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1012 and was esteemed as a prominent and enterprising citizen, but, at the call of his State, he abandoned his material interests, and, as the captain of a company in the Tenth South Carolina regiment, went into the war for Southern independence. His career was a gallant and heroic one until it was terminated by death near Holly Springs, Miss., where he fell in battle. William N. McAnge, the only son of the above, was born in South Carolina in 1858, and was educated in the schools of that State. In 1880 he moved to Suffolk, Va., and, inheriting the remarkable business abilities of his father, embarked in the lumber business, at the age of nineteen years, and from that went into the culture and sale of oysters, in which his success is widely known throughout the United States. The business which he now controls was established before the war. He took possession in 1880, and has been gradually extending the business and the scope of shipments, until he now has oyster beds covering from 275 to 300 acres in Nansemond river and Chesapeake bay, Va., Maurice river, N. J., and the sounds of North Carolina, and he ships more fresh oysters to the South and West, through the great territory between Chicago and New Orleans, than any other man in the States. His headquarters are at Suffolk, and he keeps constantly engaged a fleet of his own oyster boats, operating with such system and regularity that it is very seldom an oyster remains in his packing house over a day. He is also one of the extensive oyster planters on the coast. But this business, notwithstanding the vastness of its development, does not absorb his entire attention. He is also interested in the Nansemond truck package company, and is heavily interested in the manufacture of fertilizers for peanuts, selling about two thousand tons annually. Another very important enterprise, into which he ventured in 1894, is the telephone business. He is the founder of the Independent telephone system in southeastern Virginia, first establishing a local exchange at Suffolk, and thence connecting with Norfolk, Portsmouth, Berkley, Ocean View, Old Point, Hampton, Newport News, Franklin, Courtland, and many minor points. Of this independent system he is general manager and represents a controlling interest in the company's stock. Mr. McAnge is also a half owner of the Marine railway, recently completed at Suffolk, where light crafts are constructed and repaired. His varied interests and progressive spirit make him a worthy scion of a Confederate veteran, one among the active business men of tidewater Virginia. Declining all positions of official trust, save to serve as city councilman for a number of years, he has given his talent and energy toward the furtherance of the interests with which he is now identified. He was married, in 1879, to Cora A., daughter of Thomas Riddick, a prominent North Carolinian, to which marriage there were born two children, Louise Kipling and William N., now fifteen and seventeen years of age, respectively.

James W. McCarrick, a prominent citizen of Norfolk and general Southern agent of the Clyde steamship company, was born in Norfolk, June 22, 1843. His father, Patrick McCarrick, who came to America from Ireland when a boy, had a notable record in the service of the Confederate States. He served as lieutenant in the North Carolina navy and was subsequently commissioned