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broader than sectional pride, and for a num- ber of years he was the vice-president of the state executive committee of that excel- lent organization. Citizenship raised to the utmost power of usefulness is his, and whether the contribution requested be of his time or his means he is alike ready in re- sponse. Mr. Travers has been ever a loyal Democrat, though in the presidential elec- tion of 1908 he did not support the free sil- ver platform. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, and holds membership in the Protestant Episcopal church, being a vestry- man of St. James' Church. He is a member of the Westmoreland Club, the Country Club and the Hermitage Golf Club, of Rich- mond. Virginia.

Mr. Travers married, December 31, 1885, Emeline Elizabeth, born in Richmond, Vir- ginia, in 1855, a daughter of Thomas Wil- liam and Emeline (Gardner) McCance.

Robert H. Tredway. The pursuit of the tobacco trade has carried Robert H. Tred- way into three states, Virginia, North Caro- lina and South Carolina, and he is now en- gaged therein as a member of the firm of Tredway & Mangun, which owns ware- houses in Timmonsville, South Carolina. The Tredway family of which he is a pres- ent day representative is an ancient and numerous one in the state of Virginia, mem- bers thereof having been pioneers in that section.

His grandfather, William M. Tredway, was born in Prince Edward county, Vir- ginia, died in Chatham, Virginia, in 1880, aged eighty-four years. Adopting a legal profession, he was for many years a well- known and successful practitioner of Dan- ville. Virginia, later moving to Chatham, being appointed judge of the circuit court. He was a delegate to the convention of 1861 and also represented his district in con- gress. As a law maker he was conservative and deliberate, yet strong in the support of a measure or a bill for whose merits he held regard; while on the bench he was a judge of stern and unyielding impartiality, there laying aside all other relations in fulfilling the sacred obligation of distinguishing right from wrong and truth from falsehood. He married Nancy Millner, of Pittsylvania county, and had children: ]\Ioses; Robert H.. of whom further; Mary; Patty; Jane; William M., held the rank of captain in the

Confederate army ; Thomas B., a soldier in the Confederate army, killed at the battle of (iettysburg; James L. ; Nanny; the only sur- vivors are Patty and James L.

Robert II. Tredway. son of William M. and Nancy (Millner) Tredway. was born in Prince Edward county, Virginia, in 1830, died in 1908. Early in life he chose the pro- fession of his father for his own and for the greater part of his active life was a practic- ing lawyer of Chatham, where he ably up- held the honor gained for the family name in that profession. He married Mary Letitia Clark, born in Pittsylvania county, X'irginia, daughter of John Augustin and Elizabeth ( Fowlkes) Clark, her father born in Pine- ville, Pittsylvania county, Virginia, her mother a native of Nottoway county, Vir- ginia. John Augustin Clark, a farmer, died aged forty-five years, the father of: Mary Letitia, of previous mention, married Rob- ert H. Tredway; Jane. Betty, and William T.. all deceased. Children of Robert H. and Mary Letitia (Clark) Tredway: Virginia C, married Walter L. Payne, of Chatham, a commercial traveler in the employ of a hardware house,' and has three children ; John A., an attorney of Chatham; William N., engaged in the insurance business in Chatham ; Robert H.. of whom further ; Thomas B., a merchant of Norfolk, Virginia.

Robert H. (2) Tredway, son of Robert ?I. (i) and Mary Letitia (Clark) Tredway. was born in Chatham X^irginia, July 29, 1862. He obtained hi? education in private institutions of learning. When he was nine- teen years of age he made his entry into the tobacco business as a clerk in the em- ploy of William Graves, of Danville, \'ir- ginia. and was there employed for five years, later holding a. similar position with Redd & Jordan for a like period of time. He was then for one year in the service of J. R. Hutchins & Company at Durham, North Carolina, then went to Florence, South Carolina, and in partnership with R. A. Croxton estab- lished the first sales warehouse in South Carolina. After two years passed in this place he formed in Darlington, South Caro- lina, the firm of Sydnor t^ Tredway. a con- nection continuing for nine years, when the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Tred- way opened a warehouse in Timmonsville, South Carolina, of which he is now part owner, the business being conducted as Tredwav & Mangun. In addition to this