Makers of America; biographies of leading men of thought and action, the men who constitute the bone and sinew of American prosperity and life . new homes and accumulate new fortunes in theland thought to be an El Dorado. Following the career of the D re wry family, the same ideasare found, modified by the environment of their times, that arethe spring of action in one of their descendants, the subject ofthis sketch; for thus he gives utterance to his own ideas: Thenoblest motive is the public good. Every man owes a duty tothe community in which he lives and should strive as honestly t/ to ful
Makers of America; biographies of leading men of thought and action, the men who constitute the bone and sinew of American prosperity and life . new homes and accumulate new fortunes in theland thought to be an El Dorado. Following the career of the D re wry family, the same ideasare found, modified by the environment of their times, that arethe spring of action in one of their descendants, the subject ofthis sketch; for thus he gives utterance to his own ideas: Thenoblest motive is the public good. Every man owes a duty tothe community in which he lives and should strive as honestly t/ to fulfil that obligation as he should any other debt resting uponhim; and the best interests of the state may best be promotedby a proper realization of individual responsibility. Sir Humphrey Drewry and his associates were granted bythe crown large tracts of land in the Province of Virginia andsettled near Richmond in Northampton County. Their descend-ants have all been good citizens, never extremely prominent, butalways active and honest in business and foremost in the com-mercial activities of the communities of which they were a part. [24]. JOHN COLIN DREWRY 27 In the defense of the country they were ever to be relied upon,as the rosters of the Army and Navy disclose. John Colin Drewry was born at Drewrysville, July 26, father, William Humphrey Drewry, was a planter and mer-chant. His mother was Caroline Williams Barnes Drewry. JohnC. Drewry graduated from the High School of Petersburg, pur-sued a course in Bethel Military Academy in Fauquier Countyand was a student of the University of Virginia. Mr. Drewry has always been a progressive citizen holding anumber of positions of honor and trust. He is a director of theCitizens National Bank and President of the Raleigh FurnitureCompany. For thirty years he has been agent for an importantInsurance Company of Newark, New Jersey, for the States ofVirginia and North Carolina, jointly with his brother, W. In politics,
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