ability, he has served for the past fourteen years as president of the Bank of Portsmouth, and has taken a hand in various enterprises for the development of the country and the advancement of the interests of Portsmouth as a seaport. He is a director in the Portsmouth insurance company, and in the following railroad companies: The Seaboard & Roanoke, Raleigh & Gaston, Raleigh & Augusta Air Line, Seaboard Air Line, Belt railway companies, and is associated with many other enterprises. He has served as vice-president of the Virginia bar association and as vice-president for Virginia of the American bankers' association. In political life, in which he has been no less prominent than in the channels of activity already mentioned, he has uniformly declined salaried office, though he has well discharged his duties to the community by holding for many years a seat in the common council of Portsmouth, and acting for eight years as president of that body. In 1880 he was a candidate for elector on the regular Democratic presidential ticket, and was successful by a decisive majority, his name receiving the highest number of votes cast for the ticket. Subsequently he was selected by Hon. John S. Barbour as one of the executive committee of the Democratic State organization, and continued in service during all the campaigns under that famous leader. By Gov. Fitzhugh Lee he was appointed a member of the board of visitors of the university of Virginia, and to the directorate of the Eastern lunatic asylum of the State, and was reappointed by Governor O'Ferrall. He has been a member of every Virginia convention of his party, with one exception, during the past quarter century, and in 1884 was president of the convention. Amid all these important duties he has maintained a lively interest in the welfare of his comrades of the Confederate army, and appreciates as not least of the honorable positions conferred upon him, that of commander of Stonewall camp, United Confederate Veterans. In 1868 Judge Watts was married to Mattie, daughter of William H. Peters, of Portsmouth, and they have six children. The family are communicants of St. John's Episcopal church, of which he is a vestryman.
Edward F. Wayman, a prominent member of the dental profession of Staunton, was born in Culpeper county in 1847. His family had long been, residents of the Old Dominion, his great-grandfather, Joseph Wayman, a native of the State, having served in the Revolutionary war, and another great-grandfather, Edward Blakemore, having held the rank of colonel in the Continental army. Dr. Wayman was still under military age at the close of the war, but nevertheless, before that time arrived he had made a gallant record as a trooper in the cause of the Confederate States. He enlisted in August, 1864, as a private in Colonel Mosby's command, and participated in the subsequent operations of that remarkable cavalry officer. He took part in the actions at Berryville, Va. (during the so-called "burning raid"), Front Royal, Marshall, Rectortown, a cavalry affair in Prince William county, a fight within five miles of Winchester, another near Berryville, when General Dufean was captured, and another in Culpeper county, where Private Wayman captured General Tolbert's orderly and three other Federals. This gallant record in the closing days of the Confederacy was soon closed by the surrender of the armies,
