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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY

Manley W., born in Fauquier county, Vir- ginia, educated in the public schools and Locust Dale Academy, now a farmer ; Lucille McGuire, born in Orange county, \'irginia. married Thomas Henderson, of Franklin. Tennessee, and has a son, Thomas, Jr. ; Ruth Fletcher, born in Orange county, married Eustis Johnston, and resides in Franklin. Tennessee ; Roy William, of whom further,

Roy William Carter, son of Thomas Wal- den and Bettie B. (Fletcher) Carter, was born in Orange county, Virginia, August 4, 1889. After a course in the public schools that included high school instruction he pre- pared for college in the Locust Dale Acad- emy. In 1902 he entered William and Mary College, remaining as a student in that in- stitution until 1904, from the latter date until 1910 filling the office of assistant post- master at Orange, Virginia. He resumed l;is studies in 19 10, entering Cumberland University, and was admitted to the bar the following year. His entrance into legal circles was as the partner of Judge Morton, and for one year he benefitted by the ma- ture judgment and ripe experience of this well known jurist, the death of the senior partner ending the connection. For the past two years Mr. Carter has pursued his pro- fession independently, and with increasing practice has gained honorable place among his contemporaries. His political faith is that of his father. Republican, the elder Car- ter having been one of the earliest members of that party in Orange county. Mr. Carter affiliates with the Inter County Law Society and the Virginia Bar Association. His church is the St. Thomas Protestant Epis- copal.

John Waddle Carter, Jr. Entering, after classical, technical and professional training, the profession in which his honored father gained standing and prominence, the law, John Waddie Carter, Jr., has for one year been a legal practitioner of Martinsville, Henry county, Virginia. Confronted with the inspiring example, not only of the use- ful life of his father, but of the careers of his ancestors, whose names appear bril- liantly in the history of Virginia, in their achievements he has an ever-present ideal. Mr. Carter is a son of John Waddie (i) and grandson of James Hill Carter, his grand- father having served in a Virginia Regi-

ment in the Confederate States army during all of the war between the states.

John Waddie (i) Carter, son of James Hill Carter, was born in Henry county, Vir- ginia, April 14, i860, and died in Alarch, 1914. As a youth he attended the public schools, and obtained his academic educa- tion through a four years' course in Roan- oke College, whence he was graduated in 1882. He then enrolled in the law depart- ment of the University of Virginia, one of his classmates, Oscar Underwood, Demo- cratic leader of the house of representatives under the administration of President Wil- son, and received his Bachelor of Laws in 1884. On June 24, 1886, Mr. Carter began the practice of his profession in Martins- ville, Virginia, and in addition to acquiring a private practice, large and lucrative, gained eminence and importance in public life. He served Martinsville as mayor for several years and satisfactorily and ably filled this office. His professional duties and connections, absorbing as they were, did not keep him from the conscientious discharge of his religious responsibilities, and he long served as vestryman of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church and as superintendent of the Sunday school of that congregation. John Waddie Carter was a man of strong and firm convictions, which he lived in his daily course and to which he rigidly ad- hered under all conditions, the universal re- spect and constant regard of his fellows testifying the approval and appreciation of his life. He married (first) Mary L. Smeade, of Salem. Virginia, daughter of Colonel A. W. Smeade, who died in 1895; married (second) November 4. 1897, Kiz- ziah Doe wry, daughter of Dr. H. M. Doewry, died April 11, 1915. His first wife, Mary L. (Smeade) Carter, was a descend- ant of Alexander Gordon, of Scotland, who fought under the "Pretender" in 1745. Chil- dren of the first marriage of John Waddie Carter: John W'addie (2), of whom fur- ther; Louis G. ; Marion W^entworth, de- ceased. Children of his second marriage: Kizzie and Ruth.

John W^addie (2) Carter, son of John Waddie (i) and Mary L. (Smeade) Carter, was born at Martinsville, Henry county, Virginia, November 16, 1888. The public schools of the place of his birth and a pri- vate tutor v\'ere the mediums through which his early education was obtained, and he