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Birthplace of Roger Atkinson Pryor

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Nearby is Montrose, the birthplace of Roger Atkinson Pryor, born 19 July 1828. Pryor practiced law before becoming a journalist and briefly owned newspapers in Richmond and Washington, D.C., in the 1850s. He served his Virginia district in the U.S. House of Representatives (1859-1861). During the Civil War, he served in the Confederate Congress and was a Confederate brigadier general and scout. He moved to New York City after the war and became a prominent lawyer. In 1890 he was appointed to the New York Court of Common Pleas and served as a justice of the New York Supreme Court (1896-1899). Pryor died on 14 Mar. 1919 in New York City.

Department of Historic Resources, 2004

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989… (Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1989), 1678; Patricia L. Faust, ed., Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1986), 605; John A. Garraty and Mark Carnes, eds., American National Biography, 23 vols. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University, 1999), 17: 917-918; Robert S. Holzman, Adapt or Perish: The Life of General Roger A. Pryor (Hamden, Conn., Archon Books, 1976); Montrose, Department of Historic Resources Archives File (26-31); Emily J. Salmon and Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr., eds., The Hornbook of Virginia History, 4th ed. (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1994); John C. Waugh, Surviving the Confederacy: Rebellion, Ruin, and Recovery: Roger and Sara Pryor During the Civil War (New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2002); Workers of the Writers’ Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Virginia, Dinwiddie County: “The Countrey of Apamatica,” (Richmond: Whittet & Sherperson, Presses, 1942), 230.