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journals here and abroad ; he published an edition of the "Clouds," of Aristophanes in 1S85 ; and of the "Antigone," of Sophocles in 1891. Prof. Humphreys married. May 3, 1887, Louise F. Garland, daughter of Dr. Landon C. Garland, late chancellor of Van- (lerbilt University.

Jones, Maryus, born in Gloucester county, Virginia, July 8, 1844, son of Catesby Jones and Mary Ann Brooke Pollard, his wife, and descended from Capt. Roger Jones, who, coming to Virginia with Lord Cul- peper, was captain of a sloop of war for the suppression of piracy and unlawful trading in Virginia waters. He was the youngest cliild of his father by the second marriage and acquired his early education in the country schools in the vicinity of his home, was then prepared for college at Newnig- ton Academy, after which he matriculated at Randolph-Macon College, but left this insti- tution in 1861 at the outbreak of the civil war. He enlisted in Company D, Twenty- fourth Regiment. Virginia Cavalry, and was actively engaged in a number of battles, a notable one being the charge at Samaria Church, June 24, 1864, where the entrench- ments of the enemy were carried by assault ; another well known engagement was the battle at Darbytown Heights, July 2"], 1864; he had the misfortune to be captured by the enemy, and was not set at liberty until the close of the war, but was advanced to the rank of sergeant while still a prisoner. After the war he attended lectures at the Univer- sity of Virginia and in 1868 commenced teaching school, and while following this occupation for four years studied law. He was admitted to the Gloucester county bar in 1872, and at once established himself in

the practice of his profession, was elected commonwealth's attorney of the county in 1879, and was the incumbent of this office, by repeated re-elections for a period of six- teen years. He removed to Newport News i.i 1899, and became mayor of that city. Mr. Jones married, December 10, 1873, Mary Armistead Catlett, and they have had four children.

Stubbs, William Carter, son of Jefiferson Washington Stubbs, was born in Gloucester county. Virginia, December 7, 1846. was schooled by private tutors and studied at William and Mary College in i860. The war suspended the college exercises and Mr. Stubbs graduated at Randolph-Macon Col- lege. Served throughout the war afterwards in a company called "The Partisan Rangers," commanded by Capt. Thomas C. Clopton. which afterwards became Company D of the Twenty-fourth Virginia Cavalry. After the war studied at the University of Vir- ginia, and in 1869 was professor in East Alabama College and in 1872 was made pro- fessor of chemistry in the Alabama .Agri- cultural and Mechanical College. In 1878 was made state chemist of Alabama. In 1885 was called to Louisiana to take charge of a sugar experiment station ; was elected by the Louisiana legislature, state chemist, and in 1887 became director of the north Louisi- ana experiment station at Calhoun, Louisi- ana. In 1892 was authorized to conduct a geo- logical survey of the state, and was given charge of the Audubon Sugar School. Has published many reports and pamphlets upon agricultural topics and the manufacture of sugar. In 1900 was commissioned by Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, to \ isit the Hawaiian Islands and make report.