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born to Mr. and Mrs. Bickers as follows : James P. ; Mary D., deceased ; Catherine C., deceased ; Roger A., of whom further ; Wil- liam A.; Weir M.. deceased: Lillian R. ; Annie E. ; John N.

A brother of Dr. Bickers, John Travers Bickers, also served in the Confederate army, he is now deceased ; he was a Vir- ginia farmer. He married a widow, Martha Hill (Duncan) Shotwell, and had a son, Travers Duncan Bickers.

Roger Aylor Bickers, son of Dr. William Andrew and .\nn Elizabeth (Aylor) Bick- ers, was born in Madison county. Virginia, September 25, 1878. His preparatory edu- cation was obtained in public and private schools, special collegiate preparation being made at Locust Dale Academy. He did not at once enter college, but until 1906 was engaged in farming. In the fall of 1906 he entered the law school of the University of Virginia, and he was admitted to practice at the Virginia bar in 1908. He at once began the practice of his profession, locat- ing first at Charlottesville, Virginia, but in 1909 moving to Culpeper, Virginia, where he is well established and successfully con- ducting a general law practice in all state and Federal courts of the district, and is held in high esteem as one of the rising young men of the Virginia bar. In politics he is an independent Democrat, broad- minded and liberal, in both political and re- ligious thought. He is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to Fairfax Lodge, No. 43, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His clubs are the Catalpa of Culpeper and the Colonnade of Charlottesville, Virginia. He married. May 24, 191 1, Mary Wilkins Coons, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, daughter of Frank A. and Martha Jane (Erskine) Coons.

Maryan Buford Lewis, D. D. S. A native born son of Culpeper county, Virginia, Dr. Lewis bears a name honored in Virginia since early colonial days. He is a son of William Wallace Lewis, born September 2, 1842, a farmer of Culpeper county. He mar- ried Mary Elizabeth Jeffers, born in Cul- peper county, daughter of Enoch Jeffers. Children : Enoch J. ; Nannie Walker, mar- ried G. R. Calvin; William Russell, now liv- ing in Missouri; Henry Francis; Herbert

Wallace ; Maryan Buford, and Elizabeth W'ilson Lewis.

Maryan Buford Lewis was born in Cul- peper county, Virginia, January i, 1884. He prepared in the public schools, entering \\'illiam and ^Mary College in 1901 and con- tinuing his studies there for one year. He then entered the dental department of the University College of Medicine, at Rich- mond, whence he was graduated. D. D. S., class of 1905. After obtaining his degree, Dr. Lewis opened offices for the practice of dentistry in Charlottesville, Virginia, but after two years there decided to return to his native county. In 1907 he opened per- fectly appointed modern dental offices in Culpeper, where he is now well established in the practice of his profession. His methods of treating and preserving the teeth are in accord with the best modern thought, while his perfection of workman- ship in remedying nature's defects has brought him generous patronage. He is a member of the Virginia State Dental Asso- ciation, and is thoroughly supplied with the best modern aids to successful dentistry. In politcal faith Dr. Lewis is a Democrat, and in religious faith a Baptist.

Dr. Lewis married, June 1, 191 1, Maude Parr, of Brandy Station, Culpeper county, Virginia, a daughter of William J. and Florence (Wager) Parr. Child, Frances Elizabeth, born in Culpeper, October 25, [912.

Gardner Lloyd Boothe. Professional, political and legal activity of unusual extent have characterized Gardner Lloyd Boothe, one of the leading attorneys of Alexandria and president of the First National Bank of that city. Nor do those circles compass his iiiterests, for he is socially prominent and popular, and for twenty years has been in- timately connected with Christ Protestant Episcopal Church. He is a son of William Jeremiah Boothe, born in Alexandria, Vir- ginia, in 1817, died in 1894, who was super- intendent of the American Coal Company, of New York. William Jeremiah Boothe had a sister, Helen, who married George K. Gluyas, of Philadelphia, and accompanied her husband to California in 1849. They had a son, Edward, who fought in the Con- federate army in the civil war. William Jeremiah. Boothe married Mary Grace,