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nal services to the party and his eminent fitness for the jjosition. Soon after the elec- tion the appointative power was placed in the hands of the governor, and he was succes- sively reappointed by Governors Lee, Mc- Kinney and O'Farrall. serving twelve years in all. Never was there a more suitable ap- pointment than the selection of Major Whitehead to be commissioner of agricul- ture. Farming was to him a source of ceaseless pleasure, and he was daily engaged in experiments of which he gave the Vir- ginia farmers the benefit through regular reports to the governor and board of agri- culture. With a bright and honorable rec- ord Major Whitehead left a name that will be stamped upon the annals of Virginia's political history, and in the years to come he will be remembered as one of the old school, a Virginia gentleman and an honest man. Despite the crowded cares and duties of his official life. Major Whitehead devoted time and labor to the cause of religion, and was at all times an earnest and zealous worker in the Methodist Episcopal church, in which faith he received the last summons, July 4, 1901. The Rev. W. J. Young in his address at the funeral of ]\Iajor Whitehead said of him :

Hi.s public career was entirely free from criticism, and we have lost not only a devoted church mem- ber, but a citizen honored and honorable, true to ever}' trust. His last hour was one of quietness and peace. He was not afraid to die, not afraid on the field of battle, in political life, in the church or in private life; he never shrank from duty, and he met death without a tremor.

Major Whitehead was twice married. His first wife was Mary Kincade Irving, the daughter of Hon. Joseph K. Irving. She lived less than a year. By this marriage there was no issue. On June 15, 1854, he married Martha Henry Garland, daughter of Hon. Samuel M. Garland, of Amherst, at that time and for many years thereafter the foremost citizen of the county having repre- sented the county in many capacities, among them being a memljer of the secession con- vention. Mrs. Whitehead was a woman of niany gifts, being a forceful and fluent writer, she was a true helpmeet, rendering her husband valuable assistance in all of his work. Children: i. John, for several terms a member of the house of delegates of Vir- ginia from Norfolk City ; married Eulah Brown, of that citv ; issue : Grace G. and

Florence. 2. ^lildred Powell, married John D. Murrell, a well known newspaper man of Richmond, \'irginia ; they have one son. Dr. Thomas W., prominent physician of Rich- mond, who married (iertrude Clark. 3. Thomas, an attorney of Amherst, prominent in church and temperance work; married (first) Sarah Evans; issue: Robert, Thomas, I!essie Massie, Mary Louisa; married (sec- ond) Sallie Oliver Carter, of Nottoway county ; issue : Asa C. and Kate C. 4. David Garland, successful business man of Rich- mond, president of the Everett-Waddy Com- pany ; married Annie Belle Brown, of Ash- land, now deceased. 5. Mary Irving, mar- ried Edward Schneider, of Bremen, Ger- many, now deceased; she resides in Rich- mond. 6. Irving Powell, a well known attorney of Lynchburg; married Martha Winston Walker, of Kentucky, now de- ceased ; children : Edmund W' inston and Jane Massie. 7. Alartha Garland, married Dr. Stuart Michaux. and resides in Rich- mond. 8. Sarah Anna Brown, married Henry D. Perkins, editor of the "Ledger- Dispatch" of Norfolk, Virginia ; issue : Thomas W.. died young, and Martha Gar- land. 9. Ella Guy. married Dr. Theodore Hough, professor in the University of Vir- ginia. 10. Dr. Robert Camden, married Helen Cowles. of New York; they reside in Norfolk, Virginia, and have one son, Henry Cowles.

William Hartley Craig, M. D. On the

j)aternal side of Scotch, and on the maternal side of English forebears, Dr. William Hart- ley Craig, of Richmond. Virginia, in his own right is a native-born \'irginian, a product of the public schools and medical college of his native city, Richmond. He is a grand- son of Samuel Craig, who died in 1880, son of the Scotch emigrant Craig, who first set- tled in Lancaster. Pennsylvania. He mar- ried Miss O'Brien, and left male issue.

(H) Samuel 15. Craig, son of Samuel C raig, was a merchant of Manchester (now Richmond), X'irginia, a man of great indus- try and uprightness, lie married Elizabeth F. Hartley, daughter of Alfred Hartley, born 1830. died 1904. of English birth, set- tling in the State of Maine in 1856. His 'wife, Miss Speights, was also born in Eng- land, she in Bradford, he in Brighouse.

(Ill) Dr. William Flartley Craig, son of Samuel B. and Elizabeth F. (Hartley) Craig,