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toward that end. He was a gentleman of education and culture, and was prominent in social circles in New Orleans.

He was twice married, his first wife, ^^lary, daughter of Harvey Tindel, of Alabama ; his second, Mary V. Leach. Children of x\u- gustus Hugh and Mary (Tindel) May. i. Clara, married Evert A. Bancker, of New York, and has children: A. Hugh, Evert A., Jr., and a daughter May. 2. Albert, mar- ried Mary Ranlett. daughter of D. L. Ran- lett, of New York, and his wife, Eleanor (Stone) Ranlett, of New Orleans, and has children : Hugh. Eleanor, Clarence, a prac- ticing physician, and Josephine. 3. Edward, of whom further. 4. Augustus, married Florence, daughter of Judge A. D. Land, of the Louisiana Supreme Court; children: Mary Tindel, Margery, Lawrence. Chil- dren of Augustus Hugh and Mary V. (Leach) May: 5. Mary V., married Henry W. Blanc, and has Adele and Maud. 6. Maud, married Robert B. Parker, and has Robert B.. Jr., Douglass, and Virginia. 7. John, married Amelia Behn, and has John and Amelia.

(VI) Edward May, second son and third child of Augustus Hugh May and his first wife, Alary (Tindel) May, was born in New Orleans. Louisiana, November 6, 1855. He was educated in the public and private schools, attending an institution conducted by Professor W. H. Harrison in Amelia county, Virginia. He later entered the Uni- versity of \^irginia, there completing both the classical and legal courses, after gradu- ation going to Chicago, Illinois, where he became identified with banking, afterward establishing himself as a broker and holding a seat on the Chicago board of trade. He was also a member of the Calumet Club and LTnion League Club of Chicago. Five years later Mr. May moved to Dakota, then a territory, and there remained for about nineteen years, during this period engaging in land, cattle and banking business, his dealings covering a wide range of interests. His residence prior to his moving to Vir- ginia was in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In 1902 Mr. May located in Norfolk, Virginia, and is now engaged in the stock, bond and investment business. Mr. May has been cordially received in Norfolk and has gained place among the foremost men of aftairs of the city. He is a member of the Chamber of Commence, a man in every way represen-

tative of the spirit of progress and achieve- ment that belongs to the South. He is a member of the Alumni Association of his alma mater, the University of Virginia, and is a member of the Delta Psi fraternity. His clubs in Norfolk are the Virginia, the Bor- ough and the Westover, and he is an attend- ant of Christ Episcopal Church.

Mr. Edward May married, July 8, 1890, Etta Leigh Palfrey, daughter of Henry \V. Palfrey and his wife, Fannie (Finney) Pal- frey, of Louisiana. They have two children, both born in South Dakota: Edward, Jr., born July 6, 1891, who was educated at Lawrenceville and Princeton University; and William Peyton, born April i, 1900, at- tending public schools of Norfolk.

Benjamin Atwood Hord, M. D. The Hord family in England held for centuries a dis- tinguished rank. In America the family has exerted an influence and occupied a position none the less useful and conspicuous for the Hords were of the first families of Virginia, "historic in politeness, intelligence and hos- pitality." The ancient seat of the family was in Oxfordshire, in "Bampton Hundred," the ancestral home bearing the name "Cote House" and is thus described by Kelton, "Cote, which is part of a hamlet belonging to Bampton, contains a handsome and an- cient mansion, which for centuries belonged to the Hords." The family for centuries worshipped in St. Mary's Church, Bampton, where numerous memorials of the family exist. On the east side of the south tran- sept is the burial place of the family called "Hord's Chapel." Since the death of the last member of the Hord family in Eng- land, the chapel being no longer needed for interment, was converted into a vestry room, a member of the family in the United States defraying the greater part of the cost. "The monumental slabs were raised from the floor with care and reverence and have been placed upright against the walls, where they will for the future be safe from all harm."

The founder of the family in America was John Hord, an English gentleman, born in Elwell. England, December 29, 1664, bap- tized there the same year, coming to Vir- ginia in 1685. He bought a large tract of land in what is now Caroline county on the Rappahannock river, which he named "Shadv Grove," the tract part of an original grant made to Sir Thomas Lunsford. There