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in King William county. It is held by some authorities that the name Aylett and Ellett are of common origin. The name appears frequently in the early records of the Old Dominion. A certain Ellett, whose baptis- mal name has not been preserved, was a resident of King William county, and had two sons. One of these, Dabney Ellett, married Anne Pleasants, and they had sons, John P. and Dabney. Dabney (2), junior son of Dabney (i) and Anne (Pleas- ants) Ellett, married Susan B. Neale, daugh- ter of William and Judith (Hill) Neale, and had children : Charles C., James, Sarah, William, Alfred and Mary Eliza.

Charles C. Ellett, son of Dabney (2) and Susan B. (Neale) Ellett, married (first) Susan E. Bowles, and (second) Lucy S. Bowles. His children were : Lemuel, killed in battle in the Civil war ; Mamie, married Dr. Thomas Michaels; Charles, married Addie C. Carpenter; Ida, married Isaac Newton Jones ; Blanche, married A. O. Bell ; Horace W., mentioned below.

Horace W. Ellett,- youngest child of Charles C. Ellett, was born February 20, 1838, and was state representative of the McClure Company of Saginaw, Michigan. He married Emma L. Bell, daughter of Ash- ley J. and Hardenia Price (Lasley) Bell, and they were the parents of Charles Ashley Ellett, the subject of this sketch.

Dr. Charles Ashley Ellett was born No- vember 20, 1880, in Wilmington, Fluvanna county, Virginia. He received a liberal edu- cation, attending McCabe's University School, Virginia Military Institute, and the University of Maryland, from which he graduated with the degree of D. D. S. in 1903. Having thoroughly prepared himself he entered upon the practice of his pro- fession in Laurens, South Carolina, where he continued until 1907, when he removed to Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Ellett is a man of fine sensibilities, and excellent traits, and has rapidly gained position in his profes- sion as well as in the social circles of his home city. He is a- member of the Psi Omega fraternity and the T. N. E. frater- nity, of the Masonic order and of the Her- mitage Golf Club, Virginia State Dental So- ciety, and Richmond Dental Society. He seeks no part in the conduct of public af- fairs, but is a consistent Democrat and ever ready to do his duty as a citizen in sup-

porting his principles. Dr. Ellett is unmar- ried.

Luther Addison Robertson, M. D. A na- tive born Virginian, son of an eminent Vir- ginia physician, descendant cif an ancient and lionorable Virginia family, a product of her classical and professional colleges, Dr. Luther A. Robertson, of Danville, Virginia, is also entitled by his own achievements in medicine to rank with leading Virginians.

His father. Dr. William Shelton Robert- son, died in 1904, aged seventy-three years, a native of Pittsylvania covmty, born at the old Robertson homestead about ten miles from Danville. He was an eminent physi- cian of the county and also managed the old homestead farm, now under the manage- ment of one of his sons. He married Ann Gillie Law, born in Patrick county, Vir- ginia, who survives him, a resident of Dan- ville, aged eighty-three years. Children: Charles, died aged thirty-three years ; Emma B., married Robert H. Herndon, and resides in Danville ; Christopher, a farmer of Pitt- sylvania county; Dr. William W., a gradu- ate of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons at Baltimore, resides near the old homestead ; Thomas G., farms the home- stead ; James A., a tobacconist of Danville ; Luther .\ddison, of whom further ; Samuel, a clerk in the employ of James I. Prichett &■ Son, Danville.

Dr. Luther Addison Robertson, son of Dr. William .Shelton and Ann Gillie (Law) Robertson, was born at the homestead in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, ten miles north of Danville, December 21, 1874. He attended local schools and helped on the farm until fifteen years of age, then spent three years as a student at Danville Mili- tary Institute. He then entered Wake For- est College, whence he was graduated A. B., class of 1897. He then prepared for the practice of medicine at the University Col- lege of Medicine, Richmond; received his degree of M. D., class of 1900. He for four years was associated in practice with Dr. J. A. White, one of the leading specialists of Virginia, after which he attended clinics in New York City, preparing himself for spe- cial practice in diseases of the ej'e, ear, nose and throat. In 1905 he located in Danville as a specialist in those diseases, and so con- tinues, well established and the leading prac-