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retired, having for many years conducted an extensive and profitable business as a commission merchant, Richmond his place of business. He married (first) Anne E. Sublett, born in 1846, died in 1875. and had issue, Hunsdon, an attcirney of Richmond, and Emily, married Thomas Marshall Jr., of Washington, D. C. By his second marriage with Lilias Blair, daughter of John B. Mc- Phail, born at Mulberry Hill, Charlotte county, \'irginia, he had children: Lucius Ealkland, of whom further, and Lilias Blair, lives at home unmarried. Lilias F^lair (McPhail) Cary is a daughter of John 15. and Nannie (Carrington) McPhail, both natives of Virginia, her father born in Nor- folk, a soldier in the home guard, partici- pating in the action of the war with the states in the region of his home. Of his large family three survive : Nannie, married Colonel T.'AL R. Talcott, of Bon Air, Vir- ginia ; Lilias Blair, of previous mention, married Wilson Miles Cary; Donald, a prac- ticing physician of Charlotte county, Vir- ginia.

Lucius Falkland (2) Cary, son of Wilson Miles Cary and his second wife, Lilias Blair (McF^hail) Cary, was born in Richmond, Virginia, October 13, 1879. The private schools of Richmond prepared him for en- trance at Hampden-Sidney College, after which he attended the University of Vir- ginia, pursuing the academic course for two years. He then became vice-president of the Virginia-Carolina Hardware Company, subsequently returning to the University of Virginia, where he received the Bachelor's degree in law in 1907. W'^hile a student at the University of Virginia he was elected to membership in the Phi Delta Phi, the Chi Phi fraternities and other social organiza- tions, and was also awarded membership in the Lambda Pi fraternity, an honor based solely upon scholarship. In the year of his graduation Mr. Cary established in the ac- tive work of his profession in Richmond and there has his office at the present time. The seven years of his continuance as an attorney of this city have witnessed the be- ginning of a career the brilliant promise of which is in full course of realization, and legal circles in Richmond have long held him in full membership. His club is the Westmoreland, and he is a communicant of the Second Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Cary married, in Richmond, Virginia,

January 19, 1910, Ainia Miller Cecil, born in Kentucky, daughter of Dr. Russell and Alma (Miller) Cecil, both natives of Ken- tucky. Dr. Russell Cecil is a minister of the Presbyterian faith and the pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of that denom- ination in Richmond. Dr. and Mrs. Cecil are the parents of five children, four of whom reside in Richmond, Virginia, one in New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Cary are the parents of a son, Lucius Ealkland Jr., born July 6, 191 1, and a daughter, Cecil, born July 26, 191 3, died June 16, 1914.

Henry Cabell Tabb, M. D. Of all the

professions that of medicine has been unani- mously conceded to be of the first impor- tance in its benefit to humanity. The brave men who constantly offer their lives in this noble cause, are no less heroes than those who died on the field of battle, and frequent- ly their professional work is combined with the hardships and dangers which a soldier is called upon to encounter. This has not- ably been the case of the late Dr. Henry Cabell Tabb, of Richmond, Virginia, whose death threw gloom over the entire commun- ity.

Dr. Henry Cabell Tabb was born in Rich- mond, Virginia, March 3, 1839, a son of Philip Mayo and Martha (Mayo) Tabb, and a nephew of Joseph Mayo, for many years mayor of Richmond. He was just about eight years of age when his father removed from Richmond, having purchased "Re- veille," a large estate since owned by the late Dr. R. A. Patterson, and situated on the Cary street road. The early education of Dr. Tabb was received in Charles City county, where he was a student in the school conducted by his brother-in-law, Mr. Ferguson, and from this went to the then famous school conducted by David Turner in Richmond. He was prepared for the university at Richmond College, and having for a long time decided to follow the profession of medicine, previously studying the same in the office of old Dr. Henry Ca- bell, of Richmond, he matriculated at the Medical College of Virginia, from which institution he was graduated in the class of i860 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He established himself in the practice of his profession at City Point, Prince George county, and was thus engaged at the out- break of the civil war. He at once enlisted.