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principal of high schools in Rockingham
county, Virginia, prior to his entrance in the
University of Virginia, and since 1901 has
ben engaged in legal practice in Harrison-
burg, \'irginia. Mr. Crawford is learned in
the law, and in the thirteen years that have
passed since his activities along that line
began he has deri\ed from his deep study
and determined mastery of the law the
profit and satisfaction of numerous favor-
able verdicts. He is a forceful and con-
vincing speaker, and is at his best when
pleading the case of a client, presenting his
facts and arguments in perfect array, his
presentation of his case showing, to the keen
observer, the presence of a brief strongly
and logically arranged. System and method
are the qualities upon which he has reared
a successful legal career, two virtues whose
value is inestimable. While a student at
college Mr. Crawford became a member of
the "Ravens Society," and belongs to the
University of Virginia Alumni Association,
of Harrisonburg, Virginia. His church is
the Presbyterian, and he is identified with
the Democratic party.
Mr. Crawford married, at Richmond, \'"ir- ginia, November 8, 1906, Bessie, born in Richmond, Virginia, April 3, 1887, daugh- ter of Henry W. and Elizabeth (Werst) Rountree, and has one son, Henry Roun- tree, born at Harrisonburg, Virginia, May 17, 1908.
Hon. John Lamb, of Richmond, Virginia, is descended frc)ni an old colonial family that was settled in Charles City county as early as 1650, at "Rural Shades," which was the ancestral home of the family for some two hundred years or more. That domicile is in the historic region early settled by English colonists, which later was made famous by its colonial mansions and is noted for the generous hospitality of its citizens. It was the birthplace and home of John Lamb, a descendant of the original founder of the family there, who tilled the broad acres of his estate, and lived as became a Virginia gentleman of a hundred years ago. He was a Whig of the old school ; and an independent man of affairs who had an opin- ion of his own upon all public questions He married Mary Emory Moody, who had issue, as follows: Lycurgus Anthony, of whom further; John M., James.
fll) Lycurgus Anthony Lamb, son of
John and Mary Emory (Moody) Lamb, was
born in 1813 in Charles City county, Vir-
ginia, at Rural Shades, the old homestead
of the Lambs. He was educated in the local
schools of his native state ; he was teacher,
civil engineer, county surveyor, and magis-
trate under the old county court system in
Charles City county, Virginia. In politics
he was a Whig of the Henry Clay type. He
married Ann Elizabeth Christian, daughter
of James H. and Susan (Hill) Christian, of
Charles City county, Virginia. She was a
granddaughter of Lieutenant Joseph Chris-
tian, of Charles City ; who served in the rev-
olutionary war ; a daughter of the Rev.
James Hendricks Christian and Susan (Hill)
Christian, of Charles City, Virginia, who
had issue, namely: James H., Isaac H.,
Anne Elizabeth, of whom above ; America ;
Susan Christian.
(Ill) John (2) Lamb, son of Lycurgus Anthony and Ann Elizabeth (Christian) Lamb, was born June 12, 1840, in Sussex county, Virginia. He was educated per- sonally by his father, who was a teacher of private schools, until he was fifteen years old, when his father, dying, he continued his studies alone thereafter; he toiled on the farm and studied civil engineering in the evenings and during spare time until he had mastered the elements of that study, but the civil war came on, just as he attained man's estate, he enlisted as a private in the Charles City troop, which afterward became Company D, Third Virginia Cavalry, at- tached to W^ickam's brigade. Confederate States army. He served throughout the war, was several times wounded, twice se- A'erely, and finally laid down his arms when General Lee surrendered at Appomattox, April 9, 1865, as captain of his company, which he had commanded for three years. The war being over, he returned to Charles City county, where he engaged in farming, and li\ ed there until 1888, when he removed to Richmond, Virginia
In Charles City county he was elected sherifY soon after the war; and afterward served his people as county treasurer and county surveyor. He was chairman of the County Democratic Committee for .several years, and was elected to the fifty-fifth, fifty- sixth, fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth, sixty-first and sixty-second Con- gresses, as a Democrat from the Third Vir- ginia District, comprising the counties of
