed General Agent for Vir- ginia of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Milwaukee; and in 1883, with his son (T. A. Cary,) under the firm name of John B. Cary & Son, was appointed to the position they still hold as General Agents of this Company for Virginia and North Carolina.
Colonel Cary served as Treasurer and Superintendent of the Demo- cratic City Committee, of Richmond, Virginia, for about six years, to July, 1886, when he was appointed Superintendent of Schools for the City of Richmond, which position he resigned in February, 1889. Him- self and family are members of the Seventh Street Christian Church, Richmond.
At Seaford, Matthews county, Virginia, in January, 1844, he married Columbia H. Hudgins, of that county. The record of their children is : Gilliena, unmarried; John B., jr., died in August, 1861, aged thirteen years; Lizzie E., married Wm. T. Daniel, of Richmond ; Elfie M., married John L. White, of Caroline county, Virginia ; Sallie Campbell, married Louis P. Knowles, of Pensacola, Florida ; T. Archibald, married Maria B. Abert, of Columbus, Mississippi.
JOHN KERR CHILDREY.
The Childrey family was founded in Virginia in the eighteenth century. William Childrey, of Henrico county, was the father of John Childrey, who was the father of Stephen Childrey. Stephen Childrey, born in Hen- rico county, died at age of seventy-three years, married Susan, daughter of George Fletcher. She is now dead. Their son, John Kerr, was born in the city of Richmond in 1832. In this city, in 1857, he married Kate Tinsley Lyon, daughter of Allen M. Lyon, formerly of Richmond, now deceased, and Amoret (Tinsley) Lyon. The children of this marriage are eight : Kate Lewis, Maggie Carroll, Allen Lyon, Wm. Irvin, Amoret, John K., Charles M., Indie Lyon.
John Kerr Childrey went to school in Henrico county, and at the Vir- ginia Mechanics Institute, Richmond. In 1849 he went into thetobacco business. Through the years of the civil war he was a member of the Governor's Mounted Guard, and served in the naval department, C. S. A. At the close of the war he returned to the tobacco business, in which he was engaged until 1888. In that year he waselected treasurer of the ('ity of Richmond, the duties of which office he is still ably discharging.
----
DI & TỐT
VT
A
776
VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIANS.
Mr. Childrey is a member of the Baptist church, and his wife is a meni- ber of the Methodist church.
ARTHUR B. CLARKE,
President of the Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works Company, of Rich- mond, was born in that eity, on December 29, 1854. In that city, November 17, 1885, he married Lelia T. Berry, who was born in Rich- mond. They have one daughter, Teresa Louise. The father of Mr. Clarke is Augustus B. Clarke, of Richmond, born in 1818, the son of John Salle Clarke, who was an officer of the Revolutionary army, and descendent from French Huguenot ancestors who settled in Virginia in colonial days. His mother, born in Henrico county in 1824, is Emma Bullington Clarke, the daughter of Jesse F. Keesee, sheriff of Henrico county before the war, since collector of State taxes for the city of Richmond. The wife of Mr. Clarke is a daughter of David H. and Martha A. (Hill) Berry, now of Richmond. Her mother was born in Richmond, her father in Chesterfield county, Virginia. He has been living in Richmond for fifty years, and has been superintendent of the Gallego flour mills for over forty years.
Arthur B. Clarke was educated in Richmond, at the school of Thos. H. Norwood in the old St. John Churchyard; and the University school of Jolin M. Strother. He was clerk in a coal office in 1869; and since 1872 has been with the company of which he is now president. Him- self and wife are members of the First Baptist church, Richmond.
CAPT. JOHN ARCHER COKE.
The founder of the Coke family in Virginia was John Coke who came from Derbyshire, England, in 1724, and settled in Williamsburg, where the family has ever since had worthy representation. (Seecopy of "Coke History," Virginia State Library.) The subject of the present sketch was born in Williamsburg, July 14, 1842, a son of John Coke, who was born in Williamsburg in 1797, and died in April, 1865, and who was a son of John Coke, who was a son of the founder of the family. The mother of John Archer Coke, was Eliza Hankins, born in James City county, about the year 1800, died about 1868, a daughter of Archer Hankins, presiding justice of James City county for many years.
John Archer Coke was educated at William and Mary College, where he studied law, and was graduated in Academie department in 1860. In April, 1861, he entered the Confederate States Army, a lieutenant in the " Lee Artillery." At the reorganization of the battery in 1862, he was elected captain of the same; was wounded slightly in " Dahlgren's Raid" around Richmond; served with the Army of Northern Virginia
DET odid
777
VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIANS.
until about 1864; then was assigned to duty in Richmond until the close of the war.
In September, 1865, he commenced the practice of law in Richmond, and has continued in that profession since that time. He married, in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, April 17, 1867, Emma Overbey, of that county. They have two children, Elise and John Archer, and have buried two: Robert P. and Emma Sacheverall. Mrs. Coke is a daughter of Robert Y. Overbey, who was born in Mecklenburg county in 1796, and died in 1872. Her mother was Mary Pool, born in the same county in 1800, died in 1886.
GEN. JOHN R. COOKE
Was born a soldier, at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. the son of Gen. P. St. George Cooke, U. S. A. His first instruction in books was given by a soldier of the 1st Dragoons, U. S. A., at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He took a course of study in the Missouri University, at Columbia : attended the school taught by Benjamin Hallowell. at Alexandria, Vir- ginia ; later was a student in the Lawrence Scientific School connected with Harvard University, Cambridge. He was educated for the pro- fession of civil engineer, and for a year after the completion of his studies followed that profession. Then, in 1855, he was appointed second lieutenant in the 8th U. S. Infantry, and served in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. He came from Arizona to Missouri on leave of absence in 1861, and when the war broke out resigned from the United States Army and came to Virginia.
He entered the Confederate States army as first lieutenant and was ordered to report to General Hohnes at Fredericksburg, on whose staff he served until after battle of First Manassas. In August, 1861, he raised a battery of artillery in Fredericksburg. In February, 1862, was promoted major of artillery, and sent with General Holmes as his chief of artillery into the Department of North Carolina. In April, 1862, at the reorganization of the army he was elected colonel of the 27th North Carolina Infantry regiment. He was ordered with his regi- ment into Virginia, and reached the field in time to be present in battle of Seven Pines. The regiment was assigned to Ripley's brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. In November, 1862, after Sharpsburg battle, he was promoted brigadier-general, with which rank he served until the surrender at Appomattox. General Cooke was slightly wounded at Sharpsburg, severely at Fredericksburg ( December 13, 1862), at Bristoe (leg broken), and at near Spotsylvania C. H., in the Wilderness cam- paign of 1864. The wound at Fredericksburg was received while Gen- oral Cooke, in command of Cooke's North Carolina Brigade in the "sunken road" at the foot of " Marye's Heights" was holding the
١
-
778
VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIANS.
"Stonewall," together with Cobb's brigade, the two brigades fighting mingled together.
From the field at Appomattox General Cooke went to Charlottsville. Virginia, where his wife was boarding, and in the fall of 1865 came to Richmond, where he has since resided. He was for a time clerk in the house of French & Crenshaw, then 'in various employments until, in 1876, he engaged on his own account in merchandising. Hewas prom- inent in the founding of the Soldiers Home, at Richmond, and has been one of its active and efficient managers; is at present President Board of Directors of the Virginia Penitentiary.
His father, Gen. Phillip St. George Cooke, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, son of Dr. Cooke, and married Rachel Hertzog. He is now on the retired list, U. S. A., and they reside in Detroit, Michigan. The wife of Gen. John R. Cooke, whom he married in Richmond, in January, 1864, is Nannie G., daughter of Dr. Wm. F. Patton, of Norfolk, Vir- ginia, formerly surgeon U. S. Navy. Her mother was a Miss Sheppard. of Orange county, Virginia. General and Mrs. Cooke have eight chil- dren, born in the order named : John R., jr., Farlie P., Ellen M., P. St. George, Rachel, Hallie S., Nannie G., and Stuart.
JOHN B. CRENSHAW.
In early colonial days there came to Virginia from Wales, four broth- ers named Crenshaw. One of these was David Crenshaw, father of John Crenshaw, of Hanover county, Virginia, who was the father of Nathan- iel C. Crenshaw, who served in the war of 1812, and was a minister, and who was the father of John B., subject of this sketch. John B. Crenshaw was born in Henrico county, Virginia, on May 2, 1820. He was reared in the Quaker faith, and has been a minister of the Quaker church for the past forty years. He was educated in Richmond, and at Haverford College, near Philadelphia. Until after the war he followed farming. He has served as city engineer and as representative from Henrieo county in the Virginia Legislature. Since 1876 he has been in the sewing machine business.
Mr. Crenshaw has been twice married. His first wife was Rachel Hoge, whom he married in September, 1844, and who died in November, 1858, leaving him five children : Nathaniel B., Deborah A., Margaret E., James H. and Eliza (. Secondly, in Philadelphia, June 5, 1860, he married Judith A. Willetts, and their children are two daughters, Isabella and Sarah W.
779
VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIANS.
J. D. CRUMP,
Wholesale dealer in boots and shoes in Richmond city, was born in that city, on August 23, 1848. In Richmond, November 1, 1875, he married Nannie Armistead, also born in Richmond. The issue of the union was three children, born in the order named: Armistead C., Wil- bur P. and Lora.
WILLIAM H. CULLINGWORTH
Was born in the city of Richmond, on October 23, 1836, a son of Will- iam Cullingworth, who was a son of John Cullingworth of England, and born in that country. At the age of fourteen years William Cul- lingworth emigrated to this country. In 1832 he married Mary E. Whitlock, who was born in Hanover county, Virginia, near Pole Green, and is now living in Richmond at the age of eighty-three years. Will- iam Cullingworth was a dealer in live-stock. He died in 1862, aged fifty-eight years.
William H. finished his education by three years attendance, 1851-4. at Franklin Minor's Ridgeway Institute, Albemarle county. He was two years in the tobacco house of Wm. Anderson, jr., Richmond, then in the same business with Jas. H. Grant until the beginning of the war. He entered the army in Company G, 1st Virginia regiment, with which he served until the close of the war. Returning to Richmond he re- mained out of any regular business until he entered the tobacco manu- factory of S. W. Venable at Petersburg, Virginia. He remained with him one year, then returned to Richmond, entering the house of Cul- lingworth & Ellison, with whom he remained ten years. On May 13, 1885, he was appointed postmaster of the City of Richmond, the ap- pointment confirmed June 18th.
Mr. Cullingworth is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Royal Arch Chap- ter, Knights Templar and the Schrine; a member of the Knights of Honor, and of the Westmoreland Club, of Richmond.
HON. JAMES H. DOOLEY.
The subject of this sketch was born in the city of Richmond, on Janu- ary 17, 1841. He attended school in Richmond, then entered George- town College, D. C., where he wasgraduated on July 1, 1860. At the begin- ning of the war he entered as a private the regiment of which his father was major, the 1st Virginia Infantry, and served with it until wounded and captured at Williamsburg. He was taken to Rip Raps and held there three months. Exchanged at Varina in August, 1862, and dis- abled for field service by his wound (in the right wrist ) he was appoint-
780
VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIANS.
ed lieutenant of ordinance, in the Reserve Corps at Richmond, and so served until the close of the war.
Immediately after, he engaged in the practice of law. In the fall of 1871 he was elected to the Legislature, where he served six successive years, declining a re-election. In 1886 he was elected second vice-presi- dent of the Richmond & Danville R. R. Co., and given charge of the law department one year. He continues to practice in Richmond. At Staun- ton, Virginia, September 11, 1869. he married Sallie May, who was born in Lunenberg county, Virginia.
Major John Dooley, father of James II., was Major of the 1st Virginia regiment, C. S. A., for one year, and was afterwards elected Captain of the Ambulance Corps until the close of the war. John, brother of James, was Captain of Company C, that regiment, until wounded and taken prisoner at Gettysburg. He was held at Johnson's Island, Lake Erie, from that time till the close of the war. Major John Dooley was born in Limerick, Ireland, the son of John Dooley, Esq. He married Sarah Dooley, who survives him, living now in Richmond. His death occur- red in that city in February, 1868, in his fifty-eighth year.
ANDREW LEWIS ELLETT.
Andrew Lewis, son of James B. Ellett, of King William county, Vir- ginia, was born in that county, July 19, 1822. His father, born in King William county, died in August, 1856, aged sixty-eight years, was a son of Pleasant D. Ellett, of King William county. His mother, now deceased, was Sallie, daughter of George Drewry, Esq. At St. Paul's church, Richmond, November 25, 1851, Andrew L. Ellett married Nan- nie T. Tazewell, and their children are: Ida, now the wife of Frank D. Stegar, of Richmond; Nannie T., now the wife of Cannon H. Fleming, of Goochland county, Virginia; Tazewell and Andrew L., jr. Mrs. Ellett was born in Richmond, and is a daughter of Dr. William Tazewell, now deceased, and his wife, Mary P. who was a Bolling, descendant of the Virginia Bolling family founded by Robert Bolling, who married first a descendant of Pocahontas. and secondly Mary Steeth.
Mr. Ellett attended school in his native county untilnineteen years of age. On January 1, 1842, he began business as clerk for J. M. & W. Willis, grocers, with whom he remained eighteen months; wasnext with John N. Gordon, grocer, fifteen months; then, until 1848, with Lon- don, Willingham & Drewry, wholesale dry goods. He then went into the same business for himself, a member of the firm of Willingham & Ellett, in which he continued until 1865. From 1865 to 1871 he was conducting a general commission business, then until 1884 in the dry goods business again. In 1885 he was appointed to the office he is now filling, collector of internal revenue in Richmond.
1
781
VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIANS.
HON. JAMES TAYLOR ELLYSON.
James Taylor, son of Henry K. Ellyson, was born in the city of Rich- mond, on May 20, 1847. His mother was Elizabeth P., daughter of Luther Barnes, born in Philadelphia, March 5, 1814, died- July 27, 1886. The Ellysons have been residents of Virginia for several gener- ations. Henry K. Ellyson, born in Richmond, July 31, 1823, was a son of Onan Ellyson, who was a son of William Ellyson. At Howards- ville, Albemarle county, Virginia, December 2, 1869, Jas. Taylor Elly- son married Lora E. Hotchkiss, who was born at Hales Eddy, Broome county, New York. They have one daughter, Nannie Moore, born January 6, 1871. Mrs. Ellyson is the daughter of Nelson H. Hotchkiss. who was born in Broome county, New York, December 3, 1819, and Harriet (Russell) Hotchkiss. Her mother died in July, 1883.
Mr. Ellyson attended school at Mrs. Mallory's in 1855-'56-'57; at L. S. Squires' in 58-59-60: at David Turner'sin '61-62, and wasfor a few months a student at Hampden-Sidney College, which he left to enter the Confederate States army, serving as a private in the Second Company of Richmond Howitzers, until he surrendered with the company at Appo- mattox. After the war he attended the Richmond College, then entered the University of Virginia, where he graduated in a number of schools, sessions of 1867-68 and 1868-69. After leaving the University he was for a few months with the Richmond Dispatch, and in the fall of 1869 entered the book and stationery business with Henry Taylor of Balti- more, Maryland, under the firm name of Ellyson & Taylor. He con- tinued in this business until 1879, when he became connected with the Religious Herald, of which he is now secretary and treasurer.
In 1878 he was elected a member of the Common Council of Richmond from Monroe Ward, and was successively re-elected in 1880, 1882, and 1884. During his term of office he was chairman of the Finance Com- mittee, president of the Board of Public Interests, and twice elected president of the Council, in July, 1882, and in July, 1884. In 1885 he was elected to represent the city of Richmond and County of Henrico in the State Senate. On May 24, 1888, he waselected Mayor of Richmond for the two years beginning July 1, 1888. Since April, 1884, he has been a member and president of the City School Board.
Since February, 1871, Mr. Ellyson and his wife have been members of the Second Baptist church, of Richmond. In 1878 he waselected deacon. In 1874 he was elected corresponding secretary of the Education Board of the Baptist General Association of Virginia; in 1875-'76 was presi- dent of the Young Men's Christian Association of this city.
78.2
VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIANS.
JUDGE H. W. FLOURNOY.
Judge Flournoy was born in Halifax county, Virginia, in 1846. Ho is a son of Thomas S. Flournoy, born in Prince Edward county, Vir- ginia, December 14, 1811, died in Halifax county, March, 1883, and a grandson of Joli James Flournoy, born in Prince Edward county in 1780. At Clarksville, Mecklenburg county, Virginia, June 8, 1871, he married Rosa Buena, daughter of Henry Wood, Esq., of that county. They have an only son, H. W. Flournoy, jr. Mrs. Flournoy's father. born in Amelia county, Virginia, in 1812, practiced law many years in Mecklenburg and adjoining counties, and died in Clarksville in 1882.
Judge Flournoy attended school at the Samuel Davis Institute, Hali- fax county ; T. T. Bouldin's, Charlottecounty ; John H. Powell's, Halifax county, and the Pike Powers school at Mt. Laurel, Halifax comty. . In January, 1862, not then sixteen years of age, heentered the Confederate States army. He served as a private in Company G, 6th Virginia Cavalry, until wounded at Tom's Brook, Virginia, October 8, 1864. In November following he was enrolled in the Third Company, Rich- mond Howitzers, with which he remained until the surrender at Appo- mattox. In September, 1867, Judge Flournoy began the practice of law, in Danville, Virginia. He was elected Judge of the Corporation Court of Danville in JJune, 1870, and re-elected in 1876. Resigning this office on January 1, 1878, he resumed practice in Halifax county. In 1881 he settled in Washington county ; in 1883 was elected to the office he is now ably filling, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia, re- elected in 1885, and again in 1887.
GEN. BIRKETT D. FRY.
Birkett D. Fry was born in Kanawha connty, (then) Virginia, on June 24, 1822. His father was Thornton Fry, son of Henry Fry, who was a son of Col. Joshna Fry (born in England) of colonial fame. He was educated at Washington College, Pennsylvania: at the Virginia Military Institute, and at West Point, and entered the U. S. army in 1847, as a first lieutenant, U. S. Voltigeurs and Foot Riflemen. Served under General Scott, and took part in battles of Contreras, Cherubusco, Molina del Rey, Chapultepec, and City of Mexico. After the close of the war returned to Fort McHenry, Maryland, where the regiment was dis- banded. In the spring of 1849, Lieutenant Fry went with a party of young gentlemen across the plains to California, where he remained until 1856. He then went to Nicaragua and, as Colonel and General, took part in the revolution going on there. He was in command at Grana- da, and defeated the army of Guatamala. After the failure to estab- lish the liberal party in power he returned to San Francisco, in 1858,
783
VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIANS.
remaining there until the autumn of 1859. Coming then to Alabama, set- tled at Tallassee, and engaged in cotton manufacturing until the out- break of the civil war.
In the summer of 1861 he was appointed colonel of the 13th Ala- bama Infantry regiment, and reporting at once with the regiment at Richmond, was ordered to Yorktown, serving there until the evacua- tion. Colonel Fry was wounded at battle of Seven Pines (May 31, 1862). After an absence of six weeks he returned to command of his regiment, and remained with it until severely wounded in battle of Sharpsburg, by which wound he was disabled about four months. Re- suming command of his regiment, he was again wounded at Chancel- lorsville, but did not leave his regiment, commanding that or the brigade until Gettysburg battle. In the last charge of that battle, on July 3d, while commanding the right brigade of Heath's Division (the directing brigade in the famous charge), he was wounded in the right shoulder, shot through the thigh, and made prisoner. He lay on the field six days, and then was taken to the hospital at Fort MeHenry. The following October was sent to the Federal prison at Johnsons Island, Lake Erie. In March, 1864, he was specially exchanged and returned to Richmond. Ordered to Drewrys Bluff to take Barton's brigade, he commanded it in the battle where Beauregard drove back Butler's army. Soon after, ordered to join General Lee in Spottsyl- vania, was by him assigned to command of two brigades (Archer's and Walker's) with some other troops, and commanded this force in the second battle of Cold Harbor, holding the left of the Confederate line. A few days later, Colonel Fry was promoted brigadier-general, and soon thereafter he was ordered to Augusta, Georgia, to command a district embracing part of South Carolina and part of Georgia, which service he rendered until the close of the war.
After the close of the war, General Fry went to Havana, Cuba, and remained there three years. In 1868 he returned to Alabama, and re- sumed his old business of cotton manufacturing at Tallassee, in which he continued until 1876. Then after spending some time in Florida he resided in Montgomery, Alabama, where his wife died. He married, in San Francisco, California, July 14, 1853, Martha A. Micou, born in Augusta, Georgia. She died April 8, 1878, aged forty-five years.
In 1881 General Fry came to reside in Richmond, Virginia, engaging in cotton manufacturing. Since September, 1886, he has been presi- dent of the Marshall Manufacturing Company, of Richmond.
工
£
784
VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIANS.
MAJOR WM. R. GAINES.
Major Gaines, registrar of Land Office for the City of Richmond, was born in Charlotte county, Virginia, on April 8, 1833. He finished his studies at Hampden-Sidney College, and was engaged in farming from 1856 to the beginning of the war. He entered the Confederate States army as a private in Company B, 14th Virginia Cavalry; was pro- moted first lieutenant, the regiment in Jenkin's brigade, and then Me- Causland's, after the burning of Chambersburg; was wounded at Moore- field, Virginia, August 7. 1863, losing left leg : later was made prisoner by Sheridan's forces, and held five weeks, then left by this army when it moved, asone who was about to die, but recovered sufficiently to return home.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.