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served in the battle of Kernstown, was put temporarily in command of the "Stonewall brigade," while Gen. Garnett was acting- president of a court-martial in Winchester, and Gen. Garnett, being unwilling to bear the responsibility of commander at so great a distance from headquarters, ordered Col. Koiner to report and assume temporary command of the same. Subsequently Col. Koiner rendered valuable service in repell- ing tjen. Hunter. He was a lifelong mem- ber of the Evangelical Lutheran church. He married, April 15, 1850, Virginia M. koiner, his cousin. They were the parents ot three children.

Norton, George Hatley, was born in W in- chester, Virginia, May 7, 1824; son of the Rev. George Hatley and Catherine (Bush) Norton ; grandson of John Hatley and Anne (Nicholas) Norton, and of Philip and Cath- erine (Clough) Bush, and a descendant of John Norton, a native of London, England, who settled in Yorktown, Virginia. He ma- triculated at Hobart College in the class of 1843, left to study law in Virginia, but abandoned it for the ministry, and was graduated at the Theological Seminary of Virginia in 1846. He was admitted to the diaconate in July, 1846, and ordained priest in May, 1848, by Bishop Meade ; was rector of St. James', Warrenton, Virginia, 1846- 48; of Trinity, Columbus, Ohio, 1858-59, and of St. Paul's, Alexandria, Virginia, 1859-93. He was a delegate to the general council of the Protestant Episcopal church in the Confederate States ; deputy to the general conventions in the United States, 1868-86; a member of the standing commit- tee of the diocese, and a trustee of the Theo- logical Seminary of Virginia, 1865-93. He

was elected professor of systematic divinity in the Theological Seminary of Virginia in 1S74, and president of Kenyon College. Ohio, in 1876, but declined both. He re- ceived the degree S. T. D. from William and Mary College in 1869. He was mar- ried, June I, 1854, to Ann Burwell, daugh- ter of James Keith and Claudia Hamilton (Burwell) Marshall, of Fauquier county, \ irginia. He contributed to current relig- icus literature and is the author of: "In- quiry into the Nature and Extent of the Holy Catholic Church" (1853). He died at Alexandria, \'irginia, September 15, 1893.

Preston, Margaret Junkin, born in Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, about 1825, daughter c f the Rev. George Junkin, D. D., a dis- tinguished Presbyterian divine and clergy- man, founder of Lafayette College, and president of Washington College, Lexing- ton, Virginia. She received her early edu- cation from her father, and private tutors at home, and she was so apt a pupil that at the age of three years she was learning the Plebrew alphabet, and from a mere child she thought in verse. In 1857 she married Professor John T. L. Preston, founder of the Virginia Military Institute, at Lexington, \' irginia. Her first contribution to the press was to "Sartain's Magazine," in 1849. ^'i 1856 she published "Silverwood," a novel which she brought out anonymously, though she was offered double price for use of her name. She was a keen southern sym- pathizer, and in 1865 brought out her most sustained poem "Beechenbrook ; or Rhyme of the War," which she wrote by firelight during the evenings of a single week. This contained "Stonewall Jackson's Way," and "Slain in Battle," and brought her wide