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      Wilmer, Joseph Pere Bell, born in Kent county, Maryland, February 11, 1812; was educated at Kenyon College, and the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia; was ordained deacon in July, 1834, and priest in May, 1838. After serving for a few months as chaplain at the University of Virginia, he was appointed a chaplain in the United States army. He resigned in 1843, and was in charge successively of Hunger's parish, Northampton county, and St. Paul's parish, Goochland county, Virginia; became rector of St. Mark's Church, Philadelphia, in 1848, continuing there till the beginning of the civil war, when he resigned, and settled on his plantation in Albemarle county, Virginia. He went to England in 1863 to purchase Bibles for the Confederate army, was captured on his return voyage, and for a short time confined in the old Capitol prison, Washington, D. C. He became bishop of Louisiana in 1866. The diocese at that time was in a disorganized condition, but he devoted himself with great energy to reconstructing churches that had been burned, and supplying vacant pulpits, and was successful in restoring the affairs of the diocese to a prosperous condition. He was classed with the high church party. He died in New Orleans, Louisiana, December 2, 1878.

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      Scott, Gustavus Hall, born in Fairfax county, Virginia, June 13, 1812. He entered the United States navy as midshipman, August 1, 1828, became passed midshipman, June 14, 1834, and made two cruises in the West Indies in the Vandalia in 1835-36 and 1839-40. He was also ff Charleston, South Carolina, during the nullification excitement. he was commissioned lieutenant, February 25, 1841, and was flag lieutenant of the Pacific squadron in the frigate St. Lawrence, in 1852-53; was commissioned commander, December 27, 1856, and served as lighthouse inspector in 1858-60. In June, 1861, he commanded the steamer Keystone State, pursued the Confederate privateer Sumter, and captured the steamer Salvor off Tampico. He commanded the Marantanza in the operations with the army in James river, was on the blockade, and had numerous engagements with Confederate batteries in the sounds of North Carolina in 1862-63. He was commissioned captain, November 4, 1863, and commanded De Soto, in which he captured several blockade-runners in 1864. Subsequently he took charge of the steam-sloop Canadaigua, on the blockade, and was senior officer at the surrender of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1865. He was a member of the examining board for the admission of volunteer officers to the regular navy in 1868; served as lighthouse inspector in 1869-71; was promoted to commodore, February 10, 1869, and to rear-admiral, February 14, 1873. He was then commander-in-chief of the North Atlantic squadron until June 13, 1874, when he was retired, having reached the age of sixty-two. He died at Washington, D. C., March 23, 1882.

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      Ambler, William Marshall, youngest son of Col. John Ambler and Catherine Bush, his wife, was born in Richmond, Virginia, July 25, 1813. He spent two years at William and Mary College and two years at the University of Virginia, and then studied law at the law school of Judge Lomax, at Fredericksburg, and for many years practiced in Louisa and surrounding counties with great success. He served several terms in the senate of Virginia, and was for many years chairman of the committee on justice, and was at one time speaker of the senate. In 1861 he was a member of the state convention and signed the ordinance of secession. He died at his estate "Lakeland," Louisa county, Virginia, August 25, 1896. He married June 20, 1855, Martha Elizabeth Coleman, daughter of Thomas G. Coleman, of Halifax county.

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      Wilmer, Richard Hooker, born in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1816, son of Rev. William Hl Wilmer, president of William and Mary College. He graduated from Yale College, and received the degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Alabama, and that of Doctor of Divinity from William and Mary College. He was made bishop of Alabama in 1862. When the civil war ended, he instructed the clergy of his diocese to omit the prayer "for the president and all others in authority," on the ground that Alabama was under military, and not civil authority. Gen. George H. Thomas issued an order suspending him, and which was revoked by President Johnson. He published: "The Recent Past from a Southern Standpoint;" "Reminiscences of a Grandfather," and "Guide Books for Young Churchmen," and many sermons and addresses. He married Margaret Brown, of Nelson county, Virginia. He died in 1902.

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      Cary, John B., born at Hampton, Virginia, in 1819, son of Col. Gill A. Cary and Sarah E. Baytop, his wife. He attended Hampton Academy, and William and Mary College, where he graduated on July 4, 1839. He taught a common school five years, and was principal of Hampton Academy (combining the ancient schools of Benjamin Syms and Thomas Eaton) for seventeen years, ending with its closing in April, 1861, on account of the war. He entered the army as major of Virginia volunteers, and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel after the battle of bethel, and assigned to the Thirty-second Virginia Regiment. Later he became assistant adjutant-general and inspector-general on the staff of Gen. John B. Magruder, with whom he served in the Peninsular campaign and the Seven Days' battle near Richmond. After Gen. Magruder's transfer to the west he was put on duty in the pay department in Richmond, and where he served till the close of the war. He was paroled April 24, 1865, and after farming for a year he engaged in the commission business. He was also made general agent for the Virginia penitentiary, from which position he was removed in December, 1868, by the military commandant. In January, 1869, he became general agent of the Piedmont Live Insurance Company, and a few months later went to New York, and was soon appointed general agent of the Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company, serving as such nearly two years. He was then for several years with Gen. Harry Heth as general agent and manager for the Life Association of America, later becoming sole manager, and resigning late in 1887. In January of the following year he was made general agent for Virginia of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and in 1883 he and his son, T. A. Cary were appointed general agents for the company in Virginia and North Carolina. Col. Cary served as treasurer and superintendent of the Democratic city committee of Richmond for six years, to July, 1886, when he was appointed superintendent of the city schools. He was a man of polished manners, and very successful in all his undertakings. He married Columbia H. Hudgins.

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      Beale, Richard Lee Turberville, son of Robert Beale an Martha Felicia Turberville, born at Hickory Hill, Westmoreland county, Virginia, May 22, 1819. He was educated at Northumberland Academy and Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, then, taking up the study of law, he graduated at the law department of the University of Virginia in 1838. Subsequently he was engaged in the practice of his profession and attained prominence in the political field. from 1847 until 1849 he represented his district in congress, to which he declined reëlection. He was a delegate to the State reform convention in 1850, and was elected to the state senate in 1857. Upon the secession of Virginia he enlisted in the cavalry service, and being promoted captain and then major, was put in command at Camp Lee, near Hague, on the lower Potomac, where his intelligence and excellent judgment were of much value. Subsequently he served under Col. W. H. F. Lee, in the Ninth Cavalry Regiment until Lee was promoted brigadier-general, when he was advanced to the rank of colonel and given command of the regiment. In December, 1862, he attracted attention and much favorable comment by a bold expedition into Rappahannock county, in which the Federal garrison at Leeds was captured, without loss. On April 16, 1863, he won the praise of J. E. B. Stuart for his heroic serice in meeting and repelling the threatened raid of Stoneman's cavalry division, and during the renewed movement by Stoneman at the close of the month, he was for a week in almost constant fighting, his regiment everywhere behaving valorously and capturing many prisoners. At the battle of Fleetwood he led the Ninth in the brilliant chargein which Gen. W. H. F. Lee was wounded and Col. Williams killed. He participated in Stuart's raid through Maryland, fought at Gettysburg, and rendered faithful service in the cavalry affairs during the return to Virginia. During the fight at Culpeper Court House he was in command of W. H. F. Lee's brigade. In March, 1864, having been stationed on the Northern Neck, he made a forced march to intercept Dahlgren and his raiders, and a detachment of his regiment, under First Lieutenant James Pollard, Company H, successfully ambushed the Federals, and aided by other detachments captured about one hundred and seventy-five men and killed Dahlgren. The papers found upon Dahlgren's person, revealing a design to burn Richmond and kill President Davis and cabinet, were forwarded by Col. Beale, through Fitz Lee, to the government. A correspondence with the Federal authorities followed. He participated in command of his regiment in the campaign from the RApidan to the James, was distinguished in the fighting at Stony creek, and toward Ream's Station in June, capturing two Federal standards; and in August, upon the death of Gen. Chambliss, was given command of the brigade. February 6, 1865, he was promoted brigadier-general, and in this rank he served during the remainder of the struggle. After the war he was elected as a Democrat to the forty-sixth congress and served from February 8, 1879, to March 3, 1887; retired to his home near Hague, Westmoreland county, Virginia, and practiced law; died in his home, April 21, 1893.

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      Taylor, James Barnett, born in England, March 19, 1819; received his early education in New York city; his parents removed about 1818 to Mecklenburg county, Virginia. After receiving an academical course, he became a Baptist home missionary, and in 1826 was made pastor of a church in Richmond, Virginia. In 1839-40 he was chaplain of the University of Virginia. Returning to Richmond, he served as a pastor five years, and in 1845, soon after the organization of the Southern Baptist convention, became its corresponding secretary, which office he filled until within a few weeks of his death, travelling and preaching constantly throughout the South. He was editor of the "Religious Herald," and subsequently of the "Southern Baptist Missionary Journal," and the "Home and Foreign Journal," both of which he founded. During the civil war he was a colporteur in camps and hospitals, and a Confederate post-chaplain. After the war he revived the Southern Baptist missions, aided in the education of the freedmen, preaching often to colored congregations, and conferring with the Freedman's Bureau in planning for assisting the emancipated slaves. He was one of the founders of the Virginia Baptist education society, also of Richmond College. His chief published works were "Life of Lot Cary;" "Lives of Virginia Baptist Ministers;" and "Memoir of Luther /rice, one of the First Missionaries in the east." When he died he had nearly completed a "History of Virginia Baptists." His wife was a daughter of Elisha Scott Williams. He died in Richmond, Virginia, December 22, 1871.

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      Jones, James Alfred, born in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, June 3, 1820, son of James B. Jones and Judith Bailey, his wife. He took the Master of Arts degree at the University of Virginia in his nineteenth year, and also took the law course, completing his legal studies under Conway Robinson, of Richmond. He was admitted to the bar in 1840, and the next year entered upon practice in Petersburg, removing to Richmond in 1857. In 1850 he was a member of the state constitutional convention; he was eminently conservative, and he did not favor the amendments proposed in that body, nor the constitution which it framed. In 1853 he was elected to the state senate. From the time of his removal to Richmond, his practice was for the greater part a practicing attorney in the supreme court of appeals, ranking as one of the ablest in the state. He was an earnest exponent of states' rights doctrines. He was a director and counsel for railroads and banks, and a trustee of Richmond College. He married Mary Henry, daughter of James G. Lyon, of Mobile, Alabama.

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      Garnett, Alexander Yelverton Peyton, born in Essex county, Virginia, September 20, 1820. He was graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1841, then entered the United States navy, was promoted surgeon in 1848, and resigned on September 21, 1850, to accept the professorship of clinical medicine in the National Medical College at Washington, D. C. In 1861 he left Washington, and became a member of the examining board of surgeons for the Confederate army, and afterward surgeon in charge of the two military hospitals in Richmond. He was the family physician of Jefferson Davis and of all his cabinet officers, and accompanied Mr. Davis after the evacuation of Richmond. Afterward he returned to Washington, and was again elected a professor in the medical college in 1867, but resigned in 1870, and was made an emeritus professor. He was elected a vice-president of the American Medical Association in 1885. He contributed to medical literature papers on the claims of "Condurango as a Cure for Cancer;" "The Potomac Marshes and Their Influence as a Pathogenic Agent;" "Epidemic Jaundice Among Children;" "The Sorghum Vulgare or Broom-corn Seed in Cystitis;" Nelaton's Probe in Gunshot Wounds," and "Coloproctitis Treated by Hot-water Douche and Dilation or Division of the Sphincters." He married in 1848 the eldest daughter of Henry A. Wise. He died July 11, 1888, at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

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      Langhorne, Maurice Scarisbrook, born in Cumberland county, Virginia, March 27, 1823, son of Col. Maurice Langhorne, a lieutenant of the Cumberland troop in the war of 1812, and Elizabeth Allen, his wife; his grandfather, William Langhorne, was a member of the house of burgesses. He was brought by his parents to Lynchburg, 1827, was educated at that city, and in 1840 began business life as clerk in a dry goods house. Four years later he engaged in a business career as a tobacco manufacturer, and continued until the passage of the ordinance of secession. He then held the rank of captain of the Lynchburg Rifle Greys, and with his command at once answered the call of his state. The company was mustered in as Company A, of the Eleventh Virginia Infantry, on April 23, 1861. He participated in the action at Blackburn's Ford, July 18, and in the battle of Manassas, July 21. In September he was promoted to major, and given command of ten companies by Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, comprising his own company and details from other regiments. At Munson's Hill, overlooking Washington, on September 29, 1861, he sustained an attack by a three-fold prepondering force of Federals, and with the aid to two pieces of artillery repulsed three assaults. In November following, he fought at Dranesville, and on May 5, 1862, participated in the battle of Williamsburg, in the Peninsular campaign. Promoted to lieutenant-colonel, May 31, he did gallant service at seven Pines in command of his regiment, but was severely wounded. Promotion to colonel soon followed, but his injuries were such that it was impossible for him to return to the field. Determined, however, to aid the Southern cause all he could, as soon as he was partially recovered, in the winter of 1862-63, he accepted command of the military post at Lynchburg and held this position until the following summer. Subsequently, having been retired from active service by the medical board at Lynchburg, he was assigned to the department of reserves, under command of Gen. Kemper, and remained upon that duty until toward the close of 1864. He was then transferred to the engineers's department at Richmond, under Gen. Gilmer, and served in that capacity in the defense of the city until its evacuation. Returning to Lynchburg, by order of Gen. Gilmer, he was paroled there in April, 1865, terminating a highly creditable military career. On returning to civil life at the close of the war, he was engaged until 1867 as an insurance agent, and then returned to his original occupation, the manufacture of tobacco, which he carried on for six years, then retiring from business.

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      Bauder, Ezra, born at Indian Castle, Herkimer county, New York, April 6, 1824, son of Joseph Bauder and Elizabeth Eigenbroadt, his wife. He was educated at Kingsboro (New York) Academy, the Pennsylvania College. and Union College, Schenectady, New York, graduating from the latter in 1847. For a time he was a civil engineer on the New York Central Railroad, and then became tutor in the family of Dr. Jacquelin A. Marshall, son of Chief Justice John Marshall. Some time after he took a similar position in the family of Mrs. Wilkinson, widow of Gen. Wilkinson, of revolutionary fame, meantime pursuing theological studies. He then became principal of a school at Port Royal, South Carolina, and also edited the "Times," of that place, and was postmaster from 1854 until the breaking out of the civil war. As a northern man, he was viewed with suspicion, and was arrested by a party of citizens and taken to Fredericksburg. At the instance of southern friends there, he was released by Judge Braxton. He was again arrested, brought to trial, and acquitted. Having lost his property and post-office, he went to Richmond, and was appointed to a clerkship in the office of the Confederate medical director, serving until 1864, when he went to Charlotte, North Carolina. There he was teacher to the sons of Confederate officers and refugees until the surrender of Gen. Lee in April, 1865. He then retired to a farm in Culpeper county, and later resumed work as a teacher. In 1876 he became headmaster of Ridley Hall, a church school at Fenton, Michigan. Three years later he returned to Richmond and established the Brentsville Seminary, which he closed in 1888, his wife having died. He afterwards became principal of Creswell Academy, in Washington county, North Carolina. He married im August, 1863, Julia A. Care, whose mother was a sister of William F. G. Garnett, and related to Muscoe Russell Garnett and Senator R. M. T. Hunter.

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      Minor, Virginia Louisa, born in Goochland county, Virginia, March 27, 1824; was educated at a young ladies' academy in Charlottesville, Virginia. She married, in 1843, Francis Minor, a relative of the same name, and removed in 1846 to St. Louis, Missouri. During the civil war she aided the sick and wounded soldiers in the camps and hospitals around St. Louis. She originated the woman suffrage movement in Missouri in 1866, organized the Woman Suffrage Association in 1867, and presided over the convention of woman suffragists in St. Louis in 1869. She was the first woman in the United States in the nineteenth century to claim suffrage as a right, and not as a favor. With this end in view, in 1872 she brought the matter before the courts, taking it finally to the United States supreme court.

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      Gannaway, William Trigg, born in Wythe county, Virginia, June 10, 1825. He graduated at Emory and Henry College in 1845, and for nine years afterwards had charge of Floyd Institute, in Virginia, and the following three years held a similar position at Germantown, North Carolina. In 1857 he became professor of Latin and Greek in Trinity (North Carolina) College, and was connected with the institution until its removal to Durham, North Carolina, in 1892. The first year he taught Greek and philosophy; and after this time Latin, adding in turn, Greek, history and French. In December, 1863, he became president pro tem., on the resignation of President Craven. With the exception of the University of North Carolina, this was perhaps the only important institution of learning that was kept open during the entire period of the civil war, and Professor Gannaway encountered great difficulties in maintaining it. The military needs of the Confederacy had so narrowed the teaching force, that he was obliged to teach all classes in Latin, Greek and French; while he also had to provide for the boarding of the students in years when provisions were scarce and inordinately expensive. In 1864 girls were admitted to the school. It managed to survive the war period, but suspended at the time of Gen. Lee's surrender, in April, 1865, but was revived in the fall of the same year.

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      Hereford, Frank, born in Fauquier county, Virginia, July 4, 1825. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and after beginning practice in Virginia removed to California, where from 1855 till 1857 he was district attorney of Sacramento county. He afterward settled in West Virginia, was elected to congress, and twice re-elected, serving from March 4, 1871, to December 4, 1876, when he took his seat in the United States senate, having been appointed in the place of Allen T. Caperton, deceased.

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      Tyler, Charles Humphrey, soldier, born in Virginia in 1826. He was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1848, and became second lieutenant in the Second Dragoons, April 25, 1849. He served in garrison in the cavalry-school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on frontier duty, and in the Utah expedition of 1857-59. On June 28, 1861, he was promoted captain. He then entered the Confederate service, became a brigadier-general, and was killed in battle at West Point, Georgia, April 17, 1865.

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      Thompson, Merriwether Jeff, born at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, January 22, 1826; was educated in the common schools. He was mayor of St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1859; was appointed brigadier-general in the Missouri state guard early in 1861, and in the Confederate army in October of that year. He was a scout and partisan officer, and accomplished frequent successes over superior forces. He was held in high regard by Gen. Sterling Price and Gen. Leonidas Polk. He recruited his command personally, and usually clothed, armed, and subsisted them without expense to the Confederate government. He invented a hemp-break, which is now in general use, and an improved pistol-lock. He surveyed the greater part of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, and a portion of the Kansas & Nebraska road. He died in St. Joseph, Missouri, in July, 1876.

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      Starke, Lucien Douglas, born near Cold Harbor, Hanover county, Virginia, February 9, 1826, son of Col. Bowling Starke and Eliza, daughter of Hon. Anthony New. He was educated for the law, but early entered upon a public career. He was collector of customs for the port of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, under the administrations of Presidents Pierce and Buchanan. He entered the Confederate service at the beginning of the civil war, as colonel of the Third Regiment, North Carolina Militia, and was the first officer assigned to the command at Hatteras Inlet, while the fortifications there were being erected. Later he became assistant commissary of subsistence for the Seventeenth Regiment, in Martin's brigade, but served at brigade headquarters as acting inspector-general, and was in the trenches and at the front in all the operations of the brigade, including the battles about Petersburg, Bermuda Hundred, and the second Cold Harbor. For a time he served as adjutant-general to Gen. J. Johnston Pettigrew. He surrendered under Gen. Joseph E Johnston, at Greensboro, North Carolina, in April, 1865. He soon located in Norfolk, and engaged in law practice. He served in the house of delegates. He married (first) Elizabeth F. Marchant; and (second) Tabitha L. Pippen.

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      Cochran, John Lewis, born in Staunton, Virginia, August 22, 1827, son of John Cochran, of Charlottesville, county court judge, and Margaret Lynn, his wife. He was educated at the University of Virginia. In April, 1861, he became lieutenant in the Nineteenth Virginia Regiment, and in 1862 was elected captain. In 1863 he became provost marshal under Gen. Longstreet, and served in that capacity until the surrender. He took part in the following battles: First Manassas, Williamsburg, Sharpsburg, Greensboro Gap, Second Manassas, first Fredericksburg, and numerous minor engagements. In 1856 he was a Whig presidential elector. In 1861 he was a candidate for the legislature, but the war forbade his service. In 1865 he was elected to the legislature which never convened. In 1872 he was elected county judge, and served for twelve years. He was a lawyer, and practiced in Charlottesville. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas James, of Chillicothe, Ohio.

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      Cutshaw, Wilfred E., born at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, January 25, 1828, son of George W. Cutshaw and Martha J. Moxley, his wife. He graduated at the Virginia Military Institute in 1858, and was a teacher in the Hampton Military Institute from 1859 until 1861, when he resigned to enter the army. In April, 1861, he was commissioned first lieutenant, and then entering the artillery arm, was made captain in 1862, and major in fall of the same year, and lieutenant-colonel in February, 1865. He served on the peninsula and in the valley, and im May, 1862, was severely wounded in the knee, taken prisoner, held until April, 1863, and then exchanged. Being unfit for field service, he was made commander of the cadets at the Virginia Military Institute, and in September, 1863, again entered the army, although his wound was unhealed. As assistant inspector-general of the Second Corps artillery, he served until early in 1864 when he was promoted to major, and given command of an artillery battalion, and so served until 1865. At Spotsylvania he was slightly wounded in the right arm. In February, 1865, he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. At Sailor's Creek, three days before the surrender, he was shot in the right leg, and the next morning it was amputated above the knee. He was paroled, June 1, 1865. In September, 1866, be became assistant professor of mathematics in the Virginia Military Institute. In January, 1868, he was appointed assistant mining engineer of the Dover Coal and Iron Company, of Henrico county. Later the same year, be became assistant professor of mathematics and physics in the Virginia Military Institute, and in 1871, assistant professor of civil and military engineering. He holds membership in various scientific and historical societies. He married (first) Mrs. E. S. Norfleet; and (second) Miss M. W. Morton.

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      Smith, William Waugh, born in Fauquier county, Virginia, son of Richard M. Smith and Ellen Harris Blackwell, his wife. Richard M. Smith was closely related to Gov. William Smith and was the governor's intimate friend as well. He improved his educational opportunities in his youth, and from his eleventh to his sixteenth year attended the school maintained by Caleb Hallowell, a Friend, in Alexandria, Virginia, an institution of high standard and most favorably regarded throughout Virginia. When his father transferred his journalistic activities to Richmond at the beginning of the war between the states, William Waugh Smith temporarily abandoned his studies and became associated with his father, reporting the sessions of the Confederate senate for the "Enquirer" and one other periodical. Exempt from military service because of his youth and his reportorial duties, he waived such freedom from service and enlisted in the Confederate States army, being twice wounded in action. He was left wounded on the battlefield of Gettysburg and was cared for in the West Building Hospital in Baltimore, being exchanged among the last prisoners before the practice was discontinued by Gen. Grant. after the war he and his father continued in the newspaper business as R. M. Smith & Son until 1867, when William W. entered the University of Virginia and his father returned to educational work. In the University of Virginia Dr. graduated in Latin with high honors, then entered Randolph-Macon College, in which his father was professor of natural sciences. He left college to become an instructor in the Richmond school of Gen. J. H. Lane, and at this time married his first wife. Returning to college in the following year he was graduated A. M. in June of 1871, and in the fall of that year formed a connection with his uncle, Maj. Albert G. Smith, in the conduct of Bethel Military Academy in Fauquier county. In the year 1878 Dr. Smith became professor of moral and mental philosophy in Randolph-Macon College, afterward occupied the chair of Greek, finally that of Latin, in which he had specialized. In 1886 he was elevated to the presidency of the college, the fruits of his devoted application to its welfare being the addition of more than one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars to the endowment fund (in addition to fourth thousand he had gained for this fund while still a professor), and the establishment of two academies, one at Front Royal, the other at Bedford City, each at a cost of one hundred thousand dollars and both under the direction of the college authorities. In 1893 Dr. Smith founded the Randolph-Macon Woman's College at Lynchburg, and from a small beginning built up an institution worthy of a great educator. In addition to his duties as president of this college, Dr. Smith retained the chancellorship of the Randolph-Macon educational system. Dr. Smith was a leading layman of the Methodist Episcopal church and was a member of the general conference that created the church board of education, of which he was the first secretary, with the powers of executive office. He was honored in 1889 with the degree of Doctor of Laws from Wesleyan University, of Middletown, Connecticut. Among his published works are "Outlines of Psychology" and "A Comparative Syntax Chart of Latin, Greek, German, French and English." He married (first) Ella Jones, of Richmond; (second) Marion Love Howison, of Alexandria, Virginia.

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      Jordan, Cornelia Jane Matthews, born in Lynchburg, Virginia, January 11, 1830, daughter of Edwin Matthews, at one time mayor of Lynchburg. She was educated at the Academy of the Visitation in Georgetown, D. C., and in 1851 married Francis H. Jordan, of Page county, Virginia. In 1863 she visited Corinth, Mississippi, where her husband was a staff officer under Gen. Beauregard, and where she wrote her poem, "Corinth." This was seized on its publication in 1865 as "objectionable and incendiary," and was burned in the court-house yard in Lynchburg, by order of Gen. Alfred H. Terry. Her publications include "Flowers of Hope and Memory," "Corinth and Other Poems of the War," "A Christmas Poem for Children," "Richmond: Her Glory and Her Graves," and "Useful Maxims for a Noble Life."