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fill and during the war labored zealously to enlist the aid of the English government for the Confederacy. He remained in Eng- land for three years following the close of the civil war, and for a number of years prior to 1877 lived in Chili, where he had acquired wealth in mines and railroads, but his later years were passed in New York, in which city he died September 14, i8go.

Jackson, William Lowther, burn in Clarksburg, \irginia, February 3, 1825 ; was admitted to the bar in 1847. He served two terms as commonwealth's attorney, two terms in the Virginia house of delegates, two terms as second auditor and superin- tendent of the state literary fund, one term as lieutenant-governor, and in i860 was elected judge of the nineteenth judicial cir- cuit. In 1861 he was commissioned colonel of the Thirty-first Regiment Virginia Infan- try, and in 1862 became a member of the stafT of his cousin, Gen. '■Stonewall" Jack- son. He served through the campaigns and battles around Richmond, Cedar Run. Harper's Eerry, and Antietam, then, rank- ing as brigadier-general, he recruited ? brigade of cavalry in northwestern Virginia which he led in \'irginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania In May. 1865, he disiaanded his troops at Lexington, being among the last to be paroled. After the war he spent some time in Mexico, then came north, in- tending to settle in West Virginia and re- sume the practice of his profession, but a statute of that state debarred him from practice and he located in Louisville. Ken- lucky, where he practiced until 1872, when he was elected judge of the circuit court.

Buford, Algernon Sidney, born in Rowan county. North Carolina. January 2, 1826,

during the temporary residence of his par- ents in that state, son of William Buford. ol Lunenburg county. Virginia, and Susan Robertson Shelton. of Pittsylvania county, Virginia. On his father's side he was de- scended from colonial English settlers, his great-grandfather, Henry Buford, having settled in Culpeper county, Virginia. These ancestors were devoted patriots to the American cause in the revolution. His early education was obtained at the private school taught by his father in Pittsylvania county, Virginia. In October, 1846, he en- tered the University of Virginia, and in June, 1848. graduated with the degree of r.achelor of Law. Prior to entering the uni- \ersity, he had taught a private school for two years. Upon leaving the university he began the practice of law in Pittsylvania and adjacent counties, and so continued un- til the outbreak of the civil war. Upon his circuit he took and maintained honorable ar.d progressive rank among the distin- guished lawyers. James M. Whittle, Wil- liam M. Tredway, Judge George H. Gil- mer, Judge N. M. Taliaferro, Jubal Early, and many others whose names are well known in the history of the Virginia bar. For a short time before the war, having be- come a resident of Danville. \'irginia, he owned and edited the "Danville Register." Ill 1853 he was elected to the state legisla- ture from Pittsylvania, but declined re- election. In 1861 he was elected to the house of delegates, while he was serving as a non-commissioned officer in the Confed- erate army, which jiosition he held until the close of the war. During his membership in the house, he was commissioned, by Gov. Letcher, lieutenant-colonel by brevet, and given special service in aid of the ^^rgmla