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which was done. He has represented Louisi- ana as commissioner at many expositions. He married, in 1878, Elizabeth Saunders Blair, daughter of Henry Dickinson and Mary Louisa Blair, of Mobile, Alabama. Mrs. Stubbs, aided by her grandfather. Col. Jp.mes E. Saunders, published "Early Set- tlers of .Afabama and Notes and Gene- alogies."

Robertson, Alexander Parish, was born ill Culpeper county. A'irginia, February 15, 1853, a son of William .\. Robertson, a country gentleman, and his wife, Sarah Tun- stall Parish; and a descendant of William Robertson, a native of Scotland, who set- tled on a farm in Culpeper in 1784. John 'J'unstall, a maternal great-great-grandfather of Mr. Robertson, was a member of the com- mittee of safety in 1775.

Alexander Parish Robertson obtained his preparatory education in private schools in Culpeper county, then matriculated at the University of Virginia, from which he was graduated Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Law. Between the close of the civil war and his entrance into the university, he as- sisted in all the labors incidental to the cul- tivation of the homestead farm, a training which endowed him with a robust constitu- tion. He established himself in the practice of the legal profession in Staunton, Virginia, ill 1876. and for a time took a rather active I)art in political affairs, but then devoted his entire time to his profession, making a spe- cialty of chancery and fiduciary practice. The Democratic party has always had his political support, although he was a "(iold Democrat," in 1898. Mr. Robertson mar- ried. May 4, 1882, Margaret Briscoe Stuart, daughtcT of the lion. .'\. H. H. Stuart, and

cousin of General J. E. B. Stuart, the dash- ing cavalry officer of the Confederacy.

Bullitt, Joshua Fry, was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, July 24, 1856, a son of Joshua Fry Bullitt, Sr., and his wife, Eliza- beth Roland Smith, eldest daughter of Dr. George W'. Smith, a leading physician in Louisville. Joshua Fry Bullitt, Sr., a dis- tinguished member of the bar of Louisville, served as a member of the Louisville city council, of the legislature of Kentucky, as city attorney of Louisville, as associate judge and chief justice of the supreme court of Kentucky, and was reviser and editor of the "Codes of Practice," and "General Stat- utes." The Bullitt family was founded in this country by Benjamin Bullitt, a Hugue- not, who fled from France after the revoca- tion of the Edict of Nantes, and settled at Port Tobacco, Maryland. For a time the family was resident in Virginia, whither the son of Benjamin Bullett had removed, and from there to Kentucky. He was a student
 * .t the Rugby Grammar School for a year,

was the winner of a scholarship in Washing- ton and Lee University, and matriculated at this university in the fall of 1876. He studied there two years, being a leader dur- ing this period in the literary and athletic societies, and winning other honors. After teaching for one year at Rugby, he com- menced the study of law in a private class presided over by his father and ex-Attorney- General James Speed, and he also attended the lectures of Prof. Minor at the University of \"irginia during the summers of 1879 and 1883. In iSSo he became associated in the practice of law with his father in Louisville, and seven years later he associated himself with Ilenrv C. McDowell, of Lexington.