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Chapman were also justly celebrated, among the most popular being: "Baptism of Poca- hontas." in the Capitol at Washington; "Etruscan Girl;" "Sunset on the Cam- pagna;'* "Vintage Scene;*' **Stone Pines in the Barberini Valley ;" and ** Valley of Mex- ico.

Cooke, Philip Pendleton, was born at Mar- tinsburg, Virginia. October 26, 1816, a son o( John Rogers Cooke. He was graduated al Princeton in the class of 1834, then took up the study of law with his father, and was engaged in the practice of his profession be- fore he had attained his majority. He had, however, little love for legal ^ork, prefer- ring literature and field sports, to both of which he was devoted. Prior to his death he had become famous as the greatest hunts- man in the Shenandoah Valley. His repu- tation as a poet is a most creditable one ; at an early period he published a number of poems* in the "Knickerbocker Magazine," and was also a frequent contributor to the "Southern Literary Messenger." He was stately and impressive in manner and a bril- liant conversationalist. His only publica- tion in book form was "Froissart Ballads, and other Poems," Philadelphia, 1847. -^t the time of his death he was publishing serially a romance entitled **Chevalier Mer- lin." His short lyrics, "Florence Vane," "To My Daughter. Lily," and "Rosa Lee," were very popular. The first named has been translated into many languages, and has been set to music by celebrated com- posers. Among his tales are "John Carpe," "The Crime of Andrew Blair," and "The Cregories of Hackwood." Mr. Cooke died January 20, 1850.

Tyler, John Webb, was descended from Charles Tyler, who was living in West- moreland county as early as 1690, and prob- ably came from Maryland. He was a son of William Tyler, of Prince William county, who married his cousin, Mary Tyler, daugh- ter of George G. Tyler. He served in the senate of Virginia, and in 1850 was elected judge of the circuit court to succeed John Scott. In 1858 he was appointed a judge of the special court of appeals, created for the relief of the docket of the regular court. John Randolph Tucker says in his "Remi- niscences of V'irginia Judges and Jurists" that "while he did not pretend to extensive learning he had a strong common sense, a quickness of perception and a promptness of decision which made him an admirable judge."

Dupuy, Bartholomew, came to Virginia in the French Huguenot emigration of 1700. His family was very ancient in France, and Bartholomew was an officer in the g^iards of Louis XIV. After the revocation of the edict of Xantes in 1685, he fled to Germany, where he remained with his wife, the Coun- tess Susanne Lavillon, fourteen years. He then went to England, and in 1700 came to Virginia and settled at Manakintown, in what is now Goochland county. During the American revolution three of his grandsons, Capts. James and John Dupuy and Lieu- tenant Peter Dupuy, served in the Ameri- can army; and in the Confederate army he was represented, to say nothing of many other gallant descendants, by Dr. John J. Dupuy, afterwards of Davidson College, Xorth Carolina.

Buchanan, John, was born in Scotland in the year 1743. He was a Master of Arts of

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