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Ashley Cooper Hudgins was born March 25, 1871' in Elizabeth City county, \"irg-inia, and was ten years old when the family re- moved to the city of Hampton. He attend- ed the public schools, the Virginia Military Institute, and William and Mary College, and was at the second session of the re- ccnstruction class of 1893. On leaving school he occupied for seven years a posi- tion in the Bank of Hampton, and from 1897 to 1912 was associated with his elder brother, K. W. Hudgins, in the trade of fuel, feed and builders' supplies. In 1913, in company with D. E. Granaway, he en- gaged in business as a building contractor, and they have constructed many of the roads in and about Elizabeth City and War- wick counties. He is a Democrat in politi- cal principle, is affiliated with the Episcopal church, is a member of Wyoming Tribe. Improved Order of Red Men. and of the Royal Arcanum. He married, January 7, 1898, Mamie W. Watkins, daughter of James A. and Mary B. Watkins, and has a daughter, Mary Watkins Hudgins, born May 19, igoi.

Charles K. Bryant. Charles K. Bryant, a leading architect of Richmond, Virginia, represents one of the oldest and most honor- ed of American names. There is little known regarding the origin of the name in Virginia, but it has been conspicuously honored in the medical profession, and is well \vorthy of a place in the annals of the state. The fam- ily seems to have been long located in Pow- hatan county, Virginia, and is supposed to have come from southern France earl}- in the eighteenth century. Silas Bryant was a native of that county and was the father of Dr. James Wilson Bryant, and three others, all of whom came to distinction as medical practitioners. Dr. James Wilson Bryant was born in 1814, in Powhatan county, and died in November. 1898. at his home in Rich- mond. He was graduated from the Univer- sitv of Pennsylvania, and gave all his life to the practice of his profession in Powhatan county and Richmond, where his death was a sad k)ss to the city, and his many friends. He married Betsey Tinsley, a daughter of Dr. James Tinsley, a native of Amelia coun- ty, Virginia, now deceased. They were the parents of seven children: i. James ^\'ilson. married a Miss McConnoch. of Petersburg, Virginia, and had four children. 2. Wythe

Tinsley. 3. Trueheart, married a Miss Figg. 4. Stanhope, married a ]\Iiss Dicks. 5. Ju- lian, unmarried. 6. Charles K., mentioned below. 7. Hattie E., married Herbert Mc- Nim.

Charles K. Cr}-ant was born August 4, 1867, in Powhatan county, \'irginia, and re- ceived his education in private schools of Richmond, and the public schools, includ- ing the high school. After completing his education, he was employed five years by Captain M. J. Dimmock, an architect of Richmond. "Following this he spent six years in the service of the United States government as supervising architect of the treasury department at \\'ashington, follow- ing which he worked at the profession of architecture in various offices throughout the country. He again spent two years in \\'ashington in the government service, and was for three years a member of Colonel Ashby"s Light Cavalry of Richmond. Vir- ginia. In 1905 Mr. Bryant located in Rich- mond, and has won for himself a most en- viable position in the profession of archi- tecture. Many handsome buildings in Rich- mond testify to his talent in designing, and also to the substantial basis of all his work. One of the most noted is the John Marshall High School, whose design was accepted from among thirty-two competitors from different parts of the country. Mr. Bryant not only stands high as an architect, but as a citizen, and is among the most esteemed residents of the capitol city. He is a mem- ber of the Protestant Episcopal church, and a thirty-second degree Mason, being past master of his lodge, and having acquired all the degrees in the York and Scottish Rite ]\Iasonry. In political affairs he acts with the Democratic party, and is ever ready to I)romote any undertaking calculated to bene- fit his home city and state, or to promote the general welfare of his kind.

Mr. Bryant married, October 21, 1908, Mary Garland Berry, a daughter of Major Benjamin H. and Gay (Du \'al) Berry; no children. Mrs. Bryant graduated from the ]ohn Powell Institute for Young Ladies of Richmond, ^'irginia.

William Chilton Day, M. D. After a varied experience covering a period of forty years as college student, army surgeon, druggist and medical practitioner in Mis- souri and Virginia, Dr. Day in 1881 located