in the improvement and betterment of the city. He has been prominently connected with the cotton and fertilizer business is president and treasurer of the Poconoke guano company, and since its reorganization in 1894, has been secretary, treasurer and purchasing agent of the Atlantic & Danville railroad. For six years he was chairman of the Norfolk street, sewer and drainage commission, and during this period nearly all the principal streets of the city were paved, and half the city was provided with sewers. He is a member of Pickett-Buchanan camp, St. Paul's Episcopal church, and the orders of Masonry and Odd Fellows. August 9, 1866, he was married to Annie Mary Baker, who died November 15, 1886, leaving three children: Sarah Collins, wife of William H. Kennedy; Mary Blount and William Baker. On December 9, 1896, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Perkins Roy, of Washington, D. C.
Lieutenant Henry S. Trout, a gallant veteran of Pickett's division of the army of Northern Virginia, who since the war has been one of the most distinguished citizens of Roanoke, Va., was born in Roanoke county in 1841. In May, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Twenty-eighth Virginia infantry, and served until his capture at Sailor's Creek, winning promotion to sergeant at the close of his first year and a year later to lieutenant of Company I. He participated in the Seven Days' fighting before Richmond, receiving a wound in the leg at Gaines' Mill; in the battle of South Mountain, Md., where he was wounded in the head; in the battles of Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg and two days at Gettysburg, including the charge of Pickett's division, of which he is one of the survivors, and the eight months' fighting on the lines about Petersburg. After his capture at Sailor's Creek he was held as a prisoner of war at Johnson's island until July, 1865. After his release he returned to his native county and engaged in farming until 1880. Since that date he has been prominently associated with the development of the city of Roanoke. He served four years in the Virginia house of delegates from Roanoke county, and four years as senator from the Fourth district. In the city he has served in the city council and as mayor in 1893, in the latter position being wounded during a riot. In business affairs he is prominent as president of the Iron Belt building association, president of the Roanoke street railway company and president of the First national bank.
Beverly D. Tucker, rector of St. Paul's church at Norfolk, and chaplain of Pickett-Buchanan camp, was born at Richmond, November 9, 1846. His family is illustrious in the history of Virginia. His father. Col. Beverly Tucker, a half-nephew of John Randolph, of Roanoke, born at Winchester in 1820, was editor of the Washington (D. C.) Sentinel and in 1857, at the age of thirty-seven years, was appointed by President Buchanan, consul-general at Liverpool; resigned that position at the inauguration of President Lincoln and returned home to enter the service of his State; was commissioned colonel by President Davis and sent upon a confidential mission to France; returned to Richmond in 1873 and after a short service in the field with a cavalry command, was sent to Canada to make secret negotiations for the exchange of cotton for bacon for the army; at the close of the war went to England and thence to Mexico as correspondent for
