VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY
legal representation of the Southern Rail-
road Company, whose counsel he was for
many years. Mr. Shackelford was in 1888
chosen a member of the house of delegates,
succeeding himself as the Orange county
representative, and in 1900 was elected to
the state senate. Later he was elected Judge
of the judicial circuit, comprising the coun-
ties of Culpeper, Orange, Louisa and Gooch-
Ir.nd. He married, July i, 1885, Virginia
Randolph, and has children.
Wheat, Lewis, born in Rockingham coun- ty, Virginia, May 20, 1856, son of Rev. James C. Wheat, D. D., Protestant Epis- copal minister of Washington, D. C., and Elizabeth R. Lewis, his wife. He received excellent training from his father, a fine classical scholar and experienced teacher, and early became a teacher himself. Fur a time he was clerk in a bookstore, and he followed other pursuits. At the age of twen- ty-one he began medical studies under Dr. William P. McGuire, of Winchester, and in 1881 graduated in medicine at the Univer- sity of Virginia. He engaged in practice in Richmond, and took surgery as a special- ty. He was a member of the board of vis- itors of the Richmond Medical College, and surgeon of the First \'irginia Cavalry Regi- ment. He married Ella W Rutherford, of Richmond.
Stoddert, William, l)orn in 1824, son of Dr. Thomas Ewcll, of Prince William county, Virginia, and Elizabeth Stoddert, his wife, d;iughter of Hon. Benjamin Stoddert, of Maryland, and Rebecca Loundes, his wife. In early manhood lie legally adopted his mother's name, Stoddert, instead of the pa- ternal name. Ewell. He graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, and the Union
Theological Seminary of Virginia. He was
ordained in the Presbyterian ministry, and
became a most successful preacher, popular
lecturer and teacher in Tennessee. He re-
cti ved the degree of Doctor of Divinity
from William and Mary College in 1876. He
was brother of Gen. Richard S. Ewell, of
the Confederate arm_\'.
Grinnan, Andrew Glassell, horn at Fred- ericksburg, Virginia, .August 14, 1827. son of Daniel Grinnan, Jr., and his second wife, Helen P.uchan Gassell. He graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylva- nia in 1848; practiced his profession at Madison Court House, Virginia, until 1859, then removing to his estate Brampton," near Rapidan Station, Madison county, Virginia. He married, at "Eagle's Point," Gloucester county, \*irginia. June 2. 1859, Georgia Scriven, daughter of John Ran- dolph Bryan and Elizabeth Tucker (Coal- ter) Bryan, and a niece of John Randolph, of Roanoke. He was very fond of history and literature, and contributed many val- uable articles to the newspapers and maga- zines, being well informed regarding the antiquities of the state. He died May 9, 1902. His son, Daniel Grinnan, is judge of the chancery court of Richmond.
Glassell, William Thornton, born at "Fleetwood," Culpeper county. \'irginia, January 15, 1831, son of Andrew Glassell and Susanna Thompson Thornton, his wife. In 1848 he entered the United States navy as a midshipman, was made passed midship- man, in 1858; master, September 15, 1855; and the next day promoted to lieutenant. As midshipman he was on the United States ship 5"^ Lawrence when it was sent to the \\'orld's Fair at London, where he made the
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