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Dclaivarc. of the Mediterranean squadron, in 1829-30; was promoted passed midshipman, June 4, 1831, and commissioned as lieuten- ant, February 9, 1837. He served on the United States steamer Mississippi, of the home squadron, during the Mexican war. On September 14, 1855, he was made com- mander. In 1862 he commanded the steamer Michigan, on the lakes. After the war he was placed in command of the receiving ship Vermont, and of the naval rendezvous at San Francisco. He was commissioned commodore and placed on the retired list on April 4, 1867. He died November 24, 1870, at Brooklyn, New York.

Campbell, John Lyle, born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, December 7, 1818; gradu- ated at Washington College (now Washing- ton and Lee) in 1843. O" leaving college he became assistant in the academy at Staunton, Virginia, and afterwards had charge of a similar institution in Richmond, Kentucky. In 1851 he was called to the chair of chemistry and geology at Washing- ton College, an office which he occupied iMitil his death. He was a recognized au- thority on the geology of Virginia, and wrote reports on that subject as well as frequent contributions to the scientific jour- nals. Among his larger works were: "Geol- ogy and Mineral Resources of the James River Valley" (1882), and "Campbell's Agri- culture ; A Manual of Scientific and Prac- tical Agriculture for the School and Farm" (Philadelphia, 1850). He died February 2, 1886, at Lexington, Virginia.

Armstrong, George Dodd, born in Mend- ham, New Jersey, September 15, 1813. He graduated at Princeton in 1832, was a teacher for over three vears, and then entered

the Union Theological Seminary in Prince Edward county, Virginia. Two years later he became professor of chemistry and me- chanics in Washington College (now Wash- ington and Lee University), Lexington. In 1 85 1 he resigned his professorship and took charge of a church in Norfolk. The degree Of S. T. D. was conferred on him by the college of William and Mary in 1854. He contributed from an early age to period- icals, and published "The Christian Doctrine of Slavery" (New York, 1857) ; "Scriptural Examination of the Doctrine of Baptism," and "The Theology of Christian Experi- ence" (1857); "The Summer of the Pesti- lence ; A History of the Ravages of the Yel- low Fever in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1855" (Philadelphia, 1857); "Sacraments of the New Testament" (1880); and "The Books of Nature and Revelation Collated" (1886).

Battelle, Gordon, born in Newport. Ohio, November 14, 1814. He graduated at Alle- ghany College in 1840, and was licensed as a Alethodist preacher in 1842. From 1843 to 185 1 he was principal of the academy at Clarksburg, Virginia. In 1847 he was or- dained deacon, and in 1849 elder, in the Methodist church. As preacher and presid- ing elder he occupied most of his time from 1851 to i860, and was a member of the gen- eral conferences of 1856 and i860. His in- fluence in western Virginia was very great, and at the begmning of the civil war he was appointed official visitor to the military camps. He was a member of the conven- tion that met November 24, 1861, and framed the constitution of the new state of West Virginia. To him more largely, prob- ably, than to any other, was due the aboli- tion of slavery in that region. In Novem-