Page:Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography volume 5.djvu/763

 VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY

10S5

New York; Merchants Association of New "^'ork; Chamber of Commerce of the United States; Society of Chemical Industry, Lon- don. England; Electro-Chemical Society, New York; Verein Deutscher Chemiker. In political matters he prefers to be inde- pendent, and will not allow himself to be bound by party ties. His church affiliations are with the Presbyterian denomination.

Mr. Klipstein married, in December. 1888, Grace Lillian Mills, born July 27, 1867, in Hamilton, Ontario, a granddaughter of Sam- uel Mills, one of the original senators ap- pointed by the English Crown at the forma- tion of the Dominion of Canada. Children : Ernest Holton, Gerald Philip and Kenneth Hampton. The business oflice of Mr. Klip- stein is at No. 644 Greenwich street, New York, and his residence at No. 93 Prospect street. East Oiange, New Jersey. Air. Klip- stein is greatly interested in scientific stud- ies, and he finds his chief recreation in his experimental and constructive work in his laboratory, and the game known as golf.

Lewis Tilghman Stoneburner, M. D.

From 1907 until 1910, Dr. Lewis Tilghman Stoneburner, one of the younger generation of medical practitioners in the city of Rich- mond, followed a profession other than that in which he is now engaged, namely, peda- gogy, teaching in the high schools of New- port News and Richmond subsequent to his graduation from Washington and Lee Col- lege prior to his beginning of medical stud- ies. Dr. Stoneburner became identified with the medical profession in Richmond in the spring of 1914 and there continues practice with pleasing results.

Dr. Stoneburner is a grandson of John J. Stoneburner. a native of Loudoun county. Virginia, who died at a greatly advanced age. He was for a long time a merchant of Shenandoah county, Virginia, and during the war was the proprietor of a foundry whose product was cannon balls for the use of the Confederate army. Pie was the father of seven children, of whom four are living at this time (1914) : Lewis Tilghman, of whom further; John W., a resident of Chicago, Illinois; Robert Edward, resides in New York City ; Francis Richard, a resident of Shenandoah county, V^irginia.

Lewis Tilghman Stoneburner, son of John J Stoneburner, was born in Edinburg, Shenandoah county, Virginia, and is now a

resident of that place. Mr. Stoneburner early in life b'^came identified with jour- nalistic work, and at this time is editor of the "Edinburg Sentinel," a position he has occupied for many years. He married Mary Moore W'eirman, born in Shenandoah county. Virginia, living with her husband in Edinburg, and all of their three children survive : Dr. Lewis Tilghman, Jr., of whom further; Ralph Weirman, born in January, 1887, a student in the Medical College of \'irginia, class of 1915; Mary Moore, a school teacher of Henrico county, Virginia.

Dr. Lewis Tilghman Stoneburner, Jr., son of Lewis Tilghman and Mary Moore (Weir- man) Stoneburner, was born in Edinburg, \'irginia. October 28. 1884, and there attend- ed the public schools, afterward taking a course in the Edinburg Academy. From these preparatory institutions he entered Washington and Lee College, graduating liachelor of Science in the class of 1907. For two years he was a member of the faculty of the Newport News High School, and during the following year occupied a like position in Richmond, discontinuing his work in this profession to matriculate at the Medical College of Virginia. He was awarded his M. D. from this college in 1914. and is now engaged in general practice in Richmond, his office at No. 105 North Third street. Dr. Stoneburner's career as a teacher, though short, was eminently suc- cessful, and the short time that he has been in practice in Richmond has furnished bright prospects for his future popularity. He is a Democrat in political convictions, and is a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal church.

He married, at Newport News, Virginia, June 12, 1912, Clara Gresham Smith, born in Baltimore, Maryland, daughter of Se- bree and Harriet (Gresham) Smith, her mother now living in King and Queen county, Virginia. Sebree Smith, deceased, was a commission merchant of Alexandria, Virginia, and was a soldier in the Confed- erate army. Dr. Lewis Tilghman and Clara Gresham (Smith) Stoneburner are the par- ents of one son, Lewis Tilghman (3), born March 2. 1913.

William Henry Adams. William Henry Adams comes of a family which through many years residence in the state of Vir- ginia has become entirely identified with the