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emy, received private instruction, and was a student at the University of Virginia. From the University College of Medicine at Rich- mond he received the degree of J\I. D., and in 1895 engaged in general practice at W'av- erly, Virginia, where he continued one year, and then located in Benson, North Carolina, where he practiced four years. Subsequently he specialized in treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and gained experience in various New York hospitals. In 1903 he studied in London, England, and in 1910 in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1901 Dr. Jones located at Newport News, where he has met with remarkable success in the pursuit of his profession, and occupies an especially privileged position, with authority to send patients to all hospitals on the peninsula, a privilege not enjoyed by any other physician. He is consulting aurist and oculist of the National Soldiers' Home at Phoebus, Vir- ginia, the Hampton Normal & Agricultural College, Virginia State School for Colored Deaf and Blind Children, and the Newport News & Hampton Railway. Dr. Jones is a member of the American Medical Associa- tion, Virginia ^ledical Society, of which he was counsellor for nine years; is secretary and past president of the Sea Board Medical Association, and past president of the War- wick County Medical Society. He is affili- ated with the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the Knights Templar degree, being a member of Khedive Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mj'Stic Shrine, and is past commander of Hampton Com- mandery, Knights Templar. He is com- mander of J. E. B. Stuart Camp, Sons of the Confederacy, and a director of the Young Men's Christian Association. Politically he treads in the footsteps of his forbears, and enjoys high standing in the councils of the Democratic party.

Dr. Jones married, November 16, 1904, Maranda Rucker, daughter of D. H. and Mary Anna ( Rucker) Rucker, of Amherst county, Virginia. Children : Clarence Por- ter, Jr., born .August 16, 1909; Susie Eliza- beth, May 14, 1914.

Samuel Untermeyer is one of the sons of Virginia of whom that state may well be proud. He was born June 6, 1858, in Lynch- burg, Virginia, son of Isadore and Therese Untermeyer. The father was a wealthy planter in Virginia, and served as lieuten- ant in the Confederate army during the civil

war, dying soon after its close. The family then removed to New York City, where Samuel Untermeyer was reared.

His education was svipplied by the public schools of New York City and the College of the City of New York. Having com- pleted the course at the latter institution, he entered Columbia Law School, from which he received the degree of LL. B., in 1878. Being then but twenty years of age he could not be admitted to the bar until the following year,' when he at once entered upon the practice of his profession. As a young man he is said to have tried more cases in a single j-ear than any other lawyer of the New York bar. By the time he at- tained the age of twenty-four years Mr. Un- termeyer represented practically all the im- portant brewing interests in the city, acting as counsel for the Local. State and United States Brewers' associations, and previous to this had acted as senior counsel in two of the most celebrated divorce cases of the state, both of which were bitterly contested. One was the suit of Alfred N. Beadleston, head of the brewing firm of Beadleston & W'oerz. and the other was the suit of William L. Flanagan against his wife, a well known society woman. In both cases the evidence was gathered from various sections of the continent of Europe. Another important case tried early in Mr. Untermyer's career was the noted one of Betz versus Bauer and Daily, which grew out of a conspiracy be- tween Henry Daily, Jr., then a prominent lawyer of New York, and his client, junior partner of the firm of Betz & Bauer, seeking to defratid the senior partner through notes signed in the name of the firm by the junior, acting under the advice of Daily. A judg- ment of fifty-two thousand dollars was ob- tained against the latter, who was there- after disbarred.

In his busy career, Mr. L'ntermyer has Ijcen identifi'.'d with many celebrated cases. He defended Asa Bird Gardiner when an at- tempt was made to remove him from the office of district attorney of New York county, and represented the Wertheimers, English art dealers, in a controversy against tlie Count and Countess de Castellane, se- curing the payment of twenty million francs to the creditors of the Castellane estate, in payment of their accounts in full. In the struggle of James W. Alexander to oust James Hazen Hyde from control of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, Mr. Un-