Dr. Roscoe Linn Chesterman

This is a portrait of Roscoe Linn Chesterman (1873 - 1947.) Roscoe was the son of Roscoe Dabney Chesterman and Mary Washington Bolton of Richmond, Virginia. On his birth record, his name was listed as "Linwood Bohannon Chesterman" but that was changed before the 1880 census.

Linn was the owner of a livery stable in Richmond and later took a degree in veterinary surgery. He eventually amassed a property of over 350 acres in Goochland, Virginia where he farmed and continued his veterinary business.