Excerpt from History of the American Negro, Vol. 5: Virginia Edition This collection of biographies of prominent Negro men and women of Virginia is Volume V of the Biographical History of the American Negro. It does not include all the important men and women of the race in the Old Dominion, but it does include many of the greatest and best. A book dealing with contemporary men and women can never be made quite complete or exhaustive, for even while it is being made some will move or die, while others will rise to take their places. We have sought to make the work representative, deal ing with the leaders in every honorable profession and line of work. The representatives of business and commercial life have been given a rather larger place than in any of the preceding volumes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.