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for a number of railroads, banking and trust cc^nipanies. He belongs to the West \ ir- ginia State Bar Association and to the Dis- trict of Columbia Bar Association. A leader c» the Democracy in \N'est Virginia, Mr. Faulkner was elected United States senator ii. 1S87 for a term of six years, and in Janu- ary. 1893, was reelected. He was chairman of the Democratic national congressional committee in 1894 and 1896. In 1898 he was appointed a member of the Anglo- American Joint High Commission to settle the difterences existing in Canada between Creat liritain and the United States. Social- ly he is connected with the Masonic fra- tvrnity. is a ])ast grand master, and also holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Metropolitan Club of Washington, and the American Geograph- ical Society of New York. He was married, November 6, 1869, to Sallie W'inn, of Char- lottesville, Virginia, who died March 31, 1890. On January 3, 1893, Senator Faulk- ner married Virginia Fairfax Whiting, of Hampton, Virginia.

Anderson, Charles JefTeries, born at Rich- mond. \'irginia, August 12, 1848, son of the l:;te George W. Anderson, for many years a merchant of Richmond, and Margaret L. Anderson, his wife. He is of English de- scent, his great-grandfather having been Col. Jose])h Jefiferies. of Lancaster. Pennsyl- vania, who served with bravery in the revo- lutionary war. He became a student at the \'irginia Military Institute at Lexington, served as a member of the Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets in 1864-65, in the Confederate States army, and graduated in the class of 1869. The following year he became a member of the firm of Georsje

W. .Anderson & Sons, in Richmond. He was actively connected with the N'irginia \ olunteers from 187 1 to 1893, holding the rank of captain in 1S71, l)ecuming success- ively, major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel of the l-'irst Virginia Regiment, brigadier-gen- eral of the First Brigade, in which office he succeeded Gen. Fitzhugh Lee in 1885. serv- ing until 1893, when he was appointed ad- jutant-general of X'irginia. and held this ofifice for a period of five years. He was commissioner from the state of \'irginia to the Vienna Exposition in 1873. Gov. Swan- son appointed him adjutant-general of the state of \'irginia in February, 1906. He served as a member of the city council of Richmond in 1902; represented his city in the house of delegates of Virginia, in 1903- 04 ; and in 1906 was sent to the state senate. He holds official position in the Richmond Male Orphan Society, the R. E. Lee Camp Soldiers' Home, the board of directors of the \'irginia Military Institute, and a number of other prominent organizations.

Wharton, Henry Marvin, born in Cul- peper county, Virginia, September 11. 1848, son of Malcolm Hart Wharton and Susan Roberts Colvin, his wife. He was educated at Roanoke College, the University of \'ir- ginia, and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He served in the Confederate army, and at the close of the war accom- ]/anied Gen. Sterling Price to Mexico. He returned the next year (1866), and practiced law in Lynchburg until 1873. in which year he was ordained a Baptist minister. He luld pastorates at Luray, \'irginia, in 1886 fi'unded the Brantley Memorial Church. t!ie largest in the last named city, of which he became pastor. He resigned his (MStur-