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settled in eastern Pennsylvania with Wil- liam Penn, the Hartmans also living there, and both families had many members who distinguished themselves as privates and officers in the revolutionary war. There v.'ere intermarriages between these two families, hence the middle name of Mr. '-'able. Attending the schools near his heme for his elementary education, at the age uf seventeen years he found himself depeml- cnt upon his own resources for the continu- ance of his education, and made ihe be<t use of his opportunities. He attended a pri- vate school, and then pursued an academic course at the University of Virginia, devot- ing especial attention to languages and physics. He commenced what was to be his life work as a teacher in a private school. and was assistant in Green Plain .Academy. Southampton county. 18C10-61. For four years, however, he was a participant in the war between the states. He entered the army as a private and came out as a cap- tain. :\Ir. Kable was principal of Charles- ton Academy, Jefferson county, West Vir- ginia, from 1872 to 1883, then becoming principal of the Staunton Military Academy. The Columbian (now George Washington 1 University, Washington, D. C. conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts, for the eminent service he has ren- dered in the field of education. Mr. Kable married (f^rst) Willie L. Gibbs, who died June 10. 1888; he married (second) Decem- ber 29, 1903, Mrs. Margaret Holladay, cf Albemarle county, \'irginia.

Alfriend, Frank H., a native of Virginia, born about 1830. and educated at William and Mary College in 1859-60; was editor of the "Southern Literary Messenger." of Richmond. In 1868 he published "The Life

of Jefferson Davis," a work which has l>een given place in the same rank with Dabney's "Defence of Virginia."

Terhune, Mary Virginia (Marion Har- land), i)orn in Amelia county, Virginia, in 1830, daughter of Samuel Pierce Hawes, a native of Massachusetts, who became a mer- chant in Richmond, Virginia, and Judith Smith, his wife, of Olney, Mrginia. At the age of nine she began writing compo- ' sitions under a governess, and when she was eleven she was reading the best English authors. At the age of fourteen she was an anonymous contributor to Richmond papers, and a few months later, as "Robert Remer," was writing for the "Central Presbyterian." She was sixteen when she wrote her first novel, "Alone." and began writing for "Godey's Lady Book." In 1856 she married Edward Pay son Ter- hune, a young Presbyterian minister, at Charlotte Court House, and her next novel, "Ruby's Husband," was dedicated to him. Her published works are too numer- ous to enumerate. Of her "Common Sense in the Household," more than 300,000 copies have been sold. "His Greater Self" she con- sidered her best effort. Her "When Grand- mamma was Fourteen" is largely autobio- graphical. In 1S93-94 she visited Egypt and the Holy Land, and after her return wrote "The Home of the P.ible." She went abroad again in 1897-98. as a delegate from the American Historical Society to the Interna- tional Historical Congress at The Hague, and upon her return wrote "The Haunts of Familiar Characters in History and Litera- ture." Her son. .A.lbert Payson Terhune. is n New York journalist, and her daughter, Mrs. Christine Herrick and Mrs. X'irginia \'an do Water, arc both writers.