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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY
Abingdon (\'irginia) church, and was or-
dained by the Abingdon presbytery, Janu-
ary 14, 1870, preaching there until 1883. In
July, 1873, he declined a call to the first
Presbyterian church of Atlanta, Georgia ;
accepted a call from the same church, in
December, 1882, but his presbytery refused
t.i release him from his Virginia charge, and
finally upon the renewal of the call, and the
consent of his presbytery, he came to At-
lanta in May, 1883. He has been for five
years an editor of the "Presbyterian Quar-
terly," of Richmond, and is the author of
scholarly contributions to the religious
volume called "Life's Golden Lamp." In
1889 his congregation gave him a five
months' vacation and the expenses of a trip
to Palestine and Egypt, of which he spent
a month in the Holy Land, and on these
travels, after his return, he delivered more
than twenty instructive and eloquent lec-
tures. He received, in 1882, the degree of
Doctor of Divinity from Alfred University,
New York. He married, March 8, 1870,
Caroline L. Trent, of Buckingham county,
\ irginia.
Bolton, Channing Moore, born in Rich- .nond, Virginia, January 24, 1843, eldest son of Dr. James Bolton, deceased. He was .;ducated at Richmond and the University of Virginia. From 1861 to 1862 he was in the service of the state of Virginia on the military defences around Richmond ; en- gaged in railroading February, 1862, and was successively rodman, transitman, and r(!sident engineer of the Piedmont railroad, Virginia and North Carolina, up to 1863; from 1863 to 1865 he was a commissioned officer in engineer corps, Confederate States Army, and assigned to duty with the .\rmy
Cif Xcjrtlu-rn \"irginia ; in 1865 to 1866 was
in charge of the location and construc-
ti(in of the Clover Hill railroad, Virginia;
1866 to 1867 resident engineer of the con-
necting railroad through Richmond, Vir-
ginia, and constructed the tunnel under
Gamble's Hill; 1867 to 1869, resident engi-
neer of the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lex-
ington railroad, Kentucky, and from 1869 to
1874, division engineer of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad. During this time Major
Ilolton located the western division of the
great trunk line down the New river through
the mountains of West Virginia. He locat-
ed the eastern terminus of Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad, from Richmond to Newport
News, and constructed "Church Hill" tun-
nel at Richmond, Virginia, one of the most
difficult pieces of engineering work of the
country. From 1874 to 1876 he surveyed
and located several small railroads in \'ir-
ginia and North Carolina, and from 1876 to
1879 was engineer in charge for the United
States government of location and construc-
tion of a canal and locks around the cas-
cades of the Columbian river in Oregon ;
also, during the same time, made surveys
and reports of the improvement of the en-
trance to Coes Bay, and the Coquille river
in the same state. In 1880 to 1881 he was
division engineer of the Richmond and Alle-
ghany railroad, Virginia, a road two hun-
dred and fifty miles long commenced and
completed in about fourteen months. From
1881 to 1882 he was engineer and superin-
tendent of the Greenville. Columbus and
I'irmingham railroad, with headquarters at
Greenville, Mississippi. Since 1882 to date
he has been the chief engineer of the Rich-
mond and Danville railroad, the great trunk
line to the south and the southwest, extend-
