Robert Enoch Withers
Robert Enoch Withers was born in Campbell
County on 18 Sept. 1821. After graduation
from the medical department at the University
of Virginia in 1841, he practiced medicine
in Campbell County and Danville until 1861.
During the Civil War Withers achieved the
rank of colonel in the Confederate army. He
served as the lieutenant governor of Virginia
from 1874 to 1875 and in the United States
Senate from 1875 to 1881. Withers was the
U. S. Consul at Hong Kong from 1885 to 1889
and he died nearby at his home, Ingleside,
on 21 Sept. 1907.
Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street (U.S. 11) and Withers Road and Cassell Road, on the left on East Main Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
