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He was educated in the Virginia schools conducted by Horace W. Jones, William R. Abbott and Chapman Maupin. From these hf went to the University of Virginia, where he studied 1876-78. and commenced the practice of law at the Orange Court House. \"irginia, in 1881, and still resides there. He entered the political arena in 1888, and has made a record of which any man may feel proud. He was twice elected by the Demo- crats to represent his county in the house of delegates, and was elected to the state senate in 1900. He was elected by the Vir- ginia legislature circuit judge of the ninth circuit and served from igio to 1915, when he resigned to engage in the general prac- tice of law. During the time he served in the senate. Mr. Shackelford was a member of various committees, among them being the finance committee, in which his services were of especial value. His father having died when he was thirteen years of age, he was dependent upon his own resources to secure the education necessary to make his m.ark in the legal profession, and may truly be called a selfmade man. At the age of fifteen years he was obliged to leave school, And until he was nineteen years of age, worked in a bank in order to accumulate the means for his university studies. Mr. Shack- elford has been a member of the board of visitors of the University of Virginia. On July I, 1884, he married Virginia Minor Randolph, born at Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1859, a daughter of Dr. Wilson Carey Nicholas and Nannie ( Holladay) Randolph. Dr. Randolph was in charge of the hospital at Lynchburg during the civil war. The Randolph family is well known in the his- tory of this country, and two of its mem- bers. Thomas Jefferson Randolph and Dr. Wilson Carey Nicholas Randolph, were rec- tors of the board of visitors of the Univer- sity of Virginia, before that institution had a president. Mrs Shackelford is the great- great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. Mr. and Mrs. Shackelford have children: Virginius Randolph, whose name heads this sketch ; Nannie Holladay, born in Orange county, Virginia, 1887. married Karl M. Block; George Scott, Jr.. born in Orange county, 1897, "ow at Woodbury Forest School: Margaret W'ilson, born in Orange county. \'irginia. in 1900.

Virginius Randolph Shackelford, son of George Scott and \^irginia Minor (Ran-

dolph ) Shackelford, was born in Orange, \'irginia, April 15, 1885. He received his educational advantages under Professor H. R. Berkeley, and in the public schools of his native county and the Woodbury Forest School, near Orange, of which J. Carter Walker was principal, and matriculated at the University of Virginia in 1902. He was graduated from this institution in the class of 1907 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws. He was chosen a member of the Raven Society. Admitted to the Virginia bar in the same year, he has been engaged in active general practice in Orange since, and is assistant division counsel for the Southern Railway. He is a member of the X'irginia Bar Association ; the Delta Psi fraternity ; Orange Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. His political support is given to the Democratic party, and he is chairman of the Orange County Democratic Committee, and a mem- ber of the Virginia Normal school board. In religion he is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church. Mr. Shackelford married, November 10, 191D, Peachy Gascoigne Lyne. born in Orange county, Virginia, in June, 1887, daughter of William H. and Cassandra (Moncure) Lyne.

Norman Waller File, M. D. From Kent, England, in 1867, came Ashton File, a young man of eighteen years, born in Kent in 1840. He located in Buckingham county, Virginia, there married and pursued the life of an agriculturist, owning land and pros- pering. His wife, Ella Louise (Tucker) File, born in Prince Edward county, Virginia, in 185 1, yet survives him. a resident of Buck- ingham county. She is the daughter of Henry and Lovina (McKee) Tucker, of an important Virginia family. Her brother. Waller Tucker, now an attorney-at-law in Fayetteville. West Virginia, is a Confederate veteran, having served four years in a Vir- ginia regiment and sustained injuries. An- other Ijrother, Rev. Joel Tucker, is a minis- ter of the Baptist church, pastor of the For- est Hill Church, near Manchester, Virginia. .Ashton File had sons: Norman Waller, of further mention; .Ashton (2), married Frances Wiggins and has a son Ashton (3) ; William H., married .Adelaide Lenair and has a daughter .Adelaide H.

Dr. Norman Waller File, of Covington, Virginia, was born in Buckingham county,