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lege ; he has served as mayor of the city of hampton. and is now a practicing attorney in Washington, District of Columbia; he is a member of the Order of Free and Accepted Masons and the Knights of Pythias. 7. Marie Corelli, born in 1875 ; graduated from the State Normal School, after which she taught for several years ; later she went to Baltimore, Maryland, where she took a course in Bryant & Stratton's Business Col- lege, and is now private secretary to the manager of the Hotel Chamberlain, at Old Point Comfort.

(IV^) George William Hope, son of Dr. Jesse Pendergast and Mary Letitia (Taylor) Plope, was born in Hampton, Virginia, No- vember 30, 1857. After leaving the public schools of his native town, he was a student at the \'irginia Polytechnic Institute. He was then engaged in mercantile business until 1S92, when he v\'as appointed commis- sioner in chancery and commissioner of ac- counts of county court. He had joined the famous Company D, Fourth Virginia Volun- teers, and was elected captain, October 29, 1889, and held this office until the close of the Spanish-American war. His company was mustered into the United States army at Richmond, May 20, 1898, and mustered crut, April zj. 1899, at Camp Onward, Savan- nah, Georgia. During the war, Captain Hope lost only one man of his company, and that death was the result of fever. After his return. Captain Hope retired from mili- tary service, and resumed his duties as clerk in chancery. For a period of twenty years, he was a member of the choir of St. John's Episcopal Church.

(IV) Dr. Joseph Wilton Hope, son of Dr. Jesse Pendergast and Mary Letitia (Taylor) Hope, was born in September, 1865. in Hampton, Virginia. He acquired his early education in Dr. Peek's Academy, studied at the Medical College of Virginia. 188S-89. and was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He took a post- graduate course at the City Almshouse Hos- pital, at Richmond. While at college he was an adjunct of the professor of anatomy. He then established himself in private practice in York county, and continued there ten years. In 1899 Dr. Hope came to Hampton, where he has, since that time, been in prac- tice as a physician and surgeon. He fills the office of county physician, is health of- ficer, chairman of the school board, and chairman of tlie board of vital statistics. He

is of a very charitable disposition, and gen- erously gives his services to the poor. In political opinion he is a Democrat, and his religious affiliation is with St. John's Epis- copal Church. He is a member of the Medi- cal Association of Virginia, the American Medical Association, Free and Accepted Masons, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Improved Order of Red Men, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and past presi- dent of Elizabeth City County Aledical As- sociation.

Lucullus P.hilip Slater. A descendant of the prominent \ n-ginia families. Slater and Lee, Mr. Slater has in his own right earned lasting remembrance in the hearts of his fellow-men as a devoted instructor of youth, upbuilder of the public school system and public official of the city of Portsmouth, a city that since 1865 has been his residence. Scholarly, dignified and courteous he has devoted his talents and attributes of char- acter to the highest purpose and in every station that he has been called upon to occupy in military, professional or official life, has served well the state that gave him birth and the city that gave him shelter when returning from four years of valiant service upon the battlefields of Virginia. Most of his half century of life spent in Portsmouth has been spent in connection with the public schools as teacher and prin- cipal of the high school, but since 1900 he has served as cit}- clerk, an office to which he has been continuously re-elected at the expiration of each term.

Mr. Slater is a son of Parke Slater, a dis- tinguished soldier of the Confederacy, and a grandson of Daniel and Mary Slater, of New Kent county, Virginia, a descendant of of an early, influential Virginia family. Dan- iel Slater owned a plantation worked by slave labor and was one of the extensive tobacco planters of New Kent county. He served in the war of 1812, inheriting the ardor of revolutionary sires and transmit- ting equal ardor to his posterity. He is re- membered as a man of nervous tempera- ment, quick in speech and action, but just and generous. Parke Slater was a large landowner of New Kent county, one of the wealthy planters of ante bellum days. He served with great distinction throughout the war between the states, then quietly ac- cepting its results, returned to Williams- burg and rebuilt his shattered fortunes. He