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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