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wide circle ut friends. Jle stands constantly for the best in civil life, and allies himself readily with any movement tending toward the improvement of the material or moral welfare of the city of Portsmouth.

lie married, February 2. 1882, Catherine \'irj,Mnia, born February 26, 1857. daughter ot William James and Mary (Ball) Wood, of Xorfcjlk county, Virginia, and has issue: Katie Deans, born July 2, 1883, died July 19. 1900: Bessie Lee, born December 28. 1885, married, January 27, 1908, Charles Ed- ward Ball, and has Elizabeth Hope, born .August 17. 1909, and John, born September 2j, 191 1 : Mary Virginia, born January 18. 1888. married. January 3, 1906, Edward liuell Nicholson, and has a daughter, Cath- erine Hope, born November 19, 1906; Wil- liam Meredith, born April 6, 1891 ; Hugh Stanley, born August 14, 1897.

(1\') Dr. Frank Stanley Hope, son of William Meredith and X'irginia Frances (Owens) Hope, was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1855. and was a student in the schools of Professor L. P. Slater and Pro- fessor Webster. His studies over, in a gen- eral way he became a student of pharmacy, at the same time reading medicine. In 1876 he entered the University of Virginia, grad- uating at the end of one year, afterward completing a year of special study under the direction of Dr. J. Ewing Mears, of Jefferson Hospital. Dr. Hope then became a practitioner of Portsmouth, and has since been connected with the professional life of that city, attending to the needs of a large j)rivate clientele, and serving, for the past twenty-four years, as health officer of the city and as physician to the almshouse. To the last named offices he has been con- stantly faithful, and has safe-guarded the citizens of Portsmouth from disease and plague in every manner known to sanitary science. Water supply, drainage, sewer system, and the whole long list of fruitful causes of contagion came imder his close and knowing scrutiny, and upon his recom- mendation steps were taken by the civil authorities that reduced these dangers to a minimum.

Dr. llo|)e has for twehe years been a member of the Democratic State Committee, closely identified with political movements throughout the state, and has also been in- teresteil in U)cal affairs. His eminent quali- ties of Icadersliij) and the confidence he has

inspired in his fellow-citizens, after a life- time of labor among them, in 1912 caused his election to the ofifice of mayor of Ports- mouth, and in that year he entered upon a four year term as chief executive of the city. His achievements and rule in the half of that time that has passed have entirely fulfilled the expectations of his adherents, for his administration has been capable, energetic, impartial, and business-like.

Dr. Hope is a member of lodge and chap- ter in the Masonic Order, his lodge the Sea- board, and he also fraternizes with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Improved Order of Red Men. He belongs to the Norfolk County Medical Society, and the Methodist Episcopal church.

He married. June 20, 1883. Annie, daugh- ter of John and Eliza (Cason) West, and has one daughter. Mary, who married W. S. Broderick.

John Tabb Ijams, a banker and broker of New York City, was born in Berkeley county, Virginia. His father was James Ijams, born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1819, died in 1873, and his mother Dorcas Susan ^Michell (Tabb) Ijams, daughter of John Tabb, of Berkeley county, Virginia. She was born in 1832, died in 1898. The Tabb family have been prominent in \'ir- ginia from the seventeenth century.

James Ijams. father of John Tabb Ijams. was by occupation a merchant, and served in the Confederate army in active service under General Stuart and later in the com- missariat department of the Confederate army.

The Ijams family is an old family of Frederick county, Maryland, first settled in Maryland in the seventeenth century, the old homestead in Frederick county, Mary- land, being still owned by the family. The first railroad built in Maryland was through the Ijams estate and the village in prox- imity was named Ijamsville. Members of the family were prominent in the revolution- ary war. and the war of 1812. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Ijams served under (Gen- eral Gates in the war of the revolution.

John Tabb Ijams was educated in private schools in Virginia. After leaving school he became a clerk in a wholesale dry goods house in Baltimore. Subsequently in 1873, he removed to New York and entered the