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dren who died in infancy, and Daniel, died aged twenty-two years.

(Ill) Richard Henry Lee Chichester, son of Daniel McCarty and Agnes Robinson (Moncure) Chichester, was born in Fair- fax county. Virginia. April i8, 1870, and after attending the public schools of Fair- fax county entered St. John's Academy, whence he was graduated in the class of 1888. His preparatory education thus thor- oughly obtained he was for two terms a student in the academic department of the University of Virginia, leaving college to engage in the study of law in the office of Senator Walter Moore, at Fairfax Court House. He then returned to the University of Virginia, enrolling in the law department, graduating from that institution in 1893, at once establishing in Fredericksburg. In 1895 he was elected commonwealth attorney of Stafford county, three years later becom- ing judge of Stafford and King George coun- ties, in both of which offices he served satis- factorily and well. By Governor Mann's appointment of 1910 he was made judge of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, an appoint- ment that in 1912 was confirmed by the vote of the state legislature. Mr. Chichester holds that position to the present time, dis- charging the weighty and responsible duties of his office in a dignified and efficient man- ner, calling to his aid in cases of the gravest import a knowledge of legal lore deep and thorough. After the establishment of the State Normal and Industrial School at Fred- ericksburg Judge Chichester was a member of the first board of trustees, and to the wise direction of this body that institution owes much of its present sound standing. His chief business interest is as president of the r^ree Lance Star Publishing Company, a flourishing and prosperous concern pub- lishing a daily newspaper, the '"Daily Star," and the "Tri-\\^eekly Free Lance," and is also a stockholder in the Planters' National Bank and the Commercial State Bank. Judge Chichester is a member of St. George's Episcopal Church, holding a place in the vestry of that organization.

He married in Stafford county, Virginia. June II, 1895, Virginia Belle, born in Staf- ford county, daughter of Samuel Gordon and Mary Buchanan (Hansford) Wallace. Her father was born in 1831, died in 1896; was a farmer and a soldier of the Confederate army during the four years of the war be-

tween the states. Her mother, deceased, was a native of King George county. Chil- dren of Richard Henry Lee and Virginia Belle (Wallace) Chichester: Daniel Mc- Carty, born April 27, 1896, a student in the Fredericksburg High School ; Mary Wal- lace, born January 5, 1898. a student in high school ; Richard Henry Lee, Jr., born Octo- ber 2^, 1904.

Hugh Wythe Davis, M. D. Born in Rich- mond, educated classically and profession- ally in Richmond, and for over half a cen- tury actively engaged in medical practice in Richmond. Dr. Davis accjuired an intimacy with Richmond and her people little short of marvelous. He was perhaps the best known and best loved physician of the city, know- ing his vast army of patients and a true doc- tor of the old school, ministered to body, mind and soul, regarding his patients many of them as his especial charge, to be freely admonished and reproved, as well as treated for bodily ills. His maternity practice was very large, three generations in the same family in several instances having been brought into the world by the aid of good Dr. Davis. He was in the truest sense, the family physician, knew the intimate life his- tory of hundreds of his clientele from cradle to grave, rejoiced in their success, sorrowed with their misfortunes and often by timely advice and aid enabled them to pass safely perilous points in their careers. He held true to the soundest principles of medicine and never followed the fads of his profes- sion, never countenanced the newer theories and rarely left the city to attend medical gatherings. This was less from inclination than the fact that his very large practice occupied every moment of his working hours. From the age of twenty-one years until the December preceding his death, at the age of seventy-four years, he was ac- tively in practice and barely able to meet the demands made upon him. A newly fledged M. D., in 1861, he was almost im- mediately appointed assistant surgeon to Dr. Samuel Freston Moore, surgeon gen- eral of the Confederate States and until the war, 1861-65, closed, served with devotion and distinction in field and camp hospitals, always in or near Richmond. His devotion to the southern cause was deep and lasting and Richmond had no more loyal son. For forty years he lived at no West Grace