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living in Columbia, Tyrrell county, he was elected to the medical staff of the Eastern I^unatic Asylum, remaining in charge of the male department of that institution until Alay, 1887. While in Manchester, Virginia, he engaged in the banking and drug busi- ness, was a member of the city council, and for nearly ten years he was president of the board of health. He was married, Octo- ber 4, 1853, to a daughter of John S. Cocke, of Albemarle county, \'irginia

Minor, Charles Landon Carter, born De- cember 3. 1835, ''■t Edgewood, Hanover county, \'irginia, son of Lucius H. Minor, I'.sq.. and Catherine Frances Berkeley, his wife. His paternal grandfather was Gen. John Minor, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, who married I^ucy Landon Carter, of Cleve, and his mother's father was Dr. Carter Berkeley, of Hanover county, who mar- ried Miss Frances Page, daughter of Gov. John Page of Rosewell. He was taught ii\ home by his father and later attended a private school in Lynchburg, Virginia, where one of the teachers was Profes- sor Peters, afterwards of the University of Virginia. He entered the L^niversity of Virginia, and graduated in 1858 with the degree of Master of Arts. Just before tak- ing his degree he had made an engagement t.> teach with Professor Lewis Minor Cole- man at Hanover Academy, which was pre- vented by Professor Coleman's appoint- ment to the chair of Latin in the University of Virginia. He then became assistant re- s])ectively of Mr. William Dinwiddie in Al- bemarle county, the Rev. Dr. l'hili])s at the Diocesan School, the \'irgini;i l'"cm;ile In- stitute in Staunti>n. X'irginia. and with Col. Leroy Broun in Albemarle county, Virginia.

\\'hen the civil war began, he entered the Confederate army as a private in Munford's Second \'irginia Cavalry Regiment, and saw active service at Manassas, in the valley campaign under Stonewall Jackson, and in the battles around Richmond. In I8^)2, by competitive examination, he was appointed lieutenant and then captain of ordnance, and was assigned to Gen. Sam Jones, then com- manding the department of Southwest Vir- ginia. He followed Gen. Jones to Charles- ten, South Carolina, when he took com- mar.d of that department in June, 1864, and some months later was assigned to duty as executive oflicer at the Richmond Arsenal imder Gen. Gorgas, where he remained un- til the close of the war. After the war he opened a private school at his old home in Hanover county, but soon accepted the pres- if'ency of the Alaryland Agricultural Col- lege. He subsequently opened a school in Lynchburg, from which he was elected to a chair in the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, whence he returned to \'irginia to accept the presidency of the \'irginia Agricultural and Mechanical Col- lege just opened at Blacksburg. Here he re- mained for eight years, doing much to es- tablish that institution upon the firm basis which it has since occupied. In 1880 he ]>urchased the Shenandoah \'alley .Academy at Winchester. \'irginia, where he did a hne work for years, but an e])idemic of scaidet fever and the loss of his wife caused him to It.ive \ irginia to accept the charge of St. P.-iul's School, ill I'.altimore, in 1S88. He afterwards became associate principal with his old friend and kinsman, L. M. Black- ford, at the l'pisco!)al High School, near .Alexandria. \ irginia. In Baltimore, during the latter vears of his life, he devoted much