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December 24. 1873. Leona Howard Jordan, a daughter of Colonel W". J. Jordan, of Pu- laski county.

White, William Henry, born in Norfolk county, Virginia, April 16, 1847, son of Colonel William White, and Henrietta Kemp Turner, his wife. His ancestors be- longed to the old colonial stock who settled ill Virginia during the early period of its history, from England and Wales. His grandfather, William White, served with distinction in the war of 1812, as did his father in the Confederate army as colonel of the Fourteenth Regiment Virginia In- fantry, in Pickett's division. Young White was educated in private schools in Norfolk county, and of Richmond, Virginia; Ran- dolph-Macon College; and the Virginia Military Institute, where he was a member of the cadet battalion that distinguished itself at the battle of Newmarket. He then entered the University of Virginia as a law student, and after leaving that institution, began the practice of his profession in Ports- mouth, Virginia, having received his license the day after he was twenty-one years old. 1 he next year he became commonwealth's attorney of Norfolk county, and in 1870 opened an office in Norfolk. Virginia. Short- 1-; thereafter he was elected commonwealth's attorney for the city of Norfolk, and served as such several terms. In 1873 he was a member of the firm of White & Garnett. his partner being Judge Theodore S. Garnett. a partnership w-hich continued for more than twenty years. In 1900 Mr. \\ hite was appointed United States district attorney for the eastern district of Virginia. He is now president of the Richmond. Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad. He is a member of the

Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar associations, the Virginia State Bar Association, the Vir- ginia Club, the Norfolk Country Clulj, the Richmond Club at Willoughby Beach, and is a non-resident member of the Lotus Club of New York City. He is a Democrat in politics. On November 4, 1869, he married Lucy Landon Carter Minor. His second wife was Emma Gray, whom he married on March 10. 1S80.

Harrison, Constance Gary (Mrs. Burton

Harrison), born in Fairfax county, Virginia, April 25, 1S46, daughter of Archibald Gary and Monimia Fairfax, his wife. Her home was destroyed during the civil war, and after its close she visited Europe in cnm- p.Luy with her mother. After returning home, she married Burton Harrison, of Vir- ginia, a lawyer, who was one time secretary to President Davis. They removed in 1876 to New York, and there Mrs. Harrison be- gan her literary work with ".A Little Cen- tennial Lady." a magazine article which at- tracted much attention. Her "Anglo- maniacs," which appeared anonymously in "The Century" magazine, gave her instant standing as a finished novelist. Her other principal works are: "Flower-de-Hundred," "Sweet Bells Out of Tune," "Crow's Nest," "A Daughter of the South," "A Bachelor Maid," "An Errant Wooing," "A Merry Maid of Arcady," "A Son of the Old Do- minion." She has also produced several l>lavs, mostly adaptations from the French.

Morehead, John Alfred, born at Dublin, Pulaski county. \'irgiiiia. son of James Wil- liam Morehead and Barbara Katherine Yonce, his wife. His father, a farmer, was prominent in educational matters in Wythe countv, \'irginia. and Dr. Morehead de-