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owner of a larg^e estate and operated a large number of mills on the James river. His wife was a member of the Hudson family, of Virginia, and among their sons was Samuel.

(II) Samuel Scott, son of Charles A. Scott, was lK>rn in Buckingham county, Virginia. January 8, 1808, died there De- cember 23, 1H93. Throughout the many years of his long life he was an active medi- cal practitioner, and for more than fifty years was a familiar and well-loved figure in Amherst, Nelson, Buckingham and Albe- marle counties, as he visited homes of sick- ness, bringing relief, cheer and hope to the afiflicted. He married, in 1842, Ann E. Davies, of Amherst county, Virginia, daugh- ter of Henry Landon Davies, M. D., a native of Amherst county, Virginia, where he died in 1875, aged eighty-two years, having been long a practicing physician. Henry Lan- don Davies married a Miss Crawford, whose family was allied to that of Vanderbilt. Samuel and Ann E. (Davies) Scott were the parents of Betty E., married Charles A. Scott, of Albemarle county, Virginia. Charles Landon, of whom further; and Samuel, who died in infancy.

(HI) Charles Landon Scott, only sur- viving son of Samuel and Ann E. (Davies) Scott, was born in Amherst county, Vir- ginia, March 14, 1853, and until he was thir- teen years of age was busied on his father's farm at Camperdown. After a course in Norwood High School, in Nelson county, X'irginia, he entered the University of Vir- ginia, there finishing courses in Greek, Latin, German, French, Moral Philosophy, Literature and Rhetoric, after which he be- gan the study of law under the preceptor- ship of John B. Minor. Prior to his admis- sion to the bar, which he received in 1881, he taught school, being at different times instructor in the Bishop Schools, of Easton, Maryland, educational institutions of a high grade, New London Academy, Bedford county, Virginia, and in the high school at Charlottesville, Virginia. Making his home in Amherst, Virginia, in 1884, he has there since been identified with the legal profes- sion, and is known as an attorney of ability, talent and principle, his generous practice and his prestige among his professional brethren testifying merit above the ordi- nary.

A strong Democratic sympathizer. ?ilr. .Scott has since 1893 held the office of su-

l)erintendent of schools of Amherst county, with the exception of one term, during which he was out of ofTice. His fraternal order is the Masonic, and he has been a member of the vestry of the Protestant Episcopal church for many years. His at- tention to his religious duties and obliga- tions is as particular as that which he pays to his responsibilities as cotinty superin- tendent of schools, and he is a valuable ser- vant in both ca]iacities. His citizenship is based on the highest ideals, and no service is too exacting, no task too great for his performance if the results will be of bene- fit to his townspeople, a spirit that has gained him wide popularity.

Mr. Scott married, at Belmont, Albemarle county, Virginia, August 2y, 1879, Louise M. Everett, born at Belmont. Mrginia, Oc- tober 27. 1858, daughter of Dr. Charles D. and Mary K. (Coleman) Everett, her father a physician of large practice and property, her mother a native of Rock Fish Valley, Nelson county. Virginia. Children of Charles Landon and Louise M. (Everett) Scott: Louise M., born July 5. 1880, mar- ried Charles A. Joubert. landowner and capitalist, (q. v.) ; Samuel D., born October 30, 1 88 1, engaged in engineering work in Virginia and North Carolina ; Charles Lan- don Jr.. born March 23, 1883, an engineer in the service of the State Highway Com- mission, resides at Waynesboro, Virginia; Mary Everett, born September. 1885, lives at home, unmarried ; Ann Elizabeth, born in April, 1890. married Victor Von Gem- ingen. October 14. 1914; Everett, born in April, 1893, an engineer, lives at home; Hes- ter Harrison, born in August, 1895 ' Clare Voorheis, born in June. 1897, died March 6. 1913; Nellie Thompson, born January 26. 1900, died September 14, 1900.

John Bruce Brewer, A. M. As president of Roanoke Institute for Young Women (for- merly Roanoke College), Professor Brewer since June, 1907, has at that institution con- tinued the work to which forty-five years of useful life have been devoted — the education of the young. The greater part of his time he has been at the head of institutions of learning devoted, as is Roanoke Institute, to the education of young women, fifteen years of his life having been given to Chowan Baptist Female Institute, Murfreesboro, North Carolina, six years to Franklin Fe-