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lliat in the course of time tiiey were elabor- ated into "Old Times Down South," a col- lection of songs and stories depicting ne- groes and their masters before the war. Mr. Miller has delivered these semi-lectures more than twenty-five hundred times, ap- pearing in almost all the states of the Union. Mr. Miller married, November 29, 1871, Maude Lee Withers.

Dunlop, James Nathaniel, born in Rich- mond, Virginia. August 24, 1844, son of J.imes and Ann Dent (McCrae) Dunlop, his ancestry being Scotch-Irish ; attended schools of David Turner and Dr. Gessner Harrison, as also the military school of the University of Virginia, and became a mem- ber of Powhatan Troop, was with the Con- federate army at the surrender at Appomat- tox ; studied law at the University of Vir- ginia, and began to practice in 1867; elected to legislature from Richmond in 1883, was re-elected in 1885, leading the Democratic ticket by a handsome majority. He was a •fine orator and in 1885 electrified the con- vention that nominated Fitzhugh Lee. On March 21, 1876, he married Elizabeth Lewis C arrington ; children : Maria Louise, be- came the wife of Hampton D. Ewing, of New York; Ann Dent, Elizabeth Lewis, Jnmes Nathaniel, and William Carrington. He died June 28, 1888.

Ezekiel, Moses Jacob, was born at Rich- mond, Virginia, October 28, 1844, and is of Hebrew parentage. At an early age he manifested his talent by painting panoromas. He entered the \'irginia Military Institute, at Lexington, in 1861, and was graduated from that institution in 1866, after serving in the Confederate army, 1864-65. For a

time he then assisted his father in the latter's dry goods store, but a portion of each day was devoted to the study of art, and at this time some notable paintings left his brush, among them "The Prisoner's Wife."' He soon gave his attention more especially to sculpture, and produced "Cain, or the Offer- ing Rejected," an ideal bust that showed great dramatic talent. He studied anatomy in the Medical College of Virginia, removed to Cincinnati in 1868, and in 1869 went to Ber- lin, Germany. In 1872 he modeled the colos- sal bust of Washington, now in Cincinnati, which gained him admission to the Society of Artists of Berlin. In 1873 he won the Alichael Beer prize, which had never before been awarded to a foreigner. In 1874, the Jewish secret order of Sons of the Covenant, commissioned him to execute a group en- titled "Religious Liberty," for the Centen- nial Exhibition. This was iniveiled in Fair- mount Park, Philadelphia, November 30. 1876, and now stands in front of Horticul- tural Hall. He was afterward commis- sioned to execute statues for the outside nichesof the Corcoran Art Gallery, at Wash- ington, D. C. Since 1886 his subjects have been mainly ideal. Among his works are busts of Liszt and Cardinal Hohenlohe ; a statuette of "Industry," 1868; reliefs of Schiller and Goethe, 1870; bas-relief por- traits of Farragut, 1872, and Robert E. Lee, 1S73; "Pan and Amor," a bas-relief, 1875, "Fountain of - Neptune," Netturno, Italy, 1884; a bron.^e medallion of William W. Corcoran for his gallery in W'ashington, ]886; and a group entitled "Art and Nature," in Frankfort, Germany, 1887. He received the Cavalier's cross of merit for art and science, with a diploma from the grand duke of Saxe-Meiningen, in 1887.