Search Terms: BATES (7) Database: Virginia Biographical Encyclopedia Combined Matches: 7 Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I IV--Burgesses and Other Prominent Persons Name: John Bates Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I IV--Burgesses and Other Prominent Persons was a burgess from Halifax county, Nov., 1753 to 1758. He was son of John Bates and Susannah Fleming, of York county, Quakers, and descended from John Bates (born 1600--died 1666), an early immigrant to Virginia. He died in Halifax county about 1777, leaving issue David, Elizabeth, John, James, Fleming and Susanna and a wife surviving named Chloe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume III VII--Prominent Persons born in Richmond, Virginia, February 13, 1831, son of Auguste Guigon and Ellen Smithey, his wife; his father was a Frenchman who came to Richmond, where he was a teacher. He was privately educated, and as a youth became a page in congress, where he formed the acquaintance of many of the distinguished lawyers of the country, which aided in determining his selection of a profession. After attending private schools in Richmond, he studied law and upon attaining his majority entered upon the practice of his profession shortly before the war. He was one of the original company of Richmond Howitzers, formed by the late George W. Randolph. When war broke out in April, 1861, the Howitzer company had so many members it became necessary to organize a battalion of three companies, which were mustered into the service of the Confederacy, April 21, 1861. Guigon, then a private, was made orderly sergeant of the Second company, commanded by J. Thompson Brown. Guigon was with a section of this company, which was sent to Gloucester Point and fired on the gunboat Yankee, on May 20, 1861, the first gun of the war fired in Virginia. He served in the Peninsula campaign under Gen. John Bankhead Magruder; was at the battle of Bethel, and from the battle of Bethel (June 10, 1861), to the advance of McClellan up the Peninsula (April, 1862), Guigon was, with a short interval of sickness, continuously with his company. On April 15, 1862, Guigon was commissioned captain in the Confederate army, and authorized to raise a company of artillery. The project was unsuccessful and he joined the First company of Richmond Howitzers as a private, but later was appointed ordnance sergeant of a battery commanded by his old partner, Capt. (afterwards Colonel) Marmaduke Johnson, and served in that capacity with the Third Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia up to its surrender at Appomattox. After the surrender of Gen. Lee's army at Appomattox, Capt. Guigon resumed the practice of the law in Richmond. In 1870 he was elected judge of the hustings court, being the first elected to hold that office after the war. After serving as judge for eight years, he died, February 22, 1878, and the event was the occasion of the largest meeting of members of the bench and bar of the city of Richmond and its vicinity ever assembled, and the resolutions passed by them express far more than the ordinary state formalities. Judge Guigon founded, in 1856, "The Quarterly Law Journal," the first law journal published in the south, which he conducted until shortly before the beginning of the civil war. He was a master Mason and member of Joppa Lodge, No. 40, in Richmond. Before the war he was a Whig, but when the war terminated he allied himself with the Democratic party. He was a regular attendant of the Monumental Episcopal Church in Richmond. On August 20, 1857, he married Sarah Bates Allen, daughter of James Allen of the firm of Davenport & Allen, Richmond, and formerly of New Bedford, Massachusetts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume IIIVII--Prominent Persons was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, May 19, 1819. He was educated at the high school, and when sixteen years of age studied one year at the University of Virginia. In June, 1837, he removed to Missouri, where he studied law in the office of Edward Bates for three years. In 1841 he began the practice of law in Pike county, Missouri, and in 1845 was elected as a delegate to the constitutional convention of the state. In 1846 he was elected to the state legislature from Pike county, and in 1850 to the state senate, and served in that capacity four years. In 1859 he located in St. Louis, and in February, 1861, he was appointed United States district attorney of Missouri, but resigned when he found that it interferred with his duties as a delegate to the state convention, "for vindicating the sovereignty of the state, and the protection of its institutions." Under the provisions of resolutions offered by Mr. Broadhead, this convention abolished the existing state government and established a provisional government, which for the first three years of the civil war managed its affairs, raising and organizing a military force in support of the United States government. He was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Third Missouri Cavalry, and was assigned to duty on the staff of General Schofield, as provost marshal-general of the department of Missouri. In 1876 he was appointed by President Grant as counsel on the part of the government in the prosecution of the "whiskey frauds." In 1878 he was chosen president of the American Bar Association, which met at Saratoga, New York. In 1882 he was elected a representative to the forty-eighth congress as a Democrat, and in 1885 was appointed by the government as special agent to make preliminary search of the record of the French archives in the matter of the French spoliation claims, making his report in October, 1885. He was United States minister to Switzerland, 1893-97, and on his return he took up the practice of his profession. He died in St. Louis, Missouri, August 7, 1898. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume V (I) Joseph J. Pleasants was born in Goochland county, Virginia, in 1799, died in 1884. He was a planter and civil engineer. He and his son, George Dillwyn, platted Hollywood Cemetery before its use as a burial ground had begun. His wife was Miss Bates, who preceded him to the grave by many years, having borne him: Benjamin B., William H., Mary, George Dillwyn, of whom further, Nannie, Walter F., Julia, who now lives on the home estate, Marion Hill, in Henrico county, Virginia, which Joseph J. Pleasants bought and made his residence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume V Mr. Herbert married (first) October 30, 1894, Rosa Lee Smith, born in March, 1872, died in October, 1910, and had children: Vernon Dabney, born May 29, 1897; Calder Smith, born October 29, 1899; Lucille S., born June 22, 1903. He married (second) January 3, 1912, Annie Clay Bates, and has one daughter, Ethel Gurney, born December 12, 1912. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume V George Gibson Worsham, of Richmond, is a son of John Henry and Mary Bell (Pilcher) Worsham, who had children: 1. Bell, married S. Edward Bates, Jr., and had daughters, Mildred and Mary. 2. Jessie, died in infancy. 3. George Gibson, of further mention. 4. Natalie, wife of W. Wirt Henry, and mother of John W. Henry. George Gibson Worsham is a grandson of Richard and Clark R. (Goddin) Worsham, the latter a sister of Wellington Goddin. Mr. Worsham's father, John H. Worsham, was a Confederate soldier, having served throughout the war until he was wounded at Winchester in 1864. He is the author of "One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry." Shortly after the war he went to Scottsville, where he engaged in the milling business, and operated a line of boats on the old James river and Kanawha canal until the canal was sold to the Richmond & Alleghany railroad, when he returned to Richmond and engaged in the insurance business. Good Luck brenda Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore kingsley@aol.com http://members.aol.com/fiddlerben/gtindex.html surnames: Wolfgram, Kratochvil, Secor/Sicard, Jacques, Leguerre, Vallee and and