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try Clues. He is a member of the Kappa
Alpha and the Phi Delta Phi fraternities.
He is a member of the Junior Order of
American Mechanics, Fraternal Order of
Eagles, the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows ; is past master of the Blue Lodge,
Free and vXccepted Masons ; member of the
Royal Arch Masons, the Knights Templar,
and Ancient x-\rabic Order Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine. His social afifiliation is with
the Country Club of Virginia and the West-
moreland Club of Richmond. As a mem-
ber of the First Baptist Church of Rich-
mond, he gives generous support to that
institution.
Mr. Gunn married, at Richmond, Novem- ber 17, 1910, Teresa Louise Clarke, born November 12, 1887, a daughter of Arthur B. and Lelia (Berry) Clarke, and sister of Mar- tha and Josephine Clarke. Mr. and Mrs. Gunn have two children: Julien, Jr., born September 3, 1912, and Oscar Berry, De- cember 20, 1914. Mr. Gunn has proven his worth as a lawyer, a soldier and a citizen. He is a man of culture, refined instincts, patriotic zeal, legal acumen and undoubted integrity, and he has contributed all of these qualities to the upbuilding of his commun- ity and of his state.
Thomas Jefferson Hughes, M. D. A com- parison of the relati\e \alue to mankind of the various professions, places medicine among the first, and many give to it the most important position. Men's most prized possession is life, and he who alleviates pain and sufifering and restores health and strength well deserves to be numbered among the benefactors of the race. Dr. Thomas JefYerson Hughes, of Roanoke, Vir- ginia, has l)een unusually successful as a medical ])ractitioner, and is a man of many- sided ability.
William H. Hughes, father of Dr. Hughes, was born in the state of Virginia, and was a wealthy farmer at Chatham Hill until his death, February 2, 1894. He was a cousin of President Thomas Jefferson, for whom his son. Dr. Hughes, is named. An uncle of Dr. Hughes was John Randolph Hughes, who was secretary of the state of Virginia before the civil war. William H. Hughes had large holdings in the Virginia and Ten- nessee Railroad Company, and was secre- tary of that corporation for a period of four- teen years, until its reorganization as the
Norfolk & Western railroad. He married
Mary Davis, a relative of Jefferson Davis.
Dr. Hughes was born at Chatham Hill,
Smyth county, Virginia, November 2"], 1874.
For a number of years he attended the pub-
lic schools of that section. Two years were
then spent at Sheron College in prepara-
tion for the university, and he was admitted
to the University College of Medicine, at
Richmond, Virginia, in 1895. ^^ "^^s gradu-
ated from that institution in the class of
1898, the degree of Doctor of Medicine being
conferred upon him, and he then spent an
entire year in post-graduate work in the
New York Polyclinic Hospital, New York
City. A trip abroad was then undertaken
with a view of studying foreign methods,
and he was a student at the University of
Berlin, Germany, for one and a half years,
and spent considerable time at the Univer-
sity of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he made
a special study of the subject of diagnosis.
Since his return to his native land Dr.
Hughes has been actively engaged in the
practice of medicine and surgery, and has
been more than ordinarily successful. In
February, 191 3, he established the Shenan-
doah Hospital in Roanoke, associating with
himself Dr. Lewis G. Richards, Dr. W^alter
S. Slicer and Dr. J. H. Dunkley, and he is
treasurer of the institution. At the present
writing this hospital has been established
not quite one year, but it has had a very
satisfactory number of patients, who are
full of praises of the methods in vogue
there. The financial ability of Dr. Hughes
has been demonstrated in his connection
with the American National Bank of Roa-
noke, Virginia, in which he is a director and
member of the finance committee, and he
is a director in Reams. Jones & Blamken-
ship Company. He takes an active interest
in public affairs, and is an ardent supporter
of the Democratic party. His membership
with other organizations is as follows : Roa-
noke Academy of Medicine, Southwestern
\'irginia Medical Society. Virginia Medical
Association. American Medical Association,
American Clinical Congress, and the follow-
ing fraternal orders : Lakeland Lodge. No.
192. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons;
Marion Chapter, No. 22, Royal Arch Ma-
sons ; Lynn Commandery, No. 9, Knights
Templar ; Acca Temple, Ancient Arabic
Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Rich-
mond ; Improved Order of Red Men ;
