The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-22

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service as contractor for building the
ship yards, now nearing completion, at
Newport News. lie has largo interest
at Newport News, is president of the
| Newport News Land and DEVELOPMENT
Company, also of the Central Land
Company.
Col. braXton was an artillery officer
during tho late war.
John Il. Marye, jr., of tho same firm,
is civil engineer and has had extern
slve experience in the line of his pro-
especially about Duluth, st. Paul
and minneapolis, being largely inter
ested In real cssatc matters ut the
latter place prior to 1890.
IS. ID. Chandler, of the firm, is an
active business man, having been gen
cral manager of the Newport News
Milling Company for tho past years.
Z. Is. Nelms IL Bros, NEWPORT News,
Va. This firm is composed of C. Il.
Nclms, who for ten years has travelled
the Southern States in the interest of
large Importing and jobbing queens
warehouse in Baltimore, and w. j.
helms, young and successful attorney
at-law, who began his profession in
Newport News in 1885, when this town
had scarcely 1000 inhabitants and has
watched its growth and development
until the population now numbers $1,000
Pulaski.
Mr.. McGavock, of Pulaski, interrupted
at this juncture by the bantering re-
mark that everybody was so anxious to
get in on the ground floor at Wythevillo
that they only built one-story houses.
Mr. Sexton replied that at Pulaski
they only built cellars in order to be on
the ground floor.
VIM. l.. McGavcck, of Pulaski, of
Langham, McGavock ~ Co., is the
longest man in the real estate business
III Virginia, being feet IA inches
high. lie wears spectacles and has a
black, bushy beard. IIo is native of
the county and has been in the real
estate business for Il year.
L. l.. Massie, of this firm, is also at
the convention. Mr. Massio was born
in 1866 and has been with the firm
since its organization.
Frank Harrison, Of the firm of Harri-
son, Watson &c Co, of Pulaski, has been
in the real estate business since last
May.
Mr.. Harrison was born in Amherst
county, Va, September 18th, 1857. For
last five years he was general travelling
man through the south and west for
Mccormick harvesting Machine Comp
any. of Chicago.
Mr.. Watson, the other member of the
firm, is native of Pulaski county and
is about ten years older than his part
ner.
James MacGill, of Pulaski City, is a
native of 1Iagcrstown, Maryland. He
is the oldest son of DR.. Charles MacGill,
of Baltimore, who married Miss Mary
Raglan, of Hagerstown. Mr.. MacGill
moved to Pulaski county before the war,
but was member of Company C, First
Maryland Calvary. lie married Miss
Belle Pierce, daughter of James N.
Pierce and niece of j. Il. B. Stuart.
Last February Mr.. MacGill negotiated
the sale of the Bohanan tract
of S34 acres lying around the junction
of the main line with the North Carolina
extension, in East Pulaski, for $40, 900,
out of which grew tho organization of
the Pulaski Development Company. He
is n large stakeholder and one of the
directors of the Company. Mr. MacGill
embarked in the real estate business
and has been quite successful in the
negotiation of some big deals.
Robert Il. Gardner, junior member of
the firm of WISER & Gardner, Pulaski,
is q native of Huntsville, Ala but has
been Virginian since 1878, making
Newburn, the county seat of Pulaski,
his home in the practice of law.
Mr.. Gardner has been permanently
located at Pulaski City for tho past
three years, engaged in the practice of
his profession. He is bachelor and
has been celebrating his sixteenth an
niversary for the past five, ten, fifteen
or twenty years.
Rndford.
Kcarslev, Barclay &c Crockett com
poso Il firm of RadfOrd real estate agents.
The members are G. II. Kearsley, Col.
W. II. Barclay and Col. John G. Crock
cit.
Mr.. Kcarsloy, tho senior member of
the above firm, is q native of Charles
town, w. Va. He served an appren-
ticeship of four years with the Balti-
molc and Ohio railroad. as machinist.
and was for two years piecc-work clerk
with the Roanoke Machine Works,
when he accepted Il position as chief
clerk to the purchasing agent OF East
road at Knoxville, Tenn, where an
offer from the Knoxville Car Wheel
Company induced him to take charge OF
their Office as head book keeper, which
position he filled for some years, when
the flattcring prospects in Southwest
Virginia induced him to engage in the
real estate business at Radford several
years ago.
Colonel w. II. Barclay. is native of
Lexington. Va, and resided for many
years in Buffalo, New York, and Chicago,
Ills, where he was engaged in large
grain business. He was appointed post
Office Inspector under Clevciand's adj
minstration, which he held until he
accepted position with the Radford