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      Howard, Benjamin, born in Virginia about 1760; completed preparatory studies; moved to Kentucky; elected to the tenth and eleventh congresses, and served from March 4, 1807, to April 10, 1810, when he resigned; governor of upper Louisiana 1810-1812; appointed a brigadier-general of the United States army, March 12, 1813, and given command of the eighth military department, embracing the territory west of the Mississippi river; died in St. Louis, Missouri, September 18, 1814.

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      Ballard, Bland, was born at Fredericksburg, Virginia, October 16, 1761. When he was eighteen years old he emigrated to Kentucky, and became one of its earliest settlers. He joined a volunteer force which, under Col. Bowman, which was attempting to free the district of the savages, and served in the expedition into Ohio. A year later he took part in George Rogers Clark's raid against the Piqua towns, and in 1794 he was with General Wayne at the battle of the Fallen Timbers. He was a man of great bravery, and became one of the most renowned of Indian fighters. In 1780 he was employed by George Rogers Clark to explore the banks of the Ohio river from the falls, at what is now Louisville, to the mouth of the Salt river, and thence to the site of the present town of West Point. Ballard's most harrowing experience was while witnessing the slaughter of h is father, mother and two sisters by a party of fifteen Indians. A younger sister escaped after being scalped and left for dead. Ballard was too late to save their lives, but from his place of concealment killed nearly half of the Indians. After peace had been restored, Ballard was sent several times as a representative to the state legislature. The county of Ballard, Kentucky, and its capital, Blandville, were named in his honor. He died September 5, 1853.

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      Henry, William, born in Charlotte county, Virginia, in 1761; in early life he entered the army, and participated in the battles of Guilford, the Cowpens and Yorktown, in the revolutionary war, and subsequently removed to Kentucky, in which state he took part in many conflicts with the Indians; on August 31, 1813, he was appointed major-general of Kentucky volunteers, commanded a division of three brigades in the battle of the Thames, October 5, 1813, and also served in the campaigns of Gen. Scott and Gen. Wilkinson; Gen. Henry was a member of the constitutional convention of his state, and of both branches of the legislature; he died in Christian county, Kentucky, November 23, 1824.

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      Littlepage, Lewis, born in Hanover county, Virginia, December 19, 1762, son of Col. James Littlepage and Elizabeth Lewis, his wife. He graduated from William and Mary College in 1778, then went abroad and joined a relative, John Jay, then minister to Madrid. In 1782 he volunteered in the expedition of the Duc de Crillon against Minorca, and subsequently accompanied the Prince of Nassau-Siegen to the siege of Gibralter, and thence to Constaninople and Warsaw. For many years he enjoyed the personal friendship of Stanislaus, King of Poland, under whom he held, among other offices, that of ambassador to Russia. He was made a knight of the Order of St. Stanislaus, chamberlain and confidential secretary, and was a special envoy in several important negotiations. In 1792 he returned to Virginia, with health broken from exposure in camp and travel, and died in Spotsylvania, July 19, 1802, aged forty years. His voluminous correspondence with King Stanislaus, the Marquis de Lafayette, and other distinguished men, has been preserved in Hayden's "Virginia Genealogies."

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      Cabell, Joseph, born January 6, 1762, son of Col. Joseph Cabell He was first taught by tutors; was at Hampden-Sidney College in 1778-79, and at William and Mary College from May 4, 1779, to 1781. He belonged to a company of students attached to the regiment of Colonel Joseph Cabell, the elder. He was a captain of militia previous to 1787. He married Pocahontas Rebecca, daughter of Robert Bolling, of Chellowe, Buckingham county, Virginia. He emigrated with his family to Kentucky in 1811, settled in Henderson county, and died there, August 31, 1831.

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      Parker, Thomas, son of Judge Richard Parker, of "Lawfield," Westmoreland county, Virginia, and Mary (Beale) Parker, his wife. In the revolution he was a captain in the Second Virginia Regiment. He remained in the army after the war, and in 1812, as a colonel, served on the northern frontier under Gen. Wade Hampton; was made brigadier-general in 1812, and commanded at Norfolk, Virginia. He resided on his estate, "Soldier's Retreat," Clarke county, Virginia; married Sallie Opie, and had issue.

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      Massie, Nathaniel, born in Goochland county, Virginia, December 28, 1763, son of Nathaniel Massie and Elizabeth Watkins, daughter of Thomas Watkins of Chickahominy; received preparatory education; served in the revolutionary war, 1780, was a surveyor of wild lands in Virginia for the following eleven years, and of the Virginia military district north of the Ohio river, for five years, from 1791 to 1796, laying out on his own land the town of Chillicothe in the latter named year, and in 1800 was one of the most extensive owners of land in the northwest territory; was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1802, and secured the selection of Chillicothe as the state capital; during the years 1803-1804 was state senator in the first and second general assemblies; speaker of the senate in 1803; a Jefferson elector in 1804, a Madison elector in 1808, and a representative in the fifth and eighth assemblies during the years 1806-07 and 1809-10; in the year 1807 he was the candidate for governor of the state on the Republican ticket, but was defeated by his opponent, Return J. Meigs, whereupon Mr. Massie raised the question of the eligibility of his opponent, and the general assembly in joint convention declared him ineligible under the constitution, but Mr. Massie does not appear by the official records to have claimed the office; he served as major-general of the state militia for a number of years; he died at Paint Creek Falls, Ohio, November 13, 1813, in the prime of life, he not having attained the age of fifty years.

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      Cabell, Landon, born before February 21, 1765, son of Col. William Cabell, of "Union Hill," Nelson county, Virginia. He attended private schools, and Hampden-Sidney College. He was at William and Mary College from March, 1780, to May, 1781 when the college was suspended on account of the British occupation. He was at the last meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, in January, 1781. He served at Yorktown, in the college company attached to his Uncle Joseph Cabell's regiment of militia. In 1783 he reëntered William and Mary College, remaining until 1785. He was long a justice of the peace in Amherst county, and for many years in Nelson county. He was offered a seat in the cabinet of President Madison, but declined. He died in January 1834.

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      Lewis, Lawrence, born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, April 4, 1767, son of Col. Fielding and Elizabeth (Washington) Lewis, and grandson of Augustine and Mary (Ball) Washington; he was Gen. Washington's favorite nephew and after Washington's retirement from public wife, resided with him at Mt. Vernon; he was the last living executor of the will of Gen. Washington, and continued to reside at Mt. Vernon until the death of Martha Washington, May 22, 1802; in 1794 Lawrence Lewis served as an aide to Gen. Morgan in his expedition to quell an insurrection in Pennsylvania; married, February 22, 1799, Eleanor Parke, daughter of John Parke Custis, and a granddaughter of Martha (Custis) Washington; she was adopted with her brother, George Washington Parke Custis, by Gen. Washington on the death of their father in 1783; Mrs. Lewis was born March 21, 1799, died at Audley, Virginia, July 15, 1852; she survived her husband, who died at Arlington, Virginia, November 30, 1839.

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      George, Enoch, was born in Lancaster county, Virginia, in 1767, died in Staunton, Virginia, in August, 1828. He was under the ministry of Rev. Devereaux Jarrett, then of the Church of England, and was in early life the subject of deep religious impressions; but having been separated from Mr. Jarrett's ministry, he became negligent of his religious duties, till, after several years, the place was visited by a Methodist evangelist, under whose exhortations young George became connected with the little Methodist Society of his neighborhood In 1790 he was admitted on trial into the Virginia conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, and served for two years as junior preacher in Caswell circuit. After this he went to South Carolina, and in 1796 was presiding elder of Charleston district, and the next year on account of impaired health, he retired from active work in the ministry. In 1803 he entered the Baltimore conference, where he labored with great zeal and success, till at the general conference, held in Baltimore in May, 1816, he was elected and ordained a bishop, in which office he served with zeal and effectiveness for twelve years. Bishop George belonged to the primitive school of American Methodist preachers, some of whom were without extended scholastic advantages, but nevertheless became able and highly effective preachers of the gospel, and also attained proficiency in biblical and theological learning. He was especially distinguished for the fervor and pathos of his pulpit discourses.

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      Hill, William, born in Cumberland county, Virginia, March 3, 1769; was graduated at Hampden-Sidney in 1788, pursuing the theological course, and was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Hanover, July 10, 1790; after spending two years as a missionary in Virginia he settled in Berkeley (now Jefferson) county, and in 1800 accepted the pastorate of the Presbyterian church in Winchester; he removed to Prince Edward county in 1834, and after a two years' pastorate became pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, but in 1838 returned to Winchester, where he spent the remainder of his days; he delivered an oration at Harper's Ferry in commemoration of Gen. Washington, published several sermons, and was the author of a "History of the Presbyterian church in the United States," which he intended to issue in numbers, but only the first appeared; he died in Winchester, Virginia, November 16, 1852.

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      Copeland, Charles, eminent lawyer, was born in 1756; figured in the courts of Virginia as the rival of John Wickham and William Wirt. Nothing is known of his ancestry. He married (first) Rebecca, daughter of Robert Nicholson, a merchant of Williamsburg, (second) Henningham Bernard. He died November 24, 1836, and there is a monument to his memory in St. John's churchyard, Richmond, Virginia.

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      Munford, William, was born in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, August 15, 1775, son of Col. Robert Munford, a brave soldier in the revolution, and author. his father died when he was seven years of age, and his education was left to his mother, who, like her husband, was endowed with literary gifts. He studied the ancient languages and literature at William and Mary College, under George Wythe, who afterwards was his tutor in the study of law. Completing his legal course at the age of twenty-one, he immediately entered upon an unusually brilliant and engrossing career. Until his twenty-fifth year he sat in the Virginia house of delegates, and for four years represented his native county in the state senate. At the end of that period he removed to Richmond, and served in the privy council until 1811, when he became clerk in the house of delegates, and held that office until his death. He acted for several years as reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of appeals, of which he prepared, with some assistance, ten volumes, from 1809 to 1820. In 1819 he assisted benjamin Watkins Leigh in the revision of the Virginia statute laws. Of Mr Munford's poetry, the earliest published was is 1798,"Poems and Compositions in Prose on Several Occasions." This included a tragedy, "Almoran and Hamet," and a number of poems, most of which showed the influence of classical literature on the author. He occupied the leisure of his maturer years in making a translation of Homer's "Iliad" in blank verse, which was published posthumously in 1848. Mr. Munford died at Richmond, Virginia, June 21, 1825.

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      Girardin, Louis Hue, was appointed professor of modern languages in William and Mary College, 1803; for several years he conducted a select school for girls in Richmond. He compiled volume iv. of Burk's "History of Virginia." He produced a magazine, "Amoenitates Graphicae," with six fine hand-colored plates by Frederick Besler. Only the one number was ever printed.

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      Chapman, Nathaniel, was born in Summer Hill, Fairfax county, May 28, 1780. He was educated at the academy at Alexandria, and graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1800; he then studied under Abernethy in London for one year, and took a two years' course at the University of Edinburgh, where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He returned to the United States in 1804, established himself in practice in Philadelphia, and rose to the front rank of the medical profession. He was assistant professor of midwifery, 1810-13; professor of materia medica, 1813-16; and held the chair of the theory and practice of medicine, 1816-50, in the University of Pennsylvania. In 1817 he founded the Philadelphia Medical Institute, and during twenty years delivered a summer course of lectures; he was also lecturer on clinics at the hospital of the Philadelphia almshouse. He was president of the American Philosophical Society, of the American Medical Association. In 1820 he founded and for many years edited the "Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences." He published: "Select Speeches, Forensic and Parliamentary" (1808); "Elements of Therapeutic and Materia Medica" (1828); "Lectures on Eruptive Fevers, Hemorrhages and Dropsies, and on the Thoracic Viscera." He died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 1, 1853.

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      Warrington, Lewis, was born at Williamsburg, Virginia, November 3, 1782. He received a classical education and was graduated from William and Mary College in 1798. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1800, and served under Preble in the war with Tripoli; became a lieutenant in February, 1807, and was on the "Chesapeake," in her encounter with the "Leopard," June 20. In 1812 he sailed in the "Congress" with Commander Rodgers' squdronin pursuit fo the British West India fleet. In 1813 he was made master, and placed in command of the "Peacock," with which he took nineteen vessels, including the "Epervier," captured off Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 29, 1814, after a close contest of forty-two minutes; for this congress voted him a gold medal. Having made severl prizes in the Bay of Biscay, he returned to New York in the fall, was commissioned captain, and sailed in Decatur's fleet. On June 30, 1815, he took the "Nautilus" and three more East India vessels in the straits of Sunda, a region until then avoided by American cruisers; these prizes had to be gven up as peace had been dclared before they were captured. He was in the Mediterranean, 1816-19; in command of the Norfolk navy-yard, 1820-24 and 1832-39; of the West India squadron, 1821-26; and then of the new navy-yard at Pensacola, where a town took his name. He was a navy commissioner, 1827-30 and 1840-42, a president of the board in 1841, chief of the bureau of yards and docks in 1842-46, and of that of ordnance, 1847 until his death, at Washington D. C., October 12, 1851.

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      Smith, John Augustine, was born in Westmoreland county, August 29, 1782, son of Rev. Thomas Smith, of Cople parish in that county. He was graduated from William and Mary College in 1800, studied medicine and settled as a physician in New York City. In 1809 he became lecturer on anatomy at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and editor of the "Medical and Physiological Journal." In 1814 he was elected president of William and Mary College. Dr. Smith was the first layman to hold the presidency, and in 1824 he deemed it necessary to remove the college to Richmond. But in this Dr. Smith incurred the opposition of John Tyler, on the board of visitors, who voiced the local feeling, and Thomas Jefferson, who was then busy with the scheme of founding the university at Charlottesville, feared the effect of the removal upon the liberality of the legislature to which he was then appealing for pecuniary aid in favor of his pet enterprise. the United opposition defeated Smith's measure, and in 1825 he resigned. He resumed practice in New York City, and from 1831 to 1843 was president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He published numerous addresses, lectures and essays, including "Introductory Discourse" at New Medical College, Crosby street (N. Y., 1837, 8 vo.); "Select Discourse on the Functions of the Nervous System" (1840, 12 mo.); "The Mutations of the Earth" (1846, 8 vo.); monograph upon the "Moral and Physical Science" (1853, 12 mo.). Dr. Smith edited the New York "Medical and Physiological Journal" in 1809, and was a man of splendid talents. A handsome portrait of Dr. Smith, the gift of his son and daughter, resident in New York City, hangs in the college library. He died February 9, 1865.

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      Dudley, Benjamin Winslow, was born in Spotsylvania county, Virginia, April 12, 1785, son of Rev. Ambrose Dudley. His father removed to Lexington, Kentucky, in 1786, and there the son obtained his early education. He studied medicine with Dr. Frederick Ridgeley, of Lexington, and afterward attended lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1906. He opened an office in Lexington, but had little practice. Desiring to better qualify himself for his work, but lacking the means, he purchase a flatboat, which he loaded with produce and floated to New Orleans, where he invested the proceeds in flour. This was taken to Gibralter an Lisbon, where he disposed of it at a large advance. From Spain he went to Paris, and there studied under Paul A. Dubois. After three years there he went to London and studied surgery under Abernethy and Sir Astley Cooper. He returned home in 1814, and found Lexington in the midst of an epidemic of typhoid pneumonia, which was followed by bilious fever. Abscesses formed among the muscles and in many cases amputation was necessary Dr. Dudley applied bandages and his success in these cases led him to urge the general use of the bandage until this treatment was widely adopted. In 1817 a medical school was added to the Transylvania University, and he was elected to the chairs of anatomy and surgery. Dr. Dudley condemned bloodletting, taking advanced ground in the matter. His skill with the knife soon gained him a national reputation and his success in lithotomy was so great that in England he was declared to be "the lithotomist of the nineteenth century." He operated for stone in the bladder two hundred and twenty-five times and lost only six patients. Believing that Asiatic cholera was a water-borne disease, during the first great epidemic in this country (1832) he and his family drank cistern instead of well water, and were the only ones in Lexington to escape the disease. He contributed valuable essays to the "Transylvania Journal of Medicine." He was married, in 1821, to a daughter of Major Peyton Short. He died in Lexington, Kentucky, June 20, 1870.

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      Scott, Winfield, was born near Petersburg, Virginia, June 13, 1786, son of William and Ann Mason Scott, and grandson of a Scotch soldier, who engaged in the battle of Culloden, where he lost a brother and fled to America, settling in the neighborhood of Petersburg, where he practiced law. Winfield, after attending a high school in Richmond, matriculated at the College of William and Mary, and after a two years' course took up the study of law. He was admitted to the bar in Richmond, in 1806, removed to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1807, where he was made captain of light artillery in the United States army, and was ordered to New Orleans in 1808, where Gen. Wilkinson, after being unsuccessful in winning the youthful officer over to questionable scheme of Burr, caused his court-martial and suspension for twelve months. Captain Scott obtained remissance of sentence after three months, and was complimented by a public dinner. June 18, 1812, he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the Second Artillery, and ordered to the Niagra frontier; and at Queenstown Heights, October 13, 1812, he was taken prisoner and exchanged after a few months. He was promoted brigadier-general, March 9, 1814, established a camp of instruction at Buffalo, July 3, 1814, transferred his brigade to British soil, and on July 5 directed the battle of Chippewa, winning a signal victory, as he did at Lundy's Lane, July 25, where he had two horses shot under him, was badly wounded and finally gained the field, capturing Gen. Rialland, several other officers, and inflicting a loss of eight hundred and seventy-eight men to the British. These, the only victories on Canada soil, gained for him the rank of major-general. He removed to Buffalo, New York, and on his partial recovery was transferred to Philadelphia. He visited Europe, in 1815, after declining the position of secretary of war in President Madison's cabinet, held temporarily by James Monroe. ON his return he was given command of the Atlantic seaboard, with headquarters in New York, and made his home at Elizabeth, New Jersey. He was married, in March, 1817, to Maria, daughter of John Mayo, of Richmond, Virginia. He took part in the Seminole war in Florida, and against the Creek Indians, 1836-37. Criticisms of his conduct of the campaign caused his recall in 1837, but a court of inquiry found no cause for the same, and in 1838 he effected the peaceful transfer of the Cherokees to the Indian Territory. On the death of Gen. Alexander Macomb, June 25, 1841, he became general-in-chief of the United States Army, with headquarters at Washington D. C. ON the declaration of war with Mexico in 1846, he planned the campaign and accompanied the army to Vera Cruz, where he landed 12,000 men. After a siege of twenty days, March 9-29, 1847, he captured the castle of San Juan de Ulloa, and 5,000 of the Mexican army. On April 17-18, he fought the successful battle of Cerro Gordo; that of Contreras, August 19-20; Cherubusco, August 20; Molino del Ray, September 8; Chapultepec, September 13; and the assault and capture of the City of Mexico, September 13-14, 1847, which ended the war. Gen. Scott had been looked upon as an available Whig candidate for President as early as 1839, and again in 1844. In 1852 he was nominated by the Whig national convention at Baltimore. In the election, the Scott and Graham electors received 1,380,576 popular votes to 1,601,474 for Pierce and King, and 1567,147 for Hale and Julian, and when the electoral college met he received the electoral votes of Vermont, Massachusetts, Tennessee and Kentucky; Pierce receiving those of all the other states. In 1859 he was commissioner on the part of the United States in the settlement of the northwestern boundary question, and successfully accomplished the purpose. He commanded the army during the early part of the civil war, and place the national capital in a condition of defence and directed the movements of the troops until succeeded by George B. McClellan, and he was placed on the retired list with the brevet rank of lieutenant-general, being seventy-five years of age. He visited Europe in 1861-62, and on his return in 1862 made his home at West Point, New York. He received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from the College of New Jersey in 1814, and that of Doctor of Laws from Columbia College in 1850, and from Harvard in 1861, and was elected an honorary member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. In November, 1814, congress ordered a gold medal struck in his honor and an equestrian statue to his honor was erected on Scott Circle, Wachington, D. C. He was of stately proportions, possibly the most imposing of the illustrious soldiers of his time, if not of all modern times. His published works include: A pamphlet against use of intoxicating liquors (1821); "General Regulations for the Army" (1825); "Letters to the Secretary of War" (1827); "Infantry Tactics" (3 vols., 1835, 1847 and 1854); "Letters on the Slavery Question" (1843); "Abstract of Infantry Tactics" (1861); "Memoirs of Lieut.-Gen. Scott, written by Himself" (2 vols., 1864). He died at West Point, New York, May 29, 1866.

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      Meade, William, was born near Millwood, Virginia, November 11, 1789. His father, Richard Kidder Meade, was aide to Gen. Washington, and conducted the execution of Major Andreé. The son graduated at Princeton College in 1808, was ordained deacon in 1811 and priest in 1814. In 1821 he was made rector of Millwood parish, and was for many years active in promoting the work of the American Colonization Society. He was chosen assistant to Bishop Moore in 1829, served as rector of Christ Church, Norfolk, 1834-36, and in 1841 became bishop of the diocese of Virginia. Bishop Meade strongly opposed the Tractarian movement in England, and republished in America, at his own expense, the writings of Rev. William Goode, subsequently dean of Ripon. In 1847 he led in the foundation of the Evangelical Knowledge Society. He did more than any other man to restore I Virginia the influence and prosperity of the Episcopal church. In 1861 he did all in his power to prevent secession, but after the die had been cast supported the fortunes of his native state. William and Mary College gave him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1827. He was the author of "Family Prayers" (1834); "Pastoral Letters" (1834, 1854 and 1858); "Life of Rev. Devereux Jarrett" (1840); "Companion to the Font and the Pulpit" (1846); "Lectures on the Pastoral Office" (1849); "Reasons for Loving the Episcopal Church" (1852); "Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia" (1857), and "The Bible and the Classics" (1861). Bishop Meade died in Richmond, Virginia, March 14, 1862.

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      Bonnycastle, Charles, was born in Woolwich, England, in 1792, son of John Bonnycastle, professor of mathematics in the Military Academy at Woolwich, and brother of Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle, soldier and author. He contributed articles to cyclopedias and periodicals, and aided his father in compiling mathematical text-books. When the University of Virginia was organized in 1825 he came over to take the chair of natural philosophy, which, two years later, he exchanged for that of mathematics. During 1833-35 he served also as chairman of the faculty. Professor Bonnycastle published treatises on"Inductive Geometry" (1832); "Algebra," "Mensuration" and papers on scientific subjects. He died in Charlottesville, Virginia, October 31, 1840.

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      Pleasants, John Hampden, was born in Goochland county, Virginia, January 4, 1797, son of James Pleasants, governor and United States senator. He was educated at the College of William and Mary, and was graduated in 1817. He studied law in Lynchburg, Virginia, and afterwards removed to Richmond and founded the "Whig," the first issue of which appeared January 27, 1824. Under his management it soon became the leading Whig paper in the state and champion of the party in the great contests of the period. In 1841 he established the "Independent" in Washington, in connection with Edward William Johnston and John Woodson. The former was a brother of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, and was long remembered by his brilliant writings under the non de plume. "Il Segretario." He fought a duel with Thomas Ritchie, Jr., on account of a statement which appeared in the Richard "Enquirer," that Mr. Pleasants was about to found an abolition journal, and signed "Macon." At that time anti-abolition sentiment in Virginia ran extremely high, and nothing was considered a greater insult than such an accusation. The duel was fought with pistols at thirty paces, and Mr. Pleasants received five wounds, from the effects of which he died February 27, 1846. Mr. Pleasants was married to Mary Massie, and had a number of children, one of whom, James Pleasants, was an eminent lawyer of the Richmond bar.

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      Hawes, Richard, born in Caroline county, Virginia, February 6, 1797; at the age of thirteen years he emigrated to Kentucky, in which state he spent the remainder of his days; received a classical education in Transylvania University, and then pursued a course of study in law, was admitted to the bar, and began his practice in Winchester, Kentucky; was a member of the legislature in 1828-29-36, and in the latter year was elected to congress as a Whig, serving until 1841; subsequently he became a staunch adherent of the Democratic party, advocated the southern cause during the civil war, and left Kentucky with Breckinridge and others in 1861; on the death of George W. Johnson, at Shiloh, he was elected to succeed him in the nominal office of "provisional" or Confederate governor of Kentucky; when Bragg entered the state, Richard Hawes went with him to Frankfort, and was installed governor, October 4, 1862, but was compelled to retire immediately, in consequence of the advance of a division of Buell's army; after the close of the war he returned to Kentucky, locating in Paris where he was appointed county judge in 1866, which office he held until his death, which occurred in Bourbon county, Kentucky, May 25, 1877.

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      Graham, William Montrose, was born in Prince William county, Virginia, in 1798; died in Mexico, September 8, 1847. He was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1817, and entered the army as lieutenant of artillery. he was promoted through the various grades to be lieutenant-colonel of the Eleventh Infantry in April, 1847. He served on recruiting duty, constructing military roads in Mississippi an in Florida, and in garrison until 1835. He took part in the campaigns against the Seminole Indians in 1835-38 and in 1841-42, being twice severely wounded. In the Mexican war he was engaged in the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey, Contreras, Cherubusco and Molina del Rey, where he was killed while leading an assault on the enemy's works.

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      Camm, John, was born in England in 1718, son of Thomas Camm, of Hornsea. He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, June 6, 1738, as a "subsizator." On August 24, 1749, he qualified as professor of divinity in William and Mary College, and was also elected minister of York-Hampton parish. He was the last of the colonial presidents of William and Mary, succeeding Horrocks as head of the college, and head of the Established church in Virginia. He was a man of inflexible courage, and led the clergy in the "parsons' causes" against the people and Patrick Henry. He acted as treasurer of the college; and in the proceedings of the clergy who met in convention at William and Mary College in 1754, he took a leading part, and was appointed their agent to solicit the repeal of the act of the colonial house of burgesses, making the salaries of the clergy payable in money instead of tobacco. Mr. Camm went to England in behalf of the clergy, and secured from the privy council there a disallowance of the act. But the juries in Virginia, influenced by the eloquence of Patrick Henry and the countenance of Gov. Dinwiddie, gave nominal damages, and President Camm again appealed to the privy council. But in 1767 Lord North dismissed the appeal on the ground that the action had been wrongly laid. This closed a controversy of thirteen years' duration. In 1769 he married Betsy Hansford, daughter of Charles Hansford, one of Nathaniel Bacon's lieutenants. On the outbreak of hostilities between Virginia and the mother country, President Camm would not recognize the authority of the new government, and in the spring of 1777 was removed by the board of visitors, largely dominated by native born Virginians. He died the following year, and his wife a year later.