Page:Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography volume 3.djvu/202

 1 68

VIRGINIA BIOCiRAPIIY

the position of chief engineer of the civil works of Kg\-i)t, which position he declined tc accept : that of chief engineer and gen- eral superintendent of the Mobile & Ohio railroad; in 1883 became vice-president and general manager of the Richmond & Dan- v'lle railroad, now a part of the Southern Railway System; in 1886 was appointed a member of the United States commission to inspect and receive on the part of the gov- ernment forty miles of the Northern Pacific railroad in the state of Washington, and the following year became general superin- tendent of the Panama railroad, and while with that railroad went to Paris, and con- cluded a traffic agreement with the Canal Company ; he presented to the canal com- mission a plan for the completion of the Panama Canal, in which he had always taken a great interest; in 1894 he communi- cated to the directeur of the canal a plan for the construction of a port at La Boca, in the vicinity of Panama, which if con- structed would tend greatly to facilitate and increase the traffic across the isthmus ; after resigning his position with the Panama ri;ilroad, he was made chief engineer of the Cape Cod canal ; was also elected vice-presi- dent, and was specially charged with the construction of the Vera Cruz & Pacific railroad in Mexico ; these positions he held at the time of his death at Castle Hill, Feb- ruary 27, 1903 ; his wife, who survived him, was the well known Virginia belle. Miss Sadie MacMurdo; children: .Amelia, the well known authoress, who became the wife of Prince Trubetskoy ; Gertrude, who be- came the wife of Allen Potts, Esq. ; Miss Landon Rives.

Marshall, Charles, bnrn in W'arrenton. X'irginia, October 3, 1830, son of Alexander

John Marshall, and great-grandson of Thomas Marshall, born 1655, died 1704; was a student of the University of Virginia, from which he received the degree of Bach- elor of Arts in 1846, and Master of Arts in 1849; ^^'as professor of mathematics at the University of Indiana from 1849 to 1852; then studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of his profession in Baltimore, Maryland; in 1861, at the out- break of the civil war, he returned to his native state, joined the Confederate army the following year, and served on the per- sonal staff of Gen. Robert E. Lee as assist- ant adjutant and inspector-general, with the rank of first lieutenant ; from 1862 to 1865 he served as major and aide-de-camp to Gen. Lee and served with him in the Army or Northern Virginia ; attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and with Gen. Horace Porter he arranged the terms of the sur- render of the Confederate army at Appo- mattox, and he prepared a general order containing Gen. Lee's address to his army ; I\Ir. Marshall wrote a book entitled "Life of (jen. Robert E. Lee ;'" he practiced his pro- fession in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1865 to 1902. a period of almost four decades; his death occurred in Baltimore. Maryland, April 19, 1902.

Duncan, James Armstrong, was born in Norfolk, \ irginia. .\pril 14, 1830. died in Ashland. \'irginia, September 2^^. 1877. His father, David Duncan, was a graduate of the University of Glasgow, emigrated to the United States, and for forty years was pro- fessor of ancient languages in Randolph- Macon College, Virginia, and at Oxford, South Carolina. James was graduated at Randolph-Macon in 1849. and joined the \'irginia conference of the Methodist