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In 1867, after being admitted to the bar, he began practice in Alexandria. He served as corporation attorney for Alexandria for the years 1871-72, and shortly afterward became attorney for various corporations, including the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He has also served as a member of the board of directors of the Citizens' National Bank of Alexandria, as president of the school board of Alexandria, as a member of the board of visitors of the Virginia Military Institute, as member of the state senate from 1879 to 1883, as member of the board of aldermen of Alexandria from 1885 to 1887, as member of the constitutional con- vention in 1901, as captain of the Alexandria Light Infantry appointed in 1878, as major of the Third Regiment Virginia Volunteers commissioned in 1881, and as lieutenant- colonel of the same regiment appointed in 1882. He married, November 20, 1871, Janie L. Sutherlin, of Danville, Virginia.

Scott, William Wallace, born in Orange county, Virginia, April 10, 1845, son of Gar- nett and Sarah Ellen (Nalle) Scott. In ancestral lines he is connected with the Scott, Barbour and Pendleton families of Virginia. He was taught by Lewis Willis, John P. Walters, Thomas C. Nelson, F. B. Davis. R. H. Newman. Charles O. Young and J. S. Newman, all educated at the Uni- versity of Virginia ; and was a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute in 1863. He studied law at the University of Virginia from 1865 until 1867, being graduated in the latter year with the degree of Bachelor of Law. His school work, however, was not entirely consecutive, for during the civil war he put aside his books and joined the Thirteenth Regiment Virginia Infantry, and

later served in the Black Horse Cavalry. He practiced law in Lexington, Virginia, from 1867 until 1869, when he became a member of the bar of Orange until 1879. In the meantime he edited the "Charlottesville Chronicle,'' and in 1873 founded the "Gor- donsville Gazette," which he published until 1877. He was secretary of the Democratic state central committee of Virginia from 1883 until 1889; was clerk to the committee on the District of Columbia in the United States House of Representatives from 1885 until 1887; was in the United States internal revenue service, and special agent in con- nection with the Eleventh Census of the United States. In 1901 he was appointed state librarian of Virginia, which position he resigned in 1903 to become librarian to the Supreme Court of Appeals. Mr. Scott is the author of some political articles, and in connection with W. G. Stanard v/rote "A History of the Capitol," "The Public Square," "The Library and Its Contents." He is also the author of a "History of Orange County." He was married, Sep- tember 29, 1869, to Claudia Marshall Willis. They have eight children. The family home is in Gordonsville. Virginia.

Bryan, Joseph, born at his father's planta- tion. "Eagle Point." Gloucester county, Vir- ginia, August 13, 1845. son of John Ran- dolph Bryan and Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, his wife ; his father was godson and name- sake of John Randolph, of Roanoke. His early education was by his mother, and after her death he entered the Episcopal high school near Alexandria, where he remained until the beginning of the civil war. He was only sixteen years old, but was anxious to enter the army. However, he yielded to