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United States navy from the District of Columbia in 1811. and during the second war with Great liritain was in several naval e!ij;ragenients. In 1S17 he was commission- ed lieutenant: in 1837. commander: and in 1844 was promoted to captain. When the civil war broke out he took sides with the Xortli. and remained in service until July 1(1, 1862. was then commissioned commo- dore, placed upon the invalid list, and after the war closed was placed upon the retired list.

Jameson, John, son of Captain Thomas Jameson, of Orange county, X'irginia. served in the revolution : was captain of the \'ir- ginia regiment of dragoons. June 16, I77<">; major. First Continental Dragoons, March I. 1777: transferred to the Second Conti- nental Dragoons. April 7, 1777: wounded near Valley Forge. January 21, 1778: lieu- tenant-colonel. August 1, 1779, and served to the close of the war. He was the officer to whom the unfortunate Major John An- dre was delivered in 1780, after concerting with Benedict Arnold for the surrender of West Point.

Fitzgerald, James H,, born in Cumber- land county, \'irginia. He was liberally educated, and inherited an ample estate. Early in life he represented his county in the house of delegates. He married a daugh- of Francis Thornton, and took up his resi- dence at the falls of the Rappahannock river, near Fredericksburg. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church, a trustee of Hampden-Sidney College, a director of Union Theological Seminary, president of the central board of foreign missions, and a helper in all good works. The church at Fredericksburg attained to a place of com-

manding importance, largely through his instrumentality, and in him the church at Warrenton ever had a firm friend and gen- erous helper. Failing health induced him to visit France, with his wife, in 185 1, and on May 6, 1852. he passed away in Paris.

Leavenworth, Abncr Johnson, born in Waterbury, Connecticut. July 2, 1803: grad- uated at Amherst College in 1825 : studied theology at Andover, Massachusetts, and was licensed as a Congregationalist preach- er. After holding charges at Orange and Bristol. Connecticut, he became pastor of the Young Ladies* Seminary at Charlotte, Xorth Carolina. In 1838 he removed to Warrenton, \irginia. where he took charge of a school until he was called to a Presby- terian church at Petersburg, \'irginia. in 1840. Resigning in 1844. he became prin- cipal and proprietor of the Leavenworth .Academy and Collegiate Seminary for Young Ladies. He was corresponding sec- retary of the Virginia Education Associa- tion, which he was largely instrumental in founding. He died in Petersburg, Virginia. February 12, 1869.

Gholson, William Yates, born in Bruns- wick county, Virginia, December 25, 1807, son of Thomas and Ann (Yates) Gholson, and a cousin of Judge Samuel J. Gholson. He was graduated at the College of Xew Jersey in 1825, studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced his profession in Mississippi. He removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1845, 2md at once took a leading place at the bar. With Bellamy Storer, Sr., and Oliver ^L Spencer he was appointed judge of the superior court, and the three probably were never surpassed. He was afterward supreme judge of the state for

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