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terson attended the McCabe School of Petersburg, and at the age of fourteen years embarked upon a business career. His energy and ability gained him rapid ad- vancement, and he is now secretary and treasurer of the Appomattox Box Shook Company, and identified with many other enterprises. He married Sue Meade Nich- ols, a native of Petersburg, and they have had four children: John R., Julia Meade, Edmund Harrison, deceased, and Richard Kidder Meade.

Emilius Allen Baughman. Emilius Allen Baughman is a member of a family which, though not of Virginian origin, has identi- fied itself with the traditions and interests of this, the home of their adoption. Mr. Baughman himself, indeed, has practically no other personal associations, as his par- ents moved to that state when he was but three years of age and he has made his home there ever since.

His father, George Baughman, was a native of Pennsylvania, from which he re- moved to Baltimore, Maryland, and later to Virginia. The date of his departure from Maryland was 1847, ^^^^ he first settled in Salem, \'irginia, finally removing to Rich- mond in 1856. He was a newspaper man and connected with the old "Examiner" of Richmond and was the founder of the sta- tionery business which is still carried on by his son. He remained in this business from the breaking out of the civil war until his death in 1870, at the age of sixty-four. He married Mary Jane Greer, of Baltimore, Maryland, and they were the parents of one daughter and five sons : Mary Amelia, George, Jr., Greer H., Charles C, Erank, died in youth, and Emilius Allen, and, to- gether with four of his sons, served in the Confederate army, he being in the ambu- lance corps. His son, Greer H. Baughman, was des])erately wounded at the second bat- tle of Cold Harbor.

Emilius Allen Uaughman was born in Baltimore, Maryland. August 30. 1844. At the time of his father's removal to Salem. Virginia, he was but three years old. The earlier part of his education was obtained in the schools at Lynchburg. Virginia, but after the removal of his family to Richmond, he continued and completed his studies there. At the age of eighteen he left these, however, and joined the Army of the Con-

federacy at the opening of the civil war. He first saw action on the field of Gettysburg and served throughout the whole of the long struggle actively, being also engaged at Appomattox. At the close of the war, he was serving in the Hampden Artillery, Bearing's battalion, Pickett's division. Mr. Baughman is still engaged in the stationery business founded by his father in Richmond. He is interested in politics and public affairs and is a Democrat so far as his home com- munity is concerned. In national afifairs, however, he is not bound by party lines but votes independently of such considerations for what, in his judgment, will best serve the common weal. He and his family are communicants of the Episcopal church.

^Iv. Baughman was married in St. Paul's Church. Richmond. November 5, 1873, to Mary Nelson Barney, a native of New York, and a daughter of W'illiani H. and Mary (Nelson) Barney, of that place. To them have been born eight children, five of whom are living, as follows: i\Iarv Barney, Emi- lius Allen, Jr., William H.,'Sarah M., Nel- son G.

Sydney Preston Clay. The business career of the late Sydney Preston Clay in Richmond, A^irginia, covered a period of not quite a quarter of a century, during which time he engaged in dealings in several lines, and during which time birth was given to the contracting business now continued by his son. Garland Preston Clay. Mr. Clay was at one time proprietor of a grocery store in Richmond, and was also owner of a large sales stable, attaining, however, his greatest measure of success as a contractor, that Ijeing his calling at his death, j\Iay 31, 191 1.

Mr. Clay was a son of Charles Henry Clay, a native of Chesterfield county, Vir- ginia, who died August 31, 1896, aged sev- enty-seven years. He was an agriculturist throughout his active years, and during the four years of the war between the states served in the commissary department of the Confederate army. Charles Henry Clay married Mary Elizabeth Wilkerson. of Chesterfield county, and of their five chil- dren but one survives. Herndon. a resident of Henrico county. Virginia.

Sydney Preston Clay, son of Charles Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Wilkerson) Clay, was born in Henrico county. Virgmia. September 25. 1864, died in Richmond. May

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