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ginia. on which board he served for four years. Up to the time of the war he was a Whig, and after the war he voted the Demo- cratic ticket. He was president of the Nor- folk Law Library Association, and a mem- ber of the Norfolk Bar Association, the Nor- folk and Portsmouth Bar Association, the \'irginia Bar Association, and many social organizations. On November 12, 1850, he married Anna Maria May, of Petersburg, Virginia. He died February i, 1913.

Broadhead, Garland Carr, born in .Albe- marle county, Virginia, October 30, 1827. The family moving to the west, he w^as educated at the University of Missouri and the Military Institute of Kentucky. He was a civil engineer on the Pacific railroad, 1852-57; was twice assistant geologist of Missouri, 1857-61 and 1871-73; geologist of the state, 1873-75; United States deputy collector of internal revenue, 1862-64, and assistant engineer of the Missouri Pacific railroad, 1864-66. In 1866 he was United States assessor of the fifth district of his slate. He was a member of the board of jurors of the Centennial Exposition, Phila- delphia, 1876, and special agent of the tenth census, investigating quarry industry in Kansas and Missouri. From 1877-97 Mr. Broadhead was professor of geology in the Missouri State University, and from 1884- 1902 a member of the Missouri River Com- mission. He is the author of several well- known works on geology.

Broun, William Leroy, son of Edwin Conway iln.un, of Middleburg, Loudoun county, Virginia, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1827, and completed his own education in the university of that state. He had no pecuniary advantages to

aid hini, hut his strong purpose, honorable determination and inherent ability enabled him to advance to a position of distinc- tion in his chosen walk of life. Through- out his entire professional career he was connected with educational work, and as an instructor he occupied successively the chairs of mathematics and physics in a col- lege in Mississippi, the University of Georgia. \'anderbilt University, and the L'niversity of Texas. Fie founded Bloom- field Academy, Virginia, in 1856, and re- mained at the head of that institution until the outbreak of the civil war. From 1872 until 1875 he was president of the Agricul- tural and Mechanical College in Georgia. His connection with the Alabama Polytech- nic Institute, formerly the Agricultural and Mechanical College, dated from 1852, when he was elected president. He remained only a year at that time, however, but was called again in 1884, and continued to occupy the p^residency up to the time of his death, re- taining the details of the administration very largely in his own hands. He was the executive officer of the experiment station from 1892 until 1897 and was president of the station council at the time of his demise, January 25, 1901. Dr. Broun's efforts were not limited entirely to the advancement of the institutions with which he was individ- ually connected, but reached out to larger lines of development that have been of di- rect benefit to the south. He established the first manual training laboratory in the south, and the first well equipped electrical engi- neering plant. He had a high appreciation of the value of the study of the natural sciences, and encouraged the upbuilding of biological laboratories. Flis high concep- tion of the aims and i)urposes of the land-