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uary i, 1914, when he resigned to accept the office of plumbing inspector for the city of Portsmouth for a term of four years. He is peculiarly tilted for the position he holds not alone for his technical or mechanical ability but also from the fact that he real- izes the danger of insecure, unsanitary plumbing, its menace to public health and the responsibility that his position imposes on him as guardian of the health of the city from careless work or faulty plumbmg. He is a Democrat in politics, and an attend- ant of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Mathews married. March 9, 1907, Mary Re Etta, daughter of John W. and Fannie (Conley) Cooke, of Baltimore. Maryland. Children: Anna M.. born at Newport News, \'irginia. January 6, 1908; James William (2), born at Portsmouth, \'irginia, March 21, 1911.

Edwin Elvington Mathews, second son of Matthew James Mathews and his first wife, Mattie (Neville) Mathews, was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, January 31, 1881. He was educated in the public schools. After leaving public schools he served an appren- ticeship, thoroughly fitting himself for busi- ness as electrical contractor. He was en- gaged in that business very successfully until January 1, 1914, when he became con- nected with the "Kirn Korner" Pharmacy Company, now conducting a successful business in the Henry Kirn Building, on the principal comer in the city, the com- pany taking its name from its location. The business is incorporated, Mr. Mathews be- ing president of the corporation and store manager. He is a capable man of afifairs and conducts the large business of his cor- poration with gratifying results. He is a member of Montauk Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men. is a Democrat in politics, and an attendant of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Mr. Mathews married, October 28, 1903, Laura, daughter of John C. and Alarv J. Powers, of Portsmouth. Children: Edwin Elvington (2). born September 4, 1904; Mary Elizabeth, born June 18, 191 2.

Callaway. The Callaway family is one of the old families of Virginia. Its founder was Sir William Callaway, of England, who had five sons and two daughters, and sev- eral children who died in infancy. They were as follows: i. Captain Thomas, born 1/12: vestryman. 1752, of Antoine parish.

Halifax county, Virginia, ensign, then cap- tain of militia from that county, in the French and Indian wars prior to 1755; emi- grated probably to North Carolina. 2. Colo- nel William, see forward. 3. Francis, born 1716; sheriff of Bedford county under George HI.; emigrated to North Carolina. 4. Colonel Richard, sergeant, then lieuten- ant, captain and colonel in the French and Indian wars from Bedford county, Virginia ; trustee of town of New London, 1761, and went to Kentucky with Daniel Boone in 1764; he was a member of the first legisla- ture of Kentucky, which met under a tree ; he and John Todd were the first represen- tatives from Kentucky to the house of bur- gesses, Virginia, 1777; in October, 1779, Richard Callaway and Evan Shelby were commissioned by the house of burgesses of \'irginia for opening and making the first public road over the Cumberland moun- tains, Kentucky, and to erect the first ferry at Boonsboro; Calloway county, Kentucky, is named for Colonel Richard Callaway; Colonel Callaway's daughters, Elizabeth and Frances, and Jemina Boone, a daughter of Daniel Boone, was captured July ^4, 1776, by Indians, and carried in a canoe down the Ohio river, but were retaken by Boone the next day; this incident is mentioned in "The Last of the Mohicans" by Fenimore Cooper; Elizabeth Callaway afterwards married Samuel Henderson, one of her res- cuers, and their daughter was the first white child born of parents married in Kentucky ; Colonel Richard Callaway was in the Tran- sylvania convention at Boonsboro, Ken- tucky, in 1777, and later went with Boone to Missouri to live in Callaway county, Missouri, which is named for him. 5. James. 6. Elizabeth. 7. Mary.

Colonel William Callaway, second son of the founder, was born in 1714. He was a prominent man in Virginia. He patented fifteen thousand acres in Lunenburg, Bruns- wick, Bedford and Halifax counties. In 1761 William Callaway, gentleman, made a free gift of one hundred acres of land to the county of Bedford to be settled with a town adjoining the courthouse, and to be called New London. He was colonel in the French and Indian wars, 1755-61 ; presided at first court held in Bedford county ; released deed to him of Bedford county, Virginia; justice under English government. George HI. Colonel Callaway was in the house of bur-