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with Judge John S. Pearson, of North Caro- lina, and practiced at Vanceyville. North Carolina. He was the defeated Whig can- didate for governor in 1852; was elected to congress the same year, and served from December 5. 1853. till March 3. 1855. He was a member uf the legislature, 185S-O0. Luring the reconstruction times he was ar- rested by the military authorities. Chief Justice Pearson refused to issue an attach- ment against Col. George Kirk, who held Kerr and other prisoners in custody under order of Gov. William W. Holden, on the ground that the powers of the judiciary were exhausted: but Judge George W. Urooks issued a writ of habeas corpus, and on its re- turn ordered the release of the prisoners. Kerr's arrest and imprisonment brought him into notice, and led to his election, by the legislature of 1874. to the bench of the su- perior court. He died in Reidsville, North Carolina, September 5, 1879.

Morton, Jackson, was born in Spottsyl- \ania county, Virginia, August 10, 1794, sen of Jeremiah Morton and Mildred Garnett Jackson, his wife. He graduated at William and Mary College, Virginia, 1815; removed U Florida: was president territorial council of Florida many years; member Florida constitutional convention and Florida leg- islature; general of volunteer forces in the Indian wars; United States navy agent at Pensacola; presidential elector in 1849, cast- ing his ballot for Gen. Taylor; elected to the United States senate for the term from 1849-55 » member Florida convention of 1S61. In 1855 he retired from politics and became extensively engaged in the lumber trade. In 1861 he represented Florida in the provisional congress of the Confederate

States; a member of the Confederate con- gress, 1862-65. He was a brother of Hon. Jeremiah Morton (q. v.).

Henkel, Moses Montgomery, born in Pendleton county, Virginia. March 23. 179S, became an itinerant minister of the Metho- dist Epi.scopal church in Ohio in 1819. was for some time a missionary to the Wyan- dotte Indians, and preached in that state and in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama. He established a religious magazine, and associated himself in 1845 with Dr. McFerrin in the editorship of the "Christian Advocate" at Nashville. In 1847 he established the "Southern Ladies' Com- panion," which he conducted for eight years. He taught in Philadelphia and other places, and was thus engaged in Baltimore, Mary- land, during the civil war, but was sent within the Confederate lines. He died in Richmond, Virginia, in 1S64.

Mctcalf, Samuel L., born near Winchester, V irgmia, September 21, 1798. With his

parents he went to Shelby county, Ken- tucky, and in 1819 he entered Transylvania University, Lexington, where in 1823 he re- ceived the degree of M. D. He practiced in New Albany, Indiana, and later in Missis- sippi. In 1831 went to England, and on his return made a geological tour through eastern Tennessee, North Carolina, and Vir- ginia. For several years he lived in New York City, writing scientific books, and to the **Knickerbockcr Magazine." In 1835 he again visited England in order to make scientific research, and while there was so- licited to become a candidate for the Gre- gorian chair in the University of Edinburgh, but declined. Returning to the United States, he published his various books:

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