History of Danville, (Danville (city) County) Virginia United States of America

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George Craigmead Cabell, lawyer, was born at Danville, Va., Jan. 25, 1836; son of Benjamin W. S. and Sarah Epes (Doswell) Cabell. He was educated at the Danville academy, and at the University of Virginia, and in 1858 began to practice law in his native town. In 1858 he was made commonwealth's attorney, and served until April 23, 1861, when he volunteered as a private soldier in the Confederate army. He was commissioned major, in June, 1861, and served throughout the war, attaining the rank of colonel. At the close of the war he resumed his law practice, and in 1874 he was elected to represent the fifth Virginia district in the 44th Congress, and remained in that body until 1887.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Thomas Lawson Price, representative, was born near Danville, Va., Jan. 19, 1809; son of Major Price, a wealthy tobacco planter; grandson of William Price, and a descendant of English ancestry, who settled in Virginia in the seventeenth century. On the death of his father in 1831, he removed to Missouri, and in 1832 located in Jefferson City. He was married, first in 1830, to Lydia Button of Casewell county, N.C.; and secondly, April 20, 1854, to Caroline V., daughter of Isaac Long of Page county, Va. He invested in real estate in both St. Louis and Jefferson City, and in 1838 started the first stage line between those points and carried the U.S. mail. Subsequently he controlled all the important stage lines in the state, and was a lessee of the state penitentiary. He was the first mayor of Jefferson City, 1839-40; was defeated as a candidate for state senator in 1845: was appointed brevet major-general of the 6th division of the Missouri militia in 1847, and was elected lieutenant-governor of the state on the Democratic ticket in 1849. He headed the Benton faction at the Democratic national convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1856, when they were refused admission. He represented Cole county in the state legislature in 1860, and in 1861 adhered to the Union cause and was appointed brigadier-general of state militia by Gen. John C. Fr?mont, Sept. 21, 1861, for the term expiring July 17, 1862. He was elected a representative to the 37th congress to take the place of John W. Reid, expelled, serving from Jan. 21, 1862, to March 3, 1863; was defeated for the 38th congress in 1862 and for governor of Missouri in 1864, and was a delegate to the Democratic national conventions of 1864 and 1868. He was also a delegate to the Union convention at Philadelphia in 1866. He was influential in inducing the state to lend its aid to the construction of the Iron Mountain and the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroads; was a contractor in the construction of the Missouri Pacific and the Kansas Pacific railroads, and a fund commissioner and director of the latter road. He died in Jefferson City, Mo., July 16, 1870.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor