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spirit wielded a potent influence for good throughout the state and nation. He mar- ried, in 1871, Isabel L. Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, of "Brook Hill." He died at his country seat, "Laburnum," near Rich- mond, November 20, 1908.

Brock, Sarah A., born at Madison Court House, Virginia, in 1845. Her education V, as acquired at home, under private tutors, and she early developed excellent literary tastes, and capability as a writer. In 1867 she published "Richmond during the War," under the iioiii dc plume of "Virginia Madi- son." Her succeeding works were : "The Southern Amaranth" (1888) ; "Kenneth my King" (1872) ; and "Poets and Poetry of America." She married Rev. Richard Put- nam, of New York.

Dreher, Julius Daniel, born in Lexington county. South Carolina, October 28, 1S46, son of John J. Dreher and Martha E. (Counts) Dreher. his wife. He left school to enter the Confederate army, continuing until the surrender of Gen. Joseph E. John- ston, under whom he was serving. After four years spent in study and teaching, he entered Roanoke College, from which he was graduated in 1871. and for seven years after was a professor in the institution. In 1878 he was elected president, and was emi- nently successful in placing the college on a high basis, erecting various buildings, lay- ing the foundations of a substantial endow- ment, and largely increasing the number of students.

Reed, Walter C, born in 1846, Gloucester county, Virginia. He obtained his early education in the schools of that place and Charlottesville, \'irginia, from which he en-

tLred the University of Virginia in 1866, graduating therefrom with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1868. After leaving the university he entered Bellevue Medical College, New York, from which he was also graduated. He was appointed assistant sur- geon in the United States army, following the duties of that position with fidelity. He became famous on account of the scientific discoveries which he made in connectioa with the work of suppressing yellow fever. The experience which he and his associates made, established one of the most remark- able discoveries of modern science — that quitoes of certain species. In February. 1901, he read before the Pan-American Medical Congress, at Havana, a paper in which he gave a modest, though exact and scientific history, of the results achieved by himself and his colleagues. On his return to the United States, he was received with enthusiasm by the Johns Hopkins Medical Association and other medical bodies, who- realized the soundness of his conclusions, and the importance of his discoveries. Ex- periments were further conducted in Cuba, with the result that there has been a marked decrease in yellow fever in that island. Among investigators. Dr. Reed stood pre- eminent, both as a man of science and as a disinterested lover of humanity. He died in Washington, D. C, November 23, 1902. A tablet to his memory is in Gloucester Court House, Virginia.
 * .ellow fever is conveyed by the bite of mos-

Graham, Samuel Cecil, born at "Blue- stone." Tazewell county, Virginia, at the heme of his maternal grandfather, William \\'itten, January I. 1846, son of Robert Craig" Graham, merchant and farmer, and Eliza-