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the board of visitors of the University of \'irginia, rector of the College of William and Mary, first president of the Norfolk I'ublic Library and serving as such until he resigned, and a vestryman of St. Paul's Church. As a Democrat, he was a presi- dential elector on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket in i860, but in 1882 his views as to the protection of American manufacturing and kindred interests brought him to the support of the Republican party. He was at one lime chairman of its state committee, and took an active part in political cam- ])aigns. His services to the community have been many and valuable. He induced large investments of European as well as of Amer- ican capital to be made in Virginia, and established the direct trade between Nor- folk and Europe. He aided largely in the establishment of the present public school s\stem : took an important part in the up- building of William and Alary College after the war; and contributed to the larger effi- ciency of the University of Virginia. He was connected with many of the most im- portant societies and fraternities. He was a forceful and graceful speaker, and many of his addresses have been printed. Is 1899 St. Lawrence (New York) University con- ferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws ; and King Oscar of Sweden made him a knight of the Noble Order of Wasa, in recognition of his services as American consul. He married, in Providence, Rhode Island. .Se])tember 7, 1857, Sarah Ann Chaf- fee.

Foote, George Anderson, born in W arrcn county. North Carolina, December 16, 1835. He received a medical education at the Jef- ferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Penn-

sylvania, from which he graduated with the degree of doctor of medicine in 1856. Upon the breaking out of the war in 1861, he en- tered the service of the Confederate States as a surgeon, and served throughout the war, participating in the campaign in east- ern North Carolina, and receiving the pub- lic thanks and commendation of the Con- federate officer in command at Plymouth for gallant and meritorious service. He was on the Confederate ram Albemarle when it was blown up by a Federal force under Lieutenant W. B. Gushing, on the night of C^ctober 27, 1864, in the Roanoke river; and took part in the capture of Cushing's party,, of whom Gushing and one other alone es- caped. He was for 'many years a distin- guished practitioner of his profession in his native state, and was president of the North Carolina Historical Society. He was a fre- quent contributor to medical and other periodicals ; and published, among other papers, articles on "Higher Education" and on "Hypodermic Medication."

Minor, Charles Landon Carter, who was one of the distinguished educators of the state, was born at Edgewood, Hanover county, Virginia, December 3, 1835, son of Lucius H. Minor, Esq., and Catherine Fran- ces (Berkeley) Minor, and grandson of Gen. John Minor, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and his wife, Lucy Landon (Carter) Minor, of Cleve, and of Dr. Carter Berkeley, of Hanover county, Virginia, and his wife, Frances (Page) Berkeley, daughter of Gov. Jc hn Page, of Rosewell ; he was educated under his father's tuition, attended a private school in Lynchburg, and later entered the University of \'irginia, graduated therefrom in 1858 with the degree of Master of Arts;