ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VIRGINIA
BIOGRAPHY, VOLS I-V
PROMINENT PERSONS
ANDREW HUNTER HOLMES BOYD -
born in Boydsville, Virginia, in 1814, died
there December 16, 1865. He
was graduated at Jefferson College in 1830,
studied theology in Scotland,
was ordained by the presbytery of
Winchester, and passed his
life in the pastorate of the Presbyterian
church in that section. He
was connected with the new-school
Presbyterian body until 1859;
but at the session of the general assembly
at Cleveland in that year
the discussion of the slavery question
developed irreconcilable differences,
and Dr. Boyd,with other
commissioners from the slave
holding states, seceded from the assembly
and organized the "United
Synod of the Presbyterian Church," composed of
those presbyteries in the
slave holding states which had belonged to the
new-school general assembly,
but were dissatisfied with its course on
the subject of slavery. At
the beginning of the war he took decided
ground in favor of secession.
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DAVID FRENCH BOYD - born at
Wytheville, Virginia, October 5, 1834. He
was educated at private schools
and at the University of Virginia, from
which he received the degree
of Master of Arts in 1856. For three years
he taught school in Virginia
and in North Louisiana. In 1859, when the
Louisiana State Seminary was
opened at Alexandria, under the presidency
of William Tecumseh Sherman
(afterwards General), Boyd was elected
professor of ancient languages.
When the war between the states began,
he enlisted as a private,
and rose to the rank of major in three arms of
the service--infantry, engineers
and cavalry--his first service being
with the Ninth Louisiana Regiment,
under General "Stonewall" Jackson. In
1863 he resigned, to return
to Louisiana and reopen the State Seminary;
but finding forbidding war
conditions, he entered the engineer service
under Gen. Richard Taylor,
and built Fort De Russey, on the Red river.
Early in 1864 he was captured
by marauders, and sold to the Federals for
a hundred dollars, but through
the friendship of Sherman he was
exchanged, and then became
major and assistant adjutant-general of
Brent's cavalry brigade. In
1865 he became superintendent of the
Louisiana State Seminary (later
the Louisiana State University), and for
nearly thirty years was closely
connected with it as president, 1865-80
and 1884-87, and as professor
at intervals. In reorganizing it after the
war, he kept it from falling
under radical control during the carpet-bag
negro domination; in 1877
secured the union of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College with the
university, and procured from the United
States government the donation
of the grounds and buildings of the
historic military post at
Baton Rouge. He was a pioneer of public
education in the South, especially
of industrial and technical
education. At intervals, he
was president of the Alabama Agricultural
and Mechanical College (1883-84);
Kentucky Military Institute (1888-93);
professor in the Ohio Military
Academy (1893-94), and in the Michigan
Military Academy (1894-96).
In 1885-86 he was Louisiana commissioner of
the New Orleans Exposition.
The alumni of the Louisiana State University
erected a memorial hall to
his memory. He died May 27, 1899, at Baton
Rouge, Louisiana.
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BELLE BOYD HARDINGE -
born at Martinsburg, Virginia, about 1835,
daughter of DR. BOYD, of that
place. As a Confederate spy during the
civil war, she performed valuable
service, and her exploits made her
famous. She was at one time
captured by the Federals and imprisoned.
After the war she married
a former Federal officer, was divorced from
him in 1868, then visited
Europe, and on her return went on the stage.
She published "Belle Boyd
in Camp and Prison" (1865).
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GEORGE JEFFERSON HUNDLEY -
born near Mobile, Alabama, March 22, 1838,
son of Josiah Hundley and
Cornelia Jefferson, his wife. On his father's
side he is of mixed English
and Huguenot blood; on his mother's side he
is great-great-grandson of
Peter Jefferson, uncle of Thomas Jefferson.
His mother and father died
when he was an infant. He had two years
tuition at Fleetwood Academy
and a year at Hampden-Sidney College,
supplementing his education
by reading standard authors. He entered the
private law school of Judge
John W. Brockenbrough, in Lexington,
Virginia, 1860; his license
was signed by three judges, and he was about
to enter upon practice when
Virginia seceded from the Union and he
enlisted among the earliest
volunteers, serving to Appomattox Court
House. After the war Mr. Hundley
taught school, and in 1866 located at
Buckingham Court House, to
practice law. In 1898 he was appointed
circuit judge of the fifth
judicial circuit. In 1870 he was elected to
the state senate, serving
for four years; and in 1895 to the house of
delegates, where he took especial
interest in a reform in the laws
relating to criminal trial,
and securing the passage of a bill providing
that no mere technicality
not affecting the merits of a case should
delay or postpone a criminal
trial. He has served on the board of
trustees of the Farmville
Normal School, and of the Institution for the
Deaf,Dumb and Blind, at Staunton,
Virginia. In politics he is a
Democrat. On October 5, 1881,
he married LUCY WALLER BOYD, of Nelson
County, Virginia. His address
is Farmville, Virginia.
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CHARLES JAMES FAULKNER - born
in Martinsburg, then Virginia, now West
Virginia, September 21, 1847.
His grandfather, Major James Faulkner, was
born in the North of Ireland,
became a resident of the new world,
espoused the cause of his
adopted country in the war of 1812, and was
commander of the Virginia
forces at the battle of Craney Island, in
1813. He died soon after the
close of the war. His wife was Mary Mackey,
a daughter of Captain Andrew
Mackey, who was a member of the Society of
the Cincinnati. JOHN BOYD,
the maternal grandfather of Mr. Faulkner, was
born in Scotland, and on coming
to America settled first in
Pennsylvania, but moved to
Berkeley county, Virginia, about 1742. ELISHA
BOYD, father of MARY BOYD
FAULKNER, was a soldier of the war of 1812,
and for a number of years
served as a general of state militia of
Virginia. He built one of
the old homesteads of the state known as
"Boydville," in the vicinity
of Martinsburg, which Mr. Faulkner now
occupies. Senator Faulkner
was a student in private schools of Ellicott
City, Maryland, in Paris,
France, and Germany and Switzerland, during
the time his father was minister
to France. Returning to his native
country, he entered the Virginia
Military Institute, and in 1867
matriculated in the University
of Virginia, from which he graduated with
the class of 1869. While in
the institute, he participated in the battle
of Newmarket. Subsequently
he was on the staff of General John C.
Breckenridge, in the Confederate
army, and afterwards on the staff of
General Henry A. Wise, surrendering
with him at Appomattox. Immediately
following his graduation from
the University of Virginia, he entered
upon the practice of law,
and has since been connected with the bar as a
practitioner or judge. In
1880 he was electedto the bench of the
thirteenth circuit of West
Virginia, composed of the counties of
Berkeley,Jefferson and Morgan.
He is now engaged in general practice,
but largely represents corporate
interests, and is counsel for a number
of railroads, banking and
trust companies. He belongs to the West
Virginia State Bar Association
and to the District of Columbia Bar
Association. A leader of the
Democracy in West Virginia, Mr. Faulkner
was elected United States
senator in 1887 for a term of six years, and
in January, 1893, was re‰lected.
He was chairman of the Democratic
national congressional committee
in 1894 and 1896. In 1898 he was
appointed a member of the
Anglo-American Joint High Commission to settle
the differences existing in
Canada between Great Britain and the United
States. Socially he is connected
with the Masonic fraternity, is a past
grand master, and also holds
membership in the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, the Metropolitan
Club of Washington, and the American
Geographical Society of New
York. He was married, November 6,1869, to
Sallie WINN, of Charlottesville,
Virginia, who died March 31, 1890. On
January 3, 1893,Senator Faulkner
married Virginia Fairfax Whiting, of
Hampton,Virginia.
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THOMAS DUCKETT BOYD - born
at Wytheville, Virginia, January 20, 1854. He
was graduated from the Louisiana
State University and Agricultural and
Mechanical College in 1872;
was elected adjunct professor of mathematics
there in 1873; later he served
successively as commandant of cadets, and
professor of history and English
literature. In 1888 he became president
of the State Normal School
at Natchitoches, Louisiana, and left the
position in 1896 to accept
the presidency of the Louisiana State
University and Agricultural
and Mechanical College. At both of these
institutions he has enlarged
and strengthened their efficiency in every
way. He is a member of and
has served as president of the Louisiana
Educational Association, and
also of the Louisiana Chautauqua, of which
he was one of the founders.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VIRGINIA
BIOGRAHPHY (2)
VOLUME IV
JAMES NALLE BOYD, the "fair
haired" Scotchman, founded a family that was
prominent in Scotch history
and one that is now found in all parts of
the United States. The ancestors
of James Nalle Boyd, of Richmond,
Virginia, were of the Glasgow,
Scotland, branch. He is a grandson of
JOHN H. BOYD, of Virginia,
who married ELIZABETH FOUSHEE, and died in
1866, advanced in years. He
was a veteran of the war of 1812, and
located in Richmond after
the war.
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JOHN W. BOYD, son of JOHN
H. and ELIZABETH (FOUSHEE) BOYD, was a dry
goods merchant of Baltimore,
Maryland, later of Richmond, Virginia. He
was a man of prominence and
one of the oldest of the Richmond Light
Infantry Blues. He married
VIRGINIA NALLE, a maternal granddaughter
of James and Eliza Howlett.
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JAMES NALLE BOYD, son of JOHN
W. and VIRGINIA (NALLE) BOYD, was born at
Richmond, Virginia, May 28,
1850. His father died when he was about six
years of age, and his school
years was ended by the war between the
states. He was privately taught
until 1859 when he became a student at
the old Roger Martin Academy,
an institution located in Richmond and
then numbering about two hundred
boys as pupils. He attended this school
until 1863 and on April 1,
1864, he enlisted in Company F,Twenty-first
Virginia Regiment of Infantry,
the Confederate army marching through
Amelia county, Virginia, firing
his boyish patriotism, he then being not
quite fourteen years of age.
His military career was a short one, as a
few days later at the fierce
battle of Sailor's Creek he was taken
prisoner. This battle was
fought near Farmville, Virginia, and on the
confederate side the troops
were mostly young men and boys. After the
war the lad in years, but
a veteran in experience,returned to Richmond
and there began a business
career that has been a most successful and
important one. He worked for
four years for Thomas & Oliver, tobacco
manufacturers and dealers
of Richmond, 1866 to 1870, then formed the
firm of James N. Boyd &
Company and engaged in business for himself as
dealers in leaf tobacco, buying
and exporting. This firm is still an
important factor in the tobacco
trade, Mr. Boyd having always retained
his interest, and since the
incorporation of the firm in 1896 he has
been its efficient president.
As he increased in business experience and
power he extended his activities
and has become one of the leading
business men of this city.
He is president of the Planters National Bank
of Richmond, director of the
Virginia Trust Company and the Southern
Biscuit Works of Richmond,
and formerly a director of the
Virginia-Carolina Chemical
Company of Richmond and the Southern Cotton
Oil Company of New York, and
has unofficial connection with many
Richmond and Virginia enterprises.
He is well known and highly regarded
in business circles, and in
club life is equally prominent. While his
parents were both members
of Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, of
Richmond, Mr. Boyd and his
immediate family are members of All Saints
Protestant Episcopal Church,
of which he is a vestryman. Following his
early war experience of 1865,
Mr. Boyd, in 1870, enlisted in Company F,
First Regiment Virginia Militia,
serving for four years. He is a member
of the First Regiment Association,the
Business Men's Club of Richmond, a
director of the Police Benevolent
Association, member of the
Westmoreland and Commonwealth
clubs of Richmond, the Country Club of
Virginia and Richmond Chamber
of Commerce. A Democrat in politics, Mr.
Boyd, although deeply interested
in all that pertains to the public
good, has never accepted public
office. Mr. Boyd married, January 10,
1877, MILDRED COLES, daughter
of John R. and Elizabeth (Coles)Edmunds,
of English descent. Children:
Elizabeth, residing at home; James R. N.,
a civil engineer,now residing
in California; Virginia Nalle, married Asa
E. Phillips, a government
engineer of Washington, D. C.; Richard E., a
buyer of leaf tobacco, residing
in Richmond; Mildred Coles,married John
C. Hayes, a tobacco manufacturer
associated with the American Tobacco
Company in Richmond; John
W., secretary and treasurer of the James N.
Boyd Company, (incorporated)
of Richmond; Mary E., residing at home. The
family residence is No. 117
West Grace street,Richmond.
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HENRY HUNTER BOWEN, son of
William and Rhoda (Respess) Bowen, was born
on the homestead at Long Acre,
Washington county, North Carolina,
February 11, 1823, and died
on the eighty-fourth anniversary of his
birth, 1907. His lifelong
calling was that of farmer, and he was a
member of the confederate
force that fired the first shots on Fort
Sumter, serving from that
time until the final surrender at Appomattox,
once being taken prisoner
by the federal forces. He married ANN LATHAM
BOYD, born at Long Acre, Washington
county, North Carolina, in 1824,
died in 1892, daughter of
ZACHARY BOYD and his wife, MARY (LATHAM) BOYD,
her father a native of that
place, a farmer and physician. Children of
ZACHARY and MARY (LATHAM)
BOYD: WINIFRED, ANN LATHAM, of previous
mention, married Henry Hunter
Bowen, MARY, ELIZABETH, ZACHARY, THOMAS,
and CASWELL. Henry Hunter
Bowen and his wife were the parents of:
Cornelia, married Cleophas
B. Latham, of Long Acre, North Carolina;
Henry C., of Wilmington, North
Carolina, since the age of seventeen
years a minister of the Christian
church; Marietta, married John T.
Windley, of Long Acre, North
Carolina; Dr. William David, of whom
further; Olivia, married John
C. Oden, of Hunter's Bridge, North
Carolina, was the mother of
seven children, and died aged forty-eight
years; and two who died in
infancy.
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BEVERLEY RANDOLPH TUCKER,
M.D. of Richmond, Virginia, eldest son of John
Randolph and Fannie Booth
(Crump) Tucker, was born in Richmond,
Virginia, April 26, 1874.
He attended Richmond and Virginia schools
until eighteen years of age,
then began work, acquiring his medical
education through his own
efforts. He attended the Norwood and high
schools of Richmond, and spent
two years at the Virginia Military
Institute, not being able
to afford the full course. In 1893 he was a
clerk in Richmond, continuing
until 1901, but his fixed preference and
ambition was for the medical
profession, and when he had solved the
financial problems standing
between him and his ambition, he entered the
Medical College of Virginia,
whence he was graduated M. D. with the
class of 1905.Afterward, for
two and a half years, he took post-graduate
work in nervous diseases in
Philadelphia, New York and Europe. He began
practice in Richmond as a
specialist in nervous diseases at once and so
continues, well established
and prosperous. His integrity, business
ability and pleasing address,
have won for him many friends, not only
professionally, but outside.
In 1909 he became president of the G. L.
Hall Optical Company, and
in the same year president of the company and
editor of the "Old Dominion
Journal of Medicine and Surgery." He is
professor of nervous and mental
diseases at the Medical College of
Virginia, and president of
the Neurological Sanitarium Corporation. All
of these organizations are
in Richmond. His investigations on Pellagra,
and his forthcoming book on
"Nervous Children," are directly in the line
of public service, as are
all his papers on Pellagra in the United
States. He is one of the editors
of the British Medical Annual for 1914
and wrote the section on Pellagra.
He has done original work on
pituitary gland diseases of
the brain, and has recently completed a
sketch of the life of Dr.
S. Weir Mitchell, under whom he was trained in
Philadelphia. Dr. Tucker has
won two prizes for medical essays in the
"New York Medical Journal."
Dr. Tucker was for two years, 1893 to 1895,
a member of the Richmond Light
Infantry Blues, having had two years
previous training as a cadet
at the Virginia Military Institute. He is a
member of the various medical
societies of the city and state; Pi Mu
medical fraternity, the Westmoreland
Club and the Country Club of
Virginia. He is a member of
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and a Democrat
in politics. Dr. Tucker married,
April 3, 1907, ELSIE, daughter of
ROBERT and MARY BOYD, granddaughter
of FRANCES BOYD and WILLIAM TOWNES,
and a descendant of the Scotch
emigrant, ALEXANDER BOYD, who settled in
Virginia at an early day.
Children of Dr. and Mrs. Tucker: Mary Hannah,
Elsie Boyd, and Weir Mitchell
Tucker. The family home is at 208 East
Franklin street.
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DR. THOMAS MASSIE, son of
Major Thomas Massie, married (first) a Miss
Waller, of Amherst county,
Virginia, by whom he had five children that
attained maturity, namely:
1. William H., died unmarried. 2. Sarah,
married William O. Goode,
of Mecklenburg county, Virginia, who left a
number of children. 3. Elizabeth,
died unmarried. 4. Waller, married
------ and was the father
of three children: i. Thomas, died without
children. ii. William, unmarried.
iii. Gertrude, married ------
Fullerton; living at the present
time (1914); no children. iv. JULIET
A., married H.C. BOYD, of
Nelson County, Virginia; children: a. ALICE
BOYD, married Stuart Cabell,
who died without children; b. REV. THOMAS
N. BOYD,died in Arkansas,
leaving two children; c. CONRAD D. BOYD, whose
widow resides in Scottsville;
d. WALLER M. BOYD, resides at Roseland,
Virginia; e. H.C. BOYD JR.,
died unmarried; f. N.L. BOYD, died at
Roseland; g. WILLIAM H. BOYD,
died in Texas; h. LUCY BOYD, married
George I. Hundley, resides
in Farmville; i. JULIET BOYD, married R.P.
Andrews, who died, leaving
two sons; j. LILA BOYD,married P.P.Gant,
resides at Roseland; k. JENNIE
BOYD, died unmarried. Dr. Thomas Massie
married (second) a Miss Cabell,
of Nelson county, Virginia, by whom he
had three children: 5. Paul,
died unmarried. 6. Anne, died unmarried. 7.
Patrick C., married Susan
Withers, of Campbell county, Virginia;
children: i. Robert W., married
Mattie Manson. ii. Patrick C. Jr. iii.
Thomas,deceased. iv. Thornton
L., a judge. v. Douglas. vi. Withers. vii.
Susan, who married ---Brown,
of Kentucky.
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HILLERY MACKARNESS LANGSTON
GOODE, youngest son of Hillery and Sarah
(Bacon) Goode, was born October
16, 1815. He was a prosperous planter of
Charlotte county, Virginia,
served many terms in the Virginia house of
burgesses and was a man of
influence. He married SALLY M., daughter of
RICHARD and LUCY A. (GOODE)
BOYD; children: William, who settled in
Brownsville, Texas; Richard
Bennett. Richard Bennett Goode, son of
Hillery Mackarness Langston
and Sally M. (Boyd) Goode, was born in
Charlotte county, Virginia,
on the old plantation "Forest Home," March
19, 1845. He was reared on
the old homestead, attending school at Tom T.
Boden's Academy in Charlotte,
which he left before completing his
education to join the Confederate
army.
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JOSEPH ROBERT STATON was born
on Staten Island, New York, November 16,
1816, died at Lynchburg, Virginia,
July 6, 1886. He came to Virginia
early in life, and became
a vessel owner and merchant of Lynchburg,
where the greater part of
his life was spent. He married Louisa J.
Harris, born in 1815, died
September 12, 1875 Three of his eight
children are deceased: William
M., who died in 1899, was a Confederate
veteran, having been one of
the bravest of Mosby's many brave men;
Benjamin Franklin, also a
Confederate veteran of Charlotte county,died
in 1900, aged fifty-four years;
Octavia, died aged fifteen years. The
living children of Joseph
R. Staton are: Joseph Robert (2), of Richmond;
Edward C., of Richmond; EMMA
E., married HENRY E. BOYD,whom she
survives, a resident of Richmond;
George A., of Port Richmond, Staten
Island; Dr. Lee Whitfield,
of Richmond.
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MARVIN SMITHEY, son of Rev.
William Rosser and Nanny J. (Green) Smithey,
was born in Virginia,March
19, 1879. . Mr. Smithey married, October 3,
1906, Virginia Hendrick Bracey,
born in Mecklenburg county,Virginia, in
August, 1879, daughter of
CORNELIUS and ALICE (BOYD) BRACEY.
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ROBERT KENT SPILLER - As a
member of the legal profession Robert Kent
Spiller, of Roanoke, Virginia,
has achieved distinction and won success.
He is a man of strong intellectuality,
with a comprehensive knowledge of
the law, and in the handling
of the cases entrusted to his care has
shown a masterful ability
which has gained him a foremost place. He is
the grandson of William Hickman
and Julia (Crockett) Spiller, and the
son of William Hickman and
Cynthia (McComas) Spiller, both born in
Wytheville, Virginia, where
the former is now a merchant and banker, the
latter a daughter of THOMAS
JEFFERSON BOYD.
Source: Encyclopedia of Virginia
Biography, Volumes I-V. Richmond, VA:
n.p, 1915.
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