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      Carroll, David Lynn, born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1787; graduated from Jefferson (Pennsylvania) College in 1823. He took a full and graduate course at Princeton Theological Seminary, and was pastor of a Congregational church at Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1827. In 1829 he was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, New York, and resigned in 1835 on account of a throat ailment. He then became president of Hampden- Sidney College, resigning at the end of three years, resuming ministerial work. During his administration Dr. John W. Draper was the professor of physical science, and it was at the college that he took his first sun-pictures and announced his discoveries as to the physical properties of the sun's light.

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      Dabney, Richard, was born in Louisa county, Virginia, in 1787, died there in November, 1825. His name was originally the same as that of the historian D'Aubigné. He applied himself to the acquisition of Latin, Greek and Italian, reaching a remarkable degree of proficiency in those languages, following the vocation of teaching in a school in Richmond. He was severely burned at the conflagration which destroyed the theatre in Richmond, in December, 1811. In 1812 he published a volume of "Poems, Original and Translated," of which an improved edition was printed in Philadelphia in 1815. The collection contained spirited translations from Euripides, Alcaeus, Sappho, Martial, Seneca and Petrarch. The second edition was published by Matthew Carey, who employed Dabney for a few years. Carey's political tract, called "The Olive Branch, or Faults on both Sides," is supposed to have been in great part written by Dabney. In a few years he returned to Virginia and taught a class of boys. He died as stated above, at the early age of thirty-eight.

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      Parker, Foxhall Alexander, born in 1788, at "Rock Spring," Westmoreland county, Virginia, son of William Harwar Parker and Mary (Sturman) Parker, his wife. At an early age he entered the United States navy, and rose to the rank of commodore. He was placed in command of the Boston navy-yard; in 1848-49 was sent to Europe to advise the government as to the construction of a navy; on his return he was placed in command of the home squadron. He married Sarah, daughter of Gen. Robert Bogardus, of New York. His son, of the same name, also became a commodore in the navy.

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      Abert, John James, born in Shepherdstown, Virginia, September 17, 1788, died in Washington, D. C.,September 27, 1863. He was the son of John Abert, who came to this country with Rochambeau in 1780. Young Abert was graduated at West Point in 1811, but at once resigned, and was then employed in the war office. Meanwhile he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia in 1813. In the war of 1812 he volunteered as a private soldier in the defence of the capital. He was reappointed to the army in 1814 as topographical engineer, with the rank of major. In 1829 he succeeded to the charge of the topographical bureau at Washington, and in 1838 became colonel in command of that branch of engineers. He was retired in 1861 after "long and faithful service." Col. Abert was associated in the supervision of many of the earlier national works of engineering, and his reports prepared for the government are standards of authority. He was a member of several scientific societies, and was one of the organizers of the National Institute of Science, which was subsequently merged into the Smithsonian Institute. His sons served with distinction in the United /States army during the civil war.

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      Jesup, Thomas Sidney, born in Virginia, in 1788; received preparatory education; in 1808 joined the United States army as lieutenant of infantry, and during the war of 1812 served on Gen. William Hull's staff as adjutant-general; he was appointed, successively, captain, January, 1813, major, April 6, 1813, lieutenant-colonel, April 30, 1817; was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for bravery at the battle of Chippewa, July 5, 1814; colonel, April, 1817, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Niagara, where he was severely wounded, and major-general, May 8, 1828, for ten years' faithful services in the same rank; was appointed adjutant-general with the rank of colonel, March 27, 1818, and quartermaster-general with the rank of brigadier-general, May 8, 1818; he assumed command of the army in the Creek nation, May 20, 1836, and he succeeded Gov. Richard Keith Call in command of the army in Florida December 8, 1836; was wounded during a fight with the Seminoles at Jupiter Inlet, January 24, 1838, and was relieved by Col. Zachary Taylor; he died in Washington, D. C., June 10, 1860.

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      Jones, Thomas ap Catesby, born in Virginia, in 1789, son of Major Catesby Jones and Lettice (Turberville) Jones, his wife. He entered the navy in 1805, became lieutenant in 1812, commander in 1820, and captain in 1829. From 1808 to 1812 he was engaged in suppressing the slave trade on the Gulf of Mexico. In 1814, with a small flotilla, he opposed a British squadron of forty vessels at the entrance to Lake Borgne. Although he was wounded and obliged to surrender, his conduct was much praised. While commanding a squadron on the Pacific, he took possession of Monterey, having been informed of a condition of war between the United States and Mexico, but withdrew when he learned that he had been misinformed. He died in Georgetown, D. C., May 30, 1858.

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      Mettauer, John Peter, of Prince Edward county, Virginia, received a classical education at Hampden-Sidney College, and was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1809. He practiced at Prince Edward Court House, and was an instructor of a group of private students until 1837, when they were organized as a medical institute, which later became the medical department of Randolph-Macon College. He was the first on this continent to operate for cleft palate, and also first in a number of important major operations.

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      Ruffner, Henry, born in Page county, Virginia, January 19, 1789, son of Col David Ruffner. He was graduated from Washington College in 1817; for two years taught in Mercer Academy, at Charlestown Virginia. He studied theology under Rev. Dr. G A. Baxter, at that time president of Washington College, was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Lexington in 1819, and the same year was appointed to a professorship in Washington College, and for thirty years was connected with the institution, filling in succession every chair to the presidency, to which he was appointed in 1836, and serving therein until 1848, when ill health obliged him to resign. His administration was eminently successful. During his connection with the college he preached for several years at Tinker Ridge and Fairfield. In 1849 he left Lexington and retired to his farm in Kanawha county; after a few years he became pastor of the church at Malden, and gave up ministerial work about a year before his death, December 17, 1861. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Princeton College, and Doctor of laws from Washington College. He contributed freely to the religious press.

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      Lawson, Thomas, born in Virginia, August 29, 1789, son of Thomas and Sarah (Robinson) Lawson, grandson of Col. Anthony and Mary (Calvert) Lawson, and of Tully Robinson, great-grandson of Thomas and Frances (Sayer) Lawson, and of William Robinson, and a descendant of Thomas Lawson, who settled at an early date in Virginia; after completing his preparatory education, he studied for the profession of physician and surgeon and on March 1, 1809, was commissioned surgeon's mate in the United States navy, but resigned on being appointed to the United States army by President Madison, February 11, 1811; was transferred to the Seventh Infantry, May 21, 1817; was promoted to the rank of major, June 1, 1821; appointed surgeon- general with the rank of colonel by President Jackson, February 1, 1837, to date from November 30, 1836, and served as lieutenant-colonel of volunteers in Florida in 1837-38; he was brevetted brigadier-general, March 3, 1849, for distinguished and meritorious services in the field before and during the Mexican war, and ranked as such from May 30, 1848; he was the author of: "Report on Sickness and Mortality, United States army, 1818-1839" (1840); "Meteorological Register, 1826- 30" (1830); "Appendix for 1822-25" (1840); his death occurred at the residence of Dr. Daniel Cary Barraud, in Norfolk, Virginia, May 14, 1861.

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      Lane, John, born in Virginia, April 8, 1789, but in boyhood removed from his native state, his parents locating in Georgia, where he was reared, obtaining his education at Franklin College, Athens; in 1814, at the age of twenty-five years, he was admitted to the South Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, in the following year was appointed to the Natchez circuit, and thus became the pioneer Methodist preacher in Mississippi Territory and the first of that denomination to labor among the Cherokee and Creek Indians; in 1820 he was made presiding elder of the Mississippi circuit, and the ministry was his chosen field of labor, but he also engaged in business, in which he achieved a certain degree of success, and in addition served as judge of the private court of Warren county; his prominence in affairs led to his appointment as president of the board of trustees of Centenary College, Johnson, Louisiana in which capacity he was served for several years, and he was also president of the Conference Missionary Society; he married a daughter of the Rev. Newit Vick, and in 1820 settled in Mississippi on Mr. Vick's estate, and there founded Vicksburg, which he named in honor of his father-in-law, Rev. Mr. Vick; his death occurred in Vicksburg, Mississippi, October 10, 1855.

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      Jones, Roger, born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, in 1789, son of Major Catesby and Lettice Corbin (Turberville) Jones; in young manhood he was appointed to the military service of the United States as second lieutenant of marines, January 29, 1809, and was promoted captain and assigned to the artillery, July 12, 1812; he was actively engaged at Chippewa, Lundy's Lane and Fort Erie, and for mereitorious conduct at the first named places was brevetted major, and lieutenant-colonel for a successful sortie at the last named place; was promoted major, August 16, 1818, and made adjutant-general, and brevetted colonel, September 17, 1824; was promoted lieutenant-colonel, March 7, 1825, and appointed adjutant-general of the army, and received brevets as brigadier-general, June, 1832, and major-general, May, 1848; married Mary Anne Mason Page, born about 1796, died at Washington, D. C., in December, 1873; he also died in Washington, D. C.,July 15, 1852.

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      Aulick, John H., was born at Winchester, Virginia, in 1789, and joined the United States navy as midshipman in 1809, he was assigned to service on the Enterprise and in 1812 he was present at the capture of the British privateers Mars and Fly, and the ship Boxer. He was subsequently in service on the Saranac, the Brandywine, the Constitution and other well known vessels, and in 1843 was appointed commander of the navy-yard in Washington, holding the position for three years. In 1847 he was placed in command of the Vincennes, and later of the East India squadron. He was retired in 1861, and in the following year was placed on the retired list with the rank of commodore. He died April 27, 1873.

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      Sparrow, Patrick J., born in Lincoln county, North Carolina, in 1802. He was educated by the Rev. Samuel Williamson, in upper South Carolina. He was engaged in preaching in Salisbury, North Carolina, and assisted in raising funds for the establishment of Davidson (North Carolina) College, and at its organization was made professor of ancient languages. In 1841 he became pastor of the Hampden-Sidney College Church, and in 1844 succeeded Dr. Maxwell in the presidency After occupying the position two years he removed to Alabama, and ill health marked his later years. He died in 1867.

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      Upshur, Abel Parker, son of Col. Littleton Upshur and Anne Parker, his wife daughter of George Parker, was born in Northampton county, Virginia, June 17, 1790. He attended Princeton and Yale Colleges and studied law under William Wirt. He was admitted to the bar in 1810 and practiced in Richmond. He was for some time commonwealth's attorney of the city, but returned to Northampton and lived in "Vaucluse," in that county. In 1824-26 he was a member of the house of delegates, and in a very able speech opposed the removal of William and Mary College. He was made a judge of the general court and served from 1826 till 1841. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1829, and advocated the interest of the eastern section with great ability. He made a profound study of the constitution and undertook a review of Judge Joseph Story's "Commentaries on the Constitution," 1840. In this work he exposed the errors of Judge Story and set forth in reply the states rights construction of the constitution. It was applauded throughout the South as a complete answer to the nationalists, and was long a text book in the colleges and schools. Mr. Upshur, who had been a federalist in his early youth, as were most of the leading men on the eastern shore of Virginia, changed his views about 1816, and became an ardent states rights man. He sympathized with the doctrines of South Carolina in 1832, and when Jackson issued his proclamation, he severed his connection with the Democratic party and was a Whig, voting for Gen. Harrison in 1840. In 1841 President Tyler made him secretary of the navy, and in this department he reorganized the work and established system and order. On the resignation of Daniel Webster, Tyler made him secretary of state, and he was a strong advocate of the annexation of Texas. Under directions of the President he prepared a treaty for that purpose, but was cut ff from completing the work by death. On February 26, 1842, he was killed by an explosion on the steam war vessel Princeton, near the mouth of the Potomac river, while on a pleasure trip with the President and other members of his cabinet to witness the trial of the Princeton's guns.

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      Archer, Branch T., son of Peter F. Archer, of Powhatan county, was born December 13, 1790. He attended William and Mary College, studied medicine and practiced successfully in Virginia. He served in the house of delegates in 1819-20. In 1831 he went to Texas, where he took an active interest in the politics of that revolutionary period. In 1835 a convention of the American settlers was called for the consideration of Texan independence, over which Archer presided, and he was selected with Stephen Austin and N. H. Wharton, commissioner to Washington to obtain aid from the United States government. He became a very prominent figure in Texan politics, being a member of the first Texan congress, speaker of the house of representatives of the republic, and its secretary of war from 1839 to 1842. He died in Brazoria county, Texas, September 22, 1856.

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      Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, born in Monticello, Albemarle county, Virginia, September 12, 1792, son of Governor Thomas Mann and Martha (Jefferson) Randolph and grandson of Thomas Jefferson; educated in the schools of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Charlottesville, Virginia; one of the first acts of his business life was to discharge a debt of $40,000 remaining against his Grandfather Jefferson's estate; another work performed in loyal regard for the memory of his Grandfather Jefferson was his preparation, as literary executor, of the large four-volume "Biography, Life and Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson," which was published in Boston in 1829; as a member of the legislature, he effected, among other measures, the passage of a bill for the adjustment of the tax question, whereby the finances of the state were materially strengthened; his knowledge of finance was also expressed in a pamphlet entitled "Sixty Years' Reminiscences of the Currency of the United States," of which each member of the legislature received a copy; in the convention of 1850-51, when the Virginia constitution was revised, he was an active member; after the secession of the Southern States, he gave his support to the Confederacy, and after the war he was equally zealous in the movements to restore the well-being of his native state; his last appearance in public office was as chairman of the Democratic national convention which was convened in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1872; for seven years he was rector of the University of Virginia, and for thirty-one years a member of its board of visitors; he died at "Edgehill," Virginia, October 8, 1875.

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      Vethake, Henry, born in British Guiana in 1792, came to America in his childhood with his parents. He was graduated from Columbia College in 1808, and studied law. He held professorships in Columbia and Queens (now Butler), Dickinson (Pennsylvania) colleges, and the University of New York. In 1835 he was elected president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), which position he held a year, at the same time filling the chair of intellectual and moral philosophy, retaining the latter until 1859, when he became associated with the Philadelphia Polytechnic College. He died December 16, 1866.

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      Garland, John, was born in Virginia, in 1792, died in New York City, June 5, 1861. He was appointed lieutenant of infantry on March 31, 1813, served through the war with Great Britain, became a captain on May 7, 1817, and was made major by brevet in 1827 attained the full rank of major on October 30, 1836, and that of lieutenant-colonel on November 27, 1839. He won distinction in the Florida war under Gen. Worth, and served through the Mexican war, distinguished himself in six battles, and commanding a brigade at Monterey and through Gen. Scott's subsequent campaign. He was severely wounded at the taking of the City of Mexico. He was brevetted colonel for gallantry at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, and brigadier-general for meritorious and gallant conduct at Contreras and Churubusco. He was promoted colonel on May 9, 1861.

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      Pickett, James Chamberlayne, was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, February 6, 1793, son of Colonel John and Elizabeth (Chamberlayne) Pickett; grandson of Captain William S. and Elizabeth (Metcalfe) Pickett, and a descendant of William and Anne Pickett. In 1796 removed with his parents to Mason county, Kentucky, where his father served in both branches of the state legislature. He was appointed from Ohio third lieutenant in the Second United States Artillery, August 4, 1813; was promoted second lieutenant, April 19, 1814, transferred to the corps of artillery, May 12, 1814, and left the service at the close of the war in 1815. He edited the "Eagle" at Maysville, Kentucky, in 1815; studied law, and on June 16, 1818, entered the United States army as captain and assistant quartermaster-general, serving until June, 1821. He settled in the practice of law in Mason county in 1821; was representative in the Kentucky legislature in 1822, and secretary of the state, 1825-28. By appointment of President Jackson, he was secretary of the United States legation to Columbia, 1829-33, acting for a time as charge d'affaires. He was a commissioner of the United States patent office in 1835; fourth auditor of the United States treasury, 1835-38; United States minister to Ecuador in 1838, and chargé d'affaires to Peru, 1838-45. In 1845 he removed to Washington, D. C., where he was editor of the "Congressional Globe" for several years. He was married, October 6, 1818 to Ellen, daughter of Governor Joseph Desha, of Kentucky. Their son, Joseph Desha Pickett, was a minister of the Christian church, professor in Bethany College, Virginia, chaplain in the Confederate army, and professor of English literature and sacred history in Kentucky University. Another son, Col. John T. Pickett, was United States consul at Vera Cruz, 1853-61, special envoy extraordinary of the Confederate states to Mexico in 1865, and in 1870 sold the diplomatic correspondence of the Confederate States, known as the "Pickett Papers," to the United States government for $75,000. James Chamberlayne Pickett died in Washington, D. C., July 10, 1872.

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      Horner, William Edmonds, born in Warrenton, Virginia, June 3, 1793, grandson of Robert Horner, who emigrated from England to Maryland prior to the revolutionary war; he was educated at a private school, then pursued a course of study in medicine, and received his degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1814; he had been commissioned surgeon's mate in the army in 1812, and served through the war with England on the Canadian frontier; after his resignation, in 1815, he practiced his profession at Warrenton, but in the following year removed to Philadelphia, and in 1817 became dissector to Dr. Casper Wistar, who was then professor of anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1819 was made adjunct professor of anatomy under Dr. Philip S. Physick; in 1824 he discovered the Musculus Hornerii, an important muscle of the eye, which he described in a series of articles in the "American Journal of Medical Science" of that year; in 1831 he was appointed to the chair of anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, in which capacity he served until his death; was an active member of the city sanitary board during the cholera epidemic of 1832; united with the Roman Catholic church in 1839; in 1847 founded St. Joseph's Hospital; in 1848 visited Europe, and was well received by scientific men; he published "Special Anatomy and Histology" (Philadelphia, 1826; 8th ed., 2 vols., 1851); "United States Dissector" (5th ed. revised by Dr. Henry H. Smith, 1856); "Anatomical Atlas," and numerous contributions to medical periodicals, and at his death in Philadelphia, March 13, 1853, left manuscripts on theological and literary subjects; he left his fine anatomical collections, valued at $10,000, to the University of Pennsylvania, and his large library to St. Joseph's Hospital.

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      Houston, Samuel, born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, March 2, 1793, son of Samuel Houston and Elizabeth Paxton, his wife. Left fatherless in his boyhood, he was reared in Tennessee, and was adopted by an Indian, and received little education. At the age of twenty he enlisted in the United States army and soon rose to a sergeantcy. His courage at the battle of Horseshoe Bend, where he is said to have received numerous wounds, attracted the attention of Gen. Jackson. He was promoted to second lieutenant, then to first lieutenant, but resigned on account of criticism by the war department. In 1818 he began to study law in Nashville; engaged in practice, and was elected district attorney. He was also made adjutant-general, and later major-general. He was elected to congress in 1823 and 1825, and governor of Tennessee in 1827. In 1829 he married a Miss Allen, whom a few weeks later he left without explanation. He left the state under a cloud, and returned to his former Indian foster-father. In 1832 he went to Texas, was a member of the convention, and later was made commander-in-chief of the Texas army by the convention which declared independence, and defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto, where he was wounded. He was treated with coolness by the civil authorities and retired to New Orleans. Later he returned to Texas, and was elected to its first president, and was re-elected in 1841. In 1838 he had favored the annexation of Texas to the United States, but in 1845 he wanted Texas to be independent and opposed annexation. In 1846 Houston was elected United States senator, and served there until 1859, when he was again elected governor. In 1861 Texas seceded from the Union, Houston, a staunch Unionist, refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederate government, and was deposed. He was offered United States troops to maintain himself, but declined their aid. He took no further part in public life, and died in Huntsville, Texas, July 25, 1863.

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      Austin, Stephen F., was born in Virginia, November 3, 1793, son of Moses Austin. He was graduated with distinction at Transylvania University, Kentucky; was elected to the territorial legislature of Missouri in 1813, and annually reëlected until 1819, when he removed to Arkansas, where he was appointed circuit judge. His father had received from Mexico a large grant of land near the boundary of Texas, for colonization purposes, condition on his locating three hundred families. At his death, in 1820, Stephen, in pursuance of his father's request proceeded immediately to colonize the tract. After many delays and much difficulty, he finally had the grant confirmed and planted on the present site of Austin a colony of some two hundred families. He was constituted governor by Mexico, and as such possessed dictatorial powers; but he governed with justice and clemency. In 1833 the American settlers became discontented, and Austin was appointed by the colony as a commissioner to carry a petition for the separation of Texas and Coahuila, which then constituted one state. The Mexican government, however, failing to consider the petition, Austin wrote to his people in October to form themselves into a separate colony, without awaiting Mexico's consent. This letter being intercepted, Austin was thrown into prison for many months. President Santa Anna, in May, 1834, called a council to hear the petition. Austin appeared before it, and by his eloquence won a promise of the repeal forbidding citizens of the United States from immigrating into Texas. The council also promised to establish a postal system and to station four thousand soldiers at Bexar to protect the frontier; but declined the prayer for separation. Austin was detained as a prisoner, but at the end of two years was allowed to return to this colony. At their first consultation, in 1835, Austin advised that any attempt by the Mexican government to disarm the colonists should be met by armed resistance. To this the colonist gladly acceded. Austin endeavored to effect a reconciliation, but all terms were haughtily rejected by the Mexicans; he determined to make no further overtures for peace, hostilities followed, the revolutionists were victorious at Gonzales, Conception and San Antonio, and Austin was made commander-in-chief of the army by acclamation, and forthwith sent to Gen. Sam Houston for aid in carrying on the revolution. Austin was sent as commissioner to Washington in November, 1835, to appeal to the United States government for aid, and made a favorable impression at the national capital. In 1836 the independence of Texas was declared, Sam Houston was elected first president of the republic, and he appointed Austin secretary of state. He died December 27, 1836.

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      Hunt, Thomas Poage, born in Charlotte county, Virginia, in 1794; was graduated at Hampden-Sidney College in 1813, then took a course in theology, and in 1824 was licensed to preach the Gospel; for a number of years he was pastor of churches in Virginia and North Carolina, after which he changed his line of work, becoming a temperance lecturer, in which capacity he attained a wide reputation; in 1836 he took up his residence in the city of Philadelphia, remaining there for three years, at the expiration of which he removed to the Wyoming Valley and there spent the remainder of his days; in addition to the work above mentioned he served as agent for Lafayette College during the years 1840-41-42-43-44-45, and was the author of the following articles which he published: "History of Jesse Johnson and His times," "It Will Not Injure Me," "Death by Measure," "Wedding-Days of Former Times," and "Liquor-Selling a History of Fraud;" died in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, December 5, 1876.

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      Maury, John Minor, born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1795, son of Richard and Diana (Minor) Maury. He became midshipman in the navy at the age of fourteen, and served on the Essex Jr., in the Pacific, which brought home the survivors of the Essex, with Captain Porter. Promoted to first lieutenant, 1811; made flag captain to Commodore David Porter's fleet engaged in suppressing West Indian pirates, 1824, and on return voyage was seized with yellow fever, and died at sea, near Norfolk, June 23, 1825. He married Eliza Maury, of Franklin, Tennessee.

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      Johns, John, born in New Castle, Delaware, July 10, 1796, son of Kensey Johns and Ann (Van Dyke) Johns, his wife. He was graduated from Princeton College in 1806, and entered the Episcopal ministry. He held charges in Frederick and Baltimore, Maryland. In 1842 he was elected assistant bishop of Virginia, and the same year was made president of William and Mary College, Williamsburg. In 1854 he retired from the presidency, stating in his letter of leave taking that he could retire "without solicitude as to the future of the college;" the number of students had increased under his administration from twenty-one to eighty-two. He received the degree of S. T. D. from Columbia College in 1834, and of Doctor of Laws from William and Mary College in 1855; retired to his residence near Alexandria; in 1862 succeeded Bishop Meade (deceased) in the bishopric, and died April 6, 1876, in his eightieth year.

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      Fauntleroy, Thomas Turner, son of Joseph Fauntleroy and Elizabeth Fauntleroy, daughter of Col. Bushrod Fauntleroy, was born in Richmond county, Virginia, October 6, 1796, died in Leesburg, Virginia, September 12, 1883. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the war of 1812, when but seventeen years old. He studied law in Winchester, practiced in Warrenton, and in 1823 was elected to the legislature. In 1836 he was commissioned a major of dragoons in the regular army, and served in the Seminole war. In September, 1845, he was detached from Gen. Taylor's army to hold in check the Indians on the frontier of Texas. From this duty he was ordered to join Gen. Taylor, and subsequently, in Mexico, he commanded the cavalry of Gen. Scott's army. In 1849 he was promoted to the lieutenant-colonelcy of the First Dragoons, and commanded the troops on frontier duty in Texas. In 1850 he was promoted colonel. In the winter of 1854-55 he conducted a campaign against the hostile Indian tribes of the Rocky mountains, and in 1858 he made another midwinter campaign against the Indians in New Mexico. In May, 1861, he entered the Confederate service. He was commissioned a brigadier-general by the convention of Virginia, and placed in command of Richmond and its defences. But after the organization of the Confederate government it refused to confirm his commission, although he ranked all the officers but one that had resigned from the United States army to serve the Confederacy. He married Ann, daughter of Col. Charles Magill, of Winchester, Virginia.