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served throughout the war until he was wounded at Winchester in 1864. He is the author of "One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry." Shortly after the war he went to Scottsville, where he engaged in the milling business, and operated a line of boats on the old James river and Kanawha canal until the canal was sold to the Richmond & Alleghany railroad, when he returned to Richmond and engaged in the insurance business.

George Gibson Worsham was born No- vember 26, 1874, at Scottsville, Virginia, and was educated at his mother's knee and in the public schools of Richmond and Scotts- ville. Mr. Worsham took to printing early in life, and earned enough to pay for his small press and buy a bicycle before leaving school. He then went with Joseph Bryan, who shortly after acquired the "Richmond Times." Mr. Worsham then went to New York and learned the operation of the lino- type machine, and in 1892 set up the first of these machines in this section of the coun- try. Mr. Worsham met the late Otmar Mergenthaler, the inventor of the linotype, in Baltimore, on his return from New York, and had him explain the working of the wonderful machine to him. When the "Even- ing Leader" was reestablished, in 1896, Mr. Worsham took charge of the mechanical de- partment of the newspaper, and made up the first forms of that paper, which attracted wide attention and were the first display or modern newspaper pages made up in Vir- ginia. In 1899 Mr. Worsham left the "Even- ing Leader," and with Harvey L. Wilson, now editor of the "Ledger-Dispatch" of Nor- folk, Virginia, established the "Richmond News," and when they sold this paper to the John L. Williams interests Mr. Worsham formed an association with Charles A. Zincke and they organized the "Richmond Press." This printing establishmer.t is one of the largest of its kind in Virginia, and occupies spacious and convenient quarters in Rich- mond. Some years ago it bought from the late Dr. Hunter McGuire's heirs the old St. Luke's Hospital building at the corner of Ross and Governor streets, and erected upon the site the present mammoth Richmond Press building. In 1913 Mr. Worsham ac- quired the Patterson tobacco factories, at the corner of Seventh and Canal streets, and there erected the present modern Express building.

He married. November 27, 1907, Julia Pilcher, of Petersburg, daughter of Rev.

John Mason Pilcher, D. D., for three years president of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, and his wife, Mary Lucy Du Val. Children : Bell, born September 25, 1908; John Gibson, October i, 191 1; Sarah DuVal, July 7, 1913.

Joseph William Eggleston, D. D. S., has

throughout his career been an exceedingly close student, a careful reader, a lover of literature and science, and a fascinating con- versationalist. His mind is a rich store- house of the most extensive and varied in- formation, garnered from almost every de- partment of human thought and action — law, politics, religion, history, folk-lore, science, romance. He entertains the firm opinion that a young man's first step toward success consists in taking measure of his own capacity and adaptability to perform a certain specific work, and then to resolve to do it with all his energy. In conjunction with this, he must take into consideration the rights and feelings of his fellow men. He must cultivate their good will, not by slavish blandishments, but by a dignified self-respect and a manifest fairness. The family from which Dr. Eggleston is de- scended is among the oldest in the country. In this country the first lineal paternal an- cestor of Dr. Eggleston was Richard Eg- gleston, of "Old Powhatan," near James- town, Virginia, who emigrated from Eng- land in 1634. He may have been of Irish birth.

William Eggleston, great-grandfather of Dr. Eggleston, removed from James City county, Virginia, about 1728, to what was then Prince George county, and is now known as Amelia county. Prior to his re- moval he married Judith Gary.

Edward Eggleston. son of William and Judith (Gary) Eggleston, was born in 1752, in the house in which he spent his entire life. This is still standing, as an old landmark, and was later occupied by Dr. Eggleston. He was a lieutenant in the Virginia militia, and was an active partici- pant in the battle of Yorktown. In 1830 he was a presiding magistrate of the old county court of Amelia county. He married Bet- sev Booker, a niece of Governor William B. Giles. Joseph Eggleston. a cousin, was a major in the army, a congressman and a state senator.

Joseph Gary Eggleston. son of Edward and Betsey (Booker) Eggleston, was born