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peace, and for two terms was supervisor of Midlothian district, Chesterfield county. In 1883-84, he served in the house of delegates, 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- 9000, and was afterwards re-elected for three more terms. During his service he was a member and chairman of the new peniten- tary building commission of which he was a member of the finance committee. At the Virginia Exposition, in 1888, he was commissioner from Chesterfield county, serving as such without compensation. Its exhibit received the first prize as the best county exhibit in the state. At the St. Louis Exposition, in 1904, he was assistant commissioner, and it was due, in great measure, to his labors that the Virginia exhibit was made a great success. He was also commissioner from Virginia to the Jamestown Exposition of 1907. He has been a frequent contributor to the newspapers on religious, social, and political subjects. In 1888, he wrote, at the request of the board of of supervisors of Chesterfield county, a pamphlet on the history and resources of the county, and 1892 he produced a fuller edition of the work. He is a trustee of Richmond College. On December 25, 1866, he married Sarah Thomas Martin, and they have six children. His address is Hallsboro, Chesterfield county, Virginia.

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 became a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, of the Virginia conference; he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He is the author of "John Newson; a Tale of College Life." Nashville, 1883.

McCarrick, James William, born at Norfolk, Virginia, June 22, 1843, son of Lieutenant-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 Virginia Regiment. Mahone's brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. Later he entered the naval service of the Confederacy, rose to the rank of master, was in command of a land battery at Shell Bluff, Georgia, served under Admiral Franklin Buchanan in Mobile Bay, and for a time was master of the flagship Tennessee. After peace was restored he became wheelman on a steamboat plying between Norfolk and Richmond, became mate, then wharf clerk, and later a sub-agent. He was appointed claim agent of the Seaboard Air Line system of railroad and steamship lines, and later became southern agent for the Clyde Steamship Company, and has continuously held close connection with important business activities of his native city. He was president of the Suburban and City Railway Company, of the Norfolk board of trade, of the board of pilot commissioners 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 councilman. In 1908 he joined with the Gold wing of his party and supported its nominees. He married Georgianna Binns Jones.