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West;" **Ne\v Theory of Terrestrial Mag- netism;*' and **Caloric: its Agencies in the Phenomena of Nature." He died at Cape May, New Jersey, July 17, 1856.
 * Narratives of Indian Warfare in the

Paschall, Edwin, born in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, in 1799. He became a lawyer, went to Tennessee in 1833, and was a teacher in Murfreesborough, Huntington, Brownsville, and for some time at Franklin, Williamson county, where he edited the "Western Weekly Review." Afterwards he taught a classical school near Nashville. During the civil war he was editorial writer for the Nashville "Press," and in 1865-66 for the Nashville •^Gazette." He published died near Nolensville, Tennessee, June 5, 1869.
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Upshur, George Parker, born in North- ampton county, Virginia, March 8, 1799. He entered the L'nited States navy as mid- shipman, April 2^, 1818; was promoted to lieutenant. March 3. 1827. and served in the Lexington, on the Brazil station, 1832-34, against the pirates infesting the Falkland Islands. He commanded the brig Truxton CP her first cruise in the Mediterranean in 1843-44, and from 1844 until 1847 served in the receiving ship at Norfolk. Virginia. He v/as commissioned commander, February 2^, 1847, and itom that year until 1850 was superintendent of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. On July 13, 1852, he took command of the sloop-of-war Levant, at Norfolk, joined the United States squad- ron in the Mediterranean, and died on board his ship, in the harbor of Spezzia. Italy. No- vember 3, 1852.

Meriwether, David, son of William Meri- wether and Elizabeth Winslow, his wife, and grandson of James Meriwether and Judith Hardenia Burnley, his wife, was born in Louisa county, Virginia, October 30, 1800, attended private schools, engaged in fur trading near Council Bluffs, Iowa; settled in Kentucky, studied law, was ad- mitted to the bar and practiced in Kentucky ; in 1832 he was elected a member of the house of delegates of Kentucky, and served for thirteen terms; delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1849; appointed in 185 1 by Gov. Powell secretary of state of Kentucky; and upon the death of Mr. Clay appointed to fill his unexpired term in the United States senate, serving from July 6, 1852, to September i, 1852; appointed by President Pierce governor of the territory of New Mexico, serving from May 6, 1853. to January 5, 1855 ; representative in the Ken- tucky legislature from 1858 to 1865, and served as speaker of the house in 1859; died near Louisville, Kentucky. April 4, 1893. ^^ married, in 1824, Sarah Leonard, of Massa- chusetts. He was nephew of David Meri- v.-ether, of Georgia (q. v.).

McNutt, Alexander Gallatin, born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, September 12, 1801 ; he was educated at Washington Col- lege, Virginia; emigrated to Mississippi in 1S28, and settled in Vicksburg in the prac- tice of law. He was in the legislature for several years, speaker of the senate in 1837, and governor the next year. While in the legislature, he secured the right of reyre- f.entation to the counties formed out of the Chickasaw and Choctaw cessions. Sergeant S. Prentiss opposed this measure, and subse- ducntly attacked him in a series of speeches

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