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      Harris, Thomas Mealey, born in Wood county, Virginia, June 17, 1817; after preparatory studies, he pursued a course in medicine, and practiced his profession at Harrisville and Glenville, Virginia; was appointed colonel of the Tenth West Virginia Infantry; in May, 1862, was promoted brigadier-general; February 9, 1865, sent out the detachment that engaged the last Confederate guns at Appomattox, and was mustered out of the service of the government, April 30, 1866; after the cessation of hostilities he devoted his attention to scientific farming, in which he was successful; he was a member of the legislature of West Virginia in 1867, was adjutant-general of the state in 1869-70, and was pension agent at Wheeling in 1871-77; he is the author of medical essays and of a tract entitled "Calvinism Vindicated."

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      Johnson, Waldo Porter, born near Bridgeport, Virginia, September 16, 1817, a nephew of Gov. Joseph Johnson; was educated in the schools of his native state, pursued a course of study in law, later removed to Missouri and was admitted to the bar, practicing his profession at Osceola; he enlisted for service in the Mexican war in 1846, but was discharged the following year, having been elected a representative in the Missouri legislature; he served in the capacity of prosecuting attorney for St. Clair county, judge of the judicial district, and United States senator in the thirty-ninth congress from July 4, 1861 to January 10, 1862, when he was expelled on account of having joined the Confederate army during the recess of congress; in the special session in July, 1861, he offered the resolution for a peace conference to be held in Louisville, Kentucky; he was wounded at Pea Ridge, March 8, 1862; was promoted lieutenant-colonel; took part in the evacuation of Corinth, Mississippi, May 30, 1862, after which he was detailed to special service until appointed by Gov. Reynolds to the Confederate States senate, to fill a vacancy; after the war he fled to Hamilton, Canada, but subsequently returned to Osceola, Missouri, and was president of the convention of October, 1875, that adopted a new state constitution; he died in Osceola, Missouri, August 14, 1885.

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      McSherry, Richard, born in Martinsburg, Virginia, November 21, 1817, son of Dr. Richard McSherry, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and for more than half a century practiced his profession in his native state; Georgetown College, D. C., the University of Maryland, and the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received the degree of M. D. in 1841, afforded Richard McSherry, Jr., the means of obtaining a classical and professional education; on August 21, 1838, he was appointed assistant surgeon in the medical corps of the United States army, served under Gen. Taylor in the Seminole war, and resigned his commission, April 30, 1840; for a period of thirteen years, from 1843 to 1856, he was assistant surgeon in the United States navy; he began the practice of his profession in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1856, and continued until 1883; was professor of materia medica in the University of Maryland from 1862 to 1865, and of the principles and practice of medicine there from 1865 to 1885, the latter being the year of his death; was a member of the medico-chirurgical faculty of Maryland, vice-president of the Baltimore Academy of Medicine, and president of the Maryland State Board of Health; he was a frequent contributor to the leading medical journals, and was the author of "El Puchero, or a Mixed Dish from Mexico" (1850); "Essays" (1869); and "Health and How to Promote It" (1883); he married in 1842, a daughter of Robert Wilson, a prominent lawyer of Baltimore, Maryland; Dr. McSherry died in Baltimore, Maryland, October 7, 1885.

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      Stevenson, Carter Littlepage, son of Carter Littlepage Stevenson and Jane Herndon, his wife, was born near Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 21, 1817. He was graduated from the United States Military Academy, July 1, 1838, and assigned to the Fifth Infantry. He served on frontier duty and in the Florida war, and was commissioned first lieutenant. He also served in Texas and through the Mexican war, and was promoted to captain. After the war he was again on frontier service, and in 1861 resigned from the army. he was at once made lieutenant-colonel, C. S. A., and served as adjutant to Gen. Long, 1861; commissioned 6 of the Fifty-third Virginia Infantry; in 1862 promoted to brigadier-general, and later the same year to major-general. He commanded a division under Gen. Bragg in Tennessee, bore the brunt of the battle at Edward's Station, and protected the Confederate rear in the retreat to Vicksburg. He distinguished himself in the Georgia campaign against Sherman, and in front of Atlanta succeeded to the command of Hood's corps when that officer succeeded Johnston in command of the army, and again aided in resisting Sherman during the Carolina campaign. He died in Caroline county, Virginia, August 15, 1888. Gen. Lewis Littlepage (q. v.). was his half-great-uncle.

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      Denver, James W., was born in Winchester, Virginia, in 1818. He received a public school education, emigrated in childhood with his parents to Ohio, removed to Missouri in 1841, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was appointed captain of the Twelfth Infantry in March, 1847, and served in the war with Mexico till its close in July, 1848. Removing to California in 1850, he was appointed a member of a relief committee to protect emigrants, and was chosen a state senator in 1852. While a member of this body in 1852, he had a controversy with Edward Gilbert. ex-member of congress, in regard to some legislation, which resulted in a challenge from Gilbert, that was accepted by Denver. Rifles were the weapons and Gilbert was killed by the second shot. In 1853 Mr. Denver was appointed secretary of state of California, and from 1855 to 1857 served in congress. He was appointed by President Buchanan commissioner of Indian affairs, but resigned, and was made governor of Kansas. Resigning this post in 1858, he was reappointed commissioner of Indian affairs, which office he held till March, 1859. In 1861 he entered the Federal service, was made brigadier-general, served in the western states, and resigned in March, 1863. Afterward he settled in Washington D C., to practice his profession as an attorney. John W. Forney, in his "Anecdotes of Public men" says: "Gen. Denver, while in congress, as chairman of the committee on the Pacific railroad, in 1854-55, presented in a conclusive manner the facts demonstrating the practicability of that great enterprise, and the advantages to be derived from it.

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      Minor, Benjamin Blake, born at Tappahannock, Essex county, Virginia, October 21, 1818, son of Dr. Hubbard Taylor and Jane (Blake) Minor, grandson of Col. Thomas and Elizabeth (Taylor) Minor, and of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Aldridge) Blake, and great-grandson of Thomas and Alice (Thomas) Minor; he attended Bristol College, Pennsylvania, during the sessions of 1833=-34, the University of Virginia, 1834-37, graduating in several of its schools, and subsequently entered William and Mary College, graduating in moral and political science and law in the class of 1839; practiced law in Petersburg, Virginia, 1840-41; in Richmond, 1841-43; owned and edited the "Southern Literary Messenger," 1843-47; was principal of the Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, 1847-48, and founded the Home School for Young Ladies, Richmond, 1848; originated the historical department of the Society of Alumni of the University of Virginia, in 1845; the same year was vice-president of the commercial convention at Memphis; in 1857 was a chief factor in the revival of the Historical Society of Virginia of which he was made a life member; was made a corresponding member of the historical societies of New York and Wisconsin, and secretary of the African Colonization Society of Virginia and of the Virginia Bible Society, which antedates the American Bible Society; resumed the practice of law in Richmond in 1848 and the same year was the mover and author of the memorial to the Virginia legislature that led to the erection of the Washington Monument on Capitol Square; was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Nineteenth Virginia militia; was a warden, register and diocesan delegate of St. James' Church, and one of the founders of the Richmond Male Orphan Asylum; on July 4, 1860, he was elected president of the State University of Missouri, and served until the curators suspended the work of the university during the civil war; was principal of a female seminary in St. Louis, 1865-69; life insurance state agent and superintendent, also public lecturer, 1869-89, and in the latter named year rejoined his family in Richmond, Virginia, and engaged in literary work; he edited a complete edition of "Reports of Chancellor George Wythe, with a Memoir of the Author;" a new edition of Hening & Munford's "Virginia Reports," and contributed to law journals in New York City; he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the State University of Missouri in 1894, and in 1896 was made secretary of the Virginia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution; he married, May 26, 1842, Virginia Maury, daughter of the Rt. Rev. James Hervey Otey. He died in 1904.

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      Broadhead, James O., was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, May 19, 1819. He was educated at the high school, and when sixteen years of age studied one year at the University of Virginia. In June, 1837, he removed to Missouri, where he studied law in the office of Edward Bates for three years. In 1841 he began the practice of law in Pike county, Missouri, and in 1845 was elected as a delegate to the constitutional convention of the state. In 1846 he was elected to the state legislature from Pike county, in 1850 to the state senate, and served in that capacity four years. In 1859 he located in St. Louis, and in February, 1861, he was appointed United States district attorney of Missouri, but resigned when he found that it interferred with his duties as a delegate to the state convention, "for vindicating the sovereignty of the state, and the protection of its institutions." Under the provisions of resolutions offered by Mr. Broadhead, this convention abolished the existing state government and established a provisional government, which for the first three years of the civil war managed its affairs, raising and organizing a military force in support of the United States government. he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Third Missouri Cavalry, and was assigned to duty on the staff of General Schofield, as provost marshal-general of the department of Missouri. In 1876 he was appointed by President Grant as counsel on the part of the government in the prosecution of the "whiskey frauds." In 1878 he was chosen president of the American Bar Association, which met at Saratoga, New York. In 1882 he was elected a representative to the forty-eighth congress as a Democrat, and in 1885 was appointed by the government as special agent to make preliminary search of the record of the French archives in the matter of the French spoliation claims, making his report in October, 1885. He was United States minister to Switzerland, 1893-97, and on his return he took up the practice of this profession. He died in St. Louis, Missouri, August 7, 1898.

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      Hays, William, born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1819; was a student in the United States Military Academy, from which he was graduated in 1840; was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in 1847, captain in 1853, and major in 1863; he served throughout the Mexican war with the light artillery; was wounded at Molina del Rey, and brevetted captain and major; was engaged in the Seminole Indian wars for one year, 1853-54, and from 1856 to 1860 was on frontier duty; during the years 1861-62 he commanded a brigade of horse artillery, being attached to the Army of the Potomac and was actively engaged in the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg, and in November, was appointed provost marshal of the southern district of New York; at the expiration of his term in February, 1865, he rejoined his regiment at Petersburg, and served with the Second Corps, and in command of the reserve artillery until the close of the war, when he was brevetted brigadier-general in the regular army, the reword of gallant service and meritorious conduct; was mustered out of volunteer service in 1866 with the rank of major, and served on various posts, commanding Fort Independence from April 29, 1873, until his death, which occurred in Fort Independence, Boston harbor, February 7, 1875, aged fifty-six years.

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      McCormick, Leander J., born at "Walnut Grove," Virginia, February 8, 1819, son of Robert and Mary McChesney (Hall) McCormick; his education was obtained in the public schools of Rockbridge county, after which he devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits, assisting his father and brothers in the work on the farm and in perfecting and constructing the reaping machine invented by his brother Cyrus; he inherited in marked degree his father's turn of mind, and helped to make various improvements in his brothers reaper, including a seat or stand from which a man could divide the grain in sheaves suitable for binding, an improvement on the divider seat, both in the year 1845, and later a seat for the driver, who previously had ridden on one of the horses, all of which made the machine more useful and practical; in 1847 he was sent by his brother Cyrus to Cincinnati, Ohio, to superintend the construction of one hundred reaping machines, and in the following year removed to Chicago, Illinois, there being joined by his brother in 1849, and they established a factory, Leander J. McCormick assuming entire charge of the manufacturing department, continuing until the year 1879, when the business was incorporated as the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, and Leander J. McCormick retired from active participation in the business; in 1871 he presented the University of Virginia with a twenty-six inch refracting telescope constructed by Alvan Clark & Sons, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the time the largest refracting lens in the world, and the observatory building was known as the McCormick Observatory; he married, in 1845, Henrietta Maria, daughter of John Hamilton, of Rockbridge county, Virginia; she died in Chicago in November, 1899; their son, Robert S., was secretary of legation under United States minister, Robert T. Lincoln, in London, and he married a daughter of Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago "Tribune,:" and in 1901 was appointed by President McKinley envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Austria-Hungary; Leander J. McCormick died in Chicoga, Illinois, February 10, 1900.

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      Walker, Cornelius, clergyman, was born at Richmond Virginia, June 12, 1819, son of William Woodson and Mary (Bosher) Walker. He attended the Episcopal high school at Fairfax county, Virginia; was graduated from the Virginia Theological Seminary, 1845; admitted to the diaconate, July 12, 1845; advanced to the priesthood, September 23, 1846, and was in charge of Lexington parish, Amherst, Virginia, 1845-47; He was married, December 1, 1847, to Margaret Jane, daughter of James and Elizabeth Fisher, of Richmond, Virginia. He was assistant at St. Paul's, Richmond, 1847-48; rector of Christ Church, Winchester, Virginia, 1848-60; of Christ Church, Alexandria, 1860-61, and of Emmanuel Church, Richmond, 1862-66. He was professor of church history in the Virginia Theological seminary, 1866-76; professor of systematic divinity and homiletics, 1876-98, and dean of the faculty, 1895-98, retiring in 1898. The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by the College of William and Mary in 1859. He is the author of: "Biography of Rev. William Duval, City Missionary of Richmond": (1854); "Life and Correspondence of Rev. William Sparrow" (1876); "Biography of Rev. Charles W. Andrews" (1877); "Sorrowing, not without Hope" (1887); "Outlines of Theology" (1893); "Lectures on Christian Ethics" (1896); a history of the Virginia Theological Seminary, in preparation, 1903, and many articles on ecclesiastical subjects.

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      Murdaugh, Claudius W., born at Portsmouth, Virginia, December 28, 1828, son of James Murdaugh, of Nansemond county, lawyer and legislator, and Mary Reddick, his wife, of Gates county, North Carolina. He was educated at William and Mary College and the United States, became a lawyer, and engaged in practice in Portsmouth. He served in the legislature from 1855 till civil war broke out. In 1861 he raised a company in Norfolk, of which he was made captain, and which became a part of the Sixty-first Virginia Regiment. He served until the end of the war, taking part in all the battles around Richmond, at Chancellorsville; at Salem Church, where he was wounded; and in others. After the war he was commonwealth's attorney, and judge of the hustings court, holding the latter position six years. He married Eugenia, daughter of John Dickson.

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      Sands, Alexander Hamilton, was born in Institute, Virginia, May 2, 1828, son of Thomas Sands, of York county. He studied at William and Mary in 1838-42, but was not graduated, read law, and in 1843 became deputy clerk of the state superior court. In 1845-49 he held the same office in the United States circuit court. He was a judge-advocate in the Confederate army during the civil war, and a short time before his death entered the Baptist ministry, serving congregations in Ashland and Glen Allen, Virginia. Besides contributions to periodicals, he published "History of a Suit in Equity" (Richmond, 1854); a new edition of Alexander Tate's "American Form-Book" (1857); "Recreations of a Southern Barrister" (Philadelphia, 1860); "Practical Law Forms": (1872); and "Sermons by a Village Pastor." He compiled "Hubbell's Legal Directory of Virginia Laws," and was the editor of the "Quarterly Law Review" and the "Evening Bulletin" (1859), both in Richmond. He died in Richmond, Virginia, December 22, 1887.

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      Wellford, Beverley Randolph, born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 10, 1828, son of Dr. Beverley Randolph Wellford, professor in the Medical College of Virginia, and Mary, his wife, daughter of William Alexander and Sarah Cason, his wife. He attended the Fredericksburg schools, and then Princeton College, where he graduated in the centennial class of 1847. He studied law at Fredericksburg, under Hon. John Tayloe Lomax, was admitted to the bar in 1849, and engaged in practice at Richmond. In March, 1870, he was elected judge of the seventh judicial circuit of Virginia, and was twice re-elected.

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      Cooke, Philip St. George, born near Leesburg, Virginia, June 13, 1809. He acquired his academical training at the academy of Martinsburg, Virginia, then became a cadet in the United States Military Academy, from which he was graduated in the class of 1827, and was assigned to the Sixth Infantry. For many years he was stationed at the frontier, and was adjutant of his regiment at the battle of Bad Axe river, August 2, 1832, in the Black Hawk war. He escorted a party of Santa Fé traders to the Arkansas river in 1843, and captured a Texan military expedition on June 30, of the same year. During the progress of the Mexican war he commanded a Missouri volunteer battalion in California from 1846 to 1847, and in 1848 a regiment in the City of Mexico, having been promoted to the rank of April, February 16, 1847, and brevetted lieutenant-colonel, February 20, for his conduct in California. Subsequently he was engaged in various Indian expeditions; commanding the cavalry in the action at Blue Water, September 3, 1855. He commanded in Kansas during the troubles there in 1856-57, performing that delicate duty to the satisfaction of all concerned; and was at the head of the cavalry in the Utah expedition of 1857-58, becoming colonel of the Second dragoons, June 14, 1858. He prepared a new system of cavalry tactics in 1859, this being adopted for the service in November, 1861, and a revised edition issued in 1883. In June, 1861, Gen. Cooke published a letter in which he declared he owed allegiance to the general government rather than to his native state of Virginia. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general, November 12, 1861, and commanded all the regular cavalry in the Army of the Potomac, during the Peninsular campaign, particularly in the siege of Yorktown, and the battles of Yorktown, Gaines' Mills and Glendale. he sat on courts-martial in 1862-63, commanded the Baton Rouge district until 1864, and was general superintendent of the recruiting service until 1866. He was at the head of the department of the Platt in 1866-67, head of the department of the Cumberland in 1869-70, and head of the department of the Lakes from 1870 until 1873. He was placed on the retired list, October 29, 1873, having been in active service more than forty-five years. he published "Scenes and Adventures in the Army," Philadelphia, 1856; "The Conquest of New Mexico and California; an Historical and Personal Narrative," 1878.

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      Triplett, George W., born in Franklin county, Kentucky, February 8, 1809, son of Hedgman Triplett, soldier of the revolution. In 1827 he married Pamela Head, he being fifteen years old, and she fourteen. They moved in 1833 to Davis county, Kentucky. He was public surveyor fourteen years; representative and senator in the Kentucky legislature; major in the Confederate army on the staff of Generals Helm, Hanson and Van Dorn, and afterwards chief quartermaster of Gen. Breckinridge's corps. When Gen. Breckinridge went into the Confederate cabinet, Triplett was a member of the Confederate congress from Kentucky. After the war he was judge in his own county. He died in 1884, and his wife in 1890.

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      Marye, Morton, son of John Lawrence Marye (q. v.), was born at Fredericksburg; studied law and practiced his profession with success. In 1861 he entered the service of the Confederacy as lieutenant-colonel of the Seventeenth Virginia Regiment, which was assigned to the brigade Gen. A. P. Hill, and acted as part of the rear guard to Johnston's army when it retreated from Yorktown to Richmond; fought in the battles around Richmond against McClellan, and at second Manassas, where he lost a leg, and was incapacitated from further active service. After the war he returned to his profession as a lawyer, and in 1870 was made clerk of the corporation and circuit courts of Alexandria, Virginia. This position he held till 1883, when he was elected by the general assembly of Virginia first auditor of the state, which position he held till his death.

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      Marye, Simon Bolivar, son of William Staige Marye and Mary Ruffner, his wife, was born in Virginia, June 7, 1825; graduated Bachelor of Arts at William and Mary College, then studied law and took Bachelor of Law; went to Yucatan in 1848 and served as an officer in the revolution there; returned in 1849; went to California; elected first state's attorney; removed to Oregon in 1852, thence to Washington, D. C., thence to Memphis, and finally settled in Bolivar county, Mississippi. He married Sarah Chapman, of Portland, Oregon.

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      Marye, John Lawrence, son of James Marye, third of that name in Virginia, and Mildred, his wife, daughter of Lawrence Slaughter, of Culpeper county, Virginia; was a lawyer of Fredericksburg, Virginia. He purchased Brompton Heights, which as "Marye's Heights" are historically famous through the events of the war between the states. Mr. Marye was a Whig and as a member of the convention of 1860-61 opposed secession till Lincoln called for troops, when he signed the ordinance. He died in 1868.

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      Borland, Solon, a native of Virginia, received his education in North Carolina, where he studied medicine, and then established himself in the practice of his profession in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was a major in Yell's cavalry during the Mexican war, and in January, 1847, was captured with Major Gaines. When his troop was disbanded in June, of that year, he was discharged, but continued in service as volunteer aide-de-camp to Gen. Worth, until the end of the campaign, from the battle of El Molino to the capture of the City of Mexico, September 14, 1847. Upon his return to Arkansas Mr. Borland was appointed to the senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Ambrose H. Sevier, and later the legislature elected him to serve the unexpired term of this gentleman. Having served in the senate from April 24, 1848, to March 3, 1853, he was appointed minister to Nicaragua, and was also accredited to the four other Central American states. His credentials were received April 18, 1853, and he remained in Nicaragua until April 17, 1854, then returned to his home and resigned from this office on June 30. When he was returning to the United States the authorities attempted to arrest him at San Juan de Nicaragua, im May, 1854, for interfering to prevent the arrest of a person charged with murder at Puntas Arenas He was obliged to seek refuge in a hotel and while there protesting against his arrest, a glass bottle was thrown at him by a man in the crowd and struck him. This incident was the main reason for the bombardment and destruction of Greytown, or San Juan de Nicaragua, by the sloop of war Cyane, under Commander Hollins, July 13, 1854, under instructions from the United States government. The post of governor of New Mexico was offered Mr. Borland by President Pierce after the return of the former, but he declined, preferring to remain in practice of his profession at Little Rock, and took no further part in political affairs except occasionally to declare himself an adherent of the states rights doctrines. Before the ordinance of secession, which was passed May 6, 1861, he organized a body of troops and, under the direction of Gov. Rector, at midnight of April 24, took possession of the buildings at Fort Smith one hour after the withdrawal of Captain Sturgis with the garrison. He raised the Third Arkansas Confederate Cavalry, became colonel of that regiment, and was subsequently a brigadier-general in the same service. His death occurred in Texas, January 31, 1864.

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      Garland, Landon Cabell, born in Nelson county, Virginia, March 21, 1810, son of Hon. David Shepherd Garland, member of congress (q. v.). He was graduated from Hampden-Sidney College in 1829, and from 1830 to 1833 he was professor of chemistry in Washington College, Virginia. In the last mentioned year he became professor of physics, an in 1835, president of Randolph-Macon College, remaining the incumbent of this office until 1847. From that year until 1866 he filled the chair of mathematics and physics in the University of Alabama, of which he became president in 1855. He next became professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Mississippi, retaining this office until 1875, when he was chosen chancellor and professor of physics at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He traveled through Europe in 1875 in order to purchase the physical and astronomical apparatus of that university. He was a frequent contributor to the magazines of the Southern Methodist Episcopal church, and published a treatise on "Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical," Philadelphia, 1841.

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      Brooke, Walter, born in Virginia, December 13, 1813; graduated in 1835, and studied law. He emigrated to Kentucky, where he taught school two years, and then began to practice law in Lexington, Mississippi. He was elected a senator in congress in place of Henry S. Foote, who had resigned in order to accept the governorship, and served from March 11, 1852, till March 3, 1853. He was a member of the Mississippi secession convention of 1862; was elected a member of the provisional Confederate congress, in which he sat from February 18, 1861, till February 18, 1862, and was a candidate for the Confederate senate, but was defeated by James Phelan. He died in Vicksburg, Mississippi, February 19, 1869.

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      Atkinson, John Mayo Pleasants, born at "Mansfield," Dinwiddie county, Virginia, son of Robert and Mary Tabb (Mayo) Atkinson, and grandson of Roger Atkinson, a prominent merchant, was born January 10, 1817. He was educated at Hampden-Sidney College, from which he graduated in June, 1835. He studied for the Presbyterian ministry three years at Union Seminary and two years at Princeton, Sixteen years followed, spent in active ministerial duty — two in Texas, seven in Warrenton, Virginia, and seven in Georgetown D. C. He was elected president of Hampden-Sidney in 1857, and did much to keep the college up to its ancient traditions. At the beginning of the war for Southern independence he organized the students into a company and marched to the front, but a week later they were captured at Rich Mountain by Gen. McClellan, who sent them all home under parole — a characteristic act of that noble Federal general. Dr. Atkinson met the difficulties of reëstablishing the college after the war with courage and fidelity. Beginning with four professors and one tutor, he brought the student roll from thirty-eight in 1865 to ninety-two in 1873. He was greatly beloved by his scholars. He died in 1883. He married (first) Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Peyton Hawke; (second) Mary B. Baldwin; (third) Fanny, daughter of Hon. H. H. Stuart.

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      Hoge, Moses Drury, born near Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, September 17, 1819, a son of Samuel Davies Hoge. He was graduated from Hampden-Sidney College in the class of 1839, then pursued his studies at the Union Theological Seminary and was licensed to preach in 1844. He at once received a call to Richmond as assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, and under his charge a colony soon went from that church, and organized as the Second Presbyterian Church in January, 1845. For a period of forty years this was his only charge. He ran the blockade to England during the civil war in order to obtain bibles and other religious works for the Confederate army. Among those who cordially favored his application to the British and Foreign Bible Society, was the earl of Shaftesbury, who was the leading spirit in obtaining for him a grant of four thousand pounds worth of Bibles and testaments. Dr. Hoge traveled extensively throughout Europe and the east, was a delegate to the Evangelical Alliance that met in Philadelphia in 1873, and to the Pan- Presbyterian Council in Edinburgh in 1877. In 1875 he delivered the oration at the unveiling of the statue of "Stonewall" Jackson, that was presented by English gentlemen to the state of Virginia. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary, Virginia, and declined the presidency of Hampden-Sidney College. He was associated with Rev. Thomas Moore, D. D., in the editorship of the "Central Presbyterian," 1862-67. Throughout his ministry he made numerous addresses before literary and scientific societies, and was regarded as the most eloquent pulpit orator in the Southern Presbyterian church.

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      Fairfax, Donald McNeill, born in Virginia, August 10, 1822, became a midshipman, August 12, 1837, and served under Dupont on the west coast of Mexico and Califonia, during the Mexican war, participating actively in the capture of a number of towns. He was promoted to a lieutenancy, February 26, 1851; made commander, July 16, 1862; and served on the Cayuga, of the West Gulf squadron, from June, 1862, until February, 1863, under Farragut, when he was transferred to the command of the steamers Nantucket and Montauk, of the South Atlantic squadron, in which he made several attacks on the defences of Charleston Harbor, under Dupont and Dahlgren. In 1864-65 he was in command of the Naval Academy; promoted to a captaincy, July 25, 1866; served on the flag-ship Rhode Island in the North Atlantic squadron, in 1866-67; and on the steam sloop Susquehanna in 1867-68. He was advanced to the rank of commodore, August 24, 1873; and made rear-admiral, July 11, 1880. Admiral Fairfax was in service forty-eight years and five months; of this time twenty years and four months were spent at sea, his last cruise terminating in 1868.