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that county. He is a member of the Patrick Camp, United Veterans, and is highly re- garded as a citizen. He married Alice Vie, born at Stuart, Virginia, in 1849, daughter of James Vie, of Henry county, Virginia.

James Henry Rangeley is a son of James Henry Rangeley, who came to Virginia from the State of Maine, settling in Patrick county. The Rangeley Lakes, a chain of lakes lying in the western part of Maine, in Franklin and Oxford counties, covering an area of eighty square miles and lying at an altitude of twelve to fifteen hundred feet, are named in honor of a Rangeley, who settled early in that section, coming from Liverpool, England. Another son of James Henry is Joseph Rangeley, who served in the Con- federate army.

Dr. Walter VV. Rangeley, of Christians- burg, son of James Henry and Alice (Vie) Rangeley, of Stuart, Virginia, was born in Stuart, Patrick county, Virginia, July 8, 1868. He obtained his earlier education in the public schools of Stuart, then entered Shenandoah Academy, at Winchester, Vir- ginia, where he was a student for three years. He then was a cadet at Oxford Mili- tary and Naval Aacdemy for one year, enter- ing in 1885. He spent the next five years variously employed, finally having decided upon medicine as his profession, he entered, in 1891, the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, at Baltimore, continuing and com- pleting a thorough course and receiving the degree of M. D., class of 1895. In the same year he located in Christiansburg, Montgom- ery county, Virginia, where he has since been continuously engaged in the general practice of his profession. Dr. Rangeley was selected by the Governor of Virginia to serve upon the Montgomery county board of health, and after serving for ten years, was reappointed and is yet a member of the board, rendering efficient service in that im- portant department of county government. He was chosen by the people as coroner of Montgomery county, an office he yet holds.

Dr. Rangeley is a member of the Virginia Medical Society and the Montgomery Coun- ty Medical Society, and has prepared and read papers of medical value before both societies. He has kept pace with modern medical discovery and occupies a high posi- tion in the regard of his professional breth- ren. His practice is large and among the many families he visits he is the welcome

friend as well as medical adviser. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a Democrat in politics and a communicant of the Presbyterian church. Dr. Rangeley married, in 1896, Mamie Jane Childress, born in Montgomery county, Virginia, in 1878, daughter of James S. and Virginia (Smith) Childress. Children, all born in Christiansburg: Walter W., born in 1898; James Smith, born in 1900; Virginia, born in 1902.

Judge Nathaniel Riddick. Bishop Meade in his "Old Churches and Families" recites among the old and leading families in East- ern Virginia in colonial times and immedi- ately succeeding the revolution, the name Riddick, and on another page gives the name of Willis Riddick as one of the two representatives from Nansemond county at- tending the Virginia convention which be- gan its sessions in the city of Williamsburg on May 6, 1776.

The first mention of the Riddick family in Nansemond county is of James Riddick, who was a member of the Virginia house of burgesses from Nansemond, 1718 to 1722. The original grant on which the Riddick mansion stood was known as "White Marsh," a large estate.

James Riddick had a son, Lemuel Rid- dick, born August 23, 171 1, a burgess, 1736 to 1773. and also a delegate to the conven- tion of 1775. There was also a Rev. Lemuel Riddick who resigned the pastorate of the Sufifolk Protestant Episcopal Church in 1773, after having served it continuously for forty years. It is believed that Rev. Lemuel and Burgess Lemuel Riddick were the same in- dividual. Lemuel Riddick had three sons: I. Micajah, married Mary Parker and had a son Micajah {2), who married Elizabeth, daughter of James Riddick. a son of Colo- nel Willis Riddick. 2. General Joseph, who for twenty-eight years was state senator from (lates county. North Carolina. 3. Colonel Willis, of further mention.

Colonel Willis Riddick, born 1721, son of Lemuel Riddick, and grandson of James Riddick, was a member of the house of burgesses, 1756 to 1775, and from 1756 until 1773 occupied a seat in that body with his f,'. ther. Pioth were delegates to the conven- tion of 1775, and Willis Riddick served in the field under a captain's and colonel's