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the Independent Order of lleptasophs, and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Mis remarkable success often elicits in- quiries from persons who seek his advice ; to such he recommends, in general, that they eschew all intoxicating- liquors and vicious company, and that they first own their own homes, and avoid all financial speculations, policies, doubtless, that have contributed to his own remarkable success. Mr. Murphy married (first) Jane McCabe, of Richmond, V^irginia, in i868; and mar- ried (second) in 1903, Louisa O'Connor, of Charleston, South Carolina. Issue of first marriage: Nellie J., Edward F., Madeline McCabe, Alice E., John Jr., George D., Rob- ert E. No children by second marriage.

Charles Wilbur Mercer, M. D. The Mer

cers on coming from Scotland first settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from whence came John Mercer, great-grandfather of Dr. Charles W. Mercer, of Richmond, Virginia, settling in Middlesex county, Virginia. His son, Isaac J. Mercer, was born in Middle- sex county, in 1824, died in Richmond, June 4, 1908. He was a lumberman and a lum- ber dealer in established business at Rich- mond, where at the time of his death he was the oldest dealer in the city. He was a Bap- tist in religion and a Democrat in politics. He married. October 8, 1850, in Richmond, Josephine Virginia Arselle, of French de- scent. Children : Caroline Virginia, born August 9, 185 1, married W. J. Young, and resides in Richmond ; Charles Augustus, of whom further ; Isaac Morton, born June 28, 1857, a minister of the Gospel, now pastor of the Baptist church at Rocky Mount, North Carolina ; William Florence, M. D., born February 13. 1862, specialist in diseases of the eye, ear and throat, practicing in Richmond; Walter Cabell, born >\Iay 10, 1865, professor of music in the public schools of Richmond ; James H., born Janu- ary 2, 1874, sherilT of Henrico county, Vir- ginia, and Hugh C. deputy clerk of the cir- cuit court, Virginia.

Charles Augustus Alercer, eldest son of Isaac J. and Josephine V. (Arselle) Mercer, was born in Richmond, Virginia, June 12, 1853. He prepared for the profession of dentistry and is now one of the oldest den- tists practicing in Richmond. He is a mem- ber of the Baptist church and a Democrat. He married Nannie Vaughn Robertson,

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born in Richmond, September 8, 1856, died May 15, 1913. Children: Charles Wilbur, of wdiom further ; Eugene Garnet, born Sep- tember 3, 1881, now a civil engineer in Richmond ; Caroline Gertrude, born Sep- tember 3, 1883, married J. Chalmers Bris- tow, and resides in Richmond; Isaac John, born November 6, 1886, now an optician living in Petersburg, Virginia ; Edwin Dunn, born December 26, 1888, now a sales- man of Chicago, Illinois; Morton, born July II, 1 891, now clerk in the Merchants Na- tional Bank, Richmond ; Cabell T., born Au- gust 28, 1893, iio'^'^ ^ student at the Medical College of Virginia.

Dr. Charles W^ilbur Mercer, eldest son of Charles Augustus and Nannie V. (Robert- son) Mercer, was born in Richmond, Vir- ginia, April 3, 1880. His elementary and preparatory education was obtained in Rich- mond public schools and McCabe's Univer- sity School ; his professional training at the Medical College of Virginia, whence he was graduated Doctor of Medicine, May 10, 1904. He practiced five years in Blackstone, then in 1910 took a post-graduate course in the polyclinic department of Tulane Medical College, at New Orleans, Louis- iana, after which he located in Richmond, specializing in orthoepedic surgery. During the interval from his graduation. May 10, 1904, until his location in Blackstone, in May, 1905, Dr. Mercer was a resident phy- sician at the City Hospital and ambulance surgeon of the city of Richmond. He is a member of the American Medical Associa- tion, the Southern Medical Association, the Richmond Academy of Medicine, and the Medical Society of Virginia. He is well estal)lished in practice in Richmond, one of the rising young practitioners of that city. He belongs to the Masonic Order and the Junior Order of American Mechanics. In religious faith he and his wife are Bap- tists.

Dr. IMercer married, at New Orleans, Louisiana, December 18, 1907, Kathleen Owen Sherwood, born in Washington, Georgia. November 4, 1884, oldest child of Ralph Sherwood, business supervisor of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia, in New Orleans, and his wife, Mary Rembert Colley, of Georgia. She has younger sisters, Margaret Colley and Inez Sherwood ; broth- ers, Ralph Eugene and Rembert Leaven- worth Sherwood.