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      Tucker, John Randolph, born August 13, 1857, son of Dr. David Hunter Tucker and Elizabeth Dallas, his wife, is a descendant of a distinguished ancestry, the early members of the Tucker family being among the first settlers of the Virginia colony. The home of the family in the old country was in county Kent, England, from whence emigrated Daniel and George Tucker, son of George Tucker, of Milton, in the year 1606, the line in this particular case being traced through George Tucker, who was a member of the London Company; through his son George, born in 1594, died about 1648; through his son George, who married Frances, daughter of Henry St. George, Knight of the Garter, and principal king of arms; through their son, St. George Tucker, born in Bermuda, died in 1717, married Jane Hubbard; through their son, Henry Tucker, born in 1683, died December 14, 1734, married Frances, daughter of John Tudor; through their son, Col. Henry Tucker, secretary of state for Bermuda, married Nancy Butterfield; through their son, Col. St. George Tucker, of Williamsburg, Virginia, married Frances Bland, widow of John Randolph; through their son, Henry St. George Tucker, president of the court of appeals of Virginia, married Anne Evelina Hunter; through their son, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, an eminent physician of Richmond. On the maternal side, John R. Tucker is a descendant of George M. Dallas, a native of Pennsylvania, senator of the United States for many years, and was vice-president from 1845 to 1849. He spent his boyhood and youth in the city of Richmond, and acquired his education in schools in Richmond and an academy. He began his active career as an employee in a cotton factory in Manchester, after which he was employed on the Richmond & Danville railroad, and subsequently became a student in Washington and Lee University, and during the sessions of 1881-82 studied law in the University of Virginia, and was admitted to the bar. For several succeeding years he practiced his profession in Richmond, then moved to Bedford county, Virginia, and in 1898 was elected by the legislature of Virginia judge of the circuit court, which office he held until by the reorganization of the circuits by the constitutional convention of 1901-02, he lost his position, when he again engaged in his practice in Bedford county, residing in Bedford city. He later served in the state senate, and in 1914 was appointed by President Wilson judge of the United States Court for Alaska.

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      Kent, Charles William, born in Louisa county, Virginia, September 27, 1860, son of Robert Meredith Kent, of that county, and Sarah Garland Hunter, his wife. On his father's side he is descended from Abram Kent, who settled in Hanover county, Virginia, from England, and established himself as a planter. His father was a merchant until about 1850, when he lived the rest of his life. Being past military life at the outbreak of the civil war, he served the Confederate government in a civil capacity. On his mother's side he is descended from Scotch ancestors who came to Virginia in the early part of the seventeenth century. His grandfather, John Hunter, was named after the famous Scotch surgeon of that name. George Hunter, one of his ancestors, was a surgeon in the continental navy during the revolutionary war. His brother, the late Linden Kent, a distinguished lawyer of Washington, D. C., was adjutant to Col. R. T. W. Duke during the civil war, and was captured just before the surrender at Appomattox, and imprisoned on Johnson's Island. Professor Kent was educated in the private schools of his native county, and at the Locust Dale Academy. He entered the University of Virginia in 1878, and graduated in 1882 with the degree of Master of Arts. He received that year the debater's medal from the Jefferson Literary Society, making a unique family record, his brothers Linden and Henry, having already won medals in the Washington and Jefferson societies respectively. From 1884 to 1887 he continued his advanced work in English, German and philosophy in the universities of Goettingen, Berlin and Leipsic. The University of Leipsic conferred upon him in June, 1887, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (magna cum laude). Upon his return home he was appointed licentiate for one year in French and German at his alma mater, and for the next four or five years he held the professorship of English and modern languages in the University of Tennessee. In 1893 he was elected professor of English literature, rhetoric and belles lettres in the University of Virginia. Dr. Kent is recognized as a lecturer of ability, and possesses oratorical gifts of a high order. His addresses on literature before the Summer School of Methods, have attracted scores of teachers whom he has delighted and filled with enthusiasm. He has been among the prominent lecturers at Monteagle, Tennessee; Salt Springs in Georgia; Tulane University; the V. P. I. at Blacksburg, and other schools and colleges. As author and editor he has already distinguished himself, writing upon a variety of themes and editing a number of select works, among which may be noted: "Teutonic Antiquities in Andreas and Elene" (1887); Cynewulf's "Elene" (in "Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry," 1888); "The Use of the Negative by Chaucer" (1889); "A Study of Lanier's Poems" (1891), Addresses before the Modern Language Association of America; "Outlook for Literature in the South" (1892); "Literature and Life" (1893); "Shakespeare Note Book" (1897). In 1901 appeared "Poems from Burns," Tennyson's "Princess," and the "Poe Memorial Volume;" in 1902, "Preservation of Virginia Antiquities," and "Poe's Poems," in the Virginia edition. In 1903, "Poe's Poems." He is engaged at present on Tennyson's "In Memoriam," and "A Study of Poetry." Dr. Kent has shown himself to be a very earnest and sympathetic student of Edgar Allan Poe. It is largely due to his interest and activity as president of the Poe Memorial Association that the Zolnay bust of Poe is now in the University Library. The late Virginia edition of Poe's complete works, edited by Harrison and Kent, elicits hearty praise from literary critics. He was a member of the State Board of Education, 1903-11. On June 4, 1895, he married Mrs. Eleanor A. Miles, daughter of Professor Francis H. Smith.

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      Sutherlin, William T., born on his father's estate, near Danville, Virginia, April 7, 1822, son of George S. Sutherlin and Polly S. Norman, his wife. He went from a home school to a male academy in Danville, where he was a student for three years, and then attended Joseph Godfrey's school in Franklin county. He remained at home until he was twenty-one, and then until the beginning of the war, was a tobacco manufacturer in Danville. He was mayor of that city from 1855 to 1861, and was a delegate to the secession convention. He entered the Confederate army, but his health would not admit of his doing field duty, and he was at different times commandant and quartermaster at Danville. Early in war days, he became a member of the Danville board of pubic works; and after the war he served two years in the house of delegates. He was a leader in all community affairs. He built two railroads — the Milton & Sutherlin, and the Danville and New River, and established the Danville Bank, and aided largely in establishing the Border Grange Bank. He aided in reorganizing the Virginia State Agricultural Society. He liberally aided Randolph-Macon College and the Danville College for Young Ladies. He married Jane E. Patrick.

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      Snead, Thomas Lowndes, born in Henrico county, Virginia, January 10, 1828; graduated at Richmond College in 1846, and at the University of Virginia in 1848; was admitted to the bar, and removed to St. Louis, Missouri, where he was editor and proprietor of the "Bulletin" in 1860-61. He was aide-de-camp to Gov. Claiborne F. Jackson, and adjutant-general of the Missouri state guard in 1861, and took part in the battles of Booneville, Carthage, Wilsons Creek and Lexington. He was a commissioner from Missouri to negotiate a military convention with the Confederate States in October, 1861. He became an assistant adjutant-general in the Confederate army, and served with Price in Arkansas, Missouri, and Mississippi. He was elected to the Confederate congress by Missouri soldiers in May, 1864. He removed to New York in 1865, was managing editor of the "Daily News" in 1865-66, and was admitted to the bar of New York in 1866. He published the first volume of a history of the war in the Trans-Mississippi department, entitled "The Fight for Missouri."

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      Pryor, Sara Agnes, born in Halifax county, Virginia, in 1830, daughter of Rev. Samuel Blair Rice and Lucinda Walton Leftwich, his wife; she married, at Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1848, Roger Atkinson Pryor (q. v.). She was educated by private tutors, being given special instruction in English literature, history, modern languages and music. In 1903 she published "The Mother of Washington, and Her Times," which was received with general commendation; and her "Reminiscences of War and Peace" (1904), was hailed as a delightful portraiture of the leading people of a stirring period. She was a leading member of the principal patriotic orders.

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      Tabb, John Banister, born in Amelia county, Virginia, in 1845, son of John Yelverton Tabb, and great-grandson of Col. John Tabb, of the public committee of safety (1775), and Frances Peyton, his wife, daughter of Sir John Peyton, of Mathews county, Virginia. He was educated at home by private tutors. He was a lad when he entered the Confederate army, was captured and held prisoner for seven months. After the war, he studied music in Baltimore, later entered St. Mary's Theological Seminary, was ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic church in 1884. In 1884 he published a volume containing poems he had previously written for the press. He was made professor of English at St. Charles College, Ellicott City, Maryland, in 1885. In 1889 he published a second volume of poems. His verse is characterized by natural imagery, and a refined taste. He died in 1909.

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      Magruder, Julia, born at Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1854, daughter of Allan Bowie Magruder and Sarah M. Gilliam, his wife. She was almost entirely educated by her parents and governess. She was only sixteen when her "My Three Chances" was published in a southern journal, and received with marked favor. Her first important novel was "Across the Chasm," dealing with the period after the civil war. Among her other works are: "At Anchor," "A Magnificent Plebeian," "The Princess Sonia," "A Beautiful Alien," and "The Thousandth Woman."

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      Dabney, Richard Heath, born in Memphis, Tennessee, March 29, 1860, son of Virginius Dabney and Ellen Maria Heath, his wife. His mother died when he was less than a month old, and he was brought up by his maternal grandmother, by whom he was taught until he was sent to Miss Sue Williams' private school in Richmond, at the age of seven years. He was further instructed by his father, and in 1878 he entered the University of Virginia, and graduated in 1881 with the Master of Arts degree. He taught school for a year, and was then a student of history, politics and economics in the Munich, Berlin and Heidelberg universities, and graduating from the latter in 1885 as Ph. D., multa cum laude. In the winter of that year, while living with his father, in New York, he wrote a series of lectures on the French revolution, which he delivered the next year, at Washington and Lee University, and which were subsequently expanded into book form. From 1886 to 1889 he was professor of history at the Indiana University, and in the latter year was made adjunct professor of history at the University of Virginia, being promoted in 1897 to the chair of historic and economic science. His "John Randolph" is a specially meritorious work, and he has made frequent contributions to leading magazines and newspapers. He is a member of numerous historical and literary societies. He married (first) May Amanda Bentley, of Richmond; and (second) Lily Heath Davis, of Albemarle county, Virginia.

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      Seawell, Molly Elliott, born in Gloucester county, Virginia, daughter of John Tyler Seawell (q. v.), (a nephew of President John Tyler), and Frances Jackson, his wife. She was educated at home. Her father dying, her mother and herself took up their residence in Washington City. She began writing sketches and stories in 1886; and published her first novel in 1890, and in that year took a prize of $500 offered by the "Youth's Companion" for the best story for boys. In 1895 she received from the New York "Herald" a prize of $3,000 for her "Sprightly Romance of Marsac." Her most important works are: "The Berkeleys and Their Neighbors," "Throckmorton," "Children of Destiny," "Maid Marian," "History of Betty Stair," "The House of Egremont," "A Virginia Cavalier," "The Loves of the Lady Arabella," "The Great Scoop Garvin Hamilton." some of her novels have been wrought into plays.

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      Ruffin, Thomas, born in King and Queen county, Virginia, November 17, 1787, son of Judge Sterling Ruffin, of Brunswick county, Virginia, and Alice Roane, his wife. He graduated at Princeton College in 1805, studied law, and went to Hillsboro, North Carolina. He served in the legislature there, 1813-16, being speaker in the latter year; was judge of the state supreme court in 1816-18, elected again in 1825, and was chief justice from 1829 till 1852, and again in 1856-58, after which he was presiding judge of the county court. He opposed nullification in 1832, and secession in 1860, but in the North Carolina convention voted for the secession ordinance. he was a delegate to the peace congress in 1861. The University of North Carolina gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1834. He died in Hillsboro, North Carolina, January 15, 1870. He was regarded as one of the ablest judges in the United States.

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      Whelan, Richard Vincent, born in Baltimore, Maryland, January 28, 1809; educated at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, and studied theology in the Seminary of St. Sulpice, Paris. He was ordained priest in 1832, and after his return to the United States was appointed pastor at Harper's Ferry, at the same time attending neighboring missions He was made second bishop of Richmond in 1840, and consecrated at Baltimore by Archbishop Eccleson. There were only six priests in Virginia to minister to six thousand souls, and he appealed for help to the societies for the propagation of the faith in Europe. He received a liberal response, and founded a school at Martinsburg. To continue to provide priests for his diocese, he bought land near Richmond, and erected a theological seminary. He established missions at Wytheville, Summersville, Kingwood, and Lynchburg. In 1846 he went to Wheeling, and labored as a priest on this mission. Feeling that his supervision was needed in building up the church in western Virginia, he removed there, and never returned. He built a cathedral at Wheeling, founded schools, and opened an ecclesiastical seminary in his own house, in which he trained young men for the priesthood. He attended the seventh provincial council of Baltimore in 1849. In 1850 the bishopric of Wheeling was created, and he was made its first bishop. His efforts brought upon him a heavy debt, and in 1857 he sought assistance in Europe, and obtained the necessary aid. He began a college at Wheeling in 1866, and opened several academies. He was present at the Vatican council in 1869-70, and opposed the dogma of papal infallibility, but submitted to the decision of the council, declaring that his opposition did not arise from disbelief in its truth, but that he believed its definition inopportune at that time. At the beginning of the administration of Bishop Whelan, the diocese of Wheeling contained two churches and two priests, and was without Roman Catholic schools or institutions of any kind. At his death there were forty-eight churches, forty stations where religious services were held, and twenty-nine priests. It contained six academies for girls, four convents, a hospital, an orphan asylum, and a college. The Roman Catholic population had increased from less than one thousand to eighteen thousand. He died in Baltimore, Maryland, July 7, 1874.

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      Woods, John Rodes, born in Albemarle county, Virginia, January 15, 1815; son of Micajah Woods, and Sarah, his wife, daughter of John Rodes; graduated in medicine at the University of Virginia in 1835, but abandoned practice in 1837, to give his attention to scientific agriculture, and brought large importations of English stock to his estate, "Holkham." He was an old-line Whig, a personal friend of Henry Clay, and attended many Whig conventions. He was a director of the Virginia Central (now Chesapeake and Ohio) Railway Company. He was a supporter of the University of Virginia, and a member of its board of visitors from 1867 till 1872. He died in Albemarle county, Virginia, July 9, 1885. Micajah Woods lately deceased in Albemarle county, for a long time commonwealth's attorney, was his son.

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      Wingfield, John Henry Ducachet, born in Portsmouth, Virginia, September 24, 1833. He entered St. Timothy's College, Maryland, at the age of thirteen, graduated in 1850, and was a tutor there two years. He entered the senior class of William and Mary College, Virginia, in 1852, and graduated in 1853. Returning to St. Timothy's he taught for another year, and in 1854 went to New York and became a tutor in the Churchill Military Academy at Sing Sing. In 1855 he entered the Theological Seminary of Virginia, where he remained a year, then removing to Arkansas, and becoming principal of Ashley Institute, at Little Rock. He was ordained priest in the Protestant Episcopal church, in the chapel of the Theological Seminary of Virginia, July 1, 1859, by Bishop Johns. In July, 1858, he became assistant to his father, who was rector of Trinity Church, Portsmouth, Virginia. He was rector of Christ Church, Rock Spring, Harford county, Maryland, in 1864, but returned to Portsmouth in 1866. In 1868 he became rector of St. Paul's school for young ladies. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by William and Mary College in 1869, and that of LL. D. by the same college in 1874. In that year he removed to California, and was rector of Trinity Church, San Francisco. At the general convention at New York in 1874, he was elected missionary bishop of northern California, and was consecrated in St. Paul's Church, Petersburg, Virginia. December 2, 1874, but remained in charge of his parish until April, 1875. He became president of the missionary college of St. Augustine, Benicia, and in 1876 head of St. Mary's of the Pacific, a school for girls, and rector of St. Paul's Church in that city. He was elected bishop of Louisiana in 1879, but declined.

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      Willcox, Louise Collier, was born in Chicago, Illinois, April 24, 1865, daughter of the Rev. Robert Lair Collier and Mary Price, his wife. She received her education from private tutors in France, Germany and England, and at the Conservatory in Leipzic, in 1882-83. For some years before her marriage, she was engaged in educational pursuits. On June 25, 1890, she married, in Norfolk, Virginia, J. Westmore Willcox, a prominent lawyer of that city. Her life has been largely devoted to literary occupations of various kinds, for which she was particularly adapted, not only on account of her wide information in such matters, but also on account of her admirable critical judgment and her great felicity of expression. For quite a time she was an editorial writer for "Harper's Weekly," and contributed many excellent articles to "Harper's Bazaar." From 1896 to 1903 she was on the staff of the "North American Review." From 1903 to 1909 she was reader and literary adviser to the great book firm of the Macmillans. In 1909 she published some of her essays, under the title of "The Human Way; in 1910 "A Manual of Spiritual Fortification," being an anthology of mystic poems; and in 1912 a short essay entitled "The Road to Joy." Mrs. Willcox contributes from time to time to magazines and newspapers, and is prominent in all matters connected with literature and art in the city of Norfolk. She is a member of the National Institute of Social Sciences, of the MacDowell Club (New York), and of other organizations of a social and literary character.

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      Morrison, Alfred James, born in Selma, Alabama, July 11, 1876, son of Rev. Alfred J. Morrison and Portia Atkinson, his wife; grandson of Robert Hall Morrison, first president of Davidson (North Carolina) College, and of John M. P. Atkinson, president of Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia. He graduated A. B. at Hampden-Sidney College in 1895; attended the University of Virginia, 1895-96; and received the degree of Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1903. He was a reporter on the Baltimore "News" in 1903; was with Henry Holt & Company, publishers, New York, 1904-05; and since 1907 has been engaged in historical and statistical work at Hampden-Sidney. His published works are: "Halifax County, Virginia: A Handbook," (Richmond, 1907); "Travels in Virginia in Revolutionary Times, 1776-1800," a series of articles appearing in the "Richmond Times-Dispatch," 1909, showing the opinions regarding Virginia formed by intelligent travelers, British, French, German and Italian; "Travels in the United States during four years and a half, 1798-1802, by John Davis of Salisbury," much of the material bearing on Virginia (New York, Henry Holt & Company, 1909); a re-edition of this very interesting book of impressions, equipped with introduction and a great many notes; "Travels in the Confederation, 1783-1784," from the German of Dr. Johann David Schoepf, surgeon to the Ansbach troops in the British army (Philadelphia, William J. Campbell 1911), two volumes, volume two dealing with Virginia and the south; "The College of Hampden-Sidney: Calendar of Board Minutes, 1776-1876," a documentary history (Richmond: The Hermitage Press, 1912); "Secondary Education in Virginia, 1776-1860," manuscript now in the hands of the United States Commissioner of Education; "Virginia Agriculture: 1607-1860," a series of articles running in the "Southern Planter," Richmond, 1914; miscellaneous articles in the "Virginia Historical Society's Magazine" and the "William and Mary College Quarterly," about thirty articles in a local newspaper on the "History of Prince Edward County," etc., etc.

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      Stanard, William Glover, born in Richmond, Virginia, October 2, 1858, son of Robert C. Stanard, captain in the Confederate States army, and Virginia M. Cowan, his wife, was a student at William and Mary and Richmond colleges (1876-1880). He began soon after to take great interest in the early history of Virginia, and prosecuted his inquiries by a personal investigation of the county records. He contributed many articles on Virginia families to the Richmond "Critic" and other periodicals and became known as an authority. In October, 1898, on the resignation of Philip Alexander Bruce, he was elected corresponding secretary of the Virginia Historical Society, and editor of the "Virginia Magazine of History of History and Biography." In addition to numerous articles contributed to this magazine, he has published "Colonial Virginia Register" 1902, and "Some Emigrants to Virginia," 1911. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society, as well as of various other societies, antiquarian and historical, and in 1915 William and Mary College conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. He married, in 1900, Mary Mann Page Newton, of Richmond, daughter of Rt. Rev. John Brockenbrough Newton. His address is 707 East Franklin street.

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      Stanard, Mary Mann Page Newton, born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, daughter of Rt. Rev. John Brockenbrough Newton and Roberta Page Williamson, his wife; graduated at the Leach-Wood School in Norfolk, Virginia; married William Glover Stanard, secretary of the Virginia Historical Society (q. v.), April 17, 1900. She is the historian of the board of managers of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, and a member of the Colonial Dames Society of America. She is the author of "The Story of Bacon's Rebellion," 1907, "The Dreamer, a Romantic Rendering of the Life Story of Edgar Allan Poe," 1909, and of other works.

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      Mahan, Dennis Hart, born in New York City, April 2, 1802. He spent his boyhood in Norfolk, Virginia, and was appointed from that state to the United States Military Academy, where he graduated in 1824, at the head of his class. In his third year he was appointed acting assistant professor of mathematics at the academy, and continued as such after his commissioning as second lieutenant of engineers, until 1825, when he became principal assistant professor of engineering. In 1826 he went abroad under orders of the war department, to study public engineering works and military institutions, and he spent some time, by special favor of the French government at the military school of application for engineers and artillerists in Metz, and was frequently the guest of Lafayette. He returned to West Point in 1830, and resumed his duties as acting professor of engineering, which chair he accepted in 1832, and held, with that of dean, after 1838, until his death by suicide, during a fit of insanity resulting from learning that the board of visitors had recommended his being placed on the retired list, although assured by the president that he should be retained. Professor Mahan was appointed by the governor of Virginia, in 1850, a member of the board of engineers to decide the controversy between the city of Wheeling and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company as to the proper route of the railroad to Wheeling. He received the degree of LL. D. from William and Mary College in 1852; from Brown in 1852; and from Dartmouth in 1867. He was a member of many scientific societies in the county, and a corporate member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1863. He gained a world-wide reputation by his text-books, which were used in the military academy and in many universities. They include "Treatise on Field Fortifications," "Elementary Course of Civil Engineering," "Elementary Treatise on Advanced Guard, Outposts, and Detachment Service of Troops," "Elementary Treatise on Industrial Drawing," "Descriptive Geometry, as applied to the Drawing of Fortifications, Military Mining, and Siege Operations," and "Permanent Fortifications." He edited, with additions, an American reprint of Mosely's "Mechanical Principles of Engineering and Architecture." His portrait, painted by Robert W. Weir, is included in the collections of professors to be seen in the library of the United States Military Academy. He died September 16, 1871, near Stony Point, New York.

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      Trotter, James Fisher, born in Brunswick county, Virginia, November 5, 1802; emigrated with his parents to eastern Tennessee, and in 1820 became a lawyer. He settled in Hamilton, Mississippi, in 1823. After serving several terms in the legislature, he became a judge of the circuit court, and in 1838 succeeded Judge Black in the United States senate, as a Democrat. After serving from February to December of that year, he resigned to accept a seat on the bench of the court of appeals of Mississippi, which he held till 1840, then resuming his profession. He was vice-chancellor of the northern district of the state, 1855-57, and professor of law in the University of Mississippi, 1860-62. He supported the southern cause during the civil war, and after its close labored earnestly for peace. He became a circuit judge in 1866, and died in Holly Springs, Mississippi, March 9, the same year.

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      Plumer, William Swan, born in Griersburg (now Darlington), Beaver county, Pennsylvania, July 25, 1802; graduated at Washington College, Virginia, in 1825; studied at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1826; was ordained in 1827, and organized the first Presbyterian church in Danville, Virginia, in 1827. He removed to Warrenton, North Carolina, where he formed a church, and afterward preached in Raleigh, Washington, and New Berne, North Carolina, and in Prince Edward and Charlotte counties, Virginia. He was pastor of a church in Petersburg, Virginia, 1831-34, and in Richmond in 1835-46. He founded the "Watchman of the South," a religious weekly, in 1837, and for eight years was its sole editor. In 1838 he was instrumental in establishing the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution in Staunton, Virginia. He was pastor of churches in Baltimore, Maryland, 1847-54, and in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 1855-62, at the same time serving as professor of didactic and pastoral theology in Western Theological Seminary there. He resided in Philadelphia for the next three years, was in charge of a Presbyterian church in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, in 1865-66, and became professor of didactic and polemic theology in the Theological Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina. He was transferred to the chair of historic, casuistic and pastoral theology in 1875, and held that office until a few months previous to his death. He was moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in 1838, and of the southern branch of that body in 1871. He received the degree of D. D. from Princeton, Lafayette, and Washington colleges in 1838, and that of LL. D. from the University of Mississippi in 1857. His writing were of the extreme Calvinistic school. He died in Baltimore, Maryland, October 22, 1880.

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      Trimble, Isaac Ridgeway, born in Culpeper county, Virginia, May 15, 1802. His father, John Trimble, removed to Fort Sterling, Kentucky, in 1805. At sixteen, securing an appointment to the United States Military Academy through his uncle Davis, then in congress, he traveled to West Point on horseback, and mostly by night, the country through which he passed being then little settled and infested with Indians. Graduating in 1822, he was employed in surveying the military road to the Ohio. He left the army in 1832, entered into business as a civil engineer, and was chief engineer successively of the Baltimore and Susquehanna, Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore, and Boston and Providence railroads. ON the outbreak of the civil war he hastened from Cuba to Baltimore, entered the service of Virginia, and then of the Confederacy, as colonel of engineers; was sent by Gen. Lee to construct the defenses of Norfolk and J. E. Johnston to close the Potomac by batteries at Evansport. As a brigadier-general he had a command under Ewell and Jackson in 1862, was prominent in the valley campaign, chose the ground at Cross Keys, took part in the seven days' fighting around Richmond, and in the defeat of Gen. Pope, and with two regiments took Manassas Junction, with all the supplies and ammunition there, August 27, an exploit highly commended by Gen. Jackson, to the command of whose division he succeeded when Jackson was put at the head of a corps. the day after this service he was wounded at the second Bull Run. Commissioned major-general, April 23, 1863, he led a division at Chancellorsville, and in June had charge of the left wing of the Army of Northern Virginia. His military career was cut short at Gettysburg, where, in Pickett's charge, on the third day, he lost a leg and his liberty. After long imprisonment on Johnson's Island he was exchanged in April, 1865, and was on his way to resume his duties when he heard of Lee's surrender. His later years were spent in Baltimore, Maryland, where he died January 2, 1888.