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scends paternally from Scotch forbears, maternally of German ancestry and a nephew of Dr. William B. Yonce, for many years professor of Greek and Latin in Roanoke College. He attended private schools in the county of his birth. He graduated with the Pachelor of Arts degree at Roanoke College in 1889, then entered the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Mount Airy, Pennsylvania. He was graduated from this institution in 1892, in the same year being ordained into the Evangelical Lutheran ministry, and also it that year receiving assignment to his first charge, Burke's Garden, Virginia. For two years he filled this pastorate, then became pastor of the First English Lutheran Church of Richmond, where he remained until 1898. In 1898 Dr. Morehead was elected president of the Southern Lutheran Theological Seminary, at Charleston, South Carolina, also being elected to the chair of systematic theology, a connection that endured until 1903, although during the scholastic year of 1901-02 he pursued courses at the universities of Berlin and Leipsic. In 1903 Dr Morehead accepted the presidency of Roanoke College, where his diligent labors have met with splendid results. It was this institution that in 1894 honored him with the degree of Master of Arts and in 1902 with that of Doctor of Divinity. He married, October 6, 1892, Eleanor Virginia Fisher and has issue.

Faulkner, Charles James, born in Martinsburg, then Virginia, now West Virginia, September 21, 1847. His grandfather, Major James Faulkner, was born in the North of Ireland, became a resident of the new world. espoused the cause of his adopted country in the war of 1812, and was commander of the Virginia forces at the battle of Craney Island, in 1813. He died soon after the close of the war. His wife was Mary Mackey, a daughter of Captain Andrew Mackey, who was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. John Boyd, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Faulkner, was born in Scotland, and on coming to America settled first in Pennsylvania, but moved to Berkeley county, Virginia, about 1742. Elisha Boyd, father of Mary Boyd Faulkner, was a soldier of the war of 1812, and for a number of years served as a general of state militia of Virginia. He built one of the old homesteads of the state known as "Boydville," in the vicinity of Martinsburg, which Mr. Faulkner now occupies. Senator Faulkner was a student in private schools of Ellicott City, Maryland, in Paris, France, and Germany and Switzerland, during the time his father was minister to France. Returning to his native country, he entered the Virginia Military Institute, and in 1867 matriculated in the University of Virginia, from which he graduated with the class of 1869. While in the institute, he participated in the battle of Newmarket. Subsequently he was on the staff of General John C. Breckenridge, in the Confederate army, and afterwards on the staff of General Henry A. Wise, surrendering with him at Appomattox. Immediately following his graduation from the University of Virginia, he entered upon the practice of law, and has since been connected with the bar as a practitioner or judge. In 1880 he was elected to the bench of the thirteenth circuit of West Virginia, composed of the counties of Perkeley, Jefferson and Morgan. He is now engaged in general practice, but largely represents corporate interests, and is counsel