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identified with the Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks. His political stand is taken with the Republican party. Children of Samuel Walker and Maud (Martin) Lyons: William Henry, Bessie, Samuel Walker Jr., and Maud. Samuel Walker Jr. married, August 3, 1912, Florence Cor- nelia Ives, and has one daughter, Florence, born August 21, 1913.

Greer Baughman, M. D. A native born son of Richmond, a product of her classical and professional colleges, with the added knowledge gained by post-graduate courses in Vienna, Berlin, Dresden and Dublin, Dr. Baughman is giving to the city of his birth and her institutions his best professional service and the energy of his virile man- hood. He is a grandson of George Baugh- man, who opposed secession until his state joined the ranks of the Confederacy, then sent all his sons into the Confederate army, himself joined the Home Guards, being too old for service in the field, and exhausted his entire fortune in the purchase of bonds issued by the Confederate government.

(H) George Baughman, son of John and Barbara Baughman, was born August 15, 1809, died June 15, 1870. He was born at Yellow Breeches Creek, in the Susquehanna Valley, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married Mary Jane Greer, born August 25, 181 1, in New Orleans, Louisiana, died April 25, 1898, in Richmond, daughter of George Greer, who died at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1825. George Greer was a member of a Baltimore independent battery and fought in the war of 1812 at North Port and Fort McHenry, September 12 and 13, 1814. He married Mary Hall, born 1781, died 1858, daughter of Caleb and Bridget (Quinn) Hall. George Baughman had issue : George (2), Greer, Charles Christian, of whom fur- ther; Emilius, Minnie Amelia, Frank.

(HI) Charles Christian Baughman, son of George and Mary Jane (Greer) Baugh- man, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, Au- gust 8, 1842, died March 3, 1908. He was educated in Baltimore, Maryland, and Salem, Virginia, schools and prior to attain- ing his nineteenth year entered the service of his state as a private soldier. He enlisted, April 21, 1861, in Company F, Richmond Light Infantry, and was transferred the

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same year to the famous Otey Battery, rank- ing as corporal. He shared the varying for- tunes of the Confederacy until the final sur- render, when he at once entered business life in Richmond as a manufacturer of wooden ware in association with Charles Stokes. He next in company with his father and brothers, Greer and Emilius, formed the firm of Baughman Brothers, Stationers and Printers, later reorganized as the Baughman Stationery Company, of which Charles C. Baughman was general manager. He was very active in church work, and for many years was a vestryman of Christ Episcopal Church. He married, February 12, 1873, Williette Harrison Stevens, born in Harri- sonburg, Virginia, February 3, 1852, died August 13, 1893, daughter of William Grat- ton Stevens, born 1819, died 1861, and Mar- garet Frances (Harrison) Stevens, born April 24, 1819, died June 13, 1858. Mar- garet Frances Harrison was a daughter of Dr. Peachy Harrison, born April 6, 1777, died April 25, 1848, and Mary (Stuart) Har- rison, born September 12, 1783, married, 1804, died September 19, 1857. Dr. Peachy Harrison was a son of Colonel Benjamin Harrison, an officer of the revolutionary army from Virginia, born 1741, died 1819, and his wife, Mary (McClure) Harrison, born 1741, died 1815. Colonel Benjamin Harrison was a son of Daniel Harrison, born 1700, died 1770, and Margaret (Craven) Harrison, his wife, who died in 1783. Daniel Harrison, was a son of Thomas and Jane (Delahaye) Harrison, from Maryland, who settled in Prince William county, which he represented between 1744 and 1755 in the house of burgesses. He was granted 2,500 acres of land in 1744 by Governor Gooch where the town of Harrisonburg, Virginia, stands. In May, 1780, the town of Harrison- burg was laid off with fifty acres of this land, probably by his son, Thomas Harri- son Jr.

(IV) Greer Baughman, ]\I. D., only child of Charles Christian and Williette Harrison (Stevens) Baughman, was born in Rich- mond, Virginia, February 19, 1874. His early education was obtained in Richmond private schools, four years being passed at Mr. Thomas H. Norwood's University School. He then entered the academic de- partment of the University of Virginia, where he spent three years. He then began