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time to political and historical subjects, ^vritiIlg■ for the press, mainly of the times of the civil war. He published in pamphlet form "The Real Lincoln," a second and en- larged edition 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. In i860, he married Miss Frances Ansley Caz- enove, daughter of Lewis Cazenove, P^sq., cl Alexandria, Virginia, of which marriage, which was singularly happy, two children survived him. Fannie, wife of the Rev. James F. Plummer. of Washington, D. C, and Anne Cazenove, wife of the Rev. An- drew G. Grinnan, of Weston, West \^ir- ginia. Dr. Minor died July 13, 1903, at the home of his brother-in-law, R. M. Fontaine, Esq., in Albemarle county, Virginia.

Nash, Herbert Milton, born in Norfolk, Virginia, May 29, 1831, son of Thomas Nash and Lydia Adela Herbert, his wife. The former, born May 12, 1805, died August 9, 1855, and the latter, born in 1805, passed away in September, 1849. The Nash family was founded in Virginia by Thomas Nash and his wife Anne, who with their servants settled in Norfolk county, \^irginia, in 1665. They were adherents of the church of Eng- hmd, and Thomas Nash received land grants in the \'irginia colony. The fourth Thomas Nash, great-grandfather of Dr. Nash, was a vestryman of St. Bride's parish in Norfolk county from 1761 until his death in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The fifth Thomas Nash, son of the foregoing, was born in 1758, and when little more than a youth was wounded in the battle of Great Bridge. He subsequently served his coun- try during the revolutionary war, and in the

war of 1812. His eldest son served in the artillery at Craney Island and took part in the repulse of Admiral Cockburn's fleet. Thomas Nash, the sixth, sacrificed himself by exposure during the epidemic of yellow fever in Norfolk, Virginia, in August, 1855. The Herbert family, from whom Dr. Nash is descended in the maternal line, settled in Norfolk county, Virginia, in 1650, and for one hundred and fifty years its men were [jrominent in public and business aflfairs. The grandfather, Alaximilian Herbert, was sent to England in his youth to study mathe- matics and the principles of scientific ship construction, and became connected with ship building, an industry for which Norfolk was noted from 1780 until 1825, and even later. Dr. Herbert Milton Nash attended the classical school of the late James D. Johnson, and the Norfolk Military Academy, pursuing the study of mathematics, under Col. John B. Strange, who was killed at Crampton's Gap during the civil war. In 185 1 Dr. Nash entered the University of Virginia, and graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in June, 1852. He re ceived clinical instruction in New York City in both medicine and surgery during the twelve months following, and began prac- tice in Norfolk in 1853. He was the last survivor of the physicians who encountered the yellow fever-epidemic of 1855. In April,

1861, he was appointed assistant surgeon of the state forces of Virginia, and attached to the post at Craney Island until May, 1862. After the evacuation of Norfolk, in May,

1862. he served with Lee's army through all the campaigns. He was disabled and cap- tured in a cavalry charge of the enemy upon the Confederate reserve artillery on the evening of April 8, 1865 — the evening be-