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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. ....
Atkinson was born on September 13, 1792, in Isle of Wight County to James Atkinson and Mary Atkinson. The father’s occupation is not known, but the family’s modest resources provided for only a limited primary education for young Atkinson. When he was about eighteen he secured a job copying documents for the county clerk. Through this employment Atkinson became interested in the law and in October 1812 he enrolled at the College of William and Mary. When fighting broke out during the War of 1812, he interrupted his studies to join a volunteer militia company and in June 1813 he helped repel an amphibious British assault at Craney Island near Norfolk. By the end of 1813 he was back home, where he opened a law practice. ....