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took similar position in the National j\Ied- ical College ; in 1874 was dean of the Cor- coran Scientific School of the Columbian University, Washington. D. C. ; and was kter professor of chemistry in the National College of Pharmacy in the same city. In 186S he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from \\'illiam Jewell College.

Keiley, Anthony M., born in New Jersey, in 1S35; he was a brother of Bishop Benja- min J. Keiley. He was educated at Ran- dolph-Macon College, and after leaving that institution, founded the Norfolk "Virgin- ian," which he edited for a time, and also the Petersburg "Index and News." A staunch Democrat, he "stumped" for his party in many campaigns, and in 1881 was chairman of the Virginia Democrat state committee. He was mayor of Richmond for one term, and from 1875 to 1885 was city attorney. In the latter year he was nomi- nated by President Cleveland as envoy ex- traordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Italy, but the appointment was withdrawn on account of objections by the Italian gov- ernment, and his subsequent nomination for the Vienna post ended similarly. In 1886 President Cleveland appointed him to the international court of first instance, at Cairo, Egypt, a body constituted to regulate the privileges and status of foreigners domiciled within the dominions of the Turkish Sultan. The court comprises two divisions, the lower and the upper, or final court of appeals. In 1894 Mr. Keiley was transferred from the former to the latter, and served in that ca- pacity until 1902, when he resigned and took up his residence in London. For twelve years he was president of the National Irish Catholic Benevolent Union. He died from an accident in Paris, January 24, 1905.

Pegram, William Johnson, who served as a colonel of artillery in the Confederate army, was born in Petersburg, Virginia, in 1841 ; entered the University of Virginia in i860, and was a student of the law when the civil war began ; he was a member of the famous F Company of Richmond, and he enlisted at once as a private in the artillery, and was soon elected lieutenant of the Pur- cell Battery, one of the crack batteries of the Confederate army; the following win- ter he was promoted lieutenant-colonel, and at the time of his death at Five Forks, in April, 1865, he was full colonel of artillery, when twenty-four years of age; among his friends and companions he had always been noted for the modesty of his demeanor, and ir was only upon the field of battle that men realized what a master in the art of war this young soldier was ; no man of his age ever received greater commendation from his su- perior officers, and time and again he was the popular hero of his community; he fell as a soldier desires to fall, upon the field of battle, having attained the highest success which any officer of his rank attained dur- ing the war ; of him, his faithful friend and gallant subordinate. Captain W. Gordon McCabe, says: "Thus passed away this in- comparable young man ; it was his lot to be tried in great events and his fortune to be equal to the trial ; in his boyhood he had nourished noble ambitions, in his young manhood he had won a fame greater than his modest nature ever dreamed of and at last there was accorded him, on the field of battle, the death counted sweet and honor- able."

Lindsay, John Summerfield, born in Wil- liamsburg. \'irginia. March 19, 1842; gradu- ated at William and Mary College in 1859,