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gen Ray Society. In 1909 he was elected (lean of the University College of Medicine. Upon the merger of the Medical College of X'irginia and the University College of Medicine, which went into effect with the beginning of the 1913-14 session, as the Medical College of Virginia. Dean Gray was elected professor of physiology, asso- ciate professor of Roentgenology, and chair- man of the Medical School of the merged colleges. He continued general private practice until 1908, when he limited his practice to Roentgenology, and is now Roentgenologist to the Virginia Hospital, the Memorial Hospital. St. Luke's Hospital, Grace Hospital, and Stuart Circle Hospital, all of Richmond. It is seldom that recog- nition so satisfactory and honorable comes to a professional man of Dr. Gray's years. The honors that have come to him have been fairly earned, for as student, interne, physician, professor or dean, he has given of his best, with an energy and zeal that have been tireless. There is no element of manhood lacking in his character, and what- ever honors the future may bestow they will be earned and as well deserved as those of the past. He is a member of many profes- sional and scientific societies, and is con- nected with the following college fraterni- ties and organizations : Phi Kappa Sigma, Eli P.anana, "Z." O. F. C, "13 Club" (Uni- versity of Virginia"). His other clubs are the Westmoreland. Country of Virginia, and the Richmond Automobile. His church membership is with the Second Baptist Church of Richmond, his wife belonging to Centenary iMethodist Episcopal Church. In political faith he is a Democrat.

Dr. Gray married, December 23, 1903, at Charlottesville, Virginia, Alice Lear Clark, born in Petersburg, Virginia, August 27, 1879, daughter of Lyman Emery and Alice Ann (Lear) Clark, her father auditor and assistant treasurer of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. She has a sister, Ruth Leigh, and a brother, Lyman Emery (2) Clark. Children: Alfred Leftwich (2), born July II, 1907; Ernest Emery, July 2, 1909.

Roderick Triplett, lawyer, Portsmouth, \'^irginia, was born at Gainesville, Prince William county. Virginia. 1874; reared on a farm ; educated in the public schools and the College of William and Mary : taught two years in the public schools of his native county ; came to Norfolk county, Virginia,

1898, to become principal of one of the graded schools ; continued in that capacity, and as principal of the Western Branch High School, until July, 1908, when he re- signed to engage in the active practice of law ; studied law privately under the direc- tion of H. H. Rumble, Esq., of Norfolk, and at the summer law school of the University of Virginia ; has been bail commissioner of Norfolk county since 1904; is one of the commissioners in chancery of the circuit court of Norfolk county ; and commissioner of accounts for the circuit court of the city of Portsmouth ; in politics, independent ; was presidential elector for the second dis- trict of Virginia, on the Taft ticket, in 1912.

He is a son of Hayward Foote and Vir- ginia Richardson Triplett, of Gainesville, Prince William county, Virginia ; grandson of Hayward Foote Triplett, Sr., of the same county ; great-grandson of Dr. William H. Triplett, of Front Royal, Virginia, and great-great-grandson of Colonel Simon Triplett, of the revolutionary army, of Loudoun county, Virginia. His parents being distantly related, he also descended on his mother's side from the same ances- tor, Colonel Simon Triplett. His mother was Fleriot Virginia (Richardson) Triplett, daughter of Richard A. Richardson, of Fair- fax county, who married Heriot Roberdeau daughter of James M. and Martha Lane Roberdeau, of Fairfax county; the latter be- ing a daughter of James Lane Triplett, a son of Colonel Simon Triplett. James M. Roberdeau. great-grandfather of Roderick Triplett, was the youngest son of General Daniel Roberdeau, of the revolutionary army, and a member of the Continental Congress.

Hayward Foote (i) Triplett, grandfather of Roderick Triplett, married Evelina Mc- Lane Lewis, daughter of Francis Mont- gomery Lewis, of Prince William county, Virginia; his father. Dr. William PI. Trip- lett, of Front Royal, Virginia, married Catherine Foote Alexander, daughter of John Stuart and Catherine Foote Alexander, of Fairfax county ; and Colonel Simon Trip- lett, father of Dr. William H. Triplett, mar- ried Martha Lane, daughter of Major James Lane, of Fairfax count^^

Hayward Foote (2) Triplett, the father of Roderick Triplett, lived and died at Gaines- ville, Prince William county, Virginia. He was a merchant for a number of years, and