| 词条 | William J. Leake |
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William Josiah Leake (September 20, 1843 - November 23, 1908) was a Virginia lawyer and judge, who served as a railroad president and president of The Virginia Bar Association. BiographyLeake was born in Goochland County, Virginia, and was a great-grandson of William O. Callis.[1] He served four years in the Confederate Army. After the war, he was selected for a term as judge of the Virginia chancery court at Richmond, but declined to be re-elected.[2] In 1891, Judge Leake decided the case of Bettie Thomas Lewis, concluding that she was entitled to her deceased father's property. The father had owned the mother of Ms. Lewis as a slave. The New York Times reported that this ruling made Ms. Lewis "the richest colored person in Virginia."[3] In a detailed opinion, the Virginia Supreme Court affirmed Judge Leake's decision.[4] Leake was from 1889 general counsel and from 1905 to 1906 president of the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad Company.[5] Leake was a charter member of the Virginia State Bar Association, beginning in 1890,[6] and served as president of the Association for 1899-1900.[7] Judge Leake died at his home in Richmond.[8] References1. ^Grigsby, Hugh, et al. The History of the Virginia Federal Convention of 1788. Virginia Historical Society (1891) {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Leake, William}}2. ^Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed., Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, v. 4, Lewis Historical Publishing (1915) (available on Google Books). 3. ^{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1891/01/06/103289746.pdf|title= HIS NATURAL CHILD INHERITS.; BETTIE LEWIS BECOMES THE RICHEST COLORED WOMAN IN VIRGINIA|publisher=The New York Times, January 6, 1891|accessdate=April 12, 2008 | format=PDF | date=January 6, 1891}} 4. ^Thomas Adm'r v. Lewis, 89 Va. 1, 15 S.E. 389 (1892). 5. ^Seventy-Fourth Annual Report, Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad Company (1906) (available on Google Books). 6. ^Charter of the Virginia State Bar Association, Acts of Assembly 1889-1890, c. 376, published in Report of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association (1893) (available on Google Books). 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.vba.org/history.htm|title= VBA History and Heritage|publisher=The Virginia Bar Association|accessdate=April 12, 2008 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080515204755/http://www.vba.org/history.htm |archivedate = May 15, 2008}} 8. ^{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1908/11/24/104771632.pdf|title= Judge William Josiah Leake|publisher=The New York Times, November 24, 1908|accessdate=April 12, 2008 | format=PDF | date=November 24, 1908}} 5 : Virginia lawyers|Virginia state court judges|People from Goochland County, Virginia|1843 births|1908 deaths |
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