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Barbour, John Strode, Jr., son of John S. Harbour (q. v.) and Eliza A. Byrne, his wife, born in Culpeper county, Virginia, in 1819; was educated in private schools, and at the University of Virginia, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1842. He began law practice in his native county, and became greatly interested in railroad development, and was president of the Virginia Midland Railroad Company. He was elected to the house of delegates in 1847. ^"d was reelected four times. He was remarkable for his power of organization, and the great work for which he is remem- bered in his native state is. when as chair- man of the Democratic organization he ac- cc.mplished the overthrow of the Mahone regime. He was elected as a Democrat to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth and forty- ninth congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1887). He was a delegate at large in the Democratic national conventions of 1884 and 1888, and member of the Democratic national committee, 1884-1892. He was elected to the United States Senate, and served from March 4, 1889, until his death in Washington City, May 14, 1892.

Bowden, Lemuel Jackson, born in Wil- liamsburg. Virginia, January ]6, 1815; was graduated from William and Mary College, Williamsburg; studied law, and engaged in practice. He was a member of the state legislature for three terms ; was member of the Virginia constitutional conventions of 1849 and 1851 ; in 1861 was a presidential elector. He was elected to the United

States senate by the so-called Virginia legis- lature at Alexandria, and served from March 3. 1863, until his death, in Washington City, January 2, 1864.

Carlile, John Snyder, ( q. v.).

Daniel, John Warwick, born in Lynch- burg. Virginia, September 5, 1842, son of William Daniel (q. v.), judge of the supreme court of appeals, and grandson of William Daniel, judge of the general court of Vir- ginia. He was educated at private schools, and at the old Lynchburg College, where he was an industrious student, and gave evidence of fine oratorical powers. When the civil war opened, he. in his nine- teenth year, entered the Confederate pro- visional army as second lieutenant and drillmaster in the Stonewall brigade, and he was soon given the same rank in the famous Eleventh Virginia Regiment, and was made adjutant. Later he was promoted to major, and served as chief-of-stafif to Gen. Jubal A. Early. His three years of active service were marked by devotion to duty and gallant conduct. He was four times wounded, and he received an almost fatal injury on May 6, 1864, during the battle of the Wilderness. He was unhorsed by a volley from the enemy, a large femoral vein was opened, and his thigh bone shat- tered. Timely assistance saved him from bleeding to death, but he was crippled for life, and he used crutches ever after. He now entered the University of Virginia, where for a year he studied law, carrying