------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume V William Samuel Dodd, son of Ralph and Nannie (Johnston) Dodd, was born at Chatham, Pittsylvania county, Virginia, August 16, 1840, and died at Brookneal, Campbell county, Virginia. He was a soldier in the Confederate States army from the beginning until the end of the war, in the Thirty-eighth Virginia Regiment, Wise's brigade, Pickett's division, Longstreet's corps. With this regiment he saw some of the hardest fighting of the four years of warfare, and was twice wounded, once on the battlefield at Gettysburg, and once at Bermuda Hundred. William Samuel Dodd married Fannie Taylor Owen, born in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, November 10, 1870, now residing at Brookneal, Virginia, daughter of Anderson Owen, a farmer of Sandy Level, Virginia. Anderson Owen was the father of Kate Bennett, Susan Yates, Mrs. Cash Leftridge, Lizzie Robinson, Nannie Thomas, Fannie Taylor, of previous mention, married William Samuel Dodd, Peyton, and ---. William Samuel and Fannie Taylor (Owen) Dodd had issue: Lou Alice, married J. T. Terry, deceased, of Brookneal; Nannie Kate, married David Marshall; John Robert, a farmer of Brookneal, Virginia; Walter Thomas, a physician of Wylliesburg, Virginia; Dr. Charles Singleton, of whom further; Jamison W., a farmer of Brookneal, Virginia; Ralph Anderson, a dentist of Chase City, Virginia; Whitt R., a dentist of Crewe, Virginia; and Samuel Hudnall, a dentist of Crewe, Virginia. Click to view full context ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume V (II) Archibald Murphy Aiken, son of Benjamin Wilson and Jane (Carter) Aiken, was born in Madison, North Carolina, in 1849, died in Danville, Virginia, May 5, 1913. He located in Danville in 1869, rose to eminence in the law and in public esteem, presiding for thirty years over the corporation court. He was a man of wide and deep learning, judicially exact, just and honorable. He married, December 14, 1881, Mary Ella Yates, born in Danville, of a well known Virginia family. Click to view full context ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume V (III) Archibald Murphy (2) Aiken, only child of Judge Archibald Murphy (1) and Etta (Yates) Aiken, was born in Danville, Virginia, February 12, 1888. He obtained his preparatory education in the Danville schools, then entered the University of Virginia, whence he was graduated Bachelor of Arts, class of 1910. He then entered the law department of the University of Virginia, receiving his degree, Bachelor of Laws, 1913, the year of his father's death. He began practice in Danville in June, 1913, and is well established in public esteem, wise in counsel, and skillful in the management of his cases. He has business interests of importance, being financially interested in the Riverside and Dan River Mills, the Danville Knitting Mills, the Virginia National Bank, and the Danville Co”perative Warehouses. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, the societies, Theta Delta Chi and Sigma Delta Chi (University of Virginia) and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In political faith he is a Democrat. Mr. Aiken is unmarried. Click to view full context ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume V Dr. Bowman married, September, 1912, Alma Yates, born in Raleigh, North Carolina, daughter of William and Anne (Horton) Yates, of Briscoe, North Carolina.