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Abingdon (\'irginia) church, and was or- dained by the Abingdon presbytery, Janu- ary 14, 1870, preaching there until 1883. In July, 1873, he declined a call to the first Presbyterian church of Atlanta, Georgia ; accepted a call from the same church, in December, 1882, but his presbytery refused t.i release him from his Virginia charge, and finally upon the renewal of the call, and the consent of his presbytery, he came to At- lanta in May, 1883. He has been for five years an editor of the "Presbyterian Quar- terly," of Richmond, and is the author of scholarly contributions to the religious volume called "Life's Golden Lamp." In 1889 his congregation gave him a five months' vacation and the expenses of a trip to Palestine and Egypt, of which he spent a month in the Holy Land, and on these travels, after his return, he delivered more than twenty instructive and eloquent lec- tures. He received, in 1882, the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Alfred University, New York. He married, March 8, 1870, Caroline L. Trent, of Buckingham county, \ irginia.

Bolton, Channing Moore, born in Rich- .nond, Virginia, January 24, 1843, eldest son of Dr. James Bolton, deceased. He was .;ducated at Richmond and the University of Virginia. From 1861 to 1862 he was in the service of the state of Virginia on the military defences around Richmond ; en- gaged in railroading February, 1862, and was successively rodman, transitman, and r(!sident engineer of the Piedmont railroad, Virginia and North Carolina, up to 1863; from 1863 to 1865 he was a commissioned officer in engineer corps, Confederate States Army, and assigned to duty with the .\rmy

Cif Xcjrtlu-rn \"irginia ; in 1865 to 1866 was in charge of the location and construc- ti(in of the Clover Hill railroad, Virginia; 1866 to 1867 resident engineer of the con- necting railroad through Richmond, Vir- ginia, and constructed the tunnel under Gamble's Hill; 1867 to 1869, resident engi- neer of the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lex- ington railroad, Kentucky, and from 1869 to 1874, division engineer of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. During this time Major Ilolton located the western division of the great trunk line down the New river through the mountains of West Virginia. He locat- ed the eastern terminus of Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, from Richmond to Newport News, and constructed "Church Hill" tun- nel at Richmond, Virginia, one of the most difficult pieces of engineering work of the country. From 1874 to 1876 he surveyed and located several small railroads in \'ir- ginia and North Carolina, and from 1876 to 1879 was engineer in charge for the United States government of location and construc- tion of a canal and locks around the cas- cades of the Columbian river in Oregon ; also, during the same time, made surveys and reports of the improvement of the en- trance to Coes Bay, and the Coquille river in the same state. In 1880 to 1881 he was division engineer of the Richmond and Alle- ghany railroad, Virginia, a road two hun- dred and fifty miles long commenced and completed in about fourteen months. From 1881 to 1882 he was engineer and superin- tendent of the Greenville. Columbus and I'irmingham railroad, with headquarters at Greenville, Mississippi. Since 1882 to date he has been the chief engineer of the Rich- mond and Danville railroad, the great trunk line to the south and the southwest, extend-