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commissioners, member of the school board, trustee of the Bishop Payne Divinity School, and trustee of the Southern Female College. He was a vestryman of Grace Church, Epis- copal, and for twenty years was treasurer of the parish, also representing his church in diocesan councils, and in 1901 was deputy to the general convention in San Francisco. Me served several terms as director 01 the Young Men's Christian Association, of which he was one of the organizers. His other societies and clubs are the Virginia Historical Society, the National Geographic Society, and the Riverside Country Chib. He married. Novemljer 4. 1874, Julia Xininio Howland, ot Portsmouth, Virginia.

Bowles, William Anderson, born in Louisa county, Virginia, February 26, 1850, son of Augustus Knight Bowles and Eliza- beth Blaydes Anderson, his wife. He had ancestors who earned distinction in the colo- nies — Maj. James Goodwin, who settled in York county, Virginia, in 1648, and was a member of the house of burgesses in 1658 ; John Ellis, who was at Varina, then the county seat of Henrico county, in 1683 ; and John Ellis, third of this name, who was a vestryman of St. John's Church in Rich- mond, and who received a grant for five hundred acres of land from Gov. Alexander Spotswood. Mr. Bowles attended the schools of his native county, and was grad- uated from the University of Virginia in the class of 1873. He settled in the valley of Virginia, and there opened a Peabody graded school at New Hope, Augusta county, taught for five sessions, when he was elected principal of the high school at Staunton, which he filled until he became superintendent of the Staunton public

schools two years later. After three years in this office he was offered the principal- ship of Leigh school in Richmond, and at the expiration of two sessions, the princi- palship of the Richmond high school. In 1896 the Virginia Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind was reorganized, and he accepted the superintendency, which he is holding at the present time. He served as a member of the first state board of edu- cation under the Virginia constitution of 1902. Mr. Bowles married. May 13, 1884. Mrs. Martha Hope Jones, of Louisa county, Virginia.

McGuire, Francis H., born June 4, 1850, in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, son of the Rev. Francis McGuire and Mary Willing Harrison, his wife, through whom he was connected with the distinguished family of that name. He was educated in private schools, and at Randolph-Macon College. After leaving college he taught school sev- eral years, and entered the University of Virginia in 1871. In 1874 he began the practice of his profession in the city of Richmond, having for two terms taken the summer law course at the University of Virginia. Coming to Richmond without assistance, by his industry and good char- acter he soon established the reputation of being an upright and honorable lawyer. He was one of the charter members of the Rich- mond Bar Association, and president. He was one of the founders of the State Bar Association, and chairman of the executive committee. He was a student, not only of jurisprudence, but also of general literature. He married Miss Nolting. and left one daughter. He died October 30. 1894.