Newport News Light & Water company. Since 1890 he has had his legal office at Newport News, with which he is quite as prominently identified as with Hampton, near where he makes his home. He is an active member, and past commander of R. E. Lee camp, No. 3, Confederate Veterans, of Hampton, and is held in high esteem by his comrades. On June 19, 1876, he was married to Miss Mary Sue Winder, of Hampton, and they have six children.
Charles Selden, superintendent of the Richmond Railway & Electric company, was born in Powhatan county, Va., in 1847, where he was reared and educated and passed his youthful years during the early part of the war of the Confederacy. Having reached the age of seventeen in 1864, he enlisted in November as a private in the Fourth Virginia cavalry, and subsequently fought with Early in the valley of Virginia, participating in his first fight at Mount Jackson. He continued with this command during the subsequent campaigns and saw hard and dangerous fighting, which is evidenced by the fact that his company which started out with sixty-eight men, lost sixty-five before Appomattox. Before the surrender he made his escape with others of the cavalry, and was paroled at Richmond in June, 1865. After these events he sold his horse and with the proceeds made his way to Texas, where he remained two years. Returning to Virginia he found employment for several years with the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad company, for some time holding the position of paymaster in the construction department. Making his home at Richmond about the year 1884 he became superintendent of the Richmond Railway & Electric company, a position he has since filled with much satisfaction to the company and the public. He was a gallant soldier during his youthful career in the army, and maintains his association with the veterans of the army through membership in the R. E. Lee camp of Confederate Veterans and the Powhatan troop association.
Lieutenant William H. Selden, proprietor of the Metropolitan hotel at Washington, D. C., since 1880, is a native of Lynchburg, Va., born in the year 1841. At the age of seventeen years he removed to Carrollton, Mo., and being in that State at the outbreak of the war enlisted in the State troops under General Price. But in July, 1861, he returned to Virginia and became a member of Company G of the Eleventh Virginia infantry regiment. In this command he served in all its engagements from the first to the second battles of Manassas. After the latter campaign he was transferred to the inspector-general's department, with the rank of lieutenant, and served on the staff of Gen. E. Kirby Smith, his brother-in-law, until the close of the war. General Smith being in command of the Trans-Mississippi department, the remainder of Lieutenant Selden's service was in that quarter. He surrendered to Gen. Gordon Granger, at Galveston, Tex., and then returned to Lynchburg. In 1867 he removed to Memphis, Tenn., and thence to Kentucky, and from that State in 1874, to Danville, Va., where he embarked in the hotel business, which has been his occupation for nearly a quarter century.
Henry C. Sellman, of Leesburg, is a native of Maryland, born April 4, 1841. He resided in his native State until 1859, and then returned after the beginning of the war, when like many other spirited and chivalrous young Marylanders, he crossed the Potomac
