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\'irginia, August 2"], 1869, son of Jonas and Rosalie Alarcuse. Jonas Marcuse, who was born January i, 1832, was a merchant. He served in the Confederate army as a pri- vate. He married, March 5, 1863, Rosalie Mitteldorfer. born March 7, 1846, died Oc- tober 22, 191 2, daughter of Moses and Fan- nie Mitteldorfer. Children : Alexander J., born August 23, 1864; Sadie, born March 5. 1866, married Myer Kirsh ; Isaac J., born November 16, 1867; Milton E., of whom further; Moses M., born August 25, 1874.

Milton E. Marcuse was educated in the public schools of Richmond, and is a grad- uate of the high school, class of 1886. He began his business career in 1886 as a worker in the employ of Myers Brothers & Company, tobacconists ; then in 1888 became associated with C. H. Hasker, in the manu- facture of tags and labels for tobacco. In 1890 the Hasker & Marcuse Manufacturing Company was formed, which was later sold to the American Can Company. In 1903 Mr. Marcuse became interested in the Bed- ford Pulp & Paper Company, and is now the vice-president and treasurer. He has had a very successful business career and is held in high regard by his associates. He is a director of the Merchants National Bank of Richmond and has other important inter- ests. From 1901 to March, 1910, when he resigned, he was president of the board of directors of the Virginia Penitentiary. Mr. ^larcuse is a prominent member of the Masonic order, belonging to both the York and Scottish Rites. He is a past master of Fraternal Lodge, No. 53, Ancient Free and .Accepted Masons ; past high priest of Temple Chapter, No. 32, Royal Arch Masons : a thirty-second degree Mason of Dalebo Consistory. No. i. Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and a noble of Acca Temple. Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a past president of Richmond Lodge, Inde- pendent Order of Bnai Brith. His'clubs are the Jefferson and the Business Alen's, of Richmond. Mr. Marcuse married, October 24, 1894, Rosa, daughter of Jacob and Han- nah May, of Richmond.

Julian Thomas Wright. One of the best known surgeon-dentists of Richmond, Vir- ginia, is Julian Thomas Wright, D. D. S., whose conscientious attention to the duties of his profession has resulted in a large and constantly increasing patronage. The name

of Wright is an old one. Several centuries ago when men, in order to distinguish them- selves more readily, took surnames, many assumed the name of the art or craft at which they worked. "Wright" originally denoted a workman, an artificer, a maker, and was a designation usually applied to those who wrought in wood, as "Smith" was applied to those who worked in metal. It is highly probable that almost every person bearing the name of Wright as his original surname is descended from an English an- cestor who was an artificer. As the name could have been, and was, assumed by any artificer who chose to do so, it follows that there may be numerous families whose ori- gin is not identical. Hence in this country there are several lines of this name not of the same descent. The name appears early in the colonial records, and has been borne by many distinguished citizens in colonial and recent times.

John Thomas Wright, father of Dr. Wright, was born in Culpeper county, Vir- ginia, in 1827, and died in 1912.. He was a miller all his life, owning and operating three mills, in Albemarle, Fauquier and Cul- peper counties, and was very successful in his operations. He was the only man in his section of the country who was declared exempt from service in the Confederate army by General Robert E. Lee, as his ser- vices in the production of flour and other food supplies to the public were of inesti- mable value during the period of the War with the States. He was a very wealthy man prior to the war, but lost all his wealth during that struggle. He married Margaret Randolph Irving, born in Virginia, in 1839, died July 4, 1906. Children : Henry I., a miller, of Wythe county, Virginia ; Mollie L., deceased; Edwin P., deceased; Josie F.. widow of T. P. Tuckwiler, lives with Dr. Wright ; John L., a miller, in Bluefield, West \'irginia ; Charles O., in association with his brother, John L.. has one of the largest mills in_ the United States, at Bluefieid, West Virginia ; Julian Thomas, whose name heads this sketch; William D., also of Bluefield, West Virginia; Maggie R., deceased.

Julian Thomas Wright, D. D. S., was born at Hydraulic, Albemarle county, Vir- ginia, May 22, 1867. He was an infant when the family removed to Fredericksburg, and was six years of age when his father built the Bridgewater Familv Flour Mills. From