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and served at Manassas and elsewhere, later joining the Amelia cavalry, but shortly afterward resigned, owing to defective hear- ing. He then resumed his former duties. In iSgi he was elected to represent the counties of Amelia, Prince Edward and Cumberland, in the Virginia state senate, holding the office for eight years by reelec- tions, and in 1898 was elected state super- intendent of public instruction, serving from that date until 1906. He was formerly a Whig, later transferred his allegiance to the Democratic party, and his religious belief was that of the Protestant Episcopal church. He was a member of the state medical ex- amining board, and of Phi Beta Kappa Soci- ety, at William and Mary College. He mar- ried, February 27, 1866, Rosa Hatchet.

Harvey, James Madison, born in Monroe county, Virginia, September 21, 1833; at- tended the public schools of Indiana, Iowa and Illinois, and acquired an excellent edu- cation, and later pursued a course in sur- veying and civil engineering, which lines of v.ork he followed until 1859, in which year he removed to Kansas, where he devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits ; he served as captain in the Fourth and Tenth regi- ments of Kansas Infantry for three years, from 1861 to 1864; was a member of the lower house of the legislature in 1865-66. and of the state senate in 1867-68; was gov- ernor of Kansas from 1869 to 1871, and from 1874 to 1877 was a United States senator, having been chosen as a Republican to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alexander Caldwell.

Boyd, David French, born at Wytheville, A'irginia, October 5. 1834. He was edu- cated at private schools and at the Univer-

sity of Virginia, from which he received the degree of Master of Arts in 1856. For three years he taught school in V'irginia and in North Louisiana. In 1859, when the Louisi- ana State Seminary was opened at Alex- andria, under the presidency of William Tecumseh Sherman (afterwards General), Boyd was elected professor of ancient lan- guages. \\'hen the war between the states began, he enlisted as a private, and rose to the rank of major in three arms of the serv- ice — infantry, engineers and cavalry — his first service being with the Ninth Louisi- ana Regiment, under General "Stonewall" Jackson. In 1863 he resigned, to return to Louisiana and reopen the State Seminary ; but finding forbidding war conditions, he entered the engineer service under Gen. Richard Taylor, and built Fort De Russey, on the Red river. Early in 1864 he was captured by marauders, and sold to the Fed- erals for a hundred dollars, but through the friendship of Sherman he was exchanged, and then became major and assistant adju- tant-general of Brent's cavalry brigade. In 1865 he became superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary (later the Louisi- ana State University), and for nearly thirty years was closely connected with it as presi- dent, 1865-80 and 1884-87, and as professor at intervals. In reorganizing it after the war, he kept it from falling under radical control during the carpet-bag negro domi- nation ; in 1877 secured the union of the Agricultural and Mechanical College with the university, and procured from the United States government the donation of the grounds and buildings of the historic military post at Baton Rouge. He was a pioneer of public education in the South, especially of industrial and technical educa-