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nois. 9. Arthur M.. a real estate dealer of Chicago. Four other children died young.

Dr. Andrew Capers Doggett, son of Leroy Benjamin and Frances (jerrell) Doggett, was born in Fredericksburg. \'irginia. Sep- tember 20, 1852. His parents lived in bVed- ericksburg until driven out by Federal guns, seven cannon balls passing through their house before they fled. The family settled in Caroline county, where Andrew C. ob- tained his early education. After the war they returned to Fredericksburg, where he prepared for college, entering Randolph- Macon. where he completed his classical education. He then entered the medical de- partment of the University of Virginia, whence he was graduated Doctor of Medi- cine, class of 1875. After a post-graduate course at Bellevue Hospital, New York City, he established in practice in Fred- ericksburg, where he ranks high in profes- sional ability, manly character and in all that pertains to good citizenship. For thirty years he has held the office of coroner, appointed first by Governor Holliday ; for thirty-three years he has been surgeon for the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac railroad ; also for the Potomac, Fredericks- burg & Piedmont railroad ; for many years was city physician and is now president of the Rappahannock A'alley Medical Associa- tion, an office he has held many years by the wish and consent of his brethren of the pro- fession. He is a member of the Masonic order, and he and his family are communi- cants of St. George Protestant Episcopal Church.

Dr. Doggett married (first) in Peters- burg. Virginia, Alarch 30. 1880, Sara Re- beckah Doggett, a cousin, daughter of George Flowers and Virginia S. F. (Bois- seau) Doggett. She was born in North- ampton county, Virginia, died in Fredericks- burg. Alarch 15, 1893. Dr. Doggett married (second) January 21, 1895. Emilie Le Grand Richards, born in Philadelphia. By his first wife Dr. Doggett has a daughter, Kate Newell, born at Fredericksburg, April 15, 1882, now residing with her father educated in Fredericksburg College and for several years a student in music at Peabody Insti- tute, Baltimore. Maryland.

Hunter Holmes McGuire, M. D., LL. D.

Hunter Holmes McGuire. physician and surgeon, was born in Winchester, Freder-

ick county, Virginia, October 11, 1835. His father was Dr. Hugh Holmes McGuire, also a physician and surgeon, who was a general practitioner of medicine in his community; and his mother's maiden name was Ann Eliza Moss. She was her husband's first cousin, their mothers having been daughters of Colonel Joseph Holmes, an officer of the Continental line and county lieutenant of Frederick county during the war of the American revolution. Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire was named after his great-uncle, Major Andrew Hunter Holmes, an officer of the United States army, who fell at the battle of Mackinaw. The Colonial ancestor of the McGuire family in Virginia was a major in the British army, who came to America from the town of Fnniskillen. in the north of Ireland.

Dr. McGuire's academic education was received at the Winchester Academy, where his father had attended school before him. His early medical training was had at the medical college in Winchester, which the elder ]\IcGuire. in association with other physicians, had established, and for many years prior to the war between the states was attended by many students. He was graduated from this school in 1854 with the degree of Doctor of Aledicine. From 1856 to 1858 he filled the chair of anatomy in the Winchester Medical College, going in that year from Winchester to Philadelphia, where he conducted a "Quiz Class" with Drs. Pancoast and Luckett. At the time of the John Brown raid he led a movement among the students which resulted in many of them leaving Philadelphia and coming to Richmond. Later he went to New Orleans to practice his profession ; but upon the breaking out of the war in 1861 he returned to Virginia and enlisted in the Confederate army. Very soon after his enlistment, he was made medical director of the army in the Shenandoah A'alley. under "Stonewall" Jackson, and served under .Jackson with dis- tinguished ability as medical director until the death of the latter at Chancellorsville. After Chancellorsville, Dr. AIcGuire served with no less distinction as medical director of the Second Army Corps until the close of the war. A\'hile surgeon-general he in- augurated the custom of exchanging medical officers and hence anticipated by several years the action of the general conference.

In 1865 Dr. McGuire settled in Rich-