Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Virginia Biography, Volume I-II [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: 
The Generations Network, Inc., 2002. Original data: Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. 
Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Vol. I-II. New York, NY, USA: Lewis Historical 
Publishing Company, 1915.
About Virginia Biography, Volume I-II
This database contains volume one and two of a series called Encyclopedia of Virginia 
Biography. The purpose of this work is to give biographies of those who played a 
significant part in the history of Virginia from its colonization up to the War for 
Southern Independence in 1861. Therefore, the types of people found in this 
database include the founders, colonial presidents and governors, colonial councilors 
of the state, the burgesses, the fathers of the Revolution, governors of the state, 
judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals, Presidents of the United States, judges of 
the United States Supreme Court, United States senators, members of the House of 
Representatives, and other prominent citizens. Biographies can be useful because 
they provide information such as a date and place of birth, parents' names, and 
significant events in the lives of the persons listed in the work.