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and at the University of \'irginia in 1866, ^•.llerc iie was chaplain for two years. lie was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church until 1868, when he took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church. He was rector of St. James' Church. Richmond, 1871-79. and in the latter year took charge of St. John's, Georgetown, Virginia. He was chaplain of the United States house of rep- resentatives. 1883-85. In 1887 he was elect- ed bishop of the diocese of Eastern Mary- land, but declined it. He published two his- torical sermons relating to the churches at Richmond and Georgetown, and an address on "The True Citizen" (1889). He removed to Boston, where he was a prominent preacher till his death in 1903.

Fox, Luther Augustine, D. D., born at Randleman, Randolph county. North Caro- lina, August 3, 1843, son of Alfred J. Fox, a minister of the gospel, and his wife, Lydia Fox ; and a descendant of David Fox, a native of Germany, who came to this coun- try in 1750, and took up his residence in North Carolina. His early life was the usual one of a country lad. After proper preparation he became a student at Roanoke College, Virginia, from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1868. Not long afterward, he entered upon his duties as a minister of the Lutheran church in North Carolina, and subsequently served churches in Roanoke, Virginia ; Strouds- burg, Pennsylvania, and Waynesboro, Vir- ginia. He was elected professor of philoso- phy at Roanoke College in 1882, devoting his energies to the duties of this position up to the present time. He was also acting president of the college for many years, the president himself being called away by oHier

duties, and this institution conferred upon him the honorary degrees of Master of Arts and of Doctor of Divinity. He has achieved a reputation as an author, his work, entitled "Evidences of a Future Life," earning espe- cial commendation, as did also his articles appearing in the "Lutheran Quarterly." Dr. Fox married, September 9, 1869, Etta Gloss- brenner, daughter of Bishop J. J. Gloss- brenner.

Brown, Alexander, born at Glenmore,

Nelson county, \ irginia, September 5, 1843, and died at his home in the same county, August 25. 1906, son of Robert Lawrence Brown and Sarah Cabell Callaway, his wife. The Browns have only been in .\merica about a century, the grandfather of the sub- ject of this sketch, also Alexander Brown. coming from Perth, Scotland, in 1811, and settling in Williamsburg, \'irginia. Robert L. Brown was a farmer and teacher, a man ot high literary attainments, who at the commencement of the civil war, abandoned his peaceful pursuits and joined the Con- federate army, in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant. The earliest American an- cestor of Alexander Brown in the maternal line was Dr. \\'illiam Cabell, an eminent surgeon in his day. born in luigland, who acquired lands in what are now Nelson, .Xniherst, Aj)pomattox and Buckingham counties. He held many oflices of public trust and responsibility, and four of his sons achieved eminence, the eldest. Colonel Wil- liam Cabell, of Union Hill, becoming the great-grandfather of .Alexander Brown, the subject of this sketch. The early tuition of .Alexander Brown was acquired under his father and the late Horace W.Jones, an emi- nent tc;icluT of the past half century, and