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fcur years devoted his entire time to his private interests of importance and magni- tude. He was vice-president of the National ^"alley Bank, of Staunton, Virginia, and in April. 1905. was elected its president. He died at Staunton in 1915. He married, June 5, 1895. Margaret Young, of Louisville, Ken- tucky, and has children.

Mcllwaine, William Baird, born in Peters- burg. Virginia, October 4, 1854, son of Rob- ert Dunn Mclhvaine and Lucy Atkinson Pryor, his wife, and grandson of Archibald Graham Mclhvaine, a Scotch-Irish Presby- terian, who came to the United States in 1818 from Londonderry, Ireland. He en- tered Hampden-Sidney College, and gradu- ated Bachelor of Arts in 1873. He joined his father in his commission business, and spent his nights in the study of law, and on December 19, 1878, was admitted to the bar. He built up a large practice, and held direc- torships in many corporations of importance, and from its organization the presidency of the Petersburg Telephone Company. He held the offices of councilman, representa- tive in the house of delegates, and for three successive terms was state senator. In 1897 he was chairman of the senate committee on courts of justice, and made the speech nominating Thomas S. Martin for the United States senate in 1899. He married (first) November 7, 1877, Jane Maury Peg- ram; (second) December 28, 1882, Sarah Joseph Claiborne.

Wysor, John Chandler, born near Dublin, Virginia, May 12, 1854, son of George Wash- ington Wysor and Margaret Ann Miller, his wife, is a descendant of a family of Ger- man extraction, the name in that country being spelled Weiser. In 1710 the first

known immigrant of the name settled in the state of Pennsylvania. Subsequently Henry Weiser, who changed the spelling to its present form, Wysor. removed from Penn- sylvania to \'irginia, about 1750, and he was enrolled among Morgan's riflemen. His son, Captain Henry \\'ysor, commanded a com- j.any in the war of 1812, and his son, George Washington \\'ysor. father of Dr. Wysor, was a farmer. Dr. John C. Wysor was brought up on his father's farm, and attend- ed the schools adjacent to his home. Later he studied medicine in the office of the fam- ily physician. Dr. J. L. Stearnes, and later entered the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Baltimore, Maryland, which he at- tended from 1876 to 1878, graduating in the latter named year with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He supplemented this knowl- edge by full or partial courses of lectures and clinics in the New York Polyclinic, New York City, during the years 1887-88-89, 1895-96. He opened an office at Christians- burg Depot, Virginia, in May, 1878, but re- moving in August, same year, to southern Minnesota, and after a two years' residence there returned to Virginia and located at Radford, [Montgomery county, from whence he removed in February, 1882, to the coal fields in the Kanawha \'alley. West \'ir- ginia, where he practiced until the fall of 1897. w-hen he removed to Clifton Forge, Vir- ginia. He has made a specialty of surgery, being highly successful in abdominal sur- gery, and he served as medical adviser and surgeon for a considerable body of railroad men, also as local surgeon of the Chesa- peake & Ohio railroad at Montgomery, W'est \'irginia, from 1890 to 1897, and in the lat- ter named year was made surgeon-in-charge of the Chesapeake & Ohio Hospital at Clif-