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ttred the private law school of Judge John W. Brockenbrough, in Lexington, Virginia, i860; his license was signed by three judges, f!.nd he was about to enter upon practice ",vhen \'irginia seceded from the Union and he enlisted among the earliest volunteers, serving to Appomattox Court House. After the war Mr. Hundley taught school, and in i86G located at Buckingham Court House, to practice law. In 1S98 he was appointed circuit judge of the fifth judicial circuit. In 1870 he was elected to the state senate, serv- ing for four years; and in 1895 to the house ot delegates, where he took especial interest in a reform in the laws relating to criminal trial, and securing the passage of a bill pro- viding that no mere technicality not affect- ing the merits of a case should delay or post- pone a criminal trial. He has served on the board of trustees of the Farmville Normal School, and of the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, at Staunton, Virginia. In politics he is a Democrat. On October 5, 1881, he married Lucy Waller Boyd, of Nel- son county, Virginia. His address is Farm- ville, Virginia.

Hurt, John Linn, born in Carroll county, Tennessee, March 10, 1838, but reared in \'irginia, son of William Walker Hurt and Nancy Sims, his wife ; his early ancestor came from England about the middle of the eighteenth century. His elementary educa- tion was received in the Samuel Davies In- stitute, at Halifax Court House, Virginia. In 1854 he was appointed deputy in the clerk's office of Halifax county, and after- wards became clerk of the circuit court of Pittsylvania county, which position he filled for twelve years. In 1861 he entered the army, and in 1863 was captured, but not

long afterwards was paroled, and returned to his farm in Virginia. Mr. Hurt served in the senate of Virginia in 1877, 1881- 1882, and was one of the recognized lead- ers of the Conservative, or anti-Mahone, Democrats. He married (first) Nannie Kate Clement, (second) Sallie T. Douglas. His residence was in Pittsylvania county.

Taylor, Walter Herron, born at Norfolk, \'irginia, June 13, 1S38, son of Walter Her- ron Taylor and Cornelia Wickham, his wife. He was a student in the Norfolk Academy and the Virginia Military Institute. In 1855 he was railroad clerk in Norfolk, later be- came a bank officer, and in the war (1861- 1865) was aide-de-camp to General Lee from 1861 to 1865, adjutant-general of the Army of Northern Virginia, and lieutenant- cc/lonel. After the war in 1877 he became the president of the Marine Bank, of Nor- folk. He was one of the pioneers of build- ing associations in his section of the state, thus enabling wage earners to become the owners of their own homes. For a period of more than two decades he was an active member of the board of directors of the Nor- folk & Western railroad, in which he was an extensive stockholder. He was a Con- servative state senator, serving from 1869 to 1873, and the most important legislation of that period, so far as Norfolk was con- cerned, was the consolidation of the Nor- folk and Petersburg, Southside, and Vir- ginia and Tennessee railroads, making the trunk line of the Norfolk & Western, run- ning from Norfolk to Bristol. He was also chairman of the senate committee on roads r'nd internal navigation and led in the sen- ate in the advocacy of Gen. Mahone's scheme for consolidation. In 1882 he ac-