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Lhesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, King William and New Kent, and the cities of Richmond and Manchester. Later the Congressional District was changed so as to include Charles City, Chesterfield, Gooch- l;nui. Hanover, Henrico, James City, King William, and New Kent counties, and the cities of Manchester, Richmond and Wil- liamsburg. In all he served in Congress sixteen years, from March 4, 1897, to March 4, 1913; and he was in the public service of Charles City county twenty years prior thereto, a goodly record of faithful public service and devotion to the interests of his constituents. He is a member of the Metho- dist Episcopal church.

Mr. Lamb married Mattie Redd Wade, daughter of Rev. Anderson and Mary Wal- ler (Clark) Wade, November 17, 1869, at Richmond, Virginia. She was born Febru- ary 10, 1849, 3t Martinsville, Henry county, \'irginia ; her father was a Doctor of Divin- ity and minister of the Protestant Episco- pal church. Children of Rev. Anderson \\'ade : Mary G., Elizabeth Mildred, Mattie Redd, of whom above. Children of John Lamb and Mattie Redd Wade: i. Anthony W., born June 27, 1873, at Green Yard, in Charles City county, Virginia ; married Alice Ar- cher, of Richmond ; and has five children : Archer, Annie, Jacqueline, Wade, John. 2. John A., born August 6, 1875, at Green Yard, in Charles City county, Virginia, is a lawyer ; married Nannie Blair, of Richmond Virginia ; and has three children : Blair Virginia, Martha Wade. 3. William C. born June 19, 1881, in Charles City county Virginia. 4. Bessie, born January 23, 1885 married Hugh Woolfolk, of Richmond, Vir- ginia. 5. Frederick B., born April 10, 18 is an electrical engineer.

John William Ebert, M. D. The family of which John William Ebert, M. D., of Win- chester, Frederick county, Virginia, is a member, is of German origin, founded in this country by Martin Ebert, who came to Pennsylvania when he was eight years of .-ige, later making his home in Virginia. His wife was a Miss Myers, and the descent to Dr. John William Ebert is through their son, William Henry, father of Martin Pultz Ebert.

Martin I'ultz Ebert. father of Dr. John William I'",bert, was born in Frederick county, X'irginia, June 15, 1854. and has all

of his life been an agriculturist and fruit- grower. He married Mary Elizabeth, born in Frederick county, Virginia, October 17, 1853, daughter of John F. Rutherford. John F. Rutherford, a nephew of the John F. Rutherford previously mentioned, was a soldier of the Fifty-second Regiment Vir- ginia Infantry, Confederate States army, and was taken prisoner by the Union troops, being confined at Elmira, New York.

Dr. John William Ebert, son of Martin Pultz and Mary Elizabeth (Rutherford) Ebert, was born at Stephenson, Frederick county, Virginia, June 13, 1887. In his youth he was a student in the public schools, grad- uating from high school in 1905. He at- tended the Shenandoah Academy for two years, and in 1908 matriculated at the Uni- versity of Maryland, whence he was gradu- ated M. D. in 1912. He was for six months an interne in the University of Maryland Hospital, and on January I, 1913, estab- lished in the practice of his profession in Winchester, Virginia. Here he continued until January 1, 1915, and in addition to the general practice that had come to him he became a member of the staff of the Win- chester Memorial Hospital. He was also medical examiner for the Modern Woodmen of the World and the Sarah Zane Fire Com- pany. Dr. Ebert's reception into the ranks of medical practitioners in Frederick county was most cordial, and there he found a pleasant field for his professional labors, which had an auspicious beginning. As be- fore stated he practiced his profession until January I, 1915, then he gave up his prac- tice to take up post-graduate work and eventually take up his abode in Minnesota,

Dr. Ebert is a communicant of the Pro- testant Episcopal church, and is politically allied with the Democratic party.

Dr. Ebert married, September 29, 1909, Louise, born in Baltimore, Maryland, July 2T,, 1890, daughter of Louis and May H. (Hundley) Bowly. Children of Dr. John William and Louise (Bowly) Ebert: Doro- thy Whiting, born in Winchester, Virginia. Cictober 18, 1910, died September 30, 1912; John William Clayton, born in Winchester, Virginia, April 3, 1913.

Louis Bowly is a son of Franklin Bowly, who married Eliza, daughter of J. E. Jack- son. Franklin Bowly was a son of Daniel Bowly. who was elected. May 18, 1775, a member of the committee of observation for