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vancing- the interests of his adopted city, but has never sought or held public office, I^referring to spend his leisure time with his family.

Mr. Priddy married, March 2t^, 1887, Myr- tie G. Young, born April 15, 1865, daughter of J. T. S. and Mary E. Young, of Dinwiddle county. Virginia. They are the parents of three children : Frances Y., born April 11, 188S; Mai Merryman, born March 28, 1892; .Sydnor Young, born December 14, 1893. Air. Priddy and his family attend the Pres- byterian church.

Rosewell Page. The forbears of Hon. Roscwell Page, of Richmond and Hanover county, Virginia, have in each generation been men of prominence in professional, official or military life, from the earliest set- tlement of Colonel John Page, of Bruton Parish, about 1650. The tombstone of Colo- nel John Page in the churchyard of that parish, in Williamsburg, states that he was "one of Their ^Majesties' Council in the Dominion of Virginia," and that he died January 23, 1692, aged sixty-five years. He came from Middlesex county, England; his wife, Alice (Puckin) Page, from Essex.

Matthew I'age, the second son of Colonel John Page, the founder of the family in America, was of Rosewell, Gloucester coun- ty ; he also was one of "Their Majesties' Council." He married Mary Mann, of Glou- cester. Their son, Mann Page, was also a member of the council. He married (sec- ond) Judith, daughter of "King" Carter and his wife, Judith (Armistead) Carter. A son of Mann and Judith (Carter) Page, Mann (2) Page, was a member of the Continental Congress from \'irginia in 1777. His first wife was Alice Grymes. John Page, eldest son of Mann (2) and Alice (Grymes) Page, was a member of the board of visitors of William and Mary College, a member of the X'irginia committee of safety, one of the founders of the college fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa, and governor of \'irginia. His first wife, I'Yances ( lUirwell) Page, gave the gov- ernor as their eighth child, a son, Francis Page, who settled in Hanover county, Vir- ginia, and married Susan, daughter of Gen- eral Thomas Nelson Jr., a signer of the Declaration of Independence, revolutionary governor of \irginia. antl commander-in- chief of the \ irginia forces. Major John Page, son of Francis and Susan (Nelson)

Page, was born in 182 1. He was a lawyer, commonwealth attorney for Hanover coun- ty, and during the war between the states served as major on the stafY of General Wil- liam N. Pendleton, chief of artillery, Army of Northern Virginia, under General Robert E. Lee. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and in politics an Inde- pendent. Major Page married Elizabeth Burwell Nelson, who bore him three sons, all of whom are men noted in their profes- sions — Thomas Nelson Page, the noted author and diplomat; Rev. Frank Page, a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal church, rector of St. John's Church, Brook- lyn, New York; Rosewell Page.

Rosewell Page was born at Oakland, Han- over county, Virginia, November 21, 1858. His early education was obtained under his father's instruction and in private schools until his entrance to Hanover Academy, then conducted by Colonel Hilary P. Jones. In 1876 he entered the academic department of the University of Virginia, and in 1880 matriculated as a student in the law depart- ment of that institution under Professor John B. Minor. He was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1881, and in November of that year began the practice of his profes- sion in Danville, Virginia, continuing until March, 1888. In the latter year he located in Richmond, where he formed a law part- nership with John Rutherfoord, which asso- ciation successfully continued until Janu- ary I, 1904. Mr. Page's home is in Han- over county, and he was the representative of that county in the Virginia house of dele- gates in 1908 and 1910, serving during the latter session as chairman of the committee on courts of justice. He has attained high rank in his profession, is an ex-president of the Richmond Bar Association, and is re- garded as one of the most scholarly and ac- complished men of his state. He has ever been a friend of the public school system ; is thoroughly and openly an advocate of com- pulsory education ; a believer in the gospel of good roads; and with all his powers of forceful oratory has worked for the develop- ment of his state along such lines. He is not alone the forceful, pleasing orator, but his public sj)irit impels him to personal ser- vice, he having served on the board of su- pervisors of I lanover county, and has served for years as a trustee of Hall's Free School, near his home. Fie was a member of the