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Rh men." He was appointed judge of the U. S. dis- trict court of Virginia in 1789, but declined to serve, and did not hold office again. In 17(38. when a rupture with France was imminent, he published a pamphlet in which he protested against "war with a sister republic." Pendleton county, Va., is named in his honor. Washington Irving said of him : " He was schooled in public life, a veteran in council, with native force of intellect, and habits of deep reflection." — His nephew, Henry, jurist, b. in Culpeper county. Va., in 1750; d. in Green- ville district, S. C, 10 .Jan., 1789, was educated in Virginia. With his brother Nathaniel he joined the Culpeper minute men, the first patriot regi- ment that was organized in the south. At the close of the war he settled in South Carolina, and was elected a judge of the law court. He origi- nated the county-court act of South Carolina, which was passed on 17 March, 1785. He was one of the three judges that were appointed to revise the laws of the state in the same year, and a mem- ber of the Constitutional convention in 1788. Pen- dleton county, S. C, is named in his honor. — Ed- mund's nephew, Nathaniel, jurist, b. in Culpeper county, Va., in 1756 ; d. in New York city, 20 Oct., 1821, entered the Revolutionary army at nineteen years of age, served with the rank of major on the staff of Gen. Nathanael Greene, and received the thanks of congress for his gallantry at Eutaw. He afterward settled in Georgia, studied law, and became U. S. district judge. Washington sug- gested his name for the office of secretary of state, but the proposition was opposed by Alexander Hamilton, who said of him : " Judge Pendleton writes well, is of respectable abilities, and a gen- tleman-like, smooth man, but I fear he has been somewhat tainted with the prejudices of Mr. Jef- ferson and Mr. Madison." Later they became per- sonal friends, and Mr. Pendleton acted as Hamil- ton's second in his duel with Aaron Burr. Mr. Pendleton was a delegate to the convention that framed the constitution of the United States in 1787, but, not being present on the last day of its proceedings, failed to sign. He removed to New York city in 1796, married Susan, daughter of Dr. John Bard, of New York, attained to eminence at the bar, and became a judge of Dutchess county. — His son, Nathaniel Greene, congressman, b. in Savannah, Ga., in August, 1793; d. in Cincin- nati, Ohio, 16 June, 1861, removed with his father to New York city in 1776, was gradu- ated at Columbia in 1813, and the same year joined the army as aide to his kinsman. Gen. Edmund Pendle- ton Gaines, serving till the close of the war. He removed to Ohio in 1818, settled in the prac- tice of law, was a member of the state senate in 1825-'6, and in 1840 was elected to congress voluntary retirement in 1843. He then resumed his profession, in which he continued until his death. — Nathaniel Greene's son, (xeorge Hunt, senator, b. in Cincin- nati, Ohio, 25 July, 1825 ; d. in Brussels, Belgium, Nov., 1889, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati. He was a meniVier of the state senate in 1854-'5, and was elected to Congress as a Democrat in 1856, serving till 1865. He was a member of the committee on military affairs dur- ing each term, and in the 38th congress served on the committee of ways and means, and as chair- man of the special committee on admitting mem- bers of the cabinet to the floor of the house of representatives. He was nominated for the vice- presidency on the ticket with George B. McClellan for president in 1864. He was a member of the Philadelphia loyalist convention in 1866, an un- successful candidate for governor of Ohio in 1869, and in the same year became president of the Ken- tucky railroad company. He was elected U. S. senator in 1878, and during his senatorial service he was chairman of the committee on civil-service reform, and as such, on 26 June, 1882, introduced a resolution that instructed the committee "to in- quire whether any attempt is being made to levy and collect assessments for political partisan pur- poses from any employes of the government." In 1846 he married Alice, daughter of Francis Scott Key. At the expiration of his term, in 1885. he was appointed by President Cleveland U. S. minister to Germany. — Edmund's great nephew, William Nelson, soldier, b. in Richmond, Va., 26 Dec, 1809 ; d. in Lexington, Va., 15 Jan., 1883, was gradu- ated at the IT. S. military academy in 1830, served as assistant professor of mathematics there in 1831-'2, and the next* year resigned to become pro- fessor of mathematics in Bristol college, Tenn. He was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episco- pal church in 1837, priest in 1838, and the next year established the Episcopal high-school in Alex- andria, Va., and became its principal. In 1853 he accepted the charge of the church in Lexington. He joined the Confederate army as captain of ar- tillery in 1861, was made colonel the same year, and shortly afterward appointed chief of artillery to the Army of the Shenandoah. He was com- missioned brigadier-general in March, 1862, and, with three exceptions, participated in every battle that was fought by the Army of Northern Virginia from the first battle of Bull Run to Appomattox, where, with Gen. John B. Gordon and Gen. James Longstreet, he was appointed to negotiate the terms of surrender. He then returned to his charge in Lexington, which he had continued to hold during the civil war, and so remained until his death. He was largely instrumental in building the Lee memorial church in that town. He received the degree of D. D. from Alexandria theological seminary in 1868. Dr. Pendleton published "Sci- ence a Witness for the Bible " (London, 1860). His only son, Alexander S., served on Gen. " Stone- wall " Jackson's staff until his death, and subse- quently as adjutant-general to Gen. Jubal A. Early and Gen. Richard S. Ewell. He was killed at Fisher's Hill. Va., 22 Sept., 1864.

PENDLETON, Edmund Monroe, chemist, b. in Eatonton, Ga., 19 March, 1815; d. in Atlanta, Ga., 26 Jan., 1884. He was graduated at the Medical college of the state of South Carolina in 1837, and then practised his profession in Warrenlon and Sparta, Ga., for many years. On the organization of Oglethorpe medical college. Savannah, he was elected professor of surgery, but declined the appointment on account of his health. He then turned his attention to agriculture, w^as the originator of the Pendleton formulas for fertilizers, which have long been successfully used, and was the first to employ animal matter and cotton-seed meal in the manufacture of fertilizers. Dr. Pendle-