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Carclozo, was born in Richmond, Virginia, October i6, 1875, and was educated in the private preparatory schools of the city and Richmond College. He then, at the age of twenty-one, became a member of the firm of Gibson & Cardozo, timber dealers. For two years this partnership held, and for eight years after its dissolution Mr. Cardozo con- tinued in the same line, in 1906 forming the firm of Cardozo & Hubard. Inc., wholesale lumber dealers. Mr. Cardozo is a Demo- crat in political persuasion, and a communi- cant of the P'irst Presbyterian Church. His clubs are the Country and the Business Men's.

Mr. Cardozo married, in Richmond, Vir- ginia, November 16, 1910, Kate Harris Talley, born in this city, November 16, 1875, daughter of Daniel D. and Julia (Har- ris) Talley. Daniel D. Talley, born in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, was for many years a banker and dry goods mer- chant of Richmond, and served as secretary of the Medical College of Virginia for a long term of years, now living retired in Richmond, aged seventy-five years, his wife who was a native of Richmond, also living at the present time (1914). Of the three children of Daniel D. and Julia (Harris) Talley, two survive. Kate Harris, of pre- vious mention, wife of Benjamin Pollard Cardozo. and Daniel D., Jr., a physician.

John Bagby is a member of an old Vir- ginia family which has lived for years in liistoric King and Queen county with the life and traditions of which region its mem- bers have been closely identified. King and Queen county is one of the very early counties of Virginia, being formed long be- fore the revolutionary period, and was the scene of much that was stirring and sig- nificant in early \'irginia and in the events occurring in its early history as a state. .Amid these rcmiantic associations the Bagby family has made its home for many gener- ations, and from them has received those qualities which have made Virginia remark- able, the easy courtesy, the frank hospitality and the chivalry towards women character- istic of a less material age which has passed.

The paternal grandfather of John Bagby of this sketch was also John Bagby. and his birthplace, like that of his namesake, was in Kino- and Oueen « ountv. Here he was

engaged in a mercantile business, and was prosperous in worldly affairs, being a well known and prominent figure throughout the region. He enlisted in the United States army at the time of the war of 1812 and dis- tinguished himself by brave and faithful service throughout that struggle. His death occurred at the venerable age of eighty-nine years. He was married to Elizabeth Court- ney, of King and Queen county, and upon the death of this lady, was a second time married. His wife this time was Mrs. Eliza- beth Motley, and l:)y these two wives he had twelve children.

Rev. Alfred Bagby, the only surviving child of John and Elizabeth (Courtney) Bagby, was born in the ancestral home of the Bagby family in King and Queen county, Virginia. June 15, 1828. Displaying at an early age a strong religious bent, his par- ents decided that he should receive such a training as would fit him for the ministry of the Baptist church. As this fitted in with the youth's desires, the matter was arranged and he was sent to Columbia University, where he took the degree of B. A. From the time of his entrance to the ministry his life has ben an exceptionally busy one. and even today he has not entirely retired from active work. Eighteen years ago he left the old home in King and Queen county, and came to Richmond, where he is now re- siding with his son, the subject of this sketch, at the latter's home at No. 2206 Monument avenue. Rev. Alfred Bagby mar- ried Sarah Jane Pollard, a native of King and Queen county, Virginia, now deceased, and they became the parents of eight chil- dren, as follows: Thomas P., admitted to the Virginia bar. now deceased ; Charles T., now a practicing lawyer in Baltimore, Maryland ; Alfred Jr., also resident of Bal- timore ; John, of whom further; Richard Hugh, a resident of Washington, D. C. ; George P., engaged in the practice of law in Baltimore ; and two daughters, both of whom died in infancy.

John Bagby. fourth child of Rev. Alfred and Sarah Jane (Pollard) Bagby, was born April I. 1870, in King and Queen count}-, Virginia, which had witnessed the births of so many of his forbears. He passed his childhood and youth in the old home, and received his education in the local schools. He also assisted in the work of the farm. receiving thus a training all too uncommon