Eugene Paul Sakers (1922–?) was a Baltimore native who served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II before becoming a commercial pilot, flight instructor, and executive secretary of the Winchester Chamber of Commerce. This biographical and genealogical account covers his education, career, military service, Episcopal faith, and 1949 marriage to Marcia Whipple.
Frank Armstrong Sr. was a West Virginia-born fruit-products executive, cattle breeder, and longtime leader of the National Fruit Product Company. Born in Central Station in 1871, he worked in wholesale groceries before helping establish the company in 1913. He later managed 1,300 acres near Haywood, breeding Aberdeen-Angus cattle. He married Nellie Steel and had two children.
The Portsmouth Public Library Collection of Yearbooks provides access to 266 yearbooks documenting students, faculty, and school life in Portsmouth, Virginia. Extending from the 1920s into the twenty-first century, the collection includes yearbooks from public and private schools, colleges, military academies, and nursing schools. For genealogists and local historians, these publications provide photographs, names, class affiliations, clubs, athletics, activities, and other details that can help identify individuals and document their education and community connections.
The Petersburg Public Library Collection of Yearbooks provides access to 80 school yearbooks documenting students, teachers, and school life in Petersburg, Virginia, across much of the twentieth century. For genealogists and local historians, these yearbooks can help identify individuals and place them in a particular school and year while providing photographs, class affiliations, clubs, athletics, activities, and other details that may not appear in traditional genealogical records.
The Newport News Public Library Collection of Yearbooks provides access to 219 school yearbooks documenting students and school life in Newport News, Virginia, across much of the twentieth century. For genealogists and local historians, these yearbooks can help identify students, teachers, and school personnel while providing photographs and details about classes, clubs, athletics, activities, and other aspects of school and community life that may not appear in traditional genealogical records.
Foote records the Logan surname in three prominent but unconnected settings: John Logan among the first settlers and ruling elders of New Providence, Benjamin Logan among the Presbyterian householders of the Holston Valley before his removal to Kentucky, and Rev. Robert Logan in the Bethel and Fincastle communities. Foote does not establish a family relationship among these men.
Colonel Morgan H. Hudgins was a Virginia educator, military-school commandant, and longtime superintendent of Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro. Born in Portsmouth in 1878 and a Virginia Military Institute graduate, he also served eight years as Waynesboro’s mayor and led wartime civic efforts. He married Elizabeth Milnes Austin in 1913.
Hollie Brockenborough McCormac Jr. was a Winchester, Virginia textile executive who led The Virginia Woolen Company and Varel Mills, Inc. A Lehigh University graduate, he also served as a director of Shenandoah Valley National Bank and took part in civic and fraternal organizations. He married Evelyn Montgomery and had one daughter.
Hollie Brockenborough McCormac Sr. was a leading Shenandoah Valley industrialist, banker, farmer, and civic leader. Born in Frederick County in 1875, he rose from farm management to president of Virginia Woolen Company, served in numerous business and civic roles in Winchester, and died at his home in 1937.
Members of the Lyle family were prominent in the early Scotch-Irish Presbyterian communities of western and central Virginia. The family first appears in the surviving account at Timber Ridge in present-day Rockbridge County, where Daniel, John, and Samuel Lyle supported the congregation served by Rev. John Brown. Later generations and branches were associated with the South Branch of the Potomac in Hampshire County, the Buffalo and Briery congregations in Prince Edward County, Bedford County, and Kentucky.