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Rh business at the same city, under the title of E. V. White & Co. In this enterprise he has prospered to a notable degree, in the meanwhile being active in many enterprises for the public good and the advancement of the city. In whatever direction he interests himself, his ability is recognized by a call to fill some important and responsible position. In political life he has often sat as a delegate in State and National conventions; for many years he served as the commander of the Norfolk militia; at the occasion of the noted Mexican veteran parade at Norfolk, the largest ever seen at that city, his services were in demand as grand marshal of the day; in the Methodist church he has been highly honored, and has been a delegate to the general conferences at St. Louis and Memphis. He was the chief promoter of the Park View Methodist church at Portsmouth, dedicated in 1894 by Rev. Sam Jones; and is president of the Sunday school association of Norfolk and Portsmouth. He is chairman of the finance committee and director of the Seaboard insurance company of Norfolk, and one of the founders of the Norfolk National bank. While at Portsmouth in the Confederate service, in February, 1862, he was married to Josephine Forbes, forming a union which happily endured until her death in June, 1895.

Lieutenant James L. White, of Abingdon, Va., a veteran of Jackson's division, was born at the town where he now resides, August 29, 1842. Previous to the secession of Virginia he was a member of the militia organization at the university of Virginia, known as the Sons of Liberty, and with his company took part in the seizure of Harper's Ferry in April, 1861. Subsequently he became first lieutenant of a company organized in Russell county, Va., and which was assigned to the Thirty-seventh Virginia infantry regiment, and to the Third brigade of Gen. T. J. Jackson's division. From then until the end of the war he shared in the service of his regiment and brigade. He was wounded at Amelia Springs just before the surrender at Appomattox. For much of the time he was adjutant of his regiment, and during General Terry's command of the brigade, was attached to his staff.

Captain Lewis B. White, a gallant cavalry officer of the army of Northern Virginia, was born in Matthews county, Va., January 15, 1844. His father, Alpheus A. White, son of Dr. John H. White, was also a native of Matthews county, and during the war served in the engineer corps, being employed mainly in the construction of batteries about Petersburg. The wife of the latter, Mary A. White, was the daughter of Bennett White, a planter, whose wife was of the Lewis family. Major White was reared and educated at Norfolk, attending the Norfolk academy and the private school of J. R. Hubard. Early in 1861, at the age of seventeen years, he enlisted in the Confederate service as sergeant in the Wise Legion of cavalry, commanded by Col. J. Lucius Davis. During his first year he was promoted orderly-sergeant and second lieutenant. At the reorganization in 1862, his command became Company D of the Fifth Virginia cavalry, and at the battle of Chancellorsville he was promoted captain, though but nineteen years old at that time. He remained in command of his company, which did duty as mounted sharpshooters, during the remainder of his service. During this period he participated