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"Satan;" a libretto; a number of books for children, and many short poems. He died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 20, 1892.

Joynes, Levin Smith, born in Accomac county, Virginia, May 13, 1819, son of Judge William Thomas Joynes, of the Virginia court of appeals. He was educated in the private schools of his neighborhood, and en- tered Washington College, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1835. He tlien entered the University of Virginia, and was graduated therefrom in 1839 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. After leaving the university, he traveled abroad and studied in Paris and Dublin, and upon his return home began the practice of his profession in his native county. In 1844 he removed to Baltimore, and in 1846 was elected professor of physiology and medical jurisprudence in the Franklin Medical Col- lege of Philadelphia. In 1849 he returned to Accomac county, Virginia, and in 1855 was elected professor of medicine at the Medi- cal College of Richmond. In 1857 he was elected dean of the faculty of that college, which position he held until 1871, when he resigned and was elected emeritus profes- sor. In 1872 he was made secretary of the state board of health, a position in which he did much towards the putting of the board of health upon a successful basis. Dr. Joynes was a learned physician and en- joyed an extensive practice in the city of his adoption. He contributed constantly to the medical journals of his day. He died in Richmond, January 18, 1881.

Jones, Tiberius Gracchus, born in Pow- hatan county. Virginia, in 1819, son of Wood Jones, of Nottoway county, Virginia, and

his wife, Elizabeth Trent (Archerj Jones, the former named a kinsman of John Win- ston Jones, speaker of the house of repre- sentatives, and the latter a member of the v.ell-known Virginia family of Archer. After completing his preparatory education, he entered Richmond College, and in 1842 m.atriculated at the University of Virginia, where he remained for one session, then became a student at William and Mary Col- lege, where he received the honor, which, he had also received at the University of \irginia, of being the valedictory orator of the literary society. He held many posi- tions of responsibility and was regarded as a strong preacher, a learned writer and a sound thinker. He was elected president cl Wakeforest College. North Carolina, and of Mercer College, Georgia, which positions he declined, and he was also elected presi- dent of Richmond College. Among his well known works are: "The Duties of Pastors to Churches," and the "Great Misnomer, the Lord's Supper Called the Communion." At the time of his death he was a resident i>f Nashville. Tennessee.

Dabney, Robert Lewis, was born in Louisa county, Virginia. March 5, 1820. He studied at Hampden-Sidney College and later graduated from the University of Vir- ginia in 1842. He taught for two years and then entered the Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, was licensed to preach, in 1846, ordained by the Lexington Pres- bytery in July, 1847, and became pastor of Tinkling Spring Church in Augusta county, Virginia, where he remained for six years. In 1853 he accepted the professorship of church history in Union Seminary, Virginia, and remained until 1883, except during the