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ciating with his father-in-law, Samuel E. Dove, of Richmond, and for three years en- gaged in the drug business. In 1881 he located in Danville, where he quickly be- came prominent in his profession and has ever since resided. In 18S6 he was appoint- ed surgeon for the Danville district of the Richmond & Danville, now the Southern railway, and is now president of the South- ern Railway Surgeons Association. He is an ex-president of the Virginia State Med- ical Association and ex-president of the Dan- ville Academy of Medicine, and is held in high esteem by his professional brethren. He is a member of Roman Eagle Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons, is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Protestant Episcopal church.

Dr. Day married. February 21, 1872, at Richmond, \^irginia. Alaie, daughter of Dr. Samuel E. Dove, of Richmond, and a grand- daughter of Dr. John Dove, a prominent physician of Richmond and the author of Dove's Masonic Manual. Dr. Samuel E. Dove married Ann Eliza Ricks, of South- ampton county, Virginia. Dr. Day has two children, three having died, Leslie in in- fancy, Marie Dove, and Samuel Edwin in youth; William Chilton (2), born October 17, 1877, now manager for the Liggett Myers Tobacco Company, at Parkersburg. West Virginia ; he married Male Lila John- sen, of Raleigh, North Carolina ; children : William Chilton (3), Richard Edward and Virginia; Henry Fenton, born October 26, 1885, a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, a chemist, but now proprietor of the Waddill Printing Company, Danville ; he married. Mary Elsie Saunders, of Fving- ton, Campbell county, X'irginia.

Henry Llewellyn Daingerfield Lewis. Henry L. D. Lewis, member of the New York Stock Exchange, is descended from many old X'^irginia families, including the Washington and Custis families. He was born at Berryville, Clarke county, Virginia, son of Henry Llewllyn Daingerfield and Carter Penn (Freeland) Lewis, natives of Virginia, and members of well-known fam- ilies. The Lewises were among the earliest settlers in the colony, the first generation being represented by General Robert Lewis, who came with his wife Elizabeth from Gravesend, England, and located in Glouces- ter county, Virginia. His son John, born about 1645, married, in 1666, Isabelle, daugh-

ter of Captain Augustine Warner, a Welsh- man, as was General Robert Lewis. Captain Warner was a member of the house of bur- gesses and of the royal council, and John Lewis named his home Warner Hall in honor of this family. Captain Warner's son, Augustine Warner also, was known as Speaker W^arner, to distinguish him from his father. He also served in the house of burgesses and in the royal council. The elder Augustine Warner married Mary, daughter of George Reade. George Reade was a 3-ounger son of an English family, of noble birth, and was one of the first an- cestors of George Washington who came to America, and from him Washington re- ceived his Christian name. George Reade was secretary of the colony and acting gov- ernor for some time, also a member of the house of burgesses and of the King's coun- cil. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Martian, born in 1591, who came to Virginia about 1620 and served as justice in York county and member of the house of burgesses. He left no male issue. Speaker Augustine Warner and wife had a daughter, lilizabeth, who became the wife of her cousin, John Lewis. John, son of John and Isabelle Lewis, was a major in Indian wars and served in the Virginia council. He was born in 1669 and died in 1725. John and Elizabeth (Warner) Lewis had sons : John, Robert, of Belvoir, and Charles, of the Byrd. John Lewis (3) was born in 1694, and in 1 718 married Frances, daughter of Henry Fielding, of Queen county, who was major in 173 1, colonel in 1734, and member of the council in 175 1. A son of this marriage, Colonel Fielding Lewis, in 1746 married (first! Catherine, cousin of George Wash- ington, whose lineage is given in a succeed- ing paragraph in this article, and (second) Betty, sister of George Washington. Dur- ing the Revolution, Colonel Fielding Lewis superintended the manufacture of arms for the use of the army. His twelfth son was Lawrence Lewis, who was the adopted son and executor of the will of General Wash- ington. He lived on a fine estate at Wood- lawn, which was located on the Alexandria Pike, in lower Fairfax county, and which was formerly a part of the Mount Vernon ee^tate. This was given to Eleanor Parke Custis, daughter of John Parke Custis, upon her marriage to Lawrence Lewis. General \\'ashington gave the beautiful bride away at the wedding ceremony, and Lawrence