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j^reatcr knowledge and keeps himself ever
in close touch with the discoveries of others,
whether it be jjrevention, cure or operation.
He is thoroughly modern and is very suc-
cessful in his ])ractice. Dr. Garcin has ac-
quired imj)ortant business interests in Rich-
mond, although his profession has received
his greatest attention. He is a director of
the Church Hill Bank. Bank of Commerce
- ind Trusts, a director of the German Mutual
Huilding and Loan Association and has other minor interests. He is a member of the Business Men's Club, Appa Kappa Kai)])a fraternity, is a communicant of the ilaptist church and in politics is a Demo- crat.
Dr. ( iarcin married, April i, 1893, ^lary I'ldmonia Jackson, daughter of J. Tyler Jackson, and a granddaughter of Spencer and Antoinette (Richardson) Jackson, of I'airfax count}'. \'irginia. Children : Ramon David (2), now a student at Richmond Col- lege ; Emma Anderson, a student at Rich- mond Woman's College ; Lyne, a student at Richmond Academy. Dr. (iarcin exempli- ties in his own career the value of ambition rightly directed, perseverance until the goal is reached, i)unctuality in business or pro- fessional engagements and honesty in all life's dealings, large or small. To these qualities must be added pleasing person- ality, sympathy and a genuine love for his fellowmen and among his large clientele are many who beneath the impersonal atti- tude of the physician see the anxious solici- tude of the friend.
John Garland Pollard. The Pollard fam- ily of X'irginia a])pcars to have first settled at "Mount Zoar," in King and Queen county, Virginia, in the early part of the eighteenth century. Members of this fam- ily intermarried wath the Dandridges, Ed- wards and Spottswoods ; and the family his- tory includes many distinguished names in Virginia and elsewhere in the United States. It has been said that King and Queen county, Virginia, contains many relics c»f old colonial days, but none so inter- esting as the old homesteads of the Clai- bornes, liraxtons, Dandridges, Edwards, Ayletts, Langbornes, Pollards and others, all of which have their own peculiar features and traditions of that time. In those old mansions a former generation lived in lordly manner, and entertained those who came to
their door with lavish hospitality. Many of
those old residences have decayed and dis-
appeared, while others are in ruins, but
here and there some few of those old build-
ings have been preserved with zealous care
to the present time. The glory of those old
"Barons of the Pamunkey and of the Matta-
pony" has passed away, but their descend-
ants of the twentieth century still cling to
the fond tradition of that long ago, and are
still noted for their geniality and i)ersonal
integrity of character.
(I) Joseph Pollard, the earliest known ancestor, was born probably in King and Queen county, Virginia, in 1701. and died December 26, 1791, presumably in Gooch- land county. X'irginia, aged nearly ninety- one years. A great-grandson, John Pollard Sr.. records that his own father, Joseph Pol- lard, son of William Pollard, sometime clerk of Hanover county, told him that Joseph f\)llard moved from King and Queen county to (joochland county in 1754, when he was sixty-seven years of age. According to the Pollard family records, made by John Pol- lard Sr., this Joseph Pollard married Pris- cilla Hoomes. of Caroline county. Virginia, v'ho died July 26, 1795, aged "above 91" years. They had nine children, seven girls and two boys, namely: i. Sarah, born May
4, 1725, married, June 20, 1743, Judge Ed- numd Pendleton, first president of the Vir- ginia supreme court of appeals, who died October 26, 1803, in his eighty-third year ; she survived him and was living in 1814, then in her ninetieth year. 2. William, of whom further. 3. Anne, born February 22, iy^2, married a Mr. Taylor, and had an only son. John Taylor, author. United States senator, and colonel in the revolutionary war; she was living in 1814 in her eighty- third year. 4. Elizabeth, born October. 1736. married a Mr. Merriwether, had issue, and was living in 1814 in her seventy-sixth year.
5. A daughter, who married a Mr. Watkins. but had no issue. 6. Thomas, born Sep- tember 30. 1 74 1, resided in Kentucky, and was "nearly "j}^' in 1814. when he visited Virginia, and this record was made. 7. Jane, born May 26. 1744, married (first) Mr. Dan- dridge, (second) Thomas Underwood, and was living "in her 71st year" in Hanover county, \'irgmia. 8. Milly (Priscilla), born May 12. T747, married Colonel Edmund Pendleton, a nephew of Judge Edmund Pendleton, and in 1814 was "in her 68th
