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of stock. He attended the Presbyterian High School at Brownsburg, Rockbridge county, then matriculated at \\'ashington College, from which he was graduated in June, 1857. He taught school in Georgia, 1858-59, then took up the study of law in the office of Judge Brockenbrough, at Lex- ington, Virginia, where he remained, 1859- 60. Having been admitted to the bar, he established himself in practice at St. Joseph, Missouri, in June, i860, but returned to Vir- ginia at the outbreak of the civil war. He enlisted in the Confederate army in 2\lay, 1861, and served until the close of the struggle, being advanced by regular grada- tion from private to lieutenant-colonel. He participated in all the battles with which Stonewall Jackson was identified, and all of those commanded by Gen. Robert E. Lee in West Virginia. At the close of the war he returned to Rockbridge. His health had become impaired by the strenuous years of the war, and as his father had died in :864, he took charge of the homestead, living there, 1866-85. In the last mentioned year, without any solicitation on his part, he was elected treasurer of the Virginia Military Institute and secretary of its board of visi- tors, positions of which he is still the in- cumbent. He served as a member of the Virginia house of delegates from Rock- bridge county, 1871-72. 1872-73; a member or the board of directors of the Western State Hospital of Virginia, at Staunton, 1874; member of the board of trustees of Washington College and Washington and Lee University, 1865-85 ; member of the Lexington school board, 1895-1901. Politi- cally he has always been a Democrat. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi fraternity, and his address is Lexington, \'irginia. He

has been an elder of the Presbyterian church for almost hall' a century.

Hardinge, Belle Boyd, born at Martins- burg, Virginia, about 1835, daughter of Dr. I'loyd, of that place. As a Confederate spy during the civil war, she performed valuable service, and her exploits made her famous. She was at one time captured by the Fed- erals and imprisoned. After the war she married a former Federal officer, was di- vorced from him in 1868, then visited Eu- rope, and on her return went on the stage. She published "Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison" (1865).

Cutler, Lizzie Petit, born at Milton, Albe- niarle county, Virginia, in 1836; was prin- cipally educated at a female seminary at Charlottesville. At the age of nineteen she wrote her first novel, "Light and Darkness," which was received with such favor that it was republished in London and translated into the French. In i860, as "Miss Petit," she gave a series of popular readings. Her published works are : "Household Myster- ies, a Romance of Southern Life" (1856) ; and "The Stars of the Crowd, or Men and Women of the Day." She married Mr. Cut- ler, of New York, in 1858.

Allan, William, born at Winchester, \'ir- ginia, November 12, 1837, son of Thomas Allan, Esq., and Jane D. George, his wife. His early education was received at a private school in Winchester, Virginia, and he en- tered the University of Virginia. There he remained until 1861, when he joined the Confederate army, in which he served faith- fully and gained distinction. His skill in mathematics attracted him to the ordnance (kpartnu-nt. and at the close of the war. after