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 JUDGES SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS

Hallowell, in Alexandria, \'irginia, and graduated in 1844 with the law class of the University of Virginia, with John Thruston Thornton, John Page, of Hanover, J. Ran- dolph Tucker, John C. Rutherfoord, William C Rives, Jr., and others, among his class- mates. He entered upon the practice of his profession in 1847, at Winchester. In 1850 he was elected commonwealth attor- ney in Frederick county. He was elected to the legislature. In 1859 he participated in the capture of John Brown and his fol- lowers at Harper's Ferr}^ and in 1861 was commissioned lieutenant in the state mili- tary service. Upon the passage of the "se- questration act" of the Confederate con- gress, he was chosen as one of the receiv- ers to execute the difficult and delicate re- sponsibilities imposed by that law. At the close of the war, he resumed practice, with broken health. He again represented Frederick county in the legislature, and in 1879 he was elected by the legislature, sec- retary of the commonwealth. In 1883 he was elected by the legislature, one of the five judges of the supreme court of appeals, for a term of twelve years, and upon the organization of the court, he was made resident judge at Richmond. He made an excellent judicial record.

Hinton, Drury A., born in Petersburg, Virginia. He was descended, on his father's side, from Maj.-Gen. Abraham Wood, who received a patent for the land upon which the city of Petersburg stands ; and on his mother's side, from Capt. John Stith. He attended the best schools in his native town until 1857, when he was sent to the famous teacher, Lewis Minor Coleman, at Taylors- ville, Hanover coimtv, where he remained

two years. He was a hard student, and im- paired his health by allowing himself not more than four hours sleep in the twenty- four, and this overwork so wrought upon him afterward, that at the University of Virginia he was not able to remain longer than four months in any one session. He Avas studying law in March, 1861, when he left the university to enter the Confederate army as first lieutenant of Company G, I'orty-first Virginia Infantry. He served throughout the war, and was paroled at .\ppomattox. He was post adjutant at Se- v.-ell's Point during the fight between the Mcrrimac (or Virginia) and the Monitor. He was subsequentl)' adjutant of the Forty- fourth Virginia Battalion. He served as vol- imteer aide to Col. (afterward General) D. A. Weisiger, and was subsequently com- missioned as aide-de-camp, and continued on duty with that officer. In 1866 he re- viewed his law studies under the distin- guished judge William T. Joynes, and in .August of that year was admitted to the bar. In 1872 he was elected common- wealth's attorney, and corporation counsel for the city of Petersburg, both of which positions he occupied until 1883, when he lesigned to take his seat upon the bench of the supreme court of appeals. It is said that during his occupancy of the common- v/ealth attorneyship, no verdict was taken against the city of Petersburg. On the bench, he was regarded as one of the ablest of the five judges. In 1894 he left the bench, and resumed law practice in Peters- burg. He was married, December 22, 1870, to Fannie Howard Collier.

Keith, James, born in Fauquier county, Virginia, September 7, 1839, son of Isham