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CHIEF: Dr Robin Boyd, MA (Oxon); MB BS; LRCP, MRCS; DCH; AFOM, 8th Baron Kilmarnock |
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CHIEF: Dr Robin Boyd, MA (Oxon); MB BS; LRCP, MRCS; DCH; AFOM, 8th Baron Kilmarnock |
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Mary W. Boyd / Charles James Faulkner Martinsburg, West Virginia Charles James FAULKNER, son of James and Sarah (Mackey) Faulkner, was born at Martinsburg, Virginia. He was educated there and at Georgetown College. He became prominent as a lawyer at Martinsburg. He held many public positions: member of legislature of Virginia, member of congress, minister to Paris, France, and delegate to both the conventions in Old and West Virginia. During the civil war he was on the staff of General "Stonewall" Jackson, ranking as senior adjutant-general and lieutenant-colonel. General Jackson refers to him in his memoirs as being of great service to him in making up his reports. He died at Martinsburg, West Virginia, November 1,1884. He married MARY W. BOYD, of Martinsburg, who died at that place, aged seventy-two years, daughter of GENERAL ELISHA and ANN (HOLMES) BOYD. Children: DAVID, who was twice senator, governor of Mississippi, also in congress in Virginia, three times; JUDGE HUGH, of the general court of Virginia; MAJOR ANDREW HUNTER, who was noted for his gallantry, killed at Mackinac, November, 1812-14; MARY W. GENERAL ELISHA BOYD was born in Berkeley county, Virginia, October 6, 1769, and educated at Liberty Hall Academy, now Washington and Lee University. He was frequently elected to the state legislature, and was state's attorney many years. He was also a member of the convention of 1829-30. HON. ELISHA BOYD FAULKNER, son of Charles James and MARY W. (BOYD) Faulkner, was born at "Boydsville", near Martinsburg, in what is now West Virginia, July 24, 1841. He spent his early days there, attending the private schools there provided, also attending the Winchester Academy and had a private tutor. Later he entered Georgetown College; the University of Virginia; attended lectures on constitutional law in Paris, France, and was attached to the legation of the United States. He has made law his life work. From 1867 to 1872 he lived in Kentucky, leaving Virginia on account of the "test oath" required to be taken at that date. In 1872 he returned to Martinsburg to practice law again. He was elected to the house of delegates in 1876; to the state senate in 1878; declined the presidency of the senate; appointed a member of the revising committee by the legislature to revise the laws of the state; was defeated for the nomination for governor at Wheeling, 1884; was tendered during President Cleveland's administration the office of consul general and agent to Cairo, 1885, also minister to Persia, both being declined. He was appointed judge of the thirteenth judicial district, and has been re-elected three terms since, with little opposition. In all he has served on the bench more than twenty-one years, declining again the candidacy of the office. When appointed judge he was attorney for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, for the Cumberland Valley road and other corporations. He is a trustee of the Berkeley Springs Corporation. Politically he is a Democrat. Judge Faulkner's war record is as follows: He first entered the Wise Artillery; second, the Rockbridge Artillery; third, appointed on the staff of Governor Letcher; fourth, appointed captain in the provisional army of the Confederacy. He was captured at the battle of Piedmont, June, 1864, when General W. E. Jones was killed. He was taken a prisoner and confined on Johnson's Island for one year. He received wounds in the ear, at the first battle of Manassas, from the fragment of a bursting shell. He was in many engagements, including those at Manassas and Cedar Creek. He fought as he believed was right and made a brave soldier in one of the greatest civil conflicts the world has ever witnessed. Source: History of West Virginia and Its People, Vols I,II,III Charleston, WV: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913. NOTE: Use this data as a finding tool, just as you would any other secondary source. When you find the name of an ancestor listed, confirm the facts in original sources. Back to Main Page
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