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Soundly and firmly has Mr. Jenkins built, and the business that today stands as a monument to his business sagacity, judg- ment and acumen is one reared upon prin- ciples of honor, uprightness and fair-deal- ing. The plant owned by Mr. Jenkins is equipped with all of the most modern and improved appliances in printing and bind- ing, and permits the accomplishment in the one plant of all the processes of book manu- facturing in large editions. He has chosen a distinctive field of endeavor, and in it, through the exercise of his innate qualities and a determination that would not be re- fused, has forged to leadership, and owns a concern that is known throughout the country, and has not its equal in the South. Mr. Jenkins is a director of the American National Bank, and is also identified with the Richmond Trust & Savings Company and other financial and industrial enter- prises, besides being a large property owner in Richmond. He was one of the organizers, and the first president of the Union Envelope Company, and also of the Southern Historical Publication Society of Richmond. He is a member of the Cham- ber of Commerce, the Rotary and Business Men's clubs, Virginia Historical Society, and in the Masonic order holds the thirty- second degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, belonging to Joppa Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Washington Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, St. Andrew Command- ery. Knights Templar, and Acca Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a mem- ber of the Baptist church, and an active Sunday school worker.

Mr. Jenkins married, in Richmond, Vir- ginia, May 20, 1879, Rosa Belle, daughter of Captain John and Susan E. (Todd) King, and is the father of two sons and three daughters.

Clifton Meredith Miller, M. D. A regu- larly accredited M. D. at the age of nineteen years, Dr. Miller has, since attaining his majority, devoted his life to the practice of his profession and in educational work along special lines. He has attained high rank as a lecturer and demonstrator in his special field, and since 1894 has been inti- mately associated with the medical colleges and hospitals of Richmond. He is a man of intense purpose and thoroughly alive to the possibilities and responsibilities of his pro-

fession and position. A close student and investigator, the future must yield him a deeper knowledge of the diseases of men and their treatment that will result in in- calculable benefit to the human race.

Along maternal lines Dr. Miller descends from Robert Lewis, the Welsh founder of a branch of the Lewis family in America, and Robert Lewis, of Belvoir, Virginia. Paternally he descends from Captain Chris- topher Miller, of New Kent county, Vir- ginia, through Dabney Meredith Miller, a son of Captain Christopher Miller by his first wife, Dabney Meredith Miller was born in Richmond, Virginia. He was a tax col- lector of New Kent county, a Whig poli- tically and a member of the Protestant Episcopal church. He married, February

14, 1832, Fanny Lumphin, and had issue : Lee, Mary G., William Gardner, James P., Robert.

William Gardner Miller, son of Dabney Meredith and Fanny (Lumphin) ]\Iiller, was born in Richmond, Virginia, February ^7' 1835- Ms is a prosperous business man of the city and has been a leaf tobacco broker for many years. He entered the military ser- vice of his state in 1861, serving in the Confederate army with the famous Otey Battery until the close of the war in 1865. A Whig prior to i860, he later affihated with the Democratic party. In religious faith he is an Episcopalian. He married, November 17, 1858, in Richmond, Virginia, Emma Hazeltine Wiglesworth, daughter of W'arren xA^shley and Lucy (Lewis) Wigles- worth, of Spottsylvania county, Virginia. Children : Gay Warren, born February 28, i860; William Gardner, December 31, 1864; Alten Sydney, October 6, 1868; Ashley Macon, November 26, 1870; Clifton Mere- dith, of whom further ; Carroll, Alarch 18,

1875-.

Clifton Meredith Miller, son of William (jardner and Emma Hazeltine (Wigles- worth) Miller, was born in Richmond, Vir- ginia, April 21," 1873. His preparatory and classical education was obtained in Mrs. A.

15. Camm's School, Thomas H. Norwood's University School, and Richmond College. He then entered the Medical College of Virginia, whence he was graduated M. D., class of 1892. During the remainder of that year he was interne at the United States Marine Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, and during the year 1893 ^^"^^ acting assist-