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structures within the county’s borders on February 20, 1878 by a special act of the Virginia General Assembly. The names of the company’s seven founders read like a primer in local history.
Gideon H. Brown, first president, was a large landowner in the “Hollow” that still carries his name. The farms now owned by Col. E.A. McNear and by Mrs. D. Lyle Miller, Jr., were originally his.
Brown had no children of his own but a sister and her husband died in Missouri leaving a small daughter. She was brought back to Virginia in a covered wagon, and adopted by her uncle. She married Dr. David Darius Miller, grandfather of Mrs. Mary M. Quaintance, Mrs. Monk Sanford, Mrs. Bertie Lib Moffett, G. Brown Miller and D. Lyle Miller, Jr., who was a director of the company at the time of his death.
William F. Anderson was a Confederate veteran. He and his wife, Mary Ella Menefee, bought “Hawthorn” and lived in this F^T. Valley home for many years, raising si* children. One of their daughters, Bessie Anderson, married David L. Luke, third president of Westvaco, a
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