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ting his return to Virginia, and a few months later he established an office in Staunton and resumed the practice of law. During his residence in West Virginia he was prosecuting attorney for Pocahontas county for eight years. He has also served i:i sev- eral other public positions, and in 1906 was a member of the board of the Western State Hospital at Staunton, and by virtue of this position was a member of the board of hospitals for the state at large. He is also the editor of the "Staunton Spectator," the oldest and most widely known newspaper in the valley of Virginia. Mr. Turk mar- ried, December 17, 1879, Willie Cary. of Lewisburg, W^est Virginia.

Horseley, John Dunscombe, born at Forkfield, Nelson county, Virginia, April 30, 1849, son of William Andrew Horseley, M. D., and Eliza S. Perkins, of Richmond, Virginia, his wife. He attended the private schools in Nelson county, Virginia, until the outbreak of the civil war. In 1864 he joined the corps of cadets of the Virginia Military Institute; 1864-65, serving with them in the vicinity of Richmond until the evacuation of that city in April. 1865. After the war he was a student at Norwood, Nel- son county : entered the University of Vir- ginia in 1869, and after two years in the law course, engaged in practice in Nelson county. He was elected judge of the fifth circuit of Virginia, and was re-elected after serving four months of his second term, but resigned to resume the practice of law, forming a partnership with Capt. Charles M. Blackford, and becoming attorney and counselor for various corporations. He was president of the First National Bank of Lynchburg; director and general counsel

of the Lynchburg Traction and Light Com- pany ; of the Roanoke Railway and Electric Company ; of the Montgomery Traction Company, and attorney and director for a number of private business corporations ; member of the Virginia Bar Association ; of the Piedmont and Oakland clubs, of Lynch- burg; the Shenandoah Club, of Roanoke; the Westmoreland Club of Richmond; the Lynchburg Boat Club ; and Garland Rhodes Camp of United Confederate Veterans. On February 23, 1879, he married Florence M. Tunstall. daughter of Hon. William Mas- sie, of Nelson county, Virginia.

Moon, John Barclay, born in Albemarle county, Virginia, July 20, 1849, a son of Robert Barclay Moon, civil engineer, farmer and surveyor, and his wife, Mary Massie, a daughter of Nathaniel and Susan (Woods) Massie, and a descendant of Charles Massie, who, in 1768, bought "Spring Valley," a plantation in Albemarle county. Jacob Moon was the first member of the Moon family to settle in Albemarle county, where he owned much land, and served as pay- master of the Nineteenth Virginia Regiment during the war of the revolution. In the early years of his life John B. Moon assisted in the cultivation of his father's farm. He attended the school conducted by D. P. Powers, near Scottsville, and afterwards was a student at Washington College, from 1863 to 1868. For two years he studied law, was admitted to the bar, and established himself in his profession in Charlottesville He was elected to the Virginia house of delegates, 1881, 1883 and 1893; during his service in the general assembly he was chairman of the finance and railroads com- mittees of the house ; was commissioner for