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Rh after which he returned to his home in Culpeper county and for a year was engaged in farming. Still a youth, he next attended school for two years, and had a brief career as a teacher and then as a merchant's clerk, after which he removed to Austin, Tex. There he found employment as a clerk two years, served as United States deputy marshal six months, and then began the study of dentistry, the profession in which his career has since been made. After study under Dr. R. E. Grant, of Austin, he attended the Baltimore dental college, graduating in 1875, and subsequently continuing his study in the Baltimore college of physicians and surgeons. Returning to his native county he practiced medicine and dentistry there four years, followed by a short period of practice of dentistry at Brooklyn, N. Y., after which he made his permanent home at Staunton. As a citizen and a professional man he is held in the highest esteem by the community. Dr. Wayman was married at Staunton, in 1878, to Hattie Elizabeth Flecker, a native of Augusta county, and they have six children: Walter N., Edward F., Fannie, William Jenifer, Lelia Cassell and Elizabeth Huston.

Newton Wayt, M. D., of Staunton, was born in Augusta county in 1837. His grandfather, William Wayt, had the distinction of serving as a soldier both in the war of the Revolution and the war of 1812. He studied medicine at the universities of Virginia and Pennsylvania, and after graduation at the latter in 1861, made his home at Staunton. Soon afterward he was sent to Grafton, W. Va., by Governor Letcher, with special orders and money for the troops, and subsequently went to Charlestown in charge of military supplies. On his return he was commissioned surgeon in the provisional army, and assigned to hospital duty at Staunton. Ordered to Danville in the winter of 1862, he remained there about four months, treating the small-pox among the prisoners. In the spring of 1863 he was assigned to duty as surgeon of the Sixty-second Virginia infantry, with which command he served in the battle of New Market. Subsequently assigned to the Twenty-second Virginia cavalry, he served at the battles at Winchester, Fisher's Hill and near Luray, and until after the fight at Gordonsville, when he was incapacitated, February, 1865, by sickness, for further service. During almost the entire period since the war Dr. Wayt has conducted a drug business at Staunton in connection with his practice. He has served four years in the city council, and two years as a member of the board of the western State hospital.

Joseph F. Weaver, of Portsmouth, a Confederate of varied and interesting war experience, was born at Portsmouth April 24, 1833, the son of George and Ann (Lightboy) Weaver. His father was connected with the navy yard, as engineer in charge of the pumps, and contracted disease in that service from which he died in 1839. His mother, a native of England, came to America at the age of five years, and died in 1887. At the outbreak of war Mr. Weaver was employed in spar and mast making and the ship carpenter's department of the Gosport navy yard, and was a member of the Portsmouth Rifles, a company of the Third Virginia militia regiment. He went into service with his company April 21st, and after a few days on guard at the navy yard, they were ordered to Pig Point, where they constructed the first four-gun battery in the