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was an ardent believer in the justice of the Southern cause, and during the war, 1861- 65, was surgeon in the Confederate army, and in charge of a hospital at Berryville, where he had been previously for several years engaged in medical practice. He died at about the close of the war after render- ing arduous and valuable service to the cause he loved.

Dr. Kownslar married (first) Mary Mac- Leary ; children: i. Ellen, who married S. J. C. Moore, adjutant-general of the Con- federate States army under General Early, and had children: Randolph K., Mary, Jane C, Dr. Lawson B., Annie C, Lillie K., Mary K., and Nora B. 2. Mary, who died unmarried. Dr. Kownslar married (second) Elizabeth St. Clair Blackburn, born at Springgrove, Jefferson county, Virginia, in 1813, who long survived him, dying in 1907, at the great age of ninety-six years. She was a granddaughter of Colonel Thomas Blackburn, an officer of the revolution. Chil- dren of second marriage: i. Randolph, born in Berryville, Virginia ; married Alice AI. Stribling ; children : Conrad Randolph and Alice M. 2. Conrad (2), of further men- tion. 3. Jane Blackburn, married Rev. Wil- liam B. Lee, of Gloucester, Virginia, and has issue : i. Elizabeth St. Clair, married Marshall M. Milton, children: William Byrd Lee. Elizabeth Sinclair, Blackburn and Mar- shall Milton ; ii. Evelyn Byrd, married H. T. Hutcheson. children: Henry Edmund, Jane Blackburn Lee and Thomas Barksdale Hutcheson ; iii. Mary Page ; iv. Jennie K. ; V. Eliza A. ; vi. William Byrd Lee. 4. Eliz- abeth St. Clair, married W. Ludwell Bald- win, and has issue: William L., married Mary Payne, of Norfolk, Virginia, and has William L. (2), and Portia Lee; Baldwin. 5. Lydia, married Edward M. Stribling, and has issue: Randolph K. ; Edward M. (2), married Cornelia McBlair, of Norfolk, \'ir- ginia ; John W.. married Louise K. Tavlor, and has a daughter, Louise K.

Conrad (2) Kownslar, son of Dr. Ran- dolph and Elizabeth St. Clair (Blackburn) Kownslar, was born in Berryville, \'irginia. September 28. 1851. He was educated at private schools in Alexandria, \'irginia, and under special tutors, attaining proficiency in all that marks the modernly educated man. He began the study of law under the preceptorship of Major S. J. C. Moore, of

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Berryville, his brother-in-law, and pursued a complete course, gaining admission to the \'irginia bar in 1876.

He began legal practice in Berryville, later moving to Houston, Texas, where he was admitted to the bar and practiced for st\eral years. He then returned to Berry- ville, where he has since practiced continu- ously. He has been admitted to all state and Federal courts, his practice extending to all, being general in character. He has served as commonwealth attorney ; was for three years mayor of Berryville; and by ap- pointment of the governor served as a mem- ber of the board of visitors to Mt. Vernon. He is learned in the law, skilled in its appli- cation, and ranks among the leaders of the Clarke county bar.

Mr. Kownslar is a member of the Masonic order and of the Sons of the Revolution. He is a communicant of the Protestant Epis- copal church in religion, and in political faith i.. a Democrat. He has ever taken active in- terest in public affairs, and has contributed his full share to party success. Mr. Kowns- lar has been delegate from Clarke county to many state conventions of his party, but has never sought preferment for himself be- }ond the local office mentioned, mayor of his native town.

James Marion Broughton. The family name of James Marion Broughton, chief of police of the city of Portsmouth, Virginia, i^ derived from the Saxon, Broc, which means brook or brocken land, or Tun, a dwelling or town. In King Ethelred's char- ter to the monastery of Shaftesbury, Eng- land, A. D. looi, Elfwig's boundaries as Broctun are mentioned. The Domesday Book of William the Conqueror, 1086, de- scribes thirty-four manors of Broctun vari- ously Latinized by the clerks of the records to Brochthon, Brocton, Brotton, Broton, Brogton, and Broughton, perhaps according to the pronunciation peculiar to the local- ities where the manors were situated. Later the orthography of Broughton seems to have been generally adopted. The name continued prominent among the knights and sheriff's of England for four centuries, until the titular male lines became extinct and their estates passed through female lines to other families.

Thomas Broughton, a passenger from