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ginia, and there completed the education he had begun. At the age of eighteen years he discontinued his studies, and set himself with characteristic energy and aptitude to master the sheet and metal trade, and later took employment in the shops of the South- ern Railroad. He remained in the employ of the railroad until 1902, when he received an appointment which altered the course of his career. Mr. Saunders had from early youth been interested in the conduct of pub- lic affairs and in all political questions and issues, whether of local or national import. Most especially he took a keen interest in local politics, and played an active role in them as a member of the Democratic party. lie was very popular in Manchester, Vir- ginia, where the shops of the Southern Rail- road are situated, and served a term in the Alanchester city council. In 1902 he w^as elected the city sergeant of Manchester, and held that honorable post until April, 1914, when he was appointed by President Wilson United States marshal for the eastern dis- trict of Virginia. Mr. Saunders, since the receipt of this appointment, has taken an active part in the life of the capital of the state. He is prominent in fraternal circles and belongs to a number of organizations, aniong them being the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Masonic order, the Pythians and the Elks. Mr. Saunders is a staunch member of the Methodist church, attending the Central Methodist Church of Richmond, in the work of which he takes an active part, and aids in a material way in the support of the many benevolences con- nected therewith.

Mr. Saunders married, in Richmond, Vir- ginia. December 23, 1889. Isabella P. Voss, of that city, where she was born, March 16, 1873. To Mr. and Mrs. Saunders have been b'orn eleven children, all of whom are now living, with the exception of one, Emily Marion, who died in infancy. They are as follows: Isabelle Pearl. John Harold, Edgar Addington. Alma Louise. Elsie Virginia and Kenneth Clopton, twins, Thomas Nelson, Evelyn Page. William Kern, and Emily Marion, named after the above infant.

Benjamin Pollard Cardozo. Richmond has offered a field for business activities of two generations of this line of Cardozo in the persons of Benjamin Pollard Cardozo, of the firm of Cardozo & Hubard, Inc., and

his honored father, Isaac Demetrius Car- dozo. The elder Cardozo made his entrance into the business world of the city in 1846, as a lad of sixteen years, attaining promi- nent position as a merchant, and fifty years later Benjamin Pollard Cardozo began his active career, lumber dealing the line he has chosen. His firm is a sound and well-rated organi/.alimi. and his connection with busi- ness circles in Richmond is as a worthy successor of his father.

Mr. L"ardozo's grandfather, a native of I'owhatan county, Virginia, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and until his accidental death ])y drowning was proprietor of a hotel at Powhatan Court House. By his marriage with Mahala I'augh, daughter of Edward and Rebecca Baugli, also of Powhatan county, he was the father of nine children, seven of whom grew to mature years, one of them Isaac Demetrius, of whom further. Mahala (IJaugh) Cardozo died in Rich- mond, aged eighty-two years.

Isaac Demetrius Cardozo was born at Powhatan Court House, Powhatan county, Virginia, in 1830, died in 1906. He was a youth of sixteen years when he first became connected with a dry goods house in Rich- mond, and in this line he afterward estab- lished independently, continuing therein until his retirement. He was an enterpris- ing merchant, prospered in his calling, and was held in high esteem by his business associates. During the war of 1861-65 he was in the Confederate service and held a commission in the commissary depart- ment. He was a director of the old City Bank, a deacon of the Second Presby- terian Church for many years, and at the time of his death was an honorary member of the Young Men's Christian Association, an honor ])estowed upon him because of his strong friendship and labors for that organization. Isaac Demetrius Cardozo married Rebecca llacon Pollard, born in Henrico county, Virginia, died August 25, 1895, aged forty-nine years, daughter of Benjamin and Camilla Marcella (Price) Pollard, her parents natives of Hanover county. Virginia. Benjamin Pollard moved to Richmond prior to the civil war where he was clerk of court for man}- years, his death occurring in 1880. when he was sixty years of age.

Benjamin Pollard Cardozo. son of Isaac Demetrius and Rebecca Bacon (Pollard)