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Personnel of the First Virginia Council of Defense — 1917

  1. General Edward M. Nichols, Supt. Of the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va.,
  2. L. E. Johnson, President of the N.&W. Railway Co.
  3. R. Walton Moore, M. C., Fairfax, Va.
  4. Homer L. Ferguson, President Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, Va.
  5. Col. Elijah B. White, Federal Food Administrator, Leesburg, Va.
  6. Bishop Collins Denny, Bishop of the M.E. Church, South, Richmond, Va.
  7. Dr. Ennion G. Williams, State Health Commissioner, Richmond, Va.
  8. James O. Winston, Contractor, Louisa County, Va.
  9. Hon, Richard Evelyn Byrd, U.S. District Attorney, Winchester, Va.
  10. D. Lawrence Groner, U.S. District Attorney, Norfolk, Va.
  11. Hon.George B. Keezell, State Senator, Keezletown, Va.
  12. Hon. John H. Crockett, House of Delegates, Wytheville, Va.
  13. Jesse M. Jones, Chairman, Agricultural Council of Safety, Blacksburg, Va.,
  14. A. P. Walker, Charlottesville, Va