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October i, 1876. Children: Charles Scott, died in infancy ; Morton, born November 23, 1897; Stuart, born August 18, 1900.

Samuel Tilden Atkinson. As manager of the Hotel Richmond, Mr. Atkinson is known not only to the people of Richmond, but to the traveling public generally who in their migrations have partaken of the good cheer and hospitality of that greatly famed hos- telry. He is a son of John Atkinson, and a maternal grandson of William and Sarah (White) Wood. John Atkinson was born in Buckingham county, Virginia, in 1828, and married Addie Detroit Wood, born in Bedford county, Virginia, July 30, 1841. Children: Celeste, John Marshall, Ilia Penn, Frederick William, Daisy Estelle, Samuel Tilden.

Samuel Tilden Atkinson was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, October 30, 1876. He was educated at Hampden-Sidney College, Prince Edward county, Virginia. He has been connected with the hotel business in Richmond since 1892. For ten years he was manager of the Lexington Hotel, succeed- ing to the management of the Hotel Rich- mond in 1904. He continued in this posi- tion until the hotel passed to the Hotel Richmond Corporation in 1910, when he was elected vice-president and treasurer of the corporation, and he is now its general man- ager. He is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to Metropolitan Lodge, No. 11, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Lafay- ette Chapter, No. 43, Royal Arch Masons; St. Andrew's Commandery, Knights Temp- lar, all Richmond bodies ; and Acca Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, located at Richmond. He is also a member of Mc- Carthy Council, No. 486, Royan Arcanum. He belongs to the Business Men's Club of Richmond and the County Club of Vir- ginia. In political faith he is a Democrat, and in religious preference a Presbyterian. Mr. Atkinson married, in Washington, D. C, June 3, 1908, Edna Margaret Falconer, born July I, 1879, in Washington, daughter of Joseph Hamilton and' Katherine (John- son) Falconer, who have sons, Walter J. and Joseph Hamilton (2).

Gustavus Millhiser. Born and educated m Richmond, Mr. Millhiser began his busi- ness life in his native city and so continued all his life. He is a son of Moses Millhiser, born in Bavaria, Germany, March 24, 1825,

died in Richmond, Virginia, April 25, 1898. He came to Richmond in youth, and was there employed as a merchant. He was a member of the Reformed Jewish Church. He married, in Richmond, March 25, 1849, Rosalie Obendorfer, whose grandparents were of different religious views, the grand- father being a Jew, and the grandmother a Christian, but both of German origin. Children of Moses Millhiser: Gustavus, of further mention ; Amelia, born July 28, 1852: Emanuel. September 21,, 1854; Philip, January 28, i860; Clarence, March 12, 1866. Gustavus Millhiser, eldest child of Moses and Rosalie (Obendorfer) Millhiser, was born in Richmond, Virginia, March 5, 1850. After completing his school years he became engaged as a wholesale dry goods merchant, but in a few years retired from active par- ticipation in that field, and has since devoted hi.s business life to manufacturing enter- prises, in which he has been very success- ful. He is president of the Richmond Cedar Works, the Bedford Pulp and Paper Com- pany, the Wilts Veneer Company, and treasurer of the Gulf Red Cedar Company. His club is the Commonwealth. Mr. Mill- hiser's religious attitude is best expressed in his own words: "Regarding (as I do) all dogmatic religions as detrimental to the achievement of the highest aims of society, and furthermore not subscribing to the idol- atrous idea of a God (a Supreme Being) or Gods — I attend no church. These views class me with the Rationalists. As yet, Rationalists have no organization, except in a few of the metropolitan cities of the world."

Edward Adam Stumpf. Born in Wald- michelbach, Hessen, Germany, .\ugust 23, i860, Edward A. Stumpf has been a resident of Richmond, Virginia, since 1875. He is a son of Adam Stumpf, a quarry owner and stone contractor, born in Germany in 1824, died in 1864, and his wife, Alarguerite (Knapp) Stumpf. He was educated in St. Mary's Institute, and the Gymnasium at Mayence, a high graded school that he at- tended until coming to the LInited States in 1875. ^'fr. Stumpf is secretary and treasurer of the Merchants Cold Storage and Ice Man- ufacturing Company of Richmond, and since 1904 he has also been manager of the com- pany. For twenty-five years he has con- ducted a restaurant at Eighth and Main

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