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system. Later he opened another estaljlish- ment. but upon the basis of a strictly cash s\stem. This proved a successful under- taking, and in due course of time he erected a building which cost a million dollars, on Broadway, Xew York City, and there con- tniued until his death, March 3, 1902. Al- though a resident of New York City for many years, he was loyal to the South Land, passing his vacations at Winchester, Vir- ginia, and was each year an honored par- ticipant in the Agricultural Fair, on "Rouss Day." so named in his honor for his gener- ous benefactions to that and other local in- stitutions. He also contributed generously t.) other worthy objects, namely, the sum of $30,000 for the establishment of the city v.'ater works, $10,000 for the improvement and adornment of the grounds of the Mount tiebron Cemetery Association, the magnifi- cent Rouss Physical Laboratory which he provided for the University of Virginia, and the splendid Confederate Memorial Hall at Richmond, Virginia, with its priceless col- lection of records and relics illustrating the period of the war between the states. He also erected at IVIount Hope Cemetery, near New York City, a monument to the dead of the Confederate Veteran Camp of New York City, and he also presented to New York City a masterly replica of Bartholdi's statutes of Washington and Lafayette, the originals of which are in a ])ark in Paris, France. Mr. Rouss married, in 1859, ^lag- gie, daughter of James Keenan. of Winches- ter, Virginia.

Brock, Charles William Penn, M. D., born in the \alley of Virginia, June i, 1836, son of Ansalem Brock, a farmer and teacher,

and F.lizabeth Beverlev Buckner. his wife.

The .American ancestor was Joseph Brock, "(lentlcman." born in England, who settled in Spottsylvania county before 1738, receiv- ing from the secretary's office at \\'illiams- burg a grant of land. Joseph Brock, one of his descendants, was a colonel in the war of 1812. Colonel Mordecai Buckner, of the Sixth Virginia Regiment, of the Continental army, was an ancestor in the maternal line. Dr. Brock spent his early years partly in the city and partly in the country, where he could follow his natural inclination for outdoor sports. His classical education was obtained in private schools, from whence he \\ cut to the University of \'irginia in order to pursue it in the higher branches. In this institution he also commenced his profes- sional studies, completing them at the Med- ical College of Virginia, from which he was graduated in the class of 1839. At the time ol' the outbreak of the civil war. Dr. Brock enlisted as a private in the Confederate army, later becoming a surgeon, and subse- quently chief surgeon on the staff of Major- General James L. Kemper. Since 1865 he has been surgeon of the police department of Richmond City; since 1882, chief sur- geon of the Chesapeake &: Ohio railroad : and he served as president of the National Association of Railway Surgeons in 1892 93. Dr. Brock married, October i, 1863, Elizabeth Tyler, daughter of John H. Tyler, of Richmond, and has fnur children.

Dudley, Thomas Underwood, Ixirn in Rich- incind. \irginia, September 2(1, 1837, son of Thiinias L'nderwood Dudley and Maria I'riend Dudley, his wife. His education was begun in private schools, and he afterwards attended Hanover Academy. He then en- tered the Universitv of \'irtrinia, in October.