Page:Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography volume 4.djvu/543

 VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY

407

shire, England. His wife. Mary Ann (Scott) Baker, was born in Torquay. England, is now living in London, England, aged sev- enty-five years. Children : Clara Eliza, now the widow of George Hilborne Joliffe. re- siding in London ; Sydney John, of whom further; Thomas Edward, AI. R. C. V. S. L., died in 1909, aged forty-seven years.

Dr. Sydney John Baker, of Richmond, Virginia, was born in Torquay, England, September 16, 1863. He was educated in private English schools, entered the drug business at the age of seventeen and gradu- ated as pharmaceutical chemist in London in October, 1885. He resided in England until twenty-three years of age. then came to the United States. He settled in Bed- ford county. Virginia, and soon afterward entered the College of Physicians and Sur- geons. Baltimore. Maryland, whence he was graduated AL D.. class of 1890. winning the "Lynch" medal. He passed examination be- fore the boards of both Pennsylvania and Virginia, but settled in Virginia, at Bedford City, May i, 1890. He was in successful practice in that town nine years, then was four years physician for the Longdale Iron Company. In 1903 he located in Manches- ter (Richmond), where he is well estab- lished in practice at 1302 Bainbridge street. He is a member of Marshall Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Lynchburg, Virginia ; Lynchburg Chapter, Xo. 10, Royal Arch Masons; Stuart Lodge, Independent r)rder of Odd Fellows, Richmond ; Richmond Academy of Medicine. Medical Society of Mrginia, American Medical Association, and is a communicant of the Presbyterian church.

Dr. Baker married, in Bedford City. \'ir- ginia, June 3, 189 1, Nannie Leftwich Mar- shall, born in that town, March 13, 1867, daughter of Thomas Henry Marshall, D. D. S., born in Charlotte, \^irginia, died in Bed- ford City, in 1907, in his seventy-third year. For over forty years Dr. Marshall practiced his profession in Bedford City, first settling there in 1862, having been appointed by the Confederate government, and placed in charge of army dental work. He married, October 26, 1864, Mildred Hopkins. Dr. Baker has no children.

Harry Bennett Sanford, M. D. Son and

grandson of eminent Baptist clergymen, Harry Bennett Sanford. M. D.. of Richmond,

Mrginia. numbers among his ancestors those who have achieved distinction and rendered honorable service in lines other than ecclesiastical. In this long and honor- able list may be named Samuel Gresham, member of the Virginia house of delegates, from Lancaster county, and Joseph Harvey of Westmoreland county, Virginia, from 1838 to 1842 representative of his district in the National Congress. Space would here fail to recount the deeds that are placed to the credit of the family name and that makes the sons of the line of Sanford proud to own their origin, but that patriotism is not lacking in the virtues possessed by past gen- erations is evidenced by the military record of Rev. Robert Bailey Sanford, whose faith- fulness in the bloodless battles of the Prince of Peace was as great as his valor on the shotswept fields of the civil war.

Rev. Robert Bailey Sanford, son of Rev. John Harvey Sanford, married Alberta Sharp, daughter of T. C. and Hannah F. Gresham, her father a farmer of Lancaster county. Virginia, one of their sons being Harry Bennett, of further mention.

Harry Bennett Sanford, son of Rev. Rob- ert and Alberta Sharp (Gresham) Sanford, was born at Riverdale, Lancaster county, Virginia, September 10, 1870. After pre- paratory courses in the public and private schools of the county of his birth he was for three years a student of Richmond Col- lege. From the latter institution he entered the Medical College of Virginia and was awarded his M. D. at the completion of his course in 1904. Prior to establishment in his profession he engaged in general mer- cantile dealings, becoming a duly registered pharmacist at Ettrick. \"irginia, and subse- quently in Richmond, Mrginia.

Since becoming a member of the medical fraternity of Richmond, Dr. Sanford has rapidly risen to responsible position therein and has become the centre of a practice wide and desirable. The succeeding years have witnessed his increasingly secure entrench- ment in the favor and regard of his clientele, who, with close acquaintance, have gained a correspondingly high appreciation of his talents and abilities. -He is a member of the American Medical Association, and the Academy of Aledicine and Surgery. He is a member of the Grace Street Baptist Church, of Richmond, and holds member- ship in the Alasonic order. Meridian Lodge,