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Rh loan association of Richmond, is a stockholder in the People's bank, treasurer of the Independent fire company, treasurer of the Portsmouth and Atlantic club, and is fraternally associated with the orders of Elks, Odd Fellows, Red Men, and Knights of Pythias. Mr. Friedlin was married March 23, 1864, to Alice Sturtevant, who died July 31, 1877. On May 20, 1880, he wedded Fannie E. Orton, who died February 16, 1895, and on August 5, 1896, he was married to Roma S. Zink. Ten children are living: Lee N., wife of W. R. Vieth, of Norfolk; Frederick A., Blanche I., May Rose, wife of George Ewell, of Portsmouth; Charles E., Grace D., wife of George Martin; Lisette H., Fannie E., Thomas H., and Samuel Zink.

Lieutenant John C. Fulford, of Portsmouth, a gallant veteran of the Third Virginia regiment of infantry, who served throughout the war and commanded his company at Appomattox, was born in Norfolk county, May 23, 1838. He is the son of John and Fannie (West) Fulford, both natives of Norfolk county, at whose country home he was reared to the age of twelve years, when the family removed to Portsmouth. After receiving an education in the public schools he was apprenticed to the carpenter's craft. At the age of twenty-one be became a member of the National Grays, a strong and well-disciplined company, which was organized at Portsmouth in May, 1856, and was on duty at Charleston, Va., during the John Brown insurrection of 1859. As a private in this company he turned out under arms on April 20, 1861, and served with the company at the Gosport navy yard until August, then being stationed at Burwell's Bay and Camp Pemberton. At the opening of McClellan's peninsular invasion, the command, as Company H of the Third regiment, was moved to the scene of action in March, and fought at Dam No. 2, in Longstreet's division. Subsequent actions, in which Lieutenant Fulford shared the gallant record of the Grays, were Williamsburg, Seven Pines, the Seven Days' fighting, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Culpeper Court House, Spottsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, Five Forks, besides many less important engagements. Early in his service being promoted orderly sergeant of his company, he was commissioned second lieutenant after Gettysburg and subsequently first lieutenant, in this rank having command of his company during the absence of Capt. John D. Whitehead, who was captured at the stone wall at Gettysburg on the third day, and held until the spring of 1865. In the closing days of the struggle the papers were perfected for the promotion of the gallant lieutenant to the rank of captain, but in the confusion then prevailing the commission never arrived. Returning to Portsmouth after his parole at Appomattox. Lieutenant Fulford was occupied at his trade for a time, then turned his attention to mercantile pursuits, which engaged him for several years, and since 1884 he has occupied a responsible position with the Portsmouth and Norfolk ferries, in which connection he is widely known and esteemed as a faithful and popular official. He is a comrade of Stonewall camp, Confederate Veterans, is a deacon of South Street Baptist church, and an active member of the order of Odd Fellows. He has served the city in an official capacity as a police commissioner. February 14, 1867, Mr. Fulford was married to Virginia C. Davis, of Portsmouth, who died March 24, 1890. Four children are living: Minnie Lee, wife of Rev. John