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tion to the office of mayor of Richmond in 1904, the duties of which he discharged to the satisfaction of all concerned. He is the author of "Walks about Richmond," written shortly after the war; "Our Distinguished Fellow-Citizen," and "Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia," which has been adopted by the state board of education for use in the public schools of Virginia, and he has also compiled and edited several volumes of the "Record of the Howtizers." He is a forceful and able speaker. Mr. McCarthy married, January 5, 1877, Susie Ryall Apperson, of Richmond, Virginia.

Bowman, Alpheus Michael, born in Rockingham county, Virginia, January 11, 1847, son of George Bowman and Sarah V. Zeigler, his wife, both of German Lutheran descent. His earliest American ancestor was Joist Hite, who, with his three sons-in-law and their families, settled on Cedar creek, in the Shenandoah Valley, west of the Blue Kidge Mountains. Together they owned forty thousand acres of land, which they obtained by purchase from Isaac and John. Vanmeter, who had patented this tract in 1730. One of these sons-in-law was George Bowman, who had married Mary Hite and raised a large family. The stone house occupied by him is still standing on the one thousand acre tract which he patented in 1734. He was an active participant in the Indian wars, and died in 1768. Benjamin Bowman, one of his sons, was killed by the Indians, tradition telling us that his scalp was taken by the famous chief Logan himself. Abraham, Joseph and Isaac Bowman, three other sons, were officers in the revolutionary war. Of these. Abraham Bowman was major of the well known Eighth Regiment, organized by Gen. Peter Muhlenburg, and known as the "German Lutheran regiment; he was in command of this regiment when it made the last charge upon the redoubts at Yorktown. Joseph Bowman, the second mentioned, ranked next to George Rogers Clark in the noted Illinois campaign. the success of which assured to the United States that part of the northwest territory now represented by five fine states; his death occurred in the fort at Vincennes, shortly after its surrender by the British. and it is supposed that he was the only officer who lost his life in actual service during this campaign. Isaac Bowman, the third of the trio, was a lieutenant in the same company as his brother Joseph, and was entrusted with the responsible duty of conveying the English governor Hamilton and a number of other prisoners from Fort Vincennes to Williamsburg, Virginia; he was the direct ancestor of Alpheus Michael Bowman. The early years of Mr. Bowman's life were spent in the country, where he attended the schools near his home, and the New Market Academy. At sixteen years old he became a private in Company H, Twelfth Regiment, Virginia Cavalry, and after two years' service was captured in March, 1865. and held a prisoner in Fort Delaware until June 1, 1865. After the war, he engaged in farming and stock raising on an extensive scale in Augusta county, then removed to Saltville, Washington county. His next remove was to Roanoke county, where for many years he was the owner and personal manager of the Bowmont stock farm, and president of the Diamond Orchard Company, the largest concern of its kind east of the Alleghany Mountains and north