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Rh many years representing his lodge in the grand lodge, and serving in 1895-96 as grand chancellor of the order for the State of Virginia. He is also a prominent member of the Baptist church, having been, for a number of years, and is now, clerk of the Potomac Baptist association.

William M. Gary, Jr., an honored resident of King William county, cherishes the honorable distinction of being one of a family of Confederate patriots, and an ancestry long identified, both in peace and war, with the interests of Virginia. The first of his family in America was Thomas Gary, a native of Wales, who settled in Charles City county in colonial times. His son, Benjamin Gary, was a patriot soldier of the Continental army. The son of the latter, William M. Gary, a farmer and merchant of King William county, born in 1807, died in 1885, gave two sons to the Confederate army: William M., Jr., and James H. William M., Jr., the eldest, entered the service as a member of the Lee Rangers, or Company H, Ninth Virginia cavalry. He served throughout the war, mainly in the adventurous and perilous duties of a scout, and after parting with his comrades at Appomattox, returned to his home in King William county, where he now resides. He was born February 21, 1838, and in early manhood married Annie Page, daughter of Samuel Clarke Roper, of Chesterfield county. Their son, Dr. Benjamin R. Gary, prominent in the medical profession of Newport News, was born December 18, 1868, and reared in King William county. He studied at Aberdeen academy after he had reached his seventeenth year, and in the fall of 1889 entered the medical department of the university of Maryland. In the spring of 1891, having also for a year been a resident student in the university hospital, Baltimore, he was graduated, and soon after passed the examination of the Virginia State board. Beginning his professional work at Newport News in June, 1891, he has since met with flattering success. He is a member of the American and the Virginia medical associations, and for five years has been secretary and treasurer of the Newport News medical society. He also holds the office of coroner of the city. December 16, 1896, he was married to Miss Willie A. Barham, daughter of Lieut. William R. Barham, of the Confederate cavalry service.

William Kemp Gatewood, M. D., a prominent physician of West Point, Va., who devoted his professional ability to the service of the army during the Confederate period, is a native of Middlesex county, born March 5, 1836. His father, William L. Gatewood, M. D., born in Essex county. February 22, 1812, was graduated in medicine at the university of Pennsylvania, and for a period of thirty years, until his death, in 1869, was a leading physician of Middlesex county. He married Lucy, daughter of Thomas Street, a wealthy farmer of Middlesex. The parents of the senior Dr. Gatewood were Col. Kemp Gatewood, a soldier of the war of 1812 and a prosperous planter, and his wife, Barbara, daughter of General Minor, of Fredericksburg, and aunt of the eminent legal authority and professor of the university of Virginia law school, John B. Minor; also aunt of the famous scientist and loyal Confederate, Commodore Matthew F. Maury. Dr. William Kemp Gatewood was educated at Ridgeway academy in Albemarle county and William and Mary college, and prepared for the medical profession at the university of Virginia and the medical college of