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i-ig from Washington, D. C, through the Slates of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. From 1879 to 1888 he was also president and general manager of the Richmond City (Street) Railroad Company. On February 17, 1874, he married Miss Lizzie Parker, daughter of Air. Parker Campbell, of Rich- mond, Virginia. She died October 6, 1889.

Price, Samuel, born in Fauquier county, \'irginia, August 18, 1805. He removed to Preston county, Virginia, at twelve years of age, received a common school education, and engaged in law practice in Nicholas county. He served two terms in the legis- lature, and moved to \\'heeling, and subse- quently to Lewisburg, and represented Greenbrier county in the legislature for many years. He was a leader of internal improvements, and an originator of the prop- osition to establish a railroad from Tide- V, ater, Virginia, to the Ohio river. He was a member of the state constitutional con- vention in 185 1, and of the secession con- vention in 1861. He earnestly opposed se- cession in the latter body, but, when Lin- coln left no alternative he supported the measures that followed. He was elected lieutenant-governor of Virginia in 1863, and served as president of the state senate till the close of the war. He was appointed a circuit judge in 1865, but declined to take the test oath, and did not serve. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States senate in 1876; was president of the West Virginia constitutional convention in 1872 ; and in 1876 was appointed by the gov- ernor to fill out the unexpired term of Allen T. Caperton, deceased, in the United States senate, serving four months. He died at

Lewisburg, West Virginia, February 25, 1884.

Hubbard, David, born in Virginia, in 1806, removed to Alabama, practiced law, and be- came solicitor of his judicial district. He \/as a member of the state senate in 1830, and served in the legislature in 1831-53. He was elected to congress as a states rights Democrat in 1838, serving until 1841 ; was a presidential elector on the Polk and Dal- las ticket in 1845 • was reelected to congress in 1849, serving till 185 1. He was presi- dential elector on the Breckenridge ticket in 1S60 ; a member of the first Confederate con- gress, and in 1861 was appointed commis- sioner of Indian aflfairs for the Confederate government. After the close of the civil war he removed to Nashville, Tennessee. He died in Louisiana in 1874.

Underwood, John Curtiss, born in Litch- field, Flerkimer county. New York, in 1808. He graduated at Hamilton College in 1832, and located in Clarke county, Virginia. In 1856 he was a delegate to the convention that nominated John C. Fremont for Presi- dent. His anti-slavery sentiments led him to leave Virginia and settle in New York, where he became secretary of a company dealing in southern lands. In 1861 he was appointed United States consul at Callao, Peru, but took instead the office of fifth auditor in the United States Treasury De- partment. Early in the civil war he affirm- ed the right of the United States govern- ment to confiscate the property of Confed- erates. During reconstruction he was ap- pointed judge of a district court in Virginia, and it was in his court that bail was refused the President of the Confederacy, Jeflferson Davis, in June, 1866, after he had been in-