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      Smith, Samuel Stanhope, was born at Pequea, Pennsylvania, March 16, 1750, his father being the Rev. Robert Smith, D. D. The son was educated In his father's famous log school at Pequea. He was graduated from Princeton in 1769, under Dr. John Witherspoon, and licensed by the presbytery of Newcastle (to which Virginia then belonged), the same which had previously sent South Samuel Davies, a former president of Princeton, to labor as "the apostle of Virginia." Stanhope Smith imitated his illustrious predecessor. He is identified with the movement in 1771 in the presbytery (now Hanover) to establish an academy. The outcome was the founding of Prince Edward Academy. The land for a site was given by Peter Johnston, grandfather of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Smith was chosen the first rector, and in an advertisement he informs the public: "It (the academy) is to be distinguished by the name of Hampden-Sidney, and will be subject to the visitation of twelve gentlemen of character and influence in their respective counties; the immediate and acting members being chiefly of the Church of England." The college was intended primarily for the adjoining section and the whole south side of Virginia, and was to be supported by all elements, whether of English, or Scotch-Irish, or French Huguenot descent. President Smith resigned in 1779, leaving the academy in the charge of his brother, John Blair Smith, whom he had engaged as tutor, and accepted the professorship of moral philosophy in Princeton College, to the presidency of which he succeeded on the death of Dr. Witherspoon. This he resigned in 1812. Among his works are: "Causes of the Variety of the Complexion and Figure of the Human Species" (1788); "Oration on the Death of Washington," at Trenton (1800); Sermons (1801); "Lectures on the Evidences of the Christian Religion" (1809); "Love of Praise" (1810); "A Continuation to Ramsay's History of the United States"; "Lectures on Moral and Political Philosophy"; "The Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion." He died August 21, 1819.

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      Buford, Abraham, was born in Virginia. He distinguished himself in the early part of the revolutionary war, and was appointed colonel of the Eleventh Virginia Regiment, May 16, 1778. In the spring of 1780 he was sent with his command to relieve Gen. Lincoln at Charleston, South Carolina, but hearing that the Americans had surrendered the place he began his return march. He was overtaken by a force of seven hundred cavalry and mounted infantry, under command of Col. Tarleton, at Waxhaw Creek, South Carolina, May 29, 1780. Though having but four hundred infantry and a small cavalry force, Burford refused to surrender, and was preparing for defense when the British fell upon the continental troops, and giving no quarter killed nearly the entire force. Col. Buford died in Scott county, Kentucky, June 29, 1833.

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      Baylor, George, was born at Newmarket, Caroline county, Virginia, January 12, 1752. He joined the revolutionary army at the beginning of the war, serving first as aid-de-camp to Gen. Washington. He was given a horse by congress, in appreciation of his services in the attack on the Hessians at Trenton, New Jersey, and in his prompt announcement to congress of the news of the victory. In January, 1777, he was promoted colonel, and in 1778 was captured by Gen. Gray at Tappan, New York, with his entire command, after sixty-seven had been killed, and he was held a prisoner for some time. Subsequently he was placed in command of the Virginia cavalry, and served until the end of the war. A serious lung wound, received at Tappan, finally resulted in his death in Bridgetown, Barbadoes, West Indies, in March, 1784. He was son of John and Frances (Norton) Baylor.

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      Hoge, Moses, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, February 15, 1752. He was one of Graham's pupils at Liberty Hall, and was intimately affected by the latter's genius and personality. He studied theology under James Waddell, Wirt's "Blind Preacher." In 1787 he was pastor in Shepherdstown, gaining much reputations. He made his first venture as an author in 1793 in "Strictures on a Pamphlet by the Rev. Jeremiah Walker, Entitled the 'Fourfold Foundation of Calvinism Examined and Shaken.'" Another characteristic production was: "Christian Panoply: An answer to Paine's 'Age of Reason'" (1799). Dr. Hoge was a bold and honorable controversialist. In Shepherdstown, Dr. Hoge had been instructing young men in theology. He was readily induced, therefore to move to Hampden-Sidney College in 1807 as Alexander's successor. Here he resumed the theological teaching instituted formerly by John Blair Smith. In 1809 the general assembly of the Presbyterian church had discussed the subject of ministerial education, the outcome of which was the founding of the Theological seminary at Princeton. The Presbyteries of Virginia, however, were in favor of synodical seminaries, and in 1812, at the same time that Dr. Alexander was chosen head of the Princeton Seminary, the Virginia synod resolved to have a seminary of its own and elected Dr. Hoge as their professor. Dr. Hoge, therefore, filled both offices — president of the college and professor of theology — until his death. Afterward the Theological Seminary was separated from the college and under Dr. John Holt Rice rendered independent. Dr. Hoge was an active member of the American Bible Society. As a preacher he was singularly powerful and effective. A volume of "Sermons" was published in 1820, after Dr. Hoge's death. Two of his sons, graduates of the college under their father's administration, also became distinguished as preachers — Samuel Davies Hoge, professor of mathematics and science at the State University in Athens, Ohio, and John Blair Hoge, D. D., tutor in Hampden-Sidney College and peculiarly gifted with literary talent. Dr. Moses Drury Hoge, of Richmond, a graduate of the college under President Maxwell is a son of Samuel Davies Hoge, who married a daughter of Drury Lacy. Dr. Moses Hoge died in Philadelphia, July 5, 1820.

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      Hall, Thomas, born in 1750, son of John Hall (1722-98) and Sarah Parry, his wife. He took the degree of Bachelor of Arts at the College of Philadelphia in 1773; and appears to have taken orders in England. He returned to America in 1774, to take charge of an important parish in Virginia. He took an active part in the preliminary stages of the revolution; but his love for the union with the mother country was too great for him to approve of the actual secession of the American colonies. Before the end of the war, he left Virginia, and never returned to America, although he never ceased protesting his most ardent love for his native land, and in one of his letters confessed his mistake in not adopting the course pursued by it. He served for some time as minister of an important church at Bristol, England, and afterwards became chaplain to the British colony at Leghorn, and remained there until his death, April 12, 1825. His letters describing conditions in Italy during the Napoleonic wars are most interesting. Tassenari, the historian, tells of a singular act of bravery on the part of Dr. Hall. When Napoleon marched upon Leghorn in 1803 the English residents, taking as much of their proerty as they could, sailed away, with few exceptions. Napoleon, who intended to detain them, was greatly disappointed, and it is said that he entertained the barbarous idea of destroying the English cemetery. But when Dr. Hall declared that only over his dead body should it be entered he desisted. Dr. Hall had a large acquaintance in Virginia, and several members of his family, and the Maryland family of Halls, came there from England, induced by him. His own descendants are found in Italy. He was a kinsman of the celebrated Dr. Rush, of Philadelphia.

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      Keith, Richard, born in 1757, was a citizen of Virginia. He served in the revolutionary army with the rank of major. He was one of seven who cut their way through the British cavalry at Charleston, South Carolina, May 6, 1780, and escaped. He commanded a rifle corps in the action with Colonel Simcoe, at Spencer's Ordinary, Virginia, January 25, 1781; at Jamestown, July 6, he served under Lafayette. He was elected surveyor of Georgia in January, 1784. He died in 1792.

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      Dade, Francis Langhorn, was born in Virginia. He was killed by Indians near Fort King, Florida, December 28, 1835. He was appointed third lieutenant in the Twelfth Infantry on March 13, 1813, became first lieutenant in 1816, captain in 1818, and brevet major in 1838. When killed he was on the march to Fort King with a detachment, which was nearly destroyed by a treacherous attack of the Seminole Indians. A beautiful monument was erected at West Point to his memory and that of his command.

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      Peticolas, Phillipe S., born at Mezieres, France, March 22, 1760, son of Colonel Nicholas Peticolas, a veteran French soldier. After a partial collegiate course, a mere lad, his innate spirit of adventure led him to enlist as a soldier in the command of the Prince of Deux Points, under whom he served for eight years, in the army of the King of Bavaria. In the latter part of his soldier life, he acquired a taste for miniature painting, in which art he acquired a remarkable proficiency. Leaving the army, he went to San Domingo to take possession of an estate there left him by a deceased brother. In 1790 he came to America, locating first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where, among other portraits, he painted one of Washington, and gave lessons in music and painting. He next resided in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from whence he made several visits to New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, as a portrait painter. About 1835 he was induced by Joseph Gallego (an uncle of count Ferdinand de Lesseps), the founder of the famous Gallego flouring mills, to make his home in Richmond, Virginia. He was highly esteemed as a citizen. In 1840 he was a warden and a member of the building committee of St. James' Episcopal Church. He died in Peterburg in 1843.

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      Call, Daniel, born about 1765, was a brother-in-law of Chief Justice Marshall. He published "Reports of the Virginia Court of Appeals" in six months (1790-1818); and a second edition was edited by Joseph Tate (1824-33). He died in Richmond, May 20, 1840.

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      Galt, Alexander D., born in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1771, son of Dr. John M. Galt (q. v.). He was educated at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, and at Oxford England. He was also a private pupil of Sir Astley cooper, and attended the London hospitals from 1792 to 1794. He was associated with his father and succeeded him as physician to the Hospital for the Insane at Williamsburg. His private practice was even larger than his father's. He, too, was a philanthropist, but received little credit from the poor, whom he treated gratuitously, and who believed that the state paid him for his services to them. He was one of the board of directors of William and Mary College, and a distinguished surgeon in the war of 1812. He married a cousin, Miss Mary D. Galt.

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      Buckinham, James Silk, born in Flushing, England, in 1786. He was intended for the church, but being of an adventurous turn of mind, became a sailor, bookseller's clerk, law student, printer and captain of a West Indiamen. He was employed in 1813 by the Pasha of Egypt to select a route for a canal across the Isthmus of Suez, but after being robbed the pasha relinquished his design and Buckingham went to India and commanded a ship in the service of the Sultan of Muscat. After this he went through many adventures. He published, at various times, volumes of his travels in Palestine, in Arabia, in Mesopotamia, in Assyria and Media, and two volumes on Belgium, the Rhine and Switzerland, and two volumes on France Piedmont and Switzerland. He lectured through Great Britain in support of various reforms, and represented Sheffield in parliament from 1832 to 1837. He subsequently traveled in America as a lecturer on temperance and slavery. He became a citizen of the United State in 1810, as appears by papers filed in the recorder's office in the borough of Norfolk, Norfolk county, Virginia. He died June 30, 1855.

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      Call, Richard Keith, born near Petersburg, Virginia, in 1791. He was appointed first lieutenant in the Forty-fourth United States Infantry Regiment, July 15, 1814; brevet captain, November 7, 1814; was volunteer aide t General Jackson in April, 1818; promoted to captain in July, 1818, and resigned from the army, May 1, 1822. He was a member of the legislative council of Florida in April, 1822; brigadier-general of West Florida militia in January, 1823; delegate to congress from 1823 to 1825; and receiver of the West Florida land office in March, 1825. He was governor of Florida from 1835 to 1840, and led an army against the Seminole Indians from December 6, 1835, to December 6, 1836, commanding in the second and third battles of Wahoo Swamp, November 18-21, 1836. It is said that at the battle of Ouithlachoochie, Governor Call personally saved General Clinch and his command from being cut to pieces, contrary to the statement made by the latter in the history of the Florida war. A controversy with Secretary of War Poinsett in President Van Buren's cabinet cost Governor Call his office. He was subsequently a Whig and worked earnestly for Harrison's election, canvassing the northern states in his behalf. President Harrison reappointed him governor of Florida, which office he held until 1844, but was an unsuccessful candidate for governor the following year. He had sacrificed his fortune, health and popularity to protect the people of Florida during the Seminole war, but they could not forgive him for turning to the Whigs, and he never again was elected to an office in the state, but was major-general of militia from July 1 to December 8, 1846. He labored industriously in the interest of Florida. He projected and built the third railroad in the United States, from Tallahassee to St. Marks, and located and laid out the town of Port Leon, which was afterwards destroyed by a cyclone. He was devoted to General Jackson, by whose side he had fought for every inch of ground from Tennessee to the Peninsula and regarding himself as one of the builders of the nation, during the civil war he was one of the few men in the South who regarded secession as treason. But, in February, 1861, in a letter to John S. Littell, of Philadelphia, while he deplored secession, he strongly defended slavery. He died in Tallahassee, Florida September 14, 1862.

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      Campbell, Robert, born in Virginia, in 1755. He was engaged in the Indian fighting on the borders of Virginia, and in the revolutionary war he reached the rank of colonel. He commanded a regiment at King's Mountain. For forty years he was a magistrate in Virginia, and in 1825 removed to Tennessee. He died in Knoxville, Tennessee, February, 1832.

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      Edwards, John, born in Stafford county, Virginia, in 1755, brother of Benjamin Edwards. He removed to what afterwards became Kentucky, in 1780, where he entered 23,000 acres of land; was a member of the Virginia legislature, 1781-85, 1795, 1796-1800; and a member of the Virginia convention that ratified the Federal constitution. He was a delegate to the different conventions assembled to establish the limits of Kentucky, 1785-88; also to the convention of 1792 that framed the Kentucky constitution. He represented Kentucky in the United States senate, October 24, 1791, to March 3, 1795. He died in Stafford county, Virginia, 1837.

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      Graham, George, born at Dumfries, Virginia, about 1772; was graduated at Columbia College in 1790, and studied law. he settled to practice in Dumfries, but later moved to Fairfax county. In he war of 1812 he organized and commanded the "Fairfax Light Horse" company. When Gen. Armstrong resigned as secretary of war, in 1814, Graham was made chief clerk of the war department, under Monroe, who had charge of both the departments of state and war, and Graham performed most of the duties of secretary until Monroe's election as President. In 1818 Secretary of War J. C. Calhoun sent Graham to Texas to inspect gen. Lallemand's settlement on the Trinity river. Upon his return, Graham was made president of the Washington branch of the Bank of the United States. He rendered important service in this connection, especially in closing up the "Indian factorage" matter, saving the government a large amount of money. In 1823 he was made commissioner of the land office, and served as such until his death at Washington, August, 1830.

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      Brown, Samuel, born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, January 30, 1769, son of Rev. John Brown, who came to Virginia from the North of Ireland early in the eighteenth century. He graduated at Dickinson (Pennsylvania) College, studied medicine under Dr. Rush, in Philadelphia, then went to Scotland and obtained the degree of doctor of medicine at the University of Aberdeen. He practiced successively in Washington City; Lexington, Kentucky; New Orleans, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi. In 1819 he became professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky, and held the position until 1825. He was distinguished for his application of industrial chemistry to agricultural processes, devised the method of clarifying ginseng for the Chinese market and brought steam into use for the distillation of spirits. He brought the process of lithotrity in surgery from Frances to the United States. He formed a medical society at Lexington, whose organization and code of ethics are said to have formed the basis of the medical associations now existing in America. In 1790 he advocated the gradual emancipation of slaves in Kentucky. he was a contributor of various papers to philosophical societies and medical journals. He died near Huntsville, Alabama, January 12, 1830.

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      Edwards, Benjamin, born in Stafford county, Virginia. He obtained a common school education, and became a planter and merchant in Maryland. He was a member of the state convention that ratified the Federal constitution; a member of the state general assembly; and filled the unexpired term of Uriah Forrest in Congress, 1794-95. William Wirt was a tutor in his family, and was aided by him to an education. He died in Stafford county, Virginia, November 13, 1826.

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      Macaulay, Alexander, Jr., son of Alexander Macaulay and Elizabeth Jerdone, his wife, was born at Yorktown, Virginia, February 20, 1787. Being of an adventurous turn he visited Columbia in 1811 and took part in its struggle for independence. He captured a Spanish camp at Popayan and was made lieutenant-colonel in the army of the patriots. At Pasto an armistice was patched up, and on his way back to Popayan he was treacherously attacked near Cotambuco and taken prisoner. By an order of the Spanish president, Don Torribes Montes, he was executed in the city of Pasto in the month of January, or the beginning of February, 1813. A writer in the Washington Intelligencer," in 1816, states that Macaulay was the idol of the people of Venezuela and New Granada, and his name was hung by the side of Bolivar in golden letters, in the salon of the Cabildo of Popayan. When taken out to execution he advanced before his fellow prisoners and said to them, "Let me be the first to receive death, in order that I may show my fellow patriots how a republican can die."

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      Russell, William, born in Culpeper county, 1758, died in Fayette county, Kentucky, July 3, 1825. He went with his father to join Daniel Boone on the frontier. He was a lieutenant in the revolution; was at King's Mountain, where he was the first to reach the summit, and received a sword from the enemy. As captain he served against the Cherokees and effected a treaty with them. He went to Kentucky at the end of the war, and commanded the advance in movements against the Indians, under Wayne, commanding a regiment of Kentucky volunteers. He was in the Virginia legislature which separated Kentucky from the parent state; on organization of the Kentucky government he was sent to its legislature, serving until 1808, when President Madison made him colonel of the Seventh United States Infantry. He succeeded Gen. William H. Harrison in command of the Indiana, Illinois and Missouri frontiers in 1811, and commanded an expedition against the Peoria Indians, 1812. He was in the Virginia legislature in 1823, and declined a nomination for governor. He was son of William Russell, lieutenant-colonel of the Culpeper militia in 1754.

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      Wickham, John, born in Southold, Long Island, New York, June 6, 1763. He was intended for the army, but after studying at the military academy at Arras, France, he returned home and settled in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he practiced law for a time, then removing to Richmond. He took high rank in his profession, and was counsel for Aaron Burr, in his trial for treason. John Randolph, of Roanoke, refers to him in his will as "my best of friends and the wisest and best man I ever knew;" and Tom Moore, the poet, pronounced him "the only gentleman I found in America, and would have graced any court." He died in Richmond, January 17, 1839.

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      Barron, James, was born in Virginia, in 1769, son of Samuel Barron, captain, of Fort George, now Fort Monroe. He became a sailor, rose to the rank of master, and after commanding various merchantmen, was in 1798 commissioned a lieutenant in the United States navy. He was made captain in 1799, commodore in 1806, and when war with France threatened in 1807, was assigned to the command of the Chesapeake. The latter left Washington with a hastily collected crew and poorly prepared. Soon after sailing she encountered the British frigate Leopard, whose commander demanded the return of certain British deserters, who he alleged were in board the Chesapeake, Commodore Barron refused to comply, and the Leopard opened fire, killing three of the crew of the Chesapeake, and wounding eighteen. Barron, after firing one of the guns, lowered the United States flag, and the British commander boarded the Chesapeake and carried away the sailors of whom he was in search. The British government condemned the action of its representative, returned the sailors taken from the Chesapeake, and paid indemnity. Barron, however, was severely censured by the public and his fellow-officers (though he contended, with justice, that, owing to the negligence of the navy department, he had been powerless to resist the demand of the Leopard); was tried by court-martial and suspended for five years, but was later fully reinstated to command. In 1820, regarding Commodore Decatur as the head of a cabal, which he believed existed against him, he challenged the latter to mortal combat. In the encounter, which took place near Bladensburg, Maryland, Decatur was killed and Barron badly wounded. The result served to increase the ill feeling against Barron. The latter, in 1839, became senior officer of the navy, but, until his retirement, passed his time in shore duty or on waiting orders. Time has acquitted him of the charge of negligence, and it is now believed that he was in large measure the victim of circumstance. He died in Norfolk, Virginia, April 21, 1851.

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      Clark, William, was born in Caroline county, Virginia, August 1, 1770, son of John and Ann (Rogers) Clark, and grandson of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Wilson) Clark. When he was fourteen his family removed to Kentucky, settling on the site of the present city of Louisville, where his brother, George Rogers Clark, erected a fort, in 1777. This place at the time was the scene of frequent Indian raids, and young William grew up with a vast experience of the methods of Indian warfare and an intimate knowledge of their habits. At the age of nineteen he participated in Col. John Hardin's expedition against the Indians across the Ohio, was made an ensign in 1791, served under Scott and wilkinson against the Indians onthe Wabash, was commissioned lieutenant of infantry, March 7, 1792, and in December was assigned to the fourth sub-legion. He was appointed adjutant and quartermaster, in September, 1793, served against the Indians and under Gen. Wayne, and in July, 1796, resigned, owing to ill health. He subsequently regained his health by turning trapper and hunter. About 1804 William Clark removed to St. Louis, Missouri, and in March President Jefferson commissioned him second lieutenant of artillery, ordering him to join Capt. Meriwether Lewis in an exploring expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia river. This expedition lasted two years and was the first to the Pacific coast. The success of the explorations, attended by incredible privations and hardships, where no white man ever set his foot before, was in large measure due to Capt. Clark's knowledge of Indian character and habits. He was military director of the expedition, and kept a journal, subsequently published by the United States government. On September 23, 1806, the expedition returned to St. Louis, and Capt. Clark went to Washington. Congress granted him 1,000 acres from the public domain, and on May 2, 1807, he resigned from the army, having been nominated to be governor of Louisiana territory a few days before. His commission for the latter office was dated March 3, 1807, and about the same time he was appointed a general of the territorial militia and Indian agent. In the latter office he remained until July 1, 1813, when he was appointed governor of the Missouri territory by President Madison. When Missouri applied for admission into the Union in 1818, a controversy followed whether it should be a free or slave state. In anticipation of the admission of the state an election was held August 28, and Clark was defeated for governor by Alexander McNair. In May, 1822, he was appointed superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis by President Monroe. He held this office until his death, in St. Louis, Missouri, September 1, 1838. Clark's Fork, an important branch of the Missouri, was named in his honor, and Lewis and Clark county, Montana, is in joint remembrance of the two explorers.

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      McDowell, Ephraim, was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, November 11, 1771, son of Samuel and Mary (McClung) McDowell, and grandson of Ephraim McDowell, who with his brothers, James and John, emigrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania. Ephraim and John settled in Rockbridge county, in 1737. He removed with his parents to Danville in 1783; attended a classical school at Georgetown, and studied medicine under Dr. Humphreys of Staunton, and at the University of Edinburgh, 1793-94. He practiced medicine and surgery in Danville, 1785-1830. He was married, in 1802, to Sallie, daughter of Gov. Isaac Shelby of Kentucky. He was elected a member of the Medical Society of Philadelphia in 1817. He honorary degree of M. D. was conferred upon him by the University of Maryland in 1825. He was the first surgeon successfully to perform the operation known as ovariotomy, and a description of his first cases was published in the eclectic Repertory and Analytic Review, Philadelphia, 1817. His successful operations appeared incredible at the time, and he became known among the profession as the "father of ovariotomy." He was one of the founders of Center College at Danville, and an original trustee, 1819-23. In 1879 a monument to his memory was erected in McDowell Park by the State Medical Society. He died in Danville, Kentucky, June 20, 1830

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      Baxter, George Addison, born in Rockingham county, Virginia, July 22, 1771. He was one of the many preachers and teachers who studied under William Graham at Liberty Hall. He traveled as an evangelist in Virginia and Maryland; for a time he was principal of the New London (Virginia) Academy, in Bedford county. In 1798 he became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Liberty Hall, and on the death of Mr. Graham succeeded him as principal of the institution, which in 1813 became Washington College. In 1829 he retired from the presidency, but continued pastoral labors in Lexington. In 1832 he became professor of theology in Union Theological Seminary of Hampden-Sidney, and he continued to labor there until his death. His presidency of the institution lasted for all the remainder of the college year after the death of Mr. Cushing. He died April 14, 1841.

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      Alexander, Archibald, born in Rockbridge county, near Lexington, April 17, 1772, was of Scotch-Irish stock. He was one of William Graham's pupils at Liberty Hall (now Washington and Lee University). It was at Samuel Stanhope Smith's recommendation that Graham was chosen to take charge of this academy, and he conducted it for twenty years. During the revival of 1788, Alexander accompanied William Graham to Prince Edward, and assisted in the work, aiding further in similar efforts upon his return to Rockbridge. In 1791 he was a member of the general assembly, and in 1794 was again in Prince Edward as pastor of Briery church. Upon the resignation of Drury Lacy, in 1796, Archibald Alexander was called to the presidency of the college, at the early age of twenty-four. Dr. Alexander made an extended tour through the northern and New England states in 1801, coming in contact wit the representative men of the day in theological thought. In Louisa county, Virginia, he stopped at the house of James Waddell, the famous blind preacher in William Wirt's "British Spy," and met for the first time Janetta Waddell, who later became his wife. He returned to Hampden-Sidney in 1802, and resumed the duties of his office, remaining until 1806. In that year he accepted a call to the Pine street church, Philadelphia. In the following year he was moderator of the general assembly, in his sermon before this assembly, he made a suggestion as to a theological seminary. This was at last established in 1812 at Princeton, New Jersey, and Dr. Alexander was chosen senior professor and remained there the rest of his life. Dr. Alexander was pre-eminent for piety, and possessed unrivaled powers as a pulpit orator. He is no less known today through his numerous theological and philosophical works. The most important are: "Evidences of the Christian Religion" (1825); "History of the Colonization of the Western Coast of Africa" (1846); "History of the Israelitish Nation" (1852); "Outlines of Moral Science" (1852; "Biographical Sketches of the Founder and Principal Alumni of the Log College" (See Princeton). Of his sons, two were distinguished Princeton professors and theological writers, Dr. James W. Alexander and Dr. J. Addison Alexander. A grandson Dr. Henry Carrington Alexander, was for twenty-two years professor in the Theological Seminary of Hampden-Sidney. Dr. Alexander died October 22, 1851.