History of Fairfax County Virginia United States of America

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Samuel Adolphus Cartwright, physician, was born in Fairfax county, Va., Nov. 30, 1793. He pursued his medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and practised his profession at Huntsville, Ala., and at Natchez, Miss. In 1848 he removed to New Orleans. He made a special study of epidemic diseases, and in 1862 he contracted an illness, which proved fatal, while improving the sanitary conditions of the Confederate soldiers at Port Hudson and Vicksburg. He died in Jackson, Miss., May 2, 1863.

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

Beverly Waugh, M. E. bishop, was born in Fairfax county, Va., Oct. 28, 1789. He entered the ministry of the M.E. church in 1808; was stationed at Alexandria, Va., 1808-11, and at Washington, D.C., 1811-28. He was a delegate from the Baltimore conferences to the general conferences of 1816 and 1820, and at the general conference of 1828; was chosen assistant editor and book-agent, with headquarters in New York city, becoming principal agent in 1832. In 1836 he was consecrated bishop, and in 1852 became senior bishop of the church. He died in Baltimore, Md., Feb. 9, 1858.

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

Constance Cary Harrison, author, was born in Vaucluse, Fairfax county, Va., April 25, 1848; daughter of Archibald and Monimia (Fairfax) Cary; granddaughter of Thomas, ninth Lord Fairfax, baron of Cameron in the peerage of Scotland; and a descendant of Col. Archibald Cary, a Revolutionary patriot, and of Col. William Fairfax of Belvoir, the friend and neighbor of Washington; also a great grandniece of Thomas Jefferson. She was educated at home in Fairfax county, Virginia, and afterward in Paris where she resided for some time with her widowed mother. She was married to Burton Harrison, a lawyer, at Old Morrisania, the residence of her uncle, Gouverneur Morris, in Westchester, and afterward resided in New York city, having a summer home called "The Sea Urchins," at Bar Harbor, Maine, and engaged in literary work. She travelled much in Europe, America and the East. She is the author of: Golden Rod (1880); Helen Troy (1881); Woman's Handiwork in Modern Homes (1881); Old Fashioned Fairy Book (1884); Folk and Fairy Tales (1885); BricaBrac Stories (1886); Bar Harbor Days (1887); The Anglomaniacs (1887); Flower-de-Hundred (1891); Crow's Nest and Belhaven Tales (1892); Sweet Bells Out of Tune (1893); A Bachelor Maid (1894); An Errant Wooing (1895); Externals of Modern New York (1896); A Merry Maid of Arcady, and Other Stories (1897); A Son of the Old Dominion (1897); Good Americans (1898); and The Circle of a Century (1899); besides several plays and many contributions to periodicals.

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

Zedekiah Kidwell, representative, was born in Fairfax county, Va., Jan. 4, 1814. His father was a surveyor. He was graduated at Jefferson Medical college, M.D., in 1889 and practised medicine, 1889-49. He was admitted to the bar in 1849 and was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of that year. He was a representative in the state legislature for several terms; a presidential elector in 1852 and a representative in the 33d and 34th congresses, 1853-57. He was a commissioner from the third district to superintend the public works of the state and held office under the Confederate States government as a department clerk in Richmond. He died in Fairmount, Va., April 27, 1872.

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

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