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28 The writer of this thoughtful paper, a retired merchant and capitalist, is now in the due enjoyment of the result of his enterprise and sagacity. He was born in Richmond, Virginia, June 18, 1843. His course of education was at the Jefferson Male Academy, which he left in April, 1861, to join the Confederate States Army, serving in Pickett's Division, Army of Northern Virginia. He was engaged in the battle of Bethel, the first, and Five Forks, the last pitched battle of the Civil War, and was captured at the last, and imprisoned at Point Lookout, until released, June 16, 1865. He has proven himself constantly alive to the various interests and progress of his native city and State. Among his representative connections, the following may be cited: Past President of the Wholesale Grocers' Association of Richmond and Past Masters' Association of Masons of Virginia, President of the Masonic Home of Virginia; of the 15th Virginia Infantry Association;  of the Board of Governors of the Prison Association of Virginia;  Vice-President of the Virginia  Society, Sons of the American Revolution;  member of the Virginia Historical Society; of the Society for the Preservation