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bury, the youngest child, born May 13, 1669, lived in York, Maine, and married Maria Cotton, daughter of Rev. John Cotton. Elder John Liradbury. third son of Wymond (3) and Maria (Cotton) Bradbury, born September 9, 1697, was founder of the York branch of the Bradbury family, and died there, December 3, 1778. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church ; a man of much energy ; several times a member of the colo- nial legislature ; ten years a member of the executive council, and judge of the probate court. An ardent patriot in the time of the revolution, when he had attained a great age, he rebuked his minister in open meet- ing for disloyal sentiments expressed in a sermon. He married Abigail, daughter of Lieutenant Joseph and Abigail (Donnell) Young, of York. John (2) Bradbury, son of John (I) and Abigail (Young) Bradbury, was born September 18, 1736. in York, and was lieutenant in Captain Moulton's com- pany of provincial troops at Lake George, in 1760-61. He kept a journal during this cam- paign, and continued his journal many years thereafter. He was a deacon of Christ Church, of York, where he died July 11, 1821. He married, January 26, 1764, Eliza- beth, daughter of Edward and Lydia (Holt) Ingraham, born August 6, 1743, in York. They had seven sons and five daughters. Samuel, son of John (2) and Elizabeth (In- graham) Bradbury, was born February 9, 1771, in York, and died November 10, 1849. He married (second) March 15, 1815, Sally (or Sarah) widow of William Harrold, and daughter of William (3) and Miriam ( Fer- nold) Leighton. born August 13. 1782, as above noted. They had four sons and one daughter. The youngest son, John William Bradbury, was born in December, 1827, in York, and settled in Petersburg, Virginia. He married, November 22, 1853, Annie Eliza Wells, and their eldest child. Annie Leighton Bradbury, born September 7, 1856, became the wife of William Lemuel Peebles, as previously noted.

Children of Mr. and Mrs. Peebles: i. John Bradbury Peebles, born October i, 188 1 ; is professor of engineering at Emory College, Oxford, Georgia. He married Elizabeth Copeland, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, and has a son, John Bradbury Peebles, Jr. 2. Leighton Hartwell Peebles, mentioned below. 3. Annie Bradbury Peebles, born September 17, 1886, in Peters-

burg ; is unmarried. 4. Mary Blanche, born June 29, 18S9, in Chattanooga, Tennessee; is unmarried. 5. William Berkeley Peebles, born January 17. 1892. in Dinwiddle county, \^irginia; is a student of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. 6. Julian Hughlett Peebles, born Oc- tober 14, 1894. 7. Walworth Lemuel Peebles, born February 4. 1898, in Din- widdie county, Virginia.

Leighton Hartwell Peebles, second son of William Lemuel and .\nnie Leighton (Brad- bury) Peebles, was born August 22, 1883, in Petersburg, and in boyhood he attended the public schools of that city. He entered Lhiion University, of Schenectady, New York, in 1902, and was graduated B. E. and Electrical Engineer in 1906. After leaving college, he spent one year in the employ of the General Electric Company at Schenec- tady, and since that time has been connected with the J. G. White Engineering Company of New York, in its engineering department. He is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers; the New York Electrical Society, and The Virginians. Although a young man, Mr. Peebles has already gained a desirable position in the engineering world, and is doing honor to a worthy ancestry in his "daily walk and con- versation."

Channing Moore Bolton, civil engineer, born in Richmond. Virginia, January 24, 1843, is the son of James and .A.nna Maria (Harrison) Bolton. His father was a prominent physician of Richmond, served as a surgeon in the Confederate army (1861- 65), and was for some time president of the Virginia Medical Society. He was a man of great strength of character and well known for his philanthropy. Mrs. Anna Maria Bol- ton was a woman of more than ordinary intelligence, and wielded a profound in- fluence over her son. She sprang from a branch of the well known Harrison family of \^irginia.

.■\fter attending good schools in Rich- mond. Channing M. Piolton entered the L^ni- versity of Virginia to prepare himself for engineering. Mathematics was his prin- cipal study, and he was applying himself to it with great zeal and earnestness when the war tocsin sounded, and called all able- bodied young Virginians to the field of battle. Young Bolton responded, and for