Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. in Five Volumes. Volume III

The five-volume Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography is a collection of biographical sketches of thousands of Virginians who lived between the early seventeenth century and the twentieth century. Covering the entire spectrum of colonial Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary figures the Encyclopedia treats the following personages: founders immigrants and early settlers state councillors and burgesses landowners merchants Revolutionary War figures governors justices politicians military and naval figures and a host of prominent nineteenth-century personalities including bankers statesmen farmers professionals businessmen and Civil War soldiers.