I41482: Melinda Miriam JOHNSON (1810

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John Dozier Birth: 1685-- Westmoreland Co, VA Death: 4 April 1748 -- Farnham, Richmond Co, VA Spouse: Sarah Wilson Parents: Leonard Dozier.

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"Alexander Quarles HOLLADAY, educator, was born in Spottsylvania county, Va., May 8, 1839; son of the Hon. Alexander Richmond and Patsy Quarles (Poindexter) Holladay, and grandson of Waller and Huldah Fontaine (Lewis) Holladay, and of Judge William G. and Jane (Quarles) Poindexter. He prepared for college in the schools of Richmond, Va.; studied at the University of Virginia. 1857-59, and at the University of Berlin, 1859-61; served as a lieutenant in the Confederate army, 1861-65; was admitted to the bar in 1870 and practised in partnership with his father in Richmond, Va., 1870-77. He served in the Virginia senate, 1871-75; was a teacher in Richmond for some years; was president of the Stonewall Jackson institute, Abingdon, Va., 1881-84, and president of the Florida Agricultural college, 1885-88. He organized and formed the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in 1889, of which he was president until 1899, when he resigned and became professor emeritus. He was married, April 17, 1861, to Virginia Randolph Bolling, of Bolling Island, James River, Va., and had five children: Mary Stuart, who married the Rev. Peyton Harrison Hoge, D.D. (q.v.); William Waller, who became a civil engineer in Wilmington, N.C.; Julia Cabell, who married Dr. J. M. Pickell, professor of chemistry at Shaw university, Raleigh, N.C.; Alexander Randolph, a civil engineer of Richmond, Va., and Charles Bolling, a bank clerk, also of Richmond. Professor Holladay received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Davidson college in 1895. He is the author of occasinnal addresses on educational and literary subjects, and of frequent contributions to the editorial colunms of leading southern newspapers.
source: The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume V H Holladay, Alexander Richmond".

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Elizabeth (Wife) b. About 1444 in Monyash Bakewell, Derbyshire, England

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Melinda Miriam JOHNSON

1810 - Jun 1881

ID Number: I41482

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John DOZIER

1685 - 4 Apr 1748

ID Number: I69624

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Hon. Alexander Quarles HOLLADAY C.S.A.

8 May 1839 - ____

ID Number: I54086

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Sammy Stephens MARTIN Jr.

RICHARD SHELTON (SHELDON)

ABT 1440 - ____

ID Number: I94828

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Jacob WADE

ABT 1760 - ____

ID Number: I98149

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