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William Redwood, son of Abraham (i) Redwood and his second wife, Patience (Howland-Phillipsj Redwood, was twice married and had male and female issue. One of his daughters, Hannah, married Charles Wharton, of Philadelphia.

Dr. Frank Harrell Redwood, of Richmond, Virginia, descends from the settler, Abra- ham Redwood, through a New York branch of the family. He is a son of William Day- ton Redwood, born in New York City on lUeecker street, in 1849, and now resides in Sufifolk, Virginia, retired. He married Betty Harrell, born on the Harrell homestead near Suffolk, Virginia, in 1859, now living in Sufifolk with her husband. Their two children are Frank Harrell, of whom fur- ther, and Langford William, a resident of Portsmouth, Virginia, engaged in the auto- mobile business in Norfolk, married Irpne Diggs, a native of ]\Iathews county, Vir- ginia.

Dr. Frank Harrell Redwood, son of Wil- liam Dayton and Betty (Harrell) Redwood, was born in Sufifolk, Virginia, March 22, 1890, and after attending the schools of his native place became a student in the Wood- berry Forrest Preparatory School. Upon the completion of his studies in this latter institution he entered the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, receiving his M. D. at the end of his course in 1913. For a time he was in the Memorial Hospital, of Richmond, subsequently pursuing post- graduate work in New York and Boston, then returning to Richmond, and in tsep- tember, 1914, establishing in general prac- tice. His office is at No. 21 14 Hanover ave- nue, and although he is as yet but fairly started upon his professional career the future is bright, for he is an able master of his calling and ranked high as a student. Dr. Redwood is a communicant of the Sec- ond Presbyterian Church. Dr. Redwood is a member of the Richmond Academy of Medicine. American Medical Association, and Medical Association of Virginia.

Dr. Redwood married, in Richmond, June 15. 191 1. Grace Madeline Gilman. born in Richmond, daughter of William James and Dort)thy (Denzler) Gilman. her parents natives of Richmond, her father a contractor and real estate dealer of this city. Dr. and Mrs. Redwood are the parents of one son, William Gilman. born June 13. 1913.

Norman R. Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton's successful career in the field of journalism, and in connection with business interests which he found time from his journalistic duties to promote and develop, paved the way to his selection by President Woodrow Wilson for appointment to one of the most desirable of a group of positions which the president had in his gift in the Old Domin- ion at the time of the distribution of the Federal patronage in that state in the spring of 1914 — the position of Collector of United States Customs for Virginia — a statewide appointment of exceptional im- portance in its relation to the general gov- ernment.

The standing to which Mr. Hamilton, though a young man, has attained in the esteem of his fellow citizens, both as to character and business efficiency, was re- flected in the wide extent of unqualified en- dorsement he received for the place to which he aspired in the Federal service, his recom- mendations for the position of — Collector of Customs — being regarded, by those who knew of their number and quality, as among the very best that were ever presented to the appointing power at Washington.

Mr. Hamilton was born in Portsmouth, in the tidewater section of Virginia, No- vember 13. 1877, and was educated in the public schools of his native city, graduating with distinction therefrom. He then entered the newspaper world, and it is a notable fact of his career that he was connected with the same paper, "The Norfolk Public Ledger" (later "The Ledger-Dispatch") for eighteen years, covering the entire period from the time he left school till he was appointed to the customs service; meanwhile represent- at Norfolk other Mrginia and out-of-

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In entering the newspaper world directly from the public schools of Portsmouth, he followed in the footsteps of his father, who years before had gone into journalism from the public schools of that city, and who made an honorable record in that field of endeavor, having (in 1914) been connected with the press of Norfolk and Portsmouth during a period of nearly half a century — both father and son being on the stafif of the same paper. "The Public Ledger and Led- ger-Dispatch." during the entire time of the son's connection therewith.