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General Robert Lewis, but the above is the view of able authorities).

Fielding Lewis Marshall, son of Thomas and ^largaret \\'. (Lewis) ^Marshall, was born at ""Oakville." Fauquier county. Vir- ginia, March 29, 1819. He was educated at the University of \'irginia. and after com- pleting the classical course, graduated from the law department, but never practiced. He settled on his portion of the homestead estate, "Oakville," and engaged in farmmg until war broke out between the states, in April, 1861. He at once enlisted as orderly sergeant. Company H, of the Wise Dra- goons, recruited in Fauquier county. The dragoons were assigned to the Sixth Regi- ment of Cavalry, and in June, 1862. Ser- geant Marshall was commissioned first lieu- tenant of artillery and placed on ordnance duty at Lynchburg, \^irginia. He continued in the service until the final surrender in 1865. He was a member of the Virginia house of delegates, 1869-70-71, and for years after the war was engaged in teaching. He possessed a fine mind, high literary acquire- ments, superior judgment and unblemished honor. He married (first) April 19, 1843. Rebecca F. Coke, born October 26, 1824. died April 20, 1862. He married (second) July 9, 1867, ]\Iarv Newton Thomas, born August 9, 1842, at Alexandria, \^irginia, who survives him, a resident of Orange, Vir- ginia. She is a daughter of George I. and IW'aria Newton (Harper) Thomas. Ry his first marriage Lieutenant Marshall has eight children, by his second marriage seven were born, John Newton Marshall of Orange, X'^irginia, being the fourteenth child and youngest son. One of his daughters was married in the White House, Lieuten- ant Marshall acting as best man at the wed- ding.

John Newton Marshall, son of Lieutenant Fielding Lewis Marshall and his second wife, Mary Newton (Thomas ) Marshall, was born at Culpeper, \"irginia. Se]3tember 18. 1879. He was educated in public and private schools, but his best and most cap- able teacher was his honored father. After completing his studies he engaged in dif- ferent lines of activity and finally located in New York City, where for a time he was engaged as a broker on the Stock Exchange. Later he returned to \'irginia, and is now engaged in a profitable real estate business in Orange. He has added a slightly new residence section to Orange, that is rapidly

being improved. Mr. Marshall, as the Jilar- shalls have ever been, is a member of the Episcopal church, and in political faith is a Democrat. He is an active progressive young man and has won high standing in his native state, where the Marshalls ha\'e always held high social standing.

Rev. William D. Smith. \'irginia offers no name more rich with memories, more honorably connected with the history of the state than that of Smith. Well is it remem- liered from the earliest founding of the col- ony, and descending from colonial days to more modern times none of the worthy repu- tation it then gathered has been lost, the in- creased opportunities and responsibilities of hitter day life having offered a new field for fame to its members that has been eag- erly seized. It is with one of this line that tliis record is concerned. Rev. William Dick- inson Smith, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, of Winchester, ^'irginia.

He is a son of William Dickinson Smith, and a grandson of Edward J. Smith, his father a planter of Virginia, a magistrate and at one time a member of the state sen- ate. William Dickinson Smith was born in Winchester, Frederick county, \"irginia, in 1813. died in 1894. He married Agnes I'ickett, born in Clarke county, \'irginia in 1836, died in 1913, daughter of Le Roy Pinckney Williams. William Dickinson .Smith was a statesman of high purpose and great influence, and throughout his long and active career was a sturdy champion of the right, defending the principles for which he stood with all the force of an alert, vigorous mind.

Rev. William Dickinson Smith, son of \\ illiam Dickinson ami Agnes Pickett (Williams) Smith, was born in Frederick county, \'irginia, November 19. 1863. After a course in the Episcopal High School of .Alexandria, Virginia, he entered the Llni- versity of \'irginia, where he remained for one year. For five years after leaving the university he followed farming as his occu- pation, then matriculated at the Theological Seminary at Alexandria. \'irginia, whence he was graduated in 1891. Soon after his ordination into the ministry of the Pro- testant Episcopal church he became first assistant rector at St. Paul's Church, at Pe- tersburg, \'irginia. and after remaining there for two years filled the same position in a parish in Brooklyn, New York. From