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ABBR history-biographyTITL Cyclopedia of Eminent and Representative Men of the Carolinas of TEXT Cyclopedia of Eminent and Representative Men of the Carolinas of > the Nineteenth Century, Volume II., 1892, p. 511: > WYNDHAM E. Gary > A leading citizen of Henderson, N. C., was born in Manchester, Va.,April > 30, 1848, and received his schooling at Richmond, Va., where heremained > until 1864. In the latter year he entered the Confederate serviceas a > member of Company F, First Virginia militia, and was stationed atFort > Gilmer, near Richmond. In February, 1865, he returned to thecapital of the > south and remained there until its evacuation, after which heremoved to > Petersburg, remaining in the latter city until March, 1867. At thistime > Mr. Gary entered a business college in Richmond as a student, andafter > being duly graduated, accepted a position as bookkeeper for GaryBrothers > (his uncle and father comprising the firm) in Manchester, and until1879, > was connected with them in the tobacco business; he then came toHenderson, > N. C., and embarked in the tobacco business, having formed apartnership > with his father, Mr. P.H. Gary. (Patrick Henry). Mr. Gary wasmarried in > 1872 to Miss Anna Kate Wells, daughter of A. B. Wells, of Richmond,Va., > and nine children have blessed the union, named: Alexander, Eugene,Curtis, > George, Meredith, Isabella, Charles, Kate and Mariel. Mr. Gary is a > prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and is recognized as oneof the > most substantial and prominent business men of Henderson. > > Patrick H. (Henry) Gary, father of the above, is a native of PrinceGeorge > County, Va., where he was born in 1818. In 1841 he married MissIsabella > Muse, daughter of Meredith Muse, a Virginian, and to them sixchildren were > born, viz.: Cornelia A., widow of Robert H. Leonard; Sarah E., widowof W. > P. Buell; Wyndham E., Ivrin B., George E., and Mattie Gary, wife ofHilary > Duval. The grandfather o