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WILLIAM WIRT HENRY.

William Wirt Henry was born at "Red Hill," in the county of Charlotte, February 14, 1831, in the same house in which his illustrious grandfather first saw the light, and died in the City of Richmond, December 5, 1900. He was the son of John Henry, the youngest son of Patrick Henry, the great Revolutionary patriot, and first Governor of Virginia.

He was educated amid the surroundings of his ancestral home until his matriculation in the University of Virginia, whence, with the degree of Master of Arts, the highest academic honor of his venerable Alma Mater, he returned to his native county to enter upon the active duties of life in the prosecution of his profession, which he loved and honored. His high merits as a man and a lawyer very soon acquired for him the affectionate confidence and patronage of the community, and won for him among his people and brethren of the Bar an honorable distinction.

At the beginning of the civil war he volunteered as a private in a company of artillery, and served with valor and patriotism throughout the conflict.

In 1873 he removed to the City of Richmond. His local fame had preceded him, and gave assurance of the success with which, by easy strides, he assumed a recognized position among the foremost of the Bar of the courts of the city and of the Court of Ap peals; and few of his associates commanded and retained until the hour of his death from the public, the Bar, and the Bench a more enviable appreciation of personal and professional work.

He represented the Bar of his State at one or more meetings of the American Bar Association, of which he was at one time one of the Vice-Presidents, and in 1896 was elected President of the Virginia State Bar Association.

Mr. Henry was a man of cultured literary taste, and improved his hours of diversion from professional study and engagements

in the acquisition of a vast store of literary and historical information. With intense pride in the past of his native State, it was a labor of love with him to explore all the sources of information respecting her colonial history, and the results of his labors in many valuable contributions to current magazines were most highly esteemed by historical students at home and abroad. But his great and permanent contribution to American history was his Life and Speeches of Patrick Henry, in which filial pride and historic accuracy are perhaps as happily harmonized as in any biography upon the shelves of the libraries of America or England.

Mr. Henry was an earnest and sincere Christian. Before his removal to Richmond he was a Ruling Elder in his country church, and thereafter was a most valued and appreciated colaborer with his pastor, the Rev. Dr. Moses D. Hoge, in the sessions of the Second Presbyterian church, of Richmond. As such he was not infrequently a member of the higher courts of her church, and the memory of his wise and valuable counsel is affectionately cherished by many of his surviving associates of the ministry and eldership.

Upon the roll of the dead of the Bar of Virginia, few names will awaken more affectionate and fragrant memories among those who were associated with him in life than that of William Wirt Henry.

B. R. WELLFORD, JR.

RICHARD WALKE.

Richard Walke died at sea, on the 20th. day of June 1901, while on a voyage to Europe in search of health.

He was a son of Richard Walke and Mary Diana Talbot, his wife, and was born in Norfolk, Va., December 9th, 1840.

He attended the school of the late Paxton Pollard, in Norfolk, until the autumn of 1855, when he entered William and Mary College, at Williamsburg, Va., where, in 1857, he graduated, taking the A. M. degree.

In the fall of that year he entered the University of Virginia, but, on account of an attack of typhoid-fever, was obliged to leave before the close of the session.

The following session, however, beginning in the fall of 1858, he returned to the University, and in 1860 graduated with the degree of Master of Arts.

He then went to Europe, and, after spending some time in traveling and in studying the German language, he entered the University of Berlin, but shortly afterwards Virginia seceded from the Union, and he at once gave up his opportunity for an European education in order to join the armies of his people. The existence of a state of war threw many obstacles in the way of his return, but he finally surmounted them, and, as soon as he could reach Norfolk, enlisted as a private in Company F, the crack military company of that city. It was afterwards Company G, of the Sixth Virginia Regiment, better known, perhaps, as Mahone's Regiment. He served as a private in that company until May 1862, when he was appointed First Sergeant.

He held this position until April 1863, when, having passed an examination for admission to the Ordnance Corps, he was appointed by the President a first lieutenant of Ordnance, and assigned to the staff of General William Mahone, where he served until the spring of 1864. He was then appointed Captain and

Inspector-General, and in that capacity served on the staff of General R. L. Walker, Chief of Artillery, Third Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, until the close of the war.

The military career of Captain Walke marked him as a man of absolute intrepidity and an officer of most distinguished merit. In the esteem of his comrades and of his superior officers, he was recognized as belonging to the same high type of the Virginia soldier as McCabe and Pegram-a type, which, by its dash, ability and courage, has largely assisted in achieving for the Army of Northern Virginia its deathless renown in the annals of war.

After the war was over, Captain Walke engaged for a while in mercantile business in Norfolk, as a member of the firm of Wilson & Walke, booksellers and stationers, but this was not suited to his tastes or his talents, and in 1868 he began the study of law in the office of Judge Dobbin, in Baltimore.

Subsequently he returned to Norfolk and continued his legal studies in the office of Mr. R. H. Baker, with whom, in 1870, he formed a copartnership in the practice of law, under the firm name of Baker & Walke, which continued until the first day of July 1879.

On the 1st. day of October 1879, he became a member of the firm of Walke & Old, of which firm he was still a member at the time of his death.

He married on November 1st, 1870, Anne Nivison, daughter of Major Edmund Bradford and Anne E. Tazewell, his wife, and granddaughter of the late Governor Littleton Waller Tazewell.

He left surviving him his wife and five daughters-Anne Tazewell, wife of Richard C. Byrd; Mary Willoughby, Gertrude Abyvon, Dorothy Bradford and Diana Talbot.

Mr. Walke was a most distinguished lawyer. When he came to the Bar at Norfolk, he found there, besides many distinguished men, still living, such lawyers as Judge Scarburgh, Major Duffield, Tazewell Taylor, General Milson, Mr. Ellis and Colonel Hinton. He stepped to the front rank at once, and maintained

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