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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Stuart N. Michaux, son of Dr. Jacob
M. and Willie Henry (Johnson) Alichaux,
was born at Beaumont, Powhatan county,
Virginia, July 13, 1878. He was instructed
in private schools in his earlier years, then
attended Madison School, Richmond High
School, McCabe's University School, finish-
ing his classical education at the Univer-
sity of Virginia. Deciding upon the profes-
sion of medicine, he prepared at the Uni-
versity College of Medicine (Richmond),
whence he was graduated M. D., class of
1903. For one year thereafter he served
as acting assistant surgeon in the Public
Health and Marine Hospital, at Detroit,
Michigan, later, in May, 1904, locating in
Richmond, Virginia, where he continues in
successful and honorable practice. In 1906
he was lecturer on gynecology at the Uni-
versity College of Medicine; 1909-12 pro-
fessor of clinical gynecology; now associate
professor of gynecology. Medical College of
Virginia. Dr. Michaux is modern and pro-
gressive in his methods and teachings, en-
joying a high reputation as representative
of the younger medical practitioners and
professors. He is a fellow of the Richmond
Academy of Medicine ; fellow of the Medi-
cal Society of Virginia ; fellow of the Tri-
State Medical Society ; fellow of the Amer-
ican Medical Association ; fellow of the
Southern Medical Association; fellow of the
Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North
America ; member of Beta Theta Phi, Uni-
versity of Virginia ; Pi Mu Medical College
of Virginia ; Westmoreland Club, the Rich-
mond German Club. He is a Democrat in
politics, and a member of the Protestant
Episcopal church, the latter church also
claiming the allegiance of his family.
Dr. Michaux married Martha Garland Whitehead, of Amherst, Virginia, daughter of Colonel Thomas Whitehead, who died in 1901. Colonel Whitehead was a lawyer, rep- resented the sixth Virginia district in the Forty-second Congress. He married Martha Henry Garland, of Amherst, Virginia, daugh- ter of Samuel Meredith Garland.
Hon. Howard Randolph Bayne, lawyer and author, has been a member of the New York bar since 1882 and is a well-known and successful lawyer at that bar. He takes an active and intelligent interest in general affairs and exerts an extensive influence in local affairs in his home borough, Staten
Island. He was born at Winchester, Vir^
ginia. May 11, 1851, son of Charles and
Mary Ellen (Ashby) I'ayne. and grandson
of Richard and Susan (Pope) Bayne. Sev-
eral lines of ancestry will be mentioned in
succeeding paragraphs, showing the descent
of the subject of this sketch from the fami-
lies of Thornton, Stuart, Dabney, Savage,
Menefee, Wade, Strother, Ashby, Pope, and
other old and honorable Virginia families.
Richard Bayne, son of Mathew Bayne, of Westmoreland county. Pennsylvania, was born September 13, 1789. and died Novem- ber 3, 1829. He married Susan, daughter of Lawrence and Penelope Pope and a de- scendant of Humphrey Pope. Humphrey Pope was living in Rappahannock county, \'irginia, in 1656, and in 1659 obtained from Thomas Pope a deed for one hundred and fifty acres near the ClifTs, \\^estmoreland county. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Hawkins, and died in 1695. Their eldest son, Lawrence, married Jemima, re- lict of John Spence and daughter of Thomas Waddy, of Northumberland, and his will was recorded in 1723. He lived in Wash- ington parish. John, third son of Lawrence Pope, married Sarah, daughter of Christo- pher Mothershead. Lawrence (2), second son <^f John and Sarah Pope, was three .times married: (first) to Jane, daughter of Humphrey Quisenberry, (second) to Fran- ces Carter, and (third) to Penelope Vigar, relict of Jacob Vigar and daughter of Nich- olas Quisenberry. His daughter Susan, born November 30, 1794, married Richard Dayne. and their children were : Lawrence, William, George H., Charles. W'ashington and Patterson.
Charles Bayne was born near Baynesville, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, No- vember 5, 1818. and died October i8th. 1885. He engaged in the tobacco business in Baltimore, Maryland, but when the civil war began he found it hazardous to continue his residence there because his sympathies were with the south. He and his family became one of the bands of refugees in Virginia who traveled from place to place in order to keep within the southern lines. About 1863 they took up their residence in Richmond, remaining there until 1870. He married Mary Ellen, daughter of Thomson and Anne Stuart (Menefee) Ashby. Thomas Ashby, sup- posed to be the first of the name in Virginia
