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he then became assistant respectively of Dr. William Dinwiddle in Albemarle county, the Rev. Dr. Philips at the Diocesan School, the N'irginia Female Institute in Staunton. Virginia, and with Col. Leroy Broun in Al- bemarle county, Virginia : when the civil -war began he entered the Confederate army as a private, in Mumford's Second Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and saw active service at Manassas, in the Valley campaign under Stonewall Jackson, and in the battles around Eichmond; in 1862, by competitive exami- nation, he was appointed lieutenant and then captain of ordnance, and was assigned tf. Gen. Sam Jones, then commanding the Department of Southwest Virginia ; he fol- lowed Gen. Jones to Charleston, South Caro- lina, when he took command of that depart- ment in June, 1864, and some months later was assigned to duty as executive officer at the Richmond Arsenal under Gen. Gorgas. M'here he remained until the close of the war ; after the war he opened a private school at his old home in Hanover county, but soon accepted the presidency of the Maryland Agricultural College ; subse- quently opened a school in Lynchburg, from which he was elected to a chair in the Uni- VLTsitv of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, whence he returned to Virginia to accept the presidency of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College just opened at Blacksburg, where he remained for eight years ; in 1880 he purchased the Shenandoah \ alley Academy at Winchester, Virginia, and in 1888 he accepted the charge of St. Paul's School, in Baltimore ; he later be- came associate principal with his old friend and kinsman, L. M. Blackford, at the Epis- copal high school, near Alexandria, \'ir- ginia ; in Baltimore, where he spent the last

years of his life, he was most successful as a teacher, and he also devoted much time to political and historical subjects, writing for the press mainly of the times of the civil war; he published in pamphlet form '"The Real Lincoln," a second and enlarged edi- tion of which, in book form, he was about to publish at the time of his death ; in 1874 he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from William and Mary College ; he mar- ried, in i860, Frances Ansley Cazenove, daughter of Lewis Casenove, Esq., of Alex- andria, Virginia ; children : Fannie, who be- came the wife of the Rev. James F. Plum- mer. of Washington, D. C, and Anne Caze- nove, who became the wife of the Rev. An- drew G. Grinnan, of \\'eston. West Vir- ginia; Dr. Minor died at the home of his brother-in-law, R. M. Fontaine, Esq., in Al- bemarle county, Virginia, July 13, 1903.

Draper, John Christopher, born at Chris- tiansville, Virginia, March 31, 1835. brother of Henry Draper. In 1850-52 he took the arts course, and in 1855-57 the medical course, in New York University, and then studied in Europe. He was professor of natural sciences, 1858-60, and of analytical and practical chemistry, 1858-71, in New York University, and in 1859 was professor of chemistry in Cooper Union. From 1863 to 18S5 he was professor of physiology and natural history in the College of the City of New York; in 1865-85, professor of chem- istry in the medical department of New York University; and in 1864 was surgeon of a regiment in service. In 1873 he re- ceived the degree of Doctor of Laws from Trinity College. He wrote "A Text-Book on Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene" (1866, 6th ed. 1883); "A Practical Labora-