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Alexander Wise and Anne Eliza Jennings, his wife. He was a student for a year at tlie Virginia Military Institute, then enter- ing William and Mary College, under the teachings of Bishop Johns. He next entered the Theological Seminary at Alexandria, A'irginia, and graduated in 1858, being or- dained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church the same year. In 1859 he was or- dained priest at St. James Church, Rich- niond. He entered upon ministerial work as assistant to Rev. Joshua Peterkin, D. D., and occasionally officiated at Hebron Church. Goochland county. He was soon called to the Church of Our Saviour, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was serving at the outbreak of the civil war. While he re- frained from discussing political questions, his southern sympathies were known to his I arishioners, and in deference to them, and in consonance with his own feelings, he pre- ferred to return to his home in Virginia. He was assistant rector of St. James Church, Halifax county, 1864-66; rector at Harris- burg, in 1866; and of Christ Church, Balti- more, Maryland, from 1867 until his death, at Richmond, February 10, 1869.

Conway, Richard Moncure, born at Fal- mouth, Stafford county, Virginia, December 0, 1840, son of Walker Peyton Conway and Margaret Eleanor Daniel, his wife, daugh- ter of Dr. John Moncure Daniel, U. S. A., and Margaret Stone, his wife. He was edu- cated at the Fredericksburg Academy. In May. 1861, he enlisted as a private in Col. T. T. Clay's Fifth Texas Infantry Regiment ; in. 1862-63 served in Terry's Texas Rangers, and then in Capt. Maddox's Texas cavalry company until he was paroled, August 27, 1865 ; a part of his service was as drill mas- viR— 22

ter at Galveston, Texas. After the war, he engaged in farming and stock raising at "Conway Farm," Spottsylvania county, Vir- ginia. He was a man of much natural en- thusiasm, and deeply interested in politics. In 1887 he was appointed by President Cleveland to the United States consulship at Port Hope, Canada, and had just returned to his post after a brief visit to his home in Virginia, where he was suddenly stricken, and died, January 11, 1888. He married Katharine Littlepage Holladay, daughter of Harry Addison Holladay.

Bolen, David Winton, born at Fancy Gap, Carroll county, \^irginia. August 17, 1850, son of William B. Bolen and Rebecca Mor- ris, his wife. His great-grandfather, Ben- jamin Bohlen, a Baptist preacher, was of (German descent, though born in this coun- try. For a time the family lived in Penn- sylvania, but about 1778 moved to North Carolina. William B. Bolen moved to Vir- ginia, entered the Confederate service, and was killed in 1862. David W. Bolen assisted ii the support of his mother, working in the fields .is a farm hand until he was twenty years old. His school life extended in all to but thirteen months, and he was in large measure self-educated. He made good use of his evenings, and acquired a broad knowl- edge of the standard works in history and biography. His reading included Camp- bell's "Lives of the Chief Justices and Lord Chancellors," and when an opportunity came to him to study law with a practic- ing attorney, it decided his adoption of this profession. He was admitted to the bar in 1875. ^Ti soon attained success in his chosen profession. He was elected judge of the county court in 1879. He served in the