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and is a man highly regarded in financial circles. He is a member of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, an Independent in politics and finds relaxation from business cares at the Country Club, of which he is a member.

Mr. Tilghman married. at the Norfolk Navy Yard, April 29, 1903, Florence, daughter of Robert Wiley Milligan, of the United States navy. Robert W. Milligan was made third assistant engineer, August 3. 1863, second assistant engineer, July 25, 1866, past assistant engineer, March 25. 1874, chief engineer, May 16, 1892, and on March 3. 1899, his rank was changed to commander. He was chief engineer of the battleship Oregon," when that ship made her memorable run from the Pacific to the West Indies during the Spanish war in 1898. Commander Milligan married Sarah A. Dubois. Child of Tench Francis and Florence (Milligan) Tilghman: Tench Francis (6), born in Norfolk, March 17. 1904.

Edward Carrington Stanard Taliaferro, M. D. The Taliaferro family early settled in Virginia, where they were land and slave owners. The will of Charles Taliaferro of St. Mary's parish, Caroline county, Virginia, dated March 2, 1734. gives to wife Mary, three hundred acres of the tract on which they lived, with seven slaves, household goods and live stock. To granddaughters he also bequeathed lands and slaves. Richard Taliaferro was an early settler of Gloucester county, where his daughter Martha married, in 1711, Thomas Turner, the first of this line in Virginia. Taliaferros served with distinction in the revolution and the family have ever been prominent in Virginia, and eminent in the professions. Edward C. S. Taliaferro was born in Gloucester. Virginia, December 17, 1874. son of General William Booth and Sally (Lyons) Taliaferro.

General William Booth Taliaferro, was born in Belleville, Gloucester county, Virginia, December 28, 1822. son of Warner T. and Fanny (Booth) Taliaferro, and a descendant of Robert Taliaferro, gent., first of the name in Virginia. in 1655, who married a daughter of Rev. Charles Grymes.

William Booth Taliaferro was liberally educated, being a student at Harvard University, then at the college of William and Mary, from which he was graduated in 1841. He studied law, but was soon drawn to a military career. On April 9, 1847, he was appointed captain in the Eleventh Regiment United States Infantry, for service during the Mexican war. On August 12, same year, he was promoted to major and assigned to the Ninth Infantry. On August 26, 1848, he was mustered out of service, the war being over, and resumed the practice of his profession, in which he was successfully engaged until again drawn to military life. In May, 1861, within a few days after the beginning of the war between the states, he was commissioned colonel in the provisional army of Virginia, and was placed in command of the troops at Gloucester Point, Virginia. He took part in the battle of Carrick's Ford, Virginia, July 13, 1861. On March 4, 1862, he was promoted to brigadier-general, and served in the army of northern Virginia until March, 1863, when he was placed in command of the district of Savannah, Georgia. He was among the most active of the defenders of Charleston and its dependencies, commanding the first division, first military district during the siege; commanding the garrison of Morris Island in July, 1863, and the garrison on James Island in the following month. In February, 1864, he commanded a division in Florida; the seventh military district of South Carolina in May, 1864, and the entire district of South Carolina, December, 1864. He was promoted to major-general, January 1, 1865, and commanded a division until peace was restored.

After this brilliant military career. General Taliaferro resumed his law practice. He was active in political and educational affairs and wielded a potent influence throughout the state. He was an efficient member of the state assembly and a presidential elector, elected to both positions as a Democrat. In 1892 he was chosen judge of Gloucester county, and until his death displayed, signal ability as a jurist. He was president of the board of visitors of William and Mary College, president of Fairview Normal School, and also a member of the board of directors of the Virginia Military Institute. In 1876-1877 he was grand- master of the Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Virginia. General Taliaferro died in Belleville. Virginia, February 27, 1898.