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Rh Trinity church, Richmond. At Portsmouth he then was put in charge of Dinwiddie street station, where he remained four years and built the Monumental church, as a memorial to Robert Williams, the pioneer of Methodism in the South. After serving at Petersburg four years, he was made presiding elder of Randolph-Macon district, and has subsequently had charge of the Lynchburg, the Richmond and the Norfolk districts. In 1885 his distinguished services were recognized by the conferment of the degree of doctor of divinity by Emory and Henry college. In 1890 he was elected as a delegate to the general conference at St. Louis; in 1894 to the general conference at Nashville; and, in 1898, to the general conference at Baltimore. He maintains fraternal connection with the orders of Masons, Knights Templar, Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows. Dr. Garland was married in 1858 to Lucy V. Braxton, of Fredericksburg, Va., and, after her death, wedded Cissa E. Dillard, of Lynchburg, in 1884. He has eight children living: Maria Corbin, wife of George R. Howard, of Lynchburg: Samuel M., of Lebanon, Ore., ex-superintendent of Indian instruction, and attorney; J. Powell, Jr., attorney at Jackson, Texas; David S., attorney, and editor of the English and American Law Encyclopedia, Northport, L. I.; Thomas W., of Lynchburg; John B., of Nashville; Mildred I., wife of George E. Murrell, of Bedford county, and Lucy B.

Captain Theodore S. Garnett, a distinguished attorney of Norfolk, Va., in his youth served gallantly in the cavalry of the army of Northern Virginia. He was born at the city of Richmond, October 28, 1844, and in boyhood entered the Episcopal high school at Alexandria, Va., and subsequently became a student in the university of Virginia. But he abandoned his studies in May, 1861, to join the company of Hanover artillery under command of Capt. William Nelson. Thence he was transferred to the navy department of the Confederacy, but resigned to enlist in the Essex troop of cavalry, Company F of the Ninth Virginia regiment. He served in this command as a private soldier, but detailed for duty at division headquarters, from May, 1863, until January 27, 1864, when he was appointed aide-de-camp on the staff of the gallant cavalry commander, Maj.-Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. He was with that general when he was mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, May 11, 1864, and aided in carrying him from the field. He attended the dying commander until his death the next day and then was present at his funeral at Hollywood, May 13th. After this Garnett was commissioned first lieutenant and attached to the staff of Gen. W. H. F. Lee on June 1, 1864. He served in that capacity until March, 1865. when he was commissioned captain and assistant adjutant-general of the cavalry brigade of Gen. William P. Roberts, holding that rank at Appomattox. Captain Garnett participated in many serious engagements during his military career, and had three horses shot under him, but escaped himself without wounds. After the war he returned to the university and was graduated in law in 1867. His subsequent progress in the profession was rapid, and three years later he was elected judge of Nansemond county. Though re-elected, he resigned and removed to Norfolk, where he has since been successfully engaged in the practice. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Protestant Episcopal theological seminary and high school of Virginia, and