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peace, and for two terms was supervisor of copal church. South, of the Virginia confer-
Midlothian district. Chesterfield county. In cnce ; he received the degree of Doctor of
1S83-84. he served in the house of delegates, Divinit where he secured the passage of bills to
prevent the running of trains on Sunday,
and to require clerks of courts to certify
that bonds should be given by special com-
missioners before selling property decreed
for sale. He was a member again in 1899-
1900, and was afterwards re-elected for
three more terms. During his service he was
a member and chairman of the new peniten-
tiary building commission of which he was a
member of the finance committee. At the
Virginia Exposition, in 1888, he was com-
missioner from Chesterfield county, serv-
ing as such without compensation. Its ex-
hibit received the first jirize as the best
county exhibit in the state. At the St.
Louis Exposition, in 1904, he was assistant
ccmmissioner, and it was due, in great meas
son ;
!883.
•. He is the author of "John New-
Tale of College Life." Nashville,
McCarrick, James William, born at Nor-
folk. Virginia, June 22, 1843, son of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Patrick McCarrick, C. S. A.,
and Margaret Collins, his wife. He was a
student at Norfolk Military Academy, St.
Mary's College and Georgetown College,
leaving the latter at the age of nineteen
years to enlist as a private in the Twelfth
\'irginia Regiment, Mahone's brigade. Army
oi Northern Virginia. Later he entered the
naval service of the Confederacy, rose to the
lank of master, was in command of a land
battery at Shell Bluflf, Georgia, served under
.Admiral Franklin Buchanan in Mobile Bay,
^nd for a time was master of the flagship
ure. to his labors that the Virginia exhibit '^"™"^<^- After peace was restored he be
came wheelman on a steamboat plying be- tween Norfolk and Richmond, became mate, then wharf clerk, and later a sub-agent. He was appointed claim agent of the Seaboard -A,ir Line system of railroad and steamship I:nes. and later became southern agent for the Clyde Steamship Company, and has con-
was made a great success. He was also
commissioner from Virginia to the James-
town Exposition of 1907. He has been a
frequent contributor to the newspapers on
leligious, social, and political subjects. In
1S88, he wrote, at the request of the board of
ipervisors of Chesterfield county, a
pamphlet on the history and resources of ^'""0"sly held close connection with impor-
the county, and 1892 he produced a fuller *"^ business activities of his native city,
edition of the work. He is a trustee of Rich- ^'^ ^^^^ president of the Suburban and City
mond College. On December 25, 1866, he '^"'way Company, of the Norfolk board of
married Sarah Thomas Martin, and they ^^'^'^' °^ ^^'^ board of pilot commissioners
have six children. His address is Halls-
l>oro. Chesterfield county. \'irginia.
Edwards, William Emory, born in Prince
Edward county, Virginia, June 10, 1842,
son of Rev. John Ellis Edwards ; graduated
from Randolph-Macon College in 1862, and of his party and supported its nominees tecame a clergyman of the Methodist Epis- married Georgianna Binns Jones.
of the state of Virginia ; first vice-president
of the Virginia Navigation Company, and a
Virginia commissioner of the Jamestown
tercentenary exposition. A Democrat in
politics, he at one time served as council-
man. In 1908 he joined with the Gold wing
He
