Person Record
Metadata
Name |
Cary, John Baytop |
Born |
10/18/1819 |
Birthplace |
Hampton, Virginia |
Education |
He graduated from William & Mary in 1839 with a Master of Arts. |
Notes |
Cary enlisted in May 1861 as a Major. He served on General John B. Magruder's staff at Big Bethel in June 1861. Cary was commissioned as Lt. Col. in July 1861 and served as commander of the 32nd Virginia Infantry. He then served as Acting Provost Marshall at Yorktown in early 1862. Cary was dropped at the May 1862 re-organization and appointed as AAG & IG to General Magruder to August 1862. When Magruder was sent west, Cary served in the Quarter Master Dept. until the end of the war. Cary was buried in Hollywood Cemetery. |
Occupation |
Cary founded Hampton Male and Female Academy about 1859. After the war, he served as Storekeeper for the Virginia State Penitentiary, a grocer, a Manager for the Life Association of America in 1871, and Agent for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. in 1878. He also served as Member, Board of Aldermen, City of Richmond from 1890-1894 and as Superintendent of Richmond Public Schools. "Cary was prominent in the effort to turn the White House of the Confederacy from a public school into the Confederate Memorial Literary Society (now the Museum of the Confederacy). He was on the Board of Trustees, Confederate Memorial Committee of Virginia; Board of Directors, Virginia State Penitentiary." |
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