Petersburg, where, since 1890, he has been a partner in the extensive dry goods house of George J. Morrison & Co. He is influential in the community, has served upon the city council, and among his old comrades is highly esteemed. He has held the rank of commander of A. P. Hill camp, Confederate Veterans.
Thomas J. Nottingham, a loyal Southern man, was born in Northampton county, Va., May 28, 1834, was a ship carpenter by trade, and during the period of the war of the Confederacy, engaged in blockade running in the vicinity of Norfolk and served in a naval battalion, doing effective service for the cause. After peace was restored he removed to Tarr Farm, Pa., but returned to Norfolk in 1869 and died there, September 19, 1891, being at that time and for many years previous, a member of the firm of Nottingham & Wrenn, in which his son is now interested. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary B. Tarrell, died in 1886. Thomas J. Nottingham, son of the above, was born in Richmond in September, 1864. He came to Norfolk with his parents in 1869, and in 1882, entered the Virginia military institute, where he was graduated in 1886. He then became employed with the mercantile house in which his father was a partner, and after the death of the latter, on November 14, 1891, he joined in the incorporation of a stock company to carry on the business under the name of the Nottingham & Wrenn company. Of this company he was made vice-president, a position he has since held, contributing in no small degree to the success of the firm, which ranks among the largest dealers in coal, ice, lumber, etc. He is also a director of the Tidewater ice company and of the Hygeia ice company, and secretary of the Southeastern building and loan company. For six years he has served on the local board of improvement of his ward. Of Grice commandery, Knight Templars, he holds the rank of eminent commander. For three years he served in the Light Artillery Blues of Norfolk, for two years was commissary sergeant of the Fourth Virginia regiment, and in October, 1895, was appointed captain and ordnance officer on the staff of Col. C. A. Nash. In February, 1897, he was elected captain of the Jackson light infantry, Company E of the Fourth regiment, and in the war with Spain was in the Third brigade, Second division, Seventh army corps, Major-General Lee in command. Captain Nottingham was married December 12, 1888, to Miss Minnie V. Mapp, of Baltimore.
Judge Adam Wade Nowlin, a prominent attorney of Lynchburg, Va., was born in Missouri in 1841, but was reared and educated in Virginia until he had reached his twentieth year, when he entered the military service of the Confederate States. Before the secession of Virginia he had become a member, in 1860, of the Lynchburg Home Guard, and with this command he was mustered in in April, 1861, as Company G of the Eleventh Virginia infantry, and with this regiment became part of the First Virginia brigade of Beauregard's army, under command of James Longstreet, then brigadier-general. He was introduced to the realities of war on the plains of Manassas, participating in the action at Bull Run and the main battle, called the First Manassas. Transferred then to the peninsula, he fought at Williamsburg, early in May, 1862, and received a severe wound in the left leg. Upon the advance of
