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the strong young men of the Virginia bar. He is a Progressive Republican in his politi- cal faith, and a member of the Baptist church. His college fraternity is the Phi Helta Gamma ; his clubs the Commonwealth of Richmond and the Country Club of Vir- ginia. His sports are those of the open — golf, hunting and fishing — while his love of the soil is gratified by work in his garden, a favorite recreation. He believes that a clean life, a rigid adherence to the principles of honesty and truthfulness, hard system- atic work, not for self alone, but in the in- terests of the common good, are essentials to true success in life, and that young men will be strengthened and benefitted by fol- lowing such precepts. He is a lover of Dickens, Shakespeare, Bunyan, De Foe, and the Bible, having in his own life been en- couraged and helped, as well as entertained by the authors quoted, and that greatest of all Books.

Mr. Talley married, at Garrison Forest. Pikesville, Maryland, October 15, 1903, Leonora Wight Waddill, born in Charles City county, Virginia, January 11, 1879, daughter of Edmund and Annie (Wight) Waddill. Edmund \\'addill was clerk of Charles City county. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Talley : William Graves, born in Rich- mond. Virginia, June 13, 1907; Robert Henry (3), born at Westhampton, Henrico county, Virginia. July 30. 1910.

John Guerrant Trevilian, M. D. In the history of Richmond and her public men it is meet that mention be made of the late Dr. John G. Trevilian, a widely known Con- federate veteran, and for many years a suc- cessful physician and chief surgeon of the city, whose career has been of signal use- fulness and honor to the city and state. The family, who are of English descent, have been connected with the state of Virginia since the early part of the seventeenth cen- tury.

(I) John Trevilian. grandfather of Dr. John G. Trevilian, was a Virginia planter, scion of an old colonial family. He married, about 1794, Mrs. Mary Watkins, formerly Miss Mary Mayo. Children : Harriet, Lucy, John Mayo, of whom further.

(II) John Mayo Trevilian, son of John Trevilian was born in Goochland county, Virginia, in June. 1800. He was also a Vir- ginia planter. He married, in 1823. in

Goochland county, Virginia, Mary Argyle, daughter of Sir Frederick and Rebecca (Winslow) Argyle. She was born in Gooch- land county, in June, 1807. Children : Mar}-, married Thomas Tabb ; Annie, mar- ried John Sanderson; Martha (Mattie), married Lafayette Baber, of Lynchburg : Captain Charles B., of ^^'illiamsburg, Vir- ginia ; John Guerrant, of whom further : Rosa, married Henry Lewis.

(HI) Dr. John G. Trevilian, son of John Mayo Trevilian, was born in Goochland county, Virginia, April I, 1840. He was geared amidst the happy surroundings of an old Virginia plantation, pursued his early education under the gifidance of private tutors, and then entered Hampden-Sidney College. Upon his graduation from the lat- ter college, he entered the L-niversity of V'irginia. wdiere he was a student during the session of 1858-59. He prepared for his pro- fession at the Medical College of Virginia, from which institution he graduated in 1861 with the degree of Doctor of ^Medicine. The war between the states was then in progress and immediately following his graduation he was commissioned assistant surgeon in the Confederate hospital service with head- quarters in Richmond, where he remained twelve months. He was then commissioned surgeon in charge of the hospital at War- renton and Winchester, and afterwards was made chief surgeon in General Lewis Arm- stead's brigade, Pickett's division. Army of Northern Virginia, remaining with that com- mand through all its engagements includ- ing the battle of Gettysburg until the close of the war and was paroled at Appomattox Court House by General Grant. At the close of the war he moved his residence to Richmond and followed his life profession, and at the time of his death was one of the oldest and most highly respected physicians and surgeons of that city. From 1886 to 1909 he served as surgeon to the City Hos- pital, discharging his duties in a thoroughly capable and efficient manner, the value of his work being inestimable. He was a nieml:)er of the Richmond Academy of Medicine and Surgery, the \^irginia State Medical Association and the American Medical Association.

Dr. Trevilian married, June 6. 1866, in Richmond, Virginia. Virginia Creed Par- rish, only child of Royal and Bethiah (Thomas) Parrish, the former named hav-