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1252 convention at Martha's Vineyard, and the International young people's union. In literature he has also won laurels, as the author of "European Notes, or What I Saw in the Old World," "The Famous Women of the Old World," "The Famous Women of the New World," and a recent book of Poems which has had a large circulation. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, by right of the distinguished service of his grandfather, who was wounded at Yorktown. Dr. Wharton has two brothers living, Rev. Dr. H. M. Wharton, of Baltimore, and Rev. J. S. Wharton, M. D., of Tallapoosa, Ga. The latter was an eminent surgeon during the war, attached to the hospitals at Richmond and Lynchburg. Dr. Wharton was married in 1864 to Belle, daughter of Rev. C. M. Irvin, D. D., of Georgia, and they have two children, Mrs. John M. Moore, of Atlanta, and M. B. Wharton, Jr., of Graham, N. C.

Captain William H. Wheary, of Petersburg, Va., rendered efficient service to the Confederacy both as a manufacturer of supplies for the army and as a soldier at the front. He was born in Baltimore county, Md., in 1836, the son of Joseph and Ann M. (Richmond) Wheary. His father was a merchant and later a manufacturer of cotton goods, and the son was reared to that industry, learning the craft of a cotton spinner in Maryland, and at the outbreak of the war being superintendent of cotton mills at Petersburg. His father entered the Confederate service and had the rank of orderly-sergeant of his company, survived the war, and died in 1888. The Confederate government took charge of the cotton mills early in the war period, and required the employes and superintendent to remain at their posts, and this subject continued there on duty during the greater part of the war, in the course of his work making the first tent cloth ever produced in the State. A company was finally organized at the mills and W. H. Wheary was elected captain. In command of this organization, entitled Company B of Hood's battalion, he took part in the operations under Beauregard for the defense of Petersburg, until in the fight of June 15, 1864, he was captured by the enemy. He was imprisoned at Point Lookout and Fort Delaware until October following, when by strategy he secured his release, and returning to Petersburg, took charge of the Matoaca mill. He has ever since been engaged in this industry, in charge of various cotton mills at Petersburg. He is a valued citizen, and is highly regarded by his comrades of the army of Northern Virginia. He is a member of the A. P. Hill camp, Confederate Veterans. In 1858 he was married to Eleanor M. Marsden, of Maryland, who died about 1870, leaving three daughters: Agnes L., wife of John E. Jones; Laura Virginia, wife of C. W. Irvin, of Roanoke, and Mattie Custis, wife of Rev. N. J. Pruden. By his second marriage to Sallie E. Southwall he has three children: William A., Lewis M., and Sallie E.

Colonel Elijah V. White, of Leesburg, Va., a distinguished cavalry officer of the army of Northern Virginia, was born near Poolesville, Md., August 29, 1832. He received his education at Lima seminary, Livingston county, N. Y., and at Granville college, Ohio. During the troubles in Kansas in the years 1855 and 1856 he went to that region and, becoming a member of a Missouri military company, took an active part in the struggle for