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Rh, October 16, 1870, and was graduated as doctor of medicine in the class of 1892 at the university of Maryland, during his course of study also having the advantages of instruction from the noted specialist, Julian J. Chisholm, of Baltimore, and practice in the hospital of the university and as resident surgeon at the Presbyterian hospital of Baltimore. In 1894 he made his home at Norfolk, and devoted himself to the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, throat and nose. In this department of medicine he has already shown a degree of skill and with such successful results that his practice has gained extensive proportions. He has contributed several papers to medical literature and during the session of 1897 of the Western Ophthalmological, Otological, Laryngological and Rhinological association at St. Louis read a paper entitled "A General Consideration of the Etiology and Treatment of Choroiditis Non-Suppurative," which was received with much favor. He is a member of Norfolk medical society, the State medical society, and honorary member of the Western medical association, and is surgeon to the Norfolk & Western and Seaboard Air Line railroads, St. Vincent hospital, and the Retreat for the Sick. In 1896 Dr. Driver was married to Lucy Waring Baylor, daughter of Robert P. Baylor, who also served in the Thirteenth Virginia cavalry from Essex county, and granddaughter of the late Dr. Robert B. Tunstall, of Norfolk.

William R. Drury, of Norfolk, who rendered valuable service with the artillery and navy of the Confederate States, was born at Portsmouth, July 27, 1838. Before he had reached the age of two years he was orphaned by the death of his father, William R. Drury, a native of Scotland, and this sad event was soon followed by the death of his mother, whose maiden name was Sarah Farant. Thus deprived of parents in infancy he was reared by his guardian, George W. Farant, his mother's brother, at that time a prominent merchant tailor for the navy. He was educated in the Norfolk military academy and at the Abbott institute of Georgetown, D. C., until the age of eighteen years, when he began an apprenticeship as a machinist and engineer. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the United artillery of Norfolk, under command of Capt. Thomas Kevill, and served with that command at Fort Norfolk until the evacuation, May 10, 1862. He then joined in the movement to Petersburg, whence he was sent to destroy the Zuni bridge over the Blackwater, in order to prevent the crossing of that stream by the Federals. The company was ordered to the front and given charge of batteries Nos. 1 and 2, stationed on the farm of the noted James Minor Botts. During the Seven Days' fighting before Richmond he served with the famous ironclad railroad battery, and fought in the battle of Drewry's Bluff. Subsequently he was detailed by President Davis as an engineer in the navy, and served first in that capacity on the ironclad North Carolina, at Wilmington, under Captain Poindexter. After a brief assignment to the Raleigh, under Commodore Lynch, he returned to the first named vessel, and was detailed with Captain McCarrick on the tug Equator for the rescue of the Eugenia, ashore near Fort Fisher. He was on the Raleigh when that vessel went to pieces, and next held the position of chief engineer on the flagship Cape Fear. Subsequently he was on duty as chief engineer on the gunboat Pee Dee, on the Pee Dee river, South Carolina, and as chief engineer of the