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748 duties led to his abandoning a professional career, and he remained on the homestead, leading the life of a planter until 1892. He then removed to Suffolk and embarked in the insurance business, in which he has met with marked success. During his life he has been honored by being called upon for public services, being elected at the age of twenty-one to the position of magistrate, which he was soon compelled to resign on account of poor health, caused by his confinement as a prisoner of war. For a number of years he was a member of the executive committee of the Democratic party of Southampton county, and in 1888 he was elected a member of the State legislature, in which position he served two years. During both terms of the presidency of Mr. Cleveland he served as deputy collector of internal revenue, in charge of the Norfolk division. During his residence in Southampton county he was for a short time one of the owners and editors of the Petersburg Mail. Mr. Boykin is still a true comrade of the Confederate soldiery, and is a member of Tom Smith camp, of Suffolk, of the United Confederate Veterans. He was married in 1872 to Miss Nannie Urquhart, of Southampton county, who died in 1881, leaving four children. On April 6, 1887, he wedded Miss Susie Pretlow, of Surry county, and three children have been born to them.

Andrew J. Bradfield, of Leesburg, one of the surviving original members of the Loudoun Guards, was born in Loudoun county in 1836. At the age of sixteen years he was honored by appointment as deputy clerk in the office of the clerk of courts in Clarke county. In 1858 he returned to Loudoun county and had charge of the clerk's office of the circuit court of said county until the outbreak of the war. He was then among the first to offer their services to the defense of the State, and becoming one of the original members of the Loudoun Guards, was elected to the rank of sergeant. He was mustered into the service of the State in this rank and served throughout the entire war in the army of Northern Virginia. Early in the conflict he fought in the ranks at Blackburn's Ford, and at the Manassas battle of July 21, 1861. Subsequently, on account of failing health, which made it impossible to sustain the fatigues of active service, he was assigned to duty in the commissary department, in which his services were rendered during the remainder of the war of the Confederacy. He surrendered with the army at Appomattox and then returned to Leesburg, where he was soon afterward appointed deputy clerk. Subsequently by appointment and by election he held the office of clerk until 1870, when he declined to qualify, though re-elected, and engaged in the banking business, which has been his occupation since that date. He is one of the prominent and influential men of the city and highly esteemed by the community. He is a warm friend of the ex-Confederate soldiers and maintains a membership in Clinton-Hatcher camp, United Confederate Veterans.

William Henry Bramblitt, M. D., a prominent physician and citizen of Pulaski City, Va., who in earlier life gave four years' service to the Confederate cause, was born in Bedford City, January 29, 1829. He was reared from infancy near New London, Campbell county, and was educated for the profession of medicine, being graduated in l857 by the university of New York. Soon after he had entered upon the duties of his profession the crisis of 1861 arrived and he entered enthusiastically into the military preparation