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branch of the Confederate army and was injured by his horse faUing on him when shot during a charge at the battle of Mal- vern Hill. After the war closed, he was con- nected with several of the banks of the city, as clerk, then engaged in the real estate business. Later he was with the Virginia Fire and ^larine Insurance Company, then with the First National Bank, until -his re- tirement from business, several years before his death. He was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Second Baptist Church of Richmond. He married, September 15, 1859. in the Third Presbyterian Church in Richmond. Bessie Mebane, born April 8, 1837, in Richmond, died there, October 5, 1913. daughter of Alexander and Emmeline (Pleasants) Mebane. Children: Alexander Mebane, born July 2, 1861, died in infancy; Mary Giles, born August 23, 1862, married, February 2"], 1889, Henry P. Taylor Jr., of Richmond ; \\"illiam Randolph, born August 15, 1866; married Josephine Knox, of Rich- mond ; Charles Russell, of whom further ; Albert Sidney, born July 17, 1871, died in infancy; Frank Gordon, born January 18, 1873, married Virginia Ruiz, of Havana, Cuba.

Dr. Charles Russell Robins, after his grad- uation from Richmond High School, en- tered business life as a clerk, continuing until his election to the office of secretary and treasurer of the Southern Manufactur- ing Company, in September, 1890. He spent two years in that capacity, resigning in 1892, having decided to begin the study of medicine. In the latter year he entered the ^ledical College of Virginia, as a stud- ent, and was graduated M. D. in 1894. He was interne at the United States Marine Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, until Oc- tober I, 1895, during which time he pursued courses of study at Harvard ^Medical School. He was then associated in the practice with Dr. George Ben Johnston, of Richmond, Virginia, unfil October i. 1900, and since then has been in independent practice. He occupied various positions in the Medical College of Virginia, and in 1906 was elected professor of Gynecology, a branch of medi- cal practice in which he had specialized and been very successful. After the consolida- tion of the Medical College of Virginia with the University College of Medicine, Dr. Robins was elected professor of gynecology in the combined colleges. In addition to his

duties at the college and his private prac- tice, he has founded and been connected with other hospitals of Richmond. From 1904 until the present date, he has been secretary-treasurer of the Memorial Hos- pital Corporation, and is gynecologist to the Memorial Hospital. He is also chief sur- geon on the staft of the Virginia Hospital ; on the staff of Stuart Circle Hospital, and was one of the founders of the Stuart Circle Hospital Corporation, serving as its treas- urer. He also was one of the founders and was the first business manager of the "Old Dominion Journal of Aledicine and Surgery." The exactions of practice and his many offi- cial positions have not kept Dr. Robins from the fulfillment of his obligations as a citizen, nor of the pleasures of social intercourse with his fellow-men. He is a member of the city school board, belongs to the Masonic order, the Westmoreland Club of Richmond, the Hermitage Golf Club and the Country Club of Virginia. He is a member of the Sons of the Revolution and has been secre- tary of the Virginia Society since 1898. His fraternities are Omega Upsilon Phi and Theta Nu Epsilon. In political faith he is a Democrat, and in religious affiliation a mem- ber of the Second Baptist Church, his wife and childrens members of Grace Episcopal Church.

Dr. Robins married, in Trinity Episcopal Church, Staunton, Virginia, October 18, 1899, Evelyn Spotswoode Berkeley, born in Staunton. September 17, 1872, daughter of Captain Francis Brooke B^ ,^ Chil-

dren: Francis Berkeley, born S<.^ mber 17, 1900; Dorothy Randolph, October 6, 1902; Charles Russell Jr., June 28, 1905 ; Evelyn Spotswoode, September 11, 1906; Bessie Mebane, November 8, 1907 ; Alexander Spotswoode, December 31, 1910.

Stephen Taylor Beveridge is a member of one of the splendid old \'irginia families which have stood for so long as a type of the strong and gracious, the descendants of those splendid men of the past who, de- spite their rural lives, proved themselves amply capable of handling the aft'airs of a nation, who, like Cincinnatus. could aban- don the plow for the baton of general with- out diffidence, who to the culture of the aristocrat added the simplicity of the demo- crat ; the prototype of the American ideal of a gentleman.