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career, Medical Collep^e of Virginia, from which he graduated with the class of 1898, taking the degree of M. D. He has been for six years city physician of Roanoke and still holds that office. For five years he has held the position of assistant surgeon of the Norfolk & Western Railroad, and is now serving his second term as secretary and treasurer of the Norfolk & Western Railway Surgeons' Association. Added to his numerous professional duties, are those incidental to a member of the staff of the Roanoke City Hospital. Dr. Armistead is a member of the Virginia State and Ameri- can Medical Associations and of the Amer- ican Clinical Congress.

Dr. Armistead married, December 8, 1903, Ethel Shelburne, a daughter of Silas Shel- burne, a prominent citizen of Richmond, Virginia. To Dr. and Mrs. Armistead have been born three children, Balmer, Gay and Virginia Madison Armistead. Dr. Armi- stead, as in the case of all the Armisteads, is a member of the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Armistead is active in the Episcopal church and a member of the United Daugh- ters of the Confederacy.

Joseph Tyler Allyn. A descendant of early English families, Allyn, Avery and Tyler, Joseph Tyler Allyn, a native of Vir- ginia, was there educated, served in the Confederate army, and gave to his state the enthusiasm of his youth, the vigor of his manhood, and the matured wisdom of his after years. Of revolutionary sires he not- ably upheld the best traditions of his race, and left behind him an honored name.

Joseph Tyler (2) Allyn, son of Joseph Tyler (i) and Elizabeth (Avery) Allyn, was born August 9, 1840, died in Norfolk, Virginia, July 20, 1904. His Allyn forbears came early to Connecticut from England, Robert Allyn being the original settler. His son, David Allyn, a revolutionary soldier, was promoted for gallantry at Bunker Hill, and in the years of the struggle for free- dom, bore well a patriot's part. His wife, Desire (Tyler) Allyn, was also of colonial and revolutionary blood. Their son, Joseph Tyler (i) Allyn, married Elizabeth Avery, a descendant of Chfistopher Avery, who settled in Massachusetts at Salem, June 12, T630, later locating at Groton, Connecticut, and in early life moved to Norfolk, Vir- viR— 22

ginia, where he resided until his death which occurred in July, 1862.

Joseph Tyler (2) Allyn was ])repared in private schools of Norfolk, Virginia, en- tered Washington College, now Washington and Lee University, in the fall of 1858, and in i860 was graduated Bachelor of Arts, lie entered the university at the beginning of the fall term, i860, but when hostilities began between the states of the North and South, he enlisted in the Confederate army, joining Floyd's brigade in Western Vir- ginia. Later he was drill master at Raleigh, North Carolina, and Norfolk, Virginia, en- listing in the latter city in the Norfolk Light Artillery lUues. He served with this com- mand as private, corporal and sergeant, par- ticipating in many engagements. Immedi- ately after the battle of Chancellorsville, he Avas promoted for gallantry in action to the rank of lieutenant of ordnance, and at the time of the surrender at Appomattox Court House in April, 1865, ^^^ serving as cap- tain by special appointment. He was a good soldier, and in every test of courage, whether in battle, advance or retreat, bore himself as a man. After the final surrender, Mr. Allyn returned to his home in Norfolk. During the session of 1867-68 he studied law in the law department of the University of Virginia. After his admission to the bar he located in Norfolk, Virginia, where he continued in the practice of his profession for thirty-five years, honored and respected. He was a strong, learned exponent of the law, and enjoyed the profound respect of both bench and bar. He was president of the Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Associa- tion in 1902, and a lifelong member of that association, and of the Virginia State Bar Association. A Democrat in politics, he twice served the city of Norfolk as coun- cilman. and in all things was the patriotic, interested, useful citizen.

Mr. Allyn married, December 16, 1868, Mary Russell Bell, daughter of Russell Bell, a native of London, England. Her mother was Mary 'Elizabeth (Herman) Bell, daughter of Henry and Emily (Ar- nold) Herman. Children: i. Elizabeth, born November 22, 1869 : married, April 28, 1904, George Mason Dillard ; children: Allyn, George Mason (2), Mary Waldon, Elizabeth Allyn. 2. Joseph Tyler (3), born in Norfolk. Virginia, March 16, 1874. died