Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Doles, John Robert  October 19, 1937
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 The Norfolk Virginian Pilot October 20, 1937
John R. Doles, Retired Deputy Marshal, Dies
Youthful V.M.I. Graduate, Professor and Lawyer Succumbs at 74

John Robert Doles, aged 74, a retired United States deputy marshal, died in 
a local hospital yesterday afternoon at 4:50 o'clock after an illness of 
about six months.
He was a native of Southampton County and had been a resident of Norfolk 
about 33 years. During the past six years he had made his home with his 
stepdaughter, Mrs. B.G. Porter, at Virginia Beach.
Mr. Doles graduated from Virginia Military Institute in the class of 1881, 
when but 18 years of age, and was second in the group of 34 graduates. He 
was at that time the youngest man to have graduated from the institute.
He received the Jackson Hope medal for scholarship, together with his 
diploma from President Chester A. Arthur, who only recently at that time had 
succeeded President James A. Garfield, who was assassinated. The diploma and 
medal were awarded in New York, where the cadets went to participate in 
ceremonies attendant upon the returning of a flag captured by a V.M.I. cadet 
regiment at New Market about 20 years before.
The year after his graduation, Mr. Doles became associate professor of 
mathematics at the institute. In 1883, he graduated in law from Washington 
and Lee University, and went to his native county, where he practiced law 
for 10 years.
He came to Norfolk in 1898 and associated himself with the E.A. Watkins & 
Bros. Lumber Company. He was appointed deputy United States marshal under 
C.J. Smithers during the administration of President Harding, and kept that 
position until he retired in 1934.
Mr. Doles was the son of Dr. Robert Maury Doles and Elizabeth Heffington 
Doles. When he lived in Norfolk he made his residence with his stepson, 
Ernest F. Stone, of 918 Colonial avenue.
Besides Mrs. Porter and Mr. Stone, he is survived by another stepdaughter, 
Mrs. A.J. Daughtrey of Richmond; two brothers, Robert M. Doles, of Zuni, and 
Shelly L. Doles, of Norfolk, and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the 
funeral home of E. Lee Cox & Bro., Manteo street and Westover avenue, and 
burial will be in the family plot in Elmwood Cemetery.


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