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age prevented him from military service, he refused exemption from service at the time of the siege of Petersburg and fought in the trenches. He married Sarah Frances Hatcher, born in Chesterfield county, Vir- ginia, and died in 1863, aged thirty-six years. They were the parents of two children. Dr. William Edward, of whom further, and Sarah Riches, who married W. P. White- head, of Petersburg, Virginia, and died Feb- ruary 6, 191 5, aged sixty-four years, the mother of Mary C. and William Harwood.

Dr. William Edward Harwood was born in Petersburg, \'irginia, September 10, 1847. His early education was obtained in the school maintained by Professor McCabe, after which he attended William and Mary College. His scholastic work was inter- rupted by the war between the states, and as soon as he was accepted for service, at the age of sixteen years, he became a private in Company B, Fourth Battalion of Virginia Reserves, commanded by Major F. H. Archer. At the battle of Reeves" Farm, a lad of seventeen years, he lost his right arm. At the close of the war he returned to his studies, and on March 6, 1873, was gradu- ated from the Medical College of Virginia with the degree Doctor of Medicine. Since that time he has been an active practitioner, and it is a high tribute to his ability as a physician to say that he stands as high in his profession as he does in the love and friendship of those who are privileged to know him well. Dr. Harwood has been called to public service in different capac- ities, and in 1879 was chosen to represent his district in the Virginia legislature. His long term of activity has made him a familiar figure in Petersburg, and the re- membrance of his ready sympathy and ten- der kind-heartedness will live long in the hearts of the hundreds to whom he has min- istered. He is a member of the Presbyterian church.

Dr. Harwood married (first) in Peters- burg. Virginia, in 1885. ^lary E. Goddard, who died in 1890; (second) Fannie Mason Cole, born in Chesterfield county, Virginia, daughter of \\'illiam and Emma (Mason) Cole. William Cole, deceased, was a soldier in the Thirteenth Regiment Virginia Cav- alry, Confederate States army, and is sur- vived by his wife, a resident of Chesterfield county, Virginia. By his first marriage Dr. Harwood is the father of Mary Riches, mar-

ried E. H. Hoy, of Petersburg, and John Maynard, a graduate of Richmond high school and Richmond College, now a stu- k-nt in the Medical College of Virginia, class of 1917. He has one daughter of his second marriage, Fannie Mason, born February 18, 1895, married Edwin Graves Temple, of Evergreen, on the James river, Virginia.

Joseph Dunn Osborne, M. D. Joseph Dunn Osborne, M. D.. of Petersburg, has been successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in that city for a period of sixteen years, and has gained the esteem and confidence of his fellows, not only as a phy- sician, but as a gentleman of true Southern character. He is descended from John Os- borne, who married Jane Pleasants Harri- son, daughter of Nathaniel and Anna (Gil- liam) Harrison, of Petersburg. Virginia (see Harrison). John Osborne and wife had chil- dren : Jane Harrison, died unmarried ; Charles Francis, married Mary Field Gil- liam ; Nathaniel Montgomer\- ^IcKenzie, M. D. ; Pleasants Carter ; Edmund Harrison, and John Dunlop.

(II) Edmund Harrison Osborne, son of John and Jane P. (Harrison) Osborne, was born in Petersburg, where he was engaged through life in the manufacture of tobacco. Fle married Sarah Cabaniss, of Dinwiddle county, Virginia, and they were the parents of three children, all now deceased: Robert Cryer, receives further mention below ; Jennie, was the wife of Colonel Gordon S. McCabe, and died in 1912; Elizabeth, be- c;.me the wife of Captain John R. Patter- son, and died in 1872 (see Patterson).

(HI) Robert Cryer Osborne, eldest child of Edmund Harrison and Sarah (Cabaniss) Osborne, was born September, 1839, in Petersburg, where he lived all his life, and died June 30, 1903. He was an expert judge of tobacco, and engaged in the manufacture of various forms of tobacco throughout his active life. During the civil war he served as assistant quartermaster of Mahone's bri- gade, and was once made a prisoner of war. He was active in promoting the welfare and progress of his native city, and served as a member of the city council. He married Lucy F. Dunn, born 1841. in Petersburg, daughter of John Dunn, who came from Londonderry, Ireland, and settled in Peters- burg, when a young man. where he was many years a commission merchant, and