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ness, and made his first preaching at a fort built for the protection of the frontier; es- tJ*blished churches at Marysville, and sev- eral surrounding places. In 1803 he under- took a mission to the Cherokee Indians, and m 181 1 became principal of Harpcth Acad- emy, preaching at the same time and organ- izing several churches. From 1823 to 1827 he preached at Louisville. Kentucky, and in the latter year became president of Centre College, holding the office until 1830. He then removed to Versailles, where he preached and acted as agent of the Ken- tucky State Temperance Society. * In 1833 he went to Illinois and in 1833 began to raise money for Illinois colleges, a work which resulted in Blackburn University at Carlinville, Illinois. He did not live to see its organization or the erection of its build- ings, and it did not reach higher than a col- l**ge grade. In 1805 the College of New Jersey conferred on him the degree of Doc- tor of Divinity, and Dickinson College gave him those of Master of Arts and S. T. D. He died in Carlinville. Illinois, August 23, 1838.

Pegram, John, was born in Dinwiddie county, Virginia, November 16, 1773, son of Captain Edward and Mary (Lyle) Peg- nim. His grandfather, Edward Pegram, came from England in the fall of 1699 with a party of engineers under Col. Daniel Baker, whose daughter, Mary Scott Baker, he married. Their second son. Captain Ed- ward Pegram (born about 1744, died March 30, 1816), was appointed "special com- mander" to defend his parish and county against the Indians, and thus became known as **King Pegram." He was also a captain in the American revolution and a juror in

the trial of Aaron Burr. John Pegram was a magistrate for more than twenty years, a member of the house of delegates for many years and of the state senate for eight years ; a representative in the fifteenth congress, 1818-19. completing the term of Peterson Goodwin, deceased; major-general of state militia in the war of 1812, and United States marshal of the eastern district of Virginia ill Monroe's administration. He married (first) Miss Coleman, of Dinwiddie, and (second) Martha Ward Gregory, and was the father of fourteen children. He died in Dinwiddie county, Virginia. April 8, 1831.

Marshall, Louis, born at **Oak Hill." \'ir- ginia, October 7, 1773, son of Col. Thomas Marshall, born 1730, died 1802. and his wife, Mary Randolph (Keith) Marshall, and grandson of Captain John and Elizabeth (Markham) Marshall, the former named "of the Forest;'* in 1785 his. father removed to Lexington, Kentucky, and he accompanied him, and thereafter made his home in that state; his' education was acquired by study at home, and he prepared for the profession of medicine and surgery at Edinburgh and Paris, residing in the latter named city dur- ing the French revolution, and was one of the party of students engaged in the attack on the Bastile, was also present at the mas- sacre of the Swiss guard, witnessed the mur- der of Prince de Lamballe, was arrested and imprisoned for several years, and was at one time condemned to death, but his life was saved by the strategem of the turnkey ; his brothers, John and James, then in Paris, as representatives from the United States, procured his release ; in 1800 he began the practice of his profession in Woodford county, Kentucky, and he also established

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