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Echols, Edward (1849–1914) – Encyclopedia Virginia
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Early Years
Colgate Whitehead Darden was born on February 11, 1897, in Southampton County. He was the son of Colgate Whitehead Darden, a farmer and businessman, and his first wife, Katharine Lawrence Pretlow Darden. His younger brother, J. Pretlow Darden Sr., became a reform mayor of Norfolk after World War II.
Darden grew up on the family farm and attended the Franklin public schools. He studied at the University of Virginia for two years beginning in 1914. After World War I began in Europe, Darden volunteered with an ambulance corps of the American Field Service in France, contracted malaria in the trenches near Verdun, and then returned home. Undeterred by the experience, he won his pilot’s wings and returned to France as a marine aviator after the United States entered the war in 1917. About two weeks before the 1918 armistice, Darden was seriously injured in a bomber crash and required about ten months’ hospitalization.
Randolph was born on October 1, 1768, at Tuckahoe, the Goochland County estate of his parents Thomas Mann Randolph and his first wife, Anne Cary Randolph. His twelve siblings included Mary Randolph Randolph, author of
The Virginia House-Wife (1824); Judith Randolph Randolph, who as her husband‘s executor carried out the manumission and resettlement of more than seventy slaves; Ann Cary “Nancy” Randolph Morris, who became embroiled in a cause célèbre when accused of adultery with her brother-in-law and infanticide in 1792; and Virginia Randolph Cary, author of
Letters on Female Character, Addressed to a Young Lady, on the Death of Her Mother (1828). Randolph was educated by a tutor during his childhood and attended the College of William and Mary in 1783. By October 1784 he was at the University of Edinburgh, where he was elected a member of the university’s Society for the Investigation of Natural History in December 1785. In November of that year Thomas Jefferson o
Norton was born enslaved early in the 1840s in Williamsburg. His brother F. S. Norton, a member of the House of Delegates (1869–1871), was older by more than a decade. He was close in age to Robert Norton, another brother who was a member of the House of Delegates (1869–1874, 1876–1883), and they were reportedly the sons of an enslaved woman and her owner. The identities of their parents are not known for certain, but Robert Norton provided different names for his mother on each of his two marriage records: Richard and Elizabeth without surnames in one instance, and Charlotte E. Norton in another. About the middle of the 1850s, Norton and his brother Robert escaped from slavery in Gloucester County to freedom in Troy, New York. He received medical training from a doctor there and on January 23, 1860, married Edmonie, last name unknown, in Philadelphia. Two days later, she traveled to Virginia, where he refused to go, fearing re-enslavement. They did not often live together befo
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