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sessions of 1883, 1885 and 1889 in the \'ir-
ginia house of delegates. On March i,
1890 he was made judge of the fifteenth
circuit, but resigned in 1892. Judge Bolen
has contributed short sketches and poems
to the press, and lately has compiled his
sketches into a history of Southwestern \'ir-
ginia. In politics a Democrat, Mr. Bolcn
represented Carroll county in the constitu-
tional convention of 1901-02, and was presi-
dential elector on the Democratic ticket in
1904. He married, Feliruary 21, 1877,
Nannie Early.
Stebbins, Joseph, born at Petersburg, Vir- ginia, June 14. 1850, son of Joseph Stebbins, a merchant, and Mary Elizabeth Grundy, his wife, daughter of George Grundy, a sol- dier of the war of 1812. His education ended when he was thirteen years of age, by the death of his father, and the next year he became a salesman in a store at Black Walnut, Virginia. When fifteen years old, he had neither parents, sisters nor brothers. He engaged in mercantile busi- ness at South Boston, Virginia. Upon the organization of the Bank of South Boston, he became a director, and subsequently president; and later president of the firni of Stebbins, Lawson & Spraggins, a whole- sale dry goods house. For some years he served as a member of the town council, and in 1901 he was elected to the constitutional convention from Halifax county, and in that body served on the committees on perma- nent organization, on county governnitnt. on finance, taxation and corporations. He married, July 24. 1872, Willie S. Fo'.irqu- rcan.
Ballagh, J.imes Curtis, horn in Browns- burg, \'irginia, son of Rev. James Ballagh
and Margaret Tate, his wife. He was a
,'^tudent at Washington and Lee University,
and later at the University of Virginia,
nhich he was- obliged to leave on account
ot inqiaired health. After several years
absence in Europe, he returned, and en-
tered Johns Hopkins University, from which
he graduated A. B. (extra ordincin). in
1894, and the next year he received the
degree of Ph. D. from the same institution,
and in 1 906 the LL. D. degree from the
I'niversity of Alabama. In 1891 he became
connected with Tulane University as assist-
ant professor of biology. In 1895 he became
assistant instructor and associate in history
in Johns Hopkins University ; associate
jjrofessor of American history, 1905-11, and
professor of same from the latter year to
the present time. He is the author of
"White Servitude in the Colony of Virginia"
(1S95) : a "History of Slavery in Virginia'
(1905); also of numerous articles, princi-
pally on American history and slavery ; and
was the writer of "Southern Economic
History" in "The South in the Building of
a Nation." He married Josephine Jackson,
of Baltimore.
Fairfax, Henry, born at Alexandria. \\t- ginia. May 4, 1850, son of Col. John W. Fairfax and Mary Jane Rogers, his wife, is ri descendant of Thomas Fairfax, who, ap(in coming to .America from his English home in ^1(17. settled in Calvert county. Maryland. This locality was the family home until 1791, when the branch of which flenry Fairfax is a member came to Vir- ginia. Col. John W. Fairfax was in the Confederate States army for the four years of the Civil war, was a member of the staff of Gen. James Longstreet, served as inspec-
