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turned to Portsmouth in 1866. In 1868 he became rector of St. Paul's Church, Peters- burg, Virginia, where he founded St. Paul's school for young ladies. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by William and Mary College in 1869, and that of LL. D. by the same college in 1874. In that year he removed to California, and was rector of Trinity Church, San Francisco. At the general convention at New York in 1874, he was elected missionary bishop of northern California, and was consecrated in St. Paul's Church, Petersburg, Virginia, December 2, 1874, but remained in charge of his parish until April, 1875. ^e became president of the missionary college of St. Augustine, P.enicia, and in 1876 head of St. Mary's of the Pacific, a school for girls, and rector of St. Paul's Church in that city. He was elected bishop of Louisiana in 1879, but de- clined.

Willcox, Louise Collier, was born in Chicago, Illinois, April 24, 1865, daughter of the Rev. Robert Laird Collier and Mary Price, his wife. She received her education from private tutors in France. Germany and England, and at the Conservatory in Leipzic, in 1882-83. For some years before her mar- riage, she was engaged in educational pur- suits. On June 25, 1890. she married, in Nor- folk, Virginia, J. Westmore Willcox, a prom- ii'ent lawyer of that city. Her life has been h'.rgely devoted to literary occupations of various kinds, for which she was particularly adapted, not only on account of her wide in- formation in such matters, but also on ac- count of her admirable critical judgment and her great felicity of expression. For i[u\te a time she was an editorial writer for "Harper's Weekly," and contributed many

excellent articles to "Harper's Bazaar." From 1896 to 1903 she was on the staff of the "North American Review." From 1903 to 1909 she was reader and literary adviser ti the great book firm of the Macmillans. In 1909 she published some of her essays, under the title of "The Human Way;" in 1910 "A Manual of Spiritual Fortification," being an anthology of mystic poems; and in 1912 a short essay entitled "The Road to Joy." Mrs. Willcox contributes from time to time to magazines and newspapers, and is prominent in all matters connected with literature and art in the city of Norfolk. She is a member of the National Institute of Social Sciences, of the MacDowell Club (New York), and of other organizations of a social and literary character.

Morrison, Alfred James, born in Selma, Alabama, July 11, 1876, son of Rev. Alfred J. Morrison and Portia Atkinson, his wife ; grandson of Robert Hall Morrison, first president of Davidson (North Carolina) College, and of John M. P. Atkinson, presi- dent of Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia. He graduated A. B. at Hampden-Sidney College in 1895 ; attended the University of \ irginia, 1895-96; and received the degree of Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1903. He was a reporter on the Baltimore "News" in 1903; was with Henry Holt & Company, publishers. New York, 1904-05 ; and since 1907 has been engaged in histori- cal and statistical work at Hampden-Sidney. His published works are: "Halifax County. Virginia: A Handbook," (Richmond, 1907) ; "Travels in Virginia in Revolutionary Times. 1776-1800," a series of articles ap- pearing in the "Richmond Times-Dispatch," 1909, showing the opinions regarding Vir-