James Gilmore Watts was a lifelong Glasgow, Virginia, resident who owned Baldwin, Echols and Company from 1940. Beginning as a store clerk in 1902, he became a partner and later purchased the firm. He also served as president of the Bank of Glasgow, Inc., and was active in Masonic organizations and the Presbyterian Church at Falling Spring.
Benjamin Lee Kagey of Lexington rose from banking positions in New Hope and Staunton to become president of Peoples National Bank of Lexington in 1949 and executive vice-president of the Bank of Glasgow. A Roanoke College graduate and former Air Service cadet, he led wartime, Red Cross, hospital, church, and fraternal activities. He married Bernice Eans and had one daughter.
Foote records two distinct Virginia families whose surnames are easily confused. The Read family was established at Bushy Forest in present-day Charlotte County and became prominent in county government, Revolutionary service, education, and the ministry. The Reid family entered Rockbridge County through several migrations and became connected by marriage with the Alexander and McDowell families. Foote does not establish a relationship between the Read and Reid lines.
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.
The Greenlee family was among the earliest pioneer families of the Timber Ridge settlement in present-day Rockbridge County, Virginia. James Greenlee and his wife, Mary M’Dowell, arrived with the M’Dowell family in 1737 and established themselves within the new settlement near the headwaters of the James River. Through Mary, the Greenlees were closely connected with one of the most prominent families in the early history of Rockbridge County.
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.
The Alexander family traced its origins to Scotland and later Ulster before several members emigrated to America in the eighteenth century. Archibald Alexander, born in Ireland in 1708, came first to Pennsylvania and then settled on the South River in Virginia about 1747. His descendants became closely associated with Timber Ridge, Rockbridge County government, Washington College, the Presbyterian Church, and several prominent educational institutions.
The McDowell family was among the early settlers of the Timber Ridge area of Rockbridge County, Virginia. Ephraim McDowell arrived with his family in 1737, accompanied by his sons James and John and his daughter Mary, wife of James Greenlee. Through the next several generations, the family became associated with frontier settlement, land surveying, military service, county government, and several prominent Virginia families.
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