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1250 In 1889 he was elected town clerk, and since then has been continuously re-elected to this office. He is a member of R. E. Lee camp, No. 3, Confederate Veterans. June 24, 1857, Mr. Westwood was married to Hannah D. Hutchinson, of Washington, D. C., who died in August, 1896, leaving three daughters, Mary E., Hannah D., wife of Thomas W. Keaton, and Lizzie Lee, wife of B. L. Turnbull.

Lyman B. Wharton, D. D., in 1864 chaplain of a gallant Virginia regiment of Anderson's corps, and now chaplain of Magruder-Ewell camp, Confederate Veterans, as well as performing the duties of a professor in the college of William and Mary, was born and reared in Bedford City, Va. His father was Rev. John Austin Wharton, an attorney, judge, and Episcopal clergyman of Bedford county, who was born March 22, 1803, and died June 20, 1888. He was the son of John Wharton, of English descent. The mother of Professor Wharton was Isabella Brown, a native of Berkshire, county, Mass., born in 1811, died 1895, who married Judge Wharton in 1829, and bore him three sons and six daughters. John E., one of the sons, was a cadet at the Virginia military institute at the beginning of the war, and subsequently served in the army of Northern Virginia. Dr. Lyman B. Wharton studied in youth two years at the university of Virginia, then taught two years, and afterward pursued the study of theology at the Episcopal seminary at Alexandria. He was ordained at Lynchburg, by Bishop Meade, November 8, 1858, and performed the duties of rector in Charlotte county until the spring of 1864, when he entered the Confederate service as chaplain of the Fifty-ninth Virginia regiment. He accompanied his command on the retreat from Petersburg, and was present at Appomattox. He was subsequently rector in Montgomery county and at Abingdon until 1870, when he accepted the chair of Greek and German at William and Mary college, which he held until 1871, Latin and French having meanwhile been added to his department. In 1874 he received the degree of D. D. from this college. The embarrassments of the institution compelled him to find other educational work until 1888, when the college was reopened and he was called to his former duties. Of late his chair has been the professorship of Latin. In 1877 he was married to Paulina Taylor, who died August 19, 1897.

Morton Byron Wharton, D. D., a distinguished representative of the spirited, patriotic and devoted Christian ministry to which the South is greatly indebted, is a Virginian by birth and a member of the American family founded by Sir George Wharton, who came from Westmoreland, England, in the early days of the commonwealth. In honor of this noble progenitor, Over Wharton parish, in Spottsylvania county, is named, as is related in Bishop Meade's history. Dr. Wharton was born April 5, 1839, in Orange county. At the age of eighteen, while residing at Alexandria, he was converted and became a member of the Baptist church. In October, 1858, in preparation for the ministry, he entered Richmond college, where he was graduated early in 1861. He then entered the military school of the university of Virginia, and subsequently through the recommendation of J. S. Barber, since United States senator, he was appointed clerk to Hon. A. M. Barber, chief quartermaster of the army. While stationed at