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have added greatly to the success of the concern, for no department of business is more important to the general progress of an organization than the one he has taken charge of. He is a recognized authority along the line of his work and has from time to time prepared and read papers on trade questions before conventions of the com- pany-'s employees in various parts of the country. He is regarded as a man of strict business integrity and his ability as an ag- gressive salesman is well known. He keeps abreast of the times in his line and general business methods and has good executive ability. In politics he is Independent. He is affiliated with the Protestant Episcopal church. He is a member of the Alaritime Association of New York City, Southern Society of New York City, The Virginians and the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

On September 15, 1910, Mr. Moore was united in marriage with Grace Allease Peters, daughter of Frank Meyer and Mary Louise (Mason) Peters. The old Peters homestead, where Frank M. Peters formerly- lived, stood on the present site of the City Hill in Newark, New Jersey. Mrs. Moore was born in Chicago, Illinois, December 8, 1885. One child has blessed this union, Frank Peters Moore, born in New York City, June 15, 191 1.

Thomas Joel Barlow. Thomas Joel Bar- low, a successful business man and retired farmer, of Portsmouth, Virginia, has shown his worth in every position of life to which he has been called. The spirit of work was born with him, and no lessons of actual experience were necessary to inspire him with the purpose to excel. In busi- ness enterprise, in private charities, in help extended to struggling youth he has shown a noble spirit and a liberal hand. The Bar- lows are an ancient family of England, and a number of the branches have been granted coats-of-arms. The family has produced many men of distinction, both in this coun- try and in England.

John Holdsworth Barlow was born in 1809. and died in 1885. For a long period of time he conducted a general store in Williamsburg, and served as presiding magistrate of York county for many years. He also served as mayor of Williamsburg. He married, in 1832, Margaret Nelson Bel- lett, and had children : i. John Holdsworth, VIA-S8

Jr., who married Marian De Neufville, and had children : Netta, who married John Daniel ; and Emma Lou, 2. Thomas Joel, whose name heads this sketch. 3. Emma Cecelia, who married W. L. Jones, and had children: Henley, Thomas, Daniel and Margaret. 4. Louise, who was married to Galba Vaiden, and has one child, Louisanna.

Thomas Joel Barlow, son of John Holds- worth and Margaret Nelson (Bellett) Bar- low, was born in Williamsburg, June 26, 1842. His elementary and college prepara- tory education was acquired in private schools in his native town, and he then matriculated at William and Mary College, which he attended in 1859-60 and 1861. April 19, 1861, he enlisted in the Junior Guards, later Company C, Thirty-second Virginia Infantry, Pickett's division. He was soon advanced to the rank of quarter- master-sergeant of the regiment, and served until the close of the war. He was made prisoner at Sharpsburg and at Appomattox Court House. Returning to Williamsburg, he opened a general store there after his marriage, and conducted this for a period of two years, and removed to Portsmouth in 1867. For thirty years he was engaged in the grocery business, having a well estab- lished store in a good location. In 1892 he commenced a trucking business on a farm of three hundred acres, later sold this farm and purchased one hundred and sixty acres near the city limits, and has been success- fully identified with this enterprise, retiring from his store business in 1895. Mr, Barlow is director in the Merchants and Farmers I'ank. Has been a member of the city coun- cil, police board, school board, etc. He is a member of Stonewall Camp, Confederate Veterans, and was formerly a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He is Democratic in his political opinions, and a member of the Baptist church.

Mr. Barlow married Annie Matsin Cox, a daughter of Richard Cox, of New Jersey, who came to Virginia in 1843, and was the pioneer in the trucking business. Children : I. Margaret Wardel, born November 22, 1866. died February 14, 1873. 2. Matilda Cecelia, born May 20, 1869, died June 4, 1887. 3. Annie Cox, born November 2, 1872. 4. Richard C, born May 2, 1875, died Janu- ary 27, 1904; was a graduate of William and