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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY


l)rigade. General Pickett's division. He was raised to the rank of adjutant, and fell in the battle of Gettysburg, his final sacrifice being made after two years of loyal service, lie was thirty-one years of age at the time of his death. He married, in 1859, Alice P'armelia Hargroves. daughter of Willis W. and Margaret Ann (Denby) Hargroves, of Nansemond county. \"irginia, her father a soldier of the war of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins had two sons : Willis Asbury, born in September. 1861, married, in 1892, Mattie L. Dews, and has one daughter, Margaret, and three sons, Earl Herndon, Julius Win- borne ; John Summerfield, of whom further. (VIII) John Summerfield (2) Jenkins, son of John Summerfield (i) and Alice Par- melia (Hargroves) Jenkins, was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, in July, 1862. After attending Captain Phillip's Portsmouth Military Academy, he entered the Virginia Military Institute, class of 1881. In 1882 he became associated with Kader Biggs & Company, cotton merchants, and with this firm learned the details of cotton dealing. In 1884 he entered the firm of Beaton & Borne, and in 1912 established the firm of John S. Jenkins & Company. The Planters Manufacturing Company was established in 1893, and since then he has served this cor- poration as secretary and treasurer, also secretary and treasurer of the Dixie Manu- facturing Company, and director of the Citi- zens' Bank. Mr. Jenkins married, in 1891, Mary McKenzie Judkins, daughter of Rev. William E. and Esther (McKenzie) Judkins, of Alexandria, Virginia. Children: i. John Summerfield (3), born in 1895, a graduate of high school and now a student at the University of Virginia. 2. Esther Levens, born in 1898; studied under private tutors, now attending the Baldwin School at Bryn Mawr, near Philadelphia. 3. William Mc- Kenzie, born in 1900; a student in Norfolk Academy.

Frank Marshall Reade, M. D. Dr. Reade is a descendant of John Read, of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, who came to this country from Lincolnshire, England, with the great fleet in 1630. Dr. Reade is a great-grand- son of Daniel Reade, grandson of Daniel B. Reade. who reared a family of twelve chil- dren, all of whom grew to years of maturity and married except one, Herbert, who died at the age of twentv-five vears.


Jeremiah \Vaterman Reade, son of Daniel B. Reade. was born in Ashford, Connecticut, August 26, 1833, died in Richmond, Vir- ginia, January 9, 1905. He was a machin- ist. He was for several years a resident of Springfield, Massachusetts, employed in the government arsenal. During the war he was a sympathizer with the South and open- ly expressed his opinions. Later he moved to Mohawk, New York, where he was em- ployed as state rifle inspector, appointed by the government as an expert on rifle test- ing. He married Frances Cornelia Burgess, born 1837, daughter of Albert Burgess, who died at the old Burgess homestead at Wil- limantic, aged sixty years, descendant of a New England family there settled since 1626. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Reade : Herbert Eugene, born October 26, 1857, now living in Richmond, claim agent for the Richmond & Henrico Railway Company ; Frank Marshall, of whom further ; Charles Moulton, born in Springfield, Massachu- setts, November 25, 1870, now living at Wil- limantic, Connecticut, a traveling salesman for Swift & Company, of Chicago.

Dr. Frank Marshall Reade, second son of Jeremiah AVaterman Reade, was born at Springfield, Massachusetts, October 6, 1863. In 1873 his parents moved to Mohawk, New York, where he was educated at the Mo- hawk Academy. After leaving school he entered the drug business, and in 1884 was one of the first pharmacists to register in the state. He continued in the drug business in Alohawk for four years, then was three years in Booneville, traveled one year, then be- came associated with a wholesale drug firm at Watertown, New York. In September, 1890, he located in Richmond, Virginia, and for five years was engaged in the retail drug business. In 1895 I'^c began the study of medicine at the Medical College of Virginia, and in 1899 was graduated M. D. He at once began practice in Richmond, and is now a well known and highly regarded practitioner, specializing in obstetrics, al- though his practice is general in character. Dr. Reade is past master of Richmond Lodge, No. 10, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; past district deputy grand master of Masonic district No. 15, and past grand patron of the Order of the Eastern Star in Virginia. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Presbyterian church.

Dr. Reade married, in Richmond, July 31,