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scends paternally from Scotch forbears, ma- commander of the Virginia forces at the

tcrnally of German ancestry and a nephew battle of Craney Island, in 1813. He died

of Dr. William B. Yonce, for many years soon after the close of the war. His wife

professor of Greek and Latin in Roanoke was Mary Mackey, a daughter of Captain

College. He attended private schools in the Andrew Mackey. who was a member of the

county of his birth. He graduated with the Society of the Cincinnati. John Boyd, the

Bachelor of Arts degree at Roanoke College maternal grandfather of Mr. Faulkner, was

in 18S9, then entered the Lutheran Theolog- '^o""" i" Scotland, and on coming to Amer-

ical Seminary at Alount Airy, Pennsylvania. '^^ settled first in Pennsylvania, but moved

He was graduated from this institution in ^" ^ierkeley county, Virginia, about 1742.

1892, in the same year being ordained into Elisha Boyd, father of Mary Boyd Faulkner,

the Evangelical Lutheran ministry, and also ^^'^^ ^ soldier of the war of 1812, and for a

ii: that year receiving assignment to his first "umber of years served as a general of state

charge, Burke's Garden, Virginia. For two ""I'tia of Virginia. He built one of the

years he filled this pastorate, then became fid homesteads of the state known as "Bcyd-

pastor of the First English Lutheran Church ^'He," in the vicinity of Martinsburg. which

of Richmond, where he remained until 1898. •'^^'■- Faulkner now occupies. Senator Fanlk-

In 1898 Dr. Morehead was elected president ' *^'" ^^^^ ^ student in private schools of Elli-

of the Southern Lutheran Theological Semi '■'°'' ^'^3'- Maryland, in Paris, France, and

nary, at Charleston, South Carolina, also <^'ermany and Switzerland, during the time

being elected to the chair of systematic, '""'^ father was minister to France. Return-

theology, a connection that endured until 1903, although during the scholastic year of 1901-02 he pursued courses at the univer- sities of Berlin and Leipsic. In 1903 Dr Morehead accepted the presidency of Roa- noke College, where his diligent labors have met with splendid results. It was this insti-

ing to his native country, he entered the Virginia Military Institute, and in 1867 ma- triculated in the LIniversity of Virginia, from which he graduated with the class of 1869. While in the institute, he participated in the battle of Newmarket. Subsequently he was on the staff of General John C.

tution that in 1894 honored him with the lireckenridge, in the Confederate army, and

degree of Master of Arts and in 1902 with afterwards on the staff of General Henry

that of Doctor of Divinity. He married, ^''- Wise, surrendering with him at Appo-

October 6, 1892, Eleanor Virginia Fisher "lattox. Immediately following his gradu-

and has issue. ation from the University of Virginia, he

entered upon the practice of law, and has

Faulkner, Charles James, born in Mar- since been connected with the bar as a prac-

tinsburg, then Virginia, now West Vir- titioner or judge. In 1880 he was elected

ginia, September 21, 1847. His grandfather, to the bench of the thirteenth circuit of

Major James Faulkner, was born in the West Virginia, composed of the counties of

North of Ireland, became a resident of the Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan. He is now

new world, espoused the cause of his adopt- engaged in general practice, but largely rep-

ed country in the war of 1812, and was resents corporate interests, and is counsel