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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY
Boulware, Aubin Lee, born in King and
Queen county, Virginia, December 27, 1843,
son of Andrew Moore Boulware and Mar-
tha Ellen Todd, his wife, she a daughter of
lieorge Thompson Todd, a native of Scot-
land, and his wife, Mary (Smith) Todd, of
Fredericksburg, Virginia. He studied at
different private schools until his education
was interrupted by the outbreak of the civil
war. In i86j he enlisted as a private in the
Xinth Regiment. Virginia Cavalry. Lee's
Rangers, serving with bravery until the
close of the war, and promoted to a lieu-
tenancy, l)ut never commissioned. At the
close of the war he resumed his studies at
Mr. Schooler's Edge Hill Academy, and the
following year matriculated at the Univer-
sity of Virginia, from which he was gradu-
ated three years later in the class of 1869,
with the degree of Master of Arts. He
taught school at the Kenmore high school,
and on the death of Judge R. L. Coleman,
the principal, the following spring, Mr.
Boulware opened the University high
school, of which he was the proprietor.
After one or two years he commenced read-
ing law in the offices of Judge Barton and
St. George R. Fitzhugh, in Fredericksburg.
Having been admitted to the bar, he prac-
ticed for a time in the office of Johnston &
Williams, the firm subsequently becoming
Johnston. Williams & Boulware, when he
became a memljer of the firm. When Mr.
Johnston died the firm was continued as
Williams & Boulware. When the Southern
Railway Company was organized Mr. Boul-
ware became a director and served in this
ofifice until his death. He acted as receiver
in the United States courts, in the White
Sulphur Springs case : the Arlington Life
Insurance case and the Southern Telegraph
Company case. He became president of the
I'irst National Bank of Richmond in 1891,
and later in the same year, president of the
Union Bank of Richmond. He died June
12, 1897. Mr. Boulware married, November
14. 1878, Janie Grace Preston, daughter of
the late Hon. William Ballard Preston, of
Montgomery county, \'irginia. and they had
three children.
Hume, Frajik, born in Culpeper county, Virginia, July 21, 1843, son of Charles Hume and Virginia Rawlins, his wife, and a de- scendant of (]eorge Hume, son of George Hume, Lord of Wedderburn, Berwickshire, Scotland. His father had a position in the second auditor's office in Washington and the son attended a school in that city, and in July, 1861, joined the "Volunteer South- ern" attached to the Twenty-first Alississippi Regiment and participated in many battles of the war, being wounded severely in the hip at Gettysburg. After the surrender at Appomattox, he was for two years engaged in agricultural pursuits, and then took up the grocery business in W'ashington and amassed a considerable fortune. He was associated with other important enterprises both in Washington and Alexandria. He was interested in politics, and was elected to the Virginia legislature in 1889 and 1899. and served as chairman of the board of supervisors of Alexandria county. He mar- ried, June 22, 1870. Emma Phillips Norris. daughter of John E. Norris, a lawyer of \\ashington. D. C. He died in Washington, ji'ly 17. ii)0<'i.
Woods, Micajah, born May 17, 1844. at •ilolkham.' .Albemarle county. X'irginia. son of Dr. John Rodes Woods, and Sabina Lewis Stuart Creigh. his wife. He was de-
