Biography of James T. McCary
The scion of an old Virginia family that staked its all on the fortunes of the Confederacy and lost all, James T. McCary, of Garfield county, this state, was obliged to begin life with nothing and make his way in the contest for supremacy among men by his own efforts. He was born near the historic city of Richmond, in the Old Dominion, in 1858, and is the son of Craven P. and Mary (Weigand) McCary, also natives of Virginia. At the beginning of the Civil war the father enlisted in the Southern army and during the four years of […]