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Dr. George Noble and Lucretia Ann (Bor- den) Ennett, was born at Cedar Point, North Carolina, January 5, 1877. Until ten years of age he was taught privately at home, later attended a private school, and then entered the High School at Beaufort, North Carolina, where he spent several years in earnest study and was graduated in 1895. The following year he spent at the plantation, developing a strong body, grati- fj'ing his love for hunting and horseback riding, and further developing his intel- lectual powers. For the next several years he taught in the public schools of his state. In 1903 he began the study of medicine at the Medical College of \'irginia and was graduated in 1907. In 1907 and 1908 he was on the house staff of the Memorial Plospital of Richmond. He began private practice in Richmond soon after completing his hos- pital service in 1908 and so continues. Pie formerly lectured on Diseases of Children in the Medical College of Virginia and has given a great deal of time to the study of feeble-minded children. In 191 1 Dr. Ennett was elected medical director of the Rich- mond public schools, and has there wrought important progress in this new phase of public health work. He has also made a special study of tuberculosis, having writ- ten much on the subject. Dr. Ennett has done much post-graduate work and has spent a great deal of time in the best hos- pitals in this countr}'. For a number of years he was editor in chief of "The Cere- brum," a magazine published by the Pi Mu Medical Fraternity and was general secre- tary of the same fraternity. At present (1915) he occupies the highest office in the gift of the Pi Mu Fraternity, that of senior councillor. He is a Democrat in politics, a member of the Alethodist church since 1898. He is a member of the following medical societies: American Medical Association, Virginia Aledical Society, Richmond Acad- emy of Medicine and Surgery, Tri-State Medical Society, Southern Medical Asso- ciation, Association for the Study and Pre- vention of Tuberculosis, and International Association for the Study of School Hy- giene. Dr. Ennett is prominent in the social and professional life of Richmond and is a member of the \\'estmoreland Club and the Country Club of Virginia.

Dr. Ennett was married in Richmond. Oc- tober 6, 1909, to Amy Conyers Tutwiler,

Rev. J. Calvin Stewart officiating. Mrs. En- nett is the fourth child of Colonel Thomas Harrison and Caroline (Sloan) Tutwiler, who had other children. Thomas Harrison (2). Eleanor Sloan. Alartin, Caroline and John Cooke Tutwiler.

George Anderson Revercomb. The long

I'fe of the line of Revercomlj in \'irginia has been characterized by the participation of its members in public affairs and their in- cumbency of high position in county and state. Through service as commonwealth attorney of Alleghany county, Virginia, and as state senator, George Anderson Rever- coml), now a legal practitioner of Coving- ten, \Trginia. bears out the family trait, his devoted and capable discharge of his duties in these positions adding honor to the name, liath county has been the family home since the settlement in that locality of George Revercomb, grandfather of George Ander- son Revercomb, who came from the Shenan- doah Valley, Rockingham comity, the place of his birth. All of his seven sons served in the Confederate States army during the war between the states: Hiram Griffith; George B., a member of the Bath County Cavalry, wounded in the battle of the Wilderness; John, a member of the Bath County Cav- alry, was wounded in the service ; Archie, a member of the Bath County Cavalry, met his death in the battle of the Wilderness; Charles F., a member of the Bath County Cavalry, wounded in action ; Henry Harri- son, a soldier in Chew's battery of Stuart's artillery ; and William Hubbard, of whom further.

William Hubbard Revercomb, son of George Revercomb, was born in Bath coun- t\, Virginia, May 4, 1823, died August 9, 1900. A follower of agriculture all of his life, prior to the war between the states, he held the rank of colonel in \'irginia militia, at the beginning of the war becoming a member of Stuart's command and serving until the final surrender. For many years he filled the office of high sheriff' of Bath county, and for three terms held a seat in the \'irginia legislature, a cajjable and effi- cient executive, a wise and useful lawmaker. He married Susan Pollinia, daughter of Major John and Esther (Wilson) Boiler, born in Bath county, \'irginia, in 1822, died in October, 1901, her father a major in Vir- ginia militia. Her grandfather was Captain