Category: Biographies
The author of these pages first saw the light of day at the family home of his father, Mr. Miles Gary Macon, called "Fairfield," situated on the banks of that historic river, the "Chicahominy," in the good old County of Hanover, in Virginia. My grandfather, Colonel William Har...
My brother, Miles Macon, afterwards commander of the Fayette Artillery, Confederate States Army, joined me at "Woodland" and became a scholar in our school; he was my senior by...
4. CHAPTER XI.A unique feature was the agencies for hiring out negro hands and servants, it forming a large part of the business of the real estate men. Richmond was then said to have one hun...
22. CHAPTER XXXV.Years ago there settled in the county of Hanover a Mr. James Ames and Jane, his wife. They were very industrious, thrifty citizens. He had purchased his farm through a real esta...
2. CHAPTER II.At the time I am writing about, the life of the Virginia farmer was one to be much desired, for he was a baron in his realm, was lord of all he surveyed, and yielded no obeisanc...
13. CHAPTER XXIII.A striking evidence of the progress in Virginia of its agricultural progress is the extensive plant of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Works. The main offices are in Richmond and...
7. CHAPTER XVII.Most important events were just on the eve of happening. The election for the national Presidency was booming in the near future, and politics were attracting the attention of t...
15. CHAPTER XXVII.In turning back a page of my life, my memory recalls several members of the 1st Howitzers, to which I belonged during the great war. One was Lieutenant John Nimmo, who joined in...
16. CHAPTER XXIX.An incident which I recall to memory was: There was a Mrs. R. C. Cabell, a sister of old General Wingfield Scott, one of the leaders of society in her day in Richmond. She drove...
19. CHAPTER XXXII.The letter of acceptance of each of the candidates gives to some extent the policy of the administration that is advocated by them. There are some wrongs to remedy and some new...
12. CHAPTER XXII.The individual views with wonder and almost awe the great events which the evolution of time has produced. If things are such in this, the twentieth century of the Christian era...
20. CHAPTER XXXIII.When General McClellan advanced up the peninsular formed by the James and York Rivers, from Yorktown and Old Point Comfort, and laid siege to Richmond in the spring of the year...
14. CHAPTER XXVI.One of the most important insurance companies in the city is the Virginia Fire and Marine. This old and strong institution antedates the great war, and its officers were at one...
9. CHAPTER XIX.The "Alexandria Sentinel" was removed to Richmond at the beginning of the war. Of course, when hostilities began all the old party lines in politics were obliterated. They were...
10. CHAPTER XX.Virginia, after the permanent settlement of the "debt question" and the subject was finally eliminated from the State politics, sprang forward upon an era of great prosperity an...
5. CHAPTER XV.Of the theaters of the city, the most prominent one was the old "Marshall," which stood where the Meyer Greentree furnishing store now is located, at the corner of Seventh and B...
17. CHAPTER XXX.During that heavy snowfall in the winter of 1858, the passenger train on the then called Virginia Central Railroad--now named the Chesapeake and Ohio--was stalled and completely...
1. CHAPTER I.The author of these pages first saw the light of day at the family home of his father, Mr. Miles Gary Macon, called "Fairfield," situated on the banks of that historic river, th...
8. CHAPTER XVIII.The Southern ports were soon blockaded by the Federal vessels of war and the South then had to rely entirely upon her own resources. Excepting a few articles, such as coffee and...
11. CHAPTER XXI.Governor of New Jersey, the Honorable Woodrow Wilson, is at this writing--August, 1912--the chosen standard bearer of the Democracy, whose platform of nation-wide issues contain...
18. CHAPTER XXXI.The morning accommodation train on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad is, you may say, somewhat unique, since among its regular passengers or commuters from Ashla...
21. CHAPTER XXXIV.In this, the first decade of the twentieth century, we find new conditions confronting the people called by many in the political sense, "Progressive." There are many conditions...
6. CHAPTER XVI.I was attending the races at Fairfield and it was a field day. Of course there was a large crowd present, the gambling stands were well patronized, as usual and at one particula...