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vcars been identitied in local and state politics; is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church ; a member of Done Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and past master of the lodge; past exalted ruler of Richmond Lodge, No. 45, Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks. Also he is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi col- lege fraternity of Lexington, Virginia, and a member of the Westmoreland Club, of Richmond, Virginia.

Mr. James married Mary Evelyn Kean, (laughter of Dr. Otho W. and Jane Smith ( Arthur) Kean, December 22, 1910, at Rich- mond, X^irginia. She was born at Buchanon, Goochland county, Virginia ; was descended from the Arthur family of Botetourt county, X'irginia ; and her father. Dr. Otho W. Kean, was a prominent physician in the town of Buchanon ; also superintendent of Gooch- land county public schools for many years. There are no children of the above men- tioned marriage.

Hugh B. Mahood, M. D, Locating in Xorth EmjKjria. \'irginia. in the year 1900, a graduate M. D. and registered pharmacist. Dr. Mahood has established a lucrative medical practice and an honorable name wherever known. Llis father, William H. 1>. Mahood, was born in Petersburg, Vir- ginia, where he died in 1872. He was an enlisted soldier of the Confederacy, serving four years, but during the greater part of the time was engaged in the secret service of the Confederate government. He was slightly wounded at the battle of the Seven Pines but escaped serious injury although often engaged in perilous service. His brother, Alexander B. Mahood, a banker of Petersburg, was the financial agent for the Confederate government in that city. After the war William PL B. Mahood en- gaged in mercantile business in Petersburg until his death. Me married Mary L., daugh- ter of Robert C. and Matilda (Worrell) Barnes. Her brothers, Benjamin Lewis and Robert McKengree Barnes, served in the Confederate army, the former an offtcer on the staff of General Roger .\. Pry or. Chil- dren : I. William .\., born in i860, now railroad and ex[)ress agent and postmaster at Pleasant Shade, Virginia; he married Emily Pope and has a son Benjamin W. and one daughter. 2. Mary. 3. Hugh B., of further mention.

Dr. Hugh B. Mahood, son of William H. B. and Mary L. (Barnes) Mahood, was born in Petersburg, Virginia, July 28, 1870. He was educated in public and private schools of that city, and in 1896 entered the Medi- cal College of Virginia, whence he was graduated M. D., class of "99." He served as interne in the Protestant Hospital, Nor- folk, Virginia, and in 1900 located in Em- poria, Greenville county, Virginia, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. Prior to entering medical college, he was for a time a drug clerk in Petersburg and studied pharmacy. He passed the Virginia State Board of Phar- macy and secured a registered druggist license. He then entered the navy as an apothecary, where he remained for three years, and after leaving the navy he ma- triculated in the medical department of the Medical College of Virginia, and graduated in the class of 1899 with the degree of ^L D. He is local surgeon for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and stands high in the regard of his professional brethren. Dr. Mahood devoted three years to the service of his state in the National Guard, enlisting as a private, was promoted surgeon with the rank of lieutenant, but his increasing prac- tice compelled him to resign. He is a mem- ber of the Virginia Medical Society, mem- ber and ex-vice-president of the Association of Surgeons of the Atlantic Coast Line Rail- road, member of the Virginia State Phar- maceutical Society and of the Pi Mu Greek letter fraternity of his college. He is a member of "Widow's Son" Lodge, No. 152, Free and Accepted Masons, of Emporia. He is an attendant of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Dr. Mahood married, at Richmond, Vir- ginia, June 9, 1903, Clara de Grefifenreidt Boswell, born in Lunenburg county, Vir- ginia, November 30. 1884, daughter of Wil- liam Boswell.

Junius Waverly Pulley. As a young member of the Southampton county bar, Mr. Pulley is winning his way to a good practice in Courtland, where he located after receiving his degree and being ad- mitted to the bar in 1913. He is a native of Southampton county, his parents coming there from Isle of Wight county, Virginia. He is a grandson of Richard Henry Pulley, of Isle of Wight county, Virginia, and son