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712 1873-74, and in July of the latter year became city engineer of Danville, a position he has ever since held; also since 1876, discharging the duties of superintendent of the water works and gas works. He is a member of the Cabell-Graves camp, Confederate veterans.

Dr. Sidney B. Barham, a native of Surry county, was graduated in medicine at the medical department of Hampden-Sidney college, now the medical college of Virginia, in 1861, and though in frail health, tendered his services to the Confederate government. He served as acting assistant surgeon in general hospital, No. 11, at Richmond, Surgeon St. George Peachy in charge, in the fall of 1862, and then was compelled by his health to retire. But during the remainder of the war he faithfully ministered, as he was able to the wounded and sick soldiers and their families, without charge. His son, Judge Thomas J. Barham, of Newport News, was born in Surry county, November 31, 1863, was graduated at Randolph-Macon college in 1886, and completed a law course at the State university under John B. Minor in 1889. After practicing for a time at Smithfield, he located at Newport News in 1891, and was soon afterward elected police magistrate. Three years later, upon the incorporation of the city in 1896, he became its first judge of the corporation court. He is a member of the local and State bar associations. In 1896 he was married to E. Louise, daughter of A. Fred. Biggers, formerly a prominent educator and citizen of Lynchburg. Judge Barham reveres the memory of the soldiers of the Confederacy and is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans of Newport News.

Andrew J. Barker, of Washington, D. C, who served in the artillery of the army of Northern Virginia, was born at Alexandria, Va., in 1842. When he was ten years of age his home was made at Washington, where he resided until the beginning of the war of the Confederacy. He then entered the military service of the State of Virginia, and though not enrolled at first, served from August, 1861, until the fall of Fort Donelson, Tenn. He then, in February, 1862, enlisted in the battery commanded by Capt. W. W. Parker, and participated in nearly all the subsequent operations of that body of artillery. He was engaged at the second battle of Manassas, at Sharpsburg, Md., where he was hit but not seriously hurt, at Fredericksburg, at Chancellorsville, at the three days' struggle at Gettysburg, where his battery fired the last shot from the Confederate lines on the last day, in the siege of Knoxville, Tenn., with Longstreet, through the Wilderness and at Spottsylvania Court House, and in the defense of Richmond on the Howlett house line. During the last three months of the siege of Richmond, he was detailed for duty as a courier, and in one of his trips was severely injured in the foot. In April, 1865, he was sent to hospital at Chester Station, Va., whence he soon followed the army, and after the surrender, in which he did not participate, proceeded, though crippled, to Jackson, Miss., in the hope of joining a Confederate command. In Mississippi he remained a few months, finding employment at the town of McNutt's, after which he went to St. Mary's, Ind., and was occupied as a clerk for a year and a half. He made his home at Washington, D. C., in 1868, and since then has been engaged as a carpenter and builder, later in the grocery trade, and since 1875 in speculative investments. In 1875 Mr. Barker was married to Susan A., daughter of Capt. Edward