History of Woodstock, (Middlesex County) Virginia United States of America

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Benjamin West Clinedinst, artist, was born at Woodstock, Va., Oct. 14, 1860; son of Barnett M. and Mary C. (South) Clinedinst, and grandson of John and Mary (Brady) Clinedinst, and of Joseph and Jane South. He was educated at the Staunton, Va., academy, at the Maryland institute, Baltimore, and at the Virginia military institute, Lexington. In 1881 he entered the ?cole nationale des beaux arts, Paris, where he studied until 1880, when he returned to Baltimore, Md., and opened a studio as a portrait painter. He removed to New York city in 1888, and devoted his time chiefly to genre painting and illustrating. He was admitted to membership in the society of American artists and in May, 1898, was elected a National academician. Among his more important paintings are The Suspected Conspiracy (1887); Leisure Moments (1895); Sunshine (1898); Monsieur Maie (1891); The Water Colorist (1892); A Virginia Morning (1894).

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

James Henry Jordan, jurist, was born at Woodstock, Va., Dec. 21, 1842; son of Charles B. and Elizabeth Rhoads (Burke) Jordan, and grandson of David Jordan and of Thomas Burke. His paternal grandfather came to America from Germany and settled in Virginia about 1784; and his maternal grandfather was related to Edmund Burke, the orator. He removed to Indiana in 1853 and lived on a farm until 1861, when he enlisted in the 45th Indiana volunteers and served through the war, participating in all the important battles of the Army of the Potomac. He was graduated from the State University of Indiana in 1868, and from the law department of the same in 1871. He began to practice law in 1869 before his graduation; was made prosecuting attorney, 1872; judge of the circuit court, 1882; a member of the Republican state central committee, 1880, chairman of the committee, 1882, and became judge of the supreme court of Indiana in 1895. He was a trustee of the State University of Indiana, 1891-95.

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

Otho Holland Williams, soldier, was born in Prince George county, Md., March 1, 1749. He was left an orphan in 1761; worked in the county clerk's office at Frederick and later in Baltimore, and upon the outbreak of the Revolutionary war, was appointed a lieutenant in Price's rifle corps of Frederick county. He marched to Boston, where he became captain of the corps. He was promoted major of a regiment of Maryland and Virginia rifles, and took part in the capture of Fort Washington, where he was wounded, Nov. 16, 1776, and taken prisoner to New York, being released on parole. He was, however, suspected of a private correspondence with General Washington and was confined for fifteen months, suffering great indignities. In 1778 he was exchanged and commanded the 6th Maryland regiment; was deputy adjutant-general of the army under Gen. Horatio Gates; took part in the battle of Camden; was appointed adjutant-general under Gen. Nathanael Greene, and commanded the rear guard in Greene's celebrated retreat. He led a charge at the battle of Eutaw that gained the field for the Patriots; was brevetted brigadier-general, and at the close of the war he settled in Baltimore, where he was collector of the port, under appointment by the governor, and under the Federal constitution. He was treasurer of the Order of the Cincinnati, 1783-94. He died in Woodstock, Va., July 16, 1794.

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