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ried Dr. W. F. Driver, of New Market, Vir- ginia ; Ernest Timoleon. of further men- tion.

Dr. Ernest Timoleon Trice was born in Petersburg-, Virginia, January i8, 1888. He attended the public schools until twelve years of age. and then entered Fort Union Military Academy where he spent four years. Deciding upon the profession of medicine, he later entered the University College of ALedicine at Richmond, Virginia, whence he was graduated M. D., clasrs of 191 1. He began practice in Henrico county, \'irginia. continviing until January 17, 191 3, when he located in Richmond, with offices at No. 406 West Grace street. Dr. Trice is a general practitioner, but specializes in surgery. His fraternities are: Omega Up- silon Phi. Theta Nu Epsilon. He is a Demo- crat in politics, and in religion a member of the Alethodist Episcopal church.

William B. Farant. The settlement of Hubert Faranl. of I'rench ancestry, in Vir- ginia, came after the severe political dis- turbances in the island of San Domingo, where the family had been planted from France and whence he came to Virginia. He was born in 1756, and died in 181 1, a vessel upon which he was sailing to his homeland being lost at sea. there being no survivors. Hubert Farant married. October 25. 1793. Sarah Clemmonds, born in 1774, died June 28, 1851. and was the father of eleven children, one of his sons George W., father of William B. Farant, of Norfolk. Virginia. George W. Farant. the youngest of the eleven children of his parents, was born in 181 1, and died June 9. 1864. He was thrice married, the third time, December 4, 1856, to Alicia Lowry, born in 1823, living at this time (1914). Children of George W. and Alicia (Lowry) Farant: i. John L., mar- ried Ella Starr Bull, both deceased, and had John L. (2) and James B. 2. William B., of whom further. 3. Sarah C, married Ash- by T. Brooke. 4. Alicia, married Robinson Armistead Todd, and has Armistead, Far- ant. Alicia.

William B. Farant. son of George W. and Alicia (Lowry) Farant, was born in Norfolk, Virginia, March 3, 1859. His first business was tobacco dealing, a line in which he continued for thirty years and from which he has been retired but five years. In 1880 he and his brother, John

L. Farant, formed the firm of John L. Far- ant & Company, which concern became the center of a large trade in tobacco and tobacco products. Mr. Farant's brother, John L. Farant, died in 1907. In 1909 Wil- liam B. Farant discontinued the business and entered the investment business and became a realty owner. He is well and fav- orably known in the business wor^ of the city, and is a man of afifairs of many rela- tions and interests. Mr. Farant is a Demo- crat, and holds membership in the Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Farant married. November 25, 1891, Annie W. Jenkins, daughter of C. E. and Eliza (Benson) Jenkins, of Norfolk. Chil- dren : Annie Jenkins, Mary Lowry. W'illiam Benson.

Samuel Cook Goggin. The family of which Samuel Cook Goggin is a member unites within itself in the present generation the blood of many of the most distinguished Virginia houses, whose family history is closely associated with stirring records of the colony and state of Virginia, their resi- dence from the earliest times onwards.

The first ancestor of the name of whom there is much definitely known was Stephen Goggin Jr., whose lot was cast in revolu- tionary days, and who was the great-grand- father of the Mr. Goggin of this sketch. His marriage with Rachel Moorman related his family to the distinguished Moorman line, descended from Thomas Moorman, who came to this country during early colonial times. Stephen Goggin Jr. and Rachel (Moorman) Goggin. his wife, were the parents of eight children, the oldest of whom. Pamela Goggin, was married to Samuel Clemens, the grandfather of i\Iark Twain.

Their second child. Pleasant Moorman Goggin. the grandfather of Samuel Cook Goggin. was born January 10. 1777, in Bed- ford county, Virginia, where he followed the ancestral occupation of farming. He was a prominent figure in his day and re- gion, taking an active part in public afifairs, representing his county in the state legis- lature, and serving as a colonel of militia in the war of 1812. His marriage still fur- ther allied the Goggins with the best blood of the state, this time to the two old fami- lies of Leftwich and Otey. His wife was Mary Otey Leftwich. a daughter of Rev.